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Discussion of Facebook's data management technologies. Related subjects include:
- Cassandra, which was originated at Facebook
- Hadoop, one of whose largest supporters is Facebook
- Google's data management technologies
- Amazon's data management technologies
Machine learning's connection to (the rest of) AI
This is part of a four post series spanning two blogs.
- One post gives a general historical overview of the artificial intelligence business.
- One post specifically covers the history of expert systems.
- One post gives a general present-day overview of the artificial intelligence business.
- One post (this one) explores the close connection between machine learning and (the rest of) AI.
1. I think the technical essence of AI is usually:
- Inputs come in.
- Decisions or actions come out.
- More precisely — inputs come in, something intermediate is calculated, and the intermediate result is mapped to a decision or action.
- The intermediate results are commonly either numerical (a scalar or perhaps a vector of scalars) or a classification/partition into finitely many possible intermediate outputs.
Of course, a lot of non-AI software can be described the same way.
To check my claim, please consider:
- It fits rules engines/expert systems so simply it's barely worth saying.
- It fits any kind of natural language processing; the intermediate results might be words or phrases or concepts or whatever.
- It fits machine vision beautifully.
To see why it's true from a bottom-up standpoint, please consider the next two points.
2. It is my opinion that most things called "intelligence" — natural and artificial alike — have a great deal to do with pattern recognition and response. Examples of what I mean include: Read more
|Categories: Facebook, Google, IBM and DB2, Microsoft and SQL*Server, Predictive modeling and advanced analytics
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Teradata will support Presto
At the highest level:
- Presto is, roughly speaking, Facebook's replacement for Hive, at least for queries that are supposed to run at interactive speeds.
- Teradata is announcing support for Presto with a classic open source pricing model.
- Presto will also become, roughly speaking, Teradata's replacement for Hive.
- Teradata's Presto efforts are being conducted by the former Hadapt.
Now let's make that all a little more precise.
Regarding Presto (and I got most of this from Teradata)::
- To a first approximation, Presto is just another way to write SQL queries against HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System). However …
- … Presto queries other data stores too, such as various kinds of RDBMS, and federates query results.
- Facebook at various points in time created both Hive and now Presto.
- Facebook started the Presto project in 2012 and now has 10 engineers on it.
- Teradata has named 16 engineers – all from Hadapt – who will be contributing to Presto.
- Known serious users of Presto include Facebook, Netflix, Groupon and Airbnb. Airbnb likes Presto well enough to have 1/3 of its employees using it, via an Airbnb-developed tool called Airpal.
- Facebook is known to have a cluster cited at 300 petabytes and 4000 users where Presto is presumed to be a principal part of the workload.
Daniel Abadi said that Presto satisfies what he sees as some core architectural requirements for a modern parallel analytic RDBMS project: Read more
More notes on HBase
1. Continuing from last week's HBase post, the Cloudera folks were fairly proud of HBase's features for performance and scalability. Indeed, they suggested that use cases which were a good technical match for HBase were those that required fast random reads and writes with high concurrency and strict consistency. Some of the HBase architecture for query performance seems to be:
- Everything is stored in sorted files. (I didn't probe as to what exactly the files were sorted on.)
- Files have indexes and optional Bloom filters.
- Files are marked with min/max field values and time stamp ranges, which helps with data skipping.
Notwithstanding that a couple of those features sound like they might help with analytic queries, the base expectation is that you'll periodically massage your HBase data into a more analytically-oriented form. For example — I was talking with Cloudera after all — you could put it into Parquet.
2. The discussion of which kinds of data are originally put into HBase was a bit confusing.
- HBase is commonly used to receive machine-generated data. Everybody knows that.
- Cloudera drew a distinction between:
- Straightforward time series, which should probably just go into HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) rather than HBase.
- Data that is bucketed by entity, which likely should go into HBase. Examples of entities are specific users or devices.
- Cloudera also reminded me that OpenTSDB, a popular time series data store, runs over HBase.
OpenTSDB, by the way, likes to store detailed data and aggregates side-by-side, which resembles a pattern I discussed in my recent BI for NoSQL post.
3. HBase supports caching, tiered storage, and so on. Cloudera is pretty sure that it is publicly known (I presume from blog posts or conference talks) that: Read more
|Categories: Cloudera, eBay, Facebook, Hadoop, HBase, Market share and customer counts, NoSQL, Open source, Petabyte-scale data management, Specific users, Yahoo
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Optimism, pessimism, and fatalism — fault-tolerance, Part 2
The pessimist thinks the glass is half-empty.
The optimist thinks the glass is half-full.
The engineer thinks the glass was poorly designed.
Most of what I wrote in Part 1 of this post was already true 15 years ago. But much gets added in the modern era, considering that:
- Clusters will have node hiccups more often than single nodes will. (Duh.)
- Networks are relatively slow even when uncongested, and furthermore congest unpredictably.
- In many applications, it's OK to sacrifice even basic-seeming database functionality.
And so there's been innovation in numerous cluster-related subjects, two of which are:
- Distributed query and update. When a database is distributed among many modes, how does a request access multiple nodes at once?
- Fault-tolerance in long-running jobs.When a job is expected to run on many nodes for a long time, how can it deal with failures or slowdowns, other than through the distressing alternatives:
- Start over from the beginning?
- Keep (a lot of) the whole cluster's resources tied up, waiting for things to be set right?
Distributed database consistency
When a distributed database lives up to the same consistency standards as a single-node one, distributed query is straightforward. Performance may be an issue, however, which is why we have seen a lot of:
- Analytic RDBMS innovation.
- Short-request applications designed to avoid distributed joins.
- Short-request clustered RDBMS that don't allow fully-general distributed joins in the first place.
But in workloads with low-latency writes, living up to those standards is hard. The 1980s approach to distributed writing was two-phase commit (2PC), which may be summarized as: Read more
|Categories: Clustering, CouchDB, Data warehousing, Databricks, Spark and BDAS, Facebook, Hadoop, MapReduce, Sybase, Theory and architecture, VoltDB and H-Store
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Hardware and storage notes
My California trip last week focused mainly on software — duh! — but I had some interesting hardware/storage/architecture discussions as well, especially in the areas of:
- Rack- or data-center-scale systems.
- The real or imagined demise of Moore's Law.
- Flash.
I also got updated as to typical Hadoop hardware.
If systems are designed at the whole-rack level or higher, then there can be much more flexibility and efficiency in terms of mixing and connecting CPU, RAM and storage. The Google/Facebook/Amazon cool kids are widely understood to be following this approach, so others are naturally considering it as well. My most interesting of several mentions of that point was when I got the chance to talk with Berkeley computer architecture guru Dave Patterson, who's working on plans for 100-petabyte/terabit-networking kinds of systems, for usage after 2020 or so. (If you're interested, you might want to contact him; I'm sure he'd love more commercial sponsorship.)
One of Dave's design assumptions is that Moore's Law really will end soon (or at least greatly slow down), if by Moore's Law you mean that every 18 months or so one can get twice as many transistors onto a chip of the same area and cost than one could before. However, while he thinks that applies to CPU and RAM, Dave thinks flash is an exception. I gathered that he thinks the power/heat reasons for Moore's Law to end will be much harder to defeat than the other ones; note that flash, because of what it's used for, has vastly less power running through it than CPU or RAM do.
|Categories: Amazon and its cloud, Buying processes, Cloudera, Facebook, Google, Intel, Memory-centric data management, Pricing, Solid-state memory
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Cloudera, Impala, data warehousing and Hive
There's much confusion about Cloudera's SQL plans and beliefs, and the company has mainly itself to blame. That said, here's what I think is going on.
- Hive is good at some tasks and terrible at others.
- Hive is good at batch data transformation.
- Hive is bad at ad-hoc query, unless you really, really need Hive's scale and low license cost. One example, per Eli Collins: Facebook has a 500 petabyte Hive warehouse, but jokes that on a good day an analyst can run 6 queries against it.
- Impala is meant to be good at what Hive is bad at – i.e., fast-response query. (Cloudera mentioned reliable 100 millisecond response times for at least one user.)
