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It is with a heavy heart that we acknowledge the passing of Mahir Mostic, a Canadian and fellow soldier in the fight against MS.
According to The Vancouver Sun, Mostic died of complications after he traveled, twice, to a private Costa Rica hospital for the controversial "liberation treatment" to relieve blocked veins in his neck, which, some doctors and legions of patients purport, relieves some symptoms of multiple sclerosis.
Those who have been drawn to our blog in the past by my conservative outlook on this treatment would expect me to herald this as proof positive that clinics and hospitals offering MS patients liberation treatment should be closed down post-haste.
That is not the case.
While I still hold firm to my status as a hopeful skeptic of the procedure and do not think enough evidence is yet amassed to prove the therapy beneficial beyond its risks, I will not use the passing of one of our own to press my point (yet).
Rather, I am sad about the whole state of affairs and just wanted to bring his name and plight to your mind.
Mostic's treatment, it appears from reports, was flawed from the get-go.
His disease had progressed significantly in the past few years. His friends and family helped him raise thousands of dollars to make the trip and pay the expenses of the Central American hospital where he was treated.
Doctors are quoted as saying that they recommended against the radical measures required to open his veins – as his blockage was said to be so significant as to require stenting, which even the founder of the CCSVI theory warns against.
It is said that there was some improvement in Mostic's condition for a short period before he began to decline rapidly and significantly as blood clots began to form around the stent.
Here's where things go terribly and unconscionably wrong!
His friends say that he could find no doctors in Canada who would help him correct the complication. "I'm sorry; you left the country for that procedure. We're not touching that one…" What the hell? When did it become acceptable to turn away a patient because "we didn't start it…"?!
After another round of fundraising (reportedly $30,000 US total), Mostic traveled back to the hospital and subsequently died when medication to dissolve the clot did so in a fashion which (likely) caused massive internal bleeding. Doctors in Canada, interviewed by the CBC, were quick to condemn their Costa Rican counterparts for such treatment.
I'm wondering who's condemning the Canadian medicos who refused to treat the blood clot in the first place.
Even the Canadian Medical Association (their equivalent of the AMA) seems at odds with itself over the issue sating that "physicians have a duty to provide care in emergency situations but in non-urgent cases"
If a blood clot hanging in one's veins, inches from the heart where it could be pumped directly to the brain isn't an emergency situation, I'm not sure I understand the concept of "emergency situation"!
At this point, the clinical evidence for or against CCSVI being a factor in multiple sclerosis is vague if not downright contradictory. That is not the issue for me today.
If any of us were visiting a foreign country and had a medical procedure because of need and there were complications upon our return, would we be compelled to return to the country of original treatment for follow-up?
If a Canadian breaks his ankle in Greece and returns home but needs needing pins and screws removed months later, must she fly back to Greece?
I know there is controversial around CCSVI– some would say I've been one to fan said controversy. I don't, however, think there should be ambiguity about making sure that people don't DIE!
MS medical professionals, some of whom have seen adverse aftereffects, may use this case to push the debate one way or another. Some day, I may as well. Not today.
Today, I am sad that another person living with MS has fallen through the medical cracks and I am sad that he will not be the last.
Wishing you and your family the best of health.


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A search on Meta has returned a post yesterday saying the blog was down completly but today its up, it just looks weird to me.
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When "Shoah" was released, in 1985, it was instantly historic. The nine-and-a-half-hour film about the German death camps in Poland is composed mainly of interviews with Jews who survived them, Germans who helped run them, and Poles who lived alongside them. As most of its first critics noted with surprise, the film contains no archival footage. With its long takes of extraordinarily detailed yet emotionally shattering testimony, "Shoah" turns the bearing of witness into its subject. It was immediately received as a cinematic object as incommensurable as its director intended to show the Holocaust itself to be.
François Mitterrand, then the President of France, attended the première screening, after which the Polish government asked France to ban the film. Mikhail Gorbachev ordered a few public screenings in the Soviet Union, in 1989; Václav Havel saw "Shoah" in a Czechoslovak prison; the film's ongoing travels around the world remain newsworthy, as when, in January, it was shown on state television for the first time in Turkey. For many, especially in Europe, its title (Hebrew for "catastrophe") has superseded the term "Holocaust."
Its maker, Claude Lanzmann, seemed to come from nowhere, even as he imposed his vision everywhere. At the première, the editor Jean Daniel told him, "That justifies a life." "Shoah" was only Lanzmann's second film. He was fifty-nine when it came out; nothing he did before it, and nothing he has done since, rivals it in significance. The amazing backstory finally emerges in his autobiography, "The Patagonian Hare" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), which was published in France in 2009 and now appears in English, in a translation by Frank Wynne. Here Lanzmann sets forth the peculiar yet exemplary fund of life experience that made the film possible. He tells vivid tales of his formative years, and of the wild dozen of them that went into the making of "Shoah." The memoir reveals that Lanzmann's masterpiece is both a reflection of the filmmaker's distinctive character and a product of its place and time. A late flowering of his intellectual and cultural milieu—existentialism and the French New Wave—it is among the most distinguished works of art to come out of the late twentieth century.
Lanzmann, who was born in Paris in 1925, was the child of assimilated French Jews, and learned at a young age that assimilation was also a matter of prudence: "Hiding behind a pillar in the school playground I watched—petrified, making no attempt to intervene, terrified that I might be discovered—as my classmates all but lynched a lanky, red-haired Jew named Lévy who had all the features of pre-war anti-Semitic caricatures. They were twenty against one and they beat him until he bled."
His mother had left the family home in 1934; Claude and his two siblings, who were younger, moved with their father to his small farm in rural Brioude. When the war broke out, Lanzmann père took precautions—he dug an underground shelter and timed his children as they practiced their escape to it from their beds.
Claude quickly revealed himself to be an intrepid risk-taker, joining the Resistance while in high school, under the aegis of the Communist Party. (He was, at the time, unaware that his father was the head of the local Free French Resistance forces.) The harrowing years of war at home seem to have had the same galvanizing effect on Lanzmann that service in the Pacific theatre had on Norman Mailer: the quest for action became a lifelong ideal. Lanzmann's intellectual hero in his project was Jean-Paul Sartre, whose name appears more often than any other in "The Patagonian Hare," and who provided Lanzmann with the cerebral adventure to go with the physical kind.
With France liberated in late 1944, Lanzmann moved to Paris, where he attended the prestigious Lycée Louis-le-Grand. Enthralled with Sartre's "Being and Nothingness," and with his novels "The Age of Reason" and "The Reprieve," Lanzmann embarked on what he called his "year of ever more insane challenges," which included the impersonation of a priest in order to pocket donations and the theft of philosophy books from the university's bookstore. It also involved audacious seductions, but there he had help at home—his mother's lover, the Serbian Jewish poet Monny de Boully, procured for him a mistress, an unhappily married businesswoman, and joined with Lanzmann's father to buy him a luxurious initiation into one of the grand brothels of Paris.
