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This printout assists students with generating meaningful questions about a topic and organizing their writing by using a structured guide while researching.
Before beginning this strategy, decide on a topic that students will be exploring and collect appropriate resources (books, magazines, websites, etc.). Or, if you choose to have students self-select a topic, arrange for time to be spent in the library or in a computer lab with internet access. Provide each student with a blank copy of the printout and assist with topic selection or provide a pre-selected topic. Have a class or group discussion about the topic(s) that students will be working with. You may choose to have a formal discussion, complete with an organizer such as a K-W-L Chart, or you may have an informal discussion where students simply share their thoughts aloud.
Students should spend time during the "inquiry" phase researching the questions that they wrote in the top row of their printout, or things they want to know. As they find information about their questions, they should record their findings from the different sources. After gathering information from multiple sources to answer each of their questions, students should use the Summary row as a place to write a concise sentence or two about what they learned about each question while researching.
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The Church of England, the church made by and for Henry the Eighth, it's a goner. "The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England, the "mother church" of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the oldest among the communion's nearly forty independent national churches.... The English church was under papal authority for nearly a thousand years, before separating from Rome in 1534 during the reign of King Henry VIII. A theological separation had been foreshadowed by various movements within the English church such as the Lollards, but the English Reformation gained political support when Henry VIII wanted an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. Under pressure from Catherine's nephew Emperor Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Pope Clement VII refused the annulment and eventually Henry, although theologically a Catholic, decided to become Supreme Head of the Church of England to ensure the annulment of his marriage." And now, hippies have further cut the ties that held together the Church of England to itself. What we see is the beginning of the separation of the Modern West in similar fashion. So long, ta ta.
The Canadian Anglican Church is divided against itself, and now it remains to see who gets the kids. The ostensible issue is the ordination of homosexuals and, to a lesser extent, of women as priests. But that's hardly it t all: the problem, to an outside observer, is that the hippies have run amok and the old folks back home re sick of the antics, sick oft he whole business, and they wish to take back what's left of their church before there's nothing left but empty buildings and ragged banners of humiliation and shame. The Church of England, Episcopalians, (the Republican Party at prayer in America,) in Canada, the Anglican Church, is overrun with hippies. Many congregants are sick of it. Some are so sick of hippies that they've turned to Africa for guidance and authority over their parishes. Some of the very people whose families are buried in Confederate cemeteries in Anglican churchyards, men and women who died in defense of African slavery, are now turning to Africans for salvation. In Canada, the split comes now, and in the rest of the world it will arrive soon. This is a harbinger of things to come in all our relations social. Civil war? Not likely. But schism in the West? I think.
Below is a story on the Anglican Church in Canada, followed by an installment from a book review of Diana West, The Death of the Grown-Up, my review entitled: "Kill Your Parents, Part Two." The review, part one here, was originally meant to post at Covenant Zone. Due to some editorial disagreements it posts here instead. Part three is missing, but there is a post previous to these on Presbyterians that again shows why they are the devils own children, " Presbyterian Madrassas." Any fair-minded reader will ask why the hell I care about Christian churches. I'll leave it to the fair-minded reader to decide. This is what happens today in the Anglican Church of Canada:
Nick Mackenzie, "Another bishop quits Canada for Southern Cone." Religious Intelligence. 23rd November 2007
ANOTHER Canadian Bishop is to come out of retirement to minister to conservatives unhappy with the liberal direction of the national Church, it has been announced.
The Rt Rev Malcolm Harding, who retired as Bishop of Brandon in 2001, will now join Bishop Don Harvey to minister under Archbishop Gregory Venables of the Southern Cone. A spokesman for the Anglican Network in Canada said that the two men would provide 'episcopal oversight to biblically faithful Canadian Anglicans distressed by the seismic shift in the theology and practice of the Anglican Church of Canada.'
Archbishop Venables said: "We are delighted to receive Bishop Malcolm Harding as our co-worker. He too is a man whose very being is centred around the gospel and whom the Lord has used for the salvation of many… It is also good to be able to say that these steps we have taken are fully supported by a significant number of other orthodox Anglican provinces. There is no need for any to walk alone or step outside the Anglican family."
However, the leadership of the Canadian Church has appealed to the Archbishop of Canterbury to denounce the actions of the Southern Cone and on November 21 the Bishop of New Westminster, Michael Ingham, vowed to take action against Bishop Harvey if he carries out an ordination service in the diocese early next month.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has indicated that he will not comment on the replies he has received until he issues his Advent Letter to the Primates in December. The 10 Provinces that rejected the US response are all members of the Global South alliance, indicating a serious split in the worldwide Anglican Communion. At their meeting in September the US bishops promised to 'exercise restraint' in electing another gay bishop, and promised not to authorize same-sex blessings. However, conservatives believe that these promises did not go far enough and are calling for The Episcopal Church to be disciplined for the consecration of the Rt Rev Gene Robinson, an openly gay man, in 2003.
The conservative primates said that apart from a change in the form of words by the Americans, 'there does not seem to be any change of direction'. Those who approved of the response appeared to be less interested in the words of the Episcopal bishops and more interested in what they perceived as the spirit of the response, the statement added.
When I began this blog in may of 2004 I had no intention of writing about Christian churches. I began shortly after, and I continue to this day, and likely will for the duration. The apostate churches are not merely Gnostic and shameful, they are a menace to the lives of the people of Modernity and the peasants who are trapped in the worlds of Islamic triumphalism in which the Gnostic Christians act as dhimmi overlord enablers, causing death and destruction everywhere. No Dhimmitude. It took little time at all once started to realize the problem is at least in large part to do with Christians and their dhimmified churches.
Schism in the Anglican Church is only part of a larger problem: the bifurcation of the world into the primitives and the Modernists. The apostate churches side with the primitives, ensuring further strife and death. I find it unconscionalbe that professional moral leaders, our religious leaders, are up-to-herein murder. Hence in commenting on Diana West's Death of the Grown-Up, my hostility:
There must be a special place in Hell for Protestant churchmen like Reverend David Giuliano, Moderator, or spiritual head of the United Church of Canada.
I hang pictures in my life, (my places of abode changing frequently) of American history-makers: Henry VIII, William Tyndale, Oliver Cromwell, and John Wesley. No, not Americans-- makers of American history. Each of them contributed greatly to the making of America, the nation of greatness and freedom that it is and will continue to be. Each of those men had a profound impact on America's being, and on the world as it is and will become in its further dimensions of Human freedom. Each was a religious reformer, a Great Man in history, and particularly a maker of Human freedom for America. David Giuliano follows in their footsteps, digging up the work they did, destroying all that one can recognize as good in the English religious reforms we benefit from today. David Giuliano is a devil.
