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Frog eye change described in Journal of Experiment Biology (JEB), 21 April 2016, doi: 10.1242/jeb.141127. When animals and people move, their eyes have to compensate for the movement in order to keep a steady view of the world. Without this the world would appear to be constantly moving like a bad case of "camera shake". This compensation is achieved by brain circuits that monitor the control signals from the nervous system to the muscles and move the eyes in a complementary way.
When tadpoles metamorphose into frogs their method of swimming changes from a fish-like wriggle to a thrust forward by the movement of their back legs. This means the compensatory eye movements have to change in order to keep their gaze steady. When they swim like a fish their eyes swivel from one side to the other with the body movement. This is controlled by brain circuits that monitor the nervous system control of the body muscles. When a frog swims the eyes have to move in and out, opposite to one another, like crossing and uncrossing the eyes, to compensate for the forward thrusting movement of the back legs.
Scientists at University of Bordeaux, France, and Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany monitored the brain function and muscle movement of tadpoles undergoing metamorphosis into frogs. They found the eye control signals gradually changed from the swivelling to the crossing movement as brain circuits that control the movement became less attuned to the movement of the body muscles and more attuned to the control of the developing leg muscles. During metamorphosis the eyes could both swivel and cross, so that the animals experienced a seamless change from one type of movement to another.\
Editorial Comment: All vertebrates, including we humans, have a system of complementary eye movements to keep our gaze steady. You can know how well it works because this editor is working on the ENEWS in a rocking train on the way to Scotland. You can also compare your experience of seeing the world when you walk and move, compared with the results you get when you walk holding a video camera, unless you have been trained to compensate for your movement while holding a camera.
Many modern digital cameras include a device that can compensate for some movement when the camera is held in your hands, rather than on a tripod. The electronic circuit that does this required creative design and engineering. The brain circuits that control eye movements are far more sophisticated and process much more information than a camera does.
To have such circuits set up so they can change from one form of movement to another during frog metamorphosis, is a reminder that the metamorphosis of amphibians requires inbuilt planning and coordination. The drastic transformation involved in changing a tadpole into a frog involves far more than just growing legs and lungs and losing a tail and gills. The whole organism must be changed in a co-ordinated way, and that involves plan and purpose, not chance evolution.
Keeping the brain circuits functioning in line with the muscle changes requires clever re-programming of its brain. If the metamorphosing frog was unable to control its eye movements in a way suitable for all stages of the process it would be unable to swim properly, or move onto land, and would be vulnerable to predators in an evolutionary struggle for existence.
In fact, the whole process of metamorphosis, with its drastic changes in body form and function makes no sense unless the whole life cycle was built into the organism from the start. A tadpole can survive quite well but cannot reproduce, but why change its body structure so radically in order to reproduce, unless it was already designed to do so by the Creator who designed the whole life cycle. (Ref. amphibians, vision, locomotion)
Evidence News vol. 16, No.8
4 May 2016
Creation Research Australia
Chameleon tongue movement quantified, according to a report in BBC News and Mail Online 20 April 2016, and Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A, doi:10.1098/rspa.2016.0030, 20 April 2016. The chameleon is able to rapidly shoot out its tongue by unravelling like a telescope to twice the length of the whole animal. The tongue has bone at its core surrounded by a multi-layered structure of fibrous and elastic tissue, surrounded by muscle that activates the movement.
A group of British mathematicians and engineers have come up with a mathematical model of how the movement works, based on a series of observations and experiments. The tongue movement involves the build-up of energy followed by quick release, which the scientists described as "an extreme example of quick energy release in the animal kingdom". The mathematical model of how the energy is built up and released as a forceful projecting movement, involved more than 20 equations, and "three distinct coupled subsystems: the energetics of the intralingual sheaths, the mechanics of the activating accelerator muscle, and the dynamics of tongue extension".
Derek Moulton, associate professor of mathematical biology at Oxford University explained to the BBC: "The equations are modelling the mechanics of these different layers, and the interactions of these different layers. The balance of forces and the energy contained in these different layers when the muscle - this outermost layer - contracts, which is what sets the whole thing in motion". The model could be used in the design of elastic components in robotics. But Moulton told Mail Online, "Above all, our research is curiosity driven and our goal in this instance was to understand a fascinating phenomenon".
Editorial Comment: A mathematical model involving over 20 equations in three distinct linked subsystems is a lot of information. It is absurd to think that mindless random processes came up with such a sophisticated system – and that just describes the animal's tongue. Such a tongue would be of no use unless it was controlled by a brain, which has to be able in advance to gather, store and analyse 3D information about the animal's surroundings before it sets off the tongue's movement.
Information only comes from a mind, and the ability to recognise it and organise it also requires a mind.
The motivation of these scientists is a reminder that the desire to understand the "fascinating phenomena" that we see in the world around us is based on the mandate we were given by our Creator to rule over the living world. To do this wisely we need to study it and understand how it works. This involves the creativity needed to design experiments, and the ability to communicate with one another as part of a research team.
We have these creative abilities because we are made in the image of the Creator God. This will be further affirmed when engineers put the mathematical tongue model to work in robot design. Studying biological systems from an engineering, i.e. creation based point of view, is leading to many brilliant inventions.
Listen to mathematician and engineer, Professor Andy McIntosh explain how he was inspired to build an award winning spray system based on the bombardier beetle, and how the evolutionary biologists rejected his offer of joining him in the project. DVD available from the Creation Research webshop.
