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Well folks, if you've made it this far, you know our big news! We're adopting a child from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa! After almost a year of praying and researching we are certain that this is the direction God is leading us. When we began telling our family and friends about our plans to adopt, we were shown such overwhelming support, but were asked almost everytime what in the world brought this about. The answer is really simple and really complicated all at the same time. God literally yelled at me in the car one day last fall and told me he was "preparing me for this" (those were his words!) and the desire to adopt a needy and orphaned child has not left my heart since. I would like to say that typically I am not prone to hearing God talk to me like that or to talk to me at all, but probably the more accurate statement would be to say that before this, I don't think I was really listening to what his plan for my life was.
When I heard the calling to be an adoptive parent, I had just dropped my son, Noah, off for his therapy playgroup. So many of these children at playgroup have such a wide array of special needs. Because of where I was at the time I immediately assumed," Hmmm...God wants us to adopt a special needs child. And probably since there are two deaf children in Noah's class, he must be calling us to adopt a deaf child!" Eureka- I must be brilliant to interpret God's calling like that (Or so I thought at the time) In fact, my children and I threw ourselves into learning sign language. We actually got pretty good at it. I researched and asked all the right questions, but somehow in the middle of my quest to do what I thought God wanted me to do, I somehow forgot to talk to him about it. That was my first mistake in this crazy adoption journey. When I really began to pray about it, it didn't take long for me to realize that this was not where God was calling us to adopt. Don't you love how so often we take his will and just bend and mangle it all up into what it is that WE really want to do!
So now we knew that Kamron and I wanted to adopt (did I mention that I have an amazing husband who did not flip out in the least when I came home and said, "Honey- I talked to God about it and he said he wants us to adopt a baby!") but where in the world were we supposed to go to do this???? Then one day Kamron came home and said that Tim Ott, a mutual fund wholesaler that he sees a few times a year, had been in the office and they had just adopted a little boy from Africa. When I heard about their little Joshua and began learning about the people of Congo, my heart could not let the story go. It was as if I had fallen in love with this impoverished, war-torn, and spectaularly beautiful country. I was also disappointed in myself that I knew very little about what was going in this part of Africa that is involved in the bloodiest conflict since WWII. Almost 5.5 million people have died here from rebel armies, genocide, rape, mutilation and other horrors we can't even imagine confronting on an everyday basis. You know at the end of the movie "Hotel Rwanda" where one of the final screens says something like, "Rwandan army forces rebel malitia across the border" and you are so happy for all of the Rwandans. Well, for some reason it never occured to me that "over the border" meant the fighting simply moved into the Congo. Finally, this journey took on the feeling of peace that passes all understanding. Congo just felt so right. Suddenly, this blurry vision became so clear. This was it- this is exactly where God wants us to be!!! Part of our hearts were there already, with a child that we don't even know yet, but already love immensely. So Kamron and I got in touch with the agency and asked about a million questions and found out that it only takes 6 months to a year to complete an adoption from here. WHOA! I guess I had in my head that it takes years to adopt. We know people who have been on waiting lists for children from China and Russia for several years. This new knowledge seemed to make everything even more right. We can make a difference right NOW!
Kamron has been a rock through this. I am the impulsive one- when I have an idea, I want to do it right now. But Kamron is a different story- very calm and methodical. He's the exact balance to my whimisical chaos. So when this all came about last fall he knew that it just wasn't the right timing for our family. Not that it wasn't the right thing, but that it just wasn't the right time. So after waiting 9 months (I've been chomping at the bit the whole time!) NOW feels like the right time to both of us. So here we are, beginning the process! We are beyond excited. This is kind of like finding out you're pregnant (on paper, at least!) It is the most awesome feeling to be doing exactly what you know is meant for your life!
We know that there will be tons of challenges on this journey: having a multi-cultural family, transitioning home, just having 3 kids in general instead of 2. And don't even get me started about how quickly my mamma bear claws come out when I hear racist comments about the beautiful child we'll be bringing home! But we're up for the challenge, in fact, we are downright thrilled about it!
I decided to keep a blog about our adoption process for a few reasons. Every New Year I vow that I will keep a journal of all of the adorable things my kiddos say and do, and every year, I fail miserably! So I thought this way would be a better and easier way to document our lives. And secondly, the blogs from other Congo families have been a lifeline for me the last year. I have loved reading their stories. I have cried happy tears with them when they see the first pictures of their children when they receive their referrals. I have rejoiced with them when their babies come to their forever homes. I have laughed with them when their new children flip out at the first sight of Target. I've been amazed at how quickly their little ones pick up English... These faithful bloggers have touched me deeply-so thank you all from the bottom of my heart for being a wealth of knowledge and a well of love.
Thanks for taking the time to find and follow our blog. We'll update it with the day to day happenings of our lives with two crazy kids and put up new information about the adoption as it comes in!
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You'll also find this column over at Associated Baptist Press/Religious Herald. where it first appeared earlier today.
I recently found myself asked to take a step back from leadership in worship. The pastor in charge was apologetic and very polite, but the public leadership of women in the church is not biblical, he explained, and as a pastor who believes in the Bible it was important to him to draw that line.
You may guess my reaction to what has become an increasingly rare situation for me. I don't share that pastor's opinion that women should not be in leadership; in fact, I'm pretty sure that the way of Jesus invites women into all forms of leadership in the church.
I'm so sure about that, I just don't need to spend time with folks who are not. It's just not a relevant question, I fumed internally. And as I continued my smug internal reverie, I was suddenly jarred by the realization that the gospel had done it to me again.
If you're honest, you probably know what I mean.
Without even realizing it, I'd crossed that very thin line between courageously advocating for issues of justice and peace as a way of championing a radical gospel, and planting myself firmly in the camp of the litmus-testers.
It can happen so quickly, so innocently; you might not even notice you've crossed the line until you find yourself, like me, nursing indignant self-righteousness, so determined you're right that your ability to love in the way of Jesus becomes severely hobbled.
It's the great irony: just when you think you know the lay of the land, the gospel invites you to love harder.
But then somewhere along the way we cross that little line. We move from stretched and aching hearts to convinced and closed hearts. One day we were the ones who were wrong, the next we're the ones telling others they're wrong.
There are many reasonable explanations for this. Some say they need clarity about who is in and who is out to make sure the rules of a punitive God are being followed to the letter. Others say they need clarity about the rules so they know whether they are welcomed or not.
