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No matter how remarkable a woman is – and have no doubt that Tiana Epati is remarkable – asking any wahine two weeks away from giving birth to do an interview and photo shoot is a lot. But as Tiana puts it, “I don’t do anything I don’t want to do” – and it’s easy to believe her.
The reason the president of the New Zealand Law Society – and LawFuel’s 2019 Lawyer of the Year – is making time for us is because she is a champion of change; a merchant of hope who knows there are women who need to see what they can be. As the first person of Polynesian descent to hold the role, and the only Law Society president to give birth while in the job, Tiana is also driven by what her lawyer father said when she insisted on following him into the same career:
You must promise you’ll do the best you can, because this profession is too important to be mediocre.
Tiana’s father, A’e’au Semi Epati, was New Zealand’s first Pacific judge, and the impact of his success is not lost on her. “I recognise my own privilege,” says Tiana. “I had a dad who really pushed boundaries and was an incredible role model, so I grew up believing I could do anything because he had broken boundaries himself. There was never any question I was going to university, whereas that isn’t a given for many Māori and Pacific people, or those who grow up in poverty.”
Tiana has instigated an independent review of the Law Society statutory framework to ensure complaints of unacceptable behaviour can be dealt with effectively in the profession.
The 44-year-old is careful about being held up as a shining example of glass ceilings being broken for women of colour, or as an indicator that true change has been achieved.
If I’m the only one and there’s no pipeline created for other women to come through, it wouldn’t be enough to be an example.
She sees danger in the tendency to hold up individual merit of people of colour, “because you start to get into that Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama trope of ‘It’s so much better when you earn it on merit, you just have to work harder,’ as opposed to tackling structural and institutional racism.”
Tiana, who is mum to Umuariki, 13, and Kuraunuhia, nine, credits allies who helped her get elected to lead the Law Society. “We always say don’t judge a book by its cover, and that includes middle-aged white men.”
A man who fitted that mould and was thought to be the next in line for the role stepped aside, saying to Tiana, “If you don’t run, I will. But it should be you.” He remained a support to ensure she became the first Gisborne lawyer to hold the role. She jokes that man is “one of the biggest intersectional feminists I know!” and personifies a good ally.
“A good ally is completely selfless, doesn’t centre themselves, doesn’t seek credit for themselves, knows when it’s time to be quiet, but also knows when it’s time to be loud on someone’s behalf,” Tiana says. Understanding when it’s time to be loud, to say things that others don’t want to or can’t say, appears to be a unique strength Tiana possesses.
In her speech at Parliament this year for International Women’s Day, she spoke to the invisibility of certain women in discussions of equality and pay equity. She pointed out the gender pay gap for Māori women is about double the overall gender pay gap of 9.3 percent, and for Pacific women in the public sector the pay gap is a staggering 25.6 percent. As bad as these statistics are, Tiana said at least a measurement for Māori and Pacific women exists.
A disappointing “lack of data” means it’s even harder to express the inequalities of pay and employment when it comes to women who have a disability. Disability Rights Commissioner Paula Tesoriero thanked Tiana personally for pointing out this inequity and posted a recording of the speech onto her Facebook page.
Tiana believes the first step of allyship is to understand you have privilege – for instance, the privilege of her public-facing position – and knowing if we can lift up others, we all gain. “Sometimes you’re going to have to give up your place on a panel because you can see it’s the same old, same old,” she explains.
Her own reaction to being named Lawyer of the Year was, “Oh, you should choose someone else,” because she was already in a very public role. But they insisted, because of the fresh voice of leadership she brought and the positive impact she’d had in a tumultuous time.
When Tiana was elected, New Zealand’s legal sector had been on a painful journey in the previous 18 months. She addressed the collective shame of evidence that bullying, sexual harassment, assault, discrimination and a culture of exploiting staff, particularly junior staff, was widespread.
The news had broken initially with the focus on one large law firm, and the link to the #metoo movement. So the issue was firstly framed as violence against young women in large law firms, and particularly young, attractive Pākehā women. This was of course a critical issue and needed urgent addressing, but it was not the only issue.
As Tiana does, she analysed the issue further, pushed harder, saying the initial focus was too narrow, which risked letting many members of the legal profession off the hook. She urged the profession to see that injustice was happening “and we must stand together and address it at all levels, and with all affected groups and individuals”.
A survey confirmed one in three women working in law will experience sexual harassment over the course of their entire career. That statistic was widely reported, but there had been other elements of the issue that weren’t publicised. “We’d learnt all these things, that poor mental health in a workplace had a direct impact on behaviour and that Asian, Māori and Pacific lawyers experienced a much higher rate of sexual harassment and bullying.” Tiana thought, “Finally we’re also going to talk about race” – but it never happened.
She has been targeted with harassment and abuse herself. “I’ve experienced all kinds, but the most traumatic has been the racism. It doesn’t stop. I remember turning up to Parliament and they immediately regarded my advisor as the president and me as the P.A.”
Believe it or not, the Law Society presidency is only a part-time role, but Tiana’s appointment has changed the game. She is inundated with speaking requests, no doubt because public speaking is seemingly another of her superpowers.
Yet she has to keep up being a criminal lawyer, as she has for 20 years, most recently appearing in the Supreme Court at seven and a half months pregnant. “Don’t think this is me trying to be an irritating overachiever so much as ensuring I meet my obligations as a partner in a law firm.”
That firm is in her beloved Gisborne, and although her skateboarding and surfing has been curbed by this pregnancy, not much else has been. She will continue as president, and although the Law Society constitution doesn’t allow for parental leave, her doctor insisted it happen and she and her team have found creative ways of ensuring she can continue in the role.
At 44, Tiana was given a 50-50 chance of her pregnancy continuing and had to have scans during Level 4 lockdown – in full PPE. “It was terrifying,” admits Tiana, whose husband Matanuku Mahuika is also a lawyer. “I credit my husband and kids for being understanding.”
