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Tyson introduces us to the physics of black holes by explaining what would happen to our bodies if we fell into one; he also examines the needless friction between science and religion, and notes Earth's status as "an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos".
Renowned for his ability to blend content, accessibility, and humor, Tyson is a natural teacher who simplifies some of the most complex concepts in astrophysics while sharing his infectious excitement for our universe.
©2007 Neil deGrasse Tyson; (P)2007 Blackstone Audio Inc.
"Tyson takes readers on an exciting journey from Earth's hot springs...to the universe's farthest reaches....witty and entertaining." (Publishers Weekly)
"Smoothly entertaining, full of fascinating tidbits, and frequently humorous, these essays show Tyson as one of today's best popularizers of science." (Kirkus Reviews)
"[Tyson] demonstrates a good feel for explaining science in an intelligible way to interested lay readers; his rather rakish sense of humor should aid in making the book enjoyable." (Library Journal)
"Well written and well read"
Neil deGrasse Tyson presents this complex subject in a clear and gripping way. The reader,Dion Graham, has just the right pace and inflection to keep your attention. Normally, this subject requires diagrams to clarify what is being said but this presentation is clear without them.
An absorbing book that I look forward to hearing again.
"Tyson dishes it up and up...good show!"
Tyson is an authoratative television personality who also has a great grasp of physics and the universe. This book had such a catchy title, how could I have even passed it up?
While being much more approachable in terms of use of analogy to explain very complex scientific concepts, it is also a sounding board for Tyson to rant on a few topics that drive him crazy about popular culture's views of science.
That said, it was a very fun book and well worth the money. Tyson is fun to listen to and his thoughts travel smoothly from point to point. He introduced me to some new information that I, even as an avid reader of all things science, had not known.
The only thing that could have made this book even stronger, perhaps, would be expansion on some of the scientific thoughts for those of us more versed in science. But Tyson's strength is reaching the common man, and so I wasn't surprised that occasionally very in-depth accounting of scientific preceps didn't meet my voracious appetite's needs.
I'll definitely be re-listening to this every now and again, though. It's wonderful for sitting outside and staring at the amazing sky. Bravo :)
"Great for an introduction to space and astronomy"
This is a great read for those looking to get an introduction to Space and Astronomy. The presentation bounces around lots of fascinating space facts and theories that keep you captivated. Even if you are not new to space, astronomy and the solar system, this is a great read. I found myself enjoying the many things I didn't know before and discovering space a new.
"Well worth the time"
I read a lot of popular science and I really appreciate a well read, well written, presentation of the information. The author, a good choice for reading his own book, gives flavor and enthusiasm to his reading. He knows where he wants the emphasis and conveys his own excitement of the subject with his voice.
This is a basic introduction to the subject of astrophysics, and thus presents no mind-boggling discoveries to those who read or watch this subject closely. He does, however, answer many questions, sometime with speculation, which he freely admits, which I have been asking most of my life.
I listened to this book while I worked around the house, and my reluctance to stop listening gave me the opportunity to get lots of work done in the yard.
I highly recommend the book.
Give me science, or give me death!
"A valuable perspective"
The author communicates beautifully, to the laymen and scientifically-minded alike, a cosmologists perspective on our place in the universe, as well as the places where others might inhabit.
Due to the way this book was compiled, of the content is a bit redundant, but that helps it sink in better, I guess.
"Grasping the largeness of it all"
I found it personally amazing at how I found the book enjoyable. I am an engineer and numbers and science come easy for me to understand, so maybe that has something to do with it. I had just finished reading "Einstein" so my mind was insync with the story of this book. I enjoyed the descriptions of how early thinkers went about proving their theories of the cosmos and heavens. I learned that my falling into a "black hole" would not involved my being compressed to death but rather it would involve my being pulled apart or disassembled atom by atom (or was it molecule by molecule). I have been enriched by this piece of knowledge and will find some way to use it in future conversations with my friends. I recommend the book.
"Hard to put down"
Of the scientific book I listened to lately, this one was probably one of the best. Not just did it provide a comprehensible excursion through astrophysics, it also provided insights into other areas of the physical world and was intellectually quite stimulating...to the point where I had to write an E-mail to the author to ask a question about something I did not understand in the book...and the E-mail was promptly answered by a member of his lab...well worth the read!
"easy to understand"
Easy to understand for an astrophysics book! Neil does a great job of writing for the average person (I have a bachelor's in Chemistry, but I knew very little astrophysics). I never felt talked down to. It was a lot of fun to read! I especially enjoyed his description of a death by black hole as spaghettification. If you want to learn more about astrophysics, this is a great way to start!
