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Sipping tea may help to nourish your liver (an organ that aids in the elimination of toxins from the body) and support your body in the cleansing process, say some natural health proponents. More recently, celebrities have been touting their benefits for weight loss, quitting smoking, and other concerns. But you may be wondering whether they really work or are safe.

There's very limited research on the ingredients often found in detox teas and whether they can benefit an otherwise healthy person. There's also a lack of research on the herbal formulas or blends that are found in detox products including how they work, how much should be used, and who shouldn't take them.

What's more, if you check the label of some products, you may find ingredients that can have a diuretic or laxative effect, which can lead to the loss of water weight but not actual body fat.

Here's a look at five herbal ingredients commonly found in detox teas:

1) Milk Thistle

Used as a "liver tonic" for centuries, milk thistle is one of the most common herbs used for liver disease, according to results from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey. With seeds rich in an antioxidant known as silymarin, there is some evidence from laboratory studies that milk thistle can shield the liver from the toxic effects of certain substances (such as alcohol and acetaminophen), but there's a lack of clinical studies examining the effect of milk thistle used for general detoxification in healthy people.

2) Burdock

A plant root that is sometimes eaten as food, burdock may help to protect liver cells from alcohol- and acetaminophen-related damage and "purify blood". Rich in inulin and sesquiterpene lactones, preliminary studies with animals suggest that the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity of burdock may help to protect the liver.

3) Dandelion

Some research suggests that dandelion may have the ability to stimulate the flow of bile, a substance that helps transport toxins away from the liver to be excreted by the body. In addition, tests on animals indicate that the herb may guard against liver damage induced by environmental toxins. Dandelion is also said to act as a diuretic, increasing the output of urine.

Dandelion greens are eaten in salad, and the roasted root is sometimes used as a coffee substitute.

4) Artichoke

Laboratory research shows that artichoke contains constituents such as cynarin, luteolin, and chlorogenic acid, antioxidant substances shown to increase the flow of bile. Often touted for its toxin-fighting effects, artichoke is also said to lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels.

5) Senna

After overindulging, some people turn to senna to help cleanse their system and stimulate weight loss. Senna contains compounds called anthraquinones, which are powerful laxatives. Although a number of studies suggest that senna may help alleviate constipation, there's concern that excessive intake of senna may lead to diarrhea and serious health problems (including potassium depletion and electrolyte abnormalities, heart function disorders, and liver damage).

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While the word "tea" may lead you to believe that the beverage is harmless, each ingredient has potential side effects. For instance, green tea, yerba mate, and guarana contain caffeine, which may interfere with sleep and cause anxiety, rapid heart rate, nausea, tremors, restlessness, and dependence.

What's more, some ingredients may lead to gas, diarrhea, and acne, while others can slow blood-clotting and should not be used within two weeks of surgery or by people with bleeding disorders or those taking anticoagulant or antiplatelet drugs (such as aspirin, NSAIDS, ibuprofen, or warfarin) or supplements (such as vitamin E, garlic, or gingko). Certain ingredients may lower blood glucose levels and should not be combined with diabetes medication.

Rhubarb (root and leaf), black tea, chicory, dandelion greens, and yerba mate are rich in oxalates. People with or at risk for kidney stones and those with certain conditions such as chronic kidney disease and gout should avoid an oxalate-rich diet.

It's important to note that teas marketed for detox haven't been tested for safety and that the safety in pregnant women, breastfeeding or nursing mothers, children, and those with medical conditions or who are taking medications hasn't been established. You can get tips on using supplements here.

The Bottom Line

According to the Mayo Clinic, there's little evidence that detox diets remove toxins from the body. Despite the lack of research, some people may feel better because they eat better on the diet, drink more fluids, and exercise. If you're still considering trying a detox tea, be sure to talk with your healthcare provider to weigh the pros and cons and discuss whether it's right for you.

Sources:

Abenavoli L, Capasso R, Milic N, Capasso F. Milk Thistle in Liver Diseases: Past, Present, Future. Phytother Res. 2010 Oct;24(10):1423-32.

Domitrović R, Jakovac H, Romić Z, Rahelić D, Tadić Z. Antifibrotic Activity of Taraxacum Officinale Root in Carbon Tetrachloride-Induced Liver Damage in Mice. J Ethnopharmacol. 2010 Aug 9;130(3):569-77.

Li D, Kim JM, Jin Z, Zhou J. Prebiotic Effectiveness of Inulin Extracted From Edible Burdock. Anaerobe. 2008 Feb;14(1):29-34.

Tamayo C, Diamond S. Review of Clinical Trials Evaluating Safety and Efficacy of Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum [L.] Gaertn.). Integr Cancer Ther. 2007 Jun;6(2):146-57.

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Hello, Ive recently leveled my priest and I was wondering about pvp hit cap, My fears, SW: D and mana burn seem to miss, which can be frustrating, Is it worth getting hit capped? and if so, what is the best way?
Hello, Ive recently leveled my priest and I was wondering about pvp hit cap, My fears, SW: D and mana burn seem to miss, which can be frustrating, Is it worth getting hit capped? and if so, what is the best way?
4% hit. if you can get spell pen do so. i run with around 175 but i'd welcome more if i could squeeze it in. i use resi + spell pen for blue gems and the spell pen cloak enchant
edit: i have the hit bracers with 50 hit on them, maybe one more piece of hit gear (can't remember and can't log on atm) and the 359 spirit staff with some of the spirit reforged to hit. just over 4% in total
Last edited by bobo333; 2011-09-10 at 11:53 AM.
somebody call for d doctor?
Thanks for your help!
You need exactly 4% hit and 200 spell penetration. Try to get these numbers exactly, anything above will be useless (well, technically not because of nightelf racial and mage armor, but you shouldn't change gear just for these two exceptions) and anything below will make you miss with spells/CC, and you never want to miss a critical CC.
You can get the whole 200 spell penetration with the PvP neck or cloak.
Ruth helm reforge from mastery/haste to hit
Ruth hit ring
Ruth hit bracer
4% hit exactly.
You should never gem or enchant for spell pen. Get the cloak or neck and forget about it.
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By the way all this information can be found by hovering over "Spell Hit" in your character stats, it will say your chance to miss a lvl 85 target. Spell pen is pretty self expalanitory: Lowers target's resitance by X, so you need as much spell pen as they have resistances.
Nelf does affect spells.
You're best off getting the hit ring hit bracers/belt reforging the helm/pants and maybe your spirit/crit ring both to hit
with the mooncloth helm(satin pants reforged to hit) spirit ring reforged hit hit ring hit bracers reforged spirit I have like 4.01%
as for spell pen I match the belt socket with one spell pen gem with the spell pen cloak to get capped for mages
edit: don't enchant hit or spell pen where you could have int, you trade secondary stats for it not primary stats

