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Remarkable 16th-century classic attempted to disprove existence of witches. Rich full account of charges against witches, witch trials, practice of the black arts. Excerpts from Inquisition, interviews with convicted witches, discussions of alchemy, astrology, much more. Indispensable primary source on witchcraft. Introduction by Montague Summers. 17 illus.
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text: Meet the Decelerator Helmet, it is quite a ridiculous experiment in time and space dreamed up by German artist, Lorenz Potthast. The DH is made up of a camera that leads to a notebook computer which is connected to 2 monitors, all of which is mounted to a bicycle helmet that is encapsulated inside an XL silver globe. The wearer controls the speed of what they see via a wireless hand control. The helmet allows the wearer to view their surroundings at 0.1x-3.00x. Enjoy?


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The first video was done in the WTTW studios as a part of the series that showcased artists that receive grants from the Illinois Arts Council. Sones de Mexico Ensemble www.sonesdemexico.com played the music and is on another stage off camera. I will try to get permission to show the entire show including Sones.
The second video was also produced by WTTW TV Chicago. It is a short version of a longer documentary of the immigration dilemma in Berdstown, IL.. Beardstown had lost one third of its population as young people moved out seeking a more professional life. Thus industry needed workers. Cargil Meat Solutions, one of the largest meat packers in the world, brought in workers from Texas and California but it needed more so it brought them in from Mexico and from Latin America. The townspeople did not appreciate this and there was predjudice. However it helped the town grow again to more than its original population. Once closed businesses reopend with Latin owners and Latin activities became the largest events. Sams Club and other merchants came in, etc. I will try to get permission to show the original length video.
The third video is with Pepe Aguilar at the 2007 Premio lo Nusetro Awards in Miami. MFDC also performed with him in 2009 and I will post that video later.
There is another video with Juan Gabriel and it will be posted at a later date.
This one, with Pepe Aguilar, for sure you have to copy and paste
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McCain: 'Reporting for #juryduty'
As members of Congress have dispersed around the world for August recess, Sen. John McCain is spending Monday in Maricopa County Superior Court.
He has jury duty.
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McCain (R-Ariz.) tweeted about his civic duty Monday morning:
Reporting for #juryduty this morning at the Maricopa County Superior Court in #Phoenix - let's see if I'm picked!
— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) August 12, 2013
Walking into the courthouse Monday, McCain told azcentral.com he was there to do his "civic duty for a change" and joked he was out to "reinstitute law and order" in Maricopa County. He said he'd been called for duty several times before, but never picked to sit on a jury.
"We're out to get those criminals," he quipped.
Monday afternoon, McCain tweeted an update that he had was under consideration for a panel.
Just got selected for a panel - let's see what happens next #juryduty
— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) August 12, 2013
He later tweeted he wasn't picked for that trial but that he might have to return, then finally got the all clear and thanked the court.
Got word I'm done with #juryduty today - I appreciate the Court staff's dedicated work & all #Arizonans who serve on our juries
— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) August 12, 2013
The Arizona Republican was also called for jury duty in 2005, but he wasn't selected, though he was considered for a DUI trial. He told The Arizona Republic then that his congressional schedule had previously prevented him from doing his civic duty.
McCain is back in Arizona after spending last week in Egypt with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on a trip to promote democracy in the nation.


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BEVERLY (CBS) – It appears that the first baby born in Massachusetts in 2011 was at Beverly Hospital.
Jeremiah Joel Nival was born 10 seconds after midnight on 1/1/11.
He's 20-inches tall and weighs 7 pounds, 4 ounces.
His proud parents are Yolinnet Colon and Damien Nival of Lynn.
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KARACHI – Law enforcers on Sunday recovered bodies of three most wanted gangsters from Barohi Chowk in Lyari area.
Arshad alias Papu , his brother and an associate were killed in a shootout on Saturday with rival gang, headed by Baba Ladla.
The killing of Arshad alias Papu , a notorious gangster and a real successor of Lyari gang, along with his brother Arafat and Jumman aka Shaira Pathan has somewhat strengthened the hold of the gang headed by Baba Ladla over Lyari. Witnesses said enraged people torched the bodies of the two brothers. Police said the bullet-riddled bodies also bore marks of torture. Arshad Papu was the son of Hajji Lalu – the godfather of Lyari gang. Police have so far been unable to explain the triple murder because the bodies of the two brothers were charred and mutilated. Witnesses said the gangsters from the group of Baba Ladla celebrated the killing of Papu with fireworks, gunfire and other traditional ways.
Papu was He was arrested in 2006 near Lee Market but was out before long owing to lack of evidence. Last year he was acquitted in more than 50 cases. Pappu, Arafat, and Pathan, who were awaiting several trials, were proclaimed offenders wanted for numerous counts of murder, assault, drug-peddling, extortion, kidnapping for ransom, etc.
These gangsters warring for more and more control over their gangdoms have led to the deaths of hundreds of people Arguably the architect of organized crimes not only on his turf but the whole city as well, Pappu had been one of the main gangwarlords in Lyari. Ghaffar Zikri, second in command, was trying to run the gang till 2008, but the PPP-led government managed to flash out Zikri gang. The gang war between the Rehman Dacoit and Papu had claimed at least 4,000 lives between 2001 and 2009. Papu's rival gang took the political cover of the Amn Committee and dominated the whole Lyari.
Police and Rangers had conducted a number of operations against these gangs, but had not been able to achieve a breakthrough. In most of the cases rival gangsters and not the men of law killed other gangsters . Experts say the political parties under the aegis of which these gangsters operate are their main lifeline.
KARACHI – Law enforcers on Sunday recovered bodies of three most wanted gangsters from Barohi Chowk in Lyari area.


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"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar. Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory, do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy."
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"We have within ourselves
Enough to fill the present day with joy,
And overspread the future years with hope."
"Action is transitory a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed"
"There is a comfort in the strength of love;
'T will make a thing endurable, which else
Would overset the brain, or break the heart. . . ."
"The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink;/ I heard a voice; it said `Drink, pretty creature, drink!'"
"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory"
"I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o'er vales and hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd, / A host, of golden daffodils."


