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I would personally suggest not reconfiguring your system simply to support a particular version of OMPI. The only difference between the 1.4 and 1.5 series wrt slurm is that we changed a few things to support a more recent version of slurm. It is relatively easy to backport that code to the 1.4 series, and it should be (mostly) backward compatible.OMPI is agnostic wrt resource managers. We try to support all platforms, with our effort reflective of the needs of our developers and their organizations, and our perception of the relative size of the user community for a particular platform. Slurm is a fairly small community, mostly centered in the three DOE weapons labs, so our support for that platform tends to focus on their usage.So, with that understanding...Sam: can you confirm that 1.5.1 works on your TLCC machines?
I have created a ticket to upgrade the 1.4.4 release (due out any time now) with the 1.5.1 slurm support. Any interested parties can follow it here:
_______________________________________________RalphOn Feb 8, 2011, at 6:23 PM, Michael Curtis wrote:
On 09/02/2011, at 9:16 AM, Ralph Castain wrote:See belowOn Feb 8, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Michael Curtis wrote:On 09/02/2011, at 2:17 AM, Samuel K. Gutierrez wrote:Hi Michael,You may have tried to send some debug information to the list, but it appears to have been blocked. Compressed text output of the backtrace text is sufficient.Odd, I thought I sent it to you directly. In any case, here is the backtrace and some information from gdb:$ salloc -n16 gdb -args mpirun mpi(gdb) runStarting program: /mnt/f1/michael/openmpi/bin/mpirun /mnt/f1/michael/home/ServerAdmin/mpi[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.0x00007ffff7b76869 in process_orted_launch_report (fd=-1, opal_event=1, data=0x681170) at base/plm_base_launch_support.c:342342 pdatorted[mev->sender.vpid]->state = ORTE_PROC_STATE_RUNNING;(gdb) bt#0 0x00007ffff7b76869 in process_orted_launch_report (fd=-1, opal_event=1, data=0x681170) at base/plm_base_launch_support.c:342#1 0x00007ffff78a7338 in event_process_active (base=0x615240) at event.c:651#2 0x00007ffff78a797e in opal_event_base_loop (base=0x615240, flags=1) at event.c:823#3 0x00007ffff78a756f in opal_event_loop (flags=1) at event.c:730#4 0x00007ffff789b916 in opal_progress () at runtime/opal_progress.c:189#5 0x00007ffff7b76e20 in orte_plm_base_daemon_callback (num_daemons=2) at base/plm_base_launch_support.c:459#6 0x00007ffff7b7bed7 in plm_slurm_launch_job (jdata=0x610560) at plm_slurm_module.c:360#7 0x0000000000403f46 in orterun (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe7d8) at orterun.c:754#8 0x0000000000402fb4 in main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe7d8) at main.c:13(gdb) print pdatorted$1 = (orte_proc_t **) 0x67c610(gdb) print mev$2 = (orte_message_event_t *) 0x681550(gdb) print mev->sender.vpid$3 = 4294967295(gdb) print mev->sender$4 = {jobid = 1721696256, vpid = 4294967295}(gdb) print *mev$5 = {super = {obj_magic_id = 16046253926196952813, obj_class = 0x7ffff7dd4f40, obj_reference_count = 1, cls_init_file_name = 0x7ffff7bb9a78 "base/plm_base_launch_support.c",cls_init_lineno = 423}, ev = 0x680850, sender = {jobid = 1721696256, vpid = 4294967295}, buffer = 0x6811b0, tag = 10, file = 0x680640 "rml_oob_component.c", line = 279}The jobid and vpid look like the defined INVALID values, indicating that something is quite wrong. This would quite likely lead to the segfault.From this, it would indeed appear that you are getting some kind of library confusion - the most likely cause of such an error is a daemon from a different version trying to respond, and so the returned message isn't correct.Not sure why else it would be happening...you could try setting -mca plm_base_verbose 5 to get more debug output displayed on your screen, assuming you built OMPI with --enable-debug.
Found the problem.... It is a site configuration issue, which I'll need to find a workaround for.
[bio-ipc.{FQDN}:27523] mca:base:select:( plm) Query of component [slurm] set priority to 75
[bio-ipc.{FQDN}:27523] mca:base:select:( plm) Selected component [slurm]
[bio-ipc.{FQDN}:27523] mca: base: close: component rsh closed
[bio-ipc.{FQDN}:27523] mca: base: close: unloading component rsh
[bio-ipc.{FQDN}:27523] plm:base:set_hnp_name: initial bias 27523 nodename hash 1936089714
[bio-ipc.{FQDN}:27523] plm:base:set_hnp_name: final jobfam 31383
[bio-ipc.{FQDN}:27523] [[31383,0],0] plm:base:receive start comm
[bio-ipc.{FQDN}:27523] [[31383,0],0] plm:slurm: launching job [31383,1]
[bio-ipc.{FQDN}:27523] [[31383,0],0] plm:base:setup_job for job [31383,1]
[bio-ipc.{FQDN}:27523] [[31383,0],0] plm:slurm: launching on nodes ipc3
[bio-ipc.{FQDN}:27523] [[31383,0],0] plm:slurm: final top-level argv:
srun --nodes=1 --ntasks=1 --kill-on-bad-exit --nodelist=ipc3 orted -mca ess slurm -mca orte_ess_jobid 2056716288 -mca orte_ess_vpid 1 -mca orte_ess_num_procs 2 --hnp-uri "2056716288.0;tcp://lanip:37493;tcp://globalip:37493;tcp://lanip2:37493" -mca plm_base_verbose 20
I then inserted some printf's into the ess_slurm_module (rough and ready, I know, but I was in a hurry).
Just after initialisation: (at around line 345)
orte_ess_slurm: jobid 2056716288 vpid 1
So it gets that...
I narrowed it down to the get_slurm_nodename function, as the method didn't proceed past that point....
line 401:
tmp = strdup(orte_process_info.nodename);
printf( "Our node name == %s\n", tmp );
line 409:
for (i=0; NULL != names[i]; i++) {
printf( "Checking %s\n", names[ i ]);
Our node name == eng-ipc3.{FQDN}
Checking ipc3
So it's down to the mismatch of the slurm name and the hostname. slurm really encourages you not to use the fully qualified hostname, and I'd prefer not to have to reconfigure the whole system to use the shortname as hostnames. However, I note that 1.5.1 worked and backported some of the code -- it uses getenv( "SLURM_NODE_ID" ) to get that node number, which doesn't rely on an exact string match. Patching this makes things kind of work, but failures still occur during wire-up for more than one node.
I think the solution will have to be to change the hostnames on the system to match what is needed by slurm+openmpi. (doing this temporarily makes everything work with an unpatched 1.4.3 and the wireup completes successfully). Perhaps a note about system hostnames needs to be made somewhere in the OpenMPI / SLURM documentation?
Thank you Ralph & Sam for your help.
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- Date: December 15, 2001
- Time: 8:36 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
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"Progressive" schools -- the kind that think it's a good idea to let students do whatever the hell they want to in order to "find themselves" -- are not a new phenomenon. Way back in the early 1960s there was a private boarding school in the U.K. where smoking in class (if you bothered to show up), popping wheelies on the quad lawn with your dirt bike, and dressing like third-rate Kenickies and strung out Leather Tuscaderos were all considered acceptable student behavior.
Founded by Cambridge graduate James East, who believed that "every child should first find himself, education can come later," the Burgess Hill boarding school in Hampstead, London, took permissiveness to heretofore unexplored realms of apathy. The theory was that since forbidding a child from doing something will inevitably invite revolt, that child should therefore be allowed to bring the ruckus.
After having what he considered to be an unhappy childhood himself, East was determined to "make the development of today's pupils less of an ordeal." What this meant was that the kids were allowed to curse freely, disregard proper hygiene, and study only when they felt like it. In a promotional video about the so-called "beat school," they discuss how even table manners are considered antiquated and unnecessary, while students shove wads of meat into their mouths and sloppily share their meals with a dog.
But all this sounds positively normal when you consider that pupils were encouraged to smoke, as illustrated by the boy of about 11 puffing contentedly on a cigarette in between blasts on a harmonica. We understand that this was the '60s and the dangers of cigarettes weren't as widely known back then, but the sheer tobacco consumption at this place makes one wonder if the entire operation wasn't secretly funded by Brown & Williamson. The headmaster acknowledged the situation by stating, "Kids always smoke, and I'd rather know about it than have it done in secret."
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No, seriously, they really, really want kids to smoke there.
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If, like many parents, you're concerned that mainstream education is a cold and unfeeling machine that treats your child like a number, then you might be tempted to send the precious little one to a Waldorf school, where each child is treated as an individual. In the weirdest possible way.
Waldorf education is the largest-growing alternative education movement in the world today, and although some schools will admit it more readily than others, their system is based on a spiritual movement called anthroposophy, which revolves around things like karma, astrology, clairvoyance, reincarnation, and "advancing children's connection to the spirit world."
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If this doesn't already sound like something dreamed up by your racist grandpa, Waldorf schools also adhere to a low-tech, anti-technology mantra. That doesn't just mean they've banned iPads -- anything requiring batteries is taboo, and the toys available are things like pinecones and faceless dolls, and anything else that would make an Amish elder grunt in approval. Ironically, some of the biggest fans of this style of education include many in the Silicon Valley crowd, who balk at the idea that a tablet can teach their kids to read. Not that Waldorf schools will teach them to read -- they commonly delay reading to the point where children cannot do so proficiently until age 9 or 10.
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The philosophy behind Waldorf education was dreamed up at the turn of the 20th century by Rudolph Steiner of Austria, a crackpot who we have already mentioned due to his daffy agricultural theories that included filling cow horns with manure and burying them to please the Earth spirits. If classifying children into categories based on skin color makes you uncomfortable, it's probably because the idea came from a guy who believed that the highest state of being could only be found in the form of a Germanic or Nordic white European.
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Apparently, the Waldorf system has had some successes, from claims of higher SAT scores to a decent track record for working with troubled youths. And that's fine if you don't mind your kids learning that science is wrong about most things and that you have 12 senses based on the signs of the zodiac.
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SAN ANTONIO (Jan. 11, 2014) – The San Antonio Rampage (13-20-1-3) took a 2-1 lead into the third period, but fell in overtime 3-2 to the Abbotsford Heat (24-13-1-1) tonight in front of a crowd of 7,461 at the AT&T Center.
Rookie Vincent Trocheck started the scoring for the Rampage early in the first, netting his 12th of the year. After a disallowed goal, Garrett Wilson got one back for his ninth of the year to give the Silver and Black a 2-1 lead. Defenseman Matt Gilroy had two assists in the loss, extending his point streak to four games (2g-3a), while fellow blue-liner Doug Janik now has three assists in his last two games. Jacob Markstrom made 23-of-26 saves on the night.
The power play was hot for the Rampage again, as they converted with the extra man just 6:29 into the opening frame. Defenseman Michael Caruso let a shot fly from the half boards, and Trocheck banged home the rebound from the slot to put the Rampage up 1-0.
Gilroy earned the secondary assist on Trocheck's team leading 12th of the year.
Abbotsford tied it up nine minutes later while the two teams were at 4-on-4. Max Reinhart dished the puck to Chad Billins, and the defenseman made a nice move and beat Markstrom to tie the game up at one with four minutes remaining. The goal would hold and the two teams headed into the first intermission knotted at one.
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Neglect or negligence is the disregarding or paying of little attention to something, particularly when this involved the failure to care for or attend to something due to oversight or carelessness. In law, negligence that leads to an injury may be compensable.
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They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Extensions seems to work fine. Also, folks who're having problems with layout? That is one of the things javascript takes care of. The whole purpose of NoScript is for the user to selectively allow javascript on a webpage so one can have a properly rendered site while blocking most obnoxious ads and/or malicious scripts.
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34th GCC Supreme Council Summit concludes in Kuwait
December 11, 2013
The leaders and heads of delegations of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states concluded the 34th GCC Supreme Council Summit in Kuwait today. Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz led the Saudi delegation to the meeting, which was also attended by Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah; Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa; Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani; UAE Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum; Omani Deputy Prime Minister for Cabinet Affairs Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmoud Al-Said; and GCC Secretary General Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani.
The official delegation accompanying the Crown Prince to the GCC Summit included Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal; Chief of the Crown Prince's Court Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz; Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi; Minister of State Dr. Musaed bin Mohammed Al-Aiban; Minister of Finance Dr. Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf; and Minister of Culture and Information Dr. Abdulaziz bin Mohieddin Khoja.
At the conclusion of the proceedings, Secretary General Al-Zayani delivered a final communique, the "Kuwait Declaration," addressing many aspects of GCC cooperation.
The communique noted that the Gulf leaders approved a series of rules aimed at further integrating GCC financial markets and continuing joint projects. They reviewed the progress made towards the establishment of a monetary union and a common market, as well as the linkage of water, electricity, and security infrastructure.
In the security field, the leaders agreed on the creation of a joint military command and police force. They approved a proposal for the establishment of a Gulf Academy for Strategic and Security Studies in the UAE and noted the laying of the foundation stone for a Center for Maritime Security in Bahrain. The communique reiterated the GCC countries firm rejection of terrorism and extremism, predicting that the creation of a GCC police organization will "boost security and help expand security and anti-terror cooperation and coordination among member states." It lauded "all regional and international efforts aiming to counter terrorism and terrorist organizations."
Addressing relations with Iran, the communique welcomed the "new approach of the Iranian leadership towards the countries of the GCC countries" and hoped for "concrete steps" that "reflect positively on peace, security and stability of the region." It stressed the importance of strengthening relations with Iran on the basis of good neighborliness, non-interference in internal affairs, and refraining from the use or threat of force. The GCC leaders welcomed the preliminary agreement signed between Iran and the P5+1 regarding Iran's nuclear program and expressed hope that the region may eventually be free of all weapons of mass destruction. They added that the agreement must be fully implemented under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The communique praised the stand taken by Saudi Arabia regarding UN Security Council reform, which reflects the Kingdom's "historic concern over the Arab and Islamic worlds' issues." It called for changes to be made at the United Nations that would allow the body to be more effective and enjoy greater international legitimacy.
Regarding Syria, the communique condemned the regime of Bashar Al-Assad for committing genocide against the Syrian people using chemical and conventional weapons. It demanded the withdrawal of foreign forces from Syria and backed international efforts to issue a UN resolution under Chapter VII of the UN Charter in order to secure humanitarian relief for the Syrian people. The GCC leaders called for the establishment of an interim government that does not include members of the current ruling regime and encouraged participation in the upcoming Geneva II summit.
Finally, the communique welcomed U.S. efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, while condemning Israel's continued construction of illegal settlements in occupied territory. It stressed that a just and lasting peace will only be achieved through the creation of an independent Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders with Al-Quds [Jerusalem] as its capital.
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Three members of the Pratt CC Track & Field team competed this past Friday at the Leonard Hilton Memorial Indoor Track & Field Meet at the University of Houston. The Beavers were the only non-NCAA Division 1 school invited to compete in the meet. Other teams competing were: Univ. of Houston, Texas, UT-San Antonio, Rice Univ., Houston Baptist, Texas Southern, Prairie View A&M and Sam Houston State.
Jared Walker and Junior Doerue opened the meet for the Beavers in the 60m dash. Walker's opening round time of 7.10 was fast enough to place him 10th and advance him to semi-finals (the top 16 times advanced). Doerue's time of 7.17 did not advance to finals and finished 18th place overall. In the semi-finals Walker placed 4th in his heat and 8th overall with a time of 7.02 seconds. His time of 7.02 met the NJCAA National Qualifying standard for the NJCAA Championships and also secured him a spot in the 60m finals. In the finals Walker ran slightly slower with a time of 7.03, however he was still able to improve his placing with his 3rd place finish in the finals of the event. Walker's season best time of 7.02 ranks him #25 in the NJCAA.
Both Walker and Doerue finished their day running the 200m dash. Walker was favoring his hamstring after three rounds of the 60m dash so he ran conservatively and pulled up in his race to keep from injuring himself for the season. Doerue had a slow start but was able to finish well down the straight-a-way to place first in his heat of the 200m.
The final event for the Beavers was the triple jump where Darius Hyacinth placed 7th overall with a jump of 13.87 meters.
Next up for the Beaver Track & Field Team is the Johnson County Cavalier Night Relays Friday January 25th, 2013.
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I wrote this sentence:
Living a busy life, full of stress, sweat and sacrifice, can make us think that we are actually doing something worthy with our lives.
Which is actually saying is that being busy can give us the illusion of doing something worthy with our lives.
Is it clear enough or ambiguous (is it possible for the reader to misunderstand this sentence as "being busy really makes our lives worthy"?)?