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He's had more Number One albums than Elvis Presley. He hangs with Barack Obama at the White House. And he's riding high after leaving his longtime label Def Jam to work a $150 million deal with Live Nation, delivering some of his best live performances ever. At the age of 40, Jay-Z qualifies as an elder statesman of hip-hop, a fact that's more remarkable considering other rap peers have hung up the mike to pursue careers in Hollywood. So how does he run the game?
Check out photos of Jay-Z and Beyoncé's life as hip-hop royalty.
In the latest issue of Rolling Stone, contributing editor Mark Binelli goes one-on-one with the New York legend, watching Jay-Z try on a new suit in his sprawling Manhattan office and tagging along to the Four Seasons, where the rapper goofs by mispronouncing actor Kelsey Grammer's name at a watch auction (after calling the Frasier star "Chelsea," he asks Binelli how to spell "faux pas"). It seems the man who made his name rhyming about hustling and hos in Brooklyn's Marcy Projects is actually more comfortable around an unlikely new crowd: indie rockers. "I love the energy coming out indie rock right now," he says, name-checking Grizzly Bear. "It has this rebellion thing that hip-hop is missing now, the thing that made hip-hop hip-hop."
While Jay is notoriously private about his life with wife Beyoncé, Binelli gets the rapper to let down his guard, and Jay reveals his superstar better half vetoed a piece of artwork he'd bought for their 8,000-square-foot Tribeca penthouse. The black-and-white Laurie Simmons photograph in question depicted "a noirishly lit pistol with a pair of women's legs emerging from the handle… Beyoncé sent it back and had it replaced with a similar Simmons piece, only depicting a perfume bottle instead of a gun." Binelli also encourages Jay to open up about his biggest challenges as president of Def Jam (the most frustrating meeting? "Honestly? All of them") and his one and only experience in therapy, when as Binelli writes, "The psychiatrist gave him tea that made him sleepy and asked him questions like, 'Who are your best friends?' "
Find out why Jay isn't trying to lure pal LeBron James to the Nets and why he thinks many rappers have failed to age gracefully in our new issue, on sale at newsstands now.
Also in this issue: Tim Dickinson gets the inside story of how Obama failed to crack down on the corruption of the Bush years — and how BP, the world's most dangerous oil company, got away with murder; Louisiana native and Clinton strategist James Carville blasts Obama's handling of the oil spill; Chris Norris stays up all night with LCD Soundsystem; RS looks inside the music industry' worst summer touring season in a decade; hop on the road with Jack Johnson in Santa Monica and more.


