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Hi,my family and I are new to Atheism ( four months ) After life long believing it was a hard transition. I can say that once the overwhelming feeling off loss and sadness subsided I started to see life in a whole new light. Life is great! I am making the most out of everyday. So far we have not met many people in our area that share our views. That fact might lead to a move in the next few years,I really like Portland OR and could see moving there! Love and Peace. Zen.
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So nice to have you here Zen! I hope you are enjoying the site.
Thanks Steph! I really am. Everyone has been very welcoming :)
Welcome to the world of freethought! :)
Thank you! It is a great world to think in.
You might want to give Real Talk for New Atheists a look.
Thank you Ruth! I will definitely check out Real Talk:)
Greetings from Salem, Oregon.
I'm a member of CFI - Salem Humanists. Portland is a wonderful town and CFI of Portland would be a great group for you to look into for like minded people. Enjoy your new found freedom.
Living the godless life
Thank you Lance! I am have driven through Salem on occasion,freedom is a wonderful thing :)
Hey, don't hear from many fellow Spokanites in places like this! I'm moving back to Spokane soon and I'm glad to hear its heathen population has grown!
Mastercliff. I am actually about three hours from Spokane,however the town I live in is apparently to small to register,the default was Spokane. I did live in the Spokane area for 11 years! We moved to the Tri-cities area almost eight years ago. I'm sure you will have good luck finding a group in Spokane :) Thank you for the welcome!
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Statistics have shown that their are approximately 116 marijuana users, 51 people abusing prescription drugs, 19 cocaine addicts, and 8 people using hallucinogens that live in Riverdale, California.
There will also be close to 14 people arrested for drug charges and around 11 DUIs in Riverdale this year.
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First, it provides highly absorbable building blocks of essential components in the skin dermis, replenishing aging-dependent loss of both collagen and GAGs. Second, BioCell Collagen® provides an additional support for the integrity and healthy levels of HA. HA plays an essential role in skin hydration by retaining water in the dermis. It was shown that daily ingestion of BioCell Collagen® (1500 mg/day) increased HA levels in the blood about 60 fold from its baseline. Moreover, BioCell Collagen® inhibits HA-degrading enzyme, hyaluronidases, helping maintain the integrity of HA. This is particularly important for counteracting photoaging because chronic UV exposure of the skin results in the heightened activity of hyaluronidase, contributing to the skin dehydration, reduced turgidity, and wrinkle generation.
Human skin study: Beauty from within effects of BioCell Collagen®
A human skin study (2011) enrolling 26 ladies who were undergoing both natural and photoaging processes in the face demonstrated that daily ingestion of 1 g of BioCell Collagen® for 12 weeks led to a significant reduction of wrinkle counts and line depth while enhancing hydration, collagen content, and blood microcirculation. This outcome strongly suggests that the multiple actions of BioCell Collagen® synergistically antagonized skin aging process.
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The nature and biological properties of BioCell Collagen® described above are directly applied to hair health because the scalp is identical to the skin located throughout the body except that it also contains hair follicles that produce hair. Among other things, BioCell Collagen® increases HA levels for higher moisturization in the hair.
The hair follicles are located in the dermis and both collagen and HA are important molecules for the health of this connective tissue because they nourish and hydrate the dermal layer in the scalp. By replenishing the loss of these components, BioCell Collagen® can help you grow healthy lustrous hair with moisturized scalp.
In addition, the primary component of hair fiber is keratin protein, comprising 65-95% of total hair fiber by weight. Protein content of BioCell Collagen is about 60% with hydrolyzed collagen as its predominant protein. These highly absorbable collagen peptides, once absorbed into the small intestine, help increase the pool of amino acids which are in turn used by hair follicle cells to produce keratin protein for healthier hair fiber.
Nail health
Like hair, fingernails and toenails are made of keratin and appendages of the skin. The nail consists of the nail plate, the nail matrix, and the nail bed. The nail bed is the skin beneath the nail plate and important in maintaining nail health. Like the skin, it is composed of two types of tissues, the deeper dermis containing capillaries and glands, and the superficial epidermis which is just beneath the nail plate. As we age, the plate grows thinner because dermal structure and function deteriorates. BioCell Collagen® supports nail health by maintaining healthy levels of both collagen and HA in the nail bed.


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"They are like me, but without the chances I've had because of American programs," said Sadia Sikander Awan, referring to young women in her home city of Karachi, Pakistan. "That's why America's commitment to young people means something to me."
An alumna of a State Department scholarship program, Sadia was one of several hundred young people who traveled to the University of California, Berkeley for Amnesty International's inaugural Global Youth Summit this month. The attendees -- college and high school students, youth leaders, and heads of local Amnesty chapters -- spent a day at the idyllic campus discussing issues affecting young people the world over: education, economic empowerment, the ability of young people to assemble and be heard by their governments.
It was my privilege to observe that group, and to deliver a closing keynote. Sadia was one of the many students to stand up and comment after my remarks. She and her fellow participants all spoke with conviction and passion. The audience was inspiring to see; energized and vocal, with throngs of students expressing interest in public service.
The theme of my remarks focused on young people in difficult circumstances choosing between violent and peaceful tools to effect change, and the critical difference those decisions are making in the global landscape. It's a dichotomy I've heard about during conversations with young people in war-affected areas and seen firsthand as a UNICEF spokesperson in the Horn of Africa and through my current work in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
My presence at the Global Youth Summit was part of a broader push on the part of the U.S. government to engage with young people and listen more closely to young voices as we make policy. At the State Department, Secretary Clinton has launched an unprecedented youth policy taskforce to review our approach to youth issues and amplify programs focused on young people. Under Secretaries of State Maria Otero and Judith McHale, both heroic advocates of youth rights, have been championing this process; its lead working group has been chaired over the last six months by myself and David Barth, Director of USAID's Office of Education.
The White House, too, has been invested in the project of reaching out in new ways to young people. President Obama has committed to facilitating youth events around the country, and the White House Office of Public Engagement is enlisting officials to participate. For example, following the Amnesty event, I spoke to an auditorium of local teens at a youth town hall staged by the city of San Jose. The challenges young people face in making their voices heard in their communities are just as real at home as they are abroad, and San Jose's young people -- facing extraordinary constraints on their school system's budget, and resisting the pull of local gang violence -- were similarly impassioned.
It's a small snapshot of a seminal moment for youth engagement, at home and abroad. Young people are increasingly driven and empowered change agents, working to make positive noise. We're listening.
Sarah in Washington, DC writes:
@ Rowan Farrow,
Thank you for taking the time to reach out and make a difference for youth during these critical stages in life. I appreciate your hard work and genuine concern for youth issues. I look forward to hearing from you again on DipNote.
Yousef A. writes:
Seeing as how I come from a third-world country and my family came here for a better life, I think the children of these countries are the future of those countries and have the opportunity to create a better future for themselves.
Ron in Maryland writes:
The power of of children in America is unherad of, it is just a matter of mobilizing that force that is the issue. This is a terific plan. I rally hope to see it take off.
Sadia A. in California writes:
Thank You Ron for bringing up the positive image of my country. As I mentioned earlier too, we (Pakistanis) are as diverse as americans, in so many ways. We have more than 45% of our population that belongs to youth, and if our national and global leadership invests in us, I am definitely sure that we can achieve a better world to live in together while accepting the differences and values of eaveryone on this earth.
Hamid H. in Pakistan writes:
Ronan! I really appreciate your work for Pakistan and bringing up its positive image. The bad luck of this county is this it has not honest politicians.
Buket in Turkey writes:
Mr. Farrow,
I'm really impressed with what I read in your article and I'll surely share it with my students or let's call them young entrepreneurs :) In my school I have been trying to improve youth entrepreneurial and voluntary efforts since I came back from the States after my exchange program.
I believe my students have created a positive impact on their society and now it's time to make their voices heard. We are looking forward to more connections and more collaborations for a better future. Thanks for listening to us :)
Kind regards,
Buket E.
