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Hello friends,
Today is Canada Day, a celebration of Canada's birthday, but this year it's an extra special birthday…Canada is 150 years old today!
Canada used to be a British colony, but became its own independent country on July 1st, 1867. ( Well, to be totally correct, the colonies of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia joined to form the semi-autonomous federal Dominion of Canada on that date, but most would consider this date the birth of Canada as a country).
Here are some fun facts about Canada:
- The capital city of Canada is Ottawa and is located in the province of Ontario. Other major cities include Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Calgary.
- There are 2 official languages in Canada: English and French.
- Canada has 10 provinces and 3 territories.
- Canada's prime minister is Justin Trudeau.
- Canada is the second largest country in the world ( after Russia)
- Some famous Canadian people are Jim Carrey, Michael J. Fox, William Shatner. Michael Bublé, and Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson.
- Canada is famous for Timbits, ice hockey, and Poutine ( A French Canadian specialty of french fries covered with pieces of cheese curd and gravy).
Aren't you oh so glad you are reading my blog and learning all kinds of interesting facts today?? 🙂
You might wonder why I would be writing about all this…it is because I am a Canadian. I was born in the Netherlands, moved to Canada in my teens ( where I, along with my parents and sister, became a Canadian), and moved to the USA in my 30's, where I still live today with my own family. Watching the Olympics is great at our house, because I have 3 different countries I get to root for! ( Not so easy if 2 of those countries are competing against each other…but then I decide to root for the winner~teehee!)
Just for fun ( and because this is a quilting blog) I decided to go find some Canadian quilt projects:
This pillow is so cute and the pattern is FREE!
This Maple leaf runner comes with a great tutorial! ( Also FREE!)
This cute mug rug would be so quick to make! (Yes, FREE also)


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Did mayor try to stop DOJ investigation?
Mayor cites concern about violation of Open Meetings Act
As the Department of Justice launched an investigation into the Albuquerque Police Department, some community members were questioning if Mayor Richard Berry tried to stop that investigation from happening.
Berry said that is the furthest thing from the truth. In August, Berry vetoed a City Council resolution requesting a DOJ investigation into the Albuquerque Police Department.
Berry said he did that for several reasons (see http://www.cabq.gov/mayor/news/read-mayor-berrys-veto-message-on-r-11-247/), but most importantly, because it may have violated the Open Meetings Act.
"Frankly, I won't sign any legislation that hits my desk that's part of an Open Meetings Act violation," Berry said.
"I think it's embarrassing that he did veto it, and now the whole world knows we're, the APD, is under investigation on his watch during the very term that he vetoed this legislation," League of United Latin American Citizens representative Ralph Arellanes said.
Berry and the police chief have said they will fully cooperate with the Department of Justice investigation.

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Located on the outskirts of Charters Towers, the Venus Gold Battery offers an insight into an amazing real life gold rush of the late nineteenth century. The Battery is of national cultural significance as the largest surviving Battery relic in Australia and the oldest surviving Battery in Queensland.
Constructed in 1872, it was a public or custom mill in its prime and became a State Battery in 1919 to provide ore crushing facilities for small miners long after other mills had closed. It ceased commercial operations in 1973 after a century of service. Guided tours are available daily. One of the highlights is a fascinating film presentation that shows not only the process of extracting gold from ore, but also the story of the Battery's working life and some of its ghosts.
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This morning my heart hurts. I don't mean like boohoo I just wanted "Titanic" and now I'm sad I mean my heart is actually in pain. I'm pretty sure it's all the coffee I drink finally catching up with me. In the past 48 hours I've had 4 giant coffees, a handful of peanuts and a sandwich. That can't be good for your system.
Word around town is that Will Smith is not so officially involved with "I Am Legend 2" as we thought he was. Well I actually didn't know they were making a sequel so I guess I didn't think anything. But you get the idea. In a recent interview Big Willy said he has no involvement with the project right now but may if the script turns out to be great. What a magical world it would be if we could all call our boss every morning and say I'm not really into work today but if it turns out to be fun there give me a ring and I'll head in. But maybe not.
"In the Dark" is a new horror anthology and today we've got some exciting casting news for one if its sequences titled "To Be Loved". Gwendolyn Sweet, whom the 15 people that still subscribe to Playboy will recognize as a model of theirs, will play the lead in the chapter that follows a young lass who looks to be sweet and innocent on the outside but has a dark twisted side that comes out behind closed doors. Full disclosure here, I subscribed to Playboy for close to ten years and for the past 2 years they call me at least once a month asking me to come back. It's pretty funny to listen to a 75 year old woman ask me about my Playboy subscription. I recommend it to everyone.
There's really nothing funny about The West Memphis Three. A true life story about 3 teens who were imprisoned for close to 10 years for a murder they didn't commit. The film about the whole ordeal titled "Devil's Knot" is in the works and today we've learned that both Dane DeHaan and Amy Ryan have been added to the cast. I mean "Devil's Knot" is kind of funny, cause you know it sounds like a porn. But other than that this is 100% serious.
Kathy Baker will always hold a special place in my heart as the slutty chick who wanted to bang Edward Scissorhands really bad. I didn't get out much as a kid. And now she's been cast in the film "Model Home" along side Monique Gabriela Curnen. The flick tells the story of a single mother who's recruited to live in unsold homes and finds herself entertaining dangerous thoughts. I have no fond memories of Monique but the first girl who saw me nude had that same name and she had weird sunken eyes so that's something I guess.
Apparently there's some kind of video out there called "1 lunatic, 1ice pick" and a Canadian high school teacher showed it to her class. She's been suspended without pay. That's all I want to know about this.
A 68 year old man from New York apparently exposed himself to a pool full of vacationers at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge in Florida this past Monday. So if you've always been skeptical of the "Happiest Place On Earth" tag because there was never any old man balls in Disney you might want to think about planning a trip.


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Facebook has bought the location-based service Gowalla, according to CNNMoney.
Neither party has confirmed the transaction, but speculation that an announcement is imminent was sparked by CNNMoney on Friday.
According to the report, Facebook has acquired the Texas –based Gowalla team and is to incorporate the service into Facebook's Timeline feature, which allows users to document their lives in a single vertical page stream.
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yeah coca cola 600 on to night, now who will win ? ( i hope the 43 car, long time since april 1999 at martinsville va )
I also hear the plastic is made from recycled beavers.
Great win for Rosberg at Monaco and more so for Kanaan at Indy, very historic both of them. Kudos to both.1 Reply
House prices in British Columbia are insane. This is the crappiest $900,000 house I've ever seen.
Sweet '78 Marquis though.3 Replies
HGTV has a show that is produced in canada called " love it or list it " and they have this woman who promises the moon and stars to present homeowners and rarely delivers the goods, in the 2 + years my wife and i have watched i don't think she ever has done everything she promised the homeowners she could because she doesn't check the house out in every way possible, or as we say here " she writes checks her butt can't cash " plus the prices in canada for houses just floors me, for 500K i have seen houses that down here would have trouble selling for 100K, unreal !
Woohoo! Free tickets to the Montreal GP!
Not quite ideally, these tickets are for the Friday, but they're in a corporate box. Free booze!!3 Replies
So Jim - it was a brief stay in the top, oh, 1000, huh?
