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Graduating Apache Parquet
The following post from Julien Le Dem, a tech lead at Twitter, originally appeared in the Twitter Engineering Blog. We bring it to you here for your convenience.
ASF, the Apache Software Foundation, recently announced the graduation of Apache Parquet, a columnar storage format for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. At Twitter, we're excited to be a founding member of the project.
Using Apache Parquet at AppNexus
Thanks to Chen Song, Data Team Lead at AppNexus, for allowing us to republish the following post about his company's use case for Apache Parquet (incubating at this writing), the open standard for columnar storage across the Apache Hadoop ecosystem.
At AppNexus, over 2MM log events are ingested into our data pipeline every second. Log records are sent from upstream systems in the form of Protobuf messages. Raw logs are compressed in Snappy when stored on HDFS. That said, even with compression, this still leads to over 25TB of log data collected every day. On top of logs, we also have hundreds of MapReduce jobs that process and generate aggregated data. Collectively, we store petabytes of data in our primary Hadoop cluster.
Converting Apache Avro Data to Parquet Format in Apache Hadoop
Thanks to Big Data Solutions Architect Matthieu Lieber for allowing us to republish the post below.
A customer of mine wants to take advantage of both worlds: work with his existing Apache Avro data, with all of the advantages that it confers, but take advantage of the predicate push-down features that Parquet provides. How to reconcile the two?
Progress Report: Community Contributions to Parquet
- by Ryan Blue
- December 09, 2014
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Community contributions to Parquet are increasing in parallel with its adoption. Here are some of the highlights.
Apache Parquet (incubating), the open source, general-purpose columnar storage format for Apache Hadoop, was co-founded only 18 months ago by Cloudera and Twitter. Since that time, its rapid adoption by multiple platform vendors and communities has made it a de facto standard for this purpose.
This Month in the Ecosystem (May 2014)
Welcome to our ninth edition of "This Month in the Ecosystem," a digest of highlights from May/early June 2014 (never intended to be comprehensive; for that, see the excellent Hadoop Weekly).
More good news!
New SQL Choices in the Apache Hadoop Ecosystem: Why Impala Continues to Lead
- by Justin Erickson, Marcel Kornacker, and Dileep Kumar
- May 29, 2014
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Impala continues to demonstrate performance leadership compared to alternatives (by 950% or more), while providing greater query throughput and with a far smaller CPU footprint.
In our previous post from January 2014, we reported that Impala had achieved query performance over Apache Hadoop equivalent to that of an analytic DBMS over its own proprietary storage system. We believed this was an important milestone because Impala's objective has been to support a high-quality BI experience on Hadoop data, not to produce a "faster Apache Hive." An enterprise-quality BI experience requires low latency and high concurrency (among other things), so surpassing a well-known proprietary MPP DBMS in these areas was important evidence of progress.
In the past nine months, we've also all seen additional public validation that the original technical design for Hive, while effective for batch processing, was a dead-end for BI workloads. Recent examples have included the launch of Facebook's Presto engine (Facebook was the inventor and world's largest user of Hive), the emergence of Shark (Hive running on the Apache Spark DAG), and the "Stinger" initiative (Hive running on the Apache Tez [incubating] DAG).
Given the introduction of a number of new SQL-on-Hadoop implementations it seemed like a good time to do a roundup of the latest versions of each engine to see how they differ. We find that Impala maintains a significant performance advantage over the various other open source alternatives — ranging from 5x to 23x depending on the workload and the implementations that are compared. This advantage is due to some inherent design differences among the various systems, which we'll explain below. Impala's advantage is strongest for multi-user workloads, which arguably is the most relevant measure for users evaluating their options for BI use cases.
Congratulations to Parquet, Now an Apache Incubator Project
Yesterday, Parquet was accepted into the Apache Incubator. Congratulations to all the contributors to what will eventually become Apache Parquet!
In its relatively short lifetime (co-founded by Twitter and Cloudera in July 2013), Parquet has already become the de facto standard for columnar storage of Apache Hadoop data — with native support in Impala, Apache Hive, Apache Pig, Apache Spark, MapReduce, Apache Tajo, Apache Drill, Apache Crunch, and Cascading (and forthcoming in Presto and Shark). Parquet adoption is also broad-based, with employees of the following companies (partial list) actively contributing:
How-to: Convert Existing Data into Parquet
Learn how to convert your data to the Parquet columnar format to get big performance gains.
Using a columnar storage format for your data offers significant performance advantages for a large subset of real-world queries. (Click here for a great introduction.)
Using Impala at Scale at Allstate
Our thanks to Don Drake (@dondrake), an independent technology consultant who is currently working as a Principal Big Data Consultant at Allstate Insurance, for the guest post below about his experiences with Impala.
