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I have been asked that question and have several times left someone with a strange look on their face when I tell them some of the items and plans that I have. That is until I explain that one of my "jobs" is that I am on my county Animal Support Team (under FL State / FEMA) and the county Pet-Friendly Evacuation Shelter Coordinator.
So yes, I am pretty well prepared with an emergency evacuation plan for the whole family and our animals. Do I ever feel 100% prepared? No. Different circumstances can equal different problems including some that no one imagines.
Hasn't been updated yet this year but may be of some help to someone putting together a plan ...
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Living on a hill top, what I'd need to evacuate for would be a wildfire. It's a concern because there is one main road up this canyon - no outlet. Here, we're on private roads - if the one going to my house is blocked, egress depends upon where it is blocked. One fine fellow gated and locked his section of the road, another road is very very poorly maintained.
The house itself is in a pretty good situation as it has lawn on three sides and a gravel arena on the other + I'm cutting and limbing up the juniper on the rest of the property. Got some done this spring; more next fall or next spring. I also have a pond and a well for water so long as the power lasts.
If a flood takes out the main road -- well, we're stuck up here or else they build a way around it.
When I lived in tornado country, I had a relatively safe area in the house & a small stash of food and water there. No evacuation plan.
|Living on Long Island there truly is no way to evacuate off this island unless you have a boat. I always make sure I have at least 1 unopened bag of food, some bottled water.
|I see lots of people thinking along the lines of hurricanes, tornadoes, etc and it might not affect them, but what about a fire? Last night in the middle of the night lightning struck a house not far from me, everyone got out safely. What about something like a fire, when there is no warning? Fires can happen anywhere at any time.
We have had the hurricane scare quite a few times, most kept us in our house bunkering down.. but there were a couple that we prepared for evacuation. I luck out in that I only have Titan and a boyfriend to worry about
We generally have fair warning and time to make plans. I have a metal fold up crate, but I really want to get an easier clothe pop up one for these kinds of things. I have plenty of water, gallons and bottles, fold up portable feed dishes and his food is already in a large storage container. I have all his important documents and things in a box next to his food. I need to actually get an emergency box with extras of everything but I haven't done that yet.
We tend to need to evacuate north and have lucked out in finding hotels that are pet friendly and even friends up in the areas we can go. If all else fails.. the military has plenty of space somewhere for us and Titan.
I voted no as well.
The walls of my house have a double layer of concrete and underneath my laminate floors is also concrete and I have no basement.
If there were a tornado, I would have to gather all 6 of my animals and put them in the bathroom. If there were a fire, I could get the dogs out easily, the cats would be a problem. My cats would tear me apart if I touched them while they are freaked out and at least 2 of them would hide. I often think about what would happen if there were a fire. I do not have any cat crates, only very large dog crates. If there were a fire and the cats were able to get out, chances are they would take off running and I wouldn't be able to find them.
|I said no because I can't think of a reason I would need to evacuate. We don't get bad storms, we are not surrounded by things that would burn just low scrub, we are not in a flood area.
|No, not yet but I've been making a list of things I'd need for a 7 day emergency readiness kit. My old job required us to make one for work but I ended up leaving before it was finished. I just need to buy a big storage containers that you can fill up and then just grab and throw in the car and go. One for each person for 7 days (even if you don't think you won't use all of it). In our safety meeting they said either buy packaged food (like tuna in a tear package) or something with a pull tab can because everyone forgets the can opener haha XD
|I once had to evacuate from a wildfire. Kind of hard to think when the winds are 35 miles and hour and heading your way, sirens screaming, and you are trying to collect 3 dogs and 3 cats. I ended up getting everyone but one cat and got out of there. After that my husband asked if I got some cloths, underware and the laptops... nope... dog food and cat litter? nope.... I felt stupid... so now I have not so much a plan but a list.
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Practice. Pretend there is an alarm and see how long it takes you. The cats are tough, they scatter. Dogs are easier. I like the training a behavior when the fire alarm goes
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Diane Rehm Show: Mental Health Under the Affordable Care Act
I was a guest on today's Diane Rehm Show on National Public Radio, along with Rachel Garfield from the Kaiser Family Foundation, Pamela Hyde from SAMHSA, and Richard Frank, the Harvard health economist.
The topic was about the Accountable Care Act (ACA) and its potential impact on mental health and addiction services.
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I'm working on designing my bucket/armor, and I wanted yall's opinions and input on some ideas I had. The build probably won't start for another month or so, but I figured I'd get yall's input while still in the planning stages.
I'm a hospital security officer, and I work with police officers almost daily. I'm ex-military, and an ex-paramedic, so I wanted to do some sort of medic or law enforcement themed suit. I was fiddling with helmet designs (colors, features, etc.) when one of the officers I work with looked at my then current design and said "That looks like my cruiser."
Bam! Inspiration hit me like a Bevii'ragir to the head. I went outside, took a few quick pictures of his cruiser, and sat down with MS Paint (since I'm at work with a lame computer), and went to town. The color scheme wasn't hard to nail down, obviously, but the other design elements are giving me issues.
Helmet Design: Standard T-Visor Mando helmet, with a set of short comm antennas that don't extend above the dome, instead of a rangefinder.
On that same side, I want to install a micro speaker into the ear, which will be wired to a small bone mic on the other side of my head to avoid feedback issues.
On the opposite side, I want to install two small strings of LED's, one red and one blue, facing forward. These will be wired so that they can be turned on to flash in sequence, like police lights. Above these I want one or two ultra bright LED's, for a headlamp. This will also function as the lamp that the detective shines on the suspect during interrogation. Hah!
Armor Design: Standard armor over a normal flight suit. On the left chest, where the armor cutouts are, I want several long cutouts, in an inverted triangle shape. These will have transparent yellow or gold plastic behind them, like a cutout badge.
For the pauldrons, or shoulder bells, I want to do something bigger than a Mando, but smaller than football pads. I'm thinking that I want full on spaulders, with a bit of armor that wraps around the bicep for a SWAT armor look.
For one gauntlet (probably the right one), I'll do a normal greeblies covered gauntlet, but for the other one, I want a distinct faceplate on the top. I want to put several small LED message screens (like One End has on his chest) on this faceplate, so that I can program them to say things like "Suspect Identified", or "No Information". There will also be a small (fake) image screen, with the picture of a generic Mando headshot. This will be the police computer of the outfit.
Paint: For the bucket, I want a black dome, white mandibles/visor frame, mirrored visor, black cheekbones and white cheeks, if that makes sense. I'd post pictures, but am at work, with the afore mentioned lame computer, so those will have to wait until morning. Over the right eye of the dome, I want to add a white/reflective stripe that mimics our local police cruiser graphics.
I want a similar stripe to run from the collar armor, down over the breastplate, and down onto the ab plate.
That's all I've got planned out so far, but there's more to come. Tell me what yall think. All comments and questions are welcome.


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WLAN design guide for branch office
Is there any document that explain different designs for branch offices? I have a customer with one head quarters with more than 150 branch offices. Today he has one or more autonomous APs per brach office connected directed to the BO switch. Each BO has its own IP address space. Beacuse all wireless client traffic has to travel to the HQ, he wants a controller based solution where all traffic is tunneled to the WLC and from there, it goes through a firewall in order to reach the servers farm.
The problem is I don't realize how to manage all the different IPs of each BO in the HQ. Because when the WLC will send the packet to the core switch, the packet will reach the servers, but when the servers will respond that packet, it will go to the branch office directly. It won't be sent to the WLC in order to be delivered back to the branch office.
I don't know if the most suitable solution is to create a big unique WLAN with one SSID for all the brach offices.
Another idea could be to create one SSID per brach office, in order to have different IP address for wireless clients, but the customer doesn't want to change the IP addressing. He wants to keep all the branch office IP address, no matter if the client is wired or wireless.
Another option is to use H-REAP, and make all the traffic between BO and HQ to go through the firewall.
Finally, the idea is to know if it exists any design document where it explains the different ways to design a solution for branch offices with centralized controllers in order to evaluate all of them.
Here is the offical HREAP Design Guide By Cisco
Sound like LOCAL switch is the way to go. LOCAL switch is much like AUTONOMOUS. Keeps local IPs and traffic local as well.
What security are you using on your wifi clients in the BO ?


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When I was living in New England and, as a mountaineer, was greener than the hills of Vermont, I asked a British climber what he ate at high altitude. The Brit, who had climbed in the Alps, Andes and Himalaya, said, Don't worry, lad, if you go hungry it's good for the soul.
It hardly struck me as useful advice, but since then, I've discovered what he meant. I've endured many stove malfunctions in the mountains, and almost gone hungry enough to be one with Gandhi.
If you rely on hot food and drink for happiness, however, you need a good stove. Stoves that use cartridges, which burn liquid propane or a similar gas, are the most user friendly: Screw the canister on and you are cooking. But liquid (white gas) stoves have always outperformed cartridge stoves in cold weather ... or they did until now. New technology by JetBoil, MSR, Primus and Coleman has radically increased canister-stove performance in all conditions. I tested the Jetboil Helios, MSR Reactor, Primus ETA Power Express and Coleman Multi-Fuel Fyrestorm Ti stoves.
MSR Reactor
$140 | 20 oz including 1.7-liter pot with integral windscreen and clear Lexan lid.
