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Is Era Group Inc (ERA) A Good Stock To Buy?
Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) lagged the larger S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by more than 10 percentage points since the end of the third quarter of 2018 as investors first worried over the possible ramifications of rising interest rates and the escalation of the trade war with China. The hedge funds and institutional investors we track typically invest more in smaller-cap stocks than an average investor (i.e. only about 60% S&P 500 constituents were among the 500 most popular stocks among hedge funds), and we have seen data that shows those funds paring back their overall exposure. Those funds cutting positions in small-caps is one reason why volatility has increased. In the following paragraphs, we take a closer look at what hedge funds and prominent investors think of Era Group Inc (NYSE:ERA) and see how the stock is affected by the recent hedge fund activity.
Era Group Inc (NYSE:ERA) shareholders have witnessed an increase in hedge fund interest in recent months. Our calculations also showed that ERA isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q3 rankings and see the video below for Q2 rankings).
Chuck Royce of Royce & Associates
We leave no stone unturned when looking for the next great investment idea. For example Discover is offering this insane cashback card, so we look into shorting the stock. One of the most bullish analysts in America just put his money where his mouth is. He says, "I'm investing more today than I did back in early 2009." So we check out his pitch. We read hedge fund investor letters and listen to stock pitches at hedge fund conferences. We even check out this option genius' weekly trade ideas. This December, we recommended Adams Energy as a one-way bet based on an under-the-radar fund manager's investor letter and the stock already gained 20 percent. With all of this in mind let's take a glance at the recent hedge fund action regarding Era Group Inc (NYSE:ERA).
How have hedgies been trading Era Group Inc (NYSE:ERA)?
Heading into the fourth quarter of 2019, a total of 6 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a change of 20% from one quarter earlier. By comparison, 7 hedge funds held shares or bullish call options in ERA a year ago. With the smart money's capital changing hands, there exists a few notable hedge fund managers who were adding to their stakes substantially (or already accumulated large positions).
More specifically, Royce & Associates was the largest shareholder of Era Group Inc (NYSE:ERA), with a stake worth $17.5 million reported as of the end of September. Trailing Royce & Associates was D E Shaw, which amassed a stake valued at $1.9 million. Citadel Investment Group, Millennium Management, and Redwood Capital Management were also very fond of the stock, becoming one of the largest hedge fund holders of the company. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position Royce & Associates allocated the biggest weight to Era Group Inc (NYSE:ERA), around 0.16% of its 13F portfolio. Redwood Capital Management is also relatively very bullish on the stock, earmarking 0.02 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to ERA.
With a general bullishness amongst the heavyweights, key money managers have jumped into Era Group Inc (NYSE:ERA) headfirst. Citadel Investment Group, managed by Ken Griffin, initiated the largest position in Era Group Inc (NYSE:ERA). Citadel Investment Group had $0.4 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Israel Englander's Millennium Management also made a $0.3 million investment in the stock during the quarter. The only other fund with a brand new ERA position is Gavin Saitowitz and Cisco J. del Valle's Springbok Capital.
Let's now take a look at hedge fund activity in other stocks – not necessarily in the same industry as Era Group Inc (NYSE:ERA) but similarly valued. We will take a look at ProQR Therapeutics NV (NASDAQ:PRQR), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage Inc (NYSE:NGVC), CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. (NYSE:CBL), and Sportsman's Warehouse Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:SPWH). This group of stocks' market valuations are similar to ERA's market valuation.
PRQR 8 33544 -1
NGVC 9 13308 -3
CBL 15 23460 6
SPWH 21 42790 5
Average 13.25 28276 1.75
As you can see these stocks had an average of 13.25 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $28 million. That figure was $20 million in ERA's case. Sportsman's Warehouse Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:SPWH) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand ProQR Therapeutics NV (NASDAQ:PRQR) is the least popular one with only 8 bullish hedge fund positions. Compared to these stocks Era Group Inc (NYSE:ERA) is even less popular than PRQR. Hedge funds dodged a bullet by taking a bearish stance towards ERA. Our calculations showed that the top 20 most popular hedge fund stocks returned 37.4% in 2019 through the end of November and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 9.9 percentage points. Unfortunately ERA wasn't nearly as popular as these 20 stocks (hedge fund sentiment was very bearish); ERA investors were disappointed as the stock returned -9.4% during the fourth quarter (through the end of November) and underperformed the market. If you are interested in investing in large cap stocks with huge upside potential, you should check out the top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds as 70 percent of these stocks already outperformed the market so far in Q4.
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While freshness is there, I was not impressed.
Meat, cheese, mustard, and dried fruit.
3pm on a Thursday at Deschutes, why don't these people all have to be at work?
Super, super filtered beer. Kinda gross.
Joe's Cellar. Surprisingly decent for a dive bar.
Back outside and back to pedaling!
Yur's Bar and Grill, uhh, PBR? Yes, it's a dive bar.
This is the very generous pour of Macallan 12.
About to pedal some more. This contraption weighs 2,000lb. Pedaling up to walking speed was hard work.
Erik, Clay, and Rich resting.
And we're done! Some random Aussies and Kiwis shared the BrewCycle with us.
Dinner at Filmore Trattoria. Not very photogenic, but tasty enough.
Zabaglione classico. Zero points for presentation.
Voodoo Donuts next to Kit Kat Club, and an assortment of bums.
Kicking off Erik and Dawn's wedding weekend with the bachelor party. Started off with a farm-fresh but underwhelming lunch at Higgins, just blocks from the hotel, before the groom and his groomsmen all gathered for the official start of festivities at Deschutes and then BrewCycle.
Turns out pushing around 2,000lb of BrewCycle is hard work! Trevor ended up smoking us backwards and forwards on a regular city bike, while the BrewCycle was lucky to make it up to walking speed on a slight uphill. Lucky Labrador, Joe's Cellar, and Yur's Bar and Grill meant one brewery and two dive bars for our efforts, plus a few more at BrewCycle's home base when we finished.


