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GOSFIELD, ANNIE: Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery
American national treasures Annie Gosfield and Roger Kleier present 2 classic pieces, the title track and the amazing EWA7. Let�s start with the second, a serious, industrial - and undeniably musical - composition made of one or other species of noise. Developed in the course of a 6 week Art and Industry residency in the factories of Nuremburg, this sets a standard for any machine or industrial music. It may sound like factories, railheads, sparks and smoke but it�s played by human beings (with some sampled machinery). It�s a great ensemble: Annie herself (samples), Roger Kleier (electric guitar, treated), Ikue Mori and two other percussionists, Jim Pugilese and Sim Cain (playing a lot of metal and machine parts as well as more standard drums). Clean, often poundingly rhythmical but unusual at every turn, this is just a classic work. The title track, played by the Flux (string) quartet and the Talujon (percussion) quartet was written a little later, with the machines still very much in mind. Closely notated for two quartets, this is wholly convincing music. Excellent notes, nice package. You probably want to buy this.
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Ubisoft's ManiaPlanet games and services land on Steam
Ubisoft has announced its ManiaPlanet games and services, including ShootMania Storm, will be available on Steam as will TrackMania 2 Stadium. Open betas for both titles can now be accessed through the service, and the full TrackMania 2 Canyon game is now also on Steam. You can also pre-order ShootMania and TrackMania 2 Stadium and […]
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ManiaPlanet 2.0 now in alpha
According to the ManiaPlanet blog, Nadeo's second iteration on the ManiaPlanet service has gone into alpha. The online tech will be the backbone of the Shootmania, Trackmania and Questmania families, and the developer is already priming users with the knowledge they'll need to build the franchise's celebrated user generated content with the new toolset. Hit […]
Ubisoft bringing Might & Magic, Revelations, Rayman, Rocksmith, more to PAX
Ubisoft has announced the line-up of games it will be bringing to PAX Prime with it next weekend. It has also revealed an Assassins' Creed panel and pre-order incentives for the fan event as well.
TrackMania 2: Canyon to release on September 14
Fresh off it's beta date drop last night, Ubisoft has announced TrackMania 2: Canyon will be released on September 14. The beta starts August 17, and if you pre-order the game for $24.99 or £19.99, you'll have instant access to all sorts of goodies. Hit the link above for more on the beta and the […]
Trackmania 2 beta drops flag next week
The 9 million strong Trackmania player pool means the upcoming Trackmania 2 Canyon multiplayer beta is essential.
Tuesday Shorts II: Worms, WoW pets, divorce, MMOs at E3, Xenonauts
The usual short, weird, or just plain strange stuff is posted for you below the break.
Closed beta for TrackMania 2 Canyon coming in July
Ubisoft has announced a closed beat for TrackMania 2 Canyon will start in July, which will also mark "the beginning of ManiaPlanet," a networked gaming system for PCs with tools for community-based game creation and participation.
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CJCurrie, the biased Wikipedia editor strikes again! **UPDATED x2**
Al-Qaeda Facebook Group Threatens to Behead President Bush and Recruits Terrorists
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Wiesel Attacker "Sucked into anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on the internet"
A Terrorist Group Planning and Calling for the Bombing of Egyptian Border (on Facebook...)
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Sodexo in India
Managing growth in a fast moving economy
Population 1.2 billion, world's 7th largest country by area, one of the fastest-growing major economies, socially and culturally diverse: India is a country defined by the countless challenges it faces. Since 1997, our teams have been delivering a wide range of services in India, from Benefits and Rewards to On-site Services with a common objective of becoming the leader in Quality of Life Services.
Building on success
Sodexo's reputation for professionalism in India is firmly rooted in the success of Benefits and Rewards Services in the country. Through extensive development of Meal Pass (vouchers and cards) and Gift Pass (vouchers), also covering incentive and recognition programs, Sodexo has built its leadership on the vouchers and cards market in India. Articles in the press often mention Sodexo as a possible employee benefit when referring to meal voucher benefits!
Today, Sodexo Benefits and Rewards teams are in daily contact with 10,000 clients, including large Public and Private sector companies and multinationals, and serve over 3 million beneficiaries. Client references include: Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), Barclays Bank PLC, Delhi International Airport (P) Ltd., L'Oréal, DHL Express India Ltd. and Alcatel Lucent India Ltd. Among our latest innovations: a new, user-friendly mobile application 'Sodexo Outlet Locator', facilitates searching Sodexo Meal and Gift Pass affiliated outlets across India while on the move.
At the same time, our On-site Services teams have succeeded in managing the complexity of the market, seizing opportunities in many new growth areas. Thanks to rigorous QHSE (Quality, Health, Safety and Environment) practices and a wide range of services, Sodexo is pursuing rapid growth in the Health Care sector. Likewise in Education, Sodexo delivers services that optimize the learning experience. Our teams have also proven expertise in operating across the full spectrum of market segments, from Corporate to Remote Sites, with blue chip companies including Tata Motors Ltd, The Royal Bank of Scotland, and Transocean. The significant synergies between our On-site and Benefits and Rewards Services activities are an essential source of growth in this complex market.
Employee development: raising the standards
As the cornerstone of its business development, employees have always been at the heart of Sodexo's attention. Since its creation, Sodexo has always been convinced that one of the keys to ensuring its growth as a company is investment in the development of its people. From frontline employees to the most senior leaders, everyone at Sodexo has the opportunity to be trained and developed all along their career.
Through extensive induction programs – customized for various levels and locations, and adapted to 6 regional languages we ensure that every new employee in India has perfect knowledge of Sodexo's top quality standards, systems and policies. Systematic and continual training is a key to our business. Sodexo Academy, our internal training team in Sodexo India, has worked to design specific modules, programs and learning paths focused on the professional development of our people - the programs being customized to the job role and the business needs.
In addition to local programs, Senior Leaders in India follow global development programs designed by the Sodexo Management Institute in order to reinforce their leadership skills in line with the Group's overall strategy.
Active in the community
Our development in India goes hand in hand with our commitment to contributing to the social and environmental development of local communities. With our STOP Hunger program, Sodexo plays an active role, notably through its partnership with the "Eco kitchen" in Chennai. The program focuses on helping women earn a living through the preparation and sale of food, which is sold by these women, in special carts located in different parts of the city at a markup price. Sodexo works with them by providing food, training in health and safety practices as well as teaching basic business principles. In 2012, Sodexo India teams joined forces with ECO Kitchen on World Food Day and distributed food to nearly 30,000 disadvantaged people. Our teams have also supported the "Save The Children" charity that works for the education of 250 special children suffering from hearing challenges and speech dysfunction, hailing from the slums of Mumbai, to provide practical assistance and helping the neglected or abused children enter society.


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Edna E. Walters Landis, 92, died June 12, in Timbercrest Healthcare Center, North Manchester at 3:25 a.m.
She was born May 15, 1921, in North Manchester, to Rhuea M. (Roberts) and John J. Heeter. She married George Walters Jr. on Oct. 8, 1938. After his death, she married Don R. Landis on April 5, 1988.
Edna attended Chester High School before working as an aid at Timbercrest Retirement Community and later at Heckman Bindery.
She is survived by her son Todd L. (Jane) Walters, Silver Lake; and step-daughters Joann Pinkerton, Russiaville; Kadonna Holderman, Columbia City; six grandchildren, four step-grandchildren; sixteen great-grandchildren and seven step-great-grandchildren and several great-great-grandchildren. Two sons, Michael June Walters and J. Michael Walters, and one daughter, Mary Ann Fulks, are deceased.
Funeral services will be held at Timbercrest Chapel, 2201 East Street, North Manchester. Calling hours are Friday, June 14 from 4-8 p.m. and will take place at McKee Mortuary, 1401 State Road 114 West, North Manchester. Pastor Kurt Stout and Chaplain Carol Pfeiffer will officiate.
