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Fifth Sunday After Pentecost
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mark 5:21-43
"The spirit that enables one person to overleap the boundary of the body in knowledge and love and to incorporate the other in the self is matched by the same spirit in the other."
Luke Timothy Johnson, Living Jesus: Learning the Heart of the Gospel
"He said to her, 'Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.'" Mark 5:34
After several days of renewed public debate about health care, we hear this weekend the familiar healing stories from Mark chapter 5. By Sunday we will know the U.S. Supreme Court's decision regarding challenges to the Affordable Care Act. So politically charged is this discussion, so designed is it to distort, divide, undermine, and confuse, it's easy to forget that the issue, at its core, is a simple one: how ought a humane society tend to its suffering ones and aim for the well-being of all?
We will also hear this passage on a day when many will be anticipating the Fourth of July, and perhaps expecting their Sunday worship to kickstart the holiday's celebration. In hearing the text from Mark, such worshipers might well wonder: What does Jesus' encounters with a desperate, suffering woman and a young girl believed to be dead have to do with America's love of freedom and fireworks?
Not much, it turns out. And so the preacher intent on proclaiming the gospel on such a day will find little here to prop up views (pro or con) on Obamacare, nor anything at all to underwrite the American "values" of liberty and independence. What might be gleaned, however, is fresh insight into what Jesus' life, death, and resurrection make possible for our attempts to know him and one another, to love him and one another, to find healing and shalom in the relationships of our lives.
In his book, Living Jesus, Luke Timothy Johnson describes learning the living Jesus as a process not unlike that of learning another person. To learn another is to participate in a meeting and exchange of spirit–that dimension of human existence which both includes and transcends bodiliness. That is, we know and are known, we love and are loved when spirit meets spirit, when we are incorporated (again, the language of the body–corpus–still matters here) into another in life-giving, soul-satisfying ways.
This learning of another person, says Johnson, requires certain moral as well as intellectual capacities. The first is trust: "a fundamental openness to the reality of the other." Without it,
the other person–the one learned–is reduced to object only. As a result, both the spirit of the learner and the spirit of the one learned are occluded.
Attentiveness is also required: a "leaning toward" the other; alertness, yes, but also a posture of receptivity which assumes that "the other is always capable of change and surprise."
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In Jesus' encounter with the woman with the flow of blood–this unnamed woman who was desperate, spent, alone, and undone by an unknown illness–we glimpse something of this kind of mutual learning by which one knows and is known, loves and is loved.
The body matters here, of course, because an infirm body is in need of healing, and the woman seems to know (she trusts, attends to) the truth that touching Jesus' own body–or at least the garments that cover it–is essential to the health and wholeness she seeks. Yet what is effected here, what is efficacious in the encounter is not merely a physical cure but a meeting and exchange of spirit, an entering into the mystery by which mutual indwelling of spirit with spirit is possible.
This woman trusts Jesus and in so doing enlivens his own spirit: "Who touched my clothes? . . . He looked all around to see who had done it" (vv. 30, 32). Jesus himself is undone, so surprised is he by this meeting of her spirit with his. As this woman "leans toward" Jesus in this impossible setting of crowds and noise and overprotective disciples, she receives what he gives and he, likewise, is transformed. Each knows and is known, loves and is loved. She is healed and he is changed.
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A wise friend, who uses Johnson's book in a course on Christian spirituality, recently said to me that the whole Christian life–no, all of human life that is worth living–hinges on this mystery of spirit that makes something like mutual indwelling possible for human beings. If this is not possible, my friend said, if we don't glimpse the glory and the mystery at the center of this, then all talk of Christian spirituality is silliness. This is what makes any Christian spirituality worthy of the name possible.
I agree with my friend. And I find that in contemplating this familiar gospel story in this particular week we are offered new ways to imagine our own encounters with others: how it is we learn another–come to know and love him or her, as spirit meets spirit in life-giving, soul-satisfying ways.
And in such meetings we glimpse and share in the reality of knowing and being known by, loving and being loved by the resurrected Jesus. His spirit meets our spirit. In word and sacrament we are met, and we, too–like the woman with the flow of blood–can be healed.


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Too much emphasis on recordings?
Nick Shave asks what's happened to the traditional concert experience
When it comes to music, are we focusing too much on recordings? Magazines give far more column inches to disc reviews than to live concerts, and few concerts take place without some form of recording equipment being placed in front of the performers. In the Proms, it's hard to miss the cameras roving around the side of the stage and the microphones that dangle overhead. We're even told to turn off our mobile phones so as not to interfere with the broadcast when we take our seats – lest we forget, it's the BBC that comes first in every Proms billing.
And even when the broadcast media is not out to capture the moment, it seems that social media will fill the gap, with digital cameras and phones making it possible to watch the performance, after the event, online. I'm all for YouTube, but whatever happened to the traditional concert experience in which performers and listeners engage with the present? And whatever happened to the direct communication that once took place between performers and their listeners, one human to another?
Perhaps a Proms blog is not the place to raise these questions, but then the Proms not only highlight the challenges of capturing the concert experience without radically altering it, but also the tremendous benefits of digital recording. I was 400 miles from the Royal Albert Hall this weekend, but I was able to follow the festival online, and hearing Maria João Pires's beautifully articulated Mozart K595, with David Zinman and the Tonhalle Orchestra, not to mention Swedish Anders Hillborg's cleverly conceived Cold Heat (Prom 57), makes these questions much harder to answer.
So, too, did watching the live television broadcast of Emanuel Ax playing the Brahms Second Piano Concerto last weekend (Prom 49). Having watched the cameras swoop about the stage in recent weeks, I was able to fully appreciate the benefits. Close-up, you could see Ax's focus and steadfast maturity of approach; you could see him really living in the moment, even smiling at the players, relaxed, between movements. At the end, he looked up at Bernard Haitink, and with a look of genuine appreciation, whispered across stage: 'Wow!' The live moment had been captured for all – outside the auditorium – to see.
Nick Shave writes for The Guardian and is contributing editor of BBC Music Magazine. A regular reviewer and blogger of the Proms, he can usually be found at the Royal Albert Hall with only seconds to spare, breaking into an ungainly powerwalk somewhere between the ticket collection desk and the stalls
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Invent shapes with different numbers of stable and unstable equilibrium points
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Balancing interactivity with springs and weights.
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General Forms: (set-enforce-redundancy nil) ; do not require redundancy (default) (set-enforce-redundancy t) ; most events (see below) must be redundant (set-enforce-redundancy :warn) ; warn for most non-redundant eventsNote: This is an event! It does not print the usual event summary but nevertheless changes the ACL2 logical world and is so recorded.
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table event function (see table), no output results
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High-speed road traffic accident, light vehicle against light vehicle, patient driving and wearing belt. Stable hemodynamics but abdominal contracture. Anterior tilt articular fracture of left wrist and fracture of the 5th metacarpus of the right hand (evaluated using X-rays).
The body scan is provided.
My report:
Cranioencephalic space:
No posttraumatic intracerebral lesions (significant metallic artefacts on the posterior fossa, possible left temporal hypodensity with suspected artefact, to be re-examined if required).
Cervical spinal space:
No posttraumatic lesions.
Thoracic space:
No posttraumatic lesions other than fractures of the anterior arches of the 10th and 11th right ribs.
Bronchogenic distribution of micronodules in the middle lobe, suggestive of an infection rather than a traumatic lesion.
Unchanged known 12 mm nodule of the left anterobasal segment.
Abdominopelvic space:
Free pneumoperitoneum with thickening of the jejunal loops, suggesting perforation (and possible wound on the right part of transverse colon).