- Impala is also meant to be good at what Hive is good at, and will someday from Cloudera's standpoint completely supersede Hive, but Cloudera is in no hurry for that day to arrive. Hive is more mature. Hive still has more SQL coverage than Impala. There's a lot of legacy investment in Hive. Cloudera gets little business advantage if a customer sunsets Hive.
- Impala is already decent at some tasks analytic RDBMS are commonly used for. Cloudera insists that some queries run very quickly on Impala. I believe them.
- Impala is terrible at others, including some of the ones most closely associated with the concept of "data warehousing". Data modeling is a big zero right now. Impala's workload management, concurrency and all that are very immature.
- There are some use cases for which SQL-on-Hadoop blows away analytic RDBMS, for example ones involving data transformations – perhaps on multi-structured data – that are impractical in RDBMS.
And of course, as vendors so often do, Cloudera generally overrates both the relative maturity of Impala and the relative importance of the use cases in which its offerings – Impala or otherwise – shine.
Related links
- A survey of SQL/Hadoop integration (February, 2014)
- The cardinal rules of DBMS development (March, 2013)
|Categories: Cloudera, Data warehousing, Facebook, Hadoop, SQL/Hadoop integration, Workload management
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DataStax/Cassandra update
Cassandra's reputation in many quarters is:
- World-leading in the geo-distribution feature.
- Impressively scalable.
- Hard to use.
This has led competitors to use, and get away with, sales claims along the lines of "Well, if you really need geo-distribution and can't wait for us to catch up — which we soon will! — you should use Cassandra. But otherwise, there are better choices."
My friends at DataStax, naturally, don't think that's quite fair. And so I invited them — specifically Billy Bosworth and Patrick McFadin — to educate me. Here are some highlights of that exercise.
DataStax and Cassandra have some very impressive accounts, which don't necessarily revolve around geo-distribution. Netflix, probably the flagship Cassandra user — since Cassandra inventor Facebook adopted HBase instead — actually hasn't been using the geo-distribution feature. Confidential accounts include:
- A petabyte or so of data at a very prominent company, geo-distributed, with 800+ nodes, in a kind of block storage use case.
- A messaging application at a very prominent company, anticipated to grow to multiple data centers and a petabyte of so of data, across 1000s of nodes.
- A 300 terabyte single-data-center telecom account (which I can't find on DataStax's extensive customer list).
- A huge health records deal.
- A Fortune 10 company.
DataStax and Cassandra won't necessarily win customer-brag wars versus MongoDB, Couchbase, or even HBase, but at least they're strongly in the competition.
DataStax claims that simplicity is now a strength. There are two main parts to that surprising assertion. Read more
|Categories: Cassandra, Clustering, Couchbase, Data models and architecture, DataStax, Facebook, HBase, Health care, Log analysis, Market share and customer counts, MongoDB, NoSQL, Petabyte-scale data management, Specific users
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Hortonworks, Hadoop, Stinger and Hive
I chatted yesterday with the Hortonworks gang. The main subject was Hortonworks' approach to SQL-on-Hadoop — commonly called Stinger — but at my request we cycled through a bunch of other topics as well. Company-specific notes include:
- Hortonworks founder J. Eric "Eric14″ Baldeschwieler is no longer at Hortonworks, although I imagine he stays closely in touch. What he's doing next is unspecified, except by the general phrase "his own thing". (Derrick Harris has more on Eric's departure.)
- John Kreisa still is at Hortonworks, just not as marketing VP. Think instead of partnerships and projects.
- ~250 employees.
- ~70-75 subscription customers.
Our deployment and use case discussions were a little confused, because a key part of Hortonworks' strategy is to support and encourage the idea of combining use cases and workloads on a single cluster. But I did hear:
- 10ish nodes for a typical starting cluster.
- 100ish nodes for a typical "data lake" committed adoption.
- Teradata UDA (Unified Data Architecture)* customers sometimes (typically?) jumping straight to a data lake scenario.
- A few users in the 10s of 1000s of nodes. (Obviously Yahoo is one.)
- HBase used in >50% of installations.
- Hive probably even more than that.
- Hortonworks is seeing a fair amount of interest in Windows Hadoop deployments.
*By the way — Teradata seems serious about pushing the UDA as a core message.
Ecosystem notes, in Hortonworks' perception, included:
- Cloudera is obviously Hortonworks' biggest distro competitor. Next is IBM, presumably in its blue-forever installed base. MapR is barely on the radar screen; Pivotal's likely rise hasn't yet hit sales reports.
- Hortonworks evidently sees a lot of MicroStrategy and Tableau, and some Platfora and Datameer, the latter two at around the same level of interest.
- Accumulo is a big deal in the Federal government, and has gotten a few health care wins as well. Its success is all about security. (Note: That's all consistent with what I hear elsewhere.)
I also asked specifically about OpenStack. Hortonworks is a member of the OpenStack project, contributes nontrivially to Swift and other subprojects, and sees Rackspace as an important partner. But despite all that, I think strong Hadoop/OpenStack integration is something for the indefinite future.
Hortonworks' views about Hadoop 2.0 start from the premise that its goal is to support running a multitude of workloads on a single cluster. (See, for example, what I previously posted about Tez and YARN.) Timing notes for Hadoop 2.0 include:
- It's been in preview/release candidate/commercial beta mode for weeks.
- Q3 is the goal; H2 is the emphatic goal.
- Yahoo's been in production with YARN >8 months, and has no MapReduce 1 clusters left. (Yahoo has >35,000 Hadoop nodes.)
- The last months of delays have been mainly about sprucing up various APIs and protocols, which may need to serve for a similar multi-year period as Hadoop 1's have. But there also was some YARN stabilization into May.
Frankly, I think Cloudera's earlier and necessarily incremental Hadoop 2 rollout was a better choice than Hortonworks' later big bang, even though the core-mission aspect of Hadoop 2.0 is what was least ready. HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) performance, NameNode failover and so on were well worth having, and it's more than a year between Cloudera starting supporting them and when Hortonworks is offering Hadoop 2.0.
Hortonworks' approach to doing SQL-on-Hadoop can be summarized simply as "Make Hive into as good an analytic RDBMS as possible, all in open source". Key elements include: Read more
Big data terminology and positioning
Recently, I observed that Big Data terminology is seriously broken. It is reasonable to reduce the subject to two quasi-dimensions:
- Bigness — Volume, Velocity, size
- Structure — Variety, Variability, Complexity
given that
- High-velocity "big data" problems are usually high-volume as well.*
- Variety, variability, and complexity all relate to the simply-structured/poly-structured distinction.
But the conflation should stop there.
*Low-volume/high-velocity problems are commonly referred to as "event processing" and/or "streaming".
When people claim that bigness and structure are the same issue, they oversimplify into mush. So I think we need four pieces of terminology, reflective of a 2×2 matrix of possibilities. For want of better alternatives, my suggestions are:
- Relational big data is data of high volume that fits well into a relational DBMS.
- Multi-structured big data is data of high volume that doesn't fit well into a relational DBMS. Alternative: Poly-structured big data.
- Conventional relational data is data of not-so-high volume that fits well into a relational DBMS. Alternatives: Ordinary/normal/smaller relational data.
- Smaller poly-structured data is data for which dynamic schema capabilities are important, but which doesn't rise to "big data" volume.
|Categories: Cassandra, Data models and architecture, Data warehousing, Exadata, Facebook, Google, Hadoop, HBase, Log analysis, Market share and customer counts, MarkLogic, NewSQL, NoSQL, Oracle, Splunk, Yahoo
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DataStax pivots back to its original strategy
The DataStax and Cassandra stories are somewhat confusing. Unfortunately, DataStax chose to clarify them in what has turned out to be a crazy news week. I'm going to use this post just to report on the status of the DataStax product line, without going into any analysis beyond that.
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Bulbulay Episode 207 By Ary Digital – 28th April 2013
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Bulbulay (Urdu: بلبلے, English: "Bubbles") is a family sitcom about an unconventional Pakistani family and the troubles they get into. The show is directed by Rana Rizwan and the script is written by Ali Imran. It is produced by Nabeel who is also the leading character of the show. The show gained popularity after the introduction of Hina Dilpazeer, who plays Momo, and is now the most watched sitcom in the country.
