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What's In Your "Junk" Collection?
February 19th, 2009 12:49 pm | by Ed |
Everybody's got a "junk" collection. Look in any kitchen and more than likely you'll find at least one drawer or shelf that's used as a place to store all kinds of miscellaneous stuff that tends to collect over the years. In it you'll find different kinds of batteries, screws, nuts & bolts, a few odd tools such as screwdrivers, pliers & such. Odd kitchen utensils that are rarely if ever used and so on.
However if there's anyone in the house that's tech / computer oriented you'll find another, somewhat more exotic junk collection.
My own "junk" collection has grown enough over the years that it doesn't all fit in one spot and so parts of it are all over the place. In my center desk drawer for example, I've got all kinds of misc bits of paper.. old wally world receipts, batteries (some ni-cad, some alkaline, and at least two of the lithium "watch battery" types that are used to power the CMOS memory on a motherboard), I've got about a dozen sticks of computer memory ranging from some notebook computer memory that I bought by accident because I didn't see the "S" in the part number, some pc-133 memory, a bunch of 16MB 72pin SIMMS, a couple of 4MB 72pin SIMMs and assorted small tools.
Then in another drawer I have a collection of computer power cords, three old motherboards (only one of which still works), a variety of PCI cards and several old boxes of 3.5 inch disks.
In the closet is even more stuff, jars of various kinds of screws used for mounting motherboards, floppy drives, hard drives, CD Rom drives, a couple of AT power supplies, an old AT form factor computer case and two boxes of 5.25 inch floppies.
In a storage shed I've got an entire Tandy Color Computer 3 system (that still works!) including a monitor and several external disk drives (external was the only kind that computer ever had. It didn't come with disk drives originally), one of which is an old 720K DSDD 5.25 inch drive that can still read the disks I have in the closet inside.
Who knows what I'll have in the "junk" collection in 20 years? At the very least, it ought to be an interesting collection.
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South Korean won
Worldwide use:
- South Korea
The Won or ₩ is the official currency of South Korea (more formally known as The Democratic People's Republic of Korea). One Won is made up of 100 Jeon (전). The South Korean government only authorizes The Bank of Korea to print banknotes and mint coins via KOMSCO (Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation) a government-owned corporation. Unlike most of the world's currencies, South Korea currently only has 3 banknotes in circulation 1000, 5000 and 10000 Won. Coins are in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 and 500 Won. From the Won's reintroduction in 1962 it was pegged against the US dollar, until it was floated in 1997 following the Asian financial crisis.
The word Won derives from the Chinese word Yuan and the Japanese word Yen which means round shape. Instead of showing the year of a particular series, South Korean Won banknotes are identified by a letter from the Korean alphabet.
After the Korean Won was re-introduced to South Korea in 1945 it suffered from massive devaluation. Initially exchanging at 15 Won to 1 Dollar, by 1953 it had devalued to 6000 Won to 1 Dollar. To combat this the Korean government introduced the Hwan to replace the Won at an exchange rate of 1 Won to 100 Hwan. In 1962 the Won was once more re-introduced pegged against the US Dollar existing alongside the Hwan. On 22nd March 1975 the Won become the sole legal tender of South Korea, it remained pegged against the US Dollar until 1997 when it was allowed to float.
Component units:
- Jeon (100)
Date introduced:
- Originally introduced in 1902 - 1910. Re-introduced in 1945
Central bank:
- Bank of Korea
- KOMSCO - Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation
- KOMSCO - Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation

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This ingenious utensil is the creation of Tom Littledeer, an inventor and master woodworker whose efficient kitchen tools echo the simple, graceful shapes of his world-renowned canoe paddles. The handcrafted wooden turning oar is perfect for lifting and turning baked goods—or use it for pan-frying and stir-frying.
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Physics of Complex Fluids
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University of Twente
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The Netherlands
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Phone: +31 (0)53 489 2594
You can find us in the Meander (27) on the university campus, the entrance is at the Horst Tower (20). The closest parking place is located at P3.
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On July 11, 1826, English agricultural engineer John Fowler was born. He was a pioneer in the use of steam engines for ploughing and digging drainage channels. His inventions significantly reduced the cost of ploughing farmland, and also enabled the drainage of previously uncultivated land in many parts of the world.
John Fowler was the son of a wealthy Quaker merchant and followed his father's wishes to work for a local corn merchant after school. However, around 1847, Fowler is believed to have joined the engineering firm of Gilkes Wilson and Company of Middlesbrough. The company was involved in building steam locomotives and colliery winding engines. During a visit in Irland around 1849, Fowler noticed that the Irish agriculture depended on the potato crop whilst much of the land was uncultivated due to poor drainage and he was quickly convinced that there must be a way of bringing more land into production. After returning to England, Fowler proceeded to develop a horse-powered ploughing engine that would dig drainage channels.
John Fowler managed to demonstrate his engine at a meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England at Exeter in 1850 and his invention was awarded a silver medal and was reported as "altogether the most important feature of the exhibition". After some further development, Fowler changed his design so that the horse engine remained stationary at the corner of the field. The team of horses drove a vertical winch around which a rope was wound. He demonstrated the improvement at the Great Exhibition in 1851 and at the Royal Agricultural Society of England meeting at Gloucester two years later.[3]
After a while, Fowler wanted to apply steam engines on his drainage plough. In 1852, he designed a steam engine with a winch mounted out in front of the smoke box and a rope running from it, round a pulley anchored at the far side of the field and back to the engine. The engine pulled itself across the field, dragging the mole plough behind it. Unfortunately, the experiment failed because the engine was too heavy. However, he received his patent for "Improvements in Machinery for draining land" which is believed to be one of the first patents for the use of steam power in agriculture. Fowler's second horse-driven plough consisted of a steam engine placed in a corner of the field driving a winch. A rope led from the winch along the side of the field, around a securely anchored pulley and across the field to the mole plough. As the winch drew in the rope the mole plough was drawn across the field digging a drainage channel as it went. The steam plough was demonstrated at the Royal Agricultural Society of England meeting at Lincoln in 1854.
In order to make the steam engine work for regular ploughing, Fowler had to make sure to build a plough that could plough in either direction without having to be turned round. At the first trial, at Nacton one acre was ploughed in an hour. After further improvements, Fowler's work was presented to the Royal Agricultural Society of England and became a good success in the following years. Between 1850 and 1864 Fowler took out in his own name and in partnership with other persons thirty-two patents for ploughs and ploughing apparatus, reaping machines, seed drills, traction engines, slide valves, the laying of electric telegraph cables, and the making of bricks and tiles.
In 1862, John Fowler formed a partnership with the firm of Kitson and Hewitson of Leeds and they founded Hewitson and Fowler based at Hunslet. After the death of Hewitson, the firm became 'John Fowler and Company'. Fowler's ploughing sets were sold all over the world and were responsible for bringing land into production that was previously unable to be cultivated.
Fowler had worked so hard in developing his ideas that he had undermined his health. He was advised to take more rest and so he retired to Ackworth in Yorkshire, to recuperate. He was persuaded to take up hunting as a way of getting exercise and whilst out with the hunt he had a fall and sustained a compound fracture of his arm. Whilst recovering from this mishap, he developed tetanus and died on 4 December 1864, at age 38 only.
References and Further Reading:
- [1] John Fowler at Today in Science
- [2] John Fowler at The Farmers Magazine by James Ridgeway
- [3] The Great Exhibition and the Crystal Palace, SciHi Blog
- [4] John Fowler at Wikidata


