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Travel to a traditional Mexican city where cultural experiences, natural beauty and mystery are waiting for you around every corner. Bordering the Nayarit and Jalisco states, Puerto Vallarta has been a tourism haven for many years. Situated in the centre of Banderas Bay and located just off the Pacific Coast of Mexico, Puerto Vallarta is a vibrant, friendly and magical city with much to explore and discover.
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Boca de Tomatlán Beach is located within a quaint fishing village that features palms, lush trees, flora and hills that overlook pangas, transporting water taxis and authentic Mexican restaurants. Water taxis are the main source of transportation between each beach location within the city of Puerto Vallarta.
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Chicago (TheStreet) -- U.S.-China flying is the wave of the future. It is expanding rapidly, never more rapidly than this month. Airports welcome the service, passengers love new non-stop destinations and airline crews tend to be proud to work the flights.
It's just too bad that in general air service between the U.S. and China is not yet profitable.
Eleven days in June were the most important period for China/U.S. aviation since the historic 2007 bilateral agreement vastly expanded flying between the two countries.
On June 9, United (UAL) began thrice-weekly service between San Francisco and Chengdu, the first commercial aviation flight ever between North America and the interior to China. On June 11, American (AAL) added flights from Dallas to Hong Kong and Shanghai. On June 16, Delta (DAL) launched Seattle-Hong Kong service. On June 20, Chinese carrier Hainan began Boston-Beijing service, which will be daily for much of the summer.Not to mention the Honolulu-Beijing service that Hawaiian (HA) began on April 16, three months after Air China began Beijing-Honolulu service. "Everybody wants more access to China," said aviation consultant Bob Mann. "The conundrum is that there's already too much. The amount of capacity in the market is outstripping the demand." Mann compared China flying to gold mining. "You dig a hole for a while. Eventually you hopefully reach your goal: making money."
In the four years from August 2010 through August 2014, the number of flights between China and Hong Kong, and the U.S., increased by 73% and capacity as measured by available seat miles grew by 58%, according to statistics compiled from schedule databases. Hawaii service is not included in the statistics.
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The Feijoa, or 'pineapple guava', is a small sweet green fruit with a flavour unlike any other.
Although the plant is often referred to as pineapple guava it is in fact not actually a guava, however it is still in the same family.
Originating in Brazil, the plant itself is an evergreen shrub or small evergreen tree that can grow up to 7 metres tall, and can fruit from mid autumn to late winter.
The feijoas foliage is of an attractive luscious green on top with a silvery white on the underside. The plant has beautiful crimson and white flowers which some people have been known to eat due to their sweet flavour. Considering their overall appearance, some people have been known to keep feijoas in pots and even use them for windbreaks and hedges.
Feijoas come in a wide range of varieties each with their own unique textures, sizes and flavours.
Although some varieties are self fertile, many feijoa cultivars are not.
When purchasing a feijoa, it is a good idea to buy two different cultivars. This is because cross pollinated plants tend to give larger yields of higher quality fruit. Make sure that the plants selected are suitable to your area to ensure that they have a healthy high yielding future. Some of the different varieties have been listed below and can be purchased online at DaleysFruit.com.au.
Duffy: Non gritty, fruit up to 200gm, bears fruit in autumn.
Nazematze: Self fertile, very sweet high quality fruit.
Mammoth: Large round/oval fruit, self fertile. Fruit are soft, juicy and grainy in texture. Plants grow about 2 metres tall.
Unique: Self fertile, small growing, smooth flesh, early fruiting, produces a lot of fruit.
Triumph: Plump oval fruit, sharp flavour, not many seeds.
The fruit of a feijoa can come in many shapes, sizes, textures and flavours. They can range from round to oval or pear shaped, and can be gritty, smooth, sweet, subtle and just about anything in between.
The flavour of the fruit, although unlike any other, has often been compared to a tropical fruit salad amongst other things, being both sweet and mildly acidic. The feijoa fruit are encased in a green leathery skin containing tiny seeds covered in a soft jelly like pulp.
The tree size of a feijoa can range from a small 1.5 meter bush to a 7 meter tree depending on the cultivar, and can grow to between 1 meter to 5 meters wide. This size of the eventual feijoa tree needs to be taken into strong consideration when purchasing a plant, due to the fact that some feijoa trees can grow far to big for a small suburban backyard and some can grow into a smaller, more manageable bush.
How To Grow Feijoas
Although they prefer cooler weather, feijoas have been known to grow well in varying temperatures including that provided by the tropics. They can tolerate temperatures below 8 degrees Celsius and can also tolerate extreme heat, as long as their soil is kept moist.
Growing a pineapple guava from seed is considered an unreliable method because the new plants are untrue to the parent plant and tend to vary in size and yield.
If you do choose to grow from seed, carefully collect the seeds from good quality ripe fruit and let them dry on a window sill. Plant the seeds about 1.5 cm below the surface in soft soil after the last frost, and make sure that they are well watered. When the seeds break the soil, water regularly to keep the soil damp, but avoid soggy soil.
Hardwood cuttings:
Propagating feijoas from cutting can be difficult and often has a high failure rate, although this method can be successful on some occasions. Cut the stem below a node on a diagonal axis and remove all but a few leaves. Plant one third of the cutting in a pot containing fine well drained soil and keep moist at all times. Rooting hormone is advisable and definitely improves the success rate. When the plant takes, transplant it to a more suitable location (see below).
The soil should be moisture retaining, well drained and rich in nutrients and organic matter. A pH of 6.1 – 7.5 is to be preferred, depending on the cultivar used. It is best to ask your supplier when purchasing if you are unsure. Soils that are too solid and compact will cause the feijoa's roots to bunch up, stunting the plants growth, so make sure that your chosen soil will not compact over time by adding organic matter.
