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Aqua Salt Cellar
This bowl was hand built and pinched to make it extra lovely. This bowl was painted with multiple glazes and a real gold lustre rim. It's a little uneven, a little wonky and extra cheerful. Perfect for holding jewelry, snacks, or kosher salt for all of your cooking needs!
Approximately 3-3.25" across and 1"-1.25" high. Hand washing is recommended, but if you forget and run it through the dishwasher you should be okay.
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*Please note that this price and listing is for ONE BOWL only. I have made multiples of this item, so you may not receive the exact item pictured, but you will get one that is very similar.
**Please note that each item is handmade and glazed with love. This means there may be some glaze inconsistencies from piece to piece. That's part of the joy of buying a handmade piece!

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Unlike futures market making, options market making still remains viable. But Sacks says the writing is on the wall for options locals as well.
So the two designed a strategy based on systems Sacks had been trading that they believed would capture major upside moves in gold and mute the downside. Ironically, they say the strategy that trades gold options is not correlated to gold and targets passive gold investors who need to reduce volatility while maintaining opportunity. They aim to make strong profits and/or offset losses in large tail events in either direction. "I would characterize it as a tail risk fund. It really is an absolute return strategy," Sacks says.
"Basically we are looking to go to someone who has $10 million in the GLD and say you would be better with $5 million in GLD and $5 million in Aurum," Vitiello adds. He says the strategy is capable of being flat or profitable in major downturns, and capturing large upside moves. "If gold doubles, we are not going to double, we will earn several multiples. And if gold rallies 5%, on the occasions that we don't catch it, [our clients are] still 50% passive long. In exchange for giving up some potential profit on a modest rally, they are paying us to improve both of their tail scenarios," he says.
Sacks says they use ratio call spreads primarily over different lengths of time. "We craft it so that it is like a modified ratio butterfly; it is always in some way net long calls but we might be selling one option with one year to go and buying two options with one month to go. We are taking in the premium but we are spending it to buy extra nets. So, technically, we can't call it a butterfly or call spread, but in essence it is a ratio calendar call spread that is always long nets and always flat premium," he explains.
The approach has worked thus far. Aurum launched in April 2011 and earned 20.04% for the year trading managed accounts. They are up 8.61% through March this year after dropping 8.45% in 2012. Now they are preparing to launch a pool.
"It is a way for people who have been in the GLD for many years to sort of synthetically boost profits, take a little money off of the table and keep something in there to participate should something happen," Sacks says.


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Barbara Walters lands Imus
Don Imus, who returns to the airwaves Monday, will give his first interview since getting the boot from his syndicated radio show to Barbara Walters. That chat will air as part of "Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2007," her annual celebrity sit-down, this one on Thursday at 9 p.m. on KMGH-Channel 7.
ABC said this link will be active at 8 a.m. Monday for those who cannot wait.
Imus was dumped by WABC in New York and MSNBC, which simulcast the show, eight months ago after making inflammatory, racist comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team.
Starting Monday, Imus will be heard on Citadel radio stations (none of which are located in Denver). RFD-TV, based in Nashville, a rural network offering farming news and features, has picked up the simulcasts and hope to use Imus to spread its presence into major metro areas. Where to find RFD on the cable dial? Stay tuned.
Comcast has a verbal agreement to add RFD to its lineup, in time for the return of Imus Monday mornings.


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Boasting a stunning, spherical design, the Graypants Moon Pendant Lampshade 14 Inch is made from laser cut, recycled cardboard, and is assembled by hand for a beautiful finish. Designed to refract light all around your room, the lamp is adorned with intricate, corrugated detail for an elegant look. The perfect addition to any interior, it's sure to create a warm, inviting atmosphere. - L.M.
Dimensions: H:12" x Dia:14"
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Mojolicious::Types - MIME types
use Mojolicious::Types;
my $types = Mojolicious::Types->new;
$types->type(foo => 'text/foo');
say $types->type('foo');
Mojolicious::Types manages MIME types for Mojolicious.
appcache -> text/cache-manifest
atom -> application/atom+xml
bin -> application/octet-stream
css -> text/css
gif -> image/gif
gz -> application/x-gzip
htm -> text/html
html -> text/html;charset=UTF-8
ico -> image/x-icon
jpeg -> image/jpeg
jpg -> image/jpeg
js -> application/javascript
json -> application/json
mp3 -> audio/mpeg
mp4 -> video/mp4
ogg -> audio/ogg
ogv -> video/ogg
pdf -> application/pdf
png -> image/png
rss -> application/rss+xml
svg -> image/svg+xml
txt -> text/plain;charset=UTF-8
webm -> video/webm
woff -> application/font-woff
xml -> application/xml,text/xml
zip -> application/zip
The most common ones are already defined.
Mojolicious::Types implements the following attributes.
my $map = $types->types;
$types = $types->types({png => ['image/png']});
List of MIME types.
Mojolicious::Types inherits all methods from Mojo::Base and implements the following new ones.
my $exts = $types->detect('application/json;q=9');
my $exts = $types->detect('text/html, application/json;q=9', 1);
Detect file extensions from
Accept header value, prioritization of unspecific values that contain more than one MIME type is disabled by default.
# List detected extensions prioritized
say for @{$types->detect('application/json, text/xml;q=0.1', 1)};
my $type = $types->type('png');
$types = $types->type(png => 'image/png');
$types = $types->type(json => [qw(application/json text/x-json)]);
Get or set MIME types for file extension, alternatives are only used for detection.
Mojolicious, Mojolicious::Guides, http://mojolicio.us.


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Traditional Diets, Modern Misunderstandings
By Marlene Merritt, DOM, LAc, ACN
One of the biggest mistakes I see in nutrition is that we look at life in these narrow "slices" of time and think this is how things always have been. We might think that nutritionally we're a little worse than a while ago (or not), but we don't have any perspective or context to help us see exactly how different things are now.After all, we think to ourselves, how different could cheese be? Or meat? Or bread? Or vegetables? We simply don't remember what people ate before cereal or sandwiches came into the picture.
Low Fat Fad
Let's take, for example, the current fad of eating low fat. At no point in human history had we ever eaten low fat until the past 30 to 40 years when research linked hydrogenated fats and trans fats to heart disease. While those man-made fats absolutely contribute to heart disease, there has never been a study that linked butter or lard to plaques or any other cardiovascular problem. Yet without solid research on which to justify this change, the national recommendation then became to avoid ALL fats. We then invented fat-free yogurt with more sugar in it than even a candy bar, but with all the "wholesome goodness" that yogurt seems to imply.
Did you know that back in the 1940s, the inexpensive cut of meat was the lean piece? When you wanted a rich, mouth-watering steak, it was the fat you looked for. If you couldn't afford the good cut with the fat, you could buy inexpensive pork belly and, using a larding needle, sew strips of it to the lean meat to give it flavor. Check out cookbooks from the 1930s and you'll see what I mean.
Fat traditionally was so prized for its nutritive value that fish eggs (which are fantastic sources of fat-soluble vitamins A and D) were given as a wedding present in Japan to a new couple to increase fertility. The Eskimos also prized fish eggs. Natives in the Andes carried fish roe from the ocean hundreds of miles to their villages in the mountains to bring nutrition to women of child-bearing age. Native Americans would save fat from animals like buffalo and bear killed in the summer to use when cooking the lean animals like rabbit and deer during the winter.
Researcher Weston Price saw that traditional foods in cultures untouched by the modern Western diet had 10 times the amounts of fat-soluble vitamins than in the 1930s and four times the amount of minerals and water-soluble vitamins. He referred to the fat-soluble vitamins as the "catalysts" upon which the absorption of all other nutrients — proteins, minerals and vitamins — relied. One can only wonder how much more deficient we will become in the following century with our low-fat diets.
Where does one get those vitamins now? We could get vitamin D from the sun ... if we were outside without sunscreen. The traditional food source was lard, from pigs fed in the sun. Vitamin A is only found in animal products, like full-fat dairy, butter and liver. Beta-carotene is actually a precursor to vitamin A and needs to be converted in the body and the conversion rate can be quite poor. The ratio of conversion of beta-carotene to retinol can be as bad as 28:1 and is especially low in diabetics, people with hypothyroidism and celiac disease and babies.
The Raw Food Bar in the Whole Foods of Austin, Texas has many choices of low-temperature-cooked vegetables, soups, spreads and more. How many people do you know think raw-food diets are vegetarian or vegan? It is completely true that raw foods can have higher amounts of enzymes and nutrients. Cooking may add the damaging effects of processed oils, advanced glycation end products (AGEs) that speed aging and cellular damage, will kill off any beneficial bacteria, and potentially can add toxins and chemicals, depending on how processed it is.
