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Space Kat offers nostalgic dining
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
By Mike Vallas and Mark Smesko
Special to The Vindicator
There was an immediate nostalgic feeling that came from walking into a dimly lit bar, the sight of coin-operated pool tables, the smell of draft beer and the music from a bygone era.
Couldn't put a name to it, but a friend nailed it when he heard we visited the Draught House. Lou said "Doesn't that place remind you of Tony's Hideaway down by YSU?" On the money. Of course for those near age 55, that was years ago, but the memory seems just like yesterday. But the only thing I remember being served besides alcohol at Tony's was stale popcorn. Tonight that experience was a bit different.
At the back of the Draught House is a (very) small kitchen called Space Kat serving small plates in a big way. The kitchen is manned by an energetic 29 year old named Jack Zizzo. Says Jack, "There's just three of us back there, so the customer gets to talk to the guys cooking their food when they place their order. My goal is to make sure people have a good time by offering them creative, consistent food."
Jack, a Youngstown native, spent time honing his skills through working at kitchens in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Austin, Texas. "I worked at La Barbeque where I rose to the position of Head Pit Master. I then got the opportunity to work under Chef Bryce Gilmore at Barley Swine. This is where I learned various techniques that I use every day." In 2017, he heard about the unused kitchen at the Draught House and decided to start up a place within his own means and terms so that he could focus on putting out dishes with his own signature. In October 2017, Space Kat opened.
Chef Zizzo says Space Kat is "Fine Diving." They have no wait staff, the menu is on a chalkboard next to the counter where you order, and the food is served on paper plates with plastic forks. Don't be fooled. This is a scratch kitchen. Everything from the buns and pickles for the burger to the onion and garlic powder used in the spice mixture for the tater tots is made in house. They are putting out some serious food. The menu changes slightly every few weeks. When we looked at the board, we ordered just about everything.
First up was Blistered Shishito Peppers with preserved lemon. This recipe starts when chef preserves whole lemons in a salt and sugar mixture for seven to 10 days. He then grills shishito peppers until slightly charred and tops them with the lemon mixture. This dish essentially has four ingredients and is absolutely delicious. The preserved lemon has a sweet, salty and tart flavor, and the peppers are mild and smoky. Mark loved the lemons so much that he was able to get a lesson on how to make them. You have to get this dish on your visit.
Next up was tater tots. Sounds pretty basic, but Chef Zizzo elevates this simple dish. The tots are fried then seasoned with a house-made spice mix of various ingredients including house-made onion and garlic powder as well as cayenne. This is served with a truffle aioli. The tots are crispy with a little spice and the truffle flavor of the aioli was wonderful.
We then sampled Brussel sprouts. Chef makes his own candied pecans as well as a sweet chili gastrique to go along with the deep fried sprouts. The edges of the sprouts are a little charred in a good way. The pecans provide texture, while the gastrique provides a little sweetness. Another dish that on the surface seems simple, but in reality, required a lot of thought and preparation. If you're not a fan of Brussel sprouts, this dish will change your mind.
Chef Zizzo admits he was reluctant to put a burger on his menu but knew if he was going to do one, it had to be interesting. He first makes bacon in house that is then ground up with beef chuck so the bacon is incorporated throughout the burger. The burger, cooked medium to medium rare, is topped off with house-made pickles, sauce, American cheese and caramelized beer onions. All are sandwiched in the house-made bun. At first bite, you think it may be a little salty but that's just the deliciousness of the bacon. A juicy, tasty burger.
There also is fried chicken on the menu. One of their more popular dishes starts with boneless chicken thighs that are coated and deep fried crispy. Chef makes a fish caramel sauce for the thighs and tops the dish with shaved white onions, fresh basil, mint and cilantro. He explained to us how he made the sauce but there's not enough space in this article to describe it. Suffice to say it was another winner. Addictive and amazing.
Next was Nam Jim Jaew. A grilled flat iron steak topped with a mixture of tamarind and Thai chilis. Tender steak cook mid-rare topped with a sweet but tart sauce. A solid dish.
A lot of times we will eat at the restaurant we pick for our story before our visit for the Vindy. We were at Space Kat about a month ago and ate the whole menu, but there was something missing. On the way out Mike commented, "The food was outstanding but it would have been nice to finish with something sweet." On this visit, Space Kat had house-made beignets on the chalkboard. A light and airy fried dough topped with powdered sugar. Simple and tasty.
If you are going out in search of a few drinks and some amazing food, Space Kat should be on your list. And check out their Facebook page for their Saturday afternoon BBQ offerings. This starts at 11 a.m. and goes until sold out.
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Okay. So since I have made some poor life choices and gone and gained a bunch of weight back, therefore morphing myself into a gelatinous blob of grossness, I have had some unexpected problems with life. (Namely, that I suck at it.) Anyway, carrying all this extra weight around has become murder on my back. I'm talking that moving was becoming an issue. It was so bad that I was reaching old lady levels on infirmity up in this bitch. While this was a major setback, it did get my one step closer to being a Golden Girl. (I fucking call Sophia, bitches.)
Anyway, so major back pain was not at all helpful in the cause of getting this fucking weight to disappear from my belly region. Namely, because anytime my trainer had me doing anything that require movement by back would decide to revolt. And by revolt, I mean go full on terrorist against the rest of my body.
Desperate for some kind of relief to this pain, I opted to listen to the people at the gym about getting acupuncture. Now, I have never done acupuncture before, nor have I ever wanted to. Contrary to what my attitude may allude to, I really have no desire to be repeatedly stabbed over different portions of my body. And I never really saw myself actually volunteering for the process. Like who just up and says, "Stab me." No. This shit is not The Hunger Games and I do not volunteer as tribute.
Okay, so it might not have just been the whole stabby thing that I objected to. Maybe I was making assumptions about the whole thing. Maybe in my mind, I pictured acupuncture as me sitting in a room, choking on the smell of incense while sitar music played in the background and a hipster with dreadlocks lathered me with patchouli oil before sticking me with dirty needles. And yes, I am aware that that probably makes me a little racist. (Shhh. Don't tell.)
But, I was desperate, so I tried it.
Now, I will not lie. When I went into this little woman's office, I was basically in so much pain, I would have done anything for it to stop, including jabbing a pen in my eye if someone told me it would help. Granted, that is pretty much what I thought was about to happen.
We went through whole process of getting all sorts of information that seemed to have to relevance to the fact that my back fucking hurt. When accomplished that pointless goal, I mentally prepared myself to get stabbed in the back. And I totally planned to say, "Et tu, Acupuncture Lady" when it happened. But it didn't happen.
Acupuncture Lady proceed to stab me in the wrist repeatedly with her tiny needles of doom. Immediately, I am all, "Da fuq". And then a minute later, my back started to feel better. So clearly I shout, "What kind of witchcraft is this?"
I do not understand how this worked, and I have a feeling the explanation would put me to sleep. From this day forward, I am going to assume that it is some weird form of voodoo in which I play the part of the doll.
In other news, I told her I wanted to quit smoking and she stabbed me in the ear. The actual fuck, y'all?

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As reported by Ace, TX Governor Rick Perry has proposed as many as eight constitutional amendments he'd like to see ratified if he becomes president. Some are good ideas, some aren't so good. Let's take a gander and judge ...
Organized Prayer in Public Schools Amendment. The first question is, "organized by whom?" If it's school officials, forget it. As it is currently, schools are permitted to have Bible study groups with school official sponsors, provided they meet after school hours. And students (and staff) are permitted to pray already -- silently -- and many districts allow for an "official" moment of silence to do said praying if one so chooses. In today's vastly diverse America, "officially" sanctioned prayer is a terrible idea. HUBE-O-METER SAYS: LAME.
Pro-Life Amendment. While I respect (and even agree) with Perry's sentiments on this, I thought conservatives were all about federalism. One of the major complaints about Roe v. Wade is that it took the decision about abortion away from the individual states, allowing for abortion across the land (with certain restrictions). I'd also want to see what, if any, exceptions would be made under the amendment. Rape? Incest? Life of mother? HUBE-O-METER SAYS: UNDECIDED.
Pro-Marriage Amendment. Again, what's the big deal about letting states decide how they'll treat marriage? Not allowing such is something that conservatives should abhor. In this respect, social conservatives aren't much different than liberals in extending federal reach into areas where it ain't wanted. Admittedly, of course, the former's method is more representative and more difficult a process; however, the results end up the same. HUBE-O-METER SAYS: LAME.
Balanced Budget Amendment. "Bring it on," is all I can say here. Anything that mandates that we get our fiscal house in order should be OK with everyone. Most versions of such an amendment usually have emergency measure exemptions; I assume Perry's would too. HUBE-O-METER SAYS: BRILLIANT.
