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MSI 602: Enterprise Application Development
Class ProjectIn the group project you will develop an enterprise application for an e-commerce web site, an online shopping store for a product. The project will involve both design of the project and its implementation. The project will involve considerable amount of programming using the Java language. It will be best to synchronize your work to match the material that is being taught in the class. The project will have two presentations. At the mid semester point you will present an updated design, design, report, and implementation to the class. At the end of the semester each group must present the project before the class. The project represents half of the grade of the class.
Teams: For the group project you should divide into groups of three or four each. Note that each team may have no more than two students who have completed ACC681 or its equivalent. Professor Rich will assist you in making the teams so that the skill set in the group is complementary.
Architecture: The project will be implemented as a three-tier system. The bottom tier is the database tier that will contain the data for the web site. The middle tier is the server tier that will contain the application logic. The connection between the server and the database will be developed using JDBC. The top tier is the web tier that will communicate with the server tier using an http connection.
Database: The database layer is the persistent storage for the application. The data should contain the information of the customer, sales, product and other information that should be stored permanently. For more adventurous students they can also develop a vendor database that contains information to order products. The database should be implemented using Oracle. For students who are not familiar with Oracle please see me as soon as possible. Students from MSI601 should still have active ORACLE accounts and students who do not have access to an Oracle database please see Prof. Rich.
Server: The server layer will contain the logic to control the entire process for the user purchase. The process should include registration of the users, browsing of the catalogs, making the selections, filling the shopping cart and checking out from the web site. The web server being used in the class is Tomcat (part of the Jakarta-Apache open source project).
Browser: The browser layer represents the client machine from where he/she logs on to the web site. The actual web pages reside on the web server. The design of web pages will determine the ease with which the users navigate through the web site. It would be easiest to use html to design the web pages; however, students are free to choose the tool of their choice for designing of the web site.
Software Design: The design of the project will be done in the first part of the class and Professor Eliot Rich will provide guidelines for software design.
Project Report: The project report will contain the description of the architecture, the design, the application selected as well as the implementation details. It should also contain issues that were encountered during the design and implementation of the project.Presentation & Demo: The presentation & demo will last for 20 minutes for each team. The team should show the working of their system and describe how it can be further enhanced.


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Why did Niall Horan stop a One Direction interview?
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Niall Horan stopped One Direction's interview on "The Jonathan Ross Show" over the weekend because he really, really needed to go to the bathroom.
The host was asking the boy banders about their touring schedule when an uncomfortable looking Horan slowly raised his hand.
"Mr. Jonathan… I really need the toilet," said the singer.
"You want to go to the toilet now?" asked Ross, to which Horan pleaded, "If I could."
Ross then made the band vote on whether or not Horan should be allowed to use the restroom.
It's pretty amusing.
Also in the sitdown, Harry Styles said he was "friends" with ex Taylor Swift, and Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne opened up about their relationships.
(Horan's bathroom emergency occurs at the 9:10-minute-mark).
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The capital of Spain offers plenty of budget-friendly attractions, from the Prado Museum to El Retiro park.
The capital of Spain offers plenty of budget-friendly attractions, from the Prado Museum to El Retiro park.
El Rastro flea market
Madrid shakes off the post-summer blues with one of the city's favourite Sunday pastimes, converging on Europe's largest flea market. Sift through the junk in search of bargains and treasure – occasionally a lost masterpiece turns up here – before following locals to the bars of the bohemian La Latina district for tapas and vermouth.
Parque del Buen Retiro
Madrid's most elegant expanse of greenery, El Retiro, is at its best in autumn when leaves turn golden and cooler temperatures draw street performers into the park. It's a time when rowing boats come into their own, and the ornate glass structure of the Palacio de Cristal, which now hosts exhibitions, no longer feels like a greenhouse.
Ermita de San Antonio de la Florida
Goya left his mark all across Madrid, but this little hermitage (where the artist is buried, minus his head) is the only place where his paintings remain exactly where he painted them. With an end to curtailed summer opening hours, you've got all day to see frescoes so vivid that it's as if the master himself had just climbed down the ladder.
Museo Nacional del Prado
Home to masterpieces by Velázquez, El Greco and a peerless cast of European masters, Madrid's hallowed Museo Nacional del Prado offers free admission to visitors for the last two hours before closing every evening. There's too much to see in one sitting – but you could always return again the next day for free too.
Anthony Ham is a resident of Madrid and is
currently busy researching Lonely Planet's new Spain guide.
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Kettlebell Workout: Cycle 6, Week 5, Day 1
Welcome to the Kettlebell workout from coach Dini Leopoldo. Two new workouts are posted each week - on Tuesday and Thursday - and can be done on any day you have available. Make sure you warm up adequately before starting any of these workouts!
Kettlebell Workout - Day 2
Joint mobility/Primal Move
3x20 sec Bodyweight Overhead Squats
3x20 Push Ups
3x30 sec Jogging
3x20 Swings
3x10 Around the World per side
3x5 Back Lunges with rotation per side
3x10 Bench Dips
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The required high school courses are taught by San Mateo Union High School District teachers. The teachers also monitor student progress in the program and advise students both in academic courses and career preparation.
Don Scatena was born and raised in San Mateo County (Pacifica, CA). Currently, he lives in Half Moon Bay, and is the father of two children. Over the past 20 years, Don has served as a coach, teacher, and site-administrator in San Mateo County. Since 2007, he has been an Assistant Principal and Principal in San Mateo Union High School District (SMUHSD). Currently, he serves as SMUHSD Director of Student Services and Middle College Principal. He is dedicated to bringing the community college experience to as many high school students as possible.
Greg Lance joined the Middle College program in Fall 2011 as the Middle College English teacher and the junior advisor. Mr. Lance taught English at Hillsdale High for 18 years. While at Hillsdale, he developed and implemented the Senior Exhibition project and designed the Social Action Academy, integrating English and social science curriculum through a service learning approach. He earned a B.A. in English from U.C. Santa Barbara, and later earned two Master's degrees from Stanford University, one in Education and the other is East Asian Studies. He was recognized by the California League of High Schools as the Educator of the Year in 2010.
Laurie Carrasquedo joined Middle College as the office assistant in March 2012. She handles everything from schedule changes to textbook purchases to graduation coordination to office management.
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Some have called for an appointed government and even a return to absolute monarchy.
As an absolute monarchy there was comfort in an Arab world of other autocracies.
He contended for the absolute monarchy of the King of England.
A representative government may be as despotic as an absolute monarchy.
The story I am about to relate is a narrative of the transformation of a confederacy into an absolute monarchy.
Originally this gigantic tropical empire was an "absolute monarchy."
With respect, however, to absolute monarchy, it presents an inherent and invincible tendency to revolution.
Government is an absolute monarchy, limited by powerful customs.
The Revolution effected the transformation of limited monarchy into absolute monarchy.
But Protestantism was the greatest support of absolute monarchy.
a government determined solely by the ruler; also called despotic monarchy
Unions are demanding reform of Africa's last absolute monarchy.
Rule by one person — a monarch, usually a king or a queen — whose actions are restricted neither by written law nor by custom; a system different from a constitutional monarchy and from a republic. Absolute monarchy persisted in France until 1789 and in Russia until 1917.


