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Tags The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Tag: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Free Romaine 'Chip' Fitzgerald: an open letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom
We are writing in support of Mr. Romaine Fitzgerald's (B-27527) petition for release. He is now 70 years old and has been incarcerated for over 50 years. He has demonstrated deep remorse for his actions and is no longer the person that he was a half a century ago. In the interest of justice, I entreat you to grant his release.
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Remembering Martin King
In the 20th century, few names, especially of Black people, ring louder than that of Martin Luther King. His life, his dedication to the civil rights movement and his martyrdom in April 1968 made him a global icon of social justice. Born in 1929, if he were not martyred, he would be enjoying his 90th year of life. But he was martyred and, too, he was considered an enemy of the state. Why?
'13th' and the culture of surplus punishment
Ava DuVernay undertook the documentary "13th" in order to explore and bring attention to the Prison Industrial Complex. The film's title refers to the 1865 amendment to the U.S. Constitution, in which slavery was abolished "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." The story told by "13th" thus goes back to the early chain-gangs of Black prisoners – men arrested for petty offenses under the post-Civil War Black Codes who were then contracted out to perform labor that they had previously performed as privately-owned slaves.
Custer died for their sins
Gen. George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) paid the ultimate price for the sins of certain white people of his time who committed damn near every type of crime against humanity upon the indigenous peoples of this country. So much so that many different tribes of indigenous peoples came together, some who were sworn enemies, to fight and defeat their common oppressor. Here in 2016, once again, many different tribes of indigenous peoples, and not just from this country but from around the world, have come together to defeat their common modern day oppressor.
Amend 13!
This is a public notice to all freedom fighters, activists and community leaders: SLAVERY IS NOT DEAD! Did the 13th Amendment abolish slavery? Ask anyone in the United States this question and they will answer most emphatically: Yes, of course it did. If you, the person reading this article and call to action, believe this as well, please allow me to inform you: You are wrong! Slavery is not dead! Rather than abolish slavery, the 13th Amendment LEGALIZED it!
The Clintons' $93 million romance with Wall Street: a catastrophe for...
For 24 years Bill and Hillary Clinton have courted Wall Street money with notable success. No other political couple in modern history has enjoyed so much money flowing to them from Wall Street for such a long time – $92.57 million over a quarter century. Because of the Clintons' romance with Wall Street and their corrupt New Democratic Party, the New York bankers and the Clintons are richer today. Others – betrayed, abandoned, savaged – are not.
The New Underground Railroad Movement
The New Underground Railroad Movement is a grassroots inside-outside organization that recognizes that the institutionalization of mass incarceration is the greatest civil rights and social issue we are faced with today. The New Underground Railroad Movement is dedicated to shutting down the "prison industrial complex" through tactical, organizational and grassroots work strikes, boycotts and class conscious empowerment.
What does it do to a child when a judge calls...
The girl perceived as "a danger to society" has in fact been working hard, successfully and with great promise. Rather than her being a danger to society, the juvenile justice system is a danger to her. Our children and young people are clearly in pain. They do not need to be punished in institutionalized settings that kill their spirits. Come to a meeting to organize an action to advocate for our youth in the racist juvenile justice system this Saturday, May 8, 2 p.m., at 4 Marina Bay Parkway, Richmond.
The value of Black life in America, Part 1
The same mindset that allows a police officer to summarily execute an innocent, unarmed Black person in the street is the same mindset that allows an officer to plant evidence and lie on the witness stand. It allows a judge to appoint a knowingly incompetent defense attorney, and it allows a prosecutor to withhold evidence, use false evidence, to overcharge and to discriminate with impunity.
The National Afrikan-Amerikan Family Reunion Association: NAAFRA Time
The motivation to organize the National Afrikan-Amerikan Family Reunion Association, NAAFRA, a family movement in-gathering all New Afrikan families with reunions and those not yet experiencing the joy of reunion activity in their family into a single family movement charged with the fire of change and coming forward with a passion of love and pride in being Afrikan.
Michelle Alexander to hunger strikers: You are true heroes for our...
I don't know whether any of your names will be recorded in history books as the early leaders of a bold, courageous movement that not only ended solitary confinement as a form of torture, but also ended the entire system of mass incarceration in this country. But I know that the entire movement for freedom and justice in the United States is indebted to you.
The too-many prisoners dilemma
There's a growing national consensus that, as Attorney General Eric Holder stated in August, "too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason." Despite the heavy toll that mass incarceration exacts every day and in countless ways on many American communities the topic attracts remarkably little consistent coverage in the mainstream media.
Hunger strike rally at Corcoran Prison: The sound before the fury
It is hot enough in Corcoran, California, to melt people. That being said, it still wasn't hot enough to keep upwards of 400 people from braving 103-degree weather to mobilize and rally at Corcoran State Prison in support of over 30,000 prisoners on hunger strike in California. The immediate goal is to stop the cruelty and torture that being held in isolation represents. The long-range objective is liberation.
Let them eat … nothing at all
Give us your tired, your poor, your hungry, huddled masses ... and we'll make sure they stay that way. That's the message that members of Congress – Republicans and Democrats alike – are sending with their proposals to cut funding and add new restrictions for the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP – better known as the food stamp program.
Fired up!
The Clean Lounge, a clean and sober space located in Bayview Hunters Point in San Francisco, was full of Fired Up! women and supporters, family and friends.There was so much collective healing wisdom in the room. Fired Up! is an insider-outsider grassroots network founded by CCWP former prisoners that meets weekly in the San Francisco County Jail.
Wanda's Picks for May 2012
We give honor to Mother Earth, her birthday celebrated the weekend of April 22 with many great events in the Bay Area, "Love Yo Mama" in East Oakland hosted by Nehanda Imara of Citizens for a Better Environment, one of my favorite community events. My granddaughter and I enjoyed visiting the Tassafaronga Farm.
Keep AAMLO and all libraries open, Oakland!
A recent evening at the African American Museum and Library in Oakland was special. The line wrapped around the corner of 14th Street at Martin Luther King Jr. Way as people lined up to hear Isabel Wilkerson talk about her book, "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration."
Systematic injustice against Sundiata Acoli
"Freeing all political prisoners, prisoners of conscience and prisoners of war" tops America's social justice struggle, "because the state uses the criminal justice system to lock up those who sacrifice their livelihood for freedom and justices for the masses."
Happy Mother's Day to Yuri Kochiyama! I'd like to also wish the women who haven't seen their children in a long time, some since birth, a special Happy Mother's Day. Our prayers are with you even if you feel alone at a time when in America prisons systematically separate mothers from their children, often permanently.
Locked down, exploited and mistreated
Inmate beatings by prison guards occur across Georgia following an eight-day peaceful protest to highlight inhumane conditions in the prisons. These protesting prisoners must be silenced because a whole range of corporate interests has found that they can profit from caging human beings.


