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Marketing Checklist Top priorities for truenudist.com :
79 personalized tasks for
online marketing success!
Title Tag
The Largest Social Network for Nudists
Length: 38 character(s)
Great, your title tag contains between 10 and 70 characters.
Make sure your title tag is explicit and contains your most important keywords.
Be sure that each page has a unique title tag.
Meta Description
True Nudists is a social networking site for nudism. Join for free and meet over 180k nudists in your area. 250k nudist pictures and a gallery
Length: 142 character(s)
Great, your meta description contains between 70 and 160 characters (spaces included).
Meta descriptions allow you to influence how your web pages are described and displayed in search results.
Ensure that all of your web pages have a unique meta description that is explicit and contains your most important keywords (these appear in bold when they match part or all of the user's search query).
A good meta description acts as an organic advertisement, so use enticing messaging with a clear call to action to maximize click-through rate.
Check your Google™ Webmaster Tools account (Click 'Search Appearance', then 'HTML Improvements') to identify any issues with your meta descriptions, for example, they are too short/long, or duplicated across more than one page.
Google Preview
The Largest Social Network for Nudists
True Nudists is a social networking site for nudism. Join for free and meet over 180k nudists in your area. 250k nudist pictures and a gallery
While Title Tags & Meta Descriptions are used to build the search result listings, the search engines may create their own if they are missing, not well written, or not relevant to the content on the page.
Title Tags and Meta Descriptions are cut short if they are too long, so it's important to stay within the suggested character limits.
|<H1> The Largest Social Network for Nudists
|<H2> Browse Nudist Profiles and Meet Nudist Friends at
|<H2> There are over 272,575 nudist profiles on True Nudists
|<H2> Naturist Friendly
|<H2> What are you waiting for?
|<H2> Promote and Embracing
|<H3> True Nudists
|<H3> Start meeting them now!
|<H3> Video Chat
|<H3> Register in under 60 seconds!
|<H3> Nudism / Naturism
|<H5> Are you a real nudist?
|<H5> Are you over 18?
|<H5> You are a...
|<H5> You are eligible for a free account!
|<H6> Payment Required Free Account
|<H6> Browsing the Site
|<H6> Company Information
|<H6> Legal Information
Great, your website is structured using HTML headings (<H1> to <H6>).
Use your keywords in the headings and make sure the first level (<H1>) includes your most important keywords. Never duplicate your title tag content in your header tag.
While it is important to ensure every page has an <H1> tag, never include more than one per page. Instead, use multiple <H2> - <H6> tags.
Keywords Cloud
This Keyword Cloud provides an insight into the frequency of keyword usage within the page.
It's important to carry out keyword research to get an understanding of the keywords that your audience is using. There are a number of keyword research tools available online to help you choose which keywords to target.
Keyword Consistency
|Keywords (2 words)
|social network
|largest social
|nudist profiles
|istanbul istanbul
|loading element
|Keywords (3 words)
|largest social network
This table highlights the importance of being consistent with your use of keywords. To improve the chance of ranking well in search results for a specific keyword, make sure you include it in some or all of the following: page URL, page content, title tag, meta description, header tags, image alt attributes, internal link anchor text and backlink anchor text.
Alt Attribute
No images with missing alt attributes were found.
Good, most or all of your images have alternative text (the alt attribute).
Alternative text is used to describe images to give the search engine crawlers (and the visually impaired) more information to help them understand images, which can help them to appear in Google™ Images search results.
Text/HTML Ratio
Great, this page's ratio of text to HTML code is higher than 15 percent.
Although your text to code ratio is good, you can always improve it by adding more text content to your pages.
A ratio between 25 and 70 percent is ideal. When it goes beyond that, the page might run the risk of being considered spam.
As long as the content is relevant and gives essential information, it is a plus to have more of it.
Indexed Pages
This is the number of pages on your website that are indexed by search engines. It's important to aim to have all of your web pages crawled and indexed by the search engines, as this gives you more opportunity for your website to be found.
A low number (relative to the total number of pages/URLs on your website) indicates that there is an issue, whether it's due to a bad internal linking structure, or you're unknowingly preventing search engines from crawling your pages.
Make sure your website's XML sitemap is present and you have submitted it to the major search engines. Building backlinks to your website's internal pages will also help bots to discover, crawl and index them, while building authority to help them rank in the search engines.
Check Google™ Webmaster Tools under 'Google Index' and 'Crawl' to keep track of the status of your site's indexed/crawled pages.
Google+ Publisher
Great, a rel="Publisher" tag has been detected and is linked to a Google+ page.
In-Page Links
We found a total of 46 link(s) including 0 link(s) to files
|No Anchor Text
|External Links
|External Links
|External Links
|No Anchor Text
|External Links
|Join Now!
|External Links
|No Anchor Text
|External Links
|No Anchor Text
|External Links
|No Anchor Text
|External Links
|Internal Links
|Internal Links
|Internal Links
|Internal Links
|AIMI07Austin, Connecticut US
|Internal Links
|naturistlisaVictoria AU
|Internal Links
|ocean_state_babeProvidence, Rhode Island US
|Internal Links
|GrosminouQuebec, Quebec CA
|Internal Links
|dmct90Massachusetts US
|Internal Links
|Angela79London GB
|Internal Links
|fu210kurSibiu, Sibiu RO
|Internal Links
|ealperenIstanbul, Istanbul TR
|Internal Links
|NudeJuteHuntington Beach, California US
|Internal Links
|KerryKezLeeds, West Yorkshire GB
|Internal Links
|zenith069West Bengal IN
|Internal Links
|No Anchor Text
|Internal Links
|uk_netball_girlWareham, Bournemouth GB
|Internal Links
|orcunmilanIstanbul, Istanbul TR
|Internal Links
|KrainsongTempe, Arizona US
|Internal Links
|Internal Links
|Instant Facebook Signup
|Internal Links
|Sign up
|Internal Links
|Internal Links
|Internal Links
|Internal Links
|About True Nudists
|Internal Links
|Contact Us
|Internal Links
|Billing Issues
|Internal Links
|Become an affiliate
|Internal Links
|Terms of Use
|Internal Links
|Return/Refund Policy
|Internal Links
|Privacy Policy
|Internal Links
|Copyright Complaints
|Internal Links
|Internal Links
|Internal Links
|Internal Links
|I forgot my login
|Internal Links
|IndoChickBandung, Bandung ID
|Internal Links
While there's no exact limit to the number of links you should include on a page, best practice is to avoid exceeding 200 links.
Links pass value from one page to another, but the amount of value that can be passed is split between all of the links on a page. This means that adding unnecessary links will dilute the potential value attributed to your other links.
Using the Nofollow attribute prevents value from being passed to the linking page, but it's worth noting that these links are still taken into account when calculating the value that is passed through each link, so Nofollow links can also dilute pagerank.
Broken Links
No broken links were found on this web page
Broken links send users to non-existing web pages. They are bad for your site's usability, reputation and SEO. If you find broken links in the future, take the time to replace or remove each one.
WWW Resolve
Great, a redirect is in place to redirect traffic from your non-preferred domain.
Great, your website directs www.truenudist.com and truenudist.com to the same URL.
Redirecting requests from a non-preferred domain is important because search engines consider URLs with and without "www" as two different websites.
IP Canonicalization
Good, your website's IP address is forwarding to your website's domain name.
To check this for your website, enter your IP address in the browser and see if your site loads with the IP address. Ideally, the IP should redirect to your website's URL or to a page from your website hosting provider.
If it does not redirect, you should do an htaccess 301 redirect to make sure the IP does not get indexed.
Your website doesn't have a robots.txt file - this can be problematic.
A robots.txt file allows you to restrict the access of search engine robots that crawl the web and it can prevent these robots from accessing specific directories and pages. It also specifies where the XML sitemap file is located.
You can check for errors in your robots.txt file using Google Search Console (formerly Webmaster Tools) by selecting 'Robots.txt Tester' under 'Crawl'. This also allows you to test individual pages to make sure that Googlebot has the appropriate access.
XML Sitemap
Your website does not have an XML sitemap - this can be problematic.
A sitemap lists URLs that are available for crawling and can include additional information like your site's latest updates, frequency of changes and importance of the URLs. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently.
We recommend that you generate an XML sitemap for your website and submit it to both Google™ Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools. It is also good practice to specify your sitemap's location in your robots.txt file.
