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There is a certain set of properties that are not entity specific, but are shared across entities (or aren't part of the entity itself, depending on your viewpoint). node.module currently stores when a node was created and when it was updated, for example, while taxonomy.module doesn't do likewise. For modules who need to process this information (comment.module as a prime example) this should be standardized.
Proposed resolution
Standardize on a set of properties that all core entities share.
The current spec is (work in progress):
- id: The primary identifier
- vid: The current revision identifier
- uuid: The UUID of the entity
- bundle: The bundle of the entity
- langcode:The language code of the language the entity was created in.
- uid: The user ID of the user who created the entity. (By definition this only applies to user created entities, which arguably are most of them, though.) (Note that for users, this refers to the person that created the user itself, i.e. an administrator (or the user itself).)
- created: The time this entity was created.
- changed: The time this entity was last updated/saved.
To support these properties entities should utilize the
entity_base_schema() helper function in their
hook_schema() implementation. (The parameters and return value of
entity_base_schema() have yet to be bikeshedded.)
There is no strict requirement that entities support these properties, but if possible they should. In how far this will apply to remote entities and/or will be made a requirement or be handled automatically by entity.module will be seen when more of the entity API has been fleshed out. For now this is just about standardization of existing (semi-)patterns.
Remaining tasks
Write the patch.
User interface changes
API changes
The following now works:
if (in_array($entity, array('comment', 'file', 'node', 'taxonomy_term', 'user')) {
// $entity->uid doesn't work with 'user' :(
Renaming of existing keys (e.g. 'nid' -> 'id') is held off for #1233394: [Policy, no patch] Agree on a property naming pattern.
Original report by tstoeckler
In #731724: Convert comment settings into a field to make them work with CMI and non-node entities it came up, that comment module needs to know when a given entity was created, or changed and/or by whom. Node module currently maintains that data itself, and comment.module sort of denormalizes it in {node_comment_statistics}. But this information isn't inherently part of the entity information itself. To recapitulate @Crell's famous example, the pizza doesn't have to know when it was made or by whom.
So the idea of this patch is to somehow store and manage these properties on all entities. Note that this is not about Metadata of the Entity itself á la #551406: Centralize entity properties meta data, but about the mentioned "meta-metadata" :). There might be more, but the following came up in #731724: Convert comment settings into a field to make them work with CMI and non-node entities:
- Author/Creator of an entity (prev. $node->uid)
- Creation time of an entity (prev. $node->created)
- Updated time of an entity (prev. $node->changed)
I'm willing to put some work into this, but I've only gotten a glimpse of the whole Entity API picture so far, so I'd like to discuss storage and implementation first.
#1233394: [Policy, no patch] Agree on a property naming pattern
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Comment #1sun CreditAttribution: sun commented
Now that we have an entity.module, we could have this in entity.install:
function entity_base_schema() {
$schema['id'] = array(
'description' => 'The primary identifier.',
'type' => 'serial',
'unsigned' => TRUE,
'not null' => TRUE,
$schema['vid'] = array(
'description' => 'The current revision identifier.',
'type' => 'int',
'unsigned' => TRUE,
'not null' => TRUE,
'default' => 0,
$schema['language'] = array(
'description' => 'The {languages}.language.',
'type' => 'varchar',
'length' => 12,
'not null' => TRUE,
'default' => '',
$schema['uid'] = array(
'description' => 'The {users}.uid that owns this entity; initially, this is the user that created it.',
'type' => 'int',
'not null' => TRUE,
'default' => 0,
$schema['status'] = array(
'description' => 'Boolean indicating whether the entity is published.',
'type' => 'int',
'not null' => TRUE,
'default' => 1,
$schema['created'] = array(
'description' => 'The Unix timestamp when the entity was created.',
'type' => 'int',
'not null' => TRUE,
'default' => 0,
$schema['updated'] = array(
'description' => 'The Unix timestamp when the entity was most recently saved.',
'type' => 'int',
'not null' => TRUE,
'default' => 0,
return $schema;
Comment #2pounard CreditAttribution: pounard commented
Moving those node only properties to every entities is really a good idea. It should definitely be done!
But because the entities can have a different storage, how do you manage to store it for those who would not use the database?
Comment #2.0pounard CreditAttribution: pounard commented
Updated issue summary.
Comment #4Dave Reid CreditAttribution: Dave Reid commented
We should also be adding uuid to this list too.
Comment #5Dave Reid CreditAttribution: Dave Reid commented
Also: bundle. This would also enforce the notion of every entity is published or unpublished which may not be desirable.
Comment #7sun CreditAttribution: sun commented
|Needs work
|» Needs review
I agree with @Dave Reid, bundle + uuid should be part of the base schema.
For the time being, we could comment out the uuid definition, as I'm not sure whether there's any working code for uuids in core yet.
Comment #8Crell CreditAttribution: Crell commented
UUID and bundle definitely. We don't have UUIDs on entities right now, but the Config Initiative has that as part of its roadmap so we should assume that it will happen. I've added those to the summary.
I'm actually not convinced on "status", because it could mean very different things in different entities. Nodes have a 2-state status right now (published, unpublished). Users (should?) have three (active, pending, banned). Taxonomy terms, uh, no idea.
As noted in #1233394: [Policy, no patch] Agree on a property naming pattern I do not support folding all IDs to just "id", but that should be discussed in the linked issue.
Comment #8.0Crell CreditAttribution: Crell commented
Added proper issue summary
Comment #9bojanz CreditAttribution: bojanz commented
I'm actually not convinced on "status", because it could mean very different things in different entities. Nodes have a 2-state status right now (published, unpublished). Users (should?) have three (active, pending, banned). Taxonomy terms, uh, no idea.
Exactly. So -1 on status.
I have use cases for entities that are not language aware, I'd remove that from entity_base_schema() along with status.
Also, why do we always have "vid" if an entity might not be revisionable?
