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Welcome to the first installment of our Successful Aging Series! In this episode of Pet Talk, Dr. Sarah addresses one of the most frightening and heartbreaking illnesses that afflict companion animals – cancer. According to the most recent data, nearly four million dogs will be diagnosed with cancer this year, which is why we're dedicating an entire episode to "the C-word". To aid you in your quest to help your fur kids age successfully, Dr. Sarah shares the latest news about our current understanding of how companion animals age and the obstacles they encounter later in life. Additionally, Dr. Sarah discusses prevalent pet cancers, what sorts of treatments are available now, and groundbreaking research into potential therapies and preventatives. Don't miss this episode, as you'll also discover news from the National Cancer Institute about its ambitious agenda to eradicate this silent killer. We encourage you to share this timely and vital message with your friends and family!
Enjoying daily activity without stiffness and pain is key to our companion
animals living "the good life" in their Golden Years. Because joint stiffness,
muscle loss, pain and weakness can negatively impact quality of life,
maintaining good mobility and strength is vital for better 'healthspans', a term
we introduced last month, which refers to leading longer, healthier lifetimes.
In companion animals of a certain age, bodily systems start to degrade,
breaking down at a cellular level. Just like in the whisper-circle game, where
one person tells another a simple message, which is then repeated to each
successive person … invariably, the message changes over the course of multiple
re-tellings. Similarly, the cells are replicating over and over again, and after
so many redo's, the genetic messages become garbled. On the macroscopic scale,
this means a loss of strength and mobility. More...
Noah's Ark Sanctuary
We're very excited to bring you news of another financial award given by the Dr.
Jane's HealthyPetNet Foundation. This month's highlighted organization is the
Pompano Beach-headquartered Noah's Ark Sanctuary for Abandoned and Abused
Animals, an animal rescue working hard to re-home dogs and cats and to curtail
pet overpopulation.
What began as a husband-and-wife team working part-time has now blossomed into a
full-time network of dedicated rescue workers. After moving to South Florida
from Tennessee in 1996, Barbara and Jim Beeson discovered that their fellow
Pompano Beachers were offering up haphazard care for a feral cat colony. While
food and emergency veterinary care were being irregularly covered, no spaying or
neutering was taking place. The Beesons recognized that this small colony could
grow to epic proportions, and that someone needed to act fast to prevent the
development of a crisis scenario. Ultimately, with the tireless assistance of
Barbara's mom, Bette Walston, and local attorney Thornton Scott, Noah's Ark
Sanctuary for Abused and Abandoned Animals was officially founded. Since that
time, their efforts have made a significant impact, recognized by both community
leaders and governmental agencies. More...
You may have heard about the recent pet food recalls in the news and have some questions about salmonella poisoning. Although no Life's Abundance products are involved in this recall, we want to make sure you are aware of this current situation, as you may have friends who feed their companion animals one of the brands involved. In this video, Dr. Sarah discusses the details of this most recent recall and provides you with the information you need to know about the salmonella bacteria - including symptoms of salmonella poisoning and preventative measures to help avoid the further spread of infection. Watch this important video message and pass it on to your fellow pet parents.
I am truly saddened to hear of the current pet food recall concerning possible salmonella
contamination. I have seen firsthand the devastating effects of this kind of infection
in dogs and cats. Our hearts go out to the pet parents who are right now sitting
on "pins and needles", worrying about the health of their companion animals.
As part of our unwavering commitment to the health and well-being
of all companion animals, we want to take time to alert you about this unfortunate
Here's what we know so far. According to the FDA, Diamond Pet Foods
and other brands produced at their Gaston, South Carolina facility between December
9, 2011 and April 7, 2012 have voluntarily recalled dry dog and cat foods due to
potential salmonella contamination. This recall affects the following pet food brands:
Chicken Soup For the Pet Lover's Soul
Country Value
Diamond Naturals
Kaytee Fort-Diets (a rat and hamster feed)
Natural Balance
Premium Edge
Taste Of The Wild
Wellness Complete Health®
The scale of this recall is massive … products were distributed
to customers in 41 states (Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, DC, Delaware,
Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts,
Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina,
North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Vermont,
Wisconsin, West Virginia, Wyoming) and may have been further distributed to other
states through various pet food channels.
Symptoms of salmonella infection in pets include decreased appetite,
fever (possibly quite high), lethargy and abdominal pain. If left untreated, dogs
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Keep in mind that infected – but otherwise healthy – pets can still
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You should always thoroughly wash your hands after handling your pet's food and
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these bacteria can also be present in the feces of your dog or cat, you should dispose
of it carefully. According to the Center for Disease Control, 14 people in nine
states have been infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Infantis.
For complete information on these recalls, we encourage you to visit
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Please be assured that this recall does not affect any of our Life's
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As you know, we employ numerous safety and quality controls to ensure the highest
quality of our products.
When a recall occurs, many pet food companies rely on the media
to inform consumers. However, people lead busy lives and often they are not aware
of news reports or articles, which can lead to an extremely unfortunate situation
for affected pet parents and their companion animals.
The good news for Life's Abundance customers is that we employ an unparalleled, quick-response system. If we need to share information about a product with our customers, we can do it quickly and effectively. Thanks to our unique distribution system, we are able to pinpoint the lot numbers which identify the individual products shipped to each of our customers. Because we maintain databases with our customer's contact information, we can email them immediately about any issues with their products, should they arise. Also, through our automatic Interactive Voice Response system, we are able to call hundreds of our customers anywhere in the country within just a few hours. At Life's Abundance, we believe informed consumers make for healthy pets!
Thank you for taking the time to read this important post, and thank
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Dakota Wesleyan University and Mitchell Area Community Theatre are teaming up yet again to bring a production to the stage.
"No Sex Please, We're British," will be performed at the Pepsi-Cola Theatre for Performing Arts, Mitchell, opening this weekend. The British farce is directed by DWU's theatre director Daniel Miller.
The production will be at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 4, 5, 11 and 12, with shows at 2 p.m. on Oct. 6 and 13 at the Pepsi-Cola Theatre for the Performing Arts on Main Street in Mitchell. Tickets are $10 and $12. The show is suggested for audiences 13 and older.
As the first production of the season, Miller has high expectations for the show.
"I hope the audience will enjoy it. I have acted in this show and also directed it before to great success," he said. "Those audiences loved it so much we extended the run. Also, in my eight years at DWU I have never directed a farce and this offering absolutely qualifies as your very funny British farce play."
The story focuses on a young, married couple who order Scandinavian glassware, but receive Scandinavian pornography instead. The couple attempts to figure out what to do with their purchase as the plot is complicated by other characters.
Members of the cast include:
Peter Hunter…………………..Ian Hyde
Frances Hunter………….….…LizBeth Spinar
Brian Runnicles…………….....AJ Miller
Eleanor Hunter……………......Melissa Vatter-Miller
Leslie Bromhead……..…..…...Mike Baker
Superintendent Paul…..….........Jon Kleinschmit
Delivery Man……………….....Kyle Gilles
Mr. Needham………………....Roger Allen
Susan……………………....….Madi Miller
Barbara……………………….Alaina Bertsch
Director…………………………Daniel L. Miller
Stage Manager…………......…...Ann Thury
Asst. Stage Manager….........…...Liz Hainey
Technical Director….....……….Jake Habermann
Lighting Designer…….....……..Tamar Letcher

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If you follow me on twitter you know that about 2 months ago I found this awesome lamp at the thrift store for $8.00.
