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Author's Note: This is part 2 of a series of posts about my adventures in building a "large", in-memory hash table. Part 1 introduced our goals and our approach to the task at hand. This post is a summary of some of the research I've done to familiarize myself with the problem.
Our current approach to custom attribution models is very simple: pay Amazon thousands of dollars a month and "do it in the cloud" with Elastic MapReduce. In Hadoop, we partition the data by user, sort by time, identify their conversion events, and run an attribution model on these conversion-terminated "chains" of events. This is both costly and more cumbersome than we'd like.
A faster, cheaper, and arguably more transparent approach might be to pipe the live events to a service that could buffer and assemble these chains in memory and output "completed" chains (when a conversion event arrived) to a separate service to do the model computation.
We've come to the conclusion that a large in-memory hash table could be suitable to the task. Our specifications for said hash table are:
- 1.5 billion 64-bit keys, uniformly and randomly distributed
- values between 16 bytes and 16 kilobytes
- deployed to one machine, all in-memory
- sustained 200,000 updates per second over the course of a 14-hour "internet day"
Before jumping into building one of these, I thought I'd learn a bit about hash tables themselves.
The Research
Naturally, my research began with Wikipedia. The article on hash tables is a fairly comprehensive overview. From there, I read handful of papers and articles to dig a little deeper. Below are a selection that helped me immensely.
Dynamic Hashing
- Fagin's Extendible Hashing – A Fast Access Method for Dynamic Files
One of those seminal IBM papers that everyone seems to reference. It provides some interesting historical context for the introduction of dynamic hashing. The central thesis is an insight as impressive now as it was then: by separating the hash space from the storage addressing space, a hash table can be made incrementally extendible.
- Seltzer and Yigit's A New Hashing Package for UNIX
An older overview of hashing algorithms for use in and out of main memory. Includes exquisite insight into the implementation concerns the authors took into account while building a general hashing library for UNIX.
- Rathi, Lu, and Hedrick's Performance Comparison of Extendible Hashing And Linear Hashing Techniques
An old but very useful comparison of linear and extendible hashing that demonstrates certain periodic performance characteristics that may make one or the other unsuitable for your application.
- Baeza-Yates and Soza-Pollman's Analysis of Linear Hashing Revisited
A theoretical analysis of different overflow control functions in linear hashing. Lots of math, but very clearly demonstrates the differences between global versus local overflow resolution functions and the impact of page sizes.
Hash Functions
- Jenkins Hash
A solid general-purpose hash whose source and documentation are a masterwork of explication and thoroughness.
- (Minimal) Perfect Hashing: some theory, some practice
For when you have all of your keys ahead of time and want 100% occupancy.
Collision Resolution
- Pagh and Rodler's Cuckoo Hashing
The original cuckoo hashing paper that compares cuckoo hashing against chaining methods and linear probing. Includes a nice section at the end recapping earlier hashing schemes and their historical context.
- Erlingsson, Manasse, and McSherry's A Cool and Practical Alternative to Hash Tables
They present an empirical analysis of parametrized cuckoo hashing (in number of hash functions and bucket size). There's an interesting bit at the end discussing dynamic expansion by adding bins and/or new hash functions.
- Lehman and Panigrahy's 3.5-Way Cuckoo Hashing for the Price of 2-and-a-Bit
Describes a parametrized cuckoo hashing scheme with overlapping bins. Improves likely utilization by several percent.
- Herhily, Shavit, and Tzafrir's Hopscotch Hashing
Incorporates ideas from linear probing, cuckoo, and chaining techniques to avoid any of their individual pitfalls.
- Panigrahy's Efficient Hashing with Lookups in two Memory Accesses
Provides a lucid graph-theoretic description of the problem of collision resolution. The solution proposed is all-theory, so don't bother looking for a practical result therein.
- Dietzfelbinger and Schellbach's On Risks of Using Cuckoo Hashing with Simple Universal Hash Classes
Discusses the unsuitability of certain linear and multiplicative hash functions for use with cuckoo hashing, using a graph theoretic argument.
After my academic explorations, I started to look for candidate data stores. In doing this, I began digging into the history of key-value stores and hash table implementations. A few things jumped out immediately:
- Engineering effort seems to have been diverted from hash table development to distributed hash table development, in the past 5 years.
- Dynamic hashing innovation seems to have stopped at linear and extendible hashing.
- No benchmarks I ran into exceeded 100M insertions. In fact, this benchmark is the only one that I found that exceeded 10M insertions.
The first seems obvious given the meteoric rise in data captured from the web and the relatively fixed decrease in RAM price and increase in density. With dozens or hundreds of terabytes of "online" data, one can hardly be blamed for steering toward mid-range commodity servers en masse. However, this approach comes at a cost: coordinating and maintaining a cluster of servers is no mean feat. In fact, I consider the consensus and commitment protocols that make said coordination possible significantly more challenging to understand, let alone implement, than any of the hashing subjects mentioned above. (Just look at the Wikipedia entry for Paxos!) Similarly, hot-node issues and debugging distributed systems strike me as being an order of magnitude harder to solve than the problem of building a "better" hash table. To be clear, I'm not arguing that these two things solve the same problems. Rather, given the choice of implementing a "huge", performant hash table in memory or the algorithms to support a clustered solution, I would choose the former.
Despite the fact that the progress of Dynamo, Cassandra, Riak, and Voldemort took most of the headlines from 2005 to 2010, work still progressed on in-memory and disk-based non-distributed hash tables like Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet, Redis, and even the venerable Berekely DB. (If you're at all interested in the history of "NoSQL" data stores, you should check out this handy timeline.) That said, little in terms of novel hash table technology came from these efforts. As far as I know, BDB still uses a variant of linear hashing, Redis uses standard chaining, and Kyoto Cabinet falls back on
std::unordered_map for its in-memory hash table.
This brings us to the other two points: indeed, how could traditional hash table development cease (practically) in light of the advances of DHTs? With "web-scale" data sets even a single node's data storage needs should easily exceed anything seen 5 years prior, right? In fairness, some work has been done in the last few years to add concurrency to linear hashing as well as some work on optimizing hash table algorithms for modern cache hierarchies, but this doesn't feel like the same kind of fundamental, basic result as, say, the introduction of extendible hashing.
I suppose the fact that there has been little visible engineering progress on this front is a testament to the quality of the existing algorithms and code. Either that or existing workloads have not yet exceeded that high watermark of 100M entries and we're just waiting for the next jump to inspire new work in the field.
Next post: a roundup of existing candidates, benchmarks, and observations about their ease-of-use.


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Rays Sweep Their Way to 30th Win
I have to say, after last night's Commodore s' concert, and the excitement of today's "walk-off" win, I have to take the rest of the day off to just get ready for the next 7 days of Rays baseball.
It is a great time to be a true Rays fan. A .600 winning percentage, and a offense that gets better every day.
Trivia Fact of the Night:
The Rays are currently tied for the best record in the MLB. They are tied with Arizona at 30-20, or a .600% winning percentage. GO RAYS!!!!
The Good,The Bad,and The Ugly
The Good
Carlos Pena has now reached base in 8 straight at-bats. He walked three times today and hit his 10th homer in the bottom of the 3rd inning. Carlos went 1-2 today, with 2 RBI's and 2 runs scored.
In reality, Carlos came to play today and the ball was as big as basketballs to him. His homer to left center was not in doubt a few seconds after he hit it. For the season, Carlos is now in a three way tie for third in homers, and is sitting in 38th in RBI's with teammate Carl Crawford.
