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I really can't say I disagree with much of anything he said here. For a couple of years now I have thought that prospects have become way over valued. After seeing the Scott Rolen trade and the benefits that good MLB players can add to a team I am even more in favor of trading prospects for proven vets. That said there is something about Wood that I would be very hesitant to trade him.2. I would never trade that prospect for Lee. There is so much wrong with statements like this, including that most of the people who make that statement have never even seen the minor leaguer play. There are many wonderful elements about the statistical revolution and what is available on the internet. But among the bad things is that it has made too many people feel that they know prospects who they do not really know at all.
There are too many folks who would not trade a Jesus Montero or a Wilmer Flores based on, at best, anecdotal or secondhand information.
I understand why prospects have become more valued than ever in the game. A strong feeder system is the best way to have cost containment. Also, with sterner drug testing older players have become a more risky proposition. Still, I think prospects have become over-valued. Teams are unwilling to discuss too many players in their system. They are still prospects, not sure things, while Lee is as sure as sure things get.
I know that there are all kinds of Jeff Bagwell-for-Larry Andersen nightmares that bring caution to trading prospects. But there is just as many triumphs if not more. I remember distinctly in 1995 the Yankees minor league heads imploring George Steinbrenner to overrule then GM Gene Michael and not include a prospect named Marty Janzen in a trade with Toronto for David Cone. The Boss sided with Michael, the Yanks obtained Cone and went to the playoffs because of it. Does anyone remember elite prospect Marty Janzen?
Even look back at the Mets horrid trade of Scott Kazmir for Victor Zambrano in 2004. That deal still looks bad, though not as bad as it did originally because Kazmir has faded relatively quickly in his career from a very good starter to a dubious one. But the real problem in that trade is not that the Mets gave up a blue-chip prospect. It is that they gave up a blue-chip prospect for Victor Zambrano, a pitcher with talent they were hoping to fix once he arrived in New York.
Cliff Lee is not Victor Zambrano. He is a finished product, a sure thing, tested in every forum you could think of: postseason, NL, AL, big northeastern city, etc.
If I can trade Francisco, Alonso and a C type prospect like Valliquette for Lee, sign me up.
Hugs, smiling, and interactive Twitter accounts, don't mean winning baseball. Until this community understands that we are cursed to relive the madness.
Even if Cliff Lee turns out to be a rental, who cares? If this team lets anybody in the minors not named Chapman stand in the way of getting Cliff Lee then my head will explode.
Redszone....I know it's been a long, long, long time since we've been able to say this but:
"Cliff Lee makes the Reds a contender for the World Series."
I cannot wrap my head around the fact that there are some here who are against trading for this man because of the loss of prospects.
"Strickland Propane... Taste the meat, not the heat." - Hank Hill
no matter if you think trading for Lee (for the discussed packages) is a good idea or not, isn't it fun for the Reds to be in serious discussions for the top trade deadline player on the market?
In 1999, Juan Guzman went 6-3 after being acquired at the deadline from the Orioles. He moved into the number one or two spot in the rotation and improved each spot below him. Most importantly he consistently saved the bullpen by going more deeply into his starts than the fifth man in the rotation. The trio of Williamson, Sullivan, and Graves had been a major factor in the Reds' successful season but were on the verge of major blowout because of overuse. The Reds would not have made it to that one game playoff if it hadn't been for Guzman and the innings he logged.
The Reds lost B.J. Ryan but at least the fans enjoyed an exciting run at the post season.
I agree and am against including Travis Wood. Alonso needs to be involved in this trade but good young affordable left handers like Wood need to be kept.Originally Posted by dougdirt
Btw, The Tampa newspaper is reporting the Rays are interested and may be dangling Upton in a three-way trade.
"I am your child from the future. I'm sorry I didn't tell you this earlier." - Dylan Easton
Francisco, Alonso, Maloney, and Frazier for Lee
Do it Walt!
"I could watch video of Griffey swinging all day. It's like baseball porn." - C. Trent Rosecrans
2008 Reds Record When I Attend: 9W - 5L
2009 Reds Record When I Attend: 1W - 2L
2010 Reds Record When I Attend: 1W - 0L
2011 Reds Record When I Attend: 0W - 1L
I'm betting we will be very surprised by who the M's get for Lee, no matter which team they trade him too, and are more likely to be underwhelmed than overwhelmed. While Lee is definitely the Belle of the Ball this trading deadline, there are a few available pitchers that could help contending teams.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein
wouldn't trying to get Haren be a 'buy low' move vs trying to get Lee which is clearly a 'buy high'. Plus Haren would be here for 2011-2012-2013.
Oswalt could also be had for less than Lee. One guy a bit under the radar who could be had is Greinke (owed $13.5M in 2011 & 2012). For all three of these guys their fat deals should lower the amount of talent that the Reds have to give up.
My concern with giving up a lot for Lee is that it compromises our ability to win in 2011-2012-2013. while we may get two draft picks they won't be early ones & certainly won't be as close to the bigs as the guys we give up. I personally would rather get one of the other available starters than Lee. it would help us this year & next. Giving up top talent is a bit of an 'all in' move yet their is certainly no guarantee that the team will have post season success with him.
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Johannesburg - Former president Nelson Mandela is in 'good spirits' as he continues his hospital stay to receive treatment for a recurring lung infection, the presidency said on Friday.
"Mandela is in good spirits and enjoyed a full breakfast this morning," said presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj in a statement.
"The doctors report that he is making steady progress."
Maharaj said Mandela remained under treatment and observation after he was taken to an undisclosed hospital just before midnight on Wednesday.
On Thursday, SA president Jacob Zuma told BBC news that people needed to "slow down the anxiety".
"In Zulu, when someone passes away who is very old, people say he or she has gone home. I think those are some of the things we should be thinking about," the news service quoted him as saying.
Also on Thursday, US President Barack Obama sent thoughts and prayers to Madiba.
Obama "has found president Mandela to be an inspiration in his own personal life, but also in his professional career," his spokesman Josh Earnest said.
On Friday, tweets poured in from across the world.
US singer Josh Groban tweeted that he was sending his love to Mandela.
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Marzia Faraz from Afghanistan also tweeted a message of support.
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SA icon Evita Bezuidenhout tweeted a promise to supply Mandela with chocolate. "May this be a Good Friday for everyone, especially our beloved Madiba. Your Easter egg is waiting for you, liewe ou skat (dear old sweetheart) XXX".
Earlier this month, Mandela was admitted to a Pretoria hospital for a scheduled check-up relating to a long-standing abdominal complaint. He was discharged the following day.
In February, he was admitted to hospital with a stomach ailment.
Last December, Mandela spent 18 days in hospital during which he underwent an operation to remove gallstones and received treatment for his recurring lung infection.
South Africa's first black president has a long history of lung problems, dating back to the time when he was a political prisoner on Robben Island during apartheid. While in jail he contracted tuberculosis.
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At the House of Commons Treasury Committee hearing on Wednesday March 26, 2008, Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, was asked by Michael Fallon MP why the Bank of England had been so much less aggressive in cutting rates and providing liquidity against a wider range of collateral than the Fed. The Governor proceeded not to answer the question, but answered a different question quite well – one comparing the ECB's liquidity management with that of the Bank of England.