Whatever our explanation, whenever we step across that line we forget what we knew in the deepest part of who we are: that gospel is always and ever invitational.
Gospel constantly calls us out of our most entrenched places of comfort and assurance and asks us to change. It asks us to find the courage to move past positions — which are influenced by culture and economics and biblical scholarship and secular advertising and any number of other things — and into relationship.
The gospel is a sneaky dissonance, an uneasy conviction, an ever-evolving understanding of what it means to love like God loves. If we walk in the way of Jesus, we will always be pushed further and deeper in the constant, ongoing formation of our hearts.
I don't know about you, but I long for black and white. I'd love to move right in with my closely held convictions and just make myself at home, peering out the windows from time to time, feeling sorry for and vaguely disapproving of those on the outside who just haven't got it right yet.
But when I begin to think that Christian faith is about harsh black lines, then I think I've lost sight of it: that mysterious gospel, not a list of rules but a constant, ever-living invitation to love more, to include extravagantly, to embrace with all I am the messy, painful, beautiful way of Jesus, to have my heart changed.


text: Tim Lucas wrote: > Message: 7 > Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:31:16 -0400 > From: Steven Toth <stoth at linuxtv.org <mailto:stoth at linuxtv.org>> > Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] why opensource will fail > To: Paul Chubb <paulc at singlespoon.org.au > <mailto:paulc at singlespoon.org.au>> > Cc: linux dvb <linux-dvb at linuxtv.org <mailto:linux-dvb at linuxtv.org>> > Message-ID: <48CC2314.4090800 at linuxtv.org > <mailto:48CC2314.4090800 at linuxtv.org>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Paul Chubb wrote: > > Hi, > > now that I have your attention:-{)= > > .... You've also had my attention in the past, if I recall I have you > tips about not using cx_write, instead using cx_set/cx_clear. > > Your latest patch still doesn't have those changes btw. ;) > > > > > > I believe that this community has a real problem. There appears to be > > little willingness to help and mentor newcomers. This will limit the > > effectiveness of the community because it will hinder expansion of > > people who are both willing and able to work on the code. Eventually > > this issue will lead to the community dying simply because you have > > people leaving but few joining. > > I disagree with everything you've just said, but that's just my opinion. > > > > > > The card I was working on has been around for a while now. There > have > > been three attempts so far to get it working with Linux. Two in this > > community and one against the mcentral.de <http://mcentral.de> > tree. Both attempts in this > > community have failed not because of a lack of willingness of the > people > > involved to do the hard yards but because of the inability of the > > community to mentor and help newcomers. > > > Did I not try to help you? The one piece of initial feedback I gave you, > you ignored. (see my opening statement). > > I'm always willing to help people, but they also have to demonstrate > that they are applying themselves, doing basic research, asking specific > questions ... rather than, here's my patch - and What's Wrong with it. > > > > > > The third attempt by a Czech programmer succeeded, however it is > > dependent on the mcentral.de <http://mcentral.de> tree and the > author appears to have made no > > attempt to get the patch into the tree. The original instructions to > > produce a driver set are in Czech. However instructions in > english for > > 2.6.22 are available - ubuntu gutsy. I will soon be putting up > > instructions for 2.6.24 - hardy. They may even work for later > revisions > > since the big issue was incompatible versioning. > > > > I understand from recent posts to this list that many in the > community > > are disturbed by the existence of mcentral.de > <http://mcentral.de>. Well every person from > > now on who wants to run the Leadtek Winfast DTV1800H will be > using that > > tree. Since the card is excellent value for what it is, there > should be > > lots of them. Not helping newcomers who are trying to add cards > has led > > and will lead to increased fragmentation. > > So port the mcentral.de <http://mcentral.de> details into the > kernel, I doubt they'll be > significantly different.... we're talking about adding support for an > existing card, it's not a lot of engineering work. > > > > > > And before you say or think that we are all volunteers here, I am a > > volunteer also. I have spent close to 3 weeks on this code and it is > > very close to working. The biggest difference between working code in > > the mcentral.de <http://mcentral.de> tree and the patch I was > working on is the firmware that > > is used. > > ... and your efforts are valuable. > > Markus (mcentral.de <http://mcentral.de>) is paid to work on Linux, > just to be clear. > > Your last message on that thread said: "xc2028 2-0061: xc2028/3028 > firmware name not set!" > > You could of asked a second time before taking the opportunity to vent, > and taking the community to task. > > Showing patience and perseverance is what most other newcomers > demonstrate. > > > > > > Finally you might consider that if few developers are prepared to > work > > on the v4l-dvb tree, then much of the fun will disappear because > those > > few will have to do everything. > > Whether we have 3 people or 30, it's never enough. > > In my experience, people who join the list then vent all over it are > rarely around long enough to make a difference. They often think they > know more about the community than the community itself. > > On the other hand, the people who join and ask well thought out > questions, describe their failures and working assumptions, then > demonstrate a willingness to learn attract a mentor very quickly. > > ... just my opinion of course :) > > If you want to make progress with the leadtek card then another look at > the feedback I gave you, then approach the group again with a more > insightful email. > > Maybe someone will help you then. > > - Steve > > > I would like to respond to this because I have been sending messages to > the list asking for help, but after a couple initial suggestions, I have > been completely ignored. I need to work with the cx23885 drivers with > analog support that Steve wrote, because they are the only ones around, > but how am I supposed to get them to work if the person who wrote them > will not help me. I even reported progress, but I was still ignored. > In fact, I saw other people get help with questions that were as silly > as mine, but for some reason I cannot get any help from Steve or anyone > else on the list. I have said before that I am willing to do some of > the work, but there is a steep learning curve. > > If I have done something against the rules or to deserve this treatment, > I would appreciate someone letting me know instead of just ignoring me. > Where else can I go for help? > > If anyone has any suggestions about what I can do, please see my latest > posts to the list about analog support for cx23885 cards. Thank you. > > --Tim Tim, Just to be clear, they're not my patches I just offered to merge them. :) The people who can help are busy working on other projects, that's just the way Linux development works. I tend to work on Hauppauge hardware projects first then anything else if I have time. Too many people come to the list and have their problems solved and give nothing in return. This is bad. They walk away feeling pretty happy but they don't stop behind to help 2 other people. If everyone I helped stopped to help 2 other people then the group would be a better place. Likewise for all of the other developers in this group. In the end, people stop helping each other because it's a non-stop tide of help requests, for little in return. I'm not suggesting that you do that, I'm suggest that's why the group is the way it is. Stick around, when people have enough time you'll get some attention. - Steve


