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SALA Samui Choengmon Beach
10/9 Moo5, Baan Plai Laem
Koh Samui, Suratthani 84320
Choeng Mon Beach
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SALA Samui Choengmon Beach is located at Choeng Mon Beach. SALA Samui is comprised of 69 stylish, spacious villas, including 53 villas with private swimming pool. Seven different varieties of accommodations are available, featuring spacious Deluxe Balcony Rooms, Garden Pool Villas, signature SALA Pool Villas, several styles of 1 and 2 bedroom suites, and the palatial beachfront Presidential Pool Villa. A comfortable, relaxing ambiance is created by a harmonious blend of traditional Thai architecture with modern facilities and amenities. Samui International Airport is just a short 10 minutes drive away and all sightseeing spots around the island can be easily reached.
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Date of stay:
Apr 09, 2017
Accommodation and facilities:
Very nice, but little bit too expensive. Breakfast is great.
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Apr 12, 2017
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Joerg Fellberg
Date of stay:
Nov 05, 2013
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This is second time to choose SALA but first time in Samui, everything is good and equipment of Samui is much better than that of Phuket; everything goes well except the breakfast is a little bit worse than that of Phuket, too many people in Samui sharing BFs during same time and food&service quality is much lower than that of Phuket. But price is higher than that of Phuket. In total, it is value to money to have a vacation.
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Service is good and efficient, very good.
Nov 11, 2013
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LI XIAN & Wang Yu
Date of stay:
Sep 26, 2010
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We arrived to the Sala Samui on our honeymoon. The location of the resort is a ittle far from the Chaweng area but since that was what we were looking for it was perfect. The resort is beautiful - everything is well taken care of and the calmness that surrounds you is perfect for some R&R. The resort personnel is excellent at providing high level service at any time of the day and are very pleasant and pampering all the time! The two amazing pools at the resort are great - conveniently located by the beach and restaurant. The resort offers happy hours every day (totally worth it) and the food at the restaurant is really good as well. If you want to eat for a little less you have many choices on the beach to your left. We stayed at a double balcony room - very clean and beautifully decorated with an amazing bathroom and balcony. Breakfast is great - offers a variety of dishes and fresh fruit, juices, pastries and bread.We totally recommend the Sala and would absolutely go back for another vacation!
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Very happy with the booking service at Sawadee!
Nov 28, 2010
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Inbal Gedalia
Date of stay:
Jun 14, 2010
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Cet établissement aurait toutes les cartes en main pour offrir un séjour de rêve: - emplacement - concept - restaurant dirigé par un chef franco thai, Alexandre Viallatte, aussi sympathique que talentueux, sans doute parmis les meilleurs de l ile -service irréprochable aussi bien en chambre qu au restaurant et sur la plage. Mais il réussit à gâcher le séjour par quelques désagréments majeurs: - climatisation inefficace, entre 26° et 28 °dans la chambre au mieux ..! agrémentée d un bruit intolérable qui vous donne l impression d être encore dans l avion - lors du check out qui est à midi, pourquoi couper l eau (et la télé ,ce qui est moins gênant) dès 9 heures ??? - et pourquoi me présenter la facture du séjour que j avais déjà payée au voyagiste il y a plus d un mois ? Ces faits sont intolérables pour un 5 étoiles, et si donc vous désirez passer un séjour reposant et dormir la nuit il faut éviter le Sala Samui. Mais çà ne semble pas gêner la majeure partie de la clientèle constituée de jeunes couples en voyage de noces qui ont certainement autre chose à faire la nuit que dormir. Nous avons séjourné dans une Sala Pool Villa en juin 2010.
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Efficace, rapide ,parfait !
Jun 17, 2010
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May 29, 2010
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Customer service at Sala Samui was great! Very nice people and nice hotel in general. Too bad the location on the island is quite remote from the city, and from any practical beach.. The beach right in front of the hotel has muddy ground & multiple rocks, making it uneasy to swim while other beaches on the island are simply perfect! (was quite unexepected for the standard of this hotel). One small negative thing about the hotel: every additionnal services offered by the hotel (restaurant, drinks on the beach, laundry etc..) is more than 3-4 times more expansive than anywhere else.. Walk 2 minutes on the beach & you can eat for at least twice cheaper for the same quality of food! For divers, breakfast starts at 7 only so it can be a problem. It s possible to ask for a breakfast package to go though free of charge! The rest was simply perfect!
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...SALA Samui Choengmon Beach
is a stunning luxury pool villa beach resort on the island of Koh Samui, featuring private swimming pools in 53 out of 69 total villas and suites. At
SALA Samui Choengmon Beach
, a comfortable, relaxing ambiance is created by a harmonious blend of traditional Thai architecture with modern facilities and amenities. Friendly, well-trained staff pamper guests with professional, personal & private service.
Located on pristine Choeng Mon beach on the northeast corner of Koh Samui, SALA Samui Choengmon Beach is just 15 minutes from the Samui International airport, 20 minutes from Bo Phut's quaint Fisherman's Village, and only 15 minutes from the colourful shopping and nightlife of Chaweng Beach.
SALA Samui Choengmon Beach is a true luxury resort in Koh Samui. The resort benefits from excellent facilities and is ideally suited for a romantic holiday or special anniversary. With over 80-meters of pristine beachfront and not one but two oceanfront swimming pools, SALA Samui Choengmon Beach is sure to offer a personal & private experience that is unforgettable.
Luxury Pool Villas and Suites at SALA Samui Choengmon Beach...
SALA Samui Choengmon Beach is an all luxury villa and suite property offering 69 stylish and spacious villas & suites in Koh Samui. Featuring 53 villas with private swimming pools, our SALA Samui Choengmon Beach is sure to provide a wonderful and relaxing holiday.
Accommodation includes Deluxe Balcony, Garden Pool Villas, our signature SALA Pool Villas, 1 and 2 bedroom Suites, an amazing Duplex Suite and the palatial beachfront Presidential Suite.
All room types offer an abundance of private space and serene atmosphere where guests will experience a peaceful vacation.
Each room at SALA Samui Choengmon Beach epitomizes modern, Thai luxury and is enhanced by bespoke personal & private service. Complimentary Wi-Fi throughout will keep you in touch with the rest of the world. With its excellent facilities, 80-metres of white sandy beachfront, the resort is ideally suited for those who seek a romantic getaway.
:: Deluxe Balcony (47 sq.m.) ::
Stylish second floor air-conditioned room is available in king or twin bed configuration and opens on to a large balcony with a full-size outdoor daybed overlooking the garden courtyard. The open-air bathrooms accessible from both the balcony and bedroom are complete with rain shower and oversized bath.
Additional features include a 32" flat screen television, home entertainment unit and complimentary wireless internet.
*** NOTE: Deluxe Balcony: 2 adults and 1 child (below 12 years old) or 3 adults with extra person charge, Children age below 12 years old can join parents room, free of charge.
King size bed (or twin configuration)
Indoor sofa
Air conditioning and ceiling fans
LCD TV 32", home entertainment system
DVD player
Satellite/ cable television
Complimentary WI-FI
In-room electronic safe
Coffee and tea making facilities
Bathrobes, slippers, and umbrellas
Writing desk
Open-air outdoor bathroom,
with outdoor shower and bath tub
Hair dryer
Outdoor day bed
Maximum occupancy 2 adults and 1 Child
:: Garden Pool Villa (100 sq.m.) ::
Ground floor air-conditioned villa is available in king or twin bed configuration overlooking an outdoor patio and private swimming pool. The open-air bathroom has a full size bathtub situated in a beautiful garden, and the outdoor rain shower leads to the backyard swimming area. Additional features include a 26" flat screen television, home entertainment unit and complimentary wireless internet.
*** NOTE: Garden Pool Villa: 2 adults and 1 child (below 12 years old) or 3 adults with extra person charge, Children age below 12 years old can join parents room, free of charge.
