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|View Poll Results: Which of these Classics should be our December reading selection?
|The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
|Crime and Punishment by F.M. Dostoevsky
|Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
|I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
|Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
|Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
|Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
|The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
|Flush by Virginia Woolf
|Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
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December 2012 Book Club 1st Vote
December 2012 Mobile Read Book Club 1st Vote
Help us choose a book as the December 2012 eBook for the Mobile Read Book Club. The poll will be open for 4 days, followed by a 3 day run-off poll between the two* most popular choices. The vote this month will be visible.
We will start the discussion thread for this book on December 20th. Select from the following Official Choices with three nominations each:
(1) The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
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From Wikipedia:
The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1932. The best-selling novel in the United States in both 1931 and 1932, it was an influential factor in Buck's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. It is the first book in a trilogy that includes Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935).
The novel of family life in a Chinese village before World War II has been a steady favorite ever since. In 2004, the book was returned to the bestseller list when chosen by the television host Oprah Winfrey for Oprah's Book Club. The novel helped prepare Americans of the 1930s to consider Chinese as allies in the coming war with Japan.
A Broadway stage adaptation was produced by the Theatre Guild in 1932, written by the father and son playwriting team of Owen and Donald Davis, but it was poorly received by the critics, and ran only 56 performances. However, the 1937 film, The Good Earth, which was based on the stage version, was more successful.
(2) Crime and Punishment by F.M. Dostoevsky
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From Wikipedia: "Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, he argues, ridding the world of evil. Written at fever-heat, Crime and Punishment is considered by many as the first of Dostoevsky's cycle of great novels, which would culminate with his last completed work, The Brothers Karamazov, shortly before his death."
(3) Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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From "Wikipedia":
"Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero", commonly known as "Quo Vadis", is a historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Quo vadis is Latin for "Where are you going?" and alludes to a New Testament verse (John 13:36). The verse, in the King James Version, reads as follows,
"Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou can not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards."
Quo Vadis tells of a love that develops between a young Christian woman, Ligia (or Lygia), and Marcus Vinicius, a Roman patrician. It takes place in the city of Rome under the rule of emperor Nero around AD 64.
Sienkiewicz studied the Roman Empire extensively prior to writing the novel, with the aim of getting historical details correct. As such, several historical figures appear in the book. As a whole, the novel carries a powerful pro-Christian message.
Published in installments in three Polish dailies in 1895, it came out in book form in 1896 and has since been translated into more than 50 languages. This novel contributed to Sienkiewicz's Nobel Prize for literature in 1905.
Several movies have been based on Quo Vadis. The most famous movie is the Hollywood production "Quo Vadis" filmed in 1951.
(4) I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
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The three laws of Robotics:
1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm
2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when he formulated the laws governing their behavior. In I, Robot, Asimov chronicles the development of the robot through a series of interlinked stories: from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant futurea future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete.
Here are stories of robots gone mad, of mind-read robots, and robots with a sense of humor. Of robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the worldall told with the dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction that has become Asmiov's trademark.
(5) Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
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Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome tells the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book. In its unyielding and shocking pessimism, its bleak demonstration of tragic waste, it is a masterpiece of psychological and emotional realism.
(1911 Pulitzer).
(6) Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
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From Goodreads: Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of British rural life in the 1930s. Flora Poste, a recently orphaned socialite, moves in with her country relatives, the gloomy Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm, and becomes enmeshed in a web of violent emotions, despair, and scheming, until Flora manages to set things right.
(7) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: PRC / Project Gutenberg
It has a wonderful theme of family and charity, making it a good read for the holiday season.
(8) The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
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Muriel Sparks timeless classic about a controversial teacher who deeply marks the lives of a select group of students in the years leading up to World War II
Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life! So asserts Jean Brodie, a magnetic, dubious, and sometimes comic teacher at the conservative Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh. Brodie selects six favorite pupils to moldand she doesnt stop with just their intellectual lives. She has a plan for them all, including how they will live, whom they will love, and what sacrifices they will make to uphold her ideals. When the girls reach adulthood and begin to find their own destinies, Jean Brodies indelible imprint is a gift to some, and a curse to others.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is Sparks masterpiece, a novel that offers one of twentieth-century English literatures most iconic and complex charactersa woman at once admirable and sinister, benevolent and conniving.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Muriel Spark including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the authors archive at the National Library of Scotland.
"A perfect book." - Chicago Tribune
A short classic novel about an eccentric Edinburgh teacher who inspires cultlike reverence in her young students.
At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods, in her attraction to the married art master, Teddy Lloyd, in her affair with the bachelor music master, Gordon Lowther, andmost importantin her dedication to "her girls," the students she selects to be her crème de la crème. Fanatically devoted, each member of the Brodie setEunice, Jenny, Mary, Monica, Rose, and Sandyis "famous for something," and Miss Brodie strives to bring out the best in each one. Determined to instill in them independence, passion, and ambition, Miss Brodie advises her girls, "Safety does not come first. Goodness, Truth, and Beauty come first. Follow me."
And they do. But one of them will betray her.
(9) Flush by Virginia Woolf
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: IMP / LRF / PRC / EPUB (in the Complete Works)
It is a quasi-biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written from the perspective of her cocker-spaniel! Looking at the world with bewildered eyes, he never quite understands what is happening to him. I am not a fan of dogs, usually, but this story broke my heart. Being a much easier read than some of her other writings, it serves a great introduction to Virginia Woolf. I have only read this in a translation so far, so Id like to give the original a try.
