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Deeds needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 174 designs submitted by 51 freelance designers.
We are a mailing list company that sells homeowner data for advertising purposes. Logo should be clean, crisp and be able to format print.
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rich, professional
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We are a mailing list company that sells homeowner data for advertising purposes. We car looking for a great catchy logo.
Our name is Deed Data Inc. You can also use DDI. COlors are up to you layout is up to you. If DDI is used and a logo created around it, then Deed Data inc should be underneath it or incorporated somehow. I think coming up with a logo around DDI would produce more of a creative logo, but that is up to you.
Looking for something bold that makes a statement.
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text: When young girl Rosie Rinaldi (guest star Daisy Tahan) is kidnapped, the girl's mother, Liz Ranaldi (guest star Michelle Ray Smith) immediately points Detectives Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) in the direction of her ex-husband, Geno Parnell (guest star Ron Eldard), a recently paroled convict. When Parnell's alibi checks out, a fight erupts between Parker and Detectives Stabler and Odafin Tutola (Ice-T), which in turn unveils some knowledge on Parker's ex-wife. Parker admits Liz's father is Frank Hagar (guest star Dabney Coleman), a master thief with a lot of enemies. The detectives pay a visit to Hagar, but are surprised to find he has a severe case of Alzheimer's disease. With the help of Dr. George Huang (B.D. Wong), the detectives are able to put together a few clues to solve the case, but must pair up again with Parker in order to find Rosie.

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Recently many of my blogging brethren have talking about Aion, the new title from NCsoft. Even the commenters on Massively have been saying the game has stunning gameplay, immersive storytelling, bountiful PvP. Honestly, I don't see it. I really don't. All I see is a pretty game that has World of Warcraft and Lineage II shoved into it.
That last sentence probably offended some people in the audience, so let me clarify — YOUR GRINDING YOURSELF RETARDED. CAN YOU HEAR ME? DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH?
Ok, ok, so offensive jokes and nasty tones aside, Aion's not that bad. It's just not that good, and that's where my problem lies. I'm afraid too many people are booting the game up, staring at the graphics (which are gorgeous, btw, don't get me wrong) and immediately heaping all sorts of praise upon the game simply because it has some glitter and glam. I'm one of those people who insists that graphics never make the game, and I'd like to keep those thoughts alive.
Before I go any further, let me say what I like about the game so everyone here knows I'm not just an insane Aion hater. I like the graphics, they are very pretty and the CryEngine stands out wonderfully. The customization options on the game are really great, and I feel like I have my own personal daeva, not a simple "choose what avatar may or may not represent you" list. Also, third, the dialogue in the quest and NPC speech boxes. This game has lots of writing and the translations are not half-assed. Major props to the localization teams because they deserve them. The storyline, for the most part when it's presented, is interesting.
So, with all of the nice things now said, let's go to the not so nice things. Be prepared to grind yourself retarded on this game. The experience does come slowly, and the quests, while they have great writing, just don't provide that much incentive. Take, for example, one of the Elyos starting missions. You have to destroy these little furry creatures that are ripping apart this guy's farm. Why are they ripping apart his farm? Who knows, they just are. Now you get to deal with it. Kill 5 of them and that will make it all better. For all of this good lore and nice writing, sometimes the incentive just isn't provided, and that sucks.
It makes things feel grindier when other games use this formula and can escape it. Champions Online does this nicely via evidence collection, doing favors for public officials, or just stopping bad guys from doing something bad. Why do I have to take out 10 of these prison guys? Well because they just broke out of prison and they're destroying local property. Why do I have to take 5 pieces of rubble off of citizens in this hotel? Because rubble KILLS PEOPLE. So… Aion… Why should I kill 5 of these creatures to save this guy's farm? How about because he's growing food for the local village? How about because these furry animals are being driven insane by an Asmodian plot to destroy the Elyos food supplies? How about that? Just give me something.
Furthermore, at low levels, the game relies heavily on the auto-attack and doesn't let you get through battles easily. Even by my 10th level, battles were still being sustained for a while and just not going anywhere. Granted I was playing a warrior, so my attack power wasn't the best, but battles dragged. Even when I was using my abilities, their cooldowns were so long I'd use them once per battle. This slowly begins to change later, but it doesn't do it as quick as you'd like it to.
So, my final beef — my biggest beef — comes from grouping with my roommate. He's a mage, I'm a warrior. Together, we finally solved that whole issue of "slow battles." We started wailing through content left and right, destroying enemies while barely taking damage. And even together, for all of our awesome, it still took us 4 hours to get to level 10 and reach our ascension. Afterwards, what changed? Nothing, really. Now we had wings and we went back to doing the exact same crap we were just doing.
Now picture doing all of the stuff we did alone. By yourself. Without the benefit of the damage boost from the mage or the taunts from the warrior. It would be painful… and, trust us, we killed lots of mobs to get to where we were with very little questing fun.
I guess that's my problem with Aion. It's slow. It's Lineage. You can see it pretty clearly in the design. It's Lineage II with World of Warcraft sprinkled atop. It's not new, it's not amazing. It's the same old stuff we've been getting, just with a shiny coating and half-assed flight. Oh, I guess it's also worth mentioning that flight is not the game changer I thought it would be. You get to fly for a minute at start (this goes up later when you get better pairs of wings) and you can use flight potions to stay up in the air. They wanted to make flight tactical, but in doing so they killed it for PvE use. Also, many areas disallow flight, so it kinda negates out the whole idea of flying combat to change up the game.
In short, this isn't a bad game. It's just not the amazing superawesome engine that people are making it out to be. Just like Champions Online isn't the superdevil people were making that out to be. Perhaps this is because I'm not in the Abyss yet, where Aion's focus lies, but I just don't see this shocking change coming to the game. It's just nothing new here. At least Champions brings some innovation to the table.
(Also, before the fanboi whining starts that Aion's innovation lies in the "new" PvPvE content in the Abyss, let me point you to the fallen Matrix Online, which included raid bosses in PvP areas. Whoops.)


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Overlooking the slopes of the Šar Mountains, this hotel in the ski resort of Tetovo features a lounge bar with a fireplace and panoramic terrace, free Wi-Fi and ski equipment storage.
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Situated in the town's central Illyria Square, Hotel Lirak is the oldest hotel in Tetovo. It offers free WiFi and air-conditioned rooms. The on-site restaurant serves Macedonian and international dishes.
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Located in the city centre of Tetovo, this new and comfortable hotel is one of the leading hotels in the area for both business and leisure stays. Air conditioning, free WiFi and free parking are provided.
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The St-James Residence is located in an elegant district in the centre of town on a street parallel with the River Rhone. There is excellent shopping nearby and the hotel is also close to Quay Gustave Ador where you can go for long walks along the edge of the lake.
WI-FI for all rooms and 2 computer buisness acces in the loby (free internet)
2 dedicated 20K for all floors
Check in : 14:00 - 22:00 hour
Check out : 08:00 - 12:00 hour
Creditcards : American Express, Visa, Euro/Mastercard, Carte Bleue, Diners Club, PIN, Bankcard
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The reception staffs suggest several activities and excursions to you. Journey on the Geneva Lake towards Montreux, Lausanne and France (according to season).
Visits of UN, the International Committee of the Red Cross museum, and many other museums in Geneva.
The Cologny Golf at 3km. For your evenings: theatres, operas, cinemas, discotheques, casino at 5 minutes of the residence.


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LeAnn Rimes and fiance Eddie Cibrian hand-in-hand by soaking in the Cabo San Lucas sun in Mexico on Thursday (December 30).
The couple celebrated their holiday engagement, which they announced earlier this week.
"Windy and chilly here in Cabo," LeAnn tweeted. "But that hasn't stopped us from hanging in the somewhat sun! Sooooo relaxed! I cant believe tomorrow is NYE!"
