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Vancouver Canucks defenseman Alex Edler ran over Phoenix Coyotes goalie Mike Smith behind the Coyotes net during the second period of Thursday night's game at the Jobing.com Arena, igniting a brawl between the two teams. Edler skated full speed behind the Coyotes net to chase the puck. When Smith got to it first, Edler made no attempt to slow down or get the puck and simply plowed over him. Edler was assessed a five minute major penalty for charging on the play, and Coyotes center Martin Hanzal was assessed two minutes for roughing on the ensuing brawl. Smith finished out the period but sat out the third. To add insult to injury, Edler recorded an assist on the game-winning goal in the third period against Coyotes backup goalie Jason LaBarbera to give the Canucks a 2-1 victory. We'll see if Edler escapes further punishment from the NHL when the play is reviewed by the league office. Video via HockeyVideoHD. H/T Puck Daddy. Visit us at holdoutsports.com and follow us on Twitter @HoldoutSports.
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Margaret Petrikas (Deceased)
Address: 7401 Bay Island Drive, Apt. 230, South Pasadena
The body of a 69 year-old female was discovered floating at a South Pasadena Marina. Deputies responded to investigate.
The body was discovered just before 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, September 1, 2012.
The body was discovered at the marina located at 7500 Sun Island Drive in South Pasadena.
Deputies responded to investigate after the docks master at the marina reported he had discovered the body floating between two boats.
Pasadena Fire Rescue responded to the scene and pulled the body out of the water.
The body was identified as that of 69-year-old Margaret Petrikas of South Pasadena.
Deputies say there are no signs of trauma to the body and that it does not appear the death is suspicious in nature.
The Medical Examiner's Office will conduct its investigation into the cause and manner of death.
According to investigators, Petrikas family is in Lithuania.
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Fatal Collision on US HWY 23 in Pike County
Date of News Release: 02/26/2008
(Pikeville, KY) - Pikeville Post 9 received call from Hazard Post 13 advising a vehicle driving north on US HWY 23 in southbound lane at Pike/Letcher line. Betty Joe Randolph's vehicle hit Suzette Johnston's vehicle head on.
Betty Randolph was a missing elderly person from North Carolina. She was pronounced dead at the scene by Coroner Russell Roberts. Suzette Johnston was flown by MED flight to Cabell Huntington Hospital. Passenger Quiton Johnston was transported by DHP ambulance to Pikeville Medical Center and then flown to Holston Valley Hospital.
Assisted at the scene were Trooper Hamilton, Sgt Peppt, DHP Ambulance, shelby Valley Fire Department, Shelby Creek Rescue, Medflight and Lifenet Air Ambulance.
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Sweden's alt-folk duo First Aid Kit find harmony in "The Lion's Roar"
First Aid Kit
If it at first seems a bit odd that the newest stars on the alt-folk and country music scenes would be two young Swedish sisters, it doesn't surprise Klara Söderberg at all. The 19-year old, who makes up one half of First Aid Kit alongside her older sister Johanna, was introduced to these ostensibly American genres as a child via the Coen Brothers film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" whose T-Bone Burnett-curated soundtrack was heavy with 1920s-era blues, country and bluegrass. Then, at age twelve she discovered Bright Eyes, a.k.a. Omaha resident and indie music icon Conor Oberst. The Söderbergs' musical fate was sealed.
"We just loved the music, not because it was American but just because it was good music and it spoke to us," Klara says from home just days before embarking upon a world tour which brings them to Canada in April. "So when we started writing songs, we were never trying to be anything we're not. We just sort of wrote the songs. When the first songs were written, we had no idea that anyone would listen to it; we didn't think about that. We were just making what we wanted, and that was that kind of music. And then we just carried on like that."
It's a good thing they did because their music, which is made distinctive by the sisters' close harmony vocals, has taken them around the world. Their new album "The Lion's Roar" follows up their acclaimed debut, 2010's "The Big Black & The Blue," and Klara says its relative sophistication is simply a result of them growing up.
"We wanted the record to just be more personal. A change from the last record is that we wrote more openly about our own lives and our own fears and experiences, and I think that helped us more in writing. A lot of it is just because we're older and more experienced, really, and that's why the lyrics are developing that way, but it was also something that we were aware of and that we wanted to do."
"The Lion's Roar" was recorded in May 2011 in Omaha, Nebraska. Producing the sessions was Bright Eyes guitarist Mike Mogis, whom the sisters met after performing the Bright Eyes song "Lua" alongside Conor Oberst at a Bright Eyes show in Stockholm last February. Oberst and bluegrass band The Felice Brothers join the Söderbergs on the album's final track, "King of the World," a huge thrill for the young singers.
"I really like where 'King of the World' sounds like this big party," says Klara. "And it really was that to us because all of a sudden we had these people that we admired for such a long time playing with us, and so it was a joy having them with us."
"Emmylou," the album's first single, pays tribute to singing couples Emmylou Harris & Gram Parsons and June Carter & Johnny Cash. Klara says the song "is sort of about singing with someone and how even if you can't be together, at least you can sing together, and how you can get so close to someone just singing with them because you just have to sort of step out there and sing and you can't really hold anything back. It's a very intimate thing, singing with someone."
Filming the video proved to be a special experience: not only was it shot on Parsons' birthday at Joshua Tree National Park in California (where Parsons' manager Philip Kaufman cremated Parsons upon his death from a heroin overdose at age 26 in 1973) but also because the Söderbergs stayed at the Joshua Tree Inn & Motel, where Parsons died.
"It was just so sad to be there and it was so beautiful," Klara recalls. "Such a magical place. It was a warm desert night and the sky was pink. And there was this little altar or shrine fans had made for him there at the motel, and it was just so touching to see that. It just felt really good being there because we knew that Gram had spent so much time there and loved it so much. We could really understand why he loved it so much when we were there."
If it seems like First Aid Kit has come a long way in a short time, it's because they have. The then-teenaged duo first came to the public's attention in 2008 via a YouTube cover of Fleet Foxes' "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song" which was shot in a forest outside Stockholm. I ask Klara how she and Johanna have changed personally and professionally since that was shot.
"Seeing that video, it seems very distant," she says. "I was fifteen and now I'm nineteen, and to most people that's not a very long time -- four years -- but when you're my age it seems like six months ago you were a lot younger. It feels like a different person but also feels like I'm very much the same, just with a little more experience.
"It's hard to say how I've changed or how our music has changed. I feel like we're just more confident and we just know what we want to do even more than we did back then. I'm still proud of that, and it's cool to see it now and think about how things were then and how we didn't know how things were going to turn out. I think I'd be very happy if I knew."
