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Politrecohttp://www.politreco.com/2013-09-25T07:32:00-03:00Optimizing hash table with kmod as testbed2013-09-25T07:32:00-03:00Lucas De Marchitag:www.politreco.com,2013-09-25:2013/09/25/optimizing-hash-table-with-kmod-as-testbed/
One thing that caught my interest lately was the implementation of hash tables, particularly the algorithms we are currently using for calculating the hash value. In kmod we use Paul Hsieh's hash function, self entitled superfast hash. I fell troubled with anything that entitles itself as super fast, especially given the benchmarks provided are from some years ago, with older CPUs.

After some time spent on benchmarking and researching I realized there were much more things to look after than just the hash function. With this post I try to summarize my findings, showing some numbers. However do take them with a grain of salt.

The hash functions I'm using here for comparisons are: DJB, Murmur32, Paul Hsiesh and CRC32c (using the crc32c instruction present in SSE4.2). My goal is to benchmark hash functions when strings are used as key (though some of the algorithms above can be adpated for blobs). Also the use of these hash tables are only for fast lookups, so any cryptography-safe property of the functions or lack thereof is irrelevant here. For all the benchmarks I'm using depmod's hash tables. There are 3 hash tables:

module names: keys are very small, 2 to 20 chars

symbol names: keys are mid-range, 10 to 40 chars

module path names: keys are the largest: 10 to \~60 chars

On my benchmarks I identified the following items as important points to look after optmizations:

Hash functions: how do they spread the items across the table?

Time to find the bucket

Time to find the item inside the bucket

Hash functions: time to calculate the hash value

Whilst the first and the last ones depend on the algorithm chosen for calculating the hash value, the second and third are more related to the data structure used to accommodating the items and the size of the table.

Hash functions: how do they spread the items across the table?

It's useless to find a hash function that is as fast as it can be if it doesn't cope with it's role: spreading the items across the tables. Ideally each bucket would have the same number of items. This ideal is what we call perfect hash, something is possible only if we known a priori all the items and can be accomplished by tools like gperf. If we are instead looking for a generic function that does its best on spreading the items, we need a function like the ones mentioned above: given any random string it calculates a 32 bits hash value used to find the bucket in which the value we are interested in is located. It's not only desirable that we are able to calculate the hash value very fast, but also that this value can be in fact useful. A naive person could say the function below is a super fast constant time hash function.

uint32_t naive_hashval(const char *key, int keylen) { return 1; }

However as one can note it isn't used anywhere because it fails the very first goal of a hash function: to spread the items on the table. Before starting the benchmarks I've read in several places that the crc32c instruction is like the function above (though not that bad) and couldn't be used as a hash function for real. Using kmod as a test bed this isn't what I would say. See the figures below.

We used all 3 hash tables used in depmod, dumping all the items just before destroying them. The graph shows how many items were in each bucket. For all algorithms we have almost the same average and standard deviation. So, which functions should we use for the next benchmarks? The answer is clearly all of them since they provide almost the same results, being good contenders.

Time to find the bucket

Once we calculated the hash value, it's used to find in which bucket the item lies on. For starters, a bucket is nothing more than a row in the table as depicted below:

b0 it1 → it2 → it3 b1 it4 b2 it5 → it6 → it7 → it8 b3 it9 → it10 → it11

The hash table above has size 4, which is also the number of buckets. So we need to find a way to convert the (32-bit) hash value to a 3 bits. The most common way used in hash table implementations is to just take the value's modulo:

uint32_t hashval = hashfunc(h, key, keylen); int pos = hashval % h->size;

The size above is set when the hash table is created (some hash table implementations use a grow-able approach, which is not treated in this post). The modulo above is usually implemented by taking the rest of a division which uses a DIV instruction. Even if nowadays this instruction is fast, we can optimize it away if we pay attention to the fact that usually the hash table size is a power of 2. Since kmod's inception we use size=512 for module names and paths; and size = 2048 for symbols. If size is always a power of 2, we can use the code above to derive the position, which will lead to the same result but much faster.

uint32_t hashval = hashfunc(h, key, keylen); int pos = hashval & (h->size - 1);

The DEC and AND instructions above are an order of magninute faster than the DIV on today processors. However the compiler is not able to optimize the DIV away and use DEC + AND since it can't ensure size is power of 2. Using depmod as a test bed we have the following clock cycle measurements for calculating the hash value + finding the bucket in the table:

keylen before after 2-10 79.0 61.9 (-21.65%) 11-17 81.0 64.4 (-20.48%) 18-25 90.0 73.2 (-18.69%) 26-32 104.7 87.0 (-16.82%) 33-40 108.4 89.6 (-17.37%) 41-48 111.2 91.9 (-17.38%) 49-55 120.1 102.1 (-15.04%) 56-63 134.4 115.7 (-13.91%)

As expected, the gain is constant regardless of the key length. The time to calculate the hash value varies with the key length, which explains the bigger gains for short keys. In kmod, to ensure the size is power of 2, we round it up in hash_init() to the next multiple with the following function:

static _always_inline_ unsigned int ALIGN_POWER2(unsigned int u) { return 1 << ((sizeof(u) * 8) - __builtin_clz(u - 1)); }

There are other ways to calculate it, refer to kmod's commit as to why this one is used.

