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Separatism of Majority against Kashmir : Anil Chamadia

Guest Post by Anil Chamadia

I am an Indian, but a separatist too. I am hostile against Kashmiri people because I only love my fellow countrymen.

The feeling of separatism among the people of a bordering state is easily identified. But there are two types of separatism. In a state or region like Kashmir and North – Eastern states, separatism is identified in such a way that there is a group or more than one group of people who want to secede from Indian nation and they carry out “actions” to fulfill this desire. They try to galvanize public support through their “actions” and harm government machinery as well. But have we ever identified the separatism that is professed by the majority section of the society?

I belong to a Hindu family of north India. Right from the beginning, a separatist feeling against Kashmir has been cultivated within me. A survey can be conducted in entire north India to know how a relationship with Kashmir has been nurtured among the people of this region during their childhood. If I ask 100 children, they all know Kashmir only through the materials available in media. I want to repeat the story how I was introduced to Kashmir. I was born in the early years of 1960s.  While going to school or returning back, I was told that Kashmir has a separate flag which is different from Indian tricolour. Like prime minister of India, it also has a prime minister. There is a separate section in Indian Constitution for it and Muslims are in majority there. Since Pakistan follows Islam, therefore loyalty of Kashmir people is also doubtful.

Interestingly, there is hardly any book on Kashmir which narrates the true story of accession of Kashmir into India. Particularly in Hindi, there is no such book yet. I saw a Facebook post, which was liked and shared by hundreds of people. The post contained the names of books which could prove helpful in understanding Kashmir. Dozens of them were in English, but there was none in Hindi.  A book that can develop affinity for Kashmir is not found, but a book is available to associate you with cow. Since school days, we have been taught to relate everything with cow like “G se Gai” (G for cow); “Gai hamari mata hai” (cow is our mother) and so on. There have been films on Kashmir. But they didn’t really associate with the fields and lives of Kashmir. Instead, they used to associate with ice – balls which were hurled by the hero of a Hindi film on his heroine.  They also used to associate with the mountains laden with ice, which was eye – catching for the people belonging to the plains. In rhetoric, Kashmir was the crown which was a symbolic reminder of a Hindu king. And yes, the national catchphrase – “from Kanyakumari to Kashmir” – was made for our ears. Like books, there was so such film that could integrate with the people of Kashmir.  For a child like me, Kashmir always remained in the mind as a beautiful piece of land and a threat to our nation. It was viewed as a threat at that time because Pakistan has an eye on it. In other words, a sense of insecurity was developed towards Kashmir. While the sense of insecurity generates separatism among minorities, it produces aggression among the majority section of the society.

If any cultural organization that has utilized Kashmir issue to the optimum level as a shield for its politics, it is none other than the Rashtriya Svayamsevak Sangh (RSS).  During its cultural activities, the Sangh narrates how atrocities are inflicted upon Hindus in Kashmir.  There are many handbills that recount such stories. Photographs, without any forensic test, can also be found. An art of generating separatism among the people of north India towards Kashmir has been an integral part of Sangh’s cultural activities.  The turning of cultural activities towards Right is the factor that separates people from each other. However, for the majority section, it triggers integration with the motherland. Motherland means the assets of the mother. Sangh’s story of atrocities on Hindus completes with the attacks by Muslims. Its literature is devoid of Kashmiriyat, a sentiment that motivated Kashmiri people irrespective of their religion to fight against the invasion of Pakistani tribals and laid their lives. The list of martyrs against Pakistani tribals includes those names only who participated in the war due to their faith in Kashmiriyat, not because of their belief in Islam.

When I see the materials on activities related to Kashmir in media, it reminds me of those days when Panchajanya was the only nationalist mouthpiece of RSS in Hindi which used to come to those who were the regular visitors of Shakhas in our city.  This mouthpiece used to paint a negative image of Kashmir and depict it as a Pakistani base and a place where atrocities are inflicted on Hindus. Today I find various editions of Panchajanya, which have developed technically and emerged as TV news channels. Interestingly with growing numbers of nationalists in media, separatism against Kashmir and Kashmiri people is multiplying within me. More they become loud, more I secede from Kashmir. Really, I have become extremely secessionist. I am hostile against Kashmiri people. But I am known as a nationalist. My sensitivity is humane, but it is divided on Kashmir.  I am sensitive towards Kashmir, but am equally insensitive for Kashmiri people.

The separatism towards Kashmir within me is the nationalism of my beloved India. I have grown up with separatist tendencies. But this separatism is not called by name because it belongs to the majority section of the society. In a parliamentary democracy, majority is crucial. A separatism catered by minorities is dangerous for the parliamentary politics. My separatism wins elections. It works magic in north Indian politics.

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Payments: $23,905/mo (terms) Bedrooms: 3 Baths: 3 Living: 2,001 sq. ft. ($2,491/sf) Land: 0.16 ac. ($731/sf) Year Built: 2016 Days in MLS: 73 Page Views: 49 Save Favorite Request More Info
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EW POIPU OCEAN FRONT RESIDENCE This like-new Poipu Beach, Kauai oceanfront home for sale provides it all. Less than 2 years old the plantation design residence is the most recently constructed oceanfront home in Poipu currently on the market for sale. Showcasing 3 oceanfront bedroom suites as well as oceanfront living and party rooms, the artfully designed residence promotes a contemporary beachy theme while staying true to Kauai’s unique architectural style. Located near Kukuiula and the world renowned National Tropical Botanical Garden toward the western end of Lawai Beach Road, the home is well above sea level and outside of the flood zone. Cost savings and sustainable living were also included in the landscape plan and electric plan via the installation of a photovoltaic system. The main level is comprised of the ocean focused great room with sliding pocket doors, powder room, seaward facing master and master bath with indoor and outdoor showers. The second floor places 2 stunning bedrooms on the ocean front side with 2 baths in the mountain orientation. The large second floor party room is nothing short of breathtaking. Custom doors that open wide to the ocean, high ceilings, a wet bar with refrigerator and freezer drawers join an elegant beach themed décor and a Sonos media/sound package to create the optimal seaside gathering place. Noteworthy features include: - 2,001 square foot interior - 1 car garage - Professional architecture and interior design - High-end appliances - Air conditioning - Custom wood flooring - Walker Zenger tile - Gated entry - Energy saving photovoltaic system with grid backup - Security alarm system - Sound & media throughout - Custom in-ground spa

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New Pastor of Spiritual Formation Announced

August 13, 2018- Christian Life School is excited to introduce Lacey Wallis as the new Pastor of Spiritual Formation. She will be working with Elementary, Middle, and High School students.

Lacey and her husband have three boys and come to us from San Diego, CA. “I’m really excited to get to know the people here and make Wisconsin our home. God has us planted here for a reason and we are looking forward to seeing what He’s going to do in our lives and the lives of the students at Christian Life.”

For the past 2 ½ years, Lacey was a Pastoral Resident at Existence Church in California. While there, she served in many different ministries. She was involved in sermon series planning, staff development, and teaching and preaching. She also lead several ministry teams, including small groups, discipleship, prayer teams; coordinated short-term mission leadership teams, as well as served on the women’s ministry team. Prior to her time at Existence Church, she served as the Children’s and Youth Pastor at Harvest Christian Assembly for four years.

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Let me go out on a limb here by stating this generalization: Many buyers seek advice from professionals and yet, tend to negate that advice and do what they were planning in the first place. This is what ‘regret in real estate’ is often contributed to.

As the saying goes: Hindsight is 20/20 – When you can evaluate past choices more clearly. Though, like many who fall into a regretful pattern around their purchase, by ignoring proper guidance can cost over the years to come.