Periportal edema.
Moderate intraperitoneal fluid effusion.
Posttraumatic eventration in left iliac fossa with disinsertion of the left abdominal oblique muscle.
No other posttraumatic lesions of the intra-abdominal solid organs.
Right superior articular fracture of S1 with widening of the contralateral L5-S1 joint space. Fracture of the right anteroinferior angle of L1 and fracture of the spinal processes of L4 and L5. All of which are suggestive of a dislocation fracture with an extension-rotation mechanism suggesting disk-ligament damage: unstable fracture.
Traumatic perforation of small intestine, fracture of lumbar vertebra
- Transfer to gastrointestinal surgery for exploratory laparotomy: edematous but viable small intestine, suture of a double jejunal perforation 50 cm from the duodeno-jejunal junction, no hematoma in the mesentery.
- Lumbar spine MRI revealed rupture of the inter-spinous ligament, yellow ligaments, and the common anterior ligament in L5-S1 with asymmetric compression of the distal endplate of L5. No L5-S1 disk signal abnormality. Aggravation of rotatory instability in corset, thus surgical treatment with lumbar arthrodesis by the anterior approach with intersomatic cage screwed in L5-S1 completed by posterior arthrodesis.
- Treatment of peripheral fractures with reduction and screw plate osteosynthesis on the left wrist and reduction and T-plate osteosynthesis of the fracture of the 5th right metacarpal.
Important points:
- Posttraumatic intestinal parietal thickening is non-specific and may be caused by contusion, perforation, intestinal distress, reactional thickening to intraperitoneal effusion, etc.
- Posttraumatic perforations are more common in the small intestine than on the colon.
- It is important to know how to detect signs of rotatory instability in all cases of spinal fracture: asymmetrical posterior articular damage, asymmetric fracture of the costovertebral junctions, unilateral articular dislocation, etc.
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DURHAM � One scare from Boston College was enough for Duke�s men�s basketball team.
The Blue Devils left no doubt about Sunday afternoon�s game, bashing the visiting Eagles 89-68 in an Atlantic Coast Conference game at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
�That first four minutes, Coach (Mike Krzyzewski) was a little angry at us,� Duke forward Mason Plumlee said. �Then we picked it up. It started with our defense.�
By the end, the Blue Devils had put all sorts of offense on display, too. Five players scored in double figures, led by freshman guard Rasheed Sulaimon�s season-high 27 points.
The second-place Blue Devils (24-3 overall, 11-3 ACC), who�ve won eight of their last nine games, remain within striking distance of the top spot in the league.
Duke trails first-place Miami by two games in the standings with four games remaining for each team. They meet Saturday night in Durham.
To make it a race, the Blue Devils needed to conquer Boston College for the second time in two weeks. On Feb. 10, they escaped with a 62-61 victory in Boston.
This one was different from the early stages.
�We got the crowd in the game,� Duke guard Seth Curry said. �Got up and down and got easy shots.�
Plumlee provided 19 points and 15 rebounds for his 16th double-double of the season. Teammates Amile Jefferson with 15 points, Quinn Cook with 12 points and Curry with 11 rounded out the key scoring.
�We�re a team with a lot of scorers so you can�t just focus on one guy,� Plumlee said.
Sulaimon, who had 15 first-half points, and classmate Jefferson combined to shoot 15 of 22 from the field.
�I like the way my two freshmen really finished,� Krzyzewski said. �It�s a sign of growth.�
Boston College (12-15, 4-10), which hasn�t won back-to-back games since December, was unable to build on Tuesday night�s victory against Maryland even though Ryan Anderson scored 23 points. The Eagles have lost six consecutive road games.
It took Duke less than eight minutes to create a double-digit lead. The Blue Devils raced to a 29-point first-half advantage, shooting 62.1 percent (18 of 29) from the field. Boston College�s 13 first-half turnovers were more than in any full game in its previous five outings.
-- FREE THROWS ...: Plumlee�s first rebound Sunday gave the senior 1,000 for his career. He�s the ninth player in school history with at least 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds. ... It was the 15th time this season that four Duke starters scored in double figures. � Boston College guard Olivier Hanlan is the ACC�s top scoring freshman, averaging 14.5 points per game. He didn�t score in the first 14 minutes, finishing with 12 points. � Boston College is 0-7 all-time at Duke, though the Eagles hadn�t visited since January 2011.


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Traditional Pulsed Energy vs. Sweeping Frequencies
By BoatUS Editorial Staff
Radar and sonar both transmit a short, powerful, single-frequency burst of energy. In radar, units since World War II utilize a microwave-emitting device called a klystron or magnetron; sonar transducers vibrate a hunk of ceramic material at high frequencies. Both blast out a "main bang" or "tone burst"and wait for a return echo, then the software inside the display translates this reflected energy into a picture.
CHIRP (Compressed High Intensity Radar Pulse). Instead of transmitting only 200 or 50kHz, for example, CHIRPing devices transmit a signal that sweeps linearly upward (from 40 to 75kHz, 130 to 210kHz, or other frequency ranges).
Traditional "tone burst" fishfinders have always demanded a trade-off between pulse length and target resolution, and no targets can be resolved unless they're larger than the physical wavelength of the pulse.
Broadband Radar
Broadband Radar sends a continuous transmission wave with linear increasing frequency (hence the term Broadband). The wave retains its frequency as it travels out and reflects back from any objects. Meanwhile, the transmitter continues to output an increasing frequency. The difference between the currently transmitted and received frequencies, coupled with the known rate of frequency increase, is how the radar precisely calculates a "time of flight" and target distance. Since FMCW constantly builds up radar return energy (vs. transmitting a single pulse), this system provides target detection superior to pulse radars while transmitting at far lower energy levels.
Broadband Radar Plusses
Navico's radars offer the following advantages over traditional radar:
Lowest RF transmission for safe, flexible installation: Broadband Radar 3G transmits at 1/10,000 the power of typical pulse radars (emitting about 1/5 the energy of an average cell phone), so the radome is safe to mount in locations never before possible. In addition, the lowest DC power draw of any X-band marine radar makes this system well suited for sailboats and other vessels with limited power.
Improved short-range target discrimination: Broadband Radar provides better target resolution, even at an amazingly close 1/32 nm range. Docks, channel markers, moored vessels and other critical targets are displayed with clarity and separation, for added confidence in close quarters. Broadband technology also eliminates the "main bang" of a pulse radar — the obscured "dead zone" immediately around the vessel — which interferes with close target detection.
No warm-up time: no more waiting 2-3 minutes for a magnetron to warm up. When darkness falls or the fog rolls in, you are always ready. Ideal for sailboats wishing to save power or boats at anchor not wishing to run the radar continuously.
Broadband Radar Minuses
Now for the bad news: much lower maximum range than conventional radar. Although they excel in close-range navigation, broadband radar is inferior to the old-school high-powered technology outside the three-mile range or so, but they're closing the gap. Navico has mitigated this problem with their 3G radar, doubling the transmitting power of the BR-24, and increasing the range by 30 percent. Their 4G device narrows the gap even more, with maximum range of 36 nautical miles.
About Radar
If you have ever been suddenly engulfed by fog, making passage at night or disoriented by an array of confusing navigation lights against the backdrop of a light cluttered shoreline, then you will appreciate how radar's electronic vision will enhance your ability to navigate safely. Radar has advanced significantly in recent years and your radar screen today (if you want to pay the money) can not only tell you what the transmitter above "sees" but, if interfaced with other electronics such as, for example, a GPS chart plotter and AIS, it can also tell you names of other ships, their direction of travel, make collision risk avoidance solutions and even supply a three dimensional image of the bottom or of the relevant chart.