Kidding aside, it was a pretty impressive performance.2 Replies
happy tuesday morning and welcome to a shortened work week, yes it's time to go back to the salt mine and do your duty ( and hopefully not get dooty on you ) yes people will be grumpy, tired and in no mood to work, but if you want to party on the weekend you gotta get through the week first, or just say the heck with it, get addicted to crack ( or something else ) and go on welfare, heck 71 % of philly is that way, if it works here, it'll work there too !


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In order to accommodate residents in the project area, the public meeting on the North 14th Street project has been moved from Monday, October 10 to Wednesday, October 12. The meeting will be from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Belmont Recreation Center gym, 1234 Judson St., and a presentation will begin at 6:30 p.m. The City also has moved the date for the beginning of construction from October 11 to the week of October 24.
The project will widen 14th Street to four lanes from Superior to Interstate 80 and will include the construction of a multi-lane roundabout at 14th and Superior streets. Pedestrian tunnels will be constructed on the west and south sides of the intersection to accommodate the trail crossings that will exist in the area after the completion of the project. The Nebraska Department of Roads (NDOR) also is building a bridge over Interstate 80 on N. 14th Street. The I-80 bridge is scheduled to open in August 2012, the roundabout is scheduled to open in mid-August 2012, and the work on N. 14th Street is expected to be completed by November 2012. The entire project is expected to be completed in May 2013.
The October 12 public meeting will include a discussion of neighborhood traffic issues and tunnel visibility. The public will be able to comment on the project timeline. Representatives from the City of Lincoln, project consultants, contractors and NDOR will be available to discuss the project and answer questions.
Individuals who have questions prior to the meeting or are unable to attend should contact Devin Biesecker, City of Lincoln, at 402-937-5515, or Jon Olsen, Olsson Associates, at 402-458-5614. More information is available at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword projects) and on the project website at www.oasites.com/north14th.


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MALMO, Sweden – Team Canada displayed their most complete effort of the world junior championship in a 4-1 win over Switzerland in the quarter-final.
The Canadians outshot the Swiss 23-20 in the victory on Thursday.
Canada now plays Finland in the semifinal on Saturday.
The Finns overcame a 3-1 deficit thanks to three third-period goals to beat the Czech Republic 5-3.
Canada opened the scoring against Switzerland for the first time in eight tournament and pre-tournament games.
Griffin Reinhart stuffed in a loose puck past Swiss goalie Melvin Nyffeler at 18:08 of the first period.
Canada extended its lead to 2-0 in the second period when Anthony Mantha scored on a penalty shot at 9:04.
Mantha was awarded a penalty shot after being hauled down on a breakaway by Swiss blue-liner Samuel Kreis.
The winger made no mistake, faking to a shot and deking to the backhand for his tournament-leading 11th point.
Canada's advantage was cut in half with one second left in the period when Nico Dunner tipped in a point shot from Mirco Muller out of the air and by Canadian goalie Zach Fucale.
The play required a lengthy review, but was upheld.
Curtis Lazar restored Canada's two-goal lead at 4:11 of the third.
With the teams skating four-on-four, Griffin Reinhart was stopped on a breakaway. Lazar, Reinhart's teammate on the WHL's Edmonton Oil Kings, quickly corralled the rebound and scored on a wraparound.
Defenceman Derrick Pouliot rounded out the Canadian scoring by beating Nyffeler off the rush late in the third.
With the win, Canada improved its record in world junior quarter-final games to 8-1.
This is the first tournament since 1996 that the group winners from the preliminary round have not received a direct bye through to the semifinal.
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According to Jay Glazer, the Miami Dolphins have just released Chad Johnson following his arrest on charges of domestic violence. So much for all the drama on Hard Knocks. Looks like it'll be more of Ryan Tannehill's wife.
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Videos of Dr. Judy Mikovits' Presentation and Q&A, from the Jan 22 event sponsored by the HHV-6 Foundation and ProHealth, are available HERE
And now full transcripts of the entire event are available.
We all owe a great debt of gratitude to the small group of dedicated people on the Phoenix Rising Forums who transcribed the audio portion of the 2.5-hour event – with special thanks to the volunteers who transcribed the hard-to-hear questions from the audience in the Q&A video.
The transcripts, with notes on a few of the many points made, are as follows.
Part 1 – Transcribed by 'thefreeprisoner'
• Introduction by Whittemore Peterson Institute Founder Annette Whittemore
• Important background by Dr. Mikovits – "Retrovirus 101," and a careful explanation of the process Mikovits, et al. used in testing for XMRV in CFS and healthy samples.
Parts 2 and 3 – transcribed by 'Kim' and 'froufox'
• How they determined that XMRV both in prostate cancer and CFS is a new human retrovirus (not a rodent virus); that it is an 'exogenous' virus, meaning it isn't part of the human genome like 'endogenous' viruses, but is a foreign virus; and then that XMRV can be infectious in both prostate cancer and CFS.
• One question now is, what types of cells are the main 'reservoir' for XMRV – those that have the machinery necessary to replicate the virus to high levels? If the virus in plasma was coming out of the tissues, what would be the tissue reservoir?
• How they determined that hormones turn on XMRV transcription (the replication and division of the virus) – progesterone, androgen receptor, testosterone, and more still unidentified such as possibly estrogens & estrogen-like compounds. Notably, prostate cancer is "a hormone responsive disease" and CFS is thought to occur primarily in women.
Parts 4 and 5 – Transcribed by 'Sproogle' and Garcia
• Also, cortisol – the stress hormone – is an on/off switch for the virus with the stress response.
• To illustrate a possible path of replication – using the path of HIV for example – the initial infection may create a spike in plasma viral load along with flu-like symptoms or no noticeable symptoms. Then with time, other infections, stress hormone spikes, and inflammatory responses can cause other upward spikes in the viral load until a 'tipping point' into illness is reached. "Not every cell can replicate the virus but virus can get into every cell." The body becomes subject to invasions because the immune system loses effectiveness.
• Again using HIV as an example, development of highly active anti-retroviral therapies allowed control of the retrovirus, and for most patients, the ability to get the immune system back to functioning well vs. opportunistic co-infections. Once infected by a retrovirus, it is there to stay.
• The good news is, XMRV is the first simple human infectious retrovirus known – much simpler than HIV and apparently less changeable.
• All three known human retroviruses (HIV, HTLV, XMRV) are infectious, are associated with neurological diseases and cancer, increase susceptibility to opportunistic infections, and are not airborne like "contagious" diseases.
• Both HIV & HTLV have variants, some less pathogenic or with different profiles, so XMRV may well have variants also. Also geographic distribution might vary a lot. HTLV for example is common only in certain parts of the world.
• If you think you might be infected, follow the HIV precautions. Don't donate blood or tissues, don't share razors or toothbrushes to avoid blood transmission, use safe sexual techniques, and don't breastfeed after six weeks when the maternal antibodies go away.
Research Priorities?
• Replicate studies. A slide shows participating researchers, and WPI "will send the reagents out to anybody to replicate the work and find out more about the disease" – on a nonprofit basis.
• Prevalence. A Blood Working Group (fed govt., National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute, National Cancer Institute, and many more) is investigating XMRV presence, distribution, not necessarily disease.
• Want to understand the tissue reservoirs (Lymph nodes? Bone marrow? Brain?)