Lanzmann read Sartre's "Anti-Semite and Jew" when it was published, in 1946, and was electrified by its arguments. In Sartre's analysis, anti-Semitism emerged as a seductively self-sparing form of "sadism"; he called the anti-Semite a "coward" and a "malcontent who dares not revolt from fear of the consequences of his rebellion," and he faulted the "inauthentic Jew," with his "perpetual oscillation between pride and a sense of inferiority," for internalizing the anti-Semite's hatred. Lanzmann writes, "With every line I felt alive again or, to be more precise, I felt I had been given permission to live. . . . Sartre, the greatest French writer, understood us as no one else had ever done."
In 1948, Lanzmann, armed with a degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne (he specialized in Leibniz), went to Berlin to teach philosophy and literature to German students. He granted his students' request to hold a seminar on anti-Semitism (centered on Sartre's book), but the French military commander in Berlin ordered him to desist, on the ground of political sensitivities. Lanzmann, who had come to believe that denazification was "a joke," angered French officials with an article that he published in an East Berlin newspaper about the university administration's Nazi sympathies.
A Marxist who didn't join the Communist Party, Lanzmann decided to "secretly infiltrate" East Germany, where he slept "in public squares, under bushes in parks," while observing the newly established country and conducting interviews a step ahead of the authorities. He published his findings in a series of articles in Le Monde, prompting Sartre to invite him to attend editorial meetings of his journal, Les Temps Modernes. Quickly becoming a familiar and enthusiastic figure in Sartre's circle, Lanzmann sensed in himself a growing attraction to one of his colleagues—the writer Simone de Beauvoir, who was Sartre's former lover and remained his inseparable companion. In the summer of 1952, Lanzmann decided to go to Israel to do research for a series of articles, but on the eve of his departure he invited Beauvoir, seventeen years his senior, to the movies:
"Which film?" she asked bluntly, clearly ill-disposed to wasting her time. "Any film," I said, my way of saying that it was not the point of my invitation. She understood.
They spent the night in her apartment, and, after they made love, Beauvoir confessed to him, "I must tell you, there have been five men in my life." Lanzmann writes that he knew he "was to be the sixth man."
During his months in Israel, he carried on an intensely romantic correspondence with Beauvoir, and, when he returned to Paris, he moved in with her. "We lived together as a married couple for seven years, from 1952 to 1959," Lanzmann writes. "I am the only man with whom Simone de Beauvoir lived a quasi-marital existence."
The relationship with Beauvoir propelled this twenty-six-year-old tyro into the highest reaches of French culture. Spending lots of time with Beauvoir also meant spending lots of time with Sartre. The fact didn't escape Lanzmann, who, in 1982, admitted to Deirdre Bair, Beauvoir's biographer, "Okay, so I was an opportunist—'on the make,' you say. But she was beautiful! My attraction to her was genuine." And he regarded the exchange as a fair one, writing, "They helped me to think; I gave them food for thought."
If Sartre thought that man was defined by his actions, Lanzmann was, in the most concrete way, a man of action. "The Patagonian Hare" is filled with Lanzmann's accounts of his adventures: he climbed up mountains and skied down them; he piloted gliders, became adept at deep-sea diving, learned to hunt; he rode in tanks and fighter jets, and reported from the front lines of battle. He also describes his sexual exploits, devoting dozens of pages to one erotic challenge that combined uninhibited lust with high-wire audacity: a thwarted love affair, during a leftist press junket to North Korea in 1958, with a Pyongyang nurse. After an unauthorized rowboat excursion, the nurse faced trial in an impromptu court of Party officials in the hotel, and Lanzmann stormed into its session to plead her cause.
His most arduous adventures, though, were intellectual in nature. During the trip to Israel, Lanzmann had received a lesson in Jewish identity, and decided that Sartre's book—in particular, its thesis that "it is the anti-Semite who creates the Jew"—was in need of revision. Back in Paris, he told Sartre so. Sartre encouraged him to write a book of his own; at the desk that Beauvoir had installed for him in her cramped studio apartment, he wrote a hundred pages, and she and Sartre praised them, but Lanzmann abandoned the task. He knew that he was serving a rare and unique apprenticeship, and knew, too, that he "needed to grow up": "I was a man slow to mature, I was not afraid of the passing of time. Something told me that my life would reach its full potential in its second half."
In the seven years that he lived with Beauvoir—they broke up in 1959 but remained close friends—Lanzmann spent one afternoon and one evening a week as an editor for the tabloid-style weekly France Dimanche. He also took on freelance assignments, including a regular monthly gig at Elle, but turned down full-time work in order to keep his "freedom." Lanzmann specialized in criminal investigations and celebrity interviews (he recently published a collection of his articles, "La Tombe du Divin Plongeur"), but most of his activity was political. He was prosecuted for signing the Manifesto of the 121, calling for French soldiers in the Algerian War to refuse orders to fight. Then, Lanzmann writes, the Premier of the newly independent Algeria, Ahmed Ben Bella, declared that he would send "100,000 troops to liberate Palestine." Lanzmann was disheartened. "For me, it was over," he recalls. "I had thought it was possible to believe both in an independent Algeria and the state of Israel. I was wrong." The first sign of his newfound devotion to Israel was a special, thousand-page edition of Les Temps Modernes on the Arab-Israeli conflict, which he spent two years editing and which happened to appear on June 5, 1967—the first day of the Six-Day War.
Meanwhile, Lanzmann was hired to do on-camera reports for a television variety show, a job that led him to the great adventure of his life, the cinema. After reporting in 1968, for a TV news show, from the Israeli Army's front lines in the Sinai Peninsula, Lanzmann concluded that the broadcast would have been better if he had supervised the editing. By chance, a wealthy patron offered him the opportunity to make a documentary about Israel. He went there for another visit; soon after arriving, he met and fell in love with Angelika Schrobsdorff, an émigrée writer from Germany, and he agreed to make the film "Pourquoi Israël" ("Israel, Why"), "consumed by a single thought: seeing Angelika again, going back to be with her as soon as possible." They married in 1974, the year after the movie was completed.
It features interviews with a wide range of Israelis—intellectuals and laborers, Europhilic German Jews and frustrated young Sephardic Jews, leftist kibbutzniks and Hasidic proselytizers and West Bank settlers. The staunchly Zionist film offers a keen perspective on Israel's social and political conflicts, but, in an era marked by the work of such documentary innovators as Frederick Wiseman, Richard Leacock, D. A. Pennebaker, Shirley Clarke, and the Maysles brothers, it hardly stands out for originality of style—and certainly didn't prepare the world for the shock of "Shoah."