We wish for you to avoid any regret or frustration when purchasing a second home or vacation property because this is about building great memories from a positive foundation, not from disappointment.

On this Buyer Resources page, we will look into some of the more pressing questions you may face as a buyer. If you are willing to seek guidance from legitimate full-time professionals who conduct lifestyle real estate day in/day out the odds are in your favor for a very successful experience to build from.

1)  Why Are You Buying a Second Property?

There are several reasons why you would like to purchase a second home or vacation property.  Ultimately it comes down to two distinct purposes.

1. There is an emotional want or need to own a property in a lifestyle driven location, thereby creating healthy and happy memories for all to enjoy.

2. For financial gain. Whether it is investing in real estate to find renters to cover the running costs thereby having others pay down your debt or looking for appreciation on the property over time. The best case scenario is both at the same time.Either way, each lifestyle location, and the reason you are buying (emotional or financial) require the help and guidance of a buyers advisor who has exceptional knowledge of their own backyard and all the pros and cons that may affect your decision.

2)  How Can Kealink Help You?

Our name suggests what we do. The Ke-a-link service is designed to be the “key” to “link” (connect/match) you to an exceptional real estate advisor. Our Service is at No Cost and No Obligation to You. Similar to a key for a lock. For a key to work correctly, it requires the design of each cut, size of shoulder and the distance to the tip for it to be precise to become effective. Each part of the key has a purpose.

It is the same concept with a lifestyle real estate advisor. At Kealink we understand lifestyle environments and agents which work in these areas. Kealink has access to over 2 million agents across the country, with 95% being inferior for your needs. That means for every one hundred agents, five are great. For you to find an advisor which is exceptional to your needs, would be a time consuming and frustrating process. To find one exceptional advisor, you would need to interview the average of twenty.

Through Kealink, we provide you the convenience of selecting from a very short list of the top advisors in their localized market who align with your interests.  By using the best advisors, you are protecting your interests, including your financial capital.

3) What Expenses are Involved in Second Home Ownership?

If you are purchasing a vacation property for personal use, then your expenses will be similar to owning a residential property with a couple of additions. If you have taken a mortgage, often the interests rates are a little higher. Property taxes are often higher than those of a full-time resident, and you would likely have to retain some kind of property management company to help with landscaping and upkeep of the property. If this is a second home purchase and you need rental income to help cover

the mortgage and running costs, then you will have a few additional concerns and expenses. Following is a list you may want to  consider when rental income is part of your purchase:

Property Taxes:  You will likely have a higher property tax rate if the home is not a primary residence. For example, here in Park City, Utah, our resident tax rate for a primary home is approximate 0.50%. If it is a second home it doubles, close to 1%.  There is one caveat you may wish to ask your buyer advisor about, especially if purchasing with long-term rentals as a consideration. Often a second homeowner can petition the municipality or jurisdiction to only pay the primary residence tax only if it is to be rented by a local resident.

Basic Utilities: If you are renting a property out short term, then those who are renting your property tend to be less considerate to the utility expenses than what you would like. Often properties are treated like hotel rooms where tenants tend to leave lights on, air conditioner units going all day, or leaving anything that runs power all day. With long-term lease agreements, tenants tend to cover these expenses.

Upkeep/Updating: There will come a time when the property gets run down. To much wear and tear over the years from short-term rentals or poor long-term tenants. Everything from carpets to landscaping needs to be tended to. You may consider doing this all yourself if you are doing property management of your property such as the case with many VRBO type buyers.  This leads me to…..

Property Management: A majority of homeowners owners live a minimum of 250 miles away from their second property. Many properties are well over a thousand miles plus. That being the case, property management should become a necessary expense to cover. Second home property management could be considered as a type of insurance to protect the home, including a contact for any emergency repairs that may be needed, or to help avoid seasonal changes such as winterizing a home. These management companies help to preserve your investment. To help with the unknown expenses, often property management companies and vacation rental companies will provide their services a la carte.

Vacation Rental Companies: Often local vacation rental companies provide property management over and above rental splits. Vacation rental companies have the systems, historical data and statistical information to help book your property for the highest going rate possible throughout the year. Rental companies will market and advertise your property with the intention to fill your property with renters as often as possible. the more they can rent your property the more they make, as well as you, so the incentive is there. Each location in the country charges a different rate, usually a split of the overall rental. Vacation rental companies will then charge out all the expenses incurred such as cleaning or fixes. What is left is transferred to your account.

4)  Can I Rent Out my Second Home?

Well YES. Well NO. Well….Depends!

In short, there are two main areas to find this information from: First, your lender can tell you based on the type of mortgage you qualify for. Second, your advisor can tell you if a property is rentable in the location you are buying. Either way, you must still read and understand the following to make the right decision.

Renting out your property as a long-term rental is rarely a problem. That is unless you are within an HOA which will not allow any type of rentals whatsoever. Owner use only. Thankfully these are rare.

Check with your lender as the rules for you to borrow money and how you can use the property can be restricted. That includes renting the property out too.  More about this:  What type of Lender/Lending should I get? (#6)

Short term rentals are usually approved in an HOA’s CC&R’s (Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions) and/or municipal regulations at the time a development or area was built out.

Often, properties which are located close to tourist activities have minimal issues.  Please note that some municipalities allow nightly short-term rentals, though the HOA does not allow it. In most cases, the HOA will have precedent.

Long term rentals are better situated outside of tourist active locations of a town. Primarily these are long seasonal rentals for 3 – 6  months for vacationers who enjoy the environment for a specific reason, or longer if they happen to be local residents of the area often job-related with school-age children.

5) How Much of a Second Home Should I Buy?

Yes, this can be a really exciting time….but… DON’T OVER STRETCH YOUR FINANCES!

It’s often the case that stating the obvious is similar to talking down to you, though this is not the intention. In reality, when emotional ideas and the “what if’s” take over, we tend to forget the simple things. Thoughts of grandeur drive the search to something a little more expensive. There is always a tipping point.

If you are looking to have rental income cover the running costs, any calculations you make have to be on the most conservative side possible. When I say conservative, I mean that if tourism slows down, with sporadic rentals coming in to cover your running costs.

If you are struggling to make the numbers work, then you may want to find a property that is less expensive. That’s quite ok because getting your foothold in the market can be very beneficial. A property which will act as a stepping stone to a future property.

Keep your thoughts of grandeur a concept to work towards than having it all now, because doing so can come back to bite…you know where!

There are situations such as the economy turning downwards. Ski season rentals could become less than ideal, especially with a poor snow season.  Rains have made Autumn/Fall unbearable for people to rent around lake or coastal regions. You get the point. For example, if you believe you can rent your property out 60% of the year, do your calculations on a lower number like 45% instead. Any rentals above that are golden.

6) What type of Lender/Lending should I get?

As many States, Jurisdictions and Companies have their own regulations to abide by, make sure you conduct your own due diligence on the lender and what can and cannot be done in your particular location of interest.

When it comes to financing your second home or vacation property, understand that not all loans, nor the lenders are created equal. There are a few items to know about with lending rules and the riders because not all loans are the same. Choosing the wrong one can be costly, and in some extreme cases be considered fraud.

If you purchase a home for your own personal use, this would be considered a second home loan and the rates would be close to your residential home. If on the other hand, you are using the property for short-term rental income or pre-retirement long term rentals then you would need to consider lending as a non-owner occupied loan. This can be 0.25 – .375% higher than a residential mortgage rate. Any property purchase would also require a larger deposit down, often 30% of the sales price. Pending which state the property is located you will either receive a mortgage or a deed of trust stating all loan requirements.

