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JAMES KIRK Merchant
St. Johns, New Brunswick, North America
In Memory of
JAMES KIRK, his Father
who died 3rd Feb 1829
aged 80 years
ELSPETH RUSSELL his Mother
Died 7th May 1832
aged 81 years
Their son, James KIRK, who erected this monument is the youngest child (I've found) in a large family. I have yet to trace what happened to him in Canada. His much older sister, Elizabeth, is my 4th great-grandmother. There is a memorial to her very near this one which I featured in an early Tombstone Tuesday post.

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Name: Camelia Charlotte Anzu L. Lablac
Age: 18
Class/Group: A
Sweet Spirit: Flan
What food you are good at baking with: Culinary and pastry
Appearance: she has a long curly blonde hair, green eyes, 5'6,
Personality: She is a graceful patissiere she is sometimes cold but well respected.
Sweet Spirit personality: Same
Sweet Spirit appearance: has a purple hair up to the waist. with amber eyes. She is a blushing fairy
Camelia is somehow like a loner, but an ambitious lady. She is ready to follow her Uncle's footsteps to become a great patissiere. Camelia is the next heiress in the Royal family of england.She moved in Japan because she was punished by her grandmother because she was cooking. She enrolled in St. Marie Gakuen to enjoy more pastry. She's a sempai and the president of the student body.
Flan is also a royal blood. Shes the daughter of the queen of fairies. She asked her mother's permit to find a human partner.
Henri Lucas- uncle (an YPP character)
Hillary Lucas- Mother(she is devoted to culinary arts and baking)
Joshua Lablac- Father(he is a business man and was the prince of England)
Henrie Lablac/ Yamabuki- older brother (he is a well known pasty chef due to chocolates and stuff)
Charline Lablac/ Anzu- the older sister of Camelia and Yamabuki's younger sister. (she is well known in excellent in culinary arts)
Crush (if u have one):
Good or Bad: both..
I want aswell!
Name: Mai Hoshina
Age: 14
Class/Group: Both same as Ichigo
Sweet Spirit: Rosetta
What food you are good at baking with: Chocolates and decorations are her specialities
Appearance: Mai has long honey hair, fair skin and emerald-green eyes
Personality: Mai is kind and calmed, but hot-tempered, she gets angry easily and she may try to injure someone if she gets like that.
Sweet Spirit personality: Rosetta is hyper and she is always jumping around, unlike May
Sweet Spirit appearance: Rosetta has honey hair like Mai's and brown eyes, she wears a pink top with a white belt and a white cardigan, she also uses brown leggins and pink shoes
Background: Mai's mom died from cancer, her dad owns a bakery shop and she has a little sister, she is always thinking about her imoto (little sister) and tries to protect her even though no one has seen her before
Family: Mom (died), dad, little sister (no one has seen her before)
Crush (if u have one): No one, Mai doesn't have time for love
Good or Bad: Good XD
(delete my character)
Name: Matthew
Hobbies: Likes to listen to music, going outside, and very energetic.
Age: 14
Personality: Intelligent, friendly, nice-to-everyone.
Class/Group: C-group
What food you are good at baking with: Finding the right foods/fruits to make desserts tasty
Background: middle-class.
Crush (if u have one): -not yet, maybe later-
Sweet Spirit: Leon
Sweet Spirit personality: Like Matthew. He's usually not around.
Good or Bad: Protagonist
it's getting cold here :< can't wait for trick-or-treating! ^d^
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omg this took a long time -_-". I have no life LOL. anyway, let's start!! Um, I tried to INCLUDE EVERYONE in here, so yeah. And I tried to make it very interesting!! Wow, so here's all the students.
Teacher: Class, we've got new students.
1. Introduce you to Jenny, a sweet, happy, sporty, rich girl. She's not very good at making sweets, so do help her if she needs help (she's paid lots, so...)
2. Kari-san, who's also going to be placed in C-group. She's a cute, shy girl. She's a bit short, but that's fine. She's a nature-lover. Though, sometimes she can be the complete opposite.
3. Ai Kei, Hyper and free-spirited,sometimes mean when she's embarrassed/teased, though she's a great person! She specializes in fruits.
4. Mika-san, she's a bit unusual. Although everyone loves the Sweets' Prince, she doesn't respect them...*sweets Prince- beware of messing with her.. Well, she's nice to everyone. Though she's a bit like Ichigo ... "ichigo and Mika: hey! >: ( -blush-
5. Matthew-kun, a nice guy. He specializes in tasting and finding the right ingredients. He's very intelligent.
6. Mai-san, a sweet cheery girl. She's a bit like Sakura-san, and pinkish.. Anyway, she's very cute and jumpy.
7. antagonist -Domo-san, an outcast, quiet girl. She's a bit mysterious, but please everyone make her feel welcome. She's very smart, so Domo-san, please help everyone - usually Jenny though -
1.Haine-san. She's hyper , outgoing , a bit clumsy, and very cute! But she's a bit weird and seems to be hiding something..
2. Miki-san, she's very talky. She's a "cool" person who speaks with her mind. So she may be seen as rude.
3. April-san, who tends to think a lot. She's very childish but when she makes a mistake she learns from them. She's chasing after Kashino.
1. Minori-san, a friendly girl. She's a very mature girl. She's 17, unlike you guys - 14. She's the oldest, so respect her.. though, she is a bit too cheery.
2. Sakura-san, a very pretty girl. She specializes in strawberries. She's clumsy, childish, happy, etc. She's very dedicated and cute! And a bit too pink..
3. Michiko-san, a very sweet girl. (She looks innocent and wears glasses - a daddy's girl). She's very talented and intelligent. All her family are well-educated.
4. Maya-san, a bit tomboyish. Her clothes are a bit too boyish, but otherwise that she's a dedicated, great person. She can be short-tempered.. *ehem* Sweets Prince, don't you guys dare,,
5. Camelia-san, who has a long ass name. She's Henri's neice. She's very mature and graceful.
it's getting cold here :< can't wait for trick-or-treating! ^d^
(^ Hey nice that you summed it up... but my character (Minori) is not cheery Simply positive would be fine)
sorry APPLEPIE&WHIPCREAM(with blueberries) ):
it's getting cold here :< can't wait for trick-or-treating! ^d^
I liked how you described my character :DDDD
Helloooooooooooooo!!! gooooodbyeeeeeeee ! xD
I'l start::
Matthew: A new, fresh year!
Spoiler Alert! Click to show or hide
You have to remember him, he's the only other boy character created.
*Walks to the academy and waits to get his schedule and classes*
He walks through a huge crowd, and finally gets his slip. C-group.
He then bumps into someone, and says "sorry!", turns around and it is.........
it's getting cold here :< can't wait for trick-or-treating! ^d^


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A bottle of vodka believed to be one of the most expensive in the world that was on loan to a bar and museum in Copenhagen has been stolen following a break-in this week.
As reported by Danish news site TV2 Lorry, a bottle of Russo-Baltique vodka was taken from Café 33s Vodka Collection, situated in the Vesterbro district of Copenhagen, in the early hours of Tuesday (2 January) morning.
Thieves were reportedly in possession of either a real or copied key to the bar and then proceeded to unlock the door, roll up the shutter and break down the door to the museum in the basement.
The bottle of vodka contains three kilograms of gold and the same quantity of silver and is adorned with a circular patch of leather from a 1912 Monte Carlo rally car.
According to the owner of Café 33 Bar, Brian Ingberg, it is worth 8 million kroner equating to 1.1m or £960,000.
Speaking to TV2 Lorry, Ingberg said: I have loaned [the vodka] from Russia from something called the Dartz Factory, which makes the worlds most expensive cars and vodka. It has been in my collection for half a year, but not anymore.
Of course Im terribly upset. It was the cherry on the cake in my collection. Out of the 1,200 bottles in my collection, it was a very special bottle to have.
