Ross Daniels is the Australian Labor Party candidate for the Division of Ryan in the Australian federal election due in 2007. He was the Chairperson of Amnesty International's International Executive Committee from 1993 to 1997.
He is a keen campaigner for human rights around the world; he is a frequent speaker on this topic at seminars and conferences, and has been actively involved in a range of human rights groups, including Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation, and the Human Rights and Peace Society Nepal. He has served on the Board of many community and welfare organisations, besides Amnesty International. He is currently a member of the Council of the Queensland University of Technology. He has also been President of the Queensland Council of Social Services.
Daniels has been a Lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology for 20 years, and before that was a social worker for 12 years. He met his wife Sharon while they were both social workers. He lives in The Gap, a suburb of Brisbane. He and Sharon have four children. He holds a Bachelor of Social Work degree, a Bachelor of Economics degree, and a Masters degree in Social Planning and Development, all from the University of Queensland.
He has a strong interest in current science and technology debates including the application of information and communication technologies in teaching and learning. He is a Brisbane Broncos fan and enjoys bike riding in the forest parks.
Daniels opposes the Iraq war, and has been involved in the Iraq Solidarity Group, as well as groups seeking a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Albert Wachi (b. 1975) is a Zimbabwean sculptor.
Born into a family of seven, Wachi began his career in 1985 at the Tonga Huts Centre. For three years he created mainly abstract work before being forced to return with his family to rural areas. From there he continued his work, using stone and wood. In 1988 he returned to Harare to exhibit at the Delta Gallery. In 1993 he exhibited his work with Stanley Mapfumo. He has also shown at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.
Born in 1975 in Zimbabwe in a family of 7, he started his art career in 1985 at the Tonga Huts Centre. He mainly worked in the abstract form for three years before being forced to return to his rural areas with his family. He continued to work from there using stone and wood as his medium.
In 1988 he returned to Harare and exhibited for the first time in an exhibiting entitled “Exhibition Of Young Artist Of Promise” at the Gallery Delta in Harare.
In 1993 he held another exhibition in conjunction with the stone sculptor Stanley Mapfumo and wall hangings by Kudhinda Fabrics.
Albert earned a “Highly Commended Certificate” and a “Certificate” of merit for his stone sculpture exhibited at the National Gallery’s Annual Zimbabwe Heritage Exhibition.
In August 1995 he had an exhbition which ran for two months at Delta Gallery, the exhibition was entitled “New Direction 111”.
Albert’s aspirations are to exhibit all over the world and be recognized internationally as an artist of great vision.
Exhibitions & Workshops:
1989 Utonga Art Studio Training Young Artist’s Exhibition, Gallery Delta
1990 Young Artist’s Exhibition, Gallery Delta
1992 New Directions Exhibition, Gallery Delta Summer Exhibition, Gallery Delta Annual Heritage Exhibition, National Gallery Of Zimbabwe
1993 Annual Heritage Exhibition, National Gallery Of Zimbabwe Two-man Sculpture Exhibition, Gallery Delta
1994 Young Artists of Promise, Gallery Delta New Directions Exhibition, Gallery Delta
1995 Different Directions Exhibition, Gallery Delta New Directions Exhibition, Gallery Delta
1996 Changing Directions, Gallery Delta, Harare
1997 MBCA Decade of Award Winners 1986-1996, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
1998 Crossroads and Beyond Exhibition, Gallery Delta Summer Show, Gallery Delta
1999 Festival Exhibition, Gallery Delta Wood Sculpture & Mixed Media Exhibition, Gallery Delta Eve of the New Millennium Exhibition, Gallery Delta Mobile International Artists Workshop, Lusaka, Zambia
2000 Gallery Delta – 25th Anniversary Exhibition Earth Vision Exhibition, Gallery Delta Colourfields Africa Exhibition, Gallery Delta The Summer Exhibition, Gallery Delta
2001 Sculpture by R D Rose, C Matekenya & Albert Wachi, Gallery Delta Colourfields Africa II Exhibition, Gallery Delta
2002 The Summer Exhibition, Gallery Delta
TPump is a Teradata utility.