She also values the close friends and colleagues who support her. It helps that the Minister of Justice and Chief Justice “can’t wait to see the baby” and her environment includes many mothers.
Our prime minister has definitely made it easier for me to do this role while being pregnant. Nothing has had more of an impact than her having a baby while prime minister and going on to do incredible things.
“But we can’t all be her. We can’t all have a baby and have six weeks off and be amazing. That isn’t even what everyone wants to do.”
There is much more that Tiana wants to do, but becoming a judge is not necessarily on that list. She argued with a journalist who insisted that role was inevitable, saying, “You have to, you’re the great hope!”
But Tiana’s focused on structural change, making pathways for more women to come through, inclusivity born of respect and recognition, and bridging gaps between generations and cultures. Her ambition is for collective success more than her own.
It won’t mean anything if all it was is that one time we had that brown girl as president. There has to be more.

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The First Wedding Back: An Interview With Marc Bates
With the announcement of restrictions being lifted for weddings, we were lucky enough to sit down with multi-award winning UK wedding photographer, Marc Bates, to discuss how excited he is to return to doing what he does best. Starting out as a hobby 10 years ago, Marc has been lucky enough to capture the joy and love of weddings across the world as a professional wedding photographer and has turned something he loves into his day job.
With two prestigious awards under his belt, including the 2018 Best UK Wedding Photographer and Best Wedding Photographer 2020, Marc is now delighted that couples can now have the wedding of their dreams surrounded by all their friends and family. Read on to find out more about Marc’s first wedding back and how he felt in that special moment.
How the Pandemic Affected His Work
“It was an incredibly difficult time. Out of 24 bookings across 2020, I only managed to photograph four weddings. With this came a financial impact, but the positive is that it allowed me to be of service to my clients in a way I never would have been before. Over the last year, I became more than just a wedding photographer. I made sure to touch base with my clients to check their wellbeing and how they were doing. I wanted them to know that I was there for them and we were in this together.
When the announcement was made about the lifting of restrictions for weddings, I had mixed feelings, but mostly of excitement – for both my clients and for the wedding industry as a whole. This was a huge step forward and finally we could see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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For all of the weddings I’ve photographed since being back in action, I have stayed far later than I normally would. In most cases, I stayed right to the end! I’ve definitely missed being with clients, sharing these beautiful days surrounded by their friends and family. The love, the laughter and the tears. Those moments where you know you are witnessing something beautiful. I am so happy that I am back doing what I love and spending time with people on the happiest days of their lives.
During that period of time away from weddings, I invested heavily in myself and my craft. I really dug deep and asked myself what I wanted to create for my clients when I finally came back to it. My creativity has certainly improved in that time and I’m so grateful that I can now continue doing what I love.”
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A month or two ago we started a blog to watch the the developments in the Vatican around the Pope who was suffering from terrible illness. With his continuing decline it has been amazing to be involved in a blog that tracks a life like his. I feel like I’ve learned a lot not only about blogging through it but about the topic at hand.
The latest news is that he’s just been read his last rites and is very close to death – you can imagine the type of attention that this story is getting and will continue to get over the coming weeks.
Update – in following developments of the Pope’s health for the past 5 or so hours and updating news as it happens on the blog I’m again amazed at the speed and usefulness of blogs in comparison to the main stream media. The past three or four posts that I’ve put on the blog have beaten main stream online news reports by half an hour or more every time. Our sources are the same (Vatican Radio) but blogs are just so fluid that I have type up a post as I hear it and have it live on the blog within seconds.
In fact the mainstream media reports of the story are sometimes so out of date by the time they are published. As I watch Google New on the topic I’m still seeing reports appearing just now that the Pope’s health is worsening when Vatican Radio reported he’s stabilised over an hour ago. Again it highlights the usefulness of blogging in reporting the news.
Have you ever wondered how much of a cut Google takes from Adsense earnings and how much they give to publishers? Its an age old question that Google have never spoken publicly about. This doesn’t stop a lot of speculation on the topic every month or two in the numerous Adsense forums around the traps. SEO Round Table points to a couple of discussions that predict that the publisher’s share could be anything between 59% and 70%.
I’d probably err on the lower side of those predictions – what do you think?
Greg over at Eyetools Research gave me a call on Skype a few weeks ago to talk to me about blogging, Adsense and his wonderful Eyetools Research which I was fascinated in. If you haven’t checked out Eyetools can i recommend you head over to his blog and have a look because its not only fascinating – its also full of very useful information. In short Eyetools is a eyetrack testing tool that watches where people look when they read your blog and creates a wonderful heat map to graphically represent what the hot spots on your site are.
Greg generously ran an eyetool test on one of my blogs and I was very impressed with the results – it explained a number of things and taught me a few valuable lessons in positioning of ads, blog design and layout and the use of different formatting techniques.
Greg today posted that he’s seeking bloggers expressions of interest in a eyetracking “Community of Learning” for bloggers. Read more about what this means at his blog but take it from me that the types of things that Greg can tell you about their research would be well worth paying for and its a program I’m keen to explore more of myself.
Do you have a Blogging Crush on another Blogger? Want to be set up on a ‘virtual date’?
I’m not talking a romantic crush – I’m talking about an admiration, an obsession, a fascination with another blogger. You love what they do but you wonder if they even know you exist! (sniff sniff)
They are at the top of your list of daily reads – you can’t get enough of their posts – you wake up in the morning thinking about them…. ok – maybe not the last one – but you know what I mean.
Who do you have a Blogging Crush on and what would you like to ask them?
If you could have a face to face meet up (a date) with any blogger who would it be and what two or three questions would you ask them?
Leave your answer in comments below and I’ll do my absolute best to get your questions answered. Who knows they might even notice you and a wonderful relationship might ensue.
Duncan over at the Blog Herald has a good post introducing readers to 10 DIY Blog platforms you may not have visited.
