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I am looking to setup a photography print business. Does anyone know of any suppliers that can provide frames for 18 x 12" photos? Ideally it would be good if they were UK based.
Try http://www.readymadepictureframe.com/ - wide variety of frames in various colours and styles
I use Picture Frames Direct
Very good in price, mostly glass and they have a huge range, and when they deliver the frames are wrapped in heaps of bubble wrap so very well protected while in transit.
If you order over the phone, which is what I do, you will get sound advice as well as being able to ask lots of questions, change the colour and apeture of the mount or even order double mounts.
If you are looking for Quality and aren't worried about price then Kenro are another option, however they supply only to professional photography shops and studios, and supply in bulk, when I first ordered I needed to order a min of 5 of the same frames.


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This wooden Food & Beverage Set by Plan Toys includes orange juice, water, milk, ketchup, jam, and honey. Great addition to the Tableware Set and Tea Set also by Plan Toys. Great pretend play fun! Made using sustainable natural materials and eco-friendly processes. Child-safe and non-toxic.
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We have only stayed on-site once. We are a family of 5 and a hotel room is just too cramped for us now. We also can't afford the larger Disney suites, so we stay off-site.
We have stayed in several places off-site. Since we typically stay 2 weeks each year, we stay in less expensive places that allow us to have a kitchen and at least 2 bedrooms. Last year we stayed at the Polynesian Isles Resort and it was very nice. We only paid $500 for 14 nights through SkyAuction, so we were very glad. I would like to stay at Bonnet Creek, but the cheapest rate I could get was $1400 for the same stay. We used that extra $900 for tickets and were fine.
Be aware that Bonnet Creek tacked on a $12 per night resort fee this past year as well. So, whatever rate you are getting, add in taxes and a $12 per night resort fee.


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The 2013 Brothers Chevy Truck Show and ShineWritten by on January 14, 2014 Made In The Shade
I've enjoyed attending the Brothers truck show for years, and I have to say, this year's gathering was by far the best of a long line of annual shows. It's the norm for the show to draw a large number of the coolest trucks in the American southwest, and just like their catalog, the show caters to the 1947-87 Chevrolet and GMC trucks we all know and love. Among the vast number of early 3100s and later C10s that are always in attendance in huge numbers there's also a large contingent of Suburbans and Blazers on hand. Heck, this year there was even a small number of lifted 4WDs too, including Brothers' own Steve Flanders' good-lookin' lifted 4x4.
Speaking of the Flanders, those guys, and their entire crew, work their collective butts off ensuring that the show goes off without a hitch and that everyone (including the spectators) has a great time. Above and beyond the sea of cool pickups, Suburbans, and Blazers, there was live music (great music as a matter of fact) great food (thanks to a bevy of food trucks), and a huge raffle with a bunch of great prizes for the lucky winners.
Being a one-day show, the afternoon brought judging to an end and the winners drove away with a long list of awards and trophies as well. The fun-filled day soon whizzed by, and before we knew it, yet one more annual event was in the books and all us classic truck fans were already looking forward to next year's gathering.
So if you wanna be a part of next year's show, stay tuned to what's new on the Brothers website, www.brotherstrucks.com, and grab the parts that ya need, and finish up that project truck so you can enjoy next year's show along with the rest of us! Meanwhile, check out some cool pics of the show. For those that were there they'll be a reminder, and for those that didn't make it you'll get to see what ya missed.
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Brad King's heavily licked five-window is a rolling billboard for his handiwork with a striping brush.Now this is cool. Dino Battilana went the full resto look on the outside with all his custom work on the inside. As you can see, this mild-mannered 1966 C10 is more than just a stock resto – and another future CLASSIC TRUCKS feature candidate. Stay tuned, you don't wanna miss this one!Mike Palacio's neat 1957 sports an early grille, a good-looking silver paintjob, and a quartet of chrome smoothies 'n' baby moon caps wrapped with skinny whites. Those cool hood cutouts are a neat touch as well.Louis Burgueno's 1951 three-window was lookin' good with its accessory visor and aftermarket Lancer caps.It's always great to run into my good pal Ponch the "Bag Man." Ponch and me go way back, unfortunately we don't get a chance to visit as much as we'd like, but at least I can count on running into him and his seriously slammed Chevy every year at the Show & Shine. Ponch is a master at "bagging" anything that rolls as his countless happy customers can attest.Speaking of shade, it'd take more than shadows to keep folks from enjoying the sight of Jaime Morales' good-looking 1966.The Brothers Annual Show & Shine is held each year at the Canyon RV Park in sunny Anaheim, California. Canyon is a great venue that offers camping, cabins, hiking, biking, and of course, the annual Brothers gathering. The beautifully shaded grounds offer a great respite from the hot So Cal sun, but the shaded show area makes it a tough place for good photography, as you can see here with all the shadows playing on Armando Perez's baby blue 1956.A classic pickup doesn't have to be all shiny and chromed to be welcome at the show either. Mario Martinez's in-the-works 1953 five-window was getting as much attention as any at the show, and we're sure it'll be a looker when it's finished.
Brothers Truck Parts not only hosts the annual Show & Shine, but they also show off a fraction of their wares in the confines of their booth. As I'm sure every classic trucker is well aware, Brothers Truck Parts offers one of the county's largest selections of Chevy and GMC truck parts and accessories, all of which are showcased in their ever-growing mail-order catalog and distributed from their huge facility in Corona, California.What's almost as good as a cool classic truck? Well, it's good food and drink of course. There was plenty of all three at the Brothers Annual Show & Shine too.It didn't matter which way you looked, the grounds of Canyon RV Park was chock full of early Chevy trucks of every kind.Classic panel trucks are rather rare and sometimes passed over as subjects for resurrection, but Norman Carrera hit a homerun with his beautiful two-tone turquoise and white 1955 Chevy Panel. This baby has it all – a great color combo, painted steelies with caps and wide whites, and just enough accessories to complement its classy look.Michael Hurtado's lowrider-style 1951 is a great example of a classy ride, equipped with just the right amount of accessory items to make it stand apart from the rest. Beautiful job Michael.At this point I guess it's pretty evident that I lean toward the slammed resto look. Rene Martinez's (founder of the C/10 Club) 1968 C10 is beautiful, and wouldn't you know it – a past CLASSIC TRUCKS cover truck to boot.We had to do a double-take when we saw Adrian Salazar's beautiful 1965 longbed roll in. The bright orange finish really caught our eye......so we hunted it down for a closer look after we lost sight of it as it cruised into the crowd when it first arrived.
Ken Reason's slammed, flamed 1966 nearly knocked my socks off. This cool custom (or shall I say "kustom") was one of my favorite trucks at the show.There's just something about cool kustoms that one can't shake no matter what kind of wheeled vehicle show it is – must be the Corvette grille teeth, dummy spots, wide whites, and Lancers.All the classic trucks at the show weren't ground-scrapers by any means, and Robert Luna's sky-high 1961 is a perfect example. I'll bet if Ken Reason got a runnin' start he'd be able to pass right underneath Rob's four-wheeler with nary a scrape.It really doesn't take a lot to make a solid ol' classic pickup look good. A little bit of suspension work, a set of whitewalls (wide or skinny), and an Indian blanket seat cover and ya got it handled. Brent Buzard's good-lookin' 1964 is a perfect example – I sure wouldn't throw it outta my driveway if I woke up to it there, that's for sure.Heck, even guys with two first names love classic pickups! All kidding aside, Dennis Douglas' snow-white 1972 C10 was lookin' good with a custom tube grille and big-diameter billet wheels. Good job Dennis.Glen Pratt's beautiful 1972 C10 is another sweet ride we'll be showing you more of in an upcoming issue of CLASSIC TRUCKS. We were lucky enough to get a hold of Glenn and beg him to let us shoot a feature on this great-looking pickup.At the other end of the color spectrum is David Gomez's pitch black 1972. David went the same route as Dennis did with a super-clean look and big billet wheels – a winnin' combination.Jerry Conant's LS3-powered Jim Meyer Enterprises 1950 Chevy 3100 is an amazing truck. The list of top-quality components and craftsmen used in its construction reads like the who's who of the rodding world.


