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New Study Finds Recession Cut Into Employment for Half of Working AdultsWASHINGTON, DC - The recession has directly hit more than half of the nation's working adults, pushing them into unemployment, pay cuts, reduced hours at work or part-time jobs, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. The economic shock has jolted many Americans into a new, more austere reality, which is likely to have lasting consequences for an economy fueled ...Published almost 9 years ago |
More Jobs After Obama Approves Broadband Capacity Expansion?President Obama signs a memorandum today committing the government to provide 500 MHz worth of new broadband to ease the use of electronic equipment ranging from cell phones to laptop computers. Under the memorandum, the government will begin identifying specific sources of the new spectrum; they will come from both the public and private sectors, including television broadcast and mobile satellite ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Britain to Relocate Unemployed to Area That are HiringUnemployed people living on sink estates could be relocated to areas with job vacancies as part of a Government plan to break up Britain's 'poverty ghettos'. Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said the move was designed to help those 'trapped' on council estates in unemployment blackspots. The plan, which is still at an early stage, carries echoes of the ...Published almost 9 years ago |
OPM To Discuss Hiring Reform in Public MeetingHiring reform for the entire federal workforce, not just cyber security positions, is the topic of a public meeting the OPM planned for Friday. Participants have been asked to discuss "whether normal, competitive hiring is an effective avenue for bringing recent college graduates into the federal workforce," according to the Federal Register. The hearing follows a May 11 directive from Obama, ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Personnel Chiefs on the Hook for Hiring ReformIn early May, President Obama released a long-anticipated hiring reform memorandum, replacing a requirement that federal job applicants respond to essay questions with a resume-based approach more in line with private sector practices. The memo also outlined new responsibilities for managers and supervisors, requiring them to get more involved in the hiring process. The job of making sure the hiring reform ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Defense Police Bill Could Affect Insourcing EffortsMany federal service contractors could see their jobs brought back in-house if provisions in the House and Senate Defense authorization bills are passed into law, according to an industry group. The House version of the policy measure includes an amendment sponsored by Rep. John Sarbanes, D-Md., that would give "special consideration" to federal employees for any function that has been performed ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Yet Another Blow to Efforts to Freeze Federal PayAfter strong debate from both sides of the aisle, the Senate on Thursday rejected a legislative provision that would have frozen federal pay and the size of the government workforce. The chamber voted 57-41 to let stand a budgetary point of order against a GOP alternative amendment to the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act. The point of order essentially ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Over 300 New Jobs Announced At DOD Contractor ManTechBELCAMP, Md. - Defense contractor ManTech International Corp. says it expects to create 300 to 500 technology jobs near Aberdeen Proving Ground within three years. The Fairfax, Va.-based company celebrated the groundbreaking Monday for a building in Belcamp that will house the workers. It is scheduled for completion in March. ManTech Chairman George Pederson says the company has about 700 Maryland ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Lawmakers Urging Significant Cuts in Defense SpendingA bipartisan group of House lawmakers on Friday urged the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility to take a hard look a military spending as the panel weighs options for reducing the nation's growing budget deficit. Specifically, the legislators backed a list of cuts outlined in a new report by the Sustainable Defense Task Force, a diverse group of experts the lawmakers ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Obama Extends Benefits to Same-Sex Partners of Federal EmployeesWASHINGTON, DC - President Obama on Wednesday ordered federal agencies to extend a range of benefits to same-sex domestic partners of their employees. "For far too long, many of our government's hard-working, dedicated [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] employees have been denied equal access to the basic rights and benefits their colleagues enjoy," Obama wrote in a memo to the heads ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Wal-Mart Launches Employee College PlanLITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced a program Thursday in which its workers can receive college credit from the online American Public University and receive a tuition discount from the school. The company also said it will commit $50 million over three years to help workers pay for books and tuition above the reduced tuition rate. After the reduction, ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Public Sector to Add 55,000 JobsMultiple indicators pointed to improvement in the job market, but recovery continues to come at a slow pace. Private-sector jobs in the U.S. increased by 55,000 last month, according to a national employment report published by payroll giant Automatic Data Processing Inc. and consultancy Macroeconomic Advisers. Separately, the number of U.S. workers filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week ...Published almost 9 years ago |
BP Said in 2008 It Could Handle Oil Spill 10 Times the Size of Gulf SpillAdd fuzzy math to the list of problems plaguing BP. The British oil giant promised a government agency in 2008 that it could handle an oil spill 10 times the size of the disaster currently wreaking havoc in the Gulf of Mexico, according to documents. In BP's worst-case scenario presented to the Minerals Management Service, it listed a well roughly 60 ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Governor Planning Massive NY State Worker LayoffsALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. David Paterson says he's putting together a plan that would lay off thousands of state government workers at the beginning of next year to help balance the budget. Paterson said Tuesday he'll direct state agencies to begin picking positions that could be eliminated starting Jan. 1. That date marks the expiration of the no-layoffs pledge ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Defusing the 5 Trickiest Workplace SituationsThe workplace can be a political minefield. While you may all work as a team, you're all most concerned with your own job,right? How your bosses see you can determine a raise, a promotion — or even if you keep your job. Navigating office politics is not an easy task, but avoiding potentially negative situations should be your first priority. If ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Senate Passes Telework BillLate Monday, the Senate voted on and unanimously passed telework legislation which had been held up for more than a year. The 2010 Telework Enhancement Act (S. 707), sponsored by Sens. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, and George Voinovich, R-Ohio, is designed to expand telecommuting opportunities in the federal government by making employees presumptively eligible and requiring agencies to take a number of ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Mixing Continuing Education With a Full-Time JobThe alarm goes off at 5:30 am, and you could swear you went to sleep five minutes ago. First a quick shower, followed by the finishing touches on that homework assignment due tonight over coffee and breakfast — if there's time. Then it's off to work, a solid eight-plus hours of time where you're busy with reports, meetings and other assorted ...Published almost 9 years ago |
U.S. Home Building Gains, New Permits FallNEW YORK - Home building rose in April, government figures showed on Tuesday, as activity was possibly spurred by an $8,000 government tax credit for new buyers. But the data suggested that builders might also be slowing down their future construction plans. The Commerce Department said work started on 672,000 homes in April, up 5.8 percent from March. It was the ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Can Our Government Do More To Get People Back to Work?Why isn't our government doing more to put people back to work? Mass unemployment is a human and national calamity. It destroys families, crushes hopes. The longer it lasts, the more it cripples economic recovery and undermines democracy. Nearly 27 million Americans are unemployed or can't find more than part-time work. Yet legislators are reacting to this reality somewhat like the ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Deficit Closed, Minn. Lawmakers Look to ElectionST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota lawmakers balanced the state budget and erased a $3 billion deficit Monday, wrapping up their work for the year in a way that allowed Democrats and Republicans alike to claim some credit but also set the terms of the election debate to come. The deal struck by Gov. Tim Pawlenty, presiding over his last legislative session, ...Published almost 9 years ago |


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Unmatched in their softness and consistency, Schmincke soft pastels were created using the finest artist's pigments and a minimum of binders. Pastel softness permits beautiful dense application, and high pigment concentration results in intense colors.