4 stars
An internal fuel regulator separates the Reactor from the others. The regulator keeps fuel pressure constant for consistent heat, even with a near-empty cartridge and in sub-freezing conditions. In fact, no other stand-up cartridge stove performs as well as the Reactor, and especially so in cold temperatures.
The Reactor's burner is unique. While other stoves have visible flames, the Reactor's fire looks like a branding iron, there's no flare up due to a wide flame control. The Reactor can burn hotter than the MSR liquid-gas XGK, and more quietly than the MSR Whisperlite. An integrated heat exchanger on the large cook pot further improves performance, as does a built-in windscreen.
Jetboil Helios
$150 | 28 oz including pot and canister supports, windscreen, two-liter pot with lid and bottom cover.
4 stars
The Helios, like its predecessor the Jetboil PCS, has a heat-absorbing radiator built into the pot, but differs by having a two-liter pot and an inverted canister. Inverting the canister lets gravity rather than pressure feed fuel to the burner. This virtually eliminates cold-weather performance drop and maintains full boiling power until the canister is virtually empty. The two stoves that burned the best in sub-freezing temperatures were the Jetboil and the Coleman, which also uses an inverted canister. In freezing conditions, the Helios took only a third of the boiling time of its predecessor the PCS. Heat output was consistent throughout the life of the canister, and this was the hottest stove tested, boiling water in two minutes or less, a full minute faster than any competitor.
The Helios, with twice the pot capacity of the old PCS, lets you cook real food instead of just boiling meals. This stove lit easily with a push-button ignition, though I usually had to push the button three or four times.
The fuel-cartridge support legs stabilize the cartridge, and the locking pot-support legs give the Helios an extremely stable platform. A plastic windshield snaps onto the pot support and doesn't budge even in 20 mph winds. The pot's plastic lid and its plastic bottom cover can each double as a plate. The pot's neoprene cozy allows it to be held bare-handed even when hot.
Coleman Multi-Fuel Fyrestorm Ti
$220 | 7.7 oz Comes with liquid fuel bottle, windscreen and reflector disc.
3 stars
The Fyrestorm inverts the canister, so its stove power drops very little even in sub-freezing temps and with almost empty canisters. This system gravity-feeds the fuel, giving this stove as well as the Helios the best cold-weather performance. The Multi-Fuel Fyrestorm Ti does not have an integrated pot attached above the burner. The burner and cartridge each have tripod legs and are separated by a 9 -inch hose. This makes for a stable base, and you can use whatever pot you want. an advantage for cooking large meals. The Multi-Fuel Fyrestorm can burn liquid gas or cartridge fuels, making it the most versatile of all the stoves. (Note: the Fyrestorm was not tested for liquid-gas performance.)
The boiling tests were done at sea level, using MSR 8 oz. isopro fuel canisters. If you consider a stove's daily use on a mountaineering expedition in terms of a marathon, the Reactor ran the whole marathon at a sprint. It boils a quart of water in under three minutes with a full canister, and in three and a half minutes on its 24th and last boil before running out of fuel. The Reactor boiled water faster on a nearly empty canister than most stoves do with full canisters.
The Express also broke the three-minute boiling model, but ran out of gas after boiling just 14 quarts.
The lightweight Coleman Fyrestorm lived up to its name, boiling water faster than even the Reactor, averaging less than three minutes per boil for 11 quarts.
The Krakatoa of all stoves is the Jetboil Helios. Just a few years ago breaking three minutes to boil a quart of water seemed like a magical time. Now the Reactor, the Primus Express and the Coleman Fyrestorm all break it. The Jetboil Helios, however, broke two minutes! It averaged 2:04 for its first 22 quarts and 3:07 on its 23rd quart. It is also fuel efficient, boiling 23 quarts, only one less than the Reactor.
While the Primus and Coleman had the knockout power of the Reactor, they lacked its stamina. The Jetboil was even hotter and with almost the same gas stinginess. For a combination of volcanic heat and stingy fuel consumption, the Jetboil Helios gets the nod.
It's one thing to test a stove in a windless environment, but what happens when the wind blows? We blasted two fans point-blank at each stove. Wind velocity measured 10 mph.
The Primus Express's starter would not light. Once protected from the wind, it immediately lit. Placed back in the wind, the Express flew from the starting gate, boiling water in just 3:48.
The Reactor, which does not have an electric igniter, was also difficult to light. In fact, I could not get it to light in the wind. When I lit the stove out of the wind, then placed it back in the wind, it boiled in 3:20.
Even with the Fyrestorm's windscreen in place, it took 11:38 to boil water.
The Jetboil Helios lit in the wind and took 3:40 to boil.
All stoves were tested with new canisters kept in an 18-degree freezer for 48 hours. The Coleman boiled water in 3:48; the Reactor in 4:20; the Express in 4:30; and the Jet Boil Helios in 3:33.
MSR and Primus have wide flame control. You can boil or simmer. The Coleman and Jetboil's lowest simmer is the equivalent of the MSR and Primus' medium power.


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AMES, Iowa – In the early 1920s, Iowa 4-H was in its youth; today Iowa 4-H is thriving and in its prime, reaching one in every five Iowa school-age youth. Iowa State University has always played a central role with 4-H Youth Development in Iowa, and the university preserves early 4-H memorabilia through the Iowa State University Library's Special Collections Department.
Two museums in Iowa house 4-H memorabilia, the Nodaway Valley Museum in Clarinda and the 4-H Historical Schoolhouse Museum in Clarion. Clarinda is the birthplace of Jessie Field Shambaugh, who is considered the mother of 4-H. The schoolhouse in Clarion is known as the birthplace of the 4-H emblem. These museums mostly hold artifacts from their local communities.
The Special Collections Department at Iowa State is dedicated to documenting Iowa State University and agricultural and rural life in Iowa, and Iowa 4-H fits in greatly with its mission. In addition to the records of 4-H Youth Development, the department houses the papers of several 4-H members and prominent 4-H leaders, including Paul Taff and Gerald Parsons.
"The history of 4-H in Iowa can provide a glimpse into the life stories of thousands of youths growing up in rural Iowa," said Michele Christian, collections archivist and records analyst with University Archives. "We see 4-H as an important part of Iowa and Iowa State University and we strive to preserve 4-H's rich historical legacy."
4-H Provides Rich Legacy
In 1929, Junior "J.E." Eugene Ellis joined Union's Pride 4-H Club in Dallas County when he was 12 years old. According to an excerpt from his story, he participated in most of the club's functions and held all the offices from committee member to local leader. During the 11 years he was in 4-H, Ellis received several major and minor awards.
The family of Junior Ellis recently donated several of his 4-H awards to the Special Collections Department. Among the items were his books of personal 4-H records, pictures and news clippings, items from his trips to the 1935, 1936 and 1937 National 4-H Congresses, autograph books, hats and more.
For more information on preserving 4-H memories, or the Special Collections Department, visit http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/index.html. According to Christian, the department is interested in receiving record books, scrapbooks, photographs, audio and video recordings, ribbons, pins and any other items related to 4-H in Iowa experiences. For a list of 4-H materials the department is holding, visit http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/arch/inventories/16extension.html. The department is open to the public and will provide access to the materials it holds.
"4-H has played a pivotal role in advancing the state of Iowa," said Shelly Greving, marketing director for Iowa State University Extension and Outreach 4-H Youth Development. "If we preserve the 4-H legacy, we can help pave the way for the future."


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It was not worth making this song, it has 140 bpm 2step drum patterns I made so it's garage 2-step I believe, but less sub bass. I'll put that in later.
I stayed up all night making this pos, now I feel all weird and I know I have to sleep eventually uuughh.
http://kpence.bandcamp.com/track/im-a-zombie-now It's really bad.


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Standing Alone: Women's Basketball Claims Outright Regular Season HL Title
By Rachel Buck (@GBRachel)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) – In an emotional day at the Kress Center, the Green Bay women's basketball team claimed sole possession of its 16th-consecutive Horizon League title with a 72-52 triumph over Detroit.
Green Bay concludes the regular season with a record of 20-8 and 13-3 in the Horizon League, taking home its 17th overall conference title and 16th consecutive since joining during the 1994-95 season. Reaching the 20 win plateau, the Phoenix has now achieved that feat for the 27th time in program history, 15th consecutive year and 10th under head coach Kevin Borseth. He has guided the Phoenix to 20+ wins in all but one season at Green Bay, his first season in 1998-99 when the squad finished with 19.
One of the top performances of the day was from senior Breannah Ranger (Skokie, Ill.), who on senior day finished with a career-high 20 points, setting the bar for the second-consecutive game after posting a then-career high 19 against Oakland on Thursday. Freshman Mehryn Kraker (West Allis, Wis.) posted her first career double-double with 17 points and 12 rebounds, while classmate Tesha Buck (Red Wing, Minn.) tied a career best with seven assists.
"It was a quiet 20 for Bre from my view today," head coach Kevin Borseth said. "She's grown a lot, even when it is tough around the basket she has really come a long way to play big and strong and it is fun to watch her out on the court."
Green Bay came out firing to start the game, opening with a 9-0 run over the first three minutes. Starting with a layup by Ranger, Kraker then drilled a three in the corner before Ranger and sophomore Kaili Lukan (Barrie, Ontario) put up back-to-back layups for the 9-0 advantage. The defense was also impressive during the run, forcing five Titans turnovers on its first six possessions before the visitors called a timeout.