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7th Annual Chevy & GMC Truck Show & Shine - Party Hardy: Bow Ties And Jimmys A PlentyWritten by on October 1, 2005 Contributors: Rich Boyd The 7th Annual Chevy & GMC Truck Show & Shine
Most rode low. Some appeared stock. Several reached for the stratosphere, perched atop NAPCO or modern custom suspensions. The number of hot rod and classic haulers in attendance made the event the biggest and best ever. The 7th Annual Chevy & GMC Truck Show & Shine, produced by Brothers Classic Chevy & GMC Truck Parts, offered entertainment, food, a chock-full vendors row, and an abundance of pristine, classic custom GM pickups.
Minutes before the 8 o'clock start on Sunday, July 10, 2005, we arrived at Featherly Park in Anaheim, California. A score of pickups had already parked, while rumbling Chevys and GMCs emerged from the morning mist to find places in the sun. We found an eclectic mix of freshly finished trucks, former winners, and in-progress pickups. We visited with the Flanders brothers (of Brothers Trucks fame), and joked with owners of pickups recently featured in CCT. Since the Brothers Trucks show is right in CCT's backyard, it's more like a family reunion or a neighborhood block party. The best part is the most popular partiers at the Brothers annual reunion are always the most pristine pickups. They're easy to spot: The engines sing the sweetest. Their interiors smell and feel the freshest. And their meticulous finish, paint, and chrome shine the brightest. In other words, the best Bow Ties and Jimmys at the Brothers annual shindig weren't donning lampshades to stand out; they exuded custom classic design. If you couldn't attend that sunny summer Southern California Sunday, we had your back. Check out some of the GM finery we found most captivating. For even more photos from the show and information about next year's block party, please visit www.brothers trucks.com. Consider this a written invitation (with photos) for the Brothers family reunion in 2006. Party hardy pickup fans!
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We don't often see '57 Chevy Cameos wearing tribal flames on jet black. The judges appropriately awarded Gil Palmer the Best 55-59 Paint prize for his well-built, blown big-block-powered Cameo.Garnering the Best 55-59 trophy was Sam Carroll and his copper-colored '55 Chevy 3100. Congratulations Mr. Carroll!Jim Bessler owns a great green-hued '67 Chevy Fleetside that may look familiar to readers. The Fleetside graced the cover of a past issue of CCT when it was owned by Dana Rogalski. Nice truck, Jim and Dana!In their drop-top '72 Blazer, replete with surfboard, Jesse Ceniceros and his companion appeared to be in search of some tasty waves.Tom Campbell owns this pristine, all-original-equipment, chrome-yellow '57 GMC NAPCO 4x4 panel delivery. Saying that five times fast is about as easy as it is to climb aboard the heaven-close hauler.Tom Campbell owns this pristine, all-original-equipment, chrome-yellow '57 GMC NAPCO 4x4 panel delivery. Saying that five times fast is about as easy as it is to climb aboard the heaven-close hauler.Low, long, lean, and lapis-blue all describe Frank Kester's clean '72 Chevy Fleetside longbed. The truck had excellent paint prep; note the even body panel gaps and absence of body waves.Earning a Best 47-54 Restored Honorable Mention was John Nevins' '53 Chevy hauler. For some reason we're suddenly very thirsty. Refreshing.
As evidenced by James Morales' carefully crafted pickup, Tangelo Orange is an excellent color to paint a '71 Chevy C10 longbed.We featured Karen and Doug Barnett's banana-colored '57 Chevy 1/2-ton in the Dec. '03 issue of CCT. The Barnetts also own a beauteous '57 Chevy panel delivery. Doug painted both of the trucks himself. They reside in Long Beach, CA.When this young hot rod hauler hobbyist-to-be took a break from admiring the Chevy and GMC haulers, he amused himself by visiting the Bounce House.Several nice Suburbans were on display. Alexandra and Robert Flores own a turquoise and gray '67 Suburban that rolls on big billet wheels.The cover truck for the Mar. '05 issue of CCT was David Gongora's '56 Chevy panel delivery. If memory serves, David also attended last year's event.We captured most of the Bow Ties streaming into the park before the show started. Perhaps we missed out on a bit of shut-eye, but our shutter fingers worked overtime. Can you blame us?Throughout the one-day show, the Brothers Trucks booth was packed with GMC/Bow Tie pickup fans and astute Brothers employees.
If the interior of Ricardo Lopez's '55 Chevy looks familiar to you, you could be a detective. We showed you the exterior of his pickup in the lead photo of the article. He won Best 55-59 Interior. The "R" between the seats is a clue.Last Year's Best of Show-winning truck, a Prowler Orange '55 Chevy Stepside, owned by Jurgen Broesel, was on display again. Jurgen's awesome 427ci big-block- powered ride was featured in the Jun. '04 issue of CCT. We enjoyed seeing Jurgen and his hot rod hauler atop the hill of the amphitheatre. Rumor has it he's interested in building something else. Hmmmm.The ghost flames on Hector's Candy Tangerine '57 Chevy truck had us howling praises to the professional painter.If you're talking a Tri-Five Chevy car or truck, the color turquoise goes well. Jerry Apodaca's '55 Stepside shows superior fit, finish and paint.We didn't hear the small-block Chevy engine powering Mr. Apodaca's turquoise hauler, but we'd guess it sounds as sweet as it looks.We saw several 2WD Chevy Blazers that had us salivating, like the school bus-yellow '72 Blazer owned by Gracie and Tony Koutroulis.What goes with mustard? Ketchup. Steve Edmondson is the current caretaker of a radiant red '71 Chevy Blazer.


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Why do only big rocks (planets) have satellites, and not small ones? Why doesn't cosmic dust orbit rocks that are many times heavier than the dust grains? If dust is still too heavy then what about molecules, atoms, or any particle for that matter? The mass difference should be millions of millions times; isn't it enough for orbiting? The Moon is 1% of the Earth's mass, yet we don't see 1kg rocks orbiting 100kg ones.
I want to expand a bit on David Zaslavsky's point #1: "A random dust grain probably won't be going at the right velocity to be captured into orbit around a bigger rock (like an asteroid)." Without the assistance of a third body, it's actually impossible for an object to be gravitationally "captured" in an orbit by another: if it wasn't already in orbit before, there's no way for it to start orbiting.
The reason is just conservation of energy. If the object wasn't already in an orbit, then it was moving too fast, given its distance, to be in an orbit. (To put it the other way around, it was too far away, given its speed.) Even if the little guy was moving in just the right direction to come close to the big guy, it won't be captured: it will move in on a hyperbolic path, approach the other object once, and then fly away again, simply because it has too much energy to be captured. The only way to produce an orbit is for a third body to interact with the system and siphon off some energy at the right time.
That can happen, but unless the density of things flying around is high, it's rare. And if the density is high, then subsequent collisions, which will disrupt the orbit, will also be common.
The mass difference has practically nothing to do with whether two things can orbit each other. You can have two objects of the same mass in orbit (e.g. binary star systems), or you can have two objects of wildly different masses in orbit (the Earth and a piece of space junk), or anything in between. There are a lot of factors involved, for example:
Nevertheless, Luboš is correct that for any recognizable system the velocities of capture would be so low as to make the question moot.
As a rough example , equating centripetal gravitational with centrifugal forces, a particle orbiting a 100 kg mass 100 meters away from it would need a velocity order of magnitude of ten microns per second, something that would hardly be observable: the orbit of 628 meters would take 1.7*10^4 hours to complete.
In any case, in real life in our space around the sun it is a many body problem, as David suggests above, so statistical and chaotic behaviours will enter the problem and destroy any small scale regularity. Only in deep outer space outside the sun's field such an orbit might be undisturbed and observed by a patient observer :).
The reason for such small velocities is the weakness of the gravitational constant G. The velocity of a stable orbit is proportional to the square root of G. The mass of the orbiting particle does not matter as it is eliminated in equating centripetal and centrifugal forces.
The reason why we don't see dust particles orbiting comparably tiny rocks within the solar system is just that the rest of the solar system interferes due to how slow such an orbit has to be:
There is no reason why such small-scale "planetary" systems can't exist in the interstellar space.
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Almost 100 asteroids have satellites, and some of them are rather small. For example, asteroid 54509 YORP has a mass of only 1×1010 to 4×1010 kilograms. That sounds like a lot, but that's a body with a mean radius of only 120 meters. I mentioned 54509 YORP because it appears to be a confirmation of the YORP effect. Radiation pressure made the asteroid spin faster and faster until it split into a couple of pieces. Another proposed source for those satellites of small bodies is collisions. Yet another is capture, but that is rather difficult, particularly for small bodies.
Whether these satellites of small bodies are stable over millions and millions of years is a different question. There are a number of reasons to think that they are not.
! Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, image credit ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM, via nasa.gov
Extremely small particles are ejected from the solar system thanks to solar radiation pressure. Slightly larger (but still very small) particles spiral inward into the Sun thanks to the Poynting-Robertson effect. Slightly larger particles, up to small rock size, will spiral in or out thanks to the Yarkovsky effect. Once the Sun lit 4.6 billion years ago, solar radiation and the solar wind have been clearing the solar system of tiny pieces of stuff. New tiny pieces of junk are continuously created thanks largely to collisions in the asteroid belt. We see the inward-spiralling dust that results from these collisions as the zodiacal light.
If you haven't done so already, read the article referenced above on Bizarre Lunar Orbits. What happened to PFS-1 and PFS-2 is truly bizarre.
Understand that and you'll be well on the way to understanding why superclusters can have multiple galaxy groups "orbiting" them, galaxy groups can have multiple galaxies "orbiting" them, galaxies can have multiple stars orbiting them, stars can have planets orbiting them, and planets can have moons orbiting them, but moons cannot have satellites orbiting them. Planets and asteroids are where the hierarchy ends.