The problem is that, again, we have "forgotten" that while all healthy cultures had some source of raw foods, it wasn't just fruits and vegetables. There were also sources of raw meats, raw seafood and raw dairy (in some cultures). Beef carpaccio, sushi, steak tartar and raw oysters are all examples of traditional raw foods, as well as cod liver oil, raw butter and raw milk.
Researcher Francis Pottenger saw in his studies that cats fed a diet of cooked meat and pasteurized milk had, after three generations, more difficult pregnancies, narrow faces and crowded teeth, frail bones and weak ligaments, parasites and diseases. The cats that ate the raw meat and raw milk did not, and continued their health for subsequent generations. There are people who think that many of us, with our need for braces and wisdom-teeth extractions, never mind the rates of degenerative diseases, are the nutritionally deficient human versions of Pottenger's cats.
Fad Diets
What else did traditional cultures do? A lot of these cultures didn't have the unlimited food we have now, so they didn't do anything insane like voluntarily stop eating meats or fats, and they certainly didn't squander any parts of an animal. Boneless, skinless chicken breasts? Not a chance. Bones gave you flavor and minerals, and chicken skin is actually in the same category as olive oil, a monounsaturated fat. You kept the bones because in making soup with them and by adding any water you might have boiled vegetables in, you kept the vitamins and minerals.
Of course, what we do now is throw away everything besides the muscle, not realizing that bone broth made from real bones was how people got their minerals like calcium and nutrition like glucosamine for joints, gelatin for healing the gut lining, and glycine for heme synthesis, collagen formation, detoxification and neurotransmitter function. Organ meats gave us mineral content far surpassing vegetables, as well as a full complement of vitamins.
When people argue that meat is inflammatory, they're nearly always surprised when I agree, but that's because how we eat meat now is inflammatory and this is for two reasons. First, we took cows off of grass and fed them corn, and this ingestion of inflammatory omega-6 oils changed the nutritional profile of the meat, causing it to be more inflammatory. Second, how we eat meat currently is not how it was traditionally eaten.
Eating only the muscle meat causes high levels of inflammatory homocysteine in the body. If we had ample B vitamins, we could convert homocysteine safely back to methionine, but most people are B-vitamin deficient ... and why? Because stress and eating refined carbohydrates depletes the body of B vitamins. The best source of B vitamins is liver, but who's eating that now? If we continued to eat the whole animal, instead of arbitrarily deciding to only eat the muscle meat, it wouldn't actually be inflammatory, as evidenced by cultures like the Masaai (Africa) and the Eskimos. They ate little to no vegetables, nearly all animal protein and animal fats, and had next to none of the degenerative diseases we have now and a .01 percent cancer rate.
Meat is Good
Again, cultures that weren't replete in food as we are today might not have eaten a lot of anything, including meat, but they certainly didn't shy away from it when it was served. People will quickly point out to me that people from India ate a vegetarian diet and were healthy, and I will just as quickly point out that they ate animal protein unknowingly in the form of insects mixed in among the grains they ingested. We know this because vegetarian Indians who relocated to England were shown to contract megaloblastic anemia for the simple reason that even though they were eating the same diet, the food was now "cleaner" and without the added nutrients from the insects, they contracted the same B12 anemia that is so prevalent among many vegetarians.
Sometimes people will say that "we live longer now, so we must be doing something right." Actually, the mid-Victorians had the same lifespan as we do, with 10 percent of the degenerative diseases. If you made it beyond the age of 5 (approximately one in three children died young), and didn't catch something infectious that could kill you, your lifespan would be the same as now, you would be active for nearly your whole life, rarely be sick, and you would probably die in your sleep.
The mid-Victorians ate locally grown, seasonal produce, local dairy products and eggs, "crazy" foods (at least, for modern Americans) like steak-and-kidney pie and liver, and very little sugar. Around 1880, shipping became much more common and people started eating different foods, like canned and tinned meat (instead of fresh), wheat from North American for baked goods, along with a huge influx of sugar.
By the year 1900, sugar had rotted teeth to the degree that people could not eat fruits, vegetables and nuts, and this malnourishment caused a change in health so severe that the military had to drop their admission height by six inches, to 5 foot, 0 inches. Regarding our lifespan now, we only live longer because of life-saving measures; there's little to argue regarding our decline in quality of life as we age.
As you look around at the food in your kitchen and refrigerator, or the food you're ordering in restaurants, the question to ask yourself is, "Would your grandmother (or someone 75 to 100 years ago) recognize any of this food?" Nearly everything that comes in a bag, box or can nowadays is a newly invented, "modern" food, complete with everything from high-fructose corn syrup to GMO grains, to corn-fed beef. Vegetables grown on over-farmed soil with no nutrients are sprayed with pesticides because when plants don't have nutritional health, they can't defend themselves either.
Soy protein and soy oil is in nearly everything (it's our second largest crop, after all) — none of it fermented to make it more digestible and less damaging. Corn oil, vegetable oil, soy oil — those are all modern inventions, with their highly inflammatory profiles, used in restaurants and salad dressing everywhere. Artificial sweeteners, "Real fruit flavor!" chemicals, preservatives in everything from meat to chips — those are all new chemical inventions. Add in the scientific formulations designed to create addiction, with high levels of salt, sugar and fat hidden in the ingredient list and in the taste, cutting-edge marketing, and easy access to food everywhere — it's no wonder people make poor food choices.
There has been a small shift toward buying locally and from farmers markets, and a bit more awareness, with articles in the mainstream media regarding the damage of the low-fat policy and ingredients like sugar. I would be lying, though, if I thought that cleaning up our diets for the past couple of years was going to offset the decades of damage we've done to ourselves, along with the potential generational damage we've had.
This is actually why I use whole food supplements in my practice — because simply making dietary changes is like filling a pothole with a teaspoon and synthetic supplements with their unnatural profiles and quantities are actually damaging.
Just so you know, I'm personally working on this myself. I take cod liver oil, don't eat processed foods at all, buy grass-fed meats, am learning to eat organ meats, take a food vitamin that includes liver in it, and eat organic vegetables at every turn. I eat real food, drink wine, and try to eat in a way that my great-grandparents would recognize. It's been a journey, but one I recommend for my patients and recommend to you as well.


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The Reverend Father Dimitri Tsakas is the rector of the Greek Orthodox Church of St George, Brisbane, and the Vicar-General of the Fourth Archdiocesan District of Queensland and New Guinea, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia.
Dimitri was born in Brisbane in 1966, where he would subsequently attend Junction Park State School and Brisbane State High School. He then moved to Townsville, where he completed an Social Work degree, attaining honours in Social Policy.
After his graduation, he worked with disadvantaged groups in Northwest Queensland, from Townsville to Hughenden in what was then called the Department of Social Security. During this time, he married Michelle in 1988.
In 1989, they moved to Brisbane, where Dimitri practised social work in psychiatric disability; in 1991, he became a practising Family Court Counsellor in the Family Court of Australia, Brisbane. In May of this year, Dimitri was ordained by Archbishop Stylianos of Australia to the diaconate at the Church of St George, where he is assigned to serve. He began a ministry of teaching, bringing many Orthodox back to the Church.
At the end of 1994, Dcn Dimitri was ordained to the priesthood at the Church of St George. Soon after, he moved to Sydney, where he began studies at St. Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College, simultaneously serving parishes in Sydney. After his graduation from St Andrew's in 1997 with a Bachelor of Theology, he was again placed at the Church of St George, Brisbane, first as assistant priest, then as rector.
On the retirement of V. Rev. Fr Gregory Sakellariou from the position in 2000, Fr Dimitri was made Vicar-General of the Fourth Archdiocesan District of Queensland and New Guinea. Subsequently, in 2001, Fr Dimitri was elevated to the rank of Economos.
In 2007, Fr Dimitri was awarded a Masters of International Relations with Distinction from Macquarie University, focusing on the European Union.
During the Brisbane floods of 2011, Fr Dimitri led the community in helping those affected by floods, a position that continued in helping those in and around Townsville in the aftermath of Cyclone Yasi. He was awarded a 'local hero award' by the then-Premier of Queensland, Anna Bligh, for his leadership and efforts.
External links
- Biography, on the website of the Greek Orthodox Community of St George.
- Sermon on the Publican and the Pharisee.
- Article in 1999, within the Voice in the Wilderness, on The Prodigal Son.
- Article in 2000, within the Voice in the Wilderness, on Church Etiquette.
- Article in 2004, within the Voice in the Wilderness, on the Importance of Confession.
- A book on incarnational theology, That Our Joy May Be Complete, in which Fr Dimitri has an essay on the Orthodox viewpoint.
- Article on the response of the Greek Orthodox community to the 2011 flood and cyclone crises
- An article by Fr Dimitri Tsakas on the Church's response to the 2011 flood and cyclone crises.