How Radar Works
Radar "sees" objects by reflected radio waves instead of light waves, but the principle is the same. For example, a basic radar transmitter sends out a constant stream of short pulse radio waves (at 162,000 nautical miles per second) through a revolving antenna (or scanner), and a computer inside the radar receiver measures the time delay and calculates the distance. The rotating scanner simultaneously determines the bearing from which the echo came. The results are then converted and displayed on the radar screen.
But recent developments have gone far beyond that old basic technology. Now, with developments such as "CHIRP" (Compressed High Intensity Radar Pulse) technology, the unit, instead of sending out single bursts of energy, will send transmit signals over a frequency range. New technology has the units sending out a signal in increasing frequency over a set range, hence the term "broadband" is often used to describe these units. This can result in a fare more accurate and easier interpreted depiction and clearer resolution. This also results in other improvements such as lower and thus more efficient and safer energy levels, less of a "dead zone" problem (the densely cluttered zone close in to the boat), better short range resolution and less warm up time. This later may seem unimportant, but when you suddenly need radar and it's off (to save power or save aging of the unit) a 2 or 3 minute wait can be a problem. But shorter range may be an issue on some sets. Like most electronic technology, this is changing daily and it's best to seek out the very latest info before you buy. Don't just go in and "pick one up off the shelf." This technology and others in the pipes was developed originally for military use. Eventually the public benefits and you can usually expect more improvements. Like anything on a boat electronic in nature, stay tuned, it'll continue to change and usually for the better.
Other Issues
There are different types of displays available. For example, there are LCD displays and larger, heavier, CRT displays. LCDs are most common in cockpits and on flybridges because they show up well in sunlight, are easily disconnected and stored below, and some are waterproof. Color displays are more expensive than monochrome displays, but can be much easier to read. A critical consideration will be ease of reading the screen in sunny daylight. Even if your display is to be mounted inside in a wheel house, its readability in high light is important. Most sets allow you to adjust brightness. This is also important because at night the same brightness as needed during daylight will impair your night vision. Ask for a demonstration of the display before you buy.
Transmit power determines the strength of the signal sent by the antenna and the corresponding echo back — the stronger the transmitter, the more likely soft or distant targets will show up on the screen. It has been reported that most users operate their radar within a 4-mile range 95% of the time, where high power is not critical. Antenna height is also a factor because radar is a line-of-sight system.
Open or closed array antenna?
As a rule, the larger the antenna, the better its chances of distinguishing separate objects that are close together in congested areas. Open arrays are generally larger and more likely to be found on powerboats. Closed arrays, called radomes, are usually reserved for sailboats where protection from sails and rigging is a concern.
Magnetron: a common cause of radar demise is the failure of the magnetron, which is the wave emitting device. This happens eventually with age. Many think that the magnetron is not "aging" when the radar is on standby. This is a setting available on many units. (Commonly there is no sweep on the screen when the unit is on standby.) But in many sets the magnetron is still being used when the set is in this mode and if you want to "go easy" on the magnetron you need to turn the unit off. However technology is developing other components to do the job of the magnetron. As always with electronics, check for the latest developments before you buy.


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Is there any way to make Thunar open the selected directory into either a new tab in the current window, or into the current window - rather than always opening a new window?
Are there any plans to ever make a dual pane option? I like thunar and I'd use it more if it had that option, as krusader does.
I don't see why a directory is opened in a new window, because it should always be opened in the current one. Thunar won't support tabs and dual pane windows, unless this will be supported through plugins some day.


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COLLEGE STATION – Despite Texas A&M's 11-2 finish in its first year in the Southeastern Conference, "We're still trying to play catch up in the SEC … particularly in the (defensive) front seven," Aggies coach Kevin Sumlin told TexAgs Radio this morning.
He added, "If we can get a couple of more classes like this one, we'll catch up in a hurry."
Today is national signing day, the day that brings old-school fax machines back en vogue for at least 24 hours. One of the Aggies' few surprises so far is landing Lancaster defensive end Daeshon Hall, who'd been a longtime verbal pledge to Washington. A&M also was hoping to land Alief Taylor defensive end Torrodney Prevot, but he selected Oregon over the Aggies and Southern Cal.
Sumlin told TexAgs Radio when he first came onboard a year ago foes were telling recruits not to choose A&M because the Aggies would get their "brains beat" against SEC competition. Now, Sumlin said, it's "you can't play there" because of A&M's early success in the league that's won the last seven national titles.
Sumlin will hold his annual signing day press conference at 3 p.m. today on campus, and we'll be there of course for the coverage. Here is the most current official list of letters of intent (those old-school faxes) received today by A&M.


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Etiquette at Private Charging Sites
Etiquette at Private Charging Sites
For what it's worth, at Apple we have Chargepoint charges. Chargepoint has a system set up where an account can be "connected" to an organization in such a way that only those "connected" to the organization can use their chargers. The charging is free for employees and no one outside of the company can use them.
The other common (cheaper?) solution is a circuit breaker switch that's only accessible behind locked doors. Leave the circuit off when not in use. When an employee wants to use the charger, flip the circuit on.
That is indeed ridiculous. I can't believe a Tesla owner would behave like that. He clearly has no education. Call him out personally, here and at TMC!! And if he still insists that it is "his right" to charge at your company's station, call the COPS and slap a restraining order on this guy. He might even be commiting a felony, he is definitely commiting a misdemeanor. He is clearly nuts and, like you said, giving EV drivers a bad reputation.
I think you should hire a tow company to put a boot on that guy's car. Or simply call the police. It's trespassing. Of course, the problem with either course of action is you'll have to stay up one night and catch him.
You are a saint.
There giving the benefit of the doubt and there is bending over. This guy is so out of line.
Do not hesitate to tow him.
Sounds like theft. How is it different from siphoning gas from someone else's gas tank overnight?
Are you sure this isn't Elon calling out George B. charging at Space X?
So if I put my home charging station on Recargo and Plug Share, which I have done, this guy can come to the house, get into my garage and plug in every night without my permission? What a tool.
I hate to encourage childish behavior, but I'm pretty good at it. As I've grown older I have fought all efforts to make me a mature man. I'm told I'm winning the fight. Obviously, this is not always good, but here's what I do in a similar situation.
At my office I have three parking spaces for my employees and me. Sometimes, in spite of a sign in front of the parking spot and two security gates, someone gets in and parks in my spot. I get the two people on either side of the car to either back in or head in depending upon side and then park them 2 inches from the offender's door. There is no way for him to get in. I then put a note on his windshield asking him to come to my office.
When he gets there, depending upon his contrition, I either move one of the cars, or tell him that the person who parked there isn't here right now and if he gives me his cellphone number, I'll call him when the person returns.
Now, this might not work on a Model S because he might be able to get in through the hatch, but parking a car right behind him might do the same thing.
If you decide to do this, please take a video to post on YouTube. It would be great to see two older guys get into it. It would renew my faith in human nature. Unfortunately sometimes a jerk responds to nothing but return jerkism.
Just out of curiosity...what city are you in?
its stealing, Would put up an enforceable sign and tow the car next time. its a shame that folks dont respect others property.
Maybe you can put a lockbox on the outlet with a combination that only the employees have... the chargepoint solution above is slick though.
I hope your ower does not punish all by removing the outlet due to this thief.
good luck and would like to hear how this plays out.
Props to you @Homebreww for being as patient as you have been. Stay cool and if the loser won't back off, know that you are in the right to smack his @ss into next week legally and morally. Heck, I would have towed his car the first day so you are already way more tolerant than I am :)
You should have to pay to "fix" something because of this jerk. I wanna see him get towed!
