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ERC-721, ERC-1155 or ERC-3525: Which is the best NFT standard for web3 mobile developers?
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are a game-changer for iOS and Android app development. They can upend the economic model of mobile apps, unlock new ownership and investment opportunities for users and content creators, and create new revenue streams for app developers. In the current tech downturn, when it is critical for all mobile development teams to improve cash flow and extend runways, NFTs offer a powerful product-market fit and monetization potential. On top of that, Apple recently updated its App Store guideline to allow NFT features, opening the floodgate for a wave for web3-powered apps.
So, the NFT moment has arrived on iOS and Android. And it is up to you to make the best of it.
At the same time, the NFT space is rapidly changing, and there are not one, but multiple, NFT-related token standards that you should be aware of. Picking the right standard can easily be one of the most consequential early decisions you may take as a web3 mobile developer, because it directly affects the features you offer to customers, as well as the speed and ease of your iterations.
In this post, we break down the pros and cons of the three most important NFT-related token standards as of 2022: ERC-721, ERC-1155, and ERC-3525. Through this analysis, we aim to help you understand the rationale and technical basis behind each token standard and form a clear idea on which standard best fits your iOS and Android apps. We find that ERC-721 and ERC-1155 should be the top choices for web3 mobile developers, though ERC-3525 is worth keeping an eye on.
Token standards: A basis for crypto composability
The core framework to understand ERC-721, ERC-1155, and ERC-3525 is token standards. They are specifications that guide the design, implementation, behavior, and operation of crypto tokens on a given blockchain. To become "standards", these specifications and guidelines need to gain wide adoption from the developer and user community of a network.
Different blockchains can have their own sets of token standards. In most cases, however, mobile developers can think of token standards in the context of the Ethereum blockchain ecosystem. This is because Ethereum has the most mature development frameworks among all networks. Ethereum also plays a leading role in driving smart contract improvements. Developers tend to propose new token standards on Ethereum first, and these standards would later be propagated to other chains.
On Ethereum, token standards are called ERC (Ethereum Request for Comments). For example, the original NFT token standard, ERC-721, specifies a coding interface with required methods and events (e.g. transfer, balance query, and approval). All ERC standards start out as proposals (Ethereum Improvement Proposals) and go through a rigorous process of discussion, review, and adoption.
The core benefits of token standards are composability and interoperability. Standardizing the functionality of tokens allows developers to build applications on top of them, knowing that contracts can interact with each other on a common interface. For example, a decentralized exchange can build features that work with the ERC-20 standard and be assured that it can transfer and check balances for all cryptocurrency tokens on Ethereum.
Moreover, these standards help save engineering efforts. An iOS developer won't have to reinvent the wheel every time they want to create a new NFT collection, but can rely on the existing guidelines and best practices found in the NFT token standard. Given that token standards were carefully vetted, engineers can also be relatively confident in their security, speed, and scalability.
Finally, because token standards are interfaces only, they still allow for creativity and diversity in their exact implementations. iOS and Android developers can thus add features to any standards to fit their products, as long as the new features comply with the original requirements.
To sum up, token standards underscore the power of composability on the blockchain. They are powerful accelerators for technical progress, while adhere to the decentralization vision of crypto.
With this perspective, we can now evaluate the three major NFT standards: ERC-721, ERC-1155, and ERC-3525.
ERC-721: Wide adoption and battle-tested implementations, but high transaction costs
ERC-721 is the foundational NFT standard. First proposed by Dapper Labs (the company behind CryptoKitties) in 2018, ERC-721 defines the interface for NFTs as unique, non-interchangeable tokens. Each NFT cannot be replicated, and any observer can query its entire history of transactions and owners.
By 2021, NFTs have taken the world by storm, with a wide variety of applications across gaming, arts, identities, etc. Famous ERC-721 projects include some of the biggest successes in the NFT space, such as Axie Infinity, Bored Ape Yacht Club, and Crypto Punks.
For iOS and Android developers looking to integrate NFTs into their apps, the ERC-721 standard provides clear benefits in 1) wide adoption; 2) existing technological frameworks; and 3) clear adherence to the app stores' guidelines.
Wide adoption and support: As the most established standard for NFTs, ERC-721 enjoys incredible adoption from both users and developers. This means that iOS and Android developers building NFTs using the ERC-721 standard would face little to no difficulty integrating them to any NFT marketplace, NFT dapp, or blockchain ecosystem. ERC-721, therefore, has a huge network effect, which makes it very attractive to web3 mobile developers.
Existing technological frameworks: A consequence of ERC-721's popularity is the development support and developer communities surrounding it. With the possible exception of ERC-20 (fungible token standard), ERC-721 has better technological infrastructure than any other token standard. There are robust NFT marketplaces, such as OpenSea, which handle hundreds of thousands of transactions each month. Additionally, any mobile developer today can use the OpenSea API or the Dreamerly SDKs to build ERC-721 features directly in their apps.
Clear adherence to the app stores' guidelines: In late October 2022, Apple updated its App Store Review Guideline and allowed NFT features such as listing, minting, and in-app purchase. While we believe that this policy should apply to ERC-1155 as well, as of December 2022, the ERC-721 remains the safest bet to comply with the App Store's rules.
On the other hand, ERC-721 has two disadvantages: high gas fees and limited flexibility.
High gas fees: ERC-721 has two design choices that result in higher gas fees than ERC-1155 and ERC-3525. One, ERC-721 only supports storing metadata directly on the smart contract for each token ID, which leads to higher deployment costs. Two, ERC-721 lacks the batch transfer feature, increasing the average transaction cost.
Limited flexibility: ERC-721 is a very well-designed standard for unique tokens, but it lacks some of the flexibility of later standards. For example, the forced uniqueness of ERC-721 tokens may make it more difficult to use as in-game items, many of which tend to have copies (e.g. ten swords of the same type and attributes).
NFT: the building block for a new generation of mobile apps.
ERC-1155: Improved flexibility and efficiency, but weaker/younger infrastructure than ERC-721
ERC-1155, also known as the Multi-Token Standard, aims to manage multiple token types (e.g. fungible tokens, non-fungible tokens, and other types of tokens) within a single contract. Using ERC-1155, iOS and Android developers can benefit from its flexibility and efficiency and open up even more use cases and applications than ERC-721.
Before the ERC-1155 standard, token standards such as ERC-20 (fungible tokens) require that separate contracts be deployed for each token. For ERC-721, each collection of NFTs also needs a separate contract. In contrast, an ERC-1155 contract can control multiple ERC-20 and ERC-721 tokens at the same time.
Additionally, ERC-1155 adds optimization to ERC-721 with the following features:
Batch transfer, batch balance, and batch approval: The most important feature among these is the batch transfer, as ERC-1155 allows users to transfer multiple NFTs at once. Note that this feature drastically reduces NFT transaction fees, but is not present in ERC-721.
NFT support: When the supply is just one, an ERC-1155 token functions as an NFT.
Additional security with safe transfer rules.
We believe that the ERC-1155 offers powerful flexibility and efficiency for iOS and Android developers.
Flexibility: As we have seen, ERC-1155 is incredibly flexible in its support of multiple types of tokens, resulting in a wide range of possible use cases. For example, an iOS game developer can use the ERC-1155 standard to create a set of 10,000 swords with the same property, or build in-game currencies. Beyond gaming, ERC-1155 can also enable semi-fungible tokens, or SFTs. These are tokens that start as fungible tokens, but later convert to NFTs once redeemed. For example, a movie ticket can be an SFT, as it is exchangeable with another ticket before screening, but turns into a unique collectible afterwards. In our view, these only scratch the surface of the power of ERC-1155, and developers should expect to see even more ERC-1155 applications in the coming years.
Efficiency: A common developer's complaint about ERC-721 is the high transaction fees involved in each transaction. The batch transfer feature of ERC-1155 goes a long way in addressing this problem. Interestingly, ERC-1155 also provides a receiver hook feature, which prevents tokens from being stuck in a receiving smart contract.
However, developers building on ERC-1155 should be aware of the relatively weak infrastructure around the standard at the moment. While major marketplaces such as OpenSea and Rarible have accepted ERC-1155, many APIs and SDKs still lack built-in ERC-1155 support. The standard's flexibility may work against it here, as we expect that it would take some time for best practices to form around all ERC-1155 applications.
For these reasons, we recommend that mobile development teams use ERC-1155 for specialized or advanced features in their apps and factor in engineering and development overhead when doing so. For basic NFT functionalities, ERC-721 remains a safe choice to start with, especially in the development stage. After reaching product-market fit, teams can consider switching to ERC-1155 for cost-effectiveness.
ERC-3525: Innovative financial use cases, but too niche at the moment
The ERC-3525 standard is the youngest of the three, but it offers very innovative financial applications.
Proposed in 2020, ERC-3525 allows developers to create a group of similar, but not identical, tokens. All tokens in the group have the same values for their core attributes (represented in the "slot" property), but can have different values for non-core attributes. In addition, an ERC-3525 contains the "value" property, which is equivalent to the "balance" property of an ERC-20 token. This ensures that the value of two tokens with the same slot can be treated as fungible. If no token shares the same slot, then the token acts as an NFT. As ERC-3525's authors put it, the standard "has the quantitative features of ERC-20 and qualitative attributes of ERC-721".
The motivation behind ERC-3525 is to enable a wide range of capital assets, including bonds, insurance policies, vesting plans, futures and options agreements, asset-backed-securities, etc. Indeed, the use of both the "slot" and "balance" property allows for financial functionalities that are simply missing in ERC-20 and ERC-721. For example, if we represent a stock plan as an ERC-721 contract, it would be impossible to transfer a portion of the equity in the contract. This operation, however, would be trivial in ERC-3525.
What should iOS and Android mobile developers think about ERC-3525? In our view:
ERC-3525 is worth taking a look if you are developing banking or finance apps, but expect push backs from the App Store and Play Store. It is undeniable that ERC-3525 offers very valuable and creative applications in finance and investing. Still, we believe that this standard would appear too risky and speculative to Apple and Google. Unless you are a licensed financial institution, it seems unlikely to us that this standard would be allowed on the app stores in the near future. As of this writing, OpenSea has not added support for ERC-3525.
If you are developing non-finance apps, ERC-721 and ERC-1155 are good enough. While there are potential applications for ERC-3525 in gaming and other non-financial verticals, the standard is still too niche at the moment, with practically no infrastructure support yet. Even Yan Meng, one of ERC-3525's authors, suggested that ERC-1155 was simpler and had an easier adoption curve for web3 developers (source). In our estimation, the cost of overcoming technical hurdles likely outweighs the gains from adopting ERC-3525. But, this calculation can change in a few years, if more developers start to adopt the standard.
ERC-721 and ERC-1155 are the most relevant NFT standards for iOS and Android developers
As we have seen, ERC-721, ERC-1155, and ERC-3525 all offer compelling value propositions for mobile developers looking to integrate NFTs into their apps. However, given the practical reality of app store policies and NFT infrastructure, we believe that ERC-721 and ERC-1155 are more relevant than ERC-3525 at the moment.
If you are looking to add standard, well-understood NFT features to your iOS and Android apps, ERC-721 makes the most sense, especially in the development and testing phase. If you want improved flexibility, better optimization, and advanced use cases, you can consider the ERC-1155 standard.
Whether you choose ERC-721 or ERC-1155, Dreamerly offers a suite of easy-to-use, app store-compliant, and fully configurable NFT toolkits for iOS and Android. Our goal is to make it as seamless as possible for you to build the best web3 experiences for your mobile users. So let us know how we can help.


