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Theory of Elasticity and Stress Concentration
Wiley | Mechanical Engineering | Dec 5 2016 | ISBN-10: 1119274095 | 472 pages | pdf | 25.53 mb
by Yukitaka Murakami (Author)
A comprehensive guide to elasticity and stress concentration
Theory of Elasticity and Stress Concentration comprehensively covers elasticity and stress concentration and demonstrates how to apply the theory to practical engineering problems. The book presents a new approach to the topic without the need for complicated mathematics, and the principles and meaning of stress concentration are covered without reliance on numerical analysis.
The book consists of two parts: Part I - Theory of Elasticity and Part II - Stress Concentration. Part I treats the theory of elasticity from the viewpoint of helping the reader to comprehend the essence of it. Part II treats the principle and meaning of stress concentration and guides the reader to a better understanding of it. Throughout the book, many useful and interesting applications of the basic new way of thinking are presented and explained.
Key features:
Unique approach to the topics.
Encourages the readers to acquire the new way of thinking and engineering judgement.
Includes examples, problems and solutions.
This book provides essential reading for researchers and practitioners in the structural and mechanical engineering industries.
About the Author
Since July 2006, under the auspices of the "Fundamental Research Project on Advanced Hydrogen Science", a 7-year-long project adopted by NEDO, Professor Murakami has managed and pursued research on hydrogen and material property as the project leader in collaboration with National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and is tirelessly working toward the realization of a hydrogen society. His research interests are: strength of materials; metal fatigue; fracture mechanics; hydrogen embrittlement; stress analysis; and tribology. He has published 13 books and over 400 papers. He has been a Director of the Research Center for Hydrogen Industrial Use and Storage (HYDROGENIUS), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology since July 2006. He is currently the Special advisor to Director of International institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I2CNER), Kyushu University. He has lectured Strength of materials, theory of Elasticity for undergraduate courses and Fatigue and fracture for post graduate. He has supervised more than 35 PhD students.
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On How Alliances Are Forged, Broken and Re-forged
Yay, a new story! I hope it's as good as the last one. Unless its a story inside a story. Either way, woo!
w00t!!! IT'S STILL ALIVE!! >:D
@Thundersnow: I'm really glad you chose to start a new tale. The journey of TehGladz has been awesome, but their story has been, let's be honest, quite stretched by now. I'm really looking forward to your next Warcraft-lore based comic!
I think I speak on behalf of all of your readers: Thanks you for your endless work and awesome comics! :) Aka'Magosh!
yay, new story!
To be honest, Teh Gladiators lost a bit of their magic when they hit Cataclysm the first time.
I loved their story at the begining and how they managed to win all their matches in arena (those were pure gold) but I agree with above. I welcome the new story arc or the new story in story or new story in story in story.
By now, we don't realy know any more :D
Maybe we will se some scenes from teh gladiators but some other view from time to time.
Maybe these brothers try out arena for a moment!
Tho bummer spin never got a class in the end :D
Noes :(
But it does seem to bring up The Lost Levels of Mario :p
.... and Spin is a priest.
One legend ends, another one begins. Legends never die.
Umm...the site is tehgladitators.com...
How can it be teh gladiators without...teh gladiators...
Redundancy ftl...
The fuck? If i wanted stories about tauren i would look up Oxhorn or World of Warcraft, Eh? comics -_-
Hey, guys. In the end, for any storyteller (even as confusing and bad one as myself) inspiration is key. I have, unfortunately, lost some wind with Teh Glads and have decided, instead of quitting on you, to illustrate a story I've written a while back.
"A Lost Tale" is a lot more focused and coherent than Teh Gladiators, although fairly different in its nature. Nonetheless, it was done with a lot of inspiration behind it and I'm hoping to translate some of that energy on to you. Cheers!
@Thundersnow Atleast think about gladiators? Who knows if you catch inspiration? Well im atleast waiting for new (or old) story to begin.
Epic! Just epic!! *tries to FFWD to sunday*
I've been reading this comic since like the beginning, and never felt like wanting to post a comment, but i had to make one to say that I'll really... really... REALLY gonna miss the original characters (Mainly Vallant) if they don't appear from now on; I got too atached to them, but I'm happy that you've found a new story and inspiration; Good Luck! I know this will be a great story!
Oooh! Ooooh! Make the main character a brewmaster!
Is it Spin getting his class finally?
a new story!!! and about time too, but i still love the orc and his party, i hope they bring dreanai in the story this time ,they werent even introduced in the last story
ive been waiting for hours... need... new... comics...

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Smartass Kid Trolls Spelling Bee in Epic Style [VIDEO]
I was pretty good in spelling bees when I was a kid, although I do remember one 4th grade incident where I lost over a misinterpretation. The word was 'scene', which I swear I spelled correctly. The teacher must have heard my 'c' and 'e' run together, so that she thought I spelled it s-e-n-e. But enough sour grapes from me, I'm capable of putting it behind me, some 42 years later. (I know where you live, Miss Crabapple.) Check out this video from a spelling bee, in which the kid leads the teacher on for a full 2 minutes before spelling the word correctly.


