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Over the last week, the United States has raised its voice regarding accountability and reconciliation in post-war Sri Lanka. A US Senate resolution called for the establishment of an independent international accountability mechanism, and Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Robert Blake told AFP: "If Sri Lanka is not willing to meet international standards regarding these matters ... there will be pressure to appoint some sort of international commission to look into these things."
Such statements, and the imminent completion of the work of both the panel of advisors to the UN Secretary General and the Sri Lankan Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), are likely to again bring further international attention on Sri Lanka in the near future.
For the most part, the response of Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa government is that the LLRC will address the accountability issue and that international pressure is a result of mobilizations by sections of the Tamil diaspora who supported the separatist Tamil Tigers. However, questions have been raised about the inadequacy of the LLRC, mainly because of the very narrow mandate afforded it and the failure of past commissions to address the culture of impunity that prevails in Sri Lanka. Blaming the Tamil diaspora and whipping up nationalist sentiment inside the country is a strategy that has worked for the government in the past. This will not help address larger issues simmering underneath Sri Lanka's foreign relations with powerful international actors.
Furthermore, the Tamil diaspora as a political force in the West is rather marginal to begin with, and its coherence as well as its capacity to mobilize have been in steady decline since the decimation of the Tigers. Extreme campaigns by sections of the Tamil diaspora have only served the interests of some opportunistic actors vying for prominence within the diaspora, and the government's focus on those ineffective campaigns only betray its unwillingness to address fundamental problems in its external relations and, more important, domestic governance.
While international pressure on accountability continues to mount, meaningful reconciliation within the country will depend much on democratization in the face of the authoritarian grip of the Rajapaksa regime. Despite the end of the war, militarization and Sinhala Buddhist nationalism dominate the political and social geography of the country. Such a political landscape has inhibited reconciliation between the polarized communities and the ability of the war-affected population to address their own trauma and also undermined possible social transformation through a political settlement during the historic opportunity presented by this post-war period.
Ahilan Kadirgamar is an Asia Society associate fellow and spokesperson of the Sri Lanka Democracy Forum. He also spoke recently at Harvard.
Watch a video below on whether prosperity can bring peace in Sri Lanka.
Ambassador Robert Blake of the US State Department joins Sri Lankan Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Palitha T.B. Kohona and Asia Society Executive Vice President Jamie Metzl for a sold-out program on Sri Lanka's postwar rebuilding at Asia Society New York on Monday, March 14, which will also be a free live video webcast on AsiaSociety.org/Live at 6:30 pm ET.
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The Historic Flight Foundation in Mukilteo invites you to celebrate the Fourth of July with a barbecue and a flight in a World War II bomber.
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This has to be one of the best herbal blends featuring chamomile that I've tried in a long time. Usually, chamomile kind of takes over the show, and it can be very sweet and cloying. I'd read good things about this one, though, which is why I requested a sample with my last Bukiti order.
First off, I can taste apple. It's more like apple peel than acual apple, if that makes sense, like the very first taste of apple after biting through the skin. The chamomile is the second flavour, but it's not too strong — just a gentle, sweet, honey-like flavour. It also adds a hint of floral edge. After these flavours comes a hint of orange, and the lemongrass. It's a beautiful tea to sip on — very gentle and relaxing. I probably should have saved it for a pre-bedtime cup this evening, but I wanted to be sure I'd have time to write a note since it's the first time I've tried this one. If I'm in the market for another chamomile based herbal, this is one that'll be high on my list. I feel almost sleepy now!


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After talking with several inside sources familiar with the matter, I would like to report that every Android phone currently released in the United States will be receiving an upgrade to Android 2.1.
Unfortunately, the early adopters may suffer from a few issues. Some Android based devices will be able to upgrade to the latest firmware version of Android, but may still lack some of its features, such as live wallpapers. Furthermore, some devices will be able to get this update over the air while other devices will only be able to get this update via a hard-wire connection to their PC. Further still, older devices such as the G1 may require a complete system whipe in order for them to bulk-up to Android 2.1 Alas, this news is not as sweet as it first sounds.
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Charlotte Rampling won the EFA for best European actress on Saturday for her turn in Swimming Pool from out French director Francois Ozon. At the same ceremony Denys Arcand's The Barbarian Invasions, which includes gay characters in its ensemble cast, won for best non-European film, beating out more mainstream nominees Finding Nemo; Kill Bill, Volume 1; Mystic River; and Lost in Translation.
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I didn't like the tapper. I thought it was just a mess. I liked Bianca's charisma a lot better. The performance was just really weak to me. I really liked the deaf guy. I think his abilities are incredible! Amazing! The young blonde who did the "sexy" dance really creeped me out. She looked like a kid and she was awkwardly smiling the whole way through. I did not like it. Loved Cristina Santana. Loved Kent, the small town boy. I thought he was so adorable. Aside from that, I liked his performance.
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Type: Wish
Status: Closed
Priority: Minor
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: 0.19.0
Fix Version/s: 0.19.0
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Hive is a data warehouse built on top of flat files (stored primarily in HDFS). It includes:
- Data Organization into Tables with logical and hash partitioning
- A Metastore to store metadata about Tables/Partitions etc
- A SQL like query language over object data stored in Tables
- DDL commands to define and load external data into tables
Hive's query language is executed using Hadoop map-reduce as the execution engine. Queries can use either single stage or multi-stage map-reduce. Hive has a native format for tables - but can handle any data set (for example json/thrift/xml) using an IO library framework.
Hive uses Antlr for query parsing, Apache JEXL for expression evaluation and may use Apache Derby as an embedded database for MetaStore. Antlr has a BSD license and should be compatible with Apache license.
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Hi guys,
When I enter the query in Hive CLI I get following errors:
$ bin/hive -e ""insert overwrite local directory '/tmp/local_out' select a.* from invites a where a.ds='2008-08-15';"
Hive history file=/tmp/Bhavesh.Shah/hive_job_log_Bhavesh.Shah_201112021007_2120318983.txt
Total MapReduce jobs = 2
Launching Job 1 out of 2
Number of reduce tasks is set to 0 since there's no reduce operator
Starting Job = job_201112011620_0004, Tracking URL = http://localhost:50030/jobdetails.jsp?jobid=job_201112011620_0004
Kill Command = C:\cygwin\home\Bhavesh.Shah\hadoop-0.20.2\/bin/hadoop job -Dmapred.job.tracker=localhost:9101 -kill job_201112011620_0004
2011-12-02 10:07:30,777 Stage-1 map = 0%, reduce = 0%
2011-12-02 10:07:57,796 Stage-1 map = 100%, reduce = 100%
Ended Job = job_201112011620_0004 with errors
FAILED: Execution Error, return code 2 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapRedTask
So what is the problem and how to solve it?
Pls suggest me.
The publists.facebook.com link for hive mailing list is deprecated.
Please see http://hadoop.apache.org/hive/mailing_lists.html for details on the new mailing lists.
Hi Tenaali,
hive-users mailing list, http://publists.facebook.com/mailman/listinfo/hive-users
- yw kim
Hive mailing list ??
Is there any mailing list where we can discuss hive tips, issues etc ?
Hi lengwuqing
For new features/bug fixes/improvements to Hive please open new Jiras or start discussions on the dev list, rather than reusing this issue (which is now resolved).