Color Swatches created using heavy to light application and were applied on 100 lb (163 gsm) drawing paper material.
chrome antimony titanate
Chrome Antimony Titanate is a staining, opaque yellowish brown pigment. It is often used to replace the original Naples Yellow or Chrome Yellow, both of which are highly toxic pigments.
Chrome Antimony Titanate has excellent lightfastness and weatherfastness.
Chrome Antimony Titanate has negligible acute toxicity. In testing with rabbits, it was shown to be minimally irritating to the skin and eyes. Since it has the hexavalent structure of a chromium yellow, whether Chrome Antimony Titanate is a potential carcinogen has been a subject of controversy. At this time, regulations in the USA do not require it to be labeled in any way.
Chrome Antimony Titanate is used in ceramics, plastics, and industrial coatings.
Chrome Antimony Titanium Buff Rutile, Chrome Titanate, Chrome Titanate Brown
chromium oxide
Chromium Oxide Green is a dull, dense, willow or pale green color that is completely opaque. It has an average drying time and a low tinting strength. It is fairly flexible in oil form and is suitable for all purposes and mediums. This pigment is less versatile in mixtures than Viridian and Phthalocyanine Green, but mixes well with other colors without overpowering them.
Chromium Oxide Green has excellent permanence, even at high temperatures.
Chromium Oxide Green is slightly toxic. Evidence of Chromium(III) carcinogenicity is inconclusive. Chromium(III) salts appear in greenish pigments such as PG17. Chromium(VI) salts, which appear in yellowish pigments, have been proven to cause cancer.
Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin discovered the element chromium in lead chromate in 1797. It began to be used as an enamel and ceramic color in 1809, but it had limited use as a pigment until 1862, because of its cost. It is the most commonly used green for military camouflage because it appears the same shade as living foliage under infrared light.
Chrome Oxide Green, Olive Green, Permanent Green. Varieties of Chromium Oxide Green include Arnaudon's Green, Dingler's Green, Plessy's Green, and Schnitzer's Green.
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iron oxide
Fe2O2 or Fe2O3 • H2O
Mars Orange is a bright, extremely light red and appears almost pinkish in contrast with darker colors. It has incredible tinting strength and opacity. The synthetic form of Mars Orange is made from iron oxides and is cleaner, brighter, and denser than its ochre-based counterparts.
Mars Orange has excellent permanence and lightfastness.
Mars Orange has no significant hazards.
The word Mars refers to the Roman god of iron and war. Mars Orange has been manufactured as a pigment since the 17th century.
mixed metal oxide
Nickel Titanium Yellow is one of the cleanest and brightest of the inorganic pigments. It has a low tinting strength and average to slow drying time.
Nickel Titanium Yellow has excellent lightfastness and outstanding stability with regard to chemicals, weather, and heat. It is durable in exterior conditions.
Nickel Titanium Yellow is not considered toxic.
Nickel Titanium Yellow was developed in the 1960s.
Nickel Titanate Yellow, Nickel Yellow.
polychlorinated copper(II) phthalocyanine
C32H3Cl13CuN8 to C32HCl15CuN8 or C32H16CuN8Cl15 (PG7) or C32Br6Cl10CuN8 (PG36)
Phthalo Green is a transparent, cool, bright, high intensity color used in oil and acrylics. It comes from a Phthalocyanine Blue pigment where most of the hydrogen atoms have been replaced with chlorine, forming highly stable molecules. It has similar pigment properties and permanence to Phthalo Blue. It is slow drying and an excellent base color for mixing a range of bright greens. Phthalo Green is considered a very good alternative to Viridian because it is intense and mixes well and can be used to emphasize mineral colors in various tints. However, its tinting strength is very high, so it can overpower other colors. This pigment most closely resembles the discontinued and toxic Verdigris.
Phthalo Greens are completely lightfast and resistant to alkali, acids, solvents, heat, and ultraviolet radiation. They are currently used in inks, coatings, and many plastics due to their stability and are considered a standard pigment in printing ink and the packaging industry.
Phthalo Green has no significant hazards, but it contained PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) until 1982.
This bright blue-green was developed in 1935 and has been in use since 1938.
Bocour Green, Cyan Green, Intense Green, Monastral Green, Phthalocyanine Green, Rembrandt Green, Thalo Green, Winsor Green.
titanium dioxide
Titanium White is the most brilliant of the white pigments. It is considered an all purpose oil color useful in all techniques and the best all around white. Its masstone is neither warm nor cool, placing it somewhere between Lead White and Zinc White. It is less prone to cracking and yellowing than Lead White, but it still yellows easily. Titanium White dries slowly in oil form, more slowly than Lead White but more quickly than Zinc White. It is opaque in oil and acrylic forms and semi-opaque in watercolor form. This pigment has good chemical stability, and its tinting strength is superior to both Lead White and Zinc White.
Titanium White has excellent permanence and lightfastness.
Titanium dioxide is highly stable and is regarded as completely non-toxic. Animal studies give no indiciation that it is absorbed biologically, even after long periods of exposure. The primary safety concern is with inhalation of fine pigment dust particles. Titanium White, if inhaled in large amounts over the course of several years, may cause a benign pneumoconiosis that is visible on x-rays. The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) considers fine titanium dioxide particles, if inhaled, to be a human carcinogen. The primary concern for artists is to avoid exposure to fine particulate dust from raw pigments.
Titanium is the ninth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, however mineral deposits that are economical to mine are less common. Titanium dioxide was first discovered in 1821, although it could not be mass produced until 1919. Widespread use of the pigment began in the 1940s. Since that time, it has become the most commonly used white pigment. The name comes from the Latin word Titan, the name for the elder brother of Kronos and ancestor of the Titans, and from the Greek word tito, meaning day or sun.
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OROVILLE >> A man accused of stealing a Butte sheriff"s patrol vehicle had been released from jail just minutes before making the Monday theft.
Omar Medina Cazares, 39, had been arrested earlier in the day at the Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Highway in Oroville, on a charge of being drunk in public, according to Sheriff Kory Honea.
The sheriff said, in keeping with departmental policy, Cazares was released from the jail when he had sobered up at about 7 p.m.
Honea said that within minutes of his release, the suspect allegedly used a large rock to break out the driver"s side window of the marked sheriff"s vehicle, which was parked in the jail lot in Oroville.