"A good listen"
Very enjoyable, offers brief explanations the sciences behind the objects which we use in everyday life as well as understandable clarifications of the findings in todays scientific frontiers. The author has a gift for making humorous and enlightening analogies and the narrator has an engaging voice. This is an audible offering I shall listen to many times.
"A little tough to follow, but pretty interesting"
Probably not. The "book" is actually a series of articles that are put together like a chapter book. As such there is a decent degree of redundancy. The plus side is that with repetition comes increased comprehension (as the subject matter can be a little heady for us non-science types)...the downside is that the book really could have been condensed by an order of a few hours with all the repeate material
the narrator is generally personable and you can easily visualize Neil deGrasse Tyson in his style. To each their own on this but I think the most compelling aspect of the narrative for me is getting a greater appreciation for the sheer magnitude of the universe versus the sheer insignficance of our place in it.
For someone with nothing more than a beginners understanding of astrophysics, I found all of it pretty interesting. Probably, my favorite were the portions that focus on the potential for life on other planets.
"bring your pillow" kidding. my guess is books on astrophysics don't translate well to the big screen. Probably better suited for PBS or the Discovery Channel
A little repetitious but fascinating stuff to the layman.
"Sleepless Nights Ahead!"
Slip on the head phones, close your eyes and prepare for a truly captivating journey back to the beginning of time, a sling shot ride forward to the leading edge of space, and all the bits in between as to why it's all there and where it's all heading, superbly explained with a kingsize pinch of playful humour added throughout.
Awesome, book that budget Space Shuttle window seat, the sky at night will never look the same!
An excellent audiobook! Very well explained and (mostly) easy to follow theories and facts about the known and unknown universe. Brilliant for a long, long car journey. A fascinating exploration peppered with humour.
"Enthralling collection of Essays"
Very well compiled and very well narrated. A fascinating collection of Astronomical essays read and written with love and enthusiasm. A great listen. Packed full of interesting topics.
This is a fantastic audiobook. The writing is witty and narrated in a way which maintains interest throughout. Very worthwhile and massively interesting. My friend who previously showed no interest in the subject became obsessed with it after listening to this. If you can't make your mind up, choose this one.
"Hello cosmos!"
An excellent guided journey through the stars. It feels like you're on one of those city tour buses with fun and interesting facts being told at each stop along the tour. The narrators enthusiasm is infectious and I just didn't want to touch the pause button at all. I must admit that at one or two points I got a little lost, but this didn't affect the listening experience at all. Both entertaining and educational, a highly recommended listen.
"It's great!"
A very interesting book
The great wonders of nature are explained in a concise and enjoyable way.
A not too good Neil DeGrasse impersonator.
It is a book you need to seat and really listen. It is divided in several chapters. One a day could be a good idea so you can really digest all the information.
"I still don't get particle physics but"
have crept a fraction closer to understanding thanks to this audio book! Fortunately the really heavy (for me) theory is intertwined with lots of more basic physics, plus chemistry, history, philosophy and even religion so there's a great mix of astrophysics based information in this book.
Comprised of a series of essays which overlap, Death In A Black Hole covers some areas several times and I liked that, having listened for a few hours, I was finding myself 'accurately predicting' what the next few words might be as we had already covered part of the information some hours previously. I guess I've learned something!
After having listened to the book, I read through some of the reviews here and was surprised that the narrator has come in for such criticism. I enjoyed his enthusiastic approach and didn't find his speech too fast at all. Much of the humour in the text is pleasantly dry and, for an American book, refreshingly sarcastic.
I would buy more work by both the author and the narrator, just as soon as I've managed to memorise all this book. More listenings needed I think!
"Accessible astrophysics"
I parted ways with science after A levels but wanted to find out a bit more about how things had changed in our understanding of the universe. Neil deGrasse Tyson delivers that in spades, with a series of individual vignettes that inform, amuse and entice. Sure, I'm not an expert in the Higgs-Boson or what the prospects are for finding intelligent life in the universe as a result of listening to this, but I did enjoy it and took away some real nuggets. I agree with others about the reading. I live in N America but am signed up to the UK version of Audible because I don't enjoy american accents, and this one is a difficult one to like. However, it didn't stop me listening to this and learning along the way.
"Neil deGrasse Tyson is awesome"
As every book or speech from Neil deGrasse Tyson, very informative, and interesting. He makes complicated astrophysics looks like as simple that anyone can understand.
"An excellent Audio Book"
Neil deGrasse Tyson has done an excellent job of knitting together his series of short essays into a really interesting and informative coherent whole. The ground covered is remarkable and the anecdotes meaningful and often funny. Narration by Dion Graham is clear and deeply pleasing to the ear and means that you can listen over and over again without being irked by unusual pronunciations. I am so pleased that I bought this audio book.