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Ward's Dinger Leads Cubs to Victory
Daryle Ward hit a PH two-run home run to cap a four-run 4th, as the Cubs defeated the Seattle Mariners 6-4 before a capacity crowd at HoHoKam Field in Mesa this afternoon. Ward was making his 2008 Cactus League debut, after being out of action the past couple of weeks with a sprained butt.
Ted Lilly got the start for the Cubs today, and faced what was very close to what likely will be the Mariners regular season starting lineup (the only missing parts being DH Jose Vidro and 3B Adrian Beltre).
The left-hander struggled a bit right at the outset, walking Ichiro on five pitches and giving up a HR just inside the LF foul pole to #2 hitter Yuniesky Betancourt. But then the Tedster settled down and looked VERY sharp, retiring the next nine men he faced, including four on strikes (Richie Sexson, Brad Wilkerson, and Betancourt swinging, and Mike Morse looking).
For the day Lilly, went 3.0 IP, allowing only one hit (the HR), two runs, a walk, and four K. He threw 46 pitches (30 strikes) over the three innings (23 pitches in the 1st inning, and then just 23 pitches combined in the 2nd and 3rd).
Down 2-0, the Cubs came right back in the bottom of the 1st against Mariners starter Carlos Silva with two runs of their own.
Ryan Theriot led-off with a ground single between 1st and 2nd, and then stole second base uncontested. Kosuke Fukudome (still hitting 2nd in the order) worked a walk, and then Derrek Lee lined a misplayed double over a sprawling Brad Wilkerson's head in RF, scoring The Riot and sending Kosuke to 3rd.
Aramis Ramirez--who was making his 2008 Cactus League debut today after missing the last week with a sore shoulder--took a couple of close pitches before drawing a walk, and then the second run scored when Matt Murton grounded into a 4-6-3 DP with the bases loaded.
The game remained tied until the bottom of the 4th, when Matt Murton led off with a ground single to CF. The Cubs then executed a picture-perfect hit & run, as Mike Fontenot grounded a single between 1st and 2nd, with Murton advancing easily to 3rd. Henry Blanco followed with a line single to right-center to score Murton and send Fontenot to 3rd, and then the second run of the inning scored on a 4-6 FC RBI grounder by Felix Pie. And that's when PH Daryle Ward came off the bench to crush his HR over the right-field fence, looking like he hadn't missed any time at all.
After Lilly threw his three innings, Les Walrond needed only eight pitches (seven strikes!?) to work a 1-2-3 4th.
Rookie RHP Tim Lahey worked the 5th inning for the Cubs, and struggled with his control. Throwing 22 pitches (only half for strikes), Lahey walked two before getting the third out. He does not appear to be ready for "prime time."
Neal Cotts pitched next, and bounced-back nicely after a nasty outing his last time on the mound to nail a 1-2-3 6th on just 11 pitches (P-3, F-8, and a K-swinging).
Carmen Pignatiello pitched the 7th (only nine pitches for Tiggy), allowing a double into left-center that Brad Wilkerson tried to stretch into a triple, only to get shot-down at third thanks to two perfect throws, the first being a bullet from Felix Pie to Ryan Theriot, and the second a strong relay from Theriot to 3rd baseman Alex Cintron, who applied the tag on the sliding Wilkerson.
Kevin Hart came on to pitch the 8th, and had a bad outing. He struggled with his control, walking the first hitter, before giving up a rocket shot hit by Bronson Sardinha that caromed off his leg for a single (Hart then threw the ball into RF for an error, allowing the runners to advance to 2nd and 3rd). After taking about four or five warm-up pitches to make sure he was OK, he hit Jeff Clement with an 0-2 pitch, loading the bases with no outs.
Hart was able to get Betancourt out on a sharply-hit RBI grounder to Micah Hoffpauir (unassisted) at 1st, before Manager Lou Piniella decided he better get Hart out of the game so the young right-hander could maybe get some ice on his leg.
LHP Edward Campusano came into the game with the tying run at the plate, one out, and runners on 2nd and 3rd, with the Cubs up 6-3. Facing two left-handed hitters, Campusano gave up a sac fly to CF by Raul Ibanez, before getting Bryan LaHair for the final out of the inning on a grounder to second.
Carlos Marmol worked the 9th, but was not sharp. He threw 27 pitches, and was behind on just about every hitter he faced, giving up a single and a walk, before striking out Sardinha (looking) to end the game. Marmol would have had an even tougher inning, if not for an outstanding diving catch by shortstop Andres Blanco on a line drive that appeared headed for LF.
Besides Ward's HR, Kosuke Fukudome went 1-3 with a breath-taking "hustle" double to left-center in the 3rd (and you could just tell he was going to try for two the second he left the batter's box!), a walk, and a run scored, and Matt Murton played LF and went 2-4 with two singles and a run scored, as Alfonso Soriano remains out of Cactus League game action with a fractured finger.
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does theriot have a perm green this spring (or at least so far) or are the coaches working his running?
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What chance does Campusano have of making the big club? If memory serves, he was on track to make the Tigers' opening day roster before requiring Tommy John surgery.
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Ward has been a great addition to this team. One of my favorite players on the Cubs at the moment.


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1 Introduction2 Arranging the Spool Service of an Instance 2.1 Separate Administration of a Request Queue for the Spool Service 2.2 Central Administrative Actions 2.3 Multiple Spool Work Processes3 Flexible Configuration of Server Architecture 3.1 Classifying Spool Servers and Output Devices 3.2 Logical Servers 3.3 Alternate Servers4 Queues and Caches 4.1 Spool Request Queue 4.2 Device Cache 4.3 Host Spool Request List 4.4 Server Cache
The formatting component is an important element of the R/3 spool system. During formatting, the internal R/3 format, which is device (type) -independent, is converted into the device specific printer language. This task is performed by a special type of work process, called the spool work process. In addition to formatting, the spool work process also transfers the formatted data to an external spool system that handles the final output of a document on an output device.Since the external system and the output device managed by this system might only be available on one or few systems, formatting must usually be done by a particular R/3 server. For example, output devices that use access method 'L' are permanently connected to a dedicated computer and can only be served by this computer. Output devices that use the network access method 'U' can in principal be addressed by every computer, however, routers and firewalls may restrict access. To assign the formatting and transfer process to a particular R/3 server, you will have to assign every R/3 output device to one particular server. Every request to these output devices will then be processed by the spool service (a spool work process of the assigned server).Up to Release 3.X some substantial problems occurred during this process:
Only one spool work process could be configured for one instance. At the same time, the work process was used for administrative tasks.
