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Steven Seagal Has Many More Tricks up His Sleeve for UFC Fans

Written by Tom Ngo
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Two spectacular highlight reel finishes down, countless more to go. After helping Anderson Silva and Lyoto Machida “perfect” the art of the front kick, Steven Seagal claims to have plenty more spectacular strikes up his sleeve – just don’t ask him to share his trade secrets.

“With Lyoto, I came in probably five days before the fight, something like that,” Seagal told Sherdog of preparing Machida for UFC 129. “Started working on different kinds of elbows, different kinds of punching, different kinds of feet-work … but particularly the kick. I think against a lot of the guys who have spent a lot of their energy on wrestling, they’re not exactly what I would call great strikers.

“The kick can be very effective. This kick is different.”

Silva debuted Seagal’s version of the front kick on Vitor Belfort’s face at UFC 126 this past February. After “The Spider” cleansed Belfort’s pallet with his toes, Machida executed a very similar maneuver this past Saturday to retire Randy Couture. However, “The Dragon’s” kick was slightly modified and unleashed with more aggression.

“[Machida’s] kick, the thing that’s deceptive about it is that, the normal [technique] where you lift up your knee and you kick, this one I’m kind of trying to teach the guys to lead with the foot,” Seagal stated. “I don’t want to say too much about it because I don’t want to give it away completely to the world.

“It’s different and it’s hard to see. It’s very difficult to see coming, and that’s how my guys have been successful with that.”

It’s clear the Brazilians at Team Black House love them some front kicks, so the opposition will be on the lookout now more than ever. That’s just fine and dandy with Seagal, as he claims their alertness will only open the doors for some more never-before-seen Seagal ass whooping action.

“There are some real different elbows. There are some real different punches. There are some real different entrances that I’m working on with the guys,” the 59-year-old boasted of his diversified arsenal. “There are some other things that I don’t want to talk about that you guys just haven’t seen at all yet. You haven’t seen it, but it’s legal.”

If Seagal gets credited for another devastating finish inside of the Octagon, does that mean he’s officially surpassed Chuck Norris as the baddest man to ever walk the face of the earth???

Here are videos of Seagal doing his thing with Anderson Silva and Lyoto Machida.

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This issue’s focus is heavily on mutual funds. However, mutual funds may not be for everyone. Often, investors may benefit from using lower cost, passively managed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) instead of higher cost, actively managed mutual funds. In recent years, the ETF universe has expanded dramatically. Numerous websites have also been created to help investors research and choose the most suitable exchange-traded funds. In this issue’s On the Internet, we take a close look at a few of the top websites for ETF data.

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ETF Database provides a wealth of ETF information and has two levels of service. The website offers most of its information free of charge, but certain features are only available to Pro subscribers.

At the top right of the website, the search box allows users to access ETF information by ticker or keyword. Extensive data is provided for each fund. In addition to common ETF information such as category, expense ratio and issuer, the website also provides summary and trading data. Information on the holdings in the ETF, a fact sheet (summary in a printable page), charts, returns, technical indicators, category reports and real-time ratings are also provided for each ETF that the website covers. The charts are simple and only include options for bar, line and candlestick charts, but the period of the charts can be as frequent as five minutes. The ETF category report allows users to compare ETFs that are in the same category. The Realtime Ratings tab shows grades for liquidity, expenses, performance, volatility, dividend and concentration as well as giving an overall rating. The ETF category report and ETF Realtime Ratings are only available to Pro subscribers.

ETF Database is one of the few sites that offer a news section completely dedicated to exchange-traded funds. Furthermore, you can sign up for a free daily newsletter that will send tips and strategies, the latest news and links to resources directly to your inbox.

The site offers several tools, including an ETF screener, ETF country exposure identifier, ETF stock exposure identifier and a mutual fund-to-ETF converter. The country and stock exposure tools will show you the ETFs that have high exposure to a given country or stock, allowing you to invest in areas you are lacking or eliminate portfolio redundancies.

If you find that the data and tools offered at the site for free are not complete enough for you, an ETF Database Pro subscription is offered for $199 per year ($19 per month). It includes an ETF Edge monthly newsletter, ETF category reports, model portfolios and analyst Q&As. A Pro screener with the ability to export results to Excel is also included in the Pro package.

XTF has managed to keep up with the expansion in ETFs: The website boasts that it covers 100% of the entire U.S. exchange-traded products marketplace. A big advantage that XTF has over other ETF sites is that it lacks any noticeable ads. It also offers several levels of membership—free, free with registration, gold ($39 per month) and platinum $99 per month).

The website’s layout is very simple. At the middle of the webpage, users are able to search for ETFs using their ticker symbols. General ETF data is presented—such as issuer, asset classes and capitalization—at the top of the page. At the bottom of the page, ETF data is broken down into structural integrity, investment metrics, fund holdings, fund exposure and news headlines. Structural integrity includes data points such as tracking error, concentration risk, market impact and efficiency and also offers each data point’s percentile rank among all equity ETFs over the past six months. Investment metrics presented include investment ranking, risk-adjusted and non-risk adjusted returns and dividend yield, along with each data point’s percentile rankings. Percentile ranking figures are also provided for structural integrity and investment metrics in aggregate.

One of the best sections of XTF is the education center. Investors interested in learning more about how ETFs work should make use of this resource. The education center does a superb job of comparing mutual funds and ETFs, as well as summarizing the different types of ETFs and their investment strategies. Just keep in mind that this site caters to ETFs and, therefore, may not fully describe the advantages that traditional mutual funds may offer.

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ETF Trends’ quote box is at the top right of the home page. The website currently offers data on 1,484 ETFs, and provides an “ETF Resume” for each that is divided into summary, chart, articles, prospectus, fact sheet, composition and holdings. These pages provide general information on ETFs and add some risk figures, such as alpha, beta and standard deviation. The website also allows users to download a prospectus and fact sheet in PDF format for any ETF.

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ETF Trends also provides an ETF education area that can help you get started investing in ETFs. The community area includes a forum, podcasts, webcasts and videos.

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I was invited to cover the Samsung Unpacked 2015 event yesterday at Solaire for Smart. The event featured the launch and livestream of the Mobile World Congress Unpacked 2015 event in Barcelona, Spain. There was also a preview of the devices from our friends from Samsung Philippines.

Samsung introduced two flagship models this year: the Samsung Galaxy S6 and the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. The two are quite similar in power and features except for the added sexy curve design of the Galaxy S6 Edge on its side panels.

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The new Samsung Galaxy S6 in White Pearl

The biggest difference of this year's iteration is the design. Samsung S6 no longer sports the plasticky feel of its predecessors. Samsung learned its lesson and went gung-ho and finished the S6 with a glass and metal feel similar to its competitors. The result is simply outstanding. It now feels like how a flagship smartphone should feel like. Samsung truly made the design a big priority this year.