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Youth-Magnet Cities: Runners-Up
Columnist Sue Shellenbarger answers readers' questions
Q: Regarding your "top youth-magnet cities" package last week, does anyone look outside the box to find cities for these lists? The contests seem to come down to the same cities every time, such as your top five—Washington, D.C.; Seattle; New York; Portland, Ore.; and Austin, Texas.
—J.S., Rensselaer, N.Y.
A: Several panelists voted for interesting dark-horse choices that didn't make our list, which was based on a cumulative point system. Three noteworthy also-rans were in the South. Huntsville, Ala., was nominated by Ross DeVol, director of regional economics for the Milken Institute. Calling Huntsville "one of the best-kept secrets in America," Mr. DeVol says the city has one of the highest concentrations of high-tech industries in the U.S. In addition to computer and electronics manufacturing, Huntsville has fast-growing professional, technical and scientific services sectors, and its role as home to the Marshall Space Flight Center will fuel growth, he says.
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Nashville, Tenn., won a nomination from Rachel Franklin, a senior lecturer at the University of Maryland. She sees Nashville as a magnet for young, educated Southern job seekers looking for a medium-size city. The city has a diverse economy and good entertainment, and serves as home to Vanderbilt University and other universities. Also, Columbia, S.C., was selected by Steven Cochrane, managing director, Moody's Economy.com. Aided by South Carolina's manufacturing and export sectors, Columbia, the state capital, ranks high in investment spending and has growth potential in health care and medical technology, Dr. Cochrane says. He sees Columbia, home to the University of South Carolina, as joining the ranks of cities popular for their medium size and university presence.
Elsewhere in the U.S., Sioux Falls, S.D., was selected by David Plane, professor of geography at the University of Arizona; Dr. Plane cites a sharp recent increase there in highly educated 25- to 34-year-old residents, the city's many banking and health-care jobs and its growing cultural scene. And in the Northeast, the anchor cities in your region, the Albany-Schenectady-Troy metropolitan area, also drew a vote from Dr. Plane. In a sign of potential vitality, this area posted the third-highest increase in the nation from 2005 to 2007 in the proportion of highly educated 25- to 34-year-olds, he says.
Q: My daughter was just fired in her eighth month of a high-risk pregnancy, despite excellent performance and attendance. Her boss said she was a risk to the company because he didn't know when she was going to need to take maternity leave. As part of her compensation she had been given an apartment over the office, and was asked to vacate it almost immediately. She is devastated but doesn't want to take legal action.
A: This situation is no doubt extremely difficult for both of you. If your daughter were to pursue legal action, she would need to consult an attorney for advice specific to her situation. But in general, based on the facts as you present them, the boss's actions raise questions about potential violations of anti-discrimination, disabilities and family-leave law, says Traci Greenberg, an employment attorney with Sidney L. Gold & Associates, Philadelphia. Her boss has placed her at "a tremendous disadvantage" by taking away her job and home at a vulnerable time, Ms. Greenberg says.
An attorney might pursue an injunction to prevent the eviction. In court or through an out-of-court settlement, plaintiffs in such cases might be entitled to back pay and benefits, and perhaps rent and punitive damages, Ms. Greenberg says.
Pursuing a case would require a committed plaintiff, however. If your daughter decides to do so, she would have 180 days from the date of her firing to file a charge with her state's human-rights agency, and 300 days to file with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Ms. Greenberg says.
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We are Jintao's Jintoos
OK, so we're China's bitches. We are Jintao's Jintoos. We might as well get used to it. In five years time, the SA police will be arresting people for wearing authentic Adidas and buying genuine Apple products. Soon, the Minister of the Department for Making Poor Homeless People Believe We Actually Give a Fuck (Human Settlement for short), will be changing his name to Beijing Sexwale, and moving people out of the way to make room for the construction of big dams.
Ah, the terrible stereotypes of the Yellow Peril. Not true, of course. Fine bunch of men, the Chinese, fine bunch. And women, of course, just not in the Politburo Standing Committee.
Another terrible and invidious stereotype is the one about African governments being toadying, greedy sycophants willing to sell their ethical position, pride and autonomy on the open market to the highest bidder with the most concrete. Or that even more insulting and bigoted stereotype of government bureaucrats who deliberately stonewall applications from people they find politically undesirable, and who use the Kafkaesque machinations of their departments to deny service to people on a whim. Until they commit suicide. That just doesn't happen.
Really, Mr/Ms Public Servant? You're not giving the Dalai Lama a visa? Again? Last time, in 2009, the excuse was that Tibet had never really fielded a convincing soccer team, and Mr Lama's visit would take the foreign media's eye off the World Cup ball. Right, sports journalists are famous for their political acumen and interest in current affairs. They only watch soccer in the downtime between campaigning for women's rights, going to Marxist reading groups, and combing their moustaches.
The excuse this time is ... well, I'm not sure actually. It appears to be the usual one from the Department of Kowtowing Foreign Devils, formerly known as Foreign Affairs—we can't find the application, and when we did, form 93b was only filled out in quadruplicate by a lefthanded person, and anyway, we don't work weekends. Also, we're waiting for our paperclip consignment from China.
A clue as to the real reason might be the fact that Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, President Zuma's better half, as he's waggishly known around the African Union, is currently in China trying to get the Chinese to give us lots of lovely money. And at this point, we have to ask—what is the price we're willing to pay for an injection of investment into our economy? Do we really care that some guy in a funny dress can't raise a toast to Desmond Tutu on his birthday? Is it really so bad to give in to the bullies of China, if it means more South Africans can put food on the table for their families?
Nah. Take the money and default, I say. Let's get into a bidding war with America, China and that new Eurozone country they're talking so much about lately. It's not as if we're rejecting ethics and morality entirely—we can just adopt the ones of whichever country buys us at the highest price. Sure, there might be a few sacrifices if it's America, like having to give up polygamy and supporting Palestine. Or if it's China, we'll have to become a one-party state that's big on oppression of freedom of speech, that's run as a kleptocracy, and that treats its people as commodities in the great economy of retaining power. If it's Eurozone, well—let's not go there. The music is just too bad.
Who cares about Lama and Tutu, anyway. I don't trust people who have names like Brazilian soccer players. Sure, we'll be the laughing stock of a large part of the world, and once you've become someone's bitch, well, you're everyone's bitch. But at least we'll still be able to get those White Rabbit sweets.
Chris Roper is the editor of M&G online. Follow him on Twitter @chrisroperza


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- Release Date: 3/17/2009
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MoR (Italian born Sound Engineer and Drummer Antonio Rosselli), started his computer music adventure in the early 90's. A big fan of English Electronic labels like Warp, Ninja Tunes and Leaf inspired him to produce ambient, experimental and down tempo tracks. Moving to Sydney in 2003, Antonio immersed himself in the Sydney music scene and something in his sound changed. Influenced by this new scene, his music has evolved with a more melodic, upbeat, experimental, glitch sound. MoR performs an eclectic live show of electronica blended with indie and ambient sounds. The original avant-garde beats gets brought alive through the use of live instruments. The show becomes a one of a kind experience when the sound melds with original visual art projections. Other project Antonio is involved in is Astro Balls and The Crazy Sexy myspace.com/astroballz (drums)