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A new voice in IsraelSimon Rocker
Feb 22, 2013
Diaspora Jews generally pay little attention to what Israeli politicians say in the Knesset.
But one speech has won the admiration of many in the Jewish world.
It was the maiden parliamentary address by Ruth Calderon, one of the MK's for Yair Lapid's new Yesh Atid party.
Gove's PhilistinesSimon Rocker
Feb 14, 2013
The Department for Education's decision to ignore Jewish protests and refuse to recognise Hebrew as an official language for primary school teaching can only be described as an act of philistinism.
It makes absolutely no sense to include Latin and ancient Greek (along with French, Spanish, Italian, German and Spanish) on the list of seven – but not Hebrew.
Hebrew has long been considered one of the foundation languages of Western civilisation; as long as ago as the sixteenth century, Henry VIII instituted Regius chairs in Hebrew at Oxford and Cambridge.
Rabbi David HartmanSimon Rocker
Feb 12, 2013
The death of Rabbi David Hartman in Israel on Sunday has deprived the Jewish world of one of its most forward-looking thinkers.
The Shalom Hartman Institute he founded endeavoured to find bridges between rabbinic tradition and the pluralism of contemporary Jewish life.
Rabbi Hartman was one of the speakers at Traditional Alternatives, the symposium of Orthodox thought in London staged in 1989 shortly before Jonathan Sacks was appointed Chief Rabbi.
Israel, the Nazis and yet another comparisonJennifer Lipman
Jan 30, 2013
Ah, those charming folk at the Muslim Public Affairs Committee.
Not content with thanking MP David Ward – he of the nicely-timed comparison between the Nazis then, and Israel now – "for his bravery and for standing up for the truth", MPAC UK have gone a step further and tweeted the following:
"Ever thought about the differences between #Nazism and #Zionism ? A picture speaks a thousand words."
Inquiring mindsJenni Frazer
Jan 29, 2013
Let us unpick the events of the week so far. On Sunday, it was Holocaust Memorial Day: a yearly event initiated by the British government to mark, in line with many other countries, the attempted complete annihilation of a people. It is right and proper that HMD is used as an educational tool to mark other genocides. It is not right and proper to make a moral equivalence between what happened to the Jews between 1933 and 1945, and what is happening today in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.
On Holocaust Memorial Day the editors at the Sunday Times chose to publish two curiosities: a peculiar magazine story about David Irving, the Holocaust denier, and the tours he is running in concentration camps; and the by-now bizarre cartoon from Gerald Scarfe, featuring a bloodthirsty Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall and using murdered Palestinians for its cement.
Scarfe himself has said he very much regretted the timing of the publication, claiming he did not know that it was HMD. But even if it had not been the anniversary, the cartoon was not just offensive - but missed the point in its comment on the Israeli elections. Netanyahu did not win an overwhelming victory and nor did the anti-peace camp forces in Israel.
Spot the difference?Marcus Dysch
Jan 24, 2013
The comments made by the Board of Deputies president Vivian Wineman in relation to the Jewish Leadership Council this week were shocking and bizarre.
Mr Wineman is the leading elected representative of the British Jewish community.
It is impossible to imagine what was going through his head when he joked about the wealth and "bank balances" of senior JLC members.
Nothing like a good argumentSimon Rocker
Jan 24, 2013
The British-born Israeli Talmud scholar Daniel Sperber – who is speaking at South Hampstead Synagogue on Sunday night – is one of the most eminent Orthodox academics.
But Orthodoxy and academia haven't always sat easily together. The relationship and tensions between Orthodox thinking and university research will be the focus of a new programme in London, "Arguments for Heaven's Sake", of which Rabbi Sperber will be giving the inaugural lecture. It is sponsored by the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and the Friends of Louis Jacobs.
Over the next few months Oxford will also be hosting a number of international scholars for a related programme exploring questions raised by the work of Rabbi Louis Jacobs, who tried to reconcile academic scholarship and traditional Judaism, though, of course, not in a way which always met the approval of the Orthodox establishment.
Hold onto your seatsOrlando Radice
Jan 23, 2013
What a wonderful surprise. Israel did not swing en masse to the extreme right as many of us were fearing. Since nobody seems to know what Netanyahu really thinks about anything, it's time to pray that he will club together with Yair Lapid to keep Naftali Bennett and the one-state disaster out. Here's hoping for an Aristotelian denouement. Moderation in all things.
A changed Board?Marcus Dysch
Jan 23, 2013
I've been attending and reporting on Board of Deputies meetings for a couple of years.
At my first meeting the biggest surprise came when I discovered that, far from being the august, grand debating chamber of the community that I had expected it to be, the Board plenary was more akin to a shouty shul council meeting a with a bit of a Vicar of Dibley-style shambles thrown in.
I've since discussed those impressions with Board veterans, newcomers and outsiders alike, and have heard many of them express similar views.
Taking care of businessSimon Rocker
Jan 18, 2013
Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar has just issued a strong ruling on business ethics which you can find more about on the Failed Messiah blog.


