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16-Year-Old Jessica Sanchez Brings 'American Idol' Judges to Their Feet
With only two girls left to perform, Jessica Sanchez took the 'American Idol' stage tonight to chat first with Ryan Seacrest about the emotional week she's had while losing her voice and having to visit the doctor. When asked how she thought her voice would hold up for her performance, the 16-year-old San Diego native was obviously apprehensive.
"Right now it's still feeling a little bit sore, but I think that I can still pull it off," she said. Well, that proved to be the understatement of the evening as the tiny girl belted out a soulful tune with the heart of Aretha Franklin. Letting her voice take over on Jennifer Hudson's 'Dreamgirls' hit 'Love You I Do,' Sanchez established herself as a little diva singer to be reckoned with.
Though she could have dialed down the vibrato a tiny bit, the girl who's just old enough to get her driver's license brought all three judges to their feet and had Randy Jackson screaming "Yo, yo yo!" and "Crazy, crazy," before he could even get anything coherent out. It's the first time we've seen the judges royally stumbling over themselves to get their praises out there.
"Let me just say this," Jackson finally got out. "I don't know about no doctor. I don't know what's going on but what is really happening – that girl can really sing! I would say one of the best from the last two nights."
Jennifer Lopez listed off a string of things that drew her into the performance — "the way you pulled back, the way you let us have it" — and finally concluded that Sanchez is just way beyond her years vocally. Jackson also compared her to Beyonce, saying that he loved that about her. Steven Tyler couldn't contain his praise either, complimenting the singer as readily as the others as the young Sanchez looked genuinely and adorably starstruck on that giant stage.
"These guys are like my role models," she told Seacrest, "and they're telling me all this stuff. I'm going crazy right now!"
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SOPA/PIPA… Sopapilla?Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
No, it's not a delicious fried pastry, it's the product of American politicians doing what they do best: pandering to overfunded lobbyists and being malicious douche bags. Needless to say, Stoner Culture would most likely not exist at all if SOPA (House Bill 3261) or PIPA were to pass. You can also say goodbye to all your other favorite drug resources as well! Erowid, Bluelight, TCC, DMT Nexus, Opiophile, etc etc. I don't think a single one of them would exist.
If either SOPA or PIPA pass, dark times will lie ahead for the drug enthusiasts of America. We will no longer have access to the resources that have helped make us responsible and safety-conscious drug users.
Us stoners have a reputation of being so-called "slacktivists" – only complaining about problems without taking any action or offering up solutions. So let's change that image! Go here: http://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml and tell your representative to vote against SOPA and PIPA as hard as they can. Remind them that as their constituent, they are working for you, more than they're working for any lobby group or PAC.
Update: It looks like something happened! Google has reported 4.5 million signatures on their petition to stop SOPA/PIPA, and millions of others have signed at Avaaz, Fight for the Future, and the White House petition sites. An impressive number of websites blacked out their content, or publicly protested yesterday. Wikipedia, Craigslist, Mozilla Firefox, Reddit, Wired, Cracked, Ars Technica and Google (and a long list of 10,000 less prominent sites) went completely black yesterday, or joined the virtual rebellion by posting up messages and selectively censoring their sites.
In the most satisfying news, it would also appear that at least 10 senators have withdrawn support for SOPA. Three House Reps who initially co-sponsored the bill have backed out, weakening support at the very base. Politicians from all walks of life, including republicans from the deep South, withdrew their support. It may have taken the entire internet rising up, but it proves that – if nothing else – they aren't completely bought out just yet.


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Presenting an official video from the sun-scorched, engine-eating, 2013 Australasian Safari. The seven-day navigation rally concludes today, and as such it seemed only fitting we enjoy some clips from the race.
Featured above is Leg 4 of 7, which most accurately depicts the event based on what I remember from participating in 2011.
Sun, dirt, and animals are as big a part of the show as the bikes, buggies, and cars (which is what they call everything with four wheels).
Looks like a couple maniacs even attempted it with a sidecar this year... clip's worth watching for that alone.
I did notice as I moved from the first to the latest showreel, less and less motorcycles are featured... evidence of the high attrition rate.


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Brother DCP-7065DN
This is a brief tutorial to make the Brother DCP-7065DN printer/scanner work on Arch. It is largely a duplicate of the tutorial for the Brother HL-2030, with changes specific to the Brother DCP-7065DN.
Download Printer drivers
If you previously tried to install the printer in CUPS, remove it.
First create a temporary directory. Then you must download the official LPR drivers from the Brother website into that directory. Click here (and agree to their terms). This is an RPM archive. You have to download the cupswrapper file here (and agree to their terms). This script creates the filters and PPD file for CUPS automatically. It's an RPM archive too.
Extracting the RPM files
Now you need a small script called rpmextract which allows you to get the files included in the RPM you've just downloaded. Log in as root and execute :
# pacman -S rpmextract
Extract both RPM files :
$ rpmextract.sh dcp7065dnlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.rpm $ rpmextract.sh cupswrapperDCP7065DN-2.0.4-2.i386.rpm
It should give you two directories : usr and var.
Editing files to make it work with Arch
Arch Linux uses its own file system organization, so you have to edit some files. Use your text editor (i.e. vi) to open the file named cupswrapperDCP7020-2.0.1 If you created the temporary directory "tmp" in your home, this file will be in /home/(your user)/tmp/usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper/cupswrapperDCP7020-2.0.1
In this file, you must replace all the /etc/init.d/ occurrences by /etc/rc.d/ and /etc/init.d/cups by /etc/rc.d/cupsd.
Once you've finished this step, copy all of the files to their corresponding directories in your file system :
# cp -r /home/user/tmp/usr/* /usr # cp -r /home/user/tmp/var/* /var
Installing the driver and printer
Go into /usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper/ and run the cupswrapper file as root :
# cd /usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper/ # ./cupswrapperDCP7020-2.0.1
It will stop the cups daemon if it's running, and restart it.
Configure the Connection
Last step!
Now go to the CUPS page : http://localhost:631/
Under the Printers tab you should see a DCP7020 printer automatically installed and configured.
Click the printers name (DCP7065DN) and in the administration drop down choose "Modify Printer"
Select "LPD/LPR Host or Printer". The next page prompts for the connection string. Enter: lpd://<Your Printers IP Address>/BINARY_P1
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To survive the changing business environment and contend with technological upheavals, printing businesses must assess and promote the value of what they do rather than simply focus on product and process.
I've long been fascinated with exponential expansions of information and incredible rates of growth. I've had an opportunity over the past few months to look at these subjects, which I discussed in the September 2008 edition of Screen Printing, much more closely and consider the implications they have for garment and graphics screen printers, as well as digital printers. The speed at which knowledge expands changes everything we know about past practices and about how we run our businesses. But this isn't unique to us. Other industries and segments are facing even greater and more radical disruptions.
Observation of the phenomenon of exponential knowledge expansion—and the dilemma exponential knowledge growth poses—has been documented in scientific papers as far back as 1981. We, of course, have been too focused on the disruptive technologies in our industry and how they've affected our lives to have noticed. I would like to look closely at what this means to us from the familiar perspective of learning a craft or trade, and then guarding that knowledge as a protected trade secret. I chose this perspective because our industry is notorious for harboring such a condition.
