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A gritty rock musical about the nation's seventh president and an old-school, agitprop affair that teases present-day issues of immigration might not appear to have much in common.
Yet, "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" and "La Carpa Atzlan Presents: I Don't Speak English Only" come at audiences with fervent ambitions (and minor failings) to rouse, rile and entertain.
"Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" | * * ½ rocking musical
"Unruly" is an apt word for "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson," onstage at the Aurora Fox Arts Center Studio, through Oct. 28.
But then the willfully chaotic production makes an astute point: At the time of Andrew Jackson's rise to the presidency and the founding of the Democratic Party, the U.S. could be a wild beast — gobbling up land, its citizens prey while preying upon others.
While Northeast "elites" in Washington made back-room deals, frontier folk like Jackson and his Tennessee family were battling disease (cholera), as well as the French, Spanish and, most vitally, the Indians.
"Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" was a critical fave when it made its leap from New York's Public Theater to Broadway. While it didn't have a long run, it did gobsmack local actor, director and occasional producer Ben Dicke, who took it upon himself to bring it here.
"History Got All Sexy Pants" was the musical's tagline. And as Jackson, Dicke has mastered the slim-hipped slink, onstage banter and randy stare of the rock star.
Is that (not-yet ) Old Hickory hitting on the woman in the first row?
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Norrell Moore gives a strong turn as Rachel, the woman who nurses Jackson back to health after he has a run-in with some Spaniards. They wed, though she is married to another at the time.
Traci Kern wheelchairs herself into the tight space as "Storyteller." Not only does she narrate with a fan's mash-note adoration, she steals scenes. No wonder Jackson draws a gun on her.
This is the Colorado premiere of the show, book by Alex Timbers and music and lyrics by Michael Friedman. And it's found the right kind of ensemble to wave its flag: young, hip, energetic.
Even so, like many rock 'n' roll riffs on history, "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" is better with angst and esctasy than with analysis.
Too many of its points come off like flip-off gestures of snarky young'uns. Given that genocide is one of the themes, this can be vexing. Though the shadow puppet rendering of "Ten Little Indians" is spooky and arch.
Dicke's labor of love was likely made more laborious when the actor fell through a trapdoor on what was to be the play's opening night last month. One wonders if the accident has made this production a bit more ragged, a bit less crisp. (The band rocks better than the cast sings.)
If it's not easy to be certain, that's because "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" is all about the jagged edges.
"I Don't Speak English" | * * ½ Tent-show revival
Su Teatro's production "La Carpa Aztlan Presents: I Don't Speak English" is headed into its final weekend.
The updated revival of the 1993, collaboratively created work finds young, assimilated Alberto (Archie Villeda) in an alleyway, separated from a class excursion that was studying (with no small amount of disdain) the urban corridor.
Lost, he approaches a homeless man who's in no hurry to help him find his class but may wind up helping Alberto find himself.
Before the show began, Tony Garcia, Su Teatro's artistic director and co-creator of the play, offered a few words about the "Carpa" tradition.
The tent shows traveled through rural areas in Mexico and the Southwest during the '20s and '30s, he schooled. Furthermore, the performers weren't shy about borrowing material from the lives of their audiences or from shows they'd seen elsewhere.
And "La Carpa" has the feel of a carnival, a circus, a variety show, as it switches between pointedly political comic sketches to lilting or festive musical numbers.
Set in a near future, where speaking foreign langauges is controlled and teaching ethnic history banned, "La Carpa" nonetheless has a contemporary hook, thanks to efforts in Arizona to ban Mexican- American studies.
When Alberto stumbles into the alleyway and meets Don Guillermo Aztlan, it's a "we're not in Kansas anymore" set-up that serves the seemingly casual shape of the show well.
Original cast member Manuel R. Roybal Sr. masterfully reprises the role of Don Guillermo Aztlan, the tent-show maestro. He's got a rich, deep voice to match his commanding physical presence.
Debra Gallegos returns with equal aplomb to the role of Carmen. The pair's duet "Chicano Man/Chicana Woman" toys sweetly with the idea of superheroism from a married couple's prespective.
Angela Maez as Consuelo and Lara Gallegos as Violeta round out the ensemble nicely.
"La Carpa" has its share of familiar cultural carping. But more often, the cast charms, making human and humorous the pangs and pleasures of ethnic identity.
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"BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON"A Ben Dicke Production. Book by Alex Timbers. Music and lyrics by Michael Friedman. Directed by Ben Dicke. Featuring Dicke, Norrell Moore, Chris Arneson, James Adam Chavez, Andrew Diessner THROUGH OCT. 28 AT THE AURORA FOX ARTS CENTER STUDIO AT 9900 E. COLFAX AVE. 7:30 P.M. THURS- SAT. 6:30 P.M. SUN. TICKETS $25-$30 VIA BLOODYDENVER.COM OR 303-739-1970 Through Oct. 28 at the Aurora Fox Arts Center Studio at 9900 E. Colfax Ave. 7:30 p.m. Thurs- Sat. 6:30 p.m. Sun. Tickets $25-$30 via bloodydenver.com or 303-739-1970
"CARPA AZTLAN"A Su Teatro production. Directed by Antonio Garcia. Featuring Manuel R. Roybal Sr., Debra Gallegos, Angela C. Maez, Lara Gallegos and Archie Villeda. THROUGH SUNDAY AT SU TEATRO CULTURAL AND ARTS CENTER, 721 SANTA FE DRIVE. 7:30 P.M. FRIDAY-SATURDAY. 2 P.M. SUNDAY. TICKETS $17-$20 VIA SUTEATRO.ORG OR 303-296-0219 Through Sunday at Su Teatro Cultural and Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Drive. 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday. 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets $17-$20 via suteatro.org or 303-296-0219


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Applying Advance Reservation to Increase Predictability of Workflow Execution
on the Grid
Marek Wieczorek, Mumtaz Siddiqui, Alex Villaz´ on, Radu Prodan, Thomas Fahringer
Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck
Technikerstraße 21a, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
In this paperwe presentan extensionto devise and imple-
ment advance reservation as part of the scheduling and re-
source management services of the ASKALON Grid appli-
cationdevelopmentand runtimeenvironment. The schedul-
ingservicehasbeenenhancedtoofferalist ofresourcesthat
manager about resources capable of processing tasks in the
shortest possible time. We introduce progressive reserva-
tion approach which tries to allocate resources based on a
fair-share principle. Experiments are shown that demon-
strate the effectiveness of our approach, and that reflect dif-
ferent QoS parameters including performance, predictabil-
ity, resource usage and resource fairness.
