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|Hery Ramilison
|April 11 2011 1:41pm
|MySQL Community Server 5.6.2 has been released (part 2 - bug fixes)
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Dear MySQL users, This is the list of bug fixes. For the functional enhancements, see part 1 of this mail: Bugs fixed: * Performance: InnoDB Storage Engine: An UPDATE statement for an InnoDB table could be slower than necessary if it changed a column covered by a prefix index, but did not change the prefix portion of the value. The fix improves performance for InnoDB 1.1 in MySQL 5.5 and higher, and the InnoDB Plugin for MySQL 5.1. (Bug #58912, Bug #11765900) * Incompatible Change: When auto_increment_increment is greater than one, values generated by a bulk insert that reaches the maximum column value could wrap around rather producing an overflow error. As a consequence of the fix, it is no longer possible for an auto-generated value to be equal to the maximum BIGINT UNSIGNED value. It is still possible to store that value manually, if the column can accept it. (Bug #39828, Bug #11749800) * Important Change: Partitioning: Date and time functions used as partitioning functions now have the types of their operands checked; use of a value of the wrong type is now disallowed in such cases. In addition, EXTRACT(WEEK FROM col), where col is a DATE or DATETIME column, is now disallowed altogether because its return value depends on the value of the default_week_format system variable. (Bug #54483, Bug #11761948) See also Bug #57071, Bug #11764255. * Important Change: Replication: The CHANGE MASTER TO statement required the value for RELAY_LOG_FILE to be an absolute path, while the MASTER_LOG_FILE path could be relative. The inconsistent behavior is resolved by permitting relative paths for RELAY_LOG_FILE, and by using the same basename for RELAY_LOG_FILE as for MASTER_LOG_FILE. For more information, see Section 18.104.22.168, "CHANGE MASTER TO Syntax." (Bug #12190, Bug #11745232) * Partitioning: InnoDB Storage Engine: The partitioning handler did not pass locking information to a table's storage engine handler. This caused high contention and thus slower performance when working with partitioned InnoDB tables. (Bug #59013) * InnoDB Storage Engine: The presence of a double quotation mark inside the COMMENT field for a column could prevent a foreign key constraint from being created properly. (Bug #59197, Bug #11766154) * InnoDB Storage Engine: It was not possible to query the information_schema.innodb_trx table while other connections were running queries involving BLOB types. (Bug #55397, Bug #11762763) * Partitioning: Failed ALTER TABLE ... PARTITION statements could cause memory leaks. (Bug #56380, Bug #11763641) See also Bug #46949, Bug #11755209, Bug #56996, Bug #11764187. * Replication: When using the statement-based logging format, INSERT ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE and INSERT IGNORE statements affecting transactional tables that did not fail were not written to the binary log if they did not insert any rows. (With statement-based logging, all successful statements should be logged, whether they do or do not cause any rows to be changed.) (Bug #59338, Bug #11766266) * Replication: Formerly, STOP SLAVE stopped the slave I/O thread first and then stopped the slave SQL thread; thus, it was possible for the I/O thread to stop after replicating only part of a transaction which the SQL thread was executing, in which case---if the transaction could not be rolled back safely---the SQL thread could hang. Now, STOP SLAVE stops the slave SQL thread first and then stops the I/O thread; this guarantees that the I/O thread can fetch any remaining events in the transaction that the SQL thread is executing, so that the SQL thread can finish the transaction if it cannot be rolled back safely. (Bug #58546, Bug #11765563) * Replication: mysqlbinlog printed USE statements to its output only when the default database changed between events. To illustrate how this could cause problems, suppose that a user issued the following sequence of statements: CREATE DATABASE mydb; USE mydb; CREATE TABLE mytable (column_definitions); DROP DATABASE mydb; CREATE DATABASE mydb; USE mydb; CREATE TABLE mytable (column_definitions); When played back using mysqlbinlog, the second CREATE TABLE statement failed with Error: No Database Selected because the second USE statement was not played back, due to the fact that a database other than mydb was never selected. This fix insures that mysqlbinlog outputs a USE statement whenever it reads one from the binary log. (Bug #50914, Bug #11758677) * Replication: The --help text for mysqlbinlog now indicates that the --verbose (-v) option outputs pseudo-SQL that is not necessarily valid SQL and cannot be guaranteed to work verbatim in MySQL clients. (Bug #47557, Bug #11755743) * An assertion was raised if an XA COMMIT was issued when an XA transaction had already encountered an error (such as a deadlock) that required the transaction to be rolled back. (Bug #59986, Bug #11766788) * On some systems, debug builds of comp_err.c could fail due to an uninitialized variable. (Bug #59906, Bug #11766729) * Attempting to create a spatial index on a CHAR column longer than 31 bytes led to an assertion failure if the server was compiled with safemutex support. (Bug #59888, Bug #11766714) * Aggregation followed by a subquery could produce an incorrect result. (Bug #59839, Bug #11766675) * The Performance Schema did not update status handler status variables, so SHOW STATUS LIKE '%handler%' produced undercounted values. (Bug #59799, Bug #11766645) * Internally, XOR items partially behaved like functions and partially as conditions. This resulted in inconsistent handling and crashes. The issue is fixed by consistently treating XOR items as functions. (Bug #59793, Bug #11766642) * An incorrect character set pointer passed to my_strtoll10_mb2() caused an assertion to be raised. (Bug #59648, Bug #11766519) * DES_DECRYPT() could crash if the argument was not produced by DES_ENCRYPT(). (Bug #59632, Bug #11766505) * The server and client did not always properly negotiate authentication plugin names. (Bug #59453, Bug #11766356) * --autocommit=ON did not work (it set the global autocommit value to 0, not 1). (Bug #59432, Bug #11766339) * mysqldump did not quote database names in ALTER DATABASE statements in its output, which could cause an error at reload time for database names containing a dash. (Bug #59398, Bug #11766310) * If filesort fell back to an ordinary sort/merge, it could fail to handle memory correctly. (Bug #59331, Bug #11766260) * Comparisons of aggregate values with TIMESTAMP values were incorrect. (Bug #59330, Bug #11766259) * The "greedy" query plan optimizer failed to consider the size of intermediate query results when calculating the cost of a query. This could result in slowly executing queries when there are much faster execution plans available. (Bug #59326, Bug #11766256) * A query of the following form returned an incorrect result, where the values for col_name in the result set were entirely replaced with NULL values: SELECT DISTINCT col_name ... ORDER BY col_name DESC; (Bug #59308, Bug #11766241) * The MYSQL_HOME environment variable was being ignored. (Bug #59280, Bug #11766219) * SHOW PRIVILEGES did not display a row for the PROXY privilege. (Bug #59275, Bug #11766216) * SHOW PROFILE could truncate source file names or fail to show function names. (Bug #59273, Bug #11766214) * For DIV expressions, assignment of the result to multiple variables could cause a server crash. (Bug #59241, Bug #11766191) See also Bug #8457, Bug #11745058. * MIN(year_col) could return an incorrect result in some cases. (Bug #59211, Bug #11766165) * With index condition pushdown enabled, a join could produce an extra row due to parts of the select condition for the second table in the join not being evaluated. (Bug #59186, Bug #11766144) * DELETE or UPDATE statements could fail if they used DATE or DATETIME values with a year, month, or day part of zero. (Bug #59173) * The ESCAPE clause for the LIKE operator allows only expressions that evaluate to a constant at execution time, but aggregate functions were not being rejected. (Bug #59149, Bug #11766110) * Valgrind warnings about uninitialized variables were corrected. (Bug #59145, Bug #11766106) * Memory leaks detected by Valgrind, some of which could cause incorrect query results, were corrected. (Bug #59110, Bug #11766075) * mysqlslap failed to check for a NULL return from mysql_store_result() and crashed trying to process the result set. (Bug #59109, Bug #11766074) * There was an erroneous restriction on file attributes for LOAD DATA INFILE. (Bug #59085, Bug #11766052) * SHOW CREATE TRIGGER failed if there was a temporary table with the same name as the trigger subject table. (Bug #58996, Bug #11765972) * The DEFAULT_CHARSET and DEFAULT_COLLATION CMake options did not work. (Bug #58991, Bug #11765967) * In a subquery, a UNION with no referenced tables (or only a reference to the virtual table dual) did not allow an ORDER BY clause. (Bug #58970, Bug #11765950) * OPTIMIZE TABLE for an InnoDB table could raise an assertion if the operation failed because it had been killed. (Bug #58933, Bug #11765920) * If max_allowed_packet was set larger than 16MB, the server failed to reject too-large packets with "Packet too large" errors. (Bug #58887, Bug #11765878) * With index condition pushdown enabled, incorrect results were returned for queries on MyISAM tables involving HAVING and LIMIT, when the column in the WHERE condition contained NULL. (Bug #58838, Bug #11765835) * An uninitialized variable for the index condition pushdown access method could result in a server crash or Valgrind warnings. (Bug #58837, Bug #11765834) * A NOT IN predicate with a subquery containing a HAVING clause could retrieve too many rows, when the subquery itself returned NULL. (Bug #58818, Bug #11765815) * Running a query against an InnoDB table twice, first with index condition pushdown enabled and then with it disabled, could produce different results. (Bug #58816, Bug #11765813) * An assertion was raised if a stored routine had a DELETE IGNORE statement that failed but due to the IGNORE had not reported any error. (Bug #58709, Bug #11765717) * WHERE conditions of the following forms were evaluated incorrectly and could return incorrect results: WHERE null-valued-const-expression NOT IN (subquery) WHERE null-valued-const-expression IN (subquery) IS