The names of the R/3 servers are generated automatically. They consist of the host name, the system name (e.g. C11), and the instance number. The names are only valid in one particular R/3 system. A spool server is assigned to each output device that needs a spool work process. Therefore definitions of output devices always had to be adjusted after they had been transported into another system, even if the output device could be addressed from other R/3 Systems residing on other computers when using a network access method.
All the output devices of a spool server could be reassigned semi-automatically to other servers; however, it was not possible to restore the original server assignment afterwards.
As of R/3 Release 4.0, most of the problems mentioned were solved by using a general concept. To achieve this, the spool service on an instance was reorganized and you can configure the server architecture more flexibly, in order to improve the assignment of the spool servers to the output devices. You can now configure several spool work processes within an instance. Simultaneously, administrative actions within the spool service can be performed more effectively, which solved problem a). By using logical servers and a mapping mechanism between the servers, a general concept is available for solving the problems described above.
As of Release 4.0, you can use the spool service of an instance more flexibly. By using a request queue within the spool service, administrative actions can be processed independently of the number of waiting requests.All spool servers in an R/3 System coordinate their actions, so that central actions within the spool system for processing output requests will only be executed by a single server. Consequently, work process load and, most importantly, data base load caused by searching in tables is avoided.Configuring multiple spool work processes for one instance helps cope with rising output load on an instance.
In addition to the request queue within the dispatcher, the spool service also maintains a separate job queue as of Release 4.0, which is used by spool work processes. This queue is also used by the spool work processes to coordinate their actions. The spool work processes transfer requests from the dispatcher queue into the spool request queue by priority. Only when the dispatcher queue is empty or the spool request queue is full, output requests are processed.When the internal queue is full, requests are processed even if there are requests waiting in the dispatcher queue. During this time all further requests accumulate in the dispatcher queue, and they cannot be transferred in the spool request queue. If there is an overflow in the internal queue, requests cannot be lost. The spool service can handle jobs again only when there is once again space in the internal queue. The dispatcher absorbs output requests if the spool request queue is too small, or if there is a short-term, unexpected job load.By transferring requests into a self-administered queue, the spool service can control the order of the request processing independently of the dispatcher. You can execute administrative actions, which are initiated by separate requests to the spool service, before output requests are processed. At the same time, you can have output requests processed according to their priority.
When requests are transferred from the dispatcher queue into the spool request queue only output requests are transferred. Requests for executing administrative requests are processed immediately by the current spool work process. Such actions will no longer be obstructed or delayed by long or too many output requests. The system ensures that, for example, the external host spool systems can regularly be queried, even if many or long output requests are produced within a short time. If there is an overflow in the spool request queue, the dispatcher queue will be used additionally to queue further requests. Therefore, further requests cannot use the advantages of the internal queue until there is space created by processing requests.In addition to the preferential handling of administrative actions, certain actions are executed globally and not for individual servers (see 2.2). The cost of these actions is reduced as far as possible, because the same actions are not executed on all spool servers in parallel.Administrative operations for resetting cache entries of the spool system, which up to Release 3.X were executed by the spool work process, have been shifted to dialogue work processes (see 4).
The administration of the request queue by the spool work processes allows the insertion of any new requests. You can organize the waiting requests according to their priority.However, considering priorities can alter the order of requests during processing. This means, that requests, which are sent to an output device at the same time can be interrupted by other requests if those requests have different priorities.Priorities for spool and output requests have already been used for a long time. By default, the value 3 is used. A lower number means a higher priority. Values up to 9 can be used. Moreover, in Transaction SP01 you can enter values up to 99. These are interpreted correctly, however with a default of 3 this distinction is rather irrelevant.Priorities have so far not been considered during processing and not been used outside of the spool system, so for the time being they are only displayed within the spool system. Components related to R/3 (e.g. ABAP) do not provide corresponding input fields. Also all structures outside of the spool system that receive output parameters do not know such a field. Therefore, you can choose a request priority different from the default value only in the output management (SP01). When creating spool requests, either in the dialogue, when scheduling batch jobs or directly from the program using the appropriate ABAP statements, this specification cannot be made. Also, so far there are no authorizations for assigning high priorities.
The size of the internal spool request queue is limited. An overflow of this queue can occur if requests are created faster than they can be processed (see 4.1). If there is an overflow in the spool request queue, the dispatcher queue is automatically used to queue further requests, so requests cannot be lost. However, further requests cannot use the advantages of the internal queue until there is space created by processing the requests. Priorities of the following requests are not considered against the output requests already in the internal queue. Also the preferential handling of administrative tasks is not possible any longer, because these requests pile up in the dispatcher queue.
Beginning with Release 4.0, global operations that had so far been executed decentrally on all servers at the same time are now be executed only once on exactly one server. That means the database load is reduced during cyclical tasks. Before release 4.0 cyclical tasks meant the more spool servers that existed in a system, the more often those tasks would be executed because they would have to be executed on each server. Now, only the initiation takes place on each server. All servers coordinate their actions to decide where and when the cyclical action is to be executed. This coordination is based on a time stamp in UTC time.The coordination occurs locally using the spool semaphore 43 (SEM_RSPO_CACHE) or an internal binary lock, which prevents several work processes from trying to initiate global actions on one server. Globally, the lock occurs using an enqueue lock and the enqueue lock object ESTSPSV with the lock argument _GLOBAL_ is used. This object is also used for locking server definitions during maintenance so you should not define a logical server with the name _GLOBAL_(see 3.2). This enqueue lock guarantees that there is only one global action at one time.If a global action is to be executed, all the spool servers try to initiate it. If a server realizes that such an action is already being executed, it will terminate its attempt and continue with its normal tasks. Every time a global action is executed all the queued global actions are executed before the global lock is reset. This guarantees that this action is executed exactly once as long as at least one spool server exists in the system.In addition to the spool servers that execute global actions regularly, you can redirect output requests interactively in Transaction SPAD. The same exclusion mechanism is used here. However, an action is stopped if a global action cannot be initiated.As of Release 4.0, two global actions exist: a periodic search for lost requests and a redirection of requests if a server fails. As of release 4.6A, the reorganization of the spool system (deletion of old requests) will be added. Any of these actions is initiated separately by a server. Because of the adjustment, however, these actions will only be executed by one or - in case of a redirection - by few servers.