Abrams said "we need to make sure this film also works for people who don't know star wars but also it is a finale for a series of 8 movies". If something is going to try and please everyone it is going to please no one say Rudie who will see it opening day.
So EA cancelled a single-player Star Wars game citing "fundamental shifts in the marketplace", made two Battlefront games, and then… went back to making a single-player Star Wars game.
I'd watch a Bruce LaBruce Star Wars movie.
I think this is a sign of Respawn's relative autonomy more than anything else. Stig joined Respawn in 2014 and I'm guessing this project's been in development as long if not longer than Ragtag was. Ragtag was saddled with the game dev equivalent of studio notes while Respawn's been plucking away at this in their typical iterative design fashion.
I thought there was gonna be no CGI Leia? Maybe she was recast for a small appearance? Repurposed deleted footage from VII or VIII?
They've mentioned before her scenes for IX (or at least what IX was planned ot be at that point) were already shot.
Homestuck updated today and maybe I blame you for summoning it by uttering its name too close to the magical date.
The stories that came out of that sounded like fractured studio leadership which is absolutely killer. If the team doesn't have confidence in leadership or executives don't have confidence in leadership you're boned. If you get it from both sides it's killer.
EA was trying to spin up new studios and shift the culture of a crumbling existing one and given the burden of a $150m+ budget and their most valuable license it makes a lot of sense to pull the plug rather than ship something noncompetitive at twice the intended budget and years late.
DICE is EA's crown jewel studio and while they always seem to ship a few months premature they were thought to be a safe bet.
Respawn's track record so far is on-time and high-quality at relatively low-budget so I think they made a confident pitch right before Titanfall 2 launched. I did some interviews for this game a year ago and it sounded like it was just exiting preproduction so my read is that they weren't too early.


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Institute of neuroscience (IN)
The Institute of Neuroscience of the National Research Council is a first rate institution in the field of Neuroscience in Europe and the world over. It gathers many of the most important Italian scientists involved in the study of the brain and the nervous system, their functions, development and pathologies. Based in Pisa, the Institute is organized in research groups, located in Milan, Padua and Cagliari.
Every year, the Institute of Neuroscience publishes a large number of papers in international journals, including high-impact journals like NATURE, SCIENCE and NEURON.
The Institute of Neuroscience of the National Research Council faces all the principal topics in the study of the nervous system, investigating the development and plasticity of the nervous circuitery; vision and cognitive sciences; the mechanisms of memory and learning; as well as those involving cellular transmission and neuronal communication; calcium homeostasis, apoptosis; neuro-muscular and neuronal-glia interactions, neurobiological bases of alcoholism and drug dependence.
With the aim of preventing pathologies, and taking care of human health, the Institute of Neuroscience carries researches on the regeneration of the central nervous system and on skeletal muscle, on muscular distrophies and on the functional imaging of cerebral activity. All these topics are faced with a wide range of advanced technologies, which include cellular and molecular biology, biochemistry, biophysics, electrophysiology, neuroanatomy, neuropharmacology, neurochemistry, genetics, behavioral studies, psychophysics, neuroinformatics and brain imaging. In several cases, particular methods and original apparatuses are specifically designed, to face unsolved problemsin a new way . All these features grant to the Institute of Neuroscience a great level in the international context, qualifying the Institute as one of the most important for advanced formation in the field of neuroscience.
COMPOSITION OF THE INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND PRINCIPAL RESEARCH TOPICS
The Institute of Neuroscience of the National Research Council began its activity in the year 2001, with the fusion of seven CNR laboratories and it is presently composed by the following sections: Milan, Padua, Pisa,Rome and Cagliari.
The principal topics of research carried out in the various home-place are:
1. 1.Home-place of CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR PHARMACOLOGY (Milan):
· Cellular and molecular aspects of neural communication
· Cellular mechanisms of neural plasticity
· Mechanisms which maintain neural polarity
· Regulation of molecolar expression in nervous transmission
· Interactions between glia and neurons
· Models and bioinformatics
2.Home-place of MUSCLE BIOLOGY AND PHYSIOPATHOLOGY,BIOMEMBRANES,AGING Padua:
· Coupling excitation-contraction: homeostasis of calcium in muscular cells
· Contractile and cytoskeletal systems in muscular tissues
Nervo-muscular interactions. Identification of mechanisms by which electrical and contractile activity - induced by nerve - regulates gene expression in muscular fibers.
· Development og muscular tissues. Muscular regeneration.
· Differentiation of the various types of muscular fibers.
Neuromuscular pathology. Ischemic and apoptic effects in neuromuscular tissues
Structure and dynamics of biologic membranes, mechanisms of mitocondrial transport, pores and macromolecular transport.
· Ca2+ channels, homeostasis of intracellular calcium.
· Ossidative stress: mechanisms and physiopathology
· Phospho-dephosphorilation proteic processes and their regulatory meaning
· Study of cellular distribution and of the effects of prionic proteins
· Action mechanism of proteic neurotoxins
· Study of Alzheimer disease
· Statistical modelling of functional and cognitive status
· National register of Dementia cases
· National register of Bone Fractures in the elderly
· Neuropathies
3. Home-place of NEUROPHYSIOLOGY (Pisa):
· Development of the visual system; visual cortical plasticity
· Apoptosis
· Regeneration of the central nervous system
· Anatomical and functional organization of the visual system
. In vivo and in vitro models of CNS pathological conditions
Visual function in physiological conditions and in neural pathologies: psychophysics, electrophysiology and brain imaging
4 Home-place of PSYCHOBIOLOGY AND PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY (Rome):
a. Neurophysiological and molecular mechanisms in learning and memory processes
b. Animal models for the study of the effects of neonatal stress
c. Neurophysiological mechaniusms and pharmacology of nociceptives processes
5. Home-place on NEUROBIOLOGY OF ADDICTIONS (Cagliari):
- Neurobiologival bases of alcoholism
- Neurobiologival bases of drug addition
- Mechanism of action of psychostimulants
- Role of GABA receptor neurotransmission in the pharmacology of epilepsy
1. SCIENTIFIC STRATHEGY
Each line of research has a prevalent development in the indicated home-place. However, since the first year of its life, coordination has been strongly potentiated in the Institute of Neuroscience and presently, many lines of research involve collaborations between the home-place. Moreover, in order to promote new collaborations among the various Sections, a yearly scientific meeting has been organized since 2000, and the constitution of commun high quality laboratories and services is being discussed. The constitution of an Advanced School for Neuroscience is also planned, as the formation of young scientists is very important for the future of the Institute of Neuroscience. ALL THESE ACTIVITIES CRITICALLY DEPEND ON ADEQUATE FUNDING FROM THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL for the potentiation of the Institute of Neuroscience.
The Institute of Neuroscience is not a purely administrative structure to comply to law. On the contrary, it has begun a great scientific and cultural operation both in Italy and abroad. The Laboratories of the Institute of Neuroscience are well qualified in their field of investigation and pursue lines of research which are one another complementary. From the fusion of these laboratories, the expected outcome is to have new sinergies and possibilities of development, as the present data indicate for the future. The enlargement of the themes of research and of technological perspectives make the Institute of Neuroscience highly competitive in Europe and all over the world. At national level, the Institute of Neuroscience is an important point of aggregation with other forces, operating in the field of neuroscience. In this respect, the Institute of Neuroscience has already received requests from very important institutions, as SISSA (Trieste), Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa). The possibility of synergies in research, which derive from open and interactive laboratories, is already a positive experience in Europe and it has recently been proposed even in the United States of America. We are convinced that with the financial help the Italian National Research Council, this initiative will be successful.
2. INTERNATIONAL VISIBILITY
The Institute of Neuroscience is the result of the fusion of seven laboratories of the National Research Council. These laboratories were internationally considered centers of excellence for research in neuroscience. The researchers of the Institute of Neurosciences are involved in many international research projects, collaborate with important research institutions and are in contact with clinical équipes in Italy and abroad. The results of the research activity of the Institute of Neuroscience are published in the most important international journals.
Thanks to the already existent collaboration amongst the Sections, their potentiation and a series of common initiatives in formation and research, the Laboratories assure a harmonious whole, where research activity, carried out in the Institute of Neuroscience, maintains high standard international levels, reached by the single institutions, which are presently joined together. Section distribution of the Institute of Neuroscience in the Italian soil allows preservation of a close net of local collaborations, sharing competence and apparatuses, beyond active participation in university in post-university formation.
3. FORMATION ACTIVITY
In its laboratories, the Institute of Neuroscience organizes high formation teaching activity, both for students and for postdoctoral fellows. Thanks to its technical and scientific competences, and to the available instrumentations, the Institute of Neuroscience, as a whole, guarantees high standard formation, reached only by a few other international institutions. Moreover, the Institute of Neuroscience has a lot of scientific collaborations with prestigious advanced research institutions in Europe and in the United States of America. The Institute of Neuroscience collaborates for student formation with many and prestigious national institution, as Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), SISSA (Trieste)..... and with many important industries.
4. ADVANCED ACTIVITY AND RESEARCH APPLICATION
In its laboratories, the Institute of Neuroscience carries out advanced research for understanding the mechanisms which regulate cerebral functions, the development and regeneration of the nervous system. Other fields of research are devoted to understand how nerve cells and neural circuits work, in normal and clinical physiology. From these research activities, we expect important advancements in basic knowledge and direct applicability on many sectors of great social and economic impact, as:
· neurotoxicity
· neurovegetative diseases
· autoimmune nervous diseases
· ageing
· diagnosis and monitoring of embryo cerebral malformations
· nervous regeneration
· functional recover after nervous lesions
· nervo-muscular interaction mechanisms and activity dependent genic regulation
· early diagnosis of nervous diseases
· memnory and learning
. alcoholism and drug addiction
5. SOME GREAT IMPACT RESULTS OBTAINED BY THE SECTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE OF
In the course of their research activity, the institutions of the National Research Council, now part of the Institute of Neuroscience, have already obtained important results in basic research, from which originated high relevance social and economic applications.
Amongst them:
development of pattern evoked potential, which is presently used as a primary diagnostic tool in clinical ophthalmology for functional diseases of the visual system. These technologies come from the study of mechanisms which are involved in visual information at visual cortical level;
kits for diagnosis and control of neuromuscular diseases and of neuroendocrine tumors
mutation identification responsible for some familiar forms of nephrogenic diabetes
· delucidation of pathogenetic mechanisms in epilepsia
rationale for use of nicotinic cholinergic drugs for non-invasive diagnosis and in therapy of Alzheimer disease
· Antibodies and molecular selective probes
Typization of scheletric muscular fibers: identification of e new type of muscular fiber and type-specific markers
Development of protocols of electrical stimulation for adapting scheletric muscle to new function, for example cardiomyoplastic.Identification, preclinical characterization, and initial phases of the clinical surveys of a pharmacotherapy for alcoholism.
6. UNIQUE CONTRIBUTION OF BASIC RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF NEUROSCIENCE
The important contributions to applied and clinical fields derived from the results obtained by the Sections of the Institute of Neuroscience indicate the originality, the innovation and the potentials of the research carried out in the Institute. They also provide a clear example of the unique value in economical and social terms that basic research represents in the field of Neuroscience.

