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Valero, the largest US refiner, took the unusual step after a series of shutdowns at Richmond and other refineries. Valero said it will meet its current contracts to supply gasoline, but won't sell into the spot market. Spokesman Bill Day said resumption of spot sales "will depend on markets and inventories."
By BEN LEFEBVRE, CASSANDRA SWEET and ALISON SIDER
Valero Energy said late Thursday it temporarily stopped
selling gasoline in California's wholesale market as a string
of refinery outages resulted in a
regional gasoline shortage.
Analysts fear the scramble for the motor fuel will send
prices in the state close to $5/gal and force some gas stations
to close.
The lack of gasoline pushed California's wholesale, or spot,
prices of $4.10/gal Thursday, a 39% increase from Aug. 6, the
day an explosion shut down Chevrons 245,000 bpd refinery in Richmond.
Those prices don't include taxes, transportation and other
fees, which typically add another 70 cents or more before the
gas reaches the pump.
Valero said it will meet its current contracts to supply
gasoline, but won't sell into the spot market. But spokesman
Bill Day said resumption of spot saleswill depend on
markets and inventories.
The company also will continue to supply gasoline to its
branded and licensed retail stations in the state, Mr. Day
Valero, the largest refiner in the US, took the unusual step
after a series of shutdowns at Richmond and other
Supplies have been further limited by a weeklong shutdown of
a refining unit in late September at
ExxonMobils 149,500 bpd refinery in Torrance. Meanwhile,
Chevron's Richmond facility is only operating at reduced
Adding to supply tensions, Phillips 66 on Thursday announced
its 120,000 bpd refinery in San Francisco was going
to reduce production for an unspecified amount of time due to
planned maintenance.
Gasoline supplies were further crimped by a shortage of
crude, the feedstock of gasoline, in one part
of California.
Chevron shut down of an 85,000 bpd pipeline that ships crude
oil from the San Joaquin Valley to refineries in the San
Francisco Bay area on Sept. 19 after organic chloride was found
in some of the oil put in the pipeline.
A Chevron spokesman said the company was investigating and
was working to clean out the pipeline, called KLM, and return
it to service.
While a single outage - the fear of shortages - can move
prices, the cascade of problems has produced dramatic swings in
prices at the pump.
Service stations in the Los Angeles area were selling
gasoline Thursday afternoon for $4.45/gal, on average, up 11
cents from the start of the day at midnight, according to
GasBuddy.com, on Internet firm that tracks retail gasoline
prices nationwide.
San Francisco service stations were charging $4.57/gal, on
average, up more than 12 cents a gallon, or 2.8% since
midnight, according to GasBuddy.
Thursday's price jumps in California are the largest
single-day gasoline price increases that GasBuddy has recorded
anywhere in the US since the company started tracking gasoline
prices in 2000, said Patrick DeHaan, a petroleum analyst at
Valeros withdrawal from the broader spot market
signifies that the states fuel market is becoming
illiquid, causing refiners to keep fuel out of the spot market
to ensure they have supply for contracted customers.
West Coast gasoline stocks stood at about 26.6 million bbl
during the last week of September, the lowest amount for that
time of year since 2008, according to the latest data from the
US Energy Information Administration.
Valero operates two refineries in California with a combined
capacity of 213,000 bpd. These refineries haven't suffered
This is a serious problem, said Richard
Hastings, macroeconomy strategist at Global Hunter Securities.
Five dollars a gallon is a plausible concept at this
point, and it won't be $5 at the airport filling station - it
will be all over the place.
As Valero and possibly other refiners leaving the spot
market, independent gas stations not holding supply contracts
will start shutting down after their fuel runs out, said Avery
Ash, manager of regulatory affairs at motorist trade group
American Automobile Association.
The stations that don't have contracts from the major
retailers - the mom-and-pop station and Costcos - may decide
not to sell gasoline at this point, Mr. Ash said.
With spot prices that are well north of $4 a gallon,
you're needing to sell retail gasoline near that $5 mark, and
they may not see the point of doing that.
The situation could last for weeks until West Coast
refineries return to normal production rates, Mr. Ash said.
For Jafar Rashid, the crunch has already come. Mr. Rashid
said he closed one of his Los Angeles filling stations
Wednesday because it became too expensive to buy more fuel for
the pumps.
My street price is $4.69, Mr. Rashid said of his
per-gallon retail price.
But if I was going to buy the gas [wholesale and] it
was going to cost more than $5. I cant pay that,
its too expensive. Id rather close the gas
station, he said.
Mr. Rashid also owns four Chevron stations but said he has
been able to keep those open. The station he shut down
Wednesday will also be converted to a Chevron station soon, he
I don't want to buy independent gas anymore.
Rose Marton and Ken Clark contributed to this
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I have seen mostly two suggestions to cool wort. Ice bath and the coil method. My friend and I were thinking about just using ice. Ie pull the ice from the fridge that uses the same water source as used during the boil. Put it in the pale and run the wort into the ice. What are the drawbacks, I'm sure there are some because I can't find anybody recommending this method. For sure it will cool down pretty quickly which is desired.
This is how I do all of my brews. I usually boil about 11/12L for a 20/21L batch, put a filter over the primary bucket, pour the wort in from a bit of a height to help aerate, add ice until I get the right temperature then top up with water. The "right temperature" might be a couple of degrees above / below target, depending on whether the top up water is warm or cold.
I haven't had any contamination problems yet, but it is something to keep in mind. Either make your own ice through freezing boiled water (you'll need a few kgs) or buy it bagged from somewhere you trust that takes cleanliness seriously (distilled, minimal handling, etc). Some places do sell different grades (e.g. triple frozen for making cocktails) so you might be able to find something especially good.
The temperature gets down within a few minutes so it's certainly an effective method. Plus you save potentially hundreds of litres of water per brew. This is the reason I do it: I haven't found a more efficient wort cooling system than this. As baka noted though, it will not work if you are doing a full boil and will become harder as you get closer to a full boil.
I always thought of this as being a HUGE no no. But I guess not...below is from John Palmer.
The only problem I can think of might be contamination or (depending on the age of your ice...) picking up off flavors from the ice. Remember that it will also dilute your wort by some (probably calculable) amount. If you're doing a concentrated boil anyway, then it would be easy enough to dump the hot wort onto your extra 2-3 gallons of ice. I imagine that it would get you to pitching temperature more rapidly than other methods, as well.

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Within a month of each other this fall, two films exploring the habits and repercussions of pornography and sexual addition were released in theaters. Both have received some critical acclaim. The first, "Thanks for Sharing," shows recovering sex addicts attempting to navigate a world where everything has sex appeal. The second, "Don Jon," is the story of a man who loves pornography — but his new girlfriend doesn't.
"These movies offer quite a bit of insight into the craziness that goes along with addiction, and just the insanity of the behavior and the impaired thinking," said Andrew Pipanne, who has written about his recovery in "Sitting in a Rowboat Throwing Marbles at a Battleship," in an interview. "So I think it's helping people become aware of the fact that sexual addiction is a real thing."