Here's a quick run-down of the other specs. I featured and tweeted some of it at the live tweet/coverage of the event via @SmartCares.

The Samsung Galaxy S6 is 5.1-inch and is between iPhone 6's 4.7-inch and iPhone 6 Plus' 5.5-inch displays. The days of small screens are definitely over.

Battery life and charging are now deal breakers. A smartphone is only good if it provides a very good and sustainable battery life. Samsung is claiming that their new flagships will not only charge fast but will also charge wirelessly. This is a definite game changer for people who cannot live without their smartphones. They are also claiming that a charge can last up to 11 hours on LTE and 12 hours on WiFi.

A lot were said about the improved camera of the S6 but one of the most notable moments of the presentation was when shots were fired against Apple and their camera. A comparison of the output of the iPhone 6 Plus and the Samsung Galaxy S6 was shown in the livestream. Check it out!

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iPhone 6 Plus vs. Galaxy S6 Image Comparison

I am user of both iPhone and Samsung and I must say that it's matter of color/saturation preference. Samsung images are very vivid and nice to look at but they have the tendency to get pixelated when uploaded online (eg. in Instagram). iPhone images are more steady and can be easily filtered or post-processed. Nevertheless - I am super excited to try these new cameras of Samsung.

Aside from the features mentioned, the S6 and S6 Edge also runs on Adroid 5.0 (Lollipop), uses a NanoSIM, and has 32GB, 64GB and 128GB versions. It will no longer have an expandable memory but Samsung will throw in 100GB of MS One Drive subscription for two years in lieu of this.

The colors of the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge are gem-inspired. It comes in White Pearl, Black Sapphire, Gold Platinum, Blue Topaz (for the S6 only), and Green Emerald (for the S6 Edge only).

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I am no longer the loyal Apple Fan Girl that I used to be. I've been using Samsungs through the years and I really really love the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 that I am currently using for my Sun Cellular line. I must say that it was truly love at first sight when Digs Dimagiba of Samsung showed to us the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge in Gold Platinum. The design is amazing! It was truly one helluva smartphone (and I am honestly running out of adjectives to describe how great it is).

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The new Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge in Gold Platinum

The lightness of the device overwhelmed me. It's very thin and delicate; and I was actually afraid to hold it for fear of dropping it. It was designed beautifully and elegantly. The Gold Platinum color is a winner. It's definitely better that iPhone 6's Gold version.

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Back panel of the new Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge in Gold Platinum

Is it worth the upgrade?
A definite and solid yes. Sell your S5 if you can and upgrade to this beauty. The design is outstanding and is worth every penny. Any Samsung lover will definitely love and appreciate these new flagships from Samsung. This is, by far, the best product that came out from the Korean company. I will personally get the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge in a heartbeat IF not for my (still new) 4-month old Samsung Galaxy Note 4.

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Team Samsung presenting the new Samsung Galaxy S6 and the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge

The Global Launch of the Samsung Galaxy S6 is on April 10 and the Philippine and SMART launch is on April 18. You should get it from Smart Postpaid or Smart Infinity (of course!). Smart still offers the best postpaid data plans with bigger data allowance among competition. Stay tuned!

More photos of the Unpacked 2015 can be found at the Facebook Page of Smart.

[EDIT: Smart Postpaid and Smart Infinity are now accepting pre-orders for the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. Registration page and other details can be found at

Disclaimer: This is a personal blog. Views/opinion are my own and it's not in any way the views of Smart Communications, Inc. or the opinion of Smart's Digital/Social Media Team.

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Well, sorta the same, but not quite. Our design is much different. I do want to point out that we're not sure exactly what's going to happen, but we did accomplish 1 1/2 lbs of force with a single stage of the gravitor. Right now we are in a delay until we can get another power supply and they are not cheap. Hoping to get one with at least 40KV this time around.

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what are you using for HV? I know the cost goes up exponentially with voltage.
Also, are you pulsing the voltage? adding AC also? dang it! I want in !!!

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For now, the answer to those questions will have to wait, but your definitely barking up the right tree.

I just wanted to come into the thread an introduce a possible propulsion method. Don't want to derail the thread talking about our project. Maybe when I get some time, I'll start a thread on Townsend Brown and the things he worked on.

I will try and keep you updated on our progress through pm's if you would like, but please understand that there will be things I can't talk about.

To the OP, sorry. Carry on with your thread.

posted on May, 25 2013 @ 11:56 PM

Originally posted by markygee
I recently visited nasa as a tourist and there was an ex appollo 11 engineer available for questions. While discussing how little I know about science he said that when he retired last year (laid off) his dept was working on a propulsion system that could already travel to mars in 9 days. When he saw my amazement and I began asking how and why weren't we using it already he quickly said that he only meant the actual distance not the journey itself. He specified that in reality it would still take 18 months to send humans to mars due to getting the planetary alignment right and he jokingly (I think) added that they would need to recruit Eskimo's as they still hadn't found a reasonable way to keep warm in such deep cold the further they got from earth.
So I thought ok.
Then later I got a calculator and worked out that if mars is at it's very closest to earth it would be 38 million miles away so to do that journey in 9 days would mean traveling at 259, 259.259259259 miles an hour. IF he was telling the truth then this prepulsion system is incredible. Does anyone think this can be remotely feasible? If it existed why bother with humans at all? Just lob drones/rovers and camera's at mars instead.
Thoughts anyone?

On a side note for the new age pyramid is power believers I noticed that the best way of preserving the moon rock on display at nasa appears to be encased in a pyramid.
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It's no secret that they are working on new propulsion systems.
There was one that was pretty interesting, hydrogen pulse engines or something like that, cant remember exactly what it was now. But there are articles about it around the place.

But just because they are working on developing new technologies, doesn't mean that they are able to make them work, or that those technologies actually work or ever will work.

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Please don't touch the plasma.
If you keep away from extreme mass annihilation and work with what is
already in space you can polarize the force of atoms to your advantage.

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Grilled Peach and Haloumi Salad //

I’m a bit on a grilling kick. I don’t own an outside grill so instead I use my big griddle that has a side that is like a grill pan. It’s almost like reversible sheets. Or reversible shirts, which were popular for a very short while in the 90s. I think they should come back because seriously, how useful! I also had a shirt that would change different colors if you breathed on it. I’m pretty sure it was supposed to work like mood ring but it failed completely.

Anyway, grilling…fruit. The two surprisingly go hand and hand, AND grilling cheese is an even better idea. The requirement is that the correct cheese be used. A lot of cheese can easily be coated in breading and fried but not many cheeses can be grilled. If you’ve never cooked with haloumi, I can assure you that it’s really really good and super easy to grill. It won’t get all melty and crazy, it’s really hard to mess up AND it’s delicious and salty. I love to pair it with something sweet and something smokey.