Preferred memorials are to the Memorial Fund at First Brethren Church, 407 N. Sycamore Street, North Manchester, Ind. 46962 or Timbercrest, Crestwood Wing, PO Box 501, North Manchester. Condolences may be emailed to mckeemortuary.com.


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It was late 1998 and a small internet webpage was created to find the names of some unknown tunes. What followed was a gradual ascent to old skool internet domination.
20 years on and with over 30,000 registered members OSA is still the number one old skool resource on the net.
Lifelong friendships formed, babies made, and too many memories along the way.
OSA would have been nothing without everyone who has contributed over the years.
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Could This be Baburam's Katwal Moment? Nepal Army Against Bulk Recruitment of Madhesis
The Nepal Army is dissatisfied with Tuesday's (20 Dec) Cabinet decision (see below) to recruit 3,000 youths from the Madhesi and other minority communities. It plans to register its reservations with the government after receiving a formal order from the Ministry of Defence. Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai invited Chief of Army Staff General Chhatra Man Singh Gurung at his residence on Wednesday (yesterday) morning. The PM, however, did not clearly instruct the CoAS on the Cabinet decision, an Army source said. Gurung is meeting President Dr Ram Baran Yadav on Thursday (today) to discuss the decision.
"If the government's decision contradicts with the Interim Constitution and the Army Act, the Army will officially request the government to revise it," the source said. The Army argues that recruitment is purely a 'voluntary process' and it cannot restrict 'the right to equality' guaranteed by the Interim Constitution by opening vacancies for any particular group. Under the existing recruitment process, 55 percent of the seats are filled through free competition, while 45 percent are recruited under the reservation quotas.
"If the government wants to make the Army more inclusive, it should amend the Army Act and offer more seats in the reservation quota," the source said.
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When director Joss Whedon's The Avengers was released earlier this year and started breaking all kinds of box office records, it looked as if 2012's most anticipated superhero film—The Dark Knight Rises—might be a tad upstaged. Both movies enjoyed critical and commercial success, but without 3D The Dark Knight Rises was unable to match The Avengers' box office take. Nevertheless, it's the substance of the films that counts, and both Marvel and Batman fans seemed pretty happy with the respective blockbuster adaptations.
One Batman fan, however, recently let loose some harsh words regarding Whedon's superhero pic: The Dark Knight Rises cinematographer Wally Pfister. Christopher Nolan's longtime collaborator (and an Oscar winner for his work on Inception), apparently had some issues with the camerawork in The Avengers, calling the whole film "appalling." Hit the jump for more, including a few more details regarding Pfister's impending directorial debut.
During an interview with the Sarasota Herald Tribune (via CBM), Pfister was asked what's most important when shooting a movie, and his response is where the Avengers dig comes in:
"What's really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn't support the story. I thought The Avengers was an appalling film. They'd shoot from some odd angle and I'd think, why is the camera there? Oh, I see, because they spent half a million on the set and they have to show it off. It took me completely out of the movie. I was driven bonkers by that illogical form of storytelling."
To be fair, Pfister admits in the same interview that he's not a big superhero fan, but The Avengers wasn't exactly cinematographer Seamus McGarvey's first rodeo. McGarvey is responsible for the gorgeous photography in films like Atonement, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and most recently Anna Karenina, so one assumes he knew what he was doing. I'll admit that The Dark Knight Rises is a better looking film than The Avengers, but by no stretch of the imagination would I consider the latter to be "appalling."
Pfister recently announced that he'd be moving away from the cinematography profession in favor of making his directorial debut on a project to be produced by Nolan and Emma Thomas, but next to nothing is known about the film's story. Pfister opened up a bit about the project in the same interview, revealing the film's genre and time period:
"I can't talk too much about it. It's a present-day science fiction film, a fairly big concept. It's bigger budget — not as big as Batman, but not independent."
Pfister has crafted some absolutely brilliant photography over the years, so I'm eager to see what he'll bring to the table as a director. Like Nolan, he's also a steadfast supporter of film over digital, so it's safe to assume he'll be one of the last filmmakers using film stock in the coming years.


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TORONTO -- Blue Jays right-hander R.A. Dickey has stepped forward with a direct donation to develop a resource that will help create safe environments for children in sports organizations.
The Canadian Centre for Child Protection has partnered with the Jays Care Foundation to create Commit to Kids -- Sport Edition. The key piece of literature has strategies, policies and a step-by-step plan for reducing the risk of child sexual abuse.
The kit also includes a guide for sports organizations and a training video in addition to materials for parents and sports leaders. It's an important issue that has impacted children all over the world and particularly hits close to home for Dickey.
"I carried the pain of sexual abuse for more than two decades. As a kid I didn't know how to deal with it, so I tried to forget. But you can't forget," said Dickey, who disclosed in 2007 that at the age of 8, he was sexually abused by a female babysitter and later by a teenage male.
"When kids register for sports they are entrusted to our care, and we have every responsibility to take all the steps possible to create positive experiences to enhance their development. This program helps sports organizations to do that."
Based on the Canadian Centre for Child Protection's original Commit to Kids program, this resource helps to create safe environments for children in sport by providing organizations with a plan using a risk-management approach that is much broader than criminal record and child abuse registry checks for preventing child sexual abuse.
Because the majority of offenders do not have a criminal record, relying solely on record checks is ineffective in protecting kids from individuals who may cause harm to children. In the past three months, 800 Commit to Kids -- Sport Edition kits have already been distributed through the Blue Jays Annual Coaching Clinic and to the Ontario Baseball Association's Annual Coaching Clinic.
"We are so proud of this new partnership with the Toronto Blue Jays and the Jays Care Foundation," said Lianna McDonald, executive director at the Canadian Centre for Child Protection. "Jays Care has taken a leadership role in saying we are invested in the personal safety of children within communities. This resource, developed with their support, will enable sports organizations to proactively take steps to protect children."


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A sensible solution to a vexing and expensive intellectual-property problem? By God, we can't have that!
For a brief moment last week, a House Republican group that serves as an idea shop for the party was on record proposing a remarkably far-reaching reform of American copyright law. The memo (PDF), written by a young staffer named Derek Khanna, was released Friday afternoon by the Republican Study Committee and noticed by The American Conservative's Jordan Bloom.
Khanna's memo begins by laying out the original constitutional purpose of copyright protection and how the current legal landscape has strayed from it. It then proceeds to challenge several widely-held beliefs about copyright law, including the claims that it promotes the greatest possible levels of productivity and innovation and that it represents free market ideals at work:
[A]ccording to the Constitution, the overriding purpose of the copyright system is to "promote the progress of science and useful arts." In today's terminology we may say that the purpose is to lead to maximum productivity and innovation.
This is a major distinction, because most legislative discussions on this topic, particularly during the extension of the copyright term, are not premised upon what is in the public good or what will promote the most productivity and innovation, but rather what the content creators "deserve" or are "entitled to" by virtue of their creation. This lexicon is appropriate in the realm of taxation and sometimes in the realm of trade protection, but it is inappropriate in the realm of patents and copyrights. […]
Today's legal regime of copyright law is seen by many as a form of corporate welfare that hurts innovation and hurts the consumer. It is a system that picks winners and losers, and the losers are new industries that could generate new wealth and added value. We frankly may have no idea how it actually hurts innovation, because we don't know what isn't able to be produced as a result of our current system.
But by Saturday afternoon the RSC had pulled the memo, citing an inadequate review process and apologizing for the "oversight." …
The memo lists several specific examples of the damage done by copyright law: Stifling the DJ and remix markets in the United States, making the creation of public libraries — and in particular Project Gutenberg — more difficult, and penalizing legitimate investigative journalism. It concludes with suggestions for reform such as significantly shortening the length of copyright claims, expanding "fair use" doctrine, and reforming statutory damages. (Those damages can currently rise as high $150,000 per infringement.)
The email announcing the removal came from RSC executive director Paul Teller, who said the memo "was published without adequate review within the RSC." …
However, a source "with knowledge of the RSC's operations" told Tim Lee at Ars Technia that content industry lobbyists had brought pressure to bear on the RSC's leadership to disavow the memo.
