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I was born in 1930 in a Jewish ghetto in the south Bronx of New York City at a time when people clustered in ethnic, racial and religious enclaves to be with those like themselves. I missed being born in Harlem by six months because my folks moved to the Bronx and Harlem has always been on my mind and was the first place I taught school. The Negro was not part of my daily life. My "enemy" was the Irish who lived in the next ghetto area and, to a lesser degree, I disliked German Jews who were economically above we east European poor people. The first "different"person in my class was Joseph Jelik who was a Christian and a stranger to my way of life but since he sat next to me we became friends.
I entered the United States army in 1951 during the Korean War and due to lost orders I wound up in Germany at the headquarters of the US 7th Army. One day, a friend asked me what the word "integration" meant since he assumed my two years of college made me smart. Anyway, five of us took on the responsibility of developing a plan to integrate the US 7th Army. I was a 21 year old with two years of college and didn't have clue about what to do, but we worked out a plan. This was my introduction to integration. Our plan was flawed in many ways, but eventually the 7th Army became integrated.
I returned to CCNY and found myself in the class of Dr. Kenneth Clark in May, 1954. Professor Clark wrote the psychological brief for the Brown vs Board of Education case. I recall the day the Supreme Court rendered its decision saying that segregation was unconstitutional. We waited until Dr. Clark entered and we were crying and applauding this wonderful man for the work he did. That day, he talked about integration and made predictions. He was a brilliant teacher and deeply impacted me.
My first teaching job was at James Fenimore Jr. HS in Harlem and I wound up teaching the 8th grade class for students who were behavior problems. We remained with one another all day to keep them away from other students. From them, I got an entry into the lives of Harlem children and the gangs and drugs which were just entering. Please read Claude Brown's "Manchild In the Promised Land" which depicts my students all too well.
I was a high school teacher when Martin Luther King came on the scene. I also became fascinated with Malcolm X and went to hear him speak in person. I greatly admired both men. I got my high school students on Long Island interested in their ideas and was proud that some of my students went to Harlem to participate in rent strikes. I left high school teaching and went to teach at Webster College in St. Louis. The death of King and Kennedy impacted me and I wanted to do something. I set up the first program for returning Vietnam war veterans to train them to become teachers– Veterans Accelerated Urban Learning for Teaching(VAULT) and I went to Ft Leonard Wood and insisted one third had to be Negro. When education people at the base would not help me, I went into bars, barracks and even a few other places asking the question–"Would you like to go to college?" I recruited 35 men who had fought in Vietnam and they were integrated in the program as they were in battle. Oh, I insisted the program be led by a Negro.
My life has witnessed a voyage from a mental and physical ghetto to work with people of all backgrounds. I worked extensively with teachers in urban areas because I wanted to be with kids of my own background. I have watched America change. Oh, it is not a perfect change, but it is certainly light years away from my childhood in a segregated ghetto. America is a flawed nation which, like all others, carries the sins of the past which are still alive in the minds of the present. We can not undo what happened, but we can create a new world in which we are truly integrated. My children are Polish, Russian, Irish, Catholic, Jewish, Protestant and my third wife is one-fourth Cherokee. I live with the world in my home at a family gathering.
Martin Luther King built on the work and efforts of so many others– A. Philip Randolph, Thurgood Marshall, Paul Robeson, (my boyhood hero) Walter White, Frederick Douglass, Martin Delany, and thousands of other men and women of all races and backgrounds who believed in the American dream of a nation containing the wretched of the earth. I remember the CIO labor leaders who established the first integrated schools in the South in order to train Negro union leaders and how the song, "We Shall Overcome" came from the union movement before it became the battle cry of the Civil Rights movement.
This week not only marks the birthday of Martin Luther King and the inauguration of Barack Obama but it is the 100 anniversary of the birth of the NAACP. The NAACP was founded by blacks and whites. One hundred years later their dream of ending segregation has taken one more step forward. We have not reached the end of the road, but we sure are no longer at the beginning. I know everyone wants to celebrate Obama today, but, in my mind, the names of so many will be present who fought the good fight to end segregation.
Those of us who were born in the segregated world can now sigh a breath of relief that our world is dead. There is still segregation and prejudice, but it no longer is sanctioned by government. A new world begins today.


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New grants boost Alzheimer's researchJune 1, 2010
Recovery Act Funds New, Ongoing Projects
Alzheimer's disease researchers across the nation have an infusion of new grants from the National Institute on Aging (NIA). More than 100 Alzheimer's-related projects, ranging from basic research to possible new treatments, are benefiting from millions of Federal dollars awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and from hundreds of newly created jobs, thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
Last year, Congress allocated $10.4 billion to NIH for fiscal years 2009 and 2010. The NIA's $273.3 million share supports both new and existing projects, with an emphasis on research that will be carried out within the Act's 2-year timeframe.
"We are delighted to announce the award of Recovery Act funds to many dedicated, hardworking scientists committed to advancing scientific discovery into Alzheimer's disease and cognitive impairment," said NIA Director Richard J. Hodes, M.D. "This unprecedented boost in research funds will help us in reaching our ultimate goal—treating and preventing Alzheimer's disease and cognitive decline and reducing the individual and societal burden of this devastating disease."
Funding Boost for Biomarkers, Genetics
The NIA committed ARRA funding to two major, ongoing projects—the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) received $24 million, including $12 million from the NIH Office of the Director, and the Alzheimer's Disease Genetic Consortium (ADGC) received $5.4 million.
Under a 2-year Grand Opportunity (GO) grant, ADNI will add participants, test the use of a new brain-imaging agent, and continue data analysis in its quest to find more sensitive and accurate methods to detect Alzheimer's at earlier stages and mark its progress.
Launched in 2004, ADNI has gathered and compared thousands of brain scans, genetic profiles, and biomarkers in cerebrospinal fluid from more than 800 older adults with Alzheimer's disease, late mild cognitive impairment, and normal cognition. For more information about ADNI, see the 2008 Progress Report on Alzheimer's Disease.
ADNI-GO is recruiting 200 new participants, ages 55 to 60, with early mild cognitive impairment to join 500 participants from ADNI 1 with either late MCI or normal cognition, who will continue to be followed in ADNI-GO. The objective is to discern differences between people with early MCI and the other two groups.(For more information, see the Clinical Trials and Studies Update section.)
"We're trying to go earlier and earlier in the disease process to identify which cognitively normal people will develop Alzheimer's," said Dr. Neil Buckholtz, chief of the Dementias of Aging Branch in the NIA Division of Neuroscience. "When new drugs become available to treat Alzheimer's, we'll be able to provide those drugs at the very earliest stages of the disease process."
The ADGC also will expand with new funding. The 3-year-old study will enlarge its bank of DNA samples, adding samples from 3,800 people with the disease and 3,800 without the disease. This expansion will help identify additional genetic risk factors for late-onset Alzheimer's, the most common form of dementia in older adults. The APOE ε4 gene is considered a risk factor, and variants of four other genes may play a role. Scientists think there are others to be discovered.
"This [grant] will fund about 25 percent more samples," said Principal Investigator Dr. Gerard Schellenberg, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia. "It also allows analysis to move forward as more samples are collected."
The consortium's goal is to collect 20,000 genetic samples (10,000 from people with Alzheimer's and 10,000 from cognitively healthy people) to perform genome-wide association studies, which use methods that can rapidly test up to a million sites in one person's genes. In this study, researchers will scan markers across the genomes, or complete sets of DNA, of many people to detect genetic variants associated with Alzheimer's disease and cognitive decline.
"With this large sample size and the rapid DNA sample and data sharing, there are tremendous opportunities for defining new disease pathways that could lead to the development of new therapies for Alzheimer's disease," said Dr. Marcelle Morrison-Bogorad, director of the NIA Division of Neuroscience.