The list he compiles is filled with some interesting blogging tools that you might want to check out if you’re looking to start a new blog.
The team at Shiney Media in the UK have just launched another new Entrepreneurial blog – the Hippy Shopper – the UK’s first Green Consumer Blog.
Their News Release announcing the blog describes it as follows:
Published by the UK’s leading commercial weblog company, Shiny Media, and written by Stuff magazine‚s Managing Editor, Adam Vaughan, HippyShopper aims to enlighten and amuse its readers with green news stories from the UK and links to environmentally friendly sites around the world.
Its daily updates will:
Track the latest green gadgets
Tip readers off about what‚s coming in the organic food market
Give details of green exhibitions
Offer updates on eco-friendly health and beauty products
Give tips on how to recycle products
I love the concept – for a start its a blog with a message that will hopefully make a difference – but its also aiming to make a profit obviously. The main income stream on the Hippy Shopper so far is Adsense (green color scheme) – but I suspect it’ll be an ideal blog for some affiliate programs down the track.
One word of warning – don’t stare at their header too long – you could get a little freaked out and feel the need to smoke some funny grass or something.
WordPress have been coming under a little scrutiny in the past 24 hours by Waxy.org who have questioned their hosting of 120,000 articles on their site on a variety of topics provided by a third party on some high paying keywords. You can check out some examples of these pages here and here. I’d noticed a few of these articles a few weeks back and wondered what WordPress was doing with them – not it all becomes clear! Waxy.org writes:
This time next week you’re invited to phone into listen to a conversation between myself and Andy from Easy Bake Weblogs. I’ve listened to a couple of his previous interviews and they are good value (lets hope I can be as insightful, witty and worth the time as his previous guests!).
I hope you can drop by – details of how to get in on the conversation are at Easy Bake Weblogs Exclusive Interview: Darren Rowse from Pro Blogger.
If you can’t be there live the interview will be put up as a podcast for all to download later on.


This is the speech Edward Huang gave at Percona Live – Open Source Database Conference 2017.
The slides are here.
- Speaker introduction
- What would you do when…
- TiDB Project – Goal
- Storage Stack
- Safe Split
- Scale Out
- ACID Transaction
- Distributed SQL
- TiDB SQL Layer Overview
- What Happens behind a query
- Distributed Join (HashJoin)
- Tools Matter
- Use Cases
As one of the three co-founders of PingCAP, I feel honored that PingCAP was once again invited to the Percona Live Conference.
Last year, our CEO Max Liu has introduced TiDB and TiKV to the public. He mainly focused on how we build TiDB and also formulated a future plan of our projects. This time, I’ll draw a detailed picture of TiDB to help you understand how it works.
First of all, I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Edward Huang, an infrastructure software engineer and the CTO of PingCAP.
Up to now, I have worked on three projects, Codis, a proxy-based redis cluster solution which is very popular in China , TiDB and TiKV, a NewSQL database, our topic today. All of them are open source and many people benefit from them, especially in China. And I prefer languages such as Golang, Python, and Rust. By the way, we are using Golang and Rust in our projects (TiDB is written in Go and TiKV uses Rust).
What would you do when…
And first of all I want to ask a question: what would you do when your RDBMS is becoming the bottleneck of your application? Maybe most of you guys may have experienced the following situations. In the old days, all you can do is to either refactor your application or use database middleware, something like mysql proxy. But once you decide to use the sharding solution, you will never get rid of sharding key and say goodbye to complex query as it’s a one-way path.
So how to scale your relational database is a pain point of the entire industry.
And there comes TiDB, when we were designing TiDB, we want to achieve the following goals:
Make sharding and data movement transparent to users so that developers can focus on application development.
100% OLTP and 80% OLAP support. TiDB aims to be a hybrid database that supports both OLTP and OLAP. This is feasible because TiDB supports transactions and has our own full featured distributed SQL engine (including parser, optimizer and query executor).
TiDB has to be compatible with the MySQL protocol, by implementing MySQL grammars and the network protocol. In this way, our users can reuse many MySQL tools and greatly reduce the migration costs.
Twenty-four/Seven availability, even in case of datacenter outages. Thanks to the Raft consensus algorithm, TiDB can ensure the data consistency and availability all the time.
Open source, of course.
During the first section, I’ll talk about the technical overview of TiDB and TiKV project, including the storage layer, a brief walk through our distributed sql engine, and some tools for community users to migrate from MySQL to TiDB and vice versa. Secondly, I’ll introduce some real world cases and benchmarks. We got several users in China, which have already used TiDB in production for over 3 months. And in the end, I’ll do a quick demo of setting up a TiDB-cluster and have some queries on it.
Below shows the TiDB architecture.
In this diagram, there are three components: the SQL layer, which is TiDB; the distributed storage layer, which is TiKV; and Placement Driver, aka PD.
These three components communicate with each other through gRPC.
TiDB server is stateless. It doesn’t store data and it is for computing only. It translates user’s SQL statement and generates the query plan, which presents as the rpc calls of TiKV.
TiKV is a distributed key value database, acting as the underlying storage layer of TiDB and it’s the place where data is actually stored. This layer uses Raft consensus algorithm to replicate data and guarantee data safety. And TiKV also implements a distributed computing mechanism so that the sql layer would be able to do something like predicate push down or aggregate push down.
Placement Driver is the managing component of the entire cluster and it stores the metadata, handles timestamp allocation request for ACID transaction, just like the TrueTime for Spanner, but we don’t have the hardware. What’s more, it’s controlling the data movement for dynamic workload balance and failover.
Let’s dive deep into the storage stack of TiKV.
As mentioned earlier, TiKV is the underlying storage layer where data is actually stored. More specifically, data is stored in RocksDB locally, which is the bottom layer of the TiKV architecture as you can see from this diagram. On top of RocksDB, we build a Raft layer.
