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Welcome to Stargrazing, a column which divines your recommended intake based on your horoscope.
We're now in the season of Pisces, and we will be until just before March ends. Pisces season translates to losing something that you have to admit isn't close to you anymore, but still feels awful while it's ending. Think: ill-fitting jobs/love/best friendships; a political awakening or seven; that secondhand yacht that you were never able to quite fix up like you hoped and other money-shredding matters; maybe you have to quit smoking or drinking and it sucks teeth as you start to do that; maybe you are discovering that health isn't a forever-guarantee.
WHOA HEY THERE BUT: This season is coupled with another astral harbinger of mega-change: Venus retrograde. Hold on to your hamburgers, with Venus behaving the way it will from March 4 throughout the next month or so: when Venus dips out of view, so does decision-making and impulse control. (That sounds kind of fun to me, but I also know what a maniac I start to feel like after the third straight day of consuming doughnuts and wine exclusively.) Depending on your sign, though, maybe one of your problems is that you're always tamping down your… not impulses, but natural inclinations. Venus can help with figuring out the difference!
Even if life has recently been manageable, it's still going to improve—like finding out that your favorite restaurant added a perfect new something to its menu, or discovering that you have a favorite restaurant to begin with. It's going to be hard before it gets better; your favorite restaurant might remove your very favorite thing in order to make room for the new one. But you won't know about the new one yet, so you'll feel, for a minute, very sad. I promise it's not forever—and you can always console yourself with doughnuts and wine, if it comes to that. This is happening right before a much calmer and warmer—and more consistent—state of mind comes to you, and for you. It has to happen in order for you to be fulfilled and happy. (If you're not: You can be, which is so wild.) Praise whatever you praise if that's the case, no matter your sign. And then go bite the fucking walls for a while, because it's going to be a li'l trying to earn that grace.
An applicable text message from my dad when I tentatively mentioned I was very sad today—and I never tell my family when I'm very sad:
Lito: Yesterday was a tough day for me but today was much much better that's the way it goes you get one bad and then a lot of good ones and then one bad remember the good ones
Remember the good ones, and remember that food will still taste good even if you're a freakin' tears pond! If your life is shuddering through Pisces and Venus retrograde, you at least deserve to eat mad delicious things.
If you'd like to show me what cosmic meals you'd make, I'd love to then show everyone else—flash me a hi sign on Twitter or Instagram, and I'll beam it out to all our fellow interstellar gourmands in the next column.
You're ruled by Neptune, which is a conductor of music and art. In the weeks surrounding your birthday, go to a concert and eat/drink whatever refreshments they have on offer there. I don't care if it's oleaginous nachos at an arena, a martini at the opera (or, better, nachos at the opera—a girl can dream), a hot dog at a backyard DIY show, or a weed brownie, if you're into that. If music be the food of love, get down with a plastic cup of beer and whatever else you can find at the concession stand.
You can also look to art to inform your eating. Make an aesthetics-based recipe that replicates your own level of beauty, like this green shakshuka, this almond-cardamom baklava, this kaleidoscopic king cake (it has a plastic baby stuck into it? sick), or these sexy homemade Twinkies (or just eat the prefab ones out of the package; are we serious!).
You can listen to whatever you like as you cook, no ticket stubs required. I think it'd be nice to choose something fresh, or at least fresh to you, instead of the same ol'. Pinegrove, out of New Jersey, put out a really earnest live album earlier this year, the pay-what-you-wish proceeds for which all go to the heroic discrimination-fighting nonprofit Southern Poverty Law Center. Kim Jung Mi's 1973 LP Now is a South Korean lo-fi softness that's good whether you like Nico or not, but particularly if (*Nico voice*) youuuuoooooooooooooh doooooo, and, of course, the new Sampha is its own ecosystem that's super idyllic to visit. Pack a Japanese fruit sandwich for the trip. (*Nico voice*) Happy birthday toooooooooooooooh youuuuuuuuuuuuooh, rainbow fish, in all your colors and waves.
Aries, the only true thing about tomorrow is that it's on its way to see you soon. There's no use in sinking all your attention into it when right now exists. Being majorly preoccupied with what's coming next will extend your days into a sentence to be served. Yes, something big is hurtling your way. That could be great! But maybe it's, as Pisces/Venus are plotting, an emotional/functional asteroid. The right thing to do: go eat a rad snack with one of your friends, both of whom are worthy distractions from the apocalypse, and maybe even your partial defenders from it.
Another good way to feel more involved in the current moment is to busy yourself, and the preparation of food is great for that. Take on lots of cooking and baking projects in order to feel like you're jumping from thing to thing as quickly as you're wanting to in other areas of your life. Have two things on the stove, one in the oven, and a salad on the counter all at once, you know? (And have a cocktail, if you drink.) One plan: make a meal of bourbon-sugar steak (or imam bayaldi eggplant, if you're vegetarian), charred, buttered asparagus, braised radishes, and a kale Caesar all at once. See? The present moment is stuffed with many great things, and now, so are you. See you tomorrow, as if you even care that much anymore.
It's time to stuff your kitchen with fruits and vegetables that respond especially well to Pisces season, Taurus. You're a natural-world champion, so focus on produce: what's great, right now, are artichokes, bok choy, asparagus (Springggggg, get you ass in here already), grapefruits, and spinach—and more. Some aspects of your life are rooted in place no matter what, like your penchant for things that grow.
In the metamorphic spirit of this season, find unexpected endpoints for what comes to you naturally: this spicy grapefruit spritz is really attractive to me, chicken congee with bok choy is a March-dissolving dream, roasted artichokes with chorizo kind of speak for themselves, and if you've never had asparagus with risotto all around it, now's the time. You can develop what you already know and rely on into something more complex, and you'll have to this season, so enjoy a dinner that's psychically similar to that process.
When you scatter your interests and motivators as a rule, Pisces/Venus-brand change is hard to detect up to and including the minute it's shaking you up even further. I'd ask you to make a study of the familiar, sturdy, and reliable this season, you terrifically capricious goon. So: Can you please make a meatball? Actually, make a few.
Meatballs, even when you're working with the everybody's-Italian-grandma's-best-recipe–style marinara kind, are stubbornly predictable. You are… not. So, sure, make the Italian ones and either make out with a hero overtaxed with them (like this, plus parsley if you love yourself) or over linguine, but also make tsukune, albóndigas soup, boulettes, and—fuck it!—spaghetti-and-meatball pie. (I'm bringing this last to my next family Thanksgiving, and I would even if I weren't from New Jersey). Life can be consistent without looking or feeling (or tasting) totally uniform. It's a good season to remind yourself of that via wads of meat.