TITLE: I think the approach of group-by has some issue:
Hi, Guys:
I create a table like this:
CREATE TABLE course(id INT, name STRING, course STRING, score INT, notes STRING);
And I wanted to try the Group-By like this:
INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE test00 SELECT t1.name,count(DISTINCT t1.name) FROM course t1 GROUP BY t1.name;
I found that Hive NOT ONLY can not compute out a correct result , BUT ALSO the time cost is very hign. I insert some diagnostic code into ExecRecude.java, I found that: all of records have been process ONLY in one or two reducer. I noticed that there are some commnets in Hive: the Group-By is based on hash, I can make sure that the 'Name' column are difference.
I developed a system named TING (www.sadbit.com), which used quite different methods to implemnt a parallel/distributed database, even it is not mature currently, but I can estimate that: in my hardware enviroment,to process that dataset, It need be faster than 2 minutes. but Hive use more than 9 minutes.
I biggest issue is: all data are processed on 1-2 nodes while reducing, even the reduce number is 24.
Any guy give me some commnets, why?
Hi Prasad Chakka:
The 'Insert' can not work correctly. Based on my test dataset, it would be some output.
And could you please give me some help, I want to design and implement the 'SORT' in hive.
And later, I want to SPEED-UP the hive performance, the basic idea is improving the 'Sample' and 'Partition' in SematicAnalyzer.java.
Hi lengwuqing
Here are some answers that might make the above steps little easier...
1: Compiling
I think just copying the facebook-hive.tar.gz to src/contrib/hive and then doing 'ant package' from hadoop-0.17.2.1 directory should create the necessary packages for Hive in build/contrib/hive/dist and also where Hadoop expects. (Steps 4 & 5 can be done by just going 'ant package')
2: For step 4) just do 'ant build-grammar' from src/contrib/hive/ql directory that would generate a antrl grammar code. You might also need to do 'ant gen-test' if you want to see the test code.
4: Did you mean that Insert Overwrite is not working correctly? Which query is computing incorrect results?
— How to improve Hive —
1. compiling:
1. download and unzip hadoop-0.17.2.1.tar.gz
2. download and unzip facebook-hive.tar.gz
3. copy hive to ./hadoop-0.17.2.1/src/contrib/hive
4. export CLASSPATH=.:../../../../hadoop-0.17.2.1/hadoop-0.17.2.1-core.jar:$CLASSPATH
5. ant -Ddist.dir=hive_dist -Dtarget.dir=hive_target package
6. cp -rf hive_target ../../../../hadoop-0.17.2.1/contrib/hive
cp -rf hive_target ../../../../hive
2. developing & debug
1. create an Eclipse project
2. collect all hive-related..java into src directory under project.
3. collect all necessary third-part .jar into lib and set the library setting in project.
4. modify and run this commnad:
java -classpath .;./lib/antlr-3.0.1.jar;./lib/stringtemplate-3.1b1.jar;./lib/antlr-2.7.7.jar;./lib/antlr-runtime-3.0.1.jar org.antlr.Tool -fo src/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/parse/ src/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/parse/Hive.g
5. refresh project, then you can find that this is a complted Hive development enviroment.
3. execution
export HADOOP_HOME=/home/hadoop/setup/hadoop-release
./bin/hive -hiveconf hive.root.logger=INFO,console
4. hivefly
1. crate some data and format like these two table.
the resume, the number of records is 1024*1024*100.
the course table, the number of records is 1024*1024*100*3.
2. run these scripts and you may find that: the Hive system can not compute out correct result.
you can debug the hive system on above we built development enviroment.
CREATE TABLE resume(id INT, name STRING, gender STRING, years INT, intro STRING);
CREATE TABLE course(id INT, name STRING, course STRING, score INT, notes STRING);
LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '/home/hadoop/john/hive/resume.txt' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE resume;
LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '/home/hadoop/john/hive/course.txt' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE course;
CREATE TABLE test00(name STRING, count INT);
INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE test00 SELECT t1.name,count(DISTINCT t1.name) FROM course t1 GROUP BY t1.name;
I suggest that Facebook pay us $, and we can co-work with FB's engineers, then improve this project better.
Integrated in Hadoop-trunk #595 (See http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Hadoop-trunk/595/)
I just filed a JIRA for this
This needs changes to the root build.xml which we had not submitted as part of the patch.
Also there were a bunch of findbugs warnings that we got from antlr generated code when we last ran it. We want to be able to suppress those and cleanup some others before we turn this on.
> We plan to switch on findbugs (and also fix findbugs warnings) in a separate follow-on JIRA.
Why not address these first? And, if they're to be addressed later, where is the JIRA?
I download dist.tgz and set export HADOOP=<hadoop-install-dir>/bin/hadoop as README.
When I run bin/hive, I got the error.
However it works in another computer.
When I
hive> CREATE TABLE pokes (foo INT, bar STRING);
I got this
FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: javax.jdo.JDOFatalInternalException: Unexpected exception caught.
Hi gleader,
Did you build it from hadoop sources or did you just download the dist.tgz? It seems that the classpath is not properly set or the hive jars are not in your classpath. Can you provide more details on how you set this up?
I download dist.tgz. When I start HIVE, I got
"WARN fs.FileSystem: "localhost:9000" is a deprecated filesystem name. Use "hdfs://localhost:9000/" instead.
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/session/SessionState
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:148)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobShell.run(JobShell.java:194)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:79)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobShell.main(JobShell.java:220)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)
... 7 more
I use java-6-sun-1.6.0.06
The output of running
ant clean package findbugs -l ant.log
is attached.
As Dhrubha mentioned we have not included the top level build.xml in this patch and we have not enabled findbugs on hive yet, so all that runs cleanly and should not add additional warnings to the hadoop build.
Hi Owen,
findbugs is not (yet) switched on for the Hive patch. So, if you run "ant findbugs" from the top level, it won't run findbugs on src/contrib/hive yet. In short, "ant findbugs" on the top level won't show any new findbugs warnings!
We plan to switch on findbugs (and also fix findbugs warnings) in a separate follow-on JIRA. Hope that it ok with you.
Hi ashish, would it be possible for you to post the output if a "ant clean package" and "ant javadocs" for your workspace?
Sorry that was a bit incorrect. What I meant is that we have some untested support for MAPs in the query layer and what you are likely hitting are the results of that. You can try lifting the restriction for the integers and see what happens. We will try that internally as well.
Are you creating this table through a DDL. If that is the case then that would not work. We do not yet have support for the serde that generically serializes and deserializes maps and lists. We rely on thrift to do that. So you should try it with a thrift table. And for now such tables can only be created programmatically...
Hi Ging yan,
Yes, we do not support MAPs right now in the query layer even though the support to create those tables are there. We are working on that. The code that you refer to is actually meant for lists and therefore, the restriction on integer values.
Hi guys,
I am playing with the Hive binary right now and run into a problem : how to reference an entry in a MAP type?
According to the example given in the PDF :
SELECT pv.userid, pv.properties['page type'];
but it doesn't work and is conflicting with the source code
if (funcText.equals("[")){
// "[]" : LSQUARE/INDEX Expression
assert(children.size() == 2);
// Only allow constant integer index for now
if (!(children.get(1) instanceof exprNodeConstantDesc)
|!(((exprNodeConstantDesc)children.get(1)).getValue() instanceof Integer)) { throw new SemanticException(ErrorMsg.INVALID_ARRAYINDEX_CONSTANT.getMsg(expr)); }
My question is is MAP type supported in the current version and what is the correct syntax for it?
Thank you!
-1 overall. Here are the results of testing the latest attachment
against trunk revision 690093.
+1 @author. The patch does not contain any @author tags.
-1 tests included. The patch doesn't appear to include any new or modified tests.
Please justify why no tests are needed for this patch.
