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Im Luis Alvarez better known by my alias Lord Astaroth.I wanted to bring you this story is not well written nor is the full thing is just events that are gonna happen and I want people to help me with constructive critics so I can get better at writting horror stories since this is my first.
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Free Form Ratatouille Tart - Donna Hay
Margaret. chose a free-form ratatouille tart for the Donna Hay group to make. I was excited about this choice. I stay away from making gluten-free pie shells because I am not comfortable with the dough. This is one area, I have not had real success.
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Next time I plan to use mushrooms as well. Looks delicious. All those lovely veggies.ReplyDelete
The great thing about this little tart was that the vegetable choice was excellent, but you can also change it around a bit. All so simple to do. Looks great. Interesting to hear about your crust choice...another way you can adapt so many of her recipes to fit your needs.ReplyDelete
Looks terrific Chaya. I accidentally left out the fetta but it was still good.ReplyDelete
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In order for small enterprises to realize the goals of an application maintenance outsourcing (AMO) initiative, it is important to ensure that the AMO provider is meeting the service levels outlined in the AMO service level agreement (SLA). One effective way to track provider performance is through the use of a performance scorecard (PSC).
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I am about to attempt my first tiered stacked cake for a friends wedding. (i will make a practice one first) i was wondering how does everyone support their cakes? i have heard about dowling rods but are there any other ways? also i assume you only use one cake board at the bottom of the cake? any help would be great thanks. x
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1 cake board is NOT enough for the bottom of a 3 tiered cake. You need something much stronger. You can use wood, foamcore, cake drums, etc.
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For the bottom, I use cake drums.
For my first three tier cake, I used a thick cake display board for the bottom, then thinner carboard cake boards between each layer. Internal support for the bottom layer was plastic dowels, I used straws for the middle layer, and since I had to transport it I put a sharpened wooden dowel through all three layers (twist and push to get it through the boards in between the layers). It survived many bumpy roads to get to its final destination! Good luck


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What can we do if our lawyer is not acting competently?
Our 92 year old attorney for the family trust is showing signs of dementia. He is handling a stock portfolio and sale of property from our grandparents. He has been the family lawyer for over 50 years. How can we find out what he has done with our accounts? He has not answered any of our questions and has been hostile over the telephone. We live in another state and our monthly stipend is 3 months late. These payments help with the care of our mother who has Alzheimer's. My husband is her sole heir and primary caregiver. There is no money to hire another attorney. There are also no other family members who live in California who could make an in-person visit for us.
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While there's something admirable about staying on the job at the age of 92, there's nothing to be admired about ignoring a client's requests. In fact, the behavior you describe could well constitute the negligent practice of law, which is a fairly serious offense.
It seems likely that your lawyer may be winding down his practice""and this is the time to be sure you get on the radar screen. Your instinct to have others make a personal visit was a good one. But since there are no family members living in California, your best bet may be to contact the State Bar there at www.calbar.ca.gov/Attorneys/LawyerRegulation/FilingaComplaint.aspx.
Explain your situation to the representatives there; I have found that they're fairly responsive, especially on the phone.
Even if you decide not to file a formal complaint against the lawyer, bar authorities will investigate your allegations""and this is very often the action that gets the lawyer to sit up and take notice or to right an ongoing wrong.
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Midnight is the most bewitching hour of them all.…
From Paula Brackston, the New York Times best-selling author of The Witch's Daughter and The Winter Witch, comes a magical tale that is as dark as it is enchanting. Set in high-society Edwardian England, The Midnight Witch is the story of a young witch who faces the choice between love and loyalty to her coven.…
"The dead are seldom silent. All that is required for them to be heard is that someone be willing to listen. I have been listening to the dead all my life."
Lady Lilith Montgomery is the daughter of the sixth Duke of Radnor. She is one of the most beautiful young women in London and engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. She is also a witch.
When her father dies, her hapless brother Freddie takes on his title. But it is Lilith, instructed in the art of necromancy, who inherits their father's role as Head Witch of the Lazarus Coven. And it is Lilith who must face the threat of the Sentinels, a powerful group of sorcerers intent on reclaiming the Elixir from the coven's guardianship for their own dark purposes. Lilith knows the Lazarus creed: Secrecy and silence. To abandon either would put both the coven and all she holds dear in grave danger. She has spent her life honoring it, right down to her engagement to her childhood friend and fellow witch Viscount Louis Harcourt.
Until the day she meets Bram, a talented artist who is neither a witch nor a member of her class. With him, she must not be secret and silent. Despite her loyalty to the coven and duty to her family, Lilith cannot keep her life as a witch hidden from the man she loves. To tell him will risk everything.
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Basically email marketing is the use of email to promote products and/or services. But a better definition of email marketing definition is the use of email to develop relationships with potential customers and/or clients. Email marketing is one segment of internet marketing, which encompasses online marketing via websites, social media, blogs, etc.