Honea said the deputy who had been driving the vehicle had left the keys in the ignition of the locked SUV. The deputy was carrying a duplicate set of keys at the time.
The sheriff described the officer, whom he did not identify, as a "good deputy who has been around for a while."
He said the deputy "made an error (in leaving the keys in the unit) that this particular suspect took advantage of."
Honea also said there were a shotgun and a rifle, owned by the department, locked next to the driver"s seat.
At one point, according to Honea, the alleged auto thief broadcast a request over the car"s radio seeking directions on how to release the two weapons.
Honea said nobody responded to the man"s broadcast and as far as he knows that was the only time the suspect tried to use the radio.
Other law enforcement agencies took part in the chase that came to an end on Highway 99, between Live Oak and Yuba City in Sutter County, around 8 p.m.
The 30-minute chase reached speeds up to 70 mph and ended after the vehicle"s front tires were shredded with spike strips.
Since officers knew the rifle and the shotgun were in the unit, a police dog from one of the agencies, not the Butte County Sheriff"s Office, was deployed.
Honea said it was unclear if the animal ever reached the suspect, but Cazares was taken for a medical exam after the arrest. The medical report said the suspect suffered some minor cuts and abrasions, but there was no mention of dog bite wounds, said the sheriff.
Cazares was arrested on charges of auto theft, felony attempting to evade peace officers, burglary, and possession of ammunition by an individual prohibited from having ammunition.
He is currently being held in Butte County Jail in lieu of $95,000 bail.
- VIDEO Butte County sheriff"s Sgt. Paul Leveto discusses the theft and pursuit of a stolen sheriff"s vehicle.
Honea said it is not standard procedure for his officers to leave keys in the ignition of even locked vehicles. He said there are times when deputies arrive at the scene of a crime, when they might leave the keys in a locked unit because they might have to either move the car or chase a subject when time is important.
The sheriff said the deputy whose vehicle was stolen might have gotten used to this procedure.
As of Tuesday morning, according to Honea, he "put out a directive" to all of his staff to be "diligent" about not leaving keys in their vehicles.
Honea said the suspect is known to the department but he declined to elaborate.
The sheriff did say he had been told Cazares allegedly told security officers at the casino that he was fearful that he could be targeted by local gangs.
Honea said, as far as he knew, the suspect had expressed no such fears to the sheriff"s staff, and nothing in the man"s record connects him to any gangs.
Contact reporter Roger H. Aylworth at 896-7762.


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The small group of about 100 Mexicans, then called Californios, (and nicknamed the Greyhounds) engaged approximately 100 Americans (of a 169 men force), most of which were comprised, at the time, of one of the most elite fighting units in the United States Military Arsenal, the 1st U.S. Dragoons. The Mexicans fought ferociously against the foreign aggressors and, despite being out-gunned, inflicted tremendous casualties against the Americans. In less than an hour, the battlefield found at least 19 Americans and possibly six Mexicans dead and over thirty wounded combined.
The battle is unique in that it touched three separate cultures that fateful morning, the Euro-American, the Hispanic, and the Indian. The battle is also unique in that it is one of the few military battles in the United States that involved elements of the Army, Navy, Marines, and civilian volunteers, all in the same skirmish. The San Pasqual Battlefield is presently considered perhaps the last significant battlefield left in the Western United States that is still in somewhat pristine condition. Research continues in hope that by fully understanding what in fact occurred at this battle, that we might also locate sites relevant to this event. By doing so, we can secure formal archaeological surveys of these sites and, if possible, retrieve artifacts from these sites for preservation and display at the San Pasqual Battlefield Museum.
This web site is donated and dedicated to the people of the State of California and dedicated to the memory of those who died at the Battle of San Pasqual.
This web site serves as an on-line database for resource information to be used by historical researchers, students, and others interested in this battle to help stimulate future discoveries and debate concerning this historic event. While historians have been known to hoard important pieces of historical information and research, the SPBSLP will share and make public all sources of information. This project believes that such information does not belong in the private collections of certain said historians but to the people of the State of California and, the United States of America for whom these men died at San Pasqual.
We hope you enjoy this site and we welcome any questions, comments, academic debate, opposing views, and new information concerning this battle. Thank you!
This web site and all the discoveries made by the SPBSLP would not have been made possible without the encouragement, support, assistance, and generosity of many organizations and certain members therein. The Project now spans two decades, beginning in 1991. For clarity, we here gratefully acknowledge the following people, in these named positions, with these named organizations, working in these listed capacities, at the time that they helped and/or supported the SPBSLP.
State of California
The Honorable Lieutenant Governor Cruz M. Bustamante
California State Senate
The Honorable Senator David G. Kelly
County of San Diego
The Honorable Chairman of the County Board of Supervisors, Bill Horn (5th District)
Historian Mary Ward
City of San Diego
The Honorable Councilwoman Barbara Warden (5th District)
City of Escondido
Mayor Sid Hollins
The United State Marine Corps
Camp Pendleton Base Commanding General Lieutenant General A. C. Zinni
Camp Pendleton Museum, History Museums Officer A. Faye Jonason
Department of the Army
Fort Leavenworth Frontier Army Museum Director Stephan J. Allie
Fort Leavenworth Frontier Army Museum Exhibit Specialist George R. Moore
United States National Archives
Washington D.C. Michael T. Meier
Laguna Niguel, California Suzanne Dewbery
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument National Park Service
Chief Historian Douglas C. McChristian
Park Ranger, Division of Interpretation John August Doerner
State of California Department of Parks & Recreation
San Diego Coast District Superintendent Edward Navarro
San Diego Coast District Park Superintendent Victoria M. Long
Historic Sector Superintendent Steffani Jarrett
State Historian II George R. Stammerjohan
Associate State Archaeologist Michael Sampson
Chief Ranger Old Town San Diego Gary Watts
State Park Ranger, San Pasqual Battlefield Joann Nash
State Park Interpreter, San Pasqual Battlefield Peggy Hurley
State Park Interpreter, San Pasqual Battlefield Peggy Van Cleeve
State Park Interpreter, San Pasqual Battlefield Mitzi E. Wiseman
San Dieguito River Valley Regional Open Space Park
Project Director Susan Carter
San Pasqual Battlefield Volunteer Association
President Tom Cook
Historian Ron Hinrichs
Historian Leroy Ross
Historian Benjamin A. Cueva
San Diego Historical Society
Executive Director James Vaughan
Director Richard Crawford
Photo Archivist Thomas J. Adema
Custodian Barbara Pope
Escondido Historical Society
Director Norm Syler
Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery
Director Jack Shaw
Historian Dr. Eugene K. Chamberlin
Natural History Museum Los Angeles, California
Military & Technological Historian Konrad F. Schreier Jr.
