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Doggie Daycare serving Minneapolis, MN
Oak Ridge takes a unique approach to filling our customer's daycare needs. For over 50 years we have been taking an individual attention approach to boarding and have now carried that into our daycare philosophy. Our belief and experience has shown that even a good dog can have a bad day. We have even seen dogs from the same family have disputes over a toy or food. With this in mind we have developed a daycare that gives your pet individual attention and care but will not be subjected to the multi dog, communal sharing of space and yard that many other facilities have adopted.
Your pet will be able to be handled by staff, walked, pet & played with by staff. Something that is not done in those other facilities. They will have their individual room where they can rest, play with their toys or just hang out and watch the activity.
We have packages that offer 3 walks per day or that include outside/inside play time. Individual plans can be arranged depending on your needs. Our goal is to make a safe, restful environment for your pet and peace of mind for you while you are away.
We would love a chance to talk to you about your needs, and create a daycare package for your pet.
Dog Daycare Rates
Per Dog:
1/2 Day Daycare ( any 4 hours during our AM or PM pick up times MON-FRI) $20
Full Day Daycare (MON-FRI) $28
Full Day Daycare plus Playtime (MON-FRI) $34
Bulk packages available, please contact directly for options.
All of the "Additional Delights" may be added to a daycare stay.
Additional Delights For Your Pets Stay
Baths: Pricing is based on the size of your pet and time needed to complete the bath.
Extra brushing: A 5 minute brush out is included with the price of your bath. If extra brushing is requested it is charged out at $15.00 per 10 min. Brushing may be requested without a bath.
De-shedding treatment: Consists of special de shedding shampoo and conditioner. Blow out, and special brushing techniques help in reducing the amount of shedding your pet has. Price is based on size. Please request a quote if interested.
Ear cleaning: Is included in the price of the bath but may be requested without a bath for $10.00.
Nail clipping/sanding: Nail clipping $12.00, Nail sanding $15.00, Both $20.00
Teeth cleaning: $10.00
Mini bath: A bath with no ears, brushing or nails. Pricing is based on the size so please ask for pricing when you bring in your pet.
Play time: Your pet is outside three times per day on leash for a quick walk and potty break. Play time can be off leash outside, inside or if your pet is not active you can opt for loving time inside their room by a staff member. If you have multiple pets they can be outside together (additional fees apply for each pet.) Up to 20 minutes for $8.00.
Bedtime biscuit/treat: $1.00 given at 7PM. Choice of a milk bone, chicken strip or jerky stick.
Mat for floor of kennel: $5.00 per day per mat.
Soft Mat: for Kuranda Bed in kennel may be rented for $5.00 per day. The Kuranda Bed is supplied for every kennel and included in daily rates. Please do not bring your pet's own bed unless medically necessary.
Text report: Want to check in? We will text you a report, $3.00 per time. Picture of your pet included with report, $5.00.
Injections/multiple dose medication: 2 pills per dose, 2 does per day is included in the boarding. Injections are $5.00 per day- additional medication $5.00 per day.
Loving, Secure, and Recommended Pet Boarding in Minnetrista, Minnesota
Oak Ridge Pet Boarding is located in Minnetrista, MN. We provide pet boarding and daycare for dogs from all over the Twin Cities including Buffalo, Chanhassen, Chaska, Deephaven, Delano, Eden Prairie, Excelsior, Independence, Lake Minnetonka, Long Lake, Maple Plain, Minneapolis, Minnetonka, Minnetonka Beach, Minnetrista, Mound, Navarre, Orono, Plymouth, Rockford, Saint Boni, Shorewood, Spring Park, St Bonifacius, Tonka Bay, Victoria, Waconia, Watertown, and Wayzata, Minnesota.
Call Oak Ridge Pet Boarding, 952-472-3702, for your dog boarding, daycare, and individual attention in a peaceful country setting in Minnetrista, Minnesota, and peace of mind for individuals and your family while you are away on vacation or travel. We provide pet boarding, dog boarding, dog daycare and individual attention for each pet.


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Fig.1. British Soldiers struggling in the mud - The First Gulf War (early 1991)
1) The cool, calm and quiet of the early morning - my work space.
2) The dog rolling over on her bed and wagging her tail for a bit of TLC
3) A pot of coffee
Set to go. iPad open on a Kindle eBook on the First Gulf War; Mac Mini in Google Docs. Working on something my grandfather said in 1991 when watching a documentary on a DLI private in Saudi Arabia waiting to enter Kuwait during the First Gulf War : 'That's Nothing Compared to Passchendaele', he said regarding the regional news programme from BBC's Looks North. Was it nothing like the Battle of Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres July - November 1917) or more similar than different? Scale and technology were different, operation and tactics different due to the technology and lessons of previous conflicts, mud for sand ... but a soldier when hit by shrapnel or loses a mate feels the same pain. And there was mud too (see above). There mistakes and the wrong kit.
The remark was pointed at the individual soldier's lot. BBC Look North were doing a profile of a 'day in the life of a private soldier of the Durham Light Infantry'. It was when looking at the man's rations and gear that my grandfather, by then in his 94th year, said this. It's had me thinking ever since, not least since the plethora of 'soldiering' we are getting and will get during the Centenary Commemorations of the First World War.

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At any height on the Tower, the moment of the weight of the higher part
of the Tower, up to
the top, is equal to the moment of the strongest wind on this same part.
Writing the differential equation of this equilibrium allows us to find
the "harmonious equation"
that describes the shape of the Tower.
Let f(x) be the half-width of the Tower at A. The moment of
the weight of the Tower relative to point A is equal to P(x)·f(x).
Let us consider a slice of the Eiffel Tower located at a distance t
from the top of the Tower, its thickness being equal to dt.
Viewed from the top, this slice looks like a square whose
width is 2·f(t).
The forces applying on this slice are:
These 2 moments relative to point A sould be equal:
Let a be
. The function
, which gives the width of the Eiffel Tower as a function
of the distance from top, is a solution of the following equation:
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Some Highlights
- Mortgage interest rates have dropped considerably this spring and are hovering at a historically low level.
- Locking in at a low rate today could save you thousands of dollars over the lifetime of your home loan.
- Let's connect to determine the best way to position yourself for a move in today's market.


text: This article looks at French historical terminology for women who loved women to consider whether changes in the prevalent terminology reflected social shifts in attitudes toward such women, on the basis that "naming grants recognition". Unfortunately the article is deeply flawed by unfamiliarity with earlier examples of some terms, and by overlooking terms that were as common as the ones considered (if not more so). This results in conclusions based on faulty premises.