Grilled Peach and Haloumi Salad //

The grilled yellow peaches and the salty and smokey prosciutto were pretty nice with the haloumi. I added a bit of peppery arugula in the mix to fill it out. This way you can serve it and people not just get two bites. This will easily serve a group of 4 for a dinner party or random Tuesday night.

Let’s just grill all THE things.

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Grilled Peach and Haloumi Salad

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Serving Size: 2 (as a main meal); 4 (as an appetizer salad)

Grilled Peach and Haloumi Salad

  • 2 to 3 yellow peaches, firm but ripe (not overly ripe - that's for jam)
  • 12 ounces haloumi cheese
  • 1 cup arugula
  • 1 teaspoon olive oil
  • Salt
  • 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
  • 6 to 8 slices of prosciutto of choice

  1. Cut the peaches in half and remove the seeds. Cut up the peaches into 1/2-inch slices. Take the haloumi and using a sharp knife (haloumi is pretty firm), slice it up into rectangles.
  2. Preheat your grill or grill pan over high heat. Grease it with cooking spray, liberally (you don't want the cheese and fruit to stick). While the grill or grill pan is preheating, add the arugula to a small bowl. Pour in the olive oil and add a teaspoon of salt. Rub the leaves until they're thoroughly coated. Set them aside.
  3. In a small saucepan, set over medium heat, add the balsamic vinegar. Bring the mixture to a simmer and then turn the heat down to low. Allow the balsamic vinegar to reduce by half; make sure to keep a close eye on it---it reduces very quickly. Pour the balsamic glaze into a small bowl; it will thicken as it cools.
  4. Add the fruit to the grill. To get those pretty grill marks, lightly press the fruit down with a pair of tongs. Cook for about 1 minute on the first side and 30 seconds on the opposite side. Repeat grilling process until you've worked your way through all of the fruit, adding extra cooking spray as needed.
  5. Next, add the haloumi (you want to do the haloumi last because it's important that's it's as melty as warm as can be) and place a flat lid or plate on top of the haloumi. This will help with those perfect grill marks. Grill the cheese for about 2 minutes per side.
  6. Arrange the grilled peaches, grilled haloumi, dressed arugula leaves and prosciutto on a large plate. Drizzle the balsamic glaze on top and around the salad.

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  • Reply jenna @ just j.faye July 10, 2014 at 5:58 am

    This salad looks phenomenal! I have never cooked with, or even purchased, haloumi cheese before. I should experiment a little and try it out!

  • Reply Gucki July 10, 2014 at 7:41 am

    Hi, I love the grilled peaches idea!
    Please, may you give me the recipe of that wonderful peaches cake I’ve seen on your instagram? Thank you!

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      Reply Adrianna Adarme July 10, 2014 at 12:23 pm

      Peaches cake? I don’t believe I did a peach cake. You mean the peach pie?

      • Reply Gucki July 10, 2014 at 12:36 pm

        Yes, I mean the peach pie! Sorry!!
        Thank you!

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          Reply Adrianna Adarme July 10, 2014 at 12:39 pm

          Oh! The peach pie is for my upcoming book. 🙁 It’ll be published next Fall and I promise that recipe will be worth the wait! Sorry about that!

          • Gucki July 11, 2014 at 8:33 am

            Ok, in this case I’m waiting for the book! Congraz!

  • Reply molly yeh July 10, 2014 at 8:32 am

  • Reply Mary Frances July 10, 2014 at 9:08 am

    I love haloumi! That squeaky texture it has is so much fun to eat.

  • Reply April July 10, 2014 at 11:50 am

    thank you, i was wracking my brain for something delicious to eat for dinner on this hot, hot day!

  • Reply Todd July 10, 2014 at 12:35 pm

    You nailed it with this one, Adrianna!! Grilled fruit is what summer is all about. That and cocktails, of course 😉

  • Reply dervla July 10, 2014 at 7:50 pm

    yay lets grill ALL THE THINGS

  • Reply stephanie @ iamafoodblog July 10, 2014 at 10:15 pm

    this is my DREAM salad adrianna!!

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  • Reply April @badgerkitchen July 11, 2014 at 10:40 am

    This looks wonderful! I might try substituting the halloumi with juustoleipa cheese, which I can by at my farmers market along with the rest of the ingredients. 🙂

  • Reply Laura (Tutti Dolci) July 11, 2014 at 1:32 pm

    Gorgeous, love the grilled peaches!

  • Reply Flor July 16, 2014 at 8:32 pm

    Having trouble finding Haloumi cheese, even at Provisions Market. Any good substitute.

    • Adrianna Adarme
      Reply Adrianna Adarme July 17, 2014 at 10:59 am

      Feta would taste great, though haloumi is the only cheese that will properly get those grill marks you’re going for!

  • Reply Sarah July 21, 2014 at 4:30 pm

    Adrianna: I am making this tonight and was wondering if you want to include a note about how long to grill the haloumi. It’ll be too late for me but I thought others might want to know!

    • Adrianna Adarme
      Reply Adrianna Adarme July 21, 2014 at 4:32 pm

      Hi Sarah, Yes, sorry about that! The haloumi should be grilled on high heat for about 2 minutes per side. Adding that note now. Thanks!

  • Reply Dana July 22, 2014 at 8:13 am

    Peaches are something that I consume by the box in the summer, and I do prescribe to the idea that grilled peaches have a certain magical quality to them.

    This is the type of salad a person could make friends with.

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    […] Poke Salad 2. Honey Chipotle Chicken Bowls 3. Grilled Romaine with Prosciutto Wrapped Shrimp 4. Grilled Peach and Haloumi 5. Tofu and Warm Mushroom 6. BBQ Chicken Cobb Salad 7. Peach Panzanella and Mozzarella 8. Salmon […]

  • Reply meg August 17, 2014 at 3:48 pm

    I love grilled peaches! This recipe looks amazing – thanks for sharing!

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"Don't Fill the space, fill the moment." Gayla Goehl

“Don’t Fill the space, fill the moment.” Gayla Goehl

I was coaching a young actress who was auditioning for a starring role on a Disney comedy. We were coaching in a large studio and I had the camera on her in a tight close up. However, her energy was focusing on filling the entire area of the space and not focused on filling in the moments of the audition sides. I said “Don’t fill the space, fill the moment.”   She got it. She had been using all her creative energy to deliver a bigger performance than what was needed when watching it on-camera.  The camera was picking up that her moments in the audition sides were not as developed and specific as they should be.  We worked together to find  the series of moments she needed to hit within each of the scenes.  I thought she was hilarious.  And the Disney Network thought so too and…well, three seasons of that very show later she is still making people laugh every week.

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Murder, Blood and Thread Safe Singletons

Saturday, June 19, 2010 – 7:16 PM

It’s Saturday and I’ve been working on my book on Parallel Programming, except for a brief break to go to CrossFit.

Useful Piece of Information #1: Don’t do pull-ups until your hands are trashed if you’re planning on spending the afternoon typing.

