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I was wandering around my backyard thinking how feeble I am lately and how the he77 am I going to carry a backpack even one block if I'd have to bug out. Is it beyond silly to think that maybe we should see into buying a shopping cart somewhere? Or are there better alternatives that I'm not thinking about?With our luck we'd buy a cart with a squirmy wheel though
Big wheels are better. The path may not be smooth and free of stones, bricks, and other debris. Be a hassle to push a shopping cart. That hand truck will work real well on pavement, concrete, or floors. Outside, not so much.
not silly at all......a little first hand experiance here.....stationed in germany for a year and really got into there Volksmarching....nearly every weekend out walking around the woods, fields, hills and valleys of rural germany. we really got off the autoban a few times. the trails were usually quite beautiful, and often rugged.so we bought a red wagon..one with the wood side panels that come off, and air tires...one of the best things we ever bought. we pulled that wagon with son, water, lunch, coats, cameras,and anything else one might need on an afternoon hike up and down, round and round, all over the back woods of germany.keep your game carts...four air wheels and a long pull handle is the way to go for up to about 100 pounds. above that, you will need a rope so two can pull.
I figured that someone would have mentioned this by now, but since they have not...As I am given to understand it, European forest floors look a lot different from American forest floors. My relatives who have been stationed in Germany, in particular, speak of how clean the forest floor is, with few if any branches and undergrowth lying about.American forests, in particular forests managed by what has become conventional wisdom, have floors choked with blow-downs, deadfalls, scrub, and accumulated debris of all kinds. This is due to our American philosophy of fighting all forest fires where ever and when ever that they occur. I strongly doubt that you are going to pull a little red wagon for any appreciable distance through an American forest's floor. You are going to find yourself hung up on every downed tree, on every sticker bush, on every blowdown.It used to be common practice to set fire to the leaves and underbrush in a forest and let it burn off every spring. I might mention that practice predated the white folks. That hasn't happened since Smokey Bear became an icon.
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Fort Bragg's Donald Ross Gem Now Hosts Training Maneuvers; Could It Be Restored?
A unique bit of American golf history is under siege, literally, in the sandhills of North Carolina.
From the standpoint of U.S. military preparedness, that's a good thing. The besieging forces are U.S. Army airborne and special-operations forces from Fort Bragg.
As part of their training, they sometimes land helicopters on the fairways of an abandoned Donald Ross golf course at the base and storm mansions, stables and other buildings that were owned and regularly used by the Rockefeller family as recently as the late 1990s.
From the standpoint of golf-architecture buffs and historic preservationists, however, all this besieging is a heartbreak. Chris Buie, an amateur golf historian from nearby Southern Pines, thinks it's also not the best use that Fort Bragg, the property's owner since 1997, could be making of the course and the surrounding former Rockefeller estate, a 10,500-acre refuge called Overhills. He believes that with an infusion of private money, the course and several of the remaining estate structures could be restored and repurposed as a kind of sanctuary for soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder, amputated limbs and other battlefield injuries.
Buie himself spent a decade as a social worker dealing with traumatized individuals. "One thing I became convinced of is the paramount importance of environment in bringing along these patients," he said. Fort Bragg's Womack Army Medical Center, he points out, with its Warrior Transition Battalion, for those injured in war, and an advanced traumatic brain injury center, is just 5 miles away.
For most of the last century, Overhills was a deliberately low-profile enigma. It began as would-be resort, a projected rival to Pinehurst, 25 miles west. Ross, a Scot considered the dean of American golf architects, was given an unlimited budget for the Overhills course and 3,500 acres of ideal rolling, sand-based terrain from which to select the 200 or so acres he would need. Construction wrapped up in 1913, six years after the opening of Ross's now-more-famous Pinehurst No. 2 course, which next summer will host both the men's and women's U.S. Opens. James WalkerTufts, Pinehurst's founder, was also one of the original principals behind Overhills.
Early reviews of the course, a par-74 stretching to 6,545 yards, declared it superior to anything at Pinehurst. But plans for the resort changed, and by the 1920s, ownership of the property had passed to a small syndicate of socially elite, mostly Northern industrialists and financiers. The group included two Rockefellers; the railroad heir and future diplomat Averell Harriman; George Herbert Walker, a progenitor of both presidents Bush (and later president of the U.S. Golf Association); and numerous members of Yale's secretive Skull and Bones society. Several of these swells, including Harriman and Percy Rockefeller, built their own cottages near the central clubhouse, which also wasn't far from the elaborate stables and kennel complex.
Golf for this crowd was secondary to fox hunting with packs of hounds, bird hunting and polo. Thus Ross's masterful course never received the nurturing and constant improvement that the Pinehurst courses did. Whereas Pinehurst No. 2 converted to grass greens from sand greens in the early 1930s, Overhills didn't upgrade until the 1950s, by which time the syndicate had long since disbanded and the estate had passed in its entirety to the heirs of Percy Rockefeller.
Play on the course was mostly informal and sporadic. The most avid Rockefeller golfers frequently drove over to Pinehurst for more-competitive games. Nevertheless, the course remained the aesthetic and emotional heart of Overhills. The clubhouse and the key cottages arced around the ninth and 18th greens. Like Augusta National in Georgia, Overhills had once been the site of a commercial nursery. Percy's wife, Isabel, lovingly oversaw the transplanting of dogwoods and azaleas in a natural, uncultivated style around the property.
In an oral history of Overhills, produced by the Army as part of its environmental- and cultural-impact work in connection with acquiring the property, Rockefeller family members and people who worked at the estate describe regular afternoon teas on the course, sometimes in a gazebo at the course's highest point, near the fifth tee. Children treated the fairways as a vast playground, the bunkers as makeshift forts.
For the first three or four years of Army ownership, the fairways were occasionally mowed to facilitate training maneuvers, such as setting up medical-evacuation areas and hostage rescue. In the early 2000s, Robert Harris, now the base's chief of engineering, organized a department outing on the property, including golf on six holes mowed for the occasion. "It was definitely playable, although not the sort of golf you'd pay money for," said Harris, who also played the course twice in the 1990s as a guest of the Rockefellers.
That departmental outing might prove to be the last golf ever played at Overhills. Shortly after it, the training command elected to let nature reclaim the course. These days, pines and blackjack oaks with trunks "as thick as a man's leg" dot the fairways, Harris said. Deep rutted Humvee trails crisscross the hills. One of the bigger cottages burned down in 2009 in a fire possibly caused by trespassers. Although the family razed the clubhouse in the 1950s, Harriman's cottage and Overhills' most stately residence, Croatan House, remain.
