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I couldn't sleep last night because I had this song stuck in my head.
Not only is this song incredibly inspirational for me because I would love to write/produce music like this, but it is also such a beautiful encouragement. It puts things in perspective for me. For a lot of things.
I can be so short-sighted sometimes. Because, however you slice it, life here only matters but so much. I typically get angry when I here people say that life here doesn't matter, because it does. We're here for a a huge purpose, and if we use the excuse of an after-life as a reason to slack off we're missing the point. But I can swing too far in the other direction, too, by trying to squeeze so much experience and so much life into the short time I have here, that I lose sight on eternity, and the unbelievable glory I will behold. I cannot comprehend how incomparable it will be...
Lord, help me to lift my eyes off my feet. What happens here is not all that will ever be. And where I'm at now will not be where I'm at forever.
This is not the end
This is not the end of us
We will open our eyes wide, wider.
This is not our last
This is not our last breath
We will open our mouths wide, wider.
This is not the end
This is not the end of us
We will shine like the stars, bright, brighter.
And you know you'll be alright...
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
However, a sunrise in black and white is, nevertheless, a sunrise. And with each sunrise, more grace is lavished upon me, in abundant proportions. With each sunrise, I am given another day to see His beauty in the most unlikely places. With each sunrise, He wakes me with a joyful, "Get up, Darling. It's morning! And I've been waiting for you, longing for you to jump into this day, because I've made sure it's full of opportunities."
Today does bring opportunities. It just depends on what opportunities I see.
The opportunity to mope about things that don't go my way? Or the opportunity to be joyful in all circumstances?
The opportunity to groan about having to answer endless questions about meaningless things? Or the opportunity to smile and love the siblings, and happily help them grow?
The opportunity to question God on all His odd ways of teaching me? Or the opportunity to trust Him, His perfect timing, and His beautiful plan?
"Yet this I call to mind
and therefore I have hope:
Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed,
for His compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
great is Your faithfulness.
I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion;
therefore I will wait for Him."
The LORD is good to those whose hope is in Him,
to the one who seeks Him;
it is good to wait quietly..."
-Lamentations 3:21-26
Maybe one day I'll finally get to the point where I can say, "Lord, I trust You." But this morning, all I can say is "Lord, I will trust You. You are good. You are faithful. You are perfect," over and over and over.
A sunrise without color still ushers in a new morning. And this morning, like every morning, brings a wholesome new serving of His compassion.
I hope your Wednesday is full of the grace you need to embrace the opportunities God has given you, in the way He wants you to.
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Monday, September 24, 2012
"The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed,
a stronghold in times of trouble.
Those who know Your name will trust in You,
for You, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek You."
Psalm 9:9-10
Oh God, those who truly know You trust You, for they know You to be faithful.
I want to know You so well that I never doubt.
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
Nine-Year-Old Me...
For no particularly reason, this morning finds me thinking back nine years ago, to when I was counting down the months until I turned ten. I couldn't wait to turn ten. I couldn't wait to grow up. Because I knew how it was all going to happen, how it was going to turn out, how life was going to look. Oh, how my nine-year-old self would have scrunched her nose at the life eighteen years have found me to be living!
I saw it all played out... After getting my ears pierced at 10, I would aim for a big birthday party at 13. Next, a driver's license at 16. By 18, I would be moved out and living dreams. I didn't care to map out where, or why... probably New York. That's where Mama went.
I would be married by 19. To whom? Probably the country boy who lived across the street; maybe a dashing fellow I would meet in New York. It didn't really matter who. All that mattered, is that he would be handsome, and that it would be before I turned 20 (my mother got married at 19, so naturally, that felt like the magic number).
I did get my ears pierced at 10. When I turned 13, I did have a huge birthday party. What I didn't see coming was falling in love with Jesus that summer. It became frustrating, not having many people in my life who understood my new-found passion. Nevertheless, I've never been the same.
I did get my driver's license at 16 (almost 17) but I did not have the desire to stay out of the house as much as possible like I thought I would. I had grown to love home, and to see the potential to grow there. And that's why, at 18, I haven't moved out. I did go to New York City, but only for fours days last fall.
It's crazy to look back on all the things I didn't see coming, but I'm so thankful for. I didn't know that I'd be giving up my much-loved jeans and wearing only skirts by the time I was 11. I didn't know I'd be fasting and praying for cultural issues by the time I was 14. I didn't know I would find the voice God gave me and be writing songs at 15 and 16. I didn't know I would fall in love the summer after I turned 17. And I didn't know that at 18, I would be home, and happy at home, and growing, and learning, and living fully, even though I'm nowhere close to being married before I'm 20.
Is my life the way I want it right now? No, not really. There are a few things I would change about my life now. All humans think that if they could just change a few things about their life they'd be completely happy. But if there's something I've learned from looking back on my nine-year-old self, it's that
if my teenager years had gone the way I had planned, I would have missed out on so many challenges, opportunities, experiences, victories, and joys.
Who would have thought that I would have been thankful after my plans had been thoroughly unfulfilled? Surely not nine-year-old me. Yet, here I am, and I wouldn't change a thing.
So, who am I to tell God that His plans are not for me? that they aren't good enough? that I could dream up something better? Because I think it's safe to say that His dreams are far more perfect, far more beautiful, far more amazing, even far more romantic than my most extreme dreaming could ever comprehend.
(Photo credit: Josiah Crumrine, and Bethany Crumrine)
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Monday, September 17, 2012
My Attempts Cannot Delay its Approaching
The AC isn't working quite so hard... the marsh isn't looking quite so green... the air doesn't seem quite so thick... and the garage, the laundry room, and the van smell like sweaty socks.
Fall is almost here.
And nothing says fall like soccer!
And I find myself feeling a bit like Meeko in the mornings:
Which is very much unlike me, these early fall-ish months.
Silly me... and I thought growing up would mean life was easier...
Like fall is known to bring death to all of the life that has sprung over the spring and summer, this fall brings me into a new season of dying to self, and all that I have come to depend on this past year. But it is good. Because just like there are seasons of death, there are always seasons of greater life on the horizon.
Could you imagine what would happen if fall and winter did not cause previous life to die? We would not be able to enjoy the freshness of life that comes in the warmer months. The new life that did come would be hindered by the previous year.
So I feel about this coming year. While God has caused some amazing things to grow in me this past year, He has bigger, greater, and more beautiful ways for me to grow.
"You have made known to me the path of life;
You will fill me with joy in Your presence,
with eternal pleasures at Your right hand."
-Psalm 16:11
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Sunday, September 16, 2012
Just. Too. Much.
Hope ya'll's weekend has been great, enjoying this weather! And that it has been as full of CUTEness as mine has.
Love, C
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Sunday, September 9, 2012
Feasting on Failures
We undress each other with an evil eye
Concentric circles we look like vultures
When we feast on the failures of the lives we criticize
Don't stand alone and cast your stones at her
Unless you think you're innocent yourself
The same measure that we use to condemn men
Will be the same that's poured out upon our heads
We've all gone astray
We kick against the pricks so convinced we know the way
But who can repay
The love we sacrificed for an empire made of clay
Self-promotions how we function in this culture
We fight for the spotlight with a peacock's pride
And then condescend to all the lesser men
From thrones we make of payed accolades and a compromise
There is no power that a man can have
Unless it's given to him from above
Our ladders of success descend to hell
Don't sell your soul and lose your one true love"
This is a song (Cynicism) by one of my favorite artists, Josh Garrells (who is an INCREDIBLE lyricist and music master). It's really powerful.
