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Honored for Cracking Puzzle of How a Cell Transports Crucial Cargo Such as Hormones
Three U.S.-based scientists shared this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for solving the enigma of how a cell transports crucial cargo—such as hormones—to the right place at the right time.
The award was given to U.S.-born James E. Rothman of Yale University and Randy W. Schekman of the University of California, Berkeley, and to Thomas C. Südhof, a German who moved to the U.S. in the 1980s and is affiliated with Stanford University.
The trio was honored for discovering "a fundamental process in cell physiology," said Juleen R. Zierath, chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, at a news conferencein Stockholm, where the award was announced.
Creatures as diverse as yeast and humans share aspects of the cellular-transport mechanism that is vital to life's processes. By elucidating this mechanism, the researchers shed light on how nerve cells communicate, how pancreatic cells secrete insulin and how embryos release chemicals that spark organ development.
"The significance of the work [relates to] how cells talk to each other," said Mike Cousin, a biologist at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. "This discovery has underpinned a lot of cell-biology research over the past 20 years."
On the practical front, the research spurred insights about how a disruption of the transport mechanism can contribute to a range of ailments, from neurological diseases and diabetes to immune disorders.
For example, certain bacteria mess up the transport machinery and cause tetanus, a disease that kills thousands of newborns each year. The release of neurotransmitters is also disturbed in many cases of schizophrenia. Labs are now targeting the transport mechanism in the hope of finding treatments for such maladies.
A cell is a busy hive of a factory, making and exporting molecules in a precise, controlled way. By the 1970s, it had been established that the cell is organized into compartments, and that molecules need to move from one compartment to another and, in some cases—such as insulin—outside the cell.
It was also known that a cell's molecules are transported in membrane-bound sacs known as vesicles. But there was a central mystery about vesicles: Amid the permanently hectic traffic that occurs inside the cell, how do they know when and where to deliver their precious cargo?
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Dr. Schekman decided to study the problem in yeast. Plenty of scientists pooh-poohed the idea, partly because they doubted that findings about a single-celled creature could ever apply to humans. They also questioned whether yeast had a robust secretion system. But Dr. Schekman persevered. By comparing normal yeast cells with genetically mutated ones in which vesicle movement was disrupted, he was able to identify genes that control the transport to different compartments and to the cell surface.
"It's not intuitive, but when you cripple the process, you gain a lot of information" about how the transportation process works, said Dr. Schekman, at a press conference in Berkeley on Monday.
That breakthrough later enabled biotechnology firms such as Genentech Inc. to exploit the secretion system in yeast. Today, genetically engineered yeast produces a large share of the world's insulin supply, which is used by diabetics. Most of the world's hepatitis B vaccine is also made in the same way.
Meanwhile, through a series of ingenious experiments, Dr. Rothman discovered specific proteins on the vesicle membrane that fuse or "dock" with matching proteins on a target membrane within the cell or on the cell's outer wall—just as if they were the two sides of a zipper. Once the docking occurs, the contents of the vesicle can be properly delivered. Because there are many such proteins that dock only in specific combinations, it ensures that the cargo gets delivered to the required location.
These steps often involve extremely precise timing and come in response to specific stimuli. This is true, for example, in the case of insulin secretion in the pancreas and in the release of brain chemicals known as neurotransmitters. But how this magic occurred was unclear—until Dr. Südhof came along.
In studying nerve cells, he discovered that when the vesicle's molecular machinery senses calcium ions, it triggers the docking process. That explains how neurotransmitters can be released from the vesicles on command.
"Without this exquisitely precise organization, the cell would lapse into chaos," the Nobel committee noted.
—Niclas Rolander contributed to this article.
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RILEY COUNTY, Kan. (WIBW) -- In Riley County, prosecutors continue to present their case against 24-year-old Luis Aguirre.
Aguirre is charged with capital murder in the September 2009 deaths of his ex-girlfriend, 18-year-old Tanya Maldonado, and the couple's 13-month-old, son Juan.
The bodies of Tanya and Juan were discovered in late October 2009 by a hunter in a shallow grave east of Ogden.
Aguirre brought Tanya and Juan to Ogden to the apartment where he was living with his new girlfriend, Dulce Mendez. Mendez was stationed at Fort Riley and was deployed to Iraq when the killings took place. Tanya and Juan had been living in Chicago in a homeless shelter and were desperate for support, prosecutors said. Aguirre was also originally from Chicago and was in the National Guard. During training in Alabama, he met Mendez and moved to Ogden to live with her and her 18-month-old son. Prosecutors allege that Aguirre planned the murders and killed Tanya and Juan so he could move on with Dulce Mendez. But the defense says he was trying to help his ex and son get back on their feet and that he never intended for them to die.
In court Wednesday, Aguirre's interview with police on November 3, 2009 was played for the jury. Aguirre had already been placed under arrest.
Aguirre said on the weekend of September 19 and 20, 2009, he had drill for the National Guard in Chicago and ended up meeting up with Tanya near the mission where she was staying with their son. Aguirre says he wanted to see how she was doing because he knew she was having trouble. He was just going to give her a ride to a friend's house or relative's house but she told him she wanted to go with him back to Kansas. He says Tanya wanted to start fresh and find a job and get away from her family and maybe meet a nice guy in the military. Aguirre told her about his current girlfriend, who was deployed. He was going to let Tanya and Juan stay with him for a few days until they found another place to stay.
Aguirre told the investigators that in the midst of an argument and struggle in the kitchen, he covered Tanya's mouth for five minutes to stop her from yelling and he didn't realize that he was also covering her nose. After she stopped kicking and moving, Aguirre says he thought she had calmed down and let her go. She started spitting up blood and he tried to revive her with chest compressions but she died.
When he went to check on his son so he wouldn't wander into the kitchen and see what had happened with his mother, Aguirre says he found toddler asleep, somewhat hanging off the baby bed. Aguirre says he tucked Juan in tightly and later found him face down on a pillow with a pacifier in his mouth and he could not be revived.
Aguirre told the detectives that his anxiety and fear kicked in and his first reaction was to try to hide what had happened so he drove around for a while not knowing what to do and ended up burying Tanya and Juan. He said the whole situation was an accident and he knew he should have called 911. He insisted that no one helped him and that he didn't tell anyone else about what happened. He was also adamant that he did not plan the killings and did not know about the spot where he buried the victims ahead of time.
In court Wednesday, Aguirre wiped away tears as Dr. Erik Mitchell took the stand Wednesday to testify and as autopsy photos of the victims were shown to the jury. Mitchell is a forensic pathologist who performed the autopsies on Tanya and Juan.
Mitchell says he could not tell exactly how the victims died because of the lapse in time before they died and when their bodies were found. Animals had also disturbed their remains. Mitchell told the jury he found evidence of blunt force trauma on Tanya's chest consistent with injuries he's seen in major falls and in people who have been hit by a car. He also found hemorrhaging on Juan's chest that was similar to his mother's injuries but not as severe. He said he did not find any injuries consistent with CPR being performed on the victims but admitted that compressions still could have been done on them.
