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Monday, April 27, 2009

Installing MySQL 5.1 on Solaris using MOCA

The following instructions will lay out an installation of MySQL on Solaris using the MySQL Optimal Configuration Architecture (MOCA) for someone knowledgeable in MySQL/Solaris administration. MOCA is a set of best practices I put together to lay out a guidelines for installing and configuring a MySQL database server. MOCA is designed for someone with experience with MySQL, it is not for someone brand new to MySQL.

If you are new to MySQL or to Solaris, I recommend using the default package install for MySQL. The MySQL default install is recommended for someone new to MySQL or the operating system platform. If the default package install makes more sense for you, then you can stop reading. This install is for MySQL 5.1.33 but it would be the same steps for any 5.1.xx installation.

Why Perform a Manual Install

The default install with MySQL is great for users new to MySQL. It is simple, requires a few point and clicks and you are up and running. The problem with a default install is that it is designed to be a very simple install and take minimum resources. The default install also puts MySQL files in different locations on the filesystem dependent on the OS release and platform. The default install is not how an experienced DBA would want to set up a production database environment. It is much better to be able to control the layout and configuration of the database software for production database environments and for platforms where multiple MySQL servers may be installed in the future.

    This install assumes you have a fundamental understanding of Solaris and have an understanding of MySQL database administration fundamentals. Oracle DBAs will find this installation very similar to the concepts of the Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA).
    For experienced MySQL DBAs a manual install is much better. For this purpose I created a best practices configuration and white paper called MOCA (MySQL Optimal Configuration Architecture). This is based on DBA best practices and should be very similar to Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server production DBAs. There are certain fundamental truths about how database servers should be installed, configured and managed. My MOCA whitepaper addresses these fundamental truths. This manual install will follow MOCA standards and conventions.

Visit to get the details of the reasons behind MOCA and why it is based on best practices. There is also an example of installing MySQL on Mac OS that is very similar to a Linux install. In summary, it focuses on:
  1. Separating database software from other software.
  2. Separating data and index files, log files for recovery, administration and backup files.
  3. Developing standard naming conventions.
  4. Defines a flexible configuration that can support multiple database servers on same platform.
  5. A consistent configuration for multiple servers and versions of MySQL database software.

Installation Summary

This installation looks more complex than it is. I use this configuration for all beginning MySQL DBA classes.

  1. Remove old versions of MySQL if they exist. Setup up operating system user mysql and mysql user environment.
  2. Set up directories and directory permissions for all MySQL data files.
  3. Setup MySQL software and install MySQL software as mysql operating system user (not as root). Configure the my.cnf configuration file.
  4. Create the mysql database (mysql_install_db) and setup the security environment (mysql_secure_installation). Start the mysql database server.
  5. Test the shutdown and startup of the database server.

Installation Environment

The environment for this installation is below: Mac OS 10(Leopard) running VM Fusion with Solaris 10 - Downloaded DVD iso image from website. I installed the Solaris 10 05/08 x86/x64 image for this demo (sol-10-u5-ga-x86-dvd.iso). I also used MySQL 5.1 - Downloaded from

    Before installing MySQL on my platform, make sure there are no previous versions of MySQL preinstalled. Unless you want the older version of MySQL, your life will be much easier if you remove any previous releases.
    Read through this installation a few times before starting.

Look for existing MySQL software

This install uses 5.1.33, these installation procedures can be used for any 5.1.x installation. Dependent on the version of Solaris, different packages may need to be installed or removed (old MySQL installations).

Check to see if you see MySQL on your current system.
# grep mysql /etc/passwd #
# find /usr/local -name '*mysql*' - print # look here for MacOS, Unix/Linux
# find /var -name '*mysql*' - print # good place to start with Solaris
# find / -name "*mysql*' - print # look everywhere for MySQL installations

VM Fusion Choices for Installing Solaris 10

My choices for installing Solaris 10 in a VM Fusion environment. During the installation you will be asked to hit F2 to continue. On a MAC that will be EscapeKey-2 or FN-F2. Solaris Interactive US-English Networked - DHCP IPv6 - No You may need to specify the amount of disk space to use. I allocated 10228 MB.

    You should now be able to log in as root. With Solaris choose the Java Desktop Environment or the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), this is a personal preference.

Removing older versions of MySQL

Check for MySQL packages installed and remove them.
# pkginfo | grep mysql
The following packages SUNWmysqlr, SUNWmysqlt, SUNWmysqlu were found and removed.
# pkgrm SUNWmysqlr
# pkgrm SUNWmysqlt
# pkgrm SUNWmysqlu

Remove old MySQL files from common directories.
# sudo rm /usr/local/mysql
# sudo rm -rf /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/

Set up the mysql user. Start by checking to see if there is an existing MySQL user.
# grep mysql /etc/passwd

Setup new mysql user if one does not exist. If a mysql user does exist, set up a password, default shell, default directory, etc.
No mysql user was found so I added one. Add the mysql group, mysql user, password and home directory.
# groupadd -g 300 mysql
# useradd -u 300 -g 300 -d /export/home/mysql -s /usr/bin/bash -c "MySQL DBA" mysql
# passwd mysql
# mkdir /export/home/mysql
# chown -R mysql:mysql /export/home/mysql

Login and verify the mysql user setup

# exec login mysql (or su - mysql)

Then define a default profile file using your favorite text editor.

--- .bash_profile file ------
PS1='$PWD: '
--- end of .bash_profile file -------

Set your environment by sourcing your profile file.

$ . ./.bash_profile

Downloading MySQL

Go to and go to downloads. Find the distributions and choose the install release you want. I chose 5.1.33. I prefer a manual install so I choose the Solaris Tar Packages the Solaris 10 64-bit install. Select a mirror. On the Select a Mirror page, I choose "No thanks, just take me to the downloads"!

MySQL Directory Organization

Organize how MySQL files and software will be located:
/opt/mysql/5.1.33 - Symbolic link to software directory location
/db01/mysql/mysql01/data - data directory
/db02/mysql/mysql01/binlogs - location of binary log files
/db03/mysql/mysql01/admin - main administration directory
/db04/mysql/mysql01/backups - location of backup files

I created the following directories to download the MySQL software in /opt/mysql/5.1.33.
# mkdir -p /opt/mysql/5.1.33
# export MYSQL_NAME=mysql01

Setup data directory structure
# mkdir -p /db01/mysql/$MYSQL_NAME/data

Setup mysql administration directory structure
# mkdir -p /db03/mysql/$MYSQL_NAME
# mkdir /db03/mysql/$MYSQL_NAME/logs
# mkdir /db03/mysql/$MYSQL_NAME/errors
# mkdir /db03/mysql/$MYSQL_NAME/sql

# mkdir /db03/mysql/$MYSQL_NAME/startup

# mkdir /db03/mysql/$MYSQL_NAME/run

Setup binary log structure
# mkdir -p /db02/mysql/$MYSQL_NAME/binlogs

Setup backup directory structure for backups and exports.
# mkdir -p /db04/mysql/$MYSQL_NAME
# mkdir /db04/mysql/$MYSQL_NAME/backups
# mkdir /db04/mysql/$MYSQL_NAME/exports

Set permissions and ownership for MySQL file directories.
# chmod -R 750 /db*/mysql/* /opt/mysql/*
# chown -R mysql:mysql /db*/mysql/* /opt/mysql/*

Before going further

Double (triple) check all directory paths and permissions. 99.99% of issues with manual installs are typos in the directory paths, typos in the file names or permission issues with directories. Double check all paths. When you try to bring up database server, if it defaults to the default areas its because it can;t find a directory or doesn't have permission for directories specified so it will then try the default locations.