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The new Premier League season gets under way on August 13 with the big guns looking to right the wrongs
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Who does/doesn't love a good night of drunken Wooting?
I drink fairly rarely, but I find that I ALWAYS end up here on Deals.Woot! Whether I am home and drunk after a fun night with friends or had a 1-2-3 too many glasses of wine on a night home. Does anyone else end up here drunk? Do you ever type anything you regret? Do you specifically avoid this place when inebriated?
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I'm here the majority of the time, sober or not. Mostly not. :) I have no regrets about it either way.
Dang it, @smtatertot13, you KNOW the rules. Put your tags in a comment, you know they'll be lost, and they're FUNNY.
For posterity:
@shrdlu: a) I've kinda been gone-ish for a while. b) you must know I have a lady crush on you. c) I don't expect d.w! to keep anything, whether funny, awesome or otherwise.
Part 4 is seriously, major lady crush. I wish I knew you in real life. Can you be part of my family? :D
worth saying that I regret 1-2 questions asked when i was what you might call "way too drunk for internet access." it's surprising or not-at-all-surprising" that my least popular questions also happen to be the ones asked when i was super duper crazy amounts of drunk. apparently booze makes me super lame!
PS: I wish I was able to be on enough to be a part of the community boxes of awful - i had a GREAT time being a part of the original box of awful and sent on some super duper awesomeness, but have missed all the later options. Can someone pretty please "invoke" me so I can play a part - i LOVE actual CRAP and have some AMAZING crap to send on :)
Sorry for 3 posts in a row, but like the question might make you assume, I AM DRUNK :D
also, also who downvoted drunken wootedness? F off :)
It's nice to know I'm not the only one who irresponsibly drinks and woots.
I didnt even know you could woot sober
At least i woot decent stuff while having a 'drink'. Last woot email i received said Your truffle butter will be on its way! Cannot wait for that. But on a side note, i have missed out on woots because of my 'drink'. I enter my password wrong 2-3 times and give up until morning and the item i want is sold out. Happened a few times now. LOVE WOOT though
Sounds like tonight to me! Glad to know I'm not the only one who does this. Heh.
My wife is a member of MADW
@smtatertot13: I think the "lady crush" comments immediately put you in the "drunken wooting" category.
@smtatertot13: @shrdlu informed me she would love to take you up on your lady crush and test out some of the new marriage laws! Only requirement is that it be a small ceremony with a mostly self grown vegetarian menu. Balls in your court, let us know how it goes :).
Now if you would excuse me its time for me to enter Witsec before shrdlu hunts me down.....
DARN! I'm on the wrong end of the day here for this conversation!
Just a few more hours, though...
LOL... Man... you are dead.
(You should know better... @shrdlu has friends everywhere...)
@raider9924: BUSTED. Shrdy gon kick your ass, boy ;)
Drunk posting started the day woot started!
Gee, my color changed for the worse. Come on guys! I had no power for a week!
@smtatertot13: Just to let you know that entire joke was solely directed at @shrdlu and was not meant in anyway to reflect on your real comments. Had to have some fun with her after what she put me thru....
Well now back off to a foreign local....Argentina maybe....
@raider9924: I have no idea of your history as far as whatever she "put you through", but I didn't take any offense. All good :)
@smtatertot13: Just a friendly joke she pulled acouple of days back, saw the opportunity for some funny "payback" and took it. She did feel very bad that you inadvertently got pulled into our joking around so just wanted to "clear the air". For the record I agree @Shrdlu is great! (so please dont kill me now :-)~ )
PS: I might have to give drunk posting a try around here, looks like fun!
Sobriety is overrated.
I'm drinking right now.
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The following query is proving beyond my abilities to fix - hope someone can help.
SELECT top 100 Id, Name, InsertDate
FROM Foo
WHERE CONTAINS(FooText, '"test*" and "hello*" and "goodbye*"')
ORDER BY InsertDate desc
Without the ORDER BY clause, the query performs fine (< 2 seconds). But when I add the ORDER BY, performance is awful (> 2 minutes).
The problem seems to be an incorrect query plan.
The query plan that performs well is this:
The query plan that performs badly is this:
IX_Foo_InsertDate is defined as: CREATE CLUSTERED INDEX [IX_Foo_InsertDate] ON [Foo] ( [InsertDate] DESC )
What is causing the change in query plans? How can I fix it?


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6 Famous Movies With Mind-Blowing Hidden Meanings
Most of us are familiar with movie metaphors. We all know that the Narnia movies are full of Christian allegories, that Alien is bursting with rape symbolism, and so on.
But it's easy to forget that almost every movie has some kind of subtext. Writers love that shit, so they work it in wherever they can -- even if they're writing about a cyborg that punches people.
As a result, these half-coded messages turn up in movies you'd never expect.
#6. Spider-Man: Peter Parker's Man Juice
What You Think You're Watching
Another superhero movie. This time, it's about a shy teenager named Peter Parker who discovers that a genetically engineered spider bite has given him superpowers.
The Subtext
We have jokingly alluded to this before, but Spider-Man really is all about semen. Or puberty. Whatever.
We tend to find Spider-Man easier to identify with than other superheroes. He's not an alien, like Superman, or the son of a major Norse god, like Thor, or a Canadian, like Wolverine. But that's not all we have in common with Peter Parker: His superhero birth-trauma story is one with which we're all painfully familiar -- puberty.
Those were dark years.
At the beginning of the 2002 Spider-Man movie, Peter Parker is timid, puny and closer to his aunt and uncle than to girls his age. That is until one day, when Peter is taking a picture of a pretty classmate, Mary Jane Watson. While gazing, enchanted, at her beauty, he's bitten by a spider. Peter reacts to this event by running home and staring at his bare torso in the mirror, confused.
The next day, Peter's body has changed, and he has developed muscles in new places. But that's just the beginning. Peter's body starts producing, uh, sticky white stuff.
This movie defines subtlety.
The audience watches with vague feelings of discomfort as this teenage boy spends a long time trying to figure out exactly how to produce the newly discovered fluid, nervously telling his aunt to go away when she knocks on the door.
If the superpowers-as-puberty message wasn't intentional in the recent movies, it sure was back when they were being developed. For most of Spider-Man's 49-year history, Peter Parker lacked the ability to shoot webs out of his own body (heh), instead relying on a pair of mechanical shooters that he built himself and attached to his wrists.
This new power of Spider-Man's is prominently featured in an unused script written by James Cameron in 1991. If you still have any doubts about the subtext that's going on here, check out this scene from Cameron's version, in which a newly spiderized Peter Parker wakes up in bed:
Something is causing the sheet to stick to him. He lifts it, revealing a sticky, white mass completely covering him, gluing him to his bedding. It is some silky substance webbing him into the covers. He cries out in dismay ... struggling to free himself from the gluey strands. Where did it come from? He notices his wrists. ... They are oozing a pearlescent white fluid from almost invisible slits about a quarter of an inch long.
See, it could have been much, much worse. It's pretty clear that this metaphor was a deliberate one. Either that, or Cameron has a few things that he needs to work through with his therapist.
No shit.
#5. RoboCop: All Praise Be to Robot Jesus
What You Think You're Watching
A fun sci-fi romp through a near-future dystopian Detroit. Peter Weller plays a good cop who is murdered in the line of duty and is therefore the perfect candidate for inaugurating the RoboCop program. As the first RoboCop, RoboCop does many robocoppy things, including single-handedly robocopping the city's crime element, and robocopping corruption within the corporation that robocopped him.
Also, whatever you call this.
The Subtext
RoboCop is actually RoboJesus.
Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop, much like The Matrix, The Day the Earth Stood Still and other movies all strangely connected to Keanu Reeves, uses its hero as a metaphor for Jesus Christ. Let's start with the obvious: The story of Christ is that Jesus is alive, then he's wrongfully killed, then he's resurrected. The story of RoboCop goes like this: Good cop is alive:
Then he's wrongfully killed:
Then he's resurrected as RoboCop:
OK, now let's get into the iconic scene, in which Detroit policeman and RoboCop-to-be Alex Murphy is tortured and killed by a gang of bad guys. First, his arm is spread out in a cruciform position. Next, the gang leader blows off his right hand with a shotgun -- a modern, gore-amplified version of being nailed to a cross. Finally, he receives a deadly gunshot wound to the head (the crown of thorns, durrrr).
Not convinced? Near the end of the movie, in his final showdown with the crime gang that killed him, RoboCop is shown moving across ankle-deep water, almost as if he's walking on top of it.
"Ask and it will be given to you -- in bullets!"
Oh, and if you're still not convinced, director Verhoeven actually confirmed the whole theory in a 2010 interview, saying that he fully intended to portray Murphy as a Jesuslike figure.
"It is about a guy who gets crucified in the first 50 minutes, and then is resurrected in the next 50 minutes, and then is like the supercop of the world."
Verhoeven also pointed out that the character's somewhat un-Christlike violence was deliberate, since RoboCop was meant to be an American Jesus.
And we're sure Verhoeven will tell us what the fuck Basic Instinct was about one of these days.
#4. Iron Man 2: Tony Stark and Ayn Rand
What You Think You're Watching
A superhero movie based on the comic book character Iron Man. In this sequel, Tony Stark faces an enemy who has built his own version of the Iron Man suit, as well as a douchey rival weapons manufacturer.
The Subtext
Iron Man is the ultimate objectivist hero, fighting for private property rights against the vulturelike thieves known as "the government." In other words, Ayn Rand's wet dream.
We're legitimately sorry for that mental image.
In Rand's 1,200-page love letter to capitalism, Atlas Shrugged, you have a protagonist named Francisco d'Anconia, a brilliant businessman who runs his inherited family business. D'Anconia deliberately maintains an image as a worthless playboy in order to avoid the growing culture of government theft depicted in Rand's novel.
The protagonist of the Iron Man series is Tony Stark, a brilliant businessman who has also inherited his father's business. Until the end of the first Iron Man film, Stark deliberately maintains an image as a worthless playboy in order to hide his superhero identity.
Man, no one could have called that.
Then in Rand's novel we have Hank Rearden, another protagonist who got super-rich by inventing a valuable metal alloy whose formula he continues to keep secret. The government, sensing the metal's usefulness, tries to forcibly take the rights to Rearden's alloy away from him.
Stark also gains massive amounts power by inventing, among other things, a gold-titanium alloy for use in the Iron Man suit, whose design he continues to keep a secret. The government, sensing its usefulness, tries to take the rights to Stark's suit.
"My God, Stevens. Think of how many rednecks we could trick into believing in aliens with that thing."
In Atlas Shrugged, Rearden is hauled into court for breaking government regulations relating to his steel company. He gives a wildly popular speech in court about his property rights, telling his accusers: "I am fighting for my property!" He humiliates his opponents by winning over the crowd and concludes by telling them: "I work for nothing but my own profit."
In Iron Man 2, Stark is hauled into a Senate hearing, during which a senator demands he hand over his designs.
Stark responds by giving a wildly popular speech about his property rights, telling his accusers: "You want my property? You can't have it!" He humiliates his opponents by winning over the crowd and concludes by telling them: "I will serve this great nation at the pleasure of myself."
The bad guys, too, are uncannily similar. Atlas Shrugged's government lobbyist cozies up to the government in lieu of actual talent. Iron Man 2's main antagonist keeps trying to steal Stark's work with the help of substantial government contracts. There's also Iron Man's other nemesis in the film, Ivan Vanko, who is Russian. You know what else comes from Russia? Communism, that's what.
Plus, in a documentary on the DVD for the first film, Iron Man co-creator Stan Lee flat out says that he created a capitalist, commie-fighting, industrialist, weapon-manufacturing superhero as a way to deliberately antagonize hippie-leaning comic book fans. Anti-military sentiment was high back in the 60s, and Lee wanted to challenge himself by creating a character he could force them to like.
So many good things have come from fucking with comic book nerds.
The result is that Iron Man 2 would be identical to Atlas Shrugged, if only it contained no humor and concluded with the bad guys unanimously standing down after Stark gave a 25 minute speech.
"Your fancy orating touched my ticker."


