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In Any Way You Slice It, Stan Cox - the author of Losing Our Cool, the controversial and widely acclaimed examination of air-conditioning's many impacts - turns his attention to the politically explosive topic of how we share our planet's resources.
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— Naomi Klein
a "lucid and lively book"
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The Any Way You Slice It
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Read by LJ Ganser
"Today, rationing is
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Cox's presentation to the Prairie Festival, The Land Institute, Sept. 28, 2013
Cox at the Mother Earth News blog
at Mother Earth News, Al Jazeera, CounterPunch, AlterNet, and elsewhere
"Time is running out for incremental, piecemeal solutions to looming global threats. In Any Way You Slice It, Stan Cox offers a way out through a kind of ethical and rational triage. He maps out a plan to ration the Earth's shrinking resources in a way that is socially just and ecologically sane. This brave book is not for the timid or those frozen by political taboos, but it is a must-read for those who want to forge real change before the ecological doomsday clock strikes midnight."
— Jeffrey St. Clair, editor of CounterPunch and author of Born Under a Bad Sky
"A cool and cogent analysis of a taboo
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Rare Diseases and the Search for a Cure: A Reddit AMA
Dr. Christopher Austin is director of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), part of the NIH, which is trying to find ways to get new treatments and cures for diseases delivered to patients faster. Along with the Journal's Health reporter Amy Dockser Marcus, Dr. Austin took questions during a Reddit AMA. The full AMA is here; below are some highlights.

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Building Your own brake system
Hi Mike
A hydro boost can be mounted in any position frame rails included.
A remote master cylinder is no problem but you should use a 1.125 dia piston power brake master.
The pedal feel is very light a touch of your foot on the brake pedal will stop most rods out there in normal driving.Its just like a Ford super duty with a diesel motor. As far as distance goes it would depend on what other baking components you have installed. A mid 80s corvette 6 piston caliper large rotor will stop like a super car with a hydro boost. I dont want to get in trouble with this site but you contacted me so www.tallonhydraulics.com
will help you find what you need and can build what you want just contact them through the web site.
Electric Boost
Yes there is electric boost. It was used where there was cramped space under the hood in the normal area of the master cylinder. I first saw it on a Jeep Cherokee.
This is not something you would want to adapt into a project. Hydroboost itself is a fabulous mature design when it uses a power steering pump to supply the > 1000 psi fluid pressure as the boost power source. The problem with the electric driven pump power source is that the pump design is below poor.
They chose to use a very cheap electric brush motor that is below the quality of say a electric window motor. They were not careful with fluid connector choices, pump body was aluminum, etc. The pump would strain to reach the design pressure.
How it was supposed to work: The pump would come on and pump fluid until a pressure switch was satisfied at 1200 psi. The pump motor would shut off until the pressure dropped back down (the brakes were pressed). So far things are ok until: Something leaks, the cheap pressure switch contacts stick or don't make, fluid runs low and the system stays on until the motor smokes or the pump gets hot enough to melt the "o" ring seals. The units are more expensive than power steering systems because they are constantly failing so the supply of rebuilds runs low and the supply of "cores" run low - driving the core charge through the roof.
I had considered using the brake fluid pump from an ABS system as a power source because they are good quality but, decided not to chance using a motor /pump that was supposed to come on a few times a year for continuous use. Stopping is just too important.
Hydroboost - Yes *** electric boost no!
i realize this thread was started in 05, but i thought i would put
my info in for future readers.
project 58 chevy pickup: mustII front disc & 86 trans am rear disc brakes.
i wanted power brakes and a shaved firewall. hanging pedal with 12" vacume booster wouldn't work.
frame mounted 7" vacume booster didn't fit my needs (weak *** legs). original master
cylinder was under floor, frame mounted.
i found a hydroboost out of an 03 mustang gt, junkyard purchased for $100.
fabbed the bracket and made a plate to weld in my frame that the bracket would bolt to.
i used my stock swing arm and pedal.
my truck has power steering anyway, picture above is before plumbing the hydro lines.
i did not move the pivot points of the original swing arm. but i was able to cut 3" out of the pedal height,
thus lowering the pedal to the floor (remember those weak *** legs). this helped considerably.
i have only driven my truck 20 miles before putting it in the shop for the winter (and to finish the bed).
but i can tell you that they work rather well.
Can't stress enough to rebuild
Be sure of the reputation of the rebuilder, because there are more than a few companies that we are aware of these days that repaint or polish up the outside of a an old unit and sell it as rebuilt (trust me on that). If you wonder why a seller has them for a fraction of what the other sellers have them for, then they are scamming you, and that goes for most things.
Electric Brake Answers
As many of you seem to have figured out, the Electric Brake was from a Jeep, there were a few other different inceptions of 'electric brakes', as in the Turbo Buick Powermaster, and the electric brake unit on the Ford T-bird SuperCoupes. You can see videos here where we covered both of those
Both of these units were used to try and work around the complete lack of vacuum that the two cars had because of the supercharging they came with.
No vacuum + vacuum booster = fast car with no brakes. So Bob at Power Brake Service developed what is now being called the Electric Brake in the mid to late 80's, because it seemed to solve the lack of vacuum problems that the muscle cars and hot rods we normally see have, because of their blowers and huge cams.
The advantage of being in business for 60 years is that your customers update you on how products worked out, and you can adapt to improve. After a while our customers were telling us that the electric motors would burn out faster than they would expect and the units would fail... after a while. Bendix stopped making the new units, and there was nobody making parts to rebuild it. No new units and no parts meant that it wasn't a viable option. The pressure switches, accumulators, and pumps were all prone to failure, and three sources of failure is not something that we would want to sell.
These days, with no major manufacturer making new units, and nobody making rebuild kits, means that there are no new units available to anybody anywhere, and there are absolutely no rebuilt units anywhere for anybody to adapt to their other application. They are also not making Powermaster parts (go ahead and find out how the Grand National guys feel about that), and ATE doesn't care to make the T-bird units again.
That means that there are no legitimate electric booster units coming from PBS (us) SSBC, Baer or anybody. There are only un-rebuilt used units available. There are new casting that are being made, but there are only used internal parts place in them (the casting doesnt stop the car, the parts do). We've thought about selling them again since they seem popular, but we don't know where to start since whatever cores are available have been over rebuilt and machined. It is a cold hard fact for the few of us performance brake companies and the electric vacuum pumps are fighting a loosing battle against the complete lack of vacuum in a performance engine. The New Delco Moraine 11 inch boosters that you can buy, arent being made by Delco, they are stamped under license in China, making them un-American for your American classic. For the last twenty years the big companies have been using crimped cans, not twist off, for vacuum boosters, so they can only be rebuilt twice before the out can is trash. Finally, the 7 inch vacuum boosters that people are putting on only put out between 400-600 psi, and calipers require 1200 to operate, so they are dangerous. Hydroboosts are the perfect solution, but are on the expensive side for a lot of people. Pretty frustrating, isnt it?
I didn't get those youtube embeds right:
The Powermasters are still available.Kirban Performance stocks them.They are rebuilds from Cardone and do carry a lifetime guarantee.A lot of the rebuild parts have been improved over the years.The accumulator bowl and pressure switch are much better.The core charge was $75 last time I looked.If you get a good one they work well.The only problem is finding a good one.It's hit or miss.Hydro Boost is the way to go.
The electric booster has been used on 88 t birds that were turbo, GM had them for a few years as another person posted, and yes , they were very unreliable.