It started with a simple request from one of the managers in my group at Allstate to put together a demo of Tableau connecting to Cloudera Impala. I had previously worked on Impala with a large dataset about a year ago while it was still in beta, and was curious to see how Impala had improved since then in features and stability.
Using Apache Hadoop and Impala with MySQL for Data Analysis
Thanks to Alexander Rubin of Percona for allowing us to re-publish the post below!
Apache Hadoop is commonly used for data analysis. It is fast for data loads and scalable. In a previous post I showed how to integrate MySQL with Hadoop. In this post I will show how to export a table from MySQL to Hadoop, load the data to Cloudera Impala (columnar format), and run reporting on top of that. For the examples below, I will use the "ontime flight performance" data from my previous post.


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stored procedure will insert some values in the destination table once that is executed. When it is executed through VBA the number of fields which is inserted is less than when it is executed directly from the backend (oracle).
For example it is creating around 17 fields of records while executing directly from the back end. (I have created a wrapper class in the back-end and passing the same parameter values in the back-end.). It is creating around 15 fields of records while executing from the excel VBA in the destination table.
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An East Naples man jailed last month on fraud charges involving a two-county credit card skimming investigation now faces more charges after authorities say he used a Marco Island man's stolen bank card number.
Omar Jesus Barreda, 50, of the 300 block of Plantation Way, was charged Friday with additional felony charges of fraud and impersonation by using another person's ID, possessing a forged or altered credit card and fraudulently using credit cards. He's being held without bond in the county jail.
Barreda was arrested by Collier deputies on May 7 on a variety of charges, including fraud, trafficking in counterfeit credit cards and grand theft.
Marco Police reports show that police removed a credit card skimming device from a Chevron station gas pump on March 27 and received reports from customers whose credit card information was being used outside the island. Police Chief Don Hunter said the continuing investigation involves Marco police, Collier and Lee sheriff's deputies, other suspects and transactions in two counties.
Skimmers are devices attached to a gas pump or ATM machine that copy account data from the card's magnetic stripe; some also record PINs. Hunter said unless the skimmer is visible or it feels different when the card is swiped, a customer would be unaware the card number was being stolen.
"The bad guys come after-hours and it's a pretty quick takeout," Hunter said of skimming cases. "Some of the convenience stores don't have good videos or captures, so we face a variety of problems when we try to solve them."
Collier sheriff's detectives began investigating in April after reports from people that fraudulent purchases were being made on their credit cards at the Walmart at 6650 Collier Blvd., although the victims still had their cards. Walmart employees confirmed Barreda regularly came into the store to make small purchases using gift cards.
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When Barreda was arrested last month, deputies found Walmart bags in his car with the purchases tied to the Marco man's card, and a gift card in his wallet that had the man's bank credit card number encrypted on it. The report shows the man was unaware his identity had been stolen until detectives called him, but his bank statement later reflected the charges.
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Sarah Gayle Meech moved to Nashville from Los Angeles in 2010 and gravitated toward the intensely competitive Lower Broadway scene. There, artists play in dozens of honky-tonks down the eight-block stretch to the river, surviving on tip jar offerings. You HAVE to be good or you won't be playing there for long. Sarah has thrived due to a combination of formidable talent, steely determination and classic songwriting skills. Her new album, Tennessee Love Songs, features fifteen self-penned compositions recorded with the cream of the new Nashville session players. We spoke to Sarah about the new album, moving to Nashville and the eternal appeal of traditional country music.
For this album, you wrote all the songs. How long was the writing period for the album?
The majority of the songs came within a year's time. Last summer, I was hell-bent on writing the songs for this album. There were two songs written in previous years that I included but everything else was fresh off-the-cuff.
When you play Lower Broadway in Nashville, are you able to play original songs?
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It can be hard playing original songs for the downtown crowd.
You kind of feel it out. I always play my originals, regardless, but I'll pepper in the cover songs because you're on stage for 3 1/2 hours. I don't have 3 1/2 hours worth of original material and I don't know who does– Bruce Springsteen? The Rolling Stones? (laughter) I put in songs by my favorite artists like Loretta Lynn, George Jones and Patsy Cline. We're down there working for money (Ed. note: TIPS!) and if someone says, "Here's twenty bucks, play Willie Nelson," we're going to play it!


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The headline could read like this: "Residents' uprising swamps water park plan."
So, here we are, in the spring of the 56th year of Peachtree City's existence as a "new town," a "planned community," and Great Wolf is at our door.
Some preliminary thoughts in the aftermath of the accidental shooting New Year's Day in Peachtree City that received global news coverage.
On this last day of 2014, I'm reminded of the opening line of Mutual Network broadcaster Gabriel Heatter in his nightly radio newscasts from the 1940s and early '50s: "There's good news tonight!"
The opinion reprinted below first appeared in The Citizen Christmas week, 1999.
In the year of our Lord 19 hundred and 99...
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I have a Thanksgiving story. It happened two years ago.