Cast: Nabeel, Mehmood Aslam, Aisha Umar, Hina Dilpazeer and others.
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PROTECT Their Health for the Years Ahead: Immunize Your Preteen!
This year's Preteen Vaccine Week campaign aims to raise awareness about California's Tdap vaccine requirement for students starting 7th grade, immunization recommendations for 11- and 12-year-olds, and promote the preteen doctor visit. These requirements and recommendations all have one goal: to keep preteens healthy.
Parents: You can't be by your preteen's side every minute—immunizing your child is one thing you can do to protect their health today and for many years to come.
The federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices currently recommends that 11- and 12-year-olds receive Tdap, meningococcal vaccine, HPV vaccine, and an annual flu vaccine. Some preteens may also need to catch up on other immunizations, including chickenpox (many don't have their 2nd dose), MMR (measles, mumps, rubella), and hepatitis B.
There's an important immunization requirement for kids who are starting 7th grade: the whooping cough booster shot (Tdap vaccine). Preteens who don't have proof of getting this vaccine may not be able to start 7th grade until they do get it. So don't wait; make an appointment with your doctor or at your clinic as soon as possible.
Adults should get a Tdap booster shot, too, if they haven't already, to protect themselves, their families and friends, and the community.
There's another excellent reason to make sure your preteen stays current Tdap and other vaccines required for school entry. Your child could be required to stay home if he/she isn't up-to-date with those vaccines during an outbreak.
Immunization Comfort Tips for Parents of Preteens
Nobody enjoys shots, but they are necessary to help protect your preteen's health. For a list of tips to help make your preteen less uncomfortable before, during and after shots, click here.
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This user-friendly schedule covers the immunizations recommended for ages 7-18 years, in a colorful and easy-to-read format. You can download and print it from this web page. That same web page also features the schedule in Spanish, as well as a quiz on adolescent immunizations and a downloadable tool to determine which vaccines your 7-18-year-old may need.
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Yes, I was. My name is Sarah and for nearly two decades, I was a serial dater. Why you ask? And, why admit to that?
Dating many people is healthy. Very healthy in fact. When you date many people you know when you've met "the one" because you've been exposed to so many other people. If I had a child I would absolutely encourage her or him to date around and not settle down too early. I know many people in their late 20's who've been dating the same person for 4, 5 and even 6 years. I know people in their early 20's who've been dating the same person since high school and have settled down.
If I had settled down with the first guy I ever "fell in love with" I would be a divorced single mother without a college degree. If I had settled down with the first guy I dated for a long time in my 20's I would be a divorced single mother with a college degree, working at a dead-end job I didn't love and I would never had met the person who encouraged me to chase my dreams.
If I had stayed with that one person who hurt me several times, because I loved him, I would have endured years of infidelity ending in painful heartbreak and needing months of therapy.
My years of serial dating taught me what I wanted and taught me what I had to offer.
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The British Government's decision to downgrade cannabis to a Class C drug has been criticised by the head of the United Nations anti-drugs department.
Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), said countries got the "drug problem they deserved" if they maintained inadequate policies.
In an unusual statement, he suggested cannabis was as harmful as cocaine and heroin - a stance which differs wildly from the British attitude of treating cannabis far less seriously than Class A substances.
Although he did not specifically name the UK, Mr Costa said at the Washington DC launch of the UNODC's 2006 World Drug Report: "Policy reversals leave young people confused as to just how dangerous cannabis is.
"With cannabis-related health damage increasing, it is fundamentally wrong for countries to make cannabis control dependent on which party is in government.
"The cannabis pandemic, like other challenges to public health, requires consensus, a consistent commitment across the political spectrum and by society at large."
Mr Costa suggested that cannabis was now "considerably more potent" than a few decades ago and that it was a "mistake" to dismiss it as a soft, relatively harmless drug.
"Today, the harmful characteristics of cannabis are no longer that different from those of other plant-based drugs such as cocaine and heroin," Mr Costa said.
The report estimated 162 million people used cannabis at least once in 2004, the equivalent of 4 per cent of the 15 to 64-year-old global population.
Mr Costa said: "After so many years of drug control experience, we now know that a coherent, long-term strategy can reduce drug supply, demand and trafficking.
"If this does not happen, it will be because some nations fail to take the drug issue sufficiently seriously and pursue inadequate policies."
David Blunkett downgraded cannabis from Class B to Class C in January 2004, meaning possession of the drug was normally no longer an arrestable offence.
In his speech, Mr Costa also repeated warnings about growing cocaine use, particularly in western Europe where demand was reaching "alarming levels".
He said: "I urge European Union governments not to ignore this peril.
"Too many professional, educated Europeans use cocaine, often denying their addiction, and drug abuse by celebrities is often presented uncritically by the media leaving young people confused and vulnerable."
His comments come less than two weeks after supermodel Kate Moss escaped prosecution for drug-taking, despite video evidence, because of a legal loophole.


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The Black Armor Edition, meanwhile, is the edition that all fans receive as long as they pre-order Dark Souls II ahead of time. This version contains the above mentioned metal case with the game and soundtrack.
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All Aboard Florida staff to begin inspecting tracks in Indian River County
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — The people proposing high-speed passenger rail service through Indian River County are going to take a close look at the tracks starting Tuesday.
Members of All Aboard Florida, which wants to send trains from Miami to Orlando, will join Federal Railroad Administration and Florida Department of Transportation officials for a diagnostic walk-through of the tracks in Indian River County on Tuesday and Wednesday.
They'll review conditions to determine what safety measures the 32 county crossings need for the trains to operate at the intended speed, expected to be up to 110 mph.
"They'll be walking each crossing," said Indian River County Metropolitan Planning Organization staff director Phil Matson.
Residents and some elected officials are opposed to the passenger rail plan because it would bring 32 more trains daily through Indian River, posing a safety hazard and a hassle to motorists. The trains will not be stopping in Indian River or anywhere on the Treasure Coast.
Officials at All Aboard Florida said the walk-throughs are not public events, but have invited technical professionals from Vero Beach, Sebastian and the county to join them, Matson said. The county will have staff from its engineering, surveying and environmental departments at the crossings in unincorporated parts of the county.
No traffic delays are expected from the walk-through, he said.
The study starts Tuesday morning in the south end of the county and progresses north. The groups resumes Wednesday morning in Winter Beach and will continue into Brevard County in the afternoon.
Local officials have said they're waiting on the release of the federal environmental impact study on the project.
County officials said the report may not be out until this fall. Matson said the feedback process which follows the release will allow the county a significant opportunity to have a voice on the project.


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Fresno State's quarterback story line takes another twist fresnobee.com/sports/spt-col… Zach Kline (PS#4) hit 15-16 202 yds in Cal Spring game
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Tulsa FS JR Reed (battle for starting FS spot) has transferred to Georgia and backup DT Michael Rios is not eligible (acad) for 2016.
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Toledo picks up 5th year senior transfer DB Desmond Frye (PS#88, 6'2" 198) from Virginia Tech. He had 4 starts, 28 tkls,1 int in '15 at VT.
Here's a quick example of how Colorado CB Chidobe Awuzie plays the game. instagram.com/p/BHPqiS5hgEu/
Didn't know much about Colorado CB Chidobe Awuzie till I popped in tape this am. Now he's one of my favorites. Plays CB like a Mike LB!
Meanwhile, Sarah Spain blames the system for enabling him to think he could get away with anything he wants.
SportsCenter has the top fan-generated plays from around the country, including an incredible display from a 270-pound Penn State football player.
Danny Kanell is appalled by Florida State's football program blowing an alleged $60,000 on championship rings for players after losing their bowl game.