"It's key for us to come out strong and then sustain that momentum," Borseth said. "I felt today we came out strong and then hit a little bit of a slow spot, but then we were able to pick it back up and play with the intensity we started with."
Coming out of the timeout, Detroit swung the game in its favor with a 10-0 run to assume its only lead of the game, 10-9, with 14:44 remaining. However another Phoenix run gave Green Bay the lead for good as it went on an 8-0 spurt over 3:18 to jump out to an 18-10 lead. The run was part of a final 22-7 run for the Phoenix, as it held Detroit to just two field goals over the final 14 minutes of the half.
The senior duo of Ranger and Sam Zastrow (Algoma, Wis.) started the 8-0 run before Kraker closed it with a layup and-1 and two free throws on consecutive possessions. After a three minute scoreless drought for both teams, the Titans received their final field goal of the half on a Haleigh Ristovski layup with 8:37 remaining before Green Bay closed on a 13-5 run to assume a 31-17 halftime lead.
Detroit cut the lead to 11 points with just over eight minutes remaining in the second half (51-40), but the Green Bay lead never went to single digits in the second stanza as the Phoenix took back control to cruise to the 72-52 victory.
"It's an emotional day but we still have more games to play," Ranger said. "It's a great feeling, to be the leader of the team this season. We had some bumps in the road, but we came together and helped each other through the ups and downs to get to where we are today."
Green Bay finished the game shooting 40.3 percent from the field (25-62) while holding the Titans to just 27.8 percent shooting (15-54). The Phoenix also dominated the boards, 45-36, and play in the paint, 34-18, while receiving 23 points from its bench while dishing out 19 assists on 25 baskets.
Senee Shearer led Detroit with 19 points, while Megan Hatter added a team-best 10 rebounds.
"To have a hand in it this year and know you were a part of it and contributing, it has been a great feeling," Kraker said. "But we still have a lot of work to do. I just keep playing and helping the team any way that I can and I know that myself and my teammates all support each other so we can reach our goals."
"As a coach you are given the credit, but the team really deserves it for how they have come together," Borseth said. "I can put together plays, but it's the girls who go out there and make them happen, and they have really come together this year to get it done."
With the Horizon League slate of competition wrapping up on Saturday, Green Bay secured the No. 1 seed and will host the conference tournament. The Phoenix will face either No. 8 Detroit or No. 9 Valparaiso next Wednesday evening at the Kress Center.
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Aeropostale: No Easy Way Out
This is lousy time to be a teen retailer. Aeropostale (ARO), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), among others have been beaten up, thrown out, and yes, they're down--hard--during the past 12 months.
It's enough to make one look for a way out--which is exactly what Aeropostale may be doing, according to reports. Bloomberg has the details:
Aeropostale Inc., the teen-clothing retailer under pressure from an activist investor, has contacted at least two private-equity firms as management explores strategic options, people with knowledge of the matter said.
The New York-based retailer also has reached out to investment banks about how to handle pressure from activist investor Crescendo Partners or run a sale process, said two of the people, who asked not to be identified because the process is private. The company isn't in negotiations to sell itself yet, the people said.
Stifel's Richard Jaffe and team believe that going private would give Aeropostale, which they rate Neutral, the time it needs to restructure out of the public eye. Good for its shares, however? That's another story:
If we assume the same Transaction Value/TTM Revenue as the Talbots transaction, 0.3x, this would imply a share price of about $9.35 for [Aeropostale], implying a 20% premium to last night's closing share price. Additionally, the top 10 holders own over 65% of the company's outstanding shares, possibly making [Aeropostale] an easier takeout candidate...
In our opinion, the sale of [Aeropostale] has a better than 50% possibility of being completed; however, we believe the transaction would be prolonged. With shares closing at $7.73, the company is more than fully valued on a fundamental basis, in our view.
Shares of Aeropostale have gained 2.2% to $7.90, while Abercrombie & Fitch has risen 0.9% to $36.29 and American Eagle Outfitters has jumped 2.4% to $15.12.


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Aerosol formation and climate, Part I
Guest post by Bart Verheggen, Department of Air Quality and Climate Change , Energy research Institute of the Netherlands (ECN)
The impacts of aerosols on climate are significant, but also very uncertain. There are several reasons for this, one of which is the uncertainty in how and how fast they are formed in the atmosphere by nucleation. Here, in part I, I'll review some of the basic processes that are important in determining the climate effects of aerosols, focusing in particular on their formation. This is also relevant in order to better understand –and hopefully quantify- the hypothetical climate effects of galactic cosmic rays which I'll discuss in a follow-up post.
Aerosols are liquid or solid particles suspended in the atmosphere (but not including water droplets or ice crystals). They can either be directly emitted into the atmosphere (primary aerosols like dust), or they can be formed in the atmosphere by condensation (secondary aerosol like sulfates). Almost all of their properties, and thus effects, are size dependent: The particle size governs the rate at which they fall out (and thus atmospheric lifetime), their interaction with radiation, their impact on clouds, or even their health effects. And they come in very different sizes, ranging from a few nanometers to tens of micrometers. Some sites with good introductory explanations to aerosols and their climate effects are here, here and here (German). RC also had some posts on the same generic topic here and here.
Climate effects of aerosols
Aerosol particles can influence climate in several ways: They scatter and absorb (in the case of black carbon) solar radiation (direct effects). They also act as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) around which clouds can form, and thereby influence cloud reflectivity and cloud lifetime (indirect effects). Black carbon can have another indirect effect by changing the albedo of snow and ice, but that's not the topic of this post. The aerosol indirect effects are the greatest source of uncertainty in assessing the human impact on climate change (reviewed here. The main idea is that more CCN causes liquid clouds to consist of more, but smaller, droplets. The resulting cloud is more reflective (first indirect effect). Due to the smaller size of cloud droplets, the formation of precipitation may be suppressed, resulting in a longer cloud lifetime and larger cloud cover (second indirect effect).
The mass of a freshly nucleated aerosol particle is more than 100,000 times smaller than that of an 'aged' aerosol of a size optimal to affect climate. As a rule of thumb, particles have to grow past 100 nm (1 nm = 10-9 meters) in order to become climatically active; below this size they are not easily activated into a cloud droplet and they don't scatter solar radiation very efficiently. It is thus not immediately obvious that the climate effects of aerosols will depend very strongly on nucleation; the dependence is likely considerably damped, because a lot can happen to the aerosol particle as it comes of age.
Aerosol formation
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ARSC T3E Users' Newsletter 146, July 10, 1998
MPI Communicators for Coupled T3E Codes
[ Thanks to Don Morton of the University of Montana for this contribution. Don is a visiting researcher, at ARSC for his fifth summer. ]
Sometimes we find it advantageous to combine pieces of computer models in order to construct more realistic representations of the real world.
For example, researchers at UAF's Water Research Center have developed both a thermal and a hydrologic model for simulating various physical processes in the arctic.
The thermal model predicts soil temperatures and thaw depths (depth from soil surface to the underlying permafrost) in a watershed as a function of various meteorological data, and, among other things, available soil moisture. The hydrologic model predicts runoff and soil moisture storage as a function of various meteorological data, and, among other things, the thaw depth. The thermal model currently estimates soil moisture storage as a constant in time and space, clearly neglecting the heterogeneous nature of this parameter. Likewise, the hydrologic model estimates thaw depth empirically as a function of the day of the year, assigning a single value to the entire spatial domain, again failing to capture any heterogeneity.
Coupling of these two models, by having the thermal model send accurate thaw depth data to the hydrologic model, and having the hydrologic model send accurate soil moisture storage data to the thermal model, would capture the inherent heterogeneity while more closely representing the various feedback loops that exist in the real-world system.
Both models had been parallelized for Cray MPP architectures, and the goal was to construct a system in which both parallel models would execute simultaneously on the same architecture, periodically communicating with each other to exchange coupling data. The coupled system was intended to run on the Cray T3E, necessitating a Single Program Multiple Data (SPMD) paradigm, in which identical copies of the executable were loaded on each PE. Consolidating two separate codes into a single code is usually accomplished by transforming each of the original programs into subroutines, then constructing a driving program which calls the subroutines. This has been discussed in previous newsletters.
Because both codes had already been parallelized, it was desirable that each code continue to run as before, but this time simultaneously with periodic communication between the two codes. This was facilitated through the use of various MPI constructs that allow for creating separate communications groups and for creating an "intercommunicator" to send messages between processes in separate groups. A sample code follows, illustrating the basic infrastructure needed to have two parallel codes execute simultaneously with periodic exchange of data.
The code was constructed from two separate parallel programs - "program hydro" and "program thermal." When run independently, each code utilized the default MPI_COMM_WORLD communicator to send messages among the processes.
In order to create an SPMD version which would include both codes, each program was transformed into a subroutine and a higher-level driving program was created to call the appropriate subroutine, depending on processor number. Additionally, new communication groups were created, and the MPI_COMM_WORLD references in the MPI subroutine calls were replaced with the new communicator for the group. Finally, an intercommunicator was also created, allowing the master processes in each group to communicate with each other.
Once the groups and communicators have been set up, the appropriate hydro or thermal subroutine is called. The hydro and thermal subroutines illustrate some basic communication between processors in the same group, and between the two groups. The hydro subroutine has the hydro processors send their processor number to the master hydro process, which sums these values and then sends it to the thermal master process in the other group. Then the hydro master process waits for a message from the thermal master process, and when received, broadcasts it to the rest of the hydro processes.
