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My "Can't Think of Anything Witty for the Title" 2012 thread
I've now listened to over 100 albums in 2012, so I've decided to just wrap up listening to the rest that I already have on my computer and cut my losses. There's still a bunch of releases that I haven't got to yet that I should, but ya can't listen to everything...unless you're MPF.
So I'm just gonna start this thing. I'll probably do EPs, top 50 albums, top songs and a few live shows worth mentioning. That's my goal at least.
Well, fuck, here it goes...
1/22 Artificial Brain ?
1/27 Koffin Kats ?
2/10 Marduk
2/14 Death Angel ?
2/17 Overkill
2/18 Deterioration
2/23 Immolation ?
I've only listened to ten EPs this year, so I'm just gonna review all them since they were all pretty okay to varying degrees.
10.) The End of the Ocean - In Excelsis
This EP from this post-rock band from Columbus just comes off as bland after hearing these songs live. I saw them twice this year (once with Alcest and once with If These Trees Could Talk) and absolutely loved them both times, so I bought their EP. My main gripe with it is its lack of the audio samples that they play live that conveyed the certain feelings in the songs. It's by no means a bad EP, but it just gets a little boring and the songs lack the same feeling that they have live.
The End of the Ocean - Star Crossed
9.) Disfiguring the Goddess - Sleeper
Big Chocolate is probably one of my favorite people, so I'm pretty much doomed to like anything he puts out and while this is no different, I also feel there are some major flaws to this that keeps it from being a really great EP. Mainly, there are way more keyboards featured than a slam death release should have and most of them feel out of place. DTG has always had electronics present in the background, but this release shows them moving up to the foreground quite often. There's also something off with the guitar tone in the song Daughter of Depths that just bugs the shit out of me. But make no mistake if this type of music is your thing, then there's plenty of good here for you. Big Chocolate's vocals are as guttural as ever and the slams are heavy as fuck and that's pretty much all you can ask for from something like this.
Disfiguring the Goddess - Sleeper
8.) Revocation - Teratogenesis
I wasn't really the biggest fan of their last album, Chaos of Forms, and this EP seems to pretty much follow along the same path as that one. It's full of the overly technical goodness that makes Revocation themselves, but at times gets too melodic for my tastes. When it's good, it's really fuckin' good. When it's not it borders on boring, while never quite reaching it, it does stray dangerously close. There are certain moments I like in all the songs like the riff in The Grip Tightens or the solo in Maniacally Unleashed or the vocal performance in Teratogenesis, but none of the songs are singularly great.
Revocation - Maniacally Unleashed
7.) Cypress Hill & Rusko - Cypress x Rusko
First of all, I do like dubstep. Both my roommates are into it a lot and it's pretty much the only music we can all agree on, so it's playing frequently at my house. Anyway, I think this release is special because it combines the intensity of dubstep with the flows of Cypress Hill's music. It's a great combination that really works with this release. Of all the DJs out there, Rusko was a great choice for Cypress Hill's style because he was around before dubstep's burst into the media and has more of a chill style to his beats than a lot of artists than lean more towards brostep.
Cypress Hill & Rusko - Lez Go
6.) Massacre - Condemned to the Shadows
While this EP doens't even top ten minutes, it's stil eight minutes of pounding old-school death metal. Condemned to the Shadows more closely resembles the quality of death metal classic, From Beyond than their critically panned second release, Promise. I haven't looked at the lyrics, but from what I've caught the lyrics for Back From Beyond are pretty much all self-referencing to the band's history which I think is pretty cool. This would be higher up in this list if it were more than two songs long. To quote some dude at Central Illinois Metalfest where I saw Massacre, "Massacre! Bad as fuck! Rick Rozz, you bad as fuck!" Bad, meaning good in this case.
Massacre - Back From Beyond
Feedback, taunts, shit-talking would all be appreciated. I'll get to the last five as I have time.
1/22 Artificial Brain ?
1/27 Koffin Kats ?
2/10 Marduk
2/14 Death Angel ?
2/17 Overkill
2/18 Deterioration
2/23 Immolation ?
Last edited by kalfitegrdan; 11-23-2012 at 08:41 AM.
I wouldn't consider DTG a EP right?
1/22 Artificial Brain ?
1/27 Koffin Kats ?
2/10 Marduk
2/14 Death Angel ?
2/17 Overkill
2/18 Deterioration
2/23 Immolation ?
5.) Down - Down IV: Part I - The Purple EP
While I'm admittedly not much of a Down fan, this EP is pretty damn good. The EP is really groovy and mid-paced for the most part and some of the songs (Witchtripper especially) are really catchy. It seems to be a real throwback to the early days of doom metal with clear influences from Saint Vitus and the almighty Black Sabbath while never compromising Down's trademarked sludgey sound. Open Coffins is the only song that I have a particular problem with, as I feel the vocals sound off in it and it just seems to drag on and become boring.
Down - Witchtripper
4.) Deathspell Omega - Drought
Deathspell starts this album out with an almost haunting atmosphere with the instrumental Salowe Vision, then go straight into the raw fury that is Fiery Serpents. The onslaught continues with the avant-garde influenced rager Scorpions & Drought. Soon after, Abrasive Swirling Murk comes up and is definitely the highlight of the album to me. It sounds just like its name, as it is a very fast, abrasive song at times, but there is definitely that gloomy, murky atmosphere ever present throughout its duration. The EP is bookended by another instrumental, The Crackled Book of Life, which brings back and expands on the haunting atmosphere displayed in Salowe Vision.
Deathspell Omega - Abrasive Swirling Murk
3.) Corrosion of Conformity - Megalodon
My roommate does not like metal pretty much at all, but one day after I let him take my car to work, he walked in the house singing The Megalodon from this EP and asking who that was in my car. That's how fucking catchy this EP is. I think this is a huge improvement from the album they released earlier this year as the songs are actually memorable and just better overall. This is a must have EP for any rabid fans of stoner metal and thanks to Scion, it's free!
Corrosion of Conformity - The Megalodon
Corrosion of Conformity - The Vulture
2.) Agalloch - Faustian Echoes
This might be my favorite Agalloch song, which, since it's one song, might make it my favorite Agalloch release. I absolutely love the audio samples that feature throughout the song and I personally am more of a fan of harsh vocals over clean vocals, so this EP suits me well since it's all harsh vocals. The instrumentation is marvelous from the clean guitar interludes to the faster black metal segments. The riff that comes in at about six minutes and continues for a few minutes with all the other instruments joining around it is the best part of the song in my opinion.
Agalloch - Faustian Echoes
1.) Smash Potater - The EP
This is a band from Aurora that features MetalSetlists' own, MetallicBrian. This is kinda biased since they're a local band and I kinda know people from the band and shit like that, but fuck it. I've probably listened to this EP around fifty times and it's been in constant rotation in my car, This is just some fun, fast thrash with hilarious lyrics. I believe they are self-described as high cholesterol thrash metal. I can't tell you how many times I've had the chorus to Smash Potater stuck in my head or some random lyric from the bonus rap track Yezzir!!!. So, you should all, like, go listen to this and shit.
Smash Potater - Pit-o-Phile
Smash Potater - Smash Potater
Smash Potater - Yezzir!!!
1/22 Artificial Brain ?
1/27 Koffin Kats ?
2/10 Marduk
2/14 Death Angel ?
2/17 Overkill
2/18 Deterioration
2/23 Immolation ?
Number one made me smile. Dawww
Yeah I actually like the Smash Potater EP quite a bit. I should check out that CoC EP.
1/14 High on Fire
1/24 Ash Borer
2/4 BlackStorm Fest ft. Uada, Horrid, +more
2/8 Necrot
Now on to the full lengths...
50. Evil Ways - Self-Titled
This is a hardcore band that JD posted about awhile back who has their album for free on Bandcamp. This band definitely listened to a lot of Slayer growing up as it shows heavily in their music. The song Evil Ways is a total Slayer tribute even complete with a scream in the begin that is reminiscent of the beginning of Angel of Death, not to mention a nod to Hell Awaits in the chorus. One thing that gets on my nerves about this release though is the clean vocals that pop up in a few songs. They can get a bit whiny which is one thing that I cannot stand with cleans.