Honorable Mention "Good Guys":
*** Rays Catcher Dioner Navarro went 2-4 today and lifted his average to .355 for the season. Dioner is the leader in switch hitters in the majors right now. Dioner was also instrumential in Gabe Gross's outfield assist today taking the relay ans throwing to second to get the Orioles Ramon Hernandez at second base.
** Rays outfielder B J Upton is again alive with his bat and is currently hitting .303 for the season. B J is making outstanding plays in the field, and running the bases better for the team. He had his 3rd career 4-hit game last night. B J reached base all 5 times he batted last night, and his .303 average is ranked 9th in the AL.
* Usually, when you hit a game winning double in walk-off fashion, I would list you as the top player of the day. But, Evan Longoria is already in a class by himself this year. He went 2-5 today to up his average to .246.
In the bottom of the 9th, after Carlos Pena walked, Evan hit a sscreamer into the right centerfield gap and stopped at second. Not that he was out of gas, or tired in the least. It had just hit him that in less than 40 games, he is being put in the same breath as veterans like Carl Crawford, B J Upton, and Carlos Pena. High praise for the guy leading all Roiokies in homers and RBI's.
But then again, we were told he was special in the Spring.
The Bad
I have been notcing a trend again in Aki Iwamura's batting swings and hits. He is again hitting the ball more airborne and is taking away that grounder or line drive that was his signature during his hitting streak.
It might just be an adjustment, or a action that is not visible to Aki, but we see it out in the stands.
Another bad I have to address is the fact that we again left 11 guys standing on the bases in scoring position. We have been lucky to have won most of those games, but we got lucky that Daniel Caberra was not on his control and strikeout binge today.
The Ugly
Aki was the only Ray not to get at least a hit today. His average is sitting at .262, down the beginning of the week. As I mentioned before, Aki is leaning back a bit and lofting the ball instead of driving the ball through the hitting zone.
I also saw something amazing considering Orioles catcher Ramon Hernandez could not seem to get anyone out stealing the last two nights.
He threw a bullet to nail Carl Crawford for his 4th caught stealing attempt today. The throws in earlier situations were high and almost in centerfield. This throw was on the money and Carl was dead to rights out by a good margin.
I do not do a former Rays player of the night, but I want to throw congrats to Brewers' starter Seth McClung (2-1) who pitched 5 innings and allowed 4 hits and 2 runs on the night.
All Rays fans remember that McClung ended his Rays career as our closer after being a starter most of his career. In Milwaulkee, he got another chance to start, and is making the most of it.


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Badda Bing, Badda Boom: Carl's Jr. Goes Italian With the New Parmesan Chicken Sandwich
Oct 21, 2009
CARPINTERIA, Calif. – October 21, 2009 – Today Carl's Jr.® restaurants launched its newest creation: the Parmesan Chicken Sandwich. Featuring a crispy breaded chicken fillet topped with melted cheese, smothered in authentic marinara sauce all on a sesame seed bun, wise guys everywhere are lining up at the drive-thru to chow down.
"Many people love the taste of a breaded chicken breast fillet covered with cheese and a zesty marinara sauce," said Brad Haley, executive vice president of marketing for Carl's Jr. "The new Parmesan Chicken Sandwich from Carl's Jr. is a big sandwich that will fill those cravings in a big way. End of story. Capiche?"
The sandwich, available for $3.99 or $6.49 as a combo, is being promoted through clever ads created by Los Angeles-based advertising agency Mendelsohn|Zien, the firm behind many iconic Carl's Jr. and Hardee's® ads. The campaign depicts a guy who outwits two burley hitmen types assisted by conspicuous marinara stains on his shirt from eating his Parmesan Chicken Sandwich. The ads can be viewed on the Carl's Jr. YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/carlsjr.
In addition, Carl's Jr. will launch a Facebook quiz next week that allows consumers to answer mob-related questions to determine which infamous "made guy" they are most like at heart. Visit Carl's Jr. Facebook page at www.facebook.com/carlsjr to play.
About Carl's Jr.
Carl's Jr. is celebrating more than 65 years in the quick-service industry. What began as a lone hot dog cart in Los Angeles, Calif. in 1941 is today an international organization that employs nearly 30,000 people worldwide. Carl's Jr. is a wholly owned subsidiary of CKE Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: CKR) of Carpinteria, Calif. As of the end of its fiscal 2010 second quarter, CKE Restaurants, Inc., through its subsidiaries, had a total of 3,140 franchised, licensed or company-operated restaurants in 42 states and in 14 countries, including 1,212 Carl's Jr. restaurants and 1,915 Hardee's restaurants. For more information, or to find a Carl's Jr. near you, go to www.carlsjr.com.
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text: SARATOGA SPRINGS -- This year the New York City Ballet's 48th season at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center shrinks to one week, July 9 through 13, but a week with more variety and balletic excitement than most companies muster in an entire season. Fourteen ballets, six by company founder George Balanchine, the 20th century's greatest choreographer, will fill the SPAC stage designed for this world-class troupe. While dancing treasures from its matchless repertory, NYCB also presents three new ballets. Two of them, one each by Peter Martins and Christopher Wheeldon, highlight July 13's Ruby Ball Gala. The third ballet, NYCB soloist Justin Peck's "Year of the Rabbit," might be the most exuberant new ballet since Alexei Ratmansky's "Concerto DSCH." Peck, whose "In Creases" made a big splash in its world premiere at SPAC last year, has created in "Rabbit" a continually engrossing dance for six soloists and a corps of 12. The dance's moods vary with those of Sufyan Stevens' music -- a melodically and rhythmically rich ballet score. Three of Balanchine's classical Tschaikovsky ballets, two of them quite brief, will accompany Peck's playful "Rabbit" on opening night. In 1981, Balanchine choreographed the "Garland Dance" from "The Sleeping Beauty," a beautifully interweaving number featuring the company and 16 local ballet students. The other short ballet, "Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux" (1960), is a 9-minute dazzler with a romantic opening, a high-leaping male solo, a female solo with lightning pointework, and a can-you-top-this finale, including dramatic fish dives. Opening night also includes Balanchine's "Theme and Variations" (1947), which builds thrillingly from a duet for the principal couple to a grand polonaise for all 26 dancers, and Peter Martins' "Barber Violin Concerto" (1988), which wittily pits ballet against modern dance by mixing and matching two couples. The rest of the season promises just as much splendor. Balanchine's 1934 "Serenade," his first ballet for American dancers, sets 17 women dancing in moonlight. The expansive swirling of the corps eventually yields to a romantic fable and the ennobling of one young woman abandoned by love. One of Balanchine's greatest modern works, "Stravinsky Violin Concerto" (1972), opens with jazzy precision and closes with a Russian hoedown. In between come two duets, one mysterious and erotic, the other tender and heartbreaking. Jerome Robbins' much-loved 1969 ballet, "Dances at a Gathering," takes the stage only once, Friday, July 12. In this hour-long work to Chopin piano pieces, the cast of 10 grows into a close-knit community, sharing friendship, melancholy, romance and joy. A favorite by Christopher Wheeldon, the pas de deux from "After the Rain" (2005), features Wendy Whelan and Craig Hall. Using Arvo Part's meditative music, Wheeldon tells their story with intimate embraces and flashy overhead lifts. In addition to his Barber ballet, Peter Martins' kinetic "Hallelujah Junction" (2001), to John Adams music