Craftsman-guild model
When knowledge was difficult to obtain and books were nonexistent, the trades and crafts protected their value by keeping their methods secret and passing knowledge by word of mouth. This is where the term trade secret originated. While the term most likely comes from Western Europe in the 1300-1400s, the first evidence of trade guilds goes back as far as the Dark Ages, around 800 AD. More importantly, knowledge was very rare and if you had it, you protected it and did not share it for risk of losing your advantage. If you were the only one who had it, you would have value and you would always have work.
This approach to knowledge was based on scarcity. During this period it was indeed possible to learn every recorded piece of knowledge—a situation common among scholars and monks. Knowledge was scarce and often held in higher esteem than gold.
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Community Comes Together to Help Family Affected by Fire
Last Saturday morning, like many people in the Sioux Falls area, I was made aware of a house fire in town that tragically took the lives of three children. This story broke my heart.
Later that evening, when the names were released of the victims, I realized I knew the family. The mother, Rhiannon White, used to work with me at Dressbarn. We all knew her as Rhi and she was always a ball of fire and had such a fun sense of style.
I didn't know the kids very well, but did meet them briefly at Rhiannon's wedding this past summer.
I immediately felt I should do something. I wanted to call, but what do you say?
The employees at Dressbarn and I have decided to help in the best way we know how: provide clothes.
The manager had talked to Rhiannon Wednesday and she didn't have anything to wear to the funeral. We decided to all pitch in for some new clothes for her.
However, her husband needs clothes as well. Not only that, but they lost everything so any donation is helpful.
Dressbarn will be accepting clothing/cash donations at the Sioux Falls location across from Wal-Mart on Louise. Rhi is a size 4 in clothes and 9 in shoes. Her husband is 34x32 pants, large in shirts, and size 10 shoe.
Donations for the funeral can be made at Sioux Falls Federal Credit Union or First Premier Bank under the name Rhiannon White (Coon). Thank you all for your help.
The funeral service for Michael Hensley, 16, Savannah Coon, 12, and Alivia Coon, 6 will begin at 10:00 am Monday, December 31 at Celebrate Community Church in Sioux Falls. Visitation begins at Miller Funeral Home at 1:00 pm Sunday, with family present from 2:00pm to 4:00 pm.


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Censuses provide the framework for much of the family history research that we do. Every once in a while, it is useful to consult the actual instructions that were given to enumerators for that particular census year. The University of Minnesota has posted them online to the eternal gratification of all genealogists. Of course, we all know that not every enumerator followed the instructions to the letter, but I've also found that what we think was meant by a census question is not always that simple. As a good example, let's look at how the instructions for defining "black" (colored, negro, etc.) evolved over time:
In 1860 and 1870, a blank space under Color implied "White":
Color.– Under heading 6, entitled "Color," in all cases where the person is white leave the space blank; in all cases where the person is black without admixture insert the letter "B"; if a mulatto, or of mixed blood, write "M";if an Indian, write "Ind." It is very desirable to have these directions carefully observed.
By 1880 that was no longer the case:
Color–It must not be assumed that, where nothing is written in this column, "white" is to be understood. The column is always to be filled. Be particularly careful in reporting the class mulatto. The word is here generic, and includes quadroons, octoroons, and all persons having any perceptible trace of African blood. Important scientific results depend upon the correct determination of this class in schedules 1 and 5.
(What scientific results depended on this?)
By 1900, there was no "Mulatto" category anymore:
Color- Write "W" for white; "B" for black (negro or of negro descent); "Ch" for Chinese; "JP" for Japanese, and "In" for Indian, as the case may be.
By 1910, "Mulatto" was back, with a new definition for "black":
Color or race.-Write "W" for white; "B" for black; "Mu" for mulatto; "Ch" for Chinese; "Jp" for Japanese; "In" for Indian. For all persons not falling within one of these classes, write "Ot" (for other), and write on the left-hand margin of the schedule the race of the person so indicated. For census purposes, the term "black" (B) includes all persons who are evidently full-blooded negroes, while the term "mulatto" (Mu) includes all other persons having some proportion or perceptible trace of negro blood.
By 1920, there was a slew of other color/race choices:
Color or race.-Write "W" for white, "B" for black; "Mu" for mulatto; "In" for Indian; "Ch" for Chinese; "Jp" for Japanese; "Fil" for Filipino; "Hin" for Hindu; "Kor" for Korean. for all persons not falling within one of these classes, write "Ot" (for other), and write on the left-hand margin of the schedule the race of the person so indicated. For census purposes the term "black" (B) includes all Negroes of full blood, while the term "mulatto" (Mu) includes all Negroes having some proportion of white blood.
For both 1930 and 1940, the new word "Negro" got detailed (although with conflicting guidelines), and notice the 'Other Mixed Races':
Color or race.-Write "W" for white, "B" for black; "Mus" for mulatto; "In" for Indian; "Ch" for Chinese; "Jp" for Japanese; "Fil" for Filipino; "Hin" for Hindu; "Kor" for Korean. For a person of any other race, write the race in full. Negroes.-A person of mixed white and Negro blood should be returned as a Negro, no matter how small the percentage of Negro blood. Both black and mulatto persons are to be returned as Negroes, without distinction. A person of mixed Indian and Negro blood should be returned a Negro, unless the Indian blood predominates and the status as an Indian is generally accepted in the community.
Other mixed races.-Any mixture of white and nonwhite should be reported according to the nonwhite parent. Mixtures of colored races should be reported according to the race of the father, except Negro-Indian (see par. 151).
This nation's preoccupation with color, especially when that color was black, is evident. It is also apparent that centuries of miscegenation had forever changed what the definition of that would include.
Take a look at some of the enumerator instructions and tell me what surprises you. I got a real kick out of how detailed the instructions were for Occupation, as well as this note about getting information on certain classes of people in 1880:
The law requires a return in the case of each blind, deaf and dumb, insane or idiotic, or crippled person. It not infrequently happens that fathers and mothers, especially the latter, are disposed to conceal, or even deny, the existence of such infirmities on the part of children. In such cases, if the fact is personally known to the enumerator, or shall be ascertained by inquiry from neighbors, it should be entered on the schedules equally as if obtained from the head of the family.
Elizabeth Shown-Mills, on her Evidence Explained website, has an excellent QuickLesson about the importance of knowing census instructions.


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Recently a friend was telling me about a great little recipe from Jacques Pepin's Cuisine Economique, which puts to good use those nibs de fromage. It's called Fromage Fort (strong cheese) and a quick search on Chowhound pointed me to a 1989 New York Times article written by Pepin with the recipe. It's so easy and delicious and you feel great making it. Not only are you making a creamy cheese spread in about 10 seconds, but suddenly your refrigerator door seems weightless and clean again. It's frugal gourmet, French style.