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"Permanent Earnings of Industrial Firms in Japan --Part I A Cross ] Sectional Analysis (3) --" (in Japanese)
The main purpose of this research is to investigate the rationality of current form of income measurement and reporting in Japan. In this paper, net income is divided into three components: 1) operating profits, 2) gains and losses from non-core operating activities and financial activities, and 3) other gains and losses (taxes and gains and losses from unusual activities). This research investigates whether, given operating profits, other two components have explaining power for the variation of stock prices. The empirical results show that other two components are value relevant and each has indigenous information contents. Therefore, current rule in Japan, which mandates to divide net income into those components and report them separately, has rationality. However, gains and losses from non-core operating activities and financial activities are not independent earnings that have the complete meanings. The results seem to support the view that it could gain empirical meanings only by being added to operating profits and integrated into ordinary income (net income). As reported in our prior research, controlling the noisy factors contained in the components makes earnings information more value relevant. By testing the relevance of earnings components with controlling noises, this research confirms the potential information value of earnings as original data set, which investors process for estimating permanent earnings of firms.
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Letter: Thanks for your thoughts on DL school district
Thanks for your thoughts on DL school district
I would like to express my sincerest appreciation to all who came to the community input session for the support of the Detroit Lakes School District. While it is not easy to make time to attend one more meeting, a number of people made the sacrifice, giving of their time and stepping into the unknown to speak their mind about the direction of our schools.
I choose my words carefully and very intentionally.
The word sacrifice because those that came to the meeting gave of their time and put their thoughts, feelings and ideas on the line. This is not an easy thing to do in this day and time. We all have a schedule full of meetings, kids to run from one activity to the next, not to mention ordinary everyday life that make demands on our time. Then there's the sharing of one's thoughts, feelings and ideas: talk about scary. We did this in a face-to-face manner, no hiding behind a computer screen, no anonymity. What will people think? So to those of you that came and shared your thoughts, thank you!
The word unknown, because this was a discussion led by someone outside the community as a "chainsaw" planning session. As a school board member I made sure to invite many people to the meeting. Each and every one asked me what kind of questions should they be prepared to answer. My response: "I have no real clue, but think about where you want the district to be in 10 years, what we should be teaching, and what the students should be prepared for upon graduation." As anyone that was at the planning session can tell you, these questions never came up directly; rather they ended up as the final outcome by this "chainsaw" planning that discussed what we did well, tried to do but didn't turn out, should have addressed, and shortcomings. Dr. Miles with Big River Consulting conducted the planning session. None of the session was directed by the administration or by the school board. The only control we had as far as this session goes was that we, the school, hired Big River Consulting and in the end, the school will receive the final reports. Everything else was at the direction of Dr. Bruce Miles. I would like to thank each of you for putting your heart and mind into this session.
My thoughts: we had a nice, albeit small, cross-section of the community attend this meeting. We were able to discuss educational goals and visions for our district. We learned the positives of rural education and how many things we are getting right. We learned that we all want to do more for our kids, the differences were the what's and how's.
For those who did not make it to the planning session, again we know it is difficult to make time. Some may not have known about the meeting. Others may have felt that their opinions would not matter or that they didn't have children in the district and therefore were not welcome. This is what I would like to say to you: it is never too late to get involved. The kids in our community are more than worth it. Come to the school board meetings. Keep an eye on the district Web site. Make contact and let us know your thoughts.
For those that gave of themselves: many, many thanks! You are what it takes to grow a community! -- Terrie L. Boyd, School Board Member, Detroit Lakes


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LITERATURE Window at Bergdorff Goodman
Each year I try to make it in to NYC to stroll past the holiday windows. This year I'm super happy about the holidays as I have a Christmas release to help make the season even more jolly. WILD WEST CHRISTMAS is a beautiful Western anthology collection that I hope you'll add to your wish list.
My usual route begins at the toy train sets in Grand Central at the MTA museum tucked behind the grand stairs on the west side of the station. They include a tiny Santa hailing a cab and a stuffed King Kong on the Empire State Building. Then I visit Lord & Taylor on 5th Avenue. Continuing north, I stop at the NY Public Library for their tree and free museum exhibits. Then it's up to Rockefeller Center, Saks and St. Patrick's Cathedral. I always peek at the gems in Henry Winston's windows and Tiffany's is right across 5th Ave.
Near the park are my favorite holiday windows, Bergdoff Goodman. After that, I visit the Plaza Hotel (a wonderful place for high tea) and then head east to Barney's of New York and finally, Bloomingdales. Then it's back to Grand Central for their holiday gift fair in Vanderbilt Hall.
If you'd like to see all the photos of my annual trip to see the holiday windows in New York City please visit my facebook page. For this post I'm only showing my photos of one stop on my walk.
The windows at Bergdoff Goodman are always my favorites because of their visual interest and the complexity of theme. This year their theme was THE ARTS. This one is called Literature and it is packed with wonderful quotes and images of famous authors all in bright shades of pink. I was in heaven!
One of the embroidered pillows had a quote from French poet, Stephane Mallarme reading, "Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book."
Here's ARCHITECTURE
And THEATER
And MUSIC
And ART
There is so much more on my facebook page.
Happy Holidays to you and yours!


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Good fairies and an accidental hero make sure Prince Charming and Princess Aurora live happily ever after in Oak Ridge High School's student-directed production of "Sleeping Beauty," opening next week.
Junior Courtney Wrba, 16, sits in the director's chair for this children's show based on the classic fairy tale. But don't expect this version to mirror Disney's iconic cartoon. Wrba selected a script with a touch of controversy — only two good fairies.
"There's no Merryweather," Wrba said.
Also, a new hero emerges in this version as a sidekick to Prince Charming. He's appropriately named … Hero. What he does to save the day will surprise everyone.
