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The Belem Ecosocialist Declaration
Call for signatures
The following Declaration was prepared by a committee elected for this purpose at the Paris Ecosocialist Conference of 2007 (Ian Angus, Joel Kovel, Michael Löwy), with the help of Danielle Follett. It will be distributed at the World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil, in January 2009.
To add your name to the list of signatories who support the analysis and political perspectives set forth in this statement, email your name and country of residence to ecosocialism@gmail.com
"The world is suffering from a fever due to climate change,
and the disease is the capitalist development model."
— Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, September 2007
Humanity's Choice
Humanity today faces a stark choice: ecosocialism or barbarism.
We need no more proof of the barbarity of capitalism, the parasitical system that exploits humanity and nature alike. Its sole motor is the imperative toward profit and thus the need for constant growth. It wastefully creates unnecessary products, squandering the environment's limited resources and returning to it only toxins and pollutants. Under capitalism, the only measure of success is how much more is sold every day, every week, every year – involving the creation of vast quantities of products that are directly harmful to both humans and nature, commodities that cannot be produced without spreading disease, destroying the forests that produce the oxygen we breathe, demolishing ecosystems, and treating our water, air and soil like sewers for the disposal of industrial waste.
Capitalism's need for growth exists on every level, from the individual enterprise to the system as a whole. The insatiable hunger of corporations is facilitated by imperialist expansion in search of ever greater access to natural resources, cheap labor and new markets. Capitalism has always been ecologically destructive, but in our lifetimes these assaults on the earth have accelerated. Quantitative change is giving way to qualitative transformation, bringing the world to a tipping point, to the edge of disaster. A growing body of scientific research has identified many ways in which small temperature increases could trigger irreversible, runaway effects – such as rapid melting of the Greenland ice sheet or the release of methane buried in permafrost and beneath the ocean – that would make catastrophic climate change inevitable.
Left unchecked, global warming will have devastating effects on human, animal and plant life. Crop yields will drop drastically, leading to famine on a broad scale. Hundreds of millions of people will be displaced by droughts in some areas and by rising ocean levels in others. Chaotic, unpredictable weather will become the norm. Air, water and soil will be poisoned. Epidemics of malaria, cholera and even deadlier diseases will hit the poorest and most vulnerable members of every society.
The impact of the ecological crisis is felt most severely by those whose lives have already been ravaged by imperialism in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and indigenous peoples everywhere are especially vulnerable. Environmental destruction and climate change constitute an act of aggression by the rich against the poor.
Ecological devastation, resulting from the insatiable need to increase profits, is not an accidental feature of capitalism: it is built into the system's DNA and cannot be reformed away. Profit-oriented production only considers a short-term horizon in its investment decisions, and cannot take into account the long-term health and stability of the environment. Infinite economic expansion is incompatible with finite and fragile ecosystems, but the capitalist economic system cannot tolerate limits on growth; its constant need to expand will subvert any limits that might be imposed in the name of "sustainable development." Thus the inherently unstable capitalist system cannot regulate its own activity, much less overcome the crises caused by its chaotic and parasitical growth, because to do so would require setting limits upon accumulation – an unacceptable option for a system predicated upon the rule: Grow or Die!
If capitalism remains the dominant social order, the best we can expect is unbearable climate conditions, an intensification of social crises and the spread of the most barbaric forms of class rule, as the imperialist powers fight among themselves and with the global south for continued control of the world's diminishing resources.
At worst, human life may not survive.
Capitalist Strategies for Change
There is no lack of proposed strategies for contending with ecological ruin, including the crisis of global warming looming as a result of the reckless increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide. The great majority of these strategies share one common feature: they are devised by and on behalf of the dominant global system, capitalism.
It is no surprise that the dominant global system which is responsible for the ecological crisis also sets the terms of the debate about this crisis, for capital commands the means of production of knowledge, as much as that of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Accordingly, its politicians, bureaucrats, economists and professors send forth an endless stream of proposals, all variations on the theme that the world's ecological damage can be repaired without disruption of market mechanisms and of the system of accumulation that commands the world economy.
But a person cannot serve two masters – the integrity of the earth and the profitability of capitalism. One must be abandoned, and history leaves little question about the allegiances of the vast majority of policy-makers. There is every reason, therefore, to radically doubt the capacity of established measures to check the slide to ecological catastrophe.
And indeed, beyond a cosmetic veneer, the reforms over the past thirty-five years have been a monstrous failure. Isolated improvements do of course occur, but they are inevitably overwhelmed and swept away by the ruthless expansion of the system and the chaotic character of its production.
One example demonstrates the failure: in the first four years of the 21st Century, global carbon emissions were nearly three times as great per annum as those of the decade of the 1990s, despite the appearance of the Kyoto Protocols in 1997.
Kyoto employs two devices: the "Cap and Trade" system of trading pollution credits to achieve certain reductions in emissions, and projects in the global south – the so-called "Clean Development Mechanisms" – to offset emissions in the highly industrialized nations. These instruments all rely upon market mechanisms, which means, first of all, that atmospheric carbon dioxide becomes a commodity under the control of the same interests that created global warming. Polluters are not compelled to reduce their carbon emissions, but allowed to use their power over money to control the carbon market for their own ends, which include the devastating exploration for yet more carbon-based fuels. Nor is there a limit to the amount of emission credits which can be issued by compliant governments.
Since verification and evaluation of results are impossible, the Kyoto regime is not only incapable of controlling emissions, it also provides ample opportunities for evasion and fraud of all kinds. As even the Wall Street Journal put it in March, 2007, emissions trading "would make money for some very large corporations, but don't believe for a minute that this charade would do much about global warming."
The Bali climate meetings in 2007 opened the way for even greater abuses in the period ahead. Bali avoided any mention of the goals for drastic carbon reduction put forth by the best climate science (90% by 2050); it abandoned the peoples of the global south to the mercy of capital by giving jurisdiction over the process to the World Bank; and made offsetting of carbon pollution even easier.
In order to affirm and sustain our human future, a revolutionary transformation is needed, where all particular struggles take part in a greater struggle against capital itself. This larger struggle cannot remain merely negative and anti-capitalist. It must announce and build a different kind of society, and this is ecosocialism.
The Ecosocialist Alternative