Mitchell refuted the explanations Aguirre provided for their deaths. He said that in Tanya's case, if a person is deprived of oxygen by someone holding their hand over the victim's nose and mouth for a period of time, the victim would pass out and when the hand was removed, oxygen would return and the victim would simply wake up. In Juan's situation, Mitchell said tightly tucking in blankets around a child would not put enough tension on the child to kill them. He said a 13-month-old sleeping face down on a mattress with a pacifier in his mouth was not a "possible cause of death." Mitchell told the jury that the deaths of Tanya and Juan were not accidental.
The defense pointed out that Mitchell had not received medical records pertaining to the victims showing that Juan had been sick for several months and that Tanya was suffering from high blood pressure and chest pains. Mitchell said those conditions would not change his findings and didn't have anything to do with what happened. In Juan's case he also threw out the possibility of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Mitchell said the statistical likelihood of two young people dying nearly simultaneously is very small.
Luis Aguirre's trial continues Thursday at the Riley County Courthouse.


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Since Valve makes numerous games that are quite popular, I was wondering if anyone had a good resource for listing the Easter Eggs in Portal and Portal 2. I've seen some web pages that list a couple, but I have a feeling that they are incomplete. Has anyone compiled them all in one location?
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I couldn't find any comprehensive lists, so try the following:
You can also try searching the Half-Life Wikia for "Portal easter egg".
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Many women think they can't touch seafood with a 10-foot pole when they're pregnant. While it's important to watch out for some seafood, such as swordfish, mackerel, shark, tilefish, fresh tuna, and seabass, (print this list for a reminder of what's safe), shrimp is fine to eat because it doesn't have high mercury levels. Shrimp is a great form of lean protein that can help you get the three to four meat or protein servings you need daily. Just make sure to avoid undercooked and raw seafood.
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Most people on these sites seem to think that rep is everything in this world.
It is not.
Wasn't the original reason for these sites to help people who did not want to pay for the other site?
There must be a way for users (not using bounties) to shed some unwanted reputation onto people they believe deserve it.
That way those people's answers and questions might just get more attention then those with higher rep.
I see that since I have almost 47K rep, that people who have even under than 1K sometimes come up with much much greater answers than I do, and while I want to leave my answer up, and I upvote their answers because of it's awesomeness, my answer still is usually upvoted more and accepted due to my reputation.
Maybe can we add something like LinkedIn has where you can vouch for another user stating how much knowhow they have on a certain tag, and if a user gets X number of other users (who have such and such reputation n a tag), that when that user posts on that tag there is something symbolizing him as very knowledgable on a topic.
Yes, I do have 47K rep, but that does not mean that I know anything about c# and when there comes a time and I am new to a different tag community, I want to know who is the best at it in the tag (and not just by going to the "top users" tag page), and basing it on reputation is useless, as you can see by me (where I have 47K rep, but no knowledge at all of c#).


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On Tuesday, James Carville, campaign manager for Bill Clinton, said the most poignant, transparent statement he heard from any liberal during the last four years, and I'm sure in the next four, "80 percent of Democrats are politically clueless." Just look at the Obamaphone people, and single mothers with three, four, five and more kids by as many fathers who drain the welfare system. I would be in favor of paying for birth control and abortions for these abusers and cheats, but not for Sandra Fluke. She claims it's her body and she can do as she pleases. It's a shame that she wants to kill another female who might be growing inside her. Doesn't that female have rights?
Sen. Pat Murray, a misguided liberal, said last week, "It might be a good idea if we fall off the fiscal cliff" - most valley amigos are clueless about what is meant by the fiscal cliff - "then we'll all suffer together." I agree. Let's get this mess over with and let the liberals bail us out. Stryker Medical, a large drug firm whose leader donated $2 millions to Obuma, is laying off 1,500 workers due to Obamacare. Medical device manufacturers will be hit with a 2.3 percent tax on their products and we'll pay the same at the drug store. Feel good yet, Obama voters? Don't blame companies for firing people and telling them it's because of Obamacare and Obama policies, it's the truth. It's nothing personal, just business. We told you so.
Here's a laugh: Attorney General Eric Holder didn't tell the president there was a investigation into Gen. David Petraeus' affair; Obama will advise Americans as soon as he finds out what really happened in Benghazi; and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice didn't get any instructions from the White House to say the attack was caused by a dumb video. No, the White House didn't lie, it's just stupid and incompetent. Want to bet 80 percent of this valley's liberals have no idea what I'm speaking about?
J. David Core asserted phony indignation over a person flying our flag upside down in protest ("Reagan's party has been hijacked," Nov. 11.) Here are a couple of questions for the writer - Have you ever flown the flag upside down during demonstrations? What is your opinion about the Mexicans in New Mexico and Arizona schools who fly our flag upside down and put the Mexican flag above it. Are you still outraged? A phony will always be a phony.
Alex Gryskevich IV wrote, "Voters of this county are apathetic," when it comes to voting on school levies ("Area doen't care about children," Nov. 11.) They're not, they overwhelmingly said no.
Kimberly Fletcher wrote she is disappointed that school levies didn't pass, and that the schools need more money to educate kids to keep them in the area ("Can't understand levy votes," Nov. 11) Please study some history - did the influx of money do any good in the last 40 years? You really think money makes students smarter? Do some research - you'll be enlightened.
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How worker-owned businesses from Cleveland to Spain are nurturing life and jobs outside the corporate framework.
Film Review: How far do the tentacles of the Kochtopus reach? Follow the money with this collection of 13 short films.
Follow a group of residents-turned-activists in their efforts to save Coal River Mountain, the last one left in an area devastated by mining.
Take a trip across the United States to find out who is developing low-carbon solutions.
Film reviews from the Fall 2011 issue.
The feminist band with a DIY ethos has a beat to get you on your feet.
Three Bronx teenagers take on poverty, crime, and family stress with the help of good teachers.
A video primer from Al Jazeera for would-be nonviolent revolutionaries everywhere.
How bees can save us—but only if we save them.
Film reviews from the Summer 2011 issue.
A long-overdue tribute to a leading Vietnam-era voice of protest.
Why are we so lonely when we have so much? Beyond the unhappiness of a disconnected world are new—and very old—ways we can turn it around.
Maddening and motivating independent films.
A documentary that follows ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber as she explores the seemingly unnatural causes of cancer.
For one man looking back from the year 2055, it seems clear that we should have dealt with climate change as soon as we noticed it.


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When one makes a piece of glass for a lens, they start with a hunk of glass and grind it into the desired shape. When a lens is aspheric, this doesn't change; merely the shape the lens is ground into is an aspheric (typically parabolic) shape. It doesn't seem like this should cause much in the way of additional labor or time on the part of the lens maker. But aspheric elements significantly increase the cost of the lens. Why is this?