Voters continue to blame the current economic problems on the recession which began under the Bush administration. At the same time, the number who trust themselves more than President Obama to handle these issues has fallen to its lowest level in a little over a year.
Economic blame on the recession under the Bush administration has ranged from a low of 47% to a high of 62%, reached in late May 2009. At the same time, the number of voters who blame the current president has ranged from 27% to 48%.
Still, 57% of voters trust their own judgment more when it comes to economic issues affecting the nation than Obama's. But that's the lowest level measured since late November 2009. Twenty-six percent (26%) trust the president more than themselves, while 17% are undecided.
Meanwhile, separate polling finds that the number of voters who give President Obama good or excellent marks for his handling of economic issues has fallen to a new low.
The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on March 18-19, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.


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Slovakia is best known for its postcard-perfect castles and dramatic landscapes. But there's another kind of building in this central European nation that rivals its citadels, mansions, and manors in importance and abundance: libraries.
Based on data from the Online Computer Library Center Inc (OCLC) and the World Bank, the graphic below demonstrates which countries have the most, and the fewest, libraries per 100,000 residents. Slovakia, it turns out, is a paradise for book lovers.
But libraries aren't just about books. They play an integral role in the social fabric of their communities. They provide literacy training to the homeless, offer a valuable gathering space for civic groups, and grant access to educational resources.
So it's not surprising that a strong positive correlation exists between library rankings and development indexes, such as the United Nations Development Program's Education Index. Hurst-Wahl also notes that there are important stories hidden behind the rankings.
"Cultural institutions are under attack," she says. "What the statistics don't show are the countries where libraries are being destroyed — like in Iraq and Syria." Hurst-Wahl says she hopes questions raised by these rankings might increase awareness of the tragedies that often go uncovered in the media.
If you believe in the power of libraries to transform lives as much as we do, we strongly encourage you to share our graphic on your website and cite as "created by Syracuse University's School of Information Studies master of information management program". To request our dataset, please email editor@ischoolonline.syr.edu.
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Mayan is a promising project that will benefit from amenities including multiple swimming pools, children's play areas, gymnasiums, retail outlets and of course is ideally located to enjoy Yas Islands' world renowned facilities including Yas Waterworld, Yas Marina Circuit, Yas Marina, Yas Links and Ferrari World Abu Dhabi. Residents also benefit from its close proximity to the Yas Plaza Hotels offering Restaurants, Bars and Spa's - right on the doorstep of Mayan.


So over the next few blogs, let me unpick that for you. Let me show you how to Make Content Work For You. And let's start with the absolute basics.
the material dealt with in a speech, literary work, etc. as distinct from its form or style.
Differentiation: This is really important in markets which are over-crowded. Why should someone chooses you over all the rest? Answer: Because of the value you offer – and content is explaining that.
So, we have what and we have why. Now let me debunk the three biggest myths about content so you can start to think about how content can work for you.
Myth 1: My content has to appeal to everyone.
Your audience is unique to you, so tailor your content to that audience. Don't try to make it universal . By doing that you risk alienating the very audience you sought to cultivate. For example, if you're writing a computer guide aimed at IT experts but waste time on basics, you risk the expert audience getting bored and switching off even though they should be your primary concern. They want to the nitty-gritty technical stuff. And yes, your average home IT user will be baffled – but that doesn't matter.
What does matter is knowing who your audience is. And it won't just be your customers.
Prospect- The manager of a team which needs new shirts.
Your situation will have just as many potential audiences and many more. So think it through and identify them.
If content is anything that adds value to your audience you could be forgiven for thinking that's all about financial value. In this context, however, value is anything which your audience might find useful. Let's take the previous example of football shirt printing and think what value you can add to your audience.
Entertain- Feature videos of football being played, football memes, the latest scores, etc.
Give ideas for other users- Maybe some users don't play football, but the shirts look good off the pitch too.
It is always worth working out what are the different values you can bring for your own specific audiences. Knowing what they want will really pay off.
Going for a cup of coffee and a chat is content!!!
What you should be getting from this is that your skills are the basis of the content.
If you own a restaurant, your recipes and techniques are the content.
If you install kitchens, advice on adjusting doors is content.
If you're a Content Alchemist, advice on developing content is content.
Now that we've gone through these myths, I hope you feel more confident to go out and produce your own content. You might even have gained some new ideas for your next content project. If you have, post them below – I'd love to hear them.


SINGAPORE - To accelerate plans to make Singapore's aviation industry more efficient and innovative, another $120 million will be set aside to support various initiatives.
The funding is on top of $160 million that the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) had earlier pledged when it renewed the Aviation Development Fund for five years until March 31, 2020.
Announcing the top-up at an annual aviation gathering on Wednesday evening (July 4), Senior Minister of State for Transport Janil Puthucheary said this would further support investments in productivity-boosting initiatives.
At the event, CAAS director-general Kevin Shum said the aviation sector has done well, with a 5.7 per cent year-on-year jump in productivity in 2017 and more than 30 new innovation projects launched.
"But we need to move even faster to capture opportunities from growth," he said in his speech.
"Growth at Changi Airport has been robust in recent years. We are approaching capacity. At the same time, it is harder to hire more workers as our population continues to age," he added.
Among other initiatives being planned, the CAAS is looking to support firms with good ideas on how to automate labour-intensive processes in airport operations.
In particular, the hunt is for solutions for more effective tarmac operations, including how to increase flight handling capacity.
Another area of focus is drones, with the authority looking to support projects to enable the development of the fast-growing unmanned aircraft systems sector to benefit Singapore.
Four proposals have been selected to explore solutions in areas such as surveillance, inspection, package and maritime delivery, and the effective and safe use of airspace for unmanned aircraft systems.
The local aviation industry is also pushing for better training for aviation workers, as well as infrastructure projects to support future growth in the air travel sector.
The overall objective is to enhance Singapore's competitiveness as an air hub.
In December, a new passenger terminal will open at Seletar Airport to replace an existing pre-World War II facility. The $80 million terminal is six times larger than the current one and able to handle up to 700,000 passengers a year.
On training, the CAAS said that this year, 33 aviation professionals were awarded the SkillsFuture Study Award for Air Transport.
Since 2016, more than 80 professionals have benefited from the scheme.
As part of a national initiative, the aviation industry has also launched the Skills Framework to provide workers with key information on the sector and employment opportunities, as well as career pathways and emerging skills and competencies required.
The framework was developed by SkillsFuture Singapore, Workforce Singapore and the CAAS, together with employers, industry associations, unions, and educational and training institutions.
Aviation companies have also pledged to invest in training for their staff.
For example, ground handling firm Sats will be launching its Sats Academy, which will align its programmes with the Skills Framework for Air Transport, to allow employees to receive nationally recognised certification.
The Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) has also developed a new Bachelor of Science in Air Transport Management - the first Ministry of Education-recognised degree programme for air transport.
The three-year degree curriculum includes modules on airport operations and management, airline business fundamentals, airline marketing, revenue analysis and management.
There will also be an eight-month Integrated Work Study Programme to prepare undergraduates for the industry.
SIT plans to take in 50 students for the first intake, with classes set to begin in 2019.