UNKNOWN (Bug #58628, Bug #11765642) * Issuing EXPLAIN EXTENDED for a query that would use condition pushdown could cause mysqld to crash. (Bug #58553, Bug #11765570) * An OUTER JOIN query using WHERE column IS NULL could return an incorrect result. (Bug #58490, Bug #11765513) * Starting the server with the --defaults-file=file_name option, where the file name had no extension, caused a server crash. (Bug #58455, Bug #11765482) * Outer joins with an empty table could produce incorrect results. (Bug #58422, Bug #11765451) * In debug builds, SUBSTRING_INDEX(FORMAT(...), FORMAT(...)) could cause a server crash. (Bug #58371, Bug #11765406) * When mysqladmin was run with the --sleep and --count options, it went into an infinite loop executing the specified command. (Bug #58221, Bug #11765270) * Some string manipulating SQL functions use a shared string object intended to contain an immutable empty string. This object was used by the SQL function SUBSTRING_INDEX() to return an empty string when one argument was of the wrong datatype. If the string object was then modified by the SQL function INSERT(), undefined behavior ensued. (Bug #58165, Bug #11765225) * Condition pushdown optimization could push down conditions with incorrect column references. (Bug #58134, Bug #11765196) * injector::transaction did not have support for rollback. (Bug #58082, Bug #11765150) * Parsing nested regular expressions could lead to recursion resulting in a stack overflow crash. (Bug #58026, Bug #11765099) * The fix for Bug#25192 caused load_defaults() to add an argument separator to distinguish options loaded from configure files from those provided on the command line, whether or not the application needed it. (Bug #57953, Bug #11765041) See also Bug #11746296. * The mysql client went into an infinite loop if the standard input was a directory. (Bug #57450, Bug #11764598) * If a multiple-table update updated a row through two aliases and the first update physically moved the row, the second update failed to locate the row. This resulted in different errors depending on storage engine, although these errors did not accurately describe the problem: + MyISAM: Got error 134 from storage engine + InnoDB: Can't find record in 'tbl' For MyISAM, which is nontransactional, the update executed first was performed but the second was not. In addition, for two equal multiple-table update statements, one could succeed and the other fail depending on whether the record actually moved, which is inconsistent. Now such an update returns an error if it will update a table through multiple aliases, and perform an update that may physically more the row in at least one of these aliases. (Bug #57373, Bug #11764529, Bug #55385, Bug #11762751) * SHOW WARNINGS output following EXPLAIN EXTENDED could include unprintable characters. (Bug #57341, Bug #11764503) * Outer joins on a unique key could return incorrect results. (Bug #57034, Bug #11764219) * For a query that used a subquery that included GROUP BY inside a < ANY() construct, no rows were returned when there should have been. (Bug #56690, Bug #11763918) * Some RPM installation scripts used a hardcoded value for the data directory, which could result in a failed installation for users who have a nonstandard data directory location. The same was true for other configuration values such as the PID file name. (Bug #56581, Bug #11763817) * On FreeBSD and OpenBSD, the server incorrectly checked the range of the system date, causing legal values to be rejected. (Bug #55755, Bug #11763089) * If one connection locked the mysql.func table using either FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK or LOCK TABLE mysql.func WRITE and a second connection tried to either create or drop a UDF function, a deadlock occurred when the first connection tried to use a UDF function. (Bug #53322, Bug #11760878) * DISTINCT aggregates on DECIMAL UNSIGNED fields could trigger an assertion. (Bug #52171, Bug #11759827) * On FreeBSD, if mysqld was killed with a SIGHUP signal, it could corrupt InnoDB .ibd files. (Bug #51023, Bug #11758773) * An assertion could be raised if -1 was inserted into an AUTO_INCREMENT column by a statement writing more than one row. (Bug #50619, Bug #11758417) * A query that contained an aggregate function but no GROUP BY clause was implicitly grouped. But implicitly grouped queries return zero or one row, so ordering does not make sense. (Bug #47853) * The parser failed to initialize some internal objects properly, which could cause a server crash in the cleanup phase after statement execution. (Bug #47511, Bug #11755703) * When CASE ... WHEN arguments had different character sets, 8-bit values could be referenced as utf16 or utf32 values, causing an assertion to be raised. (Bug #44793, Bug #11753363) * When using ExtractValue() or UpdateXML(), if the XML to be read contained an incomplete XML comment, MySQL read beyond the end of the XML string when processing, leading to a crash of the server. (Bug #44332, Bug #11752979) * Bitmap functions used in one thread could change bitmaps used by other threads, causing an assertion to be raised. (Bug #43152, Bug #11752069) * DATE_ADD() and DATE_SUB() return a string if the first argument is a string, but incorrectly returned a binary string. Now they return a character string with a collation of connection_collation. (Bug #31384, Bug #11747221) * Incompatible Change: Replication: The behavior of INSERT DELAYED statements when using statement-based replication has changed as follows: Previously, when using binlog_format=STATEMENT, a warning was issued in the client when executing INSERT DELAYED; now, no warning is issued in such cases. Previously, when using binlog_format=STATEMENT, INSERT DELAYED was logged as INSERT DELAYED; now, it is logged as an INSERT, without the DELAYED option. However, when binlog_format=STATEMENT, INSERT DELAYED continues to be executed as INSERT (without the DELAYED option). The behavior of INSERT DELAYED remains unchanged when using binlog_format=ROW: INSERT DELAYED generates no warnings, is executed as INSERT DELAYED, and is logged using the row-based format. This change also affects binlog_format=MIXED, because INSERT DELAYED is no longer considered unsafe. Now, when the logging format is MIXED, no switch to row-based logging occurs. This means that the statement is logged as a simple INSERT (that is, without the DELAYED option), using the statement-based logging format. (Bug #54579, Bug #11762035) See also Bug #56678, Bug #11763907, Bug #57666. This regression was introduced by Bug #39934, Bug #11749859. * Incompatible Change: Replication: When determining whether to replicate a CREATE DATABASE, DROP DATABASE, or ALTER DATABASE statement, database-level options now take precedence over any --replicate-wild-do-table options. In other words, when trying to replicate one of these statements, --replicate-wild-do-table options are now checked if and only if there are no database-level options that apply to the statement. (Bug #46110, Bug #11754498) * Incompatible Change: Starvation of FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK statements occurred when there was a constant load of concurrent DML statements in two or more connections. Deadlock occurred when a connection that had some table open through a HANDLER statement tried to update data through a DML statement while another connection tried to execute FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK concurrently. These problems resulted from the global read lock implementation, which was reimplemented with the following consequences: + To solve deadlock in event-handling code that was exposed by this patch, the LOCK_event_metadata mutex was replaced with metadata locks on events. As a result, DDL operations on events are now prohibited under LOCK TABLES. This is an incompatible change. + The global read lock (FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK) no longer blocks DML and DDL on temporary tables. Before this patch, server behavior was not consistent in this respect: In some cases, DML/DDL statements on temporary tables were blocked; in others, they were not. Since the main use cases for FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK are various forms of backups and temporary tables are not preserved during backups, the server now consistently allows DML/DDL on temporary tables under the global read lock. + The set of thread states has changed: o Waiting for global metadata lock is replaced by Waiting for global read lock. o Previously, Waiting for release of readlock was used to indicate that DML/DDL statements were waiting for release of a read lock and Waiting to get readlock was used to indicate that FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK was waiting to acquire a global read lock. Now Waiting for global read lock is used for both cases. o Previously, Waiting for release of readlock was used for all statements that caused an explicit or implicit commit to indicate that they were waiting for release of a read lock and Waiting for all running commits to finish was used by FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK. Now Waiting for commit lock is used for both cases. o There are two other new states, Waiting for trigger metadata lock and Waiting for event metadata lock. (Bug #57006, Bug #11764195, Bug #54673, Bug #11762116) * Incompatible Change: CREATE TABLE statements (including CREATE TABLE ... LIKE) are now prohibited whenever a LOCK TABLES statement is in effect. (Bug #42546, Bug #11751609) * InnoDB Storage Engine: Replication: If the master had innodb_file_per_table=OFF, innodb_file_format=Antelope (and innodb_strict_mode=OFF), or both, certain CREATE TABLE options, such as KEY_BLOCK_SIZE, were ignored. This could allow master to avoid raising ER_TOO_BIG_ROWSIZE errors. However, the ignored CREATE TABLE options were still written into the binary log, so that, if the slave had innodb_file_per_table=ON and innodb_file_format=Barracuda, it could encounter an ER_TOO_BIG_ROWSIZE error while executing the record from the log, causing the slave SQL thread to abort and replication to fail. In the case where the master was running MySQL 5.1 and the slave was MySQL 5.5 (or later), the failure occurred when both master and slave were running with default values for innodb_file_per_table and innodb_file_format. This could cause problems during upgrades. To address this issue, the default values for innodb_file_per_table and innodb_file_format are reverted to the MySQL 5.1 default