So what is Raft? Raft is a consensus algorithm that equals to Multi-Paxos in fault-tolerance and performance. It has several key features such as leader election, auto failover and membership changes. And Raft ensures that data is safely replicated. We have exposed the Raw Key Value API at this layer. If you want a scalable, highly available kv database, and don’t care about cross-row ACID transaction, you can use the Raw Key Value API for higher performance.
The middle layer is MVCC, Multiversion concurrency control. The top two layers are transaction and grpc API. The API here is the transactional KV API.
TiKV is written in Rust and the reason is that the storage layer is performance-critical and stability is first-class citizen of course. We only got c/c++ in the past, and now we have rust. Rust is great for infrastructure system software like database, operation system… Without any extra cost for GC, runtime and high performance. Another great thing is that Rust does a lot of innovation works to prevent memory leaks and data race, which means a lot to us.
Now we know that the actual data is stored in RocksDB. But how exactly is data organized inside of the RocksDB instances? The answer is by Regions.
Region is a set of continuous key-value pairs in byte-order.
Let’s take a look at the diagram here: The data is split into a set of continuous key-value pairs which we name them from a to z. Region 1 stores “a” to “e”, Region 2 “f” to “j”, Region 3 “k” to “o”, etc. As region is a logical concept, all the regions in a physical node share the same rocksdb instance.
In each RocksDB instance, as I just mentioned, there are several regions and each region is replicated to other instances by Raft. The replicas of the same Region, Region 4 for example, make a Raft group.
The metadata of the raft groups is stored in Placement Driver, and of course, placement driver is a cluster, replicates the metadata by Raft, too.
In TiKV, we adopt a multi-raft model. What’s multi-raft? It’s a way to split and merge regions dynamically, and of course, safely. We name this approach “safe split/merge”.
For example, Region 1 from “a” to “e” is safely split into Region 1.1 “a” to “c” and Region 1.2 “d” to “e”, we need to guarantee no data is lost during the split.
This explains how one Region is split, but how about its replicas on other nodes? Let me show you the process.
This is the initial state for Region 1. You can see there is a Raft group with three TiKV nodes. Region 1 on TiKV1 is the Leader and the other two replicas are the followers.
However, there comes a situation that there are too much data in Region 1 and it needs to be split.
It’s easy if there is only one Region 1, but in this case, we have three replicas. How can all the replicas be split safely? The answer is also Raft. Let’s see how it works.
The split is initiated by the Leader, which means Region 1 is split to Region 1.1 and Region 1.2 firstly in the Leader as you can see from the diagram.
When the split-log is written to WAL in the Leader, it is replicated by Raft and sent to the followers. Then, the followers apply the split log, just like any other normal raft log.
And finally, once the split-log is committed, all the replicas in the Raft group are safely split into two regions on each TiKV node. There is no data lost in the process as the correctness of the split procedure is ensured by Raft.
We’ve talked about split. Now let’s see how TiKV scales out. Our project is as scalable as NoSQL system, which means you can easily increase the capacity or balance the workload by adding more machines.
In this diagram, we have 4 physical nodes, namely Node A, Node B, Node C, and Node D. And we have 3 regions, Region 1, Region 2 and Region 3. We can see that there are 3 regions on Node A. Let’s say that Node A encountered a capacity problem, maybe disk is almost full.
To balance the data, we add a new node, Node E. The first step is to transfer the leadership from the replica of Region 1 on Node A to the replica on Node B.
Step 2, TiKV adds a Replica of Region 1 to Node E. Therefore, Region 1 contains 4 replicas temporary.
The final step, TiKV removes the replica of Region One from Node A. Now the data is balanced and the cluster scales out from 4 nodes to 5 nodes. In the process of scale-out, this data movement will occur in different regions. The result of the scheduling is that the number of regions is as equal as possible in every physical node.
This is how TiKV scales out.
Our transaction model is inspired by Google’s Percolator. It’s mainly a decentralized 2-phase commit protocol with some practical optimizations. This model relies on a timestamp allocator to assign increasing timestamp for each transaction.
TiKV employs an optimistic transaction model and only locks data in the final 2 phase commit stage, which is the time that client call Commit() function. In order to deal with the lock problem when reading/writing data in the 2pc stage, TiKV adds a simple Scheduler layer in the storage node to queue locally before returning to the client for retry. In this way, the network overhead is reduced.
The default isolation level of TiKV is Repeatable Read (SI) and it exposes the lock API, which is used for implementing SSI (Serializable snapshot isolation), such as SELECT … FOR UPDATE in mysql, for the client.
We take the performance of TiDB very seriously. TiDB has a full-featured SQL layer. For some operations, for example, select count(*), there is no need for TiDB to get data from row to row first and then count. The quicker way is that TiDB pushes down these operations to the corresponding TiKV nodes, the TiKV nodes do the computing and then TiDB consolidates the final results.
Cost based optimizer, aka CBO, is to optimize a plan by calculating the query cost. This optimizer is very complex. There are two key problems: one is how to get the true distribution information of the data; the other is how to estimate the cost of a certain query plan based on this information.
Distributed join will be covered later.
TiDB SQL layer overview
This diagram shows the architecture of the SQL layer. Let’s take a look and see how the process works.
The client sends SQL to the Protocol Layer. Within the life cycle of a connection, we need to maintain the connection context and decode the protocol to get the structured request which will be further processed in the SQL core Layer.
Inside the SQL core layer, we need to maintain the session context which includes all the related information, such as the variable of the session scope. Meanwhile, the session context is also the entrance to the SQL Layer. After the SQL statement enters the SQL layer, the parser parses the SQL statement into AST. The next step is to process the AST, including validation, name resolution, type infer, privilege management, etc.
Then comes the core layer of the SQL engine, the Optimizer. There are two optimizers, the logical optimizer and the physical optimizer. The first step is logical optimization which transfers each AST node into a logical plan and optimizes the SQL logic. Based on the logical plan, the Physical Optimizer makes the physical plan which is then executed by the distributed executor. Here, the optimizer is like a boss who makes plans, and the executor is like the employees who execute the plan and perform the RPC call. During the execution, interactions with the storage layer are inevitable, such as accessing data, computing, and so on.