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Regular readers of this Blog or attendees at the 2010 O'Reilly MySQL Conference may recall a feature that the MySQL Cluster team were working to speed up JOINs (see Jonas's slides from that conference here). The good news is that work has continued since then and it is now part of the new MySQL Cluster 7.2 Milestone Development Release. This post will step through where to get hold of the binaries and see the benefits for yourself. The examples I try here result in a 25x speedup just by turning the feature on – I've also seen a 50x speedup on other queries!
We're anxious to get feedback on what benefits you see with your application's JOINs, please respond to this post.
What's in a name?
If some of this seems familiar but you don't remember hearing the term "Adaptive Query Localization" before then you're not going crazy – previous internal names were SPJ (Select Project Join) and Pushed-Down Joins. We just figured that Adaptive Query Localization was more descriptive.
What does it do?
Traditionally, joins have been implemented in the MySQL Server where the query was executed. This is implemented as a nested-loop join; for every row from the first part of the join, a request has to be sent to the data nodes in order to fetch the data for the next level of the join and for every row in that level…. This method can result in a lot of network messages which slows down the query (as well as wasting resources).
When turned on, Adaptive Query Localization results in the hard work being pushed down to the data nodes where the data is locally accessible. As a bonus, the work is divided amongst the pool of data nodes and so you get parallel execution.
How is it implemented?
I'll leave the real deep and dirty details to others but cover the basic concepts here. All API nodes access the data nodes using the native C++ NDB API, the MySQL Server is one example of an API node (the new Memcached Cluster API is another). This API has been expanded to allowed parameterised or linked queries where the input from one query is dependent on the previous one.
To borrow an example from an excellent post by Frazer Clement on the topic, the classic way to implement a join would be…
SQL > select t1.b, t2.c from t1,t2 where t1.pk=22 and t1.b=t2.pk; ndbapi > read column b from t1 where pk = 22;
[round trip]
(b = 15) ndbapi > read column c from t2 where pk = 15;
[round trip]
(c = 30) [ return b = 15, c = 30 ]
Using the new functionality this can be performed with a single network round trip where the second read operation is dependent on the results of the first…
ndbapi > read column @b:=b from t1 where pk = 22; read column c from t2 where pk=@b;
[round trip]
(b = 15, c = 30) [ return b = 15, c = 30 ]
Note that if your application is using the NDB API directly then you can use this same linked query functionality to speed up your queries.
Where do I get it?
Download the source or binaries from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/ (select the sub-tab for the Development Milestone Release).
How do I use it?
The first step is to get you Cluster up and running. As the focus of this feature is to reduce the amount of network messaging, it makes sense to perform your tests on multiple machines; if you need pointers on setting Cluster up then check this post on running Cluster over multiple machines (or the Windows version).
For my test, I used 2 PCs, each running Fedora 14 with Quad-Core CPU, 8 GBytes of RAM and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity. Each PC was running 2 data nodes (ndbd rather than ndbmtd) and one of the PCs was also running the management node and the MySQL Server running the queries (note that this configuration is not suitable for a HA deployment – for that run the management node on a third machine and run a MySQL Server on 192.168.1.11).
I'd hoped to go a step further and have the MySQL Server run on a third machine but hardware problems put paid to that – the reason that this would have been interesting is that it would have meant more of the messaging would be over the network and so would give a more realistic performance comparison (the speedup factor should have been higher). Another couple of steps that could further improve the speedup:
- Use multi-threaded data nodes (as more of the work is being done in the data nodes, this should help)
- Use machines with more cores
- Tune the configuration parameters (I'm keeping it as simple as possible here)
For reference, here is the configuration file used (config.ini):
[ndb_mgmd] hostname=192.168.1.7 datadir=/home/billy/mysql/spj/my_cluster/ndb_data NodeId=1 [ndbd default] noofreplicas=2 DiskPageBufferMemory=4M [ndbd] hostname=192.168.1.7 datadir=/home/billy/mysql/spj/my_cluster/ndb_data NodeId=3 [ndbd] hostname=192.168.1.11 datadir=/home/billy/mysql/spj/my_cluster/ndb_data NodeId=4 [ndbd] hostname=192.168.1.7 datadir=/home/billy/mysql/spj/my_cluster/ndb_data2 NodeId=5 [ndbd] hostname=192.168.1.11 datadir=/home/billy/mysql/spj/my_cluster/ndb_data2 NodeId=6 [mysqld] NodeId=50
And for the MySQL Server (my.cnf):
As a reminder – here is how you start up such a Cluster:
[billy@ws2 my_cluster]$ ndb_mgmd -f conf/config.ini --initial --configdir=/home/billy/mysql/spj/my_cluster/conf/ [billy@ws2 my_cluster]$ ndbd -c 192.168.1.7:1186
[billy@ws1 my_cluster]$ ndbd -c 192.168.1.7:1186
[billy@ws2 my_cluster]$ ndbd -c 192.168.1.7:1186
[billy@ws1 my_cluster]$ ndbd -c 192.168.1.7:1186
[billy@ws2 my_cluster]$ ndb_mgm -e show # Wait until data nodes are running [billy@ws2 my_cluster]$ mysqld --defaults-file=conf/my.cnf& [billy@ws2 my_cluster]$ mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 3306 -u root
Three tables that are to be used for the queries and these are created as follows:
mysql> CREATE DATABASE clusterdb; USE clusterdb; mysql> CREATE TABLE residents (id INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, name VARCHAR(20), postcode VARCHAR(20)) ENGINE=ndb; mysql> CREATE TABLE postcodes (postcode VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, town VARCHAR(20)) ENGINE=ndb; mysql> CREATE TABLE towns (town VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, county VARCHAR(20)) ENGINE=ndb;
I then added 100K rows to each of these tables; if you want to recreate this then you can download the data files here.
mysql> LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE "/home/billy/Dropbox/LINUX/projects/SPJ/residents.csv" REPLACE INTO TABLE residents FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '"'; mysql> LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE "/home/billy/Dropbox/LINUX/projects/SPJ/postcodes.csv" REPLACE INTO TABLE postcodes FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '"'; mysql> LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE "/home/billy/Dropbox/LINUX/projects/SPJ/towns.csv" REPLACE INTO TABLE towns FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '"';
Now everything is set up to actually perform our tests! First of all two queries are run with the adaptive query localization turned off i.e. this is the "before" picture:
mysql> set ndb_join_pushdown=off;
mysql> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM residents,postcodes WHERE residents.postcode=postcodes.postcode AND postcodes.town="MAIDENHEAD"; +----------+ | COUNT(*) | +----------+ | 20000 | +----------+ 1 row in set (27.65 sec)
mysql> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM residents,postcodes,towns WHERE residents.postcode=postcodes.postcode AND postcodes.town=towns.town AND towns.county="Berkshire"; +----------+ | COUNT(*) | +----------+ | 40001 | +----------+ 1 row in set (48.68 sec)
and then the test is repeated with adaptive query localization turned on:
mysql> set ndb_join_pushdown=on;
mysql> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM residents,postcodes WHERE residents.postcode=postcodes.postcode AND postcodes.town="MAIDENHEAD"; +----------+ | COUNT(*) | +----------+ | 20000 | +----------+ 1 row in set (1.07 sec)
mysql> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM residents,postcodes,towns WHERE residents.postcode=postcodes.postcode AND postcodes.town=towns.town AND towns.county="Berkshire"; +----------+ | COUNT(*) | +----------+ | 40001 | +----------+ 1 row in set (2.02 sec)
For those 2 queries it represents a 25.8x and 24.1x speedup.
It's important to note that not every join can currently be pushed down to the data nodes; here are the current rules (we hope to relax them overtime) for a query to be suitable:
- JOINed columns must have the same data type
- Queries should not reference BLOBs
- Explicit locking is not supported
- Only supports fully or partially qualified primary keys or plain indexes as access method for child tables (first part of JOIN can be a full table scan)
You can check whether your query is fitting these rules using EXPLAIN, for example:
mysql> set ndb_join_pushdown=on;
mysql> EXPLAIN SELECT COUNT(*) FROM residents,postcodes WHERE residents.postcode=postcodes.postcode AND postcodes.town="MAIDENHEAD"; +----+-------------+-----------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+------------------------------+--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +----+-------------+-----------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+------------------------------+--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 1 | SIMPLE | residents | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 100000 | Parent of 2 pushed join@1 | | 1 | SIMPLE | postcodes | eq_ref | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 22 | clusterdb.residents.postcode | 1 | Child of 'residents' in pushed join@1; Using where with pushed condition | +----+-------------+-----------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+------------------------------+--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
mysql> EXPLAIN EXTENDED SELECT COUNT(*) FROM residents,postcodes,towns WHERE residents.postcode=postcodes.postcode AND postcodes.town=towns.town AND towns.county="Berkshire"; +----+-------------+-----------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+------------------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | filtered | Extra | +----+-------------+-----------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+------------------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 1 | SIMPLE | residents | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 100000 | 100.00 | Parent of 3 pushed join@1 | | 1 | SIMPLE | postcodes | eq_ref | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 22 | clusterdb.residents.postcode | 1 | 100.00 | Child of 'residents' in pushed join@1 | | 1 | SIMPLE | towns | eq_ref | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 22 | clusterdb.postcodes.town | 1 | 100.00 | Child of 'postcodes' in pushed join@1; Using where with pushed condition: (`clusterdb`.`towns`.`county` = 'Berkshire') | +----+-------------+-----------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+------------------------------+--------+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Note that if you want to check for more details why your join isn't currently being pushed down to the data node then you can use "EXPLAIN EXTENDED" and then "SHOW WARNINGS" to get more hints. Hopefully that will allow you to tweak your queries to get the best improvements.