Evil Ways - Evil Ways
Evil Ways - Forget the Rest
49. Beneath the Massacre - Incongruous
I've always really liked Beneath the Massacre's -core influenced approach to technical death metal and this album is no different. It brings the widdlys, so to speak. This album seems to be almost all about speed, whereas their last album, Dystopia, took it slow sometimes with a slow breakdown here and there. There are some pretty great solos scattered here and there throughout the album, such as the one in the song It. As with any album of its ilk, it can get pretty samey after awhile, but it's a great album if you want to get your adrenaline flowing.
Beneath the Massacre - Left Hand
Beneath the Massacre - Hopes
48. Abigail Williams - Becoming
As usual, Abigail Williams is back with a new album and completely changing their approach to black metal. This one shows them taking a more atmospheric approach a la Wolves in the Throne Room. Most of the songs contain a very dark and brooding atmosphere, but sometimes will venture in the more serene as in the mid-section of Radiance. Ken has furthered his vocal style to belt out some pretty tortured rasps which are great at furthering the mood. A downside of the record though is that the long length of some of the songs leads them to drag on at times and feel overlong.
Abigail Williams - Ascension Sickness
Abigail Williams - Radiance
47. If These Trees Could Talk - Red Forest
Weirdly enough I didn't know these guys released a new album until I heard it played between bands at a Marduk show. Odd choice by the venue to say the least. Anyway, I've been exploring more into post-rock this past year and this is one of the bands that I find myself really enjoying. I like it when a band can mix heavier bits in with their soaring compositions and If These Trees Could Talk delivers in that respect. The music stays in the more serene, peaceful realm for the most part, but wanders into the heavier, faster bits often enough to satiate my metalhead sensibilities.
If These Trees Could Talk - Barren Lands of the Modern Dinosaur
If These Trees Could Talk - Red Forest
46. Gaza - No Absolutes in Human Suffering
I heard of these guys a couple years ago when I saw them with Whitechapel and Cattle Decapitation, but never actually checked them out until I saw them this year with Black Cobra. That was definitely a mistake because these guys are great. I guess at the core they could be compared to the likes of Converge, but add a sludgy aesthetic to the music. This release shows a more controlled chaos then their previous effort and overall better in my eyes. Despite this, the best part of Gaza's music will always be when they open the flood gates and let the chaos flow out such as the into to The Truth Weighs Nothing which begins with a blitzkrieg of noise, but is soon reined in to a more controlled pace.
Gaza - Mostly Hair and Bones Now
Gaza - Winter in Her Blood
1/22 Artificial Brain ?
1/27 Koffin Kats ?
2/10 Marduk
2/14 Death Angel ?
2/17 Overkill
2/18 Deterioration
2/23 Immolation ?
Will have to check out Evil Ways. I like your short, but still throrough review pattern.
I hope you're well. Go to hell.
45. Accept - Stalingrad
Mark Tornillo is really proving that he is the right fit for Accept as Stalingrad is the second great album that he's released with them. This album probably has one of the best opening one-two punches of the year with Hung, Drawn and Quartered and Stalingrad. The former is a real rager wheras the latter is a slower paced song comparatively, but doesn't lack in intensity. The quality of the album kind of tapers off as the album goes on and the second half just can't keep up with the quality of the first half.
Accept - Hung, Drawn and Quartered
Accept - Stalingrad
44. Sabaton - Carolus Rex
Ah, Sabaton, some good ol' cheesy power metal with some symphonic elements. That essentially is what Sabaton is, except that they take some really interesting historical concepts to craft an album that goes beyond your average power metal themes of battle and glory. The subject of Carolus Rex is basically the history of the Swedish Empire. I really enjoy the choral vocals on this album. Especially in the track The Lion From the North. The keyboard/guitar solo switch off is also pretty cool.
Sabaton - The Lion From the North
Sabaton - Carolus Rex
43. Weapon - Embers and Revelations
After an impressive album in From the Devil's Tomb, Weapon releases a new album that looks to expand on their ferocious blackened death sound. Embers and Revelations sees them expanding more on the atmospheric elements that were present on the last album, but were mainly kept in the background. The frequent use of pinch harmonics kinda reminds me of Pantera or Rotting Christ covering Pantera in some songs. The vocals also have a really nice modern black metal feel as in the intensity of them.
Weapon - The First Witnesses of Lucifer
Weapon - Liber Lilith
42. Horrendous - The Chills
This is some great new old school death metal that someone on the board mentioned earlier in the year and I finally got around to checking out until last month. This is a really great death metal release that calls back to Swedish death metal (think Entombed) mixed with mid-era Death. The vocalist reminds me of John Tardy (Obituary) mixed with Lars from Entombed. Most of the solos on this album are notable as they are all pretty unique and interesting for the most part.
Horrendous - The Womb
Horrendous - Fleshrot
41. The Men - Open Your Heart
I first heard about this album from something Dethmaiden said in the 2012 thread and decided to check it out. This album, at the core, is indie rock, but with a cluster fuck of other influences that pop up on a song to song basis. Everything from Country to Hardcore is represented at some point. I'm not usually big on Indie, but the experimental nature of this album has kept me captivated through every play through. Usually an album tries to be seen as one cohesive piece of music, but Open Your Heart seems to go the opposite direction and tries to be as varied as possible.
The Men - Animal
The Men - Open Your Heart
1/22 Artificial Brain ?
1/27 Koffin Kats ?
2/10 Marduk
2/14 Death Angel ?
2/17 Overkill
2/18 Deterioration
2/23 Immolation ?
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Madre Hill, Superstar wrote:HoodooMan wrote:Paul: "And John Collins will be your team pres."
Randy: "Alrighty."
Rog: "And Banner will be your team pres."
Jimmuh: "Alrighty."
So Collins being some marketing / MBA flunkie and Banner being Lurie's right-hand / hatchet man has no bearing on this discussion?
No, because the owner just took the guy the NFL told him to take, sight unseen.
No mad props to Jimmy that he was luckier than Randy. Like congratulating someone sitting at a slot machine that just won $20 on a "well-pulled handle".

