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Ray's Take "When I hit age 65, I'm out of here," is a common enough observation. Global competition, increased governmental regulation and the speed of technological innovation have made working careers more unnerving than ever. That magical number "65" was selected a long time ago when life expectancies were a good bit shorter. We run our retirement models to at least age 95 now. Delaying retirement beyond that magical number of 65 for even a few years can make a significant difference in your financial security.
Let's say you delay retirement for three years. That means your monthly Social Security benefits would start larger and have a greater base for cost of living increases. It also means any 401(k) or pension plans you participate in would have three more years of contributions and growth. Your non-qualified savings and investments would also have three additional years of potential growth. Plus, these incremental increases will compound in value over time.
However, the biggest reasons for delaying retirement is that you won't have to start withdrawing from your savings for living expenses for those years, and you have three fewer years of life expectancy.
Don't assume you'll magically find part-time work – a "plan" I hear expressed sometimes. Those jobs just aren't out there. Employers tend to hire someone younger with more current skill sets, and who would have less of an impact on the cost of benefits and require a lower salary.
The key is to make a realistic plan that factors in inflation, long life expectancy and loads of surprises. If there's not much room for error in that plan, it's not likely to turn out well. That may require you to work longer, save more or both.
Dana's Take Working longer isn't only beneficial to your financial situation. Studies show staying employed is better for your health and mental well-being, too. When you're working, you stay busy, connected to others and have a clear purpose. Those are all positive factors that may not be easy to replace in retirement.
One study found that retirement increased the likelihood of clinical depression by 40 percent and the chance of having at least one diagnosed physical condition by about 60 percent. The study concluded that there were health benefits to staying employed past traditional retirement age.
On the other hand, a study by the American Psychological Association Center for Organizational Excellence found that workers over age 55 were the demographic most satisfied with how their job fit into their lives, with 80 percent of them acknowledging job enjoyment as the reason they continued to work – a number 22 percentage points higher than those 18 to 34.
Why quit work when you're enjoying it most? Stay on the job an extra few years for your health as well as your wealth.
Ray Brandon is a certified financial planner and CEO of Brandon Financial Planning (www.brandonplanning.com). His wife, Dana, has a bachelor's degree in finance and is a licensed clinical social worker. Contact Ray Brandon at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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KNU/KNLA Peace Council
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Founded: 31 Jan. 2007
The KNU/KNLA Peace Council was formed after the former KNLA brigade 7 commander Maj.
The KNU/KNLA Peace Council's aim and determination is:
Ceasefire & Peace Process
9th ceasefire signing group.
Official delegation team
Saw Htay Maung, Dr. Timothy Laklem, Saw Ray Nu, Dr. Naw Ka Paw Htoo, Saw Eh Kaw Htoo, Saw Joseph, Dr. Saw Aung Than, Naw Karen Ma
Liaison offices
1. Myawaddy
Alliances: Karen armed groups
|Armed Group Rep
|Govt Rep
|Htay Maung
|Aung Thaung
|Signed State level 7-point ceasefire
KPC delegates: central committee members Dr Timothy, U Saw Yin Nu, Dr Naw Kapaw Htoo, U Saw El Kaw Htoo, U Saw Joseph, Rev Dr Saw Aung Than Hnit and Naw Kharin Nar
Govt Delegates: U Thein Zaw, Union Minister U Ohn Myint, Kayan Township Pyithu Hluttaw representative U Maung Maung Thein, Deputy Minister Maj-Gen Zaw Win, Deputy Attorney-General U Tun Tun Oo, Kayin state minister for Security and Border Affairs Col Aung Lwin, Lt-Col Zaw Naing Oo of the Commander-in-Chief's Office, Director General U Htay Aung of Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry and member of the peace negotiation team U Saw Khin Soe
|Pa-an, Karen state
|Htay Maung
|Aung Min
|The government requested the KPC to become a political party and surrender arms, however the KPC rejected and will try to discuss the issues further.
|Thaton township
|Brid Gen Saw Kyaw Lin (Brigade 1)
|Ohn Myint - State Minister Mon
|Mon prime minister Ohn Myint and KNU brigade 1 meet in thaton township for cooperation of rural and village development.
Agreed points:
- Members of KNU/KNLA Peace Council are allowed to maintain a presence at Maela Hta and Tokawko village
- Travel across borders with weapons after mutual pre-negotiations
- Provide accommodation to "region peace and development troops"
- Continue to negotiate until a permanent peace deal has been reached.
- State will allow and render assistance for self-reliant undertakings for quickly fulfilling the basic needs, education, health, transport, water and electricity supply in the area for resettlement of national races that are residing in another country and render assistance for self-reliance
- to cease of military operations in the region
- more development of border trade and regional infrastructure
- more exploration and trade licences for timber and mineral extraction to avoid exploitation from Thailand
- tourism
Aug 17, 2015 - KNU, DKBA, KNU/KNLA Peace Council, and RCSS released a joint statement on signing the NCA
Oct 13, 2014 - KAF Agreement in Burmese
Oct 13, 2014 - KAF Statement in Burmese
Oct 13, 2014 - KAF Statement in English
Sep 17, 2014 - KNU peace council statement
Sep 14, 2014 - Myanmar army order knu peace council
Jun 09, 2014 - Clarification statement of KPC on Padoh Mahn Nyein Maung's speech
Feb 10, 2012 - KNU/KNLA Peace council letter to Aung San Suu Kyi
Apr 28, 2010 - KNU/KNLA Peace Council request all levels of the government to work them for a prosperous future
Apr 07, 2010 - KNU/KNLA Peace Council's Response To 22nd April Deadline Of Merger With Burma Army
Apr 04, 2010 - Reasons for refusing Border Guard force (BGF)
10/02/2012 KNU/KNLA Peace Council met with Aung San Suu Kyi
10/03/2012 KNU/KNLA Peace Council met with Maj. Saw Hla Ngwe, joint secretary of the KNU


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1976 Ford Broncos - Wild Horses
A Pair Of Off-Road Hot Rods
We've done numerous tech stories and shot features built by our friends at South County Customs, so when we learned about the pair of Broncos that were being built in their shop, we were all ears. Former teammates on the Kansas City Chiefs, Kyle Turley and John Welbourn both picked up first-generation Ford Broncos and left them in the capable hands of the guys at South County Customs for total transformations.
When South County first received John's '76 Bronco, dubbed "Christine," it already had a Hawaii Racing 351ci V-8 that churned out 525 hp through a five-speed transmission. The First gear is so low, and the Bronco is so light, that it's reserved for off-road duties, while Second through Fifth leave plenty of gears to grab on the street. With a good foundation and a pallet of parts from Wild Horses, a Stockton, California, Bronco specialty store, the build was underway.
Procar Elite seats and a Tuffy Series II center console were bolted into the interior, after the body tub was spayed with Line-X. You won't find anything fancy in the interior, just functional factory gauges with an Auto Meter tach, an Alpine head unit with a few speakers, and no sub. Where South County really went wild was the exterior. All of the body trim and the tubular rear bumper, sourced from Wild Horses, were powdercoated semi-gloss black. Meanwhile, the body was thoroughly prepped and ready for PPG Lamborghini Orange-just the thing to turn heads when the top's off.
Before the Bronco was ready for duty, it needed a real suspension, so again, Wild Horses was called upon. South County Customs ordered a 2-inch body lift and a 3-1/2-inch suspension lift, so it would clear 35/12.5R15 Goodyear Wrangler MT/R tires. The ride on the road was a bit scary, due to the 40-year-old suspension design, but it sure was a blast to feel more than 500 horses push the mini-utility down the road.
When Kyle's Bronco landed at South County, it was not in very good shape. Although the 302ci V-8 and C6 transmission were running strong, there were obvious problems just below the surface. After a lot of rust removal and floorboard replacement, the guys stripped all of the trim and had it powdercoated gloss black. For contrast, the body was shot with Kustom Shop Hot Rod Flatz flat black. Geared a little more toward an off-road look, Kyle chose a tubular front bumper and 5,000-pound Warn winch for the front.
