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Ultra-low prices for flat screen LCD TVs are typical for Black Friday. But this year, the best deals are expected to come even later in the holiday season and into early 2011.
The average price for a 42-inch LCD TV is forecast to be $626 this quarter, but the price is expected to fall below $600 in the beginning of next year before rising again, according to NPD Group. Prices for 52-inch LCD TVs are expected to drop by $120 on average during the same time period.
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Confronting the Mountains of Culture
A Christian initiative seeking to build a network of leaders committed to centering the "Seven Mountains of Culture" to the values of Jesus Christ, is urging Christians to be active in engaging and transforming culture outside of church walls.
Pinnacle Forum, which was inspired by Dr. Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ International, has made it its vision to "see God at the center of our culture," and since 1996 has spread from a local ministry in Phoenix, Ariz., to a global movement.
With a strategy to gather Christian leaders in confidential forums and equip them with the tools to impact society with Christian ideals, the Forum seeks to engage the "seven mountains of culture," which it identifies as Arts and Entertainment, Business, Education, Family, Government/Military, Media, and Religion.
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Conservative irate that ballot lists him on leftist line
Frank Morganthaler is a self-described die-hard conservative.
So imagine his surprise when he learned that elections officials in Westchester and Rockland counties had printed thousands of absentee ballots for the 17th Congressional District race that featured his name next to the Party for Socialism and Liberation line.
Morganthaler, who is running against 12-term Rep. Nita Lowey (D-Harrison) and Republican candidate Joe Carvin under the independent We the People party line he created for the race, is taking the unintentional slight personally. The Vietnam veteran and retired New York City Fire Department lieutenant said that listing him under the Party for Socialism and Liberation line is "an underhanded and deliberate attempt" to defame his character and damage his campaign.
State elections officials said they weren't aware of the situation, but they pointed out that they only certify the ballots, not print them, which is the responsibility of local election boards, in this case Westchester and Rockland counties.
However, the officials also said that the counties may have simply been following the election laws.
"If you're not an official party in New York, then you may be forced to share the line with another independent body on the ballot," said state elections spokesman John Conklin.
In this case, Morganthaler, 64, of Hawthorne, will be sharing the Party for Socialism and Liberation line with presidential candidate Peta Lindsay.
Rockland County election officials, who already have mailed more than 5,000 absentee ballots at 10 cents apiece in the congressional race, declined to comment for this story, saying they were awaiting word from the state about how to proceed.
Westchester County election officials didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Meanwhile, both counties are preparing to print hundreds of thousands of ballots for the Nov. 6 election, which at this point lists Morganthaler on the Party for Socialism and Liberation line. In Rockland County alone, printing those ballots will cost more than $90,000.
Morganthaler said his name already has been listed on some online voter guides as a socialist candidate. He is considering filing a federal lawsuit against the state elections board to switch his ballot listing.


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Game Development Conference returning August next year
As GDC Europe 2013 draws to a close today, the event's 2014 incarnation is now dated.
GDC Europe 2014 will take place from August 11th to 14th next year.
While the venue has not been confirmed, the conference's long-standing association with Gamescom means it will likely be help once more at the Koelnmesse exhinition halls in Cologne, Germany.
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OSLO, June 9 (Reuters) - Marine Harvest, the world's biggest fish farmer, called off plans to merge its Chilean operations with AquaChile, it said in a statement on Tuesday.
"The parties have unfortunately not been able to reach a joint final agreement and the conditional transaction agreement has been terminated by mutual consent," the Norwegian firm said.
"Marine Harvest still believes in Chile as one of the global centres for salmon farming going forward. Accordingly, (it) will continue to develop its current farming assets in Chile through its wholly-owned subsidiary MH Chile."
It added that it continued to believe that consolidation in Chile is a prerequisite for a profitable and sustainable industry.
The firms agreed on the deal in January, which would have given Marine Harvest a 42.8 percent stake in the combined firm. (Reporting by Balazs Koranyi, editing by Terje Solsvik)


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An iPhone application developer must be a thorough professional who could deliver results within a reasonable time or the time specified by a client. Find below some tips on how to find an effective iPhone developer.
1. It is of utmost importance that the developer has ample experience since this could help him convert different ideas into programming in less time. Moreover, the application developer should be conversant with the current trends and must have an idea of what is in demand to cater to the market in the best way possible.
2. The developer should have professionalism which is very important as well. This trait further makes the developer very popular among businesses and consumers alike. Typically they will clarify any matter that confuses them and would seek approval after completing each development stage before proceeding to the next.
3. The iPhone application developer should have in-depth knowledge of the SDK since this could be effectively used in designing useful and appealing mobile app by blending them with apps that are available in the Apple store. This blending could be achieved successfully depending on the developer's level of knowledge of the SDK.
4. There are plenty of reputable iPhone app developers offering services in the market. Besides, they are also offering a lot more valuable programming services that could enhance iPhone apps.
All thorough professionals work closely with application buyers so as to integrate each other in ideas about the application so the resulting program should be in accordance with their own specifications. If an application buyer is satisfied with the end result, he or she could refer the app developer to other interested buyers as well. iPhone developers are the ones who shape and mold an iPhone application. Furthermore, there are also iPhone development companies that offer experienced mobile development on a hire basis to fulfill all mobile or iPhone development requirements and needs.
When hunting for an iPhone developer, make sure that he or she is estimating on the same functionality and business needs. A good practice would be to have a document ready to give the developer. This may be a simple bullet point list of a flowchart, functionality, RFQ/RFP and more. Looking and hiring an iPhone Application Developer could be time consuming if you do not have an idea of the basics. Because of this, you may want to make certain that you choose a reputable developer from the beginning. Moreover, you should look for one that will do the job promised for the price agreed. There are a lot of effective iPhone developers you can choose from these days and most of them provide not just quality service but affordable service as well.