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How do I factorize a polynomial $X^n - 1$ over $\mathbb{F}_p$? In particular I need to find factors of the polynomial $X^{3^3 - 1} - 1 = X^{26} - 1$ over $\mathbb{F}_3$.
If you just need a quick answer (to decide if something else is going to work how you need), then you can do this with Wolfram|Alpha. Go there: http://www.wolframalpha.com/ and input "factor x^26-1" and press the "equal" button. It'll show some info about the polynomial, including the factors mod 2. In many boxes, there's a link for "Show More". Press the one attached to the factors over GF(2), and it'll show you the factors over GF(3). In this case, you get $$(x+1) (x+2) (x^3+2 x+1) (x^3+2 x+2) (x^3+x^2+2) (x^3+x^2+x+2) (x^3+x^2+2 x+1) (x^3+2 x^2+1) (x^3+2 x^2+x+1) (x^3+2 x^2+2 x+2).$$
Annoying to have "2" instead of "-1" in GF(3), but that's the price of having a machine do your work for you.
I describe how to do this generally in my answer to question #16457 about cyclotomic integers. However, in this particular problem you are probably supposed to use the fact that the divisors of $x^{p^n} - x$ over $\mathbb{F}_p$ are precisely the irreducible polynomials of degree dividing $n$.
This seems very much like homework to me, so I'll be brief. I assume that your $Z_p$ denotes the field with $p$ elements; I will call it $\mathbb{F}_p$ henceforth (lest it be confused with the ring $\mathbb{Z}_p$ of $p$-adic integers).
You want to factor the polynomial $X^{p^a-1}-1$ over $\mathbb{F}\_{p}$. Let us go into the field $\mathbb{F}_{p^a}$; what are the roots of the polynomial $X^{p^a-1}-1$ factor over there? Hence, which divisors does $X^{p^a-1}-1$ have over $\mathbb{F}_p$ ? Can any of them occur more than once?