Last Friday the cast costumed up for the first time and as they ran around the stage, looking for boots and props and waving wands, Wrba said she's had a great time directing the young actors. They started rehearsing after the Christmas break.
"They've taken direction better than I thought they would," she said.
Though the director did later confess she's had "issues with fairies fluttering" about the stage. That's a no-no.
This is the first time Wrba has directed an Oak Ridge production. She served as assistant director last year and has acted in several high school plays, including "Guys and Dolls," "You're A Good Man Charlie Brown" and "Rumors."
A broken foot sidelined her ability to be on the stage so she started working behind the scenes, first in lighting and then in directing. "I really enjoy it," Wrba said. "It's fun to be a part of the technical side."
Each rehearsal starts with a cast meeting where Wrba shares her plans for the day. Friday was a big day for the prince, played by sophomore Keith Walisa, 15, and the princess, freshman Olivia Powell, 15. "Today is the kissing day," Wrba said.
The prince's kiss breaks the spell so (no pressure here) it has to be just perfect. "And then it's happily ever after for the happy couple," Wrba said.
The play's ending gets even happier when Maleficent, played by freshman Cassie King, 14, meets her match in the well-intentions but clumsy Hero, played by freshman Colby Harper, 15.
Other "Sleeping Beauty" cast members include freshman Hailee Bernard, 15, as Fauna; freshman Amber Otwell, 14, as Flora; freshman Sean Kauffmann, 15, as King August; junior Magen Fregoso, 17, as Queen Summer; freshman Celeste Carle, 15, as the royal musician; and freshman Alia Crook, 14, as the gift bearer.
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In still picture, I know that I can apply HDR or fill flash approach to balance strong light coming through restaurant's big windows while subject was sitting indoor next to the window.
What about in video ? I was taping people having breakfast in kitchen beside a big windows facing a lake in the morning. Exposure on their faces was correct. But when I zoom out, the scenic outside the window was all washed out.
Anything I can do in the shooting or editing stage that I can balance the extreme lighting situation ? I'm using Adobe Premiere Elements 12.
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You can try the shadow/highlight effect under color correction.
The proper way to do this, while shooting, is to use ND netting on the window and/or add a lot of fill light to the foreground. If bringing a lot of lighting gear and a crew with you are not practical, you may want to consider shooting it a different way. The shot you imagine may be impossible.
Thanks for the tips.
It's a family video, just doing my best to correct the problem, with limited resource.


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" Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Author: Michael McBride / Paperback / 384 Pages / Book is published 2007-10-01 by Snowbooks "
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The first in a three part series charting the events of an all-out biblical apocalypse by following the survivors in their quest to remain as such. Written by Michael McBride, this is a bloodthirsty horror story unsuitable for children, the elderly... everyone else..
Okay let me get this out of the way as soon as possible. This is a bad book. Just how bad I'm incapable of portraying with plain written language. If images help, imagine the experience of having your teeth drilled, but in literary form. Only its a pneumatic drill and they're all out of anaesthetic. Oh and the dentist is some sort of hideous reptile monster. (It'll all makes sense in the end.)
Purchasing this abomination I made the foolish error of just choosing a book from a shop with no prior information about it whatsoever. (Obviously I hadn't joined Dooyoo at this point.) Basing my decision purely on the perceived 'awsomeness' of the blurb and the admittedly grandeur-dripping title. Making a purchase like this is never a smart thing to do. To be fair on my past self though, the book's basic premise remains a solid and intriguing one, its just that this potential isn't fulfilled.
Before I dissect the story, I'll address my main gripe with this book. Its disgusting, and quite needlessly so. There's endless amounts of blood and guts and everything in between. Worse than that though is just a wretched veneer of decay that coats the story's every page. The writer effectively rubs your face in the foul rotten-ness that forms this book's motif. And I don't know about you, but I could do without that.
The title 'God's End' is ambiguous so I'll explain. This refers to the end that God brings (the bastard.) Not the end of God. To the plot then. Well, Its the Apocalypse and all the usual stuff is present and correct. You've got World War III, nuclear holocaust, the four horsemen, plagues, mass-extinction, some sort of Muslim Satan... wait hang on. While the story in part covers the apocalypse in a traditional fashion, it does introduce some innovations of its own. From this alone though I'm sure you'll agree this all sounds misleadingly epic and exciting. How little you know.
The actual meat of the story of The Fall: God's End focusses on a small assortment of survivors as they gradually come to terms with 'the fall.' Eventually coming together amidst its disastrous wake. They are each bound by the curious recurring phrase; "more man tears" and struggle against all the instruments and weapons of God to survive and solve the mystery of it. We are also introduced to two characters obviously fulfilling the saviour and destroyer roles. Think Jesus and Damien, only not. Standing in the survivors way are the jolly old four horsemen themselves. Some imagination has gone into each of the roles. Pestilence unleashes a horde of mosquitoes that kill people by drinking all their blood, for instance. (and yes that's exactly as stupid as it sounds.) Famine's influence causes dead people to return to life as rather silly blood-thirsty lizard creatures. Unfortunately the characters we follow are all so inherently dislikeable or otherwise blank and undeveloped that there's never any suspense as to whether or not the ridiculous leaping lizard men or the dastardly mosquitoes etc, etc get them. As I have suggested already the writer is much more interested in other things than character development. Like stench and decay and look, theres a dead body/ lots of dead bodies. Why not describe that for the next page or so. Part of you wants to be sick and part of you wants to laugh. All the more so as a dumb opening and middle descends into an utterly farcical denouement. Our heroes at one point end up riding dragon-like creatures. A conceit lifted quite shamelessly from Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings with their hippogriffs/giant eagles. And I'll spare you the revelation of what 'more man tears' actually means but rest assured its unbelievably stupid.