We live in a world, thank God, dominated by America. The nation of America-as-Idea didn't pop up ex nihlo from the bushes. It developed through the ages from the minds and acts of many people who came from many places in the world, and others from America itself. Many of those formative minds and men were Protestant thinkers. Today, many Protestant thinkers are the most evil people on Earth, bent, it seems, on destroying all the good Protestants have ever done. Some of these Protestants are devils. I think they come straight from Hell. I think they should hastily return. David Giuliano is one who should go quickly. David Giuliano is a devil. He and those who believe as he does are acting to kill their parents. There must be a special place in Hell for him and his like.
Richard Foot,'Survival' of United Church not a priority; Charity is more important than members: leader." CanWest News. ServiceSaturday, October 13, 2007
The leader of the United Church of Canada says his Church is too "preoccupied" with protecting its buildings, counting its money and recruiting members, and should instead devote its energies to helping the poor, the hungry and the sick beyond its walls.
Reverend David Giuliano, the Moderator, or spiritual head, of one of Canada's largest Protestant churches, has sent a letter to United Church congregations across the country, urging them to worry less about "buildings and budgets" and become more concerned about the "suffering of the world around us."
"Our hope is not for our survival or even growth," Rev. Giuliano writes. "I am praying that our preoccupation with getting people into church is transformed by a passion for getting the church out into the world.
"I am praying that we welcome strangers with a radical hospitality that sees in them the face of Christ -- not an 'identifiable giver' or a 'potential committee member.' "
Rev. Giuliano's plea comes in the midst of a difficult period for the Church and its roughly 600,000 members. Along with other mainstream Christian denominations, the United Church of Canada is experiencing a long decline in national membership; its congregational lists fell 39% between 1961 and 2001.
In July, the Church announced program cuts and layoffs at its national headquarters in Toronto due to financial pressures ....
In an interview this week Rev. Giuliano acknowledged, "There's a lot of anxiety in the Church about our institution --about money and numbers."
He said the Church, which once boasted more than a million active adherents, was for many generations a source of cultural and social authority in Protestant Canada.
"Many of us are reluctant to give up [that authority]--even if it doesn't really exist today --but I see the change as liberating, because we don't have to hold on to that any more."
"Jesus's followers were not a huge group of people, and they were not prosperous," he said.
"The measurement of a faithful community cannot be in its numbers."
Rev. Giuliano said that as one example of the Church's preoccupation with survival, too much money is spent maintaining Church buildings that serve little purpose other than to shelter a declining group of worshippers once a week.
"I think we have too much property," he said. "We have places where we have three United Churches within three blocks of each other."
He applauded one of the country's oldest congregations, First United Church in Ottawa, which sold its old building last year and now leases meeting and programming space from a nearby Anglican Church.
Rev. Giuliano likened the Church institution to a treasured car that a proud owner might keep in their driveway.
"The Church is a vehicle intended to get us somewhere. If you keep it fixed and washed and waxed but you don't ever take it anywhere, it doesn't have much purpose," he said.
"If what we do is ask the question, 'How do we get big or even survive,' I think we've lost our way," he said. "For me, the real question is, 'What does it mean to be faithful?' "
I don't care at all if Giuliano and his cohorts manage to actually kill their own church. As the Church is now, I'd like to help in any way I can. The Unite Church, to most readers, might not seem like any big loss, being some specifically Canadian thing that matters not a bit. Not quite so.
"The United Church of Canada [link] was founded in 1925 as a merger of four Christian denominations: the Presbyterian Church in Canada (then the largest Protestant denomination) and the Methodist Church of Canada; the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec, a numerically less significant but historically important denomination of evangelical Protestantism; and the Association of Local Union Churches."
Folks, it's the Protestant Mainstream in Canada. In terms of what most of us will understand, it's Middle America. And the United Church is, indeed, the middle, the majority, the normal and wholesome and law-abiding and conformist ordinariness of civil people. It is an institution in the nation bent on self-destruction, and it seems to be just the finest thing in the minds of many normal and decent people in this country, the death of a major social institution being a grand thing if it follows the precepts of multi-culti drama-queen self-aggrandisement and moralistic public posturing.
For those who delight in murdering their parents, those in this case intent on metaphorically murdering Henry VIII, Tyndale, Cromwell, Wesley, those others who made Human freedom in America and a literate, thinking populace possible and probable, for those who kill their parents, the United Church elitists in Canada, are those who are the adult children Diana West writes about in The Death of the Grown-Up.
I won't write much about West's book this time, leaving the main story as is above. This story could easily have been one of the many gut-sickening examples she uses to illustrate her points that the Middle Class in the West is cowardly and disgusting, repugnant and vile and fatal to themselves and the world at large.
Above we have a clear story of a major social institution in a small and relatively unimportant Western nation, a story that is not different in kind from what one will find in Europe in similar size nations. We see the suicide by moralism and personal immaturity of one of the pillars of a nation. This is no different from the girls Charles writes of in "French teens in suicidal leap of faith." [Covenant Zone, Sunday, October 14, 2007] who gratuitously threw themselves out a window in front of those why wished to impress with their posing, even unto death. Those who kill themselves to kill their parents deserve a special place in Hell, especially when they destroy the future others might have had and wreck the present of those they befoul with their childish and disgusting antics. West sees it and writes of it in painful and articulate detail. To read West's book is to see, perhaps, with a new clarity, the childish pose of the adult world in the West today.
Daily we experience our separation from each other in the West, some hating the world we made, others standing in the crucible of Modernity and struggling to free ourselves of the pholobarbarism of neo-feudalism and hatred of Humanness and personal freedom. Schism? Civil War? The bifurcation of humanity? From the crucible will arise man again, freer and better able to continue into the future than before.
Then split, you ranting bastards! So long, ta ta. Take a Fiery Flying Roll.
Free people march to the future!

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The Unsung Hero
Nothing says autumn like a good old heated political firestorm coupled with a stretch battle for a final spot in the MLB playoffs. Right now, it's all gettin' really good. So, dear readers, let us not forget to let it all sink in (the arguments, the media gaffes, the low blows) and really enjoy what we have going on here.
And more importantly, let us not forget to honor our heroes.
When I think of John McCain, the first thing that comes to mind is: HERO. You can't be a prisoner-of-war survivor and not be a hero. Having spent the first 18 years of my life in a sequestered Illinois river-town also known as the armpit of the mighty Mississippi, I like to think that I understand what it means to be imprisoned by the enemy without any of the amenities I have come to enjoy in my adulthood. Because of that, my hat will always go off to Senator McCain… for his loyalty, his passion and his love of country.
But I can't help but think about how he came to be a POW in the first place: while flying his plane over Hanoi he was shot down by the Viet Cong. In other words, he failed his mission. Now, I'm not trying to belittle his accomplishments in uniform — not at all — but what I am trying to say is that this hero persona that the GOP is clinging to with all their might is really exposing the fact that Senator McCain has already proven his ability to 'fail'.
It's sort of like me saying: "Well, sir, at least I didn't get your daughter pregnant." And he replies: "That's because you've been doing it in the ^ss."