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JPSS, for information about studying in Japan's universities and graduate schools. > Search Japanese Graduate schools in Tokyo. > Showa University > Medicine
Jointly operated by the Asian Students Cultural Association and Benesse Corporation, JAPAN STUDY SUPPORT is a website, which posts information on approximately 1300 universities, graduate schools, two-year colleges, vocational schools that are accepting international students.
Related information about Showa University is posted here and the specific details about the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Nursing & Rehabilitation Sciences including information about entrance examination such as quota for admission and the number of successful applicants and guides for the facilities, access, and other information necessary for international students so please feel free to make use of our website.
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Tanglewood's 75th anniversary season will present a spectacular lineup of musical guests and programs that spotlight the festival's rich tradition of presenting summertime concerts since 1937. Highlights include a gala celebration with appearances by John Williams, Conductor Keith Lockhart, Andris Nelsons, James Taylor, Yo-Yo Ma, Peter Serkin, and Anne-Sophie Mutter, performing with the BSO, Boston Pops, and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestras (July 14), a special John Williams 80th Birthday Celebration (August 18), an all-Beethoven (BSO opener on July 6) and an all-Wagner program (July 21), replicating two programs from Tanglewood's first season in 1937, and eight world premiere performances.
The 75th anniversary season will also present James Taylor (July 2, 3, 4), Yo-Yo Ma with his Silk Road Ensemble (June 22 and 24); Joshua Bell (July 7); Jean-Yves Thibaudet (August 5); Mark Morris Dance Group (June 28 and 29); and Chris Botti (August 5). Bernadette Peters (July 8) as well as Maureen McGovern and Brian Stokes Mitchell (August 24), make welcome returns with the Boston Pops.
Tickets for the 2012 Tanglewood season are priced from $9 to $117, and the festival offers free lawn tickets to young people age 17 and under and a 50% discount on lawn tickets to college and graduate students.
In addition to honoring some of the legendary moments from Tanglewood's rich performance history, the 75th anniversary season will look to the future with eight new works presented in world premieres and major new media initiatives including international radio broadcasts and new streaming offers provided free to a worldwide audience. New educational programs will be presented through tanglewood.org and throughout the season an extraordinary 75 Free Digital Streams featuring many memorable musical events from the BSO's rich archive of recorded Tanglewood performances since 1937. These digital streams will be available free of charge for 24 hours on the day of the release, after which they will be available as a download for purchase. In addition, a series of Tanglewood Music Center (the BSO's summer music academy for the advanced training of musicians) master classes aimed toward inspiring the next generation of aspiring musicians will be made available to a worldwide audience by way of a free digital stream at tanglewood.org.
CHICK COREA AND GARY BURTON WITH THE HARLEM STRING QUARTET, 8/26, AND CHRISTIAN McBRIDE TRIO WITH CHRISTIAN SANDS & ULYSSES OWENS, JR., 8/19
Since the 2012 Tanglewood season announcement last November, two exciting new jazz concerts have been added to a packed summer line-up. Acclaimed jazz bassist Christian McBride will bring the Christian McBride Trio with Christian Sands and Ulysses Owens, Jr., to Ozawa Hall on August 19 for an 8 p.m. performance. The next week, following the annual matinee Boston Symphony performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, the legendary Chick Corea will take the stage of Ozawa Hall, joined by Gary Burton and the Harlem String Quartet on August 26 at 8 p.m. Other jazz artists featured throughout the Tanglewood Season include the five-time Grammy Award nominated trumpeter Chris Botti on Sunday, August 5, and the double platinum-selling Diana Krall on Saturday, June 23. The young and adventurous Ébène String Quartet will also juxtapose a Mozart and Tchaikovsky set with jazz selections arranged by the ensemble members and filled with improvisation in Ozawa Hall on Thursday, August 16.
Both the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health have teamed with Tanglewood to provide new ticket perks for the 75th anniversary season. The Clark Art Institute and Tanglewood will offer two ticket deals. The first, for $50, includes two Clark admissions and two Tanglewood lawn tickets for any classical concert valid through October 21, 2012. The second deal, for $100, includes a pre-concert buffet dinner at Highwood Supper Club, followed by the Silk Road Ensemble concert with Yo-Yo Ma in Ozawa Hall on Friday, June 22, or Sunday, June 24. This ticket deal is thematically paired with the Clark's special exhibition called Unearthed: Recent Archaeological Discoveries from Northern China," which showcases a selection of objects from sites along the Silk Road that have never been exhibited outside of China.
A ticket partnership between Tanglewood and the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health will take place from July 3-6, in conjunction with a Kripalu workshop called All Together Singing: Creative Ways to Make and Listen to Music with Your Family," with acclaimed musicians Nerissa and Katryna Nields. In this Kripalu program, families develop their own Family Musical Canon, sing in harmony, and make instruments together, as well as embark on a July 4 outing to Tanglewood to enjoy the annual favorite James Taylor concert, followed by fireworks. For more information and/or to register for this program, visit kripalu.org/ tanglewood or call 800-741-7353.
Tickets for the 2012 Tanglewood season go on sale to the general public on Sunday, January 29, 2012. Tickets are available through Tanglewood's website, www.tanglewood.org, and through SymphonyCharge at 888-266-1200. Regular season ticket prices range from $9-$117; non benefactor tickets to the July 14 Gala Anniversary Concert are priced from $30 to $250. Tickets for Saturday Morning Rehearsals range from $10-30. All ticket prices include a $1 Tanglewood grounds maintenance fee.
Tickets are also available for purchase in person at the Tanglewood Box Office at Tanglewood's Main Gate on West Street in Lenox, MA, as of June 21. American Express, Visa, MasterCard, Diners Club, Discover, and cash are all accepted at the Tanglewood Box Office. For further information and box office hours, please call the Boston Symphony Orchestra at 617-266-1492.
Tanglewood is pleased to offer free lawn tickets for children and young people age 17 and younger and a 50% discount on Friday-evening lawn tickets to college and graduate students. Up to four free children's lawn tickets are available per parent/legal guardian per concert at the Tanglewood Box Office on the day of the concert, as all patrons, regardless of age, must have a ticket. Please note that the free lawn ticket policy does not apply to organized groups. For Popular Artists concerts, free lawn tickets are only available for children under age 2.
Tanglewood brochures with complete programs and information on how to order tickets will be available in early February by calling 617-638-9467. For further information, please call the Boston Symphony Orchestra at 617-266-1492 or visit www.tanglewood.org. For Berkshire tourist information and reservations, contact the Berkshire Visitors Bureau at 800-237-5747.


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Power drought not worrying Bucs' McGehee
Power drought not worrying Bucs' McGehee
PITTSBURGH -- Casey McGehee certainly doesn't merit the kind of home run watch to which Albert Pujols was subjected earlier this season, but the Pittsburgh corner infielder's power drought has nonetheless reached personal heights. McGehee is the lone Pirates regular who remains without a home run, 95 at-bats into his season entering Tuesday's game against the Mets. In fact, McGehee has gone 112 at-bats since he last homered on Sept. 19, against the Cubs at Wrigley Field while with the Brewers. Although he doesn't consider himself a homer hitter, McGehee did clock one every 24.7 at-bats in 2009-10 with Milwaukee.
"I think I'm more of a doubles hitter, line-drive hitter," said McGehee, left out of the lineup Tuesday against Mets right-hander R.A. Dickey. "I just want to reach the point where I'm squaring-up the ball hard. I've felt better the last three, four days. It feels like it's coming." McGehee has been lacking far more than just the home run. He is batting .189, with only five RBIs in 36 games. His experience has shown in his ability to draw 12 walks; only Andrew McCutchen's 13 are more among the Bucs. "Casey is in with a handful of guys maybe caught up in chasing numbers, trying to do too much," manager Clint Hurdle said. "He needs to just settle down, see it good, put a good swing on it. Keep it simple: Hit the fastball up the middle."