It's important to only include pages that you want the search engines to crawl, so avoid any that have been blocked via your robots.txt file. Check the URLs to ensure that none of them cause redirects or return error codes. This includes being consistent with your URLs, for example, including your preferred URLs (with or without www.), including the correct protocol (http or https) and making sure URLs all end with or without a trailing slash.
URL Rewrite
Perfect, your URLs look clean.
Great! You have clean (user-friendly) URLs which do not contain query strings.
Clean URLs are not only SEO-friendly but are also important for usability.
Underscores in the URLs
Great, you are not using underscores (these_are_underscores) in your URLs.
While Google™ treats hyphens as word separators, it does not for underscores.
Blocking Factors
Flash: No
Frames: No
Frames can cause problems on your web page because search engines will not crawl or index the content within them. Avoid frames whenever possible and use a NoFrames tag if you must use them.
Domain Registration
Created 8 years ago
Expires 18 days ago
Do you know that you can register your domain for up to 10 years? By doing so, you will show the world that you are serious about your business.
We found a Blog on this website.
Starting a blog is a great way to engage with your audience and increase your online visibility by attracting qualified traffic from new sources.
Use our tips to optimize your blog and improve performance.
Mobile Friendliness
This website is not optimized for Mobile Visitors
Mobile CSS
Mobile Redirection
Mobile Rendering
The number of people using the Mobile Web is huge; over 75 percent of consumers have access to smartphones. Your website should look nice on the most popular mobile devices.
Tip: Use an analytics tool to track mobile usage of your website.
Touchscreen Readiness
Perfect, the most important buttons/links are large enough to be tapped easily.
Mobile Compatibility
Perfect, no embedded objects detected.
Font Size Legibility
Perfect, this web page's text is legible on mobile devices.
Mobile Viewport
Great, a configured viewport is present.
The content does not fit within the specified viewport size.
Mobile Speed
Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content
Leverage browser caching
Optimize images
Avoid landing page redirects
Enable compression
See Google's PageSpeed Insights Rules for more information on how to improve each of the elements in this section.
Mobile Frameworks
No mobile frameworks have been detected.
Keep your URLs short and avoid long domain names when possible.
A descriptive URL is better recognized by search engines. A user should be able to look at the address bar and make an accurate guess about the content of the page before reaching it (e.g., http://www.mysite.com/en/products).
Keep in mind that URLs are also an important part of a comprehensive SEO strategy. Use clean URLs to make your site more "crawlable" by Google™.
Resource: Search for a good domain name. If no good names are available, consider a second hand domain. To prevent brand theft, you might consider trademarking your domain name.
Great, your website has a favicon.
Favicons improve a brand's visibility. As a favicon is especially important for users bookmarking your website, make sure it is consistent with your brand.
Resource: Check out this amazing idea.
Great, your website has a favicon. Make sure this favicon is consistent with your brand.
Resource: Check out this amazing idea for improving the user experience with a special favicon.
Custom 404 Page
Great, your website has a custom 404 error page.
Take advantage of the opportunity to provide a beautiful 404 Error Page for your visitors.
Page Size
12.2 KB (World Wide Web average is 320 Kb)
Two of the main reasons for an increase in page size are images and JavaScript files.
Page size affects the speed of your website; try to keep your page size below 300 Kb.
Tip: Use images with a small size and optimize their download with gzip.
Load Time
0.39 second(s) (31.69 kB/s)
Your website is fast. Well done.
Site speed is an important factor for ranking high in Google™ search results and enriching the user experience.
Resources: Check out Google™'s developer tutorials for tips on how to to make your website run faster.
Monitor your server and receive SMS alerts when your website is down with a web monitoring service.
Declared: Missing
Detected: English
You have not specified the language. Use the META Language Attribute to declare the intended language of your website.
Tips for multilingual websites:
- Define the language of the content in each page's HTML code.
- Specify the language code in the URL as well (e.g., "mywebsite.com/fr/mycontent.html").
Structured Data Markup
Google™ supports a number of rich snippets for content types, including: Reviews, People, Products, Businesses and Organizations, Recipes, Events , Videos, and Music. If your website covers one of these topics, then we suggest that you annotate it with Schema.org using microdata.
Domain Availability
|Domains (TLD)
|Expires in 4 months
|This domain is booked
|This domain is booked
|Expires in 5 months
|Available. Register it now!
Register the various extensions of your domain to protect your brand from cybersquatters.
Typo Availability
|Domains (TLD)
|Available. Register it now!
|Available. Register it now!
|Available. Register it now!
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|Available. Register it now!
Register the various typos of your domain to protect your brand from cybersquatters.
Email Privacy
Good, no email address has been found in plain text.
We don't recommend adding plain text/linked email addresses to your webpages, as malicious bots scrape the web in search of email addresses to spam. Instead, consider using a contact form.
Server IP
Server location: Scottsdale
Your server's IP address has little impact on your SEO. Nevertheless, try to host your website on a server which is geographically close to your visitors. Search engines take the geolocation of a server into account as well as the server speed.
Use DNSstuff for comprehensive reports on your server.
Get to know the technologies used for your website. Some codes might slow down your website. Ask your webmaster to take a look at this.
Speed Tips
Congratulations! Your website's speed is fully optimized.
Perfect, your server is using a caching method to speed up page display.
Perfect, your website doesn't use nested tables.
Perfect, your website does not use inline styles.
Perfect, your website has few CSS files.
Perfect, your website has few JavaScript files.
Too bad, your website does not take advantage of gzip.
Website speed has a huge impact on performance, affecting user experience, conversion rates and even rankings. By reducing page load-times, users are less likely to get distracted and the search engines are more likely to reward you by ranking your pages higher in the SERPs.
Conversion rates are far higher for websites that load faster than their slower competitors.
See Google's PageSpeed Insights Rules for more information on how to improve each of the elements in this section.
Web analytics let you measure visitor activity on your website. You should have at least one analytics tool installed, but It can also be good to install a second in order to cross-check the data.
Popular Analytics Tools Include: Google™ Analytics, Quantcast™, AdobeAnalytics™, Piwik™, chartbeat™, Clicky™, ClickTale™, etc.
W3C Validity
Invalid: 32 Errors, 6 Warning(s)
W3Cis a consortium that sets web standards.
Using valid markup that contains no errors is important because syntax errors can make your page difficult for search engines to index. Run the W3C validation service whenever changes are made to your website's code.
Use valid markup that contains no errors. Syntax errors can make your page difficult for search engines to index.
To find the detected errors, run the W3C validation service, or check Validator.nu to make sure you don't miss an error.
W3C is a consortium that sets web standards.
The Doctype is used to instruct web browsers about the document type being used. For example, what version of HTML the page is written in.
Declaring a doctype helps web browsers to render content correctly.
Great, language/character encoding is specified: UTF-8
Specifying language/character encoding can prevent problems with the rendering of special characters.
Directory Browsing
Great! Your server prevents visitors from browsing your directory by accessing it directly, this is excellent from a security standpoint.
Server Signature
Good, your server signature is off. This is excellent from a security standpoint.
SSL Secure
Warning! Your website is not SSL secured (HTTPS).
- Use a serious issuer to purchase your SSL certificate
- Redirect all of your HTTP pages to the HTTPS version of your website
- Use a Security Token Service (STS) in your headers
- Renew your SSL certificate every year, before it expires
- Make sure that all of your content (CSS, etc.) is linked to HTTPS
- Update your XML sitemap to ensure the URLs include HTTPS and update the robots.txt file to reference this version
- Register the HTTPS website in Google & Bing Webmaster Tools.
Crawl Errors
Backlinks Counter
Backlinks are links that point to your website from other websites. They are like letters of recommendation for your site.
Since this factor is crucial to SEO, you should have a strategy to improve the quantity and quality of backlinks.
Traffic Estimations
We use multiple tools to estimate web traffic, including Google™ Trends and Alexa™.
Nevertheless, your analytics will provide the most accurate traffic data.
Traffic Rank
3,472,070th most visited website in the World
A low rank means that your website gets a lot of visitors.
Your Alexa Rank is a good estimate of the worldwide traffic to your website, although it is not 100 percent accurate.
Reviewing the most visited websites by country can give you valuable insights.
Quantcast provides similar services.


