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By: The Peach from 'Call Me By Your Name'
Some peaches shoot for the moon. They see their friends and relatives pass from orchard to grocery store to human digestive tract, and strive for more. But their tragedy lies in their truth: They can't pick who picks them. They can only rely on sheer luck to end up getting eaten by Jennifer Connelly in Labyrinth instead of being canned and sent to colleges with idiot freshmen who are too incompetent to make balanced meals whenever Food Court is closed. But thankfully, I'm a very lucky peach. I didn't get swirled into a tube of Gogurt, or stuffed into an experimental fruit salad by a raw vegan with a neckbeard. I didn't even get eaten by an inexplicably smiling white woman in a stock photo, or stuffed into a dessert like the hundreds of brave, honorable peaches who died to make the peach pie in Labor Day. No. I made it further than any other peach in the history of peaches: I got fucked by Timothee Chalamet.
But before you go calling me a slut and saying I slept my way to the top or monetized my body for fame, let me remind you that I did not ask to be cast in Call Me By Your Name. After all, I am a non-sentient mass of organic matter that cannot move or speak. Moreover, I must mention that while I have exulted in my new station in life, I am without a lover. Again, I am a peach — a fleshy, edible container for an unfertilized angiosperm — and do not actually sexually reproduce. I would not know what to do with a lover except offer my body to him as sustenance.
But this is still a love story — or, at least, what you humans might call a love story.
While I can't reproduce, I can still form non-sexual attachments that bring me to spiritual orgasm — and I have experienced this sensation four times in my life. Notably, three of those times were before I ever met Timothee Chalamet, the man who inseminated me for a chance at an Oscar nomination.
I remember the first time as clear as day. I was a starry-eyed, newly ripe peach living in an orchard right outside of Milan, and I had big dreams. My mother, i.e., the flower that produced me, had told me to "shoot for the moon," and I did. Well, at least, I thought about it, before realizing one day that I couldn't move. But when Giuseppe, a sun-kissed farmer from Verona, picked me from my tree on a brisk Sunday morning, I knew he was the man who'd help me fly. Suddenly, I was tumbling around in his swinging basket — my world a nauseating blur — and his deep, azure eyes had pierced into my own. I fully came. But, alas, I never saw him again. He threw me into a crate with several hundred other peaches and handed us to a distributor who drove us to a grocery store in Pandino. I spent an entire hour shoved up against my best friend's ass.
It was at the grocery store in Pandino that I met my next true love. His name was Paolo, and he moved me from my original crate to a new crate in the Produce section. For those two seconds in which his right hand swung me through the air towards my new home, I fully came.
Then, one day later, after many cruel fuckboys had locked their gorgeous, soulful eyes on me before deciding to just get apples instead, I met my third true love. His name, for all intents and purposes, was "Yo," since everyone shouted "Yo" at him before waving him over. I found out later that this was because he was Luca Guadagnino's personal assistant. But he was young, short, and round, and he sported what could only be referred to as "peach fuzz," which was incredibly hot. So as soon as his chapped, grubby fingers closed around my stem, I partly came. "Wait, why didn't I fully come, like the last two times?" I thought to myself. But then I fully came, and moved on to think about other things. But sadly, just like Giuseppe and Paolo, Yo left me. After picking me out and shoving me into a bag with several other peaches, Yo threw our bag into the back seat of his Fiat and forced us to spend the next three hours staring at each other and wondering if there is a God.
When we finally got to set, I overheard Luca mention to Yo that he and Timothee (whom I could not see from my vantage point) would need to "practice" with a few of us peaches. And while I did not know what this meant at the time, I assumed it meant that he and Timothee would also be bringing us to spiritual orgasm. So you can probably imagine my shock and disillusionment when I spent the next hour watching Luca — and then Timothee — jizz inside my friends and then dispose of them, one by one, into a trash bin.
But there was something different about the way Timothee jizzed inside of me — and not just because it was for the shot that would end up in the movie and make me famous. Nay, there was a certain tenderness and care with which he jizzed inside of me that made me feel beautiful — greater. Suddenly, I soared above myself and into eternity, and knew I was grander than any peach that ever was. In fact, I was no longer a peach. For those three seconds, I was a god. I didn't even need to fully come to feel this way. (But I did. I fully came.)
But then Timothee wiped away my fuzz sweat, stared at me for a beat, and discarded me like the others. And just like that, my career was over. I wondered if my friends had felt the same way when he discarded them, but I decided against asking. After all, I needed to distance myself from them before I became famous later. And in any case, it didn't matter. I had known what it was to be a god, and I would never forget.
And even now, when all I have left (besides fame and fortune) is a lifetime of memories and a penis-shaped hole inside me, I still believe I'm one of the lucky ones. After all, not every peach gets to shoot for the moon.
(Ed: The 'Call Me By Your Name' peach died of natural causes after telepathically dictating this essay to Flagrant writers from a canopy bed in his Beverly Hills mansion. His agent will continue campaigning for a posthumous Oscar nomination on his behalf.)
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Four fronts where the Vatican isn't the real problem
by John L. Allen Jr.
When Pope Francis met Israeli President Shimon Peres on Tuesday, the two men certainly had lots to talk about: the general situation in the Middle East, the conflict in Syria, the landscape of interfaith relations and the possibility of a papal visit to the Holy Land.
By all accounts, the meeting was warm and constructive, symbolizing how far relations have come.
Also lurking as subtext, however, was a long-running and, up to now, futile effort to reach agreement on the tax and legal status of church properties in Israel. A communique issued at the end of the meeting tried to put an optimistic spin on the situation, asserting that a "rapid conclusion is foreseen."
Reportedly the outlines of a deal were reached last January, under which church properties used for religious purposes would remain tax-exempt, but not church-owned businesses. Israel would designate certain holy sites as safe from expropriation except in emergency situations for public safety, and a leasing arrangement would be worked out for the Cenacle on Mount Zion.
Although one never knows, experience says don't hold your breath.
Both Israel and the Vatican are under new management, and the architects of this deal (former Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon for the Israelis, former Undersecretary of State Ettore Balestrero for the Vatican) have moved on. The two sides are scheduled to meet again in June, when we should get an indication of where the new leadership will come down.
December will mark the 20th anniversary of the Fundamental Agreement between Israel and the Holy See, and a deal about its terms in regards to taxes and other technicalities has allegedly been imminent ever since. I've known five Israeli ambassadors to the Holy See, all of whom have arrived predicting swift movement only to see those hopes run up against reality.
To broaden the focus, there are four quagmires I've come to regard over the years as the Vatican's "Neverending Stories." They are:
Negotiations with Israel over the Fundamental Agreement
The prospect of formal diplomatic relations with China
Efforts to end the Lefebvrist schism
Hopes for a papal visit to Russia and an ecumenical spring with the Russian Orthodox
In each case, there's a highly predictable boom-and-bust cycle. Every six months or so, somebody will report momentum toward breaking the logjam, which causes a brief flurry of excitement. Before long, something else happens to suggest that promise was false or overheated, and we all go back to waiting for Godot.
My policy now with regard to purported turning points is, "Wake me up when it's over."