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Clubs cannot be forced to accept women as members, says Padraig Harrington
It casts a pall over the British Open. It was recently described by defending champion Ernie Els as "weird in this day and age" and has led Scotland's golf-mad First Minister Alex Salmond to boycott this week's tournament.
Along with their world-renowned golf course at Murfield, the fairest links by far on the British Open roster, the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers have employed a strict men-only membership policy since their foundation in 1744.
Staging one of golf's Major championships at clubs that refuse membership to women inevitably paints the ancient game in a poor light.
Yet Padraig Harrington, a two-time winner of the Claret Jug, has leapt to the defence of his sport, insisting that it is a "societal" problem, suggesting a solution will "evolve" and cannot be forced.
"You've got to look at the Masters," said Harrington, pointing to the decision of Augusta National last year to admit two women members for the first time.
This came nine years after former club chairman Hootie Johnson famously responded to a vociferous campaign by women's rights activist Martha Burk to change their membership policies by insisting it would not happen "at the point of a bayonet".
"When the pressure was taken off them, Augusta National took in lady members. None of these clubs want to be pushed," added Harrington.
"These things are evolving. Nowadays you won't find nearly as many husbands playing golf whose wives don't play as well. It's changed from 50 years ago where it was a male-dominated sport. Nowadays it's not like that.
"Letting things change at their natural pace might be the quickest way. Sometimes pushing can slow down the process.
"I grew up at a golf course (Stackstown, Co Dublin) where I was not allowed be a full member (a privilege enjoyed only by members of An Garda Siochana, male or female, until 2010).
"They've since changed. Like a number of other clubs in Ireland, it came because of financial reasons – they needed to get more members."
Three courses on the British Open rota do not accept women members: Muirfield, Royal Troon and Royal St George's, while the R&A, of which Harrington is a playing ambassador, also has a long male-only tradition.
"The R&A wishes to avail of courses with great tradition and that's why we're here," Harrington said. "They know that alienating the club would only entrench them further."
In Ireland, Portmarnock Golf Club's inalienable right to have a male-only membership was upheld by the courts. Yet the Irish Open, an event supported by government funding, is unlikely to revisit while this policy applies.
Asked if people's perception of his sport might be coloured by these traditions, Harrington admitted: "It'd be very easy for people with limited knowledge to say this is representative of golf, yet it's not. No way.
"It's nothing whatsoever got to do with golf. It merely reflects the fact that there are some male-only clubs in society. It is a misnomer to say it's a golf thing. It's a societal thing and, as such, it will evolve."
Els, who handed back the gleaming Claret Jug to the R&A yesterday, was asked what he'd tell his daughter if she asked him to explain why women could not be members.
"She's quite a hot-headed girl, just like my wife, so I'd have to choose my words carefully," replied the South African, winner of the British Open when it last visited Muirfield in 2002.
"It's a hard one. We play the Open at this wonderful course and I'm not going to miss it for the world whether it's got, unfortunately, the policy it has.
"I'd go play the Open in the Sahara desert if I had to."
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In this week's Sauce Weekly:
1. 'Sauce Bike-In Movie Screening (RiP: Remix Manifesto): Thurs June 24, 9pm
2. Otesha Bike Tour Fundraiser Show: Wed June 23, 8pm
3. MEC Bikefest: Saturday July 3
4. Great News! Sauce is Awarded a MEC Access and Activities Grant!
5. Found: Biking Toronto Blogger for Sauce
6. Sauce hits the Sauce, vol. 2: Rescheduled
7. No Right Turn on Red (for Bike Boxes) going to Toronto and East York Community Council TODAY!
1. 'Sauce Bike-In Movie Screening (RiP: Remix Manifesto): Thurs June 24, 9pm
Its about time we took advantage of warm weather and bike-mounted video projectors. This Thursday after the shop closes we will be having a bike-in movie night in the driveway at the shop. bring yer bike and something to sit on.
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Thursday June 24th
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Wednesday, June 23rd
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For more info about Otesha visit: http://www.otesha.ca
RSVP for the event here.
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On Saturday, July 3rd, Mountain Equipment Co-Op will be hosting Bikefest in Liberty Village! MEC Bikefest is a daylong community celebration of bicycles and all things bicycle related. Their goal is to bring together the GTA's bicycle community and those new to bikes, to celebrate the wonders of cycling.
Along with fun and festivities, MEC Bikefest is a hub of knowledge where cyclists new and old can make connections and get the information they need to pursue their passion. Proceeds from this event will be donated to MEC's non-profit partner, Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation.
Check out the Bikefest Schedule here.
BikeSauce will be there with 3-4 stands at the Bike Repair Tent. So stop by, bring your bike buddies and have a blast at MEC's awesome bike-themed street party!!!
4. Great News! Sauce is Awarded a MEC Access and Activities Grant!
A few months ago, some Sauciers prepared an application for the Mountain Equipment Coop Access and Activities Grant. The grant application focused on increasing access to urban/commuter cycling through advocacy and working closely with the city.
Well, all the hard work paid off! We are extremely happy to announce that BikeSauce was awarded one of these pupies! Woooooooooot! The first cheque came in the mail today!!! These funds will help improve our lounge/social space and help us stock our library full of awesome and useful books. We will also have money left over for other wonderful things for 'Sauce.
Great news, right?!?!?
5. Found: Biking Toronto Blogger for Sauce
In last week's Sauce Weekly, we were searching for an official Biking Toronto Blogger for Sauce. We're happy to report that the search was successful! Thanks to Dalton for volunteering! So now you should keep your eyes peeled on Biking Toronto for more Saucy Updates.
6. Sauce hits the Sauce, vol. 2: Rescheduled
In last week's Sauce Weekly, we had asked you to save the date of Saturday, June 26 for another edition of Sauce hits the Sauce. Since then, we realised that this weekend was the infamous G20! Eeek! A bunch of us will probably want to escape the city during this intense weekend and avoid all the drama, so we've decided to reschedule the event.
Keep your eyes open for a new date!
7. No Right Turn on Red (for Bike Boxes) going to Toronto and East York Community Council TODAY!
The Toronto and East York Community Council will be voting today on installing "No Right Turn on Red" signs at the following intersections:
* College Street and Spadina Avenue;
* College Street and St. George/Beverley Street;
* Harbord Street and Spadina Avenue;
* Harbord Street/Hoskin Avenue and St. George Street; and
* Bloor Street West and Bay Street
The new signs are required for the installation of Bike Boxes at the first four intersections on the list. The No Right on Red at Bloor and Bay is being presented in order to install a Pedestrian Scramble (like the ones at Young and Dundas).
What are Bike Boxes???
"Bike Boxes are pavement markings that designate a space for cyclists to wait in front of motorized vehicles at a red light, and to proceed first when the light turns green. When the traffic signal is red, cyclists enter the bike box through a bicycle lane, and motorists stop at a regular stop bar behind the designated area for cyclists. The purpose of bike boxes is to improve cycling conditions by reducing conflicts between cyclists and motorists turning right at intersections." (Staff Report)
If the proposals pass today at the Toronto and East York Community Council, the motion will go to City Council in July.
To find out more information on this proposal, read the staff report here.