Musing on how the robbers gained access to the property, Ingberg said: They obviously had a key or copied a key, and so they rolled up the shutter and unlocked the door, and then they simply entered the bar and broke the door to the vodka museum in the basement.
They then took just one bottle, even though there are 1,200 bottles in the collection, he added, inferring that the thieves had entered the bar with the sole purpose of stealing the bottle of Russo-Baltique.
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text: DENVER (AP) Lawyers for the man charged with the Colorado theater shootings are seeking disciplinary records of two more police officers, but they did not say why.Subpoenas made public Thursday demand the records of Denver detective Michael Ryan and Aurora officer Brian Elwood. The July 2012 shootings took place in Aurora but officers from Denver and other nearby jurisdictions helped with the response.If Ryan and Elwood participated in the response, they would be potential prosecution witnesses in the upcoming trial, and the defense could be trying to discredit them.Last week, the defense asked for the disciplinary records of Aurora officer Joshua Schol. His department has said he was on duty on the date of the shootings had would have been a part of the response.Denver police declined comment about Ryan Friday. Aurora police didn't immediately return a call seeking comment on Elwood.Ryan was investigated by police in suburban Lakewood in April on allegations of soliciting a prostitute. Police said Friday the case has been submitted to city prosecutors. Prosecutors didn't immediately return a call. Ryan's attorney's name wasn't immediately available.An Aurora Police Department investigation found that Elwood made a false statement, according to a letter that prosecutors in the theater shooting case sent to defense attorneys. The letter, which was included with the subpoena, provided no other details.Another Aurora police investigation concluded that Schol was untruthful in a police report, according to the subpoena seeking his records. Aurora police declined to comment on the investigation of Schol, citing privacy rules.Twelve people were killed and 70 were injured in the attack on the theater, where more than 400 people were watching a midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises."James Holmes pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to multiple charges of murder and attempted murder. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. His trial is scheduled to start with jury selection in October.Separately, the judge rejected a defense motion seeking to prevent prosecutors from showing jurors a large model of the theater. That ruling was also released Thursday.Prosecutors and the defense routinely decline to comment, citing the judge's gag order.___Follow Dan Elliott at http://twitter.com/DanElliottAP


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do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good to eat!
if at first you do succeed, try not to look too astonished!
smile! it confuses people!
***~Fairies love acid techno~***Delete
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."Delete
I'm going to leave the army and run away to the circus
if not i will just become a MI5 agent !!!
First intention, then enlightenment..
Ars Pyronomica
" Life is programmed. Whether death is programmed or not is yet to be determined."
"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"
jointly owned by Fire_Spinning_Angel and Blu_Valley
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Caterpillar's first-quarter earnings rose 5 percent, and the construction equipment maker raised its 2014 forecast. But the company also said Thursday that a mining equipment sales slump is still hurting results.
The Peoria, Ill., company now expects 2014 earnings of $6.10 per share excluding restructuring costs. That's up from its previous forecast for $5.85 per share and well above Wall Street expectations.
Analysts expect earnings of $5.72 per share, on average, according to FactSet.
Caterpillar Inc. shares jumped almost 3 percent by midday Thursday.
Caterpillar said it earned $922 million, or $1.44 per share, in the quarter that ended March 31. That compares to $880 million, or $1.31 per share, last year.
Earnings totaled $1.61 per share, excluding restructuring costs. Total revenue was nearly flat at $13.24 billion.
Analysts forecast earnings of $1.21 per share on $13.09 billion in revenue.
Caterpillar also makes power systems that include large electrical generators and locomotive engines.
A downturn in heavy equipment used in mining hit the company hard last year, when its profit tumbled about 33 percent to $3.79 billion. Mining gear generates higher profit margins for Caterpillar than many other parts of its business.
As sales of large tractors and mining loaders slumped last year, Caterpillar shut plants and cut jobs. But strong results in construction and power systems have helped make up for the shortfall in mining.
Caterpillar said Thursday it continued to see low order rates for mining equipment, the main component of its "Resource Industries" business.
"The company expects mining orders will begin to improve at some point, but not likely in time to increase Resource Industries' sales in 2014," Caterpillar said in a statement announcing its earnings.
Caterpillar stock rose $2.27, or 2.2 percent, to $105.65 by midday Thursday. Shares of Caterpillar, a component of the Dow Jones industrial average, had already climbed 14 percent as of Wednesday after closing 2013 at $90.81.


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Hey guys, anyone bored of Maple Story or La Tale or other MMO games? Well, I have Founded newly, freshly, and splendidly online game called Wonder King!!!
website? :http://wonderking.ndoorsgames.com/center/default.asp
wonderking's CBT 1 was started around July 15, 2009
and Wonderking's CBT 2 started in :August 18,2009
if any of yall wanted CBT 2 keys, here :http://wonderking.ndoorsgames.com/center/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=9218&posts=1&start=1
4 basic classes: swordsman , thief, mage, and scout
each basic classes can choose 1 out of 2 from their 1st job advancement
thief can be ninja or rouge for 1st job advancement
swordsman can be warrior or knight for 1st job advancement
mage can be wizard or priest for 1st job advancement
and scout can be archer or gunner for 1st job advancement
for job classes information visit wonderking's official pls ^^
also Wonder King feature with PvP arena, wonder gate, Guild, Craft and Cooking and various kind of quests!
and whats wonder gate?
wonder gate is a bonus map where player can go in and kill alll boxes for finest and rarest items and holy sets. Wonder Gate are dropped from every monsters.
wonder gate might be appeared in RANDOM chances if he/she grind in 1 place. The longer your grind in 1 place, the chances that Golden Door will appear.
Perform a german Suplex to a woman who think she or her job is more important
it's about time someone posted this game here.
truth be told, even it if it a "knock off" off Maple to some people, i say it's an upgrade of Maple. i really like it.
lvl 45 warrior IGN: razerlazer
lvl 35 gunner IGN: Beetleguise
there are thing that WonderKing has that Maple doesn't. for example, you can double jump, and dash. the characters are faster and you don't need to go right next to a ledge and jump just to progess to the next map. the animations look better than Maples, like Helo345 says, there are Wonder Gates where you can get rare items. the skills looks cool and even sound cool.
though the bad thing is, it's still in closed beta AND in cooldown right now. overall, i say it's better than maple. don't get me wrong now, Maple's good too, i just like WonderKing more.
bored to the point of insanity
I was going to play until I found out it was a side scroller platformer, I hate those kinds of games
my avatar is a girl
It could've been cool if they somehow changed the controls. It's kind of a hassle to use both the mouse and keyboard with just one hand.
I am no false saint for you to use.
I'm up for a NAFTA
hey when i start the game, it says "createdevice failed" what should i do? anyone please help:( tnx a lot:(
lol i plyed it and its relli similar to maple i dont like it
I played this during Closed Beta (I think the 3rd one, quit before open beta came out). I was a 79 Knight, didnt feel like hitting 80 for paladin
I definitely like Wonder king a lot more then Maple Story. Maple story one wrong placed skill point screwed you completely. It was way to touchy for my liking.
Ello again. :) leave me a line I might get back to you today. :)
I played enough of maple xP
WK is different from maple ill say lolz ^^ but still side scrolling
Finally back from Net Vacation ^_^
wonderking destroys maplestory all together..even tho maplestory got so many updates and expansions and classes and such..just give wonderking sometime to fully develop and it will be way better the maplestory..not just that i say its already better then maplestory XD
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WonderKing is an update to Maplestory in my eyes.
I really can't even touch Maple now that I've played WK for so long.
They do have their differences though.
Overall; I enjoy both for completely separate reasons.


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- Beginning testing phase for RC1 with 5/19 1.6 RC1 build candidate on 3.3.2 and 3.4
- Any bugs set for RC1 that didn't get in before today need to be bumped to RC2 of future
- Reiterate milestone schedule (http://wiki.eclipse.org/DTP_Ganymede_Rampdown_Policy). Cycles getting much shorter, so we need to keep a close watch to make sure we keep things under control. RC2 is really the last chance
- Bundle activation/lazy start bug (BZ228295) - thanks Brian Payton for delivering changes for modelbase, Hung for SQL Dev tools, and John G for enablement
- Has anyone looked at the SQL tooling documentation from Emily? (BZ229675) She needs feedback!