After a walk on the deserted beach, LeAnn, 28, and Eddie, 37, cuddle on some lounge chairs while sipping on tropical drinks.


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- Download Complete Harvard Game Notes (PDF)
- Watch Tim Murphy at the Weekly New England Football Writer's Luncheon
- Ivy League Weekly Release
- Audio From Ivy Weekly Football Teleconference
The Particulars
Harvard takes to the road on Saturday for a second straight week and another important Ivy League matchup at Dartmouth. Homecoming weekend at Dartmouth will also see the game televised live on NESN with kickoff slated for 1:30 p.m.
Series History
Saturday's game will be the 114th meeting between Harvard and Dartmouth in a series that dates to 1882 and stands as Harvard's second-oldest rivalry. Harvard holds a 63-45-5 series lead and has won its last six meetings and 12 of the last 13 against the Big Green.
In its last five games, Harvard has averaged 35 points per game.
Road Sweet Road
Harvard has won its last eight games at Dartmouth's Memorial Field dating back to 1994, meaning that head coach Tim Murphy has never lost a road game in the series.
- Also: Gino Gordon Wins New England Football Writers' Gold Helmet
- Princeton Photo Gallery Now Available
- Harvard-Princeton Video Highlights
Last Year's Meeting
Harvard rushed for 315 yards with Gino Gordon (119, 3 TDs) and Treavor Scales (120, 2 TDs) carrying the load while Gordon added 103 receiving yards on four receptions as Harvard dominated Dartmouth, 42-21.
The duo became the first pair of Harvard players to rush for 100 yards apiece in 10 years. Harvard led 42-14 before fumbling the ball away twice and having a blocked punt returned for a touchdown. Harvard's defense allowed just 64 rushing yards on 30 carries.
Harvard's Last Time Out
Gino Gordon carried 20 times for 204 yards and Treavor Scales 16 times for 134 yards as Harvard used its ground game to defeat Princeton 45-28 on the road.
Gordon's 26-yard touchdown run tied the game 7-7 in the first quarter and Scales' 46-yard score in the second put the Crimson ahead 14-7.
After going three-and-out on three straight pass plays on its first possession, Harvard gained 394 rushing yards.
Collier Winters, who was injured for Harvard's first five games, started the second half and threw two touchdown passes.
Andrew Kerr had two touchdown catches for the Tigers, who utilized a variety of trick plays to remain in contention until the fourth quarter when Grant Sickle blocked a punt and Mike Cook fell on it in the end zone for a Crimson score.
Dartmouth's Last Time Out
Nick Schwieger scored on a 1-yard run with 2:28 remaining as Dartmouth beat Columbia 24-21 after nearly fumbling away the game.
The Big Green led 17-7 in the fourth quarter and had reached the Columbia 15 but quarterback Connor Kempe fumbled after being hit by the Lions' Josh Smith.
Columbia then drove 70 yards in seven plays to get within 17-14 on Sean Brackett's 4-yard run.
Dartmouth's T.J. Cameron lost a fumble on the ensuing kickoff, but the Big Green got the ball back three plays later when Brackett fumbled. They didn't keep it long, as Schwieger fumbled on second down and Columbia recovered at the Dartmouth 29.
Brackett drove the Lions to a 21-17 lead in five plays, finding Nathan Lenz with a 2-yard touchdown pass.
Schwieger, who also scored a 1-yard third-quarter touchdown run, finished with 122 yards on 31 carries.
Harvard Coach Tim Murphy
In his 17th season as Harvard's head coach, Tim Murphy enters Saturday's game with a 106-57 record with the Crimson and a 139-102-1 overall head coaching record, which includes five years at Cincinnati and two years at Maine. Murphy is one of just five coaches to win 100 games since the formation of the Ivy League in 1954. Murphy has led Harvard to five Ivy League championships (1997, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2008). He is 13-3 all-time against Dartmouth.
Dartmouth Coach Buddy Teevens
In his sixth year of his second tour of duty on the Dartmouth sideline, Buddy Teevens enters Saturday's game against Harvard with a 39-75-2 record. Teevens was head coach at Dartmouth from 1987-91 before returning to his alma mater two seasons ago. He is 2-77-1 overall against Harvard.
Elite Company
With 108 career victories on the Harvard sideline, head coach Tim Murphy ranks second on the Crimson's all-time wins chart. Murphy is nine wins away from Joe Restic's school record 117 wins (from 1971-93).
Ivy Era Coaches
Since the formal naming of the Ivy League in 1956, just five coaches have reached the 100-win plateau with two of them being Harvard men.
Carm Cozza, Yale: 179
Bob Blackman, Dartmouth 127
Al Bangnoli, Penn: 127
Joe Restic, Harvard: 117
Tim Murphy, Harvard: 108
In The News
Former assistant football coach Richard C. "Dick" Corbin died Friday, October 22, 2010 as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Memorial donations to The Jimmy Fund, c/o Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 10 Brookline Place West, Brookline, MA 02445.
Complete Game Notes
For complete games notes in PDF format, click on the link at the beginning of this page.


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robb068 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 166 designs submitted by 54 freelance designers.
I like simplicity with an industrial flair in the design,maybe with a touch of retro? I like muted shades of dark grey blue or green.
Rob Skinner Photography
Desired Color Scheme:
shades of dark greyish blue, green
Desired Style:
simple, clean, hip, industrial, professional
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I am a pro photographer who is primarily shooting weddings. This logo does not have to reflect the wedding work,but should be simple, yet make a statement. Lower case lettering is great. Industrial, retro,muted tones, earthy, hip.I like muted shades of dark grey blue or green. Text only or graphic element, I am open.No cameras in image, or stars.
These are some business card elements that I like beow.
Also have a look at my website also for more on me.
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complain to (someone or something)
To voice one's annoyance or displeasure to someone or something. If you hate your job so much, quit complaining to me about it and look for a new one! If we complain to the school board, I'm sure we can get this decision overturned.
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Dubbed "the world's last absolute monarchy," the tiny, land-locked country teetered on the brink of bankruptcy while King Mswati III maintained tight control of news media and opposition voices. The king owned one of the two daily newspapers and employed the editor of the other as an adviser. Radio and television were also controlled by the state. Though Swazis readily accessed South African radio and television, South African newspapers entering Swaziland were carefully screened by authorities: If deemed critical of the king or government, all copies were purchased and destroyed. Self-censorship prevailed in the kingdom, where political parties are banned and critical voices within civil society and the media were silenced through legal or professional repercussions. Few dared challenge the government; the boards of state-owned companies such as the Swazi Observer Newspaper group kept their editors in check and, in turn, editors ensured that their reporters toed the line. A court sentenced the editor of the independent paper The Nation to a harsh fine in connection with his critical articles. He appealed to the Supreme Court and was free pending the appeal. In a positive development, parliament passed bills allowing for the creation of diverse TV and radio services, including community radio, and a commission to regulate broadcasting.
A court in April fined Bhekitemba Makhubu, editor of The Nation, US$20,000 in connection with articles he published in 2009 and 2010 that criticized the Swaziland judiciary. Makhubu was ordered to serve two years in jail if he failed to pay the fine. He is appealing the sentence.
Makhubu's article said the Swazi judiciary had failed to uphold the values of the country's 2005 constitution and allow political parties, and claimed that the judgment equated Swaziland's administration in 2009 with medieval politics in England.
The Nation has come under attack in recent years.
November 2009:
|The Nation publishes an article under the headline: "Will the judiciary come to the party: Chief Justice Richard Banda needs to rally his troops behind the Constitution of 2005."
December 2009:
|Swaziland's attorney general sends a letter to Makhubu, saying that his article is contemptuous and that the paper should consider publishing an apology to the chief justice. The Nation refuses to apologize.
February 2010:
|The Nation publishes a second article, a commentary by Makhubu, under the headline: "Speaking my mind."
March 2010:
|Makhubu and Swaziland Independent Publishers, which publishes The Nation, are charged with "contempt of court by scandalizing the court" and with bringing the "administration of justice into disrepute."