Fromage Fort
adapted from Cuisine Economique
3 or 4 peeled garlic cloves
1 lb. leftover pieces of cheese, a combination of as many hard and soft varieties as you desire
(like Brie, cheddar, Swiss, bleu, mozzarella or goat), trimmed to remove surface dryness and mold
1/2 cup dry white wine or vegetable broth or a mixture of both
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Salt, if needed.
Place the peeled garlic in the bowl of a food processor and process for a few seconds, until coarsely chopped. Add the cheese, white wine (or broth), pepper, and salt (if needed) and process for 30 to 45 seconds, until the mixture is soft and creamy but not too smooth. Place in a crock, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until ready to use.
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Professor Schenkel teaches Estate and Gift Tax; Estate Planning; and Wills, Estates, and Trusts. Before joining the New England Law faculty in 2006, he was a solo practitioner in North Carolina, providing legal and tax planning services with a specialty in estate planning and administration. Before that, he practiced in Florida. He also served as an assistant professor of business law at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, teaching Legal Environment of Business; Commercial Law; Federal Taxation of Gifts, Estates, and Trusts; and Law and Society. He has published articles on business law and estates and trusts law.
The Trust-as-Will Portmanteau: Trill or Spork?,
27 Quinnipiac Prob. L.J. 40
Exposing the Hocus Pocus of Trusts,
45 Akron L. Rev. 61
Planning and Drafting Basics Under the New Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code,
16 Roger Williams U. L. Rev. 535
Trust Law and the Title-Split: A Beneficial Perspective,
78 UMKC L. Rev. 181
Testamentary Fragmentation and the Diminishing Role of the Will: An Argument for Revival,
41 Creighton L. Rev. 155
Will a Crummey Beneficial Interest Qualify for an Annual Gift Tax Exclusion?,
Tax Adviser, AICPA Magazine of Planning, Trends & Techniques
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Putting Valuation in Context: Pitfalls and Opportunities in the Current Environment,
Trusts & Estates: The Journal of Estate Planning
Up the Stream without an Exemption? IRS Chief Counsel Reconsiders Hospital Physician "Revenue Stream" Joint Ventures,
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Kahului, Hawaii – December 2, 2012: Kona wind flow has forced the fourth consecutive lay day at the KSP World Championship tour final on Maui. International competitors from 18 countries remain on standby for the first possible start of the Ho'okipa Kite Surf Pro as soon as wind conditions permit.
"The wave is really good here in Ho'okipa," said reigning KSP World Champion Airton Cozzolino (ITA, North) following his interview in this morning's live broadcast. "The forecast looks better for the end of the week and I really hope we make the finals in the best conditions."
Contest directors will reconvene at Ho'okipa to assess conditions tomorrow morning for a first possible start. Tune in at 9am to watch the live call and morning show on www.kspworldtour.com/live.
Click here for the Day 3 video including an introduction to the traditional Hawaiian Hula Dance.
The Ho'okipa Kite Surf Pro is supported by the County Of Maui, Best Kiteboarding, Cabrinha Kites, Naish Kites, North Kiteboarding, Maui Kitesurfing Community, Eternal Riders, Second Wind, NeilPryde Maui, Maui Beach Hotel, Mana Foods, Whole Foods Maui, Pacific Millworks, Mama's Fish House and KSP Tour Outfitter ION.
Heat 1: : Sebastian Ribeiro (BRA), Bastien Bollard (FRA), LWC 1
Heat 2: Mitu Monteiro (CPV, F-One), Sky Solbach (USA, North), Shawn Richman (HI, Naish)
Heat 3: Guilly Brandao (BRA), Matchu Almeida (CPV, North), Grant "Twig" Baker (RSA, Cabrinha)
Heat 4: Airton Cozzolino (ITA, North), Ryan Coote (IRL, Ozone), LWC 2
Heat 5: Luke McGillewie (RSA, RRD), Abel Lago (ESP, RRD), Stephan De Figueiredo (BRA)
Heat 6: Keahi De Aboitiz, (AUS, Cabrinha), Gonzalo Gomes (POR, Naish), Cruser Putman (HI, Cabrinha)
Heat 7: Filippe Ferreira (BRA, F-One), Etienne Lhote (FRA, F-One), Jesse Richman (HI, Naish)
Heat 8: Patri Mclaughlin (HI, North), Jakop Appel (DEN), LWC 3
Heat 1: Ninja Bichler (GER, North), Kristin Boese (GER, Best), Erika Lindberg (SWE)
Heat 2: Ines Correia (POR, RRD), Kari Schibevaag (NOR, Ozone), LWC 1.
Heat 3: Kirsty Jones (GBR, North), Milla Ferreira (BRA, F-One), Adriana Harlan (BRA)
Heat 4: Jalou Langeree (NED, Naish), Melissa Gil (USA, Cabrinha), LWC 2


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Creating a good ergonomic working arrangement is vital to protecting your health and improving your quality of life at work. To aid users in this effort, the Cornell Human Factors and Ergonomics Research Group has outlined the following 10 steps that you can take to improve the ergonomics of your workstation. Additional resources are also available at the CUErgo Web site.
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Game Thread: Warriors @ Dallas Mavericks 2006-11-06
Talk about the upcoming Warriors game here
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I am pissed that I was working and missed it. Dallas better pray they don't get the one seed and Ws get the 8....one question. Since I didn't see the game, how come the DNP for Ike? BTW, let's hope this is the beginning of Nelson doing what Musselman wnated to do 2 years ago, and leave Dunny on the bench. Agree with the comment on Jason Terry, he is beginning to seem like a chronic cheap shotter...great that Monta was a stud, and nice that Murphy had a strong one...
The threes at the end of the game were particularily annoying. Seeing MP's last 3 made me throw up all over the tv screen. Would've preferred more drives to the hoop so they could get to the line. Definitely need to work on playing with the lead.
I dunno. I started watching in the 2nd quarter. I was wondering where Ike was. But like I said, with the game like that, and Ike being the 8th/9th man on the bench, it could mess with the tempo the Warriors were continuously matching.
semaru_baka wrote:
Only if we can have the same environment in the Oracle, I am sure you guys notice, that our arena is always quiet (not only the fans, also there is never any music or shouts of "defense" by the arena people), are they too cheap to hire someone like that?
I totally agree, they passed out the sticks to wave during ft's but nobody waved them instead people were throwing them in the air to see them float And Like you said quiet with no defense chants except some scattered Once the Warriors start winning at home and give the fans more to be enthused about I expect the Oracle to be Rocking Oh and the outdated band singing bootleg Earth Wind And Fire has got to go
coltraning wrote:one question. Since I didn't see the game, how come the DNP for Ike?
I guess Nellie didn't like the matchup with Dirk. I really can't think any other reason that makes sense.
This is a great, quality win, not like the one against Portland. This one shows we can beat good teams and compete for the playoffs... it's unbelievable how much making the free throws and benching Dunleavy improves a team.
All in all, great win. GO WARRIORS!!!!!!!
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I won't harp too much on the turnovers. When you run as much as the Warriors did turnovers are inevitable. Check out Phoenix, they always have a high turnover ratio. The make-up for that in a running game is that you get more possesion in which to make easy baskets (lay-ups), which get you to the line more and causes teams to foul more.


