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Holland consider playing the fab four together
There would surely be no more popular World Cup winners than the Netherlands. The country that has produced so many great footballers and such a distinct, wonderful way of playing the game is still without a World Cup win.
Discussing the tactics of the Dutch side is not possible without a brief look at the history and culture surrounding the way they play their football. Attempting to sum up why the Dutch have underachieved is not possible within one article; David Winner has essentially written an entire book on that very subject. He begins a chapter by asking,
"Why have the Dutch never won the World Cup, despite having so many wonderful, intelligent players and such a deliciously original and beautiful concept of the game? To an outsider, the manner in which Dutch national teams regularly fail in major tournaments is hard to comprehend. What weird, remorseless, fatal inner logical causes Dutch players, coaches and the federation to exhaust themselves in pointless pretty feuds about tactics, power and money? Why, when it so obviously defeats the purpose of achieving success, do the Dutch so often pick the wrong coach or spend all their time and energy complaining about the coach they do pick? Why do their gifted teams so often fall asleep against inferior opponents? Why do their stars walk out on the eve of major tournaments? Why don't they ever seem to ask themselves why?"
He concludes,
"The most obvious diagnosis for the Dutch tendency to fail at the vital moment surely lies in the nature of Dutch individualism and antipathy to autocracy. Holland's democracy, individualism and profound distrust of authority all have deep historical roots."
Later on, Winner asks Dennis Bergkamp why Holland have so often disappointed in major tournaments. Bergkamp replies,
"It's difficult. Because we're not really a killer team…it we were a killer team, we might forget to play the football we're good at. You never know there that will end…"
The 2010 episode
So, is anything different this time around? Probably not. The Netherlands have a wonderful array of attacking talent but a slightly suspect defence; so we have all the required features of a classic Dutch show – wonderful football in the group stage followed by an alarming collapse when things get serious.
They had amongst the most impressive results of any of the 31 sides who qualified for this tournament. In an admittedly weak group, they had a record of eight wins from eight games, 17 goals scored and two conceded.
They maintained a shape throughout qualification that was described as both 4-2-3-1 and 4-2-1-3 – in this case, the notation is probably not important; the basic shape is clear.
Fluidity in the final third
The formation may be settled, but the starting XI is not. Wesley Sneijder, seen by most as the key player in this side, only started two of those eight games because of injury. Both Arjen Robben and Rafael van der Vaart were in and out of the side, whilst Robin van Persie managed to pick up a long-term injury almost as soon as qualifying was over, but is thankfully now fit. The attacking player who started the most games, Dirk Kuyt, may find himself with a place on the bench.
The reason for that is the delicious prospect of a Sneijder-Robben-van Persie-van der Vaart quartet, which would unquestionably be the popular choice. And for once, public desire to squeeze four out-and-out attacking players into the same side might just work – all are versatile, offering a plethora of attacking options, and in theory, it should work brilliantly.
"In theory" is the key, however. Those players have never started a Holland game together as a front four, although they were on the pitch as the same time for a blistering 33-minute spell against France in Euro 2008, one of the most remarkable international performances in recent history. Incredibly, Ruud van Nistelrooy was also on the pitch – and if they can work together that well with another striker on the pitch and just one holding midfielder, surely they can work as a front four in a 4-2-3-1 for Bert van Marwijk.
Will Sneijder-Robben-RVP-RVDV work?
It certainly seems to be popular with the players themselves, as Robin van Persie recently revealed, saying "Nothing negative about Kuyt, who is a good player and deserved his credit but this is my opinion…with these four players in one team we really will be unique and will have an excellent chance of success."
There is a suspicion, though, that Kuyt will get a starting spot – he offers a more disciplined, defensively aware option in the front four. Most likely for the chop would be Rafael van der Vaart, and then Bert van Marwijk would have to decide how to play his quartet – van Persie or Kuyt could play upfront, with the other three behind, but they offer two quite different options; van Persie drops deep in a false nine role, whereas Kuyt is more focussed on holding the ball up. The former seems the most natural option.
The system is a 'deliberate' 4-2-3-1, rather than a system that started out as a 4-4-2 but evolved with the wingers pushing on and one striker dropping off. The four front players are happy to rotate, as seen on the right. This is also key defensively – when Holland lose the ball the front four are not obliged to return to their starting position, they simply move to the zone closest to them if the nature of the attack has taken them off-course.
The two central midfielders will be two destructive players, Mark van Bommel and Nigel de Jong. De Jong comes short to receive the ball from the central defenders slightly more often, but also charges forward and attempts to link up with the forwards more – although don't expect much of a goal threat from the central midfielders.
The back four now looks fairly certain to be, from right to left, Gregory van der Wiel, Johnny Heitinga, Joris Mathijsen and captain Giovanni van Bronkhorst. Slightly unusually for a Dutch side that has often featured a central midfielder dropping back into the defence, or even a back three, there is relatively little of note about the defence – the centre-backs stay central, the full-backs look to get forward and provide an outlet for the midfielders. Generally only one of them push forward at a time, although with two holding midfielders in front of the defence, it is not suicidal if they both get forward.
There has been speculation that this is a slightly more pragmatic, less spectacular Netherlands side than usual – but that may be, as with Brazil, a case of viewing their previous World Cup displays with orange-tinted glasses.
The key to the success of this Dutch side (in purely tactical terms) will be the organisation of the defenders. The attacking players will surely score goals, and you know what you'll get from the two central midfielders – battling qualities and reliable, simple distribution. The back four are relatively weak players individually, maybe the weakest of the true contenders for this competition.
As always with defending, though, it is not so much about individual quality as it is about cohesiveness and mutual understanding. If the Dutch back four can work well together, they have a real chance of wining this competition – but then that wouldn't be the Dutch way, would it?


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Herman Rodriguez is a proud product of Robstown High School who studied Economics at Texas A&M University College Station and then when on to finish his MBA at Houston Baptist University. While at Houston Baptist University, he received the Greater Houston Business Ethics Roundtable $5k Scholarship.
Herman Rodriguez has a dedicated career with 25 years in credit and finance, 15 of those years with Wells Fargo Bank. Herman Rodriguez's banking career included Credit Trainer, Branch Manager and 10 years with the Business Banking Group at Wells Fargo Bank where he ended as Senior Business Relationship Manager and Vice-President. As a Commercial Banker in Houston, Herman Rodriguez managed a portfolio of all types of industries to include, non-profit, municipal, wholesale distribution, service, manufacturing and retail. His tenure at Wells Fargo also allowed him training at the 2006 College of Commercial Credit in Minneapolis, MN, Media Training in 2011, and exposure to corporate Hispanic marketing projects, along with lending, deposits and treasury management. In 2010, he attended and completed the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management Latino Leadership Program.
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In October 2013, Mayor Rodrigo Ramon and the Robstown Improvement Development Corporation Board(RIDC) hired Herman Rodriguez as Executive Director of the RIDC EB-5 Regional Center. As the Executive Director, Rodriguez helped aid with the financing for the Outlet Mall EB-5 Project and helped see it to fruition. He was later promoted to RIDC Executive Director by the RIDC Board. In July 2015, newly elected Mayor Mandy Barrera appointed Rodriguez as City Secretary and Chief Administrator for the City of Robstown. He prides himself in helping bring over 500 jobs to Robstown through economic development initiatives and in changing the look of Robstown with the new outlet mall and having over 100 dilapidated homes tom down. He continues his community and business development efforts by serving as President of the Cotton Community Partnership Board, and serving on the Advisory Board of the Corpus Christi Economic Development Regional Center. He was recently honored in 2017 as Inspiring Hispanic Leader of the Coastal Bend (Bus Wrap) awarded by the CCRTA and chosen to deliver the keynote speech at the American 01 Forum National Conference in San Antonio, Texas. He is currently working on his Doctorate in Educational Leadership at Texas A&M University Kingsville where he is focusing his research on Latino success and retention in higher education.