Lenders are different, including the company they represent and the variety of loan portfolios they can offer. Some will charge origination fees, others will waive them. In my experience, you will have a smoother transaction when using a local lender which understands the dynamics of the local market and all the intricacies of each development and neighborhood. Local lenders tend to be more willing to work for you as a person.

Out of state banks, such as the large banking conglomerates can offer good rates but at what cost? In my experience clients have to jump through more hoops and cut through more bureaucratic red tape before getting to underwriting, the most stressful part of purchasing any type of real estate. Unless you have a Private Banker working for you, clients are considered a number and with that goes the service and transparency. I have seen many deals fail because of contractual timing and dates.

When you are placing $10, $20, $50,000 dollars down as earnest money, relying on an impersonal banking system can be incredibly stressful. Especially when out of state loan officers do not understand the intricacies of the market and have to rely on others who likely have little understanding too. It’s a tough one. Your Advisor can certainly put you in touch with the best lenders in the local market. The better your advisor the better the network is at your request.

7) What will buying a second home do towards my taxes?

Since we are about to discuss general tax and financial matters here, make sure you confirm any information you read with your accountant or tax preparer for further, more current, in-depth information.

Yes, the tax man will want a piece of your pie if you are renting out your second home or additional properties for more than 14 days per year.  Anything less may not have to be reported.  When it’s time to file your income-tax return, you can itemize and

deduct real estate property taxes from both your primary residence and your second home (and on any additional homes you own), but keep in mind that the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 caps this deduction at $10,000.

If you’re taking out a mortgage to buy that second home, you can also deduct the interest on up to $750,000 of mortgage debt used to acquire your first and second homes or to improve those properties. (The new law reduced this from the previous limit of $1.1 million.) If you plan to use your second home for only part of the year, during other periods you may want to rent it to other vacationers to help offset the costs of maintaining the property. Remember that if you rent the home for more than 14 days of the year, you must report that income on your tax return. Some homeowners are surprised to learn that if they rent the house for just one month, that income is reportable and taxable — even if they have no plans to rent it again in the future. In addition, any deductions you take (such as the property tax or mortgage-interest deductions mentioned above) may be limited to the amount of rental income generated by the property.

8)   Should I use Zillow, Trulia, for a search?

Yes, that’s completely fine. These sites are good for conducting a preliminary information search for available homes. In fact, they pull the same information from the corresponding MLS locations around the country, which regurgitate that same information onto their platform. Well, all EXCEPT the information you need to make an educated and qualified decision that is.

If you use an agent through these portals, you are likely doing yourself a disservice. Hiring an agent because others had a good experience maybe fine in congested cookie-cutter residential neighborhoods where life and location are primarily the same. Not so in dynamic and segmented lifestyle markets where prices can fluctuate tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. Only well established advisors who understand your interests will have your best interests in mind.

In lifestyle markets, a majority of agents are usually part-time, unreliable, marginal or even average at best. I believe this makes up the 95% of agents you need to stay clear from. The other 5% are incredible.

Here’s another way to look at it:

If there was no cost or obligation to choose clothes off-the-rack versus having a tailor measure all of your specific details and design an excellent product that makes everything fit perfectly, what would your preference be?

To order dinner from an average fast-food restaurant instead visit a local establishment which uses farm fresh products to create a meal specifically designed for your taste buds to savor…which would you prefer? It’s no different in real estate. You can choose the “pick and click” method from a variety of agents, or have the best advisors located and screened to match your interests?

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Joseph Kashurba on Getting The Ideal Clients For Your Business

Who is your perfect client? If you could have anyone in the world to buy your product who would it be? These are the questions we seem to always be asking when we start to sell a new product or program.

In this episode we are talking to Joseph Kashurba, who grew his freelance design business from high school into a digital agency with clients all over the world. He knows that when it comes to finding your clients, you need to make sure they are right for you. He knows that when it comes to finding your ideal clients, there are two main considerations: making sure you are clear on what you do and how you can help them, and qualifying them well to make sure they are in line with your mission.

Joseph shares two simple kinds of marketing strategies to get your ideal clients:

  • Time Leverage strategy, in which you spend a lot of time doing the marketing, but it costs less money. This could be sending messages on LinkedIn or simply reaching out to people in your area and getting on discovery calls with them.
  • Money Leverage strategy, in which you spend some money but it takes less time. This would be spending money on advertising to get your message across.Think of things like Google AdWords and Facebook ads.

We need to shift our mindset from selling our products, to finding out how can we fix our customer’s’ problems. Changing this mindset will show the customer that you care about them and their needs and not just your own (no one likes to be just another dollar sign in someone’s course).

Don’t just give up on using the two strategies Joshua discussed in this episode – it is a slow process but in the end your clients will come to you (and keep coming to you in the future)!

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Kent Refugee Help AGM 2018

Dear all,

You are warmly invited to Kent Refugee Help’s AGM on Saturday 23 June 2018.

The AGM will be held at St Paul’s, Church Street, Canterbury CT1 1NH from 11.30am-3 pm.

Following the AGM in the morning, and lunch, there will be speakers on ‘The Impact and Consequences of Legal Aid Cuts’ and ‘Trauma’, as well as a short film about our recent exhibition: ‘Our Lives’.

For more information and to book a place contact:

We look forward to seeing you there.

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Imran Khan can reset Pakistan’s ties with West: New York Times

PTI's parliamentary party to name Imran Khan as PM tomorrow

ISLAMABAD: New York Times wrote that Prime Minister in waiting Imran Khan could use his fame and charisma to reset Pakistan’s troubled relations with the West.
In an article, the paper said Imran Khan had the best chance to reshape Pakistan’s image.
New York Times said that after recent election, Pakistan had reached a turning point that could possibly alter its dysfunctional trajectory.
The paper further wrote that Imran Khan had a better chance to change the country’s narrative.
Noting that for decades it had been cast in turmoil by suicide bombers and extremist groups, NYT said that many parts of the country were safer today than they were a few years ago.
The situation is expected to further improve under the new leadership, the newspaper further wrote.

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I recently wrote a piece about Christmas as a part of food culture, amongst other things. When my editor sent me his latest tracked-changes copy, he asked why I hadn’t mentioned alcohol. How could I miss such an obvious part of Christmas and eating? It’s not that I wasn’t paying attention – I’d thought about my Yia Yia’s Christmas ornaments and my aunt’s rocky road with cut up lolly snakes inside. It wasn’t a conscious decision, but I was blocking out memories of a family member’s alcohol dependence. I’d excluded alcohol because the part of my brain that opens and connects these memories didn’t want it there. I didn’t want to remember the broken promises about sobriety, the terse conversations around filling up a glass. But through my editor’s comments, I was able to revisit and explore these memories in a new light.

I’d always thought memoir writing would be the hard part – the excavating of memories long forgotten, trying to touch the truth with your words. But the hard part lives between the first and second edit; smoothing out the structural changes and filling in the gaps.

The act of being edited has helped me explore things in my life I’ve tried to suppress. Editor’s notes in the margins have dug up memories I’ve struggled with and placed them firmly on the page, for the betterment of my work and myself. This sort of editorial relationship doesn’t necessarily always come from an ‘editor’. I have a fairly loose interpretation of who can be an editor – often it is simply someone removed enough from me, who doesn’t know my life circumstances, who can make observations like these.

The act of being edited has helped me explore things in my life I’ve tried to suppress.