There are no plans to restore the course, Buie said. But Ran Morrissett, founder of the highly regarded golf-architecture website GolfClubAtlas.com. who lives in the area and knows the property well, said it could still be restored for at most $5 million to $7 million. "The natural land movement is superb and it has all the advantages of sand-based land that make the courses at Pinehurst so good. It's a very special course, even for a guy like Ross who built 400," he said. Ross's original drawings for the course, extensively annotated in his hand, are preserved in the Fort Bragg archives.
"Maybe it's just a dream" to restore Overhills, Buie said. "But the course is still there, like an upper-level Picasso gathering dust in someone's attic."
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Why in Birchas Hamazon do we say "Eretz chemdah tovah" before we thank Hashem for taking us out of Mitzrayim (i.e. before "Val shehotzesanu meeretz mitzrayim")? Didn't we leave Egypt before we got the land?
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Clearly the order is not chronological:
I'm not sure what the intended order is, have to check some commentaries.
But most likely we start by thanking Hashem for the land because a.) the verse in the Torah says "bless Hashem for the land" b.) this blessing was composed by Joshua upon entering the land.
Then once we're saying "thank you for the land", we add in these other thanks.
Someone please remind me again what the Talmud's list of things you need to mention are? Land, covenant ...? And what's the ordering given there?
There is a Targum Yonsan Ben Uziel on the Posuk "AND I WILL PLACE YOU ON EAGLES WINGS" (Shemos 19:4) there he says the night of the first Pesach we where in Israel and only then did we go to leave Egypt so the Order in Bentching is Correct.


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Is everyone's favorite open content travel guide, WikiTravel, available in some sort of Kindle / off-line format? Since I'll be travelling around, I won't have internet access. However I do have a kindle, so is there anyway to put wikitravel pages for areas I'll be visiting on my kindle before I leave?
I don't know about a specific Kindle version, but if I have a limited number of destinations with some long WikiTravel articles, I just save the pages:
Option 1, in Google's Chrome browser open the print preview and then save the page as PDF, then just copy that PDF to your Kindle, it's okay in vertical screen rotation and very readable in horizontal.
Option 2, on the left-hand menu choose 'Printable version' then save the complete web page. You can now use that HTML directly or use a tool like Calibre to convert the html into mobi format which can be read by your Kindle.
In some cases I do both to get the best of both worlds.
Dolphin Books is producing E-Book versions of parts of Wikitravel at $2 each - suitable for the Kindle.
For example, their London e-book.
Depending on where you're going, they may have a guide for you that works.
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OxygenGuide is an electronic world travel guide for use when traveling abroad with no (or expensive) Internet connection. You can use it on your PDA, notebook, cellphone or computer.
OxygenGuide is basically an offline version of the excellent Wikitravel collaborative travel guide, restructured for use on potentially small devices.
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Similar to Peter Handorff's solution, I use Instapaper to save articles and send them to my Kindle. You can send articles individually.
If you want to combine articles into a 'book', create a folder in Instapaper, then move all the relevant articles to that folder. In the right sidebar you'll see a download link for Kindle. This produces a nicely wrapped 'magazine' — with a table of contents and chapter markers for each article — that you can copy to your Kindle via USB or Calibre.
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I bought it from a friend who had no use for it....google "mini hunter tank'.....you may find original source.Or,...consider the Crosman version (90 cuin..16 cu ft) ...(not available yet)...$399 at PA...listed on PA's site for pre-order....
That's a great set up Rich! Plenty of air for a day of hunting with the .25 M-Rod. :)Where did you get the bottle set up and approximately how much would it cost to get that exact set up? (If you don't mind me asking...)
Posted 08 May 2012 - 09:11 AM
I sent you an e-mail.....in fact,my wife was asking about you yesterday....!!!
Rich that's a sweet rig! We have to get out on some squirrels with that!
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Thanks for that information! I looked them up on YouTube. They want $350 for the bottle with gauge, hose and pouch and $15 for the belt. I emailed them to check on pricing, availability and shipping particulars. I would reallylike to have one of those since it's just what I'm looking for. They are just the right size, give a good amount of refills for most of my PCP airguns and the price is right for the set up. For the cost, I think it is a good deal. I'm going to have to make sure not to buy anything else for a year after purchasing one of these!
I bought it from a friend who had no use for it....google "mini hunter tank'.....you may find original source.Or,...consider the Crosman version (90 cuin..16 cu ft) ...(not available yet)...$399 at PA...listed on PA's site for pre-order....
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Rich,I just want to let you know that the guy that was producing those Mini Hunter Tanks has gone out of business . I was talking to Joe Brancato (airtanksforsale dot com) today on the phone about the Guppy Tank set up he sells and mentioned the "Mini Hunter Tank" to him and how I had sent the guy a message and he hadn't emailed me back in two days. That's when he (Joe) informed me that the guy making those tanks went out of business and, or doesn't make them anymore . He also told me to let you know that the hose (the braided hose) that is connected on your little tank is only rated for 1200PSI and that the burst pressure on it is 3000PSI . He said that many of those hoses that those guys sold have burst because they aren't made for those pressures. He said you can look up photos online of the issues people have had with those hoses and that he would send me the information if you wanted it. He just wanted me to tell you for safety reasons so that you didn't end up getting injured using that particular hose. Of course, that is his side of the story, so I can only go on that. ;)Anyway, since those Mini Hunter Tanks aren't available anymore, and I didn't want to order one of the tanks from Airguns of Arizona (I'm not crazy about dealing with them), I went ahead and ordered the Guppy Tank from Joe Brancato.The Guppy Tank is a 17CuFt Carbon Fiber tank which should give me the following fill quantities,according to the air fill calculator, when filled to the optimal operating pressure for each gun:Approximately 10 fills on my .25 Sumatra 2500 CarbineApproximately 13 fills on my .25 M-RodApproximately 16 fills on my .22 M-RodApproximately 36 fills on my .22 DiscoveryApproximately 66 fills on my .22 P-Rod :yahoo:I think that is pretty good and I'm sure I'll be happy with it. It will be quite possible that the amount of fills will be less because each time I fill a gun from it there will be a small amount of air wasted when bleeding/venting the line to disconnect. Still, even 60 fills for my P-Rod is awesome from a little tank. Since the reservior on the P-Rod is only 65cc it doesn't take much to fill it. :)I also had him include the Male Quick Disconnect on DIN300 and Female Quick Disconnect on both ends of the filling hose. That way I can disconnect the hose when it's in the backpack and also when I get it filled at a paintball shop. If I get it filled at a scuba shop I just remove the DIN300 connection by hand and they can connect to it that way. So there are two options for filling it. It was a bit more than what I wanted to spend, but I'm confident that the equipment is good since it is all stainless steel gauges and fittings. Besides, I'll have it for the next 14 years or so, which averages out to about a little more than $38 per year (plus air fill ups). By that time I'll be almost 58 or 59 and hopefully be able to fill my own tanks with a ShoeBox. Joe was a nice guy to talk to and answered all of my questions. Maybe at the end of the year (or middle of next year (2013)) I'll order myself a Shoebox Compressor with the new Belt Drive system and then I'll be all set and can keep filling it myself. But first I need to pay all this stuff off. :signlol2iu:Joe shipped it out via FedEx today, so I should have it by tomorrow according to the tracking update . I'll PM you Rich to find out what places I should or can go to in order to get it filled to 4500 PSI. Oh, and make sure you be careful with that little braided metal hose.