Platte, Missouri Historical Society
Director Fran Bohachick
The California State Society Daughters of the American Revolution
Regent Dorothy E. Webb
The San Diego Wild Animal Park
Operations Manager Michael A. Ahlering
Assistant Operations Manager Adam M. Ringler
The San Pasqual Band of Indians
Chairwoman Dorthy M. Tavui
Representative Claudina H. Masura
Representative Tilda M. Green
San Pasqual Valley Association
Witman Ranch Inc. CEO William "Bill" Witman
Milton & Rebecca Judson
University of Louisville
Associate Curator of Photographs Cynthia E. Stevenson
Hunsaker & Associates of San Diego
Vice President & Land Surveyor – Jack Hill
G.I.S. Technician Gary Greenberg
R. B. Hill & Associates of Vista
Founder and Land Surveyor Richard B. Hill
Land Surveyor George P. Lounsbury
Centre For Health Care San Diego
Dr. Vivek C. Nazareth
Other Notable Contributors
Historian Marjorie Rustvold
Historian Cloyd Sorensen Jr.
Historian Leeland Bibb
Historian Charles Young
Historian George Mroczkowski
Nancy Myer Czetli
Please note that although we enthusiastically support their public education efforts, there is no formal affiliation between the San Pasqual Battlefield Site Location Project and the San Pasqual Battlefield Volunteer Association or the California State Parks.
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There are a lot of things to consider when buying a new car, but here are three points of advice you definitely want to consider if saving money is on your mind:
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- Be ready to negotiate to ensure that you save as much as possible
- Walk away from the seller if you are not comfortable with the terms of the agreement
When you shop around, you know you are going to get the best deal because you have spoken with several sellers about what they can do for you.
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Bear safety tips
After last summer's bear sightings, the Broomfield Open Space and Trails Department issued a news release with some general safety guidelines.
Bear sightings are not uncommon along the Front Range, even in neighborhoods and residential areas, and in most cases, bears are simply seeking new habitat and will pass through residential areas without conflict, according to the Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife. Colorado is home only to black bears, which could be black, brown, cinnamon or blond fur, and are not aggressive, according to CPW.
If you do encounter a bear:
• Stay calm and never run; running can make a bear chase you.
• Keep your distance. Back slowly away while facing the bear, but avoid direct eye contact.
• Slowly and calmly leave the area. Talk aloud so the bear will become aware of you.
• Be extra careful around a female with cubs. Never approach a cub.
• Never throw food to distract a bear. This teaches a bear to approach people for food.
• Fight back if attacked. Black bears have been driven away when people fight with rocks, sticks, binoculars or even bare hands.
• Report sightings to police dispatch at 303-438-6400 or CPW at 303-291-7277. In an emergency, call 911.
Ways to bear-proof your yard:
•Keep garbage indoors until trash pick-up or use a bear-proof garbage can.
• Feed pets and store pet food inside.
• Burn barbecue grills to immediately clean them after use, and store them indoors.
• Only feed birds in winter, when they need it and when bears sleep. Bears love bird seed and hummingbird feeders.
• Never store food outside. Bears will tear open locked freezers.
•Never leave food, trash, pet food or coolers in your car. Bears will tear open doors and break windshields.
•Harvest fruit and vegetables as they ripen. Pick up fallen fruit from the ground. Keep your lawn mowed and free of flowering dandelions and clover.
• Keep compost clean and securely enclosed .
If you see a bear in your yard:
• Stay calm. If the bear does not find food, it will usually leave.
• Stay away. Bears might attack when they feel threatened.
• Warn others. Bring kids and pets indoors. Remind others to keep their distance.
• Scare that bear. Make sure the bear has a clear escape path. Make lots of noise, turn on lights, bang pots. Don't let the bear become comfortable around your home.
• Remove attractants. After the bear is gone, make sure your home is bear-proof.
Wildlife officials tranquilized and relocated a bear that wandered through the Broomfield Heights neighborhood early Tuesday morning.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokeswoman Jennifer Churchill said the bear, thought to be a 2-year-old male, was tranquilized around 10:30 a.m. in the neighborhood near Kohl Street and 7th Avenue.
The bear was spotted by residents in that neighborhood, who said it was medium in size and took off running behind houses between 8th Avenue Drive and 7th Avenue Drive.
The bear "probably had been hanging around the area for a few weeks, and wasn't a dangerous bear. He was just moving into the wrong habitat, so we had to move him," Churchill said.
Iva Osburn, who lives on 7th Avenue Drive, saw it on her street, before it cut through a back yard to 8th Avenue Drive. She said the bear seemed larger than a cub.
Keith Markham, who lives nearby, also spotted the bear near 8th Avenue Drive and Kalmia Way and snapped a photo with his cell phone around 8:20 a.m. as he was taking his daughter to school. He said his first thought is "where's mom?"
The bear was spotted not far from Kohl Elementary School, which was placed on lockout for an hour or so. The lockout was lifted at 10:51 a.m. Lockout means all activities will take place inside the school until Boulder Valley School District is instructed it is safe for kids to go outside again.
Broomfield police were in the neighborhood, but were not actively searching for the bear. Department spokeswoman Joleen Reefe said officers were in the area to keep people away from the bear if spotted again, and were leaving the search for the animal to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
This is not the first time a bear has been spotted in Broomfield. In July, a young bear was spotted five days before being tranquilized, captured and relocated.
Larry Rogstad, an area wildlife manager with Colorado Parks and Wildlife, in July said bear sightings in Broomfield are rare, but it's not uncommon for younger bears to wander into urban areas when they are old enough to leave their mothers.
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For the second consecutive year, Paul Knoepfler, associate professor of cell biology and human anatomy at UC Davis School of Medicine, has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the St. Baldrick's Foundation to pursue his novel research into the molecular causes of brain tumors in children.
St. Baldrick's, which is known for its annual head-shaving event fundraisers, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting research into childhood cancers.
Knoepfler's research includes a focus on the most common type of pediatric brain tumors: medulloblastomas. The tumors are more prevalent in children under the age of 5, and are more often found in males than females. Current treatments remain limited and often have toxic side effects in young patients, including lifelong cognitive impairment. Researchers suspect that these brain tumors, as well as other kinds of pediatric cancers outside of the brain, are caused by mutations in a gene called the N-Myc. They suspect an excess of N-Myc can alter the DNA structure in the brain's normal stem cells causing them to become cancerous.