-1 patch. The patch command could not apply the patch.
Console output: http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Hadoop-Patch/3140/console
This message is automatically generated.
The problem #3,
It was a just simple test. I loaded small set of data that contain 'Korean' characters. and then, I excuted a simple select statement.
in result, the returned data was correct but was displaied broken characters.
I try another test with 'INSERT OVERWRITE LOCAL DIRECTORY ...' statement with same select statement.
ohh, It works fine. result text files are correct with valid characters.
-yw kim.
Incorporated Owen's comments except I was not able to get the javadoc stuff working. Will submit a separate patch of that later if that is ok.
Added license information.
Added the package target to copy hive distribution to hadoop tar ball location.
I was not able to complete the javadoc intergration as there is some generated code which we want to exclude and also it needs changes to the hadoop build.xml which is not a part of this .tgz. Will submit those changes as a separate diff file later if that is ok.
Hi Parasad,
Thanks for your answer.
I'm using MySQL 5.0.51a.
I found this:
- 1 byte per a character on 'latin1' charset.
- 3 bytes per a character on 'utf8' charset in MySQL.
so, hive works with on 'CHARSET=latin1' in MySQL.
-yw kim.
yw kim,
it works fine with mysql version 5.0.44_2_3. can you check this mysql bug report http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=28138 and use corresponding version.
`STORAGE_DESC_ID_OID` bigint(20) NOT NULL,
`PARAM_KEY` varchar(256) character set latin1 collate latin1_bin NOT NULL,
`PARAM_VALUE` varchar(1024) character set latin1 collate latin1_bin default NULL,
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
The libraries haven't been fixed to include the licenses and a README.
@hadoop QA - there are tests in the .tgz accept that the .tgz does not include the changes to hadoops build.xml that need to be made to run the tests by executing ant test from the top level. Should I include the build.xml in the .tgz or should I submit that subsequently?
The patch is a .tgz because it contains jar files, so the patch command is not going to work.
@Kim - Thanks for trying this out and for reporting the problems that you encountered. About #2 - we modeled much of our syntax on mysql and that supports DESCRIBE <table name> and not DESCRIBE TABLE <table name>. The tutorial however calls these as DESCRIBE TABLE which is incorrect. We will fix that in the tutorial.
@lengwuqing - About 1 - this is probably the same bug that we discovered in house after we uploaded the patch. The new patch that I will upload today should have a fix for that.
-1 overall. Here are the results of testing the latest attachment
against trunk revision 689733.
+1 @author. The patch does not contain any @author tags.
-1 tests included. The patch doesn't appear to include any new or modified tests.
Please justify why no tests are needed for this patch.
-1 patch. The patch command could not apply the patch.
Console output: http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Hadoop-Patch/3137/console
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@lengwuqing - we will fix problem #3 in the version of the patch. we didn't quite cover the interaction with speculative execution very well in the first iteration and will fix it soon.
@kim - for problem #3 - can you tell us whether the issue with how the output data is displayed - or with the actual results themselves (ie. the filter wasn't correctly executed). you can get some idea of how many rows were filtered by clicking on the link to the map-reduce job and looking at the counter named 'FILTERED'.
we will get back on the other issues as well.
Hi Ashish,
First, thank you all hive developers for great contribution.
I'm testing hive with hadoop(0.19 dev).
This is what I found:
1. MySQL as a metastore does not work properly. logs below:
ERROR JPOX.Datastore (Log4JLogger.java:error(117)) - Error thrown executing CREATE TABLE `SD_PARAMS`
) ENGINE=INNODB : Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes
com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes
It's not hive's bug but MySQL's own limitation (MyQSL 5.0.x, UTF-8 with InnoDB)
I've changed RDBMS to PostgreSQL. It works fine.
2. "DESCRIBE TABLE 'table name'" statement does not work but "DESCRIBE 'table name'" statement works.
3. cli can't handle non-english characters for now.
hive> select a.* from test a where a.b='김영우';
Total MapReduce jobs = 1
Starting Job = job_200808271709_0004, Tracking URL = http://localhost:50030/jobdetails.jsp?jobid=job_200808271709_0004
Kill Command = /usr/local/hadoop/bin/hadoop job -Dmapred.job.tracker=localhost:54311 -kill job_200808271709_0004
map = 0%, reduce =0%
map = 50%, reduce =0%
map = 100%, reduce =100%
Ended Job = job_200808271709_0004
Moving data to: /tmp/hive-hadoop/5847592.10000
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-yw kim
When I tried ths hive system, I found these issues:
1. The NullHiveObject.getFields always return null, but somewhere(such as NaiiveSerializer) the caller used thisreturn value to call .getSize() method. //I return "return new ArrayList<SerDeField>();" but I can not make sure this is OK.
2. In the joinOperator.close(), the l4j object is null. //I added some check in this function.
3. Some times(heavy loading for hadoop), even I used same data and same Hive-QL, but the results are difference. While the logic error happening, the result must be xxxx_r_000022_0 and another file with postfix: xxxx_r_000022_1. //This issue is reproducable, I think this is a critical bug for me. I dont known which cases the results have difference postfix: _0 and _1. But I guess this is a good hint to debug this issue.
Any facebook guy could you please give me a hand: why the case#3 happened?
"No one is there", nobody care me. my god, I suggest that FB pay us $, we can enhance the hive better and have it go ahead faster. Hahahahahahahahahahahah
Do we want hive and all other contribs in the default tarball?
Ok, three things that I've noticed.
1. You need to handle the "package" target and put your artifacts into build/hadoop-*/contrib/hive so that they are included in the hadoop tarball.
2. src/contrib/hive/lib needs a README that list where each included component comes from. Each jar should also have a *.jar -> *.LICENSE that is the license that the given jar is distributed under.
3. Your java doc should be probably be included in the hadoop java doc, so that it is available on the hadoop website.
Submitting hive.tgz file for hadoop QA. This .tgz file is built from hadoop root. We are submitting a .tgz file as there are some jar files that we use that need to be included in the sources. In order to build, copy the .tgz file to the hadoop root and then tar -xvzf hive.tgz to get the sources in the correct location.
Would somebody care to review this one? We will probably submit this patch tonight for HadoopQA test run.
tar gzip file that contains the sources for hive. This contains some jar files as well, as a result we could not submit it through the normal patch method. I talked to Dhrubha and he advised that we just upload the tgz file.
In order to get this into the source tree
copy hive.tgz to src/contrib
and then
tar xvf hive.tgz
to get all the sources into src/contrib.
This compiles and tests with svn revision 688101 for hadoop trunk.
Hi Tenaali,
By default we do the group by in 2 stages. In the first stage we generate partial aggregates and then in the second stage we generate the final aggregates. If there is a query of the form
select t.c1, count(DISTINCT t.c2) from t group by t.c1
We would first run a map reduce job with the key as c1, c2 to generate the partial aggregates c1, count(DISTINCT c2).
We would then follow this up with a second stage map reduce with key as c1 on the output of the previous stage and we would generate the final aggregate as c1, sum(partial aggregates).
In case distinct is absent e.g.
select t.c1, count(t.c2) from t group by t.c1
we would run the first map reduce by randomly distributing the rows to the reducers in order to generate partial aggregates c1, count(c2)
and then we would generate the final aggregates similar to the case mentioned above.
We only support DISTINCT only one column right now.