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James Franklin Addresses Future With Penn State
Another Successful Season
Penn State closed out a perfect home schedule in 2019 with a 27-6 victory over division rival Rutgers. The team was able to overcome a slow start with backup QB Will Levis to earn a comfortable victory in Happy Valley. The victory also sealed yet another double digit win season for Head Coach James Franklin. The Nittany Lions are likely looking at a New Year's Six Bowl game to close out their season. Recent rumors have linked them with the Cotton Bowl or perhaps the Rose Bowl depending on how the Big 10 Championship game goes.
Franklin's Future
Immediately following the game against the Scarlet Knights, reporters turned their attention to the future of Coach James Franklin. As we have reported here at Saturday-tailgate.com rumors have been swirling about Franklin in relation to the open Florida State job. In response to questions from reporters Franklin was evasive about any contact with Florida State but forceful in his commitment to Penn State. You can see his entire presser below.
Of particular note is the fact that Franklin stated, "Like I told you, I love Penn State, I love our players, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. It's a little bit the nature of college football, but I love what we're doing here. I don't see that changing any time soon. Hopefully all this conversation will be over very shortly." These words sound to me like a coach who is angling for a fresh extension on the heels of another successful season guiding Penn State back to glory on the gridiron.
In his presser Franklin mentioned getting back out on the recruiting trail almost immediately. This has been one of the best aspects of Franklin's time in Happy Valley. He has successfully kept the cupboard stocked with players to continually feed the program. His inclusion of this in the conference also suggests to me a coach who wants to build on the foundation he has laid over the course of his time in State College.
I mentioned in my previous post that James Franklin is the 3rd highest paid coach in the Big 10, a situation he likely hopes to change on the heels of yet another successful campaign. As Penn State awaits its Bowl destination, AD Sandy Barbour has some recruiting to do of her own. It would truly be tragic if the program allows this fine coach to walk away from the team he has perched on the precipice.
Penn State returns virtually their entire squad next season including uber talented TE Pat Freiermuth. He announced after the Rutgers game he would return next season for his Junior campaign despite the opportunity to bolt the program early for the NFL. One thing is for certain, until Penn State gives Franklin the extension he deserves his name will continue to be connected with other jobs around the nation just as it was in 2017 with Texas A&M, 2018 with USC, and now with Florida State. Hopefully for all parties involved this situation plays out quickly.
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Christian hard rockers STRYPER entered SpiritHouse Recording Studios in Northampton, Massachusetts earlier in the month to begin recording their new album, "Fallen", for a late 2015 release via Frontiers.
Asked if there are still any religious references in the new STRYPER lyrics, Sweet told Canadian journalist Mitch Lafon: "Absolutely. Some of the words themselves are actually taken from the Bible, so that's still there. The lyrics are definitely on the bold and powerful side. They're not like the lyrics of old.
He continued: "There's a song about God creating the heavens and the earth. It's called 'Let There Be Light'. And it's about in the beginning, and it's taken right from Genesis. There's a song about the Devil; it's called 'Fallen'. It just talks about how when the Devil, when he was Lucifer, an archangel in heaven, when he walked, he was the angel of music, and when he walked, there was music. It tells the story in that song of, basically, about how he's fallen, and why, and how. It's a real powerful song.
MAIDEN UNITED, the acoustic IRON MAIDEN tribute project featuring Damian Wilson (THRESHOLD, HEADSPACE) and Ruud Jolie (WITHIN TEMPTATION), will release a new album, "Remembrance", on May 22 on CD, red 12-inch vinyl and as a digital download.
"Strange World" was released as a two-track single on CD and iTunes on January 30.
MAIDEN UNITED is an IRON MAIDEN tribute project which performs classic MAIDEN songs in new acoustic arrangements. "Remembrance" is the third full-length album released by this project. MAIDEN UNITED's debut album, "Mind The Acoustic Pieces" (2010), was an acoustic re-imagining of the entire classic IRON MAIDEN album "Piece Of Mind" with new arrangements. The second album, "Across The Seventh Sea" (2012), contained tracks from different MAIDEN albums.
MOTÖRHEAD recently returned to the studio to begin work on its 22nd studio album for a late 2015 release.
MOTÖRHEAD's song "Heartbreaker" was nominated in the "Best Metal Performance" category at this year's Grammy Awards.
MOTÖRHEAD frontman Lemmy Kilmister, 69, in 2013 suffered a haematoma (where blood collects outside of a blood vessel), causing the cancelation of a number of the band's European festival shows. He was also reportedly fitted with a defibrillator because of heart problems.
The reissue of MOTÖRHEAD's 21st studio album, "Aftershock", was made available on August 26, 2014 via UDR/Motörhead Music. The CD was helmed by longtime producer Cameron Webb (MEGADETH, DISTURBED). The expanded edition contains a bonus live CD — also recorded by Webb — consisting of live material comprised from the band's historic appearances in early 2014.
"Aftershock" sold 11,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 22 on The Billboard 200 chart.
IRON MAIDEN has yet to make an official announcement about a new studio album, but the band's members have reportedly been spotted in Paris, France in recent months, along with their longtime producer, Kevin Shirley, who is said to have helmed the new effort.
MAIDEN's 15th studio album, "The Final Frontier", sold 63,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to enter The Billboard 200 chart at position No. 4. The CD featured 10 tracks that had an average running time of seven minutes and 40 seconds, with the shortest song, "The Alchemist", clocking in at four minutes and 29 seconds, and the longest, "When The Wild Wind Blows", lasting ten minutes and 59 seconds.
IRON MAIDEN's previous album, 2006's "A Matter Of Life And Death", opened with 56,000 units to land at No. 9. This was a notable increase from the 40,000 first-week tally registered by its predecessor, 2003's "Dance of Death" (which debuted at No. 18 on The Billboard 200 chart), and that of "Brave New World", which moved 38,000 copies in June 2000 to land at No. 39 on The Billboard 200 chart.
"The Final Frontier" was IRON MAIDEN's fourth U.K. No. 1 album. The band previously topped the chart in 1982 with "The Number of the Beast", in 1988 with "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" and in 1992 with "Fear of the Dark".
Following consultation with artists, musicians unions, record companies and retailers, it was confirmed today that the release day for new music will be aligned internationally on a Friday.
Release days currently vary from one country to another, causing frustration for consumers when music fans in other parts of the world can access new releases before them. As well as helping music fans, the move will benefit artists who want to harness social media to promote their new music. It also creates the opportunity to re-ignite excitement and a sense of occasion around the release of new music.
The move to an aligned global release day will also reduce the risk of piracy by narrowing the gap between release days in different countries.
Retailers internationally are committed to working with the labels and artist communities to ensure the successful implementation of the move to Friday.
From summer 2015, new albums and singles will be released at 00:01 local time on Fridays. Music consumers everywhere will know to look for new releases on Fridays regardless of where they are.
Consumer research by TNS across seven markets shows Friday and Saturday as the most preferred days for new music release among consumers who expressed an opinion. More than two thirds of those with a preference (68%) chose Friday or Saturday.
The move to a global release day follows several months of discussions between group representing retailers, record companies, artists and musicians unions.
* Leading retailers and representative organisations, including Australian Music Retailers Association (AMRA), E.Leclerc, El Corte Inglés, Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) (UK), HMV, Italian Association of Specialist Consumer Electronics Retailers (AIRES), Media-Saturn, Music Business Association (Music Biz US), Mondadori Retail, the Orchard, Rdio, Spotify, Napster.
ACT OF DEFIANCE, the new band featuring former MEGADETH members Shawn Drover (drums) and Chris Broderick (guitar), alongside ex-SCAR THE MARTYR singer Henry Derek Bonner, and SHADOWS FALL's Matt Bachand (bass), has inked a deal with Metal Blade Records.
ACT OF DEFIANCE is currently recording its debut offering with world-renowned producer Chris "Zeuss" Harris (ROB ZOMBIE, HATEBREED, SHADOWS FALL) for a summer release.
Says Broderick: "I am so excited to finally be able to announce ACT OF DEFIANCE to the world.
He continues: "I am also very honored to announce that we have signed with Metal Blade Records. There is not a better label to be on than one where the employees (and owner) still understand and listen to METAL! They have shown a loyalty, backing and drive for their artists that few other labels have.
Adds Drover: "Having our new band, ACT OF DEFIANCE, sign with Metal Blade Records is a real thrill for me.
"I started my musical career with Brian Slagel and the Metal Blade family many years ago, so to come full circle at this point is a real musical homecoming of sorts. I couldn't be happier about that.
German power metallers HELLOWEEN will release their 15th studio album, "My God-Given Right", on May 29 via Nuclear Blast. The CD was recorded between October 2014 and February 2015 at the band's MiSueno Studio on the isle of Tenerife with producer Charlie Bauerfeind (GOTTHARD, HAMMERFALL).
The "My God-Given Right" artwork was once again created by graphic guru Martin Häusler (BON JOVI, QUEEN, GOTTHARD) and will also be available as a 3D lenticular print.
Says Häusler: "We tried to build a world of ideas, keeping the 'classic HELLOWEEN' elements, like the pumpkins on the one hand and a complete new look on the other, just like we did it the years before, working on a HELLOWEEN artwork.
"A first inspiration came from the album title, 'My God-Given Right', and some of the song titles, like 'Swing Of A Fallen World', 'Lost In America', 'Battle's Won', etc.
"During my research, I stumbled upon the blockbuster 'Day After Tomorrow' and the idea of just leaving the world to the 'pumpkins' was born.
HELLOWEEN's last album, "Straight Out Of Hell", sold around 4,100 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 97 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD entered the Media Control chart in Germany at position No. 4 — the highest chart position in the band's history. It also landed at No. 4 in Finland and No. 2 on the international album chart in Japan.
"Straight Out Of Hell" was released in January 2013. The cover artwork for the CD was once again created by Martin Häusler, who previously worked with the band on the "7 Sinners" and "Gambling With The Devil" CDs.