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Remote Telemetry / Communications - Soil and Groundwater
GOES.hopper is a fully turnkey GOES satellite-based communication solution for new or existing monitoring stations with SDI sensors. Now you can get groundwater data to your desktop, reducing manpower and site visits.
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Programmatic 101: What You Need to Know
Last week the IAB UK revealed that over half of all brands are buying mobile inventory using programmatic media buying technologies, but less than half (45 per cent) understand how the technology actually works. Online advertisers spend billions of pounds on programmatic advertising every year, but it seems they understand very little about the programmatic buying process.
Not too long ago, search engine marketing was an "experimental" marketing channel that only a handful of companies were willing to test out with spare marketing budget. However, somewhere around 2007, search became a primary source of revenue for most online businesses and the introduction of Product Listing Ads moved search marketing to the forefront of their online marketing strategy. Today, you'd never meet an e-Commerce company who isn't deeply invested in their search strategy.
In the same way that search marketing skyrocketed to the top of every online marketer's priority list, we are now on the cusp of a programmatic revolution. However, many retail brands remain at arm's length from their programmatic ad strategy, with only a partial understanding of the data that is powering their campaigns. As we enter a major turning point in the world of digital marketing, e-Commerce brands need to understand exactly the why, what and how to programmatic.
Why is "programmatic" so confusing?
Programmatic advertising is simply the automated process of buying and serving of targeted ads, using data-driven systems. The ultimate goal is for the advertiser to reach the perfect shopper, at the right place, at the right time and with the right message.
The programmatic industry is constantly growing and evolving and with it, a slew of confusing advertising tech jargon has emerged and 'Programmatic Advertising' has become a catch all phrase for a few different concepts:
'Real-time bidding: the auction-based system whereby a data-driven software systems bids on advertisements in real-time.
'Retargeting': using a pixel or cookie to "follow" someone who visited your site with ads to bring them back (very common in e-Commerce).
'Programmatic direct' when a buyer negotiates an ad buy upfront, usually for a set price, but executes the deal with programmatic technology.
The new path to purchase
In the retail world, the path to purchase is becoming increasingly complex, but marketers are now acknowledging the many touch points present in the path to purchase, each of which have their own contributing effect on the consumer's decision to buy.
However, this process is extremely hard to measure. That is why most major retailers manage their programmatic advertising work with agencies, as they are equipped with the right software, data and experience to provide results without the overhead.
That being said, it's still crucial that e-Commerce brands understand the data that is powering their programmatic campaigns and whilst for some, search marketing has become part of the company's marketing DNA, many advertisers are comparatively lagging when it comes to incorporating programmatic into their marketing strategy.
The areas that retailers need to ensure they give enough attention to are:
First-Party Data
Many retail brands recognise the importance of their first party data, but they fail to make the most of it. Your most powerful data is often your own—and best of all, it's free.
Retailers should be proactive about aligning their marketing teams around data and programmatic initiatives. Consider creating a Data Task Force responsible for locating and consolidating your data stores—such as CRM data, browsing data, email segments, app downloads, conversion data, rewards members etc.—into a DMP so that your agencies and partners are able to utilise it in real-time.
The more your agency knows about your own shoppers and buyers, the more effectively they can retarget them and model new audiences off your most engaged customers. Work with your agency to determine what first-party data is most useful to them.
New or Third Party Data
Most likely, the agency or partner that manages your programmatic media is modelling or purchasing audience data to power their advertising efforts.
If they have a limited amount of data and need to broaden the reach of your campaign, they may "model" an audience from your known buyers (your first-party data). This means that they will find other shoppers with similar attributes or behaviours to people who have purchased from you before.
Modelled audiences are great for targeting shoppers who have not considered you before, but are (hopefully) likely to do so. However, if your goal is to hit shoppers who have previously expressed interest in purchasing a product, then you may want to focus on observed audiences, who consist of people who have actually engaged with a product page or purchased a specific item before.
Another way to think about this data is by looking at shopper interest vs. intent. Interest data may reveal that John read an article about "The Best Golf Clubs of 2015," but intent data shows that John was shopping for Irons and Drivers this morning.
These distinctions may not be immediately obvious on the platforms where data is bought and sold; it's important that you ask your agency to elaborate what kind of data they are using, and ensure that it's aligned with your online marketing goals.
In summary: the 5 simple questions to ask your agency
- Source: Where is this data from?
- Recency: How often the data sources are updated? Monthly? Weekly? In real-time?
- Uniqueness: How much of this data overlaps with other data sets available?
- Modeled vs. Observed: How much of this audience is modelled, and how much is based on observed shopping intent?
- Interest vs. Intent: Is this data based on consumer interest (i.e. reading relevant content) or purchase intent (i.e. browsing specific products).


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Five key steps to Java game development success
Java is an evergreen programming language that can be used to create different varieties web application, game application etc., the major advantages of Java programming language is that it can be simply used on multiple platforms. For e.g.; you can build your own Java game application on a windows machine and play the game on a Mac machine as long as it set up to run Java programs. Interested delegates who want to create game application using Java can learn Java Training in Chennai to become master in Java game supplication development industry.
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As you plan your next visits, a few notes about the facilities.
Oct. 17 The solar showers at the River Campground and 805 cabin will be shut down for the winter.
Oct. 24 The shower houses at the Star Field and Oak Ridge Campgrounds will be closed for winter. The water hydrants will remain open throughout the winter.
November/December ??? We will be burning our savannas and the trails will close for a few days after each burn.
December 3 and 4 is opening weekend for shotgun season for deer.
Star Field, Dipper Trails, Shooting Star, Pond Hopper, many of the equestrian trails and other trails will be closed for a hunt. (See map for details) Also, there will be increased hunting activity in other areas surrounding Whiterock so be sure to wear orange if you choose to visit this fall.