This is written before the polls close, so I'm talking to a mass of folks who know a whole lot more than I know right now.
Just for fun, here are some quotes from pundits in the same boat, before the final counts.
Here we are again: One nation, divided, with varying degrees of liberty and justice. And we get to vote on what — and who — comes next.
I come today to praise two office holders that I have strongly criticized in the past.
OPINION — I'm disappointed in David Studdard. He's running a truth-challenged runoff race against Marty Harbin for the Republican nomination to the Georgia Senate, District 16 (Fayette, Spalding, Pike and Lamar counties).
The Bible teaches that God, our maker, prefers a humble person over a haughty person. The process of our growing older advances His goal. There are fewer haughty old folks than there are haughty young ones. Age generally introduces one to one's advancing limitations.
Once upon a time in Atlanta, a newspaper columnist cried in print, "Lock up your silver and your women and children — the Georgia legislature is in town."
UPDATE 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28 — Folks around here will be comparing future snow storms to the one we experienced today. It is epic in its scale of "victims," the numbers of people who have been immobilized for hours on major highways around Atlanta.
Local environmental activist Dennis Chase has been submitting opinion columns to The Citizen since the mid-1990s, longer than most local officials have been in politics.
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Shared-Use: Background and Rationale for the Research 11 � Task 10--Hypothetical Case Study � Task 11/12 Consolidated Report--Demonstration Program and Recommended Practices As mandated, the report includes the output of the project tasks, synthesizes prior research on related topics, and describes advantages and disadvantages of shared-track operations, and fulfills the project objectives: 1. Provides a business case for shared use of non-FRA-compliant public transit vehicles (e.g., light rail) with freight operations; 2. Suggests business models for such an operation; 3. Identifies and evaluates available and emerging technology, operating procedures, and tech- niques that could be used to minimize the risks associated with sharing of track between non- FRA-compliant public transit rail vehicles and freight railroad operations; and 4. Serves as a guide for identifying the issues that may be faced by new project sponsors of a shared use operation. This Practitioner's Guide is designed to be accessible to a variety of users of diverse exper- tise, background, responsibilities, and interests. The reader is supplied with a "to-do" list of specific actions and guidelines that can serve as a "primer" for the development of a transit system that shares track with a freight operator. A checklist includes advantages and disadvan- tages of different options and notes the constraints, barriers and pitfalls that might impede progress. Defining Shared-Track The focus of this research is "shared-track". This phrase implies cotemporaneous use of the same track and corridor by light rail transit vehicles and conventional freight equipment. The terms "shared use" and "shared corridor" are apt to be used interchangeably, but "shared-track" and "shared use" will be utilized here to describe concurrent train operations with these two dif- ferent categories of equipment. In the context of this research the terms incidental corridor or route sharing is implied also, but the defining characteristic is true commingled operation of these two types of equipment on the same track. Reader's Guide to the Final Report The guide below is intended as a tool to assist in locating or selecting specific topics and issues for review. The work program task products are condensed and organized into five sections. This portion of the report is preceded by an Executive Summary, which concentrates and highlights the key findings. The Appendices, which contain specific information, or details that illustrate or expand on report content, follow the report itself. Information is displayed in five major groups: background for the research effort, institutional elements, the technological and opera- tional facets, a practitioner's guide, and suggestions on advancing the concept. Chapter 1--Shared-Use: Background and Rationale for the Research Introductory and background material. Includes this "Reader's Guide", followed by brief contextual information about shared-track. The section defines the operational concept, dis- cusses the typical freight characteristics and lists attributes that make a route an attractive can- didate for shared-track operation. A description of the research approach recounts its aims and focus, and the results of the team effort to identify, obtain, and organize the information used to prepare this handbook. The preparatory work includes a literature search; contacts with vendors and operators; and surveys and interviews with operators, suppliers, and regulators.


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PORT ARANSAS – Maintaining a historic two–story home on an acre of land for 31 years was fulfilling for Georgia and Duncan Neblett, until time got the best of them.
"We sort of just wore out," said Georgia, a former Port Aransas mayor.
Not completely though. Georgia stays busy as the executive director of Mission–Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve and Duncan is an attorney, municipal judge and justice of the peace in Port Aransas. The longtime coastal residents wanted a manageable one-story home and knew if they stayed in town they would live in Porpoise Point, a gated community their friends developed.
"I designed the floor plan and told Charles Milligan to design a house around it," Georgia said.
Behind gray stucco walls teeming with plants, a black gate opens to narrow courtyard coves at the home's entrance. A weathered black patio table for two nestles under a fuchsia bougainvillea on one side. On the other side a garden spot features a water fountain that dribbles near a ficus tree and colorful tile pavers imprinted with the Nebletts' grandkids' baby feet.
The front door opens to an eyebrow archway and a long, wide family room with family antiques mixing with contemporary pieces for an unencumbered scene of style and comfort.