values---that is, OFF and Antelope, respectively. (Bug #56318, Bug #11763590) * InnoDB Storage Engine: With binary logging enabled, InnoDB could halt during crash recovery with a message referring to a transaction ID of 0. (Bug #54901, Bug #11762323) * Replication: Due to changes made in MySQL 5.5.3, settings made in the binlog_cache_size and max_binlog_cache_size server system variables affected both the binary log statement cache (also introduced in that version) and the binary log transactional cache (formerly known simply as the binary log cache). This meant that the resources used as a result of setting either or both of these variables were double the amount expected. To rectify this problem, these variables now affect only the transactional cache. The fix for this issue also introduces two new system variables binlog_stmt_cache_size and max_binlog_stmt_cache_size, which affect only the binary log statement cache. In addition, the Binlog_cache_use status variable was incremented whenever either cache was used, and Binlog_cache_disk_use was incremented whenever the disk space from either cache was used, which caused problems with performance tuning of the statement and transactional caches, because it was not possible to determine which of these was being exceeded when attempting to troubleshoot excessive disk seeks and related problems. This issue is solved by changing the behavior of these two status variables such that they are incremented only in response to usage of the binary log transactional cache, as well as by introducing two new status variables Binlog_stmt_cache_use and Binlog_stmt_cache_disk_use, which are incremented only by usage of the binary log statement cache. For more information, see Section 126.96.36.199, "System variables used with the binary log," and Section 5.1.6, "Server Status Variables." (Bug #57275, Bug #11764443) * Replication: The Binlog_cache_use and Binlog_cache_disk_use status variables were incremented twice by a change to a table using a transactional storage engine. (Bug #56343, Bug #11763611) * Replication: When STOP SLAVE is issued, the slave SQL thread rolls back the current transaction and stops immediately if the transaction updates only tables which use transactional storage engines are updated. Previously, this occurred even when the transaction contained CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE statements, DROP TEMPORARY TABLE statements, or both, although these statements cannot be rolled back. Because temporary tables persist for the lifetime of a user session (in the case, the replication user), they remain until the slave is stopped or reset. When the transaction is restarted following a subsequent START SLAVE statement, the SQL thread aborts with an error that a temporary table to be created (or dropped) already exists (or does not exist, in the latter case). Following this fix, if an ongoing transaction contains CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE statements, DROP TEMPORARY TABLE statements, or both, the SQL thread now waits until the transaction ends, then stops. (Bug #56118, Bug #11763416) * Replication: When an error occurred in the generation of the name for a new binary log file, the error was logged but not shown to the user. (Bug #46166, Bug #11754544) See also Bug #37148, Bug #11748696, Bug #40611, Bug #11750196, Bug #43929, Bug# 11752675, Bug #51019, Bug #11758769. * Replication: When lower_case_table_names was set to 1 on the slave, but not on the master, names of databases in replicated statements were not converted, causing replication to fail on slaves using case-sensitive file systems. This occurred for both statement-based and row-based replication. In addition, when using row-based replication with lower_case_table_names set to 1 on the slave only, names of tables were also not converted, also causing replication failure on slaves using case-sensitive file systems. (Bug #37656) * A Valgrind failure occurred in fn_format when called from archive_discover. (Bug #58205, Bug #11765259) * Passing a string that was not null-terminated to UpdateXML() or ExtractValue() caused the server to fail with an assertion. (Bug #57279, Bug #11764447) * In bootstrap mode, the server could not execute statements longer than 10,000 characters. (Bug #55817, Bug #11763139) * NULL values were not grouped properly for some joins containing GROUP BY. (Bug #45267, Bug #11753766) * A HAVING clause could be lost if an index for ORDER BY was available, incorrectly permitting additional rows to be returned. (Bug #45227, Bug #11753730) * The optimizer could underestimate the memory required for column descriptors during join processing and cause memory corruption or a server crash. (Bug #42744, Bug #11751763) * The server returned incorrect results for WHERE ... OR ... GROUP BY queries against InnoDB tables. (Bug #37977, Bug #11749031) * An incorrectly checked XOR subquery optimization resulted in an assertion failure. (Bug #37899, Bug #11748998) * A query that could use one index to produce the desired ordering and another index for range access with index condition pushdown could cause a server crash. (Bug #37851, Bug #11748981) * With index condition pushdown enabled, InnoDB could crash due to a mismatch between what pushdown code expected to be in a record versus what was actually there. (Bug #36981, Bug #11748647) * The range optimizer ignored conditions on inner tables in semi-join IN subqueries, causing the optimizer to miss good query execution plans. (Bug #35674, Bug #11748263) * A server crash or memory overrun could occur with a dependent subquery and joins. (Bug #34799, Bug #11748009) * Selecting from a view that referenced the same table in the FROM clause and an IN clause caused a server crash. (Bug #33245) * Deeply nested subqueries could cause stack overflow or a server crash. (Bug #32680, Bug #11747503) * The server crashed on optimization of queries that compared an indexed DECIMAL column with a string value. (Bug #32262, Bug #11747426) * The server crashed on optimizations that used the range checked for each record access method. (Bug #32229, Bug #11747417) * If the optimizer used a Multi-Range Read access method for index lookups, incorrect results could occur for rows that contained any of the BLOB or TEXT data types. (Bug #30622, Bug #11747076) * Compared to MySQL 5.1, the optimizer failed to use join buffering for certain queries, resulting in slower performance for those queries. (Bug #30363, Bug #11747028) * For Multi-Range Read scans used to resolve LIMIT queries, failure to close the scan caused file descriptor leaks for MyISAM tables. (Bug #30221, Bug #11746994) * SHOW CREATE DATABASE did not account for the value of the lower_case_table_names system variable. (Bug #21317, Bug #11745926) * InnoDB Storage Engine: The server could crash on shutdown, if started with --innodb-use-system-malloc=0. (Bug #55581, Bug #11762927) * Replication: The unused and deprecated server options --init-rpl-role and --rpl-recovery-rank, as well as the unused and deprecated status variable Rpl_status, have been removed. (Bug #54649, Bug #11762095) See also Bug #34437, Bug #11747900, Bug #34635, Bug #11747961. * Replication: The flag stating whether a user value was signed or unsigned (unsigned_flag) could sometimes change between the time that the user value was recorded for logging purposes and the time that the value was actually written to the binary log, which could lead to inconsistency. Now unsigned_flag is copied when the user variable value is copied, and the copy of unsigned_flag is then used for logging. (Bug #51426, Bug #11759138) See also Bug #49562, Bug #11757508. * The embedded server could crash when determining which directories to search for option files. (Bug #55062, Bug #11762465) * Performance Schema code was subject to a buffer overflow. (Bug #53363) * On Windows, an IPv6 connection to the server could not be made using an IPv4 address or host name. (Bug #52381, Bug #11760016) * Subquery execution for EXPLAIN could be done incorrectly and raise an assertion. (Bug #52317, Bug #11759957) * There was a mixup between GROUP BY and ORDER BY concerning which indexes should be considered or permitted during query optimization. (Bug #52081, Bug #11759746) * On Windows, the my_rename() function failed to check whether the source file existed. (Bug #51861, Bug #11759540) * The ref column of EXPLAIN output for subquery lines could be missing information. (Bug #50257, Bug #11758106) * Passwords for CREATE USER statements were written to the binary log in plaintext rather than in ciphertext. (Bug #50172) * The BLACKHOLE storage engine failed to load on Solaris and OpenSolaris if DTrace probes had been enabled. (Bug #47748, Bug #11755909) * Some error messages included a literal mysql database name rather than a parameter for the database name. (Bug #46792, Bug #11755079) * In the ER_TABLEACCESS_DENIED_ERROR error message, the command name parameter could be truncated. (Bug #45355, Bug #11753840) * On Windows, mysqlslap crashed for attempts to connect using shared memory. (Bug #31173, Bug #11747181) * To forestall the occurrence of possible relocation errors in the future, libmysys, libmystrings, and libdbug have been changed from normal libraries to "noinst" libtool helper libraries, and are no longer installed as separate libraries. (Bug #29791, Bug #11746931) * A suboptimal query execution plan could be chosen when there were several possible range and ref accesses. Now preference is given to the keys that match the most parts and choosing the best one among them. (Bug #26106, Bug #11746406) * Searches for data on a partial index for a column using the UTF8 character set would fail. (Bug #24858) * For queries with GROUP BY, FORCE INDEX was not ignored as it should have been when it would result in a more expensive query execution plan. (Bug #18144, Bug #11745649) Hery Ramilison MySQL/ORACLE Release Engineering Team
|• MySQL Community Server 5.6.2 has been released (part 2 - bug fixes)
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November 18, 2013
Veteran's Day 2013 – Showing Gratitude
Posted by: TOM WATSON
November 11, 2013, Veteran's Day, was a special day here at Honey Hill. We were proud to participate in a program sponsored by the Asheville Bed and Breakfast Association honoring veterans and their spouses for their service to our country. The local program was part of the Professional Association of International Innkeepers (PAII) initiative: B&Bs for Vets – A Better Way to Stay.