A lot of it is manufacturing costs, but it's not really quite like @Matt has described it (or at least not how I understand his description).
With spherical elements, you normally take a number of blanks, and mount them all to a roughly sphere-shaped holder (with "divots", so to speak, where you're going to mount the blanks). Then you have a sphere-shaped grinder/polisher that mounts around the outside (for a convex surface) or inside (for a concave surface) and lets you grind/polish a large number of elements at a time. Th exact number depends on the diameter and curvature of the element, but we're typically talking at least a few dozen, and especially for smaller elements, can be hundreds.
There are several ways of making aspherical elements (ground, molded, hybrid), but they have one thing in common: every one of them requires that you process elements individually instead of in large groups. Until fairly recently (1980's or so) about the only way to do aspherical elements was to grind them individually by hand. Those were/are restricted to very limited production at extremely high prices (Leicas, Nocturnal Nikkors, etc.) There are ways to semi-mass produce them now, but that's still a matter of loading one blank into a machine, and automating most of processing that one blank, then taking it out and loading one more blank. In most cases, that's in addition to doing normal spherical grinding as well.
Aspherical elements are expensive due to the manufacturing costs. It's relatively simple to make a lens with a spherical profile you just spin it infront of a polishing tool. With aspherical glass its nut just a case of deviating from a sphere, its about cutting a very precise but otherwise arbitrary shape, getting a perfect circle is not a problem, but getting a perfect curve with equation x,y,z is.
You can throw a round pot by hand, the spinning of the wheel guarantees a nice circular profile. Hiya could also stop the wheel and squash the pot into a non-circular shape by hand, but throwing a pot with a precise parabolic curvature would require a computer controlled tool, there's no way to move the wheel to do.it accurately by hand.


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5 Things We All Do That Make Hackers' Lives Incredibly Easy
Hollywood portrays hackers as superpowered math geniuses who can intimidate computers into giving them whatever they want through intense keyboard mashing. Even outside of movies, they are feared as something like mysterious and powerful wizards -- the infamous hacker Kevin Mitnick was ordered to never use any networked technology more advanced than a pay phone, for fear that he could whistle a tone that would start a nuclear war.
But in reality, almost every "hacking" exploit that you hear about compromising some database or other is done with very simple methods that, many times, require no computer at all.
They can do that because our computers aren't secure, and never will be, thanks to the fact that ...
#5. Our Brain Remembers Passwords Only if They Are Words
The four most common passwords (according to Mark Burnett's 2005 book Perfect Passwords) are "1234," "123456," "12345678" and "password." (The fifth is "pussy" -- No, really.) On the next level of password caution, you'll find something like "dolphins." ("It's because I really like dolphins!")
Unfortunately, dolphins are notoriously terrible at information security. Hence their defeat in the Great Orca War.
Yet if you ask a website to generate a password for you, you'll get something like Yzivlq$0X?9. The difference is that most humans can't memorize much beyond seven digits unless there's some other meaning attached to help us remember. So we have to use an actual word instead of random character strings; otherwise, we'll never retain it.
The problem is that even if you use an uncommon word (such as "adelphogamy"), you are making it massively easier for a bad guy to guess your password. The average new computer can guess 10 million passwords a second. For reference, the unabridged Oxford English Dictionary lists about 600,000 words, and the average adult knows a fraction of that.
That means if your password is a word or even one of thousands of common names, an attacker can have your password faster than hands can type it. Even if you add a number to the end of the word, like "hunter2" or "entropy9," you've only increased the time it takes to crack to half a second.
It's not hard to make a secure password, one that's not a word and is reasonably long but still is easy to remember and quick to type. Take a phrase you know by heart, such as "Every Halloween, the trees are filled with underwear; every spring, the toilets explode." Now, type out the first letter of every word in that phrase, picking different letters or adding punctuation wherever feels natural for you, resulting in a password like "eHttRfwu;estte." By using something that isn't a word and never has been, you're increasing the pool of necessary guesses exponentially.
But even then ...
"I_love_golf" is an easy password to crack. "I_love_women_with_no panties_teeing_off_on_my_face_while_gophers_finger_my_asshole" is a little harder for robots to guess.
#4. If Someone Asks Us for Our Password, We Give It to Them
One survey found that, in public, 70 percent of people would give out their passwords in exchange for chocolate.
On one hand, this is a stunning indictment of just how shortsighted people can be. On the other hand, MOTHERFUCKINGCHOCOLATE!
A favorite strategy of the hacker mentioned above, Kevin Mitnick, didn't involve either supercomputers or a criminal mastermind brain. Once he decided what corporation he wanted to hack into, he'd just go into its trash. Not to find some list of passwords, but to dig up an organization chart so that he could call up an employee claiming to be a co-worker whose boss needed the password to get into the company's server (he called it "social engineering").
The only time the words "engineer" and "social" have been that close in years.
Likewise, in 2007 there was a well-publicized rash of Xbox Live accounts suddenly escaping their owners' control, leading to rumors that some master hacker had gotten into Halo developer Bungie's database. In reality, it was all done via conversations over Xbox Live headsets. Like many systems, Xbox Live would verify your password by asking a series of personal questions (more on that later). So the thief would just get into a game with his target and steer the conversations toward subjects such as pets and high school, stealthily probing the target for his secure question answers.
Alternatively, the thief would call Microsoft's tech support and, pretending to be the account holder, basically play on the operator's sympathy until the operator gave in and handed out the info. This problem continues to flare up for Xbox Live users, from skilled gamers such as "Skyllus vBi" to Dan "Shoe" Hsu and Will Tuttle, both editors-in-chief of major gaming publications, all of whom had their accounts stolen in 2008.
Privacy is a myth, folks.
Even Microsoft's Larry "Major Nelson" Hyrb, director of programming for Xbox Live and the closest thing the service has to a human face, had his account hijacked in March 2010, almost three years to the date after he posted the security bulletin above.
Not that we have to hear a human voice in order to hand out our passwords; online scams continue to be rampant. Once, a system administrator sent out an email telling users not to respond to fake "what is your user name and password" phishing forms. He included a sample form to show people what to look out for -- then saw users reply to him with their user names and passwords, because the sample phishing form he sent along asked them to.
Presumably, emailing these people directions for performing the Heimlich maneuver would lead to an epidemic of fatal chokings.
#3. We Will Always Demand Convenience Before Security
In the mid-90s, Microsoft was tripping over itself to make computers convenient and user-friendly. Microsoft BOB, the operating system with a smiling face, encouraged users to keep all their banking information nestled securely inside a virtual desk. Would-be thieves would be stopped at the virtual front door, where users were prompted for a password. If the user forgot his password, he would be inconvenienced by it only three times, at which point the system would conveniently let him change it.
Microsoft Bob: Because even idiots need to use computers.
Even though this is about as secure as guarding your house with a BEWARE OF FERRET sign in your yard, anything less would have been too inconvenient for the target audience of Microsoft Bob (which ended up being small enough for Microsoft to realize what a terrible idea it was trying).