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Dance at Dachau-The Munich Massacre 36 Years ago Today
by Jeff Dunetz | Sep 6, 2008 | Other
Thirty-six years ago today. Yassir Arafat sent five Arab Terrorists into the Olympic Village to shock the world by Kidnapping and Killing the Israeli Olympic team. This was the first terrorist tragedy played out live and worldwide on TV. We all remember the picture of the Ski-masked terrorist on the balcony. Eleven innocents died that day. And the terrorist's WON. Sure Golda Meir sent out a hit squad and killed most of the Murderers behind the attack. But it was followed up by a world-wide effort to legitimize the Terrorist Arafat which directly lead to the Oslo Accords and the second intifada. They say that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. That is an apt description of the present Israeli Government as well as most of the terrorist appeasing governments of the world. Below is an account and a video of that horrible September day to help ensure that we don't forget:
The Munich Massacre By Mitchell Bard
It was 4:30 in the morning on Sept. 5, 1972, when five Arab terrorists wearing track sweat suits climbed the six-foot six-inch fence surrounding the Olympic Village. Although they were seen by several people, no one thought anything was unusual since athletes routinely hopped the fence; moreover, the terrorists' weapons were hidden in athletic bags. These five were met by three more men who are presumed to have obtained credentials to enter the village. The Palestinians then used stolen keys to enter two apartments being used by the Israeli team at 31 Connollystraße.Israeli wrestling referee Yossef Gutfreund heard a faint scratching noise at the door of the first apartment. When he investigated, he saw the door begin to open and masked men with guns on the other side. He shouted "Hevre tistalku!" (Hebrew — Guys, get out of here!) and th rew his nearly 300-lb. (135-kg) weight against the door to try to stop the Palestinians from forcing their way in. In the confusion, coach Tuvia Sokolovsky and race-walker Dr. Shaul Ladany escaped and another four athletes, plus the two team doctors and delegation head Shmuel Lalkin, managed to hide.
Joseph Romano (left)
& Moshe Weinberg
Wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg, attacked the kidnappers as the hostages were being moved from one apartment to another, allowing one of his wrestlers, Gad Tsobari, to escape. The burly Weinberg knocked one of the intruders unconscious and stabbed another with a fruit knife before being shot to death. Weightlifter and father of three Yossef Romano, 31, also attacked and wounded one of the intruders before being killed. The Arabs then succeeded in rounding up nine Israelis to hold as hostages. At 9:30, the terrorists announced that they were Palestinians and demanded that Israel release 200 Arab prisoners and that the terrorists be given safe passage out of Germany. The Palestinians were led by Luttif Afif ("Issa"), his deputy Yusuf Nazzal ("Tony"), and junior members Afif Ahmed Hamid ("Paolo"), Khalid Jawad ("Salah"), Ahmed Chic Thaa ("Abu Halla"), Mohammed Safady ("Badran"), Adnan Al-Gashey ("Denawi"), and his cousin Jamal Al-Gashey ("Samir"). After hours of tense negotiations, the Palestinians, who it was later learned belonged to a PLO faction called Black September, agreed to a plan whereby they were to be taken by helicopter to the NATO air base at Firstenfeldbruck where they would be given an airplane to fly them and their hostages to Cairo. The Israelis were then taken by bus to the helicopters and flown to the airfield. In the course of the transfer, the Germans discovered that there were eight terrorists instead of the five they expected and realized that they had not assigned enough marksmen to carry out the plan to kill the terrorists at the airport. After the helicopters landed at the air base around 10:30 p.m., the German sharpshooters attempted to kill the terrorists and a bloody firefight ensued. At 11, the media was mistakenly informed that the hostages had been saved and the news was announced to a relieved Israeli public. Almost an hour later, however, new fighting broke out and one of the helicopters holding the Israelis was blown up by a terrorist grenade. The remaining nine hostages in the second helicopter were shot to death by one of the surviving terrorists. Hostages killed at the airport (middle row, L-R) wrestling referee Yossef Gutfreund, age 40; American-born weightlifter David Berger, 28; wrestler Mark Slavin, 18; and weightlifting judge Yacov Springer, 51.
(bottom row, L-R) weightlifter Ze'ev Friedman, 28; track coach Amitzur Shapira, 40; wrestler Eliezer Halfin, 24; shooting coach Kehat Shorr, 53; and fencing coach Andre Spitzer, 27. At 3 a.m., a drawn and teary-eyed Jim McKay, who had been reporting the drama throughout the day as part of ABC's Olympic coverage, announced: "They're all gone." Five of the terrorists were killed along with one policeman, and three were captured. A little over a month later, on Oct. 29, a Lufthansa jet was hijacked by terrorists demanding that the Munich killers be released. The Germans capitulated and the terrorists were let go, but an Israeli assassination squad was assigned to track them down along with those responsible for planning the massacre. According to George Jonas in Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team, eight of the 11 men targeted for death were killed. Of the remaining three, one died of natural causes and the other two were assassinated, but it is not known for sure if they were killed by Israeli agents. The 11 on the list were: Adwan, Kamal – Chief of sabotage operations for Al Fatah in the disputed territories
Al-Chir, Hussein Abad – PLO contact with KGB in Cyprus
Al-Kubaisi, Dr. Basil Paoud – Responsible for logistics within the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
Boudia, Mohammed – Linked with European PLO
Daoud, Abu – Admitted member of the Black September Organization
Haddad, Dr. Wadi – Chief terrorist linked with Dr. George Habash
Mahshari, Mohmoud – PLO member and coordinator of Munich incident
Nassir, Kamal – Official PLO spokesman and member of the PLO Executive Committee
Salameh, Ali Hassan – Developed and executed the Munich operation
Yussuf, Abu – High ranking PLO official
Zwaiter, Wael – Cousin to Yasser Arafat, organizer of PLO terrorism in Europe The Jonas book was the basis for two movies about Munich, "The Sword of Gideon" and Steven Spielberg's 2006 Oscar nominee, "Munich." In the subsequent publicity about Spielberg's film, reports have discredited the account in Jonas, which was largely based on what the author was told by a former self-described Mossad agent, Juval Aviv, who claimed he was the leader of the assassination team. In fact, journalists Yossi Melman and Steven Hartov found that "Aviv never served in Mossad, or any Israeli intelligence organization. He had failed basic training as an Israeli Defence Force commando, and his nearest approximation to spy work was as a lowly gate guard for the airline El Al in New York in the early 70s." In contrast to the account of "Operation Wrath of God" offered by Jonas, Mossad agents have told reporters subsequently that no one team was sent to kill a specific list of terrorists. Meanwhile, the mastermind of the massacre remains at large.Abu Daoud was shot thirteen times on July 27, 1981 in a Warsaw hotel coffee shop, but survived the attack. Daoud was allowed safe passage through Israel in 1996 so he could go to a PLO meeting convened in the Gaza Strip to rescind an article in its charter that called for Israel's eradication. In 1999, Abu Daoud admitted his role in the massacre in his autobiography, Memoirs of a Palestinian Terrorist. Daoud, who lives with his wife on a pension provided by the Palestinian Authority, claims his commandos never intended to harm the athletes and blamed their deaths on the German police and the stubbornness of then-Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. On December 27, 2005, Daoud reiterated that he had no regrets about his involvement in the Munich attack, and that Steven Spielberg's new film about the incident would not deliver reconciliation. Bassam Abu Sharif, a member of the PFLP at the time, said the motive for the operation in Munich was to attract publicity for the Palestinian cause and to win the release of Palestinian prisoners. The massacre of 11 Israeli athletes was not considered sufficiently serious to merit canceling or postponing the Olympics. "Incredibly, they're going on with it," Jim Murray of the Los Angeles Times wrote at the time. "It's almost like having a dance at Dachau." Sources: Jerusalem Report, (January 9, 2006); JTA, (May 4, 1999); Jonas, George. Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team. NY: Bantam Books, 1985; Thomas B. Hunter, "Wrath of God: The Israeli Response to the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre," Journal of Counterterrorism & Security International, Vol. 7, No. 4, (Summer 2001); Wikipedia; Yossi Melman and Steven Hartov, "Munich: fact and fantasy," The Guardian, (January 17, 2006)