Other Genetics, Clinical, and Translational Studies Funded
Another genome-wide association study focuses on identifying risk factor genes for cognitive decline in older African Americans, an understudied segment of the population, according to the Principal Investigator, Dr. Denis A. Evans of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Supported by $4.7 million in Recovery Act funds, the project will collect and analyze the DNA of 4,140 people enrolled in other NIA-funded aging studies, and data will be shared with the Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Consortium. The study will also examine genetic markers for stroke, high blood pressure, and other conditions.
Another $820,000 in Recovery Act money will help develop methods for identifying combinations of genes that might influence age-related risk of Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Allen Roses of the Duke University School of Medicine will study the role of TOMM40, a gene that makes a protein thought to be involved in Alzheimer's. In particular, he will look at variants of TOMM40 that tend to occur along with the APOE ε3 gene to see how they affect the risk of Alzheimer's and the age at which it begins.
Other Alzheimer's and related research funded by the Recovery Act includes:
- A clinical trial to see if an anti-epileptic seizure drug, levetiracetam, can improve memory and affect brain function in people over age 55 with amnestic mild cognitive impairment ($1.2 million to Dr. Michela Gallagher of The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD)
- A clinical trial to examine how exercise training, cognitive training, or a combination of both might impact physical fitness, immune and inflammatory biomarkers, and cognitive functioning in older adults with mild cognitive impairment ($1 million to Dr. David Lowenstein of the University of Miami, FL)
- A study exploring whether changes in the brain "histone code" mediate the effect of life experiences on the development of age-related cognitive decline and dementia. Histones are specialized proteins involved in packaging DNA. ($1 million to Dr. David A. Bennett of Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL)
- Translational research to test whether over-expressing histone deacetylase with small molecule probes in the brain shows therapeutic potential for Alzheimer's and stroke patients ($819,000 to Dr. Li-Huei Tsai of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge)A study to identify and characterize neural network activity related to memory function in young and old mice ($491,817 to Dr. Joe Z. Tsien of the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta)
For more details about the NIA's Recovery Act Alzheimer's research projects, see "Recovery Funds Advance Alzheimer's Disease Research." More information about the NIA's other ARRA activities can be found at www.nia.nih.gov/recovery.
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Finally! Digital Booklets with iTunes Music Downloads
Apple today began offering U2's latest album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, for sale on the iTunes Music Store, together with the 446-track Complete U2. This latter "digital box set" is the first of its kind (well, not really; iTunes sells many other box sets that are available on CD), but Apple today introduced another innovation: downloadable digital liner notes.Music fans have gotten used to buying music on-line, and the inclusion of album art is one way of making downloadable music seem more like the "real thing". But one thing has long been missing: liner notes. The booklets included with CDs give interesting information about the music and musicians, and often contain lyrics.
Today, with the release of the new U2 album and the Complete U2, Apple is offering digital booklets that download into iTunes when you purchase the music. These booklets are PDF files that you can open directly from iTunes by double-clicking. If you have a Mac, this opens either Preview or Acrobat Reader, depending on which of these programs you use to view PDFs. If you run Windows, double-clicking the booklet opens Acrobat Reader.
This is a big step in on-line music sales, one that is much larger than it may seem at first. While before you got the music and nothing but the music, now you get the info as well. The lack of such information has prevented many music fans from downloading jazz and classical music, and others have been disappointed to not be able to find the lyrics for the music they've purchased.
Instead of searching web sites to find lyrics or information about your music, you'll now be able to read them directly from your computer. Sure, you can't do it on your iPod yet, but that'll come one day.
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Every moment tells a story. Ours is all about cleaning people up and turning showering into an unforgettable experience.
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Why did we make such a big shower head? The question you should be asking is what does the Vortex do that your shower head can't? (Hint: A lot)
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text: One of the best-kept secrets of San Joaquin County may be the historic government records housed at the San Joaquin County Historical Museum. Knowledge that these resources exist often comes as a surprise to visitors. The Museum holds official records from the County of San Joaquin and the Cities of Stockton and Lodi that, together, span . . . → Read More: Lodi History Made Easier


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Doctors in the Philippines are turning themselves into nurses in order to obtain medical positions in the United States due to difficulty in having their medical education recognized by Americans. The resulting brain drain is impacting the quality of medical care in the Philippines. The Cuban government has offered to provide much needed doctors since their nation produces a surplus of medical practitioners. Cuban Ambassador Jorge Rey Jimenez told the Philippine government, "We have lots of doctors and medical practitioners. We have offered them to the Philippines" but have yet to receive a response. Cuba now provides 17,000 doctors and dentists to Venezuela in exchange for oil which has resulted in bringing down maternal and child deaths to only one-fifth of their former level.
The United States has one doctor for ever 150 people, Cuba has one for every 159 and the Philippines has one for very 10,000 people. The United States provides military aid to the Philippines, but there is no talk of supplying medical aid such as subsidizing the salaries of Filipino doctors who would commit to remaining in their nation. Consider the good will if Filipinos knew that adequate medical care was a result of America's commitment to their well being. Instead, we provide guns and ammunitions and planes. In the long run, good teeth and good health might be worth more to the average Filipino than a gun.


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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by LA Dre, Aug 6, 2009.
And to think all he had to do is wait for us to sign Austin Daye......
He necessarily didn't take this drug in particular. Supplement companies tend to use the shotgun approach, which is to throw numerous ingredients in insignificant amounts into their products in order to make it appear as if you are getting more bang for your buck when you purchase and ingest them. Rashard could have bought protein powder from a local Meijers type store and ended up with a product that contained DHEA.
The whole steroids thing is such a joke when the refereeing is so questionable anyways. I mean really, who is cheating who?
They should drug test the owners.
And the refs. You're telling me Dick Bavetta isn't taking something for endurance?
That guy IS pretty amazing. I got to watch him work a few Sonics games up close and personal. He has about 4 times as much energy as me, and is 3 times older. (Bavetta is 124, right?)
You're not in your 40s yet are you Lin? Man, time is flying. I'm disappointed no one piled on the low testosterone comment, except G-man with the chicken wiener bit. I hope you guys plan to bring more game this season. Someone page Tater.
Not yet, Roscoe. I'm 38. I meant to type 114, not 124. Still, Bavetta is very old, and he really gets up and down the court.
He probably has a 24 year old wife too!
But not the GM's. We need to keep Joe around.
I've got a 24-year-old wife.
My wifey was 24 years old..about 24 years ago...and that is when I married her:ballchain
Eva Mendes is 35....???? :behindsof
What??...that'll suck then, she falls out of my dating age bracket then. Doh!!
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Slag310 wrote:A comment about the Indo-European religion(s): I have a website at http://piereligion.org/pierintro.html which gives a few ideas of what can be stated broadly about the Indo-European religions. I have had to study quite a bit about Buddhism in order to separate the threads, you might say. I have found your discussion here very informative.
Interesting site. Thanks for sharing.


text: Legislation signed in November leads to pension and buyback changes Important changes are taking place in the rules governing certain aspects of retirement and the buyback of creditable service. On Nov. 18, Governor Deval Patrick signed "An Act Providing for Pension Reform and Benefit Modernization," which revised certain rules affecting current active members and increased benefits for certain retirees and survivors. Effective April 2, 2012, the measure also significantly changed the benefit structure for new members enrolling in a Massachusetts public retirement system or re-enrolling after taking a refund. The legislation, Chapter 176 of the Acts of 2011, includes a provision dealing with an increase in the interest rate for the purchase of service. As a result, the interest charged on certain service purchases will double from the current 4.125 percent "buyback" rate to the level of "actuarial interest," which is now 8.25 percent. The "buyback interest" of 4.125 percent is available to individuals applying to purchase the service before April 2, 2013, and either paying in full or committing to an installment agreement before April 2, 2013, or the invoice due date, whichever is later. On and after April 2, 2013, purchasers will be charged "actuarial interest." For more information, members of the Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement System should visit the MTRS website, http://www.mass.gov/mtrs. Members of the State Retirement System should visit http://www.mass.gov/ treasury/retirement/state-board-of-retire/. Additional information can also be obtained by visiting http://www.mass.gov/perac/guide/mainguide1.htm on the Public Employee Retirement Administration website.