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how can we participate in the care of the world with out any knowledge of how to handle.and incase of any thing where to contact


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Lincoln Electric introduces VIKING 1740 Series Auto-Darkening Welding Helmet for maximum protection in light to dark settings, and maximum return on investment for welders. The VIKING 1740 Series Helmet weighs only 18.6 ounces, is compatible with 'cheater' lens and hardhats, and features a solar powered battery assist with 9-13 shade control settings. Lincoln Electric's new welding helmet comes standard with seven lenses for inside and out, and a two-year warranty on parts and labor.
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Cleveland – The new, lightweight VIKING 1740 Series Auto-Darkening Welding Helmet from Lincoln Electric offers a variety of features designed to reduce the cost of ownership while providing solid protection from a basic helmet offering.
Weighing in at a mere 18.6 ounces, this entry-level helmet series features solar power with battery assist, eliminating the need for an on/off switch. A continuously variable, internal, 9-13 shade control offers sensitivity adjustment for different welding environments and features adjustable delay time from a dark to a light setting.
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CFC Tenth Anniversary Benefit, "The Art of Giving… Celebrating 10 Years of Helping Kids Grow Involved"
Thursday, April 20, 2006, Christies, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020--Children For Children("CFC") Tenth Anniversary Benefit, "The Art of Giving...Celebrating 10 Years of Helping Kids Grow Involved": This event at Christies gathered friends and supporters to celebrate CFC's 10th Anniversary, and honor the recipients of the 2006 Champions for Children Awards. Mastercard's Noah Hanft and his wife Dora Hanft accepted the Inspiration Award, Citigroup's Michael Schlein was honored with the Innovation in Corporate Philanthropy Award, and this year's Hands That Help Award was presented to Nazili Parvizi Executive Director of the Mayor's Volunteer Center. For the past ten years, Children for Children has engaged kids of all ages and backgrounds in hands-on volunteering and service learning, with an emphasis on providing resources to under-served schools. PHOTO CREDIT: ©Manhattan Society.com 2006 by Christopher LondonRead More


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I recently spoke about my Dad with NPR's Jacki Lyden for their Weekend All Things Considered story on Alzheimer's disease. I told her it was a bittersweet experience for me. I started listening to the show as a young child with Dad, and there I was, 40 years later, at the NPR studio, talking about him and the ways that Alzheimer's disease is slowly robbing his brain.
The first few notes of the show's theme song immediately summon warm, secure "all is right with the world" feelings for me, transporting me to the backseat of our Pontiac station wagon as Dad drove home from his office where I had walked after school. He listened daily to the local NPR station for classical music, local interest programs and All Things Considered. He would have been so happy and proud for me to be on the show. Now, he still loves the music, but has trouble processing what he hears in the news programs. I may play the recording for him, but now it won't really register for him cognitively as it once would have.
Still, I know I'm doing what Mom and Dad want me to do when I share my caregiving experiences. He was an educator – a university professor of Communication and even had his master's degree in radio. My Mom was an educator too. We talked early on about my work and they both agreed that we have the opportunity to help others by educating them about our experiences.
As Jacki noted in the story, there are 5 million Americans suffering from Alzheimer's disease today, and that number will triple by 2050. Dr. Dorene Rentz, also interviewed in the story, says it's reached epidemic proportions. But she also offers hope with new treatments, and that's what I'm counting on.
"I'm not just trying to keep my parents alive; I'm trying to have a good life with them and live my life at the same time. There's still a lot of fun and a lot of surprises and just a lot of love. My parents are just very sweet individuals and I'm very lucky in that way."
– Amy Goyer
Listen here to the NPR Weekend All Things Considered story: Alzheimer's Cases Rise, But Hope Remains.
Amy Goyer is AARP's Home & Family Expert; she splits her time between Washington, D.C. and Phoenix, Ariz. where she is caregiving for both of her parents who live with her. Her new book, Juggling Work and Caregiving, will be published this fall. Follow Amy on Twitter @amygoyer and on Facebook.


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From fertilization to weed control, TruGreen offers premium services for your home's lawn care. Lawn professionals at TruGreen - Mountain Village understand the dramatic difference in a home's appearance based on the color and health of the lawn. That's why a variety of services are employed to get your lawn in great condition from root to tip, allowing it to recover more quickly from the cold of winter, endure the heat and drought of summer, and resist invasive pests.
The TruPerformance program includes several services beneficial to the growth of healthy lawns. The Healthy Lawn Analysis assesses the overall condition of your lawn and provides a customized plan based specifically on your lawn's needs. Weed control, lawn fertilization, and additional benefits such as lime or aeration may be deployed to prevent unwanted weed growth and cultivate nutrients in the soil. All full program customers receive unlimited service calls, which means a Mountain Village TruGreen professional is available to answer questions and respond to lawn care emergencies.
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Many MySQL users and administrators slide into using MySQL. They hear its benefits, find that it's easy to install on their systems (or better yet, comes pre-installed), and read a quick book on how to attach simple SQL operations to web sites or other applications.
It may take several months for the dragons to raise their heads. Perhaps one particular web page seems to take forever, or a system failure corrupts a database and makes recovery difficult.
Real-life use of MySQL requires forethought and care—and a little benchmarking and testing. This book is for the MySQL administrator who has the basics down but realizes the need to go further. It's a good book to read after you've installed and learned how to use MySQL but before your site starts to get a lot of traffic, and the dragons are breathing down your neck. (When problems occur during a critical service, your fellow workers and friendly manager start to take on decidedly dragon-like appearances.)
The techniques we teach are valuable in many different situations, and sometimes to solve different problems. Replication, for instance, may be a matter of reliability for you—an essential guarantee that your site will still be up if one or two systems fail. But replication can also improve performance; we show you architectures and tech niques that solve multiple problems.
We also take optimization far beyond the simple use of indexes and diagnostic ( EXPLAIN ) statements: this book tells you what the factors in good performance are, where bottlenecks occur, how to benchmark MySQL, and other advanced perfor mance topics.
We ask for a little more patience and time commitment than the average introduc tory computer book. Our approach involves a learning cycle, and experience con vinces us that it's ultimately the fastest and most efficient way to get where you want.
After describing the problems we're trying to solve in a given chapter, we start with some background explanation. In other words, we give you a mental model for under standing what MySQL is doing. Then we describe the options you have to solve the problem, and only after all that do we describe particular tools and techniques.
Before we dig into how to tune your MySQL system to optimum performance, it's best if we go over a couple of ground rules and make sure everyone is on the same page.
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There are two ways you can install MySQL. As a novice administrator, you may have simply installed a binary package that had precompiled executables, libraries, and configuration files, and placed those files wherever the maker of the binary package decided they should go.
It's exceedingly rare for a Windows user to compile his own copy of MySQL. If you're running MySQL on Windows, feel free to down load your copy from the MySQL web site and skip this discussion.
Alternatively, for any number of reasons, you might have decided to compile the MySQL binaries on your own by downloading a source tarball and configuring the installation to best meet your needs. However, don't do so lightly. Compiling from source has led to countless hours of pain for some users, mostly due to subtle bugs in their compilers or thread libraries. For this very reason, the standard binaries pro vided by MySQL AB are statically linked. That means they are immune to any bugs in your locally installed libraries.
There aren't too many places where the issue of "binary versus compiled-from-source" will come into play in the average MySQL tuning regimen, but they do hap pen. For example, in Chapter 10, our advice on chrooting your installation can be used only if every file MySQL needs is brought into a single directory tree, which might not be the case in a binary installation.
For a novice administrator on a simple installation, we recommend using a binary package (such as an RPM) to set up your system. However, once you progress to the point of really needing to tinker with the "guts" of MySQL, you will probably want to quickly go back, change a configure flag, and recompile.
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{mospagebreak title=MySQL.com Binary Versus Distribution Binary}One thing to keep in mind is that there are a number of sources for binary packages, and nearly all of them set up the system differently.
For example, you can download the binary installation from the MySQL.com web site. You can also install the binary distribution included by your Linux distribution vendor, or the one you grabbed from the FreeBSD ports collection. Finally, you can down load a binary for a platform that isn't officially supported, but on which someone is keeping a MySQL version current, such as the Amiga architecture. * In any of these cases, you will end up with different directory layouts, compilation options, etc.
