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STL 2-DIGIT RESULT TODAY March 5, 2019 PCSO Lotto Result Today STL 2-Digit Result March 5, 2019. STL 2-DIGIT RESULT – The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office released the official result of the STL 2-Digit draw, March 5, 2019.
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From 8 December until 10 March, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, the museum extends the hours for visiting the exhibitions 'Believe not thine eyes.' Trompe l'oeil in Art and Piero della Francesca. Monarch of Painting from 18.15 until 21.00. Entrance tickets can be purchased from 18.00 until 20.30 at the Small Hermitage ticket office on the day of the visit and are valid from 18.15 until 21.00 on the purchase day. The entrance ticket entitles one to visit only two above mentioned exhibitions. The ticket price is 300 RUB (without concessions).INFORMATION FOR VISITORS
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A 36-year-old man from Putnam County has been identified as the special education teacher found dead inside a bathroom stall at a school in New York City late last week.
Matthew Azimi died of an apparent heroin overdose at Public School X811 on Longfellow Avenue in the Foxhurst section of the Bronx on Thursday afternoon, Nov. 30, according to multiple reports.
Azimi, who grew up in Carmel Hamlet, graduated in 2008 from Purchase College where he received his Bachelor's degree in Literature. He then earned a Master's in Education and Special Education from Long Island University.
He joined PS X811 in September 2010 after working as a teaching assistant at Mount Pleasant Blythdale UFDS.
Azimi lived in New York City at the time of his death.
Visitation will be Monday, Dec. 4 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Tuesday, Dec. 5 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and again from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Beecher Funeral Home, 1 Putnam Ave. in Brewster.
Funeral services will be Wednesday, Dec. 6 at 10 a.m. at St. Lawrence O'Toole Church at 31 Prospect St. in Brewster with Rev. Richard Gill officiating.
Interment will be at St. Lawrence O'Toole Cemetery on Turk Hill Road in Brewster.
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If you would like to include the college in your will, you may want to designate your gift to be used immediately or you may want to endow the funds. When funds are endowed, the principal of the gift remains entact in perpetuity. A percentage of the interest earned on the endowment is paid to the donor's designated fund on an annual basis.
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At Southern Miss, you can always be at the top of your game. Southern Miss, a member of Conference USA, hosts 16 athletic teams for both men and women in 11 sports. Whether in the District or at the Pete, Golden Eagle fans have fun and enjoy endless athletic events with friends and family.
Game Day
From football at The Rock to baseball at the Pete or basketball at the Greenhouse, the Golden Eagles always provide fans with an amazing game day experience. The Golden Eagle Football team has played in 12 bowl games in the last 13 years, and who can forget the baseball team's 2009 super-regional victory and trip to the College World Series.
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HE was an extraordinary man whose attention to detail helped protect sailors on their voyages for decades.
And almost three centuries after he was born in Charlbury, a blue plaque will be unveiled to honour Larcum Kendall.
Born in September 1721, the watchmaker was commissioned by the Board of Longitude in 1765 to copy a marine clock design pioneered by John Harrison and create a more cost effective version.
The result was one of world's first working chronometers – very accurate clocks used by ships at sea for navigation.
The plaque will be put up in the spot closest to where the cottage he grew up in once stood.
Charlbury Society chairman Simon Walker said the town was proud of Mr Kendall.
He said: "It is a really good thing for us to get this plaque. Before the chronometer was taken around the world by Captain [James] Cook and [Vice Admiral William] Bligh, sailors did not have a way of determining where they were accurately.
"There were some awful tragedies because of it.
"Harrison can take credit for the design, but the level of safety was greatly moved on by Kendall."
Mr Kendall created the K1 chronometer in 1769 and he was even praised by Mr Harrison's son, William, who said the watch worked better than the original.
In 1772 it was sent for trials with the famous Captain James Cook, and worked so well he dubbed it his "trusty friend the watch".
There would be two more versions of it, known as the K2 and K3, which eventually became more cost effective. The K1 originally sold for about £450, but the K3 would eventually sell for £100.