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Trojan Softball Hits the Road at North Greenville on ThursdayFebruary 5, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – The Anderson softball team, ranked 20th in the nation, goes on the road for the first time this season on Thursday, as the Trojans look to extend their season-opening win streak to four after sweeping Lees-McRae last Sunday. First-pitch versus the Crusaders is slated for 2 p.m.
The Trojans
Anderson opened the 2014 campaign by taking two from the Bobcats, 8-0 and 10-0, with each contest halted after five innings.
Stellar performances in the circle by three newcomers headlined the afternoon as freshmen Lauren Rudesheim and Augie Pena, alongside junior Katelynn Howser, combined to toss 10 perfect innings on the afternoon. The trio held Lees-McRae hitless and did not issue any walks, while facing 31 Bobcat batters and striking out 13.
Rudesheim was named South Atlantic Conference Pitcher of the Week following her performance, as the right-hander tossed four complete innings of perfect softball, while striking out five to earn her first win in the Black and Gold.
Senior catcher Laura Jansky was a perfect 4-for-4 on the afternoon and added a walk, while senior Abby Child went 3-for-5 with a pair of walks and an RBI. Senior outfielder Charlotte Sieber notched a pair of doubles and drove in two runs, with senior first-baseman Danielle Swygert going 2-for-4 on the afternoon. Jessica Neidigh, Courtney Czentnar and Molly Child all added home runs.
The Crusaders
North Greenville was picked to finish fourth in the Conference Carolinas Preseason Coaches' Poll, which was released in late January. The Crusaders posted a 20-20 mark overall a year ago, finishing three games over .500 in conference play with an 11-8-1 mark. NGU wrapped up the 2013 season with a second straight runner-up finish in the Conference Carolinas tournament, falling twice to Mount Olive in the finals.
A pair of current Crusaders earned postseason honors following last season, as
senior right-handed hurler Rachel Glazebrook was named First-Team All-Conference Carolinas and senior Sarah Armstrong earned second-team accolades. Glazebrook appeared in 27 games in the circle, posting a 1.92 ERA, while allowing just 96 hits in 157 innings. The Greenville, S.C., native walked just 49 batters, while striking out 194, which was second in the league. She held opponents to a .172 batting average, while she led North Greenville with a .388 average. Armstrong hit in the leadoff spot for the Crusaders, posting a .333 batting average on the season, with one home run. She was the team leader with a .429 on-base percentage and pounded out 44 hits on the season, including four doubles and a team leading four triples. Armstrong also led the team with 23 free passes.
Thursday's twinbill marks North Greenville's first contests of the season.
The Series vs. North Greenville
The Trojans and Crusaders have squared off on 22 occasions over the past 16 seasons, with Anderson holding a 12-10 advantage in the overall series. The two teams met 18 times between 1999 and 2006, with the series taking a six-year hiatus before last season's matchups at Smethers Field.
AU has won four straight past the Crusaders, including last year's 8-7 and 9-6 victories. With the wind chill hovering around the freezing mark, Samantha Young's two-run walk-off single to the fence in right-center field gave Anderson the win in game one, while the Trojans rallied for four runs in the third inning of the nightcap to sweep NGU.
Molly Child drove in four runs with a fourth-inning grand slam in game one and added a pair of hits and an RBI in the second game, while Neidigh was 6-for-9 and scored four times. Abby Child was 2-for-5 with two RBI and four walks. Sieber added a double and a pair of singles and crossed the plate three times, with Jansky recording a pair of hits.


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Boys basketball roundup for Dec. 21: Kennedy, Wamogo post wins
Isaiah Wright netted 24 points, hitting six shots from behind the arc, for Kennedy as it knocked off Naugatuck, 65-47, Friday in an NVL Copper Division showdown.
Tyronne Timmons scored 11 points, pulled down 11 boards and had six blocks for the host Eagles (3-1), while Don Jarrett added 17 points.
Mick Pernell led the Greyhounds (3-2) with 15 points.
St. Paul 74, Watertown 64: Kyle Dube knocked in a game-high 23 points, along with six rebounds, five assists, and five steals as the Falcons topped the Indians in NVL action in Bristol.
Brendan Carroll scored 12 points while Nick Villani added eight points.
Jordan Rowley and Tyler Jones had seven points while Logan Marchi finished with six points and nine rebounds for St. Paul (2-2).
Jonathan Mitchell scored 23 points while Chris DosSantos chipped in with 21 points. Anthony Chacho had 12 points for Watertown (1-3).
Wamogo 71, Thomaston 60: Nick Nemergut scored 33 points, including 16 from the free-throw line, to lead the host Warriors in BL action.
Mark Davis added 17 points and Doug Whipple nine for Wamogo (1-2), which sank 23 of 28 foul shot attempts.
Nemergut connected on 13 of 14 free throws in the fourth quarter as the Warriors used a spread offense that resulted in 10 trips to the foul line.
Drew Gagne led the Bears (1-2) with 25 points. Alex Gagne added nine.
Northwestern 73, Lewis Mills 26: John Stevens poured in 28 points for Northwestern as it defeated Lewis Mills in Winsted.
Conner Guiheen was next in line for the Highlanders (3-0) with 17 points.
Spencer Maloney scored a team-high 10 points for the Spartans (1-2).
Shepaug 51, Litchfield 47: Dylan McAward netted a game-high 14 points as the Spartans held off a late rally from the Cowboys in Washington, Conn.
Kelle Rikhoff scored 12 points while Michael Anson finished with 10 points for Shepaug (2-2).
Steven Rinquist and Spencer Persechino both scored 14 points for Litchfield (0-4).
Nonnewaug 69, Housatonic 27: Ben Timme netted a game-high 20 points for the Chiefs (2-1) as they crushed the Mountaineers in Falls Village.
Greg Porcelli and Dylan Martland added 10 points apiece for Nonnewaug (2-1), while Christian Metallo chipped in with nine points.
Jeremy Stiewing scored 14 points to lead Housatonic (0-3).
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Hound Pound wrote on Dec 22, 2012 6:45 AM:
" WOW! How does Kennedy beat Naugy. Naugy is most talented team in the league by far. Naugy just gets by Sacred Heart and Cross then gets pumped at Northwest cath and Kenn. Time for Wilson to go! His And 1 mix tape tour coaching style doesn't work. Get control of this athletic group......please! "
Naug Resident wrote on Dec 22, 2012 2:57 PM:
" I agree Hpound. They look real athletic but they don't run an offense. There Big guy never touches the ball.....too much 1 on 1. I hear the kids don't even want to play for him. Bad choice of hire. His only coaching experience was a year as a grad asst in college which is basically a way to work off your scholarship if you need graduate still. Then he coaches just 2 yrs of frosh ball and he gets annointed the coach.....he wasn't ready yet. Now the kids must suffer because they can be real real good. "
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My Own Two Feet (Paperback)
The New Yorker called Beverly Cleary's first volume of memoirs, A Girl From Yamhill, a warm, honest book, as interesting as any novel. Now the creator of the classic children's stories millions grew up with continues her own fascination story. Here is Beverly Cleary, from college years to the publication of her first book. It is a fascinating look at her life and a writing career that spans three generations, continuing to capture the hearts and imaginations of children of all ages throughout the world.
About the Author
Beverly Cleary is one of America's most beloved authors. As a child, she struggled with reading and writing. But by third grade, after spending much time in her public library in Portland, Oregon, she found her skills had greatly improved. Before long, her school librarian was saying that she should write children's books when she grew up.
Instead she became a librarian. When a young boy asked her, "Where are the books about kids like us?" she remembered her teacher's encouragement and was inspired to write the books she'd longed to read but couldn't find when she was younger. She based her funny stories on her own neighborhood experiences and the sort of children she knew. And so, the Klickitat Street gang was born!
Mrs. Cleary's books have earned her many prestigious awards, including the American Library Association's Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, presented to her in recognition of her lasting contribution to children's literature. Dear Mr. Henshaw won the Newbery Medal, and Ramona Quimby, Age 8 and Ramona and Her Father have been named Newbery Honor Books. Her characters, including Beezus and Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ralph, the motorcycle-riding mouse, have delighted children for generations.