Among the many manifestations of genius in the United States Constitution is its provision for ""promot[ing] the progress of science and useful arts" by giving an innovator a fair early share of the benefits of his creation, but then later allowing others to build on that innovation without prohibitive legal or financial obstacles. It's that second part that has come under attack, primarily via industry lobbying (so much so that not that long ago Greensboro's Rep. Howard Coble's political affiliation was being mocked in some quarters as "R-Disney," after one of the primary offenders).
This is both bad public policy and, if you're a Republican, bad politics. Coble sits on the Judiciary subcommittee that oversees intellectual-property law and chairs the subcommittee that oversees commercial and administrative law (as well as the courts). Peeps in the 6th District might want to drop him a line on this subject.


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Yield: 4 adult tailgate dishes
Prep time: approximately 5 minutes, cooking time: approximately 60 minutes
Ingredients For Ribs:
1 teaspoon hickory smoke powder
¾ cup reduced sugar ketchup, such as Heinz
¼ cup red wine vinegar
2 packets monk fruit extract (such as Monk Fruit in the Raw)
2 tablespoons reduced sodium tamari soy sauce
¼ cup sugar free teriyaki sauce (such as Seal Sama)
1 ½ tablespoons sriracha
2 cloves garlic
½ cup onions
¼ cup peeled and sliced ginger
1 rack baby back ribs (1½ to 1¾ pounds), trimmed of all visible fat
¼ cup no salt added blackening spice (such as Obie Cue's)
Ingredients For Slaw:
¼ cup plus 1 tablespoon fat free Greek yogurt (such as Fage 0%)
1 lime, juiced plus ¼ teaspoon of grated zest
2 teaspoons sriracha hot sauce
4 packets monk fruit extract (such as Monk Fruit in the Raw)
1 twelve ounce bag broccoli slaw (such as Dole)
1 cup cilantro sprigs
At home, place the first 10 ingredients (only 1 tablespoon of the blackening spice) a blender and blend until smooth. Reserve in an air-tight container.
At the game, preheat the grill and let the charcoal turn to embers. Lay a 2-foot-long piece of aluminum foil on a baking sheet, and set it aside.
Cut the rib rack in half; season it generously with salt and remaining 3 tablespoons of the blackening spice and place the ribs on the grill to char the spice. Once blackened move the ribs to the prepared baking sheet meat side down.
Pour the sauce over the meat, turning to coat it completely, ending meat side up.
Place another piece of foil on top, and fold up the edges of the foil to make a tightly sealed package and place in the oven. Move the coals to one side of the grill, place the ribs in the foil on the grill over the side without the coals, cover the grill and bake until ribs are tender about 60-90 minutes.
Mix all the ingredients for the slaw, season with salt, set aside and keep cold.
Remove the ribs from the grill carefully onto the baking sheet, uncover the top and spoon any remaining saucy liquid over the top of the ribs and place back on the to continue to bake and glaze the ribs, about 5 minutes. Remove and place on a cutting board.
Slicing in between the bones, cut the ribs into 4 portions and serve with slaw.
You can make this recipe at home on your grill, chill them and reheat on the grill at the tailgate if you want less fuss at the event.
If the heat is too high and you smell burning sauce while baking them on the grill, add some water to the inside of the foil pouch and reseal.
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Still No Evidence Obamacare Is Forcing Large Numbers Into Part-Time Work
Is an obscure detail about how the Labor Department tabulates workers' hours obscuring an "Obamacare"-driven shift toward part-time work?
One of the most common arguments against President Barack Obama's signature health law is that it will drive employers to shift from full-time to part-time workers. That's because the law requires most midsize and larger employers to provide health insurance to employees who work at least 30 hours per week. Some companies say they're already cutting workers' hours.
As we pointed out last week, there's little evidence of a broad-based shift, at least so far. Most significantly, there's been no meaningful increase in the share of workers saying they usually work less than 30 hours at their primary jobs.
But some observers have noted that in its data, the Labor Department rounds workers' hours up to the next whole number. That means someone who works 29.5 hours would be reported as working 30 hours. So if companies are cutting workers' hours back to just under the 30-hour cutoff — as some report doing — it might not be reflected in government statistics.
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Statistical measure of the degree to which the movements of two variables (stock/option/convertible prices or returns) are related. See: Correlation coefficient.
The relationship between two variables during a period of time, especially one that shows a close match between the variables' movements. For example, all utility stocks tend to have a high degree of correlation because their share prices are influenced by the same forces. Conversely, gold stock price movements are not closely correlated with utility stock price movements because the two are influenced by very different factors. The concept of correlation is frequently used in portfolio analysis. See also serial correlation.
In investment terms, correlation is the extent to which the values of different types of investments move in tandem with one another in response to changing economic and market conditions.
Correlation is measured on a scale of - 1 to +1. Investments with a correlation of + 0.5 or more tend to rise and fall in value at the same time. Investments with a negative correlation of - 0.5 to - 1 are more likely to gain or lose value in opposing cycles.


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Family History Research Booklet. This booklet is A4 in size and contains 16 double side printed Family Group sheets. Each person has their own sheet which allows detailed entries not only for themselves but also their partner, full details of Birth, Baptism/Christening, Marriage, Death, Burial, dates & locations details can be recorded and also entries for the following details as well. Parents, what certificates you have, Schooling details, Occupation, what census you have found them on and where, each family group sheet also has LOTS of room for recording siblings and other details. In the middle of the booklet there are 2 separate, pull out, A3, 6 generation outline ancestor trees. Each person entered on the tree has a reference number which ties up to their own numbered family group sheet. Carry all of your family history about with you, all the information you need in one handy book. Ideal for taking with you on those research trips or to use as handy reference guide.
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For example, high volume and low latency Electronic Trading Systems which are used for Direct to Market (DMA) trading are usually concurrent in nature. Most of the time the focus on microsecond latency, that's why a good knowledge of how to use effectively to minimize latency and improve throughput is important.
These are some of my favorite thread interview questions on Java asked on different on a different time. I am not providing an answer to these thread interview questions but I will give you hint whenever possible, some time hint is also enough to answer. I will update the post further with detailed answers just like I did for 10 Singleton interview questions in Java recently.
After the introduction of concurrency package in JDK 1.5 questions on concurrent utility and concurrent collections were increased e.g. ThreadLocal, BlockingQueue, Counting Semaphore and ConcurrentHashMap become popular.
Same is true for Java 8 and Java 9, where questions on lambda expression and parallel streams, new fork-join pool, CompletableFuture is also on the rise in 2018 and will remain in 2019. Hence you should prepare well for those topics.
And, if you are serious about mastering Java multi-threading and concurrency then I also suggest you take a look at the Java Multithreading, Concurrency, and Performance Optimization course by Michael Pogrebinsy on Udemy. It's an advanced course to become an expert in Multithreading, concurrency, and Parallel programming in Java with a strong emphasis on high performance
15 Java Thread Interview Questions and answersAnyway, without any further ado, here is my list of some of the frequently asked Java multithreading and concurrency questions from Java developer Interviews on Investment banks e.g. Barclays, Morgan Stanley, Citibank, etc.
1) You have thread T1, T2, and T3, how will you ensure that thread T2 run after T1 and thread T3 run after T2?
This thread interview question is mostly asked in the first round or phone screening round of interview and the purpose of this multi-threading question is to check whether the candidate is familiar with the concept of the "join" method or not. The answer to this multi-threading question is simple it can be achieved by using the join method of Thread class. If you are not familiar with the join method, please see my post on how to join threads in Java.
2) What is the advantage of a new Lock interface over a synchronized block in Java? You need to implement a high-performance cache which allows multiple readers but the single writer to keep the integrity how will you implement it?
The major advantage of lock interfaces on multi-threaded and concurrent programming is they provide two separate locks for reading and writing which enables you to write high-performance data structures like ConcurrentHashMap and conditional blocking.