The second line always gets me:
"We undress each other with an evil eye..."
I have become a pro at judging outward appearance. My mother has done her best to teach me how to dress in a way that flatters my body type, how to wear colors that most compliment my complexion, to use make-up as sparingly as possible, and how to modestly change an entire outfit in semi-public areas (she used to be a model;)
She has pounded in my head (in the most loving way, of course) that how I look represents my family, my Jesus, and my lifestyle. With this priority firmly planted amongst the highest priorities in my life, it is a goal and a challenge of mine to represent well.
This can easily turn into an obsession with looking perfect, though. It can also cause me to have a judgmental eye towards gals who wear colors that make them look pale, or wear empire-waists when their figure demands to be flattered by a drop-waist. It can even become a distraction from a sermon or worship service, because I want so badly to ask the poor girl "what she was thinking when she put that outfit together??"
Striving to be modest can also encourage my high horse by judging girls who are immodest. Sometimes I wonder if these young ladies know anything about the male mind. Sometimes I wonder if they know too well... It can encourage an attitude of hostility towards these girls who probably weren't taught any differently.
The Lord has brought me a long way though. I've done my best to make it a habit that, when I do see something about someone's dress or physical appearance that I deem appalling, or entirely inappropriate, I look for something that is absolutely beautiful about her. Most times, this brings me to her face: her eyes, her complexion, her smile, her countenance, etc. There is something, many things, that make a girl beautiful besides what she chose to wear in public that day. I ask God to show me.
This serves a few purposes: 1) it keeps me from being distracted; 2) it keeps me from judging someone too harshly; 3) allows God to show me the unique beauty that He has crafted in each of our faces; and 4) keeps my vanity in check, or keeps me from thinking I know "so much better than her."
Truth is, 9 out of 10 times, seeing pictures with me in them, I kick myself for thinking I looked great that day. Because in reality, what I thought looked fabulous on me was a big mistake.
And I am repeatedly coming to Christ, again and again, repentant for judging His Beloved so harshly. I am consistently asking for His eyes, His heart, for His children.
I pray that this is an encouragement for you gals who have these same struggles. It is also a very humbling for me to write.
Grow in His grace, His presence, and His joy, Dear One.
(Picture 1: Norfolk; Pic 2: Hannah Crane, taken by Becca Crumrine; Pic 3: Becca Crumrine; Pic 4: Brooke Sweeney.)
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Walzac Wedding Preview
Last Saturday I was an assistant photographer to my uncle for a wedding! I only have half my pictures, and I've barely begun to work on them, but here's a sneak peak of the gorgeous I got to work with;)
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Turkey +Bacon Wrap
Most days, I totally draw a blank on creative ways to make lunch yummy, so I thought I'd share this "stroke of brilliance" that my brother and I stumbled upon. Just in case there are any other people like me who "draw blanks" on a semi-daily basis;)
Hunter and I had a bacon craving (which shouldn't surprise anyone who knows us... these cravings come pretty regularly;) so we took up the challenge to make something delicious and mostly healthy for lunch.
The result?
Hope your Tuesday is grand; full of victories in the Lord, and full of small things that make you smile!
Hunter and I had a bacon craving (which shouldn't surprise anyone who knows us... these cravings come pretty regularly;) so we took up the challenge to make something delicious and mostly healthy for lunch.
The result?
Hope your Tuesday is grand; full of victories in the Lord, and full of small things that make you smile!
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Monday, September 3, 2012
No Mothers, No Brothers... and No Boyfriends;)
The last weekend of August, my dad pulled together what we like to call a "No Mothers, No Brothers." In a nutshell: a Daddy-Daughter weekend with no rules, no limits, and no health food. ;)
There were 8 dads, and almost 20 girls in all, and we stayed in a terrific cabin near our crabbing destination: Lake Mattamuskeet.
It didn't take long for the dads to start relaxing once we got there;)
|The cabin was surrounded by beautiful fields.
All crammed into one corner of the restaurant.
A beautiful, early morning, and a perfect start to our adventures.
On our way to crabbing.
The Blue Crabs we caught were amazing! So pretty. (Taken by Bec Crumrine)
Mr. Williams and one of his daughters, Jamie.
Mr. Crumrine and Bethany.
We had a great time with other family members, too;)
Brooke and Bec. (Don't be deceived... these were two of the Master Crabbers!)
Daddy Dearest.
Everyone got the chance to hold one...
I chased Bethany around with a big one for a few minutes... just cuz I love her;) Her face was worth it, yeah?
The road drove right through the middle of Lake Mattamuskeet, and we crabbed on either side.
It was a terrific time altogether. I'm so thankful for a father who takes the time to spend time with us, and love us, and hype us up on sugar treats.
I had a blast, Pops! Thanks again:)
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Hot Rod Homecoming Roll Call: 1972 Camaro
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This unassuming '72 Camaro has seen some suspension improvements since it was featured in HOT ROD in 1997. It recently competed in Super Chevy's Suspension Challenge, where its CPP parts helped it put down one of the quickest times of the event. It's one of nearly 300 featured vehicles that will be on display at the HOT ROD Homecoming, our 65th anniversary celebration at the Pomona Fairplex March 23rd and 24th. The show portion of the show is full, with more than 500 vehicles filling four buildings and spilling onto the pavement in between, but tickets are still available if you want to pour over the cars that made HOT ROD magazine.

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About Me
I focus on developing products in terms the rest of the world can understand. Whether it's on web or mobile, the satisfaction of creating unobtrusive interfaces to advanced systems is palpable. It is this act of creation that pushes me to keep working hard to develop my skills in this field.
I started my career at 18 working for Switch Media in Sydney, Australia, where I had many roles including Support Engineer, DevOps, and Web Developer. This combination exposed me to all parts of the web stack and showed me the process of developing features with the customer in mind.
I am now a Senior at Tufts University studying Computer Science with a minor in Entrepreneurial Leadership Studies. Most recently I interned with Instagram's Developer Velocity team where I focused on redesigning the frontend for a webapp used by developers across the organisation. In the previous summer, I worked with the Lead Ads Product team at Facebook. While there, I defined a new architecture to allow for further extensibility in their Android codebase and introduced new product features across their entire platform including web, Android, and iOS.
When I'm not working on mobile and web applications, I like to spend my time being active outside. You can usually find me running, hiking, or playing ultimate frisbee. I also enjoy other creative outlets including photography.
React Native
Git & Github
Android Studio
Work Experience
Tufts University
Wrote the first assignment for the class which required students to build a reliable HTTP proxy with a cache. Developed the test scripts to grade the students' submissions and lead class sessions to expose students to the network functions available in C.
Redesigned the team's webapp for managing A/B tests across the company from the ground up to be more modern and extensible. Introduced new diagnostic tooling in the webapp for developers to debug their experiments more quickly.
Refactored a large portion of the product's Android codebase to make it more extensible and maintainable. I then used these changes to build new features on both Androud and on the web. I concluded my internship by performing A/B tests on these features to make meaningful product decisions leading up to their launch.
Tufts University
Held office hours to help students grasp fundamental concepts in web development, such as the client-server model, asynchronous tasks, and database systems. I also reviewed student code to offer improvements and check for functional correctness.