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Hi everyone, the summer break is coming and I am thinking of reading something about mathematical logic. Could anyone please give me some reading materials on this subject?
Here are a few suggestions (which depending on your background may be more or less useful):
I hope these (admittedly biased) suggestions are some use!
I'm surprised my favorite introduction to mathematical logic hasn't been mentioned by anyone. It's Robert S.Wolf's A Tour Through Mathematical Logic. Wolf has written a book that is extremely compelling to read. His passion for the subject comes through in every sentence. It reads like a novel on mathematial logic and set theory, complete with detailed historical notes, philosophical insights and lots of problems. The book is practically a meditation on the answer to any frustrated student of logic's question,"Why is this important?" I wholeheartedly recommend it as your starting point before you look at any of the more-depth treatments recommended below. As a follow up, I recommend the classic introduction by my old teacher, Elliott Mendelson, An Introduction To Mathematical Logic, a deep and masterfully written introduction for graduate students. Those would be my recommendations.
This book is a general textbook on Logic, so it's not for beginners, but anyway, the text is called "Mathematical Logic" by Yu.Ershov and E.A. Palyutin. Sorry I couldn't find a relevant link anywhere. Maybe it's available in some library somewhere?
Joe Mileti wrote a really nice set of course notes on mathematical logic (approx 20 weeks of lectures). It's a draft for a book titled, I think, "Mathematical Logic for Mathematicians." The course notes are beautifully written (and beautifully delivered, if you've had the chance to see him lecture). He's a very nice guy, and I would suggest contacting him about it.
My memory is a bit hazy about the topics he covered, but we discussed propositional and first order logic, nonstandard analysis, and axiomatic set theory. I also remember that some highlights included connections to graph theory and algebra (I guess this sort of touches upon his research themes).
If you're a beginner to mathematical logic, as you seem to imply, I would strongly recommend you start off by getting acquainted with classical propositional and predicate logic. There is a very useful online set of aritlces on the subject, with interactive exercises. The sections relevant to mathematical logic would be:
Set Theory and Logic Robert R. Stoll .
This was our text in some course. See inside. And check your library and/ask the course instructors or try to find any senior students' course outline or better yet check good univ's websites on such a course.


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PTE409: Digital Electronics II (2011-2012)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Career and Technical Education
COURSE TITLE: Digital Electronics II
COURSE LENGTH: 18 weeks
SUGGESTED PREPARATION: Digital Electronics I
Major Concepts/Content: The digital electronics course familiarizes students with the skills and technologies involved in digital circuits and their use in modern electronics. Students will develop the technical skills necessary to continue follow-on course work in microprocessors and robotics technology. They will study digital number systems, logic gates and circuits, Boolean algebra, and combinational logic circuitry.
Major Instructional Activities: Instructional activities will provide students with hands-on experiences using digital components and circuits. Students will perform laboratory experiments and construct projects using digital components, number systems, and logic circuits.
Major Evaluative Techniques: Students will be required to conduct laboratory experiments and complete laboratory safety and content tests. Circuit construction projects and experiments will be compared to base-line plans for evaluation. Written and oral reports will be evaluated for content and form. Class participation will be evaluated using existing curriculum standards based upon School-to-Work transition guidelines.
Course Objectives: Upon completion of the digital electronics course, students should be able to:
- Apply the basic concepts of digital integrated circuitry
- Construct and describe the operation of logic gates
- Apply specialized logic and math skills as they relate to digital circuits
- Analyze and troubleshoot digital circuits using test equipment and procedures
- Construct and analyze combinational logic circuits.
- Apply Information Effectively
- Be a Productive Member of the Global Community
- Use Teamwork Skills
- Be a Skilled User of Technology
- Communicate Effectively
- Be a Problem Solver
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I'm a beginner Mac OS user.
When I open Firefox I receive the dialog below, why doesn't Firefox just start? What is the point of the below dialog?
This isn't a dialog, this is the result of mounting (opening) the Firefox.dmg (think of it as an archive or drive image). For mac users it's obvious - you should drag the FF icon to the Applications folder shortcut (the blue folder). This will copy the Firefox application in the /Applications/ folder. Then just unmount (eject) the Firefox.dmg archive and start Firefox from Applications (like you start the rest of your applications).
The file what you downloaded, is an "DMG" archive type (like ISO image).


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I have some customers who expect everything for next to nothing. They also want things to behave a certain way, or look a certain way, but when explaining to them why it's not a good idea to implement a certain feature and offering suggestions, they don't listen. When things go wrong, they get moody, and demand I change/recode the entire feature to their liking, but when told that it's because they wanted it that way, they don't listen.
I've found that after years of being around these types of people, it's had a major impact on the way I deal with people I can't stand, and I've seriously run out of ideas.
How do you deal with people who never listen, never learn, and want everything for free?


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10 Dec 2011 3:11 PM #1
List and PR3
I'm seeing strange behavior with List/Store in PR3. I am manually adding objects to the store (no proxy) but not all of the objects are being displayed in the List. I think the "paging" feature may be the culprit as I'm only seeing 5 entries out of 20 and the List can display 5 entries. I tried setting "buffered: false" in the store but that didn't fix it. Furthermore, if I do "grouped: true", it only shows 1 entry.
What's going on? Ideas please....
11 Dec 2011 11:57 PM #2
Could you please provide a test case so we can look into it?Sencha Inc.
Robert Dougan - @rdougan
Sencha Touch 2 and Ext JS 4 Core Team Member, SASS/Theming Wizard.
12 Dec 2011 6:49 AM #3
There is a bug that is triggered in the "insert' method on the "Store" class when it fires the "add" event:
me.fireEvent('add', me, records, index);
me.fireEvent('datachanged', me); if (me.autoSync && sync) { me.sync(); }


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Arrested: Brandon M. Jones, 28, 132 Plum St., Weirton, criminal trespass, Tuesday.
Arrested: Ronald L. Henry Jr., 30, 1300 Main St., Wellsburg, possession of drug paraphernalia, drug abuse and possession of drug abuse instrument, Monday.
Arrested: James T. Birkhimer, 47, Apartment 408, 730 N. Seventh St., domestic violence, Monday.
Arrested: Linsey R. Siudak, 19, 216 May Road, Follansbee, petit theft and bench warrant out of municipal court, Monday.
Cited: Mario Banks, 23, Apartment 2, 1327 Euclid Ave., red light; Jodie B. Morphen, 259 Harvard Blvd., speeding; Jennifer L. Strovilas, 522 N. Third St., Toronto, speeding; and Dean Lewis Jones, 1225 Pennsylvania Ave., three citations for no animal registration.
Hit-skip: Vehicle parked in the 100 block of North Fifth Street struck in driver's side door, Tuesday.
Brooke County sheriff
Cited: Virgil L. Merritt Jr., 35, 206 South Hogan Alley, New Cumberland, illegal burning.
Jefferson County sheriff
Arrested: Marcus A. Keeney, 37, East Liverpool, failure to appear, Tuesday.
Scam: Residents in Richmond and Steubenville told deputies unknown callers tried to obtain their banking information Tuesday.


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Two Smiths Grove residents are in custody in Cincinnati, after trying to rob a Target Store.
31-year old Melissa Vance and 25-year old William Evans, both from Smiths Grove, were taken into custody by Cincinnati Police for receiving stolen property from the Target Store in Florence, Kentucky.
Vance took several packages of Sudafed tablets and attempted to leave the store.
She was stopped by a Loss Prevention officer and kicked him and then later threatened him with a knife.
Vance fled the store and got into a van with Evans and a chase began Northbound on I-75.
Covington Police used stop sticks to try to get the suspects to slow down, but they continued into Cincinnati, where they were stopped less than a mile into Ohio on I-75.
Both suspects are charged with robbery, fleeing and evading, and receiving stolen property.


