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An Online Journal of Interviews with writers of prose and poetry
Interview with Alexandra van de Kamp
Interview with Diana Raab
Interview with Lynn C. Miller
Interview with Susan Cohen
Interview with William Kelley Woolfitt
Interview with Dan Gutstein
Excerpt from "non/fiction"
Interview with Patricia Sarrafian Ward
Interview with the Afghan Women's Writing Project
Poetry From the Afghan Women's Writing Project
(Marching) Toward a New Freedom
Interview with Katherine Smith
Interview with Lisa Lenard-Cook
Interview with Marcene Gandolfo
Interview with Mary-Sherman Willis
Premiere Issue
Interview with Neil Shepard
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Excoriating Ghosts by Neil Shepard
Interview with Justin Sirois
Bangalore Writers Workshop
The Writer as Publisher: Sarah Gorham/Sarabande Books
Interview with Bisi Ideraabdullah, Women of Color Writers Workshop
Interview with Rose Solari, Alan Squire Publishing
Interview with Barbara Crooker
Interview with Margaret Rozga
Interview with Sid Gold
Interview with Stephen G. Eoannou
Summer 2013 Issue
Interview with Farah Ghuznavi and Sharbari Ahmed
Excerpt from "YASMINE"
Interview with Maureen Thorson
Interview with Steve Himmer
The Writer as Publisher: Kathleen Rooney/Rose Metal Press
Interview with Andrew Gifford, Santa Fe Writers Project
Interview with Gregory Luce
Interview with Catherine Ryan-Hyde
Interview with Kim Roberts
Interview with Michael Patrick Collins
Interview with Norma Riccucci
Winter 2014 Issue
Interview with Adam Deutsch
Interview with Naomi Thiers
Excerpt from In Yolo County
Interview with Sangam House
Interview with April L. Ford
Excerpt from "The Poor Children" by April L. Ford
Interview with bosque (the magazine) Editors
Interview with Jacob M. Appel
Interview with Gretchen E. Henderson
Interview with Tania Hershman
The Writer as Publisher: Dan Cafaro, Atticus Books
Writing from the Chakras Workshop
Excerpt from Leaving India
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Filed Under Andrew Gifford, Andy Ross, Dissonance, fiction, Interviews with Poets, Interviews with Writers, Iris Press, Katherine Smith, Lisa Lenard-Cook, Op-eds, poetry, Ramola D, Santa Fe Writers Project, Woman Alone on the Mountain, Writers interview Writers
November: here on the East Coast, it's cool enough that the leaves–mottled and blackened in places with toxic fallout from the daily chem trails–are still turning wild colors of gold and plum and cerise and scarlet, and thoughts drift to Thanksgiving and beyond. While out there blood moons cluster, talk of war in Syria/Ukraine/Iraq waxes and wanes, ISIS confuses, viruses rise, journalists expose state lies, yet corporate power battles on for Planet Earth and all of us on it.
When the mayhem of world and national events refuses to make sense, we who write still take refuge in the written word. This fall, Delphi is pleased to feature two consummate artists of the written word, both of whom, coincidentally, pursue stillness and quiet in writing, and both of whom look to and are inspired by other arts in the books featured here–in fiction-writer Lisa Lenard-Cook's case, by music and the words that music theory uses, in poet Katherine Smith's case, by visual art and philosophy. Lisa speaks with her agent Andy Ross about quietly working metaphors of music in her newly re-issued novel Dissonance, which spans across present-day New Mexico and latter-day Los Alamos to the concentration camp Terezin during the time of World War II: "More sophisticated tools of destruction have indeed led to greater scales of destruction. That's the dissonance of the 20th century." Katherine talks to editor Ramola D on the release of her second poetry book, Woman Alone on the Mountain, about the years distilled into her lyric poetry, her experience of motherhood as a great force and center in her life, and her pursuit of stillness and presence embodied as much by visual artists as poets: "Mondrian is an important artist for me and in some ways emblematic of the disappearance of the maker into the thinker."
This issue also inaugurates a new feature, that hopefully is here to stay, the outspoken op-ed. Ramola D opens this feature with some ruminations on writing and speaking as positive actions, combating censorship, surveillance, and secretive 21st-century technology with same, and the encouraging operation of "morphic resonance" in the spread of positive action.
Interview Connector/Writers Interviewing Writers
Delphi's Interview Connector model continues with this issue, as a writer from previously-featured Andrew Gifford's press is featured. Essentially, every writer appearing here in Delphi is invited to interview a writer he or she knows, a model we also call on every previously-profiled writer to follow! Whether a short interview or a long one, we'd appreciate hearing about the writers you know.
Truly, Delphi seeks to be a democratic venture and a space for many voices. We encourage writers to help spread the word about Delphi, as well as actively participate by interviewing deserving writers. Please see our Guidelines page for how to query us.
Delphi Seeks Op-Eds
Delphi aims to step beyond the cacophony of voices of conventional "power" in the news to highlight the voices of the truly powerful thinkers, artists, actors, and visionary dreamers among us, however widely or slightly published or known they may be. We are looking for op-eds, on a subject of your choice. Please send a brief query, if interested.
Delphi's Future
Delphi hopes to expand over the next year into a full literary quarterly (publishing fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction, in addition to interviews and op-eds), while also seeking non-profit status and funding. Delphi is in other words seeking to pay its writers and interviewers! If you'd like to be part of this expansion in some capacity, please drop a line.
Volume II, Issue 4, Fall 2014
Delphi celebrates the completion of two writer-filled years this issue, the last of the year, with travels between New Mexico, Washington, DC, and Boston to interview two extraordinary, accomplished, and dedicated women writers–fiction writer, memoirist, teacher, and editor Lisa Lenard-Cook of bosque (the magazine), and poet, teacher, and poetry editor Katherine Smith of Potomac Review, and to present a first op-ed from Delphi editor and writer Ramola D. Other notable firsts in this issue: A literary agent–Andy Ross–interviews a writer, and a publisher–Andrew Gifford from the Santa Fe Writers Project (SFWP), whose interview was featured in our last issue, Summer 2014–puts a spin on Delphi's Interview Connector model by helping to feature a writer from his press. Special thanks to Andrew Gifford and Andy Ross for Lisa Lenard-Cook's interview, and thanks to Lisa Lenard-Cook for waiting on this issue, as also to Katherine Smith for working so hard on such short notice on her interview!