text: The Four Seasons were born and bred in New Jersey, but the musical that tells their story, Jersey Boys, is a hit around the globe, including London's West End. During Broadway.com's recent visit across the pond, photographer Bruce Glikas spent an afternoon at the Prince Edward Theatre snapping the pre-show rituals of stars Jon Lee (Frankie Valli), Jon Boydon (Tommy DeVito), Matthew Wycliffe (Bob Gaudio) and Eugene McCoy (Nick Massi). Click on to meet the talented (and cute!) guys who bring Jersey Boys to life for London audiences.


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This flask was designed and possibly used by Joseph Lister (1827-1912), the surgeon and pioneer of antisepsis, in his microbiology experiments. It has a glass stopper covered with gauze and a long thin spout which is slightly bent to prevent any dust entering the flask. The bend is used to trap dirt and dust from the atmosphere and stop it contaminating the contents but still allow air into the flask. This flask would have been boiled before it was filled with fluids in order to make it sterile.
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loving them like your own? Is it possible
Is it possible to really love your step children like your own? I think it is I have been raising my step daughter Peyton who is 10 since she was a two years old. Her mother has always been in and out of her life. Her mom is an alcoholic and does drugs. I also have a son of my own Jacob who is 7. I treat Peyton just like I do Jacob I love her just as much. Do you think its possible?
im sure some people can. i don't. but they have a mom present so i dont need to. they arent here full time. i do love them but not like i love my own three. i do treat them fairly though.
Also I noticed you made this post 18 minutes after you joined cafemom.
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SD sees her mom maybe once or twice a year depending on when she calls she is very uninvolved. Peyton is like a daughter to me she calls me mom I do everything for her.
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How often does your SD see her mom at this point?
I think it's situational.
I love SD as much as I love DS and DDs. However, my bond with her is completely different. There's a different bond with a child when you've birthed them, breast fed them, etc.
No. I don't feel that is possible. I LOVE my two SS. I have been CSM to both of them for extended periods of their childhoods. More so YSS. He is 17 now. I have been with his dad since SS was 4. I love them, just not AS much as my two.
I love my sk's just as i love the kids the i carried in my tummy. They are all treated the same there are no different rules for either of them. in my eyes they are all just kids that deserve to be loved with no question and Even more that their mom is unable to be involved right now. My mom doesnt understand this and always tells me that i need to make my kids priority. she doesnt live in my household and hasnt had to go through what we have. To each their own, some are able to and some are not.
I'm sure some people can and I think that if you're in the kids' lives early and constantly then for sure.
For me, no. I love my SDs. I care about them and feel very mama bear if there is something to be mama bear about. But there is a clear delineation. they are not my kids.
That said, I didn't meet them til they were a little older--10/11.


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Sears Holdings announced on Thursday a wider net loss and decrease in revenues for second quarter 2014.
Sears Holdings announced on Tuesday that its Sears and Kmart stores are introducing an online/in-store collaboration to allow pick up of Sears.com or Kmart.com orders at any of each other's stores — more than 2,000 locations nationwide — in five minutes or less.
Sears Holdings Corp. is honoring members of the armed forces with an inaugural "Invite a Veteran to Work Day" at its headquarters and nearly 2,000 stores next month.
Kmart is looking for five interns for a new program designed to provide opportunities to Hispanic women.
The owner of Sears and Kmart stores reportedly is cutting 100 jobs at its headquarters in Hoffman Estates, Ill.
Walmart and Sears Holdings have both announced their commitment to helping military members maintain employment when moving from one community to another.


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The Wyoming Business Council recently reviewed the proposal from First Light Inc. to be the future tenants of the Hand in Hand Childcare center in Sheridan.
During Tuesday's Sheridan Economic and Education Development Authority Joint Powers Board monthly meeting, SEEDA Administrator Robert Briggs stated that First Light has been given the thumbs up from the
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SEEDA Chairman Dr. Paul Young stated that the college's role will be ready to be provided to the Business Council by the end of next week.
The SEEDA Board also approved a memorandum of understanding that will allow First Light to start moving into the building during the interim while the official paperwork is completed.


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Erik in Swedenwrote a review of Levi's Commuter 511 Men's Denim Pants on January 2, 2014
Best jeans I've ever owned
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I'm not sure how they did it, but Levi's nailed these pants.
I ride my bike pretty much every day, and I've been searching for a pair of jeans that I can wear to work that will survive the rides and I believe that I've found them here. (I've been considering going with a $200 pair from Rapha for over a year, and I no longer feel I need to now that Levi's has developed these). A rundown of my impressions so far:
Material: The material seems strong but has some stretch to it. So far, so good.
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ZIMBABWE: How to get donor funds to the needy - analysis
HARARE, 17 July 2009 (IRIN) - That Zimbabwe needs aid is a given - its battered population has experienced widespread food shortages, hyperinflation and a devastating cholera epidemic - but so far the stumbling block of trust in the institutions responsible for handling money has proved bigger than need.
The formation of a unity government in February 2009 between President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was welcomed by the country's major donors, the United States and the European Union, but did not lead to their lifting targeted sanctions against the ZANU-PF elite, or open the floodgates to billions of dollars in aid.
Analysts say donor community doubt in Mugabe's sincerity surfaced soon after the Global Political Agreement, which paved the way for the unity government, was signed in September 2008.
Within a few months, Mugabe re-appointed Gideon Gono as Governor of the Reserve Bank, despite protests from the MDC that this was in flagrant disregard of the agreement, which requires consensus on such appointments.
