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I would post a picture but I'm not really sure what it looks like yet--and yes, that's precisely how much interest I have in cars. I do know what kind of car it is, though. It's a Toyota Sienna. Which is a kind of minivan car. Joe and I very briefly went to both a Toyota and a Honda dealership during our date night while Joe's parents were watching the kids (because the only thing I can imagine more nightmarish than bringing your kids to a car dealership is maybe bringing your kids to Ikea when those kids refuse to be left in Smölville or whatever the hell that Ikea kids' penitentiary is called). Honestly, they're very similar cars, but we kinda liked the Sienna slightly better.
Anyway, I found a good deal online for below the MSRP with good financing options blah blah blah financial talk and Joe had an early afternoon off while I was on call and I told him to just go get the damn car because it's not exactly like I wanted to spend a weekend myself in some car dealership back office arguing with Jerry Lundergaard about not getting that Truecoat and fine, he'll do a damn lot count, what the Christ! So Joe did. Get the car, I mean. The reason we don't have it in the driveway yet is because we decided to listen to everyone on the planet and get the leather seats after all (I always thought of them as some sort of unnecessary luxury option, like a seat warmer, until the cleaning benefits were pointed out to me) and the leather seats take about a week and a half to put on.
I think the car is grey, with a beige inside. That's...about as much as I know. Whatever, Joe saw it. I'm sure it's fine.
So! Minivans!
I like to think that we're generally financially cautious. For example we decided, after some consideration, that we probably shouldn't get a new car and have a baby and landscape the backyard at around the same time, so the backyard improvements are shelved until at least next year. Which is fine. I mean, it would be nice to have a swingset upon which evict the kids from the house, but what the hell, indoors is nice too. All the better to develop osteomalacia, kids. Now do like on "Mad Men" and go watch TV.
That said, on the way home from Hilton Head I made a declaration. (I do that sometimes.) I declared that we should live frugally in so much as it was possible, but that also, we should try to take trips together as a family as much as we were able. They don't have to be big trips or expensive trips--I'm not talking about flying us all to Rome or anything. But just little day trips. Weekend trips. Stuff like when we went camping last fall, or when we lived in New York and used to go to that pick-your-own-fruit farm. Just time away, all together, making memories, on purpose. Spring Break was great but since we've been back, I've really noticed how little time we're all able to spend together, and how much, during the course of a normal week when the kids are going to school and Joe and I are at work, that time together is purely process-driven. It's all: rush home, get dinner into gullets, homework, bath, snack, bedtime. The weeks blend together. And they go too fast.
So on the spur of the moment, Joe and I decided that, instead of staying around town for Memorial Day weekend (which was the original plan--and I'm sure if we did the weekend would have been consumed purely by errands and minutiae) we were going to take a small trip, a family trip, and spend time together as a family of four (well, five--we're bringing the dog) before we expand our ranks. Kind of a babymoon for all of us.
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IE vs. Image ReplacementApril 08, 2004
Sure, I admit it: there's a glaring IE6 glitch on this site. I've known about it for a while, but I'm not going to fix it. Well, there are two glitches actually, and the second is a little more tricky. But let's talk about the first.
The big red banner is displayed by image replacement on an
h1. Since I built the site, hovering caused the infamous 'flicker' in IE (which is the second problem, but I digress again.) Then I interviewed Ryan Carver for WaSP, and took a look at his IE investigation, after which I applied his method to the banner, thereby eliminating the flicker for good.
Except doing so introduced a brand new bug no one had ever seen before. What it looks like: a piece of the content from the body is being duplicated, and briefly layered over top of the banner itself. It's easier to just see it:
I have no idea what causes it or how I'd go about isolating it, and I'm not even going to bother. Instead, I'm going to point and laugh, and leave it as-is. Just because it's IE. And just because I can.
(because some make disclaimers mandatory: this 'ignore it' approach is to be taken for this site alone. mezzoblue caters to web designers, who should know better than to run IE in the first place. No, you shouldn't penalize users for their choice of browser. No, this isn't an attitude to take when doing commercial work. No, I don't know whether I'll have the fish or the chicken.)
Okay, so the second bug is something more problematic, because it does affect most everyone else. In certain instances, hovering over image-replaced links causes the link to blink out and back in as the image re-loads. Keeping an eye on the IE/globe 'throbber' up in the top right corner shows there's some network activity happening as it does this, albeit very briefly; watching your outgoing packets confirms it. IE isn't caching, but reloading (or at least re-checking) the image every single time, causing the flicker.
There's an easy fix! I wrote about it six months ago! It doesn't actually work!
Well, it does for some. But here's something I'm noticing — even with that generous caching setting turned on, in some instances IE still causes flicker. Like, on this site for one. Like, allegedly, on the Sprites demos at ALA for another. Which really causes me to scratch my head, because I purposefully layered two sets of images over top of each other to eliminate the problem.
But no matter, due to the inconsistency and terrible difficulty in tracking it down I've started to suspect it has to do with a server setting anyhow. Well lo and behold, in the very post referenced above, a link posted by Blake Scarbrough to a discussion which I either never saw or don't remember seeing points out some .htaccess configuration which may yet provide a fix. I haven't touched the code, so I can't vouch for it yet, but you can be sure I'll give it a shot when I have the chance.
update: Since there seems to have been confusion about this, despite the disclaimer, you'll note that the second problem (the one that actually is a real problem that should be fixed) I said just above I would look into and fix. And so I have. Provided you have caching turned on in Internet Explorer, the flashing problem should be alleviated. The .htaccess lines in the css-discuss thread linked above did the trick. IE still flashes if caching is set to 'check every time', but as explained in the entry from six months ago I also linked to, this is a developer setting that has to be manually turned on, so most users will not experience it. Flashing problem: solved. Original IE glitch I decided not to solve: probably solved too. Onwards.
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I did change the .htaccess file as outlined from that discussion and it did work on the site I was working on. However I did switch to using pixy's updated rollover method later and it worked as well.