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Rogue Valley Council of Governments; Rogue Valley Metropolitan Planning Organization (Rogue Valley Council of Governments, June 22, 2004)[more][less]
Abstract: The purpose of RVCOG's Freight Study, Phase III is fourfold: to address the freight-related needs of the new communities added to the MPO Ashland, Talent, Eagle Point, White City and Jacksonville -- by identifying roadway problems affecting freight activity and developing highway projects to better serve these freight needs; to coordinate with and integrate into RVCOG plans the activities of ODOTs fast-tracked Freight Mobility Program; thereby to refine, extend and prioritize the RVCOG s freight project list; and to provide a more in-depth context for Rogue Valley freight activities, through a review of the recently developed ODOT commodity flow analysis. [From the document] Description: 34 pp. Bookmarks supplied by UO. Charts, tables, appendices. Published June 22, 2004. Captured January 28, 2009. URI: http://www.rvmpo.org/files/report%20june%2022.pdf
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Metro (Or.); Yee, Dennis (Metro (Or.), April 6, 1999)[more][less]
Abstract: [T]he Employment Density Study: update[s] and determine[s] current job density parameters; provide[s] current observed findings of FARs and building densities which could be used to populate ZELDA; offer[s] a basis or foundation from which policy officials can debate the implications of various policy choices and the expectations of future density pattern assumptions. [From the document] Description: 9 pp. Table, chart. Published April 6, 1999. Captured January 28, 2009. URI: http://www.oregonmetro.gov/files/maps/zelda_faq.pdf
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Metro (Or.); Conder, Sandy; Lawton, Keith (Metro (Or.), July , 2001)[more][less]
Abstract: Our primary objective in this paper is to illustrate the differences in policy sensitive output between existing "Trend-Delphi" methods of land use and transportation modeling and integrated land use and transportation models. [From the document] Description: 20 pp. Map, tables. Published July, 2001. Captured January 28, 2009. URI: http://www.oregonmetro.gov/files/maps/altfuturesfortransandlanduse.pdf
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Metro (Or.) (Metro (Or.), September , 2002)[more][less]
Abstract: The basis for future land need and demand is derived from a regional forecast of employment and household change. The regional forecast is, in part, the supporting evidence for Metro's UGB decision which is due to be finalized in December 2002. [From the document] Description: 122 pp. Charts, tables, appendices. Published March, 2002; revised September, 2002. Captured January 28, 2009. URI: http://www.oregonmetro.gov/files/maps/2000_2030regionalforecastsept2002.pdf
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Metro (Or.) (Metro (Or.), November 3, 2004)[more][less]
Abstract: The Highway 217 Corridor Study is being completed in two phases. The first phase developed and analyzed a wide range of multi-modal alternatives. Based on this evaluation, the alternatives will be refined to a smaller set that can be studied in more detail in the second phase. Options will be evaluated based on how well they address the study objectives in terms of travel performance, environmental and neighborhood effects, fi nancial feasibility, and cost effectiveness. [From the document] Description: 19 pp. Bookmarks supplied by UO. Charts, tables, figures. Published November 3, 2004. Captured January 28, 2009. URI: http://www.oregonmetro.gov/files/planning/217_report_11-03-04.pdf
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Metro (Or.) (Metro (Or.), June 15, 2007)[more][less]
Abstract: BRT Alternative: faster and more reliable bus service through the use of transit priority treatments; signal priority and queue jumps at critical signalized intersections to minimize delay; high-level station amenities such as enhanced shelters, lighting and benches; operation on Highway 43, generally in mixed-use traffic. Streetcar Alternative: improves travel time significantly between Lake Oswego and Portland by extending the existing Portland Streetcar from SW Lowell Street ... to downtown Lake Oswego; high-level station amenities such as enhanced shelters, lighting and benches; operates on the Willamette Shore Line right of way, SW Macadam Avenue or parts of both; mostly single-track design with short double-track sections to improve reliability and travel time. [From the document] Description: 51 pp. Bookmarks supplied by UO. Maps, figures. Published June 15, 2007. Captured January 28, 2009. URI: http://www.oregonmetro.gov/files/planning/visual_sim_for_web-reduced_size.pdf
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Metro (Or.); Nelson, Arthur C. (Metro (Or.), October 8, 2008)[more][less]
Abstract: Challenge Ahead: business-as-usual rooted in the past; different realities: demographic, housing preference, increasing demand for "urbanity" especially in suburbs; energy constraints; global shifts in financial markets; new "business plan" is needed; Metro once again leading the nation. [From the document] Description: 41 pp. Bookmarks supplied by UO. Maps, figures. Published October 8, 2008. Captured January 28, 2009. URI: http://www.oregonmetro.gov/files/planning/nelson.pdf
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Metro (Or.); Yee, Dennis (Metro (Or.), May , 1998)[more][less]
Abstract: This paper describes Metro's regional model and presents the empirical estimates and some results from our study. It is shown that the Metro model contains reasonable parameter estimates and produces forecast estimates within tolerable limits. [From the document] Description: 14 pp. Tables. Published May, 1998. Captured January 28, 2009. URI: http://www.oregonmetro.gov/files/maps/economicmodel_pnrec98.pdf
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Metro (Or.) (Metro (Or.), November 17, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: The 2040 Growth Concept reflects the things the people who live here value most: access to nature; protecting habitats for wildlife and people; safe and stable neighborhoods; transportation choices; resources for future generations; a vibrant cultural economy. [From the document] Description: Item contains 2 files: 1) "The Nature of 2040" brochure. 16 pp. Maps, charts, tables, illus. Not dated; most recent activity 2000. Bookmarks supplied by UO; 2) 2040 Concept Map. 1p. Not dated; most recent activity November, 17, 2005. Captured January 28, 2009. URI: http://www.oregonmetro.gov/files/planning/natureof2040.pdf
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Metro (Or.); North Clackamas Parks & Recreation District; Metro (Or.). Regional Parks and Greenspaces Dept.; Adolfson Associates; JD White (Firm) (Metro (Or.), January , 2004)[more][less]
Abstract: The proposed Trolley Trail will run along a historic corridor once used by a streetcar line that operated between Portland and Oregon City.... acquired a 6-mile stretch of the historic rail corridor between downtown Milwaukie and Gladstone. The trail connects with existing bike lanes in Milwaukie and Gladstone and will complete an essential link in Metro's Regional Trail System. When completed, the Trolley Trail and connecting trails will create a continuous 20- mile loop connecting Portland, Milwaukie, Gladstone, Oregon City and Gresham. [From the Plan] Description: 147 pp. Bookmarks supplied by UO. Maps, charts, tables, figures, illus., appendices. Published January, 2004. Captured January 28, 2009. URI: http://www.oregonmetro.gov/files/planning/trolleytrailplan.pdf
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Mid-Columbia Economic Development District : 2009-10 comprehensive economic development strategy (2009)Mid-Columbia Economic Development District (Mid-Columbia Economic Development District, June , 2009)[more][less]
Abstract: MCEDD looks to build more relationships with entrepreneurs in the region; to take advantage of the businesses already present in the region and work with them to improve their ability to prosper here. After severe economic downturns from the loss of timber industry and other natural resource-based jobs, MCEDD has concentrated on working with local governments and entrepreneurs to benefit our region's economy together. The result: lower unemployment rates region wide, more jobs, and an improved quality of life. [From the document] Description: 75 pp. Tables, charts, illus., appendices. Published June 2009. Captured July 2, 2009. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9453
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Northwest Oregon Regional Partnership; Columbia-Pacific Economic Development District of Oregon; Northwest Oregon Economic Alliance; Northwest Oregon Area Commission on Transportation; Northwest Oregon Workforce Investment (Clackamas County (Or.), July 8, 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: This document is intended to serve as the Comprehensive Economics Development Strategy (or CEDS) that is a required element of the federal Economic Development Administration regional economic development program. It also includes Oregon's 2005-2007 Regional Strategy, required for receipt of Oregon Lottery Regional and Rural Investment Funds. Since two sets of guidelines are involved, the Plan provides separate sections on each strategy. Description: 35 pp. Bookmarks supplied by UO. Tables. Appendices not included. Adopted July 8, 2005. Captured June 29, 2009. URI: http://clatsopcounty.us/Assets/Dept_12/PDF/2005%20CEDS%20Update%20Final.pdf
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Port of Astoria (Or.); Barnard Dunkelberg & Company; Reid Middleton, Inc. (Port of Astoria (Or.), 2008)[more][less]
Abstract: This Airport Master Plan Update is intended to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the Airport, and result in a well-conceived, long-term facilities and operational plan for accommodating the anticipated future aviation demand. The future requirements will be evaluated not only from the standpoint of aviation needs, but also in consideration of the relationship of airport facilities to the surrounding land uses and the community as a whole. This planning document will focus on a complete and comprehensive aviation facility, with the overall goal being facilities development that can accommodate future demand that is not significantly constrained by its environs. [From the Plan] Description: 107 pp. Bookmarks supplied by UO. Maps, tables. Not dated; published 2008, per Web site. Captured January 29, 2009. URI: http://www.portofastoria.com/portfacilities/airport/airportmasterplanupdate2008.html