Time to find the item inside the bucket

As noticed in the previous section we use a MOD operation (or a variation thereof) to find the bucket in the table. When there are collisions and
 a bucket is storing more than 1 item, hash table implementations usually resort to a linked list or an array to store the items. Then the lookup ends up being:

Calculate the hash value

Use the hash value to find the bucket

Iterate through the items in the bucket comparing the key in order to find the item we are interested in.

Return the value stored.

So often the item is a struct like below:

struct hash_entry { const char *key; void *value; };

In the struct above I'm considering the key is a string, but it's also possible to have other types as key.

So once we have the bucket, we need to go through each item and strcmp() the key. In kmod since we use an array to store the items we have a little better approach: the array is kept sorted and during lookup it's possible to use bsearch(). However as one can imagine, keeping the array sorted doesn't come for free. We are speeding up lookup with the downside of slowing down insertion.

Thinking on this problem, the following came to mind: we use and benchmark complicated functions that do their best to give a good 32 bits value and then with the modulo operation we use just throw away most of it. What if we could continue using the value? If we don't mind the extra memory used to store one more value in the struct hash_entry above, we can. We store the hash value of each entry and then compare them when searching inside the bucket. Since comparing uint32 is very fast, there's no much point in keeping them sorted anymore and we can just iterate very fast through all items in the bucket checking first if the hash values match and only then strcmp() the key. With this we can drastically reduce the amount of string comparisons we do in a lookup-intensive path, the time to add and item (since it doesn't need to be sorted anymore) and also the complexity of the code. The downside is the memory usage, with one extra 32 bit value for each entry. The table below shows the results.

keylen before after 2-10 222.8 127.7 (-42.68%) 11-17 231.2 139.1 (-39.85%) 18-25 273.8 181.3 (-33.78%) 26-32 328.7 236.2 (-28.13%) 33-40 366.0 306.1 (-16.34%) 41-48 354.0 341.7 (-3.48%) 49-55 385.1 390.5 (1.40%) 56-63 405.8 404.9 (-0.21%)

Hash functions: time to calculate the hash value

This was my original intention: to benchmark several hash functions and choose the best one based on data from real world, not random or fabricated strings. My desire was also to profit as much as I could from nowadays processors. So if there's a new instruction, let's use it for good.

Based on that I came to know the crc32c instruction in SSE4.2. By using it we have a blazing fast way to calculate crc32, capable of a throughput of around 1 char per clock cycle. I was also optimistic about it when I checked that its distribution was as good as the other contenders. The figure below shows the time to calculate the hash value for
 each of the algorithms.

As can be seen on the benchmark above, the winner is indeed crc32c. It's much faster than the others. It's noteworthy the fact that it increases much less than the other as the length goes up.

From the other contenders, DJB is the worst one reaching much higher times. It's the simplest one to implement, but in my opinion the others are small enough (though not that simple) to take its place.

How much does the hash function affect the hash table lookup time? By lookup time I mean:

The figure below answers this question:

We can see from the figure above that the crc32 implementation is the faster one. However, the gain is not as big as when we consider only the time to calculate the hash value. This is because the other operations take much more.

Conclusion

Although the CRC32 implementation is faster than its contenders and that I was tempted to change to it in kmod, I'm not really doing it. There would be a significant gain only if the key was big enough. As noted above, the time to calculate the hash value in CRC32 grows much more steadily than the others. If the keys were big enough, like 500 chars, then it could be a change to make. It's important to note that if we were to change to this hash function we would need to add an implementation for architectures other than x86 as well as introduce the boilerplate code to detect in runtime if there's support for the crc32c instruction and use the generic implementation otherwise.

The other 2 optimizations, although not ground breaking are easy to make and not intrusive. Nonetheless if people want to check the hash functions in their workload I will make available the code and benchmarks in a repository other than kmod's.
Back from Linux Plumbers2012-09-03T18:29:00-03:00Lucas De Marchitag:www.politreco.com,2012-09-03:2012/09/03/back-from-linux-plumbers/
I'm back from USA after one week attending Linux Plumbers Conference. This was my first time in LPC, in which I was part of the CoreOS, talking about "From libabc to libkmod: writing core libraries".

It was a very good experience and I'm glad to meet so many developers, both kernel and userspace hackers. Some of them I only knew from IRC, mailing-lists, etc and it was great time to share our experiences, discuss the current problems in Linux and even fix bugs :-). We seem finally to have reached a consensus on how module signing should be done - the outcome of Rusty Russel's talk is that he will now start applying some pending patches. There will be no required changes to kmod, except a cosmetic one in modinfo to show if a module is signed or not.