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12/16/97 Lillian Disney - Lillian Disney, the widow of Walt Disney, died 12/16/97 at the age of 98. She outlived Walt over thirty years! She was a very private lady and a great philanthropist. Her last claim to fame was fundraising for the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (will be built in 2001). She will most likely be interred in the same grave as Walt and their adopted daughter, Sharon and Sharon's husband, Robert Brown at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale. No funeral arrangements were announce. (Check out the picture of Walt Disney's grave)
12/18/97 Chris Farley (comedian) - Comedian Chris Farley was found dead 12/18/97 in a Chicago condominium that belonged to a friend. As of 12/18/97, there was no details on cause of death. Funeral is set for Tuesday, 12/23/97 in Madison, Wisconsin (his hometown). Chris was 33.
12/20/97 Dawn Steel- Dawn Steel, former head of Paramount and Columbia Pictures has died of a brain tumor in Los Angeles. She was 51. Ms. Steel oversaw films like The Accused, Top Gun, Flashdance, When Harry Met Sally and Look Who's Talking. No funeral or burial arrangements were announced.
12/21/97 Roger Barkley- Los Angeles Radio Personality. Roger Barkley radio personality, died 12/21 of cancer. He was last heard on KABC radio on the Ken and Barkley show. Roger was a veteran radio personality from the 60's. No funeral arrangements were announced.
12/25/97 Denver Pyle - LOS ANGELES - Denver Pyle, the quinessential mountain man of film and TV, died of lung cancer on December 25th, 1997 at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Burbank at the age of 77. Pyle is best remebered as Uncle Jesse Duke from TVs "The Dukes of Hazzard", and as Mad Jack (as well as the narrator) from the 1970's series "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams". Pyle was born in Bethune, Colorado on May 11th, 1920. Breaking into films in the late 40's, Pyle lent his versatile talents to a broad spectrum of films including, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", "The Great Race", and "Bonnie and Clyde". His television work included "The Life and Ledgend of Wyatt Earp" and "The Doris Day Show". His distinctive voice narrated the Dan Haggerty series "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams", in which he also played the cranky, kooky mountain man Mad Jack. Mad Jack's antics were lent comic relief by his faithful-if-stubborn mule, Number Nine. Pyle's best remebered role was that of Uncle Jesse Duke, on TV's "The Dukes of Hazzard". Pyle's character dolled out sane, homespun advice to Bo and Luke Duke who, with cousin Dasiy, terrorized the back roads of Hazzard County in a souped-up Dodge. After the wacky series ended, Pyle continued making appearances as "Uncle Jesse" at various children's charities. He was honored with a star on Hollywood Blvd. just two-and-a-half weeks before his death. His last television appearance was in a "Dukes of Hazzard" reunion show in 1997. No memorial information was available as this goes to press. -From the Los Angeles Grim Society
12/31/97 Michael Kennedy - Son of Robert F. Kennedy and most recently in the news for alledgedly having sex with his children's baby sitter. Michael died on New Year's Eve in Aspen, CO when he crashed into a tree while skiing. He was buried 1/3/97 next to his brother David in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
1/6/98 Sonny Bono - Congressman Sony Bono (R-Palm Springs) died in a skiing accident in Lake Tahoe, CA. Congressman Bono crashed head first into a tree, dying instantly. He was 62. Sonny Bono became famous with his first wife, Cher, on the "Sonny and Cher Show" in the 70's. He later became a politician because he couldn't get a sign for his restaurant in Palm Springs. He was given the runaround by the Planning Commission. He finally told the clerk at the Planning Commission that he was going to get his sign by running for Mayor of Palm Springs and then firing the clerk. He ran for Mayor, won and then fired the clerk! Congressman Bono was buried at Desert Memorial Park, Cathedral City, CA.
1/22/98 Jack Lord - HONOLULU (Jan. 22) - Actor Jack Lord, who made Hawaii the setting for his popular ''Hawaii Five-O'' series, died at his Honolulu beachfront home. He was 77. His wife, Marie, said he died of congestive heart failure Thursday night. ''Jack loved acting and these islands, Throughout all our years here, he was blessed with kindness, affection and support from many fans and friends,'' she said. Before starring as Steve McGarrett in the detective drama, Lord played in movies from 1949 to 1968. While some were forgettable, they included ''The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell'', ''God's Little Acre,'' and the James Bond film, ''Dr. No.''In 1968, ''Hawaii Five-O'' made him a star. The show lasted 12 years and Lord starred in 284 episodes before he retired in 1980. Before he started acting, Lord's life read like a movie script. He was the son of a steamship executive and was a seaman in his teens. He went on to study art, run his own studio and exhibit his paintings at the Metropolitan and British museums and the Museum of Modern Art. Born John Joseph Patrick Ryan in Brooklyn, N.Y., Lord studied art at New York University, where he also played football. Later he studied acting in New York at the Actor's Studio alongside such future stars as Paul Newman and Marilyn Monroe. No funeral services are planned, Mrs. Lord said.
1/24/98 Jay Monahan (husband of Katie Couric) HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - John Paul (Jay) Monahan III, an attorney and legal analyst for NBC News and husband of ``Today'' show co-anchor Katie Couric, died Saturday Jan. 24 of colon cancer. He was 42. Born in Manhasset, Long Island, Monahan was a graduate of Washington and Lee University and Georgetown Law School. Following college, he practiced trial and appellate criminal and civil law for the Washington, D.C., firm of Williams and Connolly. He also logged a stint with the New York office of Hunton and Williams. During the past two years, Monahan had worked as a legal analyst for NBC News, covering high-profile trials for the network's news programs as well as for cable webs CNBC and MSNBC. He also was a Civil War enthusiast with an extensive collection of wartime memorabilia. Monahan is survived by his wife, and their two daughters, Elinor and Caroline Monahan. He is also survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John P. Monahan of Rehoboth Beach, Del., six brothers and sisters, and 11 nieces and nephews. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the National Cancer Institutes in Bethesda, Md., and Cancer Care Inc. of New York City.
2/6/98 Carl Wilson LOS ANGELES (AP) - Beach Boys founding member Carl Wilson, who was credited with keeping the band together in tough times, insisted on appearing in more than 100 performances last year even though he was dying of cancer. Wilson, who died Friday at 51, refused to let his illness keep him from completing the band's 36th annual tour last summer, the band's publicist, Alyson Dutch, said Sunday. `All the guys looked to Carl as a steady force,'' she said. ``He was also a peaceful force. Despite everything negative and the media stories that focused on dissension, when they got on stage or in the studio - the magic, the love, the brotherhood that existed between them never failed.'' Although he was forced to bow out of some shows for doctor's visits and some much-needed rest, he managed to complete 130 appearances. He sat down instead of standing for some performances and during a date in San Bernardino brought two of his doctors on stage for guest appearances. ``Carl was a deeply spiritual being who had an incredibly positive outlook on life,'' Ms. Dutch said. ``He had an amazing support system. His wife, Gina, was on tour with him, at his side, on every date this year. His sons said he was a perfect father who was there for their needs.'' Wilson, who was the seminal surf band's lead singer on many of their classic recordings, including ``Good Vibrations'' and ``God Only Knows,'' died in Los Angeles of complications of lung cancer. He also had brain cancer. Carl Dean Wilson was born in Hawthorne, a Los Angeles suburb about five miles from the Pacific Ocean. He learned to play guitar as a teen and in 1961 formed The Beach Boys along with his brothers, Brian and Dennis, cousin Mike Love and a friend, Alan Jardine. When the band was torn by family disagreements, substance abuse and Dennis' death, members turned to Carl. He was ``the glue that held the band together,'' Stan Love, Mike Love's brother, told the Los Angeles Times in a story published Sunday. Dennis, who died in a 1983 swimming accident, was credited with creating the band's surfing theme. Brian and Love wrote the lyrics, but it was Carl's guitar that took the lead and his sweet, melodic voice that anchored the vocals. Through the 1960s, The Beach Boys sold hundreds of thousands of records with hits such as ``Surfin' U.S.A.'' Two were million-sellers: ``I Get Around'' in 1964 and ``Good Vibrations'' in 1966. Creative differences between the group and their producers led to a slowdown after 1966. A comeback in the 1970s was stalled by the drug problems of Brian, who had written most of the band's top 20 singles. By the early 1980s, Carl tired of The Beach Boys' focus on nostalgia and lack of musical growth. The group's youngest member, he left in 1981 to work solo and released an album that year. But he later rejoined the group and had performed with them ever since, including at The Beach Boys' induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. In addition to his brother and wife, Wilson is survived by his sons Jonah, 28, and Justyn, 26. Private burial services were planned later this week at an undisclosed location.
2/7/98 Falco Austrian Pop Star Falco has a deadly accident Santo Domingo (AP) -Austrian pop star Falco died in a car accident in the Dominican Republic. As the Dominican police indicated on Saturday, the jeep controlled by the 40 year-old collided on Friday with a bus. The accident occurred on a road between the most popular tourist places of the Republic, Puerto Plata and Sosua. Falco, which was the stage name of Johann Hoelzl, succumbed to the injuries in a hospital. The cause of accident was not immediately known. The bus driver was interviewed by the police; no charges were filed against him. In the 80's Falco had a series of hits, including "Der Komissar", "Rock Me Amadeus", "Jeanny" and "Vienna Calling". The music was some of the first to be an individual mix of rap, rock, and disco music, in which synthesizer played a basic role. On February 19, he would have been 41 years old."
2/20/98 Harry Carey - RANCHO MIRAGE, California, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Hall of FameChicago Cubs broadcaster Harry Caray, loved by fans for folksychatter including such classic phrases as ``Holy Cow'' and ``Itmight be, it could be, it is -- A HOME RUN!'' died Wednesday. Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage said Caray died at 4:10 p.m. PST (7:10 p.m. EST) of cardiac arrest and resultant brain damage. He died four days after collapsing at a Valentine's Day dinner with his wife. At the family's request, no further details were released by the hospital. Caray was believed to be 78 years old, although some record books listed him as a year younger. He had been broadcasting baseball for 53 years. Carey's last 16 years were devoted to a team that knew that while it might not win on the field, it would in the broadcasting booth, thanks to the gravelly-voiced announcer who offered his unabashed support. Before the Cubs, Caray spent 11 years as the voice of the Chicago White Sox and a year with the Oakland Athletics. He started his career in 1945 with the St. Louis Cardinals, where he worked until 1969. The St. Louis native became a familiar face in homes across the United States in the last 16 years as the voice of the Cubs on WGN-TV, a station widely syndicated on cable systems where the team's home games -- most of them played in the daytime -- were often the only sports offering on any given afternoon. At Wrigley Field he leaned out of the broadcast booth window at every seventh inning stretch, swinging a hand-held microphone back and forth to lead the crowd in singing ``Take Me Out to the Ballgame.'' First lady Hillary Clinton said she and President Clinton were deeply saddened by news of Caray's death. ``In Chicago, Harry was a larger-than-life symbol of baseball and like all Chicagoans I valued him not only for his contribution to the game, but also his love and zest for life,'' Mrs. Clinton said in a statement read by her spokeswoman. Caray recently helped the first lady celebrate her 50th birthday at a party in Chicago. ``Harry was one of a kind and nobody could sing 'Take me out to the ball game' like he could, and I hope he's doing a 7th inning rendition in heaven,'' she said, sending condolences to Caray's family. In Chicago, fans who gathered at Caray's restaurant on the city's Near North Side staged an impromptu wake, hoisting glasses as a bartender stood atop the bar and asked those gathered to sing ``Take Me Out to the Ball Game'' while a video of Caray singing the same song flickered on TV screens. Fans of Caray had visited his restaurant ever since he fell ill, signing a book offering their best wishes. Unlike many sports figures who lent their names to restaurants and bars, Caray routinely hung out at his place, signing autographs and greeting fans. ``There will never be another Harry Caray,'' former Cubs great Ron Santo told WGN-TV. On the sidewalk outside outside Wrigley Field fans dropped off flowers. WGN said a funeral service for Caray would be held at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago following a service in California. Caray, whose parents died when he was a child, had 10 children and 14 grandchildren. Caray is survived by his third wife, Dutchie, and 10 children. He collapsed Saturday night as he was having dinner with his wife and other family members. ``Harry Caray's genuine affection and appreciation for our game and its fans, spanning a period of over 50 years, is never likely to be equaled. He will be greatly missed by the Chicago Cubs organization. This is a sad day for the game of baseball,'' said Chicago Cubs President Andy MacPhail. Caray, who suffered a stroke in 1987, called Cubs games for 16 years, and previously worked for the Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Cardinals and Oakland Athletics. He was inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989. A statement from White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf read:``Harry Caray's death is a tragedy. He was a tremendous ambassador for the game of baseball and the city of Chicago. ``Millions of fans fell in love with the game by listening to his colorful, entertaining broadcasts of Cardinals, A's, White Sox and Cubs ballgames over the years,'' he said. Caray's son, Skip, is a broadcaster for the Atlanta Braves and his grandson, Chip, was scheduled to join his grandfather onthe Cubs' broadcast team this season.