Had Lanzmann done nothing more, he would be remembered chiefly, and faintly, as a sort of intellectual and political Zelig; his most enduring trace would likely have been his prominent cameo in Beauvoir's memoir "Force of Circumstance" (1963). There she describes her young lover:
To define himself, he said first of all: I'm a Jew. . . . When, at the age of thirteen, he discovered anti-Semitism, the whole world was shaken, nothing survived intact. . . .
His experience [in the Resistance] had presented an image of the Jews not as people resigned, humiliated, persecuted, but as fighters. The six million men, women and children exterminated by the Nazis belonged to a great people not predestined to martyrdom, but the victim of gratuitous barbarism. . . . Although he had many friends among them, his bitterness toward the Goyim never disappeared. "I want to kill, all the time," he told me. I could feel, buried inside him, flexing its muscles, a violence always ready to explode. Sometimes in the morning after some disturbing dream, he would wake up shouting at me: "You're all kapos!" . . .
A Jew and an eldest son, the responsibilities with which Lanzmann had been burdened from childhood on had produced a precocious maturity in him; sometimes he seemed to be carrying the weight of a whole ancestral experience on his shoulders.
Beauvoir's sketch conveyed some of the traits that made "Shoah" possible. She didn't catch the originality of his thought—perhaps because, at the time of her writing, it wasn't there to be seen. It may have been contact with the right subject at the right time that allowed it finally to emerge.
"Shoah" was not Lanzmann's idea. It was commissioned, in 1973, by Alouph Hareven, a friend of Lanzmann's in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who, having seen "Israel, Why," suggested that Lanzmann make a film about the Holocaust from "the viewpoint of the Jews," a film that is not "about the Shoah, but a film that is the Shoah." Lanzmann spent a year doing research on a subject that he thought he knew about "innately." He discovered, from reading books, watching films, and talking with survivors, that
what was most important was missing: the gas chambers, death in the gas chambers, from which no one had returned to report. The day I realized that this was what was missing, I knew that the subject of the film would be death itself, death rather than survival, a radical contradiction since in a sense it attested to the impossibility of the project I was embarking on: the dead could not speak for the dead. . . . My film would have to take up the ultimate challenge; take the place of the non-existent images of death in the gas chambers.
The story of the making of "Shoah" is as exciting as a spy novel. Lanzmann wanted to interview Jewish survivors who had been in close proximity to the dead—members of the Sonderkommandos (Special Units), who had been ordered by German officials to help unload newly arrived Jews from trains and to dispose of their bodies after the mass killings. (Rejecting the charge that these forced laborers had been willing collaborators, Lanzmann shows that they endured their mission with the intention of bearing witness for those who didn't survive.) He spent two years looking for Abraham Bomba, who was in the detachment of Jewish barbers ordered to cut the hair of men and women who were about to be gassed in Treblinka. Finding Bomba in the Bronx (it took a stakeout of his house), Lanzmann secured his coöperation but, in the subsequent two-year quest for funding to film the sequence, lost contact with him again, only to track him down in Israel.
Lanzmann's search for Germans who had held jobs in the death camps was even tougher: many of those whom he located refused to speak with him on-camera, but movie technique and sheer nerve came to the rescue. Lanzmann got hold of a paluche, or paw, a slender, stick-like video camera newly devised by the innovative designer Jean-Pierre Beauviala. Lanzmann hid it in a bag with a tiny hole for the lens, and had one of his cameramen point it at an unsuspecting interview subject. He hid a small microphone behind his tie. A van was rigged with video and radio equipment that rendered the stealthy images and sounds on a television set. "What qualms should I have had about misleading Nazis, murderers?" Lanzmann recently told Der Spiegel. "Weren't the Nazis themselves masters of deception?" He believed that his ruses served the higher good of revealing the truth—and perhaps accomplished symbolic acts of resistance after the fact. As he explained in 1985, "I'm killing them with the camera."
The most impressive application of the paluche was the surreptitious filming of Franz Suchomel, an officer at Treblinka, whose chillingly proud description of the camp ("a definitely primitive but well-functioning assembly line of death") and cheerful intoning of the official camp song ("No Jew knows that today") are among the film's most shocking revelations, and also one of its most cinematically ingenious constructions. For the most part, the rig worked superbly, and Lanzmann and his crew became adept at introducing themselves to former Nazis and snatching their stories. But, during one such interview, Lanzmann and his assistant were unmasked, attacked, and bloodied by the subject's son and three young toughs; after being hospitalized for a month, Lanzmann was charged with unauthorized use of the German airwaves. (The charges were ultimately dropped.)
In 1978, Lanzmann, dutifully, went to Poland—"only to confirm that I had not needed to come." Among the remains and the memorial settings at the camps, Lanzmann writes, he "felt nothing." Then, driving near the sites, he noticed the local residents walking nearby and had the "shattering revelation" that those who were at least fifty years old would have clear recollections of the death camps:
I saw a sign: black lettering on a yellow background that indicated, as though nothing had happened, the name of the village we were approaching: "TREBLINKA." . . . Treblinka became real, the shift from myth to reality took place in a blinding flash, the encounter between a name and a place wiped out everything I had learned, forced me to start again from scratch.
In Poland, determined to give "the geographical heart of the extermination" the "crucial place it deserved," he filmed interviews with people in the towns of Treblinka, Chelmno, and Oświęcim (the Polish name of Auschwitz). Many Polish villagers, he found, remained disturbingly unsympathetic to the fate of their Jewish neighbors. (He came to believe that anti-Semitism in Poland was one of the "essential conditions" for the Holocaust.) He also filmed the sites of the camps—the museum-like preservation of Auschwitz, the bare ground of Chelmno, the granite-shards memorial at Treblinka. His cameramen thought that he was becoming obsessed with filming these "stones," and he himself volunteers that he may have been "in the grip of a sort of madness."
The most audacious thing Lanzmann did to complete "Shoah" was, very simply, to take his time. His initial backers expected him to deliver a two-hour film in eighteen months; his response was to lie—to promise that it would be done as specified, and then to continue working as he saw fit. Lanzmann borrowed money (including from Beauvoir) to keep shooting, and then spent five years obsessively editing his three hundred and fifty hours of footage. He writes that he became the "master of time," which he considered to be not only an aspect of creative control but also one of aesthetic morality. He sensed that there was just "one right path" to follow, and he set a rule for himself: "I refused to carry on until I had found it, which could take hours or days, on one occasion I am not likely to forget it took three weeks."