Rusty was also very helpful in fixing a long-standing bug in Linux kernel: a call to init_module() returns that a module is already loaded, even if it didn't finish it's initialization yet. This used to be "fixed" in module-init-tools by a nasty hack adding a "sleep(10000)" if the module state (checked on sysfs) is "coming". I mean "fixed" because this approach is still racy, even though the race window is much shorter than without it. So we finally sat down and wrote a draft patch to fix it. This will probably reach Linus tree in the next merge window.

The above example only seconds what Paul McKenney said on his blog yesterday: "A number of the people I informally polled called out the hallway track as the most valuable part of the conference, which I believe to be a very good thing indeed!" - I was one of the people he informally polled ;-). I'd like to thank all the Committee and people involved in organizing this conference - it was a very great experience.

Finally, you can find my slides below (or download from Google Docs). I think soon the audio will be published. Meanwhile you may enjoy Lennart's picture when he was a child in slide #5 (during the talk he claimed it's not him, but I don't believe - they are too similar :-)).

 ANNOUNCE: kmod 32012-01-06T06:50:00-02:00Lucas De Marchitag:www.politreco.com,2012-01-06:2012/01/06/announce-kmod-3/
Hey, kmod 3 is out. Really nice to finish this release. I was hoping to have it between the holidays, but there were some major bugs pending. It's nice to see udev from git already using it instead of calling modprobe for each module. Kay reported a hundred less forks on bootup after start using libkmod and libblkid.

It's nice too receive feedback about other architectures that we don't have access, too. With kmod 3, sh4 joined the other architectures that were tested with kmod.

Since I'm already doing the announcements to the mailing lists, I'll not repeat the NEWS here. Just look at the archives if you didn't receive the email.

Happy new year!
ANNOUNCE: kmod 22011-12-21T04:40:00-02:00Lucas De Marchitag:www.politreco.com,2011-12-21:2011/12/21/announce-kmod-2/
I'm glad to announce the second version of kmod. I'm sorry for not sending the first version to the mailing lists. Now I'm both writing it here and sending to the mailing list.

I thank very much the feedback received for the first version and that now Jon Masters, the maintainer of module-init-tools, is helping us with kmod and already announced that kmod will replace module-init-tools in future.

I'd like to especially thank Tom Gundersen, Dave Reisner, Marco d'Itri, Jon Masters, Luis Strano, Jan Engelhardt and Kay Sievers who have been extensively testing kmod and helping with compatibility with previous tools. Right now kmod is tested in i686, x86_64, sparcv9, powepc64, s390 and ARM. More testers are greatly appreciated, especially for architectures not mentioned here.

News for this version are (copying from NEWS file):

Some bugs fixed: the worst of them was with an infinite loop when an alias matched more than one module.

 New APIs in libkmod to:
 - Get soft dependencies - Get info from module files parsing ELF - Get modversions from files parsing ELF
 Support to load gzipped kernel modules: kmod can be compiled with support to gzipped modules by giving the —enable-zlib flag

 Support to forcefully load modules, both vermagic and modversion

 Support to force and nowait removal flags

 Configuration files are parsed in the same order as modprobe: files are sorted alphabetically (independently of their dir) and files with the same name obey a precedence order

 New tool: kmod-modinfo

 kmod-modprobe gained several features to be a 1:1 replacement for modprobe. The only missing things are the options '—showconfig' and '-t / -l'. These last ones have been deprecated long ago and they will be removed from modprobe. A lot of effort has been put on kmod-modprobe to ensure it maintains compabitility with modprobe.

 firstname.lastname@example.com became the official mailing list for kmod

For the next version, we plan to migrate our git repository to kernel.org. Meanwhile, git repository can be found at http://git.profusion.mobi/cgit.cgi/kmod.git/ and packages at http://packages.profusion.mobi/kmod/
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow2011-12-16T08:59:00-02:00Lucas De Marchitag:www.politreco.com,2011-12-16:2011/12/16/given-enough-eyeballs-all-bugs-are-shallow/
So, in last post I said kmod 2 could be released sooner than expected if there were major bugs. Not as much as a surprise, there was 1: depending on the alias passed to the lookup function we were blocked iterating a list.

It's now fixed in git tree. Thanks to Ulisses Furquim for fixing it and Dave Reisner for the bug report. We already have some other great stuff implemented so we'll soon have another release.

Another great news is that now we have the maintainer of module-init-tools (Jon Masters) cooperating with us. We will discuss how the two projects will co-exist/merge. So, for now on the official mailing list of the project is firstname.lastname@example.com.
ANNOUNCE: kmod 12011-12-15T04:05:00-02:00Lucas De Marchitag:www.politreco.com,2011-12-15:2011/12/15/announce-kmod-1/
For some weeks now I and Gustavo Barbieri at ProFUSION have been working on a new library and a set of tools, libkmod and kmod respectively. This is the announcement of its first public release.

Overview

The goal of the new library libkmod is to offer to other programs the needed flexibility and fine grained control over insertion, removal, configuration and listing of kernel modules. Using the library, with simple pieces of code it's possible to interact with kernel modules and then there's no need to rely on other tools for that. This is a thing lacking on Linux for a while and it's one of the items in the Plumber's Wish List for Linux. Quoting it:

provide a proper libmodprobe.so from module-init-tools:
 Early boot tools, installers, driver install disks want to access
 information about available modules to optimize bootup handling.