PLEASE let us know your experiences and give us examples of queries that worked well and (just as importantly) those that didn't so that we can improve the feature – just leave a comment on this Blog with your table schemas, your query and your before/after timings.


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Close to Nature
Even on a cold December morning the beauty and bounty of Mother Nature is on full display in Catania, the big city lying in Etna's shadow on Sicily's eastern shore. In piazzas paved with black lava stones and on streets below black baroque buildings, a market offers gorgeous foods every single morning of the week. Tantalizing my eyes, ears, and nose, it lures me into its seeming chaos.
Fish fresh enough to be still alive are displayed, and hawked loudly, by the fishermen who were out in their tiny, colorful boats a mere few hours before. An ambulatory parsley vendor makes his way through the crowd selling a bunch here and there, pausing for an animated discussion and gesticulating madly with a bright green aromatic bunch. Plump, coral-colored mussels are heaped together with a few bright yellow lemons; clams spit the water they're soaking in; crustaceans are displayed in all their lurid pinks; and spatola (scabbard fish) and calamari are carefully arranged or held aloft to show them off to their best advantage.
Fruits and vegetables coming in from nearby fields are piled high and looking beautiful. They're roughly harvested and arrive at the market with stalks and foliage intact; reminders that they came from the earth, nourished by rainwater, sunlight and the minerals of the very soil. The disconnect present when confronted with a piece of food individually shrink-wrapped or sitting on its own personal Styrofoam tray is a distant memory in my American brain.
The multi-colored cauliflower and broccoli are enshrined by their elephant ear leaves. Artichokes come with three feet of stalk (the stalk is great sautéed with rice, lemon zest and olive oil) and mountains of grey-green spiky leaves. This being the dead of winter there is citrus everywhere and palming a Sicilian tarocco, the one with the silky orange flesh flecked with purple, is like being handed a warming ray of Sicilian sunshine. Garlic and onions with chunks of soil dangling from their roots are stacked tall. Heaps of the Sicilians' beloved bitter greens are on display: chicory, chard, leafy cabbage and mustard greens. These last ones leaving me wondering if my Sicilian grandmother felt nostalgia for her terra sicula when she encountered them in her adopted Mississippi, as they're doing for me. But it's in reverse – nostalgia for the fertile Mississippi River delta of my home place when spied in a Catanese market in my adopted Italy.
Though Sicily's chefs may have one up'd us on their use of the mustards. Instead of boiling a mess of greens half to death with a piece of fatback, they're more likely to stir them into a pasta asciutta with some chili pepper, creamy pungent sheep's milk ricotta and olive oil. Or as Ciccio Sultano did for me a few weeks back, turn mustard greens into a spare, bright green sauce to pair with sea urchins as a balanced counterpoint underneath handmade spaghetti alla chitarra; the harmony completed by a sip of a citrusy champagne.
That's the sort of perfection that helped Ciccio earn his multiple Michelin stars. But, when you take away the fancy table linens, excellent service and chuckling chef, you've got a simple dish with no more than three ingredients, each of which were lying fresh and accessible on a market table not long before. Each bite he served to me during that hours-long lunch of creative dishes with clear, balanced flavors was amazingly good, creative, and fun – enough of all that to laugh at and swoon over. The fact that they were also healthy and good for me was like an after-thought, a happy extra.
A simple rule for eating well, which for me means eating food that tastes great and happens also to be good for you, is stick close to Mother Nature. She won't lead you astray. Eat what she's got to offer, a mix of flavors, colors, textures, when and pretty much where she's got it on offer. Purchasing produce, meat and fish that is grown on a farm or in the wild, that is in season, harvested ripe and sold quickly, ensures you eat foods full of flavor, and also full of nutrients.
As for what to make, do like Catania's deeply creative, esoteric, self-defined cook Carmelo Chiaramonte, who told me it's easy to decide what to make, just open the door and breathe: what you smell, that's what to make. Be led by your senses. One spring when the tuna were running, his senses led him to making an almond and saffron soup with clams, and turning out a flavorful slab of fresh ventresca of tuna with a pepperonata made not with peppers, but with wild strawberries. Standing there in the market in Catania being open to the colors, smells and sounds, the creativity started churning away, and recipes presented themselves without even thinking about it.
Put yourself in the right environment, shop where it's easy to make good choices (hint: the farmers' market), and don't over-think it. The inspiration for what to make comes by itself when presented with truly good and natural ingredients, each one a full flavor in its own right.
If you can't easily make it to a market, look for the best whole ingredients you can find at your supermarket. Do your best not to purchase or eat processed foods, those "edible food-like substances," as Michael Pollan defines them in his excellent new book In Defense of Food. Like he says, if it doesn't look like Mother Nature produced it, she probably didn't. If a so-called food or its list of ingredients looks like it came out of a science lab and not out of your grandmother's kitchen, then it probably did actually come out of a science lab. Who wants to eat that? Getting the best ingredients possible into the kitchen makes being creative with them easy, and it makes eating healthfully a happy by-product of eating foods that taste good.
Sicilians love to eat pasta with vegetables. Try mustard greens sautéed with garlic and hot pepper on pasta (that was boiled in the pot liquor) with a bit of creamy, tangy sheep's milk ricotta. Try boiling broccoli in salted water, toss broken spaghetti or small shape pasta into the pot, when the pasta is done serve it like a soup with some strong Sicilian olive oil drizzled on top and a sprinkling of grated ricotta salata. Or sauté cauliflower with garlic and oil, maybe some currants and pine nuts, for pasta and top it all with some quick crunchy homemade breadcrumbs.
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I'm getting ready to install a new Retro Sound Model Two system with kick panel and package tray speakers. What sort of problems can I expect to encounter with my electrical system and fuse box ailments? Should I expect fuses to "object" to the new audio system's electrical requirements or will I get lucky and just plug-and-play and impress all the ladies?
Leonard R. Jenkins
Via the Internet
If you didn't catch the RetroSound Model Two install we performed in the January 2014 issue you can find the article on our website for some installation pointers, as we performed the exact same install (except we did door speakers versus kick panel speakers). The RetroSound radios utilize a 15-amp modern ATO blade fuse. You didn't mention what year your Mustang is, but regardless we'd suggest wiring the switched power wire directly to the ignition switch's accessory stud/terminal. The constant memory wire will require 12-volts at all times to retain clock, channel memory, and other functions. We normally wire that circuit to the constant hot side of the dome lamp wiring, either at the headlight switch or one of the door pin switches (easy if you're doing kick panel speakers too).
All Choked Up
For two years now I have owned a '66 Mustang hardtop. It has the base 200ci inline-six with a three-speed manual. After I bought the car north of Seattle (I was 15 at the time) I realized that a number of years before the car was likely "T-boned" on the driver's side, as I had discovered that the VIN on the door and the VIN on the left fender apron did not match. After doing some research, I found that the door was replaced and came from a Caspian blue '65 A-code hardtop. Is there a build plate (or sheet) somewhere in/on the car to track down the car's original color, DSO, etc.? The VIN is 6F07T188579. Also, my carburetor and choke are having issues. When my parents and I purchased the car, we didn't know the car had a carb off of an automatic, plus it had serious issues with leaking gas. We replaced it with the correct carb and now when I start the car it idles fine with the choke half-in, but as soon as I push the choke all the way in the car dies. I am unsure of why this happens. Any help with answering these questions would be greatly appreciated.
Shane Lewis
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Replacement of the driver's door due to accident damage is more common than you think and is a real problem for '65-'66 Mustang owners looking for build information about their vehicles. While the VIN only tells you that your Mustang is a '66 model built at the Dearborn plant and equipped with the inline-six, the door data tag could offer up so much more if it was still there. Sadly, unless you can find the original build sheet in the car (highly unlikely closing in on 50 years old) the actual build information is possibly lost forever.
As for your carb's choke issue, it is entirely possible you are opening the choke too soon. With a manual choke you need to "learn" the feel of the engine and if it is bogging down or running rich due to too much or too little choke. Drive the car a bit before pushing the choke in more and see what happens. Alternatively you could add an electric choke kit to the carb and forget all about playing with a manual choke push/pull cable.