He made the movie without voice-overs and without subtitles, keeping the responses of his interview subjects on the soundtrack along with his own questions (in French, German, Italian, and English) and the voices of his Polish, Yiddish, and Hebrew interpreters. The result is a symphonic mixture of voices (the talk in the film is nearly constant, and constantly transfixing), as well as a gripping array of faces and gestures. In the editing room, Lanzmann subtly transformed the interviews. He often substituted, for the speaker's face, images of the present-day sites of the camps, the "stones," and that disjunctive pairing of witnesses with places became the crucial trope of the film—which he even considered titling "Le Lieu et la Parole" ("The Place and the Word"). The events described in the witnesses' testimony seem to come to life upon contact with the sites where they occurred. In one sequence, Mordechai Podchlebnik, a survivor of Chelmno, describes the departure from a courtyard of a sealed van packed with Jews who were being killed by its exhaust fumes. Meanwhile, the camera recedes from that very courtyard, looking back—evoking, with a haunting immediacy, the point of view of the dead. By inhabiting the death-camp sites and other modern locations, his witnesses' intimate testimony seem to fill their expanses; in turn, these sites, marked by specific memories, seem to yield up their history in palpable form.
Lanzmann repudiates the use of the term "documentary" for "Shoah," claiming that the film "defies and eludes the categories of documentary or fiction." His realization of history in the present tense, which he achieved largely in the editing room, is as signal an act of cinematic modernism as the disjunctive editing that Jean-Luc Godard hazarded with his first film, "Breathless"—yet, as with Godard's film, the editing of "Shoah" was only the culmination of the unusual approach to shooting that had preceded it. Although the testimony in "Shoah" is authentic, many of its scenes are staged. To film Bomba, the retired barber who had cut hair at Treblinka, Lanzmann got him to borrow a chair in a working barbershop and pretend to cut a friend's hair while telling the story—and Lanzmann maintains that, while cutting his friend's hair, Bomba "became an actor." In Poland, Lanzmann rented a steam locomotive for a conductor to drive on the same tracks along which, four decades earlier, he had pushed freight cars filled with Jewish captives. Indeed, the opening scene of "Shoah" is a declaration of aesthetic intent: it shows Simon Srebnik, a survivor of Chelmno, in a rowboat similar to the one in which he had travelled on work detail with S.S. men, singing one of the songs with which he had serenaded his captors. The scene is obviously no spontaneous occurrence but a setup—Srebnik's imitation of his younger self, at Lanzmann's behest.
Lanzmann calls "Shoah" "a fiction of the real," and says that he was imagining himself as much into the minds and the souls of the killers as of the victims. He was aware of the moral risks he was taking, but he believed that he was both obeying "the categorical imperative of the search for and the transmission of truth" and making a work of "beauty." At the time of the film's release, Lanzmann said, "I believe very deeply that art and morality are identical. I didn't try to make a document but a real movie, and I wanted it to be beautiful," in order to "make the unbearable bearable." The result was a resounding response to Adorno's assertion that "to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric."
The final shot of the film, which shows a train advancing toward the camera, and partly disappearing behind the edge of the frame, is an unmistakable reprise of the Lumière brothers' "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat," the 1895 short film that they presented at one of the first public exhibitions of their new invention, movies. It's as if Lanzmann were inscribing "Shoah" into the history of cinema—or, rather, past it, as the first film of a reborn cinema.
With its looping, associative storytelling, Lanzmann's autobiography describes many latter-day events, including his fighter-jet flights while making the 1994 film "Tsahal" and a recent return trip to China and North Korea. But its over-all arc runs from his childhood through the release of "Shoah" and events that followed closely in its wake: the death of Beauvoir, in 1986, and his subsequent appointment as the editor-in-chief of Les Temps Modernes (a position that he still holds). "Shoah" is not, of course, the end of Lanzmann's life or career, but it is his defining act, and there's little he can do for an encore.
Lanzmann has shown no inhibition about getting involved in public debates regarding the Holocaust, including the one that arose after the French release of Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List." (He called the film "an illustrated 'Shoah,' " and maintained that, for Spielberg, "the extermination is a décor.") In "The Patagonian Hare," he dismisses the charge that "Lanzmann somehow considers that he owns the Shoah." Yet "Shoah" seems to own Lanzmann. Not only does that film indeed "justify a life"; it also continues to dominate it. Starting in 1997, he has crafted three feature-length films from its outtakes: "A Visitor from the Living," centered on an interview with Maurice Rossel, the Red Cross representative who, in July of 1944, delivered a favorable report about Theresienstadt; "Sobibor, 14 October, 1943, 4 p.m.," featuring Yehuda Lerner, who participated in the uprising of inmates against the Sobibor camp guards and succeeded in escaping; and "The Karski Report," in which the Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski describes his visit to Franklin Roosevelt in 1943. Lanzmann is currently at work on a fourth such film, about Theresienstadt.
There's much more where that came from. Two hundred and twenty hours of Lanzmann's interview footage is housed at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington, D.C.; to date, more than seventy per cent of it has been restored and can be viewed there. In January, at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the museum presented a set of outtakes. They have a devastating emotional force. But they also highlight the vast difference between raw interviews and the editorial transfiguration of them that is the hallmark of Lanzmann's art. And they make clear that his genius for his singular subject may also be his singular burden. ♦


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Google heir born? Sergey Brin spotted at maternity ward
What to expect when you're expecting a billionaire? A tipster reports seeing Google cofounder Sergey Brin running into a hospital, orange Crocs and all. Here's what that means: His wife, Anne Wojcicki, is nine months pregnant with the couple's first child — who will be born into a fortune still worth $10 billion or more, even with Google shares plummeting. The spot where Brin was sighted, El Camino Hospital, has one of the Bay Area's best childbirth practices, and is close to Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. When we last saw Wojcicki, she was on Oprah talking about 23andMe, her genetics-testing startup, with the TV host herself begging Wojcicki to give birth already. It's possible that Brin was just there to tour the hospital, a common practice before birth, but his haste suggested otherwise, our tipster claims:
I saw Sergey Brin (in all his blaze red-orange Croc glory) eating outside the Marya Cafe in the Melchor pavilion. After he was done eating he ran across the street towards the Orchard pavilion which is the maternity ward for El Camino hospital in Mountain View.
Brin and Wojcicki drew notice for the way they got married in May 2007 in the Bahamas, swimming to the sandbar. But they also got attention for the way they handled a conflict of interest; Brin lent 23andMe his own money to start up, and then Google repaid the loan and became an investor. The company's board approved the deal, but it has never lost the appearance of self-dealing. In what quirky way will they celebrate the birth not just of their first child, but the first member of the great Google dynasty? In Japan, the successor to the throne was greeted with shouts of "Banzai!" But we suspect Brin will be more low-key. Perhaps he will order up a new doodle for Google's homepage. We'll let you know as soon as we know more about this momentous occasion — the advent of the generation which will save us from the mistakes of the Google era.