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We seem to have suffered a rash of WRT54G failures that only happened at certain locations and then vanished when the routers were moved to other locations.
What those locations had in common is that they were running other routers on channel minus 1 (20 MHz BW).
It seems unbelievable, but I verified that if you bring a WRT54G router into range of a channel minus 1 system, the WRT54G/BBHN router will shut down and not boot up correctly until your take it out of range of the minus 1 signal.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is it the LinkSys WiFi chip or the BBHN/OpenWRT firmware?
Ken - KE2N
I guess I should mention that the the ch -1 / 20 network also uses the "BroadbandHamnet" SSID in case that is relevant.
UPDATE: this problem is caused by having the same SSID on the channel minus 1 nodes and the BBHN node. You cannot boot up the Linksys node if the other nodes are in range. But once you shut down the part 97 nodes the LinkSys returns to normal and you can change its SSID to something unique (or you can change the other system too).


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Bridgestone Hoop B01 Tyres Available in Coleford
Hoop B01
These tires look great with sharp, sporty scooters, and their gripping power and wet-weather performance will let you enjoy some slick riding. Of course they have long life and full street specs. For the rider who thinks about both footwork and price.
Hoop B01 is the all round, street-use scooter tires, intended for young, sporty users in city who enjoy everyday uses of scooters. With the full line up 10 inch sizes, Hoop B01 is one of the most popular replacement tires Bridgestone.
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I was having a get together for people I work with on Friday night. The usual discussion came up about the food. Should it be a pot luck, ordering in pizza, or as one person requests over and over, my chicken fajitas which she asks me to make every time?
Someone suggested pulled pork and we went with that. I have cooked pork butts a few times and have come to realize that less is more. Not less pork but less fuss. It is, as usual a method and not a recipe.
Follow along. The key to tender fall apart pork is the cut of meat, cooking time and internal meat temperature. All the goodies in the world that you add to the pan will do little more than smell good as it will barely penetrate the meat.
Lets start with the cut of meat. Do not use pork loins. They are too lean and are not meant for this sort of cooking. You need pork butt which is actually pork shoulder. It has quite a lot of fat in it which is key to your long cooking time. If you only have a tiny one from your grocer it will not need to cook as long but due to the high fat content you will end up with very little meat and would be better off buying it precooked from a good vendor.
If you do not get your pork to an internal temperature of between 190 – 200 degrees the collagen in the meat will hold tight and you will have stringy, tough pork.
The pork butt will reach about 150 degrees at some point and then it will stop climbing in temperature for quite a while as the internal moisture makes it way out of the meat and to the surface. This is known as "the stall". The temperature stalls for quite some time and cannot be predicted which is why you have to make sure you are cooking it long enough to get past the stall and into the sweet spot of an internal temperature of 190 – 200 degrees.
So what do I put on my meat and in the pan? Any mixture of herbs and spices that you like can be used. I mixed together chili spice, cumin, fennel, pepper and cinnamon. Don't put too much cinnamon though as it does tend to overpower all the other spices. It is a great ingredient for the aroma and you can smell it more than taste it in the meat.
Sprinkle your meat with a bit of olive oil and rub in your mix of herbs and spices on all sides. I use latex gloves for this step just because of the semi permanent aroma and reddish tinge that will follow you around all day if you don't.
Put the meat in a big roasting pan, cover tightly with some heavy duty tin foil and put it in a 300 degree oven. Now go on vacation, or to work or back to bed. Leave this undisturbed for about 8 hours. Longer is fine if you oversleep.
You will take it out and let it rest for about half an hour and then uncover it. It will almost shred itself. Throw out all the fat and you will be left with the tender, juicy pork which you will PULL APART. Voila, you will have PULLED PORK. Who knew it was so easy.
Serve this up on soft buns with whatever kind of sauce you like. Barbeque, mustard, maybe a cider vinegar squirt. Top with a scoop of coleslaw and dig in.


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I made this rustig tag for papertrey's bloghop today. I made the star from polymerclay using the star-die as a guide. I pressed the word 'peace' with tiny letterstamps and StaZon ink in the clay before baking it. Further I kept it simple to keep the rustic feeling.
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Dear Sir
My name is LOI C.ESTRADA,The wife of Mr. JOSEPH ESTRADA, the former President of Philippines located in the South East Asia.
My husband was recently impeached from office by a backed uprising of mass demonstrators and the Senate.
My husband is presently in jail and facing trial on charges of corruption, embezzlement, and the mysterious charge of plunder which might lead to death sentence. The present government is forcing my husband out of Manila to avoid demonstration by his supporter.
During my husband's regime as president of Philippine,
I realized some reasonable amount of money from various deals that I successfully executed. I have plans to invest this money for my children's future on real estate and industrial production. My husband is not aware of this because I wish to do it secretly for now.
Before my husband was impeached, I secretly siphoned the sum of $30,000,000 million USD (Thirty million United states dollars) out of Philippines and deposited the money with a security firm that transports valuable goods and consignments through diplomatic means.
I am contacting you because I want you to go to the security company and claim the money on my behalf since I have declared that the consignment belong to my foreign business partner. You shall also be required to assist me in investment in your country.
I hope to trust you as a God fearing person who will not sit on this money when you claim it, rather assist me properly, I expect you to declare what percentage of the total money you will take for your assistance.
When I receive your positive response I will let you know where the security company is and the payment pin code to claim the money which is very important.
For now, let all our communication be by e-mail because my lines are right now connected to the Philippines Telecommunication Network services. Please also send me your telephone and fax number.
I will ask my son to contact you to give you more details on, after I have received a responce from you.
Thank you and God bless you and your family.


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San Diego boasts some of the finest wedding venues out there, but for certain couples, the intimacy of a private residence, for example, is more appropriate than a hotel for their "I Dos."
The wedding of David and Julia was just that, an intimate affair on a private residence in beautiful La Jolla, CA. The wedding was simple, yet screamed elegant. The lighting, provided by WoD vendor, San Diego Events Lighting Co., was romantic, yet simple. The accents of market string lighting lit their outdoor reception area perfectly. The food was catered by one of San Diego'a best wedding caterers, Crown Point Catering, another WoD vendor, offered top-of-the-line wedding food and hors d'oeuvres.
In addition, three other Weddings of Distinction vendors took part in the nuptials: wedding music provided by DJ Daniel Peterson, wedding coordination by Ann's Plans (wedding planning), and photography by Studio Carre Photographie.
Photos courtesy of Studio Carre Photographie


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Full Professor
CV Jörg Stolz.pdf (68 Ko)
Jörg Stolz, Publications (139 Ko)
Jörg Stolz studied general sociology, sociology of religion, economics and philosophy in Zürich (CH) and Bielefeld (D). He received his M.A. in 1994 and his Ph.D. in 1999 at the University in Zurich and continued with post-doc studies in Paris (F), Mannheim (D) and Ann Arbor (USA). Since October 2002, he is a full professor of sociology of religion at the University of Lausanne.
Jörg Stolz combines a theoretical interest with both quantitative and qualitative empirical research. Theoretically, he works on a general theory of "social games" and a theory of religious-secular competition. Substantively, he has done research on evangelicalism, the explanation of secularization and resacralization, comparative research on "congregations" in different religions, islamophobia, and secular and atheist beliefs.
Jörg Stolz is the president of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) and - alas ! - member of all kinds of administrative and scientific committees.