Feijoas enjoy full sun to partial shade. Strong winds are not really much of a problem for established plants, and can actually help to strengthen the trunk and branches. Just make sure that when choosing a site, it has suitable soil. If the soil in your chosen site is not suitable, it will need to be excavated and amended with better quality soil or organic matter.
Pests and diseases:
Diseases rarely effect the feijoa, but pests can be a problem at times. Certain caterpillars such as loopers enjoy eating away at foliage, but most are easily controlled using pyrethrum or dipel.
Birds can definitely pose a threat as they love the sweet fruit and flowers. If they become a problem for you, a good quality fruit net should be considered. Occasionally, old dying leaves are mistaken for disease. This is normal and nothing to worry about. Feijoa leaves normally die off after around 2 – 3 seasons.
Feijoas are actually very easy to care for. Potted plants need water daily in summer, and every few days in winter. In-ground plants require water every few days in summer and weekly / fortnightly in winter when there is a lack of rain. The soil should not be allowed to dry completely between watering.
Feijoas don't need much fertilizer because they are slow growing plants. An occasional light application of complete fertilizer around spring and summer is usually suitable. Organic fertilizer is preferred as it produces a better tasting fruit.
Suitable organic fertilizers include compost and manure applied to topsoil, complete seaweed fertilizer and fish based fertilizer.
Harvesting feijoas:
You can tell that a feijoa is ripe by very gently moving it from side to side. If it comes free of the tree it is ripe. Fruiting usually occurs for about a month or so, and different cultivars bare fruit at different times, thus buying two or three different varieties of feijoa can give you fruit for months on end.
All fallen feijoa fruit is ripe, but where possible, allowing the fruit to drop from larger plants directly to hard ground should be avoided as this can easily cause bruising which ruins the flavour. Bruises on these fruits can sometimes be difficult to spot from the exterior, and appear as subtle darker marks .
A good way to collect feijoas from larger trees is to hold a large sheet below the tree and shake the branches, encouraging the ripe fruit to fall.
There is only a short amount of time (usually about two days) after the fruit is harvested that it is edible considering that it spoils very quickly, so it is best eaten on the day of collection. There are many preferred methods to eating a feijoa, the main one being to cut the fruit in half, and scoop out the seeds and pulp with a small spoon. You can also tear the fruit in half or tear the tail end off and squeeze out the contents into your mouth as if the fruit were a tube of toothpaste.
Due to their delicious flavour, feijoas can be used in many sweet recipes including cakes, tarts, yogurts, wines and jams. Below is a recipe for a delicious lemon and feijoa jam.
You will need:
One and a half kg of feijoas
Half of a lemon
Wash the feijoas and chop into small pieces. Place the fruit into a large cooking pot and cover with water.
Bring contents slowly to the boil and then simmer for about 45 minutes or until the fruit is soft and squishy.
Now pour the fruit and liquid into a colander and allow the mixture to drain into a measuring jug for a few minutes, then add the juice of half a lemon.
Measure the liquid, then pour it back into the saucepan and add 3/4 cup sugar for every one cup of juice. Stir slowly over a moderate heat until the sugar has dissolved. Boil rapidly until the mixture thickens(it will thicken more upon standing).
Allow the bubbles to subside, and mash the remaining chunks with a potato masher to make the jam as fine as possible.
Pour the feijoa jam into hot sterilised jars and seal them.
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Zach Frolich, our local expert guest writer from Valencia, has another important credential to add to his career. He is a chocoholic. Doing research on beaches around Valencia popular for Costa Blanca holidays he found La Vila Joiosa is also the home of a famous chocolate manufacturer. Slather on the sun tan lotion and pass the chocolate.
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Summer is right around the corner, which means it's almost beach time! I recently visited La Vila Joiosa in Alicante on full chocolate mode. La Vila Joiosa, or in Spanish Villajoyosa, is home to the delicious Chocolates Valor, it's factory and museum. You might recognize the brand Valor from their chocolaterías all over Spain. (Mmm, chocolate con churros.) Or from those rich almond and chocolate candy bars you can find in supermarkets here.
I'm a chocoholic, so it had long been on my to-do list to go to the source, and tour the museum there. What can I say, the Chocolates Valor museum alone makes visiting this town worth it! (The factory smells like chocolate. The shop is chock full of chocolate goodies, and they leave out a sampling tray for you to nibble on while you try not to buy one of each kind of the 30-40 types of chocolate products they sell.)
What I hadn't anticipate is that La Vila Joiosa is also a great beach town destination. Located on the Costa Blanca, this "jeweled town" is no hidden gem. It is sure to fill up with sun-seekers like nearby Benidorm (only 15-minutes away by car). But it won't be quite as crowded as Benidorm, and is a step above many of the other towns and "urbanizaciones" in this region because of its local character.
The facades ("fachadas") of buildings in Vila Joiosa have a distinctive style, each one painted with a different and often bright color. The result is a very charming rainbow effect. Moreover, it was once a fishermen village and thus has windy, narrow streets which makes for great strolls (and great photos) through quiet, hidden corners where it is just you and the neighbors chatting away with each other from their balconies.
That it is an actual town, and not just a built-from-the-ground-up vacation spot, also means you will find those Spanish amenities that make day-to-day life such a pleasure. Its Mercat Central is located in a picturesque building and larger than most markets in towns of comparable size.
The town is not far from my mother-in-law's hometown, so we were pleased to find all kinds of local products there, including local olive oils, liquors, and jams. My in-laws also took us to an amazing restaurant they knew, Hogar del Pescador, a local institution where you are guaranteed exquisite seafood and fish dishes, or paella if you are looking for it. (In the summer the restaurant opens a beach-front location, so you can enjoy your meal while staring out to sea.)
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"Going Crazy! Iowa Crazy Quilts" exhibit opens Friday through March 2011
(DES MOINES) – The State Historical Museum will get a little crazy Friday when it opens a new exhibit of 17 historic quilts dating to the 1880s.