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David Barrett
Nathaniel Greene Harper Blouse Johnny David ("Syd") Barrett (1968-1968) was the name of Syd Barrett and David Gilmour's musical duo when Syd Barrett's body was partially taken over by David Gilmour after God punished him for huffing kittens. David Barrett caused a significant negative influence wherever it was played, especially in the South American country of Lubjubquador where it was most popular. Some even say it lead to Disco.
- 1 Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd Years
- 2 Syd Barrett's Solo Career
- 3 The Duet Career
- 4 Influence on Modern Culture
- 5 See Also
Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd Years[edit]
In the early 1960's, Syd Barrett formed a musical group called The Pink Floyd. It's original lineup was Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, and Bob Geldof. After an unsuccessful career as a Barbershop Quartet, the trio began to enter into the short-lived London Knitting-Rock Underground. In 1965, at the Crochet Underground nightclub in London, Bob Geldof joined a few barely heterosexual men in the highly sociable practice of yarn huffing. For an unknown reason, when the session was over, Richard Wright and Nick Mason were sitting in his place. Since Pink Floyd, now a two-man trio barbershop quartet, required a few back-ups, Wright and Mason were officially contracted into the Pink Floyd lineup.
The Pink Album[edit]
In 1967, Pink Floyd released their self-titled album Pink Floyd. It's album cover was originally going to be a beautiful painting of Venice by Nick Mason; however, Syd vomited onto the masterpiece after eating a whole bag of strawberry sugar wafers. The amazing depiction of Venice was now just a pink square. The band members, with nothing else to use, decided to use this as the album cover. This would go on to be Syd's only contribution to Pink Floyd, and it also caused it to be commonly called The Pink Album. It was nominated by The Rolling Doobie, Psychedelic Weekly, and even the Pink Floyd fanzine The Off-Pink Floyd as The Worst Album Ever Designed, but lost to Michael Jackson's album Touch It; however, it was a total market success due to it being confused to with the soundtrack to Pretty In Pink, and the song "P. Nis Luv R." made the top 100 single chart in Lubjubquador. The Pink Album was ripped off by Led Zeppelin in 1942. However there were claims that the album cover was actually a shade of violet nad not pink, this sparked court cases to sue pink floyd for making a violet album cover. the band said that they didn't have an education and didn't know the difference between pink and violet.
Increasing Drug Use[edit]
After so narrowly losing such a prestigious award, Syd began to pick up the hobby of kitten huffing. By 1968, Syd Barrett had reportedly huffed more kittens than this guy did since 1839 (or 1837). It is sometimes reported that Syd preferred the highly tedious and risky technique of huffing through the rectum, making his feat all the more awesome.
"That One God Incident"[edit]
After huffing so many kittens, God got pissed at Syd. Kitten huffing prevents kitten souls to go up to heaven, and kitten soul was God's favorite meal. While huffing outside the studio during the recording of An Albumfull of Shit in 1968, God came down from heaven and damned Syd Barrett to be slowly turned into David Gilmour, a kind person and pro-kitten-rights advocate. The transformation was slow, and was not seriously noticeable until 1968.
Bannage from Pink Floyd[edit]
By 1968, due to extreme drug use, kitten huffing, and oh yeah David Gilmour taking over his mind, Syd Barrett was slowly becoming irrational, often farting loudly into microphones and eating dead animals thrown on stage. Roger Waters was disgusted by this behavior, himself believing only living animals should be eaten. Roger called the band together to vote on whether Syd should be kicked out, along with the back-ups Wright and Mason. There were 3 votes to ban Syd and 1 vote to farm children on the moon (we don't know who voted for what, as it was a secret ballot). Syd plead to be kept as a songwriter, but Roger Waters is reported to have said, "Do you really think I would place your well-being above our band success?" (This would go on to become the name of Pink Floyd's third album.) Pink Floyd suffered from their loss for about four weeks, and then Seamus (the dog) joined the band. Not only was Seamus a better songwriter than Barrett, he also smelled better, and to Roger's joy, ate only living animals thrown on stage. The band had forgotten Syd's name in several days.
Syd Barrett's Solo Career[edit]
After being kicked out of the band, Syd Barrett (now becoming increasingly David Gilmour) decided to continue with a solo career. The band's manager This Guy decided not to take up Syd's offer (which was to be Syd's manager for 3 old banana peels a week) and chose instead to stay with who he considered the dominant songwriter- Seamus (the dog). Because of a birth certificate technicality, the record label assigned George Washington to be Syd's manager, who had died 6000 years ago or something. Syd was forced to manage, produce, market, write, record, and edit any album he made- a tall task for a man who was a deranged lunatic slowly becoming David Gilmour. However, Syd came through, and in 1968 he released the album Yibbijubidubuh on the same day as An Albumfull of Shit was released by Pink Floyd. The album's name was meant to be a "fuck you" statement to his former band, but since it was a word Syd had made up, only he understood the album's meaning. Yibbijubidubuh failed in most parts of the world, though it did make a small profit in Lubjubquador.
The Duet Career[edit]
Syd Barrett's solo career came to a halt when he woke up one day and the hair on the right side of his head looked oddly like David Gilmour.
The Syd Barrett-led Era (1968-1968)[edit]
Now with David Gilmour always with him (literally), Syd's solo career transformed into an awkward duet career. At this point, David had control of only the right arm. Syd was furious because this was the arm he masturbated with, and David refused to do it for him. Because they changed to a duet act, Syd got the record label to give them That Guy as their manager- coincidentally, the mortal enemy of Pink Floyd's manager, This Guy. They released their first album under the pseudonym David Barrett, which everyone would call them after that point. The album was called David Barrett, an was released the same day as Pink Floyd's third album, Do you really think I would place your well-being above our band success? It was largely dominated by the Syd Barrett side since he controlled both the mouth and left hand of David Barrett. David Gilmour was able to, with great trouble, write the song "Ludiudpuubou Dlus" (he probably meant to write "Lubjubquador Blues"), even though he was left handed and couldn't see. Since the lyrics, as David wrote them, were humanly impossible to pronounce, it is unknown by anyone how Syd was able to sing it. (Al Gore not only claims that he knows how this was done, but that it was he who created "Ludiudpuubou Dlus"; however, this is generally considered a crock of shit.) Basically, David Gilmour had very little to do with the creation of the album, though it is notable that he was present at the studio whenever Syd was.
The Breakthrough Era (1968-1968)[edit]
By 1968, David Gilmour had control over the right side of David Barrett's brain, and Syd Barrett had the right side. Furthermore, David Gilmour was much more adept at right-handed writing compared to his "Ludiudpuubou Dlus" days. Thus, most of their second album was done cooperatively and without either side in a dominant stance. Their time together, however, was plagued by the problem that each side controlled one leg, thus making walking and running an incredible chore. Often, when the two wanted to go different places, they would just end up doing a split, though this would hurt Syd more since he still had control of the crotch. Together, they released the album The About Madcap Face Laughs. It's grammatically incorrect title stemmed from a dispute between Syd and David, which they solved by haphazardly and incompetently combining the titles. The About Madcap Face Laughs is the only David Barrett album on which both David and Syd sang; midway through the album, in fact while they were eating a BBQ chicken sandwich, David gained control of the mouth and vocal cords. This not only ended up in David having to learn to speak and sing, but it also ruined an expensive shirt. Syd was oddly silent on that issue. Nevertheless, The About Madcap Face Laughs signaled an end to Syd's dominance of himself, and is considered the high point in David Barrett's creativity and cooperation with himself. It was the most mainstream album, selling 1*10^0 copies in Lubjubquador.
The David Gilmour-led Era (1968-1968)[edit]
After the release of The About Madcap Face Laughs, Syd Barrett's transformation into David Gilmour was noticeably quickened (one song written by Syd, entitled "I Eat The Hand of God For Breakfast", is usually cited as the reason). It was so quickened that even by 1968, David had already gained control of both legs, the penis, and 80% of the brain. Syd would have probably been furious, but at this point, he was more or less a vegtable. David Barrett's third album, Probably Not The Final Complaining About Maggie Thatcher, was completely written and sung by the David Gilmour side, although during one song, "Now Would Actually Be A Pretty Good Time, John", Syd Barrett's sung backup vocals. Just like with "Ludiudpuubou Dlus", how this was done is unknown. Most fans consider Probably Not The Final Complaining About Maggie Thatcher to really be just a David Gilmour solo album, and it was released as "By David Gilmour, performed by David Barrett."
Departure of Syd Barrett and David Gilmour[edit]
In 1968, Syd Barrett announced that he was leaving David Barrett, saying that it was "a spent force creatively". Nobody heard him because at this point he was just 3 hairs on David Barrett's arm. A few seconds later, he was gone, fully taken over by David Gilmour. With his mission complete, God allowed David to go his own way. In 1968, David Barrett and its manager That Guy met with Pink Floyd and its manager This Guy. This Guy and That Guy, being mortal enemies, immediately started fighting to the death. After 4 hours and 7 skyscrapers completely destroyed, This Guy was stabbed in the heart with an Oak leaf while That Guy got his genitals cut off by a nail clipper, and committed suicide moments later. The fight is generally considered a draw. During this time, David Gilmour, having missed brunch earlier that morning, ate Seamus (the dog). Pink Floyd, now once again a trio without Seamus (the dog), accepted David Gilmour into the band. Pink Floyd soon forgot Seamus (the dog) had ever been in their band, and David Gilmour forgot he had ever existed before that point. With This Guy and That Guy dead, Pink Floyd enlisted Anonymous as their manager.
Post-David/Syd Solo Career[edit]
David Barrett, now without David Gilmour, Syd Barrett, or any other person for that matter, decided to soldier on and release two more albums; I Told You It Wasn't The Final Complaining About Maggie Thatcher, where he complained about the news media and technology, and How About Some More Complaining About Maggie Thatcher, where he complained more about the news media and technology. Much like David Barrett himself, however, these did not physically exist, and never achieved any success.
Influence on Modern Culture[edit]
After David Barrett was disbanded in 1968, there were multiple other cases of transformations. Some say that Reynold O'Donnell transformed into Rosie O'Donnell (since there's no way someone could've given birth to her), and other say that John Kerry transformed into George Bush (since there's no way that guy could've been re-elected).