For join, every join is done in a map-reduce job and the result from one stage is fed into the next join etc. The join keys are used as the map keys and the join is done as a cartesian product on the values that arrive for the different tables in the reducer. We do optimizations so that we can join multiple tables in the same map reduce task (in case the join key for a table is same e.g. a.c1 = b.c1 and b.c1 = c.c1)
We will be doing many more optimizations for both of these and we will be putting out all this information on the wiki very soon.
I read in the readme about number of map reduce jobs hive require to handle group by. Could you throw more light on how many map -reduce jobs hive run in order to run a query having Aggregate functions or query having multiple joins etc.
We ran into some issues while porting this to trunk. We are actively working to resolve those issues.
While we solve the compatibility issues with hadoop trunk, interested users can get a source tar ball and a jar distribution which compiles and works with hadoop 0.17 from the following location
Please follow the instructions in the README file on how to compile the src tar ball and how to use the jar distribution. Not all the features mentioned in the tutorial on this JIRA have made it to this distribution, but a bulk of these are already there. The README in the jar distribution has a summary of what is working and what is not.
Feel free to try it out and send us feedback.
Hi Ian/LengWuqing,
Apologies for the delay. We are shooting for this Friday (Aug 15th) to upload a patch here. So please bear with us.
Is there an early release code base anywhere publicly available yet (please)?
Could you guys please tell us: what time is the Hive realease-date?
Could you guys please tell us: what time is the Hive realease-date?
Could you guys please tell us: what time is the Hive realease-date?
I am not very sure how much JIRA traffic this would generate initially. In the long run, if this becomes popular, it will of course generate a lot, but at this time, considering that people would just be curious about it and be experimenting with it, it seems to me that creating a sub project is an over optimization. At least I think, hive still needs to prove itself before it can be called a sub project in its own right. There is potential, but a lot will depend on how the community adopts it both the user community and the developer community.
Putting Hive in contrib, also ensures that we are focussed on working within the Hadoop ecosystem and also focussed on making sure that Hive development doesn't lag Hadoop development and that we actively move forward as Hadoop interfaces involved. It ensures that we do not diverge too much from Hadoop releases.
Given all that, it seems desirable that we carry on with the contrib model and monitor this closely to see if it earns the right to being a sub project.
> the sub-project requirements (in terms of PMC involvement) are fairly rigorous
Not really, I'd be happy to kibitz on the mailing lists while things get established. Once you've made a release or two then we can perhaps nominate some Hive folks to the PMC. It is best for each subproject to be represented on the PMC by active committers.
> we can put the 'component' field in the email header
If the component is specified then it is included in every message body, and folks can filter for it there.
> there have already been suggestions on this thread with not having contrib test failures stop acceptance of patches
My preference would not be to treat Hive differently from any other contrib module. If it doesn't fit contrib, then it should be a sub-project. If you think there will be a lot of JIRA traffic that's not of interest to the rest of Hadoop Core then that's a sign that it doesn't belong in Hadoop Core releases and should be a sub-project.
synced up with a few folks working on this internally. in a nutshell - the contributors seem to like the idea of making this a contrib project to begin with.
the sub-project requirements (in terms of PMC involvement) are fairly rigorous and would probably extend the timeline of releasing hive into the hadoop ecosystem. that is our primary concern at this time. as the project matures - it's possible/likely that a sub-project designation is more appropriate.
to address the concerns about email traffic on core-dev - we had a suggestion. if we can put the 'component' field in the email header (Pete found this useful link: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/latest/emailcontent.html) - then client-side mail filtering should be able to isolate hive jira traffic from that of hadoop (or other contrib projects). there have already been suggestions on this thread with not having contrib test failures stop acceptance of patches - and that would probably alleviate the other major concern around slowing core development down. would these address most of the concerns that are motivating the sandbox/sub-project discussion?
i dont think we will see a lot of traffic on core-users mailing list (based on the follow up traffic from Ashish's posting of the hive language tutorial) - but we will just have to see how that turns out.
There is already a jira to publish pom files from Hadoop in
HADOOP-3305. We need to clean up our reference to the cli-2 stuff first. I've started a patch for that one.
> I know... I wish they did.
Please file a separate issue. If you can, attach a patch there so that hadoop's build generates maven artifacts. Then we'd need documentation added to HowToRelease describing how to publish maven artifacts, and to convince those that produce Hadoop releases that it is worth their while to generate and publish them.
I know... I wish they did. The first thing I did was get it in the local repository so I could use it in maven build environment - I see others on the mail list do this too.
Would it break any licensing for someone to put it in a public repository? Hive could for example put it up in their own and reference that in their pom.
> Maven! It is so simple to change dependency versions and then when Hadoop increments to say 0.18, [...]
Hadoop Core does not currently publish Maven artifacts.
> Initially the project will be very active.
Sounds like a sub-project might be called for.
> can someone post details on how sub-projects are organized in terms of source code organization/checkin rules/branching etc. ?
Look at HBase and Zookeeper for examples. A sub-project has it's own trunk, branches and tags in subversion, and releases separately. It has its own mailing lists and jira instance. It has a separate list of committers. All Hadoop subprojects are overseen by the Hadoop PMC. For this to be effective, each subproject should have several PMC members who are active on it, ideally three or more. Creation of a new sub-project requires a vote of the PMC and should be discussed on firstname.lastname@example.com, while creation of a contrib module is generally handled much like any other patch.
If Hive were a sub-project, it would probably include Hadoop Core jars in it's lib/ directory. Hive releases would lag Hadoop Core releases.
"also looking for some advice on how we can organize things so that (say medium term) we can do releases independent of hadoop."
Maven! It is so simple to change dependency versions and then when Hadoop increments to say 0.18, you change your pom to reflect this and it is all seamless for us all.
Really this is what maven is great for.
- Initially the project will be very active. We expect lots of bug fixes and features for the first few months. So if that is a concern - then a sub-project may be better suited.
- the concern with sourceforge wasn't so much the act of setting up a project there - but rather the source code organization. we are using hadoop core and other libraries in hadoop/lib liberally and just haven't gone through the exercise of thinking through how we would manage those dependencies if Hive were completely separate.
can someone post details on how sub-projects are organized in terms of source code organization/checkin rules/branching etc. ?
also looking for some advice on how we can organize things so that (say medium term) we can do releases independent of hadoop.
> Yes, a sandbox is still a Hadoop sub-project [ ... ]
Contrib is our de-facto sandbox today. I am not personally interested in setting up and managing a separate sandbox, nor have I yet heard other volunteers on the PMC.
I also think we should separate these two issues: how to manage contrib/sandbox long-term, and how to import Hive short-term.
> Without some process changes like sandbox I'm against bring hive into contrib, since it will add overhead to core hadoop work.
If it does, then we could move it to a subproject. As Owen stated, the reason such a move was delayed for HBase was that, as a Lucene subproject, Hadoop could not create sub-sub-projects. But now, as a TLP, we can easily and quickly create sub-projects when they're needed. So I don't see this as a major liability.
I still think the two viable options are contrib or sub-project. I don't have a strong opinion. It depends on what activity level we expect. If it is to be relatively low-activity, a contrib module is appropriate. If it has enough activity to support separate mailing lists, releases, etc., then a sub-project makes sense. In either case, we'll first make a guess, then adapt if we've made a mistake. A mistake is not fatal or even critical here, but minor.
PS If the PMC thinks going straight to a sub-project makes sense, that is fine with me too. But checking big systems under active development into contrib does not work well IMO.
After having dealt with the issues of HBASE in contrib, I really like the sandbox approach. It addresses the many and repeated challenges we experienced with HBASE.