The writing throughout is without exception; weak, turgid, and laboured. Punctuation and spelling errors are widespread. Its just a mess in every conceivable way. One source of constant amusement is that there is no use of the word 'lay' anywhere in this book. In every instance the present tense 'lie' is used instead, so there was obviously some sort of Find and Replace mix up on Microsoft Word at some point. And then, what, the publishers didn't bother reading it. Well actually no, that makes sense otherwise why would they have released it?
So you get such grammar-busting gems as this;
"A good half-dozen bicycles lie on their sides.."
Hell, even on the very last page we find this cock-up:
"...even such a force could not knock him from his feet as his studied the armada..."
They obviously didn't care, so why then should we read it, when clearly even they couldn't be bothered to.
The sheer rankness remains the main issue though. Sure blood and guts has its place in fiction. That's not the problem. But it only works when its in context, helping to compliment and further develop a plot. In 'The Fall' this is completely reversed and the plot just seems to act as a flimsy, fleshless (ironically) excuse to facilitate the downright pathetic, fetishistic glorification of horrific violence and gore. Something in which the writer seems to revel. And revel all too much as well. To the point were its actually vaguely worrying. There is a mention of corpses on virtually every other page and believe me no detail is spared in describing them. Fluids are mentioned.
I would definitely categorise this as being of the Horror genre. Make no mistake though, this book at no point ever comes close to anything approaching, say, a sense of foreboding or basic necessities like atmosphere and character development. Pre-requisites if the horror element is to have any impact on you whatsoever. And The Fall has none of those things. Its not scary, in short.
Its all a bit sad really. Any impact the sheer revolting-ness could have wrought is negated by the gradually dawning realisation that what you're reading is little more than the equivalent of a small child scrawling a picture of little stick men stabbing each other, using copious amounts of red ink. You can almost picture the author doing this himself in the margins as he wrote the book, pen scribbling frantically, as he makes accompanying "Uurrrgh" noises.
And of course it gets even worse. There's more of this crap! There are two further books in the story. Fair enough I'll admit to a certain morbid curiosity as to how it all turns out, but on the whole I think I'll pass. Anyone who after reading this feels the compulsion to seek out the second rather than go and be sick is not someone I want to know.
The best way I can think of to describe the process of reading this disgrace of a novel, the only thing I can equate it to; is the pivotal moment in Shawshank Redemption when the main character is forced to crawl on his hands and knees through a quarter mile long, foul, stinking tunnel of sewage. But unlike Andy Dufresne in the film/book you don't come out clean on the other side. No, you emerge feeling bitter and not a little disgusted by the experience. If I've given the impression that this book in some way got to me then I suppose it did. I was just shocked that such a shambolic piece of writing ever made it to the shelves, let alone that they were allowed to write more.
So, to address this book in its own terms then I'll say that its a putrid festering, puss-dripping boil on the face of literature and that I'd rather strangle myself to death with my own intestines than read on further into this terrible, terrible trilogy.*
Aside from everything else I've mentioned this is just an awful book and I actually feel bad to have wasted so many words on it. In fact, can I take all this back and just say "Ugh"? That is an apt summation. Its bad enough that I almost feel like recommending you read it yourself. Just so you can see how monumentally awful it is.
Don't though, for the love of God, don't.
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Prototyping a Community-Generated, Mobile Device-Enabled Database? of Environmental Impact Reviews of Consumer Products
2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2008)
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GreenScanner is a system that helps people engage in environmentally preferable purchasing during their everyday consumer transactions. This system has two parts: a dynamic online database of community-generated environmental impact reviews of products, and a mobile phone application that allows consumers to access these reviews at a point of purchase by photographing a product's Universal Product Code (UPC). This paper describes a prototype of the system that was released publicly in April 2006, and analyzes the results of that deployment. Over its first year of existence, the site received approximately 31,000 hits. However, during that time, only 79 subjective comments were uploaded. This paper analyzes the site's usage patterns, and describes a number of improvements to the system that are currently under way. 1.
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Backpackin' to Hawaii
After reading a blog post at a business website written by a frequent traveler who uses a backpack as his only luggage on business trips, I went looking for a backpack that would allow me to do just that while also meeting my needs for a two-week vacation in Hawaii.
I have to admit, I was initially nervous about my purchase. It seemed a bit large to use as a carry-on bag in an airplane, and technically it is a little longer than allowed. (It fit well in the overhead compartment on the flight from LAX to Ohau, but I had to turn it sideways on the island hopping flights in the smaller jets.)
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From: "Fran Higham" <>
Subject: Re: What's Happened to Genealogy
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:00:01 +1100
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> From: "Sean MacLochlainn"
> > Is Mise Gan Ainm wrote:
> > > What's happened to the Newsgroup soc.genealogy.ireland?.
> > > (snip) How does one get back to just
> > > soc.genealogy.ireland?
(snip of Sean's comment)
> This poor wee fragile shite lister is now convinced that you are little
> than a bombastic thunderous fart.
> A return to tranquility, or the aims as initially envisioned for this
> would be anathema to a dedicated, arrogant cynic, whose transparent claim
> fame is to become known as a controversial disruptive influence, with
> or no moral consience or justification.