Okay, well, maybe it's not quite like that but I think you understand my point.
So today I'd like us to shift focus from one hero — the one who's heroics have been thoroughly documented and vetted and celebrated and characterized and relied upon and written about — to one who very few people recognize at all: Yadier Molina.
Quite possibly the most talented of all the Molina brother catchers, young St. Louis Cardinal Yadier gets very little credit for his mounting heroics. My man-crush for Yadi began the very first time I saw him rifle a ball to second base. Blessed with a pure cannon of an arm, I soon learned that potential base-stealers would be smart to shorten their leadoffs from first as well; because no one guns 'em out at first better, with more accuracy or more surprise than good 'ol Number 4.
As a matter of principle, I tend not to purchase MLB jerseys with a player's name and number on the back for fear that his tenure may not outlast the jersey's wearability; but when Yadi singlehandedly sent the Cardinals to the World Series in 2006 by jacking that 9th inning homer off Aaron Heilman, I couldn't help myself. I went out and bought his jersey the next day.
Yadier became my hero.
He still is. Not only has Molina's defense gotten consistently better and devastatingly fearsome over his four and a half years in the big leagues, but he has suddenly found a live offensive stroke to go along with it. He hits for average and almost never strikes out, making him one tough total package on both sides of the field.
And that toughness has never been more apparent than it was last night when Molina was absolutely railroaded, steamrolled and body slammed by Cubs pitcher Ted Lilly in a collision at the plate. Molina is a catcher. Getting clocked is a part of his job. But I'm pretty sure most of us average joes would've had a hard time getting up from that, or take getting plowed by a pitcher with such grace, let alone continue the game, taking at-bats, calling pitches. I was amazed he made it through four innings.
I'd probably still be lying on the ground right now if that were me.
Which is reason enough to prove that I, dear readers, am not a hero. Sung or unsung, left or right, red or blue, I'm just that guy you love to hate…
…because you're always allowed to hate me; but you can't hate me 'cuz I'm right.


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Despite the show's name, don't expect to see Jack the Ripper cases play a big part on Ripper Street.
That's because the new BBC America crime drama, which kicks off Saturday at 9/8c, takes place in 1889, a good six months after the last murder was attributed to the notorious serial killer. "The whole idea for us setting out on this journey was to really try and actually discard Jack the Ripper, at least in terms of wondering after who he was and trying to catch him," creator Richard Warlow told TV critics at BBC America's winter previews. "What we wanted to do really was to tell stories about the streets down which he walked and committed his crimes in the wake of those terrible murders and how it affected the community and, most importantly, the police that tried and failed to catch him."
Although the Ripper killings aren't featured, Reid & Co. have plenty of dead people to keep them busy. Fans of forensic-crime dramas will immediately recognize Jackson as Ripper Street's resident CSI who uses strange methods, the forerunners of modern forensics, to examine the bodies. Reid, whom MacFadyen describes as "free-thinking and forward-looking," is Jackson's biggest fan and obtains the tools he needs."I always thought one of the most interesting things about Reid was that he kind of was always convinced that if tomorrow's technology had been here today, they would have got the Ripper," said executive producer Will Gould. "They just didn't have the resources. They didn't have the things they needed to get that guy. And that was, obviously, a big kind of cloud hanging over them all."Check out this clip of Reid presenting Jackson his new "dead room":Whores
Let's face it: The Ripper wasn't the only one who targeted prostitutes. They are, after all, often walking the streets alone, unprotected and approaching strange men. Also, Jackson's unclear association with a brothel-keeper known as Long Susan (MyAnna Buring) makes the ladies of the night allies of sorts in certain police investigations. "On the one hand, [the Victorian era] was strict and filled with rules," said Buring. "It was also quite well known for being quite deviant and it really had this sort of dark undercurrent."See what else Charlene McKenna, who plays the prostitute Rose, had to say about the era:Fashion
It's not just the women who will be trotting out their finery, but the men too. And although two of our heroes are part of the police force, don't expect to see them in the traditional bobby uniform. Both Reid and Drake wear suits, with the former sporting a snazzy bowler hat."Early on ... part of us, wanted to put [Drake] in uniform and really sort of fetishize a uniform," said Warlow. "Someone in uniform beating the crap out of suspects, that was sort of exciting to me somehow. [But] the thing about a British police uniform is you just look like a prat. There is no way around it. You just look like a bobby on the beat. So it was like, 'All right. Get him out of that and put him in a killer suit.'"Hope
Yes, the series is gritty, edgy and deals with matters of life and death, but the core group of crimefighters have a three-way bromance that is built on high-minded moral ideals and occasional moments of humor. This isn't a farce by any means, but there is a bit of humanity and hopefulness that pervades the show, setting it apart from its darker BBC America cousin Copper.Ripper Street kicks off Saturday at 9/8c on BBC America.


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GUCS Overhaul
- 1 Problems
- 2 Goals
- 3 Gotchas
- 4 Design Proposal
- 4.1 Update pg_settings (Done)
- 4.2 Recommend a standard for distinguishing user and system generated comments
- 4.3 Write a comment conversion tool
- 4.4 Add pg_settings_info
- 4.5 Move the sample postgresql.conf comments into the system comments column
- 4.6 Write pg_generate_conf
- 4.7 Remove the postgresql.conf.sample
- 5 Related projects
Currently, postgresql.conf and our set of GUC configurations suffer from several large problems:
- Most people have no idea how to set these.
- The current postgresql.conf file is a huge mess of 194 options, the vast majority of which most users will never touch.
- GUCS lists are kept in 3 different places (guc.c, postgresql.conf, and settings.sgml), which are only synched with each other manually.
- We don't seem to be getting any closer to autotuning.
- It's vitally important that any overhaul of the user side of the GUCS be completed in one version to minimize the pain involved.
- The file format should be standardized in a way that makes it easy to parse and generate.
- The internal data and pg_settings view should contain everything needed to output a new postgresql.conf that's functionally identical to the original
- This will be more difficult in cases where there are include files involved.
- By shifting from a model where postgresql.conf is document-formatted and hand-edited to one where it's machine generated, it becomes vastly easier to write simple utilities to manage these settings. Right now, the big "obstacle" to things like SET PERSISTENT is "how to we preserve the hand-edited comments in the file" -- and the answer is we don't.
- The lack of an easy way to manage settings via port access to PostgreSQL is a significant inhibitor to adopting PostgreSQL in environments with large numbers of servers. Making this available would make for easier integration into tools like CPANEL, which in turn would expand PostgreSQL web hosting availability.
- It's impossible to push all the settings into the database itself to eliminate the postgresql.conf altogether, as quite a few of the GUC parameters are needed before one can ever read the database; in particular the ones about file locations and shared memory sizing.
- Tools that operate remotely have to consider that they may make a change that keeps the server from coming back up again. Suppose you change a parameter in a way that breaks the DB (e.g., set shared_buffers to a value larger than your kernel allows) and try to restart. Database doesn't start. If you only have access to the database via port 5432 once it's up, and you can't change the parameter back via editing the file directly, you're hosed.