Setup the MySQL software (as the MySQL OS user, not the root OS user)

All following commands are run as the mysql OS user. In the /opt/mysql directory unzip and untar the MySQL software as the mysql OS user.
$ cd /opt/mysql
$ gunzip mysql-5.1.33-solaris10-64bit.tar.gz
$ tar xvf mysql-5.1.33-solaris10-64bit.tar
$ ln -s mysql-5.1.33-solaris10-64bit 5.1.33

Be careful with the my.cnf configuration file.

At the operating system prompt you can type the following command. If you scroll down you will find the default search path. All commands like mysql_secure_installation, mysql, mysql_install_db, etc. all look in a search path for the configuration file. Make sure any program is finding the right configuration file in the search path. Here are commands that will show you the search path:

$ mysql --help | more

$ mysqld --help --verbose | more

Use one of the sample configuration files provided with the distribution to get started.

$ cp $MYSQL_HOME/support-files/my-small-cnf /dbadmin/mysql/mysql/startup/my.cnf

Add the following entries to the my.cnf file to the [mysqld] group. This separates all your dynamic administration files, data files, and binary log files to different locations. A separate port is defined away from the default.

#port = 3426

Add the following entries to the my.cnf file to the [client] group.
#port = 3426
#socket = /dbadmin/mysql/mysql01/run/mysql.sock

Build a symbolic link from the default location to the real startup file. The step of adding a symbolic to the actual startup file is something I avoid but some environments like this addition.

$ ln -s /dbadmin/mysql/mysql01/startup/my.cnf my.cnf

Create the mysql database files for the MySQL instance. This will create the default database schemas and database files.

$ scripts/mysql_install_db --datadir=/db01/mysql/mysql01/data --basedir=$MYSQL_HOME

Verify data files and directories have been created in the datadir directory.

$ cd /db01/mysql/mysql01/data
$ ls

mysql test

Start the MySQL database server pointing to the defined locations.
$ cd /opt/mysql/5.1.33
$ bin/mysqld_safe --defaults-file=/dbadmin/mysql/mysql01/startup/my.cnf &

If there are socket errors:

i.e. MySQL client cannot star twith the error "cannot connect to the MySQL server through socket

MySQL needs to write to a socket. If you don't specify one, a default one is chosen which may not have the appropriate permissions. You can specify the socket file in the command line as below. Make sure the permissions are set properly (owned by mysql).

$ mysql -uroot -p -socket=/dbadmin/mysql/mysql01/run/mysql.sock

Verify the mysqld background process is running as well as the mysqld_safe monitoring process. The mysqld background process should be up and running.

$ ps -ef |grep mysql

Clean up the database server by adding passwords and getting rid of anonymous users. If there are problems with the mysql_secure_installation script, then set the password manually and get rid of the anonymous accounts and any accounts with no passwords.

$ bin/mysql_secure_installation

Shutdown the MySQL server to verify you can shutdown and startup the MySQL instance. I like switching to the my.cnf in the startup directory versus in the default software directory.

$ mysqladmin --defaults-file=/dbadmin/mysql/mysql01/startup/my.cnf shutdown

$ bin/mysqld_safe --defaults-file= /dbadmin/mysql/mysql01/startup/my.cnf

You're up and running have fun. Once you are confortable with this configuration layout, you can create a Unix shell script that will automate almost the entire process. With a shell script automation the install takes about ten minutes.

George Trujillo at Collaborate 09: Demystifying MySQL for Oracle DBAs and Developers

George Trujillo at Collaborate 09 Week of May 3, 2009

I will be presenting two presentations at the IOUG Collaborate 09 Conference in Orlando FL, the week of May 3rd 2009. Here is one I have been asked to present. This presentation is a very detailed technical presentation designed for experienced Oracle professionals to get an understanding of the MySQL database server under the hood.

Demystifying MySQL for Oracle DBAs and Developers Tues @ 9:45am - 10:45am, 224A

George Trujillo continues his popular demystifying series that started with Demystifying Oracle Fusion Middleware, to now include a MySQL demystifying series. This presentation will use George's MOCA best practices blueprint for installing, configuring and tuning a MySQL database server. This fast paced detailed technical presentation will cover: MySQL Architecture, Installation, Configuration, Key Features, Security, MySQL Tools, Storage Engines, transactional capabilities and strategic directions. This is a can't miss presentation for any Oracle DBA wanting to understand MySQL.

George Trujillo at Collaborate 09: What every Oracle Professional needs to know about MySQL

George Trujillo at Collaborate 09 Week of May 3, 2009

I will be presenting two presentations at the IOUG Collaborate 09 Conference in Orlando FL, the week of May 3rd 2009. Here is one I have been asked to present. This presentation is a non-technical presentation talking about MySQL positioning, strengths and strategic directions.

What every Oracle Professional needs to know about MySQL Mon @ 3:45pm - 4:45pm, 240CD

The MySQL open source database continues to increase in popularity with usage estimated at 11 million database servers worldwide. This presentation will help Oracle professionals who are considering the addition of MySQL or just getting started with MySQL: how the MySQL database can be utilized, MySQL strategy and architecture, and key functionalities. Similarities and differences between database vendors and best practices will be included. The focus of this presentation is on helping attendees understand the philosophy, features, benefits and popularity of MySQL.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Trends in Database Design and Optimized Application Development

I'm constantly going out to customers and looking at their database environments and the challenges they are facing. Of course, sometimes my perspective can be rather unique because customers never invite me in to show me how fast their databases are or how great things are. Usually by the time I get called in, the environment has gotten very dynamic.

What never ceases to amaze me is how on average database design seems to keep getting worse and applications are more poorly written than ever before. There are a number of industry and organization reasons for this but these reasons constantly stand out at customer sites:
  1. Developers Designing Databases: Developers are usually the ones meeting with the customers and doing a lot of the initial design on smaller projects. The problem with this is there is a big difference between understanding what a primary and foreign key are and designing a database. Or there is a data modeler who can design beautiful databases in theory but has no idea how that database design is going to work in a production environment.
  2. Most Developers Do Not Know How to Write Optimized Queries: Back in the old days there were database developers that had a strong understanding of SQL development. However the current generation of Java, PHP, .NET and Ruby developers are great with their languages and writing APIs but the major percentage of them have no idea how to write optimized queries for their applications.
  3. Take Out Databases: In this generation of fast food take out and web applications, its all about getting something out the door quick. Which usually means minimal time for proper database design and testing. This is definitely the Dilbert world of databases.
I find these problems to be much more severe in MySQL environments versus Oracle environments. If an organization pays a million dollars for an Oracle license they are going to make sure they get some people that know that they are doing to design and manage a database project. When someone downloads a MySQL database for free for a small web application they think they can use anybody and the project will turn out okay.

When teaching performance tuning classes in Oracle and MySQL I always ask the students what percentage of companies do they think do a good job of designing their databases and their index optimization paths. I always get single digits for the response to these questions. Oh well, I guess this is what makes the database world so fun. :)

Top things that I have found that greatly improves database application success includes:
  • Getting the right expertise to design your databases.
  • Training developers on how to write good queries for their database applications.
  • Design patterns.
  • Taking the time to do it write.
  • Use case scenarios.

Tracking the Storage Engine Race

There are a number of new and enhanced storage engines that promise increased scalability, performance and important new online features. All this competition with storage engines is going to create a win for the MySQL community. This competition is what open source is all about. If you do not continue to innovate and improve you cannot expect to be a leader in the open source world. The nice thing about MySQL 5.1 is the plug-in capability that allows the addition and removal of storage engines.