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This year's 52nd Queensborough Community College commencement ceremony was a last hurrah for more than 2,000 graduates, but also a new beginning for its first female president.
Just minutes before their tassels were turned and caps were hurled into the air, the QCC community welcomed Dr. Diane B. Call as the college's fifth president in her inauguration ceremony.
"My years at Queensborough have been extraordinarily blessed," Call said. "The list of those who have inspired me along my journey is long and I am deeply grateful to them all."
Call was named interim president of the college in 2010 after decades of service in other academic and administrative positions there. Her role as president went into effect Jan. 28.
She was all smiles as she formally accepted her new role at last Friday's commencement in the company of hundreds of co-workers and friends who have known her for so long.
"As you embark on your own journeys," Call told the sea of students, "remember where you came from and where you want to go."
The college community gathered underneath a gigantic white tent on its athletic fields for the ceremony, packed with a star-studded cast of school administrators and Queens elected officials, including state Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Flushing) and state Assembly members Ed Braunstein (D-Bayside), David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows) and Nily Rozic (D-Flushing).
Allan Dobrin, executive vice chancellor and chief operating officer of the City University of New York, helped install Call as the college's new president in the ceremony.
Borough President Helen Marshall gave a lengthy address in which she thanked Call for her years of service and collaboration with city government to bring dynamic programming and opportunities to the school.
"Dr. Call, your vision and innovative style have created a school that is already a leader in collaborative programs that focus on a student-centered learning environment," Marshall said. "Your partnership with student affairs, which implemented Queensborough's innovative freshman academies is now a model throughout the country."
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) gave his signature graduation speech, urging the class of 2013 to "go for it" as they progress through their professional, post-grad lives. In his address, the senator plugged legislation of his that bulks up college tuition tax credits by $2,500 for middle-class families.
"Today, a college education is incredibly valuable, but also incredibly expensive, and these savings are needed now more than ever," Schumer said of the American Opportunity Tax Credit. "This tax credit provides real relief for middle-class families by taking one dollar off their taxes for every dollar spent on college tuition — up to $2,500"
President's awards for outstanding achievement went to graduates Liang Lin, Paula Villacres, Kenny Cheng and Jennifer Lagasse. The John F. Kennedy Memorial Award went to Jace Dunn for leadership and the Martin Luther King Jr. Award went to Jemima Matiminu for exceptional leadership in promoting racial harmony and appreciation of cultural diversity.
The college also welcomed the class of 1963 — its second graduating class 50 years ago — as distinguished guests at the commencement.
Reach reporter Phil Corso by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone at 718-260-4573.
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Let's say you're an IT manager with several years of management experience in your organization. Your CEO comes to you and asks about the productivity of your IT staff. You reply that you think your staff is productive and your internal metrics all show improvement. However, your CEO has an idea—why don't you benchmark your staff against those in similar companies to see how they stack up?
Where do you start? First, you need to do some preparation. You need to frame out what you want to accomplish through benchmarking and the type of benchmarking program you want to set up. Let's look at the steps required to do this.
In case you missed it
This is the second article in a series on benchmarking. If you missed the first one, you can check it out now: "Use benchmarking to chart your organization's performance."
Goal setting
The IT organization covers a wide variety of disciplines. For instance, you can benchmark your network, help desk, development area, telecommunications, and so on. Before you start, then, you need to determine the scope of the benchmarking effort. However, if you ask someone to define the scope, the first thing he or she is going to ask is, "What are you trying to accomplish?" So really the place to start is to define your goals—high-level statements that describe what you hope to achieve. The goal of benchmarking is not to gather the metrics and perform the benchmarking study. Benchmarking is only a means to an end. Your goal might be to become more efficient in your development process or to increase your telecommunications capability to support the business. Once you have some goal statements, you can start to narrow down the benchmarking initiative.
Determine benchmarking model
After defining the overall goals of the study, you should determine the type of benchmarking you want to perform. You have the option to develop and run the benchmarking effort yourself or use an outside company. I've seen it work both ways. When I worked for a major beverage company, I participated in a benchmarking study on development processes run by an outside company. I also participated in a targeted benchmarking program that included only two companies, which we set up and run ourselves. If you use an outside company, it typically has preexisting processes, metrics, and benchmarks that can be used entirely or as a starting point for customization. If you run the program yourself, you may have to develop all of the benchmarking content yourself.
Another area to consider is whether you're looking for a one-time study or whether the benchmarking will be ongoing. Sometimes benchmarking is only meant to take a snapshot of where you are vs. where other companies are. Other times, you may want to benchmark on an ongoing basis, with metrics captured monthly or quarterly. This is more work, of course, but it does allow you to make improvements and compare yourself to the benchmarking group over time.
Comparison subjects
Another important consideration is to determine who you want to involve in the study. If you're a multibillion dollar company, you don't want to compare networking capabilities with a collection of million dollar companies. While you may turn out to be the best in the study, the information will not help you if you're competing with companies that are larger in size and market reach.
You should determine the industry focus of the companies that you'd like to include in the study. For example, I spoke to a person from a company in the oil industry who told me that the company only wanted to compare itself against other companies in the oil industry. On the other hand, when I worked for the large beverage company, we didn't have that luxury because two companies dominate the industry, and we had a policy not to participate in any programs that included our competitor. In our case, however, we were interested in comparing ourselves against a collection of other large companies in various industries.
Create the detailed model
Let's look at the information needed for the detailed benchmarking model. If you work backward, you can see that the business benefit to benchmarking comes from improving your processes. You improve your processes by first seeing who is doing better than you and then understanding how they're doing similar work. You determine who is doing better than you by comparing your company to other companies using a common set of benchmarks. The benchmarks are determined using a set of underlying and agreed upon metrics. The metrics are established to provide an indication of how your processes are working. Since all companies use different processes, you must first determine a common set of processes that each company can understand.
Taking benchmarking logic the other way, you must map your own processes into a common detailed process model, then collect metrics for each process and report the metrics to a common collection point. The metrics are combined into numeric benchmarks that allow companies to compare themselves and be ranked. You then look at companies that rank higher than yours to determine what they're doing differently and how you might change to become better.
Now start working on the details
At this point, you've defined your overall goals, benchmarking model, and the types of companies you'd like to include. The direction you take now will depend a lot on the model. If you use an outside company, for instance, you may have enough information to allow it to start to run the process. Hopefully, the outside company will have a detailed technical model that you can use as the basis of the benchmarking study. The outside company can also start to contact target companies to solicit their interest in participating. Remember that the benchmarking program means nothing if you can't get other companies involved.
For the purposes of this series of articles on benchmarking, I'll assume that you're creating the benchmarking detailed model. In the next article, I'll explain how to define the common processes, metrics, and benchmarks and look at some examples of how they work.


