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1 REVOLUTION ANALYTICS WHITE PAPER Advanced Big Data Analytics with R and Hadoop 'Big Data' Analytics as a Competitive Advantage Big Analytics delivers competitive advantage in two ways compared to the traditional analytical model. First, Big Analytics describes the efficient use of a simple model applied to volumes of data that would be too large for the traditional analytical environment. Research suggests that a simple algorithm with a large volume of data is more accurate than a sophisticated algorithm with little data. The algorithm is not the competitive advantage; the ability to apply it to huge amounts of data without compromising performance generates the competitive edge. Second, Big Analytics refers to the sophistication of the model itself. Increasingly, analysis algorithms are provided directly by database management system (DBMS) vendors. To pull away from the pack, companies must go well beyond what is provided and innovate by using newer, more sophisticated statistical analysis. Revolution Analytics addresses both of these opportunities in Big Analytics while supporting the following objectives for working with Big Data Analytics: 1. Avoid sampling / aggregation; 2. Reduce data movement and replication; 3. Bring the analytics as close as possible to the data and; 4. Optimize computation speed. First, Revolution Analytics delivers optimized statistical algorithms for the three primary data management paradigms being employed to address growing size and increasing variety of organizations data, including file-based, MapReduce (e.g. Hadoop) or In-Database Analytics. Second, the company is optimizing algorithms - even complex ones - to work well with Big Data. Open Source R was not built for Big Data Analytics because it is memory-bound. Depending on the type of statistical analysis required, Big Data also causes issues that we ll call Big Computations, as some algorithms require a great deal of processing capacity on their own and may not lend themselves to running in every data management paradigm. For these Big Computations, parallelism (as we ve deployed with IBM Netezza and ScaleR) is important to performance and to the accuracy of the statistical analysis. Coupled with an intuitive R Development Environment from Revolution Analytics, the degree of innovation exceeds that which may be achieved through packaged analytic applications. This paper addresses specific integration between R and Hadoop that is supported by Revolution Analytics. Copyright 2011 Revolution Analytics 1
2 Revolution Analytics and Hadoop Traditional IT infrastructure is simply not able to meet the demands of this new Big Analytics landscape. For these reasons, many enterprises are turning to the R statistical programming language and Hadoop (both open source projects) as a potential solution to this unmet commercial need. As the amount of data especially unstructured data collected by organizations and enterprises explodes, Hadoop is emerging rapidly as one of the primary options for storing and performing operations on that data. A comment from Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition contrasts the difference between HBase and traditional DBMSs, "We currently have tables with hundreds of millions of rows and tens of thousands of columns; the thought of storing billions of rows and millions of columns is exciting, not scary." The marriage of R and Hadoop seems a natural one. Both are open source projects and both are data driven. But there are some fundamental challenges that need to be addressed in order to make the marriage work. Revolution Analytics is addressing these challenges with its Hadoopbased development. Iterative vs. batch processing - If we look at how most people do analytics, it is often an interactive process. Start with a hypothesis, explore and try to understand the data, try some different statistical techniques, drill down on various dimensions, etc. This is what makes R such a powerful tool, and an ideal environment for performing such analysis. Hadoop on the other hand, is batch oriented where jobs are queued and then executed, and it may take minutes or hours to run these jobs. In-memory vs. in parallel - Another fundamental challenge is that R is designed to have all of its data in memory and programs in Hadoop (map/reduce) work independently and in parallel on individual data slices. Revolution Analytics Capabilities for Hadoop Revolution has created a series of RevoConnectRs for Hadoop that will allow an R programmer to manipulate Hadoop data stores directly from HDFS and HBASE, and give R programmers the ability to write MapReduce jobs in R using Hadoop Streaming. RevoHDFS provides connectivity from tr to HDFS and RevoHBase provides connectivity from R to HBase. Additionally, RevoHStream allows MapReduce jobs to be developed in R and executed as Hadoop Streaming jobs. Delivered in the form of free downloadable R packages, RevoConnectRs for Hadoop will be available in September 2011 from HDFS Overview To meet these challenges we have to start with some basics. First, we need to understand data storage in Hadoop, how it can be leveraged from R, and why it is important. The basic storage mechanism in Hadoop is HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System). For an R programmer, being able to read/write files in HDFS from a standalone R Session is the first step in working within the 2
3 Hadoop ecosystem. Although still bound by the memory constraints of R, this capability allows the analyst to easily work with a data subset and begin some ad hoc analysis without involving outside parties. It also enables the R programmer to store models or other R objects that can then later be recalled and used in MapReduce jobs. When MapReduce jobs finish executing, they normally write their results to HDFS. Inspection of those results and usage for further analysis in R make this functionality essential. 3
4 HBASE Overview There are several layers that sit on top of HDFS that also provide additional capabilities and make working with HDFS easier. One such implementation is HBASE, Hadoop s answer to providing database like table structures. Just like being able to work with HDFS from inside R, access to HBASE helps open up the Hadoop framework to the R programmer. Although R may not be able to load a billion-row- by-million-column table, working with smaller subsets to perform ad hoc analysis can help lead to solutions that work with the entire data set. HDFS HBASE R MapReduce Data Reduction The processing pillar in the Hadoop ecosystem is the MapReduce framework. The framework allows the specification of an operation to be applied to a huge data set, divide the problem and data, and run it in parallel. From an analyst s point of view, this can occur on multiple dimensions. For example, a very large dataset can be reduced into a smaller subset where analytics can be applied. In a traditional data warehousing scenario, this might entail applying an ETL operation on the data to produce something usable by the analyst. In Hadoop, these kinds of operations are written as MapReduce jobs in Java. There are a number of higher level languages like Hive and Pig that make writing these programs easier. The outputs of these jobs can be written back to either HDFS/HBASE or placed in a traditional data warehouse. R can then be used to do the analysis on the data. MapReduce Job Data Warehouse R HDFS 4