I had lots of useful replies to my tweet asking how to get blood off a keyboard, both Cyber Clean and Hydrogen Peroxide with a Q-Tip seem popular. Makes me wonder exactly what those “other people” were going to need keyboard cleaning. And by association this brings me to…

Useful Piece of Information #2: The collective noun for Crows is…

“A murder of crows”

That was easy.

Useful Piece of Information #3: You can use the Lazy<T> class to implement a thread safe singleton.

public sealed class LazySingleton
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    private LazySingleton() { }
    public static LazySingleton Instance
        get { return _instance.Value; }

Reed Copsey Jr. blogged about this and he gave me some pointers on my initial implementation. Here I’ve sealed the class and made the constructor private, rather than protected. Usually I’m not a big fan of sealing classes but in

Jon Skeet’s post on singletons is also worth a read. There are several alternative implementations and Jon’s post describes many of the tradeoffs. I like this one because it’s not only simple but also very readable, whereas in my opinion some of the alternatives are not.

Anyway… Three useful pieces of information is you lot for the day and “Appendix A: Supporting Patterns” beckons.

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  2. Why use singletons at all? They are hell when writing unit tests. Singletons lets the developer hide vital dependencies.

    By redsolo on Jun 21, 2010

  3. Redsolo,

    Agreed. But if you need a singleton this is an interesting implementation. You’ll notice that knowing how to clean blood of keyboards and the collective noun for crows aren’t exactly things you really need either :).

    By Ade Miller on Jun 21, 2010

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The principles of shading, electrical tapering and beam-steering of arrayed transducers are now more accessible and economical through application of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) for tapering, delays, and equalization. The authors describe how DSP techniques were applied in a very brief development period to produce a loudspeaker of modest dimensions and reasonable cost incorporating transducers, processing, and amplification electronics within one enclosure, and a PC-based GUI for site adjustment of speaker parameters.

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The Mobile Marketing Handbook – Review

In late November 2008, Kim Dushinski of Mobile Marketing Profits released her book “The Mobile Marketing Handbook.” Having heard Kim speak at the Thin Air Summit earlier that month, I was eager to pick it up.

It’s always difficult for a book on emerging technologies and marketing strategies not to be out-of-date as soon as it is published, but Dushinski has crafted a useful guide of best practices that will remain relevant as this field matures. The handbook also has an accompanying online resource guide to house additional information as it is developed or changes.

The book is divided into two parts: “Mobile Marketing Strategy and Implementation” and “Mobile Marketing Toolbox: Tactics, Campaign Ideas and Resources”.

The Mobile Marketing HandbookOne of the most refreshing aspects of the book is that it is not sales material. Much information found online related to mobile marketing is published by a vendor and often speaks to the benefits of their particular services. In contrast, Dushinski offers a comprehensive, unbiased view of the current and future landscape.

The Mobile Marketer’s Handbook offers information on all things mobile: calling out opportunities in voice, text messaging and the mobile web, and also includes more advanced topics like promoting and measuring the effectiveness of your campaign. Topics are presented in an easy-to-understand, engaging fashion, but the content is rock-solid.

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  • I am interested in mobile marketing but I am too swamped with the kind of old-fashioned, desktop browser-based marketing I am involved in.

    I do, however, think the time is finally prime.. with Android and iPhone.. for mobile marketing to take off!

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Five Important Lesbian Pulp Novels to Read During LGBT History Month

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It would be easy to write off the lesbian pulps of the ‘40s and ‘50s as dated, exploitative works. After all, most have tragic endings in which the lovers are separated by death, institutionalization, or compulsory heterosexuality. On the surface, they’re simply bad representation.

It takes digging into the history of the pulp novel to understand why these books should have importance in the LGBT canon. Many lesbian pulp novels were written by lesbian and bisexual women, or by women who found themselves identifying more with the young ingénue who falls for the older, more experienced woman. Perhaps most importantly, these novels were gateways for young women who lived in rural areas without the thriving urban queer scene, and who therefore had no other way of finding others like themselves. The tragic endings were only a means to an end, as most censors wouldn’t allow publication of lesbian pulps unless they had a tragic ending.

The tragic endings are even empowering, from a certain point of view. These women did not try to make the tragedies seem like actual happy endings. A return to heteronormativity is not seen as a victory but rather as a tragedy, a repression of these women’s true nature and happiness. They become statements against a society that demonized them and showed that an ending where a woman becomes Donna Reed is not always a happy one.

In celebration of LGBT history month, here are five important pulp novels to read that showcase the importance of the pulp for modern lesbian and bisexual readers.

Women’s Barracks by Tereska Torres

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Published in 1950, Torres’s “frank autobiography of a French girls soldier” kickstarted the lesbian pulp sub-genre with it’s depiction of the romance between the shy Ursula and the promiscuous, older Claude. Many of the tropes in pulp novels can be dated back to Torres’s work – the predatory older woman who seduces a younger woman, the younger realizing their love isn’t as real as her love for a man, and the tragic ending.

Torres, a straight woman, later expressed shock that her novel, which was based on her own wartime diary, had kickstarted such a movement. “I look on the internet and I learn that I am the literary queen of the lesbians, the person who wrote the first lesbian, erotic pulp novel. I hate it. I hate it,” she said in a 2010 interview with The Independent. “If you look at Women’s Barracks, there are five main characters. Only one and a half of them can be considered a lesbian.”

No matter the author’s thoughts on the matter, Women’s Barracks stands as the first text in the canon. It was the success of this novel that opened the doors for other pulps to be published. Despite being a slow read, it’s worth a look just for the fact that we owe the creation of an entire sub-genre to it’s publication.

The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

Film lovers will most likely be familiar with the film adaption of the novel – 2015’s Carol starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. Highsmith’s 1952 novel broke new ground, as it was one of the rare pulp novels that had a happy ending. Instead of ending in tragedy, Therese and Carol get to have the happiness long denied to the other characters in their canon.

The Price of Salt also marks a shift in Highsmith’s career. Originally, she made a name for herself writing suspense novels; most famously, she penned Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley. Highsmith also had numerous relationships with women during the course of her life. However not wanting to be pinned down as “the lesbian-book writer,” and as she drew inspiration from her own experiences, she originally published The Price of Salt under a pseudonym. It is her only novel that contains an explicit lesbian relationship.

The Price of Salt took a place in the spotlight during the Academy Awards last year when Carol was nominated for six awards. It’s only fitting to read the book to judge the adaptation, as well as enjoy one of the rare novels that has a happy ending rather than tragedy.

Three Women by March Hastings

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Beacon Press

This love triangle set in 1958 is famous for one very tragic ending. March Hastings even re-wrote part of the ending in the 80’s so that it would be somewhat less depressing. As it still stands, the novel is a hard read.