February 2012:
|Makhubu defends himself in court, saying his articles are fair comment and in the public interest.
April 17, 2013:
|In a 91-page judgment, Justice M.C.B. Maphalala convicts Makhubu and Swaziland Independent Publishers on both counts and sentences them to pay a fine totaling 400,000 emalangeni (about US$40,000). The judge rules that half the fine will be suspended as long as they are not found guilty of a similar offense in the next five years. The judge also orders them to pay the fine within three days, saying that failure to do so would result in a two-year jail term for Makhubu.
April 23, 2013:
|Makhubu lodges an appeal with the Supreme Court. No date is set for the hearing and he is free pending appeal.
The monthly news magazine The Nation is owned and published by Swaziland Independent Publishers. Media freedom advocates regard the publication as the only independent voice in Swaziland.
Despite Section 24 of Swaziland's constitution enshrining freedom of the press, most of the principal media outlets are controlled by the state or choose to self-censor.
Times of Swaziland
The paper is privately owned, but defers to the king, says Richard Rooney, former journalism professor at the University of Swaziland. Martin Dlamini, managing editor of the paper, is employed by the king as an adviser.
In 2011, Rooney wrote that the Times had a "long history of kowtowing to King Mswati," and cited examples of the paper censoring coverage criticizing the king or dropping columnists who criticized the royal regime.
In the mid-1990s, the government threatened to withdraw all the Times' advertising if the newspaper did not toe the line in its coverage, and in 2007 the paper was threatened with closing after it ran a report critical of the country's bleak economic outlook and poor governance.
The Swazi Observer Newspaper Group
|King Mswati III owns the paper through a royal conglomerate, Tibiyo Taka Ngwane, established by the king's father, King Sobhuza II, in 1968. According to its mission statement, it aims to capture "the dynamics of Swaziland, reflecting the reality of Swaziland ...while upholding the social and cultural values of the Swazi nation."
Voice of the Church
|The global Christian radio network Trans World Radio owns the station. It broadcasts courtesy of a royal permit from the king, and its content is confined to religious matters.
The Swaziland Broadcasting and Information Service
|This state-owned radio station broadcasts in English and Siswati. The government has banned coverage of the activities of labor unions, including strikes and announcements, by the state broadcasters, according to a report by the Swaziland chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa.
Swazi TV
|The station is owned by the state-run Swaziland Television Authority. The government has invoked Public Service Announcement guidelines to prevent citizens from airing their views via radio and TV state broadcasters, according to a report by the Media Institute of Southern Africa Swaziland.
Channel Swazi
|This private TV station is on and off the air due to financial challenges. According to MISA Swaziland, neither this private TV channel nor Voice of the Church station "dares to question the country's ruling elite or report on them in anything but positive terms."
Two editors, Alec Lushaba and Thulani Thwala, were reinstated in March 2013 after being suspended by their employer, the Swazi Observer Newspaper group, for eight months, according to news reports.
The editors were accused of "negative coverage" and failure to follow the company's mandate, which includes "upholding the social and cultural values of the Swazi nation." The king is seen as the embodiment of these values.
Lushaba and Thwala had published critical stories about the king, including a June 2011 article about Swaziland's alleged attempts to secure a loan from South Africa, which was believed to cause embarrassment to the king, according to the managing director of Tibiyo Taka Ngwane, the royal entity that owns the Swazi Observer Newspaper group.
In June 2012, South Africa and Swaziland concluded a loan agreement of approximately US$240 million, conditional on Swaziland's implementing political and economic reforms. But in January 2013, Swaziland said it would not take the loan.
Community radio was outlawed in Swaziland, but in June 2013 parliament passed the Swaziland Communications Commission Bill and the Electronic Communications Bill, which will allow for the creation of a community radio sector and a communications commission to regulate the broadcasting environment. Previously, the head of Swaziland Broadcasting and Information Service determined which stations were allowed on air.
A fledgling network of community stations launched in July 2013 and individual stations are applying for broadcast licenses.
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|Matsanjeni Community Radio
|Ngwemphisi Community Radio
|University Campus Radio
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Fearing a riotous backlash from Malaysia's hyper-sensitive, albeit slightly blur, rakyat, the Malaysian Bureau of Riotous Eccentricities & Delusions (BORED) had yesterday decided to ban tutus or any performances involving tutus anywhere in Malaysia.
Tutus, apparently, from now on, are deemed riotously indecent as it may cause a proclivity to immense sexual desires which in turn may result in an increase of illegal shagging, which ultimately, will end in baby dumping, change of faith (especially among the Muslims) and an inexplicable – and highly undesirable - liking for Barry Manilow's songs.
It remains hazy – as it always is in Malaysia around April every year – whether short skirts, tight hot pants, bikinis, swim suits, g- strings, kebaya nyonya and tight kain batiks as well as Aznil Nawawi are going to be deemed indecent anytime soon.
Speaking on the condition of absolute anonymity, a spoke person of the Organisation of Malfunctioning Governmental Shit-Heads (OMGosh) – a new NGO established to defend riotous edicts by various governmental agencies – said yesterday that tutus are Christian Zionists' propaganda tool which is insidiously aimed at the sub-conscious zone of every person, especially males of between 13 to 84 years of age. Tutus are thus malevolent agents of the Christian Jews who are hell bent on destroying the rakyats through sex, sex and sex.
Says the spoke person (quoted verbatim):
"We iz very the worried at diz tootoo coz dey iz work below the otak and the rakyatz not realise wen dey see tootoo dey all become like zombie like dat, dey no realise dey being converted by diz jahat evil Kristian Zionis. We at OMGosh tink diz tootoo is same with der tattoo which last month dat Erika Badu wanted to use to brainwash the rakyats."
OMGosh, according to the spoke person, has a 42 minute video (in HD) to prove its allegation that the poor and very weak Malaysian rakyats are being cock-and-bull- washed by tutus. It is estimated that to date, 17000 rakyats have been totally "turn-around upside down" by the tutus.
Meanwhile, another NGO, Centre for Complete Kookooness (COCK) today releases the result of a recent survey involving about 300 males who watched the uncensored version of Black Swan in controlled environments, including their bedroom and toilets. The survey reveals a shocking 5 of them having a complete hard on during the full duration of the movie, even during the scene where Nina-the-ballerina-in-a-tutu was lying bleeding.
That proves that tutus are indecent, says the Chairman of COCK.
The Chairman further says that although he is definitely not racist or anti-Semitic, the fact that Natalie Portman, who plays the leading ballerina in that movie is Jewish did not escape his attention. According to him:
"Dat ah, pruf ferder dat der tutu and der Juice are axiz of evil."
As of the time of writing, it remains unclear – as is usual here – whether Dato' Nicol David will be allowed to play squash in Malaysia wearing a short skirt as she usually does in every other tournament around the globe. It also remains completely a mystery whether in the next SEA games, Malaysian body builders are going to have to perform in kain pelikat and oversized baju batik.
Meanwhile, in an unrelated, but most probably connected, news, the organisers of a public forum on "Christian Aqidah – are we threatened by Dong Zong?" today announce that they are seeking a clarification whether the tutu ban will affect Bishop Desmond Tutu's visit to Malaysia next week. He is supposed to deliver a key-note address at the forum.
Ternama News Agency: 5th April 2012 (four days after April Fool's day).


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Do Vegetable Oils Cause Heart Disease?
Maylin Rodriguez-Paez, RN
heart disease.
Unfortunately, these days heart disease is the number one killer of American men and women, killing hundreds of thousands each year, and being responsible for 1 in 4 deaths.1
Since we've been anything but successful in our attempts to abolish heart disease, we need to completely re-evaluate the situation. Have we been wrong all along?
Case in point: Research is now showing that vegetable oils may not be as heart-healthy as some have always imagined. In fact, they may even play a critical role in our current heart disease epidemic.