(* Note: At the time that sentence was written, it was entirely theoretical: the thinking was "I'm not aware of anything, but surely someone will do that!" In researching it, we found that MySQL for Amiga was, indeed, happening. For those who read German, there's an article from Amiga Magazine at http://www.amiga-magazin.de/magazin/a08-01/mysql/ that describes how to do it, and a mailing list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Amiga_MySql/ for people working on it as well.)
If you use the binary distributions from anyone other than MySQL AB, your support options may be significantly decreased, simply by virtue of having limited yourself to seeking help from those who use that particular distribution. Even a question as sim ple as, "Where is the my.cnf file located on the FreeBSD port of MySQL?" is going to limit those who can respond to two groups: those who have run MySQL using the FreeBSD port, and those on the mailing list or newsgroup, etc. who have encoun tered that question before. On the plus side, if your distribution has automated secu rity announcements and updates, you probably never need to worry about patching MySQL if a security flaw is discovered.
Many binary distributors of MySQL mold it to fit "their" layout. For example, the Debian distribution places the config files in /etc/mysql/ , some language-specific files in /usr/share/mysql/ , the executables directly into /usr/bin/ , etc. It's not "the Debian way" to segregate an application's binaries; it incorporates them into the system as a whole. Likewise, in those places it does incorporate them, it does so in what may seem like an odd manner. For instance, you might expect config files to go directly into /etc/ , but instead they get put in /etc/mysql/ . It can be confusing if you're trying to find everything you need to modify, or if you're trying to later convert from one type of installation to the other.
The MySQL.com-supplied tarball binary packages, however, behave more like the source-compilation process. All the files—configuration files, libraries, executables, and the database files themselves—end up in a single directory tree, created specifi cally for the MySQL install. This is typically /usr/local/mysql , but it can be altered as needed at installation time. Because this behavior is much the same as a source-com-piled installation, the available support from the MySQL community is much greater. It also makes things easier if you decide later to instead use a MySQL instal lation you compile from source.
On the other hand, the MySQL-supplied binary packages that are distributed using package-management formats such as RPM are laid out similarly to the format of the system they are designed for. For example, the RPM installation you get from MySQL.com will have its files laid out similarly to the Red Hat-supplied RPM. This is so because it's not uncommon for a Linux distribution to ship an RPM that hasn't been thoroughly tested and is broken in fairly serious ways. The RPM files MySQL. com distributes are intended as upgrade paths for users with such a problem so they can have "just what they have now, but it works."
Because of that, if you're going to install a binary you download from MySQL.com, we highly recommend using the tarball formatted files. They will yield the familiar directory structure the average MySQL administrator is used to seeing.
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Configuring a MySQL server is often just a matter of editing the configuration file to make any changes you need and then restarting the server. While that sounds rather simple, adjusting the server's configuration is something you're not likely to do on a daily basis. More likely, you've installed MySQL, configured it minimally or with the defaults, and then let it run. Most users never go back and adjust the server configu ration until a problem arises. As a result, it's easy to forget how to configure MySQL.
Another possibility is that you didn't even know there was a configuration file for MySQL. For the majority of projects, MySQL's default configuration is more than sufficient on modern hardware. It may not be as fast as it can be (because you haven't optimized it), but it will certainly meet your basic needs.
File Locations
When MySQL starts, it reads its configuration files in a particular order, unless told otherwise. On UNIX, the order is:
- /etc/my.cnf
- datadir/my.cnf
- ~/.my.cnf
On Windows, the order:
Three command-line arguments affect how MySQL reads its configuration files:
Tells MySQL not to read any configuration files.
Tells MySQL to read this file only, and any other files explicitly declared with –defaults-extra-file .
Tells MySQL to read this file after reading the /etc/my.cnf global configuration file.
Files read later in the process override those set in previously read files. If both /etc/ my.cnf and datadir / my.cnf specify a value for the TCP port that MySQL should lis ten to, the latter takes precedence.
This behavior can be quite helpful when you need to run multiple servers either on the same host or on several different hosts. You can give all servers an identical copy of /etc/my.cnf that specifies all the values that aren't specific to a single host. With that out of the way, the few host-specific settings can be maintained in a small sup plemental file such as datadir / my.cnf .
A similar strategy works if you'd like to run multiple servers on a single host. By put ting all the common settings in /etc/my.cnf and the server-specific settings in each datadir / my.cnf , it's easy to keep several servers running with a minimum of effort.
For example, perhaps you want to run a couple different instances of the MySQL server, one for each character set you plan to use (to make your life easier). You might put all your "common" settings in /etc/my.cnf and the following in /etc/my. english.cnf :
default-character-set=latin 1
port=330 6
socket=/var/lib/mysql/english.soc k
Your /etc/my.german.cnf file has:
default-character-set=latin1_d e
port=330 7
socket=/var/lib/mysql/german.soc k
You might even have /etc/my.korean.cnf with:
default-character-set=euc_k r
port=330 8
socket=/var/lib/mysql/korean.soc k
Now, when you start up the three servers, you want each to load all the settings from the shared /etc/my.cnf file, and then get settings from one of each of the previous language-based configuration files. You can use a command like the following:
> $ mysqld_safe –defaults-extra-file=/etc/my.german.cn f
$ mysqld_safe –defaults-extra-file=/etc/my.english.cn f
$ mysqld_safe –defaults-extra-file=/etc/my.korean.cn f
This command yields three different mysqld instances, running on ports 3306 through 3308, each using the language-specific configuration options mentioned in the file indicated by the defaults-extra-file switch.
MySQL is usually installed as a service on Windows. As a result, Windows users must call c:mysqlbinmysqld directly to pass command-line arguments.
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{mospagebreak title=File Format}The configuration file format consists of one or more sections, each of which may contain one or more lines. Sections begin with a name in square brackets, such as [ mysqld ] ; this identifies the program to which the options should be applied. Each line contains a comment, a key/value pair, a set-variable directive, or a Boolean directive. Blank lines are ignored.
Two special section names can occur in each configuration file: [server] and [client] . Items listed in the [server] block apply to the MySQL server process. Those in the [client] section apply to all client programs that use the MySQL C cli ent library, including mysql , mysqlhotcopy , and mysqldump .
Comments begin with # or ; and continue to the end of the line:
# this is a comment
; so is this
There is no multiline comment format. You can't place a comment at the end of an otherwise non-empty line:
key_buffer=128M # a comment can't go here
The key/value pairs are settings such as:
> user = mysql
port = 3306
The set-variable statements look like key/value pairs in which the value is a key/ value pair itself:
Spaces aren't important in set-variable lines. You can also write the two previous lines as follows:
> set-variable = key_buffer=384M
set-variable = tmp_table_size=32M
set-variable = key_buffer = 384 M
set-variable=tmp_table_size=32 M
Either way, MySQL will understand you. However, consider using some space to enhance readability.
As of Version 4.1, the set-variable= portion of the variable definition is no longer needed and is deprecated. In current versions:
set-variable = key_buffer=384M
are both interpreted in an identical manner by the server at startup time. If you are running a version that supports leaving out the set-variable clause, it probably is best to do so because it won't be supported forever. We've chosen to use the older format here because it's what you're likely to have already, and the sample configura tion files in the standard MySQL distribution continue to use it.
The few boolean directives are just stated plainly:
Individual lines in the configuration file are limited to 2 KB in length. While it's rare that you'll ever need to use a line that long, it can occasionally be a problem.
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The support-files directory of the MySQL distribution * contains four sample configu ration files:
- my-small.cnf
- my-medium.cnf
- my-large.cnf
- my-huge.cnf
(*Note: These files aren't included in the Windows distribution of older MySQL releases.)
The names of the files are meant to signify the size of the machine on which the MySQL server will run. Each contains comments describing where the size comes from. For example, my-medium.cnf says:
# This is for a system with little memory (32M – 64M) where MySQL # play s a important part and systems up to 128M very MySQL is used # together wit h other programs (like a web server )
To use a sample file, simply copy it to /etc/my.cnf (or systemdir win.ini on Windows) and making changes as necessary. While none is likely to be ideal for any par ticular setup, each file is a good starting point for setting up a new system. Failure to make adjustments to the sample configuration can lead to worse performance in some cases.
Let's look at the sample my-medium.cnf file from a newly installed system. Some of the information may not make sense right away (depending on how much experience you have), but the more examples you see, the more you'll begin to understand them.
