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Currently on my Life Wish List:
A long, leisurely trip around the world, visting both remote and well known places.
Win the a large enough lottery to not have to worry about paying bills for the rest of my life.
Every Fridays off with my husband.
Goals I am working on:
Gain financial stability. Complete the necessary steps and move on.
Projects I am working on:
MS degree
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Hey SK - I wanted to tell you about a new safe-as-water disinfectant product called IV-7 Ultimate Germ Defense. I would like to tell you more about it and show it to you or in the very least tell you more about it. Please write back at iv7germkiller [at] gmail [dot] com. Thanks, Dan
Flag as inappropriate Posted by Dan on 14th September 2010
I love that you publish your own magazine! It looks incredible! I will definitely be keeping it in mind for future advertising. I'm a New Englander, too. We moved to Maine just a year and a half ago. My husband has wholly embraced all things Maine and New England (but truly loves the sports teams).
Flag as inappropriate Posted by Jennifer Tankersley on 17th January 2008
Hi SK. Welcome to Work it, Mom! How cool that you've founded your own magazine - that's a huge achievement. Hope to see you around the site. Love your pic with the v. original t-shirt!
Let me share with you links to a couple of WIM! groups you might like to join:
I love Pride and Prejudice too, by the way. In fact, you're the second new WIM! member I've met today who lists it as their fav book. Do you like the movie versions?
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Former CityPointe site goes for $4.5 million
A downtown parcel slated in pre-recession days for 365 condominiums has been purchased with a plan to build rental apartments on it.
Rosalyne Holdings LLC paid $4.5 million for the 6.5-acre tract at Cocoanut Avenue, north of Boulevard of the Arts and almost to 10th Street.
The property is zoned for up to 163 rental apartments.
Rosalyne, a group led by Bruce Weiner, is considering a multi-family development but has yet to file any plans with the city, said John Harshman, a Sarasota commercial real estate broker who represents the corporation.
"A whole lot of work needs to be done before there is a shovel in the ground," said Harshman, president of Harshman & Associates Inc.
Rosalyne, part of Weiner's Longboat Enterprises LLC, bought the land out of foreclosure from IberiaBank, which had taken control of the property following its acquisition of the failed Orion Bank in 2009. Orion had lent $21 million against the site in 2006, records show.
Weiner, who Harshman said has developed real estate in other states, owns Florida Classic Car Storage, on Central Avenue.
Atlanta developer Wayne Morehead had planned to build a residential and commercial project called CityPointe on the site, with up to 365 "affordable" condos.
It was among the first projects proposed in the wake of the city's Downtown Master Plan 2020, a document that encouraged walking neighborhoods, mixed-use developments and urban design features.
But Morehead delayed, altered designs several times and brought in new partners -- among them Miami-based Lennar Corp. -- in an effort to revitalize his CityPointe plans.
Ultimately, though, CityPointe became one of the more celebrated casualties of Southwest Florida's real estate bust.
Harshman said the parcel is one of the last vacant, bank-owned properties downtown. The other is the former Sarasota Quay site, which is effectively under the control of the Irish government after previous owner Irish American Management Services Ltd. defaulted on more than $100 million in debt secured by that 15-acre property.
Current zoning would limit structures on Weiner's tract to five stories. Some mixed-use component, such as a coffee shop or fitness center, will likely be included in the designs.
"All the market studies we have seen show there is the demand for a downtown rental project," Harshman said.
The site includes the Trinity Christian Fellowship Center, which remains open. Harshman said no notice has been given to the center to move. A call to the center was not returned.
Weiner's plan for apartments marks the second multi-family proposal to surface this year. In February, software entrepreneur Jesse Biter unveiled plans to develop nearly 200 apartment units at 1445 Second St., site of the United Way of Sarasota County Inc.
The two plans represent the first significant residential development slated for Sarasota in more than five years.

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J.J. Abrams had to choose between "Star Trek" and "Star Wars."