Switch Media
Designed and built Presto, an Australian video on demand service similar to Hulu, for the Roku streaming platform on a remote, contract basis. Performed code reviews on the two other members of development team.
Switch Media
First point of contact for clients including Foxtel, the largest cable company in Australia. Used this knowledge of client needs to build custom web tools using PHP, HTML, and JavaScript. As part of my role in DevOps, I also wrote server-side scripts to analyze internal workflow data stored in MySQL databases and determine bottlenecks.
Washington & Lee University
Built amplifiers and other recording equipment for the sound engineer at the university. Was also sent as the sole engineer for various recording sessions, both in the studio and live.
This Website
As a student of modern web development, its easy to choose advanced frameworks like React before tackling the basics. This website is my way of conquering the fundamentals, and is written in vanilla Javascript without any dependencies. For interested parties, the source is available.
Native mobile application that allowed users to order drinks straight from their phone and skip the line at the busy bar. Payment was handled for the bars, meaning the user could keep having fun and wait for the push notification that their drinks were ready to get picked up!
Written fully in React Native and using Redux, BarBud was available on both iOS and Android. Because it is no longer in active development, the source for the app is available here.
This is the 6 Degrees of Wikipedia game ported into its own webapp. My first foray into sigle-load webapps with React and AJAX, including server-side rendering of React components.
Written during Tufts Polyhack, DejaView, was a service that allowed anyone to create private and anonymous photo albums where any user with the access code could upload and view full-resolution photos. We reached the finals during the event, producing native Android and iOS applications, a webapp, and a fully-functional backend.
Part of a semester long project for an mobile development course, this Android application allowed users to anonymously post questions for other users in their area to vote on the answer or solution.
Widgets and Experiments
Sudoku Solver
An independent experiment while taking an artificial intelligence course at Tufts, this widget solves Sudoku puzzles using a combination of constraint satisfaction problems, pre-emptive sets, and other AI techniques.
Drag Demo
Demo for learning how to implement dragging elements around a page. Also my first experimentation with web components.
Secret Santa
A tradition in my family is to fill each other's stockings secret santa style. This simple service emails a group of users their secret santa assignments, helping us keep the suspense going even though we no longer live in the same part of the country.


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Award Ceremony
Roshan Cools, Eveline Crone, Jeroen Geurts, Olivier Hekster, Alicia Montoya, Eva van Rooij, Appy Sluijs and Guido van der Werf are the winners of the Ammodo Science Awards 2017. The laureates each receive a prize of 300,000 euros. They can use the money over the coming years to explore new areas of fundamental research.
The Ammodo Science Awards were established to encourage particularly talented researchers at a critical advanced stage of their scientific careers. Through the Awards Ammodo and the KNAW wish to encourage original, unfettered scientific research in the Netherlands across the board.
Every two years, eight Ammodo Science Awards are awarded to internationally recognised researchers in four scientific areas: Biomedical Sciences, Humanities, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences. The winners must be connected to a university or research institute in the Netherlands and have received their doctorates a maximum of fifteen years ago.


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Jewish Town Near Jerusalem Post-70 AD
The Jerusalem Post has a follow-up story with photos on the excavation of an apparently Jewish town near Jerusalem. What makes this one remarkable is that it was inhabited between the First and Second Jewish Revolts (70-132 A.D.), at a time when little is known about Jews in Judea archaeologically. One problem with this identification is that no mikva'ot (Jewish ritual baths) have been discovered, but this may be owing to the limited excavation area. In fact, the entire dig is being conducted on a traffic island on the ancient "Road of the Patriarchs" (Watershed Ridge). That makes the excavation six meters wide and 360 meters long. Alas, the site will probably be destroyed when the light rail is constructed in 2007.
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- "If you won't use a mechno-limb, this powerchair will have to do."
"You'll not be making me into a half-droid, that's for sure. This little buggy will do fine."
- ―Owen and Cliegg Lars
A power chair was a one-being, repulsorlift-powered floating chair also known as a hover chair or repulsor chair.
Power chairs used basic antigravity technology to lift the chair above the ground, and were controlled via a panel on the armrest. These chairs were commonly used by disabled, wounded or elderly beings.
Aarrba the Hutt used a hover chair around 5000 BBY as did most Hutts throughout galactic history, due to their enormous weight on most humanoid-compatible planets.
Jedi Masters Vandar Tokare and Yoda were known to use hoverchairs during their later years, to keep pace with their humanoid companions.
The Galactic Senate, around the length of its hearing room tables, used repulsorlift chairs that adjusted to the heights of many differing species.
Cliegg Lars was forced to use a power chair after losing his leg during an encounter with Tusken Raiders, and both Maximilian Veers and Leia Organa Solo used power chairs after sustaining injuries to their lower bodies—the former after Derek Klivian crashed his snowspeeder into Veers's AT-AT walker, the latter after an encounter with Tsavong Lah on Duro.
Bertroff Hissa used a hoverchair after losing his arms and legs, though at this point he had been given prosthetic replacements.
Luke Skywalker used a hoverchair after the Battle of Endor while he recovered from being electrocuted nearly to death by Emperor Palpatine.
Notable usersEdit
- Cliegg Lars
- Agruss
- Maximilian Veers
- Leia Organa Solo
- Bertroff Hissa
- Aarrba the Hutt
- Jacen Solo
- Rorax Falken
- Weston Warsheld
- Booster Terrik
- Threkin Horm
- Mara Jade Skywalker
- Gial Ackbar
- Luke Skywalker
- Janq Paramexor
Behind the scenesEdit
The power chair was a 60 month veteran reward for players of the MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies.
- Dark Empire Sourcebook (as repulsor chair)
- The Last Command Sourcebook (as repulsor chair)
- The Rebel Alliance Sourcebook, Second Edition (as repulsorchair)
- Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Guide: Prima Official Game Guide (as hover-chair)
- The Rebel Alliance Sourcebook, Second Edition (as hover chair)
- Galaxy Guide 2: Yavin and Bespin, Second Edition (as hover chair)
- Heroes & Rogues (as hoverchair)
- The Truce at Bakura Sourcebook (as repulsor chair)
- Lords of the Expanse
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones: The Visual Dictionary
- "Making a Full Recovery" on Wizards.com (original article link, backup link)
- "Ultimate Alien Anthology Web Enhancement" on Wizards.com (original article link, backup link) (Indirect mention only)
- The New Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology
- The Official Star Wars Fact File 110 (Repulsor Chair)
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia (As "float chair," "hover chair")
- Star Wars: Force Collection (Card: Master Yoda (Special)) (Picture only)
- Keeper Agruss in the Encyclopedia (link now obsolete; backup link) (as repulsorlift chair)
- Corellia Times Consumer Reports: Vehicles on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (content now obsolete; backup link)
- Cartel Market Specials: Week of November 13, 2017 on The Old Republic's official website (backup link)


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The company is looking to install a condensing turbine, associated generator and cooling tower to support existing electricity generation.
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A member of the Senate Unity Forum, a group within the All Progressives Congress senators in the red chamber, Senator Kabir Marafa has called on the deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu to join the All Progressives Congress, APC.
In an interview with PUNCH, the senator explained said the rift in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP is a golden opportunity for Senator Ekweremadu to defect to the ruling party.