2/25/98 Henny Youngman - HOLLYWOOD (Variety)—Henny Youngman, the undisputed king of the one-liners, whose quip "Take my wife—please," defines a comedic style, died Tuesday in New York. He was ninety-one. The comic died at Mount Sinai Hospital, where he had been since January 2, suffering from pneumonia. He had been working up until Christmas. Youngman, whose career was a series of peaks and valleys, ridicule and respect, frequently appeared with a violin (shades of Jack Benny). But his real trademark was his non-stop series of succinct, acerbic but surprisingly uncontroversial jokes. ("I was so ugly when I was born," he once said, "the doctor slapped my mother.") He was said to have four hours of material, some 1,600 jokes, floating around in his head. His approach was basic, his pace rapid-fire. At times, he was scorned for being out of touch and unsophisticated; at others he was revered for his impeccable timing and the simplicity of his humor. The venues varied from nightclubs to sales meetings, trade shows, fraternal roasts and even local bar mitzvahs. If he was busy, Youngman charged $5,000 a gig; if not, his fee would drop as low as $1,500. His need to work constantly is perhaps the result of a rather modest upbringing and a series of false starts. He was born to Russian immigrants in Liverpool, England, on January 12, 1906. His family soon moved to the U.S. and his father made him take violin lessons hoping he would become proficient enough to play professionally. Growing up in Brooklyn's Bay Ridge, Youngman studied printing at Brooklyn Vocational School and did several odd jobs before starting a band called the Syncopaters. The band played in and around Brooklyn and at Jewish resorts in the Catskills in the 1920s. By the early thirties, the wisecracking bandleader had struck out on his own with his comedic patter. Through his early writer Al Schwartz, Youngman's name began appearing in columns including Walter Winchell's, and he played dates at Manhattan's Yacht Club, but more frequently, out-of-the-way spots in New Jersey. Those were lean times, until singer Kate Smith hired him to be on her CBS radio show in 1936. After two years on the show, he waited in vain for movie offers; to survive, Youngman began to play anywhere and everywhere, averaging more than two hundred engagements a year. TV appearances refreshed his appeal in the fifties, but by the 1960s, with a new generation of post-Borscht Belt comedians in favor, Youngman's routine seemed tired. That changed in the late sixties, when Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In made a virtue of the one-liner and Youngman did it better than anyone else. He also appeared on Hee-Haw, Hollywood Squares, and The Tonight Show. Youngman was the first comic, and probably the most popular, to do Dial-a-Joke. His first month on the New York Telephone Co. spot in 1974 drew three million calls (Youngman earned only $3,500 for thirty minutes of material). He followed it up with another month in 1979. He made occasional TV dramatic appearances, such as 1961's The Golden Thirty on The U.S. Steel Hour. In films, he appeared in A Wave, a Wac and a Marine and Nashville Rebel and made cameo appearances in Won Ton Ton and Silent Movie in 1976, The Comeback Trail, The National Lampoon Goes to the Movies and briefly in 1990's GoodFellas. In 1980, he appeared in Medium Roasted Rare, a special on Showtime. Youngman also wrote several books including his autobiography, Take My Wife . . . Please! My Life and Laughs, in 1973. He also penned collections of jokes such as Don't Put My Name on This Book (1978), Insults for Everyone (1979), Five Hundred All Time Great One-Liners (1981), Henny Youngman's Giant Book of Jokes (1981), and Take My Jokes, Please (1983). Among his recordings are the albums Sol Hurok Does Not Present the Best and Worst of Henny Youngman, Take My Album, Please, and Greatest Jokes. Youngman and Sadie Cohen were married in 1928 and they had a son, Gary (a film editor), and daughter, Marilyn. Sadie died in 1987. Survivors also include two grandchildren. Services will be held at noon Friday at Riverside Chapel in New York.
3/10/98 Lloyd Bridges - LOS ANGELES (March 10) - Lloyd Bridges, whose half-century in acting ranged from the drama of ''High Noon'' to the daft ''Airplane!'' to the adventure of TV's ''Sea Hunt,'' has died, his agent said Tuesday. He was 85. Lee Stollman, a spokesman for the William Morris Talent Agency, said Bridges died in Los Angeles, but had no other information. The tall, craggy-faced, blond actor enjoyed amazing resiliency throughout his career, even surviving the film industry's political blacklist. He also spawned a new generation of actors. Sons Beau and Jeff, who started acting as youngsters on ''Sea Hunt,'' became stars in their own right. Bridges trained as a classical actor, but he soon learned to be more versatile. He played every kind of role in 25 B movies, starred on Broadway, worked in seven television series, even appeared in musical comedy. In his late years he was rediscovered as a farceur, often spoofing his own stalwart image. Lloyd Vernet Bridges Jr. was born Jan. 15, 1913, in San Leandro, near San Francisco. His father was a businessman whose enterprises included a movie theater. The boy became a movie addict and watched screenings of the same film over and over, observing technique. He applied what he learned in drama classes at Petaluma High School. Lloyd was also a star athlete, playing baseball, basketball and football at the University of California, Los Angeles. ''My dad wanted me to be a lawyer,'' he recalled in a 1968 interview. ''I majored in political science, but all I wanted to do was act.'' After graduation, Bridges was cast in a minor role in a modern-dress ''Taming of the Shrew'' that played the West Coast and went to New York. Bridges stayed on in New York and in 1937 made his Broadway debut with a small role in ''Othello,'' starring Walter Huston. ''I went to New York to do classical drama, but nobody else was doing Shakespeare,'' he said in 1978. ''I had to unlearn what I had been taught and muddy up my diction to get work.'' He joined with others in forming the Playroom Club, which performed contemporary dramas off-Broadway. During slack periods he appeared in stock and taught drama at a private school. Unable to make a dent on Broadway, he returned to California to pursue a movie career. Bridges was placed under contract at Columbia and made his debut in the 1941 ''The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance.'' A string of potboilers followed, and he even appeared in a Three Stooges short, ''They Stooge to Conga.'' His only major films were the fantasy ''Here Comes Mr. Jordan'' and ''Sahara,'' starring Humphrey Bogart. His career improved after he left Columbia. He appeared in ''A Walk in the Sun,'' ''Abilene Town'' and ''Ramrod.'' His big break came with the controversial ''Home of the Brave,'' which attacked racial prejudice in the military. Bridge's performance as a sympathetic member of a platoon torn by racial strife won critical acclaim. Bridges played Gary Cooper's vengeful deputy in ''High Noon'' and other important roles followed until he was caught in Hollywood's Red purge. During the 1940s, Bridges had been a member of the Actors' Lab, a radical theater group that staged plays in Hollywood. At the height of McCarthyism in the 1950s, his name was added to the industry's blacklist. ''It was a bad time,'' he said in 1971. ''I was always against prejudice of any kind, and when I was a member of the Actors' Lab, there was an opportunity to do something as part of a group to stop prejudice and help people.'' Bridges cleared his name with the FBI and congressional committees and was allowed to work again. He played leads in low-budget movies and featured roles in bigger films, then became active in live drama on TV. During an intense drama, ''Tragedy in a Temporary Town,'' he exclaimed excitedly, ''You goddamned stinking pigs!'' The NBC switchboard handled over 500 calls, most of them decrying the profanity. ''That made headlines, and I was being called in the middle of the night by reporters,'' he recalled. In 1957, Bridges took the role that changed his career: as Mike Nelson, a Navy frogman turned undersea investigator in ''Sea Hunt.'' The networks turned down the series as being too limited in scope, so producer Ivan Tors offered it in syndication. Soon it drew bigger ratings than the network shows and it lasted through 156 episodes. ''The series certainly brought me more notice than anything I have ever done before as an actor,'' he said in a 1959 interview. ''It has also brought me more money than anything else in my career. Artistic satisfaction? No, that is lacking. But fortunately I am able to get it by doing other things.'' Bridges starred in six other series: ''The Lloyd Bridges Show,'' ''The Loner,'' ''San Francisco International Airport'' ''Joe Forrester,'' ''Paper Dolls,'' and ''Capital News.'' He also appeared in dozens of television movies as well as such miniseries as ''Roots,'' ''Moviola,'' ''East of Eden,'' ''The Blue and the Gray'' and ''George Washington.'' In 1988 Bridges appeared in Francis Coppola's ''Tucker: The Man and His Dream'' as a corrupt senator who opposed a daring automaker, played by son Jeff. Other films include'' ''Cousins'' and ''Joe Versus the Volcano.'' ''Airplane!'' in 1980 opened a whole new career for Bridges. As a wacky air controller, he parodied his own movie performances. He followed with such comedies as ''Airplane II!'' and ''Hot Shots!'' Besides Beau and Jeff, Lloyd and Dorothy Bridges had a daughter, Cindy, and several grandchildren. Married more than 50 years, the couple lived in Westwood, a short distance from the UCLA campus where they met as drama students.
3/15/98 Dr. Benjamin Spock - .c The Associated Press BOSTON (March 16) - Dr. Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician whose common-sense theories of child care helped guide parents around the world during the last half-century, has died. He was 94. Spock died Sunday at his home in San Diego, said Dr. Stephen Pauker, a physician who said he had treated Dr. Spock for 12 years. ''He died with his family at home,'' Pauker said this morning from his home in Wellesley, Mass. He did not give the cause of death. Just 2 1/2 weeks ago, his wife pleaded for help in paying Spock's $10,000-a-month medical bills. Mary Morgan, 54, said insurance was covering only a fraction of the costs. ''Baby and Child Care,'' first published in 1946, was the bible of parents in the baby boom that followed World War II. ''Trust yourself,'' Spock told parents. ''You know more than you think you do.'' ''I wanted to be supportive of parents rather than to scold them,'' he said. ''The book set out very deliberately to counteract some of the rigidities of pediatric tradition, particularly in infant feeding. ''It emphasized the importance of great differences between individual babies, of the need for flexibility and of the lack of necessity to worry constantly about spoiling.'' In the years that followed, as the inexpensive paperback sold 50 million copies and was translated into more than 30 languages, Spock came under fire from critics who branded him the ''the father of permissiveness,'' responsible for a ''Spock-marked'' generation of hippies. Spock joined those youths in protests against nuclear technology and the Vietnam War. Vice President Spiro Agnew accused him of corrupting the youth of America; Spock claimed only a ''mild influence.'' Through it all, the big-boned, 6-foot-4 inch Spock said he never changed his basic philosophy on child care - ''to respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.'' ''But I've always said ask for respect from your children, ask for cooperation, ask for politeness. Give your children firm leadership.'' Said Dr. Marvin Drellich, professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College: ''Dr. Spock's book is universally accepted and esteemed even by those who disagree.'' ''Some physicians who have called him excessively permissive just didn't understand and gave his understanding approach to child rearing a negative label,'' Drellich said. ''He was blamed for the radical behavior of the youth in the '60s. But that didn't emerge from Spock's teachings. It was far more a reflection of the social and political climate.'' ''I didn't used to mind the word permissive, as an opposite of strictness, as long as it merely meant a relaxed way of guiding and controlling children,'' Spock once said. ''But now permissiveness is a bad word, and I absolutely refuse to admit I ever taught permissiveness. I never meant that children should be allowed to be uncooperative or impolite.'' In later years, he said he was becoming more moralistic about child ruling, and said parents should give their children strong values and encourage them to help others. ''I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values,'' he said in an Associated Press interview in 1992, the year the sixth edition of his ''Baby and Child Care'' came out. A seventh edition was to be published by Pocket Books on May 2, Spock's birthday. ''Sexuality has lost a lot of its spiritual aspects,'' he said in 1993. ''In trying to make sex seem more natural and less scary, as it was in my childhood many years ago, we leaned over backwards and have forgotten to emphasize that sexuality has as much to do with spiritual matters as the physical and mental.'' Benjamin McLane Spock was born May 2, 1903, in New Haven, Conn., oldest of six children of a lawyer whose Dutch ancestors once spelled their names Spaak. He attended Phillips Academy and Yale University, where he joined the crew team and helped win a gold medal at the 1924 Olympics. He planned to become an architect, but decided on medicine after spending a summer as a counselor at a camp for crippled children. Following graduation from Yale in 1925, he took his medical degree at Columbia University and studied at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. From 1933 to 1943, he worked in private practice in New York City while teaching pediatrics at Cornell University. ''One of my faults as a pediatrician has always been that I whoop it up too much with children,'' he once said, but parents delighted in his approach. He spent two years as a psychiatrist in the U.S. Naval Reserve Medical Corps and was discharged in 1946 as a lieutenant commander. At night, he worked on the exhaustively indexed book that disputed tomes advising parents not to kiss and hold their children. He advised parents that it was better to feed babies when they wanted to eat rather than make both parent and baby unhappy by adhering to a strict schedule. ''There were many parents who were very unhappy with the ideas like rigid feeding schedules,'' he said in a 1996 Associated Press interview. ''It was hard on babies, but it was harder still on mothers.'' While he thought he made it clear that