for two onstage pianos, explores echoes. As the music moves from piano to piano, movement shifts from dancer to dancer, with unison passages erupting like striking coincidences. The swift season means that closing night marks the festive Ruby Ball Gala, named for the modern Balanchine/Stravinsky masterpiece, "Rubies," from 1967's "Jewels." Megan Fairchild and Joaquin De Luz will lead this jazzy, American dance in the roles created by Patricia McBride and Edward Villella. Villella, one of America's great male dancers and founder of Miami City Ballet, will attend as honorary gala chair. The gala will also feature two Saratoga premieres costumed by fashion designer Valentino. Eight NYCB ballerinas wearing his designs dance to Tschaikovsky in Martins' "Bal de Couture," while in Christopher Wheeldon's "This Bitter Earth," Tyler Angle partners Valentino-clad Wendy Whelan in a pas de deux to Max Richter's string setting of Clyde Otis's troubling ballad, which uses Dinah Washington's recorded vocal. Jerome Robbins' "West Side Story Suite," his show-stopping 1995 distillation of his 1957 Broadway hit, will end the gala -- and the season -- with pizzazz, as NYCB dancers not only mambo and rumba, but sing as well. While there's no big NYCB story ballet this year, the company's chief glory is its repertory, with its two 20th-century giants -- Balanchine and Robbins -- current ballet master Martins, and younger voices Wheeldon and Peck. Those new to ballet will find in every program the company's great variety, thrilling athletic skill and imaginative artistry, while longtime NYCB fans will delight in watching favorite ballets danced by great young performers who have inherited the company's legacy and sustained its world-class quality. The whirlwind season will pass in a wink, so catching NYCB this year becomes more urgent than ever. NYCB's 2013 season -- What to see This guide should help you plan your ballet going. Titles are followed by the choreographers, the composers and the performance dates, with "m" indicating a matinee. Barber Violin Concerto (Peter Martins/Samuel Barber), July 9, 11m, 13m Martins uses Barber's beautiful score for this 1988 mix-and-match contest between a balletic couple and a modern dance pair. Exciting, anxious and surprising, it's one of his best. Garland Dance (George Balanchine/ Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky), July 9, 10, 13m Soon before his death, Balanchine constructed this lovely, interweaving 1981 dance from "The Sleeping Beauty," which Peter Martins incorporated into his full-length 1991 version of that ballet. Featuring 16 young dancers from local schools. Theme and Variations (Balanchine/Tschaikovsky), July 9, 11 The final movement of Tschaikovsky's third suite inspired Balanchine to create this bravura show of virtuoso dancing in 1947. A lead couple fronts a corps that swells to 24 in an intricate ballet concluding with a rousing grand polonaise for the whole company. Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux (Balanchine/Tschaikovsky), July 9, 11m Nine minutes of heaven. This 1960 dazzler, to music once intended for "Swan Lake," features a tender adagio opening, prodigious male leaping, pinpoint female footwork, and a smash ending including daring fish dives. Year of the Rabbit (Justin Peck/Sufyan Stevens), July 9, 10, 13m This exuberant, sunny new ballet by the gifted young Peck, a Saratoga favorite, uses a beautifully complex score by Stevens. The choreography explores soloist-group interactions in exciting ways, with quick pursuits, side-by-side dancing in unison and canon, and daring solo leaps into crowds of dancers. Created in 2012, it enjoys its Saratoga premiere. After the Rain Pas de Deux (Christopher Wheeldon/Arvo Part), July 10, 12 Wheeldon's romantic 2005 mood piece transforms flashy figure-skater lifts and unusual embraces into touching emblems of intimacy. A showcase for Wheeldon's longtime muse, Wendy Whelan, and partner Craig Hall. Serenade (Balanchine/Tschaikovsky), July 10, 11 Balanchine's first American ballet, from 1934, begins democratically -- with the nonstop swirling movement of the corps -- and modulates toward romance, closing with a beautiful little moonlit allegory concerning love, fate and abandonment. Hallelujah Junction (Martins/John Adams), July 11m, 12 Martins' 2001 work uses Adams' pulsing score for two onstage pianos, whose echoing of each other inspires the dancers' arrangements and rearrangements. The ballet actually works well in matinee daylight, which makes its movement easier to follow. Stravinsky Violin Concerto (Balanchine/Igor Stravinsky), July 11m, 11 Today's performances of this 1972 modernist masterpiece for two couples and a corps of 16 look exciting as ever. A wittily patterned opening movement and an exuberant finale, a kind of Russian hoedown, frame two pas de deux, one mysterious, the other heartbreaking. Dances at a Gathering (Jerome Robbins/Frederick Chopin), July 12 One of Robbins' greatest works, from 1969, an hour of continuously inspired dance invention to Chopin piano pieces. Ranging from meditative to romantic, from melancholy to exuberant, the pieces characterize the cast of 10, inviting us into their inner lives. Don't miss the sole performance. The Ruby Ball Gala, July 13: Bal de Couture (Martins/Tschaikovsky) The Saratoga premiere of Martins' 2012 ballet, to music from "Eugene Onegin," showcases eight of NYCB's top ballerinas, each in a different costume by haute couture designer Valentino. Rubies (Balanchine / Stravinsky) Another of Balanchine's modernist masterpieces, to Stravinsky's "Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra," created as part of 1967's "Jewels." Megan Fairchild and Joaquin De Luz will dance the roles originated by Patricia McBride and Edward Villella; Villella will attend as the Ruby Ball Gala's honorary chair. This Bitter Earth (Wheeldon / Clyde Otis, arr. Max Richter) British composer Max Richter's new string setting imports Dinah Washington's haunting vocal from Otis' melancholy R & B ballad. Tyler Angle partners with Wendy Whelan in the Saratoga premiere of this romantic dance from 2012. West Side Story Suite (Robbins / Leonard Bernstein) In Robbins' 1995 distillation of several songs and dances from his 1957 Broadway smash, NYCB company members not only dance in sneakers and high heels, but also sing. Watch for high-kicking Georgina Pazcoguin setting the stage ablaze, leading the Shark girls in "America." For tickets, go to spac.org or call the box office at (518) 584-9330.


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Telstra needs to 'sweat' traditional assets and free up resources for expansion elsewhere. Photo: James DaviesTelstra axes 1100 jobs in restructureTelstra key top stop NBN wobbles
The 1100 job cuts that Telstra unveiled today are the result of a restructuring of the group's operations, which in turn flows from an absolutely essential re-weighting of the group's resources.
The telco is moving away from its traditional businesses including fixed line telephony and towards new and hoped for growth engines.
The aim is not to shrink the company to greatness – that never works – but to control costs by redirecting spending to the growth areas rather than expanding the existing budget to resource them.
The strategy does however create a vice for jobs in the traditional Australian-based businesses, and it is being turned tighter as Telstra also sends administrative work offshore to lock in lower labour costs.
The cuts announced today were flagged in May when Telstra's chief operations officer, Brendon Riley, told staff that the telco intended to reorganise operationally into five groups.
Three of them – IT Solutions, Networks and Customer Service Delivery – were newly created.
Riley said there would be common support functions for them, and for existing Telstra operations covering the national broadband network and Network Applications and Services (NAS), an end-to-end business communications offer that Telstra sees as one of its new growth engines in Australia.
Telstra chief executive David Thodey doesn't have a viable alternative, however.
As its old fixed line telephony business shrinks, it must invest in new businesses to maintain revenue and earnings growth.
