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Nouvelles hebdomadaires de PostgreSQL - 21 février 2016
Par chl le lundi 22 février 2016, 02:38 - PostgreSQL Weekly News - Lien permanent
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- pgbouncer 1.7.1, un pooler léger de connexions à PostgreSQL : https://pgbouncer.github.io/changelog.html
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- Le PGday annuel indien se tiendra à Bangalore (État du Karnataka en Inde) le 26 février 2016 : http://pgday.in
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Correctifs appliqués
Noah Misch pushed:
- Replace broken link in comment. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/9449c4b1ec7114ae6927a563b43d1fbd4d5bbae4
- Call xlc __isync() after, not before, associated compare-and-swap. Architecture reference material specifies this order, and s_lock.h inline assembly agrees. The former order failed to provide mutual exclusion to lwlock.c and perhaps to other clients. The two xlc buildfarm members, hornet and mandrill, have failed sixteen times with duplicate key errors involving pg_class_oid_index or pg_type_oid_index. Back-patch to 9.5, where commit b64d92f1a5602c55ee8b27a7ac474f03b7aee340 introduced atomics. Reviewed by Andres Freund and Tom Lane. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5882ca66868e1f6fe287dfb41ebaab0bcb1784b2
Magnus Hagander pushed:
Fujii Masao pushed:
- Make concurrent refresh check early that there is a unique index on matview. In REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW command, CONCURRENTLY option is only allowed if there is at least one unique index with no WHERE clause on one or more columns of the matview. Previously, concurrent refresh checked the existence of a unique index on the matview after filling the data to new snapshot, i.e., after calling refresh_matview_datafill(). So, when there was no unique index, we could need to wait a long time before we detected that and got the error. It was a waste of time. To eliminate such wasting time, this commit changes concurrent refresh so that it checks the existence of a unique index at the beginning of the refresh operation, i.e., before starting any time-consuming jobs. If CONCURRENTLY option is not allowed due to lack of a unique index, concurrent refresh can immediately detect it and emit an error. Author: Masahiko Sawada Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Fujii Masao http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/31b6606c48edf7c008ffe91907c080404a8c8046
- Correct the formulas for System V IPC parameters SEMMNI and SEMMNS in docs. In runtime.sgml, the old formulas for calculating the reasonable values of SEMMNI and SEMMNS were incorrect. They have forgotten to count the number of semaphores which both the checkpointer process (introduced in 9.2) and the background worker processes (introduced in 9.3) need. This commit fixes those formulas so that they count the number of semaphores which the checkpointer process and the background worker processes need. Report and patch by Kyotaro Horiguchi. Only the patch for 9.3 was modified by me. Back-patch to 9.2 where the checkpointer process was added and the number of needed semaphores was increased. Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao Backpatch: 9.2 Discussion: http://firstname.lastname@example.com http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/597f7e3a6ec393cf9ff3e11552faf69ff0ab652b
Joe Conway pushed:
- Correct Copyright year from 2015 to 2016. Looks like this patch went in after Copyright messages were updated for 2016 and it missed the boat. Fixed. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/cfafd8beadcd6f8c8a570ab2504a75c33c58e504
- Move DATA entry to correct position. In commit 7b4bfc87 the DATA and DESCR entries for the new row_security_active() function were inadvertantly put after the PROVOLATILE defines, rather than before as they should have been placed. Move them up where they belong. Backpatch to 9.5 where the new entries were introduced. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/851636bfdaa9aa62d5adfaa0aa8c06b408e0d8a9
- Revert inadvertant change in pg_config behavior. In commit a5c43b88 the behavior of command line pg_config was inadvertantly changed to include the config name when specific configs are requested, similar to when none are requested and all are emitted. This breaks scripts that expect to use pg_config for e.g. PGXS. Revert the behavior to the previous. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/fc8a81e3e73e30ac083cc60837ecf98b33d5cc7e
- Add new system view, pg_config. Move and refactor the underlying code for the pg_config client application to src/common in support of sharing it with a new system information SRF called pg_config() which makes the same information available via SQL. Additionally wrap the SRF with a new system view, as called pg_config. Patch by me with extensive input and review by Michael Paquier and additional review by Alvaro Herrera. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a5c43b886942e96ec5c745041f2d6a50c3205147
Andres Freund pushed:
- Allow SetHintBits() to succeed if the buffer's LSN is new enough. Previously we only allowed SetHintBits() to succeed if the commit LSN of the last transaction touching the page has already been flushed to disk. We can't generally change the LSN of the page, because we don't necessarily have the required locks on the page. But the required LSN interlock does not mean the commit record has to be flushed immediately, it just requires that the commit record will be flushed before the page is written out. Therefore if the buffer LSN is newer than the commit LSN, the hint bit can be safely set. In a number of scenarios (e.g. pgbench) this noticeably increases the number of hint bits are set. But more importantly it also keeps the success rate up when flushing WAL less frequently. That was the original reason for commit 4de82f7d7, which has negative performance consequences in a number of scenarios. This will allow a followup commit to reduce the flush rate. Discussion: firstname.lastname@example.com http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/db76b1efbbab2441428a9ef21f7ac9ba43c52482
- Allow the WAL writer to flush WAL at a reduced rate. Commit 4de82f7d7 increased the WAL flush rate, mainly to increase the likelihood that hint bits can be set quickly. More quickly set hint bits can reduce contention around the clog et al. But unfortunately the increased flush rate can have a significant negative performance impact, I have measured up to a factor of ~4. The reason for this slowdown is that if there are independent writes to the underlying devices, for example because shared buffers is a lot smaller than the hot data set, or because a checkpoint is ongoing, the fdatasync() calls force cache flushes to be emitted to the storage. This is achieved by flushing WAL only if the last flush was longer than wal_writer_delay ago, or if more than wal_writer_flush_after (new GUC) unflushed blocks are pending. Based on some tests the default for wal_writer_delay is 1MB, which seems to work well both on SSD and rotational media. To avoid negative performance impact due to 4de82f7d7 an earlier commit (db76b1e) made SetHintBits() more likely to succeed; preventing performance regressions in the pgbench tests I performed. Discussion: email@example.com http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/7975c5e0a992ae9a45e03d145e0d37e2b5a707f5
Tom Lane pushed:
- Suppress compiler warnings about useless comparison of unsigned to zero. Reportedly, some compilers warn about tests like "c < 0" if c is unsigned, and hence complain about the character range checks I added in commit 3bb3f42f3749d40b8d4de65871e8d828b18d4a45. This is a bit of a pain since the regex library doesn't really want to assume that chr is unsigned. However, since any such reconfiguration would involve manual edits of regcustom.h anyway, we can put it on the shoulders of whoever wants to do that to adjust this new range-checking macro correctly. Per gripes from Coverity and Andres. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/8c95ae81fab11b75a611b57d6aaa0ef77e8b8e41
- Improve documentation about CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY. Clarify the description of which transactions will block a CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY command from proceeding, and mention that the index might still not be usable after CREATE INDEX completes. (This happens if the index build detected broken HOT chains, so that pg_index.indcheckxmin gets set, and there are open old transactions preventing the xmin horizon from advancing past the index's initial creation. I didn't want to explain what broken HOT chains are, though, so I omitted an explanation of exactly when old transactions prevent the index from being used.) Per discussion with Chris Travers. Back-patch to all supported branches, since the same text appears in all of them. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a65313f28bfc264573a066271a11172d109dc2c4
