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It's On: Todd Young Files for Congress
A new development in the 9th District Republican race today.
It's been a long time coming, you might say.
From the Bedford Times-Mail:
Paoli lawyer explores run for Congress
Opposes Obama stimulus plan
PAOLI — Saying many Hoosiers are becoming troubled by the prospect of trillion-dollar federal deficits, Paoli attorney and Bloomington resident Todd Young today filed papers with the Federal Election Commission to create an exploratory campaign committee for Indiana's Ninth Congressional District.
Connie Nass, former Indiana State Auditor and mayor of Huntingburg, is serving as treasurer of Young's committee. State Sen. Brent Steele, R-Bedford, is a senior adviser.
The 9th District seat is held by veteran Rep. Baron Hill, a Democrat from Seymour. Hill defeated Republican Mike Sodrel in 2008, and the seat will be up for election again in 2010.
"I know it is early to be talking about a political campaign, but it is not too early to be concerned about the dangerous levels of deficit spending now being recommended by Congress and the Obama administration," Young, a former policy adviser to Sen. Dick Lugar, said in a prepared statement.
If President Obama signs into law a stimulus bill of $825 billion, the fiscal '09 deficit will soar to at least $1.3 trillion, more than double last year's $541 deficit, Young's statement asserts. By 2010, total federal debt could reach $14 trillion, or 95 percent of the nation's gross domestic product, he said.
President Obama is arguing that the stimulus bill will create up to 4 million new jobs.
"Americans may not realize how enormously inefficient this bill would be," Young said. "These enormous deficits are ultimately going to force huge tax increases on the American public or trigger an inflationary cycle that will greatly reduce the buying power of Americans' savings and retirement accounts. We have not seen deficit spending on this scale since World War II. It's time to sound the alarm."
A bit more here. Partial bio here. More substantial bio of Todd Young here.
Above, I noted that this run was a long time in coming. It was.
Todd Young first floated his name to run for the 9th District in 2008, a possibility met with concern from Baron's camp. He politely deferred, however, when Mike Sodrel decided to run against Baron Hill for a fourth time. Since standing aside, Young has focused on poking Baron over government spending, energy, and ethics issues in a variety of letters to the editor (here, here, and here). Since the election, he has started to test the waters about a possible campaign.
Todd Young's deferral to the respected (and de facto incumbent) Mike Sodrel has not locked up the 2010 nod for him, but I think it has won him a lot of respect among base activists, county party organizations, and so forth. That will carry him far should there be a primary contest (perhaps with Jasper doctor Richard Moss and/or Columbus conservative activist Travis Hankins).
Had Young challenged Sodrel in the primary 2008, he would have likely been trounced and might well be less acceptable in 2010 (even after Sodrel's defeat) as a consequence. That's the sort of lesson that folks up north lining up to run against Dan Burton might want to consider.
So Todd Young is making news. Anyone heard anything else about Travis Hankins, Richard Moss, or any other potential candidates?


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Just curious what you all are using to treat your tap water, and what you think about them.
Are they all the same? Currently I use a dechlorinator by wardley called Chlor-Out. Its very cheap but does not claim to remove nitrites/ammonia (however, my tap doesn't have nitrites/ammonia -- right?). How important is it to use a conditioner that "stimulates the slime coat" of fish? What is the best conditioner for a planted tank?
i use aquaplus.
it seems to have worked LOL :lol:
I also use aquaplus by Hagen as my favoured conditioner.
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Prime by Seachem .... my tapwater has ammonia in it (.25) right out of the tap and a 6.2 ph. I would never have thought that my tapwater had traceable ammonia ... but low and behold, it does. I'd recommend having tap water tested, just so you know what your "base" is.
i use proaquatics it allso has stress coat in it
I use a double dose of NovAqua Plus and a Double Dose of AmQuel plus. I am told that in my area you cannot possibly use too much water conditioner, between the chlorine, the cholramine, the sulfur, ammonia, copper, nitrates, and assorted plausibly deniable byproducts of officially non-existant goverment projects. That combination gives me water that my fish really seem to like. The NovAqua takes care of the dissolved organics, the Amquel takes care of the metals and sulfur, and the two of them take the halides out.
I used to use Tetra Aquasafe, but have since found that API Stress Coat is much better value.
i use prime
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How can I respond to rude comments about my baby's looks?
My baby looks nothing like my husband. People constantly ask him if the baby is his. His friends and family even imply that our son might not be his child! How should we handle these rude comments?
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I was born with flaming orange/red hair that tends to skip generations on my dad's side. Mom has brown and Dad has black hair. People always asked my mother "Where did she get the red hair?" My mom would jokingly laugh and say, "The Milkman" (this was when the milkman still came door to door). What was really funny was that our milkman HAD bright red hair! :(Don't worry, no hanky-panky here) Well, I noticed that people always laughed when this was said, so like any 3 year old trying to please, when someone asked me that one day, I too responded, "The milkman!" I couldn't figure out why no one thought it was funny when I said it! Mostly, be happy when people admire your child, chalk up their rude comments to their mother that never taught them manners, and I agree with the mother that said she would tell people that her baby's looks came from God!posted 09/22/2004 by avian89
As hard as it may be, just ignore them. My older daughter had juandice when she was younger, with dark hair, and everyone thought that she must be biracial. This continued until now, and she is 6. She favors people from the Irish side of our family with dark curly hair and light blue eyes actually, but you wouldn't believe how many people, including some black people, who think she must be from a father different from the rest of my kids. Emily just tells them that is how God made her. THere are some things that you just can't change. My daughter's features resemble those of my husband, and we make sure to point that out to her so that she doesn't think anything about who her parents are.posted 09/22/2004 by a BabyCenter Member
My son was the spitting image of me when I was a baby and that was when I LOOKED what I am, 50% Japanese and 50% Caucasian. Now I look Caucasian and some other asian/hispanic and my husband is Filipino/Spanish, so it was so funny (but it also was insulting) when people made comments about him looking Japanese. The worst one was when one of my husband's distant aunts looked suspiciously at me and our son and asked my husband directly, "Oh, how come he looks Japanese?" I just politely waved my hand in the air to get her attention and answered, "Auntie, I'm half-Japanese!" I laugh about it now (people still make comments) because he is 3 years old and I've gotten used to it. Now my 3-month old daughter looks like my husband (a caucasian version of him). Now the comments I hear are, "Wow, she's got some brows on her!" I guess black eyebrows do stand out on porcelain colored skin! Oh well, there will always be people who lack tact and make comments without thinking about the other person's feelings. Just take their inconsiderate comments with a grain of salt. You will probably laugh about it one day!posted 09/22/2004 by songrose
