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The business community is fearing the worst after the surprise move by the Commonwealth Bank to lift its mortgage lending rates.
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Topics: banking, business-economics-and-finance, australia
ALI MOORE, PRESENTER: The business community is fearing the worst after the surprise move by the Commonwealth Bank last week to lift its mortgage lending rates.
Speculation is mounting that other banks will follow suite and analysts believe it's only a matter of time before business rates also rise, regardless of future moves in official rates.
Andrew Robertson reports.
ANDREW ROBERTSON, REPORTER: The Commonwealth Bank's decision to unilaterally lift its mortgage rates is being seen by the business community as an ominous sign of what lies ahead.
Business largely missed out when home lending rates were slashed over the last nine months and is far from happy at the prospect of higher charges.
RICHARD EVANS, AUSTRALIAN RETAILERS ASSOC: Our folks are resigned to the fact that they're in for a hard time. They're working their way through it, but they just want a little bit more flexibility and maybe new products and some more 'out of the box' thinking from these banks.
ANDREW ROBERTSON: According to a recent survey of the Association's members in the period where official interest rates have more than halved, 50 per cent of small retailers have received no reduction in the interest rate on their business loans. 70 per cent have had no cut in the rate on their overdraft and 96 per cent have had no lowering of their credit card rates.
And banking analyst Martin North says the outlook is not any better.
MARTIN NORTH, FUJITSU CONSULTING: Even if the Reserve Bank decided to move rates lower, I think it would probably not translate into lower rates for the commercial customers. In the medium term we're going to see rates going up, not down.
ANDREW ROBERTSON: According to Martin North what will send interest rates up is the simple economic law of supply and demand for money.
MARTIN NORTH: Governments around the world, companies around the world and banks around the world are all rapidly trying to grab more funds and the cost of those funds, because of supply and demand, are going up. The long term rate is higher than it's been for quite a few months. That's the thing that's underlying the conundrum that the banks face.
ANDREW ROBERTSON: Which was the justification used by the Commonwealth Bank on Friday to lift mortgage rates. However East & Partners' Zoran Knesevic believes the borrowing situation isn't that black and white.
ZORAN KNESEVIC, EAST & PARTNERS: In terms of the wider, broader environment, that seems to be stabilising. So I wouldn't think that it's working against the banks. You know, it is working in their favour.
ANDREW ROBERTSON: And Zoran Knesevic says recent suggestions from the banks that they may soon be able to live without the Government's guarantee for their borrowing suggests a grab for profits was part of the reason behind the Commonwealth's actions.
ZORAN KNESEVIC: It is a little at odds the fact they're saying,"We don't need the guarantee, "on the other hand saying, "Our funding costs have gone up."
ANDREW ROBERTSON: For retailers especially, one of the big concerns from the Commonwealth Bank's move is that if home loan rates are increasing, shoppers will put their wallets away.
MARTIN NORTH: Right now, consumer confidence is increasing. What we need now is the positive messages from Government and also other corporates to maintain that good consumer sentiment.
Any bad news associated with interest rates or a reduction of cash in the system is a negative to business conditions and also in particular retailers.
ANDREW ROBERTSON: For now business has its fingers crossed the other big banks won't be joining the Commonwealth in sending any negative messages of their own.


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Terrified residents were urged to stay in their homes for a second day today after tigers, lions, bears and hippos escaped from their pens following freak floods killing around 12 people.
Three zoo keepers were among the victims including Guliko Chitadze, who lost an arm in an attack by a tiger last month.
Tragically nine residents also died in heavy flooding which destroyed enclosures at Tbilisi's zoo in Georgia allowing up to 30 beasts to escape on Sunday.
Today residents have been warned to stay indoors as dozens of dangerous beasts continued to roam the city streets, in what has been dubbed a "Jumanji situation".
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The animal has since been captured after being tranquilised by zoo officers.
Some creatures were killed by cops including a rare breed of white lion cub and six wolves roaming the grounds of a nearby children's hospital.
But many more are still on the loose.
And the army has been drafted in, in a desperate bid to regain control of the city, home to more than 1million people.