- Doshiro status - committer election finished for enablement (and access granted), modelbase election finished (and was successful, so just need to get his access granted - Brian P or Der Ping?), and sqldevtools election restarted (thanks Brian P) - need at least three people to vote for Doshiro to ensure election success (have 2 now, need one more)
- We were down to only five bugs still set for Ganymede target milestone, but that is at 15 again. Unless these are dispositioned by 5/21, I will set each of them to "future"
- We were down to just 2 last Monday, but we're up to 13 bugs with no target milestone set that need to be dispositioned. Please keep at this list daily if at all possible.
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Many articles describe how a poorly tuned garbage collector can bring an application's Service Level Agreement (SLA) commitments to its knees. For example, an unpredictably protracted garbage collection pause can easily exceed the response-time requirements of an otherwise performant application. Moreover, the irregularity increases when you have a non-compacting Garbage Collector (GC) such as Concurrent Mark and Sweep (CMS) that tries to reclaim its fragmented heap with a serial (single-threaded) full garbage collection that is stop-the-world (STW).
Let us now expand on the above paragraph: Suppose an allocation failure in the young generation triggers a young collection, leading to promotions to the old generation. Further, suppose that the fragmented old generation has insufficient space for the newly promoted objects. Such conditions would trigger a full garbage collection cycle, which will perform compaction of the heap.
With CMS GC, the full collection is serial and STW, hence your application threads are stopped for the entire duration while the heap space is reclaimed and then compacted. The duration for the STW pause depends on your heap size and the surviving objects.
Alternatively, even if you do have parallel (multi-threaded) compaction to combat fragmentation, you still end up with a full garbage collection (that involves all the generations of the Java heap), when it might have been sufficient to just reclaim some of the free space from the old generation.
This is a common scenario with Parallel Old GC. With Parallel Old, the reclamation of old generation is with a parallel STW full garbage collection pause. This full garbage collection is not incremental; it is one big STW pause and does not interleave with the application execution.
Note: You can read more about HotSpot GCs here.
With the above information, we would like to consider one solution in the form of the "Garbage First" (G1) collector, HotSpot's latest GC (introduced in JDK7 update 4).
G1 GC is an incremental parallel compacting GC that provides more predictable pause times compared to CMS GC and Parallel Old GC. By introducing a parallel, concurrent and multi-phased marking cycle, G1 GC can work with much larger heaps while providing reasonable worst-case pause times. The basic idea with G1 GC is to set your heap ranges (using -Xms for min heap size and -Xmx for the max size) and a realistic (soft real time) pause time goal (using -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis) and then let the GC do its job.
With the introduction of G1 GC, HotSpot moves away from its conventional GC layout where a contiguous Java heap splits into (contiguous) young and old generations. In G1 GC, HotSpot introduces the concept of "regions". A single large contiguous Java heap space divides into multiple fixed-sized heap regions. A list of "free" regions maintains these regions. As the need arises, the free regions are assigned to either the young or the old generation. These regions can span from 1MB to 32MB in size depending on your total Java heap size. The goal is to have around 2048 regions for the total heap. Once a region frees up, it goes back to the "free" regions list. The principle of G1 GC is to reclaim the Java heap as much as possible (while trying its best to meet the pause time goal) by collecting the regions with the least amount of live data i.e. the ones with most garbage, first; hence the name Garbage First.
Fig. 1: Conventional GC Layout
One thing to note is that for G1 GC, neither the young nor the old generation has to be contiguous. This is a handy feature since the sizing of the generation is now more dynamic.
Adaptive sized GC algorithms like the Parallel Old GC, end up reserving the extra space that may be required by each generation so that they can fit in their contiguous space constraint. In case of CMS, a full garbage collection is required to resize the Java heap and the generations.
In contrast, G1 GC uses logical generations (a collection of non-contiguous regions of the young generation and a remainder in the old generation), so there is not much wastage in space or time.
To be sure, the G1 GC algorithm does utilize some of HotSpot's basic concepts. For example, the concepts of allocation, copying to survivor space and promotion to old generation are similar to previous HotSpot GC implementations. Eden regions and survivor regions still make up the young generation. Most allocations happen in eden except for "humongous" allocations. (Note: For G1 GC, objects that span more than half a region size are considered "Humongous objects" and are directly allocated into "humongous" regions out of the old generation.) G1 GC selects an adaptive young generation size based on your pause time goal. The young generation can range anywhere from the preset min to the preset max sizes, that are a function of the Java heap size. When eden reaches capacity, a "young garbage collection", also known as an "evacuation pause", will occur. This is a STW pause that copies (evacuates) the live objects from the regions that make up the eden, to the 'to-space' survivor regions.
Fig. 2: Garbage First GC Layout
In addition, live objects from the 'from-space' survivor regions will be either copied to the 'to-space' survivor regions or, based on the object's age and the 'tenuring threshold', will be promoted to region(s) from the old generation space.
Every young collection involves parallel worker time and sequential/serial time. To explain this further, I will use a log output from the latest Java 7 update release, which at the time of this publication is 7u25. (We also have an Early Access (EA) for 7u40. Please feel free to try out the EA bundles for your platform. With 7u40 EA, you may see a difference in the log format, but the basic premise remains the same.)
The following command line options generated the GC log output thereafter –
java –Xmx1G –Xms1G –XX:+UseG1GC –XX:+PrintGCDetails –XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps GCTestBench
Note: I went with the default pause time goal of 200ms.
0.189: [GC pause (young), 0.00080776 secs] [Parallel Time: 0.4 ms] [GC Worker Start (ms): 188.7 188.7 188.8 188.8 Avg: 188.8, Min: 188.7, Max: 188.8, Diff: 0.1] [Ext Root Scanning (ms): 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 Avg: 0.2, Min: 0.1, Max: 0.2, Diff: 0.1] [Update RS (ms): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Avg: 0.0, Min: 0.0, Max: 0.0, Diff: 0.0] [Processed Buffers : 0 0 0 1 Sum: 1, Avg: 0, Min: 0, Max: 1, Diff: 1] [Scan RS (ms): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Avg: 0.0, Min: 0.0, Max: 0.0, Diff: 0.0] [Object Copy (ms): 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 Avg: 0.2, Min: 0.1, Max: 0.2, Diff: 0.0] [Termination (ms): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Avg: 0.0, Min: 0.0, Max: 0.0, Diff: 0.0] [Termination Attempts : 1 2 1 2 Sum: 6, Avg: 1, Min: 1, Max: 2, Diff: 1] [GC Worker End (ms): 189.1 189.1 189.1 189.1 Avg: 189.1, Min: 189.1, Max: 189.1, Diff: 0.0] [GC Worker (ms): 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3 Avg: 0.4, Min: 0.3, Max: 0.4, Diff: 0.1] [GC Worker Other (ms): 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 Avg: 0.1, Min: 0.0, Max: 0.1, Diff: 0.1] [Clear CT: 0.2 ms] [Other: 0.2 ms] [Choose CSet: 0.0 ms] [Ref Proc: 0.2 ms] [Ref Enq: 0.0 ms] [Free CSet: 0.0 ms]
The indentation demarcates the parallel and the sequential work groups. The parallel worker time is further split into -
- External Root Scanning: The time spent by the parallel GC worker threads in scanning the external roots such as registers, thread stacks, etc that point into the Collection Set.
- Update Remembered Sets (RSets): RSets aid G1 GC in tracking reference that point into a region. The time shown here is the amount of time the parallel worker threads spent in updating the RSets.
- Processed Buffers: The count shows how many 'Update Buffers' were processed by the worker threads.
- Scan RSets: The time spent in Scanning the RSets for references into a region. This time will depend on the "coarseness" of the RSet data structures.