Note - additional background information on this work can be found at
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC C C Don Morton, June 1998 C Department of Computer Science C The University of Montana C Missoula, Montana 59812, USA C Email: firstname.lastname@example.com C C This is a sample code which illustrates the basic C mechanism used to couple two previously existing C parallel codes. C CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC program couple implicit none include 'mpif.h' integer myid, ! Rank of a process & numprocs, ! Total number processes & i, ! Loops counter & rc, ierr ! Return values for MPI subroutines integer & hydro_num procs, ! Number processes for hydro code & therm_numprocs, ! Number processes for thermal code & ranks_in_old_group(0:127) ! list of ranks in old group integer !MPI_Comm -- handles for MPI communicators & world_comm_handle, & hydro_comm_handle, & therm_comm_handle, & inter_comm_handle integer !MPI_Group -- handles for MPI groups & world_group_handle, & hydro_group_handle, & therm_group_handle ccc Initialization of each process into MPI_COMM_WORLD call MPI_INIT(ierr) ccc Find out what my processor number is call MPI_COMM_RANK(MPI_COMM_WORLD, myid, ierr) ccc Find out how many total processors are running call MPI_COMM_SIZE(MPI_COMM_WORLD, numprocs, ierr) print *, 'PE ', myid, ': Hello, World' ccc Wait here until everyone has reached this point call MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD, ierr) ccc Assign roughly half of total processors to each of the two models hydro_numprocs = numprocs/2 therm_numprocs = numprocs - hydro_numprocs ccc Obtain my "group" handle for use in creating new groups call MPI_Comm_group(MPI_COMM_WORLD, world_group_handle, ierr) ccc Create hydro group and communicator cccccccccccccccccccccc ccc First, get a list of the ranks I held in the "global" group do i=0,hydro_numprocs-1 ranks_in_old_group(i) = i enddo ccc Setup up hydro processes and create a handle for the new hydro group call MPI_Group_incl(world_group_handle, hydro_numprocs, & ranks_in_old_group, hydro_group_handle, ierr) call MPI_Comm_create(MPI_COMM_WORLD, hydro_group_handle, & hydro_comm_handle, ierr) ccc Obtain my "group" handle for use in creating new groups call MPI_Comm_group(MPI_COMM_WORLD, world_group_handle, ierr) ccc Setup up thermal processes and create a handle for the new thermal group do i=0,therm_numprocs-1 ranks_in_old_group(i) = i+hydro_numprocs enddo call MPI_Group_incl(world_group_handle, therm_numprocs, & ranks_in_old_group, therm_group_handle, ierr) call MPI_Comm_create(MPI_COMM_WORLD, therm_group_handle, & therm_comm_handle, ierr) ccc create intercommunicator and then proceed with hydro and thermal codes if (myid .lt. hydro_numprocs) then ! I am a hydro process call MPI_Intercomm_create(hydro_comm_handle, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD, & hydro_numprocs, 0, inter_comm_handle, ierr) call hydro(hydro_comm_handle, inter_comm_handle) else ! I am a thermal process call MPI_Intercomm_create(therm_comm_handle, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD, & 0, 0, inter_comm_handle, ierr) call thermal(therm_comm_handle, inter_comm_handle) endif call MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD, ierr) call MPI_FINALIZE(rc) end ccc============================================================== subroutine hydro(hydro_comm_handle, inter_comm_handle) implicit none integer hydro_comm_handle, ! "handles" used for communication & inter_comm_handle include 'mpif.h' integer hydro_myrank, & hydro_numprocs, & sum_of_ranks, & thermal_number, & status(MPI_STATUS_SIZE), & ierr ccc Find my rank and number of processes in the hydro group call MPI_COMM_RANK(hydro_comm_handle, hydro_myrank, ierr) print *, 'Rank number in hydro group: ', hydro_myrank call MPI_COMM_SIZE(hydro_comm_handle, hydro_numprocs, ierr) print *, 'Number of processes in hydro group: ', hydro_numprocs call MPI_Barrier(hydro_comm_handle, ierr) ccc Gather some numbers from all the hydro processes, and "do ccc something" with them to form a single number. In this ccc trivial example, each process simply sends its processor ccc number to the master hydro process, which in turn adds them ccc all together to produce a single value call MPI_Reduce(hydro_myrank, sum_of_ranks, 1, MPI_INTEGER, & MPI_SUM, 0, hydro_comm_handle, ierr) ccc The hydro master process, having obtained and summed all the ccc numbers from the other hydro processes, prints the value if (hydro_myrank .eq. 0) then print *, 'Hydro0: Reduced value is: ', sum_of_ranks endif ccc Send number from hydro master process to thermal master process if (hydro_myrank .eq. 0) then call MPI_Send(sum_of_ranks, 1, MPI_INTEGER, 0, & 0, inter_comm_handle, ierr) endif ccc OK, we've sent out our value to the thermal processes. Now ccc we're going to receive something from the thermal processes. ccc Receive number from thermal master process, and print if (hydro_myrank .eq. 0) then call MPI_Recv(thermal_number, 1, MPI_INTEGER, 0, & 0, inter_comm_handle, status, ierr) print *, 'Hydro0: Thermal value is: ', thermal_number endif ccc Distribute the thermal number to all the other hydro processes call MPI_Bcast(thermal_number, 1, MPI_INTEGER, 0, & hydro_comm_handle, ierr) print *, 'Hydro', hydro_myrank, ': Thermal value is - ', & thermal_number call MPI_Barrier(hydro_comm_handle, ierr) return end ccc============================================================== subroutine thermal(therm_comm_handle, inter_comm_handle) implicit none integer therm_comm_handle, & inter_comm_handle include 'mpif.h' integer therm_myrank, & therm_numprocs, & thermal_number, & sum_of_ranks, & status(MPI_STATUS_SIZE), & ierr ccc Find my rank and number of processes in the thermal group call MPI_COMM_RANK(therm_comm_handle, therm_myrank, ierr) print *, 'Rank number in thermal group:', therm_myrank call MPI_COMM_SIZE(therm_comm_handle, therm_numprocs, ierr) print *, 'Number of processes in therm group:', therm_numprocs call MPI_Barrier(therm_comm_handle, ierr) ccc Receive some value from the hydro master process, then print it. if (therm_myrank .eq. 0) then call MPI_Recv(sum_of_ranks, 1, MPI_INTEGER, 0, & 0, inter_comm_handle, status, ierr) print *, 'Therm0: Received value is: ', sum_of_ranks endif ccc Send some arbitrary value to the hydro master process if (therm_myrank .eq. 0) then thermal_number = 1000 call MPI_Send(thermal_number, 1, MPI_INTEGER, 0, & 0, inter_comm_handle, ierr) endif call MPI_Barrier(therm_comm_handle, ierr) return end
MPI Performance Tuning -- VAMPIR Tutorial
I recently had this e-mail exchange with an ARSC MPI user:
ARSC: > Have you tried VAMPIR yet? MPI USER: Not yet, the name is too scary. :)
Well, that's probably true. But the little bat icons are smiling, VAMPIR is frighteningly powerful, and once bitten--I mean, smitten--your enthusiasm will be infectious.
So. What is VAMPIR?
VAMPIR (introduced in issue #129 ) is a tool which shows how YOUR code exchanges MPI messages. It makes pretty graphs. It shows you message bottlenecks. It helps you eliminate time wasted at barriers, receives, etc.
Don't be afraid of VAMPIR! This tutorial should help you get started:
- On the T3E, define these environment variables: PAL_LICENSEFILE=/usr/local/pkg/VAMPIRtrace/etc/license.dat PAL_ROOT=/usr/local/pkg/VAMPIRtrace
- On the T3E, recompile your MPI code with this option: -I/usr/local/pkg/VAMPIRtrace/include And link the code with these options: -L/usr/local/pkg/VAMPIRtrace/lib -lVT -lpmpi -lmpi For instance, given the source files vt.c or vt.f, you could compile/link with one of the commands: yukon$ cc vt.c -o vt -I/usr/local/pkg/VAMPIRtrace/include \ -L/usr/local/pkg/VAMPIRtrace/lib -lVT -lpmpi -lmpi yukon$ f90 vt.f -o vt -I/usr/local/pkg/VAMPIRtrace/include \ -L/usr/local/pkg/VAMPIRtrace/lib -lVT -lpmpi -lmpi
- Run the program on the T3E, interactively or through NQS: yukon$ mpprun -n6 ./vt
- It produces the normal output plus a ".bpv" file: yukon$ ls -l *.bpv -rw------- 1 baring staff 32563 Jul 10 09:48 vt.bpv
- Copy the .bpv file to the ARSC SGIs (use rcp or ftp): sgi$ rcp yukon:Progs/Vamptest/vt.bpv ./
- On the SGIs, define these environment variables: PAL_LICENSEFILE=/usr/local/vampir/etc/license.dat PAL_ROOT=/usr/local/vampir And add to your PATH environment variable: /usr/local/vampir/bin/R4K-OS5 (Remote users also need to export the SGI display to their local workstation.)
- On the SGIs, run vampir with the .bpv file for input: sgi$ vampir vt.bpv
Make graphs and charts, zoom in and out, etc.
Below is a sample session based on a code (given at the end of this article) which does the following:
- "ping-pongs" messages between pairs of PEs, using send/recv.