Two of the flood victims are believed to have been swept away by the devastating deluge.
At least 24 people were still missing and 37 were taken to hospital with injuries, Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri told an emergency government meeting.
Monday was declared a day of national mourning as a frantic search for survivors continued.
Heavy rainfall caused the Vere River, which snakes through the city, to burst its banks around midnight last night.
It has caused an estimated £6.4million worth of damage and left dozens of families homeless.
Mayor David Narmaniya said attempts to secure the area were continuing this morning.
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by Tom Taulli | December 5, 2013 10:26 am
Baidu (BIDU[1]) spent the first half of 2013 mostly treading water. But the stock took off in July, thanks to strong earnings as well as a growing mobile business. For the year so far, BIDU stock has gained about 66%.
Investors have shown a renewed interest in China stocks, lately — even the IPOs have done quite well, as seen with 58.com (WUBA[2]) and Sungy (GOMO[3]). BIDU also got a piece of the action in late October, when the company issued stock in majority-owned Qunar.com (QUNR[4]), which is travel fare comparison service. QUNR is up roughly 80% since its IPO.
Investors seem to be less worried about some of the nagging issues about accounting fraud and instead are looking at the huge growth potential of China.
So is BIDU still a good deal at current levels? To see, let's take a look at the pros and cons:
Online Search: BIDU is the dominant player in online search, but it knows that it must continue to innovate. Some of the company's latest efforts include improved natural language processing, image recognition and voice systems. BIDU has been building Big Data technology to better predict what users are searching for, as well as adding richer content, which should allow for more opportunities to monetize its traffic. One example is the company's partnerships with more than 700 hospitals. With this, BIDU can provide value-added services like online advisory, appointment bookings and online reviews.
Mobile: BIDU has been late to the mobile game, but the company has made great strides in catching up. It certainly helps that the company already has a strong brand, a powerful infrastructure and many talented engineers. BIDU has invested significantly in building a mobile ecosystem — tools and resources for developers, who can create useful native apps. Distribution is also key, and BIDU recently purchased 91 Wireless, which has a large mobile distribution footprint. With that acquisition, BIDU now logs about 80 million app installs every day.
Growth: Growth remains robust. In the latest quarter, revenues jumped by 42.3% to $1.4 billion. And for Q4, the company sees revenues increasing anywhere between 45.5% to 49.6%. All in all, it looks like BIDU is benefiting nicely from the growth in mobile in China. While it's true that profits have been muted, that's to be expected from a company like BIDU — in order to build a solid foundation for mobile, the company needs to make substantial investments.
Competition: In the Chinese market, Google (GOOG[5]) has been a non-factor since it left the market a few years ago. But competition remains intense. Perhaps the most formidable is Qihoo (QIHU[6]), which launched a search engine in August 2012. Since then, QIHU has gained lots of traction and now has more than 20% of the market. BIDU has lagged in key areas, including social networking and messaging apps. For the most part, these categories have strong operators like Weibo, Weixinm and Tencent.
China Factor: Much of BIDU's revenues come from China, and while the Chinese market is huge, the company will eventually need to go beyond the borders. But unlike other companies — like Tencent — BIDU has had mixed success in global markets. With China showing sings of a slowdown, BIDU could be in trouble. China is also in the midst of major reforms, which could be wild card for BIDU. In other words, a shift in government policy could favor competitors.
Valuation: With the rally, BIDU stock is now trading at a hefty level. The price-to-earnings ratio is a pricey 34X — and with no dividend payout to sweeten the deal. In comparison, Google's P/E is at 28X and Apple (AAPL[7]) has a multiple of only 14X.
There are certainly some issues with BIDU stock. The company has been slow with social networking and chat services, and the valuation is far from cheap.
But the fact is that BIDU has done a tremendous job transitioning to mobile apps. The company says it is now the No. 1 player in the market, and the total installed base for its search app is more than 330 million — up 50% on a quarter-over-quarter basis. At the same time, China's Internet population continues to grow. In the past year, it rose by 10% to 591 million. About 20% access the web via mobile devices.