He said: "I am telling you that he has the opportunity now. Let him just defect. The beauty of any political party is the people. If you can join us, join us. We want more people. Instead of moving against his seat, let him join us.
"He has the golden opportunity: Senator Ahmed Makarfi and Senator Ali Modu Sheriff have successfully to our delight, caused a division in the PDP. We are always praying that their power tussle will continue. While I pray for Makarfi to have the upper hand, I am also praying for Sheriff to have the power and ability to sustain the fight, so that we (APC) will be taking the senators one by one.
"The Constitution says once there is a division (in a political party), senators can defect. Let all well-meaning APC members and even people who are sympathetic to the APC, let Ike (Ekweremadu) — instead of moving against his seat, which I don't want to do because he was my leader in the 6th and 7th Assembly and now in the 8th Assembly — use this golden opportunity to defect to the APC and the party will become one in the Senate. Then, I can tell you that the Senate will be stable and there won't be any friction".


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From about seven in the morning until 2:30-3:00 in the afternoon, Mon-Fri, is enough online time for any sane person, isn't it? Maybe. But then I have never ever claimed to be sane. And it's that Mon-Fri which is really the nasty part of it.
As if the net connectivity dilemma isn't enough hassle, I also manage to create some offline problems for myself, too. There's a librarian lurking inside me somewhere and it escaped a few days ago, decided to make some sense of the haphazard way XP arranges things. Directories (folders in XP talk) with sub-folders named Music or My Music. Lots of them. So I combined them all into one.
Alas, I also did it with the multiple Games folders and that was a disaster since it somehow screwed up the Registry and many of them would no longer run. I had to download Maple Story again and re-install it, an effort which was thwarted by insufficient disc space, even after I deleted not only the original Maple Story files but several other games as well. Okay, it was a bad idea. So back to the dungeon goes that Librarian.
At least my attempt to set up PayPal has worked out, even if slowly. It took a week for a transfer of $25 from my bank to reach PayPal! Getting some of it out was instant, though. I had to send BearShare $1 to continue downloading music. That's for the first month. It will be $10 a month in future. Well worth it, since downloading just one CD will justify it. And I already downloaded three albums by a group new to me called Athlete.
But woe! The switch to BearShare Pro lost all my playlists. So now I have 5500+ tracks in that one big collection and they can only be transferred to playlists one track at a time. That Librarian is rattling its chains.
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Theoretical works suggest that granting a supreme court discretion in choosing the cases to be decided on the merits could shift dockets away from traditional case-based adjudication and towards issue-based adjudication. According to this prediction, legislatures can recast supreme courts' roles in society by modifying jurisdictional rules. This study tests this prediction empirically. Using a newly assembled data set on appeals terminated by the Taiwan Supreme Court for the period 1996-2008, we study the effect of jurisdictional-source procedural reform, a switch from mandatory jurisdiction to discretionary jurisdiction in 2003, on the Taiwan Supreme Court's performance. Our study shows that the 2003 reform failed to transform the function of the Court from correcting error to a greater role in leading the development of legal doctrine as intended by the legislature. Our findings suggest that a supreme court can adjust the way it conducts business according to its own preference and the role it defines for itself, which are influenced both by the background against which it operates and the inertia of its members' working habits. Our study informs policy-makers that merely amending procedural rules, without more, is unlikely to change the function of a supreme court. Our findings also suggest that statutorily dictated mandatory jurisdiction may not be implemented by a high court faced with caseload pressure.
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On a Tuesday afternoon, I sat down with a friend who was visiting from out of town. We started catching up over our Jade-Red Chicken quesadillas and Jerk Chicken fried-rice. On that particular day, the hot news item involved a nationally-known pastor who had been exposed for sexual misconduct. The media was having a field day playing multiple sermon clips where he passionately decried the very behavior he'd now been exposed for himself.
By the time we got to dessert (our still-warm snickerdoodles), I launched into a rant about the need for church leaders to be held accountable by their boards or senior staff. In my early 20s, I knew all the right answers and I was certain that accountability was the magic fairy dust which would have prevented this black eye for the Church.
As I wound down my rant, my friend began to share a very different perspective. It turns out he lived less than 40 minutes from the church where this man pastored and their wives were in a women's prayer group together. My face turned an even deeper red than the salsa I had next to my plate.
My friend continued by sharing an inside scoop I'd never hear told publicly. Reflecting on the detailed accountability structure the board put in place around this man, my friend made a statement I'll never forget.
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He noted that this man made a choice to hide the truth and rejected his accountability structure. The leader chose a destructive path, a choice no one could stop.
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The word "accountability" has a lot of baggage for some people.
When I dig into the hesitation others have about accountability, I discover a history which includes accountability being forced on them by someone else, often against their will. Because of this history, accountability becomes a trigger word to trauma, disappointment, or even spiritual abuse.
In my own experience, accountability groups were built on young men's struggle with sexual purity and they offered little help other than the constant reminder that others were struggling in the same way.
As a result of these kinds of experiences, we run from "accountability" and miss out on the benefits.
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Here's the secret to a healthy kind of accountability, though. It's the lesson my friend taught me over Chinese-Mexican food.
True accountability can never be imposed, only invited.
True accountability is something we submit to willingly, not something we're forced to accept begrudgingly. If accountability will help change anything about us internally or externally, our hearts must be open to the input and authority of the person(s) who now hold power within our lives.
Now, I know there are particular kinds of accountability which live in between invitation and imposition. Our supervisors hold us accountable to achieve results at work. Our families hold us accountable to exhibit behaviors and attitudes which fuel healthy relationships.
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I think there are four key questions which we must answer, in order to invite others to help us become our best selves. Because, at the end of the day, accountability is merely a tool.
If Jim Rohn is correct when he says we're the sum of the five people we're closest to, if Jeff Goins is correct when he writes that every story of success is a story of community, then our relationships hold the key to a thriving future.
Asking the following four questions frames up the kind of request we make of our friends. This process saves us from further baggage with the A word.
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In your life, what do you want that is currently absent? Or what is currently present but inadequate? What would like to see be different in six months or a year?
Over the last two years, I've invited people to hold me accountable to a daily prayer habit, a workout plan, a weekly publishing schedule and finishing a procrastinated project.
While this might seem like a simple question, it's often more difficult than we expect to articulate our true desires. Answer this question before any conversation with a friend.
What is Missing?
Lean into your frustration or dissatisfaction to discover what's missing. Ask people close to you what you commonly complain or vent about. If you don't know what's missing, my guess is those around you do. The best way to increase self-awareness is to speak to those who watch and listen to you on a daily basis.
Maybe what's missing is there are no consequences in this area of your life. Maybe no one knows when you do or don't take action. It could even be that while you want to change in one area, there's something you want more which trumps that desire.
Identifying what's missing defines the gap you'll have to traverse with your accountability partner.
Who Do I Trust?
Becoming accountable to someone is a powerful thing. We will be vulnerable and exposed. We give someone the opportunity to either support or hurt us.
Choose wisely who you'll invite you to hold you accountable. This person needs to be someone who can tell you the truth with boldness because talking about accountability is very different than practicing it. The person needs to also be someone you trust to handle your failure with a healthy dose of grace and love.
Accountability to someone who is unsafe runs the danger of wounding rather than healing.
What Am I Giving Them the Authority to Do?
It is imperative that we be extremely clear with our "ask."