"In terms of the provision of liquidity, our system is much closer to that of the European Central Bank and in terms of the comparison between the ECB and ourselves the response has been virtually identical. The total lending by the Bank of England to the banking sector now constitutes about 1% of the assets of the banking sector. That is exactly the same level of support provided by the European Central Bank. In terms of the proportion of the total liquidity that is extended by central banks to the banking sector, that is provided at three months or longer, longer-term horizons, to the full-term funding. The proportion provided in that way by the ECB is between 50% and 60% of its total lending. The proportion at three months and longer provided by the Bank of England is also between 50% and 60%. … I do not think there is any significant difference at all. One of the reasons why this myth has grown up is because back in August and September a great deal of publicity was given to the very large injections made, particularly by the ECB, without anyone taking on board the fact that whatever money they put in with the one hand they have to take back with the other in order to maintain the total amount of money injected into the system to retain control of interest rates against inflation."
Some of the assertions made by Governor King in the above quote don't seem to be quite right.
First, I would suggest that putting an amount X of liquidity in at 3-month maturity, say, and taking the same amount X of liquidity out at 0 maturity (overnight) is not neutral as regards system-wide liquidity, if the scarcity of liquidity at 3-month maturity is greater than at 0 maturity. When there is imperfect arbitrage between different maturities, liquidity at different maturities is not a homogeneous substance, but something that can only be added together using the prices of liquidity at these different maturities. The Governor is adding together liquidity apples and bananas.
A good guide to the relative scarcity at the margin of liquidity in the interbank markets at different maturities is obtained by comparing the Libor-OIS spreads at these different maturities (and the overnight interbank rate and the official policy rate at the shortest maturity). I recognise that this spread is an imperfect measure of the price of liquidity, as reflects differences in bank default risk across maturities as well as differences in liquidity premia, but it is the best measure we have.
When markets are orderly, liquid and reasonably efficient, liquidity is arbitraged by the private sector among the different maturities. In that case it does not matter where (that is, at what maturity) the liquidity is injected. Nor does it matter which financial institutions are the counterparties of the central bank for the liquidity enhancing OMOs or discount window borrowing. If deposit-taking commercial banks are the main counterparties, they will smoothly trade the new liquidity to the other private institutions that want it but do not have direct access to the central bank through repos or the discount window.
This happy state of affairs does not exist when markets are disorderly and illiquid. Arbitrage requires the presence of liquidity. So when market liquidity is absent and many financial institutions are also constrained by funding liquidity, the central bank has to make sure itself that liquidity reaches the right maturities and the right institutions. This is done by chasing liquidity spreads aggressively through liquidity injections at any maturity that they are prominent. It is also done by extending the range of counterparties that the central bank deals with. The Fed has done this in the US by giving Primary Dealers (investment banks) access through central bank liquidity through sterilized repos (swaps of Treasury bonds for MBS at the Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF) and overnight access to the discount window through the Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PCDF). The Fed and the ECB also accept a wider range of collateral at both the discount window and in repos than does the Bank of England.
Returning to a comparison of the performance of the Bank of England and the ECB, two things are clear from Figure 1 (showing the 3-month Libor-OIS spread and the spread between the effective overnight interbank rate (Sonia) and the official policy rate for sterling) and from Figure 2 (showing the 3-month Euribor-OIS spread and the spread between the effective overnight interbank rate (Eonia) and the official policy rate for the euro). The date are from August 28, 2007 till March 27, 2008.
(1) If anything, the ECB is even less competent than the Bank of England at keeping the overnight interbank rate in line with the official policy rate. There is no excuse for this. Haven't these institutions heard of continuous fixed-rate tenders during the maintenance period?
(2) Although neither central bank produces a stellar performance at the 3-month maturity, the ECB does consistently less badly than the Bank of England.
Second, the average level of liquidity injected into the market (even if we add together blithely liquidity injected at different maturities) is not trivial to measure, as we have to average both within trading days and over the trading days in a maintenance period. For instance, injecting additional liquidity at the beginning of a maintenance period and taking it out again at the end of the maintenance period raises the average level of liquidity over the maintenance period. This is also true if the additional liquidity injected at the beginning of the period is withdrawn gradually over the maintenance period. It is not clear from the Governor's reply to Mr. Fallon which measure of liquidity he is referring to.
Third, it is likely that British (parent) banks with subsidiaries in the Euro Area and in the USA have used these subsidiaries to access the liquidity facilities of the Eurosystem and of the Federal Reserve System to fund not only their local activities (i.e. those in the Euro Area and the US) but also those in the UK. While this is, in principle, a two-way street – US (parent) banks and Euro Area banks with subsidiaries in the UK could have used the UK liquidity facilities – the UK-based parents are likely to have used these foreign sources of liquidity to a greater extent. It would be nice to have information on the magnitude of this.
Close but no cigar for the Governor (not surprising, since with Eddie George's departure, the Bank of England became a smoke-free zone). The Bank of England's liquidity management has improved since August 2007, but it is still distinctly less competent than that of both the Fed and the ECB. As regards the range of eligible collateral, the maturities at which liquidity is offered, the amounts that are offered at the various maturities and the eligible counterparties, the Bank is still not up to par.
It is essential for the Bank of England to adopt ECB and Fed best practice in liquidity management, and for it to do so forthwith, lest a preventable disaster happens in the next few weeks or months. The Bank of England could steal a march on the Fed and the ECB by designing operational valuation techniques (e.g. reverse auctions of various kinds) for valuing and pricing illiquid collateral or illiquid private securities to be purchased outright by the central bank. Pricing such securities in ways that are punitive but do not threaten the survival of fundamentally solvent sellers would be a major contribution to the minimization of moral hazard and the prevention (or at least the postponement) of the next financial boom, bust and crisis, once the current financial crisis has become history.


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What term refers to the point on a chart where a security's long-term moving average drops below its short-term average?
There is a point on a chart where the long-term moving average of a security falls below its short-term average. It goes by the chilling name of the death cross, and in the view of some analysts, it indicates that the security is in terminal decline and it's time to sell it off.


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Operating System:SUN Solaris
OS version:Solaris 8
Product Name:JRE (SUN ORB part of it anyway)
Product version:1.4.2_05 (SUN ORB part of it anyway)
Hardware platform:SunFire V880
Severity: 1
Short description:
When the default values of (com.sun.CORBA.connection.ORBHighWaterMark | com.sun.CORBA.connection.ORBLowWaterMark) are exceeded, the "JavaIDL Listener" thread becomes permenantly (perhaps semi-permenantly) hung in trying to cleanup a particular IIOPConnection, which prevents any and all new clients from successfully connecting to this CORBA Server (EventBrokerServer). The server eventually had to be killed in order to recover it from its problematic state. The "JavaIDL Listener" thread was stuck in the state described in the below stack trace. This problem has manifested itself on 2 other servers.
Full problem description:
When the default values of (com.sun.CORBA.connection.ORBHighWaterMark | com.sun.CORBA.connection.ORBLowWaterMark) are exceeded and the SUN ORB is trying to cleanup,
1. the following "com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.IIOPConnection$DeleteConn" exceptions to be thrown and noticed in the file that is capturing the stdout and sdterr streams.
at com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.IIOPConnection.delete(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.IIOPConnection.writeLock(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.IIOPConnection.purge_calls(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.ReaderThread.run(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.IIOPConnection.delete(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.IIOPConnection.writeLock(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.IIOPConnection.purge_calls(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.ReaderThread.run(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.IIOPConnection.delete(Unknown Source)
"JavaIDL Listener" daemon prio=5 tid=0x0056cbe0 nid=0xc waiting for monitor entry [ed6ff000..ed6ffc30]
at com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.IIOPConnection.cleanUp(Unknown Source)
- waiting to lock <0xf0c4f0f8> (a java.lang.Object)
- locked <0xf0c4ebf0> (a com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.IIOPConnection)
at com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.ConnectionTable.cleanUp(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.ConnectionTable.checkConnectionTable(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.ListenerThread.run(Unknown Source)
2. The "JavaIDL Reader" thread shown below in a permenant (possibly semi-permenant) hung state because it had synchronized on com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.IIOPConnection's "stateEvent" and within that synchronization block had synchronized on "writeEvent" and then was waiting to be notified on the "writeEvent" while holding on to the synchronization on "stateEvent". No one seems to be notifying it.