Gono was at the helm of the central bank when Zimbabwe's annual inflation rate ballooned to more than 200 million percent officially, while unofficially being estimated in the trillions of percent, but it was his admission of dipping into private accounts for foreign exchange that destroyed any credibility the governor might still have had with donors.
Turf wars
Since then a turf war has raged between the MDC and ZANU-PF over who would disseminate donor funding, with ZANU-PF alleging that the MDC would use funds to advance its interests ahead of an expected election in the next few years, and the MDC claiming that if money were channelled through Gono it would disappear into ZANU-PF coffers.
The unity government wants US$8 billion to kick start the once prosperous economy. Unemployment levels are estimated at 94 percent, while up until the April 2010 harvest seven million of Zimbabwe's 11 million population survived on emergency food aid.
To break the deadlock, the unity government created an Aid Coordination Policy (ACP) in the hope of reducing suspicions and providing a credible vehicle for donors to alleviate the humanitarian crisis, without any nagging doubts that the money might not reach the right people.
Agreement on the policy did not come easily - ZANU-PF cabinet members rejected it three times before coming on board - and is seen by analysts as one of the few compromises made by Mugabe's party. It is designed to evade party political rivalries, while ensuring transparency and consensus.
The aid policy falls under the ministry of finance, controlled by the MDC, but the co-opting of ministers from ZANU-PF to be party to decisions on the allocation of funds helped smooth the way, political commentator and businessman Paddington Japajapa told IRIN.
The ACP will see donor funds channelled to the Multi Donor Trust Fund and allocated by the Cabinet Committee on Aid Coordination (CCAC), as well as other subordinate support structures such as the Aid Technical Committee, the Government Development Forum and the Aid Coordinating Unit.
Tsvangirai chairs the Cabinet Committee on Aid Coordination, comprised of the two deputy prime ministers, Arthur Mutambara and Thokozani Khupe, and other MDC and ZANU-PF ministers.
The ministers for economic planning and investment, local government, public works, justice, national state security, finance, international cooperation, industry and commerce, and foreign affairs are also members of the Cabinet Committee on Aid Coordination. Decisions on the allocation of funds to ministries, departments or sectors will be by consensus.
Gorden Moyo, a minister of state in the prime minister's office and member of the CCAC, told IRIN that the committee would engage with the donor community in development planning, and help the government and the donor community align their activities to reduce duplication. Above all, accountability will be emphasized.
"With the creation of the new aid policy we are sending a very loud and clear message to the donor community that we now have in place a policy and an environment in which Zimbabwe is ready to receive money and spend it on the people," Moyo told IRIN.
Japajapa said the establishment of an aid coordination policy made sense, as the political parties were still haggling about the continued stay of the reserve bank governor.
"The aid policy has many positives, in the sense that while politicians are still fighting over outstanding issues, they have seen the importance of continued engagement with the donor community," he told IRIN.
"The ZANU-PF side has also been ready to compromise because they realize that donors want to channel their money through a credible institution; on the other hand, if the committee is able to work in harmony, then it may reduce suspicions among the politicians."
Ernest Mudzengi, another political commentator, believed the suspicions and lack of trust between the political parties were too deeply entrenched, and that bickering could hamstring the coordination aid policy.
"Since September 2008, when the Global Political Agreement was signed, very little has been agreed upon by the different political parties," he noted.
"They may all be represented in the Cabinet Committee on Aid Coordination, but the culture of arguing and bickering is likely to go ahead among politicians, possibly to the detriment of the ordinary people, who still yearn for genuine, effective leadership."
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Dele Alli on the brink of new mega money deal: He could double his earnings
While the England and Tottenham midfielder has already got a contract with the German company, The Daily Mail say he's set to sign a new deal that would pay him £8m over a minimum of five years.
That could work out as around £30k-a-week, £10k more than his current Spurs contract.
Although the 20-year-old is in line for a new deal with Spurs when he returns from Euro 2016 according to The Mail, despite signing a new five-year deal in January with the club.


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Exceprt: The award —at $100.6 million, one of the largest broadband grants under the ARRA — has been a source of controversy. The grant to EAGLE-Net Alliance, originally made to the Colorado Centennial Board of Cooperative Educational Services and subsequently transferred to EAGLE-Net, has been criticized for overbuilding existing infrastructure rather than delivering service to unserved communities.
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When kind-hearted passersby heard the tiny "mews" from somewhere beneath the streets of Greencastle, Pa, west of Harrisburg on Halloween, they naturally called for help. They tried the police. They tried firefighters. The tried PennDot. All day long they tried to figure out how to reach the kitten and left empty handed.
Then 16-year-old Morgan Knoll, a volunteer at a local animal shelter arrived.
Armed with headlamps, flashlights, poles and nets Knoll and her support team from the Greener Pastures No Kill Shelter went to work. Once they removed the heavy storm grate, Knoll dove into the black tunnel and waded through six inches of water to locate the kitten, according to the Echo-Pilot report.
Then suddenly Knoll popped out of the stormy drain a month-old kitten in hand. The kitten, who may well have succumbed to hypothermia, is now resting comfortably, eating well and curled up in a basket at the Greener Pastures shelter where it will stay until it's old enough to be adopted.
We were going to close the curtain on the Halloween happy ending story by saying we hoped young Megan gets the kudos she deserves for her bravery and resourcefulness in finding and rescuing the kitten.
But then we suddenly thought the name Samantha Frey rang a bell. Frey was identified as the owner of Greener Pastures shelter in the rescue story. So we googled. Turns out she was convicted of forgery in August, according to the Public Opinion newspaper, for trying to steal a deceased man's Harley Davidson motorcycle and other property.
Frey is currently serving 24 months probation for her crime but is apparently still operating the shelter which has cats, dogs and farm animals for adoption. In 2010 Frey, who had a state kennel license, received warnings about unsanitary and potentially dangerous condtions in her kennel. She gave up her license earlier this year.