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What is Quivira?
Quivira is a free Unicode font in the OpenType format which is supported by every usual office program or printer. Unicode font means, it contains more than the standard characters for some western European languages.
From a typographic point of view, Quivira is a proportional serif font like e.g. the more well-known Times New Roman and Garamond. Thus it is suitable for writing well readable texts.
Do you prefer sans-serif? Check out my new font Catrinity!
Further development
Quivira is a very old hobby project and was started during my studies in 2003. It was in active development for quite some time, but in the recent years I have not found the time nor the inspiration for developing it further.
Therefore, to not block further advancement, Quivira is from now on (2019) in the Public Domain, so that others can extend it, alter it, or use the existing characters for own, even more comprehensive fonts.
It is possible that I also start working on it again at some point in the future, but I am giving no promise other than that this website and the downloads offered here stay available for everyone to use for free.
Latest version
The current version 4.1 contains 11,053 characters (391 of which are new since version 4.0).
New characters
- Greek and Coptic (completed, 1 new character)
- Cyrillic Supplement (completed, 8 new characters)
- Armenian (completed, 2 new characters)
- Runic (completed, 8 new characters)
- Currency Symbols (completed, 3 new characters)
- Miscellaneous Technical (completed, 7 new characters)
- Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows (completed, 115 new characters)
- Supplemental Punctuation (completed, 17 new characters)
- Cyrillic Extended-B (completed, 6 new characters)
- Latin Extended-D (completed, 18 new characters)
- Latin Extended-E (complete, 50 characters)
- Private Use Area: Control Pictures Extended (6 characters)
- Ancient Greek Numbers (completed, 2 new characters)
- Ancient Symbols (completed, 1 new character)
- Old Italic (completed, 1 new character)
- Ugaritic (complete, 31 characters)
- Playing Cards (completed, 23 new characters)
- Enclosed Alphanumerics Supplement (completed, 2 new characters)
- Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (32 new characters)
- Emoticons (completed, 2 new characters)
- Geometric Shapes Extended (64 characters)
See the characters page for a full overview of supported ranges and characters.
All working combinations from base letters and combining marks are shown in QuiviraCombining.pdf.
Earlier versions are listed in the version history.
¹ On some systems it may be necessary to delete the old .ttf file before you can install the new .otf file. In theory the system should realise that it is the same font, but the changed filename may confuse some.
The aim of this project is a large Unicode font which still looks aesthetically pleasing. Supported scripts (like e.g. Latin, Greek and Cyrillic) shall be supported completely, so Quivira can be used for every language using these scripts.
Of course missing characters can be added from other fonts (this is what many rendering programs do automatically). This is clearly better than showing only a replacement character, but it never looks really good, because the other font certainly uses different character widths, stroke thicknesses and letter and line heights. This is where the large Unicode fonts step in: They help to avoid inappropriate glyphs in multilingual documents.
Anyhow, Quivira will never provide every character defined in the Unicode standard. This would be technically impossible, because a font is limited to 65,536 characters, while Unicode already defines more than 100,000.¹ But due to my restricted amount of free time I will probably never reach this limit anyway.
The main focus of Quivira lies on the most common alphabets (Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and others), additional symbols that can be used in conjunction with them (especially mathematical symbols) and elder scripts still used by scholars (e.g. runes, Gothic, ancient Greek and others). Future additions may be other scripts like e.g. Gə'əz or Canadian aboriginal syllabics. In contrast, Han ideographs are currently not scheduled for inclusion.² (Other East Asian scripts like Hiragana and Katakana are possible, but have low priority at the moment.)
¹ One possible solution for this problem is the way James Kass solved it: He provided three fonts (Code2000, Code2001 and Code2002) with a common design, each of which covers a different part of the Unicode standard.
² These ideographs are used for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese. Because of their huge number (more than 70,000) their inclusion would mean a much greater effort than all other characters together. Additionally, they can be replaced by other fonts quite well, because their design significantly differs from all other scripts anyway. However, in future versions Quivira may contain a subset of these, like e.g. the most important ones taught at schools in Asia.