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Port of Coos Bay (Or.); Benkendorf Associates; Landrum & Brown; Coffman Associates; W&H Pacific; Richard Turi Architecture & Planning (Port of Coos Bay (Or.), November , 2002)[more][less]
Abstract: The master plan consists of eight different chapters, as follows: executive summary; inventory; forecasts; facility requirements; airport alternatives; terminal siting/alternatives; financial plan; airport plans. (From the Plan) Description: 188 pp. Maps, tables, illus., appendices. Published November, 2002. Captured January 28, 2009. URI: http://www.cooscountyairportdistrict.com/masterplan/master_plan.pdf
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Port of Portland (Or.) (Port of Portland (Or.), January 9, 2008)[more][less]
Abstract: The Port Transportation Improvement Plan is a multimodal compilation of marine terminal, road, rail, waterway, transit, bicycle, and pedestrian projects, normally identified through transportation and other studies managed by or in coordination with the Port. The plan also identifies a transportation demand management prrogram to be implemented. The plan is designed to organize transportation and transportation-related improvement needs. [From the Plan] Description: 86 pp. Bookmarks supplied by UO. Maps, tables. Published January 9, 2008. Captured January 14, 2009. URI: http://www.portofportland.com/PDFPOP/Trade_Trans_Studies_PTIP_2008_Final.pdf
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Port of Portland (Or.); Coffman Associates; W&H Pacific; Jeanne Lawson Associates; Angelo Eaton & Associates; Greenfield, Mark J.; Natural Resource Planning Services, Inc. (Port of Portland (Or.), May , 2005)[more][less]
Abstract: The Hillsboro Airport Master Plan study was undertaken to evaluate the airport's capabilities and role, to forecast future aviation demand, and to plan for the timely development of new or expanded facilities that may be required to meet that demand. The ultimate goal of the Master Plan was to provide systematic guidelines for the airport's overall maintenance, development, and operation. [From the Plan] Description: 445 pp. Bookmarks supplied by UO. Maps, charts, tables, figures, illus., appendices. Published May, 2005. Captured January 29, 2009. URI: http://www.portofportland.com/HIO_MP_Planning_Docs.aspx
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Port of Portland : Master plan update, Portland International Airpont : Technical memorandum No. 2 -- Aviation demand forecasts (2008)Port of Portland (Or.); Portland (Or.). Bureau of Planning; Jacobs Consultancy; Alcantar & Associates; Cephas, Inc.; David Evans and Associates; DKS Associates; NEXTOR; Parametrix, Inc.; Synergy Consultants; Zimmer Gunsul Frasca (Port of Portland (Or.), September , 2008)[more][less]
Abstract: This technical memorandum summarizes the aviation demand forecasts prepared for the 2010 Portland International Airport Master Plan Update. This technical memorandum also provides historical data on the regional population and economy, aviation activity at PDX, and national aviation and economic trends—all of which were the basis for the aviation demand forecasts presented in this document. [From the document] Description: 240 pp. Maps, charts, tables, figures, appendices. Published September, 2008. Captured January 29, 2009. URI: http://www.portofportland.com/PDFPOP/PDX_MP_Smry_Rpt.pdf
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Port of Portland : Master plan update, Portland International Airport : Technical memorandum No. 1 -- Inventory of existing conditions (2008)Port of Portland (Or.); Jacobs Consultancy; HNTB Corporation; Alcantar & Associates; Cephas, Inc.; David Evans and Associates; DKS Associates; NEXTOR; Zimmer Gunsul Frasca; Parametrix, Inc.; Synergy Consultants; Portland (Or.). Bureau of Planning (Port of Portland (Or.), September , 2008)[more][less]
Abstract: This technical memorandum presents an inventory of existing conditions (Inventory) related to the role of Portland International Airport (the Airport, or PDX) within the region, its current operations and facilities, and surrounding land uses and activities. [From the document] Description: 181 pp. Maps, tables. Published September, 2008. Captured January 29, 2009. URI: http://www.portofportland.com/PDFPOP/PDX_MP_Smry_Rpt.pdf
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Port of Portland (Or.); W&H Pacific (Port of Portland (Or.), April , 2008)[more][less]
Abstract: The Port and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) initiated a Master Plan Update project in 2006. An Airport Master Plan is a 20-year guide that outlines how the physical development of an airport can satisfy aviation demand in a safe, efficient, fiscally responsible way, while remaining compatible with the environment, community development, other modes of transportation, and other airports. [From the Plan] Description: 218 pp. Maps, figures, charts, tables, appendices. Not dated; most recent activity April 2008. Captured January 29, 2009. URI: http://www.portofportland.com/Library/Prj_Mulino_MP/Prj_Mulino_MP_Exctv_Sumry.pdf
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Port of Portland (Or.) (Port of Portland (Or.), February , 2006)[more][less]
Abstract: The magnitude of regional transportation access investments and their financing are addressed in Metro's Regional Transportation Plan,Metro's Transportation Improvement Program (MTIP) and the State Transportation Improvement Plan (STIP). Access needs critical to Port facilities are reflected in the Port Transportation Improvement Plan (PTIP). [From the Plan] Description: 108 pp. Bookmarks supplied by UO. Maps, tables. Published February, 2006. Captured January 14, 2009. URI: http://www.portofportland.com/PDFPOP/Trade_Trans_Studies_PTIP_2006_Final.pdf
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Ichikawa, Kon
Kon Ichikawa 1915–
Japanese director, screenwriter, and cartoonist.
Ichikawa is one of Japan's best-known filmmakers. His films are highly regarded because of their beautiful color and architecture. The characters in his films often exhibit some sort of abnormal behavior; leading some critics to label his works "bizarre comedies." However, Ichikawa is very serious about his filmmaking, and uses comedy primarily as a means of social satire.
Ichikawa was a cartoonist before he began making films, and his first film, A Girl at Dojo Temple (1946), reflects his early career. The film, a puppet version of a Kabuki play, was banned because its script had not been submitted to authorities for approval. Undaunted, Ichikawa continued to make films, including Pu-san (Mr. Poo), a satirical look at Japanese life, based on a popular cartoon character. In 1956, Ichikawa made The Burmese Harp, a war film which attracted international attention. Ichikawa's subsequent films have been fairly well received. Although Kagi (Odd Obsession) has been dismissed by some critics for its unrealistic plot and crude humor, and Nobi (Fires on the Plain) has been termed "physically repulsive" because of its scenes of violence and cannibalism, these films have found supporters who realize the importance of such unusual aspects to Ichikawa's themes.
Ichikawa's most important films are Alone on the Pacific, An Actor's Revenge, and Tokyo Olympiad. These films show man struggling not only with nature or with others, but with himself, in order to attain a goal. The importance of these films lies in the mixture of humor and pathos involved in the character's journey toward fulfillment of his personal goal. Just as important is Ichikawa's filmic technique. He records events as they happen, without editorializing or being subjective, and allows the struggle for victory to develop naturally into a significant climax. These films solidified Ichikawa's growing international reputation.
The wide range of subject matter in Ichikawa's films shows that he is as adept at handling "serious" topics as he is at satire. Ichikawa works with his wife, Natto Wada, on the scripts for most of his films, and he admits that her influence is the major reason that he has adapted many literary works for the screen. Ichikawa shows both the light and the dark sides of human nature, but viewers often find his films depressing. He admits that he would like to be more optimistic in his art, but he films what he sees: "I look around for some kind of humanism, but I never seem to find it."
Alastair Stewart
What [The Burmese Harp] says is perhaps this: There are certain men who take it upon themselves to live unselfishly as far as they can, perhaps because it gives purpose to their actions. To do this takes internal and external courage. Contact with peaceful eternity follows the realization that all selfish endeavour achieves nothing….
The harp is symbolic from the start. But at the start the symbolism is crude and sentimental. This is not only justifiable, but also right. For here, things are represented as they appear to the Universal Private. He reminisces. To him the harp represents brief rests and that incentive to continue, a more enduring peace. It represents the pains a clever friend will go to, to provide a little home comfort a long way from home. (p. 27)
The Burmese Harp works on three levels. The situation is seen from three points of view: that of the Universal Private (all the men of that and any other platoon), that of a captain, and that of a developing saint. The three are unified by the overlapping of experiences and characterization. The captain is halfway between plain man and saint. He is a gentleman warrior by vocation. He understands Mizushima, but is not himself of saintly calibre. The presentation of three points of view creates an illusion of three-dimensional reality. Mizushima's ascent in the hierarchy of understanding, from a plain man with a difference to a saint, is...
