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February 14th is a Valentine's Day. For those who have loved one, Valentine's Day is a good opportunity to express their love to her/him. The event of Valentine's day is now quite popular not only in the United States and Europe but also even in Japan although it looks like there is subtle difference in habit and the way of giving gifts.
If you have a floral arranging skill, it is a good idea to make flower arrangement gift for your loved one. Custom designed floral arrangement made by yourself is valuable and priceless. The recipient of the gift must be quite impressed with this home-made custom designed gift.
If you take a look at websites of floral shop online, you must find various flower decorations specifically arranged for Valentine's Day gift. This kind of information gives hints and suggestions to those who have no idea about Valentine's Day floral gifts.
Those who have ever learned floral arrangement and have a basic floral designing skill MAY have less difficulties in making floral gifts. If you have no idea about Valentine's day flower gifts, how about making or buying one of floral gifts introduced below:
*Basket flower arrangement: By using the same skill of making a wedding flower basket, you can make this floral gift. Get a plain basket and make decorations so it looks beautiful. And arrange fresh flowers in it. If you use soaked floral foam, make sure the basket will not get so wet. In addition to fresh flowers, you can put additional gift which your loved one likes (such as miniature whisky or chocolate etc.).
*Bouquet: Although it takes a long time to make a bouquet, the recipient of this floral gift must be very pleased with your hand made bouquet. Hand-tied bouquet is good for Valentine's Day gift.
*Pomander of natural flowers: The typical use of pomander is a wedding. A bride usually holds a pomander which enhances the beauty of a bride. By using floral foam in the shape of ball, pomander is made. A ball shaped floral foam is usually soaked to keep flowers' life longer.
*Tiny and simple centerpiece: This floral gift MAY be easier for beginner floral designer. Use a tiny simple vase such as cube glass container that can be bought at a very affordable price ranging from $2.50 to $5.00 per piece. Dip floral foam in the water. Then insert flowers (you like) into soaked floral foam. Make the arrangement simple and cute.
If you have no idea about how to make above floral decorations, how about visiting websites on the internet such as ftd.com, bhg.com, ehow.com or YouTube to find hints and advices for Valentine's Day flower arrangements or floral gifts ?
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Lisa Marie Presley on CO$: "They were taking my soul, my money, my everything"
Miley Cyrus in Jean Paul Gaultier at the Billboard Awards: sexy or try hard?
Does Lisa Marie Presley tell the CO$ to kiss her ass with the lyrics to a new song?
Katy Perry goes for goth at the NARM awards: ridiculous or not that bad?
Lisa Marie Presley is pissed that Riley Keough is engaged to Alex Pettyfer
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By Bob Negele
It's no secret that murders in Chicago are way up this year. It's also fairly well understood that many, if not most, of these crimes are attributable to gang violence. A recent article in the Chicago Sun Times reports that violence at funerals of high-profile gang members is getting out of control.
Due to the advent of social media, such as YouTube and Twitter, the psyche of these gang members is on display in an unprecedented way.
The article shows a link to a video where a 21-year-old gang member, Sherman Miller, is shown flashing a handgun during the funeral procession for slain rapper Joseph "Lil JoJo" Coleman (from this summer).
Last week, Miller again attended the funeral of another murdered man, and was once again armed with a handgun. During this most recent funeral, however, violence erupted.
Miller and a 26-year-old man were attacked during the funeral, on the steps of a Catholic Church. Miller was shot to death and the other man was seriously wounded.
"We have been working these funerals for a while. These guys are driving in and out of traffic, hanging out of windows and have firearms. This has gotten way out of control. We have to ramp it up to make sure this behavior stops," said Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy.
While the Superintendent talks about increasing police presence, funeral violence is nothing new to the gangs in Chicago.
One notable incident occurred in 2005, when a funeral procession stopped to shoot at rivals of an opposing gang.
This does speak to the broader issue of gang violence. The initial funeral discussed, from the past summer, was for a young aspiring rapper, Lil JoJo. A faction of his gang was feuding with a faction of a fellow rapper, Keith "Chief Keef" Cozart. It was in the context of this feud that Lil JoJo was gunned down on September 4th, 2012.
Police have a habit of increasing presence at high-profile funerals (like Lil JoJo's) but did not for the funeral which cost Miller his life. "Police didn't beef up their presence outside the funeral because they didn't anticipate gang violence, sources said. And investigators don't think the shootings that day were related to a gang conflict. Instead, they suspect Miller may have been shot on the church steps because he had been robbing drug dealers."
Like many of the murders in Chicago, there have not been any charges brought in connection with the shooting. Police are still working on leads attempting to figure out who brought such violence in a time of morning.


