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Sister Oscarson: Help Young Women Learn to Be Spirit-Led
Contributed By By Sister Bonnie L. Oscarson, Young Women general president
Article Highlights
- Joseph Smith appeared to Brigham Young in a dream, urging him to tell the people to keep the Spirit of the Lord.
- This profound counsel is just as applicable and pertinent today.
- Parents and leaders can help youth by teaching them to recognize the Spirit in their lives.
"This voice of the Spirit speaks gently, prompting you what to do or what to say, or it may caution or warn you. Ignore or disobey these promptings, and the Spirit will leave you. It is your choice—your agency." —President Boyd K. Packer of the Quorum of the Twelve
In February of 1847, Brigham Young reported to the brethren who were with him at Winter Quarters, Nebraska, that Joseph Smith had appeared to him in a dream the night before and given him a message.
The first time I heard this story, my thoughts began to race. What profound message would the martyred prophet of the Restoration have for the new leader of the Church? Thousands of dispossessed Saints were spread across the plains from eastern Iowa to Winter Quarters and were experiencing dire conditions. They had been living on the open prairie for months and suffering starvation, exposure, and illness.
I tried to imagine the most important piece of advice Joseph Smith would have to offer his distressed people from his now expanded viewpoint from the other side of the veil. The message he delivered was unexpected to me but profound. He said: "Tell the people to be humble and faithful, and be sure to keep the Spirit of the Lord, and it will lead them right. Be careful and not turn away the small still voice; it will teach you how to do and where to go. … Tell the people to be sure to keep the Spirit of the Lord and follow it, and it will lead them just right" (Brigham Young, vision, Feb. 17, 1847, in Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878, archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah).
This message to the suffering Saints of 1847 is profound because it is just as applicable and pertinent to the millions of Saints living throughout the world today as it was back then. It is an especially important message to teach our children and youth.
We as parents and leaders can help our youth understand the importance of being led by the Holy Spirit by taking advantage of opportunities to teach them to recognize the Spirit in their lives. We need to point out to our young people when we have felt the Spirit during a lesson or family home evening and ask if they also had those feelings. Teach them to recognize the warm and peaceful promptings that will come to them more as quiet feelings than spectacular or dramatic manifestations. We can teach them from the scriptures that the Holy Ghost is described as a "still small voice" (D&C 85:6) and that the Holy Ghost will tell them in their minds and in their hearts (see D&C 8:2) the things they need to know and do.
When our youth have these experiences, we can help them understand that what they are feeling is the influence of the Holy Ghost. They will then become more experienced in understanding the language of the Spirit and recognize it on their own. They will become spiritually mature and live Spirit-directed lives of service and purpose. They will be truly converted to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Our youth also need to understand what a delicate and sensitive relationship we have with the Holy Ghost. There are situations and choices which invite the Spirit, and others which offend Him and cause Him to withdraw.
Prayer, scripture study, attending church, serving others, and attending the temple all invite the Spirit to be with us. Then as we give youth opportunities both in classrooms and at home to bear their testimonies, they will again feel the influence of the Holy Ghost.
President Boyd K. Packer of the Quorum of the Twelve has taught, "A testimony is to be found in the bearing of it!" ("The Candle of the Lord," Ensign, Jan. 1983, 54).
Listening to uplifting music and engaging in wholesome activities also invite the Spirit. Watching, viewing, or reading inappropriate materials drives the Spirit away. Giving in to temptation or willingly choosing to lower our standards in any way will offend the Spirit.
President Packer states this principle rather plainly: "This voice of the Spirit speaks gently, prompting you what to do or what to say, or it may caution or warn you. Ignore or disobey these promptings, and the Spirit will leave you. It is your choice—your agency" ("Personal Revelation: the Gift, the Test, and the Promise," Ensign, Nov. 1994, 60).
We need to impress upon our youth that none of us can afford to navigate this spiritually treacherous world without the influence and guidance of the Holy Ghost. To be out of touch with the very power that will warn, guide, teach, protect, or give comfort is to leave ourselves open and vulnerable to the temptations and snares of the world and draw us further and further from the very source that will help and protect us.
When Joseph Smith was asked what made our Church different from other religions, he replied that we differed in mode of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands (see James E. Faust, "Communion with the Holy Spirit," Ensign, Mar. 2002, 3).
Elder LeGrand Richards said: "To me, the gift of the Holy Ghost is as important to man as sunshine and water are to the plants. You take them away, and the plants would die. You take the Holy Ghost out of this Church, and this Church would not be any different than any other church" ("The Gift of the Holy Ghost," Ensign, Nov. 1979, 76).
The prophet Wilford Woodruff said, "The gift of the Holy Ghost is the greatest gift that can be bestowed upon man" (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff [2004], 49).
Can there be any more important doctrine to teach our youth than the importance of seeking the influence of the Holy Ghost in their lives, learning to recognize the voice of the Spirit, and, most important, following the promptings they receive through this great gift? The Prophet Joseph Smith sent a message from beyond the veil to his beloved people that boiled all the advice he could have given into one prophetically profound piece of counsel.
Apostles and prophets throughout our dispensation have reiterated that message delivered to Brigham Young during the cold, hard winter of 1847. We, as members of the Lord's Church, and especially our youth, need this counsel now more than ever: "Tell the people to be sure to keep the Spirit of the Lord and follow it, and it will lead them just right."


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Microsoft PPL and Intel TBB technologies were used for parallel algorithm development, with comparable performance and identical implementations, simplifying development significantly. Lambda functions were used to simplify the parallel implementation.
A parallel algorithm may use a different strategy than a sequential algorithm. The simple sequential merge iterated through the two input arrays, while the parallel divide-and-conquer algorithm split the problem into two sub-problems recursively.
Pure divide-and-conquer sequential and parallel algorithms failed to deliver competitive performance due to large computational overhead per output element and large task-switching overhead. Simple merge has a small constant as it performs little work per output element. The hybrid algorithm approach yielded performance gains for sequential and parallel merge algorithms. For sequential merge, the hybrid divide-and-conquer algorithm outperformed the simple merge algorithm, which seems questionable.
For parallel algorithms, divide-and-conquer proved to be a good strategy, especially coupled with the hybrid approach, enabling parallel processing with high performance. A fast sequential merge was shown to be a critical component of the fast parallel hybrid algorithm.
The hybrid algorithm improved the memory access pattern of the divide-and-conquer algorithm. Pure divide-and-conquer has a nonsequential memory access pattern. The hybrid approach used the simple merge, which has incrementing memory addressing for both inputs and the output. The hybrid parallel algorithm approach provided over 20 times the performance gain over the pure parallel divide-and-conquer algorithm. Otherwise, the pure parallel algorithm was measured to be slower than the simple sequential merge.
