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CASSANDRA data model
Cassandra is an open source distributed database, it combines dynamic key/value and column oriented feature of Bigtable.
Features of Cassandra are:
- Flexible schema, no need to design schema first, it's very convenient to add or delete strings
- Support range search on keys
- High usability, extensible. The single node error will not affect the cluster.
We can think Cassandra's data model as a 4 or 5 dimensional Hash.
Columns is the smallest data unit in Cassandra, it is a 3 dimensional data type including name,value and timestamp.
{ // This is a column name: "逖靖寒的世界", value: "firstname.lastname@example.com", timestamp: 123456789 }
To be simple, we ignore timestamp here, we can treat columns as name/value pairs. Here name and value are both byte[].
We can think SuperColumn as an array of Column, it has a name and a set of columns. The JSON format of a SuperColumn is :
{ // This is SuperColumn name: "逖靖寒的世界", // A set of Columns value: { street: {name: "street", value: "1234 x street", timestamp: 123456789}, city: {name: "city", value: "san francisco", timestamp: 123456789}, zip: {name: "zip", value: "94107", timestamp: 123456789}, } }
Column and SuperColumn both contains name/value pairs. The biggest difference is value in Column is a string while the value in SuperColumn is a Map of Column.
SuperColumn itself doesn't contain timestamp
ColumnFamily is a structure containing many rows, we can think it as a Table in RDBMS. Each row contains a Key and related Columns supplied by the client.
UserProfile = { // This is a ColumnFamily phatduckk: { // This is the key of ColumnFamily // Column related to the key username: "gpcuster", email: "firstname.lastname@example.com", phone: "6666" }, // End of first row ieure: { // This is another key of ColumnFamily //Column related to the key username: "pengguo", email: "firstname.lastname@example.com", phone: "888" age: "66" }, }
The type of ColumnFaily can be standard or super.
The above example is a standard ColumnFamily. Standard ColumnFamily contains a set of columns(not SuperColumn). Super ColumnFamily contains a set of SuperColumns, but it cannot contain Standard ColumnFamily.
AddressBook = { // This is a super ColumnFamily phatduckk: { // key friend1: {street: "8th street", zip: "90210", city: "Beverley Hills", state: "CA"}, John: {street: "Howard street", zip: "94404", city: "FC", state: "CA"}, Kim: {street: "X street", zip: "87876", city: "Balls", state: "VA"}, Tod: {street: "Jerry street", zip: "54556", city: "Cartoon", state: "CO"}, Bob: {street: "Q Blvd", zip: "24252", city: "Nowhere", state: "MN"}, ... }, // row ending ieure: { // key joey: {street: "A ave", zip: "55485", city: "Hell", state: "NV"}, William: {street: "Armpit Dr", zip: "93301", city: "Bakersfield", state: "CA"}, }, }
All ColumnFamily belong to one Keyspace, usually one application will have only one Keyspace.
Simple test
cassandra> set Keyspace1.Standard1['jsmith']['first'] = 'John' Value inserted. cassandra> set Keyspace1.Standard1['jsmith']['last'] = 'Smith' Value inserted. cassandra> set Keyspace1.Standard1['jsmith']['age'] = '42' Value inserted.
After executing above commands, Cassandra now contains 3 records. The meaning of the inserted data is:
Next we do a search operation:
cassandra> get Keyspace1.Standard1['jsmith'] (column=age, value=42; timestamp=1249930062801) (column=first, value=John; timestamp=1249930053103) (column=last, value=Smith; timestamp=1249930058345) Returned 3 rows.
When we insert data into Cassandra, data will be automatically sorted. All the Columns related to one Key is sorted by Name, we can specify the order type in storage-conf.xml.
The sort type provided by Cassandra are : BytesType, UTF8Type,LexicalUUIDType, TimeUUIDType, AsciiType,and LongType.
Now assume the raw data are:
{name: 123, value: "hello there"}, {name: 832416, value: "kjjkbcjkcbbd"}, {name: 3, value: "101010101010"}, {name: 976, value: "kjjkbcjkcbbd"}
If we specify the sort type as LongType:
<!-- Deinition of ColumnFamily in storage-conf.xml --> <ColumnFamily CompareWith="LongType" Name="CF_NAME_HERE"/>
The data after sorting will be :
{name: 3, value: "101010101010"}, {name: 123, value: "hello there"}, {name: 976, value: "kjjkbcjkcbbd"}, {name: 832416, value: "kjjkbcjkcbbd"}
For SuperColumn, there is one more sorting dimension. So we need to specify the value of CompareSubcolumnsWith.
{ // first SuperColumn from a Row name: "workAddress", // and the columns within it value: { street: {name: "street", value: "1234 x street"}, city: {name: "city", value: "san francisco"}, zip: {name: "zip", value: "94107"} } }, { // another SuperColumn from same Row name: "homeAddress", // and the columns within it value: { street: {name: "street", value: "1234 x street"}, city: {name: "city", value: "san francisco"}, zip: {name: "zip", value: "94107"} } }
Then we specify CompareSubcolumnsWith and CompareWith as UTF8Type.
{ // this one's first b/c when treated as UTF8 strings { // another SuperColumn from same Row // This Row comes first b/c "homeAddress" is before "workAddress" name: "homeAddress", // the columns within this SC are also sorted by their names too value: { // see, these are sorted by Column name too city: {name: "city", value: "san francisco"}, street: {name: "street", value: "1234 x street"}, zip: {name: "zip", value: "94107"} } }, name: "workAddress", value: { // the columns within this SC are also sorted by their names too city: {name: "city", value: "san francisco"}, street: {name: "street", value: "1234 x street"}, zip: {name: "zip", value: "94107"} } }
We can implement the sorting method by ourselves in Cassandra, we only need to extend org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.IType.
WTF is a SuperColumn? An Intro to the Cassandra Data Model
Source : http://www.cnblogs.com/gpcuster/archive/2010/03/12/1684072.html
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IRVINGTON, N.J. Even on the day that was designed for him, Raheem Morris could not escape the storm. He stood in a puddle on a broken piece of track, looking out at the ragged football field of his youth. The sky was as gray as a bruise, and the rain beat against his umbrella in a steady hum. Over his shoulder, there was a scoreboard. This is where Raheem Morris grew up. This is where he made a few plays, and where he let a few slip away. Out there among the weeds and the clover, on a field jokingly referred to as "astrodirt,'' is where he made his closest friends, where he forged his fondest memories, where he shaped his personality.
Morris looked through the raindrops at Matthews Field, home of the Irvington High Blue Knights, and it was as if the years melted away. There was the spot where he caught a hitch pass against Westfield, then reversed his field and ran downfield for a touchdown. Over there was where he gave up the deep touchdown pass to Elizabeth High in his junior season. To his left are the metal stands where he spent his sophomore season after his parents pulled him from the team because of grades.
It was June 5, Raheem Morris Day. This was his place, and these were his people.
And if you want to get to know Raheem Morris, the new head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, this is where you begin.
So far, Tampa Bay doesn't know a lot about Morris. Yes, his players like him. Yes, he has some charisma. No, he isn't Jon Gruden. Except for that, however, Morris remains a mystery.
So who is Raheem Morris? And what made him that way?
The answer is in Irvington.
And to this day, much of Irvington is still in Morris.
It is a hard place, Irvington, a community of some 60,000 people not far from the runways of Newark International Airport.
Crime is high here, some eight times the average of the rest of New Jersey. There are empty, decaying buildings throughout town. These days, no one refers to it as the hometown of Jerry Lewis or Queen Latifah. These days, it is, as The New York Times once called it, "the place that prosperity forgot.''
The metal detector at the entrance suggests that Irvington High, too, has had its problems. In 2008, New Jersey Magazine ranked it 307th of the 316 high schools in the state. That was an improvement. Two years earlier, Irvington had been 316th, dead last.
To Morris, however, Irvington represented a better life when his family moved there when he was in the third grade. He had been born in nearby Newark, a town with its own problems.
"This was a chance to have a house, to have a better life,'' Morris says. "When we came to Irvington, we were moving up.''
A town such as this can give a man strength. It can teach him loyalty. It can make him tougher. It can make him competitive. Irvington gave all of that to Morris. It is in his DNA.
"This town is all over him,'' says Bam Richardson, a lifelong friend who is now Irvington's basketball coach. "Everyone knows Irvington is a tough town. It's a place that can make you, or it can break you. It's a cliche, but only the strong survive. If you're strong, you can go far. But if you're not, you can wake up in somebody's jail or in a predicament you can't get out.
"Raheem and I, we still carry that Irvington edge. We have that Irvington swagger.''
Morris may need it in the NFL. So far, he admits, his resume has more questions than answers. People are waiting to judge him, and they won't wait long.
"He's going to do well,'' said Kyle Steele, a teammate of Morris from his days in Pop Warner through those at Hofstra University. "I don't think the reason why is football-related. NFL coaches all know football. But Raheem has something that makes the next person believe he can do something. He has a way of bringing up the people around him.
"By the time he leaves, people are going to love him. They love Tony Dungy because he's so honorable. They're going to love Raheem because he's so likeable.''
• • •
To a man coming home, the streets always look the same.
Morris sits in the passenger seat of a blue rental car, retracing his mile-and-a-half walk home from school. He would cut over to Crescent Lake, the housing project where Bam and Moossey lived. He would keep going past the graveyard and over the bridge. Then a quick left and a right, and he was on Osborne Street.
It is a good street, with two-story houses pressed closely together and small, neat lawns. There is a faded yellow wall up the street, where the kids played wall ball, and an ATM that is in disrepair.
These days, Morris wears a tattoo on his left arm that says "Osb'' in memory of those days on Osborne. When the family first moved in, he would spend his days on the stoop, watching the kids of the neighborhood play football. One day, they needed another player to make the teams even, and Morris joined in.