- To support the hosted server goal, perhaps a backup "known good" backup file can be generated and used if the primary doesn't work.
- The other option being explored is writing a config file checker. It's unclear yet how that will know whether or not the shared memory block needed with the new config will be large enough or not.
Design Proposal
Update pg_settings (Done)
Expose some of the information available but not visible in pg_settings:
- Default value. Needed to support pg_generate_conf, as well as being handy for tuning tool authors.
- Setting as it appears in the source file. You can get the setting re-scaled usefully using current_setting(name), and that may be sufficient rather than making available yet another way.
- Source for the setting, to distinguish between things sourced from the master file and those coming from include files. This is only needed to re-generate complicated postgresql.conf files that include other files.
This work is finished as of 2008-10-06.
Recommend a standard for distinguishing user and system generated comments
Right now the postgresql.conf has lines like this:
max_connections = 100 # (change requires restart)
# Note: Increasing max_connections costs ~400 bytes of shared memory per
# connection slot, plus lock space (see max_locks_per_transaction). You might
# also need to raise shared_buffers to support more connections.
In the field admins end up adopting a couple of common idioms for dealing with this file in a way that they can distinguish their changes and comments about those changes from the text that was there originally. Presenting a standard way to deal with this could be done without actually changing any server code, just by providing a new postgresql.conf. Here is one suggestion for how to re-work this parameter into a new form where system generated comments are distinguished with #!; a sample of a good user comment for change control is included as well:
#! Note: Increasing max_connections costs ~400 bytes of shared memory per
#! connection slot, plus lock space (see max_locks_per_transaction). You might
#! also need to raise shared_buffers to support more connections.
#! (change requires restart)
# 2008-09-16 Increased to 200
max_connections = 200
If this approach were adopted, it would make code to operate on the postgresql.conf file far easier to manage. A simple program could transform between various levels of verbosity in the file on admin request.
Write a comment conversion tool
Given a list of the stock comments that show up in a normal postgresql.conf, a simple script could remove those lines or portions of lines while keeping user commentary and changes in place. This would allow users with existing postgresql.conf files to adopt the new standard easily while preserving their current comments.
Add pg_settings_info
Note: the enum lists goal here has been already added to the pg_settings view as of the 8.4 development in process. However, that implementation is a simple string. It would be more orthogonal to the other things here if it were instead a text[]. Greg Smith has volunteered that make that change in the 8.4 timeline.
Add a new table (pg_settings_info) containing additional information not needed for GUC operation with some subset of the following fields:
- The system comments currently in the sample postgresql.conf. This is the primary thing needed here to enable pg_generate_conf; the items below in this list are all optional.
- Saved user comments
- Subcategory
- More documentation
- Longer description, perhaps the whole documentation for the option?
- Web link to the full documentation on this option?
- It would be handy to have any system postgresql.conf, and perhaps each section, prefer to the appropriate section of the documentation. The URL there can probably be constructed based on knowing how the docs map rather than set explicitly.
- Recommendations
- Enum lists
- It would be nice if looking at pg_settings could get you everything people like about the Annotated postgresql.conf.
Here's DDL for a minimal implementation that supports the goals below:
CREATE TABLE pg_settings_info (
name text,
system_comments text[],
user_comments text[],
Some remaining issues in this area:
- One issue with reconstructing the original file even with all the information imported is that users may have a particular sequence of parameters they've setup in the config file, perhaps to group them differently than the defaults. The source file line number added in a recent patch allows handling that.
- A sticky point here is that in the real world, people tend to put a header at the top or bottom of the file with notes about this host etc. that aren't really tied to any specific parameter.
Move the sample postgresql.conf comments into the system comments column
All the parameter-specific notes currently appearing in the postgresql.conf need to move into the pg_settings_info.system_comments area.
Write pg_generate_conf
pg_generate_conf would take the following switches:
- -b , --basic — short conf file, listing only the 15-18 most commonly changed options
- -a , --advanced — conf file listing all 196+ options
- -t, --terse — conf file lists only category headings and actual settings, no comments
- -n, --normal — conf file has category and subcategory settings, with short, descriptive comments
- -v, --verbose — conf file lists full descriptions and recommendations in comments with each option
- -c "option = value" set specific option to specific value in the file
- -f "filename" — take options and values from file "filename"
The default would be "-b, -n", with specific settings for shared_buffers and wal_sync_method. The current postgresql.conf is a lot more like a "-a, -v" file.
This would help us in the following ways:
- By having a generated postgresql.conf and an easy way to generate it, writing autoconfiguration scripts (as well as shortcuts like SET PERSISTENT) become vastly easier.
- Most users would deal only with a limited set of 15-20 configuration variables.
- The 3 places to maintain GUCS lists will be: the docs, guc.c, and the file used to populate pg_settings_info
pg_generate_conf should be able to read its own output as an input and generate a new file with the same parameters, but with a different verbosity level.
An alternate approach here would be to include some text-based documentation that is easy read on the database server itself, then refer to that (and the official documentation) inside the postgresql.conf
Remove the postgresql.conf.sample
- Delete the postgresql.conf.sample file
- initdb can now call pg_generate_conf to generate a postgresql.conf based on guc.c and command-line switches, rather than on postgresql.conf.sample
Related projects
Server side changes
There needs to be a way to modify the underlying settings and save that into a new machine-generated postgresql.conf file. Is implementing SET PERSISTENT sufficient for that?
Tuning wizard
Imagine a GUI or web app that connects to a server on port 5432, finds out some basic information about the server, and then gives something like this:
Parameter Current Recommended Change?
shared_buffers 32MB 1024MB [X]
effective_cache_size 128MB 3000MB [ ]
work_mem 1MB 16MB [ ]
Saving parameter change history
Many IT shops was some sort of history as a parameter is updated. Something like this would fit most of those requirements:
# 2008-03-02 : 32MB : postgres : Database default
# 2008-05-02 : 512MB : pg_autotune : Wizard update
# 2008-05-15 : 1024MB : gsmith : Increased after benchmark tests
shared_buffers = 1024MB
The tuning wizard should label its comments in such a fashion. The hope is that if such a format were recommended and it was good, other people would adopt it as a de-facto standard for making manual edits as well.
Sources for tuning information
- Tuning Your PostgreSQL Server goes over the 18 most important parameters to get right
- http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/104.en.html gives a much larger set of guidelines for every GUC
- http://pgfoundry.org/docman/view.php/1000106/84/calcfactors.sxc provides five different models for setting the most critical parameters based on different types of workloads


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BERLIN (Reuters) - German politicians called for tighter regulation of global interest rates after questioning Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) about the manipulation of London's Libor benchmark lending rate.
The flagship lender said it had made some provisions to cover the costs of various probes of possible manipulation of benchmark interest rates and reiterated that there were no signs that senior management had behaved inappropriately.
