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I feel well with my new meds, Lamictal, welbutrin and trazedone but I can feel people, including my 16 years old daughter. She moved with her father. I can tell my husband is tired of me because he says he wants to leave but we are very bad economically so he is waiting to get money. Even though I know he is not leaving me his comments and complaints, and the way he refers to me is a despicable toxic person. that doesn't help to get motivated and work. I don't wanna leave him or divorce because he takes care of me but he screams and offends me all the time. I became passive aggressive he says. My therapist says I might be in abusive verbal relationship but he makes me think it's not. I am confused.
He does annoy me and I can't stand to be with him because I know every word out of my month it's going to be taken as a negative and going to be used against me. I am very afraid, can't sleep because I don't either have the money to support myself with disability and the father of my children doesn't pay child support.
Even though I think positive and hopeful I come across as if I complain and I am never happy with anything. my jokes are mean and everyone has a reason to hate me. I don't finish or even begin lately anything. consistency has always been a problem.
I can't save money because I spend it in stupid stuff. esthetics and nails and hair because I feel so insecure.View Thread
I am very glad for you. I have a friend BP he's wife is like that and she's a therapist too lolView Thread
It sounds like me struggling with many miss dx. At 27 Adult's ADD struggling thinking poorly of myself and that stayed with me even now the medicines make me normal. Only circumstances change my mood now. At least. and by circumstances I mean him lol. We've only been married 4 years I am 41 and have 2 kids from previous marriage.
My husband doesn't accept that I have BP disorder because it puts me on the "incompetent list"
He just think I am a big pain in the behind and I am difficult. I criticize everything he does and that is always his fault. Gets upset because I forget things.....I've had it. How can a person of Medicine cannot understand it? Like you said only those who live it understand it.
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Tonight I can't sleep again...I thought I was so over triggers and that I wasn't bipolar anymore. in fact, that I was misdiagnosed.
I feel like a loser. I was a teacher 2004 and have been in disability since then when I was dx. then taught part time and real estate now. But I don't do anything and my husband is starting to get bother by my character and lack of motivation. Married 4 years now. He thinks I don't love him and I know I am mean, to everyone, but I am just irritated all the time. my husband left once for all the horrible things I said and humiliated him. I used to think I didn't need anyone but now that my daughter left to her dad's...I realize my husband its all I have and he is so good to me
I changed Seroquel, which it made me more depressed, but now I am hyper and cannot sleep. my dr gave me diazepam to substitute but I don't want to take it every day. she said ok. I can take valerian root, melatonin, which are natural sleeping pills.....
I think constantly I am going to lose my husband.....View Thread
I am looking for a therapist because I became the therapist of my therapist when her mother got sick. it has been hard to find one.
I don't even wanna work or work with clines because every single transaction I have done I've had problems
my husband had gone to therapy but he is in denial that I am bipolar, and his is a physician. we just do regular couples' therapy.
I feel so worthlessView Thread
Don't believe anyone you are crazy. You have a condition and you are getting help with time. I am sorry you don't have anyone. Most don't. I found this friend in the beginning of dx and he understand me and I him. But no one else does unless they go through it.
you are lucky you know what it is and you can try to control it. I went 33 years thinking I was a mess, crazy, and full of myself ....then I struggled with work and college so it was ADD....and on on......I am 41 and today, for instance, I feel I am not going to get involved in any kind of work or social environment because I am afraid I will mess up and make my husband think little of me or look bad if it's his friends......He doesn't understand either and he is a doctor.
Try to go one day at a time and listen to positive comments. I hope you find a way to cope soon.View Thread
I go through periods of time where I actually pray and go to church. tonight I can't sleep and I thought of praying for peace so I could rest because my faith has always been strong yet I don't do anything about it, it just feel it. I even joined a church group, then other times, like now, I am leaving the group because I feel attached by the pastor's wife. Of course, I came to this church through a "friend" I met in a church 16 years ago that stopped talking to me. after 10 years she called and when I began to have problems with my daughter with depression and suicidal, she didn't talk to me anymore again. I stayed friend with the pastor and his family but lately his wife....I don't want to have anything to do with her or that so called friend. it hurts a Christian would be like that.
I tried to raise my 2 kids Christian but my daughter also got disappointed because there aren't really relationships which it's really what attracts unbelievers to any group.....I met this new couple that coincidentally go to the church I've been going for the last 5 years. so I guess God always direct us to him but the truth is I am sick of it. I blame Him for what's happened to me and since my daughter left to her dad's and doesn't want to go to church with me; I am done. so it all depends.
I hope it helpsView Thread
I have been dx Bipolar 8 years ago when I was 33. I had been dx ADD depressive a few years before at the university I graduated from because I was having dutifulness testing.
However, I've dealt with depression since I came US when I was 19 ad began to work. That's when everything started. It got better when I had my children, 16 and 14 now but I was always depressed until I had a manic episode.
I found the right PCH. and medications so I kinda started to get better 3 years ago when I got remarried.
My daughter got depression and emo so I began to fall back into depression. She has been in an adolescence residential center for 5 weeks now. She doesn't call me and resents me. She called yesterday right before the movie with Bradly Cooper about a bipolar guy with OCD father.
I cried sooo much feeling it's my fault my daughter is going through this and I am doing badly. Fear my husband might fall out of love.....
Now to make it worst I want to stop seroquel, which I've tried once, and I couldn't sleep with all the meds to calm me down and sleeping medication so the dr lowered the dose 300 to 50 mg a night and it worked better. I stopped taking Lamictal this morning and asked dr if she can lower seroquel. she said no. I will take the lamictal later tonight with the night dosage. I just want energy. too much up and mostly down. I am taking energy B12 shots and still nothing. Dr. said that diazepam affects my memory to not take it every night, supposedly for neck pain but helps in general. I cannot pay attention or learn anything......began thinking it's the ADHD and think I don't have BP disorder.
after this movie I want to become manic because I don't have energy to live. I lost interest in everything. I do "real estate" so I thought. I am not doing anything but wasting time and life passing through. I began to "help" a friend who began treatment, just dx., thinking I am so much better. That helped me more to realize I am not as well as I thought.
sometimes I often think of possibilities that I could be unconscious and renewed like a coma from anything followed by amnesia or cancer so I can die fast..., crazy stuff
I don't want to be dysfunctional. Everyone thinks I am eccentric/ egocentric or wired. It was better when I didn't realize nor care what others thought of my behavior.
Today I don't feel like dying I just want to be up. energy 2 shots
mid day and nothing. I don't want to do the expesso because gastritis and gives me a lot of anxiety.View Thread
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Thank you so much. It's amazing what you share so similar. it is encouraging it's not blab at all lol.