Just wire it up so it delivers 480V instead :)
Just amazing - can't believe this guy. Four flat tires would suck in the morning when he is late for work!!
Well, proof positive that some jerks can afford the MS! Sad but true.
Brian - parents paid for it. That is the only explanation.
Homebreww - I admire your patience.
@Brian H
Your logic dictate that most jerks are poor - what a stupid thing to say.
More the reverse, that buying an MS does not prove you are not a jerk.
So this car was in one of two spots?
You are an employee, not an owner?
You could still charge your car?
You complained and now they might get rid of the chargers?
Nobody is entitled to free electric, work or not.
It should be metered, controlled access, payed access.
Your company was shortsighted.
And as to the signage being obeyed, do you drive the speed limit?
Homebreww. Another possible solution, request your boss consider having the charging stations but on a timer and not being able to charge overnight- only during working hours.
In my youth, when faced with an inconsiderate parker, I would let the air out of a tire or four. Eventually, they get the message.
Assuming you have the proper signage "Private Parking, Employees Only - Towing Enforced, etc." Then go ahead and tow.
Unfortunately, not all Model S owners are law abiding (apparently). In my experience, there are far more owners of gas powered cars who break the law by parking in spaces designated "EV Charging only". Maybe they don't think it's a law (like handicapped parking).
I'm not sure that gas powered car owners would like it very much if a caravan of EV drivers arrived at a 7-Eleven gas station and parked next to all of the pumps (blocking their use), while the drivers go inside to purchase Slurpees and lottery tickets.
I'm confused. These charging sites are in a company parking lot, on corporate property? So the owner of the offending MS drives his car, presumably some distance from his home, parks it at night in the spot, walks home, then comes back the next morning, either by foot or by carpool, to pick the car back up?
@RNB You might be going a bit far. If homeb.'s company chooses to provide free charging as a perk for employees, of course he/she is entitled to use it.
And far from being shortsighted, a company which provides that perk creates some powerful employee loyalty.
Before my Model S arrived I reviewed all the chargers in St. Louis and posted updates on Recargo's app. There are several chargers at Ameren's downtown office that are never used. The APP said they were public and they were in the visitors parking. While I was there looking at the chargers to figure out the amperage 3 security vehicles pulled up and threaten to arrest me for being on private property. They made it very clear the chargers were private. I left a note on the Recargo APP and they changed the listing for the chargers to private.
While this guy sounds like a complete A-hole, I can understand his confusion if the locations were originally listed as public however his responses to you are completely off the wall.
@Homebreww, once upon a time, you could scare the bajivies outa someone by telling them, 60 Minutes' Mike Wallace is out front and wants to talk to you. RIP - Mike
Instead these days, call a local TV station and tell them you have an interesting story for them. Give them footage from your security cam.
This is really interesting, please keep us informed.
@Sudre: I thought I was being somewhat obsessive by my preparations before the red ride arrives, but, your pre-delivery efforts make me sound like a couch potato.
@homebreww, this is completely wrong. That guy has no whatsoever right to park, let alone charge, in this parking spot. As others have mentioned, you have every right to tow the car.
By the way, do the cars that are parked in the area have a parking sticker indicating that they are allowed to park here? If so, then it is easy for the towing company to tow it. Else, it might be difficult. Are you sure this guy is not entitled to park and charge there?
The other option is to call Chargepoint and tell them that is a private and NOT a public charger.
Finally, you should out this guy.
Keep us updated.
~ Prash.
lol yeah, what's his VIN?
OH! MY! yes. post the VIN!
@Ohms.Law - I was going nuts. I even drove to Chicago and stopped by all the chargers on the way their too!
@homebreww, you are too nice. It will be a shame if your company takes away the chargers. Keep us posted of future development.
Jerks comes in all colors and stripes, nothing says you are disqualified to buy a Tesla, sad.
I think the posts that suggest damage to the car are not helpful. Don't stoop. I do think that you have more than enough evidence to take him to small claims court to pay for the electricity used. This could go toward making the electricity metered in the future. He may even want to work out a deal that he pays a monthly fee to park there...I'm assuming he may rent in the area and can't get electricity to his home. I don't know if that would work for your employers, but I'm just trying to imagine the scenario that would cause someone to have to have such an inconvenient solution to charging.
Seriously homebreww, post his VIN and the email thread. We can shame him/her! That is a bit vindictive though. At least get the car towed.
@bsimoes, the problem is that, assuming that homebreww has not embellished the story, this mystery Model S owner's behavior is disgusting. Supposing it was me that did this, and then I received the note from homebreww. I would either apologize, and not park there again, or else I would apologize and ask if it's possible to work out something as you suggest, like a rental fee, or even just ask nicely like, "Hey, I'm really in a bind. There's no electrician available to install a charger at home for two months, and I basically can't drive anywhere for two months unless I could use your charger, which is the only one around within walking distance. Would it be okay if I just used it for the next two months? I would really appreciate your permission to use it. I'll have donust delivered to your office every Wednesday!"
What I wouldn't do is act like I own the world.
Please tow this guy's car AND complain to the police. You've already done your due dilligence by attempting to contact the person and handle it on your own. The person responded by being an unreasonable %$#*!$$.
Tow. But my fantasy option would be to put a bycycle cable lock through one spoke on his rear driverside wheel with the cable going through the charge cord it so he sees it. And a note telling him how much you look forward to his appology.
Better to tow though...
What type/brand of charging stations is this? If it a Chargepoint, it was mentioned earlier about restricting only to the organization, this will certainly work.
If it is a generic station like a Clipper Creek, Leviton etc, they should have a timer/demand provision inside the unit in the form of a connection inside the unit. How they normally work is that a time grounds that timer wire which inhibits charging, when it is open the unit works just like it normally should. A simple alarm style keyed switch could easily close that circuit. Just make copies of the key and give it to the people who should be using it as well as an extra one at the reception desk. Then you just put the key in, turn it to the open position, the EVSE goes to ready then you plug in. When your done, unplug, key in, off position, remove key and go. Problem solved all for about $10 in parts.
what if they don't like donusts?
Everybody likes donusts !!!!
Home Depot sells a few EV chargers that have RFID access. For a company, I think ChargePoint is the way to go though.
Well it's you company property - park car right in front of him not leaving any space and go on vacation. See what happens.
Good to hear your office manager is informing that jerk's bosses about his asinine behavoir. It's also good to hear that your companies chargers aren't being yanked, just upgraded.
I would just like to say that you might want to drop a word of warning in your security guys ears; if that jerk feels aggrevied he might come back to cause some mischief. Wouldn't hurt for you and your security guys to be a little more vigalent for a month or so, just in case.
I guess I'm confused both here and from personal experience. Re: here, obviously the mystery charger has some issues, but why would anyone post a private charger on a public website (with or without comments) unless you are looking to deceive the public and cause harm? If you want your employees to know, send a memo. Re: my personal experience, I drove to Boston last month (320mi RT) on a well planned trip using Chargepoint app. When I got to the garage with two unused chargers (with no comments other than being available) I was told it was a private lot and I could not enter. I don't know if a vote is needed here and a call by every Model S owner to every charger website, but my vote is to never, ever post a charger on a publicly available website (with or without comments) if it is not a publicly available charger (or on a member website if not available to members), and if you do you are liable for any resulting damage to or towing for the EV you have invited and turned away.
I think Homebreww was unambiguous in his comments, neither he nor his company listed their chargers on any website as public access. Some other helpful soul listed the charging site and Homebreww has made a note on the entry of their non public status as that is all he is able to do, although I'm sure he could email the sites moderator and request the station be delisted.