This java thread interview question is getting increasingly popular and more and more follow-up questions come based on the answer of the interviewee.
I would strongly suggest reading about Locks before appearing for any Java multi-threading interview because nowadays It's heavily used to build cache for an electronic trading system on client and exchange connectivity space.
3) What are differences between wait and sleep method in Java?
Another frequently asked thread interview question in Java mostly appear in a phone interview. The only major difference is that wait releases the lock or monitor while sleep doesn't release any lock or monitor while waiting. The wait is used for inter-thread communication while sleep is used to introduce pause on execution. See my post wait vs sleep in Java for more differences
4) Write code to implement blocking queue in Java?
This is relatively tough Java multi-threading interview question which serves many purposes, it checks whether a candidate can actually write Java code using thread or not, it sees how good candidate is on understanding concurrent scenarios and you can ask a lot of follow-up question based upon his code. If he uses wait() and notify() method to implement blocking queue, Once candidate successfully writes it you can ask him to write it again using new Java 5 concurrent classes etc.
5) Write code to solve the Produce consumer problem in Java? (solution)
Similar to above questions on the thread but more classic in nature, some time interviewer ask follow up questions How do you solve producer consumer problem in Java, well it can be solved in a multiple ways, I have shared one way to solve producer consumer problem using BlockingQueue in Java, so be prepared for surprises. Sometimes they even ask to implement a solution of dining philosopher problem as well.
6) Write a program which will result in a deadlock? How will you fix deadlock in Java?
This is my favorite java thread interview question because even though deadlock is quite common while writing multi-threaded concurrent program many candidates not able to write deadlock free code and they simply struggle.
Just ask them you have N resources and N threads and to complete an operation you require all resources.
Here N can be replaced with 2 for the simplest case and higher number to make the question more intimidating. You can further check Applying Concurrency and Multi-threading to Common Java Patterns course on Pluarlsight to learn more about popular concurrency patterns and the right way to use them.
7) What is an atomic operation? What are atomic operations in Java?
Simple java thread interview questions, another follow-up is do you need to synchronize an atomic operation? :) You can read more about java synchronization here.
8) What is a volatile keyword in Java? How to use it? How is it different from the synchronized method in Java?
Thread questions based on a volatile keyword in Java has become more popular after changes made on it on Java 5 and Java memory model. It's good to prepare well about how volatile variables ensures visibility, ordering, and consistency in a concurrent environment.
9) What is a race condition? How will you find and solve race condition?
Another multi-threading question in Java which appear mostly on senior-level interviews. Most interviewer grill on recent race condition you have faced and how did you solve it and sometime they will write sample code and ask you detect race condition. See my post on the Race condition in Java for more information.
In my opinion, this is one of the best java thread interview questions and can really test the candidate's experience on solving race condition or writing code which is free of data race or any other race condition.
One of the best book to get the mastery of this topic is "Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz'". If you are thinking that this book is old then think again, it's still relevant in the era of Java 11.
10) How will you take thread dump in Java? How will you analyze Thread dump?
In UNIX you can use kill -3 and then thread dump will print on log on windows you can use "CTRL+Break". Rather simple and focus thread interview question but can get tricky if he asks how you analyze it. A thread dump can be useful to analyze deadlock situations as well.
11) Why we call start() method which in turns calls run() method, why not we directly call run() method?
Another classic java multi-threading interview question This was my original doubt when I started programming in the thread. Now days mostly asked in a phone interview or first round of interview at mid and junior level java interviews.
The answer to this question is that when you call start() method it creates new Thread and executes code declared in the run() while directly calling run() method doesn't create any new thread and execute code on the same calling thread. Read my post Difference between start and run method in Thread for more details.
12) How will you awake a blocked thread in Java?
This is a tricky question on threading, blocking can result in many ways, if thread is blocked on IO then I don't think there is a way to interrupt the thread, let me know if there is any, on the other hand, if thread is blocked due to result of calling wait(), sleep(), or join() method you can interrupt the thread and it will awake by throwing InterruptedException. See my post How to deal with blocking methods in Java for more information on handling blocked thread.
13) What is the difference between CyclicBarriar and CountdownLatch in Java? (answer)
New Java thread interview questions mostly to check familiarity with JDK 5 concurrent packages. One difference is that you can reuse CyclicBarrier once the barrier is broken but you can not reuse CountDownLatch. If you want to learn more see Multithreading and Parallel Computing in Java course on Udemy.
14) What is an immutable object? How does it help in writing a concurrent application?
Another classic interview questions on multi-threading, not directly related to the thread but indirectly helps a lot. This java interview question can become more tricky if ask you to write an immutable class or ask you Why String is immutable in Java as a follow-up.
15) What are some common problems you have faced in multi-threading environment? How did you resolve it?
Memory-interference, race conditions, deadlock, livelock, and starvation are an example of some problems comes in multi-threading and concurrent programming. There is no end to a problem if you get it wrong and they will be hard to detect and debug.
This is mostly experienced based interview question on java thread instead of fact-based. You can further see Java Concurrency in Practice Course by Heinz Kabutz for some real-world problems faced in actual high-performance multi-threaded applications.
These were some of my favorite Java thread interview questions and mostly asked on Investment banks. This list is by no means complete so please contribute some of interesting java thread questions you have faced during the interview. Purpose of this article is to collect and share great interview questions on multi-threading concept which not only helps in the interview but opens the door for learning a new threading concept.
Update:One of the Javarevisited readers, Hemant has contributed some more thread interview questions in Java, though he hasn't provided answer sand left that job for me, I will certainly do when time allows, just like I have recently updated 10 Singleton interview question in Java with answers.
If you guys know answers to this Java concurrency questions than please post a comment.
Here are his comment "Good questions on multi-threading though you may need to prepare more in order to clear any multi-threading interview, you need to be familiar with the concept of immutability, thread-safety, race condition and many more.
10 or 15 question is good for the quick recap but you at least need to prepare more than 50 questions on threading and concurrency to perform better on Java interview.
You can find some interesting thread question below which is no doubt highly popular –
1) Difference between green thread and native thread in Java?
2) Difference between thread and process? (answer)
3) What is context switching in multi-threading?
4) Difference between deadlock and livelock, deadlock and starvation?
5) What thread-scheduling algorithm is used in Java?
6) What is thread-scheduler in Java?
7) How do you handle an unhandled exception in the thread?
8) What is thread-group, why its advised not to use thread-group in Java?
9) Why Executor framework is better than creating and managing thread by the application?
10) Difference between Executor and Executors in Java? (answer)
11) How to find which thread is taking maximum CPU in windows and Linux server?
Apart from practicing these question answers, more important is to understand the concept behind these multi-threading questions simply mugging the answers of these thread interview questions is not going to help because there would be a lot of follow-ups based on your answer and if you haven't mastered the particular thread topic it would be difficult to answer them.
Other Java Interview Questions on different topics you may like to Explore
- The Complete Java Master Class (learn more)
- Top 10 Spring Framework Interview Questions with Answers (see here)
- 20 Java Design Pattern Questions asked in Interviews (see here)
- 10 Frequently asked Servlet Interview Questions with Answers (see here)
- 10 JSP Questions from J2EE Interviews (read here)
- 12 Good RESTful Web Services Questions from Interviews (read here)
- 10 JDBC Interview Questions for Java Programmers (questions)
- 15 Java NIO and Networking Interview Questions with Answers (see here)
- 15 Data Structure and Algorithm Questions from Java Interviews (read here


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We have been seeing way too many doctors and hospitals lately. It's time for some fun, but of course this is the July 4th week-end, and we hate to be out with all the crowds.
The weather has improved dramatically. It's been sunny, with lower humidity. We haven't had rain for a few days. Yea!!
Between me, Mom, and my brother, we have spent 4 days at hospitals and doctors offices this week.
Today, we had to run to Al's optometrist to get his glasses fixed….so I guess it was actually 5 days at doctors this week.
While waiting for Al's glasses to get fixed, we made a stop at Lowe's, Walmart, and Pizza Hut. Al was determined he was going to have a Pizza hut lunch buffet, and there was no talking him out of it.