On another occasion, I had written an essay for a writing class about the connection between love, family and bodily functions. But in this essay, I left out a key detail. I had written about my partner, Mat, and a night at a party where he had been sick, red wine and vomit splattered across his jacket. I received my essay back, eleven copies, with different feedback and notes. All had one key question in common – who is this?

I’d written about Mat, I’d put his name on the page; but I’d failed to articulate our relationship. Instead, I skirted around his place in my life with ambiguity. While I spoke about my parents’ role in my life in great detail and had devoted whole paragraphs to my friends, I overlooked this key part of who he was to me. As I read over the scrawls of ‘brother??’ on the edits, I came to understand that I was intrinsically uncomfortable writing about him. By putting him on the page, an intimate moment between us felt open and out of my control. Perhaps by naming him and his place in my life, I risked greater exposure and therefore a greater loss if I lose him. Once again, without thought, I skirted around the uncomfortable in my writing.

As well as being a memoir writer, I have also worked as a nonfiction editor; I’ve lived on both sides of the email chain. But it’s hard to know if I’ve brought this feeling to other writers. I’ve asked questions, and received keen detail in response, but it’s always felt as if I’m discovering parts of the writer that were already there, rather than raising old, darker memories for them.

Yet because of my own experiences, I have changed my editing practice. I try to probe gently if the piece needs more detail, uncertain if I’m bringing up something uncomfortable. I make it clear that if a writer doesn’t want a thread in the piece, we won’t go there – not all essays need to be uncomfortable to be powerful. I’m not sure if this new and quieter approach is the best, but I’ve realised that not everyone is like me, not everyone wants to uncover and write through painful memories – that is a perfectly valid choice.

Acknowledging the uncomfortable in the editing process has definitely helped my writing.

I’ve tried to use my experience as an editor to cut through my own writing, to sharpen my words and find truth in uncovered memories. But for the most part, I’m unsuccessful. I can’t remove myself from my work. I can’t be the editor I need. But when I’m working with an editor, I want them to push. Opening these doorways, pushing past my own reluctance, is the most rewarding part of my practice.

Acknowledging the uncomfortable in the editing process has definitely helped my writing. I write about myself and my life, because this helps me understand things that happen around me. Some days I’d rather clean the oven than write a single paragraph – but overall the act of writing is soothing, comfortable and joyful. Perhaps this is why my brain blocks the painful memories – it doesn’t want to tarnish an act that I have come to love.

James Wood in How Fiction Works writes that ‘the true writer, that free servant of life, is one who must always be acting as if life were a category beyond anything the novel had yet grasped; as if life itself were always on the verge of becoming conventional’. Wood argues that for realism to develop, the writer must approach life as something new. This idea can be applied to memoir – we must write as if life and its complications haven’t been written before, as if our own lives and memories are concepts that we must work to truly grasp.

I think there can be a fear of being editing in the writing community.

I may not want to get bogged down in writing about alcohol dependence, but acknowledging and deliberately choosing not to include it is always better than subconsciously ignoring its existence. But in other cases, writing through the discomfort is intrinsic to good work. Naming relationships as you see them in detail or bringing up the painful memories with a new perspective will make a work better. I know I’ve hit something interesting when my jaw aches from clenching while I’m typing away.

I think there can be a fear of being editing in the writing community. I’ve been met time and time again with writers who are unreasonably grateful that I’ve been careful with their work and valued their input into the editing process. There’s a sense of vulnerability, whether you write fiction, non-fiction or poetry, and most fear bad experiences. That was certainly the case for me early on – I was scared an editor would read my memories and show disbelief, or make a cutting observation that I could not handle. Not once has this been so – being edited has been the most rewarding experience. It not only has sharpened my words but brought memories, albeit painful ones, to the forefront of my mind, making me a better and more considered writer.


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Day 219-Wednesday's Medical Minute-What Causes Gas?

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There are those who would say farts are funny. I would have to agree, depending on the circumstances. There are times though, when flatulence is a real problem, it may cause pain similar to a heart attack and it might be helpful to some of you to get to the root of your gas problems. Maybe you don’t realize that gas is a symptom sometimes of something more serious than eating Grandma’s cabbage, and there are ways to lessen your discomfort, if you just knew what to avoid.

Gas is caused by many factors including:

  1. Lactose Intolerance-The inability to fully digest sugar (lactose) in dairy products
  2. Food Intolerance- Digestive problems that occur after a certain food is eaten
  3. Irritable Bowel Syndrome- An intestinal disorder causing pain in the belly, gas, diarrhea, and constipation
  4. Celiac Disease- An immune reaction to eating gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye
  5. Gluten Sensitivity- Sensitivity to gluten

The symptoms of each factor are similar and can include; passing excessive amounts of gas, bloating, cramps, belching, discomfort, flatulence, fat in stool and urgent need to defecate.

Well some things just can’t be helped, like after eating some high fiber foods like fruits and veggies, or you may burp after accidentally swallowing gas while eating. But what if your symptoms are telling you there are more serious problems going on? Would you want to get to the bottom of it, maybe change your diet or check with a doctor?

If you experience excessive gas, it may also be a symptom of another health condition such as diverticulitis, IBS, Crohn’s disease, or a bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine from conditions such as diabetes. If you use artificial sweeteners, they may also be the culprit, many folks just can’t tolerate things like mannitol, and xylitol which are found in some sugar-free foods, gums and candies. I learned this the hard way, not knowing how mannitol affects you, I ate three pieces of a particular brand of sugar-free chocolate candy one time. Not pretty!

Ok, there are obvious ways to reduce the amount of gas your body produces, like stop eating the offending food, or drinking soda which has bubbles, but what if you aren’t sure the cause? If you experience persistent pain, you need to check with your doctor. He will schedule tests after an exam, like a blood or breath test and possibly specialized x-rays to determine the cause(s) of your excessive gas.

We all have and pass gas, and sometimes, it’s just funny. But when you can’t stop, or find yourself hurting no matter what you eat, or what otc medicine you try, please go get checked out and make sure something more serious isn’t going on.

Luckily, I have never been much of a milk drinker, when I started eating a more Paleo diet, I switched to almond and/or coconut milk. I notice if I slip or cheat, I get excessive gas. No ice cream for me I’m afraid, unless I make my own from coconut milk, bananas or cashews. If you check out my Pinterest board on Everything Paleo, you will find a delicious recipe for Coffee Cashew Ice Cream which I pinned from Do You Even Paleo. You might even find something else you like while you’re there, go check it out!

Plus, there are ways to minimize the gas your body creates on a normal basis;

  1. If you drink about 30 minutes before your meal, instead of with it, your body will digest the food better.
  2. If you ate and drank slowly, you would swallow less air, which means less gas.
  3. You could try taking a digestive enzyme like Beano to break down the sugar from beans and other vegetables.
  4. You could try activated charcoal, found in pill or liquid form, which helps reduce gas and creates firmer stools.
  5. You could try not drinking through a straw, and chewing gum (guilty on both counts) which may cause your stomach to fill with air. So does smoking. (not guilty, I vape)
  6. Avoid certain artificial sweeteners like sorbitol, and mannitol. Read the labels if you aren’t sure. I use Stevia which is natural.

I hope this has helped you identify some of the reasons you may have gas, simple or excessive, and that you go get yourself checked out if you are experiencing more serious symptoms like prolonged pain, bloating or frequent belching. Ask me any question on the subject and I’ll try to find you the answer. For me, eating natural healthy foods is going to produce it’s share but by not eating gluten-which I make it a point not to, I reduce my occurrence of stomach discomfort, diarrhea and constipation. If you want to know more about the Paleo lifestyle, check out Mark’s Daily Apple and  Dr Axe websites that explain the best ways to heal leaky gut and eat for optimal health. Enjoy your day and see ya tomorrow, on the patio!