So should you buy BIDU? Yes — if you want to benefit from the mobile revolution in China, the stock's pros outweigh the cons.
Tom Taulli runs the InvestorPlace blog IPO Playbook[8]. He is also the author of High-Profit IPO Strategies[9], All About Commodities[10] and All About Short Selling[11]. Follow him on Twitter at @ttaulli[12]. As of this writing, he did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
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Hello! This is my build for jungling evelynn, overall she is a really strong champion that causes terror because you never know when she is two feet away from you :D. However she is extremely squishy.
I run standard AS reds Armor Yellows and MR blues. Quints i run 1 life steal quint and 2 armor pen quints.
I run 0-21-9 masteries since you don't need that much damage for eve if you have the right runes and use your q correctly.
Jungle item; Lizard since the changes made her a hybrid champion you might as well go ad for the speed clearing and damage in ganks
Damage items; Triforce and Hexdrinker/Maw since they give you not only damage but some tank stats that work with her kidTank items; Spirit visage, Randuin's and Thornmail since they are some of the best tank items and help when you dive into the team to get to the back line
Skill Sequence
You want to max out q first since it is your main source of damage besides auto attacks and for clearing the jungle. You put a point in your w at level 4 since that is when you run around and start ganking.
Pros / Cons
Strong champion
can be built ad, ap or tank
Strong ganks
Fun to play
Team Work
You want to put down a lot of early game pressure as eve but not die all the time you need to find the perfect mix. Gank whichever lane you're closest to after clearing your buffs and getting level 3 or 4.
After you get your lizard that is when farming the jungle is easy with just the machete it's hard since you can run out of mana really fast without a blue buff.


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VERNON - Several residents of a Vernon apartment complex were forced out of their homes when a neighbouring unit exploded and now, nearly a month later, they still can't return home, according to one displaced tenant.
Resident James Halpert, who gave only his first and middle name, has lived in his Regency Gardens apartment on Okanagan Avenue for the past two-and-a-half years, but was unexpectedly forced out Aug. 14 when an alleged marijuana drug lab in another tenant's unit exploded. According to police, two men were in the process of extracting marijuana oil in the bathroom when the operation blew up. The pair suffered severe burns and were airlifted to Vancouver General Hospital. A police investigation remains ongoing, and charges could be laid against the individuals.
Fire damage was mostly contained to the bathroom, but according to Halpert, the third-floor explosion caused the toilet and plumbing valves to blow, which led to damage in lower units.
"It leaked down below," he says. "There was water pouring out of my light fixtures and corners in the walls."
Halpert, and by his count roughly half a dozen tenants from four other units, had to wait for hours while police examined and secured the scene before they could get into their homes. He says water damage ruined many of his possessions, but the worst news is that he and the other tenants are being told they can't come back for five months. That's the estimated time it will take to repair all the damage.
Halpert spent the first few nights in a hotel, but is now renting another suite while he deals with insurance and waits for the renovation work to wrap up.
"It's overall just a bad situation," he says.
The inconvenience is one thing, but the biggest issue for him is the disrespectful behaviour that started it all.
"What troubles me is the complete disregard for peoples' safety," he says.
Fortunately, no one else was hurt, but Halpert says residents still suffered harm in the sense they were forced from their homes. He says the resident that started the fire had only been living in the apartment for two weeks, and hopes building owners will go to greater pains to screen individuals before accepting renters.
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Five years ago, like many couples in their 30s, Vic and I were at the point in our relationship where we were ready to take the next step, make it official and get married.
The country we love and call home was ready for marriage equality but unfortunately the then Gillard government did not back the reform, so we headed to Buenos Aires.
Argentina, a country that is 90 per cent Catholic, had just passed marriage equality through both houses of its parliament with support from progressives and conservatives. They decided their country would be a better place by treating all citizens fairly and equally. Argentina's laws did not impact on the religious celebration of marriage, but gave all loving and committed couples access to civil marriage.