Oxfordshire Blue Plaque Board member Eda Forbes said the unveiling would be unusual because Mr Kendall's home no longer exists.
And because it is going above an archway, next to the post office, it will not be unveiled by curtain.
She said: "It will go up there after the ceremony, so that is quite rare for us.
"Kendall was quite an extraordinary man, who grew up in a landlocked place like Charlbury but went on to produce something that would be used in great voyages.
"He was a significant figure with an exciting story."
The blue plaque will be unveiled on Saturday, May 3, at 11.30am, in the garden of Charlbury Museum, in Market Street.
Jonathan Betts, senior curator in horology at the Royal Observatory Museum, Greenwich, and master of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, will speak at the ceremony.


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Turning Difficult Employees Around
"I'm sick of it! They won't do their job! Why can't they get it? I'm so tired of having to depend on them in order for me to make money!"
This was me not all that long ago. I was angry, irritated and frustrated that my people were grumpy, negative, gossiping and unproductive. What was the matter with them? Then all of a sudden it hit me...this included me. I was complaining about them, and I was the leader. I realized that it wasn't up to them whether or not I made money - it was up to me. The same goes for any leader.
Now that doesn't mean that, as a leader, you should take the world by force and mow down anyone who gets in your way. It means you should stop blaming everyone else for what's happening and realize that you are completely in charge of how things turn out. The way to correct what's not happening with your employees is to improve the way you're leading them.
As a leader, I realized that my success was up to me and was going to be determined by my ability to lead my people correctly; by how I chose to see them; and by proper understanding of and communication with the contrary ones.
How do you turn difficult people around?
The most important guideline for leaders is to look at yourself first. Have you kept your word? Are you doing everything you can so the business will be everything you told them it would be? Are you-doing a great orientation during which you tell a new hire what to expect from the position, you and the company? Do new hires know why you chose them for the position?
Statistics prove people need to feel appreciated. They need to be in on things, and they need to know that someone really cares about their future and getting them to their goals. They want to have fun at work, and they need flexibility. If your business isn't delivering on these things, I've found that difficult people are the result.
How's your training program?
Do you tell employees how to do something, show them how, do it with them and then let them go solo? When this process is followed, confidence is the result.
The question isn't, "Are you teaching?" The question is, "Are they learning?" You can only call yourself a leader if others are following you with success. Praise for tiny accomplishments, not just big ones. Give one or two things to learn rather than overwhelming with too much. This takes a bit longer, but you'll train far less often this way, and you'll end up with incredibly productive, happy people.
Is the atmosphere of your business conducive to productive employees or difficult ones?
Understand that motivation is a must, but that it comes from within. You, as the leader, need to provide opportunities for motivation (books, tapes, lunch with owner, etc.). Most importantly, though, you must train, hold employees accountable, and reward on an ongoing basis. If all three elements aren't present, difficulty will result.
When proper training takes place, a person believes the job can be done, and has the confidence to do it. When there is accountability, you have a system for checking so that you can head off insecurities and, therefore, eliminate complaints if a task isn't being done. Give help, and communication stays open. And when rewards are available (praise, money, recognition, etc.), my experience has been that the difficult person fades and a productive one appears.
Donna Krech is co-founder and CEO of Victory Management Inc., a corporation that owns and licenses women's fitness clubs, weight-management centers and natural-food outlets across the Midwest.
Your Choices
You have four choices when employees get difficult. But remember that each one gives you a different outcome, so choose carefully.
1. Do nothing but complain (which will lower morale and productivity).
2. Walk away, if it's just getting worse.
3. Change your attitude about how you see employees (necessary for step four).
4. Change your behavior when dealing with them.
Five Simple Steps
In order to understand and communicate, you have to:
1. Blend
The Plan
The following is a step-by-step plan for being a leader who gets the most from employees.
1. Look at you first.


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Morton Benjamin Crane
The Crane family is saddened by the loss of another member of "The Greatest Generation". After a slow decline, Morton passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family, on Saturday, October 22, 2011. He was 97.
Morton was born in New York on June 28, 1914, and was raised in Floral Park, New York. After graduating High School, he continued his education at the University of Delaware. It was there that he met the love of his life, Alberta Smith.