Lisa Lenard-Cook talks to her literary agent Andy Ross about the re-issue of her newly reprinted novel, Dissonance, with a small press, touching on the intriguing focus of her novel, the journey of her protagonist, a Los Alamos piano teacher, as she peruses the journals and music of a World War II concentration camp survivor, and the quiet workings of musical leitmotifs through the intricacies of the story.
Katherine Smith talks to Ramola D on the just-released second collection of her poetry, Woman Alone on the Mountain, about the "centripetal force" of motherhood in her life, her deep-image poetic influences, and her passion for the visible, present world that transforms through long engagement with craft into powerful lyric poetry.
Both conversations epitomize Delphi's interest in depth and candor, they are rich, open, generous, inspiring.
Ramola D looks to Helen Keller and the Rights of Nature movement for inspiration as she muses on combating surveillance, censorship, and undiscussed 21-st century science and technology through speaking out online.
Lisa Lenard-Cook's PEN-shortlisted novel Dissonance, originally published by UNM Press, has just been re-issued in paperback and e-editions by Santa Fe Writers' Project. She's also the author of New Mexico Penwomen Zia Prize-shortlisted novel Coyote Morning (UNM Press), and the writing guides The Mind of Your Story (Writer's Digest Books) and (with Lynn C. Miller) Find Your Story, Write Your Memoir (University of Wisconsin Press), as well as numerous trade nonfiction books. Her short fiction has appeared in Southwest Review, Rosebud, Puerto del Sol, and other journals. Lisa is a faculty member at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference and the Taos Summer Writers' Conference, and was recently a featured writer at the National Undergraduate Literature Conference in Ogden. Lisa is a co-founder of ABQ Writers Co-op (abqwriterscoop.com), bosque (the magazine), and the Bosque Fiction Prize, and holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Katherine Smith's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in a number of journals, among them The Cincinnati Review, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Mezzo Cammin, Unsplendid, Measure, Gargoyle, The Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, Atlanta Review, and Appalachian Heritage. Her first book, Argument by Design (Washington Writers' Publishing House), appeared in 2003. Her second book of poetry Woman Alone on the Mountain appeared with Iris Press in Fall 2014. She teaches at Montgomery College in Maryland and is the Poetry Editor for Potomac Review.
Ramola D is the author of Invisible Season (WWPH, 1998) (poems), and Temporary Lives: Stories (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009), awarded the 2008 AWP Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction. Recipient of a 2005 NEA Fellowship in poetry, her fiction and poetry have appeared in various journals and anthologies, most recently in All About Skin: Short Fiction from Women of Color (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014), Kweli Journal, Kartika Review, Greensboro Review. Her articles, reviews, and writer-interviews have appeared in various forums including The Writer's Chronicle, The Short Review, Indian Express, and The Los Angeles Review. Ramola currently lives in the Boston area, teaches art/science/creative writing workshops for kids, and, keen to save the world, most especially the USA, from run-amok corporate/fascist ruin, runs the newly-unveiled concerned-citizen petition and news website, The Everyday Concerned Citizen.
As Delphi marks the Fall of 2014 with this our eighth issue (Delphi is 2!)–we invite writers, poets, memoirists, essayists, playwrights, and filmmakers everywhere to join us–interview a fellow/sister writer or filmmaker, write an op-ed on a current issue of your choice, offer us insights into your writing residencies, centers, and workshops! If you have been interviewed in these pages, we invite you to join the Interview Connector, to follow up with an interview of your own, to introduce a wonderful and deserving writer you know to a larger audience. Please drop in at our Guidelines page, send us your thoughts. We want to hear from you!
As writers ourselves, the editors of Delphi Quarterly envision this journal as a diverse and inclusive space for conversations on craft with writers across genres—fiction, poetry, drama, film, ecological and creative non-fiction—and across levels of accomplishment. These conversations will highlight a single published piece of writing, whether a book, poem, essay, play, film, or story.
We invite you to join us on these pages to become part of a global conversation on writing. We are especially interested in including writers who have published a great deal but not yet published a book, authors of texts on nature and the environment, and small-press authors and translators of prose and poetry whose books are lost to time.
About Ramola D
Ramola D is the author of Invisible Season (WWPH, 1998), which co-won the Washington Writers' Publishing House Poetry award in 1998, and Temporary Lives, awarded the 2008 AWP Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and finalist in the 2010 Library of Virginia Fiction awards. A Discovery/The Nation finalist and five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she is the recipient of a 2005 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry. Her fiction, poetry, essays, and writer-interviews have appeared in various journals and anthologies including previously in Blackbird, Prairie Schooner, Agni, Northwest Review, Green Mountains Review, Writer's Chronicle, Indiana Review, recently in Extraordinary Rendition: (American) Writers on Palestine (OR Books, 2015), All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014), and also in Best American Poetry 1994, Full Moon on K Street: Poems by Washington, DC Poets (Plan B Press, 2009), and Best American Fantasy 2007. Her fiction was shortlisted in Best American Stories 2007, and included in Enhanced Gravity: More Fiction by Washington DC Women Writers (Paycock Press, 2006). She holds an MFA in Poetry from George Mason University and a BS in Physics and an MBA from the University of Madras. She has most recently taught creative writing at The George Washington University and The Writer's Center, Bethesda. She lives currently in the Boston area where she edits the online literary journal Delphi Literary Review, runs the media site and blog The Everyday Concerned Citizen, and the broadcast station Ramola D Reports (on Youtube, Vimeo, Bitchute) and teaches online art, natural science, and creative writing workshops at ArtCreateWrite.com.