Private swimming pool 3*5 m.
King size bed (or twin configuration)
Indoor and outdoor sofa
Air conditioning and ceiling fans
LCD TV 26", home entertainment system
DVD player
Satellite/ cable television
Complimentary WI-FI
In-room electronic safe
Coffee and tea making facilities
Bathrobes, slippers, and umbrellas
Writing desk
Open-air outdoor bathroom,
with outdoor shower and bath tub
Hair dryer
2 Sun loungers
Lush tropical garden
Maximum occupancy 3 adults
:: Sala Pool Villa (106 sq.m.) ::
*** NOTE: SALA Pool Villa: 2 adults and 2 children (below 12 years old) or 3 adults with extra person charge, Children age below 12 years old can join parents room, free of charge.
Private swimming pool 3 * 4 m.
Private sala and sunbathing deck
2 Sun loungers
Outdoor day bed
Lush tropical garden
Maximum occupancy 3 adults
Air conditioning and ceiling fans
King size bed (or twin configuration)
Indoor sofa
Complimentary Wi-Fi
Writing desk
In-room electronic safe
Coffee and tea making facilities
LCD TV 32" and home entertainment system
Satellite / cable television
DVD player
Hair dryer
Bathrobes, slippers, and umbrellas
Open-air outdoor bathroom,
with outdoor shower and bath tub
Dining at SALA Samui Choengmon Beach Restaurants - Award Winning Restaurants...
Samui Island's most interesting yet laid back beach front dining awaits, all under the watchful eye of a team of international Chefs and service management. SALA Samui Choengmon Beach believes that dining is not just a meal, but that it is a journey of flavours and culinary creations from around the world. With this in mind, the resort offers three Koh Samui dining options including an in-villa menu that are sure to please the most sophisticated palate. Arrange a multi course gourmet dinner at one of our Sala Koh Samui Restaurants. Private dining can be arranged, either as a romantic or an unforgettable Private Dinner on the Beach or as a barbecue in the privacy of your own villa.
... Sala Koh Samui Restaurants are filled with dedicated Thai and Western Chefs, perfecting each and every menu item with care and passion.
SALA Spa at SALA Samui Choengmon Beach...
SALA Samui Choengmon Beach is an oasis of beauty, calm and peace nestled into lush landscapes, while being only steps from the beach. Upon entering the Spa of SALA Samui Choengmon Beach your journey will begin as you experience paradise amongst garden pavilions and courtyards in a tropical hideaway where the soothing aromas of natural herbs and spices complement the beauty of natural surroundings. It is the perfect place to relax, unwind and escape from the outside world with a massage, body scrub, facial, manicure or the latest beauty therapy.
80 meters of white sandy beachfront.
2 Beachfront swimming pools; a stunning 25 meter lap pool surrounded by 4 massage salas floating in a beautiful lotus pond.
SALA gift shop:
An attractive gift and sundries shop.
Located on a 2nd story deck above the SALA shop, this serene area is ideal for reading, relaxing, and resting.
Internet & Business center:
High speed Internet access and business center services are available in the gift shop.
A modern meeting room for up to 20 guests.
Thai cooking classes:
Group and private classes are conducted by our own renowned SALA Samui Thai Chef.
Tour, Transportation, and Excursions:
Snorkeling and diving, Mountain biking, Shopping, Elephant trekking.
Driving directions from the airport (Only 5 minutes):
Turn left out of the airport and proceed 1km to the T - junction. Turn right and proceed 2.7 k.m.
(past Big Buddha towards Choeng Mon). Then turn left. Proceed just 100 m. and turn right into SALA Samui Choengmon Beach.
Driving directions from Chaweng (Only 5 minutes):
Proceed north on the Chaweng Beach road towards Choeng Mon.
After passing through Choeng Mon, turn right. Proceed just 100 m. and turn right into SALA Samui Choengmon Beach.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Despite suffering a humbling 4-0 loss to the Houston Dynamo in the season opener back on March 8, revenge isn't the New England Revolution's primary motivating factor as the club prepares for the rematch on Saturday evening at Gillette Stadium.
But, naturally, the memories of that result do provide a little extra fuel.
"I don't think guys forget the fact that we went there and we lost 4-0," said goalkeeper Bobby Shuttleworth, who made several fine saves at BBVA Compass Stadium despite the score line. "We've got to make [Gillette Stadium] a fortress. We want them to come in here and we want to let them know that we're going to be ready to play."
There are lessons to be learned from the previous meeting, when Houston scored three times in the opening 23 minutes – including the winner just 62 seconds into the match – to put the Revs in an insurmountable hole. Will Bruin and Boniek Garcia did the early damage, while Omar Cummings capped the scoring in stoppage time with a fortuitous deflection.
Dynamo goalkeeper Tally Hall maintained the clean sheet, but not without the Revs threatening on several occasions. Both A.J. Soares and Diego Fagundez hit the woodwork, while Jerry Bengtson and Kelyn Rowe misfired on quality chances.
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Entering this weekend's rematch, both sides are looking to get back on track after frustrating results last Saturday. The Revs suffered a 2-0 loss at the hands of D.C. United, while the 10-man Dynamo was overcome late by FC Dallas in a 4-1 setback.
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A Maryland lawmaker hopes to be elected the nation's first openly gay governor.
Democratic Delegate Heather Mizeur was planning to make her campaign announcement Wednesday for the Maryland 2014 governor's race.
Delegate Heather Mizeur, a Democrat who has been exploring a run for months, also would become Maryland's first female governor if elected, although women have run in the past.
"It's a sign of how far we've come as a state that an openly gay person can be a serious candidate for governor," Mizeur said. "But the fact that we're still talking about it is a sign that we still have a ways to go."
Maryland legalized same-sex marriage earlier this year, after voters approved legislation in November allowing it.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 23 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
Black Wing Digital - A Mind-Bending Media Company
Black Wing Digital is a mind-bending media company. I am producing a feature film - psychological thriller - I need a cover image for our investor packet. Something eye-popping for MIND'S EYE, our movie.
Here's the elevator pitch, so you can get an idea of the content:
Mattie Carver is a high school violinist whose world is turning curiouser and curiouser, as space and time seem to be collapsing all around her, apparently triggered by her music. Joined by a misfit team of friends, teachers, and mysterious men in black, Mattie is in a race to restore things to normal, before it's too late.
Our website: http://www.blackwingdigital.com
Link to some of our location scouting, so you can get a feel for the vibe of the project: http://www.blackwingdigital.com/mindseye.html
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Something a little gothic with good lighting, chiaroscuro - i'm open to black and white.
There are also couple of photos on our Facebook wall which may be helpful: http://www.facebook.com/BlackWingDigital
Feel free to "like" the project while you are there, it will be the first 3D live action film shot in Colorado and should be interesting.
We want this to appeal to potential investors (Boomers, primarily, but the movie itself will also appeal to Millenials)
We want them to feel like they will be part of something exciting, enticing, sexy (I use the term "sexy" in an adjective sense, purely, this is not an erotic film and does not contain any explicit sex scenes or nudity, rather, it is a psychological thriller with a quantum physics/metaphysical underpinning)
This will be the cover for an 8-1/2 x 11'' investor packet (so include bleeds for print purposes), but it will primarily be integrated into an online PDF. We would like .eps, .ai, and/or .psd as well as .jpg and .pdf versions. Our winner may (but not necessarily) also be called upon to design posters, web pages, etc., based upon the same image, so it would be an advantage for the image to be reasonably easy to scale for multi-purposing.
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William Shaffer, 60, of Iowa City, Iowa, was charged Thursday with one count of vehicular homicide by reckless driving. He is free on $30,000 bond.
"There's just no good reason to make him stay here," said District Judge Julie Marshall.