We were both tired, so we came home and had the best nap ever!
Tomorrow, the county is offering a free "shredding" day. You can drop off paperwork to a location at a local mall, and they will shred your papers for free while you wait. We have some old tax records we need done, so I think that will be our "fun" tomorrow.
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Riders Needed for Vancouver Sustainability Event
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Burnaby Velodrome riders will be center stage at the upcoming Launch Party for Vancouver's 30 Days of Sustainability (www.30days.ca). The Launch Reception and Earth Day Celebration will take place on Tuesday, April 22nd at SWELL, an eco-design exhibition at the Pendulum Gallery. Featuring popular DJs, organic hors d'oeuvres, organic wine and beer, a group of BVC riders will be using pedal-power to generate electricity for the DJ and sound system, demonstrating sustainable power in action!
Our pedal power-team of Glenn Barr, Andy George, Mike Rothengatter, Mike Lawrence, Matt Chater and Rob McMurtry is seeking four more riders to round things out. This is a great opportunity to showcase and advertise track cycling to mainstream media and corporate interests, and get us involved in an exciting event that is looking to make the things we do everyday a little more sustainable.
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On June 1st, I took my gambling luck in my hands and attended the evening race meeting at Ffos Las with nine friends.
Ffos Las is the newest National Hunt racecourse in the country and the first in West Wales since 1937. It is situated between Llanelli and Carmarthen, and is less than an hour's drive from Bluestone.
The setting is magnificent, surrounded by rolling hills and countryside. It is almost impossible to believe that it is the former site of the largest open cast coalmine in Europe.
This new course held its first meeting on Thursday June 18th 2009 and its facilities are fantastic. The parade ring and winner's enclosure are close to the large stand, which provides a great view of the racing and also houses numerous bars and betting outlets. In front of the winner's enclosure is a beautiful sculpture called the 'Spirit of the Race,' created by local artist Chris Crane.
I have always had a connection with horse racing, having ridden in numerous point to points in my distant past, and it is great to have such a fantastic facility open close to Pembrokeshire. The day started with torrential rain but by the time we got to the course, in good time for a meal before the first race, the weather had improved and the course basked in the evening sun. The sight of these beautiful animals, at peak fitness, with gleaming coats creates an iconic scene.
The course is well supported by local owners and trainers but is also frequented by all the country's top owners and trainers. One of Britain's top jockeys, AP McCoy, was riding in all six races. AP is widely regarded as the finest jump jockey of all time and as he's been Jump Jockey of the Year no less than 13 times in the past and won this year's Grand National on Don't Push It, who would dispute that? However, despite attaining two seconds, three thirds and a fourth, he did not add to his tally of triumphs this particular day.
The June 1st meeting was a 'Boys Toys' night, and various businesses had their merchandise on display; cars, boats, motorbikes and jacuzzis were all available to buy. I expect they were hoping someone would win a fortune and splash out. For my own part (and having limited myself to a bet of £2 a race), this was never going to happen – especially as I failed to select one winner all evening!
Despite my lack of success, I had a brilliant evening. If you have never been racing I can highly recommend it as a good day or evening out. There are regular meetings of jump and flat racing as well as occasional harness racing events. You can make the occasion as special as you like, there are always a number of ladies' hats on display.
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My DIY Dash Restoration
My post on my door panel restoration (seen here) generated some interest for my dash restoration, so here goes nothing. This is a step by step look at what we did to restore the dash from a 1984 GMC Stepside.
When we pulled the dash out initially, we had no intentions of fixing it because it was in such bad shape. In fact, we left it outside for a while! But as the end of our restoration project gets nearer, the financing pool is getting emptier. So after seeing that some other people had restored their dashes, we decided to give it a whirl, and I'm glad we did!
Here is the dash in all it's nastiness:
The first thing we did was cut out all of the cracks and damage, including removing the completely rotted speaker grilles. My son decided that he didn't want in-dash speakers, and so for a cleaner look we decided to just fill in all of the speaker areas. We taped some cardboard on the undersides of the dash where the grilles were, and then filled all the voids with spray foam insulation. We then took a serrated knife and cut the foam off even with the surface of the dash.
If I had it to do over again, I might have just left what remained of the speaker grilles and foamed in and around them to give it a little bit more support. The thin layer of foam gave me a tiny bit of problem when I was sanding later due to its flexibility.
The next step was to cut out all the material that had cracked in order to remove any raised part of the vinyl. I should have sanded the edges down a bit more than I did, because it caused me some problems with the filler later on. The more gradual the edge, the better the filler bonds with it.
For filler I used Padded Dash Filler from Urethanesupplycompany.com. It is better than regular body filler because it is built to expand and contract with the conditions, rather than being solid and immovable. It was a little over 20 bucks a pint, and I ended up buying two due to the fact that I had so much to fill with the speaker grille voids. If you are just filling cracks, one should be plenty.
Once the filler was dry, I sanded it first with a jitterbug sander and 60 grit, then moving to 120. Once I had the shape mostly accomplished, I moved to a hand block sanding. For the edges and for the vent holes and VIN window, I had to use a Dremel with a sanding attachment to get into the small places.
This process was very similar to body work, if you've ever done any of that. I had to sand, reapply, and sand, and reapply to get it just right. I ended up with a "skim coat" of filler in the major areas to make sure that it feathered out enough to have a fairly uniform smoothness and surface. This process takes a lot longer to do than to describe. I probably spent 4-5 hours on this part over the course of a few days in order to let the filler cure properly.
Once I had it the way I wanted it, I went over the entire dash with a jitterbug and 220 grit sandpaper. Then came a cleaning with wax and grease remover and two coats of plastic adhesion promoter.
Next came the texture coat. I used texture coat for a couple of reasons: first, I wanted to hide any minor differences in the surface and second, I had sanded off most of the previous texture. Oh, and I wanted my door panels to match texture-wise as well. I used SEM Texture Coat and gave it about 6 coats of texture. Then I gave it a light sanding with 800 grit to ensure a uniform appearance.
Next came the paint. I wanted to color match the red paint of the interior, so I had to spend a little more than I wanted on paint. I ended up getting PPG Deltron DBC which was around 100 bucks a pint. But I had enough for my dash, my door panels, and I think I have enough to do the rest of the plastic trim as well. The paint went on very nicely.
Here you can see how well it matched the original paint, that is the glove box under the dash:
When I painted the dash, I also painted the vent inserts (the square ones on top, not the heater/ac) after a couple of coats of plastic adhesion promoter. One mistake I made is that I hadn't sanded down the hole for the insert in one place good enough and when I pushed the insert down, it was a little tight, and I ended up with a hairline crack in the corner. I put some clearcoat on it, and don't expect it to cause any problems, and it's not really noticeable. Also, there were a couple of small cracks (less than a half of an inch) in some hard to see places that I missed until I painted it. They will likely be hidden by the trim/vents.
I haven't put the dash back in yet, but all in all I'm pleased. There are a couple of places in which you can see a small difference in surface, but nothing to complain too much about. This wasn't a super-easy job, but I think it is very doable! If you have any questions, let me know, I'd love to help.
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Thanks guys! Much appreciated. I've gotten some great help from this site, so I'm happy to help when I can.
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Awesome. Beats spending all that dough for a new one.
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Awesome job! That's something I may consider.
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That is some very nice work! I may remove the wavy aftermarket cover on mine and see what I have to work with.
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The virtual dressing room has been a bit player in movies as futuristic as Minority Report and as mundane as Clueless, but it hasn't come to your living room — at least not yet. But one company is developing a virtual dressing room that should work with a webcam or Kinect.
FaceCake Marketing Technologies was demoing Swivel at this week's Consumer Electronics Show. The idea is pretty intuitive; you simply step in front of a camera and your body shows up on the screen. By waving your hands, you can select from the clothes and accessories in Swivel's inventory and see how they would look on your body. FaceCake claims that the virtual clothes will take into account the particular shape of your body, but no word on whether it can simulate that "just barely got it zipped up" feeling.