Much of the spam email we all get proclaiming 'deals' on this and that is a good example of email marketing at its worst; the mindless email barrage.

Someone somewhere buys an email list (or several!) and sends an email along the lines of "Get ___________ (the product name) for only $_____! (the amount) to everyone on the list – sometimes repeatedly. All this does is annoy everyone and give email marketing a bad name.

At its best, email marketing allows businesses to keep their customers informed and tailor their marketing messages to their customers.

Email Marketing Can Be Personalized

Particular groups of customers can be targeted or even individuals. Offering individual customers special deals on merchandise and/or services on the customer's birthday, for instance, is one example of email marketing personalization (a restaurant in my town sends an email to customers on their birthday, offering 50% off an entree). Email marketing helps a business develop and maintain a relationship with a customer over time that hopefully results in increased sales and increased customer loyalty.

Email marketing best practices include developing one's own email list rather than buying an email list(s), and making participation in your email list opt-in rather than opt-out (using permission-based email marketing). Email should also be optimized for mobile usage, as according to statistics over half of emails are opened on mobile devices.

The Advantages of Email Marketing

The two big advantages of email marketing are price and ease. Emailing is an inexpensive way to advertise your company and its products and/or services compared to many other types of marketing. It's also extremely easy to set up and track an email marketing campaign, making it a very accessible type of marketing for small businesses.

Newsletters can be sent to the email list you've built from the people who provided the necessary information on your website, for instance, providing these potential customers with news updates about your company, upcoming events and/or special offers – and, of course, reminding them that your business exists and that maybe it's time for another visit.

Email Marketing Is Still Relevant

In an age of increasing usage of Social Media for advertising, email marketing still rules the roost, according to a study conducted by HostPapa:

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75% of adult online users say that email marketing is their preferred marketing method

the "opt-in" feature of email allows marketing by consent

email marketing allows targeting by demographics (age, income, etc.)

email messages have a much wider range of formatting possibilities than social media messages

email offers more reporting and analytics capability, such as click-through rates, open rates, bounce rates, and conversions

Ideally, email marketing should go hand-in-hand with social media. Adding social media "Like" or "Share" buttons to your marketing emails gives an additional way for customers to connect with your brand. Snippets of positive reviews from social media fans can be included in emails, and conversely social media postings can be used to encourage fans to subscribe to your email newsletters.

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Mumbai : The Bombay High Court on Friday adjourned the hearing of Shahid Kapoor starrer 'Udta Punjab', a film highlighting the rampant drug menace and its impact on the youth in Punjab, and said it will pronounce its order on the matter on June 13.
The High Court, which is presently hearing a case against 'Udta Punjab', told the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) that the multiplex audience is mature enough, adding that people should be allowed to see the film as everybody has a choice.
During the hearing, the CBFC lawyer informed the court that the words used in the songs of the film are very offensive, the scenes in the movie which have been asked to cut are very vulgar, the dialogue "zameen banjar to aulaad kanjar" is also very abusive and the dog, which has been named as Jackie Chan, which is also objectionable.
Information and broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley had on Thursday said film certification norms will have to be liberal and 'some very radical changes' will be announced over the next few days.
The film 'Udta Punjab' was handed down 89 cuts by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) and its makers have appealed in the Film Certificate Appellate Tribunal (FCAT).
FCAT is expected to hear the case on June 17 when the film was scheduled for release.
The CBFC has contended that ' Udta Punjab', a drug-themed crime thriller, needed several cuts as it cast the state in a bad light by giving an impression that most people there were addicts.
The numerous cuts sparked a confrontation between Bollywood filmmakers, the censor board and political parties.
On the row, Jaitley said, "I think that we are overstating it because at the end of the day, you have a board which takes a view which may be a little conservative view but then at the appeal tribunal, with an appeal, it can get disposed of. My experience has been almost everything then gets cleared."(ANI)