- Object Copy: During every young collection, the GC copies all live data from the eden and 'from-space' survivor, either to the regions in the 'to-space' survivor or to the old generation regions. The amount of time it takes the worker threads to complete this task is listed here.
- Termination: After completing their particular work (e.g. object scan and copy), each worker thread enters its 'termination protocol'. Prior to terminating, the worker thread looks for work from the other threads to steal and terminates when there is none. The time listed here indicates the time spent by the worker threads offering to terminate.
- Parallel worker 'Other' time: Time spent by the worker threads that was not accounted in any of the parallel activities listed above.
The sequential work (which could be parallelized, individually) is divided into -
- Clear CT: Time spent by the GC worker threads in clearing the Card Table of RSet scanning meta-data.
- And a few others clubbed under the 'Other' time, comprised of:
Choose Collection Set (CSet): A garbage collection cycle collects the set of regions in the CSet. The collection pause collects/evacuates all the live data in a particular CSet. The time listed here is the time spent in finalizing the set of regions added to the CSet.
Reference Processing: The time spent in processing the deferred references (soft, weak, final and phantom) from the prior garbage collection phases.
Reference En-queuing: The time spent in placing the references on to the pending list.
Free CSet: Time spent in freeing the just collected set of regions. This includes the time spent in freeing their RSets as well.
I have just skimmed the surface with respect to many things like the RSets, its coarsening, the update buffers, the CSet, and in the next few paragraphs there will be a few more things like the Snapshot-At-The-Beginning (SATB) algorithm and barriers, etc. However, in-order to learn more about them, we would have to "deep dive" into the internals of G1 GC, an interesting topic that is outside the scope of this article.
Now that we understand how the young collections start filling up the old generation, we need to introduce (and understand) the concept of a 'marking threshold'. When the occupancy of the total heap crosses this threshold, G1 GC will trigger a multi-phased concurrent marking cycle. The command line option that sets the threshold is –XX:InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent and it defaults to 45 percent of the total Java heap size. G1 GC uses a marking algorithm called Snapshot-At-The-Beginning (SATB) that takes a logical snapshot of the set of live objects in the heap at the 'beginning' of the marking cycle. This algorithm uses a pre-write barrier to record and mark the objects that are a part of the logical snapshot. Now let us spend some time discussing the individual phases of the multi-phased concurrent marking and first a look at the output from the GC log:
0.078: [GC pause (young) (initial-mark), 0.00262460 secs] [Parallel Time: 2.3 ms] [GC Worker Start (ms): 78.1 78.2 78.2 78.2 Avg: 78.2, Min: 78.1, Max: 78.2, Diff: 0.1] [Ext Root Scanning (ms): 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1 Avg: 0.2, Min: 0.1, Max: 0.2, Diff: 0.1] [Update RS (ms): 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 Avg: 0.2, Min: 0.2, Max: 0.2, Diff: 0.0] [Processed Buffers : 2 3 2 2 Sum: 9, Avg: 2, Min: 2, Max: 3, Diff: 1] [Scan RS (ms): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Avg: 0.0, Min: 0.0, Max: 0.0, Diff: 0.0] [Object Copy (ms): 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.8 Avg: 1.8, Min: 1.8, Max: 1.8, Diff: 0.0] [Termination (ms): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Avg: 0.0, Min: 0.0, Max: 0.0, Diff: 0.0] [Termination Attempts : 1 1 1 1 Sum: 4, Avg: 1, Min: 1, Max: 1, Diff: 0] [GC Worker End (ms): 80.4 80.4 80.4 80.4 Avg: 80.4, Min: 80.4, Max: 80.4, Diff: 0.0] [GC Worker (ms): 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.2 Avg: 2.2, Min: 2.2, Max: 2.2, Diff: 0.1] [GC Worker Other (ms): 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 Avg: 0.1, Min: 0.0, Max: 0.1, Diff: 0.1] [Clear CT: 0.2 ms] [Other: 0.2 ms] [Choose CSet: 0.0 ms] [Ref Proc: 0.1 ms] [Ref Enq: 0.0 ms] [Free CSet: 0.0 ms] [Eden: 3072K(5120K)->0B(5120K) Survivors: 1024K->1024K Heap: 16M(32M)->16M(32M)] [Times: user=0.06 sys=0.00, real=0.00 secs] 0.081: [GC concurrent-root-region-scan-start] 0.082: [GC concurrent-root-region-scan-end, 0.0009122] 0.082: [GC concurrent-mark-start] <snip> [Zero or more embedded young garbage collections are possible here, but removed for brevity.] 0.094: [GC concurrent-mark-end, 0.0115579 sec] 0.094: [GC remark 0.094: [GC ref-proc, 0.0000033 secs], 0.0004374 secs] [Times: user=0.00 sys=0.00, real=0.00 secs] 0.094: [GC cleanup 22M->10M(32M), 0.0003031 secs] [Times: user=0.00 sys=0.00, real=0.00 secs] 0.095: [GC concurrent-cleanup-start] 0.095: [GC concurrent-cleanup-end, 0.0000350]
In addition, here are the details:
- The Initial Mark Phase – G1 GC marks the roots during the initial-mark phase. This is what the first line of output above is telling us. The initial-mark phase is piggy backed (done at the same time) on a normal (STW) young garbage collection. Hence, the output is similar to what you see during a young evacuation pause.
- The Root Region Scanning Phase – During this phase, G1 GC scans survivor regions of the initial mark phase for references into the old generation and marks the referenced objects. This phase runs concurrently (not STW) with the application. It is important that this phase complete before the next young garbage collection happens.
- The Concurrent Marking Phase – During this phase, G1 GC looks for reachable (live) objects across the entire Java heap. This phase happens concurrently with the application and a young garbage collection can interrupt the concurrent marking phase (shown above).
- The Remark Phase – The remark phase helps the completion of marking. During this STW phase, G1 GC drains any remaining SATB buffers and traces any as-yet unvisited live objects. G1 GC also does reference processing during the remark phase.
- The Cleanup Phase – This is the final phase of the multi-phase marking cycle. It is partly STW when G1 GC does live-ness accounting (to identify completely free regions and mixed garbage collection candidate regions) and when G1 GC scrubs the RSets. It is partly concurrent when G1 GC resets and returns the empty regions to the free list.
Once G1 GC successfully completes the concurrent marking cycle, it has the information that it needs to start the old generation collection. Up until now, the collection of the old regions was not possible since G1 GC did not have any marking information associated with those regions. A collection that facilitates the compaction and evacuation of old generation is appropriately called a 'mixed' collection since G1 GC not only collects the eden and the survivor regions, but also (optionally) adds old regions to the mix. Let us now discuss some details that are important to understand a mixed collection.
A mixed collection can (and usually does) happen over multiple mixed garbage collection cycles. When a sufficient number of old regions are collected, G1 GC reverts to performing the young garbage collections until the next marking cycle completes. A number of flags listed and defined here control the exact number of old regions added to the CSets:
–XX:G1MixedGCLiveThresholdPercent: The occupancy threshold of live objects in the old region to be included in the mixed collection.
–XX:G1HeapWastePercent: The threshold of garbage that you can tolerate in the heap.
–XX:G1MixedGCCountTarget: The target number of mixed garbage collections within which the regions with at most G1MixedGCLiveThresholdPercent live data should be collected.
–XX:G1OldCSetRegionThresholdPercent: A limit on the max number of old regions that can be collected during a mixed collection.