5 MapReduce - R Executing R code in the context of a MapReduce job elevates the kinds and size of analytics that can be applied to huge datasets. Problems that fit nicely into this model include pleasingly parallel scenarios. Here s a simple use case: Scoring a dataset against a model built in R. This involves pushing the model to the Task nodes in the Hadoop cluster, running a MapReduce job that loads the model into R on a task node, scoring data either row-by row ( or in aggregates), and writing the results back to HDFS. In the most simplistic case this can be done with just a Map task. This simulates the apply family of operators in R. Other tasks such as quantiles, crosstabs, summaries, data transformations and stochastic calculations (like Monte Carlo simulations) fit well within this paradigm. These implementations don t make any assumptions about how the data is grouped or ordered. Visualizations of huge datasets can provide important insights that help understand the data. Creating a binning algorithm in R that is executed as a MapReduce job can produce an output that can be fed back into an R client to render such visualizations. Other more statistically challenging algorithms can also be implemented in this framework with more effort. These would include data Mining algorithms like K-Means clustering, logistic regression with small numbers of parameters and iterations, and even linear regression. 5
6 MapReduce - Hybrid For some kinds of analysis, we can employ a hybrid model that combines using something like HIVE QL, and R. HIVE QL allows us to perform some SQL like capabilities to create naturally occurring groups where R models can be created. As an example, suppose we have some stock ticker data stored in HDFS. If we can use HIVE to partition this data into naturally occurring groups (i.e., stock ticker symbol) we could use R to create a time series model and forecast for each ticker, and do it in parallel. Another possibility might be creating a correlation matrix by using Hive and R, and feeding that into PCA or Factor Analysis routines. Revolution has created an R package that allows creation of MapReduce jobs in R. The goal is providing a simple and usable interface that allows specification of both Map and Reduce as functions in R. This keeps the data scientist working in R, since he or she does not have to worry about the underlying Hadoop infrastructure. While it s true that the R programmer might have to rethink the approach to how algorithms can be realized and implemented, the potential benefits justify the additional effort. Optimizing Algorithms Finally, there is the approach of developing algorithms that have been explicitly parallelized to run within Hadoop. For example if you wanted to do a linear or logistic regression in R on a 1TB of data stored in HDFS, this requires that the algorithms themselves be implemented in way to use a distributed computing model. Revolution Analytics has a framework for developing these kinds of algorithms to be optimized within Hadoop. Summary The value from analysis on structured, transactional data is well understood and much of its value has been realized. Forward-looking models and other analysis that benefit from larger, more unstructured data sets (such as models of behavioral interactions) not as well understood, yet experts suggest that this new frontier of analytics holds untapped promise. If the enterprise has an unmet business need for strategic decision making with a high degree of processing complexity using large volumes of are predominantly unstructured data and where the analysis technique is challenging, a Revolution Analytics and Hadoop combination offers significant opportunity to gain first mover advantage. 6
7 About Revolution Analytics Revolution Analytics is the leading commercial provider of software and services based on the open source R project for statistical computing. Led by predictive analytics pioneer Norman Nie, the company brings high performance, productivity and enterprise readiness to R, the most powerful statistics language in the world. The company s flagship Revolution R Enterprise product is designed to meet the production needs of large organizations in industries such as finance, life sciences, retail, manufacturing and media. Contact Us Join the R Revolution at Telephone:
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Luke 20:45-47 45 Then, in the hearing of all the people, He said to His disciples, 46 "Beware of the scribes, who desire to go around in long robes, love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts, 47 who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation."
Luke 21:1-4 And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, 2 and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites. 3 So He said, "Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all; 4 for all these out of their abundance have put in offerings for God, but she out of her poverty put in all the livelihood that she had."
I was having a conversation with my Mother last week and she mentioned the widow's mite and I felt compelled to go and reread it. Many times I have heard people quote this story as if it were another of Jesus' parables and say things like "The Widow was more blessed than all the rest because she gave everything she had to God!" I have heard this story used to say that we should give our all to God.
While it is true that we should give ourselves fully over to God I don't believe that it is in God's nature, nor is it in scripture that God would like people to starve in order to pay tithe. In fact, if you look at Luke 20:45-47, it is pretty obvious that Jesus is condemning the scribes for "devouring the widow's houses". Now, I look at that along with Luke 21:1-4 where Jesus is standing there and observing this woman put in all she had to live on and it seems that Jesus is saying that the scribes are actually at fault for making this poor woman believe that in order to be accepted by God she needs to give everything she has to live on…even if it means she must starve.
Now there are other places that we can go in scripture to back up the idea that God takes care of his people and he puts the people and their well being above following the law.
For instance: Mark 2:23-27
23 And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.
24 And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
25 And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungered, he, and they that were with him?
26 How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?
27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
(1Samuel 21:7 for the scripture about David and his men.)