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The footage was captured by a Wildlife Conservation Society scientist in the Asian country when the elephant passed by his camera in the Nagarahole National Park in Karnataka. In the video, captured in 2016 but recently posted online, the pachyderm picks up something with its trunk, puts it in its mouth and puffs out a plume of smoke.
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Over the years, we've learned that fertility treatment success rates often vary by a patient's race and ethnicity. The information below is to help African-American patients recalibrate and discount the data (based mostly on Caucasian patients) that their clinic will show them.
For patients who do intrauterine insemination, or IUI, the data suggests, on average, each cycle is likely to work 1 - 15% of the time. Most of the studies that have compared IUI success rates between African American and Caucasian women have found no meaningful difference.
As you can see here in our lesson on IUI success rates, rates of success vary by patient type and the fertility drugs taken but there's limited evidence that African American patients do better or worse than Caucasian patients in this process.
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Pregnancy Rate:
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Proprioceptive performance of bilateral upper and lower limb joints: Side-general and site-specific effects
Jia Han, Judith Anson, Gordon WADDINGTON, Roger Adams
Superiority of the left upper limb in proprioception tasks performed by right-handed individuals has been attributed to better utilization of proprioceptive information by a non-preferred arm/hemisphere system. However, it is undetermined whether this holds for multiple upper and lower limb joints. Accordingly, the present study tested active movement proprioception at four pairs of upper and lower limb joints, after selecting twelve participants with both strong right arm and right leg preference. A battery of versions of the active movement extent discrimination apparatus were employed to generate the stimuli for movements of different extents at the ankle, knee, shoulder and fingers on the right and left sides of the body, and discrimination scores were derived from participants' responses. Proprioceptive performance on the non-preferred left side was significantly better than the preferred right side at all four joints tested (overall F (1, 11) = 36.36, p < 0.001, partial eta (2) = 0.77). In the 8 x 8 matrix formed by all joints, only correlations between the proprioceptive accuracy scores for the right and left sides at the same joint were significant (ankles 0.93, knees 0.89, shoulders 0.87, fingers 0.91, p a parts per thousand currency sign 0.001; all others r a parts per thousand currency sign 0.40, p a parts per thousand yen 0.20). The results point to both a side-general effect and a site-specific effect in the integration of proprioceptive information during active movement tasks, whereby the non-preferred limb/hemisphere system is specialized in the utilization of the best proprioceptive sources available at each specific joint, but the combination of sources employed differs between body sites
Experimental Brain Research
Han, J., Anson, J., WADDINGTON, G., & Adams, R. (2013). Proprioceptive performance of bilateral upper and lower limb joints: Side-general and site-specific effects. Experimental Brain Research, 226(3), 313-323. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-013-3437-0
Han, Jia ; Anson, Judith ; WADDINGTON, Gordon ; Adams, Roger. / Proprioceptive performance of bilateral upper and lower limb joints: Side-general and site-specific effects. In: Experimental Brain Research. 2013 ; Vol. 226, No. 3. pp. 313-323.
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The Colorado criminal code, Colorado Revised Statutes ("C.R.S.") §§ 18-1-101 to 18-26-102, provides for various affirmative defenses that exempt an individual from criminal liability. See C.R.S. § 18-1-712. Affirmative defenses are defenses that excuse the underlying crime. For example, if one is charged with assault he or she may assert self-defense, effectively saying, "Yes, I committed assault, but the assault was justified because I had to do it in order to protect myself." The affirmative defense justifies the underlying crime: assault.
Under Colorado law, "a person is justified in using physical force upon another person in order to defend himself or a third person from what he reasonably believes to be the use or imminent use of unlawful physical force by that other person . . . ." C.R.S. § 18-1-704(1). Put in other words, a person may use physical force to stop somebody else from hurting them, or from hurting another person. However, while the person defending themselves doesn't have to wait for the attacker to actually make physical contact, the person must have a "reasonably belief" that the attacker is about to physically harm them or somebody else. Id.
Further, the amount of force used against the attacker must be an amount which the defending party "reasonably believes to be necessary" to stop the attacker. In other words, the degree of force used cannot be disproportional to the amount of force or harm the defending party believes the attacker will inflict. For example, if an attacker is coming at somebody with an open hand intending only to slap them in the face, a disproportionate response would be for the defending party to take a gun out and shoot the attacker in the head killing him or her instantly. This response would not be "reasonable" since the use of lethal force is drastically disproportionate to the amount of force the attacker was going to use – that is, an open handed slap in the face. A more proportionate response would be for the defending party to shove the attacker away; try to restrain the attacker; or use non-lethal force, such as a tazer or mace, to stop the attacker.
In the first instance, self-defense would be unavailable as an affirmative defense because the person would not have been justified in shooting the attacker. In the second instance, self-defense would be available as a defense because the amount of force used is a reasonable amount of force for the circumstance. However, where the defending party reasonably believes the attacker is going to kill or cause serious bodily injury to him or another party, the defending party may use lethal force in those circumstances. C.R.S. § 18-1-704(2).
• The physical force involved is the product of combat by agreement not otherwise authorized by law.
Lastly, in order for a jury instruction to be given on self-defense, the defendant must have presented some evidence that they were acting in self-defense when the alleged unlawful contact occurred. C.R.S. § 18-1-704(4). In essence, if there is no self-defense evidence presented to the jury, the defendant cannot use a theory of self-defense to escape liability.