"JavaIDL Reader for 10.97.4.21:2783" daemon prio=5 tid=0x005dcc08 nid=0x24e2 in Object.wait() [e987f000..e987fc30]
at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
at java.lang.Object.wait(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.IIOPConnection.writeLock(Unknown Source)
- locked <0xf0c4f100> (a java.lang.Object)
- locked <0xf0c4f0f8> (a java.lang.Object)
at com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.IIOPConnection.purge_calls(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.ReaderThread.run(Unknown Source)
3. At a later point in time, when the "JavaIDL Listener" thread detected that it needed to cleanup some connections and selected and tried to cleanup the above mentioned IIOPConnection, it eventually ended up calling writeLock() and getting permenantly (semi-permenantly) blocked on trying to synchronize on "stateEvent".
"JavaIDL Listener" daemon prio=5 tid=0x0056cbe0 nid=0xc waiting for monitor entry [ed6ff000..ed6ffc30]
at com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.IIOPConnection.cleanUp(Unknown Source)
- waiting to lock <0xf0c4f0f8> (a java.lang.Object)
- locked <0xf0c4ebf0> (a com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.IIOPConnection)
at com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.ConnectionTable.cleanUp(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.ConnectionTable.checkConnectionTable(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.ListenerThread.run(Unknown Source)
I can be noticed that the "JavaIDL Listener" has locked <0xf0c4ebf0> and is waiting to lock <0xf0c4f0f8> which has been locked by the "JavaIDL Reader for 10.97.4.21:2783", which has subsequently locked <0xf0c4f100> and is waiting for a notification on the same which never happens.
Code snipets from SUN's CORBA code.
* Cleans up this Connection.
* This is called from ConnectionTable, from the ListenerThread.
* Note:it is possible for this to be called more than once
public synchronized void cleanUp() throws Exception
* Sets the writeLock for this connection.
* If the writeLock is already set by someone else, block till the
* writeLock is released and can set by us.
* IMPORTANT: this connection's lock must be acquired before
* setting the writeLock and must be unlocked after setting the writeLock.
protected boolean writeLock()
// Keep looping till we can set the writeLock.
while ( true ) {
synchronized ( stateEvent ){
switch ( state ) {
case OPENING:
try {
} catch (InterruptedException ie) {};
// Loop back
case ESTABLISHED:
synchronized (writeEvent) {
if (!writeLocked) {
writeLocked = true;
return true;
try {
} catch (InterruptedException ie) {};
// Loop back
// Need to distinguish between client and server roles
// here probably.
case ABORT:
throw new COMM_FAILURE( MinorCodes.WRITE_ERROR_SEND,
case CLOSE_RECVD:
// the connection has been closed or closing
// ==> throw rebind exception
throw new COMM_FAILURE( MinorCodes.CONN_CLOSE_REBIND,
if (orb.transportDebugFlag)
dprint("Connection:writeLock: weird state");
return false;
* Release the write lock on this connection.
protected void writeUnlock()
synchronized (writeEvent) {
writeLocked = false;
writeEvent.notify(); // wake up one guy waiting to write
"JavaIDL Reader" thread is stuck on writeEvent.wait() and
"JavaIDL Listener" thread is stuck on synchronized (stateEvent).
Basically no one seems to be calling writeUnlock() which is the only way the "JavaIDL Reader" thread will release the lock on "stateEvent" and allow the "JavaIDL Listener " thread to proceed.
We have three thread dumps from 3 different servers that can be sent via email once you contact us.
Test case:
We are working on it, but as you can imagine it is not very easy to create a test case for this since we are not as familiar with the internals of the SUN ORB and do not know exactly when and how the problem can be made to manifest itself.
What we are sure of are the following things.
1. The problem seems to be manifesting itself only after the (com.sun.CORBA.connection.ORBHighWaterMark | com.sun.CORBA.connection.ORBLowWaterMark) are exceeded and cleaup code is executed.
2. It seems that the problem can happen regardless of who is executing the cleanup code i.e. "JavaIDL Listener" or some other thread.
3. Some "JavaIDL Reader" thread invariably gets stuck waiting for the "writeLocked" on its IIOPConnection to be set to false which seems to never happen.
4. Since the thread mentioned in #3 also has other lock that eventually "JavaIDL Listener" thread gets stuck on, the problem manifests itself.
including herewith 3 files each of which represents one of our servers. Each file has multiple threaddumps and the last threaddump in each shows the exact scenario described as part of the problem report.
Also, we have been digging deeper and we have discovered that the following seems to be at the core of the issue.
It seems that when the "JavaIDL Listener" (com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.ListenerThread) thread is trying to establish a new connection and discovers that cleanup needs to be done, it calls com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.ConnectionTable.checkConnectionTable() which in turn calls com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.ConnectionTable.cleanup() which identifies the connection to cleanup and then calls com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.IIOPConnection.cleanup(). I have cut and pasted that code below. We believe that when this method calls sendCloseConnection(), this creates a classic race condifiton, because this method performs the writeLock() and then one of two things can happen.
1. The Listener thread will successfully lock the stateEvent before any other thread has a chance to lock it and in this case all the right things will happen. This is the green light scenario.
2. The sendCloseConnection() would cause the connection to be closed from the other end, which would cause the "JavaIDL Reader" (com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.ReaderThread) thread that is doing socketRead() to get a IOException, in which case it will end up calling the com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.IIOPConnection.purge_calls() with lockHeld set to false. I have also cut and pasted that code below. As you can see, since the lochHeld is false, purge_calls() calls com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.IIOPConnection.writeLock(). I have also cut and pasted that code below. As you can see, the com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.IIOPConnection.writeLock() method locks the stateEvent and then subsequently locks the writeEvent, and since writeLocked would be set to true becaue the Listener thread has already called writeLock(), it simply does a wait() on the writeEvent to be informed when the writeLocked gets set to false. But unfortunately this will be a permenant wait because only the Listener thread would call writeUnlocked() but since it first needs to lock stateEvent (which is currently locked by Reader thread) it is waiting for the stateEvent to be unlocked which will never be unlocked because the Reader thread has it locked and is waiting to be notified on the writeEvent and so on and so forth. So while not actually technically a deadlock situation, it has for all intents and purposes the same impact as a deadlock. This is the red light scenario. Basically if the reader thread beats the listener thread in locking the stateEvent, we are permenantly screwed. This is purely a timing window issue and is exactly what is happening in the problems that we are experiencing.
One of our engineers (Tai-Sin Quah) has developed a partial test case which while not reproducing the exact same situation, does reproduce something pretty similar and close to it. I am calling it partial because it only reporoduces the problem on Windows platform (all the time on Windows XP amd sometimes on Windows 2000) but not on SUN platform. BUT the reason I am mentioning this is that when he commented out the sendCloseConnection() (we are not suggesting that that is the right solution, we were simply hacking to prove our theory) the problem could not be reproduced at all thereby proving our analysis.
We would also like to point out further that the following code in the cleanup() method
// stop the reader without causing it to do purge_calls
Exception ex = new Exception();
indicates that the developers were indeed aware of the race condition and were trying to prevent it by stopping the reader thread. Unfortunately there are two problems/concerns with this code.