While there's little hard news on any of these fronts, there is nevertheless an interesting observation to be made. In each case, blame for failure to move the ball doesn't belong exclusively, or even primarily, in Rome.
The clearest example is relations with the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X, popularly known as the Lefebvrists.
Short of standing outside their headquarters in Econe, Switzerland, in the snow and begging forgiveness like Henry IV at Canossa, Benedict XVI did everything possible to heal the split, and yet the society balked. In an Easter letter to friends and benefactors, Bishop Bernard Fellay asserted that Rome has imposed acceptance of the Second Vatican Council as a sine qua non -- a prerequisite, Fellay wrote, "to which we could not and still cannot subscribe."
Many observers believe it's now "game over," at least for the foreseeable future and barring some surprising concession on the Lefebvrist side. (Here's a prediction: Rejection of Benedict's overtures will go down as the "Camp David" moment for the Lefebvrists, comparable to Yasser Arafat turning down a 2000 deal that would have given the Palestinians basically 95 percent of what they wanted.)
As far as China and the Russian Orthodox go, the Vatican is certainly capable of taking steps that, whatever their logic, set things back.
In 2000, for instance, 120 Chinese martyrs were canonized Oct. 1, a national holiday in China celebrating the advent of Communist rule. The choice was seen by Chinese authorities as a slap in the face despite the Vatican's insistence that Oct. 1 is the feast of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, universal patroness of the missions.
In 2002, meanwhile, the Vatican announced that four apostolic administrations in Russia had been elevated to the status of dioceses, prompting charges from the Orthodox of expansion and proselytism. The decision was apparently made without consulting the Orthodox or, for that matter, even the Vatican's official for ecumenical relations at the time, Cardinal Walter Kasper.
Yet in both cases, it's tough to style the Vatican as the primary impediment.
Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the former Secretary of State, once famously said that if China would agree to diplomatic relations, the Vatican would pull the plug on its embassy in Taiwan "not tomorrow morning, but tonight." In truth, most China-watchers believe the real obstacle lies with unresolved tensions between pragmatists and Communist hard-liners within the country's ruling elite, resulting in a sort of multiple personality syndrome when it comes to religious policy.
Most recently, the auxiliary bishop of Shanghai, Thaddeus Ma Daqin, has been under house arrest since he publicly renounced his membership in the Patriotic Association, a government-sponsored body designed to keep the Catholic church on a short leash.
In Russia, despite a clear trend in recent years toward an ecumenical thaw, there remains a deep skepticism about Rome and the papacy that often renders even well-meaning gestures a bit ambivalent.
Last month, for example, the Moscow Patriarchate issued a largely laudatory statement welcoming the election of Pope Francis. Not long afterward, Moscow's top ecumenical officer, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, said if the new pope really wants better relations, he should curb the growth of the Greek Catholic church in Ukraine, which Moscow regards as an illicit Catholic footprint on its "canonical territory."
Paranoia about Catholic proselytism runs deep, despite the fact that the Vatican during the John Paul years basically imposed a no-growth policy. If you want to see proselytism in Russia, you'd be better advised to look to the evangelicals and Pentecostals, not the Catholics. A study published last year about evangelical growth in Russia was titled the "Post-Soviet Gold Rush."
I once asked a Russian Orthodox bishop why they were so worried about Catholic expansion and not about the burgeoning Pentecostal and evangelical presence. His answer: "They're here today and gone tomorrow, but the Catholics will be here forever."
(For the record, I tried to explain that's exactly what Catholic bishops a generation ago thought about evangelicals and Pentecostals in Latin America -- here today, gone tomorrow -- and they were wrong. He wasn't buying it, illustrating that experience may be the best teacher, but usually it has to be your own and not somebody else's.)
To return to Israel and the Fundamental Agreement, there's no doubt both sides bear responsibility for the delay.
From the Vatican's point of view, they want the legal status of church properties to be governed by treaty, not by the shifting policies of the Israeli parliament. Reasonably enough, Vatican negotiators ask what the point is of negotiating a bilateral agreement if its terms can be unilaterally revised by one of the parties.
On the Israeli side, they have legitimate concerns about ceding sovereign powers over their territory, especially given the price Israel has paid to gain them. They also have reasonable concerns about setting a precedent, because whatever deal they cut with the Vatican, it would be tough to deny other religious groups the same treatment.
For its part, the Vatican has tried to clear perceived obstacles. In 2011, for instance, Franciscan Fr. David-Maria Jaeger was made a judge of the Roman Rota, an honor that also had the effect of relieving him as general counsel to the Holy See in its negotiations with Israel. The fact that Jaeger is a convert from Judaism had been a source of heartburn for some on the Israeli side; the fact that he was also a tough negotiator who knows Israeli law and politics from the inside out was probably also a factor.
On background, participants on both sides say they badly want to wrap things up. The primary difficulty now, they say, is galvanizing political momentum in Israel, including in the Knesset, to give whatever agreement they reach the force of law. It remains to be seen where that will rate on the to-do list of the new government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Adding it all up, the somewhat counterintuitive conclusion is that in what one might consider the Vatican's four most intractable relationships, the basic problem isn't really classic Roman truculence.
It takes two to tango, and more often than you might think, the Vatican is the one eager to dance but missing a partner.
[John L. Allen Jr. is NCR senior correspondent. Follow him on Twitter: @JohnLAllenJr.]
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H.E. Mrs Graça Machel, Chairperson, International Board of Trustees, ACPF
Yehualashet Mekonen, Programme Manager, The African Child Observatory, ACPF
Assefa Bequele PhD, Founder and Executive Director, ACPF
H.E. Mrs Yalem-Tsegay, Minister of Women, Children & Youth, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
H.E. Mrs Amira Elfadil Mohammed Elfadil, Commissioner for Social Affairs, Africa Union Commission
The African Report on Child Wellbeing 2018
The 2018 edition scores and ranks the performance of 52 African governments in improving the wellbeing of children. The report uses a robust, rights-based statistical methodology – the Child-Friendliness Index – and a wide range of data to measure and track progress in the commitment of African governments to children.
The report will be launched by Mrs. Graça Machel, Chair of ACPF's International Board of Trustees, on 2 November 2018 in Addis Ababa in the presence of government officials, representatives of international and regional organisations and CSOs working on children's issues.
The African Report on Child Wellbeing series
The African Report on Child Wellbeing is ACPF's flagship advocacy publication to promote child wellbeing and state accountability in Africa. The report regularly assesses the extent to which African governments are living up to their commitments and provides critical analyses of national efforts to formulate and implement child-sensitive laws and policies.
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Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children (SRSG)
A justice system based. on respect for the rights of the child is critical for addressing incidents of violence against children, as well as safeguarding the rights of child victims and witnesses. I, therefore, welcome the launch of"' 10" a documentary on child justice in Africa, as an important alert to Governments around the world about the critical
Marta Santos Pais	Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children (SRSG)
African governments have an impressive record in their formal accession to the relevant child-focused international treaties but the extent of their commitment to children's issues varies widely, and the gap between promises and reality remains wide in many countries. What is it that is right that child-friendly governments are doing, which poorly-performing countries can emulate?
