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Padres AFL Daily Farm Round-Up 10-10-12
The Padres have sent some young studs to the prospect heavy Arizona Fall League in 2012. If you followed the great job Alex Bartlett did with the Daily Farm Round-up, then what we do with the AFL will be very familiar to you. The Padres players will be playing on the Peoria Javelinas (a pig). Check back daily for updates on the Padres future stars.
Padres on the Peoria Javelinas:
Robbie Erlin
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Helen Darling
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Garfield: "Noo! This cannot be!" ..
Garfield: "Ut oh, I know that tone of voice. We aren't getting dinner for a looong time." .
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There is all this "hoop la" about a wife who found out her husband had died in combat via text last week. My heart goes out to the families who have lost loved ones. In no way do I think how she found out was right...not at all. I would be horrified to find out that way and I'm saddened for her that she did.
You can read about it here - Army: Spouses to Blame for KIA Notification Fail
However, I think putting all the blame on the spouses of the unit is wrong. Yes, they are partly to blame. Even though there was a communications blackout, someone got word to someone else back home...meaning a soldier told his wife what happened. My husband has been deployed 4 times and been through numerous blackouts...there is ALWAYS a way to contact home if they want to bad enough. These soldiers should know whether or not their wives are busy bodies and will open their mouths.
From the article - "Truth can grow legs and change into rumor, and information is shared improperly before the Army can do the right thing."
How true is that?!! How many times have people ran their mouth and people were told the wrong information? Something as little as "Sgt Jones tripped down the steps and broke his ankle" can turn into "Sgt Jones was ambushed and the enemy broke his leg." - What if someone was told their husband was dead and he really wasn't?
Maybe everyone, soldiers & spouses, should learn to keep their mouths shut about important things like this. Of course this is meant towards those who like to be busy bodies lol...
((remember this is solely my opinion lol))
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
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- AnonymousFebruary 29, 2012 at 6:53 AM
We are making an assumption that the Army knew where to find the Spouse. The Solider was from a different HOR. Is it not possible that the Parent's were notified and the Spouse's location was unknown? She was at here parent's home. A lot of spouses go home during deployments without letting people know where they are going. Who's at fault for that when this happens?
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Lot 316: ED RUSCHA - America Whistles, from America: The Third Century, 1976
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Notes: Signed, dated `1975' and numbered 53/200 in pencil (there were also 25 artist's proofs), published by APC Editions, New York, framed.
Dimensions: S. 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
Literature: Siri Engberg 84
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Janine, it is such a lovely art form. If I remember, this one was from Russia. Lots of colours and details. Glad you enjoyed it. I would love to have the talent to paint something like this!
I love the old tole paintings too. Years ago (1960's) when I had my Antiques shop, I knewa lady that did restoration on toleware. She also did new pieces at the time. So now thoseare probably priceless too. She also taught tole painting at the local community college.I love the pastels on your piece Pink.....very pretty.....thank you dear. Janine.
Thanks, Quartina, glad you enjoyed this one.
A real beauty!!!
Thank you each for stopping by and making my day more complete with your nice posts. Poodle,I couldn't remember the name of this process, other than tole painting when I posted it, but the bargeware I googled was all brown and this was the description of bargeware : A dark brown, glazed EARTHENWARE with white clay relief patterns, produced in Derbyshire, c.1860-1910.
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Very enjoyable puzzle..thanks
It really is beautiful. I love the colors.
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On June 26, 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") Office for Civil Rights ("OCR") posted on its website the protocol it developed to serve as a guideline for the recently-implemented Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA") compliance audits. Mandated by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health ("HITECH") Act, which was enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, these audits are conducted as part of the new OCR HIPAA Audit program (the "Audit program"). Launched in late 2011, the Audit program is intended to assess covered entities' compliance with the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules. The Audit program signals a major shift in HIPAA enforcement, ushering in a new era of proactive oversight and enforcement, and a departure from the largely reactive and complaint-based enforcement activity of the past.
On June 10, 2011, HHS awarded KPMG a $9.2 million contract to develop a comprehensive and focused audit protocol for the Audit program and to conduct the audits on behalf of OCR. For the pilot of the Audit program, OCR initially aimed to audit 150 entities by the end of 2012, but has since revised its estimate and decreased the total number of audits to 115. OCR implemented the Audit program pilot in three steps. First, OCR and KPMG worked to develop an initial audit protocol in late 2011, as well as develop the sample of audit targets. OCR and KPMG then used an initial test phase to refine the audit protocol by auditing 20 covered entities from late 2011 to mid-2012. From there, OCR and KPMG stated that they planned to refine the audit protocol, and move on to audit the remaining 95 covered entities. The long-awaited audit protocol provides insights into what HIPAA requirements the auditors scrutinize during these audits, and how they ultimately assess compliance with such requirements.
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Halloween was really fun this year but I thought that we were going to miss it. On Tuesday Juliana woke up with a low fever and I wasn't all that worried. But she was dragging then she started saying that her stomach hurt. I asked her if she wanted to go lie down and take a nap (I thought she was just being dramatic and this normally will snap her out of it) and she said that she did. She lay down and slept for over 2 hours. She woke up with a very high fever (104.6) and I got a little nervous. I call her doctor's office and left a message. I gave her some medicine and by the time her doctor called back her temp had gone down a few degrees but she was just lethargic on the floor. He doctor told me to come down right away. As soon as I hung up the phone she started throwing up all over the carpet and her blanket. So I just stripped her down got us both re-dressed and grabbed a puke bowl and jumped in the car. She threw up once in the doctor's office but, that was it. Her fever went down and she was fine. While in the doctor's office I had said that I was really sad because our church was doing a Halloween party the next day and now she was going to miss it. The doctor said that she thought it was just a 24 hr bug and as long as she was feeling good the next day that she would be fine to go. So we were very happy and she had a blast at our wards Trunk-or-treat. It really was fun. And it kicked off our Halloween!!!!! Here are a few pictures. We went as a family of Robots and I made all of our costumes. I think that the costume was much cuter on Juliana than on Mike and me. But, it worked for us to.