- Make plpython cope with funny characters in function names. A function name that's double-quoted in SQL can contain almost any characters, but we were using that name directly as part of the name generated for the Python-level function, and Python doesn't like anything that isn't pretty much a standard identifier. To fix, replace anything that isn't an ASCII letter or digit with an underscore in the generated name. This doesn't create any risk of duplicate Python function names because we were already appending the function OID to the generated name to ensure uniqueness. Per bug #13960 from Jim Nasby. Patch by Jim Nasby, modified a bit by me. Back-patch to all supported branches. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/66f503868b2ac1163aaf48a2f76d8be02af0bc81
- Fix multiple bugs in contrib/pgstattuple's pgstatindex() function. Dead or half-dead index leaf pages were incorrectly reported as live, as a consequence of a code rearrangement I made (during a moment of severe brain fade, evidently) in commit d287818eb514d431. The index metapage was not counted in index_size, causing that result to not agree with the actual index size on-disk. Index root pages were not counted in internal_pages, which is inconsistent compared to the case of a root that's also a leaf (one-page index), where the root would be counted in leaf_pages. Aside from that inconsistency, this could lead to additional transient discrepancies between the reported page counts and index_size, since it's possible for pgstatindex's scan to see zero or multiple pages marked as BTP_ROOT, if the root moves due to a split during the scan. With these fixes, index_size will always be exactly one page more than the sum of the displayed page counts. Also, the index_size result was incorrectly documented as being measured in pages; it's always been measured in bytes. (While fixing that, I couldn't resist doing some small additional wordsmithing on the pgstattuple docs.) Including the metapage causes the reported index_size to not be zero for an empty index. To preserve the desired property that the pgstattuple regression test results are platform-independent (ie, BLCKSZ configuration independent), scale the index_size result in the regression tests. The documentation issue was reported by Otsuka Kenji, and the inconsistent root page counting by Peter Geoghegan; the other problems noted by me. Back-patch to all supported branches, because this has been broken for a long time. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/48e6c943e5f11f5d80cabdbcd98f79e3dbad1988
- Add an explicit representation of the output targetlist to Paths. Up to now, there's been an assumption that all Paths for a given relation compute the same output column set (targetlist). However, there are good reasons to remove that assumption. For example, an indexscan on an expression index might be able to return the value of an expensive function "for free". While we have the ability to generate such a plan today in simple cases, we don't have a way to model that it's cheaper than a plan that computes the function from scratch, nor a way to create such a plan in join cases (where the function computation would normally happen at the topmost join node). Also, we need this so that we can have Paths representing post-scan/join steps, where the targetlist may well change from one step to the next. Therefore, invent a "struct PathTarget" representing the columns we expect a plan step to emit. It's convenient to include the output tuple width and tlist evaluation cost in this struct, and there will likely be additional fields in future. While Path nodes that actually do have custom outputs will need their own PathTargets, it will still be true that most Paths for a given relation will compute the same tlist. To reduce the overhead added by this patch, keep a "default PathTarget" in RelOptInfo, and allow Paths that compute that column set to just point to their parent RelOptInfo's reltarget. (In the patch as committed, actually every Path is like that, since we do not yet have any cases of custom PathTargets.) I took this opportunity to provide some more-honest costing of PlaceHolderVar evaluation. Up to now, the assumption that "scan/join reltargetlists have cost zero" was applied not only to Vars, where it's reasonable, but also PlaceHolderVars where it isn't. Now, we add the eval cost of a PlaceHolderVar's expression to the first plan level where it can be computed, by including it in the PathTarget cost field and adding that to the cost estimates for Paths. This isn't perfect yet but it's much better than before, and there is a way forward to improve it more. This costing change affects the join order chosen for a couple of the regression tests, changing expected row ordering. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/19a541143a09c067ec8cac77ec6a64eb5b1b662b
- Cosmetic improvements in new config_info code. Coverity griped about use of unchecked strcpy() into a local variable. There's unlikely to be any actual bug there, since no caller would be passing a path longer than MAXPGPATH, but nonetheless use of strlcpy() seems preferable. While at it, get rid of unmaintainable separation between list of field names and list of field values in favor of initializing them in parallel. And we might as well declare get_configdata()'s path argument as const char *, even though no current caller needs that. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/c7a1c5a6b6aa4bbc2c9619edc94368fccc1c8c8e
- Docs: make prose discussion match the ordering of Table 9-58. The "Session Information Functions" table seems to be sorted mostly alphabetically (although it's not perfect), which would be all right if it didn't lead to some related functions being described in a pretty nonintuitive order. Also, the prose discussions after the table were in an order that hardly matched the table at all. Rearrange to make things a bit easier to follow. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/64a169d1313d6b99b48c2d270df121ef43c03269
Ãlvaro Herrera pushed:
- pgbench: avoid FD_ISSET on an invalid file descriptor The original code wasn't careful to test the file descriptor returned by PQsocket() for an invalid socket. If an invalid socket did turn up, that would amount to calling FD_ISSET with fd = -1, whereby undefined behavior can be invoked. To fix, test file descriptor for validity and stop further processing if that fails. Problem noticed by Coverity. There is an existing FD_ISSET callsite that does check for invalid sockets beforehand, but the error message reported by it was strerror(errno); in testing the aforementioned change, that turns out to result in "bad socket: Success" which isn't terribly helpful. Instead use PQerrorMessage() in both places which is more likely to contain an useful error message. Backpatch-through: 9.1. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5df44d14ba9fd3f6149c3fa0919745c9e24bcffe
Tatsuo Ishii pushed:
- Improve wording in the planner doc Change "In this case" to "In the example above" to clarify what it actually refers to. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/bdc309c7dc849a7362a624846ebc9170a8c353f3
- Fix wording in the Tutorial document. With suggentions from Tom Lane. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/902fd1f4e2457f6f04a988920491fffb90028035
Michael Meskes pushed:
- Changed expected result to list IPv6 local interface too. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/868898739a8da9ab74c105b8349b7b5c711f265a
- Change ecpg lexer to accept comments with line breaks in CPP lines. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/fc1ae7d2eb6a3de47f5f5cd6ebf2d18d226b8036
Bruce Momjian pushed:
- release notes: fix 9.5 SGML comment about commit Reported-by: Tatsuo Ishii Backpatch-through: 9.5 http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/ab0757c1f1bf6b9b7c86e51c9fb5b082c87c5109
- pg_upgrade: suppress creation of delete script Suppress creation of the pg_upgrade delete script when the new data directory is inside the old data directory. Reported-by: IRC Backpatch-through: 9.3, where delete script tests were added http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3386f34cdcf162e895a8d998532796076057913d
Robert Haas pushed:
- Reuse abbreviated keys in ordered [set] aggregates. When processing ordered aggregates following a sort that could make use of the abbreviated key optimization, only call the equality operator to compare successive pairs of tuples when their abbreviated keys were not equal. Peter Geoghegan, reviewd by Andreas Karlsson and by me. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f1f5ec1efafe74ca45e24e0bf3371b1d6985c8ee