Reports of the accident say Shaffer was traveling westbound on U.S. 50 in a 2011 Chevrolet in the eastbound lane when he collided head-on with the Subaru driven by Heather Dunn, 41, traveling eastbound in the eastbound lane. The Subaru was pushed back westbound to its final rest and the Chevrolet traveled off the south side of the road to final rest.
Shaffer reportedly was wearing his seat belt, and he was transported to the Heart of the Rockies Medical Center in Salida with minor injuries. Dunn died at the time of the crash. Reports say she was not wearing her seat belt.
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Erickson, 43, was previously charged with criminal attempt to commit second-degree burglary, two counts of first-degree criminal trespass, possession of a weapon by a previous offender, possession of burglary tools, criminal impersonation, fourth-degree arson and five counts of a habitual criminal sentence enhancement. The arson charge is a misdemeanor.
Erickson was arrested July 18 by Fremont County sheriff's deputies after being caught in the fenced-in area at the True Value Trailers.
The FCSO said Deputy David Baroz was on patrol when he saw Erickson's car parked on the north side of the building. Erickson ran from where his car was parked and attempted to hide. Baroz found that the chain securing the entrance gate had been cut, and deputies believe Erickson was interrupted before he had an opportunity to break into the business.
Deputies reported Erickson had been in the True Value store earlier that day and was suspected of starting a small grass fire on the east side of the property as a diversionary tactic to distract employees in the store. He also reportedly had been in the store a week earlier allegedly attempting to steal a chain saw, according to store employees.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 92 diseños de 33 diseñadores freelance.
UO is a payments portal that facilitates payments from one party to another or from multiple parties to one party, simply, traceable, and easy to follow up on through reminders. "Get your payments faster, track the money you're owed easily, make your life simple."
The customer will use the service to get payments from multiple people into a single bank account or bank accounts. There will be initial setup or upload of customer data. They will have constant visibility of who's paid and how. They will be able to see at a glance whether reminders are needed and easily facilitate a reminder to those in arrears.
Sporting clubs will be the entry point to create scale but the service is intended to have wide appeal to anyone who is owed money by someone else. It's also intended to be applicable and easily translatable to overseas markets. The site design will be clean and simple and the logo needs to reflect a modern and streamlined look that is attractive to a wide demographic.
Our core audience consists of the following: Sporting clubs - specifically managers and secretaries, schools for collection of fees, social event payments among friends/acquaintances, any club where fees are charged either periodically or one off, charity payment potential.
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"When you're presenting, you've got 10 seconds (more or less) to capture the attention of the decision-makers. If you don't… out come the Blackberries and the iPhones, and you can basically kiss the meeting goodbye. They won't be listening."
10 seconds...really? I've heard before that you've got between 3-7 minutes to grab your audience, but has it really gotten so bad as to drop to 10 seconds? He says that the best way to grab your audience's attention in that short time span is to quote a statistic or something "credible and factual that surprises and (probably) frightens them a little bit."
I agree that you have to grab your audience from the outset. But, if we're now down to a 10 second time window, I fear we're all doomed. So, I'm not willing to buy in totally to that time estimate. What I'm willing to agree to is that you need to give your audience something worth listening to and deliver it in a way that enables them to hear the message clearly. It's about presentation skills as well as content. No matter how good your content is, it's just as much about the delivery.
I also agree that today's technology allows us to exhibit ADHD behavior in a multitude of ways. From my iPhone, I can check email, send text messages, surf the web, tweet, play games, read books, and so much more. If I'm sitting in your audience and you don't keep my attention, I can easily (and, for the most part, unobtrusively) find a way to entertain myself and ignore you. I don't have to get up and leave. I simply tune you out and give my attention to my friendly, and oh so fun, iPhone.
As a presenter, I hate looking out and seeing the tops of people's heads as they stare down at their mobile devices (or worse yet, their laptops). Even if 99% of the audience is staring at me in rapt attention, the other 1% disturb me beyond measure. I do understand that when you are away from the office, you aren't free from responsibility. You may still have to respond to problems if/when they arise. But, if you've booked time in your schedule to attend a presentation or conference, would it be fair to ask the folks back at the office to expect some delay in your responses? How about establishing a "check in" schedule? Maybe every 1-2 hours or whatever time frame is reasonable for your situation. Then, instead of feeling like you have to look at and respond to every call, text or email, you can just silence your little electronic friend and pick it up after the presentation is over. If you end up getting bored with the presentation and don't feel like it's worth your time, get up and leave. Hmmm...now wouldn't that be a novel approach?
In the end, I do think that a 10 second "grab 'em or lose 'em" time frame is too short. But, I think the time to capture and hold your audience's attention is short in proportion to the amount of time a person is willing to limit their access to every imaginable distraction that is available at their finger tips.
Maybe in the end, it's not just the presenter's job to capture the audience's attention. Maybe it's also the job of the audience to limit the distractions they will allow themselves and to give the speaker their full attention. Like the old song says "it takes two baby, it takes two".


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Shrimp Scampi with Linguini
Chef Larry "Lee" White, Seafood Manager
"There is nothing like a home-cooked meal with fresh local ingredients, and the kicker is the shrimp with this recipe. These shrimp are wild-caught never frozen shrimp that our HEB fisherman catch for us in Palacios, Texas. So for all you shrimp, garlic, lemon and pasta lovers out there, this ones for you," Chef Lee said.
SERVES 4 to 6
1 pound HEB linguini
4 tablespoon HEB unsalted butter
4 tablespoons Octtavio Extra Virgin Olive Oil, plus more for drizzling (Cooking Connection)
1 large shallot, finely chopped
5 cloves garlic, sliced
Pinch red chili flakes, optional
26-30 large Texas Harvest shrimp, about 1 pound (Seafood Department)
Kosher salt and fresh black pepper
1/2 cup dry white wine (Cooking Connection)
1 lemon, juiced
1/4 cup finely chopped parsley
1/4 cup fresh parmesan cheese (Cheese Shop or Deli Department)
For the pasta, put a large pot of water on the stove to a boil. When the water has come to a boil, add a couple of tablespoons of salt and the linguini. Stir to make sure the pasta separates and cover. When the water returns to a boil, cook for about 6-8 minutes or until the pasta is not quite done. Drain the pasta reserving 1 cup of water.
Meanwhile, in a large skillet, melt 2 tablespoons butter in 2 tablespoons olive oil over medium-high heat. Sauté the shallots, garlic, and red pepper flakes (if using) until the shallots are translucent, about 3-4 minutes. After peeling and deveining the shrimp, season with salt and pepper; add them to the pan and cook until they have turned pink, about 2-3 minutes. Remove the shrimp from the pan; set aside and keep warm. Add the white wine and lemon juice and bring back to a boil. Add 2 tablespoons butter and 2 tablespoons olive oil. When the butter has melted, return the shrimp to the pan along with the parsley, cooked pasta and reserved water. Stir well and season with salt and pepper. Drizzle over a bit more olive oil, parmesan cheese and serve immediately.
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The practical limit to tracking a smartphone-owner's movements in real time – beneath the resolution of GPS and associated location-tracking technologies – is the sensitivity of the motion sensor. Researchers at Caltech say they've taken a step towards very fine motion sensors, using nano-scale waveguides.
Today's smartphones use electrical accelerometers. While these are already small enough for the application, sensitivity is limited, as researcher Oskar Painter explains.
"Most sensors are completely limited by thermal noise, or mechanical vibrations—they jiggle around at room temperature, and applied accelerations get lost in that noise," he explains in Caltech's announcement.
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Instead of an electrical accelerometer (a displacement circuit measuring the movement of a "proof mass"), Painter's group focussed on miniaturising optical accelerometers, which use reflected light beams to measure the proof mass displacement. While already used in high-sensitivity science applications – like the Laser Interferometry Gravitational-Wave Observatory – such detectors are hardly miniature (the LIGO mirrors are separated by kilometres).