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Isa: Reviews
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Halibut à la Plancha, Medley of Sautéed Vegetables, Crème Brûlée
Name: Dion
Occupation: Director of Admission at High School
Favorite Restaurant: Isa
Reviewed Isa: Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Isa restaurant, located in the Marina district, was my selection for Check, Please! Bay Area. The food is French with an Asian influence and served as small plates which are meant to be shared family style.
My group of four shared twelve dishes between us. The dishes were: Dungeness crab salad ($11), heirloom tomato salad ($9), butter lettuce salad ($8.50), lobster broth ($10 for two people), seared yellowfin tuna ($13), potato-wrapped sea bass ($15), seared foie gras ($16), pan-roasted Fulton Valley chicken ($13), truffled risotto ($13), sautéed pea shoots ($6), flourless chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream, and crème brûlée.
Isa has a three-course prix fixe menu for $22.25 before 7pm. The choices are marked with an asterisk, and our server was nice enough to manipulate our course selections so six of the above dishes (including the two desserts) totaled $44.50. The total cost for four people was $216.00, including coffee, dessert wine, tax, and tip. One dining companion brought a bottle of wine -- corkage was $20.00 -- but we reviewed the wine list and found it to have a small but good selection with average prices. The small plate concept makes dining at Isa more expensive than restaurants with similar food, but I always enjoy tasting a little bit of everything brought to the table, and that style of eating is encouraged here.
The taste of the food is phenomenal. The heirloom tomato salad with arugula and goat cheese was seasoned with large grain salt. You would bite into a sweet chunk of heirloom tomato and then the flavor would intensify when you crunch into a grain of salt. The crab salad was flavored with a lemon dressing and had pieces of mango and Fuji apple accenting the crab. The butter lettuce acted as a simple cup that held chunks of pear, Roquefort cheese, and candied walnuts. My companion and I shared the lobster broth, which had small chunks of lobster and a couple of sweet prawns. The broth was intensely flavored, and my friend thought it was a bit on the salty side. The highlights of my meal were the foie gras and the chicken. The foie gras is salted and seared just the way I like it. It is served with a chunk of a sweet custard brioche toast that I could eat for breakfast every day. The accompaniment was mangoes, and the fruit balanced the foie gras perfectly. The pan-roasted chicken is an extraordinary chicken dish. Two pieces of meat are plump and juicy in the middle, yet perfectly crusted on the outside with the skin being crispy. The truffled risotto was covered with a medley of different mushrooms and lightly dusted with aromatic truffle.
Luke Sung, the young owner and chef, has done a great job with food. During this visit, which did not differ much from past visits, the service was lacking and mediocre at best. Isa is a house that was converted into a restaurant. The backyard is tented, lit with small Christmas lights, and has propane heaters throughout the dining area. It is intimately lit and with the tented ceiling, the noise level is quiet. Overall, the food at Isa is excellent, and I would recommend the restaurant to everyone. It is the place for me to bring out-of-town guests.
Occupation: Music Promoter
Favorite Restaurant: Antica Trattoria
Reviewed Isa: Saturday, September 24, 2005
I keep thanking the food lords for the evolving small plate trends as my eating habits and inability to make decisions are a perfect fit for sharing with my dining companions. The problem is, I always want everything on the menu. And just about everything on the menu that I tried at Isa proved to be worth every forkful. This is a wonderful place in the Marina that has been around for several years now, and judging by the size of the crowd, it has not waned in popularity. While the space is not huge, I never felt stuffed in a corner or feared being trampled by rushing waiters or other diners. The front room, which consists of a modern spread of tables, is narrow and leads to the outdoor, covered, tented patio, where I have sat several times before. The feel of the restaurant is a simple, casual elegance made even more casual with the style of the outdoor patio and sporadically-placed heat lamps. Isa also has a distinct feeling of being a contemporary French bistro.
Our waiter and the service that followed were way above average. With me were relatives in town from Chicago, and I wanted to make a good impression, while showing off the food jewels of the Bay Area. We all agreed that the service of our waiter was superior in key areas: the ability to describe both the food and the wine list, and the ability to decipher what our tastes were, and how to combine the right plates and wine. The recommendation for the wine that we ultimately chose was right on target -- it complemented our food while keeping to a reasonable price point. The selection, a wonderful and full-bodied 2000 Old Vine Zinfandel, had a light smoky flavor, which was rounded and full, and so good that I ordered an extra glass to finish the last plate we ordered. Our food came out in a timely manner, starting with the appetizers of a cold salad of Dungeness crab/celery/mango/Fuji apple. The simple vegetables and sweet fruits in their subtle, savory combination made my mouth and stomach feel equally refreshed and also tantalized. The other salad, a more ubiquitous item, with lettuce, candied walnuts, and Roquefort blue cheese was also superior with each ingredient standing out in its own qualities and mixing perfectly with the others.
Several of the main courses were outstanding. Stars should be given for the Halibut à la Plancha -- the white fish is seared on all sides and then baked to perfection with beets, orange, Champagne vinegar, and cilantro. The second fish was a potato-wrapped sea bass, where the potato acted as a crust. Each bite of the thin-crusted potato with the fish created a soft and buttery melt-in-your-mouth experience. Both these dishes made me exercise strict discipline in resisting a second order. A pasta -- Tortiglioni, with crushed black truffles, tomato, basil, and Parmigiano-Reggiano -- was so wonderfully pungent, it felt like my entire mouth and nose were covered in the perfume of the truffle with each bite. The waiter did make one mistake with our order, and a plate of veal sweetbreads accidentally arrived on our table. Never one to pass up an opportunity to try something new, I asked to keep the dish. The soft meat of the sweetbreads in a mushroom sauté was delicate and succulent, and the rich gravy was hearty and satisfying. The one drawback was the dessert. A big chocolate lover, I found the flourless chocolate cake somewhat dry and maybe even a bit overdone.
Knowing that the plates are both interesting and satisfying, I will continue to put Isa on my top list of places to dine, both for out-of-town friends and groups of locals looking for a quality dining experience. I look forward to a return meal in the near future and was sorry that it had been this long.
Name: Fanci
Occupation: Veterinary Nurse / Actress
Location: Danville
Favorite Restaurant: Salang Pass
Reviewed Isa: Thursday, September 21, 2005
We arrived at Isa and had a little trouble parking, but it wasn't too bad. We were seated promptly; I had made reservations. The table was nice, and the heat lamps were wonderful, because there was a bit of a chill outside. Our server was very busy but acknowledged us promptly and was very professional and helpful throughout our meal. We started out with four oysters on the half shell that had a tasty orange-sherry sauce to go on top. The oysters tasted good and fresh, but they were quite small. I am aware, though, that the best oysters are around and available in the winter. I also ordered the heirloom tomato salad, which was very delicious. Then I decided on the Fulton Valley pan-roasted chicken that came with mashed potatoes, all of which was very tasty and prepared nicely. I also ordered sautéed vegetables, which were delicious and cooked perfectly. I also ordered the potato-wrapped sea bass, which was good, but the potatoes were just a little greasy, but still very enjoyable. Next was dessert, and our server was very helpful and suggested the crème brûlée, which was the best I have ever had -- DELICIOUS! The coffee was good and strong.
One of the outstanding features of the experience was the service, which was very, very professional and friendly. The only thing that made me uncomfortable was the artwork in the restroom, which was in association with foie gras and had ducks running around while being chased by a woman on a bike. It disturbed me because I am opposed to the dish. But the majority of the experience at Isa was enjoyable and fun. I would recommend the restaurant to friends who like French food. I might return to the restaurant if they did not serve foie gras.