Evidence News vol. 16, No.8
4 May 2016
Creation Research Australia
Peer Review "troubled from the start" according to an article in Nature, vol. 352, p306, 21 April 2016. One of the ways evolutionary scientists dismiss evidence for creation is to claim that 'Creation Research' is not published in peer reviewed science journals. Therefore, they claim, our work is not subject to the inherent self-correcting mechanisms of real science. This issue came up in the recent Creation Evolution debate in Norwich UK.
However, Harvard University historian Alex Csiszar states the current system of refereeing and peer review is relatively new and fundamentally flawed. Csiszar wrote: "It was only near the turn of the twentieth century that the idea began to take hold that editors and referees, taken as one large machinery of judgement, ought to ensure the integrity of the scientific literature as a whole. As this idea gained ground, many began to worry that the system itself might be intrinsically flawed, a force that impeded creative science and which ought to be abolished sort of universal gatekeeper with a duty to science." It was not until the 1960's that "refereeing emerged as a symbol of objective judgement and consensus in science". However, this gatekeeping is still not universally accepted by all, and there are websites for publishing unreviewed papers, e.g. arXiv.org, which started life as an e-mail/FTP server in 1991, and continues as a centre for discussions about the end of peer-reviewing in journals.
Editorial Comment: The fundamental flaw in the system is that if the gatekeepers already believe a lie they will keep out anyone who wants to expose that lie and tell the truth. Reviewing and critiquing scientific reports is a good and useful process that can stimulate scientific research and discussion, but it can and does degenerate easily into a means of closing down any discussion of a topic that has been deemed as unacceptable by the ruling elite.
A classic example is when AAAS, who publish the journal Science, formally resolved to prevent the idea of intelligent design from being taught in schools and universities. . See our report "New Battle on Peer Review" here. Another less formal example is the forced retraction of a paper on the bio mechanics of the human hand that used the word "creator", after the journal who published it was subjected to a barrage of insults from atheists outraged by even the admission of the word creation. See "Creator has to go!" here.
The idea of a "duty to science" elevates science to the status of an authority that human beings are accountable to, i.e. a god. However, science is merely a human activity, and is only as good as the people doing it. Scientists are subject to all the failings and foibles of human nature, and the history of science is littered with errors, ranging from honest mistakes and ignorance, through exaggerations and omissions, to deliberate frauds. Good science will only flourish in a society that has a clear moral compass from the true God who has defined right and wrong, and has the power and authority to judge. When scientific research is carried out in a society that works on a Darwinian struggle for power and status, rather than God fearing honesty and cooperation, science becomes corrupted, just like any other human activity. (Ref. history, society, behaviour, censorship)
Evidence News vol. 16, No.8
4 May 2016
Creation Research Australia
Lobsters and Fish Inspire Eyes, according to reports in ScienceDaily 15 April 2016 and PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1517953113. Anyone who has tried to take a photo or use a surveillance camera at night is frustrated by the limitations of man-made optical devices for seeing in low light conditions. Most attempts to overcome these limitations involve electronically enhancing the captured images. Scientists and engineers at University of Wisconsin-Madison have built a camera capable of vision in very low light. According to ScienceDaily, "They found inspiration for the strategy from two aquatic animals that evolved different strategies to survive and see in murky waters".
The scientists wrote in their report: "In pursuit of a groundbreaking optical approach to photosensitivity enhancement, we look to nature for inspiration". Their inspiration came from elephantnose fish and lobsters. The elephantnose fish has a retina composed of thousands of tiny crystal cups that collect and intensify light. Inspired by this structure, the UW-Madison researchers constructed an array of thousands of tiny parabolic mirrors, which they then arranged across the surface of a uniform hemispherical dome. This arrangement was inspired by the structure of lobster eyes. Lobster eyes have a structure known as superposition compound eyes, which concentrates incoming light to individual spots.
The researchers combined the optics of these two very different creatures which live in low light habitats, but are able to see well. They called their device a "bioinspired all-optical photosensitivity enhancer".
Having demonstrated that their device works in very low light conditions the UW-Madison engineers are working on refining the manufacture of the device which could be used in many low-light situations, from keyhole surgery to searching for hidden bombs. Hongrui Jiang, professor of electrical and computer and biomedical engineering at UW-Madison explained: "It has always been very hard to make artificial superposition compound eyes because the curvature and alignment need to be absolutely perfect. Even the slightest misalignment can throw off the entire system".
Editorial Comment: Optical engineering involves some of the most precision engineering that humans have come up with, but every different optical device we have come up with is found in the living world. Therefore, studying the eyes of living creatures such as lobsters and fish is a useful and intelligent thing to do in order to learn about optical devices. However, it is not intelligent to then give the credit to mindless "nature" or to 'random evolution'. To do this is to ascribe plan, purpose and design to the mindlessness of matter and energy.
Simply being in a dark murky environment will never make precisely aligned structures needed for low-light eyes to function. Natural selection cannot achieve precision engineering. It simply eliminates creatures with less precise eyes from such an environment.