"The other house had small rooms, and because of the antiques they took up a lot of space," Georgia said. "We wanted a room where the family can gather and be comfortable. This house just lends itself to that and to entertaining."
Blending decor
Creamy porcelain tile floors present a calming color palette for the sprinkles of gold, red, mauve and greens in the furniture fabrics. Georgia said Carolyn James of Gignac & Associates helped select the home's interior and exterior colors and Carol Chandler of Island Living took Georgia to market in Dallas to shop for living room furniture pieces.
To accommodate the family antiques, Georgia sketched plans to find permanent places for the heirlooms throughout the house. She also carefully selected fabrics and the color scheme for the living room around a commissioned painting by Herb Booth of Duncan and their three sons wade–fishing the east flats in Port Aransas.
To see the painting, guests stroll past an expandable square table with cane–back armchairs and paisley patterned sofas in gold and rust colors. Commanding the comfort zone is Duncan's oversized gold colored armchair and ottoman.
"My husband wanted that (chair), so it's his," she said. "It's great for reading to the grandkids. They all pile up in it."
Easing closer to the fireplace, bits of Asian decor surface with pre-Communist vases on the mantel, a teak and camphor wood trunk with intricate carvings near the parlor and wood block prints.
"Mom loved Asian things. We lived in Korea when dad was stationed there," she said.
Georgia's childhood memories of Korea are vague, but she carries her mother's appreciation for old craftsmanship, combining traditional Americana, Asian pieces and her Victorian antiques.
A pink-walled parlor near the living room exudes femininity with a pink Asian print antique sofa and lace curtains on the French doors behind the sofa. Open pocket doors reveal an equally delicate master suite with lace panel draperies, an octagon tiered ceiling and a red Victorian settee. Double arched entryways to the master bath repeat the pink and creamy ivory scheme of the parlor colors. Brass candelabra sconces light vanities on opposite sides of the room, while a window above the tub frames the courtyard outside.
Family tradition
Georgia opted for a closed kitchen to keep her cooking in its own tidy space, yet managed to include some antiques. A v-shaped hutch fits snugly in a corner and an antique daybed with a long bolster pillow offers guests a seat to keep Georgia company. The cabinets get a punch of color with wine-colored moulding, picking up the fabric color from the daybed.
The formal dining room near the entrance houses an antique buffet with Georgia's collection of teacups inherited from her mother. Pale yellow walls highlight the dark wood of a secretary desk, antique Hitchcock chairs and a side table displaying ruby lustre vases with dangling crystals.
"In the afternoon the prisms pick up the sunlight and the room just sparkles," she said.
Georgia is passing along the tradition of using her fine china and silver to her grandkids, who enjoy sleepovers every chance they get in the grandkids' wing. Their bedrooms sit tucked down the hall by the dining room with easy access to the kitchen.
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Fabulous Adventures In Coding
Eric Lippert is a principal developer on the C# compiler team. Learn more about Eric.
I have not forgotten about my series on method type inference; rather, the contrary. I have been thinking hard about how to change method type inference to be more accurate in a hypothetical world with covariant and contravariant interfaces, and this has led me to dig in even deeper to the method type inference specification and implementation. I've got acres of notes on this now; getting them into bloggable form will take more time.
Until then, some of the wit and wisdom of the managed languages team.
We "dogfood" our source control system here; that is, we now use the same source control system that we sell to customers to control our own sources. Even better, we use recent builds of the source control system, so that we find the flaws in new versions of it before customers do. We feel the pain so that you don't have to. But this means that occasionally the Software Development Company Abstraction breaks down for a few hours here and there.
Some wags have started writing suggestions for what to do when the source control server is down on the whiteboard outside my office. So far, the list consists of:
0) Teach the VB team what index lists begin at.1) Send email to [the source control server team].2) Complain.3) Update this whiteboard.4) Learn helplessness.5) Go to Tosche Station. Pick up some power converters.6) Consider the management track.7) Write a new source control system -- yes, you have enough time.
What do you do when your source control / bug database / network / email / whatever crucial system is temporarily unavailable?
> in a hypothetical world with covariant and contravariant interfaces
While the C# team is tinkering with interfaces, I have a suggestion.
Recently I found myself creating an interface which would be implemented by some derived WPF Visuals. The interface adds certain properties and methods to these Visual objects. The specifics aren't really important, let's call the interface IEnhancedVisual.
Here's the thing, this interface is only designed for use on WPF Visual objects. It would be great if I could enforce that at compile time, and save a lot of run-time casts and type-checking. Right now, if I have a list of IEnhancedVisuals, I either have to dynamic-cast each one to Visual to do any WPF work on it, or declare it as a list of Visuals and dynamic-cast to IEnhancedVisual to get to the "extra" members.