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With megaliths, medieval dungeons and Calypso's Cave, the Maltese Islands are positively mythic. From its vibrant blue waters and secluded bays, to medieval walled citadels and splendid baroque churches this delightful tour is truly unique. Led by expert private guide you'll tour Valletta, named one of the most concentrated historic areas in the world by UNESCO & renowned for its awe-inspiring architectural marvels & archaeological remains. Learn the history of enchanting churches, palaces, museums & gardens as you tour the Silent City of Mdina.
Once the heartland of Roman Africa, it's no surprise that Tunisia is home to some of the world's finest Roman sites and ruins. Evidence of Tunisia's rich heritage can be seen in the fascinating sites of Phoenician and Roman Carthage, the ruins of the Punic town of Kerkouane and the Medinas of Tunis and Sousse, both UNESCO World Heritage Sites and home of magnificent Islamic architecture dating back over 3,000 years. With a private guide, you'll safely see the most incredible sights of Tunisia.
With the inside track on the new, the old, the off-the-beaten track and the out-of-this-world, you won't find a more knowledgeable team of destination specialists.
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Meet your driver and English speaking assistant for an airport transfer.
This evening spend time at leisure or relax at your hotel.Accommodation: The Palace (5*)
The Palace Hotel is a distinctly high class hotel within walking distance to all the main attractions of Sliema. This hotel is one of the best in Malta and will impress even the most discerning hotel guest. The professional, courteous, and friendly hotel staff will be on hand to ensure that your stay remains an enjoyable and memorable experience. The guest rooms at the Palace Hotel are luxurious, spacious, and fully facilitated with everything you would expect of a five star hotel. Many rooms have a balcony or roomy terrace to enjoy the spectacular view.
Enjoy a half day tour of Valletta with private transfers and English speaking guide. Valletta, Malta's capital and a World Heritage site, is nothing short of an open-air museum. It is a living experience of Baroque architecture, a monument donated by the Knights of St John nearly five centuries ago. The city owes both its name and its fortifications to jean de la Valette, Grand Master of the Knights of St. John, who rebuilt the city after the Great Siege of 1565. After a morning at leisure you will go sightseeing in Valletta, visiting the Upper Barracca Gardens and two great buildings erected by the Knights of St. John`s, the Palace of the Grand Masters and St. John`s Co-Cathedral. Entrance fees to St. John`s Co-Cathedral & Caravaggio, State Rooms and Tapestry Chamber included.
You will be picked up and taken with a private vehicle and an English speaking guide to a local first class restaurant.Accommodation: The Palace (5*)
Enjoy a private full day tour with vehicle and English speaking guide. In the morning you drive inland to the village of Mosta, whose Church of St. Mary has the third largest unsupported dome in all of Europe. Continue on to Mdina, ancient capital of Malta, and a town of great historical charm, much of it painstakingly rebuilt after a devastating earthquake in 1693. Entrance to Mdina Cathedral included.Accommodation: The Palace (5*)
Enjoy a private full day tour to Gozo with vehicle and an English speaking guide. You will take the ferry across for a day in Gozo, a tranquil island ringed with beautiful bays. Most of this island is rural but one still finds numerous archeological remains and architectural treasures, including the old Citadel and the Ggantija temples. You`ll visit the capital, Victoria, with its hilltop citadel, then see some of the island`s natural wonders: the Azure Window, an immense limestone arch created by erosion; Fungus Rock, whose plant life was harvested for medicinal purposes by the Knights of S. John and the Inland Sea. Includes English speaking guide, private vehicle, ferry tickets, entrance fees to Ggantija temples, Gozo Cathedral.Accommodation: The Palace (5*)
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A private vehicle with driver will provide a transfer to the airport.Accommodation: Dar El Medina
This 12 room hotel is a converted traditional house located right in the Tunis Medina. It features whitewashed and tiled surroundings, with latticed windows. The many-levelled mansion is a surprise after the narrow street, with inner courtyards providing light, space and shade.
Begin the days touring with a visit to Carthage. Explore the ruins which surround this once prosperous Roman city including stops at the Tophet, the Phoenician cemetery, the Punic Harbours, Antonin's Bath, the Carthage Museum and the Saint Louis Cathedral. Continue from here to the village of Sidi Bou Said, boasting spectacular breathtaking views of the Gulf of Tunis.Accommodation: Dar El Medina
Enjoy a half day of touring beginning with a visit to the National Museum of Bardo. This museum holds an extensive collection of ancient Roman mosaic, considered one of the largest, complete collections in the world. Next, visit the Medina of Tunis, exploring the narrow souk lined streets before heading to lunch.Accommodation: Dar El Medina
After breakfast, the tour begins with a visit to Tuburbo Majus. Tuburbo Majus, or Colonia Julia Aurelia Commoda, as it was referred to during the Roman era, which was originally a Punic town converted into a Roman veteran's colony. ext, travel to Dougga, one of the best preserved Roman historical sites in all of Tunisia. Designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997, Dougga is an outstanding example of ancient Roman architecture, with numerous well preserved columns and structures spread across this 65 hectare site. The town of Testour is located on the hilltops of the Medjerda Valley, some 20kms south-west of Medjez-el-Bab. Formally named Tichilla during ancient's times, this town's layout emits the influence of both the Muslim and Jewish refugees whom settled here, giving it a distinctive synergy of character and culture.Accommodation: Dar El Medina
Set out to Kairouan for a walk through this holy Islamic city, founded in 671 by Okba Ibn Nafâa. It centralized location, proved beneficiary in adding to its renowned reputation for unique, elegant carpet manufacturing, which feature across a wide range of mosques. Visit the impressive Mosque Sidi Okba, founded in the 7th century; this marvel reflects the greatness of the Islam Empire during this era. Visit the Aghlabiden pool, the city's main water reservoir, followed by a stop at Saint Abou Zemaa El Balaoui, also known as the "prophet Berber". Explore the old town (Medina) and enjoy walking through its characteristic markets (the souks).Accommodation: Dar El Medina
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The Palace Hotel is a distinctly high class hotel within walking distance to all the main attractions of Sliema. This hotel is one of the best in Malta and will impress even the most discerning hotel guest. The professional, courteous, and friendly hotel staff will be on hand to ensure that your stay remains an enjoyable and memorable experience. The guest rooms at the Palace Hotel are luxurious, spacious, and fully facilitated with everything you would expect of a five star hotel. Many rooms have a balcony or roomy terrace to enjoy the spectacular view.
This 12 room hotel is a converted traditional house located right in the Tunis Medina. It features whitewashed and tiled surroundings, with latticed windows. The many-levelled mansion is a surprise after the narrow street, with inner courtyards providing light, space and shade.
Had a great trip to Spain and Portugal. All went well. No polishing points or constructive feedback to provide. This was the third trip with Kensington in 18 months and all were wonderful.
It was our first trip to Italy. I can only describe my experience as exceptional. The tour guides were very knowledgeable and friendly. The tours were exceptional and very punctual. The accommodations and transportation were first class. I have already started to recommend Kensington tours and I will definitely will use them in my future trips.
This was the second tour we have taken with Kensington Tours. This was very different from our first tour but just right for this time. My husband and I traveled with my 85 year old parents.The accommodations and the pace of the travel worked very well. Our guide, Dermot, was very friendly and very understanding of our special needs as well as very knowledgeable. I have already had further communication with him. Thanks for the memorable experience.
Our family loved our week in Iceland. I am 70 and our youngest is 9. Each activity was well suited for the whole group. We changed one event and Kensington Tours immediately helped us cancel one and sign up for a new adventure. When I had questions they helped me out. Their professionalism, kindness, and attentiveness made our trip a complete success. Thank you!
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Chad Garner of the Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise has a profile of all-time UMass great Milt Morin as one of the area's top 25 local athletes.
Deanne Morin says her brother Milt was "outgoing, friendly and funny" off the football field, but on the gridiron, "he was an animal."
Leominster native Milt Morin, who starred at St. Bernard's, was certainly a household name in the area and his burning desire to dominate led him to become a first-round draft pick by the National Football League's Cleveland Browns, where he enjoyed a fantastic, 10-year professional career.
"He was quite an athlete," said Deanne Morin, 67, who resides in Leominster and is one of eight siblings in the Morin family. "He was a busy boy. He played all the sports and he played all the time."


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text: Boudoir has come back to the mainstream of photography in full force! You are beautiful. Everything about you is simply wonderful. Every woman should have photos of herself that reinforce these statements and remind them of just what magical creatures they truly are. You deserve to be pampered, treated like a supermodel and to be proud of who you are!! So, what exactly is boudoir photography? Well, the word boudoir is defined as "a woman's bedroom or private sitting room". Boudoir is a French word whose original meaning was "pouting room." In earlier times, if a young lady was sulky, she was sent to her boudoir where she could pout in private. Typically, this was the setting for this type of photography as it was the appropriate place for sensual photos to be taken…after all, a woman is most comfortable in her own bedroom right? This is not so much the case anymore! Since the introduction of digital images, boudoir photography has slowly been making a comeback into common photography sessions. Boudoir sessions are now taken not only in a woman's home, but at a photography studio, outdoors and other locations all the time! Boudoir photography was a way for artists to memorialize the beautiful form of a woman. No matter the age, figure, height or beauty of a woman, boudoir photography was always meant to make every woman look and feel beautiful, sexy, attractive and flawless. Most women proved to be nervous about this type of photography prior to the digital age for fear of lost photos or having someone other than the photographer see the images. Most women felt they did not have the physique or model-esque stature to take such photographs. But now…women are realizing more and more every day that even if they are flawed…which we ALL are (even the supermodels on the cover of magazines), modern technology and the skill of the artist can perfect every aspect a woman wants perfected in her photos. Don't women having a boudoir shoot have to be nude? Absolutely not!!! There are many, many different kinds of boudoir photography, artistic nude is just one of them and the woman who is having her portraits taken is the only one who decides whether or not she wants to have nude photographs taken. The main thing to remember about boudoir photography is to be yourself!!! Don't be anyone else! Let out the tigress inside you and let yourself feel as beautiful as you are!


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This Public Forum - which follows on from the East African Organic Policy Workshop - is a larger event that will present the East African Organic Standard to regional stakeholders, international participants and the public and also give participants a better understanding of the international context for organic standards, certification and regulations.
Invited participants include decision makers in the area of agriculture, trade and standardisation, leaders in the organic sector in Africa and regional and international organisations active in East Africa.
The Forum will be followed by an organic dinner.