The plot is as pulpy as it comes. A young woman named Paula, engaged to a man she’s not in love with, falls for his older, seductive aunt Byrne. However, her paramour is hiding a dark secret from her past. With a plot like this, it’s hard to imagine that the novel would have a happy ending. What’s so striking is that the ending’s bleakness doesn’t come from the tragedies that befall Paula and Byrne but the looming threat of losing oneself to a heteronormative culture. That specter is far more frightening than any secret or act of violence in the novel, which makes it a groundbreaking work for the time it was published.

If you can stomach a tragic ending – and indeed, why would you be reading lesbian pulps if you can’t – Three Women presents a sobering look at 50’s cultural norms as well as all the pulpy goodness you could ask for.

The Girls in 3-B by Valerie Taylor

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Fawcett Publications

This might be the most uplifting novel on the list – and that is saying something, considering this novel tackles sexual assault, drug use, workplace sexism, and unwanted pregnancies. Still, this novel is less about the dangers of alternative lifestyles and more a celebration of women breaking gender norms, a sign of the changing times (the novel was published in 1959).

Three best friends – Annice, Barby, and Pat – move from a small town to the big city of Chicago, where all three immediately struggle to break free from the patriarchy and establish their own identities. The lesbian subplot in the novel is not the center of attention but is ultimately uplifting, where Barby learns to overcome past trauma and move forward with her life thanks to her relationship with an older woman. It’s an interesting spin on the predatory lesbian trope, and an empowering arc in a time when queer women rarely were uplifted by their relationships with other women.

The novel’s ending is sad for one of the characters, but if you’re looking for a lesbian pulp that places a microscope on society and empowers all three of the leading ladies featured in it, this is your best bet.

Under the Mink by Lisa E. Davis

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Alyson Publications

I’m cheating a little with this novel – it was published in the 2000’s. Still, if you’re looking for a noir centered around queer women, you’ll find it all in this book. Dames and danger populate the Candy Box Club in Greenwich Village, where emcee Blackie Cole must investigate the murder of socialite Didi’s brother.

The novel was written by long-time Greenwich Village resident Lisa E. Davis, who researched the novel meticulously. She drew from interviews with lesbian and bisexual women who lived through the 40s and 50s nightclub scene, and her novel shows the pre-Stonewall history of the Village and gives voices to these women’s stories and experiences while still drawing readers in with a pitch-perfect example of the noir.

Of course, this is one of the more recent entries into the canon. If you’re looking for a classic, there are novels such as Odd Girl Out, Spring Fire, Another Kind of Love, and Lesbo Lodge. However, if you’re looking for some history mixed in with your pulpy goodness, then by all means pick up this novel.

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Ahmet Sayar http://www.ahmetsayar.com Personal Web Page Fri, 22 Sep 2017 17:09:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.10 Hadoop Distributions http://www.ahmetsayar.com/hadoop-distributions/ http://www.ahmetsayar.com/hadoop-distributions/#respond Wed, 07 Sep 2016 14:16:32 +0000 http://www.ahmetsayar.com/?p=2301 Cloudera vs Hortonworks vs MapR: Comparing Hadoop Distributions

For all those looking to harness the potential of big data, Hadoop is the platform of choice. This open source software framework enables processing of huge data sets by distributing them across commodity servers. Thus, it eliminates dependency on high-end hardware and makes the entire process economical for businesses to implement. All of the big data enterprises today use Apache Hadoop in some way or the other. To simplify working with Hadoop, enterprise versions like Cloudera, MapR and Hortonworks have sprung up.

In its original version, Hadoop was designed as a simple write-once storage infrastructure. But it has evolved through the years to expand beyond mere web indexing capacity. Based on Google?s MapReduce model, Hadoop is designed to store and process large amounts and variety of data that may reside in multiple computer servers.

While Hadoop?s distributed file system (HDFS) helps break down all incoming data and store them across multiple nodes, the MapReduce component facilitates the simultaneous processing of data across multiple nodes.

Hadoop is by no means an out-of-the-box solution. In order to build a truly information- driven enterprise, where decisions are based on data and not guess works, the companies would require a data management solution that not only offers robust data governance, but also is easily manageable and seamlessly integrates with existing enterprise infrastructure.

The flexible, modular architecture of haddoop allows for adding new functionalities for the accomplishment of diverse Big Data tasks. A number of vendors have taken advantage of Hadoop?s open-ended framework and tweaked its codes to change or enhance its functionalities. In the process they have been able to fix some of the inherent drawbacks of Apache Hadoop. So far as Hadoop distribution is concerned, the three companies that really stand out in the completion are: Cloudera, MapR and Hortonworks.
Comparing top three Hadoop distributions: Cloudera vs Hortonworks vs MapR

Cloudera has been here for the longest time since the creation of Hadoop. Hortonworks came later. While Cloudera and Hortonworks are 100 percent open source, most versions of MapR come with proprietary modules. Each vendor/distribution has its unique strength and weaknesses, each have certain overlapping features as well. If you are looking to make the most of Hadoop?s immense data processing power, it makes sense in making a comparative study in the top three Hadoop distributions.
Cloudera Inc. was founded by big data geniuses from Facebook, Google, Oracle and Yahoo in 2008. It was the first company to develop and distribute Apache Hadoop-based software and still has the largest user base with most number of clients. Although the core of the distribution is based on Apache Hadoop, it also provides a proprietary Cloudera Management Suite to automate the installation process and provide other services to enhance convenience of users which include reducing deployment time, displaying real time nodes? count, etc.
Hortonworks, founded in 2011, has quickly emerged as one of the leading vendors of Hadoop. The distribution provides open source platform based on Apache Hadoop for analysing, storing and managing big data. Hortonworks is the only commercial vendor to distribute complete open source Apache Hadoop without additional proprietary software. Hortonworks? distribution HDP2.0 can be directly downloaded from their website free of cost and is easy to install. The engineers of Hortonworks are behind most of Hadoop?s recent innovations including Yarn, which is better than MapReduce in the sense that it will enable inclusion of more data processing frameworks.
In its standard, open source edition, Apache Hadoop software comes with a number of restrictions. Vendor distributions are aimed at overcoming the issues that the users typically encounter in the standard editions. Under the free Apache license, all the three distributions provide the users with the updates on core Hadoop software. But when it comes to handpicking any one of them, one should look at the additional value it is providing to the customers in terms of improving the reliability of the system (detecting and fixing bugs etc), providing technical assistance and expanding functionalities.

All three top Hadoop distributions, Cloudera, MapR and Hortonworks offer consulting, training, and technical assistance. But unlike its two rivals, Hortonworks? distribution is claimed to be 100 percent open source. Cloudera incorporates an array of proprietary elements in its Enterprise 4.0 version, adding layers of administrative and management capabilities to the core Hadoop software.

