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The first time I saw him, it was the 100th birthday of Pike Place Market. We were scouting our seats on the grass to watch some of the Seattle music legends. I went to get us some food while Brian saved the seats, when I was derailed by the sound of a sarod? in Seattle?
I was mesmerized watching this guy stand and play sarod, so easily strapped to his chest (something I hadn't seen before & it's pretty hard to do). We looked him up afterwards and found his name was James Whetzel. Brian & I have been his fans ever since.
James Whetzel is classically trained in sarod, tabla, and many other worldly instruments and types of music. We recently saw him play at a local tea house, Remedy Teas (which has great vegetarian/vegan food by the way!) and it was just lovely, I felt like I was transported back to India! James also debuted a couple tracks from an upcoming album by Das Dhoom.
Here are few casual photos I snapped of him at this show. If you like Indian or Indian/African fusion music, please check him out at JamesWhetzel.com.
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There's nothing less than a chance at history on the line for the Seattle Sounders when they attempt to win a fourth-straight US Open Cup title on Wednesday (9 pm ET, GolTV).
They are well aware.
"Like I've said before a number of times, it's not just good enough for us to be there this time," said Sounders midfielder Brad Evans, one of eight players who has played on all four Cup squads. "It's something that we haven't taken for granted. We've taken this tournament very serious. The Open Cup has been good to us. We'll be away from home in a warm, crazy atmosphere, but it's a challenge we're looking forward to."
Just one other team has even managed to get to four straight US Open Cup finals, but that was in 1937 and accomplished under very different circumstances. During the MLS era of the tournament, no other team has even won it twice in a row or even made it to three straight finals.
READ: Seattle's Honey Badger does care, about winning USOC
Even looking beyond the United States, no team in England, France, Germany or Italy has won four straight domestic cups and only a handful have managed to make it to four consecutive finals. Athletic Bilbao are the last team to win four straight Spanish Copas del Rey, and that was done from 1930-33.
The Sounders, meanwhile, have managed to go 15-0-1 and have outscored their opponents 38-10 over four years to get to this point. Numbers nothing short of mind-boggling considering the one-and-done nature of the competition.
"I know the Open Cup is sometimes considered a secondary trophy, but you have to remember it's a big game," Sounders head coach Sigi Schmid said. "It's a game where it's a knockout competition. I think that ... in our fourth season in a knockout competition, we haven't lost a game.
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"When you have a bad day, a guy could get a cold at a wrong time, you can run into a hot goalkeeper, there are all kinds of things that can happen and we've been able to get through all those hurdles. The game against San Jose this year was a good example of that, where it was just reach down and gut check, and the guys did it."
READ: Injuries leave Sporting's starting lineup in question
And while no one equates winning this tournament to the MLS Cup, a step Seattle hope to remedy this year after a few early playoff exits, the Sounders certainly appreciate the US Open Cup's unique importance.
"It would be something special to be a part of because when you're done you want to leave a legacy," Sounders forward Eddie Johnson said. "You want to look back and say, 'Oh, I was a part of this team when they did this.' There's a lot of professional athletes around the world that played for many years, made some good money in their careers, but haven't won anything. You want to be remembered when you're done because people forget about you real quick. ... It's special."