"Going Crazy! Iowa Crazy Quilts" opens Friday through March 2011 at the State Historical Museum, 600 E. Locust Street in Des Moines. Museum hours are 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and noon-4:30 p.m. Sunday. Visit www.iowahistory.org for more information.
"Almost anyone familiar with quilts knows the term 'crazy quilt,' " said Michael Smith, acting director and chief curator of the State Historical Museum. "Few people today, however, realize that 120 years ago the United States was gripped by a nationwide fad for these unusual quilts that flourished for two decades. Even today, many people have an affinity for these quilts."
"Going Crazy!" coincides with the 2010 American Quilter's Society Quilt Show & Contest Oct. 6-9, 2010, at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines.
Following is information about the history of crazy quilts:
The "Japanese" Effect
Crazy quilt design reflects Japanese art and culture displayed at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The Exposition was a celebration of the United States Centennial and was also one of the earliest "World's Fairs." American exhibits as well as foreign exhibits were on display. The Japanese pavilion drew 9.5 million visitors. Asymmetrical and irregular shaped patching in jewel tones of burgundy, green and gold became fashionable in wallpaper, textiles, interior decoration and crazy quilts. The term "Japanese" became one and the same with asymmetry.
How were they were made?
Godey's Lady's Book, a popular 19th century magazine, encouraged women to take up making crazy quilts using contrasting stitches and oriental-inspired ornamentation. Thread and silk companies sold scraps and kits for making crazy quilts. More time was allowed for fancy work as sewing machines began to come into the home in larger numbers in the 1870s-1880s. Patches were decorated with embroidered graphics, appliqués, fabric painting, ribbons and beads. Often sentiments such as a scrap from a wedding dress, gown or clothing of family members were used in the quilt. Commemorative ribbons were used from military and political campaigns, military reunions and horseshows.
The Craze for Crazy Quilts
Perhaps the word "crazy" explains why making crazy quilts was a "craze." English artists such as John Ruskin and William Morris, known for the aesthetic movement in the 1860s, believed a beautiful home had a positive effect on the morality and productivity of a family. The political and economic limitations placed on Victorian women forced them to exercise control within the domestic sphere. The idea of creating an artistically beautiful home added to the crazy quilt "craze." The fad for making these unusual quilts lasted throughout the 1880s. In December 1887, Godey's Lady's Book called for ladies to cease and desist with crazy quilts saying, "We regretted much the time and energy spent on the most childish and unsatisfactory of all work done with the needle, 'crazy' patchwork." Companies were still advertising kits and scraps for making crazy quilts well into the 1890s.
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perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
"obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school"
confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected(adj)
lacking orderly continuity
"a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts"
confused, disoriented, lost(adj)
having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity
"I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway"; "the anesthetic left her completely disoriented"
broken, confused, disordered, upset(adj)
thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
"troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset"
mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently
"the flood of questions left her bewildered and confused"
Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary
a feeling that sth is too difficult to understand
confused about which way to go; I'm so confused.
not easy to understand
a confused telling of the story
chaotic, jumbled or muddled
making no sense; illogical
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mixed up
The message I received was rather confused.
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Let's try this post again. (previous one was are by the new message boards!) I would say for me the first couple weeks were complete shell shocked moments for me. Every step I made was in fear of stepping on another land mine. After all everything in the world you thought you knew, was a lie. But of course everyone is different. I will strongly suggest to you that you go see your doctor if you haven't yet. Get some meds. They are a life line to sanity. Especially if you feel that right now you are not able to take care of the kids properly. You also need to get your STD check. I was paranoid about that for a long time, but slowly got better as results came in.
Good luck. I know it sucks, but time will heal this for you too. Hugs.


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The tragic events at Sandy Hook elementary have once again brought us together in mourning an act of senseless violence. If past events are any indicator, we may never know the real drivers behind a young man committing such atrocities. Regardless, those of us working to improve public safety have an obligation to look retrospectively at the events and try to understand what can be done to better protect our citizenry, especially the most vulnerable.
Over the weeks, months and years to come the debate will rage around video game violence, mental health services, school security procedures and gun control. While it is inarguable that there is a correlation between mental health and mass killings, the data around gun control and video game violence is not as clear with both sides able to produce studies proving their points (for an interesting summary of real research done into these type of events, look here).
Recently a number of articles have also been published showing that the rate of mass killings has actual decreased, with the largest numbers being reported in the 1920's. I think that wildly misses the point. One child killed is too many and justifies a hard look at the drivers behind these type incidents and how we can avert them.
So, the real question is: how can we in the publicly safety industry remove the emotions from the arguments and identify actionable changes, founded in factual evidence, that can change the equation. I don't know if we should arm administrators in schools, or eliminate guns all together. I'm not sure if the early intervention programs for those "profiled" as potentially suffering from depression or other mental conditions should be more aggressive. Or maybe emergency action plans for active shooters should be drilled at schools the way I grew up doing tornado and nuclear attack drills.
The only real thing I do know is that the solution to the problem isn't isolated to any one group – it's not a police problem or school problem or mental health problem – it's a problem, the root of which can only be identified and that can only be solved by collaboration across public and private entities. We need to change the equation from rhetorical arguments to a discussion focused on the overall objective we all seek – a reduction in senseless loss of innocents via a holistic look at the problem. How do we initiate this constructive dialog? I'm at a loss but hoping we can generate some productive ideas.
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I remember my first visit to the US having grown up in England. When I landed at Miami airport there was a news report on a drug dealer who was beaten by a group of police despite him having his arms up in surrender. I remember being very shocked.
A few days later I attended a house party in Fort Lauderdale with local people from the area. They were fascinated with British police not carrying guns, to the point they couldn't fathom it. They asked how they defended themselves, to which I said they carry police batons. They asked how that could be enough protection, so I said the criminals don't have guns either. That's true, it's fact. The weapon of choice for criminals in the UK, if anything, is the pocket knife. You rarely hear of gun crime in the UK despite it being a densely populated country with large cities.