The reason for the flicker seems to be because your server seems to think that the image needs to be redownloaded each time the mouse goes over it.
Here's a trace in IE 6 (with XPSP2):
GET /i/h-main.jpg HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Referer: http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/04/08/ie_vs_image_/index.php
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.40301)
Host: www.mezzoblue.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
Cookie: style=null
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 23:16:08 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_gzip/18.104.22.168a mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.3.5
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Last-Modified: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:16:10 GMT
ETag: "4d01e6-6c09-3f6a047a"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 27657
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=134
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Trace from IE plug-in ieHTTPHeaders - http://www.blunck.info
Your server *should* be returning:
HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
In Mozilla/FF, there isn't flicker because the Moz engine doesn't it doesn't seem to check with the server to see if a new image needs to be downloaded.
This issue can be caused if you have "cache expire" set to something like "immediately" on your server.
(I use IIS exclusively, and found this fix to work for me on every site I've worked on. I have no experience with Apache, so I don't even know if this is a setting that can be easily changed.)
I posted the wrong header strings. Here's the correct one showing the jpg being re-requested and re-downloaded each time the mouse goes over it in IE:
GET /i/h-main.jpg HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Referer: http://www.mezzoblue.com/
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.40301)
Host: www.mezzoblue.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 23:27:53 GMT
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ETag: "4d01e6-6c09-3f6a047a"
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Content-Length: 27657
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=150
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: image/jpeg
That ugly "random piece of the page showing through" thing is what I mention as "distortion" in my article, and claim no responsibility for. However I just stumbed upon a way that seems to avoid both flicker and distortion. This may or may not be the same as Pixy's updated method.
See the Update at http://fivesevensix.com/studies/ie6flicker/
As for the server techniques, regardless of whether the server returns 200 or 304, the browser shouldn't even be talking to the server on rollover.
I've bumped into a similar IE content duplication problem this morning at: http://inab.simonboyle.net/schemes/lab/testing/directory.html and http://inab.simonboyle.net/schemes/lab/calibration/directory.html (Scroll to the end of the page to see magically duplicated content. Mysteriously, inserting empty div's changes the content duplicated. And after multiple visits, IE crashes.
Dylan, according to what you posted in #3, IE is not sending an If-Modified-Since header in its request, so there's no way the server could possibly know it should send a Not Modified response.
Dave, perhaps a silly question, but why not place the background image in the h1 instead of the link? Fixes the flicker/reproduction problem just fine here.
Hah, that's about as weird as the random IE bugh on my site. Every so often, words are duplicated on it. Every word that ends a line is duplicated on the line below. Only in IE5, afaik, and only some of the time, and only in some copies.
IE bugs are fun!
I added the following to my .htaccess and it fixed the problem for me:
BrowserMatch "MSIE" brokenvary=1
BrowserMatch "Mozilla/4.[0-9]{2}" brokenvary=1
BrowserMatch "Opera" !brokenvary
SetEnvIf brokenvary 1 force-no-vary
"If your design doesn't work in at least IE5+/Win and Mozilla (run by over 90% of the population), chances are we won't accept it."
"Just because it's IE. And just because I can."
is this the same dave?
> As for the server techniques, regardless of whether the server returns 200 or 304, the browser shouldn't even be talking to the server on rollover.
Why do you say that? The server response includes no Expires header, so the client has no way of knowing how long its cached copy is valid for. If it hides the image and displays something else, and then attempts to show it again, it's not unreasonable to ask the server if it's still up to date.
Most flickering rollovers in Internet Explorer can be fixed by setting an appropriate Expires HTTP header.
A great tool to look at cache-related headers is the Cacheability-Engine here:
Dave – have the chicken!
If the larger type is selected (from style switcher) the header does not duplicate body content. The red flicker is still there…but no body content duplication. (IE6 XP)
> If it hides the image and displays something else, and then attempts to show it again, it's not unreasonable to ask the server if it's still up to date.
I see your point. But as far as I know, ie6 is the only browser that does this.
Jim, what Ryan was talking about in #4 is that since nothing is being done with the image on hover there is no reason the browser /should/ be going back to the server to see if it's been changed.
I dont use IE that much but I have noticed that the navigation is unusable in Opera (7.3), but I read somewhere that you know of this issue. Its annoying but I can live with it.
It basically shows the drop down box to the left of the content area, or nothing at all.
I'm dying for someone to get to the bottom of the rollover "flicker" bug in Internet Explorer. It has provided major obstacle to implementing many of the tidier CSS driven ideas into the commercial sites we build at work.
Below are some observations from the hours I have spent trying to isolate the dreaded flicker. Excuse any statements of the bleeding obvious, and keep in mind my methods for gathering these points have been less than scientific:
• Occurs when background images are used in conjunction with :hover, possibly also triggered by JavaScript used to imitate this effect on an element other than a link ("A").
• Images are likely to flicker when a number of links share the parent with the background image. The more links the more flicker (mostly, sigh!). As, for example, in navigation menus constructed from unordered or definition lists. Flicker occurs when mousing from one link to the next.
• Only appears to be a problem in IE 6. Exact same page has no problem in IE 5.
• More likely to be triggered when visible link text is overlapping a background image, or at least when the parent element of the link text has a background image applied.
• Is not a consistent problem on every PC despite matching browsers and test web page. Processor speed could be a factor - not sure.
I'll hungrily consume the links mentioned here shortly and test them out when I get back to work. Happy Easter!
In the meantime I have a possible answer to at least some of the duplicated content bugs mentioned here. I saw a similar thing happening and managed to pin it on empty DIVs in the page:
<div> </div>
This may not be the issue here but I hope it helps someone out there.
Dave, I'd be interested in seeing the percentages of browser types used to view your site, if you have access to such stats. I've found - http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/03/31/ie_slowdown_/#c004314 - that for general purpose sites, there's a ~95% slice going to the various IE flavors. Does Mezzoblue have a significantly different spectrum?