Here she is at the Trunk-or-Treat!!!! She was very proud to be a robot. I think she looked so cute.
Here she is again...there were so many activities that he just got so excited and wanted to do everything. I think she tired everything but the cake walk.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Our Halloween week....
Posted by Natalie at 5:13 PM
11 comments:
- Nicole said...
The costumes look great! I am sad you are so far away. Maybe someday.....
- November 2, 2008 at 6:19 PM
- Kendra said...
Way to go! You did it! The costumes look fantastic! Maybe next year we'll have a family theme... or the next... or the next! We miss you!
- November 4, 2008 at 10:07 AM
- Mindy said...
Impressive costumes, and what a cute little girl!
- November 4, 2008 at 8:23 PM
- Pickett Family said...
Halloween is awesome. Too bad we have to wait a whole year before it comes around again.
- November 6, 2008 at 1:50 PM
- Perry Family said...
Love your costumes!! Sounds like you had a great week, and so glad the bug only lasted 24 hours. We had it 2 months ago, and i'm glad it lasts only a day!!
- November 7, 2008 at 10:44 AM
- Scott&Mal said...
I think you are the cutest robot family ever!! I miss you!!
- November 8, 2008 at 4:06 PM
- belleandboo said...
Thank you so much for visiting my blog & your lovely message. your halloween outfits are adorable x
- November 11, 2008 at 8:22 AM
- Liz said...
Those are just the most adorable costumes!
- November 13, 2008 at 9:43 AM
- Laurel C. said...
Hi Natalie. It's "the other Natalie's" sister, Laurel. I'm stalking you from my sister's blog. I heard that Gayle wants my e-mail address. Could you forward it to her? It's email@example.com.
P.S. I love your FHE blog! Too cute! - January 2, 2009 at 12:26 AM
- Lanie Jane said...
Thought you may be interested in a giveaway! Come by and check it out!
xo jane - January 14, 2009 at 12:39 PM
- Natalie said...
Okay, so what's the deal?? Have you abandoned this blog?! I need a new post. Uh...please! :)
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As of press time, the Green Party planned to file a federal lawsuit this week against New York City over the Board of Election's decision to use paper ballots for the party's candidates in next week's primary.
Raymond Dowd, the party's lawyer and a candidate on the ticket for state assembly said that having to vote by paper ballots constitutes "separate but unequal treatment" and is a violation of our fundamental right to vote. "Back of the bus wasn't good enough for Rosa Parks, and that's why we have civil rights legislation today. We're not going to be segregated or permit them to steal votes anymore," said Dowd.
"We had four [candidates] and when I got there, no polling worker seemed to have a clue that there was a Green Party in the primary."
Craig Seeman, the elections coordinator for the Greens, said, "This could be precedent setting if we win because it's not simply just an election law case; it's probably an equal rights or voting rights lawsuit."
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Susan Osofsky, a registered Green who works for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and lives in the Prospect Heights section of Brooklyn, said, "I went to vote on Underhill Avenue. It was really good that the Green newsletter had information on what to do, because I knew more about how the process was supposed to work than the BOE staff. They knew nothing about it."
Julia Willebrand, a former university professor who lives on the Upper East Side and works as an environmental activist, talked about her experience at her polling site. "I went to the presidential primary expecting to vote for Ralph Nader. We had four [candidates] and when I got there, no polling worker seemed to have a clue that there was a Green Party in the primary . . . There was no booth for me to vote. I had to go into a corner. When I asked what they were going to do with [the paper ballot], they looked at me like I was nuts."
Fortunately, Seeman's wife, Michelle Danels, happened to videotape some polling sites throughout the city. The party plans to use the videotape as evidence and has collected affidavits to support their case.
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Name Sauranbayev Murager Amangeldiuly
Age 19
City Almaty
Star sign Cancer
Kazakhstan is a land of ancient nomads. Last century it was part of the former Soviet Union, and it became independent in 1991.
It is the ninth biggest country in the world. It has a lot of mineral resources, including oil, gas and steel. There are more than 120 different cultures and religions but people live peacefully.
I live in Almaty, which is the biggest city and the financial and cultural centre of the country.
My favourite idol is famous Kazakh conductor and traditional instrumentalist Nurgisa Tilendyev.
Last month I participated in the first international championship of performing arts held in his honour and won the grand prize.
My favourite sport is called kokpar. It is traditional game with similar rules to football and rugby.
But it is played on horseback and players use a dead sheep or goat instead of a ball.
I enjoy Kazakh cuisine. We eat a lot of meat: horse, beef, mutton and goat, almost anything except pork. We also have traditional drinks like shubat and kumiz that are made from camel and horse milk.
Our most important festival is Nauriz on March 22 when we celebrate the spring equinox and animals and plants start their new life. It is our New Year and people all over Central Asia celebrate for one month.
During that time, people forgive others for mistakes made and offences committed. Everybody wears the national costume, invites people to their homes, cooks traditional foods and organises traditional games.
My school life is very busy but interesting. I used to study at the School of Arts, where I had to attend different musical events. I played in concerts and took part in competitions in Hollywood, Turkey, Ukraine and Russia.
Now I am a third year student at the Kazakhstan Institute of Management Economics and Strategic Research. I study media management in the department of journalism.
My mother tongue is Kazakh. It is related to the Turkish language, but the writing is similar to Russian. I also speak Russian, which is the main language of communication in Kazakhstan.
At school I study English and Persian languages. Last year, the heads of Kazakhstan and Hong Kong signed an agreement to share new technology, banking systems and social development ideas. As part of the collaboration, four Kazakh students, including me, were sent to study at Hong Kong Baptist University.
The city is awesome. I like the people: they are very friendly and open. I really miss Hong Kong!


