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An enterprise link for a software database is coupled to existing enterprise systems within an organization and also to an active data cache. The enterprise link contains an active designer whereby a user is able to create one or more data flow definitions on how to operate on data stored in the enterprise systems as the data in those systems changes. The transformed data is transmitted to a data flow service in the enterprise link in real-time where it is made available to end-users in the active data cache.
1. A system, comprising:
at least two enterprise applications installed in sites across an organization;
an enterprise link coupled to the at least two enterprise applications over a network, the enterprise link configured for real-time integration of disparate data from the at least two enterprise applications, the enterprise link continuously accepting data feeds from the at least two enterprise applications, and reformatting, synchronizing, and consolidating the disparate data;
a data flow service coupled to the at least two enterprise applications and the enterprise link, the data flow service containing data flow plans for processing the disparate data received from the at least two enterprise applications through to the enterprise link in real-time, as soon as the data appears; and
a data cache coupled to receive and store the reformatted, synchronized, and consolidated data from the enterprise link, wherein changes to the data in the data cache occur at a rate substantially matched with real-time data changes occurring in the at least two enterprise applications.
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transmitting data from an enterprise computing runtime environment that includes at least two enterprise applications to an enterprise link, the data being transmitted through to the enterprise link via a network connection as soon as the data appears in the enterprise computing runtime environment;
integrating the data by the enterprise link immediately upon receiving the data from the enterprise computing runtime environment, the integrating including transforming the data in accordance with a set of data flow definitions that specify operations to be performed on the data;
transmitting the integrated data to an active data cache that stores the integrated data, wherein data changes occur in the active data cache at a rate synchronous with real-time data changes occurring in the enterprise computing runtime environment; and
making the integrated data stored in the active data cache accessible to an end-user via a user interface at the rate.
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transmitting data generated responsive to an event occurring in an enterprise system of an organization to an enterprise link through a message queuing system as soon as the data is generated, the enterprise system including at least two enterprise applications;
transforming the data by a data flow service in the enterprise link in accordance with a set of data flow plans that specify one or more data operations, the transforming commencing immediately upon receiving the data from the enterprise system, the transforming producing one or more data sets;
transmitting the one or more data sets to a data cache as soon as the one or more data sets are produced in the enterprise link;
storing the one or more data sets in the data cache, data changes occurring in the data cache at a rate that substantially matches real-time data generation in the enterprise system;
providing user accessibility to the data stored in the data cache as the data changes in real-time in the data cache.
The present invention relates generally to information technology in an enterprise, more particularly, to a system and method for acquiring and integrating data from disparate sources in an enterprise and for making the data continuously available, in real-time, to users.
A paramount concern in a modern enterprise is the ability to quickly access changing information located on disparate systems and platforms within the enterprise. In order to properly maintain a comprehensive view of the operations and business processes within an organization, however, information on these systems needs to be integrated. For example, as an enterprise grows it requires increased flexibility of data sharing throughout its various automated business systems, such as customer relations management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), accounting, inventory control, and other systems. A practice known as enterprise application integration (EAI) enables an organization to share data throughout applications and data sources in an organization. EAI may include database linking, application linking, and data warehousing.
Nevertheless, there have been numerous shortcomings in the integration and data sharing in information technology (IT) environments. Independent configuration for disparate technologies and industry standards often make integration requirements difficult to meet. Integrating an existing inventory control system to a new ERP software package, for instance, may be difficult due to the fact that both systems contain unique features that are customized to fit the requirements of particular areas within an organization. Moreover, many EAI solutions contain a confusing web of point-to-point connections between different applications, procedure calls, file transfers, and e-mail-type messaging to transmit organizational data. These solutions are thus high-risk because of their complexity. Moreover, the data within the individual systems is often locked up, sometimes in proprietary form, difficult to access, and not correlated with other systems and platforms. This makes it difficult to get a consistent, coherent view of all the business data across the enterprise.
Yet another major shortcoming of prior EAI systems is that they are unable to source data from anywhere in the enterprise and to provide automated, in-depth analysis of events in the organization that happen as the events occur. Although some business processes are able to function with slow access to information, the availability of access to real-time information regarding the status and operation of business processes can greatly impact the profitability and efficiency of an organization. What is needed is a comprehensive business platform that enables companies to gather, organize, and deliver in real-time the disparate data driving their businesses
The present invention will be understood more fully from the detailed description that follows and from the accompanying drawings, which however, should not be taken to limit the invention to the specific embodiments shown, but are for explanation and understanding only.