One glitch in our wedding plans was that Argentina had a residency requirement, so foreigners couldn't get married. Fortunately with help from the Greens marriage equality advocate, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, we were able to lobby to get that changed and became the first foreign couple — gay or straight — to marry in Buenos Aires. The person who led this change was the Mayor of Buenos Aires and now President of Argentina, Mauricio Macri.
The toughest part of the experience was not being able to marry in Australia, but the most wonderful part was that in Buenos Aires, we were not seen as a "gay couple", but a regular loving and committed couple who wanted to marry. Argentinians were both proud and confused by the fact that their country was providing rights to Australians that the Australian government wouldn't.
We were grateful that so many friends and family members were able to join us for the wedding but the distance and commitment of overseas travel made it hard for many of our loved ones to attend. Tim Wilson, now the Federal Member for Goldstein joined us and I remember sitting with him at the hotel bar the night before the wedding, speaking about what marriage means to us in terms of security, opportunity, commitment, celebration, and the importance of working for all Australians to marry the person they love in the country we all cherish.
Following our wedding, Argentinian advocates committed to getting their then president to write to Prime Minister Gillard and urge support marriage equality. We're not sure if that letter was ever sent, but we do know that Ms Gillard since changed her mind… but only after she left parliament and it was too late to do anything.
Like the clear majority of Australians, I hope our current federal parliamentarians don't make Gillard's mistake and wait till it is too late to deliver a reform that will make people happy and our country a fairer and more equal place.
There are couples who can't wait, and who don't have the ability to travel. One such couple is Peter de Waal and Peter Bonsall-Boone, known to friends and family as Peter and Bon.
They recently wrote to Prime Minister Turnbull saying: "you can make our wish come true. But please do it quickly as Bon's time is fast running out". Bon is 78 and has been diagnosed with an aggressive cancer; he's been waiting to marry Peter for 50 years.
As we reflect on five years since getting married it's clear that Australia is moving closer to marriage equality with clergy, communities from coast to coast, local councils and companies big and small all doing their part to support this important reform forward.
However, whether it's an Argentinian President, CEOs, all state and territory leaders, Aussie mums and dads, or loving long-term couples like Peter and Bon, we are all asking the same question of our federal parliament: life is short, time is precious, what are you waiting for?
Alex Greenwich MP is the co-chair of Australian Marriage Equality and the independent Member for Sydney in the NSW Parliament.
****Peter Bonsall-Boone died two days after this column was published.
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A federal jury today convicted Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff. Lewis Scooter Libby was found guilty of four counts of lying under oath and obstructing the investigation into the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.
Jurors acquitted Libby on one count of making false statements. Libby's lawyers say they'll ask for a new trial. And failing that, they will appeal the conviction. We'll hear from two of the key players in this story and from the White House. First, to NPR's Ari Shapiro, who was in the courtroom when the verdict was read.
ARI SHAPIRO: Over a month of testimony, the jury heard from some of the country's most prominent journalists and government officials. According to juror Denis Collins, by the time the panel worked through all of that testimony, their opinion of the case had little to do with the outcome.
Mr. DENIS COLLINS (Former Juror): You just came to this conclusion that, wow, okay. Here it is right before us.
SHAPIRO: Guilty of obstructing justice, making false statements to the FBI and committing perjury before grand jury. Libby's sat expressionless as the foreperson read the verdict in court. His wife, who'd sat in the front row watching the trial everyday, cried silently. Defense lawyer Ted Wells said he's very disappointed in the verdict.
Mr. TED WELLS (Attorney for Lewis Libby): We intend to file a motion for a new trial. And if that is denied, we will appeal the conviction. And we have every confidence that ultimately Mr. Libby will be vindicated.
SHAPIRO: As for his client's reaction…
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SHAPIRO: Libby would not comment. By convicting Libby on four of the five counts, the jury rejected the defense team's argument that the defendant suffered from innocent memory lapses. Instead, they endorsed the prosecution's claim that Libby tried to mislead investigators by lying under oath.
Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said today that he is gratified by the jury's decision. He defended his choice to pursue this case even though no one was charged with the underlying crime of leaking a CIA agent's identity.