Let's explore this a little, shall we?
Safflower Oil is Linked to Heart Problems and DeathBetween 1966 and 1973, a study was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary fats on heart health. Researchers split more than 400 men who had suffered a recent cardiac event into two groups.
One group was instructed to avoid saturated fats but include more safflower oil — a rich source omega-6 fats — in their diet. The other group was instructed to continue their usual eating habits.
The data of this study was recently re-evaluated and published in the British Medical Journal.2, and the results were pretty surprising. The men who cut back on saturated fats were more likely to have cardiac problems and die from all causes.
Omega-6 Fats are InflammatorySo why is something like safflower oil associated with heart disease and even death? It may have to do with it being a rich source of omega-6, an unsaturated fatty acid.
The typical Western diet contains excess amounts of omega-6 fats and too little omega-3 fats. Some estimates show the American diet has an omega-6 to omega-3 ratio of 8:1, when optimal ratios for heart health3 are not greater than 4:1.
Excessive intake of omega-6 fats is associated with inflammation, blood clots, increased blood viscosity and decreased bleeding time, and even plaque formation in certain populations.4
In contrast, omega-3 fatty acids stop inflammation, have blood thinning effects, and protect against plaque.5
See why some balance is needed?
When it Comes to Fats, It's All About BalanceAre we advocating that you avoid all omega-6 fats and vegetable oils? No. It's just an excess that may be causing problems. Your body actually needs a certain amount of omega-6 fats to function properly.
We are, however, advocating that you reduce the amount of omega-6 fats in your diet. Vegetable oils such as soybean oil, corn oil, cottonseed oil, and sunflower oil are big sources of omega-6 fats.
Avoid cooking with them to prevent excessive amounts in your diet. Instead, choose healthier options like olive oil.
Animal products such as chicken, eggs, milk, and beef are rich sources of omega-6 fats as well, but grass-fed animals tend to have a more favorable omega-6 to omega-3 ratio.6 Consider these when given the option.
Prepackaged foods are another big source of omega-6 fats. Soybean oil, for example, is a major ingredient in many processed foods. You'll also find omega-6 fats in salad dressings and marinades.
And last but not least, make an effort to get more omega-3s. They will help you tip the balance against the harmful effects of omega-6s.
Get More Omega-3s and Test Your Blood LevelsIt's hard to obtain enough omega-3s through diet alone, so consider supplementing with them. Fish oils and algal oils are great sources. They both contain EPA and DHA, the most heart-friendly omega-3s.
You can also measure your omega-6 to omega-3 ratio with a simple at-home blood test, called the Omega Score®. This simple blood test will tell you precisely where your omega-6 to omega-3 ratio is.
The Bottom LineFor optimal heart health, it's important that you decrease the amount of omega-6s in your diet while simultaneously increasing the amount of omega-3s.
Have you made an effort to do this? If so, has it impacted your health? Please share your thoughts in the comments!
- Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/features/heartmonth/. Accessed February 26, 2013.
- BMJ. 2013 Feb[RS1] 4;346:e8707.
- CMAJ. 2002 Mar 5;166(5):608-15.
- Biomed Pharmacother. 2006 Nov;60(9):502-7.
- Drug News Perspect. 2008 Dec;21(10):552-61.
- Nutr J. 2010 Mar 10;9:10.


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Using ColdFusion To Stream Files To The Client Without Loading The Entire File Into Memory
Just a really quick post here. In my previous post on creating semi-secure file downloads, Todd Rafferty brought up the idea that the reason we want to avoid CFContent is because it loads the entire file into memory before it flushes it to the browser. He made the point that the problem is not so much the tying up of threads via CFContent, but rather the fact that so much RAM was tied up in the file load. Therefore, he raised the idea of using a FileInputStream to incrementally load the file into memory and then flush it to the browser. He pointed me to a post on RealityStorm.com, which is what he was basing his code on.
Anyway, I have done some stuff like that a long time ago based on what Christian Cantrell wrote (which is what RealityStorm.com was also referencing); but, I haven't played around with it in a while (and mine didn't use an input stream, but rather a binary variable). And so, I thought I would quickly take the code and port it over to a ColdFusion custom tag - smartcfcontent.cfm. This doesn't support all of the ColdFusion CFContent features, just the File and Type combination. For everything else, you would just want to use the CFContent tag directly.
The use of this ColdFusion tag (in CFModule format) would look like this:
- <!---
- Even when using the "smart" buffer, we can still use our
- standard ColdFusion header values.
- --->
- <cfheader
- name="content-disposition"
- value="attachment; filename='girls.png'"
- />
- <!---
- Stream file to browser without having to load the entire
- file into memory. This uses a 5 meg buffer to shuttle data
- from a file to the client.
- --->
- <cfmodule
- template="smartcfcontent.cfm"
- type="image/png"
- file="#ExpandPath( './girls.png' )#"
- />
Notice that you can still use the standard ColdFusion CFHeader tag to define your attachment type and suggested file name.
Here is the ColdFusion code behind this custom tag. Nothing revolutionary here; I am really just duplicating what others have done, but in my own style so that me and Todd Rafferty can compare notes:
- <!--- Param the tag attributes. --->
- <!---
- This is the mime type of the content that we are
- streaming to the browser.
- --->
- <cfparam
- name="ATTRIBUTES.Type"
- type="string"
- default="application/octet-stream"
- />
- <!---
- This it the expanded path of the file that will be
- streamed to the client.
- --->
- <cfparam
- name="ATTRIBUTES.File"
- type="string"
- />
- <!---
- Get a pointer to the response. We will need to this to
- set the header values and finalize the data flush. To get
- this, we will have to go two levels deep - past the text
- output stream, to it's underlying binary stream.
- --->
- <cfset THISTAG.Response = GetPageContext()
- .GetResponse()
- .GetResponse()
- />
- <!---
- Get a pointer to the underlying binary repsonse stream
- of the current ColdFusions.
- --->
- <cfset THISTAG.BinaryOutputStream = THISTAG.Response.GetOutputStream() />
- <!---
- We need to create a byte array that will be used to read
- in the input stream and then transfer the input stream to
- the output stream. Since ColdFusion doesn't have true
- arrays, we need to hack one by grabbing the byte array
- from a ColdFusion string.
- Here, we are using the underlying Java method to grab a
- byte array that is 5,120 bytes long (around 5 megs).
- --->
- <cfset THISTAG.ByteBuffer = RepeatString( "12345", 1024 )
- .GetBytes()
- />
- <!---
- Now, we need to create a file input stream so that we can
- read chunks of the file into memory as we stream it.
- --->
- <cfset THISTAG.FileInputStream = CreateObject(
- "java",
- "java.io.FileInputStream"
- ).Init(
- JavaCast( "string", ATTRIBUTES.File )
- )
- />
- <!---
- Before we start putting stuff in the buffer, let's
- turn off the auto-flushing mechanism so that we have
- full control.
- --->
- <cfset GetPageContext().SetFlushOutput(
- JavaCast( "boolean", false )
- ) />
- <!---
- Reset the buffer to make sure nothing else has built up
- in prior to this tag.
- --->
- <cfset THISTAG.Response.ResetBuffer() />
- <!---
- Set the content type using the mime type that was passed
- in. This will give the browser information as to how to
- deal with the streamed content.
- --->
- <cfset THISTAG.Response.SetContentType(
- JavaCast( "string", ATTRIBUTES.Type )
- ) />
- <!---
- Now that we have all the elements in place, let's start
- reading in the file and moving it to the output buffer.
- We are going to keep doing this while until we hit the
- end of the file.
- --->
- <cfloop condition="true">
- <!--- Read a chunk of the file into the byte buffer. --->
- <cfset THISTAG.BytesRead = THISTAG.FileInputStream.Read(
- THISTAG.ByteBuffer,
- JavaCast( "int", 0 ),
- JavaCast( "int", ArrayLen( THISTAG.ByteBuffer ) )
- ) />
- <!---
- Check to see if any bytes were read. If not, then we
- will have a -1 to denote that the end of the file has
- been reached.