Ole Miss QB Chad Kelly posted Power 5-best 64.9 comp % on throws outside the numbers in 2015. #CountdownToKickoff pic.twitter.com/j4s2oxzCNY
A commitment from top-50 prospect Kellen Mond, a former Baylor commit, has Texas A&M in the top 10. New top 25
Hawaii DE Kennedy Tulimasealii (63 tackles, 3.5 sks, 15 tfl in '15) has been dismissed from team but his lawyer is appealing.
Bowling Green WR Robbie Rhodes (PS#5) has been dismissed He was a Baylor transfer and had 243 yards at BGreen in 2015, projected starter.
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By relling on Jun 07, 2004
In 1783, Swiss physicist and geologist, Horace Bénédict de Saussure built the first hygrometer using a human hair to measure humidity. Here on the ranch, we have almost perfected the Equine Hygrometer. When the winds blow in from the desert, the dry air allows the charge on the horse's tails to remain rather than dissipate. The hairs will repel. I have calibrated this against several other hygrometers I keep. In this picture, Bayjinx (bay in foreground) is displaying 13% relative humidity whilst Chester (grey in background) is displaying 11% relative humidity. The concensus amongst all hygrometers on the ranch was 12% relative humidity, so I think the horse tail calibration is getting pretty good.


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The idea was born in a journey to Japan, where after watching and listening the meaning of the Lotus Flower, his founder came back to Mexico with the interest of starting a new way, under the concept of the renaissance as the Lotus Flower, which emerges of the dark depths with glory and fullness.
With a clear concept, Flor de Loto (Lotus Flower) started operations on the 8th of December, 2008, in a small shop in the south part of the city of Morelia. A few years later, with a consistent growing, it opened 4 new branches, three of them in different parts of the city of Morelia and one of them in the city of Moroleon, achieving an excellent response from the customers.
Over time, it has become in a reference for the Morelia's Japanese food restaurants. Nowadays, Flor de Loto not only offers products of high quality, it offers also the best customer service. Therefore, for this and other many reasons too, Lotus Flower has positioned itself as a leading brand and as an example to be pursued by the competitors. In a constant search for innovation, Flor de Loto started with the development of its franchise system in February, 2012.
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My experience of Morocco from 2007 has left fond and vivid memories in me of a country filled with warm light and exotic colors, sometimes through dust and mist. Food was flavorful and aromatic with mild spices, people friendly, coffee strong and mint tea heavenly. I found traveling through this country untiring, with always a surprise to be discovered around the corner. If not awe-inspiring architecture, there are sights of wonder, moments of peacefulness, warmth of humanity, the taste of lamb Tajine, and the rhythm of music. I found a diligent people with a sense of cleanliness and peacefulness that comes from the ritual of incessant prayer.
Morocco is a blend of cultures: Romans left their footprint on this North African country 2000 years ago; there has been Arab infusion since the 7th century; Spanish and French influences came in more recently. But Berbers, the descendants of the earliest settlers, still retain their identity and culture.
Yetish came to New York in 1982 from Bangalore, India. After his education at the International Center of Photography, he worked as the house photographer for ICP. He then joined Magnum Photos as the house printer and ran his own studio and lab in New York City. Yetish currently works out of his home in Teaneck NJ. http://www.yetish.com
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Sept. 11, 1999
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - In the end, it did not matter that the match-clinching point came courtesy of a service error by New Mexico's Janelle Torres. What mattered was that for the first time in the abbreviated history of the WSU-New Mexico rivalry, the Cougars ended up on the winning side of the ledger, defeating the Lobos 15-7, 15-13, 9-15, 9-15, 15-12 Saturday afternoon at The Pit.
Saturday night, a tired WSU squad managed to win game one, but succumbed to a taller Colorado squad 12-15, 15-9, 15-11, 15-10.
"It wasn't pretty, but it sure was nice to get a win here," said WSU coach Cindy Fredrick, whose team finished the day 5-2 in 1999. "We feel pretty lucky to come out of here with a win."
WSU finished third in the four-team tournament with a 1-2 record. Senior Joy Sperry (Wallace, Idaho) and sophomore Missy Blackshire (Spokane, Wash.) were named to the all-tournament team.
The five-game marathon with the Lobos was sweet revenge for the Cougars, who had lost their three previous meetings with New Mexico, including season-ending defeats at The Pit during the NCAA Tournament in 1991 and 1994. Like Saturday's match, the 1994 meeting saw WSU jump out to a two-games to one lead only to have the Lobos sweep the final two games.
"I had flashbacks to 1994," Fredrick said. "The same thing was happening all over again. Fortunately we had Joy (Sperry) step up like the senior captain she is and lead us in the fifth game."
Sperry played one of the best all-around matches of her career with 20 kills and 22 digs. She led the Cougars with a .273 attack percentage. Blackshire added to the attack with 17 kills, three service aces and a career-high 16 digs.
Defense won the match for the Cougars as WSU set a season-high in digs for the second straight match with 100 against the Lobos. The Cougs had 77 digs Friday night versus No. 17 Texas A&M. New Mexico (3-4) also set a season-high in digs with 95.
"New Mexico hit better than us, blocked better than us," said Fredrick. "On paper, we should not have won this match, but we hung in there and came out on top where it counts, on the scoreboard."
Freshman Holly Harris (Sandy, Utah) had 12 kills and career-highs in digs (11) and blocks (seven), while freshman LaToya Harris (Portland, Ore.) had 12 kills. Freshman Kortney Jamtaas (Orinda, Calif.) proved invaluable on defense in games one, two and five with a career-high 19 digs.
Senior Amber Smith led the Lobos with 20 kills and 15 digs, while junior Micaela Conley added 15 kills.
In the nightcap, Holly Harris recorded a career-high 17 kills and hit .406, but did not get enough support to lead the Cougars to the upset. Sperry also had 17 kills, while Blackshire added 12 and a career-high four blocks and LaToya Harris had 10. Freshman Melissa Wright (Muncie, Ind.) had a career-high 14 digs.
Colorado may be the best team the Cougars have seen to date in 1999. The Buffs set WSU season opponent highs in kills (90), hitting percentage (.306), assists (78) and blocks (20). Freshman Meghan Barkman led the 23rd-ranked Buffalos (5-1) with 23 kills, while senior setter Kelly Campbell kept the Cougars off balance with 14 kills and 69 assists.
It was just the second-ever meeting between the Buffaloes and Cougars and the first since 1981.
WSU sophomore Kristen Johnson (Olympia, Wash.) saw her first action of the season after missing the first five matches with a strained abdominal muscle. She recorded five kills versus New Mexico and carded seven kills and three blocks against the Buffs.
Washington State will play its third ranked team in four games when No. 7 Stanford visits Pullman for both teams' Pac-10 opener Friday at 7 p.m.
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Washington State (5-1) d. New Mexico (3-4) 3-2
Game scores: 15-7, 15-13, 9-15, 9-15, 15-12
STATISTICS: KILLS: Sperry (WSU) 20, Blackshire (WSU) 17, H. Harris (WSU) 12, L. Harris (WSU) 11, Smith (UNM) 20, Conley (UNM) 15, Shields (UNM) 14, Goffard (UNM) 11. ASSISTS: Wright (WSU) 63, Torres (UNM) 58. DIGS: Sperry (WSU) 22, Jamtaas (WSU) 19, Blackshire (WSU) 16, Wright (WSU) 13, H. Harris (WSU) 11, Torres (UNM) 21, Conley (UNM) 18, Smith (15), Allison (15), Burns (14). BLOCKS: H. Harris (WSU) 7, L. Harris (WSU) 3, Sansoni (UNM) 6, Shields (UNM) 4, Smith (UNM) 4. SERVICE ACES: Blackshire (WSU) 3, Torres (UNM) 3, Goffard (UNM) 3. Attendance: 237.