But politicians in Berlin were unimpressed.
Representatives from the Greens, SPD and the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) were left dissatisfied with "meager" responses to their questions and called for stronger regulation of the London interbank offered rate (Libor) in the wake of manipulation that came to light earlier this year.
"There has to be much stronger controls. Here we have another example where the freedom of the markets was abused," said Klaus-Peter Flosbach of the CDU.
Libor, used to price billions of dollars' worth of financial contracts, was thrown into the spotlight in June when the UK and United States fined British bank Barclays (BARC.L) a record $450 million for fixing rates during the credit crunch.
Deutsche Bank is talking to authorities in the United States and Europe investigating the setting of rates between 2005 and 2011.
Deutsche Bank board member Stephan Leithner, in charge of regulation, was quizzed by the German Bundestag lower house's Finance Committee on Wednesday after the bank decided not to send Co-Chief Executive Anshu Jain.
In a tense two-hour session, Leithner provided few answers to repeated questions about Deutsche's involvement in the scandal.
"We are working with authorities under strict confidentiality and therefore cannot give specific details about the status of probes," Leithner told the hearing.
Leithner, however, did say the bank had made provisions to cover the various regulatory probes, without quantifying the size of such provisions.
Asked whether the bank expects to make provisions for damage claims related to class-action lawsuits, Leithner said he did not currently foresee damage payments.
Among the politicians who called for rate-setting to be regulated was Lothar Binding, from Germany's opposition Social Democrats (SPD), who described Leithner's answers as "meager."
"This was a real cover-up. If the boss doesn't come on stage it leaves a bad impression," Binding said, referring to Jain.
Green party politician Gerhard Schick added that the promised change of culture towards an open dialogue with society by the new leadership at Deutsche Bank "was not evident".
Leithner repeated a previous admission by the bank that some of its staff had not behaved appropriately, but that no members of the management board were involved.
"The current challenge is to restore trust. This is why we are taking it very seriously," Leithner told the hearing.
The probe is likely to strain an already-tense relationship between bankers, who prefer to keep out of the public eye, and politicians, who are eager to demonstrate their grip on the world of global finance.
German regulator BaFin said banks were cooperating well with investigations. BaFin launched a special investigation of Deutsche Bank in July. Raimund Roeseler, head of bank supervision, said BaFin had become aware of Libor as a potential issue in spring 2010, after the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission told German regulators it had questioned a bank about Libor.
Deutsche had been cooperating with authorities on matters related to Libor for some time but German regulator BaFin in July decided to launch a so-called special probe of Deutsche Bank, Roeseler said.
Germany's Bundesbank has urged Berlin's lawmakers not to interfere in efforts to overhaul a system for setting global benchmark interest rates, a filing to the parliamentary hearing in Berlin showed.
In a letter addressed to the hearing, Bundesbank board member Andreas Dombret urged lawmakers to let markets decide about rates.
"Any change to a different reference interest rate should be a matter of free choice for markets and not imposed through lawmakers," the letter said.
Because Libor remains so entrenched in financial markets, regulators are working on ways to reform, rather than replace it.
Dombret said benchmark rates should take greater account of actual transactions, rather than relying only on estimates.
Regulators fear that Libor remains vulnerable to manipulation as banks are asked to submit only a hypothetical estimate about their expected borrowing rate, rather than disclosing the actual prices of completed transactions.
Reporting by Edward Taylor and Matthias Sobolewski; editing by Elaine Hardcastle, Dan Grebler and Matthew Lewis


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Yes, it's the end, and I wish I could say it's a happy one. But unfortunately, it's not. A return trip to the electronics store, the assistance of an interpreter and another US$250 couldn't cure the wireless obstacles I faced in sharing my connection with my co-workers.
I know throwing money at a problem doesn't make it go away. In fact, I'm usually a proponent of the exact opposite behavior. This time, though it seemed like a good idea: to try the biggest, fattest, most daring router they had in stock. But even the dreaded Corega WLBARAGND, a router that's as big as a book and looks like a cross between Darth Vader and a peacock — can't penetrate the walls of this building. It might have a, b, g and even Draft n compatibility, it might have triple antennas for three-axis transmission, it might even have 300Mbps transmit speeds over wireless … but it can't punch through the 1970s-era construction materials that make up my humble abode.
Oh well. At least now I know I live in fallout-shelter-quality accommodations.
But that's as far as I'm willing to go. If it had worked, it would have been worth the cost — the price probably would have been split between five people, as would the monthly bill — and I can return the router for a refund. So all in all, I didn't really lose anything. I'm just back to where I was in February, before I started this little adventure
If I decide I still want wireless access in my own house (and maybe for the one person who lives above me) I'll make another trip to the store and start from scratch. I am a little addicted to it — I can position my music machine across the room and stream audio off the Internet — but right now I'm a little weary of wireless, if you can believe that. 😕


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Rage Screens Battle for Top Spot as our Desktop Wallpaper
Today, id Software's parent-company Bethesda Softworks has released a trio of new screenshots for the upcoming title. Other than the fact that these images are most definitely staged, that the resolution isn't on-par with the game's confirmed output, and that some post-processing may have been applied: these screens are outstanding.
When it launches, id Software confirms that Rage will be locked at 60 frames per second across the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. The only significant difference across all three platforms the we spotted during QuakeCon 2010 were the loading times; however, the game was still a year off from that point.
If you're itching to enter the Rage universe, an iOS on-rails shooter has been released. Mutant Bash TV is available in both standard and HD flavors.


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It is better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all; and even more important to learn from your mistakes.
That is what I keep telling myself after having invested the time and cash equivalent to a Harvard MBA in an e-commerce start-up that has stalled and is winding down. Not a happy prospect in light of all the media pre-occupation with e-commerce success stories and the young millionaires watching their IPOs rocket into cyberspace. But the headlines ignore the more frequent stories of new e-commerce businesses that do not hit the stock market jackpot. Many of them either settle into a low-key niche or exhaust their resources and fold.
This is the story of an Internet venture that did not make the headlines, but offers some useful insights for entrepreneurs evaluating their own initiatives. The lessons learned are applicable to your own new venture or to an investment in someone else's.
In mid-1998 we launched a new company called nxtNet (www.nxtnet.com) with the slogan … "taking you to the next level on the Internet".
My partner and I both had prior successful entrepreneurial experience in computer products and wanted to start a new venture together. We decided to develop a business that would catch the next wave of e-commerce services for mid-sized companies seeking to do business on the Internet. After long discussions, searches for a unique service offering, and many draft business plans, we developed a market strategy and then chose Intershop Communications as our software development platform. This product had the advantages of being suitable for single or multiple online storefronts, and offered a flexible, economic and comprehensive solution. We committed to the product, staffing, facilities and equipment to start training and development immediately. The two of us provided the time and cash required to get started.