The ecosocialist movement aims to stop and to reverse the disastrous process of global warming in particular and of capitalist ecocide in general, and to construct a radical and practical alternative to the capitalist system. Ecosocialism is grounded in a transformed economy founded on the non-monetary values of social justice and ecological balance. It criticizes both capitalist "market ecology" and productivist socialism, which ignored the earth's equilibrium and limits. It redefines the path and goal of socialism within an ecological and democratic framework.
Ecosocialism involves a revolutionary social transformation, which will imply the limitation of growth and the transformation of needs by a profound shift away from quantitative and toward qualitative economic criteria, an emphasis on use-value instead of exchange-value.
These aims require both democratic decision-making in the economic sphere, enabling society to collectively define its goals of investment and production, and the collectivization of the means of production. Only collective decision-making and ownership of production can offer the longer-term perspective that is necessary for the balance and sustainability of our social and natural systems.
The rejection of productivism and the shift away from quantitative and toward qualitative economic criteria involve rethinking the nature and goals of production and economic activity in general. Essential creative, non-productive and reproductive human activities, such as householding, child-rearing, care, child and adult education, and the arts, will be key values in an ecosocialist economy.
Clean air and water and fertile soil, as well as universal access to chemical-free food and renewable, non-polluting energy sources, are basic human and natural rights defended by ecosocialism. Far from being "despotic," collective policy-making on the local, regional, national and international levels amounts to society's exercise of communal freedom and responsibility. This freedom of decision constitutes a liberation from the alienating economic "laws" of the growth-oriented capitalist system.
To avoid global warming and other dangers threatening human and ecological survival, entire sectors of industry and agriculture must be suppressed, reduced, or restructured and others must be developed, while providing full employment for all. Such a radical transformation is impossible without collective control of the means of production and democratic planning of production and exchange. Democratic decisions on investment and technological development must replace control by capitalist enterprises, investors and banks, in order to serve the long-term horizon of society's and nature's common good.
The most oppressed elements of human society, the poor and indigenous peoples, must take full part in the ecosocialist revolution, in order to revitalize ecologically sustainable traditions and give voice to those whom the capitalist system cannot hear. Because the peoples of the global south and the poor in general are the first victims of capitalist destruction, their struggles and demands will help define the contours of the ecologically and economically sustainable society in creation. Similarly, gender equality is integral to ecosocialism, and women's movements have been among the most active and vocal opponents of capitalist oppression. Other potential agents of ecosocialist revolutionary change exist in all societies.
Such a process cannot begin without a revolutionary transformation of social and political structures based on the active support, by the majority of the population, of an ecosocialist program. The struggle of labour – workers, farmers, the landless and the unemployed – for social justice is inseparable from the struggle for environmental justice. Capitalism, socially and ecologically exploitative and polluting, is the enemy of nature and of labour alike.
Ecosocialism proposes radical transformations in:
the energy system, by replacing carbon-based fuels and biofuels with clean sources of power under community control: wind, geothermal, wave, and above all, solar power.
the transportation system, by drastically reducing the use of private trucks and cars, replacing them with free and efficient public transportation;
present patterns of production, consumption, and building, which are based on waste, inbuilt obsolescence, competition and pollution, by producing only sustainable and recyclable goods and developing green architecture;
food production and distribution, by defending local food sovereignty as far as this is possible, eliminating polluting industrial agribusinesses, creating sustainable agro-ecosystems and working actively to renew soil fertility.
To theorize and to work toward realizing the goal of green socialism does not mean that we should not also fight for concrete and urgent reforms right now. Without any illusions about "clean capitalism," we must work to impose on the powers that be – governments, corporations, international institutions – some elementary but essential immediate changes:
drastic and enforceable reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases,
development of clean energy sources,
provision of an extensive free public transportation system,
progressive replacement of trucks by trains,
creation of pollution clean-up programs,
elimination of nuclear energy, and war spending.
These and similar demands are at the heart of the agenda of the Global Justice movement and the World Social Forums, which have promoted, since Seattle in 1999, the convergence of social and environmental movements in a common struggle against the capitalist system.
Environmental devastation will not be stopped in conference rooms and treaty negotiations: only mass action can make a difference. Urban and rural workers, peoples of the global south and indigenous peoples everywhere are at the forefront of this struggle against environmental and social injustice, fighting exploitative and polluting multinationals, poisonous and disenfranchising agribusinesses, invasive genetically modified seeds, biofuels that only aggravate the current food crisis. We must further these social-environmental movements and build solidarity between anticapitalist ecological mobilizations in the North and the South.
This Ecosocialist Declaration is a call to action. The entrenched ruling classes are powerful, yet the capitalist system reveals itself every day more financially and ideologically bankrupt, unable to overcome the economic, ecological, social, food and other crises it engenders. And the forces of radical opposition are alive and vital. On all levels, local, regional and international, we are fighting to create an alternative system based in social and ecological justice.
(To add your name to the list of signatories, email your name and country of residence to ecosocialism@gmail.com)
We, the undersigned, endorse the analysis and political perspectives outlined in the Belem Ecosocialist Declaration, and support the establishment and building of an Ecosocialist International Network.
Ian Angus, Canada
José Bazin, Canada (Québec)
Craig Brozefsky, USA
Joaquín Bustelo, USA
Domhnall Ó Cobhthaigh, Ireland
Phil Cournoyer, Canada
Danielle Follett, France
Cy Gonick, Canada
Hunter Gray [Hunter Bear] U.S.A.
Joel Kovel, USA
Mark A. Lause, USA
Richard Levins, USA
Kevin Lewis, USA
Michael Löwy, France
Dan Murray, Canada
Terry Townsend, Australia
Bernadette L. Wagner, Canada
Derek Wall, England
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On 1st July 2017 we marked the one year anniversary of a major milestone in plans to transform cancer care in the region – when we brought together the treatment of people with blood cancers and solid tumours.
In July 2017 the management of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital haemato-oncology service, and its 120 members of staff, transferred to The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.
The outpatient, inpatient and day case haemato-oncology services will continue to be delivered within the Royal Liverpool University Hospital before moving into The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre's new 11-floor hospital when it opens in 2020. This will enable patients' seamless access to the same services and levels of care no matter what type of cancer they have. This includes counselling, psychological and peer support, financial advice and therapies.