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Jazz cellars don't come more atmospheric than the Royal Garden Jazz Club's, set beneath medieval vaulted arches. The music may be modern, but the refreshment is traditional - beer, Zweigelt red wine and Brötchen, slices of pumpernickel bread spread with liver pâté. The night we visit, the Berndt Luef Trio is in action. Luef, a virtuoso on vibraphone, is a whirl of hands, forearms and green-knobbed sticks, rippling out old favourites like How Deep is the Ocean, as well as his own composition, Work Stations Part, 1, 2 and 3. None of us in the audience is more than five paces from the musicians.
With the border of the former Yugoslavia only some 40 km away, the war there had a major impact on music in Graz. "Many jazz musicians come from former Yugoslavia. We never ask them whether it's Serbia or Bosnia. We just play music." Luef explains.
This open door policy is highlighted during the Cultural Year, with European Jazz 2003, a series of jazz weeks, featuring East and West European musicians.
Veterans, often professors at the university, are at the heart of the jazz scene, and often the catalyst for the bands set up by foreign students. Musician and journalist Otmar Klammer is also the owner of the Stockwerk jazz club: "There is no Graz sound, but each club here tends to have a style. Stockwerk is all about innovative, cutting edge, improvised music." The jazz scene is still informal, so there is no glossy brochure for the tourist. Finding out what's on, however is easy. Just pick up the Kleine Zeitung, the local paper, and look under Aviso, or ask your concierge. Most venues are within walking distance of the centre. As for venues, WIST, across from the Jazz University, is a student hang out. Jazz M59 is also known as Münzl (because it's on Münzgrabenstrasse). Then there is trad jazz for trad folk who pack into the Sunday jazz brunches at the Grand Hotel Wiesler, when the Murwater Ramblers, a honkin' and tootin' Dixieland band struts its stuff.
Graz also hosts an international jazz festival every summer. "It's great for Graz," according to Berndt Luef, ever the rebel, "but not that good for the local scene." American stars jet in for three nights, then disappear. Although Styria is often considered the most conservative of Austria's provinces, there is a lot "bubbling under," says Berndt, "with avant garde artists, writers and musicians."
Overlooking the Franziskanerplatz is the Kleinen Elefanten, a small bar and restaurant where jazz is a regular on the menu. We drop in for a night of rhythm 'n' blues. Howling Sweet Home Chicago like a natural-born American was an Austrian university student, with a veteran of the Graz jazz scene on guitar and a bass player from the Balkans. Instead of soul food, we tucked in to Schnitzel. That's Graz: an unexpected mix of east, west and more.


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The Daughters of the American Revolution are all about patriotism, education, and historic preservation. We are also about friendship and community service. This web site is designed to tell you about our state organization and encourage your participation. Please come inside to learn more about the Washington State Society. We have gathered information that you should find informative and interesting.
Our members are all descendants of a man or woman who contributed to the American cause during the Revolutionary War. Perhaps you have a Revolutionary ancestor in your family as well! While we are a lineage organization, we are also a service organization. Washington Daughters are active throughout their communities promoting Historic Preservation, Education, and Patriotism.
To learn more about the National Society, follow the link above to NSDAR. If you are interested in membership, please contact our state membership chairman,
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As Washington State Regent and on behalf of the Washington State Daughters, welcome to our web site.
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Brendan Flattery, managing director of Sage's Small Business Division, answers some key questions about the importance of maintaining healthy cashflow.
"Any successful small-business owner will tell you that healthy cashflow is critical to the smooth running and growth of their business. It's been a challenging time for all businesses recently, regardless of size, and one that will have a lasting impact on the way businesses structure and manage their operations. One of the key lessons that many small businesses have taken from the recession is the importance of healthy cashflow.
"Put simply, cashflow is the movement of money within a business, but this seemingly straight forward concept can have detrimental effects if badly managed."
"Healthy cashflow is vital for all businesses, but the consequences of not managing it effectively can quickly have a massive impact. A small business can only survive for a limited period with a negative cash flow. Ultimately, the business will end up insolvent, which means it will fail because it won't be able to pay its creditors."
"Cashflow forecasting software is an important business tool that can not only show payment patterns and forecast the year ahead, but also highlight re-occurring late payments.
"It's been widely reported that most failed businesses have closed because of problems caused by inefficient cashflow management rather than anything else. If small businesses put into practice the correct processes they will be able to manage their financial planning effectively, forecast the year ahead and identify any potential cashflow issues early enough. Then they can take action to avoid any anticipated downturns. More effective cashflow management will help stabilise the business, as well as ensure the business emerges from the recession in a stronger position and cash positive."
"Julia Boggio Photography is a Sage small business customer. The business has experienced first hand why accurate cashflow forecasting is a must. They used Sage 50 Accounts forecasting tools. MD Julia Boggio says:
'When I was reviewing our cashflow forecasts in November of last year, I could see there was a dip due in February. We reorganised our finances, cutting down on advertising and came up with an alternative contingency plan, which we put in place. This ensured we were well positioned to account for the dip and even enabled us to have a better February than the previous year."
"More than half of the 2,000 small businesses polled by Sage in our monthly Omnibus survey said they had been impacted by late payments over the past year. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills reported that more than 4,000 businesses failed in 2008 solely because of late payments.
"It is critical that start-ups and all other businesses to remain aware of exactly how much money they are owed and when payments are due. This helps to prevent late payments in the first instance. However, if they do occur, good management can ensure that they do not have a damaging effect on the business's overall cashflow. These are all aspects that business accounting software can help you get to grips with."
"Make sure all your employees – if you have any – are kept informed about the state of the business's cashflow. This will hopefully prevent them from making purchases your business cannot afford. At times you might be waiting for a large invoice to be paid, so you may have to put spending plans on hold.
"Create accurate cashflow forecasts for the year ahead. It will enable you to plan for the future. Forecasts allow you to identify potential cashflow crises, for example, be identifying periods when your costs exceed your revenue. At such times, your business might need to seek financial help. To be fore warned is to be fore armed."
Brendan Flattery is the Managing Director of the Small Business Division at Sage UK and Ireland
Things are stacked against smaller enterprises in so many ways when it comes to winning business. Getting that all-important first customer, having the financial muscle to fulfil sizeable orders and being 'allowed' to bid are all factors that SMEs face or have faced.
It's crucial to focus on the areas of strength within a business. There are many and maybe we can discuss others in future posts. But for today, I wanted to raise the question of cold-calling: often a necessary evil. I'm lucky because my calls get screened by colleagues, but occasionally a salesperson gets through and I sometimes accept that the caller is simply doing their job, so I take the call and listen. 'Listen' being the operative word, because invariably these callers talk at me with little consideration for me the person on the other end of the line.
They tend to all make the same mistakes. My name is on a list of thousands, and the caller is just working down the list. Twenty seconds earlier they did not know I existed, and now they are trying to sell me corporate hospitality at Wimbledon. They don't know what we do as a business. And they don't have the most basic grasp of whether I have any requirements or even whether I can spare a couple of minutes to hear what they have to say. And when a stranger asks 'How are you?', you know it is a tele-sales person.
How can this help a small business? Of course, some SMEs need to do cold-calling. But they are probably not doing it in call-centres. And they are probably not selling hotel rooms today and IT solutions tomorrow. So they should know their products inside out. They should also have some personal experience of how people use, or benefit from their products. And in small teams, perhaps even with the owner/manager or MD sitting with them, can prepare their calls, discuss and agree the sort of questions that should determine whether the prospect might be interested. Some call centres work on a numbers game. Bash the calls out and the sales will come in eventually. But SMEs can offer something in the way they sell that mirrors what they hope to deliver - a more personal service.


