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Q: Need advice for object-oriented design: a collection of items I have a set of classes something like this:
abstract class CollectionAbs implements Iterator {
    public function GetListAsXml() {...}
    public function GetItemsByFilter(criteria: array) {...}
    public function Sort(comparisonFunction) {...}

    public function AddItem(newItem: CollectionItemAbs);
    public function RemoveItem(newItem: CollectionItemAbs);
    public function UpdateItem(newItem: CollectionItemAbs);

    protected itemList: array of CollectionItemAbs;
}

abstract class CollectionItemAbs {
    abstract public function Save();
    abstract public function Load();
    abstract public function Delete();

    public function GetAsXml(): string {...}
    public function ItemMatchesFilter(criteria: array): boolean {}

    protected property1;
    protected property2;
}

The idea is that a concrete instance of a CollectionItemAbs implementation represents an item whose data is from a row in a database table, and corresponding concrete instances of CollectionAbs provide operations on a collection of those item instances, such as providing an interator implementation. The abstract classes provide most of the functionality, but the concrete instances will provide data type-specific additions, such as declaring extra properties corresponding to fields within its respective database table. The two classes then work together to perform whatever operations is desired.
So, for example, if you call GetListAsXml(), it will loop through the items in the list, calling GetAsXml() on each, concatenate the results, and return it all inside an appropriate XML container. Similarly, calling AddItem() takes an unsaved new item object and calls its Save() method to commit it to the database. To sort the collection, you simply call Sort(), passing in a comparison function that compares two items (the abstract collection class itself provides a couple of defaults, while implementation classes can define additional ones that work with their unique collection item types).
Right now, all of this assumes that the entire collection is loaded, and that's handled by the constructor in CollectionAbs implementation instances.
So, pausing here, is this design decent? Is there a pattern out there that might be better? I like that functionality for managing single items is encapsulated within the item classes, while functionality for manipulation of a collection of items is encapsulated within the collection class. And, I like that the CollectionAbs class can provide so much functionality for its children because it requires minimal 'insider knowledge' about the items.
However, I'm not so sure about this design in those cases where the entire collection cannot be loaded at once, since that situation mandates a lot more, and lot closer, communication between the collection and item classes, as well as things like a lot of extra queries to load single records at a time. What's the best way to modify this design to handle partial collections? Is there a certain pattern I should be looking at?
I'm doing this in PHP 5.3, if it matters.
[Edit: adding example below; also clarified a misstated point above about comparison functions.]
Since someone asked for an example of how this is used in a comment:
These classes are going to form the basis of a large number of data collections of various types. An example is for tracking sets of status codes that are used by other parts of the system. Different parts of the system use slightly different status codes that are mapped to distinct database tables. So I set up something like this:
abstract class StatusCodeCollectionAbs extends CollectionAbs {
    protected positionCompareFunction(item1, item2: StatusCodeAbs): integer {...};
    protected descriptionCompareFunction(item1, item2: StatusCodeAbs): integer {...};
}

abstract class StatusCodeAbs extends CollectionItemAbs {
    protected position: integer;
    protected description: integer;
}

These two classes will serve as the basis for all status code collections. To add support for a particular collection, I just create concrete children:
class CustomerStatusCodeCollection extends StatusCodeCollectionAbs {
    public function constructor() {
        //load all items to list
    }

    //sort comparison closure unique to this status collection type
    protected legacyCodeCompareFunction(item1, item2: CustomerStatusCode): integer {...};

}

class CustomerStatusCode extends StatusCodeAbs {
    public function Load() {
        //load this item from database
    }

    public function Save() {
        //save this item to the database
    }

    //data unique to this status type
    protected legacyCode: integer
}

A requirement of the system is that all of the collection data be managed through a unified set of CRUD methods provided in higher application layers. This hierarchy in the data layer enables that by providing a uniform interface to the collections, but still lets data specific to a collection type to be properly tracked. There's the additional status code layer to track the common data shared by the dozens of status types the system will track; other types of collections may have their own abstraction layers under CollectionAbs/CollectionItemAbs, or they may directly sub-class CollectionAbs and CollectionItemAbs, depending on need.

A: A few design points:

*

*How will you load a collection from the database?  You have already mentioned this, but it is fundamental in the design.  Moreover, I would say that you shouldn't provide a default implementation of this.

*

*A common way to solve this problem is to pass an array of integers representing unique IDs in the database.  Do not enforce this with typechecking if you want your Item and Items to share the same interface.  An Item would take just one id, while Items would take an array.  PHP is awful with overloading, so I wouldn't enforce array to make it easier on you.

*How will saving work? The way it looks, every node will have to be tightly coupled with the database to know how to save. That can be good and bad, but either way you need to think about it.  I'd probably recommend decoupling that a bit more (separating them).

*I'd use interfaces AND abstractions. More detail on this below the code.

*In addition to having sort, I would add a default way to compare items.

*

*I'd define compareTo() in your Item class.

*I'd also define an equals() method while you are at it.

*XmlSerialize should be a separate interface. I've honestly wished PHP had such an interface natively. It has a lot of use on its own.

*Implementing Countable lets you use PHP native count().  This is the PHP way to get the size of something.  Easily done, may as well throw it in.

Overall, you've done really well, but I have some suggestions.
The code below is not perfect nor complete, because it does not fix some of the questions I've posed above.  However, it does offer some more functionality than what you've given.  Also note that I've renamed things to be ActiveNode rather than a CollectionItem or the like.  It made more sense to me.
<?php
/**
 * Resource exception would represent a problem with a resource such as a
 * database connection or a service like an API.  Not everything uses a database
 * these days.
 */
class ResourceException extends RuntimeException {}

/**
 * A database resource exception.
 */
class DatabaseException extends ResourceException {}

/**
 * Allows you to convert an item to and from XML.
 */
interface XmlSerializeable {
    /**
     * @return string A string in XML format representing the object.
     */
    public function xmlSerialize();

    /**
     * @param string $xml A string in XML format representing the object.
     * @throws InvalidArgumentException if the $xml is not well-formed.
     * @throws InvalidArgumentException if the $xml does not represent the correct object.
     */
    public function xmlUnserialize($xml);
}

/**
 * Allows you to sort an object.
 */
interface Sortable {
    /**
     * Sorts the collection with the function provided.  If none is provided, it
     * will simply use compareTo on each item.
     * @param function $fn The sorting function.
     */
    function sort($fn=null);
}

/**
 * An active node.  An active node contains methods to save, load, delete,
 * convert to XML, etc.  It is 'active' because it is tied to the resource it
 * represents.
 */
interface IActiveNode extends XMLSerializeable {

    /**
     * Saves the item to the database.
     * @throws DatabaseException if an error occurs during the save.
     */
    public function save();

    /**
     * Loads the item from the database.
     * @throws DatabaseException if an error occurs during the load.
     */
    public function load();

    /**
     * Deletes the item from the database.
     * @throws DatabaseException if an error occurs during the deletion.
     */
    public function delete();

    /**
     * Compares an item to another.
     * @param IActiveNode $node The node to compare to.
     * @return int A negative number for less than, 0 for equality, and a positive number for greater than.
     * @throws InvalidArgumentException if the item provided cannot be compared to.
     */
    public function compareTo(IActiveNode $node);

    /**
     * Tests for equality against the provided item.
     * @param IActiveNode $node The node to compare to.
     * @return boolean if the nodes are equal.
     */
    public function equals(IActiveNode $node);
}

/**
 * A collection of active nodes.  Note that you should override behavior of many
 * off the methods this inherits to ensure that
 */
interface IActiveNodes extends IActiveNode, Sortable, Countable, Iterator {
    /**
     * Adds a node to the collection.
     * @param IActiveNode $node The IActiveNode to add.
     * @return int The index the node was added into.
     * @throws InvalidArgumentException if the IActiveNode is the wrong type for this collection.
     */
    function addNode(IActiveNode $node);

    /**
     * Removes a node from the collection. Uses the equals method. Nodes will be
     * reordered after a remove.
     * @param IActiveNode $node The IActiveNode to remove.
     * @return IActiveNode The removed node.
     * @throws InvalidArgumentException if the IActiveNode is the wrong type for this collection.
     */
    function removeNode(IActiveNode $node);