We would also caution anyone using this and other examples of bio-inspiration as evidence for "intelligent design" unless you are prepared to deal with the issue of who is the designer. Design without a designer is just as much a position of deliberate ignorance as pretending there is no evidence for creative design, then taking inspiration from the living world to create precision devices such as the low-light optics described here. (Ref. engineering, design, optic, ichthyology, crustaceans)
Evidence News vol. 16, No.8
4 May 2016
Creation Research Australia
"I have nothing against macroevolution. I don't really have a dog in this fight, except from a scientific perspective. It doesn't matter to me whether evolution is false or true. My god can do it either way"
Cornelius Hunter, Fellow of Centre for Science & Culture, at the Discovery Institute
In Q&A session following debate entitled "Creation vs. Evolution: Is Evolution Compelling?" 11 May 2016.
Editorial Comment: Be careful out there with those who use the word "creation", when they don't mean what Genesis means at all. The realm of academics is full of them in science and in theologians, and they will lead you away from the truth which is alone found in Jesus Christ as Creator and Saviour.
Evidence News vol. 16, No.8
4 May 2016
Creation Research Australia


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'Ghost Bike' Marks Spot Where Raleigh Bicyclist Hit
Ghost Bike
Posted: Apr. 28 7:02 p.m.
Raleigh, N.C. A memorial known as a "ghost bike" now marks the spot where a Raleigh woman was struck by a vehicle last week.
Nancy Antoine Leidy, 60, died April 23, hours after she was struck by a pickup truck, driven by Brian Anthony Reid, near the intersection of Nazareth Street and Crusader Drive.
Ghost bikes are painted white and placed at sites across the United States where a bicyclist has been hit or killed by a driver to remind motorists to share the road.
Reid, 21, faces one count each of felony death by motor vehicle, driving while impaired, felony assault by motor vehicle and failure to reduce speed.
Police said he had been celebrating his 21st birthday at the time of the crash.

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Bullock v. Railroad Commission of Florida
Annotate this Case
- Syllabus
- Case
U.S. Supreme Court
Bullock v. Railroad Commission of Florida, 254 U.S. 513 (1921)
Bullock v. Railroad Commission of Florida
No. 262
Argued December 6, 7, 1920
Decided January 17, 1921
1. The judgment of the state supreme court was reviewable in this case by certiorari, and not by writ of error. P. 254 U. S. 518.
2. Where a judgment of a state supreme court prohibiting proceedings in a lower court was essentially based on the denial of a substantive right claimed by a party, this Court is not precluded from reviewing, on a constitutional ground, by the fact that the judgment was in terms based on a denial of the prohibited court's jurisdiction. P. 254 U. S. 520.
3. Apart from statute or express contract, those who invest in a railroad, though built under a charter and the eminent domain power received from the state, are not bound to go on operating at a loss if there is no reasonable prospect of future profit, and their right to stop does not depend upon the consent of the state. P. 254 U. S. 520.
4. Where a state supreme court prohibited a lower court, in foreclosing a railroad, from authorizing and confirming a sale with liberty to the purchaser to dismantle the railroad, basing its decision upon the ground that the state was not a party and that the dismantling could not be so authorized without the state's consent, held that the prohibition could not affect the constitutional rights of the mortgagor, since the right to dismantle, as against the state, could not be conferred by a foreclosure decree in the state's absence, and would pass to the purchaser, if it existed, whether the decree so provided or not. P. 254 U. S. 521.
5. Whether a state is bound by a foreclosure proceeding to which it voluntarily makes itself a party before final decree is a local question the decision of which this Court will not review in a case from a state court. P. 254 U. S. 522.
82 So. 866 affirmed.
The case is stated in the opinion.
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To make A4 happy
Grew up with arctic genes in Uppsala, Sweden, but later on moving down to Lund/Malmö to study. Moved to Budapest in 2011 tyo do a postdoc. Since feb 2015, I live in Florence, doing another postdoc. No idea where to go to after that, but I just love the idea to travel around various cities/unis and work.
Spent a year in Wollongong, Australia, in 88-89 and did some complementary backpacking around the area in 1992 and 1995. Went back to Malaysia in 2008 - saya cinta negara itu! Finished my PhD in september 2010, also running a small consulting company on sustainability and programming since 1999.
Have some other projects in the pipeline - one concerned with the ethnography of turtles, backpackers and contrasting views on nature. Just a poor excuse to get back to pulau Tioman, i know...
I live smack in the middle of district V, very close to the basilica. The lack of breakfast food in my fridge is compensated by my keen knowledge of good cafes in the area.
Spare time: hanging out with friends, crocheting, sitting at cafes, working, sketching on projects, etc.
Before doing anything, ask yourself: Do i truly want to do this? Or do I want to do this because I want to be a person who would enjoy things like this? If the latter, then reconsider.
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
Hosted a bit. Only couched once (at a former-cs-guest-turned-friend!).
Crocheting, music/jamming, squash, traveling, languages, woodwork, handicrafts, digital circuit design, programming etc.
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Movies: Moon, Cargo, Last Night, Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom, Vacas, etc
Music: Zero 7, Cinematic orchestra, Elbow, Kashmir, Talking heads, Art of noise, Tindersticks, Band of Joy etc
Book: "The water-method man" (John Irving) - got it from an english backpacker in Berastagi, Sumatra, and that book changed my life!
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The world.