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Sir Drogo LaForce has spent a lifetime chasing the family honor and wealth denied him by his bastard birth. A clever scheme to uncloak a traitor against the Crown finally promises to win him everything he desires…
Lady Isabel has been in hiding ever since an evil Norman lord killed her father and usurped her English lands. But her plot to avenge her father and free her people is threatened when a mysterious Norman knight abducts her with plans to use her for espionage.
Drogo's fascinating captive is nothing like he anticipated. Outspoken but innocent, Isabel reluctantly submits to Drogo's tutoring in the spymaster's craft, as well as the art of making love. But their potent attraction nearly leads to disaster. In the end they must decide between their dueling appetites for riches and revenge…or love.
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E3 2019 INTERVIEW: eFootball PES 2020 (Lennart Bobzien)
By Quentin H. / July 1st, 2019
eFootball PES 2020 is the latest entry in the Pro Evolution Soccer franchise by KONAMI that comes with a focus (as the name suggests) on the eSports aspect of the series. This new entry comes with a revamped Master League, the new Matchday mode, upgraded gameplay mechanics, and scanned player images to allow gamers to see their favorite licensed teams in full form on the field.
During E3 2019, I caught up with Lennart Bobzien, the European PES brand manager. During our time together, we talked about the return of Second Divisions for Italy/Spain, new features for this upcoming entry, and more.
If you want to check out more eFootball PES 2020 news, you can visit their offical website, like them on Facebook, follow them on Twitter, and subscribe to them on YouTube.
You can also check out my E3 2019 hands-on impressions for eFootball PES 2020 here. If you're interested in checking out a demo, it goes live on July 30th. eFootball PES 2020 releases worldwide on September 10, 2019, for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC (Steam).
This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.
Operation Rainfall: My name is Quentin Humphrey with Operation Rainfall, and are you?
LB: My name is Lennart Bobzien, and I am the European PES Brand Manager.
OR: So what is eFootball PES 2020?
LB: eFootball PES 2020 is a repositioning of our previously known Pro Evolution Soccer series. So this year, we decided to do our repositioning to underline our focus on eSports moving forward. eSports have already been a big part of our series, and moving forward, it will become more the focus.
OR: We're going to talk about this in a moment, but let's dive right in this first: Second Divisions for Italy and Spain have returned! What led to them finally coming back? Because they were left out in the 2019 edition.
LB: Yes. Last year, we made the decision- we had to remove them from the game. Immediately, we saw the negativity and the backlash from our community. So therefore, we just recognized that that was a huge mistake. And therefore, we decided that we will bring them back as mentioned yesterday.
"We have always been in touch with Messi in the past, even when we didn't have him on the cover."
OR: This year, the Master League is being revamped. How are you revamping it? What changing are coming, and why are they coming?
LB: With Master League, we are in the second year of a three-year plan. And this year, we've included new features such as realistic transfer system, which means that we're working with our data collection team, which is providing us with the real data and the transfers from the real world of football. Just to make it as realistic as possible. We've also included interactive cutscenes, which means that you can make your own choices in certain situations, and create your very own bespoke Master League story. And what's very cool is that now with the new Master League, we've introduced legendary players as managers. So now you can sign up [Diego] Maradona, [Johan] Cryuff, or Zico, for example, for your team as a manager. More [managers] will be announced soon.
OR: You mentioned a moment ago that there's new dialogue trees to eFootball PES 2020. Where did this concept come from, and how does it actually influence gameplay?
LB: First of all, Master League has been part of the series since the beginning. We just want to include more engagement for our users, more options [in order] to have an interactive way to play. And therefore, we just thought that it's the best opportunity when you're the manager, when you have discussions with one of your players, that to add this really nice touch to it- to have this direct influence on the story. And so we have decided to include it into the game.
The stadiums that are included in eFootball PES 2020 are recreated in stunning detail for this game. (Images courtesy of KONAMI).
OR: So what I say at a press conference, will that affect the players' playing form?
LB: So, obviously, the press conference is something where you will interact with the press itself. And obviously, there will be press conferences before the game, but also after the game. And this will obviously have an impact on how media will receive you and how you will interact with those people. And obviously, it will have an impact on your progress later on in the mode.
OR: You have a new mode: Matchday.
LB: Matchday is a really interesting concept. It is a mode that reflects and embraces all the big matches in the real world of football. And it's aligned very closely with the Matchday calendar from real football. So this means, for example, that we want to highlight, we want to include all the big games and rivalries, from the real world. We want to have them featured in the game. And then at the beginning of each week, you select a side from one of those two teams that will be highlighted.
You select the side, and then you play as that team. And you get points for performing outstandingly. For example, winning games, dribbling, goals. You will get points, you will add points to your team's side. At the same time, there are thousands of other players playing for your side and for the opposition. So therefore, all the points are getting put together. And at the end of each week, you have the overall score. And then two representatives from each side will be picked, and those two will face each other online for the big finale. The fans can tune in through a livestream, [and] cheer and support them. And then in the end, there will be rewards for the ultimate winner.
So it's a very engaging community-included mode.
eFootball PES 2020 returns with the new Matchday mode, which correlates with the real-world football schedule. (Image courtesy of KONAMI).
OR: Lionel Messi from FC Barcelona has returned to the cover for the first time since 2011. How did you go about bringing him back?
LB: We have always been in touch with Messi in the past, even when we didn't have him on the cover. And we've always looked for opportunities and ways- there's some interest on both sides. And with the partnership with Barcelona, the one we just renewed to be [their] global partner, it made perfect sense to wrap this partnership up with having probably the best player in the world right now on the cover. And when we started the discussions with him last year, it was clear that it worked from both sides. Therefore, we managed to get him back on board.
OR: Not only that, but you're working with ex-Barcelona captain Andrés Iniesta to improve gameplay. How that did that partnership develop, and what suggestions did he bring that were implemented into eFootball PES 2020?