We went one step further and not only we are able now to give an API to load and remove kernel module, but also all the other common operations are being added to this API. The first user for this API will be udev. In a recent Linux Desktop (and also several embedded systems) when computer is booting up, udev is responsible for checking available hardware, creating device nodes under /dev (or at least configuring their permissions) and loading kernel modules for the available hardware. In a kernel from a distribution it's pretty common to put most of the things as modules. Udev reads the /sys filesystem to check the available hardware and tries to load the necessary modules. This translates in hundreds of calls to the modprobe binary, and in several of them just to know the module is already loaded, or it's in-kernel. With libkmod it's possible for udev with a few lines of code to do all the job, benefiting from the configurations and indexes already opened and parsed. We've been talking to Kay Sievers (udev's mantainter) and Lennart Poettering (systemd's maintainer) regarding this and we are looking forward to have udev using libkmod soon.

Example code:

To insert a module by name without any options and strange configurations it's sufficient to do as following (without treating errors for easy of comprehension - see the documentation for possible errors):

struct kmod_ctx *ctx = kmod_new(NULL, NULL); struct kmod_module *mod; kmod_module_new_from_name(ctx, name, &mod); kmod_module_insert_module(mod, 0, NULL); kmod_module_unref(mod); kmod_unref(ctx);

Tools

Besides doing the library, we are re-designing the module-init-tools tools on top of the new API we created. With this first version we are already providing compatible binaries for lsmod, rmmod, insmod and modprobe, the last one with some functionality missing. Next versions we plan to fill the gaps with the provided tools and provide all the others like depmod and modinfo.

License

We try to avoid issues regarding licences: the library is licensed under "LGPLv2 or later" and the tools are under "GPLv2 or later". There's still lots of work to be done and places to optimize. We greatly appreciate contribution from other developers.

Roadmap

The API is not set on stone and is going to suffer some changes in future releases as we see fit to finish implementing all the tools. Below is the list of the features already implemented

kmod 1

libkmod provides the necessary API for:

List modules currently loaded

Get information about loaded modules such as initstate, refcount, holders, sections, address and size

Lookup modules by alias, module name or path

Insert modules: options from configuration and extra options can be passed, but flags are not implemented, yet

Remove modules

Filter list of modules using blacklist

For each module, get the its list of options and install/remove commands

Indexes can be loaded on startup to speedup lookups later

Tools provided with the same set of options as in module-init-tools:

kmod-lsmod

kmod-insmod

kmod-rmmod

kmod-modprobe, with some functionality still missing (use of softdep, dump configuration, show modversions)

Following is a rough roadmap for future releases:

kmod 2

Provide the API for features missing in kmod-modprobe, namely: dump configuration and indexes, soft dependencies, install and remove commands. Features relying on ELF manipulation will still be missing;

Provide all the tools available in module-init-tools. Some of them like depmod may be entirely copied from module-init-tools for later convertion;

kmod 3

Provide a single kmod tool that will abstract all the others, accepting commands like "kmod list", "kmod remove", "kmod insert". Distributions may then use symlinks from current tools to the kmod binary and we can kill the 'kmod-*' test tools that we are introducing in kmod 1;

We thoroughly test the features implemented in kmod, but like any other software it's possible to contain bugs that we didn't find; we may decide to release new versions between the versions above and then this numbers change. Otherwise kmod 2 will already be sufficient for udev to pick it up as a dependency and start benefiting from the fine grained control over its operations with kernel modules.

Repositories

The repository for this project is located at http://git.profusion.mobi/cgit.cgi/kmod.git/

Package with kmod 1 source code can be downloaded from: http://packages.profusion.mobi/kmod/

Thanks

Last I'd like to thank Kay Sievers for his support in reviewing code, giving advices and helping to design kmod.