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Yay, this was a fun heading! Soldering, arcade game maintenance, (formal) social network analysis, non-monetary measures on ecological resource consumption, peak-oil issues, php/mysql programming, Ecological Footprint methodology, bahasa basics, crocheting, world system analysis etc
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SCS News & Press Releases
Friday March 14, 2008The Human-Computer Interaction Institute is well represented among the nominees for the second annual YouTube Awards. http://www.youtube.com/ytawards07 . The video of Prof. Randy Pausch's Sept. 18 lecture, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," has been nominated for Most Inspirational. PhD student Johnny Chung Lee and his "Head Tracking for Desktop VR" video are nominated in the Instructional Video category.Winners will be chosen based on popular voting.
Magnetic Levitation GivesComputer Users Sense of Touch
NSF Makes Carnegie Mellon Invention Available to More Researchers
Tuesday March 04, 2008PITTSBURGH— Computers, long used as tools to design and manipulate three-dimensional objects, may soon provide people with a way to sense the texture of those objects or feel how they fit together, thanks to a haptic, or touch-based, interface developed at Carnegie Mellon University. Unlike most other haptic interfaces that rely on motors and mechanical linkages to provide some sense of touch or force feedback, the device developed by Ralph Hollis, research professor in Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, uses magnetic levitation and a single moving part to give users a highl
Monday March 03, 2008PITTSBURGH— Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University's U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, is the 2008 recipient of the Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science from the historic Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
Friday February 29, 2008PITTSBURGH–"One Cold Hand," (www.onecoldhand.com), a Web site designed to reunite lost gloves with their mates, is the winner of Carnegie Mellon University's first Smiley Award. This award, sponsored by Yahoo! Inc., will be presented annually to recognize "innovation in technology-assisted person-to-person communication." The award competition is open to all graduate and undergraduate students at Carnegie Mellon. The award is named in honor of the ubiquitous Smiley emoticon, :-), created at the university 25 years ago.
Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Academy Develops Programming Language for Robots
ROBOTC Language Supports LEGO Mindstorms and Other Educational Robots
Wednesday February 27, 2008PITTSBURGH— Educators at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Academy have developed ROBOTC, a programming environment optimized for use with educational robots at the high school and college levels. Its industry-leading features enable the beginning student to successfully design and program sophisticated robots in hours, rather than the weeks of instruction typical of other systems. The ROBOTC programming language works with LEGO Mindstorms RCX & NXT, as well as with the Innovation First VEX and FRC controllers.
Henry L. Hillman Foundation Gives Carnegie Mellon $10 Million For Research Building in New Computer Science Complex
Building Creates New "Front Door" for School of Computer Science
Wednesday February 20, 2008PITTSBURGH— The Henry L. Hillman Foundation has given Carnegie Mellon University a gift of $10 million for a research building in the university's new computer science complex. The Hillman Center for Future-Generation Technologies, one of two structures in the 200,000-square-foot complex that also includes the Gates Center for Computer Science, will face Forbes Avenue, one of Pittsburgh's main thoroughfares, and serve as the main entrance to the university's world-renowned School of Computer Science.
Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center Teams with FOX Sports, FOXSports.com on MSN To Answer Fans' Questions About NASCAR
Monday February 18, 2008PITTSBURGH— Have you ever wondered why NASCAR racing appeals to such a vast audience? Or are you puzzled over the difference between a "crew" chief and a "car" chief?
Tuesday February 12, 2008PITTSBURGH— Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University's Mozah Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, has been awarded the IEEE's James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award "for leadership and pioneering contributions to speech recognition, natural language understanding, and machine intelligence." The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) established the award in 2002 to honor achievements in all aspects of speech and audio technology.
Carnegie Mellon's Edmund M. Clarke Wins A.M. Turing Award, Computing's Highest Honor
Will Share $250,000 Prize for Method that Detects Hardware, Software Errors
Monday February 04, 2008Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Professor Edmund M. Clarke and two computer scientists from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Grenoble in France, are winners of the 2007 A.M. Turing Award in recognition of their pioneering work on an automated method for finding design errors in computer hardware and software. The method, called Model Checking, is the most widely used technique for detecting and diagnosing errors in complex hardware and software design.
Robotics Institute is Big Winner in 2008 Carnegie Science Awards
Entertainment Technology Centerw wins the Award for Information Technology
Thursday January 31, 2008The Robotics Institute is the winner of the Chairman's Award in the 2008 Carnegie Science Awards, a recognition of the institute's role in promoting science and technology in the region.The Entertainment Technology Center won in the information technology category, while Mellon College of Science physicist Tiziana Di Matteo was cited as "emerging female scientist."The 2008 awards, which are sponsored by Eaton Corp., were announced by the Carnegie Science Center at a luncheon for news media on Jan. 31 and will be formally presented at Carnegie Music Hall on May 9.


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Ran across this product for seniors to help them ride when they have balance issues. Balance is THE issue that kept me off my bike all of 2012 summer.
Am thinking about trying a set if I can find someone with some knowledge of how well they work as well as the product quality.
(Note: I have a trike that I also ride but I want back on my bike too. )


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I have checked my ip address using the network utility is osx and it is different to the last accessed ip address in gmail?
Network utility shows you your IP address of your special machine in your home netwrok, probably something like 192.168.x.x in gmail you see your global IP address which your ISP assigned to you.
The IP address Network Utility shows is the internal address, most probably given to you by a router. It uses internal (private) IP addresses that don't appear in the "public" internet, like
You can find these in your Network settings:
The address shown in Gmail is most likely the external WAN IP of your router, i.e. the one your ISP gave to you. You can show your external IP by going to a service like whatismyip.com.