Debbie Solomon, a chef out of Los Angeles who just happens to be the person in charge of Rihanna's daily repast, recently did a charming interview with Bon Appétit about her career, taste, and ideology. At one point, she makes a remark that can be easily extended to everything beyond food that life has to offer—you should think about it! "I won't waste my calories on bullshit," says Solomon. (You can substitute the words time, feelings, or energy (like, but not in the "calories" way here—more figuratively.) "If I take a bite of something and it's shitty to me, I'm not just going to eat it because I'm hungry. I'm going to stop eating that shitty thing."
God love a Cancer, because you tend to raise a "bemused" eyebrow at that shitty thing, whatever it is for you right now, while secretly withering inside that your life includes it, rather than just shoving it the fuck off your plate. NO MORE, CRABCAKE. A consistent drag is going to make itself more stridently and shittily known than ever this season, and even you will have a hard time of ignoring that, or—if you're being your very most aggressive—politely passing the plate to your left. If you stop eating that shitty thing, you might feel fuller in genero. However that goes in your wider life, I bet that if you made one of Solomon's recipes, like this curry with chicken and potatoes, or insist that your meal be decorated with a selection from the array of spices she travels everywhere with, "bouillon-like Maggi cubes, curry, jeera (also known as cumin seeds), Old Bay seasoning, adobo, and five-spice, as well as garlic and onion granules," you'll be glad you did.
Decadent person, let's honor your dramatism by extending it to a traditionally practical concern: breakfast. I get it! We're supposed to eat chia, yogurt, and whatever the heck else "fuel." But your sense of extravagance doesn't quite play that, or at least not without a little groaning.
It's a great season for waking up to something a little more exciting than what you've had going on lately, so translate that into food. Make the most vibrant and diverse fruit salad as yet known to humanity and eat it with honey. As a matter of fact, eat cheese with honey, as I did every morning on one very edifying trip to Italy. (Imagine me obnoxiously sighing, "Travel really does change your perspective…" through a face full of parmigiano-reggiano and bee snot or whatever honey is.) Who says vegan brownies are only suitable for every other time of day? Kimchi potato hash is my new religion; I just converted; praise Her. Identically copy a Turkish breakfast, or a Japanese one—if you choose the latter, you'll get to have the similarly satisfying symmetrical experience of listening to Japanese Breakfast as you eat one, which rules. I love the thought of your days feeling special and intentional from jump. And of you changing your perspective via hard, nutty cheese drenched in honey.
You're a fan of precision, detail, and the largest and most useful volume of information you can get in the shortest amount of time, including in your preferences for art; you'll like the work of the food writer (and writer-writer) Mayukh Sen. Read his recent profile of Princess Pamela, a soul food chef/restaurateur. Sen beautifully recirculates her personality and importance in his investigation of what her food meant to those around her. (Sen's piece is framed by Rizzoli's recent reissue of Princess Pamela's Soul Food Cookbook: A Mouth-Watering Treasury of Afro-American Recipes, but has wholly its own soul, or at least contributes even more to understanding the same great one.) Sen is also responsible for assembling this killer group of Iranian recipes like tamarind-stuffed fish, saffron rice pudding, and problem-solving nuts, which I want to stack on top of one another in my stomach like flapjaxxx.
Okay, Virgo, so we know that, like you, this person thinks that facts, history, and beauty are equally cardinal. But there is something very important to keep in mind here: you can apply these beliefs wherever you want. (Sen also wrote this wild exegesis on the generation of Cher's 1980s acting career! It's flooring, like everything he writes.) You can apply the meticulousness that, to you, feels most like care to all your different interests: your work, the enhancement of your brain, your dissections of the Lord God Cher. So: If you wanted to take a pipettes-and-calipers–level scientific approach to making something frivolous-feeling, like one of Molly Yeh's eerily perfect funfetti cakes, now's a great time to remind yourself that you don't have to feel like you're losing control (though, would that be the very worst thing? …she says, knowing that you think the answer is OF COURSE, DUMMY) if you're having a good time.
Because you're already figuring most of your life concerns out on your own pretty well, I just have a few weird koans for you this month, rather than a unified bit of gastronomical advice. One or more will work—that's the horoscopes biz for ya, baby!!!!!—but it's because I truly think they're suited to your relationship with the planets, and with those around you:
— Get Chinese take-out all by yourself.
— Fall in love with a Sagittarius and make them a goulash—you're great together, per the stars. Since you like them (and stew) anyway, you might as well.
— I've always had the association that sauerkraut is for sophisticates (unless you're a certain kind of European, where sophistication, like sauerkraut, is normal to you). Why not put on airs…by eating fermented cabbage?
— Eat chicken parm with linguine carbonara—under the moon, if possible.
Avail yourself to as much irreverence and moments of surprise as you can. Like you'll have a choice. Enjoy it.
Your style direction for Pisces season: the palpable, visible belief that soulmates are real. You're as brave as you are vulnerable, and you deserve to live out your version of the greatest love story ever told. If there is someone in your life that you love, now's the time to tell them, even if it's the second or third time that you have. I'm usually resistant to the idea that persistence is a viable romantic strategy, but if you keep trying—wine; dinner either at the restaurant you love most in the world or brought to their home in paper shopping bags, some assembly required—it might work.
If you are already in love, that's lucky and cool. Either way: there's someone waiting for you to show them how you feel, preferably over dinner. It's hard for other signs, sometimes, to prioritize or interpret full-bore romance as prominently as you do. So make them coffee and toast (as with kissing, French is best, but any kind is aces) in the morning. Make them jollof rice. Bring them a fresh clementine when you're just casually meeting up in the daytime, or an ice cream—nearly everyone likes to be surprised with those things; they feel good in some of the ways that love does. Do you know what their favorite candy bar is? Make it your business. Whatever you do, love-wise, this season: Prove it in what you do (and what they eat) more than in what you say. Jollof rice is the sexiest declaration of love there is, anyway. If all else fails: you can be soulmates with it instead.