As long as task-switching overhead continues to be fairly high, a high-performance parallel algorithm will require a high-performance sequential algorithm to use as a recursion termination case or within the minimal parallel work quanta.
The sequential simple merge algorithm measured at 1.2 GB/second of memory bandwidth. The parallel hybrid merge algorithm used about 7.1 GB/second, nearing the memory bandwidth limit for scalar code, and possibly limiting performance.
[1] T.H. Cormen, C.E. Leiserson, R.L. Rivest, and C. Stein, Introduction to Algorithms, Third Edition, MIT Press, Sept. 2009, pp. 797-805
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Tornado-struck teachers honored at IndyCar race
FORT WORTH — Two Oklahoma teachers who used their bodies to shield kindergarteners when their school took a direct hit from a tornado were honored at the IndyCar race in Texas on Saturday night.
Jennifer Simonds and Anna "Sam" Canaday work at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., which was hit by an EF5 tornado May 20.
Before teaming with Canaday on an enthusiastic command for drivers to start their engines at Texas Motor Speedway, Simonds said the teachers don't see themselves as heroes.
"I'm very thankful I'm alive and I'm thankful to do things like this," said Simonds, who had never before been to or even seen a race. "But I don't see myself as a hero."
When the tornado bore down on the school, the teachers said they followed their instincts to do everything they could to protect the children.
"Those babies mean the world to us," said Canaday, whose 5-year-old son was in Simonds' class.
There were 24 people killed in Moore, including seven children at the Plaza Towers school.
More tornadoes hit the Oklahoma City area May 31, when Canaday's house was hit and heavily damaged.
"May 20 took our classrooms, and our vehicles, both of ours in that one. ... May 31, what tornado goes South? It hit my house," Canaday said. "Neighbors and friends have come to help. The outpouring of love and generosity from the community in general is heartfelt and overwhelming."
Simonds said people have been helping our more than she could have ever imagined. She said people have been donating money and materials to rebuild the classrooms, including books from England.
The Oklahoma City area is about three hours north of Texas Motor Speedway.
The honorary starter who waved the green flag was CJ Gillaspie, captain of the West Volunteer Fire Department, which lost five members in a fertilizer plant explosion April 17. Those firefighters were among 15 people killed. About 200 people were hurt in that small town about 1½ hours south of the track.
Gillaspie was among the first responders to the scene and is also the public works director in West, charged with rebuilding the infrastructure of the town so people can move back into their homes or rebuild. His home was among about 200 damaged in the fiery blast, his beyond repair and demolished just last week.
Gillaspie had never been to the Texas track, but said one of his good friends who died in the blast used to go to every race there and loved racing.
"I'm not just waving the flag for me, but I'm waving it for him and all the victims in West," Gillaspie said.
The teachers and Gillaspie met with Mario Andretti and then attended the prerace drivers' meeting, getting a rousing round of applause when introduced. They were each presented with checkered flags signed by all 24 drivers in the field, including Indianapolis 500 champion Tony Kanaan, who they visited with on the starting grid.
In conjunction with their appearances at the IndyCar race, the three were treated to a stay in a luxury hotel, giving all of them a brief reprieve from all they have dealt with in recent weeks.
"I was glad to have a hot shower," Canaday said. "This is great. Everyone has been so wonderful. The invitation down here to just let us get away from things for a day or so, I just can't thank them enough."


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The Seminary Student Store, the Athenaeum's bookstore, is operated by the seminarians of Mount St. Mary's of the West. It provides texts at reasonable prices for all students enrolled at The Athenaeum of Ohio and visitors. The store also provides special order titles for individuals or groups at discounted prices. Call the store at 231-3386 for additional information.
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This is one of several colonial-styled candelholders I had made years ago and had the parts laying around the smithy.
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This next candelholder is a Christmas gift and the future owner is a lord of the rings / medieval fan.
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A concert at Hope College has been scheduled to raise funds for Parkinson's research.
Andrew Ripp with special guest Travis Kingma will perform on Thursday, Sept. 11, at 7 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre, located in downtown Holland at 86 E. Eighth St. Tickets are $7 at the door.
The concert is being sponsored by three Hope student organizations: the college's Nu Beta chapter of the national Alpha Phi Omega service organization, the Hope Democrats and the Hope Republicans. Proceeds will benefit the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.
Parkinson's disease is a chronic, degenerative neurological disorder that according to the foundation affects approximately one million people in the United States and six million worldwide. There is no known cure for Parkinson's disease. Current treatments mask symptoms but do not alter or slow disease progression.
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Call it a meeting of the mutual admiration society or two Democratic young guns basking in the glow of their post-convention stardom. Either way, the combination of Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker and San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro turned quite a few heads last night during a Stanford University alumni event in New York City.
The dynamic duo, both of whom graduated from Stanford in the 1990s and were given featured speaking roles at the Democratic National Convention earlier this month, only stoked the buzz with their bold predictions about one another:
"I think the gentleman sitting to my left will be the first Latino governor of the state of Texas," Booker said referring to Castro, according to a POLITICO report.
"The demographics are on your side," Booker said of the growing Hispanic population in Texas. "The work in Texas now is planting seeds for that state to go blue very, very soon. Once the state shifts blue, it changes presidential politics forever."
Castro's views on the future of Texas politics were a little more pragmatic than Booker's prediction that the state will "turn into a blue state for 2014."
Castro said the Lone Star State would "take a while to change," and he reaffirmed his commitment to San Antonio, saying he would seek a third and fourth term in office. However, Castro did not leave the event without hamming it up a bit for the audience.
"A [Stanford] Cardinal deal tonight that if you run for governor of New Jersey, I'll run for governor of Texas," he said.
Booker paid Castro a visit on his home turf in San Antonio late last week where the two Obama surrogates filmed a video for the president's re-election campaign, according to a tweet from Booker.
Despite being relatively low on the totem pole of national politics, Booker, 43, and especially Castro, 38, have received a great deal of praise and attention from the Democratic party and from the social media world, some even calling for the two to pursue higher office in 2016. (That means the presidency.)
When the topic of a presidential aspirations came up, both were coy. On a night of bold predictions, neither mayor was ready to stake claim to the White House.


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Trills / Dax
In my opinion, the Trills are one of the more fascinating aliens that Star Trek has ever invented, and in many ways the character of Dax is one of the more complex and interesting that we have seen. The purpose of this article is twofold - to discuss the Trills in general, and the interesting quandaries that they have presented us with, and to explore and summarise the history of the Dax character.