We hosted two veterans, Army and Navy, and their spouses in our bed and breakfast. What made it even more special was knowing that one couple were victims of Hurricane Katrina and had been displaced as a result of the damage and devastation caused by that hurricane. We were so happy that they were able to take advantage of this program, as they have had such a difficult time in recent years.
Our veterans' complimentary stay included afternoon snacks, 24/7 hot and cold beverages and a delicious three-course plated breakfast in our dining room. Here are some photos from that day.

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Mobile Business Models Get Fuzzier
Apple's business model is selling devices. Google's is selling advertising. Microsoft's is selling software. Amazon's is e-tail. These companies have had their basic business models in place for years, and it's still how they make the majority of their money. But after spending much of last month listening to Apple, Microsoft, and Google executives speak at their respective developer conferences, it seems pretty clear that the old divisions aren't nearly as clear as they used to be. Each company wants a bit more of what the others have.
As a result, we're seeing all the companies move in new directions, with big implications for those four ecosystem providers, the other makers of mobile devices, and ultimately, consumers.
Let's start with Apple. At its developer conference, it stuck mostly to its standard directions, continuing its focus on hardware and proprietary operating system software. The company, however, has broadened its horizons a bit as well. It has iTunes and the App Store, though these have long been positioned as ways of providing content for its devices rather than significant businesses in their own right. (In the most recent quarter, the line item on Apple's revenue that includes iTunes and the App Store, as well as iPod accessories, was only about 5 percent of the total revenues.) Still, this business continues to grow.
What's new now is Apple's move into areas it once left to its partners. The company has had a very complicated relationship with Google, and one of the big changes the company announced was its own Maps offering, which will replace the Google Maps tool that has been a standard on the iPhone since the beginning. Apple has gotten into the advertising business to some extent with iAds. It's also now working hard to become your single place for storing and syncing your documents, media, settings, and contacts, through iCloud. There's no sign of Apple getting into the search business directly, but Siri is now offering more and more answers without directly going to a traditional search engine.
Still, despite these incursions into other areas, Apple seems pretty content with its business model, as well it should. It remains the most successful company in tech—arguably, the most successful company in the world—and its success has seemingly made its competitors envious enough to consider changing the way they do business.
Microsoft seems to be the most impacted. No one was surprised to see the company merging its Windows 8 and Windows Phone operating systems; the company has been talking about "Windows Everywhere" since the 1990s.
But what is surprising is Microsoft's decision to make its own Surface tablets. To me, this is a game-changer because the company's primary business model has long been to sell operating systems to hardware makers, not to compete with them. Of course, Microsoft has actually made hardware for a long time, with the successes of the Xbox and peripherals sometimes overshadowed by the failure of its Zune music player and short-lived Kin phones. Still, this is a big step for the company. It's unclear how much Microsoft will push these devices, and whether they will be seen as catalysts to encourage other companies to be more innovative with their hardware or seen just as another competitor.
Indeed, since the announcement, Microsoft has explained how its offerings can coexist with those from its partners. CEO Steve Ballmer said he expects the Surface tablets to only account for a "few million" of the 375 million PCs forecast to be sold next year and chairman Bill Gates said there is room in the market for both a broad market and a few "signature devices."
But there's no question that Microsoft has a broad agenda and that its business model has been shifting as well. It still makes the bulk of its money by selling operating systems to hardware makers and end-users and by selling productivity software, especially to business users. Now, it seems to have a bigger presence with its own hardware (Surface and Xbox), in a model closer to Apple's. In addition, Microsoft has created its own stores for music and movies, in part by tying in things it had done with its Zune and its Xbox Live service, to compete with iTunes. It will now be bringing that (along with the Windows store for selling apps) to Windows 8. Likewise, Windows Phone has a similar store.
Microsoft has competed with Google for some time, offering search alternatives like Bing and various advertising approaches, though its online efforts have fallen short of its expectations. (One interesting twist: while Microsoft has had its own mapping products, Windows Phone 8 will instead use maps from Nokia.)
Microsoft also is pushing cloud services, both for consumers with Office Web Apps and SkyDrive, and for businesses with Office 365 and Azure. In many ways, the first three of these seem more like defensive products designed to compete with Google, but they could be quite important in a mobile strategy as well.
Windows Phone 8 looks like it will be a lot more competitive than Microsoft's previous entries, but it is still fighting an uphill battle against iPhone and Android. The company is also making a big bet with Windows 8 and Surface. Microsoft has a lot of things going on, and how well they all work together is still a big question. You can argue about some of the specifics, but it's clear to me that Microsoft's product offerings are very ambitious.
Google I/O presented more incremental changes to the Android ecosystem, but the show was interesting because of the sheer number of areas that Google is exploring, even as the company shuts down older services such as iGoogle.
Google still makes the bulk of its money from advertising, and in fact, Android seems to exist mostly to get phone users to use Google services where the company can better sell such advertising.
Google has very adamantly promoted Android as an open-source platform, with an ecosystem driven by its partners, but at the same time, it has an increasingly complicated relationship with those partners. Each year, it seems to come out with a Nexus-branded phone, running just the straight version of Android. It just entered the tablet market with the Nexus 7 tablet. As Microsoft is trying to do with Surface, Google has positioned the Nexus to jumpstart the market and encourage innovation, though the aggressive pricing of the Nexus 7 may cause problems for some of the other tablet makers.
Its relationship with hardware makers is even more complicated now that it has bought Motorola Mobility. (It says, though, that it runs completely independently, and indeed I don't recall the word "Motorola" being mentioned at a Google I/O keynote.)
The open-source nature of Android has made it the most customizable of the environments. Many of the big mobile device makers have their own skins on top of the OS, including Samsung's Touch Wiz, HTC's Sense, and Motorola's Blur. The Kindle Fire is also built around Android. This leads to great experimentation, but can be a bit confusing for users. (In some respects, it reminds me of the individual skins PC makers used to put on top of Windows, before Microsoft stopped the practice around the time of Windows 95.)
Trying to compete with iTunes, Google rebranded the Android Market as Google Play, and indeed the Nexus 7 and the Nexus Q media streamer are really oriented around playing content from there. In this way, it's not only similar to Apple's model, but even more like Amazon's, in which the Kindle devices are really just hardware to push content purchased from Amazon's book and media services.
Google has tried to compete in Microsoft's stronghold of productivity apps, with such offerings as Google Docs and Drive, and these have become increasingly important in the mobile world. Its Google Compute Engine is now also competing more with Amazon Web Services.
In almost all of these areas, Google is building quite sturdy products. Although it still has a ways to go to catch Apple or Amazon in Web stores and Microsoft in productivity solutions, you can't help but be impressed by the breadth of the company's ambitions.
Still, its emphasis remains unique. Because it makes most of its money from advertising, most of its other products seem designed to get us online more (and thus see more ads) or to learn more about us (and allow for better targeted ads). With products like the Nexus line, the Motorola purchase, and the rollout of Compute Engine, that business model, too, seems to be broadening.
While Apple, Microsoft, and Google deservedly get the lion's share of attention in the mobile market, the business models of a number of other companies are worth examining.
Amazon may be using a version of Android for its Kindle Fire, but its Kindle model completely revolves around selling content for the devices. There are rumors everywhere about a new version of the Kindle Fire and even about an Amazon smartphone, however we haven't heard any details yet. The company even bought a mapping applications company recently, which it could use on its tablet or potentially a phone. All of this, though, could still fit into the established view of Amazon as a retailer.
But Amazon, too, has been reaching into other markets, though typically in ways that aren't as visible to consumers. With Amazon Web Services, it has turned itself into a premier seller of software infrastructure services. Indeed, the company is now offering a huge variety of infrastructure services for other retailers and thus it is evolving from a retailer of solely products into a software and infrastructure services developer as well.
Despite recent stumbles, Research in Motion remains the third-largest maker of mobile operating systems with its BlackBerry line. Its business model remains centered around proprietary hardware and software, along with enterprise mobile services (through its BlackBerry Enterprise Server products). The company is furiously trying to get BlackBerry 10 out, but that is now delayed until next year. While RIM is also working on BlackBerry Mobile Fusion to manage all sorts of mobile devices, for now at least, the company's prospects depend on how well it creates compelling new and unique phones.
Nokia still sells a fair number of phones with its Symbian operating system, though it is quickly moving to Windows Phone and becoming part of that ecosystem. Meanwhile, although Samsung has pretty much abandoned its own Bada OS, it is adding more and more new features on top of Android, trying to create some its own differentiation.
