Reuters reports that some joker sold Indian Prime Minister's house on Ebay to an American business man! And I thought selling the Brooklyn bridge was a myth!

ThreadLocal allows you to have copy of variable per thread, which are subject to garbage collection when the thread goes away.

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Too many unanswered questions on logging package. Why is the package name a verb? Package names should be nouns as can be seen in the rest of the API. Why did the author suddenly decide on a verb? How is Logger.getLogger(String name) related to LogManager.getLogManager().getLogger(String name) ? Why is no relationship mentioned in the documentation? Why is LogManager.getLogManager().getLogger(String name) a security concern and Logger.getLogger(String name) is not?