The present invention provides an enterprise link for a software database. In the following description numerous specific details are set forth, such as the particular configuration of message queues to handle continuous, real-time data acquisition, the architecture of the enterprise link, and the details regarding specific enterprise systems in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. However, persons having ordinary skill in the communication arts will appreciate that these specific details may not be needed to practice the present invention.
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As is known in the art, the existing enterprise systems contain a variety of different data about the organization. For example, the ERP system 102 may contain data regarding essential business functions including payroll, manufacturing, general ledger, and human resources whereas the CRM system 103 may contain core information regarding the organization's customers. As data in these various systems changes (e.g., a sale is made, a new employee is hired, payroll is processed, etc.), one or more message queueing systems 107 may be used to allow these various applications 102,103, 104, etc., to exchange information on the data being stored in their systems. To this end, one implementation of the present invention employs a message queue server (e.g., the Microsoft RTM message Queue Server (MSMQ) although other message queuing systems may be used as well), to provide loosely-coupled and reliable network (across servers) communication services based on a message-queueing model. In MSMQ, messages are sent to a queue, where the message will stay until it is removed and used by another application. In this manner, loosely-coupled applications can share data to provide an enterprise-wide view of information, such as data and business transactions.
An enterprise link 110 is coupled to the enterprise computing runtime environment 101 through a network connection, such as the Internet 111. Of course, as is noted above, the network connection may also be a LAN, a WAN, a wireless network, or any other system of connections that allows one or more computers to exchange information. The enterprise link 110 integrates, in real-time, the disparate data in the message queues. The enterprise link 110 of the present invention is always active. It continuously accepts raw data feeds 121, 122, 123, etc., from the existing enterprise systems, and then reformats, synchronizes, and consolidates the data. In a traditional model, the data in the message queues would only be processed through the dataflow system when a specified number of records had built up within the message queues (i.e., the data would be transmitted in batch mode). According to an algorithm contained within the data flow system of the present invention, however, individual records are processed through to the enterprise link 110 the moment that they appear (i.e., the program continuously checks for messages). In this manner, real-time data flow is transmitted through the raw data feeds 121, 122, 123 via the message queues. It should be noted that although a message queueing system is used in one embodiment, the enterprise link 100 may also obtain data from the enterprise computing runtime environment 101 in a variety of other ways. These sources of data may be, for example, HyperText Transport Protocol ("HTTP") requests and/or Application Programming Interface ("API") calls and/or Web Services calls. In these alternative embodiments, the enterprise link 110 contains a web server to process the HTTP requests and/or another application or server to process the API and/or Web Service calls.
Regardless of how the enterprise link 110 receives the raw data feeds 121, 122, 123, etc., the enterprise link 110 transmits the data it receives from the enterprise computing runtime environment 101 via a network connection 130 or through some other connection (not shown in this view) to an active data cache (ADC) 120. The ADC 120 is a high-performance, memory-based persistent cache which stores the data 131, 132,133, etc., it receives from the enterprise link 110. The ADC 120 contains code which may be implemented in software such as Java™, Perl, C++, or other types of programming languages that can be stored on a computer-readable medium (e.g., a disk) to manage the data 131, 132,133, etc., that is actively changing within the enterprise computing runtime environment 101 and to make the data accessible to the end-user (not shown in this view) in real-time. In this manner, the data 131, 132, 133, etc., in the ADC 120 is constantly changing in that it is synchronized in real-time with the data in the enterprise runtime computing environment 101. The data 131, 132, 133, etc., in the ADC 120 is persistent to disk 140, but this disk 140 is only used for backup, restore, and recovery purposes.
An active designer 154 is the component of the enterprise link 110 that determines what data will be contained within the ADC 120 and also the process by which the data 131, 132, 133, etc., will be transmitted to the ADC 120. As is shown in
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Network interface device 311 is coupled to bus 301 and provides a physical and logical connection between computer system 300 and the network medium (not shown in this view). Depending on the network environment in which computer 300 is used, this connection is typically to a server computer, but it can also be to a network router to another client computer. Note that the architecture of
In the foregoing, an enterprise link for a software database has been described. Although the present invention has been described with reference to specific exemplary embodiments, it should be understood that numerous changes in the disclosed embodiments can be made in accordance with the disclosure herein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. The preceding description, therefore, is not meant to limit the scope of the invention. Rather, the scope of the invention is to be determined only by the appended claims and their equivalents.