It must also ''sweat'' its older assets to make them more profitable as their revenue declines, however, and it also knows that its support in the sharemarket among both wholesale and retail investors draws on the fact that it is a classic investment yield play.
The telco has paid a steady 28 cents a share in regular dividends since 2005, with occasional special dividends thrown in.
At around $4.93 this afternoon, its shares were up 13 per cent this year, 27 per cent in two years and 64 per cent in three years, but were still yielding 5.7 per cent before tax credits and 8.1 per cent after them.
The expectation is that payments will if anything rise in the next few years as income from its deal to co-operate with the roll-out of the new national broadband network starts pouring in.
The NBN co-operation deal was given a net present value of $11 billion by Telstra in 2011 when it was struck.
It has to be renegotiated now that the Coalition is in government and moving to restructure the roll-out from a fibre-to-the-home model to a fibre-to-the-node one.
But ahead of the election Tony Abbott said that Telstra and its shareholders would be kept whole, and Thodey is taking that to mean that the NBN shake-up will be value-neutral at least.
It could in fact be value positive, if the new government decided that after missing roll-out targets the NBN Co needs Telstra's help in constructing the network.
The expectation that Telstra dividends will stay strong and probably rise is therefore not materially shaken by the change in power in Canberra, and as long as the expectation that Telstra will be a yield play is alive in its share price, its options for funding expansion are limited.
Decisions to cut costs including jobs to both sweat traditional assets and free up resources for expansion elsewhere become almost a fait accompli.
The Maiden family owns Telstra shares.
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Warm-up tickets & VIP tickets ASOT 600 at Den Bosch sold out!
October 20, 2012
Last night, Armin van Buuren announced the first dates and cities of the upcoming A State of Trance 600 tour during the special live broadcast. It became a grand success, with millions of people tuning in live and a massive amount of tweets, retweets and mentions on social media! One of the events, part of the 'Expedition' tour, is ASOT600 at the Brabanthallen of Den Bosch, The Netherlands. And in only a matter of hours, the warm-up and VIP tickets have completely sold out!
The warm-up tickets, as well as the VIP tickets, grant access to the special warm-up set by Armin, from 20.00-21.00 (CET). But no worries, there's still plenty of regular tickets available! Head off to www.astateoftrance.com and get them now!


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CCTV systems can be extremely simple: a camera with lens, with cable running to a monitor. Some systems can be very complex, using all manner of bang-up-to-date technological wonders.
Nonetheless, all of them can be broken down into three basic parts:
1. 'Take pictures' with a video camera,
2. Send the pictures to their destinations,
3. Manage the pictures that arrive there.
I'm sure you'll agree that tackling this subject as three 'bites' makes any size of CCTV system in New Tecumseth easier to digest. So let's look at each one in turn and point you to the bits that can get the job done for you.
1. Take pictures with a video camera
Otherwise known as 'image acquisition' if you want to sound like a proper consultant! Start with the basic camera. It carries a chip at the front that gives an electrical signal when hit by light or infrared. The other 99% of the camera is there to control the video pictures that emerge out of the back. We'll deal with that output signal in a short while. Before then, add a lens to the camera or there will not be a focused image. Choose the focal length of the lens (given in millimetres) so that the field-of-view suits your scene and gives you the level of detail you need. You can look back at the previous article where we discussed this 'Operational Requirement' in greater detail. To create pictures one more thing is essential. Actually, trillions of things. Photons – appearing as light or infrared. There are no decent pictures without sufficient light. This is so commonly overlooked in CCTV. Don't make such a mistake.
Having completed these fundamental steps, what is going to protect the camera and lens from dirt, weather, etc? Put them in a protective housing. What will keep this box of tricks pointing at the right scene? Simplest example is a wall bracket including a manually adjustable joint that keeps your static camera oriented correctly come rain or shine. If you need to remotely control its orientation then add a motorized pan and tilt unit between the mounting and camera. The pan/tilt (and any zoom lens on the camera) will need to decode remote control signals, so a 'telemetry' receiver is needed too. For many years combinations of all five items can come in the form of PTZ dome units, so, why ever use rectangular 'shoebox' camera assemblies? Because attaching high power lamps and 'windscreen wipers' is much easier, and you can choose almost any camera and much better lenses to produce your pictures.
Totting up to a heavy load, sturdy mounts are needed, for instance, purpose-built poles or lattice towers. Consider especially demountable (tilt-over) types that enable fitting and maintenance of such heavy CCTV equipment to be done safely at ground level.
Now we've successfully acquired our pictures, let's progress to the next part: getting the signals from A to B, sometimes going as far as C and D too.
2. Send pictures to their destination: or 'signal transmission'
Video output from the camera could be:
• composite analogue signal (1 volt peak-to-peak, CCIR, PAL)
• IP video (Internet Protocol) as TCP/IP or UDP multicast
• HD-SDI, High Definition – Serial Digital Interface.
Simple co-axial cables might carry any of these three signal types. Make sure to check all such technicalities with manufacturers of the devices, especially limitations such as distance and number of video signals per cable. The greater bandwidth and low loss characteristics of fibre optic cables make the carrying capacity of any of these signals much greater, albeit more costly, but large 'bundles' of signals can make this more economically viable. The other type of copper cable, UTP (unshielded twisted pair), is commonly used for IP the world over. With 'balun' interfaces, such 'Cat-5' and telephone cables can carry analogue video too. Using public utilities' cabling infrastructure in the form of broadband Internet services is often viable for IP video, with bandwidth (hence, video quality) governed by price.
Alternatives to cables are wireless transmissions. These include dedicated and licensed microwave line-of-sight links, licence-free microwaves over shorter distances, some of the latter types being WiFi links. Cellular data services such as 3G and GPRS can also carry video, albeit with limited bandwidth and service coverage. 4G roll-out might improve the possibilities.
Now we've successfully delivered our pictures, let's progress to the next part: managing the pictures.
3. Managing the pictures that arrive
Most common is that multiple video signals arrive at a CCTV control and monitoring point. So a switcher is necessary to direct every picture to the right place. Analogue video switchers might be desktop '8-in, 1-out' or a large, expensive '128-in, 32-out' matrix.
Often, images are digitised before or immediately after they arrive. These can be switched in software such as that in a DVR / NVR (digital / network video recorder) sometimes dubbed a 'virtual matrix'. Bolt-ons to this bundle of incoming signals might be ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) or VCA (video content analysis) machines. Either way, after switching, the outputs commonly go to two destinations: displays and recorders. Analogue signals go to CRTs (cathode ray tubes) or LCD or plasma screens with inputs for analogue video. Video that has been digitised during the first, second or third of this article's 'bites' is fed to displays via the computerised innards of the DVR, NVR, virtual matrix, etc.
Analogue or digital, the pan/tilt/zoom telemetry signals come from the CCTV operator's control keyboard or, for instance, automatic preset positions triggered by alarm sensors. Recorders are almost universally digital these says, so exporting footage to give to others uses hard copy printers, CD, DVD or portable memory devices.
I hope it's now apparent how many devices can be used to create a CCTV system in New Tecumseth 'from soup to nuts' or literally from light into the camera to light into the operator's eye. However, when broken down into these three fundamental bite-sized stages, it is much easier to digest.