Down at micro-scale, Painter's group created a proof mass etched into a chip. These are suspended across optical cavities that are 20 microns long and one micron wide, and a few tenths of a micron thick. Two waveguides ("nanobeams") in the cavity, one of which is attached to the proof mass, direct a laser and detect how its reflections change with movement of the proof mass.
The sensitivity of the detector reaches down to a few femtometers, the researchers say.
Even cooler – forgive the pun – because everything in the system is so small, the lasers damp unwanted movement in the proof mass.
"In our device, the light applies a force that tends to reduce the thermal motion, cooling the system," Painter said – down to a temperature of three Kelvins (about –270°C) in the current devices.
That gives the detector the flexibility to sense both very large and very small accelerations, making it suitable for oil and gas exploration, bio-medical sensors, and aircraft applications.
Oh, and yes: if commercialised, a nano-scale optical accelerometer would be sensitive enough to map a shopper's movements within a supermarket, allowing them to be bombarded with aisle-specific advertisements.
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Team message boards update!
For all you awesome lending team members, we've made a number of improvements to the team message boards:
1) Team captains can now post featured messages to communicate important events, goals, initiatives, etc. The featured message will be highlighted as the first post on message boards and will also appear at the beginning of nightly digest emails.
2) We've added a panel on the right side to show loans that this team has recently talked about. You can also skip to particular messages to see where the loan was discussed.
3) Any time you include a loan link in a message, you'll now see a small preview box that shows the borrower's profile picture, amount raised, and fundraising status. We hope this will be helpful to all of you that join forces to fund loans!
4) And last, but certainly not least, we received a number of requests to increase the amount of time that your team's "recent activity" covers. It used to be 48 hours, but it's now 90 days!
If you're not already part of a Kiva lending team, find some like-minded people to lend with now.
PHPUnit upgrade
For those interested in how Kiva's code base works...
After our PHP Upgrade, we've been able to upgrade some of our related libraries, namely, PHPUnit -- our unit testing framework. Each piece of code we write is divided into small, testable units. We write "unit tests" to ensure these functions still work when one of our 29 engineers makes a change. Over 3,600 unit tests are constantly running to ensure any problem can be found and fixed quickly. So next time you make a loan, think of the hard working engineers :)
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My name is Food Hussy and I love Waffle House...there I admitted it.
Thus in celebration of National Waffle Week - let's do a review of Waffle House!
Thus in celebration of National Waffle Week - let's do a review of Waffle House!
First - the actual waffle. Even if it's dinner time or whatever - I have to have a waffle. It's just the way it is. I never make waffles - I mean - I'll toast a freezer one but that's not even the same food group.
I'm not a big fan of the belgian waffles that you can get at IHop - I love the thin sweet waffles of Waffle House. I love the syrup - the stickiness of the silverware - just love it all!
So - if you've been living under a rock - and haven't been to the Waffle - at least go and try one!
I also am a big fan of the breakfast. They have really cheap breakfast combos. On this particular evening I got the All Star - which is: 2 eggs, toast, hash browns or grits, bacon or sausage & biscuits & gravy or waffle.
I'm not a grits fan - so I always choose the hash browns. The Waffle lets you have them smothered (onions), covered (cheese), chunked (ham), diced (tomatoes), peppered (jalapenos), capped (mushrooms) or topped (Bert's chili). I just went for the covered this time - figured with all the other food - that was good.
The food is typically salty - but I love salt. The food is kinda greasy - but I like grease too.
The BF is allergic to eggs so he went straight for the dinner menu. He got a burger with bacon and a side of the hashbrowns. He's a simple guy - not even smothered! He was happy.
Here's the deal - most people will tell you that you should only go to "Awful Waffle" when you're drunk or hung over. I completely disagree. Every couple of months - I love me some Waffle House.
This particular day was after we had moved my beautiful fabulous sister up to Wittenberg in Springfield. After a long day of lifting, hauling and driving - we were hungry. After trips to Target, Aldi and Walmart - we were broke. After the hour and half drive up and the hour and a half drive back - we were tired. Thus - Waffle House was our perfect stop!
Also something noteworthy - I have NEVER had bad service at Waffle House. The servers are always laughing and do a great job. It's truly something I appreciate.


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Back from four nights and days of eating (and don't forget all that drinking!) in New York City, my home for three years several years ago. Unlike many of the food-crazed, when I'm in New York, "the food thing" is only a part of what I want to experience. My old favorite walk--down Greenwich Street from the far West Village to Tribeca--and my favorite coffee shop--Joe. And my friends. I'm blessed to have some of the world's best (and most hedonistic) friends still living in the city, friends who used to benefit from my generous reviewing expense account on a weekly basis. These peope are eaters; they're game for my food hijinx. And did I mention the drinking?
I started Wednesday evening in the West Village at a newer place called Jeffrey; my husband and I were on our way to Employees Only for a cocktail before our reservations at Babbo, but Jeffrey is one of those truly charming corner bistros that New York has by the dozens, a sight for sore eyes when you've been away from the city, and your old neighborhood, too long. Plus, I saw the word "oysters," so... A dozen terribly shucked but otherwise delicious Maine oysters and one decent martini later, we found ourselves at...
Babbo, mostly for old times' sake. My then-boyfriend (now husband) and I lucked into an 8:30 Friday night bar table there seven years ago when we were first dating, and it was a meal we've spoken about ever since. We were going back again for the first time last Wednesday evening.
I'd gone through the ridiculous rigamorole to get a table: Call at 10am one month to the day in advance, and then confirm your reservation two days in advance (oh, they don't call you, you call them). And so it was we found ourselves with rock star seats at Babbo, where the food was not even close to as good as it was seven years ago. Dishes shot-through with vinegar that hadn't been cooked off or had been applied far too liberally; our noses were shot with hot, sharp vapors. I asked about two dishes, but our server didn't offer to make them right. Out of six dishes, three required us to rescue the main protein--the sweetbreads, the goose liver ravioli--from the pool of vinegary sauce. And adding to the bummer was the fact that this meal was the only one I'd get to share with my husband; we overlapped for just one night (two kids at home and all...). Chef/owner/daytime TV host Mario Batali was there. Not cooking, but hanging with friends at a table across the room.
Things got better the next day. I met a friend for lunch in Harlem at Marcus Samuelsson's Red Rooster, and what a place! Upbeat, colorful, airy and with an energy of pride and spirit--there was a group of probably 15 African American women in their 70s and 80s, spiffed up with hats and such, enjoying lunch to celebrate three birthdays--which made me want to come back even though our lunch wasn't outstanding. We ordered the dense, buttery corn bread which we slathered in more butter and honey: divine. Fried chicken and blackened catfish were...quite good. But great? Not quite. Chef/owner Marcus Samuelsson was there. Not cooking, but hob-nobbing and shaking hands with diners.
So far, New York's got some splainin' to do. But stay tuned for my report on Thursday's dinner at Jung Sik.


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The Illinois Department of Employment Security reports Danville's unemployment rate dropped from 14.4 percent in July to 14.0 percent in August. In Champaign County, the August unemployment rate of 8.3 percent was down from 8.9 percent of the workforce in August of last year..
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kayson.io necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 85 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
Pangea is a startup property management company based in the French Alps. It will handle building projects, interior fittings and furnishings, and will provide services such as cleaning, snow-clearing and general maintenace. The logo is to compliment an existing website design (attached) and should be simple, clean, professional-looking and abstract.
Generally UK-based, 40+years old and well-off, owners of holiday homes in the Alps.
Logo to be provided as a single Illustrator (.ai) file.
The font used for the name is Sweet Gothic. It is not necessary to include the company name or any writing with the design.
The company's USP is that it will be reliable and professional - it is important that this is conveyed in the design. It must fit with the website design and be appropriate for print media like business cards and headed paper.