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One of the organizations co-sponsoring our big Halloween show is the League of Young Voters. Here's a guide they put together with their thoughts on all races in Minnesota. A good research tool:
Twin Cities Voter Cheat Sheet
Also, Davey D, one of my favorite people in the world, posted my Obama piece at his MySpace blog. It's sparked a lot of discussion, and I've written a follow-up to it which I'll link to here once it's published elsewhere, hopefully in the next day or so. That piece deals with the hip hop community and the 2008 Elections. The third piece in that trilogy will be published November 5th and deals with the successes and failures of "hip hop activism." Keep checking back for those.
Finally, the Culture Bully blog-a-thon was amazing. We interviewed almost a hundred artists and asked them about how arts education has impacted their lives. We got responses from Brandon Allday, Kristoff Krane, Prof Lukas, Big Zach, M.anifest, Muja Messiah, EZRA from Death Ray Scientific, Indigo, Sean from Hieruspecs, Laserbeak from Doomtree, Big Cats and more, and that's just the hip hop side-- also got stuff form Bon Iver, Lucy Michelle and many more. ALSO got a bunch of exclusive tracks from some of these artists. Check out the posts-- there are some real gems in there.
Playing a show for ACORN tonight at the Bedlam Theatre in Minneapolis. If I don't see you there, come out to Halloween at the Acadia. It's going to be great.


