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|April 23 2013 7:00pm
|MySQL Community Server 5.7.1 has been released (part 2)
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This is part 2 of the MySQL 5.7.1 announcement * Replication: In certain cases, the dump thread could send a heartbeat out of synchronisation with format description events. One of the effects of this issue what that, after provisioning a new server from a backup data directory and setting --gtid-mode=ON and enabling autopositioning (see CHANGE MASTER TO Syntax (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/change-master-to.html) ), replication failed to start, with the error Read invalid event from master.... The same problem could also cause GTID-based replication to fail due to skipped events following a unplanned shutdown of the master. (Bug #16051857) * Replication: In some cases, when the slave could not recognize the server version of the master, this could cause the slave to fail. (Bug #16056365) * Replication: Dropping a table that includes non-regular ASCII characters in the table name caused a replication failure. The parser converted the table name into standard charset characters and stored the table name in the table_name variable. When the drop table query was regenerated using the table_name variable, the table name was not converted back to the original charset. Additionally, table and database names with 64 characters caused an assert failure. The assert required the table or database name to be less than 128 characters. Latin characters require two-bytes each, which requires an assert condition of less than or equal to 128 bits. The fix includes a new function to convert tables names back to the original charset, and a correction to the assert condition allowing table and database names be less than or equal to 128 bits. (Bug #16066637) * Replication: When using GTID-based replication, and whenever a transaction was executed on the master but was not sent to the slave because the slave already had a transaction with that ID, semisynchrononous replication timed out. One case in which this could happen was during a failover operation where the new master started behind the new slave. (Bug #15985893) * Replication: An unnecessary flush to disk performed after every transaction when using FILE as the replication info repository type could degrade performance. Now this is done only when both data and relay log info is stored in (transactional) tables. (Bug #15980626) * Replication: When reading row log events from the binary log, the slave assumed that these events were always valid; because of this, an event having an invalid binary log offset could cause the slave to crash. Now in such cases, the slave fails gracefully, and an error is reported, if any of the fields in a given row event are invalid. (Bug #15829568) * Replication: Table IDs used in replication were defined as type ulong on the master and uint on the slave. In addition, the maximum value for table IDs in binary log events is 6 bytes (281474976710655). This combination of factors led to the following issues: + Data could be lost on the slave when a table was assigned an ID greater than uint. + Table IDs greater than 281474976710655 were written to the binary log as 281474976710655. + This led to a stopped slave when the slave encountered two tables having the same table ID. To fix these problems, IDs are now defined by both master and slave as type ulonglong but constrained to a range of 0 to 281474976710655, restarting from 0 when it exceeds this value. (Bug #14801955, Bug #67352) * Replication: MASTER_POS_WAIT() could hang or return -1 due to invalid updates by the slave SQL thread when transactions were skipped by the GTID protocol. (Bug #14737388) References: See also Bug #15927032. * Replication: Trying to execute a Stop event on a multithreaded slave could cause unwanted updates to the relay log, leading the slave to lose synchronization with the master. (Bug #14737388) * Replication: Internal objects used for relay log information were only partially deleted before freeing their memory. (Bug #14677824) * Replication: When the server starts, it checks whether semisynchronous replication has been enabled without a lock, and, if so, it takes the lock, then tests again. Disabling semisynchronous replication following the first of the these tests, but prior to the second one, could lead to a crash of the server. (Bug #14511533, Bug #66411) * Replication: It was possible in certain cases---immediately after detecting an EOF in the dump thread read event loop, and before deciding whether to change to a new binary log file---for new events to be written to the binary log before this decision was made. If log rotation occurred at this time, any events that occurred following EOF detection were dropped, resulting in loss of data. Now in such cases, steps are taken to make sure that all events are processed before allowing the log rotation to take place. (Bug #13545447, Bug #67929) References: See also Bug #16016886. * Replication: It was possible for the MASTER_POS_WAIT() function to return prematurely following a CHANGE MASTER TO statement that updated the RELAY_LOG_POS or RELAY_LOG_NAME. This could happen because CHANGE MASTER TO did not update the master log position in such cases, causing MASTER_POS_WAIT() to read an invalid log position and to return immediately. To fix this problem, the master log position is flagged as invalid until the position is set to a valid value when the SQL thread reads the first event, after which it is flagged as valid. Functions such as MASTER_POS_WAIT() now defer any comparison with the master log position until a valid value can be obtained (that is, after the first event following the CHANGE MASTER TO statement has been applied). (Bug #11766010, Bug #59037) * Replication: If the disk becomes full while writing to the binary log, the server hangs until space is freed up manually. It was possible after this was done for the MySQL server to fail, due to an internal status value being set when not needed. Now in such cases, rather than trying to set this status, a warning is written in the error log instead. (Bug #11753923, Bug #45449) * Replication: The binary log and relay log files used the name of the PID file instead of the host name as the basename. (Bug #11753843, Bug #45359) * Microsoft Windows: In Shared Memory mode (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/server-options.html#op tion_mysqld_shared-memory), the MySQL Server could crash when receiving requests from multiple threads. (Bug #13934876) * Windows MSI installers for MySQL 5.7 had a 5.6 upgrade code, not a 5.7 upgrade code. (Bug #16445344) * SHOW ENGINE PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA STATUS could report incorrect memory-allocation values when the correct values exceeded 4GB. (Bug #16414644) * Performance Schema statement tokenization overhead was reduced. (Bug #16382260) * A long database name in a GRANT statement could cause the server to exit. (Bug #16372927) * The server could exit if a prepared statement attempted to create a table using the name of an existing view while an SQL handler was opened. (Bug #16385711) * For debug builds, checking of password constraints could raise an assertion for statements that updated passwords. (Bug #16289303) * The BUILD-CMAKE file in MySQL distributions was updated with the correct URL for CMake information. (Bug #16328024) * A Valgrind failure could occur if a CREATE USER statement was logged to the general query log and the old_passwords system variable was set to 2. (Bug #16300620) * The optimizer's attempt to remove redundant subquery clauses raised an assertion when executing a prepared statement with a subquery in the ON clause of a join in a subquery. (Bug #16318585) References: This bug is a regression of Bug #15875919. * Very small join_buffer_size values could cause an assertion to be raised. (Bug #16328373) * Some aggregate queries attempted to allocate excessive memory. (Bug #16343992) * Incorrect results were returned if a query contained a subquery in an IN clause which contained an XOR operation in the WHERE clause. (Bug #16311231) * For debug builds, an assertion could be raised if a statement failed with autocommit enabled just before an XA START statement was issued. (Bug #16341673) * Conversion of numeric values to BIT could yield unexpected results. (Bug #16271540) * Certain legal HAVING clauses were rejected as invalid. (Bug #16221433) * Fixed warnings when compiling with XCode 4.6. Fixed warnings when compiling when the _XOPEN_SOURCE or isoctal macro was already defined in the environment. (Bug #16265300, Bug #60911, Bug #12407384) * Queries using range predicates that were evaluated using the LooseScan semi-join strategy could return duplicate rows. (Bug #16221623) References: This bug is a regression of Bug #14728469. * For upgrade operations, RPM packages produced unnecessary errors about being unable to access .err files. (Bug #16235828) * In the range optimizer, an index merge failure could cause a server exit. (Bug #16241773) * For debug builds, the server could exit due to incorrect calculation of applicable indexes for a join that involved const tables. (Bug #16165832) * The Performance Schema could return incorrect values for the PROCESSLIST_INFO column of the threads table. (Bug #16215165) * Invocation of the range optimizer for a NULL select caused the server to exit. (Bug #16192219) * mysql_config --libs displayed incorrect output. (Bug #16200717) * For a CREATE TABLE (... col_name TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ...) ... SELECT statement for which the SELECT did not provide a value for the TIMESTAMP column, that column was set to '0000-00-00 00:00:00', not the current timestamp. (Bug #16163936) * yaSSL did not perform proper padding checks, but instead examined only the last byte of plaintext and used it to determine how many bytes to remove. (Bug #16218104) * Using GROUP BY WITH ROLLUP in a prepared statement could cause the server to exit. (Bug #16163596) * References to