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I have a '67 mustang with a 200ci inline-six. I was wondering if you know or have done an engine swap using Ford's 300ci inline-six with fuel injection from the F-series truck? I know I have seen articles on V-8 swaps, but has anyone done an article on a bigger inline-six swap? Are there kits for this with engine mounts, etc? I remember reading something about Clifford engine mounts for early mustangs so you could do this type of swap. Let me know, as I would be interested if you guys have any info on this matter. Thanks!
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Can it be done? In a short answer—yes. The long answer though is it is far from a bolt-in. The Clifford parts are long gone and the crew from Classic Inlines has very little for such a swap, as they prefer a built 200ci inline-six or a swap to the 250ci inline-six. The 300 is a much bigger engine and if you plan to keep the truck's tall EFI manifold you'd be looking at running sans hood. If you really want to do the swap plan on fabbing mounts, addressing cooling concerns, and firewall to engine fitment.
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From local Swiss company to Tour de France winners, BMC's rise has been rapid. Without a road bike in their range in 2001, this week BMC launched their second road machine this year.
As the only road bike brand who own their own professional team, BMC have the ultimate research and development facility.
With April's GF01 fulfilling the role of Endurance Road Bike, the TMR01 is the newest element of the Aero Series.
Rather than just taking elements from last year's TM01 time trial bike to make a wind-cheating machine, BMC's aims were for a bike that could equally benefit sprinters, rouleurs and triathletes, and so needed to not only be aerodynamically efficient, but also responsive and highly adjustable to offer the best fit.
The Sub A concept reduces frontal area, but maximises stiffness for improved cornering; and to reduce drag, BMC have used the Tripwire tubing design from the TM01. The truncated wing profile has a stepped leading edge, which BMC says creates a turbulent boundary layer of air in the way that a golf ball's dimples do, and reduces drag behind it.
A traditional aero shape in red, compared to BMC's tube shape in white. The black section demonstrates the 'removed' area
To improve air layer separation as it leaves the tube, BMC truncated the tube, removing its tail from the wake, and satisfying the UCI tube ratio rules at the same time. The design is used on the leading edges of the fork, down and seat tubes.
Key aims for the TMR01 were to have fully integrated brakes, fork, Di2 battery, cables, seat clamp and seatpost. As on the TM01 the brakes are essentially small V-brakes, but differ this time in having easily accessible tension adjusting bolts and a new Shimano in line quick release lever that sits flush under the stem, and can be flicked open fast. Production delays mean that the bikes pictured are conventionally cabled, but any sold this way will be retrofitted with the quick release system when available. The brakes open to 32mm, which will permit usage of the widest road rims if desired.
The hinge fork design has a 1.25in lower steerer tube diameter, with a UCI legal cable cover shrouding the front brake cable extending the fork's front edge parallel with the head tube, and attaching via a collar above it. The seatpost has a Tripwire leading edge, comes in three offsets (0, 15 and 30mm), and is secured with the same internal double wedge design as the TM01, leaving no bolt or clamp in the wind.
The new cylindrical Shimano Di2 battery fits inside the seat tube, and can be charged without removal. However, delivery is delayed until 2013, so all bikes will be supplied with the current battery fitted low under the base of the down tube, and replaced with the new battery when possible, BMC says.
DTi integrated ports allow for flexibility with cable routing. For example, Cadel Evans runs his brakes in the common UK and Aussie configuration, unlike the rest of his BMC teammates. It also means that the TMR01 is compatible with every gear system currently on the market.
The front view of the TMR01 (minus the front wheel)
BMC carried out wind tunnel testing in Milan with team riders aboard the bikes, and when comparing an identically configured SLR01 and TMR01 in a 50kmh headwind, found the TMR01 saved 28 watts. To their credit, BMC are quick to point out that other variables can come in to play in the real world.
With a high quantity of high modulus carbon fibre, the TMR01 is the stiffest BMC road bike, torsionally and at the bottom bracket, eclipsing the GF01, which had already set a new company standard.
Stiffness was prioritised above low weight, and the massively boxy BB86 bottom bracket area and asymmetric chain stays show how, while the wheel-hugging seat tube and seat stays from the TM01 maintain the aerodynamics. A 56cm frame weighs in at a claimed 1,140g, compared to the SLR01's approximately 900g mass, but the seatpost only adds a mere 187g to that, and the fork with an uncut 350mm steerer is 440g. Still, a complete bike with Di2 fitted will tip the scales at 6.8kg upwards, with team issue machines being nearer 7kg.
Geometry is similar to the SLR01, but the TMR01 has an even lower stack height for an ultra-aggressive aerodynamic position. Certain BMC riders in the Tour de France are using the TMR01 now, and there will be two athletes racing them around Hyde Park during the Olympic Triathlon.
Expected to be on sale later in the year, with prices due in late August, we're looking forward to subjecting one to a full test very soon.
A side view of the fork and the 'structural' - a key word for the UCI - brake cover


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Don't Wake Me Up Video Release, Chris Brown's Tribute to Rihanna? (VIDEO)
Chris Brown released his latest single on Monday titled "Don't Wake Me Up." The song comes with heartfelt lyrics that may coincide with the latest rumor that Brown and former flame Rihanna are headed for a public reunion.
Chris Brown and Rihanna appear to be slowly testing the waters as of late when it comes to their relationship. A number of people have opposed the couple reuniting, but the two have been spotted at least twice in the past couple of weeks out together in public.
"It's like she is testing the water - first they work on music together, then they hang out in a friendly way, so the public won't be completely shocked when they step out together publicly," a source told the New York Post.
The pair was last seen at Jay-Z's 40/40 club over the weekend, catching a game of the Miami Heat. Although the two arrived separately- Rihanna with her family- once Brown arrived he continued on to the private room which had been rented out by his ex-flame.
The reunion also seems to go along with lyrics that were recently revealed off of Brown's most recent music video release. The song, "Don't Wake Me Up," takes on the tone of a love lost, left to exist only in a dream.
"Dear beloved. If this love will exist in my dreams. Don't Wake Me Up," the lyrics read.
While the song could also be about Brown's alleged girlfriend, Karrueche Tran, she was nowhere to be seen over the weekend as Rihanna and Brown cozied up together on a couch.
"They sat on the same couch...There was no sign of his girlfriend [Karrueche Tran]," a source told the New York Post. "Everyone in the business assumes she and Chris are getting back together, and it is only a matter of time before they'll be more public about it," another insider said.