According to Fight The New Drug, a California-based site dedicated to education about and recovery from pornography addiction, pornography use is widespread. A study by Top Ten Reviews from 2006 estimated that 80 percent of boys age 15-17 regularly view hard-core pornography. With numbers like that, pornography addiction is no longer a subject that the mainstream media can ignore.
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Bringing a complicated and unsavory issue to large audiences on the big screen is a challenge. The reality and usefulness of these cinematic portrayals is a subject of debate among experts who deal regularly with real challenges of pornography addiction.
"From really being a dirty, dark secret, now you've got A-list actors in two major motion pictures," said Craig Perra, a recovering pornography addict who is now a life coach and motivational speaker for Feed The Right Wolf, a website dedicated to getting help for pornography addicts. "It's absolutely amazing bringing attention to this issue, which is plaguing men, women, couples all over the planet."
Perra said his clients connect with characters in the films, and appreciate the comedic tone of the stories.
"I think it is a positive depiction because when people come to me, they are alone," Perra said. "They are shocked — they're embarrassed. I've had clients who've seen the trailer say, 'Oh my gosh, that's me.' And that is creating a community and a community of people who are recognizing that they're not alone. So I am supportive of the lighthearted nature and how it's being addressed. You have to laugh at yourself."
Although the tone is light, the issues in sex addiction are very real.
Speaking about "Thanks For Sharing" — which is rated R for sexual content and language — certified New York City sex addiction therapist Brad Salzman said, "I think there are plenty of scenes in that movie that could be right out of the lives of my real-life clients. I think it accurately depicts the different stages that addicts in recovery go through, meaning there are times when they feel completely desperate, like they have things under control, there are times where people sort of get surprised and wind up relapsing when they've been sober for a long time."
The writer, director and star of "Don Jon," Joseph Gordon-Levitt, told the Washington Times that he is often shocked by the sexualized content that is available everywhere you go. He specifically mentions Carl's Jr. ads, which sell hamburgers using bikini-clad models.
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In the past — or at least, when I was in elementary school — periods/full stops were followed by two spaces. Lately, it's become more and more common to see just one space. In the modern world, should we still use two spaces between sentences, or is just one okay? Does it depend on the situation? Or are both acceptable, with the choice simply coming down to personal preference?
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Actually, I feel a few of the other answers here (and even the question) are a bit simplistic: there's more to this issue than is indicated by the latest editions of the Chicago Manual of Style or Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style. In lieu of a very long answer, let me point to the (long) Wikipedia articles on exactly this issue:
My (inadequate) summary would be something like the following:
Even shorter summary (my opinion):
Both are still acceptable, though the two-space style has been falling out of favor with the advent of variable-width fonts.
From Common Errors:
The Chicago Manual of Style agrees in these two Q&A segments: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/CMS_FAQ/OneSpaceorTwo/OneSpaceorTwo01.html
The latter states:
So yes, it basically falls to personal preference, but one space is becoming more and more prevalent.
(It's worth noting that all HTML renderers I know of automatically condense multiple spaces into one, so it would actually take some effort to get the double-space style to render on the web.)
Robert Bringhurst has this to say about the subject in The Elements of Typographic Style:
Before I first read this many years ago, I had always used two spaces after every period (as I had been instructed by my middle-school typing teacher). Since then, however, I've observed that a single space after a period is used in almost all professionally typeset materials (books, magazines, etc.), and I've changed my habits.
I continue to use two spaces after a period when writing in a
It seems that four or so observations have not yet made it into this thread, so let's add them:
Conclusion: double space after a full stop is a cosmetic habit of the typewriting age and before, and should not be used in online writing or proportional / kerned writing.
I used to be a stickler about this in my own writing and when editing others writing as well, but especially as the computer has taken the place of the typewriter in my writing (showing my age a bit) and as the brevity of twitter has influenced my other writing (in a good way, mostly) I've come to see the 2nd space as a waste of space.
One nail in the second space's coffin, for me, was watching this video with Microsoft's ex-typography guru, Bill Hill. He says (transcribed):
As aluded to by one of the respondents, the reason (most likely) that a single space has become common place is due to the fact that HTML won't allow two sequential spaces without a bit of special plumbing, so the second space got lost in a lot of online writing. However now that we are used to it I think it's probably here to stay.
My preference would be for two as I find it a good visual cue of a sentence end.
I always thought that an extra space following the period at the end of a sentence and before the start of a new one, as opposed to a single space after a comma or a semicolon, etc. is there to emphasize a slightly longer pause in the rhythm of a language… And typesetting environments like TEX has always handled that elegantly, only wider-spread applications like office productivity suits, etc. do not known, how to handle it correctly.
Without extra space between sentences, how does one tell the difference between (HTML rendering is going to collapse these):
I dropped my old school days/typewriter habit of typing two spaces after a period after I read about fonts in The Mac is not a Typewriter by Robin Williams. That was way back in 1991.
Robin explained what many have said above: typewriter monospaced fonts needed the second space to compensate for not being able to use proportional fonts. In typesetting with proportional fonts, using one space after a sentence has always been the norm.
It's a wonderful book and she also points out some other stylistic customs to follow in manuscripts for a professional appearance.
As an amazon.com review says:
"What is important for the non professional typist to know [is to] use "smart" quotes, don't space twice after a period, italicize instead of underlining, create a long (em) dash by typing [shift + option + -]"
I find it very odd that there are apparently so many folks who didn't "get the memo" on this even after all these years. heheh
It's about appearance, not about html coding.
LaTeX handles this in the most aesthetically pleasing way. This typesetting software uses somewhere between a space and a space and a half for intra-sentence spaces.
Farhad Manjoo has a great article on "Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period."
Mr. Manjoo claims that:
While the two-space rule was adopted during the typewriter era of monospaced fonts, it should go the way of the dodo bird given the adoption of proportional fonts.
Personally, I have converted to the one-space rule even when using a monospaced font. I agree with Mr. Manjoo that:
For most uses, there's no need for a double space.
A well defined font will handle the spacing between characters with kerning, and adding a double space should be unnecessary. If the font you use has such poor kerning that you can't see the period or sentence structure without two spaces, just use a better font. For normal prose, it's just something you shouldn't need to worry about.
Of course, if you're composing concrete poetry or advertising copy, you may have to worry after all.
When using a word processor, my father inserts a line break after every line (and two between paragraphs). Needless to say, it messes up word wrapping. Two spaces after each period is similar -- a useless anachronism from the bad old typewriter days.
Others have discussed the typographical issues; I have nothing to add there.
Two spaces are a pain on computers because they require extra, special logic rules for the computer to process correctly. It's not just HTML: two spaces were a pain for the earliest word processors. When the computer sees two spaces, it doesn't know if it's the end-of-sentence rule, or if the user is trying to make columns line up or do some other special formatting. It requires some extra logic when you get to the end of a line: if a line ends with the end of a sentence, we don't want to leave an extra gap at the end of that line, making it uneven with lines above and below, and we don't want to carry the space down to the next line. Etc. Of course writers of word processing software have long since come up with solutions to these problems, but in the early days it could be an issue.
Yes, I was taught this rule in typing class too, back in the 1970's. I think it was simply an unnecessary, nuisance rule back then, and more so now. It's one of those rules that is mostly followed because it is a rule rather than because there is any good reason for it.