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- Applicants living with their parents are classified as residents if the parents have established a bona fide residence in Louisiana. Ordinarily, a parent is considered to have established a residence in Louisiana, if he/she actually resides and is employed full time in the state. A parent who is unable to be employed or who is a housewife may be considered to have established a residence in Louisiana if there is convincing evidence that the person continuously resides in Louisiana. If only one parent qualifies as a resident of Louisiana, the student shall be classified as a resident provided that student resides with the parent who is a resident of Louisiana. An individual who resides in Louisiana and is employed full time in another state may be classified as a resident. In such cases, appropriate documentary evidence must be presented.
- Students residing with their parents and enrolling as nonresidents are classified as residents if the parents move to Louisiana and acquire residence as defined in these regulations.
- Persons may be classified as residents of Louisiana at the end of twelve consecutive months of residence if they have been employed full time in Louisiana and if during that period they have not been registered more than 'half-time' in an educational institution in any semester. Persons who are unable to be employed and who have not been registered in any educational institution for more than six semester hours or its equivalent in any semester may acquire residence in Louisiana if there is convincing evidence that they continuously resided in Louisiana for twelve consecutive months immediately preceding registration.
- A student who is married to a Louisiana resident may acquire the residence status of his or her spouse.
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- Members of the Armed Forces currently stationed in Louisiana and their dependents shall be classified as Louisiana residents. Military personnel stationed in Louisiana immediately prior to release from active duty may enroll themselves or their dependents as residents during a period not to exceed 6 months after the date of release provided that the term of active duty shall have been no less than 12 consecutive months.
- Members of the Armed Forces who were residents of Louisiana immediately prior to entering the Armed Forces retain the right for themselves or any dependents to be classified as residents as long as they are in the Armed Forces and for a two-year period after leaving the Armed Forces.
- A resident of Louisiana does not lose the right to be classified as a resident during periods of employment in a foreign country.
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- Students holding an A visa (government officials) will be immediately eligible for an exemption of the non-resident fees while holding such a visa.
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Obama's campaign is watching you
President Barack Obama wants companies like Google and Facebook to reform their privacy practices.
But that's not stopping his reelection campaign from tapping the rich data Internet companies hold on millions of potential voters.
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Obama for America has already invested millions of dollars in sophisticated Internet messaging, marketing and fundraising efforts that rely on personal data sometimes offered up voluntarily — like posts on a Facebook page— but sometimes not.
And according to a campaign official and former Obama staffer, the campaign's Chicago-based headquarters has built a centralized digital database of information about millions of potential Obama voters.
It all means Obama is finding it easier than ever to merge offline data, such as voter files and information purchased from data brokers, with online information to target people with messages that may appeal to their personal tastes. Privacy advocates say it's just the sort of digital snooping that his new privacy project is supposed to discourage.
But this is what campaigning for president looks like in 2012. Gone are the days when campaigns cataloged voters and their preferences with index cards and filing cabinets. It's even a quantum leap forward from 2008, when campaigns struggled to link individual voters across databases. And Republican presidential candidates are using some of the same high-tech tools.
There's an added twist for Obama: He's making these moves at the same moment his administration is pushing the virtues of online privacy, last month proposing a consumer bill of rights to protect it.
"All of the data used to be in different silos. You never had a central place," said Dan Siroker, a former director of analytics for Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and deputy new media director for his presidential transition team who now runs online marketing optimization firm Optimizely. "That's different this election."
Both Obama's campaign and the Democratic National Committee declined to discuss how they specifically gather or use personal information.
But an Obama campaign official stressed that the campaign and DNC, which actively works to reelect Obama, meticulously protect personal data.
"This campaign has always and will continue to be an organization that respects and takes care to protect information that people share with us," Obama for America spokeswoman Katie Hogan said. "We go to great lengths to make sure that supporters have the ability to opt out of communication and contact from the campaign."
Obama's campaign website, BarackObama.com, features a 2,600-word privacy policy that acknowledges, in addition to describing how it collects and uses information, that it shares personal information with some third parties, including "vendors, consultants and other service providers or volunteers" as well as "candidates, organizations, groups or causes that we believe have similar political viewpoints, principles or objectives."
It also states that the campaign "may also collect information about the type of mobile device you use, your device's unique ID, the type of mobile Internet browsers you use and information about the location of your device."
For some privacy advocates, the data disconnect between Obama's administration and campaign is tantamount to hypocrisy.
And it comes as lawmakers, regulators, companies and privacy advocates are arguing over the very meaning of online tracking and what kinds of personal information should at least be legal, if not easy, to gather.


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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
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Quadruple jump is the key in men's figure skating
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[March 12, 2013]
LONDON, Ontario
(AP) -- No quad, no medal.
And one might not be enough.
The four-revolution jump has been around longer than some of the top men at this week's World Figure Skating Championships, with Kurt Browning doing the first way back in 1988. But after ebbing and flowing in importance over the years, the quad is now as essential to a skater as the blades on his boots.
"It's not an option anymore if you really want to be a player," said Brian Orser, who won silver medals at the 1984 and '88 Olympics and now coaches Javier Fernandez. "The bar has been raised and everyone has to follow along."
Worlds begin Wednesday with the pairs and men's short programs. Final standings will determine how many skaters a country can send to next winter's Sochi Olympics.
It takes more than one trick to win a world title, of course. But the quad is worth so much more than any other element that, if any of the top men is doing one, everyone else will be starting from behind.
And they're doing them, all right.
Two-time defending world champion Patrick Chan was tossing quads off with more ease than some guys manage triples during Monday's practice, and the Canadian may as well have turned to the rest of the field and said "Top this," after opening his short program with a perfect quad toe loop-triple toe combination. Ross Miner could make an instructional DVD with the quadruple salchows he was doing. Javier Fernandez won the European title in January with four quads, three in the free skate.
"It's essential," Chan said after his practice. "If you look at the number of skaters at the world championships
-- and most international events -- the average is the top 10 are doing quads. It's amazing to see the development. I don't think it's ever been that abundant."
Not that guys haven't tried to push the envelope. These guys are athletes, after all, and what's more of a challenge then launching yourself into the air, rotating four times and then landing on a blade that's as thick as a No. 2 pencil? On a sheet of ice, no less.