Elements of the design could include a chalet, a mountain - but neither is necessary, and ther are hundreds of existing brands with mountains in their logos, so ideally the design would be something more abstract. It could be as simple as an appealing shape or shapes.
Inspiration could also be drawn from the name, Pangea - it's on Wikipedia.
The single colour on the website is #00243c. An image of the site is attached.
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Peacefully, surrounded by her family, in the tender loving care of the staff of St Andrews Community Hospital, on Tuesday 21st June 2016, Margaret, aged 92, dearly beloved wife of the late Rev James Bews, much loved mother of James, dear grandmother and great-grandmother.
Dad was minister in the Central and West Church from 1950 to 1957.
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Taylor Lautner: Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart Saved Me From Loneliness While Shooting 'Breaking Dawn'!
Taylor heats up the pages of 'VMAN' and reveals that without Rob and Kristen, he would have gone 'nuts' in the Canadian wilderness!
Taylor Lautner can't live without his best friends Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. The 19-year-old is VMAN's cover boy and he reveals why he almost got a little stir-crazy filming Breaking Dawn for seven months straight in Squamish, BC Canada and Vancouver!
"It was really helpful that all of us were going through the same thing at the same time," says Taylor. "I think if we didn't have that sort of relationship it would have been tough. It would have felt pretty lonely. Because when you're filming for these Breaking Dawn movies, we were filming for seven months, and if you're there alone the whole time, even with the cast members, like on a day off, or on weekends, you'd go nuts."
We don't blame Taylor for feeling this way, we remember how sleepy Squamish was with it's small selection restaurants and one movie theater! It's so great that Rob, Kristen and Taylor all had each other to lean on — and don't forget Robsten's adorable puppy Bear that we're sure provided plenty of amusement.
Don't forget to check out Taylor in his upcoming flick Abduction that hits theaters Sept. 23!
— Chloe Melas
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A winter storm system may bring snowflakes to parts of Eastern North Carolina today, but Onslow County residents aren�t expected to see them.
A winter storm system may bring snowflakes to parts of Eastern North Carolina today, but Onslow County residents aren�t expected to see them.
Most of the forecast region is likely to see cold rain, according to the Thursday afternoon forecast from the National Weather Service office in Newport.
�For Carteret and Onslow counties, it�s looking like more of a cold rain. Most of the wintry mix is expected to the northwest,� said meteorologist Lara Pagano.
For the northwestern coastal plain, a mix of sleet, snow and freezing rain will be possible. A Thursday briefing by the NWS office in Newport indicated a potential for snowfall this afternoon and tonight in an area around and north of a line along U.S. 264 between Wilson and Washington.
While the forecast Thursday kept the wintry mix of precipitation to the north and west of Onslow County, county maintenance engineer Warren Wethington with the N.C. Department of Transportation, remained concerned about the cold rain potentially freezing on the roadways in Onslow County.
He chose to err on the side of safety and have his crews pre-treat the main roads in the county with brine.
�They keep pushing things to the north and west; but with temperatures getting as cold as they are supposed to and the rain, I�d rather pre-treat so things are as safe as possible,� he said.
He said that any freezing rain could mean hazards such as black ice.
The good thing about the system is that it will move through the area quickly.
Pagano said the rain is expected to move into the Onslow and Carteret areas sometime in this afternoon and continue until a little after midnight.
�Most of the precipitation should be gone by Saturday morning,� she said.
While the rain will move out, the weekend will remain a cold one, and gusty winds will continue into Saturday.
�Temperatures will top out Saturday around the mid-40s, but because of the wind it could feel much colder,� Pagano said.
Cold Canadian air will continue over Eastern North Carolina through Sunday. Wind chill values will be in the upper teens to lower 20s Saturday morning, the National Weather Service said.
Winds are expected around 8 to 12 knots in the area with gusts of 17 knots.
The National Weather Service said wind advisories may be needed for the Outer Banks areas tomorrow, with northwest winds of 20 to 30 mph and higher gusts.
Prolonged northwest winds Saturday will likely result in minor sound-side flooding for Outer Banks areas from Ocracoke north to Oregon Inlet.
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In 1977, Guthrie became the first woman to start the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500, where she was top rookie. Her ninth-place finish in the 1978 Indianapolis 500, with a team she formed and managed herself, was the best by a woman until 2005, with Danica Patrick's fourth place finish. Guthrie's helmet and driver's suit are in the Smithsonian Institute. She is a charter member of the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame and in 2006 was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.
Guthrie said, "Lyn St. James and her foundation do so much to call attention to the successes of very talented women drivers in the racing business. Events like the Women in the Winner's Circle Awards are really significant."
The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) was presented with the Leadership Award for its outstanding initiatives promoting diversity. Racers Shirley Muldowney, Ashley Force-Hood, Melanie Troxel, and Eric Enders have made history as the first female winners in their respective classes. In August 2012, history was made again at Pacific Raceways in Seattle when Enders claimed a Pro Stock win, Courtney Force took the Top Fuel win, and Megan Ellingson won in Super Street making it the first time three women won at the same national event. The NHRA's multi-cultural diversity has produced championships with Hispanic Funny Car racer Cruz Pedregon in 2008 and this year as Antron Brown became the first African American to win the Top Fuel championship.
NHRA President Tom Compton said, "The Leadership Award means a lot to everyone in the NHRA racing community. We are all about access for everyone. That's how the organization was set up from the grass roots level. We are proud of the success that women and minorities have achieved in the series and how our fan base reflects diversity as well. NHRA founder Wally Parks would be proud."
2012 Mopar Western Midget Series champion Shannon McQueen was presented with the USAC Kara Hendrick Spirit Award, which honors the memory of one of USAC's most accomplished female drivers. The award is presented annually to a woman driver whose spirit, determination and driving ability are reminiscent of the excellence demonstrated by Hendrick during her brief career. Opportunity Awards recognizing those who create significant opportunities for women drivers to excel were presented to ML Motorsports for signing Johanna Long to a limited season in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, and to Victor Cagnazzi's GK Motorsports for providing Erica Enders with the team that helped her make history as the first female to win in the NHRA's Pro Stock class.
Audi Sport Engineer Leena Gade received the C&R Racing Woman in Technology Award which acknowledges successful women who excel in the technical area of motorsports, and who serve as role models for women to pursue technical opportunities in the field. The foundation's Contribution Award was presented to Dr. Jacques Dallaire, President of Performance Prime, who has contributed his knowledge about the body and mind of a high performance individual to every racer who has attended the foundation's driver development academy since its inception in 1994.
"I'm extremely proud of all our award winners, as well as all the drivers who attended our event this year. Attendees were given a glance of just how much talent is out there and helped us celebrate the people who have contributed to the many successes these drivers have earned and had the opportunity to learn about the impact Title IX has had on motorsports. A wonderful evening!" said Lyn St. James.
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When introducing the Netezza platform to a new environment, or even trying to leverage existing technologies to support it, very often the infrastructure admins will have a lot of questions, especially concerning backups and disaster recovery. Not the least of which are "how much" "how often" and such like. More often than not, every one our responses will be met with a common pattern, a sentence starting with the same two words:
What the....?
Case in point, when we had a casual conversation with some overseers of backup technology as a precursor to "the big meeting" we almost - quite accidentally - shut down the conversation entirely. Just the mention of "billions" of rows, or speaking of the database in "Carl Sagan" scaled terms, caused them to want to scramble for budget and market surveys of technologies that were more scalable than their paltry nightly tape-backup routines. In this particular conversation, we were talking about nightly backups that were larger than the monthly backups of all of their other systems combined. Clearly we were about to pop the seams of their systems and they wanted a little runway to head off the problem in the right way.