Repeal of 16th Amendment. Again, a hearty "Bring it on!!" The Founders, in their infinite wisdom, knew such a tax was an abomination; apparently, our politicians in the early part of the last century thought (wrongly) that they were wiser. The dreaded 16th Amendment gave rise to the United States' own version of the KGB (the IRS), and philosophically it runs afoul of the 13th Amendment in that it mandates uncompensated servitude (employers doing the work for government withholding taxes -- yeah, I know that's a very libertarian argument, but it's a damn good one). It also was ratified under very suspicious circumstances (see: The Law That Never Was). Of course, it'll take a good plan to replace the federal income tax; I've always been in favor of a national sales tax as a replacement, as it would give consumers the choice as to when, where and how to pay their taxes (i.e. for things they want). But that doesn't seem to be Perry's idea. HUBE-O-METER SAYS: BRILLIANT.
Repeal of 17th Amendment. This site gives a very detailed examination of the pros and cons of the 17th Amendment -- direct election of senators -- and at least in this realm, Perry's penchant for minimal [federal] government power seems consistent with conservatism. However, in my view, more democracy is better in this area, and if you think we have gridlock in Washington now, imagine what it'll be like when state legislatures refuse to choose US senators due to in-fighting, leading to numerous vacancies in the federal Senate. HUBE-O-METER SAYS: LAME.
Abolition of Lifetime Tenure for Judges. I happen to agree with the philosophy that appointment of judges (and lifetime tenure), rather than the election of them, serves to make judges less political. But whether this philosophy actually holds true is another matter. I tend to doubt it. We all know how the US Supreme Court will decide on most issues, because it has a clear conservative and liberal bloc. These justices' appointment and lifetime tenure hasn't made them any less political. Thus, all that being said, I don't see a hassle with a definitive time limit on the tenure of federal judges, some or all of them. Perry's idea is for an 18-year limit, staggered so that every two years a certain number's terms are done. HUBE-O-METER SAYS: BRILLIANT.
Congressional Veto Over SCOTUS Decisions Amendment. Again, those very wise Founders devised a way by which Congress can thwart a [lousy] Supreme Court decision: the constitutional amendment. (Y'know, the very thing Rick Perry likes proposing!) Perry's amendment would allow a two-thirds vote in the House and Senate to nullify a SCOTUS decision, thus making the [amendment] process considerably streamlined -- no three-quarters of state legislatures needed. I agree with Perry himself that this "risks increased politicization of judicial decisions," and besides, you wouldn't really need this amendment if the lifetime tenure of judges is abolished. HUBE-O-METER SAYS: LAME.Posted by Hube at December 12, 2011 04:39 PM | TrackBack
The extreme Left and the extreme Right both want to control (almost) every aspect of life. The only real difference is in the list of things they want to control.
And the Right is all in favor of federalism when the states are doing things they like. And they hate federalism when the states are doing things they don't like. The Left just seems to favor federal control of everything. The Right wants federal control of things they don't like in Mass, or Cali, or anywhere else.
Is there a difference? Only in their presentation and style. They both want to tell me how to live my life - for my own good of course.
So Perry wants a constitutional amendment because the states are not doing things his way. And because it is easy to blame gay marriage for the problems in straight marriage. Easier than trying to fix the insane pressures in America today that are destroying marriage. Or the financial incentives that keep the poor single, and the new ones in the health-care bill that will encourage people to either stay single or get divorced. None of that makes a good sound bite.
He hates the fact that a really big part of America is OK with the right to choose. (As opposed to having the government dictate to a woman certain things of a private nature.) And their won't be any outs for rape, incest, or life of the mother. It's for the children.
As for prayer in public schools. Any child can pray any time they want. That is a red-herring. What he wants is government-sanctioned prayers where everyone is forced to participate. Freedom of Religion isn't supposed to apply to "those people." Anybody who doesn't believe what Perry believes is a devil, and you can't base public policy on what the devils want.
In short he is a bigot appealing - in desperation - to like-minded bigots.
The real problems of this country don't stem from direct election of senators, or the tenure of judges. Those are either time-wasters or indications he hasn't thought about priorities. Which he probably hasn't.Posted by: Zendo Deb at December 12, 2011 10:07 PM
I wish he had one for term limits for congress. That would go a long way toward sorting out things in DCPosted by: Duffy at December 13, 2011 07:52 AM
It is unnecessary to amend the Constitution to provide Congress with a check on the Court. The Constitution already provides one: the Congress has the power to limit the appellate jurisdiction of the Court. That Congress has failed to use that power is an indictment of the Congress not of the Court.Posted by: Dave Schuler at December 22, 2011 07:37 PM


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Happy New Year Friends!
Monday, January 3, 2011
miscellany monday - Goal and My Word Edition
Happy New Year Friends!
8 comments:
- He & Me + 3 said...
Embrace is a great word. I love that. My word for the year is LOVE. Speak in LOVE...LOVE when you don't feel like it. LOVE when it is hard. you get the picture. Love like the FATHER.
Those are great goals. Happy New Year!
- January 3, 2011 at 1:41 PM
- Rach said...
Beautiful word choice for the year. :o) Excellent list of goals. I look forward to the journey with you! :o)
- January 3, 2011 at 4:59 PM
- Lissa said...
you have fabulous goals! i loved that post by paige as well and have been quite challenged by it as well and find myself thinking about it often. Good luck with all of these goals! Happy New Year!
- January 3, 2011 at 5:56 PM
- Kelly @ Blessed Mommy, Blessed Wife said...
I love your word choice for 2011 and share most of your goals! I'll be around cheering you on, friend!
- January 3, 2011 at 11:38 PM
- Summer said...
Hi, I came across your blog from a friend's & I like it already! Have you tried the one year bible? For years, I wanted to read the bible in a year and I tried following those guides in bibles, but it never stuck. Then I purchased the one year bible which breaks the bible up daily for you and it's what worked for me. 2010 was the first year that I read the entire bible & I started all over again this year. Good luck with your goals!
- January 4, 2011 at 1:19 AM
- ohio12 said...
REALLY great thoughts Kel. I wasn't going to have any "resolutions" this year, but now you have me thinking :).
- January 4, 2011 at 12:08 PM
- Vivienne said...
I think that is a great word and I might just have to borrow it from ya!! I love all of your goals, and I know you can do it!
- January 6, 2011 at 9:31 PM
- Becca said...
You have such a sweet family - I love that last picture - look at how happy your kids are to be with you!!!
You are blessed my friend!
- January 7, 2011 at 8:47 AM


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This morning too. Everything is still covered in ice.
Central NC, like much of the country, is experiencing a spell of real winter weather this week. I am rejoicing in the cold because I am hoping it will kill the ticks, as they had become active again in the mild December and January temps. Obviously there were advantages to the relatively dry warm winter we had in 2011/2012 ~ nice footing, an overall easy winter, and in the spring, an unprecedented crop of figs and a magnificent display from the 'Climbing Old Blush' as it didn't experience any dieback. But, (and why is there always a but? Why can't we just have advantages without disadvantages??) the ticks over the spring and summer were horrendous. In every other year but last year the garden was a tick free zone. Ticks were only a problem in wild unmown places in May and perhaps June, and therefore easy to avoid, and then as the summer got dry and hot as it often does they'd die out completely. Not last year. It got hot all right ~ very very hot ~ but we had rain too, so the ticks kept on thriving, right through the first freeze. I rather like spiders and snakes but ticks ~ blech. At least none of us got any tick-borne illnesses. Yes, horses can get those too.
Now, everything is reassuringly frozen and yesterday sleezing rain was ticking down steadily. We had a beautiful sunny if cold week before today. Is there anything more beautiful than a sunny winter's day? No doubt part of the appeal is the contrast to the depth-of-despair gray doldrums of an overcast day in January, but when the sun comes out a magical transformation occurs. Light floods the world with beauty and makes it a masterpiece. Golden light fills the spaces between old stems and blades of grass and there is a dance of light and shadow in the air and on the ground. Difficult to photograph though. What I get on camera usually looks like overexposed patches of bare ground where I have cleared and a jungle of falling over brown stalks where I haven't.
I wouldn't be clearing anything at all but I want to start getting the daff bulbs into the ground.
I ordered 350 daffodil bulbs from Van Engelen last year, consisting of 'Curlew', 'Hillstar', 'Sweet Love' and 'Thalia'. I need something to help fill in under the bare knees of the baptisia when they bloom, and it needs to be ephemeral since 'Purple Smoke' in particular casts such deep shade.
Typical of NC, temps will be back up to 70 by Tuesday and Wednesday. Currently the sun is back out and ice is falling like rain.


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Seniors need both simple exercises and activities that can raise their heart rate, according to the National Institute on Aging. There are four types of exercises recommended for seniors, including flexibility, balance, strength and endurance.
Completing each of the four exercises increases the overall health benefits for an older person. Brisk walking or jogging, dancing, bike riding and swimming are examples of endurance-type exercises. These activities increase breathing and heart rate, which helps keep the heart, lungs and blood vessels healthy. Strength exercises such as weightlifting focus on the muscles, making them stronger. Using a resistance band can also increase strength.
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Tom Hiddleston Is Not Going To Thank Taylor Swift In His Emmy Award Acceptance Speech
That random umbrella-holding hand has a better chance of getting thanked in Tom Hiddleston's Emmy acceptance speech, which he will absolutely be giving, than Taylor Swift does. Actually, if Tom really wants to stick it to Taylor, he would make a special point of thanking umbrella hand. "…and lastly, I can't forget to mention my paparazzi posing partner – umbrella hand, this one's for you! We did it buddy!"