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I recently got the chance to visit the Moment Factory office here in Montreal. Their slogan being "We do it on the street", I must say I was a bit intrigued to say the least. Anyhow, thanks to a great student service counsellor from the CentreNAD (Thanks!), I got a chance to visit this awesome company that work in so many event and special occasions around the world.
In their Portfolio, you can find some of the most breathtaking special effects, lighting effects and all-round multimedia effects I've ever seen. They actually did the light show in Ottawa (the Parliament of Canada show named Mosaika which was a HUGE success. They also showed us some special lighting and processing they used in a Nine Inch Nails show in North and South America. This thing was incredible, they actually had a programs analyzing the movement of the musician on the stage and following them with the effects. The group was actually able to interact with the preset effects in real time just by standing there or moving to the side. They also played a lot with depth of field and perception tricks to do this thing.
On a more casual note, their offices were grandiose. Open space ? Check. Wide rooms with a lot of team work ? Check. Flexible assignment ? Check. Great general atmosphere ? Check. Stylish and current workspace ? Check. I am telling you, they had it all.
I am really looking forward to studying in the special effects field and doing stuff like this in the years to come.
Thanks again to the CentreNAD that enabled me this great visit of a company like no other.


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Prerequisite knowledge
Readers should have some experience with coding or managing a ColdFusion server.
Also, read Part 1 before reading Part 2.
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Adobe ColdFusion Enterprise Edition (2016 release) 8 (Download trial)
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8 October 2007
Part 1 of this four-part series introduced the Adobe Coldfusion 8 Server Monitor, with a focus on valuable features for CFML code development. In this second part, I'll focus on using the tool in production. The Server Monitor brings unique benefits and solutions to challenges related to performance and configuration. It's worth repeating: Whether you're a CFML developer or a ColdFusion Server administrator, you can find tremendous value from the new ColdFusion 8 Server Monitor. I hope to show you in this series that the Server Monitor (and its related features) is much more than just something to leave turned on in a network operations center to view availability charts and graphs. It provides unprecedented insight into underlying operations of the ColdFusion server.
In part 1, I introduced you to the Monitor, showing such basics as how to start the Monitor and how to use the Monitor interface. I also discussed the three Start buttons (monitoring, profiling, and memory tracking), and I made the very important point that you can get value from the Monitor even if you enable none of these buttons. Even so, each option enables additional functionality and information reported in the Monitor, and I highlighted several of the reports (and drill-downs and charts) that provide info that could help during CFML development, such as tracking shared scope memory utilization, slowest tags or function calls, largest variables in a request, JVM memory usage, cached queries, and finally large, slow, and frequent queries.
In this article, I'll introduce additional features of the Monitor, mostly focused on additional monitoring reports that can be especially valuable in managing a production ColdFusion environment. Finally, I'll discuss a powerful new ability to abort troublesome requests or threads to recoup valuable system resources.
Let me reiterate as well: The split of functionality I offer between development and production functionality in the Server Monitor is rather arbitrary, as features discussed here apply just as usefully to development, and vice versa. The next part of this series will cover additional features of value to production administrators: Alerts and Snapshots. The final part will cover the MultiServer Monitor and a few miscellaneous topics related to the Monitor.
Check out the other parts of the ColdFusion 8 server monitoring series:
If you're responsible for a production ColdFusion server, you're well aware of how various circumstances can negatively affect performance. These circumstances could include an increase in traffic (good news, which must be managed) or the adverse impact of a failure in some related service your ColdFusion application is calling upon, such as a database or a web service being called (bad news, which must be handled). The circumstances could also be due to problems with the configuration of your server (whether ColdFusion itself, the underlying JVM, or other related services like a database or the web server). The problem may also be caused by CFML coding practices, and in the previous article I showed how to use the Monitor to assist during development, giving developers more insight into the impact of their practices before code is deployed into production.
Still, if you fail to adequately load test your code in development (or better, against a testing server configured similarly to your production server and with a load commensurate with your real-world traffic), it's almost inevitable that problems will occur in the production environment that you never saw happen in development/test environments. This is where the Server Monitor provides a valuable weapon in your arsenal to find and defeat the traffic, configuration, or coding foes that may vex your server. First, let's look at a number of reports available in the Server Monitor that can help identify and analyze the cause of production performance or other problems.
Just as I showed you in part 1, some of the available reports (and charts) incur zero overhead, meaning you don't need to enable any of the three Start buttons atop the monitor, for monitoring, profiling, or memory tracking. I had discussed how the first two of these have relatively minor overhead, while the memory tracking option is quite intensive and really should be used only in development. But several reports work even if none of these are enabled, so they're effectively "free." There's absolutely no reason to fear using them in production, as they're simply reporting information already being gathered by ColdFusion 8, so let's take a look at them first.
I mentioned in part 1 that we finally have a "Query Cache Status" page, to give you insight into how many cached queries are in use (also as a zero-overhead report). I mentioned it in part 1 because developers could use it to determine how best to code their applications to use cached queries, though certainly administrators will want to monitor the report as well, to help configure the ColdFusion Administrator console setting for the "Maximum Number of Cached Queries" (see Figure 1).
Figure 1. ColdFusion Administrator Caching page
Along the same lines, another cache that's configurable on that same page is the "Maximum Number of Cached Templates." ColdFusion administrators have long struggled with conflicting recommendations about how best to set this value. We simply had no insight in ColdFusion MX as to how much of the template cache was really being used, nor, perhaps as important, how much memory was being used to hold those cached templates. The Server Monitor finally gives us that insight, via Statistics > Request Statistics > Template Cache Status (Figure 2), which provides both the count and the total size of the cache. Again, it comes with zero overhead.
Figure 2. Template Cache Status chart
Since ColdFusion 7, the Administrator console has offered a button to "Clear the Template Cache Now" (see bottom of Figure 1), and you can click it to see the impact on the Server Monitor report (there may be a slight delay in reporting the information). Of course, clearing the cache may be inappropriate to do in production, as it will force a recompile of all templates as they're next requested. My point here is that it simply demonstrates the connection between clearing the cache and the reporting on it.
(Here's a bonus tip: experienced administrators may be familiar with that button when using the Trusted Cache feature, also on that Admin console page. If they have some newly updated source code files to push to production, they could use the button to empty the template cache and force ColdFusion to force these (and all) templates to be reloaded/recompiled from disk. Some may know there is also an Admin API method call available to clear the template cache, but did you know that in ColdFusion 8 that method now takes an optional file name or list to clear one or more specific files rather than the entire cache? For more information on managing the template cache, refer to the ColdFusion 8 documentation on the CFIDE.adminapi.runtime.cfc and its
clearTrustedCache() method.)
I mentioned in part 1 that you can now view all currently active sessions through the Statistics > Request Statistics > Active Sessions report. The report even lets you drill down to each session to see the variables set in each session
But I neglected to mention a real hidden gem: this report also has a chart icon (the rightmost of the icons displayed at the top right of the report), which displays a chart of how many current sessions are active over time, which can be very helpful to a server administrator (see Figure 3).
Figure 3. Active Sessions chart
The chart is very useful, as it could help a production (or development) administrator detect when something is causing a very high number of sessions to be created. It's easy for folks to assume that the number created would be approximately similar to the number of users typically visiting the site, but there are requests that can create new sessions unexpectedly.
Consider this potentially dangerous situation, wherein you have code that's being visited heavily by any of several kinds of requests that are not typical users: search bots, RSS readers, scheduled tasks, web service calls, CFHTTP requests, load testing tools (with cookie support disabled) and so on. If any of these run code that creates sessions (meaning simply that the
SessionManagement attribute is set to "yes" in the
CFApplication tag or the Application.cfc), there's a potentially serious problem: These kind of requests don't typically remember any cookie you may have set on their first visit (like a regular browser would). As such, if they come back to get another page right away (or even in a few minutes), each visit will create a new session (and a new set of entries in the client variables repository if
ClientManagement="yes"). If such requests are made often within your session variable timeout timeframe, you'll likely find that there are many more sessions being created than you ever dreamed. This could be one explanation if your server's been running out of memory and dying, and this report helps spot such trouble.