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Tony Hawk's newest pro teammate, Aaron "Jaws" Homoki, comes out swinging with his first pro part in Happy Medium 2. This kid has taken the gnar meter up a notch or two. From doing some of the biggest rails and gaps to doing some of the sickest lines at the skateparks (and out of them.) Watch this part and be prepared to have your eyes pop out of your head.-JO
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By The Associated Press
WEST POINT — Twenty-five people will lose their jobs when a welded steel tubing production company shuts down April 1 in West Point.
The Daily Times Leader reports that Blazon Tube Co. had 75 employees at one time. It had announced in August 2011 that it might close and since then 50 employees have left.
The management team of Leggett & Platt announced Wednesday that Blazon Tube would end production April 1. According to a press release, Blazon Tube's operations will consolidate with Leggett & Platt's LaVergne, Tenn., operation.


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I'm increasingly sensitive about how older women are portrayed on TV. So few of the programmes I love, when I think about it, give me images that I can recognise or respect. Either they are solely defined by being somebody's mum or somebody's wife, or they have independent lives which appear to preclude them being somebody's mum or somebody's wife.
Dr Who is no exception. There are reasons why companions are in general young (and I note the exception of Barbara, from the very first DW). Older women have ties and responsibilities, and though they might yearn to travel in time and space (and they do yearn, oh, they do) they can't just take that leap, without looking back.
So, where are the older women on Who?
There are, of course, mothers. The power of motherhood has been a bit of a theme recently, notably in the 2011 Christmas special, which merits a blog post of its own. But what seems to be a NuWho phenomenon is that companions now have mums. There's a reason why fantasy narratives tend to keep parents, particularly mothers, out of the way. They ask awkward questions, they want to know where you're going, and if you'll be back in time for tea. A bit like Buffy's mum, Joyce Summers, who attempts to ground her daughter on the night that a vampire apocalypse looms (OK, on one of the nights…), with the words, 'I know. If you don't go out, it's the end of the world. Everything is life and death to a sixteen-year-old girl!'. Jackie Tyler, Sylvia Noble and Francine Jones all contribute to the narrative primarily by getting in the way, inadvertently, through their fears for their daughters and mistrust of the Doctor, or through naivety. Of the three, it's Jackie who emerges most fully from the stereotype, to play, albeit briefly, a more active role alongside Sarah Jane, Mickey and Jack. Jackie and Sylvia are played for laughs, however, Jackie for her sexuality, which we are clearly meant to find ridiculous, and Sylvia for her prudishness (she wouldn't allow webcams as they were 'naughty').
Of course, companions do become older women, eventually. Sarah Jane Smith is our icon here, the one whose post-Tardis life we know most about. In 'The Death of the Doctor' (Sarah Jane Adventures) she and Jo Grant compare notes on other past companions, all clearly changed by the experience of travelling with the Doctor, and now working for the benefit of humanity. Sarah Jane speaks movingly in 'School Reunion' of the pain and loss she felt when he left her behind, and Jo's reaction when she realises Sarah Jane had seen the Doctor shows that she too had felt abandoned. There's a hint that ex-companions do the things they do in the hope that he will be aware of them, and that they will see him again. Fair enough. The Doctor (so far) is a man, a charismatic, unpredictable, extraordinary man. Those who travel with him, whether or not they harbour romantic or sexual feelings for him, whether or not they maintain a healthy scepticism and have the confidence to challenge him, however their connection with him ends, are scarcely going to forget him, nor are they likely to encounter anything in the rest of their lives that will eclipse those experiences. 'We get a taste of that splendour and then we have to go back' ('School Reunion').
There are a few women who don't fit either category – neither ex companions nor companions' mums. They're not quite allies, nor yet adversaries. Harriet Jones (backbencher, PM, ex-PM) is forthright, good in a crisis, brave and the stand-off between her and the doctor left me unsure whose side I was on. That kind of moral ambiguity is relatively rare – one could disagree with her actions AND dislike profoundly the Doctor's way of bringing her down. And Adelaide Brooke ('Waters of Mars', pioneer, explorer, grandmother, opposes the Doctor at his most hubristic, taking her own life to negate what she sees as his arrogant irresponsibility. The parts that these two play in the narrative didn't absolutely require them to be women, but I'm glad they were.
And then, of course, there's the girl who waited. 'Old Amy', who grew old(er), alone. She needs a post to herself, I think.
So, what do I want from DW in the future? I don't want the companions' mums to retreat back to invisibility, but I'd like them to be less of a joke. Sadly, more Sarah Jane is no longer possible. But more of the ex-companions – the women who were plucked from regular lives, plunged into intergalactic mayhem and then dropped back again into ordinariness, who then put their energies into trying to change the world, even if they didn't have the power to save it. More Harriets and Adelaides, yes please. Women who are on the right side in the old good v. evil thing, but who are confident enough in their knowledge, their wisdom, their judgement, to say no, even to the Doctor.
And should there be a vacancy for a more mature woman, say, around 54ish, untested in actual combat situations but mad organisational skills, to hop aboard the Tardis, can I be first in the queue?