By the late 1990s the quad had become, if not a staple of men's skating, at least a common sight. Elvis Stojko, Alexei Yagudin, Evgeni Plushenko, Stephane Lambiel, Brian Joubert
-- they all had quads, and most had more than one. American Timothy Goebel landed three
-- count 'em, three -- in his free skate on his way to the bronze medal at the Salt Lake Olympics in 2002.
But when figure skating switched to the points-based judging system, the quad lost some of its luster. Oh, the reward for doing a quad was still as big as the monster jump. But so was the penalty for botching it, and skaters quickly found they could get the same amount of points
-- or more -- with other elements that had a higher success rate. Evan Lysacek even won the gold medal in Vancouver without a quad, backloading his free skate instead with tough jump combinations, exquisite spins and difficult footwork.
(Lysacek had done quads in the past, but a foot injury had forced him to back off in the lead-up to Vancouver.)
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That prompted some champion whining from Plushenko, the gold medalist four years earlier in Turin, who was incensed that someone could win the Olympic title without a quad. Never mind that figure skating is about both athletics and art, and there was little to Plushenko's program beyond his jumps.
A few months later, international judges reduced the penalty for falls on quads, which encouraged more men to try them.
"All athletes want to go for the highest number of points," said Tom Zakrajsek, who coaches U.S. champion Max Aaron. "Now that the rules allow the risk to be rewarded, athletes will go for the greatest amount of points. And you see it with all the top skaters."
Just look at the numbers. At last year's world championships, the top three men combined to do seven quads in their short programs and free skates. At this year's European championships, the top four men in the free skate did a total of eight clean quads. At last month's Four Continents, Canada's Kevin Reynolds matched Fernandez with three quads in his free skate.
This week, every single one of the top men will have one in his short program and at least two in his free skate.
"With the way the system is now, it's a necessity," Miner said.
Aaron agreed.
"You can't make up that many points with the components," Aaron said. "I've actually looked into that; I'm a math guy and I crunch numbers. You really can't make up the numbers with the component aspect, so you have to make it up in the air. That's why two quads in the long program is key. I don't think skating will go back."
It's not all quad toes, either. Guys are branching out with quad salchows, and some are working on quad lutzes and loops.
Some are even looking at putting a fourth quad in the free skate.
"It's here to stay," Orser said. "Oh yeah."
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We all know that when it comes to writing automotive SEO content, the quality of your content is what matters most.
If it wasn't already clear, Google has made sure to hammer us over the head with update after update, enforcing increasingly rigorous standards around requiring fresh, relevant, and better quality content. But how do we go from writing trivial keyword-stuffed fluff to writing good content? More importantly, how do we go from good content to dynamite, thunderstruck, powerhouse content?
There are three keys to writing SEO content that will set your website apart from the masses:
One easy way to accomplish this is to hint at the fact that your content is so new, or so innovative, or so flamboyantly interesting that they'd be silly not to share it. Not only does this keep your audience on your page(s) longer, but it also gets more comments, decreases bounce rates and, of course, creates valuable organic backlinks. Here's an example: don't just read all these invaluable SEO content writing techniques on the Cobalt blog, go forth and spread the word and become the new SEO guru on your block!
Now that you are armed with the basic guidelines for writing killer content, don't underestimate the power of rewriting good content in a creative way that delivers to your target audience. Remember to keep reading the Cobalt.com blog for more regular updates on how to stay up to date on your dealership SEO, and if you think I missed an important SEO issue for writing content, I dare you to leave me a comment.
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Ralph, that's awesome.
I think for those that are interested in using TextBroker. Yes, it's a good resource. The trick is finding the writer or writing group (team) that works the best for your needs. Gets to know your demographic, writes in a professional tone (up to you really could be a friendly tone, but do what converts better), understands car dealerships or gets to understand (if possible) and is responsive to your needs. Yes Ralph, they use the CopyScape API in order to check the content in-site on the fly, which is reassuring and smart.
One slight negative, the usability aspect of their offering, it takes a little time to understand what's what and how to get what you need. Their tools aren't the most intuitively designed.
To Alexander Lau's comment about writers for hire type of resources... I have used TextBroker for a couple of years now and have a "Group" of experienced automotive writers that have become very adept at creating content per my specifications and requests. For a dealer, you would select and create a group of writers who specialize in your brands of vehicles and location. I have tried a lot of different ways to get original copyrighted content on a scalable basis and TextBroker is my favorite so far... Mostly because of the ongoing continuous improvement that their article commissioning and author management software provides. Plus, it is nice knowing that everything is plagiarism vetted and copyrights filed before you ever publish.
Hi Ellen,
Thanks for your response. I don't mean to sound rude, but it is what it is, performance is performance.
I was using your basic (for some of the OEM-controlled child sites) and PowerSEO for a few less locked-down child sites and portal (I'm not so sure this is a new option, however, your PowerSEO offering has been around for over a year).
A particular issue with your service, your PowerSEO "experts" didn't understand our demographic. They were trying to get us ranked in areas that made no sense and spelling areas wrong as well. I ended up ripping out all of Cobalt's content and applying my own. I'd rather be honest about it. On the flip-side, your account specialist handling all web-related matters was excellent extraordinaire.
Thanks again for your response...
Hi Alex,
We are sorry to hear about your experience at Cobalt. In the past several months, we have made vast improvements in our website platform to continuously be in compliant with Google's recommendations and keep up with industry SEO best practices. Recently, we introduced a full service SEO solution, PowerSEO that will optimize your dealer group website, instead of our basic home page offering that your former dealer group utilized. Here are just a few of very satisfied dealers:
I understand that you now work for a digital marketing consulting firm. If you were still working with the dealership group, we would welcome an opportunity to showcase our offerings and successes.
Thank you for your comment and feel free to contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Best Regards,
Ellen Jones
The premise of your post is spot on and well-written SEO content is absolutely needed. It's a given for those of us paying attention to Google's algorithmic updates / original and informative content requirements. It's difficult for dealerships, most of them don't realize the importance of well-developed, informative and original content production and the weight search engines place on it. Too many dealers fail to recognize (or don't want to spend the money; it seems to always be about saving it not investing it) the need for a dedicated resource, whether internal or 3rd party like what Cobalt offers in the SEO packages.
While working at a local, super-dealer group, I used 'The Cobalt Group' for SEO content. Take no offense, some of it worked very nicely, however, most of it failed to convert. Mind you,our content was intricately measured through a keyword conversion performance analysis process, assumptions weren't in play (most dealers probably have a tendency to assume their content is converting, when generally speaking, it doesn't). Let me be polite about it and say it probably wasn't the best search engine friendly content (*this was post Panda and Penguin). There clearly was a lack of understanding of our demographic, which seemed to be the biggest issue. For our child sites, a lot of the content went against OEM compliance. The OEM inspectors just didn't notice it (probably more concerned with home page imagery compliance), but I suppose it could have been a violation and it could have affected our co-op money. We tend to preach accountability and reputation management in the dealer community (reviews are everything), but my complaints to Cobalt tended to fall on deaf ears.