1. A deprecated and unsafe method stop() is being used which SUN strongly encourages recommends be not used.
2. It is being done too late in the game to prevent the race condition mentioned above. In the event that listener thread wins the race condition to lock stateEvent (green light scenario) this may help, but in the event that the reader thread wins the race condition to lock stateEvent (red light scenario) the listener thread will never get to that safety net code and for all intents and purposes the listener thread and the reader thread will be lockedup for ever.
Hopes all this analysis helps us to get to a quick effecient and elegant resolution to the problem at hand.
cannot upgrade to 1.4.2_08 because the version of our product that the customer is running was QAed and certified only against 1.4.2_05 and also because it happens to be a 24X7 highly available production environment.
However, the testcase that was mentioned has exhibited the following behaviour so far.
1. On Windows XP, it reproduces the issue everytime with 1.4.2_06 as well as 1.4.2_08.
2. On Windows 2000, we have only tried 1.4.2_08. It reproduces the problem only if
a) the stdout and stderr are redirected to a flat file
b) the stderr is redirected to a flat file.
3. On Solaris, we have only tried 1.4.2_08 and the problem cannot be reproduced.
*** Attached 4 Files including 3 thread dumps and code snippet file having suspicion ***
Thanking you in anticipation.
It appears that this bug may be identical to bug 4752117, which was fixed some
time ago in the app server deliveries. 4752117 is fixed in the main
CORBA code base, in AS 8.x, and in J2SE 1.5.0 and later, but apparently
not in J2SE 1.4.2_08.
The change that was made for 4752117 is basically to avoid holding the
lock on stateEvent while waiting to acquire the lock on writeEvent
in the writeLock() method. Obviously the original implementation was
bad, because the following could happen, possibly in multiple
different ways:
1. Thread 1 returns from writeLock()
2. Thread 2 tries to call writeLock(), but gets blocked
waiting for Thread 1 to call writeUnlock(). This causes
Thread 2 to hold the lock on stateEvent (in the version in
the 1.4.2_08 code).
3. Now thread 1 runs again, and does anything that requires
a lock on stateEvent. At this point, these two threads
are deadlocked.
It appears from the changes that were made that there is no
need to hold the stateEvent lock inside writeLock() while
waiting for the writeEvent lock. This change was made in
the app server releases as well as in JDK 5.0, but apparently
not in J2SE 1.4.2. Bug 4758801 was filed about this same problem
to make the fix in the ORB in the JDK releases, but it appears
that this problem was only fixed in 1.4.1_05 and the fix was
not applied to the 1.4.2_xx stream whenever that fix was made.
Obviously we need to make this fix in 1.4.2 as well.
We will continue evaluating this problem further, but I think
we are close to a solution.


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Protest Crosses Bridge Over Troubled Issue
Sunday, April 2, 2006
NEW YORK, April 1 -- Within sight of the Statue of Liberty, thousands of young families, teenagers and activists walked across the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday demanding an end to second-class citizenship and amnesty for illegal immigrants.
The demonstration, which drew more than 20,000 participants, was the latest in a series of protests that have sounded across the nation. The peaceful crowd that turned out reflected New York's cultural mosaic. Chinese immigrants chanted in Spanish while indigenous dancers in feathered headdresses burned sage. Korean folk musicians ushered a crowd that included a clan of women who cried: "Like Martin Luther King, we have a dream."
"My dream is to have equality for people who come to work," said Alejandra Garcia, 47, a Mexican-born green-card holder. "The United States is becoming richer because of the work of immigrants."
Her son, who is in the United States illegally, attends college and has hopes of becoming a psychiatrist. "But he won't be able to work," Garcia said. She said that without a policy change, he will remain confined to the underground economy.
Marchers waved flags of birth countries along with the Stars and Stripes. Many in the crowd were U.S. citizens or green-card holders but said their families included undocumented immigrants. Some said they felt duty-bound to march because they were once illegal immigrants.
Advocacy groups representing Haitian, Chinese and Mexican immigrants, among others, organized the protest under the umbrella of the International Immigrants Foundation in opposition to legislation approved by the House that would make illegal entry a felony and calls for the construction of a fence along a portion of the southern U.S. border.
Many stroller-pushing parents and teenagers said the march into Manhattan was their first demonstration. Despite heavy promotion in religious and immigrant media, the protest drew a small fraction of the city's 2.8 million foreign-born population and attracted a far smaller turnout than the 500,000-strong march in Los Angeles last week. A much smaller crowd of fewer than 1,000 protested in Costa Mesa, Calif., on Saturday.
While some of the banners pledged love for the United States, protesters leveled criticism at President Bush with placards and chants in Spanish of "Listen Bush, we have joined the struggle."
David Kim, 26, a naturalized citizen, leaned against the bridge. Kim, a librarian, was 12 when his family immigrated. He calls the pending legislation xenophobic and racist.
"I believe the same logic and system by which people are discriminated against based on race and sexuality is working against the poor immigrant," he said.
Frank Zhang, 52, a sidewalk portraitist in Times Square, skipped the afternoon tourist crowd to join in the march. The Chinese-born immigrant said he cherishes the ideals that laid the foundation of his adopted country.
"I like democracy, I like freedom," he said, then reflected on the legislation in Congress: "I don't like that this law makes us all criminals."


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Double OT Crusher
Pistons overcome 17-point deficit, but come up short in Brooklyn debut
The story of the game in Pistons red, white and blue
– The Pistons erased a 17-point deficit – flipping the script from the 17-point leads they saw evaporate in their two most recent home games – and had chances to win at the end of regulation and the first overtime, but wound up dropping a 107-105 double-OT heartbreaker on their first trip to Brooklyn on Joe Johnson's step-back jumper over Tayshaun Prince at the buzzer. The Pistons overcame a 57-40 first-half deficit, outscoring the Nets 30-14 in the third quarter, and led by six in the final two minutes of regulation but couldn't hang on. Brandon Knight scored 22 points and Rodney Stuckey 19, while Johnson scored 28 and Gerald Wallace 25 for the Nets. Kyle Singler's put-back had tied the game with six seconds left, setting up Johnson's heroics.
BLUE COLLAR – Andre Drummond had a big night under the bright lights of the Barclays Center, making his presence felt at both ends in his 18 minutes. Drummond finished with eight points, nine rebounds and three blocked shots. He blocked a Kris Humphries dunk attempt and showed his defensive versatility in the second half when he stayed in front of Andray Blatche as he attempted to bait Drummond into leaving his feet to drive, then blocked Blatche's jump shot. Drummond's line could have been more impressive, but two of his tip-ins were waved off for basket interference.
RED FLAG – The Pistons held a four-point lead four minutes into the second quarter, then were outscored over the next five-plus minutes 21-1. That stretch encompassed 19 possessions – nine for the Pistons, 10 for the Nets – during which the Pistons missed seven shots and committed three turnovers, while Brooklyn shot 9 of 11, converted one of its misses into a layup, and hit 3 of 4 3-pointers. Every game has spurts, of course, but the Pistons can't let their bad ones play out so dramatically. The Pistons outplayed the Nets for much of the night, but that five-minute stretch dug a deep, deep hole.
Overcoming a 17-point deficit – in a cruel twist of irony, the exact margin of lead they held in their two most recent home games, both losses – against a likely playoff-bound team, the Pistons held a six-point lead with 1:32 to go in regulation. They had clean looks to win the game at the end of both regulation and the first overtime, first from Brandon Knight and later from Rodney Stuckey, and they led by three in the second overtime.