Before an output request can be processed by a spool work process it runs through several queues all with a limited capacity. The Commit Message queue buffers messages in the application transaction until the transaction is committed. The messages are delayed until the entries are written to the database. The dispatcher request queue on the target server buffers the incoming messages until they can be handed over to a free work process. At this time the requests are being transferred to the internal queue of the spool service (see 2.1), so this queue should normally be relatively empty. Only in longer periods of overload it takes in requests that were sent to the spool service.If an overflow occurs, messages and requests on their way to the spool work process can be lost. Since requests are recorded in the database, they are not lost completely. However, the spool service on the target instance does not notice that these requests exist because it does not receive the corresponding messages. That is why the spool work process searches periodically (approx. every 20 min.) for these kinds of requests. It finds the unprocessed requests whose messages were lost, and all the requests which have not been processed yet. Up to now the requests, which had been found during this scan, were processed explicitly. To find all the requests, the scan was repeated until all unprocessed requests had been processed. It was necessary to repeat this scan because every time a request was processed there had to be a Commit so that this processing could not be executed during one open select on the database. If further output requests were created for this server, this kind of 'emergency' processing might not have happened at all. As a result, the messaging mechanism was completely by-passed, there was an overflow in the dispatcher queue, the query of the host spool system was not started and all the requests were only processed via a search in the database.By using the internal spool request queue, you can now restore all missing messages and start processing afterwards. This method has been available since release 3.1H. However, missing requests were still searched for separately with selects on each server. The more spool servers that existed in one system, the more often the search on the data base was executed, even if a long interval had been defined for the scan.Since you can now execute global actions, there is only one search for unprocessed requests in a system according to the selected period. New request messages are sent to the respective spool servers and then directly transferred by the spool work processes from the dispatcher queue into the internal request queue. Missing requests are automatically added to the internal queue, and no further entries in the queue are necessary if messages have been sent repeatedly.To check the time when the last search took place, select Settings -> Spool System in transaction SPAD. According to the selected period, each spool server initiates a global action, which the spool servers coordinate. A new scan is started globally when the period after the last known scan is over.
When you arrange the spool server architecture (see 3) you can define alternate servers which take care of the requests if the server that was originally designated fails. Requests are redirected automatically according to the current system architecture. New requests are sent directly to the alternate server. However, requests which already exist and which have been directed to a server are redirected if that server fails.This redirection is also a global action. If a server fails or is restarted, all existing servers are informed by a dialogue work process, which performs a corresponding handling routine. If both the failed server and the server that executes the handling are spool servers, the spool service is instructed to redirect the requests. Each spool server then initiates a global redirection. Since the spool servers coordinate their actions only one redirection will be executed within one system at the same time. If some initiations last longer than the redirection - for example if requests are being processed - several redirections might be executed. In that case, all requests are directed to active spool servers so that existing requests that have not been processed yet will not be redirected. As long as at least one active spool server can be reached, there will definitely be a redirection.
The spool service of an R/3 instance has two main tasks. First it manages the processing of output requests, especially formatting output data and transferring it to the host spool system. Secondly, it also has to query the status of an output request which has been handed over to the host spool system, and to update this status within the R/3 System, until processing of output request in the host spool system has been finished. For this purpose, each device queue in the host spool system which received requests from the spool work process is queried periodically. This is repeated for each queue until it does not contain anymore requests for the instance concerned.Beginning with Release 4.0, you can now configure the spool service of an instance with several spool work processes. This is analogous to the batch and dialogue service. However, in contrast to the conventional services, the spool services need to to coordinate querying at the host spool systems in a complex way. Requests can still be sent to an output device in the order they were generated.
The query is started via a periodic request to the spool service that is created by the dispatcher every minute. With the profile parameter rspo/rspoget2/min_alarm_intervall you can select how often this alarm message is transformed into a query. The period of the alarm message should be several times longer than the time interval set in the profile parameter.Before Release 4.X, there were often problems with the status query because sometimes it could last a long time. Since there was only one spool work process configurable for one instance no output requests could be processed during that time.If multiple work processes are configured, the dispatcher can deliver the message to each of these work processes to process requests. If the work process actions are not coordinated, several queries could take place simultaneously. During long-running queries the whole spool service could be locked. Since Release 4.0, the spool work processes coordinate their actions to guarantee that a maximum of one work process queries the host spool system. The configured time interval between the end of the query and the start of the next query is also maintained.Even during a long-running query the spool service is still available and can process requests. A maximum of one work process can be withdrawn temporarily from request processing for querying while the others can still be used to process output requests. Since every spool work process has the potential for querying as well as for processing, the list of the requests in the host spool system must be kept in the shared memory to grant every process access to this list. This resource is limited, so that only a limited number of requests can be managed in the host spool system (see 4.3).
If multiple work processes are configured for the spool service of an instance, the dispatcher equally distributes requests to all these work processes. The spool request queue is built up by the work processes and not by the dispatcher. The dispatcher accepts requests from the dispatcher and puts them into the request queue until the dispatcher is empty or the internal spool request queue is full. Only then is the request processed. After processing, the loop is restarted.
There are two problems with printing requests in the order they were generated:
If requests in the dispatcher queue are transferred to the spool request queue in the order they were generated, the dispatcher has to coordinate its actions with the spool work process in charge. This prevents the following requests from being dispatched to other spool work processes until the work process in charge confirms that the request has been accepted in the internal spool request queue. The dispatcher uses its standard reply message mechanism for work processes to send this reply message. When processing of a spool work process request is finished or if a spool work process fails, the dispatcher allows spool requests to be sent to other spool work processes.
Output requests are only guaranteed to be transferred to the host spool system in order they were generated if a request is processed by a single work process in the R/3 spool system. As soon as several work processes process requests in parallel, some requests may overtake others if the transfer to the host spool system itself is not synchronized explicitly. This procedure would be rather complicated because the order of data transferred by the processes to the host spool system would have to be coordinated. Also, coordinating this would lock work processes so that no further requests could be processed. Since it only makes sense to have the requests of one output device processed in the order they were generated, coordinating this would obstruct the processing of output requests of other devices. That is why this coordination is implicit. Only one spool work process processes the requests of one device. Other spool work processes can therefore process requests of other devices.To accomplish this coordination, in addition to the spool request queue, which is used globally for the spool service on one instance, there are several request queues for the spool work processes which contain requests for only one device respectively. Work processes that do not process any output requests are initially not assigned to any output request. The dispatcher distributes requests among these work processes. When a work process starts to process a request, it is implicitly assigned to the device for which the request will be sent. Every work process that wants to start processing an output request checks if another request for the same output device is already being processed by another work process. In that case the request is not processed directly, but is put into the request queue of the spool work process responsible for that specific device. This type of reserved work process processes all the requests in his queue one after another. After that it is not assigned to a particular output device anymore and can accept requests from the dispatcher again.Only idle spool work processes can accept requests from the spool request queue and put them into the work process-specific queues. If all spool work processes are processing requests, requests are only distributed to work processes after the first work process has finished processing its queue. This work process can process either an administrative request or an output request.The procedure described above is used to dynamically reserve spool work processes according to the amount of requests. All devices can be used even if the spool server is responsible for more devices than spool work processes are available.