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Mount Carmel Board of Mayor and aldermen
Mount Carmel manager subjected to mayor's 'unorthodox' evaluation after officer demotion
Jeff Bobo • Sep 11, 2018 at 1:55 PM
MOUNT CARMEL — Town Administrator Mike Housewright will submit to a standardized performance evaluation similar to what state employees receive when the Mount Carmel BMA meets Sept. 27, as opposed to the "unorthodox" questioning he was subjected to by the mayor last Thursday night.
On Thursday, the BMA convened for a special meeting called by Mayor Chris Jones to conduct a performance review on Housewright and discuss town administrator responsibilities.
The only other time Housewright's performance was "evaluated" by the BMA was this past March after he demoted former Assistant Police Chief George Copas to patrolman.
Thursday's performance review meeting was called by the mayor after former Lt. Ken Lunsford Sr. was recently demoted to patrolman. The reason for that demotion wasn't released publicly.
Although Lunsford was demoted by Mount Carmel Police Department Chief Grady White, Housewright has the final say on all personnel matters within the city.
The heart of the issue
Following a series of "performance review" questions asked by Jones, he got to to the heart of his issue with Housewright, which was the fact that Jones hadn't been notified of the officer's demotion.
"I like to be kept informed about what's going on in town," Jones told Housewright. "Not necessarily to be a part of it, but when I get asked questions out here by citizens and I don't know the answers, it's hard to answer those questions."
Housewright told Jones that his response when asked by the public about personnel matters should be that he doesn't discuss personnel actions with the public.
Jones: "But changes in staff, you don't think it's pertinent that we know about it?"
Housewright: "I handle that on a case-by-case basis."
Thursday's 'performance review'
Jones' first question for Housewright was to list everything he has accomplished in the eight months he has served as town administrator.
Housewright's joked that his biggest accomplishment may be "still being employed."
In seriousness, however, Housewright said he didn't know what to expect from Thursday's "evaluation" and he wasn't prepared to list his accomplishments, although he said 90 percent of his job is managing the day-to-day operation of city services.
Jones also wanted to know how many grants Housewright had applied for (none); the status of the handheld camera speed enforcement program (inactive and cameras returned to vendor); and status of weekly reports Jones asked for. Housewright said he submits reports "about every two weeks or so."
Jones: "Have you got a plan of action that you want to see the direction of the town go in?"
Housewright: "It is not my responsibility to establish the plan of action. I am hired to put into the vision that you all set as a board."
Jones then asked what guidelines Housewright was following (city policy); and if he had met with any local business owners (some, but he didn't have a list).
Another evaluation method suggested
Eventually, Housewright interrupted the questioning to express his thoughts on Jones' evaluation method.
"The be completely honest, and with all due respect, I find a special called meeting with a quiz about what I've done to be an unorthodox method for a performance review," Housewright said. "I will be happy to prepare a list of accomplishments and a list of things I've been working on. I had no information with regards to any questions you may have, or anybody else."
Eventually Alderman Eugene Christian suggested that the town use a state employee performance review for Housewright that includes a written questionnaire, performance grading system and a place for board members to indicate areas where they would like Housewright to improve.
"You've got to have some sort of structure here, which we don't," Christian said.
The BMA approved Christian's motion that Housewright receive a copy of the state employee evaluation questionnaire so that he has time to prepare for a proper evaluation during the Sept. 27 regular monthly meeting.


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The whole thing was a surreal experience. I've been to great shows, had great seats, but _nothing_ can compare to what happened last night. It was unreal to be three feet from Frank and Billy's mic stand (Neil's was about 8 feet away). Neil and the band were totally into it. It's been discussed on this list before- "how can Neil play Powderfinger, Down by the River and Like a Hurricane every show-- c'mon, it gets boring sometime." No way-- when you're practically on the stage with the band it becomes a transcendental experience (I haven't seen anyone mention yet that the "stage" was little more than a platform about 6 inches high. There were no baricades or anything, just a piece of tape about a foot in front of it that they made people stay behind). Someone mentioned once before the image of "three guys huddled together in a circle the size of a hot-tub", totally locked into one another and just taking things to another level. Well, that's definitely what was going on last night.
Sure, it would have been cool to have heard some new material, but these sets were great. Most of these songs I've never seen the band do live. I guess the highlight for me had to be "Prisoners of Rock n Roll"-- I just had to laugh when they were singing "We don't wanna be good-- no no no!" and I'm thinking "this will probably be the most amazing concert experience of my life."
In the end, securing a ticket to this show (actually a wrist-band) consumed my entire week both mentally and physically and was obviously worth everything. I guess someone taped it and is treeing it, so that should be a good tape. Despite what ATN reported, I believe only 50 tickets were sold for each night (though the club fits 150, that figure may be for when the stage isn't taking up a quarter of the room). Certainly more than 50 people were there, and it helped to be a local when securing tickets.
See you there next week?