Mort served in the U. S. Army during WWII. He was stationed in Hawaii during the attack on Pearl Harbor and in February, 1945 was in Iwo Jima. After the War, he and Alberta settled in California. The first house he built was in La Canada in the 1950's. A few years later, nearby, he built a second house, where he and Alberta raised their two sons.
After retiring from the Quisenberry Insurance Agency in 1979, he continued to be an active member of the Rotary Club of North Hollywood, where he served as Treasurer for several years.
Mort is survived by his two sons and daughters-in-law, Steve & Karen Crane, and Robert & Christine Crane, four grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.
The Crane family would like to express our gratitude to Flora and Victoria, Mort's caregivers, for their years of dedication and service, but mostly for their love and friendship.
Family and Friends will gather at 5310 La Forest Drive in La Canada, on Saturday, November 12, from 1 to 3 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations to the American Cancer Society would be appreciated.


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Reading 1: The Founding Vision--A "Garden of Graves"
Bostonians' dissatisfaction with the burial grounds of their city led the Massachusetts General Court, in 1810, to grant the town authority to regulate burials more closely. The following year, the town ordered the disinterment of many remains in old graves to reclaim space for future burials. This was not an uncommon practice in cities at that time. However, many Bostonians saw the act as a desecration of the memory of their ancestors and looked for other solutions to the problem.
The idea of a burial ground outside Boston had been discussed informally for several years, but Dr. Jacob Bigelow, a Boston physician and Harvard professor, was the first to take action. In 1825 he called a meeting of prominent Bostonians to explore the concept of a rural cemetery, a place beyond the city limits composed of burial lots interspersed with trees, shrubs, and flowers. The rural cemetery was to be a place for the living, as well as the dead, where family values and the endurance of the family would be celebrated, and nature would provide comfort and inspiration. It would be designed to be an example of the best in landscape and artistic taste.
In 1831, a committee of the newly formed Massachusetts Horticultural Society formally undertook the venture of founding the cemetery, using a 72-acre piece of property four miles west of Boston on the Watertown-Cambridge line. The Watertown family, who owned the land for decades, had cleared and farmed level areas nearby but allowed the trees of the rugged area to grow to maturity. Another attractive feature was that the topography of the land was varied; it included a network of ponds and wetlands and a mature forest of native pines, oaks, and beeches that created a place of special rural beauty. The spot was a popular retreat for Harvard College students and local residents. The students had nicknamed it "Sweet Auburn" after a town popularized in a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village." This poetic nickname inspired the name for the tallest hill at the siteMount Auburnand gave the cemetery its name as well.
The Mount Auburn Cemetery was formally dedicated on September 24, 1831. More than 2,000 people journeyed out from Boston on foot and by carriage to meet in a deep dell, a natural amphitheater, at the cemetery for the consecration ceremony. Joseph Story, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, spoke at the ceremony:
A rural Cemetery seems to combine in itself all the advantages, which can be proposed to gratify human feelings, or tranquilize human fears,...And what spot can be more appropriate than this, for such a purpose? Nature seems to point it out...as the favorite retirement for the dead. There are around us all the varied features of her beauty and grandeurthe forest-crowned height;...the grassy glade; and the silent grove. Here are the lofty oak, the beech,...the rustling pine, and the drooping willow;the tree, that sheds its pale leaves with every autumn, a fit emblem of our own transitory bloom; and the evergreen, with its perennial shoots, instructing us, that "the wintry blast of death kills not the buds of virtue".... All around us there breathes a solemn calm, as if we were in the bosom of a wilderness, broken only by the breeze as it murmurs through the tops of the forest, or by the notes of the warbler pouring forth his matin or his evening song.The Boston Courier newspaper, reporting on the dedication of Mount Auburn, remarked, "[Mount Auburn] has now become holy ground and...will soon be a place of more general resort, both for ourselves and for strangers, than any other spot in the vicinity...."
Questions for Reading 1
1. Who started Mount Auburn Cemetery? When? How was its founding celebrated?
2. Where was the new cemetery located?
3. What did Joseph Story praise about the site? What do you think he meant when he said, "We stand, as it were, upon the borders of two worlds"?