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Music blog + Photography
Ahead of a concert series in London of new music exploring the American musical landscape, the musician selects seven works that provide fertile ground for his imagination
A chance hearing of a Courtney Barnett track led David Sillitoe to seek out her music. Soon her quirky, slacker style and witty songs had him hooked. So he hitched a ride to capture the band's progress
Michael Cragg: In the lead up to the release of her new album, Lady Gaga has left a trail of surreal online clues. From licking mannequins to clowns to circuit-board sofas, we bid to interpret what it means
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs might not like gig audiences taking pictures rather than concentrating on the music – but the results can be brilliant
Rescued by a textbook community campaign, the grand old Edwardian lady of Leeds is getting a name for arts and innovation, as well as swimming. John Baron dives in. Lizzie Coombes took the photographs
Rachel Obordo: Which records have the best designed sleeves? Let us know
Jon Dennis: Let us put you in the picture about this week's topic: we want your favourite songs that view life through a lens. Shoot …
Help us build a better picture of Glastonbury 2011 by adding your photos to our Flickr group and emailing us your festival videos
Alex Needham: The video for Run the World (Girls) recalls the work of South African photographer Pieter Hugo. But is it homage or appropriation?
Over the past couple of years, blog bands used have faded polaroids to create their own aesthetic. Now major label acts such as the Vaccines and Kings of Leon are copying their style
A sneak previw of six photographs from the Visions of Dylan exhibition by famous fans Bryan Adams, Bill Drummond, Kate Nash, Sam Taylor Wood, Sadie Frost and Gavin Turk.