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A journey through grief. In the midst of darkness, there is a path of Light, a promise of hope. Therein lies the choice of the journey--to remain in the dark or move toward the Light. I prefer to move toward the Light; to experience healing in the hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the beginning of time. This painting is my interpretation of that process and was inspired by my personal journey through a season of grief.
Out of Darkness was created by first applying thin layers of modeling paste and multiple layers of paint in thick and thin coats to achieve the lightly textured gray background. Each layer represents a stage of grief that was being processed. As I worked through it, colors changed until I reached the desired shade of gray. The heavily raised texture was created by using a unique mixture of ash and gel. Coarse gold metallic gel was applied to portray the path of light. Copper metallic gel was used to create the copper block and the circle which represent promises of eternal hope.
Each painting wraps the edges of its 7/8" deep canvas, is signed by the artist (sjh) and sealed with a satin archival UV protective varnish. It comes with a C.O.A., wired and ready to hang. It may hang vertical or horizontal. Sold individually or as a set.
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A visually sumptuous slice of macabre storytelling that works best when it uses its director's magical sense of composition and less when it feels weighed…
A visually sumptuous slice of macabre storytelling that works best when it uses its director's magical sense of composition and less when it feels weighed…
Ford v Ferrari delivers real cinema meat and potatoes.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
An article about today's noon premiere of a new movie about architect Benjamin Marshall at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
An article about the screening of Horace Jenkins' "Cane River" on Friday, November 1st, at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles.
An article about today's noon premiere of a new movie about architect Benjamin Marshall at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
A video essay celebrating Antonia Bird's maligned masterpiece, Ravenous.
A celebration of Yasujiro Ozu, as written by a Far Flung Correspondent from Egypt.
A Far Flung Correspondent weighs in on the MCU controversy.
An essay about Robert De Niro, as excerpted from the online magazine Bright Wall/Dark Room.
An excerpt from Beyond Empowertainment: Feminist Horror and the Struggle for Female Agency, as published by Seventh Row.
Roger Ebert became film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times in 1967. He is the only film critic with a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and was named honorary life member of the Directors' Guild of America. He won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Screenwriters' Guild, and honorary degrees from the American Film Institute and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Every year during the first week on June, it has been my custom to attend the Summer Consumer Electronics Show, which fills up McCormick Place fit to bursting with the latest home electronic gizmos. It's the kind of event so jammed with programmable remote-control devices that you have the suspicion you could bring the whole show to its knees with a garage-door opener set to the wrong frequency.
This year, however, there will be no report from the CES. I would like to offer instead my own Everyman's Consumer Electronics Show, in which I will sing the glories of three obscure gizmos that have been brought to my attention. These are gizmos without a lot of money behind them. Their inventors could not afford expensive floor space at McCormick Place. You will not see them trumpeted in ads. But let us lend an ear to the brave small voice of the independent inventor.
The inventions promise to bring low-priced giant-screen TV to Everyman's basement, to improve the picture of any existing television, and to turn any TV signal into a #-D image. I will consider them one at a time.
* A Giant Screen in Every Basement!
I have here a letter from Bill Bergfeldt of Kansas City, Mo., a former Hindu monk who is now the president of Expand-A-View TV Projection Systems. He says the 100-inch model of his large-screen TV projection system "exceeds the impact of some theaters, let alone ordinary big screen TV's." The product is called Expand-A-Scope, and it costs from $999 to $1,500 (depending on screen size), considerably less than your average big-screen rear-projection TV, although for that matter Expand-A-Scope doesn't include the TV itself. You use your own 13 or 14-inch set. First you adjust a switch to turn its picture upside down, then you attach Bergfeldt's lens assembly to it with Velcro straps, and then you project the image through the lens onto a 50, 60, 72 or even 100-inch screen that he supplies. How does it work? It blows up an ordinary TV picture in the same way that a slide projector enlarges your slides.
There are some excellent high-priced front-projection TVs that project a surprisingly good image onto screens of 10 to 20 feet in diameter. These models use three different lens to throw enough light on the screen. Bergfeldt's Expand-A-Scope uses only the light from the TV itself, but uses an aluminumized screen that bounces more light back at you.
I have not actually seen the Expand-A-Scope in action, although Bergfeldt proudly volunteered to drive up from Kansas City to demonstrate his baby for me. Of those who have seen it, Stephen A. Booth of Popular Mechanics says, "It isn't perfect, but it's amazingly good, especially when you consider the much greater cost of comparably-sized 3-tube front projection TVs."
Bergfeldt has gotten a little carried away with one refinement of his system, in my opinion. He includes a gizmo that allows you to make any movie into a wide-screen movie, even a movie like "Casablanca." You do it by trimming off the tops and bottoms of the projected image. The result is indeed admittedly a wide-screen picture, although a few foreheads and chins may be sliced off. What this feature is useful for is to blow up a letterboxed version of a widescreen movie so it fills the entire screen.
Bergfeldt has tried to license his system to the big boys like Pioneer, Sony and Mitsubishi. They aren't interested. He sent me a tape of himself being interviewed on a Kansas City TV station, where he explains that his original invention consisted of an upside-down TV, a two-pound coffee can, and a magnifying glass. Considering the millions that the Japanese spend on electronics technology, maybe they're just embarrassed to contemplate that a guy down in his basement in Kansas City could come up with a better gizmo. (Bill Bergfeldt is at 816-561-1896, and will send you his brochure.)
* Is the Super Shield for Real?
An intriguing article appeared in a spring issue of "BD Notebook," that invaluable laserdisk newsletter published by Barr Digital of Redmond, Washington. The editors claimed that at a video trade show, they saw a product demonstrated which seemed to noticeably improve the picture quality of any television set. It was a sheet of "optical grade Perspex," they said, which was being sold as a screen protector to keep grubby little handprints and pawprints off the delicate screens of rear-projection TVs. But the protector seemed to have a side benefit: Somehow, it improved the picture, making it seem more like a lustrous and smooth movie screen image, instead of a common ordinary video image with its scan lines and subtle crawl.
My trusted assistant Sally Sinden went on a search for "optical grade Perspex" in the Chicago video and art supply stores, only to discover that Perspex is a British trade name for Plexiglas, and that in any event no one knew what she was talking about. Finally, through Barr Digital, she was put in touch with Fred and John Ananian, of a company called Super Shield, in Laguna Niguel, California. They indeed sell a Plexiglas product that is custom-fitted to any size screen, is held in place by Velcro strips, and is sold to provide protection from dents, scratches and finger prints, the bane of all owners of big-screen rear-projection television sets. In their brochure, they go on to claim: "Super Shield also enhances the quality of the viewing picture by creating a tube-like effect."
What does it actually do? Barr Digital thought it made the TV image feel more like a projected movie. The Ananians believe it makes back-projection look more like a picture on a tube. Naturally I had to have this product for myself and in a few weeks a large package arrived containing a Super Shield for my 45-inch rear-projection Mitsubishi. I installed it, looked at the black and white laserdisk of "The Third Man" through it, and then experimented by covering only half of the screen with the Super Shield.
My subjective opinion is that Super Shield does in fact improve the quality of the viewed image. It's on the level. How it works, I have no idea. Perhaps optical qualities of the Plexiglas smooth out the video effect. Whatever is happening, the difference is noticeable. The big-screen picture looks smoother and more lustrous, and there is more of a "silver screen" feel to the image quality. The difference is not dramatic, but it can be seen--and of course at the same time the product is shielding your delicate big screen from damage. (Super Shield is at 1-800-888-4406, or in California 714-364-4396; the FAX is 714-364-5854.)
* Three-Dimensional Television?
A British inventor claimed a few weeks ago that he had developed a three-dimensional television system that would work on any set and did not require viewers to wear those funny glasses. James Ashbey's system, internationally patented under the name "Deep Vision," says his system works by "activating the brain's powers of depth perception." The invention was reported in a London newspaper, The Independent, which said, "The three-dimensional quality of the pictures is indisputable. It is marred by a loss of resolution which makes the viewer feel slightly dizzy, but Mr. Ashbey explains that this can be put right by more sophisticated engineering when the manufacturers take over."
Ashbey, like all inventors, remains confident that these slight flaws can be overcome. He was quoted: "The final picture will be just as sharp as an ordinary television image. The viewer will have the sensation of looking one mile into the picture."
According to the newspaper, "Existing film is transformed into three-dimensional pictures by identifying the focus points in each frame and processing them into what are called 'stereo cues.' If a digital decoder--in the form of a special screen--is added to an ordinary television set, these cues send slightly different images to each eye and create an illusion of depth."
Ashbey's prototype system, bankrolled by RCA-Columbia and Brent Walker, is cheap. The cost of the screen will be between $75 and $150. The good news about his invention is that all sorts of screen applications could be given the 3-D treatment, including X-rays, astronomical photographs, aerial photographs, and computer programs (imagine what a video game could look like!). The bad news is that Ted Turner may decide this is a better idea than colorization, and decide to make a 3-D version of "Citizen Kane."
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For many days, I was looking for a nice headphone to suit my music and movie needs. My search ended recently during Flipkart Diwali Cyber Sale. I bought Philips SHP1900 Headphone after reading all the favorable reviews about these headphones. The reviews by Buyers which led me to buy these awesome headphones are :
1st things 1st, Hats off to the Flipkart delivery and customer support service…..you guys keep mesmerizing me more and more with astounding and exceptional customer experience. For all you guys to be informed, I ordered this pair of Headphones on Tuesday and requested the delivery to be made by Friday as i had to leave out of town for the eve of Rakshabandhan, and Flipkart made it happen ensuring high standards of Customer Satisfaction. You guys rock and am bound and addicted to Flipkart now.
And, for the review, I would just throw some light on the Pros and Cons as always :-
1. Extremely lightweight (you wont even feel that you are wearing them)
2. Amazing sound quality (crystal clear sound, you can actually identify each and every instrument used in the songs, with utmost ease)
3. Astonishingly loud to suffice your music boom buds (works well for me, beyond expectation…..Beats the competitors in its section hands down…..dont go around comparing it with the DJ headphones though)
4. Multiple connectivity (Works well not only with your desktop or laptop, but any other music gadget too, be it a mobile phone or an mp3 player)
5. Pure value for money (Available at just a cost of mere 420 bucks, this little beauty is worth every dime…..go for it and you wont regret a bit)
6. Extremely comfortable (The cushions wrap around your ears so comfortably that you wont feel even slightest of fatigue after extensively prolonged usage also)
7. Superb design (Beautifully carved and crafted looks give the impression of a high fidelity expensive headphone)
8. Very convenient wire-line (About roughly 2 meters of wired connection gives enough portability and freedom of movement while using these headphones and the quality of wire is also very good)
9. Uni sided wire loop (Wire protruding out of only one end of the Headphones allow hassle free and tangle free usability)
1. Found only one con, that too negligible. After prolonged usage, you might feel a little warm sensation on the ear cusps as the airflow is stopped due to your ears being constantly covered, but once the phones are removed for even just half a minute, everything rushes back to normal in a ziffy)
Philips has lived up to its expectations and done a great job creating these phones, I would most certainly recommend it to everyone who is looking for good budget headphones…..buying these doesn't require a second thought at all 🙂
Loud and Clear (can be used with any MP3 Players and mobile).
Good bass(don't expect boom bass).
Very comfortable.
Can be used for long time.
Good Value for money(Its a steal on Flipkart).
Cord length: 2m(enough for computer and tv use but may not . be plus point if used with handheld device).
Ears may get warm a little bit if its hot out there.
Enough Read ? Buy Now at Best Price !
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>>In the sound option of control panel go to properties of your current playback device.In the enchantments tab select Headphone Virtualization and you will feel the comfort of surround sound.
>>If you are a bass freak, then enable TruBass(in SRS setting of WMP)with full setting
>>Also if you don't like high volume then enable WOW effect, and set it up according to your needs. You can also enable Loudness Equalization in the enhancements section of the playback device properties.
If you want to keep it simple then forget these settings these are just for audio-maniacs. The headphones will perform well even without these settings.THEY ARE JUST A PERFECT BUY.
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Although when used with mobile phones or computers,they give below average sound quality.
I checked it on nokia 5235 & nokia 5130. The sound was not that good as in case with mp3 players. Max volume levels are not good enough and overall sound is quite suppressed,
I didn't enjoy these much with cell phones.
With computer, these are only good for watching movies, if u are a true music lover and expect to hear high quality sound, these will dissappoint u.
Very light to wear & beautiful in looks.
Comfortable & Can be used for prolonged periods.
cable length is also good(2m),enough for indoor use with computers & notebooks.
I bought these from flipkart at a price of 399 rs.Now it is 306 rs.Got the delivery in 8 days(although it seldom happens,other products i ordered,got delivered on time)
The overall Package keeping in mind the price is very good and worth it.
Coming to the product :
If you are looking for heavy bass with loudness, then this probably will not be the best one for you.
However it is worth mentioning that the bass is rich and due to the frequency range , you can enjoy a wide variety of sounds.
The loudness is on the lower side (1 of my biggest grudge) but for a moderate user with a tight budget , maybe this is one of the best. And yes since the whole ear gets covered by the earpads , ear will get heated up frequently.
One more of my personal grudge is the size and looks of the headphone . Trust me the headphone looks enormously huge when worn and design also does not help.
But at the end we should not forget what we are getting in 400 bucks and so complaints aside this product gets okay recommendation ….


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A mixture must contain multiple pure substances which retain their chemical properties. While many mixtures contain compounds, this is not always the case. For instance, there could be a mixture of inert Krypton and Xenon gas. Xenon and Krypton are not bonded, meaning that they are not compounds. However, there must be at least two elements for a mixture to exist since a mixture must contain multiple pure substances.