Boundaries are a healthy component of every relationship, especially within relationships that are defined by an accountability agreement. Some people might be nervous by the invitation to accountability, so clarity in expectations can help dial down the fear and anxiety for both parties.
I gave my readers authority to call me out when I didn't send them a new article each week. I gave my designer authority to not work with me if I didn't deliver content to him by a prescribed deadline each week. I gave my wife accountability to take my phone away temporarily if I was using it and not present with those around me.
Clarity at the beginning reduces the likelihood of confusion later.
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All That's Left is the Ask!
Once you've identified what you want, what's missing, who you trust and what you're giving them the authority to do, all that's left is to ask!
"Will you hold me accountable to ___________ (action) every ________ (date/time)?"
If the person is responsible and trustworthy, they'll ask some follow-up questions about how you'd like to hear from them if you fall short of your intention.
They will probably be very timid to hold you accountable the first time or two you break your promise, so take care in how you respond to their accountability. If you lash out at their attempts, the other person won't keep asking and you'll develop a reputation in this area.
The Power of Accountability
Accountability has the power to help us experience radical transformation.
I won't have become consistent in blogging without my readers.
I won't have become consistent in prayer without my prayer partner, Jimmy.
I wouldn't have finished my workout plan without my wife encouraging me to get moving instead of staying in bed.
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SCARBOROUGH, Maine – Portland resident Ellen Ward never thought she would find herself speaking with fellow voters in support of marriage rights for same-sex couples.
The self-described introvert changed her mind, however, in 2009 when she listened to gays and lesbians and others testify in support of a same-sex marriage bill during a legislative hearing in Augusta, the state capital.
"They were leading very what most people call normal lives and just wanted to be able to affirm their love and commitment in the same way that other people got too," Ward told the Washington Blade as she canvassed a suburban Portland neighborhood in the rain on Thursday afternoon. "And I was just really impressed with people standing up and testifying about that and churches testifying about that."
Nearly three years after Maine voters repealed the state's same-sex marriage law that then-Gov. John Baldacci signed, supporters of nuptials for gays and lesbians remain confident that a ballot question that would allow them to tie the knot will pass.
"What's so unique about Maine is because we're the first state to ever go on the offensive and bring the issue directly to the voters; we've been able to dictate our own timeline," Matt McTighe, campaign manager of Mainers United for Marriage, the group supporting Question 1, told the Blade during an interview at his Portland office on Friday. "There was never a ticking clock. Every time this has come up before when it's defensive it's always in the current — something happens, a precipitating action, a court case, a legislative victory whatever. Our opponents then do something to undermine that or write something into the constitution or whatever. And now we're on their turf. Now we're playing defense on their side of the field."
Voters in 2009 repealed the same-sex marriage law by a 53-47 percent margin. McTighe, a former Human Rights Campaign staffer who has worked on marriage efforts in Massachusetts and in other New England states for MassEquality and the Boston-based Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, described the 2012 campaign in Maine as a "night and day kind of difference" from that run ahead of the 2009 referendum.
"It's always been designed from the ground up as a campaign for voters," he said. "We didn't have to worry about the legislature. We weren't thinking about a court case or anything like that. Right from the beginning we've tried to figure out who are the voters we need to be talking to, let's employ some of the most sophisticated modeling and tactics that have ever been applied to the marriage movement, let's bring in the best people, the best consultants, the best field organizers, the best team and put together a plan and a model to figure out who we need to talk to."
Voter: Same-sex marriage "doesn't really affect me"
Maine is one of four states with either a same-sex marriage referendum or a constitutional amendment that would define marriage as between a man and a woman on the ballot next month. The Maine Freedom to Marry Coalition in January submitted more than 105,000 signatures to the Secretary of State in order to bring the issue before voters.
A Portland Press Herald poll conducted between Sept. 12-16 shows Question 1 leads by a 57-36 percent margin. A Public Policy Polling survey late last month indicates 52 percent of likely voters support the ballot measure, compared to 44 percent who oppose it and four percent who remain undecided.
Several Scarborough residents with whom Ward spoke said they would support Question 1.
"I'll probably vote for it," said one teenager who turns 18 on Nov. 1. He told Ward that he also works with a lesbian. "It doesn't really affect me. I'm not really 100 percent for it, but I have nothing against it. Not to put it the wrong way but I really don't care. Do whatever you want. If anything it'll be better for the economy."
A woman who lives on a nearby cul-de-sac told Ward that she plans to vote against the ballot question.
"I personally don't have a problem with you getting together, but I'm not in favor of calling it marriage," she said. "It's a sacrament. To redefine marriage, I would vote no."
Ward conceded the woman's position against marriage rights for same-sex couples was "discouraging." She did acknowledge, however, that she feels that her support of basic rights for gays and lesbians was encouraging.
"People have come a long way on that issue, certainly than even 20 years ago," said Ward, who recalled a telephone conversation she had a couple of months ago with a 90-year-old woman who marched against racial segregation in the 1960s. She initially said she opposed nuptials for gays and lesbians, but Ward said she suddenly changed her mind when she realized the parallels between the civil rights and same-sex marriage movements. "I just feel there are so many people that we talk to these days who are completely supportive."
Marriage remains "personal" for voters
Six Mainers United for Marriage ads continue to air on local television stations. These include one that features four generations of a family from the Downeast town of Machias and another that spotlights firefighters who support nuptials for gays and lesbians. Protect Marriage Maine, the group opposing Question 1, debuted their first two television ads on Monday.
"You have to make this about the voter themselves. You need to give them a personal reason to connect with the gay people that they know in their lives, to think about this issue in a way that they haven't thought of before," said McTighe, who is also a firefighter in the southern coastal Maine town of York. He applauded President Obama for supporting marriage rights for same-sex couples, but stressed the issue remains what he described as a deeply personal one for each potential voter. "You don't just change your mind because somebody else did. You have to change your mind because somebody made it personal to you. Somebody showed you what is at stake. And also gave you an opportunity to have your questions and concerns addressed. That's why the grassroots approach has been so unique, to be able to go out and have door-to-door with everyone in our persuadable universe, those people we identified early on."
Mainers United for Marriage reported to the state Commission on Ethics and Election Practices late on Friday that it has raised slightly more than $3.35 million so far this year, compared with the $429,794.32 that Protect Marriage Maine has pulled in. McTighe told the Blade that he would like to raise another $750,000 to $1 million "to keep pace with" the amount of airtime that the National Organization for Marriage has reserved on the state's television stations in the weeks leading up to Election Day.
"Now is sort of the crunch time," he said. "We've been prepping for his. We've been planning for this so now we feel like we're prepared for everything. When they come out with one attack, we've got plan A. When they come out with a different attack, we've got plan B. We can pull it as needed. We can execute as we need to, as long as we have the resources."
McTighe said another challenge that the campaign faces of potential complacency.
"Because we are doing really well in the polls and because people are seeing all this great stuff and people love our TV ads and all this other stuff and we're getting all this great earned media, it's almost too easy for people to say, well they don't need my help. They don't me to volunteer. They don't need me to donate. They don't need me to write a check. They've got 57 percent in the polls. Well I don't care as much now," he said. "But the fact is we've never won before. Whether that 57 percent is solid or soft or who knows, we'll see, but we've never won. Until we win, we should just assume that our opponents will dump whatever resources they need. We should just assume that they will stop at nothing. And we should assume that no lead is safe until we can actually win and hold one for just once, at least once. Then we can start saying okay well is a point where you're safe. We're just not there yet. We're not there in any of the states."