Pretty much it's the greatest lamp I have ever found. But there is one not so small problem.
Its HUGE!! (notice the finial is almost the size of a spray paint can.)
Too small to be a floor lamp, but too big for a table lame. I did everything I could to find a way to use it but to no avail.
This was the shade that I wanted to use on it.
Kind of reminds you of a tall guy with a cut off t shirt right?
So I decided to preform a little bit of surgery. After making my Teapot Lamp and a few versions of it I am pretty comfortable with how lamp electrical junk works.
So here is what I did.
This is what your lamp will look like:
You want to start with taking off the harp. Then remove the top part of the socket. You may need a small screw driver to gently pry it off.
Once you remove the casing you will see the actual socket. You need to loosen the screws on the side of the socket that the wires are wrapped around (make sure you know which wire goes where!)
There is a knot in the wires that you will untie. Next you will unscrew the bottom part of the socket casing.
Remove whatever washers, harp holder etc. that are above the actual lamp.
All you should be left with is the threaded tube that houses the wiring.
Then I removed the uber long wooden tube that was making the lamp 6' tall.
You can see that there is a washer on the threaded rod. That is holding 2 separate rods together. Unscrew the washer and the upper tube.
Then you are going to lower you wiring by pulling it out of the bottom of your lamp.
Next to make sure that its going to look awesome put your harp holder back on with your harp and make sure that it is the right height.
Looks good! Then you are going to reassemble the lamp socket. (so follow the removal instructions in reverse order)
Once it is put back together make sure that it works by plugging in the lamp and turning it on.
And then you are done!
All lamps are different, but most contain these same elements. The most important thing is SAFETY! If you are not comfortable doing this have your husband or someone else help you. And most importantly MAKE SURE YOUR LAMP IS UNPLUGGED!
Once you have preformed you surgery you can jazz it up however you want! I spray painted mine with Krylon's Navy. Its such a great color.
This lamp is actually going in my bedroom but I am not sharing the walls until they are all done…So my living room will have to suffice.
This is a better picture of the actual color. Sorry its super overcast today!
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Here is the history of my suggested edit of one of the answers to this question.
But I don't understand, why was this suggested edit rejected by the community?
Here is the history of my suggested edit of one of the answers to this question.
But I don't understand, why was this suggested edit rejected by the community?
I'll usually reject suggested edits that change code unless there's a good reason not to. It's very easy to change the meaning of an answer unintentionally with even small code changes.
The only reason I approved your suggested edit was because:
Often when people are reviewing edits, they don't have any context other than what is in your comments on the edit. I believe yours were something like "void functions can't return a value". Without context, it's hard to know if the overridden function (OnBackPressed) should have been declared as void or bool.
You may have had similar changes accepted in the past however because some people are significantly more likely to approve an edit than reject one, so there's also an element of luck/timing involved...
If you look at the "how to edit" block shown when you suggest an edit, you will notice it shows the following points:
None of those points is about code, but somebody could argue that changing the code you are changing the answer given from somebody else.
I would generally suggest to avoid editing the code given in a post. If there is a typo in the code, I would write a comment letting the user who wrote the post know that; if the answer is suggesting using a function, and I believe there is a better function to use, I would write a comment about that.
In the case you think the code is completely wrong, or there is alternative that could be used, then you should write your own answer, rather than editing the answer given from somebody else.
This is very clearly a good edit that should have been accepted. I'm sorry for the reaction you got.
This is a textbook case of a good edit:
The rules for editing state this clearly:
This is a minor mistake being corrected. The meaning of the post isn't changed: it's just a code example that was made correct. The original author was respected: after you pointed out the problem to him in a comment, he went and made the exact same change.
I'm sorry that your valuable contribution was rejected. Sadly, this is an old problem on Stack Overflow — reviewers who reject edits in direct contradiction with the rules and core values of Stack Overflow. Please keep up the good work nonetheless.


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Many know Atchison as the birthplace of Amelia Earhart, but the nice little town on the Missouri River has a more mysterious side that's fun to explore as Halloween nears.
Atchison is also known as one of the most haunted places in America, due to the number of buildings that are allegedly home to paranormal activity. If you're looking for a real spooky experience, head to Atchison, where there are a plethora of activities for you to try to connect with the ghosts of Atchison's past.


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King Abdullah chairs Cabinet session
May 3, 2010
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz chaired the Cabinet session at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh today. At the outset, he reviewed his latest foreign contacts, including meetings held with Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Al-Thani and former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney; a telephone call with Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir; and messages received from Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.
The Cabinet discussed regional and international developments, reiterating its desire for a resumption of the Arab-Israeli peace process in line with international resolutions. The ministers expressed satisfaction over the outcome of the U.S.-Saudi Business Opportunities Forum in Chicago last weekend, which aimed at increasing bilateral economic cooperation. Finally, the Cabinet praised the convening of the First Regional Seminar on Anti-Narcotics and Information Exchange inside the Kingdom.
Turning to its agenda items, the Cabinet approved a number of procedures regarding the organization of periodic inspections of vehicles; authorized the Foreign Minister to sign a draft general agreement on cooperation with Eritrea; authorized the Minister of Higher Education to sign a draft memorandum of understanding in the field of science and education with the Education Department of Hong Kong; authorized the Minister of Finance to sign a draft agreement and protocol with Malta on the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of income tax evasion; and authorized the Minister of Health to sign two draft memoranda of understanding for cooperation in the health field with the Ministries of Health of Canada and Sweden.
The Cabinet approved the appointments of Turki Al-Ali, Abdulnasser Al-Harthy, Abdulrahman Al-Ahmad and Jamal Balkheyour as Ministers Plenipotentiary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Dr. Ali Al-Bishri as Director General of Cultural Attaché Affairs at the Ministry of Higher Education (14th rank).


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"Post script is usually written when a writer forgets to write something on the main body of the letter and wants to add on to what he had written on the letter." But in this age of email and word processors, why would anyone want to use P.S.? Is its usage still relevant and any particular reason for it?
I usually use it purposely to add something related to the email, but that I don't want to mix with the rest, likely to let the reader to focus more easily on the part of the email I think it's more important; I like to use it like a sort of "side note", placed after the written text (lit. latin "post scriptum" can be translated as "after the written (text)")
The postscript is indeed of limited use, but it might still be useful when one has something else to say, but doesn't want to compose the email all over again.
People still do compose letters from time to time, and send them on paper. I do it maybe once a year, and I can see it coming up where I have something to add, but don't want to print the letter again.
There may well come a time where people don't know what "P.S." means, just as some people don't realize that "R.S.V.P." means to reply soonest, please.
Love, Neil.
P.S., It also might be useful if one is mimicking an old-style letter format.
It seems perfectly acceptable to include a PS in a body of an email for various reasons. The two I can think of are:
I would not include a post script in the body of an email because post means afterwards, so if inserted into the body, it's no longer "post". As one responder previously mentioned, a post script is an added thought, often of some short comment entirely different, or as a brief comment that contributes to what has been said, but gives a short insight or some other contribution to what has been written. I use post scripts in hand-written letters frequently, but since emails are generally shorter and more succinct, I have less need to use them in that format. I find that with emails, I insert additional thoughts in parenthesis or in between dashes just as in letter writing, but because of the shorter nature of my emails, I rarely use post scripts.
P.S. is also useful for literary/cultural impact. It sets off a small sentence from the rest of the epistle, giving it more kick and import.