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A theatrical director and an academic have produced a mesmerising world.
A flickering light reveals, first a body then a face, peering out of a sea of shimmering bubbles. Light plays across a dancer's limbs; those limbs then stir up more bubbles to create a new set of images.
This is Encoded, a large-scale "immersive aerial dance performance" that uses the latest interactive technology, and which emerged from a collaboration between Stalker Theatre and researchers from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).
It is difficult to do justice in words to this ambitious melding of technology and human movement first performed in Sydney in 2012. The result is a theatrical landscape where images are projected on to dancers and real-time interactive projections respond to the dancers' moves, thanks to infrared cameras that track the choreography.
Theatre and dance have always played with illusion, says Stalker Theatre co-director David Clarkson. But interactive technologies using photogrammetric projections and fluid simulations have "opened up a whole new palate of creative possibilities", says Clarkson, who founded Australia's pre-eminent physical theatre company in 1989.
"Using technology in this way was a fairly radical departure for us although, when you look at our earlier work where we played with notions of identity, ancestry and of images of the self projected onto the self, it was a logical progression in theatrical terms.
"Then this idea of the body generating images emerged and became of great interest to me."
Several years ago, when Clarkson teamed up with the Co-Director of UTS's Creativity and Cognition Studios, Dr Andrew Johnston, he was able to put those ideas into practice.
Dr Johnston and his researchers develop software for use in creative projects, in particular for live performances. They then study how performers and audiences react to the technology. In July, they will conduct interactive technology workshops at the prestigious International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression in London.
Interactive technology, such as fluid simulation (a computer graphics tool that generates realistic animations of water and other fluid substances) is increasingly embedded in all kinds of live performances and will "have far-reaching implications for performers who choose to embrace it", says Dr Johnston.
With a background in music and computing, Dr Johnston investigates how to use computers to support the creative arts, with an emphasis on the development of interactive virtual musical instruments.
He wants the work to be more than just a gimmick.
"The novelty value is high but we want to create material that stands the test of time. It is about making the work interactive and meaningful for the performers as well."
Sound Stream is one such example. With Linda Walsh, an oboist and PhD candidate at UTS, Dr Johnston and fellow software designer Andrew Bluff, another PhD candidate at UTS, used motion tracking, real-time fluid simulation and fluid-controlled sound synthesis to produce a performance in which the musician's movements and the sounds she creates direct digital images onto a scrim that partly screen her while she plays.
An infrared camera at the front of the stage can detect the infrared light attached to the end of the oboe. The camera picks up the movement and feeds that information to the computer. A small microphone on the oboe picks up the sound and does the same. Fluid simulation software responds to the movement and the sounds produced by the performer.
"We are painting with music, blurring the line between dance and music," says Dr Johnston of Walsh's performance.
Audiences show no sign of tiring of live music and dance so why add a technological layer to the performances?
"Why not?" replies Dr Johnston. "It is fun and it is better than real work.
"In a way, it is an elaborate excuse to look at performers and how they interact with new kinds of technology – that is really the focus of our research."
This story written and produced by the University of Technology, Sydney, for Brink, a publication distributed monthly in The Sydney Morning Herald.


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What an addictive game, been playing it on my iphone4 for a week now, flipping game!
You can play it on google chrome web browser too
I've downloaded them all lol, I often sit playing it in the morning meeting while the boss waffles on
angry birds is defiantly a doing a poo game
I was thinking exactly the same thing, one more level and il wipe : )
I have launced my phone about 5 or 6 times since putting that bloody game on
I promised myself I wouldn't put it on my new phone and guess what?? Lets just say I'm not bored taking a dump. pmsl
i just got level 6 to do with eagal then ive done it all need 3 eggs from some where
is now fully finished all the eggs all the feathes 3 stars ..staring on angry birds rio now
I've seriously never been able to get into this game... Fragger on the other hand, now I'm addicted to that... which is strange as they're pretty much the same game haha.
I've not yet got one feather, what's the story? I've started laying down to sleep, closing my eyes and seeing angry birds playing over and over, not healthy.
Il have to have a nose at Fragger, give my brain a change of scenery.
Angry Birds is the most frustrating game I have ever come across. I removed it from my Ipad.
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It was quiet. Food included surprised and pleased me. I was offered an update at no extra charge. It was a great experience.My 2nd stay in a Best Western this summer & it will be my first choice in future.Also like concern for environment. Dining room too small for quiet dining & conversation with families with very noisy children. Adult only after 7 or 8pm would be nice.My fridge was not working but I did not realize it & reported it upon checking out.
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The lobby was pretty. And all the vending machines
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Movies: Life Is Beautiful, The House of Yes, Steel Magnolias, Best in Show, Shawshank Redemption, Beaches, Smoky Mountain Christmas (don't laugh, I told you you can't take the country out of the boy)...
Shows: Modern Family, House Hunters International, Game of Thrones, Parks & Rec, 30 Rock, True Blood, Downton Abbey. And I still love reruns of Mad About You (to me they had a chemistry that I'd love to one day have with my partner).
Music: All (as long as I can sing along to it). While I'll never be a musician, music plays a huge part in life. I believe you should sing everyday (loudly and unabashedly); it is good for the soul. Having said that, you'll find the following included on my 25 most played in iTunes: Adele, Amy Winehouse, Dolly Parton, Mumford & Sons, John Legend, Nicki Minaj, Britney Spears, Randy Travis, Mumford and Sons, Ellie Goulding, Maroon 5, Snoop Dog, Bob Marley, Cold Play, Alison Kraus, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Shakira, The Strokes, Robyn...
Food: I like it all and will try anything once. Having grown up in the south, I love a good biscuit or some fried okra. However, those are rare guilty pleasures. I typically gravitate toward Sushi, Pho, American or Chinese. I love trying new restaurants, but as much for the experience as the food itself.
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Most stylish New Yorkers: Sandee Joseph
Plus-size fashion blogger Sandee Joseph demonstrates how style isn't limited to the skinny with her bold, figure-flattering outfits.
"Houndstooth is one pattern I like to wear year-round," notes Joseph, who dons it on a skater-style skirt from British e-tailer Boohoo. "Although it's a busy print, it's still a classic that can easily be paired with bright colors and other patterns such as stripes." She wears it with a lace top scored on sale at H&M (locations throughout the city; visit hm.com) and a Lauren by Ralph Lauren blazer (ralphlauren.com) thrifted from Goodwill (locations throughout the city; visit goodwillnynj.org) for a mere $5.
Joseph purchased this rose-gold watch from Michael Kors (locations throughout the city; visit michaelkors.com) more than three years ago. "Way before the masses," she claims. "The style is timeless and the color really pops against my skin."
"A friend of mine is borderline obsessive when it comes to owls," says Joseph, who received this charm bracelet from Forever 21 (locations throughout the city; visit forever21.com) as a gift from her pal for this shoot. "She believes they bring good luck."
These Honora pearl earrings are a staple for Joseph. "I typically sport voluminous hairstyles, but the oversize aesthetic can [still be] easily seen," she explains.
After coveting a similar sold-out pair from Prabal Gurung's collection for Target (locations throughout the city; visit target.com), Joseph tracked down these Breckelle (breckelleshoes.com) sandals on eBay (ebay.com). "I found these beauties as a result of googling 'lace-up heels,'" she reveals.