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Denise Gibson-Franks, 50, Director, C.O.D.A. (Cleveland Ohio Dog Advocates).
"Five years ago, my husband and I considered selling our inner-city home to move to a more rural location. Then the foreclosure next door put a stop to that idea. Nobody wanted to live near that eyesore. Thieves broke in and stole everything of value, including the plumbing fixtures.
"Once, I went to pick up my husband, and when we got back 20 minutes later, the empty home's large front window had been shattered. Things were even worse on the other side of me. The owner had all but abandoned the house, and kids broke in, plugged the drains and turned on every faucet, flooding the whole place. The water seeped into our yard. Then someone set the house on fire; the whole top was charred and gone.
"After the owner tore down the remains and cleaned up the lot, my husband and I paid him five grand for it, so it's become a great garden and dog run. But now two more homes across the street are nightmare situations. Investors bought them for cheap, fixed them up just enough to rent them and haven't done any maintenance since. The weeds grew about six feet before the city came and took care of them. Since I run an animal rescue organization, I'm trying to deal with the many pets that have been left behind. The decent people still keep their property up beautifully, but they have for sale signs posted. They all want to get out, but no houses are selling."
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I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my laptop and recently brought my software up-to-date (through Update Manager). Since the update, I can't use any of network services. During boot-up it shows messages like "waiting for network configuration" and "booting without network configuration", even though my Ethernet cable is plugged in. On the right upper corner, the icon for network connections doesn't exist anymore, so there's no WiFi either. Should I simply reinstall Ubuntu or is there some other way?
Note: My laptop is dual-booted, and everything runs fine in Windows 8.


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PUPILS at a Rock Hill school returned from half term to take part in two days designed to make maths exciting.
Youngsters from St Peter's RC First School were set challenging and exciting maths based activities, which enabled them to apply mathematical skills they had learned, in practical ways.
Amongst the activities set by teachers were exploring the school on a maths trail, solving problems in Teddy Town, and even designing imaginative maths hats to wear.
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I've been sent an invitation to a Trello board, it's pending and although I've tried to accept it nothing is happening. I then tried to reject it, so that the board owner could resend a new invite... I am also unable to reject it. I have view of the board but cannot be added as a member by the owner because I'm unable to accept the invitation. Has anyone had this problem and how do I resolve it?
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Arie Luyendyk Jr. shot to the top spot of America's (and Canada's) sweetheart list and literally stole millions of hearts after recently appearing on "The Bachelorette." But in the racing world, he's known as a powerful and genius racer who has successfully battled in the Indianapolis 500, Indy Lights, and IndyCar. Go, Arie!
Next up? Luyendyk is racing trucks in Robby Gordon's thrilling new Stadium Super Trucks series. The racing champ took a time out to talk about everything from the secret to racing trucks 30 feet in the air (yes, fact)...to whether or not he'd date a fellow racer...to what racing life is like behind-the-scenes.
MM: Do you have a pre-race routine or superstitions?
Arie Luyendyk Jr.: I'm not really a superstitious person. The track is hectic with fans and sponsors, so I get alone time before the race - maybe 15 minutes - to think about the race and what I'm going to do.
MM: Being a race car driver sounds glamorous, but what actually goes on behind the scenes?
AL: The time in the car is really cool, but racing is so much work. I'm a salesman first and race car driver second. Racing is a huge business. On the business side, you have to market yourself, take care of sponsors, put the budget together.
MM: How do you prepare for racing trucks - sometimes 30 feet in the air? Madness.
AL: It's a transition. With IndyCar, you can go through the corner and get faster and faster and build up to it. With trucks, you're either going to make the jump or not. It's not going as fast as you can and them jumping. It's very technical to make sure the truck lands properly. You have to get used to being 30 feet in the air. I've definitely crashed a few times [laughs]. It's 100% aggression.
MM: What's the difference between racing cars and trucks?
AL: There are things I take from racing a car that I apply to trucks. I've done a complete career 180. Before with the cars, I was used to a big race track. Now I'm racing in stadiums, with dirt and jumps. Our events are pretty short – 20 laps. In IndyCar days, it was 2 hours with pit stops.
The SST series is growing and I'm happy to be a part of it from the ground up. It's getting more fans. I'm turning Team Arie fans into race car fans [laughs]. Racing isn't a sport that translates well on TV, but every person I've taken to a race has loved it. Going to a race is a great experience. I'm back to doing what I love and I want to get on the podium.
MM: Would you date an SST driver?
AL: There aren't any female SST drivers right now. I've never dated a female race car driver. If she was cute like Danica [Patrick] then yeah [laughs].
MM: Your father is a legendary race car driver. What's the best thing your father has taught you about racing?
AL: He's very cool and supportive. In racing and in life, he's always said you're going to lose more than you're going to win. Take failures in stride and be patient and believe in yourself otherwise no one will.
MM: Does regular driving make you nuts?
AL: I drive pretty slow on the road. I get all my aggression out on the race. If I haven't raced in a while, I get aggressive [laughs]. Otherwise, I drive like a Grandpa. I'm not the traffic menace people think I am.
MM: What's your goal with SST?
AL: You have qualifyings, heat, and main race. I won a heat race against 2 of the fastest guys. That was cool. As a personal goal, I want to get on the podium and get my first win. The field is full of talented and brave guys. It was risky trying this, but I'm at a point in my career where I wanted to try it and I hope to continue the upward momentum. I'm stoked.
MM: Are you thinking Indy next year?
AL: I still have that dream. I'd love to do that next year.
MM: The racing industry is unbelievably cutthroat. What makes you such a successful racer?
AL: When it comes to racing, you either have it or you don't. I've been lucky in my career. If you're a good racer, you can win at anything. I look up to guys like Robby Gordon, he's a great all around driver. That's what I aspire to.


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Position: LB
Height: 6-0 Weight: 220 lbs.
Born: May 28, 1945 in Sandersville, MS
High School: Sandersville
College: Southern Miss (school history)
Drafted by the Boston Patriots in the 9th round (75th overall) of the 1966 AFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 14 (6050th overall since 1950)
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I used to work with
BeyondCompare and it was able to compare
*.class files by configuring it to run a decompiler before comparison.
Is there something like that for
WinMerge? Or a plug-in that can do it instead?
I used to work with
Is there something like that for
I have spent the day writing a DLL plugin for Winmerge to do this - it isn't the world's greatest thing, but it gets the job done.
Takes the filename, splits it into directory and class name, then calls javap for each class file. It is rather slow unfortunately (javap's fault I'd say).
I have put the DLL here:
Absolutely no licence, warranty, etc. No trojans or virii either. I will get around to cleaning up the source and putting it up somewhere (probably with the winmerge project people).
Create a "MergePlugins" directory where your winmerge executable is and put the dll in there. It is automatically activated on *.class files.
The hardest part was working out how to launch javap, windows programming is just so awful.
It would be nice if winmerge compared the files before unpacking them to see if they are different - that would save a bit of time. Maybe this can be accomplished in the plugin somehow but as I said I really just hacked this together as quick as I could.
Oh I should mention you will need javap on your path.
EDIT: Source code is here: http://www.locusia.com/winmerge/unpackjavaclassfiles%20source.7z Built using visual studio 2005 - Adapted from DisplayBinaryFiles plugin which is available with winmerge source package.


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Cats can get along and should. It may take a little coxing, but it can be done. Here's how:
Separate the cats, if need be, and gradually reintroduce them over a period of a few days or weeks time. Place the more aggressive cat in her/his own room with food, water, litter box, bed and toys. Feed the cats on both of a closed door, so that they become familiar and accepting to each other's scents with something pleasant such as good quality cat food. After a few days, permit them to sniff and look at each other through the cracked open door. If that goes over well, the next day try letting the aggressive cat out on a supervised visit, then continue with the following steps. Go slow and easy, let the cats choose the speed at which they are reintroduced and never force the cats to interact with each other. Separating and reintroducing the cats is typically only necessary if the fighting is regular or if they are fighting hard enough to cause injury.
Employ the felines in play-therapy to burn off hostile energy and improve the cats' self esteem. Playing with the aggressive cat will teach her/him to direct her/his vigor toward a healthy object, such as a catnip mouse or rubber ball, rather than his/her kitty companion.
Since cats want to feel like triumphant hunters, playing with the picked-on cat will boost her/his confidence and help her/him stand her/his ground if the other cat becomes intimidating.
Play with the cats separately, in the beginning, behind a closed door if you must, and bit by bit play with them in nearby rooms, then in the same room, then play with them together. A couple of 15-minute play sessions per cat every day are a great start, and you can increase that if your cats like it. Praise them at the end of each play session, and give them a treat or so that they feel like they earned something.
Give the cats a reason to like each other by giving them a treat and praising them whenever they are peacefully in the same room together. Use the treat to lure the cats closer to each other, but stop if the cats seem nervous or hesitant.
Sidetrack the cats if you think one is about to attack the other. Idyllically, try to engage the aggressive feline in play to direct her/his energy somewhere else. If that won't work, close a door or else try to separate the cats before they can begin fighting. As a last alternative, make a loud noise, such as clapping your hands or shaking a tin can filled with pennies to startle the cats and break up a fight.
Pay lots of attention to both felines, when you are alone with one or when they are in the same room together. Contented cats that feel loved are less likely to fight.
You should comfort the picked-on cat after an attack, but most expectedly he/she's going to be too afraid to want any attention. Play with him/her or pet her if he/she'll permit it, or try just sitting in the same room together. Let him/her hide under the bed for a while if that's what he/she so chooses.
Make certain there are enough water and fool bowls, litter boxes, toys and cat trees for every cat so that they don't have to go halves with if they don't want to.


