The Best Stand Mixer

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The Best Stand Mixer

A great stand mixer––unlike many other countertop appliances––is an investment that can last a lifetime. After over 50 hours of testing since 2013, we think that the KitchenAid Artisan Series 5-Quart Tilt-Head Stand Mixer is the absolute best stand mixer you can get for its performance, versatility, and price. It’s a workhorse worthy of heirloom status, whipping up cakes, cookies, and creams with ease, and kneading sticky bread and pizza doughs without straining.

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October 6, 2020 at 01:34PM

Kevin James: Nature Planet

Kevin James: Nature Planet

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Kevin James stars as an oversize Ewok fighting his way back from the brink of extinction in “Nature Planet.” While he’s no Sir David Attenborough, you’ve gotta hand it to “Sir” Adam Sandler for his narration work on this spot-on nature show parody.

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October 5, 2020 at 12:30PM

Free Guy (Trailer 2)

Free Guy (Trailer 2)

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Ryan Reynolds stars in this comedy-action flick about a guy who lives inside of a video game, but isn’t yet self-aware of his lot in life as an NPC. But when he finds out the truth, he turns his virtual world upside-down. Originally slated as a summer release, Free Guy now drops 12.11.2020.

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October 5, 2020 at 02:00PM

Donald The Orange Returns Triumphantly As Donald The White

Donald The Orange Returns Triumphantly As Donald The White

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—While battling the darkest monster from the pit of hell, known as “COVID,” Donald the Orange fell to his doom several days ago, sacrificing himself to save America from the deadly demon.

So Americans were ecstatic to learn that Donald the Orange had returned in a new, better form, now known as Donald the White. A brilliant white light shone from Walter Reed Medical Center as Donald the White emerged just in time to save America from COVID, Antifa, and the Deep State.

“I come back to you now at the turn of the tide!” he cried as he rode triumphantly out in Shadowfax, cutting right through the ravenous hordes of Antifa counterprotesters blocking the way. 

“Donald! Donald the Orange!” cried his supporters outside Walter Reed Medical Center.

“Yes…” he said as he sat in the back of the presidential limousine, codenamed “Shadowfax.” “Yes… Donald the Orange… that is what they used to call me.” The newly revived president has a newfound passion for life and even more energy than before, though sources say he’s also taken up smoking.

Donald the White says he will use his newfound powers to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border, shouting at would-be immigrants, “You shall not pass!”


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October 5, 2020 at 04:57PM

Dangy Dagger 9MM Round Defeats Level 3A Body Armor

Dangy Dagger 9MM Round Defeats Level 3A Body Armor

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U.S.A.-(Ammoland.com)- Austin Jones and Atlas Arms announced that they have successfully defeated level 3A body with their Dangy Dagger round.

The video released by the non-profit research group shows the founder of Atlas Arms fires their 9mm round at level 3A soft body made by AR500. The round blew through the panel and continued into the backstop of the range. What makes their round so revolutionary is that it can penetrate armor without violating the federal armor-piercing ammunition ban.

Much like Congress passing the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 because of a misconception about Glocks due to Hollywood, they also acted on bad information to ban so-called “armored piercing” bullets. In 1982, NBC ran a story on Teflon-coated bullets. Various gun control groups called these rounds “cop killers.” The report claimed that the bullets could defeat police body armor. The news organization’s claims were fake.

Hollywood helped spread the anti-gun propaganda about the bullets in movies such as Ronin and Lethal Weapon. Companies using Teflon to coat their bullets was just a marketing scheme. In actuality, the coating did nothing to increase the penetration of the bullets. Congress took the word of the anti-gun groups, the fake news, and Hollywood on the ammunition’s deadliness and enacted a ban.

Austin Jones decided that he needed to use the skills he developed in making durable inflation sections for the International Space Station to defeat an unjust gun law. The engineer and his team decided to take a multifaceted approach to defeat the ban.

One of the best determinations on if a bullet can penetrate armor is the speed of the round. The law doesn’t restrict how fast a bullet can move, so the team shed some weight from the bullet and found the optimum amount of powder to use in the round. They developed a 9mm round that shooters can fire at 2200ft/sec.

The ban also restricts jacketed bullets, so Atlas Arms made their rounds hollow points with a spike in the center. The hollow point causes a massive cavity when it hits soft tissue. Atlas Arms uses a center spike is to penetrate the armor.

Dangy Dagger 9MM Round
Dangy Dagger 9MM Round
Dangy Dagger 9MM Round
Dangy Dagger 9MM Round

Atlas Arms uses a still yet revealed material for the spike. By keeping it under wraps, the organization hopes to improve its design to defeat even tough armor and avoid federal and state governments’ legal actions. Even if the government does ban the ammunition material, the organization has contingency plans.