Speaking of errors, the Monitor provides us with additional error information that was previously available only through the ColdFusion error logs. The Statistics > Errors > Requests with Errors report lists requests that have generated ColdFusion errors and provides detailed information about those errors (Figure 4). If you have enabled 'Profiling', you can see more about the line of code in error, how often the error has occurred and the full CFML stack trace that led to the error (see Figure 5). This is especially useful in production, where you often otherwise may have no idea that errors are happening (if you're not monitoring the logs), and with the additional information provided when profiling is enabled makes up considerably for the (typical) lack of debugging info in production.
Figure 4. Requests with Errors report
Figure 5. Error detail report
The information on this page also feeds a pod on the front Overview page. In the lower right (as shown in Figure 1 in part 1) is a Last Error pod.
Before moving on to other reports that are enabled using one of the Start buttons, I refer you again to Part 1 for a discussion of the (JVM) Memory Usage Summary, Application Scope Memory Usage, Server Scope Memory Usage, and Query Cache Status reports, all available with zero overhead.
Perhaps the most traditional measures of server performance are the average response time and requests per second being processed by the server. These are indeed the very first graphs shown on the front page of the Monitor (the Overview page). If you have "Start Monitoring" enabled, then those first two charts will be populated with a line graph depicting each of these vital statistics over time (Figure 6):
Figure 6. Overview page showing Avg Response Time and Requests Per Second
On my lightly loaded development system, the reports aren't terribly interesting, but in your production environment this information will be critical. (As on many reports in the Server Monitor, note the small icon to choose the reporting timeframe in the top right corner, where it's labeled "All Data" by default, as shown in the figure.)
Another classic monitoring report (available in similar monitoring tools) is one to show you all currently executing requests. You can get that in the Server Monitor with Statistics > Request Statistics > Active Requests. You will need to enable "Start Monitoring" to see any requests here. This information can be valuable in understanding why your server is not responding or responding poorly, as well as in helping configure ColdFusion's simultaneous request settings. Again, on my lightly loaded development system, it was even hard to catch a request in the act of being executed (as some would note ColdFusion 8 is so fast!), but see Figure 7:
Figure 7. Active Requests report
The line of information indicates the template file/path, as well as the type of request, the IP address, web server thread name, and time taken so far to complete the request. You can learn still more about the request by double-clicking to drill down on it. As I had mentioned in part 1 (about the Slowest Requests report, another useful report enabled by "start monitoring"), you can drill down into such request lines to see details of the variable values in all the scopes of the request (see Figure 3 of Part 1.) Note that this is without "start memory tracking."
There are also corresponding Active Threads and Slowest Active Threads reports, which show activity from threads generated by the new ColdFusion 8 tag,
CFThread. I think it's worth clarifying that the Slowest Requests and Slowest Threads reports do not reflect requests or threads that are currently running, but instead show statistics on completed threads. Finally, speaking of the "slowest active requests," I'll point out that there is also a pod on the Overview page that reflects this data as well, though note that it only shows those in a relatively brief recent timeframe, whereas the "slowest requests" report is much more comprehensive.
Before moving on, I also want to point out the small red "x" icon on Figure 7 (the Active Requests report), to the left of the request. That's a powerful feature enabling you to abort a request, which I'll discuss in the next to last section of this article.
Here's one more hidden gem: just as the Active Sessions report offers a chart button to view active sessions over time, so too does the Active Requests report (Figure 8). This is different, though. It's not really tracking currently "active" requests so much as it depicts how many (and of what type) were active at points of time in the past. The report also breaks down whether the requests were queued or running at the time. The "types" referred to are template requests, web service requests, flash remoting requests, and remote CFC requests (from a URL).
Note that this report, like all the charts shown so far, also has popup data: If you mouse over datapoints on the chart, it will show the values for that datapoint (the time and number of requests running or queued of the selected type). Since this report offers multiple series of data interleaved over top of each other, this pop up data may be more valuable here than in previous charts.
Figure 8. Chart of queued/running requests over time
This is another report that doesn't require any of the start buttons to be enabled.
Some may wonder if there is a report in the Server Monitor that simply shows a historical view of all past requests or threads (with their request URL, the time they executed, their duration, and so forth). There is not. The closest to that is the Slowest Requests report.
While we can't get historical detail about every request, it's usually more useful not to learn the details about every request but instead to focus on those requests that are the "heavy hitters." The Server Monitor steps up to the plate to provide two such reports.. The first report displays requests using up a lot of time (in terms of response time) over all the executions of that page in the life of the ColdFusion server: Statistics > Request Statistics > Cumulative Server Usage report (Figure 9).
Figure 9. Cumulative Server Usage report
From the screen itself, this report "lists requests that have cumulatively consumed the most server time. Cumulative server time is computed as the average response time for a request multiplied by its hit count. Even if a request executes rapidly, it may consume a high proportion of server time due to a high hit count." Remember Pareto's principle: You may find that 20% of requests use 80% of resources. Go attack these heavy hitters. Note that there is also a chart button to present a graphical depiction of the heaviest hitters by that measure.
Or, from a different perspective, you may care more about which requests simply have the highest hit count. That's available with Statistics > Request Statistics > Highest Hit count report (Figure 10).
Figure 10. Highest Hit Counts report
If you enabled "start memory tracking," the column on the "Average Request Size" column on the right of the report will be populated.
Also, this report has an available chart button, but like the Active Requests report, it doesn't really chart the same data as the report. It presents a cumulative chart tracking the percent of requests by type (again, template, flash remoting, web service, remote cfc, and adding gateway). Both the Cumulative Server Usage and Highest Hit Count reports require that "monitoring" be enabled.
So far, all these reports have been either "free" or needed only "start monitoring" enabled. Two more reports that may interest you in production require "profiling" to be enabled. In Part 1, I discussed three such database-oriented reports: Slowest Queries, Cached Queries, and Most Frequently Run Queries.
The final report I want to discuss is Statistics> Database> Active Queries report. Like the "Active Requests" report discussed above, it tracks queries that are currently executing (or maybe a better way to put it is: The queries ColdFusion is waiting for to be executed by the database.). Certainly, in a heavy production environment, this will be an essential report (along with the Slowest Queries" and "Most Frequently Run Queries"). Even when I've disabled caching in my application, ColdFusion and the database simply execute my queries too fast to ever show on the report, but I want to let you know it's there. Finally, there is also a Database Pool Status report (which requires no "start" buttons be enabled), for those interested in tracking database connection pool status and information.
I mentioned earlier regarding the Active Requests report that there was an option, to the left of a running request, to choose to abort it (see Figure 7). ColdFusion Administrators finally have the power (and commensurate responsibility) to be able to abort (or "kill") a running request. When a given request is inappropriately tying up resources, or a large number of them have caused the server to hit its maximum simultaneous requests limit (as defined in the ColdFusion Administrator) and they are taking a long time to process, the server may begin to respond very sluggishly or stop serving new requests at all. With the ability (using all the previously discussed reports) to target where problems may lie, you may decide it's time to take matters into your hands and abort a request manually.
You'll be prompted to confirm that you really want to abort the request. The request will be terminated and the user will be presented whatever portion of the request had been generated prior to the abort.
This is a major paradigm shift in how we manage ColdFusion servers. In previous versions, if the system lost resources or requests were infinitely paused, the only recourse was to restart the entire ColdFusion service. These service restarts take your application completely offline and users are inconvenienced by the loss of session data. The ColdFusion 8 Server Monitor provides system administrators with the information they need to pinpoint problems and target individual requests for possible termination. ColdFusion will regain the resources from the terminated request without affecting the overall application or experience of your users.
As powerful as this is, you may wonder if you have to baby sit the monitor to watch for and respond to such troublesome requests. No, you do not. In the next installment of the series, I'll show you the Alerts feature, which you can enable to watch for and detect various error situations (like too many hung threads, or requests taking too long), and, more than just send an alert, you can abort offending requests (and/or reject new ones, and more).
In this article, I've discussed features of the Monitor generally related to production monitoring, including more reports (both those with zero overhead and those that require the lightweight monitoring or profiling) and the ability to abort unresponsive or troublesome threads.
Where to go from here
As discussed in part 1, the Server Monitor provides online help and it's also documented in the ColdFusion 8 manual, Configuring and Administering ColdFusion.
In the next part of the series, I'll focus on various additional aspects of using the monitor in production, the very useful Alerts and Snapshots features (which help with off-line monitoring of your servers). In the fourth and final part, I'll conclude with discussions of the MultiServer monitor (key if you need to manage more than one server), the Admin API (enabling you to access all this monitoring data programmatically), and various Monitor configuration settings (including how better to monitor requests for frameworks or other front controllers where all requests go through a single index.cfm).
Check out the other parts of the ColdFusion 8 server monitoring series:


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This Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 photo made available by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission shows a giant eyeball from a mysterious sea creature that washed ashore and was found by a man walking the beach in Pompano Beach, Fla. on Wednesday. No one knows what species the huge blue eyeball came from. The eyeball will be sent to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg, FL. (AP Photo/Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Carli Segelson)
Giant eyeball on Fla. beach may be from swordfish
MIAMI (AP) — Researchers say the giant eyeball that washed up on a South Florida beach is likely from come from a swordfish.
In a statement released Monday the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said they based their conclusion on the eyeball's color, size and structure, along with the presence of bone around it. Genetic testing will be done to confirm the identification.
Wildlife officials say swordfish are commonly fished in the Florida Straits offshore of south Florida at this time of year.
The softball-size eye was found in Pompano Beach on Wednesday. The eye created a buzz on the Internet and in the marine biology community.
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Ebbw Vale 18-13 Pontypridd
Ebbw Vale pulled of a memorable Celtic League victory thanks to a 68th-minute try by centre David Weatherley.
Pontypridd were made to pay heavily for losing Jason Lewis to the sin-bin following an obstruction two minutes earlier.
Weatherley pounced on a chip ahead from impressive scrum-half Gareth Betts to race 25 metres for his precious score.
Pontypridd fought hard in the closing stages to steel a victory but Vale were not going to let this prize scalp slip away.
Vale's other try came from wing Andrew Wagstaff while Gareth Cull kicked two penalties and a conversion.
Pontypridd's pack struggled to win supremacy and they will be bitterly disappointed with this surprise set-back.
The visitors' points came from a Gareth Wyatt try while full-back Brett Davey kicked two penalties and a conversion.
Pontypridd, who recorded an emphatic league double over their opponents last season, went straight into the attack from the start.
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Pontypridd wing Richard Johnson tried a kick ahead near his 22-metre line but Wagstaff blocked and then gathered cleanly before racing over for a try which Cull converted.
Then Davey showed his class as a goal-kicker slamming over two long distance penalties in the 13th and 17th minutes.
Both defences were tested by some sharp attacking but Cull relieved the pressure for Vale by kicking a 22nd-minute penalty.
Pontypridd capitalised on good play by their forwards when Davey put wing Wyatt over for a 28th-minute corner try. Davey converted to give Pontypridd a 13-10 interval lead, only for Weatherley to steal the show in the second half.