Scheduling and resource management play a key role for
effective execution of applications on the Grid. A sched-
uler is used to make a plan for the execution, determining
which tasks should be executed on which resources and in
which order. Resource management is responsible for ser-
vices such as registration and provision of resources. The
scheduler optimizes a goal function, usually execution time
or economic cost. Created in this way schedules are subse-
quently executed.
Highly dynamic and unreliable Grid environments make
any assumptions concerning resource availability and exe-
cutiontimeextremelydifficult. Therefore,creationofareli-
able schedule and proper reservationof resources constitute
one of the largest challenges in Grid computing. Grid envi-
ronments cannot usually guarantee that execution requests
will be fulfilled within expected time intervals. Moreover,
requests coming from other users can always disrupt al-
ready taken scheduling decisions. Time-critical applica-
tions, which are an important class of Grid applications,
expected execution time. Advance reservation of resources
provides a possible solution to this problem. A user can re-
serve resources, in order to be sure that within a requested
period of time resources will be available.
This paper investigates the impact of resource reserva-
tions on different aspects of application execution, repre-
sented by different criteria comprising execution time, pre-
dictability, resource usage and fairness. Predictability can
beconsideredas the mostimportantcriterion,becauseit has
a substantial impact on the execution of time-constrained
applications. We have chosen scientific grid workflow ap-
plications [9] as the class of computational applications to
validate our approach. Workflow applications consist of ex-
ecutiontasks, datatransfertasks,anddependenciesbetween
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. In the next
section we describe briefly the related work on advance
reservations for the Grid. Later, we present the architecture
of our Grid environment, focusing on scheduling and re-
source management. Section 5 and 6 provide details of our
reservation and scheduling services respectively. Section
7 describes the applied experimental methodology, and the
methodsused to evaluatethe results. Results and discussion
are presented in the Section 8. The last section concludes
the paper and discusses future work.
3 Related work
The Maui [11] scheduler is an advanced job scheduler
for cluster systems in which an advance reservation scheme
enables future allocation of local resources. On a Grid site,
Mauicanbeusedin combinationwithotherLocalResource
Managers (LRM), such as PBS [18], SGE [17], LSF [10].
Maui does not provide negotiation mechanism at resource
and Grid level, and requiresthe Grid job submissionservice
to be modified in order to be reservation aware.
GARA [8] provides an interesting proposal for an ar-
chitecture supporting advance reservation and co-allocation
of resources in large Grid environments incorporating re-
memory,etc.). However,workflowapplicationsarenotcov-
ered by this work, nordoes the system provideany practical
solution to the problem of fairsharing.
ThomasRoebliz et al. presentsan elastic Grid reservation
with user defined optimization policies and co-reservation
with a concept of virtual resources [14]. No negotiation or
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scheduling mechanisms are supported.
Elmroth and Tordsson [5] proposed a resource broker
supporting advance reservations, developed in the Nor-
duGrid project [1]. They present a simple approach based
on modified basic Grid middleware services (extended
GridFTP client and server are used to make the reserva-
tions). This approach does not consider workflow applica-
tions but simple execution requests, and no special schedul-
ing algorithm is applied.
Theoretical analysis and experimentalresults for advance
reservation and scheduling of Grid workflows is presented
in [12]. The authors prove usefullness of the reservations,
and propose a reservation architecture based on "the pre-
dictability trinity": Grid Scheduling, Reservation Fabric,
Performance Models. The problems of resource usage and
fairnessare notcovered. Theexperimentsare performedfor
simple workflows, composed of 3 sequential tasks only.
An interesting reservation approach and performance
analysis for execution simulation of workflow DAGs on the
Grid is presented in [16]. For scheduling, the authors ap-
plied a modified version of the Earliest Time First algo-
rithm [6]. The algorithm does not optimize the execution
order of independent tasks within the same workflow.
In contrast to other existing approaches, we provide a
flexible customizable negotiation mechanism for reserva-
tions. We compare two different reservation approaches,
among them the progressive approach proposed by us,
which shows promising results with respect to different
evaluation metrics. We present an extensive experimen-
tal analysis of the workflow execution based on our own
scheduling approach, applying diverse metrics (execution
time, predictability, resource usage, fairness), and analyz-
ing complex scientific workflows.
4 Architecture
application development and computing environment [7]
which provides high-level mechanisms for composing and
executing scientific workflows, with the ultimate goal of
providing the application developers with an invisible Grid
by hiding as many low-level technology details as possible.
The XML representation of a composed workflow is given
to the ASKALON middleware services for scheduling and
reliable execution on the Grid.