- --->
- <cfif (THISTAG.BytesRead NEQ -1)>
- <!---
- Write the buffer to the output stream. We want to be
- careful only to write as many bytes as were read in.
- --->
- <cfset THISTAG.BinaryOutputStream.Write(
- THISTAG.ByteBuffer,
- JavaCast( "int", 0 ),
- JavaCast( "int", THISTAG.BytesRead )
- ) />
- <!--- Flush this new content to the client. --->
- <cfset THISTAG.BinaryOutputStream.Flush() />
- <cfelse>
- <!---
- We hit a (-1). We reached the end of the file. This
- is not the cleanest solution, but just break out
- of the loop.
- --->
- <cfbreak />
- </cfif>
- </cfloop>
- <!---
- ASSERT: At this point, we have fully read in the file,
- moved it to the binary output stream, and then flushed it
- to the client. Now, we just have to peform clean up work.
- --->
- <!---
- Reset the response. This will clear any remaining information
- in the buffer as well as any header information.
- --->
- <cfset THISTAG.Response.Reset() />
- <!---
- Close the file input stream to make sure we are not locking
- the file from further use.
- --->
- <cfset THISTAG.FileInputStream.Close() />
- <!---
- Close the output stream to make sure no other content is
- getting flushed to the browser.
- --->
- <cfset THISTAG.BinaryOutputStream.Close() />
- <!---
- Exit out of this tag to make sure it doesn't try to execute
- for a second time if someone made it self-closing.
- --->
- <cfexit method="exittag" />
This works quite nicely.
Reader Comments
Good job Ben. I'll have to compare it against what I have at home. I'd love to see some memory stats on this as well and see if it really does what we think it is doing.
P.S.: CFDev Team @ Adobe, you're not off the hook on this - I want CFContent fixed. :P
btw, should we inquire as to where you found a 5 meg 'girls.png' file? ;)
@Todd: Are you saying that <cfcontent file="/path/to/file"> internally fails to use a file buffer, and instead reads the entire file before transmitting it to the browser (like as if you did <cffile action="read"><cfoutput>#filecontent#</cfoutput>)?
If that's the case, this seems like an egregious bug with ColdFusion, of what real value is <cfcontent file=...>? Although the docs don't say so explicitly I always assumed that was its purpose.
@Eric : Yes, to the best of my knowledge, that's what I'm saying. It's been this way for a long time too. Someone from Adobe can come correct me at any time.
Having built 2 iterations of a document library, I have seen some strange things happening with memory when it comes to cfcontent. I have brought this up elsewhere and seen a lot of "ditto" responses that have lead me to believe this. Don't get me wrong, CFContent is doing what it is supposed to be doing, streaming a file down to the user. It's just not doing what I'd like it to be doing, buffering. Perhaps there are additional threading involved when it comes to buffering, which is why I'd love to see stats on this.
So, someone can also feel free to step in and tell me why buffering would be bad in this scenario and why reading the whole thing would be more desirable. The only thing I can think of is cfcontent's deleteFile attribute. If you say yes, then it makes sense to read the whole thing into memory and delete the file. However, if I have no need to remove that file, then can't it be a little more memory friendly?
can anyone confirm that the behavior being presented is still present is cf8? remember that the file libraries got a complete overhaul.
this might be something to also pass a long to the open blue dragon committee.
I'm setting up a test scenario now, will use FusionReactor to test if memory usage is over the top
@Ben: Cool idea to wrap this up in a custom tag! :-) I'm excited to try this out.
I just did a test in CF 8 using FusionReactor to watch memory while using <cfcontent type="application/x-zip-compressed" file="#ExpandPath('bigfile.zip')#">
Memory was at 141mb when the file started, memory was at 151 when the file transfer completed. The file was 302 meg, and the transfer took about 2 minutes. The memory graph never spiked, and never went over 151 meg, though it did clearly do a garbage collection in the middle of the transfer and drop down to 141 meg before rising gradually to 151 again.
Long story short: it looks like <cfcontent file="..."> uses buffering to transfer the file, it doesn't consume an inappropriate level of resources.
Okeedoke, I guess I stand corrected.
Awesome detective work! This is most excellent to see.
As long as we are in a better place than we were a few hours ago, I have to think this foray has been pretty successful :)
Meh. If anything I learned I need to get off my ass and look into FusionReactor to back up my claims or debunk myths. :)
Oh wait, that's why I didn't look into it. *cough*$299*cough*.
Ha ha :)
FusionReactor is just downright invaluable. It kicks the butt of CF's built-in server monitoring. It's so great to be able to look at your past requests, see how many queries they executed, see the longest-running queries, see how much memory that request consumed, identify scripts which are consistently slow-running, see the request/response headers after the fact, kill threads which are stuck for whatever reason, set yourself up for alerts, see what your memory/cpu/jdbc utilization is like over time, and if you buy the enterprise version, get a dashboard of the health of all your servers.
One of my favorite features is the ability to add traces to a request. These are bits of extra data which get stored in the request history, so you can click on that request and get bits of debug info (whatever you feel like putting in there). Where I work, we do a lot of interaction with SAP from ColdFusion. I set up for myself the ability to have it trace the inputs and outputs of each SAP call as a flag on our SAP interaction CFC. Then when a business user places an order and claims they're seeing the wrong thing, I can go into the request history, click on the request, and see what I passed to SAP to make sure my inputs are right, and also see what came back from SAP to see if the problem is on that side.
If you're doing personal development or small-scale development, it's probably not worth it, but if you're doing enterprise stuff, this tool is simply critical. It's saved me so much debug time when I can just peek at the request history to narrow down where problems are.
It's also critical for monitoring production instances. We have a big pile of production boxes, some of which have many instances of CF running on them. If we get a complaint about slowness, we can fire up the enterprise dashboard and see at a glance exactly where the problem is - whether it's a specific server, whether it's the database, whether one of the boxes has run out of memory, etc.
Download the trial and look up how to wrap your data sources with the FusionReactor wrapper, as well as how to do FRAPI traces. My guess is you'll be impressed.
@Eric, I don't doubt it. If I were in business for myself, I would be purchasing it. Since I'm only poking around my own server and such, it's a little steep for me (for the moment). I will say that I might suggest a copy of it for work, but I'm not sure they'll go for it (small shop).
@Todd - Yeah, it would be nice if they provided a developer-only version for free (such as if it only worked in Developer-mode CF installs) - they'd probably make a lot of sales that way =)
@eric and todd,
you do know that you can save the receipt and write the purchase off at the end of the year.
@Tony: If you're running your own business, it'd be the smart thing to do. I don't run my own business.
Have you tested this on CF 7? I'm curious to know if cfcontent streams on CF 8 only.
I hadn't tested it on 7 when I posted earlier. I'm running a test now. 25 meg into the file, memory is actually down slightly from when I started - a garbage collection clearly ran (started at 111 mb, down to 104 mb now). It looks like CF7 also buffers.
It should be noted, I'm looking at used memory, not allocated memory. The difference is allocated memory is how much RAM the JVM has claimed for itself while used memory is how much of the allocated memory is in use by resident objects (it's always smaller than allocated memory). This is the real measure of actual usage, and has to be reported by the JVM, not by the operating system (FusionReactor shows you both).
Thanks for the testing. Awesome stuff.
Great to hear some feedback on FusionReactor. Our team is very active in the community and love to hear feedback (negative & positive). I'll certainly pass on your comments.
You can see an online demo of FusionReactor from our website but the best way to see it is download and install it (time limited demo version, don't worry, it just switches off when your time limit expires or, you can buy a license) - I'm sure you'll be impressed and see what a valuable tool it is.