You should separate sentences with one space, not two.
The reasoning is simple. The AP and MLA handbooks state that you should include only one space. If you include two, you will be marked down.
Submissions guidelines from most publishers ask for a single space.
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Today in Tweet Beat, Sarah Silverman reflects on what hurt George Bush's feelings, Ice-T is not happy about doctored photos linking him to Roman Polanski, and Lisa Rinna is happy with her lips.
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The New York University College of Nursing's Mobile Health Van Program (NYUCN-MHVP) for the second year has sponsored a pair of Brooklyn high school students for the Brooklyn Health Disparities Center's (BHDC) "Health Disparities Summer Internship Program. This year, 21 students with 14 summer projects presented their research findings at an awards ceremony at Brooklyn Borough Hall, August 3, 2012. The NYUCN-MHVP sponsored Stephanie Collins and Alyssea Sealey for their project, "Language Barriers in Adolescent Health in Brooklyn."
"The most important part of our research was the interviews," Sealey said. "Meeting with these health care providers in person gave us a more in-depth look at how language barriers affect access to healthcare in Brooklyn," she said.
Collins added, "Since my family came here from the West Indies, this project was very near and dear to my heart. We wanted to learn how to ensure that people like my family have a better experience at their healthcare provider's office. We wanted to make their voices heard," she said.
"The research project the [NYUCN-MHVP] interns completed this year related to identifying language barriers and how they affect access to health care," said Judith Haber, PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN, Associate Dean of Graduate Programs, College of Nursing (NYUCN). "Their findings will help us design a health literacy program for our students at Prospect Heights and Brooklyn International High Schools who are recent immigrants to the United States."
"The internship program is an inspirational experience for high school students interested in pursuing careers in a health profession," said Haber.
BHDC is a partnership between the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, the SUNY Downstate Medical Center and the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President. Its summer internship program recruits participants from the Institute's Health Science Academy program, a 3-year science enrichment program for high school students interested in pursuing careers in the health professions. As interns, they receive didactic training on the social determinants of health, and collaborate with community based organizations to conduct research projects.
"This program, which is in its third year, provides a unique opportunity for students to have practical experience in conducting health disparities research," said Marilyn Fraser-White, MD Associate Director, Research/Training (Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health) Director, Community Engagement (BDHC).
"Both the students and the community based organizations benefit tremendously from this opportunity. We hope that the collaboration between the CBOs and the students in conducting community based research will also serve to promote the students' aspirations to pursue careers in health and return to serve their communities as health professionals," Fraser-White said. Part of the Institute's mission is to address health disparities by increasing minority representation among the health care professions.
"I want to go into the healthcare field as a pediatrician," said Collins. "Doing this project on language barriers in healthcare makes me want to take a second language in college and master it. Also, learning different cultures and customs would make me more approachable as a healthcare professional," she said.
The New York University College of Nursing is a global leader in nursing education, research, and practice. It offers a Bachelor of Science in Nursing; Master of Arts and Post-Master's Certificate Programs; a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree; and a Doctor of Philosophy in Research Theory and Development. For more information, visit www.nyu.edu/nursing.
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What are the risks of running a production web server and database in on a virtual server? Currently we are thinking of using VM Ware server. It seems like a nice solution that will lead to easy backup and restores but what are we sacrificing running virtualized?
Almost nothing.
You're sharing CPU power and RAM over multiple virtual machines. For VM's that are not running at their max, that's not a big deal
You gain flexibility and ease of backup. You gain the ability to redeploy your server somewhere else in a flash when the hardware breaks down. You get more bang for your buck when buying server hardware because you're making it do more.
VMware ESXi is completely free and will do a great job. Plus if you want to upgrade later on, it's a very smooth process
I'd say the risks of not using a VM are greater. Without a VM, if your hardware goes down you'll be SOL until you get it replaced and restored.
With a VM, if the hardware goes down you can just move the VM files to another VM server and be back up and running within minutes.
Of course there are other downsides: Most VMs cannot utilize more than 2 CPUs (or Cores). Disk performance is slightly degraded and you'll have to share the RAM with other VMs on the server.
But for most servers, I'd say it's worth it.
You're sacrificing performance, however, in most cases the performance you sacrifice is so negligible that the management and footprint gains well offset the loss. Most servers are fair game for virtualization, large DB servers are perhaps one of the exceptions. However you need to ask yourself if your DB server is truly "large", most aren't.
From your question can I surmise that you're looking to run a web server and its associated DB server in 2 VMs on the same physical server? Ignoring security for a moment, would you run them on the same box without virtualization? That is, do you feel that a single box is powerful enough for the load? If so, I think you'll find running VMs on the box is fine too.
One other thing you do give up is physical separation. If you're running a web server and its DB server, if one goes down you're dead anyway, so no big deal. But if you were to run your web servers and its redundant partner on 2VMs on a single physical box then you're being silly (and I've seen it.) If you lose the physical box then you've lost both web servers, bad place to be.
The risks for VMware Server are too great! Server is a hosted virtulization solution, and as such is at the whim of the guest OS. Even being the VMware fanboy I am. I would rather see you go with a VMware competitor then rely on server. VMware server is FANTASTIC, but like VMware workstation or virtual server 2005... if the host OS has issues All your VM's have issues. With Hyper-V/Xen/ESXi all being free... use a real hypervisor!
looks like all your looking for is consolidation, and in the free space their is little difference. Use the vendor your most comfortable with, but use a real hypervisor. With bare metal virtulization (from any vendor) I would put the impact at nill. If anything your app will perform better due to improved flexibility.


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Although it is widely believed that a serotonin deficiency plays a role in depression, there is no way to measure its levels in the living brain. Therefore, there have not been any studies proving that brain levels of this or any neurotransmitter are in short supply when depression or any mental illness develops. Blood levels of serotonin are measurable -- and have been shown to be lower in people who suffer from depression - but researchers don't know if blood levels reflect the brain's level of serotonin.
Also, researchers don't know whether the dip in serotonin causes the depression, or the depression causes serotonin levels to drop.
Antidepressant medications that work on serotonin levels -- SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) and SNRIs (serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors) -- are believed to reduce symptoms of depression, but exactly how they work is not fully understood.
5. Can diet influence our supply of serotonin?
It can, but in a roundabout way. Unlike calcium-rich foods, which can directly increase your blood levels of this mineral, there are no foods that can directly increase your body's supply of serotonin. That said, there are foods and some nutrients that can increase levels of tryptophan, the amino acid from which serotonin is made.
Protein-rich foods, such as meat or chicken, contain high levels of tryptophans. Tryptophan appears in dairy foods, nuts, and fowl. Ironically, however, levels of both tryptophan and serotonin drop after eating a meal packed with protein. Why? According to nutritionist Elizabeth Somer, when you eat a high-protein meal, you "flood the blood with both tryptophan and its competing amino acids," all fighting for entry into the brain. That means only a small amount of tryptophan gets through -- and serotonin levels don't rise.