• Already actively working with drug companies to develop anti-retrovirals & immune-based therapies for clinical trials.
• Understand transmission. Now planning a family study that will include families with diseases across the spectrum – fibro, other neuro-immune diseases, maybe higher incidence of cancer – plus healthy people.
• Is XMRV a causal factor in CFS & prostate cancer?
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• What's worldwide incidence, and where? Japanese study found 1.7% in their country. Researchers in Canada, UK, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Italy, Spain participating so far.
• Does it affect cancer risk?
What About Diagnostic Tests?
• The best diagnostic test is a serology test that will be the number one test to look for antibodies. It is done in a lab and is very cumbersome, and WPI is near validating it clinically.
• Meanwhile WPI licensed its current technology to VIP Dx which is using WPI's "proprietary culture method and PCR in combination with a Western Confirmation." [The PCR tests for presence of viral RNA or DNA.] VIP Dx donates anything above costs to XMRV research, as WPI is a nonprofit organization. Two other companies' tests, which may be using too little blood, are discussed.
• You may have reasons you want to be tested now – such as thinking about ways to support your immune system or protect your family while the search for drug possibilities proceeds.
• There's no real reason to pay for a diagnostic test because we can participate in research studies and fund those studies and you get better data. WPI invites participation in its future studies, through which testing will be free.
• WPI wants your blood for research. We are looking for study participants, via an online Volunteer Questionnaire.
Parts 6 and 7 – Transcriptions by 'Advocate', 'JAS', 'Lily', 'thefreeprisoner', 'Kim' & 'Garcia'
• With other retroviruses you can be infected and be carriers and not be sick. With XMRV might there an immune defect or other reason some people get sick and others don't?
• About 40% of those tested by VIP Dx have been positive, but right now if you test negative you're not necessarily negative, even at VIP Dx – the serology test [for antibodies in blood serum] is needed. Maybe your virus levels are low and didn't show up but you may have made antibodies.
• As soon as we have the serology test we'll go back and do all the negatives.
• We'll license our test to anyone. We're a non-profit so everybody will pay the same royalty.
• The virus uses the cell's lipids [fats] to make its membrane. We don't know if there's a connection of any kind with cholesterol levels.
• What might help before therapies if any are found? Decrease inflammation; non steroidal anti-inflammatories; things that will balance cortisol. And since women at a particular time in their cycle get sicker, lowering hormone levels is a possibility – in the lab, progesterone up-regulates the virus.
• Supplements [antioxidants] can help a lot because retroviruses cause a lot of oxidative stress. Things like N-acetylcysteine and glutathione (the detox type). Things that upregulate NK cell function. Stay out of stressful situations. Vitamin D is excellent immune system enhancer… Note I am not a medical doctor.
• Patients should definitely NOT now be looking at taking AZT. Anti-retrovirals will need to be tested before specialists know which ones to use. Hang in there but hold off for the moment.
• We do very much expect to see an association with inflammatory breast cancer as with the inflammatory prostate. We're also looking at lymphoma – with several groups of researchers.
• As for the possibility of a vaccine, while there's no HIV vaccine yet, HIV is very complex and constantly changing. But XMRV is simple and hasn't changed from our 1984 sample to the 2008 samples.
• Studies are looking at patients with many co-infections – including Lyme. The hypothesis is that XMRV infection may keep Lyme or others from clearing.
• Retroviruses don't infect people differently. Everybody gets infected, but some immune systems control them and keep them down.
• We were able to find the XMRV in 67% of samples with PCR by looking at multiple samples from the same patient over time – usually 4 – raising the chances that a sample would be taken when the patient [viral level] was high.
• As for whether XMRV might "piggyback" on EBV or other pathogens to get into an affected individual, there is no evidence of that in any retrovirus.
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Financial planning: how to avoid mistakes
PUBLISHED: 14:31 05 October 2018 | UPDATED: 14:59 05 October 2018
Financial columnist Peter Sharkey says a building disaster in Bulgaria and HS2 are good metaphors for avoiding bad financial plans
It was Oscar Wilde who famously said that "Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes," so adding a literary gloss to our embarrassing, stupid, or cringe-worthy errors as well as those of others.
For instance, I imagine the folks who awarded the contract for the restoration of the 1,600-year-old Krakra Castle in Bulgaria would prefer to have avoided the experience after it was rebuilt with polymer concrete, funded, in part, by £80 million in EU cash.
The medieval monument has become a laughing stock, christened 'cardboard castle', after shoddy reconstruction work left the site looking as though the contractors had added several dozen sheets of cheap cladding to the upper walls and turrets. The word 'ridiculous' doesn't do the finished article justice. Fortunately, the Bulgarian government has vowed to dismantle the blockwork next year.
If the Krakra Castle experience provides an excellent example of how easily bureaucrats can spend other people's money, where does our very own HS2 stand in the pantheon of government mistakes?
When first announced in 2010, the estimated cost of building an ultra-fast rail connection between London and the north was £32.7 billion; that figure has already risen to £56 billion and there's every probability it'll be closer to £100 billion by the time it's finished. The benefits? Up to half an hour off the journey between London and Birmingham and a potential time-saving of an hour between the capital and Manchester.
Scepticism abounds, however, not least because recent experience highlighted how difficult it proved to re-vamp some train timetables, a process that used to be completed by hand and implemented without difficulty. On top of this, the list of government projects that exceed their initial budget is longer than the catalogue of excuses rolled out at Jose Mourinho's post-match press conferences. The omens for HS2 are not good.
As individuals, most of our mistakes are the result of impatience or a failure to think ahead; I can vouch for this as my two most costly errors ultimately gave me ample time to repent at leisure having decided in haste. Of course, there is absolutely no merit in moping over past blunders or misjudgements, provided we learn from them. While this is not something governments are particularly good at, individuals certainly can be.
This is worth bearing in mind when considering your financial future, an area of life where it's important to eliminate, or foresee, as many mistakes as possible before deciding upon a plan of action. What makes this process difficult is our inability to predict what will happen next week, let alone five or ten years' hence.
It follows that, depending upon timeframe, our future financial projections often tend to be less specific than we would prefer. Where we can be reasonably precise about how much we should put aside in order to buy a car via a stocks and shares ISA, for example, saving money for eventual use as a deposit on a house or flat is a considerably more esoteric process. There are a multitude of factors to take into account: how long will it take? Will property values rise in the interim? Will they fall? What if I change jobs? Will stamp duty be amended? What if my monthly income changes? Experience tells us that if we take our time, we can address these points logically and answer them correctly, but getting a second, or third, opinion rarely does any harm.
Lester Petch, chief executive of TAM Asset Management, a well-established firm which manages ISAs, investments and pensions on behalf of tens of thousands of people, concurs.
"While most adults are perfectly capable of establishing their own financial targets and saving accordingly, perhaps by opening an ISA, inviting a fresh pair of eyes to run the rule over more ambitious future plans invariably makes sense," he says.
Mr Petch suggests that for those seeking the comfort of an experienced second opinion, consulting an independent financial adviser (IFA) could prove invaluable. "IFAs are not only qualified," he says, "the probability is they've encountered most savings-related scenarios and can advise whether a person's future projections are a little too ambitious, or perhaps a tad too timid."