LB: Iniesta is obviously an ex-Barcelona legend. Since he is now playing in Tokyo, it was perfect for our team in Japan who literally lives around the corner. When we approached him and asked, he said he would be interested in becoming an advisor for our team. He was absolutely up for it. And what he's bringing to the game is, first of all, his wisdom, his experience, and his years played at the highest levels of football. And he sat down with the development team from different departments- from the gameplay department, from the ball department, from the animations department, and he looked at all those different aspects and gave tips [on] how to improve those areas. Whether the ball is behaving correctly, whether a rebound is coming up, whether the player is dribbling in the right way [and] right pace.
The pace is also is something where he had a huge impact on, to reflect the real football in game as much as possible.
"So overall, our full product is for every single audience. For the casual audience. For the hardcore audience."
OR: How long has eFootball PES 2020 been in development for?
LB: In development, the exact years I can't tell you, but its definitely more than a year.
OR: Building on that- the UEFA Championship license deal ended in 2018, and y'all lost the rights to Borussia, Dortmund, [etc]. With this game still in development, you managed to put on a fairly well critically-received title. And 2020, from my hands on, should be received pretty well as well. How did you manage to pull it off, even losing these teams and licenses?
LB: In the end, when it comes to football products or licensing products, you have on one side the game itself. You have the game- just the pure game, the naked game, without any licenses. And in that way, that case, the game's already brilliant. It's an amazing football game. It's realistic. It's enjoyable. And on the other side, you have the licensing part. And with both mixed together, you can have the perfect, perfect football experience.
Obviously, with not renewing the UEFA Champions League or not having Dortmund in the game anymore, it wasn't helpful. But on the other side, the game is still amazing. It's an amazing product. And this year, in terms of licenses, you can definitely look forward to the next couple of months- July, August- since around those two months we will talk more about new licenses.
Andrés Iniesta, who is right around the corner from KONAMI in Japan, participated in making the gameplay of eFootball PES 2020 to be the best it can possibly be. (Image courtesy of KONAMI).
OR: I have to ask- Argentina, Belgum, Scotland, and more. Are there any new leagues or clubs that you are bringing that you can announce now?
LB: The short answer is 'yes, but I cannot tell.' But we have big announcements. When we meet at E3 next year, I hope, you will say 'You're right. You had big announcements.'
OR: Back to the gameplay- what are some new first touch techniques that are coming to eFootball PES 2020?
LB: One is the Trip Trap, which lets you do a feint to one side, and then go to the other side and actually beat the defender. And we have the so-called 'no touch' controller, which is where the ball is incoming, you can run next to the ball without touching it. This is a nice little feature and element of how to treat the ball when its incoming.
"But if you look at the past, we always have regular content updates and that's definitely part of the series."
OR: So you can't tell me anything about new leagues or clubs, but can you tell me about new commentators for this year?
LB: We will talk more about commentators in August, but what I've seen so far, there are no big updates in terms that commentators will change. We are obviously working on improving our commentator system, adding in new phrases, adding in cutscenes, but the people- the commentators themselves- most of them will be the same.
OR: So 2019's was called Pro Evolution Soccer 2019, and now this year's is called eFootball PES 2020. Why the turn to eSports?
LB: To be fair, if you look at the series, we have been doing eSports for years, [but] on a smaller scale. As when you look back at the last three, four years- we've grown our eSports. We have the PES League. We work with our partners- Aresenal, Liverpool. We've hosted events at their stadiums. Last year, we started our initiative eFootball Pro, where you have teams such as Barcelona, Celtic, Monaco competing with each other.
If you look at our setup now, we are already there with eSports. We just wanted to grow more in the future and have more local competitions with the local leagues. We just finished in Russia with the Cyber League, which was an amazing success. And that's just something we want to grow over the next years.
OR: This is one of the two big football franchises. How do you work to distinguish yourselves from FIFA?
LB: For us, it is clearly the gameplay. There is a massive difference between our product and our competitor's product. The visuals- We've done loads of 3-D scans with lots of players. So the player likenesses in the game is just incredible. And then, to round it up, we have a very compelling eSports project. You have the professional one and the casual tournaments. So overall, our full product is for every single audience. For the casual audience. For the hardcore audience. And that's how we wanted to distinguish ourselves from our competitor.
OR: What platforms will eFootball PES 2020 be out for?
LB: On PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC Steam.
OR: Will there be Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 Pro enhancements?
LB: The game will definitely look better on the enhanced consoles, that's for sure.
There are famous managers and players available to build a winning season with in eFootball PES 2020, such as Diego Maradona (above) and Lionel Messi (below). (Images courtesy of KONAMI).
OR: What's the release date?
LB: The tenth of September, globally, which is a Tuesday.
OR: Now DLC. Will there be any DLC plans for eFootball PES 2020?
LB: Oh, definitely. That's something that's always been part of the series. We will release data packs post-launch. We will have regular updates coming to the game, including boots, player faces, kits, stadiums, eventually leagues- but I won't want to talk about that yet.
And what's very important to us is that it's up to date. So when you have kits being released, boots being releases, left goal keeper gloves being released, you want to have that in the game.
Obviously, we're still working on signing additional partnerships with clubs, which also comes along with new stadiums. So therefore, stadiums, kits, additional content will come post-launch.
OR: To someone who hasn't heard of or seen eFootball PES 2020 until this year's E3, or have only played FIFA before, what do you have to say to them?
LB: Stay tuned for the demo, which will be released very soon. We will reveal more information [at the] end of June when we will be at the World Finals. This demo will definitely show you how beautiful our product is, and if you love football, you will definitely love PES. We want to get our game into as many people's hands as possible, so that they can convince ourselves [of that].
It's easy to say 'yeah, you should play PES, so you should play FIFA for that.' At the end, its your decision. You need to play the product to see how good our game is.
eFootball PES 2020 releases worldwide on September 10, 2019, for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC (Steam).
What new features are you excited for in eFootball PES 2020? Are you excited to partake in the new Matchday mode?
Let us know in the comments below!
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Hungarian referee Viktor Kassai has been appointed to officiate at Thursday's Cairo derby between Zamalek and Ahly in the Egyptian Premiere League, the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) announced on Tuesday.
This will not be the first time that the 41-year-old Kassai has been to Egypt, having previously refereed last season's Cairo derby in February, when Ahly defeated Zamalek 2-0.
Zamalek sits third in the Egyptian league table with 34 points, eight points behind leaders Ahly, who have played two matches more.