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Donald Richie
The visuals [in Conflagration (Enjo, 1958) are] superb. For practically the first time CinemaScope was here used intelligently and creatively; and the textures captured in black and white were—even for Japan—beyond compare. Particularly impressive was the use of architecture. Ichikawa … would situate their action at the far left, for example, balancing it with architectural detail which, as one scene followed the other, perfectly re-created the temple atmosphere…. [Such] set-ups served primarily to emphasise the meaning of the scene. Though aesthetically prodigal, the film never exploited aestheticism for its own sake.
Just as beautiful and just as disturbing was The Key (Kagi, 1959), at present tentatively titled Obsession…. If Conflagration equated beauty and love and sex with destruction, The Key equated sex with illness, sex with medicine, sex with death. The film … examines the sex life of a middle-aged Kyoto couple and parallels this with the premarital activities of their daughter and her young doctor fiancé.
But the picture, like the novel, is only superficially interested in who goes to bed with whom and sacrifices and melodramatic possibilities by making each member of the quartet perfectly aware of what the others are doing. (pp. 78-9)
Sex is almost palpable in the film…. [The] screen is cluttered with hypodermic needles, catheters, sex rejuvenation machines, unmade beds, loosely flung...
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Colin Young
The comédie noire may be going out of fashion. When [Odd Obsession] was shown at Cannes in 1960 only the Japanese visitors thought it funny, and their laughter was written off as being eccentric, or at best ill-mannered. Only later did the grudging admission appear that perhaps it was a comedy after all, of a very stylish sort, and the jury gave it a prize. Unfortunately …, American audiences are proving as dense as the fashionable group at Cannes. They simply do not know that, or when, they are to laugh. This is puzzling, because it is not only an exceedingly well-made film, but also vastly entertaining, in a grisly sort of way. (p. 53)
[Odd Obsession] is concerned to show but not to "deal in" the prurience of the old man who is a bit of a voyeur—even with his own wife (he takes pictures of her asleep in the nude). It does not try to encourage voyeurism in its audience.
Drama sometimes deals with special cases. This is a special case. The sensualities of its characters are shown blandly, with humor rather than with any pornographic intention. Of course these sensualities are bizarre and exist in a hot-house atmosphere where there seems none of our usual concern with scruple.
This leads to some extremely well-written scenes…. Ichikawa never plays for obvious laughs, and is apparently content to draw us into his characters so that we can discover this absurdity….
[Odd Obsession is much less obvious than the novel on which it is based]. The film does not replace the literary device [of the diary] with a visual one; it uses its time to concentrate on the extremely bizarre situations which it develops. If it does this so subtly as to confuse, this is a pity, because it is finally as comedy that this film should be judged and enjoyed. (p. 54)
Colin Young, "Film Reviews in General Release: 'Odd Obsession'," in Film Quarterly (copyright 1962 by The Regents of the University of California; reprinted by permission of the University of California Press), Vol. 15, No. 2, Winter, 1961–62, pp. 53-4.
Raymond Durgnat
[In Odd Obsession, Ichikawa] attains the purity of style for which he strove. The domestic courtesies are observed. Voices are rarely raised. Dawn whitens beyond the bamboos. The photography, with its dull purples and mauves, has an elegiac warmth; and the characters' cold, bleak, sexual frustrations are gazed on with so detached and reticent an eye that before they can become contemptible they attract our compassion. Cynical as it is, the film has a certain reverence and humility before the mysteriousness of people's feelings.
Twice only does it offend Western sensibilities: once with—a classic clanger, this—a quick cut from the youngsters kissing, to railway goods-trucks' automatic couplings banging together, and on to piston-rods, whistles, the lot. The idea of mechanical callousness is conveyed so abruptly that the symbol seems merely humourless. The final double poisoning may offend our ideas of dramatic decorum—but, after all, if we really want to understand Japanese art, and the Japanese mind, we will have to sharply modify those ideas sooner or later anyway.
The smooth impassivity of the acting is quite eerie. Medical details—about blood pressure, cerebral hemiplegia—are stated with placid detail…. Typical of the film's quiet, cryptic poetry is a cut from a close-up of the daughter, with lipstick, to a close-up of her mother, whose face is made up like a Noh mask, pallid and grey. The film never seemed inspired, and those who are embarrassed by the subject matter are unlikely to get anything from it at all. Others will sense its solidity and tenderness, and respect an unusual, if minor, film. (p. 34)
Raymond Durgnat, "'Odd Obsession'" (© copyright Raymond Durgnat 1962; reprinted with permission), in Films and Filming, Vol. 8, No. 5, February, 1962, pp. 33-4.
John Gillett
In the case of Kon Ichikawa our knowledge is confined to four films: The Burmese Harp, Conflagration, Odd Obsessions and Fires on the Plain, only one of which suggests his former preoccupation with bizarre comedy; yet together they reveal a highly contemporary artist tormented by a particularly fiery private hell. Perhaps it is symptomatic that two of the films are concerned with war: as with other Japanese directors of his generation …, memories of the war and the shattering implications of the defeat were inevitably carried over into the post-war period. Certainly, Fires on the Plain … recalls the conflict with ferocious immediacy: no film has recorded the physical and mental degradation of...
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Bosley Crowther
Never have I seen a more grisly and physically repulsive film than "Fires on the Plain."… So purposely putrid is it, so full of degradation and death as it recounts the harrowing experiences of a Japanese army straggler in Leyte toward the end of World War II, that I doubt if anyone can sit through it without becoming a little bit ill and losing appetite for the next meal. That's how horrible it is.
To note this is a tribute to its maker, for it is perfectly obvious to me that Kon Ichikawa, the director, intended it to be a brutally realistic contemplation of one aspect of war. Plainly he wanted the spectator not only to see but to feel the progressively worse degradation of a sick soldier cast off...
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Tom Milne
Kon Ichikawa's Alone On the Pacific starts out from what might be the heroic story of a Japanese boy's solo crossing of the Pacific in a small yacht, but as Ichikawa tells it, what emerges is not so much the heroism as the boy's pleasure in getting away from parents, friends, and the trappings of civilisation….
Ichikawa uses his flashbacks beautifully to point his theme. Typical is the one in which the boy quarrels with his father (who wants him to go to university), and storms angrily out of the house; Ichikawa cuts to a tranquil long shot of the yacht becalmed in a sunny sea, before returning to the action on the yacht itself. At the same time, his cunning balance between comedy and drama...
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William Johnson
Enjo [is] a beautifully made and moving film….
Its construction, far from being slack, is an intricate nest of flashbacks…. The procedure is not in the least original (there is an obvious and close parallel with [Welles's] Citizen Kane), but Ichikawa handles it so deftly that it seems neither artificial nor confusing, and in the end it proves to be justified.
Ichikawa tries a little too hard to squeeze significance out of the characters surrounding Goichi. Some of them are types (though not, to Western eyes, stereotypes), unchanging from scene to scene….
Most of the flaws in the construction and characters of Enjo are neutralized by the...
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Cid Corman
[In Tokyo Olympiad] Ichikawa has made a document of such yielding warmth and variety, of "play" and candor, of "eye" rather than "I," of the heroic in defeat rather than triumph, and triumph shared, as to provide the documentary a new classic.
Tokyo Olympiad is a "classic" in at least three ways. First … a human document. Ichikawa has shots (and one feels the director behind the photography) of human faces that would satisfy and delight a Cartier-Bresson. The faces touch every continent, every age, and virtually the whole gamut of human emotion….
Secondly, Ichikawa gives the event, the Olympics, more stature than, in fact, it has—by showing what is most human...