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Remo film underneath coating
I remember when the coating wore off Remo heads, I could see through the exposed film. It was hazy but I could still see through it. I just noticed on a coated ambassador that the film is opaque. It sounds deader to me too. The clearer film sounded livelier to me. Anybody have more info on this or notice this with Remo coated heads?
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It's not opaque, you can still see through it (sort of).
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But isn't it different from the film of a few years ago though? Opaque might not be the right word, but it's no longer hazy and I can't see through it nearly as easily as prior films.
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When's the last time they changed coatings? It could be that a newer coating is in it that sticks to the film more as an attempt to make it last longer...?
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I have a little coating wear on one 16" CA, and it looks milky like usual. The head isn't that old--bought it few months ago (3 mos. maybe).
Is the head you are talking about newer than that?
Emps might still be a clear film under the coating. I haven't gotten one of them in a long time for the toms, but my Coated Emp with top dot snare heads are still clear under the coating.
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That's when I noticed that the wear mark in the coating on the ambassador revealed what looked like white hazy (and not very see through) film as opposed to clear hazy film on my emperors. (which I can see through, sort of.) I probably manually removed the coating in the middle with an abrasive, to get the head to open up a little when I first got it. Sometimes new heads sound choked to me, from all the brand new coating that hasn't been beat down yet.
My 6.5" deep Black Beauty is a very controlled sounding drum and I tried everything I could to wake it up but guess that's just the nature of that particular drum. I tried 2.3 mm hoops, top and bottom, with both coated emperor and coated ambassador heads as batters, I tried Ludwig snare side heads and Ludwig snare wires....I just can't get this thing to ring out like I prefer. Normally, I run die cast on the batter side with a coated emp or G2. I don't need die cast on the snare side, but my 5" black beauty (Brass on Brass, same drum) does just fine with die casts top and bottom and a coated emp on the batter. It even has Ludwig wires and a Ludwig snare side head and the thing just sounds mahvelous dahling.
Seriously thinking of unloading my 6.5 BB. Bronze is my fav snare drum metal. The only other brass drum I've had (Sensitone 6.5) just never really did it for me either. That got stolen, um I mean donated to the criminal community, when my van got taken from me at a gig on Mother's Day 2011.
I should be able to get 400 easy for my "gigged one time" brass on brass BB. It's in perfect shape, it's just not my cup of darjeeling dahling.
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Hmm. Well, AFAIK, the C Emps still have clear film with coating.
The film for a Coated Amb. is actually different than the film used for a Clear Amb. It's more of a White-ish, milky film, but it's not WHITE, like the Smooth White.
The head I though you might have gotten is a model that uses the Smooth White film with a coating. Not sure if they still make it, but I tried it, and it was pretty dead sounding to me (took the whole set back).
My BB's ring pretty well, but not as much as the CM does. That baby rings. With a small spot of moon gel, it tames it down to a manageable, nice ring.
Yeah, you can't beat Bronze....pretty much the perfect blend of sound between a wood and metal snare for me.
You should get a Bronze, and then switch out the Chrome hardware on it with the BB's Brass stuff, and put it on the Bronze.
Then sell the BB with Chrome hardware, and still get a great price back out of it :-)
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You had me up til that bit. For your consideration, I offer any keen kid beginning to learn to play the violin. Music? Not so much, I would suggest.
It depends. If the child is attempting to play a song then it's music - just music that's played without much understanding or physical control.
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But what about some "drummers" who don't have any "musical" background, they don't know and don't understand note value, time signature, rudiments or the application of the sol-fa syllables to a musical scale or to a melody, they can only "bash" the drums , but they can't discuss or explain anything about music, technically, harmonically or melodically, are they still called "musicians"? I'm not talking about beginners, some drummers have been playing like that for years, and although they're obviously not professional they still gig around locally.
You already know the answer, Henri, but I'll pretend you don't :)
That, of course, is what Larry was talking about at the open jam nights. Really, there's nothing great about being a musician since a hack is still a musician - a hack musician as opposed to a hack golfer (who is still a golfer) or a hack painter (who is still a painter).