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Stewart Elysium, 11.5%
by Bruce Smith
I was introduced to Stewart Brewing when studying for my MSc in Brewing & Distilling at Heriot-Watt University.
Four students per year are chosen to team up and run a cuckoo brewery at Stewart in a programme called Natural Selection Brewing.
I was lucky enough to be picked as head brewer for the project and so spent a year working closely with the Stewart team, eventually releasing a 5.5% rye saison with Galaxy hops.
During the project, I was offered a position to develop a pilot kit and 'brew-it-yourself' facility at the brewery after I graduated. I jumped at the opportunity and, once the kit was commissioned, I set to work playing around with the existing beer recipes and developing a range of new innovative beers on a small scale.
As a result, most of our core-range beers have now been tweaked slightly and we have added countless new beers to our portfolio, with some becoming part of the permanent range.
I have been working with barrel-aged beers since the start of my brewing career so, after joining Stewart in 2013, it wasn't long before I was itching to get something into a barrel.
Classic Stout
My first choice was a classic imperial Russian stout and this was when having the pilot kit came in really handy. I designed a recipe and brewed a 100-litre batch. At this point I was aiming for an ABV of around 9% and really just wanted a base beer that I was happy with and would be worthy of all the months of ageing.
The resulting beer was good but not exactly what I wanted. It was a little one-dimensional, a solid strong stout, but I was looking for real complexity and that velvety viscosity you get in a good imperial stout.
It also wasn't as dark as I wanted. I wanted the final stout to be so dark that it would absorb light. So the 9% trial was aged on cacao nibs and raspberries and released instead as our 9th Anniversary beer in 750ml bottle.
It was back to the drawing board but that first trial had helped me identify what was needed. Next time around, the ABV was boosted to over 11%.
The variety of malts used was increased from a mere six to a substantial eleven as I aimed to get that jump in base-beer complexity. The more speciality malts, the more complex the flavour profile was the theory.
Maris Otter, wheat and oats made up the base and a blend of three grades of crystal malt including Special B (a dark crystal malt, which I believe adds a lot to this beer) were added for sweetness.
Next came the roasted malts – some aromatic malt to intensify the maltiness of the beer as well as chocolate malt, black malt, roasted barley and Carafa Special 3 – which were added at relatively high proportions to create an opaque black colour and a robust roasted finish.
Colour was a big thing. Some would say 'black is black' but brewers know that there is a difference between a standard stout and an imperial in the way it looks. The colour worked out to be over 700 EBC on paper, which I can confirm is very, very black.
I also took extra steps to increase the body of the beer by having the mash temperature at 70°C, which is a lot higher than for any other beer we produce.
Whopping IBUs
For hops, I went with some Northern Brewer and Challenger, ensuring most of the whopping 90 IBUs came from the early addition and just a sprinkling from the late. Despite this, the perceived bitterness was pretty low as the final gravity was in the 1030s, to get the viscosity I was looking for. It was really all to do with balance as I did not want an overly sweet finish.
I split the batch into five 20-litre fermentation vessels and pitched five different yeast strains. The winner – when tasted – was our house ale strain, which offered good attenuation, despite the gravity, and great flocculation. The beer was jet black and the aroma/flavour as clean as a whistle.
With the base recipe finally nailed, it was time to get some barrels. A well-placed friend at the Edrington Group was able to help with our request for various types and sizes.
I am always very particular with the barrels. They need to be disgorged at the most 72 hours before we fill them, so that we have fresh, wet barrels that haven't had time to dry out or lose the sterilising effect of the whisky.
There were three main types of barrels used – American bourbon, malt whisky hogsheads and sherry butts – selected so we had a nice spread of barrel-aged characters on the beer and that, when it came to final blending, the result would be even more complex.
The planning stage over, it was time to brew the beer in our main brewhouse. We produced around 30hl. I would have made more but one more gram of grain and the mash tun would have overflowed.
Other than the expected slow run-off and long boil/mashing times, the brew went well and so did the fermentation, although it did make a bit of a mess.
We conditioned the beer in tank for several weeks to remove most of the yeast, something that I have learned is important as the yeast will begin to produce off-flavours during the long barrel maturation.
We prepared the barrels by purging them with carbon dioxide. We know they are clean as they have just had a 50% alcohol in them but we had to remove the air to prevent it oxidising the beer.
We then filled the barrels to the brim with stout and sealed them with a silicon bung.
The beer sat in the barrels for what seemed like an eternity, being tasted every month, until finally one day, around nine months after the barrels were filled, I found what I was looking for.
The bourbon-aged stout was rich in vanilla and oak. The whisky barrel had a more subtle wood character but also had a smoky/peaty edge. The sherry was abundant with dried fruits and soft vinous notes.
I enjoyed each interpretation so much individually that the idea of blending the whole lot together went out of the window and we simply released smaller runs of each type – Elysium I, II & III. But a blend of all three does exist and has just been released as Elysium Reserve Edition.
Elysium was our first barrel-aged product brewed on any real scale but its success has opened the doors to doing more. Time for a bigger barrel ageing room…