A remnant from Joseph's more conservative fashion days, this silk tank from Loft (locations throughout the city; visit loft.com) gets a chic upgrade when teamed with a Forever 21 satin-trimmed blazer and a J.Crew chiffon skirt (locations throughout the city; visit jcrew.com) from Goodwill. "It's a bit nostalgic for me with the pleats—very reminiscent of my private-high-school days," she muses.
"I am the ultimate shoe lover and practically sobbed at the sight of these," recalls Joseph of her gladiator heels from Make Me Chic (makemechic.com). "They aren't Tom Ford or Altuzarra, but they still make me feel sexy and empowered for a fraction of the price."
"Beyoncé is not only the ultimate performer but also my style idol, so of course it was a no-brainer that I would support her collaboration with H&M," says Joseph, who purchased this printed maxidress from the pop star's collection for the Swedish chain. "It's super feminine and perfect for summer."
Joseph's boyfriend bought her this neon Invicta watch (invictawatch.com) as a Christmas present. "I love that it has a masculine aesthetic but it's still fun and trendy in this bright hue," she enthuses.
These Forever 21 jaguar-head spiked studs lend an edgy touch for less than $6.
"I've always wanted a Moschino (moschinoboutique.com) belt but couldn't justify spending that much," says Joseph, who ended up splurging on one from Luis Via Roma (luisaviaroma.com) after she received some extra cash during the holidays.
Joseph nabbed these H&M neon sandals for $13 at Buffalo Exchange. "They match perfectly with my Invicta watch," she points out.
"I hate to match but I love to mix prints," declares Joseph, who does just that with an AB Studio top from Kohl's (locations throughout the city; visit kohls.com) and Jennifer Lopez printed shorts—also from the department-store chain—featuring bolder blooms. "Although they're both floral, the positions of the flowers differ, as do the colors," she says.
This Kenneth Cole time teller (locations throughout the city; visit kennethcole.com) was a gift from Joseph's cousin. "It's smaller in scale compared to my other watches, and more feminine," she says.
A Forever 21 corded necklace adorns Joseph's neck. "I [usually] like to pair it with a wider-scale necklace for the ultimate statement piece on my décolleté," she says.
"This was my first time trying a white shade," admits Joseph, who brightens up her toes with L'Oreal Colour Riche (lorealparisusa.com) nail polish in I Will!. Her pedicure pops against stark chain-strap Zara sandals (locations throughout the city; visit zara.com) purchased from Beacon's Closet.
Joseph discovered this fringed bathing suit on e-commerce site Swimsuits for All (swimsuitsforall.com). "It provides the cutest and most body-friendly swimwear for curvy to plus-size women," she enthuses. "The times of the skirted and hideous wallpaper-floral bathing suits are over, ladies!" A sheer button-up shirt from American Apparel (locations throughout the city; visit americanapparel.net) serves as a cover-up. "I love pieces that work dual purposes."
As evidenced by this H&M necklace, neon yellow is a favorite color of Joseph's when it comes to accessories. "It adds a punch of color to a monochromatic look," she says.
"I love the holographic trend but had to be realistic as to its wearability," says Joseph, who found balance in these Zara strappy heels.
Steady Clothing The Answer Is Sheer top in sizes small–3X, $35, at modcloth.com
Express pavé embellished analog bracelet watch, $128, at Express, locations throughout the city; visit express.com
Gorjana owl stud earrings, $40, at gorjana-griffin.com
GirlProps 16-millimeter faux-pearl studs, six pairs for $6, at girlprops.com
Aldo Canada leather high-top gladiator sandals, $150, at Aldo, locations throughout the city; visit aldoshoes.com
Evans stripe panel maxidress in sizes 10–26/28, $85, at evansusa.com
Marc by Marc Jacobs Henry Dinky stainless-steel watch, $150, at Saks Fifth Avenue, 611 Fifth Ave at 49th St (212-753-4000, saksfifthavenue.com)
BaubleBar Jaguar studs, $26, at the Bar at BaubleBar, 230 Fifth Ave at 27th St, suite 610 (baublebar.com)
Forever 21+ sheer floral-print shirt in sizes 1X–3X, $23, at Forever 21, locations throughout the city; visit forever21.com
Body of Royalty Jet Setter lipstick, $15, at bodyofroyalty.com
Go Jane faux-suede chain T-strap heels, $24, at gojane.com
Essie Blanc nail polish, $8, at Samuel Shriqui Salon, 35 E 65th St between Madison and Park Aves (212-472-6805)
Monif C. St. Tropez plus-size fringe swimsuit in sizes 14W–24W, $165, at monifc.com
Sugar Lips The Grand Tour Guide top in sizes XS–4X $48, at modcloth.com
B Brian Atwood Laetitia holographic snakeskin T-strap sandals, $249, at Brian Atwood, 655 Madison Ave between 60th and 61st Sts (212-415-4739, brianatwood.com)
Calvin Klein collarless roll-tab button-up blouse in sizes 0X–3X, $48, at lordandtaylor.com
Anne Michelle Enzo hologram open-toe ankle-strap sandals, $26, at urbanog.com
Sandee Joseph, the plus-size fashion blogger behind CurvEnvy, proves she's one of the most stylish New Yorkers with her bold, figure-flattering looks. The college health-insurance coordinator shops for trendy pieces at NYC stores such as Buffalo Exchange, Beacon's Closet and Pixie Market, and enjoys being pampered at Spa Castle.
Sandee Joseph, 31, college health-insurance coordinator and plus-size fashion blogger (curvenvy.com), Harlem
Her personal style: "It's classic and überfeminine with a dash of trend and a sprinkle of vintage. I love the juxtaposition of hard and soft, and adding an unexpected throwback element. My style is almost like writing an essay: Makeup and hair are the introduction, my wardrobe is the body, and my shoes are the conclusion. Hopefully the story I tell makes people want to read more."
Her inspiration: "I came up with my motto, 'style is not just for the skinny,' which I wholeheartedly believe. It carries me through each outfit selection. I defy the notion that a plus-size body cannot be fashionable or on-trend. Ultimately, my mood inspires my style. You know the saying 'life is a stage'? Well, I like to think of my wardrobe as the costume closet. I can change my 'character' with each outfit—it's just a matter of who I want to be on that given morning."
Favorite stores: "I do the majority of my shopping online—my two all-time favorite sites are Asos (asos.com) and Boohoo (boohoo.com)—but in NYC, Buffalo Exchange(locations throughout the city; visit buffaloexchange.com) is my go-to for current and past trends at way-below-retail prices. Customers are able to buy, sell and trade clothing, shoes and accessories from brands such as Michael Kors, Alice + Olivia, BCBG and Tom Ford. It's the only store where you'll find a $12 pair of American Apparel leggings next to $40 Rag & Bone jeans on the same rack. I always manage to find great treasures at thrift-store chain Beacon's Closet(88 North 11th St between Berry St and Wythe Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn; 718-486-0816 • 92 Fifth Ave at Warren St, Park Slope, Brooklyn; 718-230-1630 • 10 W 13th St between Fifth and Sixth Aves, 917-261-4863 • beaconscloset.com). Although it carries current items, there's a nice amount of one-of-a kind pieces—my best find was a vintage Longchamps duffel bag in mint condition for under $15. And I like Pixie Market(100 Stanton St at Ludlow St; 212-253-0953, pixiemarket.com). For a while, I never knew an actual store existed—I only purchased online. The clothing is inexpensive and current, so I like to get key trend pieces there."