Bring your favourite pastime back to life – a cold Popsicle on a hot summer day, with the inflatable ice lolly lounger. Except this Popsicle won't melt, and provides a comfortable resting spot on the water. Featuring a photo-realistic design, with bite mark included, this item is sure to turn heads and bring smiles at pool parties and barbecues.
Relax and have fun in the swimming pool with this giant inflatable Ice Lolly Lounger.
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Beauty and the Beast is a timeless work of art beloved by all generations of viewers. The beautiful and strong protagonist Belle has the power to rivive the red rose of love in the almost petrified heart of the, once prince, Beast. In the review I wrote about Disney's new live action movie with Emma Watson, I promised you the sweetest and most delicious cake full of red roses. Here it is!
For the base: 1 cup all purpose flour, 4 oz butter, 6 tbsp icing sugar, 4 tbsp of cold water, 1 egg yolk, 1 pinch of salt.
For the cream: 10 oz milk, 1 vanilla bean, 4 egg yolks, 5 tbsp of sugar, 3 tbsp of sifted all purpose flour.
For the roses: 3 red apples, 1/2 lemon juice, red fruits syrup.
Set the base of your plot.
Start by making the base because the dough needs to rest in the fridge for at least 2 hours. I've learnt, after many many attempts, that the best way at all to make this types of dough (with flour and butter) is to never touch with you hands the ingredients while you are mixing them, therefore my suggestion is to use a mixer. Moreover, in order to keep the temperature as low as possible put the blade in the freezer for ten/fifteen minutes before the preparation.
Now you are ready to fill the mixer with all the ingredients, flour, butter cut into little cubes, icing sugar, egg yolk, salt and water. Mix for thirty seconds at a time in order not to warm the mixture and check the consistecy which has to be sandy. If you feel that it is still to fluory add another spoon of cold water. Don't expect it to become a ball of dough by itself, it will always be sandy. To check if it is ready pinch it with two fingers and see if the grains stick together. Use a spoon to move the mixture in a bag and use your hands from outside of the bag to create a ball that has to be left in then fridge for two hours.
When the two hours have passed, move the dough onto a lightly floured surface, use a rolling pin to roll it and position it inside a buttered cake pan. Cook into a preheated oven at 380F for 20 minutes.
Now the narration will be much easier (just like the recipe).
Prepare the cream and the apples.
Heat on a low flame the milk with the vanilla bean cut in the middle. Mix very well in a bowl the yolks first with sugar and then with the sifted flour. Pour the warm milk, mix everything together away from the stove, then transfer on a medium flame and whisk till it reaches the right creamy consistency. Let cool.
Wash the apples and cut into quarters. Remove the petiole and the core and sprinkle with lemon juice to prevent them from becoming brown.
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Once you sliced the apple quarters make a line with the slices and roll them. The longer the line, the bigger the rose. I decided to make roses of different sizes.
Cook for other 10 minutes in the oven and let cool before adding the decorations. I wanted my apple roses to shine as much as possible so I brushed them with red fruits syrup.
The result is a cake that would melt anybody's petrified heart….it is so perfect that Disney's should add it in the plot of the next remake of Beauty and the Beast!