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Preparing for Christmas
April Motl
April Motl is a pastor's wife who loves to laugh, loves her man, loves to talk on the phone entirely too long and most of all, loves her Lord. Collaborating with the efforts of her husband Eric, the two of them share a ministry dedicated to bringing God's Word into the everyday lives of married couples, men and women. April has been privileged through her own church and ministry outside her local body to share God's Word with women ranging in ages and stages, across denominations, and walks of life. April is a graduate from Southern California Seminary and has written for Just Between Us Magazine, Dayspring's (In)courage, and The Secret Place and also writes regularly for crosswalk.com, iBelieve.com and Women's Ministry Tools. For more information, visit Motl Ministries at: www.MotlMinistries.com
- 2016 Dec 20
The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And He found in the temple those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables; and to those who were selling the doves He said, "Take these things away; stop making My Father's house a place of business." His disciples remembered that it was written, "ZEAL FOR YOUR HOUSE WILL CONSUME ME." John 2:13-18 NAS
It might seem like an odd passage to highlight during the Christmas season, but as we mine for gems from this section of Scripture, I think there is some treasure here for us.
When Jesus looked at His people and His Father's house, He was deeply grieved because of the greed and worldliness that had come to define the way things were carried out in the temple. As Christians we are now the temple of the Holy Spirit. So when God looks at us, the way we go about doing our daily chores, the way we seek holiness, the way we interact with others.... what does He see? Does He see His temple filled with the aroma of prayer and praise? Does He see the reflection of His own heart for the needy and lost? Or does He see greed and worldliness?
Christmas isn't Jesus real birthdate, but it is the season that we stop and thank God for His incredible plan to save us and for the way He came to earth to live with us and die for us. So as the season of remembering our Savior's birth, doesn't it seem like we, as individuals and corporately as the church, ought to reflect His heart even more than normal?
When the world looks at the way we celebrate Jesus' birth, do they see commercialism and money-changers? Or do they see sweet generosity and selfless giving? Do they see the humility with which Christ came to earth - wrapped in rags, born in a stable, with the first birth announcement going to low-class shepherds - in the way we reach out to people? As we prepare for the joyous celebrations of the season, may our Father in heaven and the world around us see the True Light of Christmas.
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New York University Law School professor Richard Epstein on a California city's vote to use eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages. Photo: Getty Images
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I ... back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... switching now its huge domestic topics just when you think the housing market is recovering ... California steps and said it all up for everybody ... I've got new York University law professor and her fellow Richard Epstein here to explain richer ... reading alot about Richmond California ... it wants to seize underwater mortgages ... using eminent domain this is to help the housing market ... on Thursday a judge said this was ok how is this okay well the judge did not improve as he returned to Charles broader what he said was on the technical motion that you cannot count this particular ... initiative by Richmond Copas put into place in the boat's inside the car inside the ... council not been fully completed or think they we estimate ... that more portly they haven't started the initiation so what he's doing the same time backing will ... this is not right ... maybe these guys could dissolve so I don't have to issue a decision but it doesn't start anything on the merits one with the hope that he has is this unprecedented has anyone ever sees a mortgage before ... for profit ... on the is as far as I can tell is ... that a lot of exotic uses of the eminent domain power but this is not one of them is the brain power the single law professor ... it's a very on think and my view is even the Supreme Court ... as tolerant edges of government activity will strike this thing down when you are saying in effect is that this mortgages worse when we take it from you a hundred sixty thousand dollars what would turn around the present is anybody else is now worth a hundred ninety thousand dollars ... The Alchemist is found his match in the eminent domain gone ... by simply seizing putting it in the hands of the government to increase its tire bike twenty percent ... and it's just not going ... to put this in simple language what why would this be so damaging to the housing market ... if we allow cities ... to to go down streets and to say I won that war is in that Mortgage and that work well I mean what are the things to understand that these mortgages that they were held by local banks they would never do this ... but these mortgages the package to put into syndicates the syndicates are sold in complicated ways out this week ... and if in fact you can take bits and pieces ... out of any one of these particular packages for a fraction of its diet ... the people warm bond package don't know what are they getting a bunch of mortgages that are performing ... for the getting the right to receive I'm ... basically diminish phones out of the unmet demand situation so they can figure out how to price ... value could survive Richmond doing this alone but it would not be nice in fact ... 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I was so lot harder for both the initiative to say when the time a cross sell to pay for this thing so instead they just wanna sees it because they only know that it's a sign that says to the citizens in state and people is this is the way of making a northbound situation would make them especially Truman's the PB Capital whose name was ... rich investors the top one percent and so you've learned that the courts outside the jurisdiction even though will benefits with glass inside the jurisdiction ... but if you actually follow the dictates many of the local scandal of the following observation ... 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Women's presence in Nimroz pubic offices on the increase
Women's presence in Nimroz pubic offices on the increase
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): The number of women working in government offices has increased in southwestern Nimroz province, despite little work on females' capacity building.
Local officials say the women in Nimroz had played an active role in the previous provincial council and presidential elections. Over 50,000 people took part in the elections in Nimroz, with 40 percent of them women.
By the virtue of continued civic activities by women, more females have started joining government offices in Nimroz.
Statistics provided by the Women's Affairs Department of Nimroz show currently more than 2,000 women work in different government departments in the province.
Some 1,750 females work as teachers and other staff in the education sector while 150 other women discharge their duty as doctors, nurses and midwive.
According to Pajhwok Afghan News finding, eight women are working at the Women's Affairs Department, 50 in police, five in justice department, as many in the agriculture department, 19 in women's affairs department and one in the judiciary.
The statistics, however, show over 1,000 women worked in state institutions, including the education sector, two years ago in Nimroz.
Two women represent the people of Nimroz in the Wolesi Jirga, as many in the provincial council and two work as attorney officers.
Malali Ahmadi, acting director of the Women Affairs Director, said the number of female employees in government offices had surged by two fold compared to last year and now women actively participated in political, economical, educational and cultural activities.
She said incapability of state institutions to absorb more employee, geographical location of Nimroz, decline in foreign assistance and other issues did not allow women to have a greater presence in state institutions, but the present scenario was also not bad.
She said her department often asked the private sector to give women chances to work specially in carpet industry.
Ahmadi believed more women would get chances of work if development projects were implemented and more positions created in state institutions.
Women's interest to work in government departments:
Farida Hameedi, a lawmaker from Nimroz province, said Nimroz women were interested to work in every sector, but there was the need for capacity building and awareness programmes regarding their due rights.
"Today women have been defending their rights in a best manner compared to the past and they have realized the fact that women should work alongside men for the economic development of their families."
She said there were more educated women in Nimroz who wanted to work alongside their brothers without any kind of discrimination.
Ferishta, a teacher at Farkhi High School in Zaranj, the provincial capital, said women were more interested to work government and private organizations.
In the past, most families considered it a shame to allow their daughters to work at government offices, but thanks to awareness programs, families and women came to know about the crucial role women could play in economic development of their families.
She added a large number of women worked as teachers at schools and their families had no problem with them. "Many families want their female members to work, but traditional norms a hurdle."
But Gul Ahmad, a resident of Zaranj whose wife is a teacher and his daughter works at a government office, believed women could work in government offices by wearing Islamic hijab. "The purpose of women work is to serve the people and women do it effectively," he added.
Naseema, another dweller of Zaranj, said she had been working at a government office for the past two years. He said the women of Nimroz were more interested to work in government offices for two reasons.
"The first reason is to improve economic situation of their families and secondly to share their problems with female colleagues."
She said growing unemployment among men forced women to take the responsibility of providing alimony to their families.
However, a large number of girls and women with higher education degrees and work experience are seeking jobs in government offices in Nimroz.
Samira, who graduated from a high school two years ago, said she could not continue her higher studies due to her economic problems but she had high interest to work outside.