Mr. PATRICK FITZGERALD (Federal Prosecutor, Department of Justice): The nature of any person telling a lie under oath to a grand jury is a serious problem. Having someone, a high-level official do that under oath in a national security investigation is something that can never be acceptable. And that just made it mandatory that we pursue it.
SHAPIRO: Fitzgerald said he considers the investigation closed and does not expect any further charges to be filed. The crimes Libby was convicted of today centered on his account of conversations he had with two journalists. Tim Russert of NBC News and Matthew Cooper of Time magazine.
Libby said he learned Plame's identity from Russert, and he denied leaking her identity to Cooper. Both journalists testified at the trial that Libby's account was fiction. Juror Denis Collins said the jury believed that Libby had a bad memory but the testimony was just too overwhelming to buy into a story.
Mr. COLLINS: It was just very hard to believe that - how he can remember it on a Tuesday and then forget it on a Thursday, and then remember two days later.
SHAPIRO: Collins said the jury liked Libby. He came across as sympathetic.
Mr. COLLINS: It was said a number of times, what are we doing with this guy here? Where's Rove? Where's, you know, where are these other guys? We're not saying that we don't think Mr. Libby was guilty of the things we found guilty of. But that it seemed like he was, to put it in Mr. Wells' point of view, he was the fall guy.
SHAPIRO: Rove is Karl Rove, the other White House aide who leaked Libby's identity to reporters. He was never charged with a crime, nor was Libby's boss, Dick Cheney. Although Collins said…
Mr. COLLINS: The belief the jury was that he was tasked by the vice president to go and talk to reporters.
SHAPIRO: Over the course of the trial, it became clear that Libby's conversations with reporters were part of a White House strategy to discredit former Ambassador Joseph Wilson.
Wilson publicly disputed part of the White House's justification for the Iraq war and the White House responded by quietly telling reporters that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA. Experts are divided on what Libby's ultimate sentence could be. He is scheduled to find out in early June, and he remains free until then.
Ari Shapiro, NPR News, Washington.
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text: Thomas L. Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division, and Paula D. Silsby, United States Attorney for the District of Maine, announced today that two chief engineers of a freighter ship were each sentenced yesterday to two years of probation and a fine of $3000 for their roles in concealing the overboard ocean dumping of waste oil from the M/V Kent Navigator through false log books and statements designed to deceive the U.S. Coast Guard. The defendants, Chief Engineers Alfredo D. Lozada and Felipe B. Arcolas, worked aboard the Kent Navigator, which is owned and operated by Petraia Maritime Ltd. The government's investigation began when the U.S. Coast Guard received an anonymous tip that a vessel bound for Portland, Maine was illegally discharging its waste oil and its bilges while at sea. MARPOL, which is a treaty ratified by the United States, and U.S. law limit the oil content of discharges from ships to no more than 15 parts per million. Oil pollution control equipment, called an Oil Water Separator, is equipment required by these laws that, when operated correctly, will prevent discharges of oil in excess of 15 parts per million. The Coast Guard inspected the Kent Navigator when it entered the port and found oily residue in piping that led to overboard discharge valves and inoperable oil pollution control equipment. The Coast Guard's investigation revealed that while the vessel was at sea, Lozada and Arcolas directed the ship's crew to discharge waste oil tanks and bilge tanks directly overboard, and also discharged the bilges in a way that circumvented the ship's Oil Water Separator. These discharges were made in the middle of the night while at sea, and resulted in discharge of significant quantities of oil. To conceal this activity Arcolas and Lozada falsified records in the ship's Oil Record Book making it appear as if the discharges were made using the required pollution control equipment when in fact they were not. An Oil Record Book is a pollution record required by MARPOL and U.S. law that is regularly inspected and relied upon by the Coast Guard, which was presented for review during the Coast Guard's inspection. They also made false statements to the Coast Guard while in port that the ship's pollution control equipment functioned properly. U.S. District Judge D. Brock Hornby also ordered that Lozada and Arcolas spend the first month of their probation confined to their temporary residence in Portland where they have been living since they were removed from their ship last summer by the Coast Guard and charged with making false statements. The two will be allowed to return to their homes in the Philippines to serve out their probation terms, subject to U.S. court supervision. The investigation was conducted by the U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service with assistance from the Coast Guard Marine Safety Office, the Coast Guard First District Legal Office, and the Coast Guard Head Quarters Office of Investigation and Analysis. The case was prosecuted by the Environmental Crimes Section of the Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Main. The investigation is continuing. Source: HK Law


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The Kanto Matsuri together with Aomori's Nebuta Matsuri and Sendai's Tanabata Matsuri makes up the three great festivals of the Tohoku region. Held annually in early August, this three day event originated over 260 years ago and was organized to keep away the evil spirits and to pray for a good harvest. It takes place in Akita City, the capital of Akita Prefecture which is only a four hour journey from Tokyo by shinkansen (bullet train).