Today I am better. took my meds and the movie effect is wearing off. I see I can be a little obsesive sometimes but that's good news for me because I thought I didn't care about anything anymore so I am trying to get obsessed with work and see if I make any money lol
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Just the FAQs: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About 'Burn Notice'
by Kim Potts, posted Nov 11th 2010 1:40PM
While that "What Is Burn Notice?" skit on 'Saturday Night Live' last season was amusing, the USA show's enduring popularity proves that a whole lot of people know exactly what the show is: a fun, funny, fast-paced, gorgeously shot, tightly-written spy drama with a fantastic lead in Jeffrey Donovan as burned spy Michael Westen and a rich supporting cast made up of 'Evil Dead' fan favorite Bruce Campbell as Michael's retired Navy Seal pal Sam, 'Scent of a Woman' star Gabrielle Anwar as the gun-running, tough-chick-with-a-heart Fiona (Michael's love interest) and Emmy-winning TV vet Sharon Gless as Michael's mama, the equally tough and crafty Maddie.
Add in a slew of great guest stars (Burt Reynolds, John Mahoney, Tricia Helfer, Tim Matheson, Lucy Lawless, Robert Patrick and Garret Dillahunt, to name a few), newbie cast member Coby Bell as burned spy Jesse, and the bold, breezy Miami setting, and it's really no surprise that 'Burn Notice' is not only among the top-rated shows on cable, but it has also drawn more viewers than the network shows that air in its timeslot.
With the show kicking off the second half of its fourth season tonight (10PM ET), TV Squad talked to 'Burn Notice' creator Matt Nix and series co-star Bruce Campbell about what's ahead for the rest of the season, what we can expect to see in Campbell's upcoming 'Burn Notice' prequel, where Michael Westen and company almost called home (hint: Campbell's lady-wooin' Sam Axe might have been Snookin' for love), all that yogurt and how, when someone on 'Burn Notice' crashes a car, the car really gets crashed.
One bit of warning for those who plan on jumping into 'Burn Notice,' but haven't yet: There be spoilers ahead. Lots of spoilers.
When the show started, Michael's goal was clear and narrow: find out who burned him and get back in ... he knows who burned him, but, ultimately, is his goal still to get back to the spy game?
After all, he's not only grown close to his mother again, but there's also his, um, complicated relationship with Fiona, his friendship with Sam, and the fact that he's helping a lot of people -- and getting to see the immediate results of helping them -- doing his freelance thing in Miami. So, does Michael really want to leave all that at this point?
Said Nix: "Well, I mean, I think we sort of see it in terms of seasonal goals. The first season was 'What is the name of the person who burned me?' So the first season was about that. Well, he finds that out in the first season. The name of the person who burned him is a guy named Phillip Cowan, and he's dead, but he's connected to other people.
"And then in the second season, the question was sort of 'Who are these people, and what do they want? Why did they do this to me?' And that's when you meet Carla's character, and she makes it clear they want him to help them with some things, right? And so you get a sense of who these people are and what they want.
"And then in the third season, it's kind of like, 'OK, now that I know who these people are and what they want, what am I going to do about it?' And that's a whole different question. And also, 'What does it mean if I can get them off my back?'
"And (now, in) the fourth season, (Michael) sort of engages with that question in a new way, like, 'OK, now that I have a deeper understanding of who these people are, what they want, what they're doing, can I work with them?' So that's another question ... one of the things about being burned is, it's not a light switch. You can't ... somebody has gone to the trouble of making Michael out to be the worst, you know, giving him Simon's file. And that was the other thing in season 3. The other question we answered there was, 'Michael has been accused of doing all these things. These things happened. Someone had to do them, right?'
Someone had to do them, and there's this guy, Simon. What does that mean? If someone tells everyone you know that you're a murderer and a thief, well, that's a pretty simple thing to do, to put that out there. It's a much harder thing to do to put that genie back in the bottle. It's not like if Michael found the person who burned him, then like he could just say, 'Un-burn me,' and that would be done.
"We liken it to something off-color that I don't want to tell you. (Laughing). Actually, let me put it this way. If someone distributed pictures of you -- like fake pictures of you, in a compromising sexual position, to everyone you've ever known, you know, and they were pictures of you doing all sorts of terrible things, well, it's a lot harder to go around and convince people, 'No, the pictures were fake. I know you saw them. I know it looked very compelling, but you shouldn't believe that about me.' It's much easier for people to believe that the pictures were true and that you're now lying."
But does he want to be a spy guy again?
Nix replied, "Hmmm ... Maybe you should watch the second half of the season."
Speaking of ... what is on tap for season 4.5?
"Basically, Michael had this new relationship with the folks that burned him, with Vaughn ... and now, he found out that John Barrett had this list of people that burned him, the people involved in that organization," Nix explained. "What do you do with that? Who do you get that to? You can't just get on the phone and call around, you know what I mean? He can't go back to the people that burned him and say, 'Hey, I found this thing ...' Obviously, they're going to want that. So he now has this incredibly dangerous piece of information, and knowing what to do with that incredibly dangerous piece of information, basically, is the focus.
"Like, now you've kind of got what you want. You got the thing that will put a knife in the heart of the people that destroyed your life, but what do you do with it? How do you play that card? And how do you play that card when you know that everybody in that world will want that card? The CIA's going to want that card, the people that burned Michael are going to want that card, various and sundry bad guys are going to want that card, any enemy of Michael is going to want that card, any friend of Michael is going to want that card ... how do you play it? So, that's the focus of the second half of the season, and it's a tricky thing, even for Michael."
What's the plan for Jesse, across the second half of season four? Can we trust him at this point? Can Michael trust him? He's always been a stand up guy, but he's also very angry, understandably, about what was done to him, and Michael and the gang's role in it.
"Well, I think that at the end of the day, Jesse made a choice to save a guy that he didn't particularly want to save," Nix said. "And now that's ... the other thing in the second half of the season is Jesse confronting, in a certain sense, the reality that is true for Sam and Fiona and Madeline, as well, which is that Michael's kind of betrayed all of them, right? Like, he left Fiona out of nowhere and totally bailed out on a relationship. I should say Sam actually betrayed Michael in that Sam was informing on him for the FBI, (but) he was out of communication with his mother for many years.
"He has a troubled relationship with everybody, and there's been a lot to forgive on all sides. And yet, that process of deciding that the relationship is more important than whatever has transpired in the relationship, and that they're going to be comrades and fight alongside each other and support each other's cause despite that, that is the stuff of his relationship with Madeline and Fiona and Sam.
"And so the challenge for Jesse in the second half of the season is, how does he feel about that? Is he down with that? Is that something that -- can he have that same kind of relationship that they all have? And that kind of thing doesn't come for free. The kind of dedication that that team has for each other, it's not free. Everybody's paid a price for it, and Jesse has to decide whether he's willing to pay that price."
What's going to happen in Michael's relationship with his mom? He has a lot of anger about his childhood, specifically about his abusive father, so much so that he didn't attend his dad's funeral. But why isn't he angry at Maddie? Why isn't he angry about the fact that she stayed with his father through all his abuse?