The full moon on the 12th, which is a harbinger of huuuuge life alterations, is going to smack you smartly and hard unless you start taking stock of what, most possibly, could be about to change for you. (Really, Sagittarius: think about it for once, and ask your friends for a second opinion, because a large part of you might definitely want to be like, "LET'S KEEP PARTYING!" when they're like, "Babe, is your face bleeding?")
You're fixing to fly off the axes on which you orbit in areas of love/friendship, work, and finances. Something isn't working, and has been slowing in usefulness for quite some time, nearly imperceptibly and slowly, until now, as you increasingly, and diminishingly try to rely on it, like inverse warp speed.
This is—don't hate me; I am you— a good thing. You have to admit a relationship isn't working in order to remember who you actually are, and what you actually love, even if it means a lot of crying in the shower and discovering that part of that Truest Self™ turns out to be that you don't in fact mind piled takeout containers as stylish, nouveau bedroom decor.
Okay, you might—it's just that you're going through it in one way or another. If you're moths-for-pockets based on necessarily exhausting your finances because your insurance plan got mangled (hiiii!) or you lost your hateful job (which is often terrible at first, then a retrospective miracle), you'll have to spend more time cooking, which is a transportive comfort if you're freaking out about your life otherwise—exactly what I, your fellow Sagittarius, often need most when I can barely feel the floor beneath me. Southern Foodways Alliance recently shared a kind-spirited and helpful cookbook-zine, The New Economy Chapbook-Cookbook, with many inexpensive recipes up in it, including fresh apple cookies, masala dal, Jewish potato stuffing, and two different kinds of pozole. Or you could always do what I do: roast a chicken, then do any number of obscene things to it for a week, plus eat mostly produce-based meals (the latter: again, ultimately good for you). Here's an idea of how that looks, starring my personal role model Marcella Hazan's roast chicken. (The woman, not the chicken. Well, maybe both.)
Certain things have always been true for and about you, regardless of who's around, including your partners, friends, employers, and/or creditors. Think back: What is the first food you can remember loving? I would imagine you still love it; have it by yourself on an evening enjoyed, cumulatively over your lifetime, how you've best liked to when you're peaceably alone at home.
It's not going to be like this forever, or even that much longer. Get through it with the person who loves and knows you best—and eat mad produce, roasted chicken, and masala, plus your oldest standbys. Lucky!
Obdurate Capricorn, the changes in store for this season will refit your old behaviors into brand-new habits and beliefs. As you're finding out what those might be, loosen the heck up and have fun for a change—and not only because it'll help you determine what you consistently want for yourself and your life going forward. Cram everything you can think of into a zesty crepe of your choosing. Stack up a borderline-parodic Dagwood. I once invented a deranged potluck non-classic that I like to call "candy salad"… maybe you would also like to insult basic common sense in that respect?
I'm not suggesting that these rarest of gastronomic treasures are going to become everyday meal-planning sensible staples. But I do think that it's a relief, when you're set in your habits, to discover that Milk Duds shaken into super-hot popcorn at the movies taste dope, as do french fries dipped into milkshakes, as do so many wild combinations. Try something that you're unsure of every single day this season—let the world change you a little bit.
A few years ago, I met Tanya Fields, a community organizer in the South Bronx who heads up the Libertad Urban Farm and The BLK ProjeK, both of which correct regional and racial food-based and nutritional stagnation by including local women and children of color in the business of growing, learning about, farming, and eating locally grown produce. Fields's old food column for Ebony is essential. In it, she addressed topics like the illogic of blaming mothers in underserved areas for the dearth of fresh, affordable healthy food available to their children and the intentional corporate creation of food deserts in poor neighborhoods. She is a force.
For all she's built, Fields is an organization unto herself. You can be, too. You're naturally helpful and kind, and with that comes the knowledge that poverty isn't a moral failing, nor one of intelligence or imagination, and is often mischaracterized in those ways because of anti-black and -brown racism. When uncertainty is bearing down on you individually, the people in your life collectively, and certain parts of politics and culture, you can sharpen your focus to the cause of feeding others well. Give to The BLK ProjeK—donation options include buying a one-week share for a family of four to buying produce at Libertad (for $50) and funding equipment for the farm ($25). Or: You can serve food to people who need it at your local religious congregation or community center, or organize an online can drive, if you can't give money or very much time. Whatever change comes next, more of that Aquarian goodwill is always needed. If you do that next right thing, you will help to settle, however slightly, the tectonic shifts in the lives of others, and your own. Thank you for that.


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Theatrical experiences created through code. Nacho Brothers, Ice-Block Artists
I feel very fortunate to have been able to take the Building Virtual Worlds course at the Entertainment Technology Center during my senior year at Carnegie Mellon.
BVW is a course which takes a team of four people and gives them two weeks to create an interactive experience. I served as a programmer for my teams, and had two of my worlds make it into the end-of-year show.
All worlds were created on Panda3D, an open-source 3D game engine built on top of Python. I built worlds with such platforms as the Head-Mounted Display, Playmotion, and Computer Vision Audience Interaction.

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The poster girl for health and wellbeing, Gwyneth Paltrow, admits she found gaining weight for a recent movie role "a nightmare".
The Oscar-winning actress – who had to gain nine kilograms for new film Country Strong – says she "panicked" when she became aware that she wouldn't be able to stick to her strict diet and exercise regime.
She explained: "The nightmare thing about it is I had to stop working out. At first I panicked so I would work out a little bit and then I had to lie and be like, 'No I didn't work out'. I'd be on the treadmill and be like, 'I really have to stop this'.
"My body didn't really fall apart until right after we finished the movie and now I'm having problems."
However, the 38-year-old star – who is married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin – confessed she enjoyed being able to drink more for the role, as she is "a lush".
She told talk show host Chelsea Handler on Chelsea's Big Interview Special: "I drink a lot. I like red wine, but I'll drink white, rose. Guinness is my favourite beer, I like a dirty vodka martini. I'm just a lush, basically."
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This build has been archived as of 08:57, 12 February 2009 (EST), for the following reason:
This build had been designed for the following use:
This build was in the category good before being archived.
This build uses Glimmer of Light as a spammable heal to allow a monk to use more small protection skills instead of multiple healing skills.