@village33, anyone can add an entry to Recargo.com, and once a site has been added, I don't think it can be removed.
No one "invited" this person to park there.
It doesn't really matter what's on recargo.com. The point is someone is violating someone else's property. Some independent website doesn't give anyone the right to do that.
Recargo needs to fix that. Now pranksters can claim that there is a charger anywhere and send people on wild goose chases.
I think that EV's have arrived and it can't be treated like a small community/club anymore.
specific to chargepoint chargers they are listed on their website regardless of availability. it's left up to the users to rate each charger. when i first got my car i drove around and checked out all the local chargepoint chargers and rated them. one of the chargers was in a locked and gated DOT parking lot, not available to the public.
@olanmills, I take your point that the post is ambiguous as to whether the well intentioned folks who posted the charger to the recargo site were employees or were not employees of the charger owner. Given my conversation with Chargepoint (which may be different than recargo), I assumed the former as Chargepoint claimed only the charger owner can post to the website and further, unbelievably, Chargepoint can see internally which chargers are private but that that note field is not available to users. I don't defend the mystery charger here. This is a bigger problem we all need to fix or understand if we're going to get locked out of seemingly public charging stations.
@Captain_Zap - I don't know how you crowdsource reporting available chargers and verifying they are supposed to be public, other than crowdsourcing that verification as well -- which is what Plugshare does and I presume Recargo (I haven't used it other than initially, and deciding I liked Plugshare better).


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Almost hate to post it and jinx it but, planning a big weekend trip in August, Day one 1129 miles Jackson Ms to Coudersport Pa, Day 2 not sure, prolly ride around with a bunch of Goldwing buddies maybe 300 miles worth??, Day 3 possible 1300 mile day, leave Coudersport Pa hit Niagara Falls shoot across Canada to Flint Mi then head south for Jackson, If I get to tired I can just stop and get home Monday Afternoon.Got just a hair over 11,000 miles on my Dunlop E4's and the front looks great but the rear is about done, luckily I have an Austone Taxi Tire (Car Tire 175xR16) ready to go on the back and that should last till next summer I did not fix the fairing yet and prolly wont till after the trip, except for an attempt with superglue this weekend, but all I need to do it swap the tire change the oil and be ready to roll. I will be interested to see what my mileage total will be.
Not being a stranger to big mile days, but don't forget that the August heat will take a little wind out of your sail and summer weekend traffic can be heavy. Not trying to be oppositional in any way shape or form, just keep an alternate plan at the ready.
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Reading and Text Mining a PDF-File in R
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Thanks for a helpful post and code. Does anyone have experience using pdftotext on a the Mac side? This is my first time and I'm having trouble adapting this code to the Mac. I downloaded the .dmg from http://www.bluem.net/en/mac/packages/ and installed it, but I don't know how to call it within R.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks for this script. One question - The command-prompt to execute PDFtoText works, except that it is not opening with the named file as the PDF to be converted. PDFtoText opens with blank (no files added for conversion) ... Is there something I'm missing? I'm using PDFtoText 1.20 on a Windows 7 machine. Thanks!ReplyDeleteReplies
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I had similar problems until I changed the working directory to CDelete
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and removed tempfile from line 7
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take a look: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/grImport/vignettes/import.pdfReplyDeleteReplies
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oh yes... I too have been loitering waiting to complainpenfold wrote:Ha, typical. Post up a big announcement - well ahead of the game I might add - that the big cheeses have snagged us four damn good movies and the first response is a complaint.Touka wrote:No Evangelion 2.0? What happened to the chances being pretty good? :[
mostly about the time I have to wait until april 28th ... so there


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This specification defines the features and syntax for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML [XML10]. SVG allows for three types of graphic objects: vector graphic shapes (e.g., paths consisting of straight lines and curves), images and text. Graphical objects can be grouped, styled, transformed and composited into previously rendered objects. The feature set includes nested transformations, clipping paths, alpha masks, filter effects and template objects.
SVG drawings can be interactive and dynamic. Animations can be defined and triggered either declaratively (i.e., by embedding SVG animation elements in SVG content) or via scripting.
Sophisticated applications of SVG are possible by use of a supplemental scripting language which accesses SVG Document Object Model (DOM), which provides complete access to all elements, attributes and properties. A rich set of event handlers such as 'onmouseover' and 'onclick' can be assigned to any SVG graphical object. Because of its compatibility and leveraging of other Web standards, features like scripting can be done on XHTML and SVG elements simultaneously within the same Web page.
SVG is a language for rich graphical content. For accessibility reasons, if there is an original source document containing higher-level structure and semantics, it is recommended that the higher-level information be made available somehow, either by making the original source document available, or making an alternative version available in an alternative format which conveys the higher-level information, or by using SVG's facilities to include the higher-level information within the SVG content. For suggested techniques in achieving greater accessibility, see Accessibility.
The MIME type for SVG is "
image/svg+xml" (see
XML Media Types
[RFC3023]). The
registration of this MIME type is in progress at the W3C.
It is recommended that SVG files have the extension
".svg" (all lowercase) on all platforms. It is
recommended that gzip-compressed
SVG files have the extension
".svgz" (all
lowercase) on all platforms.
Should we mention
It is recommended that SVG files stored on Macintosh HFS
file systems be given a file type of
"svg "
(all lowercase, with a space character as the fourth letter).
It is recommended that gzip-compressed
SVG files stored on Macintosh HFS file systems be given a file
type of
"svgz" (all lowercase).
HFS file types are probably not relevant any more.
The SVG 2 namespace is
which is the same as for earlier versions of SVG.
A DTD is not provided in this specification, as the use of DTDs for validating XML documents is known to be problematic. In particular, DTDs do not handle namespaces gracefully. It is recommended that authors do not include a DOCTYPE declaration in SVG documents.
This section doesn't sound like it serves any real purpose other than self promotion for how well it utilizes other specifications and frameworks. I think it can be dropped, or at least condensed into a couple of sentences.
SVG leverages and integrates with other W3C specifications and standards efforts. By leveraging and conforming to other standards, SVG becomes more powerful and makes it easier for users to learn how to incorporate SVG into their Web sites.
The following describes some of the ways in which SVG maintains compatibility with, leverages and integrates with other W3C efforts:
The plan is to move away from XLink and use non-namespaced attributes for linking, while keeping 'xlink:href' for compatibility with existing content. Other unrelated XLink attributes like 'xlink:role' will be removed.
In environments which support DOM4 [DOM4] for other XML grammars (e.g., XHTML [XHTML]) and which also support SVG and the SVG DOM, a single scripting approach can be used simultaneously for both XML documents and SVG graphics, in which case interactive and dynamic effects will be possible on multiple XML namespaces using the same set of scripts.
Within this specification, the key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" are to be interpreted as described in Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels [RFC2119]. However, for readability, these words do not appear in all uppercase letters in this specification.
At times, this specification recommends good practice for authors and user agents. These recommendations are not normative and conformance with this specification does not depend on their realization. These recommendations contain the expression "We recommend ...", "This specification recommends ...", or some similar wording.
Does it make sense to have a glossary here? How useful is it compared to defining terms where they make most sense in the body of the specification?
There should be a separate section that lists element and attribute categories and their members.
A bounding bounding box is the tightest fitting rectangle aligned with the axes of that element's user coordinate system that entirely encloses it and its descendants. There are three kinds of bounding boxes that can be computed for an element: the object bounding box, the stroke bounding box and the decorated bounding box. See Bounding boxes for a more detailed description of these bounding boxes and how they are computed.