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This is the blog for Gavin and Carrie Jones and family. We live in Papua New Guinea and are working to support Bible translations in progress around the country and the people of PNG. Gavin is a helicopter pilot. Carrie has her degree in Public Health, but our "public" now consists of our son, Isaac, born in 2004 and our quintuplets, Will, David, Marcie, Seth, and Grace, all born in 2012.
But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD's love is with those who fear him and his righteousness with their children's children . . . Psalm 103:17
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Good Morning, America!
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- AnonymousFebruary 8, 2013 at 7:32 AM
Many blessings to the Jones family,I too was a Preemie,born 5 days into my mother's 5th month of pregnancy at 1lb,10 oz. I am now a healthy 46 yr old woman with 2 children of my own. There will be tiring days but the reward is priceless,6 beautiful children to love & nurture, I'm sure Isaac is a proud big brother!! Very heartwarming story,stay blessed..ReplyDelete
Cj in NJ
- AnonymousFebruary 8, 2013 at 8:24 AM
Hi Gavin & Carrie,ReplyDelete
We saw you guys this morning on Good Morning America. Brought tears to my eyes!
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Awww, miss you! Love, CarrieDelete
- Melissa EppersonFebruary 8, 2013 at 10:09 AM
What a great segment! Isaac was right - it does get noisy! I'm very happy for you that everyone is home and healthy.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 8, 2013 at 10:25 AM
Though it was a challenge, I finally brought up the interview and it was awesome. Always rmember that God is in control. From the start and before, He knew.ReplyDelete
Love you all so very much,
- AnonymousFebruary 8, 2013 at 10:47 AM
Hey Jones family, it's Beth Matheson with Youth and Family Ministries at JAARS. Carrie, I met you last spring when you came with Katrina to a women's retreat, and we had a sweet time of praying over you and those miracle babies, who were only eight weeks along at the time. What a treat it was to see you all on GMA this morning! We've been praying for your family, for Seth especially, and we look forward to having all of those kids pile in the door for youth group one of these days when you guys come back through JAARS!ReplyDelete
Love and blessings,
- AnonymousFebruary 8, 2013 at 12:04 PM
Would it be possible for you to post a link to the GMA segment. I don't have TVs hooked up in my new apartment. I'd love to see it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 8, 2013 at 12:24 PM
I found the clip here - really nicely done! Loving how God continues to bless - despite some negative press, in the end He will get all the glory and honor for these little miracles. NKLReplyDelete
You might have to cut and paste.
Enjoyed seeing you all of tv! Carrie - you look terrific; such a happy mommy. It has been such a joy following your blog.ReplyDelete
I found the link to your blog on Fox News. I'm not usually a fan of blogs, but who can resist sweet babies? I see from your pictures and reading posts that you are on quite an adventure, one I can't imagine. But the main reason I decided to follow your blog was seeing that you work with Wycliffe Bible Translators. I have known so many wonderful missionaries who have worked with Wycliffe in many parts of the world and have always had such great respect and admiration for them. I'm looking forward to reading more about your lives and your children.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you so much!! Love, CarrieDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 8, 2013 at 4:08 PM
To Gavin and Carrie, God bless you as you care for these precious babies!! I can only imagine!.... I was so glad to hear that you were nursing and I realize what an accomplishment that is. Your story is truely uplifting and I will pray for all of you.You need all the help you can get! Sincerely, LaurieReplyDelete
Beautiful heartfelt interview of a wonderful, wonderful family. Great job, Jones! You continue to bless our lives and reflect God's goodness. Thank you so much.ReplyDelete
This is great. Lots of love!ReplyDelete
- Judie and Bill TruittFebruary 9, 2013 at 1:42 AM
What a great clip from Good Morning America! Soooo good to see all the babies doing so well and especially Seth's home coming. Really enjoy your blog. We keep you all in our prayers and know God is watching over you! Blessings to you all. Judie and BillReplyDelete
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How to Get What You Want from the Pediatrician
Absolute No-No's
Pediatricians are very consistent about what annoys them in the examining room. That's because they hear the same irritating comments from parents day in and day out. Avoid these and your doctor will love you for it.
Don't use the doctor as a threat. Says Andrew Baumel, "Every day I hear, 'You better be good or he's going to give you a shot.' What message does that send? You're putting up more barriers."
Don't talk to the pediatrician when she has the stethoscope on. She can't hear you, so she's not going to answer. If you speak loudly, she can't hear the heartbeat.
Don't try to squeeze a general checkup into a sick-child visit. The doctor probably won't do it, and even if he did, you would be getting a rushed, substandard checkup.
Don't try to piggyback one child onto another child's visit. With an average of 28 patients a day, the pediatrician's schedule is usually very tight. They dislike being pressured into seeing children they have not made time for.
Don't diagnose the problem for the doctor. You may be correct, but it's best to phrase it as a suspicion rather than as a foregone conclusion. Rather than announcing, "Brenda has strep again; she needs more Augmentin," say "Brenda seems to have the same symptoms she did last time she had strep," and let the doctor take it from there.
Don't be rude to the person at the front desk. It will get back to the doctor, the nurse practitioner, and the rest of the staff, and they will think less of you no matter how well-behaved you are with the doctor. If you want these people on your side when an emergency comes up, be nice to them now.
Covert Operations
As children grow older and less likely to confide in Mom and Dad, parents often turn to pediatricians for help in ferreting out the details of their lives. They routinely ask pediatricians to test their teenagers for drugs or sexually transmitted diseases, or to confirm that their daughters are still virgins. "I won't do it," states Margaret Fitzgerald about the latter issue. "It is truly impossible to tell. It's unfair because there's this assumption that you could examine a girl and say yes or no, but there's no expectation that you would examine a young man and come up with an answer." Fitzgerald also refuses to test for drugs or STDs without the adolescent's permission.
Confidential care for minors is a slippery slope for health-care providers. Each state has its own laws as to what kind of information about an adolescent can be kept confidential from a parent, and under what circumstances. The Allan Guttmacher Institute Web site, at www.agi-usa.org, lists confidentiality laws by state. But even if it were legal to attain details about your child's life without the child's knowledge, many pediatricians would be reluctant to cross that line. "I will use the issue as a way of facilitating a dialogue between the child and the parent," says Fitzgerald. She offers this somewhat world-weary observation for parents concerned about their teenagers' sex lives: "The idea of two fifteen-year-olds having sex does not warm my heart, but at least in all likelihood they're equally unempowered. It is more likely not to be an exploitative relationship at that age. Fourteen- and fifteen-year-old girls are rarely pregnant by fourteen- and fifteen-year-old boys. Usually it's by twenty-one- to twenty-five-year-old men."
Bidding Farewell to the Exam Room
When your child is eleven or twelve years old, it's time to introduce the idea of seeing the doctor alone. "Part of growing up into a young adult is the kid's responsibility to participate in his or her own health care," says Fitzgerald. "I generally start saying that to parents and children at an age when you couldn't surgically extract the parents from the exam room. The child wants the parent there, the parent wants to be there." When the children are twelve or thirteen, Fitzgerald will ask the child if she wants the parent to stay or leave. By the age of sixteen, a child should definitely be accustomed to going it solo at the doctor's office. The sooner they learn how to talk to effectively communicate with the doctor, the better.
From Say the Magic Words by Lynette Padwa. Copyright © 2005. Used by arrangement with Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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Agriculture & Food
Nothing is more basic to human well-being than having enough nutritious food to eat. Yet one in every eight people in the world — 842 million — are trapped in a cycle of hunger and poverty.
The reality is that most of the world doesn't have the benefit of picking up food from the corner store — they grow it themselves. Hunger is a crisis when disaster ruins the harvest. It is a cycle when families cannot grow or buy enough to lead healthy, productive lives, and when the effects of malnutrition are passed on to the next generation.
When food shortages occur due to drought and conflict, Mercy Corps helps prevent hunger and treat malnutrition in the most vulnerable — children, pregnant women, the elderly and the displaced. We distribute vouchers, cash or emergency rations, working with local suppliers to speed delivery, save money and boost local economies.
In addition to emergency responses, we focus on long-term solutions that build future food security.
Mercy Corps helps farmers manage their land, increase their harvests and diversify crops to produce a larger, more nutritious, and stable food supply. By teaching nutrition and hygiene, we ensure families can utilize their resources to boost their health. And we connect farmers with new markets and introduce more efficient methods of tending productive livestock and processing and storing crops to increase incomes for years to come.
All stories about Agriculture & Food
Central African Republic: Distributing seeds and feeding families
Starting at the source, we're helping people make the most of their agricultural livelihoods.
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India: Change Brewing in the Tea Lands
India: Pay Dirt
Moni Das's village has no name. It's simply referred to as Line 10, Deohall Division, Deohall Tea Estate, Assam. It is a microcosm of life inside Assam's estate fences: anonymous, hidden among acre upon acre of tea bushes and existing solely to serve the needs of the estate.
India: A Different Kind of Teatime
Dibrugarh is called India's tea city. But for some people, teatime is about hardship and inequality rather than a pause for relaxation.
India: Buzzing with Cosmic Energy
I sensed, right away, that Rajah Banerjee had something to tell us. It was in the measured way he carried himself, the arch of his eyebrows and the calculating glance he cast across the room. What's more, I immediately got the feeling that he would test me to see what I knew.
India: A Skilled Trade to Last a Lifetime
The word "manokamana" holds a special place in the hearts of the Nepali people who populate the Himalayan foothills around Darjeeling, India. It signifies one of the culture's most sacred places — a holy site in Nepal — and literally translates as "good wish of the mind."
Guatemala: Part 1: Owning the land
Guatemala: Worth The Wait
Alta Verapaz, Guatemala — Machetes are ubiquitous here in rural Guatemala, and Valeriano wields his expertly as he slashes away at weeds on his hillside field.
Guatemala: It Begins With Land
To most rural Guatemalans, land means everything.