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This has been and is time for making sure the last minute things are in order. Some days it seems like there is still so much to do. But it's really not that it's so much to do, it's the importance of these last few things.Last night I finally wrote a birth plan. I'd been putting it off, questioning whether I really needed one, but finally just did it. It felt good to do it. It reaffirmed my own feelings of flexibility about what may or may not happen and allowed me to emphasize what I think are my most important wants for this birth: communication and the safe arrival of our new son.
I didn't write a birth plan when Aaron was born. I was comfortable enough with my doctor and the hospital that I was fairly confident in communication on the fly. It ended up working for us just fine. I didn't approach the birth with any great expectations other than delivering a healthy baby. For the most part, our wishes were honored. Any complaints I have are truly minor.
In fact, the only complaint that I can recall now, three and a half years later, is about the nurse who ended up being our labor nurse. She was also the woman who had conducted our childbirth class and she had been vocally anti-epidural in that class. I was having my epidural shortly after arriving at labor and delivery and during a shift change (thanks to back labor) when she arrived on the scene, and I think she was less supportive of my decision than she could have been. It was my choice afterall, not hers. But that's water under the bridge and we have a healthy son.
Our refresher childbirth class recently left us feeling more open about possibilities for the birth than we felt last time. The class was balanced and respectful of all kinds of birthing decisions, and generally more informative than the one we took during my first pregnancy. It was given by a staff certified nurse midwife and it was actually the first time I had heard of a major medical center encouraging couples to write and fax a birth plan in advance.
I finally decided to do it after hearing that there are a few not as good nurses on staff who are less than consistent about listening and communicating. Nobody who is awful, apparently, but some who are better (and worse) than others. Although I doubt this will be a problem for us as an anesthesiologist friend has asked me to call her as we leave for the hospital so she can call ahead for me and get me a really good nurse, I figured having a few things written couldn't hurt. I've tried to be open in the plan, and say straight out that my wishes could change depending on how the labor is going. I really don't know what it will be like if I don't have back labor this time. After another look at it tonight, I'm faxing it off. Another milestone to be checked off the list!
Another bit of paperwork I am trying to sort out is for my maternity leave from my company. A serious miscommunication between our remote (physically) human resources representative and me and another pregnant colleague in this satellite office in April led to a horrid conference call in July when the issues were "clarified" and we learned we had far less paid leave than we were originally led to believe. It still makes me angry to think about it, and certainly made me procrastinate in terms of filling out the proper forms and getting the right letters. But I think that I have that under control now. At least I hope I do. I half dread that as soon as I send it in to the HR representative I'll get another phone calls that starts out, "What the policy really means�."
And last, but certainly the most important thing, is sorting out how Aaron will be taken care of when I am in labor. We have something of a plan in place, but my gut is telling me that it isn't quite the right thing. I can't even articulate why. Sort of a maternal instinct saying, "No!" I was near tears about it driving home tonight. Trying to explain it to my husband was frustrating. He kept looking at me as if I was completely irrational - we have something planned, let's just go with it, he said. I may be hormonally challenged right now, but this is something more.
We don't have family in the area, and although we have some solid
acquaintances, no truly close friends here yet. Those who have offered to
help are being taken up on their offers, bit it doesn't quite cover the
spectrum of possibilities. Our plan for those other times will work, I
guess, but it just doesn't feel "right."
I'm sure we'll sort it out over the next few days, and after a serious talk or two, but in the meantime, it's stressful. I need to have some quiet time to figure out just what my misgivings are, and what is it I am really looking for for Aaron. Maternal instinct is wonderful at times, and maddening at others.
And so, bit by bit, the to do list is dwindling.
By the way, to follow up on a couple of recent entries, Sprout decided to
turn recently and currently is head down. Please stay that way! And my
brother and his wife became the parents of a healthy baby girl last
Wednesday. I've talked to the new mom and everyone is doing well. I'm
looking forward to meeting this little person sometime this winter. My
mother (and father, for that matter) are behaving much as I expected them
to. For my own sanity, a little distance from them for a week or so isn't a bad idea.


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From: "Brian Cave" <>
Subject: Re: [Mar] 27 ft Sailing Whalers. RN, RAN, RCN & RNZN
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 22:25:55 +0100
References: <005e01c3302b$6df97da0$b79548ca@diogenes>
Hi Olaf,
I'm looking at the Manual of Seamanship Vols. 1 & 2, both dated 1951, and to
be honest the illustrations in Volume 1 don't help much in answering your
1. The mainsail yard was hoisted by a strop hooked to the traveller, so I
guess it was rigged as a dipping lugsail.
2. The mizzen certainly passes through the tiller which has a yoke and yoke
lines leading aft to another yoke on top of the rudder. There is a topping
lift to raise and lower the boom. However the drawing doesn't indicate how
the mizzen sheets were arranged, but presumably they were attached to the
boom and led for'd to the coxswain's position through single blocks or
eyebolt guides.
The actual wording in Volume 2 says, "The coxswain and stroke secure the
rudder lanyard inboard and ship the rudder, yokes, yoke lines and tiller.
After seeing that the slings and other gear are clear of the wake of the
mizzenmast, they stand the mast vertically on the cross bench and step it
through its cross piece. They then clear away the mizzen and lower the boom,
clip and mouse the mizzensheet deadeye to the stern post, and see that the
mizzensheet is led between the yoke lines. The mizzen may then be sheeted
aft to steady the boat, or it may be topped up."
Volume 2 has little more information on ship's boats apart from particulars
of size, weight, sail area, dimensions of masts, details of anchor sizes,
chain , oars capacity etc. etc., but it covers other boats in addition to a
cutter and whaler, and includes both sailing and power boating.
Complete rigging instructions are contained in Volume 2. Ah, I've just found
the bit which covers your Question 1 - "the main yard is hooked to a
traveller shackled to the main halyard, and the tack of the mainsail is
bowsed down by a tack-tackle rove to the keelson. The luff of the foresail
is clipped to the forestay by spring hanks. The mizzen is laced to its mast
and boom.The foresheets consist of two single parts of rope spliced to
clip-hooks which hook into the clew; the main sheets consist of two double
whips rove through bullseyes and joined by a pair of clip-hooks to the clew,
and the mizzensheet is rove from the boom through a block or a deadeye on
the stern post to a cleat on the mizzenmast. Lizard bullseyes made fast to
the risings are provided as fairleads for the foresheets, and eyeplates are
provided in the stern sheets for the standing blocks of the main sheets. The
mainsail is fitted with brails and provided with a spreader for bearing out
its foot when the boat is reaching or running.
Phew - if that doesn't get you a drink I don't know what will!! <grin>
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From: "Olaf Smith" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 4:09 PM
Subject: [Mar] 27 ft Sailing Whalers. RN, RAN, RCN & RNZN
> Up until about 30 years ago naval ships of the civilised English-speaking
world were wont to carry motor whalers, pulling whalers and sailing whalers
as ships boats. Due to a waning memory and waxing crankiness I have gotten
myself into a pub argument with other old mariners of a similar disposition.
To resolve said argument and win me the alchoholic reward I know I deserve,
can anyone assist with the following info:
> 1. Was the mainsail rigged as a dipping lugsail or was the gaff yoked
to the mainmast?
> 2. I recall that the mizzen mast passed through the tiller but how
were the mizzen sheets arranged.
> 3. Does anyone know where I can access drawings or photographs of the
boats as the Admiralty Manual of Seamanship Vol 1 is, sadly, out of print
and the Naval Sailing Associations seem to have appallingly short memories.
> Regards,
> Oldsalt
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Methodology for the video clip project - RO
Date: 2009-06-23
Please find below the methodology of a project on sustainable development issues developed by 10th grade RO students within the math class. The project's aim is to assess students' competences in collecting, centralizing and interpreting statistical data. A video clip on one of the sustainable development issues is part of the project's final product.