Teradata TPump – Continuous Data Loading
Teradata TPump is a highly parallel utility designed to continuously move data from data sources into Teradata tables without locking the affected table. TPump provides near-real-time data into your data warehouse, allowing you to maintain fresh, accurate data for up-to-the-moment decision-making. You can use TPump to insert, update, upsert, and delete data in the Teradata Database, particularly for environments where batch windows are shrinking and warehouse maintenance overlaps normal working hours. And because TPump uses row hash locks, users can run queries even while it’s updating the Teradata Warehouse.
Features
- Fast, scalable continuous data loads
- Row hash lock enables concurrent queries
- Dynamic throttling feature
- Best for small data volumes
Supported Platforms
- NCR UNIX SVR4 MP-RAS
- IBM z/OS (MVS and USS)
- z/OS VM
- Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003
- Sun Solaris SPARC
- IBM
- HP-UX
Overview
TPump is a data loading utility that helps you maintain (update, delete, insert, and atomic upsert) the the data in your Teradata Relational Database Management System (Teradata RDBMS). TPump allows you to achieve near real time data in your data warehouse. If your system is too busy to devote a designated batch window to upload data, then you need TPump.
TPump uses standard Teradata SQL to achieve moderate to high data loading rates to the Teradata RDBMS. Multiple sessions and multistatement request are typically used to increase throughput.
TPump provides an alternative to MultiLoad for the low volume batch maintenance of large databases under control of a Teradata system. Instead of updating Teradata databases overnight, or in batches throughout the day, TPump updates information in real time, acquiring every bit of data from the client system with low processor utilization. It does this through a continuous feed of data into the data warehouse, rather than the traditional batch updates. Continuous updates results in more accurate, timely data.
And, unlike most load utilities, TPump uses row hash locks rather than table level locks. This allows you to run queries while TPump is running. This also means that TPump can be stopped instantaneously. As a result, businesses can make better decisions that are based on the most current data.
TPump also provides a dynamic throttling feature that enables it to run “all out” during batch windows, but within limits when it may impact other business uses of the Teradata RDBMS. Operators can specify the number of statements run per minute, or may alter throttling minute-by-minute, if necessary.
TPump’s main attributes are:
- Simple, hassle-free setup – doesn’t require staging of data, intermediary files, or special hardware.
- High-end portability – supports IBM mainframes; UNIX® MP-RAS; AIX®; HP-UX®; Windows 98®, Windows NT®, Windows 2000®, and Windows XP®; and Solaris® SPARC.
- Efficient, time-saving operation – jobs can continue running in spite of database restarts, dirty data, and network slow downs. Jobs can restart with absolutely no intervention.
- Flexible data management – accepts an infinite variety of data forms from an infinite number of data sources, including direct feeds from other databases. TPump is also able to transform that data on the fly before sending it to Teradata. SQL statements and conditional logic are usable within the utilities, making it unnecessary to write wrapper jobs around the utilities.
External links
See also
de:Teradata
In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the Elves are one of the races of Arda. They appear in The Hobbit and in The Lord of the Rings, but their complex history is described in full only in The Silmarillion, edited and published after Tolkien's death. More details about them are given in the author's other writings edited and published since then, such as Unfinished Tales and The History of Middle-earth. The History of Middle-earth also reveals their textual and conceptual history, as Tolkien had been writing about Elves long before The Hobbit was published.
The following is an alphabetically ordered list of Elves that are mentioned by name in Tolkien's works. This list excludes the Half-elven such as Elrond and Arwen.
Tolkien devised several names (s. essë) for many of his Elves, most having some meanings in his Elvish languages Quenya and Sindarin. In brief, there are four types of Elven names, distinguished by the giver:
- "father-name" (ataressë), given by the father
- "mother-name" (amilessë), given by the mother
- "after-name" (epessë), given by others later in life
- "self-name" (kilmessë), given by oneself
In applicable cases, these alternate names are mentioned after the most significant or common ones they have in Tolkien's writings, as are variant, superseded names in writings which belong to earlier phases in the development of the stories.
In the case of Elves appearing only in superseded writings, like Legolas of Gondolin (distinct from Legolas of Mirkwood), they are marked with an asterisk (*).