By October 1998, we had an initial product with application as an online storefront for an associated computer business. At the same time, we realized that the application had wide appeal to other computer dealers and could be sold as a multi-user database service and e-commerce resource. We had developed a consolidated catalogue of 85,000 computer products from multiple distributor product databases that allowed rapid search and comparison for product information, pricing, and current sources. Users could access the catalogue from the Internet and find a product by manufacturer, category, and part number, key word or price range and immediately see the alternate sources and prices with links to more technical information, preferred dealer pricing and actual stock levels. Additional features allowed the catalogue to be customized so that any computer reseller could present the database as his own online storefront. This option offered all the search and product information features to his customers, but showed only retail pricing and enabled the online ordering process.
The product offering quickly received positive feedback and strong indications of support from all the participants – resellers, distributors, and manufacturers. It was a comprehensive, powerful, and effective tool for buying and selling at all levels within the Canadian computer distribution channel. Resellers recognized the value in an online resource to save time and effort. Distributors and manufacturers saw the opportunity to promote their products, and major publishers in the industry wanted to offer complementary online services to their subscribers and advertisers. How could we fail with all this enthusiasm and support?
While the potential for success clearly existed, everybody had the same questions and reservations – "Who is there now?" "How many are using it?" and "I don't want to pay until it's bigger".
Reasonable objections we thought, so we added features and content for free. We promoted the product with free trials and low cost subscriptions for reseller access. Then we coaxed, persuaded, sold hard, and made deals. The "contra" became the standard for obtaining press coverage, free ads, mailing lists and promotion in exchange for free participation and future consideration. Activity on the Web site and catalogue grew to 3000 visitors per month with over 800 subscribers and the distributor list increased from three to twelve.
But revenue remained near zero as most reseller subscribers declined to pay for the service. Reasons were "it should be free – let the advertisers pay", "I don't use it enough", "there are lower cost options", or "we built our own solution". The audience did not grow fast enough even after we offered it for free, to satisfy the advertisers and content providers. Without persistent and conspicuous sales and marketing efforts, all the participants quickly lost interest. Meanwhile the costs of database maintenance, ongoing development, site hosting, Internet access, sales, marketing, and administration were increasing.
Clearly the old entrepreneurial model of controlling costs and growing revenue was not going to apply. We had to realign our profile to show how zero revenue and high initial costs could still lead to significant investment returns like other well-known Internet ventures. So from early 1999 we started an aggressive search for financing, estimating our requirements at $500,000 to $1,500,000 over the next two years before achieving positive cash flow. More business plans, spreadsheets, and glossy presentations to demonstrate future valuations up to $20 million, even $40 million.
We knocked on many doors, from banks to government agencies, from angel investors to venture capital, from stock promoters to business consultants, and again received lots of encouragement, but no financing. So the founding partners were faced with a continuing cash drain, no relief in sight, and the limits of their own resources rapidly approaching. It was time to put the project on hold. Strategic partners or investors might still be developed to proceed with the project, but the ongoing expenditures were stopped in late 1999.
So what are the lessons learned? We already knew that nothing ventured, nothing gained. We now also knew that big successes in the new economy require big investments. Entrepreneurs may start small, but large investments will be required from new sources to achieve significant success. And no one will put significant money into a venture unless it is the only remaining requirement.
The concept, product, development, marketing and staffing all have to be in place before an investor will provide the final ingredient – his cash. Exceptions are likely only where the management team has already succeeded in the same arena, or the investor himself can deliver the missing elements, such as customers or management skills. No investor is going to take the chance that the entrepreneur with a good concept or product will also be able to deliver the required management and marketing skills to succeed, after he has the cash.
Next time we will know better. And there are side benefits from this expensive learning experience. I can now admit that with the knowledge gained through our association with Intershop Communications, I was confident enough to make an investment in their stock on the German Neue Markt at 65 Euros last year. It went over 400 Euros last month and is still rising with their rapid growth and the prospect of a NASDAQ listing this year. Almost enough to recover my investment in nxtNet.
So the most important lesson is that education in the new economy is essential, and not free, but it can lead to success outside the original plan. Learn, be aware, and be aggressively opportunistic.


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Mushara Lodge
Just 8km from the eastern gate of Etosha National Park, in its own private reserve, the sizeable Mushara Lodge is designed for travellers who want to visit Etosha, whilst staying in a more comfortable place than the restcamps within the park. It offers well-appointed rooms and attentive service, and though it perhaps appeals most to self-driving travellers, it also offers guided game-viewing excursions into the national park.
Continue reading our full report on Mushara Lodge
Our view of Mushara Lodge
Mushara Lodge is a convenient base for those on a self-drive trip who wish to explore the eastern side of Etosha. It is a comfortable and welcoming lodge, which would appeal to families and those who like a little more comfort without being too flashy, and don't mind being slightly detached from the bush surroundings.
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Episode 212, 31 minutes running time
Welcome to the UK's most listened-to independent music podcast.
You want to listen to the show? You have 4 options:
- Listen at our website: just click here! Or,
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- If you've got iTunes, just click here to listen to it on your iPod, iPhone, iPad, or other iTunes-compatible music player. Better than radio! Or,
- You can get the show on your mobile phone via Stitcher.com!
The musical goodness featured in this week's show includes:
- The Razorbax, Better Plce
- Silver Dapple, M'Sorry
- Baby Godzilla, You're Not A Love, You're An Addiction
- Circus Sands, Better Dead
- Josh Weller, Lose You
- Zeds Dead & Omar Linx, No Prayers
Some of the talkie bits covered in this week's show includes:
- Hardly any chat at all!
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Starting at 2 minutes 27 seconds, Boba Fett begins to be mentioned in the series:
Mace Windu (voiceover): "Boba was on Geonosis when his father died. He watched as I killed him."
Anakin Skywalker (voiceover): "That would complicate things."
Mace Windu: "Indeed."
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A battery keeps a potential difference via the electromotive force (EMF) which is usually just some sort of chemical that maintains the voltage across the terminals such that a current can flow. The actual potential is:
EMF - Ir where r is the bit of resistance innate to the battery. I asked a physics professor what actually happens when a battery dies, and he said that it is due to the internal resistance eventually skyrocketing, but he couldn't explain further. Does anybody know any more about what's actually going on with the internal resistance when a battery dies?


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Eric Enberg
President's Scholar
Business Administration/Finance
College of Business
Why did you choose your major?
I basically fell in love with my economics course in high school because the instructor had decided to teach it more as an "intro to capitalism" class than as a theory-based class. And fortunately for me, this was right around the time that students were sending in college applications and picking majors. I remember looking over the course listing and curriculum for the College of Business and the Finance concentration really stood out as providing several of the topics that were of interest to me.
What does receiving this particular award mean to you?
The award is symbolic of many things, but for me, the award serves as recognition of a lot of sacrifices made on a consistent basis over the last few years.