Reading 1 was compiled from Jacob Bigelow, A History of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1860); Kenneth T. Jackson and Camilo J. Vergara, Silent Cities: The Evolution of the American Cemetery (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1989); Blanche Linden-Ward, Silent City on a Hill: Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1989); David Charles Sloane, The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991); and David Stannard, ed., Death in America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1975).
¹ Jacob Bigelow, A History of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn (Boston: James Munroe and Co., 1860).
¹ Jacob Bigelow, A History of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn (Boston: James Munroe and Co., 1860).


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The Sapphires sparkles at film awards
The Sapphires' march to dominance at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards has started with five craft awards.
Director Wayne Blair's comic musical, about an indigenous all-girl singing group in the 1960s, has won best cinematography, editing, sound, production design and costume design at the industry awards in Sydney.
The event - which sits between Sunday's AACTA awards for international films in Los Angeles and Wednesday's main ceremony for Australian films - covered the first prizes for feature films and television shows, as well as shorts and documentaries.
The Sapphires, which is favoured to win best film and direction and possibly three acting prizes on Wednesday, won five behind-the-scenes awards from six nominations, including Melinda Doring for best production design and Tess Schofield for best costume design.
"Oh my god, this is so cool," said Warwick Thornton, who won best cinematography for the film, having previously won best direction and original screenplay for his own film, Samson & Delilah, when the awards were the called the AFIs three years ago.
The Sapphires missed out on the award for best visual effects, which went to the little-seen Finnish-Australian sci-fi comedy Iron Sky, about a Nazi strike on the earth from the dark side of the moon.
Best feature-length documentary at the awards, hosted by Oscar-winning animator Adam Elliot, went to Storm Surfers 3D, which showed surfers Tom Carroll and Ross Clark-Jones battling huge waves and their own advancing years.
In the television categories, actor-writer Adam Zwar and producer Nicole Minchin had a double win for shows on ABC1.
Agony Aunts, in which comics and television personalities provide life advice, won best light-entertainment television series, while Lowdown, about a hapless journalist, won best comedy series.
The award for best children's television series went to The Adventures of Figaro Pho (ABC3).
Best documentary series was SBS's Go Back To Where You Came From, which took ordinary people (and later celebrities) on a reverse immigrant journey.
Producer Rick McPhee thanked the network "for having the courage to commission something so risky".
Best short film was Julian, Matthew Moore's comic look at a nine-year-old Julian Assange.
The Raymond Longford Award for lifetime achievement went to Al Clark, the prolific producer and executive producer of such films as The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Chopper, Red Hill, Blessed and The Book of Revelation. His work was praised via video by Richard Branson, Guy Pearce, Joel Edgerton and Miranda Otto, among others.
"It's wonderful that something like this could happen to someone who doesn't even have a mobile phone," Clark said, adding that filmmaking had given him a sense of belonging.
Clark said he had tried to champion originality and imagination during his career. "It is a business, but it's also an art and, at their best, filmmakers are artists."
The event's best line went to Adam Elliot. After acknowledging that director Stefan Elliott and Magda Szubanski had come out in the past year, the animator who famously referred to his boyfriend when he accepted his 2004 Oscar for Harvie Krumpet said he was "going back into the closet".
"It's been very overrated and I haven't been invited to a single orgy," he said.
Garry Maddox is a Senior Writer for The Sydney Morning Herald.


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You just can't keep a good cannibal down.
More than three decades after he first murdered and chomped his way to pop culture infamy, sophisticated serial murderer Hannibal Lecter is back, alive and well-fed. And although he has gone from the big screen to the small screen, his twisted appetites have not diminished during his absence.
Introduced in a series of bestselling novels by Thomas Harris that gave birth to a hit film franchise, which included the Oscar-winning "Silence of the Lambs," Lecter's latest incarnation is "Hannibal," a dark drama premiering Thursday on NBC.