Naturally, we want our financial plans to be accurate from the outset, but experience tells us that we should expect to tweak, or overhaul them completely, should the need arise. Accordingly, when dealing with our hard-earned, it's important to do as much as possible to avoid making mistakes; supplementing our plans with the opinion of an experienced IFA can often prove the most effective option. For details of TAM's portfolios, click here.
Number of new jobs to be created by Aldi, the discount supermarket chain when it opens another 130 UK-based stores over the next 12 months. The company, together with discounter rival Lidl, continue to grab market share from the 'big four' supermarket chains.
•£550 million
A royal commission in Australia has found evidence of 'a rampant culture of greed an bad behaviour' across the country's banks. Among the misdeeds was evidence that customers had been charged a total of £550 million (Aus $1 billion) "for no service". Thank goodness it couldn't happen here….
•£72 billion
During the 2016-17 financial year, the UK's financial services industry paid a record of £72 billion in in total taxes. More than £17 billion of this was paid by foreign banks.
Fall in the volume of letters sent via Royal Mail during the first six months of the company's financial year. The company's share price slumped by more than a quarter, wiping £1.3 billion off its value, although it still expects to report profits of around £500 million for the year.
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1 medium italian eggplant cut into ½ inch slices
1 tablespoon salt
1 ½ tablespoons olive oil
2 cloves garlic, crushed
3 tablespoons finely minced fresh basil
8 (½ inch) slices, crusty bread
4 ripe, medium tomatoes
fresh ground black pepper
½ cup crumbled Feta cheese (optional)
1. Do not peel eggplant. Remove end and cut into 1/2 inch slices. Sprinkle both sides with salt and allow to rest for 10 minutes. Thoroughly rinse slices to remove all salt and drain on absorbant paper.
2. Combine olive oil, garlic and lightly brush each slice. Grill over MEDIUM HIGH heat on gas grill or broil under broiler. When soft, remove immediately and sprinkle with basil. Meanwhile, slice tomatoes into 1/3 inch thick slices and season with black pepper.
3. Arrange tomatoes and eggplant on 4 slices of bread. Season with pepper and add crumbled Feta cheese, if desired. Top with second slice of bread and serve immediately.
Nutritional Information per Serving
Calories: 260
Carbohydrates: 41g
Total Fat: 8g
Cholesterol: 0mg
Saturated Fat: 1.5g
Dietary Fiber: 6g
% of Calories from Fat: 26%
Sodium: 360mg
Protein: 7g
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What's Healthier: Paper Towels or Air Dryers?
With all the new technology in restroom fans, you might think blowers are more hygienic than a simple sheet of paper. Maybe not. Heidi Mitchell reports on Lunch Break.
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... I ... and with that ... I'm Wendy downs like that burning question of the week that he wants your hands and the restrooms teach and write a paper towel ... or should you use that blog site this triple ... with one kills the germs Heidi Mitchell is right here beside me ... he's been talking about Mayo clinic ... uses when right to the reader that I am shocked by their answer when they say I was the Astley thought today would be to air blowers but it's the Pieper tablets to little piece of paper is likely to end up with some real reasons one behind this in the backseat this in the study of about this I it's beyond just the sort of ... on the fact that it didn't get the germs can be blowing with the lower right they actually think we do a better job trying their hands with a paper towel they were there are actually twelve studies that were times in the last conditions have one on this mini twelve there were many many done any actually ... realize that there are few things that happened there can be found on a spree that happens from the blower and I encountered was the stuff like that ... or some stuff that can come out of it we'll extend that to get around and and below the might of thought that if you want him to do a little bit of ... rubbing against the friction against the paper towel actually remains a lot of that ... any lasting wet ... dirt and then also I know that the lower most people have to prosecute ninth you touching that you're touching nationality pecan it invests in the deep end and that's the thing because ... I mean listed Istana for five minutes which you can use to dismiss like the biggest seen in the movie were the biggest plane you know if the home run of the baseline standard Cannally numerous finisher like a mini like the underpants I in in your church and adore him Dylan everything else like that that he actually Dr Thompson at the Mayo clinic he actually recommend he's the manager of the Viking he also ... recommended that we keep the paper telling him to use it to open the door and her top to Peter so what what what's your hands if even just grab the absolutely ... now I hear the green movement's for knocking at the door here saying look at environmental issues in the breezy you know between ... the electricity used with the upload the blow dryer or the paper towels ... which one can tell that ... the studies were lower led inconclusive but will probably did seem that having electricity constantly blowing on ... connect and the repairs that need to be done in replacing of the cant that that is more impact on the environment than just making a piece of paper which could be recycled Wilkinson's therefore economists are right up ... so ... you know the method of these on the floor is media unseemly if I had won only one percent using gloves to clean that up ... here boys that need repair and are plugged in and taking in jail time ... there seems to be some ... proof that that is more energy and making it to make a paper towel ... I was wonder tweeps have a few things as we sink you should go to a restive and which ... way like you to use with ... the cleaner immediately it noted that this is part of the story that that I got injured and had no because ... when you walk into the bathroom he kind of make that direct line to use reasonable stall right and that might never have toilet paper it's another to announce the news so so that this doctor was suggesting that he used the stall that is the least use the city that when has it that is the cleanest and has the lowest ... available to pay for any news that I think that is the most used especially with an automatic safety can be on I think that the French town of ... Legionnaires disease and perhaps other disease can fit and that's that he wants to see what won it that's always coming for a ... thirty one E is ... the least is to let the most the sexy guy that called for the last stall and income rate back to the first thing and the Mayor Mike is said and so in my entry I know and I admit to more in Personal section my thing students create a nice to watch them and that the ones that went trick after all


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On Wednesday night one of us attended the premiere of the most intriguing product of the Hollywood "stop paying attention to our traffic violations and start paying attention to us heroically shedding light on international hotspots" wave that was the movie A Mighty Heart. It was not a very good movie, though Angelina Jolie acted the shit out of it and Michael Winterbottom's direction so autistically true to life that we could practically smell the streets of Karachi. (Scent: not so fresh!) No, what seemed to be wrong was the story. It was teeming with requisite ingredients — love, terrorism, horror, goodness, nuance, spies, counterspies, nebbishy journalists, conspiracy theorizing brown people — so teeming you would forgive it if the teemingness was the problem. But it was hollow and small and annoyingly unambitious, and you had trouble caring about Mariane Pearl, who in the final scene of the movie gives birth to her and Daniel Pearl's son alone. (She gives birth alone — why? Because she is a semi-insufferable woman who romanticizes and dramatizes her every action and giving birth alone is supposed to symbolize some great triumph of the human spirit? Or because no one really likes her all that much? Or because putting an Eason Jordan character in the movie would be kinda distracting?) After the jump, Moe weighs in more on the movie and the book that inspired it.
I left the movie depressed. Depressed because I wanted to like Mariane Pearl because she had gone through so much and stands for so much and Angelina Jolie, of whom some of us here are a fan, is such a fan, but I had a feeling that the real life widow was the only thing standing between the world's most famous couple making a serious important film that could do for a mass audience what Control Room did for, you know, the NPR-listening choir. A Mighty Heart, in other words, had to be a bad book.
So I looked it up on the internet. Everybody loved it! She even had a co-author! Maybe I was stupid! (Duh!) Did I just not want to blame Angie?