As DocWat said, there are some pretty poor guitar, bass and vocalising hacks out there too. Whatever, people find their own level and have fun with that. I see no reason to insult them by claiming that what they do doesn't exist - if we don't like it we can always just "change the channel".
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Kolb, an abstract painter himself has loved and admired Pollock's work for much of his life and never imagined he'd have one of his own, according to my colleague, Meg Jones, who attended a truly unusual auction in Beloit tonight, where the would-be master work was sold.
Several people bid at the start of the auction but quickly dropped out when it reached $10,000 at Beloit Auction & Realty, according to Meg's reporting tonight. Kolb calmly lifted his auction number as the price went higher and raised his hands at last when he heard the word "sold" and the gavel slamming down.
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Chuck Landon: Marshall defense motivated to improve
The Herd's defense played like a bunch of buffalo chips last football season.
Everyone agrees on that.
But now?
Well, a different kind of chip was evident during Marshall's first week of spring practice at Edwards Stadium. For a welcome change, this chip was located on the Herd's shoulder pads instead of their shoes.
"Yes, for sure," said senior defensive tackle Brandon Sparrow. "We've all got a chip. We had a meeting after the season last year and we felt like we let everybody down. We've got new guys, new coaches and we're planning to make up for last year.
"Everybody is here to prove a point this year. We're going to be good. We're going to be good enough to contend with the bigger teams. We're going to win games."
That attitude is particularly noticeable among the 14 seniors on defense.
"We've got a bunch of seniors," said Sparrow, "so we all just want to go out the right way. I mean, every senior wants to go out the right way, but I feel like we all really want to do it and it's going to happen."
After the defense's embarrassing performances last season, it certainly needs to happen.
I'm not intentionally trying to ruin anyone's Easter Sunday, but it bears repeating that Marshall's defense ranked No. 119 (next to last) in scoring defense (43.1 points per game) and No. 101 in total defense (456.8 yards allowed per game).
"It was like a perfect storm," said new defensive coordinator Chuck Heater, after viewing videotape of all 12 games last season. "We did struggle for a lot of reasons, some of which they didn't have a lot of control over. If you have pride and you're a competitor, you are not going to like that."
That's why Heater was happy to hear about Sparrow's comments.
"I like the guys feeling that way," said Heater. "The best defenses I have been around, there always has been some cause to make them play with that chip on their shoulder. I think you need an edge in any competitive situation."
And if that edge, that chip on the shoulder is a result of the defense's disastrous performances in 2012. ... well, at least something good came of it.
"I think that's maybe the only positive that comes out of a challenging and difficult year as it was for the defense," said Heater. "So, maybe it can be a springboard for the next year.
"Certainly, our kids feel that way. And I felt that way after talking to all of them. I felt like the seniors, the older players, really felt that emotion. The guys that have some investment in this program, clearly I felt that they had that mind-set.
"And that's a good thing. We can build on that during the spring."
Particularly with such seniors as Sparrow, Jeremiah Taylor, Alex Bazzie, Monterius Lovett, Billy Mitchell and Derrick Thomas.
"I like the fact that we have a good core group of senior players that are invested in this program," said Heater. "They've been through a lot. They haven't quite tasted the success that I'm sure they would like to.
"So, all that bodes well from the stand-point of motivation. Now, we still have to go out and play football. That's what we've got to get better at.
"But being motivated and having an edge and having an attitude. ... that's a great place to start."
It is indeed.
Particularly when the chips are down.
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The other danger of Ecstasy, says Reynolds, is its status as a "gate" drug: "Because the overwhelming majority of early experiences with Ecstasy are so rewarding, punters become curious about other banned substances and get drawn into the culture of polydrug usage. MDMA's positive aura has rubbed off on other, far less deserving chemicals. This is the flaw in a drug policy that conflates all "drugs' as a single demon without distinguishing between different levels of risk."
This is why Ecstasy is so dangerous in the hands of kids and why the roll piles are looked down on by the overall rave community.
But if they're indulging in Ecstasy at raves, they're not indulging in alcohol. Other than anecdotal mentions, seldom is a bottle or a beer can uncovered, and no one seems loaded on booze. The only fluid consumed at a rave is the only one sold and the only one desired: water. Tons of it. Dancing dehydrates you, and so does Ecstasy, and as a result the parties deal in bottled water. Throughout the evening, the bottles are tossed, picked up and refilled from drinking fountains; tossed again and kicked around; refilled to be splashed on smoldering dancers. At the end of the night, the garbage is a mixture of plastic bottles and spent glow sticks. No broken glass; few cigarette butts.