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Het WTA-toernooi van Detroit was een tennistoernooi voor vrouwen dat plaatsvond in de Amerikaanse staat Michigan – in 1972 was dat in de stad Birmingham en van 1973 tot en met 1983 in Detroit. De officiële naam van het toernooi was overwegend Virginia Slims of Detroit.

De WTA organiseerde het toernooi, dat werd gespeeld op overdekte tapijtbanen.

Meestal werd door 32 deelneemsters per jaar gestreden om de titel in het enkelspel (in 1980: 64 deelneemsters), en door 16 paren om de dubbelspeltitel. Aan het kwalificatietoernooi voor het enkelspel namen 32 speelsters deel, met vier plaatsen in het hoofdtoernooi te vergeven.

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Valve Turner's Mock Trial Livestreamed from Missoula on Saturday
Jay O'Hara - Civil Disobedience Action Fund | November 12, 2017
One year ago, 5 climate activists closed safety valves on 5 pipelines carrying tar sands crude oil into the United States. They shut down 15% of U.S. crude oil imports for a day. Now they are facing trial.
Some of the Valve Turners are being allowed to present the Necessity Defense. They will be able to present evidence to the jury that their "property crimes" interfering with fossil fuel transport were necessary to prevent the greater evil of Climate Catastrophe. Defendant Leonard Wiggins is being denied this defense, so activists in Missoula Montana will hold a Mock Trial to give a full public presentation of the defense that the fossil-fuel-friendly judge will not allow.
SEE THE DRAMA UNFOLD LIVE:
In just over two weeks, Leonard Higgins will stand trial in Fort Benton, Montana, for shutting down Spectra Energy's "Express" pipeline last year. Many in the valve turners extended family are heading out to Montana for that full holiday week. But they're also heading out a bit early, because of a special event we're putting on, along with 350 Montana, on Saturday the 18th in Missoula:
Climate Mock Trial: Valve Turner Leonard Higgins argues the Climate Necessity Defense
It's going to be awesome. SIGN UP FOR THE LIVE WEBCAST! Or if you are in Montana, come see it LIVE in Missoula.
Three days before he is tried by the State of Montana - Leonard Higgins will stand for a Mock Trial at the University of Montana, Missoula. Denied by the state the opportunity to present the necessity defense, Leonard Higgins will present his climate change case to the Court of Public Opinion.
WHAT: A magnificent production of Story: Leonard Higgins, retired state employee who closed the valve on Spectra's Express Pipeline on a snowy morning in October 2016. Humor: Behold the spectacle of international renowned climate activists producing a play. The deadly Seriousness of Climate Cataclysm: wild fires and melting glaciers in Montana, hurricanes and drought around the globe. And the Necessity: acting like there is an emergency and taking direct action is the only reasonable response in a world of denial.
WHO: The defense is prepared to call, for the defense of the planet, the following expert witnesses: University of Montana climate scientist Professor Steve Running, civil disobedience expert Tom Hastings, and climate change and US secruity expert Andrew Holland. With presiding judge Bob Gentry, defense attorney Arnold Schroder, and additional support roles by Jeff Smith (350 Montana) and valve turners Michael Foster and Ken Ward. And YOU the Jury!
WHEN: Saturday, November 18th - 7pm Mountain Time (6pm PST)
WHERE: Live Webcast and at the University Center Theater at the University of Montana
Register today to join the live broadcast from the comfort of your own home. And stay tuned next week for more details about the actual trial.
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In other valve turner news, we have some new updates from the proceedings in Minnesota. As you know, the judge in the Minnesota has allowed Annette, Emily, Ben and Steve the right to present climate as a defense at their trial, which is currently scheduled for December 11th. We don't expect that date to stick, however, because the prosecutor has appealed the necessity ruling. We're in a wait-and-see game. The prosecution has until November 20th to file its brief, and the valve turners have until the 28th to file their response. With the time added in for the prosecution to respond to the response, and then for the appellate judge to rule on the appeal, it is unlikely that a December Minnesota trial will proceed. But we'll see.
Jay O'Hara of the Climate Disobedience Action Fund
for the tar sands valve turners
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The South Coast's newest Literary Festival needs friendly, reliable and confident Volunteers to help make the Festival happen!
We are holding two Volunteer Recruitment Sessions on Saturday 24 February at the White Rock Hotel, Hastings (opposite the Pier): 10am until midday and from 1pm to 3pm.
You don't need to book, just pop in during these times to find out more.
You will need to be available on at least one of the three Festival days, and to attend a couple of Volunteer Briefing Sessions beforehand.
You will get a fabulously attractive T-shirt, plus the opportunity to attend activities on the Programme, from workshops to plays, and to meet some fantastic authors.
Have you ever wanted to write comedy?
Whatever your level, take a one-day workshop with Harry Venning, the creator and writer of Radio 4's Clare in the Community and Alison Vernon-Smith, former Executive Producer at BBC Radio Comedy.
Learn the rules of sitcom, structure, characterisation, plotting and gag delivery.
Next session the 24th February in Brighton. £120 for the day which includes notes on one script or outline from Harry and Alison delivered up to one month from the workshop.
HOT are looking specifically for someone to preview the upcoming production of Hamlet – if anyone would like to take on this exciting assignment, please contact Erica ASAP.
HOT are also holding an event specifically for new writers on Sunday 25 February at Cafe Grand Rue de Pera in Queens Road, Hastings.
4-5.30pm. It will be a chance to meet some of Team HOT, talk about what you'd like to write about and learn a little bit about how HOT works.


SINGAPORE, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Faye Sai recalled how the rich smell of coffee would permeate the air as she played at her grandfather's kopitiam (local coffee shop) in Telok Blangah in southern Singapore with her siblings, before helping out during the weekends at the age of 13.
The 32-year-old was among some 70 vendors present at the inaugural La Kopi 2019 - billed as a one-of-a-kind heritage-driven coffee consumer festival.
Held at the Singapore Expo Hall from Friday to Sunday, the event saw a live barista competition, a playground that features a sandpit and childhood games like marbles, hopscotch and five stones, world-renowned roasters, as well as various local vendors that pay tribute to Singapore's rich heritage.
Sai's family business dates back to 1935, when her grandfather started San Hai Yuan coffee house in Keppel, in the south of Singapore. Her father then set up Coffee Break in Boon Tat Street, before relocating to the second floor of Amoy Street Food Center in 1999.
Later, Sai saw the need to preserve the Hainanese heritage of brewing traditional Nanyang coffee. Hainanese refers to people in Singapore originated from Hainan Province in China.
Sai then took a leap of faith from her events and marketing job to plunge into the coffee industry in 2012, along with her brother. Her twin sister joined the duo in 2015.
Today, Coffee Break's bestselling drinks include new and imaginative creations with a twist, like sea salt caramel latte, taro vanilla milk, and black sesame latte - as a testament to her father's encouragement to "constantly innovate and never stop improving." Some of the flavors are also inspired by exotic travels to places like Iran.
In fact, the older generation working nearby have developed a taste for its more experimental flavors, while younger customers are curious about the different variations of traditional kopi (coffee) and how it is brewed using the coffee sock.
"It's a (two-way exchange), the young learn from the old, and vice versa... To me, it's a fulfilling experience to be able (to) marry both the traditional and specialty elements together and keep this culture alive," said Sai, who now runs the second Coffee Break outlet at Kent Ridge.
For most Singaporeans, drinking coffee from local coffeeshops has become a way of life, though in recent years, there has been a wave of cafes which brew artisan coffee. To keep up with the competition, traditional coffee roasters are also ramping up their offerings.
Similar to Sai, Tan Hao Xiang, 27, who helped out at his father's factory in Jurong during his childhood, never imagined that he would end up in the coffee industry full-time. He witnessed his father toiling away from dawn to midnight, doing backbreaking work roasting, grinding, packing, and supplying the coffee.
His father, Tan Song Lee, 61, runs Tan Lee Et Food Industry, an established traditional coffee roaster based in Singapore with more than 30 years of experience since 1982.
"It's a lot of blood and sweat... Everything has to be precise, from ensuring the temperature is just right, roasting it batches by batches and so on," he said.
In 2014, after attending a coffee roasting class which featured international coffee experts from Thailand and Indonesia, the younger Tan became interested in artisan coffee and took up graded courses in roasting Arabica and Robusta coffee.
Since joining the family business as its operations and sales associate in 2012, Tan has a newfound mission to preserve his father's legacy, while reaching out to new customers in the online marketplace by expanding into a new line of gourmet coffee beans imported from Brazil, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Tanzania, among others.
"Many people think that the local coffee business in Singapore is a sunset industry, but there are a few players in the market that are trying to keep this heritage alive, while striking a balance to relieve some of the laborious work involved," said the younger Tan, who plans to ramp up its outreach to consumers this year and to organize coffee cupping classes.
The festival also showcased traditional desserts and pastries. Among them was Kueh Garden, which supplies traditional pastries like handmade "ang ku kueh" (a small round or oval shaped pastry with soft sticky glutinous rice flour skin wrapped around a sweet filling in the center).
While Kueh Garden believes that such local pastries will always be a staple in Singapore's culture, it also seeks new ways to capture customers.
For instance, it does not use preservatives, and ensures there is less salt and less sugar for a "healthier option," said its co-founder Kym Tan, 65.
Knowing that the younger crowd would be drawn by the novelty factor, the team came up with a Milo (Singaporeans' favorite chocolate malt drink)-flavored ang ku kueh - a change from its usual flavors of red bean, peanut, durian, sweet potato, corn, for instance.
The store was set up in 2016 after Tan and her husband sought tutelage from the famous "146 Ang Ku Kueh" (or Lim Lam Hong Confectionery at Jalan Bukit Merah).
Tan starts her work day at 5:00 a.m. in the morning to make the pastries from scratch, and the team can make close to 300 ang ku kueh a day, or between 1,000 to 2,000 ang ku kueh during the Chinese New Year period.
As public milled about the booths, they eagerly peppered the vendors with questions about their produce and were treated to free samples.
Brandon Chang, 43, who works in interior design, saw it as a good opportunity to shop around for coffee and enjoy the "personalized" experience. He makes the monthly trip from his home in Woodlands to an independent local, traditional coffee roaster in Tai Seng to stock up on his coffee beans.
"As consumers, we get to recognize and appreciate the efforts of these small businesses. By speaking to them, you learn more about coffee and the passion behind their craft," he said.