Ford has used them as a safety backup brake booster for the f 600 (and up) since back in the day.It had hydro boost w a electro boost piggybacked to it.pretty cool.
The turbo t bird ones were pretty reliable actually and were implemented with the ABS which you can simply not use if desired.
I would pesonally go for the hydro boost setup. They are very reliable .As they are pretty common, parts are readily available too.
It pays to shop around . someone has to be making these with chrome and better outwardly apearance for us hot rod guys.
Electric Brake Booster
This is the Electric brake booster, it is an obsolete Jeep electric brake that was made by Bendix, they are out of production, there are only cores available, and those cores are polished up and sold as new. Even the 'new' master cylinder castings have the internal parts from the used cores.
Cores are taken off a car because they have previously failed, or the car has been scrapped because it was worn out, 'Cores' are often rebuilt with new parts and sold as 'rebuilt'. This unit is obsolete and there are no new parts, only old parts from other cores - 'Used' not 'Rebuilt'. The electric motor, accumulator, and pressure switch are constantly failing on all vehicles with electric type brake boosters, and the owners of vehicles with them have to source and replace one of the three parts about once a year - so they are looking for ways to get rid of it and convert to something else. You are being charge $1,100 for a junkyard product.
What about ABS's system?
What about the system from ABS Power Brake Inc?... Is this stuff considered bad?
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It's all in the tension. As tightrope walkers make their way across the rope, balancing delicately above a precipitous fall, it's the tension in the rope that enables the journey from one side to the other. Of course, another tension is crucial to the act. In watching the acrobat take one step then the next, we too are tense, hoping the feat is accomplished without incident. As the funambulist (yeah, look it up) finally steps on "solid" ground atop the small platform on the other side, we exhale. The tension makes the act.
Like tightrope walking, software development is in a state of perpetual tension. And much like the tightrope, the tension makes the act. Our "rope" is the constant demand from the world to have software do more and more. Our balance comes from our intuition and our innovation, both in the technologies we apply to help us write and manage more and more code as well as the innovation we receive from advances in hardware capabilities. But without the tension, we would not progress. The demand for new software to solve problems will always be at odds with our ability to produce the amount of software necessary to meet those demands.
Unfortunately, many software development projects run the risk of losing their balance. Last year, Intel fellow Shekhar Borkar said, "The software has to...start following Moore's Law. Software has to double the amount of parallelism that it can support every two years." For the last 60 years, we've relied on faster processors and more disk space to enable key technology innovations like the compiler, the IDE, source code management, continuous builds, and so on; now, rather than a blessing, "more speed" adds to the tension. Not only do we have to add more features, we must figure out how to make both existing and new applications work across an ever-increasing number of cores on a single box.
Compounding the tension, the market has also stepped up its demand for software. The pervasiveness of software cannot be ignoredit's not just about having software on every PC or the Web. It's about having software everywhere, from your cell phone to your car to your alarm clock and probably even in toasters (the things that make your breakfast and those pesky Cylons). This new level of pervasiveness means that whatever business you're in, you're probably also in the software business.
The question we face today is, "How can we maintain (or regain) our balance in walking the tightrope of software development?"
Because of the exploding complexity of software development, the demand for more software and the advances in hardware that require even more sophisticated applications, it's time for the software development world to respond with innovations that can restore a natural balance to our endeavors. But what will that innovation be? Well, I can't see into the future, but I think we can take a look at many of the new tool vendors out there to see the direction we are headed. The analyst community has already begun discussion around the concept of ALM 2.0, with the notion that ALM is not sufficient to the task. I agree with this sentiment. The smaller companies that are innovating to fill in this ALM 2.0 picture (like Coverity, the company I work for) all have one thing in common. Each one of us is fundamentally digging deeper and deeper into the inner workings of the entire software system, including the source codehow it's designed, assembled, tested, and released. Some of us are looking for defects and vulnerabilities with sophisticated analysis of the source itself and the runtime of the resulting system. Some of us are enabling productivity through better understanding of build systems. Others are enhancing the way we test by analyzing the code to automatically generate tests or developing ways to instrument binary code to make it more hacker-proof.
The common thread to all of these next-generation tools is the deeper dive into the software system. The innovation that will help us regain our balance as developers is not just in this deeper dive, but in treating the entire software system holistically. It won't be sufficient to just analyze the source, or the assembly process, or the tests that exercise the software. We'll control the tension with technologies that are not just process oriented (like the current ALM suite), but with tools that fundamentally understand and communicate what's happening in a software system at various stages of development. This will enable us to optimize our coding and testing to improve software quality, as well as the productivity of every developer. After that, the crowds will cheer as we reach our platform, ready for the next development challenge to present itself.


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Hello everyone,
I'm a new programmer and thus still suck, I do not even know if I should be posting this here or be able to receive any help.
However, my issue is the following: (Note: I'm using Ready to Program to code)
I've wrote a gaming database and I'm calling them using the following rs statement:
if (eve.getSource () == mybtn) { try { String sql = "Select * from Games Order by Genre"; int cnt = 0; rs = stmt.executeQuery (sql); while (rs.next ()) { String Genre = rs.getString ("Genre"); String Popularity = rs.getString ("Popularity"); String HighestScore = rs.getString ("HighestScore"); // I would like to modify this value String Rating = rs.getString ("Rating"); String PlayerName = rs.getString ("PlayerName"); String TournamentAvailable = rs.getString ("TournamentAvailable"); String Game = rs.getString ("Game"); data [cnt] [0] = Genre; data [cnt] [1] = Popularity; data [cnt] [2] = HighestScore; // I would like to modify this value data [cnt] [3] = Rating; data [cnt] [4] = PlayerName; data [cnt] [5] = TournamentAvailable; data [cnt] [6] = Game; cnt++; table.updateUI (); } } catch (Exception e) { System.out.println ("Vraag 1 onsuksesvol"); e.printStackTrace (); } }
I would like to modify the value of HighestScore by replacing it with a random generated number, using the following code: double y = (Math.random () * 5001) + 1; (which generates random numbers between 1-5000)
Then, I need to take the random generated value and import it back into my JTabel.
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In February we produced our first member newsletter; powerdebug and powertop tools were released on all member SoCs; ST-Ericsson announced Snowball; we made initial deliverables on the LAVA project; and Nokia announced their plans to tie up with Microsoft.
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It's something that I'm relatively used to that I have a super-vivid dream life. I talk in my sleep, walk in my sleep, yell at people for stuff they've done in my dreams and often wake up when the phone rings and have a conversation related to my dream with the person on the other side.
Last night I had a dream that the cast of Dead Like Me (mainly Mason) hanging out in a train with Finn from Glee, discovering that there were newborn babies somehow psychically/telekinetically/voodoishly attached to them so that every time they moved the baby moved too. And i woke up with the tagline "I wanna party like a newborn" stuck in my head.
Not the point of the point of this post though. A while ago a 'friend' of mine treated me really really badly, and eventually told me that she would fake being half-friends with me for a while but eventually she'd lose touch on purpose and never speak to me again.
And she was in my dream and I went to her in front of a bunch of people in the train and i shouted at her. And I woke up feeling fantastic. And in traffic yesterday I realised why. In my attempt to avoid dragging our mutual friends (after we met 22 years ago most friends have been mutual) into the conflict she has basically been taking them away from me one by one. I don't know what she tells them (although she told me to my face that she has lied to me and then accused me of being dishonest so I can imagine in her warped mind she must have invented all kinds of things).
so I think subconsciously I have been wanting to put my side of the story out there without being petty and hurting friends who shouldn't have to choose between us. I feel like I've been treated unfairly and I can't defend myself. and I feel like by being immature she's actually winning. the high road hurts sometimes.