The highlight of the festival is an impressive display of skill in which performers balance kanto (long bamboo poles) of various lengths weighing at their maximum over 100 lbs. each and extending up to 40 feet with arrays of paper lanterns attached to the end. The lanterns are lit by candles and the performers hoist the poles on end using various techniques. A single performer carries his pole down the street balancing it on his hip, shoulder, forehead or palm. The performers change every few minutes and gradually add extensions to the pole until the kanto are at their maximum height. There are over 200 poles being carried down Chuo Dori Street in the center of the city at night. The event lasts about 90 minutes and at the end of the evening's performance there is a 15 minute session during which audience members are invited to talk to the performers, take pictures and try their hand at hoisting up a kanto.
The festival also has daytime events held in Agora Plaza in front of the Seibu Department Store. The events feature taiko drums, dance and musical performances, as well as kanto demonstrations.
There is a kanto skill contest on the final day of the festival. The event is held in Senshu Park next to the Hirano Masakichi Museum. Participants in this contest are required to perform great feats of skill with enormous kanto that extend to heights of 59 feet.
Around the park where Kubota Castle once stood, people sometimes stand in long lines to get Babahera Ice, ice cream served by baba (old women) with hera (spatulas). The ice cream is shaped into a beautiful rose and is a very popular item during the Kanto Festival.
The Kanto Festival was designated as an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property in 1980 and draws 1.3 million people to Akita annually. So why not witness what the fascination is for yourself and join the spectators along Chuo Dori or participate in the events held in Agora Plaza? Certainly it will be an incomparable experience that will keep you talking about it for many years to come.
The Kanto Matsuri's Night Parades take place along Chuo Dori, approximately a 15 minute walk west of the JR Akita Station. Daytime kanto demonstrations are held at the Agora Plaza in front of Seibu Department Store, only a 5 minute walk from the station, while the kanto competitions can be witnessed along the road next to the Akita Museum of Art, a 10 minute walk from the station.


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I know it is a boning knife (I guess), but there are a lot of boning knives. There are short 5" and long 7". There are stiff and flexible. There are a couple of Japanese versions that are different then the European ones. A Honesuki and a Hankotsu and another one something like Garasuki. Not sure if I have the spelling correct.
OK guys, you who have actually used these knives and are not just guessing, which is best for cutting up a chicken into parts and then skinning and deboning it?


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|International Business Machines Corporation
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This invention is related to a Provisional Patent Application No. 60/291,077 filed May 14, 2001, and entitled "A Method for Processing Real-Time Mobile Transactions in a Three-Tier Distributed Database System", which is hereby incorporated by reference for its teachings.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to managing transactions in three-tier distributed database systems, and more particularly managing real-time transactions in three-tier distributed database systems.