It's terrible that Core right now has entities with bundles that don't map to columns. It breaks EntityFieldQuery and is just bad.
Comment #10fago CreditAttribution: fago commented
Standardizations like this are certainly a good idea. I like the idea of adding a schema-helper function for that.
There is no strict requirement that entities support these properties, but if possible they should.
Yep, requirements are a totally different topic. Still, I'd replace *if possible* with *if adequate*. If something doesn't make sense in a certain situation, it shouldn't be added.
I don't like adding status to terms for the sake of standardizations. If terms have no status, that's fine. Adding something without any meaning just confuses people. (see "if adequate" above).
UUID and bundle definitely. We don't have UUIDs on entities right now, but the Config Initiative has that as part of its roadmap so we should assume that it will happen. I've added those to the summary.
I agree we should plan for uuids. But it's not there yet, so we shouldn't include it in patches for now.
Bundle.. well, I'm not sure whether replacing every bundle key with "bundle" is a good idea. Why should something be called differently just because it's used as bundle property? If I have apples and they should have certain fields depending on the colour, that would mean I'd have to call the colour bundle. Uh?
vid: The current revision identifier
uid: The user ID of the user who created the entity.
I think at #1233394: [Policy, no patch] Agree on a property naming pattern we have an agreement that we want to do away with this abbreviated ids , but use properties like "user_id". Analogously, maybe revision_id or later revision_uuid would make sense to me.
Comment #11fago CreditAttribution: fago commented
It's terrible that Core right now has entities with bundles that don't map to columns. It breaks EntityFieldQuery and is just bad.
Yep, I agree we should enforce bundle keys to be "query-able".
Comment #12Crell CreditAttribution: Crell commented
I suppose nothing forbids us from standardizing on "bundle" as a property name in code, and a bundleLabel() method/property/whatever for the user-facing text (eg, nodes would use "Type"). I think the API consistency is more important, personally. The less work it is to support new "stuff" (fields or otherwise) on "entity interface using things", the better.
Comment #13fago CreditAttribution: fago commented
Still, we'd have to deal with the apple's "bundle" in code instead of its "colour", what makes it harder to write/follow that code. Also, having different UI labels and properties in code is bad for DX as there is no naive association between the UI element and the property any more.
Also, with #1184944: Make entities classed objects, introduce CRUD support we have a method to get the bundle, so why not just use it?
I'm all in for standardization but I think "bundle" is different here than "id", or "language". Id and language are properties that have the same meaning across all entity-types, so using a unique name makes much sense. But "bundle" is an attribute we assign to another property which already has its meaning. Who'd assume that $term->bundle would be the vocabulary?
Comment #15Crell CreditAttribution: Crell commented
Using those sorts of flags for access control is vastly more difficult than you make it sound. :-) For one, it has to be done in the query for listings. empty($entity->status) is too late to do that check. It has to be in the SQL a la the node grants system.
Secondly, empty($entity->status) assumes that:
1) status 0 means "do not show to a certain class of user"
2) status !0 (including negative numbers) always implies "DO show this to all users"
Thirdly, a unified status field assumes that all keys have the same meaning across all entities. But which is closer to "unpublished", "user not yet approved" or "user blocked"? And whichever of those gets relegated to ID 2 would implicitly mean "published", yet I wouldn't consider either of those analogous to published (and therefore, by the empty($entity->status) check, accessible to the world).
Of course, an int value here should be used for only one of two things: boolean true/false (because MySQL has no boolean type) or an actual numeric value. If it's being used for an enumeration, then just storing an int is a 100% guaranteed way to introduce keyspace collisions and ugly bugs. As soon as you have the potential for multiple legit values, the potential legit values become infinite. Someone is going to add a user status of 4 to mean something relevant to them, and then some other module will do the same, and poof, those two modules are now not only incompatible but probably create a security risk. Doubleplusungood. :-)
The only way that a shared status column could work is if were a strict boolean, and that boolean had a very clearly defined meaning that we could logically apply to all entities. The only one I can think of is "available to all users, even anonymous" vs. "available only to selected administrators", aka core's node published state. However, we've already seen how that is insufficient as soon as you introduce any sort of robust workflow system so even there it's a bad fit.
Let's not make a standard out of something that doesn't even fit logically now. :-)
Comment #17dixon_ CreditAttribution: dixon_ commented
I agree with Crell,
status isn't logical nor sufficient enough to make sense at this point. I think we can find another approach for
comment.module and #731724: Convert comment settings into a field to make them work with CMI and non-node entities to track published entities.
I'd like to make this a strict requirement. Introducing a vague recommendation won't help much, since we then will end up doing extra checks for everything anyway.
Comment #19Gábor Hojtsy CreditAttribution: Gábor Hojtsy commented
I wholeheartedly support adding language to the base schema. @bojanz: for the use cases where you have language independent entities, that is what LANGUAGE_NONE is for and the language would default to that unless told otherwise I think, so you should not be bothered that it is there. I think the 80% use case is that an entity will easily have some property or field that has information that is in some language, and at that moment, the language property gets meaning. I think it makes sense to have it there in the default schema for once someone decides to add a textfield to your entity, and bingo there goes the need for language tracking.
Comment #20plach CreditAttribution: plach commented
I wholeheartedly support adding language to the base schema.
Yes, a language callback as the one discussed in #1260640: Improve field language API DX could ignore/override this property in some contexts but it definitely needs to be there most of the time.
@bojanz: for the use cases where you have language independent entities, that is what LANGUAGE_NONE is for and the language would default to that unless told otherwise I think, so you should not be bothered that it is there.
Slightly OT but I think we will need also a LANGUAGE_UNSUPPORTED (
zxx) value for this, see http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-no-language#nonlinguistic.
Comment #21Gábor Hojtsy CreditAttribution: Gábor Hojtsy commented
On only having the LANGUAGE_NONE property we have #965300: Change LANGUAGE_NONE to LANGUAGE_NOT_SPECIFIED; add LANGUAGE_NOT_APPLICABLE and LANGUAGE_MULTIPLE which might be the issue for it or at least related.