America to me is it's own worst enemy. It has a gun culture – and that's the heart of the problem. Throw in some crazies and you end up with massacres.


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2.4 or 2.6 kernel...The most important is that you have full advantage of your Debian SMP system now.
I also do not have the experience with updating from 2.4 to 2.6.
At this point i can not help you.
But if you just started you with a new and empty system you can consider to start over again and install the 2.6 kernel.
You can do this with the "linux26" command after inserting the Debian CD in your drive.
I see. I might go back to the data center tomorrow, and try a new clean in stall with the
[QUOTE=Hans]Maybe not important for you but good to know is that the 2.4 kernel series do not support SATA drives.[/b]
This is not really a problem. The system is using a 3Ware pci card running 2 SATA HDD's in RAID1 mode.. Till now no problem..
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I have also seen that you choose for a 32 bit version.
I have installed the unofficial Debian Sarge 64 bit version with the kernel-image-2.6.8-12-em64t-p4-smp.
Yes.. I have some othe applications that will not even install on a 64 bit OS (like ColdfusionMX7)
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This Dual Xeon system is up and running now for months now without any problems. Very stable. So if you want to give it a try....
(I mentioned this for consideration and have a little bit more advantage of your dual XEONs)
If it was not for the aps that do not install on a 64 bit OS, I would for sure have used the 64 bit OS.
The system was using Fedora RC4, and it did peform okay for me (with sometimes some small hiccups caused for sure by me)
I will deside tomorrow if I will do a reinstall or keep the "now looking good" kernel-image-2.4.27-3-686-smp.
Thanks again for your help..
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EAU CLAIRE Dr. Richard Lorentz, professor emeritus of management and marketing, died Friday, April 9, at Luther Hospital in Eau Claire. He was 61.
He joined the UW-Eau Claire faculty in 1971 as an instructor in the department of business administration. An alumnus of UW-Eau Claire, he held both a master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Northern Colorado. Over his career he taught courses in management, sales, insurance, accounting, economics, finance and small business management. He served as director of the Small Business Institute until 1994, and his student consulting teams received many regional and national awards under his leadership. He was a key player in setting up the College of Business Entrepreneur Program in 1994 and was named the first recipient of the Dennis L. Heyde Chair of Entrepreneurship. He also was a time-keeper for men's and women's basketball at UW-Eau Claire for 25 years and was an avid supporter of university athletics. He retired in May 1998.
He is survived by his wife, Barbara, and his children, Jennifer Lorentz and Elizabeth Lorentz; his mother, Jean (Robert) Kamphaus; his brothers, Robert (Janet) Lorentz and David (Kathleen) Lorentz; his sister Sandra (Jack) Timm; and their families. Funeral services are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 14, at Our Savior's Lutheran Church, Eau Claire. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery in Eau Claire. Friends may call from 4-8 p.m. Tuesday at Fuller-Speckien Funeral Home where a 7:45 p.m. Masonic Service will be held. Memorials may be directed to the UW-Eau Claire Foundation for the Lorentz/Murphy College of Business Scholarship or the Richard D. Lorentz Entrepreneur/Athletic Scholarship; also to the Midelfort Clinic Department of Oncology and Luther Hospital. The flag atop Schofield Hall will be at half-staff April 14 in memory of Dr. Lorentz.
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Israel: The Tragedy of Victory
The bitter losses suffered in the Yom Kippur War remade attitudes in Israel toward the Arabs. Now even the Palestinians could no longer be dismissed. Acts of terrorism, such as the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich and the bloody attack on a school in Maalot, both in 1972, horrified Israelis, but they also changed the image of the Palestinians from hapless adversaries to people to be feared.
And yet the basic legacy of the Six Day War remained. Since 1956, as I have said, it had been widely believed in Israel that what the country wins in war it usually loses at the diplomatic table. In 1956, General Dayan had marched through the Sinai in one hundred hours only to be pushed back by the diplomats. The Yom Kippur War of 1973 was further "proof" of this proposition. No one had tried to stop that war while the Israelis were losing. The Americans and the Russians enforced an armistice and saved the Egyptians from total defeat only after General Sharon had succeeded in crossing the canal into Africa. The only time that Israel had not been done out of the fruits of victory—so many, if not most, Israelis thought—was in 1967, when the military success had been swift and complete.
The ultimate military result of the victory in June of 1967 was the war in Lebanon, which began fifteen years later almost to the day, in June 1982. Begin called the invasion a "war of choice," and not one that was waged for immediate defensive needs. General Ariel Sharon who was the minister of defense, went to war over the objection of most of his general staff, and without fully briefing the cabinet, in pursuit of a "grand design": to establish a Christian-dominated government in Lebanon which would depend on the Jewish state for its survival; to weaken Syria; and to sweep the Palestinians in Lebanon into Jordan, where they would create such disorder that the Hashemite dynasty would fall and Jordan would become "Palestine," finally absorbing the inhabitants of the West Bank. Sharon seems to have sold all of this to Begin piecemeal, on the promise that it would be a short and cheap war which would produce grandiose results. It was to be a replay of the glorious days of June 1967.
The enchantment of the memory of 1967 was such that Sharon, a brilliant combat commander, completely missed the difference between tank maneuvers in open territory, in which great battles could be won in a few hours, and the grinding, interminable demands of street fighting in a sprawling city like Beirut. He understood even less that the attempt to reenact the Six Day War in Lebanon in 1982 was predestined to fail, for both political and moral reasons. In Israel and in the Western world, the events of 1967 had been perceived as a defensive action. The war of 1982 was seen, with nearly the same unanimity, as an attempt to end the Palestinian problem through force—and never mind what might happen to the Palestinians as they fled before their enemies, the Christian Lebanese and the Israelis. Sharon and Begin had learned the wrong lesson from the Six Day War. There was something parvenu about the attempt to shoot down Palestinian nationalism by an incursion into Lebanon. The power that had been acquired in 1967 was now being flaunted, and misused, in a cause which the nations on which Israel depended would not accept.