So I bought it. I started reading it; I did not finish; my suspicions proved correct.
Mariane clearly, clearly, clearly loved loved loved Danny. To read the beginning part where she talks about how proud she is of him and how warm and perfect and wonderful he is is like reading some very precocious teenage girl's diary about how she imagines life with the man of her dreams is going to turn out. And who knows, teenage girls could love this movie. It could be the next The Notebook. But to the adults in the audience it seemed false, and immature, and dishonest. (I cannot speak for Kimora Lee Simmons.)
Like Daniel Pearl I worked for a distant bureau of the WSJ when 9/11 happened. (Unlike Daniel Pearl, I was not so much a great reporter.) Also, my distant bureau was Los Angeles. (Unlike Daniel Pearl, I mainly wrote about shoes.) My weeks after the towers fell were spent mostly in an eastern shitty suburb of San Diego called Lemon Grove, where two of the 9/11 hijackers had lived and worked and attended the odd strip club. The story was so impossibly big and important and terrifying-to-get-beaten on that they sent two of us down at first, me and an editor about twelve years my senior. I was reminded of this because in the first chapter, Mariane talks about how she went on almost all of her interviews with Danny, and interviewing subjects with a companion is really cool, especially, when they are the sort of people you don't actually relate to much, like this methhead we met whose neighbor followed a very fringe anti-modernity sect of Islam that had inspired him, it was revealed in family court, to skin his daughter's pet rabbit as punishment for playing with "idols" (Barbies).
Point being: people out there = weird. Situation = stressful. This editor = the only sane person with whom I communicated for weeks after this cataclysmic event.
"So did you ever think about, like, just giving your editor a blowjob in the car? Just to like ease the tension?"
That was the first question my friend Evan had when I returned. Evan used to work in porn, which might be why he's such a great reporter, because people don't get as creeped out when he asks shit like that. Some even answer honestly. I did not.
"He's married!"
But yeah, of course I had. We were all in this weird place with all these strange poor people (Muslims in America: not so affluent, a lot!) and all their weird skepticism and racist neighbors and meth fiend advocates and everything was really really really tense and all the editors back in New York were falling to pieces because their offices had been totally destroyed in the attack, and yes, for being with me through all of that I wanted to hump my editor, very much yes. He was the only remotely doable person I was going to happen upon.
It was not so easy to reconcile that with the righteous humanism with which I wanted to view the world, especially in the wake of 9/11, when suddenly my own country had experienced a tragedy on the scale of other countries and I wanted to believe that the world would share in our grief, that we were all grieving together, that out of tragedy ought to come some better understanding between us and our neighbors.
Also: The world was collapsing. Why all the thinking about fucking? Because I was human and horny and all this chatting up of poor crazy religious people was starting to feel really fake? Because I was human and I DON'T love everyone else in the universe equally, especially the ones who seem so unlike us? Or because in the movie version, there would be romance; in the movie version, there would be a Great Affair?
To read A Mighty Heart is to think Mariane Pearl is kinda in the latter camp without ever really have considered the question. In fact, to read A Mighty Heart is to think Mariane was actually writing the movie before her husband was even beheaded. I'm not saying she didn't love him sufficiently, but there's a scene in the movie in which someone wonders why she's not more weepy about things and it's because she can't help it, she's thinking ahead, about what it will mean, what sort of statement she can make out if it, how she can narrativize it. That's a common thing in a journalist, something she's so aware of she cops to it on the very first page:
It is the curse of all journalists, I suppose, to be writing a story even as you are living it.
But thinking like this won't ever let you live anything, and in turn you'll never really be able to live something vicariously through somebody else, and in turn you'll never really be able to convey a
story that makes anyone ever feel anything other than mildly. That's why Mariane's globetrotting odyssey series in Glamour magazine is so disappointing, because she is so bent on conveying the goodness and the horror that she never reminds readers what the public really needs to know if they are going to be bothered to care, that they are, in some ways, "Just Like Us." Because even poor people in war-ravaged countries eat, and fart, and in not-so-appropriate moments think about giving head. Knowing this is central to imagining every aspect of another's existence that goes into writing a good book or playing a character well and it requires putting down the notebook and smelling your own farts on occasion. They stink = the point. But Mariane seems too swept up in the glamour (hah!) of the foreign correspondent lifestyle to stop and really ponder all this, and so you're left with a story about a woman who doesn't seem like she really knows how to love. (Which is weird for a movie with "heart" in the title.)
That said, if anyone loves Mariane, Angelina Jolie seems to, because she manages to portray her in a way that is both accurate and gentle. We've all read about how they're friends. It makes me glad for Brad and the family that she spent all that time being crazy and fucked up. We bet she's a good mom. We hope she rubs off on Mariane.


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The landscape surrounding Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic is a shadow of its former self, thanks in part to last month's departure of 55 square kilometers of the Markham Ice Shelf. Ellesmere Island anchors one of only five remaining ice shelves in the Arctic, although how long it will retain that distinction remains to be seen. Including the Markham loss, Ellesmere Island has now lost 10 times more shelf ice this summer than scientists predicted on July 30.
Located just west of Greenland, Ellesmere Island is Canada's most northerly landmass. Prior to the 20th Century, it was covered by one continuous 9,000-square-kilometer ice shelf. The Arctic has warmed more rapidly than the rest of the planet, though, over the past 100 years, and Ellesmere's ice shelf soon split into five distinct entities. In summer 2008 alone, Ellesmere Island's other ice shelves, the Ward Hunt and the Serson. have lost 43 square kilometers and 120 square kilometers respectively. The Markham split is the latest loss, leaving Ellesmere with only around 800 square kilometers of shelf ice.
Arctic sea ice has been disappearing at near record pace this summer. While the ice retreat has traditionally slowed in early August, this year's downward trend appeared unflappable in those telling few weeks. Scientists are concerned other cracks in the largest remaining shelf, the Ward Hunt, will continue the trend over the next few years.
Ellesmere Island's ice shelves are estimated to be around 4,000 years old, and experts do not expect them to reform under current climate conditions. "These changes are irreversible under the present climate and indicate that the environmental conditions that have kept these ice shelves in balance for thousands of years are no longer present," said Derek Mueller, Arctic expert at Trent University in Canada.
Ice shelves like those found around Ellesmere Island support unique ecosystems, many of which have gone unstudied. The Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, for example, dammed the mouth of the Disraeli Fjord to form a 3,000-year-old freshwater ecosystem. As the glaciers on the island melted each summer, their runoff fed the "epishelf lake" that was suspended atop the denser seawater. Between 2000 and 2002, the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf cracked and drained the lake, whisking its rare inhabitants out to sea.
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"Actually his representatives called and scheduled a lunch, I think I'm supposed to have lunch with Joss in the next two or three weeks," FX president John Landgraf told reporters when asked about working with the cult-favorite producer during the network's executive session at the TCA this morning.
"And I have enormous respect for him," he continued. "And by the way, if you look at Shawn Ryan who created 'The Shield' and is running 'Terriers,' Shawn learned at the feet of Joss Whedon, the Joss Whedon school. And Carlton Cuse by the way, as well. So I don't really know Joss, but I'm really looking forward to meeting him. I love his stuff."