As you can see, these differ – but I know that there is a router in between. Only sometimes, machines are directly connected to the public internet and don't have private IPs, but this is mostly the case for, let's say, web servers.


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RO Systems Improve Flow Rates and Reduce Waste
Axeon CRO Reverse Osmosis Systems feature a sleek, ultra-compact design manufactured for residential applications and for feedwaters up to 1,000 total dissolved solids (TDS). The systems utilize a single-cartridge design, which allows for high-flow membrane performance. The large-diameter tubing of the CRO systems provides a 30% faster flow rate from the faucet. The unique flow path of these systems can reduce water waste by 50%, resulting in more water to the tank and less water down the drain.
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Consumers who choose to use a residential point-of-use (POU) reverse osmosis (RO) system in their home need to feel secure that their system is producing high quality, reliable water for their family. Because most of us lack sophisticated equipment at home to make this determination, many homeowners rely on trusted brands to deliver the water quality they expect.
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U.S. Army deploys a new generation of water purification technology
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RO system effectively maintains Atlanta's massive aquarium
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Biofiltration and reverse osmosis solve water treatment problems in Minnesota
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Filament-wound fiberglass proves to be effective for membrane production
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The NAV-02-1A 2-Door FlexPack Access Control Kit with 2 Mullion Readers from EverFocus features an embedded Linux operating system with built-in web interface that allows access through your web browser. The compact size and modular design of this control system makes it simple to install. The system is easily expandable while maintaining powerful management capabilities. This access control kit consists of a 2-door controller, a system reader, a transformer, 2 Mullion-Style Proximity Readers, and a Flex Series Access Control Management Software CD.


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Oracle: Meet the MySQL Experts Podcasts
MySQL Performance Schema
November 2012
Keith Larson, MySQL Community Manager, interviews Mark Leith about the MySQL Performance Schema.
Debugging Stored Routines in MySQL
October 2012
Keith Larson, MySQL Community Manager, interviews Fernando Gonzalez about the stored routines debugger in MySQL.
MySQL Connect and OurSQL
September 2012
Keith Larson, MySQL Community Manager, interviews the hosts of the OurSQL podcast, Sheeri Cabral and Gerry Narvaja, about the upcoming MySQL Connect Conference.
SQL Server Migration Tool
August 2012
Alfredo Kojima, Senior Software Development Manager, talks to us about the new Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL migration tool.
MySQL Utilities
June 2012
Chuck Bell, Sr. MySQL Software Developer at Oracle, introduces a variety of recently released MySQL Utilities, and how DBAs can save significant time using the utilities.
MySQL Replication Global Transaction Identifiers and HA Utilities
May 2012
Luis Soares, Engineering Manager of MySQL replication discusses the new Global Transaction Identifiers (GTIDs) that are part of the latest MySQL 5.6 Development Release. We are also joined by Chuck Bell who discusses how the new MySQL HA utilities use GTIDs to create a self-healing replication topology.
MySQL Thread Pool
April 2012
Mikael Ronstrom, senior MySQL Architect, explains us how the MySQL Thread Pool improves MySQL Scalability.
MySQL Performance
February 28, 2012
Dimitri Kravtchuk talks to us about MySQL Performance. He covers at a high level improvements made over the past few years, including in MySQL 5.5, as well as MySQL Enterprise Scalability, some of the new MySQL 5.6 features improving performance and more.
Using PHP with MySQL
February 06, 2012
Andrey Hristov and Johannes Schluter from the MySQL Connectors Team talk about various ways PHP developers can use MySQL and also how they can further leverage MySQL Query Analyzer within MySQL Enterprise Monitor to optimize queries.
MySQL Technical Support
December 21, 2011
Todd Farmer talks about who Oracle's MySQL Support engineers are, how they help customers on a day-to-day basis, how they interact with the MySQL Engineering and bugs verification teams, and more.
MySQL Enterprise Backup
November 25, 2011
MySQL Enterprise Backup provides hot online backup for InnoDB, which is one of the most requested features from the MySQL user community for years. In this podcast, Sveta Smirnova from the MySQL support organization gives us an overview of the common MySQL backup practices and tools, and specifically the benefits of using MySQL Enterprise Backup.
MySQL Cluster, and NoSQL
Tuesday, 01 November 2011
Mat Keep and Bernd Ocklin walk us through what's new in the second Development Milestone Release of MySQL Cluster 7.2, including impressive performance improvements, new NoSQL access via memcached, cross data center scalability, and more...
MySQL on Windows
Thursday, 29 September 2011
Reggie Burnett talks about MySQL on Windows. He covers Connector/NET, integration with Visual Studio, MySQL Workbench, the new MySQL installer for Windows as well as the new external authentication module for Windows, and more...
What's New in InnoDB
Monday, 29 August 2011
Inaam Rana from the MySQL InnoDB team shares the latest InnoDB features, including many InnoDB-specific improvements in MySQL 5.5, the current GA release, the MySQL 5.6 Development Milestone Release, and the early access features in MySQL 5.6.
MySQL Replication
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
Mats Kindahl helps you better understand MySQL's Replication, including the new replication features included in MySQL 5.5 & 5.6, and more...