Who has been instrumental in your life and/or who has contributed to your academic success?
I've always maintained that I owe a lot of credit to my instructors. They were there for me not only as teachers, but also as mentors, sponsors, and perhaps most importantly, as friends. Most professors that I respected and was close with had tireless work ethics, and that really motivated me to model my own performance after theirs.
Did you overcome any hardships or adversities during your life, that has helped shape who you are today? And if so, could you please briefly elaborate?
Like most people, I've experienced personal issues and instances that might not be considered representative of a model student or contribute to an ideal learning enviroment. Overcoming adversities, however, is an integral part of character development, and though I care not to elaborate on specifics of my story, I believe that my past has helped who I am today.
What would you say to other students to encourage or inspire them to attain academic excellence?
First acknowledge that academic excellence is relative and that each person might define it slightly differently. But if asked directly, I would advise other students to try and determine what they are interested in as early as possible in their academic careers because I think that it makes learning much easier. Once you have that topic figured out, run with it: read the textbooks, follow the industry/craft, practice it on your own, participate in class, reach out to teachers, show passion, etc. This is a time consuming process that can often be difficult or scary, but if done consistently, your abilties will strengthen and your confidence will follow. Leverage that confidence and skillset into participating in as many programs that the school has to offer.
Where would you like to be in 5-10 years?
In 5 years I would like to have a post graduate or be close to starting/getting one. In 10 years I hope to be well into my career, known to many in the company as an 'up and coming' sharp young professional.
A few words from his nominating professor:
Eric is also a Gary J. Sbona honors student, Thompson global intern, and participated in the international travel program to China
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I have not tried it with a Stiletto, but my wife noticed this with the S50.
When hearing a song on Radio Disney, and pressing the "love button", it will ask you to press the love button again to start recording, and then again to end recording. The songs do not wind upo in your playlist.
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Tagged: Doubles Champion
Philadelphia Phillies – Awards: Doubles Champions.
In the club's 126 years existence as a member of the National League, members of the team would win the doubles title eighteen times. The title would be won by thirteen difference Phils, with at least one Phil winning it four times, while three Phils would win the title with another National Leaguer.
The first Phil player to hit the most doubles in one season was Hall of Famer Sam Thompson, winning it in 1890 with 41 doubles. The second Phil to win the title was fellow Hall of Famer Roger Connor, who won the title in 1892 with 37 doubles. In 1893, Thompson regains the crown, hitting 37 doubles that season. Two years later, in 1895, Hall of Famer Ed Delahanty becomes the third Phil to win the title as he wins the first of his four double titles, winning it with 49 doubles. He would make it two years in a row by winning the title again in 1896 with 44 doubles. In 1898, Hall of Famer Nap Lajoie becomes the fourth Phil to win the title, slugging 43 doubles. The following year, 1899, Delahanty regains the title, as he hits 55 doubles. Delahanty wins his fourth and last doubles title as a Phil in 1901, tied for the lead with Tom Daly of the Brooklyn Superbas (now the Los Angeles Dodgers) with 38 doubles. Sherry Magee becomes the fifth Phil to win the title, as he hits 39 doubles in 1914. Two year laters, in 1916, Bert Niehoff becomes the next Phil to win the title, doing it with 42 doubles. Hall of Famer Chuck Klein becomes the seventh Phil to win the doubles crown, hitting 59 doubles in 1930, setting the club record for most doubles in a season. He would regain the title in 1933, the year of his Triple Crown performance, as he slugged 44 doubles. In 1934, Ethan Allen would become the eighth Phil to win the title, as he ended the season tied with Hall of Famer Kiki Cuyler, with the two men both hitting 42 doubles. It would then be another 32 years before another Phil would win the title. Johnny Callison becomes the ninth Phil to win the title, winning it in 1966 with 40 doubles. Willie Montanez wins the title next, becoming the tenth Phil to win the title, tied with César Cedeño of the Houston Astros in 1972, with each man hitting 39 doubles. Pete Rose becomes the eleventh Phil to win the doubles title, as he hits 42 doubles in 1980, helping lead the Phillies to the World Series title that season. The twelfth Phillie player to win the title would be Von Hayes, as he hits 46 doubles in 1986. Bobby Abreu would be the thirteenth, and at the moment, last Phil to win the doubles title, as he hits 50 two-baggers in 2002.
Of the eighteen titles, five Hall of Famers would win ten of them, with one of the wins being a shared title win. Chuck Klein wins the title with the most doubles hit by a Phillie player, hitting 59 two-baggers in 1930, setting the franchise record in the process. Roger Connor and Sam Thompson are the Phils who win the title with the least number of doubles hit, as both men hit 37 doubles in 1892 and 1893, respectively. Ed Delahanty wins the most titles as a Phil with four, followed by Thompson and Klein with two title wins each. The Phils would win the title seven times in the 19th Century, ten times in the 20th Century, and, so far, once in the 21st Century.
Who will be the next Phillie player to win the title? I have no guess at this time.


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Friday, March 27, 2009
UPDATE: I'm Stuck in Flagstaff!!
Our train is stuck in snow somewhere and isn't due to arrive until 12:35 AM! The horror. If any of you foodwishers has any hook-ups in Flagstaff, email ASAP. I'm in at the Downtown Dinner.
We may also get stuck in LA tomorrow because of this, so any SoCal foodwishers are also welcome to rescue us. More later...
We may also get stuck in LA tomorrow because of this, so any SoCal foodwishers are also welcome to rescue us. More later...
Posted by Chef John at 11:31 PM
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I wanna go home to the armadillo! I hear ya. Crazy weather going on out in the central and western US. I heard TX was getting blizzard warnings! Gotta love spring.
- March 27, 2009 at 11:50 PM
- Chef John said...
I've always said, "Spring sucks!"
- March 27, 2009 at 11:52 PM
82 in Solano county today.....
- March 28, 2009 at 12:29 AM
Blizzard nails southern plains
it's going on, it's called spring.
- March 28, 2009 at 12:51 AM
- Le Bon Vivant said...
At least know when you get back home, the weather has been absolutely beautiful here in San Francisco.
- March 28, 2009 at 3:19 AM
- Angie ^i^ said...
I wanna see snow! It's going to be 90 here in Orlando today. I'm jealous!!!
- March 28, 2009 at 6:14 AM
Get that camera out and video tape some of the action on the griddle at that dinner. By the time you get this you might be home but it was a thought.
- March 28, 2009 at 10:55 AM
- Connie T. said...
If you ever get out this way to Knoxville, TN, I will cook you a dinner.