The idea I think is that all or at least most contrib projects would go there. We would get them off the primary lists and would have a clearer separation on hudson, mail etc. We could call the sub-project contrib or commons or incubator whatever to make it clear that it is a place for nacent sub-projects, that are not part of the Hadoop core code. Its hard for me to understand why we would check in complete systems built ontop of hadoop, like Hive, into core.
Without some process changes like sandbox I'm against bring hive into contrib, since it will add overhead to core hadoop work. But I really want us to find a way to encourage this and many more projects that build on Hadoop to share their work with the community.
The argument that we should put Hive in contrib because it is easier than going to source forge or google code really alarms me! Starting a project on those sites is trivial and requires a lot less commitment than signing up to be a good member of the apache hadoop community. Separating the mailing lists and builds of contrib from core would reduce the impact of such projects on the core hadoop community substantially, but not to zero. You are signing up for a lot more by putting your project here than these other sites!
We do not have it in a public svn yet
We are still fixing a few issues, but we are very close to getting this out.
Reading all the discussions, contrib seems to be a good first step. Are we then good to go with that approach?
I would second that - contrib seems like the easiest way to get it out and tried and tested, and as support grows, split it out to it's own project.
Is it in any publicly accessible SVN now?
guys.. whatever is the easiest way to get this puppy into the open source.
If doug thinks it should be in contrib to start off, then stick it there. It isn't a final decision, and there is only a little bit of disruption (judged on the hbase case) if you want to split it out into a sub project later on.
Is there an actual code drop available?
Yes, a sandbox is still a Hadoop sub-project. All I'm saying is that it could perhaps be a home for multiple nascent projects. Hive would be one such, it could become a sub-project in it's own right once it gains sufficient critical mass i.e. reaches a community determined bar.
Sameer, I still don't understand what the difference between a sandbox and a sub-project would be. A sandbox would have its own mailing lists, jira, website, and releases, administered by the Hadoop PMC. That's a Hadoop sub-project, no?
> What's the bar? Releases need to be approved by the Hadoop PMC, and, more generally, the PMC must monitor all activity in the project.
> I don't see how a sandbox designation would help oversight.
It's for the community to decide what the bar is. It's clearly lower than that required for a TLP. What's the bar for moving something from contrib to a sub-project? It's not well defined, but can be thought about and made concrete. Sandbox projects wouldn't create traffic on the core lists and wouldn't hold up core patches or releases. The patch process can be modified to not consider contrib tests for core patches. But core releases would not be possible without contrib tests passing.
> We don't need more options. We have well-understood options that serve us well: core, contrib, sub-projects, TLPs, etc.
We have well understood options, all of whose shortcomings have been discussed in this thread. It may be that no better way exists, but I don't follow the reasoning behind spontaneously rejecting all proposals.
> Another option would be to create a sandbox sub-project.
> A sandbox project that meets some bar could become a sub-project.
What's the bar? Releases need to be approved by the Hadoop PMC, and, more generally, the PMC must monitor all activity in the project. I don't see how a sandbox designation would help oversight.
We don't need more options. We have well-understood options that serve us well: core, contrib, sub-projects, TLPs, etc. We need to choose one. The Hive folks seem happy with contrib. I'm willing to try that. If it becomes a problem, we'll switch to something else.
Another option would be to create a sandbox sub-project. This would serve as an incubator of sorts for entities that wanted to be Hadoop sub-projects with it's own mailing lists and builds. A sandbox project that meets some bar could become a sub-project. Don't know if this is possible or has a precedent in Apache. It would have the advantage of enabling us to mostly decouple administration from Hadoop Core.
It should be possible to set up Hudson so that sandbox regressions run regularly against the Hadoop trunk.
> Would it be possible to have a separate email list for contrib projects [ ... ]
I'd rather keep the rule that separate lists are reserved for separate subprojects.
Ideally we would like it to be in contrib for the same reasons that Owen outlined:
- easy (low setup)
- hadoop api's are not frozen yet - so being part of the tree and having regression tests run regularly against hadoop trunk makes it easy for us to respond to api changes. For the same reason - we like Doug's idea of running contrib tests via Hudson as a separate (nightly job)
- we are not set on being a TLP - just want to get it out there.
The point about swamping the core-dev list with contrib jiras is well taken. Would it be possible to have a separate email list for contrib projects (at least the high volume ones)? It would benefit the contrib authors as well in not having to parse tons of core hadoop jiras.
At this point we have also invested a lot of effort in fitting into the contrib source tree model - so the sourceforge model sounds a little daunting (I imagine Zookeeper is more or less independent of Hadoop? - but Hive is totally intertwined with map-reduce/dfs).
> Owen: In particular, I don't think we should run the contrib unit tests for our patches.
Hmm. We might still run them, but not fail a core patch if a contrib test fails. Or perhaps run them as a separate job in Hudson. We still want contrib to build and pass tests, and regular Hudson tests are a good way to achieve this.
> Eric I'd suggest a project like Hive take either the path ZooKeeper or Pig took.
As Owen pointed out, the Pig path (incubator) isn't required here, unless Hive wants to be a TLP (as Pig did at the time). The Zookeeper path (new Hadoop subproject) is available. I don't have a strong preference. If Hive is incorporated as a contrib module and it generates too much mailing list traffic on core lists, that's a success disaster that we can remedy by promoting it to a subproject. Or if folks feel confident from the start that it will sustain a subproject and are willing to create the infrastructure for that, that's fine too. As Owen mentioned, a subproject takes more time, to create a JIRA instance, mailing lists, web site, etc, especially if the folks involved are not already familiar with how these things are done at Apache. But it's not that hard.
The straight to subproject path is only available if the code base is from a single organization. Non-Apache projects that want to become Apache projects need to go through the incubator. Getting out of incubator takes a fair amount of effort.
Another serious advantage for the hbase approach was that the hbase contributors got trained in the way that the Hadoop process and community works. That didn't happen for pig and the training took longer. Hbase had its first release after 2 months and pig hasn't released yet. Also the process and infrastructure overhead was much much lower for creating hbase than pig or zookeeper. It would take an hour to create Hive as a contrib module and a month to create it as a subproject. I agree with the disadvantages though that if the project gets busy, it can start to swamp the hadoop jiras and mailing lists. Certainly, we would have pushed HBase to a subproject much sooner if Hadoop hadn't been a subproject of Lucene at the time.
If we are going to take Hive in contrib, I think we probably should disengage our process a bit from the current model. In particular, I don't think we should run the contrib unit tests for our patches. The only downside to that is that we should probably promote streaming and data_join into map/reduce, which will take some cleanup.
Hi Folks,
What follows are some thoughts I have on the general situation in Hadoop of adding big projects like Hive to core/contrib. I don't think this is a scalable way forward and would like to use this submission as an opportunity to discuss the general challenges involved in welcoming new projects into the Hadoop family.
We've now seen 3 Hadoop projects take different courses with different results:
1) HBASE - This went into contrib. It sat there for a number of months in active development before becoming a subproject. ADVANTAGES: Good publicity for project. DISADVANTAGES: Since it was very active, it frequently broke the hadoop core build and became a significant fraction of hadoop-dev message traffic. This was somewhat disruptive to core development. IMO this does not scale. If we had several such projects running at once in core/contrib they would drown out the main dev community.
2) Pig - Pig went directly into the apache incubator and has ambitions to graduate to a Hadoop sub-project. ADVANTAGES: Low overhead to the hadoop community, lots of training for the committers on the Apache way. DISADVANTAGES: Less visible than HBASE, high upfront investment in project setup, review, committer training, approval, ...