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I don't have/want to use capo for my guitar.
Can a specific tuning be applied as an alternative to capo?
I don't have/want to use capo for my guitar.
Can a specific tuning be applied as an alternative to capo?
It entirely depends what you want to play.
A capo is for transposing a piece up by some number of semitones, without changing the fingering. So let's look at ways to transpose those pieces without a capo -- it will often involve changing the fingering:
There are transpositions that can't practically be achieved without a capo.
Consider this chord:
The fretting is all on the 6th and 7th fret, but there are also three open strings. If you tried to transpose this up by 3 semitones, without a capo or retuning, you'd have to finger the 3rd fret, as well as the 9th and 11th fret. Nobody's hand is that big!
You don't explain why you don't want to use a capo. If you want to achieve what a capo does, then a capo is the best way to do it.
For the sake of a thorough answer, there are some new electric guitars that have recently appeared on the market that make use of what is refered to as a "digital capo". They can be configured to use built-in digital signal processing to raise or lower the pitch of the strings by digital pitch-shifting, while the actual tuning of the physical strings stays the same. So the notes coming out of your amplifier are different than the acoustical notes played by the strings themselves.
Getting one of these guitars would be expensive as they are rather esoteric instruments. The pitch-shifting technique is not entirely natural-sounding.
Examples are the Line 6 Variax, the Fender-Roland V-Guitar, and the Peavey-Antares Auto-Tune guitar.
I increased hz on digi tuner to 450 from standard 440...im a self taught player and a few years later realized how many bad habits i wasnt aware of and are now norm for me....so im not claiming to be certain about anything..but..i found the sound i was looking for, without a capo, with this method.