To guarantee that the output requests of a device are printed in the order they were generated, they have to be exclusively processed by one work process. The load on a spool server cannot be reduced by distributing onto more work processes. You cannot process output requests for a single R/3 device faster by setting up more spool work processes. Increasing the number only makes sense if the spool server is overloaded because there are too many output requests for all the output devices served by this server.The load can be better distributed (like in the dialogue service) if new output requests can be processed by all spool work processes without any restriction. When you configure an output device, you can decide if the output requests for this device are to be printed in the order they were generated. Only if this option is not selected, the output requests are processed in parallel and load problems are thereby solved.
SAP has been recommending classifying R/3 spool servers and output devices according to their usage. As of Release 4.0, this classification is possible in R/3 itself, so the system can check the configuration automatically.By using logical servers you can arrange the server architecture of the spool system flexibly and independent of the system. Output requests are forwarded via logical servers to real spool servers. Moreover, you can configure alternate servers in order to have output requests forwarded to the R/3 servers that are active at the moment. If you address a logical server, the system automatically maps this server to a real, active server according to the mapping configuration. The real server is then used instead of the logical server.
Problems when processing the requests of an output device can directly obstruct processing requests of other devices if both output devices are served by the same spool server. The same applies to processing very large requests. Long processing times and time-outs due to connection problems might occupy a spool work process for a long time so it cannot be used to process other requests which are shorter or more important.To prevent or at least control output devices from impeding each other during request processing, or , distribute output devices among different servers, SAP recommends classifying output devices according to the following criteria:
Printers that are necessary for smooth production operations (e.g. printing documents) should be run locally. This helps you avoid connection problems during data transfer, due to network or availability problems. Also, do not send long-running jobs to productive printers. Do not use desktop printers for productive printing because these printers or the computers they are connected to are often switched off.
High volume printers output very large requests (e.g. cost center lists). Solely because of their processing time all other output is affected, regardless of connection or availability problems.
Desktop printers in the work place (e.g. for SAP office documents) or the computers they are connected to are often switched off. This can affect all other output. SAP recommends classifying those printers as desktop printers that do not output any documents of importance for production operations of your enterprise.
This includes output devices that are used to test new device types or new configurations. During testing there is a lot of output and errors might occur frequently.
Beginning with Release 4.0, you can assign both output devices and servers to these classes. During configuration or when the spool system checks the installation, there will be warning messages if an output device belongs to a different class than the server it is assigned to. Classification is optional; there is no check if devices and servers are not classified.
Logical servers are used when configuring the spool system instead of regular R/3 servers. In Transaction SPAD, you can use the name of a logical server whenever spool server names are used. You can define logical servers in SPAD.Real servers are potentially active R/3 instances that operate on one computer and to which users can log on. They can have the status active (the instance is running and operating) or inactive (the instance is not available at the moment).In contrast to a real server, a logical server itself is never active. It is mapped to another server that can be a logical or a real server. There must always be a real server at the end of each mapping tree. Every logical server can be mapped to one server, whereas a (real or logical) server can be the mapping target of many other logical servers.If a logical server is to be used to for example, forward an output request to a spool server or to determine an RFC destination, the mapping chain will be traced until a real server is found. This real server will be the actual target for the original action, which means the logical server will be replaced by the real server found in the mapping chain.
You can assign output devices directly to a real server or to a logical server. By using logical servers you can distribute output devices more precisely because several logical servers can be mapped to the same real server. You can change the assignment of output devices to real spool servers in a bunch; you do not have to change the definition of every device. This is done by centrally changing the mapping of the assigned logical server. The assignment of output devices to logical servers will not be changed. A logical server can thus be described as a "device group". If the names of the logical servers are independent of their respective systems the grouping will also be system independent.If you assign output devices to logical servers, you can for example, make a distinction between devices which have to be assigned constantly to a certain server because they can only be run there (e.g. with access method L or C) and devices which can be accessed freely in the network (e.g. access method U or S). For these purposes you can use different logical servers which are mapped to the same real server.
In contrast to the names of real servers, you can choose the names of logical servers independent of the system. By doing so, you can install an identical architecture of logical servers in several R/3 Systems. Only the mapping of the lowest layer of the logical servers to real servers is system-specific.Output devices that are solely assigned to logical servers can be freely transported between different R/3 Systems. By using logical servers and connecting the spool system to the transport and correction system, you can transport whole configurations from one R/3 System to another. For example, you can transport definitions of R/3 devices and external OMS (output management systems); no further configuration is necessary.
In addition to logical servers you can also assign attributes to real servers in the spool system. You can assign an alternate server to each server definition (real or logical) that will be used if a server fails.You can use an alternate server in two ways:
The mapping mechanism of the R/3 spool system consists of logical and alternate servers. Consequently, there will be the following mapping procedure:Whenever a (real or logical) server is addressed, it is mapped to a suitable real and - if possible - active server, according to its intended purpose. Each branch in the mapping and alternate tree is checked recursively. Depending on whether the alternate server is used to substitute a stopped server or for load-balancing, different criteria is used to make a decision. According to the values found in the mapping and the alternate branch, a decision is made as to which branch the output requests will be sent.
There are three different kinds of mapping relations between logical and real servers:
At the end of every logical server chain there is always a real server.
According to the configured server architecture and the current system status, the system determines an active server for the server that is currently used. This information is used for example, with the callback interface of access method E to determine the target system for RFC calls. Every active R/3 server can be used as an RFC target, and no spool service is necessary.
According to the configured server architecture and the current system status, the system determines an active server with a spool service for the server that is currently used. This mapping is used when output requests are created to determine the current spool server for the output device that is to be used.
In the server definition for Transaction SPAD, you can see the mappings of a server according to the current system architecture.
If an active server is found in the mapping branch, the output requests are sent to the mapping branch. If no active server is found, an active server is searched for in the alternate branch. This search starts with the alternate server of a server. The same decision process is repeated at every node of the two branches.With this mapping relation the output device is exclusively assigned to a mapping branch as long as there are no changes in the server architecture of the R/3 System. If a server fails, the system can automatically change this mapping according to the statically configured alternate servers.