Who knows, all I can say is that I'm grateful for my dreams for letting me feel like I could do something about it, even if it didn't really happen.
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yay, it's been forever since I got an award and now bonda84 from life, love and other everyday adventures has given me this shiny one:
Which might just drag me out of blogger apathy for a while (Not sure if 'stylish' really applies to me considering that the best part of my year so far has been running around with pink hair, but I do like shiny things so I think I'll keep it). So the usual drill applies: 7 things about me, plus a bunch of people to give it to.
- I love climbing trees but am actually not much good at it. I also tore my jeans on a tree on the weekend.
- I love running to ridiculous music. The sillier the better. The joy of going to the gym is that I often wonder if anything 'leaks' out of my headphones. I never know if the funny looks are from the music they might be able to hear or from the way I giggle at certain stages while red-faced, sweaty and trying desperately to keep running.
- I find pictures of animals doing human things (such as sitting at a computer) rather disturbing. Animals wearing clothes is even worse. I do not know how I worked at a petshop for 2 years without having a breakdown in the middle of the dog tracksuits.
- there is a website called www.nooooooooooooooo.com . Seriously.
- I got stung by a scorpion for the first time last weekend. It still hurts.
- I use dog shampoo. It works fantastically well as well as being sulphate free, paraben free and soap free. It's also a fraction of the price of the equivalent in human shampoo (and it wasn't tested on animals either). So about that stylish award…
- I have always been fascinated by the circus, and Cirque du Soleil was incredible enough to reawaken my old dream of running away and joining the circus. P1 said I bounced continuously for the full 2 hours.
So, who to give this to… I guess if you're feeling more stylish than me (i.e. if you are a normal functioning human being) then feel free to take it if you're someone who reads this and comments occasionally. just let me know please! And Vanessa, who just got her first blog and therefore requires a first award and will never take it unless it's forced on her.
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1. The phrase or punctuation I overuse most is ellipses… definitely… I can irritate myself sometimes when I can't stop using the little dots…
2. Today I am thankful for coffee. and for my dad who took one look at me this morning and brought me a cup.
3. My best friend is: well I don't believe in the concept of best friends, people have different reasons that make me love them and they all fulfil very important roles in my life. In terms of the first person I call when something exciting happens, then it would be the P1.
4. A quirky thing about me is that I can only really exercise after 9pm, generally not too long after dinner. I actually like cold showers.
5. This weekend I am doing as little as possible. It's my last weekend here for a while though so I can foresee it getting hectic. So far all I have scheduled is a birthday party.
6. Something that worries me is the way that everything is changing all the time but at the same time nothing seems to change at all. I worry that with everything moving around so much there won't be anywhere for me anymore.
7. On my night stand you would find my glasses, a box crammed full of earrings, my antibiotics (2 days to go!), nail polish (always gravitates there), a lamp and enough things that I have to be careful rolling over during the night as that can start an avalanche is my duvet is at the wrong angle.
As some people have problems with uneven bullet points, I will add in another one:
8. The most awesome thing I have found today is:
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American Woman Found Dead, Stuffed in Suitcase in Bali
The woman's daughter has been arrested in connection with the grisly crime
A Chicago-area woman has been found dead and stuffed inside a suitcase in Bali, where she was vacationing with her daughter.
The body of Sheila von Weise-Mack, 62, was discovered by a taxi driver on Tuesday, according to ABC News. He found her remains in his trunk outside the Saint Regis Bali resort, where she was staying.
The woman's daughter, 19-year-old Heather Mack, and her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, 21, have been arrested in connection with her murder.
Von Weise-Mack was last seen alive on Monday at the Saint Regis. Surveillance footage from the hotel shows her arguing with her daughter in the lobby.
The taxi driver who discovered the body says the couple hailed his cab outside the hotel, only to drop off the suitcase, along with two other bags, and never return. Police later found Mack and Schaefer at another hotel.
Neighbors in the family's Oak Park, Illinois, community say the mother and daughter's relationship was troubled.
"Police were here all the time," one neighbor told the Chicago Tribune. "They would call police on each other. It turned very abusive and volatile."
David Powers, spokesman for Oak Park, told the paper that police had been called to the family's home 86 times since 2004.
"They basically said they were a wide range of calls, mostly for domestic trouble and theft," he said. "There were several missing person calls, and a few 911 hang-ups that police responded to."
Others were shocked by the violent death. "I was leaving this morning and going past the TV set and I heard something about Heather Mack, which is a very rare name," a family member told ABC News. "But I just thought the world was too big for that to be her I don't believe this."
Mack and Schaefer have been detained and are currently being questioned in connection with the case, according to Bali police.


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In the previous article, an approach was outlined to handle the binary log group commit. The basic idea is to use the binary log as a ticketing system by reserving space in it for the transactions that are going to be written. This will provide an order on the transactions as well as allowing writing the transactions in parallel to the binary log, thereby boosting performance. As noted in the previous post, a crash while writing transactions to the binary log requires recovery. To understand what needs to be changed, it is necessary to understand how the structure of the binary log as well as how recovery after a crash works currently together with the implementation of 2-phase commit that MySQL uses.
A quick intro to the structure of the binary logFigure 1 gives the rough structure of the binary log with a set of binlog files and an binlog index file. The binlog index file just list the binlog files that makes up the binary log, while each binlog file have the real contents of the binary log that you can see when executing a
Each binlog file consists of a sequence of binlog events, where the most important events from our perspective is the Format description event. In addition, each binlog file is also normally terminated by a Rotate event that refers to the next binlog file in the sequence.
The Format description event is used to describe the contents of the binlog file and therefore contain a a lot of information about the binlog file. In this case we are interested in a special flag called
LOG_EVENT_BINLOG_IN_USE_F, which is used to tell if the binlog is actively being written by the server. When the server opens a new binlog file, this flag is set to indicate that the file is in use, and when the binary log is rotated and a new binlog file created, this flag is cleared when closing the old binlog file.
In the event of a crash, the flag will therefore be set and the server can see that the file was not closed properly and start with performing recovery.
Recovery and the binary logWhen recovering, the server has to find all transactions that were partially executed and decide if they are going to be rolled back or committed properly. The deciding point when a transaction will be committed instead of rolled back is when the transaction has been written to the binary log. To do this, the server has to find all transactions that were written to the binary log and tell all storage engines to commit these transactions.
The recovery procedure is executed when the binary log is opened—which the server does calling
TC_LOG_BINLOG::open during startup. When the binary log is opened, recovery is done if the last open binlog file was not closed properly. An outline of the procedure executed is:
- Open the binlog index file and go through it to find the last binlog file mentioned there [
- Open this binlog file and check if the
LOG_EVENT_BINLOG_IN_USE_Fflag is set
- If the flag was clear, then the server stopped properly and no recovery is necessary. Otherwise, the server did not stop properly and recovery starts by calling.
- The last binlog file is now open, so the entire binlog file is scanned and the XID of each each Xid event is recorded. These XIDs denote the transactions that were properly written to the binary log—that is, the transactions that shall be committed [
- Each storage engine is handed the list of XIDs of transactions to commit through the
handlerton::recoverinterface function [
- The storage engine will then commit each transaction in the list and roll back all the others.
So, what's the problem?The procedure above works fine, so what are the problems we have to solve to implement the procedure described in the previous article? If you look in Figure 2, you have a hint to what is the problem.