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Italy's Deadly Earthquake Is The Latest In A History Of Destruction
from The Conversation
-- this post authored by Brendan Duffy, Mark Quigley, and Mike Sandiford, University of Melbourne
The Appenines region of central Italy has been struck by a deadly earthquake, with a magnitude of 6.2. The quake, which had an epicentre roughly 10km southeast of Norcia, Italy, occurred just over seven years after the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake that killed more than 300 people only 90km away.
The latest earthquake occurred at 3:36 am local time. The number of fatalities is unknown at time of writing but already exceeds 100. Buildings have collapsed in nearby Amatrice and residents are reportedly trapped in rubble.
General tectonic setting of Italy, showing seismicity over the past 10 years from the USGS catalogue. USGS
Fracture zone
This earthquake is no surprise. Italy is prone to earthquakes; it sits above the boundary of the African and European plates. The oceanic crust of the African plate is subducting (sinking) under Italy, creating iconic natural features such as the volcano at Mount Vesuvius. These plates are converging at a rate of around 5mm each year.
Both the L'Aquila and Norcia earthquakes were located below the central Appenines, which form the mountainous spine of Italy.
The Earth's crust under the Appenines of central and western Italy is extending; eastern central Italy is moving to the north east relative to Rome. As a result, this region experiences normal faulting: where one part of the earth subsides relative to another as the crust is stretched.
The fault systems in the central Appenines are short and structurally complex, so the earthquakes are not large by global standards, the largest almost invariably hover around magnitude 6.8 to 7.0. But because the quakes are shallow and structurally complex, and because many of the local towns and cities contain vulnerable buildings, strong shaking from these earthquakes has the potential to inflict major damage and loss of life in urban areas.
This region also seems to be particularly prone to earthquake clustering, whereby periods of relative quiet are interrupted by several strong earthquakes over weeks to decades.
A history of quakes
Both Norcia and L'Aquila feature prominently at either end of a zone of large Appenine earthquakes. This zone has produced many strong earthquakes. The latest Norcia earthquake occurred only around 90km northwest of the L'Aquila earthquake and very close to the epicentre of the 1979 Norcia earthquake, which had a magnitude of 5.9.
But the area's earthquake history can be traced back over seven centuries. During this period, this region has been hit by at least six earthquakes that have caused very strong to severe shaking. Amatrice, so badly damaged in the most recent quake, was severely damaged in 1639. A few decades later, in 1703, roughly 10,000 people were killed in Norcia, Montereale, L'Aquila and the surrounding Appenine region in three magnitude 6.2-6.7 earthquakes.
Parts of Norcia were subsequently built upon the surface rupture created in the 1703 earthquake. Another earthquake in 1997 killed 11 people.
In this most recent event, an estimated 13,000 people would have experienced severe ground shaking, probably lasting 10-20 seconds.
The estimated damage of this latest earthquake will almost inevitably exceed US$100 million, and may top US$1 billion. Amatrice appears to be among the populated areas that were most severely affected.
What lies ahead?
The region now faces a prolonged and energetic aftershock sequence; over the first 2.5 hours following the mainshock, at least four earthquakes of around magnitude 4.5 were recorded in the region by the US Geological Survey. More than 10,000 aftershocks were recorded following the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009.
We note that within the region, there is excellent and continuously improving scientific information about the hazard. But the knowledge of the hazard has not always translated well into measures that directly reduce economic loss and fatalities in earthquakes.
Following the L'Aquila earthquake, six scientists were convicted of manslaughter for failing to inform the public adequately of the earthquake risk. Although the charges were subsequently dropped, this marked a major development in the way blame is apportioned after large natural events, particularly with regard to effective hazard communication.
Numerous vulnerable buildings remain, and the recovery process is commonly plagued by long disruptions and inadequate government funding to recover rapidly. Both the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake and this most recent quake highlight just how important it is to translate hazard assessments into improving the resilience of infrastructure to strong shaking. The focus should remain on linking science, engineering and policy, this is often the biggest challenge globally.
Brendan Duffy, Lecturer in Applied Geoscience, University of Melbourne; Mark Quigley, Associate professor, University of Melbourne, and Mike Sandiford, Chair of Geology & Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, University of Melbourne
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Baby Care Oyunu
Look after a baby is just difficult. If you had to look after 3 baby, what would you do? Management
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Having a triplet is trouble some thing, as having a baby is very exhaustive. Look after the terrible triplets. Their parents need some help in order to sleep, step in and take control of the babies. The longer their mum and dad stay asleep, the higher your score.
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1997 Ford F150 V8 Two Wheel Drive Automatic 214000 miles
My front brakes want to stay "engaged" as if I were lightly holding the brake pedal when I am not touching a thing. If the power booster is bad, how can I test it? I tried to depress the calipers with a large C clamp and could barely get them to move. It is unlikely that both calipers went bad at the same time. The pads are slightly more than half worn. Rotors are in descent shape. What do think my problem could be?
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PL/Java 1.4.3 has been released. PL/Java is a PostgreSQL extension that allows stored procedures to be written in Java. The database is accessed with the standard JDBC interface and any Java programmer will feel right at home. With PL/Java it is possible to use any Java library for data manipulation, whether plain text, XML, images or anything else. This can be used to dramatically reduce data transfer from the database to clients. Notable changes in this release: * Works with PostgreSQL 9.1 * Correctly links against IBM Java. * Reads microseconds correctly in timestamps. Bugs fixed: 1010660, 1010970, 1010971, 1011025, 1011091. Feature Requests: 1011092, 1010955. -- Johann Oskarsson http://www.2ndquadrant.com/ |[] PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training and Services --+-- | Blog: http://my.opera.com/myrkraverk/blog/
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Looking back on our third day in Paris, I've learned two things. First, that we have a tendency to pack our days to the brim (thank you, decent walking shoes). Second, that we managed to explore four corners of the city with four breathtaking views – and it was worth it!
Our morning began with a stop at Ladurée, the well-known 19th-century Parisian tea salon.
We visited the Champs-Élysées location near our hotel. I loved the light green facade and gold logo.
But the real reason to visit Ladurée is le macaron. They come in every color and flavor you could possibly dream up. Bobby and I had a hard time narrowing it down to eight!
Ultimately, we went with (from left to right): rose, pistachio, Marie Antoinette (surprise, surprise), caramel with salted butter, chocolate, raspberry, vanilla and the seasonal red fruits.
It's hard to choose a favorite, but the rose macaron was the most interesting with its floral aroma and – no other way to describe it – rosy sweet taste. And the Marie Antoinette won points for its vibrant blue color and namesake. I wish I could pinpoint exactly what ingredients were in it, but I can't seem to find the recipe online. All I know is that each of these macarons was bursting with the flavor of their key ingredient. I wish I could have taken some home with me!
We enjoyed the macarons throughout our day of exploration. First stop: Notre Dame.
The iconic cathedral is currently celebrating 850 years, and as a result is undergoing various restorations that include new bells, lighting improvements, renovating the Great Organ and more. A large ramp and bleachers are set up right in front, which turned out to be a nice resting point later in the day despite taking away that perfect photo opp.
Our tour began inside the church, with its arched brick ceilings…
…and stunning stained glass windows.
We then headed back outside to explore the facade. It was very cold and overcast this particular morning, but that didn't stop us from getting in line to climb the tower! While we waited, I grabbed us a pair of crêpes au sucre (sugar crepes), which briefly warmed and sweetened our taste buds.
We also took turns exploring the side and back of the cathedral. Here's that stained glass window.
Finally, our turn arrived and we made our way up the 402 steps (at least according to this source).
The exercise warmed us up even more, and was worth it for the gorgeous – albeit foggy – view of Paris. We could just barely make out the Eiffel Tower and gold dome of the Invalides in the distance.
From our perch, we were inspired to ponder life with one of the many Notre Dame gargoyles – oh what they must have seen over the generations. If only they could talk.
The view looking east was pretty fantastic, too.
We also peeked into the doors of the bell tower.
We ended up climbing even more steps after the first stop to get a view from the very top of the tower. It was equally gorgeous and immensely high, which prepared us well for the next sight of the day. A quick trip on the metro bridged the gap between Notre Dame and Champ de Mars. It was finally time to scale La Tour Eiffel.
Even the fog couldn't hide its overwhelming presence.
We scheduled our elevator ride in advance on this site, which I would highly recommend doing. With hundreds of people waiting in lines for tickets and one elevator out of service, the ability to simply walk up and present our printed online ticket made a huge difference.
We made it to the second level easy enough, and waited in a small line for a lift to the summit. The wind was ferocious but the view made everything better.
We enjoyed the views from the top, as well, but it was the elevator ride that was the most thrilling!
With a prime spot on the way back down, I captured a quick video. You can check it out below:
Ultimately we decided not to wait for the lift from the second floor to ground level, choosing to descend the stairs instead. You can bet by this point we were feeling the effects of the Notre Dame climb, but it was fun and exhilarating to feel the wind between the latticed metalwork. I lost count of how many stairs it takes to reach the bottom, but it seems there are more than 600. Whew!