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The series is a prequel to the novels and films, positioning him as a psychiatrist who works for the FBI. He is recruited to help a troubled but gifted criminal profiler, Will Graham (Hugh Dancy), who has the ability to see inside the minds of serial killers. Lecter, however, has his own personal — and likely demented — agenda for the unwitting Graham.
Mads Mikkelsen ("Casino Royale") steps into the Lecter apron previously worn by Brian Cox ("Manhunter") and Anthony Hopkins, who won an Oscar for his portrayal. Helming the series is executive producer Bryan Fuller ("Pushing Daisies," "Heroes").
NBC, which has had a roller-coaster season and could use a new hit, is banking that Lecter has aged like a fine Chianti, the wine he famously consumed along with a serving of fava beans as he devoured the liver of one of his victims.
"We like making as much noise as possible, and we loved the idea of Hannibal as a series," said Jennifer Salke, president of NBC Entertainment. She was particularly excited about Fuller's involvement: "We love him as a visionary and a creator, and we're always behind what he's excited about. When he wanted to tackle Hannibal, we loved the idea. We think it's a little sleeper."
But times have changed since Lecter first arrived on the terror scene. The series is debuting just a few months after network executives came under fire as they tried to justify the flood of escalating violence on-screen in shows such as "Criminal Minds," "Dexter" and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" that critics maintained were glorifications or even more troubling, inspirations for real-world killings. Those charges came in the wake of horrific mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut that claimed numerous young lives.
NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt told reporters in January that although "Hannibal" would obviously be gruesome and gory, no killings would be depicted on-screen. Yet in the first five minutes of the first episode, a couple is shown being gunned down in their home, with blood spurting from torsos and necks in slow motion (the perspective is of Graham's re-imagining how the real killer committed the crime). Later, throats of two women are graphically slashed. In a later episode, a man is shot point-blank in the head, blood spraying onto a person standing nearby.
And that's not counting the display of murder victims, including women impaled on deer antlers and a couple displayed following their murder with the flesh skinned from their backs and held up with fish hooks and string like angel wings.
"Hannibal" is also premiering in the shadow of "The Following," Fox's drama that features a gleefully evil serial killer very much in the mode of Lecter — brilliant professor Joe Carroll (James Purefoy), who is so charismatic that he attracts a throng of followers eager to do his diabolical bidding, especially when it comes to wrecking the life of his target, former FBI agent Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon). Despite weekly depictions of graphic violence in which innocents are slashed, burned, maimed, gutted and shot at close range with spear guns, "The Following," which also puts Carroll's young son in peril, has attracted a solid viewership and will likely be renewed for next season.
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Fuller is aware that "Hannibal" may trigger concern about its extreme content, and said his intent was to pay tribute to the Lecter legacy, calling it a "hybridization of the crime thriller and the horror movie." He said he wanted to particularly explore the personality disorders of Graham, and the relationship between him and Lecter, "two crazy men who need each other to understand each other."
Graphic violence and images are a necessary part of that dynamic, he said.
"It's about honoring the genre and respecting the source," Fuller said. "Those familiar with 'Silence of the Lambs' will have a certain expectation to the material, and at a certain point we have to deliver those ingredients. 'Silence of the Lambs' was beautiful and scary, but it was also graphic. We don't want to offend anyone, but this is an adult content show."
Added Salke, "After all, the show is called 'Hannibal.'"
Dancy said he did not feel the violence was gratuitous: "I have no interest in violence for the sake of it or for the lack of other ideas. There has to be imagination, purpose and circumstance. The violence Graham sees illustrates the weight that is on his shoulders, the murkiness of his world."
Mikkelsen said he is not approaching the character of Lecter as a man who specializes in torture and mayhem: "It's as close as you can be to Satan, but he doesn't see it that way. He enjoys the beauty of what he is doing."
While the debate over gun control rages on in Washington, the outcry over violence in popular culture that followed the Colorado and Connecticut shootings appears to have quieted down. There's been no major criticism or protest of the violence in "The Following."
Said Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, a psychotherapist who has written about the effects of TV violence: "I believe there's no outcry because audiences have really become desensitized to it, with shows like 'The Walking Dead' and others. If it bothered people, they wouldn't watch it. So it will continue."