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How child-friendly are African governments?
Extensive news wire coverage following Nairobi launch including Associated Press (US), Reuters, Reuters Alert, AFP (France), Xinhua (China), EFE (Spanish), DPA, EPD (Germany).	Associated Press story generated US-wide coverage in many of the country's leading media such as Washington Post, Kansas City Star, San Francisco Chronicle, LA Times, Fox News, Seattle Times and many others (selection in cuttings file). Widespread African coverage through local launch event, widespread distribution of press release and invitations to Kenyan ministry meeting with ACPF in Nairobi – including Kenyan Standard, Kenya Times, local radio stations, BBC Africa service, BBC Swahili Service, BBC French Africa Service, Kenya Broadcasting, BBC Africa Have Your Say discussion, SABC interviews, AllAfrica.com, African Business etc.	Personal endorsement from Zeinab Badawi, BBC TV Presenter and well-known African specialist. Personal interview and BBC news online feature by Emily Buchan, BBC World Affairs editor US news channel, ABC News ran the story online, on radio and TV.	Media coverage on national television during the presentation presentation of the report to the Vice President of Kenya – Hon. Kalonzo – at which he mentioned that every parliamentarian in Kenya should have a copy of the report on their desk as a reference and resource document to inform and facilitate their work
Budgeting for Children
Programmes aired on BBC World Service's The World Today, Network Africa, and Focus on Africa (7 December, 2010)	Article on The Guardian, "Wealthy African states failing to invest in children." According to the article, "These findings challenge the claim that social spending in a 'luxury' reserved for children in rich countries and the argument that wealth will simply trickle-down. Instead, the report re-politicises the process by which a country's wealth is translated into the well-being of its citizens... Reports such as this one can expose bad arguments like, 'We can't afford to spend more'. Understanding when and why some governments do indeed 'budget for children' is as important as identifying those that don't"	News wire coverage from APA: Austria Presse Agentur, resulting in an article titled, "Few African countries budgeting for children, new report reveals"	Widespread international coverage, with articles appearing in the Huffington Post, AfroNews24, Earth Times, The Africa News, Medical News Today, Catholic Information Service for Africa (CISA), The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, India Times, Club of Mozambique, Tanzania Times, The Citizen (Tanzania), The Namibian Sun, and I on Sudan.
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Mr David Mugawe, Executive Director, ACPF, (2010-2012), H.E. Prime Minister Aires Bonifacio Ali, Mozambique (2010-2012), H.E. Joachim Chissano, President of Mozambique (1986-2005)
Mr David Mugawe, Executive Director, ACPF, (2010-2012) presenting the report to H.E. Joachim Chissano, President of Mozambique (1986-2005)
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Nelson Mandela's widow has warned Africa could become the continent of a billion "angry, underfed, under-educated and under-employed" young people by 2050, unless African governments act to invest in their children.
In advance of the publication of a major report on child rights across Africa, Graça Machel has expressed concern that a "toxic combination" of undernutrition, poor education and the world's fastest-growing youth populations pose a threat to the continent's future.
"Even though our youth have the potential to transform Africa, if neglected, they could exacerbate poverty and inequality while threatening peace, security and prosperity," said Machel, chair of the international board of trustees of the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF), which will publish the 2018 Africa Report on Child Wellbeing on Friday.
The report, which ranks 52 nations on how they are meeting child rights under international conventions, warns that massive investment is needed to prevent a billion children and young people from becoming undernourished, semi-illiterate or illiterate, and jobless or underemployed by 2050. Africa's child and youth population is predicted to reach 750 million by 2030, and one billion by the middle of the century – representing approximately 40% of the global child and youth population.
The ACPF report, which analysed progress on the "child-friendliness" index of African governments over the past decade, highlighted "remarkable improvements" in the survival and overall wellbeing of African children. These included an almost 50% reduction in child mortality over 15 years and increased access to primary education. But the study expressed concern that child malnutrition and substandard education in many counties was creating a "crisis" in human development for the future.
"Africa is on the verge of a serious human development crisis, which carries grave consequences for the social and economic wellbeing of its people and for the future of the continent," said the report's authors.
"There are many reasons for concern," said Dr Assefa Bequele, the ACPF's executive director. "Undernutrition remains a serious and persistent problem. It is the single biggest challenge for Africa's children. Stunting remains unacceptably high, at 30.4%. Up to half of all deaths in under-fives are associated with undernutrition. And while African children may attend school in large numbers, they are not learning. Two in every five children leave primary school without learning how to read, write or do simple arithmetic."
The report named the 11 most child-friendly governments as Mauritius, Algeria, Tunisia, South Africa, Cabo Verde, Egypt, Namibia, Seychelles, Swaziland, Morocco and Lesotho.
South Sudan, Central African Republic, Chad, Cameroon, Zambia, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea and Eritrea were rated the least child-friendly countries.
Rankings are based on indicators including nutrition, education, budgets and social protection.
Spending on education across Africa has stagnated at an average of 4% of GDP over the past two decades, the study found. More than half of all girls do not attend secondary school. Zambia and Central African Republic allocated just 1% of GDP to education, while Lesotho and Botswana spent more than 10%.
Child undernutrition cost Ethiopia 16.5% of its GDP – and 5.6% in Uganda – said the report.
The study found that while many countries have laws, policies and institutions governing child rights, many laws are discriminatory and inconsistent with international standards. The continuing incidence of child labour, child marriage and violence against children showed a wide gap between rhetoric and action, as well as poor enforcement of laws.
For instance, while 36 out of 52 countries set the marriageable age at 18 or above for both sexes, three in 10 African children are married before the age of 18. In Sudan, girls as young as 10 are allowed to marry.
The report's authors called for urgent action to tackle undernutrition and poor education, as well as more job creation and greater economic opportunities for young people.
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Liv är en norsk drama- och kriminalfilm från 1934. Filmen regisserades av Rasmus Breistein och i titelrollen ses Tordis Maurstad.

Handling
På ett bröllop dräper Gunnar Haugen en resande som kommit dit med sin fru och en liten son. Han döms till sex års fängelse för mordet. Hans fru dör och hans dotter Liv får komma till några släktingar. Efter att ha suttit av sitt straff säljer Gunnar gården och ger halva köpesumman till fattiga. Han flyttar med Liv till en avlägsen bygd där ingen känner till hans förflutna.

Liv blir 16 år. En höstkväll kommer en sliten och svulten pojke över fjället och bankar på dörren. Pojken heter Aslak och är hemlös. Han tar arbete varhelst han kan få det och får stanna hos Gunnar och Liv. Aslak är son till den man som Gunnar dödade och i själva verket har han skickats dit för att hämnas. Liv och Aslak förälskar sig i varandra. Gunnar får reda på att Aslak har berättat för folket i bygden att han är en mördare och kastar därför ut honom. Aslak berättar då vem han egentligen är och varför han har kommit. Han berättar även att Liv är gravid. Gunnar blir utom sig av sorg och kort därefter flyttar Liv ut och ger sig ut på vandring. Hon föder en son som hon döper till Gunnar. Med honom på ryggen går hon från hus till hus och frågar efter Aslak. Hon hittar honom tillsammans med några andra kringresande. Aslak ångrar att han lämnat henne och bryter upp från sitt sällskap. Han gifter sig med Liv och försonas med Gunnar.