When they ask if the baby is his, just ask if their boobs are theirsposted 09/21/2004 by a BabyCenter Member
I would just tell them that he is unique and that if they don't like it they can stop coming over. Or you can say "would you like us to get a dna test?" that should stop all the remarks.posted 09/21/2004 by a BabyCenter Member
When someone feels they have to come over to our table in a restraunt and they tell us our daughter "doesn't look much like daddy" I often reply "why, you know him too?" Usually shuts them up pretty quick.posted 09/21/2004 by simone rayment
Just ignore them! Dont worry about it and if someone tries to tell u anything again just completely turn your back and walk away! Dont let them even finish what they have to say. If they dont realize how much it hurts you then dont give them the time of day to even hear them out. Dont waste your life on other ppls B.S. Bottom line, You two created this beautiful child and love him with all you heart. That is all that matters!posted 09/21/2004 by a BabyCenter Member
Wow, I have never heard so many oversensitive people in one place. Relax and laugh a little, will ya? I love for people to pay attention to my baby and joke with me. I can honestly say that I have never heard one of these comments come out as "rude", people are just making conversation, not insulting you. I have said the same thing myself, and be honest...so have all of you!!posted 09/21/2004 by a BabyCenter Member
I know it is easier said than done, but I wouldn't worry too much about what other people think. Most of us waste way too much precious time worrying about what other people think and letting the things people say get to us. When we do that, we are giving these people a measure of control over our lives- and chances are THEY didn't even remember what they said 10 minutes after they said it, while we're still thinking about what they said weeks later!!! Don't give people that kind of control over your life!!! There are a lot of people in this world who are lacking in social graces- and the sense of what should and should not be said. Let that be their problem and not yours. That said, there is nothing unusual about a child not looking like one of the parents or neither of them (and there are cases of adopted children looking EXACTLY like the adoptive parents!!!) My husband and I have two sons- the older one looks exactly like me and the younger one looks exactly like his Daddy, so when I'm out with my younger one, he doesn't look like he even belongs to me! They are beautiful and perfect the way God made them! I have two neices who are sisters- one has blond hair, blue eyes, and fair skin; the other has black hair, brown eyes, and dark skin. It all depends on what genes the child inherits. Enjoy your beautiful baby and learn not to take things people say to heart- chances are they don't mean anything by it anyway. Your child- like all children- was made in the image and likeness of God, so that is all that matters anyway.posted 09/21/2004 by a BabyCenter Member
My husband and I got pregnant before we were married, and then were married shortly before our daughter was born. His parents were out here for the birth of our little girl, and his mother made some comment to him about the baby looking like one of our friends, not even a full day after she was born. I knew that she was mine and my husband's child, however, his mother kept rambling on and on about how we should take a paternity test, because she didn't believe the child was his, and she was making our lives hell in the process. So finally, I gave in, we took a paternity test, had the results mailed to her, and made her feel like shit in the process. I'm sure a lot of other people on this board haven't gotten that from one of your family members, but the reason we took one was to get rid of the tension in the family. But believe me, when our daughter gets old enough and if she asks what happened on her birthday, she's going to hear exactly what happened, and if she chooses not to have contact with her Gamma(as she'd like to be called) that's her decision.posted 09/21/2004 by MissJayde528
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A Holts Summit couple is in custody after a search of their residence yielded drugs and stolen firearms Thursday.
With assistance from the Callaway County Sheriff's Office, the Jefferson City Police Department SWAT team and K9, the MUSTANG drug task force executed a search warrant on the residence of Kevin and Melissa Hiatte on County Road 4006.
While searching the house, Callaway Sheriff Dennis Crane said officers found methamphetamine and marijuana as well as 15 guns.
"We recovered two guns that were stolen — a rifle that was actually from a 2000 case in Callaway County and a handgun that was reported stolen in Cole County about a month ago," Crane said.
Kevin and Melissa Hiatte both were arrested at the scene and were taken to the Callaway County Jail.
Kevin Hiatte, 45, faces charges of possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine), possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. He also was arrested on a Callaway County warrant for first-degree tampering with a motor vehicle. He is being held on $10,000 bond.
Melissa Hiatte, 46, faces charges of possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine) and possession of marijuana. She is being held on $4,500.
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Justin and I were just talking about Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Jamie Moyer, because that's what cool guys in their mid-20s do on Friday nights. This of course led to us dorks looking up his statistics on Baseball-Reference. While perusing, something caught my eye: Jamie Moyer is making his 600th career start today.
Isn't that sort of a big deal? I haven't heard a single thing about it. I searched for it on Google News and found absolutely nothing.
600 games started in the majors, think about that. Only two other active pitchers have done that: Tom Glavine(682) and Randy Johnson(602).
All-time, only 20 other pitchers have done that: Greg Maddux(740, 4th All-time) and Roger Clemens(707, 7th All-time) the only others from this era. Putting steroids and whatnot aside, that's four of the greatest pitchers of all-time in Glavine, Johnson, Maddux, and Clemens.
Moyer, 46, has had a great career, putting together a 252-191 record and a 4.23 ERA over 23 seasons. However, he's unlikely to make the Hall of Fame, or get other very notable achievements like the other pitchers I mentioned, such as winning 300 games. It doesn't mean the dude doesn't deserve some serious props though, and I think we don't talk about what he's done enough. He hardly ever even hits over 80 mph or so on the radar gun anymore. He's a magician and it's a joy to watch him to pitch.
So when you're having an awesome time on this 4th of July with your family and friends, consider drinking one or six for Jamie Moyer for this incredible feat in America's pastime.
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Does having an affair make me a bad mom?
My husband and I had a BIG issue, and I filed for divorce, long story short we separated for a little bit but work things out. In the middle of that I met somebody and let my self have, what I though would be my first "one night stand", this guy was married too and lives in a different country. I know I did it in part because I was so mad and upset about how my husband hurt me. The problem is that the one time casual sex partner continues to contact me and for some reason I keep answer him. I love my husband and do NOT love this other guy, I know this is wrong and I am not willing to jeopardize my family, I see my self as my children's role model, so it would be devastating if they would find out. Do you think if I would have to face a custody battle, being unfaithful makes me a bad mother? I work full time, but still am the main care taker for our 2 children, I am on top of all the school work and I am home when they wake up and I read them stories before bed...