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<pvxbig> [build prof=Mo/Me Divine=10+1 Healing=11+1+1 Protection=10+1 Dom=1][Glimmer of Light][Guardian][Shield of Absorption][Spirit Bond][Dismiss Condition][Holy Veil][Divine Spirit][Hex Breaker][/build] </pvxbig>
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- Survivor armor
- Spear and shield of fortitude set
- 40/40 Protection Prayers set
- 40%HCT Protection Prayers Staff of Enchanting
- High energy set
Usage Edit
- Use Glimmer of Light to heal your allies.
- Use Guardian to provide blocking to targets under attack by physical attackers.
- Use Shield of Absorption to reduce damage.
- Use Spirit Bond to protect against spikes.
- Use Dismiss Condition and Holy Veil to remove conditions and hexes.
- Use Divine Spirit to manage energy.
- Use Hex Breaker to prevent being Diversioned.
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- Signet of Humility
- Standard caster counters
- Interrupts
- Enchantment removal
- Diversion
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Beer Style: Imperial IPA (14C)
Recipe Type: all-grain
Yield: 5.5 US gallons
Ever get tired of the same old beers at the same old 6-7% ABV, me too. How bout some big hops and big bodied IPA.
Original Gravity: 1.082
Final Gravity: 1.015
Alcohol by Vol: 9%
Color SRM: 12 Color Sample
Bitterness IBU: 95
Recipe Type: all-grain
Yield: 5.50 US Gallons
Standard brewing procedure for 60 min boil. All hops are whole leaf quantities, not pellet.
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For many Lomographers, the Lomo LC-A+ is a part of everyday life. It's a witness to so many strange, funny, and awkward moments! Here, 29 Lomographers share some of their favorite memories with the iconic camera.
Michel Jones, aka Mijonju, Photographer
I was pointing my camera at a girl in the train, just when i was about to press the shutter she looked at me (into the camera), and the shot was made. It was an extremely awkward feeling, it's not a specially beautiful photo, but that day I was really embarrassed. Read more
Theo Volpatti, Photographer
I took a taxi ride with the LC-A+ on the roof. I got out of the car freaking out, "Where is it? Where is it? I have lost it" …but no! It was still there. Read more
Xavier Boyer, Vocalist for Tahiti 80
I bought my first Lomo on tour in Japan, and we went to these old shrines et al. The Summer light was so perfect, that all my pictures looked like vintage postcards. Read more
Brendon Stuart, Lomographer
I like taking photos at night and sometimes when I'm out and about I'll see something cool and snap a shot of it, but I have to stay still to keep a steady shot. Sometimes people will pass confused as to why I'm frozen in place. I had someone stop to ask what I was doing once. Long uncomfortable silence between question and answer because the shutter was open for around 30 seconds. Read more
Isz Rodzai aka Eastmoe, Lomographer
I am in love with this picture which I took on my wedding day. Read more
Amber Tamblyn, Actress
My boyfriend, naked in Paris, begging me to take a picture of him in an Alpaca flap hat whilst drinking tequila in an ice bar. Read more
Yaya, Vocalist for Herman Dune
I have learned to take pictures of two wonderful beings – my beautiful girlfriend and my little dog. I remember capturing them both together, and when I saw the film processed, I saw an image of my love for them. Read more
Shini Park, Graphic Designer/Blogger
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Kozyndan, Artists
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Mark Sovel, Music Director/Radio DJ
I stumbled upon Devo as they were prepping to go on stage, so I started taking shots. They had new suits that were made of reflective material and Mark Motherbaugh wanted to see what the suits looked like with a flash. I had to show him the back of the camera and say, "I'm shooting with film". He was flummoxed. You can see the shots in the slideshow, the suits look like they are made of light. Read more
Chris Bear, Drummer for Grizzly Bear
I felt really sneaky trying to take pictures of old Italian men. I'm a little shy when it comes to taking photographs of strangers. Read more
Sandya Nydegger, Lomographer
I was crouched on the ground very close to the fence where the bulls come in and out of the arena (bulls don't move so far so this is the best place to get close shots). The action was getting loud, fast and dusty and suddenly the fence was being lifted up in the air… by a large horn. All I can remember next is finding myself on top of the roof of a car that was parked nearby, LC-A still in hand … ready to shoot more. The bull took a nice run among screaming people. This rodeo event did not happen the following year, nor the next. Read more
Gavin Thomas, Lomographer
I was photographing 50 Cent for Rap-Up Magazine and he asked if the LC-A was a real camera and if he was going to be able to see the pictures due to the small size of the camera. Read more
Iza, Vocalist for Prototypes
Traveling by plane in USA with 60 rolls, and the policemen who were checking all the rolls one by one, for each travel plane for each airport controls… Good times! Read more
Candice O' Donnell, Professional Surfer
I must admit that shooting my friend topless in the busy street of France was the strangest moment, as I had to work fast and without offending any onlookers, and at the same time keep my subject motivated and comfortable. Read more
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You know when you hand your camera to a complete stranger and ask them to take a photo of you? I love doing that with the Lomo LC-A+! People are totally confused and have the greatest reactions. So now I just stop people for fun. The last stranger who I shoved the LC-A+ at told me, "You know, you can get a new camera pretty cheap these days". Ha! Read more
Latoya van der Meeren, Photographer
The first Lomo LC-A belonged to my boyfriend. He went exit though and so did the camera. Thankfully I got an assignment in which I talked to creative director Al Moseley of 180 Amsterdam. We also talked about Lomo and he actually had one at home that was gathering dust! Read more
Joel, Lead Vocalist/Guitarist for Athlete
One of my friends had a party and had these 'sumo suits'. About 2 hours of sumo battle commenced…..I got some pretty weird/uncompromising shots from that. Read more
Simon, Street Artist for Permanent Unit
I had some funny moments especially with the LC-A Instant back+. I always take two photos of the same friend so that I can put one in my album and give the other one to my friend. It happens quite often that the two photos are looking completely different although I took them in the same light conditions with the same exposure time and it's really hard to choose one photo when both are looking totally awesome. Read more
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Mostly, loved the confusion on people's faces when they realised they couldn't look at the back of the camera to find out what i had just shot. Read more
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One summer I was home for a week, playing in my backyard with my 3 dogs, and was just messing around snapping some random photos. They were all laying in this amazing triangular pattern, all looking so perfect and I snapped this photo that is probably my favorite photo of all time. The three dogs in that photo were everything to me at the time, and I absolutely adore and cherish that photo every day. Read more
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I was gonna take a picture of this homeless guy but he looked at me and said, "Hey! What are you doing?" I said, "I was gonna take your picture." He said, "But I'm homeless." I felt like shit. I gave him some money but I still felt pretty shitty. Read more
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About 2 years ago, my family and I went to a small town about 30 minutes away from my hometown for lunch. While waiting for the food, I wandered around the restaurant with my LC-A+. Eventually I came to a ruin which was filled with debris, when I was about to click on my shutter, somebody shouted at my back, "Who are you? What are you doing here? Are you reporter?!" And before I could react, the guy threw a chair towards me, luckily I was able to escape without being injured. In the end we left the restaurant without finishing the food. The owner of the restaurant told us that the guy who threw the chair to me was mentally ill, once he wanted to chop people with a knife. Read more