But Joe Johnson, one of the handful of high-priced players either acquired or retained over a splashy off-season that accompanied the Nets' move from New Jersey to Brooklyn, drained a long 2-point jump shot over Tayshaun Prince as the buzzer sounded in the second overtime to break a tie and gore the Pistons in a 107-105 defeat.
"We showed great resolve, great fight and we competed extremely hard," Lawrence Frank said. "There's no one happy with the consolation prize. Disappointed that we came up short, because in both regulation and both overtimes, we got the stop – we just couldn't finish the play."
The Nets grabbed a series of key offensive rebounds on a night the Pistons held a 54-43 rebounding edge. Gerald Wallace's tip of Johnson's miss tied the game at 90 with 21 seconds to go before Knight missed a 16-footer to end regulation. Wallace grabbed another offensive rebound to set up Johnson's 8-foot runner to tie the game at 100 with 19 seconds left in the first overtime ahead of Stuckey's missed 15-footer to force a second overtime.
Down a point with 17 seconds left in the second overtime, Greg Monroe missed two free throws. After Johnson made one with 10 seconds left, Knight missed a wide-open baseline jump shot that Kyle Singler rebounded and laid in to tie it at 105 with 5.8 seconds left, setting the stage for Johnson's dramatics.
"What we wanted to do was try to fire, meaning double team it from the nearest man in the crowd," Frank said. "It happened quick, dribble handoff right to him and he hit a tough shot. We were just a little slow in terms of coming to react with the double team."
"He made a big shot, obviously, but there were a number of plays," Monroe said. "We missed free throws, with me, some rebounds we've got to get, but through all that, we still put ourselves in position to win the game. It's one of those games, you can point out a number of plays and say that play, that free throw, was the reason you won or lost."
Among the many plays the Pistons will look back at were three baskets they thought they'd scored, only to have them taken away. Two were Andre Drummond put-backs, ruled basket interference, and the third was even more damaging: Charlie Villanueva's tip that lasted on the scoreboard several minutes but was overturned on review as a shot-clock violation.
It was a flat-out mistake but not correctable. Drummond's follow shot hit the rim, but because the shot clock didn't reset Villanueva's tip came after it had expired. Inside of two minutes, it would have been correctable. But there were seven minutes left, and instead of leading by three, the Pistons led by just one.
"Basically, it was human error," Frank said, "but they couldn't go back and reverse it because it's not reversible if it's not in the last two minutes."
It was a long and winding path to take to come away with a loss, especially when the Pistons soundly outplayed the Nets for much of the game – but they played so poorly for about half of the second quarter, when the Nets outscored them 21-1, that their dominant third quarter was only good enough to provide a 77-73 lead headed to the fourth quarter.
Down 12 at halftime, the Pistons outscored the Nets 30-14 in the third quarter and held them to 32 percent shooting, dominating the glass (14-6) and getting a combined 17 points from Knight (9 of his 22) and Monroe (8 of his 17).
The Pistons also got a double-double from Tayshaun Prince (12 points, 10 rebounds, six assists), 19 from Stuckey and another strong outing from Drummond (eight points, nine boards, three blocks in 18 minutes).
It was enough to put themselves in position to win – again – but they couldn't quite close the deal, again.
"Not even a stop away – a rebound away, both overtimes," Frank said. "It was a six-point game with a minute and change. Our guys competed their tails off after being down going into the third quarter, fighting back, holding them to a 14-point quarter … and then, really, one rebound away or one finishing play away from winning the game. We just came up short. They had the last word."


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Dear Divas,
A friend of mine from college recently got engaged. I was invited to her wedding, but because I live out of state, I'm unable to attend. I still want to send her a gift, however, we haven't been close for a while. What is the appropriate amount to spend if I'm not attending the wedding and haven't maintained a close relationships with this girl? On the same note, what is the appropriate amount to spend if I AM attending a wedding (with a date) of a close friend? Help!
Gift Gal
Dear Gift Gal,
What a great question! I think this is something that almost every person has to deal with at one time or another. Especially in these tough times, digging deep in the pockets for a wedding gift can be rough. Therefore, it helps to know what proper etiquette states is the correct amount to spend.
Happily, the truth is that you should spend what you can afford. There is no sense in breaking the bank if you truly can't afford it . A gift is just that–a gift–and the bride and groom will appreciate anything you can afford to give them. If you do want some sort of gauge, though, the rule of thumb is to try to spend as much as you think your meal would cost. If it's a buffet, a safe guess is around $40-$50 a person. If it's a served meal, I'd guess closer to $75-$100 a person. Again, it's okay to adjust these numbers to fit YOUR budget!
If you're not attending the wedding but want to send a gift anyway, any amount really works. A small token of your congratulations is welcome at any amount. I tend to spend around $50, however, if they're close friends I'll spend more, if they're more distant, I might even spend less. You'll be appreciated for being a thoughtful person in spite of your inability to attend the wedding.
Happy gifting!


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Xzibit Clears The Air On Radio Interview: "I Have No Beef With Diddy"
West Coast rapper Xzibit has taken to his MySpace page to set the record straight, literally. After many media outlets speculated that he openly questioned Diddy's sexuality during a recent radio interview on Jamie Foxx's Foxxhole radio show on Sirius, X says he was taken out of context.
During the radio appearance X said that Puff took him and former video vixen Karrine "Superhead" Steffans to a gay-friendly nightclub in Miami, after the mogul warned him about Steffans' devious reputation. "He's like 'That's the devil man,'" X recalled Diddy saying about the model-turned-author. "I was like 'What you mean she's the devil?' Then he's like 'She'll videotape you with fingers in the booty.'"
On his MySpace blog today (Feb. 23), the former "Pimp My Ride" host explained that his comments were misunderstood and that he has no ill feelings towards the hip-hop mogul. "Wow, so I wake up this morning and my phone is going nuts," he wrote. "I turn on the computer and find all this shit about me 'throwing Puffy under the gay bus' whatever that means. All this SPIN that you journalist[s] are putting on the statements I made on a radio show to DIRECTLY effect a guy in a manor not intended is wrong."'
"I got a call yesterday (which caught me off guard) from Diddy himself stating the club was an after hours spot called "space" I believe," he added. "The rumor mill that has ground this bullshit out to be the shit storm that it is, is doing so on its own accord. Like I said at the top, I have no beef with Diddy. BUT WAIT… a bigger problem I see is the negative stance these hip hop sites and blog sites are taking when speaking of gay people in general. All I can say to that is: PEOPLE GROW UP! I do NOT like to spread hate and make it a point not to do so, so this is not the way I intended this interview to unfold."
In related news Xzibit will be starring in the remake of 1992's cult classic Bad Lieutenant alongside Val Kilmer and Eva Mendes. According to IMDB, the movie is currently in post-production and will be released sometime later this year. – Elan Mancini


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Before Blair Hall
Former Academy Inspires Alumni Memories
Dedicated in November of 1927, Wittenberg's Blair Hall Academy received acclaim as "The Model Educational Plant." The academy included the first four elementary grades and served children living near campus upon the written petition of their parents. Its capacity of 150 students was quickly met, and a long wait list ensued.
In the 1930s, the city of Springfield needed another school on the north side, but it lacked the resources to build one. In response to the need, Wittenberg rented four classrooms in Blair to the city school board, followed later by seven rooms for a kindergarten and the first six grades – an arrangement beneficial to both the city and the college.