If you're looking for reliable and affordable 3rd party content production resources check out TextBroker and iWriter, whom act as content brokers and contract with 3rd party seasoned writers. They act as crowd-sourced or user-generated content production mechanisms, that allow you to pluck the writers of your choice. Look for a writer that has automotive retail content production experience, they are out there. For those with a larger budget check SkyWord (fantastic process and well worth the money), they have an even granular process for search engine friendly content generation. If you're keen on developing content yourself, doing it through a blog such as WordPress, you'll love the Scribe plug-in, which researches and optimizes content for search engine friendly article production.
I believe I have aquired an internet position at the store I currently work at and am unaware of how to use SEO information and put it work for us. Is there someone specific who may be able to enlighten me on what to look for and how to update?
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Deputy wrestles alligator outside Clermont Middle School
Jessica McGregor says she grew up around gators
A Lake County deputy spotted a 7-foot long, scaly intruder near the perimeter of Clermont Middle School on Thursday and wrestled it before it could come into contact with the students.
Jessica McGregor, who is the school resource officer, was caught on video tangling with the alligator.
She was alerted of the reptile's presence by parents who called and complained.
She went outside, tied the alligator up with a rope and then taped its mouth, rendering it harmless.
"If one of (the students) had walked up in those bushes, they wouldn't have seen him," she said. "He could've grabbed one."
McGregor said she wasn't scared and it wasn't the first time she's done it.
She said she grew up in Lake County and she and her brother used to play with alligators all the time.
A trapper was called and took the gator away.
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Self, what is a stem cell and why does it matter to me and my MS? Well, tomorrow night is an excellent opportunity to answer that question and chime in on very important research.
Tomorrow night, the HealthTalk MS webcast is called, "Stem Cells and MS," we are going to have a panel discussion with two very prominent researchers in the field of stem cell research.
This topic has been a hot button with this community (and some whom I think just found us looking for a fight) since we started some 17 months back.
It will be an interesting webcast for me in more ways than one.
As many of you know, I am currently in Dallas, Texas. I'm here to attend and present at the National MS Society's national conference. I'll be hosting the webcast from a phone in my hotel room; that should be interesting seeing as how my computer skills aren't always the greatest.
I encourage all of you to tune in and get some education on stem cells and ask your questions of some serious experts. I hope my cyber skills are up to par for hosting a webcast remotely, if something goes wrong don't say I didn't warn ya!
Wishing you and your family the best of health.


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Curious goings on in Papua New GuineaTuesday, October 31, 2006
The spat involves a counterreaction to a reaction by the Oz authorities over "the escape of the Australian fugitive and Solomon Islands attorney-general designate Julian Moti on a PNG military aircraft". How very unlike the conduct of our own AG, Lord Goldsmith. Although maybe the airports, Brize Norton etc should be on the lookout for a bespectacled, but otherwise non-descript, lawyer in his late fifties.
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Yikes! Hank Baskett Is Pushing Kendra Wilkinson For Another Baby Already!
Woah, Kendra Wilkinson's son, Hank Jr.,is just 9 months old, but her husband is ready for another child, like, yesterday!
New dad Hank Baskett must really love fatherhood, because if he had his way, his wife, Kendra Wilkinson, would already be expecting their second child. "Hank the other day just freaking called me and was like 'I want another baby,'" Kendra, who gave birth to their first child, Hank Jr. nine months ago, told E! News. "I want you pregnant.'" Holy baby fever! Kendra wasn't exactly on the same page. ""I was like, 'Oh my God!'" she says, "I was like, 'Get Eddie — who is my assistant — on the phone right now with my OB/GYN. I need an IUD put in now!'" Sounds like a drastic move!
But Kendra is open to having another baby, just not right now. "I definitely want to try by next summer for sure," she says. "I want them close in age."
It's not like she really has time to have another baby this year, anyway. The former Girl Next Door star has been juggling chasing after Hank Jr. (who has just "started crawling"), along with a superbusy career (that includes her TV show, Kendra; book, Sliding Into Home; and workout DVD, Be A Knockout With Kendra) and she's just moved to Philadelphia, where Hank Sr., 27, plays football for the Eagles.
Sounds like you have your work cut out for you, Kendra! But you and Hank do make very cute babies!


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MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1.9 is a new release of MySQL Cluster,
incorporating new features in the
NDB storage engine and fixing
recently discovered bugs in MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1.8 and previous
MySQL Cluster releases.
A critical upgrade issue was discovered in MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1.9 shortly after release, causing it to be withdrawn and replaced with MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1.9a, which contains a fix for this issue. MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1.9a is otherwise identical to MySQL Cluster 7.1.9.
See Section 2.30, "Changes in MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1.9a (5.1.51-ndb-7.1.9a) (2010-11-18)", for more information.
Obtaining MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1. The latest MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1 binaries for supported platforms can be obtained from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/. Source code for the latest MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1 release can be obtained from the same location. You can also access the MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1 development source tree at https://code.launchpad.net/~mysql/mysql-server/mysql-cluster-7.1.
This release also incorporates all bugfixes and changes made in previous MySQL Cluster releases, as well as all bugfixes and feature changes which were added in mainline MySQL 5.1 through MySQL 5.1.51 (see Changes in MySQL 5.1.51 (2010-09-10)).
Functionality Added or Changed
Important Change; InnoDB:
Building the MySQL Server with the
InnoDB plugin is now supported when
building MySQL Cluster. For more information, see
MySQL Cluster Installation and Upgrades.
(Bug #54912)
References: See also: Bug #58283.
Important Change:
ndbd now bypasses use of Non-Uniform Memory
Access support on Linux hosts by default. If your system
supports NUMA, you can enable it and override
ndbd use of interleaving by setting the
Numa data node
configuration parameter which is added in this release. See
Data Nodes: Realtime Performance Parameters, for more
(Bug #57807)
Important Change:
Id configuration parameter used with
MySQL Cluster management, data, and API nodes (including SQL
nodes) is now deprecated, and the
parameter (long available as a synonym for
when configuring these types of nodes) should be used instead.
Id continues to be supported for reasons of
backward compatibility, but now generates a warning when used
with these types of nodes, and is subject to removal in a future
release of MySQL Cluster.
This change affects the name of the configuration parameter
only, establishing a clear preference for
NodeId over
Id in the
[mysql], and
sections of the MySQL Cluster global configuration
config.ini) file. The behavior of unique
identifiers for management, data, and SQL and API nodes in MySQL
Cluster has not otherwise been altered.