3) ZooKeeper - It was shared by its developers outside of apache under the BSD & then apache licenses, first as a posting on the Yahoo Research website and then as a source forge project. ADVANTAGES: Super low cost to start, fewer restrictions to share code than incubation, ... DISADVANTAGES: Less visible than HBASE.
From these experiences, I think checking in major projects that build on Hadoop into core contrib is not the most productive way to host them. If they are active, they can be very disruptive during their formation. A project should have its own email lists, tests, branches, etc, independent of Hadoop mainline.
The main advantage of putting projects in core seems to be to increase their visibility to the Hadoop community. I'd suggest we discuss other mechanisms. Long term I hope to see something like cpan.org emerge for hadoop. But short term we have not IDed an entity to host such a site.
Absent that, I'd suggest a project like Hive take either the path ZooKeeper or Pig took. As a community we could take some simple steps to address the short comings of these approaches. An obvious step would be to invest in a well linked Wiki section that provides a directory of such projects.
What do folks this of this? Other thoughts? Suggestions?
Tutorial on the capabilities of Hive. This is a pdf of internal documentation and contains query, dml and ddl examples as well as the overview of the system. A formal language spec, architecture documents and roadmaps will follow. This document gives the initial preview of the system and hopefully will seed a lot of interesting discussion/questions etc. around this system.
0.19 feature freeze is the first Friday of September. HBase was checked into Hadoop's contrib directory for a couple of releases before it was really usable.
Ok. Apart from the unit tests, there is no other stipulation, right? In all probability we would have actually tested it out in our production environment on an earlier release of hadoop, even though the code could out with 0.19. When is 0.19 scheduled to be branched?
We commit new features into trunk and branch the release from the trunk on the feature freeze day. Only bug fixes are down ported to the release branches, not new features. The soonest that Hive could be in a release would be 0.19.
It does not have to be complete to be checked in, but it does need to compile and pass any unit tests that it defines. It would be fine to make this jira the initial check in and have follow up ones that make it usable.
Contrib will be a good place for hive. Once it gains attention, we will move it to incubation or adopt it as sub project. However since 0.17 is out and 0.17.1 will be out soon, I do not think we can maintain it in 0.17 branch. I guess it will initially be committed to trunk, to be introduced in 0.18.
Forgot to mention:
- we will shortly post the query language spec here as well as any relevant design documents.
- as soon as possible - will make a patch possible that provides basic functionality so people can start playing around.


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Is it safe to assume that even where you're from in Indiana, the phrase "going on vacation" is still more commonly used than "going on a holiday"? If I was to randomly hear the latter from an American, I would assume they just got asked "When are you going?"
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Skillful snowcat operators prowl the night, artfully manipulating the snow for our skiing and boarding pleasure.
When most people think of farming, Carhartt coveralls and Kubota tractors come to mind. But if you consider farming to be cultivating what Mother Nature provides and then harvesting it for the good of man, well, then, that describes perfectly the work of the snow farmers.
Snow farmers tend our winter snows, sculpting the mountains for our skiing and boarding pleasure. Rather than tractors, they maneuver sleek, Italian-designed Prinoth snowcats, as they style our slopes with the skill of a Jermyn Street bespoke tailor. Each night, they move, mold, groove and groom the snow into perfectly proportioned pipes for hucking, and they level manicured trails for carving. Their efforts each season allow the snow riders to experience excellent conditions and the ski operators to get the most monetary yields from the winter harvest.
"We owe them our season," says Aspen Skiing Company Vice President of Mountain Operations Rich Burkley. "They are our MVPs."
Each night, while Aspen wines, dines, loves and lives, the mountains hum with the purr of Prinoths and the swoosh of snow guns, which serve to enhance the moisture from Pacific storms. When we step into the gondola or head up a chairlift in the morning, it is just the start of another splendid ski day. But for snow farmers, dawn signals the end of a solitary graveyard shift spent toiling on dark, dangerous slopes in subfreezing temperatures.
"It's a different world out there," says Aspen Mountain Trails Director Joey Giampaolo, who has been tending the snow crop there since 1992. "On big weather nights—I mean you're really out in it. Some people don't get [the allure of the work], but it's kind of secluded and peaceful."
In lean snow years, the trick is to get the most from the least. Snow farmers use local knowledge to collect the snow where it falls and disperse it to areas that need it most. "At the bottom of Elkhorn, there is a lip that forms in the wind," says Giampaolo. "We cut that off and drag the snow to where we need it." They borrow from the dumps to seed Spar Gulch on Ajax, or they feather powder from the perimeter of the Powerline Glades into the heart of Mick's Gully. Finding places where the wind and terrain have conspired to collect the highest accumulations—and sharing that wealth—takes years of experience.
When the dumps come, the task evolves. While safety is always the focus, it becomes paramount as snow is shifted to protect skiers and ski patrollers from potential avalanches and snowfalls. "We address the concerns of the patrol, the ski school, even guests who would like to see particular areas worked on," Giampaolo says. Keeping the groomers smooth while letting the powder dogs ride securely takes precedence. "When you get a big dump, it is luxurious," he says. "There is so much more to work with. We really look forward to deep snow."
Instead of pitchforks and shovels, snow farmers rely on high-tech snow guns and ultrasleek Prinoths to till their fields. The snow guns can blow 24 hours a day if need be, operated mostly by an automated control panel that takes into account temperature, humidity and a bevy of other weather-related conditions to ensure the machines emit snow with just the right ratio of moisture.
According to Burkley, Aspen Skiing Company relies on an all-Italian force to keep the mountain functioning, with 27 Prinoths plying the hillsides at any given time. These snowcats have interior cabs designed by Pininfarina, also an Italian company, and joysticks that allow drivers to place their tillers in just the right spot at just the right time to achieve the perfect pitch. "They're little tanks," Giampaolo laughs, "but we don't lack for comfort—air-ride seats, four-point seatbelts, an iPod jack… some guys even use their satellite radio."
The snow farmers move snow from one place and put it in another, covering the imperfections in pitches. They knock down massive moguls on the steepest slopes and turn them into supple groomers. They magically transform Colorado water into the lightest, driest powder possible. And they create carpets of corduroy that ripple under our boards, giving us a feeling that can only be described as pure joy. Snow farmers are indeed our MVPs.


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Much has been made about why Jeffrey Johnson shot and killed his former boss, Steven Ercolino, outside the Empire State Building last week. According to reports, Johnson felt victimized at work and blamed Ercolino for firing him from Hazan Import Corp.
"Steve and Jeff never got along," co-worker Irene Timan told New York Daily News. "Jeff just didn't like him. He would taunt Steve; throw his elbow or shoulder into him in the hallway. Then they had a little altercation in the elevator and soon after, Jeff was laid off."
Timan described the altercation in the elevator to MSNBC, which paints a different portrait of victim Ercolino.
"Steve was leaving the elevator, Jeff was walking in, and Jeff elbowed him," Timan said. "Steve had finally had enough, so he grabbed Jeff by the throat and said, 'If you ever do anything like this again, I'm going to kill you.' He went down to the precinct and called me from there and he said, 'You're not going to believe this, but Jeff just left and he filed a complaint against me,'" Timan added.
Johnson blamed Ercolino for his failing T-shirt line, and that animosity carried over and led to complaints being filed by both parties, Commissioner Ray Kelly said in a statement.
"Johnson filed a complaint against Ercolino, saying he had a confrontation with him in the lobby of the building. Ercolino filed a complaint, saying he was threatened by Johnson and he possibly threatened to kill him," Kelly explained.