The elementary school students used the south entrance and had two classrooms on each floor at the south end of the building. One of those students, Barbara Botsford Barth '78, fondly remembers her years at Blair. "I started first grade in 1936 and went all six years in Blair," said Barth, recalling the names of all of her teachers, as well as the Wittenberg student teachers. "They came in pairs, always young women, and took over the class," she said. "They only came during certain times of the year." Barth also remembered going to observe classes in other academic buildings and to rehearsals in the auditorium.
"We had art and music instructors who traveled to the schools, and we gave presentations in the auditorium," Barth said. "There was also a nurse who weighed and measured us regularly. We had our eyes and hearing tested, and our general health was documented."
Fellow Blair alumnus Phillip Hanes '52 lived on McCreight in a college-owned half double that backed up to the practice field.
"Our house sat on the east corner of today's tennis courts," Hanes said. "We walked down an alley and picked up our schoolmates along the way. I carried my lunch to school, and we had recess on a small playground behind the building. Blair was a typical elementary school."
Most of the elementary years found Don Ryman '57 at Bushnell Elementary, but he did attend Blair part of his fourth and sixth grades and all of his fifth.
"We moved to a house across from Ferncliff Cemetery and could have gone to Jefferson School, but my mother felt it would be safer to cross McCreight than Fountain," he said. "We moved back out of the district when the house sold." Although admittedly not the ideal student, Ryman loved Blair and Wittenberg. "Miss Keesacker made a lasting impression on me," Ryman said. "She taught us the value of autonomy. You were free to make your own choice, but Miss Keesacker was the ruling factor."
Ryman was so impressed that he later attended Wittenberg College for his bachelor's degree and became an art teacher. He also took master's courses in Blair, and he taught in Blair's education department for 15 years. Blair Hall Academy closed when the college was assigned an Army Air Corps training unit as part of the war-effort in February 1943, but the memories remain in the minds of the academy's students.


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I am sure by now everyone knows about YSL's new foundation coming out later this year. I have been trialling it on shoots and celebs and can now officially say I love it! Anyway I used it once again on a beauty shoot this week and wanted to share the 3 looks I created. The model was a very interesting young lady called Dommie who had the most arresting eyes! My brief was to create strong, sultry, sexy looks. So I thought I'd do something different by using all the mistakes one makes in makeup such as over-clumped up mascara, strong eyes and strong lips or overuse of similar shades, to create what I thought are 3 gorgeous results!
Anyway let me introduce Dommie!
Face Prep: Emma Hardie Moringa Balm, Une Radiance Refresh Micellar Cleansing Water, Emma Hardie Hydrating Lighter Lotion, Clarins Beauty Flash Balm, Rodial Glam Balm Lip.
Dommie has typical teenage skin problems such as spots, oiliness & dry patches so I started by doing a deep cleanse using a muslin and Emma Hardie Moringa Balm to remove dry skin and to give a thorough cleanse. The result was soft, clean and flake-free skin.
Have a look at the first look. I find that when you use the same shade of colour all over the face, it sometimes results in a rather dull look. Bearing that in mind, I did all that on Dommie but upped the amp on the colour! All the way to brows, eyes, cheeks and lips and even hair! I have to say with her incredible eyes, she looked amazing! Have a look.
Face: YSL Le Teint Touche Éclat, YSL Touche Éclat, Estee Lauder Double Wear Concealer.
Eyes: YSL Ombres 5 Lumiéres Eye Shadow, Paris-Berlin Beige Pencil, YSL Luxurious Mascara Shocking Volume in Deep Black.
Eyebrows: YSL Eyebrow Pencil, YSL Eyeshadow, MAC Brow Gel in Clear.
Cheeks: YSL Terre Saharienne Bronzing Powder.
Lips: YSL Rouge Pur Couture in Blond Ingénu, YSL Teint Touche Éclat,
Powder: YSL Semi Loose Powder in Sand.
For the second look I kept the same look but added on really black liner inside the waterline and added 2 dots of gold at the inner eye area and swapped for a deep raspberry lip. Who said that you couldn't do a strong eye with strong lip eh?
Eyes: YSL Long Lasting Waterproof Eye Pencil in Black Ink and Luminescent Gold, more mascara!
Lips: YSL Rouge Pur Couture in Le Fuchsia in 5 coats!
For the last look I wanted to do the usual makeup mistake of matching eye colour to shadow & liner but instead of same pale blue of Dommie's eyes, I went for electric blue pencil and clumpy inky mascara. As if that wasn't enough I also decided to throw in an intense red lip! What makes this work? I would say the dewy bare skin and brushed undone brows and a little bit of abandonment!
Face: The same as before except I added a layer of Le Maquillage Make Up Mixer.
Eyes: YSL Long Lasting Waterproof Eye Pencil in Azure Blue, YSL Pure Chromatics Eye Shadow, YSL False Lash Effect Mascara in Noir Radical (5 coats).
Eyebrows: MAC Brow Fix in Clear.
Lips: YSL Rouge Pur Couture in Le Rouge, YSL Glossy Stain in Rouge Laque.
So there you go, 3 interpretations of the sexy sultry look, taking inspiration from makeup faux pas and mistakes. What do you think? Something you would have a go at? As always comments are most welcome!


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The watchman's cap is an iconic and well loved pattern from WWII. This updated and modernized version takes advantage of a chunky weight yarn to make this a quick to work up project you will come back to time and time again. Ontheround Hand Dyed Merino Wool Yarn is a pleasure to knit with and this pattern uses all but just a few yards of the skein, making it a perfect one skein project!
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This LG G Pro 2 Magic Focus promo video may be the cutest smartphone ad you've seen lately
0. phoneArena posted on 10 Mar 2014, 23:00
The G Pro 2 comes with a 13MP rear camera that's been enhanced by LG with stuff like Optical Image Stabilization Plus and Magic Focus (this resembles Nokia's Refocus feature)...
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1. alltechinside (Posts: 248; Member since: 21 Apr 2013)
They make it up for that horrid LG G Flex commercial lol
Captain here (for the words at the end):
"The World becomes a pro"
"The Camera becomes a pro"
flies away...
5. Tizen007 (Posts: 575; Member since: 07 Jan 2014)
No the caption says
"세상의 프로가 되다" which translates to "became a pro of the world"
"카메라의 포로가 되다" which means "became a pro of cameras"
6. Tizen007 (Posts: 575; Member since: 07 Jan 2014)
by applying the word [someone] at the beginning of each caption, it would make sense in English but in Korean leaving out the word "someone" makes sense (in advertising) and is more powerful.
12. kokhean (Posts: 1; Member since: 11 Mar 2014)
Korean sentences are so confusing
14. alltechinside (Posts: 248; Member since: 21 Apr 2013)
ya he is right.... it's embarrassing that I translated wrong considering that I'm korean... I knew something was wrong when I translated....
2. fzacek (Posts: 2486; Member since: 26 Jan 2014)
Such a cute commercial! Does the refocus feature really work that well?
11. loveparadise1990 (Posts: 15; Member since: 08 Mar 2014)
i think so too. i've use LG G2 and i,m not really satisfied,but everything else are good
3. DONUT (Posts: 433; Member since: 27 Jun 2013)
thats one cute dog! and the ad is way better than that gross and disturbing G Flex one
4. Tizen007 (Posts: 575; Member since: 07 Jan 2014)
That\s soo cuute! what type of dog is that?
7. Taters (banned) (Posts: 6474; Member since: 28 Jan 2013)
I dunno. Looks kind of creepy. Looks too much like a stuffed animal or CG.
Hopefully it's not one of those cruelly altered species of dog at those illegal puppy mills.