(Using "P.S., I love you" can be particularly effective, as it's become somewhat of a meme due to being featured in song(s) and other media in English.)


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What is the famous argument between the Vilna Gaon and the Ba'al HaTanya in understanding the Sod HaTzimtzum? And what are some ma'areh mekomos in their works where this Machlokes is seen?
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I heard a talk from Rabbi Yaacov Haber about this. If I understand correctly, he contrasted the Tanya with a similar work by Ramchal known as "Adir BaMarom" or "Adir BiMromim." It's well-known that the Vilna Gaon thought highly of Ramchal.
"Tzimtzum" deals with the philosophical quandary that God is infinite, but He interacts with the physical world, which is finite. One side of the coin is that God "makes room" for anything else to exist, or else it wouldn't. The other side of the coin is that He allows some manifestation of Himself in the world as we know it. The question becomes, how real is that manifestation? Tanya believes in "tzimtzum gamur", absolute manifestation. Ramchal and the Vilna Gaon reject that.
If I recall correctly, Ramchal would say something to the effect of "every soul is Godly", but Tanya says "every soul is a piece of God" -- the danger here is the next step becoming "but some are more God than others." In light of the mess of Shabtai Zvi's messianic claims that were still in recent memory, the Vilna Gaon found this too dangerous.
There is a letter by the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l (original Hebrew text available online at chabadlibrary.org; an English translation is at chabad.org) in which he discusses this. (He also provides a list of places in Chabad Chassidic writings that talk about tzimtzum.) To summarize:
The two key variables here are:
(a) whether tzimtzum means "contraction" (i.e., something was there before and is not there now), or "concealment" (i.e., it's still there now as it was before).
(b) Whether tzimtzum affects G-d's own Self, or only the Divine energy ("light") that emanates from Him.
These two variables, then, yield four basic possible ways of understanding tzimtzum: as (1) the absence of G-d Himself from a certain space, or (2) of His light, or (3) the concealment of G-d's presence in a certain space, or (4) of His light.
The Vilna Gaon's view is that the approach #1 is the correct one: there are places in our physical world in which G-d is simply not present. The Baal Hatanya's view is the diametric opposite, #4: there is no place void of G-d's presence or of His light, but there are indeed places where it's not evident.
The Rebbe also notes that Nefesh HaChayim (by R' Chaim of Volozhin, one of the Vilna Gaon's star disciples) takes a middle ground, position #3.
The argument went much earlier.
There were students of the Arizal who held that Tzimtzum is literal.
For example, Yosher Levav (the author of the Mishnas Chassidim) wrote that it is based on both logic (that it is disgraceful for Hashem to be found in a dirty place) and because it is also what the Arizal taught him.
The Alter Rebbe (Baal Hatanya) disproves in Tanya (In Shaar Hayichud Vehaemuna) and says "It is possible to understand the error of certain scholars in their own eyes (May G‑d forgive them!)" which shows that they made a grave mistake in understanding Hashem's unity and are in need of atonement.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe said a Sicha in Nasso 5743 where he said that there were two legitimate ways of understanding tzimtzum (and says that the simple way to learn tzimtzum is like the Mishnas Chassidim!). Yet, once the law was decided (by both the Alter Rebbe and R' Chaim of Volozhin) that tzimtzum in not literal, nobody has the authority to argue on that decision.
This Mahlokes ultimately seems to stem from an earlier Mahlokes between Rabeinu Yosef Gikatelia (Shaarei Orah) and the Rashash (the Kabbalist). The SO holds that Keser of Atzilus (Keser Elyon) is the Ein Sof Himself and the Rashash holds that Keser of Atzilus is the Ohr of the Ein Sof.
If the K.E. is the Ohr E.S. then He Maintains His presence, but is Mitzamtzeim His Ohr. Those who say it is the E.S. Himself hold that He does withdraw Himself.
If you have no clue what I am referring to then this answer and the question that was asked is not for you.


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touring new england
I've been driving about New England (a lot) lately, visiting yarn shops and talking about my Berroco booklet – norah gaughan vol.1. A trunk of sweaters travels with me – sweaters in a variety of sizes!!! Almost everyone can find something that fits, or fits well enough to determine which size actually would be best and how the style looks on them. This has been a blast for all.
The women of Saybrook Yarns pose (with me) swathed in pieces from my travelling trunk. Sitting: Norah in annikki, Selma in chantal Standing: Jeannine in astrid and aune, Cindy in Joplin (from Berroco #266, Jasper), Glenda in kaino, Amanda in aamu, Georgia anais, Susan in kukka.
Ok, I know my use of caps is screwy and inconsistant here. I like the look of all lower case and named the pieces in my booklet accordingly, but the Berroco tradition is to use proper English (go figure ) – thus the mix.
this is so lovely to see everyone here in your designs. i love seeing the pieces on – oh gosh i was going to write real people. like models aren't real people, sorry models. but you know what i mean.
i'm so happy you're keeping this blog and i look forward to reading more.October 14, 2007
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Are you coming to NYC? Please do!!
no blog, but ravelryNovember 14, 2007
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I loved your first book and made kaari using Jasper. For once I didn't have any problem deciding on which size to make. Giving the model's sizes are very helpful and I wish Berocco would do the same for all their designs.January 4, 2008
I am soooo happy to see the kukka on a real person. I work at a yarn shoppe in Whitefish, MT and once I saw your pattern book I knew we had to order it. I fell in love with that piece and have been wanting to knit it since day one. I was worried though that it might not look as good on me; as I'm a bigger girl, but now I know I MUST knit it. I think the Ultra Alpaca Dark Chocolate or Pea Soup Mix are screaming for my attention. Thanks for the pictures it made my choice so much easier!January 5, 2008
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Where did you get the names for you projects in volumn 1?January 7, 2008
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HI, girls.
I´m francin, I´live Chile, Concepcion city.i like very much knit, sorry by me writt,but always i´m see by me computer , and for know of yours works.I hope answer , and again sorry for my Inglish, Ok, by i like very much this work.
Thank for yuors time. bye, bye.
P.D: I hope Questions. ok.January 8, 2008


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My order was for the bifocal readers but since stuff does happen I got a solid pair instead. I was happy with the quality and just sent an email to say that there had been a mix up but I was going to keep the set I received. Within a few minutes I got an email acknowledging the problem and within a couple of days they sent a new pair FREE and I really link them as well. I have been routing all my friends(that are aging) to this website and plan to include a link to it from one of my own sites highlighting great customer service.
Bought two pair -- the frames look very nice, although they aren't very rugged. Fortunately the hard case protects them well. I bought the + 3.00 because I wanted strong magnification and these perform quite well.
Cost was more than I expected, but was glad to find the strength I needed with bifocal. Size of bifocal was smaller than my previous pair from Deb's, but this was a different style. The frames seem very flimsy, but time will tell if they stand up to much wear.
The frames are exceptional and the quality overall is quite excellent. The only way to improve is that the bifocal lens is a little higher than optimal and the nice case is just a little too small for the frames - but since I didn't expect a case - they are GREAT.
Very nice Bi-F, and very fast service, would buy again, when needed. debspecs.com very easy to work with.


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Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] openib unloaded before last mem dereg
From: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) (jsquyres_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-01-29 08:40:17
Thanks Josh.
Steve -- if you can confirm that this fixes your problem in the v1.6 series, we'll go ahead and commit the patch.