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Week 14 2021: Seattle Seahawks v. Houston Texans - Duane Brown Is Andy Dufresne
Houston Texans Waive Zach Cunningham
Goodbye.
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Zach Cunningham, once considered a standout on Houston's defense, has been cut.
#Texans waiving LB Zach Cunningham
— Mark Berman (@MarkBermanFox26) December 8, 2021
Selected by the Texans in the second round of the 2017 NFL Draft, Cunningham was a good weakside linebacker who chased and tackled on what was once an elite front seven. His hands are were bright, clean, and beautiful while Benardrick McKinney's and D.J. Reader's hands were bruised, broken and gnarled.
Bill O'Brien didn't understand this. He extended Cunningham to help anchor Houston's front seven, something Cunningham had never shown the propensity to do before. Cunningham was handed a four-year, $58 million contract with $23.5 million guaranteed.
Immediately, he was thrown into the fire. Cunningham replaced Benardrick McKinney at Mike linebacker when McKinney went down. Without Reader in front of him, Cunningham was forced to overcome those around him instead of feasting on tackles that were fed to him. Cunningham led the NFL in tackles on a terrible run defense, but along the way he missed dozens of tackles and had horrendous run fits. The Texans' run defense continued to crumble. Last year, it fell apart.
There was some hope Cunningham could find some of his former performance back at Will linebacker. There he could chase and tackle, dodge offensive linemen climbing to the second level, and deliver kill shots on running backs. That didn't occur. The same errors he made last year were here again this year. Cunningham was benched on third downs and was unplayable at times. Houston's run defense is still at the bottom of the league.
It gets even worse. Cunningham was one of the several dumb contract restructures Nick Caserio did last offseason. Cunningham had a cap hit of only $5.7 million, a figure that jumps to $14.7 million. The Texans adjusted his contract to give Cunningham a $7.51 million signing bonus, a decision made so they could sign other linebackers like Kevin Pierre-Louis and Neville Hewitt. This move will eat into Houston's cap space for next season. The Texans will eat $18.1 million in dead money after cutting Cunningham today.
Now Cunningham is a free agent and can join a potential playoff team. The Tennessee Titans should be an expected landing spot, given his ties to Mike Vrabel, thje respect the Titans have for him, and the fact that Tennessee loves signing former Texans.
It's the end of the road for Zach Cunningham in Houston. He was a player put in a perfect place to succeed, paid a figure that didn't warrant his play, and who couldn't extend his performance beyond the narrow box he was successful in.
But now he's free.