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Dubai English Speaking College Review
Dubai English Speaking College is the sister institution to Dubai English Speaking School (DESS), the oldest UK-curriculum school in Dubai, established in 1963. The College opened in 2005 to provide a through-school arrangement for secondary education for families at DESS. In between times, DESC has grown to admit students from a range of other schools around Dubai. Both DESS and DESC are among the few 'not for profit' schools in Dubai.
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Dubai English Speaking College (DESC) is situated in Academic City, Al Ruwwayah and opened in 2005. With over 15 years of operations, it is a very well-established school, and home to 1,660 students. Students are aged 11 to 18 years, and educated from Years 7 to 13 following the English National Curriculum. It has been rated Outstanding by the KHDA since 2012-13. Older sister school Dubai English Speaking School is also rated Outstanding and both are part of the small number of not-for-profit schools in the city.
Introducing the College, Headmaster Chris Vizzard says,"Dubai English Speaking College, or DESC as we are known, is a not-for-profit College that follows the English National Curriculum (GCSE, A level and BTEC). Our Trustees support our fully inclusive ethos, which means we do not select students on an academic basis. All this results in our position being rather unique in the educational landscape we operate in. Staff and students [are] a part of a vibrant learning community where all members are encouraged to follow the College motto: Dare, Excel, Share and Create."
These are not just words designed to attract students, but statements of the ethos and ambition of the school which are fully supported by parents. It is rare to receive comments that include no criticism at all, but every parent who has responded to our School Survey over the past two years has shared almost identical views about the community, stability, dedication of staff, successes, both academically but also in sports and performing arts, and, above all, inclusivity.
The following recently posted statement in regard to a student who completed his education at DESC in 2021, is reflective of almost all:
"DESC is a highly inclusive school and yet its results are excellent. It has the highest level of sport at any school in the Middle East. My son was proud to represent the school in sporting events and was very happy to be made Swim Captain in his final year. DESC is a large school but it has a warmth and energy to it that would match an excellent much smaller sized school. The way both DESS and DESC have handled the pandemic has been exemplary. Every decision is made with the students and parents in mind and highly transparent, explanatory emails are sent to the parents on a regular basis. The school's decision to cut school fees by 15% last year (and keep them at that lower level) was applauded by all parents, who appreciated the school's acknowledgement of the current difficult times."
Read more about parental feedback to WhichSchoolAdvisor.com at The Buzz.
Four years ago, DESC had an adolescent growth spurt. The college's big news for 2017 was its annexation of the neighbouring, then closing, Delhi Private School Academy land and buildings. Over a nine month period prior to September 2017, DESC's team completely renovated the adjacent building and, as a result, doubled the size of the campus, creating an enormous new Sixth Form Centre and adding 110 additional students across the school for the first year of its use. This growth has continued with a further 150 students having joined the school in 2018-19. The Sixth form has a capacity for 500 students.
The leadership of the school has been stable and is highly regarded. Led by Director of DESC and DESS, Andy Gibbs, Mr. Gibbs says:
"We're trying to take away any excuses for students not having every bit of support to succeed both academically, socially and developmentally. We've got a team of nine senior leaders, and their sole remit is to support every sixth form student that comes through our doors. It's an expensive model, but to give the right platform and the right support to all these students, you need those roles and you need them to be filled properly. That's why it's such a huge investment – not just in the infrastructure here, but the staffing infrastructure to support sixth form." Mr. Gibbs says.
The school says it will be careful it will never adopt a "factory mentality" where DESS and DESC are concerned. "Over the ensuing years we will manage, monitor and control growth in a prudent, careful way."
DESC Sixth Form study area
Students originate from over sixty different countries and this global element creates an environment of high ambition and confidence; the largest nationality group of students is British. Some 146 students (just shy of 9%) have been identified as Students of Determination and are provided with support by the SEN team which is rated Very Good by the KHDA. This comes at no additional cost to parents.
Are you a parent, teacher or student at Dubai English Speaking College?
At the time of the last KHDA inspection in 2019, there were 157 teachers and an additional 15 teaching assistants, up quite significantly on the 114 full-time teachers employed two years ago, including the Headteacher and the senior management team. A significant percentage of the teaching body comes from the United Kingdom. Staff turnover, at 10%, was well below the UAE average of 20-22%, ensuring a level of stability and clear staff commitment. The teacher:student ratio is a highly creditable 1:11.
What about the curriculum?
The college continues to be an English National Curriculum school, bucking the recent trend to mash it up with the International Baccalaureate (IB), most commonly for Post-16 education. Students are entered for GCSE at the end of the secondary phase, for AS level at the end of Year 12, and for GCE Advanced level at the end of the post-16 phase.
The college, in addition to the traditional A Level route, currently offers BTEC options one of the widest ranges of Level 3 qualification including Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, Hospitality, Sport, Travel and Tourism, Applied Science, Creative Media, Creative and Performing Arts and RSL Level 3 Music Practitioners.
In addition to the focus on the academic and sports at the College, DESC is also well-known for its Performing Arts programmes. The Performing Arts Faculty at DESC brings together the subjects of Music, Drama and Dance. At A level the College offers Drama and Theatre Studies, Music and Music Technology as subjects for study within the Sixth Form. There is a whole college production every year at DESC and Sixth Form students often take the lead parts.
What about the facilities?
The new Sixth Form building was officially opened in October 2017 by Dr Abdulla Al Karam, Director of the KHDA. The Centre has been created to give students a university-style experience and to provide a balance between social interaction and independent learning. Sixth form students continue to have access to all the main College areas, such as the new library, swimming pool and gym, but, in addition, now have their own purpose-designed learning spaces for private and collaborative study, own indoor and outdoor communal social spaces, a large dining area and kitchen, a zen garden and yoga studio.
At the time of opening, according to then Assistant headteacher, Roger Hancock, the idea is to prepare students for independent study, similar to a university experience. "When students go to university, this is the sort of environment they will be in, and there won't be teachers policing them. The onus is squarely on them – so we wanted to create that environment here and make them feel special - that was our goal."
The Sixth Form Centre opened in 2017
The centre also houses a fully kitted out gym - "arguably the best one in a UAE school" according to Andrew Gibbs, the Principal of DESS and DESC, along with changing rooms with showers. Outdoor sports facilities have also doubled with the complex. DESC has always had a strong reputation as one of the leading competitive sports schools in Dubai and the College now has a full-sized, all grass rugby field, a cricket pitch, and a mini golf course, which have been added to the school's excellent sports facilities.
See and read about the facilities and resources at DESC by reading about our recent visit Experience