For those who don't know, the Trill are a "joined species". That is, they are composed of two very distinct races who have somehow managed to physically join themselves to one another and operate as a single being.
The Host
Trill were first seen in the TNG episode "The Host", where an Ambassador named Odan was attempting to negotiate a peace treaty between two political factions of an alien race. His father had negotiated a treaty between the same groups many years before, and it was felt that Odan might have influence because of this.
Odan had a built up forehead, something that is common to most aliens in Trek, but was otherwise essentially Human in appearance.
During the course of the episode it seemed that Odan had some form of illness - at one point a large swelling appeared on his stomach, and he used some kind of device to make it go down. Later he refused to go through a transporter, claiming that he found the idea of being disintegrated unpleasant much as McCoy had claimed a century or so earlier. When an emergency threatened, however, Odan claimed that using the transporter would kill him. Fortunately Riker is able to save the day without using a transporter.
Once the injured Odan was back aboard the Enterprise-D, Crusher scanned him and discovered what looked like a large parasite within him. She planned to remove it, but Odan prevented her - he declared that the parasite was actually a symbiont joined to the Humanoid host body, and that it was the symbiont which had the memories and personality. When Odan's body died Crusher lasered a cut in his chest and removed the symbiont, but it could not survive outside of a host for any length of time. A replacement host was still some time away, so Riker volunteered to host the symbiont until a new Trill host could reach them.
Once the host was implanted within Riker, his own personality was completely submerged by Odan. Although his metabolism was being damaged by the symbiont, Riker was able to maintain it until the new host arrived. This one was a female, who introduced herself to Crusher before the procedure. Once in place, Odan went on his way and the episode ended.
References made by Odan to the Trill as a "joined species" indicate that this joining is very much the norm, although this is somewhat speculative.
You have to wonder just what the hosts get out of this arrangement. These aren't animals, after all, they are thinking, sentient beings - the way that the replacement host greeted Crusher prior to the implantation proves that. Yet after joining the host's personality is completely submerged - it is the symbiont which does all the thinking, talking, moves the body around, etc. We don't know if the host's mind is blank during the joined life - if so, then joining is effectively death for the host. On the other hand, to still be aware of what was going on around you but to be unable to do or say anything about it would be a fate almost as bad as death. Perhaps worst of all is the possibility that the host is aware of its own existence but deprived of sensory input - this would make joining the ultimate in sensory deprivation for the host, who would surely go insane in short order.
Yet the hosts apparently volunteer for this life of living hell or worse - certainly Odan's final replacement showed no obvious signs of coercion. We can only speculate that there is some extremely heavy cultural push for hosts to offer themselves up to their captors.
Let's summarise the important points of the Trill as seen in "The Host" :
|Host is Humanoid, with built up forehead.
|Use of transporter is apparently fatal.
|Host's stomach must be cut open to remove symbiont.
|Symbiont personality completely submerges that of host.
|Host has a distinct personality of its own, clearly sentient and intelligent.
|Implication is that most or all Trill are joined.
Deep Space Nine
Trills were next seen in Deep Space Nine, when Jadzia Dax arrived as one of the main characters. The first and most obvious change from TNG was in appearance; Jadzia had none of the built up forehead that Odan had possessed, but she did have some skin markings; a series of spots which went from her forehead down the side of her face and down her neck. Jadzia once famously confirmed that the spots go "all the way down"... We've since seen this pattern repeated on all Trill.
The first episode also established another fact about Jadzia, virtually in the opening dialogue :
Sisko :
|"He's a little young for you, isn't he?"
Jadzia :
|"He's twenty seven, I'm twenty eight."
Sisko :
|"Three hundred twenty eight, maybe. Did you tell him about that slug inside you?"
Jadzia :
|"Yes Benjamin, he knows I'm a Trill. He finds it fascinating, he's never met a joined species before"
|Host is Humanoid, with normal forehead but with spots on skin.
|Use of transporter is perfectly normal.
|Host has a pouch for implantation and removal of symbiont.
|Trill personality is a combination of host and symbiont.
|Host has a distinct personality of its own, clearly sentient and intelligent.
|Only one in one thousand Trill are joined.
I can see only three ways to approach the Trill problem :
Option 1 : More than one Trill species
First, we could assume that there are two species called the Trill, and that both just happen to be joined species. Perhaps one is called the "Tryl" and the others are called "Trill". On the plus side this would completely explain all of all the differences between the two versions of the Trill. On the minus side - two species, with identical-sounding names, who just happen to both comprise humanoid hosts that join to slug-like symbionts? You have to believe some wacky stuff to be really into Star Trek, but that pushes credibility a little far for me!
Option 2 : More than one race
Secondly, we could assume that there are two (or more) distinct races of Trill host. If you put a Trill from TNG next to a Trill from DS9 they do look somewhat different, but not really much more so than an Asian Human and a Caucasian Human. And Humans are not all that varied compared to some species - consider a Chihuahua next to a St. Bernard!
For convenience, I will call the Trill as seen in TNG "Alphas" and those seen in DS9 "Betas". The differences are then explained as being peculiarities of the two races.
So we can say that transporters are fatal to the Alpha hosts, but not to the Betas or the symbionts. We could even say that the problem was unique to Odan - we saw in TNG's "The Schizoid Man" that using the transporter causes a degree of shock to the body's systems and that very ill people cannot use it because of this reason. It's not at all clear if Odan's inability to use it was intended to be a general peculiarity of the Trill species, or if Odan himself was sick enough that he personally could not use it. Either way this explanation can explain away the problem.
We can also assume that the pouch is a peculiarity to the Alpha hosts, and that the joining process is somewhat different - the Alphas apparently have weak minds, or some chemical difference in the brain or something, which means that their personality is submerged by the symbionts. The Betas, on the other hand, seem to suffer from no such problems.
The apparent difference in the number of Trill joined cannot really be explained by this theory. We just have to assume that the joined Trill are regard as such a vital aspect of Trill culture that the whole species calls itself joined even though the vast majority are not.
If we do go with this option, we need to explain why so few of the Alpha hosts are ever seen. I would suggest that they make up a very small percentage of the population - 10% or less.
Option 3 : It's just a TV show, stupid!
Of course there is the old fallback position - mistakes are just that, and anybody who has the time and effort to spare to put a lot of thought into this kind of thing really needs to go out and get a life. I mean, if we aren't careful people will go creating huge websites about this kind of stuff, and where would it all end? I tend towards Option 2, and that is the assumption I went with whilst writing the Trill species entry on this site.
Jadzia Dax
So much for the species; let's talk about Jadzia!