I'm all set now with a portable buddy tank for fills out in the field. It takes 4500 psi and I can refill my Marauder .25 cal if needed.The buddy tank fits in my day pack.I get the buddy tank refilled at a paintball shop.
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Haven't seen you in a long time. Hope all is well.
We still need to get together for a campout with Wingman some time.
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Can I ask, what type of scope and rings are you using.
Presently using the BSA Tactical Mil-Mil 4-14x44 with side parallax adjustment and MRAD reticle..
....with medium rings,scope clear magazine by 1/8"......Rings are Air Force medium rings..
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Might be hard to pin down Jon as he is a YOU TUBE star now...lol
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I will have to check with my agent. LOL
Hi autoduel...!!!
Might be hard to pin down Jon as he is a YOU TUBE star now...lol
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ARH....thanks for tip on the braided air line...I found out that one that failed was subjected to 'more' than 3000 psi...way more in fact...and there was a post on the yellow where another failed while unattended and hooked up to a shoe box rig....the owner was 'out' of the room when it blew and he had no idea how much pressure was on that braided line...sounds like in excess of 4500 PSI...
No problem. Just passing along some information that was given to me.
On a side note, I watch Wingman's videos on YouTube, although I kind of thought he was that orangish, yellow "Mall Ninja" . Just joking around. I'd like to get together with you guys sometime to meet you and maybe schedule a time to go and decimate some sqeek populations.
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Hard for me to go midweek because of work. I might manage a daytrip, but weekday overnites are out. Email me at email@example.com if you have some potential dates.
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I'm near the end of my pure math undergrad trying to decide what sort of math I'm interested in for graduate school. I've always thought the idea of mathematical biology was cool, but it seems like a lot of it is steeped in differential equations, which I'm really not too big on. I know there's some genetics research related to statistics, too, but I'm more into pure math. I guess the question is, is there any area of mathematical biology that doesn't rely heavily on differential equations or statistics (and if so, could you provide reference material)?
Misha Gromov's writings do not involve any differential equations.
You can also be interested in topological aspects of the study of DNA.
Here is another link that studies the so-called evolutionary algebras.
There are a lot of problems in mathematical genetics that involve dealing with various stochastic processes, but it seems that it is not what you are asking for.
All the stuff I've seen involves birth-and-death Markov Chains, especially SIS (susceptible-infected-susceptible) and SIR (susceptible-infected-recovered) models, it involves probability theory, asymptotic convergence and recurrent equations. The applications are vast - population biology, immunology, viruses. See Wierman, Marchette (2004) on applications to computer viruses and Nasell (1996,1999) on virus propagation.
You ought to get a copy of THIS somehow. The one thing I remember discussing once that may not be represented very well is transform methods. Most of the body, the heart and lungs, are healthy when periodic, so ODE techniques come up automatically. It is different for the brain, much brain activity is aperiodic. The particular topic, though, was an experiment the guy was doing with brain-damaged patients who listened to bird songs. His one comment was that hearing was closest to a wavelet transform.
Yes, I know about two such things:
Unfortunately, I cannot explain you this in much more details, since I know both only from more-or-less popular talks.


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COLUMBUS — State Sen. Lou Gentile (D-Steubenville) and Rep. Nick Barborak (D-Lisbon) called on the Ohio General Assembly to pass legislation to restore property tax relief to Ohio's senior citizen....
Why should people living off of government handouts be given a tax break? We did away withe homestead exemption so we could give the rich "job creaters" a tax break. Oh for you Faux Newz viewers that is called sarcasm.
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Probably a conceptual mistake from my part but let's say I have a function which takes a
char * as a parameter; that is, a C-style string. But I want to make sure that
char * is pointing to something. So could I use something like:
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const reference to a
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TOPEKA – As drought conditions continue worsening across the state, the Kansas Department of Agriculture urged farmers and ranchers to meet immediately with their crop insurance appraisers to determine how best to manage their drought-damaged crops.
In order to help producers, the Topeka regional office for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Agency (RMA) has issued updated information for agricultural producers whose crops have been damaged by the drought, which has impacted agricultural production in all 105 Kansas counties.
As of July 17, all counties have received a state drought declaration, 87 counties have been declared federal disaster areas and 91 counties have been approved for emergency haying and grazing of acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP).
Kansas Secretary of Agriculture Dale Rodman said the department continues to work with its state and federal partners to make sure farmers and ranchers have the resources they need to cope with the drought.
"As I travel across the state and see firsthand the impacts of the drought and hear from farmers and ranchers about the challenges they are facing, it is clear this drought is having significant, devastating impacts on Kansas agriculture," Rodman said. "In the past, crop insurance rules on drought-damaged crops have been confusing for producers. Rather than dealing with unclear, bureaucratic red tape, farmers and ranchers need to spend their time caring for their crops and livestock.
"In order to improve crop insurance delivery on drought-damaged crops, my agency has worked with RMA to address and clarify the rules to assure farmers and ranchers have a clear and concise set of rules to follow."
