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The United States Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) at Parris Island, South Carolina is an 8,095 acre military installation located on the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 5 miles south of Beaufort, South Carolina.
Parris Island is perhaps the most famous military training camp in the world thanks to movies like Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket and Pat Conroy's The Great Santini. It's where most enlisted Marines begin their military career.
Male recruits from states east of the Mississippi River and all female recruits report to Parris Island for Marine Corp bootcamp. Male recruits from states west of the Mississippi River receive their training in San Diego, California, but may train at Parris Island by special request.
Marine recruits endure a thirteen week process that cuts them off from the civilian world in order to adapt to a Marine Corps lifestyle. Drill instructors provide weapons training, Marine Corps Martial Arts Program, personal hygiene and cleanliness, close order drill, and Marine Corps history. The training emphasizes physical fitness and recruits must attain a minimum standard of fitness to graduate.
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As its title implies, "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" is a splashy neo-noir buddy thriller with plenty of laughs and jaw-dropping plot twists. Screenwriter Shane Black ("Lethal Weapon") returns to movies after a long hiatus to make a dazzling directorial debut that's injected with full-bloom performances by Val Kilmer, newcomer Michelle Monaghan, and one very watchable Robert Downey Jr. Downey's character Harry Lockhart is a petty thief/wannabe actor on the run in LA. Harry teams up with gay private detective Gay Perry (Kilmer) to pose as a private eye-in-training. Bodies start piling up all around and the girl of Harry's dreams since childhood proves to be much more trouble than he bargained for. Slick, sassy, and downright delicious "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" is a royal cinematic treat. Yummy, yummy.
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Blooming Windmills, Big Figs, Naturalized Magnolias in Rehoboth
I went to see a friend's garden in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware today. Like many palmy gardeners, they are hidden out of common site by his back porch. If only big beefy palms like this were more visible in our area. Everyone seems to keep their beauty to themselves.
All of the windmills are blooming together for the first time. It looks like he has both male and female trees, so should have a bumper crop of seeds this fall/winter.
Someone on this site once said that you can tell a lot about a growing zone based on how well Southern Magnolias and Fig trees do out in the open and unprotected. These are some of the biggest fig trees in the area--15 to 20 feet, I guess-- and are not protected by a wall, or a house. They are already full of big fruit. This one is in The Pines Neighborhood and is across the street from the beach, buffered by a thicket of loblolly pines and dunes.
This fig tree in the Lake Gerrar Neighborhood is a few blocks back from the ocean and on the lake. It's taller than the other tree, but not as robust because it's under big loblolly pines, but it's fruit is really impressive for May 1st!
These appear nearly full-sized already...
Southern Magnolias are very common in Southern Delaware and get to very impressive sizes considering they are not native here. These magnolias in the next few pics took me completely off guard as they were naturalized along the beach drive out to Cape Henlopen State Park. They are right underneath telephone wires, so I assume that birds ate and deposited them. The first one is already close to 20' tall and on the beach side of the highway, just behind the scrub pines and beach dunes.
Close up of the leaves.
There were several other smaller Southern Magnolias growing in the tangle of pines, grasses and bayberry along the other side of the beach road.
This one also took me by surprise. It looks like camellia growing wild on the edge of an undeveloped and protected woodland. I can't imagine someone planted it here of all places. I seldom see Camellias with seeds on them, so hard to imagine that they have naturalized, but still interesting foliage under the big loblolly pines in the Pines Neighborhood.
The beach roses are already blooming. They are wild with either pink or white flowers, and only grow within a very limited zone near the ocean. Although I've seen some in gardens. I think of them as a June flower, so this was another nice surprise today. Their fragrance is like no other rose; a hybrid tea can't compare.
Parting shot of North Shores/Gordons Pond Beach at Cape Henlopen State Park. The two towers are WWII look out towers, part of a defensive system of towers and guns along the DE and NJ coast. Most of the towers are on the DE side, concentrated around the mouth of the Delaware Bay, set up to protect the Navy Bases, refineries and ports in the Philadelphia area, 120 miles up the Bay and River. Thanks for viewing.
Good question, Dixieboy. For a tree that flourishes up through the mid Atlantic, the native range of Magnolias seem limited. Two of the biggest, most impressive grandifloras I've ever seen flank a farm house in Princess Anne, Maryland in the extreme southern end of the Eastern Shore. They must be a century old and have never been limmed up, so the big lower limbs rest on the ground. I need to get some pics of those but it's nearly a two hour drive from here.
Great pics! The trachys look great and I never heard of beach roses, they seem nice!
Beautiful figs! They are ahead of mine. Mine has one fruit growing (this is its second year in the ground so it's getting established abit still). Figs do best with protection here, but the unprotected ones survive out in the open just fine with some dieback in the really exposed areas during cold winters.
Never get tired of southern mags. I cant wait until the local ones start blooming. They are usually in bloom around June, sometimes late May during mild springs.