On Friday, as Ercolino approached the Empire State Building where he worked, Johnson opened fire. He shot him a total of five times in the head and once in the chest. A witness to the shooting told the Daily News, "He had something against that guy. He knew what he came to do."
It has been theorized that Johnson deliberately planned the attack, and it's possible that he planned on being killed by police. Before leaving his home in the morning, Johnson turned his key in to the landlord and told him he would not be returning to his home.
Could bullying and a year of financially struggling, have led Johnson to snap and retaliate against Ercolino? The Huffington Post has reported that harassment was a factor in Johnson being fired, and readers have posited that this was "yet another bullying victim who snapped."
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Where do you buy greeting cards? When was the last time you bought a card and what was the card for?
I usually hit up the Hallmark Store or Walmart...I just bought 6 cards for Valentines Day, the husband, kids and future daughter in law. I love cards!
At Party City or Target. The last card I bought was in September for a wedding.
Depends. Sometimes dollar tree, dollar store, Walmart, Walgreen's, or whatever store I am in if I am buying a gift that also sells greeting cards.
Last time I bought a greeting card was months ago to accompany a baby shower gift at Target.
I usually don't buy cards, just when one of the kids is invited to a b-day party. Those are usually gotten wherever we get the gift. I do send a couple of friends a pick-me-up card once or twice a yr. I usually end up getting those at CVS.
The Dollar Tree or Walmart or Fred Meyer. The last card I bought was an Anniversary card for DH last month.
The Dollar Tree is great for buying random greeting cards 2 for $1.00. I stock up on Wedding, New Baby and graduation cards....
I buy a box at BJ's once every few years. I don't send them often.


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I dont know why I ever agreed to this. Lying here on the slightly damp grass under the bleachers trying to listen in on the Ravenclaw quidditch teams training, was not how I wanted to spend my Saturday morning. I would have much rather have been cooped up in bed dreaming about being a pirate or a dragon. But no, here I am at 6:30am on a Saturday morning, listening into the Ravenclaws planning for their game against Gryffindor. And its all because of James and his toast.
Maybe I should explain.
Basically I hate mornings, I believe anything before 10am should not exist, pity school actually starts at 8:30 8:30! Whoever actually thought that such an early hour was a great time to start class was mental. Its cruelty I swear. The fact that school started at such an ungodly hour also meant that breakfast was over far too quickly. Which was why I was currently racing down from the Gryffindors common room to actually catch the last 10 minutes of my favourite meal of the day. Well, maybe not so much my favourite meal, it just had my favourite food as a major component of it. That food being toast. I adored toast, it was just amazing with its large array of different spreads, what could possibly be bad about toast?
So thats why I was running, I had all of ten minutes to get down seven stories of temperamental pmsing - stairs to the great hall for toast, or face the prospect of a day completely void of substance and be grouchy and stubborn the entire time. I did not do well without toast.
Just to my exquisitely bad luck or because they had it out for me probably from the amount of times I have complained about them having temper tan, the stairs decided they would have a little fun and delay my journey by pointing everywhere but the great hall. One was pointing to the 5th floor left hand corridor for god sake! There was nothing there but a possible troll and a room that smelled like dead socks. I have a slight inkling that the room that smelled god awful was where Professor Binns died, but whenever I question him on this theory he always gives me detention.
I was literally two minutes past breakfast when I made it to breakfast and to my absolute horror there was no toast left. None, no even a single crumb that I could awkwardly steal off someones plate to at least satisfy me until after my morning classes, when I could sneak down to the kitchen and beg the House Elves to give me toast.
Feeling utterly miserable over the lack of toast I missed James leaning against the wall next to the massive doors that lead into the Great Hall. I was currently facing the prospect of going to potions without toast. Facing the head of biased head of Slytherin was bad on an average day, let alone on one without breakfast.
Gemma, look what I have. Said James. I spun around on the balls of my feet, almost overbalancing and falling forward on to the cold hard floor that lay beneath my feet. Gaining my balance I looked back up at the boy in question and almost gasped. In his outstretched hand, dangling just out of my reach was a lovely piece of toast with butter.
Now, dont get me wrong I liked Jam and toast or other assorted spreads just as much as the next person but nothing was better then good old fashion butter and toast. And the blighter that was James Sirius Potter knew that very well. I was friends with his cousin Rose, which meant we sat in the same general vicinity at the Gryffindor table.
Perceptive Bastard.
Sighing, I watched his face, the only reason he would have saved me a piece of toast was cause he wanted something, James Potter did not do things out of the kindness of his heart. Kindness only came when he bribed someone or was getting some action out of it.
What do you want James. I said with a little to much sourness in my voice. I hated having to do favours for James, it was aggravating. The boy asked the strangest things sometimes and if you said no, he had a million different ways to make you do something up his sleeve as Plan B. I dont know why he isnt in Slytherin.
Cant a get you a piece of toast without having something up my sleeve Gemmi? He asked innocently, pushing off the wall to stand next too me.
Honesty? I asked, looking up at him, he looked down hopefully, still pretending to be an innocent 7th year without hidden agendas. No. I finished, turning to walk off, the toast wasnt worth whatever James wanted me to do. If I just walked away now, my brain wont be hindered by the delicious smell it was emitting.
Im hurt Gemmi, I cant believe you would think I would be mean to a member of my team. He put on an offended face as he followed me down the corridor towards my class. Did this boy not have lessons?
Yes, I do believe you would. You make us practice at 6am on Monday mornings. Like they arent bad enough! I hated Mondays, I loved Quidditch but I was sick of doing drills at 6am on Monday mornings.
Thats for the good of the team, we have to win this year! He said, I wasnt going to push him on the matter, Captian James was not a person you wanted to see, he was evil. Plain and simple, he thrived on our pain. It almost made you want to break down and quit. Almost.
Yeah, I know, you have only drilled it into our heads a hundred times. We were almost outside my potion class now, if I didnt want to get away from James and his bribe I would have taken a lot longer to get here. But even potions was better then whatever James had concocted.
James pouted at my comment but quickly lightened up, I hope it wasnt because he remembered why he was here.
Gemmi, please, I just need you to spy on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team is all. I want to know what Als plays are. He whined, god he could be such a baby sometimes.
You want me to what? I exclaimed, a little too loudly, I understood completely why he wanted me to do it, but it still seemed wrong.
Spy on Ravenclaw, nothing too big. He shrugged, in my opinion the boy was mental, he needed help.
James, If I was caught I could get chucked off the team. THE TEAM JAMES! I yelled, I didnt care who heard now. I loved my quidditch more then I loved toast. Well probably, I hadn't really tested it yet.
Well dont get caught. This was so simple for him, the idiot didnt understand that if anyone was going to get caught spying, it would be me. Karma and me are not friends, it took pride in screwing me over whenever possible.
I will not do it James. I stated crossing my arms and taking a stand. I was at least a head shorter then him, but I wouldnt go down without a fight. Okay I would, but I would at least go down screaming till the end. Someone will save me! Probably, if they had a heart. So not Rose, she would just laugh. Maybe Dom if she heard. Or Slytherins, they had more of a heart then Rose. Did I mention before that my best friend was heartless? No? Well she is.
Please Gemma, Please! He whined, waving the toast infront of my face. Delicious toast. What was I saying no to again? Oh yes, spying.
No I said, I would not fall to Jamess bribery. I wouldnt, no matter how good it was.
PLEASE, pretty please!
Thats it, I give up, I just want that toast so bad. It just smells so delicious.
Fine. I sighed, putting my hand out for the toast. As I said before, you cant say no to James, may as well give in while toast was still on offer.