Let us look at a mixed collection cycle output from a G1 GC log:
1.269: [GC pause (mixed), 0.00373874 secs] [Parallel Time: 3.0 ms] [GC Worker Start (ms): 1268.9 1268.9 1268.9 1268.9 Avg: 1268.9, Min: 1268.9, Max: 1268.9, Diff: 0.0] [Ext Root Scanning (ms): 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 Avg: 0.2, Min: 0.1, Max: 0.2, Diff: 0.1] [Update RS (ms): 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Avg: 0.0, Min: 0.0, Max: 0.0, Diff: 0.0] [Processed Buffers : 0 0 0 1 Sum: 1, Avg: 0, Min: 0, Max: 1, Diff: 1] [Scan RS (ms): 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 Avg: 0.1, Min: 0.0, Max: 0.1, Diff: 0.1] [Object Copy (ms): 2.6 2.7 2.7 2.6 Avg: 2.7, Min: 2.6, Max: 2.7, Diff: 0.1] [Termination (ms): 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 Avg: 0.0, Min: 0.0, Max: 0.1, Diff: 0.1] [Termination Attempts : 2 1 2 2 Sum: 7, Avg: 1, Min: 1, Max: 2, Diff: 1] [GC Worker End (ms): 1271.9 1271.9 1271.9 1271.9 Avg: 1271.9, Min: 1271.9, Max: 1271.9, Diff: 0.0] [GC Worker (ms): 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.9 Avg: 3.0, Min: 2.9, Max: 3.0, Diff: 0.0] [GC Worker Other (ms): 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 Avg: 0.1, Min: 0.1, Max: 0.1, Diff: 0.0] [Clear CT: 0.1 ms] [Other: 0.6 ms] [Choose CSet: 0.0 ms] [Ref Proc: 0.1 ms] [Ref Enq: 0.0 ms] [Free CSet: 0.3 ms]
In summary, G1 improves upon its predecessor GCs by introducing the concept of regions that make up a logical generation. The regions help provide finer granularity for an incremental collection of the old generation. G1 does most of its reclamation through copying of the live data, thus achieving compaction. This is definitely a step up from in-space de-allocation without compaction, which lends the old generation looking like Swiss cheese! J
The first level of reclamation happens during the Cleanup phase (of the multi-phased marking cycle) when the *completely* free (i.e. full of garbage) regions are reclaimed and returned to the free list. The next level happens during the incremental mixed garbage collections. If all else fails, the entire Java heap is collected. This is the well-known fail-safe full garbage collection.
All of the above makes the reclamation of the old generation a lot easier and in a way tiered.
I hope this article helped in painting a basic picture of the differences and the makeup of G1 GC. Thank you for tuning in!
Editor's note: Please stay tuned for part 2, coming in September 2013, where Monica will discuss some advanced topics and offer some advice about how to use these metrics to tune your application performance.
About the Author
Monica Beckwith is a Java Performance Consultant. Her past experiences include working with Oracle/Sun and AMD; optimizing the JVM for server class systems. Monica was voted a Rock Star speaker @JavaOne 2013 and was the performance lead for Garbage First Garbage Collector (G1 GC). You can follow Monica on twitter @mon_beck
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G1 seems like a no brainer!
Victor Grazi
Re: G1 seems like a no brainer!
Monica Beckwith
So, I tend to think of G1 in terms of its potential and usually end up categorizing apps and use cases as "G1/App needs more tuning" vs "It works great with minimal tuning".
G1 with sun.misc.Unsafe and deterministic allocation
Karol Piątek
G1 looks promising, but I could say it might be improved.
Unsafe is used along the whole JVM and for example:
allocating buckets of ConcurrentHashMap.
In the way G1 allocates we could say buckets = X number of regions,
or even align the space allocated according to our decision.
This also goes for ByteBuffer allocation.
This would also give opportunity to build HA, when You need,
You copy known memory region from one JVM to another.
You do not search for ConcurrentHashMap X, You know it is from
region 1 to region 10.
Please let me know, what You think about it.
Performance based on heap size
Rohit Deshmukh


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Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Random Tuesday Stuff
KISSED OFF?: It looks like Clear Channel Youngstown top 40 WAKZ/95.9 "Kiss FM" is the latest CC Ohio top 40 station going a different direction in morning drive.
On the heels of sister Cincinnati "Kiss" outlet WKFS/107.1, WAKZ appears to be ending its relationship with Los Angeles-based Sean Valentine, the afternoon driver at L.A.'s original "Kiss FM" who has been voicetracking a morning drive show for other stations.
"Valentine in the Morning" has been taken off the WAKZ web page, and a new live counter touts a change coming - from the timer - Monday morning at 6 AM...complete with a series of question marks as the header to the item.
Rumblings - as of yet not even remotely confirmed - are pointing to a possible clearance for WNCI/97.9 Columbus-based syndicated morning show "Dave and Jimmy". As we said, not confirmed, as we haven't heard anything even quasi-official that it's happening. The show is carried in two other regional markets, Louisville and Lexington, in addition to its home base.
WKNR'S NEW ERA, REDUX: Long-time WKNR/850 sports talk show host Greg Brinda has been batted around the station's schedule over the years like a baseball being hit by Grady Sizemore.
In just the past 2 years, Brinda's solo-hosted mid-mornings, hosted the same slot with a co-host (Kendall Lewis), sent to do special programming and Indians post-game hosting, brought back to mid-mornings as a solo host (Bruce Drennan's troubles), bounced down to evenings, and finally, back to Indians post-game show work.
But in all that movement, he stayed on 850 - or 1220, the station's original frequency.
Not Monday.
Because Good Karma's flagship sports station was staying with regular programming during the Cleveland Indians daytime season opener with Chicago, "The Miller Lite 10th Inning Show" had to be moved...to Siberia.
OK, so that's not the city of license of the company's 1000-watt original station, daytimer WWGK/1540, now operating as a sister station to WKNR as "Cleveland's AM 1540, KNR2".
But 1540 AM was where you had to go to find Brinda doing the very first Indians postgame show for WKNR, as the 50,000 watt powerhouse aired the opening of "Munch on Sports" with new afternoon drive host Mark "Munch" Bishop, and Kenny Roda's regular show (now in evenings) - with the host live in Atlanta for the NCAA championship of men's basketball. We'll spare you the result, if you haven't seen it already.
We almost felt sorry for Brinda, who sounded like his volume was turned up to 11 (Spinal Tap reference), and got no calls that we heard.
And we're pretty sure at least a portion of the show was heard on WWGK's 21-ish watt "critical hours" pre-sunset power reduction, which means you basically had to be driving on Euclid Avenue to hear the show clearly. From our position not THAT terribly far from the station's tower, we felt like we were listening to shortwave radio, with the signals of WXEL/Waterloo IA and CHIN/Toronto trying to mix in.
We know Brinda gets his share of critics, and know some of them are probably jumping at the chance to hit our comments section.
But we'll say this - he's been a professional throughout all this. He could have easily complained of being shuffled off to the lightbulb power sister station, but he didn't. He has taken whatever role he's been assigned with little complaining, at least from what we've heard.
And though his role in WKNR's future would seem to be much smaller than his role in its past, he soldiers on.
And as we listened to Greg Brinda talking pretty much directly to us and maybe a dozen others who were tuned to 1540, we couldn't get it out of our head.
We're making a prediction here - within a year, 1540 will not be "KNR2". We find it very hard to believe that Good Karma boss Craig Karmazin won't pursue a better signal for the station now officially anointed as WKNR's sister station.
One big reason we believe this: If "KNR2" is going to act as an overflow station for 850, it can't do so at night for a large chunk of the year.
By the way, Brinda announced that the "10th Inning Show" will air regularly on AM 1540 after Indians weekday afternoon games...
WHILE WE'RE IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS: OMW hears it is official, as expected - new Clear Channel sports outlet WARF/1350 Akron "Sportsradio 1350" will join the Columbus Blue Jackets radio network.
The NHL action starts Saturday night on 1350, as the Blue Jackets tangle with Anaheim. (Mighty Ducks, right?) And our thanks to Hockey Nation for correcting us, again, on the two-word name of Ohio's only NHL team. We'll get it right one of these years.
WARF's primary sports contracts are with the Akron Aeros, who start off tonight on 1350 with an exhibition against the Cleveland Indians' other local minor league affiliate, the class A Lake County Captains, and the University of Akron Zips football and basketball teams...