I'd say that to specifically target only Sean with this comment is to be far
too narrow. There are many thunderous farts and what the hell is there of
substance of "soc.gen.ire" to actually be bothered getting back to????
I cannot ever recall finding a more generally useless (in genealogical
terms) list than this one. However, it reminds me constantly of the
behaviour of my Irish ancestors. Tetchy, continually argumentative, quick
to take offense, love a stoush (regardless of any assessment of where right
or wrong may lie), don't bother being confused by facts, but stick to
partisan views, only co-operate if it's absolutely compulsory and then only
if there is something in it for one's self etc, etc.
I enjoy it enormously and only infrequently miss reading it since it keeps
me thinking of the family. But when it comes to learning about genealogy,
history, and facts of the place, such as is constantly found in buckets full
on the soc.gen.uk list, well it's a waste of time for probably 99.99% of the
time. Generally, I think that soc.gen.ire is about as helpful as tits on a
canary and thus in much need of plastic surgery.
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WANTED: MORE FTC POWER -- David Vladeck, chief of the FTC's Consumer Protection Bureau, told Morning Tech he thinks the agency would benefit from broader rulemaking authority from Congress. "We're deeply disturbed by abusive practices we see…such as unexplained charges on credit card bills," Vladeck told us. "We've brought a lot of enforcement cases, but we would like to do a rulemaking on that." More below.
FCC DEPARTURE – Bruce Gottlieb, chief legal counsel to Julius Genachowski, will leave the agency at the end of July. Gottlieb, former senior legal advisor to Michael Copps, plans to join Atlantic Media Group as general counsel.
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VLADECK ON FTC -- Expanded FTC powers didn't make it into the Wall Street reform bill that emerged from conference late last month, but Rockefeller and Waxman appear interested in drafting a stand-alone FTC bill to address the Magnuson Moss rulemaking process.
"If there were rules in play…we'd have a much better weapon," Vladeck told us, stressing that these are his personal views, not those of the agency. "We can bring enforcement cases now, as we're doing, but it's not an effective way to go after a fairly pervasive practice. I think it would be much better to have rulemaking authority where we see widespread problems. It would be a much more consumer-protective measure."
CYBERSECURITY CONFUSION – Staff representing the Senate's top players in the cybersecurity debate – Rockefeller, Snowe, Collins, Lieberman, Carper – will begin huddling this week over ways to merge the chamber's top two proposals. But the path forward in the House is still unclear.
The lower chamber's version of the Lieberman-Collins-Carper plan, spearheaded by Reps. Jane Harman and Pete King, is still pending consideration by a slew of committees that all share jurisdiction. And the committee closest to the action – the House Homeland Security panel – plans to introduce its own bill soon, pitched by Chairman Thompson. Meanwhile, a Senate Dem aide tells Morning Tech that it is unclear whether Rep. Jim Langevin, another cybersecurity leader, is writing his own comprehensive legislation. Stay tuned.
IT WILL BE THE HOUSE SCI/TECH COMMITTEE that will take the first stab at cybersecurity once both chambers return from recess next week. The Technology and Innovation Subcommittee announced late Tuesday it had invited industry leaders from EPIC, the Institute for Defense Analyses, the Council on Foreign Relations and Ponte Technologies to its scheduled July 15 hearing – and it promises additional witness announcements to come soon.
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PEOPLE spotted throwing rubbish on the floor or not cleaning up their dog's mess in Brentwood will face a £80 fine.
Brentwood Council are to introduce the fixed penalties which will be lowered to £50 if paid up inside ten days of being issued.
Keith Parker, the council spokesman for the environment, said: "The vast majority of Brentwood residents take pride in their area and help to keep them clean and tidy.
"However, there is always a small number who act irresponsibly.
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Type: Bug
Status: Resolved
Priority: Blocker
Resolution: Invalid
Affects Version/s: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Fix Version/s: None
Component/s: core/index
Windows, Linux, OSX
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My company uses Lucene for high performance, heavy loaded farms of translation repositories with hundreds of simultaneous add/delete/update/search/retrieve threads. In order to support this complex architecture beside other things and tricks used here I rely on docId-s being unchanged until I ask that explicitly (using IndexWriter.optimize() - IndexWriter.forceMerge()).
For this behavior LogMergePolicy is used.
This worked fine until we raised the Lucene version from 3.0.2 to 3.5.0. Until version 3.1.0 merge triggerred by IndexWriter.addDocument() didn't expunge deleted documents ensuring that docId-s stayed unchanged and making some critical jobs possible without impact on index size. IndexWriter.optimize() did the actual deleted documents removal.
From Lucene version 3.1.0 IndexWriter.maybeMerge() does the same thing as IndexWriter.forceMerge() regarding deleted documents. There is no difference. This leads to unpredictable internal index structure changes during simple document add (and possible delete) operations and in undefined point in time. I looked into the Lucene source code and can definitely confirm this.
This issue makes our Lucene client code totally unusable.
Solution steps:
1) add a flag somewhere that will control whether the deleted documents should be removed in maybeMerge(). Note that this is only a half of what we need here.
2) make forceMerge() always remove deleted documents no matter if maybeMerge() removes them or not. Alternatively, there can be another parameter added to forceMerge() that will also tell if deleted documents should be removed from index or not.