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Pay homage to the Queen of the Kitchen–Julia Child–by preparing these simplified classic French dishes.
A croque-madame is a variation on the croque-monsieur, a French twist on grilled ham and cheese. Instead of dipping the sandwich in egg before sautéeing in butter (as you would for a croque-monsieur), grill the sandwich first and top with homemade Mornay Sauce, cheese, and sunny-side up egg.
Croque Monsieur
This version of the French-style grilled ham and cheese sandwich is like a savory stuffed French toast.
Quick No-Cook PatéImpress the guests at your next party with this quick, easy, and no-cook appetizer.
Espresso Crepes with Ice Cream and Dark Chocolate SauceSince both the crepes and chocolate sauce can be made ahead, this is the simplest of desserts. If you make the sauce ahead, warm it just before serving.
Basic QuicheThis quiche calls for store-bought frozen piecrust, which is a wonderful time-saver. Simply fill the piecrust with a mixture of sautéed yellow onions, fresh parsley, half and half, and Gruyère cheese. A sprinkle of ground nutmeg adds a little sweetness and brings all the flavors together.
Salmon Niçoise SaladLet your inner-Child out with this surprisingly easy yet show-stopping salad.
Quick Coq au VinCooking uncovered over high heat, the liquid reduces and concentrates its flavors in a fraction of the time required for the traditional long-simmered dish.
Shrimp Bouillabaisse FondueThis fondue contains ingredients that are typically found in bouillabaisse, a seafood stew from Provence. Once the shrimp are done, soak up any remaining fondue with cubes of French bread.
Herbes de Provence Lamb Chops with OrzoGarnish each plate with a lemon wedge and thyme sprig, and pair with a glass of fruity red wine to create a Provençal menu.


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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by Nemo, Jan 17, 2010.
Tell that to all of those employees who lost their jobs when all those plants closed.
Yeah. The old man picks and chooses who he is loyal to. He sure ain't very loyal to his players and ex-players.
Do they have a controlling interest in the auto sector? If Ford Motor co was ran the same way as the Lions it would have went bankrupt long ago.
David Katzman to Own The Pistons? According to Jeff Moss at the Detroit Sports Rag, his sources tell him that David Katzman, part owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Vice Chairman for Quicken Loans, has ended his association with the companies and related interests. He will become the new owner of the Detroit Pistons, taking over from the Davidson family. I will edit this article with further information as I acquire it. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/3...diu m=twitter http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php?title=David_Katzman
"He earned a B.A. in accounting/finance at Michigan State University and attended Detroit College of Law for his graduate work." (Detroit College of Law became MSU college of law). I like him already!
How come all the hacks who wrote bad mortgages as fast as they could and then resold them enough times to bring down the global economic system seem to be getting all the rewards these days? Look for the Pistons to be the first NBA team that sells ad space on its uniforms.
Nah, they'll just sell advertising space on the hardwood. Just keep the Block "S" off the center court. The Detroit Sparty's just doesn't work for me.
Mortgage fraud monopolist. Bill D (apparently) took liberties with patents at Guardian Auto Glass, but guys like this are part of the toxic economy. Caveat venditor.
Can't sell a team that ain't for sale yet. Rumors of David Katzman as a potential buyer for the Detroit Pistons are premature | Detroit Pistons - - MLive.com
The Detroit Catsmen wouldn't be a bad name for the team if they were looking to rebrand and get some extra $$$.
"The Detroit Davids"
The Detroit Lion-O's would get me back.
To keep things in perspective... things are not as grim financially for the Pistons as you might have heard (15 teams are in the red this year). According to Forbes magazine in December 2009, Detroit is the 4th most valuable NBA franchise, just a head of Cleveland. Lebron is worth a lot to the Cleveland franchise, but according to Forbes the Cavs barely make money. They only made $5-million in profit last year. Detroit made $46.9-million. This is because the Pistons only take in $12-million a year more than the Cavs, but they spend almost $30-million less per year than the Cavs. Additionally, the Pistons are not in debt, while the Cavs owe $42-million to creditors. Just another reason why the Pistons should be a good investment for a prospective buyer... Winning will put the cans right back in the seats and back in black.
an update on this story Are the Pistons on the Verge of Being Sold?
My friend's dad, who works for the Palace, keeps trying to convince me that the Pistons are for sure up for sale. But every article I've seen has said "not officially yet"...So what should I think??
When you're hungry, think about food. Don't worry about the Pistons. Whatever will be will be.
Que Sara Sara... whatever will be will be (old Doris Day song)
Haha, right now I'm just happy the Pistons won twice in a row. and that I just got called and notified that I have a snow day tomorrow(:
Pistons owner still hopeful on sale timeline - NBA - Yahoo! Sports Apparently...the latest.
So should we as fans be hoping that the franchise value has gone down, thereby potentially freeing up more of the new owner's (or owners') capital that could be used to put into future acquisitions?
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The Canisius College women's lacrosse team cruised to a 16-9 win over Monmouth (7-8, 4-2 MAAC) on Saturday afternoon behind junior attacker Tori Quinn's seven points.
Quinn scored four goals and added three assists on the day, with all-four goals coming in the first half to get the Griffs got off to a fast start once again. Canisius opened up an eight-goal lead (10-2) heading into the half.
"I thought today was another solid team win," said head coach Scott Teeter. "I thought we got out to an excellent start by taking care of draw controls and the game was won in the first half by us finishing our shots and finishing two-point plays on defense."
Senior midfielder Maria Kotas (two goals and three assists) and sophomore attacker Taylor Giglio (four goals and one assist) each chipped in five points for the Blue and Gold.
Junior Meghan Cuddy scored three goals in the game, while sophomore midfielder Ashley Bull netted two and junior midfielder Tori Greco added another to round out the Griffs' scoring.
The teams traded goals to start the second half, with Canisius holding a 12-5 advantage with 15 minutes to play. The Griffs would then go on a 4-1 run to put the game away for good at 16-6 with the Hawks tacking on the final three goals in the last two minutes.
The Griffs won 18 draw controls to Monmouth's nine to control the possession of the game. Kotas won seven draws, while Bull collected five. Kotas and Bull each caused two turnovers as well in the contest.
Senior defender Gabby Kotas led the team with four ground balls, and junior defender Casey Depauw also turned in a strong defensive effort with three draw controls, two ground balls and a caused turnover.
Junior goaltender Kayla Scully made six saves and allowed just seven of Monmouth's nine goals in just over 58 minutes of action. The net minder also picked up two ground balls.
Canisius will next play its final road contest of the season on Wednesday, when the Griffs travel to longtime rival Niagara. First draw is scheduled for 7 p.m.
GAME NOTES: With the win, Teeter moves to 101-100 all-time as a head coach, marking the first time he's held a record over .500 in his career… Depauw's three draw controls set a new career high… Quinn's eight points were one shy of her season high, which came at Iona on March 29.


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German Shepherd Dog Forums (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/)
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- - Intact Male Marking.. how to stop? (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/general-behavior/405690-intact-male-marking-how-stop.html)
Intact Male Marking.. how to stop?
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So I looked through threads but I couldn't find very many addressing HOW to actually train the male from marking, only that it was a training issue. I have a friend who has a year old male pointer who has started marking. They have a female who's not fixed either. Any suggestions you can give me to pass on? I have never had to deal with this problem..
The foundation training should start when the dog is young(M/F intact or neutered, they should not be allowed to mark whenever whereever).
Keep him on a line tell him to go potty or whatever cue you'll use. After that, when he marks without your verbal ok (after he's actually done his real pee) correct him. Let him know verbally when he can and can't go.... and tell him NO~ pop the line to move him along when he starts marking.
If the dog is off leash, there isn't much you can do other than do a verbal correction which obviously has no impact for most dogs. My male is very biddable and handler sensitive, so a verbal did stop him for the most part when he was younger.