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2013-14 Was one of the most consistent competitors for the Beacons throughout the indoor and outdoor seasons … Served as the Beacons top sprinter in the 200 and 400 meter dashes as well as in the long jump … Earned his best overall time in the 200 meter dash on April 19 at the MIT Sean Collier Invitational with a time of 22.69 seconds … His best indoor 200 meter time was recorded on January 24 at the BU Terrier Classic with a time of 23.33 seconds … In the 400 meter dash his fastest time was earned on April 5 at the Ramapo College (N.J.) Roadrunner Invitational with a time of 52.49 seconds .. His second fastest time of the year was recorded on January 24 at the BU Terrier Classic with a time of 52.65 seconds … In the long jump he hit a season-best distance of 20-09.75 feet on April 19 at the Sean Collier Invitational … His second longest jump was recorded on April 5 at the Roadrunner Invitational with a jump of 20-06.25 feet.
2012-13 Recorded a new personal best in every single event he competed in in his sophomore season … Member of four record setting relay teams (4x100 indoor and outdoor relay teams, 4x400 outdoor relay team, and 1,600 meter sprint medley relay team) … Posted a career best time in the 55 meter dash on December 8 at the Harvard University Open with a time of 6.90 seconds … Crossed the finish line with a new personal best in the 60 meter dash on January 19 at the Wheaton College (Mass.) Winter Invite with a time of 7.60 seconds … Recorded his fastest time of the year in the 100 meter dash (11.62) at the UMass Dartmouth Corsair Classic on April 6 … Set his new personal best in the 200 meter dash with a time of 23.21 seconds on January 25 at the BU Terrier Classic … Recorded his best time in the 400 meter dash on April 27 at the Little East Conference/New England Alliance Outdoor Championship with a time of 52.92 seconds.
2011-12 Set his personal best mark in the
indoor 55 meter dash on December 3, 2011 at the Jay Carisella
Invitational ... Crossed the finish line in the 60 meter dash with
a time of 7.50 on December 10, 2011 to set a new personal best at
the Harvard University Open ... Recorded an outdoor best time of
11.69 seconds in the 100 meter dash at the Bridgewater State
University Bears Invitational on March 24, 2012 ... Hit a
career-best mark in the outdoor 200 meter dash with his time of
23.28 seconds at the Northeastern University Solomon Invitational
on April 14 ... Posted a person-best in the indoor 200 meter dash
with a time of 23.69 seconds at the Harvard University Open (Dec.
10) ... Competed in the 400 meter dash twice in his first season
with UMB setting a personal best mark of 54.49 seconds on January
14 at the Tufts University Invite ... Also competed in the long
jump during the indoor season hitting a career-best distance of
19-06.75 at the Jay Carisella Invitational on December 3.
PERSONAL/HIGH SCHOOL Ran track and cross-country in high school ... Named the Most Outstanding Performer in 2011 ... Was 8th in the 200 meter dash at the State Championship Meet in DII CAC ... Helped his team to the CAC league championship ... Son of Hubert and Matnilde ... Has four siblings: Martine, Stephanie, Emmanuel and Thania ... Majoring in Criminal Justice.
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|Little East Conference/NE Alliance
|60m Dash
|Roxbury Community College Tiger All-Comers
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|BU Terrier Invitational
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|Wheaton College Winter Invitational
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|Boston University Terrier Classic
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|UMass Dartmouth Corsair Invitational
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|22.69 (+3.9)
|MIT Sean Collier Invitational
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Testimony for the House Ways and Means Subcommittee
on Social Security
May 24, 2005
Stephen C. Goss, Chief Actuary
Social Security Administration
Chairman McCrery, ranking member Levin, and members of the subcommittee, thank you very much for the opportunity to talk with you today about the Social Security Trustees Reports and the future financial status of the Social Security program.
Annual Reports from the Board of Trustees to the Congress on the financial condition of the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program have been prepared continuously starting with 1941. These reports are required by law to include an assessment of the "actuarial status" of the trust funds. This assessment has been used by the Congress numerous times since 1941 as the basis for modifying the program to either alter the scope and nature of the program, or to improve the financial status of the program.
The Office of the Actuary at the Social Security Administration prepares the projections used in these reports as well as projections of the effects of proposals to change the program, and has done so continuously since the inception of the program in 1935. The Office has always operated on a non-partisan basis providing objective estimates to the Trustees, the Administration, and the Congress. As you know, while the Office of the Actuary resides within the Social Security Administration, it operates on an independent basis, particularly regarding work for the Congress, including this Subcommittee, the full Ways and Means Committee, and the Senate Finance Committee. Our work for the Congress is always done on a confidential basis during the development of a proposal for changing Social Security, and remains confidential unless and until the requestor is prepared to go public with the proposal. Our current Commissioner, Jo Anne Barnhart, as well as former Commissioner Kenneth Apfel have strongly supported the independence of the Office of the Actuary, well understanding the importance of this independence to the credibility of our work.
Today I would like to speak about three aspects of our analysis of the actuarial status of the Social Security program under current law for the Trustees Report. These are (1) the basic status of financing and solvency over the 75-year long-range period as reported in the 2005 Trustees Report and changes from the prior report, (2) the principal assumptions used in the projections and how they are driving the projected financial status, and (3) some of the possible legislative changes that are available to improve the actuarial status of the program.
(1) Where We Are-The Basic Actuarial Status of the Social Security Program
In the 2005 Trustees Report, the intermediate projections indicate that the annual excess of tax income over program cost will begin to decline in 2009, and in 2017 cost will exceed tax income. At that point the accumulated trust fund assets of about $2.4 trillion in present value will begin to be used to augment tax income so that benefits scheduled in current law will continue to be paid in full. These assets are, by law, invested wholly in securities backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government, and have always been redeemed when needed. While there is no question that these securities will be redeemed when needed, this redemption will require the Federal Government to increase taxes, lower other expenditures, or issue publicly-held debt in amounts equal to the net redemptions by the trust funds.
If no changes are made, it is projected that the combined trust fund assets would become exhausted in 2041 and the program would no longer be considered to be solvent. This means that we would no longer be able to fully pay benefits scheduled in current law on a timely basis. Instead, we would be able to provide 74 percent of scheduled benefits with continuing tax revenues. After 2041, program cost is projected to continue growing faster than tax income. By 2079, 68 percent of scheduled benefits are expected to be payable if no changes are made.
Changes from the 2004 to the 2005 Trustees Reports were small. No changes in the principal economic or demographic ultimate assumptions were made. The estimate that the years of expected trust fund exhaustion and cost exceeding tax income will be one year sooner was largely the result of unexpectedly high growth in prices that was not matched by a similar unexpected increase in average earnings levels. This effect resulted in lower annual program cash-flow surpluses or higher deficits through 2024.
However, for years after 2024, other changes, principally in the methods we use for the projections resulted in somewhat lower annual cash-flow deficits for the program. For the year 2078, the estimated annual cash-flow deficit was reduced from 5.91 to 5.66 percent of taxable payroll. Thus, on balance, the long-range actuarial status of the Social Security program is essentially unchanged in the 2005 Trustees Report.