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DUBAI FESTIVAL CITY: "A giant "Shopping City" within the city..." Top 5 Page for this destination Dubai Shopping Tip by JessH
Dubai Shopping: 225 reviews and 501 photos
Once again, true to the concept of "a city, within a city, within a city..."
So, if you *still* haven't had enough of shopping malls & stores, another one of Dubai retail giants has opened on March 1st 2007: Dubai Festival City.
Located right on the creek close to Dubai Airport & the Garhoud Bridge, this is one massive "eyesore with a purpose".
Festival City is also the venue for various concerts & shows, and the following hotels have a presence here: Four Seasons, Intercontinental, Crowne Plaza and W Boutique Hotel.
Complete with:
> largest Marks n Spencer Store outside the UK.
> Residential waterfront living.
> Shops, shops... and more shops.
> A Golf course.
> "HyperPanda" Supermarket (I like this one... large variety & low prices)
> Marsa Auto Gallery & Car Showroom.
> ACE Hardware.
> Restaurants & Cafes. (90 restaurants including 40 al fresco venues along the water... there will even be 8 licensed (serving alcohol) restaurants :-)
> Gold Market Place.
> did I mention shops? (550 to be precise!)
What to buy: Once complete, this monster will have 2.1 million square foot of "urban retail resort". Dubai Festival City has over 3 kilometres of Creekside Corniche... something most of us Dubai residents will truly cherish because a nice venue so close to the water truly is rare!
Opening Hours:
Shopping Centre:
Saturday - Friday: 10:00am - 12midnight.
IKEA: Saturday - Friday: 10:00am - 10:00pm.
HyperPanda Supermarket:
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Thursdays: 09:00am - 01:00am & Fridays: 09:00am - 12midnight.
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Urban action and fatal attraction give rise to a groove from beyond the grave in this funkadelic, fangadelic Soul Cinema sensation! The eternally cool William Marshall puts a fresh spin on the age-old legend of the vampire, condemned to wander the earth with an insatiable lust for blood. In 1780, African Prince Mamuwalde (Marshall) pays a visit to Count Dracula in Transylvania, seeking his support in ending the slave trade. Instead, the evil count curses his noble guest and transforms him into a vampire! Released from his coffin nearly two centuries later by a pair of luckless interior decorators, Mamuwalde emerges as "Blacula," one strange dude strollin' the streets of L.A. on a nightly quest for human blood!
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I did it a few weeks ago. No problems. No one seem to think anything of it as if everything were normal.
ROTFL.. haha.. some interesting comments here. Tho I probably would beat my bf if he used that line tho pending my mood I may let it slide and play along if I was there for speedy service. I may try the drive thru thing some time tho I don't really ride that late at night when only the 24hr drive thrus are open. Not really too comfie with that being single female out at night and no one else around then to want to go at such hours.
A little different for you guys out there on the security thing.
"When man first set woman on two wheels with a pair of pedals, did he know, I wonder, that he had rent the veil of the harem in twain? A woman on a bicycle has all the world before her where to choose; she can go where she will, no man hindering." The Typewriter Girl, 1899.
"Every so often a bird gets up and flies some place it's drawn to. I don't suppose it could tell you why, but it does it anyway." Ian Hibell, 1934-2008
Was hoping I can see more people in Canada give feedback on thier drive thru experience. Better yet in Ontario. We only have a few banks here but I know what you mean by going to another branch. IIRC our banking system is different then the USA where they can have a ton of private banks.
1) I finish my transaction at a comfortable pace and leave. Imagine you are a police dispatcher and some one calls from the bank saying.......OMG there is a bicycle at the ATM! Help! Imagine you get a call when in your car to report to the bank for "a bicycle at the ATM" Do you rush to get there? When I am done I ride away. Will they chase me and pull me over? The cops I know will do it if they have to, and they will be polite and respectful to the bank people, but inside they will be laughing at the bank people, it's absurd. Even the cops that are not cyclists will be laughing, most of them do bike patrols once in a while.
Worst case scenario, they tell me I can't do it again. (Again they need to rush to find me)..I say OK I won't do it. They don't want to give me a ticket for that. They ask for my liscence, I give it to them, so what? I'm not going to argue with a cop. What if they have something important to do, will they come talk to me??
If that happens, the next day I will call my friend for 40 years that is a weekly cycling buddy and an excellent lawyer, and see if we can give the bank a hard time. He would love to do that, then we can share the story at the Wednesday night ride !! If they give me a traffic citation while I am on private property, some judge is going to have a good laugh about that. Again, I'm not going to argue with a police officer. I'll do what ever they tell me to.
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I would think a local city cop would be cool about handling the situation if one ever does get call for something like that. However, the security patrol for the bank might be more of a concern as they have a tendancy to be more demanding and jumpy.
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Some people got their head so far up their butt such that the only thing they hear is muffle when trying to explain anything to them! I only wish they take it out sometimes to smell the roses.
Earlier this week I went through the pharmacy drive up window on my bike. Lots of cars in the parking lot, and nobody at the window so I figured what the heck. I pulled up to the window and the employee was staring at computer and not really paying attention. She about jumped out of her skin when she realized I was standing there.
Worked fine though. Actually quite a bit easier than in a car because I drive a small Corolla and the drive up window is clearly meant for big honkin' SUVs so I'm always having to reach way up to pass my credit card to the employee. My trekking bars are also a pretty good clipboard holder for signing the forms.