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This two-step colourful Italian veggies side dish recipe is made easily on a stove top in just 20 minutes - perfect for Christmas celebrations!
Vibrant colors and lots of flavor make this recipe an entertaining shoo-in:
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Our very own Eduardo Moreno is a Momentum Fellow!/
Shh! It's not official until September 1, but we're pretty sure our very own Eduardo Moreno will be NWHF's Momentum Fellow.Read More
Shh! It's not official until September 1, but we're pretty sure our very own Eduardo Moreno will be NWHF's Momentum Fellow.Read More
After the exciting news about Eduardo Moreno's new role, Northwest Health Foundation (NWHF) is recruiting for an Executive Support & Operations Manager in our downtown Portland office.Read More
We want to hear from you about how we can encourage regular trainings that build civic engagement and advocacy for community members and organizations. We are asking you to submit your ideas by May 4, 2014. We'll select 1-2 of your ideas and work with you to make them reality.Read More
Too many children in Oregon are living with untreated, but entirely preventable,
cavities and tooth decay. There are also regions and communities of Oregon where
kids are disproportionately affected by poor dental health.
Yet we now know more than ever that healthy teeth help set the stage for lifelong health and opportunity.
Working with school districts, community-based nonprofits and healthcare organizations,
we can improve children's dental health.
The Oregon Community Foundation, Northwest Health Foundation, Kaiser Permanente
and other funding partners are pleased to offer two funding opportunities to do
just that. These funding opportunities represent one of Northwest Health Foundation's
Regional Improvements, a program in our Healthy Beginnings+Healthy Communities
Northwest Health Foundation is thrilled to announce that we have found a new Vice President of Finance: Jason Hilton.
Jason comes to us from Capital Pacific Bank where he currently serves as Senior Vice President, providing leadership and strategic support to their mission-related investment efforts.
Northwest Health Foundation will use all of the tools in our toolbox, including mission-related investing, to advance health for Oregon and Southwest Washington. Jason's experience in this field, along with his skills in asset management and finance, means that we've landed the perfect person for this job.
A native Oregonian, Jason grew up in Jacksonville and attended South Medford High School. He left the state for college, obtaining his bachelor's degree in business and finance, with a minor in economics, from the University of Montana. After college, Jason returned to Oregon to work for US Bancorp Securities, then US Bank, as a corporate credit analyst. In 1999, he joined a locally-owned financial services company where he rose to the position of Chief Operating Officer and eventually helped facilitate its sale to a publicly traded company. He joined Capital Pacific Bank in 2008 as a Portfolio Manager and Client Relations Officer, rising to his current position of Senior Vice President, overseeing a team that addresses troubled companies and bank-owned real estate. Outside of his career, Jason also co-founded a local nonprofit that focuses on aiding orphanages that rescue children from the slave trade.
Jason will start at NWHF on July 1st, succeeding NWHF's founding Vice President of Finance David Hooff who joined the Foundation in 1999 and is retiring after a 45-year career in financial management. Dave has been an irreplaceable part of NWHF's team and its legacy. He will be greatly missed!
A study commissioned by Oregon Health Funders Collaborative, including Northwest Health Foundation, and conducted by OHSU and the University of Washington, found that an average of almost 80 people a day visit emergency departments in Oregon for dental problems.
Why? Too many of our neighbors lack adequate dental care, including insurance and prevention. This means missed days from work, reduced income and, for many of our children, fewer hours in the classroom.
As Oregon Community Foundation—one of our Collaborative partners—put it, "we are focused on raising awareness of dental disease and investing in infrastructure to improve the system for all."
Read the report here.
The Oral Health Funders Collaborative was formed in 2011 to address one of Oregon's most pressing public health problems: dental disease. Ten of our region's top charitable foundations have pooled resources and coordinated efforts to raise awareness of oral disease and invest in research and infrastructure needed to improve oral health for residents of Oregon and Southwest Washington.
Members include The Ford Family Foundation, The Dental Foundation of Oregon, Grantmakers of Oregon and Southwest Washington, Kaiser Permanente, Northwest Health Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation, Providence Health & Services, Ronald McDonald House Charities® of Oregon and Southwest Washington, Samaritan Health Services, and Cambia Health Foundation. PacificSource Foundation for Health Improvement contributed resources to the study as well.
The Clinton Health Matters Initiative (CHMI), in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and Grantmakers In Health (GIH) for a day-long forum on May 8th, focused on addressing access and equity barriers to closing the gaps in childhood obesity in the United States.
NWHF President Nichole Maher joined a panel on Closing the Divide in Children's Health: A Place for Everyone at the Table. (She begins at around 21 minutes in.)
The forum will be livestreamed to help continue the conversation beyond conference walls. Be sure to join the conversation on social media with the hashtag #kidshealthmatters.
To view the entire forum and for more information, visit here.
We are excited to announce the 2014 Kaiser Permanente Community Fund Grant cycle!
The cycle will open on April 10. Organizations and/or collaboratives must submit their intent to apply by noon on May 14 and their Letter of Inquiry by noon on May 23. To learn more, visit the KPCF page and join us for one of four information sessions during the last two weeks of April.
Northwest Health Foundation is pleased to announce a funding opportunity to strengthen the capacity of communities of people with disabilities to self-organize, and to build relationships with organizations and communities for a broader conversation about disability, race/ethnicity and geography.
Northwest Health Foundation wants to:
We are excited to introduce you to our newest team members!
Jen Matheson and Michael Reyes Andrillon will help guide our grantmaking and community building.
We recorded their hellos this week. They'll be traveling throughout Oregon and SW Washington meeting our past, current and future partners. Meet them in this video, or in your community this Spring!
Northwest Health Foundation (NWHF) has initiated a search for the Vice President of Finance.
Due to the retirement of our long serving Vice President, David Hooff, we are seeking a seasoned finance and accounting leader and manager who will actively oversee our investment strategies and activities. The VP will administer the Foundation's $70 million corpus to advance, support and promote the health of the people of Oregon and Southwest Washington. Ideally, this key individual will possess strong generalist skills with the ability to assess, manage and grow people, systems, and strategies while working with a diverse staff and board. The VP will work with the Board's Finance Committee and President to direct the organization's investment portfolio as well as contribute to expanding external partnerships.
This excellent opportunity requires that the successful candidate align with NWHF's mission, core values and cultural vision. S/he will offer demonstrated staff leadership and mentoring; exceptional financial, accounting, and investment literacy; external relationship management experience; and personal traits such as uncompromising ethics, strong interpersonal skills, a sense of humor and a team spirit.
Download a profile of the position here.
Should you have personal interest or know of networking or referral sources, please contact:
Tyler Kendall | email@example.com | 503 936-0894 (direct)
Melissa Ulum | firstname.lastname@example.com | 503-643-0440 (direct) | 503-730-7615 (mobile)
We welcomed new colleagues, took on new challenges, and set a long- term direction for the foundation. We committed to deeper partnerships, true statewide & SW Washington service, and a nimble foundation focused on action. Below is a snapshot of our 2013 activities. None of these are possible without the work done by our many community partners committed to advancing a broad vision of community health across Oregon and SW Washington. Thank you!
American Leadership Forum of Oregon
The ARC of Benton County
Basic Rights Oregon
Center for Intercultural Organizing (CIO)
Chinook Indian Nation
City Club of Portland
City of Brookings
Committee for Safe and Successful Children
Consejo Hispano del Lower Columbia
Coos County Public Health
Forest Grove School District
The Jessie F. Richardson Foundation
Klamath Crisis Center
Klamath Youth Development Center
Leightman Maxey Foundation
The Lund Report
McKenzie River Gathering Foundation
Miracle Theatre Group
Muslim Educational Trust
Oregon Public Health Institute
Oregon Voice
Portland State University Foundation
Potlatch Foundation
Togo Community in Oregon