- Broadcasts to all PEs, once for each PE, using Bcast.
- Has PE 0 send to all other PEs.
- Has all PEs except 0 send to PE 0.
- Has all PEs exit, calling Finalize.
Here are instructions for reproducing the sample session, plus the graphs and charts produced: 8.1) In the VAMPIR main menu, select: Global Displays:Global Timeline Settings:Colors <change the "MPI" color to red, the "Application" color to green > This produces the display shown in figure 1. The x-axis is execution time. Each message is drawn as a black line. Time spent in an MPI call is shown in red, application work is in green. Thus, red indicates non-productive time. Figure 1 (click on image for larger view) 8.2) Zoom-in on a segment of the run by drawing a rectangle (using the left mouse button) inside the global timeline graph. Figure 2 shows the "zoomed" graph. PE 0 sends one message, in PE order, to the other, blocked PEs, and then receives a message from each other PE, in any order. Note that each PE calls MPI_Finalize as soon as it has sent its message to PE 0. We could zoom in again and again to separate the MPI_Finalize calls from the send/recvs.
Figure 4 (click on image for larger view) 8.5) Make pie-charts, showing the percentage of time spent in different types of MPI calls, for each PE. Inside the "chart view" window (which still shows histograms), click the RIGHT mouse button. In the menu which appears, select these options: mode:pie count:times Figure 5 (click on image for larger view)
- If VAMPIR was working, but now everything seems broken, you might delete (or move) the directory, ~/.VAMPIR_defaults .
In the "global timeline" display, if you "undo zoom" too far, and lose the data off screen, click with the right mouse button to bring up a local menu, then select:
Window options:Adapt
If message lines seem hidden, click with the right mouse button to bring up a local menu, then select: Components:Message Lines
- Remember, you can control the display colors, and some defaults aren't too good (see step 8.1 above). Make sure you're using different colors for different types of objects.
- If your code doesn't produce a .bpv file, make sure all PEs are calling MPI_Finalize before they exit. Also, you can't use MPICH with VAMPIR (yet).
Here's the sample code:
/*============================================================ Test code for VAMPIR demonstration. ============================================================*/ #include <stdio.h> #include "mpi.h" #define MAX_ORDER 100000 #define NPASSES 4 main(int argc, char* argv[]) { int npes; int my_rank; int test; int flag; int min_size = 0; int max_size = MAX_ORDER; int incr; float x[MAX_ORDER]; int size; int pass; int dest, source; MPI_Status status; int i; MPI_Comm comm; MPI_Init(&argc, &argv); MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &npes); MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &my_rank); MPI_Comm_dup(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &comm); if (npes % 2 != 0) { printf ("ERROR: Even number of PEs required\n"); goto BAILOUT; } MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD); /* Ping-pong in pairs */ if (my_rank % 2 == 0) { incr = MAX_ORDER/(my_rank+1); for (test = 0, size = min_size; size <= max_size; size = size + incr, test++) { printf ("Even PE %d starting ping-pong test %d\n", my_rank, test); for (pass = 0; pass < NPASSES; pass++) { MPI_Send(x, size, MPI_FLOAT, my_rank + 1, 0, comm); MPI_Recv(x, size, MPI_FLOAT, my_rank + 1, 0, comm, &status); } } } else { incr = MAX_ORDER/(my_rank); for (test = 0, size = min_size; size <= max_size; size = size + incr, test++) { for (pass = 0; pass < NPASSES; pass++) { MPI_Recv(x, size, MPI_FLOAT, my_rank - 1, 0, comm, &status); MPI_Send(x, size, MPI_FLOAT, my_rank - 1, 0, comm); } } } /* All processors broadcast */ for (source = 0; source < npes; source++) { if (source == my_rank) printf ("PE %d initiates Bcast\n", my_rank); MPI_Bcast (x, max_size, MPI_FLOAT, source, comm); } /* Master sends individual messages to all */ if (my_rank == 0) { printf("starting batch send from master \n"); for (dest = 1; dest < npes; dest++) { MPI_Send(x, max_size, MPI_FLOAT, dest, 0, comm); } } else { MPI_Recv(x, max_size, MPI_FLOAT, 0, 0, comm, &status); printf ("PE %d received from 0\n", my_rank); } /* Master receives from all in any order */ if (my_rank == 0) { printf("starting batch receive in any order \n"); for (source = 1; source < npes; source++) { MPI_Recv(x, max_size, MPI_FLOAT, MPI_ANY_SOURCE, 0, comm, &status); } printf ("Master received from all\n"); } else { MPI_Send(x, max_size, MPI_FLOAT, 0, 0, comm); } BAILOUT: MPI_Finalize(); }
Web-Journal on Performance Evaluation and Modeling
We have recently learned of the "Journal of Performance Evaluation and Modeling for Computer Systems" (PEMCS). It is at:
and currently has these postings:
- PERFORM - A Fast Simulator For Estimating Program Execution Time, By Alistair Dunlop and Tony Hey, Department Electronics and Computer Science, The University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, U.K.
- Performance Comparison of MPI, PGHPF/CRAFT and HPF Implementations of the Cholesky Factorization on the Cray T3E and IBM SP-2, By Glenn R. Luecke and Ying Li, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 50011-2251, USA.
- Comparing The Performance of MPI on the Cray T3E-900, THE Cray Origin2000 And The IBM P2SC, by Glenn R. Luecke and James J. Coyle Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-2251, USA.
- 4.EuroBen Experiences with the SGI Origin 2000 and the Cray T3E, by A.J. van der Steen, Computational Physics, Utrecht University, Holland
The followng introduction is taken from the PEMCS site:
Starting at the beginning of 1997, the journal aims to publish--on the Web--high quality, peer reviewed, original scientific papers alongside review articles and short notes in the rapidly developing area of performance evaluation and modeling of computer systems with special emphasis on high performance computing.
The rush for higher and higher performance has always been one of the main goals of electronic computers. Currently, high performance computing is moving rapidly from an era of `Big Iron' to a future that will be dominated by systems built from commodity components. Very soon, users will be able to construct high-performance systems by clustering off-the-shelf processing modules using widely available high-speed communication switches. Alternatively, the World Wide Web itself represents the largest available `parallel' computer, with more than 20 million potential nodes worldwide. This makes the innovative Web technologies particularly attractive for distributed computing. Equally exciting is the goal to achieving Petaflop computing rates on real production codes.
All this makes the performance evaluation and modeling of emerging hybrid shared/distributed memory parallel architectures with complex memory hierarchies and corresponding applications a natural area of priority for science, research and development.
The main objectives of this journal are, therefore, to provide a focus for performance evaluation activities and to establish a flexible environment on the Web for reporting and discussing performance modeling and Petaflop computing.
Quick-Tip Q & A
A: {{ What's your favorite shell alias? }} Thanks to all! --- On the T3E it is: alias pss '(ps -do "ruser,pid,ppid,himem,npes,vpe,addr,time,command" \\ egrep -v "root daemon <defunct> 1 0 .../.... 00:00:0[0-9] " \\ grep "^.\{39\}[P ][E03]" \\ sort -k 5n,5n -k 1,1 \\ ; date)' This is how it appears in my .cshrc, the \\ gets converted to \ in the actual alias. It lists all user commands that have used at least 10 seconds of processor time, and for multi-PE commands it only lists PE 0 and PE 3. For example: seymour 3> pss RUSER PID PPID HIMEM NPES VPE ADDRESS TIME COMMAND smith 92836 92590 42363 32 0 180/0000 00:02:08 sdd smith 113188 113186 42347 32 3 183/0000 00:04:31 sdd jones 89995 89985 16447 48 0 d0/0000 02:32:39 a.out jones 91354 91348 16457 48 0 100/0000 01:59:35 a.out jones 112695 89995 16447 48 3 d3/0000 02:32:28 a.out jones 113000 91354 16441 48 3 103/0000 01:59:53 a.out Fri Jun 26 21:41:38 CDT 1998 --- Regarding your Q&A tips, my favorite 2 aliases: alias x 'xterm -sb -sk -sl 3000 -geometry 80x45 -n \!$ -title \!$ -e telnet \!$ &' alias quake 'finger email@example.com' I use my "x" (and a similar "ssh" alias) alias more than any other alias, to open an xterm window on a particular machine. My ssh alias is similar, where I change my x alias "-e telnet" to "-e ssh". The x and ssh aliases run xterm with all my preferences (e.g., scroll bars, a large number of lines in the scrolling buffer, the geometry of the window, the font, a window title, icon name, and more). It is used by typing, for example, "x yukon" (telnet) or "ssh yukon" (ssh) to open a session on a machine called yukon. The quake alias displays the latest northern California earthquake information. Sites for other areas are described in the output. --- I have rmcore to get rid of corefiles. alias rmcore rm -f core note you can say rmcore * and delete all files! Danger! --- whom='who sort -u +0 -1' psg='ps -eaf egrep' --- These two korn shell aliases extract information from "qstat -f". The output records look like this: NQS 188.8.131.52 BATCH REQUEST: qsub.cmd Status: RUNNING NQS Identifier: 21712.yukon Target User: smith Created: Wed Jul 8 1998 Queued: Wed Jul 8 1998 16:04:47 AKDT 16:04:47 AKDT Name: xlarge@yukon Priority: 61 MPP Processor Elements 50 50 MPP Time Limit <28800sec> 28800sec 24365sec The first alias reports on all running NQS requests, the second on all other requests (waiting, queued, checkpointed, etc.). qfr='(qstat -f $(qstat -sa egrep "^[0-9].*[R]..$" cut -f1 -d" ") egrep "BATCH R MPP Time MPP Proc Created :..: NQS Id Name:")' qfq='(qstat -f $(qstat -sa egrep "^[0-9].*[^R]..$" cut -f1 -d" ") egrep "BATCH R MPP Time MPP Proc Created :..: NQS Id Name:")' Q: When I use: chmod -R go+rx ./ it makes EVERYTHING group/other executable, even text files! Is there a way to add the execute permissions to only those files that were originally executable? (This drives me batty!)