Rollista
 Tordis Maurstad – Liv Haugen
 Alfred Maurstad – Aslak Bråten
 Ingjald Haaland – Gunnar Haugen
 Edvard Drabløs – en bonde
 Sigurd Eldegard – en bonde
 Eva Fochsen – Liv som barn
 Johs. Jensen – prästen
 Arne Kleve – en resande
 Lisbeth Nyborg – bondmora
 Helga Rydland – Guro, mor til Aslak

Om filmen
Liv är Rasmus Breisteins sjunde filmregi och hans andra talfilm. Den bygger på en berättelse av Kristofer Janson som omarbetades till filmmanus av Breistein. Den fotades och klipptes av Gunnar Nilsen-Vig och premiärvisades den 26 december 1934 i Norge. Musiken komponerades av Adolf Kristoffer Nielsen.

Referenser

Norska dramafilmer
Norska kriminalfilmer
Norskspråkiga filmer
Filmer 1934
Norska filmer baserade på romaner
Svartvita filmer
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From a purely cricketing POV, it will be a take no POWs kinda game – terribly one sided, might not even go the full distance; but then it is a T20 game, and the full distance is 5 days. Sri Lanka looks like a team, in spite of their captaincy which at best is well read though not street smart. If Sanga was playing in Law school, he would've had a Yale of a time. Luckily, this is Lord's and there are plenty of laws going around. It's down to his two slowpokes, but he still won't deploy them as an attacking move. Only if the quicks are ravaged in the first 4 will Mendis bowl the 5th. And Murali no way in the first 6, that's his paid vacation.
On paper, Pak is man-to-man a better side and should win. But as most of the players can't read it's just a waste of paper.


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Who Needs A World Series? The Indians Are Dominating The All-Star Game
Jul. 17, 2018 , at 2:14 PM
By Neil Paine
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Jose Ramirez is one of six Indians on the American League team.
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When Major League Baseball's All-Stars take the field Tuesday night in Washington, the Cleveland Indians will be quite well-represented. With starting third baseman Jose Ramirez leading the way, the Tribe has six total players on the American League roster, tied with the Houston Astros for the most in MLB.1 It's a fitting honor for this star-powered season in Cleveland: The Indians currently boast four players — Ramirez, Francisco Lindor, Trevor Bauer and Corey Kluber — each on pace to put up at least six wins above replacement,2 which, if it holds up (grain of salt), would tie them for the most by any MLB team since 1901.
That kind of star performance is nothing new for the Tribe, though. Since the All-Star Game began in 1933, only seven franchises (the Yankees, Cardinals, Red Sox, Dodgers, Reds, Giants and Braves) have sent more total players to the midsummer classic than Cleveland has. And no team's top players have done more to help their league win during the game itself, especially on the pitching side. The franchise may not have won a World Series since 1948, but it does shine brightly on at least one high-profile stage.
I figured all this out by crunching a simplified version of WAR on the stats from each All-Star Game in history. This WAR doesn't use defensive metrics3 or fancy adjustments for extra bases gained, but it does judge a player's basic hitting and pitching stats relative to the environment in which they were produced. (For batters, this mainly meant calculating runs above average using weighted on-base average; for pitchers, this involved a 50-50 blend between the value of not allowing earned runs and the value of performance in categories a pitcher directly controls — walks, strikeouts and home runs.)4
By all those numbers, here are the franchises who have the best All-Star Game WAR over time, divided by the number of years they've existed (through 2017):
In terms of value from batters (per season that both the team and the All-Star Game existed), the Indians rank fifth behind the Cardinals, Red Sox, Tigers and Diamondbacks. That's pretty good, and it comes thanks to players such as third baseman Al Rosen (career 1.247 All-Star OPS, or on-base percentage plus slugging) and catcher Sandy Alomar Jr. (who was named MVP in 1997). But the pitching side is where Cleveland has really distinguished itself, easily ranking No. 1 among all franchises (topping the Dodgers and Reds). That's largely due to the efforts of 1930s/40s-era Tribe hurlers Mel Harder and Bob Feller, who show up as the top two pitchers in All-Star history according to WAR. In 25⅓ combined All-Star innings over nine appearances, that pair allowed just 1 earned run, good for a miniscule ERA of 0.36.
Now, we should note that it's no coincidence the All-Star Game's most valuable pitchers played early in the game's existence. Back then, pitchers like Feller were allowed to log three to four innings at a time, as opposed to today's trend of letting each pitcher on the roster get about an inning of work apiece. Obviously, it's easier to rack up big WAR totals if you get to throw more innings — provided you're effective the way Harder and Feller were.
But that isn't to say no modern players are near the top of the All-Star WAR ranks. Mariano Rivera ranks ninth among pitchers after allowing zero earned runs in nine innings of work, and Randy Johnson ranks 11th. On the hitting side, Derek Jeter enhanced his status as baseball's biggest star with a 1.184 OPS and the third-most All-Star WAR of any position player.5 And Mike Trout is zooming up the list — because of course he is — with a 1.533 OPS and the seventh-most WAR of any hitter, compiled in only five appearances.
Speaking of modern entities, at the other end of the All-Star WAR spectrum from the Indians are the Miami Marlins and Colorado Rockies, who look terrible even after adjusting for how comparatively few chances they've had to rack up appearances. (Each franchise entered MLB in 1993.) Interestingly, the Astros join them among the teams whose players have done the least in the All-Star Game over the years. Houston has had plenty of top-line talent to represent it, but Jose Altuve and Craig Biggio combined to go 1-for-23 in their All-Star appearances, and Roger Clemens gave up 3 earned runs in two innings as an Astro, to go with a handful of other high-profile flops.
The good news for the Astros is that they'll get a bunch of chances to reverse that trend in Tuesday's game. At the same time, the Indians will get plenty more opportunities to pad their all-time numbers. Bauer and Ramirez might never catch up to Feller and Rosen, but they do have a lot of illustrious history on their side.
Check out our latest MLB predictions.
Including both original All-Star picks and injury replacements.
Averaging together the WAR values found at Baseball-Reference.com and FanGraphs.
Though I did adjust for position.
I also applied an adjustment for the leverage index of a pitcher's innings, although I ditched WAR's usual distinction between pitching stats for starters and relievers. In the All-Star Game, most pitchers are used in the manner of a typical reliever — for just an inning or two — even when they start.
This is the part where I reiterate that this simple version of WAR doesn't factor in Jeter's astonishingly bad defense relative to other shortstops.
Neil Paine is a senior writer for FiveThirtyEight. @Neil_Paine
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When Is Divorce The Right Choice For Your Family?
Deciding to split your family apart with a divorce is a big decision. A lot goes into making the decision to end your marriage, but even more so when there are children in the family. Making sure that it is the right decision to get a divorce can be very hard and you need to be sure you are making the right choice. A Columbus family law firm help us create a checklist of items that may help you determine if you are making the right decision.