Despite rumors, Facebook doesn't make a phone, and doesn't make a tablet; it just wants its software on everyone else's. Even Google, which positions its Google+ as a competitor, has little choice but to support Facebook as a part of its Android platform because so many people want to share content that way. Facebook, like Google, gets the bulk of its money from advertising, but whereas Google seems to be expanding into hardware, retailing, and selling software, Facebook seems content to keep its traditional business model. Of course, it's the youngest company on this list, so we'll see if that changes.
Overall, it's those bigger, more established companies that are now being forced to rethink their traditional models, as what once were somewhat separate spheres of influence are colliding. Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are now selling hardware. Apple and Microsoft are selling advertising and trying give search results, or at least answers. Google and Apple are now selling books. Everyone wants to sell music, movies, and apps. They all even have their own mapping solutions.
This makes a more complex world for the ecosystem leaders, the other hardware makers, apps developers, and us as consumers. But the additional competition is driving a lot of innovation, and is a major reason why the mobile world is the most exciting part of technology today.


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Following up on his May investment outlook, in which he argued that "If the neutral policy rate was 2% instead of 4% then bonds, instead of being artificially priced, would be attractively priced," in his June commentary, PIMCO's Bill Gross goes deeper into the neutral policy rate debate, arguing that the real neutral rate should be at zero or close to it. He also conveniently provides a shortened takeaway of his latest thoughts:
1) PIMCO's New Normal evolves into "The New Neutral."
2) "The New Neutral" is a central bank's policy rate that is just right. Not too restrictive, not too stimulative.
3) PIMCO believes that "The New Neutral" real policy rate will be close to 0 as opposed to 2%–3% in prior decades.
4) If "The New Neutral" rates stay low, it supports current prices of financial assets. They would appear to be less bubbly
That's helpful, but the popular takeaway from his latest monthly commentary will probably be (if social media is any guide): Bill Gross doesn't own a cellphone.
Gross begins his June investment outlook by lamenting that the younger generation is trying to freeze time, using handheld devices like, umm, a cell phone to "record and memorialize" events for other's viewing pleasure or for future consumption. "My view is that there is time stored in that cellphone, but its vintage may be somewhat sour, as compared to the sweetness of the here and now," he writes. He then cites a Pew study on the heavy use of texting by American teenagers who "may get so caught up in their frantic 'busyness' that they fail to capture their present."
So he pleads instead for "living in the moment." As for cellphones, "They may be virtual, but they're not reality."
Then he gets into the meat of his commentary, saying "PIMCO's reality in recent months has been captured by the phrase "The New Neutral," defined as a real Federal Reserve Fed Funds rate of 0%, or perhaps even a little below 0%. Moreover, that zero rate, citing work done by Thomas Laubach and John Williams of the Fed, has declined "from over 4% in early 1970 to below 2% (and heading lower) today. Their most recent calculation of the current 'cyclical' rate is actually -0.25%." Gross argues that when it comes to this New Neutral rate, "things are just gonna be this way for at least the next 3–5 years, and likely much more."
So what does a "neutral" rate mean? Gross says Janet Yellen's Federal Reserve answers it as "the rate consistent with full employment trend growth and stable prices." He then quotes Yellen when she was San Francisco Fed President in 2005: "Research suggests that the neutral real rate depends on a variety of factors – the stance of fiscal policy, the trend of the global economy … the level of housing prices, the equity markets, the slope of the yield curve … and it changes over time."
Gross says PIMCO "cannot quarrel with such logic" before suggesting that the New Neutral real rate is also determined by two other factors: slower labor force growth and productivity and financial system leverage. He then cites Paul McCulley's past research on "The New Neutral" (McCulley just rejoined PIMCO as chief economist, reporting to Gross) in which he argued, said Gross, that "the price of 'real' short-term credit" should be "close to 0% real because there was so much of it that was finance as opposed to real economy related."
Then Gross makes his argument as to why "the more finance-based and highly levered an economy is, the lower and lower real yield levels should be to prevent a Lehman-like earthquake."
We should "get used to" real rates of 0–50 basis points, which would benefit bondholders rather than savers, concluding that "becoming a conservative debtor while structuring a portfolio appears to make common sense." He suggests that such low real policy rates, which "will be frigidly low for an extended period of time," will require a new approach to portfolio management.
PIMCO itself continues to struggle with outflows from its mutual funds. Morningtar reported in mid-May that in April, the bond shop had total net outflows of $5.5 billion, bringing its year-to-date outflows to some $21 billion, and its 12-month outflows to nearly $80 billion.
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Colorado Springs, CO - Sophomore Jacques Lamoureux scored the game winning goal and Jeff Hajner added a goal and an assist to lead Air Force to a 4-3 win over Sacred Heart in game one of the Atlantic Hockey quarterfinals Friday night at the Cadet Ice Arena. Junior Erik Boisvert (Drummondville, QC) scored two goals for the Pioneers in the loss.
Sacred Heart got off to a fast start, scoring 5:49 into the game to take an early lead. Freshman Matt Gingera (Winnipeg, MB) picked up a loose puck following to saves by Andrew Volkening and lifted a backhand shot into the top part of the net for his eleventh tally of the year. The Pioneers would take the 1-0 lead into the locker-room after one period.
Air Force controlled play in the second period thanks to four power-play chances, which the Falcons converted two of. Hajner put Air Force on the board at the 1:17 mark, picking up a loose puck in the offensive zone and after two dekes sliding the puck around the stickside of Stefan Drew to tie the score.
Derrick Burnett put the Falcons ahead midway through the game, scoring another power-play goal. It appeared Air Force would take a one goal lead into the locker-room until Scott Kozlak scored a shorthanded goal from a bad angle with two seconds remaining in the period to make it 3-1.
Boisvert got the Pioneers back in the game with two power-play goals in a 2:33 span early in the third period. Both goals came in similar fashion, as Boisvert collected pucks on rebounds off Volkening and slammed them back into the net. Senior Bear Trapp (Regina, SK) had an assist on the first goal, the 99th helper of his career. Boisvert's second goal was a snap shot from the left circle that went off the crossbar and just snuck under into the goal.
Lamoureux's game winner came with 1:36 remaining in regulation. After the Pioneers killed off an Air Force penalty, the Falcons kept the pressure on in the offensive zone. Finally, with the SHU defenders spent, Lamoreux picked up a loose puck near the goal-line and snapped a shot from a tough angle that found its way over Drew's shoulder and into the net.
Air Force out-shot Sacred Heart 41-25 for the game. Drew was outstanding in goal, making 37 saves to keep his team in the game. Volkening stopped 22 saves for the Falcons to earn the victory. Both teams were two-for-six on the power-play.
Sacred Heart and Air Force play game two of their series Saturday night at Cadet Ice Arena. Face-off is set for 7:05 pm. Coverage of the game can be heard on WICC 600 and the rest of the Pioneer Radio Network.


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Surely it's only a matter of time before there's a Campaign to Destigmatize Self-Touch telling us we shouldn't be using 'wanker' and 'jerk-off' as insults, and a Parent-Child Love Acceptance League trying to discourage (or reclaim?) the word 'motherfucker', and...
This line is OTM:
...any effective movement against corporate capitalism must completely sever any links that it has to the Democratic or any other neo-liberal party, to the corporate media or any "alternative" media that functions only as its mirror...
Is 'cultural Marxism' a real thing? Does anyone described themselves as a cultural Marxist?
What I mean is: is there a real idea - perhaps an obscure concept of interest to a few left-wing philosophy professors - which the alt-right has blown up into this great existential threat to Western civilization, or have they conjured a bogeyman completely out of thin air?
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"Cultural Marxism" is actually quite an old concept dating back (at least in the German speaking world where I have some knowledge) to the aftermaths of WW1 (possibly even the second half of the 19th century) used by right wingers of different kinds to describe an assault on traditional values connected to ideas like Nation (race) and a connected culture (and religion), the arts etc. Things like modern art, atheism, the rejection of traditional marriage/sex-life, Jazz were seen as the "cultural" expression/branch of the communist assault on "the old world" basically.
Yeah yeah yeah I get that, but I'm interested in whether anyone calls themselves a cultural Marxist, or says "I am involved in cultural Marxism and it is a good thing" (in the same way people identify as being part of the alt-right, for example). I'm well aware it's a term of abuse among the right.
No-one says "I am an Islamofascist", but it's a derogatory term for militant Salafism/Wahhabism, and people (whole states, even) do identify as Salafist.


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Exhilarating! Extraordinary performances! Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is an outstanding flick that tries to capture the life of a washed up actor, his continuous battle to prove his mettle in the acting world once again. Michael Keaton, the protagonist plays a character that is miffed by his psychotic split persona, in his endeavour to revive and in the process, get a hold of himself.
Plot of Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's riveting drama isn't just about a lost actor who is trying to find himself through a Broadway play but is also about a broken man trying to justify his relevance to the world. Birdman is an extremely well written dramatic account of Riggan's life, his tattered relationships, his dream to make it big once again and the alter-ego that literally rules over him.
Inarittu's direction is a beauty as he merges several frames subtly to project a continuous shot. The whole movie seems like it has been shot in a single take, and that illusion is worth an ovation. The director also gorgeously masters every frame's timing quotient. Every act starts with a proper follow through of a character only getting intercepted when it's someone else's queue. The flow and rhythm of the movie is simply splendid.