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We are still plagued by this issue. I tried applying the patch mentioned but this did not resolve the issue. I once tried to attach images from the heap dump to send out to the group but the server removed them so I have posted the images on a public service with links this time. I would appreciate someone looking at them to see if they provide any insight into what is occurring with this issue. When you follow the link click on the image and then once you see the image click on a link in the lower left hand corner that says "View Raw Image." This will let you view the images at 100% resolution. This first image shows what we are seeing within VisualVM in regards to the memory. As you can see, over time the memory gets consumed. Finally we are at a point where there is no more memory available. Graph http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2ltk0h3&s=5 This second image in VisualVM shows the classes sorted by size. As you can see, about 70% of all memory is consumed in the bytes array. Bytes http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=s10mqs&s=5 This third image is where the real info is. This is where one of the bytes is being examined and the option to go to nearest GC is chosen. What you see here is what the majority of the bytes show if selected, so this one is representative of most all. As you can see this one byte is associated with the index writer as you look at the chain of objects (and thus so too are all the other bytes that have not been released for GC). Garbage Collection http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=5obalj&s=5 I'm hoping that as you look at this that it might mean something to you or give you a clue as to what is holding on to all the memory. Now the mysterious thing in all of this is that our use of Lucene has been developed into a "plug-in" that we use within an application that we have. If I just run JUnit tests around this plugin, indexing some of the same files that the actual application is indexing, I cannot ever get the memory loss in my dev environment. Everything seems to work as expected. However, once we are in our real situation, then we see this behavior. Because of this I would expect that the problem lays with the application, but once we examine the heap dumps it then goes back to showing that the consumed bytes are "owned" by the index writer process. It makes no sense to me that we see this as we do, but none the less we do. We see that the Index Writer process is hanging onto a lot of data in byte arrays and it doesn't ever seam to release it. In addition, we would love to show this to someone via a webex if that would help in seeing what is going on. Please, any help appreciated and any suggestions on how to resolve or even troubleshoot. I can provide an actual heap dump but it is 63mb in size (compressed) so we would need to work out some FTP where we can provide it if someone is willing to look at it in VisualVM (or any other profiling tool). BTW - If we open and close the index writer on a regular basis then we don't run into this problem. It is only when we run continuously with an open index writer that we do see this problem (we altered the code to open/close the writer a lot, but this slows things down, so we don't want to run like this, but we wanted to test the behavior if we did so). Thanks, Ross -----Original Message----- From: Michael McCandless [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:52 PM To: firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: Re: IndexWriter and memory usage Run this: svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/java/branches/lucene_2_9 lucene.29x Then apply the patch, then, run "ant jar-core", and in that should create the lucene-core-2.9.2-dev.jar. Mike On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Woolf, Ross <email@example.com> wrote: > How do I get to the 2.9.x branch? Every link I take from the Lucene site takes me to the trunk which I assume is the 3.x version. I've tried to look around svn but can't find anything labeled 2.9.x. Is there a daily build of 2.9.x or do I need to build it myself. I would like to try out the fix you put into it, but I'm not sure where I get it from. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael McCandless [mailto:email@example.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 4:12 AM > To: firstname.lastname@example.com > Subject: Re: IndexWriter and memory usage > > It looks like the mailing list software stripped your image attachments... > > Alas these fixes are only committed on 3.1. > > But I just posted the patch on LUCENE-2387 for 2.9.x -- it's a tiny > fix. I think the other issue was part of LUCENE-2074 (though this > issue included many other changes) -- Uwe can you peel out just a > 2.9.x patch for resetting JFlex's zzBuffer? > > You could also try switching analyzers (eg to WhitespaceAnalyzer) to > see if in fact LUCENE-2074 (which affects StandandAnalyzer, since it > uses JFlex) is [part of] your problem. > > Mike > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Woolf, Ross <email@example.com> wrote: >> Since the heap dump was so big and can't be attached, I have taken a few screen shots from Java VisualVM of the heap dump. In the first image you can see that at the time our memory has become very tight most of it is held up in bytes. In the second image I examine one of those instances and navigate to the nearest garbage collection root. In looking at very many of these objects, they all end up being instantiated through the IndexWriter process. >> >> This heap dump is the same one correlating to the infoStream that was attached in a prior message. So while the infoStream shows the buffer being flushed, what we experience is that our memory gets consumed over time by these bytes in the IndexWriter. >> >> I wanted to provide these images to see if they might correlate to the fixes mentioned below. Hopefully those fixes mentioned below have rectified this problem. And as I state in the prior message, I'm hoping these fixes are in a 2.9x branch and hoping for someone to point me to where I can get those fixes to try out. >> >> Thanks >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Woolf, Ross [mailto:email@example.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 1:29 PM >> To: email@example.com >> Subject: RE: IndexWriter and memory usage >> >> Are these fixes in 2.9x branch? We are using 2.9x and can't move to 3x just yet. If so, where do I specifically pick this up from? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Lance Norskog [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] >> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 10:20 PM >> To: email@example.com >> Subject: Re: IndexWriter and memory usage >> >> There is some bugs where the writer data structures retain data after >> it is flushed. They are committed as of maybe the past week. If you >> can pull the trunk and try it with your use case, that would be great. >> >> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Woolf, Ross <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >>> I was on vacation last week so just getting back to this... Here is the info stream (as an attachment). I'll see what I can do about reducing the heap dump (It was supplied by a colleague). >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Michael McCandless [mailto:email@example.com] >>> Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 3:39 AM >>> To: firstname.lastname@example.com >>> Subject: Re: IndexWriter and memory usage >>> >>> Hmm why is the heap dump so immense? Normally it contains the top N >>> (eg 100) object types and their count/aggregate RAM usage. >>> >>> Can you attach the infoStream output to an email (to java-user)? >>> >>> Mike >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Woolf, Ross <email@example.com> wrote: >>>> I have this and the heap dump is 63mb zipped. The info stream is much smaller (31 kb zipped), but I don't know how to get them to you. >>>> >>>> We are not using the NRT readers >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Michael McCandless [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] >>>> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 5:21 PM >>>> To: email@example.com >>>> Subject: Re: IndexWriter and memory usage >>>> >>>> Hmm, not good. Can you post a heap dump? Also, can you turn on >>>> infoStream, index up to the OOM @ 512 MB, and post the output? >>>> >>>> IndexWriter should not hang onto much beyond the RAM buffer. But, it >>>> does allocate and then recycle this RAM buffer, so even in an idle >>>> state (having indexed enough docs to fill up the RAM buffer at least >>>> once) it'll hold onto those 16 MB. >>>> >>>> Are you using getReader (to get your NRT readers)? If so, are you >>>> really sure you're eventually closing the previous reader after >>>> opening a new one? >>>> >>>> Mike >>>> >>>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Woolf, Ross <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >>>>> We are seeing a situation where the IndexWriter is using up the Java Heap space and only releases memory for garbage collection upon a commit. We are using the default RAMBufferSize of 16 mb. We are using Lucene 2.9.1. We are set at heap size of 512 mb. >>>>> >>>>> We have a large number of documents that are run through Tika and then added to the index. The data from Tika is changed to a string, and then sent to Lucene. Heap dumps clearly show the data in the Lucene classes and not in Tika. Our intent is to only perform a commit once the entire indexing run is complete, but several hours into the process everything comes to a crawl. In using both JConsole and VisualVM we can see that the heap space is maxed out and garbage collection is not able to clean up any memory once we get into this state. It is our understanding that the IndexWriter should be only holding onto 16 mb of data before it flushes it, but what we are seeing is that while it is in fact writing data to disk when it hits the 16 mb limit, it is also holding onto some data in memory and not allowing garbage collection to take place, and this continues until garbage collection is unable to free up enough space to all things to move faster than a crawl. >>>>> >>>>> As a test we caused a commit to occur after each document is indexed and we see the total amount of memory reduced from nearly 100% of the Java Heap to around 70-75%. The profiling tools now show that the memory is cleaned up to some extent after each document. But of course this completely defeats the whole reason why we want to only commit at the end of the run for performance sake. Most of the data, as seen using Heap analasis, is held in Byte, Character, and Integer classes whos GC roots are tied back to the Writer Objects and threads. The instance counts, after running just 1,100 documents seems staggering >>>>> >>>>> Is there additional data that the IndexWriter hangs onto regardless of when it hits the RAMBufferSize limit? Why are we seeing the heap space all being used up? >>>>> >>>>> A side question to this is the fact that we always see a large amount of memory used by the IndexWriter even after our indexing has been completed and all commits have taken place (basically in an idle state). Why would this be? Is the only way to totally clean up the memory is to close the writer? 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Makhaya and moi
By Rajneesh Rallan
PS: Who are the other South Africans with Ntini
Nov 6, 2010 at 5:14 PM
3 comments:
- Naked Cricket said...
Welcome on bored Rajneesh. Bet you don't remember the other guys in the pic?
- November 6, 2010 at 5:20 PM
no idea sir. i swear ! ntini is the only SA cricketer i can identify with ease. i had another run in with him at hard rock cafe and i dropped him later at the taj. he was so tired he dozed off on the back seat :)
- November 6, 2010 at 5:27 PM
- Naked Cricket said...
Ntini slept with you in the backseat of yr car?
- November 6, 2010 at 5:29 PM
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Creating a Sustainable Legacy
Collaboration, passion, and a lot of hard work are proving place-based, hands-on science lessons are possible and successful for the small seaside community of Carmel, California. In 1995 the Carmel Unified School District (CUSD) approved a project to turn a 10-acre property adjacent to the Carmel Middle School into a natural learning center for its students. The property was named the Hilton Bialek Habitat. Since then, the District schools have had an unwavering focus on teaching students the principles of environmental stewardship, ecoliteracy, and sustainability through the Hilton Bialek Habitat and other programs.
The District now boasts environmental-focused programs in all of their schools and is close to becoming the first school district in the nation to have all of its schools named NOAA Ocean Guardian Schools, a program that requires schools to complete a conservation project to preserve or protect local waters.
Examples of these school-run efforts include Tularcitos Elementary School students conducting trash audits at lunchtime to record the number of students bringing waste-free lunches. Carmel River Elementary School's volunteer group "Blue Crew Litter Bugs" keep the surrounding area and watershed free of trash. Carmel High School's Environmental Club sold stainless steel water bottles and placed filtered water dispensers throughout the school to raise awareness of one-use plastics. And Captain Cooper Elementary School has a partnership with the Monterey Regional Waste Management District to work on vermicomposting and paper recycling.
How has CUSD, MEarth, and the Habitat complemented and strengthened the programs for their community?
The District and community needs resulted in a call for the Habitat to expand with more staff and programming opportunities. A non-profit organization called MEarth (pronounced Me Earth) was established in 2008 to reach the underserved areas of Monterey County. This unique partnership through the CUSD, the Habitat, MEarth, and their community partners has allowed them to blossom and provide a dynamic and diverse set of educational programs focused on the environment and sustainability, including their newly opened green building project – an eco-classroom. Today, the Habitat serves over 2,500 students a year from Seaside, Marina, Monterey, and Salinas and introduces them to lessons in sustainability, healthy lifestyle choices, organic gardening, biodiversity, ecoliteracy, and much more.
The Habitat's model programming was recognized in 2006 with a Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award for Children's Environmental Education. The Habitat includes a native plant nursery, organic garden with an outdoor kitchen, and an ornithology amphitheater. Since then, they have continued to build upon a solid foundation of collaboration, education, and sustainable design. The staff at MEarth enjoy every opportunity to share their extraordinary accomplishments with their students and the community.
Since the Habitat project began, they have seen an increase in the number of bird species rise from 50 in 1995 to an astounding 185 different species in 2011.
"Carmel Unified School District's schools not only recognize the importance of teaching and facilitating ecoliteracy, but they have become role models for fellow administrators and educators in other local districts." - Kimberle Herring, Public Education Coordinator, Monterey Regional Waste Management District
Commitment to produce students who are prepared for their role as citizens in the global community. The District focus includes ecoliteracy, demonstration projects, and a dedication to sustainability practices and programs.
District Climate Actions
- Established ecoliteracy programs in all schools
- Increased recycling efforts through coordination with a waste collection company, teachers, school officials, maintenance staff, and students
- Developed Habitat project to improve science hands-on learning opportunities and environmental stewardship
- Utilizes grant funding to purchase re-usable utensils and items for waste-free lunch programs
- Green Classroom completed in 2012
- Supported a living laboratory for Carmel Middle School (CMS) science classes
School Environmental Initiatives
- Carmelo School - Incorporates waste and litter free lunch program and activities at all age levels
- Tularcitos Elementary School - Promotes waste-free lunches and audits student lunchtime trash
- Captain Cooper Elementary School - Implemented a Zero Waste Lunch program and partners with local Waste Management District on vermicomposting and paper recycling
- Carmel River Elementary School - Volunteer student group "Blue Crew" keep the surrounding watershed free of trash
- Carmel Middle School - Integrates the Habitat facility into all grade levels
- Carmel High School - Environmental Club placed filtered water dispensers around school to raise awareness of one-use plastics
Hilton Bialek Habitat and MEarth Programs
- Summer and Winter Camps, and After School and Weekend Programs
- Community Education Workshops open to the public includes "Sustainable Homes & Gardens"
- Federal Work Study Internship Program


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The world's largest event listing for women!
WomensCalendar is owned and operated by Women's Online Media and Education Network (W.O.M.E.N.) and has been online since 1998, which for those of you who remember, was before the internet was "the internet".
W.O.M.E.N. has managed a variety of online promotional and syndication-focused websites and tools for over 20 years, including the longstanding audio/video streaming and podcasting service, AudioAcrobat (founded in 2004), WomensRadio, which has been giving women and all people a greater voice through internet radio since 1995 and WomensCalendar, the world's largest event listing for women, also since 1998.
In 2015, after having been online for 17 years, the WomensCalendar site switched from being a ".org" to a ".com", and along with it came a literal tidal wave of updates and upgrades, including a transformation into being a smart calendar that can talk to other calendars, pull in and distribute out multiple events automatically through calendar feeds and be embedded onto other websites and blogs using the Super Widget.
Other notable smart calendar features include the integration of Google Maps, the ability to upload images, embed audio / video, direct visitors to purchase tickets or visit the event website and a one-click solution for visitors to subscribe to as much or as little of the calendar as they like, in the calendar of their choice (Google Calendar, iCal (Apple), Outlook, Timely, etc.).
At the adolescent age of 20, WomensCalendar has also come to be quite social, in that events are now auto-tweeted via the @WomensCalendar Twitter account, posted to the WomensCalendar Facebook page and are displayed on-site with a variety of notable social sharing buttons for effortless and beautiful social promotion.
The WomensCalendar team has been hard at work carving out a variety of new promotional posting options that were not previously available, including the ability to post as many events as one wishes for FREE; the posting of Featured Events for fast and effective promotion, which prominently displays these events on the WomensCalendar Home Page as well as the Featured Events Calendar for a mere $10/event.
In addition to posting events one-at-a-time, WomensCalendar also offers (3) Sponsorship levels: Small Business, Leadership and Enterprise, all of which include pulling in and featuring sponsors' entire calendar feed for 30 days, prominently displaying Medium Rectangle (300×250) and Leaderboard (728×90) banner ads on-site, sending custom Tweets and Facebook Posts via WomensCalendar promoting your business and/or event(s), a featured profile on the WomensCalendar Home Page and Blog and, of course, post-sponsorship analytics.
Another top-tier level of opportunity offered specifically to nonprofit organizations for FREE is that of being a Featured Organization. Included in this opportunity is a radio interview with W.O.M.E.N. CEO / Founder, Pat Lynch, prominent placement of your organization's logo on the WomensCalendar / WomensRadio sites and social promotion on various W.O.M.E.N. networks, which total over 20k+ fans/followers.
With all of this at your fingertips… nothing can stop you from promoting and having a successful event!