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Getting married is just the first step! Learn how to build a solid foundation for a healthy partnership that will last far beyond "I do."
Learn how to build a solid foundation for your relationship that will last far beyond "I do." Through this course, you will gain key strategies for maintaining your relationship and great tips to help keep the love alive.
Instructor-Led: 6 Weeks Access / 24 Course Hrs / Starts Jul 17 OR Self-Paced: 3 Months Access / 24 Course Hrs / Starts Immediately
Meeting the right person is important, but knowing how to stay in love matters even more. In this course, you'll learn how to build a solid foundation for your relationship that will last far beyond "I do."
You will start by reviewing the basic stages every relationship goes through, and you'll learn the importance of balancing your needs as an individual with your needs as a couple. You will gain key strategies for maintaining your relationship and great tips for "tune-ups" that help keep love alive, including a frank discussion of the role of sex in marriage. You'll also develop insights into the problems so many couples encounter in married life. Whether you face disagreements over money, the challenges of a relationship triangle, or even unfaithfulness, this course will give you the tools you need to identify these problems and work toward resolution. You will discover how to fight fair and arrive at a compromise, or maybe the possibility that it is time for a relationship to come to an end.
By the end of this course, you'll understand how to nurture your relationship and build a partnership that lasts.
Enroll before 31th May and get high quality lamination on your hardcopy certificate absolutely free! Use your certificate to your advantage by showing your certified credentials to prospective employers and recruiters.
Blame it on fairy tales. Many people believe that if you meet the right person, your life will be an unending series of blissful experiences. The truth is that no relationship can ever be conflict-free because people change over time and every relationship goes through adversity. Instead of looking for the mythical "perfect" person, it's important to realize that every relationship is different and can work as long as both people agree to cooperate. Maintaining a relationship is a skill that anyone can improve, and in this lesson, you'll start to learn how.
People often think, "If I can just meet the right person, I'll have the perfect relationship." Meeting the right person is important, but knowing how to stay in love with that person matters more. In this lesson, you'll find out about the seven stages that every relationship goes through. Knowing these stages will help you to predict problems and defuse them.
In every relationship, there's a "we" that defines the couple, but there are also two "I's" that define each partner. If a relationship focuses too much on "we," one or both partners can feel smothered. If a relationship focuses too much on "I," then you risk having less of a relationship and more of a casual friendship at best. In Lesson 3, you'll explore this balancing act. You'll find out how you and your partner can each fulfill your needs and still have the freedom to grow individually.
Disagreements are part of every relationship, but how you handle those disagreements determines the quality of that relationship. Instead of avoiding issues or constantly arguing with no resolution, you can learn the rules of fair fighting. You can even use a problem to improve your relationship! In this lesson, you'll learn how.
So many marriages end in divorce. Even in some relationships that seem intact, cheating and adultery occur. Yet if you're in a relationship, you no longer have to wish and hope that you'll be one of the lucky ones. By recognizing the warning signs and taking action, you can keep your relationship healthy.
While fair fighting will help you confront problems, how can you defuse and resolve conflict after it occurs? In this lesson, you'll explore repairing a damaged relationship, dealing with grudges, and rebuilding trust.
Too many people believe that a relationship will survive and thrive all by itself. However, just like a car, a relationship needs periodic care and maintenance. In this lesson, you'll learn how to make these tune-ups effective and fun.
Nothing can elevate or upset a relationship more than sex. In many relationships, it's the pinnacle of emotional intimacy. However, sex can also be superficial and purely physical, lacking any emotional closeness. In this lesson, you'll learn how to make sex enhance, not disrupt, your closeness with your partner.
Nothing can be more devastating than when your partner cheats on you. Beyond the sense of betrayal, there are the conflicting emotions of inadequacy, abandonment, and loss. Yet adultery or cheating can be overcome or even prevented. By understanding the source of adultery, you can either avoid it in the first place or withstand the emotional turmoil that cheating can bring.
No relationship exists in a vacuum. During the Honeymoon stage, your relationship seems to exist solely for the two of you. However, as the relationship matures, you have to juggle work requirements as well as your relationships with relatives, friends, and possibly even children. A relationship triangle happens when your relationship involves more than two people, or when money issues or other problems outside the relationship demand attention. Relationship triangles add a new dynamic because you now have two people involved with a third person or situation, which can cause confusion and conflict. In this lesson, you'll be guided through them.
While many people worry about marital infidelity, they often overlook the equally serious problem of financial infidelity, where people lie or deceive their partners about their spending habits. The problem isn't necessarily not having enough money; it's the way that you and your partner handle money. When one person spends while the other person saves, those conflicting values can cause major problems. Fortunately, with the right skills and knowledge, you can deal with any money issues and keep your relationship happy, healthy, and loving—regardless of how much money you might have!
Not every relationship is made in heaven. On the flip side, getting rid of a person may not get rid of the problem. In this lesson, you'll examine some reasons to end a relationship and some reasons to hold on.
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Dr. Bonnie Eaker Weil has over 25 years of experience as a counselor and therapist, and specializes in issues related to dating, marriage, divorce, and infidelity. Weil is the author of numerous books and has been quoted in USA Today, The New York Times, and Cosmopolitan. She has also appeared on the Today Show, the Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, and Good Morning America.
My husband and I have really enjoyed taking this class together. We have been married for 26 years, we have 4 children, and have been through a lot of ups and downs. We have learned a lot from this course and have already recommended it to our friends. Thank you for all that you have taught us. Participating in these lessons together has really strengthened our relationship and has broadened our understanding of one another. We have spent such quality time together as we have studied these lessons. It has really blessed us! Thank you so much!
This class was very good. I learned a lot and will apply what I have learned into my life and my marriage. Thank you for you time and commitment to this lesson, it is greatly appreciated. I passed the final with 100%. It was very important for me to pass, because I want my marriage to last as long as my great-grand parents did - forever.
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Solving Mysterious *Firmware Update Available* Messages
Usually a new firmware being made available a good thing. New features are added and bugs are fixed. But this is not the case when you cannot get the firmware update to apply and this message is continually displayed every time I turned on the TV and came up again every 20 minutes while watching TV. It was extremely annoying to constantly be interrupted by a useless message. Around February 2017, my LG 55LV3700 started displaying this message (and blocking the screen) every 20 minutes: "Updated firmware has been released! [Enter button] to update or [return button] to close." The problem is that, when I hit enter,Read More →


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1970s Accessories
Whether you're looking for that bad ass gold novelty medallion, a moustache that will tickle your fancy or some out of this world seventies styled sunglasses, this is the place for everything seventies accessory related. So pull on thee flares, splash a bit of Paco Rabanne and transform yourself into a seventies icon with our accessories!


text: In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised, and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half, in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case, while others were citizens of Laramie, and the breadth of the reactions to the crime is fascinating. Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews and their own experiences in Laramie. THE LARAMIE PROJECT is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.


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i-FORCE MAX Twin-Turbo V6 Engine
Tundra's available i-FORCE MAX hybrid powertrain generates its 583 lb.-ft. of torque where you need it most, in the low rpm range. Maximum torque from the electric motor generator is achieved at 2400 rpm. The moment you step on the gas, you're ready for action. And you can keep on driving with confidence, knowing this truck was built with the quality, durability and reliability Toyota is recognized for.
Max Towing of up to 12,000 Lbs.
Its powertrain, frame and suspension work together to give Tundra an available max towing capacity of up to 12,000 lbs. 3 Whether you're towing your trailer for a weekend getaway or taking the ATVs out for a spin in the desert, Tundra helps you haul with confidence.
Power Vertical Rear Window
A signature Toyota feature. Tundra CrewMax features a standard rear glass window that raises and fully lowers with the push of a button. When you're camped on the trail, this handy feature optimizes airflow inside the cabin.
Tailgate Release Bump Switch
Tundra is full of good ideas. Built into the driver's-side taillight on select models, Tundra's available tailgate release bump switch makes it easy to load up your bed. No need to set anything down. You simply bump the left taillight, and the bed opens—just like that. 4


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The herb and oil
The American species of pennyroyal is an aromatic, soft-hairy annual plant; the erect, square, branching stem grows from 6 to 16 inches high and bears small, opposite, thin, ovate leaves which are sparingly toothed. Axillary clusters of small, tubular, lavender or purplish flowers; calyx two-lipped, with 3 short and 2 longer teeth; appear from June to October. The whole plant has a pleasant, aromatic odor.
European pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium), or true pennyroyal, is similar to the American species in odor and uses. Do not confuse the two herbs.
Found in dry fields and open woods along the Atlantic coast and west to Minnesota and Nebraska.
Carminative, diaphoretic, emmenogogue (promote menstruation), antispasmodic, mild sedative, sudorific, stimulant, aromatic
Oil: anti-emetic (Do not use in pregnancy), anti-spasmodic, rubrifacent
Ketone puligone and about 1% volatile oil.
Flavorful and fragrant tea with a somewhat minty taste. Another of the teas used as an oriental tea substitute during the American Revolution.
Back in olden times when abortion was illegal, pennyroyal was used to induce abortion. In some cases it resulted in hemorrhage and serious complications for the mother. Therefore, it should never be used for that purpose. Helps in labor and delivery, though. Do not use without medical supervision.
The oil of this herb is a good insect repellent.
Strip the leaves from the stalk, put the leaves in a muslin bag, sew up the bag and put in pets bed. Fleas are chased away. Or sprinkle with pennyroyal oil or essence.
Pennyroyal was commonly used in the 19th century medicine to induce perspiration at the beginning of a cold and to promote menstruation. It was taken also with brewer's yeast to induce abortion. It is helpful against nausea and nervous conditions but should not be taken during pregnancy. Native Americans used pennyroyal tea for headaches and for menstrual cramps, PMS, and pain. The tea also make a good external wash for skin eruptions, bruises, rashes, and itching.
Used for phlegm, respiratory disorders, jaundice, nausea, ulcers, consumption, dropsy, toothache, leprosy, whooping cough, convulsions, sores in the mouth, colic, snakebites, expel after-birth, sore gums, fainting, fever, and gout. Purifies the blood, relieves gas and stomach pain, stimulates uterine contractions. Oil used externally for rheumatism and insect repellent.
Also used as a flavoring.
Infusion: use 1 tsp. herb with 1 cup hot water. Take 1 to 2 cups a day.
Tincture: take 20-30 drops at a time, as needed. For children, give small, frequent doses.
Extract: 20-60 drops in liquid daily for relief of symptoms.
The oil externally applied wards off mosquitoes. For this purpose it is used alone or combined with citronella.
All essential oils are life-threatening if taken internally. To take pennyroyal oil internally to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is very dangerous and in a few cases has resulted in death. There is possible fetal damage from the use of pennyroyal in any form during pregnancy.
Ingesting essential oil can be lethal; contact with essential oil (a popular insect repellent) can cause dermatitis.
May cause severe kidney/liver damage used in excess of 2 ounces.
Do not be used during pregnancy, it is a uterine stimulant.
Use only with medical supervision.