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Boise Fry Company may claim its burgers are side dishes, but with fresh ingredients in innovative combinations, they deserve just as much of the spotlight as the fries. 111 Broadway Ave., Ste. 111, Boise, 208-495-3858; 3083 S. Bown Way, Boise, 208-965-1551, boisefrycompany.com
Second Place: Bittercreek Ale House, bcrfl.com
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Eduardo's is excited to be participating in the CHOOSE CHICAGO JAMES BEARD EATS WEEK AND SNEAK PEEK SOIREE! For the event, we were tasked with creating a featured dish inspired by Beard, the author, chef, and all-around culinary inspiration for whom the award is named. As we researched, we were struck by a particular quote that captured the playfulness and dark sense of humor of the renowned chef:
"I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around."
Thus, we got to work on our signature dish, 'The Bone Cone:' We infused our ice cream with bone marrow and tarragon, and included a spatter of blood orange to round it out. Passion for food and sense of humor are two traits that Beard and our chef share. From the dark mind of Beard to the imagination of our chef, this dish is quite a twisted interpretation of this famous Beard quote.
In addition to serving the dish during Eats Week, we're excited to be one of the restaurants featured at the SNEAK PEEK SOIREE. Tickets are going fast, so get yours today for a chance to meet Chicago chefs, sample James Beard inspired dishes, and enjoy wine courtesy of BERINGER VINEYARDS. CLICK HERE for tickets and more information.
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ICO List January – Here are our top 6 picks
It's a new year and the ICO party continues to grow full steam ahead. There are many upcoming ICOs worth your time, and we have narrowed it down to 6 interesting ICOs definitely worth your time –
Gems.org is taking on Amazon's mechanical Turk business. "The MTurk web service enables companies to programmatically access this marketplace and a diverse, on-demand workforce." Gems is a protocol for contracting workers to perform micro-tasks. Workers stake tokens in order to prove the validity of their tasks and earn a reusable computed trust score, enhancing the cost-efficiency of the network while democratizing access to scalable micro-task workers.
The Team
The co-founders are blood brothers and are former Harvard students, in economics and computer science, who also happen to be a part of the prestigious Theil Fellowship. Both founders have legitimate work experiences as entrepreneurs and business leaders.
The advisory board is stacked with people like Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter and Medium, Ben Maurer, the co-founder of reCAPTCHA and much more people of the same stature.
Token sale date: TBA
Bee token
Beenest is a home sharing platform for hosts to list their homes and for guests to find accommodations. Beenest rewards users with network incentives, commission-free transactions, and security unrivalled in the home sharing industry.
The Bee Protocols are a set of Ethereum smart contracts providing developers with the tools to rapidly launch new decentralized applications. By utilizing industry proven Bee Protocols, developers can expect faster development cycles, reduced integration costs, and an existing user base.
Team and Advisors –
The site claims that they are a seasoned team of former employees from Google, Facebook, Uber, and Civic. Stellar credentials in our opinion. Advisory board is also just as big, with Quantstamp founder Richard Ma and HSBC's Yiseul Cho
Hard cap: $15 million
Public sale: January 31, 2018
Bluzelle ( whitelist closed )
Bluzelle is a decentralized database solution for decentralized applications (dApps). It is different from other file storage projects in that Bluzelle focuses on the database while other projects focus on files.
According to their website, the project aims to combine the sharing economy with the token economy – renting individuals' computer storage space to earn tokens while dApp developers use tokens to have their dApp's data stored and managed.
Team and Advisors
Bluzelle founder Pavel Bains is a former entrepreneur with a finance and marketing background, who has raised venture funding for his previous company and successfully exited it after working on it for 5 years.
CTO Neeraj Murarka is a software engineer and computer systems architect with over 20 years expertise and has worked on projects for Google, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Lufthansa, Thales Avionics, and Zynga.
Another stellar advisory board, which has a strong technology expertise. The Bluezelle advisory board is studded with tech luminaries like Prashant Malik, who co-created Apache Cassandra at Facebook and Brian Fox, who is the creator of GNU Bash. The team also has Ryan Fugger, the original creator Ripple.
ICO Hard cap: $19.5 million between both private and public sale for 33% of total token supply
Timeline: Start date is January 18, 2018
Blockport calls itself the world's first social crypto exchange which is based on a hybrid-decentralized architecture. They believe that the complex crypto space makes it difficult for beginners to start trading. Current platforms impose high barriers to entry because they often lack usability, transparency, and education. As a result, many people are discouraged to adopt the crypto economy.
Team and Advisors
Founder Sebastiaan Lichter has an interesting past, ranging from food inspection and regulation to co-founding a startup that allows users to rent pools anywhere in the world. He is a qualified business professional from the University of Amsterdam Business School.
ICO Fundraising Goal: 11,900,000 USD (10,000,000 EURO)
APEX passes value and data ownership back to consumers, increases marketing effectiveness, data quality, and customer loyalty. APEX aims to vision is to build an ecosystem that will decentralize the way B2C interactions take place across the entire consumer lifecycle. Interestingly, APEX's data and interactions exchange protocol will be built using open source blockchain NEO, and the CPX token will be an NEP-5-based token. The company claims, "NEO's high performance, fast development, and unique built-in decentralized identity resolution features will power our next generation B2C data and engagement platform."
Team and Advisors
APEX's all Chinese leadership team has some strong credentials to their name. Founder and CEO Jimmy Hu built internal marketing analytics for Microsoft has been a multi-year Microsoft technology contractor. Tiger Yang currently manages day-to-day operations of Chinapex and is a graduate from UC Berkeley in Political Economy.
The advisory board includes a nice blend of academics, technologists like Dr Laurent El Ghaoui a UC Berkeley Professor in Data Science, Richard Wang, a partner at DFJ Dragon and Paul Yang, the General Manager of Oracle Marketing Cloud.
ICO Crowdsale Hard Cap: US$25 million
SelfKey is a Blockchain based digital identity system that allows individuals and companies to truly own, control and manage their digital identity, and instantly access Citizenship and Residency by Investment, Company Incorporation, Fintech Products, Token Sales, Exchanges and much more.
SelfKey aims to make KYC simple, painless and easy, providing access to hundreds of products and services. Relying parties, certifiers and identity owners can transact in a secure, private, decentralized manner.
Team and Advisors
SelfKey founder Edmund Lowell is the former co-founder of KYC chain, which makes Selfkey a natural progression to what he was working on. The team size over 50 people across marketing, design, tech and legal.
Advisors include IOTA Founder Per Lind, Caltech and MIT based Ethereum Researcher Virgil Griffith and many more notable names across cryptocurrency, blockchain investment banking, and venture capital.
Hard cap: $21,780,000
Notable Mentions – Nucleus.Vision, paywithink
Hitesh Malviya is the Founder of ItsBlockchain. He is one of the most early adopters of blockchain & cryptocurrency enthusiast in India. After being into space for a few years, he started IBC in 2016 to help other early adopters learn about the technology.
Before IBC, Hitesh has founded 4 companies in the cyber security & IT space.


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Borriello to Juventus, made an appointment: Monday meeting between Marotta (who arrives at the team after New Year) and Fenucci: signature and then medical examinations for the striker who will work in Vinovo awaiting the return of the team from Dubai.
Also for Caceres the final steps: reached an agreement with the player and the Seville is to file the difference on the cost of the loan (the Spanish want to just 3 million, Juve offers 1).
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Long Bone Fracture Repair
Conventional Bone Plating
When using conventional bone plates to heal a long bone fracture in the horse, the fracture is stabilized as outlined below. When you tighten a bone screw (force =F1), it compresses the bone plate against the bone (force = F2) creating friction (force = F3) between the bone plate and the bone. Recognizing that the horse bears weight immediately after surgery, in order for the fracture to heal, the force of friction (F3) between the bone plate and the bone must be greater than the force of weight bearing (force = F4) or the fracture repair will become unstable and fail.
Click here to learn more about long bone fracture repair.
Arthroscopic surgery allows for minimally invasive evaluation and repair of joint and tendon injuries in horses. It is valuable for removing bone chips, OCD lesions and damaged cartilage, and in repairing wounds into joints and tendon sheaths
Surgical procedures and performance evaluations are performed by Dr. John Peloso and Dr. Aric Adams. Both doctors are surgical specialists and are board certified by the American College of Veterinary Surgeons. Along with senior surgery nurse Nina Ubide, the surgery department is supported by surgery nurses Lynn Hilt and Lori Lee. The surgery center is a state-of-the-art facility that consists of a central transfer area connecting two surgery suites to one padded induction and two padded recovery stalls. The surgical facility is also fully equipped and able to handle all aspects of equine surgery. Additionally, standing surgical procedures, such as laparoscopic and reproductive surgeries, are performed in a controlled treatment room. Through advanced training and the provision of specialized equipment, we are able to offer our patients the finest surgical care available.
Soft Tissue Surgery
- Colic surgery
- Upper respiratory surgeries
- Cryptorchid surgery (Rig castration)
- Laparoscopic surgeries
- Caesarean section for mares with dystocia
- Stem cell therapy for damaged tendons, ligaments or joints
Colic Surgery
Emergency colic surgery is commonly performed to correct a variety of abdominal problems in horses that don't respond to standard medical treatment. Horses may have severe feed or sand impactions, twisted bowel, enterolithes and many other intestinal problems that require surgery for correction.
Upper Respiratory Surgery
- Tie-back procedure for roarers
- Tie forward procedure for dorsal displacement of the soft palate
- Laser surgeries
Cryptorchid Surgery
Cryptorchidism is a common condition in which a male horse has a retained testicle or testicles. During development, either one or both testicles may fail to drop down into the horse's scrotum. The testicle may be retained in the abdomen or in the space between the abdomen and the scrotum. The testicle is surgically removed either with a standard surgical approach or using a minimally invasive laparoscopic technique.
Laparoscopic Surgery
Laparoscopic surgery allows the surgeon to perform various procedures through smaller incisions while providing for a better view of the surgical field. This decreases postoperative recovery times compared to standard open surgical techniques. Laparoscopy can be used for the following procedures: cryptorchid surgery, ovary removal, tumor removal, hernia repair, bladder surgery, and the diagnosis and treatment of some types of recurrent colic.
Caesarean Section
A caesarean section (or c-section) is an alternate form of delivering a foal. The mare is placed under general anesthesia and an incision is created through the mare's abdomen in order to expose the mare's uterus. A surgical incision is made through the mare's uterus in order to deliver the foal. It is usually performed when vaginal delivery would put the mare or foal's life or health at risk.
Dystocia is an abnormal or difficult foaling (labor). It is one of the true emergencies an equine practitioner may encounter. Prompt action increases the probability of survival of the foal and decreases the degree of trauma to the mare's reproductive tract. To perform a controlled vaginal delivery, the mare is placed under general anesthesia and her hind legs are elevated in the air using a hoist. The delivery is under the complete control of the veterinarian, as the foal is delivered vaginally once all of the limbs and head are positioned properly. At our hospital, controlled vaginal delivery has reduced the need for a caesarean section delivery by 90%.
Transphyseal Bridging for Angular Limb Deformities
Transphyseal bridging is used to aid in the correction of angular limb deformities (crooked legs) in young horses.