If "Allow load balancing" is selected in the definition of a server, you can have output requests distributed among the mapping and the alternate branch. The decisive factor for selecting the mapping or the alternate branch is the level of usage. The branch that contains a server with the lowest load is selected. In this context load is defined by the length of the spool request queue of the spool servers (see 2.1).With this setup to determine a spool server, the exclusive assignment of an output device to the mapping branch is lost. The output request of a device can be processed by several spool servers simultaneously. However, every output request is still assigned to a single spool server. An alternate server is only used if a server fails, but not if the load situation has changed. Several spool servers can therefore be assigned to one output device.If output requests are distributed in this way, processing requests in the order they were generated is lost, regardless of the number of spool work processes. Load balancing by use of alternate servers does not occur for output devices that were configured to process output requests in the order they were generated , (see 126.96.36.199). Every alternate server in the server hierarchy assigned to such output devices is only used in case of server failure; the option load balancing is ignored.
As of Release 4.0, there are several new queues and caches which are kept in the shared memory. Those caches marked with an asterisk (*) in the following list are being used but do not directly belong to the spool system, or are not described in this chapter because they do not belong in the context of this topic.If the configuration of one of the objects in the table below is changed in the database, the cache entries are automatically changed on all application servers in the system by Transaction SPAD. Spool work process is no longer necessary for this, since no spool administration message is used. The message server sends a global ADM (administration) message to all active servers of an R/3 System instead. This message is then processed by an idle dialog work process.Cache or Queue Usage------------------------------------------------------------------------character set cache * for the character set conversion within the R/3 Systemformat cache * for storing format actions used for list formattingcontrol cache for storing print controls of a device typedevice cache for storing device definitions and server mappingsserver cache for storing server definitions and mappings between serversspool request queue internal queue in the spool service for storing output requests for further processinghost spool request list list of requests transferred to a host spool system which have to be queried but are not yet reported as finished
The spool request queue (see 2.1) accepts output requests so that there are fewer entries in the dispatcher queue. These queue entries are used for the global request queue before the spool service as well as for the work process-specific queues. The entries are transferred from the first queue to the second queue. After processing they are released again and can accept new requests.You can configure the size of the request queue with the profile parameter rspo/global_shm/job_list. The default and minimum value is 50. The request queue absorbs short-term overloads, which are output requests that are created faster than they can be processed. The queue should therefore be large enough to absorb short-term overloads. If there is an overload for a longer period, the requests are stored in the dispatcher queue. However, since the size of the dispatcher queue is limited, too, there cannot be an unrestricted number of requests kept in the queue as a whole. If there is a general (not temporary) overload situation on a spool server, enlarging these two queues is not a solution. This would be only useful if more output requests were created temporarily than could be processed and however, if there was enough time for processing between such peaks. If there is a general overload, you can improve throughput by reconfiguring the R/3 System. You can use the following functions for this purpose:
The device cache already existed in earlier releases. There, it was only used for the spool work process and had to contain all the output devices the relevant spool server was responsible for. Only requests of those output devices could be processed that could be stored in this buffer. If the cache was too small output devices could not be served.As of Release 4.0, the device cache has a new role. It serves as a cache for device definitions and server assignments for all work processes (and also for other servers than spool servers). Entries are recorded in the cache when they are needed. However they can be pushed out if there are no free entries left. For this usage the cache size depends on the number of configured output devices.If the cache serves spool servers, there is another usage for the cache. In order to conduct specific querying at the host spool level, the spool service has to register for which output devices requests exist in the host spool system that have not been reported as processed. For this purpose, entries in the device cache are used. However, these entries will be set and fixed until all the requests of a device have been reported as finished. The number of entries in the cache must be at least as large as the number of devices that are maximally used. Even if a spool service is potentially responsible for a very large number of devices, a smaller cache can be used because this number of devices will never be used at the same time (solely for performance reasons).If the cache is too small, requests of other devices cannot be queried at the host spool system as long as there are still old devices fixed in the cache. However, no errors will occur, and instead these requests are automatically reported to the host spool as finished after they have been successfully transferred. No explicit querying is necessary anymore. This emergency operation continues until entries in the cache can be pushed out .The cache size is defined with the profile parameter rspo/global_shm/printer_list. The default and minimum value is 150. The chosen value determines the maximum number of fixable cache entries. Since the device cache is also used by other work processes while output devices are accessed when spool requests are created, not all entries can be fixed so that the spool service can still operate smoothly. That is why the minimum value is added to the selected size. However, in order to maintain the cache functionality these additional entries cannot be fixed.
Every spool work process can transfer requests to the host spool system and is able to query the status of requests. The list of those requests that are to be queried but not yet reported as finished has to be kept in the shared memory in order to reduce database access on status information. The host spool cache is used for this purpose. The number of requests in the host spool system that can be administered by the spool service is limited by the size of the host spool list. The status of other requests that are transferred to a host spool system cannot be queried. These requests are reported as finished after they have been successfully transferred to the host pool system within R/3 so that no entry in the host spool cache is needed.The size of the cache is defined with the profile parameter rspo/global_shm/hostspool_list. By default, the size is ten times the size of the spool request queue; the minimum value is 500. If you select too small a value, it is corrected automatically.
To map server names to active servers efficiently, use a server cache. This minimizes selects on the database and relations between individual entries and the current server configuration are directly listed.If there are no free entries left, cache entries are added to the shared memory. The cache size is configured according to the configuration in the R/3 System. The maximum cache size is limited by the size of the underlying shared memory area. The size of this area is defined with the profile parameter rspo/global_shm/memory. The default value is 100.000 bytes. However, this area is used by other system components (e.g. for storing the security parameters of a SAPlpd device). The initial cache size is defined with the profile parameter rspo/global_shm/server_list. The default value is 100.
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PLAYERS: Richard Sherman, Brandon Browner, Adam Schefter
TEAMS: Seattle Seahawks, Oregon State Beavers
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The indie rock sound is born, then dies, then gets boring, then is born again, and then maybe it learns a dead language in Europe or something. In Brooklyn, it's like lines on pavement. Ladycop is of this cycleborn from two dudes' old bands, blended with some laptoppin' and 'lectronics, and featuring both boy and girl singers, the band could be owners of an indie rock starter kit. Good thing there are numerous live shows and some promising material to back up a band name that's admittedly great, but also hits "restart" on the whole bit. With Grandfather, Linfinity, and Boston transplants Appomattox.
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And so the last piece of the trailer week jigsaw falls into place, as the first full teaser for Prometheus arrives online. And do you know what? It might just be the most exciting of the lot.