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Since March, Network Solutions has been limiting access to the full database of name registrations. But those days may be numbered. Last week the U.S. Commerce Department sent Network Solutions a letter, released yesterday, saying the directory is public property. "We strongly object to NSI's restrictive policy." Citing the 1993 agreement with the government that effectively created the Network Solutions monopoly on dot-com, dot-net and dot-org domain names, the Commerce Department letter continued, "nothing in the cooperative agreement, nor in existing law gives, NSI the right to restrict access to this information." MORE >>
U.S. Tells Network Solutions to Share Dot-Com Database
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CASSANDRA-1740, If the validation compaction is stopped then the repair will hang. This ticket will allow users to kill the original repair.
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- is blocked by
CASSANDRA-1740 Nodetool commands to query and stop compaction, repair, cleanup and scrub
- Resolved
- is required by
CASSANDRA-11264 Repair scheduling - Failure handling and retry
- Open
CASSANDRA-11263 Repair scheduling - Polling and monitoring module
- Awaiting Feedback
CASSANDRA-10070 Automatic repair scheduling
- Open
- relates to
CASSANDRA-11190 Fail fast repairs
- Open
CASSANDRA-11956 Interrupt outgoing file transfer when stream session is aborted
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Can you provide a status regarding the likelihood of this patch to be merged ? Is anything missing blocking for it to be integrated ?
Stefan Podkowinski well done! I think this is going to be useful for testing this ticket, specially when we add acks to abort, since we will need to deal with timeout and error handling, etc, which is generally a pain to do via dtests. Thanks!
I've now looked at this issue as a potential use case for
CASSANDRA-12016 and added a test on top of it. The branch can be found at WIP-3486 and the test I'm talking about in ActiveRepairServiceMessagingTest.java and RepairRunnableTest.java.
My goal was to be able to make coordination between different nodes in repair scenarios easier to test. The basic cases covered so far are pretty simple, but I like to add more edge cases in the future. Nonetheless I wanted to share this early on in case Paulo Motta and others have any feedback on how this approach would be helpful to make progress on this issue.
Do you think a blocking + timeout approach would be preferable?
Maybe. My goal in asking would be to know if the repair needs to be canceled on other nodes or not. Right now you need to either just run the abort on all nodes from the start or run it on the coordinator then check the participants to double check that it succeeded there as well.
I personally think we should go this route of making repair more stateful
I agree, especially with the upcoming coordinated repairs in C*
Thanks for the feedback Nick Bailey. See follow-up below:
If the abort is initiated on the coordinator can we return the success/failure of the attempt to abort on the participants as well? And vice versa? Similarly for the list of results when aborting all jobs.
We could, but in this initial implementation I opted to take an optimistic approach to keep the protocol simple and non-blocking. If for some reason there is a network partition and "orphaned" sessions keep running, you can always abort them individually later. Do you think a blocking + timeout approach would be preferable?
Can we make sure we are testing the case where for whatever reason a coordinator or participant receives an abort for a repair it doesn't know about?
Sure. One of the changes of this patch that I forgot to mention is that all messages are validated against the repair session UUID, so if a node receives a message from a repair it doesn't know about it logs and ignores it.
Since we are now tracking repairs by uuid like this, can we expose a progress API outside of the jmx notification process? An mbean for retrieving the progress/status of a repair job by uuid?
We could, but we currently don't keep state or progress information in the repair session. Furthermore we clear repair session information as soon as it's finished, so the list repairs stub only list currently active repairs. So we would need to maintain progress status and provide some way to clear repair information after some time.
I personally think we should go this route of making repair more stateful, what will not only improve monitoring but will also allow us to break up a repair job into more decoupled subtasks, simplifying the single chain of futures we have today, which can be quite complex to understand and error-prone.
Some questions:
- If the abort is initiated on the coordinator can we return the success/failure of the attempt to abort on the participants as well? And vice versa?
- Similarly for the list of results when aborting all jobs.
- Can we make sure we are testing the case where for whatever reason a coordinator or participant receives an abort for a repair it doesn't know about?
- Since we are now tracking repairs by uuid like this, can we expose a progress API outside of the jmx notification process? An mbean for retrieving the progress/status of a repair job by uuid?
Attaching preliminary patch in case anyone wants to have a look or give feedback before the review-ready version
Current state
- Add nodetool repair --list to list ongoing repair jobs (parent repair sessions) in the local node
- Add nodetool repair --abort <jobId> and nodetool repair --abort-all to abort a specific or all jobs
- Any participant can abort the repair job:
- When a participant receives an abort request, it sends an abort message to the coordinator and abort its local tasks
- When a coordinator receives an abort message or abort request, it sends an abort message to all participants and abort its local tasks, failing the repair job
- Add abort support to StreamResultFuture and StreamSession
- Refactor ActiveRepairService and RepairMessageVerbHandler
- Add dtests to abort repair on coordinator and participants on different phases (validation, sync, anticompaction)
- Fix races and leaks found during dtests
Limitations and next steps
While compactions have abort/stop support via CompactionManager.stopCompactionById,
we cannot guarantee it's going to be aborted during a repair abortion because it's abort handler (Holder) is only registered during iteration via the CompactionIterator, so if we stop the compaction before that the task is not aborted, and will execute even if it's parent repair session was aborted. Furthermore, an anti-compaction is split into multiple subcompactions, so this method only stop the currently running subcompaction.
In order to overcome this, I aborted the compaction task Future directly, which causes the task thread to be interrupted, so I check for Thread.currentThread.isInterrupted() during iteration and throw a CompactionInterruptedException if this is true, causing the compaction to be aborted (by brute force).