"Until we better understand N-Myc and its role in medulloblastomas, clinicians will struggle against this terrible cancer and pediatric patients will continue to suffer," said Knoepfler, who also is an associate investigator with the Institute for Pediatric Regenerative Medicine at Shriners Hospital for Children-Northern California. "Thanks to support from St. Baldrick's, I'm working on the idea that N-Myc mutations cause cancerous stem cells to form and function like bad seeds that give rise to tumors. My hope is that our findings will help provide a foundation for developing a safe and effective future treatment."
The research involves what are called primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNETs), of which medulloblastomas are one type. Because N-Myc is implicated in all PNETs, including pediatric tumors of the brain, eye (retina) and kidney (Wilms tumor), Knoepfler's studies could have extremely important clinical implications.
Medulloblastomas, while rare, are responsible for up to 25 percent of all pediatric brain cancers, according to National Cancer Institute. About 500 cases around the nation are diagnosed annually. The tumors occur in a part of the brain (cerebellum) that controls balance and other complex motor functions.
Knoepfler specializes in regenerative medicine and cancer-related research. Some of his work focuses on understanding how stem cells are programmed and how that programming can go awry, thereby causing birth defects or cancer. He specifically has analyzed the epigenetic changes in stem cells -- the mechanisms, apart from mutations, by which environment influences gene expression and may lead to tumors or birth defects.
About the St. Baldrick's Foundation
The St. Baldrick's Foundation is a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives. The Foundation funds more in childhood cancer research grants than any organization except the U.S. government. Since the Foundation's first grants as an independent charity in 2005, St. Baldrick's has funded more than $101 million in childhood cancer research. For more information, please call 1.888.899.BALD or visit www.StBaldricks.org.
About UC Davis School of Medicine
UC Davis School of Medicine is among the nation's leading medical schools, recognized for its research and primary-care programs. The school offers fully accredited master's degree programs in public health and in informatics, and its combined M.D.-Ph.D. program is training the next generation of physician-scientists to conduct high-impact research and translate discoveries into better clinical care. Along with being a recognized leader in medical research, the school is committed to serving underserved communities and advancing rural health. For more information, visit UC Davis School of Medicine at medschool.ucdavis.edu.


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DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg believes that within a decade movie viewers will pay to download films and TV shows "by the inch you watch."
Katzenberg, who founded DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg, was referring to the size of a screen on which a user views a movie. The smaller the screen, the cheaper the cost.
He also said a first-release movies will have just three weekends in theaters before they become available by downloading, according to a report in Variety Magazine.
"A movie will come out and you will have 17 days, that's exactly three weekends, which is 95% of the revenue for 98% of movies. On the 18th day, these movies will be available everywhere ubiquitously and you will pay for the size. A movie screen will be $15. A 75-in. TV will be $4. A smartphone will be $1.99. That enterprise that will exist throughout the world, when that happens -- and it will happen -- it will reinvent the enterprise of movies," Katzenberg said.
Katzenberg made the comments at the Milken Global Conference's Entrepreneurial Leadership in the Corporate World panel in Beverly Hills.
The CEO of movie distributor Liberty Media Corp. agreed with Katzenberg. "Few networks are impacted (by technology) more than the media business," Liberty's CEO Greg Maffei said.
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BETHESDA, Md. - The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has announced a pair of new processes that it will use to choose the genomes of additional animals for cloning and sequencing. The new processes are needed because the Human Genome Project (HGP) has completed a draft sequence of the human genome and expects to complete a high quality finished human sequence by 2003. In addition, the HGP has completed the genome sequences of all the model organisms that it initially set out to do, and has already begun to sequence the genomes of three more important model organisms: the mouse, the rat and the zebrafish. The genomic sequence information has kindled a revolution in biomedical and biological research, leading scientists to propose large-scale genomic projects for even more animal models as they explore the mysteries of human health and disease.
"The NHGRI and its partners have built a tremendous capacity for sequencing genomic DNA and this is already leading us in new directions," said NHGRI Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. "As we approach the completion of the human sequence, we need to think about the best ways to continue to use this capacity to advance human health. Decades of biomedical research have demonstrated the tremendous benefits of studying animal biology and animal models of human disorders. Adding the power of genomic information about these systems should speed the day we will be able to treat many maladies much more effectively, delay their onset or even prevent them."
From the outset of the HGP, the institute and its partner agencies included as project goals the mapping and sequencing of the genomes of several other organisms in addition to the human. The additional organisms originally included the bacterium E. coli, the yeast S. cerevisiae, the roundworm C. elegans, the fruit fly D. melanogaster, and the laboratory mouse.
These new processes will expand the number of organisms for which scientists will have extensive genomic information. With these procedures, any investigator may propose a new organism for certain types of genomic analysis, including complete genome sequencing. Researchers already have informally suggested sequencing a wide range of animal genomes, including the chimpanzee, macaque, dog, frog, cat, cow, chicken, kangaroo, opossum, rabbit, earthworm, and even the house fly and the platypus, as well as the genomes of many fungi, protozoa, plants and bacteria.
Already, the amount of scientific demand exceeds even the very considerable sequencing and analysis capacity that the NHGRI and its partners have developed. The large-scale sequencing centers can currently completely sequence a mammalian genome in one to two years. How to best deploy these capacities among the many suggestions being made was the driving force for the development of the new processes.
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The white papers will be evaluated by a review committee that will function as a subcommittee of the institute's National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research (NACHGR). The committee, although similar to those that are part of the regular NIH peer review system, will be distinct. In part, this is to allow the new evaluation process to proceed very rapidly, requiring on the order of just two to three months to establish an organism's priority for sequencing. The new process will not involve the actual funding decisions about the sequencing centers themselves; those will continue to be based on the standard NIH peer review process. After a priority for sequencing an organism has been determined, sequencing will begin when enough capacity becomes available at one of the sequencing centers.
In addition to the new sequencing work, NHGRI has recently decided to expand the national capacity to construct bacterial artificial chromosome, or BAC, libraries up to as many as 20 organisms per year for at least the next few years. A BAC library provides a convenient resource for cloning all regions of the genome of an organism. To sequence the enormous human genome, for example, scientists fragmented human DNA into a size range that was convenient to work with and inserted those fragments into BACs where they were maintained and duplicated. These cloned fragments provided a ready supply of human DNA to be sequenced. A similar approach has been taken for the sequencing of several model organisms.
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The Ostrander lab seeks to identify genes that control both normal and abnormal growth. For many of these studies the group takes advantage of naturally occurring populations of dog, which show extraordinary variation across the 175 breeds recognized by U.S. breeders. Thus far, the research group has found genes that control variation in body size, leg length, skull shape and fur type. Many of these are genes were previously thought to be understood, but their complexity are only now beginning to be appreciated. To do these studies, the lab has sequenced the genome of several dog breeds, providing information about how breeds relate to one another, as well as how and when dogs were domesticated.