AND A BRIEF STOP IN LIMA: This one is thanks to OMW reader Dan Baisden, who is program director at Maverick Media's WZOQ and WDOH in the Lima market.
WZOQ has flipped from hot AC "92 ZOO" to top 40/mainstream "Star 92.1", promising top 40 hits without rhythmic titles. The move pushes syndicated "Bob and Shari" to sister WDOH "Lite Rock 107.1", where local host Jeff Wittler slides into middays.
And Maverick's sister classic rock WUZZ/104.9 picks up the handle "104.9 The Eagle"....
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- bill said...
A little off topic...
While I am not a huge Roda fan I did enjoy his show. I checked out Munch's show yesterday and was pretty disappointed. I don't normally listen to FM other then college stations so I haven't been exposed to a ton of Munch previously. I really had a hard time not turning off the radio and doing something else during Munch's show. Granted it was only the first day so I will give him time and see if he is an acquired taste.
As far as Brinda goes I agree with OMW. While if I had to choose a host to listen to, Brinda would be near the bottom of the list. I respect the way he has handled the situation as well, of course if he wants to make a living he doesn't have much choice I guess.
This is kind of odd but the way I look at Brinda and his show reminds me of that elderly couple that have been married for 50+ years but are always bickering and you wonder why they have stuck together. Its like I am sure there is better but listening to Brinda is like a comfort zone and no matter how much I want to bicker (tune him off) with him, he is still around. heh, yeah that was a little out there hopefully you get what I am saying.
Speaking of Munch, it was odd to hear him on lanigan this morning... he didn't say much, but was on the air... how long will that last
A "ton of Munch" just sounds dirty to me.
Anyway, it's "Blue Jackets," two words!
How is Munch working for two different companies in radio? My how radio has changed. Glad to see that he is taking a job from someone else on WKNR. We would not want to give someone different a c hance.(sarcasm)
I, too, was wondering why Munch was on with Lanigan this morning. Sounded like he was coming down with a cold.
I agree about Brinda. Although not always the biggest fan of his shows, agree that he's a classy, professional guy.
Throughout all the changes at KNR he's maintained an even-keel approach on and off the air and just keeps on doing his thing - regardless of what timeslot or frequency he's assigned to.
Other observations in the local sports media scene...
Munch is a breath of fresh air in afternoon drive on KNR, although it wouldn't hurt for him to organize his thoughts a bit more. His stream of consciousness is tough to follow at times. The energy and enthusiasm are much needed though, and his approach offers a little more respect and benefit of the doubt to the local athletes and coaches than Roda's.
Bruce Drennan's new show on STO, albeit only two days in, is a shocking disappointment. One would think STO would've been a little better prepared to unveil their newest production - especially since they haven't had to deal with 24 hour programming for the past year and knew Drennan was coming on-board for a month now.
The production value of his show is that of a cable-access program. Although not the biggest fan of Cleveland Rants, STO could take some lessons from their competition at FSN Ohio on how to produce a television sports talk show. Drennan's show is the equivalent of a guy sitting at a desk talking with a still-frame camera on him. It makes Les Levine's show on Time Warner Cable look like an award winning network production.
With that being said I'll give it time, but it sure wasn't a good start for the newest endeavor for Drennan and SportsTime Ohio
Columbus Blue Jackets and the Lake County Captains on 1350? Now there's a ratings barn-burner. Come on Freedom Street/Lane/Road whatever the hell you are.
There's a better chance that the Pittsburgh Pirates will be battling out the KC Royals in the 2007 World Series than this EVER getting any listeners.
1350's airs the Akron Aeros who are playing the Lake County Captains. Ya know the team that ran their games on 50,000 watt WKNR last season.
In any event, it's not about getting ratings. It's revenue. If they can make a buck more than last year, they'll be fine.
Also, Anaheim's just the Ducks now...they aren't Mighty as of the beginning of the 06-07 season. (You can be forgiven for not getting the memo...plenty of others didn't get it either.)
Any chance of Time Warner Cable adding Akron/Canton News (23) to the New Philadelphia Line Up??
Oh the WKNR that was owned by Salem, a religious broadcaster? Yeah they really knew how to program a sports station. The only reason they had the Lake County Captains is because they couldn't get the Indians.
Here's Greg's show times at WKNR 1220/850 since joining the station in 1991:
1991-1994: 10:00am - 2:00pm
1994-1998: 2:00pm - 5:00pm
1998-2001: 6:00am - 9:00am
2001-2004: 9:00am - 12:00pm (with Kendall Lewis)
2004: The 10th Inning, various fill-in work
2004-2007: 9:00am - 12:00pm (solo, took over for Drennan)
March 2007: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
April 2007 onward: The 10th Inning, WKNR Golf Show
- Nathan Obral
The reason 1540 has the 10th Inning for day games is so that 850's afternoon/evening line-up (Rome/Munch/Roda) doesn't get disturbed.
On KNR2, 10th Inning bumps Chris Meyers, which is at best a mid-level syndicated show.
You get more day baseball early in the season because of the weather, but once the season gets rolling, we'll see Greg doing pretty much 9p-midnight (more or less) every night on 850.
Don't cry for Greg, he can now hack...I mean play golf all day, he has his golf show on Saturdays, and 10th Inning is a highly promoted show, so it's not like he's getting buried in the wasteland.
Greg Brinda's Radio Golf Show is about as exciting as watching paint dry. Whoever thought Golf on the radio was exciting?
Does anyone have the contact info for sportstalk radio 1350, I remember E e-mailed them when they dumped sports and told them I wouldn't listen until they got rid of the liberal talk, now that they did that I can't seem to find an e-mail to their stations. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.


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FedEx Cup playoffs: Some rips, plenty of riches
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Jordan Spieth used words like "incredible" and "amazing" to describe Liberty National Golf Club.
He can be forgiven. He's only 20.
Spieth wasn't a member of any tour at the start of the year, and now he's taking part in the financial windfall known as the FedEx Cup playoffs. He has only been a full PGA Tour member for five weeks, not nearly long enough to learn how to complain.
No one used words like that when The Barclays was held at Liberty National four years ago.
Tiger Woods said it was "interesting," a description that was subject to interpretation, though no one needed an interpreter. One player said the front nine didn't return to the clubhouse for fear no one would play the back nine. A caddie said golf course designers Bob Cupp and Tom Kite ruined a perfectly good landfill. And the jokes went on. It almost became a sport in itself, seeing who could deliver the best one-liner.
No doubt, there were awkward sight lines off the tee to tight landing areas, and it didn't help that the rough was close to 4 inches. The slopes on some of the greens were severe and didn't hold shots. It needed some work, and billionaire club chairman Paul Fireman paid for them out of his own pocket. More on that later.
Lost amid the criticism of Liberty National was that it produced the best tournament of the 2009 playoff season. Heath Slocum won with a 20-foot par on the final hole, and while he remains the lowest-ranked player to win a playoff event at No. 124, the real measure was who he beat by one shot — Woods, Steve Stricker, Ernie Els and Padraig Harrington.
Also overlooked was the history and location of Liberty National. Fireman developed the course on the site of a former landfill, and no other golf course screams out, "New York, New York" better. It sits on the shore of the Hudson River across from Lower Manhattan, so close to the Statue of Liberty that she looks as if she's holding one of those "Quiet, Please" signs. Dozens of players have been posting photos on Twitter of the views, from either the course or the water taxi over to Manhattan.
But there's a bigger picture.
The Barclays is the start of a four-tournament series with a total of $67 million in prize and bonus money — $8 million purses at each FedEx Cup playoff event, and $35 million in bonus money, with $10 million to the winner.
The greens were too severe? The course looked contrived? Really?
That's what annoyed Cristie Kerr.
The two-time LPGA major winner is a member at Liberty National, and she had heard enough. Kerr ran into a couple of players — Woods included — last year during a charity event and told them they weren't giving the course a chance.