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Teachers Playing World of Warcraft
There is a certain thrill for me watching adult learners exploring a totally alien environment. Maybe it's the mad scientist in me? I'm having those very sorts of opportunities in August as Peggy Sheehy and I lead teachers from around the world through quest-based learning experiences in 3DGameLab. Our group's quests revolve around the concept of using World of Warcraft (or similar MMO's) in the classroom. Our first week has simply been a chance to orient folks to World of Warcraft. Simply put, we just want them to play the game, immersing themselves in the fantasy world of Azeroth.
As we move into week two, we're asking our participants to look at the game through the lens of education and instructional design. World of Warcraft is an incredibly complex game. This first week has reminded me of just how much I take for granted: the jargon, game culture, and of course the technical side of things. We have a range of prior knowledge among our participants from those who have multiple level 85 characters, the highest level in the game, to those who have never experienced any virtual world, much less a game-based virtual world.
One of the first quests for our explorer-teachers this week is to examine how the game's designers essentially are instructional designers. The game has to teach you how to play the game. This requires a great deal of thought, planning, and testing on the part of the designers. Blizzard Entertainment, the makers of World of Warcraft, have become masters of this, as their subscriber numbers (around 12 million) indicate.
We asked our teachers both newcomers and veterans alike to reflect on their first experiences in the game and to consider what lessons we might apply to our classroom instruction. The first responses coming in are very telling:
After a couple of unhappy days, something happened that turned it around for me. People started helping me – not only that, but on two different days, very advanced players went on quests with me. What a totally different experience it was! I loved playing. It was so much fun, and I was learning a tremendous amount by following their lead and asking questions. It's lonely to struggle by yourself, and many times I thought that this must be how students feel when they get stuck and are not allowed to work with anyone else.
This response really highlights the value of the social component, something that good games typically foster but too often our classrooms discourage. Another teacher shared this observation:
Each quest would expand the area you could investigate. Each quest would introduce you to more and more challenging obstacles to overcome. Some quests taught you how to fish, earn money with a trade, and use different talents. You were not tossed in the middle of the pool with all your skills in place, you had to learn them one or two at a time. New skills built upon previous knowledge.
This mastery-based approach is not common in our schools, primarily because time for learning is a set constant. The mentality is, "if you don't get it, sorry, we have to move on." Keeping your experiences within your "regime of competence" is a concept also reflected by this educator:
WoW is good at starting you off small – just a few spells, easily defeated baddies, and quests that let you go practice your skills without aggroing mobs. The game is also good at keeping you within your skill realm. You won't find any level 30 foes in the level 1 areas so you're usually pretty safe from biting off more than you can chew.
On the concept of feedback to the player (what we might call assessment), one of our educators shared this observation:
I could see that I was making progress, and that was motivating. Also the frequent advancing in levels at the beginning stages. I was so happy when my level went up! I've rarely seen this technique done in education, but it could certainly be borrowed.
I was so impressed by the thoughtfulness and reflection of these educators I had to go ahead and share it. There are many more educators who'll be sharing their reflections on exploring World of Warcraft this week.
Are you a gaming educator? What parallels can you make between game design and good instructional design?