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Expect to discover more about God
What can you expect at our Sunday Morning Gathering?
Since we strive to honor God and engage people, you can always expect that they will be crafted with both you and God in mind.
With you in mind, we utilize a variety of mediums and styles to create a worship experience that (hopefully) engages you. You might hear some older music; you might hear some newer music; you might hear a reading or see a video. We strive to design the Sunday morning gathering so that you will connect with something that is meaningful to your life.
With God in mind, we strive to do our very best in every way because the kind of God we desire to point you to desires our very best. No matter how far from or close to God you might describe yourself, through the Sunday morning gathering we desire to help you take a step closer to discover something that can make a radical difference in your life: love for God, others and the world around you.


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This is a wonderful healing salve that you can rub into sore joints and muscles, apply to cuts and scrapes, use against itchiness, or use to assist with burns and blisters. This CBD salve contains 1000mg full-spectrum CBD extract and is infused with certified organic herbs and essential oils sourced from Mountain Rose Herbs.
Jar Size: 2oz
Potency: 1000mg CBD per jar
Servings: 60
Directions: Rub a pea size amount on area affected as needed throughout the day
Activation Time: 0-2 hours
Ingredients: Grape seed oil, beeswax, hemp oil extract (CBD), comfrey, echinacea, plantain, rosemary, calendula, arnica, yarrow, lavender and wintergreen essential oils
What to Expect: Some people have said it helps with pain and inflammation. Others say it works great to soothe itchiness and bug bites and that it helps speed up the healing of wounds.
What is CBD?
CBD is a non-psychoactive cannabinoid derived from the hemp/cannabis plant. To learn more, please check out our blog!
What do the added herbs contribute?
→ Comfrey is also known as "knit-bone"; it helps speed up new tissue growth and can therefore quicken healing time, it helps reduce pain and inflammation, and it relieves rashes, burns, and stings.
→ Echinacea is considered by many to be a miracle plant. It helps reduce inflammation, boosts the immune system, and can even reduce acne due to its antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties.
→ Plantain has been used medicinally for centuries, largely for its anti-inflammatory and wound-healing properties. It provides great relief for sunburns and insect bites and has been shown to reduce scarring.
→ Rosemary can help increase circulation, reduce pain and inflammation, and is an effective antibacterial agent.
→ Calendula is helpful against rashes, skin conditions, and acne. It helps protect and heal the skin and supports accelerated recovery from wounds, bruises, and swelling.
→ Arnica is excellent against pain, swelling, bruises, stiffness, scrapes, and sprains. It can also help with insect bites and burns.
→ Yarrow helps speed up the healing of the skin, be it wounds or acne. It helps tighten the skin and can therefore have anti-aging effects. It is also a great antiseptic (protects against infections) and anti-inflammatory agent.
→ Lavender also has antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties. It can help reduce stress, speed up wound healing, and ease restlessness.
→ Wintergreen helps with achy joints, can relieve muscle pain and nerve pain, and reduces swelling and inflammation.
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When you visit our Syracuse center for a consultation, you will meet either Dr. Kiltz or Meg Marnell, our highly experienced nurse practitioner. They will review your medical history, make lifestyle recommendations, and work with you to create a plan that suits your unique family. Together, you will create the ideal protocol for your journey.
This is our Syracuse OR (operating room) team.
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Threat Explorer
The Threat Explorer is a comprehensive resource consumers can turn to for daily, accurate, up-to-date information on the latest threats, risks and vulnerabilities.
- Discovered:
- 18 November 2002
- Updated:
- 13 February 2007
- Also Known As:
- I-Worm.Injust [KAV], VBS/Reccos.A@mm [F-Prot]
- Systems Affected:
- Microsoft IIS, Windows
VBS.Injust@mm is a mass-mailing worm that is written in the Visual Basic scripting language. The worm can infect .vbs and .vbe files. It can also change registry keys so that all of drives C and D are accessible by the Internet Information Server (IIS) Web server.
The email has the following characteristics.
Subject: One of these:
- Soccer Photo
- Euro-Soccer Pix
- Kids playing soccer
- Homeschool soccer pic
- Nude soccer pic
- Playmates playing soccer!
- Hot co-ed soccer pic!
- Gooooooal!
- Soccer riot picture
- Soccer game picture
- World Cup photo
Message body: Look at this amazing soccer picture!
Attachment: Soccer.jpg.vbs
Antivirus Protection Dates
- Initial Rapid Release version 19 November 2002
- Latest Rapid Release version 28 September 2010 revision 054
- Initial Daily Certified version 19 November 2002
- Latest Daily Certified version 28 September 2010 revision 036
- Initial Weekly Certified release date 20 November 2002
Click here for a more detailed description of Rapid Release and Daily Certified virus definitions.
When VBS.Injust@mm runs, it does the following:
It attempts to overwrite the %windir%\hosts file to block you from accessing the following Web sites:
- www.antivirus.com
- www.sophos.com
- www.norton.com
- www.mcafee.com
- www.pandasoftware.com
- www.eu.com
- www.eu.org
- www.islam.com
- www.teamsters.com
- www.martinlutherking.com
- www.mormon.com
- www.democrats.com
- www.un.org
- www.un.com
- www.plannedparenthood.com
- www.plannedparenthood.org
- www.whitehouse.org
- www.whitehouse.com
- www.hrichina.org
- www.godhatesamerica.com
- www.fuckgod.com
- www.blackplague.org
NOTE: %windir% is a variable. The worm locates the Windows installation folder (by default this is C:\Windows or C:\Winnt) and looks for the Hosts file in that location.
If the file C:\Program Files\Norton Antivirus\Exclude.dat exists, the worm attempts to overwrite the file.
Next, the worm overwrites the following files:
- Index.asp
- Index.html
- Index.html
- Default.asp
- Default.htm
- Default.html
if they exist in these folders:
- C:\Inetpub\wwwroot
- D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\
It overwrites the files with this text:
<html>Homeschool Soccer Worm</html>
The worm adds the following values to the Windows registry:
- It adds the value
/C c:\,,205
to the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\W3SVC\Parameters\Virtual Roots
- and the value
/D d:\,,205
to the registry key
KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\W3SVC\Parameters\Virtual Roots
This causes all of drives C and D to be accessible by the IIS Web server.
The worm creates or overwrites one or more script files that are used by mIRC and PIRCH. This causes the worm to be sent to other IRC users.
It creates or overwrites C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Stationery\Blank.htm. It then adds the value
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Stationery\blank.htm
to these registry keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\<removed>\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0\Mail\Compose Use Stationery
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\<removed>\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0\Mail\Stationery Name
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\<removed>\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0\Mail\Wide Stationery Name
This causes the worm to run every time that you compose new mail in Microsoft Outlook Express.
The worm modifies several values in the Windows registry. These modifications change the .vbs file icon, prevent Windows from showing file extensions, and cause the worm to run each time that a .vbs file is executed.
The worm sets the Microsoft Internet Explorer home page to www.hslda.org and sets the computer name to Soccer.
The worm copies itself to the %windir% folder.
It then adds the values
to the registry key
so that the worm starts each time that you start Windows.
The worm use MAPI to mass-mail itself to all contacts that exist in the Microsoft Outlook address book. The email message is constructed as follows:
Subject: One of these:
- Soccer Photo
- Euro-Soccer Pix
- Kids playing soccer
- Homeschool soccer pic
- Nude soccer pic
- Playmates playing soccer!
- Hot co-ed soccer pic!
- Gooooooal!
- Soccer riot picture
- Soccer game picture
- World Cup photo
Message body: Look at this amazing soccer picture!
Attachment: Soccer.jpg.vbs
The worm has a payload which is executed on the September 7 of every year. It deletes all files that exist in all folders. It then displays this message in an infinite loop:
Homeschool Soccer T0day!
Its Co-ed Soccer too!
My Team Rulz!!!!!
You hard drive is trashed
Have a nice day.
Wish my team luck!
It creates a link named Hslda.url in the %windir%\Favorites folder.
It searches the current folder and moves all .jpg files to the%system% folder. Next, it copies itself in the place of the original .jpg file as <original file name>.jpg.vbs.
Finally, it infects all .vbs files and .vbe files as they are executed.
Symantec Security Response encourages all users and administrators to adhere to the following basic security "best practices":
- Use a firewall to block all incoming connections from the Internet to services that should not be publicly available. By default, you should deny all incoming connections and only allow services you explicitly want to offer to the outside world.
- Enforce a password policy. Complex passwords make it difficult to crack password files on compromised computers. This helps to prevent or limit damage when a computer is compromised.
- Ensure that programs and users of the computer use the lowest level of privileges necessary to complete a task. When prompted for a root or UAC password, ensure that the program asking for administration-level access is a legitimate application.
- Disable AutoPlay to prevent the automatic launching of executable files on network and removable drives, and disconnect the drives when not required. If write access is not required, enable read-only mode if the option is available.
- Turn off file sharing if not needed. If file sharing is required, use ACLs and password protection to limit access. Disable anonymous access to shared folders. Grant access only to user accounts with strong passwords to folders that must be shared.
- Turn off and remove unnecessary services. By default, many operating systems install auxiliary services that are not critical. These services are avenues of attack. If they are removed, threats have less avenues of attack.
- If a threat exploits one or more network services, disable, or block access to, those services until a patch is applied.
- Always keep your patch levels up-to-date, especially on computers that host public services and are accessible through the firewall, such as HTTP, FTP, mail, and DNS services.
- Configure your email server to block or remove email that contains file attachments that are commonly used to spread threats, such as .vbs, .bat, .exe, .pif and .scr files.
- Isolate compromised computers quickly to prevent threats from spreading further. Perform a forensic analysis and restore the computers using trusted media.
- Train employees not to open attachments unless they are expecting them. Also, do not execute software that is downloaded from the Internet unless it has been scanned for viruses. Simply visiting a compromised Web site can cause infection if certain browser vulnerabilities are not patched.
- If Bluetooth is not required for mobile devices, it should be turned off. If you require its use, ensure that the device's visibility is set to "Hidden" so that it cannot be scanned by other Bluetooth devices. If device pairing must be used, ensure that all devices are set to "Unauthorized", requiring authorization for each connection request. Do not accept applications that are unsigned or sent from unknown sources.
- For further information on the terms used in this document, please refer to the Security Response glossary.
NOTE: These instructions are for all current and recent Symantec antivirus products, including the Symantec AntiVirus and Norton AntiVirus product lines.
- Update the virus definitions.
- Run a full system scan, and delete all files that are detected as VBS.Injust@mm
- Reverse the changes that the worm made to the registry.
To update the virus definitions:
All virus definitions receive full quality assurance testing by Symantec Security Response before being posted to our servers. There are two ways to obtain the most recent virus definitions:
- Run LiveUpdate, which is the easiest way to obtain virus definitions. These virus definitions are posted to the LiveUpdate servers once each week (usually Wednesdays) unless there is a major virus outbreak. To determine whether definitions for this threat are available by LiveUpdate, look at the Virus Definitions (LiveUpdate) line at the top of this write-up.
- Download the definitions using the Intelligent Updater. Intelligent Updater virus definitions are posted on U.S. business days (Monday through Friday). They must be downloaded from the Symantec Security Response Web site and installed manually. To determine whether definitions for this threat are available by the Intelligent Updater, look at the Virus Definitions (Intelligent Updater) line at the top of this write-up.
Intelligent Updater virus definitions are available here. For detailed instructions on how to download and install the Intelligent Updater virus definitions from the Symantec Security Response Web site, click here.
To scan for and delete the infected files:
- Start your Symantec antivirus program, and make sure that it is configured to scan all files.
- Norton AntiVirus consumer products: Read the document How to configure Norton AntiVirus to scan all files.
- Symantec enterprise antivirus products: Read the document How to verify a Symantec Corporate antivirus product is set to scan All Files.
- Run a full system scan.
- If any files are detected as infected with VBS.Injust@mm, click Delete.
To edit the registry:
CAUTION : Symantec strongly recommends that you back up the registry before you make any changes to it. Incorrect changes to the registry can result in permanent data loss or corrupted files. Modify only the keys that are specified. Read the document How to make a backup of the Windows registry for instructions.
- Click Start, and click Run. The Run dialog box appears.
- Type regedit and then click OK. The Registry Editor opens.
- Navigate to the key
- In the right pane, delete the values
- Delete the values
Compose Use Stationery
Stationery Name
Wide Stationery Name
from the registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\<removed>\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0\Mail
- Delete the registry keys
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\W3SVC\Parameters\Virtual Roots\/C
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\W3SVC\Parameters\Virtual Roots\/D
- Modify the (Default) value of
VBScript Script File
- If you use Windows 95, 98, or Me, modify the (Default) value of
- If use Windows 95, 98, or Me, modify the (Default) value of
%windir%\WScript.exe "%1" %*
- If use Windows NT, 2000,or XP, modify the (Default) value of
- If use Windows NT, 2000, or XP, modify the (Default) value of
%SystemRoot%\System32\WScript.exe "%1" %*