Studies have proved inconclusive in regard to the long-term effects of moderate Ecstasy use. A recent study, though, says Wash. U.'s Compton, compared "nonusers to heavy users, and (users) had significant impairments in memory -- this was the specific abnormality found. Now, you don't know, because it's rare that it would just be MDMA; they might have used other things, and we also don't know whether differences in memory predated the use of the substance. And these are not definite conclusions. In animal research, they do show long-term toxic effects to the serotonin system. (In) monkey research, it persisted at least seven years after stopping the drug. And in monkeys, those studies tend to be heavy use, more than humans would take, so we don't know for sure whether that applies to the rave culture.
"I think we'd have to be vague in terms of long-term damage. I don't like to say people are definitely safe. If you have to put a risk on it, this is not one of the things I would worry about people doing as much as some other substances, but I certainly wouldn't give it a clean bill of health, either."
"On my 19th birthday, at a party called "Family Affair 4,' I had the epiphany that this is my family. I was there with three people from St. Louis. It was at a 4,000-, 5,000-person outdoor party. I lost my wallet and my pager, and I found them. I walked up to a friend, and he handed them to me, and I said, "Thanks. You found my wallet.' He said, "Nope. I was sitting right here among all these people, and somebody walked up to me with the wallet open and said, "Do you know an Adam from St. Louis?' And my friend said, "Yeah, he's the guy I came with.' And he got the wallet. It had my money in it, and it was this total scenario. At that point I was ready to go insane. I came to this party and wasn't ready to lose my wallet, not at 12:30 on my birthday in the middle of Ohio. It was that event that will allow me to stick with my family, even if I lose my wallet at a party, even if my car gets broken into outside of a warehouse. Even if this scene dies -- it can never die, even if everybody left St. Louis, everybody ran away to these "good scenes' in New York and Chicago and San Francisco, where there are raves every weekend and blah-blah-blah, that grass-is-greener-on-the-other-side crap. I'll still be here and I'll be throwing house parties, and when my house isn't big enough, I'll get a warehouse, and that will be my house. And if that house isn't big enough, I'll go out to a yoga retreat in Illinois, and that will be my house." -- DJ Adam Louis
It's no wonder, in conversations among participants, that people often get a glimmer in their eye when they talk of a particularly fantastic rave, because when raves are at their best, participants seem to exit the natural world and enter some sort of secret world, a big-scale, hi-fi art project. Walk in and the party's already going, and it feels as if it's always been going, a perpetual-motion machine that constantly rejuvenates itself. It's going strong and loud. It's overwhelming, but it's not scary at all. Turn a corner and there's a guy with blinking lights strapped all over his body. Yeah, he's a freak, or so it seems, but, although he's obviously doing it to attract attention to himself, there's also something altruistic, benevolent about his action: It's his gift to the bigger pool of celebration. If he doesn't do it, then maybe someone else won't do it, and soon enough it's not a big art project but a bunch of people dancing in a warehouse. But these days in St. Louis, the scene is one big sonic and scenic canvas, and every corner of it is covered with splashes of color and drops of beat.
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Marcelo Estigarribia is hoping to do enough in the last few months of the season to earn a Juventus future.
The Paraguayan is currently on loan from Uruguayan outfit Deportivo Maldonado after impressing at last summer's Copa America.
"The boy is on loan, but with an option to buy," agent Giuseppe Addamiano told TMW on Wednesday morning.
"Juventus need to make a decision before the end of the season. It will cost them €5m, plus a bonus, to keep him but we don't yet know the intention of the club."
The midfielder, who is being tipped to start wide left in Juve's 3-5-2 against Milan tonight, has scored one goal in 10 Serie A appearances so far this term.
"The player is really happy with the environment at Juventus," continued the representative. "He's also pleased with the way he is growing – especially defensively.
"He's delighted with the choice he made and he'd make it again seeing as Juventus are a great club to be playing your football for."
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The Shark even serves up a fat rationalization for Shelton's use of the race card.
"It's a politically compelling point for him to make that that district has historically been represented by black elected officials," she says. "His actions, from my point of view, have not just been color-blind but courageously so."