There is something beautiful about Birdman's story. The ploy is brilliantly narrated through the messed up head of Riggan with glimpses from his past debacles, screenplay that makes you brood that often cross over for emphasis, an ever ending take that goes on till the climax, and a conclusion that loosely dangles for intense interpretation. Everything has been wrapped up beautifully by an audacious and dark voice in his head, the one big thing he ever was – Birdman, one big success from the past that keeps haunting him, telling him he isn't dead and that he flies above the meaningless.
Breaking Birdman Down
With an imaginary backdrop working along with the protagonist, you already know that you are in for a fantasy-world. What is crucial is that you pay attention. There are minute subtle hints that will blow your mind away while trying to connect the dots.
If we overlook the mind boggling ending for a while, still we are left with some exceptional drama pieces like when Sam speaks up to her father and shatters him with cold, when Riggan takes on a famous NYT critic in a bar and excellent conversations between Mike and Sam and Lesley's remorse. Things become intense owing to bits of psychotic drama as Riggan inches towards insanity. The climax of the movie leaves you spell bound and is deliberately left open for interpretation.
Final Epilogue Explained (Spoilers)
If you have not seen the movie, please stop reading at once. But if you have, the ending is sure to raise a dozen doubts in your head.
The flick ends in a surreal epilogue with Riggan jumping out of the window, and Sam reacting happily to her Father's 'flying' act. The one theory that I would like to believe but not stick to is Riggan's death after he shot himself during the theater act. Reasons that reassure me of this:
- The plot was one continuous single take but the continuity breaks for the first time right after Riggan shoots himself.
- In the hospital when Jake switches on the TV it showed people lighting candles for him. You don't do that for a person who is alive. Du-uh dead!
- The hospital scene was probably the next day right after the incident. Sam bringing flowers for him could be at his funeral. This justified by his inability to smell them. His funeral again supported by the fact that her wife was wearing a black dress.
Riggan jumping out of the window could be a symbolism of his soul transcending, as he finally rejects Birdman to be his only way to stardom. Sam's smile in the end could be her acceptance of her father's feat as a true hero.
Contradicting the Above Theory
What contrasts the above 'dead' theory greatly is the fact that there were several past failed suicidal endeavors by Riggan which have been subtly inserted into the screenplay. Lesley responding to Ralph once: "He shot himself in the mouth. But he screwed that up, too." The Jellyfish story goes on to show how Riggan was unsuccessful in killing himself in the past. So shooting the nose seems plausible. Then it takes us again to the hospital part. Taking this theory ahead on the vanguard, we can say that the imagination of Riggan once again begins right from the part he decides to take off the bandages and the rest that follows is once again the imagination bit. In the end he flew fantastically and figuratively with an acknowledgment sign from her daughter. This seals the deal too.
Whatever the case might have been Birdman is truly a rare feat that must be celebrated. Go ahead and watch this movie if you wish to visit some avant-garde style of film-making.
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RIP Craigos. A true CW legend. You will be missed.
GeraintIsMyHero - Seriously, absolutely dire. Any chance of you actually learning about the game of cricket before you write articles on it? You give England a bad name with your self-indulgent crap, thinking everything revolves around your country. Open your eyes for once.
Haha, wasn't sure if you'd recognise the quote. Still not sure, tbh.
"Under the spreading chestnut tree,
I sold you and you sold me."
Of course I do, Mr Murphy. We never, um, used to get on when he used to post round here.
It's Swalec not Swalex Stadium TBH.
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Long have I been contemplating a QT marathon, and this illustration from Sharm Murugiah, which re-imagines the famous filmmaking foot-appreciator's oeuvre as classic Penguin paperbacks, is gonna tip me over the edge.
It's been ages since I last watched Jackie Brown, and I only saw Inglourious Basterds the once. I recently re-watched Kill Bill Vol. 1 and I thought it was OHkay, but not as good as I remembered. Which makes me think I'll like volume 2 a lot more this time around.
Everyone having a good week? Anyone arrived in Boston and all set for PAX? Further thoughts on Django Unchained? Talk PAX, Quentin Tarantino, feet, or anything else, here or in Talk Amongst Yourselves forum. Have good chatting, and if you feel a slight sting, ignore it. That's just pride fuckin' with you.
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Minnesota Vikings head coach Brad Childress is a dead man walking. Maybe he's not quite as dead as Wade Phillips is, but he's dead and buried all the same. Yesterday, Childress signed his own death warrant by waiving Randy Moss just four games after trading away a third-round pick to New England for him, in a desperate attempt to salvage what has been an unholy train wreck of a season.
Now, certainly Moss had a role to play in his own demise, but check out how the entire situation was handled by Childress in today's Star Tribune:
According to an NFL source, Childress did not immediately inform owner Zygi Wilf of his intentions, upsetting the owner, who had just given up a draft choice and committed millions to the mercurial receiver. The apparent lack of communication meant Moss was not put on waivers by the 3 p.m. deadline and the team did not confirm he was gone until issuing a statement Monday night.
Should Moss pass through waivers, the Vikings will be on the hook for nearly $4 million. That's $4 million and a useful third round pick for four games, three of which the Vikings lost. And come Draft Day, the loss of that pick will grate on everyone associated with the organization.
It's a remarkably glaring failure. There's no positive way to spin it. And the fact that Childress went over his owner's head to make the waiver move makes it all the more damning.
Childress took the Vikings to the NFC title game last year, but anyone who watches this team knows he's a lousy head coach. His list of mistakes is thick and lustrous: blown challenges, terrible play-calling, communication breakdowns, listless two-minute drills, Tarvaris Jackson. And this year, Childress has somehow managed to top himself in incompetence.
He had to get on his hands and knees to beg Brett Favre to come play for him, undermining his credibility among players. He openly feuded with Favre and waffled on benching him. He brought in Moss, apparently without doing any real background homework on his recent behavior. He ditched Moss. He threw an incomprehensible challenge flag on a Brandon Tate catch on Sunday (and failed to challenge a certain Adrian Peterson touchdown).
All of it is adding up. The fans can't stand him. His players almost certainly can't stand him. Favre is openly allowed to defy him and come and go as he pleases. This whole thing is a disaster.
And, unlike Dallas, Minnesota has a perfectly capable head coach-in-waiting Leslie Frazier. In fact, the Vikings have a long history of employing coordinators who went on to be successful head coaches: Tony Dungy, Mike Tomlin, Brian Billick, etc. In the case of those three men, the Vikings chose to keep the head coach they currently had in place and let the coordinator walk, much to their eventual detriment. At some point, they have to realize that keeping Frazier is more important for the long term than keeping Childress around is for the short term. They can't keep making the same mistake over and over and over again, can they?
Oh, who am I kidding? It's the Vikings. They exist solely to screw everything up.


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- At least 71 such fires have occurred since November
- Most of the fires are discovered between 6 p.m. and midnight
- Police ask the public for its help to catch those responsible
With each new blaze that erupts in Virginia, the urgency to arrest a "group" of arsonists grows.
At least 71 fires have occurred in Accomack County since November, the latest reported Monday.
And in each case, whoever is responsible slips away into the night, unnoticed.
Most of the blazes are discovered between 6 p.m. and midnight, many about two hours after they are lit, according to authorities.
"It's very worrisome," said Corinne Geller, a police spokeswoman. "We've been very fortunate that no one has been injured or killed."
She said police are confident that they are looking for a group working together.
Authorities have their theories on what might be motivating the group, but they are not ready to go public with those, she said.
"Some of the targeted structures have been in very remote, random locations throughout this rural county," said Capt. Timothy A. Reibel, commander of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation Chesapeake Field Office.
"This not only makes the fires more difficult to detect, but also enables the criminal to come and go with minimal detection."
Reibel's comments were in a news release that offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.
"If you see something suspicious, call us. If you see someone or something that looks out-of-place, call us. The public is the eyes and ears of its community," he said.
Police boosted uniformed patrols and surveillance in the county and brought in investigators from across the state.
"We've got some strong leads, and we're moving forward," said Geller, the police spokeswoman.
State authorities have received 200 tips since setting up a phone number for information in February.


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{Shocked gasp}
Who knew?
Well… actually… all of us knew.
But, for some reason, he's that guy that we let lie right to our faces and we simultaneously rationalize whatever it is that he's saying so that we convince ourselves that it's not really a lie. Ya know, kinda like that little stunt that with he pulled with Adam and Eve.
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' "
"You will not certainly die," the serpent said to the woman. "For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
Adam and Eve.
They had it all… God made them to look and be just like Himself. He made them to be stewards of the earth… to take care of it the way He would take care of it. They were full of His power and strength and might. They weren't gods but they sure as heck were as close as a human can get.
And then dern Satan comes in and tells them the lie that they are missing out on something. He tells them that if they eat from that tree then they will be like God.
I thought they were already like God? Yeah, they were… look. Back in Chapter 1: God said, "Let us make mankind in our image." And if you look at it in Hebrew the word "image" means like a replica and in Greek the word "image" means the same thing as "icon"… which is the word for being the representative of something almost exactly alike.