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This is a concept that blows most people away. Especially when they start to notice the important role that in plays in how we see ourselves and others, our opportunity to grow.
Generally we tend to like others who are like us or have something in common with. We tend to not like people who are acting in a way that we don't see as 'good' or acceptable.
Why is this? What is the science behind it?
We have different layers of consciousness. You reading this, taking in information and being aware of your surroundings is your conscious mind.
Then next layer is your subconscious mind. This is where your memories are stored, where your belief systems are held and it also takes care of and runs your body.
Your subconscious is said to be millions of times more powerful than your conscious awareness. It is constantly running, even when you are asleep - unlike your conscious mind.
When you look at something, your conscious mind pulls information from your subconscious mind.
So when you meet someone, you may consciously be aware that you like them - but it's your subconscious programming, memories and emotions that has really made the decision.
Someone that you like...
Let's say you meet a person of the opposite sex. When you meet them, they look very similar too your favourite super model. This immediately triggers some of the same emotions from the past memory of when you saw your favourite picture of that super model.
Or, maybe you meet someone who has done the same course as you, or has a similar style to you. Your subconscious is mirroring back the things that you like about yourself from them.
Someone that you don't like…
In this instance, perhaps you have met someone and for some reason you don't like them.
There is just something about them that you can't quite put your finger on. Do you have a bad vibe from them? To perceive the reality that you are perceiving now you are literally pulling on past experiences. Have a think, have you met someone that reminded you of someone that did something bad to you? Again, you will feel the negative emotions that you felt when that certain person in the past treated you badly.
When someone 'mirrors' a behaviour or attitude and we feel repelled by, what actually is happening is that the person that is acting like this in front of you is mirroring - or bringing to awareness a part of you that you don't like about yourself.
I will explain further. We all are capable and have shown negative behavior, no one is perfect and as we have grown up we have found out by pushing boundaries - seeing if what we do creates a positive reaction or not within our self or others. These learnt behaviours are collected over time. Now if we have found or been told not to act like that and taken it on, or act out of character due to pressure or stress then we are showing that part of us.
Human behaviour specialists actually say that we have all the different traits, positive and negative… we just show them differently at different times.
So when someone presents a perceived negative behaviour, and we don't like it, they are just 'mirroring' a part back to us that we don't like about ourselves.
How can we best react to this more consciously? Let take a look at what the benefits are…
We can have gratitude for this trait being shown to us. Say to yourself "thank-you for showing me this trait, as you have shown me something that I would prefer not to show in myself"
This person has given you a gift of giving you an emotional charge, this is an opportunity to go within and see where or who this has come from in the past which is now conscious and has an opportunity to be made peace with and released to avoid the recurring emotional triggers.
No, we are not saying that you have to like everyone! What we are aiming for here is that others don't affect our emotions negatively, we can keep cool and balanced in most situations and resolve past trauma. Not only resolving, but learning from them!
In general the mirror concept is very powerful if fully integrated and understood.
Every interaction is an opportunity to find out where we can better ourselves and it allows us to be more accepting and compassionate of others.
We believe that increased conscious awareness and emotional intelligence is the key to a happier society and are passionate about helping others reach a more peaceful state.