text: On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 09:39:59AM +1100, Chris Samuel wrote: >> On Friday 29 December 2006 04:24, Robert G. Brown wrote: >> >>> I'd be interested in comments to the contrary, but I suspect that Gentoo >>> is pretty close to the worst possible choice for a cluster base. Maybe >>> slackware is worse, I don't know. >> >> But think of the speed you could emerge applications with a large cluster, >> distcc and ccache! :-) >> >> Then add on the hours of fun trying to track down a problem that's unique to >> your cluster due to combinations of compiler quirks, library versions, kernel >> bugs and application odditites.. >> > > This is a valid point. If you are not a professional sysadmin / don't > have one of those around, you don't want to spend time needlessly doing > hacker/geek/sysadmin type wizardry - you need to get on with your > research. Also, how large are those speed advantages? How many of them cannot already be obtained by simply using a good commercial compiler and spending some time tuning the application? Very few tools (ATLAS being a good example) really tune per microarchitecture. The process is not linear, and it is not easy. Even ATLAS tunes "automatically" more from a multidimensional gradient search based on certain assumptions -- I don't think it would be easy to prove that the optimum it reaches is a global optimum. > Red Hat Enterprise based solutions don't cut it on the application > front / packaged libraries in my (very limited) experience. The > upgrade/maintenance path is not good - it's easier to start from scratch > and reinstall than to move from one major release to another. > > Fedora Core - you _have_ to be joking :) Lots of applications - but > little more than 6 - 12 months of support. No, not joking at all. FC is perfectly fine for a cluster, especially one built with very new hardware (hardware likely to need a very recent kernel and libraries to work at all) and actually upgrades-by-one tend to work quite well at this point for systems that haven't been overgooped with user-level crack or homemade stuff overlaid outside of the RPM/repo/yum ritual. Remember, a cluster node is likely to have a really, really boring and very short package list. We're not talking about major overhauls in X or gnome or the almost five thousand packages in extras having much impact -- it is more a matter of the kernel and basic libraries, PVM and/or MPI and/or a few user's choice packages, maybe some specialty libraries. I'm guessing four or five very basic package groups and a dozen individual packages and whatever dependencies they pull in. Or less. The good thing about FC >>is<< the relatively rapid renewal of at least some of the libraries -- one could die of old age waiting for the latest version of the GSL, for example, to get into RHEL/Centos. So one possible strategy is to develop a very conservative cluster image and upgrade every other FC release, which is pretty much what Duke does with FC anyway. Also, plenty of folks on this list have done just fine running "frozen" linux distros "as is" for years on cluster nodes. If they aren't broke, and live behind a firewall so security fixes aren't terribly important, why fix them? I've got a server upstairs (at home) that is still running <blush> RH 9. I keep meaning to upgrade it, but I never have time to set up and safely solve the bootstrapping problem involved, and it works fine (well inside a firewall and physically secure). Similarly, I had nodes at Duke that ran RH 7.3 for something like four years, until they were finally reinstalled with FC 2 or thereabouts. Why not? 7.3 was stable and just plain "worked" on at least these nodes; the nodes ran just fine without crashing and supported near-continuous computation for that entire time. So one could also easily use FC-whatever by developing and fine tuning a reasonably bulletproof cluster node configuration for YOUR hardware within its supported year+, then just freeze it. Or freeze it until there is a strong REASON to upgrade it -- a miraculously improved libc, a new GSL that has routines and bugfixes you really need, superyum, bproc as a standard option, cernlib in extras (the latter a really good reason for at least SOME people to upgrade to FC6:-). Honestly, with a kickstart-based cluster, reinstalling a thousand nodes is a matter of preparing the (new) repo -- usually by rsync'ing one of the toplevel mirrors -- and debugging the old install on a single node until satisfied. One then has a choice between a yum upgrade or (I'd recommend instead) yum-distributing an "upgrade" package that sets up e.g. grub to do a new, clean, kickstart reinstall, and then triggers it. You could package the whole thing to go off automagically overnight and not even be present -- the next day you come in, your nodes are all upgraded. I used to include a "node install" in my standard dog and pony show for people come to visit our cluster -- I'd walk up to an idle node, reboot it into the PXE kickstart image, and talk about the fact that I was reinstalling it. We had a fast enough network and tight enough node image that usually the reinstall would finish about the same time that my spiel was finished. It was then immediately available for more work. Upgrades are just that easy. That's scalability. Warewulf makes it even easier -- build your new image, change a single pointer on the master/server, reboot the cluster. I wouldn't advise either running upgrades or freezes of FC for all cluster environments, but they certainly are reasonable alternatives for at least some. FC is far from laughable as a cluster distro. > SuSE is better than RH in some respects, worse in others. OpenSuSE - you > may be on your own. SLED 10.2 may have licence costs? Yeah, I dunno about SuSE. I tend to include it in any list because it is a serious player and (as has been pointed out already in this thread e.g. deleted below) only the serious players tend to attract commercial/supported software companies. Still, as long as it and RH maintain ridiculously high prices (IMHO) for non-commercial environments I have a hard time pushing either one native anywhere but in a corporate environment or a non-commercial environment where their line of support or a piece of software that "only" runs on e.g. RHEL or SuSE is a critical issue. Banks need super conservatism and can afford to pay for it. Cluster nodes can afford to be agile and change, or not, as required by their function and environment, and cluster builders in academe tend to be poor and highly cost senstive. Most of them don't need to pay for either one. > Debian (and to a lesser extent Ubuntu) has the largest set of > pre-packaged "stuff" for specialist maths that I know of and has > reasonable general purpose tools. Not to argue, but Scientific Linux is (like Centos) recompiled RHEL and also has a large set of these tools including some physics/astronomy related tools that were, at least, hard to find other places. However, FC 6 is pretty insane. There are something like 6500 packages total in the repo list I have selected in yumex on my FC 6 laptop (FC itself, livna, extras, some Duke stuff, no freshrpms. This number seems to have increased by around 500 in the last four weeks IIRC -- I'm guessing people keep adding stuff to extras and maybe livna. At this point FC 6 has e.g. cernlib, ganglia, and much more -- I'm guessing that anything that is in SL is now in FC 6 extras as SL is too slow/conservative for a lot of people (as is the RHEL/Centos that is its base). Debian may well have more stuff, or better stuff for doing numerical work -- I personally haven't done a detailed package-by-package comparison and don't know. I do know that only a tiny fraction of all of the packages available in either one are likely to be relevant to most cluster builders, and that it is VERY likely that anything that is missing from either one can easily be packaged and added to your "local" repo with far less work than what is involved in learning a "new" distro if you're already used to one. The bottom line is that I think that most people will find it easiest to install the linux distro they are most used to and will find that nearly any of them are adequate to the task, EXCEPT (as noted) non-packaged or poorly packaged distros -- gentoo and slackware e.g. Scaling is everything. Scripted installs (ideally FAST scripted installs) and fully automated maintenance from a common and user-modifiable repo base are a necessity. There is no question that Debian has this. There is also no question that most of the RPM-based distros have it as well, and at this point with yum they are pretty much AS easy to install and update and upgrade as Debian ever has been. So it ends up being a religious issue, not a substantive one, except where economics or task specific functionality kick in (which can necessitate a very specific distro choice even if it is quite expensive). >>> I myself favor RH derived, rpm-based, >>> yum-supported distros that can be installed by PXE/DHCP, kickstart, yum >>> from a repository server. Installation of such a cluster on diskful >>> systems proceeds as follows: >> > > If I read the original post correctly, you're talking of an initial 8 > nodes or so and a head node. Prototype it - grab a couple of desktop > machines from somewhere, a switch and some cat 5. Set up three machines: > one head and two nodes. Work your way through a toy problem. Do this for > Warewulf/Rocks/Oscar or whatever - it will give you a feel for something > of the complexity you'll get and the likely issues you'll face. Excellent advice. Warewulf in particular will help you learn some of the solutions that make a cluster scalable even if you opt for some other paradigm in the end. A "good" solution in all cases is one where you prototype with a server and ONE node initially, and can install the other six or seven by at most network booting them and going off to play with your wii and drink a beer for a while. Possibly a very short while. If, of course, you managed to nab a wii (we hypothesized that wii stands for "where is it?" and not "wireless interactive interface" while shopping before Christmas...;-). And like beer. >> What I'd really like is for a kickstart compatible Debian/Ubuntu (but with >> mixed 64/32 bit support for AMD64 systems). I know the Ubuntu folks started >> on this [1], but I don't think they managed to get very far. Yeah, kickstart is lovely. It isn't quite perfect -- I personally wish it were a two-phase install, with a short "uninterruptible" installation of the basic package group and maybe X, followed by a yum-based overlay installation of everything else that is entirely interruptible and restartable. But then, I <sigh> install over DSL lines from home sometimes and get irritated if the install fails for any reason before finishing, which over a full day of installation isn't that unlikely... Otherwise, though, it is quite decent. > dpkg --get-selections >> tempfile ; pxe boot for new node ; scp tempfile > root at newnode ; ssh newnode; dpkg --set-selections < /root/tempfile ; > apt-get update ; apt-get dselect-upgrade > > goes a long way :) Oooo, that sounds a lot like using yum to do a RPM-based install from a "naked" list of packages and PXE/diskless root. Something that I'd do if my life depended on it, for sure, but way short of what kickstart does and something likely to be a world of fix-me-up-after-the-fact pain. kickstart manages e.g. network configuration, firewall setup, language setup, time setup, KVM setup (or not), disk and raid setup (and properly layered mounting), grup/boot setup, root account setup, more. The actual installation of packages from a list is the easy part, at least at this point, given dpkg and/or yum. Yes, one can (re)invent many wheels to make all this happen -- package up stuff, rsync stuff, use cfengine (in FC6 extras:-), write bash or python scripts. Sheer torture. Been there, done that, long ago and never again. rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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It's tough at the top
Since 2004, only one No. 1 playoff seed (the 2009 New Orleans Saints) and one No. 2 playoff seed (the 2008 Pittsburgh Steelers) have won the Super Bowl. Since 2005, 13 of 28 teams seeded No. 1 or 2 in the playoffs have lost their initial playoff game in the divisional round.
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Streaking to the Super Bowl
The 2012 Denver Broncos are among nine teams since 1970 that entered the playoffs with an active win streak of at least 10 games. Of the eight previous teams, four made the Super Bowl and three of those teams -- the 1972 Miami Dolphins (14 consecutive wins), the 2003 New England Patriots (12 consecutive wins) and the 1976 Oakland Raiders (10 consecutive wins) -- won the Super Bowl.
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Points not made
The 2012 season was the highest-scoring regular season in NFL history with 11,651 total points scored. The 22.8 points-per-game average per team is the most in the NFL since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970. With 137 points scored in the four wild-card playoff games combined (17.1 points per team), this is the fourth-lowest scoring Wild Card Weekend since the NFL expanded the wild-card round in 1990.
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When being at home is a real advantage
The divisional round of the playofs has the most meaningful home-field advantage of any round of the postseason of four major U.S. sports (in current playoff formats).