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- BSO Case Number: BS01-08-7749
- PIO Number: 01-8-20
- Date: August 16, 2001
- Time: 1541
- Place of Occurrence: Canal, NW corner of State Road 84 & University Drive, near Davie
- Name withheld, 58, male, no permanent address (DECEASED)
Description of Incident:
The body of a homeless man was found floating in a canal near Davie Thursday afternoon.
At 3:41 p.m. a passerby called 911 to report that a body was floating in the canal on the north side of State Road 84, just west of University Drive. Davie Police initially responded to the call but quickly determined that the canal was outside their city. BSO deputies and Homicide detectives were then called to the scene to investigate.
The dead man is believed to be a 58-year-old homeless person who held a sign and begged for money from motorists at intersections in the area. Detectives observed neither signs of trauma to the body nor any indications of foul play. The Broward Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death. It is believed that the man may have fallen into the canal and drowned or could have been stricken by a medical condition.
The name of the deceased is being withheld until he is positively identified and his next of kin are located and notified.
- THIS REPORT BY: Det. D. Nicholson, Homicide Jim Leljedal / PIO 8/16/01 2000
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Whether you're looking to swill a post-meeting libation in a swanky hotel, step into speakeasies of the past or suck down a Mint, the capital's cocktail bars have you covered.
Some tourists are under the impression that upon arrival in Dublin you immediately surrender all hopes of anything in a highball in favour of pint after pint of Guinness. As the recent influx of top-quality cocktail bars has shown, there is a plethora of more upmarket options available.
If you're a diehard cocktail fan who won't take 'jagerbomb' for an answer then there are several establishments happy to help. Give The Blind Pig a call and you'll be escorted to a secret location where award-winning mixologist Paul Lambert has created his very own speakeasy with an emphasis on great drinks paired with good, prohibition-era manners. In that same spirit of secrecy, try knocking on the inconspicuous door of the Vintage Cocktail Club and you'll find an impressive menu with everything from punchbowls to strong shorts. Around the corner you can kick up your heels at The Liquor Rooms, a basement bar that's bringing back the ambience of the 20s as everyone takes to the dance floor while sipping from coupes. Fade Street's No Name Bar also plays on anonymity – though by now its excellent range of cocktails is one of the city's worst kept secrets.
If all that drinking is making your head spin why not pair your cocktail with a meal? Over at 777 the food of choice is Mexican and the spirit of choice is tequila. Nothing washes down taquitos better than a margarita, and if you want a little extra spice try their Violencia Rojo. The Damson Diner is famed for their infused alcohols like pomegranate and ginger infused vodka or Wexford raspberry rum. Grab some of their sharing platters and treat yourself to a Death in Venice before their €5 bar opens to appease your wallet. A quick jaunt out to the seaside suburbs will bring you to Kinara Kitchen, a Pakistani restaurant that's also making use of Paul Lambert's mixology mastery.
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The bar for hotel cocktails was quite literally raised this summer with the opening of the swanky Marker Hotel, complete with a panoramic rooftop lounge where you can pair your cocktail with a view of Dublin Bay. Meanwhile the Gibson recently played host to a cocktail master class from world-renowned Jack McGarry of Dead Rabbit, New York in its tongue-tying Hemi DemiSemiQuaver Bar. Both the Morgan and Dylan hotels offer stylish surroundings to sip in, whether you happen to be staying there or not.
Finally, if you're part of a gang who are more concerned with a hanging-out atmosphere, set your stall up at the Bernard Shaw and grab some great cocktail deals or head to their sister club the Twisted Pepper where a dedicated cocktail bar complements a varied menu including homages to Ireland's own moonshine, poitín. Powerscourt Centre watering holes Pygmalion and Lost Society are also top spots to get your drinks on ice.
Recommendations from Emily Carson, festival director of annual fringe festival 10 Days in Dublin.
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Panjiva data shows a 2% decrease in U.S.-bound shipments from October to November
Data from Panjiva, an online search engine with detailed information on global suppliers and manufacturers, stated that the number of waterborne shipments entering the United States fell 2% from October to November.
This marks the third straight month U.S.-bound waterborne shipments have declined, following 7% and 2% declines from August to September and September to October, respectively, according to Panjiva.
But even though shipments were down, the number of global manufacturers shipping to the U.S. increased from October to November—at 147,578 for a 4% increase— along with the number of U.S. companies receiving waterborne shipments from global manufacturers—at 131,068 for a 5% gain.
"What we are seeing now is the typical seasonal trajectory," said Panjiva CEO Josh Green in an interview. "What is going to be more telling in the next couple of months is how steep the drop is, with typically February being the bottoming out month for how low it will go."
Green said what happens at that point will be an indication of how confident retailers are feeling heading into 2011, adding that it is too soon to draw any conclusions. And he said many eyes will be on consumer spending levels for December and shipping data in the February-March timeframe to get a better view as to what retailers took from the holiday season this year.
Earlier this year, Green said there was a concern that retailers were piling up too much inventory, coupled with a lack of evidence that consumers would come out and spend in a meaningful way this holiday season. But it now appears that based in initial numbers that consumer spending was solid, and that retailers projections for inventory levels were on target.
"Retailers are not facing inventory shortages and did not over-buy in a significant way, which was nice to see," said Green.
Heading into the first quarter of 2011, Green said the most interesting metric to monitor will be the August to February delta for the number of shipments. From August 2009 to February 2010, shipments were down 11%, according to Panjiva. And from August 2008 to February 2009, there was a 36% drop in the number of shipments, which Green described as the "cataclysm" number.
"Last year's number at 11% is roughly about where we are right now, so it will be somewhat worse than last year in terms of the drop-off, and what that reflects is uncertainty around where consumer sentiment is going to be," noted Green. "But combining so far what we are seeing with the shipping data, combined with the consumer side, I am feeling more optimistic than I was a couple of months ago."


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Why not add a feature to vote a user up or down?
Sometimes a user writes a really snippy, inappropiate, or just plain moronic statement that makes me want to vote THEM down, and not just the comment they made.
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That would put trolling to a new level! Also seems a little vindictive.
Those same people who like to make those inappropriate comments would have a field day with that feature....
@falcondeal: Hmm, true...
I didn't troll on the last guy who made a stupid comment in response to something I said to educate our fellow wooters on prices, I just down-voted and moved on with my life.
Not to harsh on your idea, but people already do this by reflexively downvoting posters no matter what they post. (I'm not judging people, we have a voting feature, that's how some people use it. Simple facts.) Why so negative, folks? Close the window, back space, move on.
Right, but I think my question raises a valid issue on "measuring" people. It's a good question, and it's already voted well into negative.
How do you separate this from a troll?
@baronz: Good is relative. At the time of this comment, 11 people have deemed it not a good question.
I'd like a feature where instead of voting a person a down I could poke them in the eye through the internet. Hell, I'd pay for that feature...


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How can I show my latest tweet in my wordpress blog?
in functions.php not use any plugin
How can I show my latest tweet in my wordpress blog?
in functions.php not use any plugin
You never said where you want it so this just pops it into the head (not a great idea), and is a bad example lol.
Instead you should use the HTTP API and cache the results for at least 10 minutes.
Also you should just use a plugin for more features because there is NO difference between a plugin and functions.php.
Below is the function I use to fetch the latest tweet. The benefits of this is:
For more information, please read this tutorial:
To do this without a plugin is pretty simple, you can utilise built in WordPress functionality such as a combination of short codes and widgets, or simply short codes placed within content if you prefer.
Using the WordPress functions file to create short codes is easy and a detailed tutorial can be found here http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2009/02/02/mastering-wordpress-shortcodes/
If you were to combine short code creation with a decent latest tweets tutorial then you will easily accomplish your goal, if you are unable to follow the short code tutorial to achieve this then you are probably better off using a plugin until such times as you understand PHP enough that you can.