The top ones I have been tracking include:
  • Falcon (still in alpha)
  • Maria (still in alpha)
  • InnoDB (final release candidate stages)
  • XtraDB (unable to verify release, since only a few months old may be alpha or beta)
  • PBXT (beta I believe )
Instead of just comparing benchmarks and features, what I am focusing on is the adoption by my customers. All these storage engines are promising optimized architectures,
increased performance, scalability and improved metadata for diagnostics and tuning. For most of these it is still too early to tell. However, I will be talking to customers every week to gauge their thoughts and adoption rates on these storage engines.

No matter which one I pick, I'll always upset someone. But its no fun staying on the fence, so I would definitely give the early lead to the InnoDB plug-in. The reason is it is on the final release candidate stages and is the first next generation storage engine used with the MySQL 5.4 scalability and performance release. It will be fun to watch the growing popularity of these storage engines. I would love to hear some detailed feedback on your thoughts of these new storage engines. Be aware that most of these storage engines are still in alpha or beta, so I recommend being very conservative before using them in a production environment.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Working with MySQL Hints

A number of developers look at SQL tuning hints as a way to performance tune queries. Where the best way to tune SQL code is not to use hints. Hints add high maintenance code and try to influence the Cost Based Optimizer which can have negative impacts in the future. What if the data distributions change or the optimizer adds new features in the future? The best way to tune SQL code is to look at how the database server environment can be optimized so the optimizer can make the best decisions as possible. However, if you cannot get the optimizer to make the right decision a SQL hint may be required but it should usually be the choice of last resort.

SELECT * FROM mytab IGNORE INDEX (col1_idx)
WHERE col1='A' AND col2='B';

SELECT * FROM mytab USE INDEX (col1_idx,col2_idx)
WHERE col1='A' AND col2='B' AND col3=3;

Here are some of MySQL SQL Tuning Hints:

Monday, April 20, 2009

Oracle to buy Sun!

Today's announcement that Oracle has agreed to buy Sun definitely starts the MySQL conference which begins this morning with a bang. I expect Oracle InnoDB presentations to be standing room only!

  • Oracle announcement:
  • Sun announcement:

The MySQL conference just got very interesting for the attendees! Popular user conferences bring together industry leaders from around the world, so the activity at the conference has definitely be raised to a very high level.

For me personally this potential acquisition is great news. It brings together the two company's technologies where I have spent most of my career working with.

Friday, April 17, 2009

MySQL Users Conference 2009 - Santa Clara, CA

The MySQL Users Conference is going to be an excellent conference with a lot of change going on in the MySQL world. Some of the key areas to be looking at include:
  • MySQL strategic directions.
  • Increasing vertical scalability of MySQL with upcoming MySQL software releases, new and enhanced storage engines and patches.
  • Enhanced diagnostics with DTrace.
  • New BI software products and tools.
  • Performance tuning, performance tuning, performance tuning.
  • Evolution of next generation of storage engines. Lots of cool stuff here.
  • Advanced DBA tricks and techniques.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

InnoDB Plugin Has Some Very Cool features

Reducing Administration Costs and Down Time
DBAs are always going to be challenged with growth, scalability and performance as long as databases get bigger and more users access them. Reducing administration and down time are always key issues in our 24 x 7 environments. The new InnoDB Plugin has some very important features that DBAs are going to want to take a serious look at. So I thought I would point out some of the highlights.

The InnoDB Plugin
InnoDB is the primary transaction storage engine through the 5.x releases of MySQL. The InnoDB Plugin allows MySQL DBAs to replace (SKIP_INNODB) the default InnoDB storage engine with an enhanced version of InnoDB (plugin) that offers some important enhanced features and performance. This InnoDB plugin is in the final beta (release candidate) releases.

Key Features
The InnoDB Plugin offers some of these important key features:
  • Fast Index Creation - The ability to add and drop secondary indexes without copying table data. Index maintenance is always an issue. The performance benchmarks on this feature are significant.
  • Out of Line Data - BLOB, Text and VARCHAR columns can be stored out of line. By default only 768 bytes are stored inline for large columns. However even this 768 bytes is not good for your table storage. If the INNODB_FILE_FORMAT is set to Barracuda (default is Antelope) and the ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC or ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED is set, the only a 20 byte pointer is stored in line and the rest of the data is stored out of line. New InnoDB file formats are likely to use additional animal names in alphabetical order.
  • Enhanced Metadata - New metadata in INFORMATION_SCHEMA on locking and compression. Enhanced metadata definitely helps with dealing with locking issues and getting better information on compression. The new INFORMATION_SCHEMA metadata tables include: INNODB_CMP, INNODB_CMP_RESET, INNODB_CMPMEM_RESET, INNODB_CMPMEM, INNODB_TRX, INNODB_LOCKS and INNODB_LOCK_WAITS. DBAs have been waiting a long time to get detailed locking and transaction information. These new metatables are awesome!
  • Data Compression - Data compression support for InnoDB. There is a new attribute called ROW_FORMAT that can be set to compressed. The KEY_BLOCK_SIZE is another new parameter that can compress in 1K, 2K, 4K, 8K or 16K bytes. The LZ77 compression algorithm compresses data and indexes. Compressed data is uncompressed in the InnoDB buffer cach for reading. Compression requires the INNODB_FILE_TABLE option to be set. Example:
  • Truncate Table - TRUNCATE TABLE command reclaims space in .ibd file.
  • Optimization Statistics - More control over statistics generation. New features allow better statistics generation to determine the key distributions on indexes. This is a very important feature for the cost based optimizer to make good decisions on indexed columns that have uneven distributions of key values.
  • Dynamic Parameters - Dynamic parameter eliminates need to bounce database server when modification is required. It is very important that DBAs minimize downtime so these making the following parameters dynamic is pretty important:
  • innodb_file_per_table
  • innodb_stats_on_metadata
  • innodb_lock_wait_timeout
  • innodb_adaptive_hash_index
InnoDB Plugin Installation
The installation of the InnoDB Plugin can pretty straight forward and only takes a few minutes once the InnoDB Plugin is downloaded into the proper location. Of course every version and platform has its own unique idiosyncrasies (or the devil is in the details).


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July 2010

   This will be my last post for a few days. Right around 8:30 tomorrow morning, Paul Herman will be picking me up and we’ll be on our way to Columbus and the second annual PulpFest.

   And I won’t be back until Sunday, once again with my satchels full of books and magazines and my checkbook empty. Heck, if I plan it very, very carefully, my checkbook will be empty several minutes after the doors to the dealers’ room open on Friday. It won’t be hard to do, especially with all the wares that’ll be out for display, fully designed to tickle everyone’s fancy. Well, mine, at least.

   Some of you I will see there, I am sure. If not, so long until next week Monday. For the rest of this evening, it’s time to pack.

   From the Wordle website:

    “Wordle is a toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.”

   The one you see below is a fine example. It was taken of this blog earlier today by J. Kingston Pierce and is shown to great advantage over on his Rap Sheet blog.

WORDLE Mystery*File

   Here’s a blow-up.

WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS. MGM, 1928. Lon Chaney, Anita Page, Carroll Nye, Wheeler Oakman, Mae Busch, Polly Moran. Director: Jack Conway. Shown at Cinecon 27, Hollywood CA, September 1993.

   Even with a missing reel, this Lon Chaney film was a stunning thriller. Chaney plays a tough New York detective on the trail of “Mile Away” Skeeter (who’s always a mile away from the crime when it happens).