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John Gillett
Near the beginning of Kon Ichikawa's film of the Tokyo Olympic Games [Tokyo Olympiad 1965], a great iron builder's weight is seen crashing into a half-demolished building as the Olympic Stadium begins to grow. The tone is set: this is to be a film about violent physical activity; though not quite a hymn to straining muscles and national pride. Sport for me, Ichikawa seems to say, comprises graceful bodies in motion plus a kind of bizarre unnaturalness almost akin to vaudeville and the circus. And it is to Ichikawa's credit that he manages to alternate these concepts without any obvious changing of gears, looking at the events with a hundred camera eyes which seem like one, and always seeking the involving,...
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John Coleman
[Awkward], idiotic incidents are characteristic of the films of Kon Ichikawa [and] provide a sort of subliminal signature. They erupt in the tremendous decorum of Japanese manners, rather like small volcanoes, threatening stability, poise, elegance. Their effect is as strange and thunderous as more celebrated items (the cannibalism in Fires on the Plain, for instance), because they endanger a whole traditional code…. Ichikawa is too Japanese not to be preoccupied with the forms of his country, but a part of him appears to be concerned with sending them up…. [In the unpleasant film Punishment Room] Ichikawa looks as if he admires the causeless rebels. In a way, one can hardly blame him: their elders...
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Tom Milne
First impressions can be misleading, and there is something very wrong with the image of Kon Ichikawa arrived at mainly by way of The Burmese Harp [1956], Conflagration [1958] and Fires on the Plain [1959]—as a man obsessed by human suffering and expressing his pity through a series of long, slow, painful, humanistic affirmations. Ichikawa is obsessed by suffering all right, but he is not a humanist in any modern sense of the word…. [The] humanistic definition imposes much too narrow limits, and could only grapple with a film like The Key [1959] by sweeping its almost mockingly flippant final sequence tidily away under the carpet as "silly"….
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Philip Strick
The reconstruction of a single-handed voyage from Osaka to San Francisco … seems an unlikely choice for anything but a formal doumentary film. As one might expect, however, Ichikawa's Alone on the Pacific … makes a far richer meal of it than this. In his hands, the inevitable flashbacks to the early difficulties undergone on land by the would-be voyager, Horie, become as vital to the film's theme as is the struggle with the sea itself. The impersonal resistance of the Pacific, in fact, is shown to be a relatively manageable challenge….
Ichikawa is concerned here, as usual, with the fine distinction between individualism and self-centredness. Without belittling his hero's achievement, he...
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David Williams
Despite its period setting An Actor's Revenge (Yukinojo Henge) seems to have been an exception to some [generalizations on Japanese cinema]. Even among the more sympathetic reviews in this country a predominant impression was one of remoteness…. The reluctance expressed by some people about taking the film on its own terms might almost have resulted from the conviction that the life of the sexually ambiguous actor in the early nineteenth century was a phenomenon of modern Japan—that familiarity was necessary for understanding. Whereas strangeness is part of what Ichikawrity saw in it too, however local the history. If his treatment of this strange hero and his predicament is sympathetic, then that is the...
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Tom Milne
With The Wanderers [Matatabi], happily, the evident need for an internationally saleable gimmick had led Ichikawa to a … congenial model in the Hong Kong kung-fu phenomenon, from which he borrows not the 'martial art' itself, but the blandly invincible hero and the nonstop string of gymnastically stylised fights. The notion of a battle in which hordes are formally defeated without a blow being noticeably struck obviously appeals to Ichikawa's sense of the absurd; and he battens gleefully on to the formula, with swords flashing and striking apparently of their own volition out of the darkness as in An Actor's Revenge, and punctuating shots of spurting blood now and again indicating that even...
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William Johnson
There is no obvious claim to depth or originality in Kon Ichikawa's 1973 film, The Wanderers (Matatabi). Set in rural Japan in the turbulent years of the early nineteenth century, it draws on many elements of the samurai film. But its total effect is much more: comic, elegant, mordant, heartbreaking, breath-taking. It's easy to appreciate the technical mastery behind the film—an almost flawless sense of timing and imagery. It's less easy to see just how this criss-cross of moods attains such cumulative power….
In a directorial career that spans more than a quarter of a century and some fifty films, Ichikawa has shifted unpredictably between stylization and naturalism and between gravity...
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Joan Mellen
After [Masaki Koboyashi's] The Human Condition, the two most important Japanese films about the Second World War were Kon Ichikawa's The Harp of Burma and Fires on the Plain…. In making two such different films on the same subject—the horrors of war experienced by besieged and abandoned Japanese soldiers—Ichikawa reveals his own lack of a consistent point of view or personal commitment. Ichikawa's anti-war films are the opposite of Kobayashi's, whose films may be more didactic but reveal a much more coherent and persuasive understanding of history.
Ichikawa's anti-war works are far less intellectually serious than The Human Condition. They take their coloration from...
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Tom Allen
It is almost impossible to cite an American director who has aged as gracefully in his idiosyncrasies as Ichikawa over the last three decades. It is also difficult to name a local director who parallels his many permutations of style. Ichikawa's films slide between clinical realism and wry observation of human foibles. There is a chilling haughtiness in his work, yet sometimes he plays to the pit with a low buffoonery that is almost beyond the American sensibility. He is not a classicist so much as an eclectic who has adapted serious literature, popular best sellers, and original material to his own purposes….
Ichikawa, in his 1958 Conflagration, predated the passionate atavism of...
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There's a lot of buzz around Hadoop. If you're like most people, you've looked into Hadoop and found a bewildering array of products, terms, and technology surrounding Hadoop – Hive, Pig, HDFS, MapReduce, HBase, co-processors, ZooKeeper, etc. Knowing where to start can be daunting. Trying to make sense of the Hadoop world is certainly possible, but takes a lot of time. Thankfully, I've gone ahead and done the work for you.
This is an update of last year's presentation Hadoop Basics for DBAs.
What is Hadoop?
Hadoop is a group of tools to help developers create bigger tools. More specifically, Hadoop is a basic set of tools that help developers create applications spread across multiple CPU cores on multiple servers – it's parallelism taken to an extreme. Although Hadoop is a set of tools and libraries, there are a number of products that are lumped into the same bucket as Hadoop and, frequently, they're all referred to as Hadoop. Instead of describing every piece of Hadoop in detail, I'm going to focus on the functionality that's of the most interest to SQL Server professionals.
Data Warehousing in Hadoop
If you need to work with big data, Hadoop is becoming the _de facto_ answer. But once your data is in Hadoop, how do you query it?
If you need big data warehousing, look no further than Hive. Hive is a data warehouse built on top of Hadoop. Hive is a mature tool – it was developed at Facebook to handle their data warehouse needs. It's best to think of Hive as an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) – Hive can be used to research complex interactions across your company's entire history of data, in exchange for that power you have to understand that queries will return in minutes. Unlike traditional EDWs, Hive is spread across tens, hundreds, or even thousands of commodity grade servers.
Hive was designed to be easy for SQL professionals to use. Rather than write Java, developers write queries using HiveQL (based on ANSI SQL) and receive results as a table. As you'd expect from an EDW, Hive queries will take a long time to run; results are frequently pushed into tables to be consumed by reporting or business intelligence tools. It's not uncommon to see Hive being used to pre-process data that will be pushed into a data mart or processed into a cube.
While Hive can operate on large volumes of data, it's not the most efficient tool: Impala seeks to overcome some of the limitations of Hive by making better use of CPU, memory, and disk resources. Impala operates more like SQL Server – data is cached in memory to improve query performance. Although Impala uses a separate query engine than hive, it uses data that's already in Hadoop, making it easy to query massive amounts of data without having to store your data twice.
Both Impala and Hive are great for businesses querying of amounts of data while avoiding expense of massively parallel EDW solutions like Microsoft SQL Server PDW or Oracle Exadata. Hive is in a stable release cycle and, although Impala is still a beta product, many organizations are deploying one or both solutions to tackle their largest workloads.
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SQL Server professionals are familiar with using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) to move data around their organization. SSIS provides a rich set of functionality for manipulating, but it's difficult to make SSIS operations run across multiple CPU cores, much less multiple servers.