Jadzia has had eleven joinings with ten distinct hosts for periods ranging from decades to hours. In the episode "Facets" Jadzia carries out a procedure that transfers the personality of each past host into one of her friends so that she can talk to them and learn more about them. It's an excellent source of information on the past life of Dax, the kind of episode we overly-fanatical types love! In order, then :
|A gentle, somewhat motherly type, Lela was a politician.
|Very shy and introverted, Tobin was a genius mathematician who created a very clever proof of Fermat's last theorem. Much of Jadzia's scientific knowledge comes from Tobin.
|Emony was a gymnast. She would often stand on her head to help her think. Emony once met and had sex with Doctor McCoy, some time before he became a doctor.
|Audrid we don't know much about.
|Torias was a test pilot. Daring and brave, he was killed in a shuttle accident only six months after being joined.
|Joran was joined after Torias, but proved to be mentally unstable and murdered at least one person. The symbiont was removed and the memories of the ordeal suppressed by the Symbiosis commission to cover up knowledge of how easy it is to join a symbiont to an unsuitable host.
|Curzon was a diplomat who appears to have mostly dealt with Klingons. He was something of a mentor to Ben Sisko, and was renowned as a hell raiser.
|Jadzia was, obviously, the character we saw through most of DS9. Beautiful, fearless and intelligent - what a combination!
|Verad stole the Dax symbiont from Jadzia in "Invasive Procedures" and implanted it within himself. Sisko was able to recapture Verad within a few hours.
|Naturally, after Verad was captured Jadzia regained the symbiont. She retained all of Verad's memories afterwards. Jadzia was killed by Dukat in "Tears of the Prophets".
|After Jadzia's death, the symbiont itself was on the way back to Trill when medical problems meant that it had to be implanted immediately. Ezri was the only available host, and so had to take the symbiont completely unprepared. It was a rather daunting experience for her.
Sisko :
|"It's funny... it's been almost four years since Curzon died, and I still miss the old man."
Renhol :
|"Commander I don't know what you're talking about."
Sisko :
|"I'm talking about the fact that eighty six years ago the symbiosis commission mistakenly gave the Dax symbiont to Joran Belar."
Bashir :
|"According to our information, he was joined to the Dax symbiont for six months."
|The symbiont was born in 2018. This would assume that Sisko's statement that Dax was 356 in 2374.
|Joining date uncertain - possibly around 2060. Death date uncertain, possibly around 2145.
|Joining date uncertain, possibly around 2145. Death date uncertain, but probably around 2230 - 2244.
|Was, err, 'compatible' with teenaged McCoy around 2245. Probably joined sometime around 2230 - 2244. Death date uncertain, but sometime between 2245 and 2284.
|Joining date is uncertain, but between 2245 and 2284. Died 2284.
|Joined 2284, died after six months in 2284 or 2285.
|Joined 2284 or 2285, stayed joined for about six months before being removed in 2285.
|Joined in 2285, died in 2367.
|Joined 2367; unjoined briefly in 2370 before being returned.
|Joined in 2370, for just a few hours.
|After being rejoined in 2370, remained with the symbiont until her death in 2374.
|Joined 2374, remained joined at the series end in 2375.
|Yellow text = Canon source
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Jodan uke (high block) is one of the most difficult blocks to do well. These are some of my thoughts on the subject.
First, as with all blocks, the most important thing is that you block, not how you block. Blocks in Karate arose from instinctive reactions to attacks. If someone punches at your head, you might move in a natural way that resembles a jodan uke. When someone decided to teach a defense to a high punch, they must have come up with the details that we now call jodan uke. But the instinctive movement is the root, and still the one you will probably do if attacked unexpectedly.
Jodan uke is executed in a way that is similar to gedan uke (lower block), and shuto (knive hand strike). They all have the same flavor. As such, if you can do shuto well, you can probably execute jodan uke and gedan uke well too.
In shuto, you do not use your shoulder. You keep your shoulder pressed down. However, many people perform jodan uke using their shoulder as the primary way to generate power. In our school we do not. We keep our shoulder pressed down and only raise it as little as possible at the end of the block.
The shape of jodan uke is very important. At the point of contact, the forearm and the upper arm form a right angle (90 degrees). However, the forearm is at a 45 degree angle. This means that if you held up both arms and did two jodan uke, they would form a diamond pattern.
If the forearm is horizontal, a downward moving strike will hit it directly. The force will be at a right angle to the radius and ulna. But if the forearm is at a diagonal (45 degree angle), then the a downward moving strike will slide down, much like snow falling off a sloped roof.
In addition, if the forearm is horizontal, the elbow will be farther from the body. This makes it harder and slower to strike with that arm after executing the jodan uke. On the other hand, if the forearm is at a diagonal, the elbow will be kept lower to the body, and striking with that arm will be easier and faster.
We block with the radius (the bone on the pinky side of the forearm) when executing a jodan uke, not with the wrist or the hand itself. The exact spot is about and two finger widths from the wrist, but this depends on the person and the actual spot is not as important as the fact that the block is made when needed.
When the block is completed, the ulna (the bone on the thumb side of the forearm) is about one fist from the top of the forehead.
After executing a jodan uke, let's say that you are going to execute another with the opposite arm. In our school, we emphasize that the arm that has just blocked should be rotated to the front -- the elbow moved the near the centerline of your body (sechusen). This then provides a barrier in case the attacker punches before you can execute the next jodan uke with the other arm.
The arm (rotated the the front), is used for the osae (press).
In addition, if needed, the arm when rotating to the front, can be turned into an inward block (chudan soto uke), flipped into an uraken, or shaped into a variety of elbow strikes (forward, side, downward). There are many possibilities.
If the arm is not rotated to the front, there is an opening between the two jodan uke executions. It is almost like the arms form a window through which the attacker can punch you right in the face.
In our school, students first experience the jodan uke in Fukyugata Ichi and Fukyugata Ni (because there are no jodan uke in the Naihanchi kata). The rotation of the arm to the front after the block is done in both kata, but especially emphasized in Fukyugata Ni.
Of course, a jodan uke can be done to any part of the attacking arm. Preferably, the block strikes the attacker's upper arm (if on the outside). In this way, you are close enough to counterattack very quickly. If you block near the attacker's wrist, you will probably be out of range for a counter punch, and he might be able to quickly pull back or flip his punch and counterattack. If you are on the inside, you must be careful because if you block on the upper arm, the attacker's elbow could bend and his strike coud wrap around and hit you.
A jodan uke can also be used to strike the attacker's body. In this case, it becomes more of a jodan uchi. A jodan uke, for example, can be used to strike under the attacker's jaw, or against the side of his head. You might see this at the beginning of Pinan Shodan, but it is possible with any jodan uke. It can also be used to push away an attacker who has gotten too close, almost like blocking in football. It all depends on the situation. I am sure that there are as many applications for jodan uke as Professor Rick Clark found for down blocks (he wrote about 75 applications).