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Long Valley Caldera > Glass Mountain > Climber's Log
Glass Mountain Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|From the north
Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2016
|Real nice view from the top, no shortage of obsidian glass on the way up
|Posted Jul 26, 2016 6:37 pm
|From the East
Date Climbed: Jul 10, 2014
|Posted Jan 26, 2015 7:33 pm
|Steve Larson
Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2014
|Took a quick run up one morning while vacationing in Mammoth with the family. Well worth the effort to get to the TH. The views are spectacular! Took the scenic route by continuing south and east on the network of dirt roads. This added about 45 minutes to the drive, but was a fun alternative to just heading back to pavement.
|Posted Jul 4, 2014 5:04 pm
|All three peaks
Date Climbed: Jun 7, 2014
|a DPS list finish for several people, including Kathy Rich and Greg Gehrlach. We hit all three Glass summits. A great day and a great party!
|Posted Jun 16, 2014 1:53 pm
Date Climbed: Oct 20, 2013
|Fun dayhike
|Posted Oct 20, 2013 7:53 pm
|In partial snow
Date Climbed: Apr 20, 2013
|We had great firm snow in the morning, and the snow softened up enough to allow plunge-stepping down a few hours later. Very short trip -- even with the snow, it was 1h 20m to top, 30 m down. An 8-year-old kid made the trip in sneakers.
|Posted Apr 22, 2013 5:16 pm
Date Climbed: Aug 25, 2012
|Incredible views of the White Mountains on the way up and the Sierra from the summit. I also made the easy hike over to Glass Mountain where the communications towers are located.
|Posted Aug 27, 2012 10:15 am
|From the table at the cattle camp
Date Climbed: Jun 26, 2012
|An easy walk up with the dogs to start my morning...nice views.
|Posted Jul 2, 2012 5:58 pm
|West Side
Date Climbed: Mar 16, 1997
|Nice hike, well named
|Posted Feb 27, 2012 1:01 am
Date Climbed: May 29, 2004
|Climbed with brother Andrew -- tried out bottled oxygen using tank borrowed from the Mammoth hospital. The 10 pound tank negated any positive effect of the oxygen.
|Posted Dec 12, 2011 12:18 am
Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2007
|Dayhiked this as part of a rest day during the 2007 Sierra Challenge
|Posted Jan 3, 2011 8:28 pm
|Bob Burd
|From Sawmill Meadow
Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2008
|With son Ryan. Trip Report
|Posted Jan 3, 2011 2:08 am
|A great spring day
Date Climbed: May 27, 2001
|After Owens Peak day before. Had to get the van over a big snow patch on the road near the start of the hike. Snow on the Sierra and clear skies
|Posted Dec 4, 2010 12:57 pm
|July 2003
|Part of a cross-country backpack trip with Desert Survivors. Great views.
|Posted Dec 4, 2010 11:50 am
|Sawmill Meadow
Date Climbed: May 24, 2009
|Easy hike with super views- enjoyed the panorama. Wanted to stay all day. One of our group somehow lost the use trail- it isn't hard to follow- and ended up going down the NE drainage. We were pretty nervous for a couple hours but found him enjoying an extended hike back up the road to the trailhead. Made for an interesting time at least...
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Sendik's grocery store in Bayside to remodel, change operator
The Sendik's grocery store in Bayside will be remodeled, and is changing operators.
The branch of the Balistreri family which operates 10 Sendik's Food Markets throughout the Milwaukee area announced Thursday that its newest store will open next spring at 340 W. Brown Deer Road.
That's the address of a small Sendik's store operated by another branch of the extended Sendik-Balistreri family, which also operates the Sendik's grocery store at 2643 N. Downer Ave., and a Piggly Wiggly/Sendik's supermarket at 2315 N. 124th St., Brookfield.
"Our new store in Bayside will give us a chance to better serve our customers in Bayside and
the surrounding communities," said Ted Balistreri, one of the family co-owners of Sendik's Food Markets, in a statement.
John Sendik said his family's decision to sell the business and real estate to their cousins was amicable, and beneficial to both sides. The current Sendik's grocery, which opened in 2003, will close at the end of business on Dec. 31, he said.» Read Full Article
Four Points hotel in Brown Deer completes $4 million renovation
The Four Points by Sheraton Milwaukee North hotel, in Brown Deer, recently completed a $4 million renovation.
Improvements were made to the hotel's lobby, restaurant and bar areas, as well as to the meeting spaces and guest rooms. The renovations include upgraded carpeting, bathrooms, furniture, lighting and artwork.
"This investment and renovation reflects our desire to meet consumer demand as this area of the city undergoes a revitalization," said Jim Koen, general manager.
The 149-room hotel is at 8900 N. Kildeer Court, north of W. Brown Deer Road and east of N. Green Bay Road.
Boy hurt in Brown Deer hit-and-run incident
An 11-year-old boy was recovering Wednesday after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in Brown Deer, police said.
According to Brown Deer police, the boy was struck about 2:30 p.m. on N. Carlotta Lane at W. Radcliffe Drive.
After striking the boy the vehicle, described as a large, red truck or SUV, continued south on Carlotta.
The boy was taken to a hospital for evaluation and police are asking anyone with information on the crash to call (414) 371-2900.
Brown Deer police seek information on hit-and-run driver
Brown Deer police are looking for the driver of a vehicle that struck an 11-year-old boy at the intersection of Carlotta Lane and Radcliffe Drive at 2:36 p.m. today.
According to the department's news release, the boy was struck by a vehicle driving south on North Carlotta Lane. After striking the boy, the vehicle continued to travel southbound on Carlotta without stopping. The boy who was struck was transported to an area hospital to be evaluated.
The boy described the vehicle as a large red vehicle, possibly a truck or a sport utility vehicle.
If there was any damage to the vehicle, it would likely be on the front, driver's side. No other witnesses came forward on scene. The incident remains under investigation.
Any additional witnesses or anyone with further information regarding the hit and run crash is encouraged to call the Brown Deer Police Department at (414) 371-2900.
Concordia University plans new 274-bed residence hall
Concordia University in Mequon is planning to build a 274-bed residence hall adjacent to Coburg Hall, south of the athletic fields.
The Mequon Plan Commission approved plans Monday night for the five-story residence hall that will connect to Ausberg Hall, west of Coburg Hall, on the campus at 12800 N. Lakeshore Drive.
The proposed brick and glass panel building will have little to no public visibility, according to a report by the the city's Department of Community Development:
Plans call for eight parking stalls and a turnaround area for emergency vehicles to be added between Coburg and Augsberg Halls. No additional surface parking will be needed because a new parking structure recently was completed on campus.
Germantown, Hamilton the top-ranked teams in NOW's Roundball Rankings
The Hamilton Chargers are the top-ranked girls team and are coming off a 64-10 victory over West Allis Central in the Greater Metro Conference opener.
In addition to the top five boys and girls teams in the area, Roundball Rankings includes a player of the week, poll, area scoring leaders and more.
Horizon to expand hospice at Columbia St. Mary's in Mequon
Horizon Home Care & Hospice said it plans to expand and renovate its inpatient hospice unit at Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Ozaukee in Mequon and extend its lease with the hospital for an additional 20 years.
The project will add 400 square feet to the hospice unit, bringing the total space to 13,400 square feet. Construction is scheduled to begin in January and be completed by May.
The expansion was made possible by a $1 million gift from the Lawlis Family Fund through the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.
The inpatient hospice was moved to Mequon when Columbia St. Mary's Health System built a new hospital and consolidated its two Milwaukee hospitals. Horizon, which is owned by Columbia St. Mary's and Froedtert Health, initially planned to build a free-standing hospice.
"Through extensive research and our own experience, we discovered that an inpatient unit is the best approach from both a business and patient/family care perspective," Mary Haynor, president and chief executive of Horizon, said in a statement. "Most hospice patients come from a hospital, so if a patient can't go home, it's much easier for all involved, physically and as well as emotionally, to move only a few floors than transporting patients to a separate facility."
Mequon police warn of phone scam targeting elderly residents
Mequon police are warning residents about phone scammers who are targeted elderly citizens by claiming their son or grandson had been in a drunken-driving accident out of state and needed to be bailed out.
At least seven people reported getting the calls and two people forwarded more than $10,000 to the scammers via Western Union, Mequon police said in a news release.
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Sara Bryant didn't touch a piece of paper or even an Exacto knife for her model-building course last month.
The junior in environmental design and her classmates used the latest software and machinery to build prototype models of the CU-Boulder campus. Their tools included a computerized router, a laser cutter and a brand new 3-D printer.
Learning to use the modern, mostly digital equipment was not about safety, though Bryant has a number of small scars on her fingers from previous work cutting designs by hand. Rather, the objective of the course and its high-tech emphasis is to prepare students for a resurging use of models in the design world, with early experience using state-of-the-art systems.
"Having innovative model-building skills is really important moving forward," said Bryant. "People are more likely to be on board with your project when they can see an efficiently made, accurate scale model. They're more likely to fund it."
The students crafted a variety of model designs, from contoured topographies that serve as bases, to campus buildings like the Center for Community and the Wolf Law Building at a 1-inch-to-100-foot scale. They experimented with levels of detail, different materials and colors, and making the model easily updatable. They mulled how to represent elements like the campus's bodies of water and historic trees.
They also had the real-life opportunity of working with a client. CU-Boulder's Facilities Management department commissioned the project and supported it with the purchase of the 3-D printer. Initiated by David Jacobs of Facilities Management, the project is intended to replace the current campus model, which was created in 1988 and lacks many of the newer campus features.
"This has been a really dedicated team," said Tom Goodhew, a CU-Boulder facilities planner. "It's probably been the most successful project I've seen from a student group."
Tasking a class instead of a commercial firm with the campus model project saved Facilities Management tens of thousands of dollars and broadened the possibilities, according to Goodhew. He says the students were limitless in their creativity and drive to become experts on the machinery and try different approaches.
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The class, which was held during Maymester, is called Model Building: Reimagining a New Campus Model. Environmental Design instructor Jade Polizzi, who led the course, hopes to offer it again next spring.
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I have never holidayed anyone of my FM games, and was curious why do people do it, I have read some do it to advance in years to see how the game evolves. Would love to know the reasons.
I have never holidayed anyone of my FM games, and was curious why do people do it, I have read some do it to advance in years to see how the game evolves. Would love to know the reasons.
I use the holiday feature for a few reasons.
1. Advance a season to allow me to take over at a newly promoted side
2. Get to the season update point while I cook myself some dinner
3. Just been sacked & waiting for a new job, no point just hitting continue if the auto-apply function works
4. There's an international break & like #3 I can't be bothered to hit continue for 10 game days when I could be off doing something else
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I think the reason it was first put in the game was so people could continue a big network game if somebody wasn't available.
I holiday through matches as I don't have time to sit and tinker every 90 minute game. I select the players I want to take the field and effectively press go. This way I can progress through the game in the limited hours life gives me to play.
1. International breaks, never really much news so i can do stuff on internet and skip those 10 days. (Unless im managing internationally of course)
2. If im a top side i sometimes use it to skip easy cup games.
3. In lower leagues i do it once ive sown up the title as the results dont matter then and the 46 game calenders can take a while, im too excited for new season. I just recently wrapped up the BSP with 8 games to go so holidayed until a cup final.
I never holiday games but I did holiday my current save to get past the first 18 months because I didn't want to start again. I then retired the manager and added mine to the club I wanted to manage. I find the 1st season pretty boring when I need to start another save.
When you get in about 70 seasons it can be very tedious to play every single game that comes your way. I've in charge at clubs for 50 seasons and at least 10 seasons in I've already got the best squad in the world. So 40 more of those seasons watching your team destroy teams in Cup matches or even in League matches against **** poor competition.
At the end of the day it's there for you if you want it. Some people only do an international career - so they can holiday until their next friendly match or whatever. I've done the International Manager only thing before. It was kinda exciting, I managed something like 15 different nations in a 40 year career; bringing World Cup, European Cup, Confederations Cup and other cups to the most unlikely teams.
I've used it in the past when my team are completely exhausted (70-80% condition) and I just can't be bothered watching them get destroyed. ;-)
Though my current save is 12 seasons in and I'm yet to use it.
1. In multiplayer games when somebody isn't available, the others can continue the game.
2. Editing projects - As a big user of the editor, the holiday function is vital for testing the database changes to see if things continue to work many years into the game.
I use it to holiday between games, picks up the pace for me and only do it out of transfer windows, so not much happens anyway
I might use it when I've already won the leauge in end May / start April - so I holiday to the cup games.
To get rid of real players.
I regularly holiday the game for 3 or 4 years at the start because I find it too repetitive otherwise. Always the same players available for transfer and often the same players turn out to be the best possible signings for a large bandwith of clubs (e.g. Bandalovski or Nelson from CSKA Sofia).
By holidaying I have more variation at the game start, can look for a nice challenge at a club which underperformed so far and have the first regens in an age at which they can start games and thus add more variation and excitement to scouting.
For other purposes I can't see myself using that option either, but I guess many casual gamers may want to speed a bit through perceivedly boring parts of a season.
Getting to the top of the Richest Clubs List - starting with a very poor club. The only goal is to be the richest club. As long as I'm winning games and competitions I don't care.
Important thing is to sign young players, and sell them off with 50% of next transfer fee. Or I could sell players off for loads of money.
Basically I wouldn't be technically the Football Manager, as the Assistant Manager basically does my job. I am more of a Director role. Overseeing the signing and selling of players - asking for club improvements, stadium resizing, rebuilding etc.
It's quite a challenge to topple the Spanish giants from the top of the Worlds Richest Clubs.
I only use it if I am between jobs and want to auto-apply for any job which becomes available, or sometimes when I want to whizz through the part of the end of season break when all the players are on holiday.
I use it mainly for later games.
Its great building your team but once you've built it, it kinda can be boring until you can move into that new ground.
Got a great save with Parma atm, I norm do my transfers, play up to the close of the 1st window then holiday till Jan. Then its game on as norm.
Use to use it but no longer do. I found the instant continue in the preferances and have not looked back. Stops when a decision is required unlike holidaying.
To get through the dragging months during the off-season when there is literally nothing to do other than press space bar.
I just holidayed most of the annoying 3 month winter break in Denmark!
Holidayed until 2018 myself just so I could have a start where clubs are in different leagues, plenty of regens, don't know who needs to be scouted, etc. There are only so many times I can start in 2011 and see the same things before it annoys me.
I holiday between games unless it is a transfer window and then I will just keep on hitting continue.
I holiday between games and sometimes I holiday for 100 years to see what has happened in the FM world.
I dont holiday. If I want to do a Dafudge's Gundo's Challenge I will cancel adding the manager continue the game for a year then add my self. No holidayman for me.
Everybody needs a break sometimes.
Sorry dafuge typo.
I think Dafudge is going to stick.
I don't holiday. Unless its an international break.
Great to read your guys holidaying habits. Thats the thing I have never done it, even in off season I just like to go through everything, do most people here holiday in off/pre season.
Marty what exactly is this instant continue and how do I enable it.
I don't usually holiday other than in pre-season June, but the current season (10th) of my Bradford save, because of the database-bloating bug, I am actually holidaying between matches. It just takes too long to wait for the processing, so I tend to do other things while waiting anyway. Holidaying is more efficient. I have removed several leagues so I hope that given some time the database will decrease to a manageable size.
It is each to their own, but that is one feature I have never used and I never will. I don't it at all. It's quite unrealitisc as well.
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Ye I agree with you Fabio MVP. I wouldnt really holiday, maybe if im unemployed then I may try it, but I never have so I doubt it.
Thanks marty, but what do you get out of "instant continue".
Oh okay, but what you miss alot of important message or not.
You can if you don't watch your screen as they scroll through. The only real thing to look out for is your staff getting poached. If you are not watching you don't have time to counter offer. I don't really care though as staff are easily replaced and it is very rare.
I go on holiday for realism I think most managers are allowed at least around 20 days annual holiday a year.
Only holidays I ever take are on game day itself to avoid watching the match. I pick the team, set the tactics, then take the day off & come back & see how they did. Helps me get through the season quicker so I can get really involved with the end of season transfer merry-go-round. Player transfers, team improvement, end of season, really is my favourite part of the game.
I think 'holiday' is a misnomer. It should be called 'auto-continue' or something like that. I have 2 kids and a busy job so i only play maybe 5 hours a week these days so it's a good option to pass the time when not a lot happens - i.e. international breaks and end of season. Whenever i click the holiday button i like to imagine i'm on a working holiday, dragging the wife to madagascar on a 'scouting misson'
I spend on holidays 8-10% of my gametime. The main reason is to save the real time in low important periods of game. For example, if I have 4 games in those I need to collect only 4 points, and opponents are not strong I prefer to go on holiday. It will save me an hour of real time.
I never holiday in off-season because the main transfer activities occur in this time. Chairman can occassionally sell your best players, some clubs can occassionally release some good players, and you should not loose moment.
Holiday while unemployed for first 3-4 seasons so the older players are retired and there is a decent amount of unknown regens in the game with semi-developed CA. Then retire and re-add myself into the game at that point.
So you guys holiday in matches and not watch them, what if there are injuries and what about substitutes.
Andrew how can you re add yourself when retired.
Assistant manager takes care of it.
Essentially he sets up a dummy manager to start the game then creates a new manager when he's ready to play and removes the old manager.
I love scouting and transfers as much as anyone, but at this point my squads are stock full of undeveloped talents, and for the most part I refuse to sign the finished article. So really, for me the challenge is to win titles AND simultaneously develop youth. Its a lot of fun, and makes me look forward to actually playing the season, not just wanting to get it over with. The small games are where you decide how much risk do you take, how many youngsters do you give a run out (and still expect to win, seeing as the point is still to win titles)?
Going on holiday also serves as a way of getting through some nasty crash dumps. I've had to holiday through some matches because the game kept crashing after the match was over.
I only go on Holiday when I'm out of the job and want to hurry the time along until the next offer.
If you leave a Team you have to Holiday and select Accept any job offer. It saves waiting for a job to be offered and just clicking continue to look at dull news.
Also the end of season wait. In England always skip it to July 20th. So it doesn't take forever to skip, and also enough time to place offers.
I've found it's a greater challenge to build a squad and let the AI control my team in games. It's too easy to coach games once your team gets really good. I also have a huge database that takes my machine about 6 hours to simulate an entire year. Since I've basically turned Borussia Dortmund into Barcelona (seriously only .3B left to catch up to them in the richest department) I just scout every single player and then simulate to June 1st and sign all the players I want.
I do pick the first team and tactics though. I found the AI was too stupid to win with my team unless I told it what tactics and who to use. FYI, I haven't won the champions league yet, but I've won the first division for the last 8 years straight and I usually make it to the semis in the champ league. One time I did make it to the final, but lost 2-1 to Arsenal in 2018.
Edit: dear lord I hope us Gooners don't have to wait that long before we win the champions league trophy.
Matches are my favorite part of the game. I bet you would of won a few Champions Leagues if you played the matches. I try to get through the off-season as quickly as possible and don't search for players manually and just use the reports my scouts have accumulated. Once I've got a top squad I don't make many signings anyway. The only matches I don't watch are friendlies as they are just for fitness. I probably get through off-season in about an hour or so.
Its funny how differently people play the game.
I use it between games to get to the next game.
international breaks, nothing more annoying then stopping 20 times per game week for updates on international games
Edit: I guess I could say I'm more of a GM & scout than a manager.
So if you have injuries in holiday mode the assistant sorts it out.
I do like playing matches, I just wouldnt feel the same if I holiday the season or matches.
I holiday to match day, because once I have rested the players that need rest (or morale improvement), what else is there for me to do in the 3 days between games? Press conference? Been to thousands already, no thanks. Scouting? Transfers? Tactics? Pretty much everything is taken care of. I am constantly checking out the opposition, their tactics, their top players, so there is no need to do that in the three days leading up, I can just do a quick check on match day to see who is injured for them, their most recent formation and results, and off to the match we go.
It lets me power through the useless messages a lot quicker and with a lot less space bar.
Holidaying is nice when you're fed up with managing for a while, and would rather play more as a hands-on chairman. Buy and sell players, but leave the tactics and everything else to the ass. man. Or rather, it was nice - but now you no longer get the credit for a successful season (or a bad one), but rather your as.man gets credited. The game used to not be aware that it was actually your ass.man in charge of most things managewise, but now it does. With a good ass.man you could very well win stuff as well - hell, sometimes he did better than I could. I used to holiday for 1 day immediately before the next match, leaving everything about the match up to the ass.man, then "come back" after the match to take care of things, whealing and dealing.
Not everyone's cup of tea, I'm sure - but it helped pass the time when I was a bit tired of all the micro-managing.
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I have never used the holiday option but having read some of the replies on this thread I might use it more often, how long would it take to skip through a 2 week international break then? I always get bored during these!
well, this thread has enlightened me to a new way to get through those seasons a bit quicker, and now I feel that getting into 2020 in my game is a possibility before FM13 is released! cheers guys!
I usually holiday in the off-season once i've tied up all player contracts and bought/sold all the players i want. The annoying part is when coaching staff depart without my knowledge.
So I don't have to bother with the matches.