Should gradient elements also be context elements?
pointer-events' property.
Provide an appropriate definition. This legalese sounding term comes from SVG 1.2 Tiny. A search for "lacuna value" results in the SVG 1.2 Tiny and the proto-SVG 2 specs (of February 2010).
An SVG context is a document fragment where all elements within the fragment must be subject to processing by an SVG user agent according to the rules in this specification.
If SVG content is embedded inline within parent XML (such as XHTML), the SVG context does not include the ancestors above the rootmost 'svg' element. If the SVG content contains any 'foreignObject' elements which in turn contain non-SVG content, the SVG context does not include the contents of the 'foreignObject' elements.
The general definition of a user agent is an application that retrieves and renders Web content, including text, graphics, sounds, video, images, and other content types. A user agent may require additional user agents that handle some types of content. For instance, a browser may run a separate program or plug-in to render sound or video. User agents include graphical desktop browsers, multimedia players, text browsers, voice browsers, and assistive technologies such as screen readers, screen magnifiers, speech synthesizers, onscreen keyboards, and voice input software.
A "user agent" may or may not have the ability to retrieve and render SVG content; however, an "SVG user agent" retrieves and renders SVG content.


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Terabytes to Petabytes: Reflections on 1999-2009
Was there life after the Y2K buildup and the Dot.com meltdown?
As we mark the arrival of a New Year, we often reflect on the events and people that shaped our present condition. Viewing 1999-2009 through the prism of computing, software and databases, we see our present condition is much changed from the end of the 20th century. This 11-year time slice begins with a period of heightened awareness about year 2000 issues and includes a decade of notable events, paradigm shifts and trends. Much that happened affects how system architects, data architects, software developers, database developers, web designers and technical managers will operate over the next decade.
Industry Consolidation
The 21st century has continued an unrelenting march towards consolidation in the computing and software industries. A favorite magazine of programmers, Computer Languages, formerly published an annual review of C compilers. At the time, the review included 7-8 compilers and there were at least a dozen on the market. Of the compilers reviewed, one is now open source and two of the commercial products are still on the market. The number of commercially-available SQL DBMS platforms has decreased. As Oracle, IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server gained market share, some SQL DBMS products were acquired (Informix) and others moved to an open source model (Cloudscape, InterBase, Open Ingres). Consolidation has reduced the number of commercial offerings and raised concerns about the future of open source SQL products. MySQL was acquired by Sun and its future direction remains hazy pending the Sun acquisition by Oracle.
Likewise there has been consolidation in the application server, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Business Intelligence (BI) markets. In the analytics and BI space, Oracle acquired Hyperion and Relsys, IBM acquired Cognos and SPSS, Microsoft acquired ProClarity, and SAP acquired Business Objects. The acquisition of BEA and the WebLogic product line have given Oracle a chunk of market share in the application server space shared with IBM WebSphere, Sybase EAS, Adobe JRun, Red Hat JBoss, SAP Netweaver AS and Apache Geronimo. The Sun acquisition also brings the open source Glassfish application server into the Oracle fold.
Oracle was on a buying spree during the decade. It expanded its database portfolio with the acquisition of TimesTen, Sleepycat Software and Sun Microsystems. Its acquisition of PeopleSoft and Siebel leaves Oracle, SAP and salesforce.com as the clear leaders in the market for ERP and CRM suites. However, open source suites such as SugarCRM are gaining momentum.
During a 1997 conference at the Moscone Center, I predicted we were moving towards having a computing industry dominated by three large players. My prediction was that to compete with IBM, Sun and Oracle would merge and HP and Microsoft would merge. Nothing that's happened since then has changed my mind.
Database-Related Vulnerabilities and Service Interruptions
Internet computing brought the possibility of e-commerce web sites that do business on a 24x7 basis, with high-volume web sites handling millions of dollars in transactions over a 24-hour period. In 1999 the eBay web site had a multi-million dollar outage due to corruption of its databases running on Sun servers. An Oracle guru who worked the problem told me the cause was a fix for Solaris that Sun had released, but the staff at eBay had not applied.
In the decade that followed the costly eBay failure, there were more service outages and ample evidence of the need to harden database-driven web sites. A recent database outage caused RIM Blackberry users to be unable to use their e-mail service. There have been multiple instances of security holes attributable to database servers and improperly formed SQL queries. In 2003, sites running Microsoft SQL Server permitted the propagation of the Slammer/Sapphire worm across the Internet. The infection spread to 75,000 hosts within the first ten minutes of its debut and it doubled every 8.5 seconds. The machines that were infected had not applied a patch released by Microsoft.
Over the past decade, there have been pervasive problems of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks and SQL injection attacks that permitted attackers to gain control of machines.
Data Theft, Cyber Warfare
In 2009 we reached the dubious milestone of criminals being prosecuted for the large theft ever of credit card information. Albert Gonzales and a ring of criminal hackers were indicted for stealing data related to 40 million credit cards. The 2008 case involved theft of data from TJX, OfficeMax, and Dave & Busters restaurant chain. In a separate indictment filed in 2009, Gonzales and co-conspirators were indicted for the theft of data related to 130 million credit cards. The criminals used SQL injection attacks to compromise networks and extract data from Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven Inc., and Hannaford Brothers Co. Inc.
Cyber warfare and cyber criminals launch thousands of attacks per day. Quite frankly we are long past due for rethinking the Internet computing model.
Swiss Army Knife Servers or Specialty Products?
During the '90s SQL had become buyer's market, motivating the big players to broaden the capability of their database servers. They embraced parallel processing, object-relational technology, data warehousing, business analytics and in-memory databases. They added support for asynchronous messaging, queuing, server plug-ins (Java or CLR), user-defined types, XML document processing, and row-level encryption.
Offering an alternative to the universal server model are the specialty servers, such as those from companies benefiting from the expertise of Dr. Michael Stonebreaker, an iconic figure in the database field. One such company, StreamBase Systems, competes against products from Aleri, Progress Apama and other vendors in the complex event processing (CEP) market. Greenplum and Vertica provide a combination of SQL with column-store technology. The column-store server, first introduced by Sybase IQ, has shown over the past decade to decrease query execution time for analytics and business intelligence processing.
Year 2000
The year 2000 was as a cause of concern over flaws in software from improper representation of the date. More than $100 billion was spent for remediation of Y2K problems with database server software and a variety of legacy applications. 2000 was also notable as a presidential election year in which the outcome may have been determined by flaws in an e-voting system. The race between Al Gore and George W. Bush was decided by the outcome in the state of Florida. Long after George W. Bush was declared the winner, e-mails from Volusia County officials to the e-voting systems vendor revealed that a memory card error was the apparent cause of a machine subtracting thousands of votes from the Gore total.
E-voting systems should remain under a microscope.
The beauty of XML, or not
The W3C released the Extensible Markup Language (XML) recommendation in 1998 and there was quickly a perception it was 'The Next Big Thing' in computing. The '90s had been a time of intense competition; the ActiveX versus Java wars and CORBA versus COM debate had raised concerns over interoperability. But XML enjoyed universal support by all of the major players in the software and database community. Competitors cooperated in the W3C and OASIS to advance XML-related standards, such as web services.
The major SQL database vendors cooperated to produce the SQL:2003 standard that advanced XML as a first-class data type in SQL databases, including those from IBM, Oracle and Microsoft. XML because an important tool for publishing, archiving and data integration. It's not beautiful, but it has great utility value.