8. MarkArigayo (Posts: 240; Member since: 18 Dec 2013)
Great! Even a 13MP cam on G Pro2 still greater than those with 16MP.
13. shuaibhere (Posts: 1986; Member since: 07 Jul 2012)
As if you have seen it in real life....
9. LGisgood (Posts: 833; Member since: 23 Jun 2012)
10. CellieCell (Posts: 138; Member since: 14 Apr 2010)
Nice! I love the how you could focus after the fact. Now if only they could put a Zoe like video creator! :)


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The typography house is a self-directed two-week study on the aesthetic of typography, and the subtle differences between various typographies.
In viewing the different fenestrations, bowls, serifs, ears, and tails of various serif fonts, "Georgia" was selected for its spacious design cues, which can be utilized in plan as livable space.
These design cues taken from typography are then collaged together, using letters and numbers; specifically: A, U, G, 5, and S.
The site contains a drastic topography change, lending to a split-level home design. A different materiality was employed for each unique letter of the "Georgia" typeface. This home is intended as a getaway home for a young couple seeking to retreat into the mountains.
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Warren Vache Biography
21 February 1951, Rahway, New Jersey, USA. Vaché grew up in New Jersey, hearing jazz, thanks to his bass-playing father Warren Vaché Snr. (b. 27 November 1914, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA, d. 4 February 2005, Rahway, New Jersey, USA) who led a dixieland band. Vaché took up the cornet and studied formally with, amongst others, George Pee Wee Erwin. He played in his fathers band, but from the mid-70s was attracting critical acclaim elsewhere. He played with the New York Jazz Repertory Orchestra and with the house band at Eddie Condons club and was on regular call whenever Benny Goodman formed a band for special engagements. During this period Vaché met and began working with Scott Hamilton; the two men gained the reverent attention of audiences who thought that the mainstream had dried up. In the late 70s and throughout the 80s Vaché worked as a single, in harness with Hamilton, in bands such as George Weins Newport Jazz Festival All-Stars and the Concord Super Band. Touring extensively across the USA, Europe and Japan, Vaché continued to enhance his reputation as a major jazz talent.
Stylistically, Vaché echoes the post- Louis Armstrong tradition, playing with eloquent charm and ably developing the fruitful ground tilled by melodic players such as Bobby Hackett and Ruby Braff. Vachés style has allowed him to blend comfortably in seemingly disparate company, as witnessed by his 1989 recording Warm Evenings with the Beaux-Arts String Quartet. His brother, Allan Vaché, is a clarinettist.
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I am trying to set up a single library on Google Drive to share among my devices. I began with my Calibre library on my Windows 7 laptop, and moved the library to my Google Drive. I then installed Calibre on my Windows 7 desktop, and changed the default library location to use the existing library on the Google Drive. I was immediately able to view the library structure and all my titles on the desktop, but when I tried to open books, I was informed that no available formats of the titles existed.
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Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) is defined as the use of "video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors" (via). This covers things like dashboard cameras, street-level surveillance, and security cameras and a lot of times, these closed-circuit cameras pick up some crazy sh*t. What's even better is that now more than ever, we're able to see the shocking stuff that gets caught on film thanks to the Internet. GIFs also have an air of mystery about them. They're not presented with any kind of copy or title, they're just there for you to watch. You never know what could happen in a GIF and you take that inherent property of GIFs and combine it with real-life crazy sh*t, you've got a recipe for awesomeness. So get your voyeur on and check out the 20 Awesomest CCTV GIFs!
[BoxTitle]Store Robbery Goes Bad: Robber Spanked, Punched, and Kicked In The Face[/BoxTitle]
This poor honest robber was just trying to steal as much money as he could and out of NOWHERE these two cheapskate business owners bend him over, punch his butt, and kick his face in. Not only that, but now the robber has to deal with being embarrassed for eternity on the internet because of this gif. Where's the justice?
[BoxTitle]Exhibit A: Why You Should Always Wear Your Seatbelt[/BoxTitle]
This security cam footage shows a bus driver who gets launched from his seat after a series of hard bumps. This gif is both extremely terrifying and extremely interesting because you can watch through the bus window exactly when sh*t goes from bad to worse. Let this serve as a reminder Heavies, click-it or ticket or massive bus accident with tens of thousands of dollars in damages.
[BoxTitle]The Dog Knows What's Up[/BoxTitle]
I love this security camera gif because it unfolds like a story. Gifs aren't really presented with a title and description box, so there's always that mysterious element to it. I won't describe what happens in this gif to honor that, just watch it.
Dude's pissed.
[caption id="attachment_288487" align="aligncenter" width="420"] Thank God For Brakes[/caption] [BoxTitle]This Guy Passes His Brake Test[/BoxTitle]
Thank god this guy was paying attention, unlike a certain someone in this gif.
[BoxTitle]But Where Does The Box Go?[/BoxTitle]
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Awesome indeed! The coolest one has got to be the officer ninja. The funniest goes to the guy in white shirt in God Mode. Poor guy haha!


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While many of us use social networks to keep in touch with friends and to update them on our status, not everyone utilizes this tool to its full advantage.
A recent slideshow on US News-Money Careers, explored 10 ways in which to boost your job search with social media.
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If you're unemployed or about to be laid off, let your friends and colleagues know on LinkedIn, Facebook and even Twitter. Tell them exactly what kind of position you're looking for. They may know of an opening that hasn't been advertised.
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If you have hundreds of friends, enlist their help in finding your next job. The larger your network, the more people, companies, hiring managers and recruiters you'll come into contact with.
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This would include LinkedIn and Twitter (if you've posted responsibly on it). Again, keep your Facebook pages private unless they're strictly related to your professional pursuits. By linking the other accounts, you will appear to be tech savvy. Always a good thing.
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Handguns for bears ?
I have read numerous threads ,about which handgun to pack for big bear when hiking or camping in big bear country.
You might consider the pics below. I know the person that took this bear, and it wasnt with a .44 mag 4" or 6" , or any other big caliber handgun
This guy is standing at my LGS, 10'6" tall 1200 lbs of raw power.
ever seen a deer run , even when shot in the heart?
I dont know what handgun you should take with you into big bear country, but think about how many .338 Win Mags it took to drop this guy.
Just food for thought....pun intended.:)
He had to reload? :eek:
Yikes. 9 shots? Holy crap. Remember though...that's what it took to KILL it. Not speaking from experience, but I think a bear might take off if shot with a .44 mag. Nutfancy on youtube (hate him or love him) has a lot of bear country hiking experience. He carries a 10mm pistol. Dont know how I feel about that in grizzly territory. But....I'd feel ok with my .357 in areas with smaller black bear.
I recommend carrying a 9mm for bears. You only need two rounds in your magazine. One to piss off the bear and the second for either yourself or your friend's knee cap so you can out run him.
Some animals you have to shoot once and then just wait for them to die. Moose are commonly that way.
Maybe dude should have aimed for his hairy balls?
My handgun cartridge would be 45/70 with the name marlin on it or a it would be a 12ga with 1 oz dupo slugs in a 870 or 500 pump. Real if a handgun it the only option 454 ruger 4.20 red hawk with some of these in it- https://www.buffalobore.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=38
If it was black bear what ever you typicaly carry for defence just with a heavier bonded or hardcast load. Guys have killed bear here with 9mm's.
What you should use in grizzly country!
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I really don't think I would want to see a bear with a handgun.