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In the past two installments of the "Grocery Shopping" series, we talked about planning your meals and about making your shopping list. Today I want to explain why it is important to read labels when you are at the grocery store. Not because gluten is hidden in everything… but because almost anything can be labeled Gluten Free! Continue reading
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I'm warm, and responsive, and I have a terrible poker face.
I'm also equal parts artsy and nerd/geek. I like smart, creative people.
I'm also relishing my time outside work. I like heading out into the wilds, but for me, it's not an outdoor gym. I like the fact that I exert myself physically when I'm out there- it feels good. But I've always loved hiking in the woods or in a field. I stop often- listening, looking. So many things underneath our feet.
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Music: Steve Earle, The Rheostatics, Wilco, Metric (and much, much more besides). Consider these compass points.
Food: cheese, chocolate, red wine, coffee (the four food groups)
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They fight a lot, they1 meet up for massive fights, they attack (in worst cases kill) the fans of the opposite football club.
Why we dont see similar fights over basketball, baseball or rugby?
Europe is weird, they like to fight, but at the same time they dress and act in daily life more "gayish" compared to USA.
Its in general of course, i know not all act this way.
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one's who fight have 'firms' that do it almost as a hobby personally dont mind it as they tend to just beat each other up. Best fans in the world are from Europe americans dont have the passion and one thing Im proud for in the uk is the singing. Real songs that 90% of the time are fucking hilarious unlike the americans shitty 'I believe that we will win' (the cringiest thing in the world). Also it's called football every other country apart from america call it football... this is just a personal hate of mine21|10|0
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I'm just starting out in the voice industry. I've done some basic work during my time in film school & high school before that, including trailers and narration. Just recently I finished a freelance videography job for a concert that required a welcome presentation including a narration of show rules. I recorded this with my home equipment and the crowd received it quite well. Being a Film/Video Production Major I have worked with audio recording (home, field, & studio), audio editing, and audio mixing. I've even written musical score for various short films. The point is, I'm starting out in the voice industry but I also understand through experience & study how important audio (especially vocal audio) is to any production large or small. I'm not bilingual or a man of many accents. I'm here to lend you my voice, it's unique, carries well, and is often complemented by many (strangers and friends alike). Give a listen and let's find out if I'm the right voice for you.
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Paul Heyman is probably the best promoter/hype man in the history of entertainment, not just professional wrestling. On the Monday night show of WWE Raw, he stepped into the ring with his longtime client Brock Lesnar and tore into a massive tirade featuring WWE's scriptwriters, the UFC and even Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
He warned the promotion's masterminds to not even think that his client would honor their wishes and lose to a wrestler of their choice like Roman Reigns. Then, he revealed how Lesnar would like to unify the UFC and WWE titles this summer.
Now, wait a minute there. We know a wrestling promoter's remarks about his own product shouldn't be taken seriously, but could a UFC return be on the horizon for Lesnar? If he does, can he seriously reclaim the UFC heavyweight title? The last two times he stepped into the octagon, it was pretty ugly for him. He was TKO'ed both the times – even though Alistair Overeem later tested positive for elevated levels of testosterone. But even in his win over Shane Carwin, he was in trouble and would've lost had it not been for his opponent's poor conditioning.
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With Cain Velasquez injured and there not being much competition, the UFC's heavyweight division isn't as loaded as it was before. Still, it's ludicrous to think that a 37-year-old Lesnar – who hasn't been the same since his bout with diverticulitis in 2009 – can be a competitive MMA fighter, let alone a champion.