Though females in season may have their brain all fuzzled....so don't expect perfection if you are training or on property somewhere there is a female in heat. But I don't see marking as the behaviors used, it is more sniffing, licking the ground or teeth chattering. We train around many females and pretty much there is one in heat all the time, we just train thru it.
Will definitely help when they spay the female. If the marking is bad I may even do it earlier rather then later to help my anger and the furniture.....
Otherwise, it really is just a training issue to work on. Keep the male in the same room so you can mark when that leg is raises. Make sure an enzyme cleaner is used to spray and clean up any messes.
Is the dog marking indoors or just lifting his leg to pee? If it's indoors, I would treat it as a house training issue. Go back several steps, so the dog has less freedom and more chances to go outdoors.
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She is not going to fix either dog. So I suppose training is the only fix. I will have her take a look at this thread.
She tells me he is marking indoors. I did suggest that she leash him inside or a least not let him roam.
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Definitely a training issue. Plenty of folks have intact dogs that only mark outdoors (or when/where allowed). I would have her think of it in terms of potty training, not so much marking (that almost seems to excuse the behavior). He shouldn't be allowed to pee indoors, male or female, intact or altered. Yes, leashing him would be a good solution if she wants him to have more freedom or not be confined to a crate or specific room.
Is she taking him to classes? IMO, this dog needs more than a simple housetraining refresher.
Females as well as males start marking at home when feel threatened by other dog, it has nothing to do with sterilizing or being filthy, but has to do a lot with anxiety. The most common issue is a fight over a female - if the dog was attacked in presence of his female friend, that puts him down terribly and he starts feeling insecure even at home. If you two walk together, and you let your dog to interact with many other males on the way - it can cause such behaviour as well. Females pee at home for the same reason after having puppies. They try to mark the area where they already had and most likely would have again to raise their next litter, so to frighten other dogs. By the mere smell our dogs get an awful lot of information. I don't know is it true or not, but it is said, that by smelling to the other dog's "post" the males can not only detect that dog's age, physical health, but also size and agressiveness. So, I believe that, if you walk in areas overpopulated by other dogs it can also increase anxiety. I suggest to spare the male if he is young (under 2 years), if he is older - his stereotypes would be crystallized already and sterilization might not produce any effect. Sorry to say that, but your friend would have to start walking and playing alone in more or less dog free areas.
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I don't believe she is taking them to classes, just doing things at home with them in regards to OB. Also to David.. Nothing has changed in their house and situation. Female has been there and they got him a year ago and it just started. As far as I know.. nothing threatening happened and other dogs have not been in the place.
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Curious Nature: An ode to the campfire
July 28, 2012
Oh, Campfire, you are wondrous beyond words. Your marvels are unsurpassed. Oh, great bringer of light, warmth and protection, we love your warmth and sanctuary. May you once again burn brightly and brilliantly, lighting up the night with fierce energy and wild light.
The day has come when you can send your sparks skyward until they blend seamlessly with the stars that are themselves giant balls of fire floating aimlessly through space. Your flickering light and waves of warmth take us back to our primitive roots, when fire kept away danger and made a place for storytelling and sharing. Oh, campfire, your gifts are many, and followers across the globe sing your praises and tell stories of your deeds.
Campfires have been strictly prohibited under the fire ban in place in Eagle County, which recently went from Stage 2 to Stage 1 restrictions. Even with the recent rains, it's still dry out there, and it's easy to understand how even a carefully controlled fire could suddenly tear free from the confines of its puny stone circle and wreak havoc across the land. Fire can go from friend to foe in a matter of seconds, and when the risk is high, we owe it to our friends and neighbors to exercise the utmost caution in our outdoor excursions.
Camping without a campfire always feels like somewhat of an oxymoron, even though I've gone on plenty of fabulous fire-free adventures. It takes a change in perspective, though, for those who have always built the traditional bonfire with larger-than-life flames licking the sky. As with every loss, though, there is much to be gained. When we extinguish the bright flickering flames, we open up a whole new night world, one filled with untapped silence and unseen wonders. Nighttime creatures of all sorts reveal themselves in new ways, creeping or swooping closer than usual in their nocturnal quest for food.
People who live in the city are always amazed by the number of stars we can see out here, even from the relatively civilized confines of our small towns. But if you go camping without a fire, you, too, will be amazed by the vastness and brilliance of the night sky, looking as if the brightness were suddenly turned up to 10 on that great dial in the sky. Constellations that you could never quite find will suddenly reveal themselves in exquisite stellar splendor, with every speck and sparkle perfectly in its place, proclaiming their great stories to all who take the time to look.
Perhaps the greatest "around-the-fire" tradition, though, is that of the ghost story. While I seem to have blacked out the actual stories, some of my fondest memories are of being scared silly while my father and his friends took turns trying to terrify us kids. Now that I'm a parent myself, the stories I tell are not scary, as I don't really enjoy trying to put scared kids to bed, but I still love the tradition of stories around the campfire. And, of course, while the fire keeps us close and warm, we can still tell stories of all kinds while sitting in a close-knit circle and sipping hot drinks under the stars.
Helen Keller said, "Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content." We could all learn a lot from these wise words, and while our primeval souls may scream out for the energy and fury of the campfire, we can challenge ourselves to find happiness and beauty in new places and in new ways. But whatever you do, remember that fire is always a serious threat. So in the name of security and safety, try something new.
Challenge yourself to discover something different in the darkness, and maybe you also will discover something new in yourself.
Jaymee Squires is the director of graduate programs at Walking Mountains Science Center. She has been enjoying the recent rains and is hoping that they continue enough to keep her garden green.


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Does anyone have any experience with this blue mini compressor from testors? http://testors.com/catalog_item.asp?itemNbr=1640
Just trying to decide wich one to put on my christmas list :)
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Does anyone have any experience with this blue mini compressor from testors? http://testors.com/catalog_item.asp?itemNbr=1640
Just trying to decide wich one to put on my christmas list :)
Never used it but that little guy can give out 40psi out and it's quiet you have a pretty good gem there if you want to carry it around.
I bought one from Walmart. Just your standard air compressor. Though it is a bit noisy, I can also use it to run my nail gun, air up tires etc. And I paid the same price as that one.
I have a mini airbrush compressor that looks to be heavy duty & I have to agree with Pavespawn, you're better off buying a regular compressor. A larger compressor will deliver a steady air pressure without the pulsing that is common with inexpensive airbrush comressors. You can also outfit it with a water trap.
To BKBT you listen! Yes, yes, water trap. Hmmm... powerful ally it can be. Powerful ally indeed!
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Thanks for the advice guys. I'll stop by some local retailers and see what's available. I suppose it would be nice to have a compressor I can use for more than just airbrushing. Just gotta make sure it fit's into the little lady's gift budget ;)
Walmart has one for $99.99 right now. At least here they do. They also had one for like $70 with a smaller tank. (Get the biggest tank you can afford, trust me.)
I'll check it out here. Even tho I hate going into walmart..something fett related keeps making me go back..
I have that same compressor and its crap. once you start to draw air from it, you probably end up with a psi of around 15. I now use my regular air compressor, like everyone will say it will give you the steady controlled air pressure you need.Quote:
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Are you sure MS? I mean, do you really have any experience with airbrushing?... hahaha just kiddin. i'm sure the look on your face right then was priceless. anyway.. I'll be sure to advise my other half not to order it for me, even tho I already showed her. Tomorow might be a good day to take her compressor shoppin. again thanks for the great advice. that's why this place is my new favorite place.
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I just use the cans...
I used to use canned air. In fact most of my armor was painted with a walmart cheapo dual action and canned air. That being said, I will NEVER use canned air again. A good compressor is SOOOOOO worth it.Quote:
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This is what I have, it's quiet, and works really well.
I even use it for teaching my Maskmaking classes:
For$59.99 it's worth it!!
That looks pretty nice Propsculptor. Do you have any problems with the air 'pulsing'?
I bought that Testors little blue air compressor. It works great for me. I dont find that I need more power or flexability then it offers and its quiet. I may upgrade someday but its a big step up from the cans of compressed air, plus I got it using a Hobby Lobby cupon so it was 40% off. It gives good steady air flow for painting helmets and armor and that is all I use it for. I think its a good starter if you can find it on sale. But for the same price you can get a better one if its not discounted.