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text: NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Regions Financial ( RF) was the winner on Tuesday among major U.S. financial names, with shares rising 4% to close at $8.01. The broad indices all ended with 1% gains, as the narrative of the U.S. housing rebound continued. The Federal Housing Finance Agency reported that its House Price Index was up 0.7% in February from January, and that house prices in the U.S. were up 7.1% from a year earlier. The U.S. House Price index was still 13.6% below its peak in April 2007, right before the housing bubble burst. The KBW Bank Index ( I:BKX) rose 2% to close at 55.80, with all 24 index components ending with gains. The index is, of course, heavily weighted to Bank of America ( BAC), which was up 3% to close at $12.07, after Morgan Stanley analyst Betsy Graseck upgraded the company to an "overweight" rating from an "equal-weight" weighting. Graseck raised her price target for Bank of America to $16 from $13, and said in a note to clients that "you don't get a lot of second chances in life, and so we are taking advantage of this one....BAC is about to deliver on a significant expense reduction over the next several quarters, which should fall to the bottom line and boost EPS. Also, we expect BAC will be largely through significant litigation risk by YE2013." Based on her expectations for the bank's expense reduction, credit quality improvement and a gain in market share at the expense of Wells Fargo ( WFC), Graseck raised her 2013 earnings estimate for Bank of America to $1.07 a share from $1.01, while raising her 2014 EPS estimate to $1.43 from $1.30. Her 2015 EPS estimate for Bank of America is $1.98.


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Obama advocates for global religious freedom at a time of high restrictions
About two-thirds of the world's population lives in countries with high or very high government restrictions on religion.
In a speech at the annual National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Obama talked about what he sees as the importance of religious freedom. He observed that it's "clear that around the world freedom of religion is under threat. … We see governments engaging in discrimination and violence against the faithful." He said the U.S. "will keep standing for religious freedom around the world."
A recent Pew Research study quantified the levels of government restrictions on religion – as well as social hostilities involving religion – in 198 countries and territories around the world. As of 2012, 29% of the nations studied had high or very high levels of government restrictions on religion (according to our measure), with 64% of the global population living in those countries.
Obama mentioned several countries specifically, including China. He said when he meets with Chinese leaders, he stresses "that realizing China's potential rests on upholding universal rights, including for Christians, and Tibetan Buddhists, and Uighur Muslims."
China has had very high government restrictions on religion in each of the six years of the study (since 2007), and was among the most restrictive in the world in 2012. In terms of social hostilities involving religion, China moved into the "high" category for the first time in the study in 2012.
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It appears that some people have a hard time understanding that religious freedom means that people have the right to believe in any religious faith that suits them. Religious freedom means that people do not have the right to enforce their beliefs on others.
Freedom of religion ultimately means that ALL religions are the right religion, for the person who has had the right to make a choice. NO religion is the only right religion.
The increase of violation of human right to life, human rights, and religious freedom all over the world, is a direct result of Obama's policies. And those of his ilk.
Directly coming out of the policies which are for the purpose of compelled population reduction (- aggressively compelled since 1970s by the UN population fund), and compelled secularisation. of pro abortion, pro gay ideology, pro gender bending sexuality ideology, and anti public practice of religion especially Christianity (because religion is the only thing with an absolute rather than subjective morality, so is the only thing able to give main opposition to these inhumane policies).
Obama was obtained as president by the money and influence (and I do not think by democracy) of the UN and abortion/gay agenda/anti religious agenda groups who care about two things: compelled population reduction, and money.
Obama was concerned with, compelling all countries to make abortion less restricted, or totally unrestricted in law, and to compel education to encourage abortion.
Also. To compel education about sexuality to encourage recognising gay and gender bending as normal. Going beyond just toleration. But rather to condemn questioning or talking scientifically about the difference of gay and straight as not equal and to make questioning this almost like a crime called discrimination, and to actually encourage gay or gender bending as good, with the intention to increase it by this education which is so positive in promoting it.
See for example russia now, it has said it tolerates people being gay, and allows them the choice, but it simply does not want to manipulate education to promote this gay ideology as equal to nature and male and female sexuality.
But the western world of compelled population reduction policies, is abusing russia in a political propaganda offensive and saying it is almost a crime, to refuse to promote an education of gay ideology.
Education in a way that promotes gay ideology, and does not allow truth to be spoken, is manipulative, and is not allowing freedom of thought.
The policies which try to compel all countries in the world to accept abortion, gay ideology, gender changing ideology. And at the same time being hostile to human rights, because human rights are against abortion, and hostile to the natural human family and religious freedom.
These policies are against natural human morality, the international human rights, and freedom of thought and conscience and religion.
And Obama, and the compelled population reduction group of which he is just a little puppet, are the fascist want to be controllers of the world.
Who are currently viciously attacking any opposition to their goals, such as the catholic church, many politicians in national governments who oppose abortion laws etc, and their citizens, the many countries who are not pro gay education (even when they tolerate gay choice for adults), and the majority of individuals all over the world and even many in the western countries, who do not agree with these fascist groups. Because these groups are totally against essential human rights, firstly right to life, freedom to have children and a family, freedom of conscience and religious freedom.
You need to learn about fascism. It is the combination of government and corporate power.
You need to learn about religious freedom. Religious freedom does NOT mean that you have the power to enforce YOUR religious beliefs on others concerning sexuality. After all, MY religion has no problem with homosexuality nor "gender bending." Why don't you use the term transgender?
You also have no religious right to force all women to live a life of endless pregnancies. Most of us recognize that the world is well beyond the capacity to care for all humans currently alive.
So, you're screaming about religious freedom while you are demanding that everyone else must capitulate to your religious views.
Global religious freedom is a misnomer for the word religion is not mentioned in the Torah other than obeying One Lord of the universe. Obama is the least fit to say that for he believes in rights of individuals at variance with the Law.
Freedom for ALL faiths / gods…Obama prays for at National Prayer Breakfast.
"We sometimes see religion twisted in attempt to justify hatred, persecution against other people just because of who they are and how they pray or who they love."
Is Obama referring to people who embrace freedom of self-rights, of self-religion, of self-sexuality?
The definition of "Religious Freedom" = the RIGHT (it is right / it is good) to be free (without consequence) to worship ANY 'god'.
…BUT Jesus Christ said that we are to love and worship the One Only Creator and to serve Him Alone.
…BUT the Creator said that man would die, that his way would die, if he disobeyed Him and took of the forbidden tree of knowing / establishing "good / evil" for one's own desires.
INSTEAD, President Obama has confessed that "FREEDOM" is the "Light", that it is the "will" of his 'god'…of fortresses.
This "freedom" speaks of peace and justice…but in reality it does the opposite. The real fruit of this "freedom" is conflict, hatred, and death…for it justifies each to do what is right in one's own eyes…it justifies the desire to serve and magnify the self (XES).
There is Only One True Way…the Way of Jesus Christ, SON of the Only Creator God.
Soon, the One Lord Jesus Christ will return to rule the earth in power according to and in obedience to the Will of the Only God and NOT according to man's first love for "his freedom".
Bible prophecy coming to a climax before the great tribulation starts .


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Sara Bareilles Hosts 'Brave' Dance Party in New Video
Sara Bareilles is inspiring people all around the world to be 'Brave.' And how exactly is she doing that? By inspiring impromptu dance parties, of course!
The songstress' video for her new track, which was directed by actress Rashida Jones, shows particularly gutsy people who break out into dance in mundane settings like a mall, library, bus stop, a gym and in Sara's case — a public mezzanine.
Finally, Bareilles and her band of merry dancers join forces and they get down to bidness cuttin' rug and not having a care in the world. A supremely lighthearted video to go along with an extremely uplifting song. Bravo, Sara!