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When I was in Loas, I met a girl on a bus, made friends and ended up traveling with her throughout Loas and Cambodia. One day i was shooting by a river and pulled out the KRAB underwater casing. All of a sudden, she was like "Waaaiiiittt……I've seen that red thing before! I think I was sitting in the back of a Tuk Tuk opposite you a few weeks ago"…We worked out that we had shared a Tuk Tuk ride together a few weeks before we had 'officially' met and hung out. Read more
DJ Miss Yellow
Most unforgettable: The first time that I shot a double exposure of my brother's proposal. Both of their faces are printed on the photo. Like it so much! Read more
Mathias Malzieu, Musician
I was wearing a cat costume and sunglasses, pacing at the Montmatre cemetery with my longboard. I shot the tombs, the clouds and my cat head in multi-exposure. The passersby must have taken me for a kind of cat-phantom. A kid looked at me as if I were some low brow super hero, an old man was waving his walking cane at me, screaming and an old lady applauded me as if I were a racer in the tour de France. Read More
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We found this brilliant run-down old barn along the highway, and as we walked inside we noticed two horses on the other end staring at us. They stuck around the whole time we were there, completely unimpressed by what we were doing. Read more
Wrik Mead, Artist & Assistant Professor
The close up photo of the owl that is out of focus is my fav. This is a shot of a plastic owl that we use to keep the critters away from our home. They can cause a lot of damage and our owl seems to have been keeping them at bay. At first glance it looks like a real owl but I think that it becomes apparent that it is a fake due to its' animated appearance. Read more
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I had my Splitzer on and and a colored flash blazing away, my friend said: 'What is going on with you???' Read more
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In Jeynov, as in all Muslim countries, the carpet is a key article in the decoration of the home. The carpet may be used in different ways - as a bed, as a table, as a "chest" for dowry, and even as a kind of temple. Carpet weaving is the main occupation for women. It unites women of several generations and creates an atmosphere favourable for the passing on of traditions, style and secret knowledge from older to younger members of the family. The masters of carpet weaving form a kind of women's club, and preserve the ancient traditions of creating and decorating carpets. Analyzing these masterpieces, one can learn a lot about the history of the people living in this area, about the migrations of their ancestors, their relations with neighbours, and much more. The carpet can be read as a woven book.
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1. Bazaar-gilem carpet made of sheep wool by Arabic weavers in the "slit kilim" technique. Carpets of this kind were made for sale and were designed to meet the requirements of potential customers. In this case, the customers were Tajiks living side by side with the Arabs. The main elements of ornamental design represent ancient totemic symbols - snake-dragons and frogs, along with Sogdian pole-axes forming Buddhist mandala (the local Sogdian population practiced Buddhism during the Kushan period). The "fishbone" pattern (ripples of white wool / series of small triangles) is also very important - it reproduces the tradition of putting fish bones with protective powers under the carpet. Attributed by Elena Tsareva
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WASHINGTON — The decision on whether to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline is a political headache for President Obama. But to five of his former aides, it represents a business opportunity.
Four of them — Bill Burton, Stephanie Cutter, Jim Papa and Paul Tewes — work as consultants for opponents of the project, which would carry heavy crude oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries. Another, former White House communications director Anita Dunn, counts the project's sponsor, TransCanada, among her firm's clients.
Keystone XL is just one of several upcoming administration decisions providing lucrative work for former Obama advisers on issues ranging from gun control to mining to legalized gambling. Just this week, three of Obama's top former political advisers — Robert Gibbs, Jim Messina and David Plouffe — were given five-figure checks to deliver remarks at a forum sponsored in part by the state-run oil company in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, which is in the midst of a campaign to burnish its image in Washington.
Obama came into office promising his administration would hew to higher standards than his predecessors did. He implemented rules barring former aides from directly lobbying the government for two years and frequently decries the influence of "special interests" in Washington.
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The activities also pose a political challenge for Obama, who will be put in the position of making decisions on Keystone XL and other controversial issues that his former employees have taken sides on.
"Obama's made a really bold step trying to rein in the revolving door and keep people from cashing in on their executive branch experience, but some people are pushing the envelope and are trying to find ways around that," said Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist for Public Citizen.
In a statement, White House spokesman Eric Schultz said, "Our goal has been to reduce the influence of special interests in Washington — which we've done more than any administration in history.
"These restrictions are intended to avoid conflicts of interests but do not and should not prohibit former government officials from expressing their opinions or participating in a public exchange of ideas," he added.
Those who hire former Obama aides say they hope to capitalize on their connections to the White House.
Tiernan Sittenfeld, senior vice president for government affairs at the League of Conservation Voters, said her group hired Burton, the former White House deputy press secretary, to highlight problems posed by Keystone XL. The State Department is still conducting an environmental review of the project.
"As a known quantity, he's able to bring attention to just how risky the pipeline is in a way that's beneficial," she said.
Some, but not all, former Obama aides run their client lists by the White House; Dunn did so for two years after leaving the administration.
Dunn, Cutter and Tewes declined to comment.
Burton and Papa, who served as special assistants to the president for legislative affairs, are working for the Global Strategy Group.


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The Scotland Malawi Partnership (SMP) is an umbrella organisation which exists to inspire the people and organisations of Scotland to be involved with Malawi in an informed, coordinated and effective way so that both nations benefit. We do this by providing a forum where ideas, activities and information can be shared on our website, through our online mapping tool and through regular workshops, training events and stakeholder meetings. We also publish good practice guides to harness the expertise of our members on key issues such as school partnerships, volunteering in Malawi and shipping goods to Malawi. By creating a single space for all the organisations and individuals in Scotland currently engaged with Malawi to come together, we help reduce duplication of effort, add value to Scotland's historic civil society relationship with Malawi, and contribute towards poverty alleviation in Malawi.