Pig is a tool for creating parallel data workflows. Pig takes advantage of the Hadoop tools to provide rich functionality across huge amounts of data. Pig makes it easy to perform step-by-step data manipulation over large data sources using a combination of different tools and functionality. There are a number of great reasons to use Pig (parallel processing, sampling, and loose schema requirements), but it's safe to say that Pig is a great tool for processing data with Hadoop.
Deep Analysis of Data
SQL Server professionals are used to having analytic insight available, either through SQL Server's windowing functions or through SQL Server Analysis Services. Although Hadoop doesn't natively provide tools for OLAP style cubes or for windowing functions, it's possible to gain insight from your data using Hadoop. Unfortunately, deep analytics are not Hadoop's strong suit out of the box. Teams looking to take advantage of large scale data analytics will be doing a lot of heavy lifting themselves.
Mahout is a set of libraries that can be used to distribute analytics around a cluster, but there are limitations to the flexibility and interactivity of Mahout. Developers looking for the ad hoc interactive capabilities of SQL Server Analysis Services (or even of a relational data warehouse) will be disappointed. Bulk computation can be performed disconnected from users, but Mahout and Hadoop don't provide any kind of ad hoc querying capability.
Real Time Querying
So far, all of the use cases we've explored have been based on distributed batch processes and large scale querying. Even though Impala is a vast performance improvement over Hive, Impala is still responding in a matter of several seconds to several minutes – hardly fast enough for interactive querying. Databases are used for more than running massive reports, and this is where HBase comes in to play.
HBase is a real time, random access, read-write database built on top of Hadoop. This isn't a database like SQL Server with tables and joins; HBase is a NoSQL database that's loosely based on Google's BigTable database. There are tables, there are columns, but the schema isn't as rigid as a relational database. Developers will be able to solve many problems with HBase, but there will be a bit of a learning curve as they understand the data model and update their data structures to work effectively with HBase. Data stored in HBase can even be queried through Hive or Impala making it possible to combine transactional and reporting data in the same Hadoop cluster – the scale and redundancy of Hadoop make it easier to reduce load on any single system and avoid many problems associated with reporting from a transactional data source.
When Should You Use Hadoop?
Ultimately, you're looking for an answer to the question "When should I use Hadoop?" This is a difficult question to answer. Hadoop may make sense for part of a workload, or even for all of it. The best way is to start by looking at your environment and asking questions like:
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- What type of latency is acceptable between data arrival, analysis, and queryability?
Understanding your workload is critical to determining if you'll be able to use Hadoop to meet your needs. Having realistic expectations of Hadoop is equally critical. No part of Hadoop will solve all of the problems an organization is facing. Hadoop can mitigate some problems, but it presents a different set of challenges – being comfortable with the limitations of Hadoop will go a long way toward having a successful implementation.


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text: Associate Professor of Philosophy On Faculty since 1992 Phone: (630)752-5892 Fax: (630)752-7777 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Education Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1993 Graduate study in philosophy, Saint Louis University, 1973-76 B.A., Seattle Pacific College, 1972 Major: English Literature About Mark Talbot My areas of academic expertise include philosophical theology, philosophical psychology, the epistemologies of the early modern philosophers, and the works of David Hume, St. Augustine, and Jonathan Edwards. I am especially interested in how Christian philosophers should think about the intersection between philosophy and theology, with particular emphasis on exploring the similarities and contrasts that are found in the thinking of the medieval Christian philosophical theologians and the (still little-known) Protestant scholastics about that intersection. Courses Taught Issues and World Views in Philosophy Historical Seminar: Augustine's Earlier Writings Philosophy of the Arts Philosophy of Religion Nature of Persons History of Philosophy: Medieval, Early Modern, and Twentieth-century Analytic Augustine's Confessions Historical Seminar: Jonathan Edwards's Religious Affections Historical Seminar: Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding Contemporary Moral Problems Historical Seminar: Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding Historical Seminar: Augustine's Later Writings Historical Seminar: Jonathan Edwards and the Enlightenment Historical Seminar: Locke and Hume—Epistemology Membership in Professional Societies Society of Christian Philosophers Evangelical Philosophical Society Society for Christian Psychology Research AREA OF SPECIALIZATION: Philosophical Psychology and Philosophical Theology AREAS OF COMPETENCE: Epistemology, Early Modern Philosophy, and Medieval Philosophy My current research includes investigating the nature of persons, integrating the latest findings in developmental psychology into epistemology, articulaing the interrelations between Christian grace and human freedom, and drawing out and defending some of the philosophical implications of Reformation and post-Reformation Reformed theology, such as the doctrine of everlasting punishment. Papers Published and/or Presented (selected) Chapters in books "Starting from Scripture," in Robert C. Roberts and Mark R. Talbot, eds., Limning the Psyche: Explorations in Christian Psychology (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997), pp. 102-22. "Faith and Reason: A Historical, Theological, and Conceptual Sketch," in Wheaton College's web book on faith and learning. "Does God Reveal Who He Actually Is?," in Douglas S. Huffman and Eric L. Johnson, eds., God Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents God (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002), pp. 43-70. "True Freedom: The Liberty that Scripture Portrays as Worth Having," in John Piper, Justin Taylor, and Paul Helseth, eds., Beyond the Bounds: Open Theism and the Undermining of Biblical Christianity (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2003), pp. 77-109. "Growing in the Grace and Knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ," in Timothy George and Alister McGrath, eds., For all the saints: Christian spirituality and evangelical theology (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003), pp.116-134. "Godly Emotions," in John Piper and Justin Taylor, eds., A God-Entranced Vision of All Things: The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2004), pp. 221-56. "Learning from the Ruined Image: Moral Anthropology after the Fall," in Richard Lints, Michael S. Horton, and Mark R. Talbot, eds., Personal Identity in Theological Perspective (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006), pp. 159-77. "All the Good that is Ours in Christ': Seeing God's Gracious Hand in the Hurts that Others Do to Us," in John Piper and Justin Taylor, eds., Suffering and the Sovereignty of God (Wheaton: Crossway Books). Articles, review essays, and discussions in refereed journals "On Christian Philosophy" (a review article on Keith E. Yandell's Christianity and Philosophy), The Reformed Journal, September, 1984, pp. 18-22. "Reply by Mark R. Talbot" (my response to David Basinger's "What Christian Philosophers May Do," which was, in turn, Basinger's response to my review article on Yandell), The Reformed Journal, February, 1985, pp. 19, 20. "Is It Natural to Believe in God?," Faith and Philosophy, Volume 6, Number 2 (April, 1989), pp. 155-171. "Schooling the mind: Nicholas Wolterstorff on John Locke and the birth of modern¬ity" (a review article on Nicholas Wolterstorff's John Locke and the Ethics of Belief), Christian Scholar's Review, Volume XXVIII, Number 1 (Fall, 1998), pp. 164-173. "Bishop Butler's Moral Psychology," The Journal of Psychology and Christianity, Volume 17, Number 4 (Winter, 