The comparisons with Alien are only going to become louder in the wake of this scary new footage, in which our crew of intergalactic explorers clearly discover more than they had bargained for in the outer reaches of space.
Over-reaching ambition is clearly a major theme here, with a voiceover (from Noomi Rapace by the sounds of it) wailing, "it was so wrong...I'm so sorry!", before the ominous tagline arrives: "they went looking for our beginning, what they found could be our end."
Most exciting must be the alien environment uncovered by the crew, which look nothing short of breathtaking. Then there are the various images of large-scale mayhem that suggest our team's mission is about to go very wrong indeed.
Take a look at the new trailer below...
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2. Similarly, my jacket is actually a rather complex hologram. I can not wear jackets because of an acute phobia.
3. That is not actually Chris (who refuses to ever be photographed), but instead a homunculus made in his likeness, mostly out of clay and dog hair.
4. Neither the homunculus nor I are wearing anything on the lower halves of our bodies. This is usual for the homunculus. I joined him in order to give the photograph more symmetry, and also because I was incredibly drunk at the time.
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So I decided I could bloody well spare an evening to finally get something done I'd been meaning to for about half a year.
The blogroll module for Drupal is something I'd wanted for a while. It was especially needed at the Progressive Blogger Alliance, which is now (in a great part due to my procrastination) a sad mud village filled with spam and people asking to be put on the horribly outdated blogroll.
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The last few weeks over at The Progressive Blogger Alliance have been filled with people asking to be put on the Blogroll. The Blogroll - actually one of the first efforts that the PBA grew from, before the network even used a central node based on Drupal software - was discontinued a while back. A mixture of administrative trouble, technical glitches and a rumor that the Google bot may interpret Blogrolls as link farms (and punish the sites' rankings).
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The inevitable problem with making everything you do into a Big Event is hitting a plateau of excessiveness. This is done to maintain a sense of urgency or, more likely, shock value via Plot Leveling. The problem occurs when the super-weapons have to go from killing thousands to millions to billions. Or the crazy villain hits the artistic plateau of sin and, from then on, just becomes a mass murderer. There's also the good chance the writers will use the opportunity to pick some Throw-Away Country to be the place where millions die, but that number is so huge that it becomes almost impossible to relate to, and the heroes' reactions just don't seem like enough. This runs counter to the superheroing idea that any number of people getting hurt is wrong; this makes the main characters seem ineffectual and induces apathy in the readers. This also creates a paradox in Comic Book Time, where huge numbers of deaths have to start being overlooked to make any reaction credible. The natural antidote to this is to use something other than people being Stuffed into the Fridge to convince the audience of the importance of the story. May also happen at the top end of the Sorting Algorithm of Evil. Leads to a condition where The World Is Always Doomed. Related to A Million Is a Statistic.
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McDonald's and Commodity Prices: Poised for Another Run
By Tim Brugger - June 12, 2012 | Tickers: JACK, MCD, WEN, YUM
Sure they scoffed, and why not? About four months ago when the USDA suggested that wheat and corn prices would remain flat or drop in 2012, few believed it. Fewer still saw it for what it was – an opportunity for value in the soon-to-be beaten down fast food and casual dining industry. Potential growth – or lack thereof - in international markets played a big role then, just as it does now more »
Groupon, LinkedIn and the Facebook Effect
By Tim Brugger - June 11, 2012 | Tickers: AMZN, FB, GOOG, GRPN, LNKD
The mid to long-term concerns voiced by analysts and investors regarding the growth prospects for Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) and LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) are legitimate. Any new(ish) internet growth company walks a road filled with potholes – that's just reality. Some management teams are simply better at recognizing the bumps and are able to address them as they arise. Others? Not so much.
As mentioned in my previous articles, Groupon more »
Don't Buy the Nokia Sale Hype, Buy the Stock
By Tim Brugger - June 11, 2012 | Tickers: FB, MSFT, NOK
Rumors – gotta love 'em. The latest in a relatively short line (so far at least) of recent scuttlebutt surrounding Lumia 900 smartphone maker Nokia (NYSE: NOK) was the "news" that Samsung was going to offer shareholders EUR4 a share to acquire the beleaguered company. That rumor took CEO Stephen Elop all of about 13 seconds to squash – and that was only because he was eating at the time and is more »
Oracle FINALLY Goes All In
By Tim Brugger - June 6, 2012 | Tickers: AMZN, GOOG, MSFT, ORCL, CRM
The article in February - the day Oracle announced the purchase of the online HR firm Taleo for $1.9 billion – didn't necessarily emphasize the services Taleo brought to Oracle's (NYSE: ORCL) suite of Cloud-related tools. The focus was more on the acquisition being a confirmation the company was getting serious about the Cloud marketplace as a viable revenue source. Today's announcement of the $132 billion industry leader more »
Chesapeake's Rise a Bet on Icahn
By Tim Brugger - June 6, 2012 | Tickers: CHK, XEC, LINE |
If today's price movement is any indication Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) shareholders are betting on billionaire investor Carl Icahn to save the beleaguered one-time industry bellwether. It's no secret Carl plays hard ball, which is exactly what owners of Chesapeake need right now. But don't buy the hyped momentum or the reputation.
Why not bet on Mr. Icahn you ask? After all he has a long history more »
Forget the Recent Past, FedEx Will Deliver
By Tim Brugger - June 6, 2012 | Tickers: FDX, UPS
It wasn't but a week or so back FedEx (NYSE: FDX) was flying high with a stock price over $90 a share and gas prices – always a concern for the air delivery leader – dropping to levels we haven't seen for seven months. Then our friends across the pond started impacting global markets again and it seemed no one was immune – even a company as financially sound as FedEx more »
Groupon Loses the IPO Gamble: Is Facebook Next?
By Tim Brugger - June 4, 2012 | Tickers: AMZN, FB, GOOG, GRPN
What a weekend Andy (CEO Andrew Mason) and the management team at Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) must have had. The release of an additional 600 million shares – as per the IPO specs – couldn't have come at a worse time. The company was just starting to show signs of life after a decent Q1 earnings announcement in mid May. For an instant there it appeared investors were moving past the financial more »
A Gift for Dad this Father's Day – Buy Ford NOW!
By Tim Brugger - June 1, 2012 | Tickers: F, GM, HMC, TM, VLKAY
For the momentum investor this will sound absurdly optimistic, but coming off the worst month for the markets since the Nixon administration (okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration) – and then the recent disappointing economic numbers – investors should be absolutely ecstatic. It just doesn't get much better than this.