Our Grid middleware separates the planning of a work-
flow from its actual execution. The workflow planning is
performed by a negotiation process between: (a) individual
scheduler service instances (acting on behalf of the users
who submit the workflows), and (b) the resource manager
service which ensures the advance reservation of resources.
The general architecture of our system is depicted in Fig. 1.
Both the scheduler instances and the resource manager
try to maximize their own profit, which are potentially in
Resource Management
get resourcesubmit
Grid Resources
negotiate reservereserve
Figure 1. Architecture of the system
conflict, i.e. each scheduler instance tries to get as many
resources as possible to execute its own workflow (without
taking into account the other users), and on the other hand,
the resource manager tries to minimize the resource usage
fairly distributed among the users. The negotiation leads
to a final set of resources which are reserved for the execu-
tionofthe workflowhandledbythescheduler. Theresource
model appliedby us assumes a distributedcollection of par-
allel computers as Grid sites. Every Grid site is defined by
a set of processors each of which is an atomic unit.
The workflow execution service is responsible for the ac-
tual execution of the planned workflow. It uses the reserved
slots that were allocated by the resource manager during
the planning phase. The workflow jobs submitted to the
Grid through a job submission service such as Globus WS-
GRAM [2], must be validated in order to check if the re-
quested slots were actually reserved by the user.
5 Advance reservation
The Grid resource management mainly deals with on-
demand provision of Grid resources, and the Quality-of-
Service (QoS) can be improved significantly with the help
of advance reservation. An advance reservation is a lim-
ited or restricted delegationof a particularresource capabil-
ity over a certain time interval which is achieved through
a negotiation process between requester (scheduler) and
provider (resource manager). It enhances the predictability
of the Grid and leads towards a Grid with smart middleware
having better control over the underlying resources. Fur-
thermore, advance reservation enables Grid resource man-
agement to optimize different QoS parameters and enhance
resource utilization with better capacity planning [15].
We introduced two new algorithms i.e. attentive and pro-
gressive as an extention of our existing work about Grid
capacity planning for optimized QoS [15], which provides
a flexible mechanism to plug in different offer generation
algorithms. In the offer generation process, the RM tries
to maximize provider's interests while fulfilling client's re-
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Free slots which are in accordance to the reservation pol-
icy are offered on request.
The attentive algorithm offers requested slot only if it is
available,otherwiseit generatesalternativeoffersaccording
to the available slots closer to the requestedQoS parameters
like timeframe. While generating alternative offers, it tries
to keep the reserved segments as minimum as possible, by
proposing alternative options which are overlapping or ad-
jacent to the existing reserved slots, i.e. it tries to find slots
for all the available processors (Ptotal) in a Grid site. Fig. 2
shows an example with a resource with 2 processors and 5
reservations (solid boxes) and what happens when another
slot is requested. Dotted boxes show possible alternative
options which are generated and offered to the client by the
attentive algorithm (offers before the requested timeframe
are also generated, if possible). It is then up to the client to
select one of the offers or re-negotiate.
algorithm when a node with two processors
was occupied by five confirmed reservations.
Offers can be generated by automatically adjusting the
timeframe and other constraints (e.g. processors) in such a
way that the overall requested QoS is optimized. For this
purpose we use adjustment like:
• Change 10% of the requested duration by adding or
removing one processor.
• Adjust the requested timeframe by scaling the at-
tributes according to the speedup, which is defined
using different models like Amdahl [3] or using a
database with application benchmarks.
The progressive algorithm is an extension of the atten-
tive algorithm, that considers fairness as well. It attempts to
fairly distribute available resource capacity among compet-
ing clients instead of allowing a single client to reserve the
entire capacity available on a Grid site. Having said that,
the minimal time when the reservation can be established
dependson the numberand durationof reservations already
made by the client. This is done by introducing a new re-
striction on the number of processors (Pallowed) which is
configurable for each Grid site. In the future we plan to
cover other parameters like number of allowed reservations
duringa certain time period. The progressive approachpro-
vides a more fair distribution policy, so that several clients
can get better chances to obtain offers that fit their require-
6 Reservation-based Scheduling
The ASKALON scheduler is a best-effort Grid workflow
scheduler, adapted to apply different algorithms which can
be used by the service as interchangeable plug-ins. To sup-
port advance reservation, we applied some modifications to
the Heterogeneous Earliest Finish Time (HEFT) algorithm
that proved to be an efficient heuristic for our real work-
flow's execution on the Grid [7].
different resources
execution times on
R1 R2 R3 avg
7 10
data transfer time between different resources
Figure 3. Weights and ranks calculated with
HEFT algorithm
HEFT is a list scheduling algorithm adjusted for hetero-
geneous environments. The algorithm consists of three dis-
tinct phases: the weighting phase, the ranking phase, and
the mapping phase. During the weighting phase, which is
adjusted to heterogeneous Grid environments, weights are
assigned to the tasks and dependenciesof the workflow that
estimate the time cost of individual operations (i.e., task ex-
ecution and data transfer time). If there is no data transfer
time associated with a dependency, the weight assigned to
the dependency is equal to zero. Let w = (AS,DS) de-
note a workflow application, where AS represents the set
of tasks, and DS the set of dependencies. The weight asso-
ciated to an task N ∈ AS is calculated as the average value
of the predicted executiontimes TN(R) on every individual
resource R (i.e. processor) available on the Grid:
∀R∈Grid{TN(R)},∀N ∈ AS.
In the example depicted in Fig. 3, the Grid consists of three
processors and, therefore, the weight of the task A is calcu-
lated as:
=5 + 8 + 8
= 7.