FWIW: the OpenFabrics startup code got a little cleanup/revamp on the trunk/v1.7 -- I suspect that's why you're not seeing the problem on trunk/v1.7 (e.g., look at the utility routines that were abstracted out to ompi/mca/common/verbs).
On Jan 29, 2013, at 2:41 AM, Joshua Ladd <joshual_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> So, we (Mellanox) have observed this ourselves when no suitable CPC can be found. Seems the BTL associated with this port is not destroyed and the ref count is not decreased. Not sure why you don't see the problem in 1.7. But we have a patch that I'll CMR today. Please review our symptoms, diagnosis, and proposed change. Ralph, maybe I can list you as a reviewer of the patch? I've reviewed myself and it looks fine, but wouldn't mind having another set of eyes on it since I don't want to be responsible for breaking the OpenIB BTL.
> Thanks,
> Josh Ladd
> Reported by Yossi:
> Hi,
> There is a bug in open mpi (openib component) when one of the active ports is Ethernet.
> The fix is attached, probably needs to be reviewed and submitted to ompi
> Error flow:
> 1. Openib component creates a btl instance for every active port (including Ethernet)
> 2. Every btl holds a reference count to the device (mca_btl_openib_device_t::btls)
> 3. Openib tries to create a "connection module" for every btl
> 4. It fails to create connection module for the Ethernet port
> 5. The btl for Ethernet port is not returned by openib component, in the list of btl modules
> 6. The btl for Ethernet port is not destroyed during openib component finalize
> 7. The device is not destroyed, because of the reference count
> 8. The memory pool created by the device is not destroyed
> 9. Later, rdma mpool module cleans up remaining pools during its finalize
> 10. The memory pool created by openib is destroyed by rdma mpool component finalize
> 11. The memory pool points to a function (openib_dereg_mr) which is already unloaded from memory (because mca_btl_openib.so was unloaded)
> 12. Segfault because of a call to invalid function
> The fix: If a btl module is not going to be returned from openib component init, destroy it.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:devel-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Ralph Castain
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 8:35 PM
> To: Steve Wise
> Cc: Open MPI Developers
> Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] openib unloaded before last mem dereg
> Out of curiosity, could you tell us how you configured OMPI?
> On Jan 28, 2013, at 12:46 PM, Steve Wise <swise_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> On 1/28/2013 2:04 PM, Ralph Castain wrote:
>>> On Jan 28, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Steve Wise <swise_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>> Do you know if the rdmacm CPC is really being used for your connection setup (vs other CPCs supported by IB)? Cuz iwarp only supports rdmacm. Maybe that's the difference?
>>> Dunno for certain, but I expect it is using the OOB cm since I didn't direct it to do anything different. Like I said, I suspect the problem is that the cluster doesn't have iWARP on it.
>> Definitely, or it could be the different CPC used for IWvs IB is tickling the issue.
>>>> Steve.
>>>> On 1/28/2013 1:47 PM, Ralph Castain wrote:
>>>>> Nope - still works just fine. I didn't receive that warning at all, and it ran to completion without problem.
>>>>> I suspect the problem is that the system I can use just isn't
>>>>> configured like yours, and so I can't trigger the problem. Afraid I
>>>>> can't be of help after all... :-(
>>>>> On Jan 28, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Steve Wise <swise_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>>>> On 1/28/2013 12:48 PM, Ralph Castain wrote:
>>>>>>> Hmmm...afraid I cannot replicate this using the current state of the 1.6 branch (which is the 1.6.4rcN) on the only IB-based cluster I can access.
>>>>>>> Can you try it with a 1.6.4 tarball and see if you still see the problem? Could be someone already fixed it.
>>>>>> I still hit it on 1.6.4rc2.
>>>>>> Note iWARP != IB so you may not have this issue on IB systems for various reasons. Did you use the same mpirun line? Namely using this:
>>>>>> --mca btl_openib_ipaddr_include "192.168.170.0/24"
>>>>>> (adjusted to your network config).
>>>>>> Because if I don't use ipaddr_include, then I don't see this issue on my setup.
>>>>>> Also, did you see these logged:
>>>>>> Right after starting the job:
>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>> -------- No OpenFabrics connection schemes reported that they were
>>>>>> able to be used on a specific port. As such, the openib BTL
>>>>>> (OpenFabrics
>>>>>> support) will be disabled for this port.
>>>>>> Local host: hpc-hn1.ogc.int
>>>>>> Local device: cxgb4_0
>>>>>> Local port: 2
>>>>>> CPCs attempted: oob, xoob, rdmacm
>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>> --------
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> At the end of the job:
>>>>>> [hpc-hn1.ogc.int:07850] 5 more processes have sent help message
>>>>>> help-mpi-btl-openib-cpc-base.txt / no cpcs for port
>>>>>> I think these are benign, but prolly indicate a bug: the mpirun is restricting the job to use port 1 only, so the CPCs shouldn't be attempting port 2...
>>>>>> Steve.
>>>>>>> On Jan 28, 2013, at 10:03 AM, Steve Wise <swise_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 1/28/2013 11:48 AM, Ralph Castain wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Jan 28, 2013, at 9:12 AM, Steve Wise <swise_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 1/25/2013 12:19 PM, Steve Wise wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>>>> I'm tracking an issue I see in openmpi-1.6.3. Running this command on my chelsio iwarp/rdma setup causes a seg fault every time:
>>>>>>>>>>> /usr/mpi/gcc/openmpi-1.6.3-dbg/bin/mpirun --np 2 --host
>>>>>>>>>>> hpc-hn1,hpc-cn2 --mca btl openib,sm,self --mca
>>>>>>>>>>> btl_openib_ipaddr_include "192.168.170.0/24"
>>>>>>>>>>> /usr/mpi/gcc/openmpi-1.6.3/tests/IMB-3.2/IMB-MPI1 pingpong
>>>>>>>>>>> The segfault is during finalization, and I've debugged this to the point were I see a call to dereg_mem() after the openib blt is unloaded via dlclose(). dereg_mem() dereferences a function pointer to call the btl-specific dereg function, in this case it is openib_dereg_mr(). However, since that btl has already been unloaded, the deref causes a seg fault. Happens every time with the above mpi job.
>>>>>>>>>>> Now, I tried this same experiment with openmpi-1.7rc6 and I don't see the seg fault, and I don't see a call to dereg_mem() after the openib btl is unloaded. That's all well good. :) But I'd like to get this fix pushed into 1.6 since that is the current stable release.
>>>>>>>>>>> Question: Can someone point me to the fix in 1.7?
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>> Steve.
>>>>>>>>>> It appears that in ompi_mpi_finalize(), mca_pml_base_close() is called which unloads the openib btl. Then further down in ompi_mpi_finalize(), mca_mpool_base_close() is called which ends up calling dereg_mem() which seg faults trying to call into the unloaded openib btl.
>>>>>>>>> That definitely sounds like a bug
>>>>>>>>>> Anybody have thoughts? Anybody care? :)
>>>>>>>>> I care! It needs to be fixed - I'll take a look. Probably something that forgot to be cmr'd.
>>>>>>>> Great! If you want me to try out a fix or gather more debug, just hollar.
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> Steve.
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Like the MAV and T-UGS, the SOFLAM works either as a manned or unmanned device.
If you place it on a high area with an overlook (ideally), it will automatically scan for and lock on to enemy vehicles in its field of vision. No human intervention required.