The sample JUnit code that can replicate this issue is added below.
public class TempTest {
private Analyzer _analyzer = new KeywordAnalyzer();
public void testIndex() throws Exception {
File indexDir = new File("sample-index");
if (indexDir.exists())
FSDirectory index = FSDirectory.open(indexDir);
Document doc;
IndexWriter writer = createWriter(index, true);
finally{ writer.close(); }
IndexReader reader = IndexReader.open(index, false);
try { reader.deleteDocument(1); } finally { reader.close(); }
writer = createWriter(index, false);
try {
for (int i = 3; i < 100; i++) { doc = new Document(); doc.add(new Field("field", "text" + i, Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED)); writer.addDocument(doc); writer.commit(); }
} finally { writer.close(); }
boolean deleted;
String text;
reader = IndexReader.open(index, true);
finally{ reader.close(); }
assertTrue(deleted); // This line breaks
assertEquals("text1", text);
private MergePolicy createEngineMergePolicy(){ LogDocMergePolicy mergePolicy = new LogDocMergePolicy(); mergePolicy.setCalibrateSizeByDeletes(false); mergePolicy.setUseCompoundFile(true); mergePolicy.setNoCFSRatio(1.0); return mergePolicy; }
private IndexWriter createWriter(Directory index, boolean create)
throws Exception
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Sorry for the test added in description not being formatted correctly. TempTest.java is attached also.
Lucene's maybeMerge, even in 3.1.0, will merge away deleted documents; I'm not sure why you don't see that happening.
Really, when Lucene reclaims deletions and renumbers its documents, is an internal implementation detail. Applications should not rely on this behavior. Can you add your own ID field to the index? Or, alternatively, never delete documents but instead use a filter in the application to skip the documents. Or, in 4.0 (trunk), you could perhaps make a custom codec that "pretends" there are no deletions when merging runs...
Hi Michael,
of course this happens in version 3.1.0 as stated in the title (in parentheses).
Actually, it has never been stated that this is an internal implementation detail (if I can remember correctly). I'm very sure that we are not the only ones who were relying on this behavior. Also, this backward compatibility break wasn't stated in 3.1.0 changes log.
Anyway, we already have an ID field but we can't rely on it for long running operations. Suppose that an index export is in progress while there is a bunch of add/delete/search operations. Or worse, suppose that a batch delete is in progress (driven by a filter criteria) at the same time. I have to say here that we are using only one searcher per index here and also we are working with farms of indexes with size of 3-5 millions of documents per index. I can't even imagine the use of more than one searcher per index here. One searcher per index also gives us the best performance which is our top concern. Another thing. When an admin performs optimization then the index is locked so no one can access it in order to avoid disk overuse.
We also have a deletes filter
It is used as a ram filter that buffers deletes using BitSet and occasionally flushing this buffer to index (deleting documents marked as deletes). This gives us the lightning performance related to both deleting documents and search operation relying on a custom Collector wrapping this filter. If we used an application filter to skip documents than the search would suffer a significant slow down because of communication with an application filter for each document retrieved from index. if we do this than our ultra fast Lucene driven application loses its sense.
The suggestion with a custom codec sounds very promising. I only don't understand if we will have to wait for a Lucene 4.0 release for a custom codec implementation (with maybe an API that allows that) or I need to implement it for Lucene trunk. If I need to implement it for trunk than can you please give me a starting point where to begin from? I must say that I haven't dived deep in Lucene merge functionality. Also, can this approach differentiate between maybeMerge() and forceMerge(). We need to support document removal in forceMerge(), of course.
Greatest regards,
of course this happens in version 3.1.0 as stated in the title (in parentheses).
Sorry, what I meant was Lucene has, forever, removed deleted docs
during natural merges (as well as forced merges); I'm not sure why
in 3.0.2 you're seeing otherwise...
Actually, it has never been stated that this is an internal implementation detail (if I can remember correctly).
I don't know whether this is officially documented anywhere, but it
comes up every so often on the lists and the answer is always "don't
rely on Lucene's docID"... or, rather "rely on docID at your own risk".
Anyway, we already have an ID field but we can't rely on it for long running operations.
I didn't fully understand why you can't use your ID field for long
running operations...
I only don't understand if we will have to wait for a Lucene 4.0 release for a custom codec implementation
You'd have to use Lucene trunk (not yet released) to work with codecs.
If I need to implement it for trunk than can you please give me a starting point where to begin from?
Start here I think?
EG, get a trunk checkout, browse trunk's javadocs, look @ the test cases, etc.
Also, can this approach differentiate between maybeMerge() and forceMerge().
Maybe... eg a MergePolicy/Scheduler knows if a given merge request was
"forced" or not.
Hmm, ran across this searching for something else, should we close
Michael McCandless?
Yes, thanks for the reminder Erick Erickson.


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It was about a year ago when we first started documenting the CNN Senior White House Correspondent's beach shots which he offered all day long. Now, he's back in Honolulu to cover POTUS and once again he's taking full advantage of photographing the sun and surf, rain and lone surfers.
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Medibank is Australia's largest private health insurer with 3.8 million members, 29.1% of the market, under two brands – Medibank and ahm. As the Head of Testing for both brands, Rizwan Javed engaged Planit to help him deliver upon two strategic priorities. The first is providing genuine customer-centred health care that connects people with the health experience they need, through whatever channel they choose. The second is Operational excellence, always looking for simpler, better ways of doing things for members, providers and employees.
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I'm not sure longtime Steelers broadcaster Myron Cope had this in mind when he created the "Terrible Towel" back in 1975. At least this guy never has to worry about being without his towel whenever the need to wave it arises, although the only time this thing will ever actually "wave" will be in 40 years or so when a stiff breeze catches his saggy, liver-spotted arm skin.