The Emmys are on Sunday and it should have been the day that Tom and Taylor make their red carpet debut as couple. Sadly, Taylor is just too private to engage in such a tacky spectacle and they broke up before that could happen. But in Tom's mind, he will still be going home with an expensive skinny lady that night. A source tells Hollywood Life that Tom is positive he's going to win an Emmy award for The Night Manager. In fact, he's "expecting" to win. The source adds: "He can't wait, its like a kid waiting for Christmas morning!"
Tom is nominated for Outstanding Actor in a Limited Series of Movie, and he's up against Cuba Gooding Jr., Courtney B. Vance, Bryan Cranston, Idris Elba, and Benedict Cumberbatch. When he beats them all, he will NOT thank Taylor Swift in his acceptance speech. "Copycat!" hissed Calvin Harris.
"Not a chance in hell. He will not mention anything about her in any acceptance speech. There is no time for outside drama on a night that might never happen again for him."
Unless Taylor gave everyone on the Emmy committee a hand job in exchange for a nomination for Tom, I don't see why he would thank her? Then again, Taylor Swift's exes have been known to bring up her name for a little extra attention, so I guess it's not that crazy. If he does win, he's not going to waste precious syllables on Taylor's name when he could use his time on stage to remind everyone how great he'd be a good choice for James Bond. "Sure, Idris Elba is tough and handsome and looks good in a tux, but you don't see him up here with this Emmy award. Look, I'm just saying."
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I think I have irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) with constipation. I have been taking magnesium sulfate to see if that will help. I was wondering how much at a time is safe. What I have been taking is not working; can I keep upping the dose until it does?
Magnesium salts, including magnesium sulfate, magnesium citrate, and magnesium hydroxide, have long been popular in the treatment of constipation. They work mostly by an osmotic mechanism, meaning that the magnesium salt draws water out of the gut wall into the intestine, thereby softening the stool. By and large, these magnesium salts are very safe because the kidney can normally excrete any excess magnesium. The intestine also responds to high magnesium levels in the blood by absorbing less magnesium from the gut as a secondary backup mechanism. However, elderly patients or patients with kidney disease can't handle ingested magnesium as well, resulting in hypermagnesemia (too much magnesium in the blood). Side effects of high magnesium levels include nausea, vomiting, lethargy, low blood pressure, low pulse rate, difficulty breathing, and in extreme cases, coma and death. Even in younger patients with normal kidneys, magnesium sulfate should not be used at a dose of more than 10 gm per day or for more than one week without a doctor's supervision.
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State Sen. Eric Adams (D–Flatbush) won the election to replace beloved Borough President Markowitz with more than 90 percent of the vote. When he assumes office in January, Adams will become only the third borough president in nearly four decades, taking over for a defining figure who came to personify the job as "Mr. Brooklyn." We sat with the president-elect to talk about Marty's broad-if-not-long shadow, and find out some of his plans for the office in the first of a monthly check-in with Adams: "The President on line one."
Bill Egbert: You certainly have some Brooklyn-Bridge-sized shoes to fill. Is is a bit intimidating to follow Markowitz as Borough President?
Eric Adams: No, it's exciting to follow him. I'm following his footsteps from the Senate to Borough Hall, but I've learned it's important not to try to fill somebody else's shoes. It's best to bring your own.
BE: This election was historic for Brooklyn. You'll be Brooklyn's first black borough president, joined by Ken Thompson as our first black District Attorney. What do you think that says about the borough's evolution, either politically or demographically?
EA: This election wasn't just about the two of us. In 1898, when New York brought Brooklyn into the family, people saw us as the younger brother. What we're seeing now is the little brother becoming an adult. With Bill DeBlasio and Tish James getting elected to our highest offices, it shows Brooklyn is adult enough to lead the city. With me and Ken, it shows our borough coming into its own. We're not the little brother of Manhattan anymore.
BE: What are your top priorities when you take over at Borough Hall in January?
EA: My focus is going to be improving the quality of life of Brooklynites. I want Brooklynites to be healthy — but not just physically healthy, I'm talking about the broadest meaning of the term — mentally healthy, financially healthy, living in healthy neighborhoods. People are doing a lot of great things in this borough, but some Brooklynites don't have access to those great things. I want to make Borough Hall into a place where people can come to find those resources. I want Brooklynites to feel genuine improvements in their lives.
BE: One of Marty's hardest-fought legacies was getting the Barclays Center built and bringing the Nets to Brooklyn. Is there a grand aspiration you hope to achieve during your tenure — even if it takes two terms?
EA: I'd to see Brooklyn making better use of our rooftops. We don't have much free land area, but we have lots of roof-space. I want to see every building with a garden or a solar panel on top. I'm not just taking growing a tomato on your rooftop — I want to see farms providing healthy food for neighborhoods, people selling their fresh produce to local shops and restaurants.
I hope to develop the Brooklyn Terminal Market into a major center for fresh fruits and vegetables, with vertical farms and high-end restaurants to bring in people from across the city.
I want Brooklyn to become the premier eco-friendly borough in the city, and a model for the nation.
BE: Some of Marty's moves were extremely controversial. Are there any issues or projects you think are so important to the future of Brooklyn that you'd be prepared to push against popular opinion?
EA: I want my son to be able to afford to live in Brooklyn, and that means more development and more high-rises, which may not always be popular. We just don't have enough land, so we have to build upwards.
Some people say that's just developers being greedy, but it's not. If we can designate areas and bring in development with tax breaks — high-rises, new businesses, new middle-class families to live and work there — we can transform neighborhoods and lives.
But we do have to reexamine what we mean by affordability. I agree with Bill DeBlasio that the 80-20 model for affordable housing is no longer acceptable, and we need to move to a 60-40 formula.
BE: Will you have Marty on speed-dial?
EA: We had lunch a few days a go and asked if I could reach out to him to help navigate the challenges of Borough Hall, and I'm grateful he's okay with that. I don't want to try and reinvent the wheel — I want to speak to the inventor.
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Organizational culture includes a large and complex set of elements, many that are difficult to identify, such as values, norms and cultural forms, and these elements can be found embedded across all organizational activities and practices (e.g., direction and control processes, reward systems, communication patterns etc.). The organizational founders and other original members of the organization play an important role in establishing the foundations of an enduring organizational culture; however, organizational culture is also influenced by continuously changing external factors outside of the control of the founding group and by new members who join the organization as time goes by. While the complex nature of organizational culture makes it difficult to "manage", the importance of culture to the performance and success of the organization means that attention should and must be paid to how culture is passed on and reinforced within the organization and when and how changes in the culture must be introduced in order to cope with changes in the external environment, new types of work activities and different expectations and needs of organizational members.
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|With Pepper on her last walk today
Jenny and I go outside with Pepper for her last walk. More tears fall as we take turns getting down to Pepper's level, hugging her, kissing her, and telling her how much we love her. We spend about 10 minutes outside as Pepper enjoys the sunshine and sniffing all the bushes.
The moment Pepper crosses over rainbow bridge she is surrounded by loving hands and hearts. There isn't a dry eye in the room. The kindness and compassion shown by the staff at AHS was simply amazing … multiple times we heard 'I am so sorry for your loss." I think in my heart Pepper's passing symbolizes something much greater than any individual loss. She represents to me the importance of the work we collectively are doing in animal rescue. Pepper will continue to live on in my heart, in Jenny's heart and in the hearts of so many others.
AHS is graciously doing a private cremation for Pepper and will call me when I can pick up her ashes. I have her pink collar and her brass name tag that reads 'Pepper' on the front …. 'I am loved' on the back. Yes, Pepper … you are loved; you are cherished; you will forever be remembered. I will be creating a memorial garden in my backyard … the ashes of Pepper and Cass will be sprinkled there along with the ashes of my beloved pets who have crossed over rainbow bridge … Splat, Shen and Shadow.
A friend and mentor and someone who taught me so much about animal rescue when I first got involved 5 years ago, sent me an email this morning that touched me … thank you Mary Ann for your compassion and wisdom over the years:
"It is hard to see those animals who have had such a tough life go but I believe that is why they come to us. Their memories are of the kindness and love of the moment, not of what they have not had. Most carry no grudges and we give them a gift that relieves all pain and suffering and sadness for them.
No fun - but a part of rescue that should be recognized as one of the most important things we do.
Most folks have no idea what rescue entails - not even the people in it. "
Jenny and I left AHS --- our hearts hurting and carrying Pepper's spirit with us. Together we realize the importance of continuing to work to save the dogs of Leech Lake reservation. We also left AHS today with Cass. The kennel was too small for him so he got to ride on top of Ahnung's blanket and as a 'free' dog in the back of my Honda Element which he thoroughly enjoyed. He was a perfect boy. We stopped at Bubbly Paws, then hung outside Panera Bread in St. Louis Park for a little while …. We are now at home and he and Ahnung and sleeping soundly in my writing studio. He follows me around everywhere and he has wiggled his way deep into my heart. I know my heart will once again be ripped into a million pieces when I will have to hold this sweet boy in my arms tomorrow as he goes on to heaven. I know I will always have a piece of Cass in my heart. Maybe Cass will take a piece of me and my heart when he moves on tomorrow. For now, I cherish every moment I have with him.
|Cass - hanging out in
St. Louis Park after a bath
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Metronomics HD is a complex app and the best way to learn everything that it has to offer is through experimentation. This manual will be periodically updated with helpful information to clarify and explore all of the features and how to use them.