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5 Ridiculous Cold War Myths You Learned in History Class
#2. Kennedy Was the Peaceful Cold War President
When JFK's name is dragged through the mud these days, it's usually for all the places he put his dick that weren't on his wife's body. When it comes to his on-the-job record, he's usually held up as the ideological antidote to the warlike maniacs who followed him. He defused the Cuban Missile Crisis, focused technological resources on a race to the moon instead of nuclear annihilation and created peaceful-sounding initiatives like the Peace Corps.
His followers have even suggested that, had he not been assassinated, America never would have gotten into the Vietnam War. Oliver Stone's JFK suggested that Lyndon Johnson signed the document NSAM 273 just days after Kennedy's assassination, and according to Donald Sutherland, "In that document [DRAMATIC PAUSE] lay the Vietnam War."
Soon after this photo, Johnson jumped away from the document, which exploded.
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara has gone on record saying that Kennedy would not have escalated the Vietnam War the way Johnson did. Sounds like a pretty solid case that 'Nam as we know it would have never happened had Kennedy not been assassinated, right? Think about what that would mean for so many young men, and your favorite movie characters ...
Millions died to make The West Wing possible.
Why It's Bullshit:
"JFK presidential assassination conspiracy" had a whole new meaning back when he was still in office. Kennedy and his administration loved devising and launching shady plots to assassinate the presidents of other countries. The Cuban Project -- the CIA's many attempts to kill Castro in the most Wile. E. Coyote manner possible -- was launched by Kennedy. Of course, the Kennedy administration only resorted to outright murder after their secret invasion of Cuba failed miserably. So while he deserves a lot of credit for keeping Americans alive through the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fact that Kennedy was openly and regularly trying to straight up murder their president probably helped cause the problem in the first place.
Later, Castro shaved off his beard and changed his name to Liam Neeson.
As for Vietnam, on September 2, 1963, John F. Kennedy told Walter Cronkite:
These people who say we ought to withdraw from Vietnam are wholly wrong, because if we withdrew from Vietnam, the communists would control Vietnam, pretty soon ... all of Southeast Asia would be under control of the communists and ... then India, Burma would be the next target.
"It's like Risk, which is why I've diverted the entire Marine Corps to the Kamchatka peninsula."
Politicians would spend the next decade reciting that exact justification for the war. Kennedy wasn't just pro-Vietnam War -- his administration basically wrote the pro-Vietnam War playbook.
Behind the scenes, he was already using tactics in Vietnam just as shady as Nixon's most questionable supervillainy. For instance, Kennedy authorized the overthrow and eventual assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. The evil document Oliver Stone waived in our faces in JFK was the second step in that shady CIA conspiracy, and it was all masterminded by the Kennedy administration.
"With all due respect, Mr. President, enough with the assassination conspiracies."
It's not that Kennedy was a villain or anything. Like any other president, he had to make some difficult decisions. But the widely held belief that he was less of a kill-happy warmonger than any of the presidents who followed him just doesn't hold up.
#1. It Was All About Communists vs. Capitalists
The Cold War is easy enough to explain: communism vs. capitalism. The USSR, China and their communist allies were united as one glorious super-pact prepared for communist war with the capitalist West. Like a U.S. election, you had the red and blue districts competing for dominance. Everything else was beside the point. This belief was so pervasive in the media that they invented the phrase "third-world country" to refer to any country that wasn't firmly in either the commie or capitalism camp.
This was the belief that underlined all U.S. foreign policy -- as demonstrated by Kennedy's domino theory. While we might not believe that theory to be true anymore, as far as our history books are concerned, this is how Soviet and American leaders viewed the world ...
Anything red was fair game.
Why It's Bullshit:
That might have been how America viewed the world. Like with the missile gap, they had to make their enemy look like a big, strong, unified force to justify all that bomb-building. From the "second world" perspective, things were far less clear-cut.
For instance, sharing a 3,000-mile border did not make the Chinese and the Soviets all that friendly with each other, especially after that whole Genghis Khan thing. Throughout nearly the entire Cold War, the Soviets and the Chinese were actually engaged in a second Cold War with each other.
Wait, this is Genghis Khan? The guy who carried out the Mongol invasions looks like an overdone pastry.
While things started off pretty well between Stalin and Mao as far as odd couples go, things soured following the Sino-Soviet split of the late 1950s, which went so bad that it wasn't uncommon to see the Chinese burn Stalin in effigy. The situation eventually escalated into a seven-month-long Sino-Soviet border conflict, which doesn't get brought up in Western history books since it sort of screws with history teachers' ability to use Star Wars as a teaching tool.
"And then the two of them found out they were brother and sister and everyone felt horribly uncomfortable."
Even more confusing to the version of history learned in Western classrooms, the decade after the Vietnam War we're all familiar with brought the Sino-Vietnamese War, which cost tens of thousands of lives on both sides over the course of just 28 days.
America never had to openly fight their capitalist allies in Europe, but the allies were mostly motivated by trying to keep the U.S. and USSR from going crazy and shooting hydrogen bombs at each other. This is part of the reason why the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament started in the U.K. and not the United States. English philosopher Bertrand Russell suggested that Europeans should all convert to communism at once if it ever looked like World War III was imminent.
That seems like a reasonable idea, badass pipe guy.
So basically, the Cold War boils down to a bunch of military and industrial people pulling off one of the most profitable cons ever, and the rest of the world being terrified of the deadly results for 40 years.
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I trying to study the Coding Lemma (in descriptive Set Theory) and there is a small point in the proof that I don't understand. Let me first recall the version I'm studying ( there are different version of the Moschovakis Coding lemma).
Assume AD. Let $\Gamma$ be a non-self-dual pointclass closed under real quantification and conjunction. Suppose that $\prec$ is a $\Gamma$ wellfounded relation on $\omega^{\omega}$. Then for any $R\subseteq dom(\prec)\times \omega^{\omega}$ such that $\forall x \in dom(\prec) \exists y R(x,y)$, there is an $A\subseteq dom(\prec)\times \omega^{\omega}$, $A\in \Gamma$, which is a choice set for $R$. That is,
$\forall \alpha < |\prec| \exists x \in dom(<) \exists y [|x|_{\prec}=\alpha \wedge A(x,y)]$
$\forall x, y[A(x,y) \rightarrow R(x,y)]$.
Now here's what I don't get. The proof starts as follows: Since $\Gamma$ is non-self-dual, let $U \subseteq (\omega^{\omega})^3$ be a universal set in $\Gamma$ for the $\Gamma$ subsets of $\omega^{\omega} \times \omega^{\omega}$. Let $\delta$ be the least length of $\prec$ such that the theorem fails. Then $\delta$ is a limit ordinal.
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You hunky smile magnet
Benedict Jones and colleagues at Aberdeen University's Face Research Laboratory first asked 28 women and 28 men to rate the attractiveness of several pairs of male faces. Next they were shown the same pairs again, except this time one face in each pair was shown with a woman's face staring at it from the side, either with a smiling or neutral expression. When the participants then rated the male faces for a second time, their ratings had changed for those male faces that had been stared at by a woman.
Female participants rated a male face as more attractive after it had been stared at by a smiling woman, but less attractive if a woman with a neutral expression had stared at it. By contrast, the male participants showed the opposite pattern, tending to rate a male face as less attractive after they'd seen a smiling woman looking at it.
The researchers said this shows our preference for a man's face is affected by social cues we pick up from how other people look at him. Apparently a similar phenomenon occurs in the animal kingdom – for example female zebra finches prefer a male who they've previously seen paired with another female.