Unfortunately, this is a fundamental trade-off, and it's one we often don't even notice we're making. For instance, it's convenient to have your browser store all of your passwords so you never need to type anything to look at your bank account, but leaving your laptop open at Starbucks, then coming back and discovering that you've bought the original master recording of In the Court of the Crimson King for a complete stranger is also inconvenient.
So what exactly is a fire witch? Anybody?
There's literally no getting around this; what is convenient for us will also be convenient for intruders. Like those "security questions" they use to verify passwords that allowed those Xbox Live hackers to get in. The whole point of that is if you lose your password, you can get it back quickly and easily and not get locked out of crucial online services. So, on most sites if you lose your password, you simply need to answer a few pre-determined questions ("What was the name of your high school's mascot?") which supposedly only you know.
OK, now let's say you're Sarah Palin in mid-2008. In your private life, you like to use a Yahoo email account that's not subject to the bureaucratic overhead of government records. The downside here is that, because you're Sarah Palin, everything about your past is common, well-publicized knowledge. So some kid on 4chan with a Wikipedia page in one tab and Yahoo's Reset Password page in the other can just copy-paste from the former to the latter to gain access to this email account and spread the contents across the Internet. Even if you're not famous, your high school is on your Facebook page, and 10 seconds of Googling will tell someone what the mascot was. It doesn't take much longer to find out what your mother's maiden name was, and so on.
The best solution here? Lie.
Tell the database that you grew up in "Smurfville." Say that your dog's name was "Cat." Say that your high school mascot was the "Yo Dawg I Heard You Like Passwords So We Password Protected Your Password" (or "The Fightin' YDIHYLPSWPPYPs," as we called them).
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Many years to His Holiness, a second Chrysostom!http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_972718&v=hGMgBU6yrxk&src_vid=RpxVTf9H_e4
Thanks for taking the time to type that, zekarja. Its one HH's most powerful sermons.Here are some more videos.An interview with HH about his life, in Arabic with English translation:Part 1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhnM2olV6ys Part 2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1whjE48jNZo A short video reflecting on HH's life by CYC:H.H Pope Shenouda's life in words http://www.youtube.com/v/nYeFcS-pctQ
here are some videos from the occasion.The Celebration for H.H. Pope Shenouda's 40th enthronement anniversary, 14th of November 2011Part 1 (Beautiful speeches from HH Catholicos Aram I and HH Abuna Paulos)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJva9ylddmE Part 2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCve92Iu2HU
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By WARREN SCOTT
Staff writer
FOLLANSBEE - Police matters again were brought up by City Council during a discussion Monday of proposed changes in personnel policies cited as ways to cut costs for the city.
Fifth Ward Councilman Tom Ludewig suggested council adopt about 30 possible steps compiled by Mayor David Velegol Jr. following meetings with city employees and department heads to discuss budgetary concerns.
The steps ranged from limiting vacation time to four weeks per year, based on seniority, to directing police as to when they may provide mutual aid to a neighboring law enforcement agency if there is one city officer on duty.
Velegol said the proposals were made because there wasn't room in the 2013-14 budget for street paving, repairs to sidewalks and playgrounds and other capital improvements.
Ludewig and 4th Ward Councilwoman Iris Ferrell said the changes could be "tweaked" as needed but should be adopted before the city enters the new fiscal year.
Velegol disagreed, saying of the list, "This document was meant as a collection of ideas. It was never meant as final."
He said it called for city officers to transport only those charged with a felony to the Northern Regional Jail, but it's since been pointed out that state law requires them to transport some for misdemeanors such as domestic violence.
"I think we need to go item to item because we know there's conflicting information in this," Velegol said.
None of the measures proposed for the police department were adopted.
First Ward Councilman Tom DiBattista said he believes such matters as scheduling the city's police officers and approval of their overtime should be handled within the police department, not by council.
And several council members agreed they don't want city police to be prevented from aiding an officer in another department any more than they would want an officer from a neighboring community to be hampered in aiding a Follansbee officer.
"We don't want to put you in harm's way," Ludewig told City Police Chief John Schwertfeger and police officers attending.
Velegol said some concern was raised that city officers have left the city to assist with minor incidents when they weren't called to assist. He and Schwertfeger agreed to work together to address that concern and overtime issues raised by council.
But before that, the discussion became heated when Ferrell suggested someone with the city was attempting to panic the public with rumors.
Schwertfeger told Ferrell he believed she was directing her comments at him, which she denied. He said city officials should be open to the public about their plans.
Later Ferrell suggested the department designate an on-call officer who could be called out to assist when needed. City Police Officer J.R. Ewing said that's been considered but the department lacks the manpower, with just five officers.
Schwertfeger said four part-time officers, all working full-time for other law enforcement agencies, have been employed in recent months to provide additional coverage.
Also drawing from the list of proposals, council moved to cap vacations at four weeks per year, based on seniority, and eliminated the "selling" of unused vacation time to employees when they leave.
Council tabled a proposal to allow city staff to replace unused sick days with short-term disability coverage, pending more information.
City officials said earlier the city has paid as much as $10,000 to employees for unused sick days.
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This toy isn't your typical smelly sock found lying around the house. CATNIP Socks have a generous portion of catnip hidden inside so only your cat will go crazy when he sees this sock on the floor.
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Awesome, thanks for posting.
Cat Christmas shopping done!
Too bad my cat likes to eat the sock after he gnaws the catnip out, and then likes to throw it back up.
These are super easy to make on your own, though. Just fill a clean sock with catnip then knot the end. Done!
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Unanswered: infinite editing grid
I have an infinite grid and enable cell editing and allow user to change cell values and then click a save button when they are ready to persist the changes. This works ok if they click that save button before they scroll and page to another page.
How can I save their unsaved changes when those edited rows scroll off the screen, so that when they eventually do click save, all of their edits will be persisted?
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You might have to create something using store.beforeprefetch to save any changed before the next fetch.
13 Nov 2012 3:04 PM #3
Is there some documentation which discusses this issue? I am having the same problem, but this is the first time I have seen it mentioned. I would like to use some of the more advanced Ext JS features, but there is a lot more trial and error involved than I would like. Is there an information source that I'm missing which could save me some time?
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The store only contains the records which are currently in view and when you scroll the grid, new records replace the existing ones. Hence any changes made in the previous set of records is lost. the easy way would be to sync the store before loading new records.
you can take a look at the API Docs and the examples. that might help. Also, reading comments left by users (if available) in the API Docs helps to know of bugs or some tricks.