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Q: Error Retrieving when saving or retrieving a BD SQL Server image When saving an image to the SQL Server 2014 database, is saved in a column of type Image. The problem is that when retrieving the image and receive it in a variable type byte[] doing the right conversion I can not see in the control intended, I have identified that when sending it to the database the number of bytes is 139551 bytes, but when retrieving it from the database, the number of bytes is 13 bytes [13]. Obviously could not change the column type to varbinary (MAX) because it only supports 8000 bytes...
Database recovery:
DataTable Tabla = ConsultasMasivasN.ConsultarSoporteIndicadorN(CodigoGI, UsuarioS);
ViewState["TblSoporte"] = Tabla;
gridListado.DataSource = Tabla;
gridListado.DataBind();

Session["Consulta"] = Tabla;

Handler file:
if (context.Session["Consulta"] != null)
{
    DataTable tbRegistro = (DataTable)context.Session["Consulta"];
    DataRow drRegistro = tbRegistro.Select(string.Format("Codigo={0}", context.Request.QueryString["Codigo"]))[0];
    byte[] imagen = (byte[])drRegistro["Soporte"];
    context.Response.ContentType = "image/jpg";
    context.Response.OutputStream.Write(imagen, 0, imagen.Length);
}

I appreciate your help !

A: Resolved, Change the data type in the Database Image field to varbinary(MAX) and use a stored procedure defining SqlDbType.VarBinary to insert the image into the database so I did not lose bytes in the process, before I just saved The variable type [] byte in the Image field.
Table:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[SoporteIndicador](
    [Codigo] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
    [CodigoIM] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
    [CodigoGI] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
    [Soporte] [varbinary](max) NOT NULL,
    [NombreSoporte] [varchar](150) NOT NULL,
    [UsuarioRegistro] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
    [FechRegistro] [datetime] NOT NULL

Error:
public static int RegistrarSoporteIndicador(SoporteIndicador soporteIndicador)
        {
            int Ingreso = 0;
            using (SqlConnection conexion = Conexion.ObtenerConexion())
            {
                SqlCommand Ingresar = new SqlCommand(string.Format(
                    "Insert Into SoporteIndicador (CodigoIM,CodigoGI,Soporte,NombreSoporte,UsuarioRegistro,FechRegistro) values ('{0}', '{1}', '{2}', '{3}', '{4}', '{5}')",
                soporteIndicador.CodigoIM,
                soporteIndicador.CodigoGI,
                soporteIndicador.Soporte, //Type []byte                soporteIndicador.NombreSoporte,
                soporteIndicador.UsuarioRegistro,
                soporteIndicador.FechRegistro), conexion);
                Ingreso = Ingresar.ExecuteNonQuery();
                conexion.Close();
            }
            SqlConnection cerrarcon = Conexion.CerrarConexion();
            return Ingreso;
        }

Solved:
public static int RegistrarSoporteIndicador(SoporteIndicador soporteIndicador)
        {
            int Ingreso = 0;
            using (SqlConnection conexion = Conexion.ObtenerConexion())
            {
                using (SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("PA_Guardar_Registro", conexion))
                {
                    cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
                    cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("CodigoIM", soporteIndicador.CodigoIM);
                    cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("CodigoGI", soporteIndicador.CodigoGI);
                    SqlParameter imageParam = cmd.Parameters.Add("@Soporte", System.Data.SqlDbType.VarBinary);
                    imageParam.Value = soporteIndicador.Soporte;
                    cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("NombreSoporte", soporteIndicador.NombreSoporte);
                    cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("UsuarioRegistro", soporteIndicador.UsuarioRegistro);
                    cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("FechRegistro", soporteIndicador.FechRegistro);

                    Ingreso = cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
                    conexion.Close();
                }
            }
            SqlConnection cerrarcon = Conexion.CerrarConexion();
            return Ingreso;
        }

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package com.spectralogic.ds3autogen.java.generators.typemodels;

import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
import com.spectralogic.ds3autogen.api.models.apispec.Ds3Element;
import com.spectralogic.ds3autogen.api.models.apispec.Ds3EnumConstant;
import com.spectralogic.ds3autogen.api.models.apispec.Ds3Type;
import com.spectralogic.ds3autogen.java.models.EnumConstant;
import org.junit.Test;

import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
import static org.junit.Assert.*;

public class ChecksumTypeGenerator_Test {

    private static final ChecksumTypeGenerator generator = new ChecksumTypeGenerator();

    @Test
    public void getAllImports_Test() {
        final ImmutableList<Ds3Element> ds3Elements = ImmutableList.of(
                new Ds3Element("ElementName1", "com.spectralogic.test.ElementType1", "ElementComponentType1", false),
                new Ds3Element("ElementName2", "ElementType2", "com.spectralogic.test.ElementComponentType2", false),
                new Ds3Element("ElementName3", "ElementType3", null, false));

        final Ds3Type ds3Type = new Ds3Type(
                "TypeName",
                null,
                ds3Elements,
                null);

        final ImmutableList<String> result = generator.getAllImports(ds3Type);
        assertThat(result.size(), is(0));
    }

    @Test
    public void toEnumConstantList_NullList_Test() {
        final ImmutableList<EnumConstant> result = generator.toEnumConstantList(null);
        assertThat(result.size(), is(0));
    }

    @Test
    public void toEnumConstantList_EmptyList_Test() {
        final ImmutableList<EnumConstant> result = generator.toEnumConstantList(ImmutableList.of());
        assertThat(result.size(), is(0));
    }

    @Test
    public void toEnumConstantList_FullList_Test() {
        final ImmutableList<Ds3EnumConstant> enumConstants = ImmutableList.of(
                new Ds3EnumConstant("CRC_32", null),
                new Ds3EnumConstant("CRC_32C", null),
                new Ds3EnumConstant("MD5", null),
                new Ds3EnumConstant("SHA_256", null),
                new Ds3EnumConstant("SHA_512", null));

        final ImmutableList<EnumConstant> result = generator.toEnumConstantList(enumConstants);
        assertThat(result.size(), is(6));
        assertThat(result.get(0).getName(), is("CRC_32"));
        assertThat(result.get(1).getName(), is("CRC_32C"));
        assertThat(result.get(2).getName(), is("MD5"));
        assertThat(result.get(3).getName(), is("SHA_256"));
        assertThat(result.get(4).getName(), is("SHA_512"));
        assertThat(result.get(5).getName(), is("NONE"));
    }
}