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As a kid I absolutely loved Roald Dahl's book, and I still love them to this day. So, I was really excited when Son#1 took an interest in the Roald Dahl collection on his bookshelf. I thought I had read every one of his books growing up, but the other night I noticed a thin little book called The Magic Finger. Son#1 and I sat down and read it before bedtime. What a surprise! This is a great book for vegan kids, and a a good way to open up a dialogue about cruelty to animals.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
The Magic Finger
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- dreaminitvegan said...
Again, thanks for the update! This book will be our second to our Roald Dahl collection regarding animals.
- March 10, 2009 at 1:28 PM
- jAe said...
i'll admit, i'm more of a fan of quentin blake, than roald dahl, though it's nice that the two often come together!
with that being said, i might recommend a kids book that he illustrated recently called The Boy in the Dress. it was a really nice read. nothing to do with animals, more to do with gender and acceptance, but i thought it might be worth a mention anyway.
- March 10, 2009 at 1:32 PM
- nora said...
aw i lova roald dahl! colleen patrick-goudreau read a nice short story by him )the boy who loved animals i think) on her veg food for though podcast! personally, i love the BFG! :)
- March 10, 2009 at 2:34 PM
- Alicia said...
I love Roald Dahl. I don't remember reading this one though. I'll have to read it, especially when my sons get old enough to enjoy it.
- March 10, 2009 at 3:06 PM
- slaterlife said...
This book sounds like a good way to teach my daughter about the cruelty to animals and being vegan. I'm going to have to check it out.
- March 10, 2009 at 3:08 PM
- Laci said...
I LOVE Roald Dahl's books when I was a little kid! In fact, I still do... they're so cute and clever! It's funny, he wasn't necessarly vegan but when you think about it, Giant peaches (James and the Giant peach), horrible mean adults eating bird pies (the Twits, talking aminals (Mr. Fox)) and a candy factory (Charlie and the cho. factory)? Sounds animal friendly to me! :D
- March 10, 2009 at 4:16 PM
- Melody Polakow said...
I am going to check this book out.. I admit, at first I thought the finger was THE FINGER and laughed out loud thinking your son and you read it together.
- March 10, 2009 at 10:19 PM
- wingraclaire said...
That is so true! I am a teacher and use the book with my students (in fact, just did it again a few months ago). I love the way it asks the hard question, "Who allows you to do it?" And the hunters answering: "We allow ourselves!" The kids easily draw their own conclusions!
- March 10, 2009 at 10:37 PM
- VeganLinda said...
We love Dahl around here too (I recently blogged about his audio books) and this is one we also missed. I am going online to my library right now to check it out. Thanks!!
- March 11, 2009 at 12:07 PM
- Sarah said...
i've never seen that one! i loved roald dahl when i was a kid too. good stuff.
- March 11, 2009 at 4:27 PM
- Meg said...
I am going to have to check this one out! Love it!
- March 14, 2009 at 7:17 AM
- Gaia @ Viva Granola said...
Love this book! First R.D. book I have read :)
- March 22, 2009 at 9:00 AM
- Chrissy said...
thanks for the recommendation! this is the third dhal i read to my boys and i have read it now so many times i lost count! next book i am going to buy is titled "benji bean sprout doesn't eat meat". i'll let you know!
- March 25, 2009 at 3:25 PM
- rohit said...
Must be an enjoyable read The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl. loved the way you wrote it. I find your review very genuine and orignal, this book is going in by "to read" list.
- June 27, 2011 at 8:17 AM


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Using Ubuntu 11.04
I started Ubuntu One today, and put 14 files in the sync folder.
The total size of the 14 files is 295 MB.
After 11 hours, and since about 5 hours ago, the command
u1sdtool --current
shows the same thing
Current uploads:
path: /home/ubuntuone/20110524/home-dev-all-20110524.tar.gz
deflated size: 45355790
bytes written: 45355790
path: /home/ubuntuone/20110524/home-misc-20110524.tar.gz
deflated size: 68366485
bytes written: 68366485
path: /home/ubuntuone/20110524/home-windoze-20110524.tar.gz
deflated size: 42369328
bytes written: 42369328
path: /home/ubuntuone/20110524/home-Documents-20110524.tar.gz
deflated size: 86213754
bytes written: 86213754
Current downloads: 0
and the state also is the same:
$ u1sdtool -s
State: QUEUE_MANAGER
connection: With User With Network
description: processing the commands pool
is_connected: True
is_error: False
is_online: True
queues: WORKING
The U1 page tells me that my files are 62 MB (~5%).
Is it supposed to be that long?
Is there a problem?


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WHEELING - Because of a tie vote by Upper Ohio Valley Italian Heritage Festival board members, Bellaire natives Gilda Reed and Dr. John DeBlasis are co-Italian-American of the Year for 2013.
"Growing up in south Bellaire back then, if you weren't an Italian, we made you one," Reed said while accepting her award during the festival's Wednesday kickoff dinner. "I am thrilled to be an Italian-American."
DeBlasis, a physical therapist at Wheeling Hospital, said he owes his success to the work ethic his father gave him as a young man.
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HONORED ITALIAN-AMERICANS — Dr. John DeBlasis and Gilda Reed are the co-Italian-Americans of the?Year for the 2013 Upper Ohio Valley?Italian Heritage Festival. They spoke during Wednesday's kickoff dinner. -- Casey Junkins
"My father was a great motivator, and any work ethic I have is a direct result of his tutelage," DeBlasis said.
Also recognized Wednesday for their contributions to the festival during its 31 years were former Chairman Robert Gaudio and former Chairwoman Kathleen Fantazzi.
Although the menu Wednesday focused on pork, chicken and potatoes, those looking to eat at the festival will be able to find anything from giant meatballs to elephant ears. Opening ceremonies for the event are set for noon Friday at Wheeling's Heritage Port.
There will be live music and entertainment throughout the weekend, with much of this activity taking place at the Heritage Port Stage. However, the stage will officially be known this weekend as the Williams Energy Stage, thanks to a $10,000 donation from the Tulsa, Okla.-based natural gas processing company.
During a special reception at West Virginia Northern Community College earlier this year, Williams Strategic Outreach Coordinator Scott Carney presented the donation to Festival President Marian Grubor, emphasizing the company's commitment to the community.
In addition to the traditional festival activities, there will be several new vendors on hand, as well as both mechanical and inflatable rides. The bocce ball tournament will have a new location along Water Street this year after being held close to WesBanco Arena in past years.
Festival entertainment for the weekend is set as follows. Events at the Williams Energy Heritage Port Stage Friday include:
noon - Official opening ceremony
1:15 p.m. - Disc jockey playing Italian music
3 p.m. - New American Groove
5 p.m. - Tony Janflone Jr. Band
7:30 p.m. - Moreno Fruzzetti
10 p.m. - White Collar Criminals
Events set for the Cultural Area Italian Stage Friday include:
noon - Disc jockey playing Italian music
1 p.m. - Kristen Allodi
3:30 p.m. - Le Sorelle
4:30 p.m. - Ronnie Florentino
6:30 p.m. - Allegro Dance Co.
8:30 p.m. - Frank Gallo Band
Saturday Events
Williams Energy Heritage Port Stage:
noon - Veterans appreciation ceremony
2:30 p.m. - Hoard and Jones
4:30 p.m. - Airborne
6:30 p.m. - Scholarship presentations
7:30 p.m. - Elio Scaccio "Big Show"
9:30 p.m. - Fireworks
10 p.m. - Catch Blues Band
Cultural Area Italian Stage:
noon - Disc jockey playing Italian music
1 p.m. - Matt Schafer
4 p.m. - The Faiellas
5:30 p.m. - Jim Frank Combo
7:30 p.m. - Allegro Dance Co.
9 p.m. - 40 Plus Band
Sunday Events
Williams Energy
Heritage Port Stage:
10 a.m. - Roman Catholic Mass
11:15 a.m. - Skip Peck Trio
12:45 p.m. - Ohio Valley Athletic Conference All-Star Marching Band
1:45 p.m. - Easy Street Band
3:30 p.m. - Deja Vu
Cultural Area
Italian Stage
noon - wine-making contest awards
12:30 p.m. - Faiellas
1:15 p.m. - Bella Vino
3:30 p.m. - Nick Fiasco