In spite of these potential hurdles, McTighe remains optimistic that Mainers United for Marriage will be able to successfully respond to Question 1 opponents' ads and statements against nuptials for gays and lesbians during the final weeks of the campaign.
"We feel extremely well positioned to deal with anything they throw our way because we've had two and a half years to prepare for everything," he said. "That is what's so unique about Maine."
Ward agreed.
"People have had a lot more chance to think about this," she said, noting the passage of same-sex marriage laws in New York and other states since the 2009 vote. "It's very much on people's minds and people are talking about it now. It's not so unheard of. I think people are just kind of more getting used to the idea and saying, oh, I have people in my family that this [impacts] or I have neighbors and I think they're very nice people and wow, you know they want to get married. A lot of people had never thought of that before. I think part of it is people are getting used to the idea. And people who are already on board are saying of course, of course this matters. And more and more they want to see this happen. It just seems a no brainer to them."


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Holding the Stage, to be released by Doxy Records digitally April 8 and on CD April 15, the second album in a distribution agreement with Sony Music Masterworks and its jazz imprint OKeh, is truly a treasure chest that includes tunes Rollins has never before recorded and musical relationships previously undocumented. "This album consists of various periods of my career, with something for everybody," says Rollins. "It's who I am, and the music represents just about every aspect of what I do."
Three Rollins originals pay tribute to departed friends and colleagues. The soulful blues "H.S.," for Horace Silver, has been a concert staple since its appearance on Sonny's 1995 Milestone album Sonny Rollins +3. Saxophonist/arranger Paul Jeffrey, who died last year at 81, is remembered in the funky "Professor Paul," a new composition making its recorded debut here. Of "Disco Monk," from 1979's Don't Ask (Milestone) and rarely performed since, Rollins told CD annotator Ted Panken: "It was disco-disco-disco then, everywhere you went, but I heard something juxtaposed with [Thelonious] Monk within this disco craze, and I wanted to meld them in a way that both styles would be themselves and yet be one."
Another highlight is a previously unreleased 23-minute medley (and concert closer) from his September 15, 2001 Boston performance, most of which had been immortalized in Rollins's final Milestone album, the Grammy Award-winning Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert. "Sweet Leilani," introduced on his This Is What I Do album of the year before, morphs into a richly evocative solo cadenza and an epically ecstatic "Don't Stop the Carnival."
In the Harlem of his youth, Rollins told Panken, "music was happening on every street corner. So the idea of 'keep the music going' is in that song. Don't stop the carnival. In the case of 9/11, that was especially prophetic." Since launching his Doxy Records imprint in 2006 with the Grammy-nominated studio album Sonny, Please, Sonny Rollins has been turning to his concert recording archive dating back nearly 40 years for release on the label. The selections in Volume 1 (2008) spanned nearly three decades and included a trio track from the saxophonist's 50th-anniversary Carnegie Hall concert, while Volume 2 (2011) focused primarily on his historic 80th-birthday concert at New York's Beacon Theatre. Volume 3 (2014) marked the first recording of "Patanjali" and hinged on a stunning 23-minute excavation of Jerome Kern's "Why Was I Born?"
Holding the Stage: Road Shows, vol. 4 was produced by Rollins and his longtime engineer, Richard Corsello. Personnel includes trombonist Clifton Anderson; pianists Stephen Scott and Mark Soskin; guitarists Bobby Broom, Peter Bernstein, and Saul Rubin; bassists Bob Cranshaw and Jerome Harris; drummers Kobie Watkins, Perry Wilson, Victor Lewis, Jerome Jennings, Al Foster, and Harold Summey Jr.; and percussionists Kimati Dinizulu, Sammy Figueroa, and Victor See Yuen.
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2011-09-29 - British Clothing brand ED STONE and Dutch technical metal band TEXTURES have announced the launch of an exclusive TEXTURES x ED STONE t-shirt line. The line of T-shirts will be based around the band's new album Dualism which was recently released through Nuclear Blast.
The T-shirts will be limited to a 100 pieces per design once they have sold out the next design in the series will be revealed. The first design was created by Jeremy Packer at ZombieYeti Studios and is based on the Textures song 'Arms of the Sea',
Commenting on the new venture the band had this to say; 'It's really cool to be able to expand our collaboration with Ed Stone even more, with the release of the Textures / Ed Stone clothing line! Oh yeah!'
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$2,250,000, 3 Beds 3 Baths 4,258 Sqft .41 Acres
About This Property
Boaters Dream Home! With over 140 feet of water frontage, this personal marina offers 2 private deep water slips, floating concrete dock, Concrete pilings, 1 large open lift, tile roofed boat house with lift and smaller floating docks for guest boat parking. No expense was spared as the owners re-crafted this home from top to bottom, inside and out in 2018. Better than brand new, this stunning 3/3 pool home is situated on one of the points in the nautical neighborhood of Venezia and therefore showcases views of the deep-water canal from nearly room. Featuring a comfortable and functional floorplan the tray ceilings glow with warm ambient lighting and tile floors throughout lead from room to room with grace and elegance. The gourmet kitchen gleams with custom cabinets, granitecountertops and more breathtaking views of the waterway. Other features include a custom built in entertainment center, wet bar, and cozy breakfast nook which also overlooks the pool and canal. Just outside, triple sliding glass doors from the bright and warm living room, you can indulge in a relaxing outdoor oasis complete with a large sparkling pool featuring calming fountains a covered living area and exquisite panoramic views of the canal and yacht inspired marina.
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2 Car Garage, Oversized, RV/Boat
Boathouse, Canal - Motor Navigable, Dock, IntraCoastal Waterway, Riverfront Home/Unit, Riverview Home/Unit, Seawall
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Ceiling Fans, Inside Laundry, Split Bedroom, Wet Bar
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In the age of broadband it is to think download speed does not matter. However, nothing could be further from the truth. I share 5 ways to add some zip to your site.
In this age of broadband, users are unlikely to leave your site for being too slow. However, if you want to create a feeling of satisfaction and a pleasant user experience you need to keep download times to a minimum.
In a recent interview usability expert Jacob Nielsen wrote:
One of the main guidelines is to show the next state (e.g., the next page) with one second of the user's action (e.g., click) in order for users to experience the feeling of a freely-flowing interaction, as opposed to a sensation of delays.
The problem is that speed optimisation can often sound intimidating. Very clever people with very large beards throw around phrases like gzip, compression and caching. However, it doesn't need to be complicated.
I have just tweaked Boagworld to make it slightly more responsive (yes I know it is not perfect) and I needed little technical knowledge and it took less than 30 minutes. Here is how:
1. Install YSlow for Firebug
Firebug is a Firefox plugin that is essential for any web designer. YSlow is a plugin to this plugin (confusing I know!) that allows you to carry out all kinds of speed tests on your site.
YSlow will grade the performance of your site, provide advice on how to improve things and even suggest some tools which might help.
2. If you are using WordPress install Super Cache
If like me you use WordPress as your content management system then be sure to install the Super Cache plugin.
This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After the first visitor views a page on your blog, an HTML copy is created and served to all future visitors. This means that the server does not have to continually recreate pages. This will significantly speed up your site especially when you are receiving a lot of simultaneous users.