The games went from telephone pole to telephone pole, or from manhole cover to manhole cover. Morris points to a street corner where his pass pattern one day was interrupted by a parked car. That cost him a chipped tooth.
Morris laughs when he tells the story. That, too, is something he took from Irvington, After all this time, he can still smile at the pain.
He could have gotten lost on these streets. Some people do. A childhood friend, Dwayne Youman, was shot and killed a half block away.
"A town like this will teach you to make the right decisions,'' Morris said. "It's easy to get into trouble and it's hard to get out. You can get into whatever you want to get into.''
So how did Morris succeed?
"I don't feel like I had a chance to lose,'' Morris said. "No matter how the odds are stacked against you, no matter what people think. That's why I had the ability to come out of Irvington.''
• • •
Morris stands in the dining room of his grandmother Lillian's house, flipping through old photo albums and cackling at the images of another time.
For most of his childhood, he lived here, along with his mother and an aunt and uncles. He shared a upstairs bedroom his cousin Quadir. There was a poster of Magic Johnson on the wall, another one of George Gervin.
He loved the Cowboys and the Lakers and The Cosby Show and pretzels and animals. His first job was as a caddy. His second job was at McDonald's. His first girlfriend was named Cherise.
Morris tells the stories quickly, the way he talks, like a runner in the open field. Finally, he gets the most important one of them all: The one about the Lost Year.
If you want to know, yeah, it still kind of stings.
Morris was a sophomore, and by his own admission, he was skating his way through school. There was a system at Irvington. If you were there for homeroom, no one paid much attention to you the rest of the day. So he would go to homeroom, then he would slip away and go to a friend's house and spend the day playing video games.
Sure enough, his grades began to slip. Nothing horrible, mind you, but suddenly, he wasn't making the grades he had made before. His parents weren't going to put up with it. They pulled him from the Irvington football team.
"He came home with a C,'' said Hilton Vaughn, Morris' father. "I asked him 'What are you going to do when they let the air out of the ball?' ''
Looking back, Morris says "It was the best thing that ever happened to me. I came back and I got a 3.0. I never would have gotten that without them taking away something I loved.''
That's what Morris says now. What he said then was, well, angrier. Even now, he and his mother, Valerie, go back and forth about it.
"I was (ticked),'' Morris said. "No one understood. I didn't at the time.''
"No, you didn't,'' Valerie says.
"I was still eligible,'' Raheem says.
"See! Eligible for who?'' Valerie said.
Raheem laughs. At 15, however, he wasn't very happy. His friends kept telling him his parents would change their minds, but they did not. For a season, he sat in the stands and fumed.
On Sunday afternoons, however, he kept stats for his old Pop Warner team. He started following around Ralph Steele, his old coach, and asking questions about play-calling. That was 1989, the year the Raiders made Art Shell the first African-American coach in the NFL in 61 years.
It was also the year Morris started to think about coaching.
• • •
Not far away, the boxes are stacked in the living room of Valerie Morris' second-floor apartment. She is moving to Tampa to watch her son coach. Of course she is.
Raheem Morris was born on Sept. 3, 1976, nine days before the Bucs played their first game. His father and mother would not marry until his sophomore year of college.
Still, both parents were always around. At one point, his father worked three jobs, went to school at Lincoln Tech and helped coach the Golden Knights (the Pop Warner team). Eventually, he became a mechanic with New Jersey Transit.
"For about two years, he was a zombie,'' Morris said. "I learned my work ethic from him. He always had great energy.''
From his mother, a clerk at Macy's for years, Raheem learned dependability.
"She was a rock,'' he said. "She made me know I could be better than I thought.''
In 2002, his first year with the Bucs, Raheem bought his mother her first car. Recently, he finally convinced his father to retire. When it comes to saying thanks, a man does what he can.
"I don't have any stories of looking for food,'' Raheem said, "because my parents always got it done.''
The days, the walls of Valerie's apartment walls are a testament to her only child. There is a photo of Raheem in an Irvington uniform, of him in a Hofstra uniform, of him with his high school prom date.
Nearby, on a book case, there a baseball cap with "Obama'' on the front. Not far away is a flag with the emblem of the Tampa Bay Bucs.
It is a changing world, is it not?
• • •
His old friends have him surrounded. From every possible direction, people are throwing memories at Morris.
He stands in the middle of the Irvington High auditorium, moments after the proclamations and the presentations that come with a having your own day. His friends are telling the same stories and laughing at the same memories. It is easy to feel the regard they have for him.
There is a particular sound to the laughter of old friends. There is no bond, no comfort level, that goes quite as deep as with those who watched you grow up. Even in the middle of his homecoming, he is still Raheem, and he is going to take his grief.
For instance, there is the play against Elizabeth, which has been debated a thousand times without resolution. Bam Robinson was playing safety. Morris was playing corner. The tight end and receiver both went long, and Morris was beaten for a touchdown.
To this day, Raheem argues that Bam should have called "ball'' to help him out. To this day, Bam argues back. For 16 years, the debate has continued.
"I'm right and he's wrong,'' Robinson says. And both men howl.
Morris was a good player. Ex-teammate Kyle Steele says that if Raheem had been the quarterback, the Blue Knights would have won the state title when he was a senior.
Even now, they talk about how Raheem ran in his years in Pop Warner, how his head would roll back until his eyes were looking at the sky, and how his knees and arms would pump, and how his braces would flash from inside his facemask.
There was a play, former Pop Warner coach Ralph Steele (Kyle's father) remembers, called Fake 25, 44 Bootleg. Eventually, it was shorted to "Touchdown on two,'' because Morris would always score on it. The first touchdown ever for the Irvington Pop Warner team? It was a 70-yard run by Morris.
"He was just as charismatic now as he was then,'' Ralph said. "Even then, you could tell he was a leader.''
• • •
How did Morris get out of Irvington High? Some days, he fought his way out.
By the time Morris was a senior in high school, there were problems between the Haitian immigrants and African-American football players. Almost every day, there was a fist fight. Some of those days, Raheem was involved.
"It was a fight-for-survival world,'' Morris said. "You had your friends and they had their friends, and it was either fight or get beat up. We didn't have gangs. That was before they called them gangs.''
On the peaceful days, Morris and his friends would linger on the corner, or at the bridge, or they would make their way down to Tasty's Chicken Shack. They would listen to Jay-Z or Tupac. They would argue about sports and talk about girls. They called themselves the P.Y.T.'s, after the Michael Jackson song. The Pretty Young Things.
He was Ra-Dog. Or Scoop.
"He has this round hook in the back of his head,'' said Kyle Steele. "Look at him. He looks like Snoopy.''
Once, Kyle tells you, he and Morris were walking toward Irvington Park on Mischief Night, the night before Halloween. Two kids jumped out and pelted Morris with eggs, coating Morris' new leather jacket.
"Raheem chased them down,'' Kyle said. "He was roughing up one of the guys, and he kept saying something I couldn't understand because he as taking so fast. About the eighth time, I finally understood. He was yelling "You're Going to Clean My Jacket.''
As Steele says it, the phrase comes out as a high pitched squeal: "You'regoingtocleanmyjacket.''
"Back in the day, fighting wasn't a bad deal,'' Morris said. "It was just a fight. You didn't have to worry about getting stabbed or shot. It was hand to hand. No one was afraid to get their backs dirty. Today, they want to shoot you. I don't understand that one yet.''
Fifteen years after he graduated, Morris walks through the halls of his old high school, and heads turn as he passes. Irvington is 82 perent African-American. The school is 96 percent.
A lot of young faces look the way Morris' used to look. A lot of young lives began the same way.
• • •
Raheem Morris almost didn't have to coach his way to the NFL. According to those who know him best, he could have made it as a player.
His senior season at Hofstra, Morris was having a fine year at safety, and the Pride was ranked 14th in the country. But when a teammate was injured, Morris volunteered to move to cornerback. Kyle Steele, his college roommate, says it cost him a shot at the pros.
"If he had stayed at safety, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that he would have played in the league,'' said Steele. "No doubt.''
Instead, Raheem became a coach, making $5,000 a year to break down tape, starting a journey that would lead him from Hofstra to Cornell to the Jets to the Bucs to Kansas State. And then back to the Bucs.
Going to the Bucs, Morris said, "was like going to Princeton.'' There, he learned from Mike Tomlin, and from Rod Marinelli, and from Joe Barry, and from Monte Kiffin, and from Gruden.
These days, Raheem is the biggest question mark in town. He is only 32, and he has never been a head coach, and the defense faded badly last year, and the schedule is imposing. Tampa Bay has its own storm clouds on the horizon.
"You're talking about the odds against him,'' Bam said. "I don't think he would have it any other way. I think he's going to thrive under the pressure.''
Why not? The crumbling buildings and pockmarked streets suggest Morris already has survived other pressures. What were the odds against him on Osborne? What were the expectations in the hallways of Irvington?
After enduring all of that, do you expect Morris to lack confidence?
He smiles again.
"Self-confidence,'' Morris says, "has never been one of my problems.''
"This town is all over him. Everyone knows Irvington is a tough town. It's a place that can make you, or it can break you. It's a cliche, but only the strong survive. If you're strong, you can go far. But if you're not, you can wake up in somebody's jail or in a predicament you can't get out.
"Raheem and I, we still carry that Irvington edge. We have that Irvington swagger.''
Bam Richardson, a lifelong friend