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The community response to eradicate HIV Criminalization has been steadily growing over the past five years. These efforts culminated earlier this month at the HIV Is Not A Crime: National Conference on HIV Criminalization. While Visual AIDS was not able to attend, activist and nature lover Samuel James Pottebaum was there. Below is his report on the conference, followed by links for further reading.
One hundred and seventy HIV/AIDS activists from across the US and around the world attended the first ever HIV Is Not a Crime: National Conference on HIV Criminalization, hosted by Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. The conference was organized by The Sero Project, a network of people with HIV and allies, focused upon ending inappropriate criminal prosecutions of people with HIV for non-disclosure of their HIV status, potential or perceived HIV exposure or HIV transmission. Attendees were a diverse group of organizers, volunteers, and activists who participated with the intent of coming away with action plans and stronger networks to assist in empowering their local efforts.
On the first night attendees packed into the main auditorium to hear the featured speakers: Donald Baxter, Donald Bogardus, Ken Pinkela, Tiffany Moore, Monique Moree, Nick Rhoades, Robert Suttle, Reed Vreeland fielding a phone call of Kerry Thomas via an Idaho prison, and special guest speaker, Grinnell College President Dr. Raynard Kington. The evening was crucial as it allowed everyone to get to know each other, provided everyone an opportunity to get on the same page around HIV Criminalization, and ensured that the conference was understood to be an inclusive event which provided opinions from local and national levels of involvement, and varying degrees of activism over time.
The next day was full, plus incredibly informative. We gathered again in the large auditorium. There were sessions in which information was shared about how HIV Criminalization is different in each state, and arguments in opposition to criminalization. At one panel audience participation for arguing against HIV criminalization was encouraged. Audience members' differing approaches were transcribed in real time on multiple dry erase boards around the room. As a group we shared stories and chatted about the HIV/AIDS Care Continuum, also referred to as the "Treatment Cascade" (Diagnosis, Link to Care, Staying in Care, Getting on ART, and maintaining an Undetectable Viral Load). Later on, our comments were categorized by moderators within different approaches: focus to health and safety, mass incarceration, and countering opposition by discovering constituents and allies.
As a group we also discussed the idea of incarceration as marginalization, and how the general public often places blame upon the person living with HIV, rather than looking at how society targets and further perpetuates the cycle of abuse that HIV positive people face. This is due to the public's lack of knowledge of HIV/AIDS, and the stigma created by its inability to understand. We also discussed that just by nature of being positive, people living with HIV become targets for systemic racism, reproductive policing, and homophobia. Our mere existence is criminalized.
After lunch, the breakout sessions started. Out of the 6 sessions to choose from, I participated in the Flash Collective with Avram Finkelstein, known for working within collectives to create the Silence = Death logo and the Ronald Reagan AIDSGATE poster. This gathering was akin to a roundtable focus group, emphasizing collective decision-making, and engaging the general public in HIV criminalization messaging. Avram stressed clarity in our message creation; our communication could be incredibly coded, but we must mean what we say, and have it easily understood. This session was core to producing dialogue for public spaces (the audience defines everything), and to produce cultural collaboration around why people should care about HIV criminalization.
The conference came on the cusp of the reformation of Iowa's HIV Criminalization statute, which is good news to people within the state of Iowa, and providing inspiration for future HIV Criminal statute reform movements. Read here for more information.
The next day I was running around shuttling people to the airport and the conference, so I wasn't able to attend many of the workshops and sessions. However, I did get to witness one of the biggest highlights of my life; Nick Rhoades and Donald Bogardus getting their GPS ankle bracelets cut off by Senator Matt McCoy and attorney Dan Johnston, due to Iowa's HIV Criminalization law being rewritten. This signifies that they no longer had to participate in monitoring, mandatory curfews, various lie-detector testing / interviews, and were no longer on the sex-offender registry (which means a lot when you consider where you can locate, what you have to do when you find a location, supervision around children, and the almost impossibility of obtaining a job).
Nick Rhoades was convicted and sentenced to 25 years under Iowa's HIV criminal statue, of non-disclosure and in a consensual sexual circumstance using a condom. It was also impossible for Nick to transmit the virus due to his undetectable status and using a condom, with the man pressing charges remaining HIV negative. Donald Bogardus also had an undetectable viral load and didn't transmit HIV (undetectable means that if you were to test for HIV, the test would come up negative, hence the term undetectable), and was facing up to 25 years after a former partner pressed charges.
As a conference participant, I was struck by the camaraderie and enthusiasm of attendees. The guidance and encouragement of the group bolstered morale, creating sensitivity toward one another that was positively electric. Sometimes within the activist community, there is a high level of burnout and inability to celebrate victories, as there are constant obstacles to still overcome. This was not the case here, as everyone present appeared to be revitalized and renewed at the closing stages.
This was an incredible conference, to which I owe a great debt of gratitude for all those who participated and organized it. I have more confidence in my ability to act as a better activist/ally, and feel bolstered by the great potential that I have realized within myself and within all the connections and friends I made. I learned that I am not alone in this fight. I was glad to be a part of this conference, and can't wait to assist more within the greater HIV criminalization movement. I have nothing but the highest of accolades.
Samuel James Pottebaum, aka Sr. Apocrypha l'Poesie of the Midwest Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, is an LGBTQ activist, mapmaker, bicyclist, gardener, and fermentation enthusiast living in Iowa. He likes hiking and canoeing in natural areas, and meeting people who enjoy lively conversation.
Further reading:
Conference Opens With Strong Showing- Mathew Rodriquez, The Body
Women Speak Out about HIV Criminalization- Mathew Rodriquez, The Body
Advocates Speak: Voices from Grinnell - The Center for HIV Law and Policy
The Powerful "HIV Is Not A Crime" Conference (video) - Mark S. King, My Fabulous Disease


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5.1. Getting the X Window System Working with X-Configurator
There are two main methods of getting X working under Red Hat's
distribution of Linux. The first and easiest method, is to use Red Hat's
own ``Xconfigurator
'' utility. The utility tries to
detect your hardware and installs the applicable X software with the
appropriate configuration settings.
If you are still unsuccessful after trying out various settings
with Xconfigurator, you may have better luck with the
'' utility. Although certainly not as
user-friendly or attractive as Xconfigurator is, it gives you finer
control over the configuration process.
Finally, if you are still out of luck you may
have to resort to editing the
'' file by
hand and tweaking various settings. If this is the case, you may need to
get help from the Linux community (see Section 13.3 for
details). Relax, however -- in a majority of cases Xconfigurator does an
adequate job!/etc/X11/XF86Config
After getting X working properly, you may be disappointed in the lack of rich colours. This is because X uses a default 8-bit per pixel (``bpp'') colour depth. You can use higher colour depths, however, assuming your video hardware will support them.
The various colour depths are listed in your
'' file, and
look like this:/etc/X11/XF86Config
Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "800x600" "1024x768" ViewPort 0 0 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection |
The above section shows the possible resolutions which are
available when using the 24-bit colour depth (800x600 and 1024x768, as
listed in the "Modes" line); these resolutions can be
switched between "on-the-fly" using the
and <Alt><->
Tip: Tip: As a default, when X starts up it does so using the lowest resolution. If you dislike this behaviour as much as I do, simply edit the ``
'' file and reverse the resolutions (ie. "1024x768" "800x600").
When you are getting things set up, you can test each colour depth
manually by typing, ``startx -- -bpp 24
'' (for the
24-bit depth) and make sure X is working properly for the colour depth
you wish to use.)
If you are able to successfully use a higher colour depth and wish
to use it as the default, you will need to create a
'' file
as follows:/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
exec X :0 -bpp 24 |
The above change will allow X to use 24 bits per pixel (if you have problems with this, try 16 or 32 instead of 24).
Assuming you have configured X properly, starting it is a simple
matter of typing ``startx
'' as any user. The X GUI
will start, and after you have finished your session and quit X, you will
be returned to the regular Linux console.
Optionally, X can start up at system boot, and always run (see Section 5.2 for details on how to accomplish this). This can be handy for those users who dislike seeing the "boring" black & white console, or for those who wish to avoid dealing with command line shells as much as possible.