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This set of Signals & Systems Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on "Signal Classification and Properties".
1. Which of the following signals are monotonic in nature?
a) 1-exp(-t)
b) 1-exp(sin(t))
c) log(tan(t))
d) cos(t)
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Explanation: All of the other functions have a periodic element in them, which means the function attains the same value after a period of time, which should not occur for a monotonic function.
2. What is the period of the following signal, x(t) = sin(18*pi*t + 78 deg)?
a) 1/9
b) 2/9
c) 1/3
d) 4/9
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Explanation: The signal can be expressed as sin(wt + d), where the time period = 2*pi/w.
3. Which of the following signals is monotonic?
a) x(t) = t^3 – 2t
b) x(t) = sin(t)
c) x(t) = sin^2(t) + cos^2(t) – 2t
d) x(t) = log(cos(t))
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Explanation: c) reduces to 1 – 2t, which is a strictly decreasing function.
4. For the signal, x(t) = log(cos(a*pi*t+d)) for a = 50 Hz, what is the time period of the signal, if periodic?
a) 0.16s
b) 0.08s
c) 0.12s
d) 0.04s
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Explanation: Time period = 2*pi/(50)pi = 1/25 = 0.04s
5. What are the steady state values of the signals, 1-exp(-t), and 1-k*exp(-k*t)?
a) 1,k
b) 1,1/k,
c) k,k
d) 1,1
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Explanation: Consider limit at t tending to infinity, we obtain 1 for both cases.
6. For a bounded function, is the integral of the function from -infinity to +infinity defined and finite?
a) Yes
b) Never
c) Not always
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Explanation: If the bounded function, is say y = 2, then the integral ceases to hold. Similarly, if it is just the block square function, it is finite. Hence, it depends upon the spread of the signal on either side. If the spread is finite, the integral will be finite.
7. For the signal x(t) = a – b*exp(-ct), what is the steady state value, and the initial value?
a) c,b
b) c,c-a
c) a,a-b
d) b,a-b
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Explanation: Put the limits as t tends to infinity and as t tends to zero.
8. For a double sided function, which is odd, what will be the integral of the function from -infinity to +infinity equal to?
a) Non-zero Finite
b) Zero
c) Infinite
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Explanation: For an odd function, f(-x) = -f(x), thus the integrals will cancel each other, giving zero.
9. Find where the signal x(t) = 1/(t^2 – 3t + 2) finds its maximum value between (1.25, 1.75):
a) 1.40
b) 1.45
c) 1.55
d) 1.50
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Explanation: Differentiate the function for an optima, put it to zero, we will obtain t = 1.5 as the required instant.
10. Is the signal x(t) = exp(-t)*sin(t) periodic in nature?
a) Yes
b) No
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Explanation: Though sin(t) is a periodic function, exp(-t) is not a periodic function, thus leading to non-periodicity.
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Thursday, March 6, 2008
The seedings suggested a mismatch with first-place American hosting No. 8 Holy Cross in the quarterfinals of the Patriot League tournament. But recent history provided a decidedly different story line, for the visiting Crusaders had wrecked so many Eagles seasons the previous six years.
AU seemed headed for another cruel finish last night at Bender Arena when Brian Gilmore came to a timely rescue.
His three-point play with 18 seconds left capped a dizzying second half and lifted the top-seeded Eagles to a 62-60 victory, their first over the Crusaders in four postseason meetings.
To secure a semifinal home date Sunday against No. 5 seed Army, which surprised No. 4 Lehigh in overtime, the Eagles (19-11) had to overcome an 11-point first-half deficit and take their first lead on Gilmore's three-pointer with 5 1/2 minutes remaining. They had to withstand a one-point deficit with a Crusader at the free throw line and 47 seconds left. And after Gilmore's decisive play, they had to endure a final Holy Cross possession.
"We didn't really have a set play," Gilmore said of his drive. "As soon as I caught it in the high post, I saw how wide everyone was playing. . . . I was just able to get one on one and just thought I had an edge to get to the basket."
Gilmore, AU's top reserve, finished with 10 points, 7 assists and 4 rebounds in just 23 minutes. The key, however, was the Eagles' overall efficiency. After intermission, they shot 54 percent, including 7 of 9 three-point attempts, and committed just one turnover to win for the eighth time in nine games.
Junior guards Derrick Mercer (16 points) and Garrison Carr (14) combined for 4 of 4 three-pointers in the second half to help offset 6-foot-11 Tim Clifford's 23 points and Colin Cunningham's 20 for the Crusaders (15-14).
Holy Cross had beaten the Eagles in the 2002 and '03 championship games as well as in last year's semifinals en route to another Patriot title. They won at Bender in January, though AU answered by winning in Worcester, Mass., 11 days later to end an eight-game losing streak in the series.
From the outset, the noisy crowd knew this game was going to be trouble.
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In the first movie, Captain Logan is Ted's strict father, who threatens to send him to military school in Alaska if Ted fails his history class, breaking up Bill and Ted's band "the Wild Stallyns" by doing so. He also arrests several important historical figures for public disturbances after Bill and Ted go back in time and bring them to the present in order to ace their history project. Bill and Ted manage to bust their friends out of jail and give their history presentation, which is a massive success and earns them the A+'s they need.
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As I read through this article, I took notes/thoughts along the way, which sort of fall in order of appearance.
My first thought regarding Lethem's mentioning of movies and their use of appropriation, was the use of music accenting a movie. Actually, music can sometimes play a crucial role to a movie as it commonly succeeds to add an atmosphere to the experience with a strong emotional grab. If a movie chooses to use a song that was prior created to the production of the movie, they often try to apply this song as an alluring aesthetic to the events that occur in the story so. A clear example I thought of off the top of my head was the soundtrack to the movie "A Clockwork Orange", where director and producer Stanley Kubrick choose to blend contemporary instruments of the era with classical compositions written by famous composers. This obviously was a vision that Kubrick saw to add a significance of emotion to the movie, and because of such a selection, it obviously had an impact on the cinematic world.
Moving further along in the essay, the topic of Jazz and Blues music were presented. When we listen to Blues and Jazz music, often we sort of sink into the sounds because of our familiarity with the loose direction of both genres. Most of the time, Blues and Jazz music maintain an openness throughout their play. If anything, we as listeners can picture such compositions going on and on, infinitely, because of the act of improvisation. Musicians grab from any sound or source that can blend or transition into another realm of the song so that they can keep the melody going.