In the last two seasons, three teams have won on the road in the divisional round, the 2011 New York Giants, 2010 Green Bay Packers and 2010 New York Jets; two of those three teams went on to win the Super Bowl (Giants in Super Bowl XLVI and Packers in Super Bowl XLV).
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We meet again
Three of the four divisional games will be rematches of 2012 regular-season games: Baltimore Ravens at Denver Broncos (Week 15), Houston Texans at New England Patriots (Week 14), and Green Bay Packers at San Francisco 49ers (Week 1).
Non-divisional opponents have played 155 playoff rematches of regular-season games in NFL history with teams that won in the regular season going 87-68 in the playoff rematches.
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Rare heights for rookie passers
The Seattle Seahawks' Russell Wilson is trying to become the fifth rookie quarterback to reach a conference championship game, joining Mark Sanchez, Joe Flacco, Ben Roethlisberger and Shaun King. No rookie quarterback has ever started in the Super Bowl.
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16 years, no playoff wins
Atlanta Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez has never won a playoff game in his 16-year career (0-5). Gonzalez has played 254 regular-season games without a playoff win, the most of any active players (non-kickers).
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Manning has the edge
When Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis is playing, his Ravens are 2-7 against Peyton Manning, with Manning winning each of the last seven games (including two in the playoffs). Manning has a passer rating of 96.8 in those games.
Lewis has sacked Manning only twice and has never intercepted Manning. Manning has 18 TD vs. seven interceptions against the Ravens with Lewis playing. However, Manning has fallen short of 300 yards passing in each of his last seven games against Lewis.
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'Automatic Otto' has company
The Baltimore Ravens' Joe Flacco is the first quarterback in NFL history to win a playoff game in each of his first five seasons. The only other player to start a playoff game in each of his first five NFL seasons is the Cleveland Browns' Otto Graham (Graham previously played in the All-America Football Conference).
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Pats' playoff success fading
Since the New England Patriots won their last Super Bowl, they have gone 7-6 in the playoffs -- including losing two Super Bowls (XLII and XLVI) to the New York Giants. In their first five seasons under coach Bill Belichick, the Patriots went 9-0 in the playoffs en route to three Super Bowl victories.
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Listed among the legends
Bill Belichick is tied with Joe Gibbs for third in NFL history with 17 career postseason wins. Should the New England Patriots reach the Super Bowl, he would tie Don Shula. Should the Patriots win the Super Bowl, he will tie Tom Landry.
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Tide turning in rivalry?
The Green Bay Packers have defeated the San Francisco 49ers in eight of their last nine meetings -- including playoff games -- but lost in the most recent matchup. The 49ers claimed a 30-22 triumph in Week 1 at legendary Lambeau Field.
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A post to the "Driver's Seat" blog on the Wall Street Journal caught my eye the other day, as it postulated that the sustained strength of pickup truck sales here in the U.S. may be a "top indicator" of an economic rebound.
Whether that's true or not remains to be seen, but one definite ripple effect is that some vehicle makers are beefing up their manufacturing workforce to handle light truck demand – an all-important move in terms of job creation for this country of ours.
For example, take Ford Motor Co.: It's U.S. vehicle sales overall in April were up 18% compared to the same month last year – the best April sales numbers Ford's seen since 2007, it noted – with sales of cars up 21%, sport utility vehicles 16%, and trucks up 16%.
Yet the Ford F-Series pickup alone posted a whopping a 24% increase in sales last month to 59,030 units – the best April sales results for the F-Series since 2006 – with demand up 19% year-to-date; numbers that convinced Ford to add workers to its Kansas City assembly plant to further capitalize on that demand spike.
"F-Series pickups continue to build on their momentum as the housing and construction industries rebound," noted Ken Czubay, Ford's VP for U.S. marketing, sales and service. "The full-size truck segment growing three times faster than industry average and is fastest-growing segment this year."
Thus the automaker is adding more than 2,000 jobs at its Kansas City facility to support high demand for Ford F-150 plus the planned production of its all-new Transit family of commercial vehicles starting next summer; with more than 1,000 of them brand-new hires.
[The breakdown follows: 900 assembly line jobs and a third shift to be added the third quarter this year to build F-150 models, with another 1,100 jobs to start in the fourth quarter in large measure to prepare for Transit full-size van production in 2014. The plant currently has 2,450 hourly workers working on two shifts.]
Ford added that such "plant expansions" create major impact in local communities and beyond. For instance, the Kansas City assembly facility is supported by more than 250 suppliers nationally and more than 10 suppliers locally – all of whom benefit from the addition of a third production.
Additionally, when Transit production starts next year, close to 275 suppliers nationally and six suppliers locally will grow their business; creating what Ford calls a "job multiplier effect" of nine jobs to every one or more than 18,000 jobs created just to support the plant's ramp-up efforts.
But it's not just Ford seeing success from the light truck sales surge: indeed, all makers of light trucks in the U.S. are experiencing a hefty uptick in volumes.
Chrysler Group LLC, for example, said its overall vehicle sales jumped 11% in April to 156,698 units –the group's best April sales figures since 2007 – with Ram Truck brand sales up 49%, which is the largest April percentage sales gain of any Chrysler brand.
Sales of light duty Ram pickups jumped 54%, said Chrysler, driven by the Quad Cab models, while heavy duty Ram sales climbed 30% and Ram Cargo Van set a sales record for the month of April with a 110% sales gain versus the same month in 2012.
General Motors did some bang-up business as well in April, selling 237,646 vehicles overall in the U,S, this past April, up 11% compared with a year ago.
"Car-buying conditions are strong and will continue to release pent-up demand," said Kurt McNeil, GM's VP-U.S. sales operations, adding that the company is "very optimistic" because important car and truck launches are just getting underway, with its all-new 2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500 crew cabs due to start arriving in dealerships this summer.
He noted that by type GM's April sales of crossovers jumped up 14%, while truck sales – including pickups, vans and SUVs – climbed 17% and car sales increased 6%. Yet large pickup sales shot up 23%, the automaker noted, helping push its estimated retail segment share up more than one percentage point and its total share is up almost a point.
Even Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. (TMS) – the U.S. division of Japan's Toyota – witnessed a truck sales spike despite an overall falloff in vehicle sales.
TMS said its April total vehicle sales dropped 5.4% to 158,069 units year-over-year on a daily selling rate (DSR) basis while volume-wise sales were off 1.5% percent versus April of 2012. Yet the division's overall trucks increased 11.4% in April to nearly 70,000 units, with the compact Tacoma continuing to lead its segment with sales of 12,971 units, up 19%, while the bigger Tundra model racked up sales of 8,276 units; an increase of 14.6% versus April of last year.
"From an industry standpoint, continued retail sales growth indicates the underlying strength of the market, which is a great sign for the months ahead, especially with new products, low interest rates and plenty of pent up demand," said Bill Fay, TMS's group VP and GM.
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Ontario On-Campus Fine Arts Design Graduate Programs Degrees & Graduate Schools
If you find yourself constantly drawn to an artistic way of life – whether that's painting, drawing, or performing – you may want to consider an on-campus fine arts design graduate degree program. Campus Fine Arts Design Graduate Programs could help you develop the knowledge and skills to hone your craft, or elevate it to the next level, so that you could pursue your artistry on a professional level. No matter your artistic calling, you could engage with a community of peers to work together to improve your own techniques: possibly benefiting from constructive criticism and new inspiration from each other's works.
What is "Fine Art?"
What exactly does "fine arts" mean? It's actually a large, umbrella term that covers a lot of different concentrations. Campus Fine Arts Design Graduate Programs may include some of the more commonly known artistic concentrations (painting, drawing, sculpting, etc.) but it also includes lesser known concentrations like video game design, film, fashion, music, and performing arts.
Perhaps a good way to classify "fine arts" is any degree concentration that aims to produce a product to be enjoyed because of its aesthetic, beauty, or entertainment value.
What Might I Learn in an On-Campus Fine Arts Design Graduate Degree Program?
It might be hard to state a general curriculum for Campus Fine Arts Design Graduate Programs because the many fine art offerings. What may be drawn out are general goals that each one seeks to achieve: the development of new, refined techniques, elevation of previous methods, and the ability to incorporate different approaches into students' forms.
Pursuing an On-Campus Fine Arts Design Graduate Degree Program: Post-Grad Basics
With such a wide variety of Campus Fine Arts Design Graduate Programs offerings, it may only be assumed that there are just as many possible
careers! Depending on your intended Campus Fine Arts Design Graduate Programs, you could possibly pursue some of the following careers:
- Museum Curator
- Graphic Designer
- Fashion Designer
- Animator[i]
- Professional Musician[ii]
- Dancer[iii]
- Actor[iv]
- Fine Artist[v]
These careers might all see a possible growth in occupations in the coming years. The Bureau of Labor Statistics project the following possible growth for the listed careers from 2014 to 2024:
- Fine Artist – 2%[vi]
- Actor – 10%[vii]
- Dancer – 5%[viii]
- Museum Curator – 7%[ix]
You may also be interested in these careers' possible salary – it's an important thing to consider! The varying nature of the positions makes it difficult to narrow down the field to exact numbers that comprehensively reflect the above industries. However, when taking artists and related workers into consideration, in May of 2015, the median salary was $58,450.[x]
Additionally, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, incomes of artists are often tied with the economy – when there is a surplus, people are more likely to make art purchases.[xi]
Which On-Campus Fine Arts Design Graduate Programs may be a Perfect Fit for You?