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"Still watching and waiting"
We are still closely watching the nest for any sign that the third egg has hatched. With the depth of the nest bowl and the very attentive adults it can be difficult to get a clear view. The initial pip was noted on Sunday March 21st. Hatching can be an exhausting ordeal for a young chick and can be a somewhat prolonged process. Both adults continue to incubate the egg as they brood the two chicks that have hatched.
Prior to beginning to hatch the young bird absorbed all of the remaining yolk. The yolk is fat-rich and provides the chick with much needed energy. The digestion of this fat also provides a source of metabolic water (water created as a by-product of the break-down of fat).
While the length of time we've been waiting may be causing concern it is too soon to draw any conclusions. We will continue to watch and update the blog with any developments


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There are several methods to use free map services for visualizing a list of point-features. I found this wizard for instance at the gmaps samples. It uses a published Google Spreadsheets document and puts the listed features on a map. This method is a clever way because you can use Google Spreadsheets to hold, manage and edit your data and don't have to go through the map publishing process over and over again when you update your data.
The problem with that wizard is, that you have to know the coordinates already. So it won't help if there is just a list of addresses without coordinate information. You must geocode (assign coordinates to each address) your items before you can put them on a map with this method. And if the map should be shown somewhere else, you'll need a Google Maps API key, which is tied to exactly one url-string.
Luckily Yahoo! invented the Pipes: I put a quick Pipe together which allows you to geocode addresses stored in a Google Spreadsheet.
Here is how it works:
- Enter a list of addresses in Google Spreadsheet. Here, for instance, is a list of shops in Vienna where you can grab a free copy of biber.
- The column "Name" identifies the name of my features and the column "Address" holds the address to geocode. If you want to use another structure, you should clone the pipe and adjust the Regex-module to match your needs.
- Publish your Google Spreadsheet as Atom or RSS feed (click the link "More publishing options" in the "Publish" section), e.g. the biber feed
- Enter the feed url into the "Google Spreadsheet feed url" field and hit "run pipe"
- A Yahoo! Map showing all your (successfully geocoded) addresses should be produced
Alternatively you can take the GeoRSS feed or KML-file from the Pipe and display it in Google Earth or put it on a Google Map (and embed it into a blog post).
Yahoo! Pipes are simple, yet powerful, and I think it should be possible to modify the Pipe in order to return a table containing coordinates. There is already a JSON output by default. Regarding the geocoding limit, I'm not sure which number applies for Yahoo! Pipes.


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My last 20-something.
I had another birthday. It was simple but very lovely indeed. I've never had a bad birthday. My birthdays are always amazing.
My friends spoiled me first. I invited everyone out celebrate with me for dinner on Friday night since I wouldn't be around on Saturday. A whole heap of people came out and we had a huge table full of people making me feel super special for the evening.
That would have been enough – celebrating an epic meal with friends – but some of my friends decided to get me super epic presents as well!
My Canadian friends Hugh and Peggy (and Jasmine and Rowan) gave me a beautiful songbook. I couldn't believe they were giving me such a treasure and my mouth hung open as they gave me their own songbook. I leafed through the pages as I found songs that I knew and loved and looked at songs I have never heard before. I was mesmerized. I completely ignored everyone else. (PS – you should check out Peggy's awesome blog, floraandwhanau.com)
My friend, and boss although I don't treat her like it, also made me this completely incredible shawl. No matter how many times I photograph it, I can't take a picture that does it justice. Perhaps I will get a better picture of it soon but I needed to put one here this weekend. She used the most beautiful, soft, wool and the intricacy of the pattern just intrigues me so much. I wore it all day on Friday and I received so many compliments. Probably because it was the nicest piece of clothing I was wearing.
Josh and I went away to Maruia Springs for my actual birthday – both the NZ day and the America day. I decided that since I live here now, I deserve two birthdays – the one here and my actual USA birthday since I was born in America. One day a year, I should have two days all to myself. So Josh gave in this year and gave me my birthday weekend at the Japanese hot springs and treated me like a princess.
I came down with a pretty horrific head cold once we got there. Perhaps it was my punishment for being too greedy or maybe it was just the world's way of testing me for being too optimistic on every single birthday ever but I still had such an incredible day. At one point I started to feel a little bit sad because it was the first birthday that nobody actually sung Happy Birthday to me on my birthday but then my parents sent me a video of them singing Happy Birthday to me without me even saying anything and Josh ended up singing Happy Birthday as we were going to bed at night and all was right with the world. My family is incredible and I am just the luckiest girl in the universe.
I don't know how I really feel about turning 30 next year. My younger sister Corinne keeps calling me an old fart which I think is quite ironic being that she's only a year and a half younger than I am. My students found out that it was going to be my birthday and guessed that I was turning 24. I was flattered, of course. They are high schoolers so I decided that they should know better especially if they are guessing so close to my age. Next year my dad and I turn 30 and 60 exactly 1 month from each other. I am thinking that we will need to plan something big. Events like this don't just go under the radar, don't they?
I will miss being 28 only because it was my lucky number. It was a lucky year and I will always remember it fondly. I am optimistic about what is to come.