For the Jewish world generally, the most striking effect of the Six Day War was a religious one. Before the war the official rabbinate in Israel had declared that the creation of the state was "the first root of the Messianic redemption." This formula is the climactic assertion of the prayer for the State of Israel that is recited at Sabbath and holiday services in most of Israel's synagogues—but until 1967 it remained a prayer and not a call to action. There was only a small group of activist Messianic believers in Israel in those early years. They were mostly associated with the yeshiva, or school for Talmudic study, which was led by Zvi Yehudah Kook, whose father, Abraham Isaac Kook, late Chief Rabbi of the Holy Land, had believed that the First World War was the prophesied war of Gog and Magog and that the Zionist venture was the beginning of the Messianic era. His son and the young men who studied at the Kook yeshiva were certain in the 1960s that the biblical borders of the land of Israel would somehow soon be returned to Jewish control. When this happened in June 1967, a small band of religious Messianists were transformed from impractical dreamers to armed prophets. They were going to bring the "end of days" now, and others began to join them.
Almost immediately, these Messianists succeeded in transforming the religious Zionist parties, and not only in Israel. Until 1967, the religious Zionists had been on the defensive; they had fought to preserve an enclave for religion in the state of Israel. They needed money for their educational institutions, and they wanted to establish Orthodox Jewish practice as the law of the land, at the very least in such matters as marriage, divorce, and conversion. The religious Zionists had achieved these limited goals through a long-standing political alliance with the Labor Zionists. The State of Israel was run, during its first thirty years, by secular, pragmatic social democrats, almost all of whom, from Ben-Gurion to Golda Meir, never crossed a synagogue door; but these nonbelievers guaranteed the religious minority their limited but considerable enclave in the Jewish state in order to be sure of their support in coalition governments.
The armed prophets who appeared in 1967 very quickly chased out the older, quietist leadership of religious Zionism. The political leader of this young guard was Zevulun Hammer, who was then a firebrand—though he is now, as minister of religion in Israel's coalition cabinet, considered too moderate by his former associates and followers. The official leader of the religious Zionists, Dr. Yosef Burg, ceased being a moderate, at least in public: he moved very far toward accepting the proposition that these were Messianic times and that the commandment of this hour was to reunite the holy soil of Judea and Samaria with the rest of the Promised Land.
The religious parties have split and resplit in the last twenty years. It is true that their proportion of the vote in Israeli elections has not risen but has remained static at something under 15 percent. Nonetheless, in their new form as radical Messianists, the religious parties have become a far greater force in Israeli politics than they used to be. The near-equal division of forces between Labor and Likud has made all these smaller parties more important. Each of the two main blocs has continued to court them as possible partners in a "narrow" coalition. Shimon Peres seems now to have given up the hope that the religious parties might return to their "historic pact" with Labor, but the radical Messianists have succeeded in moving Israeli politics to the right. So long as Labor had hope of enticing the religious groups back into an alliance it effectively postponed and avoided the question of exchanging territories for peace. Meanwhile, more and more "facts on the ground" have been created on the West Bank by settlements, control of land and water, and integration with the Israeli state apparatus. Meron Benvenisti may well be right that such developments seem irreversible. If so a settlement with the Palestinians has been made immensely more difficult.
There is no way of knowing whether more modest policies following the Six Day War would have produced a better result for Israel, for the Jews of the world, and for peace in the region. As it is, the results have been ambiguous when they are not discouraging. True, some Palestinians on the West Bank and a few Palestinian leaders have said they accept the principle of the partition of Palestine, which they utterly rejected before and immediately after 1967. Some say that they are now ready to settle with Israel for a state in the West Bank and to accept that such a state be circumscribed by near total disarmament, so that it should not threaten Israel. These moderates, however, are not now likely to produce such an offer from the Arab side. But even if they could, the power of the right wing in Israel has grown sufficiently so that a deal of this kind, which would not have been conceivable without the victory of 1967 and would have been accepted gladly in May of that year, is no longer acceptable to Israel's internal factions. Boldness and intransigence are depicted by the right-wingers as the sole legitimate heirs of those glorious days. Did not Menachem Begin win the election of 1981 by proclaiming himself to be the leader of the "national camp," thus relegating all of those who were more moderate to the semitreasonable fringes?
There is an even more painful truth: An attempt by Israel to settle with the Palestinians in a compromise requiring the return of most, not even of all, of the West Bank would undoubtedly lead to civil disobedience, and worse. This would happen not only in the name of ultranationalism and religious Messianism; a deep undercurrent in Israeli life would cling to Hayim Yahil's conviction that holding on to the territories is the debt that the present owes to the heroes of 1967.
Having lived through this period, much of it in Israel and mostly in the United States, I believe that the Six Day War was inevitable, and not because Nasser had closed the straits of Tiran, thus providing Israel with a reason that was valid in international law to resort to arms. The Jewish state could not regard itself as validly in existence until it had, at least once, perceived itself to be defying the world. Unfortunately, even tragically, this new power has been used deplorably. That the Arabs would have no choice but to abjectly sue for peace was a complete misconception. Only the Egyptians, who had lost both the Suez Canal and their oil fields in the Sinai, had been severely damaged in 1967. They found ways of redressing the balance through a diplomatic settlement, but not before they had damaged Israel by going to war. The rest of Israel's Arab opponents could wait, and they have done so. Israel has chosen to respond by becoming America's "strategic ally" against the Soviet Union, in the so far correct belief that its major ally would not push it with any seriousness toward negotiation with the Arabs.