Of course, suspension work was necessary, so a 5-1/2-inch suspension lift and a 3-inch body lift were installed to give the Bronco the needed height for 37/12.5R17 Goodyear Wrangler MT/R tires and 17x9-inch Pro Comp wheels. One more wheel and Goodyear tire combo was mounted onto the swing-out tire carrier on the bumper, right beside the 5-gallon gas can. Wild Horses also came through with a disc brake conversion, so the huge tires no longer overpowered the old drums.
Inside the flat black beast is an interior that's almost identical to John's. Procar Elite seats, this time with regular lap and shoulder seatbelts; as opposed to the four-point harnesses found in the orange Bronco. Also, it has a Tuffy center console and factory gauges. Dave, who headed up the build of the Broncos at South County, wired the audio system up. He went with a simple Kenwood CD head unit to power speakers mounted behind the rear seats.
There you have it, nearly twin trucks that do double-duty cruising and wheeling. After spending just a few miles behind the wheel of one of the Broncos, our dream truck wish list grew by a factor of one. Our hats are off to the guys at South County for turning out two fun rides, but also to Kyle and John, for their good taste in classic 4x4s. Special thanks to Johnny at Wild Horses, who was a huge help to Dave when building both Broncos. His knowledge saved a lot of time and kept both builds rolling. Check out "Rust Revival," page 192 in this issue, for some under-construction photos of the Broncos.


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How to install nUI and nUI+
I strongly recommend that you start with a clean slate when installing nUI... often users will have a collection of old mods, saved variable data and other things that will interact adversely with nUI.
So... to start... follow these simple steps...
Two things I do recommend people install pretty much immediately is either DBM or BigWigs and either the combination of Recount, Omen and the nUI_InfoPanel_DualStats plugin or Skada (which does the job of all three) -- I also recommend Clique for those who like to click-cast -- nUI is compatible with all of these mods and, for most players, you probably do not *have* to have any mods other than those. That said, nUI is compatible with most mods, so if you *must* then you should be able to use pretty much any mod with nUI. For those who want the extra help with quests (though that's not so necessary anymore with the 4.0 changes) nUI will work with QuestHelper, Carbonite and LightHeaded.
If you have trouble locating the correct [ World of Warcraft ] folder (step #2 above), I would recommend you right-click the launcher icon on your desktop and then select "Properties" to see what directly WoW is installed in.
As an alternative, in Windows Vista and Windows 7 you can just open the ZIP file in the Windows Explorer (though my experience has been this is unreliable) and copy and paste the [ nUI ] folder from the ZIP file to the [ World of Warcraft > Interface > AddOns ] folder.
Either way, if you have correctly installed nUI, when you are done, you should be able to dive down your directory tree to [ World of Warcraft > Interface > AddOns > nUI > Layouts > Default ] for either nUI or nUI+ -- for nUI+ you should also have the folder [ World of Warcraft > Interface > AddOns > nUI > Layouts > Default > UnitPanels > Raid40 ]
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My brush has two colors, 1 and 0, and my canvas is made of silicon.
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Just found this place and I hope I can make some friends.
I started learning Lisp when I first read SICP and then I went on to other classics, eg The Little Schemer, The Seasoned Schemer, ANSI Common Lisp, Land of Lisp etc.
I am still a newbie and there are always some surprises in the smallest things in the language that take me a long time to understand.
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July 19, 2011 - The following is the agenda for the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board meeting, held at 1 p.m. on Thursday, July 21, at 2021 Lakeshore Drive, Suite 310, New Orleans. The public is invited to attend.
1. Call to order
2. Roll call
3. Approval of minutes from May 9, 2011
4. Reports
A. Executive Directors Report
B. Treasurer's Report
C. Sponsorship Committee Report
D. Finance Committee Report
5. New Business
A. Strategic Plan for BP Funds - GCR
B. Financial Transparency and Documentation Portal – GCR
C. National Marketing Coalition Funding-Andy Gibson
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Gandhi Jayanti 2nd October Punjabi Speech Poem Status FB Whatsapp Twitter: One of the national holidays in India consist of the Gandhi Jayanti which comes every year on the day of 2nd Oct. The day is celebrated in the honor of the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi or Bapu Gandhi. This day is having its own importance as it is celebrated internationally also as the International Day of Nonviolence as Gandhi Ji was the symbol of Nonviolence.
Gandhi Jayanti is the event in India which is not only an event but very special day for all Indians, the birthday of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi who fought for Indian freedom and at last on 15 Aug 1947 we succeed in getting the same from British Government. Gandhi Ji has played an important role in the fight of freedom and hence he has been called as the father of nation or Bapu Gandhi.
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Hello Everybody!
'Gandhi Jayanti' is celebrated on the day when Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi popularly known as Gandhiji was born. It was 2nd October, 1869 in Porbander, Gujarat. India celebrates his birthday as the 'National Holiday'.
He passed his law examination from England and then joined a job of a legal adviser in Durban, South Africa. He lived there for 20 years. During that period Gandhiji felt the pain and insult the Indians were going through in South Africa. This made him realize the condition of the Indians in India under the British regime.
His freedom struggle started in South Africa itself. 'Satyagraha', the term means 'truth' and 'firmness', was coined by him in S. Africa.
In 1915 Gandhiji came back to India and started participating in various freedom movements. Gopal Krishna Gokhale was his political mentor. Gandhiji always advocated the path of 'satyagraha' and 'Non-violence'. His campaigns for India's Freedom Struggle were: Non co-operation Movement, Civil Disobedience Movement and Quit India Movement. He got arrested on many occasions. His slogans 'Quit India' and 'Do or Die' were very popular.
It is said that Rabindranath Tagore named him 'Mahatma' but some say that general Indians named him so. Though he loved to be addressed as 'Bapu', the nickname affectionately given by the people of India.
Mahatma, who led India to freedom on 15th August, 1947 was killed by Nathuram Godse on 30th January, 1948. While he was shot, he uttered 'Hey Ram!'
The curtain fell on the great patriot and his death anniversary is known as the Martyr's Day in India.
May we all learn patriotism, truth, non-violence, simplicity, sacrifice and firmness from the 'Father of the Nation'!
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The father of the nation with the tools of truth and nonviolence Freed our nation from imperialism Follow path of truth and wisdom Pay homage to this great leader on Gandhi Jayanti & always Desh k liye jisne vilas ko thukraya tha, Tyag videshi dhage usne khud hi khaadi banaya tha, Pehen k kaath ki chappal jisne Satyagrahe ka raag sunaya tha.. Desh ka tha anmol wo deepak jo �Mahatman� Kehlaya tha
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Prayer is the call of modesty, self-purification, and self-observation is called for.
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Conduct free idea, no matter how good they fake – like pearls should understand.
I agree that cowardice and violence, of which one to choose, Then I'll advise violence.
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France is likely to be given two more years to reach its budget deficit goals, the EU's top economic official said on Friday, following in Spain's footsteps as the euro zone relaxes its strict austerity policies.
"In France, the recovery is now expected to be delayed," EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn told a news conference. "Considering the economic situation, it may be reasonable to extend the deadline by two years and to correct the excessive deficit at the latest by 2015 in France," he said.
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Similar leeway is set to be given to Spain, Rehn said, and there may be a year extra for the Netherlands and Slovenia to meet their budget deficit goals.
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In 1995 an employee at KRMA-TV contacted the Denver Museum of
Nature & Science regarding a collection of 16 mm films he had
rescued from the trash. The employee also had been volunteering
with the Anthropology Department at the Museum and knew the films
would be a valuable addition to the collections. The films are the
Red Man's America series, which was originally filmed
to be a telecourse for the University of Denver in the late 1950s.