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It always seems like a good idea at the time, a group holiday with either your best friends or your family. Though, when it comes down to planning, it can be awfully stressful. Of course, when all the planning is done, your trip will always be worth it, especially when you get to spend quality time with your nearest and dearest. Though, when you're put in charge of all the planning and booking, it can seem like a huge task! Especially when you're organising a huge group! Don't worry though, follow our top tips for planning a group holiday, and it will all be a breeze. Choose Your Group You may already know this, but it's vital that you choose your holiday group very wisely. Make sure everyone will get along and have similar interests and budgets – this will minimise the likelihood that any tensions will arise between members of the group. Choose Where You Want To Go Once you've decided who is going on the trip, it's time to decide where the group wants to visit. This can become a complicated task, especially if your group is a mix of ages as tastes will be different. An easy way to decide on your destinations is by simply pulling it out of a hat! Get everyone to put their destination of choice on paper and into a hat, and whichever is pulled out is where you'll be visiting! Once this has been chosen, choose a date when everyone is free. It's best to get each member of the group to suggest a few dates when they are free and pick one which lines up. Distribute The Planning If you are travelling in a group of adults, this gives you a great opportunity to delegate out the tasks and take some of the weight of planning the whole holiday off your shoulders. This way, not only will you be able to relax a bit, but everyone else in the group will feel as though they have contributed towards the final product. Book This is common knowledge, but the sooner you book your holiday and everything else such as travel and accommodation, you'll likely get a better deal! You'll also find that as a bigger group, booking either a villa, apartment or a house will usually be cheaper and easier than a hotel. Take some time to also think about your transport. Sometimes, one of the most cost-effective forms of travel, especially on a group holiday is either a coach or minibus. Be sure to get in touch with a trustworthy coach hire firm, such as Ferris Coach Hire – leading Coach Hire providers, well in advance to discuss your travel plans and how much it will cost. Sort Out The Costs When on a group holiday, most prefer to share out any extra costs. This can be made much easier by putting together some spending money before you go away, which can be dipped into whenever you dine out, do any activities or go food shopping. This is much easier than doing the maths on the spot! Especially when you have to split the bill between 10+ people! Plan Your Activities Even if you are aiming to have a mainly relaxing break, you will still need to plan a few fun activities for everyone. Get everyone to write a list of suggestions and plan who wants to do what. It's also important to remember that when you're in a big group, it may be necessary to split up and do things in smaller groups. What's more, it's also important to keep a few different plans in the back of your mind, just in case the weather takes a turn, so you're not stuck for ideas. Now, well done! It's time to relax and enjoy your hard work!
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As humans, we often tie attachments to immaculate objects immediately. Whether it's our phones or a favorite piece of clothing, our love for these items never seems to waver. Ask a person obsessed with his phone to spend a day without it and they'll be all but ready to claw your face off at this prospect. Replacing human intimacy with love for other objects is something that everyone does. One of the most common objects that find itself being the focus of affection by humans is certain foods or beverages. Out of this list of food and beverages, coffee finds itself at the top of the list. Liking coffee is not just a feeling, it's a way of life. Your love of coffee becomes evident in everything you do. From how you center your whole day on coffee plans to how you itch to find the perfect modern coffee table to become the highlight of your home. If you are still on the fence about your adoration for coffee. Here are eight signs that will tell you that your love for coffee can now be classified as an obsession: 1- You have a super-specific coffee order When you say you want coffee, you just don't mean just any type of coffee. You have a super-specific coffee order that you need. Coffee for you just isn't anything that is available in every coffee shop. You have a weirdly specific coffee order and any deviation from that order won't just cut it for you. You are the person who holds up lines at the coffee shop because your order is so long and elaborate. Coffee making is an art for you that you take very seriously. While you love to try out all the new concoctions put forward by coffee chains like Starbucks, you still stick to your regular order to give you that dose of caffeine. 2- You spend a crazy amount of money on coffee Besides just giving your local coffee shop lots of business by constantly being there and ordering coffee, you spend too much money on creating the perfect coffee at home too. From specific instruments like French presses to imported beans from some obscure corner of the world, you are always on the lookout to get them all. Your kitchen counter is littered with ingredients and instruments that allow you to create the perfect cup of joe for yourself. The most elaborate piece of furniture in your home is perhaps the coffee table that you painstakingly picked out or that framed quote regarding coffee that you have put up in your bedroom. Your whole house is a shrine to your love for coffee. 3- Consumption of coffee has a huge impact on your mood Coffee has the power to turn a good mood into a bad one and vice versa. You can feel your happiness levels being elevated once you get that perfect cup of coffee in your system. Your mood depends on how great or how bad your cup of joe is. If you don't get your daily fix of coffee at the time you want it, then your whole day turns out horribly as a result of that fact. Anyone that knows you knows that the best time to get you to agree to anything is when you have had your daily fix of caffeine. A day without coffee for you is a horrible day that can only end in fights and tears for you. 4- The smell of coffee is everywhere If you ask anyone what thing they associate super strongly with you, the first thing they would say is coffee. Your hair, your clothes, and your house constantly smell of coffee. You're either buying coffee from your favorite coffee place or you're brewing it from the comfort of your own home. This has led to everything you own being permanently stained with the smell of coffee. Your signature scent has changed from your favorite perfume to the smell of coffee. If someone asked you what your favorite perfume would smell like, the answer to that question would definitely be coffee. 5- You like coffee-flavored everything Your love for coffee is not just delegated to just the beverage itself. You like the tinge of coffee in everything. From cakes to ice creams, you love the flavor of coffee in everything that you consume. And this coffee obsession is not just related to just things you can eat and drink. You like everything in your life to tell the story of how much you love coffee. If anyone of your friends wants to give you something, they opt for coffee themed merchandise. Even your pets and babies sport coffee themed onesies as a testament to your love. 6- Your social media feed is full of coffee art On twitter, you share hot takes about how coffee is the only love you need in your life On Instagram, you share latte art from all the different coffees you have had over the course of your life. On your Facebook, all your favorite pictures see you with a cup of coffee in your hand. Your obsession for coffee has seeped into your social media presence as well, as you try and tell the world about how much you love coffee. 7- Your local baristas know you by name now You frequent your local coffee shop so much that the local baristas now know who you are what you want. Your spot at your favorite table and corner has been reserved especially for you. For your order, everyone relies on that one specific barista who knows what you want to your order won't get messed up. The coffee shop is now like a second home for you. 8- The caffeine does not affect you anymore You'd think your love affair with coffee would have turned you into a neurotic mess who would constantly be on the edge at all times. However, caffeine has no effect on you …
Everyone will agree with the thesis that carpet cleaning is the most hateful point of cleaning, they get dirty fast enough, and their washing is not easy. But there are agencies where skilled and trained staff will do this job quickly and efficiently, and thanks to them you will save a lot of time that you can use more creatively or for fun activities. In today's world, when most people care about the environment, they want carpet cleaning not only to be effective, but to use natural remedies, for example, carpet cleaning from LiveCleanToday uses only them, and yet, highlights the following: Qualified and caring staff. A proper method of cleaning each product. Only eco-friendly cleaning products. Professional equipment that restores the color of the carpet. Washing carpets in the shortest possible time. Soft and fluffy carpets are an integral attribute of home comfort, but if you do not monitor their condition, do not regularly clean over time, they lose their attractive appearance. Under the influence of pollution, the carpet will wear off faster. However, cleaning carpets with ordinary household vacuum cleaners will not save it for a long time, because it is simply impossible to remove stains in this way. In this case, you just need to trust the professionals, and they will quickly put in place specialized equipment in no time.