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It was a familiar scene at the U.S. Supreme Court: states argued that allowing certain couples to marry would impose long-term harms upon children, families and social institutions. They contended that it is not the judiciary's place to scrutinize restrictions upon the freedom to marry. And they fell back upon the claim that the definition of marriage is a longstanding tradition.
No, I'm not talking about last week's argument on same-sex marriage; I'm referring to the 1967 case of Loving v. Virginia, which ultimately struck down bans on interracial marriage as unconstitutional. Switch a few names and adjectives and you could have approximated swathes of the oral argument from 48 years ago, listening to Virginia defend a central vestige of segregation. Indeed, Virginia now acknowledges that it had supported interracial marriage bans and school segregation with "the same arguments offered by marriage equality opponents today" and powerfully concedes that it was on the "wrong side" of those issues.
The resemblance should come as no surprise. Civil rights groups like the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and NAACP have long advanced briefs and analyses about the logical and legal parallels between interracial marriage and same-sex marriage. Recently, Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal released new studies comparing our nation's ability to progress on these two issues. Courts around the country have recognized the enduring relevance of Loving's holding that "the freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness" and that "all the State's citizens" possess a fundamental right to marry.
Likewise, last week, the justices repeatedly focused on Loving, referencing it ten times in the transcript and another half-dozen times indirectly. Justice Kagan explored how "Loving was exactly what this case is" and Justice Breyer explained that the states' reliance upon tradition today is "the same way we talk[ed] about racial segregation." The Solicitor General put it eloquently: allowing states to discriminate against same-sex couples "will approximate the nation as a house divided that we had with de jure racial segregation," and he did not "know why we would want to repeat that history."