However this is not very safe, because it can generate a ClosedByInterruptException if we're blocked on an I/O operation, and we currently treat any IOException as a corrupt sstable. Furthermore, an interrupted thread is not able to abort the transaction when getting a CompactionInterruptedException. In order to solve this we could special case interruptions in many places (readers, transaction aborting, etc) but even this wouldn't guarantee we're safe so this is probably a bad smell.
A cleaner option that I will be doing in the next iteration is to associate a CompactionHolder with a ListenableFuture as soon as the anti-compaction or validation is submitted, so we can abort it safely without interrupting the compaction thread.
Paulo Motta +1 for the feature - really needed this feature when our cluster blew up this week
Paulo Motta It's all yours My first draft at this is so out of date that it's probably not worth the archaeological effort. And, yes, those were sort of nodetool commands I thought we'd need.
IIRC, the tricky thing, two years ago when I worked on this, is you have to pass around the parent repair session id (which I don't think we did before) in order group all the child repairs due to vnodes (to kill all of those, too). I haven't been in the repair code in a while, so it might be different now.
Jason Brown do you still plan to work on this? There is a lot of overlap between this and CASSANDRA-11190, which I'll start working on it soon, so I wanted to check if we could still reuse anything of your first draft or better start from scratch.
As to your previous questions, I think we can provide a way for users to stop/abort an ongoing local repair session given its session id. So, if session <id> is happening on nodes A, B and C, I can execute nodetool repair --abort <id> on nodes A, B or C to abort session <id>. I if execute nodetool repair --abort <id> on node D, it will print something like No ongoing repair session found with id <id>. For this to be useful, we should also provide a nodetool repair --list command to list ongoing repair sessions on the local node, and also nodetool repair --abort-all to abort all ongoing sessions on the local node.
+1 for this fix. I run into this issue quite regularly and have no good solution other than restarting the cassandra nodes one by one. However, this causes a significant performance impact when I do it.
It's been a while since I looked at this, but iirc, the problem was determining if we should kill all ongoing repairs in a cluster, or expose a way for a user to terminate a single one. The trick was 1) how to expose repair session ids to users, globally, and 2) allows users to cancel an individual repair session from any node in the cluster.
Robert Coli hmm, totally forgot about this ticket - i can give it a shot over the next week.
Jason Brown : I see that
CASSANDRA-6503 is complete, but this ticket is unresolved. Do you still plan to address this issue soon?
Yuki Morishita since I'm knees deep in
CASSANDRA-6503, I'll knock this out at the same time.
I disagree with the prioritization of this ticket as minor. I've seen this on three separate clusters (all 1.2.x >= 1.2.8) in the past month alone. It is a difficult and time consuming problem to have to work around.
I hit this today on 1.1.10.
node X was running a repair that was hung. It had several SS tables it reported it was streaming from node Y. Node Y reported it was not streaming anything to node X.
It looks like our only solution is to bounce the node, which is frustrating. A 'nodetool stop repair' would have been very helpful in my scenario.
Regarding the priority of this ticket, operators frequently report hung repair streaming sessions on #cassandra/cassandra-user@. Currently the only thing we can tell them is to restart all affected nodes. This presumably gives them a bad impression of cassandra. First, because the repair (which they have to run once every GCGraceSeconds per best practice) hangs with no useful messaging. Second, because the only solution is to restart multiple nodes. It's a little bit surprising that this ticket suggests that this negative user experience is uncommon enough to not expose some version of this functionality via nodetool.. two people's clusters have been in this state in #cassandra so far today and it's only 2pm...
I don't think we should close that ticket because I don't think that we have a satisfying way to stop repair. A satisfying way to run repair would be to be able to run 'nodetool repair stop <some_repair_session_id>' on the host the repair was started on, on have it cleaning stop everything related to that repair (including any validation or streaming going on) and this on every participating nodes. That require a bit more work however and let me note that I don't see this ticket as a priority at all.
Sounds good to me, Let me know if you want me to clear the streaming sessions which where associated with the repair while running (SS.forceTerminateAllRepairSessions) i can do that (as a part of this ticket or a separate one)...
if the current state is good enough, i can close this ticket as it is already exposed for the advanced users (I think the streaming sessions are mostly harmless for most of the users).
As a said back on
CASSANDRA-3316, I see forceTerminateAllRepairSessions more as a band-aid solution to avoid having someone stuck until we better handle repair failures and have a correct to stop it. But it isn't really a very use friendly solution since it doesn't stop properly the repair (it won't stop the validation compaction (though we can do that by other means now), nor any streaming that would be running) and you have to run it everywhere. For all those reason, my opinion is that we should keep this JMX only, I see no good reason to promote it to nodetool. That's just an opinion though.
Attached is a simple patch to expose SS.forceTerminateAllRepairSessions in NodeTool
#nt stop repairsessions
will stop the repair sessions in the repair originating node (cleanup).
NOTE: User might need to do "#nt stop Validation" in all the nodes which are involved in the repair.
It will be useful. sometimes validation eats too much disk bandwidth making compaction too slow
Moving to 1.1 because this will almost certainly require a wire protocol change. Also,
CASSANDRA-3112 requires a very similar change (basically validation needs to be able to report an error back to the repair), so it's worth making room for both of those changes together.


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Singing their hearts out
With several contests and competitions throughout the state and nation, Kathy Larson's choir students have been busy.
On Wednesday, Feb. 16, Detroit Lakes High School (DLHS) hosted the Solo Vocal Ensemble Contest.
With 70 entries, Detroit Lakes had the most entries of anyone in the contest.
Of the 70 DL Solo Ensemble entries, 53 received Superior Ratings -- the highest possible -- and 17 received Excellent Ratings.
And of everyone who competed, many more did not.
"A lot of people auditioned," Larson said.