- postgres_fdw: Avoid sharing list substructure. list_concat(list_concat(a, b), c) destructively changes both a and b; to avoid such perils, copy lists of remote_conds before incorporating them into larger lists via list_concat(). Ashutosh Bapat, per a report from Etsuro Fujita http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/dd077ef832e1ec7f5ba2a706152d22647a3b80f5
- Cosmetic improvements to group locking. Reflow text in lock manager README so that it fits within 80 columns. Correct some mistakes. Expand the README to explain not only why group locking exists but also the data structures that support it. Improve comments related to group locking several files. Change the name of a macro argument for improved clarity. Most of these problems were reported by Tom Lane, but I found a few of them myself. Robert Haas and Tom Lane http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/d91a4a6c85d360678310470854d5d932d1833aa8
- Fix incorrect decision about which lock to take. Spotted by Tom Lane. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/88aca5662d6a6362ce8c5aba08f469e92f44a1e7
Peter Eisentraut pushed:
- Improve error message about active replication slot The old phrasing was awkward if a replication slot is activated and deactivated repeatedly. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/18777c38e9cc2e032b919a7f532971745b32aec0
- pg_dump: Fix inconsistent sscanf() conversions It was using %u to read a string that was earlier produced by snprintf with %d into a signed integer variable. This seems to work in practice but is incorrect. found by cppcheck http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a914a0414232e30943f7b2ffd997d74bd018a7b1
- doc: Improve CSS style of option element Prevent wrapping of the element content to avoid confusing line breaks between hyphens. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/091b6055e3e52338850370f17835e833ca66ac55
Simon Riggs pushed:
- Correct StartupSUBTRANS for page wraparound StartupSUBTRANS() incorrectly handled cases near the max pageid in the subtrans data structure, which in some cases could lead to errors in startup for Hot Standby. This patch wraps the pageids correctly, avoiding any such errors. Identified by exhaustive crash testing by Jeff Janes. Jeff Janes http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/481725c0ba731b77fb32cadb12013373e378011a
Dean Rasheed pushed:
- Further fixing to make pg_size_bytes() portable. Not all compilers support "long long" and the "LL" integer literal suffix, so use a cast to int64 instead. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/740d71842b8e0e798c80f4f841227b6de81b5f43
- Add pg_size_bytes() to parse human-readable size strings. This will parse strings in the format produced by pg_size_pretty() and return sizes in bytes. This allows queries to be written with clauses like "pg_total_relation_size(oid) > pg_size_bytes('10 GB')". Author: Pavel Stehule with various improvements by Vitaly Burovoy Discussion: http://email@example.com Reviewed-by: Vitaly Burovoy, Oleksandr Shulgin, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier and Robert Haas http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/53874c5228fe16589a4d01b3e1fab3678e0fd8e3
- Fix pg_size_bytes() to be more portable. Commit 53874c5228fe16589a4d01b3e1fab3678e0fd8e3 broke various 32-bit buildfarm machines because it incorrectly used an 'L' suffix for what needed to be a 64-bit literal. Thanks to Michael Paquier for helping to diagnose this. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/ad7cc1c554980145b226a066afe56d9c777ce7ae
Andrew Dunstan pushed:
- Fix two-argument jsonb_object when called with empty arrays Some over-eager copy-and-pasting on my part resulted in a nonsense result being returned in this case. I have adopted the same pattern for handling this case as is used in the one argument form of the function, i.e. we just skip over the code that adds values to the object. Diagnosis and patch from Michael Paquier, although not quite his solution. Fixes bug #13936. Backpatch to 9.5 where jsonb_object was introduced. http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/94c745eb189e2122a3ff86c24443b11408ea2376
Correctifs rejetés (à ce jour)
No one was disappointed this week :-)
Correctifs en attente
Craig Ringer sent in two more revisions of a patch to implement failover slots.
Amit Langote sent in two more revisions of a patch to implement declarative partitioning.
Etsuro Fujita and Ashutosh Bapat traded patches to fix some breakage in foreign_join_ok.
Teodor Sigaev sent in another revision of a patch to add support for box type in SP-GiST index.
Dmitry Ivanov sent in a patch to implement ALTER ... OWNER TO ... CASCADE.
Eugene Kazakov sent in a patch to add an m4 check for the TAP perl modules.
Martin Liška sent in a patch to clean up for -sanitize=use-after-scope.
Fabien COELHO and Robert Haas traded patches to extend pgbench with expressions.
SAWADA Masahiko sent in another revision of a patch to allow N>1 synchronous standby servers.
Alexander Korotkov sent in three more revisions of a patch to implement access method extensibility.
Robbie Harwood sent in another revision of a patch to implement GSSAPI encryption support.
Filip Rembiałkowski sent in two more revisions of a patch to make NOTIFY list de-duplication optional.
Tom Lane sent in two revisions of a patch to add a new function that reports the set of PIDs directly blocking a given PID.
Ashutosh Bapat sent in another revision of a patch to fix the docs for GetExistingLocalJoinPath().
Sehrope Sarkuni sent in a patch to add tab completion for CREATE DATABASE ... TEMPLATE ... to psql.
Julien Rouhaud sent in two more revisions of a patch to add an auto_explain sample rate.
Haribabu Kommi sent in another revision of a patch to implement aggregation in parallel.
Kyotaro HORIGUCHI sent in a patch to add an additional member in the struct ErrorData to hold a message id.
Artur Zakirov sent in two more revisions of a patch to improve Hunspell dictionary support.
SAWADA Masahiko sent in three more revisions of a patch to add a "frozen" bit to the visibility map.
Jim Nasby and Pavel Stěhule traded patches to add a parse_ident() function.
Pavel Stěhule sent in three more revisions of a patch to add an ereport function to PL/PythonU.
Ashutosh Bapat sent in a patch to allow pushing down sorted joins to the PostgreSQL FDW.
Michaël Paquier sent in another revision of a patch to add in-core regression tests.
Amit Kapila sent in a patch to add prepared statement support for parallel query.
Artur Zakirov sent in another revision of a patch to add fuzzy substring searching to the pg_trgm extension.
Stas Kelvich sent in another revision of a patch to add tsvector editing functions.
Constantin S. Pan sent in two more revisions of a patch to speed up building GIN indexes with parallel workers.
Etsuro Fujita sent in another revision of a patch to speed up writes to foreign tables.
Kyotaro HORIGUCHI sent in a patch to make the SQL parser part of psqlscan independent of psql, get pgbench to use same, and change the way to hold a command list from an array to a linked list.
Suraj Kharage sent in a patch to add regression tests for multisync (>1 synchronous replica) replication.
Dmitry Dolgov sent in a patch to enable inserting a new value into an array at arbitrary position in jsonb.
Anastasia Lubennikova sent in two more revisions of a patch to store duplicates more efficiently in a B-tree index.
Takashi Horikawa sent in two revisions of a patch to fix a typo in bufmgr.c that results in waste of memory.
Christoph Berg sent in three revisions of a patch to relax the permission checks on SSL keys.
Kyotaro HORIGUCHI sent in a patch to add a mult-socket version of WaitLatchOrSocket.
Corey Huinker sent in a patch to add \gexec to psql.
Peter Eisentraut sent in a patch to fix some warnings generated by GCC 6.
Andres Freund sent in another revision of a patch to allow to trigger kernel writeback after a configurable number of writes, and atop this, allow checkpoint sorting and balancing.
Amit Kapila sent in another revision of a patch to speed up clog Access by increasing CLOG buffers.
Pavel Stěhule sent in another revision of a patch to allow PL/pgsql to use %ARRAYTYPE and %ELEMENTTYPE in declarations.
Michaël Paquier sent in another revision of a patch to add hot standby checkpoints.
Tom Lane sent in a patch to get rid of lockGroupLeaderIdentifier.


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865 Tasting Notes
Tall, 2 scoops matcha, 2 pumps raspberry, 2 pumps peppermint. Warning: This looks really nasty lol. Needed something to detox myself from the venti iced Americano w/ a total of 16 pumps of syrup I had while meeting with my new boss yesterday.
Cofftea, you have become the matcha master. :P I haven't tried any matcha before; where should I start?