Similarly, the weight associated to a data link is calculated
connection links available between Grid sites. The ranking
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phase is performed by traversing the workflow graph up-
wards, and assigning a rank value to each task. The rank
value of an task is equal to the weight of the task plus the
maximum rank value of the successors, including the com-
munication to the current task (if any):
For example, the rank of the task A is calculated as:
R(A) = max{W(A) + W(A,B) + R(B),W(A)+
W(A,C)+R(C)} = max{7+5+26,7+3+15} = 38.
The list of workflow tasks is then sorted in a descending
order according to their ranks, i.e. A, B, C, and D. Finally
in the mapping phase, the ranked tasks are mapped onto the
processors that deliver the earliest completion time, i.e. A
onto R1, B onto R1, C onto R3, and D onto R1.
To supportadvancereservation,we modifiedthemapping
phase by assigning to each task a list of resources instead
of a single resource only. The list is ordered according to
the increasing completion time, so that the first element on
the list is always the most optimal one. For example, the
resource order for the first task A is: {R1,R2,R3}.
We introduced to the algorithm a new fourth phase which
we called the reservation phase. In this phase the scheduler
negotiates with the resource managerin order to reserve ex-
actly one resource from the list for each task (see Alg. 1).
The reservations are performed in a retry loop which han-
dles situations when a negotiation fails for some reason
(e.g., the offer is timed out or taken by another user). By
invoking negotiate(), the scheduler obtains initial reser-
vations, from which it accepts one by invoking reserve().
The negotiate() function represents one of two alterna-
tive reservation strategies described in Sec. 5.
As the output, the scheduler returns an execution plan
(schedule)and reservations performedfor each of the tasks.
The reservations are assigned to the users and not to the
tasks, whichmeansthattheusercanexecuteanyofhistasks
inanyofthetimeslots reservedforhim. Suchexecutionwill
still be valid from the viewpoint of the reservation service.
7 Experimental methodology
We base the performance prediction of workflow tasks
on trace data originated in previous real-world experiments
performed on the Austrian Grid testbed [13] which consists
of a set of Grid sites, each one being a parallel computer
or a cluster. For our experiments we considered 5 grid sites
distributed over the state of Austria (Table 1), comprised of
80 CPUs in total.
In ourschedulingexperiments,the executionofthe work-
flows is done by increasing or decreasing the actual execu-
tion time randomly up to 50% from the predicted values
Algorithm 1 Scheduling algorithm: reservation phase
T - set of all workflow tasks
Lt- ordered lists of resources for all tasks t ∈ T
Output: R - list of reserved resources
for t ∈ T do
best timeE:= ∞;
timeB:= earliest begin time(t);
{Negotiate with Resource Manager}
is reserved := false;
while ! is reserved do
for r ∈ Ltdo
time := execution time(t,r);
timeE:= timeB+ time;
if time′
best timeB:= time′
best timeE:= time′
best r := r;
end if
end for
{Reserve the resource}
if best timeE<> ∞ then
is reserved :=
reserve(t,best r,best timeB,best timeE);
end if
end while
R := R ∪ {(t,best r)};
end for
E< best timeEthen
E) := negotiate(timeB,timeE);
(for possible inaccurate predictions,job queuingsystem de-
lays, security latencies, external load on parallel computers,
etc.). Therefore, the workflow execution does not necessar-
ily follow the schedule and the reservations. We simulated
the execution considering all reservations performed by all
users, notallowinganytask to usea resourceif it is reserved
by another user. An execution can be performed by a user
on a resource at a time only when one of the following con-
ditions is true: the resource is reserved by the user, or the
resource is neither reserved nor used at all at this time. We
applied a far-sighted policy, trying to predict in advance if
the tasks can be submitted. A task cannot be submitted if it
hasnochancetofinishwithin thetimeavailablefortheuser.
An alternative approach would be to submit tasks whenever
a user is allowed to do it, and kill them and migrate when
a foreign reservation starts. It would mean different execu-
tion conditions, because the same task would execute many
times, and could consume more resource time than in the
case of the far-sighted approachapplied in our experiments.
We performed several experiments, in each of which we
submitted workflow applications in sequence at the interval
Page 5
Site # CPUs
Machine Type
Intel Xeon cluster
AMD 2000 cluster
P4 cluster
Itanium SMP
Itanium SMP
agrid1 (Innsbruck)
hydra (Linz)
agrid (Innsbruck)
altix1.jku (Linz)
altix1.uibk (Innsbruck)
Table 1. The Austrian Grid testbed.
of 60 seconds. Reservations were performed for individ-
ual CPUs which gave the user exclusive access over the al-
located time periods. The execution engine processed the
workflow tasks according to the schedule, and simulated
their execution, if all sufficient conditions were fulfilled. If
a task could not be executed immediately, it was postponed
a certain period of time (30 seconds) for later execution.
We compared execution times, resource usage, pre-
dictability and fairness measured for different executions,
and for different scheduling and reservation strategies, us-
ing some metrics defined by us. We measured the resource
usage URas a ratio between the aggregated time when re-
sources were effectively used and the overall available ex-
ecution time (number of available resources multiplied by
the total time when all experiments were performed):
ttotal· |R|,
where |R| represents the number of resources available.
As a measure for predictability, we calculated the rela-
tive overhead Opredderived from inaccurate prediction as
the difference between the actual execution time tactand
the predicted execution time tpreddivided by the predicted
time. If the actual execution time is shorter, then Opredis
equal to zero:
Opred(w) =
tpred(w) < tact(w),
tpred(w) ≥ tact(w)
The predicted workflow execution time tpredis equal to the
difference between the end time of the last reservation per-
formed for the given workflow, and the end time of the
scheduling algorithm that precedes the execution. If no
reservations were made for the workflow (scheduling with-
out reservations), then we use the predicted end time of the
last task instead of the end time of the last reservation .