    /**
     * Gets an item from the list.
     * @param IActiveNode $node The node to retrieve.
     * @return IActiveNode The IActive node that matches the one provided.
     */
    function getNode(IActiveNode $node);
    /**
     * Checks to see if a node exists in the collection. Uses the equals method.
     * @param IActiveNode $node The IActiveNode to check for containment.
     * @return boolean Returns true if the IActiveNode is in the collection.
     * @throws InvalidArgumentException if the IActiveNode is the wrong type for this collection.
     */
    function contains(IActiveNode $node);

    /**
     * Gets an item from the list.
     * @param int $index The index to retrieve.
     * @return IActiveNode The IActive node at the index provided.
     * @throws InvalidArgumentException if the index is not an integer.
     * @throws OutOfBoundsException if the index is out of bounds.
     */
    function getIndex($index);

    /**
     * Removes an item from the list by index.
     * @param int $index The index to remove.
     * @return IActiveNode The IActive node at the index provided.
     * @throws InvalidArgumentException if the index is not an integer.
     * @throws OutOfBoundsException if the index is out of bounds.
     */
    function removeIndex($index);

    /**
     * Filters the collection with a function.  It calls the filter function on
     * each item in the collection, and if the filter function returns true, then
     * it will add that to a new IActiveNodes collection, and return it.
     * @param function $fn A filter function.
     * @return IActiveNodes The filtered nodes.
     */
    function filter($fn);

}

?>

Notes:

*

*Define abstract classes that implement the interfaces to provide some default behavior.  Having the interface separate from the abstraction has been useful to me in some cases.  If this is every open-sourced, it would be come increasingly important.

*Throwing exceptions is really nice compared to returning booleans.  It seems like you probably understand this, but it's worth noting.  Notice that I've used exceptions to also denote resource unavailability.  It's useful to have a defined behavior when things go wrong.

*I throw InvalidArgumentExceptions on anything that takes an IActiveNode as a parameter.  This allows you to extend IActiveNodes and the extension will only work with certain types.  Very useful.

*My solution is approaching something very Java like.  I would say that depending on how far you want to take this, I would recommend using a different language (though not necessarily Java).

*I often implement ArrayAccess as well if you want your list to be able to be syntactically treated like an array.
Honestly, I wouldn't mind talking to you about this more.  Don't hesitate to contact me.

A: tl;dr but
public function AddItem(newItem: CollectionItemAbs);

instead of that, you have a lot of functionality already defined if you instead base collections off of ArrayObject:
class CollectionAbs extends ArrayObject {
  public function offsetSet($index, $value) {
    if(!$value instanceof CollectionItemAbs) {
        throw new InvalidArgumentException(__CLASS__." only contains instances of CollectionItemAbs");
    }
    return parent::offsetSet($index, $value);
  }
}

There are more, pretty nice examples in the SPL for you to use.

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It might be a familiar scenario: after a conference, a group of doctors sit around brainstorming ideas to improve a clinical challenge. While often these solutions fizzle by the time clinicians return to their busy schedules, that's not the case with Sense Diagnostics. Developed by a team of specialists at University of Cincinnati's (UC) College of Medicine, the non-invasive headgear device that uses radio waves to detect changes in the brain is drawing both attention and investment.
In 2008, Matthew Flaherty, MD, and Opeolu Adeoye, MD, both faculty members at the UC College of Medicine and physician researchers at the UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute, identified a clinical need to evaluate the brain activity for patients who are in the hospital, often sedated and sometimes on a ventilator. "This is a scenario I've seen as a neurologist, where we evaluate in an ICU, and we don't know what's going on with (patient) brains," says Flaherty.
With this challenge in mind, these UC physicians posed the question: "Is there a way other than sending people down for repeated CT scans to keep track of what's going on in the brain?" This led to the idea of a non-invasive central nervous system sensor, using radio frequency waves similar to cell phone technology. Flaherty and Adeoye along with two other UC researchers—George 'Chip' Shaw, MD, PhD, and Joe Clark, PhD—applied for and received a small grant for exploring point-of-care devices for neurotechnologies (POC-CENT), through the NIH. "It allowed us to do some proof of principle testing—we chose intracerebral hemorrhage as the disease state—we create a model for it, and we felt there was a reasonable chance we could see blood in the head," explains Flaherty.
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) can be life-threatening. A type of stroke caused by bleeding within the brain tissue itself, it can deprive the brain of oxygen and blood supply. ICH makes up about 10 percent of stroke cases (about 70,000 a year in the United States) and may affect people with hypertension, head trauma or malformations in the arteries and veins in the brain or spine. Treatment focuses on stopping the bleeding, removing the blood clot and relieving the pressure on the brain.
The device would monitor and provide real-time data of changes in the brain, including swelling and hemorrhage, so that doctors can deliver more precise treatment. The goal is to reduce deaths and long-term disabilities that result from hemorrhagic stroke or traumatic brain injury (TBI). In addition to TBI and hemorrhagic stroke, the technology may be developed to address other brain conditions, such as ischemic stroke, seizure and hydrocephalus (fluid on the brain), and modified to fit into care settings outside of the hospital.
To develop a prototype for the device, Flaherty and Adeoye enlisted the help of co-inventor Shaw, associate professor of emergency medicine, with a strong physics background.
Shaw built the first device at UC "and he was probably the most important in the process early on," says Flaherty. They also partnered with Ken Wagner, PhD, (then a research scientist at the VA), Joseph Korfhagen, PhD, then a graduate student, and Joe Clark, PhD, a professor in the Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine, to help coordinate animal model device testing. Korfhagen stayed on with Sense and is now the company's director of research and development.
The next big step forward for the team was a grant from UC's Technology Accelerator for Commercialization in 2013.
"It provided us funds to continue our experiments, but just as importantly, it linked us to Dan Kincaid. He provided us with business advice and helped us—as physicians without much business training—to develop a game plan," says Flaherty.
In the fall of 2014, the team received an Ohio Third Frontier grant and soon thereafter a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which led them to a Phase II, NSF-SBIR award in 2016.
The device has been refined along the way since that first model as well, from one pair of antenna to a multiple antenna array, and the Sense team has a functioning prototype and has been approved to begin its first in human clinical trial in patients with ICH at UC Medical Center.
Current practice is repeated CT scans done 12 to 24 hours after an ICH, so some patients may have multiple scans over the course of their hospitalization which can become cumbersome and costly for patient and care teams. This device could monitor patients almost continuously and would be portable enough to stay with the patient.
"We are continuously refining. We will refine again after this study, each time working to improve the headset design," says Flaherty.
Most recently, Sense announced a successful new round of investment funding of $1.3 million going toward the phase I clinical trial operating expenses and continued product refinement. Flaherty says the next pivotal trial will be one that leads to approval of the devices and will likely require additional fundraising.
Kincaid says he is encouraged by the level of interest and support Sense has received has received. "It's a testament to what we're building that seasoned investors, like Queen City Angels and Accelerant, and organizations with a track record of excellence, like the NSF and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, are supporting our vision with financing, advice and making important connections for us.