To quote Bill Murray "Starrrrrrr Warrrrrrrrssss, nothing but STARRRRR WARRRSSS."
With J.J. Abrams shooting "Star Wars: Episode VII" in London -- which is sort of like a galaxy far, far away -- veteran screenwriter Roberto Orci is negotiating to make his directorial debut with "Star Trek 3" for Paramount and Skydance, an individual familiar with the project told TheWrap.
The Website reported Orci was considered a favorite for the big-time gig for the past month, though Paramount apparently still needed convincing that he could handle such a big movie his first time behind the camera.
Abrams -- who directed the first two films of the rebooted franchise -- gave his blessing to Orci, who was already part of the franchise's creative group. Abrams will still serve as a producer on the next "Star Trek" film.
Orci is already working on the "Star Trek 3" screenplay with J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay. While plot details remain under wraps, the main cast is expected to return.
Orci and his longtime writing/producing partner Alex Kurtzman recently parted ways on feature projects. Kurtzman is developing "Venom" at Sony and has been much more hands-on regarding Universal's reboot of "The Mummy," which he's producing with Orci and Sean Daniel.
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David Burke is a small-time pot dealer whose clientele includes chefs and soccer moms, but no kids-after all, he has his scruples. So what could go wrong? Plenty. Preferring to keep a low profile for obvious reasons, he learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished when he tries to help out some local teens and winds up getting...
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David Burke is a small-time pot dealer whose clientele includes chefs and soccer moms, but no kids-after all, he has his scruples. So what could go wrong? Plenty. Preferring to keep a low profile for obvious reasons, he learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished when he tries to help out some local teens and winds up getting jumped by a trio of gutter punks. Stealing his stash and his cash, they leave him in major debt to his supplier, Brad. In order to wipe the slate clean-and maintain a clean bill of health-David must now become a big-time drug smuggler by bringing Brad's latest shipment in from Mexico. Twisting the arms of his neighbors, cynical stripper Rose and wannabe customer Kenny, and the tatted-and-pierced streetwise teen Casey, he devises a foolproof plan. One fake wife, two pretend kids and a huge, shiny RV later, the "Millers" are headed south of the border for a Fourth of July weekend that is sure to end with a bang.
Sorry, no theaters are available within -1 km of postal code 06460 that are playing the movie "We're the Millers" on Monday, 25 June.Please try:- extending your search range, or - entering a new postal code, or- choosing another date.If after trying different options and your movie still does not appear with showtimes, your movie may not be playing nearby for the options you chose.
Every once in a while during the 110-minute screwball comedy We're the Millers, you'll get the feeling that one of the four screenwriters stood up, grabbed hold of their shared laptop, and shouted, ''Okay, my turn!'' veering off in an entirely different direction with the plotline in tow. This year's answer to the Horrible Bosses of summers past doesn't exactly have the patience to be, in the most official definition of the word, a story, capping each of its 14 mini-acts in explosive conclusions that lead, abruptly, to new scenes built on madcap, quasi-humorous non sequiturs.
The ostensible synopsis follows drug dealer David (Jason Sudeikis) as he wrangles a fake family to transport a ton - quite literally - of marijuana over the Mexican/American border to square off with a Denver-based super criminal. Sounds like it could be a movie, right? Travails through the Mexican desert? Squabbles with the immigration officers? Anxiety over making it safely back into the States? Well, don't get invested in any of that - the border-cross goes off without a hitch approximately 20 minutes into the movie, leaving the rest of our time with the Millers (that's their false surname) to be spent embedded in quarrels, fight scenes, spider-bites, and some outlandish sexual misconduct.
David's false family is made up of a team of outcasts - an embittered stripper (Jennifer Aniston), a dopey, good-natured 18-year-old whose mother ran out on him (Will Poulter), and an acerbic runaway who lives on the streets (Emma Roberts). Interesting characters the lot of them, all worthy of the film's attention...though never quite awarded it.