I created Metronomics out of necessity. The metronome I was using was functional, but it let me be complacent about time — I became reliant on it to tell me where the time was instead of helping me build my own sense of rhythm. The features in Metronomics are all built with the goal of helping musicians develop a good sense of time and rhythmic security, without leaning on a constantly-clicking metronome as a crutch.
Eventually, it was time for the next step, and I introduced Metronomics HD. Not only does Metronomics HD come with a completely redesigned interface, it also comes with a new suite of features in Inspector Mode that allow the user to record and analyze their playing along with the metronome, making the app a tool even more powerful, useful, and revolutionary than before.
Metronomics is built to be the most powerful metronome available, with features designed to help you practice and develop an internalized sense of time. Most of these features are available in the taskbar and subdivision settings.
To get started with Metronomics, begin by starting the metronome using the green button in the center of the screen. Then, try experimenting with adding a subdivision using the blue button in the center. Play with the subdivision settings. Open the mixer drawer using the tab on the left side of the screen and adjust the volume and probability of the subdivisions from there.
Next, experiment with the different controls available in the taskbar at the bottom of the screen -- everything from basic settings like the tempo and time signature to more complex operations like audibility are available here.
Once you're comfortable with these basic operations, open the saved drawer using the tab on the right side of the screen and explore the saved metronomes, presets, and samples.
Finally, use the Mode switch in the taskbar and explore the Inspector mode.
Metronomics has nearly limitless rhythmic possibilities to practice with. As you become familiar with the app, these possibilities will become quick and easy to set up, making Metronomics one of the most effective and efficient practice tools in your arsenal.
Starting the metronome is as simple as tapping the green play button in the center of the main screen. To stop the metronome, tap the button again. Please note that on iOS, if you have "Play in background" turned on in the app settings, the metronome will continue to play while the app is in the background.
To add a subdivision, click the blue + button at the top of the center circle. A basic quarter note subdivision will be added immediately that you can then adjust to fit your needs using the subdivision settings screen that will automatically open.
The taskbar sits at the bottom of the main screen and contains many of the controls that you will use with Metronomics. Experimenting with these controls and the subdivision settings will make you familiar with most of the functions you will use on a regular basis with Metronomics.
Use this button to access the app settings
Use this button to switch between Metronome mode (the main screen) and Inspector mode
This control shows the current tempo of the metronome. By holding the +/- buttons, the tempo is adjusted in increments of 10 instead of 1.
You enter a precise tempo by clicking/tapping on the tempo itself. A dialog box will open asking you to type in a tempo.
Metronomics also supports tapping a tempo in. To activate the tap tempo feature, click the "*" button in the top right corner of the tempo control. Then, tap the control indicator (now labeled "(((Tap)))") at the tempo that you wish to set the metronome. To turn off the tap tempo feature, click the "*" button again.
This control shows the current number of beats per measure. Besides the +/- buttons, the time signature can also be adjusted by tapping/clicking the time signature itself. A dialog box will open asking you to enter a time signature.
By clicking/tapping the "*" button in the top right corner of the control, a dialog opens allowing mixed meters to be entered (e.g. 4 + 5 + 3). In that dialog, segments may be added, removed, and re-ordered. The "Combine segments" button will switch the metronome back to a single, non-mixed meter.
By default, a sound is played on the downbeat of each measure (or segment if using mixed meters). Use +/- buttons to control how often the downbeat is played. Setting this to 0 means the downbeat sound will never be played.
Note: when using mixed meters, a downbeat is played at the beginning of each segment by default. The downbeat control determines how many segments are played between downbeats.
When a subdivision is set to random, the control labeled "Play bar __ times" can be used to determine how many times that random pattern is repeated before moving on to a new random pattern. For example, with quarter notes set to random at 50% probability at 4 beats per measure, the metronome may play a quarter note on beats on and four, while being silent on beats 2 and 3. If "Play bar __ times" is set to 3, only beats one and four will be played for 3 consecutive bars before moving on and generating a new pattern.
Hint: this control can be useful when looking for new grooves or trying to settle into a pattern for more than a bar at a time.
There are two controls for Audibility (also called "Independence" mode): "Audible for __ bars" and "Inaudible for __ bars." If the metronome is set to be audible for 3 bars and inaudible for 1, 3 measures will be played out loud, followed by one silent bar. During the silent bar, the time continues as normal, but no sound is made. Like the "Downbeat every..." control, when using mixed meters, these controls affect segments. So, when playing in 3 + 3 + 2, with 2 audible bars and 1 inaudible bar, the segments of 3 would get played, leaving the segment of 2 silent.
Hint: this can be a particularly useful tool when trying to learn not to rush or drag — during the silent bars, the player is responsible for keeping the time for him- or herself.
Note that if the inaudible bars control is set to 0, by default, all the other bars have to be audible. Changing the inaudible bars to 1 or greater then allows control over the audible bars up and down buttons.
Metronomics has its own volume control -- this is independent of the device volume, allowing you to mix Metronomics output with audio from other apps. If Metronomics is inaudible, make sure to check both the volume on this control and the device volume.
The right side of the taskbar has three buttons:
Access the mixer drawer by tapping/clicking the tab on the left side of the screen. The mixer drawer will slide into view. The mixer allows quick access to the probability and volume of each subdivision, as well as access to the subdivision settings.
Adjust the probability of the subdivision.
Adjust the volume of the subdivision.
Access the saved drawer by tapping/clicking the tab on the right side of the screen. The saved drawer will slide into view.
A list of saved metronomes. Tap or click a metronome to display the available actions.
A list of saved presets. Tap or click a preset to display the available actions.
A list of saved samples. Tap or click a sample to display the available actions.
At the bottom of the saved drawer, there are buttons to import (on OSX), export, and refresh iCloud.
The iCloud refresh button (which only appears when iCloud is enabled in the app settings) can be useful when changes are not immediately automatically synced between devices.
Subdivision settings can be accessed by clicking/tapping a subdivision circle or from the gear icon in the mixer drawer.
There are two main options for a subdivision's duration: one of the basic durations, such as quarter note, or half note, or a custom duration. Custom durations give Metronomics almost limitless rhythmic possibilities. Custom durations are built with a formula: number of subdivisions per number of beats. For example, 8th notes could be described as two subdivisions per every one beat. Quarter note triplets could be described as three subdivisions per every two beats. More complex subdivisions can be described with the custom duration controls.
"Probability" is one of the defining features of Metronomics. At 100% probability, the subdivision will play all the time. At 0%, it will not play. At 50%, the subdivision will play roughly half of the time. For example, with 4 beats per measure and quarter notes set to 50%, Metronomics may only play beats 1 and 4 in the first bar, 2 and 4 in the second bar, 1 and 2 in the third, etc. Some bars may end up with no quarter notes played -- others will all of them played. The 50% is the average over time -- not per bar.
To set a subdivision to play at specific times, use the sequencer.
Hint: setting the percentages lower and lower forces you do develop more rhythmic security over time.
Note: When a subdivision is sequenced, the probability of the subdivision controls how much of the sequenced pattern will be played.
Choose the volume at which the sample sounds are played for the given subdivision.
Turning on the "Volume Variation" switch presents two additional volume controls. Using volume variation allows a maximum and minimum volume for the subdivision to be set, as well as a probability that the volume will be varied. For example, with the maximum volume set at 100%, the minimum at 25%, and the % variation set at 50%, half of the time the subdivision is played, its volume will be randomly chosen between 25 and 100%. The other half of the time, the volume will be played at its maximum level.
When the sequencer is turned on for a subdivision, a visual representation of the subdivision is displayed allowing you to choose when a subdivision is played. Because Metronomics allows unusual subdivisions, the Metronomics sequencer is a bit unconventional looking. Bars, beats, and subdivisions are represented by boxes in three rows. In the top row, bars are represented by orange boxes. In middle are beats, represented by green boxes. If the metronome is set to 5 beats per measure, you will see that five of the boxes representing beats fit into the same horizontal space represented by 1 bar. When working with a preset, subdivisions after the initial iteration of the preset are shown as translucent. Activating or deactivating a subdivision gets mirrored in the repeated iterations.
In the bottom row, subdivisions are represented by the blue boxes. If the subdivision were 16th notes, you would see 4 blue boxes taking up the horizontal space of 1 green beat. And, 20 subdivision boxes would take up the space of 1 orange bar in back (in 5 — 4 subdivisions per beat times 5 beats per bar).
When subdivisions are pure blue in color, they are not played by the metronome. Tapping the subdivision will give it a green border and "activate" it, and it will be played by the sequencer.