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I'm going to be greedy and foolhardy and save *two* of my favourite paintings, which I commissioned my favourite artist to paint. Here they are – this is me writing my books, and my daughter Lydia is the one who types them up for me. The artist's name is Rose Popay and she's fabulous.
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I must be drunk, thought Tessa, kicking off her shoes and sinking into a sitting position on the edge of the vast, canopied bed. When a man like Ross Monahan urged you to spend the night at his place and assured you that you were quite welcome to the bed—he would be happy to sleep on the settee—you knew you were playing with fire.
Either drunk or crazy, she told herself as she pulled her dress over her head, threw it in the direction of a large, red-velvet chair and wrapped herself in the dark-blue toweling robe he had left for her.
But she knew she wasn't that drunk. She was enjoying the game which had begun so many hours earlier. The challenge had been thrown down and she couldn't resist it. She was going to seriously enjoy being the only woman in the history of the world to have slept in Ross's bed…alone.
His suite of rooms on the top floor of the hotel was as sumptuous as she had imagined, particularly since seeing the rest of The Grange earlier. Like stowaways, they had remained closeted in the conservatory until the early hours of the morning when the last guests had departed, either roaring off into the night in their smart cars or retiring to their rooms in the hotel.
Then, taking her hand, Ross had given her the full guided tour, showing her the elegant sitting rooms, the restaurant, the squash courts, the superb gym and the spectacular indoor swimming-pool built inside a second, even larger, conservatory, illuminated by underwater lighting and surrounded on three sides by more tropical vegetation. Ross was as proud of the hotel as a new father. Tessa had been touched by his enthusiasm. But if he was under the impression that she would be so overwhelmed by this display of his success that she would leap into bed with him, he was going to be disappointed.
Saying no was much, much more fun.
Firmly securing the belt of the far-too-big robe around her waist, she threw back the bedcovers and slid between cool white sheets, just as a cautious knock sounded at the door.
"It's OK, I'm decent."
"Pity," said Ross lightly. He was still dressed, and carrying a folded blanket over one arm.
Tessa gestured at the bed. "This is awfully kind of you. You'll probably have a terrible time trying to sleep on that settee."
"Probably." He gave her a mournful look, then grinned. "But I'll survive."
She watched him fling the blanket over the narrow leather Chesterfield. "And it's four thirty now. Nearly time to get up again anyway."
"Don't remind me."
"I'm very grateful."
"Absolutely no problem."
Tessa pulled the covers up to her chin and smiled at him. "You're a true gentleman."
"I believe you," said Ross. "Thousands wouldn't."
She watched him hover for a few seconds beside the sofa, wondering no doubt if she might change her mind. Then, giving him one last big smile, she plumped up her pillows and turned over. "Mmm, well, thanks again. Good night."
Tessa didn't know what time it was when she shifted in her sleep and first realized that she was no longer alone in the bed. Her bare leg was resting against another bare leg, definitely not her own. Sleepily, almost subconsciously, she stretched out her hand and encountered a smooth, warm back. She became aware of the very faint scent of aftershave and toothpaste, and the quiet, regular breathing of someone deeply and peacefully asleep.
To her great surprise, Tessa was neither shocked nor annoyed by this invasion of her privacy. It was, after all, his bed and a narrow, slippery leather Chesterfield was about as conducive to a good night's sleep as a tin bath.
In fact, she realized drowsily, she had forgotten quite how nice it felt to lie next to another body, accidentally brushing against an arm or a hip, sharing each other's warmth and enjoying the primal instincts of simply being together.
With a guilty start she came properly awake. For the way her fingertips were trailing down Ross's spine wasn't in the least bit accidental. And, without even realizing it, her own left leg had managed to fit against the curve of his right one with all the snugness of a missing piece in a jigsaw.
This was taking the enjoyment of sharing each other's warmth a little too far.
Regretfully easing her leg back to her own side of the bed and removing her hand from his back, she closed her eyes and attempted to distract her mind from its traitorous wanderings. She had always believed that physical intimacy—not just sex—was something like a video recorder or a Magimix: what you didn't have, you didn't miss, it just faded from your mind and became unimportant.
It had been almost a year since her last relationship had ended. At first, of course, she had missed the hugs and the kisses—and the sex—but certainly not enough to go rampaging round Bath in search of males, any males, with whom to satisfy the need for physical contact.
And pretty soon she had become used to being and sleeping alone once more. The withdrawal symptoms had been mild. Because hugging and kissing and sex weren't physical addictions like heroin. They were something that was nice but also quite possible to live without.
On the other hand, a year was a long time.


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I'd love to draw your attention to a wonderful, new reference site created by Tilak Pyle.
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BookSleeve has now been succeeded by StackExchange.Redis, for lots of reasons. The API and intent is similar, but the changes are significant enough that we had to reboot. All further development will be in StackExchange.Redis, not BookSleeve.
At Stack Exchange, performance is a feature we work hard at. Crazy hard. Whether that means sponsoring load-balancer features to reduce system impact, or trying to out-do the ORM folks on their own turf.
One of the many tools in our performance toolkit is Redis; a highly performant key-value store that we use in various ways:
- as our second-level cache
- for various tracking etc counters, that we really don't want to bother SQL Server about
- for our pub/sub channels
- for various other things that don't need to go direct to SQL Server
It is really fast; we were using the redis-sharp bindings and they served us well. I have much thanks for redis-sharp, and my intent here is not to critique it at all – but rather to highlight that in some environments you might need that extra turn of the wheel. First some context:
- Redis itself is single threaded supporting multiple connections
- the Stack Exchange sites work in a multi-tenancy configuration, and in the case of Redis we partition (mainly) into Redis databases
- to reduce overheads (both handshakes etc and OS resources like sockets) we re-use our Redis connection(s)
- but since redis-sharp is not thread-safe we need to synchronize access to the connection
- and since redis-sharp is synchronous we need to block while we get each response
- and since we are split over Redis databases we might also first have to block while we select database
Now, LAN latency is low; most estimates put it at around 0.3ms per call – but this adds up, especially if you might be blocking other callers behind you. And even more so given that you might not even care what the response is (yes, I know we could offload that somewhere so that it doesn't impact the current request, but we would still end up adding blocking for requests that do care).
Enter BookSleeve
Seriously, what now? What on earth is BookSleeve?
As a result of the above, we decided to write a bespoke Redis client with specific goals around solving these problems. Essentially it is a wrapper around Redis dictionary storage; and what do you call a wrapper around a dictionary? A book-sleeve. Yeah, I didn't get it at first, but naming stuff is hard.
And we're giving it away (under the Apache License 2.0)! Stack Exchange is happy to release our efforts here as open source, which is groovy.
So; what are the goals?
- to operate as a fully-functional Redis client (obviously)
- to be thread-safe and non-blocking
- to support implicit database switching to help with multi-tenancy scenarios
- to be on-par with redis-sharp on like scenarios (i.e. a complete request/response cycle)
- to allow absolute minimum cost fire-and-forget usage (for when you don't care what the reply is, and errors will be handled separately)
- to allow use as a "future" – i.e request some data from Redis and start some other work while it is on the wire, and merge in the Redis reply when available
- to allow use with callbacks for when you need the reply, but not necessarily as part of the current request
- to allow C# 5 continuation usage (aka async/await)
- to allow fully pipelined usage – i.e. issue 200 requests before we've even got the first response
- to allow fully multiplexed usage – i.e. it must handle meshing the responses from different callers on different threads and on different databases but on the same connection back to the originator
(actually, Stack Exchange didn't strictly need the C# 5 scenario; I added that while moving it to open-source, but it is an excellent fit)
Where are we? And where can I try it?
It exists; it works; it even passes some of the tests! And it is fast. It still needs some tidying, some documentation, and more tests, but I offer you BookSleeve:
The API is very basic and should be instantly familiar to anyone who has used Redis; and documentation will be added.
In truth, the version I'm open-sourcing is more like the offspring of the version we're currently using in production – you tend to learn a lot the first time through. But as soon as we can validate it, Stack Exchange will be using BookSleeve too.
So how about some numbers
These are based on my dev machine, running redis on the same machine, so I also include estimates using the 0.3ms latency per request as mentioned above.
In each test we are doing 5000 INCR commands (purely as an arbitrary test); spread over 5 databases, in a round-robin in batches of 10 per db – i.e. 10 on db #0, 10 on db #1, … 10 on db #4 – so that is an additional 500 SELECT commands too.
- to completion 430ms
- (not meaningful to measure fire-and-forget)
- to completion assuming 0.3ms LAN latency: 2080ms
- to completion 391ms
- 2ms fire-and-forget
- to completion assuming 0.3ms LAN latency: 391ms
The last 2 are the key, in particular noting that the time we aren't waiting on LAN latency is otherwise-blocking time we have subtracted for other callers (web servers tend to have more than one thing happening…); the fire-and-forget performance allows us to do a lot of operations without blocking the current caller.
As a bonus we have added to ability to do genuinely parallel work on a single caller – by starting a Redis request first, doing the other work (TSQL typically), and then asking for the Redis result. And let's face it, while TSQL is versatile, Redis is so fast that it would be quite unusual for the Redis reply to not to already be there by the time you get to look.
Wait – did you say C# 5?
Yep; because the API is task based, it can be used in any of 3 ways without needing separate APIs:
- synchronous (blocking on the response) via Wait
- asynchronous (callback-based) via ContinueWith
- async/await by using the Async CTP (edit or for VS2010 SP1) and C# 5 language features
As an example of the last:
IMPORTANT: in the above "await" does not mean "block until this is done" – it means "yield back to the caller here, and run the rest as a callback when the answer is available" – or for a better definition see Eric Lippert's blog series.
And did I mention…
…that a high perfomance binary-based dictionary store works well when coupled with a high performance binary serializer? ;p