There are also other crucial components like Privilege Manager, Schema Manager, DDL Worker, GC worker, BG Job Worker, just to name a few.
What Happens behind a query
We have talked about the process. Let’s see an example to show what’s going on behind a query. Assuming we have a schema with two fields and an index. Now we need to run the following query: SELECT COUNT(c1) FROM t WHERE c1 > 10 AND c2 = ‘percona’;
This is a very simple statement and it’s easy to make the logical plan and the physical plan. Note that when it comes to the physical plan, you should calculate the query cost of the plan, which is the cost-based optimization that you’ve been quite familiar with.
The plan works well in a stand-alone database, but what happens in a distributed database that needs distributed computing in most cases? Let’s see the next slide to show how the SQL statement is executed in TiDB.
This is the physical plan of the SQL statement. The SQL layer and the storage layer, TiKV, work together. Some predicates and aggregators is pushed down to TiKV and then sent the partial result back to TiDB for final aggregation.
There are several advantages in this approach: First, there are more nodes involved in the computing and therefore, the computing becomes faster. Second, the network transmission is greatly reduced because after filtering and aggregation, the computing can easily access the data because the data is close.
Distributed join (HashJoin)
Now, let’s see a little more complex query: we have two tables, left and right. Now I write a simple join query, let’s see what happens behind a join.
For this query, optimizer may choose hashjoin, because HashJoin performs well in processing small and medium sized data. We have implemented the operator and optimized it for parallel data processing, and make it streaming.
To join the tables mentioned in the previous query, TiKV reads the tables in parallel. When reading the smaller table, TiKV starts to build a Hash Table in memory. When reading the bigger table, the data is sent to several Join Workers. When the Hash Table is finished, all the Join Workers will be notified to start Join in stream and output the Joined Table.
TiDB’s SQL layer currently supports 3 kinds of distributed join type, hashjoin / sort merge join (when the optimizer thinks even the smallest table is too large to fit in memory and the predicates contains indexed column, optimizer would choose sort merge join) / index lookup join.
To help users exploit the best part of TiDB, we have prepared the following tools: Syncer, TiDB Binlog, Mydumper/MyLoader(Loader).
Syncer is a tool to synchronize data from MySQL in real time.
It is hook up as a MySQL replica: we have a MySQL primary with binlog enabled and Syncer acts as a fake secondary. At the very beginning, Syncer gets the position of the current binlog which is the initial synchronizing position. When new data is written into MySQL, Syncer obtains the binlog from the primary, synchronizes the data to the Save Point in the disk, and then applies the rule filter to send data to either MySQL or TiDB cluster.
On the other hand, TiDB can output binlogs too. We build TiDB Binlog toolset to make it possible for 3rd party applications synchronize data from TiDB cluster. As TiDB-server is distributed, binlog pumper should be deployed in every TiDB-server instance and send it to a component we called ‘Cistern’. Cistern will sort the transactions by TransactionID (aka. timestamp) in a short period of time, and output as protobuf for downstream application.
For data migration, we don’t have our own tool. We use Mydumper/Loader for data backup and restore in parallel. you can use Mydumper to export data from MySQL and MyLoader to import the data into TiDB.
Currently, there are about 20 customers using our products in production environments and more than 200 PoC users contacting us or trying our products.
Let’s compare the query elapse between TiDB and MySQL. As you can see from the above diagram, for the ad-hoc OLAP with 8 queries, the time that MySQL takes is almost 4 times more than that of a 3-node TiDB.
Another customer is using TiDB as the drop-in replacement for MySQL for OLTP workload. You can see from the graph that the latency of 80% query is lower than 3ms and the average query latency is about 5 ms. Besides, it is quite stable.
Let’s see some Sysbench results for Read and Insert in the next few slides. Here are the details of the system that we are using.
For Read, you can see that the more nodes, the higher the qps (Query per Second), and the lower the latency.
This diagram of Read qps shows the same result. The performance of read is improved significantly as the number of nodes grows.
For Insert, we have the same result as Read.
This is TiDB, SQL at Scale.
The final section of my speech is our roadmap to the future:
We are now working on TiSpark, a project integrates TiKV with SparkSQL.
We are still improving the Statistic collection framework & cost-based optimizer (CBO).
The json type and document store for TiDB has already been put on our agenda.
We are going to make TiDB integrate with Kubernetes, which makes it very easy to set up a large cluster.
Once again, we are honored to attend this conference and I hope that there will be more excellent databases. Thank you so much!
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Neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) is a rare genetic condition that leads to the development of multiple tumors of the nervous system. These tumors can result in blindness, deafness, paralysis and other neurologic problems. NF2 can be fatal if untreated when tumors press on the brainstem, spinal cord or brain.
The NF2 Clinical Program at Washington University is the only program in the Midwest specializing in the treatment of NF2. The program – a joint project of Barnes-Jewish Hospital, the Siteman Cancer Center and the Washington University NF Center – has two primary goals:
- To care for children and adults with NF2 and provide counseling for family members
- To coordinate research that will lead to the development of new treatments
NF2 Clinical Program co-directors Michael Chicoine, MD, and Jonathan McJunkin, MD, lead a multidisciplinary team that includes a broad spectrum of medical specialists. Team members work together to assess patients and coordinate care. Patients benefit from their experience in caring for a large number of people who are affected by this rare disease.
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U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 10 percent tariff on $200 billion of Chinese goods and Beijing warned it would retaliate, in a rapid escalation of the trade conflict between the world’s two biggest economies.
Trump’s latest move, as Washington fights trade battles on several fronts, was unexpectedly swift and sharp.
It was retaliation, he said, for China’s decision to raise tariffs on $50 billion in U.S. goods, which came after Trump announced similar tariffs on Chinese goods on Friday.