When we look at Matthew 5:3 3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Many times you will hear folks say, "Blessed are the Poor" and then leave it at that…the complete statement is Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Now that is a completely different idea…there is nothing in the Sermon on the Mount which is talking about wealth or poverty of material goods. Everything is talking about attitude toward God and toward others in life.
When I read the idea of the Poor in Spirit…I think it is about being selfless in your attitude in life. You are always looking toward the needs of others, and what God wants you to do…not always yelling about yourself and your rights in this world. That is what it means to me when I read the "poor in spirit" statement.
God continually condemns self centered people who walk all over or manipulate others for their own gain! There is a lot of misconception about wealth in the world of Christianity. The reason misconception continues is that there are many Christians who do not read the Word of God for themselves and study it. Relying solely on someone in the pulpit to tell you how to be a Christian is a huge error! There are a lot of folks who take things out of context and support their beliefs instead of taking it in the context in which it was written and finding out what God is really like.
There are very sincere Christians in all walks of life..both wealthy and poor…God has no problem with the level of your pocket book….only if you love your wealth more than you love him and those around you is there a problem. The Bible says, "Love of money is the root of all evil", not: "money is the root of all evil."
1Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
This is why the scribes were condemned…it was love of themselves and love of money to the point where they actually "devoured widow's houses". They were hypocrites in the worst way, they gave "some" of their wealth, but made the widow feel that she had to give "all" of her goods in order to measure up.
Have you ever done that? Seen that someone was giving a lot and so felt the need to put more in than you could really afford…more than you had previously decided on because the amount you were able to give seemed "insignificant" by comparison to what you knew the other person was giving?!! God says that he loves a cheerful giver…he wants you to give what you feel you can… to honor him. He does not want you comparing yourself with the person next to you. He wants your love and trust in him. That is why it is best if all giving is done quietly and personally.
I went to a large church as a visitor with someone once, and that person told me that whenever they went to their church they felt that they should always bring the "checkbook"; when I attended with them I understood why they felt that way…the buckets (literally) were passed about 5 times down the aisles during their worship! Now some folks who are new or unsure of their Christianity would feel pressured to always put something in each time it was passed in order to not be "embarrassed"…I wonder what Jesus would think of his followers treating his sheep like that in his name?!! Well, we don't have far to look…looking again at the verses in Luke 20 and Luke 21 above it seems clear how Jesus would feel about these things.
The Bible is very clear on the status of widows and orphans from Old Testament through New Testament the attitude is the same. Those who are most vulnerable in society should be protected and cared for either by their relatives or by the church if there are no relatives to care for them.
Exodus 22:22-23King James Version (KJV)
22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

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I have a request of whoever is able to: I am going to be making custom parts for spore using Sculptris. However that is pretty much as far as my knowledge of mods goes. I will need someone to package them for me and make them usable in the editors. They are going to be for the Atlantia, an adventure that I am working on, so they will be fishy and hopefully not suck.
I hope this is in the correct section, and if not, don't yell at me!
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"The Messiah Is Back" / CD
"The Messiah Is Back / CD:
1. Romanian Beach
2. Summer Sea
3. The Message
4. A Body Without A Head
5. Report
6. Blame
7. I Was Wrong
Orange the Juice:
Konrad Zawadzki – vocals, sounds, noise
Dawid Lewandowski – electric guitar, vocals, sounds
Marcin A. Steczkowski – grand piano, keyboard, cornet, sounds, programming
Mariusz Godzina – saxophones
Marcin Jadach – bass guitar, double bass, synth bass
Jan Kiedrzyński – drums
Guest artists:
Ida Zalewska – vocals [7]
Maciej Obara – alto saxophone [5]
Erwin Żebro – lead trumpet [2,6]
Maciej Kosztyła – tenor saxophone [2,6]
Marcin Taras – tuba [2,6]
Paweł Gielareck – theremin [5]
Cantus choir of Stalowa Wola conducted by Maciek Witek [2,4]
All tracks composed by Orange the Juice except "A Body Without A Head" (composed by Marcin A. Steczkowski)
Lyrics by Konrad Zawadzki except "A Body Without A Head" (lyrics by Dawid Lewandowski, Jan Kiedrzyński, Konrad Zawadzki)
Recorded by Piotr "Falko" Rychlec at MDK, Stalowa Wola, Poland Additional recording by Marcin A. Steczkowski at Lunapark Motion Arts Collective, Warszawa, Poland
Mixed by Marcin A. Steczkowski
Assistant Engineers - Dawid Lewandowski, Marcin Jadach
Brass arrangement - Marcin A. Steczkowski
Mastered by Piotr "Falko" Rychlec at ViVi Sound, Otwock, Poland
Produced by Orange the Juice
Cover art & design: Iwona Duczmal & TOFU Studio
Recording Session / Konrad
more info at: The Messiah Is Back
Recording Session / David
more info at: The Messiah Is Back
DVD / trailer
MINIMATIKON: "Them Journeys" / OFFICIAL VIDEO
MINIMATIKON: "Them Journeys" off "The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari" / soundtrack
Marcin A. Steczkowski & Dawid Lewandowski / MINIMATIKON
Directed by:
Marcin A. Steczkowski & Daniel Naborowski
Marcin Lesisz & Wojciech Zubek & Przemyslaw Jurkiewicz
Marcin Lesisz & Marcin A. Steczkowski
Sound Design:
Marcin A. Steczkowski
Motion Design:
TOFU Studio
Orange the Juice
The video uses quotes from the movie "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligarii" (1920) directed by Robert Wiene.