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Clarendon Hills Brookman Syrah 2005
Syrah/Shiraz from McLaren Vale, Australia
Winemaker's Notes
The 2005 Brookman Syrah highlights the quality of the fruit that is produced from eighty year old vines, planted on gravel, ironstone and clay earth. An aristocratic wine, Brookman Syrah has notes of black fruits, chocolate, and intense roasted meats. This fabulously rich and intense Syrah possesses flavors of licorice, leather, spice and blackberries with refined tannin structure and an extended finish.
The Brookman Syrah is for those who enjoy subtlety and softness. This vineyard's best years are displayed after cellaring for 5-10 and thereafter for 15-20.
Critical Acclaim
The Wine Advocate - "The 2005 Syrah Brookman Vineyard exhibits a complex array of toasty oak, violets, espresso, tar, blackberry, and blueberry. Like its siblings, it is opulent, sleek, and rich. It can be enjoyed over the next 20-25 years. "
Wine Spectator - "Ripe, supple and beautifully balanced, with a pretty violet tinge to the rich aromas of blackberry and cherry. Supported by super refined tannins, this rockets over the palate, hinting at smoky spice and cream as the finish lingers effortlessly. Best from 2009 through 2020. 500 cases imported."
International Wine Cellar - "Opaque violet. Blueberry, cassis, vanilla and molasses on the nose, with slow-building tar and black cardamom qualities. Sappy, velvety, deeply concentrated kirsch and dark berry liqueur flavors boast palate-saturating sweetness. Chewing tobacco and candied licorice add complexity to the long, sweet finish. I suppose that there are tannins here but the sweetness seems to have left them for dead.
Rated: 92(+?)"
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Clarendon Hills Winery
Clarendon Hills is a small family-run winery based in Clarendon, South Australia. The company was founded by biochemist, Roman Bratasiuk, in 1990. The story of Clarendon Hills is one of passion, dedication and commitment to exception wine. It all began when this biochemist and wine lover decided to produce his own wine. Though he'd never trained as a winemaker, Roman let himself be guided by his refined palate and scientific knowledge. Following his favorite producers and preferred styles, Roman sought to make a version of the wines he loved. View all Clarendon Hills Wines
About McLaren ValeView a map of McLaren Vale wineries
McLaren Vale is home to the oldest Australian vineyard, with grapes planted in 1838. It's a coastal area with the Indian Ocean bordering the west, which contributes a cooling factor that prevents the grapes from getting too hot. In all, the climate is a perfect one for the vines.
Notable FactsIn McLaren Vale, there are vines as far as the eye can see. As in other parts of Australia, Shiraz and Grenache are the most-planted grapes of the region. While red rules, whites are able to hold their own here too. With the warm yet reasonable Mediterranean climate, white grapes like Chardonnay, Semillon and even some Sauvignon Blanc grow well. The wines are round and smooth and the producers in the region are excellent.
About AustraliaLike the United States, which is about the same size, Australia's winemaking regions are huddled into one or two pockets of the country. The state of South Australia, which produces about 60% of the country's wine, also has the most wineries and sub-regions, including McLaren Vale, Clare Valley, Coonawarra and Barossa Valley. New South Wales is home to the Hunter Valley, while the smaller, southern state of Victoria is best known for theYarra Valley. Head way west to the very large state of Western Australia and you'll find the tiny region of Margaret River at the southern tip.
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Moderator: mikenz66
mikenz66 wrote:Question:
Do you find the similes in this Sutta inspiring (because lack of obvious progress is normal) or daunting (because progress is so slow)?
The Buddha explains that Awakening comes about not by wishful thinking, but only through deliberate effort.
In the same way, when a monk dwells devoting himself to development, he does not know,
'Today my effluents wore down this much, or yesterday they wore down that much, or the day before yesterday they wore down this much,' still he knows they are worn through when they are worn through.
In the same way, when a monk dwells devoting himself to development, his fetters easily wither & rot away.
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ARSC T3D Users' Newsletter 90, June 7, 1996
Porting Heterogeneous Distributed Codes to the T3D
[Don Morton, visiting ARSC from Cameron University, contributes this article. See his contact information, provided below.]
Many of us come to the T3D with previously-written heterogeneous codes - a classic example is the master/slave paradigm in which a single, master process "controls" one or more slave processes. Since the T3D requires that we place the same executable on each Processing Element (PE) in a partition, our codes may require modification in order to execute on this platform.
A first approach is to make use of the Y-MP/T3D computing environment, running the "master" on the Y-MP and spawning slaves on the T3D, all easily done by making use of PVM. This is not necessarily the best way to do things, but it serves as a useful starting point. The programs master.f and slave.f, below, illustrate how this is done.
master.fSince the master process is executed on the Y-MP, we need to insure that it is compiled with "Network PVM," much like the standard PVM many of us have become used to. We spawn the slave processes on the T3D, and note that only the first entry of the array "list" contains a valid TID. By default, the Y-MP will communicate only with PE0 on the T3D, and only PEs that can communicate with the Y-MP have valid TID's listed; the other entries of "list" contain a 1. There are ways to establish connections to other T3D PEs, but these methods rely on additional socket connections between the two machines. CRI recommends that programmers pass Y-MP/T3D data through PE0.
Thus, the remainder of the master program involves initializing some data, sending it to PE0 on the T3D, then waiting for an acknowledgment, which will be sent by PE0 after the other slaves have received the message.
slave.fIn this example, slave.f is intended to run on the T3D in SPMD mode, and therefore makes use of the Cray-specific pvmfgetpe() function. For illustrative purposes only, all PEs call pvmfparent(), but because the default behavior has only PE0 communicating with the Y-MP, only PE0 will have a parent. PE0 receives the data from the Y-MP, then sends it on to the other slave processes. The slaves simply receive the data, then all T3D processes participate in the pvmfbarrier() call. On the T3D, the use of the group 'PVMALL' implies that all PEs in the partition participate - therefore, a "count" argument is not necessary. Finally, PE0 sends an acknowledgment to the Y-MP process and all slaves terminate.
Closing NoteThe Y-MP/T3D distributed programming model seems to be shunned by most, although in some cases it is an effective way of partitioning various workloads. For example, with careful programming, vector intensive computations can be performed on the Y-MP while MPP computations are performed on the T3D. However, communication between Y-MP and T3D processes is quite slow for many reasons. Additionally, those who are thinking of migrating to the T3E should consider the fact that there will no longer be a Y-MP front-end.
Related discussion of Y-MP/T3D cooperation via PVM can be found in Newsletters #15 and #16.