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Overnight the currency market experienced extensive volatility as investors reacted to the Federal Open Market Committee's surprising decision to taper stimulus by 10 billion US Dollar.
The Euro is currently trading against the US Dollar in the region of 1.3674
The majority of economists believed that the Fed would refrain from trimming easing until the US economic recovery was more assured, but the recent positive employment data seemed to give the central bank the boost it needed to take this highly influential step.
During the policy announcement the Federal Reserve also stressed its commitment to keeping borrowing costs lower for longer.
Currency strategist Sean Callow said this of the decision; 'The overall feeling is that the Fed is probably optimistic enough that they'll probably continue the tapering in coming months.'
The EUR/USD pairing also slipped as the Euro came under pressure as a result of European Finance Ministers discussing the planned banking union in Brussels.
As another industry expert observed; 'We've got a little bit of event risk tonight in the sense there's a European leaders summit where they're supposed to come up with proposals for a banking union. The risk to me is downside in Euro for the next 24 hours.'
However, Euro losses were slightly limited by the news that the Eurozone's current account surplus widened in October.
The region's surplus expanded from a revised 14.9 billion Euros to 21.8 billion Euros, a six month high.
Today's US initial jobless claims figures and existing home sales report could be responsible for further EUR/USD movement.
Before the weekend investors will be focusing on German/Eurozone consumer confidence data.
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The Euro/Pound Sterling Exchange Rate is currently in the region of: 0.8356 >
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Thirty-five East Campus students received diplomas during their fifth-grade promotion ceremony Thursday, May 25, as a packed house in the multi-purpose room looked on.
Jai'lan Samuel was the valedictorian and Jose Villa was the salutatorian in a ceremony marked by a fifth-grade slide show, a presentation of awards and student performances.
"Today is one of those great occasions when we get to celebrate our young people - their achievements, their perseverance and their successes as they grow up," Jai'lan said in prepared remarks."It's one of the times you can take a break and reflect, feeling good as a parent or a mentor, knowing that the kids you care about are doing just fine and they're on the right path."
Jose also addressed the audience.
"I would...like to thank my parents for all of their support and encouragement in all my endeavors," he said. "I would also like to thank the entire staff for their help during my years since prek-4 at East campus....I believe the class of 2017 is ready for another new day."
That new day could include Varnett. Ms. Gayle Voltz, the campus director, reminded those in attendance that Varnett will have sixth grade at all three campuses, including East, when school reopens August 21 for the 2017-18 school year.
Ms. Voltz said the faculty and staff would like to thank parents, guardians and students for their support throughout the year.
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Its time for another Flashback Review, this one involves the final decade of the 20th century, the 90's. During that period, a variety bands, rappers and singers were very popular at the time. You had bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, No Doubt, Green Day, rappers Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, 2pac, Biggie Smalls, singers Mariah Carey, LeeAnn Rimes, & Faith Hill.
Not only did the musicians spawned a legacy of future musicians, but one particular all girl band started the trend of future girl bands. The one that started it all is none other than The Spice Girls.
It began in 1994 when Simon Fuller, (the future creator of American Idol) was looking for five girls capable of singing & dancing, the five we came to know and remember are Mel B, Emma Bunton, Mel C, Geri Halliwell, and Victoria Beckham.
In 1996, the same year Independence Day came out, the band released their first hit single "Wannabe," the song became a commercial success, catapulting their way to the music charts ranking #1. More songs were released on their debut album "Spice" proving they are not just a one hit wonder.
As a result from music listeners & critics, The Spice Girls became an international phenomenon since The Beatles. Spawning countless merchandise, endorsement deals, & a motion picture about them, similar to The Beatles films like Hard Days Night and Yellow Submarine. Thus, the film Spice World was born.
Released in 1997 in the U.K. & 1998 in the U.S. It made enough money at the box office, but it became a critical failure from critics. There are problems in this film, I mean a lot, so let me point out the flaws of the film.
SPOILERS for those who weren't around in the 90's or a 90's baby like me.
Good: The songs by The Spice Girls are very memorable and catchy at the same time.
Satirized depiction of Hollywood producers and Paparazzi. Foreshadowing the evil in the entertainment industry like Michael Bay & Harvey Levin/T.M.Z.
Celebrity cameos are pretty funny especially Roger Moore. By the way Posh Spice made a James Bond reference.
There are funny moments inclucding Meat Loaf's inside joke on his song "I'd Do Anything For Love," Posh Spice raising her voice on a sick boy in his sleep, Mel B pronouncing baby as "beh beh." Bonus points for making a Pulp Fiction joke Spice Force Five. (In Pulp Fiction it was Fox Force Five)
Garbage/Garbo: There's no actual plot nor a three act structure, just random shenanigans.
The acting from the five leads are terrible, as Cleveland from Family Guy would say "Turrable."
Random flash forward sequences that don't connect to future events, except for one that predicted the ladies as mothers in real life.
A pointless fashion montage.
Each Spice Girl never had a character arc.
This isn't a joke, male backup dancers expose their bare butts in their purple suits.
A Close Encounters Of The Third Kind rip-off of aliens visiting The Spice Girls.
A fruity version of Full Metal Jacket involves "dance camp."
A boat disaster scene that causes the group to break up. Don't worry they get back together just like in every buddy-cop film.
Seriously? Who takes their heavily pregnant friend to a nightclub.
There are no stakes involved until the climax.
Apologizing to cops for reckless driving won't give you a pardon. In real life you go to jail with your new cell mates Lindsay Lohan & Mel Gibson. Did they apologize to cops? No!
The film is incredibly dated.
Final Verdict: D for Dumb dumb.
I know this isn't a masterpiece, but despite flaws of the film, its really a guilty pleasure for me. If you want to give it a shot for nostalgic purposes, go ahead and give it a watch.