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Sheffield United face competition from Rangers for Kieran Dowell
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Sheffield United face competition from Rangers in their quest to sign Kieran Dowell from Everton.
That is according to the Scottish Sun, who report that Steven Gerrard views Dowell as a direct replacement for Ovie Ejaria.
Ejaria has now returned to Liverpool and Gers need to find someone to replace the Liverpool midfielder.
"I definitely admire Kieran and I've watched a lot of him," Gerrard was quoted by the Liverpool Echo.
"He's an Everton player so I can't say anything else on him at the moment – but he's certainly one I admire."
The Sheffield Star reports that the Blades are also interested in Dowell. Chris Wilder wants a new attacking midfielder in January.
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That was Dowell's first experience away from Goodison Park after coming through the academy ranks. There is already evidence he can perform in the second tier of English football.
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Hawkeyes Spring Football
The Race is On: Inside the Iowa Quarterback Competition
Examining the quarterback race at Iowa.
By RossWB Apr 10, 2013, 2:00pm CDT
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Won't you be my sunshine?
For the first time in years, Iowa has an honest-to-god quarterback competition on its hands. And honestly? That's pretty damn exciting. For years, Iowa has had a succession plan at the quarterback spot that would make the British Royal Family envious. Brad Banks begat Nathan Chandler who begat Drew Tate who begat Jake Christensen who begat* Ricky Stanzi who begat James Vandenberg. But for the first time in a long time -- a very long time -- Iowa has no incumbent starting quarterback and no obvious successor lined up. That lack of knowledge about who's going to be playing at the most important position on the field is terrifying -- but it's also kind of liberating. For the first time in ages, we won't enter the season with any real pre-conceived notions about our quarterback (beyond what conclusions get drawn from the open practices this month and again in August and I would caution anyone against making any definitive judgments based on those brief glimpses).
* Obviously, the succession from Christensen to Stanzi was anything but smooth so it stands out in some ways as a notable exception to the unruffled succession plan Iowa has enjoyed at quarterback for the last decade. More on that later.
The last time Iowa broke in a new quarterback was two years ago, after Ricky Stanzi took his America-loving arm to the NFL. There was a nominal competition between Vandenberg and former Elite 11 quarterback John Wienke, but the outcome of that battle was preordained. Vandenberg had already served as Stanzi's primary back-up for two seasons, playing in almost three full games at the end of the 2009 season when Stanzi's ankle was viciously Wooten'd. They went through the motions of a quarterback battle, but the result was obvious: it was going to be Vandenberg's show.
Stanzi, of course, was not the chosen one -- not at first. He had to fight and scratch his way into the starting job, becoming one of the few Iowa quarterbacks to ever displace a returning starter at the position along the way. Stanzi seemed fated to spend most of his career behind another "chosen one" at quarterback, but the failure of Jake Christensen in 2007 opened the door to competition for the job in 2008. That year was the last time Iowa had a quarterback battle of any sort on its hands, although the dynamic was much different then than it is now -- for one thing, there's no returning starter with 13 games of experience as a starter. That considerable experience advantage helped the QB battle rage on for a long time in 2008 -- probably far longer than it should have. Stanzi eventually wrested the job away from Christensen, but it took a full third of the 2008 season for it to happen.
Christensen's reign as Iowa's starting quarterback lasted just one season (give or take a few starts in 2006 and 2008), but it wasn't supposed to be that way. He arrived at Iowa as one of the most-decorated recruits of Ferentz Era and the expectation was that he (and the rest of the celebrated 2005 recruiting class) would not only duplicate the success Iowa had enjoyed from 2002-2004, but catapult them to new heights. At the very least, Christensen would be a three-year starter at Iowa. The awful 2007 campaign destroyed that vision, but it's worth remembering that few (if any) Iowa fans saw that coming in 2005 or 2006 -- the expectation then was that Christensen would be a very successful three-year starter at Iowa. (In fact, given the injury-induced struggles Drew Tate endured in 2006**, I remember several Iowa fans who wanted to see RS freshman Jake Christensen get more opportunities that season.)
** Damn you, Solon Beef Days.
Christensen was groomed from the beginning to replace Tate, still the most successful quarterback at Iowa under Ferentz, statistically speaking. I don't remember quite as much certainty around Tate's future in his early days at Iowa, but it seemed clear that he was being groomed as the quarterback of the future when he became the #2 quarterback as a true freshman in 2003 (when he saw some meaningless action in a few blowout wins), supplanting RS freshman Jason Manson on the depth chart almost immediately. Similarly, I don't recall much of a quarterback competition between Tate and Manson before the 2004 season -- Tate was widely tipped to be the starter and he quickly became entrenched at the QB1 spot. In hindsight, his immediate success in 2004 (as well as Manson's less-than-inspiring performances against Iowa State in 2005 and Syracuse in 2006) makes it pretty obvious that there wasn't much of a decision to make.
In 2003, Nathan Chandler, aka The Statue That Walked Like a Man, had to fend off competition from true freshmen Eric McCollom, Drew Tate, and Jason Manson (Manson ended up redshirting, while McCollom saw action at WR and Tate got mop-up snaps at QB) and Cy Phillips. Which is not exactly a sterling roster of contenders to fend off, you know?
So over the last decade of Iowa football, there's really never been a true-blue, all hands on deck, anyone-could-win quarterback derby*** to follow. There was a heated quarterback battle between Christensen and Stanzi in 2008, but it only came about because Christensen's poor performance in 2007 opened the door for a challenger to emerge. In every other off-season over the last decade, Iowa's either had a pretty solid returning starter at quarterback or a clear successor. There's obviously no returning starter this year and there doesn't appear to be any clear successor.
*** Of course we would finally have a quarterback derby after losing our Derby.
Jake Rudock is the nominal favorite, by virtue of his additional experience -- he's been in the Iowa program for two years versus the one year that Beathard and Sokol have been around and did take the practice snaps as QB2 in 2012 -- and the fact that he has top billing on the first depth chart of the spring. Depth charts at Iowa don't always mean much -- and depth charts in March probably mean even less -- but at least it's a starting point, you know?
Cody Sokol is the oldest quarterback of the trio, and has the most non-high school playing experience -- he spent the 2011 season at Scottsdale Community College, racking up 3807 yards (on 253/424 passing) and 43 touchdowns and 10 interceptions for the Fighting Artichokes. (No, really -- that's their honest-to-God nickname.) Sokol also earned second-team All-America honors for his efforts. Sokol is also the most physically stout of the three contenders, measuring in at 6-2, 215.
C.J. Beathard (pronounced beth-herd) led the Tennessee prep ranks in passing yards and touchdowns as a junior and a senior. He threw for 2406 yards and 15 TDs as a junior and 2146 yards and 20 TDs as a senior. Per Mas Casa, Beathard might have the most raw talent, as well as the strongest arm, but he's a smaller guy (6-2, 195) and he's obviously the least experienced of the threesome. He also looks an awful lot like Sunshine from Remember the Titans and the last time we had a QB with long, flowing locks, things worked out pretty well...
So who's going to win this three-man race? I have no idea. If you put a gun to my head****, I'd probably go with Rudock right now, since he's the most known quantity (which isn't saying much) of the trio and because he seems like the slight favorite. But I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Sokol or Beathard moved past him this spring or this fall. I also have a strong suspicion that whoever emerges as the QB atop the depth chart in August won't be the only QB we see in action in September. I definitely think that multiple QBs will get opportunities to strut their stuff in live game action this fall. But for now, why not just embrace the uncertainty and see how the competition unfolds? For the first time in years, the succession plan is non-existent and Iowa has a genuine QB race -- that's kind of exciting.
**** Why would you do that? That seems very aggressive. Let's all just chill.