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I'd like some opinions ... I'm evaluating a lot of sites these days with date pickers... I've been making all the customary recommendations, using headers/id's or scope and <th> etc.... But I'm actually starting to rethink this... technically if there is another way to pick the date such as direct entry MM/DD/YYYY or drop down combo box, there is a good argument that a popup date picker does not have to be compliant, since there is an alternative way to achieve the result I've seen attempts to make accessible date pickers, mostly created by visual folks, in the experimental space. But I've never seen a successful date picker that has caught on... I don't know, it's such a visual kind of thing, looking at a calendar table... so far, I've yet to hear about any popup date picker that blind folks like, or that is more useful than just entering the date directly or using combo boxes... What do you think? Do you think I should be fighting to get sites to accessify their pop up date pickers, in addition to either drop down combo boxes or entering dates directly MM/DD/YYYY? If so, does anyone know of an out of the box accessible one that I can recommend...? Cheers David MacDonaldReceived on Sunday, 3 July 2011 21:14:12 UTC
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Time in Ghana
The exact time in Ghana is based on the time zones for Ghana. We will always try to give you the exact time for Ghana. There might be slight differences, since the time zones for Ghana might change due to daylight savings time (DST).
Time changes in Ghana are usually done to adapt citizen and tourist activity to the solar cycle. This allows for greater usage of daylight, reducing dependency on electricity. That is why the time is sent ahead one hour in the spring for Ghana, and falls back one hour in the fall for Ghana. Adding an extra hour of daylight helps Ghana to improve its tourism and depend less on Ghana's electricity supplies.
Current time and weather in Ghana in other languages
Weather in Ghana
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Add this free digital clock to your site and show your users the time in Ghana.
What time is in has the goal of becoming the world-wide leader in the time-zone and time difference information provider market. We're working towards that goal, trying to make daylight savings time adjustments automatic. That's why we provide you with this embeddable digital clock to show your users the time in Ghana.
It's very simple to do, just copy the below HTML code into your website's template:


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Automatic Industrial Door Opener
Our Industrial Door Opener range, designed and engineered in Australia define the future of automation by using the latest technology, processes and production methods to make garage doors and gates smart, simple and secure.
The GDO-10 Toro is a feature rich easy-to-use and versatile "one box" solution for commercial and light industrial garage doors.
- Suitable for rolling doors up to 28m2
- Built in battery back up
- Wall mounted control panel with LCD screen
- Soft start/soft stop operation
- TrioCode™ receiver intergrated as standard
- Super quiet operation
TrioCode™ is a revolutionary new coding system that provides enhanced reliability and security. Increasingly, the transmitters on garage doors are jammed by wireless and cordless devices in the owner's or a neighbouring home, usually when both units compete for the same frequency. TrioCode™ overcomes this challenge by simultaneously transmitting on three different frequencies. Even if two frequencies are jammed, the TrioCode™ transmitter will still operate your garage doors and gates.
Industrial Door Opener Accessories For Garage Doors
Inductive Loop Detector
An inductive loop detector senses when the magnetic field is disrupted by a vehicle and activates the door. The loop detector is suitable in commercial situations where a trigger is required for entry/exit without the need for security authorisation.
PG-3 Programmer
The PG-3 Programmer provides a higher level of diagnostic and maintenance functionality, including special mode access, backup of transmitters and more. Comes with custom designed hard case for durability.
TrioCode™ Keyring Transmitters
Each of these transmitter's four buttons can operate a separate function or opener, allowing access to multiple sites from one convenient unit. Best of all, TrioCode™ technology ensures this transmitter works every time.
TrioCode™ Wireless Keypad
An ideal solution where secured access is required, for instance delivery drivers of out-of-hours staff, the weatherproof wireless keypad allows access without a transmitter. With back lit numbers for day or night use, multiple users can have unique codes for specific door and gate access.
PE Safety Beams
Protect your family and your car with the PE Safety Beams. As soon as an object or person moves through the invisible safety beam the door will stop or reverse to avert serious damage being done.


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I'd be lying if I said I wasn't excited about the third installment in my new series of curated picks from one home/design store at a time. This week, I went with one of my favorite stores for home accessories and furniture, West Elm.
The sister store of Pottery Barn and Williams-Sonoma Home offers modern home design at a more affordable price tag. Shop my picks below.
1. Marble + Copper Serving Tray, $58
Not to be predictable, but if an object is both marble and copper and costs under $60, it's a no-brainer in my book.
2. Fishs Eddy Spoon Rest, $17
This spoon rest takes the cake for silliest.
3. Well Hello There doormat, $29
Just the right amount of cheek.
4. Looped Marble Pillow, $20 (on sale!)
This texturized pillow is so soft, yet stylish, it's the perfect accessory for taking an afternoon nap on the couch. 😉
5. Sloan upholstered chair, $699-$899
A comfy chair that won't take up too much space, plus it comes in almost every color and fabric under the sun.
6. Lawson Table Lamp, $90 (on sale!)
More compact than most table lamps, this hard-working fella will look good with it all.
7. Warmest throw, $39 on sale for $19!
I'm on the hunt for new throws and I love how this gray is neutral, but the pattern and fringe make it interesting.
8. Deco Marble Doorstop, $59
Quite possibly the coolest doorstop I have ever seen.
9. Tonal wash vases, $59-$69
Each vase is 100% hand-crafted and one-of-a-kind aka a future gift for your friend who has everything.
10. Mid-century storage bench, $499
Whoever thought this one up…damn good thinking.
What's your favorite item on the list? Anything I missed that you love from West Elm? Share in the comments!


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- Security Careers
Cybersecurity is one of
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IBM Security is focused on developing top talent and industry leading skills. IBM believes in career growth and flexibility. You'd expect that a company dedicated to helping others innovate would have some pretty innovative programs for its own employees. IBM does.
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Rock 'n' Roe: A Dance Party for Reproductive Freedom
In collaboration with Lady Parts Justice DC, we're busting out the moves to benefit NARAL Virginia! Nothing does more for the soul (and abortion access) than a good dance party. And we're delivering. Word on the street is the dashing Mike Hot-Pence will be there. He may even slow dance with me, your emcee for the night. Come boogie with us.
DATE: Saturday, February 3, 2018
LOCATION: Black Cat DC. 1811 14th ST NW
TICKETS: $20 in advance here, $25 at the door


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Project Idea: Primrose Sampler
Every week we share a project stitched with products from our most recent StitchyBox shipment. If you'd like to see a project you've stitched in a future post, check out our Project Model Stitcher's Program!
Happy Wednesday, stitchers! We still have a day or two's worth of work left to get your March/April StitchyBox shipments in the mail, but I wanted to take a quick break today and share a new project idea with you since we missed last week. Introducing my teeny tiny over-one Primrose Sampler:
Project Materials:
Chart: Primrose Sampler by Threadwork Primitives. This chart came out in 2011, but when I checked a few weeks ago it is still available to order from your local shop or the designer directly.
Fabric: 32 count Violet Mist linen
- Forget Me Nots - Thread Gatherer Silk N Colors
- 5016 - Kreinik Silk Mori (you could definitely use just a 1/2 skein here!)
Embellishment: 28 count bohin needle
Project Notes:
This final project is actually the third version that I started, and it served as a good reminder to me that I should follow my own advice - if the project isn't working for you, don't force yourself to keep working on it and being miserable!
All three versions used these same materials. The first was stitched over 2 using one strand of silk (going for that "samplery" look), and was quickly abandoned after I stitched the "A". The second version , shown here with the final project, was over 1, but with the colors switched. I really liked the look of the alphabet in the variegated thread until I started stitching the dividing lines in the Silk Mori.
I also made a few personalizations to the project (other than the obvious colorways changes): I changed the center of the little medallion to a modified rhodes square and changed out the "1820" in the bottom left for a "SB", using the alphabet from the rest of the charge. With the drastic color change, it felt a bit weird to add the 1820 date, and once I stitched the S and B (for StitchyBox), I couldn't stop myself from sticking my needle in, in homage to our logo!
I've also left the border off, since I haven't decided how to finish this tiny little sampler yet, and thought I might want to incorporate the border into the finishing process.
I'd love to hear about what you are stitching this week - leave a comment below and share a photo of your WIPs and/or finishes. Happy Stitching!


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Welcome to Keays Medical Group
Keays Medical Group is dedicated to the care and management of fibromyalgia syndrome. Our staff is focused on a multidisciplinary, integrative approach to treatment. We create a personalized comprehensive treatment plan for each patient including:
- Improving restorative sleep
- Identifying and treating all behavioral health diagnoses
- Treating pain with Trigger Point Injections
- Using osteopathic manipulation to help balance the nervous system
- Identifying and eliminating food sensitivities
- Improving physical conditioning while balancing appropriate activity pacing
- Medication management with the goal to optimize sleep and improve fatigue,
cognitive function, mood, pain level and ultimately improve a general sense of
Once the optimal regimen has been determined, we maintain an ongoing relationship with our patients.
We also provide advanced depression treatment to patients in the Tacoma, Washington and the surrounding southern Seattle area. We are pleased to offer Neurostar® TMS Therapy to our patients with depression. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Therapy is one of the most technologically advanced depression treatments available. This non-invasive, outpatient therapy is FDA cleared and has helped thousands of depression patients who have not received adequate results from antidepressants.
TMS on the Daily Show: Comedian Neal Brennan discusses how TMS Therapy did more for his depression than any other treatment (clip starts at 2:30).