There's another way to look at this: Shelton backed Joyce's run for circuit attorney over two black challengers, and the Shark is making a down payment on that political debt. But the Shark doesn't like her support of Shelton portrayed strictly as quid pro quo, particularly in light of the racial appeal made by her newfound political buddy.
"That's not the reason I'm supporting him," she says. "Part of what I like about O.L. is that he's proven to me that he's not going to make a decision based on race but on what's right for his constituents.... He went way out on a limb and supported me, and that told me a lot about his character. That was a real profile-in-courage move that spoke volumes to me."
"Profile in racial politics" would be a more accurate description of Shelton's ad, says Ann Auer, Dougherty's campaign manager: "Basically it was a racial ad that ignored the population in the southern part of the district. Since redistricting, it's a much more diverse district, and [Shelton] chose to ignore that."
Successful challenger Yaphett El-Amin's much smaller American ad against incumbent state Representative Ocie B. Johnson (D-57th District) made another pointed racial appeal. It featured a faceless silhouette of Johnson "and his boss," Mayor Francis Slay, who isn't named but whose smiling portrait appears opposite El-Amin's.
The ad portrays Johnson as a Slay puppet, playing to the distaste black voters hold for Frankie the Saint, the quintessential South Sider, for his ramrodding of a redistricting plan that took Alderwoman Sharon Tyus' 20th Ward away from her.
El-Amin's ad also touches on another old sore point for the city's black voters and pols -- the uneven distribution of $37 million in federal and local street-improvement money two years ago, $35 million of that amount going to projects on the South Side and the central corridor, but just $2 million to the North Side.
Although some weighty technical reasons help explain this imbalance, those arguments got lost in the heated political debate of a city where everything is viewed through the fractured prism of race. And even though this battle took place on former Mayor Clarence Harmon's watch, Frankie the Saint got tagged for pushing a South Side-slanted deal because, as president of the Board of Aldermen, he rammed the project list past the board after it failed a first vote.
All of this emphasizes the Southern streak in St. Louis, a clannish city that doesn't feel Dixie-fried but seems to share some of the same ghostly contradictions and seems rooted in a cynical form of racial politics that few want to acknowledge and nobody wants to challenge.
"Most of us do not acknowledge that we're Southern," says former Mayor Freeman Bosley Jr. "It's denial. We'd rather be perceived as more Northern or Midwestern, but it's clear that we still have a lot of Southern influences. It's Southern in the sense of racial polarization. There's a very strong reluctance to acknowledge the race issue here."
Economic stagnation and the city's steady population loss perpetuate this political status quo and the standoff between blacks and whites, says Jones. Unlike the booming cities of the Sun Belt South, there isn't a steady stream of newcomers hitting town, challenging the old political and economic orders and pushing their way upward through the city's corporate and civic ranks.
Down in Alabama, there's a psychobilly group known as the Drive-By Truckers, fronted by lead singer Patterson Hood. On a Friday night at Frederick's Music Lounge, several weeks before the primary, they took the tiny stage to sing a fiery sermon of Southern perfidy and redemption.
Southern icons both tainted and sainted pepper the music -- Wallace, Bear Bryant and Birmingham, the city of church bombings and four dead black Sunday-school girls, the turf of Bull Connor, firehoses and snarling German shepherds.
When the Speedloader lived in Birmingham, the city was on the cusp of electing its first black mayor and Wallace was gearing up for a final gubernatorial run that would see him garner 90 percent of the state's black vote -- testimony to the South's political and racial contradictions.
Bryant still rumbled on the Alabama sidelines, a living legend in his hound's-tooth hat, cutting Mother's Day commercials for Southern Bell with a voice full of filterless smoke and Old Testament age: "Have you called your mama lately? Sure wish I could call mine." He won his first Crimson Tide national championship in 1961 with a lily-white team; he won his last in 1979 with a fully integrated squad.
Thanks to Wallace, though, it's much easier to ignore such progress, Hood sang in a raspy voice. Easier, too, to put a Southern accent on racism and all its permutations, even though it's still a nationwide problem that ignores the comfortable and one-way cliché of rednecks and Kluxers throwing down on blacks.