Alex, I'm surprised you've not seen the wild roses along the Long Island or New England beaches. I dyid some research and found out they're native to Japan and Korea. They must've been introduced a very long time ago as they're widespread along the Atlantic Beaches from VA into Canada and Great Lakes. They apparently thrive in crappy soils (beach sand) and very close to open water.
Ahhh...the beach life. I'll never get tired of it, or move away from it. You see sea roses (as I've always heard them called) around here amongst the dunes by the boardwalk, and scattered in the pines and goldenrod at the inlet. My figs too have started to get big. Will get these initial fruits, then a second batch later in the season. It never gets protection and looks dead to the point of being an eyesore in the Winter. Once it begins to bloom, however, watch out...the flush of green arrives with lightening speed. Those trachys are some healthy mothers...
Trash, I can't imagine living anywhere else and I've been all over the US and world with my military travels. Those windmills are some of the beefiest I've ever seen in the region. As I Saudi, its a shame they're not visible to the neighbors driving by. I'm learning that it's far palmier here than one would imagine, because palms are mostly kept out back! I'm guilty of that too, but inserted a small windmill and med fan into my small front garden.


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The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, was established on November 29, 1963, by Lyndon B. Gerald Rudolph Jerry Ford, Jr. /5 Warren Commission Gerald Ford Arlen Specter Jimmy Carter Behind Blue Eyes Statuary Hall Richard Nixon Lee Harvey Oswald President John Jim Garrison Donald Rumsfeld President Kennedy Bill Clinton American Media Spiro Agnew Allen Dulles George Washington Thomas Jefferson Crowdsourcing JFK: What did Gerald Ford say about the Warren Commission?
Bush gives himself away by saying "The Warren Commission will always have the final definitive say on this tragic matter because of Gerald Ford."
Pres. Johnson asks Gerald Ford to be a member of the Warren Commission, 50 years ago this evening: via
Gerald Ford changed the draft of the Warren Commission's Report to move the location of Kennedy's back wound up...
Why should anyone care about JFK? First, just a little background of what really happened, based on my extensive study of this issue : On this 50th anniversary of a coup d'état that removed JFK from office by assassination and proceeded to cover up this crime by murdering Lee Harvey Oswald and packing the Warren Commission with ambitious and corrupt politicians like Gerald Ford ( who later pardoned another very corrupt politician, Richard Nixon),Arlen Specter( who was utilized to put forth the ridiculous "magic bullet" theory, in order to explain away the conspiracy involving several shooters), as well as the most powerful and influential member... his well-known enemy Allen Dulles, former head of the CIA, who had been fired by President Kennedy for lying and attempting to manipulate and control foreign policy. Through a secret Operation, code-named "Mockingbird", the CIA had bought and/or installed hundreds of their own propaganda agents in the American Media. Thus, the almost universal ridicule for an ...
Becoming President was Gerald Ford's reward for white washing the American people with the Warren Commission.
LBJ TAPES: Gerald Ford on Warren Commission (JFK assassination): via No mention of need for truth.
A Brush of Greatness Ronald Reagan was Just a candidate for the Republican nomination back when he came by the US House of Representatives for meet and greets with members, and having some photo opportunities. They were not called Photo Ops back when people still used short hand. I was just a Cloakroom Page and high school kid with hair issues. I liked Reagan and wanted to meet him and shake hands. So, I left my post and headed over to Statuary Hall. He was standing in the middle of his advisers and security as I came smiling in. I know it seems odd that I would like Reagan, but I did. I preferred him to Gerald Ford in 76. Not because I remembered Reagan from his Death Valley Days TV Show, but because Ford was on the Warren Commission, which I had real problems with, and he pardoned Nixon for the Good of the Country, which I also had problems with. Ford of course beat Reagan in the end, and Jimmy Carter fortunately beat Ford. If I could have I would have voted for Carter, but I was to young at the time. A ...
Arlen Specter was on the Warren Commission along with Gerald Ford. How many commission members are still alive?
Completely Useless Facts; Celebrities Part 4 Felix the Cat is the first cartoon character to ever have been made into a balloon for a parade. According to one source, Americans buy about 5 million things that are shaped like Mickey Mouse, or have a picture of Mickey Mouse on them, in the course of one day. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams were all avid collectors and players of marbles. In their day, marbles were called "small bowls" and were as popular with adults as with children. Pepin the Short, King of the Franks from 751 to 768 AD was four feet six inches tall. His wife was known as Bertha of the Big Foot. George Washington's face was badly scarred from smallpox. King Alfonso of Spain (1886 to 1931), was so tone-deaf that he had one man in his employ known as the Anthem Man. This man's duty was to tell the king to stand up whenever the Spanish national anthem was played, because the monarch couldn't recognize it. Gerald Ford was one of the members of the Warren Commission appointe ...
Pres. Gerald Ford history: he was adopted, he was picked by Pres. Nixon, to replaced V.P. Spiro Agnew, Then Nixon Resigned and Ford succeed as President having never run for V.P. or Pres. He was on the Warren Commission, to investigate Pres. John F. Kennedy Assassination, he also pardoned Nixon, and no watergate trial for Nixon. Oh Ford's real last name was KING. The other adopted pres. was Bill Clinton.