Every suggestion that has been made in the last decade for imaginative diplomacy for peace has been vetoed in Israel, although Israeli military leaders such as General Yehoshafat Harkabi and General Aharon Yariv have argued for years that Israeli withdrawal from the main occupied territories could be negotiated in ways compatible with Israeli security. (This was the view I heard expressed several times in the mid-1970s when I lectured at Israel's army war college.) A de facto coalition of right-wing ideologues and of Labor hard-liners continues to feel, as Golda Meir did, that peace is something that Israel will confer on the Arabs, on its terms, as an act of largesse. It is this immodesty, this exaggeration of power, that is the underside of the shining glory of 1967.
Still, it is worth emphasizing that during the twenty years since the Six Day War, the Arabs have sinned against peace more than Israel. Had they taken up Levi Eshkol's offer in 1967, they could have had a settlement far more favorable than any that they are likely to get now. The signals from Arab moderates in recent years have again and again been rejected by Arab hard-liners, who have used terrorism as a way of announcing that they are not ready for any version of a peaceful settlement.
To a sad and unsettling degree, Arabs and Israelis have become mirror images of each other. In each of the camps, it is seen as advantageous in internal politics to block movements toward peace. In early April Vice Premier Peres went to Spain on yet another of many trips in search of backing for a peace conference; en route, he was denounced by Prime Minister Shamir as a fool for whose failure Shamir prayed. In late April Yasir Arafat paid for a show of unity by the PLO at its meeting in Algiers by breaking the PLO's link with Jordan and announcing the continuation of "armed struggle" against Israel and its installations abroad.
And yet, sinful though the Arabs have been, blaming them does not diminish Israel's burdens, for it needs peace more than the Arabs do. Israel has now become an American dependency, because it cannot maintain both its standard of living and the state of war without at least $3 billion of American aid annually. Israel's society has been altered, and distorted, by its being an occupying power; as the Palestinians on the West Bank become ever more numerous and more restless, Israel is in danger of becoming the Belfast of the Middle East. A more frenetic exercise of power cannot solve these mounting problems. Israel has no intelligent choice but to pursue peace.
It is easy to forgive a people which has had only twenty years to change its sense of itself from victim to victor. Unfortunately, the twentieth century has given Jews, and everybody else, very little time to absorb change. The tragedy of the last twenty years is that the new Jewish power has not been more open to the counsels of moderation.


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DATE: September 29, 2006
TO: Virginia Colleges and Universities
FROM: Robert B. Stroube, M.D., M.P.H.
State Health Commissioner
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SUBJECT: Steps to Protect College and University Students from Mumps
As you may have heard, a cluster of suspected mumps cases has been reported at the University of Virginia. Isolated cases have also occurred throughout the Commonwealth. In general, we are seeing a significant rise in mumps reporting in 2006 when compared to the last several years. This is likely due, in part, to increased awareness following the large, primarily college-based, mumps outbreak that occurred in the Midwest beginning in December 2005.
Colleges and universities can take several steps to decrease the risk of mumps among students and others in their communities. The most effective strategy is to ensure that all students have received two doses of Measles, Mumps, Rubella vaccine (MMR) or have other evidence of immunity. Acceptable evidence of immunity to mumps includes one of the following: documentation of adequate vaccination; laboratory evidence of immunity (positive mumps IgG); birth before 1957; or documentation of physician-diagnosed mumps.
A thorough review of immunization documentation is recommended to ensure that all students are protected from mumps. Students who are unable to document their immune status should be offered MMR vaccine as soon as possible, with a second dose, if necessary, administered at least 28 days later.
A colleges or university with a suspected case of mumps should immediately contact the appropriate local Virginia Department of Health district office. A listing of these facilities may be found at (). The health department will assist by providing guidance and recommendations on disease control measures, specimen collection and use of appropriate laboratory test, and will complete a thorough investigation to identify exposed contacts.
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Discussion of DataStax — formerly known as Riptano — a company founded to commercialize Cassandra.
Notes and comments, May 6, 2014
After visiting California recently, I made a flurry of posts, several of which generated considerable discussion.
- My claim that Spark will replace Hadoop MapReduce got much Twitter attention — including some high-profile endorsements — and also some responses here.
- My MemSQL post led to a vigorous comparison of MemSQL vs. VoltDB.
- My post on hardware and storage spawned a lively discussion of Hadoop hardware pricing; even Cloudera wound up disagreeing with what I reported Cloudera as having said. Sadly, there was less response to the part about the partial (!) end of Moore's Law.
- My Cloudera/SQL/Impala/Hive apparently was well-balanced, in that it got attacked from multiple sides via Twitter & email. Apparently, I was too hard on Impala, I was too hard on Hive, and I was too hard on boxes full of cardboard file cards as well.
- My post on the Intel/Cloudera deal garnered a comment reminding us Dell had pushed the Intel distro.
- My CitusDB post picked up a few clarifying comments.
Here is a catch-all post to complete the set. Read more
Notes and comments, March 17, 2014
I have ever more business-advice posts up on Strategic Messaging. Recent subjects include pricing and stealth-mode marketing. Other stuff I've been up to includes:
The Spark buzz keeps increasing; almost everybody I talk with expects Spark to win big, probably across several use cases.
Disclosure: I'll soon be in a substantial client relationship with Databricks, hoping to improve their stealth-mode marketing.
The "real-time analytics" gold rush I called out last year continues. A large fraction of the vendors I talk with have some variant of "real-time analytics" as a central message.
Basho had a major change in leadership. A Twitter exchange ensued. Joab Jackson offered a more sober — figuratively and literally — take.
Hadapt laid off its sales and marketing folks, and perhaps some engineers as well. In a nutshell, Hadapt's approach to SQL-on-Hadoop wasn't selling vs. the many alternatives, and Hadapt is doubling down on poly-structured data*/schema-on-need.
*While Hadapt doesn't to my knowledge use the term "poly-structured data", some other vendors do. And so I may start using it more myself, at least when the poly-structured/multi-structured distinction actually seems significant.