Rich Internet Applications
Open Source
The open source community benefited from an explosion of interest over the past decade that produced a cornucopia of software. Due partly to financial support from IBM, there were big gains in the adoption of open source software such as Linux and Eclipse. IBM also provided support for the Apache Software Foundation that sustains the World Wide Web's most popular web server. The database community also benefited from open source universal servers and enterprise-class DBMS products. These included PostgreSQL, Open Ingres, OpenLink Virtuoso and EnterpriseDB.
Web-based commerce, as evidenced by Amazon.com and eBay.com, has established a permanent presence that has had an impact on traditional 'brick and mortar' businesses. The growth of online retail sales has been in double digits in recent years.
By 2001 there was a perception XML would provide the basis for a new generation of e-business applications that would enable even small and medium-sized enterprises to play in the global e-business space. Two initiatives, ebXML and UDDI, involved dozens of partners working to define standards for e-business built over a web services framework. UDDI never gained traction as a global e-business directory but the ebXML specifications continue to gain acceptance for business-to-business (B2B) integration.
Dot.com Boom and Bust
The Internet explosion of the mid-90s led to a surge of interest in Internet-related business opportunities, producing what was commonly called the dot.com boom. Venture capital powered a number of startups, particularly in Silicon Valley, the NASDAQ stock index rose dramatically, and IT unemployment dropped to extremely low levels. The newness of the Internet phenomenon wore off when it became apparent that many new ventures would not be profitable. The boom turned to a bust as many technology-oriented businesses shut down. Over a two-year period companies lost $5 trillion in market value. The bust increased unemployment and flooded the market with surplus servers, routers, and other hardware. The bust also produced a surplus of cheap equipment from defunct companies. Manufacturers such as Sun and Cisco experienced a slowdown due to decreased demand for new hardware.
Database Milestones
System architects and database developers saw some important milestones over the past decade. Version 5.0 marked MySQL as a prime-time database manager with transaction processing capabilities. The increase in the number of open source database servers prompted commercial DBMS vendors to release free, express editions of their SQL server products.
There was an increase in the number of Linux servers in the enterprise and adoption of 64-bit database engines and servers (Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, Oracle 11g, Sybase ASE, MySQL, Firebird, McObject eXtremeDB, Sybase Advantage Database Server). Connectivity was taken to new levels. Pooling, load balancers and other technology enabled a large banking operation to sustain thousands of concurrent connections for database access.
Cloud Computing and Big Data
Cloud Computing gained momentum in the '00s and there is likely to be a shakeout as larger companies jump into the market. Today Microsoft, Rackspace, Amazon, Salesforce, GoGrid and Joyent are among the companies that have established an identity as a leader in cloud computing identity. IBM, HP, Dell and Oracle will undoubtedly become more visible in this space as they move to carve out a share of a $100+ billion (forecast) market, as standards gain acceptance, and as cloud computing leadership aligns with their strategic goals.
MySpace, Facebook and Twitter captured the public's imagination over the past decade, just as Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon, and Google had done in the '90s. What they had in common was the need to develop scalability solutions for massive data storage and a user base measured in the millions. This has contributed to a surge of activity around software designed for Big Data applications. The advent of cloud computing has added to the interest in being able to do operations on terabyte-sized data sets.
Business intelligence and analytics with terabytes of data is not a new phenomenon. In 1995, the ODBC driver written by Charles McDevitt was supporting SQL queries for Wal-Mart's 7.5 terabyte (TB) data warehouse. Today Charles is Chief Architect at Greenplum and the SQL queries are for a petabyte-scale data warehouse. For example, a Greenplum Database enables eBay to operate a 6+ petabyte data warehouse that contains more than 17 trillion records. It grows by 150 billion rows per day. A subset of the event data is also stored in a separate 2 petabyte data warehouse that supports analytics.
A prominent example of serving up Big Data is TerraServer, which has been operational since 2000. When it came online, it gave Internet users access to 8 terabytes of image data (aerial photos, topographic maps) stored using Microsoft SQL Server.
The SkyQuery Virtual Observatory came online with web services that demonstrated queries over distributed tables in a federated database. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey currently stores 15.7 TB of images (fits), 26.8 TB of catalogs, JPEG images and other products, and 18TB in the Catalog Archive Server SQL database (SkyServer).
To meet the scalability requirements of Big Data processing, there has been a wave of development of non-relational data stores. These products gained fame from providing the storage engine for megasites such as Yahoo! and Facebook. Big Data includes data stores that have evolved to support operations that produce eventual consistency of data rather than supporting the ACID properties used by SQL products and transactional data stores.
The primary area of interest in the new data stores is as a vehicle for large-scale data analysis. Some leading researchers, including David DeWitt and Michael Stonebreaker, have recently issued a report about the relative performance of SQL platforms and Hadoop Map/Reduce for analytical processing.
Google Big Table and Amazon Dynamo are examples of a new class of distributed data stores getting attention from cloud aficionados. There's more detail about the Big Data phenomenon and data stores in "Databases in the Clouds: Briar Patch or Elysian Fields."
Legacies of Giants, Thought Leaders, Renowned Educators
"If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants"
-- Sir Isaac Newton
Most advances in computing are refinements of work done by the pioneers in the field, the giants to whom Sir Isaac Newton referred. During the past decade, we lost people who made important contributions to computing. We also lost mentors, people such as Jim Gray and distinguished educators who encouraged young and aspiring computer scientists:
Faculty members included Dr. Ron Ayres of Cal Tech and USC, Dr. Gene H. Golub of Stanford, Dr. David Huffman (founder of the Computer Science program at UC Santa Cruz, Dr. Jacob Schwartz (founder of the NYU Computer Science program), Godel Prize winner Dr. Rajeev Motwani of Stanford, Dr. Randy Pausch of Carnegie Mellon University, and Dr. Christopher Wallace (Foundation Chair of Computer Science at Monash University).
Each year the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announces the Turing Award winner, an honor that's often described as the Nobel Prize of computing. Several Turing Award winners left us over the past decade, including John Backus, Dr. Edgar .F. Codd, Dr. Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, Dr. Jim Gray and Dr. Kenneth Iverson.
Also deceased in this period was early British computer pioneer David Wheeler, artificial intelligence pioneer Nathaniel Rochester, Eliza author Joseph Weizenbaum, and Dr. Anita Borg, whom the New York Times described as a "Trailblazer for Women in Computer Field."
Social Networks
In recent years, MySpace, Facebook and Twitter captured the public's imagination, just as Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon and Google had done in the '90s. What they all had in common was the need to develop scalability solutions for massive data storage and a user base measured in the millions. And the social networking sites had to resolve issues of privacy, ownership and data governance. Facebook published details about accessing its data store via a RESTful API, JSON and XML. Then the Open Social initiative produced an API and protocols for sharing data between social sites and data consumers.
The corporate world has adopted social network technology, such as Facebook, for collaboration and for a form of institutional advertising.
Mobile Devices
The cell phone and the database server have gone through a similar metamorphosis. To remain competitive, they have become multi-purpose ('Swiss Army Knife') devices. The increased power and capabilities of mobile devices, such as the iPhone and Blackberry, ensures there will eventually be billions of smart phone users. The future of the leading edge products undoubtedly includes a new class of applications made possible with a powerful operating system and gigabytes of storage.
A June 2000 XML conference in New York City was the public announcement of IBM and Microsoft jumping into the web services model for building applications. It was a significant move towards interoperability because IBM and Microsoft had been on opposite sites of the CORBA versus COM debate. IBM's initial take was that web services represented a unifying eBusiness model. Microsoft predicted that XML protocols would soon be more significant than languages and APIs. Microsoft used that June 2000 conference to unveil its new C# language and the .NET platform.