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Gordon Ramsay's Fast Food
Year released: 2012
Number of recipes: 125 (plus 7 condiment recipes)
Structure: There are many short sections (36, to be exact), such as "5 Fast Salads," 5 Fast Side Dishes," "Country Cooking," or "Speedy Sunday Lunch." Each section has about 2 - 5 recipes each.
Fun fact: I cooked every recipe in this book, cover to cover, just for fun!
Gordon's Ramsay's Fast Food's main selling point is that you can make over 100 "quick, healthy, delicious meals at home."
That statement proved true, except for the "fast" part. While the structure and instructions of each recipe were refreshingly simple, the actual preparation and cooking time were not always speedy. Sometimes they'd get ya with sneaking in pre-prepared ingredients, completely failing to account for the time you would need to prepare each item. For example, one recipe lists "smoked haddock fillets" as an ingredient. Well that means you'll need to budget some time to fire up your smoker first before moving on to the core recipe.
After a few discovering a pattern of this sort of thing, it became clear that "Fast Food" was not going to live up to its namesake. That said, you simply could not argue with the fruits of your labor - the meals were outstanding. This book is chok full of variety and so many great ideas that you'll find yourself surprised at your own ability to create gourmet-like meals with such basic ingredients. There are some fantastics soups, side dishes, desserts, beverages, appetizers - you name it. This is the kind of cookbook where you can randomly open any page and odds are you'll find something amazing.
Highlights were the No-Bake Berry Cheesecake, Pea & Mint Soup with Prosciutto and Turbot with Creamed Cabbage & Bacon.
As with most celebrity-chef cookbooks, it's unclear how much influence Gordon Ramsay had in this book. There are a handful of pictures of him preparing a few dishes but he's wearing the same shirt in most of the photos. So it's possible that he simply came in for the photoshoot for a few hours and called it a day. But if I had to guess, I do think there was a sizable fingerprint behind the scenes that made this a uniquely Ramsay production (mostly based on the copy).
Some recipes have a little quote or tip from Gordon at the top of the page. For example, he says on Fried Chorizo with Parsley "If you can, buy fresh chorizo from a good butcher or deli for this dish. Serve the fried chorizo as it is, or pile onto crusty bread slices and drizzle with the orange-colored oil from the pan." There is a section that lists the pantry essentials Gordon frequently keeps in his kitchen which were used heavily in many of the book's recipes (lots of bread, herbs, creme fraiche, mascarpone, pancetta).
Ironically, you'd need to look elsewhere if you're looking to make lightning-fast foods. Most recipes (over 75% in my opinion) could not be considered quick to make and that's kind of ridiculous for a book titled "Fast Food." But if you look at this collection through the lense of a simple, everyday cookbook then you'll be delighted to see there are many great new recipes with wonderful gourmet spins on common dishes. Considering this book goes for less than $15, it's a tremendous value and it personally expanded my knowledge of flavors, ingredients, and even some international foods. After making a few dozen recipes and talking about the book so often, one of my friends snapped this picture of me praising how much I've enjoyed it:
Note that my calendar says 2014: it took a while to go through the whole thing but it was worth it!


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Glitter Creeps is tearing 2017 UP! This Rock/Punk/New Wave queer night has been throwing some of the best damn parties around since bringing their party to the Bottle. Hosted and co-curated by siblings Donnie & Madison Moore of ABSOLUTELY NOT, the monthly showcase was declared Best punk-rock LGBTQ night in Chicago Reader's 2015 Best Of issue and was included in Chicagoist's Best Queer Nightlife In Chicago. Each month brings new and exciting bands from Chicago and beyond to perform on our stage and we're stoked for the lineup that they've put together tonight, which will double as a benefit for Rape Victim Advocates.
GC's gone all out tonight with a headlining set by OOZING WOUND. The thrashing trio has celebrated the release of all three of their Thrill Jockey records right here with us and we've loved em every step of the way. The Wound makes the people go insane with their simultaneously hilarious and terrifying blend of heavy riffage, crushing rhythms and piercing screams. The two original OOZERs cut their teeth in some beloved local bands (CACAW, ZATH, UNMANNED SHIP) and their new drummer Casey has been known to tear his set to pieces in his hometown of Milwaukee. Word on the street is that this will be Casey's final show with the band, as he's going off to pursue a "real life" outside of oozin' 'round the globe. Wish him a fond farewell and let's all dive straight into intense, repetitive, disorienting, industrial-tinged thrash metal. Chicago three-piece RIBBONHEAD play loud and thrashy hardcore with reckless abandon and throat-shedding vocals. Their Solid Gold EP packs one helluva punch and if they bring the same intensity to their live show, it's sure to be a real bomb dropped on your silly ol' noggin. SALVATION is a local punk/garage rock band who make noise like their lives depended on it. Last time they were here it was to celebrate the release of their full-length LP Sore Loser via Forge Again Records, and we're stoked to witness their sonic assault once again.


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That the phone that I purchased crashed.
The crash was apparently due to a software fault, and occurred while receiving an SMS.
What must happen now is by the laws of natural justice inevitable. In their hubris they allowed their standards to slip so far as to ship a product with a software defect, and now they must pay the price. It is time for Nokia to get out of the mobile phone business.