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Ahh, getting up at 4:30 am in northern Alberta, Canada in late October can mean only one thing — waterfowl. As we all pulled on our insulated Browning Dirty Bird bibs and laced up our boots, there was definitely a sparkle in our eyes, knowing that we soon would be positioning our layout blinds, tweaking our decoy spread and loading shells into our Browning shotguns.
Rob Reynolds, owner of Ranchland Outfitters in northeastern Alberta, pulled into the yard at the lodge and helped us load our equipment into the trucks. After a quick stop at the local C-Store for a breakfast sandwich and juice, we were off to our first morning hunt in a barley field about an hour's drive from the lodge.
One of his scouters met us at the field and directed us to the spot where hundreds of ducks and geese had been feeding the night before. We quickly lowered the back door on the enclosed trailer and started unloading our layout blinds and decoys. As some of us started to add straw to our blinds to match the surroundings, others followed Rob's directions in placing decoys in a V-shape, leaving a bountiful landing area for incoming ducks and geese, positioned for them to backpedal into the wind. As the sun started to lighten the horizon, we all settled into our blinds, quickly loading our guns as wings whistled above us.
Rob Reynolds spots another group of honkers as he prepares to "Call 'em in"!
Within minutes, Rob's calling had birds circling our spread. The first group of 10 made their last cautious decent as Rob whispered, "Get ready — Take 'um"! Doors flew open from our ground coffins and barrels drew to the sky as fire started; as big mallards flaring skyward started dropping all the way down the line of shooters. One lone bird made it through the gauntlet as our morning had officially begun.
By 8:30am we had limited out on early rising ducks, our focus quickly turned to geese honking to our west. Lines of snows and big Canadas were heading our way as the Mojo's shut off and Rob quickly switched over to his goose calls. It didn't take long for the first group to spy our decoy spread. After the second pass, all of us knew that it was going to happen. The lead goose looked like a B-52 making its final approach as the rest of the group followed his lead. Another loud "TAKE 'UM" rang through the morning air and six big honkers thudded to the ground.
With the skies quieting by 10:30am, we all slowly climbed out of our blinds and as Rob headed over to bring in the trucks and trailer, we all started piling up decoys and making a last walk around the area for downed birds. Our morning hunt had collected 48 mallards and 16 geese, not too bad for our first morning session and you know what, we had four more sessions to go!
That night our attention turned to filling our goose limit as we downed another dozen geese and the ducks just kept dive-bombing us as they made their way for a little dinner before they hit the waterways after dark. Too bad we had already limited out on ducks during our morning hunt, but it made for some great footage for an upcoming edition of Sportsman's News Television, that's for sure!
Let me fill you in on a little bit more about the area. Ranchland Outfitters is located northeast of Edmonton. They own many prime acres of land, but also have exclusive agreements with landowners throughout the area for both their big game (deer, moose and black bear) and waterfowl. This part of Alberta, near the Saskatchewan border, is right in the heart of where three migration routes converge. As the northernmost major grain-producing region in North America, this area is a magnet for migrating waterfowl raised across the boreal forest and Arctic. Starting in September, waves of Canada geese, white-fronted geese, lesser snows, Ross's geese, mallards, pintails and other dabbling ducks descend on the region to gorge themselves on waves of grain stubble fields.
Our group of hunters watch the last bird fall from the sky during another successful session.
Back to the hunt. Our second morning found us in another area, this time setting up in a wheat stubble field, with a pond to our right about 200 yards away. Again, we found the location to be perfect and again the ducks were the first to arrive. Another 35 mallards fell from the sky, along with a handful of big Canadas. Now you may be saying, "Why not more geese?" As we talked over the trip with Rob earlier in the year, it was decided that we would make our visit in the later part of October when the duck hunting is usually hot and heavy and as you can tell, that is exactly what we found. Most of the lighter geese had moved through the area, but many of the larger Canadas had started to make their journey south, so the numbers were not as big as they had been in September, but you will not be hearing any complaining, that's for sure.
Rick Ostashower, Steve McGrath, Lorry Bellamy, Eric Boley, Dr. Chris Krell and Ranchland Outfitters Rob Reynolds display the morning's mixed bag.
Rob had graciously donated two hunts to the "Wounded Warrior" style program in Canada, providing current or ex-military servicemen a chance to enjoy a little down time from their daily lives and as a big "THANK YOU" for their hard work and service. Rick Ostashower and Lorry Bellamy were able to join us during our stay and it was a honor and pleasure spending some time with them and sharing our love for the outdoors.
Our last morning found us in a new location, one that would facilitate us getting back to the airport in Edmonton by noon. Well, let's just say Rob didn't disappoint us this time either and we again had our full limit of ducks and a half dozen geese on the ground by 9am. We even managed to take a couple of beautiful pintails and a big, colorful drake mallard which will all probably make gorgeous mounts in our offices. Our late season waterfowl adventure had come to an end with Ranchland Outfitters, but you can bet it won't be the last.
Steve McGrath gets a chance to do it all on his own on this big greenhead.
We may have been there for the hunting, but let me say that everything else involved in our trip was also first class. The accommodations were perfect and the food was superb. Each day, after our morning hunt, we made our way back to their restaurant and Rob's wife, Loree and her staff laid out a great brunch for us and each evening scrumptious appetizers, entrees and desserts unfolded before our eyes.
It is no wonder Ranchland Outfitters has secured a place in our family of Platinum Approved Outfitters and we are proud to recommend them to all of our readers here at Sportsman's News. They offer not only the best waterfowl hunting that I know of, with very liberal limits of eight ducks, eight dark geese and 20 snows per day, but also great whitetail and mule deer adventures as well as moose (we spotted a bruiser along a nearby tree line) and spring black bear. You might even be able to talk them into a little varmint hunting if you really twist their arms. Give Rob Reynolds and his staff a call today to book your next great outdoor adventure at Ranchland Outfitters. Check them out under our endorsed outfitters, at www.ranchlandoutfitters.com or by calling 877-924-8440.
CFO and Senior Editor of the Sportsman's News.