The owner of this fantabulous piece of Steelers ink is Anthony Lui, a Tucson, Ariz. resident and self-proclaimed "Boss" in the nationwide Steel City Mafia fan club. His inked version of the "Terrible Towel" cost him all of $160 (plus $60 tip), and the satisfaction of having this historic piece of Steelers memorabilia etched on his right forearm, "flowing from the grip of his clenched fist as if already in mid-twirl," for the rest of his Pittsburgh loving life.
Said Lui…
"I love the Steelers with a passion and I wanted a piece to show the Steeler Pride that's in me! I love to go big or stay home so my idea was a Terrible Towel that took up my whole inner arm! STEELER NATION!"
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Football fun at TTFA youth clinic
Some 80 kids from the Blanchisseuse community came out from as early as 9 am on Saturday to participate in the TTFA/OneWorldFutbol Youth Football Community clinic at the Blanchisseuse Secondary School ground.
President Anthony Carmona was welcomed by T&T Football Association (TTFA) president Raymond Tim Kee and they both joined the kids in singing the national anthem at the start. Each kid received playing gear and the indestructible football was used during the clinic, overseen by TTFA technical director Anton Corneal and assistants Muhammad Isa, Marlon Charles, Desiree-Ann Sargeant, Maylee Johnson and Anique Walker.
"I really enjoyed this clinic. I was taught about football and how to develop my skills. It was a fun day for all of us and most importantly I go to do it with my classmates," said 10-year-old participant Faith Ramkissoon.
Tim Kee stressed the need for the TTFA to continue spreading the game throughout T&T.
"This is such an important undertaking by the association. We intend to take the game to the kids in the various communities and offer them an opportunity to learn more about the sport, to have fun, to engage in healthy activities and perhaps offer our national scouts and coaches some more options in the future," Tim Kee said.
"And while it's about having the kids have fun while playing, there is also a serious side to it because they are being taught discipline and skill. This is all tied into the entire exercise and I am really looking forward to the various camps that will take place in the weeks to come."
Partnering the TTFA in this venture is Coca Cola, Lifestyle Motors, TSTT and BG T&T.
Latapy keen on new role in Scotland
Former national player and head coach Russell Latapy has been given a lead responsibility at Scottish Premier League side Inverness Caledonian Thistle. And that is to develop an entertaining style of play for the club.
And there's no man more certain of Latapy's capabilities that Inverness head coach John Hughes who played with the "Little Magician" during his days at Hibernian. Hughes also visited T&T in 2000 with Hibs.
"The boys are quite upbeat and in good spirits," said Latapy. "They're quietly confident that they're going to go out and do their best, so hopefully we can go and get a result.
"It's difficult to say exactly what I'm going to bring, but my role is assisting in doing whatever I can to make the players better and ensure we get result."
"When you look at the club and what it has achieved over the years, it's a privilege for me to be part of what is happening, to have the opportunity to work with John again," said Latapy.
"Basically, whatever is needed is what I'll be prepared to do.
"But everything takes time. First and foremost, we have to get results because football matches are about winning."
Wolfe wins first cup title in India
Less than a month after joining in Indian Premier League club Churchill Brothers SC, local forward Anthony Wolfe has already enjoyed his first bit of success, helping his club to the Federation Cup.
Wolfe lined up for the defending I-League championship their 3-1 win over Sporting Club de Goa in the Cup final on the weekend.
"I am pretty happy that we won the Federation Cup. We were going into the Federation Cup more as underdogs because we are at the bottom of the table in league. I think it's a great achievement for the club, players and for the supporters as well," Wolfe told the Indian press.
"It encourages the supporters to come watch the team when the team play the next home game and stuff but I think it's more of a motivational step for us in the I-League where we aim to come from the bottom of the table to at least finish fifth-or-sixth at the end of the season. So I think winning this cup was very, very important for us as players. I think we trained hard and responded on the field and no one disrespected each other," said Wolfe, who said he was influenced by Cornell Glen to move to India. Glen is also having an outstanding season for Indian club Shillong Lajong.
Wolfe mentioned that he has been made to feel at home since joining the club and is enjoying life with his new Indian teammates.
Molino: I must be in the team for Argentina, Iran
Kevin Molino missed this country's two closing matches for 2013 against Jamaica due to being inactive at the club level. But having now re-signed with American club Orlando City, Molino is hopes that being on duty with the USL, soon to be MLS club, will remind head coach Stephen Hart of his capabilities.
Molino is particularly eyeing the June 4 and 8 friendlies with Argentina and Iran.
"I want to be back in the squad for sure for those two games. It's going to be a great experience I will not want to miss out. Hopefully I'm injury free at the time when the squad is being selected and I hope we can go with the best available squad. Those games will be very, very big for our country," said Molino.
The 23-year-old from Carenage, signed a four-year deal with Orlando a few weeks ago which will see him at the club as they head into the MLS in 2015.
T&T head coach Stephen Hart will continue to monitor the pool of T&T players both at home and abroad. There is no word to date on whether there will be game during the March FIFA window but Hart intends to have the best possible team ready for two friendlies in June.
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The President of the European Central Bank has warned against drawing too much comfort from the new mood of calm on financial markets, arguing that the improved conditions had yet to transmit into the real economy.
Mario Draghi told an audience in Davos that last year marked the "re-launch" of the euro and he praised euro-member governments for their efforts to strengthen the currency union. He reeled off a series of financial indicators — ranging from bond sales and sovereign yields to stock markets — that pointed to the situation being "considerably more favourable" than last year.