Never biked up to one, but I've walked up to several. Feels funny the first time, then you don't worry about it anymore. Nobody else cares -- it won't take you any longer to use the ATM on your bike that it would in a car, so no problem. You might even be faster than a car, especially a car that's not quite aligned just right and can't reach the buttons.
I see no problem with using drive-up ATMs on a bicycle. I've been hesitant to use fast-food drive-through service, though, for the following reason.
I have an acquaintance who is a transportation engineer. He told me that traffic lights are signaled that a motorist is there by a magnetic sensor, and that if there isn't enough magnetic metal close enough to the ground, that the sensor won't sense the vehicle, and so bicycles and very high-lifted trucks often don't kick those off.
I don't know whether fast-food sensors work the same way, or by weight, or by an optical sensor, but I've always feared that I might ride up, the sensor doesn't catch it, and I just sit there waiting for someone to take my order when it's never going to happen, while cars are waiting behind me and getting irritated.
Do any of you have knowledge about these sensors, or experience using fast-food drive-through service at various restaurants?
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I think that I'd feel a little stupid ordering fast food on a bike, what with the whole juxtaposition of a healthy lifestyle cycling and eating fast food (not that I don't do both, just that I'd feel silly being obvious about it), but I go to the ATM on my bike almost every time I visit an ATM. One day I was like 6th in line (with my son on his bike next to me), and we had some nice conversations with people in the cars around who wished they were outside enjoying the sunny day instead of sitting in their car waiting in line. win
I do drive ups all the time. Bank, drugstore mostly. Never had anyone in a car or the venue say a word.
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One point I want to make is that it is easier to do something first and apologize after, than it is to ask first. If you ask they can say no. Most people don't want any confrontation over something not very important. If they see you do it with no problem they might decide to do nothing, or even think it is OK. If they get upset there is no downside for me, I just say OK and leave. If you ask first and they say no, then you have no one except yourself to blame. You set yourself up for easy failure.
I can out run a Segway on my bike anyway! (movie-Paul Blart, mall cop)
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Problematic Powers
There are various abilities found in tabletop role-playing games that will often cause a Gamemaster more than a few headaches. These abilities can often turn what would be a challenging encounter into something that can just be breezed through or, if not given consideration, could derail entire campaigns. This is not meant to be a list of things you should ban from your game, but merely a few character abilities you need to keep in mind if any of the player characters manage to acquire them.
So, with that said, I present what I find to be the top five problematic powers in gaming.
5) Summoning
The ability to call upon otherworldly creatures to do your bidding may seem like an odd choice for this list as the summoner is a classic mystic archetype, but it is on here because in many games it tends to be hard to manage. In essence, what this power does is give one player several turns in which they get to act as well as – in some cases – gives one player many different characters, turning them into a party in and of themselves. Many games have worked to balance this, but this can still be unbalancing at times.
4) Flight
The most desired of all superpowers, the ability to fly is something that opens up a host of new options for your players and if the Gamemaster does not keep that in mind will find many of their terrain challenges overcome with ease. No longer do high walls or things like that pose any problem to your player characters when they can simply fly over them.
3) Telepathy
The ability to read minds is a very useful power, questionable ethic regarding it aside, and with it there are few secrets that can be kept from your players. If player characters have the ability to look into someone's head and come to know what they know, it can be really hard to run any sort of mystery in your game. This is also a power not easily countered by circumstance, so if something prevents it from working the player knows that this was put in place specifically for them.
2) Teleportation
Like flight, teleportation – the ability to move from place to place in the blink of an eye – gives player characters an easy way through most physical obstructions, as well as distance, and even escape from imprisonment. How do you trap something that can disappear at will? Travel may no longer become an issue for them as they may possess the power to travel anywhere in the world, or maybe even beyond, with a mere thought. Often limited in scope (you can only teleport to place you have been, places you can see, etc) this power is often one of the most difficult for a Gamemaster to cope with.
And finally, the number one power I find to be the most problematic:
1) Divination
In short, these are powers that allow characters to commune with the gods, see into the future, or simply ask the Gamemaster to answer questions for them. Though often cryptic, this power will often eliminate much of the mystery a Gamemaster has been building up in the game. Imagine if detectives from CSI could just look at the body and ask, "Who did this?" and suddenly know the answer.
While these powers may certainly cause problems, they can all be worked with if Gamemasters plan ahead and anticipate their use. If you know a character can fly or see into the future or whatever, plan for that. Note that this does not mean counter. If your player characters have these powers, it means they have earned them. Do not take that away from them. On the contrary, let them use them. Make these powers seem important, or even crucial to overcoming whatever challenges you have set before them. The game is about having fun, after all, not seeing if you can beat your players in a game of imagination.
Thanks for reading and, as always, I wish you all good gaming.
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I'm new and have a question about scales ...
I just joined today and already posted in another section of this message board.
I'm not sure if I should have first posted it there or here instead, being that I'm a newbie; I'm not sure which of the forums this question belongs, but here is what I wrote in that other section, though I'll try to be more succinct this time:
I consider myself a beginner -- and so excuse my sometimes awkward use of musical terminology -- but here is what I know, having had taken a couple years of lessons and more recently learning from books and YouTube: Open Chords, Barre Chords, Scales (Major, Relative Minor, Major and Minor Pentatonic, Blues.)