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Today is the day that most members of the media arrive in Los Angeles to begin their coverage of E3 2011. But well before the journalists arrive, construction crews have already been working for days putting together the exhibits and other items to make the LA Convention Center the number one place to be for the gaming industry. Neowin walked over to the convention center to see what has been assembled so far.
The banners advertising upcoming console and PC game hit you well before you actually get to the convention center. A few blocks away Capcom has already set up banners to promote their Street Fighter-Tekken fighting game crossover along with Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. The LA Live entertainment complex, just a couple of blocks away from the convention center, is running videos promoting Gears of War and upcoming Square Enix titles such as Dungeon Siege III and Deus Ex Human Evolution. As we have reported before a local hotel also has a big ad for The Elders Scrolls V Skyrim painted on one of its sides.
Outside the convention center itself, things are still in construction mode but we were able to see huge banners for upcoming games like Battlefield 3, Prey 2, Saints Row The Third. and especially Assassin's Creed Revelations. Ubisoft's upcoming action game has a banner so long we couldn't fit it into one picture.
Inside ... well let's say that the convention center's security team is on the watch for anyone taking pictures of what's going on. They are yelling out to journalists not to take pictures inside. That's why, at least for now, all of our E3 2011 banner pictures are firmly on the outside of the convention center. Speaking of which, Dell's Alienware unit has set up a customized Hummer outside for some kind of exhibit. We also saw some large monster figures that were packed up and ready to be transported inside. And we have been told that the World of Tanks development team will be bringing in real tanks to be put outside as well.
We will bring you more updates from E3 2011 all this week. Stay tuned.
Neowin.net's E3 2011 coverage is sponsored by:


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Report cites 5 Chicago hospitals for high infection rates
By Lisa Owad
Feb. 2, 2010
Medill News Service
Five Chicago hospitals reported a type of hospital-acquired infection at more than double the national average in 2008, according to a report released Tuesday by Consumer Reports Health.
The report listed the rates of 15 Chicago hospitals, six of which performed better than the national average.
The five poor-performing hospitals are Mt. Sinai Hospital, Norwegian-American Hospital, Mercy Hospital and Medical Center, Saint Anthony Hospital and Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital.
However, the 2009 hospital report cards from the Illinois Department of Public Health show different results.
Norwegian-American Hospital in Humboldt Park had 122 percent more central-line infections than the national average in 2008, according to the Consumer Reports data. However, the 2009 Illinois data show that Norwegian's central-line infection rate is not statistically different from the national rate.
A central line is an intravenous tube that "terminates in a central vessel," said Elizabeth Stutler, infection control manager at Norwegian-American Hospital. Because the tube enters the bloodstream at a central location, the introduction of any bacteria "has the potential for causing a systemic infection at a higher rate," Stutler said.
Dr. Robert Chase, vice president of quality and chief medical officer at Norwegian-American Hospital, attributes the difference between the reports to a flaw in the methodology of the Consumer Reports study.
"Because our [patient] numbers are small, our rate is not statistically different," Dr. Chase said. "You have to take volume into account."
Norwegian-American Hospital has 12 beds in its intensive care unit, compared with Rush University Medical Hospital with 132 beds, according to the state hospital report cards.
Rush was the Chicago hospital with the lowest infection rates in the Consumer Reports data at 61 percent less than the national average.
The Consumer Reports data show Mt. Sinai Hospital having 122 percent more infections than the national average in 2008, a rate they have worked on lowering.
"In 2008, our senior management launched an aggressive quality and infection control program," said spokeswoman Tina Spector. "By the second half of 2009, we had an infection rate of zero in surgical intensive care."
Mt. Sinai's 2009 data will be published in the Illinois Department of Public Health hospital report cards in March.
Weiss Memorial Hospital and Mercy Hospital had better numbers on the Illinois hospital report cards than in the Consumer Reports data, but still had infection rates above the national average.
The Consumer Reports study consolidated infection data for two units at Saint Anthony, while the Illinois report card separated them, so the data cannot be compared.
Representatives from Weiss, Mercy and Saint Anthony did not immediately return calls for comment.
Related Links:
Illinois Hospital Report Cards


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A convicted criminal jailed for a coward-punch attack has transformed from jailbird to clothing entrepreneur making a six-figure salary.
Nathan Leonard Richards is a heavily tattooed, cage-fighting ex-con who boasts about being friends with outlaw motorcycle gang members – but his passion is now business.
The 24-year-old Gold Coast man was convicted of a one-punch attack on a security guard in 2015 and sentenced to 18 months prison .
However his attraction to Australia's criminal underbelly hasn't stopped him making music and running his profitable fashion label A-K Clothing, which he claims makes him well over $100,000 per year.
'When I started A-K Clothing haters said 'who tf gonna buy that sh*t',' he wrote in an impassioned Instagram post.
'Now it turns over 6 figures, I live off it, I work for myself, when I want how I want, and it sells all over Aus and the world.'
Richards' online presence is a sea of luxury cars, guns, drugs, glamorous women and motorcycles.
His clothing brand also emulates his love of delinquency with themes of guns and violence, including a pair of women's gym tights with a picture of a firearm emblazoned on the back.
The convicted criminal admits it is his 15,000 Instagram followers who helped catapult his business into profitability.
'My social media following has helped because people know my reputation and who I am. They know not to f*ck with me,' he told news.com.au.
Richards claimed to news.com.au his business is '100% legitimate' however admits he did run it from his jail cell for several months last year.
His second business, named A-K Records, reportedly signed on artists from around the world and he records his own original rap tracks.
In one of his tracks Richards brags about being an 'A-list criminal' and he even enlisted members of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club to feature in the song's video clip.
'To the people who think our money comes from crime, we sold 30,000 albums at $30 an album … you do the math,' he told the publication.
'We don't need to do anything illegal to make money anymore. The clothing appeals to a market that was previously left untouched.'
Richards' 2015 coward-punch attack on a security guard on the Sunshine Coast saw him jailed for 18 months with immediate parole.
He was put behind bars for breaching his parole after being found in possession of weapons and was released in April last year.


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Fuel Surcharge Program
Except as otherwise provided in specific rate items, all applicable contract and tariff Out of Country rates and domestic Mexico rates are subject to a Mexico Fuel Surcharge as determined below.
Mexico Fuel Surcharge (MX FSC) shall be adjusted each Monday at 1:00 p.m. EST, based upon the fuel price in effect at that time.
Formula for the Fuel Surcharge is determined by taking the actual price of the fuel, minus the price of fuel on January 1, 2008 ($5.93 Pesos per Liter*) divided by 2.3 kilometers per liter.
Mexican Diesel Prices are available at the "Mexican Association of Fuel Retailers Companies" webpage: http://www.amegas.net/
Pesos to U.S. or Canadian funds based on the "Exchange rate to pay obligations entered into in U. S. dollars payable in Mexico" in effect each Monday at 1:00 p.m. EST as published on Mexico's Central Bank (Banco de Mexico) Web site.
All Mexico tax responsibilities by the carrier will be itemized to these fuel charges.
Mile Paying Accounts
MX FSC shall be converted from kilometers to miles (1.609 kilometers = 1 mile). Apply charge shown on total billed miles as determined by current Rand McNally Mile Maker most current version.
KM Paying Accounts
Applicable charge shown on total billed kilometers as determined by MX Department of Transportation (SCT) Kilometer Guide "Traza tu Ruta" most current version. In case some lanes are not listed there, "Guia de Carreteras de México" by Guia Roji will be the backup Kilometer guide.
This Fuel Surcharge Program cancels and supersedes all other Out of Country Fuel Surcharge Programs.
*Accounts paying taxes on fuel line items will use $5.1565 pesos per Liter divided by 2.3 kilometers per liter. The taxes will be added to the end of the invoice, itemized.


text: We filmed this weeks episode in Venice, Louisiana in May. Katrina then hit in August or September that same year. Watch and you will hear Burwick Duvall totally predict Katrina and the aftermath. Next weeks episode we visit the same area after Katrina. It did not even look like the same place. The fishing was actually better after the storm. We went back last year to film after the oil-spill. Fishing was great and we saw no signs of oil damage. The marsh seems to be as resilient as the people.