American Academy of Family Physicians - Oregon Chapter
American Heart Association
Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO)
Association of Oregon Community Mental Health Programs
CAUSA Oregon
Center for Intercultural Organizing (CIO)
Central City Concern
Children First for Oregon
Coalition of Community Health Clinics
Health Care for ALL - Oregon
Human Services Coalition of Oregon
Main Street Alliance of Oregon
NorthEast Oregon Network
Oregon Action
Oregon Center for Public Policy
Oregon Coalition of Local Health Officials
Oregon Developmental Disabilities Coalition
Oregon Foundation for Reproductive Health
Oregon Latino Health Coalition
Oregon Primary Care Association
Oregon Public Health Association
Oregon Rural Health Association
Oregon School-Based Health Care Network
Oregon State Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG)
Portland Youth and Elders Council
Sisters of the Road
The Next Door Inc.
The-TREE Institute
Tobacco-Free Coalition of Oregon
Urban League of Portland
We Can Do Better
Albina Ministerial Alliance
Catholic Community Services of the Mid-Willamette and Central Coast
Centro Cultural of Washington County
Coalition of Communities of Color
Colin McCormack
Cowlitz County Community Network
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon
Hacienda Community Development Corporation
Incight Company
Latino Business Alliance
Latino Network
LGBTQ Community Center Fund
Oregon Latino Health Coalition
Oregon Oral Health Coalition
Pathfinders of Oregon
REACH Community Development, Inc.
Urban League of Portland
Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO)
Center for Intercultural Organizing (CIO)
Coalition of Communities of Color
Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland
Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization (IRCO)
Latino Network
Native American Youth and Family Center
Oregon Latino Health Coalition
Oregon Voice
Upstream Public Health
Urban League of Portland
All Hands Raised
Asian Health and Service Center
"Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce of Oregon and Southwest
Washington (APACC)"
Basic Rights Education Fund
Bay Area Hospital
Cascade Pacific Resource Conservation & Development
Catholic Community Services of the Mid-Willamette and Central Coast
CAUSA Oregon
Center for Women, Politics & Policy, Portland State University
City of Portland Bureau of Transportation
City of Vancouver
CoActive Connections
Coalition of Community Health Clinics
"Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Portland Alumae Chapter"
DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon
Familias en Accion
Family Access Network Foundation
Family Building Blocks
Financial Beginnings
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A photograph, made with film, is a sample of the real world? What a bizarre notion!
Originally Posted by Maris
Part of the problem is that the images in question are not actually photographs by the standards of APUG, I think. Making pictures out of electronic files isn't photography and the resultant pictures don't have the special relationship real photographs have to subject matter.
People get fooled by calling them photographs instead of pictures. Pictures that emerge from a digital environment have the same relationship to subject matter as paintings and drawings. And no one, even the most naive viewer, expects paintings and drawings to be samples of the real world.
Hurrell's images were heavily retouched. It was part of the art of photography.
I have some old retouching manuals that describe techniques that date to the era of glass plate negs, and the image alteration that could be done by someone who knew how to draw was quite drastic. One has a sample image where the subject's pockmarks and wrinkles are smoothed over, a cigarette is removed from his mouth, and an unattractively pointing finger is folded into the palm of his hand. Ever see a 19th-century photograph of a living child with sharp hands? Those hands were most likely drawn on the neg with pencil and knife. There was a very good example on Mike Johnston's blog a while back of an early 20th-century sports photo showing a sharp image of someone catching a football--all the lines are pencil work.
Certainly, thanks to Photoshop, one no longer has to go to art school to achieve these effects, but the effects for the most part aren't new.
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Originally Posted by cliveh
Is this not the same as Photoshop?
Well....the end result is "retouched" though.
From the book "Hollywood Portraits Classic shots and how to make them", they explain pretty well how specialists would sit with strong magnifying glasses, drawing and scraping on the negatives to alter reality, that be, placing fake shadows behind subjects, altering backgrounds, altering reflections, smoothing skin etc.
You can read a little from the book for free here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/9197694/Ho...w-to-make-them (page 9)
In all my editing on the digi side of things (and I often do a lot), I think the liquify-tool is the most radical and powerful tool, this tool has no analogue equivalent as far as i know. (This is the tool you use in high-fashion stuff to create those anorectic and unrealistic looking photos of models). Pixel pushing I call it, hard to do on a negative
And I am not sure if men alone are to blame for the hysteria concerning skinny models; After a few years of hearing how women talk about other women, I am sure that a lot of the blame for body-hysteria can be blamed on womens endless effort to out-beautify their friends and rivals.
Most (grown) men I know, actually appreciate a normal woman with a normal shape, not sports-illlustrated babes or skinny fashion models, while women are quick to point out a fat bum, love handles and sagging boobs on their "sisters" ^^
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Originally Posted by CGW
Are you serious? They were posed, probably the most obvious form of manipulation.
Well I think you're making this about an entirely different subject. Sure, we compose and that does have the essence of 'pose' in it- we select what we want to have in the photogrpah and thereby influence how the scene is perceived. fine.
But manipulation of the sort described in the article is at a very different level.
Consider someone with a big nose. By traditional means, you can: pick focal length to manipulate the nose/ears ratio; play with posing to de-emphasize it; use light to arrange the fill and shadows favourably; use film/dev/grade etc to select favourable contrast. What about actually making the nose smaller? To do that by traditional means, you'd have to resort to a paper neg and actually redraw the nose. But that is a very limited technique... imagine trying to do it on a colour shot and doing it quickly enough to have it on the cover of some tabloid later the same day. That is where things are now... we've seen missiles cloned into photographs, we've seen Prime Minister's bellies photosurgically improved, we've seen manga-like women adorning magazine covers and billboards, where does it end?!
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Love this quote by Arnold Newman: "Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world." and I find that it fits this discussion wonderfully
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A photograph, made with film, is a sample of the real world? What a bizarre notion!
Actually yes. Do the sums. A 8x10 sheet of 100 ISO film gets about 10 ^ -23 Kilograms heavier at the moment of exposure. All that extra mass came from the subject matter and nowhere else. That's why camera are made light-tight.
Photography, the word itself, invented and defined by its author Sir John.F.W.Herschel, 14 March 1839 at the Royal Society, Somerset House, London. Quote "...Photography or the application of the Chemical rays of light to the purpose of pictorial representation,..". unquote.
Gosh I love physics humour.
Well I think you're making this about an entirely different subject. Sure, we compose and that does have the essence of 'pose' in it- we select what we want to have in the photogrpah and thereby influence how the scene is perceived. fine.
But manipulation of the sort described in the article is at a very different level
Manipulation to alter perception is, well, still manipulation. It's really not a matter of degree or kind. Composing, cropping, and posing are all manipulation. What about the elephant that Roger Fenton cropped out of his famous Crimea shots of the Valley of the Shadow of Death? Could have been one there, right? Still think you're also being willfully naive about the degree of manipulation in pre-Adobe photography.
Originally Posted by Maris
Actually yes. Do the sums. A 8x10 sheet of 100 ISO film gets about 10 ^ -23 Kilograms heavier at the moment of exposure. All that extra mass came from the subject matter and nowhere else. That's why camera are made light-tight.
Can you reveal the source of this calculated evidence?
Originally Posted by cliveh
Can you reveal the source of this calculated evidence?
I'm the source. The calculation is not particularly difficult although it requires some knowledge of basic physics. The number is of an "order of magnitude" accuracy because it involves recasting photometric quantities into energy units and assumes some values for a "typical" film. Annoyingly, I can't find a reference to anyone else having done the sums. I'd appreciate it if you or someone else on APUG would run the numbers and check my answer.