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January 18, 2013
Ten good reasons to go golfing around Cape Town
Larry Gould
Larry Gould is a Frenchman by birth, an Englishman by education and a South African by choice.
He is a former international hotelier, having worked in Europe, USA, the Caribbean, East Africa and the Seychelles. During this time in the hospitality industry he earned the nickname the "Golfing Hotelier" because of his passion for the game.
He came to South Africa in 1979 for a three-week holiday and never left. He told us: "I fell in love with the scenery, the beaches, the mountains, the people and, as a Frenchman, the wine!"
In South Africa he has been the General Manager of Fancourt in George, and with the advent of democracy and the impending tourism boom he identified the need for a guide to local golf courses for international golfers.
For the past 18 years he has produced his regional guides The Larry Gould Guides to Golf (where to play and where to stay).
Golf in South Africa began in 1885 when Lieutenant-General Sir Henry D'Oyley Torrens, commander of the British garrison stationed in the Cape, founded the Royal Cape Golf Club. Well over a century later the course has stood the test of time and remains one of the Cape's premier golfing destinations. A relatively flat course, it weaves through avenues of trees and water features which add to the appeal and challenge of the game.
Perhaps the best view of Table Mountain can be appreciated from the third tee of the Milnerton Golf Club. Here you need to turn your back on the waiting fairway, but I guarantee it's worth it. The course lies between sea and lagoon and has the aura of a true links course.
It comes as a surprise to many that I include a nine-hole course on my list. It isn't just a nine-holer, however, it's the jewel of the city: the Metropolitan Golf Course. Set in the shadow of the Cape Town Stadium nd with ocean and Table Mountain as backdrops, there are a variety of greens to be played.
Bracketing the N2 – the south coast highway out of Cape Town – are the Mowbray and Rondebosch golf courses. Both are centenarians and steeped in tradition, and both are blessed with established tree-lined fairways. Mowbray offers a classic challenge on flat terrain, while Rondebosch has a rolling landscape with a highly visible and testing canal as one of its memorable features.
The Westlake Golf Club, famed for its excellent greens and flat-top pines, has garnered a deserved reputation for its highly social atmosphere. This social aspect is mirrored by the dune-lined layout of the charming Clovelly Country Club. Here, a superb clubhouse is set at elevation, where it overlooks the course, scenic surrounds and the ocean.
One of the "new" courses to be found in the Cape's southern suburbs is the Peter Matkovich-designed Steenberg Golf Course. Set in the heart of an award-winning real estate development, the experience is one of exceptional, manicured greens, enhanced by quite magnificent mountain backdrops.
Near the Cape Town International Airport is the King David Golf Club, which has a different ambience to many other Cape courses. Here, undulating fairways are the main feature, along with an abundance of established trees, doglegs and large to small greens. In recent years the course has improved its look to one of near perfection.
Only half an hour from the city is the famous Cape Winelands. In the Helderberg region, the Erinvale Golf Course, a Gary Player masterpiece, is located centrally in one of South Africa's premier housing estates. The course gained its international reputation as host of the 1996 World Cup of Golf event in which a worldwide audience saw Ernie Els and Wayne Westner win on home soil. Erinvale's reputation was built, however, on its spectacular scenery as captured by international television crews.


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I have a question for seasoned graphic designers.
I'm designing a logo and a stationary including the letterhead. The back of the letterhead uses a very dark background. The question is, is it risky to use such dark background as it will show through on the other side? Or is it risky only with certain paper types? If there is type of paper that is safe to use? Any paper type/brand would you recommend?
You can view the screenshot of my stationary here: http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo169/bgbs/stationary.png
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6 Unassuming Animals That Are Secretly Immortal
For centuries, mankind has tried absolutely everything to achieve immortality, from searching for mystical fountains of youth to literally putting corpses in cold storage hoping the future can un-kill them. Considering that we don't have Ponce de Leon or Walt Disney hanging out in Florida today, it's safe to say that we're failing in this department.
Meanwhile, some animals living in our world seem to be kicking death in the ass just by hanging around and doing what they do. These species have managed to stick around the planet for mind-blowing amounts of time ... at least until we killed them and dissected their bodies to find out how they did it. For example ...
#6. Lobsters Don't Actually Get Older, Just Bigger (And Hornier)
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When some animal activists found out that a restaurant in New York City was offering to serve a massive 20-pound lobster, they rushed to try to save the behemoth. It seems like a ridiculous thing to do, since lobsters are born to be delicious, but then they pointed out that this monster was estimated to be 140 goddamned years old.
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And yet it doesn't look a day over "terrifying."
See, the bizarre thing about lobsters is that they don't really age, in the sense that they don't get weaker or start getting arthritis in their claws as time passes. Instead, they just keep getting bigger and bigger. That's how you can wind up eating the meat of a creature that was born just after the Civil War and who, had it been captured earlier, could have realistically been eaten by Thomas Edison.
Oh, and this isn't even the biggest/oldest lobster ever found -- according to The Guinness Book of World Records, that would be a 44-pound colossus that was caught in 1977. Apparently, no one told them there was also a 51.5-pound one caught in Maine in 1926. How old were those dudes? No one really knows.
Via Whoi.edu, courtesy Dick Allen
If humans aged the same way, Abe Vigoda would be the size of the Statue of Liberty.
The most amazing part is that lobsters don't suffer through their old age like we do, unless you count the existential angst that probably starts kicking in after the first century. As they keep accumulating years, they don't lose function or get slower -- they actually get more powerful. When they grow so big that their shells can no longer contain them, they simply shed it and grow a new one and keep on trucking.
In fact, scientists believe that lobsters only get hornier and more fertile the "older" they get. We now ask you to imagine a hypothetical 700-year lobster down in some undiscovered depth of the world, meeting another colossus the same age ... and boning.
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"Why does this ocean suddenly have more motion?"
As for George, the big lobster saved from being someone's dinner in New York, it was taken to a nature preserve in Maine where it will probably bury every human there.
#5. Turtles Are Technically Stuck as Teenagers for Centuries
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Seeing as it often makes the news when turtles die, the fact that they can live for centuries is probably not news to you -- one tortoise that died in 2006 was so old (176) that it was said to be a former pet of Charles Darwin. What you may not know is that, biologically, there is almost no difference between a juvenile turtle and one that's older than your great-great-grandparents. Apparently, they just say "fuck it" and stop aging at some point.
Via BBC
That, or they reach a point where they can't physically get any uglier.
When researchers got around to actually taking a look inside a century-old turtle, something they'd amazingly never thought of doing before, they were astounded to find that its organs were virtually "indistinguishable from those of its teenage counterpart." Biologically, the turtle hadn't aged a day since hitting sexual maturity, a phenomenon scientists have dubbed "The Don Draper Effect."
Along with having organs that are remarkably stubborn to the advance of time, researchers also discovered that a turtle's heart didn't always beat in response to nerve impulses and, in fact, sometimes didn't need to beat at all -- in other words, it looks like turtles are able to just turn their own fucking heart off if they don't need it. This means that you could realistically tear out a turtle's heart and show it to it like in that scene from Indiana Jones ... only to have it live long enough to watch you bleed to death from the resulting turtle bite wounds.
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Don't laugh, a snapping turtle can fuck your shit right on up.
This research has led scientists to believe that turtles are biologically immortal -- but wait, don't they die all the time? Of course they do, otherwise we'd be swimming in turtles, but the weird thing is, they never seem to die of old age. It's always a disease, or a falling boulder, or Master Shredder.
Combine this with the fact they can breed and lay eggs until the day they drop dead and that means that, technically, a turtle can live and have sex forever. And we think we're the dominant species of this planet?
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"Yeah, keep on staring, kid. I just laid 200 thought eggs in your mind."
#4. Bdelloids Survive by Stealing DNA from Other Species
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Bdelloids are a type of microscopic organism that live in fresh water, yet can survive out of water for years. And if that's not weird enough, as a species they haven't had sex in about 80 million years.
We know what you're wondering: How do they keep their genetic material fresh, then? By stealing it from other species, naturally.
Via Bob Blaylock
A bdelloid in its natural habitat: a ruler.
A lot of scientists are of the idea that a species can't survive long by reproducing asexually, since they end up becoming more flawed with each generation, like microscopic hillbillies. Bdelloids have defied those odds in the most horrifying way possible. When they analyzed the little bastards' DNA, scientists found it to be a "genetic mosaic" -- a single bdelloid had DNA from more than 500 different species.
Apparently, when they need to add some alien DNA to the gene soup, they just find whatever is lying around and attach it to their own broken double helix. This includes bits from near-by dead animals, from any food they hadn't gotten around to eating yet, and from who knows what else.
Via Wikipedia
If you've ever relieved yourself in a lake, there might be a little bit of you in this guy.
This DNA-stealing routine might also explain how bdelloids are able to survive, like, every conceivable deplorable condition you can imagine. For instance, you might think they'd need water to keep on living, since that's their natural habitat and all, but bdelloids have been able to survive nine years completely dried up. Hell, they can even shrug off massive amounts of radiation -- a bdelloid can withstand about 1000 Gy of radiation before becoming infertile, which is about 250 times what it takes for a human woman. (Uh, don't ask how we know that.)
And they aren't the only impressive freaks of nature living in ponds: their distant cousins, the planarians, are tiny wormy creatures that have been called "immortal under the knife," since you can cut their heads off and they'll just grow another one. These guys don't get old at all. They just replace damaged tissue with shiny new cells.
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This is also exactly how the Baldwin clan was created.