If you're heading to Scotch-on-the-Rocks (UK) or CFUnited (US) then come along and meet some of the team to see FusionReactor and the other tools in our Fusion product suite.
Great code! I've modified it to stream large BLOBs from a database and it's working beautifully. Thanks Ben!
Ran into an interesting problem though - it looks like the response reset
- <cfset THISTAG.Response.Reset() />
is throwing java.lang.IllegalStateException: Response has already been committed.
The exception is not visible to the user but it of course shows up in the exception log.
Has anyone else run into this?
@Mike, that's expected behavior. If you've used <cfcontent> to send content to the browser, that is not buffered for memory reasons (there is no practical limit to how much data you could stream down with this approach). The response being committed means that ColdFusion has already instructed the web server to start sending bytes to the browser. Once they've been sent down the line, you can't recall them.
This has been a while, but I don't remember getting any errors. As @Eric is saying, however, if you've flushed any content to the browser already, then you won't be able to reset. It't be like trying to call CFContent twice in a row.
Do you have a CFFlush or something before the tag that's "committing" the request?
Hey Ben, not sure if you knew this or not but CF9 has a nasty bug of not being able to serve large files with CFContent (http://cfbugs.adobe.com/cfbugreport/flexbugui/cfbugtracker/main.html#bugId=83425).
I thought I had found a miracle work around with this posting, but it seems that using smartcfcontent, all files over 127 MB get truncated right at that point. Don't know if this has always happened, or if it's new and related to the CF9 CFContent bug, but that file size seems to be the same as where CFContent can't serve it anymore. Playing with the JVM memory settings doesn't seem to make any difference.
Hmmm, interesting behavior. I haven't served up large files before so have not run into this problem myself. I hope this gets solved in one of the dot-releases.
We never experienced cfcontent issues until we moved to CF9. I get the same errors using the ahove method as I do with cfcontent "Java heap space null". Some of the files on our file server can be as big as 750mb. Does anyone know if there is a way to make the max heap setting higher than 1024mb? If we make it higher, the CF service won't start back up. Thanks!
@Chad, yes, but only under a 64-bit OS. if you're running 32-bit, your limit is 1024. If you upgrade to 64-bit, you need to do a fresh install of CF - don't even just install overtop of your existing CF install or else CF will still be running in 32-bit mode.
I'm using your code to read a file that is still being written, so I can begin the stream to the client before needing to wait for the file processing to finish.
Your code as is works great, but if the download speed exceeds the processing speed it will fail. Since I also write a log file when the processing is complete, I added a check for the log file's existence into the loop instead of looking for no new bytes, with a sleep to allow a little more processing to buffer if the log file's not present.
However, when all is said and done, there seems to be a lock on the file once the write is complete. I can still read the file, but can't delete it.
Do you think that since I open the file for reading while its still being written, the program writing it can't close its write handle? I don't really know how the handles are, er, handled as the file is being written by a pile of programs via pipes.. ffmpeg | sox | sox | lame | ffmpeg.
The fact that it works at all is actually outstanding. :D
@Jay, I don't know of any reason that reading a file will screw up locks on the same file by other processes. But it sounds like you're using a file as an intermediary between stream processing software (eg, ffmpeg) and ColdFusion. I haven't done this directly, but as far as I'm aware those programs can write their raw data to StdOut. If the data is discarded as soon as you stream it to the browser, you should be able to take advantage of that and send the data directly to the browser without it ever sitting on the disk.
You probably have to drop to Java processes, but you can do so entirely from the comfort of a ColdFusion environment. I've done real time command execution back to the browser a few years ago, what I have is probably not too far off from what you need. I talk about it on my long-extinct blog:
When dealing with binary data, the hairy bits might be surrounding WriteOutput() calls, I'm not sure if you can do that with binary data or not, or how CF will even handle the data at this point. To do it right you need to start using buffered readers and such (the approach there would be a bit slow for really big chunks of data, such as ffmpeg tends to produce).
There's a way to do this, I've just never tried (though you've got me curious).
Interesting, I'll go through that code and see if there are any bits I can use, thank you!! I need to write the output of this process to a file for re-use since its very processor intensive. I haven't had a chance to really work at the problem yet, but I'll post back when I do.
On a side note, after many iterations of executing my processes with java based methods, I fell back to crappy ol' cfexecute to, of all things, a batch file. FFMpeg has an unusual problem in that all console output seems to be written to stdErr, which really sucks. I execute cmd.exe, call a batch file with all the programs I want to run afterwards, like:
route.bat c:\tools\ffmpeg.exe -i blah.flv -f wav - | lame.... etc
The batch file simply has:
echo %* <-- which is awesome
echo %errorlevel%
This allows me to look for the errorlevel in the cfexecute output (always in stdOut). I don't think errorLevel is otherwise available to cfexecute. That %* was new to me today.. it runs everything passed to it, getting over the 9 item variable limit in windoze command line.
K, too far off topic, just thought ppl here might interested. :D
@Jay, @Eric,
I didn't even know that files could be both read from and written to at the same time. Very interesting.
So, I found the problem with locked files, not being able to delete them after using this code. This code:
<cfset THISTAG.Response.Reset() />
Generates this error in application.log:
"Error","jrpp-2","11/15/10","16:50:42",,"Response has already been committed The specific sequence of files included or processed is: <snip>\stream.cfm, line: 176 "
Thus, the file was simply not being closed. Hope this helps someone out there in internet land.
I tried the tag on Windows 2008 IIS 7, works GREAT for anything under 1GB download size. For larger files, it stops downloading right at 1GB. Any idea why? I've been pulling my hair out on this for a day now trying all of the usual searches for IIS 7 download limits. The problem happens for me in both Chrome and IE browsers so I'm fairly sure it's not a browser problem. Any ideas anybody?
@Jay, @Ben,
I have encountered the same error: "Response has already been committed". I'm not doing anything else with the file other than downloading to the client so the file being locked isn't a problem for me, but my log file is getting filled with this error message.
I commented out the offending line
<cfset THISTAG.Response.Reset() />
and everything still seems to work properly. Is it OK to remove this line?
Did you ever find out the answer to this?
Yes, it works just fine for me.
I haven't received a response, but the code seems to work just fine with that line omitted.
FWIW this appears to be fixed in CF901 hotfix 2. I have not verified yet as I don't run the affected server here at work (though I asked for them to install hotfix when they can).
Ack! I was referring to the Coldfusion bug 83425.
I'm maintaining a site that manages HD video promoting tourism that recently added some big files 1 - 5 GB and I tried this method which works very well for files up to 1GB (the same limitation as using <CFcontent...>)
The download proceeds very will until I see it hang at 1,021 MB (CF9 with hotfix2)
At files that big you'd be better off looking at using XSendFile technology - CF passes a HTTP header to the web server which tells the web server to handle the download. This frees up the CF thread and lets it continue doing what it's good at (generating pages) and let the web server do what its good at (transferring data)
I've got an IIS server on a Win 2008 box and although I have successfully installed Helicon Ape - I don't understand the next step manual installation code like where my site's /Bin folder is or where & what to put in a web.config file or where the /Helicon/httpd.conf file is to go...
For that matter I'm uncertain what the differences are between a GAC single site and Snap-in are? The documentation assumes I'm far more familiar with the server than I actually am.
I'm feeling my way in the dark & hope for a happy resolution.
XSendFile technology should in no way be necessary. Coldfusion works great in serving up large files less than 1GB in size. There is some configured throttle setting somewhere either in IIS or in CF that is causing it to abort when it gets to 1GB of outbound content transfered. This should NOT be happening. I've pored over the CF configuration in the administrator tool, and IIS configuration as well, for days.
Something might be broken here. I tried to get CF to serve up a large file, and it looks like internally CF is trying to read the entire file into RAM first.