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here in mass the gun must meet the ag rules as of 1998. it stinks because if it not on the list you can not own it.
This is a discussion on Worst gun state poll within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; In your opinion which is the absolute worst anti-gun state for legal gun owners in the United States? My vote is Illinois becasue of the ...
In your opinion which is the absolute worst anti-gun state for legal gun owners in the United States?
My vote is Illinois becasue of the FOID card and non-CCW
here in mass the gun must meet the ag rules as of 1998. it stinks because if it not on the list you can not own it.
Right now D.C. has the worst. You can't have a handgun unless it was licensed prior to 1976. All long guns must be locked or disabled. In addition to the fact you can't even take the firearm from one room to another room in your own house!
Hopefully, that will be corrected by SCOTUS this spring.......
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I know it's a technically, but it's got to be Jersey...... Because DC ISN'T a state!!
Also, isn't Hawaii pretty bad?
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I'm going to say IL, simply because a very small part of the state (Chicago) controls the rest of the very blue collar/ agri state. I guess the same could be said about WI, but I think IL has worse laws.
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Oh yeah, I forgot about Jersey... but then again I think most people want to forget about Jersey.
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i voted other and picked Hawaii.
because even though they are supposed to be a shall issue state, i think they have issued about 2 CHLs in the last 10 years and one of them was to the govenors daughter in law or some such notable. Hawaii is really an awful state for gun owners, they make it as hard as possible on honest citizens to own guns.
look up their gun laws sometime.
maybe someone from Hawaii will post.i know ILL. is terrible too but they at least don't claim to be a shall issue state.
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Yea, I work in Jersey and it sucks not being able to carry there.
I heard a rumor that even an off duty jersey cop can't carry. Anyone know if it's true?
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Could you provide ThreadConfig that you were using for such processor?
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cpuset has a different advantage in that it makes it possible for the OS to move the thread around a bit. This can be advantageous if the CPUs are used for other purposes as well (e.g. interrupt, other programs). It can also be helpful if we want to use more than one thread per CPU.
So in the example 18,19,42,43 are used for all IO threads (can be a few of those), for the main thread, the rep thread and the watchdog thread (also includes a few TCP connect threads).
There is a balance between giving all responsibility to the OS (no binding at all) and keeping all responsibility to yourself (using cpubind) where cpuset can be an interesting way of meeting this balance.
What is appropriate for your workload depends on the need of monitoring, other applications running on the same machine.
In many cases cpuset and cpubind gives very similar results but cpuset can make the behaviour more reliable when other applications cause CPU overload.Mikael Ronstromhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14455177.post-24111595444228206702015-05-07T06:14:06.246+02:002015-05-07T06:14:06.246+02:00Hi Mikael, where is the benefit of configuring 12...Hi Mikael,