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Real Salt Lake goalkeeper Nick Rimando has won MLS Save of the Week!
Rimando won the weekly honor for his diving stop on Vancouver defender Y.P. Lee in the first half of RSL's 1-1 tie at Whitecaps FC last Saturday. The veteran 'keeper beat out Toronto's Joe Bendik, Dallas's Raul Fernandez, Chicago's Sean Johnson and D.C.'s Bill Hamid to win the award.
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With Veterans Day coming this Sunday, Edward Jones announced that it had hired 300 military veterans as financial advisors so far in 2012. These 300 new positions add to the roughly 1,300 veterans that Edward Jones has already employed in an advisory role.
Headquartered in St. Louis, the financial services firm on Friday released a video that encourages military veterans to seek employment opportunities at Edward Jones:
"Hiring military veterans is a part of the Edward Jones culture and heritage and not simply viewed as a corporate initiative," said Jim Weddle, managing partner of Edward Jones, in a statement. "It's no secret that the labor force and overall economic climate is making it difficult for veterans to successfully find civilian employment opportunities. The message we want to send is that financial services is a viable option that not only aligns with, but greatly complements, a military veteran's skill set."
In May, Edward Jones launched FORCES, a nationwide program that provides training and a compensation package designed for veterans who want to transfer to a civilian career. The program is structured to allow eligible veterans to seek G.I. Bill benefits if they desire, but it is not mandatory for program participation.
The amount of the benefit available is determined by the Veterans Administration and is paid directly to the VA during the veteran's initial six months of employment and training with Edward Jones. Edward Jones does not receive any direct or indirect benefit from the veteran who receives a GI Bill benefit.
Veterans interested in learning more about the Edward Jones can find more on the Edward Jones career recruitment site. Veterans looking to check on their entitlement may phone the VA's toll-free number, 1.888.442.4551, or visit its website.
Coinciding with Veterans Day on Nov. 11, the first FORCES class will complete 26 weeks of intensive training and graduate to become Edward Jones financial advisors. The new advisors include: Nicole Darty of Sammamish, Wash., who served in the U.S. Army as an animal care technician stationed in Alaska and left the service to obtain a degree in finance. Graduating during the peak of the financial crisis, she found limited job opportunities, and eventually became an Edward Jones branch office assistant. Darty was the first veteran to join the FORCES program.
Rob Smith of Mandeville, La.: After more than 20 years of service with deployments and operations in more than 30 countries, Smith retired from the U.S. Marine Corp. as a senior counterintellgence agent. After meeting a fellow Marine turned Edward Jones financial advisor, Smith was attracted to the FORCES program by the opportunity to run his own business.
Valerie Wallis of Fort Worth, Texas: Wallis served in the U.S. Army for six years and is now in the Army Reserves. Her service spanned several positions and countries, including Iraq and Korea. Coming to the FORCES program with both an entrepreneurship bachelor's degree and an MBA, Wallis was attracted to Edward Jones' commitment to hire veterans and the opportunity to run her own business.
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| 12.7°C Belfast
Forwards coach John Plumtree has revealed Ireland are unleashing set-piece giant Devin Toner to dismantle Australia's line-out in Dublin on Saturday.
Plumtree believes Australia base their attacking platform around first-phase stability, and has backed Ireland to disrupt that foundation at the Aviva Stadium.
Towering 6ft 11in Leinster lock Toner and new captain Paul O'Connell will start together for the first time in Ireland's engine room.
O'Connell has already confirmed he will share line-out calling duties with Toner, who led the aerial set-piece in the 40-9 victory over Samoa.
And Plumtree believes Toner can stabilise Ireland's line-out approach while also causing mayhem on Australia's ball.
He explained: "Dev obviously enjoys winning ball, but a big part of his role is also stealing ball too.
"We've put him into positions where we've given him an opportunity to do that.
"Also restarts and kick-offs, they are really important parts of the game as well, they are extra set-pieces now.
"The last thing you want to be doing is to concede points straight after you score points, or if you do concede points you want to be able to win that restart and settle straight away.
"So those aspects of his game are obviously really important to us."
Plumtree has warned 27-year-old Toner that he cannot rely on line-out prowess alone, however.
The former Natal Sharks coach has called on the eight-cap second row to continue to improve his ball-carrying in the loose.
Plumtree continued: "Being such a tall man his body position is important, in terms of both tackling and carrying ball.
"So he's got to focus on those aspects, they are really important.
"The last thing we want is him getting held up just because he's so tall.
"I'm sure big guys like that are targeted, so it's really important that the basics of his game are really in focus as well, and he's doing that."
Anticipating a chasm to cross after the five-try Samoa triumph that opened autumn international series, Plumtree said: "Australia are a side on an upward curve.
"We've got a lot of respect for this team, they are pretty hardened.
"We know how tough this match is going to be.
"It's a massive step up from Samoa, and we'll need it to be.
"Going by how the boys have prepared this week, there's a slightly different mindset.
"Everything looks sharp, better than last week."
Backing Ireland totems O'Connell and Brian O'Driscoll to relish their international "twilight", he added: "They are both very experienced players, they help out others around them.
"Paul's been outstanding this week and so has Brian.
"They both look forward to this type of challenge; they are both in their twilights I guess.
"Paul will go a little longer than Brian, but they'll both treasure these times."


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Getting Started
This page will help you get started with bigdata and is focused on its use as an embedded RDF/graph database.
- 1 Support
- 2 Where do I get the code?
- 3 Where do I start?
- 4 Ok, I understand how to use Sesame. What now?
- 5 So how do I put the database in triple store versus quad store mode?
- 6 Can I use inference with quads?
- 7 Ok, I've picked the Blazegraph configuration setting I want to work with and I want to use Sesame. Help me write some code.
- 8 You claim that you've "solved" the provenance problem for RDF with statement identifiers. Can you show me how that works?
- 9 Running Bigdata
- 10 Bundling Bigdata
Blazegraph has several different deployment modes (embedded, standalone, highly available replication cluster, scale-out), different operating modes (triples, provenance, and quads), and 100s of configuration options. This makes bigdata extremely flexible, yet somewhat bewildering. A Help Forum is available for open source support, configuration options are extensively documented in the javadoc, and there are whitepapers available at http://www.blazegraph.com/blog that provide extensive background on the bigdata architecture, internals, and deployment models.
We also offer developer support, deployment support and commercial license subscriptions.
Where do I get the code?
Java Requirement
Java 7 is required to run Blazegraph.
- You can download the WAR, Executable Jar.
There is also a Debian Deployer with a setup guide.
There is also a RPM Deployer with a setup guide.
There is also a Tarball Deployer with a setup guide.
Maven Central
Starting with the 2.0.0 release, Blazegraph is available via Maven Central.
<dependency> <groupId>com.blazegraph</groupId> <artifactId>bigdata-core</artifactId> <version>2.0.0</version> </dependency> <!-- Use if Tinkerpop 2.5 support is needed ; See also Tinkerpop3 below. --> <dependency> <groupId>com.blazegraph</groupId> <artifactId>bigdata-blueprints</artifactId> <version>2.0.0</version> </dependency>
If you'd just link the Blazegraph Database dependencies without any of the external libraries, use the bigdata-runtime artifact.