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Keith Harris has an interesting post up today, discussing how G.A.R. members saw Robert E. Lee in postwar remembrance. Between this and their reaction toward the return of Confederate battleflags, one would think that, though interested in participating in gestures of reconciliation, Union veterans were unwilling to give up ground gained so easily forget the […]
December 27, 2008 by Robert Moore
I came across the image (originally published June 25, 1887) that follows below several weeks ago and I think, for anyone who knows the complex history of returning Civil War flags to their "homes," this is an interesting cartoon. Of course, without a little background behind the cartoon, it might be meaningless for some who look at it […]
March 25, 2008 by Robert Moore
I found Hewitt's comments about the Lost Cause while surfing the Web a couple of years ago and they have lingered with me ever since. I know that there were many in the North who wanted severe policies when it came to dealing with the postwar South. Despite what some have to say about reconstruction, […]


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Rural meets science fiction
Farmer, opal miner and author Jim Calderwood has written a book about farmers from Kimba who go to Coober Pedy to mine opal. They soon get themselves caught up with crooks and even a bit of science fiction.
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PETA honors woman who died trying to help dog
A Laguna Niguel woman who was trying to protect a stray dog at an intersection when she was hit and killed by an SUV is being recognized by PETA, the animal rights organization.
Mara Steves, 48, was trying to corral the dog while she was walking with her son near Moulton Parkway and Nueva Vista. She was on the sidewalk when two SUVs crashed at the intersection.
The impact of the crash sent one the vehicles toward the mother of two, killing her at the scene.
The animal rights organization released a statement announcing the posthumous award, which is expected to be given to Steve's husband and children.
Kristin Richards, spokeswoman for PETA, said a letter has been sent to Steve's family informing them of the award.
The Compassionate Action Award will be mailed to the family, she said.
In a statement released by PETA, President Ingrid E. Newkirk referred to Steves as a "caring soul" and a loss to the community.
"We hope that the example of love and courage that she set in coming to the aid of even the smallest and most vulnerable will inspire others to help animals in distress," the statement read.
The dog is believed to have belonged to a nearby neighbor and ran away after the crash occurred.
Carrie Snider, project special projects coordinator for PETA, said the organization gives about 30 of the awards a year, and are given to people who "have gone out of their way to help animals in need."
Steves, a past president of the Marian Bergeson Elementary school and a frequent volunteer in the community was remembered in a vigil by friends and neighbors Monday night.
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Magic Tree House number 50 features Jack and Annie and legendary magician Harry Houdini! If kids get hooked on Magic Tree House, they're hooked on books! The Magic Tree House books, with their fiction and nonfiction aspects, are perfect for parents and teachers just starting to get into the "Core Curriculum". With a blend of magic, adventure, history, science, danger, and cuteness, the book topics range from kid-pleasers (pirates, the Titanic, pandas) to curriculum perfect (rain forest, American Revolution, Abraham Lincoln) to seasonal shoe-ins (Halloween, Christmas, Thanksgiving). There is truly something for everyone here.
©2013 Mary Pope Osborne (P)2013 Listening Library
Estate planning lawyer and mom to two boys. My older son liked audiobooks as an infant, and I've listened to a lot since then.
"My boys love Magic Tree House -- keep them coming!"
Magic Tree House books definitely follow a formula, but they are beloved in my family. This was especially fun since it dealt with Houdini who is someone we have all been interested in. For sensitive listeners, this ends before his untimely death.
My sons have loved Mary Pope Osborne's narration; me, not so much. Impossible to change narrators at this late date, but many parents may not want to listen along.
This is a series that all kids would like in early elementary. My son has stayed involved out of nostalgia -- his mom, too, I guess!


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Pros and cons of using the cloud
• Improved disaster recovery – you can set up your data to back up automatically, making it cheaper and easier to recover data than it would be if your hardware was damaged. In fact, you data is even recoverable if you were to lose a laptop
• Easier collaboration and better flexibility – employees can work anywhere and still access business applications, making it easier to join forces on a project or work remotely
• Environmentally friendly – storing your data in the cloud reduces your energy consumption and carbon footprint, the benefits of which are twofold. Firstly, it can be very cost effective, and secondly it can help project a cleaner, greener image for your company
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Trashin' RC Location: Trashin' RC Toys van at the construction site in Hepburn Heights, Staunton Island. Reward: $1500 for 1st place.
Ragin' RC Location: Toyz van by the cabin inside the Belleville Park, Staunton Island. Reward: $1500 for 1st place.
Chasin' RC Location: Toyz van at the airport, Shoreside Vale Reward: $1500
Car Races
Low-Rider Rumble Requires: Beat the Ma Cipriani mission Grease Sucho. Location: Payphone by the factory, Portland Reward: Cash.
Deimos Dash Location: Payphone by the Stadium parking lot, Staunton Island. Reward: Cash.
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A strange plague has spread and infected almost everyone on earth. This catastrophic event has paralyzed the world and a cure for the plague is desperately needed. One man is now on a mission to gather all remaining scientists so they can find a solution to this problem. This one man rescue squad is our last hope!


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To placate its powerful allies on the extreme right, the Bush Administration is once again playing political games with the fate of our planet.
The latest watershed global agreement the White House is sabotaging is a bold international accord the United States helped write that offers real hope for stabilizing the world's exploding population.
In 200 years, the world's population has grown sixfold; it could almost double again by 2050. Every second, two people die and five are born. And while population growth has always been a controversial issue, it is now clear that we have begun to severely strain the Earth's finite resources.
Chaos is the increasingly real result of trying to support more than 6 billion people on this planet, spawning desperate mass migrations, wars over rights to fresh water, medical epidemics, bloody riots and crime waves nurtured in teeming shantytowns.
The war on terrorism, too, cannot logically be divorced from the struggle for population sanity. Refugee camps and hopeless slums steadily churn out alienated, landless young men and women who are perfect cannon fodder for ambitious religious and political zealots.