Comment #22Gábor Hojtsy CreditAttribution: Gábor Hojtsy commented
Yeah, let's discuss the role of 'und' and 'zxx' in #965300: Change LANGUAGE_NONE to LANGUAGE_NOT_SPECIFIED; add LANGUAGE_NOT_APPLICABLE and LANGUAGE_MULTIPLE.
Comment #23Gábor Hojtsy CreditAttribution: Gábor Hojtsy commented
Tagging for the content handling leg of D8MI.
Comment #24Gábor Hojtsy CreditAttribution: Gábor Hojtsy commented
I've just submitted "Drupal 8 entity property translation BoF" for Drupalcon Denver. If you are going to be there, please comment there so we can figure out the best time to do it.: http://denver2012.drupal.org/forum/drupal-8-entity-property-translation-bof Thanks!
Comment #24.0Gábor Hojtsy CreditAttribution: Gábor Hojtsy commented
Removed 'status' per consensus.
Comment #25Berdir CreditAttribution: Berdir commented
Comment #27sun CreditAttribution: sun commented
Comment #28Gábor Hojtsy CreditAttribution: Gábor Hojtsy commented
UUIDs and langcode were introduced elsewhere on all core entities. Removing this off D8MI.
Comment #29Gábor Hojtsy CreditAttribution: Gábor Hojtsy commented
Note that changed time tracking for stored core content entities is being proposed at #2074191: [META] Add changed timestamp tracking to content entities with a common interface to accompany it.
Comment #29.0Gábor Hojtsy CreditAttribution: Gábor Hojtsy commented
Updated issue summary.
Comment #30Berdir CreditAttribution: Berdir commented
|Needs work
|» Closed (duplicate)
I think we have this covered now through interfaces and field types (created with #2145103: Provide non-configurable field types for entity created, changed and timestamp fields) ?
Comment #31Gábor Hojtsy CreditAttribution: Gábor Hojtsy commented
Well, the introduction of some of those interfaces did not solve storing that data, eg. menu or taxonomy editing is still not accountable (we don't know users and time information). So I don't think this is solved, but it may be fair to say it is out of scope for D8.
Comment #32sun CreditAttribution: sun commented
|Closed (duplicate)
|» Active
I agree — we only standardized the supporting code via interfaces and other magic, but we didn't actually change all implementations and their schema/storage.
That said, at the same time, the base schema of e.g. node entities looks vastly different today compared to what is being proposed in the issue summary. Primarily due to architectural changes in the Entity Field API and Content Translation systems.
Out of all entity types, nodes and custom blocks are still the only ones that have revisions, whereas custom block versions do not record any additional information aside from the content itself (i.e., no authoring info, etc).
Configurable fields still have the same revisions as before, and we have converted (or are converting) more "default" fields of entity types into configurable fields, which might help with making more entity types versioned + follow the proposed standard schema here.
Lastly, there is a parallel track/effort that tries to auto-generate the base schema of entity type tables through their base field property definitions for D8 — in case that effort succeeds, the actual database schema would be completely decoupled, and theoretically, I'd assume it would be very simple to add missing standard properties to all entities.
I still think that this is one of the most important issues around for Drupal as a Content Management System product — because without this content entity standardization, we're lying quite a bit on the "management" part...
Comment #33sun CreditAttribution: sun commented
The concern of potentially missing standard properties on some core entity types just came up in #2060629: Remove hook_schema_alter() from core
Use-case being: (1) Core provides a base/default implementation for a certain entity type. (2) Contrib wants to advance on it. (3) But without having to replace it, its storage, and all data entirely.
The concrete example mentioned: The File entity does not have a 'bundle'. The contributed File Entity module added a 'bundle' column and used
hook_schema_alter() to retain and expose it.
Thus, in order to retain extensibility and flexibility for contrib, every entity type in core should support the discussed set of base properties here. That guarantees that no module has to futz with the base entity schema in order to enable entity features that are available by default for other entity types.
What it won't allow is to add arbitrary custom schema fields to existing entity types, but I think there's a good level of agreement that this should not be supported in the first place, because the schema and data cannot be properly maintained — instead, you can implement custom field items for that use-case.


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|Chemical group or class
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|Locally systemic
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Early infection
|Breadth of activity
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Nine Extreme Moments From The NRA's 2013 Annual Meeting
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During the 2013 National Rifle Association annual meeting, held May 3 - 5 in Houston, Texas, the gun rights organization reaffirmed its hardline stance against any restrictions on firearms and hosted an over-the-top Glenn Beck presentation that depicted one of the NRA's political opponents as a Nazi.
NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre set the tone of the convention with a May 4 speech that warned of a "long war against our constitutional rights" and concluded with a message for media and political "elites" in America: "Let them be damned."
The meeting also involved the adoption of a resolution put forward by fringe gun activist Jeff Knox that stated the NRA will oppose all future gun restrictions. Also featured at the annual convention was a speech from newly-elected NRA president Jim Porter, a hardline gun rights activist, that included the claim that President Obama seeks to take "revenge" against gun owners.
In a freewheeling presentation billed as the "NRA's most important gathering of the year," conservative radio personality Glenn Beck offensively portrayed New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as a Nazi giving the Sieg Hail salute before concluding his hour-and-a-half long "Stand and Fight" speech by comparing the struggles of gun owners to those of the African-American civil rights movement.
Here are nine moments from the NRA's annual meeting that typify the fringe nature of the organization:
"We Shall Overcome:" Beck Adopts The Mantle Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Referencing the Underground Railroad and lunch counter protests, Beck said that he hoped the NRA would join him in a passive resistance movement. At the apex of his speech, Beck stated, "We are the law-abiding God-fearing members of the NRA. We are Americans. And we will be clear. We will stand; we'll march if we have to. We'll stand because we must. But we will not be moved. Our right to keep and bear arms will not be infringed. We will follow the footsteps of Jesus Christ, we will follow the footsteps of Frederick Douglas, Winston Churchill, Thomas Paine, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, [David] Ben-Gurion, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Ghandi, Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King, hear me now. Hear me now. We shall overcome."