   Chaney’s hard as nails, but he’s got a soft spot for Myrtle (played by Anita Page, a Cinecon guest) and for a lad who’s got in with mob and just needs the right influence to go straight. But then the lad falls for Myrtle, who’s mighty taken with him and…

   Chaney’s rough-hewn face is a perfect mask for the hard-nosed cop, but bruised the way his heart will be. Nobody could ring the changes on pathos like Chaney, probably the greatest of silent screen dramatic actors. A smashing performance and superb photography and direction.

LUIZ ALFREDO GARCIA-ROZA – The Silence of the Rain. Picador, trade paperback reprint, July 2003. Hardcover edition: Henry Holt & Co., July 2002.

   This moody sort of detective novel was first published in Brazil and translated from the Portuguese, and to start matters off in the right direction right from the beginning, I highly recommend it to you.

   It begins in a mildly light-hearted fashion, as a mix-up over a wealthy executive’s suicide in a parking garage leads Inspector Espinosa of Rio de Janeiro’s First Precinct into handling the case as though it were a murder.

   (Not unlike Columbo of TV fame here in this country, we are privy to certain events that Espinosa is not, and even by the end of the case he is still running through endless speculations as to what actually happened.)

   The mood becomes gradually edgier, though, until page 121, which is where the reader is confronted with the realization, rather forcibly, that this is no cozy, and never was. Reading mysteries taking place in other countries also makes you realize that the rules are often totally different. Here’s a quote from page 161:

   I left thinking about the paradox: I trusted the information I could get from lowlife street gamblers but was wary of that same information in the hands of my fellow policemen. The worst was that I didn’t even know exactly how much I distrusted them, but one of the things I’d learned from a life on the force was not to confide in other officers.

   And from page 238:

   Espinosa called the precinct from the hospital No news. They kept reiterating that it was an isolated kidnapping, not related to the “normal kidnappings in the city.” Espinosa was stunned by the phrase: how could cops talk about “normal kidnappings”? Were there normal kidnappings and abnormal kidnappings?

   Espinosa is, the dead man’s widow decides, a rare bird, a cultivated policeman. He is attracted to her. She is so wealthy she does not seem to notice. Espinosa is a reader of Dickens and Thomas De Quincey, is afflicted by loneliness and self-doubts, and he is also better than decent as a reader of character.

   Complicating matters is the million-dollar life insurance policy the dead man had recently taken out, followed by the disappearance of his secretary Rose.

   Besides an almost other-worldly atmosphere and surroundings, there are enough twists and turns of the ensuing plot to keep any detective story buff more than satisfied, even with the aforementioned Colombo-like prologue.

   There is also an ending I know I’ve never read before — I couldn’t possibly have forgotten a scene like this, and if you read the book, as I’m strongly suggesting, you won’t either.

   And yes, the telling of tale does switch back and forth between first person and third. Just in case you were wondering!

— July 2003

       The Inspector Espinosa series –

1. The Silence of the Rain (2002)
2. December Heat (2003)

3. Southwesterly Wind (2004)
4. A Window in Copacabana (2005)

5. Pursuit (2006)
6. Blackout (2008)
7. Alone in the Crowd (2009)

THE MISSING JUROR. Columbia Pictures, 1944. Jim Bannon, Janis Carter, George Macready, Jean Stevens, Joseph Crehan, with Trevor Bardette & Mike Mazurki (both uncredited). Director: Oscar Boetticher Jr.

   Two stars carry over from the movie which I previously reviewed here, Janis Carter and George Macready (in The Fighting Guardsman), and Jim Bannon was in the one I reviewed before that (in The Great Jesse James Raid). It’s like old home week here on the blog.

   Jim Bannon plays Joe Keats in The Missing Juror, an ace reporter who saved a man from going to the gallows for a crime he didn’t commit. Too late, though, for the previously condemned man (played most convincingly by George Macready) had gone mad while on Death Row, and he perishes instead in a mental institution – by his own hand, his body burned beyond recognition.

   Bad karma all round, you might say, but then things start to get interesting. The members of the jury who convicted the innocent man have begun to disappear or to die in a series of unfortunate accidents. Janis Carter plays Alice Hill, one of the jurors who has survived so far, and in the process of warning her – she doesn’t believe a word of it at first, naturally – Keats finds himself falling in love with her.

   It’s a great premise for a real noirish tale. It’s only too bad that no one involved in the production of this movie knew how to produce a real noirish tale, nor even how to tell a tale that makes any more sense than this one does.

   There are enough holes in the story to sink a battleship, and no one in the cast ever stops to make the obvious questions – with the answers equally obvious – if there are any. Some questions simply don’t have any answers, or at least none that I can think of.

   It may be as obvious to you, if you’ve read this far. I’ve tried to careful in how I described the basic structure of the plot, but with deficiencies as great as those that this movie has, I’d have to say nothing to avoid saying anything.

   But do you know what? It doesn’t really matter that the story has more leaks in it than a sieve that’s been used for target practice. This is a fun movie to watch, from beginning to end. And some (if not most) of that is due to the director, more familiarly known as Budd Boetticher. Unusual camera angles, imaginative lighting and clever dolly shots keep things interesting, and the story doesn’t stop moving once, even if it doesn’t make a lick of sense.

William F. Deeck

JOSEPH L. BONNEY – Murder Without Clues. Carrick & Evans, hardcover, 1940. Digest-sized paperback: Green Dragon #16, 1940s, condensed.

   An amateur pugilist who plays the violin, dabbles in chemistry, smokes pipes when he’s pondering, deduces expertly, investigates crime, and has a roommate named Watson.

   Yes, as you surmised, I am alluding to Simon Rolfe, who regards Sherlock Holmes as an “incompetent bungler.” There are differences, of course; Rolfe reads mostly, perhaps only, of the works of Montaigne.

   While he criticizes some of Holmes’s deductions, Rolfe himself occasionally falls short in exercising that talent. For instance, Watson tells Rolfe that he does a lot of typewriting and moons about when he’s trying to straighten out a plot sequence or characterization. Rolfe responds: “You’re a writer, then?”

   In this novel, either the first or the second of two featuring Rolfe — I’d deduce the first, since he meets Watson in this one — the police are baffled by a locked room stabbing at the home of a former vaudeville memory champion.

   Not only was the room locked, with untracked snow outside the windows, but all the inhabitants of the house have alibis, including the man the stabbed woman accuses of the murder just before she dies. The weapon, which could not have been removed from the house, cannot be found.

   An interesting detective, appearing in not a lost gem of the literature necessarily, but nonetheless a good read.

– From The MYSTERY FANcier, Vol. 11, No. 2, Spring 1989.

    Bibliographic Data:   [Taken from the Revised Crime Fiction IV, by Allen J. Hubin.]

BONNEY, JOSEPH L. (1908?-1989?)

       Murder Without Clues (n.) Carrick 1940 [Simon Rolfe]
       Death by Dynamite (n.) Carrick 1940 [Simon Rolfe]

       Look to the Lady! (n.) Lippincott 1947

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MARTIN WALKER – The Dark Vineyard. Quercus, UK, hardcover, 2009. Knopf, US, hardcover, July 2010.

Genre:   Traditional mystery/police procedural. Leading character:  Captain Bruno Courrèges; 2nd in series. Setting:   St. Denis, France.

MARTIN WALKER Bruno Chief of Police

First Sentence:   The distant howl of the siren atop the Marie broke the stillness of the French summer night.