parents should be firm, later editions of the book, originally titled ''The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care,'' stressed that children need standards and that parents also have a right to respect. ''Parents began to be afraid to impose on the child in any way,'' he said. Later, at the behest of feminists, he revised the book to remove references to the baby as ''he'' and to the parent as ''she.'' In 1951, after four years teaching psychiatry at the University of Minnesota, Spock joined the University of Pittsburgh as professor of child development. In 1955, he became a member of the faculty of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He wrote a column for nearly 30 years, first for Ladies Home Journal and later for Redbook. Spock first moved into the political limelight in 1962, warning of the possible hazards posed to children and nursing mothers by atmospheric nuclear testing. He was elected co-chairman of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. ''I believe that not only are nuclear arms much too dangerous to be tolerated on this Earth, but I believe that nuclear power is also much too dangerous,'' he said. The former political conservative also became a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War, leading a march on the Pentagon in 1967. He argued, ''What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?'' ''People have said, 'You've turned your back on pediatrics,''' Spock said in 1992. ''I said, 'No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.'' In June 1968, Spock was convicted in Boston and sentenced to two years in prison for conspiracy to aid, abet and counsel young men to avoid the draft. The verdict was reversed on appeal. He ran for president in 1972 as a candidate of the Peoples Party, getting more than 75,000 votes. He said no one accused him of being too permissive until the late 1960s, when he began to be criticized by the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale and Agnew. ''Well, at least nobody could accuse me of having brought up Spiro Agnew,'' Spock quipped. In the 1970s, he wrote ''Raising Children in a Difficult Time,'' which discussed such issues as drugs, contraception, and day care. A later revision of ''Baby and Child Care,'' included material on single parents, stepparents and divorce, something he learned of firsthand following his own divorce and remarriage. In his later years, Spock traveled the nation, lecturing on child care, education and nuclear war, and spent his leisure time sailing off the coasts of Maine or the Virgin Islands or rowing on a lake in Arkansas, his second wife's home state. His first marriage, in 1927 to the former Jane Cheney, ended in divorce after 48 years. They had two sons - Michael, a museum director, and John, who studied architecture and became a construction company owner. Spock, who described his own parents as strict but loving, reflected that he was probably too stern in raising his sons. ''I never kissed them,'' he once said. ''Now when I see my sons, I throw my arms around them.'' Spock married Ms. Morgan, almost 40 years his junior, in 1976. He said later that he became more easy-going, able to appear in public without the traditional three-piece suit with watch chain, and he took up a health food diet.''I never leave his side,'' Ms. Morgan said last month in seeking financial help. ''And I'll never send him away to be cared for.'' Spock once said that he would like a New Orleans-style funeral, with a jazz band accompanying the casket. ''I love to dance and I'd love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing,'' he said. ''I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day.''
4/5/98 Rob Pilatus - BONN (Reuters) - Rob Pilatus, half of pop duo Milli Vanilli, has been found dead in a Frankfurt hotel room, Germany's Bild am Sonntag newspaper said Sunday, quoting the artist's ex-manager. Pilatus was found dead on his hotel bed Friday evening with blood around his nose and mouth. Doctors at the scene diagnosed heart failure. Police were unable to confirm the report. A spokesman said they would be informed of a death only if circumstances had been suspicious. Milli Vanilli's former manager Frank Farian told Bild am Sonntag that Pilatus had just come out of drug rehabilitation. ``I'm totally shocked. Rob looked really good again after his therapy, and was full of optimism,'' Farian said. Bild said no post mortem had yet been carried out and it was too early to say whether drugs were responsible for Pilatus's death at the age of 32. Pilatus, together with Fabrice Morvan, had sold 30 million singles and 14 million albums since hitting the charts in 1988 with songs like ``Girl You Know It's True'' and ``Girl I'm Gonna Miss You.'' But fans were outraged when it emerged that the dreadlocked duo had not sung on their own records and had mimed onstage to playback tapes. The group was forced to hand back its Grammy for best new artist. Milli Vanilli's career went rapidly downhill after that, and it was Pilatus's various brushes with the law, and not the group's music, which started making headlines. Farian said that Pilatus had been planning a new start and had been due to fly to India from Frankfurt to complete his drug therapy program. ``We knew already Thursday that he had drunk some of his travel money,'' Farian told Bild am Sonntag. ``We knew that he was taking tablets which were very dangerous in combination with alcohol. ``From Friday lunchtime on we called him in his hotel. He didn't pick up the phone. In the end we had to break into his room. But Rob had already been dead for 18 hours.'' Pilatus was born in New York, but grew up with adoptive parents in Munich, where he was expected to be buried.
4/6/98 - Tammy Wynette - .c The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 7) - She grew up picking cotton in Mississippi, worked as a beautician and sang for the people who, like her, knew about hardship and heartache. Tammy Wynette, whose hits included the classic country ode ''Stand by Your Man,'' died Monday at age 55 while napping at her Nashville home. The cause of her death was believed to be a blood clot, spokeswoman Evelyn Shriver said. Wynette had had a series of health problems in recent years. ''Her story is really the story of country music,'' said Kyle Young of the Country Music Foundation. ''From humble beginnings as a hairdresser, to superstardom. ''The strength of her music was she connected with a wide audience, because she really tapped into real situations in people's lives,'' he said. Wynette scored many duet hits with George Jones, her husband from 1969-75. They tended to be about either domestic bliss or strife, as did solo Wynette hits like ''D-I-V-O-R-C-E'' and ''My Man.'' She had a robust voice that could deliver entire songs seemingly on the verge of tears. Wynette recorded more than 50 albums and sold more than 30 million records, scoring 39 Top 10 hits from 1967-88. Twenty topped the charts. Country music fans polled for the annual Music City News awards voted Wynette a legend in 1991. She said it was premature. ''I don't consider myself a legend. I think it's kind of overused,'' said Wynette, who was known as ''the first lady of country music.'' She was a three-time winner of the Country Music Association's female vocalist of the year award - 1968 to 1970. Only Reba McEntire has won the honor more times, with four. She was born Virginia Wynette Pugh on a cotton farm in Itawamba County, Miss., and worked in the fields as a child. She later worked as a waitress, a doctor's receptionist, a barmaid and a shoe factory worker. In the mid-1960s, she was working as a beautician in Birmingham, Ala., and making periodic 180-mile trips to Nashville in hopes of getting discovered as a singer. Billy Sherrill, who co-wrote ''Stand By Your Man'' with Wynette, signed her to Epic Records and produced her pivotal early hits. Other hits included ''I Don't Wanna Play House,'' ''Womanhood,'' ''Take Me to Your World,'' ''Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad,'' and ''The Ways to Love a Man.'' The genius of ''Stand By Your Man'' was how Wynette's tearful voice undercut the lyrics, capturing the pain of a woman struggling to be true to a man who probably didn't deserve it. ''She was as soulful a singer as I've ever heard,'' said producer Don Was, who has worked with Willie Nelson and Bonnie Raitt. ''In her own way, she was every bit as soulful as someone like Aretha Franklin.'' Added country singer Patty Loveless: ''When Tammy opened her mouth, it was the soul of country music. ... Tammy, Dolly (Parton) and Loretta (Lynn) - that was, and always will be, the heart of this music.'' Throughout Wynette's 25-year career, stormy marriages and hospital stays threatened to overshadow one of the most successful singing stories in country music history. In 1978, she was abducted at a Nashville shopping center, driven 80 miles in her luxury car, beaten and released by a masked assailant. No one was ever arrested, though Wynette later said the man apparently ended up in prison for another crime. Wynette's personal life settled down that year when she married her fifth and final husband, George Richey. In 1988, she filed for bankruptcy as a result of a sour investment in two Florida shopping centers. In 1992, her name and best-known song entered the presidential campaign when Hillary Rodham Clinton, stressing that her support of her husband was more than routine, said: ''I'm not sitting here like some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette.'' Wynette replied angrily that Mrs. Clinton ''offended every true country music fan and every person who has 'made it on their own' with no one to take them to a White House.'' She added that if she and the Yale-educated Mrs. Clinton ever met, ''I can assure you, in spite of your education, you will find me to be just as bright as yourself.'' Mrs. Clinton said she didn't mean to hurt Wynette's feelings, and Wynette later performed at a Clinton fund-raiser. She was hospitalized for various ailments dozens of times, and admitted in the late 1970s to being dependent on painkilling drugs. She had several operations in the last 10 years to relieve recurring inflammation and infections of her bile duct. Besides husband Richey, Wynette is survived by five daughters, a son and seven grandchildren.
4/17/98 Linda McCartney - .c The Associated Press LONDON (April 19) - Linda McCartney, the American photographer who broke a generation of teen-age girls' hearts when she married Beatle Paul McCartney, has died of cancer, her publicist said Sunday. She was 56. Linda McCartney died Friday while on vacation in Santa Barbara, Calif., Geoff Baker said. Her husband and children were with her. ''The blessing was that the end came quickly and she didn't suffer,'' a statement from Paul McCartney's office said. Two days before her death, Linda and Paul had been horseback riding, one of her main passions, the statement said. The couple announced in December 1995 that Linda McCartney, a vegetarian who marketed her own meat-free dishes, was being treated for breast cancer. The treatment at first appeared to be working well, but in March the cancer was found to have spread to her liver, Sunday's statement said. It said Sir Paul, 55, will issue a statement later in the week and asked that people wanting to send flowers should give a donation to charities involved in cancer research, animal welfare, ''or - best of all - the tribute that Linda herself would like best: Go veggie.'' Linda Eastman was already acclaimed for her moody, gritty photographs when she married Paul McCartney in 1969. They had three children, Mary, 27, Stella, 25, and James, 19. The McCartneys largely avoided the celebrity lifestyle and lived quietly in remote homes in southern England and Scotland, saying they wanted a normal upbringing for their children and Heather, Linda McCartney's daughter from her first marriage to geophysicist John Melvyn See. Yoko Ono, the widow of Beatle John Lennon, said she was deeply saddened to hear of McCartney's death. ''She's in a state of shock,'' Ono's publicist Elliott Mintz said. ''She spoke to Linda within the past year and Linda sounded her usual, powerful self to Yoko.'' Many activists hailed her support for their causes. ''Linda was always upbeat about our work against cruelty and we'll fight harder in her name,'' Dan Mathews, a campaign director for the Washington, D.C.-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said Sunday. ''Linda understood the power of the fork and converted many people to vegetarianism both at home and on tour.'' A vegetarian long before it became fashionable, Linda McCartney lent her name to a range of frozen dishes and in 1991 published a cookbook. Andrew Davies, a spokesman for the environmental group Greenpeace said: ''Paul and Linda have been a valuable assistance to us,'' noting a recent letter they sent to President Bill Clinton regarding whale hunting, which has tripled since he took office. Born into a wealthy family, Linda Eastman grew up in Scarsdale, N.Y. Her father, Lee Eastman, was a lawyer; her mother died in a plane crash when she was 19. After majoring in art history at the University of Arizona, she moved to New York City at the age of 21, becoming a receptionist at Town and Country magazine. A lucky break enabled her to photograph the Rolling Stones, and she was asked to capture other rock stars on camera. Soon she was dating celebrities, including actor Warren Beatty and a manager of The Who, Chris Stamp. During a trip to London in May 1967 she met Paul at the launch of the Beatles' ''Sergeant Pepper'' album. They married in London two years later. Linda McCartney exhibited her photography in some 50 galleries worldwide, including London's prestigious Victoria and Albert Museum. When she joined her husband's new band, Wings, in 1972, as a keyboard player, she was ridiculed for her lack of musicality. In 1972, the McCartneys were fined for possessing marijuana and in another incident, in 1984, they both admitted carrying the drug. Last year, she became Lady Linda when her husband was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. Daughter Stella was appointed head designer at the Paris fashion house Chloe last year and recently narrated a video exposing conditions at fur farms. Speaking about his wife's fight against cancer in an earlier interview, Paul McCartney called her ''the most positive person on earth.'' Asked how they remained so close, he replied, ''I guess it's because we just adore each other.'' Funeral arrangements were not immediately available. It was unclear whether her body would be returned to England for burial. AP-NY-04-19-98 1855EDT ***UPDATE*** Linda McCartney died in Tuscon, AZ, not Santa Barbara, CA as previously reported. This apparently was to help the McCartney family mourn in private without having cameras shoved in their faces. Linda McCartney was cremated and scattered on the family farm in England. Linda's doctor has confirmed that she died of natural causes and that it was NOT an assisted suicide. ~ Karen