New NRA President Jim Porter: Obama Seeks "Revenge" Against Gun Owners
LaPierre: Recent Senate Action On Guns Only A "Skirmish" In "Long War Against Our Constitutional Rights"
Beck Portrays Jewish NYC Mayor Bloomberg As Nazi Giving The Sieg Heil Salute
Beck Compares Obama's Drone Policy To Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
Beck's Warning: "Racists Like James Earl Ray Kill One ... But Histories Show Governments Kill Millions"
Beck Claims Thomas Jefferson Believed Muslims "Will Be The Death Of Us"
Beck claimed that that the Marines received the nickname leathernecks from a garment worn "so you couldn't be beheaded by the Muslim extremists," and claimed that Thomas Jefferson included the following warning about Muslims in his personal Quran: "Pay attention to these people. They are not fooling around and they will be the death of us."
NRA Adopts Absolutist Resolution Against Gun Regulation At Behest Of Fringe Activist
LaPierre's Message For Media And Political "Elites:" Let Them Be Damned"
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Alcoa's (AA) ceremonial kickoff to earnings season was a positive one, with its edging of expectations helping to start fan the market's flames Tuesday.
All three major indices moved higher for a fourth straight day. The S&P 500 was tops, up 0.72% to close at 1652.32. The Nasdaq moved up 0.56% to finish at 3504.26, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average close 0.50% higher at 15300.34.
The big M&A news of the day came from the supermarket sector, where Kroger (KR) proposed a $2.4 billion ($49.38 per share) acquisition of Harris Teeter Supermarkets (HTSI). KR's offer represents a 33.7% premium over HTSI's Monday closing price. KR shares rose more than 2%.
FedEx (FDX) got a 4% push amid rumors that Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital was considering a stake in the deliver services company.
Bookseller Barnes & Noble (BKS) saw its shares rise more than 5% on news that CEO William Lynch resigned effective immediately, taking the fall for disappointing sales of BKS's Nook tablet. Founder and Chairman Leonard Riggio indicated that more changes are on the way.
Sirius XM Radio (SIRI) moved ahead more than 3% after it raised its estimates for full-year net subscriber growth to by 1.5 million thanks to strength in the auto industry, and said it reached the 25 million subscriber level.
Tesla Motors (TSLA) extended its 260%-plus YTD run as it gets set to move into the Nasdaq-100 on Monday, replacing Oracle (ORCL), which is moving to the New York Stock Exchange.
Lastly, shares of IBM (IBM) fell nearly 3% — the biggest loss on the Dow — after the stock was downgraded from "buy" to "neutral" by Goldman Sachs, which lowered its price target from $220 to $200. The move follows a separate downgrade from Barclays, which lowered the stock to "overweight."
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Australia's general insurance industry this year probably enjoyed the best period for underwriting profits in its history thanks to low levels of claims and rising premiums, but it may not get much better from here.
A JP Morgan/Deloitte survey found that the industry's average combined ratio in 2003 - a measure of claims and expenses as a percentage of premium - was 93.6 per cent, compared with the measure's historical average of 111.9 per cent.
The survey also found that the general insurance industry, including underwriters, brokers and reinsurers, think premium rates will rise in most classes over the next two years, led by double-digit annual rises in liability classes such as directors' and officers' and professional indemnity.
However, JP Morgan insurance analyst Shane Fitzgerald said that after taking into account claims inflation and higher reinsurance costs, the overall movement would in fact be slightly down. Because of this, further rate increases would not necessarily translate into higher profitability.
The findings come amid debate about how long insurers would enjoy such benign conditions, amid suggestions by some companies that there had been structural changes in the industry to lessen the volatility of the premium rate cycle.
Insurance Australia Group's chief executive Michael Hawker said the exit of mutually-owned insurers in personal lines of insurance meant premiums in these classes were less volatile, whereas in commercial cases of insurance, "not much had changed at all except there has been a drastic shortage of capital".
"Premiums have essentially risen to cover the cost of reinsurance and underpricing of HIH," he said, but those rises had slowed. In these classes, it was possible over the next 12 to 18 months that rates would start to soften again.
IAG was looking to maintain a return on equity of 13 to 15 per cent and an insurance margin of 9 to 12 per cent and any results above this would be returned to policy-holders in the form of lower premiums.
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Chinese security solutions provider China Security & Surveillance Technology (NYSE: CSR) has issued its earnings report for Q4 2008, with net revenues reaching USD 143.5 mln, up 70.5% year-on-year. 2008 full-year net revenues rose to USD 427.4 mln, an increase of 77.9% over the 2007 figure.
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The use, treatment and availability of 'ice' have increased, according to a report released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
'Ice' is the crystal form of methylamphetamine, and is more commonly smoked, however can also be injected, snorted or swallowed.
The report, Trends in methylamphetamine availability, use and treatment 2003-04 to 2013-14, shows that the number of new meth/amphetamine users (including methylamphetamine and amphetamine users) who mainly use 'ice' has increased.
'The proportion of new meth/amphetamine users opting for 'ice', rather than other forms of the drug (for example powder), increased from 26% in 2007, to 43% in 2013, ' said AIHW spokesperson Geoff Neideck.
Treatment episodes for people who smoke amphetamines (including methylamphetamines) increased from 3.4% in 2003-04 to 41% in 2013-14. While over the same period, the proportion of clients who inject amphetamines has decreased, from 79% of episodes to 44%. This suggests an increase in the number of people receiving treatment for 'ice'.
Available information on those who inject 'ice' suggests that more users report the drug is easy to obtain.
While 'ice' use is increasing, meth/amphetamine use in general has declined in recent years.