Like with a punch, the jodan uke spins at the last moment. The blocking arm is kept palm inward until the wrist is raised to about the chin level. Then it quickly spins into the block. The idea is to have a cutting feeling when you make contact. Because the blocking area of the forearm is sort of oval shaped, the spin make the block sort of "kick" when contact is made.
In some schools, they do not use the jodan uke very much, preferring instead to use a higher form of chudan uke (middle block). My friend and senior Sensei Pat Nakata explains this by saying that you don't strike the attacker on the wrist or forearm, you strike more at the root -- the upper arm or shoulder. Even if a punch is high, the attacker's upper arm or shoulder is not that high. Thus, a chudan uke will work.
Jodan uke does leave you more exposed than a high chudan uke. I agree with Nakata Sensei that a high chudan uke is generally preferable. But again, the most important thing is that you block and do not get hit. If you are hit, you might be seriously injured (even killed) and not be able to counterattack.
Jodan uke is easy to do poorly and hard to do well -- just like everything in Karate.
Charles C. Goodin
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Jodan uke (high block) is one of the most difficult blocks to do well. These are some of my thoughts on the subject.
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I can't think of anything that demonstrates this twisted language any better than how Access Copyright (a licensing agency in Canada) has offered up a call to arms to get its members to fight back against those darn "users" who are looking to destroy copyright (thanks Rob!). As you hopefully know, Canada has been hosting a consultation about new copyright laws, and folks like Michael Geist have done a great job getting the public involved in the discussion. If you look at the submissions, the vast majority are in favor of protecting important user rights -- key points that have been missing from previous attempts to update copyright law in Canada.
Now, a reasonable discussion on these issues might look at the different trade-offs and such in granting these rights, but that's not what Access Copyright is doing. Instead, it screams out that the debate is being "dominated by individuals who do not agree you should get fair compensation for digital and other reproductions of your works." Of course, nothing is further from the truth. I don't know anyone who doesn't think that creators should get fair compensation -- but we feel they need to earn that by putting in place a good business model where people hand over money willingly. Instead, many who can only look to the past, want to pretend that if they just put in place stronger copyright laws, all the amazing things that new technologies allow will magically go away, and people will just start paying again. This is a fantasy.
But rather than deal with reality, Access Copyright, presents it as "us vs. them" with "them" outnumbering "us." The most stunning statement of all:
It's a simple fact that users outnumber us. But Canadian users involved in the online debate are so adept at leveraging the internet and social networks to their advantage, there's a danger that your voices as Canadian creators and publishers will be drowned out by the chatter.Think about that fact for a second. Access Copyright is talking about customers here. The people who actually determine the real value of whatever content creators make. And Access Copyright is flat-out insulting them, by making them out to be an unruly mob that content creators need to fight. Copyright is supposed to be about what's best for society as a whole, in encouraging the production of more works. It should be a win-win situation. But here Access Copyright is stating flat-out that the desires of users to protect their own rights is somehow something that needs to be forcibly denied.
If you want to understand why these industries are dying, the evidence is right here. When you treat your customers as the enemy, don't be surprised if they go away. It's not because of "piracy" or "the internet." It's because these content creators are treating their best customers as anything but customers.
And, of course, Access Copyright peppers its call for participation with false claims about these unruly "users" trying to stop them from getting paid:
It's only right, it's only fair. Creators need to get paid.Sounds good, right? Except no one is saying they shouldn't get paid, so this is a total strawman. The question is just about how these laws should work to protect user rights, and how to make sure the laws actually live up to their key point: which is to act as incentive, not as some sort of welfare system or crutch for those too uncreative to come up with business models that recognize the role of abundance in a market.
Copyright isn't a war. It's not us vs. them. It's about creating a system where society is best off and key incentives are in place to create more content. Our own complaints against those who push for stronger copyrights aren't about an "us vs. them" attitude. We've been quite happy to cheer on smart moves by those who have made mistakes before. Our only concerns are that the end result should be the best for everyone. Not a small group of folks trying to protect an old business model.
Apparently, Access Copyright thinks the laws are just for them.
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• What growth momentum or acceleration market carries during the forecast period?
• Which region may tap highest market share in coming era?
• Which application/end-user category or Product Type [Candelilla Wax, Carnauba Wax, Castor Wax & Others] may seek incremental growth prospects?
• What would be the market share of key countries like North America, United States, Canada, Mexico, Asia-Pacific, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, Rest of Asia-Pacific, Europe, Germany, France, UK, Italy, Spain, Russia, Rest of Europe, Central & South America, Brazil, Argentina, Rest of South America, Middle East & Africa, Saudi Arabia, Turkey & Rest of Middle East & Africa.?
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Fog Creek SoftwareNovember 03, 2003
It's site launch day again!
Today's redesign is Fog Creek Software, purveyors of the popular CityDesk web publishing system and FogBugz bug database software. You've probably heard of Fog Creek's founder, Joel Spolsky, via his popular weblog, Joel on Software.
My role was providing three custom CSS-driven templates for the various sections, built from the ground up to validate as XHTML Strict. Fog Creek was able to take the templates, plug them into CityDesk (which is coming along very nicely as a standards-compliant content management system, by the way), and customize the layout and content as was deemed necessary.
No, most pages don't validate, and you'll even find the odd table within the content. But Fog Creek should be commended for their forward-thinking approach to building web sites, echoed in both their products and on their company site.


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This information was the most current on file in criminal division of Marion County District Court as of Feb. 7. Information often is not available until more than a week after hearings. Journal entries must be checked before they are filed.
Ally D. Barnette, 704 N. Cedar St., Marion; pleaded not guilty Jan. 6 to charges of forgery and a charge of misdemeanor theft. Pretrial status hearing set for Feb. 3.
Michelle R. Dillashaw, 102 W. Santa Fe St., Apt. 3, Marion; pleaded not guilty Jan. 6 to charges of possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia. Pretrial status hearing set for Feb. 3.
Ron Rainey, 102 Santa Fe St., Apt. 4, Marion; sentenced Jan. 14 to six months probation in lieu of 6 months and 30 days jail on charges of possession of marijuana and assault; ordered to pay $258.


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Five points as the Ravens and wide receiver Anquan Boldin remain at an impasse over the wide receiver's status for the 2013-14 season:
1. It has been said and written that the Ravens have until tomorrow's start of free agency to make a decision on Boldin. While they'd obviously like to get the situation rectified as soon as possible, there is no deadline. The Ravens are already under the cap so they don't need to slash anymore salaries before the market opens at 4 p.m. tomorrow.