   The alarm on the top of the Mairie (city hall) of St. Denis calls Police Chief Bruno Courrèges and the volunteer squad out to a fire of a field and large barn.

   Upon investigation, Bruno learns the fire was arson and the property being used to develop GMO (genetically modified organisms) crops; specifically, drought-resistant grape vines.

   The Californians are coming, wanting to buy a large part of the valley, which would bring jobs and produce varietal wines. Someone wants to stop it through vandalism and maybe murder.

   More and more, I look for good mysteries that rely on the mystery and on well-drawn characters rather than overt violence. This is just such a mystery.

   Walker brings the Pergord area, the fictional town of St. Denis, and the people to life with descriptions so evocative, you’re inclined to pack a bag. Walker’s inclusion of information on GMOs, the impact of climate change on the wine industry, the cost of land, and more enhances the story, without ever bogging it down.

MARTIN WALKER Bruno Chief of Police

   Bruno is one of the best protagonists I’ve read in awhile. He knows and cares the people and about whom Walker causes you to care as well. Bruno is savvy to what works with them, solution-oriented, his military training stands him well and he loves his community.

   What I most appreciate is his good working relationship with his counterparts and superiors. The plot is well constructed. Walker does use a number of French terms; most I understood through the plot and only a couple did I have to look up, but it added veracity to the story.

   This is not a fast-paced, guns-blazing, cars-racing story. It is one which builds upon itself through characters with a subtle tension as the story progresses.

   I did identify the villain, but not until three quarters of the way through the story, at which point I felt it was somewhat deliberate, but I didn’t guess the motive until it was revealed.

   Once I started this book, I found impossible to put down. This was a very good read and one I highly recommend.

Rating:   Very Good.

        The Bruno Courrèges series –

1. Bruno, Chief of Police (2008)

MARTIN WALKER Bruno Chief of Police

2. The Dark Vineyard (2009)
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The wait is over… and you can now get access to my new VDI calculator clicking on the link below.

The new calculator is built on Java framework instead of Flash, and run on Windows and Mac computers. There will also be a version specifically built for Android devices that uses native device capabilities. The Android version is coming a bit later.

The new calculator has all the features available in the previous Flash version, plus new key features that will make life easier for many users.

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  • Offline Support – The new version will be able to run when disconnected from the network. When connected, it will auto-update itself with the latest release.
  • Load/Save – Now you can save and load your configurations eliminating repetitive task of entering the values every time you use the calculator.  This is a great future for consultants that have to manage multiple projects for multiple customers.
  • Tool Tips – When you hover over a field or combo box you see an explanation what exactly that property will do.
  • Validations – Property validations have been added to reduce the number of possible errors. These validations include checking your numbers are within VMware’s supported numbers.
  • It’s FREE!!! – Thanks  to the sponsors  this tool is absolutely FREE, even for the mobile version that will be soon released. If you are a vendor and is interested in having your Ad dynamically presented on the calculator just send an email to at andre_leibovici@yahoo.com.

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  • Block Size and IO calculations for even better accuracy
  • Scale-out approaching using hyper-converged architectures
  • Server Profile – you select the brand and the calculator will spit out the model you should buy
  • Upload configuration to Cloud and be able to access it from anywhere
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    Nice ! this one is awesome.

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    Is can not access your web site in China!
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    Interesting to know the website is not allowed in China. Why would that be?

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Surge Concerto: Ciel Nosurge Official Website Turns into Teaser for a Possible Sequel

After the appearance of a very mysterious teaser video at Sony’s booth at Tokyo Game Show, the official site of Gust’s PS Vita exclusive Surge Concerto: Ciel Nosurge was turned into what seems to be a very elaborate teaser site. (Ciel no Sourge, PS Vita)

MattS  +   711d ago
I loved the first, one of my favourite import games I've ever bought.
Abriael  +   711d ago
Yeah it was very good. It's a damn shame that it was never localized...
sherimae2413  +   711d ago
since tecmo koei is on aroll about localizations of most of their vita games,
i hope this one gets localized too ^_^
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Las Vegas — August 14, 2007 — Today the National Association of Heavy Equipment Training Schools (NAHETS) announced immediate distribution of its new Yellow Metal™ Boot Camp Heavy Equipment Field Training Manual (version-1), enabling its member schools to further use the skills-based field curriculum in their training services. The manual will enhance and make more effective the heavy equipment training and education provided by NAHETS member heavy equipment schools.

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NAHETS also announced that the manual has a companion website for students. The site features several hours of training videos that compliment the components of the equipment training tasks, referred to as “drills.” This program presents the original task-based curriculum, as well as graphically rich multimedia. Equipment training videos can be also downloaded onto an iPod, watched on-line via, or played from a DVD. This NAHETS product is taught in conjunction with the basic NCCER curriculum.

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Klabacka took this concept to the University of Las Vegas Center for Work Force Development, where Professor Dr. Clifford R. McClain helped organize, validate, and refine it. From there the NAHETS curriculum development department consulted with experts in the field and then authored a supplementary training curriculum. Then they partnered with the NAHETS media department and Yellow Metal TV, headed by Rhett Nielson, producer and artist who came up with the original packaging, display, and marketing concept. In addition, NAHETS also engaged Ryan Bankhead, 3-D animation specialist and illustrator, and video editors and cameramen Trevon Angulo, David Taylor, and Sam Teilman, to create the Yellow Metal Boot Camp product that NAHETS has today.

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CadenzaCadence with an Italian flourish, literally.  Found in both instrumental and vocal music, a cadenza is an elaborate, oftentimes rhythmically free solo passage allowing for virtuosic display – the solo of all solos, if you will.  With its international flavor and striking Z, Cadenza is a great alternative to Cadence, Melody, and even the on-the-rise Aria.

Echo – A mythological name meaning “a repetition of sound,” Echo makes a lasting impression.  In Greek mythology, Echo was a beautiful but talkative mountain nymph who loved her own voice.  Unfortunately, she is most famous for her unrequited love of Narcissus, which resulted in her demise.  However, this short but striking name might be the ideal choice for your little chatterbox!

Fate – A short form of Lafayette meaning “faith,” this name’s about as modern as you’ll get in the virtue set!  Defined as “that which is inevitably predetermined,” one’s fate is his or her destiny.  In Greek mythology, The Fates – or Moirae – were those who controlled the thread of life for each mortal; as such, the name has a uniquely powerful energy.  Slightly unisex in sound, Fate is the perfect alternative to the classic Faith or the overdone Destiny.

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The electronic bandgap is a basic property of all semiconductors and gives them their electrical transport and optical properties. It is therefore very important in modern physics and technology because it is responsible for how devices like p-n junctions, transistors, photodiodes and lasers work. Scientists would like to be able to control the size of a bandgap in semiconductors so that they can optimize such devices. And it would be especially good if the bandgap could be controlled by an external electric field.

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The narrow bandgap range means that it could now be possible to make new types of nanotransistors, nano-LEDs and other nano-optical devices in the infrared range from graphene.

Normally, graphene does not have a bandgap – it is a "zero bandgap" semiconductor. However, a gap can be introduced in bilayer graphene, which consists of two graphene layers lying on top of each other, by disturbing the symmetry of the two layers. Although this can be achieved by chemically doping one of the layers – for example, by using metal atoms – this technique is difficult to control and incompatible with device applications.

Wang and colleagues overcame this problem by making a two-gated bilayer device from graphene. The device, which is a field-effect transistor, is built on a silicon substrate (the bottom gate) and contains a thin insulating layer of silicon dioxide between the substrate and the graphene layers. There is a transparent layer of sapphire (aluminium oxide) over the graphene layers and on top of this, the top gate, made of platinum.