Yes, we get a romantic arc brewing between Dave and Rose (Aniston), as anyone who read as far as the cast list for this movie might expect. We even get a turn of romance for young Kenny (Poulter), who earns a boost in self-esteem thanks to dad Dave and sister Casey (Roberts). But what about Casey herself? The rebellious teen whose home life was bad enough to result in her running away and living on the street? On paper, she's the most interesting character in the film. But we see Roberts contributing little more than a vehicle for Kenny's sexual maturation, a few R-rated gags, and your standard plot-forwarding exposition.
And why? Probably because she's a 20-year-old girl, which translates in Hollywood terms to set dressing and the occasional kiss. Aniston isn't dealt much better a hand, playing a stripper who, of course, is forced to strip. Several times throughout the movie. Hey, that's showbiz!
A few laughs do permeate through - Sudeikis, inscrutably becoming a less likable character as the film goes on (an interesting choice, if it is indeed a choice), manages some one-liners of note; Poulter is more over charming as the good-natured Kenny; cameos by Nick Offerman and Kathryn Hahn will appease all fans of the usual Nick Offerman and Kathryn Hahn routine. And if you're into pop culture references, there's one every minute. So it's not so much a deficit of jokes that'll drag you down to disappointment with We're the Millers. It's the conniving feeling of puzzlement that comes with every quick twist of events, every cataclysmic explosion of a scene, every convoluted thoroughfare from one unfounded bit of nonsense to another that'll getcha. It isn't that We're the Millers isn't funny. It just doesn't make any sense.
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Recovery after hand surgery depends greatly on the type of surgery that was performed and the underlying cause of the hand condition. Sometimes, repeat surgeries are needed. The hand is an intricate part of our lives and is very sensitive. Mild to severe pain may be expected after many types of hand surgeries. Pain medications may be given to help alleviate the discomfort. The following are some of the other possible outcomes that you may be told to expect following hand surgery:
Your hand may be immobilized in a bandage or splint after surgery. Your physician will decide the length of time of the immobilization. After some surgeries, the hand may be immobilized for months at nighttime to enhance recovery.
There may be some restrictions placed on activities and work after the surgery. This also will be determined by your physician, based on an individual basis.
Rehabilitation may be recommended to increase the strength and function of the hand. Rehabilitation may include physical therapy and/or occupational therapy. A trained specialist will be involved in your care to optimize recovery of the hand.
Therapy of the hand may include the following:
exercises for the hand
heat therapy
massage therapy
bandages to help control swelling
nerve stimulation
In many cases, surgery is just the start of recovery. Intensive rehabilitation may be necessary to regain optimal functioning of the hand. It is important to follow all of the instructions given to you after surgery by your physician and any other specialists that are involved in your care.
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The Rise of the Godslayer expansion is now live for Age of Conan, the barbaric MMORPG, announces Funcom. Word is: "'Rise of the Godslayer' is now available in retail as a combined package that includes the original game and the expansion, and is also available for purchase online for players upgrading from the original game. 'Rise of the Godslayer' not only introduces countless hours of new adventure through the addition of new lands and dungeons, it also adds all-new gameplay features such as the faction system." This page offers a list of new features in the expansion. "We are very excited about seeing 'Age of Conan' back on the shelves in retail as a renewed and revitalized experience comprised of both the original game and the expansion, exactly two years after the launch of the original game in May 2008," says Funcom CEO Trond Arne Aas. "We feel very confident about the level of quality offered in this expansion, and the initial reactions from press and players so far only serve to confirm our confidence in the game."
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The Adrian High School gymnastics team finished third out of eight teams with a score of 127.475 at the Adrian Gymnastics Invitational on Saturday afternoon. Tecumseh came in fifth place with a 115.600, while Jackson Lumen Christi won the invitational at 130.225.
"I think that the girls did a really nice job today," said Adrian coach Jenny Engle. "We were off on a few small things, some beam falls and mishaps on the bars. We did start very strong on the vault."