The round is not cheap. Jones believes the round will run customers between $2 and $4. Atlas Arms will offer a more affordable alternative that will sacrifice some penetration. Since customers do have a legitimate concern of over-penetration, these cheaper alternatives might be a happy medium.

Atlas Arms plans to release the bullets’ plans so anyone can make rounds utilizing the Dangy Dagger bullets. They also plan to release a cutting code for the Ghost Gunner 3 to make round casings. The company is also filing a patent on the design so anyone will be able to look up how to make the rounds even if individual states try to make sharing the plans illegal. It would make the federal government the ones sharing the designs online.

Readers can find out more about the Dangy Dagger at https://www.atlasarms.org.


About John Crump

John is also an Amazon best selling author and investigative firearms journalist. He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and two sons. He can be followed on Twitter at @crumpyss, or at www.crumpy.com.

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October 5, 2020 at 06:00PM

The first ‘Monster Hunter’ movie teaser sets up an enormous battle

The first ‘Monster Hunter’ movie teaser sets up an enormous battle

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After several years of development, you’re finally getting your first glimpse of the Monster Hunter movie in action. Sony and IGN have shared a teaser trailer (via Polygon) for Paul W.S. Anderson’s Monster Hunter production that gives a hint of what to expect. It’s very brief, but promises a climactic fight. Milla Jovovich (as Artemis) and T.I. (Link) are about to face off against a gigantic Black Diablos catching them by surprise as it erupts from the desert sand.

There aren’t any of the game series’ signature swords in the teaser, although promo photos (such as the one above) make clear they’ll show up at some stage.

The movie also stars action legend Tony Jaa, Ron Perlman, Diego Boneta and Meagan Good. It’s slated to debut “only in theaters” this December, although we wouldn’t be surprised if the pandemic changes the timing and availability like it has with other movies.

This looks like it might be a classic video game adaptation, for better or for worse. However, there are some aspects that work in its favor. Anderson and Jovovich are well-known for the Resident Evil movies (one of the few enduring game-based franchises), and there’s clearly talent attached beyond one or two recognizable names. It probably won’t be a timeless classic, but it might just be enjoyable.

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October 3, 2020 at 04:18PM

I gotta move to Polk County

I gotta move to Polk County

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Get yourself an adult beverage and enjoy not only the description that Sheriff Grady Judd does about the chain of felonies committed by a felon, but the verbal butt whipping he applied to a journalist.

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October 2, 2020 at 04:17PM

Exciting and New Features in MariaDB 10.5

Exciting and New Features in MariaDB 10.5

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New Features in MariaDB 10.5

New Features in MariaDB 10.5MariaDB 10.5 was released in June 2020 and it will be supported until June 2025. This is the current stable version and comes with more exciting new features. In this blog, I am going to explain the new and exciting features involved in MariaDB 10.5. 

  • Amazon S3 engine
  • Column Store
  • INET 6 data type
  • Binaries name changed to mariadb
  • More granular privileges
  • Galera with full GTID support
  • InnoDB refactoring

Amazon S3 Engine

S3 engine is a nice feature in MariaDB 10.5. Now, you can directly move your table from a local device to Amazon S3 using the ALTER. Still, your data is accessible from MariaDB clients using the standard SQL commands. This is a great solution to those who are looking to archive data for future references at a low cost. I have written a blog about this feature – MariaDB S3 Engine: Implementation and Benchmarking – which has more insights on this. 

#Installation

MariaDB [(none)]> install soname 'ha_s3';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.000 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> select * from information_schema.engines where engine = 's3'\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
      ENGINE: S3
     SUPPORT: YES
     COMMENT: Read only table stored in S3. Created by running ALTER TABLE table_name ENGINE=s3
TRANSACTIONS: NO
          XA: NO
  SAVEPOINTS: NO
1 row in set (0.000 sec)

#Implementation

MariaDB [s3_test]> alter table percona_s3 engine=s3;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (1.934 sec)              
Records: 0  Duplicates: 0  Warnings: 0

  • The S3 engine tables are completely read-only.
  • COUNT(*) is pretty fast on s3 engine tables.

ColumnStore

MariaDB ColumnStore 1.5 is available with MariaDB 10.5 community server. It brings a high-performance, open source, distributed, SQL compatible analytics solution. Before MariaDB 10.5, ColumnStore was available as a separate fork of MariaDB. But with MariaDB 10.5, ColumnStore is now completely integrated. All you need to do is install the package for ColumnStore “MariaDB-columnstore-engine.x86_64”.