Where: NBC
When: 10 p.m. Thursday
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Wisconsin has a relatively small federal workforce for its population. A higher than average retired military population has made the Veterans Health Administration the largest single federal employer in the state, with nearly 4,800 employees. Most of the DoD's small workforce in the state is administered by the U.S. Army. Several USDA agencies make up most of the remainder of Wisconsin's federal workforce.
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Got a massive cactus for $2 from a garage sale November 2011.
This cactus is about 7 feet tall and looks ominous at night.
Despite its didgy base which seems to be getting thinner this cactus just keeps getting taller and taller.
Definatly looking healthy at the top but the base is still really rotten looking. Will have to get a photo of it.
Seems to be growing, hard to tell, but i think its added several inches to each of its top horns.


text: On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Ashley Pittman wrote: > On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 20:54 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: >> >> By the way, if you really can't afford for things to "go away" for >> 1/250th of a second very often, I have horrible news for you: NO >> COMPUTER WILL WORK FOR YOU. > > To a large extent you are actually correct, this is one of the reasons > why building "large" clusters is hard. If you just plug them together > and install $mpi the performance will suck for this very reason. > > The thing to remember is "noise" or "jitter" probably doesn't affect > many people, it's effects become noticeable as job size (not cluster > size) increases and the effects are non-linear. You can probably run a > 128 node cluster and not notice it at all, beyond this scale however and > time spent turning things off it time well spent. In fact in my > experience noise becomes significant not just with size but as as square > of size. Note also (agreeing with you, and Greg, and H on) that it is "large clusters running certain kinds of parallel code". In particular synchronous code with lots of communications barriers. The point is that if you are running a parallel computation with a barrier (a point where all computation ceases on ALL nodes until a communication process completes that itself involves all nodes) then blocking a single node while it handles a random interrupt(ion) effectively blocks the entire computation. Part of the problem is the "random" bit. Computers have to deal with a lot of asynchronous stuff as this or that wakes up and needs attention. The timer interrupt, network interrupts, disk interrupts, and yeah, BIOSen clamoring for attention whenever THEY want to be serviced. Some of these things are "elective" in the sense that the kernel has some say on when they get scheduled, and in a large parallel computation the kernel states CAN self-organize into a partially synchronous state of operation. By synchronous I mean that if one could arrange it so that all the nodes were clock synchronized to microseconds and could agree to spend the SAME fraction of every second doing ALL housekeeping, even a very large cluster would get the use of that whole second less the fraction required by housekeeping less a bit of e.g. context switch latency and other overhead. If all nodes are running a synchronous parallel task that runs from the barrier in about the same amount of time doing about the same amount of work with the same systems calls in the same order, then everything "meshes", and if they all enter a wait state (give back the CPU) at about the same time, the kernel will usually wake up and do its cumulated lower-half handler work and so on synchronously as well and life is good. But randomness -- asynchronicity -- then is the devil, as it is nonlinearly amplified as soon as it lifts out of the noise in a truly large synchronous computation. Embarrassingly parallel applications, on the other hand, don't care. Even real parallel applications that are coarse grained and aren't particularly synchronous don't care "much" and will scale way out there even with a modest amount of background asynchronous noise. So Don B., does Scyld "solve" this problem by running the node kernels synchronously, so they all use the same jiffy-window to do housekeeping (obviously it at least partially solves it by not running anything unnecessary in terms of housekeeping, but "anybody" can do that:-)? > Note that it's not just the "OS" fluff which causes problems and turning > things off doesn't get you anything like 100% of the way there, some > deamons have to run (your job scheduler) so all you can do it tune them > or re-code them to use less CPU and some kernel versions are pretty bad, > one version of Red-Hat was effectively un-usable on clusters because of > kscand. The problem actually predates clusters -- it is a very old problem with LANs in general, especially TCP/IP/ethernet LANs. Back in the old days of vampire taps and coaxial cables, all network traffic ran on either a daisy chain ethernet or through a "hub". Every packet from every machine was seen by every other machine on the LAN segment. Although the networks were typically