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Affairs hurt the children more than anyone else. Adults can recover eventually, but this scars children for life and affects their future relationships. Good luck to you.posted 06/02/2010 by chi-lisa
Yea, stop doing it because you are going to get caught if your husband has half a brain. He can drag you through the mud in court with it too... adultery ruins your "character" to a judge and you have way too much to loose. You want to have casual "sex"? Get a battery operated toy and have some self-respect.posted 06/03/2010 by *Orly*Yarly*
Yes.posted 06/01/2010 by MamaBurrito
It sounds like you just messed up . . . everyone does. It also sounds like you understand the consequences that will come if your actions are ever found out . . . they probably will be. What makes you a bad mother is if, knowing the consequences, you continue to mess up. You owe it to your kids to get your act together.posted 06/07/2010 by hardyk1
YES! Children do have ways of finding things out. And what kind of example are you showing to your children? Having an affair or cheating is wrong, but what's worse is when you have children. I understand that we all make mistakes, so I think that if you broke it off with the boyfriend, and stopped talking to him altogether, would be a good start to a better life. I think it's worth it to make things better between you and your husband. A lot of people don't work on what's wrong in a relationship, and instead try to find what they're missing in someone else. Be brave and fix things with your family, do it for your children. That would be a better example to set for your children. Good luck!posted 07/16/2010 by AuroraMoonWolf
Think of this, if your child can't trust mommy to be honest then how will they trust other people to be honest? Your actions will affect your children in the long run and also future relationships. Fyi, this is what my therapist told me. I was not the cheating parent, but affected child of a cheating parent.posted 11/27/2010 by a BabyCenter Member
yes.. you need to stop. you need to either leave your husband or ditch the boyfriend. you're not being a good example for your children.posted 05/31/2010 by a BabyCenter Member
yes - having been the chiild of a parent who had an affair, I have to answer with a resounding YES IT DOES!posted 06/06/2010 by a BabyCenter Member
Not only have you already jepordized your family you continue to do so by contacting you one night stand. Obviously that was not just that since you still tt him. Seriously please cpnsider your children before lettingvyour morals slip you are a mother before a woman.posted 12/13/2010 by a BabyCenter Member
You have already jepordized your family by doing this. I would get yourself staightened out if you want your family to work. You know why you keep answering him. No it doesn't make you a bad mom, but what kind of woman or person do you want to be? How do you want them to know you?posted 06/05/2010 by a BabyCenter Member
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Retrieving from a large table with lobs gives an OutOfMemoryException, even if free() is explictly called on the lob. I believe this is because EmbedConnection.addLobMapping is called for every lob creation but is never cleared until commit or rollback, even if the lob is freed.
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Going ahead and closing this issue. It would be good to have a regression test though.
I was thinking about whether to close this issue. Is there still a regression test coming?
Fix merged to 10.4 branch at revision 644916.
I am not setting this to resolve yet, since I think a test case for this should be added to the test suite.
It would be good if a test code be made based on the program that reproduced this error.
Thanks, for the updates, Anurag
Patch v4 committed at revision 644764.
Putting remove mapping in else was a mistake. Sorry about that.
I have moved it above other cleanup operation so that hash table is
cleared irrespective of the result of other clean up.
Is the removeLOBMapping put in the right plcae?
Don't you have to do it regardless of whether it is materialized or not?
Maybe it should have been put in a finally block like for EmbedClob? (Ref. Kathey's comment on my initial patch)
Added localConn.removeLOBMapping in Blob.free
BlobClob4BlobTest runs fine with this change. I am
running suites.All now.
Thanks Oystein for pointing out. I missed it, I will upload the patch after adding this.
Thanks for the patch Anurag. Comments:
- I guess you need to do removeLOBMapping in EmbedBlob#free too.
- Any resaon to keep references for already freed objects around until end of transaction?
in derby-3354_v2.diff I have fixed the issues Kristian had pointed out.
junit suites runs without any failure wit this patch.
Thanks Kristian for looking at the patch.
I will make the changes you have suggested and upload the patch.
I am not planing for any more version of this patch (except for review changes.)
I haven't validated the approach, but it seems reasonable. I applied the patch and compiled Derby.
Some very minor things you can consider changing:
1) Typos: "refrences" -> "references" (5 occurrences)
2) Use of a space between the method call / declaration and the following parenthesis is not consistent.
3) Trailing whitespace at diff lines 28, 107 and 148.
4) You could change the comment for the weak hash map to JavaDoc.
Nice and small change
Is this the final patch, or are the more coming up?
Description of derby-3354_v1.diff
This patch introduces a new WeakHashMap in EmbedConnection. EmbedBlob and EmbedClob objects references are stored in this
map (objects as key and null as value). Adding entry to locater map is
differed till the first call of getLocater.
This ensures that there is entry of LOB objects in locater map if they are invoked in embedded mode.
As the keys of WeakHashMap doesn't prevents the objects from being
garbage collected, once the lob objects are unreferenced lob objects will
be garbage collected releasing the memory.
During commit/rollback or Connection.close, free is invoked on all the lob
objects from WeakHashMap and the map is cleared.
Modified files
Added a new attribute lobRefrences of type WeakHashMap.
Added a new method addLOBReference to make an entry in new
hash map.
Modified clearLOBMapping to use lobRefrences to fetch and invoke free on lob objects instead of lobHashMap.
Modified constructs to call connection.lobRefrences instead of conn.addLOBMapping.
Modified getLocater method to check if the locater value is non zero
before returning and if its zero calling conn.addLOBMapping to make
entry of lob objects and getting locater value.
Calling removeLOBMapping in free method.
Cleanup of temporary file is already being taken care by the finalizer of
LOBStreamControl so I haven't added any new cleanup code for
lang and jdbcapi junit tests running clean with this patch applied. I am running rest of the test suite and will update the results of the same.
I do think that it is a good idea to put disk operations in a finalizer, but it should be possible to record work that needs to be done (e.g., at transaction commit). I do not think delaying clean-up of files until db reboot is acceptable since a server may be running for months without a reboot.
Thanks Øystein for look at the patch.
My question is whether it is OK that free is not called on the LOB objects that are garbage-collected this way. Are you certain that all associated resources (e.g., temp files) will be released? Maybe some finalizer clean-up will also be needed?
If there is no free called (or release on internal clob) the temporary file will not be cleaned. But the temporary file
system is cleaned every time db boots up. I was under impression that disk operations are not allowed from
finalize. Probably I was wrong. I will check and if its not restricted I will add finalizer for EmbedClob and
Other comments/questions:
- It seems getLocator will create a new locator on every call. I think there should be just a single locator per object. Otherwise, I think the clean-up will be difficult.
I will be checking it to check if the locator is 0 before calling addMapping.
- free: Willl removeLOBMapping handle correctly the cases where a locator has not been set?
HashMap ignore remove call if key is not found in the Map So there is no problem If we call
remove with invalid key.
- typo: Refrence
I will fix this,
If I understand correctly, the idea behind using a WeakHashMap is that if this is the only reference, it should not prevent the referred object from being garbage-collected.
In other words, as long as a user thread or the network server through locators, refers to the object, it will not be garbage-collected, but if such references does not exist, the object will be garbage-collected. This is an interesting idea.
My question is whether it is OK that free is not called on the LOB objects that are garbage-collected this way. Are you certain that all associated resources (e.g., temp files) will be released? Maybe some finalizer clean-up will also be needed?
Other comments/questions:
- It seems getLocator will create a new locator on every call. I think there should be just a single locator per object. Otherwise, I think the clean-up will be difficult.