At the 1994 United Nations population conference in Cairo, nations with different religious, social and political make-ups bravely acknowledged that the only proven way to slow the pace of the population explosion was to empower women by giving them reproductive rights, basic education and adequate health care so that they are capable of choosing a family size that offers them the best chance at being economically successful.
This was a revolutionary idea because for much of human history a large brood of children, particularly boys, was valued as a source of farm labor; the value of women was based on their reproductive capacity.
Modern sanitation and medical practices, however, have changed human death rates in the last two centuries, especially in terms of infant mortality, but rural cultures, fundamentalist religions and nationalist politicians have been slow to adapt to the reality that more is no longer always better.
It was such reactionary forces, led by a trio of odd bedfellows–the US religious right, several repressive Muslim regimes and the Vatican–that have worked to put the kibosh on the final declaration of the UN conference, a carefully crafted pact supported by 179 nations. Now they have found their knight in shining armor in President Bush, who apparently wanted to shore up his right flank for the midterm elections and whose Administration is now threatening to withdraw crucial US support for the agreement based on some of its language.
One of the White House's beefs, for example, is with a line that says that in societies where abortion is legal, health care should be provided to make the procedure safe. According to the National Right to Life Committee, which heartily praised Bush's stance, statements like the one in the agreement are "code" advocating abortions.
But given that abortions are legal in the United States and are required to be medically sound, why would an American President seek to deny that standard of health-care protection to the rest of the world?
Here's why: Women in other countries can't vote in US elections, but the members of the National Right to Life Committee not only vote but also donate to candidates and political action committees.
More than any other in recent memory, this Administration is marked by a foreign policy driven primarily by a domestic agenda.
To seek the votes of the right-to-life caucus by mucking about with the excruciatingly complex and difficult task of reining in world population is as dangerous in its effect as it is tawdry in its motive.
And, once again, our arrogant unilateralism will cost us strategically as well as morally. When overpopulated China, India and Indonesia, as well as nations in Europe dealing with myriad crises arising from immigration, all react bitterly to this latest American isolationism, can we be surprised that they are hesitant to support Bush's jihad against Iraq?
Of course, this won't bother the aggressive claque of right-wing think-tankers currently running the foreign policy of the most powerful nation in the existence of humanity, who seem to think that power makes us God.
We are not God, and our power must not be abused. At a time when the gap between the rich and the poor is dangerously increasing, when vast armies of the desperately poor are crashing through national boundaries, it is irresponsible in the extreme to sacrifice world population stability on the altar of domestic political advantage.


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This is one sampler that I believe will one day become a real collectors item. Right now is the best time to get them because nobody wants them. But, like the old moogs, the time will come, trust me.....
What are they now...15 years old.
The keyboard was way ahead of its time. If it would have been alot more
user freindly when it came out it might have been on top today. I thought of selling it many times since '85. Every time I needed some money.
For one reason or another, I have kept it. And... in the past two years my
musical path has brought me into the computer era, the inxpensive digital
home studio decade. I have become computer literate over the past
two years. When I got a pentium and could afford CakeWalk Home Studio
I couldn't wait to hook it all up and see what happened. THe Mirage is a
great controller with excellent touch sensitive feel. Thank God there is a midi standard. I just plugged it all in and it worked
Finally, an easy way to interface with the keyboard without having to
learn to program. ...Your history if you lose the manual. I have an AWE32, CakeWalk Home Studio, a Pentium 133 with 32 meg ram and
my stereo sound system plugged in and midi sounds great. I bought a sound library once and was blown away at how good it sounded...
the whole band, on this little keyboard. Are people still out there writing, and/or improving on the computer software
for the mirage ? Are there any studio or midi operating system software for the Mirage, user
friendly, that I could download ? How about Sounds, songs, patches,
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For three years I lived in France, where they don't have an abundance of food critics with celebrity status.
It's a very professional tight ship out there and the critics don't make vindictive, personal remarks. They don't get close to chefs in the way they do in this country.
Several food critics in this country are influenced by certain chefs. They are not looking through a professional lens when they do this. When they do this they are writing from their emotions and not from professionalism.
I stay at arm's length from food critics because all my customers are critics. I don't get involved with any of them for professional reasons. I can't be seen to be involved with any of them because it then becomes an unbalanced article.
AA Gill is a very witty writer and I don't want to be personally criticised by him for the next 10 years.
If it's a constructive point of view then I will accept what he writes but if it becomes personal I'll close my doors to that. Personal attacks and insulting my staff is something I'm not putting up with ... I have made it quite clear that he is not welcome at my restaurant.
I don't respect him as a food critic and I don't have to stand there and cook for him. Being rude to staff is something I object to.
My staff were deeply upset by the unprofessional behaviour from a respected food critic.
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Harold Harefoot
Harold Harefoot | |
King of England | |
Reign | November 12, 1035 – March 17, 1040 |
Born | c. 1015 |
Died | March 17, 1040 |
Place of death | England |
Buried | St Clement Danes, Westminster, England |
Predecessor | Canute the Great |
Successor | Harthacanute |
Father | Canute the Great |
Mother | Ælgifu |
Harold Harefoot, also Harold I, (c. 1015 – March 17, 1040) was King of England from 1035 to 1040. He was said to be the son of Canute the Great, King of England, of Denmark, of Norway, some of Sweden, by his wife Aelgifu of Northampton, although there was some skepticism that he was Canute's son.[1]
Upon Canute's death (November 12, 1035), Harold's younger half-brother Harthacanute, the son of Canute and his queen, Emma of Normandy, was legitimate heir to the thrones of both the Danes and the English, but was unable to travel to his coronation, because his Danish kingdom was under threat of invasion by King Magnus I of Norway and King Anund Jacob of Sweden. Therefore he was installed temporarily as regent though Godwin the Earl of Wessex and the Queen were against it.