The studies involve collecting DNA samples, health histories and pedigrees from pet dogs. As dogs age and develop diseases that are of interest to humans - such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease - the research group works to identify the underlying genetic cause. With collaborators, they have observed that certain diseases occur with unusually high frequency in small numbers of breeds, suggesting strong genetic underpinnings. Thus far the group has played a role in finding genes for retinitis pigmentosum, epilepsy, kidney cancer, soft tissue sarcomas and squamous cell cancers. In each case, they have been able to contribute to both the veterinary and human literature, as the genes causing disease in dogs are often the same or related to ones causing disease in humans.
Her lab is also very interested in studying human prostate cancer. There currently is not a good naturally occurring animal model for this disorder. It is, however, one of the most common cancers in men, with about 29,400 men expected to die of the disease this year, and more than 230,000 men receiving a diagnosed. Researchers in the lab are working to find genes that make men more susceptible to prostate cancer, particularly aggressive forms of the disease. Finding these genes will allow early diagnosis and treatment. Also, once risk factors are known, genetic tests can be developed to help men, with their physicians, understand their disease risk. Finally, understanding what causes prostate cancer is a necessary first step in developing targeted treatments.
Dr. Elaine Ostrander is chief of the Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute of NIH. She also heads the Section of Comparative Genetics. Dr. Ostrander received her Ph.D. from the Oregon Health Sciences University, and did her postdoctoral training at Harvard. She then went to UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, where, with collaborators, she began the canine genome project, and built the canine linkage and radiation hybrid maps. She was at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington for 12 years, rising to the rank of member in the Human Biology and Clinical Research Divisions, and head of the Genetics Program. She moved to NIH in 2004.
Dr. Ostrander's lab at NIH works in both human and canine genetics. Her lab is using state of the art genomic approaches to identify prostate cancer susceptibility genes. She is best known, though, for her studies of the domestic dog as a well-phenotyped species with an extensively documented population structure that offers unique opportunities for solving fundamental biological problems. Her lab developed the primary genomic mapping resources for the canine genetics field, and applied them to studies of disease and morphology. For instance, she and her collaborators were the first to map genes for canine epilepsy, Addison's disease, kidney, squamous cell and histiocytic cancers. All are now candidates for comparable human disorders. In recent years, Ostrander's experiments have revealed how modifications in small numbers of genes produce the enormous differences in canine body shape and size that characterize the spectrum of breeds.
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In a recent episode of "Spartacus: Vengeance," the rebel leader's companion and confidante, Mira, felled a former ally with an arrow before she could run off with the rebel's loot. Katrina Law's aim wasn't as accurate when she first trained to use a bow.
"I almost took out the entire stunt team when I was learning how to shoot the bow and arrow," she said, laughing. "I accidentally hit the concrete background and the arrow shot back 50 feet and everybody behind me had to dive out of the way.
"It ricocheted back. I'm like, 'Oh, sorry about that, guys. Stay alert! Stay alert!"
The bow hasn't been the only weapon Law, who has played the freed slave Mira since the series first season ("Spartacus: Blood and Sand"), has gotten to use in the second season. Mira and other women are in the middle of the fight that former gladiator Spartacus and his rebels have taken to the Romans. She's taken up a sword against Romans, sliced open a prison guard with a knife and in "Sacramentum," airing at 9 p.m. March 9, Mira gets into heavy duty fistfight with a recently freed German slave.
"It's so much fun," self-professed tomboy Law told me during a phone interview. "Being able to be part of the gladiator boot camp was amazing, and then having weapons training. It's dream job."
And yes, her marksmanship with the bow and arrow even improved over the course of shooting the season, as does Mira's, which fans will see in upcoming episodes.
"I got much better. I remember one day on set the first AD bet me $5 that I couldn't actually shoot the camera or the cameraman," she said. (I assume they were stunt arrows and no one was hurt.) "I shot both of them but I never got my $5. I'm still bitter."
Law, who was raised in rural South Jersey in a suburb of Philadelphia but now lives in L.A. when she's not in New Zealand filming "Spartacus," and I talked about Mira's evolution throughout the series, how the loss of Andy Whitfield affected the tone on set and what Liam McIntyre has brought to the role of Spartacus. And then there's that moment when she takes her shirt off...
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Is it ever uncomfortable for you filming this show?
Yes, it gets very uncomfortable filming this show at times, but it's always in a very comical sort of way because I know what I signed up for. I know what the show is about, but there are times when you're just walking around and you're figuring out what the extras are doing in the background and sometimes you're a little shocked by what you see. But honestly, when you read the script you always expect to be shocked. The first time I watched the first episode, the brothel scene made me sit back in my chair and I was extremely uncomfortable. But I think that's the intended purpose of it, to show the humiliation and what the Romans are actually doing to these slaves and what life was like and why people wouldn't want to be slaves. So it works out.
Right. I mean it's all there for a purpose.
Yeah, it's only slightly perverted. [Laughs.] It's for the story. [Laughs.]
Mira changes a lot over the season.
Yeah, Mira is no longer confined to holding a vase and pouring wine and taking care of Spartacus.
She's almost the third leader it seems.
She is the voice of reason in Spartacus' ear and I think as the season goes on it's good to watch how Spartacus goes from just a slave who wants to be free, who want to find vengeance to a slave who becomes a rebel leader. I don't know of any leader out there who doesn't have people whispering in their ear one way or another, so Mira definitely helps to shape him along with the others, like Dan who plays Argon eventually Oenomaus and Crixus. Everybody plays a part in shaping Spartacus into the leader he's eventually going to become, so it's good to know that there is a female voice in the mix as well.
I like that she basically tells him, "I'm not staying in the background. I want to be involved in what happens here."
At the beginning she tries very hard to fight against the rebellion. She's trying to just run away and be free and potentially have the life that she wants, which is maybe a house and a family, potentially with Spartacus. As the series goes on she starts to realize that in order to gain her freedom she actually needs to fight for it. Once she realizes that, there is no way that she is going to sit in the background. She has a taste of freedom. She wants it and she's willing to do anything to keep it now.
This season gets quite physical for you. Did you have any bad injuries or anything?
I did walk out with plantar fasciitis and a very sore shoulder, but no, for the most part safety is a huge concern down in New Zealand. The stunt team makes sure that you're well protected and covered. It's just a such physical show, so you're going to walk out with nicks and scratches and a couple of bruises, but that's to be expected.
Tell me a little bit about playing in the mud all day for Episode 4.
That mud was just torture and the bane of my existence. The only thing that made it better was the fact that everybody kept telling us how amazing it looked. It was this sticky material and they put it on you and by the end it was just ripping off the hair of your body and it was just so uncomfortable. It just really put me into the mode of being a slave on the run and how uncomfortable that would be.