Colorado (5-1) d. Washington State (5-2) 3-1
Game scores: 12-15, 15-9, 15-11, 15-10
STATISTICS: KILLS: Barkman (CU) 23, Nielsen (CU) 18, Campbell (CU) 14, Roberge (CU) 13, H. Harris (WSU) 17, Sperry (WSU) 17, Blackshire (WSU) 12, L. Harris (WSU) 10. ASSISTS: Campbell (CU) 69, Wright (WSU) 59. DIGS: Bowen (CU) 17, Nielsen (CU) 11, Gower (CU) 10, Small (CU) 10, Wright (WSU) 14, Jamtaas (WSU) 14, Sperry (WSU) 12, L. Harris (WSU) 12, H. Harris (WSU) 11. BLOCKS: Barkman (CU) 5, Roberge (CU) 5, Blackshire (WSU) 4, H. Harris (WSU) 4. SERVICE ACES: Campbell (CU) 1, Gower (CU) 1, Small (CU) 1, Blackshire (WSU) 3. Attendance: 421.
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Regulatory warnings regarding the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviours appear to be associated with reductions in the number of antidepressant medication prescriptions among children and adolescents, according to a new report.
In December 2003, the UK Committee on Safety of Medicines declared the risk-benefit profile of all selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants (as well as venlafaxine hydrochloride and mirtazapine), with the exception of fluoxetine, to be unfavourable for the treatment of major depressive disorders in children and adolescents.
In 2004, the US Food and Drug Administration convened a Psycho-pharmacology Advisory Committee, issued a public health advisory, and required black box warning labels for all antidepressants (including fluoxetine) highlighting the potential increase in suicidal thinking and behaviour in children and adolescents.
The warning recommended more intense therapeutic monitoring to mitigate these risks but did not suggest avoiding the paediatric use of antidepressants. Against such a background, doctors in Tennessee, US examined monthly antidepressant prescription data among patients age two to 17 years for a 45-month period.
The study months were divided into two periods. The period before the regulatory warnings included the 24 months from 1 January 2002 until 31 December 2003, and the period after the regulatory warnings– 21 months from 1 January 2004 until 30 September 2005. An average of 405,000 children and teens qualified for the study each month.
During the period before the regulatory warnings, there was little change from month to month in the rate of new antidepressant prescriptions, with an average of 23 per 10,000 patients. By the end of the study a total of 21 months after the UK warnings, this proportion had decreased by 33 per cent to an average of 15 per 10,000 per month.
The decrease was most pronounced for SSRIs (except for fluoxetine) and another type of antidepressant linked to suicidal thoughts and behaviours, selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors.
New users of fluoxetine, the only antidepressant approved by the FDA for the treatment of depression in children and adolescents, increased by 60 per cent. However, there was no evidence of an increase in discontinuation of therapy with antidepressant or other psychotropic drugs, which suggests that the primary effect of the warnings was to alter the decision to treat a newly presenting patient, the study's authors observed.


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The women's team sits in fourth place after day one with 26 points. UCLA leads with 45.50, Arizona State sits in second with 41 points, Stanford is in third with 34 points and Washington is fifth with 24 points. On the men's side, Arizona State's 55.50 points are good for first, California is second with 32 points, Washington State is third with 28 points, Stanford tallied 26.50 points in fourth and BYU's score of 21 points was good for fifth. The Arizona men sit in 11th place with five points.
Senior Jen Bergman earned a third-place finish in the 5,000-meter race with a personal-best time of 16:00.66. Currently, Bergman's time ranks as No. 14 in the U.S., excluding results from around the country. She tacked on six points towards the women's total.
Junior Bernard Dickerson-Quinn finished in ninth place in the men's 200-meter dash with a personal-best time of 21.79. Senior Clifton Leake's personal-best time of 21.84 was good for 11th place.
Senior Taylor Freeman posted another personal-best mark in the women's weight throw, taking fourth place with a toss of 66-0.5 (20.13m). Freeman has thrown the seventh-best marks of her career in her seven competitions this season. Sophomore Baillie Gibson earned a fifth-place finish with a throw of 60-7.25 (18.47m). Freeman earned five points for the women's team and Gibson earned four. On the men's side, senior Tyler Johnson finished in seventh place with a mark of 59-4.75 (18.10m). He added two points to the men's team total.
The women's distance medley relay team of freshman Hanna Peterson, junior Shale' Garland, sophomore Nicci Corbin and sophomore Kate Penney finished in seventh place with a time of 11:50.77. On the men's side, junior Branden Helms, junior Sam Macaluso clocked a time 9:45.25, good for sixth place. The women added two points to their total while the men added three.
Freshman Moriah Hayes posted a personal-best mark of 18-0.5 (5.50m) in the women's long jump, good for 10th place. Freshman Traci-Lynn Hicks clocked the fourth-best time overall in the women's 60-meter hurdles at 8.45. She won heat five with her personal-best time and advanced to Saturday's final at 11:30 a.m. Poston's time of 7.50 in the 60-meter dash was good for a victory in heat five and was the fifth-fastest time overall. She advanced to the final on Saturday at 12:25 p.m.
"It was a really good first day," head coach Taylor Freeman ... a great first day for her. It wasn't Baillie Gibson's best throw but it was close to it, I thought she competed well. I want Baillie to really believe in herself because she is a talented young lady. Moriah Hayes, not a super mark but she got better and better, she's never long jumped before. Lawi Lalang continues to impress and ran a great leg on the DMR, looked fantastic. We have a lot of points to be had tomorrow, the majority of our events go tomorrow. The team's spirit seems to be pretty good. I'm excited because we have a lot of young people coming to this meet and performing at their best in a championship meet. We know we're doing the right things and we will continue to grow from there.
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One exercise in creativity for an innovation practitioner consists of the cross-fertilization of ideas from one area of academic research to another. Given my past studies in the field of international relations, I often stumble across interesting alignments between world politics and my current field of endeavor, innovation (for example, see my recent post "Streetcar Innovation").
My peripatetic reading list revealed another parallel between the two fields in the form of Lord Paddy Ashdown's Eight Principles of Peacekeeping for Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ashdown, a Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament from the United Kingdom who served as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 to 2007 and is currently the head of UNICEF UK, spoke to the International Rescue Committee in London in 2003 concerning the lessons learned from the transition from conflict to nation-building and peacekeeping in the former Yugoslavia. At the time he hoped to impress these lessons upon the endeavor in nation-building in Iraq by the United States. From an innovation standpoint, Ashdown's eight principles provide valuable insights into the way an innovation leader should approach his or her efforts to drive innovation across an enterprise.
Principle 1 – "[Have] a good plan and stick to it. This plan needs to be drawn up, not as an after-thought, but well in advance, as an integral part of the planning for the military campaign."
In this principle, Ashdown is highlighting the propensity of leaders to lay out high level plans for an overall campaign but to spend too much time on the military phase of a campaign and not enough on planning for the post-war transition, as observers often state was the case for the war in Iraq. When we launch an innovation initiative, typically starting with an innovation workshop, our best intentions usually incline us to follow Ashdown's maxim of intensively focusing on preparation. Often times, though, we find ourselves wishing that we had been able to spend more time on detailed planning not only on the workshop itself but our plans for follow-up work resulting from the session. In a world of limited cycles available for preparation, we tend to focus on the workshop session itself, possibly at the expense of the follow-on work.
The question for innovation leaders is whether there is value in spending more time thinking about what happens after the workshop so we can inject that into the workshop discussions. In the peacekeeping example, there are clearly significant post-war ramifications to in-war decisions. For instance, for a military force trying to impact the command and control capabilities of an enemy, destroying a power transmission tower has a much different post-war effect than destroying an entire power generation facility, which will require significant resources to rebuild. The military commander making the targeting decisions is tasked to win the war as quickly as possible, though the larger campaign must take into account the post-war period. Although this is an extreme example, it might be worthwhile for innovation leaders to invest more time upfront in thinking through the post-workshop steps of their innovation process, as those steps could influence the approach to the workshop itself. The specific process that a certain innovation concept might have to follow after the workshop (such as a specific product development cycle) could influence the way that the workshop team discusses the concept in the session, such as spending more time on a particular product detail, knowing how critical that detail will be to the ultimate manufacture of the product. For instance, a part for an aircraft that must meet very specific weight requirements as opposed to the core function of the part, like the lithium batteries on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Principle 2 – "[E]stablish the rule of law – and do so as quickly as possible. […] It is much more important to establish the rule of law quickly than to establish democracy quickly. Because without the former, the latter is soon undermined."