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If the current downturn in construction has led you to believe a career in the construction industry may not be the best choice, you may want to rethink your decision, according to Jon Waldhuetter, dean of apprenticeship at Moraine Park Technical College.
"Construction industry experts are predicting a gradual turnaround in the economy in the latter part of 2009 and early 2010," said Waldhuetter. "As the construction industry begins to fire up again, the need for an experienced workforce is going to be there."
And down the road, jobs will become available as Baby Boomers retire in the next 10 to 15 years; they presently account for more than 60 percent of today's construction workforce. The Construction Industry Institute (CII) reported in October 2008 that "the number of qualified construction workers will be insufficient to replenish the aging workforce that has begun to retire."
In addition, Waldhuetter said the Construction Labor Research Council estimates that each year for the next decade, the construction industry will need to hire 95,000 replacement workers and another 90,000 new workers nationwide.
Another concern related to the retirement of the Baby Boomers is reflected in the amount of knowledge and experience they will take with them when they leave the workforce. As reported by the CII, construction organizations "have a great deal of experienced individuals who are over 55 years old." These experienced workers will be replaced with a workforce that will be 35 years old and younger.
To prepare for this workforce deficiency, as work begins to gear up employers will look for knowledge and experience. That makes now the ideal time for individuals with an interest in construction careers to get the necessary experience, education and training today so they will be employable tomorrow.
"The perfect time to investigate a construction career is now while times are slower," said Waldhuetter. "There are countless career options. Individuals can seek information from technical colleges, labor organizations and employers. Learn about the variety of occupations within the field, and consider taking classes that provide theory, knowledge and experience."
Moraine Park offers two one-year technical diploma programs that are designed specifically to prepare workers for careers in the construction industry. The Building Trades Construction Worker program not only teaches construction theory, but also exposes students to carpentry, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, welding, CAD and safety. "Hands-on experience is paramount in the instruction provided," said Waldhuetter.
Focused on the construction electrical career, the one-year Electricity technical diploma also takes advantage of hands-on learning to rapidly prepare individuals for employability in the industry.
"For the right person willing to invest time and effort into training and investigation, and with the desire to build a knowledge and experience base in the trades, future employment opportunities appear good in the construction industry," said Waldhuetter.
For more information about Moraine Park's programs in the construction trades, go to www.morainepark.edu and click on Academics.
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It is now time for the US to ban animal testing on cosmetics. 94% of all animal testing is done for the sake of makeup, toiletries and household cleansers. This needless torture which involves burning, blinding, maiming and killing dogs, cats, bunnies and mice is absolutely unconscionable and must end. We can't call ourselves a humane nation until we stop these institutionalized practices of animal cruelty.
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From a career on Wall Street working as a senior executive for one of the world's largest financial institutions to four spine surgeries screaming for mercy while laying in hospital beds, the words in this book are for all of those suffering from chronic pain.
Whether physical or mental, pain can and will consume you if you allow it to. Only you can begin the process of healing, and my hope is that this book will inspire you to harvest an eventual inner transformation through which peace and harmony abound and self-indulgence and ego become emotions of the past.
Healing starts from within. No pill or drug can duplicate the power within you.
Here is to the unleashing of that power.
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Rich DeSalvo worked on Wall Street as a senior executive for several of the world's largest financial institutions for over 25 years. After a life-changing injury, he decided to start an independent consulting/public speaking firm. He also lectures widely on the lessons he's learned as a chronic pain sufferer, as well as conducting workshops with sales professionals. Rich DeSalvo lives in northern New Jersey with his wife, Anne and their two children Melissa and Matthew. This is his first book.
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Counting rows is an ubiquitous operation on the web, so much so that it's often overused. Regardless of misuse, there is no denying that the performance of counting operations has an impact on most applications. In this post I'll discuss my findings about the performance of DB2 9.5 and MySQL 5.1 regarding counting records.
For those of you who are not into science fiction, let me clarify that the odd title of this post is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the great novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.
I connected to the database, created the table, imported the data and benchmarked counting operations using ActiveRecord in a standalone script. Here is the code I used:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "rubygems"
require "active_record"
require 'benchmark'
:adapter => :mysql,
:username => "myuser",
:password => "mypass",
:database => "mydb")
ActiveRecord::Schema.define do
create_table :people, :force => true do |t|
t.string :name, :null => false
t.string :fbid, :null => false
t.string :gender
t.string :profession
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
# This can be sped up by performing an import instead
Person.transaction do
File.open("person.tsv").each_line do |line|
line = line.split(/\t/)
p = Person.new
p.name = line[0]
p.fbid = line[1]
p.gender = line[6]
p.profession = line[17]
n = 100
Benchmark.bm(26) do |x|
x.report("Count all:") { n.times { Person.count } }
x.report("Count profession:") { n.times { Person.count(:profession) } }
x.report("Count females:") do
n.times { Person.count(:conditions => "gender = 'Female'") }
x.report("Count males w/ profession:") do
n.times { Person.count(:profession, :conditions => "gender = 'Male'") }
Please note that importing records in a huge transaction containing hundreds of thousands of INSERT operations is far from the most efficient way to import. Massive imports of data using the load/import facilities provided by each database is the way to go (also see the ar-extensions plugin). The lengthy import wasn't benchmarked here though, so it isn't determinant for this article.
people.tsv is a 92.7 MB tab separated values file that contains 875,857 records from the Freebase project (in my file I removed the header line, leaving only records).
For those who are not familiar with ActiveRecord, the queries executed behind the scenes are (in order):
SELECT count(*) AS count_all FROM people
SELECT count(people.profession) AS count_profession FROM people
SELECT count(*) AS count_all FROM people WHERE (gender = 'Female')
SELECT count(people.profession) AS count_profession FROM people WHERE (gender = 'Male')
While the table definition (for MySQL) is:
CREATE TABLE `people` (
`id` int(11) DEFAULT NULL auto_increment PRIMARY KEY,
`name` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`fbid` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`gender` varchar(255),
`profession` varchar(255)
) ENGINE=InnoDB
As easily verified by enabling logging with:
ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)
Without much further ado, here are the times I obtained on my last generation MacBook Pro 2.66 GHz with 4 GB DDR3 RAM, and 320 GB @ 7200 rpm hard disk, running Mac OS X Leopard:
Count all: 42.467522
Count profession: 52.130935
Count females: 54.575469
Count males w/ profession: 64.046631
Count all: 5.818485
Count profession: 7.714391
Count females: 8.556377
Count males w/ profession: 9.656739
Or in graph form:
That's an impressive difference. To be exact, in this example DB2 was between 6 and 7 times faster than MySQL. In the case of COUNT(*), DB2 counted almost a million records in 58 milliseconds, or in about the blink of an eye according to Wolfram Alpha.
For those who are skeptical, please note that DB2 was not manually fine-tuned in any way. The client codepage was set to 1252 to allow Greek letters, and the log size was increased to permit such a huge transaction during the import. That's it, no optimizations were attempted. This is DB2 Express-C out of the box. It looks like smart androids count electric sheep with DB2 after all. 😛
The advantages of DB2 over MySQL when dealing with a massive volume of traffic are well known (and not limited to performance either), but DB2 can dramatically improve performance even for your average web application. And DB2 9.7, which will be released this month, increases the performance and the ability to self-tune itself to the available resources and required workload even further. If you'd like to try DB2 Express-C for yourself, you can download it here. It doesn't cost you a dime to obtain and can be used for development, testing and production absolutely free of charge.
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I would like to see postgres, could you include it in your benchmarks?
I'd like to second david's request for a postgres take on the benchmarks.
In addition to Postgres, I would be very interested to see similar benchmarks for other MySQL table types than InnoDB. Could you add such tests and update your article?
Wow, very nice. I'm also very curious to see postgres.
Given that the gender column has only two possible values despite being a varchar, shouldn't this have an index? It would be interesting comparing performance numbers with and without indices.
Unfortunately this is a known limitation of the innodb mysql backend.
Mysql's innodb backend doesn't cache "select count(*)" requests. So while db2 is able to simply return the last result from it's cache, mysql has to actually count the number of matching records by traversing the index.
If you were to do searches with a randomly changing "where" clause, you'd find the numbers closer. That's contrary to your article's intent, of course, but it'll be more accurate. I generally do "select count(*) from some_table where foreign_key_id = 123" – so doing a similar query will give us additional data.
Some of the other mysql database backends do return cached results, afaik. But activerecord defaults to innodb for transaction support.
Have a look at this – "way back" from 2006.
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/12/01/count-for-innodb-tables/ for more information.
And this has some explanation of why:
It is widely known that COUNT(*) is not InnoDB's strength. Try MyISAM just for kicks
Other than that, there's so much wrong with micro benchmarks like this. It gives people the wrong ideas. I hope these kinds of comparisons are only taken into account when *all* other things are equal — and they rarely are. Or more elaborate: http://jan.prima.de/~jan/plok/archives/175-Benchmarks-You-are-Doing-it-Wrong.html
Can you repeat this for DB2 on the iSeries?
MyISAM cannot be called a RDBMS backend; it is nothing more than a file handler, which is why it has always been fast, it provides no Relational or Database Services. If that's all you want, then fine.
@Robert The only point that MyISAM makes is that it uses a cached index number where InnoDB will do an index scan. yet another proof of the silliness of micro benchmarks.
This benchmark can be translated into: "how long does it take to repeat the same COUNT query 100 times." This is a naive (at best) benchmark that doesn't tell me nothing about the database potential. But anyway, if you enable the query cache in MySQL, the repetition of 100 queries is at least three times faster than DB2.
set global query_cache_size=1024*1024;
and repeat this test.
Moreover: the table structure doesn't correspond to the data from the freebase project. These androids don't strike me as extremely reliable …
What about posting the database configuration settings? I fully agree with Jan, that this article is a primary example of how silly micro benchmarks are and how misleading. DB2 does NOT need this kind of posts to be recognized as a great database. It all depends on the context and the use-case and this article is ignoring context.
Now, I'm not a PostgreSQL expert, but it is my understanding that PG will create bitmap indexes /on the fly/ to satisfy such lookups on non-indexed columns.
This would make a tremendous difference in such a scenario, especially when the query cache is disabled in MySQL.
Gender is a low cardinality column, so bitmaps are extremely useful with such data.
So if PG is creating the bitmap indexes dynamically, that shows why this is faster, and is a good argument for the feature.
Would you kindly provide PG and MySQL explain plan for your queries so that we may figure out what is going on?
I took a look at the feature, and it seems that PG will dynamically combine indexes using bitmaps. I guess this is similar to the 'index merge' functionality provided by MySQL.
Wow. I shouldn't read things in the middle of the night. DB2 not PG. Oops.
*slaps forehead*
Yes, but you still didn't address the point. The way your queries were performed acted precisely on the LEAST efficient operation you possibly could have chosen for MySQL. Regardless of whether it was done on purpose, it does skew the results.
Were you to add indexes, and count on indexed fields rather than (*), the performance for InnoDB in MySQL goes up dramatically. In one case, where I had a huge database (millions of records), the difference was between a full 10 minutes using count (*) and only a couple of seconds using count (indexed column).
Perhaps DB2 would outperform MySQL anyway, but, unintentional as it may be, this was still not a valid comparison. It is rather like racing a Ford sports car against a Chevy sports car, when the gas pedal on the Chevy has a block underneath that only lets the pedal go part way down.
I am surprised and amazed how many people are saying that InnoDB is lousy at COUNT(*) so, Antonio, you should use MyISAM instead. Isn't the point of measuring things to compare them and to identify strengths and weaknesses? So, if Antonio did a benchmark that found that MyISAM did not do subselects very well then people would cry wolf and say you should have done this with InnoDB?
I think the benchmark is right on. If you are a Ruby on Rails programmer it is helpful to know how fast your object.count method will perform with MySQL vs. DB2. Majority of RoR programmers use MySQL and object.count is a common operation.
To be clear, what I am saying is: Yes, this was just a "micro-benchmark", and one should not read too much into that. However, under the circumstances, this benchmark does in fact NOT show what it purports to show: that DB2 is GENERALLY faster than MySQL.
My initial reaction to this result is that it was a 'bad benchmark' because a significant difference was reported without explanation. And my first guess was that DB2 cached the table in the DBMS buffer cache and InnoDB did not because of different configurations.
My reaction was probably wrong and Antonio may have found an interesting result and something we need to investigate for MySQL.
Is DB2 that much more efficient than MySQL/InnoDB? Note that MyISAM is slower than InnoDB when there is anything in the WHERE clause that prevents it from using the codepath for fast count(*) queries.
When I run 'select count(*)' on a table with a similar size and no indexes, the query takes ~0.4 seconds which is close to the result here. Maybe DB2 is that much faster on count queries and we need to fix MySQL.
From oprofile, these are the top 4 functions:
25.0744 rec_get_offsets_func
19.3973 row_search_for_mysql
11.1162 buf_page_optimistic_get_func
10.1157 mtr_commit
I find it hard to believe that any Rails app would use MyISAM tables, unless the developers don't plan to use transactions (scary!) AND they have no intention of using WHERE clauses. In which case, maybe they can replace both MySQL and DB2 with a flat file or two.
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According to an Apr. 6 report from SB Nation, Daniel Bryan was the big winner at Wrestlemania 30.
Bryan, 32, defeated Triple H in the opening bout at Wrestlemania 30, which earned him a spot against Batista and Randy Orton in the main event.
Just two hours later, Bryan emerged victorious in the Wrestlemania 30 main event by pinning Batista.
Against all odds, Bryan is now the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.
Orton, the former WWE heavyweight champ, wasn't much of a factor in the Wrestlemania 30 main event, as Bryan neutralized him with leg kicks and strikes to the body.
Bryan has been held down by the WWE for several years now, since he's not the prototypical pro wrestler. Standing just 5-foot-8, with a meager 215-pound body frame, Bryan is a bit undersized to be a WWE champion.
However, WWE Universe absolutely loves him and the WWE brass couldn't hold him down any longer.
In the days and weeks ahead, it will be interesting to see how the WWE plays it with Bryan as champion.
Part of Bryan's appeal is that he's a lovable underdog. Now that he's world champion, he loses some of his appeal as an underdog.
Can it work with Bryan as WWE heavyweight champ? Time will tell how the situation plays out, but most WWE fans think it'll be just a matter of time before the belt gets stripped away from Bryan by another tricky scheme from Triple H.
Also on the Wrestlemania 30 main card, Brock Lesnar snapped The Undertaker's 21-year Wrestlemania win streak, and Cesaro won the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal.