At this point it was midday, but our crepes and macarons were keeping us full so we decided to head to our next major site: Basilique du Sacré Cœur. By now we had been to the southeast and southwest corners of Paris, so why not head northeast?
Another ride on the metro brought us to Montmatre, a beautiful, hilly neighborhood of Paris that boasts views on nearly every street corner, in addition to what was quickly becoming a common theme in our day: more STAIRS!
I loved walking by the various artists, who were proudly selling their paintings and photographs.
It wasn't long before we reached the "white, wedding cake basilica," a term from Frommer's that is a perfect description. Sitting atop the highest hill in Paris, the ivory facade is incredibly grand.
We sat on the stairs billowing out from the base of the church in order to enjoy our third view of Paris for the day. There was also a man doing some impressive tricks with both one and two soccer balls on a stone pillar. No big deal, right? He was fun to watch and drew a big crowd.
We snapped a quick photo after finishing up our macarons – say hello to adidas above my head!
Then we hopped aboard yet another metro train to make our way toward the center of the city. There were two women we were eager to see, and their names were Mona and Venus.
Despite what critics have said about the Louvre Pyramid, I think I.M. Pei's masterpiece is awesome.
Not quite as awesome is how small the Mona Lisa is in person. Having seen her once before, I knew what to expect, but Bobby was surprised. Still, we both are da Vinci fans and eagerly joined in with our fellow paparazzi to take Mona's photo.
We meandered along the hallways of the Louvre for a while, listening to our Rick Steves podcast (again, can't recommend those enough) and eventually paying a visit to Venus de Milo. She was gorgeous. After our trip to Europe I have even more appreciation for the amount of work that goes into paintings and sculptures. The fact that so many of these artists' proudest achievements are still with us today is truly impressive.
Once we were back outside the Louvre we went for a stroll along the Seine, ultimately coming across Pont des Arts. Unfortunately, we didn't know the story behind the bridge and its love locks until we had already left for Paris. If you also aren't familiar (please tell me I'm not alone…), lovers from all over the world come to this bridge to attach padlocks engraved with initials and sweet messages, then throw the keys into the Seine.
I felt so unromantic leaving this bridge without attaching a lock, but we consoled ourselves with the fact that we still feel pretty good about our odds of eternal love. 😉 And it was very cool to see the locks left by past visitors. Perhaps someday we'll return and leave our mark.
We kept walking east until we reached Pont Neuf, which despite its name ("new bridge") is the oldest standing bridge in Paris. We crossed over it to reach the Île de la Cité, one of two islands in the Seine. It's home to Notre Dame and, according to Rick Steves, is where Paris really began.
Though we had already seen Notre Dame, there was another stop on the island that we didn't want to miss: the beautiful Sainte-Chapelle. Lucky us, the clouds had parted just in time!
With sunlight pouring in through the windows, the chapel is hands down one of the most brilliant and awe-inspiring sights in all of Paris. The level of detail in the stained glass is unrivaled.
By this time we were starting to get pretty hungry. But once again our desire to explore was winning over the urge to sit down and eat. So instead, we compromised and picked up a pair of ham and cheese crepes, our final crepe experience in Paris.
I'd argue it was also the best crepe experience! Though the sweet crepes are delicious, this savory version was on another level. Maybe it was also the view we had while eating it. I guess those bleachers were worth it, after all.
After devouring our mini-meal, we walked through the winding alleys near Saint-Germain-des-Prés and Saint-Michel, packed with tiny shops and Greek restaurants. I found myself thinking about The House I Loved and those major renovations that created modern Paris in the 1860s.
Though our legs were exhausted, they somehow carried us all the way to the Invalides and Pont Alexandre III, both of which were fun to look at and appreciate for their gilded splendor.
But the excitement from the past two days of nonstop sightseeing was finally starting to hit us. We decided to forgo our dinner out and instead picked up an assortment of goodies to bring back with us to our hotel. First, we stopped by a small grocery store to buy a bottle of champagne – Charles Vincent, to be exact – and a wedge of edam cheese, which reminded me of gouda.
We also picked up a couple loaves of bread from Le Moulin de la Vierge.
Despite not having quite enough energy for a full sit-down meal, we really enjoyed our wine, bread and cheese feast! It revitalized us for our fourth corner and final view of Paris, from the top of the Arc de Triomphe. The underside of the arch was fun to see at night.
Though it was only a few blocks from our hotel room, we got in yet another workout climbing 284 more steps. That's a grand total of more than 2,000 steps (up and down) for the day! Obviously most Parisians don't find themselves climbing up the stairs of tourist attractions most days, but based on our full 48 hours of walking the streets, it is pretty evident that Mireille Guiliano's book about French women is the real deal.
We timed our trip to the top so that we arrived minutes before the Eiffel Tower light show.
Of course, cameras can't do it justice – but I tried! Check out some of the show in this video:
We couldn't have asked for a better view to end our time in the City of Light. We made our way back to the hotel for an early bedtime followed by an even earlier wake-up call. And so began the next leg of our European adventure. More to come…
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Are tailoring specializations gone? I just checked the "items/things to be removed" thread and did not see tailoring specializations listed.
I tried making MS for someone and only got 1. Up until Monday night I was a Moonshroud tailor. What happened?
Are these specializations gone? Are there no more cloth procs or am I bugged and need to send in a report?
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On 11/30/2010 10:09 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Josh Berkus<josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes: >> Apparently, testing for O_DIRECT at compile time isn't adequate. Ideas? > We should wait for the outcome of the discussion about whether to change > the default wal_sync_method before worrying about this. > > Tom, we've just had a significant PGX customer encounter this with the latest Postgres on Redhat's freshly released flagship product. Presumably the default wal_sync_method will only change prospectively. But this will feel to every user out there who encounters it like a bug in our code, and it needs attention. It was darn difficult to diagnose, and many people will just give up in disgust if they encounter it. cheers andrew
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Every issue of Lodown Magazine is individually designed and so are its icons (from Greek εἰκών eikōn "image"), which define the ever-repeated sections and columns as a graphical punctuation. The staff refers to them as usuals because they are in fact the only named constant of the magazine, nevertheless their visual identity is ever-changing. This book is a compilation of icons that could be tracked down from the archives of issues 48 to 75. Different designers took on the challenge to create their own icons to the specific issue they created.
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To use certain amount of your forex to buy and sell dollar I think (is) a good idea...(It) gives out signal that reserve has a purpose. That is broadly the direction we should go and use reserves to curb turbulence, he said while delivering the 16th JRD Tata Memorial Lecture here.
Mr. Basu, who was Chief Economic Adviser in the Finance Ministry before taking over his assignment with the World Bank, said the government should not overreact to depreciation of rupee.
Continuing its free fall, the rupee today breached the 63-mark to end at an all time low of 63.13, recording the decades worst single-day fall of 148 paise, heightening fears that more capital control steps could be in the offing.
There was a sudden depreciation in exchange rate but we must not overreact to that. We do need steps to correct it. The certain amount of buying and selling of foreign exchange is the technique that is done in floating exchange rate market...that method could be strategic intervention, he said.
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New York City's School of American Ballet brought its 20-city tour to Seattle on Sunday. But instead of performing in front of an audience at McCaw Hall, aspiring local dancers did their best leaps and pirouettes for the discerning eyes of representatives of the prestigious school.
The dancers were auditioning for one of the 200 spots in the school's five-week summer program.
The School of American Ballet was founded 78 years ago by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. It is the premier ballet school in the United States.
Here is a gallery of photos from the Sunday auditions.
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Health-care workers in Somalia today began a three-day, United Nations-backed campaign to vaccinate more than 1.8 million young children against polio, four years after the Horn of Africa country was declared to be polio-free.
The new campaign, which is being carried out by local health authorities in concert with the UN World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), as well as other international partners, aims to reach every eligible child in the country, despite the insecurity plaguing many regions and the inaccessibility of some areas.
Marthe Everard, WHO's representative for Somalia, noted that the last recorded case of polio in Somalia was on 27 March 2007 after years of intense international efforts to combat the disease in the strife-torn country.
"This shows that polio can be eradicated everywhere, even in the most challenging and difficult settings," she said.
But Dr. Everard warned that Somalia was still at risk of "importing" the virus from other countries where the polio virus still circulates.
"We must remain ever-vigilant to do all efforts to maintain high immunity of children under the age of five."
Two rounds of polio vaccinations are scheduled to take place across Somalia this year, with officials hoping to reach an estimated 800,000 children in the country's south-central region who missed out on receiving the two drops last year.
Rozanne Chorlton, UNICEF's representative for Somalia, also stressed that it was vital to reach every child, despite the four-year gap since the last recorded case.
"If we are to ensure that no new cases of polio emerge in Somalia, vaccination teams must be able to access every community, every household and every child aged under five," she said.
Polio, a contagious viral disease which can cause paralysis in its victims, has been eradicated in all but four countries – Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and Nigeria.