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dirtymoney I want to first thank you for capitalizing my name's AK letters, that was extremely generous of you lol
And just for record, of course you never WANT to have to send it back, like I certainly didn't. What I had to clarify to someone else was, i *SHOULD have immediately * decided to send it back when Irealized I was not the first person to have received this as a purchase and opened that box. But I was damned excited, it was a great deal, it was going to be my first "sniper rifle" and my newest neatest etc. I could not wait to start sneaking snipes at the neighbors houses across the fields and retention basins etc. and do a little Call of Duty fantasizin lol.
BUT I tried to make it work and it was not working so i.. in my case the guys at Dick's were awesome - they insisted on returning it and re-ordering a new one. Now had I have to deal with the warranty I would have been mad, since itwas brand new and defective on reception. In Nikon's case it's got a basically full on lifetime warranty....So I would b feeling safe that it would EVENTUALLY get replaced. But still mad that I didnt receive a pristine setup/.
You are screwed because you had to wait a few months before messing with it so you can't return it, you hav to warranty it? That sucks. You could try complaining and see if you can't finesse a little TLC-Customer Service from them.
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NEIL LENNON will call on the spirit of the Lisbon Lions as he bids to guide Celtic into the Champions League last 16 tonight.
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Celtic need a win to go through while a score draw will suffice if Barcelona can see off Spartak Moscow.
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Raleigh, N.C. — Financial aid deadlines for college students are fast approaching, some as early as March 1.
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Weekend jam : Lord Huron's full album!
I think we've found our Autumn soundtrack. L.A. based band 'Lord Huron' released their debut full-length album Lonesome Dreams this week and in no time we were sold on every track. Here's what NPR's Stephen Thompson had to say: "Lonesome Dreams comes along at just the right time of year, meeting as it does between the beachy lightness of summer and the bittersweet plaintiveness of autumn. It straddles the seasons with disarming deftness — sunny enough to distract, sweet enough to comfort." (more…)
Weekend Jam and Riding Horses Through the City
I love when you stumble upon amazing things while doing something ordinary like watching a music video. The first time this happened to me, a country music video led me to discover an 80 room tree house in Tennessee! This time, while looking for this week's weekend jam, I not only found a great song, but discovered one of the most unique things I've come across: The Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club. This equestrian club in Philadelphia aims to prevent crime through the alternative activity of riding and taking care of horses. It's amazing to see these children and adults riding through the middle of the city, and to see such a unique way to help ...
Weekend Jam from Strange Talk
When the weather starts to get a little cooler, even if it isn't exactly 'cold' on Oahu, it always seems to remind me of being a kid during the school year. Specifically, rushing to get as much work done as possible, so I could squeeze out as much sunlight as I could before the shorter days of Autumn started to close in. This Friday's Weekend Jam is a song called 'Castaway' from the Australian band 'Strange Talk' The song is fun and upbeat and the video brings on major childhood nostalgia. Doesn't it remind you of being a curious kid exploring your neighborhood with your friends? [vimeo]https://vimeo.com/49742383[/vimeo] Happy Aloha ...
The Back Room
Last month, we had a new surprise addition to the STN buildings. Carson Myers, longtime friend and staff member at STN had been sneakily putting together a room where the artists of STN could create in their free time. Through Carson's vision and hard work, the back of a run-down house became 'The Back Room' and Carson held an opening party to celebrate. We love this room and are excited to see the amazing creations that come out of there. Thanks Carson! [slickr-flickr type="gallery" search="sets" set="72157631632962629" items="24" photos_per_row="8" align="center" border="off" flickr_link="on"]
Weekend Jam from The Cinematic Orchestra
It's been raining a lot these past few days, so to match the mellow mood for this week's Weekend Jam we bring you a beautiful song from The Cinematic Orchestra. This is an older one but so beautiful. The instruments give it a gorgeous and haunting sound to accompany amazing vocals. This song is called 'To Build a Home''. Most STN staff and volunteers are pretty far from their childhood homes but have come to find an Ohana and home here in Hawaii. What corner of the world have you ended up finding a home in? [youtube width="600" height="400"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM7EPnhHtu0[/youtube]
Help Josh Build A Studio
I hope that you enjoyed Josh Garrel's free album last Friday. If you have not, his newest album Love & War: B-sides and Remixes is available online and you can read up on it in our recent post. Amazingly enough, Josh Garrels has written, recorded and produced all of his albums, including Love & War & The Sea In Between, from home, outside of the "ideal" studio-space. And with the next full-length album on the horizon, Garrels has chosen the route of building an adequate studio - a space that would cater to his recording needs and be used to create limitless albums for many other musicians. (more…)
Josh Garrels, Year of Jubilee
Josh Garrels does it again. If you have not already checked it out, Love & War: B-Sides & Remixes is available for free download. This second free download album was sparked as a celebration of what was deemed a Year of Jubilee. In ancient times, the Year of Jubilee would fall at the end of seven cycles (the 49th year), and on this year debts were forgiven, slaves were set free, property was restored to its original owner, and the land was given rest as it was a year for the people to rest from their labors as well. And in 2011, Garrels did just that. His recently released album "Love & War & The Sea In Between" was made available as ...
The XX and The Avett Brothers Full Albums!
What do the Avett Brothers and The xx have in common? Well, you can listen to both of these new albums in their entirety courtesy of our friends at NPR! Head over to NPR Music First Listen. (more…)
Weekend Jam Punjabi Style
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxozO1cv6qk[/youtube] It's Friday! Here at STN we have an diverse blend of people, which means we always have a good bit of international tunes going through the office. In a few days, two of our surfers from Bangladesh return home and take a team of our staff with them. In honor of them, we give you the relaxing (apart from the creepy stalker-ish video) tunes of Bollywood! Have a wonderful and relaxing Labor Day weekend! Artist: Pritam Song: Rabbah Mein Toh, from the movie 'Mausam'