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Yes, Gerald Ford was on the Warren Commission, but Donald Rumsfeld is the one who made Gerald Ford president.
Everyone who signed off on the Warren Commission, incl Gerald R Ford, is suspect
Warren Commission trustworthy as 9/11 commission. Look at who was on Warren. How did Gerald Ford get picked by Nixon? Payback
You need to understand. Gerald Ford was on the Warren Commission, and later became president. Hello? Payoff!
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Nurses in the mental health field work with adults, children and older people who have any of a variety of mental health conditions. These professionals help people either recover from their illness or to become able to deal with the illness in such a way as to function within their communities. Mental health nurses work closely with psychiatrists, psychologists, occupational therapists, general practioners, social workers and other healthcare professionals to help patients maximize their life potential.
Using a multidisciplinary patient centered approach to mental health care; these professionals may work in the homes of patients, in community health care centers, in hospital outpatient departments, or in special secure residential units. As valued members of the medical community, mental health nurses are a well respected and important to the welfare of patients.
Typically mental health nurses fill a wide spectrum of roles. They care for patients who are experiencing either acute or long term mental illness. Nurses build a relationship with the patient and are able to encourage trust while listening to patient needs and concerns. Mental health nurses work with the doctor to ensure the correct administration of medicines whether in liquid, tablet, or injectable forms, as well as on the spot monitoring of the results of these treatments.
Mental health nurses are usually the first responders for patients who are in distress, doing so in a non-threatening and supportive manner. They apply de-escalation techniques to help patients control their emotions and behaviors, often planning or participating in one to one therapy sessions as well a group sessions, along with other health professionals.
Nurses in the mental health field are of the expected to provide evidence based therapy for individuals along the lines of cognitive behavior therapy for such illnesses as depression or anxiety. They encourage patients to participate in art, drama, or occupational therapy when such activities are appropriate. Mental health nurses help organize social activities to help patients improve their social skills.
Record keeping is an important part of mental health nurses jobs in order to ensure that health care plans and risk assessment are kept up to date for each individual patient. They work with the patients? families to help with their on-going education about the patient?s mental health problems. Nurses promote a recovery based approach to care.
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Eleven faculty members, four academic professionals and five graduate teaching assistants at the University of Illinois were honored Tuesday (April 22, 2014) for excellence in teaching and advising. The group was recognized during a reception at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. Don DeCoste was one of this elite group. Soon after he received a Provost's Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award.
Donald DeCoste
Donald DeCoste, a specialist in education in the Department of Chemistry, has the ability "to capture the imagination of young people and to make his courses truly memorable". His goals in teaching are that students should "understand the materials at a conceptual level and understand the nature of science". His highest compliment from a student: "I am trying to teach myself how to ask the same questions you do in a lecture, so that I don't need you anymore." (University of Illinois News Bureau article, Chemistry article)
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Four academic professionals were honored April 22, 2013 at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center
Criteria for the award includes demonstrated excellence overall, a supportive and service-driven attitude, and an eye towards improvement of oneself, ones' employees, and the department and college on the whole.
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Beth is coordinator for the inorganic, materials and physical (IMP) chemistry office and is crucial to the graduate student recruiting process. Beth's nominators write of her excellent managerial and people skills as well as her foresightedness. One nominee stated, "Beth Myler is worth her weight in platinum to our Department". Another wrote, "Beth's excellence in all aspects of her job, her ability to improve morale not only of other staff but also of students and faculty, her efforts at improving the performance of her office and her supervisees, her creative approach to improved efficiencies, and her projection of the professionalism of her office and the Department of Chemistry are simply unsurpassed".


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Mr. Zsolt SZOLNOKI, Secretary General
Mr. Zsolt Szolnoki was elected by the General Assembly of the ACEEEO to serve as the Secretary General of the ACEEEO on the General Assembly meeting during the 20th anniversary conference of the ACEEEO. Previously he worked for the Association as the Driector of Operations. Mr. Szolnoki's Curriculum Vitae is downloadable from here. |
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Stepan is responsible for the program coordination and organizing processes in the Association. He is also responsible for managing the finances, taking care for the logistics of the Association's events. He is the head of the Editorial Office of ACEEEO's annual publication: 'Elections in Europe'. He is citizen of the Ukraine and he speaks Hungarian, English, Ukrainian and Russian. |
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From Black Lagoon to Ellias Cove
Scientists, educators, federal and state government agencies and others are celebrating the restoration of the Black Lagoon. Once contaminated with oil, mercury, lead, zinc and PCBs, the now-restored embayment of the Detroit River is an example of what clean-up efforts can accomplish.
On June 18, 2007, the Black Lagoon was officially renamed Ellias Cove. Organizers also announced plans for a new marina development designed to increase recreational access to the natural resource.
EPA scientists discovered that sediment samples from a small backwater embayment (Black Lagoon) on the Trenton Channel of the Detroit River were black with oil and grease and contained other contaminants, including mercury, lead, zinc and PCBs about 25 years ago.