"That is something that we're looking at exploring in greater detail as we move forward," Nix confirmed, and he'll have plenty of time to do so, since 'Burn Notice' has been renewed for a fifth and sixth season. "That is a theme that we'll be exploring next season. It's funny; I didn't even think about it when we were first putting together the series, but the issue of Michael's dad not being around, I think people were sort of conditioned by 'Alias' and (other shows) to believe that having a dead father in a spy show means that the father is hiding someplace.
"And the thing that I have kept saying over and over is, espionage is not a genetic condition. We have this kind of idea, we have this cultural idea, that it is, you know, but it isn't. And I think it's much more interesting to say ... I mean, the truth is, actually, the child of a spy is not growing up in an environment that makes spies.
"I think one of the aspects of that is Michael has kind of come to realize, through hanging out with his mom and being back home, that on the one hand, he might be upset with his mom for these things; on the other hand, he feels he's doing good in the world. And he wouldn't be the man he is were it not for the background that he had.
"He now sees in his mother a lot of the things that he is. You know what I mean? Like he ... it's interesting ... She's a good liar. She's sort of manipulative. And she has a moral compass inside it all. And so she was much younger when all of this went down, and to what extent ... who does he want to be, is kind of the question. Does he wish that he wasn't Michael Westen? Well, on some level, maybe, but certainly a lot of people have benefited from the fact that he is Michael Westen, so how sad can he be about it?"
At Comic-Con in San Diego, USA announced a 'Burn Notice' prequel movie, revolving around Bruce Campbell's Sam Axe character. What's the storyline?
"It's just the most awesome thing ever," said the man himself, Bruce Campbell. "You know, it's a way to sort of flesh out the show. You can do the same thing conceivably with Gabrielle's character, with Fiona. So it's just a way of kind of expanding the 'Burn Notice' family, and it's (about) Sam's last mission. It's how Sam wound up in Miami, several years ago. So I've got to stand up straighter, lose a little weight, you know, all that good stuff."
Fan favorite Campbell, who's also a producer on the movie, said the prequel flick is scheduled to air before 'Burn Notice's' fifth season premieres, and that the movie will begin shooting in January in Bogata.
"That's where it takes place, because Sam used to work with the CIA and Navy Seals, so he was always doing weird stuff. So Bogata was always a hotbed of activity," Campbell explained. "It should be a fun little story. (Sam and company) help out, they help the helpless, sort of a David and Goliath story."
Matt Nix is writing the script for the movie, and Campbell hinted that there may be a big name attached to direct the TV movie: "We might get a very interesting director, but I can't say anything right now."
Not even a hint?
"No, I can't. No, I would get in horrible trouble if it didn't come to pass."
Fair enough, Mr. Campbell.
Is it true 'Burn Notice' was originally going to be set in New Jersey? Really, Michael Westen at the Jersey Shore?
Well, not at the Jersey Shore, but it's true that when Matt Nix initially conceived the show, Michael was going to be a Joisey guy.
"I was sort of interested in ... the spy as person. You know, Michael doesn't run around doing a whole lot of international spy things. He's stuck in Miami. So I was more interested in spy technique and who is this guy, and, you know, what sort of person becomes a spy and where do the skills come from and that kind of thing," Nix explained.
"So in my research, what I discovered was, and in talking to our kind of consultant, Michael Wilson, it was kind of like, well, you know, spies, if you decide to enter a business where you can't trust anyone ever, it's not ... it's a pretty idiosyncratic job. A lot of these people come from rough backgrounds. So my original thought was, 'Oh, let's put him in a rough environment.' And you're pitching to multiple networks, so you don't know where you're going to land, what the flavor of that network will be. So my thought was to set it in Newark, with the idea that, you know, that's a sort of ... we know it culturally as a rough place, and people sort of get, 'Oh, this rough guy comes from this rough place.'
"And then through a series of events, some of them having to do with USA saying, 'We don't really do shows in Newark,' and some of them having to do with realizing that, when I was writing the script, it was sort of lighter. It was kind of funnier than was really suggested by my proposed environment. So when USA wanted it in Miami, I initially resisted. And then I was like, 'Oh, well it actually kind of works better.' So that was how it went."
Now, Miami really kind of feels like a supporting character on the show, and it makes for a very pretty background, but filming there, in August, especially since a lot of the characters are frequently in suits ... any special accommodations that have to be made?
Bruce Campbell: "Oh, it is absolutely a character in the show. And, you know, the state of Florida should be cutting us a check every week for amazing PR, because we shoot in the coolest clubs, the fanciest hotels. We also shoot in the crappiest alleys and abandoned buildings, but I'll leave that part out.
"But, you know, we really do sell the exotic nature of the city, because it's a crazy, off-the-hook kind of city, and we get the run of the place, which is great, because we're really ... 'The Glades' (recently) came in, so there's really only two games in town, and we were the only game for about three years."
Still, Miami ... August ...
"Yeah, it's an element. It becomes a factor that you have to be aware of. And with my costumes, we've actually had to go to all kinds of different fabric to experiment with what doesn't sweat off of me," Campbell said. "Because I used to go through, you know, four shirts a day. But then we discovered all that wick-away material that you can get, so I've been wearing an internal wick-away material, which helps stop the onslaught against my shirt. And we've actually found shirt material and pants material that wicks away before I can sweat through it. It took us about three years to figure this out, and so now we kind of get it, what materials work and which ones don't. And, you know, I have to have a hair dryer standing by just because when my head starts to sweat, it's all over.
"So it's definitely a factor. You know, it rains about once a day during that particular part of the year, during the rainy season. But I have to say as a result, you know, we have backgrounds where the clouds are just spectacular, because Miami has these nuclear clouds. They look like bombs going off, because you're on a peninsula in the ocean. And so, you know, Miami, it's really bold, it's really striking, and the weather can be, like right after a rainstorm, when the sun comes out, it can be really spectacular. So we sort of suffer through it and wait for it to pass and start shooting again."
Were any of the roles particularly difficult to cast? It's really tough to imagine anyone else being able to do everything Jeffrey Donovan does as Michael.
"Yeah, with Jeffrey, that was a big search, but once he came in ... you know, I heard him read, it's -- many people have commented that we have sort of similar, and we have commented to each other many times -- we have similar ways of speaking, similar vocal inflections and stuff, so it was a good match of actor to voice of writer," Nix said.
"But I think the thing that Jeffrey does ... if you look at Jeffrey's career before 'Burn Notice,' it was this odd flipping back and forth of good guys and bad guys. And the thing about Jeffrey is, he's kind of uniquely well-suited to that. I think when people look at him, they can't quite decide as an actor is he a good guy or a bad guy, and so he's really well-suited. And he plays a really good good guy and a really good bad guy. So the fact that he's on a show where, on a week-to-week basis, he is typically playing a good guy who pretends to be a bad guy for most of the episode ... that's a really unusual thing. I mean, I can't think of another show that does it, right?