But eat a carbohydrate-rich meal, and your body triggers a release of insulin. This, Somer says, causes any amino acids in the blood to be absorbed into the body -- but not the brain. Except for, you guessed it -- tryptophan! It remains in the bloodstream at high levels following a carbohydrate meal, which means it can freely enter the brain and cause serotonin levels to rise, she says.
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What is the correct way to use infinitive after the verb "help": with or without "to"?
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The particle "to" is not wrong in this sentence, but it is unnecessary. I would recommend against using it.
The phrase "to understand" can be interpreted as a special case of the infinitive; a kind of future infinitive or impersonal future tense. In that context, the first sentence means, essentially, "please help me develop an understanding of this (in the future)". While that may be technically correct, it adds nothing to the meaning of the sentence.
To add some weight to my argument, the COCA lists 142 entries for "help me understand" versus only 18 for "help me to understand". The results are similar for other constructions involving "help me ..." versus "help me to ...".
I think that the confusion stems from the way you must use the infinitive in other cases, for example: "I want to understand this", or "I am trying to understand this". In these cases, the particle is an absolute neccesity.
Help is a special verb in that way - the to is usually dropped from an infinitive when it is modifying help. This form of infinitive is called the bare infinitive:
I think you may find there is also a difference here between US and GB English (a field worth writing a book about!). From experience, I'd say "help...to" is more prevalent in British English and less common in the US. As a British translator (from German) I've sometimes had "help to + infinitive" corrected to just "help + infinitive" by US editors.
The particle to is what's called a Complementizer. It marks the verb following as an Infinitive (in English, that's necessary because English infinitive verb forms are identical with the present tense forms -- to go, I go; to sit, I sit, except for the single verb be (I am, to be). More on infinitive complements here
To is not a part of the verb that follows it, nor yet a part of whatever comes before it. It's a particle; one of those troublesome little words like the, that, of, at, etc. which English uses to decorate and distinguish its syntactic constructions, now that all its morphology's gone.
Infinitives get used in a variety of ways. One of them is as Complement clauses; these are Noun clauses that can function as the subject or direct object of a number of verbs. It's one of the principal ways we can form complex sentences. This particular chunk -- helping their son win the fight -- has a clause something like {their son wins the fight} as the direct object of helping.
As Daniel observes above, help is unusual in that it doesn't require to, although it also doesn't forbid it. Both are grammatical, and there's no meaning difference; it's just stylistic -- that means some people will feel one is more formal than the other, but won't be able to agree on which one.
Different people, in different contexts, may find some distinction here, but not much.
Some other verbs that can omit to before an infinitive object complement include
The plain form of the verb is preceded by the particle to in most instances where it follows another verb, so we would have to say, for example, Encouraging you to master Russian and not *Encouraging you master Russian. After the verb help, however, to is optional, and after some other verbs it is even disallowed. We cannot say *Making you to master Russian and we cannot say *Letting you to master Russian*.
The particle to is not really part of the verb at all. Not only is it not required after help, it is not allowed at all following modal verbs, or make, see, hear and let.
"Helping you to master Spanish." is the grammatically complete and correct way to write it. However, "Helping you master Spanish." is also correct - the to can be omitted as it is understood. This is permitted by grammar.
The passive forms, though queried by Quirk, are used.
"I was helped clean" shows 3 Google hits.
"I was helped to clean" shows 2950 Google hits. (at my space-time coordinates)
This is how I felt the breakdown would be.
While I have no problem in accepting both "I helped clean" and "I helped to clean" as equally grammatical, I feel the bias in favour (sorry, favor) of the omission of the infinitive-marker as superfluous might be dented a little when the no-to advocates try to explain why to seems to be considered necessary in the passive.
Both are correct, although including to is useless. Without it, the sentence is perfectly understandable.
It's usually thought to be American (without "to") vs. British (with "to") English, but both countries use them interchangeably, so this thought is false.
Your best bet is to leave it out - your sentences will be clear and easier to understand. If you leave it in, your sentence will still be correct, though.
There are cases when you can't place to anywhere, like:
The to in to do is not a preposition, it is an infinitive marker. It marks the use of the infinitive form of a verb.
With the phrase "helping [person] X" where X is some verb phrase (most likely an action), then the infinitive marker can be dropped.
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I remember reading a good while ago (I think in a book published by the Reader's Digest called The Right Word at the Right Time) that it is correct to use help to when an inanimate object is providing the help, and merely help when a person is providing the help. I'm not at all sure how well that advice matches actual usage.
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PTgui 9.1.2 works great, no more errors with VP correction + faster then previous versions.
Below a 100% crop comparison of the nadir (of equirectangulars) of a hand held pole pano without and with VP correction (after run 1 VP correction was switched on, then optimized with the same CP's and output as run 2 ).
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Categories: Comfort Foods, Easter, Entertaining
Type: Breakfast
Type: Breakfast
This pie transports well (so it's good for picnics) and can be eaten from your hand just as well as off a plate
Prep Time: 15M, plus chilling
Cooking Time: 50M
Serves: makes 6-8 servings
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 12 tbsp butter
- 1/4 tsp each salt and pepper
- 1/4 cup iced water
- 1 1/2 tbsp ketchup
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- 1lb ( 450g) bulk pork sausage
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 1 tbsp whole grain mustard
- pinch of freshly ground nutmeg
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 6 strips bacon
- 4 large eggs
- milk, to glaze
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- To make the pastry pulse the flour, butter, salt, and pepper in a food processor until the mixture resembles coarse bread crumbs. Mix the water and ketchup, add to the flour, and pulse until the dough clumps (add more water, if needed). Gather into a disk, wrap in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). Roll out a bit more than half of the dough on a lightly floured surface into a round about 1/8in (3mm) thick. Line an 8in (20cm) springform pan with the dough.
- Mix the sausage, onion, mustard, and nutmeg, then season with salt and pepper. Spread in the pie crust, and top with the bacon. Make 4 indentations in the sausage with the back of a soup spoon. Crack each egg into an indentation. Roll out the remaining dough. Center over the filling, trim the excess dough, and pinch the edges to seal. Score a crosshatch pattern on top and brush with a little milk. Refrigerate for 15 minutes.
- Bake the pie for 20 minutes. Reduce the oven to 350°F (180°C), and bake for 30 minutes, until golden brown. Cool the pie before serving.
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- Prepare ahead: The pastry dough can be wrapped in plastic wrap and refrigerated up to 1 day ahead.
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Forget Marriage, Why Do Women Stay Catholic???!!