Harold died at Oxford on March 17, 1040,[1] just as Harthacanute was preparing an invasion force of Danes, and was buried at the abbey of Westminster.
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Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is set to meet David Cameron in London today.
Abbas, who is on an official state visit to the UK, will discuss the urgent need for progress in the Middle East peace process with the Prime Minister when they meet at Downing Street this afternoon.
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Matter of Faith: Meditation, prayer can help find God
In many Eastern traditions, and growing in popularity in the Western world, more and more is being written about meditation. And some of us are at least thinking about meditating – especially as we hear Western medicine voicing its value with some physicians even writing prescriptions for meditation. The practice is being given credit for better health, relaxation and even lowering blood pressure.
Similarly, there is a discipline called Centering Prayer, a method of silent prayer that prepares us to receive the gift of contemplative prayer, prayer in which we experience God's presence within us, closer than breathing, closer than thinking, closer than consciousness itself. This method of prayer is both a relationship with God and a discipline to foster that relationship. While Centering Prayer is attributed to the Rev. Thomas Keating, all faith traditions – Jewish, Christian and Muslim – practice some form of prayer; with Quakers and Buddhists honoring the silence.
In our world of technology and the use of cell phones, radio, CDs, TV and the Internet, silence becomes more and more difficult to find. Silence between two or in a group of people can even make us uncomfortable. Today, there is less time in our busy lives…


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an (abundance) --------------------------- of √katherines by John Green Dutton Books, 2006.
An Abundance of Katherines is John Green's second book; it is considerably more mellow than his first, Looking for Alaska, although it is another young adult novel focusing on the ever-popular themes of nerds and unrequited love.
Colin Singleton is a rather odd duck. In fact, although it is never stated, it really looks like he has Asperger's Syndrome. He is (well, was) a child prodigy, and has something approximating an eidetic memory. He loves to create anagrams, to find odd connections, and to fall in love with girls named Katherine. The book starts just after Katherine number 19 breaks up with him (they always dump him; he would never voluntarily give up a Katherine), and also just after he graduates from high school. After a bit of moping around (fulsome, broken-hearted moping), he decides that the best thing for him would be to take a road trip. Well, no, that's not true. His best friend Hassan decides that the best thing for him would be to take a road trip.
Colin is mostly wrapped up in missing Katherine #19, but he does come up with an interesting side project; constructing a mathematical model to predict how and when a romantic relationship will end (hence the rather funky formatting with the title). Thankfully for the story, Hassan is insistent that they do something other than moaning and math, and they happen across an interesting tourist attraction (the grave site of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand) in the interesting town of Gutshot, Tennessee, which happens to be the home of an interesting girl who is not named Katherine.
Collin and Hassan decide to stay in town for the summer after being offered a job interviewing old folk in order to compile a history of the town... And naturally at least one of them falls in love (or whatever). Epiphanies are had. Adventures are, reluctantly, had. And math is done.
Well, the mathematical formula for love is a bit hokey, and quite frankly, some of the other bits are a little hokey too, but the overall story is quite entertaining. While it is a bit more mild in tone many of Green's books, the overall plot is very familiar, and while the characters are new, they are also very familiar in their general outlines. In other words, this is pretty much like John Green's other books. Which I think is a good thing, although he's shown that he can do other plots and do them well.
This is essentially a coming of age story, although it takes place at the end of highschool and with rather odd characters, putting it a little outside the range of most YA stories of this type. I found it to be a little slow moving, at least in comparison to Green's other books, but still well-worth reading. I'm not certain that it makes to jump to appealing to general readership; it really is a YA novel. Albeit an amusing one.
I think that I would recommend reading Paper Towns or Looking for Alaska before An Abundance of Katherines, and get the full angsty John Green experience; Katherines is a good book for getting your Green fix once you're addicted, but the characters are just a bit odder and the story a little slower pace, which may make it harder to get hooked in the first place. Of course, I am not a teenager, so YMMV.
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Many workers across the nation are exposed to wood dusts at sawmills, wood processing facilities and during construction and renovation activities. In 2009, California's Proposition 65 list added wood dust as a substance known to the State of California to cause cancer.
Wood dust becomes a potential health problem when wood particles become airborne. Wood dust can be created when wood is cut, drilled, sanded, machined or processed. Breathing these particles can cause allergic respiratory symptoms, mucosal and non-allergic respiratory symptoms, irritation to the eyes, nose and throat, pulmonary function impairment, and even cancer. Western red cedar dust has even been shown to cause asthma.
In response to health concerns over worker exposure to wood dusts, the Institute for Safety and Health Management (ISHM) has recently sponsored an educational video about the topic. Larry Curtis, CSHM, Executive Director of the ISHM, stated, "Several entities have set standards, or given recommendations, for wood dust exposure. These include OSHA, NIOSH, and the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH). Health effects associated with worker exposure to wood dust comes not only from the wood dust itself, but also from biological organisms such as mold that can grow on the wood. Chemicals, including formaldehyde, copper naphthanate, and pentachlorophenol, are also sometimes used in the processing of some woods and are yet another health risk to workers. We hope this new video helps to educate workers, managers and the public about the risks associated with exposure to wood dust."