Hi everyone, new guy here with a question. I'll be getting a Don Post 95 helmet and a Rubies Jango soon and just wanted to know about air compressors. I have never done any airbrush painting before so this is all completely new to me. I do have a mini 12V compressor 250PSI that supposedly ideal for roaside emergencies and tire pressure maintenance. Also has an adaptor "for inflating bycycle tires and soccer balls...etc". Can I use this thing for airbrushing or is it better to get one that specifically is for that activity?
The same Compressor is now only $49.99!
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by roscoe36, Jan 7, 2009.
If they keep playing at this .250 clip they will finish with a 40-42 record,,
They seem tired, but it's good for the Pistons to catch up.
If by Pistons you mean ORL and CLE then yes there is some catching up being done. We need to focus on the 3rd seed but at this point we will be lucky to get home court vs ATL.
We don't need homecourt. This Pistons team is a good road team. I like the idea of stealing one of the first two on the road.
The funny thing from reading the Boston Globe is that according to all the reader comments (and even some of the local and national writers) the C's bench stinks and Tony Allen is killing them. Of course when the Pistons played them their bench and Tony Allen absolutely destroyed them.
LeBron James here.......... That nitwit Cavsfan23 (am I allowed to say that?) was leaving comments over at the Globe also.
Yes. We'll make an exception.
If the Pistons want to "catch up", they have little packets of that stuff.
Well they passed the Hawks tonight and grabbed the # 4 seed...still have plenty of time to catch one of the other three...
The beef with Dyess is awesome. He would rip KG to shreds.
Oh yeah he sure would!! He'll be looking like paper when it comes out of the shredder.
I watched the end of the Bos/Cle game tonight. They went to hack-a-Ben with over 4 minutes left in the game. It really made Boston look pathetic. He made about every other free throw and shut them down at the other end as he grew the lead from 13 or so to about 20 before Mike Brown finally removed him from the game to keep Boston from embarrassing themselves further. He got more free throws than Lebron, which is very hard to do.
Yeah...I watched it too. Boston looks totally befuddled now. On the other hand, the Cavs look great. Ben looks like he's enjoying basketball again in a way I haven't seen since the 06 All Star game.
He's on a true defensive unit again. Those guys are like a brick wall out there. It's crazy that Lebron is about the same size as Ben. Z wasn't even playing tonight and he's been just about their best defensive player this year, and they still smothered Boston. If we meet them in the playoffs, Sheed is going to have to be on fire from 3-point range.
I don't know about not needing homecourt. The Cavs look DOMINANT at home (that is if we don't end up grabbing #3). This game was an awful match-up. I wanted them both to lose.
I really don't dislike CLE all that much. Despite they hype they play the "right way". I take great joy watching BOS lose though. I watched this game before I turned on the game film of the Pistons game and it was awesome. KG actually got called for a tech for hitting someone after the whistle. I remember KG scoring some, but for large portions of the game you couldn't even tell any of their starters were playing. They all kind of look like they're running in mud. Pierce especially. Ben really played a strong game. Varejo goes at KG hard and seems capable of making him snap at some point. If Ben beat the crap out of KG I would go and buy a Cavs jersey. (I'll have 392 options to choose from. Have they worn their real uni's once?)
Ben has fit in perfect and has taken to his role with greatness, I don't know if he would be able to accept the 24 mins of hard nosed def, and no offensive chances though if he hadn't gone thru the hell that was chicago. At 24 mins a game he can play with the energy he used to play for 40 mins a night for us, but couldn't maintain anymore.... it was sad watching him degrade that last year for us and even worse playing for that bulls joke of a team. He can now be a defensive force and set a ton but isn't expected to do it all night long anymore.
Can't believe I am saying this but if we can't get there, I wouldn't mind seeing the Cavs knock off the Magic, Celtics, and then the Lakers or whomever for the title this season. I want the celtics to suffer the fate that both the Pistons and Heat experience with a one and done. And living here in Kobeland, there is no way I want to suffer through a whole summer of laker cheering... The Celtics will get out of their funk, but they know now that they need another body just like we do to assure another trip to the finals and they don't want to have to pull the hack-a-ben in the ECF if the two teams both make it there.
I can't believe that Ben is making more $ than Lebron right now. On a separate thought, look at how much Ben affected that game last night and look at how poor his stats in the box score were. Take that realization, and then imagine his true affect on Detroit games back in '04 when his box score would be 12 points, 18 rebounds, 3 steals, and 6 blocks. He was the best thing about our Championship run I believe. He was one of the easiest players to root for in Det sports history because of his attitude and his underappreciatednessitude.
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No where in the definition does it state that profit cannot be negative. I could be wrong.
Profits can be negative. It is called a loss.
Nowhere in the definition of a female does it say that a boy can't be a female either.
Wasn't Adolf Hitler a revolutionary figure? He led the social revolution of Germany.
I am not sure I understand your point a boy can be a female. It is rare but it does happen.Would you please provide a single example of someone with XY chromosomes being XX chromosomes?They are either XX or XY - if they are XX then they are not XY, and vice versa.By its very definition, being a boy requires being male - the opposite of being female.Very rarely, there are people who have sex organs of the opposite sex, but it does not change their chromosomes or their gender.
They are either XX or XY - if they are XX then they are not XY, and vice versa.
forgot the name of the condition, but XXX does not get wonderwoman, yyy does not get superman - it's messy and unfortunate.
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Having defeated Mercer 90-71 on Monday night at the Marriott Center in front of a decent-sized crowd of 12,929 in the second round of the NIT, the Cougars quickly turned their thoughts to who they will play next in what many people refer to as the National Inconsequential Tournament.
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Saint John's at Virginia: 8,457.
Stony Brook at Iowa: 15,400
Denver at Maryland: 3,982
Stanford at Alabama: 6,148
Arizona State at Baylor: 4,562
La. Tech at Southern Miss: 5,922
Robert Morris at Providence: 7,149
Mercer at BYU: 12,929
It won't happen, obviously, but it would have been interesting to see how many fans the Cougars would have gotten for a quarterfinal game on Wednesday, with a trip to the Big Apple at stake. More than 15,000 would be my guess. Alas, we will never know.
As fans in attendance and fans who watched the game on ESPNews are well aware, big Bill Walton was the television analyst. Rose was asked in the postgame news conference about Walton being in attendance. "We had a conversation before the game, and we talked about quite a few things," Rose said. "I don't very often watch our game film with the sound up, but I think I probably will tonight." The thought ran through my head that maybe Rose and Walton talked about the now-vacant UCLA job, now that the Bruins have fired 10-year coach Ben Howland. Rose's name hasn't popped up much in the list of candidates' names that are being thrown out there by the Los Angeles and national media, at least from what I've read, but UCLA could do worse than a coach who is 208-65 in eight seasons in Provo. Much worse. I posted video last night of the portion of the postgame news conference that featured the players, Matt Carlino and Brandon Davies. Here are most of Rose's comments, which I didn't get on video: On the surge of emotion recently on the sidelines (Rose made a point of high-fiving/congratulating every player on the bench as the clock wound down), and why: "We have been in a lot of practice sessions the last two weeks. And our guys have worked really hard, and have wanted this to happen. And I think that the disappoinment of the conference tournament was real to our players. I think they really feel excited about this opportunity to continue to play, and not finish on the note that we had there. And it is good to see our guys playing with a lot of togetherness. I think that our practice sessions are really paying off. Our guys are really playing well." On the Cougars scoring 90 points for second straight game and what is clicking offensively: "I think that when we find that third scorer we have been pretty good all year long. Tonight we got four. Brandon and Ty have been pretty consistent down the stretch for us. It has just been consistency with our group, and I think that the last two games, anyways, guys have really stepped up." On whether they mentioned that Mercer beat FGCU in the Atlantic Sun Conference race to the players:"Well, we talked about it. Because I think it is real. You take that team, and you see how well they are playing, and they have become kind of the nation's favorite team, the underdog. Then you realize that this team, over an 18-game conference schedule, finished ahead of them. It has got to, somewhere in the front of your mind, the back of your mind, make you realize that as good as that team has played the last couple of nights out, that this team won the league. And so they have to be pretty good. And they are good. I mean, this is a team that caused us a lot of problems a lot of times. We played really well, and gave them a couple runs, and they were right back at us again, and then right back at us again. That's the sign of a championship team. They won the Atlantic Sun championship, and you can tell why. They don't give up. They don't back down. They are good at the rim, they are good from the perimeter. They are a good defensive team. So I am proud of our guys." On the 3-point shooting of Brock Zylstra and Matt Carlino in the first half, especially: "When you start the game that way, and you get the lead, it allows us to be a little more aggressive defensively, as far as what we do. It is difficult for our team to stay in the zone when we are behind. And so to have that lead, and be able to switch back from man to zone, against a team that is so precise in the way they execute, I think that was an advantage for us. A lot of times when we were in a zone set, and they had a man call, it was to our advantage. That early lead allowed us to be way more aggressive in the way we switched back and forth."On whether he saw this surge from Matt Carlino coming: "Matt has played really well at times during the season. The issue has been consistency, and the last two games he has been great. And hopefully it continues."