The research performed in the mid-1980s helped establish the U.S.-Canada-Detroit River Remedial Action Plan. Since this time, a number of efforts have been underway to clean up the contamination and restore this and other areas along the Detroit River. Among these efforts include the establishment of the Detroit American Heritage River, the enactment of the Great Lakes Legacy Act, and the Clean Michigan Initiative. Michigan Sea Grant led the effort to earn the American Heritage River designation for the Detroit River in 1998.
Collaborative Partners
- City of Trenton
- Detroit River RAP
- Great Lakes Basin Program for Soil Erosion and Sediment Control
- SmithGroupJJR
- Metropolitan Affairs Coalition's Greater Detroit American Heritage River Initiative
- Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
- Michigan Department of Natural Resources
- Michigan Sea Grant
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service


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JRuby 9K Expected in 2014 Ready for Production
Charles Nutter, one of the lead developers of JRuby, announced the release of version 9000 (9K) in 2014. The new release targets the same feature set as Ruby MRI 2.0 and possibly 2.1 as well. Better performance, concurrency support and overall availability and portability provided by the use of the JVM can make this version suitable for production systems.
Ruby 2.1 Garbage Collection to Address Criticism on Large Scale Deployments
Ruby's creator announced the move to generational garbage collection in Ruby 2.1 in what is expected to be an important performance boost for the language. The announcement took place during Barcelona Ruby Conference where Ruby's GC was singled out as a major pain point in large scale Ruby deployments.
Cloud Foundry Core: Portability Across Cloud Foundry Vendors
Cloud Foundry Core is a web application that verifies public instances (Cloud Foundry Endpoints) against a common set of runtimes and services. This helps portability across companies that provide Cloud Foundry instances. At the same time a new version Micro Cloud Foundry is released with support for Java 7.0, JRuby, Play 2.0 framework and more.
Community-Driven Research: What's Your Next JVM Language?
InfoQ's research initiative continues with an 12th question: "What's Your Next JVM Language?". This is a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
JRuby 1.7.0 Released: Defaults to Ruby 1.9 Mode, Can Use InvokeDynamic
JRuby 1.7.0 now defaults to Ruby 1.9 mode and supports almost all of 1.9's features. On recent JVM implementations that support invokedynamic, using JRuby 1.7 can increase application performance.
Community-Driven Research: Top 20 Web Frameworks for the JVM
InfoQ's research initiative continues with an 10th question: "Top 20 Web Frameworks for the JVM". This is a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
JRuby 1.7 Preview 1 Released: Defaults to 1.9 and Improves Performance With Invokedynamic
The first preview release of the upcoming JRuby 1.7 defaults to Ruby 1.9 runtime mode and is much faster thanks to Java 7's invokedynamic. We talked to Charles Nutter to learn more about the future of JRuby on Java 7, Fibers and his move to Red Hat.
InvokeDynamic and Javascript: New Compiler Dyn.js, Oracle Nashorn and Rhino
Dyn.js is a new implementation of Javascript for Java. It makes use of Java 7's new features for dynamic languages (invokedynamic, Method Handles). InfoQ talked to dyn.js creator Douglas Campos about the reasons to create another Javascript for the JVM (next to Rhino and the announced Oracle Nashorn) and implementation details of dyn.js.
Rhino is About to Get a Lot Faster
Charles Nutter of JRuby fame recently started assisting the Rhino project (Java implementation of JavaScript) to speed up the Rhino JavaScript runtime.
JRuby Roundup: JRuby on EY AppCloud, JRuby-Lint, JRuby Delegates
JRuby is now available on EngineYard's AppCloud Beta program, set up to run with the Trinidad server. Nick Sieger has released jruby-lint, a static analysis tool that checks Ruby code bases for patterns that are either discouraged or perform badly on JRuby vs. MRI. Also: JRuby 1.6.2 is out.
Creating a new JVM language
Creating a new JVM based language has recently hit the for with the news of the proposed Ceylon project. In fact, the JVM already has a diverse set of languages, both statically typed and dynamically typed. What does it take for a new language to hit the mark?
JRuby 1.6 Released: Ruby 1.9.2 Compatible and C Extensions
JRuby 1.6.0 has been released and brings almost complete Ruby 1.9.2 support. Additionally, there's experimental support for C extensions, and Windows is now a primary platform. InfoQ talked to Thomas Enebo about the new release and what they have planned for the future.
Lift-JRuby Integration Bridges the Gap Between Ruby and Scala
The popular Scala web framework Lift is getting a JRuby API. InfoQ talked to Lift creator David Pollak to learn why Rubyists should use Lift and what the challenges in combining Ruby and Scala are.
The State of JRuby: 1.6 RC1, JSR 292 and NIO2 in Java 7, 1.9.2 Support
The first RC for JRuby 1.6 is out and brings improved Ruby 1.9.2 compatibility, experimental C extensions support, improved Windows support, Ruby Gems Maven support, performance and profiling improvements and more. InfoQ talked to JRuby's Charles Nutter about JRuby 1.6, the impact of Java 7 on JRuby, new language features in Ruby and much more.