The performers at Vocal Solo Ensemble performed live in front of judges in duets, trios, mixed groups, and of course, solos.
The following day --Thursday, Feb. 17 -- saw the start of the Minnesota Music Educators Association (MMEA) Mid-Winter Conference at Central Lutheran Church in Minneapolis.
This conference encompassed two main events: the All State Choir performance, and the 9th and 10th grade Honor Choir performances.
All State began last March, when contestants auditioned live for the coveted spots.
As with the Solo Ensemble, the audition process for All State is very complex, and designed such that only the greatest talent from across the state are selected.
"They want to include as much of Minnesota as they can," Larson said. "As you can imagine, there is remarkable talent across the state."
The winners are announced in May, and in June, they receive the music they will later perform.
June is also the month of All State Camp, where the contestants meet their guest conductor for the first time.
At All State Camp, they spend an intense week learning their music, before performing it in front of their families, friends and everyone else attending the convention.
On Saturday, Feb. 19, the All State participants reunite for a concert at Orchestra Hall during the MMEA Mid-Winter Clinic in Minneapolis.
Finally, the National Honor Choir is performing March 9-12 at the National ACDA Convention in Chicago.
"It's a very huge honor," Larson explained. "Literally, there are thousands of kids who audition."
Not only do the kids have the opportunity to work with nationally and internationally renowned conductors, but they also get to meet people from every corner of America.
"Oftentimes, they make friends who they keep in touch with throughout their high school years," Larson said.
Paige Raaf, who is performing in the National Women's Honor Choir, is thrilled to be having this experience.
"I'm really excited," Raaf said, although she admitted that the pressure to succeed is often intense.
"We're supposed to be considered some of the best in the nation, so there's a lot expected from you," she added. "You have to have a really good ear and outstanding consistency."
Mia Martinez, who is performing in the National Elementary Honor Choir, is equally thrilled.
"I feel really honored that I was selected to participate in this," Martinez said. "I'm really looking forward to it."
Larson added that the music they perform is "extremely challenging," and that the contest attracts kids who "tend to have innate musical abilities, which are further developed through the conductors they meet."
Larson also feels she personally benefits from the National ACDA they're performing at the National Convention.
"It's designed for choral conductors across the U.S.," she said.
"We have the opportunity to hear outstanding choirs from across the nation."


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The shock waves from Rupert Murdoch's agreement to buy Manchester United for $1 billion could be felt clear across the Atlantic, as the scramble among media companies to control global sports programming reached a new level.
Global media conglomerates are locked in an intense war to capture sports programming and in turn to buy the teams and leagues they broadcast.
With the latest salvo, Murdoch's News Corp. appears to have fired a major international blow, since rights to Manchester United, England's best-known soccer team, are sure to be valuable throughout Europe and South America.
"You have the Time Warners and the [Walt] Disneys of the world who are all engaged in this global war of the airwaves, and I would think you will see more examples of these global titans coming after more sports franchises," said Dean Bonham, president of the Bonham Group Inc. sports and entertainment marketing firm.
Even industry veterans were shocked by Murdoch's gambit to pay so much for control of one of England's most cherished soccer teams. But as with Murdoch's pricey purchase of the Los Angeles Dodgers earlier this year, the Australian media mogul appears intent on controlling key sports content to keep a lid on programming costs.
"For Murdoch, sports is a code word for TV programming," said Bishop Cheen, an entertainment analyst with First Union Capital Markets.
In the United States, News Corp.'s next push could be into the National Football League, some analysts contend. Murdoch already owns the Dodgers and has options to buy 10 percent of the Los Angeles Lakers and 40 percent of the Los Angeles Kings. His Fox Sports controls programming rights to 24 NBA teams, 23 MLB teams and 19 NHL teams and reaches 55 million households.
"The obvious thing for them is to buy a football team and move it to L.A.," said David Kelly, an analyst with BT Alex. Brown in Sydney, Australia. While NFL rules prohibit corporate ownership, Murdoch could own the team himself, Kelly said.
A Murdoch move into the NFL would almost surely draw a protest from team owners and fans, but that may only pale with the uproar Murdoch has already sparked in England with the Manchester United agreement.
Murdoch, through his British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC, already controls programming rights to the Premier League, which Manchester United plays in. But those rights expire in a few years, so owning the No. 1 team would give him huge sway in setting future terms.
In England, there is no local programming, and broadcast revenues are pooled among a league's teams. But collective bargaining is breaking down, analysts say.
As a result, "the dominant brands like Manchester United will be advantaged over the less dominant brands" in the future, said Matthew Horseman, an analyst with Henderson Crosthwaite in London.
Murdoch's deal also means that the value of leading sports teams most likely just shot up, further evidenced by the
$530 million paid for the Cleveland Browns franchise last week.
Could other cherished U.S. teams, from the Dallas Cowboys to the New York Yankees, be the next to fall under the media steamroller?
"If Manchester United could go for a billion dollars, then all bets are off for what the Yankees will go for," Bonham said.
Street & Smith's SportsBusiness Journal staff writer Liz Mullen contributed to this report.


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Lacks on the bass a bit, but combined with the 6 X 9 they work just fine.
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Kenwood Excelon speakers incorporate technical know-how and advanced materials to give your music the full, rich sound it deserves. These full-range speakers sport a diamond-array pattern etched into their woofers that increases the strength of the carbon-polypropylene cone for improved dynamic response and lower distortion. The butyl rubber surround resists weathering, providing reliable support that keeps your music playing, no matter what.
The KFC-X133 5-1/4" full-range speakers feature 3/4" silk dome tweeters that deliver all the high-frequency details without sounding harsh. Because of their specially designed magnetic circuitry and neodymium magnets, these compact tweeters use less steel in their construction than most tweeters, so you'll hear more accurate response.