2. Description of Related Art
A three-tier distributed database system consists of mobile client databases, which synchronize data with mid-tier or mirror databases, which in turn contain data replicated from source databases. When a mobile client database performs synchronization, a set of client database operations is sent to a mirror database. During replication, these operations are transmitted from the mirror database to the source databases. Due to the existence of multiple mirror databases, the operations may be rejected because of conflicts with other pending operations submitted by clients of other mirror databases. Since the replication window can be arbitrarily large, the mirror databases are not always consistent with each other or with the source databases. Further, there is a need for a method that enables mobile clients to directly submit mobile transactions to a mirror database (versus waiting for synchronization between the same). A mobile transaction is a database transaction that originates from a mobile client, but is executed on a mirror database, and the results are returned to the mobile client. When a mobile client submits a mobile transaction to amirror database, the mirror database may not have the most up-to-date data until replication with the source databases and the other mirro databases is performed. Thus, there is a need for a method that determines in real-time whether a given mobile transaction or synchronization to be executed on a given mirro database may be rejected upon replication because of other pending transactions (awaiting replication).
The present invention provides a method that enables real-time determination of whether a mobile-based proposed transaction or synchronization in a three-tier distributed database system to be executed on a mirror database will be accepted when mirror database replicates with source databases. The method generates a token at the mirror database where the token includes the locks needed for tuples or records to complete the proposed transaction or synchronization. The token is passed to each mirror database associated with the source databases. Each mirror database has a synchronization window (database) that includes the locks needed for tuples or records for mobile-based transactions to be replicated from the mirror database to the source databases. The method compares the tuples and locks in the token to those in synchronization window for each mirror database. When there is a conflict in a mirror database, the method sets a flag indicating such and forwards the token to the next mirror. When the token reaches the originating mirror, the method evaluates the flag in the token. When the token indicates no conflict, the method adds the tuples and locks for the proposed transaction to the originating mirror's synchronization window database. Otherwise, the method rollbacks or rejects the originating mirror's proposed transaction.
Like reference numbers and designations in the various drawings indicate like elements.
Throughout this description, the preferred embodiment and examples shown should be considered as exemplars, rather than as limitations on the present invention.
When a mobile client database 21-29 performs synchronization with a corresponding mirror database, a set of client database operations is sent to a mirror database. During replication, these operations are transmitted from the mirror database to the source database 5. Due to the existence of the multiple mirror databases, the operations may be rejected because of conflict with other pending operations submitted by clients of other mirror databases. Since the replication window can be arbitrarily large, the mirror databases are not always consistent with each other or with the source databases (single source database 5 in the exemplary figure). The present invention prevents rejection of operations during replication. The present invention also enables mobile clients to directly submit mobile transactions to a mirror database and advise in real-time whether the transaction introduces a conflict with transactions in mirror databases awaiting replication with the source database. Mobile transactions are database transaction that originates from mobile clients, but are executed on mirror databases, and the results are returned to the mobile clients.
In the distributed data system 10, the current state of the data is contained in the mirror databases 12, 14, 16, and 18 and the source database 5. When a mobile transaction or synchronization is executed, the present invention determines if the transaction(s) includes changes to one or more tuples or records that are subject to pending changes in a mirror database. In particular, each mirror database has an associated synchronization ("sync") window database that includes the database operations (inserts, updates, and/or deletes) that will be performed during replication. Thus, each mirror database's sync window contains the tuples and type of change made on the tuples by the mobile clients that have synchronized with or submitted transactions on the mirror database. In another embodiment, the sync windows includes the set of tuples and their associated locks (shared or exclusive) needed for the mirror database to perform replication with the source database 5. An example of the mirror databases 12, 14, 16, and 18 with associated sync windows 52, 54, 56, and 58 is shown in
As shown in
As this token 74 is passed, mirror databases are also executing mobile transactions that may add an entry indicating the reserve locks or operations needed for the mobile transaction. When a mirror database receives the token 74 (step 112) and it is not the originating database (step 114), it compares the locks or operations in the token with the locks or operations needed in its sync window, e.g., mirror database 16 with sync window 56 shown in
When the token 74 returns to the mirror database that generated the entry in the token (mirror database 14) (step 114), the transaction is rolled back because the roll flag is set "YES" (step 116 and 118).