Favorite salons: "I adore Spa Castle(131-10 11th Ave at 131st St, College Point, Queens; 718-939-6300, nyspacastle.com). It's like a little therapeutic water world complete with massages, manis and pedis. When I don't feel like traveling that far, I opt for Pinky's Salon (312 Columbus Ave between 74th and 75th Sts, 212-787-0390) for a relaxing manicure and pedicure."
Her signature accessory: "My Honora (honora.com) oversize pearl earrings. I wear them practically every day—they just go with everything."
How she describes New York style: "Eclectic. It's a myriad of so many styles: trendy, vintage, urban, classic—you name it. You never know what you'll spot. I think that's why it's one of the meccas of true street style."
How her style has evolved: "Working in academia for the past few years, I've transitioned from run-of-the mill slacks and button-ups to midi dresses, short skirts, multicolor heels and neon accessories. The older I get, the more daring my style becomes, and I'm lucky enough to have a lax dress code. Anything risqué can always be covered up with a blazer or oversize scarf. "
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By Susan Wloszczyna, USA TODAY
Bill Maher says he's actually doing God a favor with Religulous, his globe-trotting takedown of organized religion.
"My theory is, if there is a God, he needs a break," says the standup comic and host of HBO's Real Time. "As we say in the movie, we don't know if He exists. But if there is a God, He is very put upon. He wants someone to debunk. Leave Him alone already. Keep the pressure off Him."
Maher's intent in his documentary is to shift that pressure onto the faithful as he grills them on the basic tenets of their beliefs. As directed by Larry Charles (Borat, Seinfeld), the results are funny, revealing, provocative and even scary. And to a goodly sum, probably, offensive.
Here are 10 rules (dare we call them commandments?) that helped to beget Religulous, as followed by the pair while trekking from a homey North Carolina truckers' chapel to the hallowed grounds of the Vatican.
1. Seek a guerrilla filmmaker.
While looking for a director, Maher made a discovery: Most documentary specialists "are not a humorous lot." That's why he collaborated with Charles, who not only understands the power of comedy to leaven a heavy subject, but gained the skills to know how to swoop in quickly and get people to open up on camera while doing Borat.
Charles with his small crew would be the warm-up act before Maher would suddenly sneak in at the last minute. "Otherwise, no one would talk to me," he says. "I have been talking about this subject on TV for 15 years, so I come pre-advertised as a non-believer." Still, he says, the Mormon "fuzz" in Salt Lake City was able to stonewall their efforts.
2. Be honest about your past.
Early in the film, Maher comes clean about his Catholic upbringing. As a youngster, he didn't realize his mother, who did not attend church with the rest of the family, was actually Jewish. Both his mom, Julie, and sister, Kathy, discuss the matter with him while seated in his childhood church in Park Ridge, N.J.
"That shows another dimension of Bill and where he is coming from," Charles explains. "And as the star of the movie, essentially, that back story was very important, so you would be on his side as he goes through the film."
3. Seek memorable characters.
A frequent criticism of Religulous is that it relies too much on the far-out factions rather than more mainstream believers, a slam that really irks Maher.
"I very much object to the premise," he says. "I've heard this before. You pick on extremists. I'm sorry, but if you believe in something as irrational as the basics of religion, you are extreme."
At least he compiled an eclectic mix, from the Amsterdam cannabis worshiper who is unaware his hair has caught fire to the ex-homosexual cleric who converts gays into straight Christians. Proving most popular, Charles says, is the laid-back performer who plays Jesus at Orlando's Holy Land Experience. He earns Maher's respect by explaining that the Holy Trinity is akin to the three states of water: liquid, steam and ice.
4. Steer clear of the 'exotic.'
While many major religions are explored, those of the East such as Hinduism and Buddhism are not.
"To delve into that world would have been a whole separate subject, maybe a second movie," Charles says. "Because of that, we decided the Abrahamic religions of the West, the monotheistic religions that are so intertwined, would tell the story we want to tell."
Besides, Maher says, "they are so far afield from the experience of the average American or European moviegoer, you would almost have to do the whole film as a tutorial."
5. Encourage controversy.
At the world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, 20 or so protesters politely marched outside, holding placards with such phrases as "Don't Mock My Religion." Asked during a Q&A session whether he had staged the demonstration, Maher replied, "It wouldn't have been so lame if I had hired them."
But it is clear that unless someone is riled up over Religulous, the filmmakers have not done their job.
"I'd like people to worry about this movie, actually," says Charles, who expects lawsuits will be filed à la Borat by those who come off badly on camera if Religulous takes off. "That it does threaten some very deeply held beliefs that need to be opened up and questioned. We didn't want to preach to the converted. We wanted to preach."
6. Don't skip politicians.
Probably the single best get by Maher is Sen. Mark Pryor, a Democrat from Arkansas, who has carried a Bible in campaign ads.
Pryor waffles when asked if he believes in evolution, saying, "The scientific community is a little divided."
Maher sharply disagrees, asking, "Could it possibly have been Adam and Eve 5,000 years ago with a talking snake in the garden? Could it?"
When Pryor says yes, Maher goes in for the kill: "It worries me that people are running my country who believe in a talking snake." The politician remarks with a smile, "You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate, though."
7. Be frugal.
"I felt, politically, that we should do this for as little money as we could," says Charles, who says the budget was $2.5 million. (Maher suggests it was a bit more.) "I didn't want this to be an indulgent project or a vanity project. "
Working lean and mean with a small crew also made it easier to go to locations without creating a scene. "We could kind of slip into places without a lot of tension. We just walked in."
8. Mock equally.
From Mormon underwear to gizmos to assist Orthodox Jews to circumvent Sabbath rules, Maher finds plenty of humor in the holy. However, he goes out of his way to avoid bullying tactics: "There is a difference between not respecting a person and not respecting their beliefs."
When Maher goes after a Hispanic minister in Florida named Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, who claims he is the reincarnation of Jesus, he quips, "Not just because you share the name Jesus?"
The Rev. Jeremiah Cummings, ex-member of the singing group Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, has a weakness for snappy, and expensive, suits. "The people want you to live well," he says. Maher zings: "That's what pimps say about their women."
9. Use popular tunes.
From the minute the guitar riffs of The Who's The Seeker resound early on, it's clear Maher and Charles gave some thought to their soundtrack.
Not that they got every song they desired. Who said no? "Stevie Wonder," says Maher. "We would have loved to have had Superstition, but Stevie Wonder believes in Jesus, so he wasn't going to give us that."
10. Rely on the facts.
"We want people to be enlightened of things they aren't aware of," Maher says. That includes that the recent finding by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life that 16% of Americans aren't affiliated with any religion, a bigger minority than blacks or Jews.
News that the Founding Fathers weren't high on organized worship might come as a shocker, too. Benjamin Franklin is quoted as saying, "Lighthouses are more useful than churches."