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I am an organizing junkie. I love lists, bins, boxes and labels. I just downloaded some new FREE lists to help me keep organized this summer. For the first time, the parenting site Mommy Track'd (www.MommyTrackd.com) is offering its wildy popular organizational supplies for FREE! These thrifty, hip and convenient downloads will kick your clunky organizer to the curb in no time!
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Anne McCaffrey: Gone away, gone ahead
Anne McCaffrey has died.
It's moments like these that I'm grateful for the Internet and for services like Twitter that make it easy to see that McCaffrey affected other people as profoundly as she affected me. I don't know if I could adequately describe her impact on me otherwise. But you know. Most of you already know.
I devoured the McCaffrey's Pern books in high school and continued to re-read them through college and beyond. The first three books plus the three Harper Hall books were my favorites. And because I wasn't a writer then, I expressed my fannish adoration with art.
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Later, in college, I became engrossed in the (unsanctioned) Pern MUSH, my first massively multi-player online game. I still remember those evenings hunched over my amber and black monochrome monitor programming a little mechanical butterfly that would open its wings and flutter in the game if you gave it the right command.
I even dated a guy who loved Pern, and I made him this present one year: the two of us as harpers. I've kept this crude photocopy for 23 years now.
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I will always remember F'lar and Lessa, Ruth and Jaxom, Masterharper Robinton and Menolly. I will remember Thread and the between. Anne McCaffrey taught me that science fiction can feel like fantasy, an idea that eventually inspired me to write Above World.
She's the reason I've dreamed of having a fire lizard for the last 30 years, and I'm sorry she's gone. What a life, though. What a legacy! The harpers will be singing her praises for generations to come.
I first read the Pern trilogy in Seattle. Tom and I had just been married almost a year, and he was up there with the Pirates of Penzance tour. I DEVOURED all three books and read them again and again. I, too still long for a fire lizard (though my cat comes close).
Damn it. No more words.
I think cats *are* our fire lizards. If I ever adopt another, maybe I'll name him or her after something in Anne McCaffrey's worlds. :)
How great you've kept your sketches of fan art! She was one of my favorite reads in high school as well. My father bought the books as new release hardbounds and I would anxiously wait for him to finish them and pass them on to me. I bet there will be a resurgence in sales of her books as we all reminisce on the profoundness of her worlds.
I love love love that your father read the books, too! My family didn't read — I've always envied families that could share that particular joy with each other.
And yeah, I'm definitely going to be buying new copies of her books now.
Love the fan art!!
I discovered the first three books in college when I had no time to read anything, but I read them. Then read them again. I liked a number of her other books, but those first three were always always my favorites.
I think there was a special magic to those first three books. I love the Harper Hall books, but not in the same way. Those first three just opened my mind in all sorts of incredible ways.
Love this post. I'm planning to write one tomorrow too. Because Anne McCaffrey is too wonderful to let her passing go unmarked. I love what you said though, about how she taught you that sci-fi can feel like fantasy. Dune does this too and I've been thinking a lot about this recently… just starting to be aware that this is something I've been striving for in my new book without realizing it. Thanks for articulating it so well and for this beautiful post!
Oh, I totally agree about Dune! And that epic, fantasy feel was sometimes hard to find in science fiction, where complex societies and technologies make it harder for just one person to make an impact and be a traditional sort of hero. The books that could be both — they were mind-blowing.
I'm looking forward to hearing about your new book!
A beautiful post, Jenn. Thank you for sharing.
And thank you for understanding.
All I can say is that, for me, Pern is always there. Her dragons were so unlike any others, truly a whole new perspective. An essential writer. And one of those strong women who took her place in the front lines of science fiction and fantasy helping to lead the way for the rest of us.
She really did lead the way, and I hope we never forget that.
I love the fan art! I definitely had fantasies about being a harper like Menolly and having fire lizards. Oh, such an engaging world!
I have a friend who met her husband in a PERN community (it might even have been that MUSH! I'll have to ask her if it was a MUSH or a fan-fiction forum)
Let's be honest–who did NOT want a fire lizard?
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By Jon Fromi
The Chicago Blackhawks swept the season series from the Dallas Stars Monday night at the United Center. Dallas came in the winners of five consecutive contests but was no match for a Blackhawks squad that parlayed a big third period into a 5-2 victory.
The win is Chicago's sixth in a row and puts them one win from locking up home ice in the Western Conference. Three points from Marian Hossa and an active night by the third line, led by Andrew Shaw, paced the Blackhawks effort.
Brandon Saad took a nice feed from Jonathan Toews in the first minute of action. However, he could not settle the puck and the attempt was off the mark. The Hawks settled into the Dallas zone for much of the opening minutes.
Vernon Fiddler got caught hooking Saad at the blue line 7:56 into the first period. Duncan Keith and Marian Hossa got off decent shots but Chicago failed to light the lamp.
The Blackhawks got on the board late in the 12th minute. Saad started the scoring play by finding Hossa at the right circle. Towes came out of the left corner to arrive at the left post just in time to knock in Hossa's shot past Richard Bachman at the 12:54 point of the period.
Stalberg nearly made it a two-goal advantage a minute later but his breakaway attempt came up short when he couldn't get the puck on his forehand side. Saad took a pass from the captain and sent a shot on net that Bachman stopped.
Kruger had a chance to put back a Keith slapper but couldn't get enough on the rebound to beat the Dallas goalie. The Stars came back down the ice and sent a shot off of Emery's pad. The rebound came out in dangerous territory, but Bryan Bickell prevented Loui Ericksson from taking a shot at an open net.
Antoine Roussel was whistled for interference in the 19th minute. The period ended with Chicago on the power play and having outshot the Stars 13-4 in the opening 20 minutes. The 'Hawks took a 1-0 lead into the locker room.