Jones, B.C., DeBruine, L.M., Little, A.C., Burriss, R.P. & Feinburg, D.R. (2007). Social transmission of face preferences among humans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, published online (open access).
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- Anonymous10:07 pm
This research is skewed.ReplyDelete
I'd like to see the results of the same exact study, but with a male smiling at the guys.
I tend to think that it's not a sex related thing, more of:
If human A smiles at human B, human B must be likeable for some reason, because human A smiled at them, which makes human C (the observer) like them also [albeit subconsciously].
- meeeeeeeee12:13 am
I think this is a bunch of crap because no one has ever found the men attractive that I pick for a mate...ReplyDelete
they don't even give 'em a second glance...and sure as hell don't smile at them.
So am I sub-conciously picking ugly ass men because I'm a jealous bitch who doesn't want anyone drooling over her man, thus presenting themselves as competition?
Or is it I want an un-friendly man who no one likes because I was abused as a child?
Such crap.
And for the record, I am quite attractive...was voted Miss Sr in high school and won the beauty contest at my little community college. I get hit on everytime I go out and am stared at by men on a regular basis. And I hate to brag, but I could probably have any man I wanted. (which I have now)
And also for the record, it's not so much a "what's on the inside" ideal...it's more of a "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" type thing. It just so happens that the men I find attractive, my girlfriends and their girlfriends find not so attractive-repulsive, lmao.
- Anonymous12:49 am
meeeeeeee... I'm sure your real hot and all that, though I question how you really view yourself having seen you anonymously detail your good looks on an internet comment sheet. I'm also sure your community college education grants you the mighty intellect you need to randomly discredit scientific research. On second thought, your low self esteem might explain why you are attracted to trashy guys.ReplyDelete
it's called the power of suggestion. It works for both men and women. You find ppl more attractive when others appear to like them, but only when its relatively small amount of people , larger audiences can sometimes be a turn off.ReplyDelete
I'll give you an example, your friend sees someone and thinks their attractive, you don't necessarily think that person is attractive. Another friend comments on how that person is attractive, and suddenly that person may begin to seem a little more attractive. IT's very interesting stuff, and I have a friend who's actually doing a thesis on this and the results are nicely shaping and quite interesting.
It's more than just the power of "suggestion", which I agree goes a long way. But this has to do with what is called, pre-selection. I've even seen it called the "boyband principle".ReplyDelete
Females are attracted to males who are perceived to be chosen, by other females. This spans most creatures on the planet.
This is nothing new.
- DeX's WiZdUm10:17 am
You should be happy because, now there's a study to prove your "commonsense" knowledge. Not everyone has your "commonsense" Making it interesting to those who didn't know about it.ReplyDelete
Once you know about it you can use it to meet women easier. I'm thinking of calling my ex up right now! Or maybe it's cheaper to pay to have a harem of smiling women around me at all times.
Having them around will raise my social value. Be it a bar or soup kitchen. So long lotion!
Did the users rate both the pictures with just the guy and those with the woman looking at the guy? If they saw both, I could imagine them figuring out the experiment and biasing the result. What you'd want it just a random set of pictures, one or two people, to counteract that.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12:07 am
If you want to pull, get a friend who is a girl (rather than a girl friend) to flirt with you.ReplyDelete
Girls will come like bees to honey regardless of what you look like. In fact the worse you look the more alluring you are.
"what the hell has he got? I don't know but I want some"
I'm not trying to say girls are predicatble, tedious and easily duped but... oh, no... hold on I am.
Only joking! You're all lovely ;-)
The cited paper doesn't test the smiling condition. It only mentions it in the first paragraph.ReplyDelete
Maybe the reference is wrong?


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Is there a way to add a guest login account on welcome screen of Linux Mint 13 MATE-32bits, similar to the one present in Ubuntu 12.04?
In latest ubuntu which ships lightdm, that supports a guest account,
So install lightdm and replace gdm should work for you, which would do the exactly same thing in Ubuntu 12.04:
I don't think the simple ability to enable a guest account is natively available in Mint 13. The login manager in 13 uses MDM, which is based on Gnome 2's GDM. In Mint 12, you could just add a couple of lines to a .conf file and you'd be set... but there is a way to do it on Mint 13.
The first step is simple - create a new user (called Guest, if you like).
Next, we need to lock down your home folder so only you can access your files. To do so, open a terminal (while logged in as your main account) and type:
This will change the permissions on your home folder so that only you and root can view it.
You're all done! You now have a second user account that anyone can use, that cannot access your personal home folder.


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HOUSTON (April 13, 2013) – Rookie Jared Gomes tallied a shorthanded goal in the second period, but the San Antonio Rampage (29-35-2-6) fell to the Houston Aeros (38-25-5-5), 4-1, on Saturday night at Toyota Center in the team's final road game of the year.
The Rampage and Aeros were tied 1-1 midway through the second period, but Houston tallied three goals within a span of 1:21 to break the game open. San Antonio is now 4-6-1-0 against the Aeros this season with one more game to be played between the I-10 rivals on April 20 at AT&T Center.
Rampage netminder Brian Foster stopped 24-of-27 shots in only his fourth start for the Rampage this season before Dov Grumet-Morris entered the game in his relief in the second period. Grumet-Morris turned aside 14-of-15 shots to finish the game.
Houston struck first while on the power play at 15:20 of the first period. Justin Fontaine received a sneaky pass from Erik Haula at the bottom of the left circle and beat Foster high. The goal marked the fifth-straight game where the Rampage have surrendered the first goal of the game.
It didn't take long in the second period for the Rampage to tie the game at 1-1. Gomes tallied the club's ninth shorthanded goal of the season just 12 seconds into the middle frame. The goal was Gomes' 12th of the season and the rookie has now tallied 29 points on the year – good for second on the Rampage active roster.
However, the Aeros rattled off three-straight goals within a span of 1:21 in the middle frame to take control of the game. Chad Rau got things started at 9:36 when he fired a shot from the left boards that Foster was unable to control. The rebound went right to Dan DaSilva, who fired a quick shot past Foster before the Rampage netminder was able to recover.
Rau cashed in for the Aeros only 36 seconds later after finding a rebound in the slot and firing it into the net. The goal marked Houston's second power-play tally of the night and also resulted in a Rampage goalie change, as Grumet-Morris entered the contest in relief of Foster.
Fontaine scored his second goal of the game at 10:57 to open up a 4-1 lead for the Aeros. Houston outshot San Antonio, 24-10, in the second period, marking the most shots the Rampage have surrendered in a single period this season.
San Antonio outshot Houston, 7-5, in the third period, but neither team was able to light the lamp and the Aeros claimed the 4-1 victory.
Houston went 2-for-6 on the power play to improve to 14-for-64 in the 11 games against the Rampage this season, while San Antonio was 0-for-3 with the man advantage and now is 6-for-45 in the season series.
The Rampage finished the season with a 13-21-2-2 record away from AT&T Center and were 1-4-1-0 in six games at Toyota Center this season.
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When it comes to food in the saddle, most of us tend to stick with what we know. Early on, we find something we can get down (and hold down) and we stick with with because there's nothing worse than food you can't eat.