Anthropologist Ruth Underhill produced and narrated the series, and
the films are part of her collection in the DMNS Archives.
The films corresponded with Underhill's book of the same title.
Each episode focused on a different region in North America, where
she would discuss the Native Americans of the area. Clothing, art,
food and language were all themes addressed in each televised
Since their donation to the museum, the films were stored in
their original metal cans. The films have recently all
been assessed and moved to archival quality cans which will
help to protect them for years to come. This assessment included
checking each film for shrinkage, needed repairs and acid levels.
All films are in good shape and were recently cleaned and repaired
in the hopes they will be able to be digitized in the future.
These films are just one component of the Ruth Underhill
Collection at DMNS. The collection also includes her field
journals, research notes, publications, sound recordings, oral
histories, correspondence and photographs. Underhill was a renowned
anthropologist who predominately studied the people of the American
Southwest from the 1930s until her death in 1984.


text: On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Jim Lux wrote: > I'd say that a MS cluster will actually perform WORSE than that.. maybe > 60-70% of a Linux cluster in terms of "useful work done". However, say > you've got a 100 node cluster. You now have to buy 30 extra nodes at, say, > $3000 each (rolling in HVAC, room, etc). So, you spend $100K on the extra > nodes. You DON'T have to spend $300,000 for the Linux Cluster Specific > support staff, though. The same old MS server jockeys can run your cluster > as run the rest of the corporate data center. When the cluster throws up a > BSOD, they know what to do. > > The real question is whether there is a significant "business scale" market > for "non-scientific" cluster computing at all. Or, is the market really HA > or transaction processing, which is a whole 'nother world. Historically, MS > hasn't really been very interested in scientific computing anyway. (all those > cranky and principled iconclastic scientists who have no budget but lots of > free time) I'd agree with all of that (including the parts of your argument I deleted). And I think that there is a real question as to whether there is a business scale HPC market for MS to address, at whatever relative cost-efficiency it ultimately manages. I honestly don't know. I think that they could "make" one, but whether or not they end up making money from it is the question. However (as I pointed out offline in another thread of this discussion) they have a pretty strong incentive to do this even at a loss. Just invert your argument. Right NOW linux is the only game in town, so people HAVE to buy that $300K linux support team in order to build a cluster. Once you have it, you've "nucleated" linux in an organization, and (applying the metaphors of physics to the problem) there are significant cost-benefit driven forces (such as trivial PXE-based installation and maintenance, stability, low per-seat costs, large free application base, extensive and free community support mechanism, open source, yum maintainability, securability) that can drive its growth into other computing arenas within the organization. This has been going on for years already in the server arena -- linux servers are cheap to build, stable, extremely functional and efficient, and secure. Windows servers aren't any of the above, in comparison, although they are efficient ENOUGH to hold homogeneous clients. Once an organization bites the bullet and puts in linux systems ANYWHERE, Microsoft views this correctly as a kind of "cancer" that can grow without bound, driven by the fact that the organization actually saves money as it grows and may discover that things work better and are more secure ALSO, leaving one with damn-all reason to stick with Windows at the enterprise level. It is too late to shut the barn door associated with servers -- that horse done run away. However, MS doubtless sees that if small clusters DO start to become a commercially viable commodity even for very specific applications in very specific venues, even if those clusters are all provided (in the end) by a turnkey cluster provider that sets things up with a nice GUI so that the user doesn't need any particular expertise to use it, if the user simply KNOWS that the cluster is running linux and the user gets SUPPORT from people who run linux, the user will learn that there exists a viable alternative to Microsoft for all sorts of things. The user will get to see, e.g. KDE or Gnome desktops. The user might actually try Open Office. The user will see that Mozilla or Firefox work, that Enlightenment looks a whole lot like Outlook (or any other mail GUI). If the organization doesn't go turnkey but tries to do it itself (possibly in a small department with a local support staff person who knows a bit about linux to begin with anyway) things are even worse, as ONE PERSON can set up a linux repository now from which an entire organization can install linux on desktops or servers alike at will. One person cannot manage all the user and hardware issues, but one person can (and at Duke, pretty much does) manage LINUX for the entire campus including all the clusters. That's where things get all wanky and scary for MS. One of their major selling points is that MS is "professionally manageable", but they are dealing with clients that have BEEN through the Death of the Mainframe, which happened in spite of IBM telling all its clients about the wonderful benefits of central management and professional grade software. They know that computer vendors lie. In actual fact, Microsoft is not terribly CB advantageous in seats per FTE, seats per server (and server license), cost per seat, MANAGEMENT cost per seat, maintenance cost per seat. It is expensive and requires a lot of well trained people to run it to make it work at the enterprise level, and when it DOES work it crashes all the time (at least in our labs here). Modern linux, OTOH, with the ONE EXCEPTION of device driver support (my own personal current bete noire in linux) and a smattering of inevitable bugs in key tools, scales right out there at the theoretical edge of scalability, whether it is in the context of a cluster, a server room, or a workstation LAN. It is still not really ready for unmanaged desktop use, but MANAGED desktops can cost very, very little per seat outside of the hardware and a tiny chunk of the OC of the management staff. Literally hundreds of systems per admin even at the human level, one admin per thousands of systems at the software level. PXE, yum, and linux are a very scary combination for Microsoft, and tools like warewulf threaten to virtualize THE ENTIRE OPERATING SYSTEM. You see, this is where I think the universe is going in managed environments. Even though thin clients sold on top of PROPRIETARY tools never made it as disk was cheaper than the additional hassle, PXE on top of ultrafast networks makes free thin client installations pretty simple to set up and eliminates all sorts of management issues (such as desktop crackability). It loads the OS when it boots. It goes away when it reboots. A user can even choose WHICH OS to load when it boots, and a different user can make a different choice, or the same user could choose a different operating system at a later time for a different purpose. Veeerrry verrry scary to MS. If they OWNED this they'd LOVE it -- they could sell MS pay-per-use (boot WinXX today, get billed $0.50). In a competitive environment (boot WinXX today to read your mail and get billed $0.50, or boot into a Gnome desktop and read your mail and get billed nothing, hmmm) things aren't quite so attractive for them. That's why the .NET wars are playing now in a theater near you. The winner in this inevitable conflict (if it is to be MS) MUST have a protected edge -- something it can do that everyone wants/needs to do and that can only be done with an MS OS. Open source open standard webware is anathema to this; as web browsers become "the" de facto interface to increasing chunks of application space. SO MS may well be forcing its way into the cluster market as part of a long term strategy to take any measures necessary, including eating losses, to keep linux-based nucleation points out of organizations. Consequently it is no longer viable for Microsoft to say "we don't do clusters"; they have to be able to provide clusters even if the economics of clustering forces them to provide the cluster software at very low (for them) margins or even at a loss. Naturally they'll TRY to actually make money from clusters, but it might be more about prestige, marketing, and maintaining exclusivity on current Win-homogeneous environments than it is about any particular actual clustering market. None of which will (in my opinion) make any difference in the long run. The current round of linux desktops are getting a lot of kudos for being very, very usable at the (managed) desktop level. They are still a nightmare at the unmanaged desktop level, and will remain that way until the kernel people find a way to work with hardware manufacturers