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|Topic Review (Newest First)
|That's the old template shit gets a whole lot more real this year!
|can someone please move this thread to the equipment review section.
Originally Posted by BurtonAvenger View Post
Template looks strangely familiar.
Originally Posted by BurtonAvenger View Post
Template looks strangely familiar.
|Template looks strangely familiar.
|also, binding reviews will be up when i feel like it.
Board: K2 Happy Hour
Size: 151
Camber Option: Flatline
Bindings: K2 Cinch Ctx
Stance: 23 1/2
Angles: 15, -15
Boots: K2 haymaker size 12
My Weight: 175lbs.
Resort: Granite Peak
Conditions: Couple inches of fresh semi-heavy powder and light snowfall
Preconceived Notions: By the looks of the board i could tell i was going to have a "happy hour" with it.
Flex: semi stiff in the middle and decent flex on the tip and tail
Ollies/Pop: The Ollie bar definately makes a huge difference, i was overshooting jumps and getting too high in the air for even my comfort level with it but it held up great on landings.
Stability: For being a 151 this thing was stable at higher speeds and i felt surprisingly safe on ice.
Butterability: because of the tips on it this board butters like shit in my opinion but it's not really made to butter
Cruising: It felt like i was on a skate board basically, one of the most fun boards i have ever just cruised around on and i almost felt invincible at one point on it. I also was carving so hard and low i almost thought i was hard booting!
Jibbing: It was fun to jib on and I worried about the tips a little bit but they didn't seem to catch at all on the rail or boxes but i would be very cautious on corrugated tubing.
Rider in Mind: This board is definitely for someone that wants to have a good time on the hill no matter what they do. If you ride in the park a lot ride it small, if you ride in powder then ride at your normal size.
Personal Thoughts: Best board i have ever rode hands down. This board and Burton Cobrasharks would be a deadly combination in the park and if you ever get in a fight with an asshole skier at least you will always have a weapon on hand.
Board: Rossignol Jibsaw w/magtek
Size: 157
Camber Option: freestyle camber, or flat camber for short
Bindings: Rossignol Cobra
Stance: 23 1/2
Angles: 15, -15
Boots: K2 haymaker size 12
My Weight: 175lbs.
Resort: Granite Peak
Conditions: Couple inches of fresh semi-heavy powder and light snowfall
Preconceived Notions: From what the Rossignol rep told me it seemed like it would be a great all mountain freestyle board but mainly focusing on jumps.
Flex: A little bit softer than the Burton Ration and it had a lot more play.
Ollies/Pop: I couldn't believe the pop on this board it had more pop than every board i have ever tried up to this point other than the K2 Happy Hour. This thing could ollie onto boxes and rails pretty good but i'm sure if i could've tested out a smaller one it would have been a lot better.
Stability: It was very forgiving on jumps and definitely can handle any jump thrown at it, it can also plow through anything it went through and rode over bumpy terrain without even feeling it.
Butterability: I was able to butter pretty well on it even though it was a little to big for
Cruising: The Magtek worked awesome on ice and the freestyle camber is great on all terrain
Jibbing: Jibbing was a little bit more difficult with it being a little bit too big but it would be a good mid stiff jibbing board and the flat camber helps a lot for spinning on rails
Rider in Mind: If you're looking for something to use on icy terrain,like to hit the park, and can only afford one board then this would be a good board for you and it's at a reasonable price.
Personal Thoughts: Even though they aren't very original on their tech, they still put together a great all around board in the jibsaw.
Board: Burton Mystery EST
Camber Option: V rocker
Bindings: 2013 Burton Malavita EST
Stance: 23 1/2 (1 inch set back)
Angles: 15, -15
Boots: K2 haymaker size 12
My Weight: 175lbs.
Resort: Granite Peak
Conditions: Couple inches of fresh semi-heavy powder and light snowfall
Preconceived Notions: Well since this is one of burtons most expensive boards and from what the reps told me it seemed like it would be some insanely lightweight powder slaying machine.
Flex: This board was very flexible all over and lots of play to it, but considering it's made out of such light material it should be flexible.
Ollies/Pop: Crazy amount of pop and ollies were effortless I hit some small natural features and it sent me pretty high, I didn't hit any actual jumps because the reps told me not to do any jumps or jibs on it and i had a setback set up so it wasn't really set up for those types of features.
Stability: Really stable on landings but wouldn't send it off of anything too big unless on some backcountry
Butterability: For having a set back on it, it still buttered really well.
Cruising: The V Rocker gave it a very surfy feeling, i felt unstable at higher speeds but that's because i'm use to the camber under foot and it seemed like it would do better in a real backcountry scene with lots of powder.
Jibbing: Didn't jib with it, but presses were pretty easy with it and it was very playful.
Rider in Mind: This thing is almost lighter than air, but unless you're willing to drop $1500 on this board and ride in alot of soft light powder this thing just seems like a waste of money.
Personal Thoughts: The noise that the carbon or teflon makes on snow is fucking annoying, but there is lots of great new tech in this board that will hopefully trickle down to other boards in the next few years. My favorite tech out of this board would have to be the frostbite edges which is basically a stainless steel edge and although very expensive it is a great idea.
2013 board & binding demo reviews
I had the opportunity yesterday to demo boards and binding from Burton, Rossignol, and K2. If anyone else has demoed 2013 gear i think this would be a good thread for everyone to post reviews. I will also be using Angrysnowboarders format of review.
(1st out of 4)
Board: Burton Ration
Size: 152
Camber Option: Camber
Bindings: Burton Cobrashark (reflex)
Stance: 23 1/2
Angles: 15, -15
Boots: K2 haymaker size 12
My Weight: 175lbs.
Resort: Granite Peak
Conditions: Couple inches of fresh semi-heavy powder and light snowfall
Preconceived Notions: The Burton Reps said it was their softest board for next year so i thought it would be a great jibbing board and since it was camber i thought it would handle speed really well.
Flex: The board seemed stiff in the middle but it was softer after the feet and had a little play in it, the stiffness is comparable to the NS Revolver.
Ollies/Pop: Since it was cambered it has quite a bit of pop like most cambered boards.
Stability: This thing was great when hard charging down runs and plowed through crud like nothing. Has some forgiveness on landings for jumps.
Butterability: This board butters really well for being a somewhat stiffer park board.
Cruising: The board carves effortlessly from edge to edge.
Jibbing: Great camber option for jibbing, presses were ok and no hang ups on rails. It is a little more difficult to spin while you're on the rails, since it has the camber but it's great for basic jibbing.
Rider in Mind: If you are just starting to hit the parks or looking for a cheap cambered board for doing it all (or learning to) then this is definitely a good choice.