Bonk Breaker Energy Bars claim to be "The World's Best Energy Bars" right on the package; I was a little skeptical. As soon as I opened the first package I started to believe. The bars smelled fresh and, while a little dense (like all energy bars I've ever tasted) Bonk Breakers looked and felt moist. By the time I finished my first bite (Peanut Butter & Jelly) I was pretty sure I'd found my energy bar of choice. Sam was riding next to me as he munched on his sample of the Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip, "I'd eat this just as a snack."
In the mouth Bonk Breakers feel more like a sandwich than a traditional energy bar. The bar itself is dense but it feels much lighter as you eat it-likely because, as I was informed by the owner of the company, all Bonk Breakers are shipped within a week of baking. The samples I was sent included the four flavors currently available: Peanut Butter & Jelly, Peanut Butter & Banana, Almond Butter & Honey and Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip. Each flavor tasted how I imagined it would with the Peanut Butter, as a rule, being the strongest flavor. The bars seemed fresh, something difficult to achieve when a product is foil wrapped. Bonk Breakers are made with things that sound like real food:
Organic rolled oats, B-Breaker (Brown rice syrup, Natural crunchy peanut butter [peanuts, salt] Honey), Brown rice flour, Blackberry Jam…
And, as a result Bonk Breakers taste like real food.
I'm not prepared to make any claims about an additional energy boost during my rides or feeling stronger than when I eat a Cliff Bar. Instead, I'll just say that when I felt a bit hungry during a ride, I'd eat a Bonk Breaker and feel better. I never had to force one down or make that face I usually make when eating an energy bar. I recommended tossing one in your jersey pocket.


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(November 14, 2012)--The Brazos River Authority wants customers who get their water from Georgetown and Whitney lakes to know that a Stage 1 Drought Watch has been declared.
The drought watch specifically affects Possum Kingdom, Granbury, Whitney, Proctor and Georgetown lakes.
The proclamation is a result of prolonged dry weather conditions in the upper portion of the Brazos basin and is a response to new drought trigger levels established by the BRA's updated Drought Contingency Plan approved by the board of directors October 29, a spokesperson said.
Lake Georgetown reached its drought watch trigger following 30 days of pumping water from Stillhouse Hollow Lake to help maintain water supply.
Lake Whitney has been below the new Stage 1 Drought Watch trigger storage capacity of 561,290 acre-feet since early September.
The BRA requests that customers who use water from these reservoirs activate their individual Drought Contingency Plan, increase public education efforts on ways to reduce water usage and notify others of the situation.
The BRA will notify its customers should Stage 2 triggering conditions be met.
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I have created a custome list with a multiple line of text type column. When user enter value in this field in "add new item" form, I dont want user to enter more than 1000 chars. I am not able to find "Maximum number of characters allowed" control for it like single line of text type column. Please help. Thanks in advance.
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You can customize the list forms in infopath and add a validation expression for that field to validate the length. Use expression
One way of doing this is to check on Itemadding and itemupdating with a custom piece of code in an event reciever and put a description on the field saying please do not exceed 1000 characters
This would flag an error when they go to submit the item. Hope this helps
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I haven't got time to check but if you have access to the server get SharePointManager on there find your field and see if there are any properties against that field that allow you to restrict it's length. I can't see that there will be but stranger things have happend!
In case you do not want to add any custom code or modify the page using infopath, you can always use jQuery to get the field instance. Get the data entered by user and alert message for the validations required .... Let know if you need the script.


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Which is best? Many Tablet deals.
So far today, I have posted 3 Android Tablet deals. All refurbished and good prices. I think this is a solid proof that the prices are continuing to go down.
Pick the best.
Transformer 229.99
Thrive 219.99
Xoom 229.99
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I have the Thrive and it's a nice tablet; even better now since it was just upgraded (via Toshiba's site) to Ice Cream Sandwich (ver. 4.04). Works even faster after the upgrade!
I also cannot believe the prices on electronic readers, which keep going down and doing more as well. It's amazing!
If I am forced to choose between the 3 options I would choose the Transformer. If I was buying one I would wait until November or so. I bet there will be some awesome deals available.
begain to know these three
I have yet to be disappointed by my Xoom. Was updated to ICS early in the year and is now at Jelly Bean. For the price, it's far far better than anything Steve Jobs has "created"!
I'd probably go with the google nexus tablet which is still cheaper than all three of those, unless you are really set on a 10 inch tablet.
@portezbie: That is a bit misleading. I ordered the Nexus7 and the total with tax and shipping was more that this for the 16GB version. (285.00). I love the tablet, but it is not a fair comparison to these. All have at least 16GB standard, expandable storage, HDMI out, etc. There is actually A LOT more than just screen size to consider.


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The Fox host's insistence that black laborers building the White House were "well-fed and had decent lodgings" fits in a long history of insisting the "peculiar institution" wasn't so bad.
In her widely lauded speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday, Michelle Obama reflected on the remarkable fact of her African American family living in the executive mansion. "I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves. And I watch my daughters, two beautiful, intelligent, black young women, playing with their dogs on the White House lawn," she said.
On Tuesday, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly discussed the moment in his Tip of the Day. In a moment first noticed by the liberal press-tracking group Media Matters, O'Reilly said this:
As we mentioned, Talking Points Memo, Michelle Obama referenced slaves building the White House in referring to the evolution of America in a positive way. It was a positive comment. The history behind her remark is fascinating. George Washington selected the site in 1791, and as president laid the cornerstone in 1792. Washington was then running the country out of Philadelphia.
Slaves did participate in the construction of the White House. Records show about 400 payments made to slave masters between 1795 and 1801. In addition, free blacks, whites, and immigrants also worked on the massive building. There were no illegal immigrants at that time. If you could make it here, you could stay here.
In 1800, President John Adams took up residence in what was then called the Executive Mansion. It was only later on they named it the White House. But Adams was in there with Abigail, and they were still hammering nails, the construction was still going on.
Slaves that worked there were well-fed and had decent lodgings provided by the government, which stopped hiring slave labor in 1802. However, the feds did not forbid subcontractors from using slave labor. So, Michelle Obama is essentially correct in citing slaves as builders of the White House, but there were others working as well. Got it all? There will be a quiz.
The billionaire former New York mayor denounced the Republican nominee as a "dangerous demagogue" and a "risky, reckless, and radical choice."
Michael Bloomberg, a brand-name billionaire far wealthier than Donald Trump, a famously independent voter who derides both the Democratic and Republican parties, endorsed Hillary Clinton on Wednesday and called Trump a "risky, radical and reckless choice" for president.
"Let's elect a sane, competent person," he said.
The normally soft-spoken owner of Bloomberg financial-news service excoriated his fellow New Yorker, labeling him a "dangerous demagogue," a hypocrite, a con, and—slashing at the core of Trump's self-worth—a horrible businessman.
"Throughout his career," Bloomberg said in his prime-time address. "Trump has left behind a well-documented record of bankruptcies and thousands of lawsuits and angry shareholders and contractors who feel cheated and disillusioned customers who feel ripped off. Trump says he wants to run the nation like he's run his business. God help us!"
The Republican presidential nominee appeared to suggest he'd recognize Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian territory in 2014.
Donald Trump's call on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's emails Wednesday resulted in widespread criticism. But his comments on Crimea, coupled with ones he made last week on NATO, are likely to have greater significance if he is elected president in November.
The question came from Mareike Aden, a German reporter, who asked him whether a President Trump would recognize Crimea as Russian and lift sanctions on Moscow imposed after its 2014 annexation of the Ukrainian territory. The candidate's reply: "Yes. We would be looking at that."