"I am searching for a job, I want to be employed at least as a school teacher, but I could not elicit any hopeful response despite knocking at many doors," she said.
She said hundreds of girls and women were jobless in Nimroz but no one paid attention to them.
Provincial council members recalled thousands of Nimroz women braved threats and problems to play their role in past elections.
Massoud Hakimi, a provincial council member, said women of the province always stood alongside their men in most of livelihood activities and a percentage of employment had to be reserved for women.
"The government should create jobs for Nimroz women because most of the women here are interested in work outside home and some have lost their husbands and need support for their children," he said.
He said he would work with the local government to increase job opportunities for women in Nimroz.
Women's presence is on the rise in Nimroz government offices
Civil society activists say Nimroz for being away from the central capital Kabul has been paid little attention with regard to women's capacity building, but the number of female workers in government offices is on the increase.
Abdul Hadi Baidar, a civil society activist, said public awareness programs helped increase women's participation in government offices. Poverty and joblessness among men were other factors behind women's increased presence in government offices, he added.
"Women form half of the society and their presence is essential in all organs, particularly in education and information and culture departments and judiciary organs," he said.
However, another civil society activist, Shah Gul Gulzar, criticized local government for failing to provide job opportunities to women who she said performed heavy household tasks.
"A large number of women are suffering from poverty, so they should be paid attention, this issue has been shared with relevant organs several times, but no action has so far been taken," she said.
Former provincial women's affairs director, Amina Hakimi, said women's employment was paid less attention, but the women did not stay silent as they ran more than 200 beauty shops and 150 other women received hairdressing training in recent years in Nimroz.
Local government's performance in building women's capacity
Nimroz Governor Mohammad Samay, who took over two years ago, said he had tried to increase women's participation in government organs.
"I invited women in all my general meetings to work alongside their brothers, we also hold meetings on weekly basis for discussing women's problems in the governor's house," he said.
He said a woman was introduced as a prosecutor to the provincial attorney office for the first time and the number of women officers was increased in government offices, particularly in the education department over the last two years.
"Women have an active role in the decision making on issues on provincial level and their suggestions and views are considered", he said.
Samay said more than 500 women received training and needed equipment in building gardens at homes. Another 500 women received baby chickens, equipment and food to raise them for their economic improvement, he concluded.
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DOE and Partners to Host Webinar April 4: Fuel Cells for Supermarkets
March 29, 2011
The U.S. Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Program will host a webinar with the Clean Energy States Alliance and the Technology Transition Corp. titled "Fuel Cells for Supermarkets" on Monday, April 4, from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. Eastern. The webinar will focus on the use of fuel cells by supermarkets and will detail the experiences that supermarkets in four different states have had with stationary fuel cells. According to UTC Power, a 400 kW fuel cell at Price Chopper in Albany, New York meets 85% of the supermarket's energy needs, reduces the building's carbon footprint by 71 tons, provides reliable energy for perishable items, and saves more than 4 million gallons of water each year.
The webinar will also explore the reasons why supermarkets are an especially attractive venue for fuel cells. Using fuel cells as a combined heat and power application allows supermarkets to not only power lighting, refrigeration cases, freezers, and air conditioners, but also allows operators to use the thermal energy for cooling, space heating, snow and ice melting, and desiccant dehumidification. Having a reliable supply of electric power is critical to supermarkets because their refrigerated inventory needs constant cooling, and downtime due to power outages affects sales revenue.
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The Power of Microbusiness
April 30, 2012
Shannon Maynard is the Director of Grameen Foundation's skilled volunteer program, Bankers without Borders®. Maynard has more than 15 years of experience in nonprofit management and volunteer mobilization. Before joining Grameen Foundation, she served as Executive Director of the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation, and managed strategic initiatives for federal agency the Corporation for National and Community Service. One of the books that has been on my reading list for a while but I haven't gotten to yet is The Coming Jobs War, by Gallup CEO Jim Clifton. As a busy working mom, I've read reviews and excerpts, and have promised myself to read the entire book by the end of the summer. I do know that the premise of the book, which is based on the findings of Gallup's World Poll, is that what people in the world want most is a good job. Here in the United States that typically translates to a formal job and steady paycheck. In the developing world that includes informal jobs, but the message is the same – people want steady, reliable pay in return for a hard day's work. Clifton argues that over the course of the next 30 years, economic force will trump political and military force in terms of determining which countries have power and influence and which do not. The top U.S. cabinet position will be the Secretary of Job Creation – not the Secretary of State or Defense.


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The 10 Healthiest Vegetables To Support Natural Detoxification, Fight Cancer & Boost Immunity
Megan Fahey, MS, RD, CDN is a Registered Dietitian, Functional Medicine Nutritionist and Registered Yoga Teacher. She holds her Masters of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics from Bastyr University, where she was trained to artfully blend eastern and western healing modalities.
Vegetables are one of the most important food groups to focus on. After all, they provide us with essential vitamins and minerals, phytochemicals with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, and fiber that keeps us full and simultaneously feeds our healthy gut bacteria—which, in turn, helps regulate our immunity, digestion, and mental health. Plus, researchers say that there are likely countless beneficial micronutrients in vegetables that we haven't even identified yet!
Cleary, we're passionate about veggies—and you probably are, too.
But of all the choices out there, from carrots to kale and everything in between, which vegetables pack the most powerful punch for overall health? Obviously, white potatoes aren't equal to kale, but what other factors—besides knowing that green is generally better than beige—are important to consider when you really want to up the ante on your nutrient intake?
Knowing which plants to prioritize can go a long way in boosting your health while eliminating that all too common choice paralysis you experience in the produce section of Whole Foods. That's why we asked two of our favorite nutrition experts to reveal their desert island veggies—aka, the ones that are nutritious, delicious, and pack a little something extra—and offer guidance on what qualities make a vegetable really healthy in the first place.
What makes a vegetable extra healthy?
Before we dive into our list of healthiest vegetables, it's important to have a rough understanding of what makes a particular veggie a standout choice. So we asked Jessica Cording, M.S., R.D., CDN, registered dietitian and health coach, for some perspective:
"I tend to think all vegetables are great and that variety helps us cover more bases, nutritionally," says Cording. "But if you have to keep it to just a few, then going for nutrient density is a good guide. Look for high-fiber choices packed with lots of vitamins and minerals, plus antioxidant benefits."
One way to ensure you're getting a decent amount of antioxidants is by opting for deeply hued picks. Think: dark green, bright orange and red, deep purple. Organic vegetables have also been shown to contain, on average, 20 to 40 percent more antioxidants than their conventionally grown counterparts—so if you do opt for organic, any of the choices below will be even healthier.
All veggies lose nutrients over time, too, so it's important to eat them while they're fresh. Buying locally grown vegetables from a farmers market or food co-op is great for this reason but not essential.
10 of the healthiest vegetables you can eat.
Even with the guidelines above, we wanted the experts to help us identify which vegetables really go above and beyond, based on their nutrient profile and the latest research. So we asked Cording, along with fitness and nutrition expert JJ Virgin, CNS, CFHS, to share some top picks that would make it onto their healthiest vegetables list.
Here, learn about 10 of the healthiest vegetables you can eat to beat inflammation, fight free radicals, detox your body, and more. Plus, how to make them taste great!
1. Dark leafy greens
Don't underestimate the power of a loaded mixed greens salad. Dark leafy greens like kale, spinach, arugula, mustard greens, and Swiss chard are packed with a variety of antioxidants, including carotenoids, which have been shown to inhibit the growth of various cancers, improve eye and skin health, and reduce inflammation.