From January 2017, the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) adjusted the type of patent statistical data available to the public by disclosing patent applications rather than acceptances monthly. This adjustment is to improve patent quality and bring into play the guiding role of patent statistic data in promoting innovation.
In the past years, both patent acceptances and patent applications were disclosed each month in the SIPO website. The former referred to patent applications accepted by SIPO, while patent applications meant the ones which had paid official application fees and met the requirements for entry into initial examination.


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Service-to-service authentication with client secret and certificate (trying with both) but no one working for me.
I am trying to create directory on Data lake store but that given code is not working.
It's not even giving any error so i can identify it.
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I have also tried File upload code but that is also not working.
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Priama Akcia union succeeds in another conflict over unpaid remuneration (+interview with worker)
Submitted by pa on Mon, 11/15/2021 - 20:20
This was our fastest victory so far. It took just eight days from a collective delivery of a demand letter for the former veterinary hospital worker to receive the money in her account. Same as in our last case in 2019, we succeeded before the conflict went into the public phase, since the boss paid the amount owed within a deadline. We are thankful to all people who came out to support the worker during the letter delivery and wanted to join the planned solidarity campaign! In this article you will find more information about the conflict and an interview with the worker. If you have a problem with unpaid money and want to actively address it, please contact us.
Lucia worked as a doctor in a veterinary hospital. She received money for her work under a mandate contract. One part of her `salary` was paid on the basis of an invoice she issued each month for a fixed amount of €700. The other part consisted of a sum for miscellaneous tasks, the sale of feed and for night shifts, for which she received an extra payment.
The problems with the employer (more precisely, the mandator) arose in September, when she was due to receive money for work in August, which was also her last month with the company. According to the manager, there were basically two reasons for the non-payment. The first was that she had not returned some company items (e.g. keys or a stamp). He claimed this despite their agreement that it would be sufficient if she returned them during September. The second reason was an open circumvention not only of previous practice but of the contract itself. The manager began to claim that Lucia was not entitled to the €700 because she had not worked enough hours, and tried to `legalise` this claim with an amendment to the contract, which she refused to sign. She sent the manager a lengthy explanation, which she wrote with her lawyer, and added that she would start claiming default interest if the outstanding invoice was not paid.
A further complication arose on 1st October, when she had already returned all the company`s items and there was really nothing to prevent payment of the amount owed. The manager suddenly came up with the following - Lucia still had to pay an aliquot part of the amount for the work clothes, without indicating how he had calculated it at all. Lucia had had enough in the last month and decided to contact our union on 7th October.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE CONFLICT
After a collective review of all the documents and communication, we concluded that we could win the potential conflict. The main task now was to determine the amount owed. The fixed amount was clear, but Lucia had to get to the amounts for the tasks and other things first. It was not impossible, but it was time-consuming, as she no longer worked in the company and could not check data in the system herself. So in the meantime, we agreed that Lucia would try to ask the manager to explain the calculation related to the work clothes, as the amount didn`t make sense. She sent the first email on 13th October and a reminder on 20 October, adding that if the calculation of the amount was not sent by 22nd October, she would consider the whole amount to be irrelevant. Ironically, shortly after sending the reminder, she received the first part of the debt - a fixed sum of €700 - in her account. (This was 48 days after the invoice was issued, or 19 days after the last company items had been handed over.) However, the payment of this amount was unrelated to the reminder and was totally coincidental. There was no guarantee that the company would pay the remaining few hundred Euros, especially when we saw the (lack of) communication on the manager's part. And since the manager did not even respond to the reminder, we decided to deliver a demand letter directly to the company on Monday, 25th October.
COLLECTIVE DELIVERY OF A DEMAND LETTER
We wanted to deliver the letter to the person in charge, i.e. the company head. While he works as a veterinarian in the company, too, it was not certain that we would be able to reach him during working hours. We therefore made sure that one person pretended to be a customer and arranged a meeting for Monday evening. That was exactly when we walked into the veterinary hospital together with Lucia and other people who had come to support her.
Lucia asked the receptionist to call the company head, saying that she wanted to talk with him about owed money. The first message was to wait two minutes. After more than two minutes, a second attempt followed. This time the receptionist said that he was on a phone. Although we hadn`t planned on staying any longer and had a plan B in reserve for such a situation, the atmosphere was pleasant and we were quite curious to know if the manager was just pulling our leg or if he really had pressing obligations (although he was supposed to be waiting for a fictitious customer at the time). After a few more minutes, Lucia asked the receptionist to try again, otherwise she would have to give the letter for the company head to her. The receptionist came back with a message that Lucia could either go to him alone or meet the manager the next morning. The "indecisive" behaviour of the manager caused general amusement in us, and after giving the letter to the receptionist we left the hospital premises in good spirits.
The 8-day period (until 2nd November) for payment of the money started, after which we planned to enter the public phase of the conflict.
QUICK VICTORY
On Wednesday, 27th October, we received an email from the manager finally clarifying the calculation related to the work clothes and requesting an invoice. Lucia accepted the calculation and the amount, and on 28th October an invoice was sent to the company for the outstanding amount of €441.50. The deadline for payment remained 2nd November and the company complied with it. Lucia received all the money owed that day. So, after lengthy individual communication with the company, all it took was one collective action and the threat of conflict and we achieved a lightning-fast resolution of the problem.
We are pleased at how quickly the money was paid, but whether the conflicts are short or long, they are always a school of mutual aid between workers. They confirm that if we want to achieve something, we have to stick together. And they show that we really can do it.
After the conflict, we asked Lucia for an interview. We were interested in how she perceived the conflict. We also briefly discussed veterinary work in general.
• Initially, you tried to resolve the issue of the owed money with a lawyer and considered a pre-suit notice. Eventually, however, you decided to contact our union and use direct action tactics instead of the courts. Can you elaborate on why you made that decision?
I was discouraged from going to court by my own lawyer, as it would have dragged on for a year or two. I was familiar with your activities and when I started to have first doubts whether I would get money from the company, I considered the possibility of contacting you with a person close to me. Shortly before that I considered trying a pre-suit notice to see how they would react, and especially at this point I was greatly helped by a lawyer (who actually found it quite difficult to navigate through such a messy mandate contract).
• Did the people around you know that you wanted to fight for the money you were owed, and even in a way other than through the courts? If so, how did they react?
They knew. Some with a more vivid imagination immediately imagined demonstrative standing and shouting outside the company`s headquarters, and they were more inclined to advise me to better go to court. On the other hand, from the closer family circle, they liked the method of direct action and last but not least, my partner was very supportive and helpful.
• One of our conditions was that you would be active in the conflict and that we would not do things for you. We must commend your commitment and cooperation in preparing the conflict. However, we would still like to ask you if you had any fears, uncertainties or doubts, or if you imagined things differently, if anything surprised you...
I`ve read your publication "How We Coped With Problems At Work", where you summarised your conflicts between 2015 and 2019. This was very helpful, I could imagine better how a conflict could escalate. In my case it all went quite smoothly, mainly thanks to you. I told to myself two things at the beginning when I sought the help of a lawyer - that I would not take the whole thing tragically and that it would be a valuable experience however it ended up. I mean, working somewhere for free for a whole month feels bad but...
• You mentioned that the use of mandated contracts in veterinary practice is very common. Is this in any way connected with the existence of the Chamber of Veterinary Doctors of the Slovak Republic and basically a mandatory self-employment?
A veterinarian who decides to carry out a private veterinary practice must register with the Chamber, which then assigns him or her an ID number and he or she is registered as a self-employed person, a so-called occupationally-related trade. One of the conditions for registration with the Chamber is that the person concerned is not in a state employment relationship, an employment relationship or any other similar employment relationship, nor does he or she carry out any other gainful activity in the field of veterinary care except for teaching, journalistic, literary and scientific activities. So, yes, basically, we do not have much choice.
• Do you think that mandate contracts are equal in their advantages to employment contracts?
I don`t think they are equal. A mandate contract is governed by the Commercial Code, ergo in court the mandatary (an employee of the company in question) and the mandator (the company head) have equal status, the mandatary is not protected by the laws as an employee under the Labour Code. Nowhere is it defined how many hours a mandataries can work in a given month, so they are governed by their mandate contract, and this is often abused by company directors, and it may happen to you that you actually work 192 hours, in the contract you have a maximum limit of 184, and since nothing protects you, you can only hope that you will somehow negotiate it with the boss/manager.
• Our last question is related to a problem we often encounter. A conflict requires that the workers prepare for it, and they need to find time for that. At the same time, they usually already have a new job or are trying to find one. The other thing is that they are not used to confronting someone who has or has had some power over them. There`s probably no one-size-fits-all answer or advice, but can you think of any advice you would give to people who haven`t received their pay?
Hehe, probably just a universal answer: channel all the anger and resentment into proactive action, realize who is perpetuating the unlawful situation, which was caused by the former employer in the first place, and perhaps most importantly, don`t underestimate the collective power. Just knowing that other people are interested in my problem at work gives me the strength and motivation to face it.
If you have problems at work and want to actively address them, you can contact us at one of our contacts. If our activities are close to your heart and you want to develop them in your area, fill in the questionnaire https://www.priamaakcia.sk/zapoj-sa.
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Paul del Río Canales (L'Havana, 22 de desembre de 1943 - Caracas, 5 d'abril de 2015) va ser un escultor, pintor i revolucionari veneçolà. Com a artista va combinar el modernisme, el cubisme i el surrealisme per a crear quadres enigmàtics que solen ser una crítica social sobre la duresa de la vida urbana moderna per a la gent corrent i el seu anhel d'una vida millor.