But what is the "right way" to perform a backup where one of the tables is over 20 terabytes in size, the entire database is over 40 terabytes in size and the backup systems require two or even three weeks to extract and store this information for just one backup cycle? Quipped one admin "It takes so long to back up the system that we need to start the cycle again before the first cycle is even partially done." and another "Forget the backup. What about the restore? Will it take us three weeks to restore the data too? This seems unreasonable."
Yes it does seem unreasonable precisely because it is - quite unreasonable. As many of you may have already discovered, the Netezza platform is a change-agent, and will either transform or crush the environment where it is installed, so voracious are its processing needs and so mighty is its power to store mind-numbing quantities of information.
The aforementioned admins simply plugged their backup system into the Netezza machine, closed their eyes and flipped the switch, then helplessly watched the malaise unfold. It doesn't have to be so painful. These are very-large-scale systems that we are attempting to interface with smaller-scale systems. We might think that the backup system is the largest scaled system in our entire enclosure, but put a Netezza machine next to it and watch it scream like a little girl.
So here's the deal: No environment of this size shoiuld be handled in a manner that is logistically unworkable for the infrastructure hosting it. We can say all day that these lower-scaled technologies should work better or that Netezza should pony-up some stuff to bridge the difference, but we all know that it's not that easy. Netezza has simplified a lot of things, but simplification of things outside the Netezza machine - aren't we asking a bit much of one vendor?
To avoid pain and injury, think about the things that we need to accomplish that are daunting us, and solve the problem. The problem is not in the technology but in the largesse of the information. We would have the same problem on our home computers if we had a terabyte of data to backup onto a common 50-gig tape drive. We would need twenty tapes to store the data. The backup/restore technology works perfectly fine and reasonably well for a variety of large-scale purposes. We simply need to be creative about adapting it to the Netezza machine. Don't plug it in and hope for the best. Don't do monolithic backups. The data did not arrive in the machine in a monolithic manner so why are we trying to preserve it that way? Leave large-scale storage and retrieval to the Netezza machine and don't crush the supporting technologies with a mission they were never designed for.
Several equally viable schools of thought are in play here. What we are looking for is the most reliable one. Which one will instill the highest confidence with least complexity? The more complex a backup/restore solution becomes, the less operational confidence we have in it. If it cannot backup and restore in a reasonable time frame, we exist in a rather anxious frontier, wondering when the time will come that the restoration may be required and we put our faith in the notion that it either won't, or when it does all of the other collateral operational ssues will eclipse the importance of the restoration. In other words. future circumstance will get us off the hook. There is a better way, like a deterministic and testable means to truly backup and restore the system with high reliability and confidence.
On deck is the simplest form of the solution - another Netezza machine. Many of you already have a Disaster-Recovery machine in play. Trust me when I tell you that this should be fleshed out as a fully functional capability (discussed next) and then the need for a commodity backup/restore technology evaporates. Using another Netezza machine, especially when leveraging the Netezza-compressed information form, allows us to replicate terabytes of information in a matter of minutes. I don't have to point out that none of our secondary technologies can compete with this.
A second strategy requires a bit more thought, but it actually does leverage our current backup/restore technology in a manner that won't choke it. It won't change the fact that the restoration, while reliable, may be slow simply because moving many terabytes in and out of one of these secondary environments is inherently slow already.
A third strategy is a hybrid of the second, in that enormous SAN/NAS resources are deployed as the active storage mechanism for the data that is not on (or no longer on) the Netezza machine. This can be a very expensive proposition on its own. We know of sites that keep the data on SAN in load-ready form, and then load data on-demand to the Netezza machine, query the just-loaded data, return the result to the user and then drop the table. You may not have on-demand needs of this scale, but this shows that Netezza is ready to scale into it.
A fourth strategy is a hybrid of the first, that is we still use a Netezza machine to back up our other Netezza machine, but we use the more cost-effective Netezza High-Capacity server, which is less expensive than the common TwinFin (fewer CPUS, more disk drives) but otherwise behaves in every way identically to its more high-powered brethren. And honestly if we were to put apples-to-apples in a comparison between the cost of a big SAN plant to store these archives versus the High Capacity Server, the server wins hands-down. It's cheaper, simpler to operate, doesn't require any special adaptation and we can replicate data in terms guided by catalog metadata rather than adapting one technology to another.
So let's take these from the least viable to the most viable and compare them in context and contrast, and let the computer chips fall where they may.
Commodity backup/restore technology
If we want to leverage this, we need to understand that it cannot be used to perform monolothic operations. These are unmanageable for a lot of reasons:
- The time it takes to perform a backup and restore is many times longer than a common operational cycle - that is the data is already on-the-move and being processed over the many days required to backup the data. By the time we are done, it does not represent a true backup
- If the backup fails, we've lost all that time and have to restart from scratch
- The time it takes to restore the data is too long to be viable. We cannot wait for days or weeks to get the data back under control and also lose days or weeks of processing time
- The prospect of data loss, over many days if not weeks, is a real threat
- The backup/restore technology is oblivious to the data content, but the content itself provides the necessary boundaries for proper backup operation
- The vast majority of the content is static already, meaning that the vast majority of the backup is redundant and has no value in secondary form
To mitigate the above, we need to adapt the large-scale database to the backup technology by decoupling and downsizing the operation into manageable chunks. This is a direct application of the themes surrounding protracted data movement in any environment. The larger the data set, the more the need for checkpointed operations so that the overall event is an aggregation of smaller, manageable events. If any single event fails, it is independently restartable without having to start over. Case in point, if I have 100 steps to complete a task and they are all dependent upon one another, and the series should die on step 71, I still have 29 steps remaining that may have completed without incident, but I cannot run them without first completing step 71. This is what a monolithic backup buys us - an all-or-nothing dependency that is not manageable and I would argue is entirely artificial.
To continue this analogy, lets say that any one of these 100 steps only takes one minute. In the above, I am still 30 minutes away from completion. I arrive at 6am to find that step 71 died, and now I have to restart from step 1 and it will cost me another 100 minutes. Even if I could restart at step 71, I am still 30 minutes away from completion.
Contrast the above to a checkpointed, independent model. If we have 100 independent steps and the step 71 should die, the remaining 29 steps will still continue. We arrive at 6am to find that only one of the 100 steps died and we are only 1 minute away from full completion. The difference in the two models is very dramatic:
Monolithic means we are operationally reactive when failure occurs. The clock is ticking and we have to get things back on track and keep moving. Checkpointed means we are administratively responsive when failure occurs. We don't have to scramble to keep things going. In fact, in the above example, if step 71 should fail and the operator is notified, doesn't the operator have at least half an hour to initiate and close step 71 independently of the remaining 29 steps? Operators need breathing room, not an anxious existence.
Monolithic methods are supported de-facto by the backup/restore technology. If we want to perform a checkpointed operation, we have to adapt the backup/restore process to the physical or logical content of the information. We don't want to directly mate the backup technology itself, so we need to adapt it.
Logical Content Boundaries
This means we have to define logical content boundaries in the data. What's that? You don't have any logical content boundaries, not even for operational purposes? Well, per my constant harping on enhancing our solution data structures with operational content, such as job/audit ID and other quantities, perhaps we need to take a step back and underscore the value of these things because they exist for a variety of reasons. One of them is now upon us - the operatonal support of content-bounded backups. It is required for scalability and adaptability and is not particularly hard to apply or maintain.
A more important aspect of content boundary is the ability to identify old versus new data. If the data is carved out in manageable chunks, some will always be least-recent and some more-recent. Invariably the least-recent chunks will be identical in content no matter how many times we extract them for backup. This means we can extract/backup these only once and then focus our attention on the most active data. In a monolithic model, there is no distinction between least or most active, least or most recent. In large-scale databases, the least-recent data is the majority, so the monolithic backup is painfully redundant when it need not be.
Do we absolutely need content-bounded backups for all of our tables to function correctly? Of course not. But by applying this as a universal theme it allows us to treat all tables as part of a backup framework where all of them behave the same way. So part of this is in the capture of the data but a larger part is the operational consistency of the solution.