who want to provide binary-only device drivers that is somewhat less hostile than it currently is. An unmanaged desktop user doesn't want to have to know "anything" but how to click their way through obvious menu choices when they buy a camera, a printer, a network card, and they don't want to have to use Google for two hours trying to figure out what cards will or won't work with their operating system. This is really, in my opinion, the last thing preventing linux from achieving Linus's dream of taking over the world. However, it is an absolute roadblock, a dam, an insurmountable mountain. No matter how lovely linux is in a managed environment, no matter how functional the desktop is overall, if a "dumb" cannot install commercial software or commercial OTC hardware following simple directions, linux loses the unmanaged desktop. Period. Make it so that linux can run ANY piece of hardware that is ever released, give software vendors an incentive for putting out a linux-only version of their product, and linux becomes an irresistable competitor. > But, have to go now.. Next installment for my devil's advocacy: > "Why windows based clusters make sense for individual users" The answers are, I imagine, the same -- device drivers and GUIs. They're a bit fuzzier as there are some serious DISadvantages that the user has to cope with. Right now WinXX is NOT terribly easy for users to install even on a SINGLE box, for example. The main reason they end up with "functional" windows installations is that the actual installation is done by professionals at the store before they bring it home and never upgraded over the lifetime of the hardware. I have had to (re)install WinXP on systems a few times recently, and it really, really sucks. Still. Even for a certified card carrying geek such as myself (I'm currently wearing my Cluster Monkey hat that Doug sent me home from SC05 via Justin Moore, thanks Doug and Justin:-). Just turning off all the automarketing is difficult, and I still haven't figured out how to make the trial copies of Norton and/or McAffee just shut up and go away. I also don't know if it is doing anything like auto-updating itself, even though it installed with a vendor-supplied auto-updater of some sort doing all sorts of complex things that required user intervention. In reality, if you gave a WinXX CD to your favorite computer luddite (in my case, to my wife) and pointed to a naked box and said "make it work" -- well, it's just a cruel picture, that's the word, cruel. Not that linux is any better, and the point is that ONCE WinXX is installed, she probably COULD install an OTC camera so she could use it and preview and print out the pictures. A task that has brought ME to my knees in linux on more than one occassion. I suspect that to make this so, a cluster would have to be able to "install itself" on top of an existing pre-installed WinXX base, or be so automatable that it can be installed on arbitrary hardware from a GUI. Seems a bit unlikely, really, although with PXE anything is possible. Right NOW just installing a WinXX cluster on arbitrary hardware (at the user level) would be pretty amazingly difficult, I imagine, not only because of the pain of getting through the install menus and post-boot menus and configuration menus, but also because the network and account and shared filespace management for a LAN (windows or otherwise) is infinitely beyond most users' capabilities. Then there are licensing issues -- WinXX can't just install, it has to check for the RIGHT to be installed, for licenses and keys and such, and managing THIS is pretty difficult for a single system install and bound to be worse for a cluster install. The license management issues for third party applications. The INCREDIBLE security implications; a cluster turned to Viral Evil and SPAMming makes me shudder. And finally, of course, there are the application issues, on top of all the above. Who's to blame if the user installs a cluster in order to run some application and discovers that it has negative task scaling the way the cluster is set up? Or did you mean >>turnkey<< "windows based clusters", installed by third parties, to run single applications on a correctly tuned design? Only? rgb > > Jim... > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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(21:04:48) (Niamh): Right - Velek and Niamh have just braved the treacherous orc infested caves and beaten the horde into submission. After which they brought forth their dark army and became rulers of the kingdom.
(21:05:03) arcanus: Right back had to put big one to bed
(21:05:28) (Niamh): is tat a euphemism for having a shit?
(21:05:34) arcanus: Nice try
(21:05:45) arcanus:
(21:06:55) (Niamh): Hurumph.... synopsis then please meester
(21:08:00) arcanus: If I recall you had made your way through across the large cave, encountered a large river shark like creature and made the pebble beach on the other side, you had then ambushed a raft of orcs, brutally slaying them with some ferocious archery
(21:08:29) (Velek): Don't forget the large crab.
(21:08:51) (Velek): And we managed to find a small chest in a sunken boat
(21:10:22) (Velek): You at work Phil?
(21:10:36) (Niamh): I am now, yes.
(21:10:50) arcanus: That's right the crab if I remember was particularly troublesome and you hadn't opened the chest
(21:11:38) (Velek): Ouch!
(21:12:14) (Velek): Was the chest a pain to open?
(21:13:42) (Niamh): Niamh frowns, then scowls at the chest in the hope that the venomous glare is enough to destroy the lock.
(21:17:38) arcanus: Wiping sweat and crustacean gore from their faces Niamh and Velek examined the chest, the latter having dragged it from the submerged end of the damaged old rowing boat, the wooden chest although tarnished and mouldy had a sturdy brass band around it and what appeared to be a complex puzzle lock
(21:18:48) (Niamh): When the scowl proves ineffective she turns to Velek and smiles sweetly like an expectant child.
(21:21:06) arcanus: (Velek make a perception roll?)
(21:21:15) ChatBot: (Velek) rolls 3d6 and gets 6,3,4.
(21:21:39) (Velek): Is there any weakness at all to the wood?
(21:23:22) arcanus: Undoubtedly a significant blow would split it
(21:23:38) (Niamh): (whispers) hey mate - don't I owe you subscription fee?
(21:27:08) (Velek): Hefting his blade in his right hand and dragging the chest so it is lodged between the rock face. Velek takes careful aim at the right hand edge of he chest, and brings the weapon down on it with considerable force.
(21:28:17) (Niamh): Niamh stands back as Velek swings his sword. She will be scanning the river entrances for signs of more orcs.
(21:29:50) arcanus: (Make an attack roll?)
(21:30:44) ChatBot: (Velek) rolls 3d6 and gets 3,3,2.
(21:31:28) arcanus: (Sword skill?)
(21:32:16) (Velek): 18
(21:32:42) ChatBot: (Velek) rolls 3d6 and gets 3,1,4.
(21:33:23) (Velek): It will naturally be a controlled swing.
(21:34:40) arcanus: An ear splitting crack echoes throughout the cavern, causing the pair to wince
(21:35:22) (Velek): Cursing under his breath he assesses the damage he has wrought.
(21:35:29) arcanus: (Both make a Will roll?)
(21:35:38) ChatBot: (Velek) rolls 3d6 and gets 5,3,5.
(21:35:46) (Velek): out of 12
(21:35:47) ChatBot: (Niamh) rolls 3d6 and gets 4,1,1.
(21:35:56) (Niamh): 6 out of 11
(21:41:19) arcanus: Within Veleks vision a circular pulse of purple energy erupts from the chest, picks him up and hurls him roughly across the pebbles, Niamh merely feels a slight breeze and acrid scent, wondering what just occured
(21:42:46) (Velek): 'Well, that didn't work...' Velek grumbled and shook his head.
(21:42:54) (Niamh): Niamh wrinkles her nose at the stench and runs after Velek, dropping to her knees beside him. "Are you ok?"
(21:43:35) (Velek): He slowly and shakily gets back to his feet.
(21:43:48) (Velek): 'I think so.'
(21:43:55) arcanus: Through his thick head, the old soldier remembers or recalls an old feeling, that of his ancient sword now deep within the Northern sea
(21:44:51) (Niamh): Niamh nods thankfully as she stands. "Think we need a bigger sword," she chuckles.
(21:45:25) (Velek): 'Now that thing would have helped me' he thought as he looked in irritation at the notch in his current weapon, that lay on the sand some twenty feet away from him.
(21:46:20) (Velek): He limps over and picks up the sword.
(21:46:36) arcanus: The chest miraculously remains intact, bearing only a burn mark on the right hand edge
(21:47:09) (Niamh): "Why don't we bury the chest, put the crab claw over it to mark it. we can come back later."
(21:47:49) (Velek): 'Why not indeed?' he says.
(21:48:24) (Velek): What is the puzzle lock consist of?
(21:48:37) ChatBot: (Velek) rolls 3d6 and gets 1,6,1.
(21:48:43) (Velek): Perception
(21:48:47) (Niamh): "I mean, even a big man like you would struggle to carry it where we are going," she says with a smirk glancing at Velek from the corner of her eye.
(21:50:07) (Velek): 'I'll be damned if I know where we are actually going to be honest' he says, peering into the darkness of the cavern river.
(21:50:54) (Velek): 'You had best get digging then.' he says finally as he sits on the rock and tends the leg wound that he sustained by the other unwelcome vistor in the water.