Case in point – the economy added 69,000 jobs last month – well below expectations, and the nation's unemployment more »
Google: This is Almost too Easy
By Tim Brugger - June 1, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, GOOG, LNKD, NFLX |
Okay already, the employment figures disappointed, Europe looks downright gloomy and both companies and countries seem to be fighting for a place in line to sue Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) for pretty much anything and everything. But trading in the high $560s to low $570s a share? Value investors wake up - if you're not salivating already you should be – this is just too easy.
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The Week that Was: Intel, Ford, Google and (ugh) Facebook
By Tim Brugger - May 28, 2012 | Tickers: FB, F, GOOG, INTC
Even with the Dow's poor performance on Friday – and the week as a whole - all is not lost. Friday's announcement of consumer confidence numbers should have been enough to leave investors cheering. The highly anticipated Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan index rose to 79.3 – the highest level in over four and half years. That's huge, particularly when you consider consumer confidence is what drives the U more »
Red Hat Earnings: Two Months Later
By Tim Brugger - May 26, 2012 | Tickers: IBM, MSFT, ORCL, RHT |
It was about two months ago when the now $10 billion open source software provider Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) blew up – in a good way - for shareholders. The company had just released fiscal Q4 numbers and tech geeks everywhere were all aflutter. Revenue was up – again – and management guidance for the balance of 2012 and 2013 was unwavering.
The Nerve!
After the run-up of about 16% following the late March more »
Dell News is Great News for Intel Value Seekers
By Tim Brugger - May 24, 2012 | Tickers: AMD, BRCM, DELL, HPQ, INTC, TXN
Now look what you've done Dell. Wednesday's earnings report was nothing if not distressing for Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) shareholders – the stock's down nearly 17% since Wednesday. The residual impact is being felt by the PC market in general and most any and all tech companies associated with computers in particular. While Hewlett-Packard's (NYSE: HPQ) earnings announcement wasn't as bad as expected - though hardly anything to more »
Incredibly, Facebook Actually Thought "Greed is Good" Still Applies
By Tim Brugger - May 23, 2012 | Tickers: AOL, FB, GRPN, LNKD |
Even before the recent announcement of the lawsuits aimed Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) way as a result of the botched IPO, the happenings a week or two before the company went public should have been enough to keep investors on the sidelines – at least for a while.
The Suits
The "news" that Facebook is facing earnings pressure as more and more people log on using their mobile devices vs. that more »
Europe and China Got You Down? Ford Will Ease Your Pain
By Tim Brugger - May 23, 2012 | Tickers: F, GM, HMC, TM
Based on investor feedback and the sell off these past couple of weeks, it's safe to say most everyone is disappointed. The domestic markets have essentially brushed aside a slew of positive economic data here at home to - once again - focus on China, Greece and Europe in general. 'Tis a shame really - even the U.S. housing market is beginning a slow but steady turnaround, and that's on more »
Hey Google! Isn't it about Time to Share the Wealth?
By Tim Brugger - May 21, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, GOOG, MSFT, MMI
As always there's a lot happening in the world of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). At long last it appears our friends in the Far East have given the okay to the $12.5 billion Motorola Mobility Holdings (NYSE: MMI) deal – something U.S. and European regulators rubber stamped several months ago.
And let's not forget what is quickly becoming the norm - suing the company for any number of things more »
Got Some Time and a Strong Stomach? Try J.C. Penney on for Size
By Tim Brugger - May 21, 2012 | Tickers: JCP, M, SKS, SHLD
Though not a contrarian by nature –oversold but solid companies selling at a discount are generally much more attractive – J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) offers investors with gumption and an intriguing storyline. It'll require some faith and patience, but all is not as dour as it appears. Of course shareholders are most certainly fuming that anyone could suggest such a thing with the stock beaten down as it is more »
The Week That Was: Home Depot, Groupon, Best Buy and Nokia
By Tim Brugger - May 21, 2012 | Tickers: FB, GRPN, HD, NOK, SKS
For many last week will always be about the much anticipated Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) IPO. And why not? If nothing else there was enough fanfare, speculation and opinions to last a lifetime. The consensus seems to be Facebook's foray into the world of public ownership was a disappointment – though when it's all said and done the only thing disappointing was the impact the IPO had on other companies more »
Dechiphering the Retail Industry
By Tim Brugger - May 16, 2012 | Tickers: HD, JWN, SKS, TGT, WMT
It's no secret investing is hardly an exact science. Whether you're new to the markets or run billions of dollars as a fund or portfolio manager – this ain't easy. If there was ever an example of just how whacked the world of investing can be, the host of data on all things retail is it.
A quick look at the headlines is about enough to make the more »
Groupon Investors' Selective Memory Warranted
By Tim Brugger - May 15, 2012 | Tickers: AMZN, GOOG, GRPN
To think it was only a month and a half ago – give or take – when the most recent "accounting irregularities" rocked the collective world of Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) shareholders. After what can only be called a stellar Q1, Groupon's earlier woes seem to be long forgotten. And why not? Management was clueless, they got called on the SEC financial carpet, and it's safe to say all should be more »
Analyst Rating Will Hurt Nokia in the Short Term
By Tim Brugger - May 14, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, GOOG, MSFT, NOK
It may turn out to be a couple (more) difficult days as Nokia kicks off the week's trading. The stock is sure to see additional pressure as investors absorb the latest guesstimates from long-time Nokia (NYSE: NOK) analyst Andy Perkins – rated in the middle of the pack by StarMine for his earnings estimates – now that he's jumped off the Lumia 900 wagon train. Mr. Perkins recently had this more »
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Tornado Watch Out For Parts Of Minnesota
A tornado watch is out until 9 p.m. across Minnesota's midsection as intense thunderstorms pop up across the area. The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning after radar indicated a storm capable of producing a tornado north of Willmar in west-central Minnesota about 5:15 p.m., but there were no immediate reports of a touchdown.
Good Question: 'Reply All': Sandbags, Radar & Confiscated Fish
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This Great Cake Contest entry was submitted by malem9598 from covington, Louisiana: girl in bubble bath relaxing with her rubber ducky
bake two eight inch white cake layers and prepare white buttercream icing. place one layer on a cake board with a little icing to secure bottom to the board. cover top of layer with white icing. Place second layer on top and cover with a thin layer of icing (crumb coat)
color half of the icing blue and cover the entire cake for the water. make dollops of icing around the bottom and circles on the sides for bubbles. Pipe icing around the top edge for the edge of tub
Color a small amount of the icing skin color and form the head and feet. yellow icing for the curly hair and the duck. Black icing for the face features and the duck eyes. A little orange for the beak and a little pink for the girls lips and toe nails. Finish with a few more bubble dollops on top"