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Jay Rock has been performing this cut from his debut album, Follow Me Home, for a minute now, and it's refreshing to hear the recorded, mastered version instead of random YouTube clips floating around. The Watts emcee has endured a long and bumpy road to score a definitive release date and judging from the fact that it's available for pre-order most likely means July 26th is set in stone. And while a part of me is still skeptical as to whether he's a good fit with those weirdoes over at Strange Music, there isn't much to question about his label situation if he's able to stick to his roots and make soulful, close to home records like "Hood Gone Love."
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Scottsdale, AZ (January 5, 2013) – It is with great pleasure that Gretsch is releasing the G7593T Billy Duffy White Falcon guitar, which has immediately become one of the most unique and bewitching White Falcon guitars ever made. Featuring much of what Falcon fans hold dear, The Cult guitarist's inimitable instrument has several unique aesthetic differences that separate it from the rest of the "Falcon" flock, namely its period-correct '70s Baldwin-era styling, pure White gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish, V-shaped Falcon headstock, Silver Sparkle binding, custom wound hot "Black Top" Filter'Tron pickups with three-point adjustable '70s-style metal bezels and Duffy's preferred Bigsby tailpiece.
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TOKYO, July 4 (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co has expanded its U.S. regional recall of vehicles over potentially explosive air bags made by Takata Corp to include the state of California, one of the biggest markets for the automaker in the United States, a spokeswoman said on Friday.
Last month, Honda and six other automakers said they were recalling vehicles in high humidity regions of Puerto Rico, Florida, Hawaii and the Virgin Islands in the United States at the request of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to replace Takata air bag inflators.
In addition to those areas, Honda is also recalling affected vehicles in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas.
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New Group Organizes To Fight Ashland BRT
A group of business owners and residents have launched a new group to fight against the city's current plan to impose a mass transit makeover of Ashland Avenue according to DNA Info.
The Ashland-Western Coaltion is focusing a lot of attention on the many drawbacks to the city's push to remove a lane of traffic in both directions and construct a center running bus rapid transit system.
After news came out that many left hand turns would be prohibited under the most recent version of the plan. But the Ashland-Western Coalition says 66 of the 71 current left turns on Ashland between 31st Street and Cortland Ave. would be eliminated. According to the CTA, left turns would only be allowed on Armitage Avenue, Van Buren Street, Robinson Street, Congress Parkway and 31st Street–all streets that connect to an expressway.
The group worries trucks trying to deliver to businesses along Ashland Avenue would be problematic when Ashland is reduced to one lane of non-bus traffic.
But the coalition says it's not opposed to modernizing public transit along Ashland and are proposing their own plan that would ditch the center running buses, allow left turns but modernize the current bus route.
Here's DNA Info's full story, "Ashland Express Bus: Group Warns Most Left Turns Will Be Eliminated."
5 Responses to New Group Organizes To Fight Ashland BRT
Not a word as to who are actually the members.
The DNA article mentions 2 of the individuals with local businesses who are members of the coalition.
This group's executive statement has both a well reasoned critique of the Ashland Brt, and a detailed alternative plan to upgrade the existing bus service on both Ashland and Western Avenue (including ideas for how it could be done with existing transit programs/funds):
In addition to the poorly thought out design of the Ashland BRT, one has to wonder about the $200 million projected budget. CTA does not exactly have the best track record on budget projections. Just yesterday, CTA announced yet another "unanticipated" $10 million budget deficit for this year:
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When Roger Romanelli, head of the Randolph/Fulton Market Association, took on the leadership role of the Ashland/Western Coalition (the main group opposing the Ashland BRT), he may have anticipated some City Hall payback. Well that payback may have come now – in the form of onerous landmark restrictions — proposed for the business owners in the Randolph/Fulton Market area:


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Need Appliance Repair Help? Ask a Technician for Answers ASAP
my name is XXXXX XXXXX I am an appliance expert here with justanswer.com and I can help you
what make ac are you referring to here?
It's a Sharp
thank you.
have you check the other end of the power cord back to the inside of the machine?
Is this an in the wall ac unit? or one in the window?
That was going to be my next step but I can't get the back of the unit off to check and see if power is getting to the unit. The unit is mounted on wheels so you can roll it around
ok. gotcha. That makes it easier that it is a portable one.
what you want to do is look all around the edges of the back side and front for the screws to remove the back and front panels to get access to the inner parts of the machine.
now, with the portable ones it does make it difficult because there are sooo many screws, but it makes it easier to work on.
some of the screws are hidden and recessed into the plastic cover so you will need either a long screwdriver or drill to get it out.
i have taken out every screw I can find. There are only six screws in the back of that unit and none in the front. thats what is frustrating me.
I know it is frustrating and working on these machines can be less then fun.
If all the screws are out the back and front access panels should come apart.
have you tried taking a small thin putty knife or screw driver to the front cover area? near where the air comeout of the machine on top?
this is where the back and front panel meet. and sometimes the plastic pieces just need to be separated.
Just be sure not to crack or damage the plastic. so if it is still not budging with little effort then stop and look to make sure you have removed all the screws.
I am having trouble locating the exploded view diagram for your machine. This would show me exactly where the screws are. This way we can be sure that you have removed all of them.
I will continue trying to get the pictures.
in the meantime, the problem is that the machine has gone completey dead? no lights, no function at all?
No I haven;t tried that. I've benn trying to pull the back off and the vent that comes out of the unit is vertical and stiks above the case about a inch an a half so I'm preety sure the back has to be lifted straight up.
oh. you havent removed the intake and exhuast vents from the back of the unit yet? i thought that since you were trying to get the back panel off you had removed the vents? if not, they should just twist off. turn the vent hoses either clockwise or counter clockwise and pull the vent hoses off. without them off the panel will not come off.
if you follow the plug from the wall to the machine, does it go to the bottom back of the machine, or to the side?
No I've done that. The vent hose is off. The power cord goes into the back at he bottom over to the left hand side as you are looking at the back of the unit.
ok. just wanted to be sure.
i have located the user manual for your machine. I have worked on this model several times. and i know for sure that there are screws on the sides of the machine as well as some that are recessed into the back of the machine that need to be removed before you can pull the back and front panel off.
I am going to another room to look. I will be right back
also be sure that you have removed the drain plug. sometimes the drain plug left in the machine on back is enough to keep the back on.
i am going to look through the manual to see if there are any other screws we are missing. but i dont think there is.
I know this may seem silly, but on your model ac, if the water tank inside the machine is full the machine will not turn on.
so check to make sure that is empty
but if this machine is completely dead, no lights nothing, then you either blow the fuse on the control board and the board needs to be replaced because of that. or the power cord is bad.
and we can check either one of those until you get access inside the machine.
let me know where you are at with checking for the screws on the back and sides of the machine. how are we doing?
I have just looked all over that machine and the only screwws I can find are recessed in the back. I have taken the drain plug out and that is not holding it. The front cover is supprted be plastic spacers and is about a half inch and I can just see behind it. Is it possible that this just snaps in place without scews.
yes. the front top is just snapped in. That is why I mentioned taking a putty knife to it. But it will still not come appart until all the screws are off.
go ahead and try to unsnap the front and maybe that will give you a better look at the panels. but again, if the plastic is giving you too much trouble dont force it. you dont want to break it.
is this machine completely dead? no lights at all? and are you trying with the remote or by pressing the control on the machine?
Again, if this machine is completely dead and you have tried not just the remote but the control panel as well, and still nothing, no lights or function at all, we know it is either one of two things. The main control board or power cord. And again, to know for sure what is the problem we will need to get access to the other end of the plug that goes into the machine and to the control board. You will then with a meter need to check the power cord for continuity and then the control board while it is plugged in for full voltage.
we will then know for sure if the control board or power cord is the problem.
but if you cant get the machine appart, you will not know what is wrong.
and I am sorry i cant give you more specific instructions and help to remove the back and front panels. I wish i was there with you to show you.
I give you the option of ordering both parts for this machine and when you have the machine apart, you can install the cheaper power cord first. Then check the machine to see if that fixes the problem. and if it does, then return the control board. That will be the cheapest way to fix this machine.
But if after installing the cord it still doesnt work then install the board and try again. and you might still be able to able to return the cord to get your money back.
If you are interested in going this route let me know and I will tell you where to get the parts from.
And if you feel satisfied with my help please remember to rate my performance positively below with ok service or better rating. and if you need more help please come back here again and I will help you more for no additional charge.
did you recieve my last response that I have looked all over ths machine and can only find the recessedscrews in the back.
yes. I have.
have you recieved my reposnses back to you?
Are you recieving my responses
es. are you receiving mine?
Thanks for your help. I was finally able to find two hidden screws holding the front panel on and unsnapped the front cover and every thing else came off with ease. I checked tha power cord and power is getting to the unit so the cord is good. I found a 3 amp fuse on the circuit board and checked it with a continuity meter and it is good. What next?
Again thanks for your help. I'll call and get some prices and go from there.
I will keep your name, thanks for that info. Just for an update, I called that number the gave me and they don't handle sharp parts so the transfered me to sharp directly and going thru their phone answreing system finally got to somebody that gave me the phone no. of the local dealer. called them and they said their manuals don't show that so they called sharp and finnally found that it would be a special order item at a cost of $180.00. So now I will make a decision. Again, thanks
sorry I haven't gotten back to you sooner. I haven't done anything yet with the air conditioner. I will try and find the part no. and get back to you. But I did have another idea. I bought this air conditioner for my 40'x15' florida room which does not have a duct from the central air. We only use this room a couple of hours a day or sometimes more if we have a family function. I don't need the temperature control and other features that circuit board supplies. Is there a way to bypass that board and simply have an off on switch which is basically how I controled it before it quit?
The final out come of all of this is I bought a new window unit air conditioner and heat pump so now I can have air in the summer and heat in the winter. I am glad I found you tho and I will keep you on file so I know who to call when I need help. Thanks again.
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We all get colds from time to time. Adults in the United States get an average of 2-4 colds per year while children may have up to 12. We are exposed to the viruses that cause cold symptoms year round. They may be more common during the fall and winter months but you can get a cold any time of year.