The timeframe it takes you to determine if a divorce is the right choice is important to consider. However, there is no one size fits all timeline for people who are getting ready to file for a divorce. Each situation is unique, but you can almost always rely on a decent timeline to be sure you have given yourself adequate time to make a good decision.
Depending on what your situation is and what has made you decide that a divorce is the right choice for you, is how you are going to determine how much time you need to make this important decision. You should also take into consideration how long you have been in the relationship. There are many things you should consider, but you need to be sure that the timeline makes sense inside of your head and that you are not jumping to conclusions that you are going to regret.
Something that you have to consider when you are considering divorce is the possibility of you being able to come back from whatever has made your decision to get a divorce. If your spouse had an affair, said hurtful words, or fell out of love you will need to consider if it is something that can be bounced back from.
Some things are going to sting really hard initially, but in the end divorce is not the right choice, even if it seems as though it may be in the moment. You need to really think about what the underlying problem is and if it is something that can be healed over time. These situations are unique to each person and there is no one definitive answer.
Divorce is difficult. Having to split your family is not something that anyone is looking forward to. If you think that you may be considering a divorce we would suggest that you pay attention to the checklist that we have created for you. Be sure that you have considered all of your options and that this is a decision that is best for your family today, in a year, and in 5 years. There is a lot to consider and you want to be sure that you are making the right choice.
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Whether it is our family, our neighborhood, our school, our friends, our workplace, our faith community, our political party, our regiment or platoon in the military, our local service club, our sports teams… as humans, we all have a need for connection and want to belong to something greater than ourselves. The term "tribes" has come back into use to talk about groups people with whom we identify. Trekkies, Harry Potter lovers, Red Sox fans (not Yankee Fans), Ohio State fans (not Michigan fans), Nascar enthusiasts, the list goes on and on. I think it even includes people who want to live a more Can Do life.
In this age of technology and "social media," we have this ever expanding collection of "communication" technologies and tools that we use to connect: Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, LinkedIn, texting and the rest. The reason that they are so popular is that they are designed to tap into our need to be connected. Stay in touch. Be in relationship. It can be argued, and it is, that these devices and the communication they deliver are not enough and cannot satisfy us. When they are used to enhance relationships, they work well. They, however, cannot take the place of relationships. I want Siri to help me get to the restaurant for my dinner engagement, but I do not want her to go out to dinner with me as my companion!!
I believe that Can Do needs to be shared in order to grow. As I observe in The Can Do Chronicles, "CAN DO is always lived in relationship – with self, with God and with others." Can Do is strengths-based – grounded in saying YES! to life, and to each other. If my life is about "yes" and possibilities, it is also about the quality of how I connect with other people. And, for me personally, it also relies on and reflects the quality of how I connect with my God. When I don't stay connected, I tend to get too far into my own head and get in my own way, making it much easier for me to lose my Can Do focus on life in general.
My most dearly held belief is that the most important connection we have is to our kids – all of our kids – and the legacy we leave behind for them. When we say we are so concerned about bullying as an issue impacting our children, I think we should start by looking in the mirror and being more aware of how we, the adults, are treating each other. In the media and politics with headlines that accuse and sound bites that bite! And ask ourselves, "what is that teaching our kids?" Some people talk about the debt and environment that we are leaving our children. I am concerned about those, things too. But, when I see a world increasingly filled with negatives, blaming, "gotchya games," finger pointing that is polarizing and rude, I am also concerned about the toxic messages we give, and what we are showing our kids about how people treat each other and how to make decisions.
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MB Comment: Public schools in California are getting hit where it counts – their pocketbook. The Alice-in-Wonderland arithmetic of public school funding only pays for students who are present in classrooms. So when they exclude students who don't (or won't) meet the new pertussis vaccine requirement, they lose money.
Since California is teetering on the edge of Greek-like bankruptcy, this new vaccine mandate push by its state legislature should push it deeper into the red. Notice they don't advertise the vaccine exemptions that are available in California. That would undermine their monolithic push to vaccinate every student with the ineffective pertussis vaccine.
Incidentally, one other huge financial drain on public schools is the cost of educating vaccine-damaged (aka autistic) children, which threatens to bankrupt school districts.
The human and financial costs of the Vaccine Epidemic are dragging America into medical and financial bankruptcy.
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Cash-strapped school districts may not have any recourse but to absorb what could add up to millions in lost revenue caused by the absence of thousands of students who were sent home from school last week for not having proper vaccinations – but that could change, state officials said Friday.
A clause in the state education code that allows districts to collect attendance money if large numbers of students are absent because of a statewide emergency does not apply in this case, said California Department of Education's Erin Gabel.
"This is not an illness epidemic…it's a vaccination requirement," said Gabel, the CDE's Director of Legislative Affairs and Fiscal Policy.
Still, Gabel said, the situation has prompted an "internal dialogue" in her office about possible options for districts that have been severely impacted by large numbers of absences.
Despite an almost year-long campaign by CDE to get the word out that students in the 7th through 12th grades would not be allowed to start school without a vaccine for pertussis, or whooping cough, some districts across the state faced huge numbers of non-compliance even after legislation was adopted granting a 30-day extension
That deadline came last week for many districts and caused a flurry of news reports up and down the state as thousands of students were reportedly sent home for not having received the booster shot or bringing in a signed waiver exempting them from the requirement.
Elk Grove Unified School District, the largest in the Sacramento region, notified 200 students on Sept. 14 that they would not be allowed in class unless they produced the required paperwork, district spokeswoman Elizabeth Graswich said. The next day, 140 kids were still without proof of the vaccination.
She said her district loses about $30 per day (the statewide average) for every student not in attendance. In Elk Grove's case, the district would lose $6,000 a day if 200 students were missing from class.
Similar scenarios were playing out in districts across the state, with various media reporting significant numbers of affected student populations. San Francisco Unified on Thursday reportedly barred some 2,000 students from the classroom for not having been vaccinated. The San Diego Unified School District reported that 21,000 of its 60,000 7th-12th grade students had no proof of immunization.
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The state law mandating the Tdap (tetanus/diphtheria/pertussis) vaccine went into effect July 1 and was precipitated by a 2009 epidemic of pertussis, which killed 10 infants.
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To highlight the Lunar New Year, the McMullen Museum is teaming up with the Boston College Chinese Student Association (CSA), the Korean Student Association (KSA), the South East Student Association (SEASA), Vietnamese Student Association (VSA), and the Asian Caucus (AC) to present a series of arts and crafts, New Year's food from various countries, and a Lion Dance. All ages are welcome. There will be opportunities to play games, learn about Lunar New Year traditions and make paper lanterns, paper cuttings, paroles, Chinese knots and decorative New Year's envelopes.


Meetings are held at the Auraria Campus in Downtown Denver. We are located in the Plaza Building (red arrow) just east of the King Center. Enter on the side facing West Colfax Ave and head up the stairs. Parking locations are on the map.