By taking the time to think about how important the air conditioning device can be for your house you're going to realise that, not maintaining it properly and not repairing it when it needs to be repaired will most likely have grave results to the machine itself. Do Not Avoid Important Processes You need to understand that, a lot of people are actually avoiding to repair or maintain there are conditioning devices because of the fact that, yes the process can be a bit expensive from time to time. However, try to think about it like this. If you do not make sure that you will go through the process of maintenance at least, you're most likely going to end up with a machine that will constantly break. At some point, you will be forced to buy a new machine which will of course cost a lot more. Therefore, the only thing you're going to want to do would be to simply find someone who will be able to repair or perform maintenance services or devices without necessarily asking for an obscene amount of money and at the same time be able to provide you with some pretty amazing prices. Find The Best Repairman You are in luck of course because of the world of the Internet will definitely be able to provide you with a lot of information regarding the different companies and contractors out there that will be able to do this for you. For example, if you were to check out the ABC air conditioning services then you would immediately find yourselves in front of a pretty great option regarding the types of contractors that will be able to help you in this particular case. Remember that, when it comes to maintenance services and repair services for your conditioning device, you will always want to try and find the best of the best. There is absolutely no reason for you to try to be cheap in this particular case. You're only going to end up stalling the inevitable which is of course buying a newer conditioning device or paying a very large amount of money in order for you to repair your old one. Whichever the case, you're going to want to make sure that you will not allow this to continue in any possible way. Find the right people today.
Purchasing a home is likely to be the single most expensive investment a person makes in their life. Unfortunately, the costs for maintaining your home do not end after closing. HVAC systems break down, roofs need to be replaced, and natural disasters happen. Everyone should have homeowner's insurance in order to mitigate these risks, but even that could cost you in the long run. Insurance providers are looking to save as much as possible, and sometimes that means taking advantage of clients who do not know any better. Every claim you make on your insurance policy could lead to higher premiums, or to you being dropped completely. So how do you know when it is worth it and when you would be better off paying for a repair out of pocket? There are some simple rules one can follow in order to ensure they are making the best decision for their situation, and they could save you exponentially in the long run. Take a look at the accompanying infographic for a better understanding of what those are, and how you can best protect your investment. Adjusting to Disaster: A Claim Filing Checklist by Expert Public Adjusters
Rent versus buy is not just a decision you make when deciding where to live. It is a decision home owners and even some renters make on a regular basis. If you make the wrong decision, you end up with a garage full of rarely used depreciating tools. Let's learn what tools you should rent, not buy. Rarely Used Seasonal Tools Seasonal tools may be heavily used. For example, some people will use a leaf blower every weekend in the fall. And they'll get even more out of the leaf blower if it can clear snow from their walkway, too. However, the wood chipper used to cut up dead trees or plants pulled up in an annual garden clearing should be rented, not purchased. Snow blowers are probably best rented, though you may not be able to get to the store when you need the item. Rent the brush cutter to clear the property before you plant your first garden, because you may not even need it again next year. Note that it will clear roughly one acre an hour, so give yourself enough time to get things done. For much larger jobs, you might want to hire help. And rent the rotary tiller the one or two times a year when you require it. Tools Only Used for a Single Project Rent that power auger to drill post holes. Realistically, you're probably never going to do this again. Rent a tile saw or demolition hammer that you'll only use for that one construction project. You'll never get an adequate return on the investment as a homeowner, whereas the professionals will use it on a regular basis. Rent heavy plant machinery from Mteevan for digging ponds, pools or foundations, these are incredibly expensive. Even if you were to buy to sell on after your project they may lose a lot of value. Tools That You Should Only Use Once This category includes tools that you really shouldn't use twice on the same job. Rent the drain cleaner used to clear your gutters or drainage pipes, because you may not use it again. If the blockage isn't cleared or reoccurs, you shouldn't run the drain cleaner through the pipes again. Instead, you need to call in a professional to identify and resolve the root cause. After all, you don't want to risk the blockages getting worse over time or getting so bad that you can't clear it temporarily with a heavy-duty tool. Floor sanders fall into the same category. You may be able to sand and refinish a floor once. However, you shouldn't refinish the same floors if you make a mistake. This is because the wood floor only has so much material that can be safely removed before its performance will start to degrade. If you screwed up the floor you just installed so badly you have to rent the floor stripper to remove the new one, stop and call in a professional before you make things worse. Rent a pressure washer to clean an outdoor surface like driveways or the exterior of your home. If the problem isn't resolved, you'll want to consult with a professional. For example, you don't want to keep washing algae and moss from the roof when it is clearly coming back. And it is probably damaging your roof in the meantime as it spreads under the roofing shingles.