The file starts with some helpful comments about the type of system this configura tion is appropriate for and information needed to install it:
# Example mysql config file for medium systems .
# This is for a system with little memory (32M – 64M) where MySQL
# play s a important part and systems up to 128M very MySQL is
# used together wit h other programs (like a web server)
# You can copy this file t o
# /etc/mf.cnf to set global options ,
# mysql-data-dir/my.cnf to set server-specific options (in thi s
# installation this directory is /usr/local/mysq/var) o r
# ~/.my.cnf to set user-specific options .
# One can in this file use all long options that the program supports .
# If you want to know which options a program support, run the progra m
# with –help option .
Next are the options that apply to all the client tools you might run on this host:
# The following options will be passed to all MySQL client s
[client ]
#password = your_passwor d
port = 330 6
socket = /tmp/mysql.soc k
What follows next are the parameters specific to the server. The port and socket options, of course, should agree with what the clients were just told. The remaining settings allow MySQL to allocate more RAM for various caches and buffers as well as enable some basic replication options:
# Here follows entries for some specific programs
> # The MySQL serve r
> [mysqld ]
> port = 330 6
> socket = /tmp/mysql.soc k
> skip-lockin g
> set-variable = key_buffer=16 M
> set-variable = max_allowed_packet=1 M
> set-variable = table_cache=6 4
> set-variable = sort_buffer=512 K
> set-variable = net_buffer_length=8 K
> set-variable = myisam_sort_buffer_size=8 M
> log-bi n
> server-id = 1
Next are a few options you probably don't need to change if you have sufficient disk space:
# Point the following paths to different dedicated disk s
#tmpdir = /tmp /
#log-update = /path-to-dedicated-directory/hostnam e
The BDB options refer to the BDB storage engine, which provide MySQL's first transaction-safe storage. You'll learn more about storage engines in Chapter 2.
# Uncomment the following if you are using BDB table s
#set-variable = bdb_cache_size=4 M
#set-variable = bdb_max_lock=1000 0
InnoDB, another of MySQL's storage engines, has numerous options that must be configured before you can use them. Because it provides transaction-safe tables with its own memory management and storage system, you need to specify where the data files will live, as well as how much RAM should be used. (InnoDB was briefly known as Innobase, so you may see that name in configuration files.)
# Uncomment the following if you are using Innobase table s
#innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:400 M
#innodb_data_home_dir = /usr/local/mysql/var /
#innodb_log_group_home_dir = /usr/local/mysql/var /
#innodb_log_arch_dir = /usr/local/mysql/var /
#set-variable = innodb_mirrored_log_groups= 1
#set-variable = innodb_log_files_in_group= 3
#set-variable = innodb_log_file_size=5 M
#set-variable = innodb_log_buffer_size=8 M
#innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit= 1
#innodb_log_archive= 0
#set-variable = innodb_buffer_pool_size=16 M
#set-variable = innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=2 M
#set-variable = innodb_file_io_threads= 4
#set-variable = innodb_lock_wait_timeout=5 0
The final option groups are for specific MySQL command-line utilities, including the mysql shell:
[mysqldump ]
quic k
set-variable = max_allowed_packet=16 M
[mysql ]
no-auto-rehas h
# Remove the next comment character if you are not familiar with SQ L
set-variable = key_buffer=20M
set-variable = sort_buffer=20M
set-variable = read_buffer=2M
set-variable = write_buffer=2M
[myisamchk ]
set-variable = key_buffer=20 M
set-variable = sort_buffer=20 M
set-variable = read_buffer=2 M
set-variable = write_buffer=2 M
[mysqlhotcopy ]
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That file would be considerably larger and certainly more confusing if all the possi ble settings were listed. For 90% (or more) of MySQL users, there is simply never a need to adjust more than a few of the settings listed in the sample files.
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When an administrator adjusts the server parameters, it's common to go through an iterative process that involves making changes, restarting the server, performing some tests, and repeating the process. In fact, we'll look at doing just that in Chapter 3. In the meantime, it's worth mentioning that you should strongly con sider putting your MySQL configuration files into some sort of revision control sys tem (RCS, CVS, Subversion, etc.). Doing so gives you an easy way to track changes and back out of a bad configuration change.
As of MySQL 4.0, it's possible to change server variables on the fly at runtime. For example, if you wanted to increase the size of the key buffer from what it was set to at startup, you might do the following:
mysql> SET GLOBAL key_buffer=50M;
This sets the global value for key_buffer to 50 MB.
Some variables, such as sort_buffer_size , can be set globally so that they affect all new threads on the server, or they can be defined so that they apply only to the cur rent MySQL client session. For example, if you wish to make a series of queries that might better use a large sort buffer, you can type:
mysql> SET SESSION sort_buffer_size=50M;
Variables set using the SESSION syntax are thread-specific and don't alter the values other threads use.
It's important to note that any change you make here, using either GLOBAL or SESSION syntax, will not survive a restart of the MySQL server; it's completely transient in that regard. Runtime changes like this are excellent for testing scenarios such as, "If I increase my key_buffer value, will it improve my query performance?" Once you've found a value that works for you, though, remember to go back to your /etc/my.cnf file and put that value into your configuration file, or you may find yourself wonder ing weeks or months later why performance was so horrible after that reboot, com pletely forgetting the variable change you made on the fly months prior.
It's also possible to use arguments on the mysqld_safe command line to override val ues defined in the configuration files. For example, you might do something like the following:
$ mysqld_safe -O key_buffer=50M
Like the earlier set-variable syntax, the -O syntax is deprecated as of Version 4.0. Here is a better way to issue that command:
$ mysqld_safe –key_buffer=50M
Command-line argument changes made in the mysql.server startup script will, obvi ously, survive from server restart to server restart, as long as that startup script is used to disable and reenable the server. It's important to point out, though, that it's usually better to have all your configuration declarations in a single place, so that maintenance doesn't become a game of hide-and-seek with the configuration options, trying to remember where you set which values.
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MySQL users often wonder how to find out what their server is actually doing at any point in time—usually when things start to slow down or behave strangely. You can look at operating system statistics to figure out how busy the server is, but that really doesn't reveal much. Knowing that the CPU is at 100% utilization or that there's a lot of disk I/O occurring provides a high-level picture of what is going on, but MySQL can tell far more.
Several SHOW commands provide a window into what's going on inside MySQL. They provide access to MySQL's configuration variables, ongoing statistics, and counters, as well as a description of what each client is doing.
Show Variables
The easiest way to verify that configuration changes have taken effect is to ask MySQL for its current variable settings. The SHOW VARIABLES command does just that. Executing it produces quite a bit of output, which looks something like this:
mysql> SHOW VARIABLES;
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The output continues from there, covering over 120 variables in total. The variables are listed in alphabetical order, which is convenient for reading, but sometimes related variables aren't anywhere near each other in the output. The reason for this is because as MySQL evolves, new variables are added with more descriptive names, but the older variable names aren't changed; it would break compatibility for any program that expects them. * (* In the rare event they do change, MySQL retains the old names as aliases for the new ones.)
Many of the variables in the list may be adjusted by a set-variable entry in any of MySQL's configuration files. Some of them are compiled-in values that can not be changed. They're really constants (not variables), but they still show up in the out put of SHOW VARIABLES . Still others are boolean flags.
Notice that the output of SHOW VARIABLES (and all of the SHOW commands, for that matter) looks just like the output of any SQL query. It's tabular data. MySQL returns the output in a structured format, making it easy to write tools that can summarize and act on the output of these commands. We'll put that to good use in later chapters.
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The other SHOW command we'll look at is SHOW PROCESSLIST . It outputs a list of what each thread is doing at the time you execute the command.* It's roughly equivalent to the ps or top commands in Unix or the Task Manager in Windows.
(* Not all threads appear in the SHOW PROCESSLIST output. The thread that handles incoming network connec tions, for example, is never listed.)