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Tattoo artist: Lance Talon at Bolder Ink, Boulder, CO
"Cats represent mystery and often we have a fear response to the mysterious. I've always run towards that particular light. I feel like I represent that energy — people will either run towards or away from someone who looks like me and I like evoking that kind of response."
"The image above is the first cat Lance and I did together. I remember having to coach Lance away from giving the cat a mean look, or as I said at the time, the "flaming skull" look. I wanted as best we could, to achieve the level of cat inscrutability that I love so much. Read what you want into her expression — whatever you say can be right."
[Above left] "This one embodies the traditional Koi imagery and of course, like every other tattoo I have, cats! Thus, the Fishcat (as opposed to the Catfish, natch)."
[Above right] "Although I'm not remembering the name of the artist, this one is a 19th century Japanese woodblock depicting a bake-neko, or Monster Cat."
"The fishcat is a portrait of my longtime cat companion, Velouria, named after one of my favorite Pixies songs, and the feel of her fur! Although we're not 100% on her age, I believe she'll be 18 or 19 this summer. I'm not sure why, but other than her ears, I have yet to color her in. One of the amazing things about tattoo is that it's always about the process."
"Lance and I both collect iconic cat images. This one is part of the classic sailor tattoo lexicon."
Japanese wood block artist Kuniyoshi (original shown above left).
"I love this because it is not what it appears to be. A mean looking cat head made of cute smaller cats — I thought it really spoke very specifically to the way I can be perceived."


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The 40 years old well trained artist and selfmade-man, who is managing all about from choreography and the music to the costumes, was casting all artists on the street, all over Africa.
In Tanzania the acrobat from Zimbabwe is training his artists in a permanently growing special circus school for about four years.
He obtains his artist all over the world, also for the Andre Heller Supershow 'Afrika!Afrika!'.
With Hubert Schober Winston Ruddle has found the ideal partner. Formaly as manager of Power Concerts Tourneen GmbH he had great success with different Chinese circus- and martial-arts-shows. Also as a producer of children-musicals like 'Biene Maja' and 'Jim Knopf' he made a good reputation at the start of this century.
As the projectmanager and Co-producer, now for FKP Scorpio Konzertproduktionen GmbH in Hamburg, the project "Mother Africa" is an affair of the heart for the event specialist.


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With this bid: City licks its lips as miners consider deal
The moribund mergers and acquisitions market sprung dramatically to life yesterday as Glencore made its long-awaited marriage proposal to Xstrata.
The Swiss commodities trader wants a merger of equals with Xstrata in a deal that would create the world's fourth-biggest miner with a market value of £55 billion.
Shareholders in Xstrata, however, have made it clear that they have no intention of allowing the Anglo-Swiss company to do a deal without a premium being paid. "Dream on, merger of equals," one of Xstrata's largest institutional investors told The Times.
Xstrata has grown rapidly since it floated on the London Stock Exchange with a value of £1.6 billion in 2001. It was worth £36 billion yesterday. The bulk of the company created by Mick Davis, the…


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You'd like for the Sixers to be able to recover from their most recent three-point massacre slowly, but the schedule makers had different plans. On the heels of the Magic's 15 threes, the Hornets are headed into to town tonight. In case you forgot, the Hornets scorched the Sixers for 14 of their own in New Orleans back in January.
After the jump we'll take a look at the game, point out a few keys and of course, have the in-game discussion.
Looking at the stats, I'm not exactly over-run with positive feelings about this one. Before we even get to the three-point shooting, we have to deal with a big mismatch at the four for the Hornets. West is big enough to muscle Thad around and their pick and roll with West and Paul is going to be tough to defend.
Add to that, Paul's penetration, which Willie Green, Andre Miller, Lou Williams and Royal Ivey are going to have to try to slow down. I'd say Ivey is the only one who has a prayer. On the other side of the floor, Peja can't hang with Iguodala, not even close.
Now, let's get to the three-point shooting. It's getting to the point where I'm rooting for minor wins. For example, if David West scored 40 points and the Hornets punish the Sixers on the inside tonight, I could live with that. The only thing I don't want to see is this game decided by New Orleans' three-point shooting. In other words, I'd like to see what happens if this team makes defending the three a priority. When Paul drives the lane, let the help come from the bigs, rather than from collapsing perimeter players. If West gets the ball in the post, let Thad take his lumps. Switch screens effectively on the perimeter.
I'd just love to see what happens if the Sixers were to rely on their interior defense as a strength, and help out their perimeter defense, rather than the other way around.
I'm going to give you two keys to the game, completely unrelated to the three-point shot, mostly because I'm sick of talking about the three:
- Iguodala needs to score 25+. Peja can't handle him and he needs to recognize that's the biggest mismatch on the floor. When Posey comes in, go right at him, don't shy away. Your team needs a big game from you to have a chance.
- Marreese Speights plays 20+ minutes. The stated reason for Marreese's meager minutes (gotta love alliteration) has been poor match-ups. Namely, fours who spread the floor and can shoot the three. Well, Marreese's size is going to be needed at the four tonight against West. If he only sees 7 minutes of action again, we'll know there's something more to this than match-ups.
The tip is at 7pm, I'll be here, so join me in the comments for our in-game discussion.
by Brian on Mar 2 2009
Tags: Basketball | Hornets | Pregame | Sixers |
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The Amusement and Music Operators Association and the American Amusement Machine Association have confirmed plans to cosponsor a combined industry trade show next year. The new show, called the "New Show," is scheduled for Las Vegas from March 10 through 12. It will be held in conjunction with Fun Expo, now owned by the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions.
Announcing the New Show, AMOA president Gary Brewer, Brewer Amusement (McMinnville, TN), and AAMA chairman David S. Cohen, Firestone Financial Corp., observed that the agreement represents the culmination of ongoing discussion in the industry.
"With one show, exhibitor members will enjoy greater efficiencies, with dramatic savings," AMOA's Brewer explained.
"The synergy created by this joint venture will be incredible," AAMA's Cohen predicted. "The combined leadership taskforce has responded to the needs of its members."
A joint committee has been formed to oversee event planning. It's co-chaired by Frank Cosentino, representing AAMA, and Russ Mawdsley of AMOA. It includes AAMA's John Brady Jr., Jim Chapman and Chris Felix, and AMOA's John Pascaretti, Marion Paul and Andy Shaffer. The committee will hold its first face-to-face planning session at this month's IAAPA convention and trade show.
The New Show will be managed by W.T. Glasgow (Orland Park, IL), which has been producing trade shows for 20 years.


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City has to speed up the process of getting HUD loans to homeowners in need
Getting tangled in the red tape of bureaucracy is always frustrating, and much more so when it means watching your house crumbling around you.
This has been the case for too many low-income Buffalo homeowners attempting to tap a loan program that promises help in repairing their homes.
But City Hall's foot-dragging allowed their dreams to fade. City officials must work harder to solve the problems that have gummed up the works on a program designed to shore up the city's old housing stock, and not incidentally wiping away some of the blight plaguing neighborhoods.
More than 200 low-income homeowners are waiting for federal loans so they can make repairs. The wait has been as long as two years for some and, during that time, problems such as leaky roofs have only worsened. And now, with the weather turning, the outlook is bleak.
Alma Egan applied nearly two years ago for a loan to repair her roof in the city's Masten District. Even though the loan was approved and the contractor's bid accepted, nothing happened. Egan died while the loan was in limbo, where it remains today.