'In 2013, around 1.3 million people-or 7% of Australians-had used meth/amphetamine in their lifetime, and 2.1% had used them recently,' Mr Neideck said.
'This is compared to in 2004, when recent users comprised 3.2% of Australians.'
The report shows, however, that recent meth/amphetamine users are now using more frequently, especially when 'ice' is the main form used.
'In 2013, 25% of recent users whose main form was 'ice' reported using at least weekly, which was twice as many as 2010,' Mr Neideck said.
Both users and clients receiving treatment are more likely to be male, and the largest age group overall was between 20 and 29. Higher proportions of Indigenous Australians are now using meth/amphetamines than other Australians, 3.1% compared with 2.0%.
Law enforcement data for amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) has shown a rapid increase in production and supply over recent years.
'For example, the identification of ATS at the Australian border increased by 86% between 2011-12 and 2012-13, and a further 18% in 2013-14,' Mr Neideck said.
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Santoka Ramen
I finally made it out to the Mitsuwa Marketplace in Edgewater, New Jersey, on Sunday. The idea of a real Japanese market (something larger than, say, Sunrise) was in itself alluring enough, but the true goal of my journey was Santoka, the ramen shop inside the market. Now, we're not in Tokyo, mind you, but ramen here in New York City inspires fairly heated debate nevertheless. (Unfortunately, the debate is not always very well-informed, but that's another story.) With the arrival of first Setagaya and then Ippudo, the idea of NYC ramen has become exponentially more intriguing. There are some people, however, who maintain that Santoka is still the finest ramen in the NYC area, and I was keenly interested in putting this opinion to the test.
While Santoka serves shoyu ramen and miso ramen, the specialty here is shio ramen, flavored with salt rather than soy sauce. (Apologies for the poor photography, taken with my iPhone as I didn't have my camera with me.) My bowl of shio ramen was slightly on the smallish side, although still acceptable for $7.89, and came adorned with fairly standard accompaniments of chashu pork, bamboo shoots, black mushrooms, scallions and a slice of pink-and-white fish cake. (Plus a little umeboshi in the middle, which, quite frankly, I could do without.) The chashu was very good, but rather on the lean side—perhaps better to bring out the chashu flavor, but somewhat less satisfying in the pure porky goodness department. Still, it was delicious, and the next time I go, I will definitely take the option of super-sizing the porky portion for a few cents more. The shio broth was satisfying, lighter in body and distinctly less complex in flavor than that of Setagaya, but with a pleasing balance and harmony. The noodles themselves, though, seemed out of place in the overall context of the bowl, as they were disappointingly industrial and very ordinary in character.
Overall, Santoka is better than anything in Manhattan that starts with an "M", but the finest ramen in the NYC area? I can't see it. Granted, an assessment based on one bowl of ramen is hardly fair, and I would certainly go back to Santoka for further exploration. But the lackluster quality of the noodles alone should disqualify it from contention as the greatest ramen in the area. The broth doesn't reach the heights of either Setagaya or Ippudo (those are two very different things, but they each attain a higher level within their respective styles than Santoka does), and the chashu is a bit lean, although you might like that if you are averse to pork fat (in that case I might question why you were eating ramen in the first place). I would certainly go to Santoka if I were shopping at Mitsuwa—I might consider it mandatory, in fact—but it's not worth a special trip from the city.
On a completely random note, I managed to get a photo of my four year-old nephew Luca (who has not yet been initiated into the glories of ramen), polishing off a bowl of natto (fermented soybeans) and rice, a bold maneuver that makes him braver than many people ten times his age. Makes an uncle proud.
Santoka, Mitsuwa Marketplace, 595 River Road, Edgewater, NJ
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Wow. Luca is something else! During my stint in Toyko as english language sensei, this round eye never warmed up to natto.
Peter: my friend Jason French--now Chef Jason French--just opened up a restaurant in the Pearl District called Ned Ludd. If you happen to eat there, I would love to hear about it.
Happy Holidays,
- 23 December, 2008 20:02
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Here's to the weather cooperating over the next week! Seattle too has come to a standstill with icy hills, closed streets, and over a foot of new snow.
- 23 December, 2008 23:15
- the vlm said...
Funny, I used to eat at the Santoka Ramen at the Mitsuwa Marketplace in Costa Mesa when I was out in SoCal.
I preferred Shen Sen Gumi, but lots of folks swear by Santoka.
At the Costa Mesa location I found the chashu to be excellent. It seemed to be braised and quite succulent. I also found the noodles to be of good quality, but not the best.
I really would love to hear what you thought of Shen Sen Gumi. It is a slightly different style of broth (from Hakata) but mind-numbingly good.
I'll definitely try Ramen Setagaya and Ippudo. Any other tips?
- 30 December, 2008 00:47
- Peter Liem said...
I've actually never been to Shin Sen Gumi. I've heard a lot about it, but I hardly ever get out to Southern California these days. I'll definitely go the next time I'm there. Isn't it Hakata-style ramen, or at least advertised as such?
In NYC, Ippudo, Setagaya and Rai Rai Ken are the only three ramen shops that I will go to. I would advise avoiding anything that begins with an M (and among the M shops, the longer the name the lousier the ramen).
- 30 December, 2008 19:44
- the vlm said...
Yes, Shen Sen Gumi is Hakata style. Really delicious with slightly thinner noodles.
My experience is the same with the M restaurants. Expensive, crappy Ramen. Show a little respect, please.
Hope you have a great holiday.
See you in Feb?
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In Australia we constantly make the mistake of thinking about Europe as it was in the 1930s, which was almost the last time we really cared about European politics.
As the euro zone crisis grows, there is a lot of nonsense talked about how the rest of Europe is terrified by memories of the Nazi era.
But hear this: the risk in the current euro crisis is not that Germany will be too dominant or that the Nazis will come back, but that German democracy has become so rules-bound, hesitant and consensual that it cannot assume a leadership role.