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The power of metadata in an increasingly semi-structured world
At the onset of the big data age, there was an argument for doing schema-on-read, instead of schema-on-write. This encouraged practitioners to just dump their data in a data lake without having to worry about its schema. That was a blessing for many. However, it turns out that all data has metadata, we just got lazier and stopped labelling our data which made accessing it more difficult. Who knows what this data set contains? What schema does it follow? What version of the schema does it correspond to, in case it has evolved over time? And, now we seem to be retracting back to make sure that we add metadata to our data sets, metadata that is flexible enough to allow for multiple views of same information and evolvable enough to allow for changes in the future. Today's blog post is about one of the centerpieces of metadata in the big data ecosystem - the Hive metastore.
Apache Hive was, of course, the first SQL-on-Hadoop engine and with it came a small service that talked Thrift, called the Hive metastore service (or Hive metastore server). This service was backed by a relational database of the likes of PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc. and it houses metadata about big data. This includes information like what is the table name associated with a data set, its columns and types (so you can query them), where the data set is stored (on HDFS, S3, HBase, Cassandra, etc.), how it's stored, where applicable (using Parquet on HDFS, for example) and location of the data set, if applicable (/user/hive/warehouse/my_data_set on HDFS). It was then expanded to include further metadata to speed up queries. This started off with partitioning info (sub-directories in your data set, most of which could be filtered out if you chose the right where clause), bucketing and sorting info i.e how the data set was "bucketed" (in other words, hash partitioned) in files and how was the data sorted in those files. Bucketing and sorting metadata could cut down time considerably on certain SQL operations. For example, if you were joining two large tables, joining them had they been bucketed and sorted would be much faster (of the order of square of number of buckets) because the join can now be on done on individual buckets (assuming they have the same number of buckets) instead of the entire tables. Then, the Hive metastore was further expanded to store statistics about the data sets - how many records, histograms and distribution of particular keys in the data set so they could be used to optimize query planning.
But, now new SQL-on-Hadoop engines are popping up every day and Hive usage is being replaced by the likes of Spark SQL, Presto and others. However, the Hive metastore still remains the de-facto repository of metadata in the big data ecosystem. All SQL engines - Spark SQL, Presto, Impala, etc. integrate with Hive metastore - they are able to use it as their catalog of metadata and optionally statistics so disparate users with different software systems can have a single consistent view of metadata.
As you bring in big data practices in your organization, I encourage to think of what metadata you can store to speed up your queries or in some cases, get rid of queries (for example, hitting the metastore for the query, instead of actual data). Paramount to this is to configure your tools, to ensure that the metadata is up-to-date and being used to drive queries. And, as you do this, don't forget to leverage the de-facto metadata repository - Hive metastore.
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Just on the Gove point: I have no private information, and perhaps I should have hedged more (the verb 'seems' was an attempt to communicate uncertainty, but reading my comment back I wasn't clear enough); but just going on Gove's patterns of behaviour, I have quite low confidence that he's still particularly enamoured with Street Votes, albeit with large error bars on that number.
Perhaps I am inferring too much from an absence of evidence, but Gove definitely has a pattern in basically all the portfolios he's held: he appears to value novelty in policy for its own sake, and jumps at a lot of proposed reforms that are radical and 'clever'; but, precisely because of this, is very fast-moving and goes through policy proposals very quickly, leaving a lot on the table that he seemed to be a big fan of. I make no judgment on the value of this approach, but I think it's relatively clear that it is Gove's approach. This is partly explained by the time he spent with Cummings as his SpAd, but only partly - I think it's more generally just part of his political 'style', that maybe he learned from Cummings but has retained since then.
The endorsement of Street Votes seemed to me to fit this pattern; and because he's since become relatively silent on housing policy, my confidence that he still cares much about Street Votes is low. But I've got large error bars because (a) I'm inferring from Gove not saying something, which is always a risky way of figuring out what someone thinks (b) my reasoning is based on trying to identify patterns of behaviour in someone I don't actually know or have any particular insight into, and (c) a lot of the evidence could be explained by the alternative hypothesis of 'Gove genuinely believes in the policy, but hasn't said much more because the government has just been putting out fires for the last few months'. My prior for 'Gove says he likes a policy just because it's novel and clever, but has no real commitment to it' is thus doing much of the work here, and you can very reasonably make a different judgment.
I don't have much to say about the rest of your comment except that, yes, I think your considerations are totally reasonable; I think there are some legitimate differences of judgment here.
I agree that many comfortable middle class families will not want to be disturbed. But some of those in more difficult circumstances may find the large incentives very appealing.
Just to record that this has changed my mind substantially - I think I was being overreliant on anecdotal evidence which suffered from a selection bias I wasn't taking full account of. Thanks for pointing this out, I've now updated towards you.
Thank you for posting this - I'm going to get a bit critical in this comment, but I think this is a super important topic (one that I've cared about since long before I seriously engaged with EA), and I'm happy to see someone post about it.
Still, though, I don't think a convincing case has been made in this post that funding UK housing policy orgs is cost-effective (even though I suspect that it actually is cost-effective - at least, that it crosses the 100x bar). Some thoughts:
- I have doubts about PricedOut as an organisation. I vaguely know a few people who volunteer for them and I think they are generally very interesting, smart, and capable, but I am not particularly convinced that their interventions are sufficiently effectiveness-oriented. Would be interested to know what convinced you otherwise in conversation with them.
- I'm not so sure that this issue really is timely, unfortunately. Gove's support for Street Votes seems to have been a passing thing, and the window for action may well have closed. This is especially true given the very weak position of the government at the moment: a couple of years ago this government would have had the power to push through reform, but I don't think that's true any more. (Consider: the planning reform bill was basically gutted after a single by-election loss last year that, with hindsight, didn't actually seem to turn on housing and planning; now that the government's popularity and Tory poll numbers are in freefall, and backbenchers are much more empowered to rebel, the government would probably be much less likely to risk offending its core of homeowning voters and its many NIMBY backbenchers.)
- It seems to me that Street Votes just wouldn't produce enough homes. There are a few reasons for this, but the big one I'm worried about is culture: while the analyses that have been done are completely correct on the economic incentives, there are pretty strong cultural incentives that point in the opposite direction. The UK (as well as much of the Western world) has a powerful culture of homeownership, meaning not just 'owner-occupied dwellings are valued' but that there's a certain mythology to the goal of owning one's own home and having control over it. Consider, for example, the incredibly strong political taboo on cutting subsidies on social care even to wealthy homeowners, precisely because paying for social care might require some of them to sell their house - not to become poor, they'd remain wealthy, just to sell their house and start renting. (If you missed the latest re-emergence of this controversy, just look at the tone of this coverage.) I think these will push quite strongly in the direction of people not endorsing building, because the market-driven logic of Street Votes pushes against the mythology of homeownership. Anecdotally, I have discussed Street Votes with a pretty substantial number of homeowners in various contexts, and I very rarely have gotten the positive response that advocates imagine.
It's very hard to measure these cultural effects, which makes it completely understandable that analyses have left them out so far; but I think it's impossible to ignore them in a full analysis of housing policy, not least because it's a culture of homeowning that leads to supply restrictions in the first place. Perhaps when push comes to shove, the reality of the economic benefits would overcome cultural hesitancies, but I am not as convinced of the strengths of economic incentives in this area compared to a lot of YIMBYs.
- These orgs seem quite concentrated in and around London. On the one hand, this makes sense, as that's where the crisis is most acute; but from a political perspective, it seems hard to see how any reform passes in the short run without at least some work in more rural areas,* for three reasons: 1) opposition to reform is concentrated in these constituencies; 2) in the short run, Tory governments are at significant risk of rebellion from MPs representing these constituencies; 3) any potential Labour government would not have increasing housing supply as a high enough priority to force it through without support from CLPs outside London. But reducing opposition in these areas seems substantially less tractable.
Ultimately, I second MaxGhenis' hope that someone might write up a rigourous and comprehensive EA analysis of housing policy interventions: both your post and the FP report are really solid stuff, but unfortunately they largely leaves out all the positive externalities on climate, migration, quality of life, etc. beyond growth. It's really these that convince me this is probably an area worth funding. (For example, I am of the opinion that housing policy is the primary driver behind rising inequality in the Western world, and so the downstream effects of improvements to housing policy would be pretty enormous both economically and politically.)
*I'm specifically thinking about the seats the Lib Dems are targeting using the label 'Blue Wall'.