"So like, I mean, oftentimes on 'Burn Notice,' you know, his plan almost always involves some version of going and making friends with the villain, and often proposing plans for the villain that are far more hard-core than anything the villain was thinking about doing. Sort of like, 'Hey, great! Let's be friends. You want me to help you move your cocaine? Let's kill a client.' Like that kind of thing. And he's really good at that. He also has a certain sensitivity and a way of connecting with people that really suits the kind of good guy half of the role. So I think we were really lucky there."
The Michael voice-overs are a fun, and informative, part of the show. What was the idea behind using them in every episode?
The voice-overs, which have also been a clever way to deal with exposition and what could otherwise be some pretty dry spy-guy material, are a very personal, Matt Nix touch.
"It's not an accident that my show has voiceovers," he laughed. "Like, if you go to dinner with me, that's all I want to talk about. Not necessarily spy versions of that, but like, I just, all my life, since I was a little kid, I've just been sort of a little machine that finds out interesting things that are kind of, 'Oh, this is cool! This is surprising!' You know? And I want to tell everybody about it. So if you don't like that, you don't hang around me, because that's, like, what I do all day.
"And so for me ... I think that there's a lot of stuff that's really interesting and counterintuitive about spies. People have a lot of assumptions about how that kind of thing works, and I think it's really interesting to learn, you know, that actually, if you -- I mean, we've never actually used it, but it was one of the things that I was going to use in the pilot -- if you slap a clip into a gun the way that people do it in the movies all the time, like really hard, a lot of times you'll bend the flanges on the top of the clip so that you've effectively rendered your weapon useless by doing this bad-a** move that people always do on TV. The weapon will no longer feed bullets. I think that's fascinating.
"I guess on a broader level for the show, (the voice-overs) do two things: One, it allows us to take something that you've seen a million times, like a guy slaps a clip into a gun. It is not hard to do. It is not expensive. You've seen it a million times, right? But that, in combination with a voice-over about how that's a stupid thing to do, followed by someone trying to shoot their gun and not being able to ... suddenly we've got this kind of cool bit of action that we wouldn't be able to do if two characters had to say, 'Why is your gun jamming?'/'Well, my gun is jamming, because I just jammed this clip in and the flanges bent.'
"It means that we're able to, in a cable show, effectively double or triple the amount of cool action stuff that we can do, because we don't just, like suddenly build an explosive device. It's not magic. We're explaining how to do it. So we get a cool scene out of that."
The yogurt ... so much yogurt. Are the actors really eating all that yogurt?
Yes, they are. Nix explained that the 'Burn Notice' gang's go-to snack is an authentic spy touch; because spies often have to sit on long stake-outs, they need snacks that are portable. Yogurt's also healthy, making it the perfect nosh, and one of the few things Michael keeps stocked in his fridge.
And yes, unlike the fake beer and mojitos he downs -- "Gone are the days of actors actually drinking on the set," Campbell said, noting that Sam's beer bottles are usually brown or green to disguise the fact that they're holding water -- Campbell and and his co-stars actually eat lots of yogurt, though he's trying to introduce new foods to their selection of on-screen munchies.
"I'm slowly trying to introduce other food into the fridge," he said. "I'm lobbying for hard-boiled eggs, and we've always got nuts around now. And pickles. Sometimes we've got some pickles in there ... all of those items are things you can kind of leave in there a while, and it's OK."
What's the secret to the show's success, the thing that sets it apart from other dramas, other spy shows?
Campbell had the best explanation for what makes 'Burn Notice' such a standout, and it's the reason he signed on to do another TV show after 'Xena,' 'Hercules,' 'The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.' and 'Jack of All Trades.'
"It was what the show was not. It was not a doctor show. It was not a lawyer show. And it was not a cop show," Campbell said. "And I'm always a big fan of irreverent material, and my character's, you know, pretty irreverent, and I get to play my age now. (Sam) is a washed up, retired Navy Seal ... when I did the pilot, I was exactly the age that it said in the script. And that's great.
"I like the fact that all the characters are kind of ... they're kind of damaged goods. You know, they all have a past, and, Michael Westen's done some questionable things. Sam Axe has definitely done some questionable things. You know, when he's not drinking, he's trying to find a rich Miami woman. I love that. I've met a bunch of these retired Navy Seal guys, and they just want to have a good time now. They're not pushing out 200 sit-ups a day or push-ups a day. These guys are sitting back with their beer talking about the good old days. And so I thought it was very realistic.
"I also liked the fact that with Michael Westen, when he's not trying to save the world, he's helping his mom fix garbage disposals. You know, it really grounds it. You've got an earthy person like Sharon Gless, who just is like -- she just anchors the thing in her own kind of reality. And then you've got Gabrielle's character, you know, Fiona, who's crazy. She'll blow anything up, blow anybody up.
"And I really am amused by how unsanitary the thing is. You know, his mother chain smokes. If this was a ... thank God for cable, because if this was network, they'd say, 'Oh! Sam, you can't drink as much, and I don't think Madeline should smoke as much.' And it wouldn't be the same show. I think people can relate to these characters because, yeah, the guy's a spy, but he also is just as vulnerable as the average man. So it's nice to be a part of it. And Matt Nix is a very smart, young showrunner, so we can make him work hard for years."
The show has had great guest stars from the beginning, including, in the first half of season four, Burt Reynolds. Do stars come to the show, at this point, wanting to make guest appearances?
Matt Nix: "Yes. I mean, actually, in a roundabout way, Burt Reynolds was one of them. You know, he lives in Florida, people know him. And a lot of times, it's sort of like a back-and-forth thing. And it actually really matters if people are aware of the show. So Richard Kind, for instance, who plays Marv, he comes back in the second half of (season 4). And he was a guy who we realized over the course of discussing things was aware of the show, was a fan of the show, understood the show. And that's really great for a character like that, because he's going to get that his character is supposed to be funny, but funny with a particular tone, funny real, not funny playing jokes, but funny in a way where if he suddenly turned, like if he needed to be hardcore later, he's totally compatible with that. So that's really great.
"So I'd say two things: One, the world of cable has changed a little bit since we started. Right now, cable shows are perceived as ... people are just much more aware of cable shows, and there's less of a, like, 'Oh, well, it's just cable' feeling. You know, cable is where people win Emmys now. Cable is where you get to do fun stuff. People are a little bit more aware of that. Now we've been on long enough that people understand that if they're guest-starring, they're coming onto a show where they might actually get to do something fun. And that's another thing.
"One thing that we get a lot from guest stars is, if you're on 'Burn Notice,' you get to do cool stuff. If people think actors are all jaded about like shooting machine guns and blowing buildings up and stuff, like, they're not. And we do all that stuff for real. A lot of shows do CGI and stuff like that. No ... if you see someone firing a machine gun on 'Burn Notice,' they're firing blanks, but they're firing it. They're not just miming it, and it's not put together in post. And so a lot of times people will come on and then realize, 'Oh, wait! This is a show that goes really fast, where we're shooting a lot really quickly.' And if you like that, you get to act out great (parts) of the show really quickly, not a lot of waiting. And then we get to do really cool stuff, like, 'Oh my God! They just smashed those two cars together and they flipped over, and that was really cool.'"