program master:
include 'fpvm3.h' parameter (NUMPROCS=5, ISIZE=1000) dimension vec(ISIZE) dimension list(0:NUMPROCS-1) ! For storing TID's ccc Enroll in PVM call pvmfmytid(mytid) print *, 'Hello World, I am task ', mytid ccc Spawn slaves call pvmfspawn("slave", 0, '*', NUMPROCS-1, list, info) print *, 'Task ', mytid, ' spawned ', info, ' slaves...' print *, 'TID List of Slaves:' do i=0,info-1 print *, list(i) enddo ccc Initialize a vector for transmission to slaves do i=1,ISIZE vec(ISIZE) = real(i) enddo ccc Send it to slave process on PE0 msgtag = 1 call pvmfinitsend(PVMDATADEFAULT, info) call pvmfpack(REAL8, vec, ISIZE, 1, info) call pvmfsend(list(0), msgtag, info) print *, 'Task ', mytid, ' sent message...' ccc Wait for ACK from PE0 msgtag = 2 call pvmfrecv(list(0), msgtag, info) print *, 'Task ', mytid, ' received an ACK ...' ccc exit PVM call pvmfexit(info) print *, 'Task ', mytid, ' exiting...' endprogram slave:
include 'fpvm3.h' parameter (ISIZE=10) dimension vec(ISIZE) ccc Enroll in PVM call pvmfmytid(mytid) call pvmfgetpe(mytid, mype) call pvmfparent(myparent) print *, 'Hello World, I am task ', mytid ccc By default, only PE0 is guaranteed to have the Y-MP process as ccc a PVM parent. Therefore, all data transfers between the Y-MP ccc and T3D will go through PE0. This is recommended in CRI's PVM ccc Manual. print *, 'Task ' , mytid, ' Parent ', myparent msgtag = 1 if (mype .eq. 0) then ccc Receive data from master process call pvmfrecv(myparent, msgtag, ibuf) call pvmfunpack(REAL8, vec, ISIZE, 1, info) print *, 'Task ', mytid, ' received data ...' ccc Now, relay this data to the other T3D slave processes call pvmfinitsend(PVMDATADEFAULT, info) call pvmfpack(REAL8, vec, ISIZE, 1, info) call pvmfbcast(PVMALL, msgtag, info) else ccc Receive data from PE0 call pvmfrecv(0, msgtag, ibuf) call pvmfunpack(REAL8, vec, ISIZE, 1, info) print *, 'Task ', mytid, ' received data ...' endif ccc Wait for all slaves to reach this point call pvmfbarrier(PVMALL, -1, info) ccc PE0 sends ACK to Y-MP process if (mype .eq. 0) then msgtag = 2 call pvmfinitsend(PVMDATADEFAULT, info) call pvmfpack(INTEGER8, 1, 1, 1, info) call pvmfsend(myparent, msgtag, info) endif ccc Everybody exits PVM call pvmfexit(info) print *, 'Task ', mytid, ' exiting...' endMakefile:
all: master slave slave: slave.f (export TARGET=cray-t3d; \ /mpp/bin/cf77 -I/usr/include/mpp -o slave slave.f) cp slave ${HOME}/pvm3/bin/CRAY/ master: master.f (export TARGET=target; \ cf77 -I/usr/include/pvm3 -o master master.f -lpvm3)From:
======================================================================= Don Morton Email: email@example.com Visiting Scientist (summer) Voice: (907) 474-5507 Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Fax : (907) 450-8601 University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK 99775 http://grizzly.cameron.edu/morton.html =======================================================================
The "TARGET" Environment VariableIf you do development work on both the Y-MP and the T3D, and switch back and forth between the two, you might have some handy aliases defined. For instance, users of the korn shell might have the following in their .kshrc file:
alias t3d1='TARGET=cray-t3d;MPP_NPES=1;PVM_PE_LIST=0' alias t3d2='TARGET=cray-t3d;MPP_NPES=2;PVM_PE_LIST=0' alias t3d4='TARGET=cray-t3d;MPP_NPES=4;PVM_PE_LIST=0' alias t3d8='TARGET=cray-t3d;MPP_NPES=8;PVM_PE_LIST=0'The following alias for switching back to the Y-MP environment, however, would be a mistake (were it not commented out):
#alias ymp='TARGET=cray-ymp'The correct Y-MP alias is:
alias ymp='TARGET=target'The setting, "target," is the configured default, which should be set correctly for each site. The setting, "cray-ymp," sounds good, but according to the man page for the UNICOS command, "target," is for the "CRAY Y-MP model 832."
I discovered this when cf77 suddenly balked on a test program, and gave the following message:
ldr-159 cf77: CAUTION The program in file 'a.out' requires 40150829 words of memory to begin execution. The target computer system contains only 33554432 words of memory.The linker refused to produce an executable because it thought that denali had only 33 MWs of memory -- less than required for the given program. As we know, though, denali has, not 33 MWs, but 1000 MWs of memory.
The problem was that I had set TARGET to "cray-ymp" in order to switch it back from "cray-t3d." I should have set it to "target."
The following (abridged) listing shows the "cray-ymp", "target", and "cray-t3d" configurations, as known on denali.
denali$ denali$ TARGET=cray-ymp denali$ target Primary machine type is: CRAY-Y-MP banks = 256 numcpus = 8 ibufsize = 32 memsize = 33554432 memspeed = 17 clocktim = 6000 numclstr = 9 bankbusy = 5 denali$ TARGET=target denali$ target Primary machine type is: CRAY-Y-MP banks = 256 numcpus = 8 ibufsize = 32 memsize = 1073741824 memspeed = 27 clocktim = 6000 numclstr = 9 bankbusy = 20 denali$ TARGET=cray-t3d denali$ target Primary machine type is: CRAY-T3D memsize = 8388608 denali$
Setting Environment Variables for a Single Sub-ProcessWhile we're discussing environment variables... Here's something for everyone who's made the switch to the Korn shell.
The Korn shell lets you change the setting of environment variables for the scope of single sub-processes, without altering their global values. You simply preface any command with one or more variable definitions. The environment for that command will be set accordingly.
denali$ TARGET=cray-t3d target denali$ TARGET=cray-ymp target denali$ TARGET=target cf77 -I/usr/include/pvm3 -o master master.f -lpvm3 denali$ TARGET=cray-t3d /mpp/bin/cf77 -I/usr/include/mpp -o slave slave.f denali$ TMPDIR=/tmp/baring/960607 MPP_NPES=4 a.out denali$ TMPDIR=/tmp/baring/960607 MPP_NPES=8 a.outUsing this approach, we have an alternative structure for makefiles with multiple targets. The following example is based on Don Morton's makefile:
# Makefile all: master slave slave: slave.f TARGET=cray-t3d /mpp/bin/cf77 -I/usr/include/mpp -o slave slave.f cp slave ${HOME}/pvm3/bin/CRAY/ master: master.f TARGET=cray-ymp cf77 -I/usr/include/pvm3 -o master master.f -lpvm3
European CRAY MPP WorkshopThis announcement came through CUG's MPP Mailing List:
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Moody's says recession may hurt country's infrastructure
Most economists believe that going over the cliff of tax increases and across-the-board federal spending cuts slated for the start of 2013 would trigger another downturn.
Moody's projects that the nation's growth rate would contract by 0.3 percent, and the resulting recession "would affect virtually every infrastructure sector."
There were hopes on Wednesday a year-end budget deal in the United States was still possible.
"An economic contraction coupled with a decline in employment and lower consumer confidence, would have a striking impact in a number of infrastructure sectors. Most at risk is the unregulated power company sector, which will be hit because electric sales volumes will be lower and depressed natural gas and power prices will further hurt margins," Moody's said.
Airports that rely on airline landing fees and passenger concessions would be hurt as demand for flights drops.
While airport grants were not included in the automatic spending cuts, also known as sequestration, the federal trust fund for airports is running low and future budget debates could put it in jeopardy, according to the credit rating agency.
Likewise, ports would suffer from a decline in cargo shipments and toll roads would be affected by drivers staying home or taking free roads to save money.
Other areas, such as electricity providers, could see resistance to rate hikes from consumers worried about spending.
For more than a year, the threat of ending the federal tax exemption granted for interest paid by municipal bonds has hung over state and local finances.
The exemption allows issuers in the $3.7 trillion market to pay lower interest. Without it, many expect the costs of borrowing for public works to shoot up.
As President Barack Obama and Congress seek revenue raising measures to help avoid the cliff, they have discussed capping the tax exemption. Moody's warned "the prospect of broader tax reforms related to tax-exempt financing status would create some uncertainty for public infrastructure such as airports, toll roads and public power utilities."
"These sectors rely heavily on their tax-exempt financing status, so a change would increase costs and hurt coverage ratios, a credit negative," it added.


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Do they have a zine collection? If not, do they have graphic novels or a teen collection? Those could be your in-road. The best recommendation I can give is to sell the positive results: People who are into zines are often people who may not be frequent library patrons, so offering zines and zine programs can bring new people into the library. Another thing I would recommend is to talk about how zine workshops can promote literacy and creativity.
I think it would be a good idea to bring in samples of zines produced in previous workshop, handouts, etc. Also ell them the supply costs for a zine workshop is low. And talk about how other libraries offer zine workshops.
I am teaching my first zine workshop at a public library next week. One of the issues you may face is the age range for participants. My class is from age 12-adult. 99% of my zines that I wanted to show have swears, or pictures/drawings or talk of sex which may freak out a parent if their 12 year old grab one and started reading. So I have to filter my collection of 100 zines to like 6 to show at the class.
Another place I think could be good to teach a zine workshop is in a high school or college writing class. A teacher might be excited to invite you in, and have one of the classes say 5 essays per semester be created in zine format. They actually teach a semester long zine writing class at a college in my town.


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After months of diligent vendor evaluations, last week we officially published The Forrester Wave: Managed Security Services: North America, Q1 2012. This report features our detailed analysis on nine of the top managed security services providers (MSSPs) offering a robust set of security services to their North American clients.
Through this process, we uncovered a market that we believe is currently ripe for a major disruption: market demand for managed security services (MSS) remains extremely strong, customer satisfaction is higher than we've seen in the past, and current MSSPs tend to compete on delivery, customer service, and cost.
This isn't to say MSSPs all currently offer the same services with the same level of quality – not by a long shot. Selecting the right provider still means that you must understand your needs and the areas you feel they can enhance your security program the most. Each MSSP we evaluated has solid overall security capabilities, but has unique strengths in certain security areas and use different deployment methods to bring their offerings to bear.
At the same time, however, we hear more decisions today come down to cost and execution, and as this becomes more commonplace, we begin to prepare ourselves for a shift in the market. In fact, we believe we'll see significant changes over the next couple of years for three primary reasons:


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Discussion in 'March 2010' started by roscoe36, Nov 3, 2009.
I meant Charlie Allstar. Maybe CA is a bit confusing with Chucky Chuck in the line up too.
my personal nickname for charlie has been "slo-mo" slow motion.
My mistake. I was too busy keeping track of TP, RH, RS, BW, JJ, BG, CV, GT, JK, LB, RC, BL, two DT's, DD, HQ, LD, BDL, R36, and ETSA. I know I left some of them out, too. I need to go lie down.
