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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Honey

Honey is a sweet and thick fluid produced by honey bees from the nectar of flowers. According to the United States National Honey Board and various international food system, honey stipulates a pure product that does not allow for the addition of any other substance...this includes, but is not limited to, water or other sweeteners. This article refers exclusively to the honey produced by honey bees honey twisted by other bees or other insect have very different properties. Honey is significantly sweeter than table sugar and has attractive chemical properties for baking. Honey has a typical flavor which leads some people to prefer it over sugar and other sweeteners.

Most microorganisms do not grow in honey because of its low water movement of 0.6[2]. However, it is important to note that honey frequently contains dormant end spores of the bacteria Clostridium outline, which can be perilous to infants as the end spores can transform into toxin-producing bacteria in the infant's immature intestinal tract, leading to disease and even death. The study of pollens and spores in raw honey can determine floral sources of honey. Because bees carry an electrostatic charge, and can attract other particles, the same techniques of melissopalynology can be used in area ecological studies of radioactive particles, sand, or particulate pollution.

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Blocks

In computing, block size indicates a nominal size, usually expressed in bytes or bits, of a mass of data. Data thus controlled is said to be blocked. The process of putting data into blocks is called blocking. Blocking is used to assist the handling of the data-stream by the computer program receiving the data. Blocked data is generally read a block at a time. Blocking is almost universally employed when storing data to 9-track magnetic tape, to turning media such as floppy disks, hard disks, and optical discs, and to NAND flash memory.

Block storage is normally abstract by a file system or database management system for use by applications and end users. Database management systems(DBMS) often use their own Block I/O for superior performance and recoverability as compare to layering the DBMS on top of a file system.