The Maples ended the day with nine top-10 finishers, with Aubrey Slovak accounting for four of them. Kelsie Bowman finished in the top 10 three times, and Jennifer Nguyen placed in the top 10 twice.
"We worked really hard to get to where we are now," Engle said. "If you looked at all the scores, I'm sure you would find just as many girls that finished just outside of placing."
Slovak was the top finisher for Adrian, coming in fourth on the balance beam with a score of 8.675, fifth in the floor exercise with an 8.425, ninth on the uneven bars with a 7.325 and fourth in the all-around with a 32.850.
Bowman was right behind her for a majority of the day, earning a third-place finish on the bars with an 8.200 and a 10th-place finish on the beam with an 8.150, earning her fifth place in the all-around with 32.800 points.
Nguyen finished ninth in both the vault (8.500) and floor (8.100) for the Maples.
"We were really hoping to catch Saline near the end of the meet and get second," said Engle. "We came in just behind them. Those few points were lost from beam falls and on the bars."
Tecumseh's Bailie Posten was the only Indian to place in the top 10 Saturday. Posten earned sixth place on the beam with an 8.475 and eighth place on floor with an 8.150.
Tecumseh coach Jenni Posten was happy with her team.
"I thought we did really well," she said. "We had a few too many beam falls. It might not show up in the standings, but we also had some girls meet a few personal goals."
The Indians' fifth-place finish with only two top-10 finishes speaks a lot about the team's depth.
"We were solid as a team," said coach Posten. "We're missing a few girls due to injury and the like, so I thought we were solid."
Bailie Posten came in 12th in the all-around with a 31.400. Kelsey Bogrow earned 11th on the bars with a 7.225.
"Moving forward we just need to focus on keeping our routines clean," Jenni Posten said. "I'd also like to see the girls attempt some more difficult vaults."
Adrian will travel to Coldwater on Thursday, while Tecumseh will head to Sturgis on Tuesday.
Adrian gymnastics finishes 3rd at own invitational
The Adrian High School gymnastics team finished third out of eight teams with a score of 127.475 at the Adrian Gymnastics Invitational on Saturday afternoon. Tecumseh came in fifth place with a 115.600, while Jackson Lumen Christi won the invitational at 130.225.


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Friday, August 11, 2000
Clear. Had breakfast and off for Portage Glacier.
Trips coming and going. Having a hard time getting things where we need them. Henry being good at helping. My logical mind is not working. I have put things in but now not sure where they are. When I find them they are where they should be. HELL to get old.
We had Breakfast at the hotel Berry Patch. Beautiful flowers along the streets as before. Marigolds and Lobelia in the hanging baskets. After picking up more people we are on our way. The Chuqach mountains are on our left as we head for Portage. 128 miles on the Seward Highway. Many one way streets in Anchorage. The Seward Highway was built in 1975.
The trees are mostly Sitka Spruce, paper birch, no pines.
Gold was found on Turnagain Arm in 1898. There is a difference of about 40 feet between high and low tides. The "beach" can be treacherous. It is not like the Jersey shore. It is like quick-sand when the tide is out. All warned not to walk there. In 1995 several people were "sucked up". They now have a tool to free them.
We passed a lot of people fishing for silver (coho) salmon. They are having a good run this year.
The Explorer Glacier is one we will see as we approach Portage with a population of 8. The railroad bridge goes to Chugach and the highway tunnel goes over Turnagain Pass.
On our way after an unscheduled stop by a beautiful lake. The bus driver, a local for 25 years, was full of information, told us "we didn't stop here". His wife was driving the school bus ahead of us and would check on him!!! His excuse would be "traffic". At Visitor Center we saw a movie and had the Park Passbook stamped.
This is the Begich-Boggs V.C. He was a senator and lost his life up here. His wife, Lindy Boggs took his seat in the Senate.
Hand written Note: (1972? Never found the plane. Cokie Roberts his daughter)
On to our trip to the Glacier aboard the MV PTARMIGAN. What a beautiful trip and a glorious day. We got right close to Portage Glacier. Chunks fell off while we were there. They were small but noisy, even I could hear them. It was quite windy but the sun shone brightly. We didn't need the extra jackets.