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Honoring WWII vets
When the World War II Memorial is dedicated on the Capitol Mall in St. Paul this Saturday, Detroit Lakes resident Truman Hermanson will be among those WWII veterans on hand to witness the event first-hand.
"They've never really done anything for us World War II guys, and now, all of a sudden... they're going to do a bang-up job," he says. "I'm really looking forward to seeing it."
Hermanson also hopes to visit the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., as part of the next group of "Honor Flight" veterans who will be making the trip later this year, courtesy of a fund-raising drive organized by WDAY in Fargo.
A native of Fertile, Minn., who grew up in Mahnomen, Truman enlisted in the Army Air Corps in November 1940 -- more than a year before the U.S. officially entered the war. Two of his pals, John Beaudoin and Tomas Fugere, both from Fargo, enlisted with him.
Hermanson eventually ended up battling the Japanese in the North Pacific, where they were entrenched on North American soil in Alaska's Aleutian Islands. He was amongst those airmen who helped "get them (the Japanese) out of Attu and Kiska.
Truman's future wife, Priscilla, was an Army nurse during the war, working with amputees.
"She had it worse than I did," Truman says, noting that her job was a difficult, though important one.
After five years with the Air Force -- half of that time being spent in the Aleutian Islands -- Truman married Priscilla and they moved to Leeds, N.D., where they had a Ford dealership for many years.
He and Priscilla then moved to Colorado, where they would spend the next 40 years together. Truman worked as a contractor, constructing homes and apartment buildings.
In 1993, they moved back to Minnesota. After Priscilla passed away in 1998, Truman moved to Detroit Lakes.
"I thought I might as well move back here," he said. "This is my home, this area... all my folks are buried here."
Though he hadn't lived in Mahnomen since 1940, Truman, now 84 years old, says he was surprised to see how many residents he still knew when he occasionally stopped in for a visit.
Of the 30-some veterans from Mahnomen County who will be joining him in St. Paul on Saturday, Truman says, "I probably went to school with 18 of them."
The new World War II Memorial is located south of the Minnesota State Capitol building in St. Paul. Saturday's dedication ceremonies are scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. with a roll call of Minnesota WWII casualties (ongoing).
In the large pavilion near Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard, there will be presentations by WWII authors and area filmmakers. There will also be a WWII encampment on the front lawn of the Capitol, along with the Red Cross Bloodmobile, and Minnesota Historical Society activities and displays.
There will be a group picture of World War II veterans attending the event at 1 p.m., and a flyover by WWII-era aircraft at 2 p.m., followed by the dedication program (which is expected to last no more than an hour).
The post-program reception will include performances of popular period songs by WWII-era singers and an orchestra. The festivities will conclude at 4:30 p.m. with a "Missing Man" flyover, followed by a 21-gun salute and Echo Taps.
A complete listing of events for Saturday's dedication is available online at the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs Web site, www.mdva.state.mn.us. You may also call 651-296-2562 for more information.