Soooooooo, Adam and Eve were ALREADY like God. Seriously… they weren't missing out on ANYTHING. But that's what Satan told them.
And ya know what… Satan is still telling us the SAME. DADGUM. LIE.
If you give up chocolate, you'll be missing out.
If you give up drinking, you'll be missing out.
If you give up sex, you'll be missing out.
If you give up shopping, you'll be missing out.
If you give up wealth, you'll be missing out.
If you give up popularity, you'll be missing out.
If you give up fame, you'll be missing out.
If you give up social calendars, you'll be missing out.
If you give up sports, you'll be missing out.
You'll be missing out. missing out. missing out.
So, we keep eating those apples that break our relationship with God thinking that if we don't stick with them, then in some way, we'll be missing out.
But let me tell you… you are made in the image of God. Not just the OUTSIDE of you but your mind, your heart, your soul… it's all like God's. You have access to all of his strength, might, and power just as Adam and Eve did. You have been given all of this world.
TRUST ME. If you don't eat the apple of chocolate, or drinking, or sex, or shopping, or wealth, or popularity… you WON'T be missing out. You'll be living in. Living in His original plan to be satisfied and content with His image that He gave you.
{Props: This is another post inspired by the lessons of my teacher James Tippit.}


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
The Behaving Brain is the third program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. This program looks at the structure and composition of the human brain: how neurons function, how information is collected and transmitted, and how chemical reactions relate to thought and behavior.
Essay: The Brain and Amnesia
The human brain is an extraordinarily complex organ made up of different regions and parts, each with its own function. Chemical molecules and electrical impulses constantly flow between regions of the brain, sending signals and messages to other parts of the brain and body. Much like an orchestra, brain functioning depends on many individual parts working together.
One example highlighted in this program is the brain's role in our ability to remember. Psychologist Dr. Mieke Verfaellie studies the causes and effects of amnesia at the Memory Disorders Research Center in Boston. Her research draws on evidence of damage to the hippocampal region of the brain, the area responsible for laying down new memories.
Contrary to popular opinion, amnesia doesn't result in the loss of all memory or identity. Amnesia affects our short-term, or anteograde memory, and our ability to learn and retain new information. What's interesting and often surprising in amnesia cases is that other regions of the brain continue to function normally, such as long-term memory. But damage to even one area, such as short-term memory, can dramatically affect our ability to navigate through daily life.
Neuroscientists are learning from abnormal brain functioning, such as amnesia, to identify normal brain patterns. For instance, the interplay of brain regions and their role in thoughts, understanding, and behavior are now better understood.
For a more detailed breakdown of the human brain, go to the Brain Exploration feature of this site.
Dr. Verfaellie contributed to an article about memory distortions in amnesic patients, published in MIT's Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, "When True Recognition Suppresses False Recognition: Evidence from Amnesic Patients."
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Jan. 28, 2013) - Western Forest Products Inc. (TSX:WEF) ("Western" or the "Company") today announced that it has entered into a conditional agreement for the sale of its former Woodfibre Pulp Mill site for the purchase price of $25.5 million. The site, consisting of 212 acres of industrial waterfront land, is located at the head of Howe Sound, southwest of Squamish, British Columbia. Closing of the sale is subject to certain conditions, and Western will be responsible for satisfactorily remediating the property to applicable environmental standards prior to closing the sale. The net proceeds from the sale are expected to be approximately $17 million.
"Our non-core asset divestiture program will continue to further strengthen our balance sheet and provides additional financial flexibility to pursue our strategic capital plan," said Dominic Gammiero, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
Western Forest Products
Western is an integrated Canadian forest products company and the largest coastal British Columbia woodland operator and lumber producer with an annual available harvest of approximately 6.4 million cubic metres of timber of which approximately 6.2 million cubic metres is from Crown lands and lumber capacity in excess of 1.1 billion board feet from eight sawmills and three remanufacturing plants. Principal activities conducted by the Company include timber harvesting, reforestation, sawmilling logs into lumber and by-products and value-added remanufacturing. Substantially all of Western's operations, employees and corporate facilities are located in the coastal region of British Columbia while its products are sold in over 25 countries worldwide.
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This press release contains statements which constitute forward-looking statements and forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Those statements and information appear in a number of places in this document and include statements and information regarding our current intent, belief or expectations primarily with respect to market and general economic conditions, future costs, expenditures, available harvest levels and our future operating performance, objectives and strategies. Such statements and information may be indicated by words such as "estimate", "expect", "anticipate", "plan", "intend", "believe", "should", "may" and similar words and phrases. Readers are cautioned that it would be unreasonable to rely on any such forward-looking statements and information as creating any legal rights, and that the statements and information are not guarantees and may involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, and that actual results and objectives and strategies may differ or change from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements or information as a result of various factors. Such risks and uncertainties include, among others: general economic conditions, competition and selling prices, changes in foreign currency exchange rates, labour disruptions, natural disasters, relations with First Nations groups, changes in laws, regulations or public policy, misjudgments in the course of preparing forward-looking statements or information, changes in opportunities and other factors referenced under the "Risks and Uncertainties" section of our MD&A in our 2011 Annual Report dated February 22, 2012. All written and oral forward-looking statements or information attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the foregoing cautionary statements. Except as required by law, Western does not expect to update forward-looking statements or information as conditions change.
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Successfully redesigning a car is no small task. While it's easy to come up with examples of vehicles that were great in their first generation and not so great in their second, this week we want to know what vehicle not only managed to avoid the sophomore slump, but was an actual improvement. What car's second generation was better than the first?
A rare spring Mustang II sighting the other day on the cape that rust remembered got me thinking about second generation automotive disappointments. With apologies to Mustang II fans/owners, few would argue the second generation of Mustangs did justice to the iconic first generation. After seeing the Mustang II, I was able to easily come up with quite a few examples of second generation automobiles that fell short of the original models, but not nearly as many that improved upon them. This week's QOTW is concerned with finding examples of these improved second generation automobiles.
My answer for this question is the second generation (E30) 3 series BMW. As a former owner of a first generation (E21) 3 series, I can confidently say that improving upon the E21's design was not a given. Although they aren't the fastest things on earth, the tail happy, high revving little cars are a lot of fun. Having said that, the E30s improved on the E21s in almost every way possible. More reliable, faster, more fun to drive, disputing the second generation 3 series' superiority to the first is nearly impossible.
Now that I've ruled out the fairly obvious E30 choice, tell me what's your pick for most improved auto in its second generation? What car's second generation was better than the first?
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Weeds or grass over 12" are usually the responsibility of the property owner. This can be handled by calling the weed hotline (874-7339) or the Office of Neighborhood Services (817-5050) with the address or a description of the location. An inspector will visit the site and determine if aviolation exists. If the property is found to be in violation a weed hearing notice will be sent requesting that the owner of the property mow the property or attend the hearing (held 4-7 days after the notice is sent). After the hearing an additional notice will be sent to the property owner giving final notification. If the property remains unmowed a mowing contractor will be sent to mow the property at the owner's expense. In addition, an administrative fee will be charged.
Exemptions: Wooded areas, conservation areas, drainage ditches and properties zoned agricultural (and in agricultural use provided that a 15′ buffer is cut around the perimeter of the property).
Other Responsible Agencies: State maintained roads, University of Missouri properties and Federal properties are not subject to local ordinances. Complaints regarding these properties will be forwarded to the responsible agencies. They can also be contacted directly if you would like more information on their mowing schedule. Complaints regarding city owned properties will also be forwarded to the responsible department. They can also be contacted directly for more information.
State Maintained Roads – MoDOT 888-275-6636 Local Office 442-4718
University of Missouri – Environmental Services 882-7018
Columbia Housing Authority – 443-8731
Parks & Recreation – 874-6332
City Streets and other City Owned Properties – 874-6289


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New program focuses on mom during delivery
New moms are being offered extra special care at Mercy West Lakes in West Des Moines under a new program that focuses on the mother during labor.
Mercy West Lakes is the first hospital in the state to launch the volunteer program.
Tamela Hatcher saw 3-month-old Charley Warren for the first time Thursday since she helped deliver the baby.
Hatcher is a volunteer doula who knows exactly what to do during labor.
"I was sold on the concept of just mothering the mother," said Hatcher.
She met Carey and Brad Warren when they showed up at the hospital in labor.
"When they said we have a doula, I was like absolutely the more the merrier," said Carey Warren.
Photos from the delivery show Hatcher's healing hands massaging and calming Carey like a best friend holding her hand for hours through delivery.
Hatcher said she even comforted the dad, Brad.
Brad said he was nervous he was going to pass out, but Hatcher helped.
Studies show new moms who have a doula require less pain medication, have shorter labors, fewer c-sections, and better clinical outcomes for babies.
For Hatcher helping bring a new life into the world is the most rewarding volunteer job in the world.
"It's like Christmas. It's a miracle, the anticipation and excitement, get to meet people like Charley," said Hatcher.
Mercy has 12 volunteer doulas right now. Patients are given the option of having a doula present during labor and delivery.