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There's no better night to support local business than Thursday night. The dinner planned for tonight will just have to wait patiently in the fridge until tomorrow. I was not about to pass on the offer of Donna's and a pitcher of sangria. After dinner we crossed the street to Dominion Ice Cream. Our neighbors have been telling us about Dominion for a while now but we hadn't gotten around to trying it yet. Especially since Ben is always sucked in by the Cold Stone vortex that shoots out and sucks people in every time the door opens.
The thing about Dominion is the homemade vegetable ice cream. I know, it sounds crazy but when you think about it, why not slip in a serving of spinach with dessert? I ordered a kiddie scoop of sweet potato for Chase. I tasted a blast of sweet potato in the first bite but on the second and third all I tasted was rich creamy ice cream. Honestly, I had to help her with the cone before her scoop fell off. She loved every bite of it.. and then she got down to the cone. I should preface this by saying that she had a piece of pizza at dinner that she ate crust first, so it should be no surprise that the very first thing she did with the cone was to bite the tip off. I wonder what that means about her personality. More crappy phone pictures:


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I like getting frequent flier miles on United Airlines because they have a lot of flights from the airport near my house. Last year I signed up for the MileagePlus Explorer card, which came with a lot of miles. What are some other ways for me to get United miles? -- Tracey
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United frequent flier miles can be a valuable commodity, because it is easy to search for award availability on United's website and because United tends to have more award seats available than its competitors. Of the three biggest U.S. carriers by revenue -- Delta, American and United -- United had the best reward-seat availability, according to a survey from May 2015.
So, accumulating United miles is a smart strategy, especially if you live near an airport with a lot of flights. You've taken the smart first step of signing up for Chase's United MileagePlus Explorer card (annual fee: $95, waived first year), which currently comes with 30,000 United miles after spending $1,000 in the first three months. That's the low-hanging fruit of earning United miles.
To continue gathering United miles, you're going to want to look at a few other cards from Chase, which has a robust partnership with United. Consider cards that earn points that can be transferred to United. (In December 2015, we reviewed similar strategies for earning miles on American.)
Let's look first at Chase. Any Chase card that earns Ultimate Reward points would work, because those points transfer instantly to United on a 1-to-1 basis.
So, that means you will want to examine the Chase Sapphire Preferred (annual fee: $95, waived first year), which has a 50,000-point sign-up bonus; and Chase Ink Plus (business card, annual fee: $95), which has a 60,000-point sign-up bonus.
You might also examine cards that can't give you United miles directly, but that might allow you to take United flights using other airlines' frequent flier miles.
For instance, if you had 25,000 Starwood points from the sign-up bonus on the American Express Starwood Preferred Guest card (annual fee: $95, waived first year), you wouldn't want to transfer those points directly to United, because it would cost you two points for every one United mile. However, you could transfer those points on a 1-to-1 basis to Air Canada, then book a United flight though Air Canada because the two airlines are partners in the Star Alliance.
You could also transfer American Express Membership Rewards points to Air Canada and book a United flight, so that opens up some card options. There is an Air Canada credit card available to U.S. residents, the TD Aeroplan Visa (annual fee: $95, waived first year), which comes with 25,000 Air Canada miles.
Similarly, you could sign up for Barclaycard's Lufthansa Miles & More card (annual fee: $89), which comes with 35,000 Lufthansa miles. Lufthansa miles can be used to book flights on United and other Star Alliance carriers.
The bottom line is that you have other options beyond the one that is most obvious. Some of these can be complicated, so the best advice is to start simple and then work toward the more complex redemptions as you become more comfortable.
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Some people use "coach" and "mentor" interchangeably. In the ICMA Coaching Program, we use the term "coach" to refer to someone who is helping others find the answers for themselves. This fits well with the interests of aspiring professionals to gain insights from others but blaze their own trails. A catalyst is a type of coach who accelerates action and precipitates results for others without becoming consumed in the process. A catalyst keeps the player in charge of his or her choices. In contrast, mentors often refer to people who teach others and guide them in how to do things. This works well when there is a specific body of knowledge that someone wishes to learn. So, a coach and a mentor are tools for different purposes. You'll probably want one or more of both and who they are will likely evolve over your career.
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Title: C.J. Miles is an elite shooter. That's good news for the Raptors
Date: July 10, 2017
Original Source: The Athletic
Synopsis: In my latest for The Athletic Toronto, I looked at the Raptors' acquisition of CJ Miles, a pretty seamless offensive fit.
C.J. Miles can shoot the hell out of the basketball.
There were a lot of interesting things that happened with the Raptors this weekend, as president Masai Ujiri and company took a hatchet to the team's cap sheet and made a move to balance out what was left of the roster. Their young players have looked great at Las Vegas Summer League. DeMar DeRozan promised more threes on a NBA TV broadcast, then filled up a highlight reel at the Drew League. (You can go ahead and throw in Canada winning the Under-19 FIBA World Cup, too, given the likely adjacency of Raptor and Canada Basketball fans.)
But through it all, Miles' ability to shoot the ball was the popular topic of conversation with those around the league in Vegas on Sunday. That ability isn't new, of course, but it has renewed relevance.
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News Hub: The Fed Sees Slower Growth
Jon Hilsenrath discusses why Fed officials are divided over how aggressively the central bank should act if the economy slows further.
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