This principle, yet again, rings particularly true for observers of the post-Iraq war and post-Arab Spring chaos in Egypt. Although the establishment of democracy is an eventual goal of the effort at regime change, the rule of law is a foundational element required for democracy to succeed. The alternative, unfortunately, is chaos, sometimes echoing Thomas Hobbes's anarchy in Leviathan. Although I have yet to lead or participate in an innovation workshop that results in a war of "all against all," I usually do not spend much time contemplating importance of the operational structure of workshop. By operational structure, I mean the way the innovation workshop leader manages the interactions among participants in the session.
We often think of innovation sessions as necessarily "free-wheeling" or "wide-open" because we are trying to encourage creativity and new thinking to solve problems or generate novel ideas. However, just as democracy requires the rule of law as a foundation, so too does the structure that drives discussion in an innovation session play an important role in determining the success of the session. This could be something as simple as organizing set times for breaks to maximize the productivity of the team members, or something as complex as scripting time to focus on different workshop themes to make sure that all of the ideas are covered. New idea generation and free-association is great, but there has to be some structure to keep the session on track.
Principle 3 – "[E]stablish your credibility straight away. The more robustly a peacekeeping force deals with any initial challenges to its authority, the fewer challenges there will be in the future."
The Iraq example proves instructive here, as many observers recall the looting that took place after the fall of the regime which contributed to a sense of disorder (trampling the rule of law mentioned in principle 2) and demonstrating the weakness of the Coalition Provisional Authority. Though the stakes are significantly lower, the innovation leader faces a similar need to establish authority at the outset of a workshop session or innovation initiative. In the case of innovation, credibility comes not in the form of demonstration of the use of force (thank goodness) but, rather, from demonstrating an understanding of what it takes to deliver successful innovation outcomes.
Expert public speakers often note that a presenter has to grab the attention of an audience in the first few minutes or even seconds of a presentation to be successful, likewise the innovation workshop leader faces the same challenge in starting a session, even if in the end most of the input for the session will come from the participants. My preferred method involves focusing the attention of the audience on an innovation that was successful but in a counter-intuitive way, such as the Nest thermostat (fewer buttons – thus bucking the trend of more and more complexity in programmable thermostats – but more capabilities). This forces the participants to start thinking differently about the challenges they are facing in the workshop.
Principle 4 – "[S]tart as quickly as possible on the major structural reforms – from putting in place a customs service or a reliable tax base, to reforming the police and the civil service, to restructuring and screening the judiciary, to transforming the armed forces."
In this principle, Ashdown calls on the peacekeeper to dive quickly into areas of reform that can be seen by some as the most challenging because they are so sweeping in nature, such as a significant modification of a country's armed forces or police. This is in some ways counter-intuitive, as we often opt to invest time and energy studying the more challenging problems to devise the "perfect" solution as opposed to diving directly into the problem knowing that the problem will only get worse with time and become even more intractable. In the case of corporate innovation, we tend to adhere to the same philosophy in which we see large-scale challenges as being worthy of genuine, lengthy investigation before we are willing to take action. We want to build complete and thorough business cases and operational models before we are willing to take a chance on implementing a transformative change.
In the meantime, the business problem we are trying to solve continues to fester and, moreover, from an innovation standpoint, the team working on identifying creative solutions to business challenges sees a large time gap between the identification of their new ideas and the actual implementation of those ideas. This gap leads to turnover among the team and a lack of institutional knowledge about the innovation time since the workshop grows and grows.
While I am not advocating blindly throwing changes into critical business processes as a result of innovation discussions, I do think Ashdown's principle can help innovators think about the value of making immediate changes to complex processes to drive transformation. My favorite example of this adding a Customs stoplight to a process. Years ago on a trip to a Central American country, I was fascinated by a Customs stoplight that greeting arriving passengers. After clearing passport control, each group of passengers (or individual passenger traveling alone) would press a button and get a green or red light (presumably assigned on a random basis) to determine if the passenger group or individual warranted additional luggage screening or was free to proceed to ground transportation. In the case of a business process with a number of control points that an innovation team identifies as unnecessary, a quick change could entail adding a stoplight to the process to start reducing the number of users of the process who have to go through that control point. Thus immediate results can be observed (and presumably benefits can be derived by those who get to skip the control point) while still assuaging the fears of those who would prefer to maintain the control point. Over time, as the process continues to function and is successful, the frequency of green lights can be increased until the point where it is removed completely as a step.
Principle 5 – "[E]nsure that the international community organizes itself in theatre in a manner that can work and take decisions."
This Ashdown principle focuses on the importance of having onsite, organized involvement by the international community in the post-war theatre. In the case of Bosnia, the international community would include the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, as well as numerous Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) such as the Red Cross. Ashdown notes that not only does the international community need to be onsite, but it also needs to be well-organized and ready to work and make decisions. A peacekeeper cannot afford to have extended delays for making decisions while waiting on word to come back from a chain of command that stretches across oceans and continents. Another gem of wisdom in this principle lies in the realization that a group that is by definition not formally organized (the international community, consisting of dozens of sovereign countries with varying interests in the region as well as dozens of NGOs) must organize themselves and operate as conjoined entities to be able to perform key tasks and make critical decisions.
In the case of the innovator, the equivalent of the unorganized international community is the network of change agents across an enterprise that must be relied on to make sure an innovative idea is implemented successfully. Typically we try to find a single sponsor of an innovation who we hope can push that change forward and overcome the obstacles that inevitably arise for visionaries. Our ultimate success, however, lies in our ability to leverage a larger team with change agents spread throughout the enterprise who can help see our initiative through to success. Because this larger team will consist of individuals who are not organizationally connected to each other, it will function similar to the way that the international community functions in peacekeeping, with each member having a different stake in the ultimate outcome.
Principle 6 – "[E]stablish an exceptionally close relationship between the military and civilian aspects of peace implementation."
This principle is best exemplified by the organizational structure of the United States, where military aspects of peace implementation are handled by the Department of Defense whereas civilian aspects are managed by the Department of State. The gulf between these two massive bureaucracies is much wider than the short distance between the Pentagon and Foggy Bottom in Washington, D.C. In this case, Ashdown is citing the importance of ensuring that the mechanism that focuses on the use of force (in peacekeeping, this would be the military) remains closely aligned with the groups that define the civil society and governance for a country (civil servants). The critical moment for this collaboration occurs with the handoff from military to civilian control, though this handoff is typically a long process more so than a single event. Nonetheless, the smoothness of this transition from military control to civilian-led rebuilding, is of great importance in the success of a peacekeeping and nation-building effort. This transition is the most relevant to the innovator, as the transition from military to civilian leadership is similar to the transition that occurs when a new idea moves from the innovation workshop to actual implementation.
The innovator must be in close coordination and communication with the individuals who will implement the new idea or develop the new product, and ideally the innovation team would include some of those individuals from the outset so they are intimately familiar with the innovation and have followed it throughout the ideation process. For some innovators, the tendency may be to believe that their time is better spent on the front end of the ideation process working on new ideas rather than following previous ideas through to delivery. The seamlessness of this handoff, and the continued involvement of the innovator in the entire process from start to finish, can help improve the success rate of an innovation.
Principle 7 – "[A]void setting deadlines, and settle in for the long haul. […]Installing the software of a free and open society is a slow business. It cannot be done [...] in a year or so. […] Peacekeeping needs to be measured not in months but decades. What we need here […] is the sheer stamina as an international community to see the job through to lasting success. That means staying on, and sticking at it, long after the CNN effect has passed."
The CNN effect is the concept that modern societies tend to focus intensively on a problem when they see televised images of suffering. This external focus on a part of the world suffering from a catastrophe is interesting in that it can dissipate almost as quickly as it arises given the short attention span of the modern television audience. For this principle, Ashdown notes that the work of the peacekeeper is slow and steady and although there will sometimes be quick wins, for the most part the process of transforming a country and installing, as Ashdown puts it, "the software of a free and open society" is not something that happens overnight. For the innovator, the same challenge exists depending on the significance of the transformation the innovator is attempting to implement.