Executing it produces a process list in tabular form:
mysql> SHOW PROCESSLIST;
+—-+———+———–+——+————-+——+——-+——————-+ | Id | User | Host | db | Command | Time | State | Info | +—-+———+———–+——+————-+——+——-+——————-+
| 17 | jzawodn | localhost | NULL | Query | 0 | NULL | show processlist | +—-+———+———–+——+————-+——+——-+——————-+
It's common for the State and Info columns to contain more information that pro duces lines long enough to wrap onscreen. So it's a good idea to use the G escape in the mysql command interpreter to produce vertical output rather than horizontal output:
mysql> SHOW PROCESSLIST G
*************************** 1. row ************************** *
Id: 17
User: jzawodn
Host: localhost
db: NUL L
Command: Quer y
Time: 0
State: NUL L
Info: show processlis t
No matter which way you look at it, the same fields are included:
I d The number that uniquely identifies this process. Since MySQL is a multi-threaded server, it really identifies the thread (or connection)and is unrelated to process IDs the operating system may use. As the operating system does with processes, MySQL starts numbering the threads at 1 and gives each new thread an ID one higher than the previous thread.
The name of the MySQL user connected to this thread.
The name of the host or IP address from which the user is connected. db The database currently selected. This may be NULL if the user didn't specify a database.
This shows the command state (from MySQL's internal point of view) that the thread is currently in. Table 1 lists each command with a description of when you are likely to see it. The commands roughly correspond to various function calls in MySQL's C API. Many commands represent very short-lived actions. Two of those that don't, Sleep and Query , appear frequently in day-to- day usage.Table 1. Commands in SHOW PROCESSLIST output
|Binlog Dump
|The slave thread is reading queries from the master's binary log.
|Change user
|The client is logging in as a different user.
|A new client is connecting.
|Connect Out
|The slave thread is connecting to the master to read queries from its binary log.
|Create DB
|A new database is being created.
|The thread is producing debugging output. This is very uncommon.
|The thread is processing delayed inserts.
|Drop DB
|A database is being dropped. Field List The client has requested a list of fields in a table.
|Init DB
|The thread is changing to a different database, typically as the result of a USE command.
|The thread is executing a KILL command.
|The client is pinging the server to see if it's still connected. Processlist The client is running SHOW PROCESSLIST.
|The thread is currently executing a typical SQL query: SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE. This is the most common state other than Sleep.
|The thread is being terminated as part of the server shutdown process.
|The thread is issuing the FLUSH PRIVILEGE command.
|Register Slave
|A slave has connected and is registering itself with the master.
|The server is being shut down.
|The thread is idle. No query is being run.
|Table and index statistics are being gathered for the query optimizer.
The number of seconds that the process has been running the current com mand. A process with a Time of 90 and Command of Sleep has been idle for a minute and a half.
Additional human-readable information about the state of this thread. Here's an example:
Slave connection: waiting for binlog update
This appears on the master server when a slave is actively replicating from it.
This is the actual SQL currently being executed, if any. Only the first 100 charac ters are displayed in the output of SHOW PROCESSLIST . To get the full SQL, use SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST .
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In addition to all the variable information we can query, MySQL also keeps track of many useful counters and statistics. These numbers track how often various events occur. The SHOW STATUS command produces a tabular listing of all the statistics and their names.
To confuse matters a bit, MySQL refers to these counters as variables too. In a sense, they are variables, but they're not variables you can set. They change as the server runs and handles traffic; you simply read them and reset them using the FLUSH STATUS command.
The SHOW STATUS command, though, offers a lot of insight into your server's perfor mance. It's covered in much greater depth in Appendix A.
Show INNODB Status
The SHOW INNODB STATUS status command provides a number of InnoDB-specific sta tistics. As we said earlier, InnoDB is one of MySQL's storage engines; look for more on storage engines in Chapter 2.
The output of SHOW INNODB STATUS is different from that of SHOW STATUS in that it reads more as a textual report, with section headings and such. There are different sec tions of the report that provide information on semaphores, transaction statistics, buffer information, transaction logs, and so forth.
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The Romney campaign's "Bain problem," which is also now the Republican party's problem, doesn't look like it's going away anytime soon. Sure, Republicans are figuring out that this is not a winning issue for them. Thus they've circled their wagons around Romney, and even tried to get Newt to turn it down a couple of notches. Even the funder who gave Newt the money to green-light "When Mitt Romney Came To Down" is having second thoughts.
But never mind all that. The story has now gotten big enough to draw Sarah Palin out of an extended break from her bus tour, to advise Romney to open up the books on his tenure at Bain.
Republican star and Fox News political analyst Sarah Palin said criticism of Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital by some Republican rivals is fair game and that voters should get "proof" of the 100,000 jobs Mr. Romney said he helped create while he headed the private equity firm.
In an interview with Fox host Sean Hannity Wednesday, Ms. Palin was asked about Texas Gov. Rick Perry's comments that Mr. Romney had practiced "vulture capitalism" rather than venture capitalism at Bain. Fox and The Wall Street Journal are owned by News Corp.
"I don't agree with attacks on free-market capitalism at all but I don't believe this is really what is at the heart of Gov. Perry's criticism of Romney and his time at Bain," the former Alaska governor replied. "This isn't about a politician making huge profits in the private sector. I think what Gov. Perry is getting at is that Gov. Romney has claimed to have created 100,000 jobs at Bain and you know, now people are wanting to know is there proof of that claim."
In a similar vein, Palin called on Romney to (finally) release his tax returns.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin suggested Wednesday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney should release his tax returns, as well as records from his time at Bain Capital.
"What I heard was a little bit what's going on today is some inoculation of the candidate himself, the frontrunner, and what it is that he's going to face when he comes up against Barack Obama. Nobody should be surprised that things about Bain Capital, and maybe tax returns not being released yet, and maybe some records not being as transparently provided to the public as voters deserve to see right now, don't be surprised that's all coming out today," she told Sean Hannity Wednesday on Fox News. "Let's get it out there, let's hear the defense of the candidates who are being charged with some of this. It's kind of like some come-to-Jesus moments for these candidates, and that's good, that's healthy."
The problem is, "free enterprise" is not on trial, and Bain isn't so much the representative of capitalism as the Frankenstein monster of capitalism stitched together and brought to life by conservative policy.
As a former manager at Bain made plain in an LA Time interview, job creation was never the mission at Bain Capital. So, there's very little evidence to support Romney's claim of creating 100,000 jobs at Bain. Bain won't release its overall record of jobs lost or created. Probably because it wasn't anybody's job to create jobs at Bain. Ask them about how much they returned to investors they can probably do that. Creating wealth was the job at Bain, not creating jobs. And we've already had a decade of the Bush tax cuts benefiting the wealthy, the rich getting richer, and zero job growth to teach us that creating wealth doesn't necessarily lead to job creation.
Warren Buffet, in a Time Magazine interview, made clear another reason why Romney couldn't follow Palin's advice if he wanted to.
When I ask whether Mitt Romney is a job creator or destroyer, Buffett says that while businesses shouldn't keep people they don't need, "I don't like what private-equity firms do in terms of taking out every dime they can and leveraging [companies] up so that they really aren't equipped, in some cases, for the future."
Even without a release from Bain, we what we know about one of Bain's acquisitions — in which Romney was a very hands-on manager — is exactly what Buffet described.
But an examination of the Dade deal, which Mr. Romney approved and presided over, shows the unintended human costs and messy financial consequences behind the brand of capitalism that he practiced for 15 years.
At Bain Capital's direction, Dade quadrupled the money it owed creditors and vendors. It took steps that propelled the business toward bankruptcy. And in waves of layoffs, it cut loose 1,700 workers in the United States, including Brian and Christine Shoemaker, who lost their jobs at a plant in Westwood, Mass. Staggered, Mr. Shoemaker wondered, "How can the bean counters just come in here and say, Hey, it's over?"
Why release records on jobs created or destroyed and risk confirming stories like the one above?
That brings me to why Romney can't exactly follow Palin's advice on taxes. Certainly not now, anyway, with a majority of Americans citing economic inequality as a source of conflict, Newt shining a spotlight on Mitt's vulture capitalism, and voters in the 99% steering clear of him.
If he releases his tax returns Romney runs the risk, in the current climate, of revealing just how rich he is. For the record, according to Wealth-X, he's one of the 10 richest people to run for president in the last 20 years. His net worth of $250 million makes him the third richest person to seek the oval office, after Ross Perot (#1) and Steve Forbes (#2).