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Stuttgart, Germany - Haus der Wirtschaft
25 June, 09:00 AM - 26 June, 02:30 PM
HxGN LOCAL D-A-CH+, the annual users' group conference for the German-speaking region will be held June 25 – 26, 2019, at Haus der Wirtschaft in Stuttgart, Germany. The event is hosted by Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure, in cooperation with Hexagon Geospatial.
With hands-on training, innovative technology previews, professional networking, informative sessions and keynotes, and a tech expo, this conference will be the perfect place to sharpen your knowledge and skills for the future.
More information (incl. registration form) are avaibale on the event website.
See you in Stuttgart 2019!


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Wandering musicians, as knowledgeable of the courts as of the open fields, as accomplished with verse as with song. Copper, the metal of the gypsy caravan, and the spire rising above the cathedral. Distressed, oxidized, and patterned in copper, and metal alloys. Hand-painted dials.
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Nearly 200 years ago a young Sussex gardener, Thomas Smith, became irritated with the clumsy boatlike 'trogs' he used and set out for his workshop to streamline their design. He changed the shape slightly, used individual boards, added feet and a handle, swapped a vowel and the trug as we know it arrived.
Derived from the old Anglo Saxon word 'trog' meaning wooden vessel or boat,they were originally used as measures for liquids and grains before they evolved into garden and ornamental baskets. Likewise the maund which was used in Devon for the collection and storage of potatoes, apples and onions.
Convinced of the superiority of his enhanced design, Thomas Smith sent a trug to the Great Exhibition of 1851 in the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London. A bronze medal and diploma of merit were awarded and Queen Victoria was amused. She was so enchanted by the trug she immediately ordered several as presents for her family, ranging in size from little ones for the children to larger ones for the adults.
Thomas Smith insisted on making each one personally and pushed them in a handcart the sixty miles from Sussex to Buckingham Palace. These same trugs are now in the South Kensington Museum.
From these encouraging beginnings flowed success for the trug makers who set up their workshop at Herstmonceux, Sussex where they still make trugs to this day.
Here in Golden Bay the tradition continues. The trug, maund and flower baskets are examples of craft in one of its finest forms. The trug and flower basket Brett makes are light enough for the smallest child to handle yet rugged enough to withstand decades of garden use. The clean simple lines have an aesthetic appeal which invites one to hold them.
The maund or Devon splint basket as it is sometimes known, with its copper bound base and larger dimensions is beautiful, strong and sturdy without being too heavy.
The work of trugmaking has a peaceful simplicity about it and in today's world of virtual reality and mass production, the baskets are grounded in their making by traditional construction, simple woodworking tools and the individuality of a handmade treasure.


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According to the NYS White Collar Crime Task Force, there have been some updates to the New York State's white collar crime laws. A cybercrime is any crime in which a computer, smartphone or the internet is found to have been used to commit or conceal a crime. This new proposal expands the definition of "computer material" in an effort to aid in the prosecution of those who access another's private emails without their authorization or hack webcams for sexual gratification or to hack into webcams to spy, and for those who access school databases to obtain children's disciplinary records.
The proposal also upgrades the computer tampering law where anyone who was found to have had possessed a skimmer device, may face a penalty that puts the crime on par with grand larceny based on whatever harm was caused.
Over 37% of felony complaints in 2012 involved a cybercrime or the crime of identity theft. The number of those kinds of complaints were in the thousands, according to the NY County District Attorney's Office. So, in an effort to tighten laws regarding identity theft, the proposal makes the crime of identity theft a premeditated crime. The amount of money stolen and/or the number of those victimized would be taken into account as well.


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Whether you're brushing up on a second language, practicing English as a second language or just learning a few phrases for a summer trip abroad, the library has got you covered. Most of our customers know the library offers books, CDs and DVDs to help you learn a foreign language. But you can also use our powerful language learning tool, Mango Languages, without ever leaving your home. All you need is your free Fairfax County Public Library card to get started with more than 70 online language courses. Each lesson covers practical, real-life conversations presented by native speakers in a clear and simple format.
Accessing Mango is easy:
- Go to the library's website at http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library.
- Select Online Resources in the menu on the left.
- Select the orange Languages icon in the e-Research section.
- Select Log On and enter your valid Fairfax County Public Library card number.
- Create a profile and log in to access the Mango language course of your choice.
-Rebecca Wolff, Centreville Library


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Programming note: For all the day's sports news, tune in to SportsNet Central tonight and every night at 6, 10:30 p.m. and midnight on Comcast SportsNet Bay Area
Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie attended Jadeveon Clowney's pro day on Wednesday morning, joining an audience full of coaches and executives with picks near the top of the NFL draft.
The Raiders select No. 5 overall, but it's highly unlikely Clowney will be available at that selection. Clowney might go first overall, and few believe he'll make it past Jacksonville at No. 3.
[RELATED: NFL Draft 2014 page]
NFL Network analysts lauded Clowney's athleticism early in an exhibition designed to showcase Clowney and the University of South Carloina's pro prospects.
Pro days are but a small part of the evaluation process, and it's generally doesn't change opinions formed from college game tape and other parts of the pre-draft process.


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Way to Save Marriage from Divorce
Divorce is the last stage of marriage, once marriage comes across this stage, often couple leave hopes to survive their marriage anymore, In fact, they want. So of the couple's struggles and strive to unearth Way to Save Marriage from Divorce.
If you are also from that couple, dealing with a horrifying thing in your marriage then you should consult with astrology specialist. They have highly and great command on astrological fields as well have been years of experience of resolving issues. Globally, many of the people have been taken avail of powerful services of the astrologer as well still they are connected with a specialist.
So if you indeed want to survive your marriage from separation and you have to consult with astrology specialist. They will suggest you powerful and strong remedies of astrology, from which, whatever conflict and crisis is going in your marriage will get out instantly, and gradually you will able to save and enjoy your married life which you indeed want.
Way to keep harmony alive in marriage
Keep harmony alive in a marriage, over a time seem like difficult because couples get busy with their works, this is why, and both can't make time together and resultant of that distance risen between both of them.
Well, some of the healthier couples can easily manage all works and make time for their spouse, therefore, that couple can easily keep harmony and affection alive in a relation but what about those couples, who are not able to deal with ups and downs and can't spend healthier time with a spouse. If you are in this complicated situation then you have to consult with Astrology specialist. They have great command of astrological fields as well power to resolve all type of issues with effective and fruitful results. So instantly consult with a specialist and enjoy your married life as you want.


text: Theodore Tso <email@example.com> writes: > On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 03:02:34PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> For dir_index you have to take the FS offline, tune2fs and fsck it or >> you totaly corrupt it. > > Actually, that's not true. It's perfectly safe to run tune2fs on a > mounted volume to enable the dir_index feature. All directories from > that point on which grow beyond a single disk block will use the > hashed-tree optimization. "e2fsck -fD" run off-line is only needed in > order to upgrade existing large directories to use dir_tree. Did they fix that? When I first looked into dir_index it was said that it would corrupt the directories since it would search the old linear dirs via hash and insert new entries by hash into linear dirs. That would totaly confuse the filesystem for obvious reasons. > (Of course, you can also do something like "cd ~/Maildir; mkdir > cur.new; mv cur/* cur.new; rmdir cur; mv cur.new cur" if you want, as > long as you are confident you don't screw up or confuse a currently > running mail client.) > > - Ted MfG Goswin


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Starting To Feel Like Fall!
Not much color in the trees yet, but I think we will have a beautiful Fall. We are looking at day time temperatures in the mid to upper 70s and nights in the low 40s to low 50s through the coming weekend. Slight chances of rain over the coming weekend (30% at this time).
What can I say about the generation schedule. All last week, we had no generation in the mornings and then two to three units on for 5-6 hours in the afternoong. Saturday, was pretty much the same, but less flow in the afternoon. Yesterday, they turned on not quite one unit at 10:00 a.m. and kept it on all day. The projection for today was to be low one unit until 4:00 a.m. then off for 8-9 hours and back on to a low one or two units. NOT! Turned on three units this morning at 7:00 and it is still on. Hopefully, we will go back to our off in the a.m. and then something in the afternoon pattern tomorrow. To be continuted…..
Stan finished up the second day with Terry and Jim from Oklahoma last Thursday. After the blow out on the generators on their first day, everyone decided to just make it a half day just in cast they fired up all three units at once again. Worked out great. Another good morning for these guys on the P&P, ruby and copper dun midges. And, good decision. At 1:00 p.m. on came three units, fast and furious. Jim had David and David out for a full day. They did good in the a.m. with the CQ streamer, copper dun, B-bug, blood worm dropper and gray scud. Not too much to say about the afternoon. They opted for 1/2 day on Friday and that also worked out better for them. Dana also out on Friday with Andy from South Dakota. Good day on the red San Juan worm and a tan B-bug.
Yesterday, Stan took Bob and Linda out for most of the day. Great day for these guys with the low flow they had when they hit the river. Big ruby with a size 18 ruby dropper almost all day.
Marge and Price, from Kansas spent the morning on the river with Jim. Good day for these two, especially Marge, on the CQ streamer and red midge.