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IEEE HPDIC 2012 : 2012 International Workshop on High Performance Data Intensive Computing In Conjunction With IEEE IPDPS 2012
Link: http://cloud.hdu.edu.cn/HPDIC2012/
Categories parallel computing storage high performance computing
2012 International Workshop on High Performance Data Intensive Computing(HPDIC2012)
In Conjunction With IEEE IPDPS 2012
Over the recent years, data generated by humanities, scientific activities, as well as commercial applications from a diverse range of fields have been increasing exponentially. Data volumes of applications in the fields of sciences and engineering, finance, media, online information resources, etc. are expected to double every two years over the next decade and further. With this continuing data explosion, it is necessary to store and process data efficiently by utilizing enormous computing power that is available in the form of multi/manycore platforms. This increase in the demand for high performance large-scale data processing has necessitated collaboration and sharing of data collections among the world's leading education, research, and industrial institutions and use of distributed resources owned by collaborating parties. This kind of data intensive computing is posing many challenges in exploiting parallelism of current and upcoming computer architectures, such as automated data collection and provisioning, system monitoring and management, programming models, etc. Performance related aspects are becoming the bottlenecks for implementation, deployment and commercial application and its operation in data intensive computing system. The high performance data intensive computing paradigm also comes up with algorithmic and engineering issues such as performance aspects not yet eminent but expected to grow with their scaling of the large scale systems, and the dynamics of management. These new challenges may comprise, sometimes even deteriorate the performance, efficiency, and scalability of the dedicated data intensive computing systems.
There is no doubt in the industry and research community that the importance of data intensive computing has been raising and will continue to be the foremost fields of research. This raise brings up many research issues, in forms of capturing and accessing data effectively and fast, processing it while still achieving high performance and high throughput, and storing it efficiently for future use. Programming for high performance yielding data intensive computing is an important challenging issue. Expressing data access requirements of applications and designing programming language abstractions to exploit parallelism are at immediate need. Application and domain specific optimizations are also parts of a viable solution in data intensive computing. While these are a few examples of issues, research in data intensive computing has become quite intense during the last few years yielding strong results.
Moreover, in a widely distributed environment, data is often not locally accessible and has thus to be remotely retrieved and stored. While traditional distributed systems work well for computation that requires limited data handling, they may fail in unexpected ways when the computation accesses, creates, and moves large amounts of data especially over wide-area networks. Further, data accessed and created is often poorly described, lacking both metadata and provenance. Scientists, researchers, and application developers are often forced to solve basic data-handling issues, such as physically locating data, how to access it, and/or how to move it to visualization and/or compute resources for further analysis.
This workshop focuses on the challenges imposed by high performance data-intensive applications on distributed systems, and on the different state-of-the-art solutions proposed to overcome these challenges. It brought together the collaborative and distributed computing community and the data management community in an effort to generate productive conversations on the planning, management, and scheduling of data handling tasks and data storage resources.
It is evident that data-intensive research is transforming computing landscape. We are facing the challenge of handling the deluge of data generated by sensors and modern instruments that are widely used in all domains. The number of sources of data is increasing, while, at the same time, the diversity, complexity and scale of these data resources are also growing dramatically.
2012 International Workshop on High Performance Data Intensive Computing (HPDIC2012) is a forum for professionals involved in data intensive computing and high performance computing. The goal of this workshop is to bridge the gap between theory and practice in the field of high performance data intensive computing and bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry working on high performance data intensive computing technologies. We believe that high performance data intensive computing will benefit from close interaction between researchers and industry practitioners, so that the research can inform current deployments and deployment challenges can inform new research. In support of this, HPDIC2012 will provide a forum for both academics and industry practitioners to share their ideas and experiences, discuss challenges and recent advances, introduce developments and tools, identify open issues, present applications and enhancements for data intensive computing systems and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research, leverage each other's perspectives, and identify new/emerging trends in this important area.
We therefore cordially invite contributions that investigate these issues, introduce new execution environments, apply performance evaluations and show the applicability to science and enterprise applications. We welcome various different kinds of papers that could formalize, simplify and optimize all the aspects of existing data intensive applications in science, engineering and business. We particularly encourage the submission of position papers that describe novel research directions and work that is in its formative stages, and papers about practical experiences and lessons learned from production systems.
Papers of applied research, industrial experience reports, work-in-progress and vision papers with different criteria for each category that describe recent advances and efforts in the design and development of data intensive computing, functionalities and capabilities that will benefit many applications are also solicited. The best presented paper will receive a BEST PAPER AWARD.
List of topics
Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
Data intensive computing in science, commerce, entertainment and medicine
Data-intensive applications and their challenges
Data Clouds, Data Grids, and Data Centers
Data-aware toolkits and middleware
Network support for data-intensive computing
Remote and distributed visualization of large scale data
Data archives, digital libraries, and preservation
Service oriented architectures for data-intensive computing
High performance data access toolkits
Accountability, QoS, and SLAs
Data privacy and protection in a public cloud environment
Programming models, abstractions for data intensive computing
Data capturing, management, and scheduling techniques
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MapReduce implementation issues and improvements
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Guoray Cai, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