Personal Thoughts: I loved the camber for carving and it held up well on jumps, i'm use to the horrorscope for jibs but i could definitely see myself using this as a all mountain freestyle board. It seemed almost exactly like the neversummer revolver except the revolver would perform a little better for presses and buttering on rails, but for $250 less i would choose the ration.
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Public Interest Law Speakers 2001-2002
Spring 2002
Adrien K. Wing
"Global Critical Race Feminism: Legal Reform for the 21st Century" - Wednesday, January 9, 2002
Co-sponsored by the Washington University School of Law Institute for Global Legal Studies
- Professor of Law, University of Iowa
- Consultant on Post-Apartheid South African Constitution and Palestinian Basic Law
- Life Member, Council on Foreign Relations
- Editor, Critical Race Feminism and Global Critical Race Feminism
Hon. Thelton E. Henderson
"Social Change, Judicial Activism, and the Public Interest Lawyer" - Wednesday, January 23, 2002
The Black Law Students Association Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Speaker
- Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of California
- Former Directing Attorney,East Bayshore Neighborhood Legal Center
- Former Attorney, Civil Rights Division, United States Department of Justice
- Board Member, American Inns of Court Foundation
Anthony Thompson
"Community Justice Advocacy: Reimagining the Dream" -Thursday, January 29, 2002
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- Professor of Clinical Law, New York University
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Michael Traynor
"The Selfish Genome" - February 6, 2002
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- Former Chair and President, Sierra Club (now Earthjustice) Legal Defense Fund
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"A Passion for Justice" - Friday, February 15, 2002
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- Co-founder and Chief Trial Counsel, Southern Poverty Law Center
- Civil Rights Lawyer and Activist
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"Are Lawyers Relevant to the Struggle for Social Justice?" - Wednesday, February 27, 2001
- Chief Executive Officer, McCormack Baron & Associated, Inc.
- Former General Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri
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- Founder and Board Member, Center of Contemporary Arts (COCA)
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"ADR and Problem Solving in the Public Interest: What Else Besides Litigation Works" - Friday, March 15, 2002
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- Chair, Georgetown-CPR Commission on Ethics and Standards in Alternative Dispute Resolution
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- National Chair, Common Cause
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"A Conversation with the Real Erin Brockovich"
- Director of Environmental Research, Law Offices of Masry and Vititoe
- Recipient, American Trail Lawyers Association Civil Justice Foundation 2000 Champion of Justice Award
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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 235, December 14, 2001
- QUIZ: Vectorization
- Tuning a C++ MPI Code with VAMPIR: Part II
- CUG Call for papers
- ANSWER: Vectorization
- Next Newsletter
- Quick Tip
QUIZ: Vectorization
Here's a simple program to implement trapezoidal integration. Can I get the loop to vectorize on the SV1ex, and improve its performance?
CHILKOOT$ cat trap.serial.f !****************************************************** ! serial.f -- calculate definite integral using trapezoidal rule. ! ! The function f(x) is hardwired. ! Input: From file 'trap.input': a, b, n ! Output: estimate of integral from a to b of f(x) ! using n trapezoids. !****************************************************** PROGRAM serial implicit none real :: integral ! accumulates sum of trapezoids real :: a ! lower value of interval real :: b ! upper value of interval integer :: n ! number of trapezoids real :: h ! width of trapezoid real :: side(0:1) ! sides of trapezoid integer:: i ! which trapezoid computing real :: f ! real valued function integrating open (unit=44, file='trap.input', status='old') read (44, '(2f8.5,i12)') a, b, n close (44) h = (b-a)/n integral = 0 ! Left side of first trapezoid side(1) = f(a+0*h) do i = 0 , n-1 ! Right side of current trapezoid. Left side of next. side(MOD(i,2)) = f(a+(i+1)*h) integral = integral + h*(side(0) + side(1)) / 2.0 enddo print *,'With n =', n,' trapezoids, our estimate' print *,'of the integral from ', a, ' to ',b, ' = ' , integral end !****************************************************** real function f(x) real x f = 4.0 / (x**2 + 1) return end !******************************************************
When compiled for loopmark listing, as follows:
f90 -O3 -rm -o trap.serial trap.serial.f
we can see in the listing file that the loop is marked with "1's" and not "V's", which tells us it's not vectorized. From the listing file:
32. 1--< do i = 0 , n-1 33. 1 34. 1 ! Right side of current trapezoid. Left side of next. 35. 1 side(MOD(i,2)) = f(a+(i+1)*h) 36. 1 37. 1 integral = integral + h*(side(0) + side(1)) / 2.0 38. 1--> enddoThe run takes a long time, and it only gets 24 MFLOPS. Here's output including hpm statistics:
CHILKOOT$ hpm ./trap.serial With n = 50000000 trapezoids, our estimate of the integral from 0.E+0 to 1. = 3.141592457548199 Group 0:CPU seconds : 20.90579 CP executing : 10452894570 Million inst/sec (MIPS) : 193.76 Instructions : 4050623322 Avg. clock periods/inst : 2.58 % CP holding issue : 45.93 CP holding issue : 4801389871 Inst.buffer fetches/sec : 0.00M Inst.buf. fetches: 9512 Floating adds/sec : 9.57M F.P. adds : 200000514 Floating multiplies/sec : 11.96M F.P. multiplies : 250000430 Floating reciprocal/sec : 2.39M F.P. reciprocals : 50000002 Cache hits/sec : 9.59M Cache hits : 200397353 CPU mem. references/sec : 28.72M CPU references : 600421500 Floating ops/CPU second : 23.92M
The QUIZ: How can we speed this up?
Tuning a C++ MPI Code with VAMPIR: Part II
[ Part II of III. Thanks to Jim Long of ARSC for this series of articles. ]
In part I, we described a port of the UAF Institute of Arctic Biology's Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (TEM) to the Cray T3E and a linux cluster, and examined performance using VAMPIR. In this article, we explore an optimization to the communication algorithm and discuss performance on ARSC's IBM SP3.
As shown in part I, VAMPIR images suggested that TEM might be tuned by:
- overlapping computation on the master and slaves, and
- having the slaves begin computing as soon as they receive new data.
The relevant abstracted code section from the original implementation is:
if (mype == 0){ currentPE = 1; while (currentPE<totpes){ READ CLIMATE DATA FOR CURRENT SLAVE (if available) MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD); MPI_Send CLIMATE DATA TO CURRENT SLAVE (many MPI_Send calls) currentPE++; } } else { for (currentPE = 1; currentPE < totpes; currentPE++){ MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD); if (mype == currentPE) MPI_Recv DATA FROM MASTER (many MPI_Recv calls) } COMPUTE WITH MY DATA }
The MPI_Barrier call serves to synchronize the two loops so as not to overload MPI buffering. This could be a problem because the code above is inside a loop that can read files for hundreds of years into the future.
The barriers also mimic the situation that would exist in a synchronous coupling with a climate model, i.e., when there is no new climate data for the master to read until the slaves have computed and sent their data to the climate model. In a synchronous coupling, the master must wait until a new climate is computed.
In a sensitivity analysis for an uncoupled TEM, however, the climate might well be prescribed (as it is now), and the master can read the next year's data and have it ready for the slaves when they need it. This addresses issue 1, above.
The fact that no slave can begin computation until all slaves receive their data was recognized in the original implementation, but was left unchanged since it mimics the worst case scenario that would exist in a global run with many slaves trying to read/write their data at the same time. Worst case simulation is not necessary, however, when a sensitivity analysis is desired for only Arctic latitudes. This addresses issue 2.
Thus, it was safe to tune the code by simply removing the barrier calls. This eliminates the "for" loop in the "else" clause. The first in the series of MPI_Sends was replaced with an MPI_Ssend. MPI_Ssend is a synchronous send that guarantees that the send will not return until the destination begins to receive the message. This effectively implements a barrier between the master and one slave only, when that slave begins to receive, instead of having to stop at an explicit barrier when each slave is receiving. A slave may now begin computation as soon as it receives its data. The tuned code looks like:
if (mype == 0){ currentPE = 1; while (currentPE<totpes){ READ CLIMATE DATA FOR CURRENT SLAVE (if available) MPI_Ssend for the first of many MPI_Send calls MPI_Send CLIMATE DATA TO CURRENT SLAVE (many MPI_Send calls) currentPE++; } } else { MPI_Recv DATA FROM MASTER (many MPI_Recv calls) COMPUTE WITH MY DATA }
The general lesson here is to avoid global barriers if at all possible.