“After the legal process is complete, these tariffs will go into effect if China refuses to change its practices, and also if it insists on going forward with the new tariffs that it has recently announced,” Trump said in a statement on Monday.
The comments sent global stock markets skidding and weakened both the dollar and the Chinese yuan on Tuesday. Shanghai stocks plunged to two-year lows.
Reported by: Reuters & Newsy YouTube

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As another year goes by, it’s time that the NFL hosts the playoffs for its 103rd season. From Justin Jefferson’s ridiculous catch against Buffalo late in the 4th to the ridiculous ending of Patriots vs Raiders, the NFL brought us the purest form of football this season that fans know and love. While the regular season brings us our Sunday comfort, fans buckle in for what really matters: the playoffs. These playoffs, between the ultra-competitive AFC and top seeds of the NFC, were shaping up to be one of the best.
To kickoff super wild card weekend, the second seed San Francisco 49ers faced their divisional rival, the seventh seeded Seattle Seahawks. The Seahawks led 17 to 16 against the 49ers going into halftime, but an explosion of offense mixed with a couple turnovers on defense allowed for the 49ers to crush their foe 41 to 23. The following game was the fifth seeded Los Angeles Chargers vs the fourth seeded Jacksonville Jaguars. At around halftime, it seemed Jacksonville’s “cinderella” run was coming to an end, as they trailed 27 to nothing following four Trevor Lawrence interceptions. Coach Doug Pederson wasn’t having it, as he and his team rallied back down 27 to beat the Chargers 31 to 30. One of the greatest comebacks in playoff history, the Jaguars knew they weren’t going home. The Sunday games started with the second seeded Buffalo Bills vs the seventh seeded Miami Dolphins. The Dolphins started the season red hot, but after some injuries, and a second concussion to up and coming quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, they came into Buffalo short staffed. This showed as Buffalo moved on with a 34 to 31 win. Our third to last game saw the three seed Minnesota Vikings face the sixth seeded New York Giants. The Giants up until this point were a miracle story; no one had them doing this well before the season. That said, the Giants upset the Vikings 31 to 24. The second to last game of wildcard weekend was the three seeded Bengals facing the sixth seeded Ravens. This was a close battle throughout its entire duration, but a Sam Hubbards 98 yard fumble return touchdown towards the end sealed Baltimore’s fate. The last game of wildcard weekend was the fourth seeded Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs the fifth seeded Dallas Cowboys. Tampa Bay had been disappointing all season, and that didn’t stop here, as the Cowboys cruised to a 31 to 14 win. Tom Brady ends his illustrious career with a lackluster finale.
The Divisional Round was anticipated to be even more exciting than the wild card. To open the divisional round, the one seed Kansas City Chiefs faced the Jaguars. The Jags put up a fight, but they proved no match for the veteran combo of Reid-Mahomes-Kelce. The Giants faced the one seed Eagles next. While the Giants had momentum, the Eagles dominated the trenches, and demolished the Giants 38 to 7. The Sunday games started with the Bills taking on the Bengals. Two of the most exciting offenses in the league, this game turned out to be rather mellow, as the Bills couldn’t get anything to work offensively, while Joe Burrow and Jamarr Chase did what they did best. The Bengals advanced to their second consecutive AFC championship game with a 27 to 10 win. The most anticipated game of the week was 49ers vs Cowboys. The 49ers were on their third quarterback, the last pick of the draft Brock Purdy. The Cowboys wanted revenge, as the 49ers had beaten them last year in the playoffs. The game turned out to be a defensive one, as both teams only combined for two touchdowns. Following a ridiculous George Kittle catch, a Christian McCaffery touchdown early in the fourth, and two Dak Prescott interceptions, the 49ers bested the Cowboys again, with a 19 to 12 victory.
The conference championship games opened with the 49ers playing the Eagles. Unfortunately, quarterback Brock Purdy suffered a torn UCL on the very first offensive drive for the 49ers. QB4 Josh Johnson had to enter, but even he suffered a head injury early in the third quarter. Without any offensive output from the 49ers, the Eagles were able to calmly win the NFC with a 31 to 7 victory. The next game found itself to be a rematch of last year’s AFC championship game. The Chiefs looked to get revenge against the Bengals for last year, and they did just that. Joe Burrow and Patrick Mahomes exchanged touchdowns, but a late game penalty, followed by a Harrison Butker game winning field goal, would send the Chiefs to their third superbowl in four years.
Super Bowl 57 finds the Kansas City Chiefs facing off against the Philadelphia Eagles. This game had it all, including controversy. One of the biggest controversies of the night was the field. The NFL had been growing this grass field for two years. The grass field turned out to be so slippery that players had to change their cleats halfway through the game. The field proved to hinder both teams’ pass rush, and receivers were sometimes unable to stay balanced while performing an after catch move. Despite this, both teams found the endzone plenty of times. The game came down to one last Chiefs’ drive, which sealed the Eagles fate when the refs threw a pass interference flag on the defense, giving the Chiefs a new set of downs. From there, the Chiefs were able to milk out the clock and give Harrison Butker a short game winning field goal. While controversial, cornerback James Bradberyy admitted after the game that he did in fact hold on that play, and the penalty was deserved. Even then, many have been disputing over this late game call. The Chiefs go on to win their second Super Bowl in four years, an impressive feat for the young, yet generational quarterback Patrick Mahomes. As for the Eagles, they are a young team, and, after an amazing trade, own a top ten pick in this year’s draft, courtesy of the New Orleans Saints. Their future may be the brightest of them all.
Even though this year’s playoffs were no short of amazing, the inevitable disappointment has come that the NFL season is now officially over. NFL fans have to look forward to free agency and the draft, but all of that doesn’t compare to the excitement of that first Sunday in September when NFL football officially comes back.