A New Crop of Self Hosting IDEs: RedCar and JRuby, Cloud9 IDE and Javascript
Dynamic languages have a dirty, badly kept secret: their IDEs and tools are written in languages like C/C++, C# or Java. Exceptions were languages like Smalltalk - but now Ruby and Javascript developers get to build their tooling using their preferred languages. InfoQ looks at HTML/Javascript based Cloud9 IDE and JRuby and SWT based RedCar.


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Population with tertiary education: 53.5% Average annual growth rate: n/a Education spending as pct. of GDP: 4.9% (5th lowest)
PHOTO: A general view of Mikhail Lomonosov Moscow State University, taken from a helicopter in May 1995. Lomonosov University if one of seven Stalin-era towers built in Moscow after World War II.


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Agenda Overview
Monday, August 11
Pre Conference offerings
Best Practices Open Forum
Come on in and stay as long as you like. No appointment needed. This is an open opportunity to discuss Vertica best practices with our experts and customers with similar interests.
You can chat with our Solutions Architects.
You can exchange ideas with customers and hear how they leverage Vertica.
You can discuss your use case.
You can discuss infrastructure: optimal cluster sizes, best hardware, network, best practices for ingestion, workload management, backup restore, tools and more!
It's all about you and what you want to discuss!
Conversations will be grouped by: Under 25TB, 25TB to 200TB, 200+TB
You can also visit us in the Partner Zone.
These training sessions will help you understand and better work with the Vertica Analytics Platform. We suggest selecting the appropriate classes, per each time slot offered and experience level, to maximize your knowledge. Class sizes have been specifically designed to encourage a dynamic interaction. For more information on our comprehensive training program please visit the HP Vertica Training site.
Hackathon (#HackVertica)
The Hackathon is an all-day event, participants from various skillsets come together to develop something "cool", hands-on, with the data in Vertica and come up with a demonstration using predefined data sets to show your work to judges. It is designed for intermediate to advanced users of Vertica. The recommended team size is 3-4 people with various skillsets, each group will be given a set of data to work with and the judges will be using specific criteria to select a winner! Prizes will be given out for first, second and third place winners.
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Real-time Data Driven Apps Reduce Time-to-value for Your Big Data Insights
Big data is on everyone's minds these days. We worry about velocity, volume, and variety of data running through the enterprise. While the transactional data continues to be the most pressing, correlating transactions with the interactions and perceptions that are represented in big data is ushering in a renaissance of real-time analytics and insights, unleashing the true value of big data. Though there are many challenges when integrating OLTP systems to the analytics environment, we have scratched the surface of these challenges with real-time data integration from transactional systems to data warehouses to machine data and log data of all forms being generated by a multitude of sensors.
Today, the analytics framework is significantly more sophisticated with the addition of technologies like Hadoop, Autonomy, and Vertica. We need a similar new approach to delivering value from real-time big data. The WebAction Real-time App Platform is an end-to-end solution combining high speed data acquisition with in-memory distributed event processing to correlate, enrich, filter, and deliver your structured and unstructured data streams with ease. The platform ultimately reduces time-to-value for your big data insights.
VIVIT Deep Dive Session
Sponsors: SoftNet and Synnex
Course Level: Beginner from Big Data perspective.
Audience & Prerequisites: This workshop is best suited to business users, business intelligence specialists, data analysts, and statisticians with basic knowledge of analytics. Students should have proficiency in a SQL language. A background in Java is not required. Prior knowledge of Apache Hadoop or Vertica is not required.
Partner Zone
Tuesday, August 12 – Wednesday, August 13
Visit the Developer Lounge
A cool place to chat with the engineers who make HP Vertica great!
You won't want to miss visiting the Developer Lounge located in the right rear of the Partner Zone. Experts from the HP Vertica Dev Team, including software engineers, test engineers, technical support engineers and technical writers will be available to discuss your questions and ideas. Consider scheduling an appointment to ensure you will have the right experts on hand. For more information and to schedule an appointment please submit your request here.
Track Session Overview
Tuesday, August 12 – Thursday, August 14
Business Track:
The business track is geared for business managers and team leads interested in learning about the successful adoption of emerging Big Data analytics use cases as well as best practices for measuring the value of their initiatives and the related lessons learned.
Technical Track:
The technical track features eight educational sessions presented by Vertica distinguished engineers, leading product experts, clients and business partners. It is where IT professionals and practitioners can focus on sharpening expertise, discovering new innovations and learning industry best practices.
Join the Technical Track to experience:
- Deeper Insights – Deep-dive into product features and how-to sessions that look under-the-hood of HP Vertica
- Performance Optimization – Work with prominent engineers who will share benchmarks and performance tuning information
- Little-known Features– Look inside the little-known features of Vertica and how you can leverage them for ease-of-use and proper management of your cluster
Eco-System Track:
Big data analytics solutions increasingly require a vibrant eco-system of seamless technologies to help organizations begin leveraging all of their data. Learn how the ecosystem of BI/Visualization, Analytics, Data Transformation, Hadoop, and other partners add value to the Vertica and HAVEn big data analytics platforms and hear directly from customers who have successfully leveraged the Vertica platform and ecosystem partners to gain business value and ROI from next-generation Big Data solutions.