- free: Willl removeLOBMapping handle correctly the cases where a locator has not been set?
- typo: Refrence
In this patch I have introduced a WeakHashMap to hold lob objects.
The WeakHashMap has lob objects as key and null as values.
The existing lobMapping is used only if a locater is requested (ie when accessed from client driver).
With this patch the attached test case (LocLeak.java) runs without getting out of memory exception (without free call from LocLeak).
This patch has changes related to Clob only and I havn;t run any test other that attached LocLeak. I will submit a complete patch shortly.
LobMapping and locater is used by the stored procedures (on behalf of
network driver) to get hold of a particular lob object. LobMapping is additionally
used to clear the lob object during commit/rollback and connection close.
Separating these two functionality in two different collections may solve OOM problem.
We can continue to have LobMapping only if the LOB is created through client driver (entry will
be made in LOBMapiing in getLocator)
Create methods will make an entry to a new collection holding week references of the LOBs.
This will ensure that LOB will get garbage collected if they unreferenced in Embedded
mode but in case of client server mode the references will be protected from being garbage
collected unless free is called by the stored procedure.
Kathey, I agreed that more needs to be done for a final patch. I just put together a patch with the core fix to make it possible to try out the fix.
To your issues:
1) Creating a finally block in EmbedBlob seems like a good idea. I also agree that we can remove similar code from the stored procedures.
2) I will think about solution for jdk15. The problem introduced by 10.3 is that the lob mapping keeps Blob/Clob objects alive that earlier would be gc'ed when it was no longer referred by the user. I guess another level of indirection would make it possible to use finalizers to clean up, but I am not sure that is a good idea.
A work-around is to not create Blob objects in the first place, but use ResultSet#getBytes etc instead. So the problem is limited to the case where a Blob object need to be accessible after a call to ResultSet#next, but not until commit.
3) Seems like there is come concurrent access to the HashMap. I would guess that this is because the iterator created by rollback, detects that the underlying collection has been changed. Probably through the calls to free in the loop using the iterator. I think this show that something needs to be reorganized a bit here.
Also should the removeLobMapping calls be removed from LobStoredProcedures.BLOBRELEASELOCATOR and CLOBRELEASELOCATOR now that the release happens in free()?
Thanks for the patch. I tried it out and it and have a few comments.
1) In EmbedBlob should the call to localConn.removeLOBMapping(locator); be in a finally block like it is in EmbedClob?
2) In jdk15 we don't have free() so would still have a leak. Do you have any suggestions for a jdk15 solution?
3) I removed the call to free() from the repro and ran
java LocLeak and got.
Retrieving row 99000
Exception in thread "main" java.sql.SQLException: Java exception: ': java.util.ConcurrentModificationException'.
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory40.getSQLException(SQLExceptionFactory40.java:95)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.Util.newEmbedSQLException(Util.java:88)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.Util.javaException(Util.java:245)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.TransactionResourceImpl.wrapInSQLException(TransactionResourceImpl.java:403)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.TransactionResourceImpl.handleException(TransactionResourceImpl.java:346)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection.handleException(EmbedConnection.java:1946)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection.rollback(EmbedConnection.java:1521)
at LocLeak.main(LocLeak.java:14)
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Java exception: ': java.util.ConcurrentModificationException'.
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory.getSQLException(SQLExceptionFactory.java:45)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory40.wrapArgsForTransportAcrossDRDA(SQLExceptionFactory40.java:13
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.SQLExceptionFactory40.getSQLException(SQLExceptionFactory40.java:70)
... 7 more
Caused by: java.util.ConcurrentModificationException
at java.util.HashMap$HashIterator.nextEntry(HashMap.java:793)
at java.util.HashMap$ValueIterator.next(HashMap.java:821)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection.clearLOBMapping(EmbedConnection.java:2737)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection.rollback(EmbedConnection.java:1519)
... 1 more
The attached patch makes the repro run without getting an OutOfMemory error.
This is achieved by removing the LOB object from the locator mapping.
I am not setting patch available since test cases should also be added,
and I have not run the regression test suites.
> I believe this is because EmbedConnection.addLobMapping is called for every lob creation but is never cleared until commit or rollback, even if the lob is freed.
I believe your analysis is correct. free() should remove the mapping. Unfortunately, the lob doesn't know about its locator value, but it seems like your about to change that by adding a getLocator() method in
DERBY-3243 I wrote:
> Another thing I came to think about: Would it be better to remove addLOBMapping() from the constructors in EmbedBlob/EmbedClob and instead call it lazily from getLocator()? (...) Then we'd also remove the overhead of maintaining the lob mapping in embedded mode.
I think that change would fix the OOME (on embedded, but we'd probably still see it in a client/server environment).
Now, it seems like
DERBY-2787 added the call to addLOBMapping() intentionally to ensure that free() was called on commit/rollback and temporary files would be deleted. Moving addLOBMapping() out of the constructors would probably reintroduce the problem with temporary files not being deleted. However, the lobs only create temporary files when they are modified and the new size of the lob is greater than the buffer in LOBStreamControl, so it shouldn't be necessary to have commit/rollback call free() on all lobs to delete the temporary files. It would probably be enough if each lob added itself to a list in the connection each time a temporary file was created in LOBStreamControl.init(). (addLOBMapping() is probably OK, but it feels a bit strange to piggyback on a locator mechanism to do this cleanup when we don't actually care about the locators.)
This regression was caused by the following checkin:
r546881 | bernt | 2007-06-13 07:06:30 -0700 (Wed, 13 Jun 2007) | 1 line
DERBY-2787 make entry for clob in connection so that temporary file is removed when a connectionn is commited/rolledback. Submitted by Anurag Shekhar
Marking as regression as I confirmed this does not occur with 10.2.2.0
Atttached is a program to reproduce this issue.
Run java -Xmx16M LocLeak. I got the error on the 68000 row of retreival with the free(). Sooner if I didn't call free.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:2882)
at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.expandCapacity(AbstractStringBuilder.java:100)
at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.append(AbstractStringBuilder.java:390)
at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:119)
at java.lang.Object.toString(Object.java:219)
at java.lang.String.valueOf(String.java:2827)
at java.lang.StringBuffer.append(StringBuffer.java:219)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedConnection.restoreContextStack(EmbedConnection.java:1960)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.ConnectionChild.restoreContextStack(ConnectionChild.java:131)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.UTF8Reader.fillBuffer(UTF8Reader.java:567)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.UTF8Reader.read(UTF8Reader.java:245)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.ClobUpdatableReader.read(ClobUpdatableReader.java:154)
at org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedClob.getSubString(EmbedClob.java:225)
at LocLeak.dump_db(LocLeak.java:50)
at LocLeak.main(LocLeak.java:13)
Note there may be problems freeing the locators on garbage collection, because client relies upon them even after there is no embedded reference.