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Tigh Lals is a beautifully restored self-catering thatched cottage in the centre of Spiddal village, only 20 minutes drive from Galway city and ideally located to explore all that Connemara and the West of Ireland has to offer. …see more
A visit to Ireland is an experience that you will never forget. Luminous greens dominate the country’s breathtaking landscapes, while magnificent sites and monuments abound throughout. Mild winters and warm summers define the climate of the Emerald Isle, which generally experiences a lack of temperature extremes. There truly is something for everyone in Ireland, ranging from ancient monuments, vibrant and colourful towns, romantic castles, and spectacular gardens.Why not explore the magic of County Kerry, with its rolling green countryside, sandy beaches, spectacular golf courses and historical monuments? Make North Kerry your base and stay in a holiday cottage or a farmhouse with log fires, and explore this hidden treasure of Ireland's beautiful South West.
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Hot Wheels plans to produce a collector's edition car and roll on a cross-country tour to celebrate its 40th anniversary, chief designer Larry Wood said Wednesday at the AutoWeek design forum.
The collector's edition car will commemorate production of the 4 billionth Hot Wheels car, which will happen sometime in February, Wood said. The first Hot Wheels car was built in 1968.
Wood and Hot Wheels worked with jewelers on the design of the commemorative car, which will be unveiled at the 2008 New York Toy Fair.
The specifics of the nationwide tour are still in the works, Wood say. But it will likely run in late summer. It will make a stop in Detroit and at the vintage races in Watkins Glen, N.Y. Collectors cars, which will be made in several colors, will be handed out during stops on the tour.


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Surgeon General Meets With State Health Leaders
July 20, 2021
SHAC would like to congratulate UNM student Chris Naranjo for being chosen as one of four youth leaders statewide to meet with the Governor and the US Surgeon General about their pandemic experience, their resilience, and youth vaccine outreach.
Vivek Murthy and Chris Naranjo
In this meeting, Chris Naranjo was able to speak about his work in SHAC Health Promotion, the Lobo Prevention Pack, and being the President of the Student Health Leadership Council. He represented not only SHAC but UNM in its entirety, too.
NM Health Care Leaders and Workers
At a ceremony at the New Mexico History Museum, Dr. Murthy spoke about the tireless efforts of New Mexico health care leaders and workers over the course of the pandemic, crediting and thanking New Mexico providers and nurses and more for saving countless lives and congratulating the Governor as well as other officials for their efforts to protect the state, region and country.
Eight New Mexico healthcare workers, including several from The University of New Mexico, participated in a roundtable discussion with U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, where they reflected on their experiences dealing with the pandemic, and were honored by proclamation for going “above and beyond to protect New Mexicans.”
For more information, see Office of the Governor - Press Release (July 13, 2021).

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TAYLOR, Texas (KXAN) — For decades, at the start of December, citizens of Taylor, Texas, flood their city’s center to watch festive floats sail down Main Street.
“It’s a parade that everybody looks forward to and likes to participate in,” said Stacey Osborne, communications director for Taylor. “Everyone feels like it’s the beginning of the holiday celebration.”
In the past, the planning of this small Austin suburb’s holiday parade has been innocuous and not raised much alarm. But this year, it has been a hotbed of controversy sparking firey debates online.
The Taylor Area Ministerial Alliance (TAMA) has helped organize the event for the last few Christmases, including this one. This year, the organization added language to the application that some felt excluded LGBTQ groups from participating, saying, “entries must be consistent with traditional biblical and family values.”
To include more folks in the tradition, the City of Taylor decided to host a second parade the same night immediately following TAMA’s, calling this one the “Very Merry Holiday Parade.” “All are welcome to participate,” the registration for this event read.
Putting on a separate parade is a departure from what the City of Taylor has previously done. In the past, the city would sponsor an organization’s initiative to orchestrate the event. After seeing this year’s description, they decided to distance themselves from TAMA’s celebration.
“(TAMA) made it clear that they did not want certain people to be a part of the parade,” Osborne said. “They were going to go in a little bit of a different direction… and make it a little bit more exclusive.”
Osborne said city staff in recent years have worked to make Taylor a more inclusive place. They recognized people might practice a faith that does not celebrate Christmas but still want to attend the town’s annual festivities.
“In order to make sure that everybody in our city was included and felt like they could be a part of the celebration, we (decided to) put on our own parade,” Osborne said. “(TAMA is) welcome to have their parade with the rules, requirements and restrictions they want to put on. It is completely their prerogative. But we wanted to make sure that everyone in the city could celebrate the holiday season with us.”
Taylor Pride was an organization that felt excluded by TAMA’s parade requirements. Last year, it had a float in the parade that included a drag performer. On its Facebook page, TAMA said Taylor Pride’s entry into last year’s parade was an “oversight.” The author of the post wrote transphobic slurs and said having a drag performer at a “family-friendly” Christmas event was “unthinkable.”
“It’s hard, it is hurtful and it’s just really not okay,” said Denise Rodgers, a co-founder and the president of Taylor Pride. “The LGBTQ community — we celebrate holidays; we practice religious faith; we have families and children. We are no different than the people who are hosting or attending these parades, these events and these holidays.”
Rodgers said she is happy the City of Taylor decided to host its own event and looks forward to future annual celebrations sponsored by the City.
“The last thing I want to do is send a message to any of the children that we support that they are not worthy or valid to be able to celebrate a holiday or participate in a holiday parade,” Rodgers said. “Just absolutely not okay.”
Jeff Ripple is a pastor at Christ Fellowship Church, which is part of the Taylor Area Ministerial Alliance. He claims the drag performer’s appearance at the parade last year upset some families.
“We asked all entries that (they) would not be inconsistent with traditional biblical and family values. We did not single out a particular group; we didn’t call a group and say you can’t be in our parade,” Ripple said.
Ripple said he is saddened by the division in the community this controversy has created but stands by the group’s decision.