2 Replies to “Day 219-Wednesday's Medical Minute-What Causes Gas?”

  1. The sugar alcohols (xylitol, mannitol, et-al-itol) are my major gas producers… even one piece of gum with these will turn me into, well, someone you don’t want to be near!

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OPP say there were ten traffic and water-related deaths over the Labour Day weekend.

Two motorcyclists were amoung the four people killed in separate collisions and one person died in an off-road vehicle crash.

Two were killed in boating accidents and three people drowned in OPP-patrolled waters.

The long weekend is also when OPP conduct their distracted driving campaign.

They say they issued a total of 651 distracted driving charges.

Overall, officers laid 10,403 charges throughout the province.

The most common charges were for speeding and stunt driving.


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Coconut Lentil Curry

This should be the easiest Lentil curry in the world.  Just look through the ingredient list and see. It’s so not complicated with a million different spices and ingredients. To make it easy just use Garam Masala, it’s a spice that contains; cumin, coriander seed, Alcho, Cinnamon, cloves, Black pepper, Ginger, Bay leaves, Star Anise and salt so you should be careful when adding in the salt. Just a few pinches should be enough.  When making Lentil curry Garam Masala is the key spice.  I have ‘visit an old authentic spice shop especially in India’ on my bucket list. The coconut milk is just to make it creamy so measurement will depend on how much water you retained when you were boiling the lentils.

I thought with all my coconut milk recipes I’d find out the health benefits of coconut milk or problems if any. I mean its common knowledge that even something healthy if not taken in moderation can cause harm to the body. So the same case with coconut milk, after reading many articles (make sure you get your nutrition information from trusted sources) I came to the conclusion that it’s a fat, a healthy one but can still contribute to heart diseases so be cautious in how you use it. This is more a note to self.

I attached the most useful articles I found at the bottom, know any contraire information? Please share.

Back to my coconut  Lentil curry, because it’s a legume It’s advisable to soak the grains in water for 8 hours, best done overnight. That’s it! Am done, please have at it and enjoy!

  • 500 grams green Grams/Green Lentil
  • 1 Can (400ml) Coconut milk
  • 1 tablespoon garam masala
  • 1 tablespoon Turmeric powder
  • 1 tablespoon curry powder
  • 1 red onion chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic minced
  • Salt to taste

Boil the pre-soaked lentils for 45 minutes to 1 hour in a large pot full of water. There will be some water left in the pot but the lentil will be very thick.

In a separate pot, Add 1 tablespoon olive oil or the cooking oil you use, add the chopped onions and cook until it browns. Add the minced garlic and spices, give it a minute while stirring and pour in the Lentils. Mix well and let it cook for 4-5 minutes. Pour in the Milk depending on how thick you want your curry to be. The more milk you add less it thick it will be.

As you can see that was so easy. I make this when I have a very busy week ahead and just refrigerate it to save time on cooking food. If you’re a busy college student too, then add this to your recipe collection it’s a lifesaver.

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The settlement is situated 21 km southwest of Odorheiu Secuiesc (Hu: Székelyudvarhely), in the valley of the Nagy- or Lok stream, lying among high hills. According to scholars the name of the village is derived from the slavish person name Drž, and is first mentioned by written sources in 1334 as Ders. According to tradition, the old village was located originally at the Pénzes field, which was burned to the ground during the Mongol invasion.

Oral tradition claims that today’s population came from Daróc, and the church was originally built by Saxons who lived here, before the settlers from Daróc arrived.

The Unitarian church of the settlement was built in two phases: the 13th–14th centuries and  in the 15th–16th centuries. Later, in the 16th–17th centuries the church was fortified. The Gothic style church structure is believed to belong to the 1490s, given that in 1460 there was a siege and part of the church was demolished.  The gate tower was burned down, and rebuilt much later, in 1606.

According to an account of Balázs Orbán the medieval church “… is one of the more pretty churches, in the line of the Gothic style church buildings …”.

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28 January 2013

YEAR OF FAITH -- Sunday Afternoon Latin Mass & Speaker Series February-April 2013

Sunday Afternoon
Traditional Latin Mass
Speaker Series

Saint Titus Church
952 Franklin Avenue
Aliquippa, Pennsylvania 15001

Traditional Latin Mass on the following Sundays at 1:00 PM

Sunday, 17 February 2013
Sunday, 3 March 2013
Sunday, 21 April 2013

Followed immediately by a luncheon & speaker in the church hall.

Fr. Gregory Plow, TOR
Franciscan University of Steubenville

Speakers & Topics:

Speaker: TBA
Topic: Combating Evil

Dr. Paul F. Crawford
Associate Professor of Ancient & Medieval History
California University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Just War Theory

2nd Annual Blessed Emperor Karl of Austria Conference
(Veneration of the relic after Mass)
Reservations required for April luncheon & conference.
See here for details.
Suzanne Pearson
Founder of the Blessed Karl Shrine
St. Mary's Church, Washington, DC
Topic: Bl. Karl's exile, death, and burial on the Madeira Islands
Raymond de Souza, KM
Director of Evangelization & Apologetics, Diocese of Winona, MN
and EWTN Series Host
Topic: The Dictatorship of Relativism and the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Sponsored by:
Knights of Columbus Woodlawn Council 2161
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Uncharted 4

Bruce Straley, co-director of The Last of Us and Uncharted 4, is officially leaving Naughty Dog following an extensive sabbatical.

“After heading up three extremely demanding projects, and taking some extended time away from the office, I found my energy focusing in other directions, and I slowly realized this was the signal that it’s time to move on,” he wrote on Naughty Dog’s website today.

We’d broken the news last December that Straley would not be co-directing The Last of Us 2 with his longtime creative partner, Neil Druckmann. After taking nearly a year off work, Straley decided not to return to the studio in which he’d spent 18 years working on everything from Crash Team Racing to Uncharted.

If you’re curious to read more about what made their last game, Uncharted 4, so demanding, I sure have the book for you. In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Straley spoke candidly about the stress of crunching on that game, which required him to rent a second apartment closer to work so that he would not have to commute across Los Angeles. While reporting for the book, I heard from several of Straley’s co-workers that he was an indispensable—and under-appreciated—part of what made so many of Naughty Dog’s games so great.


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General Appearance, Angulation & Movement, Temperament, Character & Abilities, Head, Dentition, Ears, Eyes, Neck, Body, Tail, Forequarters, Hindquarters, Feet, Color, Coat, Faults

General Appearance

The German Shepherd Dog is medium sized. With the hair pressed down, the height at the withers is measured by stick along the vertical as it follows the line of the elbow from the withers to the ground. The ideal height at the withers is 62.5 cm for males and 57.5 for females. An allowance of 2.5 cm over or under is permissible. Exceeding the maximum as well as not meeting the minimum diminishes the working and breeding value of the dog.

The German Shepherd is slightly long, strong and well muscled. The bones are dry and the structure firm. The ratio of height to length and the placement and structure of the limbs (angulation) are so balanced that a far-reaching, effortless trot is guaranteed. He has a weather proof coat.

A pleasing appearance is desired as long as the working ability of the dog is not called into question.

Sex characteristics must be pronounced, e.g., the masculinity of the males and the femininity of the females must be unmistakable.