With subdivisions that don't divide evenly into beats or bars, the sequencer becomes more complex. For example, 8th notes always evenly line up with beats (and thus bars), making the visual representation simple. Quarter note triplets in a time signature of 3 beats per bar, though, become more complex. One "set" of quarter note triplets takes 2 beats to complete. So, in one bar of 3, only 1 and a half "sets" of the quarter notes have completed. Metronomics figures out how many bars it takes for the beginning of the "set" and the beginning of a bar to line up and displays that amount of time to be sequenced. In the case of the quarter note triplets in 3 beats per bar, it will display two bars to be sequenced (the 2 beat quarter note triplet set repeated three times, totaling 6 beats, or 2 bars of 3 beats).
Note: Remember that if the probability of the subdivision is set to less than 100% and the sequencer is turned on, Metronomics will randomly play parts of the sequence. To hear the sequence exactly as notated, set the subdivision probability to 100%.
Hint: the sequencer can be used in many useful practice situations. For example, quarter notes can be sequenced on just beats 2 and 4 (in a 4-beat-per-measure metronome), which is a typical way to practice jazz. Another example may be programming the rhythm of a bass or drum pattern in order to give the feel of a particular song.
When on, the slider allows you to choose the amount of swing the subdivision has. At 100%, the subdivision is weighted with the first half given 2/3 of the length and then second given 1/3. For example, with 8th notes swinging at 100%, it will sound like two 8th note triplets tied together, followed by one 8th note triplet. At 0%, they would sound like regular even 8th notes.
"Offset" moves the subdivision so that it starts somewhere besides the downbeat. When the offset is set to a number other than 0, another option is displayed, allowing you to choose the "Offset type." The offset type (which uses the same fraction scheme that the custom durations have) lets you choose what type of subdivision you would like to offset the main subdivision by. For example, if your main subdivision is quarter notes, but you want them to start in the middle of the second beat, you would choose 2/1 for the Offset type (8th notes) and choose 3 for the Offset. This starts the subdivision 3 8th notes later than beat 1. Another example would be setting the Offset to 2 and the Offset type to 3/2, which would move the subdivision over by 2 quarter note triplets. Hint: Sequencing a rhythm and then changing the offset of it can be a great way to practice rhythmic figures in unfamiliar or unusual places in the measure.
Metronomics HD can use iCloud to sync metronomes, presets, and samples across the iOS and OSX versions of the app. When using this feature, it may be useful to periodically use the iCloud refresh button at the bottom of the saved drawer if changes aren't automatically synced.
Settings related to saving metronomes.
Turning off animations can improve Metronomics performance and response on slower and older devices.
General settings for Metronomics.
Exporting audio allows you to take your favorite Metronomics practice patterns outside the app, in audio form. The export feature allows you to choose a number of measures (including optionally a count off) and create an audio file from it (WAV format on OSX and mp4 on iOS). This can be an extremely useful feature when, for example, trying to share your Metronomics practice tracks with people who may not have the app.
MIDI export takes a Metronomics pattern and converts it to a MIDI file.
Performance export creates an audio file containing both the Metronomics audio and, assuming that Inspector Mode is set to microphone input, the recorded audio from the user practicing with the metronome. This is a great way to save your practice sessions for review later.
Inspector Mode is one of the most important features in Metronomics HD. It allows the user to not only play along with the metronome, but also get visual feedback on their progress. When in Microphone mode, the waveform of the recorded input is displayed on the inspector graph (the main part of the window, between the two taskbars), and in MIDI mode, MIDI note-on messages are displayed. By either mousing over (OSX) or tapping (iOS) on the audio peaks (drawn with a dashed red line) or MIDI events, the user can compare the timing of the event to the nearest beats.
For example, when trying to play 8th notes, the user should strive to place their notes 50% after the beat (and thus 50% before the next beat). When trying to play the 4th 16th note of a beat, the user should strive for placement 75% after the beat (25% before the next one). Using this system, the user can get precise feedback on how accurate their rhythmic placements are.
The best way to become familiar with Inspector Mode is to experiment with it. It is one of the most powerful features of Metronomics HD, but it takes some getting used to (and perhaps tweaking of the settings) in order to get the most out of it.
The Inspector Mode taskbar sits at the top of the Inspector screen. It includes a settings button, a mode switch, a play/pause button, and an indicator for the "last peak."
The mode switch is used to transition between record and playback mode.
In record mode, the play button not only starts the metronome, but also records either microphone or MIDI input.
Playback mode can only be entered once there is recorded information to replay. When in playback mode, pressing the play button does not start a new metronome session, but rather plays back the information recorded in the last session. This mode can be useful to review your practice session, both aurally through the recorded audio, and visually through the inspector graph that will scroll below the taskbar.


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In this section, we will see a new version of TDA (Thread Dump Analysis) tool developed by the author of this blog (Sabha Parameswaran in collaboration with his colleague, Eric Gross, also from Oracle A-Team) and its capabilities as well as some real world samples of thread dump analysis before concluding the series.
TDA A-Team - an Enhanced TDA (version 3.0)
As mentioned earlier, the current TDA tools (Samurai/TDA) don't mine the data inside thread dumps or provide a more detailed view of what each thread is doing while just limiting themselves to reporting the state (locked/waiting/running) or the lock information. No mention of type of activity within a thread, should it be treated as normal or deserving a closer look? Can a pattern or anti-pattern be applied against them? Any possible optimizations? Are there any hot spots? Any classification of threads based on their execution cycles?
In collaboration with Oracle A-team colleague, Eric Gross, the author decided to enhance the existing open source TDA version 2.2 instead of reinventing the wheel and leveraging the capabilities of base TDA to handle base parsing of the thread dump, the UI and Reporting. Eric Gross enhanced the TDA to fully support Sun Hotspot, JRockit (support was partial for JRockit in base TDA v2.2) and IBM JVM Thread dumps as well as adding support for custom categories in the TDA tool. Sabha Parameswaran enhanced the tool's analytics capabilities - grouping of threads based on functionality and tagging of threads with advisories using pre-defined rules and patterns which can be extended to handle additional patterns.
We wish to thank Ingo Rockel, Robert Whitehurst and numerous others who had contributed to the original TDA which allowed us build on their work in delivering a more powerful tool for the entire Java community.
Once a thread dump is parsed and threads details are populated, each of the thread is then analyzed against matching advisories and tagged appropriately. The threads are also associated with specific Thread Groups based on functionality or thread group name.
Each of the advisory has a health level indicating severity of the issue found, pattern, name, keyword and related advice.
Samples of advisories:
|Thread Advisory Name
|Large # of WLS Muxer Threads
|Health Level
|Large number of WLS Muxer Threads
|Reduce number of WLS Muxer Threads to under 4, use -Dweblogic.SocketReaders=NoOfThreads flag in command line
|Thread Advisory Name
|Stuck Thread
|Health Level
|Thread is Stuck, request taking very long time to finish
|Check why the thread or call is taking very long?? Is it blocked for unavailable or bad resource or contending for Lock? Can be ignored if it is doing repeat work in a loop (like adapter threads polling for events in a infinite loop)...
|Thread Advisory Name
|Hot Spots
|Health Level
|Multiple Threads executing same code path
|Ensure there are no blocking locks or bottlenecks, sufficient resources are available,remote service being invoked is responsive and scaling well to handle increased load
Each of the advisory gets triggered based on either call execution patterns observed in the thread stack or presence of other conditions (thread blocked or multiple threads blocked for same lock can trigger BlockedThreads Advisory). Sometimes a thread might be tagged as IGNORE or NORMAL based on its execution logic or might be tagged more specifically as involved in JMS send or receive client or a Servlet thread.
The health levels (in descending of severity) are FATAL (meant for Deadlocks, STUCK, Finalizer blocked etc), WARNING, WATCH (worth watching), NORMAL and IGNORE. Based on the highest criticality of threads within a group, that health level gets promoted to the Thread Group's health level and same is repeated at the thread dump level. There can be multiple advisories tagged to a Thread, Thread Group and Thread Dump.
Snapshot of Advisory Map
|Advisory Map
|Threads in a thread dump tagged with Advisories/Health Levels
Thread Groups Summary
The threads are associated with thread groups based on the functionality or thread names. Additional patterns exists to tag other threads (like iWay Adapter, SAP, Tibco threads) and group them. The summary page reports on health level of the group, total number of threads, threads that are blocked, critical advisories found etc.
|Thread Groups Summary
Critical Advisories per thread group
The critical advisories (at Warning/Fatal health levels) found in individual threads are then promoted to the the parent thread group and reported in the thread group summary page.
|Critical Advisories for Thread Group
Thread Groups
One can see the thread groups are divided into two buckets - WLS and non-WLS related threads. The JVM threads, Coherence, LDAP and other unknown custom threads go under the non-WLS bucket while all the WLS, Muxer, Oracle, SOA, JMS, Oracle Adapter threads are all under the WLS bucket.
Clicking on the individual threads will display the advisories and thread stack.
|Advisories and details at thread level
The Advisories are color coded and details can be highlighted.
|Colored advisories for individual threads
Sub-groups are also created within individual Thread Groups based on Warning Levels, Hot call patterns (multiple threads executing same code section), threads doing remote I/O (socket or db reads) etc.