It is not just me saying this. Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski wrote in the Financial Times this week: "I will probably be the first Polish foreign minister in history to say this, but here it is: I fear German power less than I am beginning to fear its inactivity. You have become Europe's indispensable nation. You may not fail to lead: not dominate, but to lead in reform."
Germany's sheepishness is everywhere. It is written in its constitution, which prevents it deploying troops to anything but the most peacenik of peacekeeping operations.
Germany was not in Libya or Iraq. The President of Germany, Horst Koehler, had to resign last year after suggesting he supported military action against Somalian pirates to protect German trade interests. People accused him of "gunboat diplomacy".
Germany is a shrinking violet on the world stage. A country with the fourth biggest economy in the world has been under-represented in the European Union and international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund.
Those who think the Germans are inherently racist might point to the recent exposure of a far-right terrorist group that was murdering German Turks. But German politicians have been universal and unambiguous in condemnation.
Talk to Germans. They think of themselves as good engineers, they have an annoyingly successful football team and they love their home towns, but they have had the old strains of aggressive nationalism bred out of them.
Now when the Polish Foreign Minister says he wants a more active Germany, he is not calling for Germany to take back Danzig.
What he means, I think, is that he wants Germany to state explicitly and proudly its vision for Europe in the current economic crisis.
Germany should be out there arguing every day that it is not running away from Europe but reforming it. It should be making plain that it is setting very hard but realistic conditions for Italy and Greece to keep receiving assistance.
Germany should present a clear end-game of what it expects from its European partners both in terms of domestic reform and a new system of budget co-ordination to match the common currency.
It should be tough in setting forth its demands, and this would give markets confidence that if the demands are met it will honour its obligations of support.
The rest of Europe would understand this. For instance, Germany has just forced the collapse of
Think of how the US handled debt crises in Latin America. It took the lead and told the Mexicans or the Brazilians exactly what they needed to do to secure US support.
The reasons why Germany cannot be the US are complicated.
The cautious personality of Chancellor
But it also reflects a long German tradition since the war of being team players and rule-writers rather than leaders and creators of facts on the ground. The next week could give Germany a chance to change this trend.
The European Council, the summit of EU leaders, will consider a new package to remake the European system with a fiscal arm to balance its single currency.
Germany should unambiguously declare what it wants and make the case that its cure will help Europe, long term. If Germany is frank in stating its expectations it will at least give the markets a road map to measure progress.
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Myths 3.2 Chickenpox "the disease can be severe"
Filed under: CDC Watch, Parents' Pages, Vaccine Myths, Vaccine/Disease Analysis
Parents who take their children to chicken pox parties have forgotten how devastating this childhood disease can be according to vaccination experts:
"What happens if you bring your child to a chicken pox party and they're the one in 10 who has a complication and is hospitalized?" said Dr. Jane Zucker, head of the city Health Department's immunizations bureau.
We went back to 1951, when chickenpox afflicted millions of children every year in the U.S. to see if complications and hospitalization from chickenpox were common:
In general, chickenpox is a disease of young children and in them it usually runs an uneventful, if uncomfortable, course without leaving behind it any permanent bad effects. In very rare instances, a case of encephalitis or inflammation of the brain may occur after chickenpox, causing such symptoms as sleepiness, stiff neck, convulsions, coma, and even death.
Ordinarily, however, chickenpox is a mild though highly contagious disease…
This view of chickenpox as mild continued to exist in the U.S. for many years as this two part video snippet illustrates. Read more
Vaccine Myths, Round Two
Filed under: Parents' Pages, Vaccine Myths, Vaccine Science, Vaccine/Disease Analysis
Introduction: A while back, we explored some common anti-vax myths. Because in the great vaccine debates, the myths tend to outnumber the facts, we've decided to begin a multipart series dispelling some of the mythologies people argue over which preclude productive discussions over real issues. Below, you will find the facts behind two more common vaccine myths: herd immunity, and whether or not vaccines are profitable to pharmaceutical companies.
Myth: herd immunity isn't real, and all the vaccine preventable diseases were declining in incidence prevaccine
Reality: vaccine induced herd immunity is a real phenomenon, and the incidences of the "diseases of childhood" (measles and mumps, for example) averaged out to be constant in the prevaccine era.
Here's a chart showing the incidence of measles from 1912 till 1960.
Although the "death rate per cases" dropped an amazing amount, the same number of cases were happening per year on average. Read more
H1N1 Influenza in the U.S.
While it's too soon to be sure, influenza numbers are dropping and the season may be coming to an early close. The CDC has these numbers:
During week 51 (December 20-26, 2009), influenza activity decreased slightly in the U.S.
154 (3.9%) specimens tested by U.S. World Health Organization (WHO) and National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (NREVSS) collaborating laboratories and reported to CDC/Influenza Division were positive for influenza.
Translation: of thousands of tested cases of "might be flu", 154 turned out to really be flu, only 3.9% of the total specimens tested. Lots of sneezing and coughing out there, and not an insubstantial number of hospitalizations and deaths for "influenza-like-illness and pneumonia" , but no influenza viruses are the main cause at this point.
2009 H1N1 virus did turn out to be more dangerous to children than the typical yearly influenza virus: the CDC received 225 reports of deaths this year, 130 last year, 88 in 2007 and 78 in 2006.
The breakdown by age:
Since August 30, 2009, CDC has received 225 reports of influenza-associated pediatric deaths that occurred during the current influenza season (42 deaths in children less than 2 years old, 25 deaths in children 2-4 years old, 83 deaths in children 5-11 years old, and 75 deaths in children 12-17 years old).
How likely was a child under 2 to die from H1N1 based on these numbers?
Live births in 2007: 4,317,000, minus 29,000 infant deaths, gives us a starting number of 4,288,000. The number of births has been going up every year for the last few years, so if we assume the same number in 2008 we are erring on the side of caution. We've got a total of roughly 8,576,000 children in the U.S. under the age of two. Forty-two of those children died this year as a result of H1N1, according to the CDC. This means that one child out of every 204,190 died from 2009 H1N1 according to the reported number of cases.