Of course, you can't go wrong with any dark leafy green, but Cording's absolute favorites from a nutrient-packed perspective are kale and spinach.
"Just a serving of spinach provides more than half of your vitamin A needs, and it's also a good source of vitamin K, folate, magnesium, and the antioxidants beta-carotene and lutein," says Cording. "It also provides fiber and even 3 grams of protein per serving."
Kale offers much of the same leafy green goodness as spinach—"lots of vitamins A, C, and K; plus B-vitamins, potassium, calcium, copper, and more," says Cording. "It's also noted for its antioxidant benefit and has been studied for its impact on heart health, blood pressure, and blood sugar."
Pro tip: Cooking kale and spinach is a great way to boost the bioavailability of its bone-strengthening calcium.
Try it: There are so many ways to enjoy dark leafy greens—this recipe roundup includes soups, smoothies, tacos, and more.
2. Broccoli + broccoli sprouts
"Broccoli is an antioxidant-rich cruciferous vegetable that may protect against cancer," says Cording. Cruciferous veggies contain sulfur-containing phytochemicals called glucosinolates (and their by-product sulforaphane).
These sulfur-containing compounds are protective against cancer, anti-inflammatory, and help the body remove toxins through natural detoxification processes of the liver. Research supports that intake of cruciferous vegetables may be cancer protective, with one study showing a correlation with reduced risk of breast cancer. And another study found that a drink made with broccoli sprouts activated enzymes in the body that picked up pollutants from the bloodstream and flushed them out via urine.
Virgin loves broccoli too, as it contains lots of vitamins C and K, and minerals like potassium and manganese, which together make broccoli a potent food for boosting bone and heart health, and improving overall immune function.
Try it: Consider this roasted broccoli dip your guilt-free, cancer-fighting alternative to spinach and artichoke.
3. Brussels sprouts
"Brussels sprouts are another cruciferous vegetable, and they offer many of the same benefits as broccoli, plus they contain the antioxidant kaempferol, which has been shown to help counteract cell damage that can lead to cancer," says Cording. "It's also an approachable 'gateway' vegetable for skeptics when it's roasted until crispy."
In addition to helping us ward off cancer, Brussels sprouts are chock-full of vitamins, minerals, and fiber. They're particularly high in vitamins A, C, and K, as well as potassium and folate, which makes them a great pick for supporting overall immunity and blood and bone health.
Not only do their antioxidants play a pivotal role in keeping you healthy, but Brussels sprouts provide 3 grams of fiber per cup serving, which can help you feel more satiated after a meal.
Try it: This simple but delicious recipe for Brussels sprouts with lemon and ginger will leave you craving even more cruciferous veggies.
4. Asparagus
Sure, asparagus might make your pee smell, but we promise it's worth it! "Asparagus is rich in folate as well as vitamin K, selenium, and B vitamins like thiamin and riboflavin," says Cording. "It also has been noted for its potential to help support the liver's natural detoxification process."
In fact, asparagus is one of the few dietary sources of glutathione, an antioxidant concentrated in the liver that helps bind toxins and escort them out of the body via urine or bile. Sufficient levels of glutathione in the body also help maintain energy, reduces muscle pain, improves sleep quality, and boosts immune function. (Other foods containing glutathione in include raw spinach and avocado.)
Try it: This asparagus and quinoa bowl is the perfect happy desk lunch—and will totally make your co-workers jealous.
5. Red cabbage
Remember how we said deeply hued veggies were typically a great pick? Red (or purple) cabbage is a prime example. In addition to being a good source of vitamin C and fiber, red cabbage contains anthocyanins. "These pigments are powerful antioxidants," says Cording.
Anthocyanins, a type of flavonoid antioxidant, are found in many foods and plants that appear dark red, purple, or blue in color. They possess powerful anti-inflammatory properties and have been shown to boost heart and brain health, likely due to their ability to combat oxidative stress. Research has shown that anthocyanins help improve memory and cognition as well as lowering cholesterol.
Virgin loves cabbage because it's also "rich in naturally detoxifying sulfur," as it's part of the cruciferous vegetable family.
Try it: This cleansing cabbage and chickpea salad is the most delicious way to detox after a period of overindulgence.
6. Sea vegetables
Are sea veggies the new kale? We think so...even though we'll never give up kale.
Although you probably don't even think to eat them, seaweed (nori, kombu, wakame, kelp, dulse, etc.) and other sea veggies such as chlorella (a type of algae) are some of the most nutrient-dense foods you can give to your body.
"Seaweed is a nutrient-rich sea vegetable that provides a wide range of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants—including some that are difficult to find in other foods," says Cording. For example, it's a great source of iodine, which helps regulate the thyroid hormones. Just be mindful not to overdo it, advises Cording, as too much iodine can actually have negative effects on thyroid health. It's all about balance!
Chlorella (which you can find as a powdered supplement) is a powerful chelator, which means it can bind to and remove heavy metals and other toxins that might otherwise tax your liver. One lab study showed that it can absorb 40 percent of the heavy metals in a test solution within seven days, while animal studies show that it helps remove toxins like mercury from the body.
Try it: This wakame and shaved Brussels sprout salad is a perfect introductory sea veggie dish.
7. Butternut squash
You can think of butternut squash as an alternative to sweet potatoes (although, we really love those too!), while containing many of the same powerful nutrients. Butternut squash is a great source of magnesium and potassium, which makes it a top choice for maintaining healthy blood pressure, blood sugar, and a stable mood.
This hearty fall favorite also makes the cut because "it contains a hefty dose of beta-carotene (a precursor to vitamin A) to support immunity and possibly reduce cancer risk," says Virgin. Research shows that beta-carotene, an antioxidant plant pigment, can also literally give your skin a natural glow and protect against damaging UV rays (but, don't skip the sun screen!).
Try it: This butternut squash and black bean chili packs loads of spices, garlic, and onions for an added micronutrient boost. Or go for our healthy spin on butternut squash soup.
8. Garlic
"Garlic gets forgotten about sometimes, but this vegetable has been used medicinally for thousands of years and has been studied extensively for its benefit to heart health, cancer risk, and immune system function," says Cording.
Garlic—along with onion, leeks, chives, and scallions—is part of the allium vegetable family, known for its health-boosting organosulfur compounds, including allicin and diallyl sulfides. These compounds are largely credited for garlic's ability to help reduce cancer risk, reduce blood pressure, lower cholesterol, lower oxidative stress, and help protect against stroke and cardiovascular disease.
Garlic also has antimicrobial properties, making it a potent cold- and flu-fighter, and it's been shown to increase our body's supply of glutathione, a natural detoxifier.
Try it: This 3-ingredient garlic toast recipe is the perfect way to reap garlic's immune-boosting perks. It has you chop the garlic and allow it to rest for 20 minutes—key for activating allicin.
9. Red onion
"Onions, like garlic, aren't always top of mind when we think of vegetables, but they are a food source of prebiotic fibers to nourish probiotic bacteria in the gut and have been studied for their potential to help fight disease," says Cording.
Virgin loves them, too, in part because they're a rich source of quercetin, a flavonoid antioxidant that's also a natural antihistamine. Antihistamines are commonly used to treat allergies, so red onions are a worthy salad ingredient for anyone suffering from hay fever. Bonus: Heating onions doesn't seem to lower their quercetin content.