Innovators can sometimes find quick wins and small successes in building up to a more substantial transformation, but their larger work of truly changing the nature of an organization or enterprise is a much slow process. The CNN effect in innovation is the immense attention paid to ideation during a workshop and the quick drop-off in focus that occurs when the participants walk out the door and resume their normal daily routines. While few business leaders would be willing to measure innovation success in decades, Ashdown's principle suggests that we should spend less time trying to measure innovation in months or quarters. Like the peacekeeper, the innovator needs Ashdown's "sheer stamina" to "see the job through to lasting success."
Principle 8 – "[G]ive peace-building […] a political destination. For Iraq, that may be a democratic and prosperous state in a peaceful and secure Middle East. For Bosnia, it is Europe."
Ashdown's final principle is the most concise yet also the most powerful. Peacekeepers and nation-builders should have a destination in mind for their efforts that can be described in a succinct manner to ease the communication of the idea to an entire country of individuals. The Iraq example in his principle is less instructive given what we know about the Middle East in 2013 (Ashdown's speech was given in 2003), but the Bosnia example speaks to the principle by establishing the very simply-stated target destination of "Europe," with all of the attributes that such a destination would entail (free society, rule of law, international cooperation, common currency, etc.). One word can contain many positive messages to many different people. Although it is much more difficult for the innovator to encapsulate an innovation program into a single word, the concept itself should be instructive as a general goal.
The very nature of innovation suggests that we may not always know the destination before we start, otherwise the destination would be something we already know about and thus not necessarily innovative. Nonetheless, we should consider painting a picture of our vision as to where an innovation effort should end up so that the participants in our workshop sessions or on our innovation teams share a common purpose and set of shared goals and objectives. Ashdown's principle points to the power of simplicity in defining that destination.
Niall Ferguson, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (New York: Penguin Books, 2004), pp. 225-226.
Paddy Ashdown, "Broken Communities, Shattered Lives: Winning the Savage War of Peace," Speech by the Rt. Hon. Lord Ashdown, High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to the International Rescue Committee, London (June 19, 2003).
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Bothwell is a small town in the South Lanarkshire council area of Scotland. It lies on the north bank of the River Clyde, adjacent to Uddingston and nine miles east-south-east of Glasgow city centre. Bothwell has a reputation as one of the Glasgow area's most prosperous villages.
The origins of the name Bothwell are unclear. There have been various theories as to the origin of the 'Bothwell' name and many of them are quite imaginative but a plausible theory is that it comes from the Gaelic for either "dwelling by the river" or "castle on the outcrop".
The Bothwell Estate was passed by marriage from David Olifard to Walter de Moravia or Moray in the early 13th century who then built Bothwell Castle. His tomb still lies in Bothwell Parish Church grounds. The castle changed hands between the Scots and the English many times in the 14th century. The third Earl of Douglas, Archibald "The Grim" restored the castle in 1362 but it was passed to the Crown in 1455 and then to the Red Douglas family in 1492.
In 1669 the first Earl of Forfar, Archibald Douglas built a Palladian-style mansion in the castle grounds using stone from the castle. It was demolished in 1930. Overlooking the Raith roundabout (Junction 5 on the M74) is Bothwell Castle Mansion, built in 1750 as a dower house. It may have been designed by one of the Adam brothers as it shows their style, but this is unproven.Read More
Bothwell Castle is one of the outstanding monuments of medieval Scotland. Highlights include its location – it is set looking down upon the River Clyde. The 13th-century donjon (prison tower) is unmatched in Scotland. A visit brings to your attention the grimness of medieval prison life and the 14th century great hall and chapel are impressive survivals from the period of the Black Douglases.
Bothwell Castle owes its origins to Walter of Moray, a northern aristocratic family who acquired Bothwell in 1242. He (or his son William, known as 'the Rich') created the mighty castle in a spectacular display of feudal pride. The Morays envisaged a vast stone castle of enclosure covering 1.5 acres (0.75 hectares).
This was to have had a mighty twin-towered entrance gatehouse and other circular towers projecting from its formidable curtain wall. Only the donjon, the main residential tower, was ever fully built. It measured 20m in diameter and stood over 30m high. Although the castle was partially destroyed in 1337, it is still remarkably impressive – one of the greatest military works of medieval Scotland.Read More
Near the west end of the village is the distinctive Parish Church, built in the Gothic style in 1833 at a cost of £4179. It looks like a lot of building for the money.
At the east end of this building, and attached to it, is the far more ancient Church of Bothwell. This stone-roofed building, which is said to have been founded in 1398, by Archibald, Earl of Douglas, is 70 feet in length and 39 in breadth.
The roof, which is arched and of considerable height, is covered with sandstone flags, hewn into a curved form resembling tiles. There is a large window in the east end and a range on either side. Inside are carvings of the armorial bearings of the noble families of Hamilton and Douglas, and a stone which was taken from the base of the old spire, with the words "Magister Thomas Dron" or Tron, inscribed on it in Saxon letters. This is supposed to have been the name of the individual who built the church.Read More
Joanna Baillie was a Scottish poet and dramatist and was well known during her lifetime. Her father was minister of the parish and she was born in the Manse in 1762. Her mother was a sister of the great physicians and anatomists William and John Hunter. William Hunter of Windmill Street, London, died in 1783, leaving Matthew Baillie his house and private museum collection (which is now the University of Glasgow's Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery.
The Ballies were an old Scottish family and claimed Sir William Wallace amongst their ancestors. As a young child, Joanna lived with her family in Bothwell until her father was appointed to the collegiate church and the family moved to Hamilton. She was a close friend of Sir Walter Scott and when she lived in London she was very much a part of the literary set and counted the Wordsworths amongst her friends.
She died in 1851 at the age of 89. A momument to her can be found in the grounds of the collegiate church. A link to a Wikipedia page about Joanna can be found here.Read More
In the mid 1800s Margaret and William Gilchrist farmed 90 acres of the Bothwell Park estate. Their daughter Marion was born in 1864 and grew up in Bothwell.
In 1887 Gilchrist matriculated at Queen Margaret College, University of Glasgow, as an arts student and having begun the examinations while at Queen Margaret College, she attained LLA, awarded by the University of Saint Andrews in 1890.
She became the first woman to graduate from the University of Glasgow and the first to graduate in medicine in Scotland. She subsequently practised as an opthamologist in the Victoria infirmary on the South Side of Glasgow.
Marion died in 1952. Marion's father put land into a Trust in 1879 and in 1940 the Trust gifted the area we call the Gilchrist Garden to the council as a memorial to Marion and her achievements in medicine and as a leader of the woman's suffrage movement. Her gravestone can be found in the grounds of the Parish Church. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Gilchrist_%28doctor%29Read More
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Lewis was born in Wilmington, North Carolina on July 6, 1918. In that same year, he moved with his family to St. Augustine, where he lived at Kirkside, the Henry Flagler home, inherited by his mother, Flagler's niece, until her death in 1937. He attended Woodberry Forest School and the University of Virginia. He withdrew from the School of Architecture at the University in 1941 to enlist in the Armed Forces during WWII. Commissioned at Ft. Hood, Texas, he was later wounded in Italy while on duty with the 805th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Lewis received three battle stars and two purple hearts during his service with the Fifth Army.
Following the war he pursued various business interests. In 1955, he built a resort called Peace and Plenty in George Town, Exuma, the Bahamas. In 1964 he developed the Blockade Runner Hotel in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. During the 1960's he rose from executive vice president to chairman of the Flagler Systems, Inc., a company formed by the merger of the Florida East Coast Hotel Company and the Model Land Company. The major properties operated the Flagler System were The Breakers in Palm Beach and the Hotel Ponce de Leon in St. Augustine. In 1975, following the reorganization of Flagler System, Lewis sold all of the hotel properties, except those in northern Florida.
"Not since railroad magnate Henry Flagler descended on little St. Augustine, Florida, has one man so affected the nation's oldest city," said the writer of an article in the National Trust for Historic Preservation magazine when the trust chose Lewis as a recipient of an Honor Award for his work in restoration and preservation.