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Defective motive If Waterbury Police Superintendent Michael Gugliotti had heard there would be trouble between pro- and anti-gun activists at the gun show scheduled for the past weekend in the city, he'd have been justified in declining to issue a permit. Likewise, if he knew the show's organizers or some of its vendors had broken the law, withholding the permit would have been an appropriate response. But the show's organizer, Newman B. Chittenden, was right: the superintendent's motives were entirely emotional. Superintendent Gugliotti, who announced a few days later that he will retire in March, said he feared a gun purchased at such a show might be used in a crime, and that he "never ever felt comfortable about those gun shows being held in Waterbury. It didn't sit well with me." Yes, given the scheduled show's proximity in time and place to the Dec. 14 Newtown school shootings, his reaction is understandable. But if this is the way policy is going to be formulated, post-Newtown, at the local, state and national level, America is in for a blizzard of lawsuits and unintended consequences — with no impact, for good or ill, on random outbreaks of violence.
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I found this answer how do i... but it simply doesn't work - it did not rename any file for unknown to me reason
Before I started to search around I thought that it should be easy task even for novice penguin, but it doesn't seem so for me.
For example, I simply can't tell
ls to list all
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The 5 Least Courageous Things Ever Done in a Crisis
We should all take time out of our lives to celebrate the heroes around us. But we shouldn't just celebrate the heroes. After all, being a hero is nothing unless you have something to contrast it with. You can only truly appreciate the brave captain who risks his own life to say "Women and children first!" when you see how many people in the same situation said ...
#5. "We're Sinking! Quick, Imprison the Passengers!"
With an entire ocean to operate in, you wouldn't think that ships ramming into other ships would be a huge problem, especially in 1848, when there weren't as many people around and boats were carried lazily along by the wind. But the crew of the Ann, who we're thinking weren't very good at being sailors, managed just that. One stormy night, they accidentally rammed their boat into another ship called the Hampton, breaking off a key part of their own boat and crippling it.
"Can you guys believe there's no license required to pilot this giant floating murder palace?"
With more than 100 passengers stuffed below, the crew quickly discovered that there was a problem with the lifeboats on their doomed ship: Basically, there weren't any. The crew, realizing that the passengers on board were in danger, quickly jumped into action by nailing the hold hatches shut so passengers below deck would stay that way.
That might sound heinous, but understand, there's an explanation. See, if the passengers are inside the ship, their screams are less audible. Who wants to listen to a bunch of whiners complaining about their impending death when you're trying to make your escape to the exact same boat you've just recklessly slammed into?
"Sure, some of this is down to shitty seamanship. But your bad attitudes aren't helping."
Right, we didn't mention this part yet. After nailing the Hampton with their bowsprit and then nailing the passengers into their metaphorical coffin, the captain and crew of the Ann split the scene and boarded the Hampton, leaving everyone else on the Ann to fend for themselves. It was really their only option, though. You see, the passengers who had been locked below deck were starting to escape. They were probably pretty mad, too. Getting out of there was really all they could do at that point.
Yes, in case you're wondering, another ship came along and rescued the passengers, who after the fact all seemed awfully happy to testify against the crew that had abandoned them.
"In their defense, we're all pretty darn irritating."
#4. "It's Only an Earthquake, the Children Can Look After Themselves!"
There's a certain unspoken responsibility that comes with being a teacher. That responsibility, of course, is to make sure that those damn kids don't drain you of any hope of living the life you really wanted to live before you settled for being a teacher. They may have already crushed their parents' dreams, but no way are they taking you down with them.
"No offense, but not one of you snot-jockeys is worth dying for."
Fan Meizhong, a high school teacher in China, understands this. When the Sichuan earthquake hit, Fan was in the middle of teaching a class. He immediately did the right thing, telling his students, "Stay calm, it's an earthquake!" His words would have likely had a steadying and calming effect on the class if not for one thing: Fan Meizhong was already running like a track star out of the classroom when he said them, and he wasn't looking back. Respecting authority is an important lesson to impart to your students, but not nearly as important as teaching them that, in a crisis, it's every man for himself.
Battling the rocking ground, Fan soon made it into the middle of the school's soccer field before realizing that he had fucked up terribly. China doesn't exactly encourage their citizens to have kids, but they sure as shit expect you to take care of them if that's your job.
"Callous abandonment of children" isn't a virtue in any country.
To Fan's credit, at least he was honest when pressed for a comment on the matter. When students asked why he had bailed on them, he simply said, "I have a very strong sense of self-preservation. I have never been a brave man and I'm only really concerned about myself." The honestly is certainly a nice sentiment, but if there's one thing those students didn't need Fan Meizhong to teach them, it's that he's a pussy.
In a happy coincidence, the trail of urine he left behind helped contain the fires.
#3. "I'm Sure the Plane Will Be Fine, I'm Outta Here."
On July 4, 1989, NATO radar operators spotted a slow-flying Russian fighter plane approaching the border between East and West Germany. Two American fighters based in the Netherlands were launched to see what was up with the intruder and soon reported that it wasn't an intruder at all. It was just a Russian MiG-23, cruising the skies ... without a pilot.
"Mother Russia's never found pilots overly critical to the whole 'flight' thing."
This was a disastrous situation, not because it meant that poltergeists had finally learned how to use advanced weapons, but because it meant that this speeding hunk of metal full of explosive materials was inevitably going to crash land somewhere. And, it was already flying over a populated part of Belgium. So how in the hell did things even get to this point? Because of a pilot who gave up on the mission way too easily.
That pilot was Colonel Nicolai Skuridin, who you wouldn't think would spook easily, considering that he was 1) a fighter pilot and 2) Russian. But shortly after takeoff, Skuridin's sense of fearlessness was tested when he heard a loud bang accompanied by a loss of speed and a sudden lack of jet-type noises coming from the jet fighter he was piloting.
"Before I start this bad boy up, could you give me a little refresher on like ... how to fly it, and stuff?"
Now, he had a right to be nervous -- he was less than 500 feet above the ground. It might seem counterintuitive, but higher is better. If your fighter plane is going to have this kind of trouble, you're a lot better off having 25,000 feet between you and the ground, since it gives you a lot more time to think through your options. Still, you'd think Skuridin could have stuck out the situation for a few seconds, especially since he had to consider where his roaring machine full of explosives would wind up if he wasn't behind the stick to guide it.
Instead, he ejected, floating safely to the ground. Then he watched as his perfectly fine plane soared off into the distance without him, presumably attempting to complete her mission without that yellow-bellied pilot who had been weighing her down. The noise Skuridin heard was not, in fact, an exploding engine, but an afterburner failing. A startling noise, but in no way fatal to the aircraft. A simple check of the jet's instrument panel would have revealed that the plane was perfectly flyable, and that abandoning it would basically turn it into an unguided missile.