3. Compress your images
Images are a significant proportion of most webpages download. However, Photoshop does not always do a very good job at compressing images. Sure, there are other tools out there but most of us do not have the time or inclination to use them.
In addition, if we are trying to speed up an existing site we are unlikely to download and recompress an entire website worth of images.
Fortunately, Smushit comes to the rescue with an online image compressor. Best of all it integrates with YSlow to find all the images on a particular webpage and provide a report of the savings it could make.
Once it has run, all you have to do is download the recompressed images and upload them to your webserver. It even saves the directory structure!
4. Compress your Javascript
Increasingly websites are using more and more Javascript. These files can become very large, especially when using Javascript libraries and plugins. Fortunately it is possible to significantly reduce javascript files by removing formatting and comments.
There are a number of tools that will do this for you:
- YSlow, which has this functionality built in.
- Minifyme, which is an AIR application that runs locally.
- Online minimizers, which allow you to copy and paste Javascript.
- A number of coding applications that also have this functionality built in.
Whatever approach you take, make sure you keep an uncompressed version of the file because it is very hard to read and edit minimized Javascript.
5. Compress your CSS
Finally, as well as compressing your Javascript you can also do the same with CSS. Minifyme not only compresses Javascript, but also does then same for CSS. However, I tend to use CSS Compressor because it provides me with more control over the level of compression.
These CSS compressors remove spaces, line breaks and comments in order to make the file as small as possible.
As with Javascript remember to keep an uncompressed version. That, or reduced the level to which you compress the files.
What else?
What I like about the approaches above is that they require no server side configuration or technical knowledge. They are fast, powerful and easy. There is no reason not to follow this advice.
However, there is a lot more that can be done. Perhaps you would be willing to share some of your speed optimisation tricks in the comments below.


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RDNA Shader Instruction Set Architecture document is now available
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Many fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithms implement an intermediate transpose stage. Traditionally, the transpositions have used an out-of-place approach in the clFFT library – that …
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This tutorial shows how to get started with HIP. We'll take a simple CUDA application, hipify it, and run it on multiple platforms.
Editor's note: We've edited this blog to provide a slight update to the installation instructions as of 04/26/2016.
git clone https://github.com/GPUOpen-ProfessionalCompute-Tools/HIP HIP
The "square.cu" file is the short CUDA application we'll be working with today. (The code is in the in the HIP repository you installed in step#2 in samples/0_Intro/square/square.cu).
The code in main has the classic flow of a typical GPGPU application and uses the CUDA runtime API to perform the following operations:
Make sure you have added the path to your hip/bin to the standard system PATH (install step #3). Then, from the directory containing the sample, run hipify to convert the CUDA code to portable C++:
hipify square.cu > square.cpp
hipify performs a clean source-to-source transformation of the CUDA code to portable C++, preserving the comments and original code flow. Here's the hipified kernel from the square.cpp file.( also visible on the GitHub site here: square.hipref.cpp)
* Square each element in the array A and write to array C.
template <typename T>
__global__ void
vector_square(T *C_d, const T *A_d, size_t N)
size_t offset = (hipBlockIdx_x * hipBlockDim_x + hipThreadIdx_x);
size_t stride = hipBlockDim_x * hipGridDim_x ;
for (size_t i=offset; i<N; i+=stride) {
C_d[i] = A_d[i] * A_d[i];
HIP supports templates, and you can see the HIP code retains the template.
HIP converts the coordinate indexing code from CUDA-syntax (based on builtin variables) to a portable HIP syntax (actually implemented with macros in the header files). Here's the difference:
// Original CUDA source:
size_t offset = (blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x);
size_t stride = blockDim.x * gridDim.x ;
// HIP version
size_t offset = (hipBlockIdx_x * hipBlockDim_x + hipThreadIdx_x);
size_t stride = hipBlockDim_x * hipGridDim_x ;
We need to make one manual change to the signature of the HIP code. HIP passes execution configuration (the grid and threadBlock sizes) to the kernel through a standard C++ structure, as opposed to using custom "<<< >>>" language extensions used in CUDA. The hipfiy tool does not currently modify the kernel signature automatically, so you need to do this step by-hand. Edit the square.cpp file with the following change:
// output of hipify, this won't compile yet
vector_square(T *C_d, const T *A_d, size_t N)
// Manually add first argument:
vector_square(hipLaunchParm lp, T *C_d, const T *A_d, size_t N)
Hipify also converts the runtime APIs in the host code into hip* APIs – here's a snippet from the guts of the code around the kernel launch:
printf ("info: allocate device mem (%6.2f MB)\n", 2*Nbytes/1024.0/1024.0);
CHECK(hipMalloc(&A_d, Nbytes));
CHECK(hipMalloc(&C_d, Nbytes));
printf ("info: copy Host2Device\n");
CHECK ( hipMemcpy(A_d, A_h, Nbytes, hipMemcpyHostToDevice));
const unsigned blocks = 512;
const unsigned threadsPerBlock = 256;
printf ("info: launch 'vector_square' kernel\n");
hipLaunchKernel(HIP_KERNEL_NAME(vector_square), dim3(blocks), dim3(threadsPerBlock), 0, 0, C_d, A_d, N);
printf ("info: copy Device2Host\n");
CHECK ( hipMemcpy(C_h, C_d, Nbytes, hipMemcpyDeviceToHost));
The HIP code has the same flow as the original CUDA application:
Let's compile and see if it works. The HIP package comes with a compiler driver called hipcc which detects the platform and calls either nvcc or hcc, as appropriate. Here's the output from an AMD Fiji machine:
Fiji1:~/hip/samples/square$ hipcc square.cpp -o square.hip.out
Fiji1:~/hip/samples/square$ ./square.hip.out
info: running on device Fiji
info: allocate host mem ( 7.63 MB)
info: allocate device mem ( 7.63 MB))
info: copy Host2Device
info: launch 'vector_square' kernel
info: copy Device2Host
info: check result
And we can of course compile and run on a competitor machine:
TITAN1:~/ben/hip/samples/square$ hipcc square.cpp -o square.hip.out
TITAN1:~/ben/hip/samples/square$ ./square.hip.out
info: running on device GeForce GTX TITAN X
info: allocate host mem ( 7.63 MB)
info: allocate device mem ( 7.63 MB)
info: copy Host2Device
info: launch 'vector_square' kernel
info: copy Device2Host
info: check result
That's it – a CUDA application converted into a portable C++ program that runs on both AMD and competitor platforms!
am trying to explore HIP and tried some samples
but getting HIP Runtime issue
square.cpp:39:22: error: 'hc_get_group_id': no overloaded function has restriction specifiers that are compatible with the ambient context 'vector_square'
/home/mcw/HIP/include/hcc_detail/hip_runtime.h:389:40: note: expanded from macro 'hipBlockIdx_x'
#define hipBlockIdx_x (hc_get_group_id(2))
any idea ?
Hi Gopu – are you able to compile the bit_extract sample?
Square has some manual steps in the hipification process that could introduce errors – did the file you created match the square.hipref.cpp file? (git diff square.hipref.cpp)
Also – if you are still seeing error – can you share your hcc version (hcc -v) so we can verify configuration.