Many reference tables such as lookups will never grow larger and we know this. In fact, their data may remain static for many years. For the ones that are tied to the application and grow or change every day, these we will call solution tables. They are typically fed by an upstream source and are modified on a regular basis. Any of these tables can grow out of control. The reference data then represents a very low operational risk. Why then would we not simply fold the reference data into the larger body and treat all the tables the same? There is no operational penalty for it, but enormous benefit from being able to treat all tables the same way inside a common solution.
At this point, the backup/restore framework will address all of the tables the same way, but now we have the ability to leverage rules and conditions within the framework so that special handling is available if necessary. This is a common theme in large-scale processing: Handle everything as though it will grow, but accommodate exceptions with configuration rules. I'll forego this aspect for now and let' take a look at what we need in basic terms:
- An intermedaite landing zone: Some off-machine storage location that can hold the data while in transit - e.g a NAS or SAN volume. This will not be the same size as the database but some fraction of it. It is a workspace for intermediate files, not permanant storage
- Content boundaries: A means to define and manage content bthese are tags or quantities in the data itself. They need to be consistent for all tables so that the backups and restore operate the same way. Of course, if we don't have these, we need to apply them.
- A restoration database: a separate database that will be used for the restoration process, because we won't be restoring the data directly into the table from whence it came. Why not? There is an increasing likelihood that the data structures have changed since the last backup. If the structure has changed, we cannot reload the data into it. We need a way to shepherd the data back into the machine.
- Processes: that capture / backup / restore the data using content boundaries and common utilities. These are typically control scripts that are easily configured, deployed and maintained
- Archival Database (next): Physical content replicas of the masters that hold all of the original information in a form useful for backup and restore. Whether they keep the data active/online is immaterial. Their role is to interface with the backup/restore mechanisms so that any data once made offline can easily be made online through this database.
Archival Databases
Setup formal archival databases. Whether these reside on the same server, or on a DR / High Capacity server (below) is immaterial. The point is that the data in the master tables will be actively rolled into these tables, which will form the backbone for all backup and restoration operations. We therefore replicate the masters (with streaming replication) into the archival stores and then at some interval perform the backup of the archives, not the master.
Foreshorten the Master Tables
Now that we have a means to define content boundaries - you did apply those boundaries right? We can now look at the database holistically for optimizations based on active data.
At one site we have a table with ninety billion records in three different fact tables spanning over ten years of information, However, the end-users and principals claimed (and we verified) that the most active data on any given day is the most recent six months. Anything prior to that, they would query perhaps once or twice a year for investigative purposes, but had not tied any reports to it.
So now we have an opportunity to get agreement from the users to shorten the master tables. This is especially necessary for those fact tables. In the end, these fact tables (above) were shortened to less than four billion rows each and these are kept trimmed on a regular basis. The original long-term data is held in another archival database that is the foundation for the backups and restores.
- On a per-table basis, use the content boundaries to manufacture/compile a set of checkpointed instructions for each table to support extraction and restoration
- Execute the extractions to create flat files
- Each extraction will pull data to a Netezza-compressed flat file and also supply another file with the metadata instructions necessary to restore the file's contents. On a per-file basis, these instructions will include:
- Original table definition, used to construct a template of the table in the restoration database
- File load instructions used to get the content back into the machine
- Transformation command, used to move data from the restoration database into its original home
- Original table definition, used to construct a template of the table in the restoration database
- The files will be extracted (using content boundaries) onto the storage landing zone
- The smaller extractions can be performed in parallel, are independent and form their own checkpointed process
- The backup techology will begin its backup process once the second (metadata companion) file arrives for the set. The metadata companion file behaves as a trigger.
- Once the backup for the file-set is complete, the backup/restore deletes the file and its companion
- This decouples the backup/restore processing from the database (completely) so that it can focus solely on file-based backup and restore
- For restoration, both the content file(s) and companion metadata file(s) will be retrieved and placed on the storage landing zone
- The metadata will be used to reconstruct an empty intermediate version of the original table in the Restoration Database
- Load the table using nzload
- Then the metadata will be used (even a preformulated SQL statement) to copy the data into the original target
- Throw away the intermediate load table, delete the data file and its companion metadata file
- The restoration process can be run as many ways-parallel as supported by nzload
- The restoration process can also be surgical, with the more agile ability to restore data in smaller segments
The above protocol, while likely easy to pull off an administer, still has a number of moving parts that the Netezza based-equivalent (later) will not have.
SAN-based hybrid
The only difference between the above protocol and one using a SAN-based storage mechanism, is the absence of a formal backup/restore technology. Rather the SAN is the long-term storage location and we perform the incremental extractions onto it. Rather than delete the files, we keep them.
This has significant implications for the cost of the SAN. After all, if we intend to interface this to the Netezza machine, we would not want common NAS storage because it is too slow and the vendors actively disclaim their technology from being viable for data warehousing. The primary reason is that the network and CPUs are set up for load-balancing, like a transactional database, but not bulk onload/offload of the data.
Not only will we need enough SAN to backup the environment, but to also carry fathers and grandfathers if need be (this is a policy decision). With checkpointed extracts, the father/grandfather issue is largely moot. This is because once a checkpointed extract of older data is pulled and stored, it won't be changing and capturing another one just like it has no value.
Netezza-based Hybrid
In this approach we leverage another Netezza machine like a DR server, as our backup, archival and restore foundation. It can easily hold the information quantity. The difference here is in price, of course, since a fully-functional TwinFin is more expensive than most common SAN installations. However, the High Capacity Server (below) mitigates this pricing problem while delivering a consistent data experience.
One primary benefit of performing backups into the DR server is that it can automatically serve the role of a hot-swap server in case of failure in the primary server.
For this scenario to work however, we would want streaming replication between the active databases and the DR server so that the data is being reconciled while being processed. This allows us to have a fully functional hot-swap if the primary crashes, and we can continue uninterrupted while the primary is serviced. Word to the wise on this kind of scenario however, bringing back the primary means that it is out of sync, since the secondary took over for a span of time. So we would need to be able to reverse the streaming replication to make it whole.
Scenarios like this often embrace the practice of operationally swapping the two machines on defined boundaries, like once a month or once a quarter, where they actually switch roles each time. This allows the operations staff to gain confidence in the two machines as redundant to each other in every way. I have seen cases like this where the primary machine went down, the secondary machine kicked in seamlessly and all was well. I have also seen cases where the principals kept the DR server up to date but when it came time to operationally switch, some important piece (usually in the infrastructure between the devices) was missing causing the failover itself to fail. It is best to have a plan in place, but it's better to have tested the plan and that it actually works.
- On a per-table basis, use the content boundaries to manufacture/compile a set of checkpointed instructions for each table to support extraction and restoration
- Using a variation of the nzmigrate utility, perform the table-level extractions
- Extract data in Netezza-compressed form to a flat file
- Load the flat file into a restoration database in the second machine
- Perform the transform-execution to copy data from the restoration database into the target table
- The extractions, restoratons and transformations can all leverage simple scripts and catalog metadata, not become dependent on deeply hand-crafted code
- Intermediate (SAN) landing zone requires less space because the data is being transferred in Netezza-compressed format and it is cleaned-up on-the-fly
Transfer is quicker because Netezza-compressed data is written to the data-slices directly instead of coming through the host.
A word on Netezza-compressed transfer. I wrote about this in Netezza Transformation but it is important to highlight here. We performed an experiment moving half a terabyte scattered across a hundred or more tables. This data was moved from its original home to a database in another machine. The first method used simple SQL-extract into an nzLoad component. This process took over an hour. The second method used transient external tables with compression, coupled with an nzload in compressed mode. The entire transfer took less than six minutes. This was because the compressed form of the data was already 14x compressed.