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Team Dosu was a team that was one of Orochimaru's two groups in his plan to infiltrate the Chūnin Exams in Konoha. Whereas the other team under Kabuto posed as Konoha ninjas, Team Dosu entered as genin representing Otogakure. Accordingly, due to various modifications, all three members used sound-based techniques. The team leader is Dosu Kinuta with Kin Tsuchi and Zaku Abumi as his team mates.

Though instructed to kill Sasuke Uchiha in the Forest of Death, the three were actually sent by Orochimaru to test his potential host's abilities and barely survived Sasuke when he was under the influence of the curse seal. Since then, though he fared in the exams while Kin and Zaku lost in their respective matches with Shikamaru Nara and Shino Aburame, Dosu realised that they outlived their usefulness and are now disposable. Though he made it through the preliminaries, wanting to kill Sasuke out of petty revenge against Orochimaru, Dosu gets himself killed by Gaara while challenging him for the right to battle the Uchiha in the finals. Kin and Zaku, on the other hand, were later betrayed and used as sacrifices for Orochimaru to reincarnate Hashirama and Tobirama Senju during the invasion of Konoha.

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U.S. Army Pfc. Anoinette Douglas helps clear part of Khost Province in Afghanistan in April / Army photo by Donald Watkins

In 1993, I was involved in the Navy’s transition of women from non-combatant ships to combatant ships — from support craft like oilers and salvage vessels, to warships like destroyers and cruisers, in other words. Newly-elected President Clinton and his defense secretary, Les Aspin, determined — after the success of women in Desert Storm — that it made no sense to exclude them from serving on combatant ships and aircraft.

The idea of “protecting” women from the rigors of the battlefield was becoming untenable: there is no safe place in a war zone, as a Scud missile that killed 28 behind the front lines in Saudi Arabia in February 1991 sadly showed. Yet neither Congress nor the Pentagon was ready to rescind the rules for women in direct ground combat. No one in power saw that as a problem. War is war, and war is not pretty. One has to do her or his duty. However, in recent years, the reluctance to accept casualties, male or female, became tantamount to the kiss of death, career-wise, for any commander with troops in harm’s way.

Desert Storm was a wash…so few war-related casualties over the short period of actual combat gave us Americans a false sense of security. We were invincible. We were the most powerful military in the world. We had God on our side.

Then 9-11 happened, and we happened into a two-front war in Muslim lands. After much trial and error, our military leaders finally determined this an unconventional war needing unconventional tools. But one of the problems is that cultural norms in the Middle East forbid men from inspecting, talking to, guarding, confronting, or otherwise dealing with, women.

In 2005 local commanders in Iraq took matters into their own hands created ad hoc teams of untrained-for-combat women volunteers they called “Lionesses.” It made a huge, positive difference. The military women have both guarded and calmed the Arab women while dodging the rigors of combat.

More recently, trained teams of female Marines have become Female Engagement Teams — dealing with local Afghan women – also often in harm’s way. And Military Special Forces recently added trained teams of women, though not considered “Special Forces”, to their ranks. But they’re not given full-combat status – nor the awards, promotion opportunities and – let’s face it – bragging opportunities that go along with it. Women are serving in combat, in combat roles, but the policy and the reality are at odds.

It is time to make policy match reality. The U.S. military has come a long way in expanding opportunities for women — but it must shuck this last vestige of paternalism. Women should be welcomed into the combat ranks for one simple reason: it would make the world’s best military even better.

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The next few months offer a chance to learn a great deal about our community and how people from the last century to the present day have been entertaining themselves.

This exhibit begins with the amenities of the Hampton Terrace Hotel and concludes with today’s technologies. Plus you will find many notes throughout the area which will inform you of little-known facts about different parts of the exhibit.

Did you know that Brenda Lee preformed regularly at WRDW-TV Channel 12 and the Marrh Theater, which is now the Estate Jewelry on Georgia Avenue? She attended North Augusta Elementary School and WRDW program director Sammy Barton was the one who suggested she change her name to Brenda Lee.

Come and find out more about Brenda Lee, Flo Carter and Jim Nabors, who lived in North Augusta and sang on WJBF’s Today in Dixie weekday show with Flo Carter. Sharron Jones spent her early years in North Augusta and made her public singing debut as a child in North Augusta Baptist Church on Jackson Avenue as an angel in the Christmas program. She sang Silent Night.

You will find more about these entertainers in the radio and television sections. You can also view Hollywood stars from our area, musicians, television personalities and many other exciting forms of local entertainment, including an antique bike on loan from Andy Jordon, and a jacket and shoes worn by James Brown. The exhibit ends Sept. 20.

Last year’s exhibit, Hamburg: The Forgotten Town, won an Award of Merit from the Confederation of SC Local Historical Societies.

The Arts and Heritage Center Gift Shop offers many new and wonderful items for your pleasure and for your family and friends. The ideal place to find that perfect gift!

Don’t forget to check out artists of the month throughout the community in the local businesses.

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Friday, 13 November 2009

Press Release

to be released November 12, 2009

Jakarta - Centre for Orangutan Protection (COP).

Just as orangutan supporters all around the world are celebrating Orangutan Awareness Week with bazaars, rallies, exhibitions, and other events to build up public support for saving orangutans, these very same orangutans are being chased down and murdered in Kalimantan as a direct impact of deforestation and land clearing for oil palm plantations.

“Public awareness has risen fast. Tens of thousands of people worldwide have joined together in supporting various orangutan conservation organizations. COP has been working with nearly 3000 supporters who are sincerely committed to volunteering or donating tools and funds to help orangutans. Efforts to protect orangutans are proving very difficult, however. The Ministry of Forestry’s concern for this important issue is almost ZERO. Despite the fact that many actions have been taken in the field to promote orangutan conservation, the Ministry refuses to hear us out. If they truly wanted to do so, the Ministry of Forestry could use its authority to stop the clearing of the orangutans’ habitat and to allocate forests to release them back into the wild,” said Hardi Baktiantoro, Orangutan Campaigner.

At this very moment, there are at least 1,200 orangutans stuck in various Rehabilitation Centers-- without any clear future. Land surveys to release them have been conducted, but it is almost impossible to find safe land because almost every remaining forest has been sold to palm oil and timber companies. In the meantime, orangutans are victimized on a daily basis due to the non-stop deforestation. The genocide is taking place everyday—yet not a single person responsible for the destruction has been taken to court and held accountable. The Minister of Forestry is not doing a single thing to fulfill his responsibility and put an end to the crimes and cruelties being perpetrated in the forest.

The Ministry of Forestry’s complete lack of concern has not only threatened the continuity of the life of orangutans and millions of other Indonesian species, but also the life of many Dayak tribes in Kalimantan.

“I came to Jakarta to call on the President of the Republic of Indonesia and make him aware that our forest is almost gone due to the heavy destruction being carried out by PT Nabatindo Karya Utama and PT Windu Nabatindo Lestari. The forest gives us life. If it is destroyed then what will we eat? Should we work as laborers for the company who has taken the land we used to own?” asked Christopel Sahabu, a senior member of a Dayak tribe from Sampit, Central Kalimantan.

Christopel Sahabu and his family have been cultivating the forest in Tumbang Koling village, Kotawaringin Timur Regency, since 1972. At this very moment, palm oil and timber corporations have put up signboards showing a new path for excavators to flatten the forest. Orangutans and 11 other types of rare mammals that are protected by the Law-- including sunbears, gibbons, clouded leopards, slow lorises and tarsius-- will be massacred within days if the Ministry of Forestry does not take any measures immediately to stop it.