We stopped at the Alyeska Resort for lunch and a ride up the tram to the top of the ski-lift. Henry didn't want to go. This is Tommy Moe country. He brought back the Gold and Silver medals from the 1994 Olympic Lillehammer Norway. This is a place for MONEY.
We had an expensive lunch, soup and sandwich – Manhattan chowder, smoked salmon salad sandwich (like tuna fish). A pot of coffee at 2.00 a cup. At least you have at least two cups per. Coffee is high 1.50 to 2.00 a cup but least you will get a pot so you don't mind the price. Food is high because most is brought up from Seattle. Milk is 4.37 a gallon to our 2.89 in the lower 48.
Gas prices were about as they are in the Lower 48 (as they say). On our way back to Anchorage after a great day and driver, Bill.
We saw patches of snow or as BIll would say "Apache here and Apache there". We saw a lot of tall "weeds" which turned out to be Yarrow, a large yellow head. The natives use it for medicinal purposes as they do many things. They live a sub-sistance life style. There is no sales tax or income tax.
The natives are paid a fee by the oil companies each year, like pension plan. It varies each year.
Back at the hotel we had a cheeseburger and 2 hot fudge sundaes at the Berry Patch ($25.00) about 6:30. I was not hungry so just had the sundae. Later I took a shower and then we got our bags to go to Denali over-night and left our big bags in the room to be sent on to Fairbanks. We will be at the train at 7:15 AM. Moon is out FULL. Promises to be good for the trip to Denali.


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ATLANTA, Ga. - The Blue Devils hit .329 with three players in double-digit kills as the Duke volleyball team defeated Georgia Tech 3-1 (25-23, 25-20, 19-25, 25-22) Thursday evening at O'Keefe Gym.
"We really hung tough tonight," said head coach Jolene Nagel. "We executed and cut down on our lapses. It was a team effort. Our team did a good job of understanding their opponent. Everywhere from the defense to the serve receive to our setter making good decisions, everybody executed their part of the plan."
Freshman Elizabeth Campbell led the Blue Devils (15-15, 6-12 ACC) with 18 kills on the night. Thursday's contest marked the fifth-straight in which Campbell has led the team in kills as the rookie from Parker, Colo., has posted double-digit kills in six straight matches.
Sophomore Jeme Obeime finished the match with 16 kills, while senior Christiana Gray amassed 11 kills and four blocks. Sophomore Kelsey Williams totaled 51 assists and 12 digs for her seventh double-double of the year. Williams also had a double-double last time out with 44 assists and 21 digs against Miami.
Georgia Tech's Monique Mead totaled 22 kills to lead the Yellow Jackets (18-11, 9-9 ACC), while Bailey Hunter added 11 kills.
Duke got off to a slow start in the first set and trailed Georgia Tech 17-11 after a Jennifer Percy kill. A 7-4 Blue Devil spurt forced a Georgia Tech timeout with the Yellow Jacket lead trimmed to 21-18. A pair of Campbell kills and an ace from Emily Sklar tied the score at 22-22, and Duke finished off the set four points later. Campbell registered her eighth kill of the set, Chelsea Cook picked up an ace and Obeime and Gray teamed up for a block to seal the victory.
"We started off a little rough with our serve receive and we were tentative on defense," said Nagel. "Georgia Tech was more aggressive than we were. Our team was able to regain its composure and started to control the serve receive better. Our team kept fighting. They didn't give up and Georgia Tech started to make a few errors. I'm proud that we could be down at an away site and still be able to get the W in the first set. That was a crucial set."
The Blue Devils again trailed early in set two, but rallied for a 12-11 advantage after a pair of Gray kills. After reaching a 16-16 tie, Duke scored the next three points and did not relinquish the lead the rest of the way. The Blue Devils hit .353 for the set while limiting Georgia Tech to .147. Gray paced the offense with five kills on six errorless attempts in addition to two blocks.