Haha. I've been called that before. :) Really, anywhere. Try any and all matchas you can get your hands on. HANDS DOWN 52teas flavored matchas- hurry though since they're limited edition. If there are cafes/tea shops in your area that serve matcha (I know you can sample matcha at Teavana even), try it there first. Then you can try it for only a few bucks. I suppose you could even just order matcha in hot water (I suggest 2 scoops for a tall, I don't think any other sizes or ratio work) at Starbucks, but keep in mind that this stuff is sweetened. Or you could try a green tea latte (hot or iced). My FAVE winter non coffee drink is a tall 2 pump peppermint 2 pump mocha hot chocolate w/ 2 scoops matcha powder. I bet it would be good over ice as well. As far as buying it, I always think organic ceremonial grade is best. Urbana Teas & Tonics (in the Steepster data base, search for it) has massively good matcha massively cheap. I also have Art of Tea's organic (but not ceremonial grade) ginger matcha coming. Lupicia has their line of matcha au laits- some have sweetener and/or dairy, others don't, You can also play with flavoring your own matcha by using organic herbals or fruit tisanes instead of plane water or adding extracts to the water.
Thanks for the tips! I'll see what I can get my hands on at Frank's, and try the Starbucks solution. (Someone gave me a gift card a few weeks ago.) Urbana Teas & Tonics sounds intriguing… Hey, would you consider guest writing a post about matchas on my blog?!
My sleep schedule has been massively out of wack and the quality poor so when my dog gave me the opportunity to sleep til 10:30, I took it. But that posed a unique problem- I needed to take my breakfast pills w/ my lunch pills. I decided to take them with my protein water/matcha combo hoping the extra liquid and the flavor will make taking them (14) easier. And it seemed to have worked!

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Similar proportions of patients with DVT (2.15%) and without DVT (2.16%) reported a history of air travel during the preceding 4 weeks. Air travel alone was not associated with an increased risk of DVT (odds ratio, 1.0; 95% confidence interval, 0.3—1.4); furthermore, travel using any form of transportation (plane, car, bus, train, and boat combined) was not associated with an increased risk of DVT (odds ratio, 0.7; 95% confidence interval, 0.3–1.4). The data also refuted any association between prolonged travel (more than 5 hours) and DVT (odds ratio, 0.4; 95% confidence interval, 0.1–1.3). The findings were similar when patients younger than 65 years were analyzed separately (odds ratio, 1.0; 95% confidence interval, 0.4–2.2). The authors conclude that air travel, even prolonged air travel, is not associated with an increased risk of DVT.


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Hi everyone. I am newbie and I want to configure a multiboot system. I use Windows XP (installed already) and want to install Linux Debian 4.0, Fedora 7 and Linux Caixa Mágica 11. My hard disk drive capacicity is 40GB. Is it possible to create a partition accessible to write and read data by all operative systems I have mentioned (including Windows XP)? If not.. Is it possible for Linux distros? According to my plans I want to use 10GB for Windows XP, 5GB for each Linux distro and the space remaing for a "common" partition. If a Linux distro need less than 5GB to be installed can I use the space remaing later?
Installing one of the Linux distros refered how can I avoid to erase another OS? Are partitions always created automatically? How can I control in which partition a distro should be installed and how many partitions are created when installing Linux?
How should I configure each partition? What is the kind of file system should I use in each partition? Should any partition be configured as hidden? Can I use gparted to manage and configure partitions? What is the best freeware available to do it?
How do I start to achieve my goal (multiboot system described before)?
Yes, you can use a common data partition. If you need it to be accessible from XP too, your best choice would be ntfs. fat32 would work just as well - in fact, for a long time it was the standard for a shared partition considering that Linux could not write to ntfs in any reliable way - but now that we have the ntfs-3g driver, there really isn't any reason to use fat32 any longer.
Linux Installers have a partitioner so it is perfectly possible to create partitions during install. Personally, I like to make my partitions before installing because it gives a better idea just what you will end up with. Some file system types reserve space for metadata so that you end up with less than you partitioned. For example, if you create a 5GB ext3 partition, you'll have only 4.6GB of usable space. On top of that, some partitioners measure hard drive space in uncommon ways so that things get even more confusing. if you do the partitioning first, on the other hand, you can experiment all that you want until things are laid out exactly as you prefer. My preferred instrument is the gparted livecd, which can also reduce xp partitions. If XP is taking up all the space, that's the first thing you'll need to do, by the way.
No, you won't need to hide any partitions. As for filesystems, you can select those from the installer. Ext3 is a good choice, especially for smaller partitions.
In addition to your system partitions, you'll also need a swap partition (linux-swap file system). It is the equivalent of windows virtual memory. Just one for all three distros will do. Recommended size: twice the size of your RAM with a maximum of 2GB. If you have little RAM, swap is indispensable. If you have plenty (2GB and up), you may not need it at all unless you want to build a very busy server.
Some partitioners can do all the work for you but that is not recommended. It usually means that they'll take up all the available space, which is not what you want if you intend to install more distros. In fact, selecting the "auto" option may overwrite your XP partition too. Usual the manual option instead.
You can create as many partitions as you like but with limited space, you are better off with just one per distro. Select the partition and instruct the installer to mount it on "/" (=root). Make sure that you tell the installer to use the right one or you'll end up overwriting another distro.
5GB is not much, to be honest. If you use ext3, you'll have only 4.6GB of usable space and then you also need to make sure that you keep enough space on the partition free for temporary files. If you don't, you'll see performance degrading fast in no time at all. Debian will just fit in (about 2GB after installing) but you won't have a lot of room for additional software - and there is a lot to choose from. Fedora tends to take up a bit more so even for a basic install 5GB may be tight. If I were you, I'd install only two for now and assign them 7 or 8 GB each. That's just my 2 cents, of course.
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Wardrobe Planning PrepI can't help it lovelies, I'm growing old. And nothing hits you in the face with your own aging and mortality like losing someone you admire. I awoke early this morning to a thunderstorm with an upset stummy, and as I lay in bed with my cat joyful picking my arm my husband broke the news to me that Chris Cornell has suddenly passed. I have fond memories of listening to Soundgarden's album Superunknown repeatedly throughout my youth. I can't have a blistering hot windy day and not think of Soundgarden and Chris' distinct vocal talents. I didn't care for Audioslave and what came later but I never forgot the way that his music made me feel, and not only that, I'll never forget that he was genuinely a great person. It's really sad news. As we grow older all of our idols get older still, some pass away and some, like Bill Nye the Science Guy, grow up to be douchebags. It's disheartening but it reminds me to make my own positive changes in this life, to make great art and not be a douchebag.
Grappling with my age has been difficult this year. I'm trying to find my niche in the fashion world. I know that some people take the stance that you wear what you want and I partially agree to that. I'm concerned that I'll hit that point where I'm making an ass of myself, like my 10th grade english teacher, who was like 50 and wore mini skirts and hooker boots with blouse unbuttoned as she perched herself upon the corner of her desk. WHAT WAS SHE THINKING?!
When you're developing your own personal style you base it on a set of morals and beliefs. Everyone has different viewpoints. In my teacher's vision she clearly believed that provocative, skin revealing clothing was sexy and empowering. Adult version of me could have shown her how to style sexy without looking like she's auditioning for a PTA porno. I'm sure much of her wardrobe decision making was also driven by a revolt against aging gracefully. I have no issue with 70 year old ladies wishing to wear bikinis, as long as those bikinis fit and are tasteful. We shouldn't have to resign ourselves to 2" shoulder pad suit jackets, neck scarves, and boring ankle length skirts. The key to dressing young and original as you age is not to go full steam in the opposite direction of "old peoples clothes". You have to find a balance between the two.