A similar situation is occurring along the Katingan River in Kasongan Regency, Central Kalimantan. The lives of at least 1,500 orangutans and the food and water of 5,000 inhabitants of Tumbang Tura, Tumbang Tanjung and Tumbang Lahang villages are being threatened by the expansion of 15 palm oil companies, including Makin Group and TSH Berhad from Malaysia. In the vicinity of Gunung Palung National Park in Central Kalimantan, the Centre for Orangutan Protection had to evacuate orangutans from the forest destroyed by the companies PT CUS and First Resources Ltd.

Orangutans are the only Great Apes in Asia, and they are fully protected under Indonesian Law. They receive an exceptional amount of attention from animal lovers around the world, yet the Ministry of Forestry’s complete lack of concern has pushed these peaceful, innocent orangutans to the brink of extinction. Where is the justice?

“If this is the best we can do to the closest kin of humans, then what will we offer to millions of other species?” asked Hardi Baktiantoro, in the street protest with the Dayak indigenous people in the Jakarta. Take note: The villagers are wearing traditional costumes and dancing the war dance.


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One Bite Brownies

Simple Raw Treat

Amazing little raw brownie balls that are fast to make.

1½ Cup Walnuts
½ Cup Navitas Naturals Cacao Powder
14 Medjool Dates (pits removed)
pinch Salt
¼  tsp Vanilla Bean Powder
3 Tbsp Navitas Naturals Cacao Nibs (for garnish)
3 Tbsp shredded Coconut (for garnish)
3 Tbsp finely chopped Walnuts (for garnish)

  1. Process walnuts until fine.
  2. Add cacao powder, dates, salt, and vanilla bean. Process until well combined.
  3. Form into balls and toss in garnish.
  4. Freeze for a minimum of ten minutes. Enjoy!

Yield: 2 dozen

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I'm sure somewhere on here is a list of Naval Bases around the world. Can anyone direct me as I still haven't quite figured out how to locate topics. TIA.

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I dont know about on here but you can just google it & get results.

These might help as well:

Navy Facilities within the U.S.

List of Homeports

Major Military Bases World-Wide

I thought I had a link with a map as well, but it must be the one that Concernedad pointed you to. (Thanks for that.)

I'm curious, are some Sailors stationed on Marine bases?

Yes, that can happen depending on the needs of the Navy and the Sailor's rating.

Hubby and I have seen mixed air crews, and sailors who were in crypto repair filling Marine billets.   Pretty unusual though.

I'm new to this site and I have viewed the links attached, but I don't see a map of the world anywhere. I would like to see where my son is when he's overseas. Is there any where that shows a map of the world and the small islands, etc. that have bases on them?

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GE is working with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University on a project to improve the design, manufacture and installation of wind turbine blades.

According to GE, the new manufacturing approach and blade design could reduce blade-production costs by up to 40%, making wind energy as economical as fossil fuels without government subsidies.

GE's research will focus on the use of architectural fabrics, which would be wrapped around a metal space frame, resembling a fishbone. Fabric would be tensioned around ribs that run the length of the blade and be specially designed to meet the demands of wind turbine blade operations. Conventional wind blades are constructed out of fiberglass, which is heavier and more labor- and time-intensive to manufacture.

In turn, advancements in blade technology will help spur the development of larger, lighter turbines that can capture more wind at lower wind speeds, GE says, noting that current technology does not easily allow for the construction of turbines that have rotor diameters exceeding 120 meters because of design, manufacturing, assembly and transportation constraints.

Wider, longer wind blades are tougher to move and maneuver, and molds that form the clamshell fiberglass structure cost millions of dollars to acquire. With this new approach to making wind blades, components could be built and assembled on-site, meaning design engineers no longer have to worry about manufacturing and transportation limitations, GE explains.

The $5.6 million ARPA-E project will span three years. GE says its blade architecture will be built to achieve a 20-year life with no regular maintenance to tension fabrics required.

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A very powerful relationship, mostly involving lesbian sex. Lizzie is the kind tender lover to the 2 whilst katie is a rampant sex addict who cannot get enough of the good stuff.

Also a term for when you are going to perform an act of Lesbian Lovin .

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      Ford issues major recall for minivans, SUVs

      Mercury Monterey

      Ford is recalling nearly a half million minivans and suvs because of mechanical issues.

      The Detroit automaker is recalling more than 205,000 Freestar and Mercury Monterey minivans from the 2004 and 2005 model years. Ford says there's a problem torque converter that could cause a sudden loss of power.

      The car maker is also recalling more than 244,000 Escape SUVs made during the 2001 and 2002 model years. There's an issue with the brake system.

      Ford says with both recalls, it will notify the affected owners and dealers will replace the parts for free.

      In the case of the Escape, Ford said it will begin notifying owners the week of Jan. 23, but because of a parts delay, Ford said it may not be able to fix some of the vehicles right away.

      In those cases, Ford said it will tell owners to park their SUVs outside until the parts become available and the vehicles can be fixed.

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Water Resources Committee

The Water Resources Committee’s duties shall be to develop and promote programs which address flood prevention, sedimentation, water quality, agricultural water management and other water resource-related concerns throughout the state; to conduct informational and educational activities that will encourage participation in water resource best management practices; to develop policy on water resource-related issues for consideration by the Association.

The chair person of the Water Resources Committee is Jimmy Gray (Iredell County)   grayhousefarmshunts@gmail.com


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algebraic group

Given a (typically algebraically closed) field kk, an algebraic kk-group is a group object in the category of kk-varieties.

Linear algebraic groups and abelian varieties

There are two important classes of algebraic groups whose intersection is trivial (the identity group): Linear algebraic groups and abelian varieties.

Any algebraic group contains a unique normal linear algebraic subgroup HH such that their quotient G/HG/H is an abelian variety.

Linear algebraic group

An algebraic kk-group is linear if it is a Zariski-closed subgroup of the general linear group GL(n,k)GL(n,k) for some nn.

An algebraic group is linear iff it is affine.

An algebraic group scheme is affine if the underlying scheme is affine.

The category of affine group schemes is the opposite of the category of commutative Hopf algebras.

Abelian variety

Another important class are commutative algebraic kk-groups whose underlying variety is projective, namely the abelian varieties; in dimension 11 these are precisely the elliptic curves. If kk is a perfect field and GG an algebraic kk-group, the theorem of Chevalley says that there is a unique linear subgroup HGH\subset G such that G/HG/H is an abelian variety.

Elliptic curve

An abelian variety of dimension 11 is called an elliptic curve.

Other prominent classes of algebraic groups

Some of the definitions of the following classes exist more generally for group schemes.

Unipotent algebraic groups

(See also more generally unipotent group scheme.)

An element xx of an affine algebraic group is called unipotent if its associated right translation operator r xr_x on the affine coordinate ring? A[G]A[G] of GG is locally unipotent as an element of the ring of linear endomorphism of A[G]A[G] where ‘’locally unipotent’‘ means that its restriction to any finite dimensional stable subspace of A[G]A[G] is unipotent as a ring object.

(Jordan-Chevalley decomposition?) Any commutative linear algebraic group over a perfect field is the product of a unipotent and a semisimple algebraic group.

The group objects in the category of algebraic schemes and formal schemes are called (algebraic) group schemes and formal groups, respectively.

Among group schemes are ‘the infinite-dimensional algebraic groups’ of Shafarevich.