The German Shepherd that corresponds to the Standard offers the observer a picture of rugged strength, intelligence and agility, whose overall proportions are neither in excess or deficient in any way. The way he moves and behaves leaves no doubt that he is sound in mind and body and so possesses physical and mental traits that render possible an ever ready working dog with great stamina.

It is only possible for a practiced expert to ascertain the presence of requisite working dog traits in the German Shepherd. Therefore, only special judges should be called upon, as it is incumbent on them to judge the character of the dogs brought before them. This should include a test for gun soundness, as only German Shepherd Dogs that have achieved recognized working dog titles may receive the breed rating excellent.

With an effervescent temperament, the dog must also be cooperative, adapting to every situation, and take to work willingly and joyfully. He must show courage and hardness as the situation requires to defend his handler and his property. He must readily attack on his owner’s command but otherwise be a fully attentive, obedient and pleasant household companion. He should be devoted to his familiar surroundings, above all to other animals and children, and composed in his contact with people. All in all, he gives a harmonious picture of natural nobility and self-confidence.

Angulation and Movement

The German Shepherd Dog is a trotter. His gait exhibits diagonal movement, I.e., the hind foot and the fore foot on opposite sides move simultaneously. The limbs, therefore, must be so similarly proportioned to one another, i.e. angulated, that the action of the rear as it carries through to the middle of the body and is matched by an equally far-reaching forehand causes no essential change in the top line. Every tendency toward over angulation of the rear quarters diminishes soundness and endurance. The correct proportions of height to length and corresponding length of the leg bones results in a ground-eating gait that is low to the ground and imparts an impression of effortless progression. With his head thrust forward and a slightly raised tail, a balanced and even trotter will have a top line that falls in moderate curves from the tip of the ears over the neck and level back through the tip of the tail.

Temperament, Character and Abilities

Sound nerves, alertness, self confidence, trainability, watchfulness, loyalty and incorruptibility, as well as courage, fighting drive and hardness, are the outstanding characteristics of a purebred German Shepherd Dog. They make his suitable to be a superior working dog in general, and in particular to be a guard, companion, protection and herding dog.

His ample scenting abilities, added to his conformation as a trotter, make it possible for him to quietly and surely work out a track without bodily strain and with his nose close to the ground. This makes him highly useful as a multipurpose track and search dog.

The head should be in proportion to the body size (in length approximately 40% of the height at the withers) and not coarse, overrefined or overstretched(snipey). In general appearance, it should be dry with moderate breadth between the ears.

The forehead when viewed from the front or side is only slightly arched. It should be without a center furrow or with only a slightly defined furrow.

The cheeks form a gentle curve laterally without protrusion toward the front. When viewed from above, the skull (approximately 50% of the entire head length) tapers gradually and evenly from the ears to the tip of the nose, with a sloping rather than a sharply defined stop and into a long, dry wedge-shaped muzzle (the upper and lower jaws must be strongly developed.)

The width of the skull should correspond approximately to the length of the skull. Also, a slight oversize in the case of males or undersize in the case of females is not objectionable.

The muzzle is strong; the lips are firm and dry and close tightly.

The bridge of the nose is straight and runs nearly parallel with the plane of the forehead.

Dentition must be healthy, strong and complete (42 teeth, 20 in the upper jaw and 22 in the lower jaw). The German Shepherd Dog has a scissors bite, e.g. the incisors must meet each other in a scissors like fashion, with the outer surface of the incisors of the lower jaw sliding next to the inner surface of the incisors of the upper jaw.

An undershot or overshot bite if faulty, as are large gaps between the teeth. A level bite is faulty, as the incisors close on a straight line.

The jaws must be strongly developed so that the teeth may be deeply rooted.

The ears are of medium size, wide at the base and set high. They taper to a point and are carried facing forward and vertically (the tips not inclined toward each other). Tipped, cropped and hanging ears are rejected. Ears drawn toward each other greatly impair the general appearance. The ears of puppies and young dogs sometimes drop or pull toward each other during the teething period, which can last until six months of age and sometimes longer.

Many dogs draw their ears back during motion or at rest. This is not faulty.

The eyes are of medium size, almond shaped, somewhat slanting and not protruding.

The color of the eyes should blend with the color of the coat. They should be as dark as possible. They should have a lively, intelligent and self-confident expression.

The neck should be strong with well-developed muscles and without looseness of the throat skin (dewlaps).

The neck is carried at an angle of about 45 degrees to the horizontal. It is carried higher when excited and lower when trotting.

The body length should exceed the height at the withers. It should amount to about 110 to 117% of the height at the withers. Dogs with a short, square or tall build are undesirable.

The chest is deep (approximately 45 to 48% of the height at the withers) but not too wide. The under chest should be as long as possible and pronounced.

The ribs should be well formed and long, neither barrel shaped nor too flat. They should reach the sternum, which is at the same level as the elbows. A correctly formed rib cage allows the elbows freedom of movement when the dogs trots. A too round rib cage disrupts the motion of the elbows and causes them to turn out. A too flat rib cage draws the elbows in toward one another. The rib cage extends far back so that the loins are relatively short.

The abdomen is moderately tucked up.

The back, including the loins, is straight and strongly developed yet not too long between the withers and the croup.

The withers must be long and high, sloping slightly from front to rear, defined against the back into which it gently blends without breaking the top line.

The loins must be wide, strong and well muscled.

The croup is long and slightly angled (approximately 23 degrees). The ileum and the sacrum are the foundation bones of the croup. Short, steep or flat croups are undesirable.

The tail is bushy and should reach at least to the hock joint but not beyond the middle of the hocks. Sometimes the tail forms a hook to one side at its end, though this is undesirable. At rest the tail is carried in a gentle downward curve, but when the dog is excited or in motion, it is curved more and carried higher. The tail should never be raised past the vertical. The tail, therefore, should not be carried straight or curled over the back.

Docked tails are inadmissible.

The shoulder blade should be long with an oblique placement (the angle at 45 degrees) and lying flat against the body. The upper arm joins the shoulder blade in an approximate right angle. The upper arm as well as the shoulder must be strong and well muscled.

The forearm must be straight when viewed from all sides. The bones of the upper arm and forearm are more oval than round.

The pasterns should be firm but neither too steep nor too down in pastern (Approximately 20 degrees).

The elbows must be neither turned in nor turned out. the length of the leg bones should exceed the depth of the chest (approximately 55%).

The thigh is broad and well muscled.

The upper thigh bone when viewed from the side joins the only slightly longer lower thigh bone at an angle of approximately 120 degrees. The angulation corresponds roughly to the forequarter angulation without being over angulated.

The hock joint is strong and firm.

The hock is strong and forms a firm joint with the lower thigh. The entire hindquarters must be strong and well muscled to be capable of carrying the body effortlessly forward during motion.

The feet are relatively round, short, tightly formed and arched. The pads are very hard, but not chapped. The nails are short, strong and of a dark color.

Dew claws sometime appear on the hind legs and should be removed within the first few days of birth.

Color should be black with regular markings in brown, tan to light gray, also with a black saddle, dark sable (black cover on a gray or light brown case with corresponding lighter marks), black, uniform gray or with light or brown markings. Small white markings on the fore chest or a very light color on the insides of the legs are permissible though not desired. The nose must be black with all coat colors. (Dogs with little or no masks, yellow or strikingly light eyes, light markings on the chest and insides of the legs, white nails and a red tip of the tail or washed out weak colors are considered lacking in pigment.) The undercoat or base hair is always light gray, with the exception of that on black dogs. the final color of a puppy is only determined when the outer coat completely develops.

a) The medium smooth coated German Shepherd Dog

The outer coat should be as thick as possible. The individual hairs are straight, coarse and lying flat against the body. The coat is short on the head inclusive of the ears, the front of the legs, the feet and the toes but longer and thicker on the neck. The hair grows longer on the back of the fore- and hind legs as far down as the pastern and the hock joint, forming moderate reaching on the thighs. the length of the hair varies, and due to these differences in length, there are many intermediate forms. A too short or mole like coat is faulty.

b) The long coated German Shepherd Dog

The coat is considerably longer than that of the long-smooth-coat. It is generally very soft and forms a parting along the back. The undercoat will be found in the region of the loins or will not be present at all. A long coat is greatly diminished in weatherproofing and utility and therefore is undesirable.