This change may also be seen in the estimates for the actuarial deficit and other measures of the unfunded obligation for the program over the 75-year long-range valuation period. The actuarial deficit expresses the magnitude of expected net future shortfalls over the entire period as a percentage of the taxable payroll over the entire period. Normally this actuarial deficit is expected to increase by 0.07 percent of payroll solely due to the shift in the 75-year period from one report to the next. In fact, the actuarial deficit increased from 1.89 to only 1.92 percent of payroll for the 2005 Report, consistent with the small reduction in projected cash-flow deficits for 2025 and later. The 75-year net shortfall may also be expressed as a percentage of the GDP over the entire period. For the 2005 Report, the net shortfall as a percent of GDP is projected at 0.6 percent of GDP over the period, again slightly lower than projected for the 2004 Report.
Finally, the shortfall can also be viewed in the form of an aggregate dollar amount in present discounted value to the beginning of the valuation period, or January 1, 2005. In this form, the net shortfall over the next 75 years is estimated at $4 trillion present value dollars. This amount is larger than the estimated unfunded obligation of $3.7 trillion present value dollars reported in the 2004 Trustees Report largely because the valuation date, that is the date to which net shortfalls are discounted, is one year later in time. By discounting the annual shortfalls for each future year to 2005 rather than to 2004, the present value amount is measured as 5 to 6 percent greater in the new report. What is critical to note in these measures of unfunded obligation is that they represent the net shortfall for the 75-year period as a whole, and thus must be met with changes that will be applied over the 75-year period as a whole. Expressing the unfunded obligation as a percent of taxable payroll or GDP better illustrates the magnitude of the changes that will be needed.
It should also be noted that in assessing the actuarial status of the Social Security program, more than just attaining solvency throughout the 75-year projection period is considered. When this first goal is met, an additional criterion for achieving "sustainable solvency" should be considered. This additional requirement asks that the level of the trust fund assets be projected to be stable or rising as a percent of annual program cost at the end of the period. When both 75-year solvency and this additional requirement are met, the program may be expected to continue to be solvent for the foreseeable future, under the assumptions used in the projection. Meeting these criteria further suggests that even if actual experience in the future varies from the assumptions to a degree, only small modifications are likely to be needed to maintain adequate financing for the program.
The Office of the Actuary has provided an assessment of the degree to which each comprehensive proposal achieves the criteria for sustainable solvency in scoring starting in the middle 1990s. Providing this additional assessment has helped to lead to the development of numerous proposals that meet the criteria for sustainable solvency under the Trustees intermediate assumptions over the last 10 years. The Trustees Reports have also referred to the criteria for sustainable solvency since 1999.
(2) The Principal Assumptions for the Trustees Report
Projections of future cost and income for Social Security are driven by a number of principal economic and demographic assumptions that are selected by the Trustees each year. The process for this selection each year starts with analysis and recommendations provided to the Trustees by the Office of the Actuary. This analysis and the recommendations are discussed extensively and final assumptions are adopted by the Trustees, generally very close to those recommended by the actuaries. In fact, this process has resulted in remarkably consistent assumptions over the years, and across Administrations. Changes in ultimate assumptions are made incrementally and only after evidence supporting change is fully discussed and analyzed. See Table C, attached . (To access documents with this logo, you will need the Adobe Acrobat reader software. If you do not already have this software, see our page on downloading and printing Portable Document Format () documents.)
Maintaining consistent and objective assumptions for the Trustees Report has been aided by two important requirements imposed by the Congress in the law. First, the law requires the inclusion of two Public Trustees on the Board, one effectively representing each major political party. Over the years, the Public Trustees have always worked together and have had a major and positive influence on the Board. The second requirement is that the Chief Actuary is required to provide a statement included in the report indicating whether the assumptions and methods used are individually and collectively reasonable. I am happy to report that my statement in the 2005 Report indicated that the assumptions and methods are reasonable.
The principal economic assumptions include real-wage and productivity growth assumptions, price growth, interest rate, and employment rate assumptions. Productivity growth provides the basis for average wage growth. The intermediate assumptions include an ultimate assumption of 1.6 percent average annual growth in total economy productivity, equal to the average growth rate over the last four complete economic cycles, from 1966 to 2000. The average annual real growth rate in the average wage was 1.15 percent over the same period, also very close to the ultimate real wage differential of 1.1 percent. The ultimate real interest assumption on long-term Treasury bonds is assumed to average 3 percent, or slightly below the average yield of 3.4 percent over the last four complete economic cycles.
However, due to the indexing and other features of Social Security, program cost is not greatly sensitive to variation in economic assumptions. The major effects on program cost relative to the base of taxable earnings are in the demographic changes that confront the program.
The principal demographic assumptions include birth rates, death rates, and immigration. The ultimate rate of decline in death rates for individuals over age 65 is about the same as for the average of the last century, and considerably faster than for the last 20 years. Immigration is assumed to be at roughly the average level over the last 20 years or so.
But birth rates are the principal reason that the cost of the Social Security program as a percentage of the taxable payroll will shift to a new higher level over the next 25 years. The "total fertility rate" or the average number of children women have was about 3.3 children per woman during the baby-boom years from 1946 through 1965. By 1972, however, the total fertility rate dropped to 2 children per woman and has stayed at about that level ever since. The ultimate assumption is for an average total fertility rate of 1.95 for the future.
This shift in the total fertility rate is directly responsible for the shift in the ratio of workers to beneficiaries that is projected to occur between about 2010 and 2030.
This ratio has remained constant at about 3.3 workers per beneficiary since 1975, when the Social Security program matured in its coverage of the population. Had the total fertility rate stayed at 3 or higher, the current 12.4 percent payroll tax rate would be adequate to finance currently scheduled benefits and we would not be discussing future shortfalls. But due to the shift in birth rates over 30 years ago, we will see the ratio of workers to beneficiaries drop to 2.2 by 2030 and 2.0 by 2040. It is this shift that makes the current law 12.4 percent tax rate insufficient to fully finance the currently scheduled benefits in the long run.
Directly reflecting the decline in the projected worker to beneficiary ratio between 2010 and 2030, is the increase in the Social Security cost rate, as a percent of taxable payroll, over the same period. During this period the cost rate is projected to shift from a level that is now well below the current tax rate of 12.4 percent to a level that is well above it.
Continuing but much more gradual decreases in the worker to beneficiary ratio and increases in the cost rate are projected after 2030 based on expected future increases in life expectancy. But these are modest in comparison with the shift in the cost rate that will result from the decline in birth rates after 1965.
(3) Possible Legislative Changes to Improve the Actuarial Status of Social Security
The projected net shortfall in financing for Social Security over the next 75 years could be met by an average reduction in benefits of 13 percent or an average increase in tax revenue of 15 percent over the period. But the timing of the expected shortfalls is important. Most proposals being considered would confirm the pay-as-you-go nature of the financing of Social Security by targeting changes to years after trust fund exhaustion in amounts roughly equal to the projected annual shortfalls.