Michael, since you asked – stats for this site (and only this site) since the beginning of 2004:
NetNewsWire - 16.52%
Mozilla - 15.89%
SharpReader - 7.35%
Netscape - 6.05%
FeedDemon - 5.82%
Safari - 4.36%
NewsGator - 2.83%
(unknown) - 2.26%
Opera - 2.25%
And then a ton of low percentage bots, newsreaders, and other various unknowns.
I stumbled upon CSS Zen Garden while looking for CSS inspiration. By doing so I opened up a world of linked websites. I also gained rapid insterest in Mozilla, and have now become used to frustration over the pathetic CSS support in Internet Explorer.
What is Microsoft thinking? IE 5.5 for Mac is marginally better than IE for Windows in CSS support, but still has some major bugs to work
Until Microsoft realises that Internet Explorer truly does suck, it will always be fun to mock this decrepit program. Generally, there are ways to make a page browser-compliant. I hope that when IE for Longhorn is released, Microsoft will become aware of the battle between developers and users.
Either that, or web developers around the world should start a war against the use of IE. Rid the world of the bane of CSS design! A site that enforces the use of Mozilla or Opera. A site that will convert thousands from the Dark Side daily.
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The duplicated texts usually appears if you have some floated divs inside other floated divs with a fixed width…
Those divs are not larger than the containing div in normal/nice browsers because only internet explorer doubles the margins (http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/doubled-margin.html)
It seems that internet explorer handles the overflow somehow buggy.
Hope this makes sense, it's not a fix or anything, but somehow if you make sure that the nested divs have the right size the duplicated text disappears.
I use both Firefox and IE6 to view this site on occation, never had this problem in IE, ever.
I have experienced wierd disapearances of DIVs that are absolutely positontion in relative elements tho (they actually just disapear.. its weird).
Why are those stats a load of crap? It's pretty clear they haven't been filtered a lot but nevertheless they sound plausible:
50% of visits are from web browsers. That's pretty low but not absurdly so given that people who syndicate the site are probably checking once an hour or so for updates.
The percentage of non-IE browsers are high compared to th general population. This is entirely expected and, to be honest, I'm surprised there are so many people visiting who actually use IE. People what are you doing?
The order of the alternatve browsers is broadly consistent with what you would expect. I'm not sure that Opera isn't a bit low which suggests that maybe the analysis occasionally misidentifies Opera. Of course maybe people who read Dave are also more inclined toward other browsers for some reason (lots of possibilities, little chance of listing any without being flamed by at least one Opera user :) )
To all the people questioning Dave for not bothering to fix the IE issues:
If you use buggy software, you can expect to be affected by bugs.
It *is* Dave's responsibility to make the site accessible, that is to make the content avaliable regardless of which browser is used. That's the responsibilty shirked by people who design for a specific browser. As far as I can tell, this problem doesn't prevent access to content.
It *is not* his responsibility to spend his life hacking around the deficiencies of poor software.
It's in Dave's best interests to have the page render attractivley in all browsers. By having an attrctive, well coded, site he maintains hs reputation as an elite web designer. However if he deems that the n hours it could take to track down the IE issue and maybe find a workaround would be better spent doing something else (like, y'know putting the laptop down and spending some time with his wife ;) ), he has no *responsibility* to fix the issue.
The correct 'fix' for this problem (and many others besides) is a fix in the source code of Internet Explorer. If you're using unsatisfactory software you have the choice of complang to the vendor until it is fixed or switching products. If you put up with buggy software and expect everyone else to go out of their way to make things work for you, what incentive does the vendor have to produce good software?
those stats are a load of crap
they make roughly 80% for a start, and i dont see 20% as a low percentage of bots…. or do you get 20 different bots crawling your pages? ha!
for most sitesin the same genre it goes..
MS Internet Explorer
just to make sure ill be pointing my traffic anyliser at your site for the next month
I find Dave's stats very interesting, and enlightening as to what the hardcore CSS/Standards crowd is wearing in the browser area.
These are the stats for my site ( http://overcaffeinated.net ). I post them to provide a point of comparison. We have different target audiences. My crowd has a high percentage of tech-oriented people, but also lots of casual visitors with no interest in web design or the like.
MS Internet Explorer 60.7 %
Mozilla 24.8 %
Safari 5.5 %
Unknown 2.5 %
Opera 2.3 %
Firebird 1.8 %
Netscape 1 %
Galeon No 0.2 %
Konqueror 0.1 %
UP.Browser (PDA/Phone browser) 0.1 %
These are the Operating System stats:
Windows 84.9 %
Macintosh 8.9 %
Linux 3.3 %
Unknown 2.2 %
FreeBSD 0.5 %
These are not broken down by version, but you get the idea.
I visit the Site mezzoblue frequently. And I saw the problem with the image replacement in the header. Now I see that the trouble is gone.
But what about accability. I have seen many solutions about image replacement.
I mean is this solution now save for screen readers and text browsers.
Thank you for your statements.
The stats aren't helpful because those feed readers often show the page using IE as their renderer. I use IntraVnews, which brings the RSS feed into Outlook. I'm sure Outlook isn't going to show up as a % of browsers.
But back to the real issue - did my post about the non-caching image solve the problem?
Those stats are straight out of my stat aggregator, but they're only the first page. There are a bunch more below the threshold at 2% or less, which I'd assume add up to 100%, but I wasn't going to bother listing them because most of those were bots and newsreaders. 20 bots crawling my pages? Way more. There have been 379 unique user agents/bots in the past week alone. Let me sample a few: Googlebot, Python urllib, NewzCrawler, Liferea, Drupal, kinjabot, Abilon, W3C_Validator, curl, apple 1.1, Botswana v0.1, msnbot, Feedster Crawler… and the list goes on.