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text: Home > Entertainment JM de Guzman vows to give best in new soap ABS-CBN News Posted at Jul 18 2012 11:55 AM | Updated as of Jul 18 2012 07:55 PM Share Save Facebook Twitter GPlus LinkedIn Pinterest JM de Guzman and Charee Pineda MANILA, Philippines -- Young actor JM de Guzman vowed to give his best in his newest project, ABS-CBN's afternoon show "Angelito: Ang Bagong Yugto." "Masaya at the same time, more focused," de Guzman said of his preparations for the new series at the show's launch on Tuesday night. "Yung trabaho ko po hindi ko pababayaan and I will give back lahat ng blessings at binigay sa akin ni Lord. I will find ways para mas mag-improve 'yung iko-contribute ko for the show, sana," he added. The actor said that from the first "Angelito," he believed that his character in the new soap matured and he needed all the help he can get from the his co-actors to make sure that he will give justice to his role. "Ang ginagawa ko kasi ngayon, 'yung script naman natin ay hindi 'yun na 'yun, nagbabago-bago. So tulungan, it's a team effort 'yung Angelito at nandiyan ang direktor ko para i-feed ako," he said. Asked if he feels pressured to reach the high ratings that "Angelito: Ang Batang Ama" had achieved, JM replied: "Hindi ko na po problema ang ratings. Basta ako alam ko sa sarili ko na I will do my best and I love my job and I feel very greatful, 'yun lang po." "Angelito: Ang Bagong Yugto" air Mondays to Fridays, after "It's Showtime" in ABS-CBN's Kapamilya Gold. Share Save Facebook Share on Twitter GPlus LinkedIn Pinterest Read More: jm de guzman angelito: ang bagong yugto /news/03/23/17/dilg-official-lawyers-seek-robredo-impeachment/life/03/23/17/new-eats-work-dine-and-drink-at-wok-by-4900-in-poblacion/news/03/23/17/disability-affairs-official-faces-sexual-harassment-suit/business/03/23/17/the-boss-charo-santos-concio-demands-excellence/sports/03/23/17/us-celebrate-their-first-wbc-title


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Project by dean2336 | posted 05-13-2013 01:49 PM | 1143 views | 1 time favorited | 8 comments |
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#1 posted 05-13-2013 02:18 PM |
This is awesome! -- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY. |
#2 posted 05-13-2013 05:21 PM |
Very nice. I turned some spalted hackberry recently and it resulted in the fugliest bowl I've ever seen. It's just not a very attractive wood to me. Turns nicely though. |
#3 posted 05-13-2013 07:36 PM |
Nice turning, I see you had a few punky spots in there. Did you stabilize them anything? Hackberry is not the most interesting of woods but I kinda like the creamy butterscotch color. I guess it's pretty common here in the south. |
#4 posted 05-13-2013 08:50 PM |
Good looking bowl Dean – I happen to like the Hackberry, interesting color. I was also curious about the punky looking spots, did you use some CA glue to stabilize them? -- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/ |
#5 posted 05-13-2013 09:12 PM |
Those are nice Dean. Steve -- -- I'm no rocket surgeon |
#6 posted 05-14-2013 11:47 AM |
A bowl full o character. Very nice -- Roger from KY. Work/Play/Travel Safe. Keep your dust collector fed. email@example.com |
#7 posted 05-14-2013 05:17 PM |
Well I thought I was the only one using spalted hackberry :) Nice set of bowls. -- Randy - If I'm not on LJ's then I'm making Saw Dust. Please feel free to visit my store location at http://www.facebook.com/randy.blackstock.custom.wood.designs |
#8 posted 06-29-2013 09:47 AM |
Hackberry has become one of my favorite woods for turning because of the different "characters" it can display, especially in wood from older trees. This is a piece I turned from the base of a limb that fell off a huge old tree. |
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I finally got around to uploading this, it's that amazing documentary on the killing of Bin Laden from a few weeks ago. It includes an interview with President Obama – if you haven't seen it, it's definitely worth watching.
53 Responses to "the killing of bin laden"
September 28, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Was this the one that was on…. cable? History channel or Discovery or???? Is it the one on my DVR at home?? (Come on Chips, you know you have the power to see my DVR with your mind….. )
September 28, 2011 at 4:22 pm
Let me see …. *** strains eyes **** …. ah yes, you have 834 episodes of Spongebob Squarepants in your DVR. Jeez Tally!
September 28, 2011 at 3:46 pm
Hi tally, it is the one from the History channel. Of course it is on your DVR 🙂
September 28, 2011 at 3:53 pm
Thanks Debz!!! Your telepathic skillz are EPIC! I can watch it here, and delete it at home. WIN!! 😆
September 28, 2011 at 3:58 pm
It is a great responsibility to be able to see what is on every one's DVRs. I just can't remember what is on mine!! 😀
September 28, 2011 at 3:57 pm
I haven't had the opportunity to watch this yet, so thanks for posting.
I know everyone's sick of everything Palin, but I just saw the documentary filmmaker of "Sarah Palin: You Betcha" on Martin Bashir, and got interested and found this interview. I think all these authors and filmmakers expected that P. would have tossed her spikey red pumps into the presidential race by now, but nevertheless much of what he talks about, the tea party influence etc., could be applied to most of the Repub candidates
Sounds like Wasilla, 8000 people and 77 churches, is scared to death of Palin. Her most significant trait is that she's "vindictive" and those who know her best hate her the most. As stated, frightening that someone of this caliber would ever be considered for VP or POTUS. I would say "horrifying.
. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/10/sarah-palin-you-betcha-
September 28, 2011 at 5:59 pm
She's vile. And hopefully, disappearing into the Alaskan tundra to enjoy her millions donated by an ignorant fan base.
September 28, 2011 at 4:01 pm
Thanks so much, Chips. I don't have to wait for it to come out on DVD.
September 28, 2011 at 4:02 pm
thank you for that Chip
Michigan's Rick Snyder's (R-Mi) Michigan lags behind nation in income, college degrees
September 28, 2011 at 6:10 pm
I read in the paper yesterday, that he might not run for re-election. I pray that he doesn't, he's done enough damage already.
September 28, 2011 at 4:02 pm
History Channel knocked this documentary out of the park. Just as they knocked the six or twelve (?) part series America: The Story of Us out of the park. Just as they knocked the live reading, documentary, acting out of the amazing Howard Zinn's book: A Peoples History of The United States out of the park. Fan-freakin-tastic!
September 28, 2011 at 4:30 pm
TOD Family:
I truly believe this is the biggest problem we have. I'm sending this info to every newsroom I can find, and justice.gov, BEGGING THEM to run the story & investigate. We MUST get rid of these machines before nov 2012, or we are FUCKED.