Anyone still on the 'Burn Notice' guest star wish list?
Campbell: "(Burt Reynolds) was a good, older spy, you know, with his own take on it. It was fun to get a guy like that. And so I want to get more ... like Sally Field and Meryl Streep. Let's get some crazy guest stars here. John Lithgow, as a bad guy ... there are lots of opportunities. And the nice thing is, because Miami is so multicultural, we can actually use a huge array of actors from all nationalities, not just a generic, you know, guy next door. We have a pretty exotic series of guest stars from all over."
Added Nix, "Yeah, we have people that we're fans of that we've been kind of angling toward getting over the years."
Any names he can share?
"Not really," he laughed. "Because if I do, and we don't get them, then they'll be mad. And also, if I say this is the big -- this is a little inside baseball -- but if I declare to you, 'This is the person that we all dream of getting,' their price instantly doubles."
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Moorish Ambassador to Elizabeth I, Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud.
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|Moroccan ambassador to the Court of Queen Elizabeth I in 1600.
Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud ben Mohammed Anoun (Arabic: عبد الواحد بن مسعود بن محمد عنون) was principal secretary to the Moroccan ruler Mulay Ahmad al-Mansur, and ambassador to the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1600,[1] to promote the establishment of an Anglo-Moroccan alliance.
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The visit of Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud followed the sailing of The Lion in 1551, and the 1585 establishment of the English Barbary Company, which had the objective of developing trade between England and Morocco.[2][3] Diplomatic relations and an alliance were established between Elizabeth and the Barbary states.[3]
The last years of the 16th century saw major English successes against Spain, with the English victory against the Spanish Armada in 1588, and the Capture of Cadiz by the Earl of Essex in 1597. As a result, King Ahmad al-Mansur decided to send an embassy to propose a joint invasion of Spain.[3][4] Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud was accompanied by al Haji Messa and al Haji Bahanet, as well as an interpreter named Abd el-Dodar, an Andalusian by birth, under cover of a trade mission to Aleppo with a stopover in London.[5] Altogether, the embassy numbered 16 (including some prisoners being returned to England), and sailed on board The Eagle under Robert Kitchen.[6] He reached Dover on 8 August 1600.[6]
Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud spent 6 months at the court of Elizabeth, at the age of 42, in order to negotiate an alliance against Spain.[2][7] Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud spoke some Spanish, but he communicated to the Queen through his interpreter who spoke in Italian.[5] They met with the Queen on 19 August,[6] and again on 10 September.[6]
The Moroccan ruler wanted the help of an English fleet to invade Spain, Elizabeth refused, but welcomed the embassy as a sign of insurance, and instead accepted to establish commercial agreements.[2][3] Queen Elizabeth and King Ahmad continued to discuss various plans for combined military operations, with Elizabeth requesting a payment of 100,000 pounds in advance to King Hamet for the supply of a fleet, and Hamet asking for a tall ship to be sent to get the money. Discussions however remained inconclusive, and both rulers died within two years of the embassy.[8]
It has been suggested that Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud may have inspired the character of William Shakespeare's Moorish hero Othello.[9]
The painting of Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud is visible at the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon.[2]
See also[edit]
- Virginia Mason Vaughan, Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800 Cambridge University Press, 2005 ISBN 0-521-84584-X
- Allardyce Nicoll, Shakespeare Survey. The Last Plays Cambridge University Press, 2002 ISBN 0-521-52347-8


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Jennifer Aniston has been the subject of more false pregnancy rumors than just about any star in Hollywood.
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The spotlight has been harsh on the star, particularly in comparison to her ex, Brad Pitt, who has established a large family with his partner, Angelina Jolie.
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Kris Humphries can't catch a break: while the Kardashians, with soon to be ex-wife Kim, are badmouthing him whenever they get the chance, he's also getting plenty of heat from rival ballers.
Take JR Smith, for example.
The other day, Humphries took to his Twitter feed to boast of winning a game against the Knicks, saying, "Big game tonight! The Garden got really quiet on the way out! #Brooklyn."
New York Knicks baller Smith could miss not the opportunity to remind Humphries of one of the biggest reasons he's still in the papers today: his marriage to Kim Kardashian and his refusal to let her divorce him.
"Wasnt quiet when Kanye tore it down last month!" he added to a retweet, referring to Kim's current boyfriend and baby daddy, rapper Kanye West.
As noted above, the spot is shining on Humphries again because of the many interviews the Kardashians have been giving about his and Kim's 72-day marriage.
Just recently, for instance, Kourtney and Kim were on David Letterman and the talk show host tried to understand why she's still married to Kris after all these months even if their marriage only lasted 72 days.
She explained that she wanted a divorce but he was holding out for an annulment, which a judge could only grant if there was evidence of fraud, as we also reported at the time.
Basically, he's filed a lawsuit against her saying she tricked him into marrying her, when all she wanted from the relationship was the chance to have a big TV wedding which she could make money off of.
Kim also addressed the rumor of her marriage being a PR stunt – well, actually Kourtney did.
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As you can see for yourselves in the screenshot above, Skype is now number one, while Disney's "Where's My Mickey? XL" game, which is available with a freeware license for a limited period of time, is the runner-up.
Netflix reached the podium too, while Google Search, which was the top free app on Windows 8 until recently, is now fourth, but still ahead of Adobe Photoshop Express and YouTubeHD.
Seeing Skype on the top of the charts is a bit surprising given the fact that Microsoft has decided to include the app in Windows 8.1, so only Windows 8 and RT adopters are supposed to download it right now.


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A penny stock is an equity that has its shares valued at less than five dollars, and usually less than a dollar. Since the NASDAQ and NYSE have certain price requirements to maintain a listing on their indices, a penny stock is usually listed on the "Over-The-Counter" (OTC) or Pink Sheet market. What this normally means is that the stock does not have the coverage that big name indexes can typically offer, and thus are relatively unknown to an average investor.
This doesn't necessarily indicate that all of these companies are small or undiscovered: Nestle, Deutsche Telecom, and British Sky Broadcasting all list on these secondary markets.
There are many reasons that these tiny equities might be hidden to most investors. A major reason is that analysts won't cover, or provide analysis, on stocks that aren't listed on a big board exchange like the NYSE or NASDAQ. It doesn't matter what the valuation of the stock might be, or its potential. Another reason could be the fact that the stock simply cannot afford the huge costs (upwards of 250,000 dollars) in applying to the major exchanges at this time, and would rather use the capital to expand or improve their business.
Or, it could just be that it has not been discovered yet. Once this does occur though, the share price often dramatically rises, which can sometimes allow them to qualify for major exchanges and mainstream analyst coverage.