My test file is a single line of code:
- <cfcontent file="/path/to/large/file">
Over 1GB, this fails. My test file is 1,073,666,048 bytes. In the ColdFusion exception log is the following error:
- "Error","jrpp-143","06/27/12","10:43:56",,"Java heap space The specific sequence of files included or processed is: /path/to/test/file.cfm'' "
- java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
I even tried some tomfoolery in Java to write directly to the jsp output context, but I still kept exhausting my heap space, so something inside CF is not letting go of that flushed output. In short, it seems like it might not be possible to serve files from ColdFusion to exceed the available heap space to Java right now.
Increasing the memory you give CF, or write the file to a temporary location before producing the link, I think these are your only options.
For anyone curious, here's my java tomfoolery:
- <cfscript>
- filename="/path/to/large/file";
- bufferSize = 4096;
- // Java acrobatics to create a byte array (CF can't do this directly, we
- // need to trick someone else into giving it to us)
- emptyByteArray =createObject("java", "java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream").init().toByteArray();
- byteClass = emptyByteArray.getClass().getComponentType();
- byteArray = createObject("java","java.lang.reflect.Array").newInstance(byteClass, bufferSize);
- // Get an input stream for that file
- javaFile = createobject("java", "java.io.File").init(filename);
- instream = createobject("java", "java.io.FileInputStream").init(javaFile);
- // CF's underlying JSP response objects
- pageContext = getPageContext();
- response = pageContext.getResponse();
- output = response.getOutputStream();
- // Start streaming!!!
- response.setContentType("application/octet-stream");
- for (;;) {
- bytesRead = instream.read(byteArray);
- if (bytesRead gt -1) {
- // Directly write the response
- output.write(byteArray, 0, bytesRead);
- // Do not let our buffer fill up!
- pageContext.getOut().flush();
- } else {
- break;
- }
- }
- instream.close();
- abort;
- </cfscript>
@Eric, @Spencer
Have you thought about slicing the large file up, and serving them sequentially? Seems like it would be a pretty trivial task. Get the overall file size, slice, read each slice and serve. You'd be releasing the file off the heap before reading the next slice.
Just like consuming pie.
@Jay, check out my code; I served it up in 4kb chunks, was very sure to flush, and still the JVM heap got exhausted.
Sorry, to be clear I meant split the file OUTSIDE this environment and read them sequentially.
In *nix you'd use the SPLIT command. It splits a binary file into pieces. Then you'd execute your code as above, looped for each piece. For instance, you'd read 12 100MB files and 1 44MB file to serve a 1244MB file, and you would only be taxing your help to 1/10 if your heap size is 1GB.
You'd just have to do some GC on javaFile, but I'd wager CF will do it for you when you close the file.
(This is all conjecture, but worth trying IMHO.)
Oops, meant GC on instream. When you instream.close() does it then reduce the heap?
It never gets anywhere near instream.close(); the heap is exhausted inside that for loop.
Heap exhaustion is not related to the size of the file on the disk, it's related to how much data you send downstream.
For example, here I replaced the for loop from my earlier example. Now I only ever read 4kb of data, exactly one time, then I output that data repeatedly:
- // load just one chunk, and output it repeatedly
- bytesRead = instream.read(byteArray);
- for (;;) {
- output.write(byteArray, 0, bytesRead);
- output.flush();
- out.flush();
- }
This should loop forever, and the size of your download should be limited only by the request timeout and your connection speed. This should never exhaust the heap - in fact your memory for this request should never exceed something in the neighborhood of 10 to 20 kb.
So when *does* it release the heap? When the page completes execution?
@Jay, That seems to be the case.
I've followed the 2008 single site manual installation and updated the web.config file (2) and copied the httpd.conf from program files/helicon/Ape to my site in a new folder /Helicon (3).
What is missing is step (1) - there doesn't seem to be a Helicon.ape.dll from the Helicon download? So, I'm stuck, because it doesn't appear work without that file, or some other mistake I've made.
I'd sure like to find an example I might try to assure that its working when ever I do get it installed.
As for breaking up the files - this is a globally accessed media website for graphics/advertising/marketing people to pick up big pictures (typically 75mb) and HD videos from 100mb to 5GB There's no way the customer would make users concatenate files. Nor can I expect that it would be easy to implement.
Like Eric, I've tried a lot of things from within ColdFusion 9 HF2 to get this working with no joy. My server is a Dell PER510 dual X5550 with 16GB ram.
I've increased all the memory sizes that I can in the CF administrator with no luck, so I think that this direction to use mod_xsendfile is the right way to go...
<CFHEADER NAME="Content-Disposition" value='attachment; filename="myfile.zip"'>
<CFLOCATION URL="http://www.domain.com/myfile.zip">
After trying all kinds of different methods to stream the file and download the file, the simplest solution is to just CFLOCATION right to the file. I'm able to get this working 100% of the time for downloading large files in all the major browsers.
@Spencer, the problem is that if someone shares that link, then anyone can access the file; you can't put any access controls on a direct download like that.
@john waddell, mod_xsendfile seems like the best option for you, I think CF has a bug for now that prevents you from using CF as the direct delivery mechanism for any file larger than the available heap.
All the access control work was done prior to the CFLOCATION to the file. In our case, it was copied to a temporary location with a randomized path, although we are going to re-implement it with a randomized temporary link structure to allow direct downloading, to avoid having to copy it to a temporary folder first.
@Spencer, It's still temporarily hijackable. How do you clean up the old temporary files? When you're offering someone a 5GB file, how much time do you give them to finish downloading it before you zap that file? Also copying around huge files like that is a lot of disk I/O.
If you're using Linux or Mac OS as your server, you can create a randomly named symlink to the protected file, and delete that symlink after 10 seconds or so. This will save you the overhead of copying the whole file to a temporary location, and because of the nature of the OS, you can delete a file even when it's being accessed by a process; the process will retain a handle to the deleted file and continue being able to serve it up, and that disk space won't actually be re-used by the OS until all handles on the deleted file are closed. If you're on Windows you don't have an equivalent option.
cURL maybe?
Totally understood that it is temporarily hijackable, but the client that bought the file has no incentive to go sharing the download link. The need to download such a huge file does not happen often, at most a few times per day. On Windows..so we'll have to work through some custom solutions. Should be easy though, create a custom randomized URL, start the download, immediately delete the randomized URL from additional new uses, which should not interfere with the download in progress. That's the theory ;)
The #1 design goal of the site was to prevent links from being shared - after all it's government. I crashed the site trying to implement the mod_xsendfile last night, so back to the beginning. I am hoping that the customer goes with an FTP account for each user and we push the file to their account file space. Uses up a lot of disk, but its a win for the users.
The CFlocation is nice & so simple, but the user then has to save the file after rendering it. Some of them really are not that sophisticated
Couple things..
First, my idea of splitting files wasn't clear enough. Here's what you'd do:
(I'm stubbing this code.. It's Canada Day and I'm not programming lol)
<cfexecute name="split large_file.mp4 smaller_files">
<cfdir get a listing of the smaller files>
<cfloop list=cfdirresults index = filename>
javaFile = createobject("java", "java.io.File").init(filename);
instream = createobject("java", "java.io.FileInputStream").init(javaFile);
// CF's underlying JSP response objects
pageContext = getPageContext();
response = pageContext.getResponse();
output = response.getOutputStream();
// Start streaming!!!
for (;;) {
bytesRead = instream.read(byteArray);
if (bytesRead gt -1) {
// Directly write the response
output.write(byteArray, 0, bytesRead);
// Do not let our buffer fill up!
} else {
See how I'm splitting, then opening, streaming and closing each smaller file? If the bug lies in the context of the file handing, this will fix it. If it lies in the context of the byteArray / flush, then you're still screwed.
Here's a way of handling the security problem using Amazon S3.
Copy the large file to a temp location on S3. Once the download has started, replace the file on s3 with a small .jpg that tells the user the file is no longer available.
S3 will continue to serve the large file to the first request but serve the .jpg to all the subsequent ones.