Concrete floors are an affordable, durable alternative to stone, wood and tile. They can be stamped to resemble stone or brick. The concrete can even be mixed with coloring and made to look like wood floors. However, modern concrete flooring come with a different set of care instructions. Here are some concrete care tips from a Concrete Flooring Solutions a leading installer of concrete floors. Have It Sealed Concrete floors are stain and water resistant if properly sealed. If the floor isn't sealed, then pet and drink stains can seep into the concrete and are almost impossible to remove. This is why you want to know that the floor is sealed before you mop it or risk spilling anything on it. The floor will need to have the sealer reapplied every few years. You can improve the life of the seal by having the floor waxed regularly. This will protect the concrete floor's seal from abrasion and debris. Use commercial grade floor wax that is designed for concrete floors. Clean It The Right Way Concrete floors that have been sealed can be swept forever. And you can use a damp mop to clean up messes. Use a microfiber cleaning pad to minimize the effect on the concrete floor seal. While you can use a harsh brush to scrub the floor, you'll end up replacing the seal sooner. You can use a swing buffer or auto scrubber on the concrete floor once in a while. Don't use harsh cleaning products like bleach, citrus, ammonia or vinegar. That can damage the seal or etch the surface. Know that the cut patterns on the concrete and any stamped patterns will trap dirt. These areas may require additional scrubbing, or you could clear the grooves of debris using a vacuum cleaner. What if you have unsealed concrete? Clean it with a brush or blast of water first. If that doesn't work, then you can use soap on the stain. Ammonia is a last resort but can be used on unsealed concrete. Never use muriatic acid on concrete if you hope to have it sealed in the future. Then get the concrete sealed so you don't have to go to that much work next time there's a stain on your concrete floors. Plan Your Cleaning Schedule Sweep or mop the concrete floors daily. This removes dirt, debris and crumbs. The latter need to be removed to prevent pests. Mop stains as soon as they occur so that the mess can't seep into the concrete. This includes standing water and pet messes. While the concrete seal should prevent that matter from seeping into the concrete, you don't know the state of the concrete sealant until you see that the stain is starting to become permanent. Minimize The Need To Clean Set up indoor floor mats or rugs at entryways to trap dirt. Consider setting up outdoor floor mats, too, to minimize how much junk gets tracked indoors. If you're in an industrial environment, get sticky mats that pull dirt and debris from people's shoes. Protect The Concrete Floors Mats and wax can only do so much. They'll take the rough treatment of foot traffic, but it won't prevent damage when someone drags heavy tools across the floor. Require heavy loads be moved on trolleys or dollies instead of pushed or pulled across the concrete floor.
While leaking pipes in the walls threaten the integrity of those walls and can ruin your floors, they're relatively easy to repair once you can access them. Furthermore, you can often find wet spots and mold that inform you that there is a leak in the first place. Underground pipes that require repair are infinitely more difficult to deal with. You may not know there is a leak in the buried water pipes until your water bill is insanely high or the water is literally overflowing. Wastewater pipe leaks may not be noticed until you have a puddle in your front garden or it starts seeping through cracks in the floor. Fixing underground pipes is difficult but not impossible. Let's learn how you can fix underground pipes. Locate The Pipe Ideally, you'll know exactly where the buried, damaged pipe is located. You may know where both the pipe and the leak are because there are patches where the grass is too green or a sinkhole has formed above the leaking section of pipe. In some cases, metal detectors or other sensors are used to find the pipe. Then the pipe can be dug up so it can be accessed if the leak can't be fixed using a tool other tools. Access The Pipe You'll generally have to dig down and around the pipe to access it so it can be repaired. This is often done by the drainage experts you hired to repair it, though that will increase the repair bill. If you start digging down to the pipe yourself, don't use heavy equipment so you don't cause further damage to the pipe. Dig around the pipe, as well, to give yourself room to work. Repair / Replace The Pipe The average home owner is not qualified to cut through their pipe, cut a new length of pipe and weld it into place. Consult with experts like ASL Limited to measure, cut and install the new pipe section. A side benefit of calling in plumbing experts is that they'll be able to identify any other pipe leaks while they're there. This could be done non-destructively using technology like closed circuit television surveys of all the pipes. Then you can get other cracked pipes repaired all at once. And they'll be able to tell you if there is a leak under the foundation in addition to the one that you noticed in the yard. Rebury The Pipe Once the pipe has been repaired and all cracks sealed, the pipe can be reburied. In general, you want to use the same materials used to cover it before. That means you don't want to fill a hole in your foundation with dirt. However, you can put fine gravel in around the pipe to give it more support. At this point, you can replace the grass you ripped up unless you want to re-sod the area. What if you had pipes damaged by a shifting foundation? You may want to have the foundation fixed and then the pipes re-surveyed to make sure no new leaks were found?


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Salvage operators in Italy have lifted the Costa Concordia cruise ship upright from its watery grave off the island of Giglio in the biggest ever project of its kind.
The ship's horn sounded for the first time since the January 13, 2012 tragedy, its sound mixing with applause and cheers in the port in a dramatic climax to the massive salvage operation.
The 290-metre, 114,500-tonne vessel - longer than the Titanic and more than twice as heavy - rose from the sea like a ghost ship.
The side of the ship that had been underwater was rusty and brown after 20 months in the sea, contrasting with the white of the exposed side.
"The parbuckling operation has been completed," said Franco Gabrielli, head of the civil protection agency and project overseer, using the technical term for the rotation.
Gabrielli said the newly exposed side of the ship would require "major repairs" and removal of the ship for scrapping is planned only for the northern spring of next year at the earliest.
Franco Porcellacchia, an engineer for the 500-person Italian-US salvage team on Giglio, said: "It could not have gone better than this".
The salvage is the biggest for a passenger ship ever undertaken and the position of the ship posed unique challenges to salvagers.
They have also had to take special care against spillages since Giglio is in the heart of one of Europe's biggest marine sanctuaries.
The ship was dragged up with 36 giant cables across the hull and tanks the size of 11-storey buildings welded on the side of the ship which were filled with water to act as ballast.
The project has so far cost 600 million euros ($A865 million) and insurers, who are picking up the bill, estimate it could run to $US1.1 billion once it is completed.
It struck rocks just off Giglio after veering sharply towards the island in a bravado sail-by allegedly ordered by its captain, Francesco Schettino.
Dubbed "Captain Coward" and "Italy's most hated man" for apparently abandoning the ship while passengers were still on board, Schettino is currently on trial.
Four crew members and the head of ship owner Costa Crociere's crisis unit have already received short prison sentences for their roles in the crash.
The ship had 4,229 people from 70 countries on board.