Dallas killed off the few remaining seconds of the Blackhawks power play to open the second period. Michal Handzus nearly was able to set Brandon Bollig up for a goal, but the pass was tipped. Hossa backhanded a rebound into Bachman late in the fourth minute. This was followed by Chicago's third power play after Erik Cole grabbed Toews' stick at the 4:05 mark.
Handzus assisted on Chicago's second goal by taking a pass from Andrew Shaw and getting the puck to Stalberg coming into the Dallas zone. The Swede's speed got him to the doorstep, where he flicked the puck over Bachman's right pad with 12:14 gone in the second.
Dallas responded a few minutes later with Jamie Benn stealing the puck from Patrick Kane in the Stars own zone. Bringing the puck up on Niklas Hjalmarsson with a pair of skaters, Benn worked a give and go with Ray Whitney and beat Emery to the glove side to make it 2-1 Blackhawks at the 14:12 mark. That's the way the second period ended.
Dallas tied the score early in the third period after a clearing attempt by Handzus hit an official and was taken back into the Chicago zone. Whitney's drop pass to Benn resulted in a shot that got by Emery's glove just 3:07 into the period.
The Blackhawks would regain the lead 74 seconds later. Kane brought the puck into the Stars zone and waited for Bickell to head to the net. He then fed Shaw, who five-holed Bachman from the right circle to put Chicago up 3-2 at the 4:31 mark.
Chicago built on the lead in the eighth minute when Toews banked a pass across the ice to Hossa. He was denied a shot on goal, but managed to win control of the puck. Hjalmarsson came into the Dallas zone in time to take Hossa's feed and slap home the Blackhawks fourth goal of the evening past Bachman's glove 7:46 into the third.
Dallas pulled Bachman in the 18th minute. This led to several 'Hawks attempts on the empty net, ending when Hossa sealed the deal with 26 seconds left.
-Hjalmarsson continues to play well in tandem with Keith. Johnny Oduya, Hjalmarsson's former partner, also made several nice plays to deny Dallas scoring opportunities.
-Saad could very well have a couple of goals on the night in addition to his first period assist. He was constantly in a position to take a shot on goal.
-Remember when Anaheim was right behind the 'Hawks for conference supremacy? With six games to play, Chicago has an eleven-point lead over the Ducks.
-Emery wasn't terribly impressive Monday. Seeing as how he faced just 18 shots he didn't really need to be. Razor went way out of the crease to handle a puck, which nearly resulted in a Stars short-handed goal that would have cut the lead to a goal late in the third. The defense really helped him out all night, but particularly on that play.
-Dave Bolland didn't do much else on the night, but he was 15-19 at the dot. Overall, Chicago won the faceoff battle 37-29.
-On a night where the 'Hawks were playing their third game in four nights against a rested team desperate for a win, Joel Quenneville was able to roll four lines and was the fresher team down the stretch.
-The Blackhawks are still 0-for-April on the power play, though they are 8-1 in the nine games they have come up empty with the man advantage.
-Oh, by the way, Chicago dominated the Stars with Patrick Sharp in the team box. The team continues to have the luxury of protecting that injured shoulder.
-Three more days off are coming up before a weekend that sees Chicago host Nashville and Phoenix.
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Solida ("Lida") Ley has a disarming smile and gracious way of offering cold grape juice on a sweltering morning.
You see these things right away. It takes more time to understand the courage and personal conviction it's taken to reach this point in her life.
Lida was a young girl in the post-Khmer Rouge years. At a time when 25 percent of the Cambodian population had just been murdered during a government-led genocide, her father revealed that he had another wife and family in a different village. He abandoned Lida, her mother and her sibling.
Not long after, Lida's mother crossed the Thai border looking for work to sustain her family. After nearly a year, she sent word to the family of the date she would be crossing the border back home. She never showed up. To this day, no one knows what happened to her, or if she is even alive. It was common then for thieves and human traffickers to target Cambodian women returning across the Thai border, since it was likely the women were carrying money they had saved up from their labor.
Raised by her grandmother, Lida was compelled to drop out of elementary school to help out on the family farm. She hid a book among her few personal items so she could study in her spare time. When she saved up enough money, not much more than $20, she escaped at age 15 and went to the city to look for work and educational opportunities.
While in the city of Siem Reap, home to world famous Angkor Wat temple, Lida found work as a waitress and managed to survive on her minuscule pay.
In 2010, Lida met and befriended Wisconsin native Daniel Ostenso, who had traveled to Siem Reap to scout locations and recruit staff for a women's library. Ostenso had just founded a nongovernmental organization in Cambodia to provide high-potential, high-need women with a viable and valuable education. Of all the women that he'd met, Lida stood out for her strength of character in a place where women are pressured to stay quiet and obedient.
Today Lida is regional manager of Ostenso's organization. GetSet-Go operates a Cambodian women's library and learning center in Siem Reap that uses formal classes and advanced self-study tools to educate adult women of all ages and empower them to become equal members (and leaders) of their community, commerce and government.
Lida, 22, is now working on her education and has her sights set on going to college.
But there is one "missed connection" in her life that Lida sometimes considers, or so it seems that way in retrospect. Sometimes Lida wishes that she could go back to a humid Cambodian afternoon three years ago, to see what would have happened had she said "yes."
On that day, before her waitressing shift, she and a co-worker went to visit a pagoda in Siem Reap. There, Lida noticed a beautiful foreign woman visiting the pagoda with a very attractive man, whom Lida presumed to be her husband. The woman stopped next to her and Lida commented, "You are very beautiful. You could be a movie star," to which the woman kindly chuckled, seemingly amused.
A large man approached and said something to the woman, which Lida didn't hear. The woman waved him off, saying "it's OK," and he withdrew.
Lida then noticed a group of people who seemed to be following the beautiful woman. "Did you come with a tour?" Lida asked. The woman and her partner chuckled at this as well. Lida apologized that she was still learning English and she did not know many words.
Lida and the woman began talking. After a bit the woman asked if Lida wanted to join her and show her around. She did not understand who this woman was. What she did know was that she risked homelessness and starvation if she lost her waitressing job. Lida declined, saying she had to get to work. Later she figured out who the woman was. By then it was too late.