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Amit Dvir, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Vatche Ishakian, Boston University, USA
Woosung Jung, LG Electronics, Korea
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Chunlei Liu, Valdosta State University, USA
Lei Liu, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA
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R.K. Shyamasundar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
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As for who will win the game...I really would love to see the Packers win. I hope I'm wrong, but I think the Cowboys are going to win tonight. I see it being high scoring and definitely exciting. I think we have some problems with injuries and that will play a factor. My guess: Cowboys 31, Packers: 24.
The winds are swirling, the temperatures are dropping and we recently had our first snow fall of the winter season. More is predicted for today. Winter has arrived.
I know my Mom is cringing right now because the first measurable snowfall of the year means that I start to grow a beard. This will last until Good Friday. It is beginning to fill in nicely.
I just looked and saw the November 4, 2008 will be election day for the new president. It's also my birthday. Exciting!
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What blew me away was the POTUS 08 station. It is a station that provides 24-7 coverage of the presidential election. Wow. When cable station moved toward 24-7 news in general I thought that was a stretch. But, this takes a step further. Don't get me wrong, I like the station, but who knew we needed wall to wall election coverage.
This came up as a topic of conversation at a recent viewing of the Monday Night Football game. Some colleagues of mine were contemplating this question: If someone could narrate the story of your life, who would it be? Think of it like this. If someone could watch you go through your day and narrate over the things that you do, who would you want that to be.
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Try out the new game I downloaded for free for the 5th Anniversary of XBox Live. It's called Carcassonne. It's usually a table top game, but they converted to computer.
Try to get to the level of Lieutenant - Grade 2, or by some miracle, Captain in Halo 3.
Try to get some achievements and find the skulls on Halo 3.
Continue work on the candidacy guidebook ans psychological assessment paperwork.
Tonight will be the second session in a role playing game campaign for the Scion game. It has been a little while since we played, but it will be nice to give it another try. It is markedly different than any game I have played before. I am usually pretty skeptical of games from the White Wolf company...them makers of Vampire. That game creeps me out. This game doesn't. Ryan does a good job running the games as well.
I also got a call from my friend Renard. He invited me to the Packer game on Sunday against Carolina. I am really pumped for that. This would be my fourth Packer game, but this would be the first one with the Packers actually doing really well. The atmosphere should be awesome.
I had a wonderful meeting with my candidacy mentor regarding Methodist ministry candidacy. It had been almost one month since our last meeting. She had some well-deserved vacation and we have both been very busy over the last few weeks.
As the time between our meetings increased I started to stray a little bit from my diligence in completing my ministry requirements. Having now met with my mentor, I feel more back on track.
It reminds me of the one on ones I have with my supervisor. They serve as an opportunity to ask questions, receive feedback and receive motivation. That's how I felt in my meeting. It makes me realize that regular meetings are a healthy part of this process.
So, I keep moving along. I should be finishing my final paperwork for the psychological exam over Thanksgiving Break. I am hoping to make my way to Minnesota for the assessment over Christmas Break. Then, I prepare for the April 10 meeting with District Committee on Ministry.
I love this quote...quite true. I am saddened by the kid gloves that we treat many issues with these days. Political correctness has destroyed one of the fundamental purposes of the college environment: open discussion on tough issues. We go to college to learn and to be challenged, from all sides and viewpoints...even those that may be uncomfortable or frustrating.
One of the two books that I bought for my birthday was Ann Coulter's new book: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans. If you check the amazon.com link I provided, you will notice that the vast majority of the reviews are either 1 star or 5 stars. She is definitely a polarizing figure. I find her format for the book to be a little disappointing. After a brief topic introduction, she simply provides quotes from previous books and columns for those topics. Seems kinda cheap and easy for such a gifted writer.
Coulter doesn't seem to pull any punches in this book, although she hasn't pulled punches her entire career. She has offended others and honestly there are times when she offends me as well. I do find, however, underneath the sarcasm and periodic offensiveness, she makes some good points. As someone who considers himself conservative, she and I are on the same page on some stuff.
It will be an entertaining read to say the least.
To those that might have asked me before, I had an enjoyable birthday weekend. The party was again great fun, although we did not quite have the attendance that we had last year. There was still plenty of root beer to drink and lots of Guitar Hero to play.
On Saturday I went home to have dinner with Christa and my parents. I had a 20 oz. prime rib. Yum!
Sunday was a game video games and football. I got enjoy a great Packer victory, but also saw a crushing fantasy football defeat...oh well. The books I ordered were in the mail when I checked on Sunday so I picked those up as well. I have some good reading material for the next few weeks.
If you click on this link: http://www.guitarhero.com/accounts/232539, you will taken to my profile in the Guitar Hero III community. If you actually do much navigation, there is not that much to the site. I do get a kick out of the fact that it tracks your progress in on-line matches as well as career earnings.
I am currently 7-1 in a fantasy football league with nine other gentlemen. We paid $20 to be in the league, so the though of placing high and winning a little money is quite exciting. I wish I could say my amazing drafting and trading skills had something to do with my first place showing thus far, but that would be a lie.
In fact, my drafting pretty much sucked. He are in a "keeper" league which means you have the option to keep certain players from year to year. I drafted a lot of older dudes that probably won't improving over the years...my bad. I did, however, manage to pick up Tom Brady who is a fantasy football goldmine. Having picked up Wes Welker as well, they make a potent combination.
That's all...I hope to see many of you tonight!
I was able to purchase Guitar Hero 3 on Sunday and have been working my way up from the easiest level. I have finished the "Career Mode" on easy and medium and have found the medium level to actually be quite challenging.
So, now that I have begun the career mode on hard, it is getting really difficult. And I'm on level one of eight! Yikes. It is definitely true that each version of Guitar Hero gets more difficult than the previous.