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when nursing my he was sucking and at the same time my milk let down
my 7 week old was just nursing and while he was sucking my milk let down and he stared choking really badly and after he was crying alot and i calmed him down 5 or 10 mins after....is there any reason to be concerned maybe for medical reasons? i am a new mum also
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Thank you ill have to try theseposted 08/07/2013 by sarahgalata
*continued**** until the flow slows. *hand express/pump- hand express or pump a bit until the flow slows. try these out and see which one works for you and baby. goodluck mama... it will get better.posted 08/07/2013 by JustUs4in2013
it sounds like you have what is called "overactive letdown" or "forceful letdown". what happens is... baby will suck. when letdown happens, its so much and so fast that baby cannot handle the flow and starts gagging and choking on it. imagine us laying down and we have the garden hose in our mouth on full blast. yikes right? i know! my dd and I went through this when she was much younger. she is 5months now and nurses like a champ and we no longer have this problem. it will get better as they get older cause they will be better at managing the flow. heres a couple things you can try-- * laid back feeding- you lean back and let baby nurse on top of you. they will have better control of the milk flow and eat at their own pace. *side lying- this helps because baby can dribble out any extra milk from the side of their mouth. make sure you put a towel underneath baby or your bed will be soaked. *spray onto a towel- when letdown happens, delatch baby and spray onto a burp clothposted 08/07/2013 by JustUs4in2013
My milk supply is low and I have been drinking more water and taking fenugreek and been nursing and pumping and I now just started lactating again but this is the first time its been forceful...I try to nurse on the side that produces less (left) first but I switched it up....does he suck hard cause I give him bottles too or because routinely I start with the left which produces less and he's not used to the flow?posted 08/06/2013 by sarahgalata
sounds like you have a forceful let down...it happens to some women, maybe try feeding him more often so he is not as hungry and thus not sucking so hard...other than that I would call a lactation consultant or le leche league for adviceposted 08/06/2013 by m25kids
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- 3/4 pound pork tenderloin
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- 3 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- 2 tablespoons chicken broth
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
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1 serving (4 ounces) equals 238 calories, 11 g fat (5 g saturated fat), 85 mg cholesterol, 502 mg sodium, 7 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 27 g protein.
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The donation that is requested in exchange for a personal Distance Reiki session is not payment for the service, but rather a love offering intended to balance the energies of giving and receiving.
Reiki healing complements traditional medicine. Everyone is able to benefit from it. However, I am not a doctor, nor a health care professional of any kind. Reiki healing should not be construed as the practice of medicine. Although it is my sincere hope and prayer that you will receive the healing that you desire, no specific outcomes can be predicted or guaranteed. If you are experiencing physical or psychological problems, you should seek medical attention. If you are already under the care of a physician, you should continue to follow your treatment plan as prescribed.


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Chris has been working on this program for a while now...
He started off by giving the program in a raw form to several friends and members on this forum and they experienced very favourable increases in their bench press, many much more than the modest 30lbs in the title of the program.
So, Chris decided to put a bit more work into the program and cover all angles - how to train, eat and supplement to increase your bench press AT LEAST 30lbs in 30 days!
Here is the personal introduction to the program from Chris himself:
Enjoy!Your reaction upon reading the title of this guide was one of disbelief and curiosity, wasnt it? I understand.
There are a lot of people making a lot of promises out there and very few of them pan out. Your personal gym experience also influences your reaction to the title. You have not experienced such fantastic progress and follow all of the advice you have gathered from the net and in print. Undoubtedly, you have heretofore come to the conclusion that such progress is only possible with anabolic steroids and inhuman heredity.
I am here to tell you it can and has been done, drug-free, and that includes experienced trainees. With the right combination of proper training, diet, rest, and supplementation you can do it!
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Kitchen & Bath Design Resourcescomments (1) October 15th, 2012 in Blogs
The Fine Homebuilding archives are full of design tips and material reviews that could help you to plan your dream project. To make things easier for you, we've created this collection of some of the best kitchen and bath articles from our magazine departments.
Ideasa for making kitchens more functional, comfortable, and attractive
Drop-in Dining
To accommodate visits from grown children and many grandchildren in his parents' relatively small kitchen, architect Tom Catalano designed this booth for their Maine home. A semicircular nook with a drop-leaf table was the perfect answer to maximizing both seating space and water views...
Read more about this and other booths, nooks, and banquettes
Bookshelf Divider Unites House
The rear portion of the clients' house was split in half by a wall that created two too-small areas: one a back entry/mudroom, the other a breakfast alcove. Architect Lynn Hopkins solved the problem with a bookcase, a closet, and a relocated door...
Read more about this breakfast-alcove transformation
A Window Seat with a Garden View
When Bill Mastin started working with Michael and Lianne, they expressed a fondness for the cozy quarters in their vintage 1920s bungalow. They needed to enlarge the house a bit to accommodate the whole family as the kids got older, but they didn't want to lose the sense of coziness. They also love books, and they prize reading as a shared family activity. That's just one of the ways that the 3-ft. by 7-ft. window seat at the south end of the kitchen gets used...
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Baking On the Go
My clients asked me to design a multipurpose kitchen/family room flexible enough to accommodate many tasks, including baking. However, they didn't want a dedicated baking area that would interfere with other activities or overwhelm the rest of the kitchen.
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Good gamesysteemid | Aug. 14, 2013 | Review of Mass Effect 3 - PC
Mass effect 3 is a good game. Had some really nice features. But it's not good as ME 2, but it's about same good as ME 1. Gameplay is good. Story is enthralling. There is a big minus and it's ending. The ending was just so disappointing. I hoped something cooler. It's pretty long game, it took me to complete this game about 35 hours. One good plus is environment, it looked so beatiful and there was many awesome places.


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Heat your grill to high.
Brush the fish with oil and season both sides of the fish with the salt and pepper. Place the fish on the grill, and grill for 3 to 4 minutes or until golden brown and slightly charred. Turn the fish over and continue grilling, for 3 to 4 minutes for medium doneness. Remove the fish from the grill and let rest 5 minutes.
Drizzle mojo over snapper and serve with grapefruit slices on the side.
1/4 cup olive oil
8 cloves roasted garlic
1 grapefruit, juiced
1/4 cup fresh orange juice
2 teaspoons grated grapefruit zest
1 teaspoon honey
2 serrano chiles, coarsely chopped
1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme leaves
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Bobcat of the Rockies becomes Morbark dealer
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Bobcat of the Rockies signed a contract to become the exclusive dealer of Morbark tree care equipment for Colorado as well as Albany, Carbon, Goshen, Laramie and Platte counties in Wyoming.
Bobcat of the Rockies, a division of Berry Companies, sells new and used equipment and offers parts and customer service in seven locations in Colorado and one in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
"Adding Morbark to our line of compact equipment allows us to better serve our customers working in tree and forest applications," said Patrick Kelleher, Bobcat of the Rockies sales manager. "We had a hole in our product offering without Morbark's quality tree care product, but now we can supply industry-leading products in everything from a chainsaw to a self- propelled forestry chipper."