Algebraic analogues of loop groups are in the category of ind-schemes. All linear algebraic kk-groups are affine.

The affine line 𝔸 1\mathbb{A}^1 comes canonically with the structure of a group under addition: the additive group 𝔾 a\mathbb{G}_a.

The affine line without its origin, 𝔸 1{0}\mathbb{A}^1 - \{0\} comes canonically with the structure of a group under multiplication: the multiplicative group 𝔾 m\mathbb{G}_m.

The standard references are

  • M. Demazure, P. Gabriel, Groupes algebriques, tome 1 (later volumes never appeared), Mason and Cie, Paris 1970

  • M. Artin, J. E. Bertin, M. Demazure, P. Gabriel, A. Grothendieck, M. Raynaud, J.-P. Serre, Schemas en groupes, i.e. SGA III-1, III-2, III-3

  • A. Borel, Linear algebraic groups, Springer (2nd edition much expanded)

  • W. Waterhouse, Introduction to affine group schemes, GTM 66, Springer 1979.

  • S. Lang, Abelian varieties, Springer 1983.

  • D. Mumford, Abelian varieties, 1970, 1985.

  • J. C. Jantzen, Representations of algebraic groups, Acad. Press 1987 (Pure and Appl. Math. vol 131); 2nd edition AMS Math. Surveys and Monog. 107 (2003; reprinted 2007)

  • T. Springer, Linear algebraic groups, Progress in Mathematics 9, Birkhäuser Boston (2nd ed. 1998, reprinted 2008)

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Deposits – another County Court decision

Tessa Shepperson at Landlord Law has a report from a landlord’s solicitor on another tenancy deposit case in the County Court, this time Bedford County Court.

In short, the Court found that payment of the deposit and provision of the required information by the landlord prior to the issue of a claim (and, County Court obiter, prior to hearing of the claim) meant that a claim for 3x the deposit failed. This claim was struck out under CPR 24. Note that this was after the landlord had failed to put the deposit into a scheme for over 13 months.

A practically interesting side point is that, because the tenancy had become a statutory periodic before the landlord protected the deposit, the private insurance deposit schemes (TDS and MyDeposits) wouldn’t take the deposit, so only the statutory scheme (DPS) was available. Odd. I have heard the contrary.

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Giles Peaker is a solicitor and partner in the Housing and Public Law team at Anthony Gold Solicitors in South London. You can find him on Linkedin and on Twitter. Known as NL round these parts, and still is Nearly Legal on Google +

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  2. Hi NearlyLegal
    Love the blog – literally an education reading it!

    Just curious though, whats the difference between – private insurance deposit schemes (TDS and MyDeposits) and the statutory scheme? Are both options independent and do they operate the same way? Any obvious pro’s and cons?

    best wishes

  3. @Martin Nolan: Frankly, dunno. The only significant difference that I can see is that the DPS requires the deposit to be handed over to the scheme, while the private insurance schemes mean that the agent or landlord can hold the deposit, with required mediation/dispute resolution added. As for the rest – not my turf, I’m afraid.

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The History of NETA

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The National Educational Telecommunications Association is an expert affiliation that serves open TV licensees and instructive substances in each of the 50 expresses, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. Since 1967, our explanation behind existing is to interface open TV individuals and thoughts, by giving quality programming, instructive assets, proficient improvement, administration backing, and national representation.

197309_200961856599122_1955864_nIn 1997, SECA was rearranged as the National Educational Telecommunications Association. The name, proposed by Deborah Onslow, the general chief of WGBY/ Springfield at the time, was chosen in light of the fact that it underscored the associations across the nation enrollment, the center significance of instructive administrations to its central goal and that of its individuals.

NETA comprised of the current SECA enrollment and sixteen extra licensees from the Pacific Mountain Network, which had stopped working as a participation association. Bill Reed, president and general director of KCPT/Kansas City, directed as board seat through the move. The name was embraced formally on July 28, 1997. NETA’s first executive meeting was held November 5, 1997, in Austin, Texas. In June 1998, the board received the accompanying statement of purpose for NETA

“The National Educational Telecommunications Association serves open TV channels and instructive associates by uniting their kin with thoughts and by conveying high quality instructive administrations receptive to the mission of NETA individuals.”

Enrollment kept on growing through fondness and fascination. In 1998, there were 85 NETA individuals. Current enrollment (FY 13) – 93 individuals speaking to 96 licensee in 43 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands. NETA is represented by its individuals. Every part takes a load off on the governing body, which makes for an expansive board, yet one that is solid through its differences, ProtectMyPublicMedia-198xdecently disseminated among licensee sorts, plan size, and working practice. The board’s official panel comprises of a seat, a bad habit seat, treasurer, secretary, and two everywhere individuals, and additionally the quick past seat.

NETA Member Services

Representation on the national level for part concerns and framework issues through participation at national gatherings, and executive gatherings of national associations, the Interconnection Committee, and different tasks; 1,200+ hours of unique general gathering of people substance yearly; Continuous proficient improvement and preparing through NETA’s expert chambers; Information on framework issues, innovation, and related zones; Discounted enlistment at NETA’s yearly meeting; Travel stipends to go to the board’s yearly arranging meeting

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NETABldg03NETA likewise gives its individuals and different associations with regulatory administrations, counseling administrations, extend and award organization. The NETA Business Center gives reserved alcove bookkeeping, HR, and award administration administrations to licensees and open television associations and others since 2001. We appraise that Business Center administrations brought about reserve funds to the framework in overabundance of $ 2,000,000 (FY 14). NETA Consulting offers administrations running from CEO enlistment to hierarchical counseling for open TV licensees and different associations. Affiliation Support NETA likewise gives regulatory backing to associations and consortia which draw their participation from a wide scope of open television trains over the United States, including the Affinity Group Coalition (AGC) and the Organization of State Broadcasting Executives (OSBE).

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ins and outs of internet availability

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ins and outs of internet availability

Having regular and speedy access to the Internet is a top priority for many individuals and businesses. For starters, the Internet is commonly the most acceptable way to communicate thanks to social media, email and website access. Without a stable Internet source, such as FiOS availability, you can waste countless hours waiting on pages that never load. Additionally you can spend a small fortune on new products that make false promises to provide more efficient Internet service. Finding a viable source of Internet availability is key to happiness and success for individuals and businesses.

Internet Accessibility

While dial up Internet is quickly becoming a thing of the past, there is still a discrepancy in the types of Internet available around the country. Some cities have the state of the art fiber optics, while others are still struggling with simply providing stable Wi-Fi to homes. In order to make the most of Internet service, you need to be able to upgrade when necessary so to keep up with the advances of technology. While many companies do systematic upgrades of this nature periodically, you have no control over how often this occurs. As a result it is important that you choose an Internet provider that offers the best Internet service, such as FiOS availability, at the moment. This ensures you are going to be with a provider that understands the importance of staying up to the minute with premium Internet service options.

Add-Ons Promising Service

The issue of spotty service and lagging Internet speed has created a marketplace for companies promising to reduce interference while increasing Internet efficiency. From software to hardware, there is a bevy of products on the market that state to improve Internet service. Unfortunately if you are stuck with a base level provider that refuses to upgrade to the most modern of services you will be able to do little to improve your service. Choose a company that offers state of the art FiOS availability in order to improve your Internet speed and service, rather than depending on sketchy add-ons that could potentially harm your computer or Internet modem. If your company does not currently offer the fastest Internet availability in your area do not be afraid to break ties with them. After all, change is the only way to make light of a situation, and you are the one fitting the bill for the service.

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