Now, assume that thread 1, 2, and 3 in Figure 2 is writing transactions to disk (starting at positions Trans_Pos1, Trans_Pos2, and Trans_Pos3 respectively) and that a preceding thread (a thread that got a binlog position before
Last_Complete) decides that it is time to call
fsync to group commit the state this far. The binlog file will then be written in this state—where some transactions are partially written—and
Last_Committed will be set to the value of
Last_Complete, leading to the situation depicted in Figure 2.
As you can see in the figure, thread 2 has already finished writing data to the binary log and is therefore written to durable storage. Since thread 1—which precedes thread 2 in the binary log—has not completed yet, thread 2 has not yet committed and is still waiting for all the preceding transactions to complete. If a crash occurs in this situation, it is necessary to somehow find the XID of all transactions that have committed—excluding the transaction that thread 2 has completed—and commit them to the storage engine when recovering.
A proposal for a new recovery algorithmIn the original algorithm, the scan of the binlog file stopped when the file ended, but since there can be partially written events in the binlog file after the "real" end of the file (the binlog file ends logically at
Last_Complete), so we have to find some other way to detect the logical end of the file.
To handle this, it is necessary to somehow mark events that are not yet committed so that the recovery algorithm can find the correct position where the binlog file ends. The same problem occurs if one wants to persist the end of the binlog file preallocating the binlog file. There are basically three ways to handle this:
- Write the end of the binlog file in the binlog file header (that is, the Format description log event).
- Mark each event by zeroing out a field that cannot be zero—for example, the length, the event type, or event position—before writing the event to the binary log. Then write this field with the correct value after the entire event has been written.
- Checksum the events and find the end of the worklog by scanning for the first event with an incorrect checksum.
- Write the length in the binlog file header
- Finding the length of the binlog in this case is easy: just inspect the header and find the length of the binlog file there. In this case, it is necessary to update the length after the event has been written since there may be an
fsynccall at any time between starting to write the event data and finishing writing the event. Normally, this means updating two block of the file for each event written, which can be a problem since it requires at least the block containing the header and all the blocks that was written since the last group commit to be written when calling
fsync. If a large number of events is written between each
fsync, this might not impose a large penalty, but if
sync-binlog=1it might become quite expensive. Some experiments done by Yoshinori showed a drop from 15k events/sec to 10k events/sec, which means that we lose one third in performance.
Digression. The measurements that Yoshinori did consisted of one
pwriteto write the event, one
pwriteto write the length to the header and then a call to
fsync. It is, in other word, most similar to using
sync_binlog=1. In reality, however, this will not be the case since a user that is using the binary log group commit will have several events written between each call to
fsync. Since these writes will be to memory (the file pages are in memory), performance will not drop as much. To evaluate the behavior for a group commit situation better, writing 10 events at a time was compared as well (pretending to be
sync_binlog=10). Straight append (using
write) gave at that point 110k events/sec and write to the header before calling
fsyncgave 80k events/sec. This means a performance reduction of 27%, which is an improvement but still a very large overhead.
- Use a marker field
- The second alternative is to use one of the fields as a marker field. By setting one of the fields that cannot be zero to zero, it is possible to detect that the event is incorrect and stop at the event before that. Good candidates as fields is the length—which cannot be zero for any event and is four bytes—and the event type, which is one byte and where zero denotes an unknown event and never occurs naturally in a binlog file. The technique would be to first blank out the type field of the event, write the event to the binlog file, and then use
pwriteto fill in the correct type code after the entire event is written. If an
fsyncoccurs before the event type is written, the event will be marked as unknown and if a crash occurs before the event is completely written (and written to disk), it will be possible to scan the binlog file to find the first event that is marked as unknown. In order for this technique to work, it is necessary to zero the unused part of the binlog file before starting to write anything there (or at least zero out the event type). Otherwise, crash recovery will not be able to correctly detect where the last completely written event is located.
Compared to the previous approach, this does not require writing to locations far apart (except in rare circumstances when the event spans two pages). It also has the advantage of not requiring any change of the binlog format. This technique is likely to be quite efficient. (Note that most of the writes will be to memory, so there will not be any extraneous "seeks" over the disk to zero out parts of the file.)
- Checksum on each event
- The third alternative is to rely on an event checksum to detect events that are incompletely written. This approach is by far the most efficient of the approaches since the event checksum is naturally written last. It also has the advantage of not requiring the unused parts of the binlog file to be zeroed since it is unlikely that the checksum will be correct for the event unless the event has been fully written. This also makes it a very good candidate for detecting the end of the binlog file when preallocating the binlog file. The disadvantage is, of course, that it requires checksums to be enabled and implemented.
The next article will wrap up the description by pointing out some efficiency issues and how to solve them to get an efficient implementation.


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What are you doing on April 2, 2012? I bet one of two things. Either trying to locate your ancestors or family members in the 1940 census or digging right in and helping with the indexing. Do you know what I'm talking about? I bet there isn't a genealogist in the
who doesn't know about this event. But there are probably a lot of other folks who happen to read this blog for whatever reason, and don't have a clue. Most bloggers have already written a piece about this soon to be released census. Bloggers have even talked about things that happened in the 40s, I will too at another time. United States
Let me share with you some information regarding the 1940:
Thousands of volunteers will be helping with the indexing. To do your part in helping this historic document get seen by everybody as quickly as possible, just sign up at The1940Census.org *. Scroll to the bottom and try out the indexing software for an example. It's easy, terribly simple...you know, if I can do it (with bad eyes), then you can too. You would be helping all genealogists as well as making your research easier too. You can choose your state, I selected
, since I've lived in three towns there, but no family was there in 1940. You can select a genealogical society to get credit as well, I chose Connecticut Society of Genealogists, CSG. Massachusetts
*At the bottom of the above sign-in page, you will see:
Did you notice that I said you could find your family in the 1940 immediately? But you now know there is no index. How is that possible? Well, you'll have to do some work. See the second blog for more information.
A few excellent blogs regarding the 1940, in far more detail than provided above:
Connie Potter on the 1940 Census by Judy G. Russell (please look at the video)
Gear up for 1940 Census Indexing and Researching by Thomas MacEntee (see article by Steve Morse on how to find out where your ancestor's / family were living and how to find them immediately on the 1940 census without an index)
My 1940 U.S. Census Compendium by Randy Seaver (lots of good blogs about the 1940 census project)
1940 US Census Indexing Simulation by James Tanner
What will I be doing? Indexing of course. (Note: This goal did not work out for me. I have a eye condition, that made it difficult to read and transcribe in a timely fashion. I thought I could, but..., I would often see 140, instead of 1940, so that's a major problem). With 566 ancestors and related family members listed in the 1930 census, I probably have more than 566 to look up, so I'll wait for the completed index. My grandparents were all living in the same house as the 1930 census and my parents were both away at college, in
, in 1940. Have fun with the indexing everybody and I hope we all share on face book or through blogs what towns or cities we are working on. If you don't use fb or blog, why not share in the comment section of this blog. Thank you everybody for doing your part in the indexing, and remember, the more who do it, the quicker it will get done. New York


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Wild turkeys seem to know that Thanksgiving is right around the corner and they are fighting back in Connecticut.
Marcos Carreras, or rather his car, has been the victim of wild turkeys not once but twice.
Carreras, of Farmington, Conn., was on his way to work at Kingswood Oxford School on Wednesday morning when one menacing turkey he refers to as "Frankenturkey" went after one car, then came right up to his driver's side window and actually pecked the door.