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Weeks: "THE COMPLETE CIVIL WAR ROAD TRIP GUIDE: More than 500 Sites from Gettysburg to Vicksburg - Second Edition"
[The Complete Civil War Road Trip Guide: More than 500 Sites from Gettysburg to Vicksburg - Second Edition by Michael Weeks (The Countryman Press, 2016). Softcover, 10 maps, photos, bibliography, appendices, index. 688 pp. ISBN:978-1-58157-337-4. $19.95]
Though the first edition of Michael Weeks's The Complete Civil War Road Trip Guide was published only a short time ago in 2009, the country's transportation landscape is always changing and Civil War parks and sites remain in a constant state of flux in terms of preservation and interpretation. Though welcome when preservation victories are the source, unplanned obsolescence is the order of the day when it comes to Civil War touring guides. At nearly 700 pages, The Complete Civil War Road Trip Guide: More than 500 Sites from Gettysburg to Vicksburg - Second Edition is quite substantial, covering among many other places all 394 principal battles classified A through D by the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission. Those who can recall Alice Cromie's A Tour Guide to the Civil War, a popular publication that went through four print editions, will get a similar vibe here but will also find Weeks's book to have far more breadth, superior modern presentation, and much richer historical background detail.
The Complete Civil War Road Trip Guide is organized into four parts (I-The War in the West, II-The War Along the Coasts, III-The War in the East, and IV-The Wide Ranging War) further subdivided into ten "tours". It should be mentioned off the top that those expecting detailed turn-by-turn directions will not find them. Instead, a general road map (with Class A battles marked by stars) is offered and, although loops and circular courses are suggested for convenience, readers are left to their own devices for specific route planning and are encouraged to see as little or as much as they wish. With universal availability of modern travel aids in the form of driving apps and GPS-capable mobile devices, mapping out a personalized tour is as simple as it's ever been (though we've all been let astray one time or another!).
Each tour begins with a narrative overview, a note on important historical figures involved, a brief practical advice section, and a loosely suggested trip outline. The main part of each tour is a catalog of "Can't-Miss Sites," each assigned anywhere from several paragraphs to several pages of historical background narrative. The quality of the text is generally quite good, much better than the cursory effort typically found in similar volumes. The sites themselves (battlefields, museums, historical homes, farms, forts, parks, monuments, memorials, cemeteries, and more) are all described in handy sidebars. Each discusses site preservation, interpretation, access, and available touring resources (for walking, biking, and driving) as well as visiting hours, a mailing address, website URL, GPS coordinates, and admission (free vs. paid) information. A whole host of alternative sites, presented in the same full manner as the others, are also included for each tour.
With untold thousands of Civil War related locations recognized across the country, no book like this will every be truly "complete" and experienced readers and local history enthusiasts will always find opportunities to quibble about particular omissions. However, in including hundreds of places both famous and obscure and stretching all the way from California to Vermont, The Complete Civil War Road Trip Guide's impressive coverage renders the book's proud title no idle boast. The guide will undoubtedly be best utilized when accompanied by extensive home preparation, but it should prove useful to prospective road trippers. One might be tempted to think that the great abundance of resources available on the internet has made books like this superfluous, but Weeks's work here provides a fairly strong argument to the contrary.
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John Matthew IV April 11, 2016 at 11:28 AM
I do want to buy this book. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
You have a typo in the book's name in the last paragraph.
DW@CWBA April 11, 2016 at 7:43 PM
Yes, I did. Thanks.
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Addressing the issue of farmers suicide, the Supreme Court on Friday found it strange that there was no national policy to compensate tillers for crop failure or indebtedness, two major reasons for them to take their lives.
A bench comprising Chief Justic J S Khehar and Justice N V Ramana was hearing a three-year-old appeal by an NGO, which questioned the rationale behind Gujarat high court's decision not to entertain its PIL seeking relief for farmers, nearly 600 of whom had committed suicide between 2004-2012.
The CJI said, "It is rather strange that there have been several incidents of farmers' suicide yet there is no national policy to protect them from crop failure leading to their indebtedness. There must be a policy to compensate farmers for crop failure. This is a national issue and of larger public interest." Petitioner's counsel Colin Gonsalves and Gujarat counsel Pritesh Kapur agreed with the bench.
Taking suo motu cognition, bench decided to convert the appeal into a PIL and issued notices to the Centre, states and Union Territories. It asked them to file their responses within four weeks. It said participation of all governments in formulating a national framework for payment of compensation to farmers distressed by natural calamities was imperative.
However, the Centre informed the court that the NDA government had launched a comprehensive crop insurance scheme under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), which assured a certain sum of money for crop failure because of localised incidents and post-harvest losses.
The CJI-headed bench said, "If there is a natural calamity, there should be a policy to give compensation to farmers."
Last year in February, the SC had refused to entertain a petition seeking a direction to the government to fix minimum support price (MSP) of agricultural products. A bench headed by then CJI T S Thakur had said, "We are not supposed to go into policy matters. It is for the government to see and take decision. These are matters which are between people and the government... It is a problem of governance and the government has to take measures. We are not sitting in judgment over policies."
The petition before the bench of Justices Khehar and Ramana was an appeal filed by NGO 'Citizens Resource and Action Initiative' headed by Mallika Sarabhai against the Gujarat HC's July 10, 2013 decision declining to entertain its writ petition seeking relief for farmers.
The NGO had sought Rs 5 lakh compensation each to families of farmers who committed suicide because of crop failure and financial aid at the rate of Rs 30,000 per hectare to farmers who suffered crop failure. But the HC refrained from issuing any direction to the state government and said, "These are all policy matters and what policy will suit the interest of farmers has to be decided by the government."


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Infiniti will develop a platform specifically for electric cars
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The company Infiniti announced the development of a completely new platform for an electric car, created based on the concept car Q Inspiration. This prototype debuted last winter at the Auto Show in Detroit. This was announced at the press conference on the eve of the opening of the showroom in Beijing, the president of the manufacturer Ronald Kruger.
On the new platform it is planned to create several models at once, the first of which will be presented in 2021. One of them will be a sedan with the appearance of the concept car Q Inspiration – its production is deployed in Beijing. The design of the new platform provides for the possibility of creating machines with both a fully electric "stuffing" and hybrids with an on-board "e-Power" extension in the form of a compact gasoline engine.
According to Kruger, the Q Inspiration concept was the first example of the company's new design language. According to him, the prototype was created taking into account the tastes of Chinese consumers – that's why such a car should be dynamic, spacious and look sporty.
At the same time, the concept itself was not an electric car at all: under the hood was a turbocharger VC-Turbo with a variable compression ratio, which was then used on a second-generation QX50 crossover. The car was the first Infiniti, developed under the leadership of the new chief designer Karim Habib, who previously held a similar position in BMW.
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The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency says part of Interstate 20/59 was shut down Wednesday morning after a crash that involved multiple vehicles in Tuscaloosa County, according to multiple media reports.
No fatalities were reported, but the crash involved nine vehicles and at least 10 people had injuries, according to local media outlets.
WBRC Fox 6 News reports that the crash occurred at around 6:30 a.m. close to Exit 89 near Mercedes-Benz U.S. International. The television station reported that traffic was closed on the interstate between mile marker 86 and mile marker 89. Traffic was being diverted at the Brookwood/Vance exit.
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The Long Green Line: Pictures from the St. Patrick's Day Parade, New York City
See also this updated 2012 post - Walks for the Weekend: A Great Day for the Irish.
Prepare for an extra dose of green.
While New York's St. Patricks' Day Parade was shortened a few blocks this year, ending at 79th Street instead of the area north of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as has been the custom, it seemed to take longer than usual. Several marching bands and legions of proud Irish were still marching up Fifth Avenue at 5 p.m.
The weather on Thursday brought a hint of spring green, right on cue. It often feels like New York owns the seasons, with spring not allowed to officially commence until the sons and daughters of Ireland hit the streets of the city.
Watching the parade on Fifth Avenue near E. 62nd St., and later near its end at the intersection with E. 79th., afforded views of Central Park to the west and the handsome facades of Fifth Avenue buildings on the east side. Standing in front of the Knickerbocker Club, I glanced up at three well-dressed men and one sharply-dressed woman who were enjoying champagne while watching the parade on an outdoor terrace. At the same moment, a parade contingent bearing the banner "England Out of Ireland" marched by. It was a nice moment of class and politics, and the weather was lovely.
Many locals shouted out "Welcome to New York" to the groups that had traveled to participate in the parade from outside the city. Another particularly enjoyable vignette could be seen just above the French cultural embassy near E. 78th Street where five screaming teenage girls, decked out in green, stood on a raised wall while the occasional embassy staffer, each in a perfect suit, stepped out to watch the Irish marchers.
The sight of the parade was often less exciting than the sound of bagpipes bellowing out the songs of old Ireland.
When the last marching band cleared Fifth Avenue and the parade-goers started to file home or off to the pubs, the landscape of Central Park came into clearer view. There was young green grass on the sloping lawns of the park. On Fifth Avenue, all that remained was the long green line.
Images by Walking Off the Big Apple from March 17, 2011.
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As a virtuoso of progressive rock music, Mirko Pirozzi is a phenomenal multi-instrumentalist with an inviting sound that will have you thirsting for more. Pirozzi's music possesses a free-spiritedness not seen since the psychedelic era of the 1960's. Yet, the sophistication of his musicality is recognized as a vehicle of innovation in this post-modern era. Pirozzi's newest release entitled Last Eclipse is an ongoing testimony of his harmonic genius.
Comprised of ten tantalizing tracks, Last Eclipse is an incredible album that listeners will find rewarding. Based out of Aversa, Italy, Pirozzi's masterful skill is expressed through his affinity with the piano, synthesizer, guitar, and bass, making Last Eclipse a journey that can easily be enjoyed.
The album opens up with the title track Last Eclipse, which proves to be an organic attunement to Pirozzi's soulful rock extravaganza. The language of echoing guitar and superior drumming take precedence on this melody. The succeeding songs seem to develop an ongoing blissful conversation of the ages. For example, Kaleidoscopic Alien and Days Gone are reminiscent of Jimi Hendrix guitar lingo. When analyzing the depth of Last Eclipse we find an assortment of genres in the album's unfolding soundscapes, which is clearly evident on the jazz-influenced Mosaik. The album concludes with a festive-screaming funky tune called Planets.
Last Eclipse by Mirko Pirozzi is a masterpiece and deserves a space on the shelf of every music enthusiast and rock purist in the world. I cannot emphasize enough the measurement of artistry that this album contains, whose fullest appreciation can only be adorned by those looking into the heavenly direction of the Last Eclipse.