(10) Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
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From Amazon:
Left penniless after his feckless father's death, young Nicholas Nickleby has no choice but to make his own way in the world. For the sake of his mother and sister, he is forced by his hard-hearted uncle to take a post as an assistant master at Dotheboys Hall, a school for unwanted boys, run by the cruel and tyrannical headmaster, Wackford Squeers. But this is only the beginning of Nicholas's adventures in this most entertaining of Charles Dickens's novels. We follow the progress of Nicholas and his slow-witted companion Smike on their travels and encounter a supporting cast of delectable characters including the rambunctious Crummles theatre company and their talented performing pony, the dastardly Sir Mulberry Hawk, the delightful Mrs. Nickleby, the preposterous Kenwings, and many more. Like many of Dickens's novels, Nicholas Nickleby is characterized by his criticism of cruelty and social injustice, but is above all one of the greatest comic masterpieces of nineteenth-century literature.
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So many good nominations this month! I'll go with my nominee, but could be happy reading most of these.
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Since I am familiar with almost all of the nominations this month, I'll list them in order of preference -
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Voted for this one. It is short at only 150 pages and a great choice for December.
Ethan Frome - I saw the film when it first came out 20 years ago, but I've pretty much completely forgotten it. I've also never read Wharton so this would be a great start, and it's also short and good for December.
Cold Comfort Farm - I already have this book; I got it after becoming interested in it when it was nominated another month over a year and a half ago. I hope my copy is the good version! I've read a little of it and it's light and funny and good for December.
The Good Earth
Flush - Short and since I've never read Woolf would be a good start.
Little Women
Nicholas Nickleby - Longer than I'd like for December as I try to finish my reading challenge, but I really liked the film.
I, Robot - Eh, I'm having my recent fill of sci-fi with the books chosen for both book clubs for November, but still wouldn't mind.
Quo Vadis - Not what I'm in the mood for this month and is on the longer side as well, but sounds interesting and if it wins I'll give it a go.
Crime and Punishment - A great book, but I've already read it. I should be rooting for this one to win since then I'd have one less book to read to finish my reading challenge this year, but that would feel too disingenuous. But I admit, if it wins I won't necessarily be disappointed.
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Difficult choice, but I went for Cold Comfort Farm. It has been nominated before and I got a bit curious about it.
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I'm going with Quo Vadis. I've read eight of the others and would like to read something new that isn't I, Robot.
Seriously, Quo Vadis sounds like a great read and it's a somewhat unusual choice, which is a good thing. Expand horizons and all that.
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I'm partial to free books in the Classics category and something short for the busy month of December, so I'll vote for Ethan Frome.
I have Cold Comfort Farm on hold at the library, but since I'm second on the list I'm not likely to get it in time for this month. I do have the audiobook for The Good Earth, so I'd be willing to try that if it wins. On the other hand, the pro-Christian theme of Quo Vadis is unappealing to me and I gave Crime and Punishment a try last summer but couldn't get past 50 pages, so I'd give both of those a pass. Dickens and Little Women are too long to tackle right now.
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Happy holiday to everyone who celebrated one today.
Very interesting vote so far. Nine nominees with at least one vote, and no nominee with more than four yet. It'll be fun to watch and see what happens over the next few days.
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I listened to Ethan Frome from Audible a couple weeks ago and liked it a lot. The narrator Scott Brick does an excellent job. Although I want to re-read Crime and Punishment, I think it is very dark for the Christmas season. Every month I end up reading the winner as well as one or two nominees. I'll read The Good Earth and Cold Comfort Farm no matter what. Great choices!
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Perhaps it is a mistake to have December a classics month. A lot of classics are downers. I would recommend that we make December the humor month. Everyone should be in a good mood in December.
April is currently the humor month, presumably because the first of April is April Fool's Day. But I don't find the period of March 20 through April 20 to be any more joyful than other months, and perhaps April should be the classics month.
I suggest a simple trade of April for December.
PS - Most people are very busy in December. If you don't like my idea of making December the humor month, perhaps we can make it the short works month.
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Well I could vote "strategically". But I have a strong preference for The Good Earth so I'm on the campaign trail!
Having said that, several of these books would be great. As much as I adored Crime and Punishment, I'm planning to read The Brothers Karamazov in January, and I think even the magnificence of Dostoyevsky can be too much.
Other than that though, I'm quite interested in:
Ethan Frome
Quo Vadis
Cold Comfort Farm
I, Robot and The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie both look good but I'm too stingy to buy them so they will probably get a pass from me. Unfortunately, I can't get either from an eLibrary.
And one day I'd like to read Little Women and Nicholas Nickleby, but I don't think that time is now.
Forgot to mention - I really like this list of options. Most of these I would need hardly a push to jump straight into. I'm looking forward to watching the progress.
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Oh - and vote for The Good Earth please. You know you want to.
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Well I've read the Good Earth, twice, so sorry I passed. I voted for Nicholas Nickelby. Dickens in December seems natural!
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There are some good choices on that list, but I wish I had thirded both Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday and Huxley's Brave New World.
No one to blame but myself.
And Jon, who was late with his thirds.
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No one shot at the Lipscomb Bisons and Lady Bisons but their trip to Minneapolis, Minn. Saturday for the Roy Griak Invite, hosted by the University of Minnesota, was a tough experience for almost everyone involved.