Going a step further, MapR replaces HDFS component and instead uses its own proprietary file system, called MapRFS. MapRFS helps incorporate enterprise-grade features into Hadoop, enabling more efficient management of data, reliability and most importantly, ease of use. In other worlds, it is more production ready than its other two competitors.

Through a recent partnership with Canonical, the creator of Ubuntu operating system, MapR is offering Hadoop as a default component of Ubuntu operating system. Under the terms of the partnership, MapR?s M3 Edition for Apache Hadoop will be integrated into Ubuntu operating system.

Upto its M3 edition, MapR is free, but the free version lacks some of its proprietary features namely, JobTracker HA, NameNode HA, NFS-HA, Mirroring, Snapshot and few more.

Cloudera and Hortonworks: The Similarities
Cloudera as well as Hortonworks are both built upon the same core of Apache Hadoop. As such, they have more similarities than differences.

Both offer enterprise-ready Hadoop distributions. The distributions have stood the test of time as well as consumers, ensuring security and stability. Besides, they provide paid training and services to familiarize the newcomers treading the path of Big Data and Analytics.
Both have established communities that actively participate and help with the problems faced as well as demonstrations needed.
Both distributions have master-slave architecture.
Both have a shared-nothing computing framework.
Both support MapReduce as well as YARN.
Cloudera vs. Hortonworks: The Differences
That being said, the differences are the ones that play a deciding role of choosing one vendor over the other. Broadly, Cloudera and Hortonworks differ in the following aspects:

Cloudera has announced that its long term goal is to become an ?enterprise data hub,? thus diminishing the need of data warehouse. Hortonworks, on the other hand, remains firmly a provider of Hadoop distro, and has partnered with data warehousing company Teradata.
While Cloudera CDH can be run on windows server, HDP is available as a native component on the windows server. A Windows-based Hadoop cluster can be deployed on Windows Azure through HDInsight Service.
Cloudera has a proprietary management software Cloudera Manager, SQL query handling interface Impala, as well as Cloudera Search for easy and real-time access of products. Hortonworks has no proprietary software, uses Ambari for management and Stinger for handling queries, and Apache Solr for searches of data.
Cloudera has a commercial license, while Hortonworks has open source license. Cloudera also allows the use of its open- source projects free of cost, but the package doesn?t include the management suite Cloudera Manager or any other proprietary software.
Cloudera has a free 60-day trial, Hortonworks is completely free.
Cloudera has been the oldest player in the market, with more than 350 customers. But Hortonworks is fast catching up and has made more innovations in the Hadoop ecosystem in the recent past. Cloudera has several enterprise softwares overlaid on its open source distributions to aid the consumers, whereas Hortonworks strives to provide a framework comprising only of open source projects.

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Workflow Scheduler for Hadoop
Oozie is a workflow scheduler system to manage Apache Hadoop jobs.
Oozie Workflow jobs are Directed Acyclical Graphs (DAGs) of actions.
Oozie Coordinator jobs are recurrent Oozie Workflow jobs triggered by time (frequency) and data availability.
Oozie is integrated with the rest of the Hadoop stack supporting several types of Hadoop jobs out of the box (such as Java map-reduce, Streaming map-reduce, Pig, Hive, Sqoop and Distcp) as well as system specific jobs (such as Java programs and shell scripts).
Oozie is a scalable, reliable and extensible system.
Apache FLUME:
Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. It has a simple and flexible architecture based on streaming data flows. It is robust and fault tolerant with tunable reliability mechanisms and many failover and recovery mechanisms. It uses a simple extensible data model that allows for online analytic application.

Apache HIVE:
The Apache Hive ™ data warehouse software facilitates reading, writing, and managing large datasets residing in distributed storage using SQL. Structure can be projected onto data already in storage. A command line tool and JDBC driver are provided to connect users to Hive.

Apache PIG:
PIG is a platform for analyzing large data sets that consists of a high-level language for expressing data analysis programs, coupled with infrastructure for evaluating these programs. The salient property of Pig programs is that their structure is amenable to substantial parallelization, which in turns enables them to handle very large data sets.

At the present time, Pig’s infrastructure layer consists of a compiler that produces sequences of Map-Reduce programs, for which large-scale parallel implementations already exist (e.g., the Hadoop subproject). Pig’s language layer currently consists of a textual language called Pig Latin, which has the following key properties:

Apache IGNITE:
Apache Ignite In-Memory Data Fabric is a high-performance, integrated and distributed in-memory platform for computing and transacting on large-scale data sets in real-time, orders of magnitude faster than possible with traditional disk-based or flash technologies.

Apache STORM:
Storm is a complex event processor (CEP) and distributed computation framework written predominantly in the Clojure programming language. Is a distributed real-time computation system for processing fast, large streams of data. Storm is an architecture based on master-workers paradigma. So a Storm cluster mainly consists of a master and worker nodes, with coordination done by Zookeeper.
Storm makes use of zeromq (0mq, zeromq), an advanced, embeddable networking library. It provides a message queue, but unlike message-oriented middleware (MOM), a 0MQ system can run without a dedicated message broker. The library is designed to have a familiar socket-style API.

Apache FLINK:
Apache Flink (formerly called Stratosphere) features powerful programming abstractions in Java and Scala, a high-performance runtime, and automatic program optimization. It has native support for iterations, incremental iterations, and programs consisting of large DAGs of operations.
Flink is a data processing system and an alternative to Hadoop’s MapReduce component. It comes with its own runtime, rather than building on top of MapReduce. As such, it can work completely independently of the Hadoop ecosystem. However, Flink can also access Hadoop’s distributed file system (HDFS) to read and write data, and Hadoop’s next-generation resource manager (YARN) to provision cluster resources. Since most Flink users are using Hadoop HDFS to store their data, it ships already the required libraries to access HDFS.

Apache Zookeeper:
It’s a coordination service that gives you the tools you need to write correct distributed applications. ZooKeeper was developed at Yahoo! Research. Several Hadoop projects are already using ZooKeeper to coordinate the cluster and provide highly-available distributed services. Perhaps most famous of those are Apache HBase, Storm, Kafka. ZooKeeper is an application library with two principal implementations of the APIs—Java and C—and a service component implemented in Java that runs on an ensemble of dedicated servers. Zookeeper is for building distributed systems, simplifies the development process, making it more agile and enabling more robust implementations. Back in 2006, Google published a paper on “Chubby”, a distributed lock service which gained wide adoption within their data centers. Zookeeper, not surprisingly, is a close clone of Chubby designed to fulfill many of the same roles for HDFS and other Hadoop infrastructure.

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Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and isolation across cluster applications. Like HTCondor, SGE or Troque can do it. However Mesos is hadoop centred design

Apache Kafka – Apache ActiveMQ RabbitMQ JMS

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Makaleler bilimsel çalışmaların ürünü olduğu için bilimsel formatlar ilk etapta tecrübesiz kişiler için zor ve meşakkatli görünebilir. Bunun nedeni birçok katı kuralların olmasındadır. Ancak zamanla kazanılan tecrübeler ile pratikleşmekte ve kolaylaşmaktadır. Bu konuda sabırla ve ısrarla kurallara uygun yazmaya devam edin. Ayrıca ne kadar çok okursanız, o kadar iyi yazarsınız sözümü de aklınızdan çıkarmayın.