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The heart consists of four chambers, two atria (upper chambers) and two ventricles (lower chambers). There is a valve through which blood passes before leaving each chamber of the heart. The valves prevent the backward flow of blood. These valves are actual flaps that are located on each end of the two ventricles (lower chambers of the heart). They act as one-way inlets of blood on one side of a ventricle and one-way outlets of blood on the other side of a ventricle. Normal valves have three flaps, except the mitral valve, which has two flaps. The four heart valves include the following:
tricuspid valve: located between the right atrium and the right ventricle
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COOPERSTOWN, NY: The incomparable
Buck O'Neil led off the annual Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on
Sunday under clear blue skies by looking out at the gathered crowd
of an estimated 11,000 behind the Clark Sports Center. Without
missing a beat, he opened his remarks with these three words:
"This is outstanding."
And so the keynote had been struck for another magnificent
afternoon, one in which the single largest Hall of Fame class was
Reliever extraordinaire Bruce Sutter was the only former Major
Leaguer gaining entrance this year into the hallowed Hall. But
O'Neil struck a cord for 17 of his Negro League and pre-Negro League
brethren, 12 players and five executives. Among them, the first
woman ever to have a plaque hung in the Hall -- Effa Manley, the
co-owner and business manager of the Newark Eagles.
Sutter, who saved 300 games for the Chicago Cubs, St. Louis
Cardinals and Atlanta Braves, finally made it in on his 13th try
when he was elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America
this past January. The 53-year-old right-hander was nervous before
the speech and had to catch himself several times from choking up
during the course of it, particularly at the point when he referred
to his wife, Jamye, who is scheduled to have surgery to remove a
cancerous kidney on Aug. 15.
"I haven't played baseball for 18 years now and I'm getting
more sentimental as I get older," Sutter said afterwards.
"You start losing family members and you start losing friends.
There are teammates who have passed on. You start thinking of them
as you put together a speech.
"I'm not usually an emotional guy. My kids said the first
time they ever saw me cry was when I got that phone call [telling
him that he was elected]. Now today. I guess a lot of people have
seen me crying now."
A pair of his fellow Hall of Famers tried to ease the mood a
little. Sutter long ago sported a thick brown beard that has now
grown gray with age. So Ozzie Smith, his former Cards teammate, and
Cincinnati great Johnny Bench donned long gray decorative beards to
spoof the occasion.
"I think Ozzie saw that the big guy needed some help,"
Sutter said about the former shortstop. "It was like one of his
diving plays and him jumping up and throwing the guy out at first.
I'm so thankful for those two guys to get a little humor out there.
I thought it was great. It did relax me."
The Negro League inductees included such great names as George
"Mule" Suttles, Cumberland "Cum" Posey Jr.,
James Raleigh "Biz" Mackey, Ernest "Jud" Wilson
and Ulysses F. "Frank" Grant.
O'Neil, who played and managed among most of them, said he was
"proud" to have been a ballplayer in the Negro Leagues
"which was nothing like Hollywood makes it out to be
Those leagues existed from the early 1920s and into the 1950s
because Major League Baseball refused to allow African-Americans to
play until Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947 with the
Brooklyn Dodgers. All 16 MLB teams at the time didn't integrate
until 1959.
"I never learned to hate," O'Neil said. "I hate
cancer. Cancer killed my mother. Ten years ago, cancer also took my
wife. I hate AIDS. I had a friend who recently died of AIDS. But I
can't hate a human being."
The induction of the Negro Leaguers was the result of an
exhaustive five-year study and special election of a 12-man panel
chaired by former Commissioner Faye Vincent that now is expected to
close the book on that part of baseball history. Robinson's widow,
Rachael, and daughter, Sharon, were both on hand for the ceremony.
"It's an awesome responsibility to stand up here and try to
express how important this day is for us," Sharon said in her
prepared remarks.
Commissioner Bud Selig and various family members read the
inscriptions on all 17 of the Negro League plaques. Selig, as he
always does, also read the inscription on the plaque for the
incoming former Major Leaguer.
"What happened today is something I never thought would
happen," said Monte Irvin, the former Negro Leaguer who was a
Hall of Famer in his own right for his eight seasons with the New
York Giants and Chicago Cubs. "But it did happen. A lot of
people should be given credit for this."
The day was rounded out by the media awards.
Gene Elston, the former voice of the Houston Astros, who won the
Ford C. Frick Award,
introduced his speech by saying: "Yes, I am in Cooperstown.
This is the place where dreams come true."