Two lines really struck my attention later on:
"Most artists are awakened by the work of a master."
"Inhaling the memory of an act never experienced."
Both lines seemed to compliment one another in a way of describing inspiration as a powerful, perhaps unstoppable force. There are certain stages of absorbing inspiration, and it can also depend how engulfed and true you are to the original source material.
I also thought is was interesting when Lethem dated back to Walt Disney, and his first published character Steamboat Willie who came to life after Buster Keaton's act of Steamboat Bill Jr. in the 1920′s. This was an obvious representation of a parody; however, the cartoon gained popularity because of the audience's prior familiarity to Buster Keaton's act. The new art of animation allowed the possibility to insert more imaginative ideas because of the capabilities of cartooning vs. real life. Walt Disney probably saw Steamboat Wilie as, what we call today, a "demo"; or a pre-interlude to his future career as an animator.
Reading further along, the mentioning of YouTube culture caught my attention. It undoubtedly has become an open-source pool which viewers take on sub-cultural roles remixing music tracks, putting videos to music, or just re-arranging a music video, reinterpreting something that is well known to the world and filtering it through your own perception as a viewer. You could then possibly declare yourself as an artist, but this statement could be widely objected to amongst the rest of the world's standards.
The allowance of open-source and hacking culture provides artists with a new hope to bring their remixing ideas to life instead of being restricted to create them by an authoritative demand.
To me, I draw the line somewhere with appropriation. If I sense an overly abstracting nature from an artist's delivery, then I see their use of appropriation as an insult. Before winter break began, there was a show at the Art Institute Museum's Modern Wing, which I found myself troubled to understand and appreciate due to the crudeness of the artist's choice to messily cut and paste photos of male models from Japanese magazines to blank surfaces, and then around them, applying illustrative lines, and smears of colored paint. To me, this was hard to declare a professional status, or even deserving of a large gallery space. The message wasn't clear, and the evidence and absurdness of directly applying magazine cut outs to a surface did not suit the concept of "remixing" per se, but rather embraced the bare bones act of thievery from a publication.
Re-envisioning is the key to remixing or remastering. It's a responsibility, once you have the original source in your hands, to do something of your own will with it.
However, the allowance of modifications done to that original source provokes a scale of judgement amongst viewers and listeners.
Also, the idea of "commodity" and tainting of a previous work of art is something of the artist's choice, and perhaps, their own prejudgement. Remix culture branches in a couple different directions. Either one could adoringly admire the original creation of an artist and want to use their ideas as an ode to their utter genius, or one could think to remix or recontextualize a past artwork and give it a whole different meaning, most likely insulting or distorting the artist's original vision.
Anyway, these were some of the thoughts I had through reading this article. If the act of appropriation is becoming a more common theme in the art world, I think it may open up to new categories that maybe none of us have even imagined yet ourselves. There is a lot of exploration to be done through this new culture in which we refer to as "New Media Art", but the resonance of the past will forever remain, and evidence of it is hard to eliminate through the culture of remixing.
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text: Hi, On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 16:21 +0200, Michael Lackner wrote: > Hello! > > Thanks for your reply. I unfortunately forgot to mention, HOW I was > actually testing, > stupid. > > I tested with dd, doing 4kB blocksize reads and writes, 160GB total > testfile size per node. > I read from /dev/zero for writing tests and wrote to /dev/null for > reading tests. So, totally > sequential, somewhat small blocksize (equal to filesystem BS). > > The performance was measured directly on the Fibrechannel Switch, which > offers nice > per-port monitoring for that purpose. > > I have yet to do some serious read testing on GFS2. I have aborted my > GFS2 tests as > write performance was not up to GFS1 to begin with. My older GFS2 benchmarks > (i did this with a 2-node configuration before) are lost, I will need to > re-do them to > give you some numbers. > Ok, so these are streaming writes, and plenty large enough to be affected by the gfs2 performance issue. The reason we have that issue in GFS2 but not GFS1 is that the lock ordering is different. We try to make maximum use of the page cache in GFS2 which gives us the faster reads, but also (due to page-at-a-time write code) the slower streaming writes. The smaller writes are faster because the overall overhead for writing is lower on GFS2. However that overhead is per-page written on GFS2, but per-write call on GFS1 which results in the slower writes which streaming on GFS2. It is pretty tricky to fix because it requires being able to do multi-page writes which are problematic due to the (page) locking order requirements. > After each write test I did a "sync" to flush everything to disks. I > did not do this before > or after read tests though.. > > As you mentioned Journal Size, "gfs_tool counters <mountpoint>" said, > that only 2-3% > logspace were in use after the tests (I guess this is the per-node fs > journal?). > You need to measure the log space during the tests rather than at the end, but since you are doing streaming writes, the amount of metadata is relatively small anyway, so thats probably not an issue. > As for the direct I/O tests, by that you mean testing without ANY > caching going on, a > synchronous write? What I did before was test EXT3 (~190MB/s) and XFS > (~320MB/s) > on the Storage Array. I think what I'm getting here is raw throughput, > since I am not > monitoring in the OS, but at the Fibrechannel Switch itself.. > I was thinking of just testing the block device without any fs on it. That would give you an absolute max figure. However, bearing in mind the similarities between the GFS2 on-disk layout and ext3, I would expect the performance to be closer (on a single node basis) to that then to XFS. There is always going to be some overhead relating to using a cluster filesystem, so that single node tests will be slower. Having said that, there shouldn't be a huge gap and the scaling wrt the number of nodes that you are looking for should be achievable. > I will do GFS2 read tests similiar to those conducted for GFS1. I'll be > able to do that > tomorrow morning, then I can post the numbers here. > Ok. That would be interesting. Thanks, Steve. > Thanks! > > Steven Whitehouse wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 14:00 +0200, Michael Lackner wrote: > > > >> Hello! > >> > >> I am currently building a Cluster