It's also important to understand that colds are not caused by just one virus. Unlike the flu - which is caused by the influenza virus - cold symptoms can be caused by over 200 different viruses (this is the main reason we will likely never see a cure for the common cold). Rhinoviruses, coronaviruses, enteroviruses and several others can cause cold symptoms.

What To Expect

Whether you have people hacking and coughing all around you and want to know how soon you will get sick or you are wondering when you could have possibly picked up this virus, we can help. The typical incubation period for a cold is 1-3 days. This means that it takes between 24 and 72 hours from the time you are exposed to the virus until you start to experience symptoms.

7 Signs You May Have a Cold

Of course, this doesn't mean you will get sick every time you are exposed to a cold virus. You may have immunities to the virus you are exposed to because you have had the same or a similar virus in the past or your body is able to fight it off without causing any significant symptoms for you.

What You Can Do

Many people swear by any number of remedies to prevent the onset of a cold once they are exposed. Whether it's taking extra vitamin C, echinacea, a homeopathic remedy such as Zicam or Airborne - none of them have been proven to effectively stop or prevent colds. Unfortunately there is no "silver bullet" that will stop a cold in it's tracks.

However, you can reduce your chances that you get sick by avoiding the germs in the first place.

Washing your hands frequently is the best way to prevent the spread of germs.

Avoid touching your nose, eyes, mouth and face as much as possible. These are the primary points of entry in which viruses come into our bodies. If you can avoid touching your face, you will greatly reduce the number of germs that have the chance to make you sick.

Keeping frequently used surfaces clean is important as well. Clean your computer keyboard, cell phones, doorknobs and work telephones often. This is even more important if these surfaces are touched by many people.

It's nearly impossible to avoid every single cold virus simply because there are so many of them. If you find yourself sick with a cold, we have plenty of tips that will help you get through it as quickly and painlessly as possible.

Sources:

"Common Cold". Respiratory Viruses Apr 14. Infectious Diseases. The Merck Manual Professional Edition. Merck, Sharp & Dohme Corp. Merck & Co, Inc. 5 Jan 15.

"Common Cold". MedlinePlus 9 Jan 15. National Library of Medicine. US Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. 5 Jan 15.


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FL runs into hot pitcher in first round
Clint Riese
Sports Editor
After breezing through the regular season and sectional tournament, the playing field finally evened out for the Forest Lake softball team at the state tournament.
Forest Lake entered the eight-team bracket ranked No. 2 with a record of 23-1 and hoped to take the final step after placing second in 2011. The tourney, held last Thursday and Friday in North Mankato, played out as few expected, though. The Rangers dropped two of three games to finish sixth, while unranked Stillwater beat No. 1 Maple Grove in the title game.
The first day of play was marred by a two-hour rain delay, but the clouds broke as Forest Lake opened its first-round game against Orono. The 2008 Class AA champions were making their first Class AAA state appearance but came in matching Forest Lake's record of 23-1.
It was clear from early on that the Spartans would not roll over. Junior Sam Hartmann struck out two while retiring the Rangers in order in the top of the first inning. The Section 6 champs then took advantage of a close call and some uncharacteristic defense to take an early lead.
Orono's Madison Arends bunted with one out and was deemed safe on a close play at first base which Forest Lake disputed. After Arends was called safe, she advanced to second base when first baseman Maggie Forsell and pitcher Michelle LaCasse did not connect on the relay back to the mound.
On the next play, Ranger second baseman Shannon Nelson fielded a grounder and tried to get the lead runner but her throw to third base was late. Clean-up hitter Mackenzie Williams then singled up the middle to drive in a run. LaCasse got out of the jam with no further damage, but the tone was set.
Coach Angie Ryan was surprised to see her team come out flat.
"There were some things I guess I didn't anticipate especially since we had a lot more experience than Orono or a lot of the other teams," she said. "Our whole thing was 'Relax and do what you have been doing.' I don't know for sure where those couple of issues came from."
Forest Lake put a runner in scoring position with one out in the second, but Hartmann dialed up two strikeouts to end the threat. Her cushion then increased as Orono struck for two more runs in its half of the frame. Hartmann led off with a double past left fielder Mikayla Watters and scored two outs later on a double by lead-off hitter Shelby Early. Arends followed with a bleeder through the right side of the infield to make it 3-0.
Ryan pulled LaCasse after the next batter singled. Reliever Micah McGuiness was greeted with a soft single to load the bases, but she induced a grounder to get out of the jam.
The Spartans would not score again, but Forest Lake's offense had to scrap for every baserunner as Hartmann successfully tested the limits of the outside corner of the strike zone. Emily Lindstrom's single with two outs in the fifth inning marked the team's first hit of the contest. Lindstrom would be stranded and the Rangers went down in order in the sixth.
Dana Mogren put together a great at-bat to lead off the seventh inning and it ended in a single down the right-field line. Clean-up hitter Jenn Zidar then made the best contact of any Ranger swing all game, but her deep fly ball sailed right to the Orono center fielder. Hartmann quickly closed out the two-hitter and the Spartans prevailed 3-0.
McGuiness allowed four hits in 4.1 innings of scoreless relief. Arends, Early and Williams each had two hits and drove in a run for Orono. The Spartans went on to fall 3-0 to Maple Grove in the semifinals. They beat Mankato East 5-1 in the third-place game.
Rangers 11, Hornets 0 (six innings)
The Rangers had planned to play two games on the first day but the late start pushed their second game back to Friday as the seniors had to hurry home for graduation. Friday morning brought an 11-0 victory in a consolation semifinal against Big Lake. The Section 8 champs entered the tourney with a record of 14-7 and were coming off a 7-0 loss to Maple Grove in the opening round.
The game remained scoreless for four innings before Forest Lake exploded for three runs in the fifth and eight in the sixth.
"We got some bunts down, they threw the ball around a little and all of a sudden we just put together a couple of big innings," Ryan said.
Watters and Lindstrom each singled and scored in the fifth, and an error made all three of the runs unearned.
Mogren singled and tripled in the sixth, and McGuiness, Lindstrom and Nelson added singles. A throwing error allowed three runs to score.
McGuiness pitched the first five innings of the six-inning shutout, allowing two hits and striking out four.
Jaguars 5, Rangers 3
Bloomington Jefferson, which was ranked No. 1 for much of the season, awaited Forest Lake in the consolation finals. The Section 3 champs entered the tournament with a record of 17-2. They fell 1-0 to Mankato East in the first round, then beat Farmington 4-3 in eight innings.
Again, it took several innings for a team to break into the scoring column. A baserunning mistake cost the Rangers the chance to take the lead in the fifth inning, and the Jaguars took advantage with a home run in the top of the sixth. Forest Lake came right back to tie it with a two-out rally. The heart of the order came through, as Mogren doubled and went on to score on a single by Zidar.
The Jaguars took control with a four-run seventh inning. McGuiness retired the first batter but was chased after four straight hits. Bloomington Jefferson made it 5-1 with a two-out double.
The Rangers made things interesting in their final time up to bat. Lindstrom led off with a homer to cut the deficit to three. Two outs brought up the top of the order, and Natalie Wright kept the game alive with a single. Nelson and Mogren followed with singles, making it 5-3, but Zidar flied out to left field to end the game.
Ryan felt the loss was easier to swallow than the first one of the tournament.
"Even though we lost it felt okay because we did play very well," she said.
Mogren went 3-4 and McGuiness added two hits.
Year in review
Ryan said that over the course of five straight state tournaments, she has learned that talent alone does not usually win out.
"Things have to go your way a bit at the state tournament and it just didn't," she said. "l'm not upset. I know everybody did their best.
"…You have to feel good with the pressure on you and I'm not sure, all our kids, if that's how they felt. I'm not sure how you get everyone to step up in those situations."
The team can look back fondly on a special year, Ryan added. The Rangers went 24-3, won the Suburban East Conference title outright for the first time since 1990 and claimed their fifth consecutive Section 7 crown. Their five-year run at state is the longest current streak in Minnesota's two biggest classes.
"We had an awesome season," she said. "24-3 was outstanding, so I can't ask for anything more."
Departing seniors include Forsell, McGuiness, Nelson and Andrea Mogren. Nelson will continue her softball career at Winona State, while McGuiness and Mogren will both play at St. Scholastica.