The competition was fierce. The course was saturated with water and featured constantly rolling hills. Just a week after winning the Vanderbilt Invite, the men finished 18th out of 18. The women fared slightly better, finishing 16th of 17.
"Even though this was a tough day, it was a valuable experience for both teams," said Lipscomb coach Bill Taylor. "They just need to learn and grow from it.
"Big days are coming for us. It's just a matter of time."
The men's field included Iowa State, Oklahoma, Duke, Washington State, Michigan State, Dayton, the Air Force Academy, Navy, Army and Missouri.
Some of the top teams in the women's field were Iowa State, Michigan State, Washington State, Connecticut, Oklahoma, the Air Force Academy, Army and Northwestern.
"We had a rough day," said Taylor. "It happens. Twelve of the 17 teams in the men's race were regionally or nationally ranked, so we knew it was going to be very difficult, and we didn't rise up for this one.
"It hurt not having Jared Carlson out there. Then Benton Reed fell out of the race with an injury."
The freshmen, which have been the heart of the Bisons team so far this season, may have been too impressed by their fellow competitors.
"The freshmen looked like freshmen finally," said Taylor. "I could tell they were getting nervous as the race approached.
"It's by far the most competitive race any of our runners have ever been in. When the announcers started introducing each team and their accomplishments, you could tell that it really hit some of them even more."
Senior Ryan Chastain led the Bisons, finishing the 8-kilometer race with a time of 26:35.2.
Freshman Ashton Fisher was second for the Bisons with a time of 27:39 followed by freshman Tim Muller (27:54), freshman Jeff Musick (27:55), sophomore Hunter Hethcoat (28:36) and freshman Isaiah Greer (29:14).
"We actually ran very well early," said Taylor. "Things fell apart mid-race, probably right after Benton fell out.
"It really is a learning experience. We had one of the youngest men's teams out there…with four freshmen, one sophomore and one senior finishing. We have to go to these types of races and get used to it."
Taylor realizes that such experiences are part of the building process. He has no problems with that as long as his runners get better as a result of the experiences.
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Sophomore Catherine Beals led the Lady Bisons with a time of 24:12. Junior Caitlin Anderson was second best on the team (24:32) followed by sophomore Louisa Van Batavia (24:34), freshman Shelby Marvel (24:38), junior Jenny Randolph (25:12), sophomore Ashley Lehman (26:08) and freshman Priya Pappu (26:21).
"The women did some good things today too," said Taylor. "They have a lot of work to do and they let too many places slip away in the second half. However they started well and improved in some key areas.
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by Nig Nog and Rum makes ya dumb December 15, 2004
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In your File Explorer, navigate into the directory that the template was extracted to, right-click on the file named "activator.bat", then select "Open", and if prompted with a warning, click to continue:
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akka-distributed-workers project from the command line
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activator new PROJECTNAME akka-distributed-workers on the command line.
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We've included the text of this template's tutorial below, but it may work better if you view it inside Activator on your computer. Activator tutorials are often designed to be interactive.
Some applications need to distribute work to many machines because one single box obviously has limited resources. This tutorial will explain how to implement distributed workers with Akka cluster features.
The solution should support:
The design is based on Derek Wyatt's blog post Balancing Workload Across Nodes with Akka 2. This article describes the advantages of letting the workers pull work from the master instead of pushing work to the workers.
The heart of the solution is the Master actor that manages outstanding work and notifies registered workers when new work is available.
The Master actor is a singleton within the nodes with role "backend" in the cluster. This means that there will be one active master actor in the cluster. It runs on the oldest node.
You can see how the master singleton is started in the method
startBackend in Main.scala
In case of failure of the master node another master actor is automatically started on a standby node. The master on the standby node takes over the responsibility for outstanding work. Work in progress can continue and will be reported to the new master. The state of the master can be re-created on the standby node using event sourcing. An alternative to event sourcing and the singleton master would be to keep track of all jobs in a central database, but that is more complicated and not as scalable. In the end of the tutorial we will describe how multiple masters can be supported with a small adjustment.
The master actor is made available for workers by registering itself in the ClusterReceptionist.
The frontend actor talks to the master actor via the in the ClusterSingletonProxy.
Later we will explore the implementation of the Master actor in depth, but first we will take a look at the frontend and worker that interacts with the master.
A typical frontend provides a RESTful API that is used by the clients to submit (POST) jobs. When the service has accepted the job it returns Created/201 response code to the client. If it can't accept the job it returns a failure response code and the client has to retry or discard the job.
In this example the frontend is emulated, for simplicity, by an ordinary actor, see Frontend.scala and client requests are simulated by the WorkProducer.scala. As you can see the
Frontend actor sends the work to the active master via the
ClusterSingletonProxy. It doesn't care about the exact location of the master. Somewhere in the cluster there should be one master actor running. The message is sent with
ask/? to be able to reply to the client (
WorkProducer) when the job has been accepted or denied by the master.
You can see how a Frontend and WorkProducer actor is started in the method
startFrontend in Main.scala
We should support many worker nodes and we assume that they can be unstable. Therefore we don't let the worker nodes be members of the cluster, instead they communicate with the cluster through the Cluster Client. The worker doesn't have to know exactly where the master is located.
You can see how a worker is started in the method
startWorker in Main.scala
Open Worker.scala.
The worker register itself periodically to the master, see the
registerTask. This has the nice characteristics that master and worker can be started in any order, and in case of master fail over the worker re-register itself to the new master.
The Frontend actor sends the work to the master actor.