Launched today a new campaigning network of local and global justice organisations, Debt Justice Action. Next week we via our government are paying €1.25 billion in the latest payment of an unsecured Anglo bond. This will be followed by numerous other payments. Repayments not of home loans or debts that the general public ran up but debts run up by banks and those abroad that invested (gambled) in them.
The campaign is calling for the suspension of Anglo/INBS repayments as a first step towards renegotiation and writedown of the debt. The bulk of the re-payments are government issued "promissory notes" – a promise to pay money in future. Debt write downs happen all the time. A pause while we get a write down and stop rolling over and paying debts that are not 'ours' would be in line with the policy of both parties in government before the last election. Not that they seem to remember that. It is high time that they were reminded.


At SIGMADESIGN, we empower employees to be leaders. We look to the future and cultivate leaders that will have a lasting impact on the direction of the company. Throughout the life of SIGMADESIGN, I have seen engineers become managers, lab technicians become directors, and development specialists become executives. As the company rapidly grows, we expect more men and women to evolve into roles that lead the company and its individuals to success.
So what does it take to become a leader? Being at the helm of SIGMADESIGN for nearly 25 years, I have observed and learned some key characteristics of leaders. These include humility, ability to influence and the desire to go above and beyond expectations.
Good leaders are humble. Some leaders desire to be in the spotlight, to be the person who receives all the recognition. But an excellent leader recognizes the heroes on their team. At SIGMADESIGN, we give all individuals the ability to recognize the considerable efforts of others in the company by giving out SCOR cards (SIGMA cards of recognition) in our weekly company-wide meetings. These cards can be given by anybody and to anybody who has gone above and beyond the regular requirements of their job. This provides a way for any employee to recognize the hero on their team.
A humble leader also looks for ways to serve their team. This doesn't mean they are jumping in to do other peoples' jobs. But it does mean that when they see a need, they are willing and eager to contribute whatever they can to satisfy that need. It means they're not afraid to add the fresh college graduate to their team because they're ready to mentor and help that team member grow when needed.
Nobody wants to follow somebody with a big ego. It's when a leader stays humble- celebrating the accomplishments of others and looking for ways to serve- that those around him or her will develop as a devoted member of a team. A genuine leader sees the value of the work of every person on his or her team.
A leader should know how to influence people. Influence doesn't happen from pulling rank and demanding the job get done. Rather, it's about having a team that trusts its leader enough to go the extra mile when asked. Building trust transpires in a number of ways. Leaders do this by having a proven track record, building relationships and placing confidence in their team.
A proven track record begins with technical competency and includes having the skill and experience needed to do a job well. This is why the technical interview is a vital part of our interview process at SIGMADESIGN. In addition to technical competency, a proven track record includes past successes, but also some failures. A trusted leader isn't someone that never makes a mistake; a trusted leader is someone who owns up to their mistake and grows from their failure.
If a leader wants to make an impact on people, they also need to build relational influence. At SIGMADESIGN, relational influence happens when employees truly care about each other and spend time together. I have seen this happen in a variety of ways. I think it starts with one of our core values: Take Time to Laugh. When we celebrate birthdays, hold nerf gun wars, or take a break to play a game of foosball, we are building relationships that extend beyond our daily tasks. With our open floor plan, it's easy for team members to spend time face-to-face. This is necessary for building confidence and trust in each other. When a leader cares for their teammates as people, not just as co-workers, they will enjoy relational influence.
Finally, a leader must show confidence in his or her team. They need to allow people to make decisions so they can learn. Strong leaders let their team members take charge of what they're doing. They push those around them to be better, and expect that they will be. They set high expectations, and believe their teammates will meet those expectations. When leaders trust the people around them, they will impact how those people work.
A good leader desires to go above and beyond expectations. This entails looking beyond daily tasks to see what an entire project needs. A leader looks to exceed their job description and asks, "What can I do to grow? What can I do to help those around me grow?" At SIGMADESIGN, we foster opportunities to go above and beyond by using our Core Values as a foundation for our work culture. By encouraging employees to Help Clients & Each Other, be Adaptable, and Exceed Client's Expectations, we are also encouraging them to become leaders. With the Core Values visible in nearly every room of the building, these behaviors remain in the forefront of their minds.
I see our Core Values in action at SIGMADESIGN frequently. Whether it's the Receptionist that jumps in to help the shipping/receiving department, or the Engineering Manager that invites the Summer Intern to go to a client meeting with him or her, employees continually look for ways to go above and beyond their own needs.
Becoming an effective leader is more than training and learning to manage people. A great leader understands that it is the people they lead that determine the success or failure of the project in the end. Leadership is a mindset of humility and service, a desire to have lasting impact, and an eagerness to go beyond what is expected. Ultimately, a great leader creates and nurtures other leaders.


Did you know February is Jewish Disability Awareness Month?
Beth Shalom will recognize Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month during Shabbat morning services at 9:30am on February 23rd. We will highlight the gifts that individuals with special needs bring to our Kehillah.
Join us for a sensory-friendly service welcoming Jews of all abilities to celebrate Shabbat together.
Stay for a beautiful Kiddush for this special Shabbat.


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Review: SQL Server 2017 adds Python, graph processing and runs on Linux
Integration of Python for data science, graph processing for NoSQL-like functionality, and it runs on Linux as well as Windows. At almost 30 years of age, Microsoft's flagship database has learned many new tricks.
By Andrew Brust for Big on Data | September 25, 2017 -- 13:00 GMT (06:00 PDT) | Topic: Big Data Analytics
Today, at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Microsoft is announcing the general availability of a new version of its flagship operational database, SQL Server 2017.
SQL Server is a product I have worked with for nearly my entire career. I started with version 4.2 for Windows in 1993 and have worked with and carefully reviewed each subsequent release, including this one. The thing I've taken away from all this work and evaluation is that while SQL Server has constantly improved, while it has modernized and added numerous features and bundled technologies, in many ways, it still feels like the same database I started working with almost 25 years ago.
At times, I think developers and database administrators need that familiarity. At other times they need the innovation and confidence that the product team has more new stuff in the pipeline. Customers need SQL Server to stay the same and yet they need it to change and improve. That really is SQL Server's unique challenge: it must be true to its legacy, and yet avoid stasis, staying competitive with the seemingly endless array of new data technologies, both commercial and open source.
Summary of SQL Server 2017 new features
Credit: Microsoft
This new version of SQL Server continues to meet these twin demands. It adds new features from the worlds of data science and NoSQL. It offers cross-platform capabilities and Docker container compatibility. But it also reinforces its investment in core database engine performance, ease of index maintenance, high availability and data warehouse performance. That's a difficult balance and one that other database vendors don't have to meet. While this may be Microsoft's cross to bear, the company does pretty well with it, turning a formidable challenge into a positive market differentiator.
Neo-retro: SQL Server for Linux
In a move that may seem ironic to the market and is yet quite consistent with SQL Server's legacy, the release of SQL Server 2017 heralds SQL Server's return to the *NIX platform, with a new Linux version of the product. And despite this development being legacy-consistent (early versions of SQL Server, co-developed with Sybase, also ran on UNIX), it is still a very big deal.