Tracy Ringolsby, the long-time Rockies beat writer for Denver's
Rocky Mountain News, won the J.G. Taylor Spink Award.
"I find it amazing to be up here," Ringolsby said as he
opened his remarks.
The selection of Sutter also made it a big year for the reliever.
Sutter mastered and popularized the split-finger fastball during a
career that spanned 13 years from 1976 to 1988 and ended when he
irrevocably hurt his right shoulder. He became the first pure
reliever ever elected. Sutter joins a trio of other pitchers in the
Hall, whose claim to fame may have been closing games -- Hoyt
Wilhelm, Rollie Fingers and Dennis Eckersley. But each was a starter
at one time or another.
In his speech, Sutter thanked his fellow relievers and praised
the fans for their support. He opened by saying, "I wish we
could turn back the clock and play one more game," and closed
by admitting that he'd like to hear the chants of "Bruuuccce"
again like those days gone by when he came into the game in a tight
situation with victory very much on the line.
"I wish I could trot out there and get that feeling again,
but Father Time has caught up with me," he said. "First he
took my arm. Then he took my hair. Then he took the color from my
beard. But he did not take the great friendships and memories I have
from being a baseball player."
Sutter's among the immortals now. The 278 of them -- players,
managers, umpires and executives -- whose plaques will long endure
in the red-bricked Hall.
As O'Neil so apply said, it was an "outstanding" and
historic day. Sutter couldn't have described it any better.
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The returned-from-the-dead six-spring clutch.
Have you ever wished that you could get your hands on an unobtainable works part from the factory? Be careful what you wish for. Every 2009 through 2012 CRF450 came with a Honda works part?the four-spring clutch. The works clutch is a trimmed-down, lightened-up, minimalist design that lessens rotating mass and inertial forces on the working parts of the clutch. The key difference between Honda's works clutch and all previous clutches is that Honda's engineers saved weight by lessening the number of springs in the unit.
Back in 2009, Honda's engineers considered the four-spring clutch a marketing coup because it was a direct transfer of technology from the factory race bikes to the production bikes. Sadly, without a factory mechanic to change the plates (between motos) ? the trick titanium clutch springs and the billet-machined parts of Team Honda's inner hubs and baskets?the four-spring clutch proved less than ideal in the hands of local racers. Why? To duplicate the clamping pressure that the clutch pack needed with four springs instead of six, they had to increase the pull.
Honda had to compromise by sacrificing clamping pressure (the 2009?2012 Honda clutch has about 35 pounds less clamping pressure, plate to plate, than the 2008 clutch). The result was a clutch that couldn't hold up to any abuse?or it would slip. What is the fix? MXA has four Honda CRF450 clutch strategies?from cheap to expensive. Pick your poison.
Honda's four-spring clutch made Hinson richer and CRF450 owners poorer.
The easiest fix for the CRF450 clutch is to just not use it. It will last forever if you never slip it.
When the 2009 CRF450 clutch proved troublesome, Honda redesigned the clutch-plate arrangement by removing one full-size friction plate and replacing it with a skinny plate and two Belleville-style washers (called jutter springs). The idea was to put back pressure on the clutch pack. This didn't solve the problem, and might have aggravated it. MXA removes the small clutch plate and two jutter springs and puts one full-size clutch plate back into the pack. This returns the 2010, 2011 and 2012 CRF450 clutches back to 2009 specs. It is an improvement, but not a solution. This mod costs $8 (for one additional clutch plate).
The next fix is old-school. We simply replaced the stock clutch springs with specially wound Hinson, Barnett or Pro Circuit clutch springs. They are stiffer, and the coils are wound to provide the most progressive modulation possible. Exchanging the four stock springs for four stiffer springs increase the clamping pressure to where it should be to replicate the 2008 clamping pressure. But, stiffer clutch springs mean a significant increase in clutch pull. Plus, the actuation point of the CRF450 clutch, which is too quick to begin with, becomes quicker with stiffer springs. This is a fix that increases hook-up and plate life significantly, but makes the window of usage very small. This mod costs $49.95.
The four-spring (left) and six-spring clutch (right) are night-and-day different?well, two-springs different anyway.
The ultimate CRF450 solution is to install an aftermarket six-spring clutch. It requires a new pressure plate, inner hub and six springs (you can use the stock 2009-2012 CRF450 basket). This turns the four-spring clutch into an exact replica of the 2008 Honda CRF450 six-spring clutch. This mod costs over $600.00.
There you have it. The choice is yours, and you control your fate with your left hand. Use it with caution.