So what are the pros and cons of buying hot penny stocks?
Exciting Potential
Some of the largest companies in the world traded for pennies at one point. Even Microsoft was once classified as a penny stock. Many of these small companies are either on the ground floor of their respective industries, or simply do not have the exposure yet to be covered by analysts or recognized by major institutional investors. Penny stocks are opportunities to discover these hidden businesses before they grow to become the next big thing.
Better Risk to Reward Ratio
Every stock has market risk, no matter how large or small the business. There are many outside factors that affect the market like natural disasters, government squabbles, and consumer sentiment. There is substantial risk whenever you buy any stock. Just look at the multinational, multi-billion dollar companies like GM, AIG, and Citigroup. They all needed bailouts to stay afloat in the 2008 stock market crash. Many big names went under completely. Any company can be dangerous to invest in, but the potential rewards are much larger with penny stocks. Thinly traded stocks can make gains in the triple and even quadruple digits within weeks, days, or even a single day.
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Penny stocks allow for large gains in days or weeks. NYSE or NASDAQ stocks may take years to achieve gains of equal size. With all the uncertainty in today's marketplace, it isn't surprising that this type of reward is so alluring.
Psychological "Penny Stock" Factor
This has to deal with the way people perceive percentage gains versus real gains. An average investor might not conceptually grasp that buying a stock for .10 cents and selling it for .20 is the same as buying a stock at $100 and selling it at $200, but it is. Even better is the fact that it is much more common for a stock to rise from .10 cents to $1 than it is to go from $100 to $1000, based simply on the growth potential of a penny stock versus a large cap equity.
High Volatility
With most of these penny stocks flying under the radar, there are very few large institutional holders or analysts who will cover the stock. This can result in a limited amount of buyers and sellers who trade the stock, which can lead to exaggerated price swings.
Most Penny Stocks are Small Businesses
This is not to say they aren't growing or won't become larger in time, but there are inherent risks to investing in a small company. Some might not achieve profitability for years, or could go through several changes in management before getting it right. They also may not ever get it right. While the 2008 meltdown showed us that the size of a company doesn't guarantee anything, there are still more companies that lose a great percentage of their value on the OTC and Pink Sheet exchanges than on the NYSE or NASDAQ.
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While you don't have to be a full time day trader to trade a penny stock successfully, with the volatility penny stocks experience, it can be much safer to cash in gains as soon as you've achieved a large profit. Many investors make the mistake of buying and holding for too long and can see a large profit turn into a smaller profit, a breakeven, or even turn into a loss. This requires watching the stock a little more closely than is typically required of a big board stock. There is a lot of volatility on the big boards in today's market, but it still does not approach the degree of volatility in the penny stock market.
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This is both a plus and a minus. Like you read above, this fact can lead to large runs as traders that normally would not have traded the stock start to discover the company. On the other hand, this can also lead to a sharp decrease in price. Volatility can lead to hefty gains, but can also result in losses if you're not careful.
There are ways to reduce the risks of penny stocks. Using tight stop losses can help eliminate most of the downside dangers. Also, you must possess the disciple to know when to sell and lock in profits.
All in all, penny stocks are a high risk / high reward venture. Unlike large companies, these stocks have the potential to skyrocket for gains that would take years, if not decades for an NYSE or NASDAQ traded stock to achieve. Hot penny stocks can double or triple faster than most would believe. It simply takes the right knowledge, tools, and discipline for you to experience exciting gains in penny stocks.
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The Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday puts Udall ahead of all GOP challengers. But only 41 percent said Udall deserves to be re-elected.
Udall's lead was nearly within the margin of error against Republican Ken Buck. Buck was the GOP nominee three years ago against Colorado's other senator, Democrat Michael Bennet.
The poll also asked Coloradans about presidential possibilities. Several Republicans tied or beat former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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This bull was cast in bronze over a central core of clay. It was dedicated in a temple and was one of a pair, according to the inscription, which reads: 'To [the god] Dhat-Himyam, two bulls.' The text is in Sabaean, one of several related Semitic languages spoken in ancient South Arabia. It was written using an alphabet which changed little between its origins in the sixth century BC and its disappearance in the seventh century AD.
Himyar was one of the rival kingdoms of South Arabia and, by the first century AD, was the emerging power. It occupied large stretches of the coast. The capital at Zafar was even mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Historia Naturalis ('Natural History'), written under the Roman emperor Nero (AD 54-68).
The wealth of the kingdom was based on the control of frankincense and myrrh. These two resins only grow in eastern Yemen, southern Oman and Somaliland. Their production and trade were in the hands of the ancient South Arabians. At the time when this bull was made the shipping lanes were becoming more important than the land routes and Himyar's coastal position gave it an advantage. By the late third century AD Himyar had conquered the rival kingdom of Hadramawt and created one large, powerful empire.
More information
St J. Simpson (ed.), Queen of Sheba: treasures from (London, The British Museum Press, 2002)
D. Collon, Ancient Near Eastern art (London, The British Museum Press, 1995)
W. Daum (ed.), Yemen: 3000 years of art and c (Penguin, 1988)
St J.H. Philby, The Queen of Sheba (London, Quartet, 1981)
Height: 21.000 cm
Length: 28.000 cm
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So, as a guy who's, you know, sort of into this whole fashion thing, I felt mildly compelled to immediately denounce the much-talked-about Wall Street Journal article that laboriously mourns the fact that dudes do not dress up for dinner anymore. If you haven't read it, you might want to jaunt over to the Journal's website and take a gander or two before continuing here.
Did you gander? OK, great. Let's get started.
The article, entitled Jacket (Not) Required, employs a coterie of "gentlemen of certain generations and upbringings" who are downright appalled that very few of their favorite fine dining institutions no longer require men to wear ties to dinner, and most have done away with the requirement that they wear jackets, too. This is taken to be a sign that men in general are dressing a lot more casually than they used to, and that the fine art of dressing well is dead in the water. And that's partially true. Looking around the Abrams Media office, I see one guy wearing a hoodie, another one with a pair of headphones slung round his neck where a tie would be in an ideal world, and yet another whose shirt is probably irreparably wrinkled. I doubt any of these dudes are going to suit up before they head off to dine.
And while they would appall men like Gay Talese, the dandy journalist, who sees poorly dressed men at restaurants and thinks, "why aren't you at a baseball game, or eating popcorn somewhere? Anywhere but here," for me that's just normal. Restaurants need their money now more than ever. Per the Journal:
For most formal establishments, recent apparel relaxations are a matter of economics, priorities and pragmatism. In these tight-pocketed times, restaurants don't have the luxury of imposing rules. And, after the initial shock, it is reasoned that most fine-dining regulars who enjoyed "the rules" will come to accept the inevitable. The world isn't their Oysters Rockefeller anymore. Old money's out, and the Converse-sneaker-clad social networkers are in.