Of course, there's always the risk that some fool will put a plain Visual on a list intended to be only IEnhancedVisuals. Or implement IEnhancedVisual on a random class. Even if they don't, all the casts and type-checking has to be done at run-time, often inside a foreach loop. What I really want is this:
interface IEnhancedVisual : Visual, INotifyPropertyChanged
This just restricts the interface at compile-time. Classes can only implement the interface if they inherit from Visual.
At first glance, it might look like the interface is just an abstract class, but of course it's very different. By making it an interface, you can "glue" it onto leaf nodes on the class tree. For example, you can create an EnhancedButton class which inherits from button and implements this interface. The problem with an abstract class is, you would have to "start over" at the root Visual object, and somehow reimplement all the controls you want to use.
Note that the language already does this implicitly with object:
interface IEnumerable : object
If it didn't, this code wouldn't work:
IEnumberable e;
An excellent suggestion. A slightly different way to cast this feature would be to allow a related group of extension methods to form an "extension interface". Since extension methods extend a particular type, an extension interface could also be restricted to extending any type you chose and no others.
We are definitely considering more "extension" features in the future, but hypothetically speaking, we would not have any of this work planned for the hypothetical next release, if there were one, which I'm not confirming or denying. :-)
"What do you do when your source control / bug database / network / email / whatever crucial system is temporarily unavailable?"
Take a break. :)
attrib -r filename
and when back up, tfpt online filename
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"When I was young, I thought God had a beard." Is it just me, or is there some bizarre la nouvelle vague influence in this? Very disturbing at points. Too many close-ups. Good production design.The architecture choices are quite interesting. The discoveries of the puppy and the woman sleeping in her car really got me. The cart image is nice. I like the idea of the two-couple psychoanalytical drama more than its execution here. "You have cancer of the soul."
Good, but not among the major Bergman-Nykvist collabs IMO. The self-reflexive, formatted narrative is fine--though, as with most of Bergman's avant garde gestures, it carries little conviction compared to the work of his more radical contemporaries--but it precludes the in-the-moment fervor that he needs to complement his morbidity. The sense of psychological horror is more theoretical than anything else.
just <3
An intricate experiment with form and narrative, up to the point in which it resembles a meta-film. One of my favourite of his. The ending alone is enough to justify the film's unquestionable grandeur.
Did this movie just call me a slut?
Bergman's leap to colour gives En passion a unique feel; his quartet as the fractured individuals whose connivings collide, in claustrophobic bourgeois social drama. Meanwhile, the spirit of Persona lives on, its blurring of narrative boundaries: interviews with actors discussing their characters, in lieu of inner monologue; omniscient narration from Bergman himself as author; testing of new colours, shadows, lighting, edits. Bare-naked as psychologia; more intriguing as deconstruction of the filmography, in varied experiment.
"This time his name is Andreas" A haunting, brilliant final shot!
Bergman en estado puro: desde el comienzo ya sabemos que este personaje es un ser torturado, y la aparición de las dos mujeres añade más depresión a su alma. Eso, y las mentiras que no pueden distinguirse de la verdad. Nunca sabremos nada, aislados. Excelentes interpretaciones, fotografía, todo...
The protagonists of Bergman's masterly drama are all damaged souls and their pain and miseries are deeply felt and eloquently expressed by a director who had also centred his previous films Hour Of The Wolf and Shame on isolated social groups. The coldness of a bleak winter on a Swedish island is reflected in Nykvist's muted colour photography, appropriate for a film of such icy intensity. Never less than riveting...
I think this is one Bergman's most powerful and most underrated films. The final shot is pure cinema, and I think one of the most potent images I've ever seen.
Loved this. Loved the composition, the style, the acting. Bergman is amazing.
The self-referential, metaphysical, and modernist aspects of this film show that Bergman was still experimenting even when he had ensured his place on cinematic history. The experimentation- seeing the actors talk about the characters WITHIN the film- is one of the most intriguing moments of his oeuvre. However, these may turn off viewers, who may prefer the religious or existentialist issues of his earlier films.
Not my favorite by Bergman,at times frustrating to watch.If there is a film that should not have 'Passion' in the title,this is it.
Great film, but Bergman has better films.
Ah, could also be called "Bergman's Love Story", heh.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Although the outward displays of emotion have never been very noticeable, Alexei Ramirez has felt disappointment.
Early this spring, the White Sox shortstop reiterated how dissatisfied he had been with his own play last season, noting how he expected more of himself even as he finished 2012 with a .265 average and 73 RBIs.
The sentiment has carried over to the team's recent overall and defensive struggles, of which Ramirez has been at the heart. The veteran has committed six of the team's 30 errors this season. But energized by his insertion into the second spot in the lineup, Ramirez is ready to move past the disappointment and get back to winning.
"It has been very difficult," Ramirez said through a translator. "It has been hard even more so because I care about winning. When I don't win, I can't be happy. But that's the past now and I'm going to concentrate on what comes in the future."