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Lacks on the bass a bit, but combined with the 6 X 9 they work just fine.
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Lacks on the bass a bit, but combined with the 6 X 9 they work just fine.
Great sound and easy installation. Plug and play on my 03 f150
Pros: Great sound easy installation
These speakers sound great however they do not fit in the rear speaker pods on a Harley Ultra the mounting depth of the speaker is too deep. In order to mount these speakers you need to use the stock speaker cover with the mesh grill removed as a spacer.
Pros: Excellent speakers sound is great.
Cons: Did not fit my application. Without modificationy
good quality speaker and meets all my high and mid-range needs. robust sound.
Pros: Heavy duty design for years of trouble free use and abuse
Cons: None!!
These speakers are really clear coming out of an aftermarket head unit. I haven't noticed any distortion at high volumes. They produce frequencies below 60 Hz but it isn't their strong point. Having a crossover cut off everything below 70-80 Hz works well.
Pros: Waaaaaaaaaaaaay better than the factory drivers.
Cons: Now I want a sub.
These are really great mid range speakers, I have these in the rear doors of my 2010 ext cab Silverado, I have the 6 3/4 in the front doors. The mids and hi's are crisp and clear. Cleared up all the distortion I was getting from listening to guitar heavy music. They can play extremely loud with no distortion, the only thing these speakers lack are any kind of bass. I have sub's so that's not what I needed anyway. I would definitely recommend these speakers if you already have sub's.
Pros: Crisp, clear, and loud
Cons: No low range
Definitely better than stock speakers. They're not hard to install at all. It's nice how clear the music is through them. They are, without a doubt, awesome speakers for the great price you pay for them. You can't go wrong with Crutchfield.
Pros: Great speakers.
Cons: None that I know of.
I purchased these as a replacement to the back door speakers on my 2003 Jeep Liberty at the recommendation of a local audio store. Shipping was very fast and installation was simple. I think it took me less than an hour to install both speakers using the included speaker adapter. I think these little speakers sound really good. Even though my stock speakers were 6 3/4, I purchased these smaller ones based on the recommendation. I'm very happy with them, although I may have preferred getting the bigger speakers if I would have researched more...you know, it's a mental thing ("bigger is better"). LOL.
Pros: Great sound, quality built, easy installation.
Great sound from little package
Pros: Easy instal, great sound - even base
Cons: None so far
For their size, they put out an awesome amount of bass, and the sound quality is amazing
Good sound
Speakers were for my sons car. Speakers sound better than originals. Not a direct fit. Had to trim and cut open the original speaker enclosures.
Pros: Sounds better than the originals
Cons: Not a direct fit. Had to cut and trim original speaker enclosures.
Excellent speakers for the money. Mids are clear, the treble is not super harsh and you can get a surprising amount of low-end thump and boom out of these given the fact that they're 5" speakers. Are there better speakers out there? Of course there are. Are these great speakers for the price you'll pay? Without a doubt.
Pros: Great all around speaker for the money
Cons: None come to mind
Much better than stock. I don't have a lot to say, because I don't have multiple speakers to compare them to.
Pros: Heavy. Clear. Dynamic.
Cons: Speaker Grill is flimsy and doesn't attach very secure. This would not prevent me from purchasing another pair, however.
Great speakers, produce beautiful sound, it's immersive, which is what I was looking for. The highs are high, and the mids are clear. Paired with a KDC-X997 I get amazing sound from these speakers, and that's without being powered by a 4 channel amp (for now). These speakers are built very very well. I can open up the doors on my truck, put the volume up to 26 and have music playing behind the truck and you can easily hear everything in the song. Highly recommend a subwoofer with these to match the mids and highs these speakers will put out!
Pros: Sound amazing, and produce alot of sound. Built well.
Cons: Seems as though these speakers are made to be part of a complete system, in which I mean it's assumed your adding or already have a subwoofer.
I've bought 2 pairs of these speakers to replace the factory speakers in my Accent. I am very pleased with the sound quality. I also have a Kenwood receiver. I listen to a large range of music and I hear things in the music that I didn't hear before. The sound is nice is clear and I can crank the volume pretty loud without it overpowering the speakers. There is still a point where they do start to garble, but at that point, the volume is too loud and you should be wearing ear plugs at that level. With these speakers, I do recommend that you get a separate sub. I haven't used them without, but I'm pretty sure these speakers were not designed to put out bass.
Pros: Great sound quality, mounted perfectly, price(when I bought them)
Cons: Not made for bass, get a sub.
I bought these to replace my front speakers on a 2000 GMC Sierra 1500, which are located in the front doors. I had prior experience taking off the door pieces to get at the speakers when I replaced a window motor. There is at least one YouTube video that shows you exactly how to do it--it is VERY simple. Switching out the factory speakers for these was VERY simple. I also replaced the receiver, so the job took me a little more than an hour. I"m a rock guy. I tend to listen to my music at a high volume. The factory speakers were obviously not great, but they did the job for me for 12 years. These speakers are very good at mid and low volumes. The sound is unquestionably better. However, at high volumes, they can't handle bass of any sort. Ordinarily, that' would be fine with me, since I HATE bass-heavy music, but the sound distortion is pretty bad at high volumes, which is a problem I never had with my factory speakers. I do understand that these are only 5 1/4 speakers and, in a proper system, shouldn't handle the bulk of the heavy work. I am unlikely ever to buy an amp and a sub, but I'm sure that the sound would be much better at higher volumes if I did. I didn't replace the rear speakers because they're smaller than the fronts in a Sierra, but maybe if I also swap them out for better speakers the overall sound at high volume will improve.
Pros: Price, Ease of Install
As promised -- could use a subwoofer with these.