the unused SIGNAL_WITH_VIO_SHUTDOWN macro in the CMake files were removed. (Bug #16066150) * Setting the slave_rows_search_algorithms system variable to an inappropriate value could cause the server to exit. (Bug #16074161) * Directory name manipulation could result in stack overflow on Mac OS X and Windows. (Bug #16066243) * For debug builds, if the server was started with binary logging disabled, executing SHOW RELAYLOG EVENTS from within a stored procedure raised an assertion. (Bug #16043173) * The query parser leaked memory for some syntax errors. (Bug #16040022) * With the thread pool plugin enabled, large numbers of connections could lead to a Valgrind panic or failure of clients to be able to connect. (Bug #16088658, Bug #16196591) * The server executed EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON for some malformed queries improperly. (Bug #16078557) * Performance Schema instrumentation was missing for slave worker threads. (Bug #16083949) * If the error for a failed CACHE INDEX statement index within a stored program was processed by a condition handler, a malformed packet and "Command out of sync" error occurred. (Bug #16076180) * The initial test database contained a dummy.bak file that prevented DROP DATABASE from working. This file is no longer included. Also, a db.opt file is now included that contains these lines: default-character-set=latin1 default-collation=latin1_swedish_ci (Bug #16062056) * Setting a system variable to DEFAULT could cause the server to exit. (Bug #16044655) * SET PASSWORD and GRANT ... IDENTIFIED BY have no effect on the password of a user who is authenticated using an authentication plugin that accesses passwords stored externally to the mysql.user table. But attempts to change the password of such a user produced no warning, leading to the impression that the password had been changed when it was not. Now MySQL issues an ER_SET_PASSWORD_AUTH_PLUGIN warning to indicate that the attempt was ignored. (Bug #16072004) * For debug builds, creating an InnoDB table in strict SQL mode that violated the maximum key length limit caused the server to exit. (Bug #16035659) * Issuing a PREPARE statement using certain combinations of stored functions and user variables caused the server to exit. (Bug #16056537) * Instances of #ifdef WITH_MYISAMMRG_STORAGE_ENGINE and #ifdef WITH_CSV_STORAGE_ENGINE in the server source code were removed because the CSV and MERGE storage engine plugins are mandatory. (Bug #15997345) * A mysys library string-formatting routine could mishandle width specifiers. (Bug #15960005) * The --character-set-server option could set connection character set system variables to values such as ucs2 that are not permitted. (Bug #15985752) * During shutdown, the server could attempt to lock an uninitialized mutex. (Bug #16016493) * The --default-authentication-plugin option permitted invalid plugin values, and did not always set the old_passwords system variable to a value appropriate for the named plugin. (Bug #16014394) * For debug builds, executing a statement within a trigger or stored function that caused an implicit commit raised an assertion. (Bug #15985318) * Under some circumstances, mysql --secure-auth permitted passwords to be sent to the server using the old (pre-4.1) hashing format. (Bug #15977433) * With index condition pushdown enabled, queries for which the pushed-down condition contained no columns in the used index could be slow. (Bug #15896009) * Table creation operations added entries to the Performance Schema file_instances table, but these were not always removed for table drop operations. (Bug #15927620) * In special cases, the optimizer did not consider indexes that were applicable to query processing, resulting in potentially suboptimal execution and incorrect EXPLAIN output. (Bug #15849135, Bug #16094171) * A query with an EXISTS/IN/ALL/ANY subquery with an ORDER BY clause ordering by an outer column of type BLOB that is not in the select list caused an assertion to fire. (Bug #15875919) References: See also Bug #14728142. * Queries in the query cache involving a given table were incorrectly invalidated if a TEMPORARY table of the same name was dropped. (Bug #14839743) * The optimizer could return nonmatching records for queries that used ref access on string data types. (Bug #14826522) References: See also Bug #14682735. * Failure of CREATE SERVER due to a missing or read-only mysql.servers table resulted in a memory leak. (Bug #14781478) * Enabling the query cache during high client contention could cause the server to exit. (Bug #14727815) * Table names can be up to 64 characters, but the message string for the ER_TABLE_NEEDS_REBUILD and ER_TABLE_NEEDS_UPGRADE errors were truncating names longer than 32 characters. (Bug #14753226) * Enabling the slow query log at runtime when access permissions on the log file prevented the server from writing to it caused the server to exit. (Bug #14711347) * Table removal could fail and cause the server to exit for very long file names. (Bug #14581920) * The server sometimes failed to respect MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR limits on user connections. (Bug #14627287) * The server could access the DEBUG_SYNC facility while closing temporary tables during connection shutdown, after the facility had been cleaned up, leading to an assertion being raised. (Bug #14626800) * The optimizer could return incorrect results after transforming an IN subquery with aggregate functions to an EXISTS subquery. (Bug #14586710) * If the optimizer calculated a row count of zero for the inner table of an outer join, it could not determine proper ordering for the following tables. (Bug #14628746) * When a client program loses the connection to the MySQL server or if the server begins a shutdown after the client has executed mysql_stmt_prepare(), the next mysql_stmt_prepare() returns an error (as expected) but subsequent mysql_stmt_execute() calls crash the client. (Bug #14553380) * Previously, if multiple --login-path options were given, mysql_config_editor ignored all but the last one. Now multiple --login-path options result in an error. (Bug #14551712) * If MySQL server was started with options to enable the general query log or slow query log, but access permissions on the log file prevented the server from writing to it, the server started with an error message indicating that logging was off and that the server needed to be restarted after the problem was corrected. This was incorrect because it is also possible to set the logging variables again at runtime (without a restart) after correcting the problem. The error message now indicates this possibility. (Bug #14512467) * For debug builds, creating a TEMPORARY table inside a trigger caused the server to exit. (Bug #14493938) * SHOW COLUMNS on a view defined as a UNION of Geometry columns could cause the server to exit. (Bug #14362617) * The sha256_password_private_key_path and sha256_password_public_key_path system variables indicate key files for the sha256_password authentication plugin, but the server failed to properly check whether the key files were valid. Now in the event that either key file is invalid, the server logs an error and exits. (Bug #14360513) * SET var_name = VALUES(col_name) could cause the server to exit. This syntax is now prohibited because in SET context there is no column name and the statement returns ER_BAD_FIELD_ERROR. (Bug #14211565) * The COM_CHANGE_USER command in the client/server protocol did not properly use the character set number in the command packet, leading to incorrect character set conversion of other values in the packet. (Bug #14163155) * If the server was started with --skip-grant-tables, the CREATE EVENT and ALTER EVENT statements resulted in a memory leak. (Bug #14059662) * Invoking the FORMAT() function with a locale and a very large number could cause the server to exit. (Bug #14040155) * For debug builds, improper handling for AUTO_INCREMENT value overflow could cause the server to exit. (Bug #13875572) * Certain plugin-related conditions can make a user account unusable: + The account requires an authentication plugin that is not loaded. + The account requires the sha256_password authentication plugin but the server was started with neither SSL nor RSA enabled as required by this plugin. The server now checks those conditions by default and produces warnings for unusable accounts. This checking slows down server initialization and FLUSH PRIVILEGES, so it is made optional by means of the new validate_user_plugins system variable. This variable is enabled by default, but if you do not require the additional checking, you can disable it at startup to avoid the performance decrement. (Bug #13010061, Bug #14506305) * Passing an unknown time zone specification to CONVERT_TZ() resulted in a memory leak. (Bug #12347040) * The obsolete linuxthreads.txt and glibc-2.2.5.patch files in the Docs directory of MySQL distributions have been removed. (Bug #11766326) * mysql_install_db did not escape '_' in the host name for statements written to the grant tables. (Bug #11746817) * The server could exit if built to permit a maximum number of indexes per table larger than 64. In the course of fixing this problem, a -DMAX_INDEXES=N CMake option was added to permit building the server to support a larger maximum number of indexes per table. The default is 64. The maximum is 255. Values smaller than 64 are ignored and the default of 64 is used. (Bug #11761614) * Source code in the mysys library for the my_malloc_lock and my_free_lock memory-locking APIs was never used and has been removed. (Bug #54662, Bug #11762107) * mysqld_safe used the nonportable -e test construct. (Bug #67976, Bug #16046140) * An out-of-memory condition could occur while handling an out-of-memory error, leading to recursion in error handling. (Bug #49514, Bug #11757464) * The optimizer used loose index scan for some queries for which this access method is inapplicable. (Bug #42785, Bug #11751794) * If a dump file contained a view with one character set and collation defined on a view with a different