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Best Children's Theater St. Louis 2004 - Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis
Nearly 20,000 area children saw the 40-minute "mini-play" As You Like It -- Lickety-Split, adapted by Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis education coordinator Christopher Limber and performed by a nimble cast of five actors. Touring to 90-plus schools, the program introduced students to Shakespeare, encouraged post-performance discussion and provided educational material for teachers. An even shorter Lickety-Split was performed twice nightly in Forest Park at the Shakespeare Festival in June, introducing children of all ages to the play's plot and characters. Months earlier, the teen-focused arm of the festival's education program, Metro Youth Shakespeare, gave us a wildly creative two-night production of As You Like It directed, acted and designed by youth from nine area middle and high schools, who made use of a variety of settings, from the Wild West to a playground to hippie weddings. All the world's indeed a stage, and St. Louis students are getting a seriously fun education in world affairs thanks to the Education Programs of the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis. For more information, check out the festival's Web site, www.sfstl.com, or call 314-361-0101.


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2011 is a local election year in Westmoreland County. Terms end on Dec. 31 for all elected county positions except Circuit Court Clerk.
Aug. 26 is the deadline for local political parties to certify their candidates. Independent candidates must meet an Aug. 23 deadline in order to participate in the Nov. 8 election.
On July 5 some individuals had filed their intentions in the office of the Westmoreland Registrar. Sheriff C. O. Balderson, Commissioner of Revenue Carol Gawen, Treasurer Elizabeth Nash hope to serve in their elected positions for an additional four years.
Westmoreland native Julia Sichol will seek election to the office of Commonwealth's Attorney and appointed Supervisor Dorothy Tate will ask District 3 to allow her to continue her District 3 duties as an elected member of that board. Charles "Chip" Jones seeks election as the county's Soil and Water Conservation District representative and Nicholas Smith hopes to receive the Democratic Party's nomination as a candidate for the House of Delegates seat Albert Pollard will vacate on Dec. 31.
The U.S. Department of Justice has approved the General Assembly's redistricting plan and the 99th District House of Delegates district is essentially unchanged. 99th District Republicans have scheduled an Aug. 23 primary election to select that party's House of Delegates candidate.
The county's four elected members of the Board of Supervisors are at this time expected to participate as reelection candidates. Earlier this year Paul Mountjoy made it known that he contemplated a run against incumbent District 1 Supervisor Darryl Fisher. Past District 2 Supervisor Felix Redmond and School Board member Rosemary Mahan have stated their intentions to challenge District 2 Supervisor Russ Culver.
The Westmoreland School Board consists of representatives from each of the county's four unincorporated voting districts. District 5 has no representation on the county's School Board because it is situated inside Colonial Beach's incorporated limits and maintains a school division of its own. Mahan was elected four years ago to the county's at-large School Board position. Other county School Board incumbents have not made their November 2011 intentions known.
New on Nov. 8 will be two voting machines the Westmoreland supervisors directed Registrar Kris Kicks to purchase at a cost of $11,528 for back-up purposes.
"With two big elections as well as numerous primaries over the next one and a half years, it would bode well for us to be prepared with supplemental accessible equipment," Hicks told the board. Voting machines currently in use were introduced to local voters in November 2004.
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There are the bus groups of Asian and European tourists who started the morning in Washington, couples on Harleys and Gold Wings, families in minivans and SUVs with the stick-figure decals in the rear window. By day's end, perhaps 3,500 people will have visited the Caverns and completed the one-hour tour.
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Research led by scientists at the Gladstone Institutes has identified the precise chain of molecular events in the human body that drives the death of most of the immune system's CD4 T cells as an HIV infection leads to AIDS. Further, they have identified an existing anti-inflammatory drug that in laboratory tests blocks the death of these cells—and now are planning a Phase 2 clinical trial to determine if this drug or a similar drug can prevent HIV-infected people from developing AIDS and related conditions.
In 2012 the HIV antiretroviral drug Truvada became the first and only medication approved by the FDA for HIV prevention. Led by Gladstone Institutes' Investigator Robert Grant, MD, MPH, this research was hailed as an important step towards reducing the worldwide HIV/AIDS epidemic. Now, a new study provides further proof that regular Truvada use can reduce one's risk for contracting HIV—without increasing sexual risk behavior.
One of biology's most fundamental processes is something called transcription. It is just one step of many required to build proteins—and without it life would not exist. However, many aspects of transcription remain shrouded in mystery. But now, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes are shedding light on key aspects of transcription, and in so doing are coming even closer to understanding the importance of this process in the growth and development of cells—as well as what happens when this process goes awry.