Now after a decade we realize the lofty goals voiced in 2000 have not been reached. XML and web services play an important role in e-business, but the XML-based global e-business infrastructure remains a dream. One pundit suggested .NET would fail and bring down Microsoft. That hasn't happened as .NET and C# thrive, although they have not proven to be a Java killer. In fact, C++ remains alive and well.
Following a decade of evolution, particularly refinements in web services security, the notion of building composite applications from web services persists in the form of service-oriented applications (SOA). XML, web services and SOA have enjoyed the support of Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Sun, HP and major players in the software industry and open source community. Amazon, for example, chose to expose cloud storage and computing capabilities via web services interfaces. SOA has also been promoted in the federal sector with the Federal Enterprise Architecture and the Office of Management and Budget's Performance Reference Model. According to AMR Research, SOA is a $28 billion market that is expected to grow to $52 billion by 2014.
Because of its maturity, web services and SOA are no longer the latest fashion. That distinction belongs to cloud computing and web-oriented architecture WOA). WOA is characterized by REST, stateless resources, the browser client, mashups and applications created with technology such as Ruby on Rails, AJAX and Rich Internet Application (RIA) toolkits.
If nothing else, we learned there was life after Y2K and the Dot.com meltdown!


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Just moments after the Nairobi Chronicle highlighted the mess in Kenya's Olympic delegation, our athletes managed to bag several gold medals.
There was ecstatic pride across the country in celebration of Kenya's victory in the races, as Pamela Jelimo and Brimin Kipruto won Kenya's first gold medals at the Beijing Olympics.
Kenya is today, the highest placed African nation in 18th place with two gold, three silver and two bronze medals. Ethiopia lies 24th with two gold and one silver while Zimbabwe are 30th on the log with one gold and three silver medals. All of Zimbabwe's medals were won by swimmer Kirsty Coventry.
More on Kenya's Olympic victories In the Daily Nation website. >>
Kenya's athletes have done the country proud but a lot needs to change as far as sports administration is concerned. If anything, the sterling performance is in spite of rather than because of our administrators. Kenya's athletes are hard working professionals spurred to victory by the desire for national and international fame.
Unless something is done about the National Olympic Committee (NOCK), Athletics Kenya and other bodies, we are likely to witness more of the same mistakes in future.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks finished with strong gains Monday, helped by deal news and easing Ukraine-Russia tensions.
A better-than-expected reading on the housing market also boosted sentiment and kicked off a big week for economic data.
The S&P 500 SPX, -0.17% rose 16.68 points, or 0.9%, to close at 1,971.74, adding to its 1.2% weekly gain last week. The benchmark index stands just 0.8% off its July 24 record close, as it's bounced back from a slump in late July and early August.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.03% jumped 175.83 points, or 1.1%, to finish at 16,838.74. The blue-chip barometer achieved its biggest point gain since Aug. 8.
The Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.32% climbed 43.39 points, or 1%, to 4,508.31, scoring its highest close since March 2000. Yahoo Inc. US:YHOO and Google Inc. GOOGL, -0.77% GOOG, -0.57% rose 2.5% and 1.5%, respectively, as tech stocks enjoyed broad gains.
"The political concerns that whipped markets around on Friday subsided over the weekend with Ukraine and Russia apparently talking and making some progress," said Colin Cieszynski, chief market strategist at CMC Markets, in emailed comments. He also emphasized encouraging news from Iraq, noting that "Kurdish forces regained control of the key Mosul Dam from ISIS."
Alastair McCaig, market analyst at IG, pointed out the Dow might regain a big round number.
"Wall Street is once again coming up to tackle technical resistance, but with the momentum built up over the last week, conversations are likely to turn towards when, not if, it can tackle the 17,000 level again," McCaig said in a note.
Helping out, he said, was the bounce off session lows seen Friday, when the Dow recovered from a triple-digit fall. Also read: Where Soros and other big investors are putting their money right now
Foreign ministers from Ukraine and Russia met over the weekend, and an agreement was reached over a convoy of what Russia says is humanitarian aid. The news pushed the Europe Stoxx 600 SXXP, -0.28% to its highest close so far this month.
In U.S. economic news, the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index for August came in at 55, its highest level in seven months. Economists polled by MarketWatch had expected a reading of 53. U.S. stocks strengthened further after the housing report.
This week also should bring data on housing starts and consumer prices on Tuesday, as well as minutes from the last Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Wednesday.
Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen will give a speech Friday at the annual Fed summit in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Yellen is expected to say there's still slack in the job market, and she isn't likely to change the Fed's easy-money stance, said Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs, in an interview with MarketWatch.
Dollar General makes play for Family Dollar
Shares of Dollar General Corp. DG, -1.18% rose 12%, faring best in the S&P 500, after offering to buy rival Family Dollar Stores Inc. US:FDO in an all-cash deal worth $78.50 a share. That's higher than Dollar Tree Inc.'s DLTR, +0.46% cash-and-stock bid in July of $74.50 a share. Family Dollar jumped 4.9% for the second-best gain in the S&P 500. Read more about the day's notable moves in the Movers & Shakers column
In commodity markets, oil prices CLU24, -49.27% fell after Iraqi Kurds recaptured a large chunk of the biggest dam in the country from Islamist militants, with help from U.S. air power.


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Travel Roller signs three-year partnership with Volleyball Canada
Ottawa, ON – Volleyball Canada is pleased to announce that it has finalized a three-year agreement with international sporting goods company, Travel Roller.
The partnership will focus on Volleyball Canada's National programs as they prepare for and compete in major international competitions, as well as grass-roots events that attract tens of thousands of participants each season.
"Partnering with Travel Roller – a Canadian company that makes a product that will assist volleyball players across the country – just makes sense for us," said Volleyball Canada Executive Director, Mark Eckert.
Travel Roller is the smallest, most durable, user-friendly body roller on the market. The compact and ergonomically correct size allows the user to self massage in key areas related to athletic performance. Canada's top volleyball players have already benefited from the partnership and use the Travel Roller product as part of their routines.
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Travel Roller's CEO Arysta Bogner said: "We identified volleyball as a huge market in Canada for us and it's a sport that has made rollers a part of their equipment. We're very excited to grow this partnership."
As an official Volleyball Canada supplier, Travel Roller has the rights to develop and distribute their products to Volleyball Canada members through an exclusive offer on its web site. In addition, the deal includes rights for Travel Roller to operate retail vending stands at Volleyball Canada's National Championships.
Volleyball Canada has 64,000 members and oversees many areas of the sport, including the National Programs for Indoor, Beach and Sitting Volleyball.


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Train cancellations and delays due to a lack of staff have been worsened after a man was hit by a train.
Passengers face delays at East Croydon for up to an hour until at least 3pm while emergency services were at the scene, said Southern.
A spokesman said cancellations and delays due to a shortage of train crew were expected to last for the whole of Christmas Eve.
Patrick Newman, a reader, said: "Train operators obviously have been astonished about Christmas suddenly appearing on 25th December.
"This is rank poor management and passengers should not be expected to pay for it with inconvenience and their own money!"
On social media, Ben Wilson said: "In other words they [staff] have decided to take their rostered days off to spend with their families!"
Southern Rail's website stated: "There may be various reasons for a member of train crew being unavailable, for example when the service is disrupted this can lead to train crews being displaced and unable to crew their next scheduled service.
"However, one of the underlying factors is that sometimes we do not have enough train crew to carry out both day-to-day operations and the large amount of training required to enable long-term passenger service improvements, without asking train crew to work rest days."
It added: "Also, while we are recruiting and training, existing train crew retire and leave for personal reasons.
"As a result, there continues to be a risk of cancellations, in particular during periods of high annual leave – but we are steadily overcoming this."
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