Fine arts design graduate degree programs may cover the entire gamut of fine arts offerings.With such a wide array of options and degree program types, it gives students a broad range of programs to choose from and address their unique educational wants and needs. If you're looking for graduate coursework, but not necessarily the extended timeline, you may want to consider pursuing a graduate certificate degree program. If you're looking for a more in-depth examination of your medium, you might want to hop into a master's or doctoral degree program. The information is at your fingertips, so read on to take a look at what could be your prospective Campus Fine Arts Design Graduate Programs and graduate degrees!
On-Campus Fine Arts Design Master's Degree Programs
MFA or MA?
Master's degree programs in fine arts design are often offered in two formats, a master of fine arts and a master of arts.
A master of fine arts focuses more on technique development to prepare students for their chosen career profession. These programs focus on specific mediums and the advancement of the skills needed to perform in that medium.
A master of arts may take a broader approach in your fine arts education. These degree programs often focus on a more liberal arts side of a creative education. More often than not, an MA degree programs aims to prepare students for roles as critics, curators, or arts admins by emphasizing scholastic research, analysis, and critique.
From Admissions to Graduation
While it may be hard to narrow down generalities in applications, some common threads in admission requirements may be seen. When applying, students may be required to supply a 2.5 to 3.0 undergraduate GPA. The supplementary materials is where variation often occurs. You may be asked to submit department specific materials such as portfolios, auditions, or performances.
Completion time likewise varies due to the graduation requirements of each degree program. With this in mind, students may expect to complete a degree program in anywhere from 1 to 5 years. Students may also be required to submit a capstone project in order to graduate. This could be anything from a gallery showing, to a recital, to a fully-staged performance.
What On-Campus Fine Arts Design Master's Degree Program may be Great for You?
With the many facets of fine arts, there's just as many possible concentrations! No matter where your passion lies, you could find a perfect graduate degree program that tackles just that. You may want to consider some of these Campus Fine Arts Design Graduate Programs degree options:
- Master of arts in museum studies degree programs may be great if you're looking to pursue a career as a museum professional in the future. Programs focus on giving you the knowledge and skills to jumpstart a career directly into the museum field: emphasizing new technological museum enhancements, business models for a changing economic climate, and improving the educational benefits of exhibits.
- A master of music degree program splits into two unique factions, performance and education. Performance concentrations focus primarily on the development of musical techniques of a student's primary instrument. Education concentrations focus on education techniques to teach new instruments to future students. Some common curriculum between the two degree programs may be music theory and history.
- The master of science in information technology – game design and development is a developing field that could be filled with new opportunities as the industry continues to grow. Students may hone skills that enable them to jump into the bustling gaming industry by studying programming necessary for development. Students may also engage with subjects such as artificial intelligence, information networking, database creation, and application development.
- A master of fine arts in studio art probably aligns with your idea of what constitutes "fine arts." This degree program aims to give students the knowledge and skills necessary to excel in their intended medium – engaging with new techniques, classical forms, and constructive criticism. Students may be encouraged to present their works in a formal setting as a capstone project to their studies.
On- Campus Fine Arts Design Doctoral Degree Programs
From Admissions to Graduation:
Fine arts design doctoral degree programs may offer a unique opportunity to develop students' artistic medium to the highest level. Similar to the master's degree programs, variation between Campus Fine Arts Design Graduate Programs offerings makes it difficult to pinpoint shared generalities between concentrations and their admission requirements. That being said, some overarching admission requirements may be the submission of a 3.0 or higher undergraduate or master's GPA in addition to GRE test scores. Department specific requirements may vary: students may also be requested to submit portfolios or auditions depending on their specific concentration. Some programs may also require that you have previous experience in your desired field, either through a bachelor's or master's degree program. This makes it potentially ideal for students who have already begun to hone their craft as opposed to those who are only newly considering breaking into the industry.
Depending on which concentration, the intensity of the program, and the graduation requirements, you might expect to graduate within 1 to 7 years from a doctoral degree program.
What On-Campus Fine Arts Design Doctoral Degree Program may be Perfect for You?
Fine arts design doctoral degree programs are plentiful – with many being offered to tackle a wide range of mediums. Below are a few common programs you may find.
- The doctorate of musical arts degree program is very similar to its master's degree program counterpart. The degree program is split between several concentrations, like choral and instrumental conduction, music education, and performance. No matter the concentration, students should expect to study high level applications of music history, theory, and technique.
- A doctorate in art history degree program could be a great way to prepare to pursue a career as an art curator post-graduation. The goal of these programs could be to develop your knowledge of a particular region or style of art so that you may speak confidently on the subject and provide informative information to clients.
- A doctorate of fine arts is a degree program that encapsulates many different mediums under the umbrella term of "fine arts." This program enables students to practice their intended medium under the tutelage of experienced industry professionals
- The doctorate in theatre studies focuses on developing the knowledge and skills actors acquired in an undergraduate environment and adding new skills to their toolbox such as new methods, critiques, and analysis. Programs could cover the history of theatre (Greek, early American, opera, etc.), gender theory, theatre law, and adaption studies.
On-Campus Fine Arts Design Graduate Certificate Degree Programs
If you're looking to make a career change into a creative field, you might want to consider a fine arts design graduate certificate program. Admissions are often more accessible than other graduate degree programs because you may not be required to hold an undergraduate degree in fine arts design or submit additional application supplements. These programs usually require the submission of general undergraduate transcripts for admission.
Since course curriculum may be abbreviated, students could expect to complete the graduate certificate program in around 1 year. Programs vary by school. Some common certificate programs you may find are:
- The advanced certificate in museum studies focuses on the knowledge and skills that may be necessary to pursue a career as a museum professional. Courses may focus on giving you practical experience in a museum setting.
- A graduate certificate in 3-D animation could be a great choice for students wanting to jumpstart careers as animators. Students could have the opportunity to learn vital skills necessary for 3-D modeling – particularly for the gaming industry. Topics could include lighting, animation surfacing, and special effects compositing.
These are just a few of the many fine arts design graduate programs available. Browse program listings to learn more about your potential options.
Why Pursue On-Campus Fine Arts Design Graduate Programs?
If you're looking for a more structured course schedule with access to a community of like-minded peers, you may want to consider an on-campus fine arts design graduate degree program. This degree program format could be easier to incorporate into your schedule: weekly class times could make planning other appointments and life events easier. While on campus, you could have access to your fellow students – pick their brain if you have a question about a recent lecture, ask for help with larger projects, or just hang out and relax after a week of classes. Don't forget about your professors! By attending a physical campus, you could have access to professors' office hours. Feel free to ask for constructive criticism, advice on your next course of study, or just pick their brain about the industry you're trying to enter. Besides your education, this could be a great networking opportunity.
Find a Perfect On-Campus Fine Arts Design Graduate Degree Program Today!
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so imagine what this article could mean for your future on-campus fine arts design graduate degree program. You've just read over a bunch of different degree program offerings – so it's time to hone the results to your unique criteria! Using the above information as a guide, select your preferred degree program from the drop down menus. Once you've settled on perfect Campus Fine Arts Design Graduate Programs, click the program link for more information – or apply! Good luck at finding a perfect on-campus fine arts design graduate degree program today!
Sources: [i] bls.gov/ooh/arts-and-design/craft-and-fine-artists.htm#tab-8 | [ii] bls.gov/ooh/entertainment-and-sports/musicians-and-singers.htm | [iii] bls.gov/ooh/entertainment-and-sports/dancers-and-choreographers.htm | [iv] bls.gov/ooh/entertainment-and-sports/mobile/actors.htm | [v] bls.gov/ooh/arts-and-design/craft-and-fine-artists.htm | [vi] bls.gov/ooh/arts-and-design/craft-and-fine-artists.htm#tab-6 | [vii] bls.gov/ooh/entertainment-and-sports/mobile/actors.htm | [viii] bls.gov/ooh/entertainment-and-sports/dancers-and-choreographers.htm#tab-6 | [ix] bls.gov/ooh/education-training-and-library/curators-museum-technicians-and-conservators.htm#tab-6 | [x] bls.gov/ooh/arts-and-design/craft-and-fine-artists.htm#tab-5 | [xi] bls.gov/ooh/arts-and-design/craft-and-fine-artists.htm#tab-6
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