That response is likely to spread much cheer through Russia—already buoyant about the prospect of a Trump victory in November. But it could spread at least an equal amount of dread in the former Soviet republics. In a matter of two weeks, the man who could become the next American president has not only questioned the utility of NATO, thereby repudiating the post-World War II security consensus, he also has seemingly removed whatever fig leaf of protection from Russia the U.S. offered the post-Soviet republics and Moscow's former allies in the Eastern bloc.
His first Q&A on the site seemed free-wheeling and open to all, but it was actually obsessively controlled.
Cruising the skies above Ohio (and perhaps looking to take more attention away from the Democratic National Convention), Donald Trump tried a new publicity tactic Wednesday night. Instead of his typical podium-and-flag setup, he opened his MacBook and invited users of Reddit to ask him anything.
AMAs—that's the popular abbreviation—are a staple of the free-wheeling forum site, which has hosted hundreds of celebrities and slightly less famous people who are willing put out a shingle and take questions from strangers on the internet. Reddit—part old-school forum, part meme-machine, part possible-future-of-human-society—prides itself on its community, which moderates itself and (in theory) highlights the best the internet has to offer. Barack Obama hosted his own AMA back in 2012; so have Bill Gates, Patrick Stewart, and a guy who fought off a bear.
A former NATO general imagines a frightening scenario.
In 2014, shortly after Russia forcefully intervened in Ukraine and admitted Crimea into the Russian Federation, Richard Shirreff stepped down as NATO's deputy supreme allied commander Europe, one of the highest-ranking positions in the military alliance. The British general proceeded to do something highly unusual. He criticized the government he once served, arguing that Britain's cuts to defense spending were "one hell of a risk" at a time of renewed Russian aggression. Next, he wrote a startling account of what might follow from the failure of the United Kingdom and many of its NATO allies to, in his view, sufficiently invest in countering the Kremlin militarily. He describes the account as a "work of fiction," but also a "realistic" and "urgent" warning.
His call on a foreign government to hack Hillary Clinton's email account is a complete subversion of GOP ideals.
The first excuse for Donald Trump's amazing press conference on Wednesday, in which he called on the Russians to hack and publish the 30,000 emails wiped from Hillary Clinton's home server, was: He was only joking.
That excuse almost immediately dissolved. When Trump was asked by CNN's Jim Acosta whether he would call on Vladimir Putin to stay out of U.S. elections, the presidential nominee answered that he would not tell Putin what to do. After the conference ended, Trump tweeted out a slightly tidied up request to the Russians to find Clinton's emails—but to hand them over to the FBI rather than publish them.
The second excuse, produced on Twitter minutes later by Newt Gingrich, is that Trump's remark, while possibly unfortunate, mattered less than Clinton's careless handling of classified material on her server. That defense seems likely to have more staying power than the first—about which, more in a minute.
Twelve years after introducing himself to the American public as the son of an immigrant, the president recast himself as a bearer of Scotch-Irish values.
Twelve years ago, Barack Obama introduced himself to America as just a skinny kid with a funny name. He made his story into the American story—a tale of immigrant hopes, of opportunities, of success that could only come true in the United States. That speech launched him to the presidency.
In Philadelphia on Wednesday night, as he tried to anoint his successor and secure his legacy, he returned to his biography to close his appeal. But this time, he pulled out a different strand of the story. He spoke not just of his grandparents in Kansas, whose stories he has told many times before, but of their kin and communities, of their vision and values. They were, he said:
Scotch-Irish mostly, farmers, teachers, ranch hands, pharmacists, oil-rig workers. Hardy, small-town folk. Some were Democrats, but a lot of them, maybe even most of them, were Republicans—Party of Lincoln. My grandparents explained that the folks in these parts, they didn't like show-offs. They didn't admire braggarts or bullies. They didn't respect mean-spiritedness, or folks who were always looking for shortcuts in life. Instead, what they valued were traits like honesty and hard work. Kindness; courtesy; humility; responsibility; helping each other out. That's what they believed in. True things. Things that last. The things we try to teach our kids.
Since tough questioning has failed to hold the candidate accountable, broadcast outlets need to apply pressure where it counts—to Trump's ego.
The media is nothing if it can't hold a presidential candidates accountable—if newsrooms and editorialists can't force a White House aspirant to keep a promise, uphold precedent, and address suspicions that he's a tool of Moscow.
Journalism is a joke if we let Donald Trump slide.
And so I have an idea for CNN, MSNBC, FOX News and the three broadcast networks:
Stop interviewing Trump, and stop paying his surrogates, until he releases his tax records.
I don't make this proposal lightly. I understand as well as anybody that interviewing presidential candidates is an important way to inform the public, especially when the questioning is objective, tough, and revealing of the candidate's character and policies.
The president took the DNC stage on Wednesday, showing why he will be his one-time rival's best advocate this fall.
Barack Obama needed to bring Democrats together tonight at the DNC. Tim Kaine had a far more difficult task: Hillary Clinton's vice-presidential pick needed to prove he can be trusted, has the capacity to inspire, and can effectively take on Donald Trump.
In the end, Obama and Kaine both won raucous cheers and applause. At one point during the president's speech, someone in the crowd cried out: "Four more years!" Another screamed: "I love you!" And despite earlier threats of revolt from Bernie Sanders supporters, Kaine made it through his speech without major incident. He came across as dedicated to the cause, and ready to fight, hitting high notes along the way. In all, the evening showed a party that seemed far more willing to come together than it did when the convention began.
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SUNY Geneseo chemistry professor Eric Helms works with rising 7th grader Keion Francis from Rochester's School #43 in the college's chemistry lab, part of the Rochester Young Scholars Academy Science of Homeland Security course. (Photo courtesy Keith Walters, Rochester Business Journal)
GENESEO, N.Y. - Operation Peace is the theme of the Rochester Young Scholars Academy summer camp this year at SUNY Geneseo. The 53 young men and women in the program from Rochester City School District grades 7 - 9 are in residence on campus weekdays through July 30. They are learning about the value of a safe environment by engaging in activities promoting global citizenship, interpersonal and cross cultural conflict management, and peacemaking skills.
"Youth are the hope for any peaceful global future," says Susan Norman, camp director and director of the Xerox Center for Multicultural Teacher Education at SUNY Geneseo. "As the next generation of leaders, we are looking to our young scholars to provide creative and peaceful solutions to serious conflicts whether on the playground, in the neighborhood or between warring nations."
The students are participating in four courses at the camp: The Science of Homeland Security; Resource Allocation; Peaceful Communication; and Global Studies. In the courses, the students will refine interpersonal communication and conflict negotiation skills; work on teams to create real world solutions to catastrophic global conflicts; connect clues through library-based research and the scientific method in a chemistry lab; and improve public speaking skills.
This is the fourth year of the camp, which focuses on a different theme each year. Funding for this year's camp is being provided by the Xerox Corp., The Rochester City School District, the Rochester Area Community Foundation and SUNY Geneseo.
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Suppose you have a list of $n$ dimensional vectors. One can order them by using an $L_p$ norm to do comparisons between vectors. The general questions is, will the order be different depending on the choice of $p$?
I am mainly interested in $p=1,2$.
For example, suppose I have $x_1, x_2, x_3$ are $d$-dim vectors ($d>1$), and
$L_1(x_1) < L_1(x_2) < L_1(x_3) $, does this guarantee $L_2(x_1) < L_2(x_2) < L_2(x_3) $ also?