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The data landscape has changed. Game-changing businesses gain competitive edge by analyzing and acting upon machine data and human information as well as traditional transactional data. A new solution is needed for the complexity and velocity of this new style of IT.
- Are you able to process, store, and index all critical data across your organization?
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Join the HAVEn track to experience:-
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- Hear stories of innovative companies already transforming their business with HAVEn
- How HP IT uses Big Data to deliver business value to HP.
Live Demo Theater:
The Live Demo Theatre is a new conference track where we give select partners an opportunity to show off their enhancements to the HP Vertica Analytics Platform. Join HP executives and HP partners as they hit the stage with their new, electrifying technologies or applications. Be sure to check the demo theatre schedule to see demos, interact and drill-down on our partners' solutions.


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They started calling him "Johnny Football" as a kid because, when things didn't go his way on the playground, he took his ball and went home.
Now hit me with a rim shot and a "piling on" penalty.
Unlike the paid psycho-babble experts on ESPN, I actually haven't quite figured out Johnny Manziel.
Defend him, or suspend him?
Lump me with the linebackers who also have yet to get their arms around Johnny.
I sort of liked him in a crazy way, but not as much after Saturday.
How does he affect you?
Joe Flacco, quarterback of the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens, told USA Today that Manziel is "quickly becoming my favorite player in the college football."
Yeah, just wait until Manziel spits in somebody's face.
I thought the Texas A&M quarterback showed remarkable comportment and maturity in the first half of Saturday's game against Rice.
Then they put him in the game, where he made "air signatures," rubbed his fingers together — "show me the money?" — and ultimately got benched for taunting.
We handed him the Heisman Trophy at age 20 and now wonder what went wrong?
It was decided in kindergarten, not Saturday that no parent, teacher, coach or university was ever going to stand in the way of Johnny Meal Ticket.
And now it's HIS fault?
Well, yes … and no.
Everyone in the know had to know this was going to happen.
Manziel has been co-opted, coddled and cuddled, but hopefully not beyond repair.
Texas A&M shielded Manziel from the media last season and only released his lips after it became clear ESPN was not interested in a mime act for the Heisman telecast.
Manziel came off as intelligent and personable on conference call with reporters just before fame and (his family's) fortune all apparently went straight back to his head.
Just like it might have done to … me.
After Saturday's behavior debacle, though, the school again kept Johnny from a postgame interview that might have muffled a full-blaze controversy. Manziel could have borrowed the line Phil Mickelson used after he pulled driver on No. 18 at Winged Foot.
"I am such an idiot."
It's hard to watch young people grow up on television, especially when they don't.
Manziel seems perpetually stuck in "give-him-a-lollipop" land and it's going to take an adult to sit him down fast before it's too late.
Kevin Sumlin, Mr. Head Coach, would you please step up?
Or, is anyone really looking out for Johnny?
Texas A&M seems only interested in keeping Manziel eligible enough to fill seats at Kyle Stadium.
The half-game punishment negotiated by lawyers was an insult to everyone who otherwise has a clue.
There has to be settlement line between constraining Manziel and keeping him on the playing field — he's so much fun to watch.
Manziel can't keep taunting opponents, though, or he'll end up on the Southeastern Conference's permanent disabled list.
Nor should Manziel get gang-tackled excoriated for not breaking any laws (yet) that get you sent to San Quentin.
The school and NCAA should have sent a stronger detention message by sitting Manziel for the first two games and then bringing him back for Alabama on Sept. 14.
Instead, they made him available for an opening-day fiasco but not for the postgame interview.
Stay tuned.
Weekend Wrap
— What a Labor Day weekend for a handful of worker-bee Football Championship Subdivision programs. The upstarts formerly known as 1-AA staged one upset after another: North Dakota State over Kansas State, Towson over Connecticut, Eastern Illinois over San Diego State, McNeese State over South Florida, Northern Iowa over Iowa State and Eastern Washington over Oregon State.
"It took every ounce of every minute in that sucker to get it done," Eastern Washington Coach Beau Baldwin said after his team's 49-46 thriller at Corvallis, Ore.
To the vanquished, do not despair. In 2007, Michigan rallied from its horrific opening loss to Appalachian State to beat Tim Tebow's Florida Gators in a bowl game.
— Late Saturday recap: Northwestern held off California, 44-30, in a breathlessly exciting game at Berkeley. A star may have been born in first-year Cal freshman Jared Goff, who completed 38 of 63 passes for 445 yards in his debut. Goff had three passes intercepted, but two were deflections returned for touchdowns. Cal Coach Sonny Dykes was visibly livid in thinking Northwestern was feigning injuries to slow down his up-tempo offense.
Reaction: "If anyone were to question the integrity of myself, our program, or our players, I question theirs," said Northwestern Coach Pat Fitzgerald.