This is why throughout my wardrobe purge I'm reassessing my needs, morals, and my beliefs about myself. Am I young enough to wear certain things? I'm still shapely, my skin is aging but looks fresh to most who comment on it, I don't have deep carved out lines yet and my legs are nice and slim. I'm still able to get away with revealing clothing and I am going to ride that out! But I don't want to wear the "young stuff" anymore. I don't know how to describe it... it's a certain look. Like everything is shrunken or everything is oversized. Does that make sense? It's like this: I don't feel comfortable in the shorts that I bought from Ardene's. I feel like an idiot in them. They're short and there's nothing wrong with that but they're cut like shorts for an eight year old girl. I also feel like a shithead wearing t-shirts. I have no idea where that comes from but I just can't wear those things anymore! Maybe it's become synonymous with being young? It's like how I could never do pastel goth. I don't want to look like those goons on Instagram who are manipulating their lips and eyes to three times their natural size, blanketed in a sea of baby pink and ice blue, they look like an army of Easter Bratz dolls. Jesus it makes me uncomfortable just thinking about it.
So I've been combing through the e-catalogs to see if I can get some inspiration for my wardrobe building process. It seems like I'm being drawn to the classical designs. I'm not into this weird "Part Time Unicorn" oversized pink sweater shit. I still like a good mini skirt but I'm drawn to long sleeves in my tops. I like pants despite not owning a pair lol. It's something I might try again some day. As for dresses my love of a good fitted dress lives on. I'm attracted to the a-line skater shape because it hugs my body in just the right way. I also like flowy chiffon things because I find there's something distinctly mature about it. Here's some of my inspiration (at the top of this post as well):
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"With women still earning just 77 cents on average for every dollar earned by men, it is simply astonishing that the fundamentally American principle of equal pay for equal work remains a subject of controversy," said Congresswoman Maloney. "With more than half of American households having their bills paid in part or in whole by women's earnings, blocking pay fairness means that American families will suffer," she added.
Congresswoman Maloney has been a leader in previous efforts to fight for pay equity between women and men. She was a leader in the effort to pass the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act through the House in 2009, when it became the first legislation that President Obama signed into law. It restored the right of women to challenge unfair pay in court -- but passed the House over the opposition of virtually all Republican Members.
"I was proud to join the successful fight for the Lilly Ledbetter Act, but more needs to be done," said Congresswoman Maloney. "We need to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act to bring the nearly half-century-old Equal Pay Act up to date by offering recourse to legal remedies to women who are being paid less than men for comparable," said Representative Maloney. "We will not relent in our efforts to fight for basic fairness for American women and their families," she said.
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Thanks for the link.
Has Misseyae confirmed the "winner" from that video?
Not that I know of, but probably not.
Sash is said to not win, narrowing it down to Chase and Fabio.
If Alina does go before Marty then that bootlist is wrong anyway. But, we'll see.
By the way the eliminations have happened so far. That Boot list seems to be legitimate.
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Click to see Spoiler:12.) Alina (She and Na'Onka steal food at the merge but Alina takes the heat for it and is demolished at this next TC)
11.) Marty
10.) Brenda (Na'Onka convinces everyone to vote Brenda out or else she'll win; Brenda's F3 plans were Na'Onka and Kelly Shinn; Na'Onka tells this to Chase and Sash and she is gone)
9.) Na'Onka quits
8.) Kelly Shinn quits (Only person who didn't vote Brenda out, realized she was toast)
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6.) Jane (she burns down the camp before she leaves in spite)
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1.) Jud (he goes on an immunity run and breaks down at the final tribal council and picks up the majority of the jury's votes)
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Regarding this list and the juryClick to see Spoiler:... the quitters won't be included on the jury ... correct?
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Click to see Spoiler:Unless the rules have changed, they will be, which I think is crap. They quit, they shouldn't have a say in who gets the million, and they have a lot of nerve if they get up and cause a big scene. I was trying to think of past quitters who were on the jury-I know the guy from PI and Fairplay on FvsF quit pre-merge. Janu I think it was from season 10 quit but was on the jury.
This season has been pretty boring for me with an unlikeable or forgettable cast. I do like Fabio, so I can live with that outcome very happily. Am glad Marty's close to being gone. Something about him just bugs. I think he feels he's better at this than he is. My only regret is Na'Onka and Kelly S. didn't quit sooner. Can't stand either one of them, but if this villian act was Na'Onka's plan for airtime so she can break into some entertainment career afterwards (good luck), I wish they hadn't given it to her. I like Alina, so am sorry she's leaving at the merge. But it looks like things might get interesting, especially seeing Jane burn down the camp. Kelly S. is pathetic. At least get voted out, even if you're number's up.
Click to see Spoiler:Well, both Na'Onka and Kelly Shinn quit at Tribal Council. Kelly S quitting at Tribal Council I think was just to spite everyone else and not give them the satisfaction of voting her out.
I don't think they'd remove quitters who quit post jury anyway or else it'd mess up the jury numbers. Although in this case it would have still left 7 jury members, but maybe they consider 7 too risky of a 3 v 3 tie.
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Marianne Vos, the record-holder for most wins in the Flèche Wallonne, will start the 17th edition without any references to go on. Will this leave an opening for Emma Johansson, Lizzie Armitstead or Elisa Longo Borghini?read more
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The elite men's and women's packs are in the process of preparing for Wednesday 23rd April and the Flèche Wallonne. At the end of the week, on 27th April, victory on Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the 'Old Lady' of the classics, will be sought by pretenders more motivated than ever for its 100th edition.read more
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Dutch 25-year-old Marianne Vos (Rabo Women Cycling Team) added a fifth Flèche Wallonne to her tally to go with those she won in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011. The current world and Olympic champion was in a class of her own in the closing stages of the final climb up the Mur de Huy. Italian Elisa Longo Borghini (Hitec Products UCK) and South African Ashleigh Moolman (Lotto Belisol Ladies) rounded off the podium.read more
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Wayne N. Dahl, 70, Janesville, died Thursday at Golden Living Center, Fort Atkinson. Services will be at noon Tuesday at Zion Lutheran Church, Viroqua. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until the time of services Tuesday at the church. Henke-Clarson Funeral Home, Janesville, is assisting the family.
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Most fireballs are usually spotted at night, when the contrast between the dark sky makes a flaming space rock particularly apparent. But Bruce York saw a ball of light falling from the sky in Maine on Saturday in broad daylight.
On YouTube, York wrote that he saw the fireball around 5 p.m. in Oxford County and quickly got out his cellphone to take video evidence.
"It didn't look like anything that I've ever seen before," York told WMTW-TV. "It didn't look like any footage I've ever seen of a meteorite or a comet. It just struck me as odd."
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Edward Gleason, an astronomer with Southworth Planetarium at the University of Southern Maine, viewed the clip and gave WMTW his assessment.
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MOSCOW, June 15 (Reuters) - A placement of shares in Russian state shipping company Sovcomflot had been planned for this week but was put on hold due to market conditions, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters on Thursday.
The source did not say when the placement of a 25 percent stake in Sovcomflot, planned under a state privatisation programme, would now happen. Sovcomflot declined to comment.
Two financial market sources told Reuters late in May that the deal was expected in early June. It was later postponed with no explanation.
The Russian stock index slipped below the important psychological mark of 1,000 points for the first time since late November 2016 on Thursday on concerns about new United States sanctions against Moscow, making plans for equity raising by Russia cloudy. (Reporting by Moscow Newsroom; Editing by Christian Lowe)


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The Bistro at Hogan's of Hale offers diners relaxed, stylish dining. Situated in the heart of the picturesque village of Hale, this live entertainment eatery is a great place to visit when in Cheshire. The aim of the owner, Barry Hogan, was to create a venue where diners could experience VIP treatment in a laid back, friendly atmosphere.
The menu is a selection of fine British dishes, created by a dedicated team of talented chefs. Aiming to serve the very best of this countries produce, The Bistro promises a dining experience that is sure to impress. The menu also has a few European influences, sure to tickle those taste buds. Starters include pepper beef fillet carpaccio, served with summer truffle, pickled shimeji mushroom and pecorino shavings. A favourite dish is salmon gravlax and citron salad, served with horseradish crème fraiche.