"Attention ghosts: If any of you are floating around up here, we could really use a solid ..."
Plans were made to shoot the zombie aircraft down as soon as it reached the English Channel. Shooting it down sooner was out of the question as, like we said, the plane was flying over Belgium and 1) it doesn't help anybody to have the plane falling in multiple burning pieces rather than one big one and 2) the ground there is covered with Belgians, a nationality that's notoriously susceptible to death by falling airplane debris.
Unfortunately, the MiG didn't have enough gas to make it that far and ran out of fuel over Belgium. The resulting crash killed one person on the ground below, though all things considered, it could have been a hell of a lot worse. You might wonder why planes like this don't have some kind of remote self-destruct, but by now you should know enough about human nature to realize that people would be accidentally hitting that shit all the time.
"Just put the self-destruct button next to the margarita switch. That way no one can miss it."


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Some lands have an ability to become a creature, but they usually say they are still a land. If a land is a 3/3 creature, and a land, can you target and kill it with a Lightning Bolt to send it to the graveyard, or does it remain in play as a land?
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From the Magic Comprehensive Rules (oops big edits. I accidentally googled old version of the rules. These rules are effective as of May 1, 2011):
For absolute clarity, here is part of the rules on "State-Based Actions"
So the sequence goes like this.
You certainly can "kill" a land, but "kill" is not the proper Magic term. Over the years Magic has become very specific about the terms used to describe cards, abilities and effects just to avoid "intuitive" confusion like this (how can you kill a land???) The term your friend was looking for was:
There are plenty of magic cards which have the words
If you change a card's type, it loses it's existing types [CR 205.1a]. "It's still a land" makes it so it gains the creature type without losing the land type [CR 205.1b]. As such, it is both a creature and a land.
The consensus here is that land-creatures that are dealt fatal damage go to the graveyard, just like any other creature. That's the way we've always played it among my friends, and this seems to be what that "turn all lands into 2/2 creatures" card is for -- that and a couple general-damage spells can really hurt.
In addition to being creatures, these cards are also still lands and are affected by land-targeting effects (like Strip Mine). Because it is a land it is not affected by cards that target "non-land", like Abrupt Decay. (Hat tip to Ian Pugsley and Rawgramming for these examples in comments.)
Yes. There's no reason why a land creature shouldn't be destroyed by any of the various ways that destroy creatures. Being a land doesn't confer some kind of special immunity on creatures.
Of course, you can't normally destroy a land with a Lightning Bolt, but that's only because you can't target a land with a Lightning Bolt, and even if you did, it wouldn't have a toughness score to make sense of the damage assigned to it. Suppose someone targeted your land creature with a Bolt, and in response you removed the effect that was turning your land into a creature (by Disenchanting Living Lands, perhaps). At this point the land is once again an illegal target for the Bolt, so the burn spell would be countered by game rules and your land would be safe!
Bonus Answer: Of course, every rule in Magic has its exceptions. If you want your creature land to survive taking lethal damage from a Lightning Bolt, you can always play Consecrate Land on it!
I think it may depend on the effect and the version. For example, if you look at Living Lands, the ruling is right there on the card:
Creeping Tar Pit, on the other hand, has the wording that you heard:
Now, I'm not up on current rules, but to me, the key is to take that last sentence in context. This is what I see:
I believe that "becomes a creature" indicates that it can be targeted by effects that affect creatures, and that "is a land" indicates that it can also be targeted by effects that affect lands. (In other words, it isn't converted into a creature; it is a land and also a creature.)


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The Pastime Gets a Reboot
They get to wait. That's what they wanted. That's what everybody wanted. It's the desired slot. That one-game do-or-die wild-card playoff might be entertaining for fans and television executives, but for teams, it's for the birds. This one really is for the birds: Baltimore's Orioles, who play Texas in Texas on Friday. The winner gets to host New York on Sunday. Why the Yankees must begin a Division Series on the road against a team they had a better record than, I have no idea. Apparently it has to do with the new, two wild-card playoff format, and the rushed nature of it, and the complicated travel schedule, and it is believed that hosting the final three games of a best-of-five series is preferable to opening with the first two. I don't know about that. Sure, it's nice to be assured that Game 5 will be in your place. But the home team holds, and they only have to take one of three on the road. I still don't completely see the logic. At the very least it's debatable. Welcome to baseball.
I guess we should argue now about whom the Yankees would rather play. The heart says Orioles because the fearless Rangers knocked the Yankees around in the playoffs a couple of years ago, and New York has had a mild anxiety about Texas ever since. But the head says, who knows? The Rangers had Cliff Lee then, and these Orioles, should they prevail, are going to be angry birds about having to schlep all the way to Rangers Ballpark in Arlington for one crummy game. The playoffs are wide open, across both leagues—there's no obvious favorite, and if you had told anyone last spring that the no-name Oakland A's would evolve into the hot divisional champ, they'd have politely handed you a cold towel and told you to sit down on a park bench. The Yankees enter the postseason on a mild roll, having won seven of 10, plus four in a row, but the final three of those were against the Boston Red Sox, a forlorn circus that arrived in New York with a zombie manager and a roster of fish and small pets.
We are told that playoff parity is good, good, good, that it's great when every team has a shot. It does sound good. There is solid enthusiasm for the expanded wild card in September, and the expansion did keep a number of teams in the race, but the tension on the regular season's final night was a little off, a little dialed down, as all the contestants had previously qualified for the playoffs. The Yankees, Orioles, Texas, Oakland—Wednesday's results simply determined how to print the plane tickets. I'm not saying there were zero stakes—getting out of that wild-card crapshoot is a huge deal, but Wednesday lacked any delicious win-or-go-home nervousness. That tension got pushed to Friday. Wednesday was more like watching a bride and groom tinker with the seating chart for a wedding reception.
The other day I listened to ESPN Radio, and the host, Colin Cowherd, suggested that baseball has become a playoff-centric sport, that like NCAA basketball, its regular season is overlong and draggy, and you don't need to really start tuning in until the postseason, where you can be wildly entertained and satisfied. I'm not sure if this is totally true yet, but it's getting very close to true. The regular-season agnostic missed many phenomenal things this season—the auspicious rise of the A's (and Baltimore); the sublime rookie year of Angel Mike Trout; the triple crown by Detroit's Miguel Cabrera. It's hard to argue that the regular season was meaningless in Washington, Cincinnati or San Francisco. Or Boston, if you can find meaning in the darkness.