Romney's wealth makes him one of the 3,140 wealthiest people in the country — that's the richest 0.001 percent of Americans. So, he's not just the candidate of the 1 percent, but the candidate of the 0.001 percent.
Releasing his tax returns would just confirm to many American voters that Romney got rich by practicing the very brand of vulture capitalism Buffet criticized, which is exactly what Newt accused him of.
Unfortunately for Romney, I think all of this is already but confirmed for a good many Americans.


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Some old players are changing strategy too. Instead of competing on 1 toon, they are using multiple toons to place Auctions more frequently.
We netted 225,000 gold profit from Glyphs and DM Cards, and 605,000 gold profit from Enchants, Gems, & Belt Buckles.
The Arbitrage Project works great going from Alliance to Horde, but I'm finding it difficult to find enough items to send back from Horde to Alliance. Dabbling in this with the highest priced items netted 85,000 profit without much effort. We're talking Primal Diamonds, Belt Buckles, Shoulder Enchants and Red Gems. Horde side on Caelestrasz is a much slower market, however there seems to be less competition too. It will be interesting to see how this plays out after Christmas when the kiddies go back to school.
GKP Runs
Woot! GKP runs are back on Caelestrasz Alliance. The first one kicked off last week, which I couldn't attend as I've been away since New Year's Day on Holidays, but this week I'm signed up and good to go. Finally something to spend gold on other than items off the BMAH.
Size : 25 man
When : Fri 8pm ST, be online 20 mins before raids starts for invites.
Where: Mogu'shan Vaults
Invites : Whisper Jetfoo, Helya
Where: Mogu'shan Vaults
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Reviewed by Joseph B. (age 9)
When the family goes back to the old war camp, they flash back to when the kids' grandfather was in World War II. The father remembers back too and tells a little bit about what it was like.
Back in the time of World War II, the governor thinks the Japanese-Americans are helping Japan and puts them in a camp. The Japanese-Americans felt like it was unfair.
The paintings in So Far From the Sea are very realistic. I thought they looked like real people. Their faces looked the most realistic.
As I read the book it made me wonder what life was like in World War II. I wondered if life was hard back then and how the Japanese felt when they were put into camps.
I liked the book because it seemed like real life. I also like books with detailed drawings. I also liked the book because it was based on a real time period.
I recommend this book to kids in third grade to fifth grade. I also recommend this book to people who like stories that are based on a real time period. I think people that like realistic drawings will like this book.


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Scientists and doctors face a shortage of helium, so private companies can make extra profit from government owned helium.
In the United States, supplies come from the reserve, which is run by the Bureau of Land Management. The reserve supplies about 30 percent of the world's helium and 42 percent of the domestic market, and the helium is collected in an underground reservoir in a 1,000-acre Crude Helium Enrichment Unit north of Amarillo, Texas.
The reservoir, known as the Bush Dome,...
The helium shortage,... could have a ... serious impact because of its importance to industries such as health care, biotechnology, defense, scientific research and water manufacturing.
Increase in global demand as well as shutdowns and outages at helium-producing plants that supply two-thirds of the world's supply have contributed to the shortage.
Private companies pay a price set by the government to buy the crude helium, which is then processed to be sold for commercial use.
"The government doesn't want to be in that business, but we can't control how private companies set up their contracts," Burton said. "That is unintended consequence of the (Helium Privatization) Act."
Burton said the bureau is scheduled to pay off the debt by next year. After the agency relinquishes its role as overseer, there would still be about $1.3 billion worth of helium underground, Burton said.
...four companies with direct access to the crude helium reserves have created a monopoly and distorted the market. "Taken together, the restricted access to the resource and the manufactured price have created a situation where a substantial portion of taxpayer-owned helium is being sold overseas at a significant profit while our domestic end-user community is suffering from supply shortages,"...
The critical shortage has far-reaching effects in various industries, said Michael Shaw, chairman of the physics department at California Lutheran University. Liquid helium is used to cool magnets in MRI equipment and to make fiber-optic cables and semiconductors. Gaseous helium is used in angioplasties. In scientific research, liquid helium is used in physics applications and in superconductivity. Helium is used as a shielding gas in welding.
"The real message is that there is a real crisis that is about to be upon us for many industries," Shaw said. "If a scientist has a certain budget and helium prices increase, suddenly something else in the budget has to be cut. Either you do less research, or the research that you do will cost much more." [emphasis mine]
Helium shortage affecting industries locally and worldwide
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Burton said. "That is unintended consequence of the (Helium Privatization) Act." B/S.
...four companies with direct access to the crude helium reserves have created a monopoly and distorted the market.
That is Exactly the intent of privatizing the Helium market and every other market.
One wonders if those four companies or their lobbyists were involved with actually writing the legislation. That's common practice for our unelected corporate government.
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Do you love music?
I do.
Now I normally don't post too many miscellaneous subjects and topics other than my wedding photographer and senior portrait services, but today I want to share & introduce to all of my past, present & future clients, friends, family and other visitors to my site the anticipated release of the "Eight Belles" CD by singer/songwriter/musician, Amy Seeley.
I was first introduced to Amy's music through Jesh de Rox's website, which uses the very popular song (especially amongst photographers) "Gravel Lines". Just a beautiful song to go along with such stunning & beautiful imagery. If you never seen Jesh's site, you should. Very soon…
After hearing her music, I needed to hear more. Amy is a talented pianist and has a beautiful voice to go along with her music. Hearing music from a piano reminds me of when I visited my grandparents home in Iowa, when my Grampa used to play every morning, afternoon & evening. He would sing also. Most of you have probably never met nor heard my Grampa sing. He sang bass. Very powerful.
Hearing Amy's voice was such a stark contrast to my Grampa's. It was so soft and innocent. Whereas, my Grampa's voice was so strong & loud. Their voices fit each other. My Grampa is a very strong man – physically & emotionally. Amy is a very down to earth person – soft spoken & perhaps a little on the shy side.
I had to opportunity to meet Amy in Tucson, AZ at the first Upward Spiral retreat – "Exploring Love in the Real World" – put together by Jesh & the wonderful Tamara Lackey. Amy gave us an intimate, private, candlelit concert one evening. Talk about a moving experience. You know it when you hear music that hits your soul, shakes your inner core, triggers certain emotions and makes you recall memories in your life. That's what I experienced in this private little concert by Amy.
I shed a few tears that night listening to Amy's music. I know I wasn't the only one either. There hasn't been too many things that do that to me. However, there are things in life that can trigger such emotion, it's nearly impossible not to shed a tear. Like the birth of my children. Like the loss of my sister & my Gramma. Like seeing how my Grampa struggled with walking & talking after suffering from a stroke.
There are many things for us to love in this life of ours. Such as our families & friends and life itself. Love is a beautiful thing. Embrace it. Explore it.
Thank you, Amy, for bringing this beautiful music to my ears.
Check out Amy and her music at her site, www.amyseeley.com


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Subject: Lost Cashier's Checks and Money Orders
Date: April 14, 2014
Description: MB Financial Bank, N.A.
Lost Cashier's Checks and Money Orders of MB Financial Bank, N.A., Chicago, Ill.
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The above-named bank has reported that a courier has lost a shipment of the bank's cashier's checks and money orders, both of which include the bank's routing number of 071001737. The lost cashier's checks contain serial numbers ranging from 13045501 through 13045700. The lost money orders contain serial numbers ranging from 655401 through 655600.
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All Suffolk County wanted to do was sell a little strip of beach front property 1-foot-wide by 1,885-feet-long. The county set the bidding at $10, according to Newsday, and contacted the adjacent owners.
Simple, right?
Enter two bankers that would stop at nothing to get that strip — Kyle N. Cruz, a managing director at Centerbridge Partners LP and Marc Helie of Chevalier Investments. Both men showed up armed with $1,500 and the title to their properties on May 30.
And then it was war, according to the Suffolk County property manager (from Newsday):
"We've had one or two pieces start off at $400 and maybe go to $10,000, but never like this," Wayne R. Thompson said. "But you know what water's worth . . . You can say, 'Oh, yes, I have a right of way to the water.' "
Yes, Suffolk County is home to the Hamptons, and this specific piece of land sits in Napeague, a village of super-expensive homes just west of Montauk (where all the hip kids are going these days), and gives the owner beach access.