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Consider the extension $\mathbb R/ \mathbb Q$. what is the smallest subfield $\mathbb Q(\pi)$ of $\mathbb R$ containing $\mathbb Q$ and $\pi$. I think it is $\mathbb R$. A more general question: for all transcendental elements $a$ in an extension $L/K$, we have that the smallest subfield $K(a)$ of $L$ containing $K$ and $a$ is $L$ itself. But if the element $a$ is algebraic then the smallest subfield $K(a)$ of $L$ containing $K$ and $a$ is the field $K[a]\subset L$ of elements $p(a)$, $p\in K[X]$. Is that correct? Do we have an example in which the element $a$ is algebraic and still the smallest subfield $K(a)$ of $L$ containing $K$ and $a$ is $L$ itself?
Let $K$ be a field and let $L$ be an overfield of $K$. For any $a\in L$, we define $K[a]$ to be the smallest subring of $L$ that contains $K$ and $a$, and we define $K(a)$ to be the smallest subfield of $L$ that contains $K$ and $a$. We have:
Theorem. Let $K\subseteq L$ be fields, and let $a\in L$.
In particular, note that for $K=\mathbb{Q}$, $L=\mathbb{R}$, and $a=\pi$, we have that $\mathbb{Q}(\pi)\cong\mathbb{Q}(x)$ is countable, and so cannot be isomorphic to $\mathbb{R}$.
Proof. 1. The homomorphism $K[x]\to K[a]$ induced by mapping $x\to a$ shows that $\{p(a)\mid p(x)\in K[x]\}$ is contained in $K[a]$. Conversely, the image of this map is a subring of $L$ that contains $K$ and $a$, and so $K[a]$ is contained in the right hand side; this proves 1.
3 and 4. If $a$ is transcendental, then the map $K[x]\to K(a)$ is one-to-one, and so induces an embedding $K(x)\hookrightarrow K(a)$. By the description in 2 the map is onto, giving the isomorphism in 4. If $a$ is algebraic, then the kernel of the map $K[x]\to K[a]$ given by evaluation is the ideal generated by the minimal polynomial of $a$ over $K$. This is an irreducible, so $\langle f(x)\rangle$ is a maximal ideal of $K[x]$, hence the quotient $K[x]/\langle f(x)\rangle$ is a field; this field embeds into $K[a]$ and by 1 is onto, showing that $K[a]$ is actually a field (and hence equal to $K(a)$), and giving the isomorphism in 3. $\Box$
Your other assertions are incorrect: Say $L=\mathbb{Q}(x)$, $K=\mathbb{Q}$, and $a=x^2$. Then $a$ is transcendental over $K$, but $K(a)\neq L$; worse, take $L=\mathbb{Q}(x_1,\ldots,x_n)$ and $a=x_1$; then $L$ is a transcendental extension of $K(a)$.
As to the final question, note that by the Primitive Element Theorem, if $L$ is any finite separable extension of $K$, then there exists $a\in L$ such that $L=K(a)$; so for example every finite algebraic extension of $\mathbb{Q}$ will have one such $a$.
Most of the question has been handled in the comments, all but the very last bit.
If $a$ is algebraic over $K$, and we take $L$ to be $K(a)$, then of course the smallest subfield of $L$ containing $K$ and $a$ is $L$ itself.