Anyway, the second of the two problems, the bigger problem, and the one I said in my original post I was going to fix, has been fixed. The code from the link referenced - http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/30707 - when added to my .htaccess file did the trick. Note: it only works when IE's caching is set to 'Automatically'. Setting that to 'Check Every Time' still flashes; as I said above, it's a developer setting that you have to manually turn on, so it's not something to be too concerned that users will have enabled.
(The first problem may be fixed too, for that matter.)
The last time I was here, I noticed the header image flicker and reload issue (IE 6, Win2K) - and the strange "duplicate body" copy would appear in place of the image momentarily.
The flicker was affecting the nav (about / weblog / contact) as well, but both seem to have either disappeared or have been fixed since.
A friend of mine suspects third-party browser plug-ins may relate to this strange cache behavior. One would assume if the browser is making a request on a hover etc., the problem is with the browser and not the server.
"Setting that to 'Check Every Time' still flashes; as I said above, it's a developer setting that you have to manually turn on, so it's not something to be too concerned that users will have enabled."
If only that were the case! It seems like every computer on which my client http://www.bcon.edu checks their site, there's a flicker because that machine's on "check every time." It looks like at this point I'm going to have to redo all of the menus… probably with sprites. Yick.
chriszs, I find the opposite of what you said to be true. Yes IE is fast, but its speed comes and goes in almost in a spastic pattern, a lot like Windows itself. Opera, while perhaps a little slower than IE at its fastest, are usually more consistent in its speed.
Every month when I read my statistic I hope that the old browser are gone. But sometimes I see 10% of netscape 4 browser. Honestly I think that browser are only used from people how what to check your side.
I've used Opera, Mozilla, and Internet Explorer all extensively (I mean months of each) and I'm currently using IE for 2 reasons:
1. All the people who design for IE, but not anything else.
2. Because it feels more responsive. Despite Mozilla and Opera's claims of being faster IE feels lighter on it's feet than either, and when it comes to browser speed perception is reality.
Chriszs, I'd be curious to know what OS and platform you're on. I agree that Mozilla is a little slow, because it's really an advanced XUL platform with a web browser inside it (much like Windows Foghorn Leghorn's XAML browser will be in four years).
But Firefox, using the Mozilla rendering engine, is certainly no slower or less snappy on my machines than IE. What's more, you can easily download optimized builds for your processor. A P4 or Athlon-optimized Firefox build will run circles around IE, which is compiled only for the old 386 architecture. Check out mozillazine.org for some of these custom builds.
Opera's advantage seems to be its fast start. A cold start only takes 2 seconds on my machine, quicker than IE, even though IE runs in the background.
Anyway, after having my whole network infected with Nimda thanks to an IE/ActiveX bug, I've sworn off Microsoft. I'm running Linux at home, and my next machine will be a Mac.
Vinnie & Paul:
I currently run XP on a 2.6 Ghz P4. I tried Firefox twice and both times it crashed, though that was probably when I was using 2000. Hmm, maybe it's time to try it again. Thanks for the tip on the customized builds.
To Dave and Sergio:
Thanks for the glimpse at those stats guys. It's very interesting to see the pretty drastic differences between the stats of differently-oriented sites. Seems that everyone who's at all computer-proficient beyond just knowing how his programs work - people who take active interest in computers - are moving wholesale to IE alternatives. And their families and friends are probably following suit if they're any good at explaining things - I know my circle of F&F are. :D
Basically, now more than ever, us web designers need to keep solidly in mind who our target audience is, especially when we're pondering whether to spend all that time on that blasted IE/Win hack or just to say "screw IE".
Shame that there's no realistic way to have a site that would report on the stats of various different types of sites, like the spread we had here… unless it was some sort of community-fed aggregate. Hmmm….
I got many emails from users for quite some time now regarding this problem on on of my sites but I didn't understand what they wanted as my system runs IE 5.5
When I upgarded to IE6 now I saw this problem and fixed it. The only thing is I needed IE5.5 is to test how is flash running on old browsers since it is differnt that IE6.
I had the same problem with the flicker on a site I am building for the company I work for.
I downloaded a program that let me review the http header and discovered that IE6 was reloading those images each time.
I got our support implement that server fix, which is recommended to stop the flicker. It worked when put into the httpd.conf file. But didn't work in the .htaccess file.
.htaccess, httpd.conf, IE cache tweaking….none of it works.
I thought perhaps that one of these solutions would work and at first it seemed they did.
However, on a site I am developing I am making use of small pop-up windows that average 500-600px wide by 300-600px tall. When opened, this causes every single image replacement background to flicker over the whole page.
Even after closing the window, mousing over any image replacement background causes it to flicker.
I would have liked to say case-closed on this but the fact of the matter is that it is still a major issue.
That pesky image flicker!!
To clarify:
* only affects IE6 (not IE5/5.5)
* only affects CSS background-images which are influenced by some dynamic effect on the page (these are numerous and are not just hovers)
* is especially persistent when IE's cache settings are "Every visit to the page" (a common developer's setting)
* the "force-no-vary" server configuration does not fix the flicker for the above setting.
I added the following lines to my apache conf file:
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/gif A86400
ExpiresByType image/jpeg A86400
ExpiresByType image/png A86400
And thenI tuned on the apache module "mod_expires".
That fixed it good.
The configuration above forces image files to persist in the browser's cache for one day (86400 seconds).
If someone wants to test and improve this then go ahead. I'm no server expert…
I have noticed some complaints on other forums (strangely not here) about the image flicker solution (changing the server settings) not working.
I didn't work for me, but I figured it out.
On my testing browser, I had press Tools->Internet Options->Delete Files (Delete All Offline Content).
Then, after a refresh, the images stopped flickering.