<dependency> <groupId>com.blazegraph</groupId> <artifactId>bigdata-runtime</artifactId> <version>2.0.0</version> </dependency>
Starting with 2.0.0-RC1, Blazegraph is available on github at Blazegraph database. Tagged releases with artifacts are here.
git init (If needed to initialize a new repo in the working directory) git clone -b BLAZEGRAPH_RELEASE_2_0_0 --single-branch https://github.com/blazegraph/database.git BLAZEGRAPH_RELEASE_2_0_0 cd BLAZEGRAPH_RELEASE_2_0_0 # For those who can't wait to get started ./scripts/mavenInstall.sh ./scripts/startBlazegraph.sh
Pre 2.0.0
Pre-2.0.0 releases are hosted on Sourceforge. You can checkout bigdata from GIT. Older branches and tagged releases have names like BIGDATA_RELEASE_1_5_1.
Cloning the latest branch:
git init (If needed to initialize a new repo in the working directory) git clone -b BLAZEGRAPH_RELEASE_X_Y_Z --single-branch git://git.code.sf.net/p/bigdata/git BLAZEGRAPH_RELEASE_X_Y_Z
Tagged releases are available in GIT with tags in the form BLAZEGRAPH_RELEASE_X_Y_X.
For embedded development, we highly recommend checking out bigdata from GIT into Eclipse as its own project. You will need to follow the steps at Developing with Eclipse
Other Environments
If you checkout the source from GIT, then use ./scripts/mavenInstall.sh build the code and collect the dependencies in a single location.
Where do I start?
Bigdata supports several different deployment models (embedded, standalone, replicated, and scale-out). We generally recommend that applications decouple themselves at the REST layer (SPARQL, SPARQL UPDATE, and the REST API). Decoupled applications can scale more gracefully and there is an easy path from the single machine deployment model to the highly available replication cluster deployment model. However, there are applications where an embedded RDF/graph database makes more sense.
Non-Embedded Deployment Models
- See NanoSparqlServer for easy steps to deploy a bigdata SPARQL end point + REST API either using an embedded jetty server (same JVM as your application), Executable Jar file, or as a WAR (in a servlet container such as tomcat).
- See HAJournalServer for deploying a highly available replication cluster (SPARQL end point + REST API).
- See Using_Bigdata_with_the_OpenRDF_Sesame_HTTP_Server for the significantly more complicated procedure required to deploy inside of the Sesame WAR. Note: We do NOT recommend this approach. The Sesame Server does not use the non-blocking query mode of bigdata. This can significantly limit the query throughput. The NanoSparqlServer and HAJournalServer both deliver non-blocking query.
- See CommonProblems page for a FAQ on common problems and how to fix them.
Embedded RDF/Graph Database
We have implemented the Sesame API over bigdata. Sesame is an open source framework for storage, inferencing and querying of RDF data, much like Jena. The best place to start would be to head to http://www.openrdf.org openrdf.org, download Sesame, read their User Guide (specifically Chapter 8 - "The Repository API"), and maybe try writing some code using their pre-packaged memory or disk based triple stores. If you have a handle on this you are 90% of the way to being able to use bigdata as an embedded RDF store.
The rest of this page is focused on how to use bigdata as an embedded RDF/graph database.
Ok, I understand how to use Sesame. What now?
If you understand Sesame, then you are no doubt familiar with the concept of a SAIL (Storage and Inference Layer). Well, we have implemented a SAIL over bigdata. So all you have to do is take the code you've written for the Sesame API and instantiate a different SAIL class, specifically:
You can get this Sesame implementation by either downloading the source tree from #GIT, or just download the binary and/or source release from the Blazegraph sourceforge download page.
So how do I put the database in triple store versus quad store mode?
We've created some configuration files that represent various common "modes" with which you might want to run bigdata:
- Full Feature Mode. This turns on all of bigdata's goodies - statement identifiers, free-text index, incremental inference and truth maintenance. This is how you would use bigdata in a system that requires statement-level provenance, free-text search, and incremental load and retraction.
- RDF-Only Mode. This turns off all inference and truth maintenance, for when you just need to store triples.
- Fast Load Mode. This is how we run bigdata when we are evaluating load and query performance, for example with the LUBM harness. This turns off some features that are unnecessary for this type of evaluation (statement identifiers and the free text index), which increases throughput. This mode still does inference, but it is database-at-once instead of incremental. It also turns off the recording of justification chains, meaning it is an extremely inefficient mode if you need to retract statements (all inferences would have to be wiped and re-computed). This is a highly specialized mode for highly specialized problem sets.
You can find these and other modes in the form of properties files in the bigdata source tree, in the "bigdata-sails" module, at:
bigdata-sails/src/samples/com/bigdata/samples [1]
Or let us help you devise the mode that is right for your particular problem. We offer development support, production support, and custom services around the platform.
[1] https://github.com/blazegraph/database/tree/master/bigdata-sails/src/samples/com/bigdata/samples
We've set up three modes for bigdata that configure the store properly for triples, triples with provenance, and quads. Look for the TRIPLES_MODE, TRIPLES_MODE_WITH_PROVENANCE, and QUADS_MODE on AbstractTripleStore.Options and BigdataSail.Options.
Currently bigdata does not support inference or provenance for quads, so those features are automatically turned off in QUADS_MODE.
Can I use inference with quads?
Bigdata does not support quads mode inference out of the box. The basic issue for inference with quads is that there is no standard concerning which named graphs data should be combined (data and ontologies) when performing quads mode inference and where to write the new entailments (inferences).
People often ask about "quads plus inference." Our questions is always, "what are you trying to accomplish?" Sometimes people use quads to support provenance - bigdata has a dedicated mode for this. Sometimes people use quads to have multiple graphs in the same database, but you have an an effectively unlimited number of distinct triple or quads stores in each bigdata instance.
Here are some possible approaches to problems that either appear to require quads plus inference or that actually do require quads plus inference:
- Use property paths for runtime inference. You can cover an interesting subset of inference through property path expansions. If you combine property paths with inference, then you can explicitly tradeoff eager materialization against runtime evaluation.
- Use triples mode with inference, but store multiple triple store instances in the same journal. We have customers with 15,000 triple stores in a single journal. This option works well if you are using quads mode to circumvent a limit in the number of triples mode instances you can use with some platforms. You can also query across those triple store instances using SPARQL federated query.
- If you are using quads mode to track provenance, then the SIDS mode allows you to track statement level provenance without the overhead of quads mode indices.
- You can use an external process to explicitly manage the inference process by combining various named graphs within a journal or temporary store and applying the delta for the update. The output delta can be recovered using a change log listener and then conveyed as a simple update to the appropriate named graphs and target journals. This pattern is used by several large customers to manage updates, sometimes as part of a map/reduce job which collects, transforms, and organizes the update process. This can also be used to decouple the inference workload from the query workload, making it possible to scale both processes independently for high data volume and data rate systems. (You can scale the query workload linearly using the highly available replication cluster.)
Ok, I've picked the Blazegraph configuration setting I want to work with and I want to use Sesame. Help me write some code.