As mentioned earlier, the annual cash-flow shortfall for the year 2079 is projected to be about 5.7 percent of taxable payroll. To meet this annual shortfall in 2079 would require benefits that were then nearly one third lower than are currently scheduled, or revenue that is nearly 50 percent higher than currently scheduled, or some combination of the two. Greatly reducing or eliminating this annual shortfall for 2079 will be necessary if sustainable solvency is to be achieved.
Several changes to lower scheduled benefits, by slowing the projected growth, have been considered. These include changes in the normal retirement age, and modifications of the basic benefit formula. Benefit formula changes include general "price indexing" of benefits across future generations, and "progressive indexing" which would provide for larger percentage reductions for higher earners, thus making the current benefit formula more progressive.
Potential changes to increase revenue for Social Security in the future include increasing the taxable maximum amount, increasing taxation of benefits, and increasing payroll tax rates. Additional revenue could also be generated by modifying the pay-as-you go nature of Social Security financing to include more substantial advance funding.
Many combinations of the provisions mentioned above, as well as a large number of other possible provisions could restore long-range solvency, and sustainable solvency for the Social Security program. Changes will be needed well before the expected date of trust fund exhaustion in 2041. By enacting needed changes sooner, we will have more options to consider, be able to phase changes in more gradually, and give affected individuals more advance notice.
The Trustees Reports required by law have played a fundamental role in informing the Congress and the Administration of the actuarial status of the program, and the magnitude of changes that may be needed for the future. The Office of the Actuary has been and will continue to be available to the Congress and the Administration for objective and non-partisan estimates both of the current status of the program, but also for possible changes to Social Security.
Thank you very much for the opportunity to present these remarks. I look forward to trying to answer any questions that you may have.


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- The
Tennessee Tech baseball team has won three straight games, but the
Golden Eagles have a difficult challenge facing them Wednesday
afternoon if they hope to make it four in a row as a red-hot East
Tennessee squad visits Bush Stadium for a 3 p.m. contest.
The Buccaneers bring a 10-2 record into the game, including a 5-0 mark on the road in 2011.
One thing Tech has in its favor is history in the series with the Bucs -- East Tennessee has not beaten the Golden Eagles in Cookeville in 15 years.
ETSU (10-2, 4-0 A-Sun) comes into the game on a six-game win streak after sweeping North Florida in dramatic style this past weekend. Junior Dylan Pratt leads the Bucs with four home runs and 19 RBI on the season.
The Golden Eagles are 45-39 all time against East Tennessee. The last time ETSU won at Tech was back in 1996 when the Bucs pulled out a 5-4 win. ETSU just missed ending the drought last year as TTU rallied for two runs in the ninth to defeat the Bucs, 6-5.
The Golden Eagles (7-9) come into the contest having swept Youngstown State this past weekend. Zach Stephens leads the way for Tennessee Tech as he is hitting a team-best .388 with four home runs and 22 RBI.
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You accuse us of making copies of Tomahawks, getting 'spoon fed' by China! Okay ... well lets just take your obnoxious argument as valid for just this once. In context to your moronic, kiddish, response .... Lets compare the fact that Pakistan's economic output couldn't support indigenous missile products such as cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, fighter aircrafts, tanks and etc.
So we face the facts and deal with the reality! And the reality is that living in a neighborhood with a bloated. over grown 'Duh Duh' india, whose tries to bully others with its lopsided numerical advantage, is somewhat a threat that Pakistan would not take sittin down. Our response is to achieve a balance without incurring such absurd amounts of national exchequers towards R&D from scratch. So what do we do? We make all possible gains by obtaining technology from all credible sources and redress that balance so that your pathetic country is put in its place if it has any bright ideas of bully someone like us, in the future. In this respect, Pakistan redirects all its resources towards gaining off-the-shelf technology that can be immediately utilized ...... and then use our capital in investing on how we can rectify or further improve on that technology. Projects such as the M-11 Silkworm, T-85 Battletanks, MFI-117 Turboprops, Mirage Rebuild Factory, H-2/4 Missiles derivatives, Interoperability of avionics and weapons b/w Chinese and French fighters! These are but a few of the projects undertaken by Pakistani Engineers, Scientists and Weapons Specialists.
On the other hand, lets take a look at india! A country which is supposedly dubbed as the largest democracy in the world ..... yeah right!!!
It is understood that india's economy can support massive amounts of money flooded into R&D! And allegedly india has poured 'some' amount in the Defence R&D sector. But despite that india continues to buy weapons in absurd numbers from other countries. 190 Su-30 Mki Flankers from Russia! Okay, now admittedly they are getting TOT with you guys 'assembling' majority of the fighters, in country! However the way india has managed its local defence industry, makes it the laughing stock of the world!! I mean would believe it when i tell everyone that when india ordered new Jaguars to be built by HAL (india took tot for the Jaguars), to replace the aircrafts lost to crashes. That these newly built aircrafts were flat out refused to be flown by indian pilots! Shows what state of affairs the local defence industry is in!
On part of missile technology, although you guys won't admit that the inflated condom (brahmos), isn't the Russian version, Yakhont! We will play along with your little childish stupidity and ask you this, that if the Takhont .... sorry brahmos is so indigenous, that why is the indian missile productions still waiting for source codes??? Ha ha ... bet you didn't know that we knew that haan!!!!
But putting aside all these kiddish arguments, fact of the matter is that Pakistan wasn't expected to develop Nuclear Weapons, but we gave you and the world the shock of your lives in 1998. Shoulda seen the look on the faces of the ministers in the indian parliment!!!!!
Also nobody expected Pakistan to develop a missile system that would rival the best in the world! But yet we gave everyone a surprise that our Ghauris and Shaheens are accurate even though people accused us of having inferior North Korean missiles or Chinese Missiles.
Fact of the matter is is that we did all this despite being sanctioned, despite the fact that every western country refused to help us, despite the fact that our economy wouldn't support such programmes being achieved indigenously! Despite all of that we have managed to (with Allah's blessings) withstand all that pressure and financial constraints and western boycott and still manage to ressurect our economy.
But you know, as opposed to that, the indians who were expected to do whole lot more 'indigenously' ..... came up with tejas lca (looney cartoon aircraft), arjun (bloated) main none-combatant-tank!!!! And when their so called indigenous programs failed, what does this so called 'largest democracy', 'big economy', supposedly aspiring to be a 'superpower', do!??? It goes ahead and releases a tender for buying 200 fighter aircrafts from mostly western countries! So we ask you indians, what happen to your 'indigenous' looneytoon tejas????
Yes we are making JF-17 Thunders, where China is playing the main role, infact the sole role in the aircraft. But doesn't belittle us, because our engineers, aeronautic experts and pilots are right there in China to learn as we move along with the fighter development.
The difference b/w you and us is that we live in reality, with realistic goals and realistic claims to our defence capability. While you pathetic morons wet dream and boast of defence capabilities which were given to you as you were begging for it!!!
In the end ..... if it makes you indians (living in fantasyland) happy, then sure you guys got a very capable and indigenous missile system! Happy now??? Okay then in that case, since you guys are happy, i suggest you pipsqueaks take your blabbering and go back to your to pathetic existance and stop acting like pests and coming to our forum and begging for attention!!! _|_


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My doctor had me take bowel cleansing liquid the night before my colonoscopy and then the morning of. Is this a good colonoscopy preparation?