Following snapshot shows example of a Hot call pattern where multiple threads appear to be executing the same code path (all are attempting to update the MBean Server with a new mbean).
|Hot Call Pattern - multiple threads exhibiting similar code execution
Merging of threads across multiple thread dumps and reporting of progress in the thread state
Merge has been enhanced to report on the progress of the thread across the thread dumps. Based on the order of the thread dumps, the thread stack trace is compared for every consecutive thread dump.
|Merged view showing progress information for individual threads
Merged reporting of individual thread stack traces (exists in base TDA version 2.2)
|Merged Thread stack traces across thread dumps
Merging can also be done across multiple thread dump log files (like in case of IBM which creates new log file containing the thread dump every time a request is issued).
Usability benefits of new TDA A-Team
Thanks to the advisories and health levels, its easy for users to quickly understand the usage patterns, hot spots, thread groups, as well as highlight the patterns or anti-patterns already implemented in the advisory list.
For example of an anti-pattern: a Servlet thread should not be waiting for an event to occur as this will translate to bad performance for end user. Similarly usage of synchronous jms consumers might be less performant compared to using async consumers. Too many WLS Muxer threads is not advisable. If WLS Muxer or Finalizer threads are blocked for unrelated locks, this will be a fatal condition. It would be okay to ignore STUCK warning issued by WLS Server for Pollers like AQ Adapter threads but not for other threads that are handling servlet request.
The thread groups help in bunching together related threads; so SOA Suite users can see how many BPEL Invoke and Engine threads are getting used, B2B users can see number of JMS consumers/producers, WLS users can look at condition and health of Muxer threads, similarly for JVM/Coherence/LDAP/other thread groups.
The merged report lets the user see at a glance the critical threads and check if they are progressing or not instead of wading through numerous threads and associated thread dumps.
We hope this tool can really help both beginners and experts do their jobs more quickly and efficiently when it comes to thread dumps.
Real World Sample of Thread Dump Analysis
A Customer was planning on a POC (Proof of Concept) of WebLogic Portal Server (WLP) on the new Oracle Exalogic Platform and measure its performance relative to their existing configurations. The test configuration used a cluster of WLP servers, communicating via Multicast for cluster membership and other service announcements. As soon as the servers were brought up, the servers became unresponsive. The server instances could not serve any request - neither traffic to Portal Application nor WLS Admin Server requests for status from the server instances. Following errors get getting thrown in the server:
There were also frequent log messages of p13n cache getting updated and flushed repeatedly. The p13n cache is the Personalization cache used internally by Portal for handling Portal personalization. Each of the servers in the cluster are kept of changes in cache via multicast broadcasts. When the customer disabled the p13n cache, the server regained normalcy and responsiveness. But the p13n cache is a requirement for portal application functionality and its not possible to have it disabled.
The FullQueueException essentially indicated that the WLS's internal request queue was getting overwhelmed with requests and its starting to ignore/drop new requests as its already has 64K requests waiting to be executed. These requests can be internal (like transaction timeouts, schedulers, async processing) or externally generated (like client http requests). The storm of requests coupled with p13n being a key presence for the issue indicated p13n cache is triggering an internal flood of requests to the server somehow. It was decided to take thread dumps to understand what the p13n cache is executing.
Analyzing the thread dumps threw light on a weird behavior.
at java/lang/Thread.sleep(J)V(Native Method)
at weblogic/cluster/MulticastFragmentSocket.sendThrottled(MulticastFragmentSocket.java:198)
at weblogic/cluster/MulticastFragmentSocket.send(MulticastFragmentSocket.java:157)
^-- Holding lock: weblogic/cluster/MulticastFragmentSocket@0x1d4afd4c8[thin lock]
at weblogic/cluster/FragmentSocketWrapper.send(FragmentSocketWrapper.java:91)
at weblogic/cluster/MulticastSender.fragmentAndSend(MulticastSender.java:395)
at weblogic/cluster/MulticastSender.send(MulticastSender.java:178)
^-- Holding lock: weblogic/cluster/MulticastSender@0x1c7ce3628[thin lock]
at com/bea/p13n/cache/internal/system/SystemCacheManager.doFlushCluster(SystemCacheManager.java:222)
at com/bea/p13n/cache/internal/system/SystemCacheManager.flushClusterKeys(SystemCacheManager.java:193)
at com/bea/p13n/cache/CacheManager.flushKeys(CacheManager.java:117)
at com/bea/p13n/cache/internal/system/SystemCacheManager.doFlushLocal(SystemCacheManager.java:135)
at com/bea/p13n/cache/internal/system/SystemCacheManager.flushLocalKeys(SystemCacheManager.java:84)
at com/bea/p13n/cache/internal/system/CacheClusterMessage.execute(CacheClusterMessage.java:80)
at weblogic/cluster/MulticastReceiver$1.run(MulticastReceiver.java:112)
at weblogic/work/ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:201)
at weblogic/work/ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:173)
The above thread stack indicates the MulticastReceiver used by WLS internally to handle multicast announcements got some request/announcement that gets handled by the p13n cache. It appears to trigger a flush of local keys in the cache. But then it gets modified as a flush of cluster keys which then results in a MulticastSender sending out a cluster broadcast.
This essentially means for every announcement that lands on a server instance, it will resend the announcement to other members whcih then gets replicated for every member across the cluster leading to an infinite looping of the same message and contributing to a never ending multicast packet storm.
Analyzing the product code against the stack trace, it appeared that there was a mismatch between the CacheManager.flushKeys() implementation as the method code lines didn't match. So, it was apparent that there was some variant form of CacheManager that was getting picked by the application while handling the cluster announcements.
at java/lang/Thread.sleep(J)V(Native Method) at weblogic/cluster/MulticastFragmentSocket.sendThrottled(MulticastFragmentSocket.java:198) at weblogic/cluster/MulticastFragmentSocket.send(MulticastFragmentSocket.java:157) REPEAT MULTICAST TRAFFIC - CREATE INFINITE FLOOD ^-- Holding lock: weblogic/cluster/MulticastFragmentSocket@0x1d4afd4c8[thin lock] at weblogic/cluster/FragmentSocketWrapper.send(FragmentSocketWrapper.java:91) at weblogic/cluster/MulticastSender.fragmentAndSend(MulticastSender.java:395) at weblogic/cluster/MulticastSender.send(MulticastSender.java:178) ^-- Holding lock: weblogic/cluster/MulticastSender@0x1c7ce3628[thin lock]
LOGIC HIJACKED at com/bea/p13n/cache/internal/system/SystemCacheManager.doFlushCluster(SystemCacheManager.java:222) at com/bea/p13n/cache/internal/system/SystemCacheManager.flushClusterKeys(SystemCacheManager.java:193) at com/bea/p13n/cache/CacheManager.flushKeys(CacheManager.java:117)
LOCAL FLUSH ONLY at com/bea/p13n/cache/internal/system/SystemCacheManager.doFlushLocal(SystemCacheManager.java:135) at com/bea/p13n/cache/internal/system/SystemCacheManager.flushLocalKeys(SystemCacheManager.java:84) at com/bea/p13n/cache/internal/system/CacheClusterMessage.execute(CacheClusterMessage.java:80)
RECEIVE MULTICAST MESSAGE at weblogic/cluster/MulticastReceiver$1.run(MulticastReceiver.java:112) at weblogic/work/ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:201) at weblogic/work/ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:173)
Using WLS ClassLoader Analysis Tool (CAT), we were able to drill down to where this particular CacheManager class was getting loaded from. It was packaged inside a jar that got added to the Portal EAR application libraries. Removing that particular jar containing the CacheManager resolved the problem. Later investigation revealed that the jar came from an older version of the Portal Product and should not have been used with the latest version of Portal that was being tested on Exalogic. The analysis of a single thread stack trace helped pin point the root cause for all the hang conditions in this scenario.
Limitations of Thread Dumps
Although Thread dumps can throw light on multiple things, there are also some limitations.
- It is a snapshot of a running system
- The system should have some representative load or exhibit symptoms when capturing thread dumps
- The dumps are of no value if none of the above
- It cannot show details on memory usage
- It can show what is the pattern executed but not how many times it was executed previously (unless there are multiple threads dumps captured at periodic intervals).
- It cannot show details of the request that is driving the code execution or which remote service is slow
- Same set of framework code can get executed for SOA Suite BPEL Processes or OSB Proxies
- we wont be able to determine which external service is blocking the response for a thread
- Would require analysis of server logs/proxies/access logs and or heap dumps to identify slow services and then drill down from there or other forms of monitoring (EM/OSB Console monitoring statistics)
- Finalizer doing heavy work (too many finalizable objects to clean up) in each successive thread dump would indicate memory handling issues (and possibly overuse/misuse of finalize – lazy cleanup or recreating additional objects during finalize instead of active deleting/cleaning up)
- Busy GC Threads would indicate memory thrashing
- Threads stuck on socket reads would indicate slow reads or backends not responding in a timely fashion or socket closures due to firewall or other bad socket handling
- Threads stuck in socket connect indicates the backend service itself is unavailable or not listening at that address or wrong connection detail or connection recreation every time.