Faults include anything that impairs working versatility, endurance and working competency, especially lack of sex characteristics and temperament traits contrary to the German Shepherd Dog such as apathy, weak nerves or over excitability, shyness; lack of vitality or willingness to work; monorchids and cryptorchids and testicles too small; a soft or flabby constitution and a lack of substance; fading pigment; blues, albinos (with complete lack of pigmentation, e.g. pink nose, etc.) and whites (near to pure white with black nose); over and under size; stunted growth; high-legged dogs and those with an overloaded fore chest; a disproportionately short, too refined or coarse build; a soft back, too steep a placement of the limbs and anything depreciating the reach and endurance of gait; a muzzle that is too short, blunt, weak , pointed or narrow and lacks strength; an over-or undershot bite or any other faults of dentition, especially weak or worn teeth; a coat that is too soft, too short or too long; a lack of undercoat; hanging ears, a permanently faulty ear carriage or cropped ears; a ringed, curled or generally faulty tail set; a docked tail (stumpy) or a naturally short tail.

The above standard was approved and put into effect for the countries and clubs of the FCI. The name of the breed is the German Shepherd Dog. The country of origin is Germany.

From SCHUTZHUND USA March/April 1989

“The German Shepherd Standard”

Morton Goldfarb USA/SV/AKC Judge]


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schoolboy vest no. 2.

I made another School Boy vest by the incredible Tanis Lavallee for my friend r.r., who is about to have her second child. Unlike the first one I made, I decided to do the modified version with the scallop edging on the bottom and I love the way it turned out.

This vest seems like it would be so versatile; many different color combinations, and I can imagine, easy for a mom to throw on her baby in colder weather like we have here in Boston.

This was knit up using Madelinetosh tosh vintage in composition book gray for the main color, and remnants of Madtosh in tomato, as well as Tanis Fiber Arts green label in shadow and chris gray for the colorwork on the bottom.

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Joshua McNichols

Joshua has been the "growing pains" reporter since 2015, documenting the region's growth and change. Joshua “took the long way” to radio, working in architecture firms for over a decade before pursuing his passion for public radio in 2007. By "long way," he means he's also been a writer, bicycle courier, commercial fisherman, bed-and-breakfast cook, carpenter, landscaper and stained glass salesman. He’s detailed animal enclosures to prevent jaguars from escaping the Miami Zoo. Once, while managing a construction site in Athens, Greece, he was given a noogie by an Albanian civil war refugee in his employ. “You do not tell those guys how to place stucco,” he said. All of which has no doubt made him the story-teller he is today.

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Autoscaling Pub/Sub Consumers

Spotify’s Event Delivery system is responsible for delivering hundreds of billions of events every day. Most of the events are generated as a response to a user action, such as playing a song, following an artist or clicking on an ad. All in all, more than 300 different types of events are being collected from Spotify clients.

The Event Delivery system is one of the core pillars of Spotify’s data infrastructure since almost all data processing depends, either directly or indirectly, on data that it delivers. Any delays in delivering data can affect Spotify users’ experience since their favorite feature (like Discover Weekly) would be delayed.

It is therefore important for Spotify’s Event Delivery to be both reliable and to scale effortlessly. One easy way to achieve higher scale is to break down the problem into smaller sub-problems. In our case, instead of delivering all events through a single stream, we decided to fully isolate each event type and deliver it independently. As a result of that decision, we also achieve higher availability, since no misbehaving event can affect the delivery of other events.

As the backbone of our system we use Cloud Pub/Sub. Having full isolation between different event types means that each event stream is published to its own dedicated topic that is consumed and exported to Cloud Storage by a dedicated ETL process.

Event Delivery’s ETL

The first step of the ETL process, which is built as a set of microservices and batch jobs, is to consume data from a Cloud Pub/Sub subscription and export it to an intermediate bucket on Cloud Storage. For that task, we’ve built a special micro service – Pub/Sub Consumer.

Pub/Sub Consumer

To speed up development, we decided to build Consumer as any other microservice in Spotify. We wrote it as an Apollo service, packaged it as a Docker image with a Maven plugin and deployed it with Helios to machines which are managed by Puppet. An important factor in why we made this decision was that both our monitoring and service discovery depend on Puppet-managed daemons.

Consumer machine service stack

The volume of event streams flowing through the Event Delivery system varies a lot. Some streams only rarely receive events (less than 1 event per hour), while other streams have extremely high volume (more than 300k events per second). To both reliably handle high volume event streams and not waste resources for low volume event streams, each event stream is handled by a separate cluster—set of one or more instances—of Consumers.

Consumer service

Each Consumer instance is deployed to and runs on a dedicated machine. This is due to the limitations of the service stack—Puppet, Service Discovery and Helios—we use to currently manage services in Spotify. Each consumer cluster is backed up by a single Compute Engine managed regional instance group.

To achieve optimal usage, we need to handle event streams with optimally sized clusters. Since there are too many events for cluster sizes to be managed by hand, we decided to enable CPU based autoscaling on each of the clusters. We could do that since Consumer is a stateless service and its CPU metric correlates well with its usage.

As long as nothing unexpected happens, autoscaling works well. When problems occur, if not handled properly, things can get really ugly.

Autoscaling – The Ugly Parts

Handling Unhealthy Machines

Whenever autoscaler decides to spin up a new Consumer machine, a chain of provisioning steps is triggered:

  • A new machine gets provisioned
  • It gets registered in Spotify’s DNS
  • Puppet runs on a machine and installs necessary packages (including Docker, Helios agent and monitoring daemon)
  • Helios agent registers with Helios master
  • Helios master instructs Helios agent to deploy Consumer instance
  • Consumer instance starts running on Docker

If any of the aforementioned steps fail, a machine will end up in an unusable state. Surprisingly, the most common reason for provisioning to fail is Docker. It very often ends up in a zombie state where the only possible remediation is to restart the machine. After an investigation, we could link the issues we were experiencing to this bug.

Autoscaler uses average CPU usage to decide how many machines should be part of the cluster. An unfortunate consequence of using the average is that a single zombie machine can push the full cluster—especially if it consists of fewer than 3 machines—into a broken state. This is a natural consequence of the way average is calculated; the average of one zombie machine, which has ~0% CPU usage, and one overloaded machine, which has ~100% CPU usage, is 50%. In such a case, if our target CPU usage were higher than 50%, autoscaler would not decide to add more machines.

CPU average can be misleading

Considering that Docker issues were affecting significant amounts of machines in our fleet, we needed to find a solution. Our first try to solve the problem was to use the default HTTP healthchecker. Instead of solving the problem, this just replaced Docker issues with Puppet issues: a “feature” of the default healthchecker is that unhealthy machines are replaced with the new machines which have exactly the same name. This in turn prevented machines from re-registering with Puppet master and applying the Puppet manifest. The second try, which worked, was to write our own HTTP healthchecker that destroys unresponsive machines using Compute Engine API directly. Once machines are destroyed, autoscaler replaces them with new machines.