This section may not be something a lot of Path of Exile gamers want to know more about. However, for both my buddy and I, rivalry is poe currency something that keeps us interested. As a brand new Path of Exile player, he noted that it felt as though Path of Exile did not have much of an end goal, since there wasn't any source of rivalry as well as the Path of Exile game's fairly disappointing PvP is basically dead. Which is the reason I told him about the racing scene in Path of Exile.
My friend loved the idea of racing, and made an intriguing proposal for an improvement to the Path of Exile match to help introduce new Path of Exile players to races: incorporate racing "ghosts" to the Path of Exile sport, similar to the ones you encounter in a Path of Exile game like Mario Kart.
The best aspect of being a new Path of Exile player in Path of Exile is the absolute quantity of content you are presented with. It's possible to sit and play for hours, watch and read guides, and examine forums for construct ideas. My first week playing with the Path of Exile match, I logged about 100 hours while Path of Exile Wiki watching guides the entire time. After all of that, I had been a complete noob. I never got tired, partly because any time I thought I had mastered something, I would find something new and, in the process, discover more information to devour, in-Path of Exile sport and otherwise. If you are interested in the movies I saw, I started here.


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Hot TV Trailer: HBO's 'The Normal Heart'
"To win a war, you have to start one." This HBO telefilm arrives nearly three decades after Larry Kramer's play premiered off-Broadway. Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch, Jim Parsons and Julia Roberts star in the adaptation directed by Ryan Murphy and scripted by Kramer. Set in NYC during the onset of the HIV/AIDS crisis of the early '80s, The Normal Heart follows gay activists and their allies in the medical community as they try to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic. HBO already is looking into a sequel. The telepic, which co-stars Alfred Molina, Joe Mantello, Jonathan Groff, Denis O'Hare, Stephen Spinella, Corey Stoll, Finn Wittrock and BD Wong, bows May 25 on the premium channel. Here's the first full trailer:
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Despite sharing surnames, family members can sometimes be so divergent in their lifestyles and opinions, that the only commonality they share is the blood in their veins. And there are times when you meet someone who has led a very different life than yours, yet the two of you see eye-to-eye on just about everything and even share many interests. The road to solidarity can be a seamless, easy mystery that just "works," but it can also be a lengthy and cumbersome one that requires a unifying cause.
This last year has been one of great transition for my extended family. It became necessary for my grandparents to move from their home of 60 years in the tiny town of Flomaton, Alabama, to an assisted living facility in a nearby city where they can receive better care for their needs. My father and his three brothers (and my mom and aunts) initially had many discussions over the phone, Facetime and through email about the steps involving moving my grandparents into assisted living, and then again recently when putting their childhood home on the market after it was certain that my grandparents had settled into their new home comfortably.
For me personally, the sale of this house will mean saying farewell to the only home that has remained a fixture in my 38 years of life. I was raised in an Air Force family that uprooted and moved every three years, and then married a man who possesses the same wanderlust as me. Throughout my life, I've returned to Flomaton from places like England, the Netherlands, from Arizona or Seattle or Luxembourg. No matter what, that little house on Wilkerson Street had the same scent, the same floor plan with minor changes, the same loud family voices and bodies sprawled on couches and floors, the same prayers and Bible stories and hymns, the same neighbors and even the same casseroles and pies.
Those shared experiences with my relatives and the background of faith and loyalty and love that my grandparents have poured into their sons, their daughters-in-law and every one of their grandchildren, are what have laid the groundwork for solidarity in our family. As my cousins and my aunts and uncles walked through the house in these last weeks, claiming furniture and quilts and trinkets and dishes, the memories and the lessons they've learned in years past poured out of them and reminded us all, even over Facebook, of the legacy that our grandparents bestowed to us, which gives us something to uphold, together, regardless of our political, vocational and lifestyle differences.
Last week my parents, who have lived in Germany for the past 17 years, worked from sun up to sun down with a few of my aunts and uncles as they combed through each cabinet and drawer of the house on Wilkerson Street. As they hauled away trash, donated used goods and sold items in a yard sale, people from town both familiar and estranged came around to recall memories of my grandparents and their "boys". Relationships were renewed and restored. They told me about the unexpected help that came from unexpected people who felt that they shared in my family's story—people who delivered doughnuts, helped carry heavy chairs and even provided encouragement to rest in the shade with laughs and glasses of sweet tea.
Two days ago my mother posted a photo of my father helping my grandfather shave. I think my whole family was struck by how this photo represented life coming full circle—a son helping his elderly father shave, a father who most certainly showed that son how to hold a razor a very long time ago. And it spoke to me of the unity in my family, that despite the differences of opinion that we have or the distances between us, just about any one of the men in my family would be at the sink in the bathroom doing the very same for my grandfather—because they love him. Love helps us see needs around us. Love compels us to join a hand and give, instead of using that hand to point fingers at who should be doing more. A time or moment of need is often the very thing that reveals common ground and gives us the opportunity to tread it together—all of us, for one family, one goal, one love.
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Lance Wheaton of Forest City was honored for a lifetime spent guiding clients in the Maine woods on Saturday when he was given the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife's Wiggie Robinson Legendary Maine Guide Award.
According to his nomination application, Wheaton, who owns The Village Camps on East Grand Lake, is a lifetime member of the Maine Professional Guides Association, and had been cited by the Maine Warden Service for his help with search and rescue efforts in Washington County. He is one of the original directors of the Woodie Wheaton Land Trust and has been actively involved in conservation issues for years.
Wheaton has been a Maine guide for 55 years.
"I met Lance Wheaton 35 years ago as a new game warden stationed in Danforth, he is the personal definition of what a Maine Guide should be, to be recognized by your peers as legendary is the highest honor," DIF&W Deputy Commissioner, Timothy Peabody said.
The award is presented annually at the Maine Professional Guides Association banquet.
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Jess Price
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I graduated from the University of Glasgow with an MA(Hons) in Psychology, an MSc in Psycholinguistic Research methods and a PhD in written language comprehension in healthy Ageing. I gained post-doctoral experience at both University of Strathclyde and the University of Glasgow, investigating the neural and cognitive mechanisms that are affected in early stages of Alzheimer's disease, using dense array EEG/ERP techniques, before working at the University of Birmingham as a teaching fellow. I joined the University of Nottingham Malaysia in August 2011. My Orcid profile I.D is 0000-0001-7200-8691
Expertise Summary
I use a range of behavioural techniques as well as eye tracking and electroencephalogy in my research. I am interested in factors that influence how deeply we comprehend discourse. I have explored how these factors might change across the lifespan and more recently in bilinguals/multilinguals. More recently, i have become interested in exploring how language background can influence executive functioning. I also investigate ways in which you can measure language background and language proficiency. I also investigate more applied areas such as factors influencing food choice, the effects of music on anxiety and mental health.
Teaching Summary
I am the Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning for the Faculty of Science and Engineering. I co-ordinate teaching related activities across the faculty.
I have previously taught on these courses in the School of Psychology:
C82SAD Social and Developmental Psychology
C83CNA Cognitive Neuroscience of Ageing
C82PIN Personality and Individual Differences
C83NDD Neurodegenerative diseases
I currently teach on the following modules:
PSGY1015 Practical Methods 1
PSGY2012 Cognitive Psychology
PSGY2016 Practical Methods in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
PSGY2011 Practical Methods in Psychology 2
PSGY3028 Bilingualism
PSGY3046 Neuropsychology A
I also supervise final year project students and PhD students.
I am currently working on a project which aims to create a database of translation norms of Bahasa Malaysia-English words. The aim is to develop a Bahasa Malaysia language proficiency test. By… read more
MUSTAFA ALSHAGGA, MIRAAL MAVALVALA, AINI HAMID and JESSICA PRICE, 2018. Wear What You Learn: An Innovative Way to Foster Out-of-Class Learning Advanced Science Letters. 24(9), 7013-7017
PRICE, J.M and SANFORD, A.J, 2018. Reading in Healthy Ageing: The Selective Use of Information Structuring Cues. Discourse Processes. 55(2), 206-217
KASSIM, A.A, REHMAN, R and PRICE, J.M, 2018. Effects of modality and repetition in a continuous recognition memory task: Repetition has no effect on auditory recognition memory. Acta Psychologica. 185, pp 72-80
PRICE, J. and SANFORD, A.J., 2012. Reading in Healthy Ageing: The Influence of Information Structuring in Sentences. Psychology and Aging.
I am currently working on a project which aims to create a database of translation norms of Bahasa Malaysia-English words. The aim is to develop a Bahasa Malaysia language proficiency test. By creating the database and proficiency test, these resources can be used by researchers interested in investigating cross-language processing differences between Bahasa Malaysia and English. I am also investigating how language context can influence executive functioning.
Past Research
I have worked on the effects of age on recognition memory as well as how age can impact on discourse comprehension
In the future, i will be focusing on factors that affect picture naming. I also intend to investigate how bi/multilinguals use linguistic cues in discourse.
FILIK, RUTH, PRICE, JESSICA, DARKER, IAIN, GERRETT, DAVID, PURDY, KEVIN and GALE, ALASTAIR, 2010. The influence of tall man lettering on drug name confusion: a laboratory-based investigation in the UK using younger and older adults and healthcare practitioners. Drug safety : an international journal of medical toxicology and drug experience. 33(8), 677-87
SANFORD, ALISON J S, PRICE, JESSICA and SANFORD, ANTHONY J, 2009. Enhancement and suppression effects resulting from information structuring in sentences. Memory & cognition. 37(6), 880-8
KILBORN, K, CONWAY, B.A, TIEGES, Z., PRICE, J, HUGHES, A and MCLEAN, G, 2009. Cognitive event related potentials as functional biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease. In: Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association Vol.5, Issue 4.