There are other horror stories. Another Masten District resident, Betty Hathcock, 70, has watched the roof of her house deteriorate for the past two years while she has waited for a grant. So, when it rains, the house floods and mold sets in. And there's the damage to her home's foundation that she said occurred a few years ago when the city demolished the house next door. The promises of a grant came quickly from city officials. She's still waiting.
Buffalo has long had a disconnect when it comes to HUD funds. The city Comptroller's Office said the city has committed only $1.2 million of the nearly $5.5 million it could have distributed to repair homes. That's money left on the kitchen table.
Other cities in similar situations seem to have figured out how to leverage these federal funds. But, for some reason, it doesn't happen here. Brendan Mehaffy, executive director of the city's Office of Strategic Planning, talked about HUD's exacting standards. No one will skip steps, according to Mehaffy, and no one is suggesting that the city not follow the rules. Just taking the first step, for many, would be a, well, good first step.
Getting to the end of the game sends applicants through the Buffalo Urban Renewal Agency, overseen by Mehaffy's office, and then to Belmont Housing Resources of Western New York, which has a contract with the city. Once approved, BURA sends the applications to the Comptroller's Office, where they are reviewed. If all goes well, a construction loan is closed and the contractor is given notice to proceed.
The layers of bureaucracy are confounding.
The city says three jobs have been completed, one is under way, two more are scheduled and 22 loans have been closed. But that's just a drop in the proverbial bucket and, as Comptroller Mark J.F. Schroeder asked, "Why do the residents of the City of Buffalo have to be tortured like this?"


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President considering changes in NSA policy
By JULIE PACE
and KIMBERLY DOZIER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is still grappling with key decisions on the future of the National Security Agency's phone collection program and the makeup of the secret court that approved the surveillance, lawmakers said Thursday following a 90-minute meeting at the White House.
Obama is expected to back tighter restrictions on foreign leader spying and also is considering a presidential commission's recommendation to strip the NSA of its ability to store telephone records from millions of Americans. The president could announce his final decisions as early as next week.
"The president and his administration are wrestling with the issues," Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat and privacy advocate, said after the meeting. "It's fair to say that the next few weeks are going to be crunch time in terms of judgments being made in both the administration and the Congress."
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said the meeting focused in particular on the telephone data program and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
The president also met this week with his top intelligence advisers, many of whom oppose changes to the NSA programs, and a review group appointed by Congress that is working on a report focused on the surveillance systems. Privacy advocates met with senior White House staff Thursday afternoon, and technology companies have been invited to a meeting today.
The president's decisions will test how far he is willing to go in scaling back the NSA's broad surveillance powers. A presidential commission handed him more than 40 recommendations, many of which were more sweeping than expected. However, Obama is not obligated to accept any of the panel's proposals.
On Thursday, FBI Director James Comey told reporters he disagrees with a recommendation that would require the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to approve the bureau's use of national security letters. The letters are legal demands for information as part of an ongoing investigation, such as demanding the phone records of a suspected terrorist inside the U.S.
Opponents of involving the court in that process argue that it would make it more difficult for the FBI to conduct a national security investigation than to conduct a bank fraud case.
While Obama's upcoming decision is highly-anticipated, the White House indicated it may not be his final word on the matters. Obama spokesman Jay Carney said that while the president is likely to want some changes implemented right away, "there may be some that would require further review."
Congress will likely have to approve some of Obama's reforms, particularly if he makes changes to the phone collection program.
The presidential review group recommended not only moving storage of phone records back to the phone companies or a third party, but also mandating that the NSA obtain separate court approval for each record search. There would be exceptions in the case of national security emergencies.
It's unclear whether Obama will ultimately back the proposal or how quickly it could be carried out if he does.
People familiar with the White House review say Obama is expected to announce steps to rein in spying on friendly foreign leaders. That includes increased oversight of the National Intelligence Priorities Framework, a classified document that ranks U.S. intelligence-gathering priorities and is used to make decisions on scrutiny of foreign leaders. The presidential review board has recommended increasing the number of policy officials who help establish those priorities, and that could result in limits on surveillance of allies.
Documents released by former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden revealed that the U.S. was monitoring the communications of several friendly foreign leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The revelations outraged Merkel as well as other leaders, and U.S. officials say the disclosures have damaged Obama's relations around the world.
On Thursday, the senior lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee said a classified Pentagon report showed that Snowden stole approximately 1.7 million intelligence files. Rep. Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican and the committee's chairman, said the vast majority of the material was related to the Defense Department and military operations.
Snowden faces espionage charges in the U.S. but has been granted temporary asylum in Russia.
Associated Press writer Pete Yost contributed to this report.
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Yarn Requirements: Choose a yarn that will felt easily and firmly. Finished size is controlled by your yarn choice and the amount of felting.
Yardage: Worsted weight, 350 yards main color and small amount of each contrast color for hen. Chicks require approximately 55 yards each plus 1 yard of contrast for beak, if desired.
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Oct. 10: Bisweswar Chatterjee, the countrys oldest surviving police officer, passed away today at AIIMS after a brief illness. He was 95.
Bisweswar, who studied in Calcuttas Presidency College, belonged to the 1940 batch of Indian Police, the precursor to the Indian Police Service, and its undivided Bengal cadre.
A batchmate of the legendary spy-master Ram Nath Kao, Bisweswar had served in the Intelligence Bureau and headed the Indo-Tibetan Border Police in the crucial post-1962 war period for a decade. He also served in Calcutta police.
Ranjit Gupta, 91, who had succeeded Bisweswar as the sub-divisional police officer of Serampore, shared his memories. I took charge as SDPO of Serampore from him in 1946, said Gupta, who belonged to the 1942 batch of IP.
Bisweswar had served as a deputy commissioner of Calcutta police, he added. It was 1948 or 1949 when he had gone to quell trouble at the Allenbury Company in Hazra as the DC (security control) of Calcutta police, Gupta said.
M.K. Narayanan, the former national security adviser and present Bengal governor, had served as a junior officer under Bisweswar in the Intelligence Bureau.
After his retirement in 1974, he devoted time to social work. He was a founder of the Satyanarayan Temple in south Delhi and chairman of Raisina Bengali School for over three decades. He was also associated with the Indian Mountaineering Federation.
Bisweswar is said to have played a big role in ELINT a word coined for the electronic intercept and analysis of intelligence operations in the Himalayas in 1964.
After China tested its first nuclear weapon on October 16, 1964 in Xinjiang, India and the US shared a common fear about its nuclear capabilities. The remoteness of Chinese testing grounds and the secrecy surrounding its nuclear programme made a human intelligence operation almost impossible.
So, the CIA in the late 1960s decided to launch an ELINT operation along with RAW and the Aviation Research Centre the forerunner of RAW that is now a part of the intelligence agency to track Chinas nuclear tests. One such operation, in the garb of an expedition to Nanda Devi, involved celebrated climber M.S. Kohli along with Special Frontier Force and CIA operatives.
The objective was to place a permanent ELINT device that could detect and report data on future nuclear tests by China. The device was just planted on Nanda Devi, when an avalanche forced a hasty withdrawal. Another operation to retrieve and replant the device was aborted as the device was lost.