The fowl encounter happened between Old Mountain Road and Talcott Notch and Frankenturkey attacked on Halloween as well, Carreras said.
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According to the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, there are an estimated 35,000 wild turkeys in all 169 towns in the state.
It is unusual for turkeys to be aggressive, especially in the fall, said Michael Gregonis, a wildlife biologist with DEEP.
It is possible that this turkey was accustomed to humans because people had been feeding it.
Gregonis recommends that people avoid feeding turkeys. There is enough food in the woodlands for them to eat, he said.
You have to watch the video to see just how brazen the turkey is. Carreras' commentary and sound effects also make watching well worth your time.


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Northern Scarlet Snake
Scientific name: Cemophora coccinea copei (JAN 1863)
* Currently accepted name
* scientific names used through time
- Coluber coccineus – BLUMENBACH 1788
- Rhinostoma coccineus – HOLBROOK 1842
- Simotes coccineus – DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854
- Cemophora coccinea copei – JAN 1863
- Cemophora coccinea – COPE 1888
Description: Average adult size is 14-20 inches (36-51 cm), record is 32.5 inches (82.8 cm). Adult color is a whitish-gray dorsal ground color with red blotches bordered by black. The head is red with a distinct light colored band just behind the eyes. The belly pattern is uniformly whitish-gray. The scales are smooth, and there are 19 dorsal scale rows at midbody. There are 6 scales on the upper lip, and the pupil is round. Juvenile color is like that of adults.
A. Top of the head (notice the large plate-like scales on the top of the head
B. Underside of the head (chin and throat)
C. Front (face view) of the head
D. Side of the head
E. Smooth scales
F. Elongated scales below the tail (subcaudal scales) are divided
Range: In Florida, it is found from around Marion Co. in the northern peninsula northwest to Oklahoma and northeast to southern New Jersey.
Habitat: Commonly found in pine flatwoods, dry prairies, hardwood hammocks, and sandhills.
Comments: HARMLESS (Non-Venomous) The Florida scarlet snake is locally abundant, but rarely seen due to its secretive nature. It lives mostly underground, in or under logs, or burrowed under tree bark. It is nocturnal and sometimes seen after dark crossing roads.
It feeds on small snakes, lizards, rodents, and reptile eggs.
It lays eggs. Breeding occurs from March through June, and typically 3-8 eggs are laid from May through August. Newborns are 5-6 inches (12-15 cm) in length.
Comparison with other species: The Scarlet Snake is often confused with the Scarlet Kingsnake (Lampropeltis elapsoides) and Eastern Coral Snake (Micrurus fulvius), but it is easy to distinguish between these three species look-alike species. The Scarlet Kingsnake (Lampropeltis elapsoides) possesses colored rings that go entirely around its belly. The Eastern Coral Snake (Micrurus fulvius) has a rounded black snout and its red rings touch its yellow rings.


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OFTERSCHWANG, Germany -- Tina Maze just keeps setting records in the World Cup, even on days when she doesn't win.
Maze finished second to Anna Fenninger of Austria on Saturday in a giant slalom, missing out on her 10th victory of the season but becoming the first woman to make eight podiums in the discipline in the same campaign.
The Slovenian has already clinched the overall and giant slalom World Cup titles -- and rewritten the record for points in a season -- but couldn't overcome Fenninger's strong performance on Saturday.
Fenninger protected her lead from the first run to complete the Ofterschwanger Horn course in a total of 2 minutes, 29.39 seconds, finishing 0.44 ahead of Maze.
"I'm very happy with the day and the course. The atmosphere was great," Maze said. "A second-place finish was super today."
Maze earned her 21st World Cup podium of the season, just one behind Austrian great Hermann Maier's record from 1999-2000. She has already broken Maier's record for points in a season, and extended her total to 2,154.
Julia Mancuso of the United States was eighth after finishing 2.85 off the pace on her 29th birthday. American teenager Mikaela Shiffrin, the slalom world champion, she skied out on her first run just four days before her 18th birthday.
It was the second victory in a week for the 23-year-old Fenninger, who also won a super-G at Garmisch-Partenkirchen last Sunday.
"I was quite surprised to see how fast I managed to ski in the second run, starting last," Fenninger said. "The conditions weren't as good as they were obviously in the first run. I've been feeling really good in the last weeks. I skied with instinct and without too much thinking and it's working again today."
Viktoria Rebensburg was 0.96 back in third place. The German was going for her third win in a row at Ofterschwang. Eva-Maria Brem of Austria was fourth for her best World Cup finish, followed by France's Anemone Marmottan, who was fastest in the second run.
Finland's Tanja Poutiainen was taken by helicopter to a hospital with a knee injury after crashing in the first run.
Mancuso was fourth after a good the first run.
"It was a really good start, a step in the right direction for me. I still need to make two good runs, but I'm happy," Mancuso said.
Mancuso is still in the running for the super-G title, trailing Maze by 55 points going into the World Cup finals next week in Lenzerheide, Switzerland.
"To be in the chase for a globe is a dream of mine, I really want to win a globe," said Mancuso, who is skipping Sunday's slalom race to concentrate on Thursday's super-G final. "I think if I can win a race then that goal will also come true."
Organizers had cancelled a training run to protect the snow due to the springtime conditions.
With her unprecedented dominance this season, Maze has nearly twice as many points as her closest challenger, Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany, who is second on 1,065. The German could only manage 16th on Saturday despite fervent support from the flag-waving crowd.
Maze went straight into training for Sunday's slalom in an attempt to catch Shiffrin for the title.
The 29 year-old Slovenian hopes to prolong the title race until next Saturday, when she could become the first woman to win five crystal globes in a season. She has already become only the third woman to win a race in all five disciplines in the same campaign.
"It's unbelievable," Fenninger said. "For me it's incredible how often she's in front in all disciplines. It's the result of extremely hard work for many years. She's been fighting for this her whole life. It's simply unbelievable."


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Graphic designer Jon Zerivitz was tired of being stuck at a computer for up to 12 hours a day as a contractor forT. Rowe Price.
"I needed a hobby," Zerivitz said.
Indulging a longtime passion for beer, he went to the Maryland Homebrew store in Columbia in 2010 and bought everything he needed to brew beer.
"The first batch was really good," he recalled. "The second batch was really bad. I kept at it."
Two years later, Zerivitz, 32, was brewing beer again Aug. 3, but on a larger scale, as co-owner of the new Union Craft Brewing Co., on the border of Hampden and Woodberry.
The brewery opened June 6 in Clipper Mill Industrial Park, 1700 Union Ave., near the Woodberry light rail station. It is North Baltimore's only brewery currently operating, although another isn't far behind. Peabody Heights Brewery, formerly Charm City Brewing Co., is planned in an old Canada Dry bottling plant, at 401 E. 30th St., in Abell, as reported in the Messenger last December.
"We're planning our first brew around the first week of September," said Stephen Demczuk, the co-owner of Peabody Heights and owner of Ravens Beer.
Zerivitz, of Lutherville, and business partner Kevin Blodger, of Towson, held a grand opening party and tasting for invited guests July 28, featuring their Balt Altbier and Duckpin Pale Ale. A third beer, Old Pro, is coming soon.
Their first public tastings were Saturday, Aug. 4, with 64-ounce, refillable "growler" jugs on sale for $17 and refills for $10.
Turning pro
Zerivitz was so taken with home-brewed beer in 2010 that he began looking for space in the city in which to build a brewery.