Are the reported number of cases reflective of the true burden of illness? Probably not entirely, but in November, CBS news reported that:
It's a little counter intuitive," Frieden said, "but the best way to estimate the total burden of illness is not to count the cases, but to estimate them based on the best available science."
However, Ashton pointed out, things are very different when reporting pediatric flu deaths. She said states are required to document each case with the CDC, and every week the updated numbers are an accurate reflection of the entire country.
The numbers of pediatric deaths from 2009 H1N1 are based, therefore, on actual case counts in the U.S., during 2009.
Infants and toddlers were one of the groups recommended for the 2009 H1N1 vaccine. However, if saving the maximum number of lives is our goal, then there are several other causes of death in infants and toddlers which we feel should be addressed with a vigor to match the actual death and injury rates for each category.
Among 1- to 4-year-old children, injuries accounted for 42 percent of all deaths, followed by deaths due to congenital malformations (birth defects), malignant neoplasms (cancer), homicide, and diseases of the heart.
Or to give some comparative numbers:
More than 16,500 lives could be saved each year in the United States alone if our under-5 mortality rate was the same as Iceland. If the U.S. rate of under-5 mortality was similar to that of France, Germany and Italy (all 4 per 1,000 live births), over 12,000 child lives could be spared.
The causes of child deaths in the industrialized world differ dramatically from those in developing countries. In the developing world, over half of under-5 deaths are caused by pneumonia, diarrhea or newborn conditions. In the industrialized world, these problems rarely lead to death. Children's deaths are most likely the result of injury suffered in traffic accidents, intentional harm, drowning, falling, fire and poisoning.
Does the Inactivated Influenza Vaccine Even Work In the Recommended Age Bracket?
Filed under: News, Parents' Pages, Vaccine Science, Vaccine/Disease Analysis, WHO Watch
It's that time of year again! Having spent last summer consulting the avian set on what's hot in influenza, the pharmaceutical company has whipped up a fresh batch of flu vaccine, and now they need to move the merchandise! Fortunately, the CDC is happy to help with sales, by expanding the recommendation to ever more age groups. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Policy currently recommends the vaccine for all children aged 6 months to eighteen years. There is just one slight issue that might concern some parents. Peer-reviewed research in The Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Vol. 162 No. 10, October 2008,1 demonstrates that the vaccine is not effective under age 5!
An inherent assumption of expanded vaccination recommendations is that the vaccine is efficacious in preventing clinical influenza disease. Although studies have documented immune responses following 2 doses of inactivated influenza vaccine as well as vaccine efficacy for culture-confirmed disease in randomized clinical trials, surprisingly little information exists regarding influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE) among young children receiving vaccine in routine health care settings.
Sisyphus and the Conjugate Vaccines III
Filed under: Vaccine/Disease Analysis
Part III of a three part series. Parts one and two can be found here and here.
The big question with these conjugate vaccines is "What is the overall effect?"
How many fewer cases of invasive bacterial disease are happening after replacement is accounted for?
The more narrowly you look, the better these conjugate vaccines look. The more broadly you look, the more the apparent effects melt away to nothing. With Hib and "replacement disease", if you just compare h influenza serotype B to serotype A, it would appear that killing off Hib via mass vaccination was extremely successful in the grand scheme of things. When you look at nontypeable (also known as "non capsulated") h influenzae plus Hia and Hif, that's when you start seeing that we're not really any better off now than we were before the Hib conjugate vaccine. Read more


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"We used to look into a user's search history as far as a few months back to choose the search results that would be most relevant to their scope of interests," Yandex said in a company blog post. "Now, we have added a search history of a few seconds to our search algorithm to deliver results and search suggestions based on the 'full picture' of the user's search behavior. "
When Yandex updated the knowledge of users' interests once per day, they started to understand the more-or-less stable interests, such as a love of books or sports, or that they spoke Russian and lived in Saint Petersburg. Yandex stated that more than half of all searches on Yandex are about something that interests the searcher "at this very moment."
In real time, search queries will begin to influence search results within seconds. The search engine can figure out whether a person is looking for a book or a film even if they haven't finished typing [The Great Gatsby] in the search box, for example.
However, to go beyond queries autosuggesting keywords, Yandex stated:
With the new personalized search program, we can offer relevant results even to those who don't have any search history on Yandex. To instantaneously react to changes in users' search behavior, we created a real-time data processing system, which processes more than 10 terabytes of data a day, at up to 500 megabytes per second, continuously correcting its knowledge of users' needs.
To make search results as personal as they can be, we first learnt to take into account users' language preferences and permanent interests. Now, we have learnt how to tell current search intents of our users from their search footprint and give them what they are looking for. Personally.
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I've always been very impressed with Yandex and its technology. When you start to think about why retargeting in search has become such a popular method of re-capturing when someone is back to being interested. Start thinking about the power of the user experience to assist us personally based on that retargeted data and I think Yandex is onto something.
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"The primary focus of this project is to improve highway coverage along McEver Road (in West Hall County) and to provide better indoor coverage in the surrounding residential areas," states the telecommunications company in a letter concerning the effort.
The Oakwood Planning Commission recommended approval of the tower on Monday, forwarding the matter to Oakwood City Council, which will hold a public hearing and take its first vote at a meeting set for 7 p.m. Dec. 9.
Providence Real Estate Consulting of Loganville has filed the application for AT&T.
"AT&T anticipates very limited traffic to or from this site and most often is no more than one visit per month by (a) technician," the company states in a Nov. 6 letter to Oakwood. "There should be no noise except in the event of an emergency power outage, at which time a generator may be activated for a short time."
Also housed at the church at 5135 McEver Road is Maranatha Christian Academy.
Maranatha's pastor, Rod Bell Jr., couldn't be reached for comment.
The tower would "be on the back of the property over by the soccer field in a wooded area," City Manager Stan Brown said.