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Bell: Commissioner should suspend 49ers LB Aldon Smith
It's a shame to think Aldon Smith is defining himself through his own special statistic:
The sacks-to-arrests ratio.
In 43 NFL games, the San Francisco 49ers linebacker has collected 42 sacks. What a marvelous talent.
This explains why Smith still has a job in a league where the better the skill, the better the odds of getting more chances. He has long arms, a nose for quarterbacks and a whole lot of explosion.
If not for his off-field escapades, Smith would be the prototype pass-rusher.
What a big if.
Off-field drama cannot be subtracted from the equation, with Smith's revealing police record.
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Two DUI arrests, one reduced to reckless driving and the other pending. Three felony weapons charges, pending. One inglorious, megahouse party two summers ago, when two people were shot and Smith allegedly fired a bullet into the air and ended up suffering multiple stab wounds.
Now another episode: Smith was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday, alleged to have uttered something about a bomb after being selected by a TSA agent for a security screening.
Think they might be on alert at LAX? About five months ago, a gunman went on a shooting rampage in one of the terminals there, leaving a TSA agent dead.
Now Smith, 24, supposedly mentions a bomb. If that's true, how foolish.
That Smith cleared security and managed to get to the gate for his flight before being arrested is a bit puzzling, and a matter for the attorneys he surely has on speed-dial to sort out.
Regardless, it's a bad look for Smith (again), and more dirt has been dumped on the 49ers brand. Last week, it was revealed 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and receiver Quinton Patton are linked to a police matter in Miami involving a woman who wound up unconscious and in a hospital. No charges have been filed, however, and police have clarified that initial reports of a sexual assault were inaccurate.
Still, the franchise quarterback's name is attached to the scene.
Also, cornerback Chris Culliver — who fueled a frenzy before Super Bowl XLVII with his public gay-bashing — is facing a misdemeanor hit-and-run charge and a felony charge for possession of brass knuckles after an incident this offseason.
The 49ers have built a team good enough to advance to three consecutive NFC championship games, but general manager Trent Baalke and coach Jim Harbaugh are subject to more scrutiny with all the action on police blotters.
The brain trust looked foolish in September when it allowed Smith to practice and then play in a game a couple days after he crashed his car and was arrested around 6 a.m.
Smith played before going off to rehab for five weeks. During the incident Sunday, police referenced a suspicion of alcohol use — but for some reason did not administer a breathalyzer test.
So what should NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell do?
Goodell should suspend Smith. Like yesterday. Like now. He needs to shut him down and let him deal with his legal issues.
As for NFL law, Smith already has violated the NFL's personal conduct policy — multiple times.
But for all of Smith's cases, he has yet to be suspended by the NFL — not even for that drunken, early-morning crash in September. Smith's five-game layoff last season was technically a leave, with Goodell apparently signing off on how the 49ers handled the case.
Goodell hasn't issued any discipline to Smith for the pending matters. He's exhibiting patience in a work environment that includes grumbling from the players union — which we keep hearing as it relates to stalled HGH testing — that the commissioner has too much power.
Before the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal, Goodell would suspend players in special cases regardless of how their cases played out legally. See Ben Roethlisberger and Adam "Pacman" Jones.
In most cases, it seems prudent to wait until the legal cases are resolved before issuing discipline.
But in special cases — like when a linebacker has one case stacked upon another — it's silly to avoid suspending the player for at least the period of time it takes to get the legal matters resolved.
That would send quite the message, and not just for the relationship between the public and the league's integrity. Smith needs to realize his talent would be a terrible thing to waste.
For all of his prowess as a pass-rusher, he's also a big risk to do something else to embarrass the league, his team and even worse, damage to himself and others.
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LOS ANGELES — The tremors may have had morning TV anchors diving under the desk, but it takes more than a 4.4 quiver to rattle Eric Garcetti.
"I don't lose my head," said the Democratic mayor of Los Angeles, who was in bed with his wife, Amy Wakeland, when the earthquake struck at dawn Monday. "I've always kind of enjoyed the small ones. The small ones are kind of fun."
He said dryly that it was 10 minutes before they remembered to check on their 2-year-old daughter. He did check in with "Earthquake Lucy," as he calls seismologist Lucy Jones, an expert on loan from the U.S. Geological Survey, who told him that it was a new fault line under the Santa Monica Mountains and that there was only a 5 percent chance that it would usher in a bigger quake later that day.
Garcetti was so unconcerned that he went to Tom Bergin's pub for St. Paddy's Day and played bartender for two hours, even though Irish is the one ethnicity he's not, and he ended up with a bit of a hangover. There was some grumbling that the mayor was too invisible Monday morning, that he should have used the shake to shake people out of the complacency that has set in since the $42 billion, magnitude 6.7 quake in Northridge that left 57 dead in 1994.
Critics say that City Hall has its own version of "Where's Waldo?" called "Anyone Seen Eric?"
"He's so low profile," said one TV writer. "He's harder to find than Flight 370."
The doubters concede that the 43-year-old former city councilman and son of Gil Garcetti, the O.J. prosecutor, is bright, charming and multifaceted: a salsa-dancing, jazz-piano-playing Rhodes Scholar who grew up in the Valley in a Brady Bunch world, mingling Jewish, Italian and Mexican heritage. ("The guilt must cancel out," the mayor laughs, "because I live my life with very little guilt.")
Critics say that Garcetti's most vivid move in office so far — working for one day at a red metal table in a parking lot in Boyle Heights, a Latino neighborhood — was a stunt that only a high school class president would deem clever.
The soft-spoken Garcetti did speak out about the earthquake, warning Angelenos to be more vigilant, including at a breakfast interview sponsored by Los Angeles Magazine Tuesday; he just did it in what he calls his "calm and grounded" way. He is confident that his "back-to-basics" approach is reaping benefits, despite criticism in L.A. Weekly last month that he's off to a slow start and struggling to find an agenda. He says he wants to be "humble" as he helps the city restore its "hustle," and, to that end, he recently made a cup of coffee for a startled Chinese construction mogul who could bring business here.
He has been a stark contrast to New York's new Democratic mayor, Bill de Blasio, who has been highly visible but abrasive and obsessive about one cause: funding a pre-K program by taxing the wealthy. While de Blasio came to power belittling Michael Bloomberg's tenure, Garcetti went to Manhattan before he was sworn in eight months ago to seek out Bloomberg's advice.