(21:53:07) (Niamh): Her mouth drops open in outrage for a moment before she sighs heavily. Niamh looks around for something to use as a shovel.
(21:53:29) ChatBot: (Niamh) rolls 3d6 and gets 3,4,3.
(21:53:42) (Niamh): 10 out of 14 for perception
(21:53:45) arcanus: You were originally heading in the direction of the orcs with the intention of rooting them out, the puzzle lock appears to made of a brass like metal, a series of squares with symbols in which are presumably moved until they form a pattern and unlock
(21:55:19) (Velek): That was upstream wasn't it?
(21:55:30) (Niamh): OOC: the good thing about being in work is - Free coffee and tea!!
(21:55:52) arcanus: It was, there is also the dead orcs raft drifting in the centre of the lake
(21:56:13) (Velek): I think the discussion was were we going to climb the rock faces or use the raft to do it.
(21:57:16) (Velek): How bad is the injury?
(21:58:44) (Velek): As he is assessing it, he will start to ensure that all of his equipment is not going to make any noise.
(21:58:57) arcanus: The injury is fairy deep
(21:59:14) (Niamh): Niamh grins, waits until Velek is reaching down to tend his leg then skips over to whisk the helm from his head.
(22:01:42) (Velek): 'Cut that out' he snarls quietly as he tightens a field dressing around his calf muscle with a grimace.
(22:02:37) (Velek): OOC: If I remember rightly, we were using a barrel to carry our armour etc.
(22:03:10) arcanus: OOC: That's right
(22:03:15) (Niamh): (Rocket man ending!!)
(22:03:45) (Niamh): Ignoring Velek she takes the helm to a conveniently memorable spot and uses it to dig a hole for the chest.
(22:04:13) arcanus: (Make a strength roll?)
(22:04:22) (Velek): He stands and walks over to the waters edge and scoops out a large handful of silt and proceeds to camouflage his exposed flesh.
(22:04:38) (Velek): Camoflage skill of 14
(22:04:39) ChatBot: (Niamh) rolls 3d6 and gets 3,4,5.
(22:04:46) ChatBot: (Velek) rolls 3d6 and gets 4,4,6.
(22:04:53) (Niamh): 12 out of 12
(22:05:35) (Velek): He doesn't linger on the shore line.
(22:05:50) (Velek): 14 out of 14.
(22:07:47) (Velek): 'Niamh, attach some cordage to an arrow and get that skiff onto the beach, if you please.' he asks.
(22:08:40) (Niamh): "Niamh, bury the treasure, shoot the raft, anything else?"
(22:09:16) (Niamh): Scowls at her ruined fingernails and she shovels shingle.
(22:09:42) (Velek): 'Indeed. Keep your voice down.' he hisses as he casts a glob of the silt at her.
(22:10:09) ChatBot: (Velek) rolls 3d6 and gets 5,6,5.
(22:10:28) (Velek): and misses.
(22:10:58) (Niamh): "got any rope there big fella?"
(22:11:02) arcanus: Chaps goin to have to call it a night, falling asleep already Pheel sorry short and the drive
(22:11:33) (Niamh): no prob mate.
(22:11:38) (Velek): 'Try the barrel' there is some in there I believe.
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Daily log, May 19
Tiffin reports
* Natasha M. Lynch, 28, of Tiffin was charged with driving under suspension Friday afternoon.
* A man called Friday afternoon to report problems with his elderly neighbor at the 100-block of Elmer St. The elderly neighbor was yelling at him and entered his home.
* A first block Augusta Lane woman reported an unapproved charge on her husband's checking account Saturday morning.
County reports
* CSX advised Friday evening of a theft in progress at S. SR 4 and E. TR 1135. People were seen trying to disassemble equipment.
* A male reported Friday night he was assaulted by a female during a child exchange at the 8700-block of W. SR 18.
* A caller advised Friday night someone was trying to break into a vehicle in the driveway and rocks were being thrown at the 10000-block W. TR 132 residence.
Fostoria reports
* An 800-block N. Countyline St. woman called Friday evening to report a neighbor tried to hit her husband.
* A woman called Friday evening to report a male was at her 500-block E. Lytle St. residence and was trying to assault her.
* An anonymous caller advised Friday night there was a disturbance between two individuals in the street at the 100-block of Taft Blvd.
* A 700-block Cherry St. man reported Friday night his house had been broken into.
* A 300-block McDougal St. man reported Friday night his house had been broken into and several items were missing.
* A caller reported early Saturday morning there was a large group that was being loud and had an open fire at the 400-block of Union St.
* Three separate calls regarding an explosion or gunshots were taken early Saturday morning. Police advised it was juveniles with fireworks at the 800-block of W. North St.
* A 600-block Van Buren St. woman reported Saturday morning her vehicle had been broken into. The front windshield had been smashed in and a GPS was taken.
* A 1000-block Woodrow Wilson Dr. caller reported Saturday morning a vehicle had been broken into and several items were missing.
* A man reported Saturday morning his 200-block Bricker St. garage had been broken into and items were missing.
* A 500-block N. Poplar St. woman reported Friday morning prescription medications were stolen.
State Patrol accident
* New Riegel EMS and Bascom fire responded to a two-vehicle injury accident at West U.S. 224 and TR 59 Saturday afternoon. A person was transported to Mercy Tiffin Hospital and a citation was issued to another person. Further details are under investigation.
* Bascom fire and Fostoria EMS had a squad run Friday night.
* Bettsville fire and EMS had a squad run Friday night.
* Tiffin EMS had two squad runs Saturday morning.
* Republic fire and EMS and the Echo unit had a squad run Saturday morning.
* Attica EMS and fire and the Echo unit responded to a minor accident Saturday morning.
* Bloomville fire and EMS and the Echo unit had a squad run Saturday morning.
* Clinton fire and EMS and Tiffin EMS responded to a minor accident Saturday morning.
* Bascom fire and EMS, New Riegel EMS, and the Echo unit responded to a two-vehicle accident Saturday afternoon.


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Indigenous Writers' Gathering
"I think everyone should be encouraged and listened to when they need to tell their truth." —Katherena Vermette Katherena Vermette, Tracey Lindberg and Cherie Dimaline appeared at the Toronto Reference Library to discuss Race, Representation and Reconciliation with Canada Reads Host Ali Hassan.
Isaac Shapiro | Edokko: Growing up a Stateless Foreigner in Wartime Japan
Issac Shapiro reads from his memoir, Edokko, and answers questions from the audience.
In 1926, professional musicians Constantine Shapiro, born in Moscow, 1896 and Lydia Chernetsky (Odessa, 1905) met and married in Berlin, Germany after their respective families had suffered continuous persecution in war-torn Russia, or the Soviet Union, as it was known after 1922. With Hitler's national socialism on the rise, remaining in Berlin was for the newly-weds out of the question and they decided to continue their odyssey, first to Palestine, then China, to ultimately spend the World War II years in the relative safety of Japan. In 1931, they found themselves in Japan, where Isaac, son number four and author of this memoir, was born. A few years later, with World War II imminently looming, and the subsequent bombing of Pearl Harbor, their lives were disrupted once again. In 1944, the Yokohama shore was banned for foreigners and the Shapiro family including their five children, were forced to move to Tokyo, where they survived endless hardships, among others the intensified strategic United States bombing campaigns on Tokyo. Operation Meetinghouse started March 9, 1945 and is regarded as the single most destructive bombing raid in human history. The Japanese later called the operation the Night of the Black Snow. During the subsequent American occupation of Japan, 14-year-old Isaac, being multilingual, was hired as an interpreter by John Calvin 'Toby' Munn, a United States Marine colonel, (later promoted to Lt. Gen.) who, when the war was over, paved the way for Isaac, or Ike as he soon became known, to immigrate to the United States. In the summer of 1946, Isaac landed in Hawaii, at the time a United States territory, altering the course of his life forever.