“I fully respect Taylor Pride’s right to be an organization, right to have events of their own. And just as (TAMA) is an organization… we could not in good conscience allow what we believe is contrary to what the Bible teaches,” Ripple said. “Because we believe the Bible is true, we believe the most loving thing we can do is stand up for the truth.”


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Driving over the Haast Pass we arrived at the West Coast. For several days we had to cope with very heavy rain, up to 20mm/h. The strong wind, the pouring rain and the dark clouds emphasized the roughness and in many parts the wilderness of this area. Though when the sun came through for some hours, the road along the coast offered impressive views.
We managed to get some dry hours to visit the Franz Josef Glacier and sadly realized once again, how fast the glaciers are melting across the globe.
One stop which mustn’t be missed to have a look at are the Pancake Rocks of Punakaiki. The stormy sea with huge waves just added to this great landmark. We did the walking loop twice, once before and once after having eaten really delicious real pancakes in the Café.
Early settlers stayed in this challenging area because of the rich natural resources, such as coal, wood and gold. To look at the remains of Denniston, a coal mine town until the 1980s gave us an impression what it used to look like. Today, the main income on the West Coast is farming and tourism but there are still working mines.
From our point of view, the most beautiful place on the west coast is Karamea. The sign on the town’s entry says: “Welcome to Paradise” and soon the quiet, the slowness and the remoteness of this place (the road is a dead end) took us in and we enjoyed two beautiful days there. One whole day we strolled through the native forest in the Oparara Basin with a guide who taught us a lot about ferns, mosses, trees, the geology and challenges of the area such as floods, earthquakes, landslides and storms. We looked for spiders and fossils in the caves, admired the trees which inspired the producers of Lord of the Rings for the Ent and joyfully watched the curious Robin Bird who landed just in front of our feet. Two limestone arches are the highlight of this Reserve, the smaller Moria Arch and the 40m high Oparara Arch.

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- How much of a torn bill do you need?
- Is half a 20 dollar bill worth anything?
- Can you replace burned money?
- Is a ripped bill valid?
- What can I do with a ripped $20 bill?
- Is half a bill worth anything?
- Where can I exchange torn notes?
- Does money have antibacterial?
- How much of a $100 dollar bill can be missing?
- Is ripping money in America illegal?
- Do you need both serial numbers on a bill?
- Can you deposit a ripped bill?
- What happens if you accidentally shred money?
- Can a dollar bill be split in half?
- Do banks accept ripped checks?
How much of a torn bill do you need?
50%Under regulations issued by the Department of the Treasury, mutilated United States currency may be exchanged at face value if: More than 50% of a note identifiable as United States currency is present..
Is half a 20 dollar bill worth anything?
Any paper currency of the United States has total value if it is 51% or more of the original bill, and has no value if it 50% or less of the original bill. If your half a twenty-dollar bill is actually half (or less) it’s worth nothing, but if it’s more than half it’s worth twenty-dollars.
Can you replace burned money?
Replacing US Currency Damaged U.S. currency—paper bills—that have merely been damaged can typically be replaced at a bank, while bills that have been torn must be mailed to the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing for replacement. … Bills that are dirty, defaced, or torn can typically be replaced at a bank.
Is a ripped bill valid?
Most of the time, your damaged cash is always salvageable. As long as you have three quarters of the bill and the bank can see the serial number, the bill is usually savable. If it’s torn, you can use some tape to repair the bill or you can exchange it at your local bank.
What can I do with a ripped $20 bill?
If it’s ripped into two pieces, tape them back together and take the bill to a bank, where they will make sure the serial numbers on both sides of the note match and give you a new one. As long as three-quarters of a bill are intact, you can exchange it for a whole bill.
Is half a bill worth anything?
A torn bill consisting of more than three-fifths of the note is worth full value. A bill is worth half if between 40% and 60% of the bill remains intact. It is worth nothing if less than this remains intact.
Where can I exchange torn notes?
Exchange at any bank As per the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), every bank has to accept mutilated, soiled or imperfect currency notes. So you can easily walk into your nearest bank and get your unusable notes exchanged. No fee will be charged for this facility.
Does money have antibacterial?
The fibrous surfaces of U.S. currency provide ample crevices for bacteria to make themselves at home. … Antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which can cause life-threatening blood infections, can survive on our currency.
How much of a $100 dollar bill can be missing?
If you only have 51% of the bill and your bank will not honor it, then send the $100 bill to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing’s Mutilated Currency Division: U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing . They don’t even need half of the bill if you can prove that the other half has been destroyed.
Is ripping money in America illegal?
Specifically, this is a violation of Title 18, Section 333 of the United States Code, which says that “whoever mutilates, cuts, disfigures, perforates, unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, Federal Reserve …
Do you need both serial numbers on a bill?
As a rule, a bank will exchange a bill if you present CLEARLY more than half of it, it does not matter if the piece contains the serial number or not. … This rule is to avoid people tearing banknotes in halves and exchanging both halves each for a new banknote, doubling their cash.
Can you deposit a ripped bill?
Banks can exchange some mangled money for customers. Typically, badly soiled, dirty, defaced, disintegrated and torn bills can be exchanged through your local bank if more than half of the original note remains. These notes would be exchanged through your bank and processed by the Federal Reserve Bank.
What happens if you accidentally shred money?
Actually, most damaged U.S. cash — whether it’s shredded by a train, damaged in a flood or even if your dog eats it — the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) has you covered through its Mutilated Currency Redemption Service. …
Can a dollar bill be split in half?
Now the reason the scam works is because when you split a bill in half what ends up happening is you can count one bill as too, so basically doubling your money so scammers will count the bills into a pile. … now the reason why you want it wet is because it softens the bill makes it easy to rip the fibers apart.
Do banks accept ripped checks?
Ripped checks can be cashed if you have all of it and can scotch tape it together. If anything important is missing like the drawers signature, date, bank, amount, who it was written to, you are out of luck because those are the basic elements of a negotiable check.