1. From the Queen's Hotel, take Huckers Lane which runs by the side of the hotel garden and drops down to Dortons. This becomes a bridleway, muddy in places, above the valley of the Oakhanger Stream through a beech hanger and then across fields. At Priory Farm, turn right up a metalled road to the top of the hill where it meets Honey Lane. From here there is a view over the Oakhanger valley, today noted for its satellite tracking stations.
2. Take the footpath down through fields towards Oakhanger for about a mile. At the five-way junction of footpaths (which you will also meet on the way back), turn sharp right emerging after about half a mile by the side of Springfields Nurseries. Cross the road here, taking the track almost opposite the Nursery entrance. After crossing the stream take the track to the left of a house, this passes through Blackmoor Golf Course, joining another track known as Eveley Lane before becoming a metalled road.
3. Follow this road (which soon has a pavement) straight to the roundabout on the main road (A325) at Whitehill - cross here with care.
4. You now have the choice of following the metalled road (Liphook Road) ahead, or cutting into the Military land of Woolmer Forest just to the right of it. Even when the red flags are flying, it is possible to walk outside the danger zone following close to the course of the old Longmoor Military Railway towards Hollywater.
5. On this route you pass close beside two distinct hills, or 'clumps', on your left - probably these would have been treeless and therefore more prominent landscape features in 1830.
6. After about a mile, join the line of the old railway and look for a barrier leading to a grass track on the left, alongside the garden of Stone Cottage, which becomes a vehicle access road, crosses the stream from Hollywater Pond, and re-joins Liphook Road opposite Passfield Common (which is National Trust land).
7. The Common is fenced to allow for stock grazing. Cross the road and go through a kissing gate. You will have to discover your own track across - be warned, it is extremely boggy in places. If you are not dressed for walking over very wet ground, you may prefer to take the next entrance into the common, through a gate further up the road beyond the house. Head for the north corner of the common to find another kissing gate in the perimeter fence about 50 yards from the corner. For those with GPS, start at SU 80962 33667 and end at SU 81538 34169. You emerge on the B3004 Liphook to Bordon road at a point where a small rivulet passes under the road, marking the boundary between Bramshott and Headley parishes.
8. Cross the road and turn left along the verge path, passing both the Methodist Church and Gospel Hall on your left before going downhill to Standford Village Green. Here the Robin Hood offers refreshment.
9. Leave the village green by the small road which leads to a ford across the River Wey. There is a footbridge. Keep straight on at its junction with Tulls Lane, following the metalled road uphill between hedges to a triangular junction at the top. Turn left here, along (another) Liphook Road.
10. This is the road by which the rioters entered Headley in 1830. The old workhouse (now Headley Grange) is about half a mile away on the right hand side - and if you wish, you may walk past it into Headley as the rioters did. However, if you have had enough of walking on roads, take the footpath to the left immediately after the first sharp bend (by an electricity sub-station) and follow it to emerge in the centre of Headley where the Holly Bush stands.
We don't know for certain which route the rioters took in their march from Selborne to Headley, and it could be that several groups went different ways. The most direct route from the centre of Selborne in those days would probably have been some near-variation of the one we have chosen. However, we are told that Robert Holdaway went to collect signatures from farms near Empshott and Greatham on the way, in which case his route would have been considerably longer.
The communities of Bordon and Whitehill did not exist then, but I was interested to know if the Farnham to Petersfield turnpike (now the A325) had been constructed at that time of the Riot in 1830. If so, it might have formed a convenient route for the marchers to move from Greatham to Whitehill instead of cutting across the uncharted tracks of Woolmer Forest on their way to Hollywater - but although the turnpike had received Royal Assent in 1826, it was apparently not completed until 1832.
When William Cobbett rode through Woolmer Forest in his Rural Ride of 24th November 1822, he said of it, "The road was not ... without its dangers, the forest being full of quags and quick-sands." He also said of it, "This is a tract of Crown-lands ... on some parts of which our Land Steward, Mr Huskisson, is making some plantations of trees, partly fir, and partly other trees. What he can plant the fir for, God only knows ..."
Close to Hollywater Clump is the spot where the old parishes of Selborne, Headley and Bramshott met, at the chimney of a house which has since been demolished.
The hamlet of Hollywater is still located where three parishes meet - and as such is claimed by no-one and forgotten by most. It has had a reputation in the past of being a place where the people described as "forest dwellers and travellers"' who joined the march might well have lived.
Standford was one of the main local centres of industry in 1830, with two paper mills and a corn mill operating on the River Wey. The Warren family, who ran the paper mills there from the 1820s until the early 20th century, were staunch Methodists, and the 'non-conformist' nature of the community is in evidence even now with its Methodist Church and Gospel Hall.
Although paper mills in Buckinghamshire were being attacked by mobs in the very week that 'our' riot occurred, those at Standford were not touched as far as we can tell. Perhaps there was no machinery installed in them at that time, or at least none that could be seen to be causing unemployment. For whatever reason, the mob appears to have passed through Standford, crossed the ford and headed up Tulls Lane towards the workhouse.
The Headley 'House of Industry' had been built in 1795 at an estimated cost of some 1,500 pounds for the parishes of Headley, Bramshott and Kingsley, to shelter their infirm, aged paupers, and orphan or illegitimate children. After the 1830 riot, the building was repaired, and in the 1841, 1851 and 1861 censuses it is shown still being used as a workhouse. It was sold in 1870 to a builder for 420 pounds, and he converted it into a private house, now known as Headley Grange. In November 1872, he resold the building to Mr Theophilus Sigismund Hahn for 490 pounds.
Today the house remains a private residence. On St George's Day 1994, descendants of four of the rioters, along with representatives from Selborne and Headley, assembled in the garden to plant a cutting from the old Selborne Yew in memory of the transportations.
The present Holly Bush in Headley High Street is not a building which would have been present in 1830. In fact we believe the old Holly Bush to have been situated across the road in the house now called Wakefords. William Cobbett mentions visiting here on his Rural Ride of 24th November 1822.
Mr Lickfold's shop is still to be seen, though no longer a shop - it is the building now called Crabtree House which faces north along the length of the High Street, with a good view of what was going on there at the time.
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package org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.timelineservice.storage;

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseTestingUtility;
import org.apache.hadoop.service.Service;
import org.apache.hadoop.test.GenericTestUtils;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.timelineservice.TimelineEntity;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.timelineservice.TimelineEntityType;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.conf.YarnConfiguration;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.timelineservice.reader.TimelineReaderContext;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.timelineservice.reader.TimelineReaderServer;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;

import static org.apache.hadoop.yarn.conf.YarnConfiguration.TIMELINE_SERVICE_READER_STORAGE_MONITOR_INTERVAL_MS;
import static org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.timelineservice.storage.HBaseStorageMonitor.DATA_TO_RETRIEVE;
import static org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.timelineservice.storage.HBaseStorageMonitor.MONITOR_FILTERS;

public class TestTimelineReaderHBaseDown {

  @Test(timeout=300000)
  public void testTimelineReaderHBaseUp() throws Exception {
    HBaseTestingUtility util = new HBaseTestingUtility();
    configure(util);
    try {
      util.startMiniCluster();
      DataGeneratorForTest.createSchema(util.getConfiguration());
      DataGeneratorForTest.loadApps(util, System.currentTimeMillis());

      TimelineReaderServer server = getTimelineReaderServer();
      server.init(util.getConfiguration());
      HBaseTimelineReaderImpl htr = getHBaseTimelineReaderImpl(server);
      server.start();
      checkQuery(htr);
    } finally {
      util.shutdownMiniCluster();
    }
  }

  @Test(timeout=300000)
  public void testTimelineReaderInitWhenHBaseIsDown() throws
      TimeoutException, InterruptedException {
    HBaseTestingUtility util = new HBaseTestingUtility();
    configure(util);
    TimelineReaderServer server = getTimelineReaderServer();

    // init timeline reader when hbase is not running
    server.init(util.getConfiguration());
    HBaseTimelineReaderImpl htr = getHBaseTimelineReaderImpl(server);
    server.start();
    waitForHBaseDown(htr);
  }

  @Test(timeout=300000)
  public void testTimelineReaderDetectsHBaseDown() throws Exception {
    HBaseTestingUtility util = new HBaseTestingUtility();
    configure(util);

    try {
      // start minicluster
      util.startMiniCluster();
      DataGeneratorForTest.createSchema(util.getConfiguration());
      DataGeneratorForTest.loadApps(util, System.currentTimeMillis());

      // init timeline reader
      TimelineReaderServer server = getTimelineReaderServer();
      server.init(util.getConfiguration());
      HBaseTimelineReaderImpl htr = getHBaseTimelineReaderImpl(server);

      // stop hbase after timeline reader init
      util.shutdownMiniHBaseCluster();

      // start server and check that it detects hbase is down
      server.start();
      waitForHBaseDown(htr);
    } finally {
      util.shutdownMiniCluster();
    }
  }

  @Test(timeout=300000)
  public void testTimelineReaderDetectsZooKeeperDown() throws Exception {
    HBaseTestingUtility util = new HBaseTestingUtility();
    configure(util);

    try {
      // start minicluster
      util.startMiniCluster();
      DataGeneratorForTest.createSchema(util.getConfiguration());
      DataGeneratorForTest.loadApps(util, System.currentTimeMillis());

      // init timeline reader
      TimelineReaderServer server = getTimelineReaderServer();
      server.init(util.getConfiguration());
      HBaseTimelineReaderImpl htr = getHBaseTimelineReaderImpl(server);

      // stop hbase and zookeeper after timeline reader init
      util.shutdownMiniCluster();

      // start server and check that it detects hbase is down
      server.start();
      waitForHBaseDown(htr);
    } finally {
      util.shutdownMiniCluster();
    }
  }

  @Test(timeout=300000)
  public void testTimelineReaderRecoversAfterHBaseReturns() throws Exception {
    HBaseTestingUtility util = new HBaseTestingUtility();
    configure(util);

    try {
      // start minicluster
      util.startMiniCluster();
      DataGeneratorForTest.createSchema(util.getConfiguration());
      DataGeneratorForTest.loadApps(util, System.currentTimeMillis());

      // init timeline reader
      TimelineReaderServer server = getTimelineReaderServer();
      server.init(util.getConfiguration());
      HBaseTimelineReaderImpl htr = getHBaseTimelineReaderImpl(server);

      // stop hbase after timeline reader init
      util.shutdownMiniHBaseCluster();