text: On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Matt Osborne wrote: > Hi, writing a paper on Beowulf's and the performance benefits gained from > such a system. Looking for information on the performance increase from 1 > to x nodes and the difference in performance of some code running on the > Beowulf to the code on a single processor. Any help appreciated! =] The usual: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~brahma/beowulf_online_book/ and seek out the chapters on Amdahl's law and parallel scaling. It may not be exactly what you are looking for (if you are looking for specific programs or speedup anecdotes) but it will help you understand how programs are organized to benefit from parallelization (and WHEN they CAN be so organized, as many cannot). HTH, rgb > > Regards, > Matt Osborne > Electrical/Computer Engineering > Christian Brothers University > Memphis, Tennessee > _______________________________________________ > 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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Fire Damages Two Storage Units in Sioux Falls
Fire early Tuesday heavily damaged two units of a storage building at 2500 North Drive in Sioux Falls and injured a man.
The fire was reported around 3:30am, and Sioux Falls Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Mark Bukovich says the first crews on scene found smoke and fire coming from two units of the ten-unit building, and an injured person who had been in the building when the fire broke out.
He was taken to a hospital, and the extent of his injuries is not known.
Bukovich says crews had the fire out in about 20 minutes, but there was heavy fire damage in the two units and smoke damage in the others.
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Benitez hints at Abramovich tension
Rafa Benitez has admitted he has not spoken to Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich in over 20 days, as uncertainty over his future at the club remains.
With the Blues winless in their last five games and speculation growing, the Spanish manager could not say whether he had been given guarantees that he will maintain his post at Stamford Bridge until the end of the season regardless of results.
Indeed, Benitez revealed that the last time he spoke to Abramovich was after his last win against Arsenal.
"It was after the Arsenal game, 20 days ago," he said. "We were doing really well and he was really happy. Since then I've had conversations with people close to him, not directly. Do you know what he thinks? If you don't know, you can't say this or that will happen. Nobody knows.
"We have been talking with the people here. I was talking with him. We were talking about football. In terms of football everything is fine. We want to win. Then you put names in the press, 200 names. It doesn't matter. My contract is until the end of the season. No one is talking to the owner. The people in charge are talking to me about football."
When asked whether he was certain if he will be at Stamford Bridge come May, Benitez insisted he "couldn't give an answer".
"I'm sure I was training for my players and preparing for this game. I cannot give you an answer," he said. "Why? I have to concentrate on the next game. I have a contract until the end of the season and we can be talking and talking, but all I can do is win games."
Benitez also denied that all the uncertainty is affecting the team, despite the fact Chelsea have squandered a series of 2-0 wins recently.
"My job is exactly the same. After winning, you can have better comments in the media in general, but that's part of football," Benitez added. "I've been in football for 26 years as a manager, and all my life as a player too. If you win, it's fine. If not, people start talking. But we analyse games, watch videos, have meetings with the staff and we try and improve."


text: So where to start, can i have any thing primary about the beowulf On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Jess Cannata <jac67 at georgetown.edu> wrote: > What do you want to do exactly? Do you already "farm" out portions of your > job/task to different machines? Beowulf clusters are already used for tasks > that are highly independent and can therefore tolerate heterogeneous > clusters (animation rendering is the first one that crosses my mind, but > there are others). I'm assuming that your jobs would be similar, so correct > me if I am wrong. Send out the details (applications used, time required to > run the jobs currently, etc.), and I'm sure you'll get some advice. > > Jess > > Linux Mercedes wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm wondering if a Beowulf cluster would be a good choice for doing > > audio/video production, or if I'm looking for something else. > > If it is, I'm curious as to how it would work with a heterogenous > > cluster (I have machines with speeds anywhere between 100Mhz and 1Ghz that > > I'd like to use, although I do have older ones =]) > > > > Thanks, > > Nathan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20080427/ad9fc5c4/attachment.html>


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If you have being waiting for me to weigh in on the paper versus plastic debate (and who hasn't) I am finally prepared to provide some guidance. Anyone over 40 remembers a time when there was no choice when you got to the end of the grocery store checkout line. Paper was the only option until 1977 when plastic bags first appeared. They quickly became the bag of choice because they didn't destroy trees, plus they had handy little loops for carrying. But plastic bags are made of polyethylene, which is made from natural gas. And plastic doesn't decompose for a long, long time.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The MIT coed sailing team moved up one spot in the latest Sperry – Top Sider College Rankings as announced by Sailing World earlier this week. Now ranked No. 13, the Engineers have steadily climbed up the standings since beginning the season in the No. 16 slot.
A member of the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association, MIT is one of 10 teams from the league to earn a national ranking. Fellow conference foes include: Yale (No. 2), Brown (No. 4), Boston College (No. 5), Roger Williams University (No. 6), Dartmouth (No. 9), Tufts University (No. 10), Harvard (No. 15), Connecticut College (No. 16), and Vermont (No. 20). The Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association was represented by seven squads, followed by two from the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association and one from the Pacific Coast Collegiate Sailing Conference.
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A few months ago I was covering an event at the Bristol Elementary School with photographer Trent Campbell — the sort of story I sometimes offer up self-deprecatingly to friends when I talk about my job. This, I'll joke, is the bread and butter of community journalists: elementary school assemblies and small town police logs. In Bristol, a handful of students spent all year growing out their hair for Locks of Love, and Trent and I were on hand at the end-of-year assembly to document the big cut: snip!
When you spend enough time with animals, you start to truly understand them. Maybe it's the barn fumes, but lately I feel like I can even hear what they're saying.
Take our pet goats, for instance. As soon as the three of them see my husband and me preparing to move their fence to new pasture, they come bounding up to us with eager smiles, saying, "That looks interesting. Here, we'll help." The next thing you know, they're weaving in and out between us, nibbling on the fiberglass posts, stepping on our feet and generally being more problem than solution.
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Shortly after a Jan. 12 earthquake devastated the Caribbean country of Haiti, I earned myself a new nickname in the office: "Haiti Katie." (Granted, I'd divvied up the duty of covering the local angle on the disaster with reporter John Flowers, but "Haiti John" just didn't have the same ring to it.)