These facilities provide opportunities for the Sixth Form to participate in a variety of sports activities – including rugby, football, netball, basketball, tennis and watersports. As well as competitive sport, there is a clear emphasis on promoting the benefits of keeping fit, with fitness for all, aerobics and yoga.Although the focus of the expansion to the additional building has been the Sixth Form, the school's 11 to 16 year olds have also benefited from more space and access to buildings vacated by senior students. DESC has, in its own words, been spread out, "creating lots more room".
It is clear that the Senior team is very proud of the expanded campus, but recognise the requirement to provide not just facilities but strengthened staffing and curriculum options. The college has also invested heavily in teaching and leadership staff. There are now nine dedicated senior leaders for Sixth form, including a full-time careers coach, an academic enrichment manager, and a team member dedicated to university applications.
The rendering of the extended sports facilities
Students also take part in various debating competitions and were the 2016-17 winners of the World Scholars' Cup. The college offers the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) for those students who are interested in extending their knowledge of a specific subject. The EPQ provides an opportunity for students to extend their abilities beyond an A level syllabus, and to prepare for university or their future career. The EPQ also provides additional UCAS points as it is worth half an A level, improving a student's chances of gaining a place at University.
The college aims to tailor its curriculum options to support students wanting to attend Sixth Form. The College states "If we offer a place in our Sixth form, we will then find a suitable academic pathway for the student, whether that's a mixture of Level 2 and Level 3 courses, mixed with the BTEC qualification perhaps… or maybe BTEC and two A Levels, or even a four A Level course. There's lots of mix and match courses there because the idea is we find an academic pathway for every one of our students, and the transition is secure."
In a first for Dubai, with the opening of the Sixth Form Centre fours years ago, the college also launched a foundation year, which offers a number of Level 3 courses for students who may have struggled in Year 11 and have not received the GCSE grades required to proceed to A Levels.
One of the goals of the DESC team is to ensure that when a student is offered a place at the college, it is unconditional. As Andrew Gibbs explains, "So many other schools let kids go at 16 because they didn't get the grades the school wanted. They were told there's no pathway available to them. That's an approach that we won't take at DESC. If you're with us, you're with us for life; we will find a pathway for you. And I think this foundation year, which bridges the gap for students who found GCSEs quite tough and can't access an A Level course or BTEC course – I think there's a large market for that in Dubai."
Read the full report on the opening of DESC's sixth form building.
The college offers an array of extracurricular activities - an annual skiing trip, sports days, debating, activity days, and the International Award (Duke of Edinburgh) scheme - examples among many. Additional information can be found in the school's excellent Parents Handbook here. Physical education is particularly strong - the college has an enviable record in sports competitions.
This has been acknowledged by our sister website, www.schoolscompared.com, which has recognised DESC as one of the Best Schools for Sport in the UAE - coming in equal top place with Dubai College. Furthermore, in the SchoolsCompared Awards for 2018-19, DESC and its sister school DESS were named as the Top School in the UAE.
DESC Dubai's rather modern looking canteen.
What about academic achievement?
Academically, this is a school that delivers.
For 2020-21, in the second year of the pandemic when results were again based on assessments by teachers, A Level results showed strong results as usual. 209 students were entered for the examinations, and of their entries, 22% of results were at A*, 57% at A*-A, 97% at A*-C and 100% at A*-E. The highest individual achievements were 4A* and one A grade achieved by an individual student.
For 2020-21's GCSE results, 227 students were entered for 2,038 examinations. 14% of entries achieved a Grade 9, 53% were awarded A*-A (Grades 9-7), 75% achieved A*-B (Grades 9-6) and 99% were awarded A*-C (Grades 9-4). 96.5% of students achieved a minimum of 5 GCSEs at A*-C including English and Maths.
With one of the largest cohorts of A Level students in 2019-20, some 228 students were entered for a total of 743 exams. With the cancellation of all examinations in 2020 due to the Covid 19 pandemic, for the first time, results were based on Centre Assessed Grades (based on assessments and predicted grades assessed by teachers and leadership at the school). 18% of entries were graded A*, 40% were awarded A*-A, 66.9% A*-B, 88% A*-C and 99.6% A*-E. In comparison with 2018-19 results, there was not significance evidence of grade inflation.
For 2019-20 GCSE results, 212, students were entered for 1,957 examinations. 27.8% were awarded Grade 9, 49.2% A*, (9-8), 49.2% achieved A*-A (9-7), 72.5% A*-B (9-6) and 98.2% were awarded A*-C (9-4). All students achieved a minimum of 5 GCSEs including Maths and English.
2018 A Level results were also impressive with a 99.8% pass rate and once again consistently high A*-C (85%), A*-B (61%), and A*-A (36%) grades.
GCSE results, some 5.1% of results for the cohort of 178 students were graded the new Grade 9, with 18% scored at Grades 9-8 (A* under the old grading system), 38.7% at Grades 9-7 (A*-A), 80.2% at Grades 9-5 (A*-B) and 95.6% at Grades 9-4 (A*-C). 100% of students passed the examinations that they entered. 92.7% of students achieved 5 passes at A*-C (Grades 9-4) including Maths and English. 26 pupils attained all As, A*s or 7-9 (178 pupils).
By comparison, in 2017 GCSE results, the cohort scored 46% A* to A, an improvement of 2% on the previous year's results, while 72% achieved A* to B and 95% A* to C. In 2016 GCSE results at the school were good- 95% of the cohort achieving A* to C (well above the UK average of 66.9%), while DESC's A* to A results at 43.7% were more than double the UK average of 20.5%.
However successes at DESC are not confined to the core subjects. Attainment is at least above average and progress is often outstanding in almost all subjects of the curriculum. Particular strengths in GCSE results for include art, drama, French, Spanish and humanities. Physical education is particularly strong.
What the inspectors say
As noted, the college has received its seventh Outstanding rating from the KHDA in 2018-19. Its report notes good student behaviour, self-discipline, consideration for others; outstanding teaching, learning and assessment in most subjects; a supportive caring and learning environment; its partnership with parents (2011 though to 2018) and dynamic leadership (2012 - 2018).
Following the announcement by the KHDA in September 2019 that all Dubai schools rated either Outstanding or Very Good would no longer be subject to an annual inspection - instead receiving a one day review visit - the 2018-19 report is the last to have been issued. However, in common with all UAE schools, as a result of the implementation of Distance Learning due to the Covid 19 pandemic, DESC did participate in a Distance Learning Evaluation for which it was awarded the highest rating of Developed. The report can be found here.
Almost all key indicators across the school including Students' progress and attainment in Mathematics and progress in English at both Secondary and Sixth Form levels, attainment and progress in Science in the Secondary level, and Learning Skills are rated Outstanding. The Understanding of Islamic Values and Awareness of Emirati and World cultures retained its Good rating in this inspection. SEND provision (rated Very Good) was found to be a particular area of strength.
There has been some slippage in Science at Sixth Form level with attainment and progress both being downgraded to Good and Very Good respectively, and English having also been rated at Good, and Very Good respectively. The inspection team notes that the influx of students to the Sixth Form from other schools with a "greater range of prior experience", has affected attainment slightly. In relation to Sixth Form Science, inspectors noted that whilst attainment in Biology was above expectations, and Physics and Science met expectations, at AS level, results were below expectations and performance was inconsistent in international bench-marking tests.