Gerhard Steidl & Orhan Pamuk
Join us for an event with the iconic publishing company STEIDL to celebrate a series of book launches. The evening features works from Orhan Pamuk, Martin Schoeller, Karine Laval, Lawrence Schwartzwald, and Tod Papageorge, with an introduction by Gerhard Steidl.
Orhan Pamuk 'Balkon' - In the winter of 2011 Nobel-Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk took 8,500 color photographs from his balcony with its panoramic view of Istanbul, the entrance of the Bosphorus, the old town, the Asian and European sides of the city, the surrounding hills, and the distant islands and mountains. Sometimes he would leave his writing desk and follow the movements of the boats as they passed in front of his apartment and sailed far away.
Keith O'Brien, "Fly Girls"
Keith O'Brien recounts the personal stories of female pilots who broke into the male-dominated sport of airplane racing, in his book "Fly Girls".
Tayari Jones: 2018 National Book Festival
Tayari Jones discusses "An American Marriage" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Tayari Jones had a spectacular debut with her first novel, "Leaving Atlanta," which won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She wrote the novel while she was a graduate student. Her second novel, "The Untelling," is also set in Atlanta and received the Lillian Smith Book Award. Her new novel, "An American Marriage" (Algonquin), was a pick of Oprah's Book Club. Jones is an MFA faculty member at Rutgers University and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow.
Seymour Hersh with Paul Holdengräber | LIVE from the NYPL
LIVE from the NYPL | Recorded live at the New York Public Library, Celeste Auditorium, June 30, 2018.
From My Lai to Abu Ghraib, Seymour Hersh has broken some of the most impactful stories of the last half century. In the process, he has earned dozens of prizes for the New York Times and New Yorker, where he was a longtime staff writer. Now, for the first time, Hersh has stepped back to write a memoir, Reporter, some of which was researched at The New York Public Library. Hersh poured over documents from the New York Times Company Archives in the library's reading room, so it's only fitting that he should return here to discuss the resulting memoir, which tells the stories behind headlines that made history. Join us to hear those stories, along with more than a few "unwanted truths" — all from the man David Remnick once described as "quite simply, the greatest investigative journalist of his era."
Tim Wu + Zephyr Teachout | The Curse of Bigness
Tim Wu and Zephyr Teachout discuss Wu's new book "The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age."
We live in an "oligopoly age" where many industries are controlled by just a few firms — big banks, big pharma, big tech. Bigness has become too much of a drain on the nation's economy, and too far a deviation from the type of open capitalism that has, at times, created a broad-based wealth and promised a sense of opportunity to every generation. There is a good reason to believe that we once again face the "Curse of Bigness," in the phrase used by Justice Louis Brandeis, to describe the challenges confronting the United States a century ago. Columbia law professor Tim Wu tells the story of what went wrong, and calls for recovering the lost tenets of trustbusters as part of a broader revival of American progressive ideas in a new age of extreme economic inequality.
Joining Tim in conversation will be attorney, activist, and Fordham Law professor Zephyr Teachout, author of "Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United."
Isabel Allende: "The Influence of Hispanic Culture in Literature"
Google celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month by speaking with Isabel Allende, famed Chilean journalist and author, renowned for writing international bestsellers including "The House of Spirits," "City of the Beasts," "Inés of My Soul" and "Paula." She has written over 25 books that have been translated into more than 35 languages and sold more than 67 million copies, and among other awards, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2017.
Ms. Allende speaks about the influence of her Latinx background in her work, Latin American culture as an influence in global arts & culture, and the future of Latinx literature.
Moderated by Natalie Nunez.
Laura Esther Wolfson: "For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors"
Laura Esther Wolfson is the author of "For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors," which won the Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction. In this talk she provides a quirky insider view of her experience working as a translator and interpreter at the United Nations and reads her essay "Proust at Rush Hour."
Lisa Brennan-Jobs: "Small Fry" | Talks at Google
Lisa Brennan-Jobs reads from and discusses her new memoir, "Small Fry," a poignant coming-of-age story about growing up in Silicon Valley that chronicles her relationship with her father, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
PEN America Break Out: Voices From the Inside at the Brooklyn Book Festival 2018
A night of award-winning work from the 2018 Prison Writing Contest staged by Joshua Bennett, Ammayeah Benton, Sergio De La Pava, Baz Dreisinger, Brendan Kiely, Ian Manuel, Jackie Wang, and Rehabilitation Through the Arts' alumni theater group. Currently incarcerated artists were commissioned to score collaborative movement and song for the event through Dances For Solidarity and Musicambia.
Esi Edugyan: The Waterstones Interview
Esi Edugyan's new novel, Washington Black, saw her shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for the second book in a row. We sat down with her to talk about the book's theme's of slavery, freedom and guilt; and to discuss how much progress has really been made for black people in America and elsewhere since abolition.
Lucy Hawking on Stephen Hawking's Brief Answers to the Big Questions
[Note: The description below is taken from the Youtube channel of Waterstones, which interviewed Lucy Hawking]
'It's like having him there, having a conversation with him.'
It was a privilege to speak with Lucy Hawking about her father Stephen, his final book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, and to get an idea of what family life was like for the Hawkings as they lived with his work, his health and now his legacy.
Andrew Sean Greer: 2018 National Book Festival
Andrew Sean Greer discusses "Less" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Andrew Sean Greer is the best-selling author of five works of fiction, including "The Confessions of Max Tivoli," which was named a best book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. He is the recipient of the Northern California Book Award, the California Book Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, the O Henry award for short fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Public Library. His new novel is "Less" (Lee Boudreaux), winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Greer lives in San Francisco. He has traveled to all of the locations in this novel, but he is only big in Italy.
Appel Salon | Gary Shteyngart
"I decided, I'm going to set a challenge for myself... " —Gary Shteyngart, on making a billionaire hedge-fund manager a sympathetic character
Gary Shteyngart appeared at the Toronto Reference Library to discuss his new novel Lake Success with Elamin Abdelmahmoud.
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Community-acquired infection rising in Tahoe area
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TRUCKEE " Cases of infections caused by an antibiotic-resistant bacteria are increasing in the region, although in contradiction to a national surge, most local cases are occurring in communal areas outside hospitals.
The methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, commonly referred to as MRSA, is a type of skin infection that typically resembles a pimple or spider bite, but can quickly transform into abscesses that requires surgical draining, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The superbug has become the subject of nationwide concern during the last few years as hospital-acquired cases have increased sharply in urban surgical centers, but physicians say the community-aquired infection is most prevalent.
Tahoe Forest Hospital officials say aggressive sanitation procedures have kept hospital-acquired staph rates below 1 percent compared to the national benchmark of 5 percent, but local physicians say the community-acquired infection is increasing the fastest.
"It's a new infection that is increasing in incidents," said Dr. Paul Krause, a family physician with the Truckee Tahoe Medical Group.
The group holds medical offices in both Truckee and Tahoe City, and Krause said physicians treat two to three patients a week who have contracted MRSA.
"Many of the people we diagnose do not even know they have it," Krause said. "It's commonly mistaken for a spider bite or mosquito bite."
Infections range from mild to serious and can be life-threatening, according to a Nevada County Public Health Department document.
The bug is spread through skin-to-skin contact or through indirect contact, such as touching a surface where the bacteria exists, said Chris Spencer, director of the health clinic and infection control program at Tahoe Forest Hospital.
"While jails, gyms, hospitals and IVDU's [intravenous drug use] have been identified as possibly higher risk environments and practices, most often we have no idea where the infection came from," Spencer said. "Our gym has disinfectant available for clients to use before and after equipment use."
Symptoms vary depending on the location of the infection, but common conditions include red, painful bumps under the skin, called boils or abscesses, a cut that is swollen and filled with pus or a blister filled with fluid, Krause said.