A mutual friend told Zerivitz about Blodger, a brewer who worked in Chicago for the Gordon Biersch chain of brewery-restaurants. As it happened, Blodger, who had family in northern Virginia, felt creatively stifled after five years at Gordon Biersch.
"I wanted to branch out and do my own thing," Blodger said.
"I called him. We hit it off," Zerivitz said.
Blodger transferred to the Rockville location of Gordon Biersch, and the two began looking for space in Baltimore City.
"We really wanted to build a brewery in the city that would be embraced by Baltimore," Zerivitz said.
But city zoning restrictions hampered the search until they found Suite D of the industrial park, whose main building — once a 19th-century annex of Clipper Mill — also houses a theater service and supply company, among other businesses.
"Two and a half years later, here we are," he said.
They raised $800,000 to open the 7,200-square-foot brewery and tasting room in a former sign company. In the long, narrow tasting room, Balt and Duckpin beers are on tap and T-shirts for sale hang on a wall, including a onesie for babies.
A tasting bar (no chairs) centers the room. A pinball machine sits in a back corner, near a small table with a vase of flowers.
Grist for the mill
In the warehouse next door sit large bags of malt that are ground into grist and then augured or piped into a mash kettle, part of a 20-barrel "brew house" process.
The industrial-sized kettle is filled with 1,500 pounds of dry grist and boiling water, and the mixture is then piped into a "lauter tun," which separates the sugars. The sugary liquid is piped back into the kettle, to be boiled with hops.
The remaining wet grain is shoveled out and picked up at least once a week by a farmer, who feeds it to his cattle in Pennsylvania.
The hot liquid for beer is boiled for about 90 minutes, goes into a heat exchanger for cooling and is fed into a fermenting tank with yeast for 17 days, on average, before going into a "brite" tank.
"That is clean beer that's ready to go," Zerivitz said.
Kegs are hand-filled with beer and stored in a walk-in refrigerator, eight shrink-wrapped kegs to a pallet, for pickup by Legends Ltd., a distributor in Rosedale.
The brewery already has 40 to 50 accounts, including the restaurants Woodberry Kitchen, the Golden West Cafe in Hampden and the Belvedere Square wine bar Grand Cru, Zerivitz said.
Neighborhood brewery
Blodger and Zerivitz have modest ambitions for now.
With an estimated $100,000 a year in overhead costs, Zerivitz noted, "I don't think we'll be profitable for a couple of years."
There's been at least one unforeseen cost.
"In the first month I went through two pair of shoes," Zerivitz said, wearing rubber boots as he walked in puddles of water on the concrete floor.
He said they hope to brew 1,500 barrels the first year and to double that in 2013. They also plan to market cans of beer, and the Wine Source in Hampden has already agreed to sell them, he said.
Blodger and Zerivitz said they're not concerned with making the best beer in Baltimore, but what Blodger called "approachable beer, that people can drink."
"There are a lot great beers," Blodger said. "We want to be a neighborhood brewery. I don't think it's about being better. We want to make great beer and be part of the brewing community."
And they have no plans to add a restaurant.
"We are not a brew pub," Zerivitz declared.
The tasting room is the public face of the Union Craft Brewing Co. The front door opens into the room, and as customers come in for growlers and refills, "we'll know their names," Zerivitz said.
New brewery opens in Hampden area
Graphic designer Jon Zerivitz was tired of being stuck at a computer for up to 12 hours a day as a contractor forT. Rowe Price.


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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...It's hard to believe that another school year is about to begin and that we'll soon have to put the lazy days of summer behind us. Those first few weeks of school were always a time of transition in my kitchen. Our meals became more substantial as the weather changed, but I wasn't quite ready for the full-court press that winter meals demanded. Back in the day, I relied heavily on skillet meals for weeknight suppers. Actually, they were a survival tool. Now, you would think that an old woman, who no longer has a chick or child to care for, would have retired skillet meals at the time about the same time she retired. That didn't happen and I still collect simple skillet recipes to expand my collection and share with my daughters. I am not a "foodie" so anything, however humble, is fodder for my plate and palate, as long as it is delicious. As it happens, most skillet meals are delicious and I don't think they should be overlooked. The recipe I'm featuring tonight was originally developed for America's Test Kitchen and I think you will enjoy the ease with which it comes together. While I've made small changes to the recipe, I'm sharing the original version with you, but would recommend the use boneless thighs instead of breast to make the dish. I suspect you might also want to double the amount of cheese that is called for in the recipe. This is basic food at its best and I think you will enjoy this chicken preparation. Here is how this skillet supper is made.
Skillet Chicken and Orzo with Tomatoes and Parmesan Cheese...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of America's Test Kitchen
1-1/2 cups orzo
2 tablespoons olive oil
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, trimmed and pounded if necessary
3 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 teaspoon oregano
pinch red pepper flakes
1 (14.5 oz) can diced tomatoes
2 cups chicken broth
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
3 tablespoons chopped fresh basil
1) Toast orzo in a large skillet set over medium-high heat. When it is golden brown transfer to a bowl.
2) Using same skillet, add 1 tablespoon olive oil to pan and heat until it shimmers. Season chicken with salt and pepper. Lightly brown both sides of chicken, about 5 minutes total. Transfer to a plate and keep warm.
3) Add remaining 1 tablespoon oil to skillet. Stir in garlic, oregano and pepper flakes and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Stir in tomatoes, stock and toasted orzo.
4) Place browned chicken and juices into orzo. Bring contents of skillet to a simmer, reduce heat, cover pan and cook until chicken is done, about 10 minutes. Remove chicken from pan and cover with foil to keep warm.
5) Continue to cook orzo until al dente and creamy, about 5 minutes longer. Stir in Parmesan cheese and basil and season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve with chicken. Yield: 4 servings.
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General Mills has issued a recall on some refrigerated Pillsbury cinnamon rolls because the dough may contain pieces of plastic, the company said in a news release on Friday.
The recalled products, Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls with Icing, come in 8-count single packages and have a "better if used" dates of October 30, 2013 and October 31, 2013. Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls with Icing 2-pack with dates October 18, 2013, October 26, 2013 and October 31, 2013 are also being recalled.
U.S. & World
Other flavors or varieties of Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls or Pillsbury dough products are not included in the recall.
General Mills decided to proceed with the recall due to a broken piece of plastic on the production line. The products were sold in grocery stores across the U.S.
Consumers that have any of the recalled products should contact General Mills Inc. at 1-800-775-4777 for a replacement.


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Stolen Pixels #211: This is Not Funny
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Stolen Pixels #211: This is Not Funny
You can all blame Gabe Newell and Gordon Freeman for this one.
I was experiencing similar trouble, the soultion, as it turns out is to scarfice a goat in the name of Newell, that should get things running. Oh, also, you cannot eat sushi on a friday anymore.
That 'tache looks damn good shamus
If I was the escapist I'd feel a bit sheepish for paying you to play games. But then again I guess you could sum up Yahtzee's job like that to.
Do we blame Valve if the comic was funny. DAMN YOU VALVE FOR MAKING SHAMUS MAKE A MILDLY FUNNY WEBCOMIC!
I hate it when steam does that, anyway, that 'stache is looking good.
For the record I was amused by the punchline...
You really can't grow facial hair? If so, I envy you. Having to shave is somewhat annoying.
Anyway, I hate it when steam does that. It seems that offline mode only works when it feels like it.
lmao! Hilarious! Damn you Valve!
And now Gabe Newell has canceled Half Life 3 (or Episode 3) forever
I find it humorous that almost every comic relating to valve is unfunny, like they sap the joy out of everything they touch.