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Galway's new tribe to be announced tonight
Aire Stáit Seán Kyne TD do Ghnóthaí Pobail, Acmhainní Nádúrtha agus Forbairt Dhigiteach will this evening (Thursday) announce the Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh category winners and the overall winner for 2018 at the grand final in the Rockbarton Suite, Salthill Hotel.
Gearrliosta Ghradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh 2018 announced
The 2018 finalists of Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh were officially announced this week by the Mayor of the City of Galway, Cllr. Pearce Flannery at a press event in Téatar Uí Chearbhalláin, Áras na Gaeilge, NUI Galway. Fifteen Galway-based businesses and organisations from a variety of sectors were named on this year's Gearrliosta, all who have made the Irish language an integral part of their story.


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Gary Mayes is the Executive Director of ChurchNEXT (a division of Church Resource Ministries) responsible for 140 staff who serve on 17 teams. He has been with CRM since 1997.
In this role, he is building a movement of specialized teams that help leaders and churches worldwide succeed at making disciples and transforming their communities.
Prior to joining CRM Gary spent twenty years in local pastoral ministry and is able to draw from this experience as he works in the trenches with pastors, churches and their leaders across the country. Gary has been speaking to and training church leaders since 1983. He has authored and co-authored five books and given leadership to the development of numerous resources and training processes used by CRM staff worldwide.
In recent years, Gary has served leaders on every continent but one and has developed a unique relationship in Africa. In addition to U.S. based responsibilities, Gary mentored the development of CRM's partner, Harvest Leader's Network, an African-led movement to develop pastors and leaders for a church that will transform Africa.
On the education front: He received his B.A. in Christian Education from Biola University in California, his M.Div. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois, and D.Min. in Organizational Systems from Bethel Seminary.
Married to Margaret for 40 years, they are the parents of two adult children and over-the-top grandparents of two young boys. Margaret left teaching in 2016 and is now the Director of Strategic Prayer for ChurchNEXT.
Gary's latest book was written to reawaken the dream of what the church could be as well as provide hope for how to get there. It is based on a sweeping look at the turning points for the church in the book of Acts. The title is: "DNA of a Revolution: 1st Century Breakthroughs that will transform the Church."
The book is available through Amazon in paperback or Kindle format.
"DNA of a Revolution: The Small Group Experience" study guide is also available at Amazon.


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CycleOps Magneto Trainer
The CycleOps Magneto bike trainer is the world's first magnetic trainer with progressive resistance. The Magneto increases resistance as you increase pedal speed, so your effort and speed follow each other on a natural curve. There are no manual adjustments needed, simply shift gears as you would when riding outside.


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Lauren has been doing computer tutoring at the library recently, teaching people (mostly elders) to get online, to do internet searches, and to use email and instant messaging. This poem grew out of her deep appreciation for the heroic challenge that many old–and not so old!–people face as they confront an often bewildering new technology.
A Hero's March
In my eyes, she is a hero.
I smell cookies and pumpkin pie
whenever she comes for a lesson,
and always I think how much her
grandchildren must love her.
But hunched at the monitor,
she seems tiny and insecure.
Gentle eyes examine the screen as
she looks out from a face lined with
graceful wrinkles.
Her frail hands touch the keys,
like a child on her first day of school.
Bravely, she types:
And then it's like watching a sunrise;
because suddenly she is reading me an
email from her daughter in California,
and asking how to print the
"Very Scrumptious Double Chocolate Cake" recipe.
She's beaming as she collects her papers,
and I grin as she leaves,
because her step is a hero's march.


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Who says there's no free lunch in Singapore?
Where to find free meals in Singapore
The storm of recession is blowing all over the world. As the stock markets continue to go south and companies are tumbling the storm is blowing many employees out of their jobs. Although Singapore is one the richest countries in Asia, there are many poor people in its midst who cannot afford the soaring food price and the high cost of living.
Many of the needy are the silent workforce - foreign workers. Their salary are so low that Singaporeans would not take these jobs. Most of their salaries are sent home to their families or pay off up to a year's worth of debts
Help is available for the needy. Yes, there is such a thing as free lunch in Singapore. Some religious associations and welfare groups provide free meals. The bills are sponsored by members of these groups and business people.
Here are some of the places that provide free meals:
Singapore Buddhist Lodge. The Kim Yan Road temple serves free vegetarian breakfast, lunch and dinner from 7am to 7pm. All are welcome regardless of their race or religion. In the queue one can find all sorts of people, from the homeless, unemployed, foreign students, foreign construction workers and of course some freeloaders who work nearby.
The Central Sikh Temple. The temple in Jalan Bukit Merah provides free vegetarian Indian lunches every day.
Nativity Church. This Catholic church at the end of Upper Serangoon Road provides free breakfast and lunch every day.
The Lutheran King of Glory Church in Norris Road, serves free meals every Sunday to ndian workers dring its Taml service.
Buddha Tooth Relic Temple. This Buddhist temple at South Bridge Road provides free meal from 12.30pm to 6.30pm every day.
Tian Tao Temple at Sengkang invites foreign workes to its Sunday breakfast buffet.
Thye Hua Kwan Moral Society. They have meal centres in Toa Payoh (Blk 31 #01-663 Lor 5), Telok Blangah (Blk 3, #01-504, Telok Blangah Crescent) and MacPherson (Blk 90, #01-103, Pipit Road).
Sri Krisna Mandir. The Hindu religious group at No 9, Lor 29, Geylang. serves free vegetarian food from 11am to 10 pm daily. All are welcome.
Care Corner Seniors Activities Centre. The Centre at Toa Payoh, Lor 7 Blk 5 #01-131 serves free breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea for senior citizens. (http://www.carecorner.org.sg)
Free Hawker Meal Program. If you are a needy resident living in Tanglin-Cairnhill area, you can apply for help at the Tanjong Pagar GRC. The GRC, under the free Hawker meal Program provides $36 worth of meal vouchers every month to needy recipients for a year. You can exchange the $3 voucher for a free meal at selected food staff at some of the coffee shops in Bukit Merah View and Henderson Road.
Sutha Restaurant. This restaurant at Cuff Road provides free breakfast (from 7am to 9am) and dinner on weekdays only and lunch on Sundays. This is for stranded Indian workers in Singapore whose beds are the concrete walkways along Cuff Road. These distressed migrants are abandoned by their employees after their work injury or they are duped by the agents. To qualify for the free food, participants are asked to show a Special Pass (a govt-issued document, which means they do not have a work permit) or evidence that they are injured / have a case pending (a letter from a doctor/lawyer plus a work permit). It is funded by the Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) together with One Singapore.
Lamea Restaurant. The TWC2 provides free dinner for Bangladeshi at Lamea restaurant at Desker Road. (http://www.twc2.org.sg)
ACMI. A Catholic humanitarian group called the Archdiocesan Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People or ACMI, feeds migrant workers three times a week at its premise in No 2, Highland Road. The site is beside the Church of the Immaculate heart of Mary (http://www.catholic.org.sg/acmi/soupkitchen.htm).
The Migrant Workers Centre in Rangoon road provides free lunches once a month in parntership wth neigbouring restaurants. The center is a joint effort betweeen the NUTC and the Singapore national Employers Federation.
YWCA. Their meals-on-wheels for Elderly distributes free lunches to needy, frail and homebound senior citizens in Banda Street, Bukit Merah View, Cantonment Road, Holland Road, Lengkok Bahru, and Mei Ling Street.
Their Meals-on-wheels for Children program provides free dinner for children from Low-income families who are schooling in Zhangde Primary School, New Town Primary School, Queenstown Primary School, Gan Eng Seng Primary School and Beyong Social Services. For more information on the meals-on-wheels program, please contact Ms Celest Ling at 6223 1227.
The Willing Hearts, a secular group, distributes free food in 10 areas, among them Ang o Kio, Bukit merah and Hougang. Call 9690-2086 for more information.
In these times of needs, there is no shortage of compassion from the people of Singapore. Nobody in Singapore needs to go to bed hungry. Thankfully, nobody starves to death in Singapore.
Sam Choo is an internet marketing coach at http://samchoo.com
God Bless ALL volunteers who gave their time and donation of food to the needy. Keep up the GOOD DEEDS, God will bless all volunteers with good health .
Glad to know there are good people in the world who are taking care of others. ;)
cool hub!!
Brilliant hub ! I wish there were free meals here too :)
I only know few places that offer free lunch as I read them in my local paper. I don't know there are so many great souls in Singapore that help people. Thumb up for Singaporean!
Alamak, you are luring all the hubpages writers to go eat free ah!
I loved singapore when i went to visit! I would definitely go again
Thank you very much for the compilation of where to get meals for Singaporeans and others in Singapore who really need them. I will send this information to some of those who need them during this recession. Thank you again.
Thanks for this article. I think it's heartening to know that there are so many kind souls ready to help and feed others. I just hope that no one who can afford a meal on their own will take advantage of these kind efforts.
Wuthout a stable income, I personally keep my meal expenditure to $3 or below, and drink water from my trusty bottle. :-)
And this site is also good to visit: jialat.com/2008/04/21/2-food-in-singapore/