"I pull some of the metric-based leadership from Bloomberg," he said, during an interview at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, in a room covered in Spanish tile that served as the first locale for a fledgling little event called the Academy Awards. But he stressed that he also thinks it's really important "to connect emotionally."
While de Blasio has been publicly battling Gov. Andrew Cuomo on raising taxes and closing charter schools, Garcetti has been quietly and amiably working with Gov. Jerry Brown on climate change and on providing tax inducements that would stem the exodus of film and TV production companies to Louisiana and Canada. Garcetti recalled that Governor Brown told him over dinner, "You only have a few chances to really communicate. Don't waste them."
"I'm not that interested in a bunch of flash early on," Garcetti said, noting that you have to build a team, figure out your style and "find a narrative for your city."
While de Blasio is seen as a captive of unions and foe of business, Garcetti has pushed back against the powerful public works employees' union and reached out to business.
"He's much more of a Bloomberg mayor than a de Blasio mayor," said one prominent C.E.O. here. "He clearly understands the need to partner with us and not bash us."
The grand hope of liberals that de Blasio would turn New York into a lab for populist government theories has faded, as that stumbling mayor's disapproval rating has more than doubled since January.
Ben White and Maggie Haberman wrote Tuesday in Politico that there is a determined backlash by the 1 percent against class-based appeals on income inequality and soaking the rich, dubbed the ineffective "politics of envy" by Larry Summers. Garcetti says he empathizes with de Blasio on the steep learning curve at a breathless pace, and is glad he has no "snow politics."
"I share Bill's sense of social justice in urban centers, but I realize that the job of mayor is to fix things," he said. "We're not running for president. We're not writing self-help books. We are people who first and foremost have to take care of the basics."
He said that he and de Blasio both have to get used to being chief executives. So far, Garcetti likes it. "It feels like you had on an off-the-rack suit," he said, smiling, "and then you get a custom-made one."


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In the Oscar-nominated short film 4.1 Miles, Daphne Matziaraki follows a day in the life of Kyriakos Papadopoulos, a captain in the Greek Coast Guard who is caught in the middle of the biggest refugee crisis since WWII. Despite limited resources, the captain and his crew attempt to save thousands of migrants from drowning in the Aegean Sea.
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The binary log has two important purposes:
For replication, the binary log on a master replication server provides a record of the data changes to be sent to slave servers. The master server sends the events contained in its binary log to its slaves, which execute those events to make the same data changes that were made on the master. See Section 17.2, "Replication Implementation".
Certain data recovery operations require use of the binary log. After a backup has been restored, the events in the binary log that were recorded after the backup was made are re-executed. These events bring databases up to date from the point of the backup. See Section 7.5, "Point-in-Time (Incremental) Recovery Using the Binary Log".
The binary log is not used for statements such as
SELECT or
SHOW that do not modify data. To
log all statements (for example, to identify a problem query), use
the general query log. See Section 5.4.3, "The General Query Log".
Running a server with binary logging enabled makes performance slightly slower. However, the benefits of the binary log in enabling you to set up replication and for restore operations generally outweigh this minor performance decrement.
The binary log should be protected because logged statements might contain passwords. See Section 22.214.171.124, "Passwords and Logging".
The following discussion describes some of the server options and variables that affect the operation of binary logging. For a complete list, see Section 126.96.36.199, "Binary Log Options and Variables".
To enable the binary log, start the server with the
option. If no
base_name value is given,
the default name is the value of the
--pid-file option (which by default
is the name of host machine) followed by
If the base name is given, the server writes the file in the data
directory unless the base name is given with a leading absolute
path name to specify a different directory. It is recommended that
you specify a base name explicitly rather than using the default
of the host name; see Section B.4.7, "Known Issues in MySQL", for the
If you supply an extension in the log name (for example,
the extension is silently removed and ignored.
mysqld appends a numeric extension to the
binary log base name to generate binary log file names. The number
increases each time the server creates a new log file, thus
creating an ordered series of files. The server creates a new file
in the series each time it starts or flushes the logs. The server
also creates a new binary log file automatically after the current
log's size reaches
max_binlog_size. A binary log
file may become larger than
max_binlog_size if you are using
large transactions because a transaction is written to the file in
one piece, never split between files.
To keep track of which binary log files have been used,
mysqld also creates a binary log index file
that contains the names of the binary log files. By default, this
has the same base name as the binary log file, with the extension
'.index'. You can change the name of the binary
log index file with the
option. You should not manually edit this file while
mysqld is running; doing so would confuse
The term "binary log file" generally denotes an individual numbered file containing database events. The term "binary log" collectively denotes the set of numbered binary log files plus the index file.
A client that has privileges sufficient to set restricted session
system variables (see
Section 184.108.40.206, "System Variable Privileges") can disable binary
logging of its own statements by using a
sql_log_bin=OFF statement.
The format of the events recorded in the binary log is dependent on the binary logging format. Three format types are supported, row-based logging, statement-based logging and mixed-base logging. The binary logging format used depends on the MySQL version. For general descriptions of the logging formats, see Section 22.214.171.124, "Binary Logging Formats". For detailed information about the format of the binary log, see MySQL Internals: The Binary Log.
The server evaluates the
--binlog-do-db and
--binlog-ignore-db options in the
same way as it does the
--replicate-do-db and
--replicate-ignore-db options. For
information about how this is done, see
Section 18.104.22.168, "Evaluation of Database-Level Replication and Binary Logging Options".
If you are replicating from an NDB Cluster to a standalone MySQL
Server, you should be aware that the
NDB storage engine uses default
values for some binary logging options (including options specific
NDB such as
--ndb-log-update-as-write) that
differ from those used by other storage engines. If not corrected
for, these differences can lead to divergence of the master's
and slave's binary logs. For more information, see
Replication from NDB to other storage engines. In
particular, if you are using a nontransactional storage engine
such as
MyISAM on the slave, see
Replication from NDB to a nontransactional storage engine.
A replication slave server by default does not write to its own
binary log any data modifications that are received from the
replication master. To log these modifications, start the slave
with the
--log-slave-updates option
in addition to the
--log-bin option
(see Section 18.104.22.168, "Replication Slave Options and Variables"). This is done
when a slave is also to act as a master to other slaves in chained
You can delete all binary log files with the
RESET MASTER statement, or a subset
of them with
PURGE BINARY LOGS. See
Section 184.108.40.206, "RESET Statement", and Section 126.96.36.199, "PURGE BINARY LOGS Statement".