To make bowel preparation more tolerable and improve outcomes, many doctors recommend splitting the dose of bowel preparation solution. This regimen may not be possible if your colonoscopy is scheduled for early in the morning, because you should consume the morning dose three hours before leaving home for the procedure.
If your procedure is scheduled at a time that allows you to split the dose, follow the instructions provided by your doctor. Take the recommended amount of the bowel cleansing liquid the night before the exam, and the remainder in the morning before the test. Depending on the type of preparation, your doctor may recommend splitting the dose 1-to-1 or 3-to-1.
The biggest reason for poor colonoscopy preparation is people's distaste for having to drink large quantities of bowel cleansing solution. The most common colonoscopy preparation calls for drinking 1 gallon (4 liters) of a polyethylene glycol solution. Some studies have shown that more than a third of people don't complete the full preparation.
Studies have shown that the split-dose approach not only is more tolerable but also does a better job of cleaning the colon. Better cleaning will lead to better results. One study found that doctors detected more benign polyps in people who prepared with split doses than in people who prepared with single doses.
Cleaning as much waste material as possible from your large intestine (colon) is crucial to a successful colonoscopy exam. Poor colonoscopy preparation can prevent your doctor from finding polyps, tumors and other problems. It also increases the length of the exam and the risk of complications. In many cases, the exam has to be redone.
Ask your doctor about split-dose preparation for your next colonoscopy.
Michael F. Picco, M.D.
Original article: https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/colonoscopy/expert-answers/colonoscopy-preparation/faq-20058246
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Trapped Toxins
Architecture of soil particles greatly influences if, when pollutants migrate
Scientists found that the connections between pores in sand and other medium influence the speed with which pollutants migrate. The fewer connections between the pores, the greater the probability that contaminant molecules will take a very long time to leave the grain. Enlarge Image
Results: Pollutants can find themselves ensnared underground with few options for escape, according to a study by scientists at Iowa State University, University of Texas at Arlington, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The team found that, while many factors influence contaminant migration, one of the most important are the architecture of the soil grains. The less pore connectivity, the greater the probability that contaminants will take a long time to leave the grain.
Why it matters: Understanding if and when a pollutant moves from an industrial to an agricultural site allows scientists to better predict pollutant migration, test remediation systems, and determine the effectiveness of cleanup projects. While the study was done on uranium, a concern at former nuclear weapons production sites, the research applies to chemicals more commonly associated with machine shops and dry cleaners.
Methods: Existing models that predict the rates of desorption and diffusion from the subsurface did not account for real-world grain-scale properties. So, the scientists focused on the desorption, diffusion, and migration of uranium from inside the individual subsurface particles. They conducted numerical calculations and evaluations of diffusion and mass transfer in complex granular porous media, using resources at EMSL.
The results were surprising. The fundamental process of desorption and diffusion from the granular medium to the surrounding liquid phase was much slower than projected by previous models. Also, the team found the rate of desorption dramatically decreased over time. This phenomenon is governed by connectivity, the interconnected architecture of microscopic pores inside individual grains.
What's next? Laboratory and field research is under way to characterize grain-scale pore architecture and to investigate the larger-scale manifestation of the grain-scale contaminant diffusion.
Acknowledgments: This work was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research.
Computational capabilities at DOE's EMSL, a national scientific user facility, were vital to this study.
The work was done by Robert Ewing of Iowa State University, Qinhong Hu of the University of Texas at Arlington, and Chongxuan Liu of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Reference: Ewing RP, Q Hu, and C Liu. 2010. "Scale Dependence of Intragranular Porosity, Tortuosity, and Diffusivity." Water Resources Research 46, W06513. DOI:10.1029/


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Zero-Maintenance Persistence
Amazon's SimpleDB is essentially a cloud-based, highly scalable and highly available persistent map. Rather than a relational model that stipulates an upfront rigid schema, SimpleDB is very flexible in terms of how you decide to model and store data. This flexibility, combined with the fact that SimpleDB is always there and always on, means you can rapidly build persistent applications.
Conceptually, SimpleDB is somewhat similar to a relational database: In SimpleDB, the top level data container is a domain (somewhat akin to a table). Domains then have items (akin to rows), which are then composed of attributes (akin to columns). But attributes in SimpleDB are really tuples name/value pairs. Moreover, the pair aspect isn't limited to one value. That is, an attribute name could be "names" and the corresponding value could be a collection of names like "Andy," "Jim," "Chris," and "Danny." Like a relational database, SimpleDB supports a SQL-like query language for finding data. Inserting, updating, and deleting data, however, is done via a web-based API.
SimpleDB supports only one type strings. This single-type approach might seem somewhat limiting. However, it turns out to be a minor inconvenience that can be easily overcome via the many libraries you can use to manipulate SimpleDB data. Lastly, there is no notion of joins in SimpleDB that is, you can't query across domains. In return for these stark differences, you get an extremely fast, always-on datastore that is capable of massive scalability.
When using SimpleDB you need to be aware of a big difference between it and traditional relational systems: eventual consistency. Eventual consistency, in the case of SimpleDB where data resides across multiple nodes on the AWS infrastructure, means that all nodes take a fraction of time to become mirrors of each other. That is, an update to an item might not be immediately reflected in a concurrent read (something that you've come to expect in RDMBS-land). Thus, while SimpleDB does guarantee massive scalability along with extreme availability, consistency is sacrificed. Do keep in mind, however, that consistency does occur in a matter of seconds.
SimpleDB and Java
Getting started with SimpleDB using the AWS Java SDK is simple. Provided you have an account with AWS, you can start using SimpleDB with a few lines of code. The SimpleDB API is fairly straightforward and similar in respects to the API I showed you last month. For instance, there is a pattern of naming various objects with "request" for interface chaining.
To create a domain in SimpleDB, you issue a
CreateDomainRequest, which will create the domain in SimpleDB if it doesn't already exist or do nothing if the domain is already there. (The following examples are written in Groovy, but are pretty straightforward.)
def sdb = new AmazonSimpleDBClient(new PropertiesCredentials(new File("./AwsCredentials.properties"))) def domain = "widgets" sdb.createDomain(new CreateDomainRequest(domain))
Next, to create an item (that is, a new row) in the "widget" domain, you create an instance of
ReplaceableItem and chain a series of attributes to it. Finally, you then create a
BatchPutAttributeRequest and send it off to AWS via an instance of
def data = [] data << new ReplaceableItem().withName("widget_1").withAttributes( new ReplaceableAttribute().withName("name").withValue("px-34"), new ReplaceableAttribute().withName("price").withValue("0045.50")) sdb.batchPutAttributes(new BatchPutAttributesRequest(domain, data))
Notice how the
"price" attribute has two leading zeros because all types in SimpleDB are strings, queries are performed lexicographically. Thus, in order for numeric data to be searchable, it must be the same length. Consequently, all prices, by convention in the aforementioned code, are 6 digits making searches for, let's say, widgets less than $45 work correctly.