— Stock check: With South Carolina leading North Carolina, 17-0, last Thursday, I received a call from a Heisman voter who said of defensive end Jadeveon Clowney's prospects: "He's toast." Other campaigns that got off to rough starts: AJ McCarron (quarterback, Alabama), Aaron Murray (quarterback, Georgia). Stock up: Quarterbacks who shined: Tajh Boyd (Clemson), Teddy Bridgewater (Louisville) and Brett Hundley (UCLA).
— Conference reports: The Mountain West had a lousy weekend starting at the top with flagship station Boise State. Washington's 38-6 win over Boise might have been the weekend's most startling result. Boise State linebacker Corey Bell said there's only one thing a Bronco can do: "Just get back on your horse."
The Big Ten (10-2) had a better weekend than the newly named American "Thank God for Louisville" Athletic (4-5). The Pac-12 South is perceived as the weaker division, but it opened 4-0 this weekend as opposed to 2-3 for the North.
Top heavy? The SEC went 10-4 but had a couple bad losses: Mississippi State scored only three points against Oklahoma State while Western Kentucky spoiled the debut of Kentucky Coach Mark Stoops.
— For what it's worth: The SEC's top six schools last year went 30-0 against the bottom eight.
Copyright © 2015, Chicago Tribune


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This is a very popular song by a well-known Catalan music company.
The song is called "La presó del rei de França" (The prison of the King of France), which is a traditional Catalan song, and people usually chant it jumping and saying "lo" following the melody, as you will see in the video. The song became a must for Barça fans because this music company used to play it during the celebrations in Camp Nou of the titles won by the team. It helped that the music company is from Barcelona as well.
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Since April, however, foreigners who set foot in a port of entry such as an international airport have had virtually none of the rights U.S. citizens take for granted. At the immigration checkpoint INS officers may summarily turn away anyone whose papers or verbal responses are suspect. For example, if an INS inspector believes a Colombian arriving on a tourist visa secretly wants to live permanently in the United States, that agent has the power to turn him back. The only check on this authority is a supervisor who must approve the order. And once the order has been given, the visitor can be barred from re-entry for a minimum of five years.
The new procedure is called "expedited removal," and during the hours or days noncitizens are caught in its bureaucratic wheels, they have no access to legal representation. The INS may even deny them the right to make phone calls to a consulate or embassy, or even to relatives in this country. Those who are summarily removed are detained until they leave and they have no right to appeal. In essence, the airport is a private fiefdom of the INS, in which it sits as judge, jury, and executioner.
INS officials in Washington, D.C., were well aware of the potential for abuse under IIRAIRA, and admonishments appear throughout the latest inspector's manual. "This new process gives immigration officers a great deal of authority over removal of aliens and will remain subject to serious scrutiny by the public, advocate groups, and Congress," the manual warns. "All officers should be especially careful to exercise objectivity and professionalism when refusing admission to aliens under this provision."
The manual also advises employees to "exercise extreme caution to ensure a proper decision in every instance in order to avoid attempts at litigation and possibly even further legislation curtailing the agency's newly acquired authority."
But in the law's nine-month existence, horror stories -- of legitimate visitors to the United States being mistreated, expelled, and then barred from re-entry -- have filtered into the media. And critics charge that in dozens of cases, INS officers have abused their newfound authority: putting noncitizens with valid visas into expedited removal, imprisoning them for days, and depriving them of food, water, and even access to restrooms.
The first INS inspectors at Miami International Airport to review visas and passports sit in booths at what is called "primary inspection," located in concourses E and B. All passengers, including American citizens, who disembark from international flights must pass through primary.
Normally the inspectors -- currently there are 39 in the morning and 54 in the afternoon -- review passports and visas, checking the pictures and typography for forgeries. They then ask a few quick questions: Where are you coming from? How long will you stay? How much money are you carrying? Most of the 20,000 travelers a day are passed through within minutes and sent on to baggage claim and customs.
If an inspector has doubts about a document or believes the visitor harbors a desire to overstay the allotted time on a visa, is not in fact a legal resident of the United States, or has a criminal record, he will order the individual to stand along a back wall. The inspector turns on a red light above the booth, and a county employee -- a terminal operations specialist -- takes the visitor to "secondary inspection."
Secondary inspection is the subject of a lawsuit against the INS filed in May in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., challenging the new rules on expedited removal as a violation of both the Constitution and congressional intent.
The lead plaintiff in the case is Honduran native Elba Wood, wife of former contra leader Commander Blas, who served as chief of the Atlantic Front of the Nicaraguan Resistance. As Wood relates her experience at Miami International Airport over the phone from her husband's office in Managua, her voice grows indignant. She arrived at the airport on Thursday, August 7, with her three-year-old daughter Silma. American Airlines flight 970 from Managua touched down at MIA shortly after 5:00 p.m. Wood remembers eyeing the long lines in primary and hoping she could still catch her 7:15 connecting flight to Houston, where her sister lives.