So, as much as fans would want to believe Heyman, it's highly unlikely that a noticeable weaker Lesnar could reenter the UFC and outfight the likes of Velasquez, Fabricio Werdum or Junior dos Santos. Of course, a novelty fight a la Ken Shamrock versus Kimbo Slice can never be out of the question considering Lesnar has a tendency of following his heart, but winning the UFC heavyweight title? That's just wishful thinking.
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Suzanne Johnson's Elysian Fields, the latest in the Sentinels of New Orleans series, is due out on August 13. This month we are making it easy to get started with the series by releasing the first ebook, Royal Street, for only $2.99.*
About Royal Street: Royal Street by Suzanne Johnson is the fun, fast-paced first book in the Sentinels of New Orleans, a series of urban fantasy novels filled with wizards, mermen, and pirates. These novels are perfect for readers of paranormal fiction and "fans of Charlaine Harris and Cat Adams" (Booklist) and RT Bookreviews agrees that "for readers missing Sookie Stackhouse, this series may be right up your alley."
As the junior wizard sentinel for New Orleans, Drusilla Jaco's job involves a lot more potion-mixing and pixie-retrieval than sniffing out supernatural bad guys like rogue vampires and lethal were-creatures. DJ's boss and mentor, Gerald St. Simon, is the wizard tasked with protecting the city from anyone or anything that might slip over from the preternatural beyond.
Then Hurricane Katrina hammers New Orleans' fragile levees, unleashing more than just dangerous flood waters.
While winds howled and Lake Pontchartrain surged, the borders between the modern city and the Otherworld crumbled. Now, the undead and the restless are roaming the Big Easy, and a serial killer with ties to voodoo is murdering the soldiers sent to help the city recover.
To make it worse, Gerry has gone missing, the wizards' Elders have assigned a grenade-toting assassin as DJ's new partner, and undead pirate Jean Lafitte wants to make her walk his plank. The search for Gerry and for the serial killer turns personal when DJ learns the hard way that loyalty requires sacrifice, allies come from the unlikeliest places, and duty mixed with love creates one bitter gumbo.
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Mahler's penultimate completed work is unclassifiable – neither song cycle, symphony, nor operatic drama. His penetrating settings of ancient Chinese poems reveal a universe of experience within an individual, our relationship to nature, and the sometimes cruel, sometimes beautiful cycle of life. In an unprecedented move, three of these performances will be staged by our Artist-Collaborator Sharon in conjunction with TEATROCINEMA, a Chilean theater company renowned for innovative interaction between video and live performers.
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For Black Friday American offered to sell miles for as low as 1.77 cents, improving on the bonus they were already offering.
Of course, since December is the New Black Friday theyre running the same offer now through January 3.
Continue reading American's "Best Offer of the Year" on Purchased Miles...
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As California is about to make hen houses roomier to allow birds to move around more, eggs are about to get pricier.
A new law that takes effect next month requires farmers in The Golden State build more spacious cages for hens or keep fewer birds in the ones they have – either of which will cost them extra money. And since this disruption is coming at a time when consumption of eggs is increasing, it will ultimately lead to more expensive produce.
"Wholesale egg prices already average a record $2.27 a dozen nationally, up 34 percent from a year earlier. With the new law, the price Californians pay may jump as much as 20 percent for shell eggs in three to six months," Dermot J. Hayes, an agribusiness professor at Iowa State University in Ames, explained in an interview.
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However, the effects will not be limited to one state only primarily because California is the eighth-largest economy in the world and its laws usually have a significant impact on the practices of industries all over the country.
"You're going to see some really large spikes in the price of eggs in January," said Scott Ramsdell, who owns Dakota Layers, an egg farm in Flandreau, South Dakota. "I think we're going to have a shortage starting Jan. 1, and it's going to get worse until production meets the needs of demand," he added.
While Ramsdell has 1.3 million birds living in seven hen houses, he will build four more cages in compliance with the new law. According to him, the industry's production costs will jump by 25 cents a dozen in the coming months.