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Since he moved to the second spot in the lineup six games ago, manager Robin Ventura believes Ramirez has been happier.
Not that he feels like he has a great read. Ramirez rarely shows his emotions on the field or in the clubhouse, preferring to internalize what he's thinking. But Ventura thinks Ramirez is excited by the move to the top of the lineup.
"You don't really notice (his emotions)," Ventura said. "He has that enjoyment of playing. I think everybody sees him as when it's not going well, he just keeps going. But you can't really tell what he's thinking. … He's more excited about being at the top end of the lineup than being at the other end. You just run with it. He's doing the little things. He's probably shortened it up a little bit with his swing just to make sure he's putting it in play and moving it around."
The numbers suggest Ventura's assertion is correct. Ramirez is 10-for-25 with four runs, three doubles, three RBIs and three stolen bases in the No. 2 spot. Though the sample size is very limited, Ramirez's .920 OPS in the second spot is significantly higher than when he bats sixth, seventh or eighth.
[MORE: As errors mount, Ventura puts Sox to work]
Hitting coach Jeff Manto sees a difference in Ramirez's at-bats since he has moved up in the lineup.
"He's finally finding the middle part of the field," Manto said. "He's determined to hit the ball up the middle and hasn't pulled off many pitches and with that he's having some quality at-bats and some success with that."
Ramirez credits Manto and assistant hitting coach Harold Baines with helping him feel more comfortable at the plate. The Cuban product had a critical RBI late in Tuesday's win when he singled over a drawn-in infield to give the White Sox a two-run lead.
"I feel really good with the help of Harold and the hitting group," Ramirez said. "I've been able to do a lot of good things and I feel good about it."


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Beatrice and the teens, who Beatrice has been raising for the past several years, were the focus of a Caller-Times Children's Christmas Appeal on Dec. 12. For several weeks after their story ran the family received help from strangers across the area. A water heater enabling them to take warm baths, a bed for her grandson, who had been sleeping on the floor, and repairs to the shaky front porch.
"It was wonderful," she said. "People were so giving."
More than 3,700 children are helped each year by the Children's Christmas Appeal, which brought in more than $139,000 last year.
For more than three decades, the Caller-Times has reported the conditions of families in need of help during the winter holidays. Through the years, readers have donated money and items ranging from vehicles and computers to new toys, clothing and games for children - even making utility bill payments for families in need.
"Individual donors and local businesses have shown overwhelming care and concern when it comes to helping the needy children of South Texas. Over the past three decades we've done this drive, they've helped us to raise more than $2 million," said Libby Averyt, Caller-Times editor. "Giving that kind of money to help children in need shows the commitment residents here have to making Christmas a bit more special for their less-fortunate neighbors. It sounds corny, but that really is what Christmas is all about."
This year's campaign begins today and will continue through Dec. 24. In coming weeks, the Caller-Times will publish profiles of children and their families who represent thousands in need of assistance. The names of the families profiled during the appeal are changed to protect their privacy.
All money donated to the campaign benefits children. The Caller-Times and participating agencies bear the administrative costs of the program.
Agencies that participate in the program include the Nueces County Department of Human Services, Alice Boys & Girls Club, the Duval County Christmas Committee, Kleberg County Department of Human Services, Odyssey After-School Enrichment Program in Rockport, Sinton for Youth Inc. and the USO of South Texas. United Way of the Coastal Bend serves as the fund's accounting agency.
"The generosity of the contributors is what has always been the bedrock of the Children's Christmas Appeal over the years. That generosity has never flagged," said Nick Jimenez, Caller-Times editorial page editor and coordinator of the program. "I believe that the givers receive as much from this program as the recipients. I know that because so many continue giving year after year."
Beatrice said things wouldn't be much easier financially this year but that her grandchildren don't ask for much. They understand it's hard to pay the bills and help cut corners by shopping for school clothes at local thrift stores. In a few months Gilbert, a high school senior, will get a part-time job to help out at home and pay for his graduation ring.
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Little-known fact: Eddy Curry is the greatest three-point shooter of all-time. Don't believe me? Check the stats. Presently, Curry is ballin' up a storm for the Zhejiang Golden Bulls of the Chinese Basketball Association. Through four games with the team he averages an impressive 22 points and 12 rebounds, and the club has played some respectable .500 ball since his arrival. On Friday, Curry played a crucial role in helping Zhejiang secure a big road victory over the Sharks of Shanghai. With 22 points and 12 rebounds, his impact was felt in the box score. More importantly, it was also felt down the stretch. At the 2:27 mark of the fourth quarter, Curry knocked down a huge triple to put his Bulls up seven. He followed it up with a tough layup, completing an individual 5-0 run that essentially locked up an eventual 97-94 W. Clearly, Curry's head coach is well aware that his big man used to be Isiah Thomas's secret weapon. Tell me now, which other player is a 100% shooter from beyond the arc in two different professional leagues? And which of these players has proven to deliver in the clutch like Eddy Curry? Like I said, the greatest three-point shooter of all-time. Now you know. Shout-out to my main man Andrew Crawford, who always keeps me informed on the CBA.