When the worker receives work from the master it delegates the actual processing to a child actor, WorkExecutor, to keep the worker responsive while executing the work.
Now when we know more about the Worker and Frontend that interacts with the Master it is time to take a closer look at Master.scala.
Workers register itself to the master with
RegisterWorker. Each worker has an unique identifier and the master keeps track of the workers, including current
ActorRef (sender of
RegisterWorker message) that can be used for sending notifications to the worker. This
ActorRef is not a direct link to the worker actor, but messages sent to it will be delivered to the worker. When using the cluster client messages are are tunneled via the receptionist on some node in the cluster to avoid inbound connections from other cluster nodes to the client.
When the master receives
Work from frontend it adds the work item to the queue of pending work and notifies idle workers with
WorkIsReady message.
To be able to restore same state in case of fail over to a standby master actor the changes (domain events) are stored in an append only transaction log and can be replayed when standby actor is started. Akka Persistence is used for that. Master extends
PersistentActor and events are stored in with the calls to the
persist method. When the domain event has been saved successfully the master replies with an acknowledgement message (
Ack) to the frontend. The master also keeps track of accepted work identifiers to be able to discard duplicates sent from the frontend.
When a worker receives
WorkIsReady it sends back
WorkerRequestsWork to the master, which hands out the work, if any, to the worker. The master keeps track of that the worker is busy and expect a result within a deadline. For long running jobs the worker could send progress messages, but that is not implemented in the example.
When the worker sends
WorkIsDone the master updates its state of the worker and sends acknowledgement back to the worker. This message must also be idempotent as the worker will re-send if it doesn't receive the acknowledgement.
The Master actor is a Cluster Singleton and register itself in the Cluster Receptionist. The
Master is using Akka Persistence to store incoming jobs and state.
The Frontend actor send work to the master via the
The Worker communicate with the cluster and its master with the Cluster Client.
Open the Run tab and select
worker.Main followed by Restart. On the left-hand side we can see the console output, which is logging output from nodes joining the cluster, the simulated work and results.
The worker.Main starts three actor systems in the same JVM process. It can be more interesting to run them in separate processes. Stop the application in the Run tab and then open three terminal windows.
In the first terminal window, start the first seed node with the following command:
<path to activator dir>/activator "runMain worker.Main 2551"
2551 corresponds to the port of the first seed-nodes element in the configuration. In the log output you see that the cluster node has been started and changed status to 'Up'.
In the second terminal window, start the frontend node with the following command:
<path to activator dir>/activator "runMain worker.Main 3001"
3001 is to the port of the node. In the log output you see that the cluster node has been started and joins the 2551 node and becomes a member of the cluster. Its status changed to 'Up'.
Switch over to the first terminal window and see in the log output that the member joined. So far, no
Worker has not been started, i.e. jobs are produced and accepted but not processed.
In the third terminal window, start a worker node with the following command:
<path to activator dir>/activator "runMain worker.Main 0"
Now you don't need to specify the port number, 0 means that it will use a random available port. This worker node is not part of the cluster, but it connects to one of the configured cluster nodes via the
ClusterClient. Look at the log output in the different terminal windows. In the second window (frontend) you should see that the produced jobs are processed and logged as
"Consumed result".
Take a look at the logging that is done in WorkProducer.scala, Master and Worker.scala. Identify the corresponding log entries in the 3 terminal windows.
Shutdown the worker node (third terminal window) with
ctrl-c. Observe how the
"Consumed result" logs in the frontend node (second terminal window) stops. Start the worker node again.
<path to activator dir>/activator "runMain worker.Main 0"
You can also start more such worker nodes in new terminal windows.
You can start more cluster backend nodes using port numbers between 2000-2999:
<path to activator dir>/activator "runMain worker.Main 2552"
You can start more cluster frontend nodes using port numbers between 3000-3999:
<path to activator dir>/activator "runMain worker.Main 3002"
Note that this sample runs the shared LevelDB journal on the node with port 2551. This is a single point of failure, and should not be used in production. A real system would use a distributed journal.
The files of the shared journal are saved in the target directory and when you restart the application the state is recovered. You can clean the state with:
<path to activator dir>/activator clean
If the singleton master becomes a bottleneck we can start several master actors and shard the jobs among them. For each shard of master/standby nodes we use a separate cluster role name, e.g. "backend-shard1", "backend-shard2". Implementation of this is left as an exercise.
In this example we have used Cluster Singleton, Cluster Client and Distributed Publish Subscribe.
More in depth documentation can be found in the Cluster Specification and in the Cluster Usage documentation.


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EPA Adds Nine Hazardous Waste Sites to Superfund's National Priorities List, Proposing an Additional 10 Sites
Release Date: 03/13/2012
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WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is adding nine new hazardous waste sites that pose risks to people's health and the environment to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites, and is proposing to include 10 additional sites. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country.
"Protecting human health and the environment and restoring contaminated properties to environmental and economic vitality are EPA priorities," said Mathy Stanislaus, assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. "When property is cleaned up and revitalized, the reuse may result in new income to the community in the form of taxes, jobs to local residents, increases to the values of properties nearby cleaned up sites, or it may provide recreational or other services to make the community a better place to live."
Since 1983, 1,661 sites have been listed on the NPL. Of these sites, 359 sites have been cleaned up resulting in 1,302 sites currently on the NPL (including the nine sites added today). There are 62 proposed sites (including the 10 announced today) awaiting final agency action.