The Providence letter says property at West Hall High School, 5500 McEver Road, "was evaluated as a potential candidate" for a tower but AT&T engineers "determined that the location would not meet the current coverage objective."
In September, the Hall County Board of Education approved a 245-foot cell tower at Flowery Branch High School, in a 25-year option that could pump $659,000 into the school system over that period.
In an unrelated matter, Arrow Auto Auction, 4712 Flat Creek Road, near the Maranatha campus, is seeking the annexation of an adjacent 13.29 acres into Oakwood and rezoning it from Hall County's agricultural-residential category to Oakwood's highway business category.
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The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today scored the meeting between Philippine President Benigno Aquino III and United States Barrack Obama, saying that the Philippine sovereignty would be trampled on by the deployment of more US troops and ships in the country. Bayan also said that all Aquino got from the visit to Obama were "empty promises of modernization which have been made by past US presidents".
"Aquino is single-handedly reversing the gains from the removal of the US military bases 20 years ago. His foreign policy allows the permanent and continuing presence of US troops all over the country, on a scale unprecedented since the time of the US bases.
No wonder Uncle Sam is happy to welcome him to the White House," said Bayan secretary general Renato M. Reyes, Jr.
"The Aquino-Obama meeting is the culmination of months of dialogue and negotiations that will allow the Philippines to host an increasing number of US troops and ships under a rebalancing program that's focused towards Asia. The stationing of US troops and ships in the Philippines is a greater violation of sovereignty than any of the recent incidents in Panatag Shoal," Reyes said.
Bayan doubts that the Philippines partnership with the US will lead to the building of a minimum credible defense posture such as the one Obama had promised.
Same old-promises
"AFP modernization did not happen after nearly half a century of having US bases. Modernization did not happen during the 13 years of the VFA. What makes Aquino think that it will happen now? The Philippine government should abandon any illusion that armed forces modernization lies with the US. The US will want to keep our military backward, so that we would be dependent on them, thus making it easier for them to dictate on us," Reyes said.
"We will never modernize so long as we are under the US defense umbrella. The US will simply take advantage of our weakness to serve their interests. Obama's speech says it all. For everything the US will get in terms of access arrangements and virtual basing, the Philippines only stands to get an aging US patrol boat from the Vietnam War era," he added.
Bayan said that US commitment to support the setting up of the Philippine National Coast Watch System is not surprising since the US itself has long sought to establish "a seamless interface among their respective maritime security efforts" according to US embassy cables released by Wikileaks.
"Our proposal emphasizes the installation of land-based and sea-based maritime radars and other types of surveillance and identification equipment," says an August 2007 cable from the US embassy in the Philippines.
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"God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all." (1 John 1:5)
"Please, try not to look at all the clutter around here!"
"Sorry – I didn't have time to clean off my desk."
"I can't let you come in my room right now – it's just such a mess!"
We all have been in situations where our living place was in such a mess that it would not have been polite to invite guests in. It is hard to have to say, "I can't let you come in right now." It is not fun to have to admit, "I'm just not ready for company today!" – how embarrassing!
Now, imagine how it would be to live in a room or stay in a whole house that did not have any light. If we cannot keep things neat and clean in the daylight or by the lamplight, then surely we could not keep things neat and clean in the dark! The place would soon become unlivable because of the mess that would start piling up. You might try to clean your bedroom in the dark, but you would not be able to see anything or do anything without breaking or bumping into something. You would probably hurt yourself just trying to get your room cleaned up!
If we want to be able to walk around and live properly in a bedroom, we need to have light enough to see where everything is and light enough to use what is in the room properly. If we want to clean up a mess, we have to have enough light to see the mess!
Have you ever compared your life to a messy house or bedroom? Sometimes our lives get busy and we stop paying attention to the sin problems that are piling up. These sins that we let go can come between us and God. We cannot enjoy fellowship with God if we have unconfessed unrighteousness in our hearts. We let our lives get cluttered and clogged with stuff that blocks our fellowship with God. Sometimes we do not even realize how "dirty" we have let our lives become. We cannot see how messy things are in our hearts!
How can we get a clear view of the mess our sins cause? The Bible teaches us that in order to walk (live) properly and be in close fellowship with God, we have to "walk in the light, as He is in the light." What does that mean – to "walk in the light"? The Bible teaches in 1 John and other places that God is light. Do you walk with God? Do you acknowledge Him (honor and remember His presence) in everything you do? Do you remember that your sin is before Him and against Him, and do you ask His forgiveness when you sin? If you do these things, you are walking in righteousness and light. Everything is clean and clear.
On the other hand, those who reject Christ are without light. They hate light because it reveals all their evil doings. This is how it is for every person who does not have God in his life. He lives in spiritual darkness, and his life is just a mess! He cannot see how much sin has been piled high in his heart. He cannot see what a mess his life is becoming. He does not know what great fellowship with God that he is missing.
If we waited until our hearts were "ready for company," we would never be ready for God to "visit" us. We cannot clean up our own mess before letting God in to see it. On our own, we could never get our lives cleaned up "enough" for God to be pleased with the results. To pass His inspection and to enjoy His company, we have to "receive" Him, let the "light" shine in, and let Him do a cleansing work in our hearts first. Through Christ's righteousness, we can have light to keep on seeing our sin for what it is. We can keep on enjoying fellowship with Him as long as we walk in His light.
God gives the light we need to "see" the mess in our lives. Only through Him can we ever be "cleaned up" enough to fellowship with Him.
My Response: » Have I received God into my heart and life? » By God's "light," am I able to "see" the messiness that sin causes in my life? » How can I keep on walking "in the light"?
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Psalm 62:8 "Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah."
No. Sanctification involves the entire being – body, mind, and soul. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 – And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Sin is an action or attitude that is not pleasing to God. God is righteous and he has given rules and laws to show what displeases him. Our sin nature was inherited by Adam and Eve and it separates us from God. (Romans 3:23) "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." (Romans 6:23) "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
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