Biografia
Originaris d'Espanya, els seus pares es van exiliar a l'Estat francès després de la victòria del feixisme i més endavant van emigrar a l'Havana, on va néixer. Al seu segon any de vida, la seva família es va traslladar a Caracas.

Guerrilla
Com a guerriller del Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria, Del Río es va donar a conèixer públicament amb el pseudònim de «Máximo Canales». L'any 1963, als 19 anys, com a líder del grup guerriller veneçolà de les Forces Armades d'Alliberament Nacional (FALN) es va apoderar del vaixell de càrrega veneçolà Anzoátegui. El vaixell va evadir tant la Marina dels Estats Units d'Amèrica com la Royal Navy durant onze dies abans d'atracar amb seguretat a la costa de Belém, al Brasil.

Sis mesos després, Del Río va segrestar a punta de pistola l'estrella del futbol argentí Alfredo Di Stéfano a l'hotel Potomac de Caracas mentre el seu equip, el Reial Madrid, feia una gira de pretemporada per Sud-amèrica. El segrest va rebre el nom en clau de «Julián Grimau», després que el comunista espanyol Julián Grimau fos afusellat a Espanya aquell mes d'abril durant la dictadura de Francisco Franco. Di Stéfano va ser alliberat il·lès dos dies després a prop de l'ambaixada espanyola, sense que es pagués cap rescat. Les FALN tenien la intenció d'utilitzar el segrest per a cridar l'atenció internacional sobre el govern repressiu de Ròmulo Betancourt. Di Stefano va jugar un partit contra el São Paulo FC l'endemà i va rebre una gran ovació a l'Estadi Olímpic.

Art
L'any 1966, Del Río va començar a fer caricatures polítiques amb el pseudònim d'«URBA», i a poc a poc va trobar mitjans alternatius per a expressar les opinions polítiques a través de l'art. El 1975, va recuperar la nacionalitat veneçolana que havia estat retirada a tota la seva família pel president Rómulo Betancourt (1959-1964). La galeria Viva México de Caracas va ser la primera a exposar amb èxit la seva obra i, del 1974 al 1993, va mostrar-se en diverses exposicions internacionals.

L'any 2000, va dissenyar l'escultura de bronze Mano Mineral per a l'Orde Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso, el guardó d'estat veneçolà que es concedeix a aquelles persones per llur contribució en els àmbits de la mineria, el petroli i l'energia.

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Artistes de l'Havana
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Militars cubans
Militars veneçolans
Morts a Caracas
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Q: SocketInputStream.socketRead0 occupies 30% of application time High-throughput application is deployed in JBoss 7 which processes over 200k requests per minute. The application reads http requests and processes them. Average request payload size is 1.5Kb.
A cpu thread profiler shows the following:
55% time: Unsafe.park (threads waiting to be assigned?)
30% time: SocketInputStream.socketRead0 (probably reading requests off the socket?)
8% time: entire application code for processing requests
4% time: Spring code
Can someone throw some light on why so much time might is spent in Unsafe.park and SocketInputStream.socketRead0? As per other stackoverflow posts, Unsafe.park maybe threads waiting to be assigned, representing reserve capacity (not sure of this). The remaining 45% is probably the actual used capacity.
The most surprising part is that SocketInputStream.socketRead0 (thread dump stack frames below) occupies as much as 30% of the time. While processing requests which is the entire complex application code including multiple network lookups occupies only 8% of the time.
If you consider only the 45% used capacity, SocketInputStream.socketRead0 takes 67% of the time.
The main question is what might be causing SocketInputStream.socketRead0 to take so much time? Any pointers will help.
The thread dump shows the following stack trace frames for SocketInputStream.socketRead0
org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run() :122
java.lang.Thread.run() :745
org.jboss.threads.QueueExecutor$Worker.run() :835,825,840,842
org.jboss.threads.QueueExecutor.access$100(org.jboss.threads.QueueExecutor, java.lang.Runnable) :45
org.jboss.threads.QueueExecutor.runTask(java.lang.Runnable) :801
org.jboss.threads.SimpleDirectExecutor.execute(java.lang.Runnable) :33
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run() :520,518
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(java.net.Socket) :671
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(java.net.Socket) :838,877,904,844
org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalInputBuffer.parseRequestLine() :369,368
org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalInputBuffer.fill() :731
java.net.SocketInputStream.read(byte[], int, int) :122
java.net.SocketInputStream.read(byte[], int, int, int) :152
java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(java.io.FileDescriptor, byte[], int, int, int) :native

Stack frames for Unsafe.park:
org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run() :122
java.lang.Thread.run() :745
org.jboss.threads.QueueExecutor$Worker.run() :835,825,840,842
org.jboss.threads.QueueExecutor.access$400(org.jboss.threads.QueueExecutor) :45
org.jboss.threads.QueueExecutor.takeTask() :746
java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer$ConditionObject.await() :2039,2043
java.util.concurrent.locks.LockSupport.park(java.lang.Object) :186
sun.misc.Unsafe.park(boolean, long) :native