Please read, then send it everywhere, tweet, FB, email your REPS, and every news outlet on the planet – if enough of us do, they can't ignore it.
This cannot wait:
Please investigate, and outlaw diebold machines!!!
September 28, 2011 at 4:34 pm
Wait a minute. This is giving credence to enhanced interrogation and the Bush Administration.
September 28, 2011 at 4:35 pm
Chipstick check this video out this is priceless. Go home Mr. Christie. Martin Bashir has some great comments http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/44706460#44706460
September 28, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Look what happens when you make a spelling error and go to:
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September 28, 2011 at 5:04 pm
BWAHAHAHA Good one Meta. I hope more republicans make that mistake and it burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrns them. 😆
September 28, 2011 at 4:56 pm
Yes, I do and I just got the latest version…something else must be wrong in my settings or something….They used to work.
September 28, 2011 at 4:55 pm
The Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court to review the Healthcare Law….
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is joining calls by states and a business group for prompt Supreme Court review of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
The department says it will file its appeal with the high court later Wednesday asking the justices to uphold the constitutionality of the law and throw out a federal appeals court ruling that struck down a key provision.
The word from Justice is the Obama administration's first indication that it wants an up-or-down ruling before the 2012 presidential election on the law that aims to extend insurance coverage to more than 30 million Americans.
September 28, 2011 at 6:07 pm
This scares me with those Republicans on the court, but maybe they want to highlight the fact that the next President will pick two, maybe even three, new Justices. I just don't trust those Republicans on the bench.
September 28, 2011 at 4:57 pm
Team Perry's Five Hour Flip-Flop On The Heartless Comment (VIDEO)
Here's Sullivan from Chuck Todd's Daily Rundown:
Here's Sullivan from Chuck Todd's Daily Rundown:
TODD: The heartless comment in particular, it's that Governor Perry said you don't have a heart if you're against this. Does Governor Perry — does the campaign regret that remark?
SULLIVAN: No. The fact of the matter is that the state of Texas does not subsidize. Every student in Texas who is a resident for three years, who's graduated from a Texas high school and who is admitted to college can pay in-state tuition. This is a residency issue. These are students, kids who have been here for a long time, and that's a decision the legislature made in 2001, ten years ago, with just four dissenting votes.
Rick Perry Backs Down: Calling DREAM-Haters Heartless Was 'Inappropriate' (VIDEO)
September 28, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Couldn't watch all of this mess. Perry is a horrible interview. Just horrible speaker. And what's with the interviewer? Strange.
September 28, 2011 at 6:09 pm
Yes, I can only take small doses of watching Republicans lie so openly on TV. And yes, Chuck Todd (the interviewer) is strange – and clueless.
September 28, 2011 at 5:04 pm
I hope I can get this video to embed. It's Martin Bashir telling the truth about Chris Christie's horrible record in NJ. Unemployment 9.4% (more than national average), child poverty 14.2%, murder rate up this year alone by 16%. And he had the gall to say our President isn't leading? He needs to fix his own damn problems.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
September 28, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Pls tweet the info. I've sent it to Rev Al, Lawrence, Ed. Everyone needs to know the truth about this phony.
September 28, 2011 at 5:25 pm
A few stories that need to be spread around
From WH – Entrepreneurs Applaud America Invents Act, Say It Will Create More Jobs
http://www.whatisworking.com/2011/09/entrepreneurs-applaud-america-invents.htmlincludes video
September 28, 2011 at 5:26 pm
Toys 'R' Us, Macy's to Add 118,000 Holiday Jobs
http://www.whatisworking.com/2011/09/toys-r-us-macys-to-add-118000-holiday.html -
September 28, 2011 at 5:27 pm
Another great one from the WH
Buffett Rule Facts and Fictions
http://www.whatisworking.com/2011/09/buffett-rule-facts-and-fictions.html -
September 28, 2011 at 5:30 pm
Shartpton Presses on. ……."Sharpton: Obama critics backed Clinton in 2008″ Maxine Waters…..Bob Johnson…..Cornell West….Bueller….Bueller
September 28, 2011 at 5:34 pm
Go Reverand Al
I hope the rally draws a large crowd, anyone on the blog able to go?
September 28, 2011 at 5:34 pm
Does Tweety really have to invite Ron Suskind to appear on his program for a 2nd time! to give him a chance to respond to his critics??? That's just sheer desperation for some anti-Obama junk, purposely and needlessly stirring up controversy. One appearance is all that is usually allowed authors to peddle their books, and in this case with this author, with all the known lies and omitted parts of quotes, one time was too many.
September 28, 2011 at 5:46 pm
College Republicans Upset Over ACA Provision THEY Benefit From 🙄
At Least 600,000 Young Adults Join Parents' Health Plans Under New Law
A failing health care pitch to college students
One of the measure's simplest, and most swiftly implemented provisions, allows children to stay on their parents' health care until they turn 26. And, as a top College Republican official let slip during a post-debate panel in a Google "hangout" promoted by Fox News last Thursday, that's become a problem for the party on campus.
"That's an issue that on college campuses we battle every day as College Republicans and that we get questions about," said CR National Co-Chairwoman Alex Smith. "The candidate that will speak to specifics like that issue and others is going to be the candidate that will eventually prevail among the youth vote."
College Republicans are generally rather media-friendly types, but officials declined to elaborate on the issue on the phone, and co-chairman Alex Schriver, emailed over a response that ignored the question of how the under-26 provision is playing out on campus.
September 28, 2011 at 5:47 pm
College Republicans Upset Over ACA Provision THEY Benefit From
At Least 600,000 Young Adults Join Parents' Health Plans Under New Law
A failing health care pitch to college students
One of the measure's simplest, and most swiftly implemented provisions, allows children to stay on their parents' health care until they turn 26. And, as a top College Republican official let slip during a post-debate panel in a Google "hangout" promoted by Fox News last Thursday, that's become a problem for the party on campus.