Also read: Microsoft's SQL Server 2017 for Linux and Windows moves ahead with first Release Candidate
SQL Server has grown quite significantly in popularity over the years. But the popularity of server-side Linux has grown too, and Macs have grown in popularity with developers. This has meant some customers have run a number of Windows servers in their data center just for SQL Server. It's also meant that Mac and Linux development machines have needed to connect to SQL Server over the network, and haven't been able to run it locally unless on a Windows virtual machine. Both of these issues have been blockers to adoption.
Also read: Why Microsoft needs SQL Server on Linux
With Linux compatibility, Microsoft begins the work of eliminating these adoption blockers. SQL Server can now run on Windows servers, Linux-based servers, or some combination of the two. The Linux version can also run in Docker containers (which can also be Windows- or Linux-based) making it almost trivial to run on a Mac. In fact, if a developer's machine already has Docker installed, running and has allocated at least 4GB of memory to it, then two commands, entered in a Mac or Linux machine's Terminal window, will download, install and start the product running. This same technique works on Windows machines, despite the fact the Windows version can be installed on the metal.
Windows-based SQL Server tools can connect to Windows or Linux instances of SQL Server, so Windows developers needn't change their toolsets. Meanwhile, these tools aren't required: Microsoft provides Linux command line tools for SQL Server, and the most important ones are installed into the Docker image by default. For people who want something more graphical, but still lightweight, Microsoft offers the mssql extension for its Visual Studio Code development tool, which runs on both Linux and Mac. It also runs Windows, allowing even Microsoft platform developers the option to use light-weight tools.
Moving from tools to companion technologies, many of them, including SQL Server Analysis Services and SQL Server Reporting Services, are not available in Linux versions, at least not yet. But while packages created for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Microsoft's stalwart ETL (extract, transform and load) tool, must be authored on Windows machines, the service itself can run on Linux and SSIS packages can be run at the Linux command line, using the command dtexec.
Unifying architecture
While not all SQL Server companion technologies are available on Linux, all features within the SQL Server relational database engine are available there. Even SQL Server's Always On high availability feature works - and Windows and Linux instances can be mixed together in the same Availability Group. Performance is also comparable on the two platforms.
The reason for feature parity between the Windows and Linux versions of the product is the SQL Platform Abstraction Layer (PAL), which is implemented on each OS. As the full name might suggest, the PALs abstract away the differences between the two operating systems, providing a common interface on which a single codebase can run.
With this architecture, any feature created for the SQL Server database engine on one platform is available on the other. And the PALs are implemented very efficiently. Microsoft attained record setting non-clustered TPC-H and 2-socket TPC-E benchmark results with SQL Server 2017, and one of the TPC-H results was achieved with the Linux version of the product.
She blinded me with (data) science!
While SQL Server for Linux is the 2017 release's banner feature, there are two additional major enhancements, as well as a slew of smaller ones which, together, make SQL Server much more robust.
SQL Server Machine Learning Services
On the Data Science side, Microsoft has taken SQL Server R Services, introduced in the 2016 release, and added support for the Python programming language. The enhanced feature, now dubbed SQL Server Machine Learning Services (ML Services), allows code in either language to execute natively on the SQL Server itself. Another option is to write and execute the R/Python code on a workstation but have it delegate the heavy work to run on the SQL Server.
Also read: Microsoft Data Amp heralds Python in SQL Server 2017, and lots more
Also read: Microsoft's R Strategy
R and Python already had access SQL Server, of course, but only if running externally, and thus transferring data queried from the SQL Server to the machine running the code. Running the code natively on SQL Server avoids such data movement, allowing for the creation and training of predictive ML models on the server itself, over large volumes of data, analyzed in-place.
Keeping score
Those models can then be serialized and stored in SQL Server databases. Later, the models can be retrieved and de-serialized, and predictions can be run against them, using SQL Server data as the input. This process, called scoring, can be implemented in code written either in R or Python, via ad hoc scripts or stored procedures. And since stored procedure calls can run on a scheduled basis using a component called the SQL Server Agent, the entire scoring process can be server-based and thoroughly operationalized. That's a big deal, given that scoring has customarily been run on a more ad hoc basis, on data scientists' own machines.
The scoring story gets even better in SQL Server 2017. Beyond the addition of Python as a language that can used for the scoring process, T-SQL code itself can now perform "native scoring" as well, using the language's new PREDICT function. As long as the models being scored against have been trained and are stored in the database in the prescribed RevoScaleR or RevoScalePy format, T-SQL can be used to score against them, whether or not R or Python is even installed on the server.
This allows for a very important separation of concerns, whereby Data Scientists can build and train ML models in their own environment, then store them in the database, where any developer can write T-SQL queries to score against them. And if the SQL Server host has Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) on board, data scientists can see even bigger gains, beyond elimination of data movement, by training their models there.
Enterprise, ready or not
Another T-SQL/Data Science integration in SQL Server 2017 is the ability to add R packages for (modules that act as language extensions) via T-SQL's new CREATE EXTERNAL LIBRARY command, and stored in specific databases, rather than added through R's install.packages() function and made available globally. This gives database administrators greater and more granular control over resources and capabilities that are turned on or off.
This combination of features makes substantial progress toward bringing Data Science forward into mainstream enterprise computing. The ubiquity of SQL Server in enterprise technology environments brings operationalized Data Science onto a bigger stage. Now it's up to Microsoft to drive adoption of these features, rather than just making them available.
Graphic language
The other major addition to SQL Server 2017 is new support for graph processing.
So-called NoSQL databases, of which graph databases comprise one major category, have been a thorn in Microsoft's side for at least six years. And despite the fact that they can be a bit esoteric and pale in adoption levels compared to database products based on conventional relational technology (like SQL Server), they can be very useful for particular database scenarios.
Graph processing is all about nodes and edges
Instead of rows and columns, tables in graph databases contain "nodes" (sometimes called "vertices") and "edges." Nodes represent entities while edges represent relationships between them. With relationships codified at the entity level, rather than the table level, it becomes much easier to do things like get all the entities related to another one in particular.
That type of query is common when working with any domain where networks are involved, including social networks. Want to get all the comments for a given post? Easy peasy. Want to know all the friends two people have in common? Piece of cake.
SQL Server developers can simply specify the AS NODE or AS EDGE keywords in their CREATE TABLE commands when building tables that will store graph entities. When querying any such table, they can then use the MATCH keyword in their SELECT statements to answer the network-related questions, like the social media one we just discussed.
SQL Server can query across a heterogeneous mix of graph tables and conventional ones. It can also enlist columnstore indexes in accelerating queries that benefit from them.
Yes, Linux, Python and graph processing is a lot, but there's more. Here's a final roundup of what's new in the relational database engine.
SQL Server's vector processing-based batch execution mode is now available to the entire execution of R or Python code. Since much of the work that tends to be done in R and Python involves aggregation, batch mode - which processes rows of data several at a time, can be very helpful.
Two other new batch mode features, memory grant feedback and adaptive joins, will enhance SQL Server's performance and efficiency as well.
In the operational analytics department, the non-clustered variety of Columnstore indexes (NCCIs), introduced in SQL Server 2012, can now be built and rebuilt without taking the tables they index offline, making operational analytics more feasible to implement.