WibiData is partnering with DataStax, WibiData is of course pleased to get access to Cassandra's user base, which gave me the opportunity to ask why they thought Cassandra had beaten HBase in those accounts. The answer was performance and availability, while Cassandra's traditional lead in geo-distribution wasn't mentioned at all.
Disclosure: My fingerprints are all over that deal.
In other news, WibiData has had some executive departures as well, but seems to be staying the course on its strategy. I continue to think that WibiData has a really interesting vision about how to do large-data-volume interactive computing, and anybody in that space would do well to talk with them or at least look into the open source projects WibiData sponsors.
I encountered another apparently-popular machine-learning term — bandit model. It seems to be glorified A/B testing, and it seems to be popular. I think the point is that it tries to optimize for just how much you invest in testing unproven (for good or bad) alternatives.
I had an awkward set of interactions with Gooddata, including my longest conversations with them since 2009. Gooddata is in the early days of trying to offer an all-things-to-all-people analytic stack via SaaS (Software as a Service). I gather that Hadoop, Vertica, PostgreSQL (a cheaper Vertica alternative), Spark, Shark (as a faster version of Hive) and Cassandra (under the covers) are all in the mix — but please don't hold me to those details.
I continue to think that computing is moving to a combination of appliances, clusters, and clouds. That said, I recently bought a new gaming-class computer, and spent many hours gaming on it just yesterday.* I.e., there's room for general-purpose workstations as well. But otherwise, I'm not hearing anything that contradicts my core point.
*The last beta weekend for The Elder Scrolls Online; I loved Morrowind.
DataStax/Cassandra update
Cassandra's reputation in many quarters is:
- World-leading in the geo-distribution feature.
- Impressively scalable.
- Hard to use.
This has led competitors to use, and get away with, sales claims along the lines of "Well, if you really need geo-distribution and can't wait for us to catch up — which we soon will! — you should use Cassandra. But otherwise, there are better choices."
My friends at DataStax, naturally, don't think that's quite fair. And so I invited them — specifically Billy Bosworth and Patrick McFadin — to educate me. Here are some highlights of that exercise.
DataStax and Cassandra have some very impressive accounts, which don't necessarily revolve around geo-distribution. Netflix, probably the flagship Cassandra user — since Cassandra inventor Facebook adopted HBase instead — actually hasn't been using the geo-distribution feature. Confidential accounts include:
- A petabyte or so of data at a very prominent company, geo-distributed, with 800+ nodes, in a kind of block storage use case.
- A messaging application at a very prominent company, anticipated to grow to multiple data centers and a petabyte of so of data, across 1000s of nodes.
- A 300 terabyte single-data-center telecom account (which I can't find on DataStax's extensive customer list).
- A huge health records deal.
- A Fortune 10 company.
DataStax and Cassandra won't necessarily win customer-brag wars versus MongoDB, Couchbase, or even HBase, but at least they're strongly in the competition.
DataStax claims that simplicity is now a strength. There are two main parts to that surprising assertion. Read more
|Categories: Cassandra, Clustering, Couchbase, Data models and architecture, DataStax, Facebook, HBase, Health care, Log analysis, Market share and customer counts, MongoDB and 10gen, NoSQL, Petabyte-scale data management, Specific users
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Comments on the 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems
The 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems is out. "Operational" seems to be Gartner's term for what I call short-request, in each case the point being that OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) is a dubious term when systems omit strict consistency, and when even strictly consistent systems may lack full transactional semantics. As is usually the case with Gartner Magic Quadrants:
- I admire the raw research.
- The opinions contained are generally reasonable (especially since Merv Adrian joined the Gartner team).
- Some of the details are questionable.
- There's generally an excessive focus on Gartner's perception of vendors' business skills, and on vendors' willingness to parrot all the buzzphrases Gartner wants to hear.
- The trends Gartner highlights are similar to those I see, although our emphasis may be different, and they may leave some important ones out. (Big omission — support for lightweight analytics integrated into operational applications, one of the more genuine forms of real-time analytics.)
Anyhow: Read more
NewSQL thoughts
I plan to write about several NewSQL vendors soon, but first here's an overview post. Like "NoSQL", the term "NewSQL" has an identifiable, recent coiner — Matt Aslett in 2011 — yet a somewhat fluid meaning. Wikipedia suggests that NewSQL comprises three things:
- OLTP- (OnLine Transaction Processing)/short-request-oriented SQL DBMS that are newer than MySQL.
- Innovative MySQL engines.
- Transparent sharding systems that can be used with, for example, MySQL.
I think that's a pretty good working definition, and will likely remain one unless or until:
- SQL-oriented and NoSQL-oriented systems blur indistinguishably.
- MySQL (or PostgreSQL) laps the field with innovative features.
To date, NewSQL adoption has been limited.
- NewSQL vendors I've written about in the past include Akiban, Tokutek, CodeFutures (dbShards), Clustrix, Schooner (Membrain), VoltDB, ScaleBase, and ScaleDB, with GenieDB and NuoDB coming soon.
- But I'm dubious whether, even taken together, all those vendors have as many customers or production references as any of 10gen, Couchbase, DataStax, or Cloudant.*
That said, the problem may lie more on the supply side than in demand. Developing a competitive SQL DBMS turns out to be harder than developing something in the NoSQL state of the art.
Our clients, and where they are located
From time to time, I disclose our vendor client lists. Another iteration is below, the first since a little over a year ago. To be clear:
- This is a list of Monash Advantage members.
- All our vendor clients are Monash Advantage members, unless …
- … we work with them primarily in their capacity as technology users. (A large fraction of our user clients happen to be SaaS vendors.)
- We do not usually disclose our user clients.
- We do not usually disclose our venture capital clients, nor those who invest in publicly-traded securities.
- Excluded from this round of disclosure is one vendor I have never written about.