But now the slate is wiped clean and the public interest gets a full reboot, and it doesn't matter where you were in June or August or even the first Wednesday of October. The Yankees are expected to send CC Sabathia to the mound for Game 1 against Texas or Baltimore. New York has qualified for the playoffs every year but one since 1995, making appearances in 17 of the last 18 seasons. This is an impressive stretch, pretty much taken for granted. After the first pitch, nobody cares. It's a new season and new reality. A little confusing, but still good. Again, welcome to baseball.
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7 Movies Based on a True Story (Are Shockingly Full of Crap)
When a movie uses the words "inspired by a true story," a lot of times they actually mean "sorta resembling something the screenwriter half-heard while snorting coke." We've established that pretty well by now. When it's a biographical movie, though, we assume they'll at least make sure to respect the spirit of the real person's life story -- otherwise, why bother?
And yet the following biopics have as much in common with the true events they depict as Zardoz does with the Vietnam War, often to the annoyance of the people being "honored."
#7. Argo -- The Finale Is the Opposite of What Happened
Warner Bros.
The Movie:
Argo depicts the CIA's insane scheme to secretly rescue six Americans in Iran during the hostage crisis in the late '70s (which we told you about a year before Hollywood did). The plan called for CIA agent Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) to fly over to Iran, dress everyone up in silly outfits, and say they were a movie company scouting locations for a Star Wars ripoff in Tehran. In the gripping final scene, the Iranian guards at the airport find out the Americans' true identities just as they're about to leave and literally chase the plane down the runway with AK-47s.
Warner Bros.
"Stop them! They have 200 milliliters of toothpaaaaste!"
Things look hairy for a moment there, but the plane manages to take off just as the guards are about to get in front of it, and the Americans are free. USA! USA!
The Reality:
Actually, that should be: "CANADA! CANADA!" The movie makes it seem like it was all the CIA's idea, but Canada was responsible for at least 90 percent of the operation, and that's according to President Jimmy Carter. Ken Taylor, the Canadian diplomat who risked his neck by hiding the Americans and going out to gather intelligence, called the CIA a "junior partner" in the rescue.
State Department
"... for politely shutting up as we steal all the credit."
Also, that tense scene at the airport? Never happened. According to Mendez, the escape went off "without a hitch." In the movie, the CIA calls off the mission at the last minute and cancels the plane tickets, presumably because Affleck accidentally slipped into a Boston accent. In reality, Canada responsibly bought the plane tickets well ahead of time, and the group just walked through the airport and left with their fake storyboards and real '70s mustaches.
Warner Bros.
Apparently the fake movie was half sci-fi, half porno.
At a Toronto screening, Affleck got so much heat for the oversight that he went "Oh, right" and changed the movie's post-credits text to acknowledge Canada's contribution. Apparently he'd never noticed that the mission he was recreating was nicknamed "The Canadian Caper."
#6. Catch Me If You Can -- Frank's Father Was Honest, Tom Hanks' Character Wasn't Real
The Movie:
In the title that inaugurated the "Leonardo DiCaprio is a dick with money" genre of movies, Leo plays Frank Abagnale Jr., a teenage con artist who successfully impersonated doctors, lawyers, and pilots in the 1960s. According to the movie, it all began when his mom divorced his shady-as-hell dad, prompting Frank Jr. to run away from home and start pulling scams to survive. Eventually Abagnale is caught in France by the agent who chased him for years (played by Tom Hanks), but not before he steals millions of dollars and bangs a small country's worth of beautiful women by age 19.
That last part required DiCaprio to really flex his acting muscles.
The Reality:
In his biography, Abagnale says that if he wanted to "lay down a baby con," he would lie about his childhood. Well, that's exactly what the movie did. All the stuff about Abagnale's dad being a hustler is made up -- the real Frank Sr. was not only a straight shooter, but also one of Frank Jr.'s first victims, since the kid started his criminal life with petty scams involving his dad's credit card. He once racked up thousands on a spending spree before his dad got the bill. The man got screwed by his son, and then he got screwed again when he was played by the shadiest looking actor in Hollywood.
Abagnale objected to the casting choice because "zombies are so overdone."
As for the FBI agent Tom Hanks plays, he wasn't misrepresented in the movie because he didn't exist. Some FBI agents did occasionally chase Abagnale, but he didn't have a Batman/Joker relationship with any of them, and he certainly didn't call them every Christmas. As Abagnale himself points out with flawless logic: "Why would I do that? I didn't want the FBI to know where I was."
As for Abagnale's capture, represented in the movie as a tense standoff in a warehouse where Hanks manages to con the conman, it was somewhat less dramatic in real life: Someone saw Abagnale on a wanted poster and recognized him while he was shopping for groceries. That's it. There was no operation. He was buying milk.
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Milk got its own inaccurate biopic in 2008.
#5. The Butler -- The Butler's Insanely Tragic Family Life Is Made Up
The Weinstein Company
The Movie:
The Butler is the true story of White House butler Eugene Allen (renamed "Cecil" in the movie for some reason), who worked under eight white presidents before finally meeting the first black one. Born on a plantation, Allen proceeds to Forrest Gump his way through historical moments like the Kennedy assassination, the civil rights movement, and that one time Lyndon Johnson whipped out his huge dick and dropped it right on the table.
The Weinstein Company
Or that time Eisenhower went on a wacky 45-minute monologue in faux German.
The Reality:
Right from the beginning, the movie gets to work on making Eugene/Cecil's life as miserable as possible: As a kid, his father gets murdered and his mother gets raped. Sure, that's some heavy shit to drop in the first 15 minutes, but how could they leave it out if it really happened? Only of course it didn't -- the filmmakers threw that in to, you know, spice things up a bit.
What about Allen's son dying in Vietnam, and his other son joining the Black Panthers? Nope and nope. He had one son who went to Vietnam, but he totally survived and went on to work for the State Department, which as far as we know isn't a wing of any revolutionary organizations. In the movie, his drunken wife (played by a possibly-not-acting Oprah) deals with her alcoholism by having an affair, but that's complete hogwash too. We're guessing the screenwriters added the drunkenness/adultery combo so they could cross off two items in their "tragic biopic shit" bingo.
The Weinstein Company
In a deleted scene, her abusive closeted brother/lover gives her a miscarriage, resulting in cancerAIDS for all involved.