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The 49ers have not competed on the NFL's biggest stage since the 1994 campaign -- a drought during which 12 other NFC teams played for the Lombardi.Neither team has lost in the Super Bowl: San Francisco is 5-0, and the Ravens victorious in that lone trip.As always, there promises to be more than enough coverage of these teams to go around in the coming days. Here is what you need to know to get the ball rolling:Super Bowl XLVIIBaltimore Ravens (13-6) vs. San Francisco 49ers (13-4-1), Feb. 3, 6:30 p.m. ET, CBSThe buzzword talking points you'll need to know for the next two weeks include: the "HarBowl" (brothers Jim and John Harbaugh coaching against each other), Ray Lewis' final game in the NFL, Joe Flacco's status as an elite quarterback and Colin Kaepernick's elevation of the pistol formation and read-option offense.The matchup itself, however, dives far deeper than that quartet of issues.The playbooks for the Ravens and 49ers are very, very different, but the main principles behind them are very similar. Both teams will do what they can to establish their potent run games -- San Francisco with Frank Gore and LaMichael James, Baltimore with Ray Rice and Bernard Pierce -- to open up other areas of the field.There is an abundance of talent elsewhere, too, even if conference championship game players like Wes Welker, Julio Jones, Roddy White, Aaron Hernandez and Tony Gonzalez will be sitting home.Baltimore's complementary weapons around the Rice/Pierce duo have proven to be no slouches this playoff season. Both Anquan Boldin and Dennis Pitta stepped up in Sunday's win over the Patriots, and Torrey Smith will challenge San Francisco's secondary downfield.The 49ers will counter with the always-dangerous Vernon Davis, as well as wide receivers Michael Crabtree and Randy Moss, among others.This one could come down to the defenses, though, especially if the AFC and NFC championship games were any indication. The 49ers allowed 24 points to Atlanta in the first half of the NFC contest, before pitching a second-half shutout to rally for the win. The Ravens also held their opponent off the scoreboard over the final two quarters, as they turned a 13-7 deficit into a comfortable 28-13 win.Two weeks of rest could pay dividends for both units -- San Francisco's Justin Smith and Baltimore's Ray Lewis are each playing through painful torn tricep muscles, while Terrell Suggs is dealing with a similar injury to his bicep. The 49ers' Aldon Smith, meanwhile, seemingly has hit the wall in his second season and might be a force with some extra time to recuperate.Baltimore may have to attack San Francisco much as it did Denver and New England: by taking the shackles off Flacco.The Falcons sprinted out to their 10-point halftime lead on the 49ers by stretching the field with Jones, White and Gonzalez. San Francisco adjusted after halftime, but the Ravens may find matchups against the likes of Carlos Rogers and Tarell Brown appealing.That may be especially true if the 49ers' top-5 run defense gets the job done, as it did Sunday in holding the Falcons to 81 yards on the ground.Despite Tom Brady's Sunday meltdown, the Ravens can be passed on, as well -- Baltimore finished 17th in the league against the pass. But San Francisco may have more success against the run, where the Ravens' defense ranked just 20th during the regular season.Baltimore saw an offense similar to San Francisco's Kaepernick-heavy attack just once this season, in a Week 14 overtime loss to Washington. Robert Griffin III totaled 276 yards in that game, before leaving with an injury. His backup, Kirk Cousins, helped the Redskins tie the game late and win it in overtime.The Ravens' only other real exposure to a truly mobile QB this season came in Week 2: Baltimore lost, 24-23, to Michael Vick and the Eagles.The numbers trend in San Francisco's direction, on paper -- as evidenced by early lines favoring the 49ers by four or so points. Being the underdog would be nothing new for the Ravens, who shocked the world on back-to-back weekends by winning at Denver and New England. The only certainty here is that there will be plenty to discuss between now and kickoff on Feb. 3. More Audibles


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Some Bowling Green City employees are upset with the decision to force City Manager Chuck Coates out of office, and they're giving the Mayor and City Commission an earful.
Coates was asked to resign last week for "failures in management" in the wake of an embezzlement scandal involving the city's Chief Financial Officer.
In a letter addressed to mayor Elaine Walker, a group of "concerned city employees" says in part:
"Change for the sake of change accomplishes
nothing. Asking us to function without a city
manager whom we so desperately need is
just asking too much. We fear that the city
of Bowling Green will suffer greatly because
he is not being allowed to guide us through
this difficult time.You will soon realize that you needed him...
for his leadership and respect that he
EARNED from the employees."
Mayor Walker says she understands the employees' frustration, and she and other commissioners have met with almost every city department in the past week to address their concerns.
"One of the things I heard was the question of trust. They have not worked with us for more than 3 months, and clearly that's not a long enough time to really understand who we are and how we feel about them. So it is going to take time," Walker said.
"I truly believe we have the finest city employees anywhere. And that ultimately is why the city will have a little bit of a tough time these next several months, but this city will get through because we have very solid employees who are dedicated to the job that they do, dedicated to doing their best and they will carry the ball."
Late Friday, WBKO received a statement from another anonymous city employee with very different thoughts.
That statement read, in part:
"Mr. Coates should have cared enough for
the citizens and employees of the City to
submit his resignation on his own accord.
Most of us realize that it is ridiculous to say
that Mr. Coates should not be held
accountable for the millions that were stolen
under his management."
WBKO normally does not broadcast anonymous statements without verifying their source. But after conversations with several city employees who would rather remain anonymous, it is clear that these letters do represent 2 different camps that exist.


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If I have two point pattern distributions within the same geographic region, how would I go about visually and quantitatively comparing those two distributions?
Also assume I have many points within a smaller region, so simply displaying a pin map is uninformative.
Any examples or resources on calculations are always appreciated.


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Posted by epearlman in mistakes, management, leaders, humility, good boss, confidence, bad boss
One of my favorite management experts, Robert Sutton, Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, is currently working on a book called "Good Boss, Bad Boss" (coming out in September). In a recent blog at Harvard Business Review, Sutton listed 12 key beliefs held by the best bosses. It's a great list and I recommend reading them all , but I'll focus on just a few of my favorites here:


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Let $R$ be a ring of characteristic $p$. Let $G$ be the kernel of the natural map $\pi_1^{et} (\operatorname{Spec} R[[x]] [1/x]) \to \pi_1^{et}( \operatorname{Spec} R)$. $G$ has a natural map to $\prod_{l\neq p} \mathbb Z_l(1)$, coming from the etale coverings adjoining the $n$th roots of $x$ for $n$ prime to $p$. Is the kernel of this natural map always a pro-$p$ group?
For $R$ a field, this is standard. But I'm not sure when $R$ is not a field.


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WELLSBURG - The Brooke County Commission on Tuesday was advised of state funds available to the county through the West Virginia Development Office for dilapidated or abandoned structures, water and sewer extensions and the county's animal shelter.
County Clerk Sylvia Benzo advised the commission of funds, including $20,978 for dilapidated structures, allocated for the three areas through the efforts of local representatives to the state Legislature.
County Commissioner Jim Andreozzi said he's received many complaints about deteriorating buildings in the county and determining where to start will be a challenge.
Benzo said some funds remain from a $15,000 Governor's Community Participation Grant used by former county sheriff Richard Ferguson to remove about five dilapidated trailers.