Contaminants found at the sites include arsenic, benzene, cadmium, chromium, copper, creosote, dichloroethene (DCE), lead, mercury, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), tetrachloroethylene (PCE), pentachlorophenol (PCP), trichloroethane (TCA), trichloroethylene (TCE), toluene, uranium and zinc.
With all NPL sites, EPA works to identify companies or people responsible for the contamination at a site, and require them to conduct or pay for the cleanup. For the newly listed sites without viable potentially responsible parties, EPA will investigate the full extent of the contamination before starting significant cleanup at the site. Therefore, it may be several years before significant EPA clean up funding is required for these sites.
The following nine sites have been added to the National Priorities List:
• Continental Cleaners (former dry cleaners) in Miami, Fla.;
• Sauer Dump (inactive dump) in Dundalk, Md.;
• Compass Plaza Well TCE (contaminated ground water plume) in Rogersville, Mo.;
• Chemfax, Inc. (former manufacturer of synthetic resins and waxes) in Gulfport, Miss.;
• Southeastern Wood Preserving (former wood treating operation) in Canton, Miss.;
• CTS of Asheville, Inc. (former electronics components manufacturer) in Asheville, N.C.;
• Eighteenmile Creek (contaminated creek) in Niagara County, N.Y.;
• Metro Container Corporation (former drum recycler) in Trainer, Pa.; and
• Corozal Well (contaminated ground water plume) in Corozal, Puerto Rico;
The following 10 sites have been proposed for addition to the National Priorities List:
• Cedar Chemical Corporation (former chemical manufacturer) in West Helena, Ark.;
• Fairfax St. Wood Treaters (former wood treating operation) in Jacksonville, Fla.;
• Macon Naval Ordnance Plant (former ordnance manufacturer) in Macon, Ga.;
• Bautsch-Gray Mine (former lead and zinc mine) in Galena, Ill.;
• EVR-Wood Treating/Evangeline Refining Company (former wood treating operation) in Jennings, La.;
• Holcomb Creosote Co (former wood treating operation) in Yadkinville, N.C.;
• Orange Valley Regional Ground Water Contamination (contaminated ground water plume) in Orange/West Orange, N.J.;
• Jackpile-Paguate Uranium Mine (former uranium mine) in Laguna Pueblo, N.M.;
• West Troy Contaminated Aquifer (contaminated ground water plume) in Troy, Ohio; and
• Circle Court Ground Water Plume (contaminated ground water plume) in Willow Park, Texas.
EPA is also withdrawing its earlier proposal to add the Arnold Engineering Development Center site in Coffee and Franklin Counties, Tennessee to the NPL. This site is being addressed under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) program. Cleanup is progressing successfully, the migration of contaminated ground water is under control and measures have been taken that are protective of human health.
Federal Register notices and supporting documents for the final and proposed sites: https://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/current.htm
Information about how a site is listed on the NPL:
Superfund sites in local communities:
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Area Teen Involved in Deadly Crash
Two Litchville-Marion students, one from Litchville and one from Dickey, were passengers in a one-car crash that killed the driver, Micah Wagner, 18, of Fullerton.
Wagner, along with four passengers – Dylan Eull, 21, of Verona; Daniel Haugen, 18 of LaMoure; and two minors, ages 15 and 14 – were northbound on a gravel road about 2.5 miles south of LaMoure. Wagner lost control of the vehicle. The vehicle entered the east ditch, went through a fence, into a pasture and overturned, according to the North Dakota Highway Patrol.
Three of the five occupants were ejected from the vehicle. None of the occupants were wearing seatbelts.
All of the occupants of the vehicle were transported by ambulance to the Oaks hospital. Wagner was pronounced dead at the hospital.
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Entertainment Weekly Gives Dancing With The Stars LIVE In Las Vegas Rave Reviews
What a great in-depth three page review for Dancing With The Stars: LIVE In Las Vegas by Annie Barrett of Entertainment Weekly. She gives huge props to Carson Kressley calling him a "marvel" in his hosting duties and how he is "never not funny" much like Tom Bergeron. She calls the show "quite stunning, especially during the many bombastic group numbers" and how the lack of cameras (seen if you are sitting in the audience on the TV version) "frees up the dancers to use the entire stage and actually move."
The whole thing felt more like a musical — with slow/sensual or fierce/emphatic movements instead of dialogue, or literally (if we want to get all Carrie Ann about it) "beautiful lines" instead of spoken lines.
She also raves about dancing pro Lacey Schwimmer (who got hurt this past week) saying she "commands the stage"…
As I expected, the dancer who embodied that classic for-the-love-of-the-game performance quality the most for me was Our Pro Lacey Schwimmer. Girl knows how to command a stage — even if she had just slunk into a corner, she was all I could see. Also, uh oh: I just read that Lacey hurt her ankle during the week and didn't dance last night. Noooooo. If she can't return that'll be a huge loss for the show. Lacey and her crazy hair extensions (currently pink and purple) are truly the life of the party.
But, Annette's favorite dance in the LIVE show was, to her surprise, a Rumba with Dmitry Chaplain and Anya Garnis….
I wouldn't be surprised to see Anya as one of Our Pros at some point — though if there's any intention of maintaining a DWTS Vegas run throughout the rest of the year instead of just in the summer, whoever's in charge may want to shackle her (using prop police handcuffs) and Dmitry to a Tropicana slot machine right now. She's on fire!