Bisweswar is survived by three sons and three daughters.


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When cholera arrived in Haiti two years ago, it spread through communities quickly, killing some of the most vulnerable people in just one day. In mid-October 2010, staff at Zanmi Lasante, Partners In Health's sister organization, saw the first case of cholera in the town of Mirebalais. Since then, the outbreak has killed more than 7,500 people, sickened more than 600,000, and become one of the world's largest epidemics in recent history.
This two-year mark of the cholera outbreak can serve as a turning point in Haiti's battle against the epidemic.
We can continue our commitment to treating victims, educating communities, vaccinating citizens, and advocating for a nationwide water and sanitation system, or we can accept needless deaths as the new norm. It is important to remember that Haiti had not seen a case of cholera prior to October 2010.
We have made great progress in addressing cholera through emergency funding from international donors, support from individual donors, and determination from our staff. When the outbreak began, PIH/ZL mobilized an extensive network of community health workers, nurses, and physicians who have now treated more than 100,000 patients. PIH/ZL opened 11 cholera treatment facilities and hired and trained more than 3,300 community health workers to identify and treat cases of cholera and run public hygiene education campaigns. PIH/ZL psychosocial and mental health teams also counseled and conducted memorial services for more than 4,000 families who lost loved ones to cholera or suffered from stigma associated with the disease.
In the spring of 2012, determination and planning led to a big step in preventing the spread of cholera. PIH/ZL, Haiti's Ministry of Health, and the nonprofit organization GHESKIO successfully vaccinated nearly 100,000 people. Just months later, The Pan American Health Organization's Technical Advisory Group on Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (PAHO TAG) recommended expanding the use of the oral cholera vaccine throughout Haiti, based in part on data presented by PIH/ZL and GHESKIO officials.
Fortunately, reported cholera deaths have decreased nationwide within the last year of the epidemic. From October 2010 to September 2011, cholera killed 6,510 people—from September 2011 to the present, cholera has killed 1,025. But because of this, the urgency to address the outbreak—and the funding that came with it—is coming to an end. If we continue treating cases at the rate we are now, our dedicated cholera funding will be exhausted in February. We have no new funds on the horizon.
Cholera remains a leading cause of death among young adults in Haiti and cases continue to spike during rainy periods. In July, cholera sickened 5,600 people across the country, and in September PIH/ZL staff treated 900 people. According to our doctors, these spikes have potential for real danger: fewer staff members available to treat a sudden influx of patients can lead to an increase in deaths. The disease moves so rapidly that in the one or two days it takes for reinforcement staff to arrive, patients can die. Also, fewer treatment centers means fewer patients can be treated.
Just this month, Partners In Health and Zanmi Lasante became the newest members of the Regional Coalition on Water and Sanitation for the Elimination of Cholera in the Island of Hispaniola. This is because we remain committed to a multi-tiered approach to managing cholera: aggressive case findings and treatment, expanding access to the cholera vaccine, and providing access to safe drinking water and sanitation.
If cholera is here to stay in Haiti, so too must be funding for this kind of comprehensive prevention and treatment. Without it, we may lose the gains we've made. Join us—we need your support.


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News Release
For Immediate Release
July 3, 2013
Sarah T. Blodgett, Attorney
(603) 271-1246
Attorney General Joseph A. Foster announces that Alissa Durgin, age 30, of Raymond, New Hampshire was arrested for unlawfully possessing a controlled drug (class B felony) and abuse of a facility patient (class A misdemeanor). These charges stem from a May 6, 2013 incident, in which Durgin, while working as a registered nurse at Colonial Poplin in Fremont, took a fentanyl patch that was prescribed for a resident and retained it for her own use, depriving the resident of medication that was needed to control her pain. On June 7, 2013, the Board of Nursing ("Board") issued an emergency suspension of Durgin's license to practice nursing in New Hampshire. Following a June 20, 2013 hearing, the Board voted to continue this suspension during the pendency of the investigation.
The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which investigates and prosecutes allegations of resident abuse at healthcare facilities, investigated Durgin's crimes.
An arraignment has been scheduled for 8:00 a.m. on August 9, 2013 at the 10th Circuit, District Court Division-Brentwood.
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If you've ever been in a data center or computer room, you know it's not a fun place. Fans screech so loud you have to shout to have a conversation, and the computer room is kept at a frigid air temperature. That's air cooling for you.
An alternative is slowly, very slowly, creeping into the market. Market research firm IHS says in its new "Data Center Cooling Report—2014" that the market for liquid cooling infrastructure in data centers will grow by 40% this year to $2.3 billion. At that rate, this market will double in size in just two years.
Air cooling is more popular because it's easier to do and if it fails, the worst that happens is the computer shuts down. If liquid cooling fails, you have a mess on your hands. The drawbacks to air cooling are many; you need to build air conditioning into the whole data center with things like a raised floor for piping and HVAC systems. The whole room has to be an ice box so the intake fans can suck in cold air.
If you've never seen liquid cooling, it's pretty much what the name implies. Instead of a heat sink bolted into place over the CPU, a copper-based heat transfer element is bolted down and two tubes are attached. One brings cool liquid in to the heat absorber while the other sucks the hot liquid away from the CPU. The liquid keeps the copper element – copper is used because it transfers heat very efficiently – cool, which in turn keeps the CPU cool. That's known as direct to chip cooling.
In the more extreme cases, the entire electronics are submerged in a coolant. Obviously this is not a pure water coolant but a special formula that won't fry the electronics.
The real benefit of liquid cooling is that it can cut cooling expense by up to half. Liquid cooling occurs at the chip/server level, which means it is as physically close as possible to the heat source. The closer the heat dissipation occurs to a heat source, the more efficient the heat removal is, IHS says. No other heat dispersion method can get this close.
Cooling isn't a total panacea. Water cooling must be contained in a closed environment so no contaminants get into the water or coolant. The up-front costs are much higher for water cooling than for air cooling as well, but it pays off over time if you have the right scenario.
Liquid cooling is popular with hobbyists and overclockers who like to jack their CPU to 5-6Ghz, but in a standard PC, the stock heat sink is usually enough. More and more space is being dedicated to liquid cooling at retail outlets like Fry's Electronics and Micro Center and mail order outfits like NewEgg.com
But those are for consumers. There's a whole separate brand of enterprise-class liquid immersion cooling firms, including Green Revolution Cooling, Icetope and LiquidCool. A few companies that specialize in direct to chip cooling include Asetek, Chilldyne, and CoolIT.
Because liquid cooling can cost as much as five times that of air cooling, rack densities have to exceed the 15 kilowatt+ range before you will see any return on investment from liquid cooling, and servers aren't quite that dense. Because of this, IHS sees liquid cooling only accounting for 2% of total data center cooling revenues. It will be largely a niche practice used in high performance computing and ultra-dense systems.
Still, many technologies that started as a niche has become mainstream, so maybe this will catch on as well.