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Weaknesses: Poor selection of products for oily, acne-prone skin; no options for those with discolorations; several products that claim to be great for sensitive skin but contain ingredients that will make sensitive skin worse; mostly unexciting, dated moisturizers, especially those in the Regeneration or Repair lines.
Simple is a United Kingdom–based skin-care line whose self-described claim to fame is that they're the "pre-eminent brand of skincare and toiletries products developed especially for sensitive skin." They also claim to be the United Kingdom's No. 1 skin care-brand, as measured by units sold, and given the line's wide distribution and low price point, the sales figures are probably accurate. But, although their sales claim may be accurate, Simple's claims about their products being good for sensitive skin are spurious at best because too many of the ingredients are completely inappropriate for sensitive skin.
Simple skin care states the following: "Our philosophy is: Simple says - never use perfumes, dyes or harsh irritants that can upset your skin. Simple says - settle for only the purest possible ingredients. Simple says - trust the natural goodness in all of our products especially for sensitive skin." Although that's a good philosophy, most Simple products don't live up to their lofty goals. There are fragrant ingredients in many of their products, they use potentially irritating preservatives in some of their products, their sun protection products use synthetic sunscreen ingredients which aren't the best for sensitive skin, and many of their ingredients are not natural (we know their claim of natural goodness doesn't say outright that they only use natural ingredients but many consumers will think that's what's being implied)
Unfortunately, there are no standards in Europe or anywhere else that regulate which cosmetic products can be deemed suitable for sensitive skin and which cannot. Therefore, any company can make that claim for its products, regardless of what the products contain. It's not all bad news though, as several of Simple's products are fragrance-free, which is a key starting point for all skin types, especially sensitive skin.
As mentioned above, the price point for Simple is low; in fact, it is one of the least expensive cosmetic brands you'll find in the United Kingdom (and a small assortment of their products are sold in the U.S., too). We are all for consumers getting more for their money, but in most cases with Simple you're being shortchanged, and that's not the way to save money. Most of their products are either very basic or the frills and good ingredients are but a dusting in an otherwise ordinary formula. There are few outstanding products in this line, which is similar throughout the industry.
The anti-aging products are a great example of Simple's combination of low prices and lofty claims, with nary an ingredient on the list capable of delivering any benefit over and above a Band-Aid®. Even the most state-of-the-art moisturizers and anti-aging products won't bring about a significant reduction in wrinkles or other signs of aging, but using well-formulated products (and they don't have to be expensive) helps a great deal. Overall the folks behind Simple took their name too literally.
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Brando as Napoleon, from the series The Junkies, 2003–2005
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Tony Scherman is one of the most provocative contemporary practitioners of encaustic painting in Canada. In 2009 Scherman donated to the WAG 11 paintings spanning his entire career. Collectively this body of work is, at the core, about beauty—both the exquisite lightness and the tortuous darkness of the human experience. Part of this significant donation is the work from the series The Junkies where Scherman created original portraits sourced from movie stills; in this case, the 1954 film Desirée. The artist feels that the subjects of his series, such as the legendary actor Marlon Brando, have suffered the theft of their souls by the overexposure and consumption caused by the mass media.
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Zend_Queue is a standardized interface for dealing with a variety of queuing systems. Proposed systems include: simple array access, Zend_Cache, Zend Platform Job Queue, Amazon's Simple Queue Service (SQS). It should support creating queues, determining the number of messages in a queue, retrieving messages from a queue (all or specific number), submitting messages to a queue, and removing queues.
Zend Framework: Zend_Queue Component Proposal
Proposed Component Name
Developer Notes
Justin Plock
Daniel Lo
1.0 - 3 March 2008: Initial revision
1.1 - 27 February 2009: Updated proposal
1.2 - 9 April 2009: Code complete (wiki revision: 15)
Table of Contents
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2. References
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Zend_Queue is a standardized interface for dealing with a variety of queuing systems. Proposed systems include: simple array access, Zend_Cache, Zend Platform Job Queue, Amazon's Simple Queue Service (SQS). It should support creating queues, determining the number of messages in a queue, retrieving messages from a queue (all or specific number), submitting messages to a queue, and removing queues.
Zend_Queue is a standardized interface for dealing with a variety of queuing systems. Proposed systems include: simple array access, Zend_Cache, Zend Platform Job Queue, Amazon's Simple Queue Service (SQS). It should support creating queues, determining the number of messages in a queue, retrieving messages from a queue (all or specific number), submitting messages to a queue, and removing queues.
4. Dependencies on Other Framework Components
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- Zend_Log
- Zend_Db
5. Theory of Operation
Zend_Queue will be a factory class for to create a specific queue interface class. Simple "send" and "receive" methods will be employed by each backend to interact with queues. "create", "getCount" and "delete" methods will be used to manage queues.
6. Milestones / Tasks
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- Milestone 2: [DONE] Working prototype checked into the incubator supporting use cases
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7. Class Index
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8. Use Cases
9. Class Skeletons
May 12, 2008