MINIMATIKON: "Them Journeys" / OFFICIAL VIDEO / trailer 02
MINIMATIKON: "Them Journeys" / OFFICIAL VIDEO / trailer 01 / new date
MINIMATIKON: "Them Journeys" / OFFICIAL VIDEO / trailer
Skrzydlate Wiosło !
Bierzemy udział :)
Halloween with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Minimatikon
10312011MINIMATIKON - a movie soundtrack project by Orange the Juice – are planning to release a soundtrack for the 1920 movie "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" on 31st October, 2011. The CD will be a limited collector's edition.
Supported by two additional musicians and going by the name of MINIMATIKON, Orange The Juice have composed a score for Robert Wien's horror movie "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", which has become the movie's official soundtrack in Poland's indie movie theatres.
Minimatikon's music illustration for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, which is often considered one of the greatest horror movies of the silent era, was created and recorded at Minimatikon Studio in Stalowa Wola, Poland. It was produced by Marcin A. Steczkowski, Daniel Lewandowski and Marcin Jadach. As in the case of Orange The Juice's debut album You Name It, the cover art for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari was made by Gdańsk, Poland-based Studio TOFU.
Samples of the music can be found at: here
Street Date: 10312011
The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari / soundtrack:
1. Them Birds
2. Them Skies
3. Them Merchants
4. Them Delusions
5. Them Nights
6. Them Shades
7. Them Angels
8. Them Traps
9. Them Potions
10. Them Journeys
11. Them Roses
12. Them Conversations
13. Them Eyes
14. Them Demons
15. Them Legends
16. Them Gods
17. Them Doors
18. Them People
19. Them Whispers
Design: Studio TOFU
Romanian Beach EP
08232011"Romanian Beach" - the first-ever EP by Orange The Juice is set for release on 26th August, 2011. Thanks to the support by the band's hometown of Stalowa Wola, it will be available in the form of a free CD.
Romanian Beach is intended as an MCD heralding the band's forthcoming album "The Messiah Is Back", which is still being made. Besides the title song, the tracklist will include its remixed versions made by artists close to the band. The record has been mixed and mastered by Piotr "Falko" Rychlec, known for having worked with numerous famous Polish acts. The album's artwork has been created by Gdańsk, Poland-based "Studio TOFU", which also made the artwork for Orange The Juice's debut album "You Name It."
Romanian Beach will also be available as a free download.
Orange The Juice's hometown of Stalowa Wola has long supported the band as a showcase for the city's efforts aimed at promoting artistic creativity of its residents. The city has made Orange The Juice a laureate of its annual "Pine Branch" award and granted the band the title of an Ambassador of the City of Stalowa Wola.
The album's title song can already be found here
Romanian Beach / EP
Street Date: 08262011
1. Romanian Beach (off the forthcoming album The Messiah Is Back)
2. A Body Without A Head
3. Romanian Beach (GitBit Papilot remix)
4. Romanian Beach (Pablutti remix)
5. Something You're Not Meant To Know
6. Romanian Beach (Halszka Nabira remix)
Design: Studio TOFU
Second Album / Cantus Stage
Second Album / Stage Three / Maciej Obara: sax
Second Album / Recording vocals / prolog
Second Album / Stage Two
11102010Brass Section
The Messiah Is Back
Don't Panic We are from Poland !
05052010Now you can start following us on Twitter. Just make use of the widget below.
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15042010We're more than happy to have been invited to perform at this year's Zappanale festival, which is held annually in the German city of Bad Doberan. The fiesta, a tribute to Frank Zappa's heritage, has attracted over two thousand fans of "zappanasque" music each year beginning in 1990.
So maybe see you there!
Dawid / Interview
Second Album / Stage One
25022010We've just completed Stage One of the recording process for 'The Messiah Is Back'. It all took place at "Wrzos" - a movie theatre hall in the city of Stalowa Wola - a venue whose acoustics we're finding more than appropriate for what we'd like to accomplish as far as the sound of the new album goes.
You can check it out right here:
The Messiah Is Back
the Second Album
21022010We're currently in the process of recording our second album. The title of the much-anticipated follow up to the well received debut "You Name It" is going to be "The Messiah Is Back", and it's hardly going to be anything you might be expecting from us - of that you can be sure. Should anyone be interested in seeing a footage (a couple of them as a matter of fact) documenting the recording process, they can visit:
The Messiah Is Back
Bad news :(
Dear fans and friends of ZU !
With our deepest regret we have to announce that we are forced to postpone all upcoming Scandinavian aswell as Eastern European dates in February 2010 due to unforeseen circumstances. We are currently working on rescheduling all cities as soon as possible, hopefully sooner than later.
Many thanks for all your support, looking forward to come to Gdansk in near future.
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Gabinet Doktora Caligari
Dziś premiera filmu "Gabinet Doktora Caligari" z 1920 roku w reżyserii Roberta Wiene'a. Ścieżka dźwiękowa: MINIMATIKON
Zapraszamy do kin studyjnych w Polsce :)
MINIMATIKON have signed a license deal with the Warsaw-based VIVARTO, the official Polish distributor of "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari". As a result, starting July 2009 the group's music will accompany regular cinema and festival shows of the legendary classic horror movie by Robert Wien.