YES. Fave dance of the night: Dmitry and Anya's rumba. It took 14 seasons and a trip to Vegas for me to realize this, but maybe there IS a place for barefoot men in the ballroom. They just have to look/play the guitar/open their shirts like Dmitry. Oh screw that, they just have to be Dmitry. NEW RULE: Only Mr. Chaplin can remove his shoes.
Anya can barely even process his hotness.
You can read lots more of this fun review on the show and the cast at Entertainment Weekly. You can see more pictures as well. Also, be sure to read the part on Tristan MacManus. He joined her, Lacey, Carson, and Joey Fatone for a pre-show backstage chat in Carson's dressing room. We hope to post that interview as soon as it's made available.


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The New York- and Melbourne-based director talks about The Eye of The Storm, his first Australian film in 22 years.
Director Fred Schepisi's family drama/dark comedy The Eye of The Storm is his first film in Australia in 22 years, since he made A Cry In The Dark.
Charlotte Rampling plays a wealthy, and difficult, family matriarch who is visited on her deathbed by her estranged children, played by Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis. The screenplay is adapted from the novel by Nobel Prize-winning Australian novelist Patrick White.
The film shot for 42 days mostly in Melbourne (for 1972-era Sydney), with some scenes also shot in Sydney and some in Fingal Head in northern New South Wales.
Sycamore Entertainment Group has partnered with Gravitas Ventures for the day and date theatrical and video on demand release of the film in the US on Sept 7. Screen spoke to Schepisi at last week's RiverRun International Film Festival, where The Eye of The Storm was the closing film.
For more on Schepisi's upcoming projects, see news story here.
Did this film come together easily?
No, not at all. Antony Waddington initiated the project, as a first-time producer (he's also an actor). It was his dream to get a great Patrick White novel made and he beavered away for quite a while. He came to me four years before we actually made the film. He and Gregory Read and Jonathan Shteinman ratched up a lot of money out of Sydney, the wealthy patrons of the arts there wanted to see something like a Patrick White film be made.
We counted on the 40% rebate and we got got money from Film Victoria, who did everything they could to help us get it made. Screen Australia were not so willing, they stood on bureaucratic reasons for not jumping in with us, some of which I'll never understand. They said the private equity investment didn't reflect on the commerciality of the film, because they were not sophisticated film investors. But the whole charter was to encourage people to invest in film….They [Screen Australia] did come in many weeks after shooting, and after looking at the footage. So I'm glad that they did.
What was it like shooting in Australia again?
It was fantastic. I've got a coterie of people I work with, like Ian Baker the cinematographer, Kate Williams the editor, and Paul Grabowsky the composer. So I've got a comfort zone there, but we don't work in comfort zones we push one another very hard. Every member of the crew just bent over backwards because they were delighted to be working on something of such substance. It's a wonderful atmosphere to work with. Directors and actors get the credit but nobody quite realises the contribution that everybody else makes, and it's major.
What was it like directing your daughter, Alexandra (who plays Flora)?
I had the casting people approach her the same way as everybody else, put her through all the same tests…you never know what your blindsides are, so I had some of my colleagues on the film watch the tests. And they all agreed. She was nervous. She said, 'Do you mind if I don't call you dad so we're very professional?'That lasted two days. I just treated her like everybody else and she did the same. It was very good. Obviously everybody asks what about the sex scene with Geoffrey Rush. Well, I say, 'Look at the film, see how careful he was' [laughs].
What was it like working with Geoffrey Rush?
I hadn't worked with him before and I found him a great ally, a great contributor to the process. And a great willingness to be whatever the part needs.
I got them all to plumb the novel, because there is great information about them as characters. All of them were concerned about the whole project, not just their own roles.
How did you convince Charlotte Rampling to play the matriarch?
It's not easy convincing women to play 15 years older. But Charlotte is wonderful, she's not vain like that, she was interested in doing a part that would stir her up, that she could relate to but was unusual. Her main concern was to not have a mask or prosthetics on, and I agreed. Her face would have been immobile and she wouldn't have been able to express herself as well.
Before this you did Empire Falls, would you think of doing more TV projects?
I never thought of that as television. It's HBO. We actually shot it as a movie. In a way that made it more difficult for them. If you are doing miniseries, you have to pull out a cliffhanger for each part. In Empire Falls, it just gradually draws you along. It was Colin Callender's idea at HBO to do it in chapters. Not so it could be broken up, but the reason is that you're going for three and a half hours, you can't start at A and keep going up and up on a straight angle. You've got to ebb and flow a bit, and the chapters allow you to come up to a certain point, stop and take a breath, and drop down a little bit.


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First of all...I say all of this under the assumption that you're not doing anything illegal. Otherwise, you probably should get arrested. (There are exceptions, but this is not the place to discuss them. Cosmos!)
It occured to me after some recent experiences of mine to post a tutorial on how to avoid trouble for doing innocent things, because there are many people who don't understand how things work, and punish people by default, because they don't know any better.
Step One: Don't do anything illegal/stupid.
If you do, you will inevitably be caught or arrested, if not for on thing, then for another. If you do something illegal or stupid, I can't help you much. I don't think even most of the people here at AO would help you get out of this. You're on your own here.
Step Two: Information is power. A lack of it is too.
If you find some way into or out of a system, then don't go ahead and tell everyone, bragging about it. That's just plain stupid. If something happens, everyone will think it was you, even if it wasn't. A lot of people will also have you arrested just for thinking you WILL do something.