When it comes to moving, most folks have any number of conflicting opinions on the topic. My college roommate was methodical about the process, packing boxes for what seemed like weeks in advance of any move, all while meticulously sorting her sweaters into color-coded heaps. An old boyfriend, on the other hand, was a firm believer in the efficiency of last-minute preparations; more than once he pulled all-nighters before moving, frantically throwing his belongings, willy-nilly, into any box within reach.
With the holidays approaching, our house is already filling up with the love and laughter of family and friends. Surrounded by my favorite people day and night, I keep coming back to one question: How do I make them go away?
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text: Mark Hahn wrote: >>Nastran doesn't really want to run more than one job (MPI rank) per >>node. > > I bet that isn't true on dual-opterons. NASTRAN loves memory bandwidth, and hates sharing it. A properly built dual, which does not have node-interleaving on, does pretty well. >>The distro can/will have a significant impact on allocatable memory. >>Nastran uses brk(2) to allocate memory, so the TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE is >>significant. > > can nastran run on amd64? it might even run nicely as a ia32 process Yes. This was just released. > on amd64. just for curiosity: It does. [...] >>I can't comment on SATA, but PATA disks are a really bad choice, as they >>require too much effort from the CPU to drive them--SCSI is MUCH >>preferred in that case. > > this is one of the longest-lived fallacies I've ever personally experienced. > it was true 10+ years ago when PIO was the norm for ATA disks. busmastering > has been the norm for PATA for a long while. Actually under very intensive I/O load, cheap/crappy IDE controllers flood the CPU with interrupts. Good quality ones do not. David (when he was at MSC) and the rest of the team working on this stuff used machines that had ... issues ... with their IDE interfaces. The SCSI interfaces they used were top notch, most vendors tend to toss in IDE as an afterthought. Very little attention was/is paid to building good controllers. That leads to analyses/statements like this, which are sometimes part of biases, but sometimes not (as in this case, they were not). Basically, I am saying he is right about the effect (poor PATA experience on NASTRAN on their test systems), though the cause is not because PATA is crappy, but because PATA chip sets are usually quite crappy, and flood the CPU with interrupts. Then again, I think it is arguable that the net effect of a crappy PATA chip set is a crappy PATA experience. Which would tend to re-inforce this viewpoint. Note also: I believe that when they tested this, they went in with an open mind, and real test cases. As debugging IO systems wasn't their purpose in life, they probed it as far as they needed, and drew their conclusions. > >>As for CPU v. I/O. The factors are (in no order): >> >>fp performance >>memory b/w >>disk b/w >>memory size >> >>Which of the above dominates the analysis depends on the analysis. > > for the reported symptoms (poor scaling when using the second processor), > the first doesn't fit. memory bw certainly does, and is Intel's main > weak spot right now. then again, disk bw and memory size could also fit Note where David works now. > the symptoms (since they're also resources shared on a dual), but would be > diagnosable by other means (namely, both would result in low %CPU utilization; > the latter (thrashing) would be pretty obvious from swap traffic/utilization.) I have a ... sneaking suspicion ... that David knows what he is talking about w.r.t. NASTRAN. > > like I said, I bet the problem is memory bandwidth. mainly because I just don't > see programs waiting on disk that much anymore - it does happen, but large > writes these days will stream at 50+ MB/s, and reads are often cached. No Mark, MSC.NASTRAN is in a collection of programs that you generally call IO monsters. They can and will consume every last MB/s that you can throw at them on the IO channel for good sized problems. You most definitely do not want a single spindle as your scratch space. At SGI years ago, we were looking to try to provide GB/s sustainable performance for NASTRAN on the file systems. With NASTRAN, you want the widest non-blocking IO channel you can get (widest in terms of MB/s, not physical bit depth). To get this, you need to look at various striping techniques. You really do not want a RAID5, a RAID3, or anything that calculates a parity structure getting in the way of moving data. NASTRAN does pound on the memory bandwidth (large linear algebra systems), and on the FPU. I think they have been using the Intel compilers so they get some advantage on Intels (and software disabling of fast SSE paths on Opteron) for the IA32 code. The AMD64 variant code was built with other compilers from what I understand. Here NASTRAN should benefit significantly from a non-segmented memory system (the 64bit AMD64 space is not a segment+offset addressing schema) in terms of memory bandwidth. > I should mention that if HT is enabled on these duals, the problem could be > poor HT support in your kernels. (HT creates two virtual processors for > each physical one. if the scheduler treats HT-virtual processors as real, > you will get very poor speedup. this would also be diagnosable by simply > running 'top' during a test.) HT can help a few codes, but it will not generally help IO bound codes. 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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Consumers should stop using this product unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
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Name of Product: Holmes Ceramic Heaters
Hazard: The ceramic heaters can overheat, posing a fire hazard to consumers.
Remedy: Refund
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Units: About 151,600
Description: This recall involves Holmes oscillating ceramic heaters sold in black, purple, red, blue and white. The rectangular heaters included in the recall are about 12 inches tall, 8 ½ inches wide and 5 ½ inches deep and have model number HCH1823M printed on a label on the bottom of the product. The "Holmes" logo is on the bottom front of the unit and two knobs controlling the fan and the thermostat are on the top. The heater adjusts between a high and low heat setting and a fan only setting.
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September 20, 2002
Los Angeles — Economists with UCLA Anderson's Richard S. Ziman Center for Real Estate released their first forecast for the entire Southern California area on Sept. 18, 2002, anticipating positive prolonged investment opportunity for the region's apartment building markets. The forecasts for prior conferences covered only the Greater Los Angeles area.
The predictions were presented by Dr. Stephen Day Cauley, associate director of the Ziman Center, as a part of the Fourth Annual Multi-Family Housing Conference held at the Skirball Center. In addition, the conference included keynote addresses on urban revival by Jerry Brown, mayor of Oakland, Calif., and Richard Banks, president of the west division of Archstone-Smith, who spoke on current market possibilities. Panel sessions and workshops on related topics were also presented.