Last week I posted an argument defending, in part, marital monogamy in the strict sense. Nothing, monogamish. The responses were illuminating and provocative. And, I very much appreciated the engagement. Something that stood out was how deeply gendered some of the responses were. In some replies there was an insistence that monogamy worked better for women than for men. Others wondered about the power differential between the sexes and the effect that might have on whether being monogamish was deemed a virtue.The cacophony of responses provoked another question for me, Was I just being a girl, some state of nature response, defending monogamy? Or Was I being Catholic? Or better yet, Was I being a Catholic girl defending monogamy? And, how might these two identities be related. That is, how might being a 21st century woman still committed to the Catholic Church resonate with a commitment to monogamy. Not in some doctrinal way (i.e. the Churchs long commitment to the sacramentality of marriage) but rather how might Catholic women particularly have learned to navigate the pain, love, loyalty and betrayal that comes with remaining Catholic in ways that make them particularly well suited for arguing for monogamy? Indeed, perhaps the challenges of staying committed as women to the Catholic Church are echoed, in some ways, by the challenges of staying committed to a marriage. This might not be natural law but it certainly is part of the Catholic tradition.Recently, Cindy Peabody in an essay in America Magazine (July 19, 2001) Staying Power: What Keeps Women in the Church? called on Catholic women to talk more candidly about our relationship with the Catholic Church. Indeed, she describes how eager many Catholic women are to do just that: I am no longer surprised, she says, when women jump at the chance to talk about the muddled mess of feelings they have toward the church. Love, betrayal, commitment, tradition, shame, anger, compassionwhat do we make of all this? Sounds suspiciously like the nettled complexity of a marital commitment, no? And, so I began to see how my commitment to monogamy is echoed in my feminist commitment to the Catholic Church. Im reminded of a conversation I once had with Patricia Hampl about staying Catholic in which she said, "There's just too many things I love so I cant leave." Oddly, Peabody (like Savage regarding monogamy) describes how a young Catholic colleague lamented that staying in was getting harder. She believes that a whole new order of church is in the offing. But, perhaps, staying in might be getting easier; there are now generations of women who have figured out how to stay a part of the Catholic Church with integrity. A generation, at least (!) who understands that being a Catholic woman is not a tag for false consciousness. They are, as Peabody (quoting Chastiser) calls them rebuilders.those who take what other people only talk about and make it the next generations reality. These are the superstars of the long haul. They give up prestige and money and build the new world right in the heart of the old. Perhaps as Catholic women wrestle with the challenges of monogamy they can consult some of their own success in staying committed to another vexed institution, the Church.
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Thank you for this continuing conversation. I thought this bit was a little murky, though:"But, perhaps, 'staying in' might be getting easier; theres now generations of women who have figured out how to stay a part of the Catholic Church with integrity."I'd be interested to know exactly what they've figured out and how it has integrity.
I get the analogy, but I dunno ... the Church sure doesn't hug back.
My problem isn't with the Church. It's with the clergy, mainly the hierarchy, and most especially the Vatican. I have mainly contempt for the latter and really don't care too much about what the bishops think because this generation of them have generally failed in their teaching responsibilities, not to mention the failure of their old boy culture which made the sex scandal possible in the first place. As far the lower clergy goes, yes, there are some fine priests, but I am disappointed that generally they show little inclination to challenge their bishops when the bishops are clearly wrong. The nuns, God bless what's left of them, remain strong and generous, and I respect them for it.But I never did "believe in" the pope or bishops or clergy, so I don't feel that the Church has failed me. I believe that the Church -- the whole -- is the gift of God, its heart is the Eucharist and the failings of the clergy, even their depravity in some cases, can't alter that. All the trashy parts of the Church can't possibly destroy what is good in it: the whole sacramental system, the grace it channels and the holiness of some of its members -- it's still a wonderful deal.
There are many paradoxes here. Women have always been in the forefront of the church of goodness and mercy. Just look at the end of Paul's letter to the Romans. What wonderful history was wiped out by patrology. Women became nuns to escape the oppression of marriage or the lack of a career ladder in society. Lay women have always been the most active in the parishes while lay men have shied away. The stumbling block for women has been the clergy. Now that the clergy is doing a rapid fade, women will fill that gap as they have done historically. Women have always done so much. What they have been deprived of is the right to tell their story. The deluge of professional works in theology and other fields is a twentieth century phenomenon. Men used to dominate psychology. Now it is a rare male in psychology studies. Women now dominate theology, the most chauvenistic field. When that tsunami fully hits....wow!!!
There's a thread in dotcommonweal about a Gallup poll that touches on this.It's my sense that people identify closely with their social environment and tend to develop their ways of feeling and thinking in sync with it. Since Catholicism is for most contemporary American Catholics only a small part of their social environment, how they think and feel about it will inevitably be strongly influenced by the general culture, which has very few moral absolutes and favors a sort of benign agnosticism. Their general cultural attitudes, on the other hand, will likely be very little influenced by their Catholicism.Of course, this poses a problem for American Catholic women, because the general American culture makes demands that go counter to what the institutional church demands. Most women will (as most men will) side with the culture, rather than with the Church. But if they're cultural Catholics, they'll very much want to have their cake and eat it too. The natural way of doing this will be to say that the institutional Church is simply out of touch, behind the times, run by celibate old men, etc., and so they can simply ignore the anti-American bits of Catholicism in hopes that in a generation or two those celibate old men will have died off and been replaced by enlightened women and men. The Church will come to them.That's perfectly rational. Not realistic, perhaps, but it solves the problem of how to remain a Catholic while refusing to do and believe what the Pope and bishops tell them they must.That may sound extremely critical, but, really, I'm very sympathetic. It's got to be hard.
The "why" I stay Catholic is because I believe in Jesus and what he teaches in the Gospels and because I buy into the claim that we're the Church that Jesus created. The "how" I stay Catholic is more complicated: First I had to let go of the idea that the Church, as reflected in the pronouncements of the hierarchy, is right about everything. That was actually kind of hard. I had to embrace the idea that I am as much the Church as our bishops and priests are. I need to be honest and open about where I disagree with the hierarchy (like on women's ordination) and not just secretly disagree and keep it to myself. I need to teach my daughters differently on issues where I think our Church is wrong, so they'll be off to a good start when it comes time to think these things through for themselves. To the extent I can, I support reform movements working to change the Church from within. I take inspiration from women leaders in our Church and from the men who support them.All of these things help me stay Catholic. What helps me the most, though, is going to Mass regularly; when I worship with fellow Catholics in community, that gives me such satisfaction that these very substantial issues fade into the background and it's all worth it.
"But if theyre cultural Catholics, theyll very much want to have their cake and eat it too. The natural way of doing this will be to say that the institutional Church is simply out of touch, behind the times, run by celibate old men, etc., and so they can simply ignore the anti-American bits of Catholicism in hopes that in a generation or two those celibate old men will have died off and been replaced by enlightened women and men. The Church will come to them."I wonder if there isn't some middle ground between "cultural" Catholics and whatever other kind there is ("real" Catholics?).Certainly, there have been times when the Church WAS out of touch and leadership from the clergy and hierarchy was very poor. The Church's response to any number of movements , institutions, and individuals. You can insert your own examples, but the ones that come to my mind are:1. The repression of the beguine movement in the Middle Ages2. Ignoring complaints about monastic abuses on the eve of the Protestant Reformation3. The repression of Galileo, whom the Church generally understood was correct in his astronomical theories, but didn't want him publishing it until it could get its theological ducks in a rowIn my own experience, the Church's teachings about marriage and sexuality need to be refined, not to be less "anti-American," but to help couples for whom pregnancy creates grave risks and older couples whose relations are curtailed by illness lead holier lives.I also think the Church is struggling with its teaching about homosexuality, but messages from various official channels don't always mesh. This confuses people, so it's no wonder they simply ignore what the Church says and go with their heart if they happen to have loved ones who are gay.My experience with the Church as a convert is that many bishops and lay apologists are fundamentalists rule-bound CCC thumpers. Local priests do a somewhat better job trying to put teachings in the context of individual lives. But there just aren't enough of them, and, as they age and go on part-time status, they're harder to get access to.