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The following comments come from Jim Ratliff, a long time Steering Committee member and librarian at KVCC...
"The Kalamazoo Valley Museum hosted a Reading Together event Friday, March 18 with the screening of the movie Hotel Rwanda. The movie retells the true-life story of a compassionate Hutu hotel manager, Paul Rusesabagina, who housed and saved over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.
Early in the movie the hotel manager declares to his wife after their first witnessing of a neighbor's massacre, "There is nothing we can do." Little did he know the horrors that were ahead of him and his extraordinary, inspirational courage to do what he could to save persecuted friends, families and villagers from the machete.
Watching this movie 15 years after the genocide, attendees spoke of how they remembered there was conflict going on in Rwanda at the time, but had little understanding of the atrocities. Credible accounts estimate up to a million people were killed in just three months during the conflict. One million lives.
It was a difficult story to accept. Several members of the audience were moved to speak to me afterward proclaiming their sorrowful ignorance of the terrible history. Much like the stories retold by Tracy Kidder however, a distant tragedy was brought to life and made more real when recounted through the lives of individuals. Individuals with courage. Individuals who received help from friends and strangers. Individuals with determination to face adversity one day at a time. Individuals who did marvelous deeds to ensure the success of a cause larger than their own.
I'm thankful to the museum for offering this movie, the museum staff who stayed late and the attendees. With the exposure to Hotel Rwanda and Strength in What Remains, hopefully we will have he strength and courage to help others in times of need."
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They provide long lasting, summer color in my yard.
I recently had someone come into my yard and cut some of my hydrangeas without asking. I have to say it really angered me. How bold of someone to step right onto our lawn and take something that my husband and I worked hard to grow and maintain. After all, I don't even cut them because I want my shrubs to be full of blooms so the yard looks as beautiful as possible.
This morning the air was so cool and fresh and I was pulling a few weeds around one of the planting beds and I kept looking at the hydrangea bushes. After being inspired by this post and this post. I decided that if I clip from the back and thin the blooms where there are several in one spot I could bring a bouquet into my own home to enjoy. That's exactly what I did.
I recently purchased this galvanized metal container and I thought it would really pair well with the hydrangeas. I wasn't sure how it would hold water though. So I filled a tall glass vase with water and set that right inside the metal container and then arranged the flowers.
I had some fun playing with the photo's and also creating a color palette from them. What is your favorite variety of hydrangeas? I love them all. I think I might plant some of the giant, strawberry colored, variety next.
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The following are Schools at the Festival programs at the 2014 San Francisco International Film Festival. All screenings take place at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas at 1881 Post Street (at Fillmore) in San Francisco.
To find out how to get tickets, contact Keith Zwölfer at email@example.com or 415-561-5040.
Amazing Catfish
Tuesday, May 6, 12:30pm
Directed by Claudia Sainte-Luce (Mexico 2013, 89 min)
In Spanish with English subtitles
Set in Guadalajara, The Amazing Catfish follows the quiet transformation of a solitary young woman informally adopted and absorbed into a rambunctious matriarchy in a state of crisis. When solitary protagonist Claudia winds up in the hospital with appendicitis, she makes an unexpected connection with a fellow patient, single mother Martha (Lisa Owen). Martha's four children, who range in age from pre-adolescent to mostly grown, create a rowdy atmosphere in and out of the hospital, starkly contrasting with Claudia's muted existence. Confidently filmed by Claire Denis' long-time cinematographer, Agnès Godard, this spare but colorful film-set in Guadalajara and based loosely on true events from Saint-Luce's own life-embraces the inclination to define a family as the people you choose and are chosen by, not necessarily the ones you're born to.
Program Note: brief profanity, brief adult situation
Suggested Subjects: Arts/Media, Drama, Health, Latin American Studies, Middle School, Spanish, Women's Studies
Recommended Grades: 8-12
Cesar's Last Fast
Monday, April 28, 10:15am
Directed by Lorena Parlee & Richard Ray Perez (USA 2013, 100 min)
In English and Spanish with English subtitles
In 1988, Cesar Chavez embarked on what would be his last act of protest in his remarkable life. Driven in part to pay penance for feeling he had not done enough, Chavez began his "Fast for Life," a 36-day water-only hunger strike, to draw attention to the horrific effects of unfettered pesticide use on farm workers, their families, and their communities. . Using never-before-seen footage of Chavez during his fast and testimony from those closest to him, directors Richard Ray Perez and Lorena Parlee weave together the larger story of Chavez's life, vision, and legacy.
Suggested Subjects: Ethics/Religion, History, Latin American Studies, Middle School, Social Studies
Recommended Grades: 8-12
Monday, May 5, 10:00am
Directed by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari (Ethiopia 2014, 96 min)
In Amharic with English subtitles
In rural Ethiopia, a few hours outside of Addis Ababa, men on horseback, following local tradition, kidnap 14-year-old Hirut (Tizita Hagera) in a bid to force her to marry another villager. Her attempt to free herself from a preordained future sets off a legal firestorm in this powerful drama inspired by a true story that pits the law against an entrenched cultural mindset. Berhane Mehari captures Ethiopia's scenic beauty, as well as the ugliness of customs that endanger the lives and futures of young women. Based on a true story, Difret -the winner of audience awards at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals-is not only a compelling , suspenseful equal-rights saga, rife with political, cultural and legal insights, but also a hopeful, moving and provocative drama about resilience and the pursuit of justice.
Program Note: brief violence, brief profanity
Suggested Subjects: African Studies, Ethics/Religion, Middle School, Peer/Youth Issues, Social Studies, Women's Studies
Recommended Grades: 7-12
Fed Up
Monday, April 28, 10:00am
Directed by Stephanie Soechtig (USA 2014, 90 min)
Soechtig and her creative team, including co-writer Mark Monroe and narrator and executive producer Katie Couric, trace the obesity crisis to 1977 when a new set of government dietary guidelines offered a flawed nutrition model based on calories in and calories out without taking other factors-such as the harm caused by sugar-into consideration. Using lively graphics, timely archival clips and multiple interviews, Soechtig charts how food industry politics, money and lobbying muscle have acted in concert to determine America's nutritional choices. Soechtig and Couric illustrate the effects by following three obese children as they live their daily lives, fighting an uphill battle to lose weight. A pointed, issues-oriented documentary, Fed Up makes complex science and vague politics accessible and engaging as it answers big questions regarding the food industry and shows how its influence has expanded waistlines while compromising health.