So maybe it's worth what was ultimately a bidding war that went back and forth 34 times and ended with a $120,000 price tag (Helie won, for the record).
Thompson told Newsday that he "gathered" that one man "really did not want the other one walking over his property to the water."
Cruz will now have to walk over Helie's property to get to the ocean a few hundred feet away.
Competitive much?


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8 Deliciously Weird Beers We Tried at the Oregon Brewers Festival
Once a year, brewers from across the country—though mostly from the Pacific Northwest—converge in Portland, Oregon with kegs aplenty for the hugely popular Oregon Brewers Festival. Regularly drawing lively crowds of 80,000 or more, the OBF moves into its 26th year with an 84-beer lineup ranging from standard fare to ales and lagers brewed specially for the festival, with a growing emphasis on unusual ingredients. We headed to the festival with the intention of going after the most offbeat tipples available.
One of the more notable aspects of the 2013 selection was the proliferation of beers made with fruit, which take up nearly a quarter of the festival's entire taplist. A Berliner Weisse with marionberries, an IPA with grapefruit and coconut... fruit is definitely "in" this year. Dark beers were few and far between, with lighter malts representing an overwhelming majority in the offerings. Other offbeat beers include an ale spiced with cardamom and cumin, and a beer fermented with yeast cultivated from the brewmaster's beard (yes, you read that correctly).
Pop over to the slideshow to see our 8 favorite off-the-wall unusual but delicious beers from the Oregon Brewers Festival.
Did you hit OBF this weekend? What were your favorite beers? Let us know in the comments.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
In yet another piece of news contradicting claims that Israel "has it out" for the Palestinians, some 30 farmers from the Gaza Strip were invited to attend an agricultural expo in southern Israel earlier this month.
"Agriculture knows no borders," Uri Madar from the agriculture department at Israel's District Coordination Office told the Ynet news portal. "If things are calm on the security front, there is no reason not to boost agricultural and economical ties."
Ahmed Shafi, the head of the Gaza City Agricultural Association, also refuted accusations that Israel is imposing a blanket siege against Gaza with the aim of crippling its economy.
"Gaza exports produce to Europe every day," Shafi told Ynet. In fact, last month alone Gaza exported 200 tons of strawberries, 130 tons of tomatoes and over 100 million tons of flowers to Europe.
Those numbers used to be even greater when Gazans were permitted to also export large quantities of produce to Israel. But when Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007, it imposed restrictions on doing business with Israel.
Many of the farmers attending the expo expressed hope that one day they would be able to again fully partner with their Israeli counterparts.
"We have every interest in working with our Israeli neighbors," Jamal Abu Al-Najjar was quoted as saying by French media.
This cooperation is evidence of the Israeli government's efforts to promote an economic peace that provides Palestinians with financial stability, if not with an independent state.
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The Packers waived rookie quarterback Matt Brown on Tuesday, the NFL disclosed in its official transactions.
An undrafted free agent from Illinois State, Brown was waived with a "non-football injury" designation. With Brown no longer on the roster, Graham Harrell and B.J. Coleman are now Green Bay's only backups to Aaron Rodgers.
Harrell, the former Texas Tech star, was Green Bay's No. 2 quarterback in 2012, but Coleman, a second-year pro, will get a shot to win the job in camp, too. In a recent Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel story, Packers quarterbacks coach Ben McAdoo indicated the club will split reps between the two reserves in camp.
The 22-year-old Brown threw for a school-record 10,591 yards with 78 TDs from 2009 through 2012 with the Redbirds.
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I imagine this wheelbarrow is just like they used in the Middle Ages
for it surely is very rudimentary.
An early combine harvester which went from farm to farm, even
over the USA border one time and was refused reentry by customs.
Of course the farmers smuggled it back over at night.
Early high tech washing equipment. The one on the right is electric.
I guess it beats washing clothes in the river and pounding
them on the rocks.
The washing was hung over the stove in the farm kitchen
where the warmth was.
No electricity of course, so kerosene lanterns were the norm.
We had one of those for blackouts, a regular occurrence in my youth.
The iceman cometh, on a regular basis. We had an ice chest until I was about twelve
when we finally got a Kelvinator refrigerator.
A 1919 Model T truck, used to cart the milk cans about
on the farm.
Err, a two-headed calf which lived for three weeks was pointed out
to me by another volunteer at the museum
as something of interest.
This image is not mine but from here.


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629: Skins
Title text: There's Livejournal drama between those who want to wear human suits over fursuits and those who just take off the fursuits.
Furries, which have been discussed in a previous comic, are people who may love animals and enjoy dressing up as animals. One of the most prominent elements of the furry community is furry conventions, where furries meet-and-greet each other, show off and engage in activities in their fursuits, sell furry-related media, and so on.
Here, Cueball mentions furry identities. The grand majority of furries have a "fursona", that is, a furry animal with which they associate themselves. While there are different approaches towards creating a fursona, they tend to be an animal representation of either themselves or what they wish to be. These fursonas sometimes have quite a bit of background that explains their origins, their abilities, where they live, and their interests... even if their interests involve pretending to be humans. According to Cueball, "skins" are furries who have fursonas that like to pretend to be humans. In other words, skins are humans who pretend to be animals who pretend to be humans. The 4th panel magnifies the ridicule of the concept of skins, the skins at the convention behaving excitedly about events that actual humans usually consider mundane.
If this comic satirizes furry conventions, then the title text satirizes fursuits. In this case, there are skins who wear fursuits of their fursonas, but, since their fursonas like to pretend that they are humans, these skins wear human suits over their fursuits. Such a setup would seem unwieldy, so there are skins who avert this by simply taking off their fursuits, going to the conventions as their human selves, thus technically integrating into the whole "skin atmosphere". Possible problems from this can include the "wear a human suit" skins getting angry at the "take off the fursuit" skins for "ruining the fantasy atmosphere" (since, technically, the real-life skin is not the same that would be the fursona's human facade, especially if the skin makes no effort to change the appearance to fit the human facade), or again, because they are too "cheap" or "lazy" to make or otherwise obtain the two suits. This clash of ideals would cause a lot of drama, which is all too common within the furry community.
- [Cueball is packing luggage.]
- Voice: Where are you going?
- Cueball: Convention.
- Voice: What for?
- Cueball: Well, you know furries, right?
- Voice: Sure...
- [Cueball closes suitcase.]
- Cueball: We're furries whose animal identities have a thing for pretending to be humans.
- Voice: I see.
- [A convention. People sit behind booths in the background.]
- Cueball, with glasses and a mug: How's the weather?
- Megan: Great! I've been driving my car and having a job all day!
- Cueball: Did you meow?
- Megan: Not once!
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The following are letters of endorsement that have been published in recent weeks in the Tomahawk Leader:
Susan Sommer for Senate; best twenty-five dollar letter
Since The Leader now charges twenty-five dollars for any letter to the editor that endorses a candidate for public office, I thought I'd better make this one short and sweet – although when I was a kid sixty years ago, my mother made sure she got me the biggest shoes (men's size 12 or bigger) because she figured it was practical to get as much leather for the dollar as possible. By that kind of logic, I ought to make this letter as long as a highway billboard in order to get my money's worth.
However, what I've got to say is simple: Susan Sommer for Senate. Why? Because she has depth, integrity, and soul. She's not a party clone.
So, it's Susan Sommer for Senate. Or, if that's got too many letters it in, try this on for size: SUSN SOMER 4 SENIT.
If this puny letter helps Susan get elected, it'll be the best twenty-five dollar letter I've ever written. Perhaps we should take up a collection for the poverty-stricken Leader. We could call our effort "Citizens United in Behalf of Free Speech."