Excellent speakers for their size! I would recommend these combined with a subwoofer for extended bass response. The highs are very smooth, detailed and clear. And you cannot go wrong working with Crutchfield!
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Woofers: The woofer cones are constructed of Carbon-PP (polypropylene) with a diamond array pattern. The woofers feature butyl rubber surrounds for a smoother response and improved durability.
Tweeters: Each speaker uses a 3/4" Silk soft dome tweeter for smooth, accurate highs.
Mounting: The speaker features a standard 5.25", 4-hole mounting pattern.
Warranty Note: Although these speakers come with a 1-year warranty card, they are covered by the Kenwood eXcelon 2-year warranty.
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The move, which would see the number of children's centres managed by the council reduced from 43 to 15, and schools, nurseries or the community take over their running, is one option being considered by the council to save money and increase service provision.
According to Durham City Council, the majority of its children's centres are based on school sites already.
The council will launch a public consultation on the proposals at the end of the month.
Currently, the city's children's centres are grouped into 16 clusters and arranged in five localities. Each of the clusters has a 'main' children's centre.
Durham City Council claims that transferring the running of the centres would make services more accessible to vulnerable families, as well as saving £1m.
According to the council, contact with the most vulnerable families in Durham has historically been limited. Any improvements have been achieved through outreach strategies and use of a broader range of buildings to deliver services.
Another option is for providers currently delivering early years provision from the children's centres to take over the running of the settings to provide places for disadvantaged two-year-olds.
Cabinet member for children and young people's services at Durham City Council, councillor Ossie Johnson, said, 'We have made some progress in this important area but we need to do more.
'We won't let where families live dictate their chances in life, and I believe this approach offers many of the children most in need in our county a better chance of getting the help they require.
'We need our children to be ready and equipped for their school journey and to make the most of the opportunities we can offer.
'A pilot project in Chester-le-Street is already delivering real improvements for families taking part and I believe this shift from buildings to a broader community-based support network will improve many young lives.'


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Iran-US tensions: 5 ways Americans and Iranians are actually similar
Despite escalating US-Iran tensions, remarkable similarities between their peoples have prompted some to suggest that the two nations could one day be powerful 'natural' allies.
It is a provocative concept, since these very qualities have also made the US and Iran proud and uncompromising enemies since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. But Iranians were among the first – and very few in the Middle East – to hold candlelight vigils after the 9/11 attacks. Here are five traits they share with Americans:
1. Exceptionalism
Iran's first-world pretensions hark back to an ancient era, when the Persian Empire was the indispensable nation of its day. It is the sense of national purpose, of national mission – this heady exceptionalism – that today imbues aspirations in Iran, just as it has throughout the much shorter history of the US.
Here lies Iran's steadfast insistence on pursuing its nuclear ambitions, for example – which it claims are limited to peaceful nuclear energy, not bombs. Here, too, is one root of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's claims that Iran is a superpower that has enabled the "collapse" of Western capitalism.
The words of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936 ring as true in Iranian ears as they have for Americans.
"Roosevelt said the US has a 'rendezvous with destiny,' " Shahriar Rouhani, a Yale-educated physicist in Tehran once told the Monitor. "Iran, too, has a 'rendezvous with destiny.'"
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During a panel session at Oracle Open World, Oracle Senior Vice President Peter Utzschneider said Java is key to the creation of the Internet of Things as there are not enough developers to create the necessary software for each type of device separately.
Java has been around for years, and has amassed a community of nine million developers. While there has been some fragmentation of versions, "we're... building a common platform," he said.
The arrival of Java 8 next March will be "a dramatic leap forward," Utzschneider. There are currently three versions of Java relevant to devices, but one is being retired and the other two (SE and ME) will have more commonality in terms of language and APIs.
Oracle Senior Vice President Chris Baker said a standard platform is needed for the Internet of Things along with standardised, preconfigured systems so that people can get on with writing specific applications (without having to worry about the plumbing). The 'write once, deploy to many' model will be essential to making the task feasible..
"We believe the Internet of Things is going to hit every industry," he said, but with nine million Java developers there is "a huge economy out there."
Asked whether the insecurity of Java could be a liability for the Internet of Things, Utzschneider said recent issues involved the browser plug-in for Java rather than Java itself. Oracle is "on a concrete path to get thorough that," he said, and suggested the fundamental security of Java had been proved on SIM cards and smart cards.
Responding to a suggestion that Oracle may be planning to charge for Java components that were previously free of charge, Utzschneider said the company's policy is that parts that are currently free will remain that way. Items subject to a licensing fee (eg, $US0.60 for a very low-power device) generally will not change, though some may be released without charge. For example, Java for ARM-based servers and for the Raspberry Pi are free.
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Nintendo's been making a bit of a fuss over how it's finally stepping into the future and preparing to offer downloads of its retail games through the 3DS' eShop. There have been numerous announcements made and it's offering double the Club Nintendo points to people who download rather that buy a cartridge. Recent events in Japan suggest that the move to digital might not be such a smooth process for Nintendo.
This past weekend, New Super Mario Bros 2, as well as the Brain Age spin-off Dr. Kawashima's Demon Training were both released in Japan. It happened on July 28, 2012 to be exact. Almost immediately after both downloads were released at 9am JST, the entire eShop went down. Nintendo cited server problems, which were probably caused by a rush of people attempting to download one or both games from the eShop instead of heading out to buy a cartridge.
The eShop outage lasted just under three hours. So it isn't like it was some kind of disaster. It was more like a minor hiccup. Still, it's enough to question whether or not Nintendo is still prepared for this whole "download" thing. I guess we'll have to see what happens on August 19, 2012! That's when New Super Mario Bros. 2 appears on the North American eShop. Perhaps Nintendo knows what went wrong now and will take measures to ensure it doesn't repeat itself for the North American or European launches.
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