Orange the Juice = MINIMATIKON = Orange the Juice
Szanowni Państwo,
z przykrością zawiadamiamy, iż zespół Orange the Juice, nie będzie mógł wystąpić na tegorocznych eliminacjach do Przystanku Woodstock, które odbywają się 23.05.2009. Głównym powodem takiego stanu rzeczy jest silne zapalenie gardła wokalisty Konrada Zawadzkiego. Grupa tym samym nie będzie mogła zaprezentować się w pełnym składzie przed warszawską publicznością.
Jeszcze raz wszystkich zainteresowanych, organizatorów, Fabrykę Zespołów oraz Jurka Owsiaka serdecznie przepraszamy.
Do zobaczenia przy innej okazj !
Orange the Juice
25032009Orange the Juice supported by two additional musicians have composed and recorded a score for the classical horror movie "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" by director Robert Wiene.
MINIMATIKON are: Marcin A. Steczkowski - piano, trumpet, keyboards, sounds / Orange the Juice; Dawid Lewandowski - guitar, sounds / Orange the Juice; Marcin Yadach - double bass, bass guitar / Orange the Juice; Jan Kiedrzyński - drums / Orange the Juice; Piotr Cebula - violin / The Transgress; Maciej Kosztyła - saxophone, clarinet / The Transgress; Konrad Zawadzki - vocals / Orange the Juice.
The music illustration for the 1920 movie "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", commonly cited as an influence on film noir, one of the earliest horror films, and a model for directors for many decades, was created at Stalowa Wola, Poland-based MINIMATIKON studio. It was produced by Marcin A. Steczkowski, Dawid Lewandowski and Marcin Yadach.
Beware the soundtrack samples at:
"Best Breakthrough Artist of the Year" in US
07032009One of the world's busiest web portals – the American 411mania.com – recording 15 to 20 million page hits daily included Orange the Juice's "You Name It" among the records worth your attention in 2008. "You Name It" was mentioned in the "Best Breakthrough Artist of the Year" category.
The reviewer wrote: "An unknown Polish band that begs to be heard. Imagine a party with Frank Zappa, Napalm Death, Primus, System of a Down, and a bowl of altered punch. The music they create is INSANE! If you get to listen to them, you are going to laugh, cry, shout and headbang, all at the same time. Their debut album You Name It will surely leave you thinking 'what the hell just happened?'"
What else ? Happy ?
Happy New Year !
"Pine Branch"
10122008WoW !
We have been awarded a "Pine Branch" - the main prize in a competition held by the mayor of the city of Stalowa Wola (the band's hometown) since 1999. The ceremony took place at the Stalowa Wola Music School. Orange the Juice received the reward from the Stalowa Wola City Board Chairman Stanisław Cisek.
Thank you and goodnight !
Double bass
30.11.2009The line-up has undergone a significant change. Mariusz Szmuc, the band's former bass player, has been replaced by Marcin Jadach.
Yadach is a young double-bass and bass player currently studying at the Karol Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice, Poland. Having come from a traditional jazz background, he has recently been cooperating with the club scene or nu-jazz, alternative and rock ensembles. In Orange the Juice he will, of course, play both double bass and bass guitar.
So probably everything will be much more then fine ...
SZIGET was ...
SZIGET was GORGEOUS !
Sorry folks !
We DID IT again !
Sorry folks !
The DATE
20.06.2008 !
Stay Deaf !
Record Deal !
10052008Yes, we signed a record deal. Here's offical note:
Orange the Juice have signed a deal with the Warsaw, Poland-based Ars Mundi music label, which has thus far released works by LAO CHE, PARTIA, ORANZADA and ARMIA, among others. Orange the Juice's debut album 'You Name It' is slated to hit the Polish market on June 01, 2008. 'You Name It' was recorded at the Olsztyn, Poland-based Studio X with Szymon Czech as sound engineer. The final mastering was done by the same Szymon Czech at his own Elephant Studio.
The tracklist is as follows:
1. Facing the Monsters;
2. Cradle to the Grave;
3. Out of Place;
4. Package Deal;
5. Hope (It;s Dead);
6. 10.5;
7. Project Good Life;
8.10.5 Final.
Check the band's MySpace profile at:
for a few excerpts from the record.
Orange the Juice are from Stalowa Wola, Poland.
The current line-up is:
Konrad Zawadzki - vocals, Dawid Lewandowski – guitar; Mariusz Godzina – saxophones; Marcin A. Steczkowski – keyboards, trumpet; Jan Kiedrzynski – drums, Mariusz Szmuc – bass guitar.
The band have been rewarded and honored at numerous Polish music contests like 'The Young Wolves 2006', 'Demolka 2004', 'Mayday Rock Festival', 'Rockowania 2004' or 'Rock Highway 2007'.
05052008Orange the Juice have been invited to perform at this year's star-studded Sziget Festival in Budapest, Hungary.
What else ?
1.01.2008Happy New Year !
REGION ! 2007 / Hungary
09092007Well, Well, Well ...