Sorry. Should be:"The Churchs response to any number of movements , institutions, and individuals has sometimes been inadequate or just plain wrong."
Is perhaps a huge part of the problem the fact that for a very large number of people, the "magic" is gone from Catholicism? The otherworldly sense of the Mass and sacraments is gone both because Latin is no longer used and because in the 21st century, people are no longer as "mystical" as they were in the 1950s. If sticking with the Catholic Church is something like marriage, then it seems to me that all the romance is gone. Of course, marriages can continue long after most of the romance is gone, but on what basis? And on what basis does a "marriage" to the Church continue after the romance is gone?
I know this thread is about why we DO stay, but what makes me most upset about what's wrong, isn't that there are no women priests- though I sympathize deeply with women who are excluded from that calling- but that there are no women homilists. I don't see any good reason at all why we can't read the Gospel and preach at Mass. Why aren't we even allowed to talk?
David (2:14 pm):Yes, I think that for some of us - perhaps many - the theater is very important. It certainly is for me. But it's deeper than that. If the buildings and the services look and feel drab and flat and pedestrian, that almost certainly means that things are drab, flat, and pedestrian to the core. Theologians may like living on bread and water, but some of us - perhaps many, I don't know - would starve.
David Nickol,Surprised that you would take the restorationist tack. The Eucharistic celebration is much more alive than it was pre Vatican II. People are more into it, the readings are more powerful because they are proclaimed not translated. the people sing more and engage each other more and the homilies are better. Vatican II commanded preachers to prepare and to use the readings in the homily. If you think you hear some bad sermons now, you should know that pre-Vatican II was much, much worse.It is not the liturgy. It is the poor example of the clergy that drives people away. Magic is for the stage and good for pomposity. Not for celebrating the life, death and resurrection of Jesus in which we celebrate who we are.
Um, back to women.I had lunch with a friend, a life-long Catholic who went to school to the Ursulines and then a Catholic girls' college. So her faith was formed mostly by women, and while Mass was the centerpiece of the week, apparently there were prayers led by the nuns and religious discussions and lectures by nuns and other women. She worked for many years in a nearby parish--very talented woman who could do everything from accounting to program development--and said she was fortunate to work with two priests who were very collaborative and open to ideas.She said she might be somewhat atypical, but that her upbringing and formaton had given her a very maternalistic (vs. paternalistic) view of the Church and the role women could play in it. In a way, though, her upbringing was pretty typical of an earlier time, when women religious were a mainstay of the faith in newly converted countries, and abbesses particularly were very powerful--many of them depicted with croziers in iconography. This is a heritage women might draw on more.
@Bill (8/5 8:31 pm) - I'm not sure David N was restricting himself to restorationist. I wasn't.
Jean (8/5 10:44 pm), the Church to me has been women, not men. Priests have been somewhere on the periphery, up on the altar, hidden in the confessional, barricaded in the rectory, sealed in the fancy car. I'll bet that's true for a great many American Catholics.
"... the Church to me has been women, not men."Sadly, many men, including the George Weigel (and many of his fundiegelical conservative brothers-in-arms like Chuck Colson) have bemoaned the bad effects of the "feminization" of the church, which they say drives men away.I guess the underlying assumption is that women are harder to drive away. And if so, perhaps they are more tenacious in their faith. And if that's true, then I have to wonder, like Irene, why they don't get to talk more.
Jean, I think a much more intensely male church would be extremely unattractive. I suspect males or being responsible for turning it into the humdrum (though sometimes very beautiful - chant, Gothic cathedrals, vestments, etc.) thing it was before Vatican II and likewise for turning it into the pedestrian, bland, almost sterile thing it's become since.
David is entitled to his view of pre and post VII liturgy and I think he's way off base.But, I wish this thread would have been only answers from women - and more of them!
"But, I wish this thread would have been only answers from women and more of them!"Agreed, but until more women weigh in (a phrase all women should hate, BTW), I'm happy to take up the slack by thread-hogging to keep the quantity of comments up, if not the quality."I think a much more intensely male church would be extremely unattractive. I suspect males or being responsible for turning it into the humdrum (though sometimes very beautiful chant, Gothic cathedrals, vestments, etc.) thing it was before Vatican II and likewise for turning it into the pedestrian, bland, almost sterile thing its become since."I'm a former spikey Episcopalian who gets excited whenever anyone breaks out a thurifer, and I'm happy the local parish started ringing the bells at the consecration. However, I've been in lovely homes where the hospitality was cold ... and in hovels where the hospitality was the apex of graciousness. I don't think God fails to show up because He doesn't like the decor.
What's this about "more intense" maleness in the Church? In which parts of the Church? Has anybody looked objectively lately at the way cardinals dress? Silk and lace dresses for everyday and outside of formal ceremonies? Come off it.
I'm puzzled, Ann. Are you suggesting that if a man wears a robe he's a woman?
I'm suggesting that in this day and age when men in Western cultures do not wear silk and lace dresses in the daytime in non-ceremonial settings, that the cardinals' exceptional dressing leads me to wonder about their masculinity. There, I've said it. Let's not distort what I've said, please.
Good heavens, Ann, I asked because I wanted to understand, not distort.I don't think masculinity and femininity are polar opposites. The polarity is probably largely socially constructed. I guess in a way, that's what you're saying. One reason a man might be willing to submit to celibacy is that it isn't as much of a sacrifice for him as it would be for others. (And from that perspective, the position that the Church's requirement for priestly celibacy is unnatural is probably wrong headed.)And the taboo against men wearing dresses, skirts, kilts, etc. isn't universal. It's strong here but not elsewhere - Greece and Scotland, for example.
". . . whats wrong, isnt that there are no women priests- though I sympathize deeply with women who are excluded from that calling- but that there are no women homilists. I dont see any good reason at all why we cant read the Gospel and preach at Mass. Why arent we even allowed to talk?"A few years ago, in a small mountain town in Europe, I did in fact hear a woman give a homily (and a very good one, insofar as my very imperfect knowledge of German could tell). The priest sat to one side, a pleased smile on his face. I have no idea how common the custom is, or whether it's approved at some higher level. And as for the final question -- "why aren't we even allowed to talk?" -- remember that it's not just women who are excluded from giving homilies, but all of us who are of the simple laity (as the saying goes in Rome). Yet another example of Holy Mother Church shooting herself in the foot. . . . .
"... its not just women who are excluded from giving homilies, but all of us who are of the simple laity ..."Be careful what you wish for. Listening to those trained in homiletics can sometimes be bad enough. I went to an Episcopal Church for a time where the priest allowed lay people of both genders to give talks instead of him giving the sermon. Most of these were just dreadful. I felt like I was with the Unitarians again. But a woman trained in homiletics wouldn't do any worse than a priest or deacon--and without the football and golf references.