      // start server and check that it detects hbase is down
      server.start();
      waitForHBaseDown(htr);

      util.startMiniHBaseCluster(1, 1);
      GenericTestUtils.waitFor(() -> {
        try {
          htr.getTimelineStorageMonitor().checkStorageIsUp();
          return true;
        } catch (IOException e) {
          return false;
        }
      }, 1000, 150000);
    } finally {
      util.shutdownMiniCluster();
    }
  }

  private static void waitForHBaseDown(HBaseTimelineReaderImpl htr) throws
      TimeoutException, InterruptedException {
    try {
      GenericTestUtils.waitFor(() -> {
        try {
          htr.getTimelineStorageMonitor().checkStorageIsUp();
          return false;
        } catch (IOException e) {
          return true;
        }
      }, 1000, 150000);
      checkQuery(htr);
      Assert.fail("Query should fail when HBase is down");
    } catch (IOException e) {
      Assert.assertEquals("HBase is down", e.getMessage());
    }
  }

  private static Set<TimelineEntity> checkQuery(HBaseTimelineReaderImpl htr)
      throws IOException {
    TimelineReaderContext context =
        new TimelineReaderContext(YarnConfiguration.DEFAULT_RM_CLUSTER_ID,
            null, null, null, null, TimelineEntityType
            .YARN_FLOW_ACTIVITY.toString(), null, null);
    return htr.getEntities(context, MONITOR_FILTERS, DATA_TO_RETRIEVE);
  }

  private static void configure(HBaseTestingUtility util) {
    Configuration config = util.getConfiguration();
    config.setBoolean(YarnConfiguration.TIMELINE_SERVICE_ENABLED, true);
    config.setFloat(YarnConfiguration.TIMELINE_SERVICE_VERSION, 2.0f);
    config.set(YarnConfiguration.TIMELINE_SERVICE_READER_WEBAPP_ADDRESS,
        "localhost:0");
    config.set(YarnConfiguration.RM_CLUSTER_ID, "cluster1");
    config.set(YarnConfiguration.TIMELINE_SERVICE_READER_CLASS,
        "org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.timelineservice.storage."
            + "HBaseTimelineReaderImpl");
    config.setInt("hfile.format.version", 3);
    config.setLong(TIMELINE_SERVICE_READER_STORAGE_MONITOR_INTERVAL_MS, 5000);
  }

  private static TimelineReaderServer getTimelineReaderServer() {
    return new TimelineReaderServer() {
      @Override
      protected void addFilters(Configuration conf) {
        // The parent code uses hadoop-common jar from this version of
        // Hadoop, but the tests are using hadoop-common jar from
        // ${hbase-compatible-hadoop.version}.  This version uses Jetty 9
        // while ${hbase-compatible-hadoop.version} uses Jetty 6, and there
        // are many differences, including classnames and packages.
        // We do nothing here, so that we don't cause a NoSuchMethodError or
        // NoClassDefFoundError.
        // Once ${hbase-compatible-hadoop.version} is changed to Hadoop 3,
        // we should be able to remove this @Override.
      }
    };
  }

  private static HBaseTimelineReaderImpl getHBaseTimelineReaderImpl(
      TimelineReaderServer server) {
    for (Service s: server.getServices()) {
      if (s instanceof HBaseTimelineReaderImpl) {
        return (HBaseTimelineReaderImpl) s;
      }
    }
    throw new IllegalStateException("Couldn't find HBaseTimelineReaderImpl");
  }
}

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WALHALLA — After losing a tough, extra-inning game to Seneca on Tuesday night, the West-Oak High School softball team was determined to bounce back on Wednesday with a strong performance.
WALHALLA — The Walhalla High School baseball team took advantage of two mishaps by Woodmont late in Wednesday's matchup to earn a 3-1 home victory.
The frustration was evident for the Seneca High School softball team Tuesday night at West-Oak, and it was with good reason.
Adam Long singled home Cody Barnes in the top of the seventh inning to lift the Walhalla High School baseball team to a 5-4 win Tuesday night at Wren.
Needing a win to keep its hopes of staying in the race for the region title alive, the Walhalla High School boys' soccer team got exactly what it needed Monday night against Wren — in dramatic fashion, no less.
The Seneca High School boys' soccer team trailed Crescent 2-0 at halftime on Monday night, but the Bobcats' resilient second half earned them an important road win in the Western 3A region landscape.


Many Yeast manufactures recommencement you make a Yeast Starter instead of adding Dry yeast directly to your Wash.
So Why make a yeast starter? Can't I just dump the yeast directly into the wash ?
Making a Yeast starter will ensure the yeast is alive and will guarantee an accelerated fermentation which will stop wild bacteria from contaminating your wash and altering the flavor of your final product. Yeast Starters also allow yeast to multiply lowering the chance of stuck fermentation. If your looking for a great tasting bottle of Moonshine I'd suggest you make this simple Yeast Starter.
After 24 hr add it to your wash and seal the top up with an Airlock.
If you're making a mash from grain or corn you'll want to take a slightly different approach to making the starter. The video below demonstrates making a starter for a beer or whiskey it's a few more steps but same concept !
Should I always use starters?
Some Yeast manufacture recommend it and some do not. I find generally with the cheaper yeast you need to make a Yeast Starter.
Should I use a starter with dry yeast?
dry yeast or two of the 5 gm packs. The dry yeast tends to have enough yeast cells for the average batch of home brew.


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I can't believe it's already October. Next thing we'll know, the month will come and go and we'll be eating turkey, surrounded by relatives we spend most of the year avoiding.
Best way to avoid? Your nose in a book.
I know I promised I'd go right back to Le Cachot, but the world of Aurelia grabbed me in a choke hold and wouldn't let go. Ezek's story screamed in my head and I had to write it. Plus that whole dub-con, forced seduction thing is my favorite thing to write. I like exploring that gray area of consent, pushing someone to accept the desires they have hidden deep inside. I know the Amazon police don't like it, but I do. I got away from it when the giant was dragging books off left and right and I lost my way. I came back to it because I like it and apparently you guys do, too.
I'll be back with level four of The Dungeon soon enough. Hints about what's inside? Not sure I should tell you. Perhaps it should be a secret. You've seen a little hint of it at the Gates on level two, so it won't be a complete surprise. But it will be hot. Very hot.
I made a promise about some bear loving to come. I have not forgotten. I've got a story started, a short perhaps. We'll see as it gets fleshed out. More to come on that later.


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Jay has also provided in his announcement some technical notes on how his application works.


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The first Hill meetings each year help us to judge where FDA and its funding needs stand with Congress. My first impression: staff was very knowledgeable and interested in FDA and that Dr. Gottlieb was drawing high marks from both Republican and Democratic offices. We give thanks to Alliance members who participated and urge more of you to let us know your willingness to participate in Hill meetings.
First, we are very encouraged by the new initiatives in medical products, which represent cutting-edge opportunities to make the agency more efficient and more effective. Congress always asks for detailed plans for spending money, rather than general requests. The budget request for FDA will be fully responsive to this. While we are waiting for more information that will be in the budget-in-detail and looking for Alliance member input on aspects of the President's plan, we anticipate endorsing its direction and general parameters.
Second, we are concerned that an opportunity is being missed in the food safety area, which also needs investments that cannot be funded from its current budget. Among areas that deserve attention are extensive training needs for both regulated and regulators, additional support for State departments of agriculture that have a critical role under the law, and program adjustments to assure that domestic producers are not at a competitive disadvantage relative to imported foods.
Third, we emphasized the importance of a well-trained expert staff at FDA. More than 80% of the FDA's budget is devoted to people-costs (salaries, benefits, rent, IT, training, travel, etc.) It is possible that there may be proposals affecting federal employees generally that would be inappropriate and destructive for the FDA's need for expertise.
Fourth and finally, we need staff who lived through last year's FDA budget fight to understand that this year's issues are completely different. Last year was about whether new user fees (that had no chance of being adopted) should replace taxpayer dollars that are vital to the agency and reinforce that the primary beneficiary of FDA's work is the American public. This year's budget is about investments that should appropriately be funded by BA (taxpayer) funding. While the new budget request includes $190 million in increased user fee funding, almost the entirety is non-controversial renewals of existing programs and workload adjustment factors that allow for automatic increases in years 2 through 5 of the user fee agreements.
More meetings are coming. Please join us. … FDA is a truly worthy cause and our advocacy makes a difference.