- Threads stuck in database sql reads/executes can indicate db response issue or sql tuning issue
- Threads blocked in opening files, jars, zips or checking on file attributes can indicate problem in reading the application bits or files on a remote storage or network mount point that's will slow down server startup/deployment. One customer problem was related to server instance accessing WLS install & deployed application bits from a remote site that was about a hundred miles away.
- Threads blocked on locks for synchronized code imply bottlenecks
- Resolve the bottleneck by increasing the resources under contention
- Avoid the synchronized calls entirely (ex: logging might be excessively synchronized, reduce logging levels or turn off logging ) whenever possible
- Optimize the call execution to reduce lock time
- Some of the issues might then require further investigation into environment (process, cpu, memory, io, network etc) or services/partners/actors/clients to resolve the issues
- For cluster related or distributed system issues, thread dumps should be captured and analyzed from all related parties (cluster/services).


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A few days ago I found myself in Building #9 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. You see I am a venture advisor to the Department of Defense as part of the Defense Venture Catalyst Initiative (affectionately known as the DeVenCI program) and periodically we are summoned to specific agencies around the country to review novel technologies under development as well as to suggest interesting start-up's the DoD should be familiar with given its needs.
Building #9 houses the training modules for the space shuttles - about to be mothballed - and the space stations. These full scale models are used for training and to wildly impress VC's. Watching the next crew of astronauts train was very cool. In addition to meeting a number of extraordinarily talented and committed Americans working on programs one might only expect to see on "24" or in sci-fi thrillers, I screened a number of projects to gauge commercial applicability. But just as important I picked up a number of cool facts such as:
- A space suit costs $2 million and is made of 16 layers of materials
- Living quarters in the space shuttle are really really tight
- Typical space walk takes 6 to 7 hours
- Each astronaut sleeps for precisely 8.5 hours per 24 hour cycle in space "snuggies"
- It takes 4 hours to return to earth but a day and a half to get to the space station
- Upon re-entry the shuttle heats to 15,000 degrees (which is why they can explode with even the slightest damage to the heat shields)
- The typical trainer looks 18 years old
- Building #9 houses one of the largest air hockey boards for astronauts to practice weightlessness on
- It is very painful for the astronauts to walk when they return from a 6 month mission because the calluses on their feet have sloughed off
- You would never want to use a space toilet - and not just because your business is conducted in front of your crew
- Average noise on the space station is 65 db - and can get as loud as 90 db
- The space station goes around the earth once every 90 minutes
- The Chinese are offensively exploding other countries' satellites creating an enormous issue with "space debris"
- The power of one rocket on the space shuttle is equivalent to 28 Hoover Dams
I could go on with other interesting facts but I will share with you perhaps the most fascinating anecdote from the entire visit - and it had nothing to do with outer space.
As a visitor I sensed that NASA is struggling with redefining its mission, its reason to exist - how best to justify the annual budget to support this type of research - particularly given how tough things are back here on earth.
Toward the end of the visit we were treated to a presentation by the Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Johnson Space Center and his re-telling of NASA's role in rescuing the trapped Chilean miners. Arguably the application of many of NASA's discoveries and insights from space - when translated to this disaster - proved to be pivotal in rescuing all of the men. Some highlights:
- While trapped 2,200 feet below solid rock, the miners were only at sea level given they were drilling in the mountains; and there were numerous tunnels and ample space to move around
- The earthquake loosened 600 tons of rock which effectively buried the miners
- There were enough rations to provide 100 calories per day per miner - much like the "re-feeding syndrome" NASA developed if there were ever a disaster in the space station (one needs to be very careful how one balances the various minerals in the body)
- The miners' diets had to be modified to alter the carbon dioxide produced, oxygen consumed thereby altering the metabolic functions in the body - effectively the miners' bodies had to be "re-tuned" to adjust to these harsh conditions
- It was 90 degrees in the mine and given that the miners were sleeping on hot rocks, they were experiencing significant muscle beak-down
- They had to be selectively hydrated based on their unique physiology to avoid renal failure
- The Chilean government deliberately had three drilling teams compete to drive innovation and speed
- The apparently simple extraction of the miners in the tubes was one of the most challenging maneuvers given the number of psychological issues, need for compression garments, fluid loading given the change in ambient pressures, etc
As a kid I remember being fascinated with traveling on airplanes - now, not so much. Many of us grew up enthralled with outer space and on some level it is sad to see the budgets of NASA under siege. While I have not concluded for myself if that is a good or bad thing, there are a number of Chilean miners who are thrilled with the fact that we put men on the moon.
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$54.88 at Sam's Club
(I paid $45 for it when I got mine.)
Since I've started doing my green smoothies, I've used a blender MORE than I ever have in my entire life.
I've stayed away from blenders, to be honest, because they just weren't worth the MESS, in my opinion.
I had a Vitamix with three different pitchers in my home for 3 years, just about…and I used it a total of 10 times. MAYBE.
The week AFTER I gave the Vitamix to someone who desperately longed for one, and I knew would USE IT, I found "green smoothies".
I'm not even kidding.
My mother is the Queen of Kitchen Gadgets. She is the one that gave me the coveted Vitamix. She got a second 'amazing' high powered blender (not BlendTec, but a different one…cannot recall the name right now), so she gave me the Vitamix.
She acquired this Ninja Master Prep Pro, from Sam's Club and she was IN LOVE with it. I had been eye balling it for a while…but because I really didn't USE the AMAZING blender I had at the time, I really had to think, Why would I even use it?
So, then my analytical mind began examining why I didn't use such a great piece of gadgetry.
I do NOT like scraping around the blade to get my 'stuff' out.
Hmmmm. Ok. That seems simple enough.
Then I realized, this Ninja thing, the blades come OUT. Easily.
That being said….my analytical mind was thinking about this Ninja for a while….ENTER GREEN SMOOTHIES.
Ok…now I NEEDED a blender!
Here's the review.
Considering Vitamix blenders are all the buzz in the 'green smoothie' world, I was determined to at least try using the Ninja Master Prep Pro. I mean, let me think, spend $45 (it was $45 when I bought it…it is now $54) or spend $400? Or be an 'taker backer' and ask for the Vitamix back that I had just days ago, GAVE AWAY.
Seeing how I am not much of an 'taker backer', I opted for the Ninja. Eh, what the heck…it was $45.
I absolutely LOVE IT! LOVE LOVE LOVE!
It has the two small cups for food processing. I use those for coffee grinding, baby food making, and peanut butter making. I also occasionally use them for chopping onions, celery, and the like.
Then there is the smaller of the two pitchers, the 40 oz. one. I seldom use that one, but it's nice to have.
And lastly, the 48 oz. pitcher is what I use ALL the time. It's not BIG enough to make the quantity of green smoothies I need for my family and myself…but it gets the job done.
The blades are powerful and effective enough to blend up my green smoothies perfectly.
I am impressed with the ease of use and cleaning that the Ninja Master Prep Pro offers. Although it can be a pain to have to take the motor off and then the lid and then add the ingredients for my smoothies. But hey, you can't have everything….right? (Right?) LOL
I enjoyed this Ninja SO much, when I saw the NEW AND AMAZING "Ninja Kitchen System" come out in our local Sam's Club, I WAS BOUNCING OFF THE WALLS! $136! And it was soooo pretty, and had a BASE….and the BIG pitcher….Oh, that's right…THAT'S a DIFFERENT REVIEW! 🙂 Check it out! 🙂
PRODUCT REVIEW: Ninja Kitchen System
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Hi everyone,
We have had Easter already ! Time seems to be flying by and I can't believe we are already halfway though April. One of our Easter traditions is an egg hunt so I had fun creating this page for the Get It Scrapped article about Telling Stories about Easter or Passover.
My children are still at the age that they look forward to Easter each year. They love searching for eggs and of course eating chocolate. I created this two page spread to be able to to incorporate a large photo and then a few supporting photos in a pocket page. The large photo really sets the scene of the egg hunt and the pocket photos show off the details. I used of natural and neutral colours, with the pops of colour and the glittery foil elements to support the story of the egg hunt.
If you want more ideas for telling stories about Easter, head on over to Get It Scrapped. At the moment there is the free Style is Leverage event, which is about helping you discover your own style to create pages that you love more easily.
Thanks for stopping by,
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Rafani - "O rovnosti"
Rafani: "The fact that our request is formulated outside the normal political debate does not mean that it ceases to be a requirement. Exposures do not understand art as a direct shaping reality, but as a symbolic struggle, which the company refers in an attempt to reshaping its mirror image. "
Czech art group Rafani was established in 2000 to strictly laid down by democratic rules. Rafani have set a clear direction and definition to them in the near time to apply. Reflection pervades all topics which Rafani deal - Sudetenland without history, the relationship between Germans and Czechs, new Asian population, the issue of nation and culture, etc.
In 2002 they took part in Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia for a year. Coherently with social problems constantly monitor changes in culture and the arts. They did not present their own opinion, but they believed in the power of the built contrary. Actions should often demonstrative form with a subsequent reaction media.
After about five years of Rafani ceased to be satisfied with the dominance of the conceptual part of their work, and in 2006 renounced the written text as too ideologically charged and determinative factor. Blotted out all their own lyrics and direction to history. More strongly focused on the visual metaphor and self introspection. In 2011, they made their first documentary feature film 31 over 31 starts.