I learned the above scales up and down the fret board. But I have NO IDEA HOW TO USE THEM. I want to learn what scales are appropriate for what chords or chord progressions, (in other words, how and when to use those scales).
I learned a good amount of theory having studied "The Guitarist's Music Theory Book" by Peter Vogl, but he has several other books -- Introduction To Rock Guitar Book & DVD, Introduction To Blues Guitar Book & DVD, The Guitarist's Lick Book & DVD, Blues Licks With DVD & CD, Electric Licks & Solos with DVD & CD, and a whole series of Let's Jam CD's covering Rock, Blues, etc. -- and I have no idea which if any of these other books teaches HOW to apply the scales I've learned from his first book I listed at the beginning of this paragraph.
If anyone has studied Vogl, can you tell me which of his books above teaches HOW to use scales, and what order to read these books in. And if none of his books provide that next step in my learning, can any of you recommend a comprehensive book (and preferably with a DVD) that will teach me how and when to use the scales that I know?
PS: I did do a search online for such a comprehensive book and one came up that looks interesting. But I don't want to waste my money, so before I consider ordering it, if anyone has an opinion on this one below, feel free to share your take on it:
Guitarist's Guide To Scales Over Chords-The Foundation Of Melodic Guitar Soloing (Book & CD) by Chad Johnson (Nov 1, 2010)
Again, I welcome any recommendations on what would be a good book (with DVD if possible) when it comes to learning what scales are used with what chords and chord progressions, in other words, HOW to use scales. I look forward to your responses and, as I continue learning, to joining in other discussions on a range of topics. Thanks all!
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Hey, firstly, welcome to the site
Musician's Talk was the right place to post this question. The problem is that your post is very long winded, and that can turn a lot of people off!
One tip though, if you know what key your song is in, then you'll have a good idea of which scales to use!
Enjoy your stay, hope you get the info you're looking for
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Thanks for the welcome. And the suggestion on posting.
I'll try to be very brief: Is there a good course (book/DVD) that teaches HOW to use the different kinds of scales over chord progressions?
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To get the Best Pati is probably the Dream of every Wife. But how lucky will that Patni be, when her Pati is adjudged the Best Pati for the 4th time in 5 years. Yes, we are talking about Sumit Wadhwa who was adjudged the Best Pati for the fourth time now.
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Lab chemical and life sciences company Sigma-Aldrich ( SIAL ) posted higher profits in first-quarter 2014 as increased sales across Applied and SAFC Commercial segments offset a decline in its larger research business, which was hurt by harsh winter weather.
The Missouri-based company's profit, as reported, moved up roughly 3% year over year in the reported quarter to $126 million or $1.05 per share from $122 million or $1.01 per share a year ago.
Barring restructuring charges, earnings were $1.06 per share in the quarter, topping the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.03.Revenues and Margins
Sales for the quarter went up 2% year over year to $689 million, but missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $695 million. Organic sales gain in the quarter was 3%, while divestitures had an unfavorable impact of 1%.
Operating income rose roughly 5% year over year to $174 million. Adjusted operating margin for the reported quarter was 25.4%, up from 24.6% recorded a year ago, aided by favorable impact of the company's global supply gain initiatives.Segment Highlights
Research Chemicals division's sales fell 1% year over year to $359 million in the quarter. The division was affected by bad weather that led to closure of research labs by many of Sigma-Aldrich's customers. Gains were witnessed across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Latin America while sales fell in the U.S. on weak academic spending.
Applied unit's sales rose 8% (7% organically) to $171 million. The gain was driven by high single-digits rise on an organic basis in diagnostics and testing business. Sales increased in the mid single-digits in the industrial business.
Sales from the SAFC Commercial segment went up 3% to $159 million. Sales rose in the low single-digits organically in life science products business while life science services saw a double-digit rise on gains in biopharma services. However, Hitech sales declined in the low single-digits on pricing pressure.Financials
Sigma-Aldrich exited the quarter with cash and cash equivalents of $727 million, up 54% year over year. Long-term debt was flat year over year at $300 million. Debt-to-capital ratio was 10% as of Mar 31, 2014, compared with 13% as of Mar 31, 2013. Operating cash flow rose around 12% year over year to $172 million in the quarter.
Sigma-Aldrich repurchased 900,000 shares during the reported quarter for $85 million. It expects to continue to buyback shares to offset dilution associated with stock-based compensation.Outlook
Sigma-Aldrich backed its sales, earnings and cash flow guidance for 2014. The company continues to expect adjusted earnings per share in the range of $4.30 to $4.40. The current corresponding Zacks Consensus Estimate is $4.36.
Moreover, the company envisions low-to-mid single-digit overall organic sales gain in 2014. It continues sees low-to-mid single-digit gain in its Research Chemicals unit. Sales in Applied and SAFC Commercial divisions are expected to rise in the mid-single digits.
Operating cash flow for 2014 has been projected to exceed $600 million. Free cash flow for the year has been forecast to exceed $475 million Capital expenditures are expected to be around $130 million for 2014. Adjusted operating income margin has been projected to increase by roughly 50 basis points.
Sigma-Aldrich is a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) stock.
Other companies in the specialty chemicals space worth considering are Globe Specialty Metals, Inc. ( GSM ), International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. ( IFF ) and Rockwood Holdings, Inc. ( ROC ). All of them carry a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
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