Commission President Tim Ennis said, following the meeting, that the commission also should consider removing two vacant homes between the county courthouse and former museum.
Ennis said the space might one day be used to create a judicial wing for the courthouse to serve as the new location for the county's magistrate and family courts, but he said that's not likely to occur in the near future since it would cost millions of dollars to complete.
The courts were moved to the third floor of the Progressive Bank building from the first floor of the courthouse following the 2004 flood. But the commission has since learned that area of the bank building, which is separate from that used by the bank, doesn't meet state fire codes.
Ennis said the commission looked at a fourth possible site for the courts this week but no decision has been reached on the courts' future location.
The commission had considered the former museum but Ennis said it doesn't meet conditions set for the courts by the state Supreme Court.
Ennis said $5,000 in state funds allotted for the county's animal shelter will be used for improvements and repairs to that building. The commission has asked Donna DeJaro, the shelter's director, to advise it of the building's needs.
The commission mentioned the building recently was without heat for a day but said that problem has been corrected.
Ennis said it's not been determined how another $5,000, allotted for water and sewer extensions, will be used. He acknowledged it's not enough for a major project but said it could be used for engineering.
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Was asked by County Prosecutor Joseph Barki III to provide a sign indicating the Cross Law Office is the county prosecutor's office, a condition Ennis said was part of the lease the commission signed for use of space there.
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Appointed Beech Bottom Councilman Greg Sheperd to the county's economic development authority.
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STEUBENVILLE - A fumble, a sack and a couple of early scoring tosses helped Big Red earn a 28-17 victory over Cleveland Benedictine on Legends Night Friday at Harding Stadium.
The win moves Reno Saccoccia's gridders to 2-0 on the young season and gives Big Red a 3-2 lead in its all-time series with Benedictine. The Bengals fell to 1-1.
"Our kids dug down deep and I'm so proud of them," Saccoccia said. "Playing hard is a given in sports and I really don't like to talk about playing hard. There's a difference between playing hard and playing your guts out and that's what we did tonight.
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MAKING A PLAY — Steubenville's Garon Lytle runs around left end as Cleveland Benedictine's Dantez Rash (8) chases. Big Red earned a 28-17 victory at Harding Stadium.
"We played a lot of kids and they are stepped up. That's a good football team we went against."
Big Red struck first after senior linebacker Robert Hayden recovered a Benedictine fumble on the first play of the game. Five snaps later on fourth and four, sophomore quarterback Dimitri Collaros rolled to his right, stopped and threw back to his left, finding a wide open Lucas Herrington for a touchdown. The scoring toss covered 11 yards. John Paul Duff added the extra point.
The score advanced to 14-0 midway through the opening stanza, Collaros finding senior Kai McClurg alone in the flat for a six-yard strike. Duff again split the uprights. Big Red started the drive on the Benedictine 43 (Hayden came through with a key sack of quarterback Brian Schoeffler on the previous Bengal possession) and needed just six snaps to find the end zone.
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Benedictine 0 10 7 0 - 17
Big Red 14 7 7 0 - 28
BR: Herrington 11 pass from Collaros (Duff kick)
BR: McClurg 6 pass from Collaros (Duff kick)
BR: Lytle 13 run (Duff kick)
B: Layne 46 run (Judy kick)
B: Judy 35 yard field goal
BR: King 13 pass from Lawrence-Burke (Duff kick)
B: Baker 1 run
RUSHING: Benedictine 30-62-2 (Baker 12-(-11); Rash 8-39; Schoeffler 6-(-19); Layne 4-53); Big Red 46-210-1 (Hayden 6-30; Lytle 16-80-1; Collaros 2-2; Lawrence-Burke 7-48; Donte Brown 7-37; Dondre Brown 2-3; McClurg 1-0; Sherrell 2-(-7); Blue 3-15) .
PASSING: Benedictine 12-24-108-0-1 (all by Schoeffler); Big Red 17-27-143-3-1 (Collaros 15-22-124-2; Lawrence-Burke 3-5-19-1-1).
RECEIVING: Benedictine (Merimee 1-5; Rash 5-34; Layne 5-47; Calabrese 1-22); Big Red (Herrington 5-27-1; Petrides 1-7; Coleman 1-14; Hayden 1-3; McClurg 1-6-1; Lytle 1-4; Pierro 3-33; Saltsman 2-17; King 2-29-1; Newburn 1-3).
FIRST DOWNS: Benedictine 11; Big Red 19.
PENALTIES-YARDS: Benedictine 5-41; Big Red 10-99.
PUNTS: Benedictine 1-33; Big Red 2-37.
FUMBLES-LOST: Benedictine 1-1; Big Red 2-2.
Key plays on the scoring march were a 12-yard burst by senior Garon Lytle and a Collaros pass to senior tight end Cameron King good for 16 stripes.
The Bengals of first year coach Joe Schaefer had excellent field position on its next possession thanks to a 38-yard return by speedy sophomore Justin Layne. Big Red was guilty of a facemask penalty (on the night, the hosts drew 10 flags for 99 yards). That gave the visitors a first down at the Red 34.
Big Red's swarming defense rose to the occasion, however, and stopped the Bengals cold.
The third Big Red possession of the contest started on the 23 and resulted in another scoring march, this one covering 77 yards in 11 plays. Lytle motored through a huge hole for a 13-yard TD to cap the drive.
Sophomore quarterback Mandela Lawrence-Burke compiled 22 stripes on the ground and junior Donte Brown added 13. Duff put Saccoccia's club up 21-0.
Benedictine followed that score with one of its own. Speedy sophomore Justin Layne took a direct snap in the wildcat formation and sprinted 46 yards to the house. Nick Judy nailed the conversion.
Big Red avoided disaster following the Bengal score, fumbling at its own 29 (Antonio Robinson recovering). The defense rose up again, Hayden and junior William Harvey stopped Jerome Baker, Benedictine's talented junior tailback, for a loss on fourth and one.
Judy booted a 35-yard field goal to close the first half scoring. That score came after Saccoccia gambled on fourth and short at his own 36. Benedictine's defense made the big stop this time
Big Red got a huge break on the kickoff following Judy's three-pointer. The kick was fumbled and Benedictine appeared to recover. However, the officials ruled an inadvertent whistle sounded, forcing the Bengals to re-kick. This time, Big Red hung on.
The second half began with Big Red marching 65 yards in nine plays for its final score of the evening. Lawrence-Burke hit King on a play action pass for a 13-yard touchdown. King made an excellent stretch and catch on the Lawrence-Burke toss. Duff added his fourth extra point.
After recovering another Big Red fumble, Benedictine marched 27 yards for its final score. Baker plowed over from a yard out.
Big Red did mount two more scoring threats but one was stopped by a penalty and the other by the Benedictine defense.