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ICE SWIMMERS gave an excellent TEAM effort to record a 10th place Overall finish at the 2015 ISI 12 & UNDER Short Course Championships.
12&U Championships Top 3 finishes: Ryan Boeding earned silver medals in the 11-12 Boys 200BK, 50 BK, and 50 FR. The 11-12 Boys A Relay teams finished with a silver or bronze in every relay event!
12&U Championships Top 8 finishes include Jessie Li in the 50 BR (8th), Ryan Boeding 100 IM (4th), 100 BA, 100 & 200 FR (6th), 50 FLY (7th), 50 BR (8th) and Aiden White who earned 4th in the 200 & 500 FR and took 5th in the 100 Fr.
12&U Championships Top 16 finishers include Ella Hochstetler (100 FL), Andy Luo (50, 100 FL, 50, 200 BA), Parth Patel (50, 100 FR & 50 BA), Heidi Du (100 BR), Emily Xian (100 BR), Boyd Skelley (50, 100 BA, 500 FR), 10&U Girls 200 MED and 200 FR Relays, the 10&U Boys 200 Med Relay, and all of the 11-12 Boys B Relays.
Congrats on a great short course season to our 12 & Under athletes and our assistant coaching staff!
Alex Walton won his second title in the 200 IM (1:49.20 - New Iowa HS State Record), picked up his third straight title in the 100 BK (49.18), and gained Swimmer Of The Year honors at the 2015 IHSAA Boys State Championships.
ICE athletes Ryan Boeding, Meirav Flatté, Boyd Skelley, Mason Wang and Aiden White had a great time racing as part of TEAM IOWA at the 2015 Midwest All-Stars Meet! Under Head Coach Don Spellman, Team Iowa earned 3rd place overall.
2015 Midwest All-Stars Meet 10&U ICE athlete highlights: Boyd Skelley raced to 4 PR's and pitched in on the 10 & Under Boys relays and Aiden White dropped almost 5 seconds in his 200 FR!
2015 Midwest All-Stars Meet 11-12 ICE athlete highlights: Ryan Boeding posted 4 PRs and swam the 3rd leg on Team Iowa's Gold medal winning 11-12 200 Free Relay 'A' Team!
2015 Midwest All-Stars Meet 13-14 ICE athlete highlights: Meirav Flatte' raced to a best time in the 200 FLY and Mason Wang posted PR's in both the 100 & 200 BR
2014 Winter Junior Nationals - Alex Walton represented ICE in the 100 & 200 Back and swam a best time of 1:50.33 in the 200 IM. Lizzie Brown represented ICE in both the 100 & 200 BR.
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CNHS selected as one of the "Top 50 Most Social Media Friendly Nursing Schools for 2012" ›UMass Boston College of Nursing and Health Sciences ranked 41st on "Top 50 Most Social Media Friendly Nursing Schools for 2012" by Nursing-School.com
New Dean of Nursing and Health Sciences Ready to Listen and Lead ›Anahid Kulwicki's background is in health disparities research, which is a burgeoning area of focus for UMass Boston.
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Jacqueline Fawcett Receives Honorary Doctorate from Université Laval ›Jacqueline Fawcett, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor and chair of the Department of Nursing at the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, recently received an honorary doctoral degree from Université Laval in Quebec, Canada.
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CNHS: Graduation Ceremony 2012 ›On Friday, June 1, 2012, CNHS celebrated commencement.
Kenyan Ambassador Visits UMass Boston ›Kenyan Ambassador to the United States Elkanah Odembo praised the University of Massachusetts Boston's commitment to global outreach and global health during a visit to campus.
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PhD Nursing Students Excel in Research and Scholarship ›Student Spotlight: Mercy Kamau, Julio Toro, and Hermine Poghosyan
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Eileen Stuart-Shor Committed to Health of Underserved Populations ›Eileen Stuart-Shor's article published in the American Heart Association Journal Circulation, among various other accomplishments.
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The PhD Program in Nursing Announces Its First BS-to-PhD Graduate ›Julie Lynch if the first student to graduate from the accelerated BS-to-PhD Program (Health Policy track) through the University of Massachusetts Boston/Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Partnership.