But the shift in menswear isn't some shocking new conspiracy. I tend to think that older men pore over black-and-white pictures from between the World Wars and wonder why we young bucks don't dress like that anymore. It's because we don't have to, and because we haven't had to in a long time. If our offices have gradually let go of the high standard of dress for work, doesn't it make sense that our sidewalks, restaurants and other areas of transit and leisure would, too? Yes, it does. And yes, they have.
So it's unfair to assign the blame for dressing carelessly to men themselves. Assign it to the institutions that not only allow them to dress like buffoons, but encourage them to do so. Maybe instead of letting go of the dinner jacket rule, the 21 Club and other restaurants like it should have held onto them for dear life.
Luckily (and to its credit the Journal realizes this) there are plenty of young guys out there who are rediscovering that there's a time and a place for sweatpants and athletic socks, and that fine dining establishments is not one of them. I'd venture that slowly but surely, the rules will come back in the same way that an emphasis on menswear is coming back right now.
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The point of predicate pushdown
Oracle is announcing today what it's calling "Oracle Big Data SQL". As usual, I haven't been briefed, but highlights seem to include:
- Oracle Big Data SQL is basically data federation using the External Tables capability of the Oracle DBMS.
- Unlike independent products — e.g. Cirro — Oracle Big Data SQL federates SQL queries only across Oracle offerings, such as the Oracle DBMS, the Oracle NoSQL offering, or Oracle's Cloudera-based Hadoop appliance.
- Also unlike independent products, Oracle Big Data SQL is claimed to be compatible with Oracle's usual security model and SQL dialect.
- At least when it talks to Hadoop, Oracle Big Data SQL exploits predicate pushdown to reduce network traffic.
And by the way – Oracle Big Data SQL is NOT "SQL-on-Hadoop" as that term is commonly construed, unless the complete Oracle DBMS is running on every node of a Hadoop cluster.
Predicate pushdown is actually a simple concept:
- If you issue a query in one place to run against a lot of data that's in another place, you could spawn a lot of network traffic, which could be slow and costly. However …
- … if you can "push down" parts of the query to where the data is stored, and thus filter out most of the data, then you can greatly reduce network traffic.
"Predicate pushdown" gets its name from the fact that portions of SQL statements, specifically ones that filter data, are properly referred to as predicates. They earn that name because predicates in mathematical logic and clauses in SQL are the same kind of thing — statements that, upon evaluation, can be TRUE or FALSE for different values of variables or data.
The most famous example of predicate pushdown is Oracle Exadata, with the story there being:
- Oracle's shared-everything architecture created a huge I/O bottleneck when querying large amounts of data, making Oracle inappropriate for very large data warehouses.
- Oracle Exadata added a second tier of servers each tied to a subset of the overall storage; certain predicates are pushed down to that tier.
- The I/O between Exadata's two sets of servers is now tolerable, and so Oracle is now often competitive in the high-end data warehousing market,
Oracle evidently calls this "SmartScan", and says Oracle Big Data SQL does something similar with predicate pushdown into Hadoop.
Oracle also hints at using predicate pushdown to do non-tabular operations on the non-relational systems, rather than shoehorning operations on multi-structured data into the Oracle DBMS, but my details on that are sparse.
Related link
- Chris Kanaracus' coverage of the announcement quotes me at length.
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Mark Callaghan on
July 15th, 2014 11:04 am
Your quotes in the Kanaracus article were excellent.
What does it mean to push a predicate to Hadoop? Does it create map/reduce tasks to filter HDFS data? Does this assume HBase is there to evaluate index filters?
Curt Monash on
July 15th, 2014 11:28 am
Thanks for the compliment, and I don't know the answers to your questions.
In particular, you've alerted me to the fact that I don't really know whether predicates are being pushed down to the Hadoop cluster as a whole, or whether Oracle has written some kind of an engine to filter data directly on every node (presumably with a call to the Hive metadata store, nee' HCatalog, coming first to help it figure out what it wants to do).
Certainly enough other vendors are putting engines on each Hadoop data node for the latter option to be at least theoretically possible.
Arun C. Murthy on
July 15th, 2014 3:13 pm
Posting my tweet-response to Curt here on request…
Several optimized columnar file-formats are available for data stored in HDFS e.g. ORC in Hive, Parquet etc.
I'd guess that they use columnar projection (scan only required columns) and predicate pushdown (skip rows which don't match the filter i.e. the query predicate) available in the columnar formats to reduce IO during the scan from HDFS itself.
Details differ, but, for e.g. ORC has light-weight indices inline with the data which allows to filter out 'stripes' which won't match the predicate – "SELECT name FROM customer WHERE age < 35" can skip stripes where we'd know min(age) is 45. Therefore, they wouldn't need an active processing component.
Hope that helps.
shrikanth shankar on
July 15th, 2014 3:16 pm
The blog mentions " Smart Scan for Hadoop introduces a new service into to the Hadoop ecosystem, which is co-resident with HDFS DataNodes and YARN NodeManagers. Queries from the new external tables are sent to these services to ensure that reads are direct path and data-local. Reading close to the data speeds up I/O, but minimizing data movement requires that Smart Scan do some things that are, well, smart.". Also the example on the blog is JSON. Seems to point to an active component
Greg Rahn on
July 16th, 2014 12:11 am
I interpret that quote from the blog[1] to mean there is an active processing component as well — a daemon that plays the same role on an HDFS DataNode that exists today on an Exadata Storage Server. In essence, this is a port of the Exadata cellsrv daemon that likely has common HDFS file format scanners (Parquet, ORCfile, RCfile, Text, etc.) and is able to apply predicate pushdown in the form of 1) column and data skipping for formats like Parquet or ORCfile that support such or 2) post-scan filtration, including the ability to apply bloom filters[2] (like Exadata), and column pruning for other formats. In either case, data is converted into Oracle internal tuple representation on the DataNodes[3] and flows up to the RAC DB nodes the same way it does from Exadata (which also means that Smart Scanning HDFS nodes don't talk to each other to do JOINs — that is the responsibility of the RAC DB nodes).
[1] https://blogs.oracle.com/datawarehousing/entry/oracle_big_data_sql_one
[2] https://twitter.com/dominic_giles/status/489095115718537216
[3] https://twitter.com/dan_mcclary/status/489081072471130112
Ofir Manor on
July 16th, 2014 3:33 am
Greg is right…
I was in their session at Hadoop Summit, they explained that they pre-install a local agent on every node of their Hadoop appliance… And Exadata can push down projections, filters and also occasionally bloom filters (for joins) to that agent. It is similar to the interaction between Exadata compute nodes (RAC) and storage nodes (Exadata cells).
Of course, everything is locked down, can be used only with Oracle appliances (Exadata + BIg Data Appliance combo).
Paul Johnson on
July 16th, 2014 7:01 am
Ah! The joys of Oracle predicate push-down…
Following on from his success at Netezza, I joined Foster Hinshaw at Dataupia from 2006-09. The proposition was 'complimentary MPP'.