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Linux is an amazing operating system. I have written about it several times over the years. All of our company's servers run on CentOS Linux (about a thousand) and a good chunk of our desktops and work stations run Ubuntu linux. The speed and reliability of the main linux kernel (Think engine of a car) is unmatched in my estimation. What is even more impressive about the Linux kernel is its unbelievably rapid pace of development. Herein lies our problem.
The linux kernel is developed simultaneously for so many different work loads that it is impossible to ship a Linux Distribution that is tuned for your specific workload. If I could use the car analogy one more time – Linux could just as easily be an all electric 50 HP car, or a 1,000 HP Dragster, or a Semi Truck. It literally can and is used to power your phone to the fastest super computer in the world. With that type of flexibility how do you wrangle the most power out of the linux kernel for your specific needs?
Unfortunately, right now the answer is – With a GREAT DEAL of effort. I mentioned earlier that we use CentOS. This is a free rebranded version of Redhat Enterprise Linux which is a server class linux distribution. Meaning it is geared toward customers with a heavy server workload. The problem is the linux kernel they use in CentOS is SLOW, outdated, and certainly not tuned to our workload.
In a way this is a big benefit for us. I know of no other hosting company on the planet that spends more time and effort squeezing the most out of the linux kernel than Bluehost and Hostmonster. Whenever we see ANY bottleneck in the system whether it be CPU, I/O Block Device, Network Block Device, Memory, and so on we find out EXACTLY what is causing the problem. When I say we find the problem, I mean we go down to the actual code in the kernel and see exactly where the issue is. Sometimes that gives us the answer we need to the solve the problem and other times it is a bug in the kernel itself that we need to create a patch for.
Using these techniques we have been able to solve disk I/O issues and many other bottlenecks that have plagued EVERY linux distribution that I have ever tried. Linux is extremely capable, but it needs brilliant people that understand all aspects of the kernel to achieve that kind of speed and performance from a stock kernel.
I feel that given the same exact hardware specifications that we could generally squeeze at least twice the performance from MySQL, Apache, PHP, and underlying CPU and IO intensive tasks compared with any server loaded up with a standard install of CentOS or Redhat Enterprise Linux.
While I think that is great, and it gives us a huge advantage over our competitors I don't really think it ought to be that way. Many of these tunable options simply need to be applied to a system to make it faster, while other methods require a historical approach before tuning becomes effectively.
Regardless, my opinion is that the linux kernel DESPERATELY needs some software that will real time evaluate you servers CPU, Memory. I/O bottlenecks and makes these adjustments for you on the fly based on a constantly changing workload. This should have been written a long time ago. Having a thousand different tunable options is great if you know what every one does and how it affects every other setting. My experience is that 1% of the users know about 10% of the possible settings to change and the rest never gets touched. Thats a shame, because as fast as Linux is, as long as these "default" kernel settings are in place you will NEVER get the performance that you could out of existing hardware without your own kernel guys on staff (Like we do).
Realtime kernel adjustment by the kernel itself for the workload being operated on is what the kernel needs now. I can tell you that we have some aspects of this done already. If nobody else steps up the plate, we may release our own version of this to the community at large to build up and use for the betterment of all.
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In this chapter we suggest that a description of the basic nature and extent of revegetation necessary to overcome land degradation in the wheatbelt of Western Australia can be arrived at systematically. In doing so we attempt to focus attention away from a perceived conflict between production and conservation and towards the common ground shared by both i.e., the restoration of basic ecosystem functions. Rather than asking how to protect the existing production system, this approach asks firstly: what form does the vegetative cover of this region need to take to best ensure its long-term health? And secondly: what are the potential economic values of such vegetation that might motivate its establishment? This analysis suggests that in the order of 500 million to one billion trees and shrubs are required over the 15 million hectares of cleared land. It is also suggested that if the revegetation is concentrated into belts and planted with attention to landform and aspect, the production of crops and pastures could be enhanced while Simultaneously providing wildlife habitat and permanent protection against land degradation as well as providing some commercial products from indigenous woody plants. Actual and potential economic and nature conservation values of
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