segmented at the ethernet level, they were often not segmented at the the TCP/IP level as routers were expensive and difficult to manage. The network interface of one's machine was therefore effectively on a large flat TCP/IP network one that could literally span several cities or states. In a few cases (e.g. decnet) it could span the nation!. This meant that there could be hundreds or even thousands of machines that saw every packet produced by every other machine on the LAN, possibly after a few ethernet bridge hops. This made conditions ripe for what used to be called a "packet storm" (a term that has been subverted as the name and trademark of a company, I see, but alas there is no wikipedia article on same and even googled definitions seem scarce, so it is apparently on its way to being a forgotten concept). A packet storm occurred because the kernel has to examine every packet that comes in to its network interface to decide whether or not it is for it. Back in those days, computers were slow and a significant fraction of the total CPU power of your computer could easily be spent handling packets intended for the other systems on your LAN if the LAN was heavily loaded. This created a positive feedback loop in delay -- if one passed a critical threshold in network load, systems would try to send out packets, find the line busy, and enter the ethernet "random delay" phase. In the meantime, the kernel would have new packets appearing that it had to deal with -- the line was busy. In the meantime, more packets would be backing up. Very quickly the shared line -- which was designed to be efficient for BURSTY short messages, not saturation -- would wedge, just like a freeway in rush hour, and messages would start taking seconds instead of milliseconds to deliver. The CPU load managing the collisions, retransmissions, and examinations of saturation-load packet traffic would skyrocket. System performance would plummet even on systems not really using the network at the time. NFS delays, etc, would cause user processes to hang. Basically an entire LAN could effectively "crash", although if there weren't timing problems adding to the collision problem (there usually were, because nobody liked the restriction on the radius of the wired LAN and daisy chain networks didn't get retimed except at expensive bridges) in principle it COULD sort itself all out eventually. The moral of the story being that everything consisting of many parts that must move together has scaling limits of sorts, and when it leaves the regime of linear slow-growth scaling and enters the region where nonlinear amplification of random noise occurs, bad things will surely happen. Truthfully, just suppressing sources of randomness won't do it when one enters the REALLY nonlinear region as ANY fluctionation can precipitate a catastrophe (which can be viewed as a dynamic phase transition from an ordered to a disordered state). But even before one gets there, there is a region where fluctuations are amplified with a gradually diverging lifetime -- they don't kick one into a completely dysfunctional state but they can feed back and disorder the extended system far longer than their natural lifetime. Interesting stuff, actually. rgb > > Ashley Pittman. > > _______________________________________________ > 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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|photos by Scott Haydon with a little help from Trina Nazaroff. (Thanks Trin!)
I have disappeared off the face of this blogosphere. Not on purpose and I definitely haven't forgotten about any of you. We've had so much going on in "real life" that my ability to make food that I want to share with others has all but disappeared. Temporarily! I promise. I will be back in the kitchen, a brand new to me kitchen, soon.
I don't have a recipe to share with you today. Instead, I want to let you in on all of the big and wonderful changes that have been happening in my life.
Number 1: Scott and I are having a baby! A baby boy, who is due to arrive this coming April. We've decided that his name is Theodore Kassidy Haydon. Although his nickname is currently a source of much discussion I call him Theo. I already love him.
Number 2: We bought a house! It needs so much work and it will be a long time before our to do list isn't a little overwhelming, but it is ours.
We are making a home and a family all at the same time. We've spent the last few months full of stress and joy and anticipation and doubt and we are finally seeing a lot of our goals and ambitions coming to fruition. This life is big and scary and wonderful. I wouldn't want it any other way or with any other person.
The pictures above are from our gender reveal party. I made felt rosettes and Scott made felt mustaches so our friends and family could place their bets on boy versus girl. I also made a felt garland and some toppers for the cake. We got our cake from Celebrity Cake Studio in Tacoma (a wonderful place!). I baked some marbled cupcakes to go with the cake and homemade pretzels and pretzel dogs. We made a from-scratch lemonade and my Mom helped us out with a tasty delicious salad. It was such a great experience to share with our loved ones. I love this life. I hope you do too.