character set and collation, attempts to restore the dump file failed with an "illegal mix of collations" error. (Bug #65382, Bug #14117025) * If the server failed to read errmsg.sys, it could exit with a segmentation fault. (Bug #53393, Bug #11760944) * The REPLACE() function produced incorrect results when a user variable was supplied as an argument and the operation was performed on multiple rows. (Bug #49271, Bug #11757250) * The output for SHOW CREATE VIEW could vary depending on the DEFINER account privileges. (Bug #34553, Bug #11747931) * UNION type conversion could incorrectly turn unsigned values into signed values. (Bug #49003, Bug #11757005) * If one thread was rebuilding a result for the query cache, other threads in the middle of using the previous result could fail to discard the old result properly. For debug builds, this raised an assertion. (Bug #66781, Bug #14631798) * UNION ALL on BLOB columns could produce incorrect results. (Bug #50136, Bug #11758009) * View access in low memory conditions could raise a debugging assertion. (Bug #39307, Bug #11749556) * Attempts to create a trigger for which a trigger with the same action time and event already existed resulted in an ER_NOT_SUPPORTED_YET error rather than an ER_TRG_ALREADY_EXISTS error. (Bug #67357, Bug #14801721) * Queries with many values in a IN() clause were slow due to inclusion of debugging code in non-debugging builds. (Bug #68046, Bug #16078212) References: See also Bug #58731, Bug #11765737. * When a view definition contained a special character in the SEPARATOR clause of the GROUP_CONCAT() aggregate function, mysqldump created an invalid view definition that produced an error when the dump file was reloaded. (Bug #60920, Bug #12395512) * Setting max_connections to a value less than the current number of open connections caused the server to exit. (Bug #44100, Bug #11752803) * Some table I/O performed by the server when calling a storage engine were missing from the statistics collected by the Performance Schema. (Bug #68180, Bug #16222630) * For debug builds, some queries with SELECT ... FROM DUAL nested subqueries raised an assertion. (Bug #60305, Bug #11827369) * Nonspatial indexes only support exact-match lookups for spatial columns, but the optimizer incorrectly used range access in some cases, leading to incorrect results. (Bug #67889, Bug #15993693) * If mysql is built with the bundled libedit library, the library is built as static code, to avoid linking to a different dynamic version at runtime. Dynamic linking could result in use of a different, incompatible version and a segmentation fault. (Bug #68231, Bug #16296509) * SLEEP() produced no warning or error for NULL or negative arguments. Now it produces a warning, or an error in strict SQL mode. (Bug #67548, Bug #15859462) * The --log-slow-admin-statements and --log-slow-slave-statements command options now are exposed at runtime as the log_slow_admin_statements and log_slow_slave_statements system variables. Their values can be examined using SHOW VARIABLES. The variables are dynamic, so their values can can be set at runtime. (The options were actually replaced by the system variables, but as system variables can be set at server startup, no option functionality is lost.) (Bug #59860, Bug #11766693) * For arguments with fractional seconds greater than six decimals, SEC_TO_TIME() truncated, rather than rounding as it should have. (Bug #68061, Bug #16093024) * MySQL failed to build if configured with WITH_LIBWRAP enabled. (Bug #67018, Bug #16342793) * If the server was started without a --datadir option, SHOW VARIABLES could show an empty value for the datadir system variable. (Bug #60995, Bug #12546953) * If a table had rows in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_CMP_PER_INDEX table, dropping the table did not remove those rows. (Bug #67283, Bug #14779330) * Configuring with -DWITH_SSL=/path/to/openssl resulted in link errors due to selection of the incorrect libcrypto. (Bug #68277, Bug #16284051) * ALTER TABLE tbl_name ADD COLUMN col_name TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP inserted 0000-00-00 00:00:00 rather than the current timestamp if the alteration was done in place rather than by making a table copy. (Bug #68040, Bug #16076089) * If the server was started with --skip-grant-tables, ALTER USER ... PASSWORD EXPIRE caused the server to exit. (Bug #68300, Bug #16295905) * CMake did not check whether the system zlib had certain functions required for MySQL, resulting in build errors. Now it checks and falls back to the bundled zlib if the functions are missing. (Bug #65856, Bug #14300733) * mysql_install_db did not work in Solaris 10 sparse root zones. (Bug #68117, Bug #16197860) * For EXPLAIN DELETE and EXPLAIN UPDATE the possible_keys column listed all indexes, not just the applicable indexes. (Bug #67830, Bug #15972078) * The Perl version of mysql_install_db mishandled some error messages. (Bug #68118, Bug #16197542) * Handling of SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS in combination with ORDER BY and LIMIT could lead to incorrect results for FOUND_ROWS(). (Bug #68458, Bug #16383173) * The server did not enforce the port or report_port upper limit of 65,535 and truncated larger values. (Bug #67956, Bug #16035522) * Adding an ORDER BY clause following an IN subquery could cause duplicate rows to be returned. (Bug #68330, Bug #16308085) * If INET6_NTOA() or INET6_ATON() returned NULL for a row in a result set, following rows also returned NULL. (Bug #68454, Bug #16373973) * If XA support was activated by multiple storage engines, the server would exit. (Bug #47134, Bug #11755370) * A statement with an aggregated, nongrouped outer query and an aggregated, nongrouped subquery in the SELECT list could return incorrect results. (Bug #68372, Bug #16325175) * The SQL_NO_CACHE keyword is supposed to prevent the server from checking the query cache to see whether the query result is already cached, and to prevent it from caching the query result. However, the query cache check was suppressed only if SQL_NO_CACHE was preceded and followed by space characters. (For example, the server checked the cache if the keyword was followed by a newline.) Now the parser requires that the preceding and following characters be whitespace characters, not spaces. (Bug #64164, Bug #13641256) * With explicit_defaults_for_timestamp enabled, inserting NULL into a TIMESTAMP NOT NULL column now produces an error (as it already did for other NOT NULL data types), instead of inserting the current timestamp. (Bug #68472, Bug #16394472) * Use of KILL to kill a statement in another session could in some cases cause that session to return an incorrect error code. (Bug #45679, Bug #11754124) * If a column is declared as NOT NULL, it is not permitted to insert NULL into the column or update it to NULL. However, this constraint was enforced even if there was a BEFORE INSERT (or BEFORE UPDATE trigger) that set the column to a non-NULL value. Now the constraint is checked at the end of the statement, per the SQL standard. (Bug #6295, Bug #11744964) * On Windows, the log_error system variable did not accurately reflect the error log file name in some cases. For example, if the server was started without --console or --log-error, the default is to log to host_name.err in the data directory, but log_error remained blank. Now log_error should be nonblank and reflect the log file name in all cases, on all platforms. The value is stderr if the server does not write error messages to a file and sends them to the console (standard error output) instead. In particular, on Windows, --console overrides use of an error log and sends error messages to the console, so log_error will be set to stderr. (Bug #8307, Bug #11745049) * Important Change: Formerly, the ExtractValue() and UpdateXML() functions supported a maximum length of 127 characters for XPath expressions supplied to them as arguments. This limitation has now been removed. (Bug #13007062, Bug #62429) * InnoDB: Creating and altering tables repeatedly would result in a memory leak that was due to a duplicate key error. The duplicate key error occurred because the row_merge_build_indexes function did not call row_fts_psort_info_destroy often enough. As full-text search indexes were created with a unique index, the unique index would fail due to the duplicate key error, and full-text search build resource would not be released. (Bug #14759111) * InnoDB: InnoDB IO threads within Performance Schema were exposed with the following name: "io_handler_thread". This fix implements specific keys such as io_read_handler_thread, io_write_handler_thread, io_ibuf_handler_thread to differentiate InnoDB IO threads within Performance Schema. (Bug #14670810) * InnoDB: This fix addresses an assert condition that would occur when inserting large BLOBs into tablespaces with a 4KB physical page size or into some compressed tables. Extents would not be allocated soon enough for tablespaces with smaller physical page sizes. (Bug #14520559) * InnoDB: On Linux systems, certain I/O requests that read or wrote fewer than the requested number of bytes could cause the server to crash. This issue could happen more frequently with asynchronous I/O (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/glossary.html#glos_asy nchronous_io) requests. The messages did not clearly identify what type of error occurred: InnoDB: Operating system error number 0 in a file operation. InnoDB: Error number 0 means 'Success'. With this fix, MySQL retries the operation several times before giving up. (The number of retries is defined by the constant NUM_RETRIES_ON_PARTIAL_IO in the source code, default value 10.) (Bug #11761646, Bug #54160) * Partitioning: When the server is started with --skip-partition, it should reject DDL or DML statements on partitioned tables. However, for DROP TABLE, the server dropped the .frm file, and for RENAME TABLE, the server renamed the .frm file. (Bug #11763795) * Replication: mysqlbinlog did not properly decode DECIMAL values in a row-based binary log. This could cause invalid values to be