We've just won another Polish rock music contest - rock'AUTOSTRADA in Proszowki. Tournaments like this seem to have become quite common in our country, although nobody gives a damn. The fact is we always do it for the prize money, so this one has made us a little happier and the cash will certainly come in handy. Another great news - we are going to Budapest / to perform at
REGION! 2007 / The Central Eastern European Music Conference
Feel very excited and looking forward to playing for the strange speaking people of HUNGARY. Check out the dates section for details.
And, of course: Stay Deaf!
We will perform at HUNTERFEST 2007 !!! HUGE THANKS to everyone who voted for us !
See You on July 8th, 2007 in Szczytno
Contest ?
20012007Well, The Young Wolves is one of those Polish music contests that do not seem to count at all.
That means they do take place, but nobody gives a damn. Before we even went to Warsaw, we had planned to reflect upon what would happen so you guys could get some feedback on what it means for a band etc. But there is nothing to tell you about. Someone just needed that thing to happen so they could tell they were doing their job. That's it. Take the press conference there was virtually no one there. Thus, the question arises whether anybody had been informed at all ? And did they (Stodola) even want anyone to come and see the shit ? So why should you care ? Or should we? We don't ... Just for the record: we are among the three awarded bands.
What else ? Stay deaf !
Final show of The Young Wolves contest.
15122006Well, after the show on December 14th , we are among the ten bands to take part in the final show of The Young Wolves contest.
We are happy and hope it is going to be as much fun.
As always: Stay Deaf !
"Mlode Wilki"
08112006Well, we've just been accepted as one of the bands taking part in 'Mlode Wilki' (The Young Wolves) - a sort of competition for young Polish bands, aimed at helping the groups start a real career.
The winner is going to be offered a recording contract with a major label. We can't really say that we are expecting anything from the contest. We just plan to stage one hell of a show and have lots of fun - the usual boring stuff, you know. And the very opportunity to perform at Stodola (the club) in the heart of this land is itself pretty much a good deal.
Stay deaf !
You Name It
12092006Well, it looks like we're done!
What we've decided to dub "You Name It' has just been finished. Just 5 tracks but as much as 34 minutes! The first real studio recording of ours and a HUGE experience for all of us. No doubt about that. And now...well...lots of plans out there, but we shall see. Will keep you informed anyway. In the meantime, we suggest that you just let your ears check out samples of what it's going to taste like once the meal is completely ready to be served at


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Some of you may have read Dan Kimball's "Missional Misgivings" article over at Out of Ur. If not, let me get you up to speed. Kimball argues that missional advocates — at least one he was on a panel with — believe that the mega-churches (sometime called "attractional") are dying and that younger people in the city are not interested, that missional advocates criticize attractional churches for not seriously engaging discipleship, and that missional churches have an unproven track record. In the end, Kimball suggest that the pressing matters of evangelism in the local church are what motivates him "missionally."
First, let me say, that I like Dan Kimball and his book, "The Emerging Church" made a lot of sense for me at a crucial time. Unfortunately, many folks have misused Kimball's work, brought in candles and sofas to their worship gatherings, called it emerging and complained that it didn't work. That was a misuse of his work, and he deserves better. That being said, I had some great misgivings about his "Missional Misgivings".
My first misgiving, is that Kimball, as many others have done, is bilateral in his understanding. Like the critics he critiques, Kimball, falls into the trap of seeing missional and attractional as opposed to one another. What Christian would argue that Jesus is not attractive? This, from my read, is not what people mean when they use the term "attractional." It is not a question of missional vs. attractional, but rather a question of direction. At the end of the day, is more of your energy and resources used to bring people in or send people out. In a healthy churches both are happening. And to speak to their leaders of those churches as if attracting and sending were opposed to one another would be foreign concept. Therefore, Kimball's argument — and that of the missional leader he is responding to — is fundamentally flawed.
Second, Kimball places more import on numbers than I, quite frankly, think is appropriate. Don't get me wrong, evangelism is crucially important, conversions are important. Essential. But Kimball's review too easily dismisses two communities — a self-described missional church of 35 and a small house church — because they did not "multiply" or "plant". I understand the complaint, but is Kimball suggesting that a house church that feeds the homeless somehow represents the Kingdom of God less than the mega-church down the street who is "converting" people? Here's where reading the gospels can be helpful. Kimball is equating conversion with the totality of kingdom work. However, I kind of remember Jesus saying something to the Pharisees about going to extreme measures to convert people to a version of religion that didn't reflect God's people-priority, would make them twice the children of hell…or something like that. A better way to say this may be this: If you're converting people to a religion that's not dealing with the homeless, that may not be a God-focused religion.
There's more to representing the kingdom than the head count in the pew. Perhaps, crazy as it may sound, the path is actually narrow. It's easy to make caricatures here, but does Kimball want to say that a church that converts a lot of people but doesn't do as much for the homeless is more of what God intends? My point is simply this: Different communities represent the Kingdom in different ways, they have different strengths.
Scriptures call is a big one, don't we have room for all of us to offer our gifts without saying, "Your priorities aren't my priorities, so I'll dismiss you?" Kimball says he's not a numbers person, yet that's all his article is concerned with. He says missional churches don't have a proven "track record" with "measurables."
Third, a natural by-product of Kimball's numbers focus, is that he misrepresents what missional ecclesiology is about. I don't want to get into the nuances of missional church here, but there's much more to missional than growing your church, and there's more to it than "social justice" or "outreach" too. Sadly, this is how Kimball understands "going missional" (along with too many others). Rather than go into all that, I would point you and Kimball here to listen to Patrick Keifert describe what we mean by missional. Hint: It's more than soup for the poor.