BLOBs (binary large objects, such as whole files, stored in a table) in Columnstore indexes can now be compressed, to save storage space, and the Columnstore index can process them in the compressed format, which also speeds backups.
SQL 2017's new resumable index operations feature allows index rebuilds to be resumed after a database failure or manual abort of the operation, rather than needing to be restarted from scratch, once the database is back online.
SQL Server's query processor can now automatically detect and remediate so-called plan regressions, which occur when it reformulates the best way to query a table but "forgets" certain optimizations it made to the prior plan that may still apply.
SQL Server's In-Memory OLTP facility (a.k.a. "Hekaton"), which processes data in memory and compiles T-SQL stored procedures down to native code, has shed many of its restrictions, allowing the feature to be used in many more scenarios.
Beyond relational
Although the bulk of the new features in SQL Server 2017 are delivered in the core relational database management system (RDBMS) engine, other components of the SQL Server suite of technologies are seeing some improvement as well.
Let's start with SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), whose Tabular Mode engine is the Enterprise version of the technology behind Excel's data model and Power Pivot; Power BI Desktop; the Power BI Cloud Service and the new Azure Analysis Services preview service. SSAS Tabular continues to see investment that brings its feature set into near-parity with SSAS' classic Multidimensional model.
First off, Tabular mode is now the default installation option for Analysis Services. A new 1400 compatibility level allows SSAS Tabular's tooling (part of the Visual Studio-based SQL Server Data Tools - SSDT) to provide the same data acquisition dialogs and much of the data source connectivity that's available in the Excel 2016 for Windows and Power BI Desktop. This includes an equivalent data preparation interface and use of the same underlying M programming language that's available in Power BI and Excel. The SSDT tooling for SSAS also now includes an editor for the Tabular engine's DAX (Data Analysis eXpressions) language.
Encoding hints speed up data refresh; a Hide Members property finally allows ragged hierarchies in dimensions; show details is now supported for drillthrough actions from clients like Excel; object-level security has been added; dynamic management views have been improved; and an IN operator and a CONTAINSROW function have been added to DAX.
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) has added a comments feature, for collaborative review of reports, and a DAX editor has been added to the query designer, both in SSDT and the standalone Report Builder application. SSRS is also available in an enhanced incarnation, as Power BI Report Server. More details on that appear below.
SQL Server Integration Services has added a new scale-out feature and, as already discussed, can run on SQL Server for Linux. It also offers enhanced connectivity to Microsoft Dynamics AX Online and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online.
On the business side
There's more to SQL Server than product features, of course; the business side is important too.
Microsoft is not introducing any price increases with this version of the product. In fact, for the Linux version, Microsoft is offering a promotional (limited time) Software Assurance (SA)-only subscription for the Standard and Enterprise editions of the product. This is a bit like getting a free license as long as you sign up for maintenance and, according to Microsoft, represents a 30% discount in all-in fees. When you combine this promotion with the fact that SQL Server Developer Edition is free (a policy Microsoft instituted in early last year), customers get open source-like economics with SQL Server.
And speaking of SA, SQL Server Enterprise Edition (EE) customers who have it will be entitled to a new on-premises analytics product: Power BI Report Server (PBIRS). PBIRS allows for Enterprise-wide on-premises delivery of Microsoft Power BI reports, previously available only through a cloud subscription (or, for those so determined, email attachment-based file sharing).
As it turns out, PBIRS is a full superset of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), thus consolidating all of Microsoft's reporting and data visualization products (SSRS, SSRS Mobile Reports and Power BI) into one Enterprise reporting platform and Web-based portal. The only other way to acquire PBIRS is through a Power BI Premium subscription, which starts at $4,995/month for a single dedicated P1 node, with 8 virtual cores.
Just 16 months later, a big release
That enables the SQL Server team to shorten release cycles for the conventional on-premises editions (the "box product" in Microsoft parlance) and include features that have already been battle-tested. That's why we're getting SQL Server 2017 approximately 16 months after the release of SQL Server 2016, and we're getting major new functionality like Linux, Python, graph processing, and a slew of smaller improvements that keep previously released features well-tuned and relevant.
SQL Server releases used to come every 2-3 years, with some fairly "big bang" changes, and accompanying calls to action around training, readiness and upgrades. Now, with the SQL Server code base being used by Azure SQL Database as well, feature enhancements are deployed, and used in production, at shorter intervals and with less...well...hoopla.
For SQL Server, big bang releases become more like occasional roll-ups of slipstreamed cloud product features. Distinctions between SQL Server and dedicated NoSQL databases become less acute. Data Science, analytics and operational technologies are blending together and becoming more operationalized. BI on the desktop, server, SaaS cloud and PaaS cloud share the same core engine technology. Operating system/platform differences are literally getting abstracted away.
A new database world order
I'm a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, and in no way an unbiased observer. That said, my own earnest observation is that Microsoft's combination of Enterprise legacy, public cloud prowess, developer-friendliness and recent school-of-hard-knocks education puts it in a leading position within the industry to take on this new normal in the world of data, and technology overall. SQL Server 2017 is a significant artefact in that transition to leadership.
In the database world, velocity is increasing and the speed bumps are smoothing out. There's a constant stream of new capabilities, with little time to rest, but with less inertia to overcome, as practitioners and users are constantly in motion, much like data itself.
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According to a new study, one in 10 people have had a near death experience. - by Philip Ellis
We've all heard stories about out-of-body experiences: feeling like you're floating, seeing a bright light. According to new research, it's actually a lot more common than previously believed, and affects around 10 per cent of people. A team comprising researchers from Denmark, Norway and Germany who conducted an extensive study with over 1,000 participants from 35 countries just presented their findings at the 5th European Academy of Neurology Congress.
The research team found that approximately one in 10 participants reported having had some kind of near death experience (NDE), with a range of physical and almost spiritual symptoms. These include feeling an awareness that they were outside their body, feeling as if their soul was being "sucked out," and being in a dark tunnel and seeing a bright light.
Out of the people who said they'd had an NDE, 87 per cent said they experienced "abnormal time perception," 65 per cent experienced "exceptional speed of thought," 63 per cent felt they had "exceptionally vivid senses" and 53 per cent felt "separated" from their body. While NDEs had previously been thought of as a peaceful experience, 73 per cent of people in this new study said they found it unpleasant.
Some participants also said that they could see or feel a demon sitting on their chest while they were sleeping; a common symptom of sleep paralysis. And a connection between sleep paralysis and NDEs did indeed emerge during the study. "Our central finding is that we confirmed the association of near-death experiences with REM sleep intrusion," said lead researcher Dr Daniel Kondziella, a neurologist from the University of Copenhagen. "Although association is not causality, identifying the physiological mechanisms behind REM sleep intrusion into wakefulness might advance our understanding of near-death experiences."
Kondziella acknowledged that the 10 per cent figure is higher than previous studies had found, and suggested that those lower rates were down to the test subject groups being confined to cardiac arrest survivors, while his group consisted of 1,034 lay-people.
This article originally appeared on Men's Health US