I believe you can do the same thing with soft links in Linux. Apache will continue to serve the large file. So, make a soft link to the large file, serve it, then create a new soft link of the same name to a new small jpg.
On Windows you'll likely get file locking errors. Stupid Windows.
@Jay, your example of smaller files will trigger the bug. I demonstrated that it's the number of bytes being output that are the problem. Even if you break and disable all possible buffering in CF's JSP context, and even if all you do is output one small piece of data repeatedly, and force flushing aggressively, you will still overflow the heap. It's not the size of the input files, it's the size of the response.
Storing to S3 then replacing it with a small .jpg is the same idea as doing CFLocation then deleting the file under a Linux or Mac OS server. It suffers from a fundamental problem in that you can't know when the download actually begins. Are they using an old version of IE where the download doesn't actually start until you tell Windows where to store the file? It might take them 2 or 3 minutes to find where they wanted to stick that file, it's a lousy solution if the file has vanished before they clicked "Save," and it's vulnerable if you keep it around for 5 minutes, it gives them a chance to share that link with an unauthenticated user. You also have to upload that file to S3, and you need to complete that transfer before sharing the S3 link - S3 doesn't allow read access to a file while it's still being written to (S3 gives a 404). If you're talking a 5gb or 10gb file, that could be a while that as far as the user can tell, nothing is happening. Also you're going to be paying for that transfer to and from S3. Copying the file to a temporary local path is probably a much better idea.
@John Waddell, Helicon Ape is an IIS product, so I assume you're using IIS. In that arena, I think this is very nearly your only option. I recommend contacting Helicon's support for help getting it installed. Ben has covered using mod_xsendfile in the past (and Helicon Ape supposedly has a compatible implementation): www.bennadel.com/blog/2170-Streaming-Secure-Files-Efficiently-With-ColdFusion-And-MOD-XSendFile.htm
The only other thing I can think is that you would need to drop to a different scripting language to securely deliver files larger than CF's available heap. I have used PHP to serve single downloads in the terabyte range, so I know it doesn't have this same weakness. Figuring out how to tell PHP that a particular client is permitted access to a particular download is largely an exercise for you, but I would recommend doing something like using a common file to transfer information back and forth (/crosstalk/#SESSION.CFID#.#SESSION.CFTOKEN#.json, containing {"allowedDownloads":["a","b","c"]}, or something like that).
Still, if you can get Helicon Ape installed, that's a much simpler solution once it's working.
@Eric, THanks, I've contacted Helicon & received this reply;
The bad news is that x-sendfile will not probably work with ColdFusion. The problem is ColdFusion is known to break normal IIS request processing sequence, causing all other modules not to function after ColdFusion module. If it is acceptable for you I suggest you to try free Railo or Open BlueDragon instead of ColdFusion - http://www.helicontech.com/articles/run ... roduction/
http://www.helicontech.com/articles/ins ... on-on-iis/ These are free compatible alternatives to Adobe ColdFusion, which are known to work correctly with IIS using our Zoo integration solution.
Alternatively you may try to use BonCode connector to run ColdFusion with IIS http://boncode.blogspot.com/2012/06/cf- ... -with.html I have not tested this solution but it will not probably have the problems with traditional ColdFusion connectors.
Perhaps there is a fix there, but I'm stuck with CF9 & can't make the case to move to CF10 to fix just this problem. Perhaps I'll consider an FTP option...
Anyone know if cfcontent in ColdFusion 10 has made this technique redundant? I can't seem to break my server with cfcontent and a 3GB file download!
We upgraded the server to CF10 and the download problem solved itself. We routinely deliver .FLV .AVI and .MP4 files up to 15Gb to our users with no problems. CF9 would not deliver anything over 1GB.
content type for MP4 is "video/mpeg"
filename is the path to the file.
Then all you need is 2 lines of code...
<cfheader name="content-disposition" value="attachment;filename=""#URL.ID.#fileextension""" />
<cfcontent type=#contentType#" file="#filename#">
@John, thanks for confirming my experience.
I'm struggling though to find any resource from Adobe that confirms that cfcontent now streams to the browser directly rather taking the file into memory before sending it on.
I'd really like to have something to quote to refute past years of functionality!


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Reserve Train near Columbus Miss
December 24th 1864"
My own darling wife,
I am once more in camps and I dont
think I can spend Christmas Eve any better way than by writing
a few lines to my much beloved wife. I wrote you from Meridian
and informed you that I was there patiently or rather impatiently
waiting for the train. I left that [benighted] and dismal hole
about [noon], too late to make connection with the train at
Artesia for Columbus and there being no chance of any shelter
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and left again about seven oClock – I then had to remain in
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at 9 o'Clock – At the hotel I found a man waiting for me with
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Edit - Oh I see, it's the Prince thing isn't it? Doh.
Edit - Oh I see, it's the Prince thing isn't it? Doh.
Prince: Gay marriage isn't right
except this time, it's actually the purple one, and it's not very funny. humph.
The zebra crossing by my work is plagued by retards driving big cars over it at speed for some reason, even when people are waiting to cross.
Just now I stepped out in front of a big silver car and distinctly heard the driver shout "oh fuck!" while he screeched past me.
He drove further down the road and then stopped nicely in front of the next Zebra crossing there...
Good work !
Bit like drivers who are way in the distance and dont take thier foot of the gas when I try to cross the road. In fact im sure they speed up when easing off the gas would allow me cross in good time. Sometimes I wish I could turn into a bollard and mash up their stupid car.
The cover design of this book never fails to make me laugh:
People who sing in their cars and look like they are having a good time, always makes me chuckle.
I'm waiting for 7 ov 9 to come back to bed Nice geekage tho.
there's a bit on one of the radio 5 'up all night' jingles that sounds like they're about to drop 'the message is love'. wakes me up sometimes...
picture of a Cock on Cocteau's book of erotic drawings FTW.
that prince article should be in "makes my head hurt" thread surely... sorry for confusion but Symmetry demanded (she really did) that i give this thread the name it has.
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A simple Christian listening to the Holy Spirit
"And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory!" John 1:14
My thoughts around Koraan(moslem's holy book)..
Brett Kristian
Reflections about Faith, Nature, and Writing by Carole Duff
Living life to the fullest!
comforting by the comfort wherewith we are comforted
Devotionals from Ladies for Jesus to inspire you to deepen your walk with Jesus!
Seeing The Beauty In The Mess Of Us
The Ultimate Reconciliation of All
Living Life On God's Terms
"You, O Lord, keep my lamp burning" Psalm 18:28
An Outreach of Sixth Seal Ministries
Poems, poets, poetry, writing, poetry challenges
A ministry of the Word
My Tales of Parenting and Other Crap
Changing one life at a time
No Masks, No Filters. Just me... Peace, Love & Harmony 💕
If you are the spouse or the partner of someone who's been trapped in a sex or pornography addiction then you know how isolating and traumatic it can be. If this is something you've experienced, then we are here to offer help and support.
fan into flame the gift of faith
online journal by carsyn claire
Faith hope love encouragement
Give us this day our daily bread!
Slave of Jesus
God is Good. All the Time.
Making connections between the Word and the world
The Joy of the Lord is our Strength
Find Christian links to help you stay informed and get involved
Sharing the Hope & Joy I've found in Jesus!
For those of you who find this page, it is due to Divine Guidance, since theses Messages are Spiritually Potent, and are not to be taken lightly. There may be a Message found here that is helpful and necessary in your lives at this time, and the reason you find yourself here. Feel free to read the posts at your own pace, and research things for yourselves for clarity; cuz only you know what feels right to you...Amen! If you visit the page out of curiosity only, then you will probably move on eventually, for the message here is a soulful and spiritual one, enabling those who are sincere and ready, to accelerate in growth of consciousness, and for those ready to serve as a Beacon of Light for all of humanity. Let us continue... Win Ruffin
Exalting the name of Jesus through Christian essays


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