"I talked to a couple of guys about how lucky they are to play on this stage, and to have a guy like Paul Fireman who will spend any amount of money to build the best course he can," Kerr said Sunday evening in Colorado. "It didn't deserve to be beat up like that. They should be grateful to be there. For us women, we struggle to get sponsors. So it's tough to hear. I think they respect me and respect what I was saying. And I know a couple of guys apologized to the Firemans."
Fireman said Woods approached him at the Deutsche Bank Championship last year and they had a nice conversation. He said Woods had heard about the changes to the golf course and looked forward to playing.
"Sometimes," Kerr said, "you can get a little big for your britches. They just need to be thankful for the stage, for the money they play for and the TV coverage they get, and all the other things that come along that they get to do."
She might have been referring to the rows of black BMW courtesy cars outside the clubhouse.
Fireman heard the good and the bad from four years ago — "It wasn't that bad, but it definitely had a tone," he said — and instead of taking it personally, he took action. Five greens were rebuilt (the 12th green was rebuilt three times until they got it right). Others had the slopes significantly reduced. The landing areas were widened on nearly every hole. And the 18th green was moved some 20 yards closer to allow for better staging.
He paid for the changes himself.
"The most important thing is the course will show well," Fireman said. "You can make it as tough as you want. We made it easier — not easy, but easier. My members love it, and I think I should worry about that first. I think we've done a great job. We've done everything we can do."
Phil Mickelson also is a member, and Fireman leaned on him for advice. Mickelson's philosophy is to at least give players a shot at the green, even if they get into more trouble trying. His recommendation was largely about how to set up the course.
"What I said to Paul was if you were to play Augusta National and have 4-inch rough, you'd be miserable and the beauty of Augusta National would not come out," Mickelson said after an 18-hole practice round Tuesday. "I felt that way about Liberty National. If you get rid of the rough and put the first cut in there, you always have a shot. Since he's done that, it has made Liberty National play so good."
Mickelson said some of the complaints from 2009 were valid, "but nobody articulated it well at the time. They just made the claim it was too hard, too severe."
It's a different golf course. The reviews have been far more positive this week. The sights are as spectacular as ever.
The one thing that hasn't changed is that the players are still competing for an insane amount of money. This is no time to complain. It wasn't then, either.


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Monday, July 23, 2007
1.32 "A Passage for Trumpet"
Written by: Rod Serling
Directed by: Don Medford
Loosely reminiscent of Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend in its opening scene, with its cracklingly poetic dialogue—just with a horn player instead of a writer—A Passage for Trumpet has Jack Klugman, the finest actor The Twilight Zone would ever feature—and they would feature him four times—playing a trumpet player and a drunk, an "urban loser" as Marc Scott Zicree calls him, an archetype to which Klugman would often return. (See, A Game of Pool, in which Klugman plays a similar character.) Beautiful in script and especially in execution, A Passage for Trumpet is the finest episode of The Twilight Zone I've come across so far during this project. Without a narrative anymore supernatural or science-fictional than It's a Wonderful Life, its relatively slight story about the value of life may not be as effective or devastating as Capra's classic film, but for a half-hour television spot it comes as close as it could reasonably be expected to. Indeed, A Passage for Trumpet's biggest flaw is that it's too short for its own subject matter; cinematographer George Clemens, responsible for the episode's artfully noirish chiaroscuro, said that during shooting the episode was shaping up to be an hour long, but unfortunately they couldn't convince the network or producers either to let them make a two part episode or to get them an hour-long slot to show it in; thus, only a presumably truncated version of the episode survives. But, like Greed or The Magnificent Ambersons, it's nevertheless a masterpiece in its own right. (Whether they actually shot an entire hour's worth and then had to edit it down, I don't know, but even if that wasn't the case we could say it suffered from "pre-production truncation".)
Klugman can't get a gig because he's always drunk and mucking up the tunes with his inebriated, atonal lines. (Was Schoenberg drunk when he developed the 12 tone system, inspired by Alcoholics Anonymous' twelve steps?) Why'd he throw his life away for some "bad hooch"? an erstwhile colleague asks. "Because I'm sad," Klugman says with an affectingly rueful smile, in one of the greatest line deliveries I've ever heard. Pawning his horn and despising himself, Klugman decides to end it all by leaping in front of a truck. He awakens hours later on the curb, like a run of the mill wino, as an invisible man, believing himself to be a ghost and noting that his suicide was the only success he's had in years. In reality, he's caught in a limbo between the real and the shadow, about to be taught a lesson; this is, after all, The Twilight Zone. He goes to the alley behind his old jazz club to soak up some swing when he hears some randy brass blues blowing nearby. On inspection, the blower is the Archangel Gabriel, hipply calling himself "Gabe" and pointing out he knows a thing or two about horns, man; ordinarily, hearing Gabriel blow his horn isn't a good sign, but it turns out he's not here to commence the Apocalypse, just to help Klugman remember the great aspects of life, and to give him the chance to live again, with a warning not to let his talent go to waste. "The bugle and me, till death do us part!" Klugman enthusiastically promises. The whole sequence is a little flat, as Klugman comes to realize all the wonders life has to offer—movies, friends, beautiful music—rather quickly for someone who five minutes ago had the conviction to off himself. The quick sum-up and narrative turn is a bit stilted and uninspired, the equivalent of Greed's title cards that sum up entire lost reels, demonstrating that Clemens was certainly correct when he said that the episode should've run for sixty minutes.
But A Passage for Trumpet brushes off the setback and rebounds with a beautifully simple scene in which Klugman, honking out the blues on his New York rooftop, meets a nice young girl who's new to town. Heartwarming without being hokey, A Passage for Trumpet has a message even for those among us who aren't a setback away from leaping into oncoming traffic; as Serling notes in the closing narration, "[life] can be rich and rewarding and full of beauty...if a person would only pause to look and to listen." It's a cornpone sentiment that's tough, on film, to sell convincingly, but A Passage for Trumpet succeeds in closing the sale, thanks in large part to Klugman's magnificently nuanced performance. While Klugman wanders his limbo to learn his lesson, Gabriel reports that those who can't see him, and not he himself, are the ghosts, the waking, walking dead, suggesting that, save for a conscious few, most of us are numbed in miserable complacency, unable to recognize the beauty (and truly talented, like Serling?) around us. A Passage for Trumpet encourages us to stop, smell the roses and live a little; so play some music, fall in love. Come on you scamps, get up you sinners (you're all too full of expensive dinners?), stand up on your lazy feet and sing! And blow, Klugman, blow!
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This episode was superb. Klugman nails the feeling of a man who understands that he can be great but, for whatever reason, lacks the courage to live up to his potential.
"Only when I'm drunk, Barry. When I'm drunk."
Touching stuff. Of course the writing but the acting elevates the material to revelation.
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so glad to have found your site - - my husband and i plan to watch every episode and just watched this this one last night. loved it. my favourite so far.
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I am a youth worker and I bought the definitive TZ collection of all the seasons. I use the episodes quite a bit in my lessons and I was hoping if you knew of a subject index for all of the TZ episodes? Feel free to e-mail me back at email@example.com thanks!
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Dream: Now that he's old. I want to sneak up and pie Bill Gates in the face..... AGAIN!!!
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Dream: Do what Jim did to Dwight on "The Office." Put various office equipment of a coworker's into jell-O.
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Real: I told one of my white friends that the wasabi in the dish was actually green tea ice cream. He believed me and took a bite. H may or may not have hated me for the rest of the evening.
Dream: I heard about this somewhere before. Some friends threw a party and got one person REALLY drunk...so drunk that he puked and passed out. While that person was KOed, the ones awake who were still around had some professional makeup artists make up everyone's faces so that they looked really old. Everyone changed into old-people clothes and took the KOed person into a specially decorated room designed to look like a hospital room. When the drunken person came to in the morning, everyone pretended that 50 years had passed since the night the drunk one slipped into a coma. They even showed the person a mirror and he apparently freaked out.