Fourth, Kimball ends his assault with these words, "I hope there are examples of fruitful (read: numbers) missional churches that I haven't encountered yet. I hope my perception based on my interaction with the missional movement is wrong. But for now, I would rather be part of a Christ-centered megachurch full of programs where people are coming to know Jesus as Savior, than part of a church of any size where they are not." My question for Kimball is this: Who wouldn't?
We all want to be a part of a church where people are coming to know Jesus. Kimball's statement is like saying, "I want to be in a marriage where the husband and wife love one another." That statement has nothing at all to do with the merits of either mega-churches or missional churches. Are there people in both who aren't concerned with the full witness of the gospel? Yes. Are there people coming to know Jesus? Yes. Kimball here falls prey to a classic misunderstanding of the gospel, that "conversion" is simply a transaction that merely changes one's status before God (Read Mark Love on the challenges of Penal Substitutionary Atonement as the primary image of salvation). The assumption is that once someone has made an orthodox confession of faith (plus whatever other rituals their community practices) then they now "know Jesus." Unless I'm unique, my experience is that most of us trust Jesus and spend the rest of our lives getting to "know" Him.
I understand what Kimball is saying, "You say you're missional, but are you reaching people?" and it's a good challenge to what I call the "coffee-house theologians" who take pride in their smallness and perceived purity. But his negative assertions are misplaced, and likely a reaction to some "holier-than-thou" personalities he's encountered. He confesses that his perception is based on his interactions with people. Perhaps, Dan should extend his missional education into other avenues. I would encourage Kimball and others to investigate missional ecclesiology beyond snippets on the web, what so-and-so said and published interviews with people who know very little about the subject. As with everything, we need to seek out learned scholars and best practitioners before we pronounce the death or inefficiency of something. So here are some good places to get started.
Allelon — For Missional Leader
Gospel and Our Culture Network
** Note: Please see Dan Kimball's response to this post in the comments section!


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The Cowboys had a good win today over the struggling Browns to improve to 7-1. They are not only on top of the NFC East but also are leading the entire NFC. Who woulda thunk? Well, the POTB team did! They did predict that the Cowboys would beat the Browns and would win the NFC East.
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Working Paper No. 12. Making Law in Rural East Africa: SunguSungu in Kenya.
This working paper is the second in a series of three. The first, Domesticating Leviathan: Sungusungu groups in Tanzania (Crisis States Working Paper 16: series 1 - see output record) traced the history of the sungusungu movement in Tanzania, paying particular attention to its development among the Kuria, in the Mara Region, to the north of the country on the border with Kenya. It discusses the distinctive accommodation that came to characterise the relationship of the government to the movement, strictly-speaking illegal but officially authorised, neither part of the state nor totally rejected by it.
This paper takes up the same issues among Kuria in Kenya, outlining in some detail the development of the first sungusungu group in 1998, in the context of an influx of small arms, state corruption and the changing face of theft. The focus is, however, on the creation of a new order as sungusungu groups sought to redefine political loyalties and establish a new moral consensus. A third working paper will look in more detail at the trials themselves, the judicial processes and decision-making and the significance of consensual judgements.
Making Law in Rural East Africa: SunguSungu in Kenya. Working Paper No. 12 (series 2), 2007, London, UK; Crisis States Research Centre, 22 pp.
Working Paper No. 12. Making Law in Rural East Africa: SunguSungu in Kenya.


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I had SA probably all of my life and didn't know because I did not have symptoms that were recognizable to me, so I got therapy late. Others seem to key in on how they feel after therapy, but I never felt bad so I never expected to feel better. There is some of that for me, but you can't fix what's not broken, so I mostly ignore that.
Once in therapy I researched and understood the amazing long list of surprising sinister effects of SA and the equally long and surprising list of essential cures for almost all of them, simply from undergoing xPAP therapy.
Most were unexpected. I just had no idea. But the most surprising positive effect is what finally having restorative sleep has done. I spent decades being continually strangled all night long and never realized it, so I never really got sleep of any quality for most of my life. I didn't feel bad, i was not sleepy nor tired, I did not have insomnia or waking issues, so for me whatever I was experiencing seemed normal.
But among the other terrible things SA can do to you, having SA for me was the equivalent of being given a "stupid pill" every night before bed. I was getting the rest, but I was not getting quality sleep.
Quality sleep allows you to clear the cobwebs. It allows you to index and categorize new information from the previous day. It makes actual new synaptic connections, building pathways that allow you to learn from what happened that day. It allows you to move short-term memory to long-term memory, and to make cognitive associations that you are unable to make when awake. It reinforces what you have experienced that day and associates it with what you already know.
There is a lot of heavy mental construction going on when you get quality sleep. If the sleep is interrupted every minute by trying to survive being strangled, the quality of the sleep is lowered significantly and all of those processes are impaired.
So now, with a low AHI, I seem to have an unexpected new level of awareness that has been like having a veil removed from my eyes. I see things with much more clarity. I understand my own motivations much better, and even the motivations of others. I feel much more clear-headed and almost even smarter, like as if now instead of the "stupid pill" at bedtime, I get a "smart pill" when I wake up.