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Will Arnett is one of the top-billed performers in Jonathan Liebesman's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," but you wouldn't know it by observing his karate skills on "The Tonight Show."
Jimmy Fallon blindfolded the gifted comedian Thursday and asked him to kick the stuffing (literally) out of several rotating piñatas, which is probably harder than it sounds. Unsurprisingly, Arnett only managed to solidly connect with one.
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In Arnett's defense, he doesn't play a kung fu master in the action film — which opened Friday — but instead cowardly reporter Vernon Fenwick. Which totally explains the awkward flailing.
The "Tonight" host tried his luck at karate piñata, too, with slightly better results.
Perhaps the most exciting moment of Arnett's appearance came during his interview when he confirmed to Fallon and to the world that Netflix plans to shoot a fifth season of "Arrested Development."
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I just saw this on Metsblog about an interview Willie Harris gave to MASN last night about difference playing for the Mets and the Nats and I think it's safe to say there's a shit storm a-comin':
"The (Mets and the Nationals) are a lot different. You know, over here in New York it seems as if everything is somewhat segregated, guys stick to themselves pretty much. In DC, it was more unified. It's different each place you go. I'm trying to get accustomed to it. I really miss those guys on the other side. I miss playing here in DC, I miss the fans, and wish them the best only except when they're playing against us."
I'm sure using the word "segregated" will be what sets fans off and Harris will have to explain that word choice but what gets me is the part where he says he misses playing in DC and the fans, are you fucking kidding me?
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Born and raised in Chula Vista, Bensoussan was elected to the City Council in November 2008. Since then, she has worked to form the council's Nature Center Subcommittee and is credited with helping to transform the Chula Vista Nature Center from a city-funded program into a self-sustaining nonprofit.
In December 2010, she won the ICLEI Local Elected Official Sustainability Leadership Award and was recognized for her efforts to promote local sustainability and for being a champion of the environment.
Most recently, Bensoussan has worked to advance Chula Vista's bayfront master plan and played a key role in getting the South Bay Power Plant shut down.
"Receiving this award is a huge honor and is confirmation that I'm on the right track — working toward achieving social justice, economic viability, and environmental sustainability in our city and region for future generations," Bensoussan said in a statement. "Such an award is particularly helpful in underscoring the importance in crafting public policy in the best way and to the fullest extent possible to bring positive change."
Assemblyman Ben Hueso presented the honor on the Assembly floor last week after a Legislative Women's Caucus brunch. Each Assembly member chooses one woman in their district to present with the award each year. Bensoussan serves on the Otay Valley Regional Park board, the San Diego Association of Governments Energy Working Group, the League of California Cities and their environmental committee. She is also Chula Vista's representative with the South County Economic Redevelopment Council Board of Directors.
"She has shown courage with controversial issues and resolve in advancing her community goals," Hueso said.


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Dear Editor:
The so-called "theatre district" rezoning, discussed in the Jan. 2-6 Back Stage, is not all it is cracked up to be.
The bizarre concept of transferring air rights from above Broadway theatres to allow extended high-rise development in and around Hell's Kitchen is as convoluted as any bad theatre plot. Completely shut out of the planning for this dramatic change are the affected communities: those in the neighborhood and the rank and file in the arts. As a resident of Hell's Kitchen and a playwright, I wonder: Whose rights are these, anyway?
Hell's Kitchen is a wonderfully diverse residential community that houses a huge number of actors, writers and theatre workers. True, it lacks open space and parks--there is not even a centrally located, grassy respite like Tompkins Square Park on the Lower East Side.
Perhaps that is why special zoning protects the neighborhood from too many stories. What we do have is a sense of relief from walking past the hulking Broadway high-rises into our lower density neighborhood with its bodegas, affordable ethnic restaurants, and apartments that can still get some light free from towering stress.
Broadway theatre owners intend to put an end to that. While refusing to include our community leaders in planning, profit-making theatres offer to wrap up and sell the air above them so that it can be added on to the construction of huge towers on the west side of Eighth Avenue (where 24 to 33 stories are already allowable). With bulldozers on call, development and all of its ugly ramifications for affordable and amenable living space will extend quickly into the neighborhood.
Where we once had Hell's Kitchen, theatre owners will help chop it into merely hell. The exchange, we are told by the Broadway Initiative, is not simply theatre owners' cash windfall, but a promise to develop more drama on Broadway.
Will Broadway theatre owners be knocking on my door and those of other writers in Hell's Kitchen to sign options and snap up our dramatic rights with their newfound millions? Call me cynical; but somehow, I doubt it.
There are real ways to support the community of artists. What about an arts resource center, one that could subsidize and list inexpensive apartments? What about a central outlet for selling tickets to Off-Off Broadway and alternative theatres? What about support for youth arts programs, such as the acclaimed 52nd St. Project? What about free tickets for neighborhood residents?
Yet, even then, how can theatrical events, by nature temporal, compensate for the permanent loss of our quality of life? Shaw himself would have difficulty finding the moral in that show. Critics say theatre today suffers from a loss of irony: I think the creative packaging of air demonstrates its neo-abundance.
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To prevent violations of the Federal 8-hour standard of 80 parts per billion of ozone that can result in denial of Federal transportation funding,the Bay Area Quality Management District worked with the area MPO, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, to fund free transit on the first three "Spare the Air" days...While public transit usage increased greatly, exceedences of the ozone standard occurred nonetheless. BAAQMD and MTC are now scrambling to find more funding for future bad air days.
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It's a new era for suds at this weekend's Strange Brewfest
American Legion Post Cmdr. Joe Carey displays the Mayan-themed poster and souvenir tasting glass each Strange Brewfest attendee will receive with his or her admission. -- Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News
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"Welcome to the beer age," said Mark Burr, one of the organizers, adding that the end of the Mayan calendar in December "wasn't the end of the world, just the start of a new world dedicated to beer."
Burr and Nina Law have been throwing Strange Brewfest to celebrate small-batch brews since the first event at the now-closed Water Street Brewery and Ale House in 2005.
The bash celebrates creative development in new brews, with 36 brewers participating this year.
"You put that in there and this in there, and try to come up with a great new flavor," Burr said.
The beer will flow inside the American Legion Hall, 209 Monroe St., from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and from 1 p.m. to
6 p.m. Sunday.
For the $25 admission fee, participants will get a wristband good for entrance to the weekend's full slate of events, an 8-ounce souvenir tasting glass and four sample tokens.
Additional tokens can be purchased for $1.50 each.
Tickets are available at the door, cash only, at the American Legion Hall.
Last year's event attracted some 1,400 beer-lovers to the three-day event.
This year's event features 36 brewers from Washington and Oregon, each of which will bring at least two brews cooked up special with unique ingredients for participants to sample.
"But we have a strict no-beard-hair policy in the beer," Burr said, noting that one Northwest brewery has been reportedly experimenting with just such a concoction.
The competition culminates with an awards ceremony at 3 p.m. Sunday.
Crafters receive stained-glass medals based on attendees' ranking of their brews.
Law noted that Elkhead Brewing of Buckley is the "Mark Spitz" of Strange Brewfest, taking home neckfuls of medals from previous showings.
Admission also provides revelers access to a full weekend of beer-fueled music.
Music begins Friday, with PT jam band LoWire and The Better Half.
Special $10 tickets are available for Friday's night's music.
Saturday's slate opens with funksters Eldridge Gravy and The Court Supreme, followed by the dance-invoking Yogoman Burning Band and the kaleidoscopic sound stylings of Polyrhythmics.
Portland, Ore., six-piece Americana band Tapwater plays Sunday afternoon.