"That's an issue that on college campuses we battle every day as College Republicans and that we get questions about," said CR National Co-Chairwoman Alex Smith. "The candidate that will speak to specifics like that issue and others is going to be the candidate that will eventually prevail among the youth vote."
College Republicans are generally rather media-friendly types, but officials declined to elaborate on the issue on the phone, and co-chairman Alex Schriver, emailed over a response that ignored the question of how the under-26 provision is playing out on campus.
September 28, 2011 at 5:52 pm
Today was one of my busy days, so I'm just signing on to THIS!! {{Chips}} You are such a sweetheart, Chips! How did you know that I don't have the history channel?? I can't watch it now because I have to catch up, but just to know it's here! Oh! Oh!(This medium does not provide the right emotion graphics!) 😆 😆 😆 Don't know what I did to deserve you and this place, but you guys really, really add to the positive side of my life scale….DAILY! Thanks! 😆
September 28, 2011 at 5:54 pm
I think this a very interesting and important opinion—-about the "class warfare" thing—-and why Repubs defend the top 2%—–and, I think, a wise opinion on how to sell Obama's policy.
September 28, 2011 at 6:28 pm
This is a good article, and spells it out clearly and plainly. I've spoken to a few of my friends who earn six figure salaries,are well educated, live well and seem like they are thinking people – but they favor the Republican party. Their answer is always about wanting people to pull their own weight to get ahead, and not creating a culture of people who aren't motivated to get into the middle class. I couldn't understand their position, because in many other areas, they seem like caring, empathetic people with lots of disposable income, and many opportunities. They are the "independents" that we need to reach.
On further investigation, I discovered that a lot of these people aren't informed, and they assume that the Republican party is still the same party they used to assume was the inspirational party of working people trying to get ahead. They are blissfully unaware of what is going on in this country, and the many avenues that are being closed off to real working people who are simply trying to stay alive. And as much as i argue with them about "shared sacrifice" or looking out for each other – they counter with details of how they made it on their own through hard work.
I think the argument in this article of lifting everyone to make everyone a little better off makes sense. It doesn't rely on a sense of empathy or charity; it doesn't assume that individuals actually care about other people. It appeals to an aspiration of success breeding more success – which is a language these people can understand.
September 28, 2011 at 6:50 pm
I am surrounded by these kind of people. I have had many of the same arguments, in fact just one yesterday with my husband's cousin on the phone. I thought this article was interesting as it gave me some better talking points, a better approach which may have more success in convincing some of these people to think in a different way. And these are good people, most are Repub because their parents were, and like you said they still think of the Republican Party as the old model which no longer exists—–fiscally conservative, socially liberal to moderate. All have had some success but certainly aren't in the upper echelons. Like many, they just like identifying with the big money party, equating that with "success" and are mostly clueless about the current state of the Repub Party and tend not to think below the surface. And I agree these are the people which we need to reach. They aren't voting Repub because of socially conservative reasons—-Obama's going to take their guns and Bibles!—BOO!—–they're not the tea party types—–they just need some enlightenment. I wish all could read this article.
September 28, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Thank you Ms. Chips for this post and I'll have to throw a bone to Donna Dem before the 30th just to thank you againg.


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From | "Artem Vasiliev" <abub...@gmail.com> |
Subject | Re: Out of memory exception for big indexes |
Date | Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:16:39 GMT |
Hello Ivan! It's so sad to me that you had bad results with that patch. :) The discussion in the ticket is out-of-date - the patch was initially in several classes, used WeakHashMap but then it evolved to what it's now - one StoredFieldSortFactory class. I use it in my sharehound app in pretty much the same the form it is in Jira currently and it does show good results to me. In your sample searches, - how many results do you have? - how long does the sorted search execute? - what is the average size of a sorted field? - what is the CPU and how much of it and memory you give to the application? I get page 1 (first 100 items) of sorted list with 10000 items in 0.3s to 3s (for date column it exactly depends on whether the sort is ascending or descending - don't know why is that). My index is about 1mln docs and 1G; sorted fields are rather small (numbers, dates and string of maybe 50 symbols average). The machine looks quite beefy to me - Intel core duo with 500M given to the application. Regards, Artem On 4/23/07, Ivan Vasilev <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP :) > I put this problem in the forum but I had no chance to work on it last > week unfurtunately... > So now I tested the Artem's patch but the results show: > 1) speed is very slow compare with the usage without patch > 2) There are not very big differences of memory usage (I tested till now > only with relativly small indexes - less than 1 GB and less than 1 mil > docs because the when using with 20-40 GB indexes I had to wait more > than 5 mins what is practically usless). > > So I have doubts if I use the patch correctly. I do just what is > described in Artem's letter: > > AV> You can include StoredFieldSortFactory class source file into your > sources and > AV> then use StoredFieldSortFactory.create(sortFieldName, sortDescending) > to get > AV> Sort object for sorting query. > AV> StoredFieldSortFactory source file can be extracted from LUCENE-769 > patch or > AV> from sharehound sources: > http://sharehound.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/sharehound/jNetCrawler/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/StoredFieldSortFactory.java > > > What I am wondering about is that in the patch commetns > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-769) I see that there is > written that patch solves the problem by using WeakHashMap, but actually > in the downloaded StoredFieldSortFactory.java file there is not used > WeakHashMap. Another thing: In the comments in Lucene-769 issue there is > mentioned something about classes like: WeakDocumentsCache and > DocCachingIndexReader but I did not found them in Lucene source code > neither as classes in StoredFieldSortFactory.java. So my questions are: > 1. Is it enought to include the file StoredFieldSortFactory.java in the > source code or there are also other classes that I have to douwnload and > include? > 2. Have I to use this DocCachingIndexReader instead of Reader that I > currently use in cases when I expect OOMException and will use this patch? > > Thanks to all once again :), > Ivan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com > For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com > > | |
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