It should be noted that the AWS Java API provides helper methods that take care of numeric padding. Consequently, I could have set the attribute value of price like so:
data << new ReplaceableItem().withName("widget_2").withAttributes( new ReplaceableAttribute().withName("name").withValue("px-34a"), new ReplaceableAttribute().withName("price").withValue( SimpleDBUtils.encodeZeroPadding(45.50, 4)))
Querying for data is similar in respects to normal SQL; however, the biggest difference is that domains and item values must be properly quoted in SimpleDB's query language (not to mention, numeric values must be padded). Thus, to find all widgets in my domain with a price less than $50, I must fashion a query as follows:
def query = "select * from ${SimpleDBUtils.quoteName(domain)} where price < " + "${SimpleDBUtils.quoteValue(SimpleDBUtils.encodeZeroPadding(50, 4))}" def sdbrequest = new SelectRequest(query) sdb.select(sdbrequest).getItems().each{ println("Name: " + it.getName()) }
Note the various method calls used to quote names and values in addition to encoding my search value.
The SimpleDB Java API supports creating data and finding data, but it also supports deleting or updating items. The zero administration required to get up and running is a benefit, too. Lastly, there are myriad libraries built on top of SimpleDB (in addition to the SDK offered by AWS) that make working with it even easier.
AWS offers a number of options for data storage. From installing your own datastore on a custom EC2 image to finding an existing AMI configured to your desire, you have a lot of choices and you can opt to exert a very a low level of control over your datastore. If less administration is your desire, then RDS is an excellent choice for highly available, on-demand instances of MySQL or Oracle. And if you're looking for extreme flexibility when it comes to a data model and have little time for administration headaches, then SimpleDB makes an excellent choice.
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The year 2008 is shaping up to be "one heck of a ride" in the commodity markets, says Lewis Campbell, market specialist with Palmetto Grain Brokerage in South Carolina.
"We're looking at record prices for corn, soybeans and wheat, which are also contending with record-high prices for fertilizer, diesel and the other inputs associated with farming," said Campbell, speaking at the recent Georgia Corn Short Course held in Tifton.
Being able to market and manage not only input costs but also the price for which you sell your crops will be paramount in the upcoming year, he says.
"Corn, soybeans and wheat were in charge last year, and farmers in Georgia responded by doubling acreage in one year," says Campbell. "Corn has been moving out of bins and it's slowly moving into the market. Now it's time to look at re-tooling and building infrastructure for the coming year."
But the fertilizer companies appear to be holding all the cards this year, he adds. "Whenever we talk to our customers, we talk about input costs and how to contend with those. At this point in time, fertilizer prices may be controlling more of what we do on the farm than we'd like," he says.
With corn at $5 per bushel, companies don't want to have two to four weeks of supply on hand, he says. Looking at price probabilities over the past 20 years, there's a 5.4 percent chance of December corn being over $3 per bushel, a 9 percent chance of soybeans being over $7, a 5 percent chance of wheat being over $4, and a 25 percent chance of December cotton being more than 70 cents per pound.
"We are in unprecedented times when you look at current prices. Corn is $5.03 going out to 2009 and $5.01 going out to 2010. A lot of growers are looking at trying to price some December 2009 and 2010 corn because it is at profitable levels. The problem is that you're running into problems with some elevators or buyers.
"We've seen corn go from $3.25 to more than $5 since harvest. If you're an end user who is using 200,000 to 300,000 bushels of corn per week, and you have to pay and manage your cash flow to buy bushels, you're not interested in buying something that you'll have to carry a position on for two years, especially when you don't know how the acreage situation will shake out. A lot of pressure is being put back on you as a producer to do it yourself, whether you're using options or futures. It can be done — you just have to work with your banker or someone who'll help you do it," says Campbell.
When growers look at current prices — even with high fertilizer prices — $5.40 for corn out of the field still does well, he says.
Corn prices have rallied since the latest USDA report because the 2007-08 yield was lowered by almost two bushels per acre in the Midwest, taking away 400 million bushels of corn.
"The ending stocks number was at 1.8 billion bushels and now it's at 1.4 billion. This past year, we planted almost 15 million more acres of corn and made 150 bushels per acre nationwide. You'd think we would have built stocks up to a comfortable level. But we added only about 100 million bushels to our bottom line. That's where ethanol usage comes in, and our exports have been extremely good," says Campbell.
Everyone in the USDA is comfortable with the idea the United States will lose three to four million acres of corn to soybeans this year, he says. "If that happens and we make yields of 155 bushels per acre, our ending stocks go from 1.4 billion down to 765 million. That's why we're seeing these high prices. After they took those 400 million bushels from us, corn now is in a situation where three million may be the maximum number of acres we can give up, and that's assuming we make 155 bushels per acre."
The growing season in the Midwest this past year was "pretty good," says Campbell. Early in the year, there were high plant populations, good growing weather, and people were suggesting that the United States could match an all-time high of 160 bushels per acre from a couple of years ago, he says.
"When we got down to it, we could do only 151 bushels per acre with a pretty good growing season. One-hundred and fifty-five bushels per acre is attainable. But we're concerned where we've got corn following corn. More interesting is as we go into 2009 and 2010, they are projecting that corn will need to buy back seven million acres from soybeans, cotton, peanuts or pasture to maintain current stock levels."
Current prices are only a few cents off the record-high prices of 1996. The difference between 1996 and today is that 1996 was a supply problem, lasting one year.
"This is a demand problem, where we give up acres one year but then have to have them back the next year. We can't fix this problem in one year. I don't know how the market is going to adjust itself to fix it in several years. None of this takes into consideration any potential crop problems in the Midwest. We just think things have been wild in the markets in recent months. But if we have any type of weather problem this season, it will get interesting."
The market will be tight, says Campbell, and it will stay supported until the crop is planted and the season progresses through the summer.
The world, he says, hasn't been able to make a wheat crop in the past two to three years, and the corn harvest hasn't been great. "Our stock levels in the world are dropping, and our ending stocks in the United States are dropping. We're the No. 1 producer of corn, so they're coming to our doorstep to try and buy it from us from the export market. We keep thinking that with the high prices of $5 per bushel, we're going to stop exporting corn."
Campbell said in January that basis in Georgia was soft, but that it would pick up as bushels moved out of the crop.
Corn and soybeans, he says, are "joined at the hip" now. "When you look at crop budgets, soybeans are fighting for and they need their acres. The big impact in the Midwest is how high bean prices need to go to steal acres from corn. Corn is not backing down and letting soybeans take these acres. Watch soybean prices because they'll have more to do with corn prices than corn itself."
This past year, the soybean carryover went from 570 million bushels down to 200 million bushels, says Campbell. "We're saying that we have to get back four or five million acres of soybeans just to maintain. This 197-million bushel carryover is why we're looking at bean prices at $12 and $13 today and for the next two years."
Farmers must have a grasp on cost of production and lock in some of the profits that are available this year, he says.
Campbell says electronic trading has been introduced into the agricultural markets, meaning that pit trading no longer is the No. 1 tool, and 60 to 75 percent of the business is now done electronically.
"This means anyone who has an account can enter an order and get into our markets, and that's why we see some of these wide swings."
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