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Q: mounted a symlink on a mountpoint I have a samba share called A on a machined named aaron. Inside that share is a smylink called Audio-CD_WAVs which points to a machine local directory. When this share is accessed by a windows machine, samba follows the link and exports the target to windows so windows does not see the symlink.
Now, I later mounted Audio-CD_WAVs on another linux machine, dathan, on a normal directory called CD-mount. I used smbfs for this mount. I expected it to mount the target of the link, but instead the mountpoint itself, CD-mount, turned into a symlink pointing to the directory on aaron. The problem I have now is that I cannot unmount this, the unmount command follows the symlink and complains that it does not exist. So how can I unmount this (without rebooting the machine, which would interrupt a lot of people)?
Before mounting:
drwxrwxrwx    CD-mount
$ mount CD-mount
after:
lrwxrwxrwx    CD-mount -> /some/nonexistant/directory12
$ umount CD-mount
umount: directory12: not found
$ mount |tail -n 1
//aaron.us.grn/A/Audio-CD_WAVs on /mnt/CD-mount type cifs (ro,mand)
I think the explanation for this behaviour is that when samba sees a linux client, it enables the 'unix extensions' option which includes support for symlinks. I only found this after I had already mounted the symlink though.

A: I have tried both -f and -l and neither work:
$ umount -f CD-mount
umount2: No such file or directory
umount: directory12: not found
$ umount -l CD-mount
umount: directory12: not found

A: You are correct, Samba is indeed interpreting the symlink and presenting it as a directory; smbfs is not.
The option for this in Samba is "follow symlinks = yes", and is defined in the share definition.  You can turn this behavior off with "follow symlinks = no".
Somehow, I doubt that the symlink is mounted.  If the filesystem is truly unmounted, just delete the symlink.

You can attempt a forced dismount with:
mount -f /mount-path

or
mount -l /mount-path


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This paper argues that welcoming attitudes to the rise of the unelected are misguided because they undervalue the systemic importance of elected bodies for a proper functioning of the SoP. The paper argues that parliament is a normatively critical site for law-making for constitutional democracy; ad that is necessary to theorize the separation of powers with an eye to the broader context of normative political theory. This, contrary to much recent scholarship, requires a defence of the usefulness of the traditional tripartite model.
Reconstructing the Understanding of the Role of Judicial Self-Governance in the Separation of Powers
Many European countries introduced judicial councils as the best design securing judicial independence, separation of powers and emancipation of judges. However, growing negative experience from CEE shows that these promises were not fulfilled. Not only JCs failed to secure judicial independence and prevent political inferences in the judiciary, in some instances, they isolated the courts and helped foster networks of patronage and corruption. We argue that binary differentiation between court administration systems with JCs and ministries does not sufficiently capture the complexity of the separation of power between judges and political actors. The empowerment of judiciary is not automatic but originates from a will of the executive power to delegate the governance competences. Using a new Judicial Self-Governance Index, which captures the overall participation of judges on governance, we move beyond the JCs narrative and shift attention to the problem of competence delegation
Institutional relationships in the separation of powers
This paper is concerned with the dynamics of institutional relationships in a separation of powers system. It argues that the efficacy of a given system may be shaped by both legal and social understandings of that system's normative values. It seeks to identify the institutional values that are critical to a minimum account of a functioning separation of powers.
Alternative constitutional narratives: Frames of recognition and methodological questions
This paper considers conceptual and methodological challenges around investigating the constitutional narratives that may reflect or influence particular understandings of the separation of powers, or specific institution's positions within a separation of powers system.
The internationalisation of the separation of powers
The separation of powers is seen as one of the hallmarks of a constitutional legal order. Each country rests on some form of division between the three branches of government. Traditionally, it is seen as a fundamentally national concept, with each state deciding for itself how to model the relationships between these branches, based on its own specific background. However, a recent evolution can be discerned, where the domestic separation of powers is directly influenced by international legal orders.
This paper addresses the impact that two international courts, the ECtHR and the ECJ, have on the domestic separation of powers and its checks and balances. It gives examples of what kind of separation-of-powers issues are brought before these courts and addresses what their impact is and how far-reaching it may be for the countries concerned. Finally, it asks the question if it is still tenable to perceive the separation of powers as an exclusively domestic doctrine.