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WASHINGTON -- There is an artful spareness to the "One Life: Martin Luther King Jr." exhibit, which opened Friday at the National Portrait Gallery. It recognizes that a life so significant, outsized and fully chronicled can sometimes be best served in a presentation that acts as metaphor for that life -- brief and powerful. "I worry that for young people today, King has been reduced to just a dream," says curator Ann Shumard. King wasn't most importantly a dreamer, he was a doer, Shumard says. "My hope is that through these images," most of which belong to the gallery, "it will be possible to follow the path King followed" seeing both his achievements and setbacks. "A successful person isn't someone who just goes from triumph to triumph," Shumard says. "You can take those setbacks and turn those into the foundation for the success that follows." The 33-object, one-room exhibition -- comprised of photos, portraits, programs and magazine covers -- uses the upcoming 50th anniversary of the March on Washington as a jumping off point for considering the sweep of King's 39 years. A panoramic photo of King addressing the August 28, 1963, March on Washington marks the exhibition's entrance, and it officially begins with a photo of King's parents, siblings and grandmother. Visitors may be surprised to learn that the civil rights icon was born Michael Luther King Jr. (He was named for his father, who formally changed his own name, and his son's, when the younger King was five.) Next is a 1955 photo of King with his wife, Coretta and baby daughter, Yolanda on the steps of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala., a year after King became resident pastor and began leading the Montgomery bus boycott. It is not until the conscience of the nation is engaged that white faces begin to show up in these photos, and in some cases -- such as the White House signing ceremony for the 1964 Civil Rights Act -- become predominant. In that first bus ride, King stares out the window, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy's gaze is fixed straight ahead and all around are white Americans in close proximity. Everyone is silent. The boycott's success ushered in a time of heightened exposure and danger for King. A 1957 Time magazine with his portrait on the cover hails him as "one of the nation's remarkable leaders." A first edition of his book about the Montgomery boycott, "Stride Toward Freedom," is under glass, and the accompanying text recounts that King was nearly killed during a Harlem book signing after a woman attacked him with a letter opener. The Albany Movement, the nadir of King's career, is depicted in a jailhouse photo. City officials reneged on promises to desegregate while still refraining from using violence against protesters, and the 1961-1962 campaign, which included three jail stints for King, failed. It was a case of "know your adversary," Shumard says. "The police chief recognized that violence played into King's hand" and attracted national attention and sympathy for the protesters. In a formal portrait from 1962, without signposts and crowds for context, King stares out at a distant horizon, and the photographer uses pose and lighting to convey vision and gravitas. King's stillness amid a swirl of violent social upheaval is one of the exhibition's most lucid and transcendent moments. The following year saw the assassination of Medgar Evers, the March on Washington and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The strain of these events begins to show in photos. King is jailed in Birmingham, Ala., -- which was so wracked by violence it was nicknamed "Bombingham" -- where he writes his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." When then-President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act, King is seated in the second row -- one of only two recognizably black faces in a sea of white men. King locks arms with protesters in a Selma, Ala., photo featuring the young future congressman John Lewis, D-Ga., before the marchers were beaten as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge -- a crossing that became known as "Bloody Sunday." Those events helped galvanize support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. King and others continued to march, rally and petition, turning their attention toward fair housing, equal employment and against the Vietnam War. In his "last, greatest dream," King launched the Poor People's Campaign for economic justice in 1967. It led him to Memphis, to support a sanitation worker's strike, and to his death in April 1968. A photolithographic poster captures his words at Memphis's Mason Temple, the day before his death: "I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land." The exhibition concludes with images of protesters -- one black, one white -- the day before King's funeral with signs that read: "Honor King: End Racism!" and "Union Justice Now!" Nearby, two Life magazines chronicle his assassination and his funeral. In short time for such a remarkable life, the exhibition ends. And in a rare feat for those our nation has consigned to the easy, inadequate shorthand of their most famous words -- in King's case, "I have a dream," -- it leaves visitors with a lasting impression of purpose, movement and sacrifice, deepening our appreciation for King's life and the tragedy of his loss. "One Life: Martin Luther King Jr." is open through June 1, 2014, at the National Portrait Gallery, Eighth and F streets NW, Washington. 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The Donoghue Children's Literature Center was founded in 2001 by CSUF Elementary Education Professor Mildred Donoghue. The Center focuses on collecting award-winning children's literature written for the K-6 audience and maintains a collection of approximately 1000 titles. Older titles are moved to the Pollak Library's juvenile collection.
The Center's award-winning interior was designed by Laura Ridley of the American Society of Interior Designers, San Diego Chapter and is intended to evoke the feeling of a children's library.
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Open labs are (mostly) unstructured workshops designed to help you learn R. Each week brief instruction will be provided, followed by time to practice, work together, ask questions and get help. Participants can join the lab any time during the session, and are welcome to work on unrelated projects.
For information about this week's topic and R Open Labs in general, visit http://ropenlabs.web.unc.edu/
R Open Labs is a collaboration between the UNC Chapel Hill Libraries Research Hub and the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science.
- Date:
- Thursday, November 14, 2019
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Location:
- Second floor
- Venue:
- Davis Library Research Hub
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Bliz cut the event an hour short of what it said on the calendar. At 11am, over 300 blossoms disappeared from my bags, minutes before I was going to turn them in for this pet. The calendar said 12pm, I've never seen it be wrong before.
Posted: July 05, 2015 2:49:10 PM | Edits: 0 | Rating: 0
Re: Mr. GrubbsI'm afraid I didn't read all the information on collecting this pet before I started. I just saw, "begins with Fiona", and figured the rest would fall into place. So of course, I didn't select the Lucky buff, I picked the one with the little girl. Now I have a cute little ghost following me around, but no chance of getting Mr. Grubbs. Now I wonder, how are you supposed to know about these things, unless you read about them in advance? It's like "secret" Westfall chicken, 11 herbs & spices.
Posted: December 19, 2010 1:48:34 AM | Edits: 0 | Rating: 0
Re: StinkerThe thing that impressed me most about Stinker, is his amazing ability to handle rejection. To have his heart broken over, and over like that, yet continue to renew his faith in the promise of love! What a trooper. Hang in there Stinker, she'll let you catch her... one of these days.
Posted: October 28, 2010 7:11:09 PM | Edits: 0 | Rating: 0
I did notice that the spawn rate was much higher on my 2nd attempt. I conclude that the area needs a "rest", and that constant farming only leads to a population deficit. Hope that helps and best of Irish luck to all searching for this lil' leprechaun!
Posted: October 17, 2010 3:10:33 PM | Edits: 0 | Rating: 0
Re: Giant Sewer RatAfter 15 minutes of fishing for this guy, I tried targeting the underbelly rat that was running around the end of the dock. Only took another 5 min before I heard the whooshing, clanking sound of the achievement. Coincidence, or good advice from fellow collectors? I don't know, but I immediately splashed him with a Pet Grooming Kit, to get the icky sewer stuff off of course, and wow... he musta been really filthy, cuz there's a huge hazy cloud surrounding him now! My little Pigpen, hehee.
Posted: September 03, 2010 11:09:08 PM | Edits: 0 | Rating: +1
Re: Strand CrawlerI was only aware that the bag of fishing treasures could drop the Jeweled Fishing Pole. I casually did the fishing dailies for months, sorta hoping the pole would drop, but not really expecting it to either. Then I found out through this website that a pet crab could drop too. Being a Cancerian, I became determined to nab one or both of these items. Two dailies later, I got the cutey crab and a Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat... in the same bag!
Posted: September 02, 2010 8:04:00 PM | Edits: 0 | Rating: 0
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MIAMI (AP) Draymond Green made a layup with 0.9 seconds left to give the streaking Golden State Warriors a 97-95 win over the Miami Heat on Wednesday night.
Klay Thompson tied a season high with 27 points to lead the Warriors, who have won five straight.