Why do women stay Catholic? For myself I guess I have an ontological perspective. That is part of my being. Leaving the church would be like tearing away part of myself. I almost cannot imagine it.The only times when I fleetingly consider it are when I read particularly harrowing news on sexual abuse. That is the only reason why I cannot say that I will definitely stay forever. If one day I leave, it won't be over dogma nor doctrine. It won't be rational but out of overwhelming disgust, repulsion and contempt. Concerning the Vatican's doctrinal mistakes, they do not unduly bother me. That, too, will pass. I'm sure that I make plenty of mistakes myself! One day, when the time is ripe, women will be ordained priests, but I do no see that as urgent and dramatic enough to risk schism. Besides the Vatican is not that important. I wish we had trusted leaders, but in the absence of reliable human guides, we can just pray together and do the best we can to hang in together as we wait for wisdom and for better days.
Thank you, Claire. My feelings exactly.
There are "now generations of women who have figured out how to stay a part of the Catholic Church with integrity." --Melissa Matthes"What helps me the most, though, is going to Mass regularly; when I worship with fellow Catholics in community, that gives me such satisfaction that these very substantial issues fade into the background and its all worth it." -- Irene Baldwin Well, like most of the commenters, I am Catholic to the bone, but not of the female persuasion. So I can't comment from first-hand experience on the topic question. However, like many others, male and female, I am weighing my options these days, in light of the bullheaded insistence (or cowardice, take your pick) on imposing the so-called new "translation" of the liturgy. From my perspective, it illustrates the great evil present in today's world. Why? Not because it is such terrible English (which it is), served up by the Vatican word butchers. No. Rather it almost personifies that evil because the process used to create the "translation" was motivated by evil from day one. At root, it is in defiance of the formal documents of an ecumenical council, the highest authority in the Church. And it is being forced upon us at exactly the place where it hurts most: in the Mass. How can we pray with integrity when we know that our liturgy is tainted in this way, and even (probably) by heresy (in the translation of "pro multis")? Yes, we know that the Lord is still present when we celebrate. But we also know that the texts we are using are nothing more than a gigantic power play. And very few, if any, among the clergy (much less the hierarchy) are willing to stand up for the truth. No one will dare utter those fearsome words, "The Emperor has no clothes." Yet he is naked as a jaybird, for all to see. Of course, all of this is piled on top of a series of far more consequential lapses. We ordinary Catholics have been made party to an international criminal enterprise, unwittingly and unwillingly. We came to know about the widespread sexual abuse, and then about its disgraceful cover-ups. And we learned to cardinals accepting (and probably soliciting) bribes, various Vatican officials misappropriating and misusing funds intended for charitable purposes, and money laundering for the Mafia by the Vatican bank, as well as a string of lesser offenses. We have witnessed the "offing" of an Australian bishop for the mere suggestion that we ought to discuss all the possibilities for meeting the priest shortage; while at the same time, no action has been taken against bishops involved in the sexual-abuse cover-ups. But now, our very prayer life is threatened. I, for one, cannot live as a Roman Catholic with any integrity in those circumstances. A long vacation from the Roman Rite may be in my future, but I am not happy about it.


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The Environmental Design minor is open to all students on campus and provides a foundation in theory, history, and methodology employed in fields such as architecture, planning, landscape architecture and related design disciplines.
The idea to start an ENVD minor was initiated from students in various programs around campus requesting it, according to JoAnn Silverstein, the director of the ENVD program and a professor in the College of Engineering & Applied Science.
"Many architectural engineering students have requested an ENVD minor in order to get more experience in the aesthetics of design and will get credit for ENVD coursework already required for their major," Silverstein said. "We have also had requests from students in environmental studies and the Leeds School of Business real estate certificate program since some of them, like architectural engineering students, are already taking courses in ENVD."
One of the goals in offering this new ENVD minor is to expose students to the varied benefits of design education, according to ENVD faculty member, Georgia Lindsay.
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While many students who major in environmental design go on to work in traditional design fields of architecture and planning, some take their design education foundation and excel in other professions.
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"In architecture school, I think I learned about complexity and when I talk about complexity I mean systems that are comprised of lots of simple little elements that you understand that combine to create a larger emerging behavior," Schweikardt said in his lecture. "What I'm doing with my life these days is building tools to help kids build complex systems of their own, manipulate them and design solutions to complex problems."
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Lawrence Whitis is using services at Hotel Inc to build a resume he says he is currently unemployed, homeless, and one of 640,000 uninsured Kentuckians, which often makes it difficult to take care of his health.
"Anything that requires X-Rays are things that are very pricey, and due to my situation in life, I don't have that kind of money," says Whitis.
As he continues to get older Whitis says health insurance would be beneficial but he isn't completely sold on the Affordable Health Care Act.
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"We're still trying to learn and gather information and work with some community partners that offer the medicaid expansion that the state has agreed, and try to learn how that's going to benefit our clients," says Miller.
With many clients often forced to chose between food and a doctors visit many don't want to be forced to chose insurance.
"I've seen some data that says for some people could be as low as 26 dollars a month but I've also seen that $26 a month could mean that your deductible is $10,000," says Miller.
"What good is medical insurance if it doesn't taste, it doesn't digest, and when you get done paying it you're still hungry," says Whitis.
Miller says until they move forward they will just have to wait until next week to understand what is available through the new plan.
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Robert was killed in a car crash right before his 26th birthday by a man who had three DUIs at the time.
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An ignition interlock is a breathalyzer for a car. Anytime an offender gets in their car they have to take a breathalyzer to start it. The device can be set up so that around every five minutes the offender has to retake the test.
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I am trying to fix a high PostgreSQL CPU use problem. We are using PostgreSQL 8.0.9 and when our JEE web application (in JBoss) is used in certain load increase conditions, top shows a slow increase in processes for PostgreSQL. When the problem occurs, there are approximately 12-15 PostgreSQL processes all showing SELECT on the far right of the process information and approximately 6-7% CPU usage each and then the app slows down a lot.
JBoss version: JBoss (MX MicroKernel) 4.0.3
Operating system: CentOS Linux 5.5
Kernel and CPU: Linux 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 on x86_64
Processor information: 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz, 8 cores
Currently, our thought is to throw more hardware at it. If we do this, would the best option be something like Option A below or Option B?
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Option B: 4 x Intel® Xeon® 7500 series Processors each with 8 Cores
Is it correct to assume that CentOS Linux 5.5 with PostgreSQL 8.0.9 will scale proportionately with the addition of this many processors and cores (Ex. 4 processors each with 12 cores)? Is there something else I should consider in terms of throwing more hardware at it?
I am trying to fix a high PostgreSQL CPU use problem. We are using PostgreSQL 8.0.9 and when our JEE web application (in JBoss) is used in certain load increase conditions, top shows a slow increase in processes for PostgreSQL. When the problem occurs, there are approximately 12-15 PostgreSQL processes all showing SELECT on the far right of the process information and approximately 6-7% CPU usage each and then the app slows down a lot.
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The question is impossible to answer, we have no idea what is going on. You're talking about 12-15 connections, that's next to nothing. But, when executing very complex queries, or using a bad database schema, lack of indexes, etc. cpu usage can go up any time.