Perhaps Lewis' greatest achievement is reflected in Flagler College, the independent liberal arts college established by Lewis in 1968. The college is housed in the original Hotel Ponce de Leon. Lewis devoted much of his time and resources to the continued development of Flagler College, serving as chairman of the Board of Trustees for 20 years, until he became Chairman Emeritus.
Renovation and preservation of the hotel as Flagler College totaled more than $14 million. This significant undertaking was planned and executed under the leadership of Lewis and was funded, for the most part, by him and members of his family, the Flagler Foundation and the Kenan Charitable Trust. Lewis' contributions to the college have also taken the form of scholarships and endowments and of new buildings funded fully or in part by him, including a gymnasium, auditorium and a residence hall named Lewis House in recognition of his many contributions to the college.
Lewis' deep connection with St. Augustine led him to become involved with the restoration and development of Historic St. Augustine. The Flagler Foundation, established by Lewis' grandmother, became a principal contributor to the St. Augustine Foundation, allowing major restorations in the City from 1965 to the present. Lewis was president of both the Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board and the St. Augustine Foundation, which also funded a number of significant research projects and archaeological studies in Florida and Spain.
Governor Bob Graham and the Florida Cabinet, in a resolution adopted December 15, 1985, commended him "for his remarkably generous support given to historic preservation and higher education in our State over the course of many years, for the fineness and fitness of the projects in which he has given life and permanence, and for the distinguished example of public service that he provides a grateful citizenry."
At a cost approaching $3 million, he created a film about the City's founding, "Dream of Empire." He also funded the microfilming of the one-million page private archives of the family of Pedro Menendez in Spain by the Center for Historic Research at Flagler College in cooperation with the University of Florida.
When the City of St. Augustine conferred its highest honor, the Order of La Florida, upon Lewis in 1984, University of Florida history professor Dr. Michael V. Gannon likened Lewis' impact on the City to that of Pedro Menendez, who founded the City in 1565, and to Henry M. Flagler, who influenced its development at the turn of the century. The St. Augustine Record, in an editorial on that occasion said, "We know of no other single person who has had such a profound impact on contemporary St. Augustine as has Lawrence Lewis."
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I'm playing with one of theorem in my notes:
If a convergent sequence $\displaystyle\lim_{n\to\infty} = L$ that is bounded by $M$, then $|L| \leq M$
I wonder is there a connection between $L$ and $M$ if the sequence is non-decreasing? In other words, is it always true that $L = M$ for non-decreasing sequence that is bounded? I can't find a counterexampe, as well as a convincing arugment to connect $L$ and $M$. A hint would be greatly appreciated.


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Hubert was a graduate of Anderson High School and GM Institute. He retired from Guide Lamp Division of General Motors following 40 years of service. He served in the Army as a Master Sgt. during WW II in the Pacific Theatre.
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"Gabby" is tonight's episode of "Criminal Minds." This article contains spoilers, so beware! To review the last case file, click here. "Criminal Minds" airs Wednesday nights at 8 on CBS (KHOU).
This was a good episode. Most of the episode is spent with the BAU working the case, and so a lot more members are showcased doing their specialty. Reid even busts out a map! This episode could have easily been a thrilling two part-er. The writers could have expanded some of the interrogation scenes with Sue and Kate. Plus, then once it is discovered that Sue gave Gabby away, the writers could take their time working through it. Everything happens so quickly once Garcia starts searching for Sue's online activity. If this was two episodes, the writers could have amped up the suspense. What did you think of the episode?
For some reason, there are still unsub shots during this episode. The first couple don't even make sense. It's dark and hard to understand what is happening, which could have been intriguing if anything interesting was being shown. It wasn't. The promo and one of the unsub shots shows Gabby being alive, so there really isn't a sense of suspense where you are wondering if she is even still alive. It would have been so much better to focus more on the investigation. While the unsub scenes are shorter than they normally are in an episode, they do not reveal anything remotely interesting. Did you enjoy the unsub scenes?
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If $x$ is the tens place digit and $y$ is the ones place digit of the product $725278\times 67066$, what is $x+y$? I have no idea how to even approach this.
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Remember how you learned to multiply by hand?
This may help you see why, as others have pointed out, it's enough to look at the last two digits of the two numbers.
It is enough to use the last $2$ digits:
Write $A=100a+b$ and $C=100c+d$, then $AC=10000ac+100(ad+bc)+bd$, all the rest is dividable by $100$, so would not affect the last $2$ digits.
In other words, using the notation $a\equiv b \pmod{100}$ for giving the same residue mod $100$, i.e. $100|a-b$, we have that $a\equiv b$ and $c\equiv d$ implies $ac\equiv bd$. In the giving example we have $$ 725278\equiv 78 \text{ and }67066\equiv 66 \pmod{100}.$$
So the product is $xy = 48641494348$, so $x = 4$ and $y = 8$.
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The last two digits of $725278\times 67066$ are the last two digits of $78\times 66=5148$. Hence $x+y=4+8=12$.
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HATTIESBURG, Miss. –Sophomore middle hitter Kierra Lee-Dunson hit a team-leading .600, but the East Carolina volleyball team was unable to overcome a hot-hitting Southern Miss team Friday night as the Pirates dropped a 3-0 [13-25, 13-25, 14-25] contest to the Golden Eagles. ECU falls to 11-16 on the year and 2-8 in Conference USA action, while Southern Miss improves to 13-12 overall and 4-6 in league play.
Lee-Dunson led the Pirates' offensive attack as she knocked down six kills on 10 attempts without committing an error for a .600 attack percentage. Senior middle hitter Virginia Fitch also added six kills while hitting .308 for ECU and senior opposite Nicole Willis led the squad with seven kills to go along with five digs. Junior setter Zarah Cecich contributed 18 assists, while senior libero Shelby Beasley led the defense with 10 digs.
"Unfortunately the team did not play well tonight," Head coach Julie Torbett said. "Nicole (Willis) has been our offensive leader all year and despite collecting seven kills, she hit .000. We struggled to get anything going with the exception of our middles, Virginia (Fitch) and Kierra (Lee-Dunson). Virginia and Kierra hit well, but our blocking was not there and that affected our overall defense."
The Pirates hit .128 in the three-set loss, while the Golden Eagles posted a .478 attack percentage. The hosts held the edge in kills (50-28), assists (46-28), digs (35-26) and blocks (7.0-2.0).
Southern Miss started off the match with a 3-0 lead in the first set and never looked back as the Golden Eagles never allowed the Pirates to come closer than two points throughout the frame. The Pirates struggled offensively as they fell behind 16-9 after the Golden Eagles rattled off three-consecutive points to force an ECU timeout. Following the break, Southern Miss closed the set on a 9-4 run to take a 25-13 win.
East Carolina kept things close in the early part of the second set as the Pirates managed to tie the game 3-3 as they took advantage of a Golden Eagle attack error. However, Southern Miss followed the miscue with a 5-0 run to take an 8-3 lead. The Golden Eagles extended their lead to double-digits (17-7) on a service ace from Jasmine Crowell in the middle of an 8-0 run which put the hosts up 20-7. Southern Miss went on to win set two, 25-13.
The Golden Eagles jumped out in front 4-0 in the third set and as in the first set, never relinquished their lead. The Pirates managed to pull within one (7-6) on back-to-back kills from Willis, but Southern Miss quickly turned the tables on ECU as they went on another 4-0 run. The Golden Eagles continued to control the match as they went on to defeat the Pirates, 25-14, and complete the 3-0 sweep.
Southern Miss had three players in double-figure kills in Quinci Hayward (13), Crowell (12), and Elise Ames (10). Ames hit a match-high .833 as she knocked down 10 kills on 12 attempts without committing an error. Kristen Fleming paced the offense with 38 assists, while Stephany Purdue and Mary Pursell led the defense with seven digs apiece.
The Pirates return to Minges Coliseum for a Sunday afternoon contest against Middle Tennessee on November 3, at 12 noon. Live stats and video will be available on ECUPirates.com.


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