It's easy. For the most part it's the same as any Sesame 2 repository. This code is taken from [1]
// use one of our pre-configured option-sets or "modes" Properties properties = sampleCode.loadProperties("fullfeature.properties"); // create a backing file for the database File journal = File.createTempFile("bigdata", ".jnl"); properties.setProperty( BigdataSail.Options.FILE, journal.getAbsolutePath() ); // instantiate a sail and a Sesame repository BigdataSail sail = new BigdataSail(properties); Repository repo = new BigdataSailRepository(sail); repo.initialize();
We now have a Sesame repository that is ready to use. Anytime we want to "do" anything (load data, query, delete, etc), we need to obtain a connection to the repository. This is how I usually use the Sesame API:
RepositoryConnection cxn = repo.getConnection(); cxn.setAutoCommit(false); try { ... // do something interesting cxn.commit(); } catch (Exception ex) { cxn.rollback(); throw ex; } finally { // close the repository connection cxn.close(); }
Make sure to always use autoCommit=false! Otherwise the SAIL automatically does a commit after every single operation! This causes severe performance degradation and also causes the bigdata journal to grow very large.
Inside that "do something interesting" section you might want to add a statement:
Resource s = new URIImpl("http://www.bigdata.com/rdf#Mike"); URI p = new URIImpl("http://www.bigdata.com/rdf#loves"); Value o = new URIImpl("http://www.bigdata.com/rdf#RDF"); Statement stmt = new StatementImpl(s, p, o); cxn.add(stmt);
Or maybe you'd like to load an entire RDF document:
String baseURL = ... // the base URL for the document InputStream is = ... // input stream to the document Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(new BufferedInputStream(is)); cxn.add(reader, baseURL, RDFFormat.RDFXML);
Once you have data loaded you might want to read some data from your database. Note that by casting the statement to a "BigdataStatement", you can get at additional information like the statement type (Explicit, Axiom, or Inferred):
URI uri = ... // a Resource that you'd like to know more about RepositoryResult<Statement> stmts = cxn.getStatements(uri, null, null, true /* includeInferred */); while (stmts.hasNext()) { Statement stmt = stmts.next(); Resource s = stmt.getSubject(); URI p = stmt.getPredicate(); Value o = stmt.getObject(); // do something with the statement // cast to BigdataStatement to get at additional information BigdataStatement bdStmt = (BigdataStatement) stmt; if (bdStmt.isExplicit()) { // do one thing } else if (bdStmt.isInferred()) { // do another thing } else { // bdStmt.isAxiom() // do something else } }
Of course one of the most interesting things you can do is run high-level queries against the database. Sesame 2 repositories support the open-standard query language SPARQL[1] and a native Sesame query language SERQL[2]. Formulating high-level queries is outside the scope of this document, but assuming you have formulated your query you can execute it as follows:
final QueryLanguage ql = ... // the query language final String query = ... // a "select" query TupleQuery tupleQuery = cxn.prepareTupleQuery(ql, query); tupleQuery.setIncludeInferred(true /* includeInferred */); TupleQueryResult result = tupleQuery.evaluate(); // do something with the results
Personally I find "construct" queries to be more useful, they allow you to grab a real subgraph from your database:
// silly construct queries, can't guarantee distinct results final Set<Statement> results = new LinkedHashSet<Statement>(); final GraphQuery graphQuery = cxn.prepareGraphQuery(ql, query); graphQuery.setIncludeInferred(true /* includeInferred */); graphQuery.evaluate(new StatementCollector(results)); // do something with the results for (Statement stmt : results) { ... }
While we're at it, using the bigdata free text index is as simple as writing a high-level query. Bigdata uses a magic predicate to indicate that the free-text index should be used to find bindings for a particular variable in a high-level query. The free-text index is a Lucene style indexing that will match whole words or prefixes.
RepositoryConnection cxn = repo.getConnection(); cxn.setAutoCommit(false); try { cxn.add(new URIImpl("http://www.bigdata.com/A"), RDFS.LABEL, new LiteralImpl("Yellow Rose")); cxn.add(new URIImpl("http://www.bigdata.com/B"), RDFS.LABEL, new LiteralImpl("Red Rose")); cxn.add(new URIImpl("http://www.bigdata.com/C"), RDFS.LABEL, new LiteralImpl("Old Yellow House")); cxn.add(new URIImpl("http://www.bigdata.com/D"), RDFS.LABEL, new LiteralImpl("Loud Yell")); cxn.commit(); } catch (Exception ex) { cxn.rollback(); throw ex; } finally { // close the repository connection cxn.close(); } String query = "select ?x where { ?x <"+BNS.SEARCH+"> \"Yell\" . }"; executeSelectQuery(repo, query, QueryLanguage.SPARQL); // will match A, C, and D
You can find all of this code and more in the source tree at bigdata-sails/src/samples/com/bigdata/samples.[3]
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/
[2] http://www.openrdf.org/doc/sesame/users/ch06.html
[3] https://github.com/blazegraph/database/blob/master/bigdata-sails/src/samples/com/bigdata/samples/
You claim that you've "solved" the provenance problem for RDF with statement identifiers. Can you show me how that works?
Please see the Reification Done Right page (A guide to using efficient statements about statements in bigdata. Aka RDF* and SPARQL*).
Note: The older RDF/XML interchange for the Statement identifiers mode is no longer available.
Running Bigdata
Make sure you are running with the -server JVM option and provide at several GB of RAM for the embedded database (e.g., -Xmx4G). You should see extremely good load and query performance. If you are not, please contact us and let us help you get the most out of our product. Also see QueryOptimization, IOOptimization, and PerformanceOptimization.
Bundling Bigdata
You can use maven - see MavenRepository for the POM.
SBT is a popular and very powerful build tool. In order to add BigData to sbt projects in your build definition you should add:
1) bigdata dependency
libraryDependencies ++= Seq( "com.bigdata" % "bigdata" % bigDataVersion )
2) Aeveral Maven repositories to resolvers:
resolvers += "nxparser-repo" at "http://nxparser.googlecode.com/svn/repository/", resolvers += "Bigdata releases" at "http://systap.com/maven/releases/", resolvers += "Sonatype OSS Releases" at "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases", resolvers += "apache-repo-releases" at "http://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/releases/"
Bigdata Modules and Dependencies
There are several project modules at this time. Each module bundles all necessary dependencies in its lib subdirectory.
- bigdata (indices, journals, services, etc)
- bigdata-rdf (the RDFS++ database)
- bigdata-sails (the Sesame integration for the RDFS++ database)
- bigdata-jini (jini integration providing for distributed services - this is NOT required for embedded or standalone deployments)
The following dependencies are required only for the scale-out architecture:
- jini
- zookeeper
ICU is required only if you want to take advantage of compressed Unicode sort keys. This is a great feature if you are using Unicode and you care about this sort of thing and is available for both scale-up and scale-out deployments. ICU will be used by default if the ICU dependenies are on the classpath. See the com.bigdata.btree.keys package for further notes on ICU and Unicode options. For the brave, ICU also has an optional JNI library.
Removing jini and zookeeper can save you 10M. Removing ICU can save you 30M.
The fastutils dependency is quite large, but it is automatically pruned in our WAR release to just those classes that bigdata actually uses.


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I tried replacing tmdb.py with tmdb3.py, and this seems to have helped some, but it seems to crash when more than one possible match is encountered. Also, I'm not sure if something needs to be done for tvdb searches as well, as I don't currently have any Mythvideo TV shows that are missing metadata.
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