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I am honored to have joined with Coldwell Banker Valley Brokers office in Corvallis as a Broker. Since moving to the area in 2012, I have come to love the Willamette Valley life. This is truly an exceptional region and I am pleased to call Corvallis my home.
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I have a 9" round cake that I was planning on decorating tonight. I just realize that I forgot to take it out of the freezer this morning. It is defrosting now...but do you think it will be okay to decorate in an hour or so, still partially frozen? I'm icing with buttercream. Help & comments please!!
I haven't done it yet, but I JUST read somewhere here about someone who actually prefers to begin decorating while it's still partially frozen. She said it was easier to work with it and she had no problems. And that it defrosts pretty quickly anyway.
Hope it goes well tonight!
That would be me that said that about decorating a frozen cake.
You should have no problems. I in fact deliver my cakes cold (not frozen) to events early so they can get to room temp by the time it's time to cut. Delivering cold cakes is so much easier. But I use fondant only for decor so my cakes are primarily buttercream.
If you are covering in fondant i would still fill and crumb coat while cold, but might wait a bit before covering with fondant. It would probably be OK, but because I've never done it before I can't say for certain.


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Jeanne d'Arc
Review by Shogain
"Viva la France!"
Level 5 is a pretty well known developer, and a very well received one at that. Responsible for the makings of the million seller, Dragon Quest 8, and the Dark Cloud series, they bring you Jeanne d' Arc. Jeanne d' Arc is a surprisingly fun game, with a bit of a problem. Especially if you prefer anime drawings instead of...the arts in this game. I'll explain further on in the review. Anyway, to start this review off, I'll do the story section first.
Story - [7.5]
You start out as Jeanne, a simple villager living in Domremy. Living with her are Lianne and Roger, who're very important to her. Right away, the village gets attacked by the English army, and Jeanne seeks to avenge her hometown, with Roger and Liane. As the story progresses, the story gets significantly better. It's really nothing special, in my opinion. The characters have their own personality, and don't seem lifeless. But really, I can't take the story seriously with the character art. It's like they wanted to take the history of France, attempt to do a half-assed anime drawings of the characters, with a typical Japanese rpg story. Overall, the story isn't bad, nor is it boring. I give the story a solid 7.5 out of 10.
Gameplay - [8.3]
Ah, the highlight of the game. Not only is the gameplay charming, it's rather fun and user friendly. If your familiar with strategy rpg games, then you'll easily get used to Jeanne d' Arc's premise. First of all, its a grid-based tactics game, and you choose the units you want to pick for the battles. After you pick them, you move them and strategize ahead. Whether attacking them from behind or using one of your characters as bait, it's all here. Simple, isn't it? Well, there are elements that enhance the game. Such include the burning auras, armlet form, and the unified guard system. First of all, burning auras increase the amount of dmg you inflict when your in a panel that has a burning aura in it. To make a burning aura, you'll simply have to land a hit on the enemy, and a burning aura will appear in the panel behind it. Another element is the armlets. These armlets let the wielders change into a more powerful version of themselves. Only a select few have such armlets. These armlets give them a new look, and new attacks. For the guard system, when your units are together, they take lesser damage than normal, if they were alone. All of this may sound simple to you, but they're actually pretty neat ideas. The gameplay doesn't get boring, nor is it too difficult. I didn't find the difficulty in this game hard at all. In conclusion, I find the gameplay the main attraction.
Graphics - [8.5]
Amazing. The 3-D environments and character models are done very well. They pop out in color, and feel very alive. Level 5 did a fantastic job with the 3-D graphics. But, what they fail at were the 2-D arts. Not only did the character designs annoyed me, the way they attempted at a different approach bothered me more. I really don't know what they were thinking about the character designers they hired, but please, no more. They aren't as bad as I say they are, but wow. Overall, I give the graphics an 8.5 out of 10.
Sound/Music - [8.0]
Outstanding and annoying at the same time. The way they made the music related to France is very good, but it can get pretty annoying afterwards. Like, you'll hear the occasional corny, happy-go Irish/English jig. But enough of that. The soundtrack is still good, and I had no problems with it. The voice actors did a pretty swell job. They matched the characters and their personality pretty well. For the sound, it's nothing too special, but it's still good. You'll hear the gusts of wind as you use a wind spell, or the crushing of ice. In conclusion, the sound/music was good.
Final Word -
If your looking for a fun, and lengthy strategy rpg game, then this is the game for you. Whether you'll like the characters or not, it's your opinion. You really aren't missing out much if you don't play this game, however. Even so, the game was fun while it lasted.
Reviewer's Rating: 4.0 - Great
Originally Posted: 03/13/09
Game Release: Jeanne d'Arc (US, 08/21/07)
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If I'm making a 6 inch cake do I get the 6 inch box or seven? even if using a 1/2inch thick foam board? is this the same for other sizes? anyone know of a site I get get the really thick sheet (1/2 and full) cake boxes from that don't only sell in bulk? Thanks.
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For the past five years, the Bay Area Asian Pacific American Legislative Staffers (BAAPALS) has had very successful Summer Interns Series with our annual mixer, welcoming over 150 interns, students, staffers, and professional leaders from non-profit, government, legal, and private organizations. Our Summer Intern Series provides information and mentorship to summer interns working in the local legislative offices through brown bag lunches and networking events.