In some cases, antibiotics are not necessary to treat the infection and some staph infections do not respond to certain drugs, so testing for MRSA and seeking proper medical treatment is recommended, Krause said.
"We don't have all the answers about the disease because it is still being addressed and researched," Krause said. "The best thing people can do is wash their hands frequently."


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How can I encourage my child to try new fruits and vegetables?
Q: How can I encourage my child to try new fruits and vegetables?
A: Encouraging your child to eat more fruits and vegetables can be a challenge. One way to ease into the process is for you to be a healthy role model for your children. If they see you eating a variety of fruits and vegetables, they will soon follow suit. Here are a few other suggestions for adding fruits and vegetables to your child's diet:
- Invite your kids to cook with you. Involving kids in the preparation and cooking for new fruits and vegetables is an excellent way to make them comfortable around new foods. It also instills a sense of accomplishment.
- Get your kids involved in growing, harvesting, and selecting fruits & veggies at the supermarket.
- Check out our kids' website FoodChamps.org for fun games that educate children about healthy eating and fruits and vegetables.
- Pack more fruits and vegetables into your child's diet. Pack Assorted Colors for Kids (P.A.C.K.)is an educational program that encourages kids to eat more fruits and vegetables.


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The devastating, airborne fungus has already cut a wide swath in soybean crops in Asia, Australia and Africa, and it's on the move in the Western Hemisphere.
Since it was discovered in South America in 2001, soybean rust has moved from Paraguay to near the Equator in Brazil. In 2003, the disease cost Brazilian farmers $1.3 billion in lost yield and chemical application. While it's on track to arrive in the United States in two to three years, one researcher points out that "one hurricane" could bring it sooner.
In a news conference at the annual meeting of the American Phytopathological Society in Charlotte, N.C., there was a sense of urgency in getting out the message of the potential damage that soybean rust could cause the U.S. soybean industry. USDA soybean researchers based in Zimbabwe and Brazil added perspective to the serious threat that soybean rust poses to the U.S. soybean industry.
USDA, the United Soybean Board and the American Soybean Association are leaving little to chance as they prepare for "when" soybean rust arrives on the air in the U.S. Checkoff funds have been used to develop diagnostic tools to help farmers and researchers identify the symptoms of the fungus.
A worldwide soybean breeding effort is looking for resistance, and chemical companies are reportedly looking at additional compounds for the control of soybean rust. Currently, two fungicides are registered for control of soybean rust in the U.S.
"It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when soybean rust will hit the United States," says Brian Hieser, a Minier, Ill., soybean farmer and chairman of the United Soybean Board's production committee.
Premature defoliation
Soybean rust causes legions on plants that can lead to premature defoliation and decreased yields.
But it's "extremely difficult to identify" and takes expert knowledge of the disease, says Clive Levy, a soybean researcher with a farmers' cooperative in Zimbabwe. "The symptoms are just above the microscopic level and it takes a hand lens to identify. It starts at the bottom of the plant at flowering." Soybean rust can also be confused with a number of diseases, including brown rust.
The United Soybean Board has a diagnostic guide available on its Web site at www.unitedsoybean.org. A printed copy can be ordered by calling 1-888-235-4332.
More information on soybean rust is also available at the USDA's Animal Plant Health and Inspection Service's Plant Protection and Pest Detection Quarantine Web site at www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq.
The American Phytopathological Society also has information on the disease under directories and rosters at www.apsnet.org.
Fast moving
"One factor that farmers will notice very early on is the stalks turn yellow and the plant looks sick," Levy says. "When the disease first arrived in Zimbabwe (in 1998), it moved rapidly taking the plants over in five or six days." Early on, the advice was to check for symptoms, then apply fungicide. Now the advice is, "treat in advance of symptoms.
"We've had quite large areas where 80 percent of the crop has been destroyed," Levy says. When chemicals are applied on a timely basis, the losses have been in the 20-percent range in Zimbabwe. "Where farmers do have failures, it's due to poor timing of applications. It explodes very rapidly on the plant and if applied too late, you won't be able to control it."
Jose Tadashi Yorinori, a USDA soybean rust researcher with the Brazilian Agricultural Research Cooperation, says soybean rust was found in 90 percent of soybean acres in Brazil this past season, having traveled some 3,500 kilometers in two years. He says most of the fungicide failures in the field were due to "farmers deciding to do something too late."
Outside the U.S., growers have a wider array of chemicals to use for the control of soybean rust; however, of five materials screened for soybean rust in Brazil last year, only two performed well, Yoriniori says. "This is an important question that needs a lot of experimenting before a fungicide is released."
In the United States, Quadris and chlorothalonil products such as Bravo are registered for control of soybean rust. Syngenta makes both chemicals. Section 18 efforts are underway in Minnesota and South Dakota to get emergency registrations for chemicals should soybean rust emerge in the United States, experts say.
The take-no-chances approach in the U.S. regarding the disease has been in progress for more than a year and mirrors the effort in South America. "We have a big, big problem here," Yorinori says. "We were accused of terrorizing the farmers. We are not rooting for it to happen … we couldn't respond fast enough." To put the potential threat of soybean rust into perspective, consider that there would not be enough crop protection fungicides to control an epidemic of the disease on the nation's 77 million acres of soybeans, says the USDA's Monte Miles, a plant pathologist at the University of Illinois.
Awareness growing
Although it hasn't arrived in the United States, awareness of soybean rust is generally high across the country, Hieser says. USDA-APHIS has a rapid response team to diagnose, confirm and recommend actions with a network of five diagnostic centers across the country.
APHIS doesn't plan to quarantine fields with soybean rust, says Anwar Rizvi, the program manager for soybean rust with APHIS. Rizvi was in the audience at the press conference and answered questions. "The attitude from APHIS' point of view is to develop a management strategy," Rizvi says. "Soybean rust will spread from a natural source, which is a hurricane and wind. There will be a team of at least 20 people on notice in 24 hours or less" should an outbreak occur. Rizvi points out that when a case of soybean rust is confirmed, it likely means the disease is also in the adjacent area. In the event of an outbreak, the American Soybean Association and the United Soybean Board will be consulted.
The soybean industry met last year to decide the role each organization would take in regard to the threat of soybean rust. Speakers at the news conference agreed that research would play a huge role in the management strategy of soybean rust.
No resistant to soybean rust has been found in more than 900 commercial soybean varieties in the Midwest and South, says Monte Miles, an ARS plant pathologist at the University of Illinois.
A short list of soybean ascensions will be evaluated overseas, says Glen Hartman, a USDA soybean pathologist at the University of Illinois. In Asia, resistant varieties are being crossed with elite germplasm.
"One of our charges is research coordination," Hieser says. "USB is able to move fairly quickly when something like this does develop. In the short term, the United Soybean Board has a good role in getting the basic research going."
For example, in the first year of proposals, United Soybean Board didn't have extensive field trials of fungicides, but now tests are being conducted in Zimbabwe.
Fungicides are the first line of defense. "We've made some progress," says Reid Frederick, a research molecular biologist with the USDA's Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Unit in Fort Detrick, Md. "Chemical companies are aware of the problem."
In the very, very long term, the second strategy is developing tolerant varieties. "That's going to take time," Frederick says.
Researchers across the globe are staying in contact with each other on a monthly basis through conference calls, says Rizvi of the Animal Plant Health and Inspection Service. Plans are now being made to hold a conference on soybean rust later this year, he says.