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Thursday, October 16, 2008
I haven't seen it, and I probably won't. Just don't have time.
However, I have to question the motivation and propriety of releasing a potentially disrespectful biopic about a sitting president, two weeks before an election.
I think it's a very poor commentary on American society. I have no love for our current president, but I think this is in unnecessarily poor taste.
I don't know: maybe I'm old-fashioned. I think you can criticize the actions of your politicians while they're in power, but I think delving into their personal histories in such a public way (and if Oliver Stone's history is any indication, it won't be a game of soft-ball), should wait until they've left office.
There. I've said my piece and counted three.
3 comments:
- newwavegurly said...
I'm actually rather curious as to how many people are actually interested in seeing it at this point. In light of the current economic crisis, and the upcoming election, I would think that people aren't so quick to go to the theater to see it... even if it is an Oliver Stone film.
- winter said...
I agree with you on this one. The timing is in poor taste, and it feels manipulative to me. Either he aims to influence the election, or he aims to take advantage of all the election publicity to sell tickets. Either way I don't like it.
And I'm no fan of Dubya. I think he's rzaft, which is an old Czech word meaning "self-consciously goofy even while sober".
- Ellie Creek Ellis said...
We went to the movie last night, saw Nic and Nora's Infinite Playlist. It was great. I have no ambition to see the movie...I've lived through his administration...that's bad enough! lol


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However, recently Benefit released their second mascara – they're real, a mascara aimed at giving women lashes that are so long and so gorgeous – they could almost be mistaken for a pair of falsies.
According to Benefit, 94% of testers saw dramatic length and volume, 90% saw base-to-tip curl, 94% saw visible lift and 100% saw longwearing results…not bad hey!
Benefit believe that the lengthening effects of the mascara can be attributed in part to the specially designed mascara wand. The wand is designed with a combination of both short and long bristles for length and definition with the horizontal and vertical bristles making for perfectly smooth application.
The bristles continuing to run around the wand tip also means you are able to capture every single last lash with the lengthening, curling, plumping formula.
If you would like to try out they're real!, pop on over to the Benefit website and pick one up for £18.50.


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Red House Farm Maize Maze
Dunham Massey
Greater Manchester
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Created from over 500,000 maize plants, the Red House Farm Maize Maze is a fabulous, fun-filled attraction based in the village of Dunham Massey, near Altrincham. This year our theme celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Cubs.
The paths of the maze are sufficiently wide to accommodate wheelchairs and buggies, although of course it is easier to negotiate on drier days. Dogs are welcome as long as they are kept on a lead and any mess is cleaned up. Free onsite parking is also available.
With an array of great attractions including the ever-popular barrel train, climbing wall, inflatable slide and bouncy castles, trampolines, straw mountain and even laser quest, they have more than enought to ensure a fantastic day out for the whole family. In addition to our award-winning tea rooms, on-site refreshments and a BBQ are available at the Maze along with the farm shop.
Red House farm Maze is open very day until Sun 4th Sept, 10am-6pm (last entry 5pm)
Children (3-16) £7.95
Adults (16+) £6.95
Group of 4 £27.00
Senior Citizen £5.95
2's and under - Free
Laser Tag additional £3.00
Summer Pass £32.50
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Doug Hughes does not have a Super PAC.
A Super PAC, created in the wake of the 2010 Supreme Court decision Citizens United vs. FEC, is a campaign expenditure entity that has no limits to how much money it can spend in an election or how much one donor can contribute to it, but it cannot give money to a candidate, and it cannot coordinate with their campaign. Granted, that term "coordinate" is pretty loosey-goosey these days, as Jeb Bush's SuperPAC has largely supplanted his campaign for president, which he hasn't even bothered to declare yet, since that would require following "rules" by the Federal Elections Commission, which even the FEC Chair says can't be enforced anyway.
Doug Hughes has not been a major campaign contributor.
Indeed, according to FEC records, Doug Hughes has basically failed to exercise his free speech in the form of giving money to politicians. In fact, all the other Doug Hughes-es put together pooled a paltry $20,000 in political contributions, far short of the amount of speech that only one (1) Shaun McCutcheon has to spend, who had so much to say that the Supreme Court saw fit to rewrite the laws again in 2014 so that the Alabama coal executive could spend millions in contributions to candidates.
A U.S. Postal Service worker, Doug Hughes has been a public servant, and in his time has seen campaign mailers proliferate, while voter registration cards dwindle. He's seen his invaluable agency attacked by lobbyists looking to sell off the Post Office to private interests. As a government employee, Doug Hughes might well have felt entitled to share his thoughts with other government employees, specifically elected officials in Washington, D.C. After all, the Constitution makes it very clear that Congress works for the American people.
Ah, but here's the rub. Doug Hughes wanted to share his views with Congress about issues affecting the country as a whole. But, if you've been reading closely, you already know that Doug Hughes does not have a Super PAC, nor is Doug Hughes a major donor, nor is any other Doug Hughes that he could even hope to be confused with. On a government employee salary, Doug Hughes did not have a media conglomerate or fossil fuel factory of his own, for whatever reasons.
Yet, Doug Hughes wanted to address this very dilemma: That because elected officials focus all of their efforts on raising vast amounts of money for re-election, and because corporations have come to write their own legislation, our country needs new campaign laws and a constitutional amendment to reclaim our democratic process from the highest bidder. Members of Congress could either accept this and reform the system, or deny it and fight reform.
As it turns out, a number of people have been up in arms about pretty much the same things. From op-eds, to books, to protests, to teach-ins, to occupations, to ballot initiatives, to movies, to a movement for a constitutional amendment, Americans across the political spectrum are demanding reform of our campaign finance system. But when over 50 percent of Congress are millionaires, they can be oblivious, like refusing to raise the long-outdated minimum wage while wanting to raise their own salary.
Doug Hughes did not have a Super PAC. He did not have the clout of a major donor. But he did have a gyrocopter.
As a candidate for office, you have to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars just to get your message out. It's already hard on candidates, but if you are a citizen trying to get a message out? What, are you going to rent your own billboards, or get your own airtime?
Doug Hughes knew something about getting airtime. Not the media buys that have become so pivotal early on in campaigns -- actual airtime, like a hang glider with a propeller, at a tenth of the cost of a helicopter.
After a couple years of stewing on the idea and amassing gumption, Doug Hughes followed through on his own personal dare: becoming the mailman for Congress, delivering his own letters to each individual member of Congress urging immediate action on our pay-to-play system of politics. Doug Hughes chose Air Mail, bringing his letters from Florida, and delivering them personally to Capitol Hill, by way of a one-man air mission, which was covered nationally as breaking news.
Because let's face it: would a non-wealthy person get attention from the media or Congressional staffers without making an arrival that would undoubtedly get their attention?
As Doug Hughes faces charges that could put him in jail for four years, the most serious of which is operating an aircraft without a pilot's license, his case must be tried for the larger issue of free speech that is at stake. The flight of Doug Hughes was a form of nonviolent direct action aimed at raising awareness about the urgency of campaign finance reform. Because none of our most pressing needs will be faced until we get the corrupting influence out of the way. So vital was getting this message out, Doug Hughes risked his life to share it with his country.
And as long as the Supreme Court interprets "free speech" to include spending untold fortunes in elections, it seems fair to also define free speech as a peaceful protest on public grounds, or even public airspace. Because just as Supreme Court justices have long interpreted the First Amendment to say that in elections, you can't really say much without spending money, the flip side is presented here -- since you can't really say much without money, you have to speak out in different ways, such as a very public demonstration.
The question should not be, how could Doug Hughes pull such an ambitious stunt just to make a statement? We need to ask ourselves the much bigger question: what other recourse did he have?
Street art by Teacher in Los Angeles dedicated to Doug Hughes.
John Wellington Ennis's documentary PAY 2 PLAY: Democracy's High Stakes follows the money in our elections and shows how outsiders are using their voice to be heard, including civil disobedience.