LeBron James led Miami with 31 points, reaching the 20-point mark for the 25th consecutive game - the longest current streak in the NBA.
Warriors guard Jarrett Jack dribbled the ball at the top of the key as the clock ticked down before finding Green, who caught a quick pass from Jack underneath the basket and made the layup.
James then missed a baseline jumper, sending Miami to only its second loss in 12 home games.
David Lee had 22 points and 13 rebounds, and Jack added 20 points for the Warriors.
Chris Bosh had 21 points and 13 rebounds for Miami, but Dwyane Wade was limited to 14 points on 5-for-11 shooting and had five turnovers.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Kevin Durant scored 35 points and Oklahoma City extended its winning streak to nine games with a victory over New Orleans.
The Thunder rallied from an 11-point second-half deficit and matched their longest win streak since the franchise moved from Seattle.
At 18-4, the Thunder also matched the second-best start in franchise history. Seattle started 20-2 in the 1993-94 season and the Thunder started 18-4 last season.
Brian Roberts scored 16 points to lead the Hornets, who lost their fifth straight game overall and seventh straight against Oklahoma City.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Chris Paul had 19 points and 10 assists to help the Clippers extend their longest win streak in two decades to eighth with a victory over Charlotte.
Blake Griffin and Matt Barnes also scored 19 points for the Clippers, who maintained sole possession of first place in the Pacific Division.
Byron Mullens had 19 points and eight rebounds, and Kemba Walker chipped in with 17 points to lead the stumbling Bobcats, who have lost nine straight since starting the season 7-5.
The Bobcats trailed 78-71 entering the fourth quarter and got as close as three before Barnes scored on a fast break dunk and hit a 3-pointer to push the lead back to eight.
TORONTO (AP) - Joe Johnson scored 23 points, and Andray Blatche had 14 points and nine rebounds to help Brooklyn end a five-game losing streak with a win over Toronto.
C.J. Watson scored 16 points and Deron Williams added 12 as the Nets won for the first time since Nov. 30 at Orlando.
Former Raptors Reggie Evans and Kris Humphries both had big games for the Nets. Evans had nine points and 11 rebounds, while Humphries scored 11 points, making nine of 10 free throws.
Ed Davis matched his career high with 24 points and added 12 rebounds, while Jose Calderon had 10 points and 15 assists for the Raptors, who have lost six straight and 12 of 13.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Mo Williams hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to help Utah snap San Antonio's winning streak at five.
Paul Millsap led Utah with 24 points and 12 rebounds, Al Jefferson scored 21 points and Gordon Hayward added 19.
The Jazz trailed by eight with a little more than 4 minutes remaining. Williams' winning shot was his only 3 of the night and he finished with eight points on 3-for-9 shooting from the field.
Tim Duncan and Tony Parker each scored 22 points to lead the Spurs, who swept the Jazz out of the playoffs in the first round and had won 11 of the last 12 meetings.
BOSTON (AP) - Paul Pierce scored 34 points, including a 3-pointer at the start of the second overtime to give Boston the lead for good, and the Celtics held on to beat Dallas.
Rajon Rondo had 16 points, 15 assists and nine rebounds, and Kevin Garnett added 16 points to help Boston win its second straight.
O.J. Mayo scored 24 points, and Shawn Marion had 16 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists for the Mavericks.
Pierce made five of six free throws in the second overtime. With his basket with 59 seconds left in the first OT, he surpassed 23,000 career points. He is the 25th NBA player to reach the mark.
PHOENIX (AP) - Goran Dragic made a short hook shot from the left baseline with 0.5 seconds remaining to help Phoenix snap a seven-game losing streak with a win over Memphis.
Dragic had 12 points, and Shannon Brown and Jared Dudley scored 15 each for the Suns, who won for the first time since Nov. 27 at Cleveland.
Rudy Gay had 21 points and 11 rebounds, and Zach Randolph added 18 points and 10 rebounds for the Grizzlies, who lost consecutive games for the first time this season.
A lob attempt off an inbound pass by the Grizzlies was broken up by a pair of Phoenix defenders as time expired.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Joakim Noah scored 21 points, and Luol Deng added 19 points and 12 rebounds to help Chicago win its fourth in a row on the road with a victory over Philadelphia.
Less than 24 hours after losing to the Los Angeles Clippers by five points at United Center, the Bulls traveled to Philadelphia and appeared more rested than the Sixers, who had Tuesday off.
Marco Belinelli had 16 points and Nate Robinson, starting in place of guard Kirk Hinrich, had 14 for Chicago. Hinrich injured his left knee in the loss to the Clippers and is listed as day-to-day.
Jrue Holiday scored 26 points, Evan Turner added 16 and Thaddeus Young 13 for Philadelphia. Reserve Spencer Hawes chipped in with 10 points and 10 rebounds, and Nick Young also scored 10.
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Brandon Jennings scored 19 points, and Monta Ellis had 17 points and 11 assists to lead Milwaukee past Sacramento.
Ersan Ilyasova added 16 points and a season-high 14 rebounds, and Luc Richard Mbah a Moute scored a season-high 17 in his first start of the season for Milwaukee (11-9), which has its best 20-game start since 2005-06.
Tyreke Evans had 17 points in his return to Sacramento's lineup after missing three straight games - and five of six - with a sore left knee. John Salmons added 16 points. The Kings were without center DeMarcus Cousins, who was suspended one game for striking Dallas' O.J. Mayo in the groin.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Paul George scored 27 points to help Indiana overcame a 16-point deficit in a win over Cleveland.
David West added 18 points and nine rebounds, and George Hill scored 17 points for the Pacers, who snapped a two-game skid.
Indiana, third in the NBA in scoring defense and No. 1 in opponent field-goal percentage coming in, held the Cavaliers to 23 points on 8-for-41 shooting in the second half - Cleveland's lowest-scoring half of the season.
C.J. Miles had 28 points, while Kyrie Irving was held to nine on 4-for-12 shooting for the Cavs.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Nikola Pekovic had 22 points and 11 rebounds and Minnesota used a big advantage at the free throw line to overcome Kevin Love's shooting struggles and beat Denver.
Love finished with eight points on 3-for-17 shooting and grabbed 14 rebounds on a day he had to explain to Minnesota's owner and his teammates some critical comments he made about the franchise.
The Timberwolves shot under 40 percent for much of the game, but made 30 of 37 from the free throw line. The Nuggets were just 14 of 24 at the line.
Kenneth Faried had 26 points and 14 rebounds for the road-weary Nuggets, who missed a 3-point attempt at the buzzer that would have tied the game.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Josh Smith and Jeff Teague scored 16 points apiece, Al Horford added 13 points and 13 rebounds, and Atlanta Hawks held off a late charge to beat Orlando.
Atlanta extended its regular-season win streak against Orlando to eight with its second win over the Magic this season.
Arron Afflalo scored 16 points and J.J. Redick added 13 for the Magic, who were able to dig out of a huge first-half hole couldn't overcome 16 turnovers that led to 24 points.
Orlando also struggled from the field, connecting on only 31 of 81 shots, in dropping its fourth straight home game. The Magic get a chance to end the skid Friday against Golden State.
HOUSTON (AP) - James Harden scored 31 points and Houston got its first victory under coach Kevin McHale Rockets in over a month with a win over Washington.
The Wizards threatened late in the fourth quarter, but Chandler Parsons scored eight straight points for Houston in the final three minutes, including two 3-pointers, to secure the victory. Parsons finished with 18 points and eight rebounds.
It was Houston's first victory since McHale rejoined the team last Saturday following the death of his 23-year-old daughter. Alexandra ``Sasha'' McHale died Nov. 24 of complications from Lupus.
Rookie Bradley Beal had 20 points to lead Washington.


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Complete Coverage: JDRF 2013 Children's Congress
Children's Congress Delegate Blog
We invited five delegates to write a very special series—the very first Children's Congress Delegate Blog! In the weeks leading up to their trip to Washington, D.C., these delegates gave us their thoughts on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happy glucose control. But most importantly, they let us know just what it means to them to be delegates of Children's Congress 2013. Read on.