1. I think Zend_Queue_Message_Iterator is a typo of Zend_Queue_Adapter_Array, or vise verse. Could you please also provide skeleton of this class?

2. For method Zend_Queue_Message::setFromArray(), probably the input array should be stored in $this->_data.

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Very nice proposal. Thanks.

Jun 02, 2008
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The Zend Framework team approves this proposal for immediate development in the

standard incubator, with the following requirements/suggestions:

Check if queue adapters should have additional abstraction level for queues with transactions support.

Add method (or option) for retrieving message from queue as atomic operation. It may be important for some cases (e.g. taking jobs from queue by several executors).

Check if offered API conforms common messaging models (including models with message recieving notifications).

Aug 01, 2008

I'm very interested in your proposal, since we implemented a basic Queue Service ourselves using a DB as a backend. If we unify the development it would be better. We may need a STOMP or AMQP Backend for our next iteration, we would provide that.

I think it is very important that all backend adapters be concurrency-safe. E.g. if 5 clients are requesting the next message from the queue, the Adapter needs to make sure each message is returned only once. We do this by

$sQuery = 'UPDATE '.Hitmeister_Db_Tables::get('system_messages').

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' AND '.$this->aDbFields<ac:link><ri:page ri:content-title="'status_message'" /></ac:link>.' = \'NEW\'';

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$oStatement = $this->oDBH->prepare($sQuery);

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if ($oStatement->rowCount() == 0)

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}

This is more efficient than locking the table, at least in our use scenario.

One more thing we found: if you reduce the strict FIFO requirement to "more or less FIFO" you can get more performance out of the components. Perhaps make it variable in the next version?

Feb 17, 2009

What needs to be done for this proposal to move ahead. It seems to have been very little movement since august.

Feb 17, 2009

The code is pretty much done. As with my S3 proposal, this needs unit tests and documentation. I committed a MemcacheQ adapter this morning. Any help would be appreciated as I'm not to sure how to write documentation for the manual.