- April 1, 2009 at 1:58 PM
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Its Valentines and what a perfect excuse for a bit of baking and blogging! I've been thoroughly spoiled by my hubby with roses, chocolates and some David Smallcombe sterling silver cuff bracelets I have been lusting after. He worked from home today so he wouldn't be late home from the office to enjoy a lovely dinner together. My intention was to bake his favourite Custard Cream Heart cookies but everywhere was sold out of vegetable shortening. So I decided to bake these Love Buns to mark the occasion. I've baked these in the past and they have a very light and fluffy sponge. I never make the white frosting the recipe specifies. Personally I can't stand it and I prefer to use buttercream, which tastes and looks so much more appealing. Of course I had to dye my buttercream pink and add some Valentine sprinkles. I hope everyone is having a wonderful Valentine's Day and being spoiled rotten.
Love Buns
For the buns
125g soft butter
125g caster sugar
2 eggs
125g plain flour
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp real vanilla extract
2-3 tbsp milk
Buttercream Icing
150g (5oz) butter, softened
300g (11 oz) icing (confectioners) sugar, sifted
1 tbsp milk
¼ tsp vanilla extract
Edible pink food colouring
Sprinkles for decoration of choice
Take everything out of the fridge to bring to room temperature - this makes a huge difference to the lightness of the love buns later - preheat the oven to 200oC/fan oven 180oC/gas mark 6.
Put all the ingredients for the buns, except for the milk, into a food processor and blitz until smooth. Pulse while adding the milk down the funnel, to make a smooth dropping consistency.
Divide the mixture into a 12-bun muffin tin lined with muffin papers or heart patterned cases, and bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes. They should have risen and be golden on top: you want a little peak if possible.
Let them cool a little in their tin on a rack, and then take them carefully out of the tin to cool in their papers, still on the wire rack.
To make the buttercream, beat the butter until soft. Add the icing sugar and stir until it's just mixed in, then add the milk and vanilla and beat until light and fluffy. Add few drops of food colouring and beat.
Spread the icing on thickly with a palette knife on top of each cupcake or put the icing into a piping back and make a large swirl on top of each cupcake. Decorate each cupcake with your chosen sprinkles.


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On February 12, the 54th annual GRAMMY Awards paid tribute to music legend Whitney Houston, who died the previous night at the young age of 48. Early reports suggest that a deadly mix of prescription drugs and alcohol were the cause of Houston's death, though toxicology results are still pending. It is well known that the six-time GRAMMY winner battled drug and alcohol addiction.
Michael Jackson…Amy Winehouse…and now Whitney Houston. Legendary singers who seemed to have it all—talent, charisma, fame, money, power, family support. And yet, they could not overcome their addiction to drugs.
That's because addiction doesn't care if you're famous or rich—once you're in its grip, the experience is similar for many of the 20 million people in the United States today who struggle with this brain disease.
Why Do People Continue To Take Drugs?
Why do people continue to abuse drugs and, in some cases, combine them with alcohol, when so many others have fallen from doing so? Although Houston entered rehab three times, she is a perfect example of why addiction is defined as "a chronic, relapsing brain disease characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use, despite harmful consequences."
The initial decision to take drugs is mostly voluntary—but after that, a combination of genetics and environment will write the rest of the story. Some people will become addicted and will find it impossible to stop taking drugs without help.
Addiction changes the brain's structure and how it works. Brain imaging studies from people who are addicted to drugs show physical changes that not only affect feelings of pleasure but also judgment, decision-making, learning, memory, and self-control. That may help explain the compulsive and destructive behaviors that characterize addiction.
What Are the Dangers of Abusing Prescription Drugs?
One of the greatest myths about prescription drugs is that, because doctors prescribe them, they are safer to abuse than illegal drugs. But as prescription drugs have become more available, more people are literally dying from their abuse. In fact, every year in the United States, more people die from an accidental overdose of painkillers than from heroin and cocaine combined.
The word "prescription" is not the same as the word "safe," especially when alcohol is added, which can affect heart rhythm, slow respiration, and even lead to death.
Resources To Prevent Prescription Drug Abuse
Although we can be saddened by Houston's passing, we can also take a thoughtful look at her experience and learn from it.
NIDA offers many resources so you can learn the science behind what prescription drug abuse does to your brain and body. Are you curious how the choice to abuse prescription drugs could play out? Check out NIDA's Choose Your Path videos to put yourself in the shoes of a story's main character.
We don't know yet exactly how Whitney Houston died. We can only guess that her drug abuse and addiction may have contributed to her death. But we do know that addiction was a major blow to her life, career, family, friends, and fans, all of whom are experiencing the sad consequences.
R.I.P Whitney houston
Drug addiction its really scary!
its really sad i loved her
its really sad i loved her
Poor Whitney, will miss your beautiful voice. Whitney was a grown lady, and wasn't forced into doing drugs, she solely made her own decision's and its not Bobby's fault.
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I deeply sorry with her gone..We all miss your golden voice
R.I.P. Whitney Houston :(
Drug addiction is too scary..
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poor whitney :(
I feel really bad for Whitney and if I were her and had a second chance I would not abuse drugs and alcohol. Whitney probaly felt alone and had no privacy so that is why she took drugs. Whitney did not have self control otherwise she would not have taken the drugs and alcohol. Even though Whitney is gone maybe other celebrities can learn from this.
Whitney was a beautiful singer and her addiction stopped her from that but i fell really bad for bobby Christina her loving mother always pulled though to help her no matter what. i mean it stinks, addiction it always gets the best of us and then they are like an empty shell of what they were. i am a big fan i looked up to her but i wont do drugs no matter what happens not one bit. the reason for my writing of this is to show what you lose when you drugs so i guess what I'm saying to everyone out there is
or that will happen to you to think about family and friends not the drugs.
R.I.P Whitney Houston. but i believe it was her own fault for getting in the drug business. Why do people take drugs ? She took drugs probably because she became addicted to well i know she did. If you take drugs causally you become addicted and cant function with out them. You start craving them and you begin to need them for everything you do. This is now 3 legendarily singers that we loss. Whitney most likely new how Michael Jackson and Amy Whinehouse passed away. so she have been careful. You don't want to get started with drugs. Look what happened shell be loved and missed, but i still believe it was her own fault for drugging herself. Drug addiction is scary. You get hooked on easily. Sadly we loss her but she will be missed.
Whitney was a beautiful singer and her addiction stopped her from that but i fell really bad for bobby Christina her loving mother always pulled though to help her no matter what. i mean it stinks, addiction it always gets the best of us and then they are like an empty shell of what they were. i am a big fan i looked up to her but i wont do drugs no matter what happens not one bit. the reason for my writing of this is to show what you lose when you do drugs so i guess what I'm saying to everyone out there is
or that will happen to you to think about family and friends not the drugs.
May this talented women find eternal peace and happiness. Let her soul rest in peace. Curse the devils powder, leaf and mineral. I wish I could hear this womens singing in heaven because on earth she was tortured by drugs. Maybe this is a sign from above the clouds to not touch drugs. Let us not feel the same pain that Whitney felt and stay strong and not do drugs and alcohol.
i hate how we have to leave such a beutiful golden voice all because of drugs. R.I.P. Whitney. Dont do drugs i know i dont want to end up like her.


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