We evaluate the fairness calculating the standard devi-
ation ρ of execution times over all workflows scheduled
within an experiment, denoted W.
tavg(W) =
ρ(W) =
(tact(w) − tavg(W))2
We will compare the results achieved with and without
reservations. Different strategies will be examined for the
scheduler and the resource manager. The scheduler can re-
quest for shorter or for longer periods of time. A short re-
quest reservationfor a task is 20% longerthan the predicted
executiontime forthis task. A longrequest reservationfora
taskis 2 timeslongerthanthepredictedexecutiontime. The
reservation strategy (see Sec. 5), with Pallowed=1
i.e. 25%. We assume that the Grid does not change during
a whole experiment,which is quite realistic for applications
with low communicationrate, executed with advance reser-
8 Results and Discussion
In this section, we discuss the results obtained when exe-
cuting several workflows scheduled on the Grid with and
without reservations. We use in our experiments a real-
world material science application called WIEN2k [4]. The
workflow of WIEN2k (Fig. 4) has 2 parallel sections with
equal number of tasks determined by the parameter called
kpoints, and an external while-loop. In our experiments we
Figure 4. The WIEN2k workflow.
use a workflow with exactly 1 iteration of the while-loop
and 80 parallel tasks in each parallel section.
Fig. 5-6 show the execution times of 10 workflows and
compare the predicted and actual execution time. Fig. 5(a)
compares the results achieved without reservations with the
results achieved with attentive reservations, and Fig. 5(b)
compares the results achieved without reservations with the
results achieved with progressive reservations. The work-
flows were scheduled using the different reservation ap-
proaches (no reservation, attentive and progressive), and
with short and long requests, i.e. 20% and 100% longer
than the predicted executiontime, as describedin Section 7.
This means that the first workflow could be scheduled in
a basically empty Grid and get more chances to get all the
resources necessary for its execution. For the subsequent
workflows the environment becomes more and more satu-
rated, i.e. fewer resources remain available for execution
and reservations. The workflows executed at the end are
scheduled in the most saturated environment. However, the


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I believe education and parenting go hand in hand. Wherever we live, whatever the school rating is, I will be involved in my daughter's education. And I'm happy to read other people's comments that feel the same!
There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you.
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The board voted 3-2 against renewing its contract with Abreu, a former Highlands University education dean who has served as superintendent for the last three years. Board members Caroline Lopez, Kenny Lujan and David Romero opposed renewing Abreu's contract, while Christine Ludi and Gary Gold supported the superintendent.
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The Las Vegas Outlaws football team evened its spring season record at 1-1 over the weekend with a 14-0 road shutout of the Santa Fe Sting.
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Fresh off a series win over league rival Metropolitan State College of Denver — and a No. 11 national ranking by one notable baseball publication — the New Mexico Highlands University baseball team has solidified its hold on first place in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.
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GameplayWith Shot-Online you can easily golf online with your friends at anytime. Shot-Online is a full MMORPG based sports simulation game where you can play with other users to perform realtime property exchange and quests while leveling up your character by enhancing your skill points.
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Parker Waichman LLP, a national law firm dedicated to protecting the rights of victims injured by dangerous drugs and medical devices, has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Pennsylvania woman who alleges that she was injured by a transvaginal mesh product manufactured by American Medical Systems (AMS). The suit was filed on May 17, 2013, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia (Case No. 2:13-cv-11742) in the multidistrict litigation (MDL) entitled In Re: American Medical Systems, Inc., Pelvic Repair System Products Liability Litigation (MDL No. 2325). American Medical Systems, Inc. has been named as Defendant.
According to the Complaint, the Plaintiff was implanted with the SPARC and IntePro LLP Y-Sling in May 2011. The lawsuit alleges that these devices are defective and caused serious and possibly permanent injuries. Furthermore, the Defendants allegedly knew about these defects but did not warn consumers in order to protect their own financial interests. The Plaintiff is suing for pain and suffering, emotional distress, and economic loss, and is seeking compensation for punitive damages.
Thousands of transvaginal mesh lawsuits have been filed in the United States. Many of them have been consolidated into five MDLs now pending in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. The other MDLs are: In Re: Boston Scientific Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2326; In Re: C.R. Bard, Inc., Pelvic Repair Systems Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2187; In Re: Ethicon, Inc., Pelvic Repair Systems Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2327; and In Re Coloplast Corp. Pelvic Support Systems Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2387.
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Ten of the Bay Area's most celebrated chefs teamed up on a little Valentine's Day gift this year: chocolate in a box.
The box of 28 pieces costs $100, but all proceeds will go to Share Our Strength. The other key thing to note, at least for you Valentine's Day stragglers, is that the boxes can be ordered and picked up in downtown San Francisco until 5 p.m.
But the fun part is the A-list chefs who played along:
- The French Laundry: Thomas Keller, Milton Abel
- Benu: Corey Lee, Courtney Schmidig
- Atelier Crenn: Dominique Crenn, Juan Contreras
- Restaurant Gary Danko: Gary Danko, Lisa Vega
- SPQR: Matthew Accarrino
- Aziza: Mourad Lahlou, Melissa Chou
- Michael Mina: Michael Mina, Lincoln Carson
- Quince: Michael Tusk, Devin McDavid
- Boulevard: Nancy Oakes, Lisa Lu
- La Folie: Roland Passot, Mie Uchida
As you can see in the above gallery, each restaurant put their own little twist on their rendition, whether it's Aziza's vadouvan, Atelier Crenn's thyme or SPQR's torrone. And look how pretty La Folie's is. Anyway, you can buy the box by clicking here.