Id parameter as used in the
[computer] section of the MySQL Cluster
global configuration file is not affected by this change.
A new
diskpagebuffer table,
providing statistics on disk page buffer usage by Disk Data
tables, is added to the
ndbinfo information database.
These statistics can be used to monitor performance of reads and
writes on Disk Data tables, and to assist in the tuning of
related parameters such as
MySQL Cluster RPM distributions did not include a
shared-compat RPM for the MySQL Server, which
meant that MySQL applications depending on
libmysqlclient.so.15 (MySQL 5.0 and
earlier) no longer worked.
(Bug #38596)
On Windows, the angel process which monitors and (when necessary) restarts the data node process failed to spawn a new worker in some circumstances where the arguments vector contained extra items placed at its beginning. This could occur when the path to ndbd.exe or ndbmtd.exe contained one or more spaces. (Bug #57949)
The disconnection of an API or management node due to missed heartbeats led to a race condition which could cause data nodes to crash. (Bug #57946)
The method for calculating table schema versions used by schema
transactions did not follow the established rules for recording
schemas used in the
P0.SchemaLog file.
(Bug #57897)
References: See also: Bug #57896.
LQHKEYREQ request message used by the
local query handler when checking the major schema version of a
table, being only 16 bits wide, could cause this check to fail
with an Invalid schema version error
NDB error code 1227). This issue
occurred after creating and dropping (and re-creating) the same
table 65537 times, then trying to insert rows into the table.
(Bug #57896)
References: See also: Bug #57897.
Data nodes compiled with gcc 4.5 or higher crashed during startup. (Bug #57761)
Transient errors during a local checkpoint were not retried, leading to a crash of the data node. Now when such errors occur, they are retried up to 10 times if necessary. (Bug #57650)
ndb_restore now retries failed transactions when replaying log entries, just as it does when restoring data. (Bug #57618)
SUMA kernel block has a 10-element ring
buffer for storing out-of-order
SUB_GCP_COMPLETE_REP signals received from
the local query handlers when global checkpoints are completed.
In some cases, exceeding the ring buffer capacity on all nodes
of a node group at the same time caused the node group to fail
with an assertion.
(Bug #57563)
During a GCP takeover, it was possible for one of the data nodes
not to receive a
SUB_GCP_COMPLETE_REP signal,
with the result that it would report itself as
GCP_COMMITTING while the other data nodes
(Bug #57522)
Specifying a
WHERE clause
of the form
when selecting from
range1 OR
NDB table having a primary key
on multiple columns could result in Error 4259
Invalid set of range scan bounds if
range2 started exactly where
range1 ended and the primary key
definition declared the columns in a different order relative to
the order in the table's column list. (Such a query should
simply return all rows in the table, since any expression
is always true.)
value <
constant OR
value >=
t is an
NDB table defined by the
CREATE TABLE t (a, b, PRIMARY KEY (b, a)) ENGINE NDB;
This issue could then be triggered by a query such as this one:
SELECT * FROM t WHERE b < 8 OR b >= 8;
In addition, the order of the ranges in the
WHERE clause was significant; the issue was
not triggered, for example, by the query
SELECT * FROM t WHERE b
<= 8 OR b > 8.
(Bug #57396)
A number of cluster log warning messages relating to deprecated configuration parameters contained spelling, formatting, and other errors. (Bug #57381)
MAX_ROWS option for
CREATE TABLE was ignored, which
meant that it was not possible to enable multi-threaded building
of indexes.
(Bug #57360)
A GCP stop is detected using 2 parameters which determine the
maximum time that a global checkpoint or epoch can go unchanged;
one of these controls this timeout for GCPs and one controls the
timeout for epochs. Suppose the cluster is configured such that
is 100 ms but
HeartbeatIntervalDbDb is
1500 ms. A node failure can be signalled after 4 missed
heartbeats—in this case, 6000 ms. However, this would
causing false detection of a GCP. To prevent this from
happening, the configured value for
is automatically adjusted, based on the values of
The current issue arose when the automatic adjustment routine
did not correctly take into consideration the fact that, during
cascading node-failures, several intervals of length
* (HeartbeatIntervalDBDB + ArbitrationTimeout) may
elapse before all node failures have internally been resolved.
This could cause false GCP detection in the event of a cascading
node failure.
(Bug #57322)
CREATE NODEGROUP and
NODEGROUP commands could cause
mysqld processes to crash.
(Bug #57164)
Queries using
varchar_pk_column LIKE
WHERE against an
varchar_pk_column LIKE
NDB table having a
VARCHAR column as its primary key
failed to return all matching rows.
(Bug #56853)
Aborting a native
NDB backup in the
ndb_mgm client using the
BACKUP command did not work correctly when using
ndbmtd, in some cases leading to a crash of
the cluster.
(Bug #56285)
When a data node angel process failed to fork off a new worker
process (to replace one that had failed), the failure was not
handled. This meant that the angel process either transformed
itself into a worker process, or itself failed. In the first
case, the data node continued to run, but there was no longer
any angel to restart it in the event of failure, even with
StopOnError set to 0.
(Bug #53456)
Trying to use the same column more than once in the partitioning
key when partitioning a table by
KEY caused
mysqld to crash. Such duplication of key
columns is now expressly disallowed, and fails with an
appropriate error.
(Bug #53354, Bug #57924)
Disk Data: When performing online DDL on Disk Data tables, scans and moving of the relevant tuples were done in more or less random order. This fix causes these scans to be done in the order of the tuples, which should improve performance of such operations due to the more sequential ordering of the scans. (Bug #57848)
References: See also: Bug #57827.
Disk Data:
Adding unique indexes to
NDB Disk
Data tables could take an extremely long time. This was
particularly noticeable when using ndb_restore
(Bug #57827)
Cluster Replication:
OPTION_ALLOW_BATCHING bitmask had the
same value as
OPTION_PROFILING. This caused
conflicts between using
--slave-allow-batching and
(Bug #57603)
Cluster Replication:
Replication of
SET and
ENUM columns represented using
more than 1 byte (that is,
columns with more than 8 members and
ENUM columns with more than 256
constants) between platforms using different endianness failed
when using the row-based format. This was because columns of
these types are represented internally using integers, but the
internal functions used by MySQL to handle them treated them as
(Bug #52131)
References: See also: Bug #53528.
Cluster API:
An application dropping a table at the same time that another
application tried to set up a replication event on the same
table could lead to a crash of the data node. The same issue
could sometimes cause
NdbEventOperation::execute() to
(Bug #57886)
Cluster API:
An NDB API client program under load could abort with an
assertion error in
(Bug #51775)
References: See also: Bug #32708.