If you need to tell someone what happened, for advice on what to do next, then be careful who/how you tell. Don't go telling your three year old neighbour, who will inevitably go and tell his parents, who will call the police. Tell someone who understands these things, and who you trust.
If you need to post the information in an open forum, do it on message boards or e-mailing lists, always annonymously. It will make your life much easier.
Step Tree: Just because you can...
If you can do something, that's not a reason to do it. Everytime you find a way to root, or someone else's files, walk away. Don't go looking at things you shouldn't, because that is stupid, and can easily get you put in jail.
Remember, if you do one small thing, and something else big happens, if they can pin the smaller thing on you, its a short step to the big thing, easily quadrupling any fines/sentences.
Step Four: Burn everything.
Don't keep records of what you've found. If you later get caught for something, these will link you to a lot of other possible crimes, and can be used as collaborating evidence. Plus, a friend can always look on your computer, and find password and username lists, DNS and IP Addresses. Its just plain stupid.
Step Five: Anonymity.
If you are going to report what you found, as many honorable people will do, make sure you do it anonymously. Some Admins will feel vengeful, or just not understand, and have you arrested. Its just annoying. "No good deed goes unpunished..." Its best to be the Anonymous Vigilante.
Step Six: Change nothing
If you find your way into some system, even if its just to look around, don't change anything. If you find some way to fix a problem with some network or computer you find yourself in, don't patch it yourself. If you make a mistake, or another one appears, it will be blamed on you. Instead, report it to the Admin, and tell them how to fix it. (Read Step Five.)
Step Seven: Silence is Golden
If you never tell anyone you know anything, no one will want to blame you. You appear as innocent as you are.
Step Eight: Credit Ain't Always Good
Never take credit for anything, whether you did it or not. You can always be blamed, and that's never good. Remember, fame from cracking is fleeting. But fame from honor and intelligence, earned over time, lasts forever.
Step Nine: Never assume
Even if you don't look around networks, aren't even a White Hat Hacker, or a security guru, you can always be blamed for something. I know people who have been suspended from their schools/universities for accidentally going to a "hacker" website, and these people know next to nothing. So if you actually know things, you are at a much higher risk of getting in trouble, even if its for nothing.
"The truth doesn't matter. It only matters what they think is the truth. Our job...our job is to make them see our truth."
Step Ten: If You Report...Don't.
Even if you report a problem in a network, deny doing so afterwards. The deed is done, but you don't have to take the "fall" for it.
There is no such thing as total security, but if you follow these steps, you're a LOT less likely to be wrongly accused, or punished for trying to help.
And, if you ever maliciously break the law or do something royally stupid, you deserve to get caught and punished, I will not help you here.
I don't want this tutorial to make everyone so paranoid they never report the flaws they find. By all means, do so. Just be careful how you do it, and who you tell.
One perfect way to do it...is send a "general" warning to the administrator of the network you feel is at risk. "Do YOU have any usernames with the password the same as the username, or the person's name? If so, change it!" This sort of thing will almost always work.
"If the deed is true, and the heart pure, despite any punishment, the person will come out the better for it, and so will those he helped."
I hope this will help people figure out how to do things when they report problems, which they should always do.


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Tonight on prime-time television, for the first time ever, NASA will open the doors of its Mission Control Center in Houston to a live TV crew.
Viewers who tune into National Geographic Channel at 8 p.m. will get to witness ground control interact with members of the International Space Station, as they complete a single orbit of Earth.
The Live From Space special will offer stunning views from the space station, as it speeds around Earth at 17,150 mph.
"We're with the astronauts for two hours and we're seeing what they see," Al Berman, executive producer of Live From Space, told collectSPACE. "We are looking down through the [windowed] Cupola as we pass over mountain ranges and towns, countries and oceans, and we go from day into night and back into day again, sunrise and sunset and then a little bit more. And while all that is unfolding, we are showing a really tremendous backstory about what is happening on the ISS, what is behind the scenes. It is a real eye-opener."
"I don't think audiences have seen anything that compares to this," Berman said. "If they've any interest in space at all, I think they will be riveted throughout the entire time."
Berman says his production team has a contingency plan -- including a plethora of taped material -- in case something goes awry and they lose signal with astronauts for longer than expected. They even have a backup location.
"Smoke alarms can be triggered by other activities on the space station such that they are false alarms, so what do we do?" he said. "The answer is that we are prepared to do everything from buying a few minutes to doing an entire broadcast without the signal from the station."
The broadcast will be hosted by veteran journalist Soledad O'Brien.
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Breaking all the Rules, For a Cause
Garbage, filth and dirt are not what you'd normally expect to see in a museum exhibit. But the Plastic Garbage Project in Zurich, Switzerland, is breaking all the rules.
According to the Museum of Design Zurich, the vast amounts of plastic pictured here, gets released into the sea every 15 seconds! And they've brought the issue to life and placed it on display from July 4th to September 2nd 2012.
Thanks to our awesome Project AWARE volunteers for contributing marine debris as part of this exhibition. Our friends at AquaMarine Diving Bali, sent a package of debris including fishing line, rope and plastic bottles collected from Blue Lagoon, Bali.
The museum exhibition presents facts about plastic pollution and examines various questions about the advantages and disadvantages of using synthetic products while also presenting solutions aimed at consumer action.
Project AWARE's infographic "The Ugly Journey of our Trash" is also displayed at the exhibition to show visitors how different kinds of debris threaten marine life.