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Another airline is eyeing Fort Lauderdale-to-Jacksonville service.
JetBlue Airways announced Wednesday that it will begin twice-daily nonstop service between the destinations starting Oct. 29. The news comes a day after regional carrier Silver Airways revealed its plans to start daily nonstop service, with up to three flights between the cities starting on Aug. 19.
Fort Lauderdale-based Silver plans to use its flagship 34-seat Saab 340Bplus aircraft on the route. JetBlue will use 100-seat Embraer E190 planes.
"We are pleased to announce our 33rd destination from our fast-growing South Florida focus city," said Dave Clark, JetBlue's vice president, network planning.
JetBlue is aiming to capture business and leisure travelers on the new route, which it says also will give Jacksonville residents the ability to connect in Fort Lauderdale to its other destinations across the U.S., Latin America and Caribbean.
The flights will depart Fort Lauderdale at 7 a.m. and 6:55 p.m. daily, and from Jacksonville, at 8 a.m. and 6:45 p.m., according to JetBlue.
Wednesday's announcement follows JetBlue's previously stated plans to add new service between Fort Lauderdale and Pittsburgh, Las Vegas, and Cartagena, Colombia, also starting Oct. 29.
The new routes are part of JetBlue's ongoing efforts to increase operations at the Fort Lauderdale airport to 100 daily departures by 2017. When operational, the New York-based carrier will offer up to 80 daily departures from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood where it currently ranks No. 1 for passenger traffic as of March this year.
To celebrate the Fort Lauderdale-to-Jacksonville service, JetBlue is offering special fares from $69 one-way through Friday for travel between Oct. 29 and Dec. 17.
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Care & Prayer
Congregational Care devotes itself to nurturing the family and friends of BPC in their times of need and to witness Christ's healing love through service and prayer. Congregational Care is comprised of the ministries described below. We encourage you to let us know when you need support.
We have faithfully served members for many years through ministries such as Chain of Prayer, Loving Meals, Transportation Support, and more!
In recent years, we've added the Shepherd Ministry, a ministry that helps us keep connected by reaching out to families of all means and sizes, a Families With New Babies ministry, and our latest Care and Connect Ministry. We are an effective representation of the heart of BPC!
All requests are confidential. Please email our Director of Congregational Care Ministry, Mary Garbesi.
The Shepherd Ministry is a caring liaison for every BPC household. BPC is grouped geographically. Each "area" is assigned a Shepherd Minister, a specially trained lay person who calls on his/her neighborhood group at least twice each year. It's a great way to keep in touch and care for one another in a more personal way!
The Chain of Prayer Ministry responds to hundreds of prayer requests every year. More than 50 volunteers receive the prayer requests via e-mail, fax, or telephone, and provide focused prayer for the needs and concerns of the church family.
Fill out the form below to email your prayer request. All requests are secure and confidential.
The Flower Ministry coordinates the ordering of flowers for the Sunday morning worship services and schedules those interested in purchasing bouquets to honor or remember loved ones. Flowers designated for donation after worship are distributed to nearby mission partner locations and other sites as well.
The Memorial Service Ministry assists families in the planning of services for loved ones who have passed from this life to more life. This ministry is a comforting presence to bereaved families and provides ushers, hosts, and home-baked cookies for receptions after memorials.
Please email Mary Garbesi if you need to set up a service.
Additional Services Provided by the Care Ministry
"So then, as often as we have the chance, we should do good to everyone, and especially to those who belong to our family in the faith."
~ Galatians 6:10
Correspondence Ministry
is composed of "writers with heart" who offer notes of condolence, encouragement, get-well wishes, and 80-and-over birthday wishes on behalf of the BPC family.
Meals Ministry
assists members by providing a meal for those who are recovering from surgery, illness or injury in their home.
Transportation Ministry
serves our members who do not drive, happily providing rides to Sunday services, church functions, or even an important doctor's appointment.
Care Teams
In coordination with the pastors and Director of Congregational Care, Care Team members visit persons in the hospital and care centers and at home during times of illness and recovery. They offer spiritual support through a compassionate presence, listening, Scripture, and prayer. Members of this team have been trained for this ministry and participate in ongoing training and accountability
Home Communion:
Deacons are available to assist Pastors in offering home communion for those unable to attend worship.


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Considering using leather as part of your home design? Love the subtleness and warm natural hues? If you're answering yes, then it is important to consider and understand the many aspects of this wonderful material. What is it that lures us to leather?
Origin – Who Wore It Best?
Leather is, by definition, a durable material created from the hides of animals. Primarily cattle is used for most of the leather goods we are most familiar with; however, many types of animal hides are being used for practical and luxury items. Some of the more popular hides used are deer, lamb, ostrich, buffalo, snake, ostrich, ox, kangaroo, and yak.
Each hide lends itself better for specific uses than others. For example, lambskin is used for softer, higher end wearables. Deer and elk would be used for indoor shoes and work gloves. Pigskins provide the leathers we use in automobile interiors. The list of items that can and are created from leathers is extensive.
Think cowboy states. If you've every been to one, you know that almost anything and everything with a hide can be turned into a gorgeous leather boot.
Leather 101
Cows are very large animals, and therefore, have large thick hides. The hide itself is composed of two integrated layers – the grain and the corium. The grain being the tighter and tougher outermost layer of the hide while the corium rests beneath the grain and is comprised of different amounts of collagen making it softer.
Full grain leather is the best leather quality because it has not been separated from the top grain or split layers, and is therefore the strongest and most durable type of leather. The grain remains intact, and the pores and patterns of the hide can be seen.
Top grain leather is made from hides that are considered to be too flawed to become full grain leather. It has had the split layer of the hide removed from it, leaving it softer and more pliable than full grain leather. The leather is then sanded or buffed to remove flaws. It may have a finish coat added to the surface, making it less breathable than full grain leather. The name "top grain" often confuses consumers as it makes this type of leather seem to be the "top quality." In fact, it is not the highest leather quality- full grain leather is.
Then there is genuine leather. Genuine leather normally refers to the layering of lesser quality leathers pressed together. Another leather word you may have heard is bonded which means it is leather pieces bonded together.
Leather and Design
Fine leathers like anything else are created by artisans who use their own techniques and years of experience to create the most magnificent natural material we can use in design. Learning about each of them is fascinating. Because of its flexibility of style, color and texture, leather lends itself to complimenting almost any interior design project.
As with all materials, quality materials like leathers are paramount to successful design. If leather is your love, select products that are top quality. As leather ages, it becomes more subtle and the patina deepens. For instance there's nothing more beautiful than a top grain leather chair that has been sat in for many years adjacent to a fireplace. Because of its flexibility, leather also makes for wonderful creative accent pieces. Ideally, hone in on one or two fabulous pieces that provide that wow factor.
Leathers are also being used as counter and door wraps, floor and wall tiles. Non-traditional uses are interesting and give a fine high-end finish in non-traditional ways
Genuine or bonded items will eventually crack and peel leaving you less than pleased with your purchase decision. Love the look of leather but potentially not the idea of using a natural hide? There are many recycled and man-made materials that duplicate that feel,but here again, be sure to select the products that meet your budget and ideaology but will endure and delight you in the long haul.