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Message to My Freshman Students http://www.ahmetsayar.com/message-to-my-freshman-students/ Fri, 30 Oct 2015 21:26:59 +0000 http://www.ahmetsayar.com/?p=2127 Author: Keith M. Parsons – Philosopher, historian, author; Professor of Philosophy at University of Houston-Clear Lake

For the first time in many years I am teaching a freshman course, Introduction to Philosophy. The experience has been mostly good. I had been told that my freshman students would be apathetic, incurious, inattentive, unresponsive and frequently absent, and that they would exude an insufferable sense of entitlement. I am happy to say that this characterization was not true of most students. Still, some students are often absent, and others, even when present, are distracted or disengaged. Some have had to be cautioned that class is not their social hour and others reminded not to send text messages in class. I have had to tell these students that, unlike high school, they will not be sent to detention if they are found in the hall without a pass, and that they are free to leave if they are not interested. Actually, I doubt that the differences between high school and university have ever been adequately explained to them, so, on the first class day of next term, I will address my new freshmen as follows:

Welcome to higher education! If you want to be successful here you need to know a few things about how this place works. One of the main things you need to know is the difference between the instructors you will have here and those you had before. Let me take a few minutes to explain this to you.

First, I am your professor, not your teacher. There is a difference. Up to now your instruction has been in the hands of teachers, and a teacher’s job is to make sure that you learn. Teachers are evaluated on the basis of learning outcomes, generally as measured by standardized tests. If you don’t learn, then your teacher is blamed. However, things are very different for a university professor. It is no part of my job to make you learn. At university, learning is your job — and yours alone. My job is to lead you to the fountain of knowledge. Whether you drink deeply or only gargle is entirely up to you.

Your teachers were held responsible if you failed, and expected to show that they had tried hard to avoid that dreaded result. I am not held responsible for your failures. On the contrary, I get paid the same whether you get an “F” or an “A.” My dean will not call me in and ask how many conferences I had with your parents about your progress. Indeed, since you are now an adult, providing such information to your parents would be an illegal breach of privacy. Neither will I have to document how often I offered you tutoring or extra credit assignments. I have no obligation whatsoever to make sure that you pass or make any particular grade at all.

Secondly, universities are ancient and tend to do things the old-fashioned way. In high school your education was basically a test-preparation service. Your teachers were not allowed to teach, but were required to focus on preparing you for those all-important standardized tests. Though it galls ideologues, we university professors still enjoy a large degree of academic freedom. That means that the content and format of your courses is still mostly under your professor’s control, and the format will probably include a good bit of lecture, some discussion and little or no test preparation.

Lecture has come under attack recently. “Flipped learning” is the current buzz term among higher-education reformers. We old-fashioned chalk-and-talk professors are told that we need to stop being the “sage on the stage,” but should become the “guide on the side,” helping students develop their problem-solving skills. Lecture, we are told, is an ineffective strategy for reaching today’s young people, whose attention span is measured in nanoseconds. We should not foolishly expect them to listen to us, but instead cater to their conditioned craving for constant stimulation.

Hogwash. You need to learn to listen. The kind of listening you need to learn is not passive absorption, like watching TV; it is critical listening. Critical listening means that you are not just hearing but thinking about what you are hearing. Critical listening questions and evaluates what is being said and seeks key concepts and unifying themes. Your high school curriculum would have served you better had it focused more on developing your listening skills rather than drilling you on test-taking.

Finally, when you go to a university, you are in a sense going to another country, one with a different culture and different values. I have come to realize that the biggest gap between you and me is a cultural difference. I have absorbed deeply the norms and values of an ancient academic culture and they are now a part of me. You, on the other hand, come to my classes fresh from a culture with different values, one that finds academic ways strange and hard to understand.

Take the issue of documentation. For an academic, there is something sacred about a citation. The proper citation of a source is a small tribute to the hard work, diligence, intelligence and integrity of someone dedicated enough to make a contribution to knowledge. For you, citations and bibliographies are pointless hoops to jump through and you often treat these requirements carelessly. Further, our differences on the issue of giving or taking proper credit accounts for the fact that you so seldom take plagiarism as seriously as I do.

If you want to know the biggest difference between you and your professor, it is probably this: You see university as a place where you get a credential. For your professor, a university is not primarily about credentialing. Your professor still harbors the traditional view that universities are about education. If your aim is to get a credential, then for you courses will be obstacles in your path. For your professor, a course is an opportunity for you to make your world richer and yourself stronger.

Hadoop MapReduce vs Spark http://www.ahmetsayar.com/hadoop-mapreduce-vs-spark/ Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:04:58 +0000 http://www.ahmetsayar.com/?p=2060 (1) Spark can not only utilize HDFS as a data source but also run inside Hadoop YARN. So, Spark is in fact a MapReduce alternative within the Hadoop ecosystem, not a “Hadoop alternative”.

(2) Apache Spark processes data in-memory while Hadoop MapReduce persists back to the disk after a map or reduce action, so Spark should outperform Hadoop MapReduce.

Nonetheless, Spark needs a lot of memory. Much like standard DBs, it loads a process into memory and keeps it there until further notice, for the sake of caching. If Spark runs on Hadoop YARN with other resource-demanding services, or if the data is too big to fit entirely into the memory, then there could be major performance degradations for Spark.

Spark performs better when all the data fits in the memory, especially on dedicated clusters; Hadoop MapReduce is designed for data that doesn’t fit in the memory and it can run well alongside other services.

(3) Spark is easier to program and includes an interactive mode; Hadoop MapReduce is more difficult to program but many tools are available to make it easier. Tools are Impala, Presto and Tez.

(4) There is a wide array of Hadoop-as-a-service offerings and Hadoop-based services, which help to skip the hardware and staffing requirements. In comparison, there are few Spark-as-a-service options and they are all very new.

(5) Spark and Hadoop MapReduce both have good failure tolerance, but Hadoop MapReduce is slightly more tolerant. That is due to the fact that Hadoop uses replication.

(6) Spark security is still in its infancy; Hadoop MapReduce has more security features and projects. Hadoop MapReduce can enjoy all the Hadoop security benefits and integrate with Hadoop security projects, like Knox Gateway and Sentry. Spark is a bit bare at the moment when it comes to security.

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Sunflower has multitude of uses; oil, protein bars, decoration, just to name a few.
Sunflower has multitude of uses. For example, it is used in oil, protein bars and decoration.
Sunflower has multitude of uses. Among these are oil, protein bars and decoration.