Like so many items on this list, eating red onions has also been associated with a reduced risk of several types of cancer, including stomach cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, and prostate cancer. Raw red onion has also been linked to lower cholesterol levels among women with PCOS who are overweight or obese.
Try it: This refreshing corn and mango slaw contains raw red onion and tastes like summer in a bowl.
10. Chili + cayenne peppers
Strong flavors often mean big health benefits—and spicy peppers are no exception. "Chili peppers contain capsaicin, a compound that has been shown to have many health benefits, such as mild metabolic rate increase, lowering blood pressure, and even protecting against some cancer," says Cording.
If you're looking to control cravings and portions, consider adding a sprinkle of cayenne pepper, chili powder, or chopped-up chili peppers to your next omelet: In one study, participants who ate a breakfast that included a serving of capsaicin-containing red-pepper powder were less likely to snack or even feel hungry before lunchtime.
Capsaicin is also a potent antioxidant, and some lab studies have shown that it has the ability to kill prostate cancer cells.
Try it: There are big flavors all around in this Caribbean-inspired chickpeas with cilantro and coconut recipe, featuring two chopped red chili peppers.
Vegetables are probably already a part of your daily diet, but there's no reason you shouldn't be working to maximize the health benefits you get from the veggies you eat. When you know which vegetables pack the biggest health-boosting punch, you can make more efficient and informed choices about the food you choose to fuel your body.
Next time you sit down for a meal planning session, keep this list close at hand. Your body will thank you.
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The emphasis in the current selection of recent doctoral disserta-tions is on the birth of certain types of trade and the effects of the environment on the way in which these industries developed.
Our first contrast focused on the differences between fur trading in Russia and Canada. In medieval Russia, competition was fierce between political forces in different geographical areas. In Canada, on the other hand, two competitors wrestled for control over com-mon grounds. We move on a little later in time to investigate the growth of the Brazilian economy. Sweigart's dissertation is an in-depth study of a particular industry, coffee export. Reiss, on the other hand, has a more general concern: the characteristics of national industry development when industrial growth comes late in a nation's life. We close with a look at the introduction of indus-try into North America. Here, we find the national character of the proud egalitarian to be a driving force in the birth of the American labor movement.
Treasure of the Land of Darkness: A Study of the Fur Trade and its Significance for Medieval Russia (X-XVI Centuries) (The Univer-sity of Chicago, 1980; 41/07, p. 3214-A)1 by Janet L. B. Martin. Dur-ing the medieval period, the northern fur trade was an important element in the political and economic development of the Russian and mid-Volga principalities. Little has hitherto been known about its operations however. Starting with the first available records from the tenth century, this dissertation traces the growth of the system and the patterns of trade over a 600 year period, until Muscovy monopolized political power and incorporated the major suppliers and fur centers into its boundaries.
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Three New Buzz-Worthy Restaurants Just Opened in Honolulu: Ko, Rinka, Chef Chai's
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Restaurant Ko interior
Three just-opened restaurants generating some buzz:
Restaurant Ko took over garlic restaurant Ninnikuya's homey space and updated it so that it now resembles the bright white lobby bar at The Modern. In the evening, only two prix-fixe menus are offered ($40 and $55), but after 10 p.m., items such as squid tempura, hamachi kama, and salmon and ikura kamameshi (warm, mixed rice bowls) are available a la carte.
3196 Waialae Ave., (808) 888-5975
Rinka, with its very subtle entrance on Makaloa St., quietly opened last Friday. There's an extensive menu including a savory lotus manju, Japanese croquette with abalone, served in the shell, hot pot and nabe. Daily specials might include abalone simmered with daikon, spinach soup topped with gold flakes, and straight-from-Tsukiji otoro.
1500 Kapiolani Blvd., (808) 799-8893
Chai Chaowasaree closed Chai's Island Bistro at the end of last year and will officially open Chef Chai in the Pacifica Honolulu Tower this weekend. With his goal of serving healthier food, the menu is seafood heavy with options such as braised whole rainbow trout and grilled mahi with Thai red curry sauce. Vegetarian dishes include house made soft tofu with shiitake mushrooms in a coconut ginger broth and a number of stir fries. Everything can be prepared gluten-free. It seems that this block of Kapiolani, with Blue Tree Cafe and Greens and Vines, is becoming one of Honolulu's most health-conscious.
1009 Kapiolani Blvd., Pacifica Honolulu Tower, (808) 585-0011, chefchai.com
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Employers often use tests and other selection procedures to screen applicants for hire and employees for promotion. There are many different types of tests and selection procedures, including cognitive tests, personality tests, medical examinations, credit checks, and criminal background checks.
The use of tests and other selection procedures can be a very effective means of determining which applicants or employees are most qualified for a particular job. However, use of these tools can violate the federal anti-discrimination laws if an employer intentionally uses them to discriminate based on race, color, sex, national origin, religion, disability, or age (40 or older). Use of tests and other selection procedures can also violate the federal anti-discrimination laws if they disproportionately exclude people in a particular group by race, sex, or another covered basis, unless the employer can justify the test or procedure under the law.
On May 16, 2007, the EEOC held a public meeting on Employment Testing and Screening. Witnesses addressed legal issues related to the use of employment tests and other selection procedures. (To see the testimony of these witnesses, please see the EEOC's website at http://eeoc.gov/eeoc/meetings/archive/5-16-07/index.html .)
This fact sheet provides technical assistance on some common issues relating to the federal anti-discrimination laws and the use of tests and other selection procedures in the employment process.
Examples of employment tests and other selection procedures, many of which can be administered online, include the following:
Disparate impact cases typically involve the following issues:
See 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2 (k). This method of analysis is consistent with the seminal Supreme Court decision about disparate impact discrimination, Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 401 U.S. 424 (1971).
A number of recent EEOC enforcement actions illustrating basic EEO principles focus on testing.
1The Departments of Labor and Justice and the Office of Personnel Management (then called the Civil Service Commission) issued UGESP along with the EEOC.
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In December 1957, only two months after the Soviets launched Sputnik, Look magazine presented a timetable predicting the future of American space travel. "If you have a life expectancy covering the remainder of the 20th century, you will live to see man land on the moon," it stated confidently. At the time, the U.S. space program had yet to successfully launch a satellite of its own. Perhaps as a result, Look's timeline was surprisingly cautious.
PILOTED SATELLITE will mark man's first venture into outer space . . . It will come only after long experience with unmanned satellites. Best-informed opinion places the date with the decade 1970 to 1980. Later, manned satellites may be used as "space platforms." Moon rockets could be assembled and launched from such space laboratories. A TRIP AROUND THE MOON in a rocket ship launched either from a space platform or from the earth's surface (depending on technological developments) will be the next step. . . Experts believe that will come in the decade 1980-1990. A LANDING ON THE MOON . . . man's goal for as long as he has had the imagination to think about it, will be made in the last decade of this century. Travel to all these planets will come, but probably not within the lifetime of anyone now alive.
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I have been derailed the last 2 days with what I think is an allergy attack on steroids. I can not quit coughing and the coughing has rendered me without a voice (my kids are thrilled!) and with a giant headache. So, since I can't come up with a very coherent thought through the antihistamine induce stupor, I'm just going to share a few pictures I stumbled upon from my pre-blogging days.
These are from when Noah was about 3 months old. Sadie treated him just like a little baby doll. She set up this scene and then begged us to take a picture of it. Incidentally, these remind me of the scene from ET when ET is in the closet and blends in with all the stuffed animals! Have a wonderful weekend!
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