I can't understate the significance of this. It is like I am a different person, a better person. I feel like my mental processes are finally being allowed to flourish. I make better choices and decisions; I understand things better. It has literally changed my life, and is probably one of the most significant things to ever happen to me.
If you saw Bradley Cooper in the movie Limitless, that is sort of how I feel. Certainly not as dramatic a change and not a superhuman change (and I unfortunately look nothing like him) but a significant change none the less.
I could go on and on about this, maybe I already have, and there are also things being revealed to me in this new state of mind that are not all positive so it is not all roses and some of this is difficult, but I will spare you the details of both sides of this coin, except to say that it has not really changed my mood or level of happiness or contentment, which was mostly OK to start with. It is a bit of a double-edged sword that I am dealing with.
But I am different now, hopefully better in most ways, because of xPAP therapy. And I am actually seeing a therapist to examine what is going on here and to find the best way to take advantage of it and deal with it, so I could not be more serious about what I am experiencing.
Which leads me to my question, which is has this sort of change been apparent to you in your life as well due to xPAP therapy?


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Investment bankers have found a hot new product to sell to their corporate clients: defeasance.
Defeasance, while not exactly a term on the tip of everyone's tongue, is quickly being added to the vocabulary of many corporate treasurers. And within six months, shareholders and bondholders likewise may start mouthing the unwieldy word.
Exxon Corporation, the first company to do a deal involving defeasance, says it has received numerous inquiries from other corporate treasurers interested in finding out how the giant company did its recent deal. And investment bankers confirm that defeasance is a hot topic in the cold climate they're having.
Economic defeasance, as it is currently being construed, is a method that allows a company to restructure its long-term debt without voiding the covenants surrounding that debt. One example of a covenant may be that when a company issues a bond, it promises its lenders that certain revenues or income from properties will ensure payment of the principal of that debt.
A company may want to get around such promises without breaking them. It does this through defeasance by placing the debt in a nonrevocable trust. Then it covers its guarantees with the interest and principal of a pool, say, of US government securities or corporate securities of matching quality.
The advantages for the corporation are twofold. First, it can improve the balance in its books by taking note of the decline in market value of the old, low-interest-rate bonds it has issued. These old bonds can be covered by buying at a discount a smaller amount of old, low-interest securities of equal or better safety rating. Second, it will make a capital gain on the discounted securities if interest rates decline and the bonds' value increases, or as they mature.
Economic defeasance differs from what is termed ''legal defeasance.'' In legal defeasance, a covenant is written into a debt agreement permitting the issuer of the debt to restructure the arrangement sometime in the future. Most investment bankers are advocating economic defeasance, since institutional buyers of the bonds have for some years not been interested in having a legal form of defeasance. These bond buyers, mostly such institutions as pension funds , do not want their corporate bonds marked down to the market price, as would occur in legal defeasance. The markdown could shrink the visible value of their portfolios.
Shareholders and bondholders are finding that economic defeasance allows corporations to increase their earnings through only a few scratches of the bookkeeper's quill.
This happened recently when Exxon reported that through defeasance it had added $130 million to its second-quarter earnings.
Exxon did this by buying $312 million of long-term government securities, currently yielding about 13 percent, and assigning them to a trustee. The trustee was empowered to use the interest, principal, and capital gains from the government securities to cover the interest and principal on some $515 million of Exxon's old debt which had interest rates ranging from 5.8 percent to 6.7 percent. Since Exxon's accountants agreed that the company had removed $515 million from its balance sheet at a cost of $312 million, it was left with a capital gain of $203 million. After figuring in capital-gains taxes on the gains Exxon will make on the maturing Treasury securities over the next 20 years, the company reported a gain in the second quarter of $130 million.
According to Frank Risch, manager of corporate financial planning, Exxon decided to do this transaction in part because of a ''combination of very high interest rates and our expectation that interest rates will fall over the next 20 years.''
Exxon found that insurance companies that owned its debt were not eager to sell it, since it meant they would record a loss on their books. Thus, when Morgan Guaranty Trust proposed the defeasance idea, Exxon eagerly went ahead with it. (It has also been swapping some of its debt for stock, a common practice today, since it improves a company's balance sheet.)
Investment bankers point out there are some specific ways that corporations can benefit from deals like Exxon's. For example, many corporations are required to retire a certain percentage of their bonds each year, under what are called ''sinking-fund agreements.'' Treasurers, however, often find that as they get closer to paying down a bond issue, one bank or lender has cornered the market in the security. Thus, instead of being able to purchase the bonds in the open market at market rates, the corporation ends up paying par, or full value, to the bank or lender.
Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank for years cornered the market for the tail end of bond issues. It dropped the practice when it found that this annoyed potential corporate customers.
By defeasing its bonds, however, a corporation is at least assured of having its costs covered by its new portfolio of government issues, especially bought with maturities to match the retirement needs of its sinking fund. Thus, the government is essentially repaying the sinking fund. Investment bankers also figure that corporations with large ''balloon'' payments due when a bond issue matures can also use defeasance.
Investment bankers and accountants point out that defeasance raises several important issues for shareholders. For example, Exxon in its deal essentially acted like a bank, since it was using its cash to buy government securities. ''Do the shareholders want Exxon to invest in government securities or in oil and gas properties?'' one banker asks.
Mr. Risch replies that Exxon intends to stay in the oil and gas business, but viewed this as one alternative to managing its liabilities.