Suggested Subjects: Elementary School, Health, History, Middle School, Peer/Youth Issues, Science, Social Studies
Recommended Grades: 5-12
Freedom Summer
Thursday, May 1, 10:00am
Directed by Stanley Nelson (USA 2013, 113 min)
Freedom Summer ushers the audience into the center of the Civil Rights conflict during the heated summer of 1964 in Mississippi, the nation's most segregated state at that time, and documents the efforts of more than 700 student volunteers who banded together with organizers and local African Americans to secure the right to vote for all US citizens. Penetrating a complicated minefield of social unrest, Freedom Summer shines a light on the many heroes of the movement, including Robert Moses and Fannie Lou Hamer, while examining widely noted events of that time: the Ku Klux Klan murders of James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner in Meridian, MS; the 1964 Democratic National Convention; and the eventual passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Freedom Summer provides poignant testimony for an imperative moment in our nation's history.
Program Note: historical footage containing brief violence
Suggested Subjects: African American Studies, Ethics/Religion, History, Journalism, Middle School, Political Science, Social Studies
Recommended Grades: 7-12
From Fact to Fiction *Schools at the Festival Exclusive Screening*
Thursday, May 8, 10:00am
Total running time 74 min
In English, and Russian with English subtitles
Collected from around the world, this compilation of short films explores a variety of storytelling techniques, from a documentary about the beginnings of an iconic sports gesture to an animated tale recounting the history of sound and picture in films. This collection gives students the perfect smorgasbord of all the SF International Film Festival has to offer.
Suggested Subjects: Arts/Media, English, History, Journalism, Middle School, Social Science, Social Studies
Recommended Grades: 7-12
Wednesday, April 30, 10:30am
Directed by Thomas Balmès (France/Finland 2013, 80 min)
In Bhutanese with English subtitles
High in the snow-capped mountains of Bhutan, a mother leaves her son at a monastery to be raised as a monk. Peyangki would rather play than study, like most nine-year-old boys, and he is wont to slip away from the unpopulated cloister to turn cartwheels in his red tunic. While the wide-open outdoors is sufficient to distract the boy from the centuries-old routine of prayer and rituals, more sedentary (and, perhaps, deleterious) temptations encroach: Electricity is finally reaching the village, and with it television and the Internet. Balmès illuminates the seduction of technology-as well as its rapid encroachment-on an ancient way of life with an observant eye, reminding us how complicated and bittersweet the effects of progress can be.
Suggested Subjects: Asian Studies, Ethics/Religion, Peer/Youth Issues, Social Studies, World Affairs
Recommended Grades: 7-12
Havana Curveball *Schools at the Festival Exclusive Screening*
Wednesday, May 7, 10:00am
Directed by Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider (USA 2014, 60 min)
In English and Spanish with English subtitles
Playing with short film The High Five
Mica is a classic young teen. Enthusiastic. Idealistic. Dreaming about baseball. At 13, he is studying for his Bar Mitzvah, the Jewish coming of age rite. An earnest kid, he took to heart his Rabbi's requirement to help "heal the world." Imagining himself a savior of sorts, he launches a grand plan to send baseball equipment to Cuba, a country with a mysterious pull. He knows only that Cubans are poor and love baseball-and that Cuba saved his grandpa's life. On a hunch, his award-winning filmmaker parents pick up their camera. They know the U.S. embargo with Cuba will throw him a curveball. The High Five The origin of the seemingly most instinctual of celebratory gestures can be traced to a spontaneous moment between Los Angeles Dodgers Dusty Baker and Glenn Burke on October 2, 1977. (Michael Jacobs, USA 2014, 10 min)
Suggested Subjects: Ethics/Religion, History, Middle School, Peer/Youth Issues, Political Science, Social Studies
Recommended Grades: 6-12
Monday, April 28, 12:30pm
Directed by Kat Candler (USA 2014, 93 min)
A struggling father copes with the loss of his wife while blind to the emotional toll her death and his frequent absences have taken on his sons-a motocross-riding teenager and his brother, a sensitive pre-adolescent boy. Much of Hellion is familiar territory for Candler: its blue-collar Texas backdrop, the heavy metal music Jacob favors and the story of children coping with the loss of their mother. That familiarity pays off in a resonant tale of a father and son desperately trying to patch together their broken family. The drama also serves as a kind of acting clinic, as Paul delivers an emotional performance equal to his award-winning work in the acclaimed AMC drama Breaking Bad, while newcomer Wiggins makes a powerful, career-making debut.
Program Note: brief violence, profanity
Suggested Subjects: Arts/Media, Drama, English, Ethics/Religion, Peer/Youth Issues, Social Science
Recommended Grades: 9-12
School of Babel
Tuesday, April 29, 12:15pm
Directed by Julie Bertuccelli (France 2013, 89 min)
In French with English subtitles
A remarkable and powerful film, Julie Bertuccelli's documentary details a year in the life of a Parisian class of immigrant youth from countries around the globe-boys and girls ages 11 to 15-who have come to France to seek asylum, escape hardship or simply better their lives. They are placed in a "reception class" and given intensified training in learning and speaking French, and are brought up to par in various other subjects so that they can eventually assimilate and join their peers in regular classes. The vivid backgrounds of the students' lives-some of them heartbreaking-poignantly emerge as they bond with their teacher and each other. The honesty, innocence, intelligence, heart and pure communicativeness of these young people, as well as their frustrations and hopes for the future, offer a unique perspective on the immigrant experience in this extraordinarily touching film.
Suggested Subjects: African Studies, French, Middle School, Peer/Youth Issues, Social Science, Social Studies
Recommended Grades: 6-12
Shorts: Family Films **Four Showtimes**
Screening #1 - Wednesday, April 30, 10:00am
Screening #2 - Friday, May 2, 10:00am
Screening #3 - Tuesday, May 6, 10:00am
Screening #4 - Monday, May 5, 10:00am
Total running time 77 min
In English and Korean with English subtitles
Travel from Kenya to Korea-and a few imaginary destinations in between-in this collection of short films for kids and families. A bear tries to find his old hat, a pig tries to make a new friend, a little girl tries to make her way through the streets of Seoul and the Oscar-winning animators of Moonbot Studios bring us two new films about making magical things: the alphabet and the movies.
Suggested Subjects: Arts/Media, Elementary School, English, Middle School, Peer/Youth Issues, Social Studies
Recommended Grades: 1-6
Shorts: Youth Works
Thursday, May 8, 12:45pm
Total running time 71 min
In English, and Spanish with English subtitles
Today's teen filmmakers live in a media-saturated culture, with the tools to create and distribute professional quality films at their fingertips. Their technical prowess, the quality of their storytelling and their fluency in visual language give voice to stories that are fresh and innovative. Lend your ear to a new generation, and join us in celebrating today's rising talents!