"We had a mistake filled game with penalties and a couple of turnovers," Saccoccia stated. "The worse play of the night was when I went for it on fourth and one. During the course of a game, I get so wrapped up in our offensive line and tailbacks. That was a bad call and it put the kids in a hole that we never got out of.
"Our defense came up big the whole night. To tell you the truth, during the first half, our special teams and offense played good and our defense was just outstanding."
Heading into the contest, Saccoccia knew his Big Red would need to defend the entire field against the Bengals and their arsenal of offensive weapons. Mission accomplished.
For the night, Benedictine compiled 170 offensive yards (62 rushing and 108 passing) on 54 snaps. In their week one win, the Bengals reeled off 484 stripes. Baker, who ran for 182 in the victory, was held to minus 11 on 12 carries.
" I felt we were able to defend the entire field," Saccoccia noted. "Our six interior guys stopped the run and our five other guys were able to stop the pass. Plus, we were able to get a decent pass rush."
Sophomore Jeremy Blue recorded a sack for Big Red and Lawrence-Burke had an interception.
Offensively, Big red rolled to 353 yards (210 rushing and 143 passing) on 73 plays. Lytle finished with 80 stripes on 15 trips and Lawrence-Burke added 48. Donte Brown compiled 39 and Hayden 30.
"We played six backs in the first quarter and ran the first half with four tailbacks," Saccoccia said. "I have confidence in them and tonight, they all pass blocked well. Our tailbacks did a good job for us."
Collaros connected on 15 of 22 passing attempts (two of his incompletions came late in the first half on spikes to stop the clock) for 124 yards and two scores. Lawrence-Burke was three of five for 19 and a six-pointer.
"I liked our quarterback play," Saccoccia admitted. "They are growing like everyone else. I liked how they stuck in there. Even when the rush was coming, they stayed in, took some shots and got right back up. They work together very well."
Ten different Big Red receivers caught passes. Herrington led the receiving corps with five grabs while senior Bryan Pierro collected three.
"My plan has always been if you sacrifice your body for four days, then you are going to play on Fridays," Saccoccia stated. "We have guys that are sacrificing their bodies and they are playing. There are some sophomores that are working hard but they have to wait their time."
Big Red will remain at home for week three, entertaining Pinehurst Prep from St. Catharine's, Ontario.


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Craig Loomis Wins 2013 Jim's Thriftway 100; Winsley And Graham Back In Winner's Circle At SSP
By Ben Deatherage
(Photo Courtesy of Bob Fors)
The biggest Street Stock race in the state of Oregon made its way back to the Sunset Speedway Park on Saturday August 10th for the annual Jim's Thriftway 100. The Northwest Wingless Tour and Northwest Extreme Modifieds would also be on the card as support classes. The night would provide some exciting action with a very well prepared race track.
For the main event Mark Ward, owner of Jim's Thriftway, would throw the green flag to begin the one-hundred lap endeavor for the Street Stocks. Starting up front Craig Loomis from Vancouver, Washington, in his Buz's Equipment Trailers/City Sprint Delivery/Liberty Welding #01 Camaro, would take control of the lead. Loomis would lead the entire distance of the first fifty laps before the field was brought to a halt allowing teams to refuel their machines to finish the rest of the distance.
In second half Loomis would lose the lead on lap sixty-nine to the Liberty Welding/All American Classics #96 of Danny O'Neil also from Vancouver, Washington. O'Neil would lead until Loomis would get back around him late on lap ninety-two. Loomis would hold on the rest of the way to win his first ever Jim's Thriftway 100 and his fourth race of the campaign.
Danny O'Neil would finish in second and would be the last car on the lead lap while third would go to the #3 of Earl Claypool from Hillsboro after starting twentieth. The top five would be completed with Tony Catalano from Forest Grove in fourth driving his #19 Monte Carlo and fifth went to the #44S Camaro of Kristi Somers from Woodland, Washington.
The Northwest Wingless Tour was back in the swing of things since ending the Non-Wing Speedway on July 27th at Willamette Speedway. Starting up front and taking full advantage of it Bill Winsley, driving his Wilson's Napa Auto Parts/Pepco Designs/Jasper's Café #10W XXX, would take the lead. Not only would he take the lead but the Molalla driver would also earn his second win of the season and earned his fourth career NWWT triumph at SSP. Winsley also has a narrow two point lead headed into the next race.
Putting up a valiant effort and nearly catching Winsley but running out of laps would be Rob Lindsey from Wilsonville in the Maxline Cases/Speedmart Inc./Competition Suspension Inc. #23 XXX in second followed by the Schram Brothers Excavating/BDR Racing #19 Avenger of Ryan Bothwell from Oregon City in third. Jake Gilman of Forest Grove would end his evening in fourth in his Maverick Welding Supply #11X Maxim while the Fuel Injection Enterprises #89 XXX of Sterling Kane, from Albany, completed the top five finishers in fifth.
The Perfection Automotive/Sweere Trucking #18X Rick Graham from Portland had no issues in the Northwest Extreme Modified main event. Graham would earn his seventh win of the year which is simply amazing.
Earning second would be Mike Graham of Vancouver, Washington in the #12X returning to Banks after suffering a major heat attack in 2012. The balance of the top five finishing order would include the Frisbie Motorsports/Discount Race Car Parts/Bodies By CWR #99 of Don Frisbie from Vancouver, Washington in third, Banks' Joey Tardio in his Transaction Transmissions #04 in fourth, and the #96 of Oscar Luckman from Tigard in fifth.
The Sunset Speedway Park will take next weekend off due to the annual Banks Barbeque festival which will have tractor pulls and combine derbies. The next race at the ¼-mile clay oval will be on Saturday August 24th and will feature the American Sprint Car Series-Northwest Region, Street Stocks, 4-Bee's, and the Womens divisions. This race will feature the best Sprint Car drivers on the Pacific Coast and will be the only opportunity to see the ASCS-Northwest Region so you do not want to miss it. For more information log on to www.sunsetspeedwaypark.com or by calling (360)-699-RACE.