[root@mariadb ~]# yum list installed | grep -i columnstore
MariaDB-columnstore-engine.x86_64   10.5.5-1.el7.centos         @mariadb-main

MariaDB [jesus]> select plugin_name,plugin_status,plugin_library,plugin_version from information_schema.plugins where plugin_name like 'columnstore%'; 
+---------------------+---------------+-------------------+----------------+
| plugin_name         | plugin_status | plugin_library    | plugin_version |
+---------------------+---------------+-------------------+----------------+
| Columnstore         | ACTIVE        | ha_columnstore.so | 1.5            |
| COLUMNSTORE_COLUMNS | ACTIVE        | ha_columnstore.so | 1.5            |
| COLUMNSTORE_TABLES  | ACTIVE        | ha_columnstore.so | 1.5            |
| COLUMNSTORE_FILES   | ACTIVE        | ha_columnstore.so | 1.5            |
| COLUMNSTORE_EXTENTS | ACTIVE        | ha_columnstore.so | 1.5            |
+---------------------+---------------+-------------------+----------------+
5 rows in set (0.002 sec)

MariaDB [jesus]> create table hercules(id int, name varchar(16)) engine = ColumnStore;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.503 sec)

MariaDB [jesus]> show create table hercules\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
       Table: hercules
Create Table: CREATE TABLE `hercules` (
  `id` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  `name` varchar(16) DEFAULT NULL
) ENGINE=Columnstore DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
1 row in set (0.000 sec)

MariaDB ColumnStore 1.5 comes with two .xml utilities, which greatly helps with configuration management.

  • mcsGetConfig : Used to display the current configurations
  • mcsSetConfig : Used to change the configuration
[root@mariadb vagrant]# mcsGetConfig -a | grep CrossEngineSupport.Pass
CrossEngineSupport.Password = 
[root@mariadb vagrant]# mcsSetConfig CrossEngineSupport Password "hercules7sakthi"
[root@mariadb vagrant]# mcsGetConfig -a | grep CrossEngineSupport.Pass
CrossEngineSupport.Password = hercules7sakthi

INET6 Data Type

Usually, INET6 refers to the IPv6 family.

  • INET6 data type is introduced to store the IPv6 addresses.
  • INET6 data type also can be used to store the IPv4 addresses assuming conventional mapping of IPv4 addresses into IPv6 addresses.
  • Internally storage engine see the INET6 as BINARY(16) and clients see the INET6 as CHAR(39)
  • Values are stored as a 16-byte fixed-length binary string

Example:

MariaDB [jesus]> create table inet6test (id int primary key auto_increment, ipaddresses INET6);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.005 sec)

MariaDB [jesus]> insert into inet6test (ipaddresses) values ('2001:0db8:85b3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.001 sec)

MariaDB [jesus]> insert into inet6test (ipaddresses) values ('::172.28.128.12');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.002 sec)

MariaDB [jesus]> select * from inet6test;
+----+------------------------------+
| id | ipaddresses                  |
+----+------------------------------+
|  1 | 2001:db8:85b3::8a2e:370:7334 |
|  2 | ::172.28.128.12              |
+----+------------------------------+
2 rows in set (0.000 sec)

Binaries Name Changed to mariadb

All binaries are now changed to “mariadb” from “mysql”, with symlinks for the corresponding mysql command.

Example:

  • “mysql” is now “mariadb”
  • “mysqldump” is now “mariadb-dump”
  • “mysqld” is now “mariadbd”
  • “mysqld_safe” is now “mariadbd-safe”

Using “mariadb” client:

[root@mariadb ~]# mariadb -e "select @@version, @@version_comment"
+----------------+-------------------+
| @@version      | @@version_comment |
+----------------+-------------------+
| 10.5.5-MariaDB | MariaDB Server    |
+----------------+-------------------+

Using “mariadb-dump”:

[root@mariadb ~]# mariadb-dump mysql > mysql.sql
[root@mariadb ~]# less mysql.sql | head -n5
-- MariaDB dump 10.17  Distrib 10.5.5-MariaDB, for Linux (x86_64)
--
-- Host: localhost    Database: mysql
-- ------------------------------------------------------
-- Server version 10.5.5-MariaDB

MariaDB server startup via systemd service will be started using the mariadbd binary. This is applicable for mariadbd-safe wrapper script as well. Even when called via the mysqld_safe symlink, it will start the actual server process as mariadbd, not mysqld.