printed out for DECIMAL columns. (Bug #14309019) * Replication: When using mysqlbinlog with the --verbose option to read a binary log written by a MySQL server using row-based or mixed-format logging, invalid SQL could be produced when comments appeared inside BINLOG statements. One way in which this could happen was when a function that updated data was used within an INSERT ... SELECT statement. (Bug #12889121) * Replication: mysql_upgrade on the master broke replication when the slave was run with --log-output equal to FILE or NONE. (Bug #11763447) * Replication: Issuing STOP SLAVE caused a spurious Error reading packet from server: Lost connection to MySQL server during query message to be written to the error log. (Bug #11761457, Bug #12977988, Bug #53955) * Replication: When an error occurs in the slave SQL thread, this causes the Slave_SQL_Error and Slave_SQL_Errno columns from SHOW SLAVE STATUS to display the reason for the error. The error number should be one of the usual constants ER_* defined in sql/share/errmsg.txt, and the error message should be the corresponding string. However, in some cases, Slave_SQL_Errno was set to something other than an ER_* number, and Slave_SQL_Error to a hard-coded error message rather than a translatable string from sql/share/errmsg.txt. Now all errors shown by SHOW SLAVE STATUS originate in sql/share/errmsg.txt, as expected. (Bug #11760365, Bug #52768) * Microsoft Windows: On Microsoft Windows, CMake entries for POSIX API's not found on Microsoft Windows were added to the CMake cache. This decreases the number of expected "Not found" errors while compiling MySQL. (Bug #14790333) * Microsoft Windows: On Microsoft Windows, queries referring to a table with invalid characters would search the system for invalid file names. The generated system error code (ERROR_INVALID_NAME) was not recognized by MySQL, so this unknown error would be reported to the server log as "ERRNO: 22 - INVALID ARGUMENT". MySQL now recognizes these errors and reports them as the table does not existing, and it no longer logs them to the server error log. (Bug #14642248) * Microsoft Windows: On Windows, starting the server with --log-error and --console caused the server to write to the log file but not the console. Before MySQL 5.5.3, this occurred only if --log-error was specified after --console. Now, --console overrides --log-error no matter the option order so that --console produces console output in all cases. (Bug #14207773, Bug #65592) * Microsoft Windows: It was possible to specify a Named Pipe (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/server-options.html#op tion_mysqld_enable-named-pipe) that was already in use. This is no longer allowed, as an error is now emitted and the process is aborted. After mysqld.exe was started in Named Pipe mode with a pipe name that was already used by a different instance, neither instance was able to shut down properly when a shutdown command was received from a TCP socket in any of the processes. Therefore, mysqld.exe was not terminated. (Bug #13891058, Bug #61885) * Microsoft Windows: On Microsoft Windows, a failed API or function call in mysqld.exe could sometimes report the error code 22, instead of the proper error code. (Bug #11763004) * Joins of exactly 32 tables and containing a HAVING clause returned an empty result. (Bug #15972635) * The parser rejected some legal UNION statements. (Bug #14730856) * Setting thread_cache_size to a negative value at server startup resulted in a value of 16384 rather than 0. (Bug #14683107) * The return value from IS_USED_LOCK() was reported using the wrong data type. (Bug #14575699) * There was no warning at startup if the server was started with an invalid query_cache_size value. (Bug #14576423) * Activation of a stored program handler did not preserve the current diagnostics stack. (Bug #14342913) * In debug builds, killing a HELP statement caused an assertion to be raised. (Bug #14221840) * If an error occurred during evaluation of the BEFORE expression of a PURGE BINARY LOGS BEFORE statement, the statement did not abort as it should have and later raised an assertion. (Bug #14215847) * For the index merge access method, the optimizer could make a suboptimal choice of indexes to use. (Bug #14095506) * An assertion could be raised if the attempt to open the .frm file for a temporary table failed. (Bug #13359247) * If the state of the Event Scheduler was changed during server shutdown, the server could crash. (Bug #13002460) * When storing the definition for a view that used the UPPER() or LOWER() function, the function call was replaced by UCASE() or LCASE(), respectively (as shown in the output of SHOW CREATE VIEW). This was in spite of the fact that UPPER() and LOWER() are standard, with UCASE() and LCASE() being MySQL synonyms for these. This made it more difficult to move databases between MySQL and other database systems. With this fix, calls to UPPER() and LOWER() within views are no longer rewritten when storing their definitions; instead, UCASE() is now rewritten as UPPER() in stored view definitions, and LCASE() as LOWER(), which increases the portability of the views. (Bug #12844279) * For queries that accessed an INFORMATION_SCHEMA table in a subquery, and attempt to lock a mutex that had already been locked could cause a server crash. (Bug #11765744) * The Range checked for each record optimization is now used for conditions with outer query references. (Bug #11750963) * An INSERT INTO ... SELECT statement that inserted no rows unnecessarily invalidated statements in the query cache that used the target table. (Bug #50065, Bug #11757947) * The server refused client connections while executing FLUSH PRIVILEGES. (Bug #63178, Bug #13418619) * References to a stored function without a database name qualifier while there was no default database resulted in an ER_SP_DOES_NOT_EXIST error rather than ER_NO_DB_ERROR. (Bug #64692, Bug #13864485) * Concurrent inserts were blocked by selects if the inserts were generated from within a stored procedure. (Bug #58689, Bug #11765698) * Concurrent execution of DROP DATABASE and any of CREATE FUNCTION, CREATE PROCEDURE, or CREATE EVENT could be written to the binary log in the wrong order, causing replication failure. (Bug #65428, Bug #14127220) * INSERT INTO ... SELECT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE and LOAD DATA CONCURRENT REPLACE took too weak a lock, leading to the possibility of concurrent SELECT statements returning inconsistent results. (Bug #38046, Bug #11749055) * If read_only is enabled, it is still permitted to create TEMPORARY tables. But in this case, a non-TEMPORARY table with the same name could also be created, which should not be permitted. (Bug #64992, Bug #13969578) * Enabling the session value of low_priority_updates had no effect for INSERT statements. (Bug #64892, Bug #13939940) * An event was not dropped from the mysql.event table under these circumstances: The event was created while the event scheduler was enabled; the scheduler was disabled and re-enabled; the event expiration time was reached. (Bug #34804, Bug #11748012) * Using ALTER TABLE to rename a table to . resulted in a table with no name. (Bug #49636, Bug #11757569) * SHOW CREATE VIEW failed if the tables underlying the view were changed. (Bug #61718, Bug #12762393) * SHOW GLOBAL STATUS caused performance problems on busy servers due to lock contention. (Bug #42930, Bug #11751904) * For a view defined on a UNION, the server could create an invalid view definition. (Bug #65388, Bug #14117018) * For queries using ref access on string data types, the ref access condition could be evaluated again as part of the query condition or pushed down as an index condition to the storage engine. (Bug #66983, Bug #14682735) * For an ALTER TABLE statement that renamed or changed the default value of a BINARY column, the alteration was done using a table copy and not in place. (Bug #67141, Bug #14735373) * A view was created with an incorrect definition if the WHERE clause contained string literals and character_set_client and character_set_connection were set to different character sets. (Bug #63094, Bug #13520710) - Bjorn Munch MySQL Release Engineering
|• MySQL Community Server 5.7.1 has been released (part 2)
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The piece on the tank is just an aftermarket stick on "tank pad" to prevent your zipper from scratching the tank. There are lots to choose from. I think the one on mine is just a generic carbon fiber look piece. It was on the bike when I got it.
EDIT - took a close look at mine and noticed it has the Z logo - guess someone spent the big bucks for the real deal.
cheap ones on ebay:
Want the real deal?
Want the sides covered too?
The rear racks require a new tail piece and struts that go through it and bolt to the subframe. I have a spare, blue tail piece with a little damage inside, but not the rack, struts or hardware. It does come in handy at times.
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Thanks.....right thing to do.
I have a 94 RS with 170,000 miles on it, with over 110,000 on the 96 spec transmission that was replaced in 98. The clutch splines will get cleaned/lubed again this winter when I pull the tranny back. But the "slowly eats the clutch splines" comment really isn't true as long as you do regular maintenance.
Get trained! The best "performance" upgrade you can get is YOU. Visit msf-usa.org for training info.
The details if you want to read them:
If anyone wants to continue this discussion, please reply in the linked thread. I didn't mean to open a can of worms and clutter up the photo thread.
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Lotsa talk. Need more pictures. Time for an "S" shot.
Sweet lookin' S! Like that Phil Read edition Arai as well....
(But Titan Gray/Mandarin S bikes are still the fastest)
Bill Johnston
[QUOTE=bikerfish1100;836956]Bring It!
I'd love to do just that! But unfortunately my bum ticker doesn't play well at high elevations in the Rockies!
Bill Johnston
Looks like Mr. Fish will be making a trip to the west coast.