To recap, that's four close family members treated brutally by the filmmakers just to give Eugenecil an excuse to get off his ass and get a job at the White House. Even the way he got that job is a ridiculously convoluted fabrication: He didn't get caught stealing cake from a hotel, get hired as a waiter, and later impress a White House administrator who happened to be there. He just applied for the job. Like a normal person.
#4. Cool Runnings -- The Team Didn't Get Bullied or Make It to the Finals
Walt Disney Pictures
The Movie:
Cool Runnings is a retelling of the story of the famous 1988 Jamaican Olympic bobsled team, who, against all odds, made it to the finals and crashed at the last second, prompting the invention of the slow clap.
Walt Disney Pictures
And ushering in a fresh decade of dope fashion.
The Reality:
There really was a Jamaican bobsled team in the 1988 Olympics ... and that's about as far as the similarities go. First of all, the members were not failed sprinters who approached a disgraced gold medalist to train them; they were recruited from the army by American businessmen, who saw the Jamaicans playing around with pushcart street races and figured hurtling them down a giant ice slide at 100 miles per hour in a metal box was a logical next step. They held open tryouts, and when that wasn't enough, they turned to an army colonel who "donated" his helicopter pilot, apparently working off the logic that if you can drive one dangerous vehicle, you can drive any of them.
Walt Disney Pictures
For the film, they made him a bathtub pilot.
The movie shows the other teams being openly hostile toward the Jamaicans, presumably out of jealousy for their awesome uniforms, but the real team felt nothing but support from the others. As Devon Harris, one of the real bobsledders, told the Guardian, "We didn't experience any animosity from other teams as depicted in the movie. One of the East Germans smiled at me and gave me a badge." Yes, an East German smiled. They should have made the movie about that.
Finally, the famous scene where they crash did sort of happen, but it wasn't the final race. It was during the qualifiers. They didn't even qualify for the first round. But what about the moment when the team carries the sled to the finish line, otherwise known as the whole point of the movie? Didn't happen: Some other dudes pushed it out as the team members got out of there as fast as possible.
"See ya. Don't wanna miss women's figure skating."
Oh, and the crash wasn't mechanical failure -- it was human error. But to be fair, you'd probably make a few human errors if, say, tomorrow the tourism board for your state volunteered you to play in the Super Bowl.


text: Here is a wicked cool skull design that I came up and so far it's a big hit because everyone in my house loves it. At first it was just a random sketch of a skull that had a clock on its forehead. I was listening to Pink Floyd's song 'Time' when I drew the skull you see before you now. Of course I did receive some suggestions and ideas from other members and visitors. In general I think you will like this tutorial on "how to draw a time tattoo" in the form of a skull. As you can see I left some soft looking hair on the sides of the skull's head so it looks like a decrepit decaying old man that time got to which is why he died. Time can sometimes be on your side, but ultimately it's against you because each day that goes by, brings you closer to your grave. Enjoy this lesson people.


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McConnell used his position as a senior member of the appropriations committee to secure the following funding:
$2 million is earmarked for the South Central Kentucky Water Infrastructure Project at the Kentucky Trimodal Transpark. This will be used for water and sewer improvements related to the park.
Another $2 millions is allotted for the Bowling Green Transpark U.S.68/31W Improvements project.
And another grant has been set aside for the Transpark itself. Mayor Sandy Jones says, "So we are in line to receive $1.5 million for the technical training facility that will be located at the Kentucky Transpark."
Additional monies earmarked for Bowling Green include $250,000 for the restoration and repairs at the old courthouse. And $800,000 for land purchases at Lost River Cave.
McConnell says Bowling Green is one of the leading economic engines in the Commonwealth, and he is proud to do his part to further its success.


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This summer's weather is proving to be record setting. According to University of Kentucky's agricultural meteorologist so far it has been the second coolest summer in 108 years. This record setting weather is both good and bad for farmers.
Hart County farmer, Joe Logsdon, says he has had a difficult time getting his hay baled. At the same time the pasture for his beef cattle has been the greenest in years. Logsdon grows about four hundred acres of Alfalfa hay, which is used for thoroughbred horses in Lexington. He says he does not know how much of the hay he will be able to sell since much of it has been damaged by the rain.
Besides having problems cutting hay, many farmers also say they are having a hard time raising tobacco. Blue mold is attacking much of the crops and some farmers haven't been able to cut and hang the tobacco with the wet weather.
In addition, many of the migrant workers who help cut and hang the tobacco are leaving the area and looking for more employment. Farmers say the workers have too much down time with the rainy days and need more hours. As a result they are heading out of state to look for work.


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How To Configure & Test High Availability with GlassFish Server 3.1 Using A Single Machine
By Shreedhar Ganapathy on Oct 21, 2010
Update 02/28/2011 : GlassFish 3.1 shipped today with clustering, centralized administration, high availability and a host of new features providing these features on the Java EE 6 platform. Get the download here.
The Shoal runtime clustering (Shoal GMS) and HA (Shoal Cache) team has been busy working on bringing GMS and In-memory replication capabilities to GlassFish Server 3.1 which is the release-in-development at the time of writing this entry.
In this entry, I will describe steps to configure and test High Availability with GlassFish Server 3.1 and trust this will help the community and customers to run their own Java EE 5 or Java EE 6 apps with HA and give us feedback.
Single Machine Step-by-Step instructions to setup cluster and HA
So here are the steps doing the same on a single machine:
- Download GlassFish 3.1 final build from here. Pick up either the full Java EE distro or web distro. Use either the zip distribution or the executable installer. As a convenience, the latest promoted build is also aliased as latest-glassfish-<platform>.(sh/exe) or latest-glassfish.zip for the full Java EE distro while it is aliased as latest-web-<platform>.(sh/exe) or latest-web.zip for the web distro.
- Ensure you have multicast enabled on your network and Shoal GMS and Cache can work in this environment. Run this on two terminals :
./asadmin validate-multicast
- This should show messages being sent and received between the two terminals and ensure that basic multicast support exists on your network.
- Your messages would look like this in one of the terminals :
- Will use port 2,048
- Will use address 184.108.40.206
- Will use bind interface null
- Will use wait period 2,000 (in milliseconds)
- Listening for data...
- Sending message with content "xxxx.oraclecorp.com" every 2,000 milliseconds
- Received data from xxxx.oraclecorp.com (loopback)
- Received data from xxxx.oraclecorp.com
- Exiting after 20 seconds. To change this timeout, use the --timeout command line option.