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Aaron Chatterji, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor (with tenure) at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. He previously served as a Senior Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) where he worked on a wide range of policies relating to entrepreneurship, innovation, infrastructure and economic growth. For the 2014-2015 academic year, Aaron was on leave as a visiting Associate Professor at Harvard Business School.
Chatterji's research and teaching investigate some of the most important forces shaping our global economy and society: entrepreneurship, innovation, and the expanding social mission of business. He was awarded an inaugural Junior Faculty Fellowship from the Kauffman Foundation to recognize his work as a leading scholar in entrepreneurship. He also received the Rising Star award from the Aspen Institute for his work on business and public policy.
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Chatterji serves as a board member for Durham Communities in Schools, an education-focused non-profit, and advises technology start-up companies on innovation and strategy.
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In that vein though here is another one:
Chronicle (2012)
This starts off as a typical nerd/ostracized teen who gets accepted then screws it all up.The quality really was a surprise. The initial trailers were fun and smart. Any time someone is getting hit by a bus, while flying, my interest is piqued. You'll see elements of Carrie, any party movie and teen angst. What made it enjoyable, for me at any rate, was the fact the teens received powers and acted like complete idiots. Sorry, most kids aren't going to be Spider-Man or Batman. These teens acted like teenagers.
Also, after seeing Man of Steel, I actually have a greater appreciation of the graphics in this movie. I mean, for such a low budget movie, the CGI actually looked better than a movie with a 200 million dollar budget at times.
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Sorry, I know this is Disney, but this was actually a ton of fun.
John Carter (2012)
The marketing for this was so bad, you could tell the studio head at the time wanted nothing to do with the previous president. I had no desire to see the movies. I never read the books, didn't have a desire to and I am a Sci-Fi fan. My friend [ut it best, "This should have been the first movie in the new Star Wars Trilogy." I thought he was full of ****. I actually want a sequel to this movie. Basically, a man who has lost everything in life gets teleported to Mars and helps with a rebellion. The violence in this was shocking for a Disney branded film. Yes, I know it is Alien blood, but there are massacres throughout this movie. Also there is slavery, a caste system and did I mention blood? They even have this terrible creature:
You know how shitty this fucker was?
The dog from John Carter was perfect. He was only there when absolutely necessary, had a few scenes and was gone. I was prepared to hate the movie for this forced kid friendly character. Turned out he was awesome. No one would hate JJB, if he was used properly like this dog.
Thanks IIF that's 3 films I likely wouldn't have bothered with on face value, there are not enough sci-fi films made.
Going to check out Elysium soon although I hear it's no District9 it looks half decent.
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I really rate Chronicle as well, I got a distinct Akira vibe from it in the last few scenes.
It was indeed an fx triumph considering its budget and a lot of that had to do with its masterful editing. The pace was irregular and by having massive and often sudden cuts in narrative the film was actually a very neat package where most found footage films out there at too bloated and often frustrating to watch just becomes of their nature as 'pure' footage.
And yeah, the pranks the boys pull when they lean of their powers are pretty bloody funny!
Edit: good poster campaign as well. Less is more, which almost never happens in cinema these days.Ne Obliviscaris
Really enjoyed the latest Star Trek, thought it was good popcorn sci-fi although the ending really was awkward and clumsy.
Somethings stopping me watching WW-Z... Maybe just that I only recently read the book.
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Sorry, Star Trek was Transformers 2 with an end equal to Devastator having balls. Two movies with Spock ruining Kirk's career and suddenly they are BFFs? I can suspend belief until you shoot laser at light speed.
Stale popcorn at best.
You'll hate World War Z if you read the book. I didn't, but everyone that has is not happy with the movie.
With Star Trek I wasn't focusing so much on the character narrative just the light show and the puns, I guess that adds weight to your opinion. WWZ. I found the book a worthy effort but just a bit slow and while composed of different voices too monotonal. When I've let my " but in the book! " prejudice die down I'll check the movie.
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Primer (2004)
For some reason, this was re-released at our local art-house theater.
This is the most confusingly awesome time travel movie I have watched. Two guys build a machine, that actually makes sense in its complexity. As the movie progresses, alternate time lines cross, the friends turn against each other and the ending is complicated. It is like 12 Monkeys in so much that if you miss anything, you'll be thoroughly confused.
Minus the fun of Time Bandits this is in my top 5 time travel movies. 12 Monkeys is my favorite.


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