Feb 17, 2009

I'm going to see if I can't get the unit test done first and get it accepted in for 1.8 and then bust out the doc's. Take a look at the other documentation as it just uses the doc book format.

Feb 28, 2009

I think a component named that unspecific should be as unspecific as it's name is. How would you integrate Apache ActiveMQ or Rabbit MQ? Message Queues are Queues as well.

I'm currently working on a library for the Stomp protocol using various Message Queues which I designed with maximum flexibility in mind. You might want to take a look at how many parts are exchangeable in such a system (and that's Stomp specific!):

http://github.com/felixjendrusch/stomp/tree/master/

I'm still writing the documentation because I had to get it working as fast as possible for a customer, sorry for that. Some components are not finished yet but it's working.

Mar 19, 2009

I started creating a queue using Zend_Queue_Db and have come across an issue. It appears that the send and receive methods of Zend_Queue_Db expect the active queue to be set by queue_id instead of name.

Zend_Queue_Db::create() will set the active queue by ID, so send and receive will work in that case. But, when using setActiveQueue() by name like in UC-01, send and receive will both fail because it is trying to set the queue_id to the queue name.

Is this the expected behavior or is it an issue with Zend_Queue_Db?

Mar 19, 2009

Also, wouldn't it be a good idea for the queue name to be unique in the DB?

Apr 06, 2009

I still do not feel very confident with the name of this component. Zend_Queue is to general for this... what about message queues (Apache ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, ...)? Will they get their own component (Zend_MessageQueue?)?

Apr 06, 2009

ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ are supported using the Zend_Queue_Adapter_Stomp adapter.

Apr 06, 2009

Stomp is a protocol. Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ are message brokers supporting various protocols. Saying that Apache ActivqMQ and RabbitMQ are supported using a protocol is just wrong.

Supporting the Stomp protocol is nice but in reality just supporting its definitions is not enough (e.g. RabbitMQ uses a different frame delimiter).

Apr 09, 2009

Feel free to contribute the code for ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ.

 -Justin

Apr 24, 2009

Hi Justin,

Can you rename setMsgClass(), setMsgsetClass(), and so on to setMessageClass() and setMessageSetClass()? Randomly abbreviating words like that can make an API difficult to remember.

I would also suggest that Stomp receive first-level support as Zend_Stomp (this is the case with other protocols, such as HTTP, Wildfire, etc.). Zend_Queue_Adapter_ActiveMQ and Zend_Queue_Adapter_RabbitMQ can then use that component. Perhaps the frame delimiter could be configurable via a method in Zend_Stomp, and ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ classes could simply set up the delimiter and then proxy requests to Zend_Stomp.

Is there any support for filtering based on certain criteria? This is a very common use case.

Otherwise, looking forward to seeing this in trunk!

May 01, 2009

Are you planing to implement "gearman" ?

It's an upcomming job system, which is easy to use and not bound to any language (you can add jobs to the queue from php, and get them from java).

http://www.danga.com/gearman/
http://www.gearman.org/doku.php

May 18, 2009

I don't think it makes sense to implement Gearman as part of a unified Queue interface. Gearman is a job queue which is fundamentally different from a message queue. Looking through the Zend_Queue_Adapter_Abstract, the only method that would be supported would be send(). recieve() is for a worker not a client, and deleteMessage() is automatic with Gearman.

There needs to be a separate proposal for Zend_Queue_Job or Zend_JobQueue that would support Gearman and Zend Platform's JobQueue. It also makes sense to start a Zend_Gearman proposal that ports in the Gearman Pear class, supports the Pear class and the Gearman PHP extension, sort of like Zend_Json does.

Jun 23, 2009

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22 Irresistible Chocolate Desserts
Isn't it always baking season? If you took the time to perfect each of these chocolate recipes it certainly would be. From cookies and cupcakes to pies and cakes, we've got what you need in this irresistible chocolate recipe extravaganza.
If you're craving something other than chocolate, try one of these easy-to-make desserts or a batch of these classic cookies.
Egg Creams with Spiced Chocolate Syrup
Inspired by the soda fountains of her mother's Brooklyn childhood, Gina Chersevani created this delicious egg cream soda, which starts with her own homemade chocolate syrup spiced with cardamom, black peppercorns, and cinnamon.
Recipe: Egg Creams with Spiced Chocolate Syrup