Fine Tuning Machine’s CPU usage

Google’s autoscaler is configured using a single threshold parameter (aka target usage). This makes autoscaler tricky to configure. This is amplified by autoscaler being sensitive to short CPU spikes (shorter than 1 min), which cause it to immediately provision more machines. A lot of trial-and-error is needed until the perfect balance can be found.

Equilibrium can be easily broken by adding new daemon(s) to machine. Our unfortunate way of noticing that the autoscaler was pushed out of balance was getting alerted because all of our resources were consumed. To avoid such a scenario, we need to keep the daemons’ CPU usage under control. We found cpulimit to be a perfect tool for that job.

Issues with downstream services, upon which Consumer depends on to export data, are another common reason when autoscaler goes bonkers. This is the case since the rate at which events are being queued for processing is independent of how fast Consumer exports them: if Consumer isn’t exporting events at the rate they’re being published, a backlog of events pending to be processed forms on a subscription. When Consumer isn’t able to export events it still spends some CPU cycles processing them without removing the consumed events from a Pub/Sub subscription. A growing backlog of queued up events causes Consumer to spend more CPU cycles processing events without exporting them, which causes autoscaler to add more machines, which causes more CPU cycles to be spent on processing events without exporting them, which causes backlog to grow more, which causes autoscaler to add more machines, which causes more CPU cycles to be spent, and so on…

Autoscaling can turn small issues into disasters

We learned, the hard way, that exponential backoffs are a must in order to handle such scenarios. Every time a Consumer is not able to export events to Cloud Storage, it sleeps for some amount of time before trying again. Sleep time is calculated as an exponential function of the number of failed requests within a sliding window. Sleeping is a crude, but effective way of suppressing the CPU usage, which tricks autoscaler into not provisioning more machines until the external service is back to normal.

Next steps

Resource usage of this system is one of the areas where we would like to improve. We’re looking closely at how can we use Kubernetes to run the system. If that were the case, the biggest resource optimisation would come from the fact that Kubernetes does bin packing. This would enable us to run several instances of Consumer on a single machine, which would decrease overhead of supporting services that we have today. Today, each Consumer machine has 4 CPUs, out of which 2 CPUs are used for running the actual Consumer instance, while the other 2 CPUs are used by Puppet, the monitoring daemon, the Cloud Logging daemon…

If we went the Kubernetes route and used Kubernetes Engine, we wouldn’t be able to depend on Puppet any more. Unfortunately this leaves us in uncharted waters (in the Spotify universe) on how to do monitoring of our services without a Puppet-managed monitoring daemon.

If this sound like the type of problem you would like to help us with, come and join us. We have fika!


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Cassandra: Data-Driven Configuration

Spotify currently runs over 100 production-level Cassandra clusters. We use Cassandra across user-facing features, in our internal monitoring and analytics stack, paired with Storm for real-time processing, you name it. With scale come questions. “If I change my consistency level from ONE to QUORUM, how much performance am I sacrificing? What about a change to […]

Personalization at Spotify using Cassandra

  By Matt Brown and Kinshuk Mishra At Spotify we have have over 60 million active users who have access to a vast music catalog of over 30 million songs. Our users have a choice to follow thousands of artists and hundreds of their friends and create their own music graph. On our service they also […]

Date-Tiered Compaction in Apache Cassandra

For my master’s thesis, I developed and benchmarked an Apache Cassandra compaction strategy optimized for time series. The result, the Date-Tiered Compaction Strategy (DTCS), has recently been included in upstream Cassandra. We now use it in production at Spotify. Marcus Eriksson has written another blog post about this feature on the DataStax Developer Blog. What […]

Backend infrastructure at Spotify

In this blog post I will give an overview of how we are building our backend infrastructure at Spotify. Our backend infrastructure is very much work in progress – in some areas we have come a long way and in others we have just started. In order to understand why we are building this infrastructure […]

In praise of “boring” technology

In this article I will explain how Spotify uses different mature and proven technologies in our backend service eco-system and architecture, and why we do so. In addition, this article will also attempt to explain when Spotify has chosen not to use certain proven technologies, the reasons why and the associated pitfalls associated with each. […]


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Title: Development and application of the ReaxFF reactive force field method

Presenter: Adri van Duin

Affiliation: Penn State

Abstract: ReaxFF is a bond-order dependent force field method that includes a geometry-dependent polarizable charge distribution and enables reactive, atomistic scale dynamic simulations at a computational expense magnitudes lower than quantum mechanical (QM) simulations. While initially developed for first-row elements, over the last 10 years we found the method to be highly transferable, allowing us to develop ReaxFF descriptions for covalent, metallic, ionic and mixed systems all across the periodic system. We believe that transferable reactive force fields like ReaxFF provide a critical component of a multiscale simulation strategy for reactive systems. In this presentation, we will introduce the main concepts of the ReaxFF method, discuss its current integration within LAMMPS and show highlights of recent applications of ReaxFF to catalysis, combustion, biomaterials and interface chemistry.


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Weekend Preview: FC Dallas vs Vancouver Whitecaps

Photo Credit: John A. Babiak @Photog_JohnB

Editorial (May 17, 2018) – MLS 2018 rolls on as FC Dallas will host Vancouver Whitecaps FC Saturday afternoon. Historically, Dallas has found it difficult to get three points from the Whitecaps, especially in Vancouver. But coming back to Texas could pose problems for the away side.

Weekend Preview:  FC Dallas vs Vancouver Whitecaps

I’ve narrowed it down to three main points for the match on Saturday. There is always more to it than just a few things, but these topics are crucial. So, let’s call it the 3 D’s for FCD vs VAN.

FC Dallas will be without star defender Reto Ziegler after he received two yellow cards this past weekend. Ziegler has not missed a minute of the 2018 season so far and has been part of one of the best defenses in MLS this season. He and Matt Hedges have worked well together in their first season as a center-back pairing and it has paid dividends.

But Saturday, Hedges will hold the back line with most likely Maynor Figueroa, a very familiar face for FC Dallas fans. Figueroa was a regular face last season and was nursing an injury early on this year. Now at 35 years of age, Figueroa is not the player he used to be, but the Honduran legend will need to be at his best this weekend.

With all that being said, Dallas will need to avoid giving up free kicks in their defensive half. No introduction need for 6’5″ Kendall Waston, but Vancouver have been very productive on set pieces this year. Avoid silly fouls and numerous corner kicks could be the difference maker. Oh, and some wonder kid named Alphonso Davies who is amazing to watch play.

Super Mauro. The Unicorn. Mauro Diaz is a play-maker and game-changer when he’s healthy and on the field. Everyone saw it this past weekend against LA Galaxy when he put on a passing display highlight reel. It feels like we have the 2016 Mauro Diaz back with us again, and that means trouble for the opposition. With the proper lineup, Mauro can push further forward and really control the match from all aspects. Look for the #10 to be pressing forward and making things happen this weekend.

Vancouver will be covering a lot of ground in a week. Being in Houston last Friday, they headed back home where they will host San Jose late Wednesday night. They will then catch a flight back to the Lone Star State probably Thursday midday to prepare for Saturday.

Texas is in the full-swing pre-summer mode with temperatures in the mid-90s for highs this week (warm weather). But it is a beast to play a full 90 in, even with the water breaks. Tack on traveling thousands of miles and covering a few time zones, Vancouver will be traveling with tired legs, bodies, and minds. There could be some lineup changes midweek depending on how Carl Robinson wants to prepare. Wednesday night could be a big factor going into the weekend.

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