Another exemplary lock reservation token consists of multiple transaction entries that have the following format:
The first line of this token includes the unique ID of the originating mirror database. The second line is a unique identifier for the mobile client's proposed transaction that is composed of the mobile client's unique ID appended with the current session number for the client (where the session number is unique for each mobile client). This entry may be needed to differentiate multiple mobile transactions originating from the same mirror. Then, for each table involved (n tables in this example T1 through Tn), there is a set of tuples, indicated by their primary key columns (PKn) and their corresponding lock types (X for exclusive or S for shared) need for the proposed transaction. Finally, there is a flag indicating whether the transaction should be rolled back.
While this invention has been described in terms of a best mode for achieving this invention's objectives, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that variations may be accomplished in view of these teachings without deviating from the spirit or scope of the present invention. For example, the present invention may be implemented using any combination of computer programming software, firmware or hardware (e.g., a software language other than Java, such as C++ or others may be used to implement the invention). As a preparatory step to practicing the invention or constructing an apparatus according to the invention, the computer programming code (whether software or firmware) according to the invention will typically be stored in one or more machine readable storage mediums such as fixed (hard) drives, diskettes, optical disks, magnetic tape, semiconductor memories such as ROMs, PROMs, etc., thereby making an article of manufacture in accordance with the invention. The article of manufacture containing the computer programming code is used by either executing the code directly from the storage device, by copying the code from the storage device into another storage device such as a hard disk, RAM, etc. or by transmitting the code on a network for remote execution.
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CREAM-CE status and evolution plans
Definition and adoption of job related standard interfaces
The CREAM-CE implements a Grid job management service available to end users and to other higher level Grid job submission services. It allows the submission, management and monitoring of computational jobs to Local Resource Management Systems (LRMS).
Now facing the challenge to support an enlarged community of users, as part of the European Middleware Initiative (EMI), such service needs to be consolidated and evolved.
Among the new functionalities introduced with the first EMI release (EMI-1), we highlight the integration with the new authorization framework (ARGUS). The major developments foreseen for the next EMI release include the adoption of job related standard interfaces (EMI-ES) and the enhancing of CREAM with the High Availability (HA) criteria based on the clustered approach.
Several services providing compute and job related functionality have been implemented in the context of different Grid projects. However these services, which provide the same core functionality, have been realized by adopting proprietary solutions. While standard mechanisms for job description (e.g. JSDL) and standard interfaces for job submission and management do exist (e.g. BES), they are not really suited for production use because they lack significant capabilities.
Towards the CREAM High Availability
Paolo Andreetto, Sara Bertocco, Alvise Dorigo, Eric Frizziero, Alessio Gianelle, Massimo Sgaravatto, Lisa Zangrando
One of the main objectives described in the CREAM evolution plan, is the need to meet the High Availability (HA) criteria. In particular, CREAM, like several popular Internet services, must rely on large clusters of commodity computers for providing several features, including high performance, scalability, availability and fault tolerance. From the user's point of view the main benefit provided by this enhancement is the guaranteed access to his own jobs and related resources (i.e. job sandbox) during planned and unplanned outages. So, we are focusing on providing CREAM with the ability to be continuously available for serving the user requests independently of eventual current critical conditions.
The figure illustrates the high level CREAM clustered architecture which is based on a horizontal topology. We define a CREAM node as a separate CREAM instance running on its dedicated (virtual) machine, while a collection of such nodes is referred as CREAM cluster. The WEB server (e.g. Apache) acts as gateway for incoming requests of authenticated users. These requests are delivered to the load balancer which redirects them to the proper CREAM nodes, basing its decisions on the selected scheduling algorithm (e.g. Round Robin, Weight based, etc). Moreover the load balancer can provide even fault tolerance capability, if appropriately configured.
ARGUS as the unique authorization mechanism
The use of different authorization mechanisms, each providing the same or similar functionalities is clearly a complication from a deployment and maintenance point of view. Moreover because of bugs or misconfigurations, inconsistent authorization decisions could be made. These issues have been addressed by the EMI project by referring to a single authorization service (ARGUS) which is supposed to be the unique authorization service for all EMI services.
The integration with the ARGUS service has been introduced in the first EMI release (EMI-1).
Contact: gLite job management product team
email: [email protected]
For more information: www.eu-emi.eu


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