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Jim's Thriftway 100
Saturday August 10th, 2013
Sunset Speedway Park
Banks, Oregon
Street Stocks
A Feature: 1. 01-Craig Loomis[2]; 2. 96-Danny O'Neil[1]; 3. 3-Earl Claypool[20]; 4. 19-Tony Catalano[3]; 5. 44-Kristi Somers[7]; 6. 56-Tom Lauzon[5]; 7. 17-Bert Pegg[8]; 8. 14X-Dennis Liebig[13]; 9. 7X-James Simeroth[12]; 10. 18-Roger Hubbard[11]; 11. 04-Andrea Tardio[15]; 12. 53-Chris Houck[19]; 13. 38-Ed Johnson[14]; 14. 5-Marc Farrar[4]; 15. 32-Robert Summerhalder[16]; 16. 26-Ed Netherton[18]; 17. 15-Trevor Brotherton[10]; 18. 88-John Ireland[9]; 19. 14-Brian Roden[6]; DNS 5X-Ron Prevost; DNS 52-Randy Allen; DNS 19H-Jared Haynes
Heat 1: 1. 01-Craig Loomis[5]; 2. 5-Marc Farrar[7]; 3. 14-Brian Roden[3]; 4. 17-Bert Pegg[2]; 5. 15-Trevor Brotherton[11]; 6. 7X-James Simeroth[1]; 7. 38-Ed Johnson[6]; 8. 32-Robert Summerhalder[8]; 9. 26-Ed Netherton[4]; 10. 3-Earl Claypool[10]; 11. 5X-Ron Prevost[9]
Heat 2: 1. 96-Danny O'Neil[6]; 2. 19-Tony Catalano[4]; 3. 56-Tom Lauzon[8]; 4. 44-Kristi Somers[3]; 5. 88-John Ireland[5]; 6. 18-Roger Hubbard[10]; 7. 14X-Dennis Liebig[9]; 8. 04-Andrea Tardio[11]; 9. 19H-Jared Haynes[2]; 10. 53-Chris Houck[1]; 11. 52-Randy Allen[7]
Northwest Wingless Tour Sprints
A Feature: 1. 10W-Bill Winsley[1]; 2. 23-Rob Lindsey[6]; 3. 19-Ryan Bothwell[7]; 4. 11X-Jake Gilman[8]; 5. 89-Sterling Kane[2]; 6. 29T-Tommy Moreno[4]; 7. 50-Brad Rhodes[3]; 8. 27W-Guy Weedman[5]; 9. 91-Rich Kelly[9]; 10. 4-Adam Pockrus[10]; 11. 5-Mitch Hoffses[11]
Heat 1: 1. 5-Mitch Hoffses[5]; 2. 19-Ryan Bothwell[4]; 3. 23-Rob Lindsey[3]; 4. 11X-Jake Gilman[2]; 5. 91-Rich Kelly[1]; 6. 4-Adam Pockrus[6]
Heat 2: 1. 10W-Bill Winsley[5]; 2. 27W-Guy Weedman[1]; 3. 89-Sterling Kane[4]; 4. 29T-Tommy Moreno[2]; 5. 50-Brad Rhodes[3]
Qualifying: 1. 10W-Bill Winsley; 2. 89-Sterling Kane; 3. 50-Brad Rhodes; 4. 29T-Tommy Moreno; 5. 27W-Guy Weedman; 6. 23-Rob Lindsey; 7. 19-Ryan Bothwell; 8. 11X-Jake Gilman; 9. 91-Rich Kelly; 10. 4-Adam Pockrus; 11. 5-Mitch Hoffses
NW Extreme Modifieds
A Feature: 1. 18X-Rick Graham[2]; 2. 12X-Pamela Graham[1]; 3. 99-Don Frisbie[4]; 4. 04-Joey Tardio[3]; 5. 96-Oscar Luckman[5]
Heat 1: 1. 12X-Pamela Graham[2]; 2. 18X-Rick Graham[1]; 3. 04-Joey Tardio[5]; 4. 99-Don Frisbie[4]; 5. 96-Oscar Luckman[3]
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Each year, more than two billion household batteries are disposed, and that number only represents those that are sent to landfills. The effect on our environment from discarded dry cell batteries can be catastrophic over time, polluting our world's ground soil and water supply, resulting in health hazards to humans, plants, and animals.
The number of chemicals and metals in batteries can be staggering. For example, a car battery has almost 20 pounds of lead in it and 16 ounces of sulfuric acid.
As our society continues to heavily depend on battery supplies to power many common electronic devices, such as digital cameras and flashlights, the need for efficient and ecologically responsible battery use has become paramount.
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Subject: Re: [OMPI users] [ompi-1.4.2] Infiniband issue on smoky @ ornl
From: Samuel K. Gutierrez (samuel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-06-23 10:32:05
What happens when you don't run with per-peer queue pairs? Try:
-mca btl_openib_receive_queues S,4096,128:S,12288,128:S,65536,128
Samuel K. Gutierrez
Los Alamos National Laborator
On Jun 23, 2011, at 7:56 AM, Mathieu Gontier wrote:
> Hello,
> Thank for the answer.
> I am testing with OpenMPI-1.4.3: my computation is queuing. But I did not read anything obvious related to my issue. Have you read something which could solve it?
> I am going to submit my computation with --mca mpi_leave_pinned 0, but do you have any idea how it affect the performance? Compared to using Ethernet?
> Many thanks for your support.
> On 06/23/2011 03:01 PM, Josh Hursey wrote:
>> I wonder if this is related to memory pinning. Can you try turning off
>> the leave pinned, and see if the problem persists (this may affect
>> performance, but should avoid the crash):
>> mpirun ... --mca mpi_leave_pinned 0 ...
>> Also it looks like Smoky has a slightly newer version of the 1.4
>> branch that you should try to switch to if you can. The following
>> command will show you all of the available installs on that machine:
>> shell$ module avail ompi
>> For a list of supported compilers for that version try the 'show' option:
>> shell$ module show ompi/1.4.3
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>> /sw/smoky/modulefiles-centos/ompi/1.4.3:
>> module-whatis This module configures your environment to make Open
>> MPI 1.4.3 available.
>> Supported Compilers:
>> pathscale/3.2.99
>> pathscale/3.2
>> pgi/10.9
>> pgi/10.4
>> intel/11.1.072
>> gcc/4.4.4
>> gcc/4.4.3
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Let me know if that helps.
>> Josh
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Mathieu Gontier
>> <mathieu.gontier_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>> First of all, all my apologies because I post this message to both the bug
>>> and user mailing list. But for the moment, I do not know if it is a bug!
>>> I am running a CFD structured flow solver at ORNL, and I have an access to a
>>> small cluster (Smoky) using OpenMPI-1.4.2 with Infiniband by default.
>>> Recently we increased the size of our models, and since that time we have
>>> run into many infiniband related problems. The most serious problem is a
>>> hard crash with the following error message:
>>> [smoky45][[60998,1],32][/sw/sources/ompi/1.4.2/ompi/mca/btl/openib/connect/btl_openib_connect_oob.c:464:qp_create_one]
>>> error creating qp errno says Cannot allocate memory
>>> If we force the solver to use ethernet (mpirun -mca btl ^openib) the
>>> computations works correctly, although very slowly (a single iteration take
>>> ages). Do you have any idea what could be causing these problems?
>>> If it is due to a bug or a limitation into OpenMPI, do you think the version
>>> 1.4.3, the coming 1.4.4 or any 1.5 version could solve the problem? I read
>>> the release notes, but I did not read any obvious patch which could fix my
>>> problem. The system administrator is ready to compile a new package for us,
>>> but I do not want to ask to install to many of them.
>>> Thanks.
>>> --
>>> Mathieu Gontier
>>> skype: mathieu_gontier
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> users mailing list
>>> users_at_[hidden]
>>> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
> --
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> skype: mathieu_gontier
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