Example:

Using startup service:

[root@mariadb ~]# service mysql start
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start mysql.service
[root@mariadb ~]# ps -ef | grep -i mysql
mysql     9002     1  1 01:23 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/mariadbd
root      9021  8938  0 01:23 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i mysql

Using mariadbd-safe:

[root@mariadb ~]# mariadbd-safe --user=mysql &
[root@mariadb ~]# 200806 01:30:43 mysqld_safe Logging to '/var/lib/mysql/mariadb.err'.
200806 01:30:43 mysqld_safe Starting mariadbd daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
[root@mariadb ~]# 
[root@mariadb ~]# ps -ef | grep -i mysql
root      9088  8938  0 01:30 pts/0    00:00:00 /bin/sh /bin/mariadbd-safe --user=mysql
mysql     9162  9088  1 01:30 pts/0    00:00:00 //sbin/mariadbd --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --plugin-dir=//lib64/mysql/plugin --user=mysql --log-error=/var/lib/mysql/mariadb.err --pi

Using mysqld_safe:

[root@mariadb ~]# mysqld_safe --user=mysql &
[root@mariadb ~]# 200806 01:31:40 mysqld_safe Logging to '/var/lib/mysql/mariadb.err'.
200806 01:31:40 mysqld_safe Starting mariadbd daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
[root@mariadb ~]# ps -ef | grep -i mysql
root      9179  8938  0 01:31 pts/0    00:00:00 /bin/sh /bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql
mysql     9255  9179  0 01:31 pts/0    00:00:00 //sbin/mariadbd --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --plugin-dir=//lib64/mysql/plugin --user=mysql --log-error=/var/lib/mysql/mariadb.err --pid-file=mariadb.pid

From the above examples, you can see that all the MariaDB server startup is using the “mariadbd”.

More Granular Privileges

Privileges are more granular now. SUPER privilege is split now with more small privileges, similar to MySQL 8 dynamic privileges.  Security-wise this is a very good implementation to avoid unwanted privileges allocation to users.

  • BINLOG ADMIN – Enables administration of the binary log, including the PURGE BINARY LOGS
  • BINLOG REPLAY – Enables replaying the binary log with the BINLOG statement
  • CONNECTION ADMIN – Enables administering connection resource limit options. This includes ignoring the limits specified by max_connections, max_user_connections, and max_password_errors
  • FEDERATED ADMIN – Execute CREATE SERVER, ALTER SERVER, and DROP SERVER statements. Added in MariaDB 10.5.2.
  • READ_ONLY ADMIN – User can set the read_only system variable and allows the user to perform write operations, even when the read_only option is active. Added in MariaDB 10.5.2.
  • REPLICATION MASTER ADMIN – Permits administration of primary servers, including the SHOW REPLICA HOSTS statement, and setting the gtid_binlog_state, gtid_domain_id, master_verify_checksum, and server_id system variables. Added in MariaDB 10.5.2.
  • REPLICATION SLAVE ADMIN – Permits administering replica servers, including START SLAVE, STOP SLAVE, CHANGE MASTER, SHOW SLAVE STATUS, SHOW RELAYLOG EVENTS statements (new in MariaDB 10.5.2).
  • SET USER – Enables setting the DEFINER when creating triggers, views, stored functions, and stored procedures (new in MariaDB 10.5.2).

And:

  • “REPLICATION CLIENT” is renamed to “BINLOG MONITOR”
  • “SHOW MASTER STATUS” command is now renamed to “SHOW BINLOG STATUS”
MariaDB [jesus]> show binlog status;
+-------------+----------+--------------+------------------+
| File        | Position | Binlog_Do_DB | Binlog_Ignore_DB |
+-------------+----------+--------------+------------------+
| herc.000003 |      525 |              |                  |
+-------------+----------+--------------+------------------+
1 row in set (0.000 sec)

Galera With Full GTID Support

Galera is now completely supported with GTID from MariaDB 10.5. It will greatly help the cluster + Async replication environment. With this feature, all nodes in a cluster will have the same GTID for replicated events originating from the cluster.

MariaDB 10.5 also has the new SESSION variable “wsrep_gtid_seq_no”. With this variable, we can manually update the WSREP GTID sequence number in the cluster ( like gtid_seq_no for non WSREP transactions ).

MariaDB [jesus]> show variables like 'wsrep_gtid_seq_no';        
+-------------------+-------+
| Variable_name     | Value |
+-------------------+-------+
| wsrep_gtid_seq_no | 0     |
+-------------------+-------+
1 row in set (0.001 sec)

InnoDB Refactoring

There are some notable changes in InnoDB engine, which makes MariaDB more divergent from MySQL.

Apart from this, MariaDB 10.5 has more improvements on the following topics as well.

  • INFORMATION_SCHEMA
  • PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA
  • JSON
  • Query Optimizer
  • Binary logs with more metadata

I am looking forward to experimenting with the new MariaDB 10.5 features and how they are going to help in the production environments. I am also planning to write blogs on some of these topics, so stay tuned! 

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October 2, 2020 at 11:49AM