It was a little before 6:00 when Wood and her daughter took their turns at the immigration booth. After studying both passports, the INS inspector called over a supervisor, who also reviewed the documents. The inspector asked Wood in English whether she had previously been in the United States. Wood, who says she doesn't speak English well, told the inspector she'd visited in 1994. In Spanish, she requested an interpreter, but the inspector reportedly replied, "I don't speak Spanish."
A confused Wood and her daughter were taken to a waiting room in secondary filled with about twenty other travelers. (The INS, citing security and privacy concerns, denied a request by New Times to view the facilities in either the secondary or the detention areas, where those awaiting removal are kept; Wood and other sources offered descriptions.) To one side of the waiting room are several small cubicles where INS officers conduct interviews to determine whether applicants will be expelled or allowed to enter the country.


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And then I'll do the opposite. I'm learning Doug. Taking your lead…
I spilled my coffee this morning. I know it was not me. The evil specter of the Koch Brothers was behind it. Obviously testing some sophisticated weapon to attack nerve cells. I know they were also behind that traffic jam I had on I-95 last week and certainly those bird droppings on my sports car were some type of realistic drone being tested. I will not even elaborate on the shenanigans of the Koch Brothers and their connected involvement to PBS/CPB. That whole Sesame Street thing is nothing more than a front to indoctrinate our youth.
I could elaborate on Soros such as where was he on 9/11? Was he on a grassy knoll in Dallas? Is he really the one that flipped Ted Turner? What is his involvement in area 51?
The evil hand of the muti-billionaires is everywhere. One just has to look to see the conspiracy.
I'm going to agree with Doug on this one. The Koch brothers are more dangerous than Soros at this time. Most Progressives didn't like Soros saying China will own the New World Order in 2009 and they have been working against him and his advice since then. Now Soros has turned on Obama and is encouraging other wealthy Progressives to do the same.
Perhaps a better piece would be one on the many foundations that are used by the wealthy to create public and foreign policy. Quite a deal to get to shift the direction of government and get a tax break at the same time.
I'm surprised that you would feel so about the Koch bros. If you read the content of my posts and the supplied links from myself and Almandine about Soros, including the Dan Greenfield piece about Soros the anti-semite even though he's Jewish demontrates that Soros is a globalist par excellence having no allegiance to anyone not even to his own roots.
So while the 'right wing Koch bros are screwing around with asset acquisition for pennies on the dollar at the state levels, Soros and company have their eye on the "Big Enchilada" ; ie, the socialist/communist restructuring of the U.S. and world including blatant redistribution of physical assets if necessary.
Nothing Soros does can be trusted. He will fake supporting an entity while in effect he's ruining them or he could appear to divest himself of the same while continuing to support them behind the scenes. Soros is the consumate shapeshifter when it comes to achieving his goals.
You should read the Salon article link concerning Cass Sunstein one of Obama's close confidante's and advisers. It's pure madness which matches up to George Soros' sociopathy.
So as Doug disagrees and so too yourself, I stand firm in belief that Soros and company are a far greater threat to our national sovereignty. He's also now involved with restructuring the worlds currency system, no doubt to his specifications. As the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty, Mayer Amschel said in the 16th century, he cared not who made a nation's laws as long as he controlled their currency, so too are Soro's thoughts except on a global level. He's not working alone either. For all we know he's an agent for the BIS, Bank of International Settlements located in Basel, Switzerland, the IMF and the transgenerational banking dynasty, the Rothschilds of Europe and the major founding stockholders in our Federal Reserve system.
I rest my case.
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In the meantime, Obama was in Brazil urging more offshore oil drilling so America can become their "number one customer" while his administration curtails drilling off our own coasts; and at the same time we need to intervene or "baby sit a civil war" in Libya because we need to reduce America's dependence on "foreign oil." All the while, of course, we sit on more than a trillion barrels of oil in one shale oil reserve alone, not to mention other vast reserves. Right here in America folks!
Seeing that unemployment hovers around 10% (officially) you would think there might be some economic as well as "national security" incentives to start drilling our own oil. You know, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and thereby the need for all this Middle East "humanitarianism" to keep the oil flowing, not for the benefit of the average Joe, but for the benefit of the oil companies.
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Energy that is still mostly supplied by coal-burning plants over 40 years old and transmitted along an aged infrastructure already susceptible to rolling blackouts, which is of course supposed to handle the extra load from all of these electric vehicles that will reduce carbon emissions by plugging into an electrical grid still mainly fueled by coal.
Not worried about any of this.
And just who is it that stands in harm's, er… harms our way?
Sounds like a "cap and trade" revival is in the works. Also sounds like another give away to big oil with more "incentives" to use the leases they already were awarded. Here's an incentive, use it or lose it!
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A quick Google search estimates the wealth of George Soros as 14.2 billion. The Koch brothers, put together, are estimated at 43 billion, or roughly 3x more. Even individually they're worth more than he is.
So, given money talking, who's got more influence?
Oh, and although it may not seem a huge proportion more, we're talking each Koch brother has five billion dollars more, and if I were to hazard a guess, I'd say five billion could buy quite a few TV ads.
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