- Command validate-multicast executed successfully.
- Run the command to start the domain :
./asadmin start-domain
- Next create a cluster using the command line interface :
./asadmin create-cluster <cluster-name>
- In the above step, the multicast address and port that Shoal GMS/Cache would use will be auto generated for you. If you want to set a specific multicast address and port of your choice for Shoal GMS to use then do this :
./asadmin create-cluster --multicastaddress 229.x.x.x --multicastport yyyyy
- where x is any integer between 0 and 254 and y is any integer over 1024 (if not a super user) for an available port you choose.
- Next, create a couple or more instances belonging to this cluster :
./asadmin create-local-instance --cluster <clustername> <instancename>
Note down the HTTP Port of each instance as you create them - you will need it when testing out failover.
- Next, start the cluster : ./asadmin start-cluster <clustername>
- Check if the cluster started fine : ./asadmin get-health <clustername> The get-health command reports data based on GMS's auto-discovery of the instances in the cluster as the cluster started up. You should see output similar to the following :
- inst1 started since Thu Oct 21 14:45:10 PDT 2010
- inst2 started since Thu Oct 21 14:45:19 PDT 2010
- You can also use ./asadmin list-instances command to see if the clustered instances are running.
- Now you are ready to deploy an application and try out HA using the port-hopping technique to test failover without an LB.
- Note that you can do port hopping only when you are on single physical machine or when both the instances are on the virtual machine instance. If going beyond a single machine, then you will need to front the cluster with an LB capable of sticky sessions and round robin
- Deploy the ClusterJSP application first, before you try your app, as it will help set a baseline with a GlassFish supplied ear file that is tested to establish a baseline that basic HA functionality is working. The clusterjsp file is here (will be part of samples soon) :
./asadmin deploy --availabilityenabled=true --target <clustername> <path-to>/clusterjsp.ear
- The availabilityenabled flag is the only requirement in the deploy command to HA enable your application. Besides that, for a web application, you do need to add the <distributable/> element to the web.xml packaged with the application. This tells the web container that the application is ready to be used in a distributed system such as a cluster.
- Access the first instance's URL on your favorite browser :
- http://<host>:<first instance port>/clusterjsp
- The clusterjsp browser window should look like the following :
Note in the image above, the "Served from Server Instance : inst1" meta information that tells you that this page was served from the first instance "inst1" being the first instance's name.
Also note, that under the section "Data retrieved from the HttpSession:" there is an entry stating jreplicaLocation=inst2. This is a HttpSession Cookie that is sent back by the ShoalCache layer to the web container that forwards it to the browser that an LB could potentially use - that this session's replica instance is inst2. An LB capable of handling such information such as the latest upcoming version of GlassFish LB Plugin that works with the Oracle iPlanet WebServer, can failover to the exact replica instance on failure of a primary, thereby saving broadcast type network calls in the replication layer to find out which instance has a particular session to be resumed on this failover instance. This is very useful particularly in larger clusters.
- Add some session data as a key and a value, Name of Session Attribute: John and Value: Doe.
- Now to simulate failover, you can port hop to the next instance or any random instance in your cluster, say second instance
- http://<host>:<second instance port>/clusterjsp
- Before doing the above, you can optionally, stop the instance that served the first request i.e the first instance, using
- ./asadmin stop-instance <instance name> command or
- find the process id of first instance by using jps -mlvV | grep <instancename> and terminate the process using kill -9 <pid>
- Run ./asadmin get-health command again to see the status of the cluster. You should see output similar to the following if you killed the instance :
- inst1 failed since Thu Oct 21 15:17:47 PDT 2010
- inst2 started since Thu Oct 21 14:45:19 PDT 2010
- On the second instance's page you will see that the session data written on the first instance was saved in the cluster and retrieved when the page was loaded on second instance. The session was resumed on second instance. Your page would look similar to the following :
Note above that the second instance served the page and the session data written by the first instance was retrieved from the replica cache by the replication module in second instance. Also note that the second instance has the first instance as its replica in this two instance cluster, but we know that instance does not exist any more as it was killed or stopped.
- At this point, any session data written from this page on second instance would not be highly available if you have a two instance cluster as the first instance is no longer around.
- Go the terminal window and restart the first instance ./asadmin start-instance <firstinstancename>
- Go back to the browser that has the page served from second instance and add some session data, ex. Name of Session Attribute : Jane, Value of Session Attribute: Doe. Your page should look like the following:
Note that session parameters Jane = Doe has been added to the session but the session should now be highly available as you have restarted the first instance and then written the session parameters on the second instance.
- At this time, simulate a second failover by porthopping to the first instance http://<host>:<first instance port>/clusterjsp/HaJsp.jsp
- Your page should look like the following :
As you see above, inst1 retrieved all the session parameters and this shows the high availability of sessions in the two instance cluster.
If all goes well as above, you now have a baseline with which to compare your experience when you deploy your own application to try out GlassFish 3.1 High Availability for sessions.
You can also try a cluster with 3 or more instances to see High Availability in action. You will also see that for each new session, the replication module chooses a different replica instance - this is a change from the buddy replication based mechanism with GlassFish v2.x High Availability feature. We will have a more detailed blog entry on this new approach later.
With the above instructions, you should now be able to deploy your own application and if you see issues there and not with clusterjsp, this will give you a reason to investigate what is different with your application behavior that could contribute to the issue. Most often, the issue would be a non-Serializable object in your session that was working fine when you deployed to a non clustered single instance as there was no need to ship session objects to another replica instance. When the non-Serializable was involved in a distributed systems setup as in a cluster, issues start to show up. So look out for those situations. Start with scouring the server log for these indications.
If you do see issues that you believe belong in GlassFish HA component, please send us feedback on the user list : users at glassfish dot dev dot java dot net
You can also file issues at the GlassFish issue tracker here. GlassFish HA issues are filed under the "failover" subcomponent.


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Do there exist studies done on the effectiveness of statically vs dynamically typed languages?
In particular:
- Measurements of programmer productivity
- Defect Rate
Also including the effects of whether or not unit testing is employed.
I've seen lots of discussion of the merits of either side but I'm wondering whether anyone has done a study on it.
Sadly, only one of the papers shown is actually a study and it does nothing but conclude that the language matters. This leads me to ponder: what if I proposed doing such a study with volunteers from this site?