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Among my fondest farewell moments in Salem, Ore., was a snack with three wise men:
A restaurateur.
A Realtor.
A retired auto dealer.
Of course, they went beyond simplistic characterizations. Words resonate visually and perceptively, and the three wise men could challenge a dictionary to define them and their meaning to the Salem community.
Konditorei is among Salem's best-known restaurants, where Chocolate Fudge Truffle and Champagne Raspberry cakes ooze with a decadence familiar to Zagat-savvy Sarasotans. The owner, Gerry Frank, is known as Oregon's First Citizen, a prominent author, businessman, philanthropist and political adviser who exudes good will.
Byron Hendricks, president and principal broker at Prudential Real Estate in Salem, has sold aircraft and turned around small businesses, and he could talk shop with Sarasota Yacht Club members. His r�sum�, though, doesn't begin to cover the nonprofit boards and social service initiatives he's helped during his lengthy service to Salem.
And then there's the self-described used-car salesman. It's always been cause for a chuckle in Salem, because Dick Withnell doesn't work the lots; he works the community and state. When I first met Dick, his arm was in a sling from a crash on the basketball court. He charges hard, and doesn't give up.
I was humbled. Three of Salem's prominent residents, wishing me the best while sharing crackers, fruit and Gerry's famous turkey salad spread.
The conversation turned to the challenges facing Salem and the question of community leadership.
Just as quickly, the answer turned to Mike McLaran.
No one would begrudge the three wise men the right to sail into the sunset -- or at least the San Juan Islands. They had the means to retire; they chose to stay involved.
Add in former Mayor Janet Taylor, and you had Salem's version of the Fab Four -- four leaders you could dial up at any time, knowing they were dialed in on the major issues facing Salem.
Mike made it a Dream Team. He was the star point guard. And as the youngest of the group at age 53, his future defined Salem's future.
The Salem Area Chamber of Commerce's former executive director recently started his own business, which was deeply involved in pushing education reform through performance models. If any Republican could make majority Democrats listen, it was Mike.
Mike had political aspirations, and the wise men's conversation focused on which path. Mayor? Legislator? Should Mike go all in and run for governor?
Mike wasn't deterred by naysayers or long odds. He was a winner.
He played baseball at the University of Oregon and ran regularly in Oregon's Hood to Coast, a 195-mile relay from Mt. Hood to the Pacific Ocean.
Last Saturday, Mike went for a jog, had a heart attack and died.
Don't treat this tale as another trite example of life being too short. Mike would reject that adage.
Leadership, after all, leaves a legacy -- even in a death that saddens the soul.
Mike epitomized John C. Maxwell's philosophy of the leader as servant. A servant leader is known for being ethical and reflecting interests beyond his/her own agenda.
Kyle J. Sexton, who travels globally as a marketing strategist, worked for Mike at the Salem chamber. According to Kyle's blog, this is how Mike would have defined servant leadership: "To publicly give credit to anyone who played a role in your hard work or achievements. Requires that you are willing to do, and capable of doing, anything you would ask of someone else."
What a tall order. To do what you would ask someone else to do.
But that's how Mike connected with people. That's how he led.
As the Oregon economy imploded in 2008 and struggled to recover, the Salem community approved major bond issues to improve schools, the community college and infrastructure. An expanded Dream Team, many of whom fought just as hard for tax reform and less government, saw a greater return on investment in better schools and safer roads.
Community leaders from Salem to Sarasota need to realize that NIMBY -- Not In My Backyard -- is not an acronym. It's an excuse.
Instead, community leaders should be like Mike and ask themselves: Are we willing to do what we'd ask someone else to do?
Bill Church can be contacted at email@example.com or (941) 361-4991. Follow him on Twitter @BillChurchMedia.
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Among my fondest farewell moments in Salem, Ore., was a snack with three wise men:


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Multiple independent lab tests confirm oil in Gulf shrimp
The federal government is going out of its way to assure the public that seafood pulled from recently reopened Gulf of Mexico waters is safe to consume, in spite of the largest accidental release of crude oil in America's history.
However, testing methodologies used by the government to deem areas of water safe for commercial fishing are woefully inadequate and permit high levels of toxic compounds to slip into the human food chain, according to a series of scientific and medical professionals interviewed by Raw Story.
The Federal government's response to this disaster was to get it out of sight and out of mind before the elections, no matter what harm had been done to the people or the seafood here.
After all, BP was one of the most significant contributors to Obama's 08 campaign, and therefore had to be protected at all costs!


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Pitcher & Player of the Week ? No. 5
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Kemonte Keesee of Bryan (Tenn.) has been named the NAIA National Baseball Pitcher of the Week and Bryan Lucas of The Master's (Calif.) has been tabbed National Baseball Player of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. Keesee and Lucas were selected based on their performances from April 2 - 8 and were chosen out of a poll of conference/independent/unaffiliated groupings.
Keesee, a native of Nashville, Tenn., tossed seven scoreless innings to lead the Lions to a complete game, 12-0, victory against then-No. 15 Southern Poly (Ga.) on April 3. The senior right-hander allowed only one hit and struck out five in his longest outing of the season. With the victory, Keesee improves to 5-1 on the season and lowers his earned run average to 5.48.
Last week, Lucas hit .625 (5-for-8) with seven RBIs, three runs scored, two home runs and one double to lead the Mustangs to a 3-0 record, including a 5-3 victory against then-No. 5 Azusa Pacific (Calif.) on April 2. The junior catcher highlighted the week with a grand slam to give The Master's an 8-2 lead in the fifth inning of game two of the Mustang's April 5 doubleheader against then-No. 25 Cal State San Marcos. He finished the contest with a season-high five RBIs. In game one against Cal State San Marcos, the Newhall, Calif. native led the team with a season-best three hits and two RBIs.
On the season, Lucas paces the team with seven home runs and is tied for the team lead with 30 RBIs. Additionally, he owns a .311 batting average and .545 slugging percentage.
For a complete listing of all the national statistical leaders, click here.
The next NAIA Baseball Pitcher and Player of the Week announcement will be on April 17.
Pitcher Nominees: Josh Dreier, Arizona Christian; Drew Greiwe, Central Methodist (Mo.); Paul Roers, Jamestown (N.D.); Jared Mortensen, LSU Shreveport (La.); Ryan Crosby, UVa-Wise; Gary Ward, Bethel (Tenn.); Grant Mason, Bellevue (Neb.); Michael Heesch, South Carolina Beaufort; Kye Wilson, William Carey (Miss.); Ryan Baker, Taylor (Ind.); Abraham Carrasco, Mount Mercy (Iowa); Brian Kowal, Tabor (Kan.); Nathan Spohn, Point Park (Pa.); Ben Dorman, Missouri Baptist; Ethan Opsahl, Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.); Drew Evans, Indiana Southeast; Larsen Kohler, Concordia (Ore.); Josh Deeg, Madonna (Mich.); Brandon Bargas, Rogers State (Okla.); Michael Finnigan, Azusa Pacific (Calif.); Adam Panayotovich, St. Francis (Ill.); Anthony Armanino, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho).
Player Nominees: Max Boe, Jamestown (N.D.); Trevor Buford, Mid-Continent (Ky.); Cory Lehman, Siena Heights (Mich.); Art Corona, Tabor (Kan.); Brian King, UVa-Wise; Dane Carlson, Grand View (Iowa); Joel Horton, Texas Wesleyan; Dusty Kerns, Bellevue (Neb.); A.j. Staiert, Morningside (Iowa); Cameron Luitwieler, Avila (Mo.); Izaac Garsez, College of Idaho; Rob Novia, Point Park (Pa.); Camilo Baldelomar, Northwestern Oklahoma State; Victor Madrazo, St. Thomas (Fla.); Cody Cobb, Park (Mo.); Bill Miller, Trinity Christian (Ill.); Shane Turner, Auburn Montgomery (Ala.); Mychal Harris, Indiana Southeast; Josh Roberts, Mount Vernon Nazarene (Ohio); Zac Goodyear, Bluefield (Va.); Braxton Miller, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho).
2012 Composite Award Winners (Pitcher; Player)
Week 1: Kris Hall, Lee (Tenn.); Ignatius Mackenzie, Indiana Tech
Week 2: Tyler Garkow, Point Loma Nazarene (Calif.); Daniel Hall, Sterling (Kan.)
Week 3: Drew Sain, Davenport (Mich.); Ryne Otis, Taylor (Ind.)
Week 4: Daniel Jones, Brewton-Parker (Ga.); Adam McCormick, Tabor (Kan.)
Week 5: Kemonte Keesee, Bryan (Tenn.); Bryan Lucas, The Master's (Calif.)


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Today I woke up. I ate food. Some nice mormons came over but they got sad and left. I played South Park. I beat South Park. I ate some more. I remember I pooped at one point. There was a great crowd of people cheering me on, it was glorious! TSG is doing a minithon for the Danky Kang series. I wonder if any of the TSG guys are single?


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Five For Fighting with String Quartet Playing Hits & Holiday Favorites
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