Chain-saw carvers Steve Backus and Pat McVay will turn logs into luxurious creations.
Also planned are fire dancing, belly dancing, juggling and hula hooping.
"Our stilt walker just canceled, but I think we'll be all right," Burr said.
Vendors will offer up a wide variety of food offerings outside the Legion Hall.
While most of the beer offerings will be served up inside the Legion Hall, organizers this year also have permission to block off Water Street for a special outdoor venue.
Law noted that special Strange Brewfest hoodie sweatshirts will be on sale for the outdoor crowd.
In exchange for giving the brewfest a venue, proceeds from the event are used to benefit the American Legion.
Post Cmdr. Joe Carey said Strange Brewfest brings a range of benefits to Port Townsend.
"The impact this event has on our sales taxes at this slow time is tremendous," he said.
Carey did, though, point out a downside.
"The plumbing takes an absolute beating," he said.
Organizers of Strange Brewfest plan to buy stacks of pizza for guests of the winter shelter in the Legion's basement.
The Legion's Relay For Life team also will be on hand, selling pretzel necklaces to the festival's thirsty denizens.
More information is available at www.strangebrewfestpt.com.
Sequim-Dungeness Valley Editor Joe Smillie can be reached at 360-681-2390, ext. 5052, or at email@example.com.
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Holly Madison's show is not being produced by Base Entertainment but will feature entertainment from a great bassist.
What the heck is Johnny talking about? More will be revealed, later, in this raking of the scene:
• Following up on the item from my colleague, UURL (uber-ubiquitous Robin Leach), the rock artist at the center of the Great Roofie Rollover at Mandalay Bay is Blues Traveler frontman John Popper.
How would I know this? Because John Popper told me.
This bizarre and potentially ruinous event unfolded late Thursday night and early Friday morning at Mandalay Bay. Popper was in town, in part, to attend the "One Night for One Drop" Cirque du Soleil show at MJ One Theater. As Popper described in my conversation with him (and his account closely matches what was reported in UURL's Vegas DeLuxe column), he arrived Thursday night, had a drink at a hotel bar and walked onto an elevator with a woman he'd met on the property. What he remembers next is regaining consciousness but disoriented, the apparent victim of a roofie dose in his drink.
Popper soon realized that he was missing his wallet, $2,500 in cash, and a Rolex Presidential watch he originally valued at $19,500 but is likely worth even more than that (as he noted, he was looking at a less-expensive Rolex model anyway, but still, the lost timepiece was a huge value). Originally it was through that Popper lost his credit cards, but that was not the case.
Popper's connection to Las Vegas is that he is managed by Seth Yudof, founder of UD Factory, who also was at "One Night for One Drop."
When asked for a report of the incident involving Popper, Metro Police today said only that Metro officers responded to a grand larceny call from the 3900 block of Las Vegas Boulevard at 8:36 a.m. Friday and that the incident is an "ongoing investigation." (Mandalay Bay's address is 3950 Las Vegas Boulevard South). Popper reportedly did file a report to those Metro officers but was not treated by any medical personnel on site or at any Las Vegas hospitals.
As Popper said, when you are roofied, you just sort of inherently know it. Hopefully he'll have his stuff returned and the episode will serve as yet another reminder to be careful with those cocktails, kids.
• How Holly Madison was linked with the operator of Minus 5 Ice Lounge has been something of a curiosity as Mandalay Bay this week announced the April 11 opening of 1923 Bourbon & Burlesque. At least, I've been curious about how Madison was able to find that particular partner in her new show, formally titled "Bourbon Burlesque by Holly Madison."
The summit-maker here was Steve Flynn of Langdon Flynn Public Relations, who is Madison's former PR rep and a current PR rep for Minus 5 Director of Operations Noel Bowman. Flynn had known of Madison's general concept for a burlesque-styled speakeasy and thought of Bowman, who specializes in intimate-scope entertainment venues, even those set in room temperature.
Months after Madison met with Bowman, we have a swanky new club hosting a very promising show that is to spotlight one Jozef Bobula.
You might know Bobula from earlier in the column, which talked of a great bass player in town. Bobula is currently in "Pin Up" at the Stratosphere and is one of the players — and a great one — in "Bourbon Burlesque." He's so good he uses, like, an extra string.
Madison says all of the musicians and dancers in the show work in Las Vegas. She adds that show times will be Fridays and Saturdays from 10:30 p.m.-2:30 a.m., and she will be singing the first two weekends (April 11-12 and April 18-19) and also on media night April 17. Rehearsals are now continuing. There has been some murmuring on the scene that the location at Mandalay Bay at the escalators leading to and from the Shoppes at Mandalay Place is not ideal (and the official news release announcing the events seemed to account for that concern by saying the club is "seductively" located). Ivan Kane's Forty Deuce danced that same spot and closed in 2009.
But Madison brushes aside such skepticism.
"We are built out in a way that will make the space very prominent, that is very eye-catching and of the era," she said in a phone conversation Monday night. "Mandalay Bay is a lot different than when Forty Deuce was there. The MJ One show is right around the corner. They didn't have a major nightclub like Light on the property. It really won't be hard to find."
• Maybe you are one who is preoccupied by the rift between Las Vegas magicians Murray Sawchuck and Nathan Burton, and God help you if you are.
In an event as astonishing and unexpected as Burton's Microwave of Death (death, death, death …), Sawchuck was unceremoniously tossed from Burton's performance at Saxe Theater in Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood last Thursday afternoon. Sawchuck's version — which is the primary version at hand, as Burton isn't talking — is that his wife, Chloe Crawford, and he entered the theater and were quickly told by theater manager Sean Ryan (who works for show producer David Saxe) that Burton had asked for the couple to be removed from the show.
Sawchuck's stated feeling as to why this happened is that it might be because Sawchuck is tight with Bill Voelkner, the former producer of Burton's show who has sparred legally with the afternoon magician. It could be, too, that Burton is trying to keep any elements of his act from being pilfered by a competing magician. The magician culture is rife with borrowing, sampling and outright theft, and Sawchuck has been accused by The Amazing Johnathan for copping segments of Johnathan's act.
But Sawchuck (who is hardly allergic to any kind of PR, BTW) says that is hardly the case, as he has seen Burton's act many times in the past decade and was once hired by Burton as a featured performer. It was Crawford, a dancer in "Fantasy" at Luxor and the February Playboy Cybergirl of the Month, who had not seen the show before the couple arrived Thursday. Crawford is actually dabbling in magic herself, so you never know.
Seriously, this is just a strange move, a real head-shaker. Sawchuck, headliner at Laugh Factory at the Tropicana, says he was not refunded his two $12 tickets. So, maybe this one will end up in court, too.
• Roy Horn has issued his public tribute to Mantecore (the one-time Montecore) on the Siegfried & Roy Facebook page. This late change in name spelling might be the longest wait for a correction in the history of journalism, but no matter. I am remembering what Horn said during an interview with the pair back in September just before they marked the 10th anniversary of the incident involving Mantecore at the Mirage that nearly killed Roy.
"(Mantecore) looked at me with his big blue eyes and was confused, and so he picked me up by the neck," he said. "He brought me to the side so he could attend to me. But we need to rectify — he never attacked me. If a tiger attacks you, you are finished."
That contention, shared by Siegfried, has been the subject of spirited debate ever since the night the Siegfried & Roy show closed at the Mirage. Now known as Mantecore, the big cat died last Wednesday at age 17. He will forever be remembered as the most famous animal to ever inhabit Las Vegas.
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ERIC Joyce current MP for Falkirk who triggered selection battle after being leaving the party following his conviction for assaulting Tories at a House of Commons bar.