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Observed Onboard: Silly Weather Complaints
October 4, 2013 | By Sue Bryant | No Comments
I was sitting in a café on a beautiful day in Vienna back in August when a large gentleman sporting a river cruise line tour excursion sticker bellowed across the next table to anyone who would listen: "We're never coming to Europe in summer again. It's too hot. Vienna is too hot. And Venice smells." I suggested they try a round-Britain cruise. "Always rains," he sniffed.
Of course the elements won't always behave as you want them to. At the tail end of each season, particularly, the weather can have its way, as passengers in Alaska found last week when ships had to skip both Ketchikan and Sitka.
But some cruisers just don't get it. They don't prepare for inclement weather and they won't accept it when it comes, resulting in some very comical whining. Cruise Critic member Lady_chew comments on the message boards of a recent trip to Alaska (a place of snowy mountains and glaciers, don't forget) that she had encountered a 50-something lady shivering in shorts, complaining, "$*#@!! If I'd realized it was going to be so darn cold up here I would've brought some warmer clothes!"
In another complaint from Alaska, according to a list of silly cruise complaints issued by travel agency BonVoyage.co.uk, a male passenger demanded compensation for the warmer clothes he had to buy after failing to 'get an impressive tan' and being unable to 'swim in the swimming pool each day'.
Member GulfCstLdy heard a classic weather complaint on a European voyage: "I hate this cruise. How come the Captain didn't wait until it wasn't foggy to go past Gibraltar? I was supposed to be able to see Europe and Africa at the same time!"
What's a cruise line to do? Carnival's blogging cruise director, John Heald, mentioned on his Facebook page that he'd come up against this problem of being unable to predict the weather only last week. A passenger had complained that Fun Times, the daily program, had got the forecast wrong and was demanding complimentary laundry for her wet clothes. Others were also up in arms because it had rained. Heald wrote on Facebook:
"Now, tomorrow in Le Havre, it is supposed to be 24 degrees and sunny but I am taking no chances. Here is what the guests have in their Fun Times for tomorrow:
Expected Weather: Sun, cloud, heavy snow, thunderstorms, fog, mist, hail, lightning, hurricane strength winds, lunar eclipse, a plague of locusts. High 112F. Low – Bloody Freezing"
Let's hope the passengers saw the funny side.
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Pakistani troops shelled border outposts in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday night, killing one Indian soldier and wounding six people, Indian media reported Wednesday.
Pakistan and India agreed in their leaders' meeting in September on the need to stop exchanges of fire in the Kashmir region but the two countries' forces have remained engaged in operations.
Pakistan's Defense Ministry, meanwhile, said Wednesday Indian border forces carried out intense firing and shelling of Pakistan army posts at the border known as the "working boundary" near Sialkot during the last two days.
Spokesman Maj. Gen. Asim Bajwa said Indian forces resorted to unprovoked firing on 31 posts in the Pukhlian, Chaprar, Harpar and Carhwah sectors.
He said that the Indians fired 4,000 mortar shells and 59,000 machine-gun rounds.
"Pakistani troops have effectively responded to the Indian firing," he said.
According to the Pakistani military, two civilians and one ranger soldier have been killed and 26 civilians injured at the working boundary and the Line of Control during the last two weeks.