Paul Gilk
The Loghouse
Fortunate to have candidate like Susan Sommer on ballot
Re: Senate Candidate Susan Sommer
If you have not had a chance to meet Susan Sommer, you are missing something! Susan is the Democratic candidate for the Wisconsin State 12th Senate District. Susan and her husband live in Phelps, and she is campaigning in the 12th district with the intensity that befits her mission to bring back home the values of the Northwoods area. Including: Number One - protection of the environment. This administration is trying push through a mining bill to accommodate speculators, rather than follow the Wisconsin law already in place that was thoughtfully constructed to protect the land and groundwater. Number Two - education. This administration, which includes the representative opposing Susan on the ballot, has taken funds (lots of funds!) from our schools here in the north to give to the Milwaukee charter schools. Susan knows the law (a graduate of Marquette Law School and a former prosecuting attorney) and has the integrity and vision to bring lawmaking in Madison to a just conclusion. An example of her dedication and service is her time spent recently in the AmeriCorps project (domestic Peace Corps) building homes with Habitat for Humanity in the southern States, Cheyenne Indian Reservation and Northern Ireland. The 12th District is fortunate to have this remarkable woman ready to represent us in Madison. Please don't let her down on November 6th. Check out more about Susan on her website susansommersenate.com. Thank you.
Judy Weaver (Mrs. Robert)
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
The Vicar of Baghdad has come to Jerusalem to encourage participants in a conference aimed at cementing bonds of reconciliation between Jew and Gentile.
Canon Andrew White (pictured), who leads a 6,500-strong congregation at St George's in the heart of the war-torn city, spoke of how his people were happy despite much suffering - 1,276 of them have perished as victims of violence in the past ten years.
But Iraq has a Christian heritage going back to ancient times, he explained, and was part of the 'Isaiah 19 Highway' which forms the vision of the At the Crossroads conference, meeting at Christ Church in Jerusalem's Old City.
This so-called 'highway' - prophesied by Isaiah (chapter 19) - speaks of how Egypt, Israel and Assyria (comprising much of the Middle East) will one day be a blessing to each other, and delegates have come from all over the Arab world and beyond.
Canon White's entire congregation originates from Nineveh in northern Iraq, where the prophet Jonah reluctantly preached after being swallowed by a whale and where 'Doubting Thomas' brought the message of the risen Jesus 700 years later.
But Iraqi Christians are now paying a heavy price for their faith, yet they soldier on undaunted. When asked how they could all be so happy when things were so awful, one of Canon White's adopted daughters replied: "When you've lost everything, Jesus is all you've got."
He said Iraq formed the northern part of the highway described by Isaiah as God's "handiwork".
And he revealed that representatives of Christ Church had been responsible for founding St George's in Baghdad in 1864, so the link today was highly appropriate.
Travelling about at great risk and with the added discomfort of suffering from Multiple Sclerosis, Canon White has a great love for Jews as well as Moslems and has spent some time in Israel including a spell as the only Gentile ever to attend an Ultra-Orthodox school there.
Every week in his church they begin their service by singing the Shma, the ancient Hebrew declaration of worship for the one true God.
He pointed out that the 'Isaiah 19 Highway' was particularly significant in that it represents all the places through which Abraham travelled – and he is the father of both Arab and Jew.
His church, closed by Saddam Hussein in 1991 when the Americans and British began bombing Baghdad, was re-opened in 2003 without a stick of furniture except for the dictator's 'throne'.
Initially peopled mainly by diplomats and military staff, it emptied out when the country started getting really dangerous, at which point Iraqis began attending. And it grew exponentially in spite of the carnage.
He told some extraordinary stories. Faced with a famine at one point, the Grand Ayatollah came to ask if he would pray as there was no food in Iraq.
The vicar had just $12 in his pocket but, presumably mindful of the feeding of the 5,000 with just five loaves and two fish and because he had no intention of offending the Ayatollah, he prayed.
As a result – and apparently without any money being exchanged – thousands of tons of meat was delivered to his premises and 50 refrigerated lorries were laid on to distribute it all over the country.
Canon White said he had seen the glory of God in Iraq. On visiting the shrine of the prophet Ezekiel, located in an ancient oriental synagogue turned mosque, he saw an angel standing at each corner, and has seen angels every single day since.
"When they killed 58 of our church people one day, there were angels all around the funeral cars."
He said the glory of God was coming from the East, just as Ezekiel had foretold in chapter 43, and it was returning to Jerusalem.
Canon White is just back from America, where he picked up the 2014 William Wilberforce Award, presented for his efforts at reconciliation by the Chuck Colson Centre for Christian Worldview.
A feature of the conference so far is of Israelis, Palestinians and Egyptians praying for and embracing one another while delegates heard of a youth conference in Israel at which Jewish, Arab and Palestinian young people came together for three days of worship, and of how an Archbishop in the region has described the event as "the real peace process in the Middle East".
Indeed the conference worship has been something of a foretaste of heaven as glorious songs of praise – in Turkish, Hebrew and English – are accompanied by skilful musicians. And, with some sessions open to the public, many nations from beyond the region have joined the delegates. At one stage dozens of individuals representing different countries took it in turn to praise God in their own language. And it was exciting for me as a South African to hear a visitor from Cape Town praying in Afrikaans.
Charles Gardner is author of Israel the Chosen. He has been reporting live from At the Crossroads in Jerusalem. His previous reports can be found here:
Arab & Jew Unite in Mideast Breakthrough
Peace in Our Time - in Jerusalem!
Muslim Goes to Mecca - and Finds Jesus!
Israel and Iran Pray for Each Other
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newsletter: month thirteenFebruary 26th, 2013 by vika
Dear Nico,
Last month you turned a year old, and I cheated. This month, I'd best come up with something entertaining and new to write, or else face the possibility that you'll get bored, stop reading these newsletters, and toddle off into the sunset. Happily, for now you're still not walking independently, my tiny little captive audience.
We had a birthday party for you, which at this age is mostly a party for everyone else. There were so many everyone-elses that we ended up moving the shindig to a nearby frozen yogurt place. This turned out to be a brilliant idea; there was much merriment, which you took in impressive stride given that it lasted three whole hours. You received many fine gifts, most of them letters that we'll be requesting every year and saving for later reading. (Thanks for the idea, Offbeat Families!)
Baby NAZ, the love you engender in your social world is astonishing. Your first birthday had to be moved out of the house because so many people wanted to attend. I can only hope that whatever magic you carry today will stay with you in the future. But if it starts to wane, there's always glitter and frozen yogurt.
(Can it really be that I don't have a single photo from your birthday party? Yes, it can.)
A small list of ways in which you are barreling towards toddlerhood:
- You've entered the stage of using a single word (in this case an emphatic tah) to mean most things for which you would like to have words. These are: fan, light, lamp, cat, dog, [pick me] up, and others. I hear this is a common thing in baby language development.
- The above notwithstanding, you have actual words! This development is recent: the first one emerged this past weekend while we were visiting our friends in New York. Avocado is cacacaca (Mark points out: it stands to reason that your first food word is four syllables long). Today you managed to create recognizable versions of apple and stuck.
- Besides all this, in the last few weeks you've been holding forth in fairly long conversational tirades. A language explosion is just around the corner, or already happening, depending on how much the whole "intelligible" thing matters.
- Your hair has gotten long enough that civilized people would trim it. I, of course, am compelled to clip it away from your face and let it grow out a bit. Did you know that there are no baby-safe hair clips? Choking hazards, all of them.
- One morning a couple of weeks ago I left you sitting in the middle of the living room while I went to pack up the lunch bag. I returned to find you standing on the other side of the coffee table from where you had been, holding on to it and looking at me, all, what? Yeah, I pull myself up now. No big deal. Since then you've been practicing pulling yourself up on the big bed every morning, holding on to the headboard, prompting grim visions of you tumbling off the bed on the side where the foam bumpers aren't.
- Speaking of heart attacks, knowing that your newly found interest in climbing stairs (carpeted and bare) is healthy doesn't stop me from wishing sometimes I could superglue you to the floor until you're eighteen.
- Oh gods, the preferences. You know a lot more about what you want, and of course don't have the language to get it yet, so you do this point-and-whine thing. We've stepped up your exposure to sign language, because babe, the whining a thing I can take only in small doses. Happily, you seem on board with the sign language, and you practice too.
Last weekend we got in a car with Mark and Eleanor and drove due west, into New York, to visit Sianna and her kids. The weekend getaway was perfect—a sprawling farmhouse, glorious homey food, a dance party in the living room, and a museum floor full of big boxes. You sat inside your very own tiny fort for something like half an hour, exploring the adhesive properties of duct tape.
There's more, always, but it's time for sleep.
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