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■ Traffic update: At 8:15 a.m., most Southwest Florida roads are incident free. In Lee, a disabled vehicle was reported at North Cleveland Avenue and Northeast Pine Island Road in North Fort Myers. A traffic crash was reported at East North Shore Avenue and U.S. 41 northbound in North Fort Myers. A vehicle crash was reported at Griffin Drive and Gateway Boulevard. No roadblock.
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Former Landfills to Thriving Silicon Valley Business Parks at South Bay Asbestos Area Superfund Site (PDF) (1 pg, 133K, About PDF)
Coordination and open communication between EPA and developers paved the way for mixed land uses, including two thriving business parks.
Recreation, Historic Preservation and Habitat Restoration at Marathon Battery Corp. Superfund Site (PDF) (1 pg, 151K)
Cleanup efforts recovered Native American and Civil War-era artifacts and led to creation of the West Point Foundry Preserve, which provides recreational amenities and trails highlighting local history.
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- In Olathe, Kansas, a former chemical recycling, storage, repackaging and distribution facility is now a remarkable ecological and environmental education resource. The Olathe Pollinator Prairie provides a vital pollinator migration corridor with habitat resources for bees, birds and butterflies. This case study explores the award-winning strategies and working relationships that led to the successful cleanup and reuse of the CCI Superfund site. Buzzing with Life: Environmental Education and Stewardship. The Chemical Commodites, Inc. Superfund Site in Olathe, Kansas (PDF) (16 pp, 2.5MB)
- After decades of waste disposal, the Brick Township Landfill in New Jersey had contaminated soil and groundwater. To help offset the cost of closing the landfill, Brick Township decided to redevelop the site as a solar power facility. With help from EPA, Brick Township led a public-private partnership that succeeded in integrating cleanup and reuse, resulting in a 7-megawatt solar facility. Brick Township Goes Solar: Redevelopment of a Superfund Site (PDF) (14 pp, 5.6MB)
On July 23, 2015, Catherine McCabe, Deputy Regional Administrator for Region 2, presented the Region's first Excellence in Site Reuse award to Brick Township to recognize efforts to return the Brick Township Landfill Superfund site to productive use. Located in Brick Township, New Jersey, the Superfund site now hosts 24,000 solar panels which produce about 7,400 megawatt-hours of energy each year.
News Article: 'A Shining Example:' EPA Lauds Brick For Landfill-Turned-Solar Field
- Learn about the transformation of the Upper Arkansas River from a contaminated waterway to a Gold Medal Trout Stream in the new video California Gulch: From Metals to Medals.
- A legacy of mining operations in and around Leadville, Colorado, resulted in mining, milling and smelting wastes spanning more than 18 square miles. Collaboration among EPA, other federal agencies, the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment (CDPHE), and potentially responsible parties (PRPs) has made possible a cleanup that has supported the community�s development goals. Today, Lake County has a vibrant, increasingly diversified economy focused on the area�s rich heritage and remarkable natural resources.
Recreation and Tourism Reuse and the Benefit to Community: California Gulch (PDF) (11 pp, 1.1MB)
For over 100 years, the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. (Newport Pigment Plant Landfill) Superfund site in Newport, Delaware, has supported paint pigment manufacturing. Today, cleanup has enabled the continued manufacturing of paint pigments at the site, while also facilitating new complementary uses including a 584-kilowatt solar array, an ecological restoration area and the first public park for the City of Newport.
Reuse and the Benefit to Community: E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. (Newport Pigment Plant Landfill) (PDF) (4 pp, 499K)
- Decades of industrial operations at the North Penn Area 12 Superfund site Worcester Township, Pennsylvania contaminated soil and area groundwater. Cooperation between EPA and site stakeholders enabled a local business to expand its facilities on site during cleanup and resulted in a new recreation amenity for site employees. Today, an international distributor of hand tools and soldering equipment operates on the site.
Reuse and the Benefit to Community: North Penn Area 12 (PDF) (4 pp, 448K)
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- On August 13, 2015, SRI hosted Potentially Responsible Party (PRP) Perspectives on Superfund Site Reuse -- the last webinar in SRI's 2015 Quarterly Webinar Series. The archived webinar will be available online.
- EPA recognizes Kansas Department of Environmental Health and Environment, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality with 2015 Excellence in State Engagement Supporting Reuse Awards.
- The Northern Birmingham Community Coalition completed the Northern Birmingham Revitalization Action Plan (PDF) (36 pp, 7.5MB) in January 2015. U.S. EPA sponsored the formation of the Coalition to plan for the future of the communities of northern Birmingham, which face many economic, environmental and social challenges. The Coalition seeks to bring together residents, community representatives and government agencies to address issues of environmental cleanup, enforcement and community investment. Together, they have forged a shared vision and are working to create positive community change through implementation of this Action Plan.


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Dr. Mike Royal has served as Vice President, Clinical Development- Analgesics, Cadence Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Royal has owned and managed the largest private practice pain management clinic and research center in Oklahoma. Dr. Royal is board certified in internal medicine, anesthesiology, pain management, and addiction medicine and has published extensively in the area of pain management. He holds a B.S. in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.D. from the University of Massachusetts, a J.D. from the University of Maryland and an M.B.A. from New York University (TRIUM).