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A special report released Tuesday by the Justice Department said they believe that more people have died of 9/11-related illnesses than those killed on September 11, 2001.
The report was revealed through the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, a fund set up in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks for survivors and victims' families.
According to the report, more than 19,000 people filed a claim listing cancer as one of their eligible conditions, which makes up 48% of the claims filed.
"It is also sobering to see that more people are now believed to have died of 9/11-related illnesses than were lost on September 11, 2001," the report stated.
"As I reflect on the 20 years that have passed since September 11th, 2001, we at the World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program mourn for those lost in the attacks and affirm our commitment to those living with 9/11-related health conditions," Dr. John Howard, Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Administrator, World Trade Center Health Program, said in the report.
The DOJ said more than 40,000 people had received nearly $9 billion from the VCF.
According to the Associated Press, nearly 3,000 people died on September 11, 2001, when terrorists of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon, and a field outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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Dude Jumps Into Crocodile-Filled Water to Score a Date
She may break his heart, but that won't hurt nearly as much as what he's already been through.
An Australian man jumped into a river filled with crocodiles to impress a woman.
Ah, the things we do for love.
Lee De Paauw, 18, is the fella who dove into the Johnstone River -- and, yes, alcohol may have been a factor. He admits he had 10 cups of goon. That's Australian for wine, mate.
De Paauw, who called the woman a backpacker -- that's a tourist -- explained to a local radio show that he was thinking with this heart, not his head. "I just wanted to show the backpacker. I got her number and her name is Sophie." Sophie Paterson, to be precise. She's 24, so, yeah, Lee had to go big in order to impress an older woman from another country.
After he got into the water, the creature pounced by grabbing him by the arm. "It took me out about six meters from the wharf. I hit it once on the nose, it loosened a bit. I got another hit in and it was right on its eye. I was lucky because it just dropped me."
Some friends then reeled in De Paauw, who was soaked in blood.
A rescue official confirmed the water is known to be a popular spot for crocodiles.
De Paauw, meanwhile, doesn't see why his actions have made him the butt of many jokes. "Haters gonna hate," he says. Maybe he has a point -- after all, he did get a date with Sophie.


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I have the privilege of cooking for a baker's dozen this year and I'm positively giddy about it. Prep starts tomorrow, with making pie dough, pumpkin and pecan pie fillings, pâte sucrée, roasting butternut squash, poaching pears, and salting the turkey on my to do list. Thanksgiving chez Pinch is taking a village to pull off; borrowed items (tables, chairs, extra flatware) are coming in from all over town. I've never hosted a Bring Your Own Fork event. It will be merry, for sure.
To Start
House Salad with Pomegranate Seeds and Pear
Scallops with Butternut Squash Puree
The Dinner
Salted Roast Turkey with Gravy
Amazing Vegetarian Stuffing
Cranberry Sauce
Mashed Potatoes
Spicy Sweet Potato Fries
Refrigerator Rolls or Rosemary Raisin Rolls
Green Beans with Shallots and Pancetta
The Dessert
Pumpkin Pie (This is the pie dough recipe. I honestly use the filling recipe from the Libby's can, substituting half and half for the canned milk.)
Pecan Pie (check back soon for this recipe)
Warm Vanilla Poached Pears with Vanilla Ice Cream and Caramel Sauce
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The Community Solutions Program is a professional development program for the best and brightest global community leaders working in Transparency & Accountability, Tolerance & Conflict Resolution, Environmental Issues, and Women & Gender Issues.
Follow-on Projects: Community Solutions leaders develop follow-on community projects in partnership with their U.S. hosts. Follow-on projects will be completed after leaders return to their home countries.
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Candidates will be considered without respect to race, color, religion, national origin, or gender. Persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. Competition for the Community Solutions Program is merit-based and open to community leaders, ages 25-38 at the time of application, who meet the following criteria:
• From a participating country (U.S. citizens, permanent residents of the U.S., and individuals who have applied for U.S. permanent residency in the past three years are not eligible for this program)
• Currently living and working in his/her home country (Individuals participating in academic, training or research programs in the United States at the time of application and individuals residing or working outside their home countries at the time of application are not eligible for this program)
• Currently working on a community project or initiative in his/her home country; and, has at least 2 years of professional experience in this capacity at the time of application
• Able to begin the program in the United States in 2016, and is committed to returning to his/her home country after completion of the program
• Able to receive a U.S. J-1 visa (Individuals who have participated in an exchange visitor program sponsored or funded by the U.S. Government who have not fulfilled their two-year home residency requirement by the time of application are not eligible for this program)
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1/6 Ctw Round Cut Diamond and Ethnic Oval Cut 6x4mm Aquamarine Semi Precious Pendant in 10K White Gold with chain
An ethnic inspired design pendant, this showcases beauty in ethnicity combined with a touch of modern elegance. The semi-precious pendant comprises of an oval cut 6x4mm Aquamarine center stone that adds a dash of color to it. 16 pave set round cut diamonds form a glistening halo around the center stone. The lattice rim of the pendant with its four pointing out poles, give the pendant its ethnic touch. Also decorating the pendant loop is 4 prong set round diamonds. The 10 karat white gold pendant is strung on a link rope chain made of the same metal. Total diamond weight is 1/6 ctw.