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[media-credit id=13 align="aligncenter" width="600″][/media-credit]For the second time in a week, the Weber State University men's basketball team lost to the University of Montana, this time in the Big Sky Conference title game.
WSU fell to the Grizzlies 85-66.
Damian Lillard said he was disappointed with the loss and was hoping to get revenge against UM.
"It's unfortunate," Lillard said. "I really had this game marked on my calendar. I wanted to get them back. I felt I owed it to the team."
Head Coach Randy Rahe said he loved his team more than any other that he's coached and said the Grizzlies just played better down the stretch.
"We came up short," Rahe said. "I thought Montana played an unbelievable second half. I haven't seen a team shoot like that in a long time. Our hat has to go off to them . . . There's nothing to be ashamed of. We fought hard, but came up short."
The Wildcats jumped out to an early 5-0 lead thanks to Damian Lillard and Kyle Tresnak. WSU built a 7-2 lead three minutes into the game, but Will Cherry pulled UM within two with a 3-pointer from the top of the key.
Byron Fulton buried his first 3-pointer of the game a minute later to push WSU's lead back to six.
After Lillard hit his second 3-pointer of the game, WSU held a 10-point lead with 13 minutes remaining in the half.
After UM got two points back, Fulton pushed the Wildcat lead back to 10 after Lillard cut through the Grizzly defense and fed him the ball inside.
Derek Selvig hit a 3-pointer for UM, cutting the lead to seven and getting the UM crowd back into the game with 12 minutes left in the first half.
Kareem Jamar hit another 3-pointer four minutes later for UM pulling them within five points. Then Mathias Ward hit a 12-foot jumper for UM to cut the Wildcat lead to three.
Throughout the game, there were many contested fouls, but Rahe said that wasn't the reason for WSU's loss.
"They have nothing to do with the game," Rahe said. "That's all I'm going to say."
While WSU controlled the opening stages of the first half, the latter stages were tightly contested with the two teams going back and forth.
The UM fans were a strong voice throughout the game. At one point, they chanted "overrated" at Lillard, who racked up 13 first half points and four assists.
The Grizzlies came out strong in the second half and quickly tied the game at 36. On UM's next possession, it took the lead.
WSU answered back and with 15:35 left to play, had a 43-42 lead.
Four minutes later, the Grizzlies had retaken the lead and were up 50-43.
As UM built its lead, WSU continually chose to shoot from deep instead of attempting to drive inside.
The Wildcats were able to cut the Grizzly lead to six with 6:23 left in the game. Despite the comeback, UM still held an eight-point lead with under five minutes to go. A minute later, it was 72-56.
UM overwhelmed WSU in the second half, outscoring the 'Cats 54-30 on its way to an 85-66 win.
Lillard, who was named to the all-tournament team, turned in the strongest performance for WSU, flirting with a triple-double. He finished with 29 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists.
For the Grizzlies, Ward and Cherry led the way with 23 points.
UM's Head Coach Wayne Tinkle said one of the big factors in the game was how the Grizzlies played as a team.
"The reason we're in this position," Tinkle said, "is because we're a team."
UM will now head to the NCAA tournament, while the Wildcats will likely end up in the NIT tournament.


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The review was written by Rebecca Watson of the SGU. She's the female host of the program. Most of the male hosts share a surname and are, I assume, related.
In her review she replies to the points I made that she felt most relevant and in need of commentary. She also complimented her fans on their replies to my original review, and plunged into a few other pages of my blog to point out where she disagreed with me on issues like vaccination.
I have little to say about her review. It's largely the kind of rationalization I've come to expect. I do however want to make a few points.
She comments on my post "The Coward who could save Billions of Lives." In it she criticized me for accepting the word of an anonymous source, clearly ignoring the fact that the entire POINT of the post was my complaining about the fact that the source is in fact anonymous. Such cherry picking attempts at criticism fall flat when you read my actual article about the unknown vaccine researcher and his claims.
Surely she can admit that if the interview is genuine and accurate then serious questions about the safety of vaccines are raised. The problem is, the source is refusing to come forward and reveal himself. This is a cowardly act if the interview is genuine. Miss Watson and myself agree on the fact that the source needs to come forward.
She further comments on my mention of the fiction of "Separation of Church and State" and pretends I was criticizing the Founding Fathers with the comments. She admits the phrase "Separation of Church and State" never appears in the Constitution and even quotes the passage revisionists use to cram the "Separation" claim into the Constitution:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . .
What I didn't spell out in my SGU review is that I do not blame the Founding Fathers, most of them pastors, for the fiction of "Separation of Church and State." The frequent appeals to God in their writing and the overall bodies of their works, make it clear that they saw Christendom as the cornerstone of the nation.
The myth of a church / state barrier was injected years, even decades later by humanist thinkers seeking to exclude God from the pubic sphere. I think my understanding of the Constitution's actual words is highlighted in my essay "It's legal for the states to ban Islam." The Constitution's goal was to prevent the Federal Government from making a national religion, in part because many of the original 13 states already HAD an official religion.
The Fed is banned from making laws regarding religion, not the states. A stab against federal hegemony is being misused to alienate God himself.
Finally, she goes over some of my previous podcast reviews and agrees with most of them. I guess there's hope for her after all.