Jonathan Platt — 9 years old, California
Children's Congress 2013 Chair Kid
Delegate Do's and Don'ts: How to Make the Most of Children's Congress
Catrina Curtis — 15 years old, Mississippi
My Sweet Sixteen on Capitol Hill
Amelia Rehrman — 11 years old, Pennsylvania
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
Reed Gialketsis — 17 years old, Nevada
A Numbers Game, or: We Are All Number One
Word to the Wise: A T1D Slang Dictionary
Cindy Chen — 17 years old, California
Life Under the Microscope: My Summer as a Research Intern
Letters From the Cusp of Childhood/Adulthood
An Opening Refrain Filled With Promise
Children's Congress Photo Gallery: Monday
Partners Working Toward a Cure
Children's Congress Photo Gallery: Tuesday
Children's Congress Rocks Capitol Hill
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50 journalists from around the world including Belgium, Germany, India, Sweden, Denmark, South Africa, and the United States, arrived on a chilly Dublin day to celebrate the New Year's Eve kick-off of "The Gathering," an international outreach to hundreds of thousands of Irish people worldwide. The invitation is extended not only to people of Irish decent, but also to people who love the Irish. All are welcome in villages, towns, and cities scattered throughout the Emerald Isle for the 2013 yearlong celebration, with over 2,500 unique events taking place that includes the gathering of clans, festivals, and concerts.
This was a double occasion as international dignitaries gathered in the courtyard of Dublin Castle to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the European Union and the beginning of Ireland's six-month presidency of the EU. Following a number of speeches and the flag-raising ceremony, school children released 40 blue balloons signifying the EU's anniversary. The Defense Forces Band played the Irish and EU anthems and the Methodist College Choir from Belfast sang "An Irish Blessing."
Holding hand-made torches, approximately 1,500 men, women and children and 250 performers such as fire eaters, stilt walkers, and dancers gathered in Dublin's College Green and delighted in participating in the Torch Lit Parade which wended it way past Trinity College, The Central Bank, and nearby Temple Bar and Grafton and O'Connell Streets ending at St. Stephen's Green for a brilliant fireworks display for which we thanked Mother Nature who suspended her blustery winds just in time.
Following the parade, an estimated 12,000 people peacefully assembled at St. Stephens Green. for a rousing concert with performances by Imelda May, Bell X1, and Ham Sandwich. With a spirited celebration such as this one, it is no wonder Dublin has been chosen the Number One city in which to bring in the New Year. Think about that when you make your New Year's plans for 2013.
With all of 2013 designated as "The Gathering," festivals abound and will vary in size and includes the St. Patrick's Festival kicking off on March 14, 2013 culminating with "The People's Parade on St. Patrick Day on March 17 in which up to 8,000 marchers from around the world will make their way through the history-packed streets of Dublin where they will not only pass historic landmarks, but those wonderful traditional music-filled pubs, some of which are noted as gathering places for some of Ireland's most famous literati including: George Bernard Shaw, Oliver Goldsmith, James Joyce, C.S. Lewis, Bram Stocker, Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, and of course, William Butler Yeats. If you would like to march in the parade with your special group, check it out here: www.stpatricksfestival.ie.
There are countless gathering opportunities, too numerous to list, but several that sound like a hoot include the Irish Redhead Convention on August 24 where up to 1,000 redheads, will converge in Crosshaven, County Cork for a weekend of craic (fun) during which there will be prizes for the champion carrot toss competition, best red beard, best longest hair, best family of redheads, and the most freckles. There will also be a chefs' cook-off and in case you're not a redhead, but would like to participate, you could win the "Best Wannabe Redhead" prize. Other "Gatherings" include gardening, twins, pilots, and just about sub group you can think of. (More information: www.discoverireland.com)
If you're one of those people who growing up had trouble using scissors or any gadget designed for right-handed people, then The Left Hand Festival taking place August 9-13 is one "Gathering" that portends much wackiness. It will take place in Mullingar, in County Westmeath that by some lucky coincidence means "town of the left hand mill." There are estimated six hundred million left-handed people in the world all of whom probably experienced bumping forks with the right-handed person sitting next to them, or felt frustration in trying to use a spiral notebook or in mastering tying shoe laces. You might say the left hand didn't always know what that right hand sitting nearby was doing, but it always seemed to be in the way. So, this is a great opportunity to both commiserate and celebrate the wonderful world of lefties on International Left Handers Day on August 13. By the way, some of the world's greatest artists were left handed among them being Dufy, Goyen, Kincade, Klee, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, (ambidextrous) Neiman, Raphael, and one of the greatest masters, Rembrandt. So if you are left handed, you belong to a very distinguished fraternity of some of the greatest artists in history.
No trip to Ireland would be complete without experiencing its rich literary heritage and towards that end there are several fabulous literary gatherings beginning with the Yeats Day Gathering on June 13 in Sligo. Artists from around the world are expected to attend to celebrate Irish writers. Yeats had a deep connection to County Slago from his childhood. Its coastline of many faces - sandy beaches, forests, rivers, and lakes such as Lough (lake) Gill, home of the Isle of Inisfree, served as a great source of inspiration throughout his adult life and the subject of one of his most famous poems. It will be held at Hamilton Gallery, 4 Castle Street, Sligo, County Sligo. +353.071.914.3686.
While in Slago, you must treat yourself to an evening with Damien Brennan and his gourmet chef wife Paula. They open Broc House, their lovely home overlooking the landscape that inspired Yeats, for an evening of Paula's exquisitely prepared food interspersed between courses by Damien discussing the great poet's life and reading excerpts from some of his works. This is truly a deliciously memorable evening. http://www.yeatssligoireland.com/
Thomas Moore's famous poem, "The Last Rose of Summer" will be celebrated at The Last Rose of Summer Bicentenary Concert on June 22, 2013. Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of this poem, the gathering will not only celebrate the poem's publication, but also Mr. Moore's life.
'Tis the last rose of summer, Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions; Are faded and gone; No flow'r of her kindred, No rose-bud is nigh; To reflect back her blushes, Or give sigh for sigh! Jenkinstown Park, Jenkinstown, Co. Kilkenny Tickets: +353 87 251 5465
On September 7 and 8, Galway will host to another literary great in the Oscar Wilde Gathering that will pay tribute to the life and works of this great writer as well as exploring the strong connections between his writing and the west of Ireland. His body of work is legion and includes the ever popular "The Importance of Being Ernest," and "The Picture of Dorian Gray." The phrase, "You should see the painting in my cellar," crept into pop lexicon and is often used when someone is complimented for aging well. (http://www.thegatheringireland.com/)
In addition to the few mentioned, there are gatherings galore including a call to golfers who might want to tee off at the Five Star Hotel and Golf Resort Adare Manor, named "Ireland's No. 1 Parkland Course" by Golf Digest Ireland for the seventh consecutive year. A course favored by golfers from around the world, the 18-hole course is intermingled between lush mature trees and a 14-acre lake anchoring the front nine holds, and The River Maigue that wanders throughout the artistically manicured greens. This exquisite property that has truly mastered the art of hospitality, is in the center of Adare Village in County Limerick and is surrounded by medieval ruins and a history that goes back centuries.
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Once you experience enchanting Ireland, you will understand why for the second year in a row it has been voted "the destination with the highest client satisfaction." This honor was bestowed at an awards ceremony in Beverly Hills sponsored by TravelAge West magazine, with Ireland winning out over Great Britain, France, Italy, and Greece. Also, good news for travelers is the temporary lower VAT rate of 9% which is effective until the end of 2013 and applies under the umbrella of the tourism industry, encompassing hotels, restaurants, and special attractions.
So with travel season rapidly closing in, this is the time to put Ireland at the top of your bucket list. If you need help in planning a trip, contact your travel agent or www.discoverireland.com who will be most happy to orchestrate the most appropriate vacation adventure for you.
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Published on Feb 23, 2013