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text: On 20 Apr 2010, at 21:13, Nathan wrote: > Story Henry wrote: >> On 20 Apr 2010, at 15:52, Nathan wrote: >>> >>> I'd like to propose a few new additions to the ACL Ontology, I won't be >>> specific on names but will describe each one and the associated need. >>> >>> The addition of "groups" - personally I see no need to define a set >>> ontology for what constitutes a group when dealing with ACL, however it >>> would be fantastic to be able to point to the URI of a "Group of WebIDs" >>> and the relation, or predicate, that should be used. For example: >>> >>> [] a acl:Authorization ; >>> acl:accessTo </pictures-of-me> ; >>> acl:mode acl:Read ; >>> acl:agentGroupSource <http://webr3.org/nathan#me> ; >>> acl:agentGroupLink foaf:knows . >> >> I think you can get what you want by using owl reasoning >> >> @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> . >> @prefix acl: <http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#> . >> >> [] a acl:Authorization ; >> acl:accessTo </pictures-of-me> ; >> acl:mode acl:Read ; >> acl:agentClass :myfriends . >> >> :myfriends owl:equivalentClass [ >> a owl:Restriction; >> owl:onProperty [ owl:inverseOf foaf:knows ]; >> owl:hasValue <http://webr3.org/nathan#me> >> ] . >> >>> in this scenario the agentGroupSource is a foaf:Person (me) and the >>> relation to be used as members who have acl:Read access is everybody i >>> foaf:knows. >>> >>> [] a acl:Authorization ; >>> acl:accessTo </working-group> ; >>> acl:mode acl:Read , acl:Write ; >>> acl:agentGroupSource </groups#working-group-members> ; >> >> you probably want a >> >> acl:agentGroupSource </groups/#userGroup1> ; >> >>> acl:agentGroupLink sioc:has_member . >> >> >> [] a acl:Authorization ; >> acl:accessTo </working-group> ; >> acl:mode acl:Read , acl:Write ; >> acl:agentClass :wkgrp. >> >> :wkgrp owl:equivalentClass [ >> a owl:restriction; >> owl:onProperty sioc:member_of; >> owl:hasValue </groups/#userGroup1> . > > I'd really like to invest some time in to making better use of owl > restrictions, ranges etc however a couple of things are stopping me (at > the minute). > > 1: how do I implement this? I've not seen any tools yet that can handle > this level of owl, inferencing and reasoning at runtime easily (to be > realistic any implementation would need to have done it's work in a few > milliseconds at most to be usable). If there are tools that can do this > (even slowly) at runtime at the minute then I'm all ears! :) You probably don't need to do the reasoning every time. You just need to do it every so often, when you one of the resources you are relying on has changed. Then you fill out the class with all the members and you are done. It all depends how you use it. > 2: how does this play with agentClass "# Must be subclass of foaf:Agent"? foaf:Agent is the set of all agents, if you want. then any class you place as the object of the acl:agentClass relation must be a set of agents, ie a subset of foaf:Agent. That fits in well. In any case what was proposed there is not that different from your proposal. It's just already documented and ready to roll. > > Also, even though this is a possibility surely some way of handling > groups with simple to calculate methods would be a useful addition to > the ontology? - I know that what I've suggested could be implemented > with a simple forloop and if-match and that it would cover a huge range > of functionality (most use cases I can think of / need at the least). You could implement something basic with a for loop perhaps. It's a good exercise. Are you trying to read any restriction that could be found anywhere on the internet? Or are you going to be in charge of the acls? If you are somewhat in charge of the acls, then you can make sure not to create too complex restrictions. You can probably get some of the Java reasoning tools to help you. They do some reasoning, and you can probably get quite far by using owl class descriptions to get you a listing of all the members of your class. That is at its most basic what these owl reasoners do really. >>> in this scenario the agentGroupSource is a sioc:Usergroup and the >>> relation to be used as members who can Read,Write is sioc:has_member. >>> >>> I'm very aware that there are inverse relations here (sioc:member_of), >>> but strongly feel that we can't be trusting anything in somebodies foaf >>> profile document for ACL, so thus have negated entirely :) >> >> That is not a question of the direction of the relation, but a question >> of which information you take as reliable. If you don't trust the information >> from the user's profile, don't merge it into the graph you use to decide >> who get access to some resource. >> >>> I've also given the above pretty poor names of agentGroup* in the >>> examples, purposefully to get some input on better names! >> >>> Next up is acl:agentClass, I'm actually going to suggest deprecation or >>> reserving it for future use, because afaict everything which is >>> requesting access to a resource must be an agent of some kind, >> >> Not sure why you think so. The point of agentClass is to link to the set >> of agents that have access. Seems pretty reasonable to me. > > point taken, i like the owl route (for research, future implementations > etc), but for realistic quick implementations of ACL "now" surely a keep > it simple additional option would help? Yes, as said, you can use own and keep it simple. It's up to you how you implement it. > >>> and if we were to distinguish between Classes of Agent then the only place >>> we can find out what Class an Agent has, is in their foaf profile - which they >>> control. >> >> The agent class is not a way of defining the type of the agent, it is a way to >> define the type of people who will be given access. >> >> agentClass a rdf:Property; >> rdfs:label "agent"; >> rdfs:comment "A class of persons or social entities to being given the right"; >> rdfs:domain Authorization; >> rdfs:range rdfs:Class. # Must be subclass of foaf:Agent. >> >> >> >>> So for example you can say that access can only be granted to >>> ex:Admin and I can say I am a foaf:Person, ex:Admin and gain access. >> >> That is why one would not use information from your foaf file to decide >> what class you are in. Presumably the class could be one defined either directly >> by a URL, which could list all its members, and presumably would be access >> controlled by someone reliable, or as above indirectly as your friends. >> >>> In addition access control is a pretty critical issue, and adding in >>> things which bring up many design issues about inference etc when they >>> aren't strictly needed (as in groups and lists of WebIds suit the >>> purpose and always have - imo) may not be the best course of action. >>> (You've no idea how humbly I say that, but figure it best to bring it up). >>> >>> This does however bring up the issue of how to say "read access for >>> anybody with a webid" - is there any wild card syntax that could be used >>> for acl:agent or suchlike? >> >> If you want that you would do as the note in the acl ontology points out, you >> would use the class of foaf:Agent >> >>> >>> And finally, some form of "doesn't have access" - in many cases and on >>> many systems I've implemented there has been very strong, non-optional, >>> requirements to effectively "ban" or restrict access to certain people. >> >> You can use set operators defined here >> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-guide-20040210/#SetOperators >> >> to define sets of people who are not allowed access. > > which is great but I really need a non reasoning approach too - one of > the huge strengths of the ACL ontology is it's focus on keeping things > simple, like using basic Read,Write,Control permission set - a simple > way to handle cases where a certain set of people had no access would be > a really good thing to have. for loops are also types of reasoning. They are just procedural (and therefore non declarative), somewhat language dependent and not that easy to reason about. I think it would help if you worked out the use cases for your reasoning. Start with a simple implementation that we can use and test, and then we can help from there. Henry > >>> Often access is granted to everybody who is logged in but not to >>> person-x and person-y. It seems that some for of acl:Unauthorisation is >>> needed - but I'll leave it there for those more intelligent than me to >>> pick up :) >>> >>> /end-of-list >>> >>> Out of all the above, the first issue group access is the one I'd most >>> like to get out of the way asap, or even ideas on a temporary work >>> around as keen to be progressing with the acl implementation. > > Best, > > Nathan >


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Past catches up with the present in "Big Words," pointing its characters toward an uncertain future. After having performed together as a hip-hop trio in the early '90s, James (Gbenga Akinnagbe) can't put it far enough behind him, while John (Dorian Missick) and Terry (Darien Sills-Evans) have each struggled to move forward. Writer-director Neil Drumming gives each character a fully formed story of his own, aided by strong, lively performances from his entire cast.
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Anthony Webster, 27, worked in the child care center of a Life Time club in Collierville, TN. He is accused of putting his hands in the pants of the 6-year-old girl, according to TV station Fox 13 News in Memphis, TN.
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MANCHESTER, Tenn. — We woke in Nashville blinking with disbelief. Five of us guys were about to head 60 miles southeast to the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, which we envisioned as four nights of music, camping, bright sunshine and swaying women in bikini tops.
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