Karie Murphy was the front-runner to replace Joyce as MP for Falkirk and Unite's preferred candidate until she was suspended by Labour when party headquarters took over running the selection procedure amid suggestions that it had been rigged.
Stephen Deans the chairman of Falkirk Labour party until his suspension at the same time as Murphy's.
Tom Watson MP, left, is one of Labour's best known politicians having led the charge against the Murdoch empire in the phone-hacking scandal. Murphy used to be his office manager. On Thursday he quit the shadow cabinet to preserve the "unity" of the party.
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President Obama's nuclear-weapons policy is finally taking shape. We now have the text of his "New START" treaty with Russia, the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) and statements on fissile materials at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington.
But as the policy picture comes into focus, most of what we see is troubling.
For starters, there is this irritating habit of wanting moral credit for wishful thinking. Mr. Obama has said his ultimate goal is "a world without nuclear weapons." Nobody seriously believes this will happen, yet his administration solemnly links the treaty and the otherwise dour and serious NPR to this airy goal. With a wink and nod, they seem to think the masses (especially their supporters) will believe the hype, even though the experts know something very different.
What the experts hope is that the new START treaty and the NPR will reduce the world's reliance on nuclear weapons. But that laudable hope may be groundless, too.
The administration says our greatest threats are Iran and terrorist acquisition of nuclear weapons — not Russia. Yet, the new treaty will do nothing to convince Iran or other rogue states and terrorists to follow our disarmament lead. Not only that, it increases the centrality of nuclear weapons in the U.S.-Russian strategic balance, playing right into Russia's desire to be our "peer" competitor based largely on nuclear weapons.
The biggest problem with the new treaty is how lopsided it is in Russia's favor. Because of financial constraints and outdated nuclear systems, Russias nuclear arsenal was already going down, especially its aging launchers and delivery systems. It would have likely been forced to make the reductions codified in this treaty whether or not the U.S. reduced its weapons.
And yet if the treaty is ratified, we will have locked ourselves into reductions that cannot be changed. Were we ever to want to increase our nuclear arsenal — say, because China or some other country threatens us — doing so would put ourselves in violation of international law.
The new START also will give better protection to Russians than Americans. Once it is fully in force, we have to cut 151 of our delivery vehicles and launchers, while Russia could actually add 134 and still be under the limit of 700. The only side that's disarming on this score, then, will be the U.S.
Yes, the Russians may have to cut 190 nuclear warheads; but even there, we are disadvantaged; we could have to cut 265 to get to the treaty's limit of 1,550 (though warhead accounting rules for bombers make the actual numbers uncertain).
This is not only unfair. It actually lessens Russia's exposure to America's nuclear weapons more than it reduces America's exposure to Russia's weapons.
Who cares, you ask, since we know that our biggest threat is not from Russians, but from Iranians? Well, if that is so, then why are we making such a big deal of an arms agreement with the Russians as if the Cold War had never ended? Why are we constraining our nuclear options in other areas just to get this modest reduction from a country that the administration otherwise seems to believe is a "reset" strategic partner?
On top of this, the START treaty includes language that Russia says it will use to limit our missile defenses. Nor will the treaty limit Russia's huge arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons. So you can see how the goal of protecting Americans from real weapons — as opposed to the goal of reducing some vague global threat — gets short shrift.
Perhaps the biggest long-term flaw in both this new treaty and the Nuclear Posture Review is that there is only an uncertain commitment to further nuclear modernization. Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl called the Obama administration on this point in an April 8 statement, warning, "[W]e continue to believe it will be difficult for it [the new START treaty] to pass the Senate without the fully funded robust nuclear weapons modernization program required by section 1251 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2010."
This concern is more than just about modernizing and testing new weapons to deter conflict. It's about obeying the law. The president must submit a modernization plan when he sends the treaty to the Senate for consideration. We can judge then whether it meets the bill.
It is certainly not a bad thing to reduce our reliance on nuclear weapons if we maintain the right force balance — with active missile defenses and the right conventional forces — and make a clear distinction between nations that favor liberty and those that favor aggression.
It is simply wrong to blithely assert that just reducing nuclear weapons (especially when we are doing most of the cutting) is good for America and world peace.
• Kim R. Holmes, a former assistant secretary of state, is a vice president at the Heritage Foundation.
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text: Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation releases its UltraCMOS PE42641 SP4T antenna tuning switch that delivers an IMD performance of -110 dBm, making it suitable for converged designs that require high linearity and low distortion. A variety of emerging market applications benefit from the RF performance advantages of this switch, including 3G GSM/EDGE/WCDMA and CDMA handset and PC card applications; machine-to-machine applications such as vending machines and parking meters; or designs requiring antenna tuning, such as repeater and telematics applications. This silicon-on-sapphire based device incorporates proprietary HaRP technology enhancements to deliver optimal harmonic results, linearity and overall RF performance. The switch offers Class 2 ESD (2 kV HBM) on all pins, and Class 3 (4 kV HBM) at the antenna.


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Benjamin MacFinn
January 5, 2016 · Public
Hi Bucky,
I am a beginner web developer with basic knowledge of PHP, HTML 5, CSS 3, some JavaScript and MySQL.
I am encountering a problem in a PHP-based program that i am writing and i was wondering if you could help me out.
I want to use PHP or any suitable language available to fetch exam scores from a database and then determine the 1st, 2nd, 3rd....yadi yada yadi yada.
Then later insert into another table in the database for future use.
I tried the following but its not working for me:
Thanks in Advance!


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Profiles in Courage, er, Danish Consumption
Rare is the Sunday that passes without John McCain pilfering our major network's green rooms.
Asked whether he believes Boehner should break the Hastert Rule to push immigration reform, McCain demurred.
"I really hesitate to tell Speaker Boehner how he should do this," he said on "Fox News Sunday."
Oh there's that straight talk.
See you next Sunday, faithful old crank.


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Los Angeles audiences got a glimpse of the labyrinthine politics of the underbelly of Mumbai India when the Special Projects Committee's Global Cinema Series screened Director Anurag Kashyap's Hindi language thriller, That Girl in Yellow Boots in the DGA theater on April 10.
That Girl in Yellow Boots tells the story of Ruth, a girl who travels from the UK to Mumbai in hopes of finding and reconnecting with her long lost father. Unable to find legal work, she takes a job in a seedy massage parlor where she can fund her quest by providing illicit extra services. Her life is further complicated by the fact that her drug-addicted boyfriend owes money to a ruthless gangster who has no qualms about how that debt is repaid. Ruth soon finds herself sucked deeper into the mire as everyone wants a piece of her and she must come to terms with what she ultimately learns in her search.
Kashyap's other feature films include Paanch (2003), Black Friday (2004), No Smoking (2007), Dev D (2009), and the two-part Gangs of Wasseypur (2012). His production company Anurag Kashyap Films Pvt. Ltd. is considered a leading force in developing meaningful films that are changing the face of independent cinema from India. After the screening, Kashyap discussed the making of That Girl in Yellow Boots with Global Cinema subcommittee Chair Victoria Hochberg (Dawg).
photos by Byron Gamarro


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These company's all are working with respect for the past, but this set looks just Now. All items are real "Items" and the combination suggested here is just a suggestion, nothing more, nothing less. We love the functional turtle neck made in England inspired on Submariner sweaters used by the Royal Navy. In cotton perfect for chilly spring days or summer days on the sea. Scartilab mixes italian work wear influences with great twill cotton fabrics and a carrot fit on these pants. Vetra brings us a coat in a colour that's hard to find in a very interesting price range, it could be twice the price, but it isn't. This is the way how we "curate" our collection, not being a follower, but a kind of "lone ranger" in a fashion victim environment.
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