This article is part of a collection of blog posts dealing with "Lenormand vs. Tarot" issues. You can find a list of other relevant installments >> here.
Lenormand cards are usually read in pairs, by combining two cards' meanings, while Tarot cards are read individually, one at a time.
Lenormand spreads traditionally come in only two basic shapes while Tarot spreads come in all kinds of shapes.
Let's dig a bit deeper into the first of these two points!
So, what does it mean that Lenormand cards are read in pairs while Tarot cards are read individually? And what's the reason for it? In the next few paragraphs, I'll offer an example of both approaches, as well as a speculative explanation why these differences exist.
A detailed tutorial for how to combine meanings you can find >> here, on my website!
Answer: Six of Swords. The Six of Swords stands for a departure into the unknown, a departure that does not happen voluntarily, at least not fully, and the destination of which is not all clear and is anticipated both with hope and with fear.
I'm partly speculating here; I don't know for a fact why the two different approaches developed. But it is a fact that Tarot, with its 78 cards, already covers a huge range of human experiences, human life – there's hardly a need to create more. Lenormand decks, on the other hand, contain only 36 cards. Combining their meanings creates many more layers of meaning and possibilities of interpretation.
In addition to that, Tarot and Lenormand card meanings are presented differently, too, perhaps also encouraging the individual vs. combined approach. Lenormand tradition uses keywords as meanings for the individual cards (see the example above); and a rather smallish selection of them at that (2-4 keywords is common). It's quite obvious that a simple keyword alone will rarely serve as a satisfying answer to a pressing concern; to create an in-depth interpretation it is often necessary to apply the combination method. Tarot tradition on the other hand uses elaborate interpretations for the individual cards – descriptions of whole, complex situations (see the example above). There's enough material offered within these interpretations that it isn't necessary to add anything else in order to create an in-depth interpretation.
So, this week's installment of the Lenormand vs. Tarot Series discussed how and (possibly) why Lenormand cards are usually read in pairs, and Tarot cards, individually. In the next installment we'll have a look at how and (possibly) why Lenormand spreads come in only two basic shapes while Tarot spreads come in all kinds of shapes.


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In the Wall Street Journal write that Samsung will release a restored Galaxy Note 7 is on 7 July. The device will debut in South Korea and will cost 700 000 won (about 615 USD).
Given that this date was mentioned several times in the network, it is likely that on 7 July, the gadget to buy. It is also claimed that Samsung plans to sell 400,000 smartfon on the home market.
Recall that, according to different versions, the Galaxy Note 7 will be "reborn" like the Galaxy Note or Galaxy Note 7R FE, which means Fan Edition, edition for fans. If you believe the photos, the difference is restored, the device can be quite easily — by a big letter R on the back panel in the lower right corner.
Recall that in late March, Samsung officially confirmed plans to return the restored Galaxy Note 7 is on sale, in cases where this is possible.
the Device also will get new buildings, so the design may differ slightly from the originally. Most hardware components will remain exactly the same as the original. However, he will come with a fresh installed version of the operating system — Android 7.0 Nougat.
the Recall of defective Galaxy Note 7 in the fall of 2016 was unprecedented in scale for Samsung. As shown by the investigation of the causes of fire and suicide bombing smartphones, the explosions were due to batteries, but rather because of errors in their manufacture and problems with the technological process of Assembly.
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Q: Change sudo pip install library to anaconda My OS is Ubuntu 14.04. I want to install TensorFlow in anaconda2 and I am not using root. I downloaded anaconda2 and installed in /usr/anaconda2. I typed the following command:
sudo pip install --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/gpu/tensorflow-0.8.0-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl

but in /usr/anaconda2/bin/python, I cannot import TensorFlow. I found that sudo pip installs the TensorFlow in Ubuntu default python2.7.6, so I tried installing it without sudo, but:
running build_scripts
creating build/scripts.linux-x86_64-2.7
Creating build/scripts.linux-x86_64-2.7/f2py
adding 'build/scripts.linux-x86_64-2.7/f2py' to scripts
changing mode of build/scripts.linux-x86_64-2.7/f2py from 664 to 775
running install_lib
creating /usr/anaconda2/pkgs/lib
error: could not create '/usr/anaconda2/pkgs/lib': Permission denied

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Command "/home/ds/.conda/envs/tensorflow_env/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-THK_wR/numpy/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-znMmTV-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --prefix=/usr/anaconda2/pkgs" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-THK_wR/numpy/

I have no Permission to write file in /usr/anaconda2. What should I do?