In other experiment using over 20x compression for the data, we were able to transfer ten terabytes in less than an hour. This kind of data transfer speaks well for the streaming replication necessary for DR server operation (above) but underscores the fact that even when transferring between Netezza machines, it's as though we haven't left the machine at all.
Netezza-based High-Capacity Server
This option is simply a form of the Netezza-based hybrid (above) but on a dedicated server designed to support backup and recovery.
The better part about this server is that is has more disk drives and fewer CPUs, making it far more cost effective for storage than common SAN devices. Couple this with the minimal overhead required for transferring data between machines, and the ability to surgically control the content with the content-boundaries and catalog metadata, and we get the best of all worlds with this device.
Not only that, but it is also scalable to support storage of all other Netezza devices in the shop as well as any non-Netezza device where we simply want to capture structured information for archival purposes. The High Capacity server is queryable also, meaning that even the ad-hoc folks will find some value in keeping the data online and available.
Lastly, in Spring 2010, as part of the safe-harbor presentation one of the principals at IBM Netezza announced plans for a replication server. I can only imagine that this device will deliver us from any additional hiccups associated with streaming replication that we might now be doing in script or other utility control language.
At Brightlight, our data integration framework (nzDIF) has the nz_migrate techniques built directly into the flow substrate of the processing controller, as well as the enforcement and maintenance of the aforementioned content boundaries. We are actively acquiring and applying best, most scalable and simplified approaches as a solution framework firmly lashed to a purpose-built machine. I am a big proponent of encouraging Enzees to take on these things themselves, or at least let us coach you on how to make it happen. The solutions are simple because the Netezza platform itself is simplified in its operation. Stand on the shoulders of genius - the air is good up here.


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After a few days of glorious bliss at Maroma we decided to venture out to Playa Del Carmen, which was a 15-minute drive from our slice of heaven. I actually debated ever stepping foot out of perfection but since we had not done one touristy thing (our preferred method of travel) we figured we might as well do SOMETHING other than eat, drink, and have sex. So gorgeous hostess #3 called a cab and off we went. The driver asked if I was Susan's sister and she said "No she's my esposa." He laughed at her and said "No, you don't understand that word, it means wife." She said "Yep, she's my wife" and that was followed by "Ohhhhhh" and a long conversation about gays and marriage. When we arrived at our destination the cab driver convinced us to meet him when we were done with our evening so that he could take us home. Susan gratefully complied. I have to admit I was concerned about his kindness.
At the end of the night he met us at the agreed upon corner to take us back to our resort. We began chatting and all was fine until suddenly the driver took a turn off the main drag on to a small dirt road.
My heart began racing and I grabbed Susan hard. The road was dark. Susan asked him what we were doing and he said "routine check." I started shifting around anxiously and desperately eyeing Susan to do something fast.
"'Routine check', man?" she said. "We didn't do this before. What's up?"
He was quiet and than he began laughing. This was the moment that I had been dreading. Here we were, completely helpless, driving away from any possible safety. My life flashed before me. We went silent and watched dirt spraying from the sides of the car. Suddenly we saw a small shack in the distance with a plain-clothed man standing with one hand on his gun and the other on his hip. The car stopped. My breath stopped with it. The man nodded at our driver. Our driver nodded back and began laughing maniacally and then the car started to slowly pull away. My heart was pounding and Susan began talking again.
"What was that?"
"Really? That's pretty strange."
"It's for the tourists' protection so that they can make sure you're ok."
We began to see the main road again. I took a deep breath and tears fell from my eyes.
In what felt like hours we were back, safe in our villa. The trip was near the end and it was as if our dreamlike state was disappearing before our eyes. I got Montezuma's revenge and Susan got mosquito bites all over her body. We checked out, Susan paid the bill, and we kissed the beach goodbye and took the longest plane ride home, Susan itching the whole way and I racing to the bathroom every 5 minutes. We arrived in Houston for a layover and stood in a long line with our passports in hand waiting to re-enter the US officially. We had filled out our paperwork on the plane for the border patrol and decided that since we weren't married legally and we were entering the fine state of Texas, we would not mark the "married" box so, sadly, and against our vow to be forever out as wives, we checked the single box. The line to the border check-in was long and I was dying for the bathroom on the other side. We finally reached the stringent bald-headed man at the podium and handed him our passports and papers. He looked at them carefully and asked Susan "What is your relationship to one another?"
Susan paused, looked at me and then said, "She's my wife." He looked me up and down and ripped up my paperwork. "Then you only need one of these," he said to Susan "and tell your wife to wear sun block next time."
It was the perfect end to our honeymoon and the perfect start to our new life.


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Diocese of Gallup files for bankruptcy
Church leaders say it's protection against mounting sexual abuse cases
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Gallup is preparing to file for bankruptcy because of the mountain clergy sexual abuse claims.
Father Kevin Finnegan said he's disgusted by the allegations of sexual abuse surrounding the diocese.
"The church isn't supposed to be doing this stuff," Finnegan said.
To begin the healing process, he said the diocese is filing for bankruptcy. Finnegan believes that way, all 13 alleged victims of sexual abuse will be compensated, not just the first person who sues the church.
"If this one individual got the money, the others wouldn't get anything," Finnegan said.
But Barbara Dorris of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests said bankruptcy is another word for cover-up.
"This is usually not about money, but about protecting their secrets," Dorris said.
The secrets, she said, would come out if the stories of what happened to the victims, 11 men and two women, are heard by a judge. Though that won't happen if the church is able to settle out of court.
Robert Pastor, the attorney representing the alleged victims, said the incidents happened in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s in rural areas, primarily in northern Arizona.
"Most of them are Hispanic or Native American, and all of them grew up in small towns that were working class," Pastor said.
One lawsuit details the abuse one altar boy endured in the 1950s, including touching, masturbation, oral sex and sodomy.
Pastor said the bankruptcy filing will come at an opportune time for the bishop, right before his deposition.
Finnegan's opinion differs.
"This never should've happened to begin with," he said.
Finnegan believes justice will be done when the diocese, one of the poorest in the nation, is able to give every victim some money as compensation for what they went through.


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Sony has brought its Blu-ray Disc equipped all-in-one desktop PC, the Vaio LT, to the UK, part of a promotional programme for the next-gen optical disc format that will see more laptops fitted with BD drives too.
Sony's Vaio LT: iMac inspired?
Unveiled in the US last month, the LT packs in an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of DDR 2 memory and 320GB of hard disk storage. The built-in screen is a 22in, 1680 x 1050 panel fed by an Nvidia GeForce 8400M GT with 256MB of dedicated video memory. That's expandable to 1GB using Nvidia's TurboCache technology, which grabs part of the PC's main memory bank.
The LT has 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on board, along with two hybrid digital/analogue TV tuners and, of course, a slot-load Blu-ray Disc drive.
Sony's Vaio FZ20: Blu-ray on the move
The Vaio FZ20 line of 15.4in laptops sport BD support too. Again, it's powered by a Core 2 Duo and 2GB of DDR 2. The hard drive's 300GB, the graphics chip an Nvidia 8600M GT, again with 256MB of video memory and TurboCache support. Wi-Fi this time is of the 802.11n variety.
Sony's Vaio AR50: mobile media centre
The FZ20 hasn't got a TV tuner, but the 17in AR50 has. Its other specs match those of the FX20, except for a faster processor - 2.4GHz to the other's 2.2GHz CPU - and a 500GB hard drive.
Sony's launch could help it in its fight with Toshiba. Its rival has pledged to begin building HD DVD drives into all Satellite-branded laptops from Q4 onwards.
The LT is priced from £1999. The AR50 series comprises a trio of models priced from £899-1999, though the cheapest machine last a Blu-ray drive. Sony didn't say how much members of the FZ20 line will cost.
They're all expected to go on sale early in October.
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