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West Indies opener Adrian Barath has urged the team to finish their Test campaign against England with a flourish, despite already being 2-0 down in the three-match series.
The tourists head into the finale, which starts at Edgbaston on Thursday, on the back of convincing five-wicket and nine-wicket defeats at Lord's and Trent Bridge respectively.
"It's important, having not had any wins in the series so far, that we finish well in this last Test," Barath said at Edgbaston here on Tuesday.
"There is a lot at stake."
The West Indies have won just two of their last 32 Tests -- against Pakistan and Bangladesh -- amid a sequence that includes 16 defeats and 14 draws.
But recently they have demonstrated, occasionally at least, indications of at least becoming harder to beat.
"The pride of West Indies cricket has been showing some signs of improvement, doing well for the last couple of months," said Barath, a member of a top order that has repeatedly struggled against England.
"It's about getting a Test win; getting a win against England," said Barath, keen to improve on a disappointing run of scores -- 42, 24, 0 and 7 -- in the Test series thus far.
"It's definitely nothing impossible for us," added the 22-year-old right-hander, who scored a century on his Test debut against Australia at Brisbane in November 2009.
"We showed at Lord's, where we got those early wickets. If we had carried on getting wickets, anything would have been possible."
But much of West Indies' good work in Tests of late has been undone in the space of a session -- their collapse to 61 for six at stumps on the third day at Trent Bridge being a case in point.
"Where we need to move forward in our cricket is carrying on for five days," Barath said. "Sometimes we dominate the game for three days, but then we mess up in one session.
"That is what Test cricket is all about -- it's not a couple of hours; it's over the course of five days. You have to be on the money every day, every hour, every over."
The arrival of 'mystery' off-spinner Sunil Narine, fresh from starring in the Indian Premier League, where he took 24 wickets for champions Kolkata Knight Riders, in place of injured paceman Kemar Roach has been welcomed by Barath.
The 24-year-old could make his Test debut at Edgbaston and Barath said: "It's great to have him. He's obviously made a name for himself even before he's played a Test.
"I've played a couple of matches with him this season and it wasn't easy. Most of the batsmen were really guessing and just sticking their bat out. I was fielding at bat-pad and I had a lot of catches there.
"Obviously the conditions are different -- the ball doesn't turn as much in England -- but by the fourth and fifth day, any good spinner will extract spin."
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West Indies opener Adrian Barath has urged the team to finish their Test campaign against England with a flourish, despite already being 2-0 down in the three-match series.


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Kevin-Prince Boateng left the field of play after just 26 minutes after being verbally abused by the home support and the rest of his team followed.
The walk off was in breach of the rules as it was not lead by the referee, but the disciplinary commission made an exception for the Rossoneri because of the circumstances.
A statement by the Italian FA read: "In the current rules no regulation allows for a team to interrupt a match and abandon the pitch if not in accordance with the decisions of the referee.
"However, the essential values that inform the sport and civilised society, mean we cannot discipline a gesture of solidarity towards a man who was victim to crass insults exclusively targeted at the colour of his skin."
Sepp Blatter had his say on the matter by claiming that leaving the pitch because of racist abuse from the crowd was "not the answer".


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North Philly native rapper Meek Mill tweeted early Thursday morning that he was detained Wednesday night by Philadelphia Police.
"Cops just harassed and violated me last night in Philly for being famous," Meek Mill, aka Robert Williams, told his nearly 1.9 million Twitter followers.
Williams was in a vehicle stopped at 1100 W. Girard Avenue at 8:04 p.m. Wednesday. Neither Williams nor any other passengers were arrested, said Officer Tanya Little, a Philadelphia Police spokeswoman.
Little said she was not sure why the car was stopped, nor if Williams was driving, and declined to reveal the make of the vehicle. None of the passengers were arrested during the traffic stop, Little said.
"The crazy part about is I really had a handcuff and Rolex on my wrist yesterday.... Really," tweeted Meek Mill, whose new album "Dreams and Nightmares," released Tuesday, features handcuffs and a Rolex on its cover.
The photo here, in which he appears to be handcuffed while sitting near a uniformed police officer, was posted by Meek Mill on Twitter Thursday morning.
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PHILADELPHIA - On the first day of competition at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, the Yale women's track and field team garnered six points to sit in sixth place overall. The Bulldogs are tied with host Penn in sixth place and Dartmough has four points in eighth place. The team title is hotly contested after day one, with Cornell (39 points) barely edging Brown (38 points) so far. Only six events have been scored, since most of the day consisted of preliminary heats, with finals taking place tomorrow. Two Bulldogs scored points for the team competition, and one more advanced to tomorrow's finals.
Senior Lindsey Raymond and junior Elizabeth Marvin went the distance in the 10,000-meter run, finishing fourth and fifth of 13 finishers. Raymond finished in 35:17.12 with Marvin on her heels in 35:22.59. Both times were personal records, more than thirty seconds faster than their previous races at the Raleigh Relays in March. Cornell, the 2011 Heps cross country champion, had two runners in the top three, with Katie Kellner winning in 34:07.85.
Junior Jenna Poggi competed in the 400-meter hurdles, placing third in her heat in 1:02.13 to secure an at-large bid into the final. Poggi beat her personal best in the event by over a second; she ran 1:03.36 at Princeton's Larry Ellis Invitational last month. Freshman Emily Cabl was ninth overall in 1:03.40 and junior Dakota McCoy was 13th in 1:05.34.
In the 1,500-meter run, sophomore Sarah Barry was just 0.24 seconds shy of advancing to the final. She finished in 4:35.87 while the last at-large qualifier finished in 4:35.63.
Junior Adele Jackson-Gibson barely missed the podrium in the long jump. Her leap of 5.58m (18'3.75") was good for seventh place, with the top six finishers scoring points. Sixth-place Catherine Okoukoni of Penn turned in a mark of 5.64m (18'6").
Additionally, sophomore Amanda Snajder stands in sixth place in the heptathlon competition after the first four events. Her best outing so far has been in the 100-meter hurdles, where she claimed second by winning her heat in 14.89 (a personal record). She also tied for fifth in the high jump.
Running events will start at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow and field events at 10:00 a.m. Live results are available here.
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Bülow, Anne Marie (, 2009)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper investigates the advantages and disadvantages of the use of email to obtain agreement between two parties with overlapping but also conflicting interests. The literature on Media Richness suggests that email is too lean to facilitate agreement; but all supporting evidence stems from homogenous populations. This paper, however, starts from the hypothesis that in connection with lingua franca interaction, the text format provides advantages for parties that need to think how to phrase an argument. However, the evidence provided from a negotiation task performed by international business students indicates that, while there is a distinct advantage in the feature of reviewability, the text format itself also poses a problem because it allows selective attention. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7923
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Argument, Cognition and Deadlock in Email NegotiationBülow, Anne Marie (Frederiksberg, 2010)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper investigates a set of email negotiations in order to explain a high number of deadlocks. The paper argues that one reason is the combination of cognitive effort characteristic of the e-mail genre, and the argumentative pattern found when two parties simultaneously try to persuade the other of the justice of their cause. For a negotiation involving the wording of a contract, the evidence suggests that, while there is a distinct advantage in the features of reviewability and revisablity, the email format allows selective attention to the other party's arguments, which can be shown to block suggestions and lead to sub-optimal results. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8239
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Closure and Common GroundBülow, Anne Marie (Frederiksberg, 2013)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper suggests that for negotiation studies, the well-researched role of cognitive closure in decision-making should be supplemented with specific research on what sort of information is seized on as unambiguous, salient and easily processable by negotiators. A study of email negotiation is reported that suggests that negotiators seize on concrete examples as building blocks that produce immediate positive feedback and consequent utilization in establishing common ground. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8737
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I am in need of an ICU nurse: others don't bid, please. I need a theory analyzed in relation to a post coronary artery bipass graft patient. It's 6-7 double spaced pages. Need in 3 days. I will share more details with the chosen candidate.
Happy bidding!
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