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Today I've darkened 59 appropriate circles.
Is this a proper past tense?
That sentence is grammatically absolutely correct. I've darkened is indeed one kind of past tense; specifically, it's what's known (depending on how technical one's being) as the perfect tense or the simple present perfect tense, and also by various other terms. Expanding it to I have darkened, have is an auxiliary verb, and darkened is a past participle.
The sentence is also completely confusing out of context — I have no idea what it's supposed to mean. Was that deliberate? I'm reminded somewhat of Chomsky's "colourless green ideas sleep furiously". Edit: Stuart Bentley in comments points out a very plausible context.
Strictly "I have darkened" is a perfect tense using the past particple; some people would call it the present perfect. By contrast, "I darkened" would be a past tense; some people would call it the simple past and others the preterite.
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If I understand you correctly, the configuration you're trying to use is
submission host[ec2 instance 0] <-> slave [ec2 instance 1]I haven't tried this yet (although I will in the next few days).
I've tried
(a) submission host[non-ec2 system with static IP, direct net connection] <-> slave [ec2 instance 1](a) works, (b) does not, presumably because opmpi does not support NAT (see Jeff Squyres comments, later in the thread).
(b) submission host[non-ec2 system with local static IP, connected to net via router] <-> slave [ec2 instance 1]
I notice that you're using the 'internal' uri to specify hostnames. This makes sense in principle, but have you tried using the public/external uri? Presumably opmpi has to lookup these hostnames. I don't know how that's done, but trying to lookup the internal uri might be a problem.
If you try this (or anything else), I'd appreciate it if you'd post your results.
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Re: [OMPI users] How are IP addresses determined? Hi Barnet,
Allow me to interject.
Are you saying that you run master on your local machine and launching openMPI process on EC2? You are saying that 1) tcp port tcp://192.168.1.101:35272 is on your local system and 2) the ec2 instance is trying to connect your local machine's port 35272 , and hanging. Is that correct?
I have just a bit different situation. I am running 2 ec2 instances and trying to run mpirun on both instances. My ssh debug output looks quite similar to yours and mpirun behavior also very similar. Here's what I captured:
Sending command: orted --daemonize -mca ess env -mca orte_ess_jobid 1025769472 -mca orte_ess_vpid 1 -mca orte_ess_num_procs 2 --hnp-uri "1025769472.0;tcp://10.118.23.4:60941"
And here's what I did on the instance from which I issued mpirun:
[tsakai@ip-10-118-23-4 ~]$ nslookup `hostname`
Server: 172.16.0.23
Address: 172.16.0.23#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: ip-10-118-23-4.ec2.internal
Address: 10.118.23.4
So that tcp port does belong to this instance. Furthermore, it cannot come into it. No router (which may perform address translation?) is involved and it appears the same thing as what you describe is happening. Incidentally, here's how I ran mpirun:
[tsakai@ip-10-118-23-4 ~]$ mpirun -app app.ac
With app.ac file:
[tsakai@ip-10-118-23-4 ~]$ cat app.ac
-H ip-10-118-23-4.ec2.internal -np 1 /bin/hostname
-H ip-10-118-23-4.ec2.internal -np 1 /bin/hostname
-H ip-10-118-18-172.ec2.internal -np 1 /bin/hostname
-H ip-10-118-18-172.ec2.internal -np 1 /bin/hostname
The first two lines spawns /bin/hostname on this instance (ip-10-118-23-4.ec2.internal) and the bottom 2 lines on the remote instance.
Here's the security group used for these instances:
connetion protocol from to source
------------- ----------- ------ ----- ------------
SSH tcp 22 22 0.0.0.0/0
Am I making sense?
On 2/16/11 8:56 PM, "Barnet Wagman" <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
I've run into a problem involving accessing a remote host via a router and I think need to understand how opmpi determines ip addresses. If there's anything posted on this subject, please point me to it.
Here's the problem:
I've installed opmpi (1.4.3) on a remote system (an Amazon ec2 instance). If the local system I'm working on has a static ip address (and a direct connection to the internet), there's no problem. But if the local system accesses the internet through a router (which itself gets it's ip via dhcp), a call to runmpi command hangs.
This is not firewall problem - I've disabled the firewalls on all the system that are involved (and the router).
It is also not an ssh problem. The ssh connection is being made and it appears that the application has been launched on the remote system. After the runmpi command has been launched locally, a ps on the remote system shows a process
orted --daemonize -mca ess env -mca orte_ess_jobid 1187643392 -mca orte_ess_vpid 1 -mca orte_ess_num_procs 2 --hnp-uri 1187643392.0;tcp://192.168.1.101:35272
While I don't really understand the orted process, I assume this indicates that a command to execute an app has been received and that opmpi is trying to run it.
I suspect that the problem is related to the '--hnp-uri ... tcp://192.168.1.101' argument. 192.168.1.101 is the address of my local system on my local network (attached to the router), which of course is not accessible over the net. It appears that opmpi is transmitting the local (static) ip address to the remote host.
It would help to know how opmpi determines and distributes IP addresses. And if there's any way to control this.
Any thoughts on dealing with this would be greatly appreciated.
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