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Lombardi: Locker, Newton good fits for Redskins
Frank Tadych | Tags: Washington Redskins, Cam Newton, Jake Locker, Michael Lombardi, Mike Shanahan
With Donovan McNabb on his way out of Washington and Rex Grossman at the helm, it stands to reason the Redskins will be looking at quarterbacks with the 10th pick in the draft, one where the demand is greater than the supply.
NFL Network's Michael Lombardi sees two prospects who posses the skill set to fit Mike Shanahan's perimeter passing game, one which often moves the pocket and favors athletic quarterbacks.
"When I look at Jake Locker, I see a guy that could fit what (Shanahan) does," Lombardi noted in a conference call with reporters on Wednesday. "He's looking for athleticism at quarterback. I could see Cam Newton fitting what Mike likes to do as well, assuming Cam Newton the person would be able to handle that. I see somebody that Mike feels like he could develop and be the kind of player that he could build his offense around."
The Redskins' search for a quarterback will be handicapped by the fact they don't own a third- or fourth-round pick. If the Redskins opt against using the 10th pick at quarterback or trading down, they run the risk of waiting until their turn in the second round, No. 41 overall, to target the position. They don't pick again until the fifth round (144th overall).


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Ampere Interruptus
Fuse amperage capacity is an important safety consideration for today's battery banks.
April 11, 2011
Question: I was reading an old technical article recently and the author was talking about a fuse's AIC rating and how important it is to ensure that the fuse will actually blow in the event of a catastrophic short circuit. Can you explain?
Answer: The AIC rating of a fuse or circuit breaker is an obscure but important specification. The rating describes how much amperage a fuse or breaker can be subjected to without literally welding the contacts closed (in the case of a circuit breaker) or turning a fuse into a solid mass of metal. In either case the device will not "open" the circuit, stopping electrical current flow. This is potentially a dangerous situation that can cause an electrical fire.
This issue has become an increasing concern as battery banks grow and have more capacity (amperage) waiting to unleash itself. All of this has caused the ABYC to contemplate changes to its long-standing recommendations regarding over-current protection ratings.
Historically the overcurrent protection ratings for AIC have been based on the connected battery capacity in cold cranking amps (CCA) within ABYC E-11 Standard. In today's world this is woefully inadequate; we need to consider short circuit current potential.
Comparison testing in the lab have shown that the actual short circuit current potential of a conventional lead acid battery is somewhere in the range of 4 to 4.5 times its CCA rating. An ordinary car or small truck battery might have a CCA rating of about 700 amps, but its actual short-circuit current rating is over 3000 amps! Now take two or three of them and connect them in parallel, as we often do on boats. In parallel configurations the amperage is cumulative, so it's easy to end up with battery banks on boats that have 5,000-10,000 amps of available short circuit current. This is a bit scary when you consider that the ABYC reference table shows a maximum of 5000 amps.
So, what's the solution? The only economically viable solution we have today is called the class T fuse.
The class T has an AIC rating of 20,000 amps at 32 volts. Keep in mind that as system voltage decreases AIC ratings go up; so, at 12 volts based on graphed models, the theoretical AIC for a class T fuse is about 100,000 amps. That should be more than enough to cover a pretty large battery bank even by today's standards. If the Class T is installed in the main battery cable at the point where the batteries are parallel-connected (usually right after the main shut off switch), then all the fuses and breakers downstream from it will be protected.