YAY! You wont regret this Gemma. He was too gleeful. Like a 5 year old that just got a new toy car. Damn him, he knew this was the ending. Snatching the toast from his hand I started munching on it.
I hate you sometimes James. I said with a mouth full of toast. I never said I was polite, politeness is too much work.
No you don't, no one can hate me. He said. I rolled my eyes, the boy was full of himself. Someone needed to deflate his ego before his head exploded. Pity I didnt have a needle.
Whatever James, see you round, if Im not in detention or getting attacked by Ravenclaw after being caught spying on their quidditch team. I stated, turning on my heels and almost stomping towards the door to potions.
At least I had my toast.
So, thats how I got here. Lying on the cold, slightly damn grass. Listening into the Ravenclaws planning was rather boring, they were all very complicated, it was like each member was on a card for one of those muggle card games where it displayed their strengths and weaknesses. The only reason James wanted me to spy was to find out who would be against who, the actual technique spying he had already been doing.
From lying here, I couldnt help but notice the similarity between James and Albus as captains; they were both strict and grueling to their teammates. They also both loved 6am in the morning apparently.
In all honesty what I would really give for right now was to be able to see into the changing rooms where they were having their discussion. If I was going to be a spy then it was only fair that I got something out of it, and looking at fit boys was definitely something.
Commando crawling forward to get a better look into the changing rooms, I didnt notice the sudden silence when I moved. I only noticed something was up in the large changing room when I could just make out hushed voices talking to each other as I saw shadows move in my direction.
This couldnt be good.
Starting to commando crawl away, I was hoping to god that he would let me get away from this place fast enough to not get caught.
Apparently god prefers to laugh at me.
All of a sudden I was pulled up from my hiding spot by my collar, it was rather rough if I may say so and I didnt particularly appreciate it. Looking up intending to complain about my rough treatment I noticed that the boy who had my top in his hands was none other then Albus Potter. It made me glad I was the not so well known Gryffindor Chaser. Maybe he didnt know me, maybe.
Why hello Gemma. He said, the Potters trademark smirk on his face.
Damn karma, always got to go and be a bitch.
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No sooner had the chants inviting Jim Jefferies to cheer up died down than the Hibernian support were muted.
The tension at Easter Road seemed to be dissipating, with a nine-point chasm between them and Jefferies' Dunfermline Athletic looming tantalisingly into view, and up popped Nicky Law to hit a rasping volley for an equaliser. And there went two points.
"I thought we deserved it [the win]," said Hibernian manager Pat Fenlon. "We were very good in the first half and I am disappointed we didn't hang on. It will give the players confidence. It is a better cushion than we had a few weeks ago but it is still not in the bag. We're trying to make sure the players are comfortable. They played a lot better today and it's important they try and keep that going."
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For Hibs, the five games left still carry a threat. The seven points between them and bottom-of-the-league Dunfermline may appear significant enough, but with 15 to play for, nothing is certain.
If they hang on by the skin of their teeth there will be no complaints, but it is hard to get away from the fact that it has been a wretched season for the Easter Road side.
One moment in the second half perhaps summed that up, as Pa Kujabi spent an age teeing up a 35-yard free kick only to hit the ball towards the corner flag – a reminder perhaps of why Hibs are in a precarious position.
Motherwell, by contrast, have been basking in the plaudits that come with fighting at the top end of the Clydesdale Bank Premier League, but their losses to Rangers and Kilmarnock have given the impression of a team running out of steam.
As the league splits in two, the point from Easter Road will aid their campaign for third – and the Champions League qualifying spot – although St Johnstone, Dundee United and Hearts are close enough to cause Stuart McCall's side some jitters.
A venomous free-kick from Garry O'Connor just before the half-hour mark had given Hibs a goal advantage, and added to the conviction with which they appeared to have started the game, only to repeatedly find their undoing came in the final third.
Ivan Sproule used his pace to great effect, cajoling Keith Lasley into the foul from which O'Connor scored and, while Leigh Griffiths seems to come with a perennial petted lip, the on-loan Wolves winger offered Hibs a significant outlet on the flank. Too often, though, balls were hit into a box devoid of green jerseys.
Motherwell bothered Hibs more in the second half, and Chris Humphrey was a persistent nuisance to the home defence with his pace but, had Tom Soares' effort not bounced off the bar, things would have been different.
However, with 81 minutes played Soares headed out Lasley's cross only for Law to pounce on the edge of the box to dispatch a ferocious volley past the despairing hand of Graham Stack. The setback notwithstanding, there was still time for Hibs to turn things to their advantage once again.
Jonathan Page, booked in the first half for a late challenge on the Hibs goalkeeper, was dismissed in the final minutes after blocking Roy O'Donovan, but from the resultant free-kick O'Connor blasted high over the bar – and that, as they say, was that.
McCall now has the challenge of grasping that Champions League spot and, with five points between Motherwell and St Johnstone, it is to be expected that they will see it out.
"Probably got what we deserved? Have you seen the possession stats?" he joked when asked whether a draw was just about right. "Once we got the goal back we wanted to go on and win it."
So while both managers will stake a claim to this game, they will, however, agree that there is still much to play for.


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Commercial rates hike sparks heated debate
AN increase in commercial rates was a tough sell for county manager Philomena Poole when the 2014 budget was presented to Louth County Councillors last week.
The proposed 0.5% increase saw members threatening not to support the budget as the plight of retailers and business people struggling to regain stability was highlighted.
The manager explained that the provision for commercial rates next year was based on an increase of 0.05% in the annual rate in valuation from 55.08 to 55.38.
'Louth County Council currently has the third lowest rate in valuation of all county councils,' said Ms. Poole, adding that this rate has been held since 2010.
She explained that it was a vital increase as other sources of income are reducing year on year, including the closure of the landfill and the reduction in the local government fund.
With the amalgamation of the councils taking place in mid 2014, the manager explained that this increase was necessary for the 'realignment' of rates within the county to bring all rates within the county and urban areas in line.
'To achieve this a base rate will be set by the council for the 2015 budget. This local authority will have a limited period to bring their rates to the agreed base year.'
She pointed out that this base rate must be achieved over the next 10 years.
Cllr. Alan Grehan told the meeting: 'To send out the message that we are increasing the rate is the wrong message.'
'Rents are at an historic low, yet we are sending out the message that rates are only going one way, and I can't support that.'
Cllr. Martin Murnaghan explained that business people in Louth had only experienced an increase in trade over the last few months.
'So to put rates up now is a lot to ask people who are trying to make up for four or five years of nothing happening. Instead of increasing rates by 0.5%, we should be cutting them 2.5%.'
Cllr. Frank Godfrey also criticised the rate increase, saying that it should be cut by up to 5%.
Cllr. Pio Smith asked if there had been any analysis carried out on the impact of a rate increase across Louth?
Cllr. Peter Savage agreed that there appeared to be no indication as to what effect this rise in the commercial rate would be.
Cllr. Tommy Byrne added: 'I don't know for the life of me how people are going to be able to pay the increased rate. I am going to find it hard to support the budget as a result.'
Cllr. Colm Markey asked if it were possible to look at any form of discount for rates payers who made their payments early.
But finance officer Bernie Woods said that rates legislation was set in stone.
She added that the council will always work with people who are struggling to pay, and can set up payment plans, which many business people already have done across the county.
But she pointed out that there was no way in which to provide discounts, or alleviate rates for those who are in a difficult situation.
After a heated debate councillors agreed to the 0.5% increase in the commercial rates for 2014.
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