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NGS and Fold3 are announcing this partnership in celebration of the 4th of July this week. Fold3 features over 94 million historical records from US institutions including the National Archives. Military records, naturalization records, and city directories are just a few of the different collections found on Fold3. Joining Fold3 and locating an ancestor's military or naturalization record is a fitting way to honor their legacy.
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Several banks have already satisfied upcoming rules that will force lenders to hold more liquid assets, the regulator says, despite industry concerns the requirements are being implemented too quickly.
The comments came as the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority told the industry there was "more work to be done" in how it dealt with risk management.
Banks in Europe were granted a major reprieve last month, when global regulators delayed the starting date for new liquidity rules by four years, so that they did not commence until 2019.
Local banks are keenly awaiting APRA's decision on whether it will follow the lead of its peers overseas and soften the rules. A decision is expected soon.
APRA's chairman, John Laker, said on Wednesday the regulator had not yet put its proposal to industry on the liquidity coverage ratio, which will require banks to hold enough liquid assets to cover their lending outflows for a month. However, he also said there were "a number of institutions and banks" that had already satisfied the rules, part of a set of regulations known as Basel III.
Dr Laker added the rationale of phasing in Basel III "was to ensure the LCR can be introduced without material disruption to the orderly strengthening of banking systems or the ongoing financing of economic activity".
The remarks come after the Australian Bankers' Association last month warned there was a danger domestic regulations would be out of sync with the rest of the world if it proceeded with the rules too quickly.
Dr Laker made the comments after saying a recent review had found many boards in the industry needed to lift their game in how they managed risks. Its December review of risk governance had found the typical board in the industry had received a score that was at the "risky" end of "adequate". Some boards received a "high-risk" score.
"This is confirmation that APRA has indeed raised its expectations for risk governance and there is more work to be done," he said.
Despite the need for improvement, Dr Laker said APRA would not adopt certain measures favoured by its British counterparts, including sitting in on board meetings and conducting rigorous interviews of prospective directors of banks and financial institutions.
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VisitationVisiting a detainee in the BPD Jail Facility is allowed between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and Holidays; or between 4:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. on any non-holiday weekday, no later than the calendar day following the arrest. Visitors must be 18 years or older and have valid identification. No children are allowed in the visiting rooms. Attorneys with an active Bar Association Card may visit their clients at any hour, provided that the staff can accommodate their request. An attorney granted a "contact visit" with his/her client is not exempt from a thorough cursory and/or metal detector search of their person and belongings.
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Complete Product List
This is the list of products published for the Dragonlance setting, both novels and game-related material. The Nexus does not include forthcoming novels until a cover graphic is published and a release date is set.
The products have been divided up into groups to reflect the various time periods in Krynn's history, and have been further divided into 'core' or 'supplemental' to reflect the relative importance of each series to the body of Dragonlance novels as a whole. Since many of the series often contain books that do not fit with a particular time period, there will be some discrepancies, but the list reflects the best judgment of the Nexus's staff when trying to group all of the novels in a logical and consistent way.
If you want further explanation of this list, or recommendations on the appropriate reading order for novels, please see the Nexus' recommended reading order.
In addition to the complete list below, the Nexus also publishes a chronological list of books, relative to Krynn's timeline, and a list of books sorted by date printed.
Classic Core Novels
Novels central to the 'classic' Dragonlance story, set during and immediately after the War of the Lance.
Lost Chronicles
Second Generation, The
Classic Supplemental Novels
Supporting novels that flesh out War of the Lance-era Krynn. Anthologies from other time periods are also included.
Adventures in Krynn
Chaos War
Defenders of Magic
Dragon Anthologies
Meetings Sextet
Raistlin Chronicles
Reader's Companion
Terror of Lord Soth, The
Age of Mortals Core Novels
The Age of Mortals truly began following the War of Souls. These novels are central to the continuing storyline.
War of Souls
Dark Disciple, The
Age of Mortals Supplemental
Supplemental novels in this era flesh out some of the other storylines during the War of Souls time period.
Age of Mortals
Bertrem's Guides
Champions, The
Dwarf Home
Elven Exiles
Linsha Trilogy, The
Minotaur Wars, The
Ogre Titans
Rise of Solamnia
Stonetellers, The
Taladas Chronicles, The
War of Souls Anthologies
Fifth Age Core Novels
The Fifth Age core novels launch an age of the world without magic, and introduce a new cast of heroes.
Dragons of a New Age
Dhamon Saga
Fifth Age Supplemental Novels
The supporting novels discuss some of the changes to Krynn following the Second Cataclysm.
Bridges of Time
Kang's Regiment
Tales of the Fifth Age
Historical Core Novels
These core novels explore important historical time periods, such as the Cataclysm or the Dragon Wars.
Kingpriest Trilogy
Historical Supplemental Novels
The Supplemental historical novels provide background and history for many of Krynn's races and cultures.
Dwarven Nations
Elven Nations
Ergoth Trilogy, The
Lost Histories
Lost Legends
Tracy Hickman Presents The Anvil of Time
Young Reader Core Novels
These young reader novels are what the Chronicles are to the Classic Core Novels—a must read.
Dragonlance Young Reader Novels
New Adventures, The
Young Reader Supplemental
The supplemental young reader novels carry the YR series forward with a new set or heroes and tales of adventure.
A Practical Guide to Dragons
Elidor Trilogy
Goodlund Trilogy
Suncatcher Trilogy
Core Gaming Materials
Running a D&D game in the Dragonlance setting? These books are the ones that should be at the very top of your list.
D&D 4e Core Books
d20 Dragonlance Sourcebooks
D&D Essentials
Tasslehoff's Map Pouches
Age of Mortals Campaign
War of the Lance Chronicles
D&D 3.5 Core Books
D&D Class Supplements
D&D Expansions
D&D Map Folios
D&D Miniatures
D&D Race Supplements
D&D Supplements
Supplemental Gaming Mat'ls
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AD&D Adventure Gamebooks
Spellfire & Trading Cards
Art Books
Battle Lines
Chaos War Adventures
DL - Dragonlance Modules
DLA - Dragonlance Adventures
DLC - Dragonlance Classics
DLE - Dragonlance Expansions
DLQ - Dragonlance Quests
DLR - Dragonlance Resources
DLS - Dragonlance Supplements
DLT - Dragonlance Tales
Fifth Age
Leaves From the Inn of the Last Home
Legends of the Lance Newsletter
Source Books
Board Games and Other Games
Forgotten Realms
Ral-Partha Miniatures
Comic Books
This section is for Dragonlance in comic book format, from the adaptation of The Legend of Huma to the classic DC comics.
DC Comics
Legend of Huma Adaptation
Time of the Twins Adaptation
Graphic Novels
Dragons of Autumn Twilight Adaptation
Dragons of Spring Dawning Adaptation
Dragons of Winter Night Adaptation
Worlds of Dungeons & Dragons Anthology, The
See Dragonlance in multimedia format, from the Dragonlance videogames that were released in the late 1980s and early 1990s to the Dragonlance DVD experience!
Dragonlance Inspired Music
Dragonlance Movie Soundtracks
Dragonlance Chronicles DVDs
Video Games
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Rekindle Our Reasons For Being Joyful
Everyone deserves a piece of heaven. Of discovering and experiencing "real" treasures in life that rekindle that inner joy in all of us. Joy that makes our heart feel like it's about to burst into a song or create fireworks bright enough to light up the sky. Joy that make us feel like our feet is off the ground and floating on air. Joy that give us wings to fly to places once we only dreamed about. Joy that make us celebrate each day like it's a holiday.
Today through words and photographs, we reflect on the many reasons, things, people and events that rekindled the joy in all of us.
So many ways to rekindle the joy. Some are simple yet magical like a kiss, a hug, a handmade gift to someone we care about that say, "You matter." Some are subtle but when done sincerely at the perfect moment means everything like saying, "Thank you," "I appreciate everything you had done for me," "I love you" or "You complete me." Others may come as delightful indulgence like shopping for a bag, a sip of a freshly brewed coffee, a bite of a delicious chocolate bar, a quiet walk at the park blessed with nature's visual bounty or a rejuvenating visit at the beach. Some arise from a meaningful soul-searching and renewal of one's faith. Others come about by reuniting with family and friends during holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas and many other events where time is irrelevant and what matters is we create as much special, heart-warming, happy moments for us to remember and rekindle in this lifetime . Moments that will ignite that inner fire in all of us when surrounded by cold and darkness coupled with a few trickle of tears. Moments that will make us smile even if everything else seems grey.