sitting on CentOS 5 for GFS usage. > >> > >> At the moment, the storage subsystem consists of an HP MSA2312 > >> Fibrechannel SAN linked to an FC 8gbit switch. Three client machines > >> are connected to that switch over 8gbit FC. The disks themselves are > >> 12 * 15.000rpm SAS configured in RAID-5 with two hotspares. > >> > >> Now, the whole storage shall be shared (single filesystem), here GFS > >> comes in. > >> > >> The Cluster is only 3 nodes large at the moment, more nodes will be > >> added later on. I am currently testing GFS1 and GFS2 for performance. > >> Lock Management is done over single 1Gbit Ethernet Links (1 per > >> machine). > >> > >> Thing is, with GFS1 I get far better performance than with the newer > >> GFS2 across the board, with a few tunable parameters set, for writes > >> GFS1 is roughly twice as fast. > >> > >> > > What tests are you running? GFS2 is generally faster than GFS1 except > > for streaming writes, which is an area that we are putting some effort > > into solving currently. Small writes (one fs block (4k default) or less) > > on GFS2 are much faster than on GFS1. > > > > > >> But, concurrent reads are totally abysmal. The total write performance > >> (all nodes combined) sits around 280-330Mbyte/sec, whereas the > >> READ performance is as low as 30-40Mbyte/sec when doing concurrent > >> reads. Surprisingly, single-node read is somewhat ok at 180Mbyte/sec, > >> but as soon as several nodes are reading from GFS (version 1 at the > >> moment) at the same time, things turn ugly. > >> > >> > > Reads on GFS2 should be much faster than GFS1, so it sounds as if > > something isn't working correctly for some reason. For cached data, > > reads on GFS2 should be as fast as ext2/3 since the code path is > > identical (to the page cache) and only changes if pages are not cached. > > GFS1 does its locking at a higher level, so there will be more overhead > > for cached reads in general. > > > > Do make sure that if you are preparing the test files for reading all > > from one node (or even just a different node to that on which you sre > > running the read tests) that you need to sync them to disk on that node > > before starting the tests to avoid issues with caching. > > > > > >> This is strange, because for writes, global performance across the > >> cluster increases slightly when adding more nodes. But for reads, the > >> oppsite seems to be true. > >> > >> For read and write tests, separate testfiles were created and read for > >> each node, with each testfile sitting in its own subdirectory, so no > >> node would access another nodes file. > >> > >> > > That sounds like a good test set up to me. > > > > > >> GFS1 created with the following mkfs.gfs parameters: > >> "-b 4096 -J 128 -j 16 -r 2048 -p lock_dlm" > >> (4kB blocksite, 16 * 128MB journals, 2GB resource groups, > >> Distributed LockManager) > >> > >> Mount Options set: "noatime,nodiratime,noquota" > >> > >> Tunables set: "glock_purge 50, statfs_slots 128, statfs_fast 1, > >> demote_secs 20" > >> > > You shouldn't normally need to set the glock_purge and demote_secs to > > anything other than the default. These settings no longer exist in GFS2 > > since it makes use of the shrinker subsystem provided by the VM and is > > auto-tuning. If your workload is metadata heavy, you could try boosting > > the journal size and/or the incore_log_blocks tunable. > > > > > >> Also, in /etc/cluster/cluster.conf, I added this: > >> <dlm plock_ownership="1" plock_rate_limit="0"/> > >> <gfs_controld plock_rate_limit="0"/> > >> > >> Any ideas on how to figure out what's going wrong, and how to > >> tune GFS1 for better concurrent read performance, or tune GFS2 > >> in general to be competitive/better than GFS1? > >> > >> I'm dreaming about 300MB/sec read, 300MB/sec write sequentially > >> and somewhat good reaction times while under heavy sequential > >> and/or random load. But for now, I just wanna get the seq reading > >> to work acceptably fast. > >> > >> Thanks a lot for your help! > >> > >> > > Can you try doing some I/O direct to the block device so that we can get > > an idea of what the raw device can manage? Using dd both read and write, > > across the nodes (different disk locations on each node to simulate > > different files). > > > > I'm wondering if the problem might be due to the seek pattern generated > > by the multiple read locations, > > > > Steve. > > > > > > -- > > Linux-cluster mailing list > > Linux-cluster redhat com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster > >


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Lady Bird : Wife, Mother, Pod PersonEdit
Lady Bird, or "Bug" as she preferred to be known to her friends, was born in 1912. Her early life was spent in what had been a plantation mansion, where she enjoyed tales about the local country yokels and their many black "friends".
She first married John "Big" Bird in 1954. They had one son, Larry Bird, who went on to fame in the NBA. Following the death of her first husband in a tragic accident gardening a grassy knoll, Lady Bird sought out the meanest, dirtiest, loudest, rudest Texanest man she could find. LBJ filled the order perfectly. They met and married on July 1, 1955. LBJ had his first affair during the wedding ceremony with the Bridesmaid. Countless more were to follow.
Needing time away from LBJ following the death of JFK, Lady Bird went to Vietnam. She flew gunship missions on Huey Cobras. During her time in the war, Lady Bird "pacified" over 100 Commie villages. It became her signature to follow up each brutal mission with the dropping of wildflower seeds over the carnage. While some thought her insane at the time, the rice fields of Vietnam now sport some of the most beautiful patches of wildflowers in the world.
Life after the WhitehouseEdit
After the Whitehouse, Lady Bird devoted her time to her children, wildflowers, birds, plants, ducks, beavers, wombats, pumas, cheetahs, pet rocks, and other wildlife. It was at this time that she began an intimate affair with Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom Host Marlin Perkins.
Following the death of LBJ from a tragic overdose of
grassy knoll lawn fertilizer, Lady Bird married Marlin, and became Lady Bird Johnson Marlin. They had one son together, Jack Hannah. Tragically, Marlin died soon after following a brutal grassy knoll attack on the LBJ ranch.
Underground EraEdit
In the 1980s, Lady Bird went underground. She surfaced in Columbia, Honduras, and El Salvador. It is rumored she led one of the largest wild poppy cartels in the world. After a decade of smuggling and flower production, Lady Bird "retired" from the flower trade in 1991.
Lady Bird Johnson died in 1995. She died again in 1997, 1999, 2005, and 2007. Following her death in 2007, the coroner ordered that her coffin be encased in 10 tons of concrete. The grounds around her crypt have been salted and sprinkled with Holy Water, garlic, and RoundUp grass killer.
Texas Governor Rick Perry read a proclamation at Lady Bird's funeral. "She is not just merely dead. She's really most sincerely dead." Lady Bird expects to be back at the ranch by Christmas for a special Christmas dinner of roast potatoes, stuffing and brains!


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