Affect vs. effect http://www.ahmetsayar.com/affect-vs-effect/ Sun, 16 Nov 2014 15:49:34 +0000 http://www.ahmetsayar.com/?p=1880 Affect vs. effect

affect: have an effect on; make a difference to
Ex.: “the dampness began to affect my health”
synonyms: have an effect on, influence, act on, work on, have an impact on, impact

effect:a change that is a result or consequence of an action or other cause
Ex.: “the lethal effects of hard drugs”
synonyms: result, consequence, upshot, outcome, repercussions, ramifications;

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principal vs. principle http://www.ahmetsayar.com/principal-vs-principle/ Sun, 16 Nov 2014 15:49:06 +0000 http://www.ahmetsayar.com/?p=1878 principal: first in order of importance
Ex.: “the country’s principal cities”
synonyms: main, chief, primary, leading, foremost, first, first-line, most important,

principle: a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.
Ex.: “the basic principles of Christianity”
synonyms: truth, proposition, concept, idea, theory, assumption, fundamental, essential, ground rule

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discreet vs. discrete http://www.ahmetsayar.com/discreet-vs-discrete/ Sun, 16 Nov 2014 15:48:06 +0000 http://www.ahmetsayar.com/?p=1876 discreet: careful and circumspect in one’s speech or actions, especially in order to avoid causing offense or to gain an advantage.
Ex.: “we made some discreet inquiries”
synonyms: careful, circumspect, cautious, wary, chary, guarded

discrete: individually separate and distinct.
Ex.: “speech sounds are produced as a continuous sound signal rather than discrete units”
synonyms: separate, distinct, individual, detached, unattached, disconnected, discontinuous

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compliment vs. complement http://www.ahmetsayar.com/compliment-vs-complement/ Sun, 16 Nov 2014 15:47:04 +0000 http://www.ahmetsayar.com/?p=1874 compliment: a polite expression of praise or admiration.
Ex.: “she paid me an enormous compliment”
Ex.: “She complimented Erica on her appearance”

complement: a thing that completes or brings to perfection.
Ex.: “the libretto proved a perfect complement to the music”
synonyms: accompaniment, companion, addition, supplement

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Europrop International (EPI) performed the first TP400-D6 engine control and monitoring system (CMS) test in Villaroche late in May, the consortium announced just before the show. The TP400 is the turboprop engine designed for the Airbus A400M military transport aircraft.

The CMS includes the electronic control unit, the electronic protection and monitoring unit, the fuel pump, the fuel-metering unit, the fuel-cooled oil cooler, the high-pressure compressor variable stator vanes actuators and the fuel filter. In Snecma’s main development and production facility, near Paris, a new wet test rig involving fluids such as fuel and oil was built to closely replicate real operating conditions of the engine.

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When we attended the official launch of BC Rail's Whistler Northwind Summit Service. and what a happy occasion it was, as this North Vancouver based railway joined the big leauges of passenger travel, ranking amongst such world class train trips as offered in Switzerland or aboard the Venice-Simplon- Orient Express. The scenery en route was always tops in the world, now there's equipment and service to match.

BC rail club carAs the band played Duke Ellington and other great tunes from the 40s, we watched as the fleet of beautifully restored two tone vintage passenger coaches and dining cars rolled in along the landing. Later we had the opportunity of meeting the railways new President and management team (profiles to come), and all were impressed by the high quality of service that marked the company's history making entrance into the major leagues.

(See Rail Map ) BC Rail currently provides daily passenger transportation from its southern terminal, near my home (during high schol years) on Pemberton Avenue in North Vancouver, British Columbia to the Northern city of Prince George via the popular Cariboo Prospector train. The company operates a fleet of self-propelled, air-conditioned Budd cars.

mapWhistler Northwind's Summit Service guests enjoy the benefits of a private rail-end Club Car that dates back to 1939. This beautifully decorated lounge includes an elegant service bar and complete sound and video centre. An additional summer train, the Whistler Explorer between Whistler and Kelly Lake is used extensively by tour groups from overseas and the United States. BC Rail also operates the popular Royal Hudson steam train excursion from North Vancouver to Squamish between June and September. It is truly a classic piece of machinery, definitely one of the most photographed trains in Canada. I look forward to its friendly whistle tooting its greeting as this historic train passes by my favourite summer time haunt at West Vancouver's Dundarave Beach. We never miss a chance to wave hello to the passengers and crew.
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Eareckson Air Station, on Shemya Island. (Photo: US Air Force)
Eareckson Air Station, on Shemya Island. (Photo: US Air Force)

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A Cathay Pacific flight en route from Hong Kong to Los Angeles made an emergency landing at an Aleutian Islands military airport early Wednesday morning due to smoke inside the plane.

Ian Gregor, a spokesperson with the Pacific Division of the Federal Aviation Administration, says Flight 884 “declared an emergency and diverted to Eareckson Air Station in Shemya,” at the far western edge of the Aleutian chain.

Airlines officials described the emergency as “smoke detected in the aircraft.”

The Boeing 777 landed without incident around 3:30 Wednesday morning. Cathay Pacific spokesperson Jennifer Pearson says all 276 passengers and 18 crew aboard landed safely.

Air Force Colonel Frank Flores — the regional commander for Eareckson and 20 other installations in the Pacific and Alaska — says the air station has a single 10,000-foot long asphalt runway with a modern instrument landing system.

“And it can handle a Triple 7, it can handle our larger aircraft,” Flores said. “It was built up in the 40s to handle bomber and reconnaissance aircraft, and we’ve maintained it primarily as a divert runaway.”

Old aircraft revetments, buildings, and two other runways on the island date back to World War II and are mostly abandoned. But an operational crew of about 120 people — contracted through the Air Force — were on the ground to handle the emergency landing.

“We get airplanes out there probably once a day, once every other day,” Flores said. “So we have a contingent of people who will respond to any aircraft arrival. Any aircraft arrival requires us to mobilize firefighters, airfield mangers, and airfield personnel. People to receive passengers and cargo. So when this airplane came in, an announcement was put over the net and all those people assembled in the airfield just like they would for any other arrival.”

Though it’s still unclear what grounded the flight beyond the smoke in the aircraft, Colonel Flores says the plane appears to have been “fixed” and could be in the air by noon Wednesday.

When it does leave Shemya, the airline says the plane will fly to Anchorage, where another Cathay Pacific plane will bring passengers the final leg to Los Angeles.

The Cathay Pacific flight is operated jointly with American Airlines and South America’s LAN Airlines.


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So if you are looking for Windermere Motion products in Brooksville, Spring Hill, Homosassa, Hudson, Hernando Beach, Dade City, Inverness, Crystal River, Floral City, Port Richey and Weeki Wachee, Florida, or if you have any questions about Windermere Motion products, please feel free to call us at 352-540-GREG (4734) or simply stop by Almost Home Furniture, Flooring and Bedding at any time and we would be glad to help you.