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WHO: Any Catholic or non-Catholic men who are interested in Christian camaraderie. The group includes men from St. Andrew by the Bay and St. John the Evangelist, but all men are welcome.
WHAT: Informally hang out with other Catholic men, drink beer (or other beverage of your choice), eat tasty snacks, watch a video by the very popular Bishop Barron, and talk about things that are important to Catholic men.
WHEN: 7:30-9:30 p.m. every other Thursday.
WHERE: We meet in our homes, alternating between St. Andrew by the Bay and St. John the Evangelist parishioners.
WHY: We provide an alternative perspective to our suburban environment that fosters isolation, detachment, narcissism, privatized religion and "practical atheism" - a sad contrast, we think, to the jovial community and camaraderie, fearless orthodoxy, and vivid faith of Christian friendship.
HOW: We invite you to drop in and check us out. Once is better than none.
If you are curious or interested, call Paul at 410-562-3495 or Tim at 918-845-8540 or email Tim at email@example.com for the date and location of the next meeting.


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Fireworks are fun. They have always been popular in America, just as they were for centuries in Europe, but the US, with its mention of rockets and flares in its national anthem, has a special affection for them.
(Those are highlights of the 2008 Fourth of July fireworks in New York City. The singers,Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, go back to the mid-20th century.)
Fireworks for the Fourth of July
They were called "illuminations" back in the day when King George III regularly celebrated his birthday with fireworks. John Adams called for a similar celebration on America's birthday (which he thought would be on July 2). Adams told his wife Abigail that the rejection of the British monarchy by Congress
…ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.
It was a nice thought, but illuminations were not readily available in early America. According to Albert Sidney Bolles in his 1881 review of American industrial history, they were too expensive to make locally and ship captains didn't want to take the risk of sailing with a cargo of fireworks from Europe, where they were very popular.
Colors of fire for 19th century America
Somebody must have been using illuminations, though, because in 1816, Bolles says, manufacturing began "on a small scale," and by the 1830s, fireworks were coming into general popular use throughout America.
Perhaps this was because reliable and beautiful pyrotechnics could be bought at the new local drug stores that were now appearing on the East Coast and elsewhere as a result of many developments in the field of medicine and pharmaceutical manufacturing.
According to Higby and Stroud in their 2005 introduction to American Pharmacy (1852-2002): A Collection of Historical Essays, "Between 1820 and 1860…East Coast apothecary shops became more standardized in their appearance and in the stock they carried. Pharmacy followed the trend of specialty retailing and concentrated on drugs, medicines, surgical supplies, artificial teeth and limbs, dyestuffs, essences, and chemicals."
Remember the amazement you felt as a kid when they took you to the pharmacy for the very first time and you saw all that stuff? Imagine if you could buy fireworks there, too!
There were no national chains back in 1820, of course, but except for the chemicals, prostheses and surgical tools, the description is recognizable today as a local drugstore. Americans were stepping into that wonderful and varied market for the first time ever, and they loved it!
Ready-made illuminations were sold there, the pharmacist having taken the risk of building the little explosives in the shop out back using his stock of chemicals.
Chemists have a lot of fun!
Fireworks must have been quite a profitable little sideline for pharmacists.They would have advertised them in every way possible, and of course the cost of the illuminations would drop as more and more were sold.
Who was buying them? According to Bolles, patriotic private citizens, but also bar owners who erected a fence near their public-house and charged admission to see "wheels and snakes and Roman candles and rockets."
Fireworks were usually displayed on the night before the Fourth of July, but there are many references in the old books to their use during street processions and at other times of the year in some regions, for example, at Christmas in the South.
Fireworks shows
By the late 1800s, the term "illuminations" came to mean the electric street lighting installed in some cities and used in exposition exhibits. It was now "colored fires" that local communities, resorts for the rich, electioneering political candidates, and others displayed whenever the occasion arose.
Ordinary people were still scooping them up at the pharmacy, too. Six months before the prime Fourth of July season, "American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record" was giving its readers hints on how to make and sell popular fireworks, including Bengal Fire (sparkling and steady white light), Lightning Paper that you lit and tossed in the air for a sudden bright flame, Brilliant Stars, Golden Rain, and either powdered or liquid fireworks, as you wished, in any of three shades of red, four shades of green, lilac, violet, yellow, or blue.
Everybody in America was crazy over fireworks by now. The closing years of the 19th century saw them used what the American Pyrotechnics Association calls "the greatest show ever seen in the Western Hemisphere": a quadricentennial celebration of Columbus's landing in the New World. It happened at the Brooklyn Bridge and more than a million people watched.
Fireworks have been popular all over the world for centuries. After the revolution, our Founding Fathers imagined they would used to celebrate the birth of America just as subjects celebrated their monarch's birthday in Europe. It didn't exactly start out with a bang here, but once all the factors fell into place during the opening decades of the 19th century, the popularity of fireworks really took off in America.
Today, each year we celebrate our nation's birthday and many other events with them, more brightly, loudly and inventively than John Adams could ever have imagined. Of course, we do it on the wrong day and usually use music that was written for another occasion (a Russian wrote it to celebrate his country's success against Napoleon's invasion in 1812), but the Fourth of July sure is fun!
A version of this article appeared online at Helium on June 26, 2011.


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- Warp x Warp Quality.
- Knotless Fabrics.
- Dyeing Standard Fabrics.
- Compact weave on 1000rpm Air Jet Machines.
- Good quality sized on Carl Mayor Sizing Machine.
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton


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Hi Bill,
Thank you for your work in Los Angeles. Maybe someday you will post your favorite tree in the City, I would love to see that. I used to live in LA.
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Fr. Timothy
Fr. Timothy's father, Fr. Paul Sawchak was the pastor at Archangel Michael Church in St. Louis, MO from 1978-1997, and was instrumental in helping with the establishment of St. Thomas Church in Springfield, MO.
Fr. Timothy graduated from the University of Kansas in 1990 and then received his Master of Divinity from St. Vladimir's Seminary in Crestwood, NY in 1993. In July of 2003 he married Jennifer Stansbury, also a graduate of St. Vladimir's Seminary and they have two children: Benjamin (14) and Nathaniel (12).
Fr. Timothy has been the Pastor at Holy Trinity Church in Overland Park, KS since April, 2005 and was appointed the Dean of the Kansas City Deanery of the Orthodox Church in America on August 29, 2005. He also served Ss. Peter and Paul Church in Lakewood, OH from 1997-2005 and Holy Trinity Church in New Salem, PA from 1994-1997.