Maybe someone shouldn't have put off making the comic until the last minute? :p
I think we can actually go ahead and blame Dell Conagher.
So true
It's ok. Mustache Shamus was totally worth it.
It's easier to blame Valve than one's own lack of skill. A true artist would've made a comic with MS-Paint.
I second this. That's how I grew my mustache.
I don't understand why you can't just play single-player GMod in offline mode. This one fact has slightly inconvenienced me on exactly two (2) occasions. I'm not sacrificing my last goat.
Goats are overrated. Facial hair is forever (stylish).
Great comic. Not that I can sympathise at all. I don't have Steam, and I've had a beard since I was 14.
You just have to beleive in yourself.
Let's blame it on Bobby Kotick!
I had a strong inkling you would do this. Because when Newell gives you lemons...
Except for the mustache. That made me laugh precisely because it was so unexpected.
I came across this, and I don't remember where, but when steam isn't authorizing your client to do something, sometimes changing the "city" you're in fixes it.
The Great Gabe does not accept goat sacrifices. In this case, it is better to sacrifice clientregistry.blob to him. It's actually a blob of tasty lard and hamburger meat. The author of this comic should put it between buns and send it to Newell through the Recycle Bin.
When life hands you lemons, eh?
Insightful comic. I'm really not a fan of how Valve games can (now) only be played when Steam has internet connection. In fact, I believe all games in the Steam library can only be played when Steam has connection, but I haven't tested that theory yet.
I remember the days when a person could choose to play Half-life 2 in offline mode and Steam was cool with it. But then Valve was like, "no." So now no one can play it offline anymore. A shame, really.
Don't worry, facial hair is only a necessity if you're a hockey player in the playoffs.
Haha! Glad you turned it into a comic.
I have this problem all the time. Steam is great, when it feels like working. When it doesn't god help you if you have the gall to want to enjoy a game you bought.
You lucky lucky bastard. Shaving sucks, but if I stop, the child sex crime unit of the local police start camping on my doorstep.
I've had no end to problems since they introduced that damn Save cloud system. Luckily offline disables it, at the cost of not being able to play the one Valve game I never bothered to uninstall.
Re: no facial hair:
That's why I'm growing a beard!
Exactly. Facial hair is such a nuisance. It requires constant maintenance if you don't want to look like a pedo or a hobo.
There's a global setting to turn it off, thank goodness. It's in Steam > Settings > Downloads + Cloud. I honestly wish I knew why they decided to implement such a terribly done "feature". The thing kept resetting all my graphics options and hotkeys until I found the global off button. But whatever you do, don't try turning it off for individual games (Properties > Updates when you right-click a game); sometimes, when the game gets patched, the cloud gets re-enabled. Aaaauugh.
I like Steam. It's a great way to get cheap games. But I can't bring myself to love it, with all its quirky hangups.
I find this absurd. I've just played Gmod in Offline Mode without experiencing any problems at all.
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Community Art in Atlanta, 1977-1987: Jim Alexander's Photographs of the Neighborhood Arts Center from the Auburn Avenue Research Library
- Coverage Dates: 1970-1982
- Update Frequency: in process
Community Art in Atlanta, 1977-1987 consists of fifty-five documentary photographs of the Neighborhood Arts Center (1975-1989) that capture significant African American-centered cultural and community events in and around the Atlanta-based organization, a brainchild of the late mayor Maynard Jackson. This body of images documents a visit to the Center from the legendary Romare Bearden, as well as Atlanta-area outreach projects, arts festivals, and social demonstrations that took place during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Taken by photographer, community activist, and Neighborhood Arts Center staff member Jim Alexander, these photographs demonstrate the Center's service commitment and its promotion of urban community arts. The site also contains a biography of Alexander, a brief history and chronology of the Neighborhood Arts Center, suggested readings, and a list of related links.
Database Provider: Digital Library of Georgia.
Express Link (bookmark): http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=anac


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Entenmann's Chocolate Chip Loaf Cake
Be warned, the recipe should really be called 'loaf cakes' since you get two hulking loaves out of it. But we're not complaining.
Reprinted with permission from Entenmann's Big Book of Baking by Kathleen Robbins. Copyright © 2011. Published by Parragon Books. Available wherever books are sold. All rights reserved.
Read more: Bake the Book: Entenmann's Chocolate Chip Loaf Cake
- Yield:Makes 8 to 10 servings
- Active time: 45 minutes
- Total time:1 hour 45 minutes
- Batter
- 3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups (4 sticks) unsalted butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 8 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
- Glaze
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 5 tablespoons coffee liqueur
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease two 9x5x3-inch loaf pans and line with parchment paper.
Combine the flour and salt in a bowl and set aside.
With an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Stir in the vanilla extract.
In a large bowl, lightly beat the 8 eggs and add to the butter and sugar mix. Fold in the flour and mix thoroughly. Fold the semisweet chocolate chips into the finished batter. Divide the batter between the pans.
Bake until a toothpick inserted into center of each cake comes out clean, about 65 minutes. Let cool in pans on a wire rack for 30 minutes before removing from the pans.
To make glaze, heat the chocolate chips, coffee liquer, vanilla extract and light corn syrup in a glass bowl set in a simmering pan of water. Whisk until smooth. Pour over cake and for a special treat serve with whipped cream.
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Congratulations to Jacquie Baker and David Piccolomini, who guessed the winning number of 14. You will both receive a pair of tickets to see The Whitest Kids U' Know tomorrow night at the Trocadero Theatre. The winners can be on the lookout for more information via email. Thanks to everyone who participated, and thanks again to the people at the Troc for donating the prizes.
The Whitest Kids U' Know perform Thursday, March 21 at 8:00PM at the Trocadero Theatre (1003 Arch St. Philadelphia). Tickets can be purchased online.


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About totalz
Most of them are junks anyway! I guess those brands worry about people will finally realize that from the ads. "Smart move"!!
Even first-world countries got a lot of idiots, and Spain is winning at the moment!
Talk about "profit" for shareholders and markup statistics...
"Honest" ppl "scam" $ from HBO, and smart ppl watch it for free.
A shame for Mercury Phoenix Trust to call itself a charity!
Best of the week...
Can wait to see the response from R.D.Trenk!
I do get pop-under from time to time, but the ads pic are already blocked, and usually that window will close itself!
Talk about the innovation of scams, US of A is always on top...
Smart to delay buy...
Rules are rules, but M$ can bend them anytime anyway it wants! So is $ony!
These are embarrassing findings.
I can assure u $ony will not invest enough for whatever it says it will happen with PS4. If u look at PSN now, and compare the avg. download speed between game update and the actual game u purchase on PSN store, u can see that they spend just enough for the servers (hardware, network) hosting the updates, but the ones hosting actual game for downloading are just lame-ass...
Another good example to show Apple is all about money. Yes, business is business, don't misuse that as innovation.
Nice try, idiot!
It's stupid for anyone to think a product is "must-have" and "must-buy".
Well, I'm pretty sure u will rent a dick just for pissing (even if u don't need one), and u don't need an asshole, cause u got your month for that. IMO!
So the actual worth of this game is about $6... It's well bloody over-priced!
EA does provides all the lame-axx excuses, and crappy server config. All those lovely PSN+ free EA games are practically unplayable because of all those connection drops and what-not.
A twisted modern slavery...
Dear Eamonn Coghlan,
Your suggestion can actually make better use of your campaign money. Congrats!