1998), pp. 347-361. "Edwards for His Time and Ours: A Philosopher's View," Fides et Historia, Volume XXXVI, Number 2 (Summer/Fall, 2004), pp. 121-125. "Can You Hear It? Esther Meek's Longing to Know on Knowing as Skillful (and Joyful) Activity-A Review Essay," Christian Scholar's Review, Volume XXXIV, Number 3 (Spring 2005), pp. 363-75. Review notices (400 words or less) "Shapes of the World" (a review of Arthur F. Holmes' Contours of a World View), Eternity, November, 1983, pp. 88, 89. "Round squares and God's existence" (a review of Ronald H. Nash's The Concept of God), Eternity, April, 1984, p. 42. "Evidence for the Trinity" (a review of E. Calvin Beisner's God in Three Persons), Eternity, November, 1985, pp. 72, 73. "An Intellectual Kit" (a review of Diogenes Allen's Philosophy for Understanding Theology), Eternity, December, 1986, p. 49. "Benefactor or Bugaboo?" (a review of Del Ratzsch's Philosophy of Science), Eternity, February, 1987, pp. 41, 42. "A Sweet Fragrance" (a review of John Calvin's Sermons on Deuteronomy), Eternity, January, 1989, pp. 39, 40. John E. Hare, The Moral Gap: Kantian Ethics, Human Limits, and God's Assistance, The Journal of Beliefs and Values, Volume 18, Number 2 (October, 1997), pp. 254-55. Review notices for modernReformation magazine: Thomas R. Schreiner, Romans, Volume 9, Number 1 (January/February, 2000), p. 49 Paul R. House, Old Testament Theology, Volume 9, Number 1 (January/ February, 2000), pp. 49-50. Norman L. Geisler, Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics, Volume 9, Number 2 (March/April, 2000), p. 50. R. Kent Hughes, Luke: That You May Know the Truth (two volumes), Volume 9, Number 2 (March/April, 2000), p. 51. Michael J. Murray, ed., Reason for the Hope Within, Volume 9, Number 6 (November/December, 2000), p. 49. Carl R. Trueman and R. Scott Clark, eds., Protestant Scholasticism: Essays in Reassessment, Volume 9, Number 6 (November/December, 2000), p. 50. J. I. Packer, Collected Shorter Writings of J. I. Packer (four volumes), Volume 9, Number 6 (November/December, 2000), p. 50. John Cheeseman, Saving Grace, Volume 9, Number 6 (November/December, 2000), pp. 50, 51. D. A. Carson, The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God, Volume 10, Number 1 (January/February, 2001), p. 54. Joel R. Beeke and Sinclair B. Ferguson, eds., Reformed Confessions Harmonized, Volume 10, Number 2 (March/April, 2001), p. 54. Thomas R. Schreiner and Bruce A. Ware, eds., Still Sovereign: Contemporary Perspectives on Election, Foreknowledge, and Grace, Volume 10, Number 3 (May/June, 2001), pp. 46, 47. Reviews "Rationality in belief" (a review of Anthony Kenny's Faith and Reason), The Reformed Journal, March, 1984, pp. 23-25. "What is reasonable to believe?" (a review of C. Stephen Evans' Philosophy of Reli-gion: Thinking about Faith), The Reformed Journal, February, 1987, pp. 25-27. "God Talk" (a review of Nicholas Wolterstorff's Divine Discourse: Philosophical re-flections on the claim that God speaks), First Things, Number 68 (Decem-ber, 1996), pp. 42-44. L. Gregory Jones, Embodying Forgiveness: A Theological Analysis, Christian Scholar's Review, Volume XXVI, Number 3 (Spring, 1997), pp. 362-364. "What We Are and What We Ought To Be" (a review of John E. Hare's The Moral Gap: Kantian Ethics, Human Limits, and God's Assistance), First Things, Number 81 (March, 1998), pp. 48-51. William J. Wainwright, Reason and the Heart: A Prolegomenon to a Critique of Passional Reason, Faith and Philosophy, Volume 16, Number 2 (April, 1999), pp. 254-259. "An Introduction to the Companionship of Edwards" (a review of John Piper's God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards), modernReformation, Volume 8, Number 3 (May/June, 1999), pp.38-39. Carl F. H. Henry, God, Revelation and Authority (six volumes), modernReformation, Volume 9, Number 4 (July/August, 2000), pp. 52-53. Allan D. Fitzgerald, General Editor, Augustine through the Ages: An Encyclopedia, modernReformation, Volume 9, Number 5 (September/October, 2000), pp. 48-49. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Great Doctrines of the Bible. Volume I, God the Father, God the Son. Volume II, God the Holy Spirit. Volume III, The Church and the Last Things, modernReformation, Volume 9, Number 5 (September/October, 2000), pp. 49-50. Paul Barnett, Jesus and the Rise of Early Christianity: A History of New Testament Times, modernReformation, Volume 10, Number 1 (January/February, 2001), pp. 53, 54. Gene Edward Veith, Jr., The Spirituality of the Cross: The Way of the First Evangelicals, modernReformation, Volume 10, Number 4 (July/August, 2001), pp. 50-51T. Desmond Alexander and Brian S. Rosner, eds., New Dictionary of Biblical Theology, modernReformation, Volume 11, Number 4 (July/August, 2002), pp. 47, 48. Popular pieces "Enjoying God's Gifts," Tabletalk, Volume 18, Number 2 (February, 1994), pp. 10-12, 48; reprinted in R. C. Sproul, Jr., ed., Vanity and Meaning: Discovering Purpose in Life (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1995), pp. 59-63. "The Morality of Everlasting Punishment," Reformation and Revival Journal, Volume 5, Number 4 (Fall, 1996), pp. 117-134. "God's Vocation, Our Vocation," modernReformation, Volume 8, Number 3 (May/June, 1999), pp. 15-20, 42-43. "Contending for the Faith," modernReformation, Volume 10, Number 3 (May/ June, 2001), p. 48. "God, Prayer and American Evangelicalism" (a review article on Bruce Wilkinson's The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life), modernReformation, Volume 10, Number 6 (November/December 2001), pp. 43-47; re-printed frequently, including in Reformed Theological Seminary's Informed Reformer and in CRN Journal, Issue 15 (Summer 2002), pp. 31-35). "Godly Emotions," modernReformation, Volume 10, Number 6 (November/December 2001), pp. 32-37. "The Limitations of Being Pro-Choice," modernReformation, Volume 11, Number 1 (January/February 2002), p. 40. "What is Wrong with Pietism?," modernReformation, Volume 11, Number 4 (July/ August 2002), pp. 24, 25. "God's Providence Over All," modernReformation, Volume 11, Number 5 (September/October 2002), pp. 38-43. "Why We Sing," modernReformation, Volume 11, Number 6 (November/December 2002), pp. 22-25. "How to Honor the Bible as God's One, Inerrant Word," modernReformation, Volume 12, Number 1 (January/February 2003), pp. 16-19. "Why Must Christian Theology Conform to Scripture?," modernReformation, Volume 12, Number 1 (January/February 2003), pp. 28-31. "The 'Shout' that Still Resounds," modernReformation, Volume 12, Number 5 (September/October 2003), p. 2. "Why All the Fuss? The Apostle Paul's Burden in Galatians," modernReformation, Volume 12, Number 5 (September/October 2003), pp. 13-17. "The Indispensability of the Trinity," Mark R. Talbot and R. Scott Clark, modernReformation, Volume 12, Number 6 (November/December 2003), pp. 29-33. "Joy in the Morning: Is God Angry with Christians When They Knowingly Sin?," modernReformation, Volume 13, Number 2 (March/April 2004), p. 12. Edited books Robert C. Roberts and Mark R. Talbot, eds., Limning the Psyche: Explorations in Christian Psychology (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997). Richard Lints, Michael S. Horton, and Mark R. Talbot, eds., Personal Identity in Theological Perspective (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006), Booklets The Signs of True Conversion (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2000; translated into, e.g., Spanish and Portugese). Should We Leave Our Churches? A Biblical Response to Harold Camping, J. Ligon Duncan and Mark R. Talbot (Phillipsburg, New Jersey: Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing Company, 2004).


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Lean cuts of fresh pork can be included in your family's heart-healthy meals.
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 chop
Calories 170
Total Fat 8 g
Saturated Fat 3 g
Cholesterol 61 mg
Sodium 135 mg
Ingredients and Preparation
Ingredients Measures
Lean, center-cut pork chops, ½-inch thick 6
Medium onion, thinly sliced 1
Green pepper, chopped ½ cup
Red pepper, chopped ½ cup
Black pepper 1/8 teaspoon
Salt ¼ teaspoon
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- Trim fat from pork chops. Place chops in a 13-by-9-inch baking pan.
- Spread onion and peppers on top of chops. Sprinkle with pepper and salt. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Cover pan and bake 30 minutes. Uncover, turn chops, and continue baking for an additional 15 minutes or until no pink remains. Garnish with fresh parsley.