Stack frames invoking application code:
org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run() :122
java.lang.Thread.run() :745
org.jboss.threads.QueueExecutor$Worker.run() :835,825,840,842
org.jboss.threads.QueueExecutor.access$100(org.jboss.threads.QueueExecutor, java.lang.Runnable) :45
org.jboss.threads.QueueExecutor.runTask(java.lang.Runnable) :801
org.jboss.threads.SimpleDirectExecutor.execute(java.lang.Runnable) :33
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run() :520,518
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(java.net.Socket) :671
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(java.net.Socket) :838,877,904,844
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(org.apache.coyote.Request, org.apache.coyote.Response) :395,368,364,365
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(org.apache.catalina.connector.Request, org.apache.catalina.connector.Response) :109
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(org.apache.catalina.connector.Request, org.apache.catalina.connector.Response) :123,131,102
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(org.apache.catalina.connector.Request, org.apache.catalina.connector.Response) :125,143,185,155
org.jboss.as.web.security.SecurityContextAssociationValve.invoke(org.apache.catalina.connector.Request, org.apache.catalina.connector.Response) :159,155,93,153,72,86,158,92,83,109
org.jboss.as.jpa.interceptor.WebNonTxEmCloserValve.invoke :50,47
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(org.apache.catalina.connector.Request, org.apache.catalina.connector.Response) :161
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(org.apache.catalina.connector.Request, org.apache.catalina.connector.Response) :283,253,275
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(javax.servlet.ServletRequest, javax.servlet.ServletResponse) :248
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(javax.servlet.ServletRequest, javax.servlet.ServletResponse) :280
org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(javax.servlet.ServletRequest, javax.servlet.ServletResponse, javax.servlet.FilterChain) :76,74,-1,67,83
org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilterInternal(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse, javax.servlet.FilterChain) :88
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(javax.servlet.ServletRequest, javax.servlet.ServletResponse) :248
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(javax.servlet.ServletRequest, javax.servlet.ServletResponse) :329
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(javax.servlet.ServletRequest, javax.servlet.ServletResponse) :848,-1,847
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse) :754,781
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse) :789
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse) :867,920,873,882,866,919,870
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse) :842,848,840,849,839,852,841
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse) :886,934,923,963,893,910,-1,984,914
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.handle(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse, java.lang.Object) :80,-1
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.handleInternal(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse, org.springframework.web.method.HandlerMethod) :578
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.invokeHandlerMethod(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse, org.springframework.web.method.HandlerMethod) :621,610,606,-1,609,608,617,612,614,618
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.invokeAndHandle(org.springframework.web.context.request.NativeWebRequest, org.springframework.web.method.support.ModelAndViewContainer, java.lang.Object[]) :96
org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.invokeForRequest(org.springframework.web.context.request.NativeWebRequest, org.springframework.web.method.support.ModelAndViewContainer, java.lang.Object[]) :126,117
org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.invoke(java.lang.Object[]) :213
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(java.lang.Object, java.lang.Object[]) :606
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(java.lang.Object, java.lang.Object[]) :43
sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor405.invoke(java.lang.Object, java.lang.Object[])
com.myco.myapp.AppController.process(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse, java.io.Writer, @RequestHeader java.lang.String, @PathVariable java.lang.String, @RequestParam java.lang.String) :84,83,82

EDIT (Apr 8):
Well it looks like the above stack frames for the 30% socketRead0 are for only reading the "request line", not the request body. See above
org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalInputBuffer.parseRequestLine() :369,368

Turns out the "request body" is actually being read from the 8% application code and is taking 1.7% (which still seems higher than it should take) of the overall time. Continuation of the above stack frames invoking application code to show request body being read:
com.myco.myapp.AppController.process(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse, java.io.Writer, @RequestHeader java.lang.String, @PathVariable java.lang.String, @RequestParam java.lang.String) :84,83,82
com.myco.myapp.AppController.getRequestBody(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, java.lang.String) :229,221,222,-1
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteReader.readLine() :190,203,158,201,192,204
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteReader.read(char[], int, int) :105
org.apache.catalina.connector.InputBuffer.read(char[], int, int) :447
org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.CharChunk.substract(char[], int, int) :445
org.apache.catalina.connector.InputBuffer.realReadChars(char[], int, int) :398
org.apache.catalina.connector.InputBuffer.realReadBytes(byte[], int, int) :347
org.apache.coyote.Request.doRead(org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk) :438
org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalInputBuffer.doRead(org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk, org.apache.coyote.Request) :706
org.apache.coyote.http11.filters.IdentityInputFilter.doRead(org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk, org.apache.coyote.Request) :116
org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalInputBuffer$InputStreamInputBuffer.doRead(org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk, org.apache.coyote.Request) :777
org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalInputBuffer.fill() :747
java.net.SocketInputStream.read(multiple parameter matches) :-1,122
java.net.SocketInputStream.read(byte[], int, int, int) :152
java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(java.io.FileDescriptor, byte[], int, int, int) :native

Questions are is still the same:
1. Why 30% time spent in socketRead0?
2. Why 55% in Unsafe.park?

A: This has been resolved. As per the Thread Profiler documentation:

After the profiler finishes running, the agent will report the profile data. The call tree automatically appears on the Thread profiler page. The percentages in the call tree represent the percentage of thread backtrace samples in which each call path appeared during the profiling session.

The New Relic thread profiler works by sampling. The percentages are not the amount of time spent, but simply the percentage of samples in which the method appeared.
Transactions is the function which shows which methods are the most time-consuming. Docs here.


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T-Mobile offers iPhone 5 with no upfront payment in trade-in deal
By John Ribeiro
PCWorld	 Apr 9, 2013 11:35 pm PDT
T-Mobile USA is trying to boost the number of iPhone users on its network by offering the iPhone 5 without down payment to people who bring in their iPhone 4 and 4S smartphones for a trade-in which could also earn them up to $120 in credits.
The iPhone 5 will be available nationwide on Friday at T-Mobile owned retail stores as well as its online store. The carrier announced in March that customers could get an iPhone 5 for $100 down payment, plus monthly payments of $20 for 24 months. The new trade-in deal hence knocks of the about $100 down payment for the device, though the monthly payments continue.
The trade-in offer, which runs through Father's Day on June 16, also provides customers on the Simple Choice Plan with up to $120 in credits, which will depend on the trade-in value of the device, and can be used toward "monthly payments, an existing T-Mobile bill, or the purchase of accessories or another device," the operator said on Wednesday.
The U.S. wireless operation of Deutsche Telekom, which is offering the iPhone for the first time in the U.S., has been trying to woo customers from its competitors like AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel by offering the iPhone 5 without usual annual contracts.
It announced last month a plan called Simple Choice Plan that starts with a base rate of $50 per month for unlimited talk, text and Web with 500MB of 4G data. Consumers can add 2GB of 4G data for $10 per month per line or get unlimited 4G data for an additional $20 per month per line, the company said.
T-Mobile USA had about 34 million mobile customers by the end of the first quarter, making it the fourth largest operator in the country after AT&T, Verizon and Sprint. On Friday, shareholders of MetroPCS Communications, a small mobile operator, will vote on a merger with T-Mobile, a deal that was cleared by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission last month, and will boost T-Mobile's subscriber base.
Deutsche Telekom said in December that T-Mobile USA had entered into an agreement with Apple to bring products to market together in 2013.
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Q: Fixed contour display I use the grain contour method and the openCV library to count the seeds and set them up. My camera is a Basler 1920 ace.
I use light for lighting and even increase the exposure to 50000, but when we are going to count the grains live, in a fixed container that does not move and we do not have ambient light, the number of lines and grains changes. Slowly
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Hindu Council of Australia organized a Walk to Temples event in Sydney on 29th September 2018. Funds were raised for Farmers Drought Relief efforts during the walk. According to Walk organizer Mr Sai Pravastu, $850 were raised on the first day and $540 were raised on second and final day of the walk. More funds are being collected and will be handed over to Hindu Benevolent Fund to help the Australian Farmers.


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Trump to grant authority over Palestinian affairs to Ambassador to Israel
The move would mean that the U.S Consulate General in Jerusalem, which handles PA affairs, will be subordinated to the new Jerusalem embassy.
Ivanka Trump at the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem. Photo Credit: The White House
U.S President Donald Trump is looking at granting additional authorities to U.S Ambassador to Israel David Friedman over Palestinian authority affairs, five U.S officials said Friday. The move would downgrade the autonomy of U.S Consulate General in Jerusalem and it will be subordinated to the new embassy in Jerusalem. The Consulate General is responsible for all relations with the Palestinian Authority and according to former Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro, this kind of move would undermine the Palestinian aspirations for statehood.
"They don't want to deal with the U.S. embassy to Israel as their channel. They want their voice to be heard directly in Washington," Shapiro said.
The U.S Consulate General in Jerusalem is not operating in the same way U.S. consulates operate around the world. Instead of reporting to the embassy, the Jerusalem consulate reports directly to the U.S government and operates as an independent channel for the Palestinian Authority to communicate with the U.S.
A decision to transfer these authorities to the Jerusalem embassy and Ambassador David Friedman would mean that the PA will have to go through the Israel embassy in order to communicate with the U.S government. This move comes after the U.S recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital and the Trump's abandonment of the insistence on a Two State solution, which had already damaged the PA's faith in the U.S.
Discussions about the subject were triggered by David Friedman, who urged the expansion of the embassy's authorities since he began his term. On the other side, Friedman is criticized for being too involved with Israeli political matters, one Democrat
legislator suggested Friedman needs to be called back to the U.S.
The U.S State Department commented, "The Consulate General Jerusalem continues to operate as an independent mission with an unchanged mandate from its historic Agron Road location."
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