Exhibition prepared by a group Rafani for BWA Wrocław in one plane shows general principles and methods of political behavior and the power struggle and the Polish public is more specific cross-section of groups with a whole new choreographic works.


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…and on the porch is this white, unassuming package. My daughter said she had a delivery coming, so I assumed that it was her package. But no, it was a package from Hop Union! Here's the back story…
Back in June, Stephen and I went to the 2009 National Homebrewers Conference in Oakland. I attended a session called Commercial Hop Production and Sales and Its Effect on Homebrewers with Ralph Olson, of Hop Union, since I have an intense interest and love for hops. I had the opportunity to ask Ralph a question during the Q&A part toward the end of the session. I asked what was new in the hop world – basically what was coming down the pike that I should be looking out for. Ralph said to look out for a new high alpha hop called Citra. He said that Citras were not widely available last year, but were being used by Sierra Nevada in their new release, Torpedo Extra IPA.
When got home from NHC, I e-mailed Ralph a couple weeks after the conference and asked him if he could somehow hook me up with some Citra hops. He said to get in touch with him around harvest time in September. Well, it's harvest time! Last week I again contacted Ralph and asked about the Citras. He promptly responded and asked his folks to send me half a brewer's cut of Citra hops. I instantly hit Google to find out what a brewer's cut is and discovered that it is a rectangular 15 x 10 x 10 cm sample from a hop bale, wrapped in stiff, light-proof paper, held together by a pin. "These samples are cut from the sides of representative bales using a sharp knife and a special pair of hinged tongs, which grips the sample on the pressed sides of the cones and enables the sample to be withdrawn without breaking apart." Ooooh! Now this sounds intriguing!
Flash forward to today…
I opened the package and was instantly hit with the familiar aroma of fresh citrusy, piney hops! Woohoo!
I'll be checking out the properties of the Citra hops by using them in my standard single hop recipe where the malt bill is always the same, and only a single hop is used. This really lets me focus on what any particular hop brings to a ale. I'm hoping to brew this ale next weekend. I've been waiting on twelve pounds of 2009 new crpp hops (Centennials, Cascades, Columbus, Magnums, Goldings, Northern Brewers, Simcoes) to arrive, so I didn't get a starter ready for this weekend. I guess I could have brewed:) I do need to make a B3 run soon to get some bulk base grains, but I may brew twice next weekend to get ready for the holiday season if I have enough base malt.
Now don't you all go hitting up Ralph for free samples! This whole thing came out of his very informative and interesting session at NHC, and I didn't see all of you there! But I have to say, Ralph swims with the sharks of the brewing industry. I'm but a plankton floating in the sea of homebrewers! For him to set me up with this sample of Citra hops is waaaay more than he had to do. Jeez – I was just a guy sitting in a conference audience, asking a question! But from what I've seen over the last few years, and particularly relating my experiences at this year's NHC, this is typical of the type of quality folks you find in the brewing industry. Even the Ralph Olsons, the Sam Calagiones, the Ken Grossmans, the Charlie Papazians, the Vinny Cilurzos, and on and on, show respect and appreciation for us little guy homebrewers. They don't need to, but they do:)
Simply put, Ralph – you da man! I owe you an ale or two when I get up your way:)


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Swap Rates Calculation
Posted on: 15 May 2013 , by: Pepperstone Support , category: About Trading
Swap rates determine the cost / payment for holding a position overnight. This occurs at 00:00 Server time, on any trades held to this point.
Should you need basic information regarding swaps, please see this page here.
In order to calculate the payments / interest, you first need to take the swap long / short rate of the currency pair in question. In this example we will be opening a buy trade for 1 lot on AUDUSD.
The swap long means for every rollover, you will receive 6.4 point (0.64 pips) per 1 lot. Therefore, the account will receive $6.4 USD per rollover (0.64*10).


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|Sighting Report
|Occurred : 10/1/1998 22:30 (Entered as : 10/01/98 22:30)
Reported: 7/14/2001 15:21
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Moundsville, WV
Shape: Triangle
|5 large objects observed, 4 of them flying in a rectangular motion. Perfect 90 degree banks at incredible speed!!!
During my days at college, my roomates and i decided to visit, the ((deleted)) temple in moundsville, wv. following an old dirt road through the woods leading us there, i noticed a strange hum coming from outside the car. I pulled over to a place where the dirt road ran beside a small crick. The sky was perfectly clear, and EVERY star was visible. We were at a particular opening in the woods, were you could see a good bit of the sky. At about 10:30 pm I noticed the humming was coming from the sky, and looking up, I saw 5 distinguishable crafts approx. 1,000 ft in the air, i'm not the best judger of distance when it comes to te sky. 1 hovering motionless in the center of the sky, and the other four were flying around it at astonishing speeds. The intriging part about them was, the fact that they were circling the center craft and banking immaculate 90 degree turns without slowing down. I noticed a slight visual disruption directly behind the 4 crafts, as if staring through gasoline fumes where your vision is distorted by waves of exhaust. The crafts appeared to be triangular shaped, distinguished by 3 blue lights at each point, and one larger and brighter white light in the center. They appeared to be holding their position the entire time were there, as if they were spying, or maybe waiting for something. We decided to leave because we all had class early next morning and it was an hour and a half drive back to the school. As we were leaving, headed down this old dirt road barely large enough for a single car, which also I might add, is lucky to be traveled twice a day; we were forced off the road and into the grass by 3 large oncoming vehicles. The first, an undercover state police explorer - as it appeared to be, and the other two were a camoflauged military hummer, and a large transport van also in camo. The van had 2 large sattelite dishes on it and more antennaes than i could count. Go figure/?? If theres anyone else out there, that may have seen the same spectacle in the sky near moundsville around that time, please let me know your out there. I've made an interesting hypothesis about the humming coming from the sky. Have you ever hit a tuning fork or a cymbal from a drum set and placed it extremely close to your ear, and heard the low level hum that the sound waves radiate? It's almost unearthlike, and that is the EXACT sound I heard! I believe that this particular craft uses sound wave generation to either induce motion as in forward or reverse, OR, just as a means of hovering. Sound is measured in decibles, which is basically described sound pressure level. PRESSURE is the key, i believe they can force themselfs in any direction by controlled bursts of sound waves or magnetic waves. The government cannot keep a lid on this any longer, as long as everybody knows whats goin on. Then we'll all know who was directly involved in it for quite some time now; and you probably hear their excuse being: "We didn't want to create a widespread panic..." Sure what would happen if everybody suddenly realized there IS other life in the galaxy?? People would revolt against society, taxes wouldn't be paid, people wouldn't go to work, THE GOVERNMENT WOULDN'T MAKE ANY MONEY ON YOU!!!! And more importantly; They would no longer be top dogs; let alone even be able to try to cover anything else up. Think about it for a while, sooner or later you'll start to realize what there up to.. Hopefully its not all too late for us when it does become apparent... Thanks for your time, and continue to live free and intelligently! ((pseudonym deleted))
((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. Report may have a political motivation, but we have no idea whether such motivation has any effect on the facts of the alleged sighting. PD))


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One of the growing trends in our company is the success of female entrepreneurs. Where it is a small shop on the Internet or a global, multi-million dollar corporation, women are empowered and are taking their products and services to the top shelf. Perhaps the most inspiring role models are those who started with very little and built their businesses from scratch.
Lime Crime is one of those inspirational companies. It was started by a young Russian immigrant named Doe Deere. Great entrepreneurs usually start young, as did this lady. When Deere was growing up in her native Russia, she often sat with her mother and grandmother and learned how to sew. In her recollections, Deere says that she and her neighborhood friends often wrote and produced little plays. She used her knowledge of sewing to make simple costumes for the fun productions.
As a teenager, Deere further explored her artistic talents by creating temporary tattoos. She drew and inked original designs and also drew things that her friends wanted. She brought her tattoos to school and sold them to other students. Deere started a temporary tattoo fad in her school and was admired for her creativity.
While still young, Doe Deere immigrated to New York City and eventually obtained her citizenship. Ever the artistic soul, Deere branched out her interests to include music. She was friends with a group of musicians and they decided to start a band. Deere loved to sing and make music at their different gigs around town. It was not long that more people were recognizing her great potential.
Deere says in interviews that she has always had an affinity for color and fashion. Since she was in a band, she wanted to wear distinctive outfits that drew attention to them. As a skilled seamstress, Deere began designing and sewing costumes for the band.
She set up a small shop on a popular Internet auction site and did her own modeling for her creations. She wanted a catchy name that everyone would remember, so she named her shop Lime Crime, because it rhymed. Deere confesses that she deplored the colors and trends of makeup during that time. She was not content with the "au natural", beige look and wanted exciting colors to match her outfits. She began blending her own colors right in her home's garage.
Doe Deere would never have dreamed what a hit her makeup would become. Women loved the opulent colors of lipstick, eye shadows, blushers, and nail polishes that she was selling. In a few short years, Lime Crime has become a thriving international business. Deere continues to inspire other women to go for their dreams. Lime Crime is proof that women can achieve whatever they want.