Figure 1 (click on icon for larger view)
Figure 1 gives two VAMPIR images, comparing old vs new communication patterns for the T3E during equal timeslices of the TEM transient portion. The T3E showed a roughly 10% reduction in time for the transient portion of the run, which shows up as a reduction in the amount of time spent in (red) MPI calls for the slaves in the VAMPIR output. (In all of these VAMPIR images, green, which shows time spent doing computation, is good, while red, which shows necessary, but unproductive, time in the communication library, is bad.)
Figure 2 (click on icon for larger view)
Figure 2 shows the communication pattern on the ARSC linux cluster, using ethernet, where an impressive 40% reduction in time during transient portion is realized.
Of all platforms tested, MPI latency and bandwidth are worst on the cluster using ethernet, thus it's no surprise that the benefits from tuning the communication algorithm is most dramatic here.
Figure 3 (click on icon for larger view)
Figure 3 shows additional results from the ARSC linux cluster, but this time, using the myrinet network. This comparison shows about a 15% reduction in time during the transient portion.
Figure 4 (click on icon for larger view)
Figure 4 is the promised look at results on ARSC's IBM SP3 (Icehawk) for an equal timeslice of the transient portion.
The original code ran in a blazing 9:55 (9 minutes, 55 seconds) total, while the tuned code ran in 8:31. The two transient portions ran in 3:50 and 2:25 respectively, a roughly 35% improvement in the tuned version for transient performance.
Since the compute time per time step is so low for the SP3, the MPI portion was a large percentage of the action, and hence a reduction in MPI time results in a large percentage improvement. The IBM SP3 is essentially a cluster technology, 4 CPUs per shared memory node, with nodes interconnected by a high speed switch. Each CPU has 8MB L2 cache, and so we have the combined benefits for this code of large cache and high performance CPUs.
In the next (and final) installment in this series, we address the question raised in part I. The problem is naturally parallel, so why doesn't it scale better? Is the tuned code more scalable?
CUG Call for papers
The CUG SUMMIT 2002 on high-performance computation and visualization will be held from May 20 through 24, 2002, in Manchester, United Kingdom. Our host will be the University of Manchester.
For further details about the CUG SUMMIT 2002 and electronic abstract submission, please visit the CUG home page at URL:http://www.cug.org/
The deadline for electronic abstract submissions is January 25, 2002.
ANSWER: Vectorization
Here's one answer...
First, ask the compiler why the loop didn't vectorize. Add the "-Onegmsgs" option (for "negative messages") to learn why desirable optimizations, like vectorization and tasking, were not applied:
f90 -O3,negmsgs -rm -o trap.serial trap.serial.f
Excerpts from the listing file, trap.serial.lst:
32. 1--< do i = 0 , n-1 33. 1 34. 1 ! Right side of current trapezoid. Left side of next. 35. 1 side(MOD(i,2)) = f(a+(i+1)*h) 36. 1 37. 1 integral = integral + h*(side(0) + side(1)) / 2.0 38. 1--> enddo f90-6287 f90: VECTOR File = trap.serial.f, Line = 32 A loop starting at line 32 was not vectorized because it contains a call to function "F" on line 35.
Ahhhh... We knew that! Function and subroutine calls inhibit vectorization. Recompile with inlining to eliminate the function call. As described in > Quick-Tip #207 , if the function were defined in a separate source file, we'd use "-Oinlinefrom=<FNM>". In this case, use -Oinline4:
f90 -O3,inline4 -rm -o trap.serial trap.serial.fThe result:
31. I----<> side(1) = f(a+0*h) 32. Vp----< do i = 0 , n-1 33. Vp 34. Vp ! Right side of current trapezoid. Left side of next. 35. Vp I-<> side(MOD(i,2)) = f(a+(i+1)*h) 36. Vp 37. Vp integral = integral + h*(side(0) + side(1)) / 2.0 38. Vp----> enddo"Vp" indicates the loop was "partially vectorized," which is encouraging. How much did this help?
CHILKOOT$ hpm ./trap.serial With n = 50000000 trapezoids, our estimate of the integral from 0.E+0 to 1. = 3.141592425474428 Group 0: CPU seconds : 8.02257 CP executing : 4011283880 Million inst/sec (MIPS) : 215.56 Instructions : 1729334273 Avg. clock periods/inst : 2.32 % CP holding issue : 44.27 CP holding issue : 1775631714 Inst.buffer fetches/sec : 0.00M Inst.buf. fetches: 9477 Floating adds/sec : 31.16M F.P. adds : 250000513 Floating multiplies/sec : 37.39M F.P. multiplies : 300000430 Floating reciprocal/sec : 6.23M F.P. reciprocals : 50000002 Cache hits/sec : 19.53M Cache hits : 156646453 CPU mem. references/sec : 31.99M CPU references : 256671541 Floating ops/CPU second : 74.79M
We got a 3-fold improvement, but 75 MFLOPS is still disappointing. Recompile again with "negative messages" to get guidance from the compiler:
f90 -O3,negmsgs,inline4 -rm -o trap.serial trap.serial.f
And the listing file shows:
f90-1204 f90: INLINE File = trap.serial.f, Line = 31 The call to F was inlined. f90-6209 f90: VECTOR File = trap.serial.f, Line = 32 A loop starting at line 32 was partially vectorized. f90-6511 f90: TASKING File = trap.serial.f, Line = 32 A loop starting at line 32 was not tasked because a recurrence was found on "SIDE" between lines 35 and 37.
OF COURSE! There's a dependency in this loop. The value of "side" must be computed before "integral". This is probably inhibiting vectorization as well as parallelization.
It was clever to reuse the value of "side" for two adjacent trapezoids, but let's go back to the simplest coding of trapezoidal integration, and see what happens. Replacing the loop with this:
integral = 0 do i = 0 , n-1 integral = integral + h*( f(a+i*h) + f(a+(i+1)*h) )/2.0 enddo
should remove all dependencies. Recompile with:
f90 -O3,negmsgs,inline4 -rm -o trap.serial trap.serial.f
and we see this in the loopmark listing file:
25. integral = 0 26. V------< do i = 0 , n-1 27. V I I-<> integral = integral + h*( f(a+i*h) + f(a+(i+1)*h) )/2.0 28. V------> enddo f90-6204 f90: VECTOR File = trap.serial.f, Line = 26 A loop starting at line 26 was vectorized. f90-1204 f90: INLINE File = trap.serial.f, Line = 27 The call to F was inlined.
The fully vectorized version runs at 1600 MFLOPS and completes in 0.65 CPU seconds. This is a 13-fold speedup in CPU seconds over the partially vectorized version:
CHILKOOT$ hpm ./trap.serial With n = 50000000 trapezoids, our estimate of the integral from 0.E+0 to 1. = 3.141592650025629 Group 0: CPU seconds : 0.65617 CP executing : 328084890 Million inst/sec (MIPS) : 48.57 Instructions : 31873220 Avg. clock periods/inst : 10.29 % CP holding issue : 88.36 CP holding issue : 289879773 Inst.buffer fetches/sec : 0.01M Inst.buf. fetches: 9461 Floating adds/sec : 609.60M F.P. adds : 400000584 Floating multiplies/sec : 838.20M F.P. multiplies : 550000426 Floating reciprocal/sec : 152.40M F.P. reciprocals : 100000001 Cache hits/sec : 0.61M Cache hits : 397575 CPU mem. references/sec : 0.64M CPU references : 421673 Floating ops/CPU second : 1600.20M
Can you add anything to this discussion? Feel free to comment.
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