However, beyond these largely academic measures, all other key indicators in terms of Students' personal and social development and innovation skills, the Curriculum, Teaching and Assessment, the Protection, Care, Guidance and Support, and Leadership and Management were rated Outstanding across the board.
Inspectors praised the strengths of DESC as
the strong educational leadership, the vibrant culture of innovation and inclusion, and successful commitment to the implementation of the UAE National Agenda;
Imaginative teaching and the very effective use of assessment, ensuring that students make rapid progress, acquire high levels of understanding and develop impressive learning skills;
Students' attitudes and exemplary behaviour;
The innovative curriculum, adapted effectively to meet the needs of almost all groups of students;
The school's arrangements for safety, security and care, the promotion of healthy lifestyles and notable sporting prowess.
There is still one specific area in which DESC needs to improve according to the inspection team. This relates to the common Achilles Heel of international schools in relation to Arabic. In particular, they recommend that DESC should:
Improve attainment and progress in Arabic by: adapting the curriculum more effectively to address gaps in students' attainment in all four skills, particularly in Arabic as a first language; modifying internal assessments where necessary to ensure that they test a suitable blend of knowledge, understanding and skills, and are in line with age-related standards for Arabic as a first language and with the number of years of study for Arabic as an additional language; using assessment data to match lesson tasks and activities more closely to the learning needs of different groups of students; [and] including Arabic teachers and learners in initiatives to develop reading across the curriculum.
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Not only do parents feel that their children enjoy going to the College - a remarkable 69% a 'tremendous amount', and a further 24% 'quite a bit' - but 74% of parents feel that fees are represent Good value for money (compared with the UAE average of 50!). Bearing in mind that those students enjoying the school are aged 11 to 18, this is an achievement in itself.
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The school also claimed that it will keep fees reasonable and not use the expansion to the Sixth Form building as an excuse to raise fees. In fact, fees were not increased during the 2016-17 academic year (prior to the expansion), although the college was entitled to raise fees following its Outstanding rating.
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Q: Avoid single file with hive.optimize.sort.dynamic.partition option I'm using hive.
When I write dynamic partitions with INSERT query and turn on hive.optimize.sort.dynamic.partition option(SET hive.optimize.sort.dynamic.partition=true), always there is single file in each partition.
But if I turn of that option(SET hive.optimize.sort.dynamic.partition=false), I got out of memory exception like this.
TaskAttempt 3 failed, info=[Error: Error while running task ( failure ) : attempt_1534502930145_6994_1_01_000008_3:java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.tez.TezProcessor.initializeAndRunProcessor(TezProcessor.java:194)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.tez.TezProcessor.run(TezProcessor.java:168)
        at org.apache.tez.runtime.LogicalIOProcessorRuntimeTask.run(LogicalIOProcessorRuntimeTask.java:370)
        at org.apache.tez.runtime.task.TaskRunner2Callable$1.run(TaskRunner2Callable.java:73)
        at org.apache.tez.runtime.task.TaskRunner2Callable$1.run(TaskRunner2Callable.java:61)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:422)
        at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1836)
        at org.apache.tez.runtime.task.TaskRunner2Callable.callInternal(TaskRunner2Callable.java:61)
        at org.apache.tez.runtime.task.TaskRunner2Callable.callInternal(TaskRunner2Callable.java:37)
        at org.apache.tez.common.CallableWithNdc.call(CallableWithNdc.java:36)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
        at org.apache.parquet.column.values.dictionary.IntList.initSlab(IntList.java:90)
        at org.apache.parquet.column.values.dictionary.IntList.<init>(IntList.java:86)
        at org.apache.parquet.column.values.dictionary.DictionaryValuesWriter.<init>(DictionaryValuesWriter.java:93)
        at org.apache.parquet.column.values.dictionary.DictionaryValuesWriter$PlainBinaryDictionaryValuesWriter.<init>(DictionaryValuesWriter.java:229)
        at org.apache.parquet.column.ParquetProperties.dictionaryWriter(ParquetProperties.java:131)
        at org.apache.parquet.column.ParquetProperties.dictWriterWithFallBack(ParquetProperties.java:178)
        at org.apache.parquet.column.ParquetProperties.getValuesWriter(ParquetProperties.java:203)
        at org.apache.parquet.column.impl.ColumnWriterV1.<init>(ColumnWriterV1.java:83)
        at org.apache.parquet.column.impl.ColumnWriteStoreV1.newMemColumn(ColumnWriteStoreV1.java:68)
        at org.apache.parquet.column.impl.ColumnWriteStoreV1.getColumnWriter(ColumnWriteStoreV1.java:56)
        at org.apache.parquet.io.MessageColumnIO$MessageColumnIORecordConsumer.<init>(MessageColumnIO.java:184)
        at org.apache.parquet.io.MessageColumnIO.getRecordWriter(MessageColumnIO.java:376)
        at org.apache.parquet.hadoop.InternalParquetRecordWriter.initStore(InternalParquetRecordWriter.java:109)
        at org.apache.parquet.hadoop.InternalParquetRecordWriter.<init>(InternalParquetRecordWriter.java:99)
        at org.apache.parquet.hadoop.ParquetRecordWriter.<init>(ParquetRecordWriter.java:100)
        at org.apache.parquet.hadoop.ParquetOutputFormat.getRecordWriter(ParquetOutputFormat.java:327)
        at org.apache.parquet.hadoop.ParquetOutputFormat.getRecordWriter(ParquetOutputFormat.java:288)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.write.ParquetRecordWriterWrapper.<init>(ParquetRecordWriterWrapper.java:67)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.MapredParquetOutputFormat.getParquerRecordWriterWrapper(MapredParquetOutputFormat.java:128)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.parquet.MapredParquetOutputFormat.getHiveRecordWriter(MapredParquetOutputFormat.java:117)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveFileFormatUtils.getRecordWriter(HiveFileFormatUtils.java:286)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveFileFormatUtils.getHiveRecordWriter(HiveFileFormatUtils.java:271)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.FileSinkOperator.createBucketForFileIdx(FileSinkOperator.java:619)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.FileSinkOperator.createBucketFiles(FileSinkOperator.java:563)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.FileSinkOperator.createNewPaths(FileSinkOperator.java:867)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.FileSinkOperator.getDynOutPaths(FileSinkOperator.java:975)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.FileSinkOperator.process(FileSinkOperator.java:715)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.forward(Operator.java:897)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.SelectOperator.process(SelectOperator.java:95)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.tez.ReduceRecordSource$GroupIterator.next(ReduceRecordSource.java:356)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.tez.ReduceRecordSource.pushRecord(ReduceRecordSource.java:287)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.tez.ReduceRecordProcessor.run(ReduceRecordProcessor.java:317)
]], Vertex did not succeed due to OWN_TASK_FAILURE, failedTasks:1 killedTasks:299, Vertex vertex_1534502930145_6994_1_01 [Reducer 2] killed/failed due to:OWN_TASK_FAILURE]Vertex killed, vertexName=Map 1, vertexId=vertex_1534502930145_6994_1_00, diagnostics=[Vertex received Kill while in RUNNING state., Vertex did not succeed due to OTHER_VERTEX_FAILURE, failedTasks:0 killedTasks:27, Vertex vertex_1534502930145_6994_1_00 [Map 1] killed/failed due to:OTHER_VERTEX_FAILURE]DAG did not succeed due to VERTEX_FAILURE. failedVertices:1 killedVertices:1