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The fact that the Browns and Cardinals were in the Super Bowl should serve are better evidence that "Madden sucks" than a shitty safety call. Regardless, that was a screwy play and this guy deserves to be pissed.
Very, very, hilariously pissed.
The 2015 game, which debuts in two weeks, promises to be significantly smarter than previous versions, which were made with the older-gen PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles in mind. Hopefully EA updates the game's brain to understand what constitutes a safety/the limits of human flexibility.
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12 October 2012 – Lotus has decided to follow the route of racing with coandă-style exhausts on-board the cars of Kimi Räikkönen and Romain Grosjean in Korea. This follows a back-to-back comparison between the new concept and the previous version on Friday.
Across the opening pair of practice sessions, Finn Räikkönen – who could be propelled back into the title chase, if the idea is effective enough – trialled the coandă version which directs exhaust exit gases upwards, then takes advantage of airflow's tendency to find the nearest surface which happens to be the rear diffuser.
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After a slow start by both teams, the Lady Apaches scored four runs in the top of the fourth to take a 5-0 lead into the bottom of the inning.
Hector finally got on the board in the bottom of the fourth but couldn't spark a rally. The Lady Wildcats trailed 7-3 after five and 10-4 after six.
Pottsville pitcher Krysta Clark went the distance and earned the win. She walked 10 batters on the day but gave up just three hits through seven innings.
At the plate, Clark was 2 for 3 with three runs scored. Britney Nealy was 3 for 5 with a run scored, Judy Graham was 2 for 4 with two runs scored, Brittany Rogers was 1 for 2 with two runs scored and two RBIs, Katie Loyd was 2 for 5 with an RBI, and Whitney Harris was 1 for 4 with an RBI.
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Making it clear that the Union government will extend its assistance and cooperation to transform the Hyderabad City into a world class city even though the verdict of Hyderabad people comes against them, BJP Telangana State president G Kishan Reddy has said. His party, along with Telugu Desam (TD) would develop Hyderabad city more effectively with the assistance and cooperation of the NDA government in case the duo emerged victorious, he added.
The Telangana State Union of Working Journalists (TUWJ) and Hyderabad Union of Journalists (HUJ) jointly organized 'Meet the Press' program on the ongoing GHMC elections at Basheerbagh Press Club here on Friday. BJP Telangana State president G Kishan Reddy and TTDP president L Ramana participated in the program.
Speaking on the occasion, Kishan Reddy exuded confidence that their combination (BJP+TDP) will sweep the elections and win 100 seats to grab the Mayor post. He appealed to the voters of Hyderabad to open their "third eye" to teach a lesson to the persons indulging in irregularities in the GHMC elections.
Alleging that the TRS government was only confined to mere 'words' and did nothing in the last 19 months to Hyderabad city, Kishan Reddy said the NDA government's cooperation and assistance was needed to develop Hyderabad and it was possible in case BJP-TDP combine wins the polls. He also alleged that the TRS government was diverting the funds coming from GHMC to festivals instead of providing infrastructure in Hyderabad city. "The Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's family members are showing 'pink dreams' to the Hyderabad people", he said.
Alleging that the TRS party was colluded with the MIM party for the sake of Mayor's post, Kishan Reddy alleged that KCR family was trying to take control over the new city and Owaisi family over the Old City. He said both the parties were criticizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and all political parties. He reminded that then Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu had brought funds from the Centre ruled by Atal Bihari Vajpai to bring the Krishna water to City. Finding fault with KCR for not accepting Smart City status to Hyderabad, Kishan Reddy said KCR did injustice to Hyderabad city with his stubborn attitude.
Responding on Hyderabad Central University (HCU) incident, Kishan Reddy said the incident was unfortunate. "Some political leaders are trying to show it as a big issue", he said and demanded for a comprehensive probe into it. He said Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya had only forwarded the letters as a Union Minister to the Human Resource Development Ministry and the Ministry promptly responded on the letter as it did on Congress Rajya Sabha member V Hanumantha Rao's letter earlier. Kishan Reddy evaded reply when reminded that the HRD Ministry didn't respond to Hanumantha Rao's letter.
Speaking on the occasion, TTDP president L. Ramana alleged that the TRS party was spending GHMC funds for their election campaigning. The TRS government has transformed Hyderabad City into a huge slum in the last 19 months. Stating that the credit of keeping Hyderabad City on world map goes to TDP-BJP combination, Ramana urged the Hyderabad voters not to succumb to the mind game of KCR and requested the voters to cast their votes to TDP-BJP combination for development. He said then Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu brought special recognition by bringing software companies to Hyderabad city.
Reacting to HCU student Rohit's suicide, Ramana said AP Ministers Ravela Kishore Babu and Sujatha visited Rohit's residence along with TTDP senior leader Mothkupally Narsimhulu and Andhra Pradesh TDP Chief Kimidi Kala Venkat Rao and assured the family that jobs will be provided to Rohit's mother and brother.
Stating that the TDP-BJP combination did wonders in the elections whenever they contested elections in alliance, he said during their government, Hyderabad was very clean and green and then Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu had the credit of introducing cleaning the roads before Hyderabad wakes up. (NSS)


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Adjacent Routes
Climb the juggy wall just right via a series of bulges to another mantelshelf exit.
Very simliar to Little White Jug, just one harder move.
Led this twice and really enjoyed it both times, nice and steep with one 5a move coming right near the top, deserves a star in my opinion.