If you are using replication, you should not delete old binary log
files on the master until you are sure that no slave still needs
to use them. For example, if your slaves never run more than three
days behind, once a day you can execute mysqladmin
flush-logs on the master and then remove any logs that
are more than three days old. You can remove the files manually,
but it is preferable to use
LOGS, which also safely updates the binary log index
file for you (and which can take a date argument). See
Section 220.127.116.11, "PURGE BINARY LOGS Statement".
You can display the contents of binary log files with the mysqlbinlog utility. This can be useful when you want to reprocess statements in the log for a recovery operation. For example, you can update a MySQL server from the binary log as follows:
shell> mysqlbinlog log_file | mysql -h server_name
mysqlbinlog also can be used to display replication slave relay log file contents because they are written using the same format as binary log files. For more information on the mysqlbinlog utility and how to use it, see Section 4.6.7, "mysqlbinlog — Utility for Processing Binary Log Files". For more information about the binary log and recovery operations, see Section 7.5, "Point-in-Time (Incremental) Recovery Using the Binary Log".
Binary logging is done immediately after a statement or transaction completes but before any locks are released or any commit is done. This ensures that the log is logged in commit order.
Updates to nontransactional tables are stored in the binary log immediately after execution.
Within an uncommitted transaction, all updates
DELETE, or
INSERT) that change transactional
tables such as
InnoDB tables are cached until a
COMMIT statement is received by the
server. At that point, mysqld writes the entire
transaction to the binary log before the
COMMIT is executed.
Modifications to nontransactional tables cannot be rolled back. If
a transaction that is rolled back includes modifications to
nontransactional tables, the entire transaction is logged with a
statement at the end to ensure that the modifications to those
tables are replicated.
When a thread that handles the transaction starts, it allocates a
buffer of
binlog_cache_size to
buffer statements. If a statement is bigger than this, the thread
opens a temporary file to store the transaction. The temporary
file is deleted when the thread ends.
Binlog_cache_use status
variable shows the number of transactions that used this buffer
(and possibly a temporary file) for storing statements. The
Binlog_cache_disk_use status
variable shows how many of those transactions actually had to use
a temporary file. These two variables can be used for tuning
binlog_cache_size to a large
enough value that avoids the use of temporary files.
max_binlog_cache_size system
variable (default 4GB, which is also the maximum) can be used to
restrict the total size used to cache a multiple-statement
transaction. If a transaction is larger than this many bytes, it
fails and rolls back. The minimum value is 4096.
If you are using the binary log and row based logging, concurrent
inserts are converted to normal inserts for
SELECT or
SELECT statements. This is done to ensure that you can
re-create an exact copy of your tables by applying the log during
a backup operation. If you are using statement-based logging, the
original statement is written to the log.
The binary log format has some known limitations that can affect recovery from backups. See Section 17.4.1, "Replication Features and Issues".
Binary logging for stored programs is done as described in Section 20.7, "Stored Program Binary Logging".
Note that the binary log format differs in MySQL 5.5 from previous versions of MySQL, due to enhancements in replication. See Section 17.4.2, "Replication Compatibility Between MySQL Versions".
Writes to the binary log file and binary log index file are
handled in the same way as writes to
tables. See Section B.4.3.4, "How MySQL Handles a Full Disk".
By default, the binary log is not synchronized to disk at each
write. So if the operating system or machine (not only the MySQL
server) crashes, there is a chance that the last statements of the
binary log are lost. To prevent this, you can make the binary log
be synchronized to disk after every
writes to the binary log, with the
sync_binlog system variable. See
Section 5.1.7, "Server System Variables". 1 is the safest value
sync_binlog, but also the
slowest. Even with
set to 1, there is still the chance of an inconsistency between
the table content and binary log content in case of a crash. For
example, if you are using
InnoDB tables and the
MySQL server processes a
statement, it writes the whole transaction to the binary log and
then commits this transaction into
InnoDB. If
the server crashes between those two operations, the transaction
is rolled back by
InnoDB at restart but still
exists in the binary log. To resolve this, you should set
--innodb_support_xa to 1. Although
this option is related to the support of XA transactions in
InnoDB, it also ensures that the binary log and InnoDB data files
are synchronized.
For this option to provide a greater degree of safety, the MySQL
server should also be configured to synchronize the binary log and
InnoDB logs to disk at every transaction.
InnoDB logs are synchronized by default,
sync_binlog=1 can be used to synchronize
the binary log. The effect of this option is that at restart after
a crash, after doing a rollback of transactions, the MySQL server
scans the latest binary log file to collect transaction
xid values and calculate the last valid
position in the binary log file. The MySQL server then tells
InnoDB to complete any prepared transactions
that were successfully written to the to the binary log, and
truncates the binary log to the last valid position. This ensures
that the binary log reflects the exact data of
InnoDB tables, and so, that the slave remains
in synchrony with the master (not receiving a statement which has
been rolled back).
If the MySQL server discovers at crash recovery that the binary
log is shorter than it should have been, it lacks at least one
successfully committed
InnoDB transaction. This
should not happen if
sync_binlog=1 and the
disk/file system do an actual sync when they are requested to
(some do not), so the server prints an error message
binary log . In this case, this binary log is not
correct and replication should be restarted from a fresh snapshot
of the master's data.
file_name is shorter than
its expected size
The session values of the following system variables are written to the binary log and honored by the replication slave when parsing the binary log:
sql_mode(except that the
NO_DIR_IN_CREATEmode is not replicated; see Section 184.108.40.206, "Replication and Variables")


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My own early piece on the lunatic right's opposition to Hagel, a Republican former Senator from Nebraska: http://www.muzzlewatch.com/2012/12/27/chuck-hagel-and-israel-the-wrong-question/
A brief but brilliant piece by Stephen Walt: http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/02/01/id_like_to_thank_the_senate_armed_services_committee
Yousef Munayyer on the number of appearances, or lack thereof, of various words: http://blog.thejerusalemfund.org/2013/02/the-hagel-hearing-snapshot.html
John Judis in The New Republic http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112306/chuck-hagel-confirmation-hearings-ted-cruz-john-mccain-grill-him
Matt Duss in The American Prospect https://prospect.org/article/senate-hearing-circus-session
And Jim Lobe at Inter Press Service http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/02/its-all-about-israel/
That's plenty of good stuff. I want to throw in one more point, which some of these folks touched on. Continue reading


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