It was intimidating because we couldn't stand up in the caves and we had to duck down. It was filled with water, and I have a little bit of an issue with water. There was mud everywhere and our extras were so gorgeous because they had to stand in that water and be covered in mud for about 12 hours and nobody complained. They just kind of did their jobs, so kudos to them because that was beautiful. It was a beautiful set and very intimidating and very scary, but very realistic.
Liam said it was really, really cold mud.
Yeah, it was very cold. Getting changed for work every day made you cold because you usually went from a really warm comfy outfit to a piece of fabric.
Right, I think you guys always have the tiniest amount of clothes. With all the changes happening with Mira and everything, what advice, if you could give her advice, would you give her?
I think--give me one second. I'm sorry. I had to take my shirt off. That sounds terrible. [Laughs.] This interview is just making me hot. [Laughs.]
All right, back to the brothel scene! (Law was in the middle of a magazine photo shoot, thus the change of clothing.)
[Laughs.] OK. [Laughs.] If I was to advise Mira, I'd maybe tell her to slow it down. She moves so fast. She is so headstrong. She is so opinionated and just does everything on instinct. I think sometimes she forgets about caring for herself because she is so busy caring about others. I think that would probably be my advice to her, just slow it down, but I don't think she's going to.
You want to give us any tease about the rest of the season?
You're going to be floored by the ending.
Is Mira going to find happiness?
I think in a way she already has. I think her being able to fight for her freedom and fight for herself and suddenly having the ability to dream about what she can potentially have gives her a sense of happiness. She has never been able to do that, never had that luxury, so I think in her own way she is very happy.
Do you feel that there are any similarities between you and her?
At any given moment I do feel like Mira's 100 percent me and other times there is no resemblance. I am opinionated in real life and I am headstrong and I do move too fast and I do things to protect others and sometimes I forget about taking care of myself first, but then there are the opposite days where I'm No. 1 in my book. It just goes back and forth, but the funny thing is I do feel Mira really fights for her freedom and for what she thinks is right and I do that too.
I'm a Libra, so I think by nature I just kind of look at both sides of the story before I take my action, whereas Mira just sees one side of the story and goes after it. And when it comes to protecting family and friends and people and ideas that she believes in, I think she is very similar to me.
How difficult was it initially to work without Andy?
Yeah, you know it was difficult coming back to the show without Andy. It was a huge decision I think for everyone including Starz and the rest of the actors and I don't think that any of us, including Starz, would have been able to continue on without Andy's permission and blessing. I don't think there would be a single person working right now on the show.
That being said, the first day back was really bizarre. We have pictures of Andy and posters around the studio, so there is a daily reminder that he is not there, but it's also a daily reminder of why we're doing the show and who where doing this to honor.
It helped keep him in focus and to know that we would haven't a show without him. He was so good in Season 1 and brought such depth and and strength to the role. Had he not provided that nobody would have cared to watch the prequel or Season 2, so there's a humble thanks to Andy for what he's done for the show and for my life in particular.
It's always going to be difficult and the show is always going to be a little bittersweet for me even though I think it's an amazing show and I'm happy to go on, but the show is going to be bittersweet.
How was it working with Liam and how do you think that he handled the incredibly difficult situation?
I don't know how Liam could have handled it more graciously than he did. He was so humble. He was very genuine and real to the situation. There was no part of him that was trying to act like he was too sympathetic or too excited about it and he really kept Andy in mind. The honor that he did to the work by remembering all the work that Andy did was beautiful to watch. Liam himself is just a gracious, gorgeous person and so kind and sweet and he just came there with open arms and willing to take on everything. I can't imagine anybody else taking over the role of Spartacus. Liam is kind of the perfect person.
Would you like to say anything in closing?
I just wanted to say thank you so much to the fans for supporting us for everything that we've gone through before coming back. And thank you to Andy and his family for their support.
Well thank you very much for your time. Get your shirt back on.
[Laughs.] Don't take away all my fun! [Laughs.] Have a good day.


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West 2007
West 2007
Held at Portland State University in gorgeous Portland, Oregon on October 20th 2007.
In reality this was a trial run for the PostgreSQL conference series. We had know idea the success it would bring, or how many people would show up. It truly was the launching point for this now very successful conference series. West 2007 in a single day, cost the PostgreSQL community zero dollars, but raised over 5000.00 USD. It brought together 70 PostgreSQL people and allowed them all to share ideas, learn and generally just enjoy PostgreSQL.


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There's something happening on the electric side of the motorcycle industry, but no one is talking publicly about it. It's a fragile idea, and it feels like even mentioning it could jeopardize its very existence. Because of this, I've wrestled with putting words down to discuss the topic, not wanting to be the person to spoil the whole thing.
However, lately so many influential people involved with electric motorcycles have independently brought up the subject with me that this discussion is not only becoming unavoidable, but perhaps airing the idea out in public will facilitate some sort of greater dialogue between the different parties. The concept that I'm referring to is of course consolidation.


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miro(dark) color scheme and very basic fvwm (after 2 years usage of evilwm).
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@w0ng, really nice .Xresources colors, using them as default now, thanks.
Hey everyone. Finally got something that feels worth showing off! Info is in the dotfile repo in my sig.
Also, Shunryuu, what's that music player in your second shot?
What is your ls options for having the elapsed time since last modification of a file? (It's on the bottom left corner of the screen)
What is your ls options for having the elapsed time since last modification of a file? (It's on the bottom left corner of the screen)
ls++ by trapd00r
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GSL Season Finals Live (fake: I actually watch it fullscreen)
Dina and Ubuntu Fonts
Conkeror web browser
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Wallpaper is an unused IntelliStar ski background. Font is -*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*.
1-Crawl 2-Cnfg 3-ATF 4-Exit ?
nice colors!!
Great stump!!
I will try your conkeror stylesheet!!
Cult Classic Dwm!!!
Ratpoison-git, LxpanelX, Conkeror + Dark-theme by @scottjad , Mocp ,Thunar
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Okay, my desktop changed, I switched over to a darker theme I just created. It's xfce with a background Interfacelift.com
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@scottfail, what font is that? What's up, you weasly, theiving bastard. (inside joke) Sorry, I couldn't resist. Good to see you. Scott is the creator of the lovely Tamsyn Font, if you didn't know. Nice shot, btw!