where is the benefit of configuring 12 thraeds over a set of 12 CPUs vs. binding theses 12 thraeds to the 12 CPUs?

In your example, you are proposing this for tc, send and rcv:
ThreadConfig="ldm={count=12,cpubind=0-11},tc={count=4,cpuset=12-17,36-41},send={count=4,cpuset=12-17,36-41},recv={count=4,cpuset=12-17,36-41},io={cpuset=18-19,42-43},main={count=1,cpuset=18-19,42-43},rep={count=1,cpuset=18-19,42-43},wd={cpuset=18-19,42-43}"

Wouldn't binding make more sense here, as I'd be able to monitor, which thraed loads the system?

ThreadConfig="ldm={count=12,cpubind=0-11},tc={count=4,cpubind=12,13,14,15},send={count=4,cpubind=16,17,36,37},recv={count=4,cpubind=38,39,40,41},io={cpuset=18-19,42-43},main={count=1,cpuset=18-19,42-43},rep={count=1,cpuset=18-19,42-43},wd={cpuset=18-19,42-43}"

Additionally, we would not take the disadvantage from restarting a thraed on a new CPU, after OS might have moved it...

Thanks StefanStefan firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14455177.post-1955268270127709532015-04-13T08:41:10.853+02:002015-04-13T08:41:10.853+02:00Not sure what 11Cr records means. Involving 10M i...Not sure what 11Cr records means.

Involving 10M inserts/updates in one and the same transaction isn't such a good idea in any DBMS. It means that you have to keep state for all those 10M records somewhere, in the case of MySQL Cluster transaction state is kept in memory for efficiency, so you'll need to configure with many GBs of transaction state.Mikael Ronstromhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14455177.post-69576238813205198252015-04-13T07:23:57.739+02:002015-04-13T07:23:57.739+02:00Hi Mikael I have some queries regarding bulk inse...Hi Mikael

I have some queries regarding bulk insertion and updation of records. I have tables which will contain around 11Cr records (which is a master table) and details table wchi will contain three times of master table. And my major operations included insertion/updation of around 8-10 million data in one transaction and reading this much of data for creating reports.
Can you please suggest what is the best solution for this? Can mysql clustering resolve my firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14455177.post-61836508895002115832015-04-01T22:28:48.137+02:002015-04-01T22:28:48.137+02:00To execute the benchmark I used the benchmark scri...To execute the benchmark I used the benchmark scripts available at:

https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/benchmarks.html

In the dbt2 tarball you will find the autobench.conf file which was used to generate the config file.

Here is the ThreadConfig part of it:
ldm={count=20,cpubind=0-4,14-18,28-32,42-46},tc={count=12,cpubind=8-10,22-24,36-38,50-52},send={count=2,cpubind=7,11,12,25},recv={count=8,cpubind=6,13,19,27,34,41,47,55},main={count=1,cpuset=26},rep={count=1,cpuset=26},io={count=1,cpuset=26}

So I run with HT enabled, since I don't have root access I couldn't touch isolcpus and IRQBALANCE_BANNED_CPUS. To work around this I noticed which CPUs were used for interrupts and configured the data nodes and API nodes to not use these CPUs.

In the case above I actually use HT also for LDM threads, but to not use HT above I could simply
decrease the number of LDM threads to 10 and
use the CPUs 0-4 and 14-18. This means that no activity is placed on CPUs 28-32 and 42-46, so
effectively the LDMs will run as if they were running non-HT. The OS obviously still have access to those CPUs, but has no work to place there.
Mikael Ronstromhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14455177.post-52160045708257893832015-04-01T22:18:31.898+02:002015-04-01T22:18:31.898+02:00What wasn't obviously 100% clear in the post a...What wasn't obviously 100% clear in the post about 200M reads per second is that each server can have multiple API nodes. One API node is one socket connection to the cluster. One API program can have multiple API nodes connected to the cluster. So one server with 28 cores can execute at least 5-10M reads per second.

Also in this benchmark the Intel NUC only handled the data node, so the benchmark driver was executed on a high-end laptop with 4 cores with 8 CPU threads.

So the API also requires a fair amount of CPU power.Mikael Ronstromhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14455177.post-79535482727741006332015-04-01T21:52:19.784+02:002015-04-01T21:52:19.784+02:00Super Mikael! I would love a peek at the NDBD_DEF...Super Mikael!

I would love a peek at the NDBD_DEFAULT section of the config.ini file for these tests. Or at least the ThreadConfig setting that supported this configuration:
 12 LDM threads, non-HT
 12 TC threads, HT
 2 send threads, non-HT
 8 receive threads, HT

I assume you enabled HT system-wide (in BIOS), prevented the OS from using a group of PUs (via isolcpus, IRQBALANCE_BANNED_CPUS, or both), and configured ThreadConfig in a particular way. Did you simply leave the 2nd PU of each HT group unbound for all "non-HT" threads?Sean Davidsonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14455177.post-90112720188345294062015-04-01T21:07:25.618+02:002015-04-01T21:07:25.618+02:00It's surprising that MySQL Cluster can do 589k...It's surprising that MySQL Cluster can do 589k reads per second on a dual core i5 machine

In a previous post (http://mikaelronstrom.blogspot.com/2015/03/200m-reads-per-second-in-mysql-cluster.html) you wrote "now each API node can process more than
1M reads per second" - but that was on a dual-socket server with 28 cores.

If MySQL Cluster can do 589k reads per second on a tiny dual core machine why can it only do 1M reads per second on a much more powerful 28 core server? Where's the bottleneck in the latter email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14455177.post-565837220653982472015-03-21T01:06:41.071+01:002015-03-21T01:06:41.071+01:00I'll look into it, I thought there was a simil...I'll look into it, I thought there was a similar parameter for that purpose, but I'll come back to it on Monday, if not it's a good idea to add one.Mikael Ronstromhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14455177.post-44569483061289135362015-03-21T00:04:44.664+01:002015-03-21T00:04:44.664+01:00Much appreciated... Makes perfect sense now that I...Much appreciated... Makes perfect sense now that I know what it's trying to accomplish underneath it all.

I ended up lowering my MaxDiskWriteSpeed (which is cake with how fast the restarts are now).

The only reason I cranked it up as high as I did was for backup speed, but I guess that really doesn't matter too much. Would be nice if there was a separate option like MaxDiskWriteSpeedBackup.digitalpointhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14455177.post-76046543554102947772015-03-21T00:01:31.519+01:002015-03-21T00:01:31.519+01:00Restarting more than 1 node at a time freaks me ou...Restarting more than 1 node at a time freaks me out a bit... I know it's strictly psychological, but still... hahdigitalpointhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14455177.post-73016290737877249682015-03-20T09:52:34.424+01:002015-03-20T09:52:34.424+01:00The comment about MaxDiskWriteSpeed requires a len...The comment about MaxDiskWriteSpeed requires a lengthy reply which I will respond to in a new blog rather. I was actually planning to write this blog anyways. So will arrive a new blog on the topic later today.