- Included in this round of disclosure is one client paying for services partly in stock. All our other clients are cash-only.
For reasons explained below, I'll group the clients geographically. Obviously, companies often have multiple locations, but this is approximately how it works from the standpoint of their interactions with me. Read more
DataStax Enterprise and Cassandra revisited
My last post about DataStax Enterprise and Cassandra didn't go so well. As follow-up, I chatted for two hours with Rick Branson and Billy Bosworth of DataStax. Hopefully I can do better this time around.
For starters, let me say there are three kinds of data management nodes in DataStax Enterprise:
- Vanilla Cassandra.
- Cassandra plus Solr. Solr is a superset of the text-indexing system Lucene.
- Solr adds a lot more secondary indexing to Cassandra.
- In addition, these nodes serve as Solr emulation; you can run generic Solr apps on them.
- Cassandra plus Hadoop.
- You can use Hadoop MapReduce to manipulate generic Cassandra data.
- In addition, these nodes serve as Hadoop/HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) emulation; you can run generic Hadoop apps on them.
- Hadoop jobs can interweave access to the two kinds of data structure.
Cassandra, Solr, Lucene, and Hadoop are all Apache projects.
If we look at this from the standpoint of DML (Data Manipulation Language) and data access APIs:
- Cassandra is a column-group kind of NoSQL DBMS. You can get at its data programmatically.
- There's something called CQL (Cassandra Query Language), said to be SQL-like.
- There's a JDBC driver for CQL.
- With Hadoop MapReduce also come Hive, Pig, and Sqoop.
- With Solr and Lucene come full-text search.
In addition, it is sometimes recommended that you use "in-entity caching", where an entire data structure (e.g. in JSON) winds up in a single Cassandra column.
The two main ways to get direct SQL* access to data in DataStax Enterprise are:
- Hive/Hadoop.
*or very SQL-like, depending on how you view things
Before going further, let's recall some Cassandra basics: Read more
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DataStax Enterprise 2.0
Edit: Multiple errors in the post below have been corrected in a follow-on post about DataStax Enterprise and Cassandra.
My client DataStax is announcing DataStax Enterprise 2.0. The big point of the release is that there's a bunch of stuff integrated together, including at least:
- Cassandra — the NoSQL DBMS, which DataStax sometimes calls "DataStax Server". Edit: That's not really a fair criticism of DataStax's messaging.
- Hadoop MapReduce, which DataStax sometimes calls "Hadoop". Edit: That is indeed fair.
- Sqoop — the general way to connect relational DBMS to Hadoop, which DataStax sometimes calls "RDBMS integration".
- Solr — the search-centric Apache project, or big parts of it, which DataStax generally calls either "Solr" or "Solr compatibility".
- log4j – an Apache project that has something or other to do with logging, or parts of it, which DataStax sometimes calls "log file integration".
- DataStax OpsCenter — some management tools and so on around Cassandra and the rest of the product line.
DataStax stresses that all this runs on the same cluster, with the same administrative tools and so on. For example, on a single cluster:
- You can manage the interactive data for a web site.
- You can store the logs for that website.
- You can analyze all of the above in Hadoop.
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Couchbase update
I checked in with James Phillips for a Couchbase update, and I understand better what's going on. In particular:
- Give or take minor tweaks, what I wrote in my August, 2010 Couchbase updates still applies.
- Couchbase now and for the foreseeable future has one product line, called Couchbase.
- Couchbase 2.0, the first version of Couchbase (the product) to use CouchDB for persistence, has slipped …
- … because more parts of CouchDB had to be rewritten for performance than Couchbase (the company) had hoped.
- Think mid-year or so for the release of Couchbase 2.0, hopefully sooner.
- In connection with the need to rewrite parts of CouchDB, Couchbase has:
- Gotten out of the single-server CouchDB business.
- Donated its proprietary single-sever CouchDB intellectual property to the Apache Foundation.
- The 150ish new customers in 2011 Couchbase brags about are real, subscription customers.
- Couchbase has 60ish people, headed to >100 over the next few months.
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Highlights of a busy news week
I put up 14 posts over the past week, so perhaps you haven't had a chance yet to read them all. Highlights included:
- My most important post of the week was a general guide to IT vendor strategy. That one has already spawned discussion at many companies, from the tiny to the multi-billion-dollar.
- The best comment thread of the week was probably on my post about scale-out relational OLTP choices, in which people discussed the merits of various particular alternatives.
- I recommended that people strongly consider attending XLDB 5 in Menlo Park on October 18-19.
Most of the posts, however, were reactions to news events. In particular:
- Teradata announced that Teradata 14 will be hybrid-columnar, more in Vertica's way than in Greenplum's or Aster Data's. (Pay no attention to the Wall Street Journal's apparent belief that no other analytic DBMS is hybrid-columnar at all.)
- Aster announced the unsurprising news that there will be a Teradata Aster appliance. Also, Aster talked about greater analytic flexibility in the forthcoming Aster 5.0.
- With Oracle OpenWorld coming up, Oracle decided to get some of its announcing out of the way early. In particular, it announced the Oracle Database Appliance, which is small-business-friendly hardware for running the Oracle DBMS. However, the Oracle Database Appliance doesn't seem to do much about the complexity of running the Oracle DBMS software.
- In a catch-all Hadoop post, I noted that:
- Oracle has now clearly said it has a Hadoop appliance coming, no doubt next week at OpenWorld.
- I still can't see why Hadoop appliances would succeed, but a lot of smart folks seem to disagree with me.
- Greenplum announced what looks like a nice but unimportant little product upgrade.
- It's a really good thing that previously reported plans to revamp Hadoop are underway.
- DataStax announced that it really is a Cassandra company after all. Pay no attention to previous marketing that seemed to put DataStax in the same Hadoop-alternative category as, say, MapR.
- Ingres has changed its name to Actian. The announcement seems like a confession that Ingres and VectorWise are going nowhere.
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