(oops, I didn't sign out 1st...)
A new get-out-of-prison(school) card!
May be RIAA are the pirates of the 'old' age, they have lost a lot of business after all the free download over the internet.
What goes around comes around...
Like the silly Win 7(+Vista) which requires you to reactivate Windows even if u plugin a new usb storge which may consider a new hardware.
What a pain, especially the online activation doesn't always work!


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I am quite confused myself. How is this forum still going as it has been years since I saw last update of the comic. And is this even the right forum? Since my other sources say it'd be TheKidsarentAlright forums instead..
Well.. I'll just register both and see what happens. I probably won't have much time to post around. ^^


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Friday, October 22, 2010
Even though there are standing wooden signs all over the park with maps there are some areas of deer trail that are harder to navigate. At least for me.
With the long weekend, MEA-gotta love working for the public school system, I slept in and then thought Topaz and I would head out for a 10 mile run through the state park.
Cold this morning! 27F at 7 AM meant the first run in long pants of the season. Boo. Although the high for today is 72, this morning was cool.
I pulled into the lot, empty as usual, and began our run. Beautiful morning! Trumpeter swan, deer, fox, all of the usual animal sightings.
Oh, get this. I purchased (another) Garmin 310 XT (will post about that later) and learned last week that my 5 mile water stop is really 3.5 miles! Egads!
So we are running about, enjoying the beautiful scenery, the sunrise, mother nature at her finest when we come to back to the lot and are only at 8 miles when I would have said pre Garmin we were at 10. Back out on a different path only to end up..confused..lost? Yeah, I guess so. Around the lake, down another path, nothing is looking familiar..another lake..a campsite..a cabin..wow, a whole new section of the park that I didn't know existed!
Another 5 miles before I found the path back to the car. Amazing how turned around I became..but now I have a perfect trail to bring Mom and Dad down when they are here next week. I can show them the swans, the camper cabins..there is even running water along the way. I grabbed the state park trail map before leaving. I might glance at it before I head out for a long one on Sunday :)
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Dairy Adjustment Levy
(Customs) Bill 2000
Date Introduced: 16 February 2000
House: House of
Portfolio: Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Commencement: 8 July 2000
The Bill forms
part of a package of Bills that provide an adjustment program for
the deregulation of the Australian dairy industry. The Bill
provides for the imposition of the dairy adjustment levy to the
extent that it is a duty of customs.
This Bill together with
the Dairy Adjustment Levy (General) Bill 2000 and the Dairy
Adjustment Levy (Excise) Bill 2000 are Bills which impose taxation.
Three separate Bills are required to satisfy section 55 of the
Constitution which in part provides:
Laws imposing taxation,
except laws imposing duties of customs or of excise, shall deal with one subject of
taxation only; but laws imposing duties of customs shall deal with duties of customs only, and laws imposing duties of excise shall
deal with duties of excise only.
For further background the reader is referred to
the Digest for the Dairy Industry Adjustment Bill 2000.
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it is a duty of customs. The rate of the levy is 11 cents per litre
(subclause 6(1)). It is to be applied to milk
products marketed or for use principally as a beverage for human
consumption or an ingredient for use in making a beverage for human
consumption (clause 4). Other milk products such
as powdered milk and milk concentrates will initially not be
subject to a levy. Subclauses 6(2)-6(3) provide a
mechanism for calculating the volume of these products for levy
purposes should they become subject to the levy at a later
The levy can be reduced by regulation
(subclause 6(1)(b)).
Clause 7 provides that the Bill
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Delayed Time to Surgery Reduces Survival Rates in Young Women
Young women whose surgery-only treatment for breast cancer is delayed longer than 6 weeks from diagnosis have decreased survival rates compared with women treated sooner, a recent study found.
The research, drawn from a large database of Californian women, was published in JAMA Surgery.
Background and Reason for the Study
Women diagnosed with breast cancer between ages 15 and 39 have a lower 5-year survival rate than older women. This difference has been linked to more aggressive tumor types found in some young women.
Few studies have focused on other possible factors, including time delay from diagnosis to treatment, race/ethnicity and socioeconomics, which could contribute to lower survival rates.
The researchers wanted to find out whether treatment delay time (TDT), age, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic level, health insurance coverage, or cancer stage influenced survival rates of young women.
Study Structure
The researchers studied cancer registry data from 8,860 young Californian women diagnosed from 1997 to 2006.
TDT was measured by the number of weeks since tests confirmed diagnosis to the earliest definitive surgery (not biopsy) or chemotherapy treatment. Delay time groups were less than 2 weeks, 2 to 4 weeks, 4 to 6 weeks, or more than 6 weeks.
The treatments evaluated were
- surgery only (lumpectomy, mastectomy)
- chemotherapy before (neoadjuvant) surgery
- surgery before chemotherapy
The researchers also considered
- age: 15 to 29 years, 30 to 39 years
- race/ethnicity: African-American, Asian, Hispanic, non-Hispanic Caucasian
- socioeconomic status (SES): five groups by census data, from 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest)
- insurance: public (including Medicaid and no insurance), private (including military), and unknown
Other data included cancer stage, tumor markers and lymph node status, among other factors.
Among the women whose data was studied, 49.8 percent were Caucasian; 27.7 percent Hispanic; 13.8 percent Asian; and 8.1 percent African-American. At diagnosis, the women's cancers were found to be
- stage I 28.3 percent
- stage II 53.5 percent
- stage III 15.4 percent
- stage IV 2.8 percent
Overall, the average treatment delay was 2.7 weeks. But African-American and Hispanic women had higher rates of delay of more than 6 weeks, a finding that was statistically significant, or unlikely to have happened by chance. TDT of greater than 6 weeks was also more likely with low SES, public or no insurance, and stage III or IV breast cancer.
The 5-year survival rate was also affected by delay. Women with a TDT of more than 6 weeks
- had a 78 percent survival rate compared with 84 percent for those delayed less than 2 weeks
- had survival differences by race—African-Americans had the poorest survival rate (57 percent) compared with Hispanic (74 percent), Asian (81 percent) and Caucasian (86 percent) women
Decreased survival risk was also associated with estrogen-receptor negative status.
The greatest difference in survival by treatment type was seen in the surgery-only group—80 percent survival with TDT of more than 6 weeks vs. 90 percent with TDT of less than 2 weeks. A lengthy delay before having surgery alone is a "significant risk for reduced survival," the researchers found.
Reasons for surgery delay were not given, but the researchers noted delays in scheduling surgery might occur if women lack insurance or other means of payment. Women diagnosed when pregnant might also delay surgery, but participants' pregnancy status was not known.
Study Limitations
This study focused on treatment delay after breast cancer was diagnosed. Researchers did not study the pre-diagnosis delays many young women experience.
The researchers stressed the need for future study of physician-related delay before diagnosis and after.
What This Means for You
Your decisions about time to treatment should be planned with your doctor based on what course is best for you. Talk with your breast surgeon or healthcare provider about your time-delay concerns and other questions you might have about how your income, health insurance status, or other factors could affect your time to treatment.
If you are facing barriers to prompt breast cancer treatment, call your county or state health department.You can also download a free copy of LBBC's Guide to Understanding Financial Concerns to find out about help with medical costs, or call our toll-free Breast Cancer Helpline at (888) 753-LBBC (5222).
Smith, EC, Ziogas, A, Anton-Culver, H. Delay in surgical treatment and survival after breast cancer diagnosis in young women by race/ethnicity. JAMA Surgery. 2013; doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2013.1680
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