The expanded Southern California forecast noted that apartments have experienced a 15 percent increase in per unit prices during the past year, even though this was a period of only moderate growth in rents and declines in occupancy rates, giving rise to fears of a possible "price bubble." However, though some submarkets are almost certainly over-heated, Cauley believes the majority of apartment buildings are not substantially over-valued because of advantageous long-range demographic trends.
"We are in a period of sustained growth in the part of the population that demands apartments," Cauley said. "There is an increasing portion of the population who will never be able to afford home ownership, mainly low income recent immigrant families."
In addition to these lower income families, the report anticipates an increase in the population of young, highly educated professionals, another source of demand for apartments. However, because of an imbalance between location of new construction and location of greatest increase in demand for apartments, the needs of the young professionals group will be met, but the needs of the lower middle class will not.
The forecast expects substantial rent increases of two to three percent real growth and low vacancy rates for the foreseeable future in the Southern California region as a whole. However, some higher-end areas, like West Los Angeles, are not as likely to prosper, experiencing decreases in occupancy rates and possible reductions in average rents. Conversely, San Diego County, especially I-5 and I-15 corridors, should be "hot."
In the short-run, the still slow economy should dampen all segments of the market. The foremost risk is the potential for the prior year's price increases resulting in unrealistic expectation of future price increases, triggering "money chasing deals" and potential formation of a "price bubble." Los Angeles County is most vulnerable to negative impact from this irrational response.
"The biggest threat to Southern California apartment markets is a rise in property values that is not consistent with economic fundamentals," said Cauley. "Fundamentals are consistent with continued growth in real property values and development opportunities, but not consistent with continued double digit price increases."
Cauley noted that there are limiting factors at work, including the effect of rent increases on labor costs that reduces the rate of employment growth and decreases demand for apartments locally, as well as the negative effect of rent increases on immigration into and out of Southern California.
"Firms are chasing people — not moving where their customers are but where employees are available," said Cauley. "If rents are too high, people leave."
In addition, the predictions are based on an expected benign state in the economy, absent a "double dip" recession, which Cauley and his staff think can be avoided. Other risks that could materially worsen the prognosis include a 7000 Dow, adverse impacts of terrorism — especially from a war with Iraq, or an oil price shock triggered by a blow-up in the Middle East.
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Study: Run-flat tires irk motorists
They wear out faster and can't be fixed if punctured, the study finds
Run-flat tires, touted as an easy way for automakers to boost gas mileage in their new models, are facing a backlash.
A new survey finds that drivers report that run-flats wear out sooner than conventional tires, and can't be fixed if they are punctured, a new study finds.
Motorists reported having to replace run-flat tires at a far higher rate than for conventional tires, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2013 U.S. Original Equipment Tire Customer Satisfaction Study.
Yet more automakers are equipping cars with run-flat tires, which can keep rolling for enough miles to get to a gas station or tire store, rather than putting a traditional spare tire to the trunk. The spare adds more weight to the car, which burns more gas.
Moreover, run-flats apparently wear out faster in everyday driving. Motorists reported getting about 6,000 miles less tread life out of run-flats, according to the survey.
The survey found 31% of customers whose vehicle is equipped with run-flat tires have had to replace at least one tire, compared with just 19% of those whose vehicle is equipped with conventional tires. One big reason: run flats can't be repaired like a conventional tire if they are punctured, the study says.
Satisfaction among owners of luxury vehicles with run-flat tires is 728 out of 1,000 points on J.D. Power's scale. That's 11 points less than for conventional tires. But among performance cars, satisfaction with the run-flats was 665, 67 points less than for the conventionals.


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Advancements in Clean Diesel Technology and Fuel To Continue Major Reductions in Black Carbon Emissions
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Jan. 16, 2013 05:42 PM
New Clean Diesel Truck Engines Have Reduced Particulate Emissions - Including Black Carbon - by 98 Percent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Advancements in clean diesel technology will continue to deliver major reductions in black carbon (soot) emissions in both the U.S. and worldwide, Allen Schaeffer, the Executive Director of the Diesel Technology Forum said today.
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Schaeffer highlighted the advancements in diesel technology and fuel in response to the new study published in The Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres that stated black carbon emissions are the second most important contributor to global warming, behind carbon dioxide. The study evaluated climate forcing of black carbon during the industrial era (i.e. 1750 to 2000).
"While there continues to be ongoing debate about the role of black carbon on the earth's climate, the diesel industry continues to move forward and produce more fuel efficient diesel engines that have both lower emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and near-zero levels of emissions of particulate (soot)," Schaeffer said.
Diesel Truck and Buses Have Reduced NOx Emissions by 99% And Particulate Emissions by 98%
"Because of the investments in new technology it now takes 60 of today's technology trucks to emit the same level of PM (soot) emissions as a single truck built in 1988."
Diesel Responsible For Less Than 6% of Particulate Emissions in U.S.
"Today diesel engines are responsible for less than six percent of all particulate emissions in the U.S.," Schaeffer said.
Black Carbon to Decline by 86% by 2030 "Largely Due to Controls on New Mobile Diesel Engines" – U.S. EPA 2012 Black Carbon Report to Congress
"Much of the progress in clean diesel technology in the U.S. can be attributed to the systems based approach that recognized the essential aspect of cleaner, ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel as being the foundation for making large scale changes in engine design and enabled the use of emissions control technology that today result in near zero emissions of particulate matter," Schaeffer said.
"Today, lower-sulfur diesel fuels are not widely available or utilized in all parts of the world. The World Fuels Charter, established by engine and vehicle manufacturers in the U.S., Japan and Europe, lays out such a blueprint for aligning fuel composition and implementation policies with environmental and other societal objectives.