A: Anaconda comes with its own package manager called conda,to install a package on Anaconda environment and not the default python do
conda update conda
conda install <package name>
in your case:
conda install -c conda-forge tensor flow
or you could just add the channel first:
conda config --add channels conda-forge
then install by:
conda install tensorflow


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The St. George Expo turned out to be a lot of fun. Thank's to all of you who stopped by to say hello or who attended one or more of my classes.
When I pointed toward my next classroom, Mike Ward of Ancestry.com asked, "Is that where you are teaching, or where your alter-ego is teaching?" It stopped me short for a moment. Which one of me is me and which is my alter identity? And which of me is he addressing? And now as I write to you as the alter- of the me he was speaking to, should I tell the story from the alter-me's point of view or the original-me's point of view? It's so very confusing.
To make matters more confusing, they asked for volunteers to fill in for Dae Powell (Shoestring Genealogy) to give his presentation on GEDCOM files, and "snap," I was signed up. I live for a "hi!" I lust for a laugh! I die for new friends! I never present standing when I can sit. I never flee when I can fight (for a parking space). I swoon at the beauty of southern Utah's red rocks. I offer myself totally!
When someone asked if my name was pronounced "day," it sent me to a mental list of what my names were. "The vessel with the pestle... No. The pellet with the poison..." I was coming up blank when I recalled Dae's sign off (Happy Dae) and his company name (Data-Dae Research). Get it? Good!
I was complaining about the height of the podium and someone suggested it would make a good picture, so I had my wife take one (below, left). When I looked at it, it reminded me of the time she was learning to take her own picture. While on our trip back to Washington, I went to the National Archives, and she did the tourist thing. She'd seen the kids take their own pictures and since she wanted a picture of herself in front of the White House, she gave it a shot (below, right). People say we look a lot alike. What do you think?
Just don't tell her she looks like me. "She'll jump..."
As alter-egos go, you've got a mighty nice one. One benefit is that you can always blame the other guy if something goes wrong.
Take it from one who knows alter-egos well.
I was the one in your presentation that suggested the photo of your face partially covered by the laptop. I was just sorry I missed your presentation on the Archives...I went into a coughing fit and thought it kinder to exit.
Thanks for the suggestion! I think it turned out nicely. I'm sorry you had to step out. I'm so heads down during a presentation, I noticed neither your coughing nor your exit. I'm sure others were not bothered either, although I'm sure they appreciated the exit.
Excellent, mate! Many thanks for filling in for me. Say the word, and I'll return the favour. I miss the mountains so much and all the good people in "dixie." Finances overcame me this year, but I'll recover.


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Application of FLORENCE D. JOHNSON, SHARON BELTON-COTTMAN, THERESA HARRIS-TIGG, MARY RUTH KAPSIAK and BARBARA A. NEVERGOLD for the removal of Jason M. McCarthy as a member of the Board of Education of the City School District of the City of Buffalo.
DeMarie & Shoenborn, attorneys for respondent, Edward Betts, Esq., of counsel
ELIA, Commissioner.--Petitioners seek removal of Jason M. McCarthy ("respondent") from office as a member of the Board of Education of the Buffalo City School District ("board"). The application must be denied.
Petitioners, Florence D. Johnson, Sharon Belton-Cottman, Theresa Harris-Tigg, Mary Ruth Kapsiak and Barbara A. Nevergold, are all district residents, taxpayers and current or former members of the board. Petitioner's seek an order pursuant to Education Law §306 for removal of respondent board member Jason M. McCarthy, from office for willful violation of the Education Law, General Municipal Law §805-a(1)(b) and Public Officers Law §105, and engaging in acts of willful misconduct in violation of the district's code of ethics and policies concerning the confidential nature of the board's executive sessions.
Petitioners claim that respondent knowingly and willfully divulged confidential information gleaned from an executive session of the board on June 11, 2014 in violation of board policy, General Municipal Law §805-a(1)(b), and Public Officers Law §105. During the executive session, the board considered a proposed separation agreement between the district and then-Superintendent Dr. Pamela Brown. Petitioners allege that respondent was quoted in a "Buffalo Business First" newsletter published on June 16, 2014 stating his opinion that the board was likely to approve the proposed separation agreement against the advice of counsel provided at the June 11, 2014 executive session. That separation agreement subsequently received board approval by a vote of 7-2, with respondent McCarthy casting one of the two dissenting votes. In addition to this application, petitioners also filed an appeal with the Buffalo City School District Ethics Committee on June 17, 2014.
Respondent asserts that the verified petition is procedurally defective and may not be considered by the Commissioner as jurisdiction over respondent has not been properly secured. Respondent claims that he was not personally served with the verified petition, thus service was defective. Respondent further alleges the petition does not include the necessary notice required for an Education Law §306 removal application. Specifically, respondent claims that petitioners failed to abide by the notice requirements of 8 NYCRR §277.1(b) which, pursuant to Education Law §306, requires that specific notice for removal be given to an officer whose removal is requested. Respondent contends that petitioners instead provided the notice associated with an appeal to the Commissioner under §310 of the Education Law and 8 NYCRR §275.11(a). Additionally, respondent alleges that the accusations of misconduct and violations of law contained in the petition are conclusory in nature, not based on fact, and do not rise to a level warranting removal from office under Education Law §306. Lastly, respondent requests a certificate of good faith pursuant to Education Law §3811.
The application must be denied as moot. The Commissioner will only decide matters in actual controversy and will not render a decision on a state of facts which no longer exist or which subsequent events have laid to rest (Appeal of a Student with a Disability, 48 Ed Dept Rep 532, Decision No. 15,940; Appeal of M.M., 48 id. 527, Decision No. 15,937; Appeal of Embro, 48 id. 204, Decision No. 15,836) I take administrative notice that the official website for the Buffalo Public Schools indicates that respondent no longer serves on the board of education. Thus, the application for removal is moot, warranting denial (Appeal of Anderson, et.al, 52 Ed Dept Rep, Decision No. 16,438; Application of Lilly, 47 id. 307, Decision No. 15,705).
Even if the application were not dismissed as moot, it would be denied for lack of proper service. Section 275.8(a) of the Commissioner's regulations, which is made applicable to removal proceedings by Commissioners regulation §277.1, requires that the petition be personally served upon each named respondent. If a school district is named as a respondent, service upon the school district shall be made personally by delivering a copy of the petition to the district clerk, to any trustee or any member of the board of education, to the superintendent of schools, or to a person in the office of the superintendent who has been designated by the board of education to accept service (8 NYCRR §275.8[a]; Appeal of Peterson, 48 Ed Dept Rep 530, Decision No. 15,939; Appeal of Naab, 48 id. 339, Decision No. 15,877). Respondent asserts that he was not personally served with the verified petition, and petitioners' affidavit of service indicates that service was made upon the district clerk. Service upon the district clerk did not effect personal jurisdiction over respondent, an individual board member, and the application must be denied for lack of personal service upon respondent (Application of Murray, 56 Ed Dept Rep, Decision No. 17,002; Appeal of D.B, 49 id. 336, Decision No. 15,716).
The defective notice of petition also warrants denial of the application. The notice accompanying a removal application must specifically advise a school officer that an application is being made for his or her removal from office (8 NYCRR §277.1[b]). In this case, petitioners failed to give such notice and, instead, used the notice prescribed under 8 NCYRR §275.11(a) for appeals brought pursuant to Education Law §310. A notice of petition which fails to contain the language required by the Commissioner's regulation is fatally defective and does not secure jurisdiction over the intended respondent (Appeal of Reis and Argus, 51 Ed Dept Rep, Decision No. 16,335; Application of Carrion, 50 id. Decision No. 16,228; Application of Vendel, 49 id. 361, Decision No. 16,050). It is the notice of petition that alerts a party to the fact that he or she is the subject of removal proceedings, and the failure to comply with 8 NYCRR §277.1(b) necessarily results in a jurisdictional failure and requires dismissal (Appeal of Kelly, 45 Ed Dept Rep 38, Decision No. 15,253; Application of Knapp, 41 id. 41, Decision No. 14,608).
Although the application must be denied on procedural grounds, one administrative matter remains. Respondent has requested that I issue a certificate of good faith pursuant to Education Law §3811(1). Such certification is solely for the purpose of authorizing the board to indemnify respondent for legal fees and expenses incurred in defending a proceeding arising out of the exercise of his powers or performance of duties as a board member. It is appropriate to issue such certification unless it is established on the record that the requesting board member acted in bad faith (Application of Valentin, 56 Ed Dept Rep, Decision No. 17,014; Appeal of Berger, 56 id., Decision No. 16,996; Appeal of Fletcher and Ferguson, 55 id., Decision No. 16,901). In view of the fact that the application here is denied on procedural grounds and there has been no finding that respondent acted in bad faith, I hereby certify solely for the purpose of Education Law §3811(1) that respondent McCarthy is entitled to a certificate of good faith (Application of Wallace, 52 Ed Dept Rep, Decision No. 16,479; Application of Wornum, 51 id., Decision No. 16,265).
In light of the foregoing disposition, I need not address the parties' remaining contentions.
THE APPLICATION IS DENIED.


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