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I can never remember what the conversion is from something like
rw-r--r-- to
644. Is there a simple web based converter between the 2?
I can never remember what the conversion is from something like
This site provides an interactive way to see what permissions bits are set when various bits are set/unset.
The "calculator" looks like this:
Why do you need octal number in the first place?
I always use:
ugo(a) is easy to remember. However you can confuse o:=owner? o:=other? but what would be u, if o=owner? u:=user, therefore o=other.
Some comands like numerical permissions only. Okay, it's not hard to calculate, if you remember the two sequences: ugo + rwx.
Yes, very artificial.
When it comes to s and S I have to consult the manual. Maybe google next time. :)
Octal is used for permissions because it's an easy conversion. Each group of
This is by far the most convenient, and is besides I believe, exactly what you asked for originally:
It is fully interactive, though you cannot edit the string "-r-x-------" but you can the octal or the checkboxes. Doing either updates the other.
From the same page:
Numeric (absolute) mode:
From one to four octal digits Any omitted digits are assumed to be leading zeros.
The first digit = selects attributes for the set user ID (4) and set group ID (2) and save text image (1) The second digit = permissions for the user who owns the file: read (4), write (2), and execute (1) The third digit = permissions for other users in the file's group: read (4), write (2), and execute (1) The fourth digit = permissions for other users NOT in the file's group: read (4), write (2), and execute (1)
The octal (0-7) value is calculated by adding up the values for each digit User (rwx) = 4+2+1 = 7 Group(rx) = 4+1 = 5 World (rx) = 4+1 = 5 chmod mode = 0755
I have this little alias that you can put in your .bashrc (or equivalent).
DISCLAIMER: I am not the author of the script, and I'm not sure who wrote it... but props to him/her for doing this.
I like this permissions calculator:
I've created a calculator that performs this exact function: http://rowanstringer.com/unix-file-permissions-calculator/


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5 Futuristic Technologies Invented in the Wrong Century
#2. The Sum of All Human Knowledge Originally Existed on 3 x 5 Index Cards
The Sci-Fi Trope:
The complete collection of all human knowledge, easily accessible at your fingertips. We have the Internet now, and not only all of human knowledge, but like 80 percent of all human wangs documented for easy access. But this has long been a science fiction staple -- from the Memory Alpha facility in the original Star Trek TV series to the Brain Spawn's Infosphere from Futurama.
Few people realize that the precursor to the Singularity is the Knowledgegasm.
But Previously, in the Real World ...
Way back in 1895, Belgian lawyer Paul Otlet and Nobel Peace Prize winner Henri LaFontaine had an idea: collect every bit of the world's knowledge, put it on 3 x 5 index cards (12 friggin' million of them, to be exact) and devise a system to make all that information easily accessible by anyone in the world.
So they convinced the Belgian government to support their efforts, hired a staff of librarians and set up shop. They called their creation the Mundaneum, presumably because they were well aware of how hard future steampunk nerds would dork their trousers over the name, and that was it: They invented the world's first search engine. Inquiries came in from all over the world via mail or telegraph -- more than 1,500 a year by some counts -- on basically any topic you could think of. If somebody wanted to know the Swahili word for boobies or which species of badger gave the least fucks, they sent in a request to the Mundaneum, which consulted its database and compiled an answer. It was sort of like Google, if Google collected your information via an intricate network of severe-looking women in petticoats.
Via Atlasobscura.com
Come index with us ... forever and ever and ever ...
Which ... it ... it doesn't, right? (We don't know how Google works. Magic seems most likely. Maybe some form of basketball genie?)
But Otlet didn't want to stop there. His ultimate vision was of a global network of "electric microscopes" that would allow people worldwide to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images and audio and video files. He even continued on to describe social networking, proposing to let users "participate, applaud, give ovations, [or] sing in the chorus." The guy stopped just short of calling out Facebook by name and warning people to keep their children away from Chatroulette, essentially.
Via Atlasobscura.com
"And this is where we keep the Grover Cleveland fan fiction."
Unfortunately, the Mundaneum encountered a series of financial troubles, multiple downsizes and a pesky infestation of Nazis, and soon was no more. Friggin' Nazis, man! It's like they hated the future, the short-sighted bastards. Well, except for the fact that ...
#1. You Could "Hail" People in Pre-WWII Germany
The Sci-Fi Trope:
In the future, people never text or email or talk on the phone. If you're going to speak to someone who's not in the room with you, they pop up on a screen so you can stare right back at them and inquire as to the state of their tits. You can see this trope in Star Trek or Demolition Man or pretty much every other sci-fi movie ever. Nothing is shorthand for "the future" like flying cars and video phones.
The world really needs to learn some priorities.
But Previously, in the Real World ...
The world's first public videophone service was developed by Dr. Georg Schubert and opened by the German (uh oh) Post Office (phew, we thought we were going to say "Nazis" there). It linked Berlin and Leipzig all the way back in early 1936 and used the same coaxial cables that the Nazis used to distribute their propaganda all across Germany.
Well, crap.
Via Fernsehmuseum.info
"Heiling frequencies open, Hauptmann."
So ... good job, Nazis, we guess? Shit, we swore we were going to get through this week without praising the Third Reich again. Ah well, we'll put another quarter in the "human rights violation" jar.
The Gegenseh-telephone system used mechanical televisions to produce a real-time image of the head and shoulders of the operator. The feed supposedly possessed a 180-line resolution at 25 frames per second -- not too shabby, even when compared to early webcam technology. Over the next three years, the system was expanded to both Nuremberg and Munich. But Germany's public videophone system was eventually closed without much fanfare in 1940 (probably because of all those pesky bombs and genocides messing with the buffering), and so lonely perverts everywhere had to wait another half a century for the camgirls to emerge from their long chrysalis and flap their majestic boobies in mankind's collective face.
Via Vsee.com
Which is good, considering that's a woman in that shot.
So let's all play a tiny violin for the jilted Nazi sex fiends, shall we?
For more conventions that are old as dirt, check out 11 Modern Technologies That Are Way Older Than You Think and 6 Depraved Sexual Fetishes That Are Older Than You Think.


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Anyone know of an algorithm that can return fuzzy true/false to if a image has motion blur / camera shake in a image?
Ideally it would be particular to motion blur, as lots of the images in the set might have blurred (Bokeh) backgrounds.
A language preference would be C, Perl, Shell Utility, or Python, but I'm open to anything really.
With my current knowledge of Math / Programming, I don't think I really have a hope of writing such an algorithm, only using one that takes some parameters...


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I have been looking at this for days and I am going insane.
I need to show that for a Dirichlet series equal to $\zeta(s)\zeta(2s)$, the sum of the coefficients less than $x$ is $x\zeta(2)+O(x^{(3/4)})$, and then expand that to the $\Pi \zeta(ks)$ for all $k$ in an effort to find the formula for the number of non-isomorphic abelian groups.
I know that using Perron's formula there is a simple pole at $s=1$ that gives a residue of $X\zeta(2)$, but I can't find a contour that converges or the exact error term.