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i would really appreciate it if you would stop cock blocking me.
well there was some sort of sex marathon going on in my house last night..jess and i vs my parents...and im ashamed to say that we lost and my parents out-sexed us
even through the webcam i could tell he was aiming for my face/hair
Do I have a sign around my neck that says "SWM desperately seeking ultra-plus-size woman that likes everything I do"? I swear they're organized
No, but you do have a sign around your neck that says "Free cupcakes."
She made me repeat after her: "I take responsibility for what I put in my own mouth."
So I have exactly 420 dollars saved up in tips from the past week. I win, and I take that as a sign from god that I am allowed to use that money to buy drugs.
So he passed out in the bathroom of the bar, woke up thinking he was somewhere else and called her flipping his shit because he thought she left him. She had to go into the men's bathroom to find him, and then he told her she was "trying too hard to be his girlfriend" over and over again.
Dont they live together now? Havent they been together for like two years?
Yeah. That's the best part. I always thought he was kind of a pussy but turns out he's a degenerate just like us. Welcome
Don't worry. Self-respect preserved. My speech was Grey's quality... I made him cry.
Alex texted me. Bootycall boy #2. its like an alarm goes off once i'm single that the line is open again
you know you're not getting laid when you start breaking awkward silences with quotes from Robot Chicken
help help how do i get him away from me should i talk in a robot voice or something
Don't go all Obama on me. George Bush this decision and just do it. Thinking's for the morning after
ok think of it like jelly beans. if you can learn to like the licorice ones, youll always have lots of them because no one else wants them. its the same with fat chicks
god please explain to me why there's blood underneath my fingernails AND toenails?!?!
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A normal FEV1 test does not mean a person definitely does not have asthma. Asthma is a reversible airway obstruction, so a person can have normal lung function measures one day and abnormally low ones the next day. I know because that's how my lung are. My FEV1 varies anywhere from normal all the way down to 50% of my personal best depending on if I'm having an asthma attack or not. Just because I have a normal FEV1 one day does not mean I won't be at 50% in a few weeks. This variability in lung function is why moderate and severe asthmatics use peak flow meters. If I followed your instructions which states a normal FEV1 one day means you don't have asthma and can't be low a few weeks later, I would already be dead because I can drop pretty rapidly. Thousands of people die from asthma attacks every year.
Silverfox, I would definitely try to figure out what is triggering your asthma. Taking good care of yourself by eating less processed food, fruits, veggies, getting enough sleep, breathing clean air, exercise, low stress can only help and this with avoiding triggers should lessen your reliance on the medicines, which is desirable...so I agree with veroctopus on that. However, I wouldn't go off the medicines without first discussing your individual medical condition with your doctor to get their input on the relative risks and benefits of taking the medicines. In my experience, allergists are normally more than willing to try to decrease the medicines if they think there is a good chance your asthma will stay stable...but I would still discuss it with your doctor to be on the safe side.View Thread
Also, I'm trained more for hand therapy than hip therapy, but I'm using what I know and basically treating the hip like a big hand....lol....and that's why I think it's beneficial for me to go to outpatient PT, because they are trained more for the hip injuries. The one I'm with right now doesn't get defensive, and if I'm wrong, she listens to me then explains where I'm wrong and educates me. If she's not sure, she'll assess the hip to evaluate what's going on. If she thinks I'm right, she says, "you're doing everything right, it's just not responding....you will need surgery. It's nothing that you are doing wrong." We get along well.
As far as I know, the main difference between our injuries is mine involved the labrum (cartilage in the joint), which has a poor blood supply. Because it has a poor blood supply, it doesn't heal well on its own, and rest and time often doesn't help. In my case, I tried PT to see if increasing the ROM and strength of the muscles would help, but my ability to function was severely affected by the labral tear and trying PT alone didn't help. Resting it and icing it also didn't result in its healing. So, the orthopod said I was a good candidate for surgery. They went into the joint and they sewed up the tears. Since the tendon injury does have a good supply of blood, it was not evident at the time of surgery that the tendon needed surgical intervention....so the orthopod surgeon left the tendon to do its thing of healing on its own.
In general, after an orthopedic surgery, you have to be careful with adhesion and scar formation limiting the ROM, as I mentioned above. So, you usually don't do complete rest, except perhaps in a few cases where to move the part would clearly impact the integrity of the repair. It's all about balancing rest and activity.
I want it to be healed right now, right away, though. I keep asking what more can I do? .... and the response from both the PT and the orthopod is, "you're doing all you can. This injury will heal, but it takes time." You're right, in that I really hate to know I can't do anything more and to be patient with it and not overdo it and to realize time heals all wounds. Still, thankfully, my training did teach me to avoid severe pain levels so I don't keep pushing and pushing and pushing when left to my own devices. I listen to the old body and will give it a break when it asks for one.View Thread
So, after that, I used my own training, and used the crutches, rested it, iced it, and the pain went way down, back to what it has been since the surgery, especially after the orthopod gave the cortisone shot.
I have both tendon damage and labral tear, so it will take awhile for everything to heal....on the order of several months. As it is, it's been since Feb since I started to use crutches, and still can't completely get off of them. It's been since Jan when the pain first started....so about 6 months now.