Thanks Ben,
While compiling bit_extract sample i am getting same error
my hcc version is
mcw@mcw:~/HIP/samples/0_Intro/bit_extract$ hcc -v
HCC clang version 3.5.0 (based on HCC 0.10.16042-f481e23-e160d64-183de0b LLVM 3.5.0svn)
Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/4.9
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/4.9.1
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8.4
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9.1
Selected GCC installation: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8
Candidate multilib: .;@m64
Candidate multilib: 32;@m32
Candidate multilib: x32;@mx32
Selected multilib: .;@m64
This has been solved with latest HCC
I am getting a strange error hc.hpp file not found when I try to compile. I have done all the required exports but still the problem does not go away
Hi Trinayan, we've identified a configuration issue and updated our hcc compiler package to address that (https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/hcc/downloads). Would you please give it a try?
Perhaps you could use "typedef float2 cuFloatComplex;" ? float2 is supported in HIP headers for both platforms.
Make sure your guys have Intel Haswell and above CPUs and supported AMD GPUs, otherwise it will prompt weird errors exhausting you
The tutorial works fine as far as it goes. But it appears that HIP only recognizes one GPU?
if (hipGetDeviceCount(&count) != hipSuccess)
printf("couldn't get device count!\n");
printf("deviceCount: %d\n", count);
This prints deviceCount: 1 when it should be 3. I have a GTX 980 Ti and 2 Radeon R9s see lspci -v output:
Is there something further I need to do so it sees my other GPUs?
Thanks in advance.
The kfd driver is seeing all 3:
ls /sys/devices/virtual/kfd/kfd/subsystem/kfd/topology/nodes/
0 1 2
I put the output of their properties here:
Hi Matt. Nice system. Hip may be recognizing your one Nvidia gpu rather than your two r9s. Can you run hipconfig –full. Then try setting env var HIP_PLATFORM = hcc to force hip to use the nanos, rerun hipconfig –full.
hip currently requires a newer version of hcc than the pre-compiled ones. hip in turn lags behind the latest hcc in source.
./square.hip.out: symbol lookup error: ./square.hip.out: undefined symbol: _binary_kernel_spir_start
What am I missing?
Hi Ricardo – can you verify you are using the latest version of HIP and HCC? It looks like perhaps you are using HCC with the older OpenCL back-end rather than ROCr.
How can I check that?
To make it work I changed the "rocm/hip/bin/hipcc" file from:
$HIPLDFLAGS .= " -Wl,–defsym=_binary_kernel_spir_end=0 -Wl,–defsym=_binary_kernel_spir_start=0 -Wl,–defsym=_binary_kernel_cl_start=0 -Wl,–defsym=_binary_kernel_cl_end=0″;
$HIPLDFLAGS .= " -Wl,–defsym=_binary_kernel_spir_end=1 -Wl,–defsym=_binary_kernel_spir_start=1 -Wl,–defsym=_binary_kernel_cl_start=1 -Wl,–defsym=_binary_kernel_cl_end=1″;
Now it works perfectly.
I just installed ROCm on fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04 and ran into this problem as well. When I was using Ubuntu 14.04, I did not experience this issue. The solution suggested by Ricardo worked.
I'm using a CUDA code that calls a function from the NVIDIA CUB library.
This is the code:
// Determine temporary device storage requirements
void *d_temp_storage = NULL;
size_t temp_storage_bytes = 0;
cub::DeviceReduce::Sum(d_temp_storage, temp_storage_bytes, in_d, sum_d, N);
// Allocate temporary storage
CHECK(cudaMalloc(&d_temp_storage, temp_storage_bytes));
// Run sum-reduction
cub::DeviceReduce::Sum(d_temp_storage, temp_storage_bytes, in_d, sum_d, N);
'in_d' is the input array with the values to be reduced, 'sum_d' is an array with a single position to include the result of the complete reduction of the array, and 'N' is the number of elements in the array that are to be reduced.
Is there any equivalent HIP library function for Sum reduction that I can use on an AMD Fiji card (AMD R9 Nano)?
I have been experimenting with hipify and hipcc, and I have been able to compile and run a few applications. I wanted to know if there is a disassembler to extract the GPU kernel assembly from the binary generated?
Yes. The newest version of hcc (based on clang4.0) includes a tool called 'extractkernel" which will extract the code object (in .hsaco form) and also disassemble it into GCN ISA. For the brave, this can be built from source – or I anticipate the next developer_preview build of HIP and HCC will be based on HCC4.0 and will include this tool.
please see the GitHub repository here:


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Nursing Home Abuse
Unfortunately, our country's eldest and most frail citizens are being abused and neglected. Far too often these elderly citizens are victims of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and neglect while residing in a nursing home, assisted living facility or other long-term care institution.
Elder abuse takes many different forms, but the most common forms of abuse are:
Physical Abuse
Physical abuse is the non-accidental use of force against an elderly person that results in physical pain, injury or impairment. Such abuse includes not only physical assaults such as hitting and shoving, but also includes the inappropriate use of drugs, restraints, or confinement.
Emotional Abuse
Emotional abuse is caused when a person speaks to or treats an elderly person in a manner that produces emotional pain or psychological distress. Emotional abuse can be either verbal or non-verbal. Verbal abuse includes yelling, screaming and/or humiliating an elderly person. Non-verbal abuse includes ignoring, isolating and/or terrorizing an elderly person.
Sexual Abuse
Sexual abuse is any sexual contact with an elderly person without the elder's consent. Such abuse can include unwanted physical acts, but may also include forcing the elderly person to undress or view pornographic material or other sex acts.
Signs and Symptoms of Abuse and Neglect
How do you know whether an elderly person is being abused or neglected? Unfortunatley, many people do not recognize when a loved one is being victimized because many of the signs and symptoms of abuse and neglect mimic symptoms of mental deterioration and dementia.
The following are general signs of elder abuse:
* Frequent arguments or tension between the caregiver and elderly person;
* Unexpected changes in the elderly person's personality or behavior;
* Unexplained fractures, dislocations, bruises, welts or scars;
* Report of either drug overdose or apparent failure to take medication;
* Behavior from the elderly person which mimics dementia;
* Bruises around the elderly person's breasts or genitals;
* Unexplained venereal diesease or genital infections; and
* Unexplained vaginal or anal bleeding.
Caring for our elderly population can be extremely stressful. Tragically, the stress of providing elder care can cause caregivers to become impatient and lash out against those to whom they provide care. Other times, the stress of providing elder care can cause caregivers to refuse to provide the care an elderly person needs. Nursing home staff may be especially prone to commit elder abuse and neglect due to lack of training, lack of staff, and lack of supplies. These poor work conditions within nursing homes create the perfect storm for elder abuse.
The following are general signs of elder neglect:
* Unusual weight loss, malnutrition, and dehydration;
* Unstable vital signs
* Untreated physical problems such as bed sores, contractures, and urinary tract infections;
* Unsanitary living conditions;
* Poor personal hygiene and grooming;
* Unsafe living conditions; and
* Elopement from a facility.
Nursing home residents have the legal right to be free from abuse and neglect. Unfortunately, many companies that operate and manage nursing homes place more emphasis on the "bottom line" than with providing proper care. Nursing homes often increase their profits by understaffing and undersupplying the facility and by underpaying and inadequately training their employees. The emphasis of placing "profits over people" and "revenue over residents" often results in injuries that could and should have been avoided.
If you suspect that a loved one has been the victim of elder abuse or neglect, please contact us immediately to address your concerns and to schedule your FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION.


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