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Alabama Alternative Private Schools
- School Location Students Grades
Mobile100 Blk Men Of Greater Mobile's Phoenix Program
838 W Main St
Mobile, AL 36610
(251)457-9465Alternative School (Non-sectarian)156 students | Gr. 6-12
BirminghamAlabama Clinical Schools
1221 Alton Dr
Birmingham, AL 35210
(205)836-992365 students | Gr. PK
All-boys | Alternative School (Non-sectarian)
BirminghamArlington School
1312 22nd St S
Birmingham, AL 35205
(205)939-3665Alternative School14 students | Gr. 6-12
MobileBc Morgan High School
3512 Godwin Court
Mobile, AL 36693
(251)661-3788Alternative School (Non-sectarian)55 students | Gr. 9-12
MontgomeryBrown's Private School
1130 Bellview St
Montgomery, AL 36104
(334)264-2971Alternative School (Baptist)7 students | Gr. 1-2
FairhopeEastern Shore Early Childhood
1090 Fairhope Ave
Fairhope, AL 36532
(251)928-3449Alternative School (Presbyterian)100 students | Gr. PK-1
SelmaFaith Christian Ministries
Po Box 563
Selma, AL 36072
(205)338-6551Alternative School (Christian)63 students | Gr. PK-6
Phenix CityGrace Christian Academy/pre School
1605 8th Place South
Phenix City, AL 36869
(332)298-9004Alternative School (Baptist)34 students | Gr. PK-1
BirminghamHeritage Academy
3251 Greendale Rd
Birmingham, AL 35243
(205)910-3015Alternative School (Presbyterian)165 students | Gr. K-12
BirminghamHigdon Hill School
6869 5th Ave S
Birmingham, AL 35212
(205)833-9000Alternative School (Non-sectarian)68 students | Gr. 5-12
MontgomeryHill & Lowe Educational Exploratorium Academy
9013 Wares Ferry Rd
Montgomery, AL 36117
(334)279-9700Alternative School (Non-sectarian)22 students | Gr. 10-12
BirminghamIrondale First Baptist Child Development Center
6001 Old Leeds Rd
Birmingham, AL 35210
(205)956-3985Alternative School (Baptist)117 students | Gr. K-2
FairhopeMarietta Johnson School Of Organic Education
8 Marietta Drive
Fairhope, AL 36532
(251)928-9347Alternative School30 students | Gr. PK-8
DothanNew Day Academy
700 E Cottonwood Rd
Dothan, AL 36301
(334)794-7373Alternative School (Non-sectarian)70 students | Gr. 3-12
SpringvillePearl Lake Christian Academy
817 Pearl Lake Road
Springville, AL 35146
(205)467-7000Alternative School (Baptist)6 students | Gr. 6-11
HuntsvillePremier School Of Research Park
5095 Premier Dr Nw
Huntsville, AL 35805
(256)489-7529Alternative School46 students | Gr. K
BirminghamRushton School
5201 Messer Airport Hwy
Birmingham, AL 35212
(205)510-2714Alternative School32 students | Gr. 7-11
Phenix CityTeen University
Po Box 2719
Phenix City, AL 36868
(334)298-000010 students | Gr. 8-12
All-boys | Alternative School
Owens Cross RoadsThree Springs - New Beginning
318 Hamer Rd
Owens Cross Roads, AL 35763
(256)725-717020 students | Gr. PK
All-girls | Alternative School (Non-sectarian)
TuskegeeThree Springs School Of Tuskegee
4280 Us Highway 29 S
Tuskegee, AL 36083
(334)727-221648 students | Gr. 7-12
All-boys | Alternative School
Green PondTri-wil / Porta Cras School
Po Box 77
Green Pond, AL 35074
(205)938-927414 students | Gr. 8-11
All-boys | Alternative School (Non-sectarian)
BirminghamUab Engel Therapeutic School And Day Treatment
930 20th St S Ste 357
Birmingham, AL 35294
(205)975-4537Alternative School18 students | Gr. PK-12
BirminghamUab Psychiatric Prog Hosp School
1713 6th Ave S
Birmingham, AL 35294
(205)934-4842Alternative School (Non-sectarian)11 students | Gr. 7-12
BessemerVictory Christian Academy
Po Box 171 3100 Dartmouth Avenue
Bessemer, AL 35020
(205)424-8533Alternative School (Christian)42 students | Gr. K-12
BirminghamWinewood Christian School
2974 Winewood Rd
Birmingham, AL 35215
(205)853-9906Alternative School (Baptist)5 students | Gr. PK-12
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|304,788,332 people
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Developing Countries Need To Rebuild Fiscal Space to Weather Growth Slowdowns, Says a New Report by the World Bank Group
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Recognizing this, the World Bank Group is supporting cities as they develop more sustainable municipal systems and services. It took another step in that direction in April, with grants to... Show More +
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HOTEL LiVEMAX Tokyo-Kiba, Tokyo
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This property will accept and store luggage in advance for guests only from the day before check-in until check-in. Guests need to notify the property in advance if they will be sending luggage prior to check-in. Luggage sent in advance without prior notification may not be accepted. By law, the property cannot accept and store valuables, perishables, or living things. For more details, please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
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