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text: On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Jeff Layton wrote: > > > > I'm not trying to start a flame war, and I'm really curious. I suggest > > that you're starting the flame war with your attacking tone and lack of > > any facts (or even one example) backing up your statements. Just saying > > "it depends" doesn't help the rest of us learn. When is Gigabit better? > > Where's RGB when you need him? :) I think enough people have > pointed out that your statement is wrong. Have you looked in the > beowulf archives? How about a googling? God, you don't need me -- your answer below was better than anything I could do...except maybe saying "children, children, children, play nice on the list". Seriously, everybody remember that NOBODY is flaming and no purpose is served by even introducing the term. This is a serious, low noise list, these are modestly complex issues, and (as Jeff's example fairly clearly shows) you CAN'T RELY on a theoretical understanding alone to predict performance, so fighting over whether latency or bandwidth is more important, especially without a particular application in hand for context, is pretty useless. Understand them is more useful to help explain performance a posteriori observed on YOUR CODE, or to help you identify parts you CAN'T explain and try to figure them out. As several people have already answered, parallel performance can be dominated by latency (lots of little messages), bandwidth (fewer BIG messages) or, quite often, neither one! Some tasks just don't do a lot of communicating. Others communicate a fair bit, but are cleverly organized. One whole point of parallel program design is to minimize delays due to communications, and sometimes one can actually succeed. In both of Jeff's more puzzling results below, perhaps the application does a lot of the communications with DMA in approximate parallel with the application, so the messaging bandwidth is at least partially hidden from the application thread itself. Or something else may be going on. All one should >>really<< learn is that Jeff would have been stupid to buy a more expensive network for a marginal cost of (say) $800/node that had twice the nominal bandwidth and a fraction of the expected latency if in fact his application would show little or no speedup with the faster network. However, Jeff is not stupid, Jeff is smart, Jeff tested and prototyped his application(s) on various candidate networks, measured relative speeds, computed marginal costs, and selected the network that let him do the most work for the least money. Jeff deserves a raise, praise, and to be emulated! Jeff da Man! This is a totally flame-free lesson on cluster design, and not just on networking. AssUMe makes an Ass outa U and Me. YMMV. Try before you buy. The only meaningful benchmark is YOUR APPLICATION. The only goal is to MAXIMIZE WORK DONE PER DOLLAR SPENT (with a setup that doesn't drive you nuts handling maintenance and admin). And make your granting agency happy, have really sexy looking nodes, give your bid-buddy a lot of business and so forth, of course...the usual;-) This doesn't mean you shouldn't learn all about latency, bandwidth, bottlenecks and so forth -- au contraire! -- only that you should take them with a grain of salt and use them to help understand measured performance with an eye to improving it (or your code) and be very chary/wary about prediction. Jeff da Man is even doing THIS below. Now, peace... rgb > > > > In my experience the computation portion of a Beowulf will always > > require low latencies for optimal performance. > > OK. We have 3 MPI applications. Two are internally written and > one is from NASA. We have extensively tested these 3 codes with > many varying data sets on all kinds of HPC equipment (Cray's, > SGI Origin's, SP's, clusters, etc.). However, I'll focus on clusters > (beowulf's in particular). > We have tested on equipment with Myrinet, GigE, and FastE. The > nodes were the same and only the network changed along with > some tuning to get the best performance out of each. Here's what > we have found: > > Code 1 - First internal code. Running on Myrinet compared to GigE > only gives you about 20% better wall-clock time for some cases. For > other cases, Myrinet is slower than GigE (still trying to explain that > one :). Myrinet is about twice as fast as FastE. > > Observations - We think this code is more constrained by latency > than bandwidth when you compare Myrinet and GigE. We have > looked at the message sizes and they are fairly small (tiny). This > pushes this code down the bandwidth/mesage size curve almost > to the point where you measure latency. So latency appears to be > a driver for this code. Also, not much overlapping communication/ > computation in this code. > > Code 2 - Second internal code. Running on Myrinet compared to > GigE is only about 3% faster for just about all cases. Myrinet is > about twice as fast as FastE. > > Observations - Although we should see better performance with > Myrinet compared to GigE due to better bandwidth, we think this > code is limited by bandwidth instead of latency. The message sizes > for this code are very large, pushing the code way up the bandwidth/ > message size curve. We're still working on identifying all of the > bottlenecks, but from a networking standpoint, this is what we > have concluded so far. Also, not much overlapping communication/ > computation in this code. > > Code 3 - NASA code. This code only runs about 2-3% faster on > GigE and Myrinet compared to FastE. The code appears to be well > thought out with respect to overlapping communication/computation. > > Obsverations - This code appears not to be constrained by either > latency nor bandwidth. > > Disclaimer - There are lots of things I ignored in this simple analysis > such as memory bandwith, etc. The data to support these observations > also came from testing on other systems and on testing with other > types of networking (Quadrics, Scali, etc.). All of the numbers are > wall-clock times. > > With these general rules of thumb (we always test before we > buy) and knowing the mix between the codes, we do a price/performance > to configure the best system. Right now (and this is subject to change), > GigE provides better price/performance for our code mix. > Of course, this also depends on what GigE equipment we're talking > about. I think Mark has pointed out in the past, as well as others, that > not all GigE equipment is created equal (this is also generally true for > FastE as well). However, for the GigE equipment we have tested on > and also have in production we have found GigE is the way to go for > us for our mix of codes. > > > > On the other hand, when I have applications that need to transfer a lot > > of data as well, I find that having two networks is the way to go. One > > for control and messaging traffic (low latency - Myrinet) and one for > > data traffic (high throughput - Gigabit). > > What kinds of applications? > So you run control and MPI messsage traffic over Myrinet and > NFS over GigE? Myrinet has better bandwidth than GigE, so > it appears that if data transfer is important I would switch NFS > to Myrinet and MPI traffic to GigE (unless of course you see a > big difference in performance). If you do see a big difference in > performance, what about using two Myrinet networks (trying to > get you some sales Patrick! :)? > If latency is that important, have you tried Quadrics? In our > experience it has lower latencies than Myrinet. What MPI > implementations have you tried? Do you run 1 ppn with single > CPUs, or 1 ppn with SMP nodes, or 2 ppn with SMP nodes, > or something else? All of things can have a large impact on > performance. > > > > If you would rather take it off list, then feel free to email me > > directly, but I would really like to know because I can't think of one > > example that works. > > I hope my response answered your question. Anybody care to > present another example where bandwidth is more important than > latency? Greg? Mark? RGB? Doug? Don? > > > Jeff > > > > -- > > Dr. Jeff Layton > Senior Engineer > Lockheed-Martin Aeronautical Company - Marietta > Aerodynamics & CFD > > "Is it possible to overclock a cattle prod?" - Irv Mullins > > This email may contain confidential information. If you have received this > email in error, please delete it immediately, and inform me of the mistake by > return email. Any form of reproduction, or further dissemination of this > email is strictly prohibited. Also, please note that opinions expressed in > this email are those of the author, and are not necessarily those of the > Lockheed-Martin Corporation. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Robert G. 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