2. Just because the Ravens are currently addressing Boldin's deal, that doesn't mean that any of the other speculated cap casualties, like Pro Bowl fullback Vonta Leach, are out of the woods. The Ravens are committed to putting themselves in better financial shape going forward and to do that, they're going to have to make some tough decisions on quality veteran players. My sense is Boldin isn't the only one who will be asked to take a pay cut or let go.
3. I don't know how this is going to end, but Boldin is a proud and stubborn guy and it's hard to envision him budging much, regardless of how much he wants to remain with the Ravens. He gets that this is a business, but after he played so well in the playoffs and after his quarterback just became the highest paid player in NFL history, it's easy to see why this is a tough pill for Boldin to swallow.
4. A number of people have asked why the Ravens don't just sign Boldin to an extension that would lower his cap number for the upcoming season. The Ravens are not commenting on the situation, but the most obvious answer from the outside is that they want the wide receiver's contract off the books following next season. That's when the salary cap numbers of Joe Flacco and Lardarius Webb, among others, are going to rise significantly.
5. If the Ravens and Boldin part ways, you'd have to think that the Ravens would hit the free agent market looking for a possession receiver. While Torrey Smith and Jacoby Jones are known commodities, it would probably be a little much to expect Tandon Doss, LaQuan Williams, David Reed, Tommy Streeter or Deonte Thompson to step into such a significant role with what they've shown so far.
Five thoughts as free agency is set to begin:
1. I totally understand why linebacker Dannell Ellerbe has emerged as the Ravens' top free agent priority and I've said several times that he was the team's best defensive player during the Super Bowl season. But there's something to probably consider as competition for Ellerbe's services heats up. He's missed at least three games in each of his four NFL seasons and he's played in 33 of the Ravens' 48 regular-season games over the past three years.
2. As well as left tackle Bryant McKinnie performed in the playoffs, I think the Ravens remain in good position to re-sign him without breaking the bank. There are several talented tackles on the free agent market and that position is also a strength in next month's draft. McKinnie will still do OK for himself, but his age (he turns 34 in September), conditioning questions and some of the issues he's had off the field will probably affect his market.
3. The Ravens don't do a whole lot of this with their restricted free agents, but I wonder if they'd at least consider a contract extension for tight end Dennis Pitta this offseason. He's really come in to his own and he has a great bond with Flacco.
4. Nothing has changed in the belief that the Ravens will probably only sign one or two of their own prominent free agents. Obviously, Ellerbe and safety Ed Reed are the most likely to return and it's viewed as a near formality that Paul Kruger and Cary Williams will be playing elsewhere next year.
5. And finally, one reminder about what happened last season when free agency began. On the second day of free agency, the Ravens lost key defensive starters Cory Redding and Jarret Johnson
within hours. Pro Bowl guard Ben Grubbs departed a day later and shortly after that, Tom Zbikowski and Haruki Nakamura left the organization. It was about a week and a half into free agency when the Ravens finally made some moves, re-signing Jameel McClain and Brendon Ayanbadejo, and signing Corey Graham and Sean Considine to free-agent deals. Graham was huge for the Ravens this past year, but they arguably made their biggest free agent addition about a month and a half later when they
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NHL Game Day: 2-26-12 Lightning at Devils
Still the pound for pound champ...
Mathieu Garon allowed 3 goals on 22 shots in the victory. He made a few good stops at key times in the game to make sure the Lightning stayed in the game.
First Period
NJ Ponikarovsky (12), (unassisted), 12:07
Second Period
TB St. Louis (20), (Stamkos, Garon), 6:39
TB St. Louis (21), (Purcell, Stamkos)(PP), 14:55
Third Period
NJ Sykora (15), (Bernier, Zubrus), 2:28
TB Gilroy (2), (St. Louis, Purcell), 3:09
TB St. Louis (22), (Purcell, Brewer), 10:18
NJ Parise (23), (Kovalchuk, Elias)(PP), 17:25
Martin St. Louis and Ted Purcell were the game's first and second stars. For Marty, that's 9 straight 20+ goal seasons. While it's not as long a streak as Vincent Lecavalier's, a lot of the same praise applies to Marty. He played the bulk of his career in an era where mugging players was legal, and the amount of training and preparation work he had to put in to stay healthy enough to have 9 straight seasons of 20 goals is why he's arguably the most respected player in the NHL. It's especially true when you consider his size. Think of how hard he's had to work to maintain durability when he's the smallest player on the rink most nights. Truly impressive.
For Purcell, who had a slow first half, that's 18 points in his last 13 games. Will next year be the year he puts it together for a full 82 games and becomes a superstar? He was awesome in the playoffs last season and he's been awesome in the stretch run of this season, so far. If he dedicates to play a full 82 like this, he'll be an All-Star.
Today's game was indicative of the kind of style of game the Lightning have to embrace to win now that the bench has been shortened up by trades and injuries. They've got to play opportunistic, which means the goaltender's got to make saves to keep the team in the game, and the team's got to bury the chances they get when they come along, especially on the power play. That's the formula, and it's really the New Jersey formula, ironically. They're not going to run anyone over with talent. They've got to manufacture wins the hard way.
Tampa Bay crawls back to within 6 points of 8th place Winnipeg with 2 games in hand on the Jets. The Lightning really have to still be a little sick about that 4-3 loss in Winnipeg. A W there and the team would be sitting 3 points out of 8th and 4 points out of the division lead (pending the outcome of the Panthers' game). Finding ways to win those 4-point games is going to make or break the season. They can't afford to lose anymore of them.
Tim Wallace had 3 hits in 6:33.
Trevor Smith was +1 with 2 penalty minutes in 10:37.
J.T. Wyman had 1 hit in 11:49.
Evan Oberg was +1 with 1 hit in 11:25. The ramblin' man, making it happen.
Mike Angelidis had 1 shot and 2 hits in 7:29.
Pray for the rest of the AHL if the Lightning ever get healthy enough to send some of these guys back to Norfolk.
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CHANEL GRAINED CALFSKIN FLAP BAGCategories:Louis Vuitton
To be honest, when we first spotted the Chanel Grained Calfskin Flap Bag on the Chanel website, we were not convinced. It looked like another flap bag, but this bag is much prettier in real life. The pink edition on the picture explains it all as it is worth more than thousands words.
This flap bag is unique and it's part of the Fall Winter 2017 Collection Act 1. This design is seasonal, which means that you only have one opportunity to get it. Once it's gone, it might never return.
The Design
This bag is not only new, but also unique because we haven't met such a design before. We think the look is a combination of the boy bag and the classic flap bag with a new distinctive chain strap.