Rekindle The Joy By Visiting Families
It's been several years since I saw my sister in person and her family. The first time we visited her was early Summer of 2007. My son just turned one and was learning how to walk. Today, she has a very adorable toddler who reminded me so much of my son when he was about that age. Growing up, I was very close to my sister but somehow along our pursuit towards getting our dreams, fate kept us apart. She settled in Connecticut where she enjoyed the amazing four seasons while I ventured into the vast land of adventures called "Texas." I miss her company and did miss a lot of "could have been memories" being away from her all these years. It was time to rekindle the joy of being around family. Family who shares their heart generously. Family who loves you for who you are. Family who makes you truly happy no material wealth nor Earthly glory can ever replace.
We flew to Connecticut last Friday to celebrate Thanksgiving. When I saw my sister and her family, it felt like the last five years happened only just a few days ago. We talked for hours reminiscing the fun times of the past, sharing the joys and pain of the present and yes, our future hopes and dreams for ourselves and our families. We even included in our plans the possibility of living in one city so our children will enjoy the rare gift of growing up around a bigger family. It was an exciting, fun and vibrant event that I wish didn't have to end. To keep the warm memories and to thank my sister, her wonderful husband and their three beautiful children, I made this post to forever celebrate the shared joyful moments with them.
I always wanted to see Autumn's foliage and experience all the magic it creates. I asked my sister, "Do you think I could see any signs of Autumn when I get there?" She replied, "I'm not sure. Most of the leaves turned brown and had fallen off after hurricane Sandy." I sadly muttered, "Oh."
Saturday morning, my brother-in-law printed out something from the computer. He then told us, "Guys, we are going to Boston." I asked him, "How far is it?" He answered with a smile, "About three hours of driving." I replied with a bit of disbelief, "Three hours? That's six hours of driving back and forth." Still looking excited, he said, "Yes, six hours." He then added jokingly, "We may have to sleep on our day clothes if we have stay overnight."
Driving towards Boston, I was greeted with a seemingly endless rows of bare trees, a few uprooted by the recent devastating hurricane.
Our first stop was Boston Common. From afar, we all could see the park's garden breathtaking colors of red, purple, orange, gold, yellows and light greens. Everyone got so excited. I sure felt like jumping out of my seat. I told myself, "Wow! Dream come true." We circled the park twice looking for a parking spot.
It was truly magical watching the Autumn leaves fall down from the trees then being blown by the wind. No words to fully describe the moment. It sure did rekindle the inner joy in all of us. My son threw some leaves at the lake and watched them drift like sailboats. For a second I saw myself as a little kid engrossed in his own world of make-believe.
Rekindle The Passion. Rekindle The Love.
In a busy world full of deafening noise, stress, responsibilities, chaos, disagreements, worries, trials, hardships and many more distractions, it's so easy to lose that burning passion that we all felt when everything was all romance and red roses. We need to find ways to bring back the spark and that inner fire that makes our heart go "beep-beep" for that person we declared our love not so long ago. That day at the park, my wife and I looked at each other and smiled. Really smiled. We found our reasons for our passion which was each other, our son and the family who loved us when we barely had anything .
After the park, we headed to Quincy Market. The Holiday spirit, merryment and colors were everywhere. The crowd were having a blast dancing to the local band's upbeat music.
Christmas lights adorned the trees giving a festive, jubilant vibe.
At the center of the town square was a gigantic Pine tree adorned with brightly colored Christmas decors. That night, the tree was lit up to officially welcome the holiday season. It was beautiful. We all felt the happy and festive spirit of the holidays.
We stopped by the balloon maker. He made a dinosaur balloon for my son and his 2 year-old cousin. They laughed and giggled as the balloon maker shared some funny jokes.
We had 30 minutes to spare before the Christmas tree lighting. We spent it munching the yummy lobster salad sandwich and grilled Sea Bass with vegetables.
The crowd counted loudly, "3-2-1" and the Christmas tree lit up in all its splendor. The lights blinked following the rhythm of the holiday music. For several minutes, we all felt the joys of Christmas being rekindled in our hearts. Again, it was pure magic.
Before heading back to Connecticut, we stopped by Starbucks for a quick restroom break and a cup of hot coffee. As I wait for my order, I noticed on the board three words that described what I was experiencing the entire day. Written in bold red letters were, "Rekindle The Joy."
As we walked towards our car, I looked back the last time. Silently, I thank God for giving me, my wife and my son the opportunity to share an unforgettable moment with my sister and her family. It may not happen that often but it sure did make up for the many lost years I missed.
This week's Image of Life is titled "Rekindle The Joy."
Thank you for sharing your day with me. I hope you enjoyed this week's theme as well as my entry for the Weekly Photo Challenge called "Thankful." I hope this post helped you remember the many events, holidays and seasons in your life that rekindled the joy in your heart.
What do you wish to rekindle this coming holidays?
Discover the world of these blogger friends.
alwaysbobswife of http://alwaysbobswife.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/a-tug-in-my-heart-that-hopefully-tugs-yours/
The Guat of http://thewishfactor.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/weekly-image-of-life-what-im-thankful-for/
Sunshine of http://seraphim6.me/2012/11/19/i-am-thankful-for/
Jenn of http://the-serenity-space.com/2012/11/21/weekly-image-of-life-i-am-thankful-for/
Patricia of http://lifeofaministermom.com/2012/11/20/weekly-image-of-life-i-am-thankful-for/
Thirdeyemom of http://thirdeyemom.com/2012/11/22/i-am-thankful-for/
Deepa of http://perceptionsofareluctanthomemaker.wordpress.com/2012/11/24/weekly-photo-challenge-thankful/
For those who wish to join in this week's challenge, here's a link and the widget.
Images taken using an iPhone 4 camera with Camera + App and Nikon 1 J1.


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Two University of Washington computer science professors are joining Google's new development office in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood, strengthening the search giant's ties to the largest research institution in the state and bolstering its fight against rival Microsoft.
Brian Bershad and Craig Chambers — who together spent more than 30 years at the UW — will bring "firepower" to the company, said Google vice president of engineering Shiva Shivakumar, who is based in the company's Kirkland office.
"These two are spectacular," said Shivakumar. "They have done some incredibly big things over the last few years. It is a huge deal."
Bershad, who started at Google two weeks ago and has taken a leave of absence from the UW, said he is excited about the opportunity. The 42-year-old, who earned his Ph.D. from the UW in 1990, was being recruited by another large technology company, but decided that Google was the right fit. Declining to name the other company, Bershad repeated several times that he was really happy to be at Google.
"Google is an amazing place. And this really allows us to do the kind of work we have been doing at smaller scale for real at massive scale and also work with some of the best people in the world who also have gone over to Google in the last couple of years," said Bershad, who previously founded Seattle startups Appliant.com and illumita. "The kinds of problems that exist inside the company are just fantastically interesting and are really drawing people like me and Craig into this very different and pretty exciting world."
Bershad will lead the new Fremont office, which opened last month and already employs 75 people. With plans to grow to a few hundred employees, the Fremont operation will specialize in the systems and infrastructure technologies used to power applications within the Google data center. That's an area of expertise for Bershad.
"Building out those systems actually requires a lot of cutting-edge research," said Shivakumar. "A lot of that work has been going on in Mountain View (Calif.) for the last few years and we wanted to have a second place where we can build up an incredibly high-powered group where we can build out the next generation of a lot of these different systems."
In addition to their impressive resumes in the computing field, the two UW professors also could create a talent pipeline for Google as it looks to compete for the top software developers in the region. One of the reasons why Google chose Fremont for its latest development center is the proximity to the UW.
Shivakumar said they have enjoyed a close working relationship with UW faculty and students over the past three years, recruiting interns and collaborating on research projects. That alliance may strengthen with the addition of Chambers and Bershad.
"We would love to work with all of the UW profs in whatever capacity that we can," said Shivakumar.
Losing two talented professors to Google could be viewed as a blow to the UW computer science department. But Ed Lazowska, the Bill and Melinda Gates chair in the department, doesn't see it that way.
"On the one hand, it is not like we are delighted to see these guys go. But each of them was ready for a change. And I think this is going to wind up being a real plus — a plus for us, a plus for our students, a plus for collaboration, a plus for Google," said Lazowska, who noted that close to 150 UW computer science students have been hired by Google over the years. "Craig and Brian are guys who have enormous respect among the faculty and students. I think there are going to be a bunch of really exciting projects going on up here."
Bershad agrees, saying that he is looking forward to developing new technologies for Google just a few miles from his offices at the UW.