I was trained with early mobilization protocols...long story, but in orthopedics you have the early movers and the immobilizers. So, under early mobilization philosophy, you do push it some, but you monitor closely the pain level and other signs of damage/overuse and immediately back off if you get an inflammation response. You let it rest a few days, then start back, but less aggressively. Your seeking to exercise the tissue as much as you can without causing further damage. Basically, you're choosing to have less risk of adhesions, loss of tensile strength in the tendon, loss of ROM, loss of strength, scars, etc in exchange for a greater risk of disrupting the repair, but you're keeping a close eye on things to lessen the chance of disrupting the repair as much as you can. So, I tend to do this with my own injury. The PT who I've returned to seeing said it was fine to have mild or moderate pain and that it would be expected especially with the myofascial release techniques she's using, but severe pain is wrong and to back off if I get that....which I interpret as a 7/10 or worse. Still, because of the philosophy I was trained with, I tend to push it to the edge because getting surgical scars and adhesions deep in tissue can lead to long term disability and once they are present, at least in the hand, it's very difficult to remove them. If the surgeon goes in to release the adhesions, then the very cutting involved from that surgery will create more adhesions. However, my knowledge of labral repairs is limited in this regard, but I assume it's the same deal, especially since the orthopod said, "oh, that's good, that means you're disrupting adhesion formation, which can be a problem."
The way I'm resting it is by using one crutch, by limiting the amount I go out and have to walk on the leg each day, keeping my distance of walking to household distances, I don't lift any more than 1 pound weights, and I pay attention to the pain level while stretching. Still, yesterday while stretching I was distracted, so may not have noticed some pain until it was too late, and the area is still hurting today. I wish I didn't get distracted, but I'll take it easy over the next few days to give it an opportunity to heal and hope I didn't compromise the surgical repair.
The main issue with the PT I didn't get along well with is he didn't listen. I kept trying to tell him what was happening, but he just dismissed it. I take severe pain levels seriously, but he didn't until I was crying hysterically from the pain and doped out on narcotics.
Anyway, all the professionals involved tell me it will eventually heal, but these injuries just take forever....several months to a year or so after surgery.View Thread
However, you don't describe anything that definitively rules out asthma. Glad my post helped you.View Thread
Most PTs are not like the one who threw me out. He just kept yelling at me that I didn't realize how great he was and that was the reason for him discharging me. The essence of what I was questioning was that I have a tendon with known damage by MRI, the PT was pushing for me to be off crutches even though the area where that tendon inserts (the same area the MRI documented problems at) was yelling with pain. He said to keep stressing it. I questioned this, he insisted, so I continued to stress it because I didn't want to argue with him, and it got worse. When I told him the outcome of his instructions, he got defensive. I simply wasn't trained to deal with damaged tendons like that....you can exercise the tendon if the pain is mild or sometimes even if it's moderate, but in the face of severe pain, I was trained to get the stress off the tendon if it responds with severe pain. I asked some of my coworkers, PTs who have experience in outpatient, and they agreed with me on tendons and said this particular PT likely had issues with insecurity and didn't like treating patients who have some knowledge. I've been to outpatient PT before, and every other experience I've had has been positive. I've never encountered a PT like that. As it is, in the state I was trained his actions would be considered detrimental practice...very bad in the eyes of the licensing board, so I was surprised. Anyway, I'm back with PT I saw before surgery and she's very nice and it's going well with her.
The ROM has increased, the pain is about the same overall (it decreased from the severe levels with rest, ice, and cortisone shot..it's the same as it's been overall since the surgery), I have some concerns, but I'll discuss with the PT I'm now seeing at our next appointment. The strength isn't increasing that I can tell, but I keep doing the exercises...all within the pain tolerance of that tendon. The PT I'm now seeing told me to not go without crutch support right now because I didn't have the necessary ROM and strength....but she'll reassess at the next appointment since ROM has increased a great deal over the last few weeks.
What you describe with the person with CP is what I saw with my friends in college. They were college students and yet when they would go out in public, they were treated as if they didn't have the brains God gave a gnat, which ended up limiting their employment opportunities even when they could do the job. I recall one of my friends was getting a PhD in biology, and folks would talk to him and ask him if he could read and then congratulate him on it.
Sorry you were having problems with the asthma while running, though I'm glad it's getting better. I've been really fortunate in that my asthma has been really well controlled for 8 months now.View Thread
In terms of your other questions... I don't know. I've had times when doctors have told me to use inhaled corticosteroids 4 times a day because that's all they could add to my controllers without putting me on prednisone and they were trying to avoid prednisone. In your individual case, I don't know if it makes to do it or not...if you haven't already, I would ask your doctor what their reasoning is.View Thread
All risk is relative. So, you have to consider what the risk of not taking Advair 100/50 is and determine if that risk is greater than taking it. Yes, there have been deaths from it, but there have also been deaths from under treated asthma...not to mention folks who didn't die, but got neurological damage from not getting oxygen to the brain fast enough. The best person to determine the risks is your doctor, so if it were me, I would go on Advair 100/50. I've taken Advair 500/50 (same medicine, but higher dose) for over a decade and have had no problems with it, and it helps keep me breathing and makes the life threatening attacks much less common.
Advair contains both an inhaled corticosteroid and a long acting beta agonist. There are medicines that contain only the inhaled corticosteroid part, like FloVent or Qvar among others, and so they should have less risk from adverse medicine effects. You may want to ask your doctor if they think you can be controlled with these drugs instead.
The asthma drug that has the greatest long term risk is prednisone, It is much safer to take the Advair as opposed to a higher prednisone dose over time.
My doctors do a rapid taper with me, unless I've been on it for months....but some do gradual tapers with shorter treatment times. They'll normally do 40-80 mg a day for a week, then off. They told me there is less concern at this time with adrenal insufficiency with short bursts than there once was. Other than that, I don't know how to answer your question about tapering.
Hope this helps you.View Thread
Sorry, I can't help you with your other questions since I don't know. Asthma is tough, and sometimes you do everything right, but it just doesn't always happen the way you would like....there's just not enough known about the disease.View Thread
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