Okay, I know, I'm probably doing something I said I wouldn't be doing. But I have to admit, this is already pretty cool.
When I [[Yoshirolla Kilomantra|put out my first post]] a couple of days ago, I shot to the top of a list of one for "Yoshirolla Kilomantra". Google indexed my site right away, and I appeared on the other SERPs pretty quickly. Cool, but in the grand scheme of things, really dull — what fun is a competition of one?
So now we've got others in the mix putting their own sites up. I still say I won't do a linking campaign (putting links to my entry from other sites) as I'm also a judge. But I'm still loving the fact that we're seeing all sorts of people put their stuff in.
Added bonus: Because this is a small contest (Critical Mass staffers only, please), we have the luxury of learning what Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask are doing when they index the sites. We're seeing some pretty mixed (and messed-up) results so far, and we've still got over 2.5 months until the end.
This is gonna be neat.
I'm having a lot of fun with this, and learning by the day.
What is really interesting is that Ask.com has no entries yet. Reading more on that, they rely very heavily on who/what is linking to a site when the index it.
To basically the ask.com winners will be the most successful link builders/baiters.
Don't read too deeply. We don't know a lot about how Ask's spiders actually work. They've never been the zippier of the search engines (Google's usually the fastest, with Yahoo coming in second). It could be a couple of weeks before we see good entry lists there.
Everything on all engines will be up and down for a little while, if not the entire duration of the content.
It is entertaining watching this from the outside. I am actually learning a little from watching peoples attempts at how they SEO sites.
One thing that I have begun to realize and I found this on my own experiments is that when you make up a word the engines have a tough time knowing what to do with all the other copy on the site. So there is no relation or benefit to the other words.
The last thing I have observed is quite funny to me, I will not mention it now in case people read this, I don't want to interfere, but Geoff, you were a culprit of this.
Now, why is it that some random bio-like page is now number one? Who claims ownership of that one? The curious want to know.
The reality is that as we all add our links and content like crazy, the indexes are going to fluctuate frequently. During that time, it's possible some pages will rank higher than others, even if they seem like they shouldn't. Just 'tis the way things go.
If you want real fun, check out the other SERPs — MSN, Ask, A9, etc.


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Marketing magazine has suggested that Nokia will not be waiting to see what happens with the new release of Smart Phones with the Windows 7 O/S and will be spending huge £80 million in making sure that a six month campaign gets to as many people as possible and that the phones are indeed a huge success.
With so much resting on Nokia and Microsoft we can fully understand the need to finally bring out the big gins and show the World that the two floundering giants finally mean business.
Nokia may struggle to break even this year with profits and market share down so this project really needs to start bringing in the rewards financially, could this therefore be a last throw of the dice for the Finnish mobile device maker of old?
The Nokia Windows partnership is crucial but is far from guaranteed to bring in the riches with an admission earlier this week by Steve Ballmer, that Windows Phone 7's success in its first year was going from "very small to very small" since its launch. Time will tell what the outcome will be for these seasoned tech giants now they have joined forces.