Charlie the human "aah-screw-it" cigar Villanueva
..."VillaNO-WAYva" ..."VillanuWAIVER" ..."Sorry Charlie" ..."Gnarley Charlie" ..."VillaSLOW-PLAYva"
Very nice. I admit I get a sick pleasure from watching him "run" up and down the court. When he gets burned a few times in a row and slouches his shoulders and drops his head before heading upcourt it is like the cherry on top. What's the plural form of albatross? Whatever it is that is what we should call CG and Gordon.
Maybe Sir Charlie since he might have tied Chuck in the race against Bavetta.
That sounds a little too positive for them. I vote for alatrosses as in, 'The albatrosses are checking together to start the 2 quarter, let's keep an eye on Joe's neck.'
Thanks, coynejeremy. I was not that sad. I have already got used to it. Two years ago I took it for granted that we beat the opponents, now I just feel lucky if we win a game. I'll need a cup of hot chocolate only when we are beaten by Nets :-P Anyway, we won't get worse next reason, right?
I don't like the strategy of collapsing on Lebron and letting the Cavs get open J's the whole game. You gotta make Lebron exert some energy in a game when you know he'd rather just take er easy. What's he going to do, score 25 points in a row with most of them dunks and layups?
My other was Mr. Suitcase.
There's almost nowhere to go but up, right? Where in China are you from?
Hope so ;-) I'm from Guangdong Province, near Hongkong.
Nice. I lived in Zhongshan with my wife for a few months in 2006 teaching English. It was amazing, we'd love to go back and live in China sometime.
Where I live is not far from Zhongshan. So can you speak Cantonese? There used to be a good place to live in but now not, I think.
I don't speak it. I learned a little Mandarin but I've forgotten it all, my wife speaks it better than me. One of my goals is to learn to read and speak better. So what city do you live in? What makes you say that it's not a good place to live anymore?
It's difficult to learn Cantonese, its pronunciation is more complex than Mandarin, but it sounds better too. I live in Zhanjiang, a small seashore city. In big cities like Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing, house prices are rocketing up, so is it in Zhongshan. High house price, heavy traffic, terrible environment, these make this city not good to live in anymore.
If you were going to force a language on your offspring in America, would you suggest Mandarin?
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Arsenal Ladies and Team GB stars Ellen White and Kim Little paid a visit to a special festive session of Arsenal in the Community's 'How Are You Feeling Today?' programme on Thursday afternoon.
Ellen joined participants of the mental health scheme and the club's community coaches in a game of 11-a-side football at Whittington Park in north London while Kim, nursing a small injury, cheered on from the sidelines.
After an exhilarating match, which ended in a 5-5 draw with Ellen bagging herself a hat-trick, the pair then helped administer the group's end of year awards ceremony, with one member's progress in 2012 rewarded with a signed Arsenal Ladies shirt.
The 'How Are You Feeling Today?' project uses sport to help bolster a sense of social inclusion among adults affected by mental health issues and works to challenge the stigma associated with the condition. And the Club run two two-hour sessions every week in partnership with the Camden and Islington Mental Health Trust, Time to Change, the Premier League and Sport Relief.
Ellen, who had visited one of the project's sessions back in May, was delighted to make a return trip: "It was brilliant to be involved with the 'How Are You Feeling Today?' programme again on Thursday," she said. "It's such a fantastic initiative, with guys who can be having a pretty difficult time of it able to come to sessions, receive a little support and enjoy a game of football."
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(8/20/2013) MAYOR DESTEFANO KICKS OFF THE 13th YEAR OF MAYOR�S COMMUNITY ARTS GRANTS
Community Arts Grants recipients for 2013 revealed;
each will receive funding for neighborhood arts programming in New Haven
(New Haven, CT) Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and the City�s Department of Arts, Culture and Tourism (DACT) announced Tuesday the recipients of this year�s Mayor�s Community Arts Grants, awarding close to $25,500 in funding to support 25 neighborhood-based arts and cultural activities. The award presentations were held at Arte, one of this year�s grant recipients.
Since its inception in 2000, the Mayor�s Community Arts Grant Program has awarded $350,496 to over 220 arts and cultural projects such as festivals, murals, performances, and apprenticeships in the City of New Haven. Past winners of the Mayor�s Community Arts Grant program have gone on to great success in New Haven and beyond. 2012 recipient, Theater 4, producers of the Acting Out theater festival hosted at IKEA, were featured in Time magazine in June.
�New Haven is the Cultural Capital of Connecticut--and not just for our world renowned International Festival of Arts and Ideas and downtown�s museums and theaters. Our neighborhoods have rich arts and cultural events and organizations,� said Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. �These grants support the development of local artists and artist organizations that serve our community and provide arts education and entertainment, making New Haven a vibrant place to live.�
The Mayor�s Community Arts Grants Program provides financial, marketing and technical assistance for arts and cultural programming in New Haven neighborhoods. The goals of the program are:
1. To encourage the education of emerging artists;
2. To strengthen neighborhood cohesiveness through collaborative programs particularly aimed at families and youth; and
3. To promote and celebrate cultural awareness and diversity.
Grant amounts this year ranged from $500 to $1,200. These grants are often the only funding source for some of these organizations, many of whom do not qualify for larger grants due to a lack of official non-profit status. While the awards in many cases are modest, they provide artists and organizations the opportunity to present, teach or practice their art in neighborhoods across the city.
Alyson Fox, of IMapNewHaven, one of this year�s grant recipients, noted, �IMapNewHaven is honored to be recognized by the Mayor�s Community Arts Grant program. The support from the grant will not only bolster the credibility of the project but will allow us to reach more New Havenites to give them a forum to reflect on, creatively capture, and publicly share the stories of what's important in their lives in this city.�
Individual artists, non-profit arts and cultural organizations working with neighborhood-based community and/or youth or senior groups within the City of New Haven were eligible to apply. Eligible activities include festivals, parades, exhibitions, murals/public art, children's activities, inter-generational programs, arts education, film, public performances, neighborhood collaborations and apprenticeships. Applicants may apply for up to $1,500 in funding.
�The arts have a positive impact on a City�s cultural and economic health. The Department of Arts, Culture and Tourism has focused on providing support for arts activities throughout the City, including supporting community-based arts organizations in neighborhoods,� stated Kelly Murphy, the City�s Economic Development Administrator.
This year DACT received forty-eight applications and selected twenty-three organizations and two individuals to receive funding through a competitive process. The 2013 awards will fund activities throughout the City, including the Fair Haven Community Parade; the 3rd Annual Day of the Dead Parade and puppet making workshops; a community-mapping project; instrument petting zoos and the development of artistic bike racks.
The Mayor�s Community Arts Grants Program was established in 2000, and is one of a number of the Department of Arts, Culture and Tourism�s efforts aimed at supporting local artists and fostering arts and cultural events across the city.
The Winchester Revitalization Art Project, a joint effort of the Department of Arts, Culture and Tourism, the Livable City Initiative and the Office of Economic Development was launched three years ago and. seeks to encourage arts and culture in the Newhallville neighborhood. This is accomplished through neighbor-based arts programming that engages the public on Winchester Avenue during the summer months and in other neighborhood venues through the fall, winter and spring.
Also run by the Department of Arts, Culture and Tourism is Project Storefronts, now in its third year of operation. Project Storefronts is an award-winning program that brings fresh, innovative arts-related businesses to life in formerly vacant retail spaces in New Haven, by encouraging artists and entrepreneurs to test the viability of art/creative inspired businesses. Project Storefronts provides access to empty storefronts as well as provide participants technical support network of business and creative professionals. Project Storefronts is just one part of the 9th Square Innovation District that is home to The Grove and The Bourse, new and exciting co-working spaces, Make Haven, a gathering place and workshop for makers, creators, tinkerers and dreamers and our newest addition, The Grid, which is part of the recently announced CT Innovation Ecosystem.


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Found this while playing around on the Entertainment Earth web site today, appearantly Boba Fett is the only legend in the SW Saga that isn't infested with little parasites. :lol
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Found this while playing around on the Entertainment Earth web site today, appearantly Boba Fett is the only legend in the SW Saga that isn't infested with little parasites. :lol
by are you refering to mitichlorions? is that how you spell that? im not nearly as much of a new trilogy guy as i am an original trilogoy and seeing as they never used that word (ever) in the original trilogy, i never bothered or cared to learn it.
Yeah, I absolutely hate those things, the force should have remained this mysterious unexplained phenomanon.
i never played Star Wars galaxies, but i heard you become a Jedi in that game by mastering eight classes and then injecting mitichlorions into your body. all you have to do is inject them into your body? then why doesn't any body, possibly including droids, just inject themself with mitichlorions to be able to wield the force? that's kind of stupid, at least in my opinion.
Oohh oh oh oh, another repackage.
man... I'd like to meet the people that actually keep buying the same stuff over and over again, every single time it pops up... either with a slightly different paint scheme... or a different card... man... we buy bread the same way everytime... then again... we don't eat star wars action figures... anyone here who does??
ofcourse everyone is free to do as he or she pleases and the repackages do get through to new fans who weren't hunting merchandise when the earlier release was out.
Repacks are tangible evidence of evil, I also hate having to buy a pack with figures I already have to get the ones I don't... Hence why I have 3 different Vaders on my desk and 3 Jangos.


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Does anyone know if a dark blue Dickie's jumpsuit can be dyed to a faded black? I was planning on first using the color remover, then dying black, then fading. Will this work or will it still look blue? (It's for a custom)
btw I know there are grey ones but I already have a blue so that's why I ask.