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Moneyball, Barry Bonds, and the Beauty of the Game
In the canon of baseball-nerd scripture, Bill James' Abstracts is the Old Testament, Tom Tango's The Book is Paul's epistles, and the gospels is Moneyball. Last Friday, after years of pre-production delays, a revolving door of producers and writers, and a Jonah Hill-for-Demetri Martin deadline trade, the film adaptation was finally released to theaters.
The movie, based on the eponymous book by Michael Lewis (who also wrote The Blind Side and The Big Short), follows the Oakland Athletics' 2002 season. It focuses on general manager Billy Beane, played by Brad Pitt, and his effort to compete in the league in which his team's budget is three times less than the wealthiest franchise, the New York Yankees. Frustrated after an offseason of getting outbid for three of the team's most important players, Beane decides that his team can only sustain success in such unfair circumstances if his process fundamentally differs from his privileged competition.
A revelation came to Beane, captured in a climactic scene, during a chance meeting with über-nerd, Assistant GM Peter Brand (Jonah Hill, obviously). His solution is to prioritize advanced statistical analysis over scouting and traditional stats. Baseball, to a degree, has always used numbers to evaluate players. These pre-computer statistics were valuable mostly because they were easy to count: runs scored, for example, or strikeouts. Advanced stats (called sabermetrics, derived from the acronym for the Society of American Baseball Research) use more up-to-date techniques, like regression analysis, to better model the correlation of individual plays with wins. For example, the ubiquitous stat of batting average counts singles and home runs as equally valuable, whereas its sabermetric analogue would account for the extra value created by the home run. In the movie, Beane and Brand use these techniques to identify players with skills undervalued by teams using more traditional methods, allowing them to construct a winning team within their limited budget.
If this were a review of the film, I'd have to explain how two guys looking at spreadsheets and making phone calls to trade marginal major leaguers for obscure minor leaguers makes for compelling drama." (It does, but you'll just have to trust me.) I'd like to talk instead about one of the movie's main themes: the tricky balance between the beauty of the game and its numbers.
Throughout the film, Beane asks several times, "How can you not be romantic about baseball?", despite coming across as a hardened and unemotional professional. His daughter writes him a song that, in the movie's final moments, reminds him to "just enjoy the show" ("the show" being a nickname for the Major Leagues). Most memorably, Beane is touched when Peter Brand shows him a video from a recent minor league game of an overweight catcher, drafted because of his statistics against the strong objections of Beane's scouts. In the video, the enormous player stumbles and crashes to the ground while rounding first, realizing that he may have a shot at a rare triple. He awkwardly crawls back to first base for an embarrassing single. His teammates, though, are in hysterics, and when he looks up he sees the ball has sailed well over the fence. He hit a home run without even realizing. It is easy to imagine Beane, a few days earlier, looking over the stats from the game, noting the home run and moving on. Despite the movie's glorification of the numbers in baseball, it also suggests that sometimes a home run is more than just a home run.
This scene points to a common argument against sabermetrics: that statistical analysis misses the real point of being a sports fan. In a recent column about how he wouldn't be seeing Moneyball, Fox Sports' Jason Whitlock complained, "The sabermetricians will punch in the numbers and give you, in their mind, a definitive answer. It's boring. It's ruining sports." Proponents of Whitlock's traditionalist line of thinking typically identify beauty in baseball with the human. Baseball for them is all about the brotherhood of a cohesive team, the leadership of the star player, the personal sacrifice for the good of one's teammates and fans. Beloved by these traditional are the players that hustle to first after every grounder, attempt lots of diving catches, and, because perceptions typically conform to expectations, tend to be white and good-looking. Fat players, black players, and Spanish-speaking players don't fit the mold.
This narrative is beautiful in its simplicity, but statistics have also been a point of emphasis for even the most traditional baseball fans. Baseball romanticizes certain numbers: 755 home runs, a .300 batting average, the 56-game hitting streak, 300 wins; these carry historical significance and conjure real emotion. (You might notice, for example, that I've listed 755 instead of whatever number the current career record holder Barry Bonds, accused of steroid-use, ended up with. As a Braves fan, 755 was the number of one of my players, Hank Aaron, and so it's the one that will stick with me).
When a no-hitter is thrown, the catcher runs out to the mound, dramatically embraces the pitcher, and the game makes the front page the next day. The sabermetrician, however, would be more interested in the actual quality of the game pitched. Minnesota's Francisco Liriano, for example, threw a no-hitter earlier this year in which he walked six batters, definitely a worse performance than giving up a couple hits and one or two walks (something that happens all the time). But what matters to the traditionalist is the number—0 hits. Baseball even romanticizes the players that accumulate the traditional stats, but lack the personal qualities typically valued by traditionalists: think Mickey Mantle, twenty time All-Star but a reckless drunk during his playing days. Presumably this is because fans like winners, and stats like batting average and RBIs correlate with winning. Why, though, are these stats prioritized over newer, sabermetric measures with an even stronger correlation with winning, say— wOBA or FIP? (head to Wikipedia to hunt for acronyms).
Many traditionalists argue that the newfangled metrics lionized in Moneyball are too abstract and complicated. Not that the old stats aren't complicated too. Allow me to paraphrase one of baseball's most traditional statistics, the pitcher win: a pitcher receives a win if they leave the game with their team winning, and that lead is not relinquished by the end of the game. If the pitcher started the game, they must pitch at least five complete innings to be eligible (unless, of course, the game is shortened enough by rain). If the pitcher came in as a reliever with his team tied or trailing and leaves the game with the lead, they are eligible for the win. In a scenario in which the starting pitcher gained the lead, but pitched less than five innings, the official scorer just decides who he felt pitched the best amongst the relievers and awards them the win. The pitcher win, more or less fully understood by all baseball fans, is both complicated and arbitrary. And this isn't really a cherry-picked stat; just try to define precisely what events constitute an "at bat".
Basically, the old statistics work for Jason Whitlock because they're old. And that's fine: I was really hoping Detroit's Justin Verlander would get his 25th win this year, despite its ineffectiveness as a metric for pitcher performance, because the last time it happened was the year I was born. It's fun and part of being a fan to participate in baseball mythology.
But advanced statistics can cater to this mythology just as easily: Barry Bonds' spreadsheet of sabermetric numbers is a beautiful sight to behold (I couldn't care less that he cheated; the numbers are real). While all fans may know that Bonds was a great player, his complete domination of the game can only fully be seen through the advanced metrics. From 2001 to 2004, he was 40% better than the second best player in baseball and about twice as valuable as someone who put up four All-Star quality seasons each of those years. The "advanced defense" numbers show us that, even in his late 30s and weighed down by artificial bulk from steroids and human growth hormone, he was still an above-average fielder. And perhaps most amazingly—and Billy Beane would certainly agree—in that four-year period, he walked over three times as often as he struck out. To me, and many others, that is as beautiful as the Babe calling his shot, or DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak.
Amongst the sabermetrically inclined, there has been much discussion of whether Moneyball will bring the statistical good news to the people, or whether things will remain the same, with advanced statistics still largely at the nerd fringe of baseball coverage. Either way, there is no doubt that the movie does a good job romanticizing the spreadsheet without losing sight of the more traditional beauties of baseball. There is definitely a delicate balance between the two. After all, despite all the amazing things Bonds did, he was still an asshole. I booed him along with the rest of my city while he chased the career home run record set by Atlanta's Hank Aaron. I know, though, that Bonds's numbers will be legendary before too long. Hopefully, though, the Billy Beane revolution comes to pass and his 38% walk percentage will be given as much weight as his 73 home runs.
TAYLOR KELLEY B'12 is sabermetrically inclined.


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Horizontal Scaling With Auto Balancing DB Nodes/
So for a while now I have been wrestling over the idea of horizontal scaling of a (for the purpose of this article) mysql db. Not how to actually do it but to make it better. I want a system that can grow and scale as a product does allowing small operations to build on a powerful stack from the beginning with a super low overhead. I should take a moment here to note that I am sure I am not the first to come to this idea but I have not located another source that talks about it. If you do know of some good info please pass it along to firstname.lastname@example.com and I will link to it from here.
I guess it would be good to note that mysql has a tendency to begin to perform badlywith super large table sizes. To counter this a standard approach is to shard the db. This basically means breaking the database into smaller databases and using a hash algorithm, usually linked to the users id, to make sure we always query the same db instance for a particular user. This is great, if I have a db that is too big, split it in two and now I have 2 that are much faster. Easy enough, right? Ok, so lets continue this example by having our 2 shards now reach capacity, then what do we do? You would probably say "Add two more nodes" so this is a little more difficult, now we have to take two nodes off line, shard them, update our hash function, then bring the whole thing back online…Is there a better way?
So lets start with the hash algorithm. Knowing the space the hash will map to could potentially increase, we need to consider a space not bound by integer values. Instead lets consider the infinite space between 0.0 and 1.0. Targeting this space will allow for an addition of an arbitrary set of indexable db nodes without further modifications to the hash function. A key consideration is the idea that a hash lookup COULD fail meaning the db index returned by the hash function does not contain the target record and will have to recover properly.
Lets put this in a concrete example…
Lets say I started with a single db instance and that we have a hash function that takes in a user id and spits out a floating point number between 0 and 1. A user record is queried and the hash function returns 0.6, well we dont have a db node at 0.6 only one at 0. We search a list of the db nodes we have and their decimal ids, we then take the node with the closest index, in this case 0 so we ask db 0 for the user record. So for the base case its pretty simple, there is only one node so every hash and distance operation points back to the single db node at 0. Now lets say that db is headed towards becoming overloaded and you decide to expand your db shards but your product requires a really high up-time and taking it down to bisect it is out of the question, so what do we do. Well lets look at the hash algorithm again lets say we need to get the record for the same user as before. The hash function points us to 0.6 whos closest node is 1.0 (We know from before that the user record is located on node 0). So we consider this a MISS. This is where the auto-balancing part comes into play, after a miss the system will search the other db nodes in an expanding radius from the hashed value. Once the record is found (in shard 0) we would then move the record to the node we first checked. We now only have to search N/2 db nodes where N is the total number of nodes in the system to either find the record or be guaranteed it does not exist. This allows us to dynamically scale up the number of db nodes as demand increases and have the load automatically re-distribute itself to the new shards.
Algorithm Summary
- Hash space between 0.0 and 1.0
- Keep a list of the db nodes and their decimal id
- Look up record in closest db id to hash result
- Search radially outward to a max of N/2 for record if needed
- Move record to the first db searched (if needed)
In conclusion database management at a large scale can be a giant pain so building in transparent flexibility at the beginning can be the difference between a hyper-viral hit and a missed opportunity.