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One node can typically handle 30k+ inserts per second, so you should be able to insert the 9 million rows in about 5 minutes with a single node cluster. My guess is that you're inserting with a single thread, which means you're bound by network latency. Try using 100 threads, or better, just use the stress tool that comes with Cassandra: http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/references/stress_java On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Hiller, Dean <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > Ignore the third one, my math was badŠworked out to 733 bytes / row and it > ended up being 6.6 gig as it compacted it some after it was done when the > load was light(noticed that a bit later) > > But what about the other two? Is that the time is expected approximately? > > Thanks, > Dean > > On 8/10/12 3:50 PM, "Hiller, Dean" <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > > >****** 3. In my test below, I see there is now 8Gig of data and 9,000,000 > >rows. Does that sound right?, nearly 1MB of space is used per row for a > >50 column row???? That sounds like a huge amount of overhead. (my values > >are long on every column, but that is still not much). I was expecting > >KB / row maybe, but MB / row? My column names are "col"+I as well so > >they are very short too. > > > >A common configuration is 1T drives per node, so I was wondering if > >anyone ran any tests with map/reduce on reading in all those rows(not > >doing anything with it, just reading it in). > > > >****** 1. How long does it take to go through the 500MB that would be on > >that node? > > > >I ran some tests on just writing a fake table in 50 columns wide and am > >seeing it will take about 31 hours to write 500MB of information (a node > >is about full at 500MB since need to reserve 50-30% space for compaction > >and such). Ie. If I need to rerun any kind of indexing, it will take 31 > >hoursŠdoes this sound about normal/ballpark? Obviously many nodes will > >be below so that would be worst case with 1 T drives. > > > >****** 2. Anyone have any other data? > > > >Thanks, > >Dean > > -- Tyler Hobbs DataStax <http://datastax.com/>
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Singo's back to give his old agency a push
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John Singleton's old ad agency is going through its biggest overhaul since it went public in 1994 and Singleton has returned with boots on to ensure his communications flagship keeps flying the flag. He may well need to.
Singleton and Russell Tate, the chief executive of STW, owner of Singleton Ogilvy & Mather, are both back getting their hands dirty in a bid to kick-start the agency, which handles Qantas, Telstra and Hyundai.
They're also back in the advertising saddle to ensure the young turks running the shop in Melbourne and Sydney get it right.
Last week's resignation of veteran SOM chief executive Chris Mort says much about what's going on at Singleton's key advertising cash cow.
STW now owns more than 40 communications companies but SOM is still its single biggest profit unit and a sentimental favourite for Singleton and Tate because it houses the original entity of John Singleton Advertising.
The only problem is that the agency hasn't lived up to its powerhouse reputation of late. Tate told analysts as much last month when he said of SOM: "It's been a solid '04 but not spectacular by any means. We have a very aggressive new business plan."
Anything other than spectacular, especially for STW's flagship, will always mean big problems for management under Tate and Singleton - they have a fierce reputation for pushing their people hard.
Indeed, Tate has publicly stated he's happy with a staff churn rate of 30 per cent. "Russell is fond of telling people that if you want job security, SOM is not a great place to work," says one former executive. "It doesn't do a lot for morale. Singo will get up and have a rant about how the work ethic is shit and how we dress like shit. They're not good at reward and thanking staff.
"The culture as an ad agency is terrific. Everyone pitches in and gets the job done. It's a can-do place but you always carry that underlying security of 'Am I going to be next?'."
As the man at the top of the SOM tree, Mort was usually the one wielding the axe but about six months ago the tension with Singleton and Tate came to a head. Mort is said to have objected to further staff cuts, among other management issues, because of concerns about the agency's ability to properly service client accounts. But Mort was also under pressure from Tate and Singleton because the agency had lost a couple of large clients and its new business record wasn't flash.
Mort and Tate both started as account directors in 1987 when Singleton was running his agency from Hunters Hill, although Tate ended up running Singleton's advertising empire. Tate offered Mort the job of running STW's diversified communications business but he turned it down. It is understood Ralph Harding, the former axe wielder for Tate at JWalter Thompson and who was running the diversified unit, departed on Friday.
So the wheels are turning. Tate plays down the moves as nothing other than "a coat of paint".
"There's no need to make radical changes at all," he says. "Certainly there are new things we want to do. We're listening to what some of the younger people want to do in their position. Many of them are internal."
One change Tate says is likely is the abolition of group account directors. They will become something like brand development directors although that is still to be finalised.
Tate also wants to introduce channel-planning expertise, which is the next big communications approach globally where traditional media no longer owns the default position in advertising.
"What clients expect of agencies has changed unbelievably over the last couple of years," says Tate. "What we're in the process of doing is asking what do our clients really want from an ad agency and what can the agency present to clients as part of the STW group, not in isolation."
And in the background is Chairman Singo, looking to keep his beloved ad shop up with the times.
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Feel free to discuss in this thread any of the links or techniques that catch your eye.
Animated letter for each day of the month
High performance animations.
Lea Verou guess the color game.
Dudley Storey: [dual transition hover effect and a [URL="http://demosthenes.info/blog/540/Animating-CSS3-Image-Filters"]clever effect](http://codepen.io/dudleystorey/pen/DEHsn) with filters.
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You might find this video useful to get the best out of the chrome dev tools.
You can also view a list of previous posts here.
Nice list Paul. Thanks!
Really looking forward to the new responsive emulation tools in Chrome.


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Orient match against Swindon Town rescheduled
4:00pm Monday 7th January 2013
By Simon Mail
4:00pm Monday 7th January 2013
By Simon Mail
Leyton Orient's home game against Swindon Town has been rescheduled for Tuesday, January 29.
The O's were meant to face the League One promotion challengers on Boxing Day at Brisbane Road but the game was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.
Original tickets are valid for the match but anyone unable to attend has until Tuesday, January 15 to exchange it for another game or claim a refund.
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A good place to start might be for her to call Child Protective Services. Is she in Florida? Which county?
I do not know the county that she live in .The city is titusville.fa.
OK --let me see if I can find the phone number for you
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I believe she is in Brevard County. The phone number is XXXXX
Yes, that is the only charge --you do not need to pay more than once.
Let me give you the website too
She could call, explain her situation and ask for advice. The reason that I am referring you to this particular department is because of the 6 minor children and the fact that he is a minor.
If you hang on for another few minutes, I will look at this website further and see if there is a more appropriate department or if this is her best option.
ok I will hang on.
The only other thing I can find or that seems appropriate would be for her to call the Florida Domestic Violence hotline for advice.
I'm not completely sure which is the correct thing to do --given that he is a minor.
But --one of those departments should be able to make the right referral.
I suspect that it would result in the son "getting into the system"
where then there would be services and support.
I hope this infor will help this family. thank you for your help.
I hope so too. It sounds scary and overwhelming for her. You are welcome. Can I answer anything else for you?
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Car crashes are the number one killer of teens.
Google's online street views could help scientists track and fight invasive species over the Internet, researchers say.
Square Cash, a free service that allows users to send money via email, left its invite-only beta on Tuesday and can now be used by anyone with a US-based debit card.
An innovative neuroprosthetic could eliminate hand controls.
Want to see cash for all those old electronics? Recycling is paying a lot of green for e-trash.
Researchers have reportedly taken one small yet giant step towards "perfect power" -- fusion, the process that powers the sun and may ultimately solve the world's energy problems.
Now, bacterial colonies sculpted into custom shapes by a 3D printer could be a key to understanding how some antibiotic-resistant infections develop.
The Federal Reserve is rolling out new Benjamins tomorrow.
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