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Re: Mullett, Wigfield, Hall, Ashby surnames
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Re: Mullett, Wigfield, Hall, Ashby surnames
Paul Mullett 9/26/00
I have the following information:
Willard Laverne Mullett
b. 06-23-1926 in Ohio per death certificate
d. 03-23-1977 in Ohio per death certificate
Buried:Holly Memorial Gardens, Ohio
Married:Mary Virginia Ashby
b. 12-07-1933
d. 06-17-2000 in Wheeling Hospital Wheeling West Virginia
Buried:Holly Memorial Gardens, Ohio.
Per the newspaper obit it stated that John Ashby was her father this is incorrect.At the time my Father stated that he didn't know the name of her father.I was told by her before her passing on several occasions that her father's name is Howard Ashby and the Birth Certificate states so also.
Harvey G. Mullett, Sr.
b. 05-06-1900
d. August 20, 1971, Ohio
Buried:Holly Memorial Gardens, Ohio
Also death certificate states death date
Married: Eunice Brooks
b. 01-13-1899d. 11-23-1985
John Mullett
b. 1860
d. 1931
Buried:Greenwood Cementery (aka Rose Hill Cementery)
Married: Louise or Louisa Graham
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-2094?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12916076#action_12916076 ] Niels Basjes commented on MAPREDUCE-2094: ----------------------------------------- bq. Changing the default implementation to return false would be an incompatible change, potentially breaking existing subclasses. If you mean with "breaking" : "Some subclasses will see an unexpected performance degradation" . then Yes, that will most likely occur ( first one I think of is SequenceFileInputFormat ). I however do not expect any functional "breaking" of the output of these subclasses. bq. Making the method abstract would also be incompatible and break subclasses, but in a way that they'd easily detect. Yes. The downside of this option is that if subclasses want to have detection depending on the compression I expect a lot of code duplication to occur. This code duplication is already occurring within the main code base in KeyValueTextInputFormat , TextInputFormat, CombineFileInputFormat and their old API counterparts (I found a total of 5 duplicates of the same isSplittable implementation). bq. Perhaps the javadoc should just be clarified to better document this default? Definitely an option. However this would not fix the effect in the existing subclasses. I just did a quick manual code check of the current trunk and I found that the following classes are derived from FileInputFormat yet do not implement the isSplittable method (and thus use "return true"). * ./src/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/input/NLineInputFormat.java * ./src/contrib/streaming/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/streaming/AutoInputFormat.java * ./src/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/SequenceFileInputFormat.java I expect that the NLineInputFormat and the AutoInputFormat will affected by this "large gzip" bug. So expect that simply fixing the isSplittable documentation would lead to the need to fix *at least* these two classes. As far as I understand the SequenceFileInputFormat can only be compressed using a "splittable" compression, so the "return true;" from FileInputFormat will work fine there. Overall I still prefer the clean option of returning the correct value depending on the compression. That would effectively leave the behavior in most use cases unchanged. Yet in those cases where splitting is known to cause problems it would avoid those problems. Thus avoiding major issues like the ones we had and described in HADOOP-6901. For the SequenceFileInputFormat it may be needed to implement the isSplittable as "return true;" Effectively the set of changes I propose (in both the old and new API versions of these classes): 1) FileInputFormat . isSplittable gets the implementation as seen in TextInputFormat 2) The isSplittable implementation is removed from KeyValueTextInputFormat , TextInputFormat, CombineFileInputFormat (useless code duplication) 3) The isSplittable implementation "return true" is added to SequenceFileInputFormat. Given the fact that you cannot gzip a sequencefile I expect this to be an optional fix. > org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat: isSplitable implements unsafe default behaviour that is different from the documented behaviour. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MAPREDUCE-2094 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-2094 > Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce > Issue Type: Bug > Components: task > Affects Versions: 0.20.1, 0.20.2, 0.21.0 > Reporter: Niels Basjes > > When implementing a custom derivative of FileInputFormat we ran into the effect that a large Gzipped input file would be processed several times. > A near 1GiB file would be processed around 36 times in its entirety. Thus producing garbage results and taking up a lot more CPU time than needed. > It took a while to figure out and what we found is that the default implementation of the isSplittable method in [org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat | http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/mapreduce/trunk/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/input/FileInputFormat.java?view=markup ] is simply "return true;". > This is a very unsafe default and is in contradiction with the JavaDoc of the method which states: "Is the given filename splitable? Usually, true, but if the file is stream compressed, it will not be. " . The actual implementation effectively does "Is the given filename splitable? Always true, even if the file is stream compressed using an unsplittable compression codec. " > For our situation (where we always have Gzipped input) we took the easy way out and simply implemented an isSplittable in our class that does "return false; " > Now there are essentially 3 ways I can think of for fixing this (in order of what I would find preferable): > # Implement something that looks at the used compression of the file (i.e. do migrate the implementation from TextInputFormat to FileInputFormat). This would make the method do what the JavaDoc describes. > # "Force" developers to think about it and make this method abstract. > # Use a "safe" default (i.e. return false) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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How-to Make an Underwater Hula Hoop Obstacle Course
Splash into summer fun with a DIY Hula Hoop Hoopla game for your swimming pool
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