"The University of Washington has been placing a tremendous number of students at Google over the years. It has been placing them down in Mountain View, it has been placing them in Kirkland. Now, it gets to place them a little bit closer to home," he said. "So this is absolutely not about creating a relationship, it is really about strengthening one."


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (July 29, 2010) - Junior first baseman Paul Hoilman (Johnson City, Tenn.) did it again as he claimed the Cape Cod Baseball League Home Run Derby Championship Wednesday night at Fenway Park in Boston.
Hoilman crushed 17 to win the inaugural contest at the College World Series earlier this summer and was the easy favorite going into last night.
After hitting just two home runs in the first round, Hoilman edged Chatham's Ricky Oropesa (USC) with three home runs in the final - all of them over the Green Monster, and all of them absolutely crushed.
Stuck on two and down to his final out, Hoilman took the toss from pitching coach Scott Gurss of Cotuit and curled it inside the left-field foul pole to take home the crown.
"I wouldn't say I'm getting good at this, but I just got enough of that one," Hoilman said. "It's a lot tougher here than it was in Omaha. I was pretty nervous and, thankfully, that one had enough, I was worried about it not getting out."
Bourne's Dan Bowman (Coastal Carolina) opened the contest with six, all of them over the Green Monster as well. Oropesa and Hoilman tied for second place with two and all three were sent into the finals. Bowman went homerless in the finals.
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This kind of Rotis/ flatbreads are very famous in Rajasthan, region of India. A very soft from inside and very crispy outside , thick roti which is nicely roasted . This is mainly served with Panch Ratna Daal … Mash some roti , pour hot double tempered spicy daal , add some ghee . Mix it . Take my words it tastes out of the word.
This might be a routine or daily affair for those who actually belong to that region but for me, its super exciting. I learnt this from my mother-in-law, who is more fond of Marwadi and south indian food. Very easy to make and taste always at the best.
The main and very important thing for this Roti is TAVA, on which we roast this Roti. It a thick iron tava. Generally we have notice that iron tava get rust so fast. To avoid this, always grease Tava and keep in a cover when not in use. 🙂 🙂
So now quickly check out the Method:
- 500gm Whole Wheat Flour
- 1 cup (200ml)Oil
- Salt
- 1 cup Milk or as much needed to knead dough
- Ghee to Garnish
Mix Wheat Flour, salt and oil. Rub it nicely with fingures. With help of Milk, knead a stiff dough. Allow it to rest for 10-15 mins.
Now take a half portion form this dough. With help of roll pin , roll into a thick and big roti.
In image you can see the thickness of roti. Now place this roti on hot , greased and thick iron tava. Cook the side on slow flame. Turn the side when it turned to Golden brown color.
Now how to make this holes.. I just pressed the side of roll pin on roti evenly 🙂 🙂 This is the safe and easy way to make this impression on roti. Allow it to cook nicely on the side which is touching to tava. It should turn crispy. The side on which we made holes, we will cook that side later. now place a stand on tava. and place roti on that stand . The holes side will be down.
Pictures above clearly shows how to roast this Special Roti. You must noticed that we need a thick iron tava for this else roti will be burn soon and wont cook properly.
Keep flame on high. Allow it to cook till you get nice golden brown color and an awesome aroma 🙂 🙂
Now feel each whole with few drops of ghee. Thats it. Rajsthani Roti is ready to serve. Super easy , super tasty.
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Another very impressive demonstration of interactive gameplay from naughty dog's upcoming post apocalyptic game, The last of us. It seems highly realistic in game animation interactions are the in thing this year.
Gameplay wise, the world and graphics are beautiful, but one has to wonder if this is the level of combat that will be sustained throughout the game. From a narrative standpoint, it hurts the realism how our hero seems to shrug off a couple of bullet wounds, possibly less enemies, making damage count more would make it seem more realistic. We shall have to see!


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They have incorporated numerous styles into their music and image, including: garage rock, psychedelic rock, cabaret, and the theatrical rock of Screaming Lord Sutch and Alex Harvey. Lead singer Dave Vanian's vocal style has been described as similar to a crooner. The Damned have dissolved and reformed many times, with Vanian as the sole constant member; the lineups have always included either guitarist Captain Sensible and/or drummer Rat Scabies, who are both founding members. The current line-up is Vanian, Captain Sensible, Monty Oxy Moron, Pinch and Stu West.


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Create your fall and winter themed pages using this issue's 10-photo sketch. It's perfect for capturing your favorite family memories about holidays, celebrations, and more all on a single layout.
Making Latkes by Stacy Cohen from the Creating Keepsakes November/December 2013 issue.
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Excerpts from Ken Bell's article on The Buffalo Soldiers and the Great American West follows:
In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, a newly reunited nation turned its eyes westward toward the great American frontier. An integral part of the remarkable history of this great struggle, of the victories and defeats, of the suffering endured, and ultimately of the nation that we have become, is the story of the Buffalo Soldiers.
Founded on September 22, 1866 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the 10th regiment of the US Cavalry, along with its sister regiment, the 9th US Cavalry, were the first all-black peacetime regiments of the US army.
Want to learn more about the Buffalo Soldiers? Come to Riggs Park on Saturday August 23rd for a day of fun, festivities and enlightenment. The 3rd Annual Mid-Kansas Living History Rendezvous celebrates the heritage of the American West with historically accurate participatory events and authentic representatives of the varied people of the frontier, from Buffalo Soldiers to mountain men, cowboys, blacksmiths, schoolteachers, and many, many others. Events include horse rides, buggy rides, handcrafts, chuckwagon meals, dancing and much more.
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NATICK, Mass. (AP) — Beleaguered Massachusetts residents returning to work Monday for the first time since the weekend blizzard crawled along narrow snow-covered secondary roads and were greeted by a mix of sleet and freezing rain.
Most schools were closed, and more than 110,000 customers remained without power mostly on the South Shore and Cape Cod, thanks to a blizzard that dropped up to 3 feet of snow on same places.
Highways were relatively clear early in the morning commute but quickly backed up once it started raining.
Many secondary roads still had a thick coating of snow, and high snow banks blocked sight lines at intersections and near highway ramps, making turning and merging hazardous.
With a parking ban still in effect in Boston, garages quickly became full and many downtown streets were choked with traffic. Streets that ordinarily had two lanes were shrunk to one because of snow piled on each side, and the rain created a slushy mess for pedestrians.
"It was definitely a struggle to get here," said Dana Osterling, 24, who lives in Leverett in western Massachusetts and commutes to Boston twice a week to attend Berklee College of Music.
"I live on a dirt road so the plows don't visit us very often," she said at a service plaza in Natick on the Massachusetts Turnpike. She and her six housemates shoveled for about three hours to free their cars Sunday.
The bulk of the power outages were in coastal communities south of Boston and on Cape Cod. While many without heat or electricity went to emergency shelters, Jim and Brenda Stewart remained in their Marshfield home near the only source of heat — their fireplace.
"When you're a New Englander, you kind of hunker down and just do it," said Brenda Stewart, a nurse.
Her husband, who is self-employed but unable to work because he does not have an Internet connection, described three days without power as being "somewhere between miserable and OK."
"I think if it goes on too much longer it might slide into miserable," he added.
Gov. Deval Patrick visited some of the hardest hit communities on Monday, including Scituate and Marshfield, where coastal flooding forced many people from their homes and others waited for power to be restored.
The state's utilities had been criticized for their slow response and poor communication during previous storms, but Patrick said it was too early to assess the response to the latest storm. While communication has been better, many people are still without electricity.
"If you're without power it's not going fast enough," he added.
The rain falling on top of the snow has posed a new potential worry: collapsing roofs.
"Snow on roofs is one kind of hazard but snow that has been rained on becomes heavier and that's a different kind of hazard, especially if the roof is flat," said Patrick.
Kurt Schwartz, head of the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, said that while light fluffy snow typically weighs about three pounds per cubic foot, wet snow can weigh as much as 21 pounds per cubic foot.
The MBTA, which shut down all service at the height of the storm, reported some delays related to weather and signal problems, but no major interruptions, Monday morning.
"America's oldest subway was fully operational this morning, providing safe and reliable service to tens of thousands of customers," said Joe Pesaturo, spokesman for the transit system.
The storm created uncertainty for many people who waited through the weekend just to find out if they could travel.
Dave Frauenhofer, 40, of Avon, Conn., was on his way Monday with a co-worker at a banking software company to a scheduled presentation in suburban Boston. When he went to sleep at 11:30 Sunday night, his condominium complex had still not been plowed. When he woke up six hours later, he could get out.
"Life goes on," said Frauenhofer.