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Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for system administrators, based on Debian testing. Today marks the release of Finnix 100, the sixteenth release of Finnix since its beginnings over ten years ago.
Finnix 100 comes over a year since its previous release, Finnix 93.0, and introduces a new version scheme, with future versions incrementing numerically. Finnix 100 includes updated upstream Debian software, and Linux kernel 2.6.32. The finnix-thumbdrive utility has been removed in favor of UNetbootin, which can take a Finnix ISO and extract it to a bootable USB drive without needing to boot Finnix first. PowerPC support has been officially dropped, though future PowerPC releases may be made on a one-off basis. The last PowerPC release, Finnix 93.0, will continue to be distributed through finnix.org and should continue to be useful for some time.
The Finnix store has been discontinued, and in its place is a free sticker service. High quality vinyl stickers can be obtained by sending a donation to Finnix, sending a self-addressed stamped envelope, or sending trinkets. Please see the free sticker page for more details.
Finnix is the best distro for sysadmins I've ever used!
Thanks, Ryan! Long live Finnix!
Not sure if I'd like finnix or not but I do know that my powerpc computer is still functional, so the more dists the better.
I hope 1GHz, 1GB ram, 80GB hd is still plentiful in the year 2011...
Hey, if you could throw together a finnix-ppc for those of us still with ancient powerpc technology from the olden days it sure would be nice ;)
Very upset powerpc version is not longer supported. The x86(32/64) evil shadow is over our heads more and more, and now over finnix too.
May I help you? You said you have no time to build and test PowerPC releases, and that this is the main reason to drop PowerPC from Finnix.
I can build and test. I can report bugs, even with patches.
You think there's a pity of us? On my tiny channel (only 10 KiB/s), I got >14.0 on FinnixPPC 93.0 torrent seeding! Forgot them, and forgot anybody who does direct download too.
Do you really think we must stuck with old versions of software (I'll never buy x86 machine, you know, and most of us too.) Do you know that we choose GNU/Linux on PowerPC also because it gives us hope to not to be abandoned? I can personally understand Fedora and even OpenSuSE (who dropped us absolutely silent), but I can't understand you.


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Canon Pixma MX512 Review and Ratings
Our Verdict: This entry-level all-in-one inkjet prints, copies, and scans well, if relatively slowly. Considering the features you get for the price, it would be a good value were the per-page cost of ink not so high. Read More…
- What We Liked…
- Low price for its feature set
- Good-looking printed, copied, and scanned output
- Easy to set up and use
- What We Didn't…
- Somewhat sluggish
- High cost per page
Canon Pixma MX512 Review
By March 30, 2012, reviewed
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Get out your printer scorecards, boys and girls. Just when we think we have more than enough all-in-one (AIO) printers to choose among in Canon's wide family, the printer stalwart introduces a few more Pixma models.
Here in early 2012, the new ones are three low-cost, business-centric units: the $79.99 Pixma MX372, the $99.99 Pixma MX432, and (the subject of this review) the $149.99 Pixma MX512. These new Pixma multifunction machines all print, copy, scan, and fax, and they come right behind three other similarly priced, photo-centric AIOs: the Pixma MG4120, MG3120, and MG2120. (We tested all three in recent months; click the links for the individual reviews.)
Apart from Canon's "MX" designation in their names (which indicates that these printers are intended for office use), what sets these new Pixmas apart—specifically, what makes them home- and small-office AIOs—are two features not found on the MG models: the ability to send and receive faxes, and an automatic document feeder (ADF). An ADF allows you to copy, scan, or fax a multipage document without intervention.
While these three new Pixmas look a lot alike, the higher-priced MX512 has, as you'd expect, the most features. For the extra $50 over the $99.99 Pixma MX432, you get a 2.5-inch color LCD, support for printing from most popular memory devices, automatic duplexing (that is, unassisted two-sided printing), and a few other options not found on the other MX models. Of these three new AIOs, the Pixma MX512 offers the best range of productivity and convenience features at a reasonable price.
In our tests, the Pixma MX512 printed, scanned, and copied documents and images in exceptional quality. It and the other two MX models are certainly not speed demons, however. A few competing models in this price range, such as the $149.99 Brother MFC-J825DW, do print faster, especially with business documents. If speed is what you're after, you'd do better spending a little more for a higher-volume AIO, such as the $299.99 HP OfficeJet 8600 Plus.
Overall, the Pixma MX512 is a good little business machine. Our only real concern is this model's per-page cost of operation, in terms of its ink cartridges. (We've got more on that in the Design section of this review.) The trend in the inkjet AIO market of late has been toward lower costs per page (CPPs). This model runs against that. As a result, this printer is a good choice only if your small or home office has modest print and copy requirements, but the prints you do need to make must be top-notch quality.
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July 30, 2010
Arturo Martinez, associate dean in Milwaukee Area Technical College's Pre-College Division, recently participated in a meeting in Washington, D.C., that brought together representatives of the U.S. Department of Migrant Education, High School Equivalency Program (HEP) and the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP).
As part of the meeting, Martinez met with Martha J. Kanter, under secretary in the U.S. Department of Education. She oversees policies, programs, and activities related to post-secondary education, vocational and adult education, and federal student aid and is the first community college leader to serve in the under secretary position.
Martinez is past president of the National HEP/CAMP Association. HEP and CAMP have existed since 1967 and 1972, respectively. HEP and CAMP are educational programs that serve students from migrant or seasonal farm worker families. HEP helps students who have dropped out of high school get their GED, and serves more than 7,000 students annually. CAMP assists students in their first year of college with academic, personal, and financial support. CAMP serves approximately 2,400 migrant participants annually. Overall, nearly three-quarters of all CAMP students graduate with baccalaureate degrees.


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`Forty Flames to Follow' for 2013-14: Ian Lewandowski
July 11, 2013
CHICAGO –Coverage of UICFlames.com's 'Forty Flames to Follow' summer series continues on Thursday with freshman baseball player Ian Lewandowski. The right-handed hurler worked his way into the starting rotation after just six weeks into the 2013 season. His talents were noticed by the opposing Horizon League coaches as they voted him on the conference's All-Newcomer Team.
Lewandowski made his collegiate debut in the Flames' season opener on Feb. 15 and was immediately put to the test. UIC held a 2-0 lead against nationally-ranked Texas A&M as Lewandowski's number was called in the eighth inning for some relief pitching. The freshman stepped up to the challenge and retired four straight Aggie batters, setting the stage for teammate Alex Posey to come in for the save and ultimately the victory. The win was UIC's first triumph over a ranked-opponent in nearly three years.
Middle relief was Lewandowski's calling card for the next month-and-a-half until he was given the nod on March 30 against Western Illinois. In his first collegiate start, Lewandowski tossed 8.2 innings, struck out four batters with no walks, allowed zero runs and picked up the win. Needless to say that Lewandoski had secured his spot on the weekend rotation for the remainder of the year.
The Naperville, Ill., native ended the season with a 5-3 record, while limiting opposing batters to an average of .260. His 77.1 innings pitched was the second-highest tally on the team and his 3.26 ERA ranked third among regular starters as did his 39 strikeouts.
With Lewandowski and first-team All-Leaguer Tomas Michleson returning next season, the UIC baseball team will house arguably one of the best pitching staffs in the Horizon League.