The body is really similar like the Boy Bag – the center is diamond quilted while the edges are done is smooth leather. The flap bag is streamlined and looks timeless as it's crafted with the new vintage-looking CC interlocking logo.
The flap bag is crafted with streamlined and tight edges (instead of curvy and round). It gives a mix feel of masculine and feminine while at the same time boosting its vintage appeal. The shoulder strap is also very unique because it's not made with the interlocking woven chain strap that we're used to. It's also not crafted with the boy chain. But it's made with big round chains (like big eyelets) connecting to each other and it looks gorgeous. The chain is finished with a adjustable leather strap for the shoulder comfort.
What's more? This bag is made from calfskin leather. This type of leather is durable and strong, there is not much maintenance needed. You can also see on the images that are refined with nice smooth feel.
The Interior
The interior is like other Chanel flap bags. When you open the bag, you will find one large compartment. It's also made with burgundy lining, very similar to the Classic Flap Bag. Inside you will also find a zip pocket and a patch pocket.
The Sizes And Prices
Chanel Small Grained Calfskin Flap Bag
Style code: A91576
Size: 4.9' x 8.3' x 2.6' inches
Prices: $2800 USD, €2720 euro, £2350 GBP, $22000 HKD, $4170 AUD, $4370 SGD, ¥339120 JPY
Chanel Medium Grained Calfskin Flap Bag
Style code: A91577
Size: 5.7' x 9.8' x 3' inches
Prices: $3100 USD, €3050 euro, £2640 GBP, $24600 HKD, $4680 AUD, $4250 CAD, $4900 SGD, ¥380160 JPY, ¥24100 CNY
Chanel Large Grained Calfskin Flap Bag
Style code: A91578
Size: 7.1' x 10.8' x 3.1' inches
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University of Louisville basketball player Kevin Ware's gruesome compound leg fracture had NCAA Tournament fans glued to the screen, not to mention his teammates and coach in tears as he told them to win the game against Duke Sunday night.
"The bone's 6 inches out of his leg and all he's yelling is, 'Win the game, win the game,'" said Louisville head coach Rick Pitino after the team's victory Sunday night. "I've not seen that in my life…Pretty special young man."
The team took to Ware's message after he was taken off the court, beating Duke 85-63 in the Midwest Regional at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis for a spot in the Final Four next Saturday.
RELATED: Louisville's Kevin Ware Has Surgery After Gruesome Tourney Injury
Across social media, professional athletes, college ball colleagues, and sports aficionados alike wished Ware a speedy recovery after the 6-foot-2 sophomore guard went into surgery at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis to repair his right leg.
"Watching Duke/ Louisville my heart goes out to Kevin Ware," tweeted former Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann, who famously sustained a broken leg on "Monday Night Football" in a game against the New York Giants in 1985 when he was tackled by Lawrence Taylor.
"Prayers go out to Kevin Ware. No athlete wants that to happen to anybody," tweeted Michael Jordan
Boston Celtics swingman Terrence Williams couldn't believe his eyes when he saw Ware's bone pop through his skin.
"I'm Sick To My Stomach Now Man...Please Pray For Kevin Ware....." he tweeted.
After his surgery, photos of Ware in the hospital recovering with Louisville's trophy in hand surfaced on social media.
"Looked exactly like my leg senior year of HS…He'll come back even stronger. #Believe," tweeted Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brian Hartline. Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III tweeted "Prayers up for Kevin Ware, his teammates, & family."
Phoenix Suns forward Jared Dudley had Louisville in his thoughts during the game.
"Prayers for the players in Louisville…Omg..I never seen anything like that," he said.
"I've never seen a worse accident in a basketball game. I wish Kevin Ware nothing but the best," said television and radio host Larry King.
Even Duke's Seth Curry took to Twitter to wish his opponent a speedy recovery after the game.
"And my thoughts and prayers to Kevin Ware!," he said.
"May God be with Kevin Ware and his family. Ya in my prayers bro," tweeted Lil Wayne.
Houston Rockets shooting guard James Harden had encouraging words for Ware, who will need a year to recover from the injury before getting back on the court.
"Prayers go out to Kevin Ware and his family. Hope you have a speedy recovery. I just hate to see things like that happen. #PrayforWare," he tweeted.


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The Carolina Panthers are aware of your skepticism, and they're using it as fuel for their competitive fire this weekend.
With the San Francisco 49ers emerging as a trendy pick to roll into Charlotte and knock off Riverboat Ron's upstarts, there's a stench of disrespect in the air.
Tolbert told NFL Media's Jeff Darlington that he's used to being overlooked because he's always been shorter and fatter. This time, it's sticking in his craw.
"I can't speak for everybody else, but personally, yes, I do (feel disrespected)," fullback Mike Tolbert said Friday, via The Charlotte Observer. "To me, it's absolutely ridiculous why we're the underdogs at home when we're 7-1 at home, when we beat teams that are in the same caliber as San Francisco, if not better. Personally I got a bad taste in my mouth about it."
Pro Bowl defensive Greg Hardy doesn't care what the rest of the country thinks about Sunday's showdown.
"If you don't stop me, I'm going to break your quarterback's face," Hardy said. "... That's just people talking. Naysayers, people jabbing, even old analysts and old players talking about a game that they're too slow to play. Congrats to them. That's what they get paid for."
Although the 49ers have a clear postseason experience edge, Darlington couldn't help but notice a "very loose, very casual" atmosphere as players sported Steve Smith's "Ice up, Son" T-shirts at Panthers headquarters Friday.
Which team will the have the advantage on Sunday? Click here for our divisional round breakdown.
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'How I Met Your Mother' Gloriously Reunites 'Buffy' Stars Alyson Hannigan and Seth Green
While much of the East Coast continues whipping itself into a frenzy over the incoming "Frankenstorm," we've just received confirmation that everything is going to be alright with the world. For you see, Willow and Oz are getting back together! For non-Whedon nerds, that is to say that Seth Green will guest star on the current (and potentially final) season of 'How I Met Your Mother,' alongside his former 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' co-star Alyson Hannigan. But, who will the one-time werewolf portray?
While a large portion of the 'Buffy' fanbase would undoubtedly have preferred Amber Benson, 'How I Met Your Mother' season 8 will stage something of a 'Buffy' reunion in an upcoming episode as Alyson Hannigan's former Whedon-verse co-star and 'Robot Chicken' creator Seth Green will drop by the series. The 'HIMYM' Twitter first announced the news, adding that Green will play "a creep guy named Daryl," while The Hollywood Reporter identified the character as Daryl LaCoutre, a former Wesleyan classmate of Marshall and Lily's.