"Whether or not this new study results in more scientific consensus on the role of black carbon emissions on the earth's climate remains to be seen. We do know that the most dramatic changes in history to fuels and emissions levels from diesel engines have occurred after the study period o 1750 to 2000. We look forward to understanding how these changes to both the levels of emissions and their composition inform current scientific understanding and future policy choices," Schaeffer said.
"Over the last decade in particular, the diesel industry has invested billions of dollars in development of cleaner diesel fuels, advanced engines, and emissions control technology. The greatest benefits from these new technologies come as they are introduced into the population. Today we estimate that more than one-third of all the heavy-duty commercial trucks on the road in the U.S. are 2007 or later model year and have the most sophisticated emissions control technology.
"Beyond meeting low particulate and NOx emissions standards, manufacturers of medium and heavy duty trucks and engines for the U.S. are now on course to meet the first-ever greenhouse gas reductions and fuel economy standards ever enacted. These new standards that begin in model year 2014 will reduce CO2 emissions by 10 to 23 percent depending on type of truck", Schaeffer said.
Diesel Emissions Reduction Act Important In Modernizing Older Diesel Engines
California Air Quality Improvements Aided By Diesel Advancements
According to the ARB, diesel particulate emissions from on-road heavy-duty trucks have declined from 7.5 percent in 1990 to 3.8 percent in 2008, with future projections in 2020 for the category to account for only 1.6 percent of all emissions.
"According to the ARB, from 2008 to 2020 in California, emissions of all sources of particulate emissions are expected to increase, while emissions from diesel engines and equipment are decreasing," Schaeffer said. "The projected total PM inventory increase from 2008 to 2020 is a 3.2 percent increase. However the eight categories of diesel-powered equipment noted above are reducing their PM 2.5 by 58 percent during the same timeframe."
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Column: Hiding from Transparency
PIERRE - State legislators can't agree about how much access you should have to the goings on of local government committee meetings. The recommendations of Governor Daugaard's Open Government Task Force were not passed in their full flower by either branch of the state legislature. The House version is considerably less robust than the Senate one.
At issue is whether the committee and subcommittee meetings of local bodies of government should be required to make their proceedings in the absence of a quorum available to interested citizens. Opponents of the measure argue that it could dissuade people from being open in expressing their opinions, or in extreme cases from entering politics at all.
Let's be honest, most of us don't expect that much from politicians. Heck, most of us don't even bother voting unless it is a Presidential election year. Statistics would likely show that the average person spends more time per week pumping their gas than they do thinking about local politics.
In the rare case that somebody wants to know what is going on in some city council subcommittee meeting, why would we want to deny them that information? If having to go on record with what was said would discourage frankness and honesty, what exactly is being said at these meetings?
Whenever government makes a point out of wanting to keep its proceedings quiet, we can't help but be curious as to why we don't deserve to know the truth. After all, what do they have to hide?
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Fans who bought shares of ultimately worthless stock in the Green Bay Packers can soon devote their discretionary income to something that actually could carry a return on their investment.
According to the Associated Press, a new company plans to sell stock for a future stake in the earnings of pro athletes.
The first major player to strike a deal with Fantex is Texans running back Arian Foster, who will get $10 million in exchange for 20 percent of his future football earnings and all other income generated by his football career, including broadcasting jobs. (I wonder what Dick Vitale would call that arrangement?)
Fantex hopes to sell one million shares of Arian Foster at $10 apiece in order to raise the money necessary to pay Foster. The shares then will be bought and sold on a trading platform created by Fantex.
Fantex presumably will make money on the transactions, as well as any shares it decides to hold in certain players if Fantex believes that they bought a stake in the player's rights at a favorable rate.
For the player, it's basically a loan that could, in theory, be repaid multiple times over, based on the quality and longevity of the player's career. For those who play in the NFL for a decade and then spend 25 years in broadcasting or coaching, 20 percent of all earnings will be evaporating years after the money received up front has been spent.
But it's also an insurance policy of sorts, paid in advance, for players who could see their careers evaporate quickly due to injury, scandal, or ineffectiveness.
The reality is that, for each transaction, chances are someone will be getting screwed. Either the player will end up paying back way too much money over time, or the investors will bank on someone who ends up being a bust — or who decides to retire sooner than everyone anticipated. (And Foster seems like a player who could be inclined to follow in the footsteps of men like Jim Brown, Barry Sanders, and Robert Smith, each of whom walked away with gas in the tank.)
Making the situation even more odd is that Broncos executive V.P. of football operations is a member of Fantex's parent company, Fantex Holdings. Which opens a potential can of worms for the league office, given that Fantex will be acquiring a financial stake in the careers of men who play for other teams.
So while we've given Fantex a little free advertising by writing about this unusual proposition, there's something about it that makes me very uncomfortable.
Enhancing the potential for discomfort is the question of whether the approach can or should apply to college athletes. If they can buy insurance against career-ending or career-limiting injuries while in school, why shouldn't they be able to sell a chunk of their perceived future value now in order to bank some of the money they'll eventually make?
Whether or not it's permitted in college, look for plenty of players to sell their rights at a young age in exchange for an accelerated payday — and then to spend the next 15 to 20 years (or more) regretting an impulsive decision made in order to get rich more quickly.


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MONKTON — Vermont State Police are investigating a burglary that occurred Monday between 8:25 a.m. and 4:40 p.m., when someone had kicked open the north door of a Pond Road home in Monkton.
Among the many items stolen was a pewter urn approximately 2.5 inches high in the shape of an upside down tear drop. The urn has black stripes and contains the ashes of the victim's deceased infant child.
Also missing is an oak jewelry box that is approximately six inches tall with two drawers, a flip-open top and three compartments. Inside the jewelry box are multiple pieces of jewelry, including an 18-inch herringbone necklace with matching earrings and a 14 karat gold mother's ring with a red garnet stone.
Police believe the thieves placed the above items into a lime green pillow case, which was also stolen from the residence.
Police withheld the specific address and names of the victims due to the extreme personal trauma this crime has caused.
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