If you do an upgrade you can actually also upgrade more than 1 node at a time. Many phases (but not all) are running in parallel. So oftentimes people run upgrades of 8 nodes by restarting 4 nodes (1 node per node group) simultaneously. So this means that you can probably slice your upgrade time even down to 1 hour.Mikael Ronstromhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14455177.post-13355000083680009672015-03-20T04:53:55.356+01:002015-03-20T04:53:55.356+01:00Just a followup... did a rolling restart today for...Just a followup... did a rolling restart today for the first time with everything already on 7.4. 60GB nodes restarting in about 20 minutes now. A massive improvement to be able to do all 8 nodes in 2.5 hours, vs. closer to 8 hours total under 7.3.

Now I just have to figure out why the data nodes are using so much disk i/o. No matter what's going on, they will use 100% of MaxDiskWriteSpeed. Maybe I'm just not understanding what it's intended for, but seems strange that if you set it to 400MB, ndbd uses 400MB constantly... set it to 20MB stuff still runs fine, but it only does 20MB disk i/o. What is it doing that it has to saturate whatever disk i/o is allowed? loldigitalpointhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14455177.post-80373033916641864352015-03-07T02:21:44.673+01:002015-03-07T02:21:44.673+01:00Good catch, they can definitely be changed as part...Good catch, they can definitely be changed as part of node restart, so no need to shut down the cluster for this, I will post a bug report about the docs for this.

Also for the brave :) I added some undocumented DUMP codes to update those even in a live node
as part of the 7.4 development.

Read in Backup::execDUMP_STATE_ORD on the how to. These codes are mostly intended as a last resort, we haven't developed a proper interface yet to changing these kind of things online. Can only be used against 7.4 nodes, will be ignored by 7.3 nodes.
Mikael Ronstromhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14455177.post-22413860817932438792015-03-06T23:39:33.742+01:002015-03-06T23:39:33.742+01:00Just noticed the new parameters require a full clu...Just noticed the new parameters require a full cluster shutdown/restart...

MinDiskWriteSpeed
MaxDiskWriteSpeed
MaxDiskWriteSpeedOtherNodeRestart
MaxDiskWriteSpeedOwnRestart

"System restart: The cluster must be shut down completely, then restarted, to effect a change in this parameter."

I guess they stay at default for us. :)digitalpointhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14455177.post-8475356635768295752015-03-06T23:16:08.255+01:002015-03-06T23:16:08.255+01:00Checkpoint parameters are important to set properl...Checkpoint parameters are important to set properly.
There are now 4 ones to consider:
MinDiskWriteSpeed
MaxDiskWriteSpeed
MaxDiskWriteSpeedOtherNodeRestart
MaxDiskWriteSpeedOwnRestart

The old parameter
DiskCheckpointSpeed is deprecated in 7.4.

The speed in normal operation goes between MinDiskWriteSpeed and MaxDiskWriteSpeed and
in a node restart all nodes speed up to at most
MaxDiskWriteSpeedOtherNodeRestart whereas the starting node can go all the way up to MaxDiskWriteSpeedOwnRestart.

Most of the speedups that makes one jump a few wait states requires that the master node (the oldest node) is on 7.4. So this won't be the case in a rolling upgrade from 7.3 to 7.4. So hopefully the next one should be faster, but still important to set the config parameter above to appropriate numbers.Mikael Ronstromhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14455177.post-10620105382389559992015-03-06T20:20:02.853+01:002015-03-06T20:20:02.853+01:00Looking forward to the blog entry about checkpoint...Looking forward to the blog entry about checkpoint speed config parameters.

Side note - for me, 60GB data nodes were taking about 50 minutes to restart under 7.3. Under 7.4, the first one is up to 70 minutes. Maybe a rolling restart from 7.3 to 7.4 is slower (hopefully that's what it is)? {shrug}digitalpointhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14455177.post-48247788672412605232015-03-04T23:26:19.193+01:002015-03-04T23:26:19.193+01:00No information is available during a cluster resta...No information is available during a cluster restart for the reason you mentioned. However during a node restart information about ongoing node restarts is available.Mikael Ronstromhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14455177.post-75824917116992338012015-03-04T23:14:14.999+01:002015-03-04T23:14:14.999+01:00Is any of the info available when starting up an e...Is any of the info available when starting up an entire cluster through the ndbapi? The mysql api nodes won't be able to connect until the cluster is started.Kadaanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14455177.post-82975070831489891792015-03-03T15:07:33.144+01:002015-03-03T15:07:33.144+01:00Good job! Performance is amazing.Good job!

Performance is amazing.Shahryarhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-14455177.post-31324478267656516782014-07-26T06:51:45.752+02:002014-07-26T06:51:45.752+02:00Hello Mikael, I am working with MySQL Query Cache ...Hello Mikael, I am working with MySQL Query Cache module. I found that the memory blocks are connected via doubly linked list and also that there are two doubly LLs- queries and tables. I request you to kindly explain me the architecture involved as I could not find any articles regarding that.
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On Feb. 8, "Macmillan became the fifth and final publisher to settle with the government," Reuters reports. Justice sued Apple and the publishers over the "agency model" for e-book pricing that the tech giant had championed in a bid to blunt Amazon's market dominance.
Though Justice is seeking a ruling that Apple violated antitrust law, not monetary damages, some legal experts think money might motivate Apple, too, to settle.
That's because of a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of consumers and a similar case brought by the attorneys general of dozens of states, which seek unspecified monetary damages from Apple. Those plaintiffs could use an Apple loss in the Justice case as evidence in their cases — and if they win, they could recover three times whatever amount their litigation establishes for actual damages.
An Apple victory at trial, however, could set an antitrust-law precedent that could help it in various media-content ventures.
Stay tuned.
Alan Wallace is a Trib Total Media editorial page writer (412-320-7983 or email@example.com).
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