Moreso, Green's Daryl viewed the couple as his best friends, though 12 years later they have little memory of the man, and find themselves unnerved that he continues to live by the campus obsessing over a reunion with them. Green isn't the first former 'Buffy' star to appear in the series either, as Whedon alum Alexis Denisof (as well as Hannigan's husband and baby daddy) has appeared on the series a number of times as reporter Sandy Duncan.
As for 'Buffy,' fans of the series well remember that Green played Willow Rosenberg (Hannigan)'s boyfriend Oz, who left to control his werewolf impulses and later returned to find Willow had begun dating Tara (Amber Benson). Green and Hannigan portrayed an on-screen couple once before, as teens in 1988′s 'My Stepmother Is An Alien.'
It isn't known exactly when Green will appear, but 'How I Met Your Mother' season 8 continues on Monday nights. Tell us what you think of Green's casting and a 'Buffy' reunion in the comments!


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Kirk Krauss is a software developer working on IBM Rational PurifyPlus.
" There are two kinds of spurs, my friend. Those that come in by the door, and those that come in by the window."
-- Eli Wallach in The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
In Deadlock-Proof Your Code: Part 1, I described a way for multithreaded software to automatically detect and work around deadlocks involving live threads. Sometimes a deadlock can involve a dead thread. Given the complexity of modern software, particularly where routines can call back and forth between one another, you have to be very careful to avoid the situation where threads exit while holding locks. If a thread takes ownership of a locks and is then terminated, and another thread waits for the lock held by the terminated thread, an endless waiting situation can begin. It's a type of deadlock that can occur if the locks involved are not aware of whether they're held by live or dead threads.
The following scenario illustrates this type of deadlock:
Once a thread has gotten stuck waiting on a lock held by a thread that has terminated, the hung thread will not execute further code, other than such code as may be involved in waiting on the lock. If other threads require either the lock held by the terminated thread or any other lock held by the hung thread, then the entire process can hang as those threads all endlessly wait.
You can solve the problem of a thread waiting on a lock held by a terminated thread if you ensure that no threads exit while holding locks. To detect this condition, you can set up watchdog methods to perform the following tracking as your program works with its threads and locks:
- Track all threads and their states (ie. running or waiting, and if waiting whether waiting on a lock, and if so, which lock);
- For each thread, also track a reference to which locks it's holding at any given time;
- Track all lock creation, acquisition (by which thread), and release.
When a thread acquires a lock, your watchdog can intercept the lock acquisition (via the same lock acquisition method described in Part 1 of this article, or via a simplified method that skips the surrogate lock mechanism described in Part 1). That way, your watchdog's lock acquisition method can track the fact that the lock is held. When the thread releases a lock, another of your watchdog's methods can track this fact as well. So your watchdog can track all of the locks held by the thread, in a list that is kept current. You can check your code for all the places where a thread is about to exit or to be terminated. At each of those spots, you can add a call to a routine that programmatically releases all of the exiting thread's locks based on the tracking performed by your watchdog's methods. This will prevent the thread from exiting until it's made sure to release any locks your watchdog is tracking. If you can establish comprehensive thread and lock tracking, you'll never again get a hang involving any locks held by the thread once it has exited.
Your watchdog's methods can be implemented as a set of functions to be explicitly called in lieu of standard OS-provided API functions (as in Listing 2 in Part 1). Alternatively, you can achieve the same wrapper effect in production code if you arrange dynamic interception of the necessary API functions via object code runtime patching or other means. Your intercepts can be set up at or near the start of the run or when a relevant component is loaded into the process.
Listing 1 (Part 1) is example Windows code that successfully deadlocks. It would deadlock over and over, recursively, if it didn't hang from a deadlock at the outset of its recursion. And if it didn't hang because of that, it would hang because threads exit while holding locks required by other threads.
Listing 2 (Part 1_ is functionally identical to the deadlocking code of Listing 1, except that it adds thread and lock tracking as described above, makes use of surrogate locks (as described in Part 1), and also makes use of a routine that releases all locks tracked as being owned by each thread that exits. That routine is called ReleaseThreadsLocks(). It appears as the last function in Listing 2 (Part 1).
Listing 2 (Part 1) is intended only as a proof of concept and does not exhaustively cover all available Windows synchronization API functions. You will almost certainly have to modify this code to meet your needs, rather than simply deploy it. The watchdog methods described here, or something similar to them, can fit virtually any platform that supports multithreaded applications. Though the code in Listing 2 is oriented toward native-code applications, the same techniques can be applied to Java or managed applications too. The locks used in the listings are critical sections, but other types of synchronization objects may benefit from similar protection to prevent hangs that occur when threads are terminated while holding locks.


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The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles has canceled a travel team visit to Fernley scheduled for August 13th. The Fernley Senior Citizens Center is closed for remodeling and will not be able to host the DMV.
The travel team, which issues drivers licenses and identification cards, will return September 10th. The team visits Fernley and on the 2nd Monday of each month.


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Release Date: 2006 |
Album Rating: 4.5Awesome album, saw that it needed a review.
Nice. I've actually never heard this despite loving Heir. pos'd
Album Rating: 4.5If you love Heir, you'll love this. Great stuff.
Album Rating: 4.0not as good as Heir but this is an awesome record nevertheless
Album Rating: 3.0I hate these fucks so much.
As specified in the other review for this band, Suis La Lune is undeniably different from their peers in the euro-screamo scene.
reference to my review in the first sentence = Sea-ego-boost = automatic pos ; )
but seriously, great review, I enjoyed it, and it desperately needed one. can't say I enjoy this nearly as much as Heir but it's pretty great from time to time.
and i don't like you HighAndDriving
Awesome album
holy shit I can't wait for their new stuff this fall... their split with Osceola had an amazing song on it that I think is gonna be on the new one
I didn't love Heir so will I love this?
no, that means you can't possibly like music
I think we both know that isn't true.
If I didn't like music I wouldn't be here.
Album Rating: 4.5Hey, thanks Sea. I read your review just prior to writing this, and i was struggling to not rip you off almost word-for-word.
And yeah, if you didn't like Heir, you won't like this. Just put it on repeat all day, you'll probably like it by the end.
Album Rating: 3.0Heir is so much better than this it isn't even funny.
h&d why would you possibly hate these d00ds
YES YES YES! finally a review for this, can't believe i didnt see this. Anyway can't wait for their next album.
"My mind is a birdcage" is one of my favourate screamo tracks right now, awesome album.
yes definitely
get Heir first though if you haven't already I don't really feel like checking
then yes definitely
Album Rating: 5.0into this
Album Rating: 4.0great stuff
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