Version 8.0.9 is serious problem, 8.0 is EOL as of october 2010 and the lastest fix is version 8.0.26 (4 years of bugfixes after 8.0.9). You should at least update to this version, to fix many bugs in 8.0.
Start logging the queries, use EXPLAIN to see the queryplan, take a look at VACUUM and you might need a REINDEX as well. Your hardware looks fine for now, you first have to find the source of the problems.
Consider to hire a PostgreSQL dba for a couple of days.
If you're showing high CPU usage, it could be due to slow queries. I would suggest enabling the slow query logging features in
There's also the possibility that you are I/O bound, as slow disks can easily cause queries to start backing up. I would suggest installing
Aside from that, I would highly encourage upgrading to the latest version. There have been some massive performance improvements since 8.0, and the current stable version (9.0.x at the time of writing) offers more information when
Generally speaking (and all other conditions being equal), PostgreSQL scales really well as you add cores (each additional core adds approximately a 96% gain in performance (out of a theoretical 100% performance gain possible per additional core)).
My initial gut feeling however is that your disks can not keep up.
12x6=72%, so even at the lowest point, the CPUs are rather busy. Throw in everything else, and it's pretty clear why you're running flat-out. (This is assuming you're looking at the CPUs as an aggregate; when you look at process time in
More cores. PostgreSQL will use a process-per-core model, so the more the better. I would look at maybe 2x AMD CPU at 12 each for 24 cores total, and then purchase the remaining 2 CPUs over time, allowing you to budget them in.
Yes. I may be mistaken but I believe that older kernel compiles used a fixed number in a C header file to determine the max number of CPUs to look for, which usually had an upper bound of 32 at compile time. If you had a "big" machine you would just bump the number to something higher and recompile. Not entirely sure but I think they removed that constant in the 2.6 series so you should be fine.
You may wish to look at tuning the software a bit more before throwing hardware at it (or tune it and still get the new hardware).
If it is a SELECT statement, any chance you can log it and then use EXPLAIN to find out where it is spending its time? Use PgAdmin to run and tune the query by hand until you can get the execution time down a bit. If the SELECT statement is programmatic, you could still look at the impact of using a new index.
How much memory have you allocated to PostgreSQL? How much on a per-process basis? How much shared memory is allocated? All of these can have an adverse impact on how the database runs.
Are there any other processes or services that could be disabled (to free up memory) or re-niced (to reduce CPU consumption)?
I've been recently experiencing similar issues on a small database (7 tables, 30 MB) with queries having lots of joins. The machine is a VM with 2GB RAM and always seem to use less than 160MB of it. It worked out very fast until we added about 1M of new data. Then the server (8.4.5) started to hit 100% CPU for anywhere between 5 seconds to 30 minutes with the same queries that were sub-second.
We managed to fix the problem by server upgrade. Tests with 8.4.9 and 8.4.12 did not show the bad behaviour (but 8.4.8 did).
I think you'll benefit from the book PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance. It's available in PDF (instant download) as well as in dead tree format.
We've just rebuilt our database using the advice in this book. Our new database box blows the old one away, and we didn't have to spend a ton of money doing it. There are chapters that specifically address each of your questions. There are answers, but better yet, there are also methods (how do you measure your hardware to know how fast it is?)
I'm no Postgresql expert, but I'll tell you what I've learned about hardware and Postgresql. Your mileage may vary.
In general, for the databases I've had experience with, what matters more than number and speed of CPUs is:
You get I/O bandwidth with RAID. RAID10 does well for the bulk of Postgresql data. The more drives, the better for performance. Put xlog on a separate device, if you can. That one can be RAID1. The use of a hardware RAID card with battery-backed cache will give you the best performance.


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So last week you awesome Wooters helped me with some AC questions i had regarding my central air. i've decided to put a window unit in my upstairs window so the central unit doesn't have to work so hard to cool the upstairs. Now my question is, which unit? i'm looking for something with a thermostat, so i can keep it at a constant temp and am not always have to manually adjust. Also, there is a good chance, that during the winter, i'll move the unit to my shot, where it gets very cold, so i'm specifically looking for a unit that heats and cools. my budget is about $300 but i wouldn't mind spending less if possible. any links and recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
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if you find one for three you better grab it.
i've looked before and find them around 4 to 5, prob because of the season but still....
only box store i've ever see one in where you can walk in and look at is sears. have seen them online occasionally.
do you really want to have to move it around every season? i found a NICE little quartz heater (with thermostat) for about 45 that heats a room quick (should be a sale item now) and a large window a/c for 250. remember that every time you move an ac unit you run the risk of damaging the coils.
I would recommend looking up BTUs necessary for the size of your room -- > http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/air-conditioner-calculator <-- this might be helpful.
Also, look at the Amperage required on the unit (Window uniques, I think, are more efficient than portable ones). I bring this up only because if you're in a older house your circuits might not be able to handle the amps (personal experience).
I've never seen a unit that could heat and cool, so you're on your own on that one =\
$300... Like moose implied, you might have to up that price limit...
You just missed a decent AC sale at newegg unfortunately. But if this is just supplemental heating/cooling you can probably get a separate window AC and space heater for around $300 total.
I have a couple of large (240V) heater/AC's that I got from Home Depot and I am very happy with them. The cheapest I could find on their site is a 7000 BTU 115V unit for a 280 square foot room for $359: http://www.homedepot.com/Appliances-Heating-Cooling-Air-Quality-Air-Conditioners-Window-Air-Conditioners/h_d1/N-5yc1vZbv6l/R-203147368/h_d2/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10053&langId=-1&storeId=10051
i've fount countless deals on Amazon for $150-$200 but not knowing about AC units, i dont know if they are decent or not. i've seen the AC/heating units before, but haven't seen them recently and don't know anything about them. we currently have space heaters, but they don't have a thermostat and i'm never comfortable letting them run while i'm not home.
So i found three units, i was hoping somebody could provide some feedback.
the first is an LG unit, that heats and cools for $300 (right at my budget) and has 7000 btu's.
2nd unit is a frigidaire, (do they still make good stuff?) and has a whopping 12,000 btu's, but no heater. this is also in my budget range. my only concern is that my existing circuit couldn't handle the juice
3rd unit is another Frigidaire, for $200 that is also jsut an AC with no heat. 8000 btu
appreciate any feedback you guys can give me. thanks
I have been happy with all of my LG purchases (AC's, Refrigerators, Washer/Dryers). My limited experience with Frigidaire products is generally negative, I definitely prefer LG. The AC units I have and referenced in a previous answer are heat pumps. When they are reversed, they pump heat into the room instead of out. This is a very energy efficient way of doing it. The LG AC you found on Amazon appears to be practically the same as the one I found at Home Depot. It only uses 6.5 amps, so it will only heat/cool a small area. It is apparently NOT a heat pump version as the description references a heat strip. Given that, you would do just as well with a dedicated AC and separate space heater.
after reading alot of reviews, it looks like i'm much better off with LG than frigidaire. i'll see if i can find a higher BTU one without the heater. if i need a heater, i'll just go buy a small plug in thermostat and plug a space heater into it. thanks for your feedback.