Plastic Garbage Project Facts:
- 6'400'000'000 kilograms of plastic garbage end up in the sea every year.
- This is equivalent to 17'500'000 kilograms per day or 12'000 kilograms per minute.
- The garbage installed in the Museum weights 3'000 kilograms.
- Every 15 seconds the amount of plastic garbage you see in this video gets dumped into the sea.
- It took 1000 hours to pick up the garbage of just one beach. (30 people, ...4 days)
I don't know about you, but these facts alone are inspiration for September's Debris Month of Action!


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Wed 20th Oct 2010 22:29 UTC, submitted by R_T_F_M
Max Khon has completed the DAHDI Project and provides the following report: "I am pleased to announce the completion of the DAHDI/FreeBSD project. DAHDI (Digium/Asterisk Hardware Device Interface) is an open-source device driver framework and a set of HW drivers for E1/T1, ISDN digital and FXO/FXS analog cards. The main goal of this funded project was to make it possible to use FreeBSD as a base system for software PBX solutions."


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PURs lifted in some Siskiyou Areas
09/17/15 -- With the cooling weather this week accompanied by showers, Public Use Restrictions (PURs) are lifted in limited areas. The Fire Danger has dropped from "Extreme" to "High" on the Siskiyou Mountains Ranger District and remains at "High" for the remaining Ranger Districts (Gold Beach, High Cascades, Powers and Wild Rivers).
Campfires continue to be allowed in designated campgrounds, provided they are built within an existing Forest Service campfire ring. Commercial stoves fired by liquid fuel or propane are permitted. Campfire restrictions have also been lifted in all wilderness areas managed by the Rogue River Siskiyou National Forest.
Campfire restrictions remain in effect outside designated Forest Service campgrounds.
The following activities are prohibited within the boundaries of the Wild section of the Rogue National Wild and Scenic River located within the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest.
Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire, or stove fire except:
- In commercially produced pressurized liquid or gas stoves.
- Cooking areas are to be naturally free of vegetation.
- Each group must have a shovel and bucket.
- Using charcoal briquettes only within a raised fire pan or similar device that will contain the fire and its residue, free of natural vegetation, below the high water mark from Marial downstream to the mouth of Watson Creek.
Smoking except within the following locations:
- While aboard a watercraft while navigating, or at rest on a waterway.
- On sand and gravel bars between the river and the high water mark naturally free of flammable vegetation.
If using a Forest Service campfire ring in a designated campground, visitors are reminded to:
- Keep campfires small and in an area cleared down to mineral soil.
- Only burn materials that fit within the Forest Service campfire ring.
- Watch out for overhanging vegetation or limbs.
- Extinguish all campfires before leaving, even if gone for a short period of time.
Recent cooling patterns and rain offer relief from the heat; however, fire danger remains a possibility with warm, dry and above average temperatures forecasted for this weekend. The public should remain diligent about any activities that could ignite a wildfire.
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Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
 Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port.
 Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please.

Hint: https://mydomain.tld.dk:8080/

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Point level detection
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If there's one time you shouldn't have to beat around the bush, it's when you're dead. At least that seemed to be the sentiment for one Colorado man, who's raising eyebrows for his not-so-subtle final words.
"He enjoyed booze, guns, cars and younger women until the day he died," reads the Denver Post obituary for Michael "Flathead" Blanchard.
And his cause of death? The obit attributes his maker-meeting moment to being "stubborn, refusing to follow doctors' orders and raising hell for more than six decades."
Fair enough.
The obituary then lists his late cat "Chopper" as his son, says someone named "Baba Yaba" can "kiss his butt" and notes that his childhood friends are predominantly "criminals, prostitutes and/or Democrats."
While all the hell-raising surely didn't help, his family told the Post "Flathead" actually died of natural causes. And, no, the obituary is not some cruel final jab by the family. They say the words are mostly Flathead's.
His brother Steve Blanchard said "Flathead" wrote a draft of the obituary before he died. The family just added the final touches.
"He lived every minute to its fullest and then some," Blanchard told the Post.
Not only is the obituary blunt, it's late. The man nicknamed for his love of fixing up cars -- including those with flathead engines -- died nearly a year ago. The family decided to wait until closer to the one-year anniversary of his death to publish the obituary and hold his memorial service.
Youngsters hoping to attend last Saturday's service may have been disappointed. Those who are not yet 18 years old are asked to stay away because of the celebration's planned "adult material."


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il padrone wrote:Personally I am aware of several people who have changed their tack on the helmet rule since these discussions have been taken up, have looked at the evidence for MHL and found it sorely wanting.
Count me in on that group too. I was fairly indifferent on the issue before encountering this debate on BV and BNA forums. Certainly having travelled and cycled extensively overseas I was never of the opinion that helmetless is terrible however I've never really had a problem with wearing a helmet myself so I largely didn't care.
jules21 wrote:but in principle, it annoys me that people feel entitled to burden society with the potential cost of exercising their freedom. that's not really freedom at all.
Please get rid of this notion that riding without a helmet puts a greater cost risk on society. This is simply not born out by fact. Furthermore a helmet wearing Lycra road warrier is far more likely to end up in hospital than a young helmetless female cycle commuter on a upright bicycle.
Are you annoyed at the people who rockclimb? The people who ski? The people who drive cars with no air bags? What about people who cycle when they could just catch the train? All of these are freedoms that are more risky than more regular alternatives.