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Do your consumer products standard terms have anything unusual or onerous in them? If so, caselaw states that these must be brought to the other party's attention. Otherwise, they will be struck down. A recent construction case serves as a useful reminder of this.
Unusual or onerous clauses in your standard terms (e.g. the fine print on the back of a purchase order) could include, for example, any provisions limiting or excluding liability for damages, or indeed any provisions which might cause a significant imbalance in the other party's rights.
A recent construction case discussed whether a party's standard terms and conditions of contract had been incorporated into a contract. The judge decided that they had not, on the basis first that the other party had been given unreasonably sufficient notice of such terms and conditions (in particular, since the terms and conditions had been referred to but not actually sent by that party) and second, because they included unusual or onerous terms.
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Will Bush and Cheney end up behind bars? Senator is on board with an ongoing effort to release government documents pertaining to the 9/11 attacks that have thus far remained secret on "national security" grounds. The 28 pages of documents are thought to contain information relating to the direct involvement in the attacks of senior figures in the Saudi Arabian government.
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Terranea Golf Course Tour
The Links at Terranea offers a singular golf experience in Southern California, set apart by lush natural terrain and dramatic vistas overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Catalina Island. The nine-hole, par-3, oceanfront course in Rancho Palos Verdes, California was designed by Todd Eckenrode of Origins Golf Design in Irvine, CA.
The collection of nine challenging par-3 holes masterfully routes through the natural surroundings while integrating with one another. Elevation changes, green contours, artful bunkering, and unobstructed sightlines enhance The Links' wide range of strategic elements. Totaling approximately 1,239 yards, the course features tee placements ranging from 104 to 173 yards for an inviting short- and mid-range setup that appeals to both new and experienced golfers.
Players enjoy an expansive, multi-tiered short game practice area with chipping and putting greens, as well as private and group instruction, junior player lessons, and golf clinics led by The Links' PGA professionals. The Golf House offers premium golf club and walking cart rentals, golf accessories, and apparel, while a relaxed outdoor seating area overlooks the surrounding scenic coastline.
HOLE-BY-HOLE GOLF COURSE DESCRIPTION
LONG POINT - 123 yds
The historic name of the land on which your round begins..
BOOMERANG - 104 yds.
A boomerang-shaped green wraps around a small but strategic bunker.
CAPTAIN'S BLUFF - 172 yds.
The bold will take dead aim at the Pt. Vicente lighthouse.
POINT FERMIN - 136 yds.
Your shot will ride a prevailing tailwind down to Pt. Fermin.
LITTLE BLUE - 115 yds.
A delicate shot framed by a vast blue backdrop of ocean and sky.
PORTUGUESE BEND - 145 yds.
Like its namesake, the green complex has a lot of movement.
PUNCHBOWL - 150 yds.
Favor the left side to catch the slope of the partial punchbowl green.
CATALINA - 173 yds.
Catalina looks reachable with a long-iron on a clear day, but focus on the green.
WHALE ROAD - 121 yds.
A gallery of mighty grays may add to the drama of the finishing hole.
TODD ECKENRODE
Todd Eckenrode's company, Origins Golf Design, specializes in golf course design services for new golf course designs as well as classic restorations, renovations and redesigns. Todd learned the game at Dr. Alister MacKenzie's revered Pasatiempo Golf Course. He played collegiate golf at the University of Arizona, and U.C. Santa Barbara, followed up with a B.S. in Landscape Architecture from Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo.
Todd continues to play golf competitively, including events such as the U.S. Amateur, British Amateur, and U.S. Public Links (Medalist 1998) Championships. He has designed numerous award-winning golf courses over the years such as "Top 10 New Courses" by Golf Magazine, "Top 100 Modern Courses, and #4 in California – America's Best State Rankings (Public)" by Golfweek, among others. The Origins' team's primary philosophy of preserving and fully integrating the natural features of the land into their designs was showcased extensively here at Terranea.
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REBORN IN THE USA
How X Factor child star, 4, defied bullies to become TikTok megastar living in Las Vegas with Snoop Dogg as a fan
Dan Cain
HE got three yeses from Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh and Sharon Osbourne when he auditioned on the X Factor as a cheeky four-year-old.
While he was too young to progress - the age limit at the time was set at 16 - Simon told County Durham lad Mackenzie Sol to come back 12 years later.
Mackenzie Sol auditions on the X FactorCredit: ITV
Mackenzie is now a huge social media starCredit: Instagram
But the singer, now 21, didn't end up needing the music mogul's help to find fame after all.
Instead he relocated to America and built up a huge social media following thanks to his viral music videos.
Mackenzie is now a big star on TikTok, with his music and comedy lapped up by his 11million followers.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun about his X Factor audition in 2005, he said: "I don't think anyone expected a four-year-old on the X Factor.
"I remember going in and just thought I'd won the X Factor."
Mackenzie was spotted by producers as he danced around Newcastle United's St James's Park where his mum Nicki was waiting to audition for the judges.
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Striding into the room, he told Simon he was doing it "for the chicks" before singing Westlife's When You're Looking Like That.
He might have been let down gently by the judges, but Mackenzie's X Factor journey didn't end there.
The youngster was among the rejected contestants who released a cover of Nick Berry's Every Loser Wins.
Around that time, Simon arranged for a limo to pick Mackenzie and his family up from a top London hotel and take them to see The Lion King in the West End.
Outside the hotel, Mackenzie revealed he hopped into the luxury car as A list actor Jude Law watched on.
He said: "I remember passing him and I felt like a mini Justin Bieber."
While he won a place in the nation's hearts, the years that followed were tough for Mackenzie after bullies targeted him for doing ballet.
He quit dancing aged 11 after growing "tired of the hate".
"I got bullied my whole life in school," he said. "I did ballet, I was Billy Elliot. I did the whole Royal Ballet School and stuff to get that job.
"As soon as I came to LA, all these kids who wouldn't talk to me have blown up my phone. I just find it hilarious really, and hypocritical in a way. I try to be nice, but if I didn't have what I have now you wouldn't want to talk. It's kind of sad but it's kind of cool. I feel important. It's sad it couldn't be like that 12 years ago when I was in school and I could have had more friends than I did."
His fortunes began to change when he took part in a talent convention in Florida aged 13.
It led to an opportunity to relocate to LA where he recorded a pilot episode for kids TV station Nickelodeon.
He also signed a mini music deal with family friends, but it wasn't the type of music he wanted to be doing.
I felt like a mini Justin Bieber.
Mackenzie Sol
It was when Mackenzie turned to lip-syncing social media platform Musical.ly that his career really took off.
His videos achieved huge viewing figures after being picked up by the service's 'featured' algorithm and he gained tens of thousands of followers.
And things were taken to the next level when he met with Dance Moms star Abbey Lee Miller in LA and did songs with her girls that were watched millions of times.
Following that success he had an epiphany.
He said: "I realised after that social media is the key unfortunately. The music industry isn't what it used to be, which is sing in front of someone and get a huge deal. You have to have numbers, which is sad, there's a lot of talented people who don't get the opportunity they deserve."
In the years since, Mackenzie, who now lives in Las Vegas after growing tired of the competitive nature of LA, has recorded music with legendary songwriter Diane Warren and seen his content shared by Snoop Dogg.
Although most of his content is now comedic, Mackenzie still harbours dreams of being a big music star.
His latest single Funeral is deeply person and carries a defiant message.
"It's pretty much Frank Sinatra My Way. It's people telling me how I'm supposed to live my life, but I'm doing it my way."
And if X Factor returns to screens in the coming years, Mackenzie's singing career may come full circle as he eyes a return to the ITV show.
He said: "If we don't have a number one in the next five years, I definitely want to come back on the X Factor. I think it'll be a great story.
"I don't think he [Simon] would expect me to be who I am right now. I thought I could sing, but I had a lisp. But now I think I have the vocal ability to really shock people."
The social media star also has a strong message for anyone like him who has faced adversity doing what they love.
He said: "Don't let people get to you. Follow your dreams and you'll accomplish things. Don't let people bring you down like I did, because you'll regret it."
He has 11 million followers on TikTokCredit: Instagram