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Q: Java Memory Behavior : Different with Thread.sleep I am trying to do some memory analysis using visualvm.
I have written a basic code that runs an infinite loop to add objects to List.
package home.always.learning.java;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class Heaper {

    private static List<PersonDetails> listObj = new ArrayList<PersonDetails>();

    private static final String nameConst = "Tarun Trehan";

    public static void main(String[] args)throws Exception{
        personListCreation();
    }

    public static void personListCreation() throws Exception
    {
        int i = 0;
        while(true)
        {
            System.out.println("Looping to create person list...");
            i++;
            listObj.add(new PersonDetails(nameConst+i));
            //Thread.sleep(1000L);
        }
    }
}

As expected, memory shoots up and is visible in visualvm 1st snapshot attached i.e. Memory_Shoots.JPG.
However, if i remove the following comment from the code and allow the program to sleep for 1 second; the result is different:
Thread.sleep(1000L);

The memory increases but then stabilizes and it goes on. Please refer 2nd snapshot attached i.e. Memory_Stabilizes.JPG
I am unable to understand this behavior?
Can you please provide your inputs.

A: Looking at a slightly modified version of the code (fixed number of iterations, added a 5s pause after start to allow my IDE to connect to visualvm, removed the system.out.print for speed, etc) it seems your culprit is garbage collection:
With 100L sleep: (ran for 5:18)

With 10L sleep: (ran for 5:01)

With 2L sleep: (ran for 4:57)

With 1L sleep: (ran for 6:36)

With 0L sleep: (ran for 0:23)

So basically what we find is that the used heap will rise slowly until the Eden space is filled (causing an allocation failure), moving the older members of eden (almost all of them, looking at the space usage) to survivor 0/1, and some of those to the old gen. The difference between sleep and no sleep may very well be a difference between the relative frequencies of minor collections and major collections.

A: There are a couple things that are worth thinking about:

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*How big are these PersonDetail objects?

*How much memory is required to create a PersonDetail object, that isn't part of the object?

This second value can be a lot of thing. The array list will produce some garbage every so often. The process of creating the string "nameConst+i" will result in some garbage objects.
Suppose the answer is that a PersonDetail is small but it takes a medium amount of memory to make one. Then the JVM is going to have a bunch of trash to throw away (garbage collect) for every PersonDetail you make. As you create PersonDetails the garbage will pile up and eventually the JVM will collect it. The garbage collection step will find a lot of free memory since most of the allocations are short lived objects. This will could result in a graph like the one in your second picture, a saw tooth, where the memory is used then lots of garbage is collected.
Now imagine that you create a bunch of objects quickly (without the sleep statement). Now the total memory used is going to go up quickly both through garbage and through the objects you are holding in the list. As you get to the max memory the garbage collections will have to happen more frequently. Kind of like the top graph.
I am not sure that is what is happening, but one thing you can do to look at it is to look at the sampling in VisualVM and see how many objects are created by class, and more importantly how much memory they take up. Compare the amount used by the PersonDetails to the other stuff that is just garbage to be cleaned when needed.

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By Appen. March 10, 2019
Sydney – March 11, 2019 – Appen Limited, a global leader in the provision of high-quality, human-annotated datasets for machine learning and AI, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Figure Eight, a best-in-class machine learning software platform which uses automated tools to transform unlabeled text, image, audio and video data into high-quality AI training data. This acquisition combines the scale, quality and language expertise of Appen's leading global crowd with Figure Eight's innovative data annotation platform to create a unique, end-to-end training data offering. The unified business will be strongly positioned to deliver the increasing volume, quality and speed requirements for training data to support machine learning and AI. Founded in San Francisco in 2007, Figure Eight (previously known as CrowdFlower) has played a critical role in the artificial intelligence ecosystem, having delivered 325 million human judgments in 2018 alone. Figure Eight has released a variety of innovative capabilities to enhance its platform – including machine learning-assisted data labeling and video object tracking – that can create high-quality training datasets up to 50 times faster than human labeling alone. Appen – based in Sydney, Australia and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX:APX) with offices worldwide – successfully deploys our global crowd of over 1 million skilled contractors, working in over 180 languages and more than 130 countries, to support our global customer base that includes eight of the world's ten largest technology companies. "The union of Appen and Figure Eight creates a unique, exciting and powerful opportunity for our customers," said Mark Brayan, Appen's Chief Executive Officer. "We now have the best of both worlds: our highly efficient cloud management platform and scalable, skillful, multilingual crowd, combined with Figure Eight's innovative customer-facing SaaS platform with ML-assisted annotation. Combined, we'll meet and exceed our customers' scale, speed and quality requirements." "We're very excited to be joining Appen" said Lukas Biewald, co-founder of Figure Eight. "I'm extremely proud of the team. This is a genuine validation of everything we've achieved and a great platform for our teams to combine and continue to do amazing things in AI." Through the end of 2019, Figure Eight will operate largely independently as a division of Appen to ensure it remains focused on its product development and customers. Beyond 2019, Figure Eight's experienced team and powerful technology will be integral to Appen's future success. Appen will pay USD $175M up-front for Figure Eight and an additional payment of up to $125M in 2020 based on 2019 performance. Appen is being advised by Atlas Technology Group of San Francisco.
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Appen is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human-annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. Appen brings over 20 years of experience capturing and enriching a wide variety of data types including speech, text, image and video. With deep expertise in more than 180 languages and access to a global crowd of over 1 million skilled contractors, Appen partners with technology, automotive and eCommerce companies — as well as governments worldwide — to help them develop, enhance and use products that rely on natural languages and machine learning.
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Check back here often for updates about upcoming events, programs, and opportunities for artists in our region!
"From the Bench: Concerts and Commentary" are set for Sundays at 3 pm for 2019. Justin Kolb will perform on a resonant, gorgeous toned, nine foot ebony, concert grand piano in a large, yet intimate, performance space with panoramic mountain views. Performances will be: January 13: Liszt and the Barefoot Carmelite; February 17: Chopin: Confounding, Beloved, Legendary; and March 17: Music of the African Diaspora. Performances are held at 1136 Hog Mountain Road, Fleischmanns. Seating is limited so reservations are required. For reservations call 845-551-8601 or email mellonkolb@gmail.com.
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Artists who reside in the following towns: Andes, Arkville, Margaretville, Fleischmanns, Halcottsville, Halcott Center, Pine Hill and Roxbury are invited to participate in the first annual AMR Small Works Show. The exhibition will run April 19 to May 13, 2019, with an opening reception for artists on Saturday, April 27, 2019 from 3 to 6 PM, a the Upstairs at the Commons Gallery, 785 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Margaretville. Submission deadline is March 1, 2019. Details are available at amropenstudios.org. For more information, email info@amropenstudios.org.
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THE PHOENICIA PLAYHOUSE seeks a Theatre Manager to actively promote and market the facility; oversee the use of the theatre; and supervise/organize technical aspects for all productions/events to ensure the safety of equipment, personnel, and the general public. The Theater Manager will also instruct, train, and supervise theater volunteers and vendors relating to theatre equipment, facilities, and procedures. Full details and description available at phoeniciaplayhouse.com/jobs. Send resumes and letters of interests to jobs@phoeniciaplayhouse.com. Reviews of applications will be ongoing.
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The Roxbury Arts Group is thrilled to spread the word about art-related happenings and opportunities in our region because we feel it contributes to a vibrant and thriving art community! Let us know about your event by sending an email to community@roxburyartsgroup.org.


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