The idea was that Oracle (and latterly SQL Server and DB2) queries would be re-routed via Oracle's remote table capability and be executed elsewhere, specifically on our Postgres MPP back-end, with the result set shipped seamlessly back to the Oracle host.
The goal was that the Oracle user would still perceive the system to be an Oracle system, but it would benefit from a scale-out, shared-nothing architecture that Oracle simply couldn't deliver on its own.
To achieve this we had to deliver a level of Oracle trsansparency so that SQL query re-writes (by the user not the optimiser) were rare. As an aside, this is the core of the work carried out by Enterprise DB – making Postgres compatible with Oracle.
One of the CDR tables we supported soon grew to over 100 billion rows. Predicate pushdown is clearly critical in a system with a single CPU Oracle host connected to a multi-cabinet MPP back-end. The demand on the Oracle server was so light we really did get away with a weedy 2U server.
Predicate pushdown is where the 'fun' started. Connecting Oracle to another Oracle system seems to work well. The SQL query is passed from one to the other as expected.
However, connecting Oracle to a non-Oracle system via heterogeneous services (HS) is another ball game altogether.
Oracle seemed to randomly cut the WHERE and GROUP BY clauses out of the submitted SQL, and pass queries to the back-end that were not as submitted by the user.
This came as somewhat of a surprise, to say the least, and brought our whole value proposition into question. Passing billions of rows back to the host to filter and aggregate (a la Exadata) is not pretty.
No doubt Oracle will have a happier time getting Oracle predicate pushdown to work!
Greg Rahn on
July 16th, 2014 9:59 am
Hadoop Summit 2014 slides and video on the topic for posterity:
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Treasure Coast auction houses become a burgeoning alternative to traditional real estate sales
Auctions are becoming a popular alternative for quickly selling real estate in a non-traditional setting on a guaranteed sale date.
As banks tighten lending standards and buyers sit on the sidelines waiting for home prices to stabilize, Treasure Coast auction houses say savvy sellers are increasingly turning to them to swiftly sell their properties in a fiercely competitive market filled with low-priced foreclosures and short sales. Purchasers are often cash investors or buyers with pre-approved financing.
Auctions don't work for homeowners who owe more on a mortgage than the appraised value of the property.
"When you have an auction, you've got buyers bidding against each other. You'll get an absolute price at market value on the day you decide to sell. No other Realtor can do that," said Roger Jacobson, who started Jacobson Auction & Realty Co. in Fort Piece in 1982. "Our motto is to sell a property at market value, close within 10 days and cash out between 45 and 50 days."
Auctioneers say putting a property up for auction reduces the amount of time a property is on the market, which helps clear excess inventory quickly and effectively. Additionally, firms maintain auctions benefit the community surrounding the property because of the marketing and publicity generated by auctioneers.
On the Treasure Coast, there are generally two types of auctions — an absolute or confirmation auction. At an absolute auction, the property sells to the highest bidder without a minimum price. At a confirmation auction, the seller has the right to confirm or reject the last bid price at the auction.
Auctioneers say the form of the auction depends on the condition of the property and the financial constraints of the property such as mortgages and liens.
"We can't help the person that's upside down on a mortgage or someone doing a short sale," Jacobson said. "But if you're looking for an absolute price on the market value of your property, there's nothing better than a jury of your peers to get that."
On average, auctioneers charge between 5 percent to 10 percent of the final bid price. That fee, called a buyer's premium, is added to final sale price and paid at closing by the buyer. Auctioneers also pay referral fees for brokers who bring in buyers or sellers. The marketing and advertising is paid by the auction house.
Realtors traditionally receive a 3 percent to 6 percent commission on the sale price of a home that the seller pays.
Once the property is under contact, it's the auctioneer's job to create buzz, generating excitement and competition among buyers who register for the auction.
That's what Palm City-based auction firm Elliot Paul & Co. did in late April, selling two vacant properties at Galleon Bay, an exclusive subdivision in Martin County's southern Hutchinson Island, for just under $1 million. One day later, the firm's owner, Elliot Paul, sold a separate vacant waterfront property in Sewall's Point for $363,000.
"We had about 30 people register for the auction and about 23 bidders," Paul said about the Galleon Bay event. "Most were end-users looking for an opportunity to buy in a really good neighborhood."
Paul said like the local real estate market, business also has fluctuated for most local auction houses. The saving grace for these firms has been the availability of waterfront properties on the Treasure Coast and the region's demographics.
"When mom and dad die, the kids suddenly find themselves with a home that's really nice, in a gated community, but there's a lot of upkeep and (fees paid to) HOAs," Paul said. "We can get that property sold for them pretty quickly."
Kansas-based Chris Longly, deputy executive director at the National Auctioneers Association, said seasoned real estate auctioneers continue to thrive on the Treasure Coast because of the unique types of properties available.
"If you have a luxury property you need to sell, an auction is the best place for it," said Longly, who represents the interests of thousands of nationwide and international auctioneers.
Ron Rennick Sr., founder of Vero Beach-based Rennick Realtors and Auctioneers, has handled a good amount of million-dollar luxury homes on the barrier island.
"We have a lot of people that are very motivated to sell because they're older, they want to move into an assisted living facility because of their health. ... We help them do that," said Rennick, who moved to Vero Beach in 1973. "The people that buy are a combination. ... They buy all cash or they have the credit to get a mortgage. It's not for marginal buyers. Auctions are not subject to financing."
Usually, auction bidders come prepared with a predetermined cashier's check or deposit, which is due 24 hours after the close of auction. Another deposit is sometimes paid within seven days after the sale. The remaining balance is due at closing or within 30 days of the contract signing.
Rennick, who started his firm in 1980, remains positive about housing, citing the Treasure Coast's recovery from other dire boom-and-bust cycles.
"These are all cycles, just like what we had in 1920 and the 1930s," Rennick said. "We survived it then and we'll survive it now."
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PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- At the end of the year, movies will no longer be produced on 35 millimeter film. That could cause many drive-ins to close because of the expense of converting to a digital system.
The Saco Drive-in and Pride's Corner Drive-in are two facilities that are campaigning for help to stay open. Honda is running a national contest called Project Drive-In. Fans can log on and vote for their favorite drive-in. The top five vote getters will win a new digital projection system.
The project is multi-faceted. Leaders are trying to get people to spread the word, pledge to go to a drive-in movie this summer or even make a donation. However, voting could be the biggest contribution because digital projection systems are $75,000.
Ry Russell who leased the theatre three years ago is leading the campaign in Saco, Maine. His operation netted $1200 for the entire summer two years ago. "It isn't about the money," said Russell.
There are five drive-ins in Maine; Bridgton, Skylight in Madawaska, Saco, Skowhegan, and Pride's Corner in Westbrook. Fans are encouraged to click on the link and vote for their favorite drive-in.


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