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The Harvard men's and women's golf teams are playing their practice rounds at historic Baltusrol today, Thursday, April 22, 2010. They are getting accustomed to the layout and preparing for the Ivy Championship which will take place this weekend. The greatest challenge ahead of the teams will be staying in the present -- playing one shot at a time and allowing all of their hard work to pay off.
The Ivy Championship will be played over 54 holes with 18 holes each day -- Friday starting at 8 AM, Saturday starting at 11 AM and Sunday starting at 10:30 AM. We will not know our starting times for Friday until Thursday night and order of play on Saturday and Sunday will be determined by results the prior day.
For those of you who would like to follow along or check in on scoring, Golfstat is providing "Live Scoring" for the tournament. You can find the links to the scoring at the following site: http://www.golfstat.com/
Baltusrol has hosted many USGA and PGA Championships and our teams are thrilled to have the opportunity to test their games on this storied venue. The men's team will be playing the Lower Course and the women will be playing the Upper Course.


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Tajikistan: Risk Assessment
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- Significant hydroelectric potential
- Wealth of raw material resources (aluminum, cotton, and materials)
- Financial support of international donors, including China
- Fragility of the banking system
- Low level of foreign exchange reserves
- Dependence on remittances from expatriate workers
- Islamist terrorist risk against a backdrop of poverty and scarcity of jobs
- Neighbour of Afghanistan
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Growth is Below Potential and Depends on Public Investment
After a marked slowdown in 2017 (although probably earlier, this was not reflected in the official figures), the Tajik economy is expected to decelerate further in 2018 as a result of fiscal consolidation and a decline in credit. Pace of growth will, therefore, remain relatively weak compared to past performance (growth often above 7% after 2011) and the objectives that have been set (8.8% in the National Development Plan for 2030).
While the recovery in Russia provides support for household consumption through remittances from expatriate workers, which represent about one-third of GDP, non-membership of the Eurasian Economic Union will continue to limit the movement of Tajik workers into Russia. Since the growth of the services sector is hampered by the measured pace of household consumption, growth, which is dependent on public investment, will tend to be driven by the construction sector, and projects such as the construction of the Rogun hydroelectric plant.
However, bank weaknesses will curb both private investment and the financing capacity of the government, which had to support the recapitalization of four banks in 2016 at an estimated cost of 7% of GDP. Restructuring the banking sector will be a key factor in Tajikistan's return to its potential growth rate, with credit supply being hit by the high ratio of non-performing loans – which has doubled since 2014 to reach almost 50% in late 2016 – and with demand for credit adversely affected by the numerous moves to tighten monetary policy in order to control inflation. While labor market tensions have eased slightly, inflation is nonetheless likely to be fuelled by more expensive imports following the somoni's devaluation against the dollar.
Budget Fragility and External Weaknesses
The government is expected to continue the fiscal consolidation begun in 2017, the goal of which was to improve the sustainability of public debt, which was damaged by both the substantial effort made to recapitalise the banking system, and by the inaugural USD 500 million international bond issue (7% of GDP) at a rate just over 7% so as to finance the Roghun complex. In 2018, despite the inefficient tax system, the slight rebound in activity should encourage higher tax revenues in addition to the controls on investment spending. However, public debt will remain exposed to the state's contingent liabilities, to exchange rate risk (as evidenced by the effect of devaluation on its weight in the past two years), and additional bank sector recapitalization costs.
The considerable reliance on imports and weak export diversification will foster a substantial current account deficit, despite an increase in remittances from expatriate workers, the very moderate rebound in the prices of some commodities – particularly aluminium and cotton, which respectively account for 23% and 15% of exports – as well as the economic recovery in Russia (20% of exports), which both add a volume effect to the price effect. Exchange rate pressures remain, despite the somoni's sharp depreciation against the dollar in 2016 and early 2017, making the country vulnerable to external shocks. Capital control measures, including notably the obligation to deposit a proportion of remittances in roubles, is evidence of the special attention given by the central bank (NBT) to exchange rates in view of the high dollarisation of the economy (70% of loans are denominated in foreign currency). Low levels of foreign exchange reserves, which are struggling to stabilize at around three months of imports, leave the NBT little leeway to support its own currency.
Domestic and Imported Political and Social Fragility
Elected to the presidency for a fourth consecutive term in November 2013, Emomali Rahmon won popular support in a referendum in May 2016 to stay on as Head of State indefinitely. While his country is a significant supplier of jihadists, the president is stepping up measures aimed at combatting the radicalization of the Muslim population, such as the restrictions on clothing. However, together with weak performance in the fight against corruption and drug trafficking, the high poverty rate (30% of the population live below the poverty threshold) continues to fuel social frustration and foster the development of jihadist groups.
With regard to external relations, tensions with Uzbekistan are easing, with the first direct flight between the two countries since 1992 taking place in February 2017, as part of the continuing easing of Uzbek opposition to the construction of the Roghun dam because of its supposed impact on its cotton fields' irrigation system. In contrast, problems with Kyrgyzstan regularly surface over borders, the sharing of water resources, and transport between the two countries. Likewise, the presence of the Taliban in northern Afghanistan is threatening the security of the border populations, even though the presence of the Russian army and US aid should prevent the conflict spilling into Tajikistan. Relations with China are deepening thanks to the completion of public infrastructure projects and to China's financial investment.


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- If your slides are already smart, perhaps you want to enter SlideShare's "world's best presentation" contest, this year with categories for nonprofits and other types of organizations. I wish this contest included footage of people delivering the slides, too--that's far more than half the battle.
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We all know recruiters need to adapt. That is now trite to say. So then, why are so many recruiters around the world still stuck in the same tactics that they used in 1999?
That won't be sustainable. In fact recruiting 2009 style won't cut it either.
What do I mean? Who am I talking about?
If you want to know if I am talking about you, rate yourself against these 5 'dinosaur-recruiting' activities, and see how you shape up.
1: Do you hide behind email? Do you avoid real life conversations? In fact, are you so stuck in old-school paradigms that you don't even realise that what you are doing is a massive missed opportunity? You take your job briefs by email. That's it. An emailed brief is good enough to get you working. You attach two resumes to an email, and bang it off to your client. And wait. And pray. For a response. You email a job description to a candidate, instead of a full briefing and gearing on the phone, or face to face. Recruiters like this do not seek out the opportunity to 'engage' when they can. And engagement means the opportunity to influence. And influencing is everything in consultative recruitment.
2: Do you focus only on 'active' candidates? Is your default action to bang an advert on a job board? If that, and your database is all you have got in your 'candidate sourcing toolbox', you are up that famous creek. You need to add e-sourcing and deep Internet searching skills. You must know how to seek out talent, headhunt, engage, and seduce. You will need to build a personal brand and a community on social media that makes you a 'talent magnet.
See Greg talk about the 5 recruiter mega-fails
3: Do you suck at social media? Specifically, are you in one of these camps? You deride social media as trivial and a waste of time, or 'too new' for you, and you ignore it all together. Or you love social media, spend hours on it, but in fact all you are doing is wasting time and avoiding the real grunt work that all recruiting requires.
4: Do you love meetings? Dinosaur recruiters do. And administration too. And endless Internet browsing. Not 'wasting time' on the net exactly. But looking at client websites and trawling the database for 'perfect' candidates. But really it's all just avoidance. Internal, banal, non-productive tactics, possibly at a subconscious level, which allow avoidance of the difficult tasks that need to be done, now.
5: Are you resistant to change? Examine yourself deeply now. Be honest. Many of today's recruiters are more than resistant. They actively sabotage change. Because it scares them. Shows them up as Recruiting Neanderthals. Fresh ideas are crushed, or ridiculed, or ignored. If new ideas are successful, it is put down to 'luck'. Training sessions are avoided or sulked through, because you know, "I am so busy, I don't have time for this". Recognise any of this, dear reader?
Adapt, adjust, recalibrate, upskill, reskill. Whatever you wish to call it. But do it to thrive. Ignore it and die.
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Thanks, Greg. I don't like the whole "active" vs. "passive" split- I preffer "fast" vs" slow". I don't have time for "slow" candidates- I need people who are right and ready right now (RARRN), and if they aren't - who they know who is RARRN.


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I do some maintenance on the neighborhood ice-skating rink. To control the lights, there is an outside electrical panel that is locked with a padlock.
This padlock always get frozen. Every time I need to mess with the light controls, I got a hard time to even get the key in, then I cannot even turn it. The only solution I found so far is to heat it up with my bare hands, to the risk of getting chilblain. That was sustainable when the weather was good, but the temperature is going down to -25 Celsius (-13 Fahrenheit) this week.
Is there a easier way to unfrozen it?