I guess this exception raised because reducer write to many partitions simultaneously. But I can't find how to control that. And I followed this article, but it doesn't help me.
My environment is it:

*

*AWS EMR 5.12.1

*Use tez as execution engine

*hive version is 2.3.2, and tez version is 0.8.2

*HDFS Block size is 128MB

*There are about 30 dynamic partitions to write with INSERT query

Here is my sample query.
SET hive.exec.dynamic.partition.mode=nonstrict;
SET hive.optimize.sort.dynamic.partition=true;
SET hive.exec.reducers.bytes.per.reducer=1048576;
SET mapred.reduce.tasks=300;
FROM raw_data
INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE idw_data
  PARTITION(event_timestamp_date)
  SELECT
    *
  WHERE
    event_timestamp_date BETWEEN '2018-09-09' AND '2018-10-09'
DISTRIBUTE BY event_timestamp_date
;

A: distribute by partition key helps with OOM issue, but this configuration may cause each reducer writing the whole partition, depending on hive.exec.reducers.bytes.per.reducer configuration, which can be set very high value by default, like 1Gb. distribute by partition key may cause additional reduce stage, the same does hive.optimize.sort.dynamic.partition.
So, to avoid OOM and achieve maximum performance:

*

*add distribute by partition key at the end of your insert query, this will cause the same partition keys to be processed by the same reducer(s). Alternatively, or in addition to this setting, you can use hive.optimize.sort.dynamic.partition=true

*set hive.exec.reducers.bytes.per.reducer to the value which will
    trigger more reducers if there are too much data in one partition. Just check what is current value of hive.exec.reducers.bytes.per.reducer and reduce or increase it accordingly to get proper reducer parallelism. This setting will determine how much data single reducer will process and how many files per partition will be created.

Example:
set hive.exec.reducers.bytes.per.reducer=33554432;

insert overwrite table partition (load_date)
select * from src_table
distribute by load_date;

See also this answer about controlling the number of mappers and reducers: https://stackoverflow.com/a/42842117/2700344

A: Finally I found what's wrong.
First of all, execution engine was tez. mapreduce.reduce.memory.mb option was not help. You should use hive.tez.container.size option. When write dynamic partition, reducer open multiple record writers. Reducer need enough memory to write multiple partitions simultaneously.
If you use hive.optimize.sort.dynamic.partition option, global partition sorting is run but sorting means there are reducers. In this case, if there isn't another reducer tasks, each partition is processed by one reducer. Thats why there is only one file in partition. DISTRIBUTE BY make more reduce tasks, so it can make more files in each partition, but there is same memory problem.
Consequently, containers memory size is really important! Don't forgot use hive.tez.container.size option to change tez container memory size!

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Schedule

Medalists

Men

Women

Medal table

Participating nations
A total of 38 athletes from 7 nations competed in biathlon at the 2011 Asian Winter Games:

References

Men's Sprint
Men's Pursuit
Men's Individual
Men's Relay
Women's Sprint
Women's Individual
Women's Relay

External links
Official website

Asian Winter Games
2011 Asian Winter Games events
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