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Sex and Drugs in Amsterdam
Originally posted 04/08/2013
Amsterdam was pretty friggin interesting, the drug/sex culture was fascinating.
So in Amsterdam, weed is legal. Well, not really. It's decriminalised, but otherwise illegal. It's just that nobody cares. There are three golden rules in Amsterdam, if its:
** Good for business
** Doesn't hurt anybody
** And is discreet
Then it's allowed. The discreet part is why you will never see a 'marijuana shop' or 'joint cafe' in Amsterdam. Instead, you have 'cafes' which are like regular cafes, and 'coffee shops' which is code for 'Weed inside here'.
The menu at one of the coffee shops I went to:
On Warmdestraat, the main coffee shop street, there are LOTS of little fast food and snack places catering to people with the munchies. It's very very easy to spend a crapload of money on munchie food there.
The Red Light District
The RLD is pretty interesting too. I actually did a 2 hour tour of the RLD and our guide had heaps to say about it, apart from just showing us the 'elite streets' where the most gorgeous girls are (If you must know, you're looking for the narrowest lanes), the two streets of transexual hookers (Bloedstraat and Barndesteeg) and the little zone of gay and BDSM places (On the same street as all the coffee shops, down one end.)
This is the only real photo I could get of the RLD. As the guide put it, the girls are allergic to cameras and if they see you taking a photo of them, they WILL chase you down, (in heels), punch you in the face and throw your camera in the canal.
The way the RLD works, is that the girls are all freelancers (they even register with the gov. and pay tax), they pay somewhere around 150 Euro to hire a window for 8 hours, and then basically stand in the window doing their thing and trying to entice customers. No nudity allowed, at least not unless you pay for it. The going price is around 50 Euro for 15 minutes. It doesn't sound like long but apparently the average time spent inside by clients is 6 minutes (including undressing, showering your bits, and re-dressing afterwards). I thought that was pretty insane but hey, I guess the girls are good at their jobs.
There is a condomerie in the red light district too. They have something like 64 different sizes. I don't think it's like bra fitting though, they don't let you try on different ones... for some strange reason... But if you go in with your measurements they'll find you 'the perfect fit'. Judging by the shop window that can be anywhere from very pessimistic to stupidly optimistic.
The most vibrating shop! Their most popular vibrator is one called the 'ohmypod'. You plug it into your ipod and it vibrates in time to the music.
I did wander into a sex shop for a look. Yep, thats a wall of dildos on the left. Bottom left picture... it's pretty much exactly what it looks like. And on the right, again pretty much what it looks like.
One thing you'll notice about the RLD is that it is situated next to a huge church. That isn't coincidence, as the story goes, Amsterdam used to be a catholic city and in those days when the sailors came and went to the prostitutes, they would feel guilty afterwards. With the church so convenient they could duck in, pay a 'donation', say their hail mary's and be absolved of their sins. Pretty interesting business relationship.
If you've seen eurotrip you might be wondering if there is really a club vandersexx. There isn't, but there IS a gay club called 'club fuxx'. According to the tour guide, if you're over 21cm you get in free. Those bouncers sure have an interesting job.
Finally, there are a range of 'sex shows' in the RLD. The 'best' is at a place called casa rosso. It's 40 Euro to get in and there are ten different acts that repeat each hour or so. It's surprisingly classy and a bit like a theatre. Except with more vaginas and ping pong balls. On the low end, there is the 2 Euro 'sex palace' which is just a peep show. You get a little room to yourself, put 2 Euro in the machine, and a panel slides open to see the stage where there are two people having sex. Our guide said that he doesn't recommend it - the people on display in the sex palace are those that were rejected from all the classier establishments.
Nathan Wilson
I manage a team of software engineers by day and spend the rest of the time reading, learning, and writing this blog. All views expressed are my own and in no way reflect those of my employer.
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Originally posted 07/08/2013 Headed to Munich after Amsterdam, stayed at Sam's place and did a bit of sightseeing. First full day in Munich we went for a wander around Olympiapark, which
Originally posted 01/08/13 Finished up contiki and headed to Amsterdam the next day. My grandfather is Dutch, but it never really factored into my childhood. I'm seeing it more now that
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We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Manager 5.2.2 (including Cloudera Navigator 2.1.2) and Cloudera Manager 5.3.1 (including Cloudera Navigator 2.2.1).
impalad memory limit units error in EnableLlamaRMCommand has been fixed.
Fixed MapReduce Usage by User Reports when using an Oracle database backend.
HiveServer2 keystore and LDAP group mapping passwords are no longer exposed in client configuration.
Running MapReduce v2 jobs are visible using the Application Master view.
Deleting services no longer results in foreign key constraint exceptions.
Search results in Navigator now have links to Hue.
Browser autocomplete is no longer enabled before authentication.
Navigator Web UI no longer exposes paths to directory listing/forceful browsing.
Navigator Audit Server no longer throws out of memory (OOM) error for very long Impala queries.
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Cloudera Manager allows upgrades to unknown CDH maintenance releases.
impalad memory limit units error in EnableLlamaRMCommand.
Running MapReduce v2 jobs are now visible using the Application Master view.
HiveServer2 keystore and LDAP group mapping passwords are no longer exposed in client configuration files.
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Navigator Audit Server no longer throws OOM for very long Impala queries.
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The majority of all hard drives sold worldwide are produced by just six manufacturers: Fujitsu/Toshiba, Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate, and Western Digital. In order to determine which of these vendors sell the most durable products, Storelab evaluates the hard drives they receive for recovery, as well as the economical losses failures cause customers. In this particular study, more than 4000 2.5" and 3.5" hard drives are included. Storelab also compares the number of defective drives received by different manufacturers with their respective market shares. One has to keep in mind that failure rates will appear higher for popular manufacturers. A substantial difference between market share and the proportion of failed drives can indicate higher or lower product durability.
At this point, we also need to make very clear that the study is not representative and cannot be seen as a comprehensive reliability summary. It reflects only a very tiny fraction of the hard drive market. Drives are taken from analysis made during the recovery process, and there aren't specific test groups. It covers different form factors and different product lines, etc. Think of this analysis as an overview on reliability that might apply to the hard drives in your home city. Results very likely differ somewhere else.
Based on the graphs, we see that failures and market shares only partially correlate. The largest percentage difference can be seen with the market leader, Seagate, where its failure rate of over 56% is almost twice as high as its 31% market share. Even though Seagate reports a 40% market share within the Russian market, from which Storelab pulls its data set, the difference is still very noticeable. The other five manufacturers show proportional failure rates below their market shares. In particular, Hitachi and Western Digital are almost 11% lower, at least suggesting higher durability and reliability. Again, this only applies to this limited sets of drives in this specific environment.
The second key durability indicator is the average age of hard drives at their time of failure. Again, we see large differences between the various manufacturers, as well as between specific models. A hard drive's future durability is difficult to predict during development. Engineers cannot do much more than perform laboratory tests and simulate the effects of temperature, pressure, vibration, etc. These setups are never capable of identifying all possible design flaws, especially since the tests cannot be run for the full time periods the drives are designed to operate. Instead, a failure-free test period of around one and a half years is considered a good enough yardstick for the durability of the hard drive's design and construction.
As you can see from the Storelab-provided table (complete with Russian titles), Hitachi wins in terms of long-term reliability for 500 GB models. These drives operated for an average of five years, at least half a year longer than those of Western Digital. The values for Seagate's 7200.10- and 7200.11-series were separated to give a more fair representation. Keep in mind that a new product line can potentially turn the results upside down. We're looking at a snapshot of the hard drive market last year.
Why post this study if, at every opportunity, you tell us that the data is so limited we aren't to use it as guidance on the quality of the listed drives?
@cmcghee358: because if they didn't put it at least once per page, polemics could be started by any website linking to one page without it said "THG says Seagate drives are crap!".
Which is true, but only according to a limited, but still relevant (and one of the few available) study.
- old age (10 years) creating faulty sectors.
Never once, in the two dozen Hitachi (and IBM) drives I had to manage, was a failure related to hardware fault - even dropping a (not running) 2001 drive from one meter height on solid concrete failed to damage it.
I tried Maxtor, Toshiba, and WD drives, and most of these eventually developed unrecoverable hardware faults leading to massive data losses; Hitachi drives caused, at worst, a few files to be lost due to irrecoverable sectors (many times, I got SMART warnings before the data became impossible to rebuild).
I got some Samsung drives recently; they're cheap, and they added shock resistance capabilities in the 2.5" versions, I'll see if they do better than the Hitachi ones (I do backups on Hitachi drives still). If this report is any indication, Samsung notebook drives in RAID 1 array for a desktop machine should allow for reliable operation - the one I have carried around for 2 years in my fanny pack seems sturdy enough, too.
Oddly enough I had to get rid of some old relics (I.B.M. XT's) from the mid 1980's last year.All 5 of them had hard drives which still worked and the machines were still fully functional.Sad I would have liked to have kept them but there was too much clutter in my house.
I'm not sure if my comment is valid, but because Seagate has a lot of market share, its drives are considered "reliable" by many. If I paid a premium for the drive, it's because I have (had?) valuable data on it, and am willing to pay for data recovery.
Could this be part of the reason why Seagate has more than its fair share of drives sent in?
I have replaced all my Seagate drives with WDs during the last year. My personal study for the last 20 years show that throughout this period only the WD drives show long enough lifespan and reliability. Recently (last 2-3 years) Seagate took quality out of the equation. Currently they are only interested in market share and not the fair name their own brand.
Again, this is personal study - for example I have used only one Hitachi drive during this period, so I can't make statistics on the base of one.
Well I live in the Philippines and im not happy to say that almost 2 years ago I bought a WD Passport and it died on me after 3 months. WD or the retailor replaced it for me via the local distributor. However I lost all of my data that was backed up because prior to that my significantly older Seagate serial IDE 80gb with THAT very same data died on me!
Yeah WD gave me a slightly upgraded HD with 40 more GB but all that info and files that were lost was irreplacable. The problem, was a faulty pin, or the reader that looks like a raptors nail! The device would just click and click and my HDD wouldnt read.
I'm not sure why but I don't like Seagate too Most of my hard drives are Hitachi and I've got 2 failures - one after a power surge and another which was some bad sectors, but the drive was 60GB and it was around 3 years old. I have one Seagate drive and it works fine, I've been using it for around 3 years now on a storage server.
I know a lot of people who had problems with that particular "CC Fly", maybe that is why I don't like Seagate. Nowadays I'm turning to WD, I really want to see how are they doing.
I remember reading about some problems with the Seagate 7200.11 series, along with a lot of bad ratings on Newegg.
The Seagate 7200.11 series was horrible. I avoid them no matter how cheap they are on sale. 7200.12 are way more dependable.
I would argue that 7200.12 is too new to decern if it's reliable yet.
try "seagate 7200.12 CC34 firmware reallocated sector count on" on google. I have two 500GB drives from Seagate that have the same problem. The one I have with my desktop at home I sold after a few hundred bad sector, the one I have at work I am still using and it has 4574 bad sectors, still going but very slow sometimes. It triggered Seatools of course, but I'm too busy to bring the damn thing to warranty without having another spare, so backing up everyday is now what I do.
IMO 7200.12 with CC34 firmware is not that great either. FYII have another Seagate 7200.12 CC35 firmware and it has been ok, so it might be another firmware fiasco that Seagate doesn't want to acknowledge after the last generation "Seagate" case.
Yeah it might be fixed with later firmware, still I think the attitude that they took by quietly ignore it is wrong, even though there're quite a number of hits on gg to suggest that there is something wrong with this firmware revision. As I said, it might just be another "Seagate" scandal that Seagate decided to keep under the rug to save face.
Reguardless of the HD manufacutrer, I think all hard drives suffer from one common problem that can either shorten their life dramatically or give you a HD that lasts well over 3 years. And that is the packaging and shipping to your home. The "dropping" of the package at your door. The "tossing" around of the box in the truck. My personal belief is that most hard drives already have a lot of wear and tear before you even install them in your computer. Just my 2 cents.
@b2man: that's why, ever since HDDs became movable goods (i.e.smaller than a suitcase), they had the capability to have their heads parked. The second 'revolution' is liquid/fluid bearing for the axes... Which reduces/prevents damage from relative motion caused by a shock on the casing.
I was rather astonished to see the ratings on recent drives: when parked, up to 1000G!
FBI should raid Google and make their hard drive analysis public. It's embarrassing how they post their most common hard drive failures but hide the brands involved. Ad revenue really does help to keep their mouth shut.
I turned to WD a few year ago, from Seagate and I'm still happy with them.
One thing for sure: backup, backup and backup!
this is totally opposite of my experience with HDD. i have had 4 Hitachi drives and they all failed. i will never buy a Hitachi drive again. the price point on their new 7200 rpm 2TB drives is great but i got reamed by them too many times.
i did have a WD blue 640GB drive fail and got an advanced replacement. that is a great feature and i have bought several WD drives since then.
I bought a WD Passport and it died on me after 3 months.
Well The WD hards drives are ok, but the problem has been these external storage devices. They seems to run too hot in some environments. It correlates the problem said in this article with temperature and drive heads. If you can keep you WD cool enough they are realible drives!
obrutI have replaced all my Seagate drives with WDs during the last year. My personal study for the last 20 years show that throughout this period only the WD drives show long enough lifespan and reliability. Recently (last 2-3 years) Seagate took quality out of the equation. Currently they are only interested in market share and not the fair name their own brand.Again, this is personal study - for example I have used only one Hitachi drive during this period, so I can't make statistics on the base of one.
Same here. After RMA'ing a 7 month old Seagate 7200.11 I was done with them. The drive was used very lightly but just crapped out. I decided to try WD black 1tb drives and I love them(for now).
But the most important thing you readers should get from this is that ANY hard drive will fail. Its not if it will but when it will. With hard drives being so cheap, its honestly your fault that you would lose data. I dont run raid but I have all my important data across 3 of my 1tb wd drives and hava a 4 one sitting in an esata dock to back up all of them.
Backup and then make a backup of your backup and then you will NEVER lose data agian.
I have had 4 drives from WD, 2 of them external and 2 of them internal. They were all from different production batches. Their storage capacity is in the 500GB - 1TB range. 3 of them failed beyond recovery within a year. I even tried freezing them but that didn't help me retrieve the lost data. So I quickly bought a Samsung Spinpoint and cloned the partitions from the only surviving drive and chucked it as well.
As far I'm concerned WD drives are as reliable as Pogo Stick on quick sand.
I have now built a raidz2 file server based on OpenSolaris consisting of 8 Samsung EcoGreen drives. I don't know how reliable they are but they can't be worse than Seagate or WD. At least thanks to ZFS I can afford to lose two drives without losing any vital data, giving me plenty of time to replace them and rebuild the storage pool. If I want to I can also have a few hot spares that kick in automatically as soon as a drive fails.
I think hitachi is doing so well here because they're not selling directly to end users.
They deliver primarily to oems, and as a result their drives are found in raid boxes and other places, where you have raid and thus won't need to send in drives for recovery.
I have to say though, that of the 76 Hitachi drives we've had in use here from 2004 to 2009, only two had failed. In contrast, I've had 5 seagate 1tb drives fail between january and may 2009. Which is a lot, considering I only have 4 of those in use at any given time.