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Dear Daniel San
would appreicate your corrections or suggestion to the following itinerary and recommendation of how many days of JR Pass I should purchase:-
Kindly advise
thank you
Dear Kareline,
It's a very inviting itinerary - visiting Japan in April is one of the best times of the year for sightseeing. What may prove to be a little difficult is going from the Kurobe Alpine route directly to either Fuji or Hakone, this because the Japanese Alps are right in the way. I would suggest traveling to Hakone first as it would be making the best use of the JR Pass (if you have one) and make a day trip / one nights stay from Tokyo later on. This would make the most sense budget wise.
I made a small list of ticket prices below to see if a JR Pass would be of help.
For a total of ¥ 29,320 the 7 day JR Pass is 28,300. A JR Pass could thus be an option and help you make slight savings. You can also use the JR Pass in Tokyo and from Toyama to get closer to the Alpine route, adding a little more to your savings.
Note: that I assumed that you are traveling from Toyama to Hakone, this would be different if you complete the full Alpine route and travel from Shinano-Omachi. This would take about the same amount of travel time but the fare would be slightly lower depending on what trains you travel on.
Lastly, no mater how you travel the trip from the Kurobe Alpine route to Hakone will take about 4-5hours by rail, so be sure to bring a good book to read or some good company to keep you occupied :)
I hope this helps!
Thank you VM Daniel for your wonderful advice
whats the difference btw JR pass and JR East pass?
will stopping at Matsumoto be better plan than Toyama?
u mean Itinerary change from Narita to Hakone, Mt Fuji then back to Tokyo
odawara - Tokyo ( is this cover by JR pass?)
kind regards
Hi Again,
The JR East pass is a pass used for travel around Tokyo and Tohoku (the region north of Tokyo). The main difference basically is that the JR East pass is limited to a region while the JR Pass is nationwide.
What I mean would visit Tokyo - Hakuba - Kurobe Alpine route (either Toyama or Matsumoto) - Hakone (Odawara) - Tokyo and then make a day trip to Tokyo from Fuji. This way you can make most of your JR Pass and also save on your visit to Fuji-san.
Odawara - Tokyo is covered by the JR Pass and you can use the Shinkansen :)
I hope this clears things up!
Hi Daniel
thanks Very much, it definitely helped to see the travelling route clearer
Have a good christmas and new year ahead
Dear Daniel
After going thru your suggestions, will it be cheaper to buy a 5 day flexi JR East pass than 7 JR rail pass?
E.G. 5 days flexi pass I can start using from 1. Narita to Tokyo,
from Nagano - Hakuba does JR East pass cover this part?
Let me know is this a better savings?
kind regards
Hi Kareline,
The difference is price won't be much either way. The JR Pass is valid for 7 consecutive days while the JR East pass is valid for 5 days within a 14 day period. I would suggest looking at which one suits your plan best, The JR East pass and JR Pass can both be used to travel to Hakuba. You can also use the JR Pass to travel to Hakone (although an addition fee in required for local travel within the Hakone area).
The JR Pass would probably be the better option if you can use it to travel to Hakone, if this would not fit then a JR East Pass would be better.
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Sounds like a great idea to me Please go ahead and submit a jira with the patch and we'll get it integrated ASAP
On 1/4/07, Chris Hofstaedter <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> I ran into this issue as well on <= 4.0.2. I never tested it against
> 4.1. The FailoverTransport doesn't shutdown if it is disconnected at
> the time of the shutdown.
> I believe that the root cause is in the
> FailoverTransport.oneway(Command
> command) function which will hold onto the command and keep trying to
> reconnect until the message is sent or the transport is disposed.
> I applied a local patch that seems to solve the problem. Note that
> I've only tested the patch against 4.0.2.
> Specifically, I early return from the oneway function if the command
> is ShutdownInfo and the connectedTransport is null. This seems to
> solve the problem in that I get clean shutdowns on the client when
> failover is true and the client is presently disconnected.
> Does this seem like a reasonable patch? Should I create a JIRA with
> this info?
> ----
Original Message----
> From: James Strachan firstname.lastname@example.com
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 4:46 AM
> To: email@example.com
> Subject: Re: failover mode and client shutdown
> There could be a bug relating to closes with the failover transport
> possibly, but the ActiveMQConnection does wait up to the closeTimeout
> for a close to succeed before shutting down - so you could try reduce
> the timeout.
> http://incubator.apache.org/activemq/maven/activemq-core/apidocs/org/a
> pa
> che/activemq/ActiveMQConnection.html#setCloseTimeout(int)
> On 12/12/06, Keith Irwin <email@example.com> wrote:
> > Folks--
> >
> > When we have clients running and we take down AMQ (<= 4.1.0), then
> > attempt to shutdown the clients with Control-C (rather than kill the
> > JVM with a -9), the clients won't shut down. It's as if a "close"
> > on the failover connection never reaches the amq client classes.
> >
> > I note that in the 4.1.0 release notes, this issue is referenced,
> > and the advice is to set the maxReconnectAttempts (or similar)
> > property to something non-zero.
> >
> > The problem is that we don't want there to be a max number of
> > attempts. Unless we specifically want to take down the client (say,
> > for an apt-get package upgrade), we want it to keep on trying
> > forever.
> >
> > SO, my question: Is there an architectural reason for not being able
> > to close a failover connection if AMQ is down?
> >
> > If it isn't impossible due to tradeoffs elsewhere in the code base,
> > we might be willing to submit a patch to fix the issue.
> >
> > Our only other recourse is to attempt to close the connections in
> > separate threads, then timeout those threads after a while and fall
> > out the end of the java process.
> >
> > For instance:
> >
> > Thread th = new Thread(new Runnable() {
> > public void run()
> > });
> > th.start();
> >
> > // give up after 2 seconds
> > Thread.currentThread().join(2000);
> >
> > I guess this is do-able, but it seems, you know, some how, well,
> wrong.
> >
> > So, is it worth investigating a patch to AMQ?
> >
> > Keith
> >
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Running the same JUnit test as above, 5.2.0 seems to fix this deadlock issue.
I agree with Jay Repko. I'm using AMQ 5.1.0, I've got the following JUnit test to try to reproduce what I'm experiencing:
@Test(timeout=15000) public void testRetryServerConnectionURLWithNoServer() throws Exception { final String url="tcp://localhost:61620"; final String clientUrl = "failover://(" + url + ")?maxReconnectAttempts=0"; ActiveMQConnectionFactory activeMQConnectionFactory = new ActiveMQConnectionFactory(clientUrl); activeMQConnectionFactory.setTransportListener(new PrintingTransportListener()); final Connection conn = activeMQConnectionFactory.createConnection(); ((ActiveMQConnection)conn).setCloseTimeout(5); Thread clientThread=new Thread("AMQTestClientThread") { public void run() { try { conn.start(); Thread.sleep(2000); conn.stop(); conn.close(); } catch(Exception e) { thrownException = e; } } }; clientThread.start(); Thread.sleep(2000); System.out.println("Attempting to shutdown"); conn.close(); System.out.println("Shutdown, joining."); clientThread.join(); if(thrownException !=null) { throw thrownException; } }
This test always times out after 15 seconds, setCloseTimeout doesn't seem to change any behavior.
Further, when I kill -3 this, I get the following three thread stack traces (The client thread, the reconnecting thread & the stopping thread:
"AMQTestClientThread" prio=1 tid=0x00002aaafc0069f0 nid=0x6f69 in Object.wait() [0x000000004101d000..0x000000004101dc80] at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method) - waiting on <0x00002aaadf2bc5f8> (a java.lang.Object) at org.apache.activemq.transport.failover.FailoverTransport.oneway(FailoverTransport.java:407) - locked <0x00002aaadf2bc5f8> (a java.lang.Object) at org.apache.activemq.transport.MutexTransport.oneway(MutexTransport.java:40) - locked <0x00002aaadf2bc158> (a java.lang.Object) at org.apache.activemq.transport.ResponseCorrelator.asyncRequest(ResponseCorrelator.java:74) at org.apache.activemq.transport.ResponseCorrelator.request(ResponseCorrelator.java:79) at org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnection.syncSendPacket(ActiveMQConnection.java:1195) at org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnection.ensureConnectionInfoSent(ActiveMQConnection.java:1289) - locked <0x00002aaadf2ab250> (a org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnection) at org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnection.start(ActiveMQConnection.java:456) at com.kentrox.objectproxy.jms.test.JMSConnectionStateTesting$2.run(JMSConnectionStateTesting.java:235) "ActiveMQ Task" daemon prio=1 tid=0x00002aaafc02ab80 nid=0x6f68 in Object.wait() [0x0000000040f1c000..0x0000000040f1ce00] at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method) - waiting on <0x00002aaadf2bc618> (a java.lang.Object) at org.apache.activemq.transport.failover.FailoverTransport.doReconnect(FailoverTransport.java:735) - locked <0x00002aaadf2bc618> (a java.lang.Object) at org.apache.activemq.transport.failover.FailoverTransport$2.iterate(FailoverTransport.java:114) - locked <0x00002aaadf2bc608> (a java.lang.Object) at org.apache.activemq.thread.PooledTaskRunner.runTask(PooledTaskRunner.java:122) at org.apache.activemq.thread.PooledTaskRunner$1.run(PooledTaskRunner.java:43) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:650) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:675) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) "pool-1-thread-1" prio=1 tid=0x00002aaafc001670 nid=0x6f67 waiting for monitor entry [0x0000000040e1b000..0x0000000040e1bd80] at org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnection.checkClosedOrFailed(ActiveMQConnection.java:1258) - waiting to lock <0x00002aaadf2ab250> (a org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnection) at org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnection.stop(ActiveMQConnection.java:497) at org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnection.close(ActiveMQConnection.java:552) at com.kentrox.objectproxy.jms.test.JMSConnectionStateTesting.testRetryServerConnectionURLWithNoServer(JMSConnectionStateTesting.java:250) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.junit.internal.runners.TestMethod.invoke(TestMethod.java:59) at org.junit.internal.runners.MethodRoadie.runTestMethod(MethodRoadie.java:98) at org.junit.internal.runners.MethodRoadie$1$1.call(MethodRoadie.java:55) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:269) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:123) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:650) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:675) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
This may be updated in 5.2.0 but this issue suggests it is fixed in 5.1.0 and I don't believe that to be the case.
I'm not sure that this is actually fixed. I am currently trying it out with a broker in one VM and a client in another. If I kill the broker forcibly and then try to execute the close method of ActiveMQConnection, I get stuck in the failover transport until the reconnect tries expires after 10 minutes.
It gets stuck in the close when it calls doSyncSendPacket()
if (isConnectionInfoSentToBroker)
This is because another message ack is waiting for the transport to reconnect to be sent and so is holding the writerMutex in MutexTransport.
I've attached a patch that I created for several issues, against a recent 5.1-SNAPSHOT revision (svn rev 618082).
The file FailoverTransport.java, includes fixes for 4 issues, including Adam's fix for this issue.
The other issues that this patch includes fixes for are:
The file ConnectionPool.java is also needed for the fix for
I've added comments in the code that clearly indicate which sections apply to which issue, so you can easily take edit to include only the fixes you want specifically.
Wanted to add, I applied Adam's patch to the latest 5.1-SNAPSHOT version, and it appears to be working great.
I can confirm that I am seeing this issue, under the latest 5.1-SNAPSHOT.....
The record shows the fixed version is 5.2.0....Is that being actively developed now, or is that just a placeholder to indicate this issue is being scheduled for work after the current 5.1 cycle?
Just a confirmation that this is still an issue. I've submitted a patch that does basically the same thing that Chris's does, but only affects FailoverTransport. In addition to ignoring ShutdownInfo commands when not connected, it also short-circuits a reply to RemoveInfo, which was also causing a problem.
Patch to prevent ShutdownInfo or RemoveInfo commands from being sent when transport is not connected
Cameron's recent comment made me realize that I never attached the files with my local patches in them for this issue. So here they are. These are 4.0.2 files. Also there are patches for multiple issues in here. You can find the blocks of code that patch this issue (for me anyway) by searching for "
AMQ-1116 fix"


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