Suggested Subjects: Arts/Media, Drama, English, Journalism, Peer/Youth Issues, Social Studies
Recommended Grades: 6-12
Three Letters from China
Tuesday, April 29, 10:00am
Directed by Luc Schaedler (Switzerland 2013, 80 min)
In Mandarin with English subtitles
In the final film of his Asian trilogy, Swiss director Luc Schaedler presents three diverse, intimate and well-crafted portraits of life in contemporary China, each segment presenting an evocative and penetrating study of a different region. In the north, an elderly couple tenaciously clings to their family farm long after everyone else in the village, while their son and his wife negotiate a harsh existence in one of many grim industrial zones. An ancient rice-growing village in lush Guangxi Province in the south still struggles to heal the deep wounds inflicted during the upheaval, devastation and brutality of the Cultural Revolution. The final segment is a captivating and unusual glimpse of life in the modern mega-city of Chongqing on the Yangtze River. On the surface, the three depictions are transfixing and exotic, yet the themes and struggles that arise are startlingly familiar: small farmers are unable to make a living, fishermen are running out of fish to catch and families worry about job security. Over tea in a simple Chongqing cafe, a man speaks passionately of the deepening divide between the rich and the poor, and the world seems to be shrinking as he speaks.
Program Note: brief profanity
Suggested Subjects: Asian Studies, Chinese, History, World Affairs
Recommended Grades: 9-12


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If there were a few sprinkles of doubt as to why the Broncos decided to aggressively pursue Peyton Manning in the free-agent market, the team's 2012 schedule should blow them away.
Check out the quarterbacks the Broncos will be playing against this season: Tom Brady, Drew Brees and Big Ben Roethlisberger.
Three of the NFL's best with a combined six Super Bowl titles.
Wait, there's more. Much, much more.
Philip Rivers, Matt Ryan, Matt Schaub, Joe Flacco and Carson Palmer.
Rivers, Ryan and Flacco have a combined 150-74 regular-season record and five Pro Bowl appearances. Schaub and Palmer have a combined three Pro Bowls.
Then there are the young and talented Cam Newton, Andy Dalton and Josh Freeman.
When trying to match throw for throw against this schedule of quarterbacks, the Broncos will need a quarterback the caliber of Manning merely to keep up.
"There's no doubt, it's a quarterback-driven league, and I think it's becoming more and more that way as we go along," said Broncos coach John Fox. "With the rule changes and how everybody likes scoring, it's an important position."
Other highlights from the Broncos' schedule that was announced Tuesday:
• This is Fox's 11th schedule as an NFL head coach. His eyes knew right where to look — and no, it wasn't the Week 10 game at Carolina, where he was head coach from 2002-10.
"The first thing you look at is the bye," Fox said. "And then where you open up at. It's good that we're opening up at home, and we've got our bye as close to the middle as you can get without it being directly in the middle. Not too bad."
Denver's bye comes in Week 7. The Broncos open at home against Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers, who lost a playoff game in Denver last season.
• Each team in the NFL can be scheduled a maximum five prime-time games. Manning and the Broncos reached the max, including their first two weeks with the opener against the Steelers on a Sunday night and Game 2 in Atlanta against the Falcons on "Monday Night Football."
A team can be flexed into a sixth prime-time game later in the season.
"We have a schedule for everything," Fox said, "whether it's Thursday night to the following Sunday or it's a short week, Sunday night, Monday night. I think it's pretty much understood in this league that if you have success, you're going to play more prime-time night games. You have to adjust."
• The first half of Denver's schedule is brutally difficult on paper, with six of the first eight games against 2011 playoff teams. The other two are against AFC West rivals San Diego and Oakland.
The second half of the schedule is more favorable, at least on paper, with only one (Baltimore) of the Broncos' final eight games against a 2011 playoff team.
"When people talk about strength of schedule, you have to remember it can change dramatically," Fox said. "We went worst to first. San Francisco and the turnaround they had. One thing you can remember in this league is there are no cupcakes. What might have been a cupcake a year ago; they're the exact opposite. You just never know."
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Broncos 2012 schedule(All times mountain)
1. Sun., Sept. 9 ... PITTSBURGH .. 6:20 p.m. ... NBC
2. Mon. Sept. 17 ... at Atlanta ... 6:30 p.m. ... ESPN
3. Sun. Sept. 23 ... HOUSTON ... 2:15 p.m. ... CBS
4. Sun. Sept. 30 ... OAKLAND ... 2:05 p.m. ... CBS
5. Sun. Oct. 7 ... at New England ... 2:15 p.m. ... CBS
6. Mon. Oct. 15 ... at San Diego ... 6:30 p.m. ... ESPN
8. Sun. Oct. 28 ... NEW ORLEANS ... 6:20 p.m. ... NBC
9. Sun. Nov. 4 ... at Cincinnati ... 11 a.m. ... CBS
10. Sun. Nov. 11 ... at Carolina ... 11 a.m. ... CBS
11. Sun. Nov. 18 ... SAN DIEGO ... 2:15 p.m. ... CBS
12. Sun. Nov. 25 ... at Kansas City ... 11 a.m. ... CBS
13. Sun. Dec. 2 ... TAMPA BAY ... 2:05 p.m. ... FOX
14. Thu. Dec. 6 ... at Oakland ... 6:20 p.m. ... NFLN
15. Sun. Dec. 16 ... at Baltimore ... 11 a.m. ... CBS
16. Sun. Dec. 23 ... CLEVELAND ... 2:05 p.m. ... CBS
17. Sun. Dec. 30 ... KANSAS CITY ... 2:15 p.m. ... CBS
1. Thu. Aug. 9 ... at Chicago ... 7:30 ... KUSA-TV
2. Sat. Aug. 18 ... SEATTLE ... 7 p.m. ... KUSA-TV
3. Sun. Aug. 26 ... SAN FRANCISCO ... 2 p.m. ... FOX
4. Thu. Aug. 30 ... at Arizona ... 8 p.m. ... KUSA-TV


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Kissing Gourami
My Kissing Gourami's mate died a while ago. Since then I've bought a whole lot of tetras (variety) - all smaller tetras disappeared... It cost me a fortune!
This weekend I bought 2 beautifully sized Glass fish and this morning I found them dead in the tank. cOULD IT BE THE kISSING gOURAMI EATING THEM?
Please help.
I want to know if I can rather put the Kissing Gourami with a large Plecostamus, a Coridore,an Elephant nose fish, 2 sharks, a butterfly fish and a silver dollar in the same tank?
Or will these other fish attack and eat my kissing Gourami?
I am going to recommend that you check our profiles of some of these fish, as they will answer your questions, aqnd you have some stocking issues. Second tab from the left in the blue bar across the top of the page, or you can click on the shaded name in posts [if name is identical to the one in the profile it will shade, example Kissing Gourami]. This fish is predatory as it mentions therein.
I decided to put the Kissing Gourami in the beigger tank - my tetras are at peace now and the Kissing Gourami made friends with the BAl;a shark and the Silver Dollar - he (or she) seems quite content with the other larger species in teh big tank.
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