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Western blotting (immunoblot): Gel electrophoresis for proteins
Western Blotting (also called immunoblotting) is a technique used for analysis of individual proteins in a protein mixture (e.g. a cell lysate). In Western blotting (immunoblotting) the protein mixture is applied to a gel electrophoresis in a carrier matrix to sort the proteins by size, charge, or other differences in individual protein bands. The separated protein bands are then transferred to a carrier membrane (e.g. nitrocellulose, nylon or PVDF). The proteins adhere to the membrane in the same pattern as they have been separated due to interactions of charges. The proteins on this immunoblot are then accessible for antibody binding for detection.
Read more about Western blotting (immunoblot)
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Five States Where College Is Most Affordable
MarketWatch reporter Annamaria Andriotis joins the News Hub to count down the top five states with the most affordable colleges. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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They were starting to get the little tiki rooftops ready to go!
We made sure to pay a visit to the Great Ceremonial House - a goodbye visit to the space as we know it - what with all the construction that's planned for the lobby. The Wyland gallery was already closed - apparently that's where there will be temporary check-in desks while they reconstruct the main check-in area. The desks are supposedly going to the pod-style like at Pop Century. I'm honestly not a huge fan of the pod design, but whadda you gonna do? It'll be fun to see all the new stuff in December. I'm still surprised at the lack of any official concept art of the new spaces.
**UPDATE MAY 2 - The Disney Parks Blog just shared this post about the Polynesian's name change with some sketches! They've got a tiny waterfall and a tiki god in the center of the lobby instead of a lush, tropical oasis, and apparently there's something called "Trader Sam's Grog Grotto" on the way.**
I really don't know what I'm going to do without this waterfall. I just don't.
All I can say is that if there are new carpets they better be JUST as cool as the old ones.
A lot of the photos I've seen online have been of the bungalows out on the lagoon, but I haven't seen many of the inside of GCH. I'd be interested to know what's going on - is Boutiki still open? What's the deal with the check-in desks? If the waterfall is walled off, are the seating areas too? I'd love to hear y'all's thoughts and gossip in the comments!! Captain Cook's is closed - the temporary replacement is the Cast Member cafeteria, dressed up for the occasion. YES - there are still cupcakes. NO - there are no dole whips. Sniff.
But let's get outside - LOOK AT ALL THIS FANCY STUFF GOIN ON.
There's a brand new beautiful firepit area from the s'mores making!
You'll find this exact same firepit at some of the other resorts - Beach Club, for instance. It's definitely an improvement on the Poylnesian's previous firepit, which was literally a fire in a pit on the beach. This seems safer.
Seeing the tropical ferns and landscaping going on around the firepit promontory made me wonder yet again what kind of promontory/area they'll have for weddings with Sunset Point gone. The Poly was such a popular venue...
Looking further down the beach we spotted walls and rooftops going up on the water. These pics were taken in early March - now the bungalows are starting to look finished!
If you're interested in the hammock situation, there is one lone hammock left on the main beach at the Poylnesian - you can just see it beyond the swing by the green construction walls. There used to be hammocks right next to the boat dock as well, but they weren't there in March.
There is no construction or anything especially noteworthy in this photo. I just thought the pink tree and the evening light on the longhouses was super pretty. ;)
It was amazing to see the progress they made just during our trip. A few days later there were even more rooftops waiting to go up...
And now they ARE up! WDWMagic has some more recent photos, and of course the Tikiman has lots of great details and news from April here.
Sigh....construction cranes just aren't very Disney look, but I suppose there's no helping it. And while I'm excited to see what all the new things will look like, I'm not super happy that Disney is cramming the Seven Seas Lagoon with another DVC property. Won't this make the monorail and the resort that much more crowded? I would love a brand new resort in some brand new location - they've got all that land, after all!


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UPDATE: 7th Circuit Declines to Revisit its Decision in Late NHL Player's Wrongful Death Suit
On June 25, 2018, a panel of three 7th Circuit judges voted to deny a rehearing in the wrongful death suit filed on behalf of the late NHL player, Derek Boogaard. As we have continued to cover since 2013, the case was originally dismissed largely due to procedural and technical defects, rather than the merits and alleged facts of the case.
Boogaard died in 2011 following an accidental overdose of pain medication and alcohol. He was 28 years old. A posthumous diagnosis revealed that Boogaard suffered from "chronic traumatic encephalopathy" (CTE), a degenerative brain condition often caused and exacerbated by blows to the head. Allegedly, Boogaard became addicted to pain killers and sleeping medication while playing the NHL. Despite his addictions, league doctors continued to prescribe the drugs and allowed Boogaard to continue playing.
The wrongful death suit, filed by Boogaard's family, was originally halted in 2015, after the district court granted summary judgment in favor of the NHL. The district court held that Boogaard's claims were preempted by the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA); however, the Boogaard's then filed an amended complaint. The district court again sided with the NHL by granting a motion to dismiss. The district court noted that the Boogaard's forfeited their claims by failing to respond to the NHL's argument and that their amended complaint failed to state a claim on which relief could be granted.
In September 2017, the Boogaard's appealed to the United Stated Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, but in May 25, 2018, the Seventh Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal. Most recently, the Boogaard's requested that the Seventh Circuit revisit its decisions; however, a panel of Judge Frank H. Easterbrook, Judge Amy Barrett, and Judge Joseph Stadmueller all voted to deny a rehearing.
Boogaard played in 277 NHL games for the Minnesota Wild and New York Rangers and he was involved in at least 66 on-ice fights.


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Victor and Konrad are the twin brothers Frankenstein. They are nearly inseparable. Growing up, their lives are filled with imaginary adventures...until the day their adventures turn all too real. They stumble upon The Dark Library, and secret books of alchemy and ancient remedies are discovered. Father forbids that they ever enter the room again, but this only peaks Victor's curiosity more. When Konrad falls gravely ill, Victor is not be satisfied with the various doctors his parents have called in to help. He is drawn back to The Dark Library where he uncovers an ancient formula for the Elixir of Life. Elizabeth, Henry, and Victor immediately set out to find assistance in a man who was once known for his alchemical works to help create the formula. Determination and the unthinkable outcome of losing his brother spur Victor on in the quest for the three ingredients that will save Konrad's life. After scaling the highest trees in the Strumwald, diving into the deepest lake caves, and sacrificing one's own body part, the three fearless friends risk their lives to save another.
My Review:
This was such a fantastic book! And it was very dark and creepy! After all, while Victor loves his brother, he's also jealous of him. There's Elizabeth who's between them, unknowingly. And yeah, he still wants to save his brother!
And then there's the whole journey to save Konrad. And all the threats that are in that journey, and what they have to do to find a cure, it's creepy, scary, and yeah, it sent chills up my spine! This could pretty easily be labelled as horror, at least horror lite!
We got to know these characters pretty well, there are some mysteries still, since it's the first book, and there's going to more coming! So yeah, there's going to be that, and so we're going to be able to spend more time in this world that's going to lead him to create Frankenstein's Monster!
Yeah, this was a really fantastic book, I really enjoyed it so much, and I can't wait to read more!
Author: Kenneth Oppel
Series: This Dark Endeavour Chronicles #1
Read: April 3rd, 2012
Source: Library
Reason Why: I wanted to, it's a LLFL book, and it's a YAHFC book!
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: August 23rd 2011
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Cloning, Sequencing and Partial Characterization of the Accessory Gene Region of Plasmid pTC-F14 isolated from the Biomining Bacterium Acidithiobacillus caldus f.
Thesis (MSc (Microbiology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2005.
Plasmid pTC-F14 is a 14.2kb promiscuous, broad-host range IncQ-like mobilizable plasmid isolated from Acidithiobacillus caldus f. At. caldus is a member of a consortium of bacteria (along with Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans and Leptospirilum ferrooxidans) that is used industrially for decomposing metal sulphide ores and concentrates at temperatures of 40ºC or below which is now a well-established industrial process to recover metals from certain copper, uranium and gold-bearing minerals or mineral concentrates. These biomining microbes are usually obligately acidophilic, autotrophic, usually aerobic iron- or sulphur-oxidizing chemolithotrophic bacteria. Their remarkable physiology allows them to inhabit an ecological niche that is largely inorganic and differs from those environments populated by the more commonly studied non-acidophilic heterotrophic bacteria. At. caldus, is a moderately thermophilic (45 to 50ºC), highly acidophilic (pH1.5 to 2.5) sulphur-oxidizing bacterium, and its role as one of the major players in the industrial decomposition of metal sulphide ores has become evident in recent years. At. caldus f from which pTC-F14 was isolated was found to be one of two dominant organisms in a bacterial consortium undergoing pilot-scale testing for the commercial extraction of nickel from ores.