After trading points to reach a 13-13 tie, Georgia Tech pulled away with a 5-1 rally and would ultimately capture the third frame. Georgia Tech outhit Duke .531 to .188 in set three to cut the Blue Devils' overall advantage to 2-1.
Duke found itself down 14-11 in the fourth set before a 5-0 run, keyed by two Obeime kills, swung the momentum in the Blue Devils' favor. The Yellow Jackets were unable to recover and the Blue Devils sealed the victory on Gray's 11th kill of the match.
The Blue Devils face Clemson Friday, November 16 at 7 p.m., in Jervey Gym before heading to Winston-Salem to close out the regular season with a 7 p.m., match Tuesday, November 20 at Wake Forest.


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After reading the article about safe typecasting, I followed the link to Stroustrup's
FAQ. I found this one really interesting:
Why doesn't C++ provide a "finally" construct?
Because C++ supports an alternative that is almost always better: The "resource
acquisition is initialization" technique (TC++PL3 section 14.4). The basic
idea is to represent a resource by a local object, so that the local object's
destructor will release the resource. That way, the programmer cannot forget
to release the resource. For example:
class File_handle {
FILE* p;
File_handle(const char* n, const char* a)
{ p = fopen(n,a); if (p==0) throw Open_error(errno); }
File_handle(FILE* pp)
{ p = pp; if (p==0) throw Open_error(errno); }
~File_handle() { fclose(p); }
operator FILE*() { return p; }
// ...
void f(const char* fn)
File_handle f(fn,"rw"); // open fn for reading and writing
// use file through f
In a system, we need a "resource handle" class for each resource. However,
we don't have to have an "finally" clause for each acquisition of a resource.
In realistic systems, there are far more resource acquisitions than kinds
of resources, so the "resource acquisition is initialization" technique leads
to less code than use of a "finally" construct.
Also, have a look at the examples of resource management in Appendix E of
The C++ Programming Language.
In a language such as C++, the idea was that it was best to enclose resources
inside classes so that "the programmer cannot forget to release the resource"!
Yet in .NET we MUST use a finally clause in EVERYTHING that uses a resource
class, and call Close() and/or Dispose() in that finally clause, if we want
to ensure that resources are cleaned up correctly.
This is (and has been) my one and only complaint about .NET -- I certainly
understand the benefit of garbage collection when dealing with systems of
many small objects whose resource usage is only memory. But for applications
that work with other types of resources frequently, .NET becomes cumbersome
and as error-prone to code in as straight C.
How hard would it be to add a facility for reference counting to ensure cleanup
of resources as soon as they go out of scope!


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Colorado's under-construction plan for regulating recreational marijuana nearly came unglued Thursday, when lawmakers questioned whether the agency that would enforce the rules is up to the task.
The plan called for the state's Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division — which regulates medical-marijuana businesses — to transition to the Marijuana Enforcement Division and be in charge of all pot enterprises in the state. But a scathing audit released this week cast doubt on the division's fitness for handling the massive job. And it threw into chaos what was scheduled to be the final meeting of a legislative committee drafting a bill on recreational marijuana regulations.
"It's tough for me to vote to give them one ounce more of regulatory responsibility," Rep. Brian DelGrosso, R-Loveland, said at the meeting Thursday.
"If they couldn't handle the little piece they have now," he said later, "there's no way we can trust them to handle more."
DelGrosso's comments at the start of the meeting — which were soon echoed by others on the committee — sent the Jenga stack of proposed rules teetering.
For the past four months, everybody — from lawmakers to state officials to members of a special task force — who has suggested ideas for recreational pot regulations has assumed they would look somewhat like medical-marijuana regulations, with a Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division-type agency riding herd.
The audit, released during a two-day meeting Tuesday and Wednesday, found the division rife with wasteful spending, shoddy enforcement and unfulfilled expectations. Systems that were supposed to track marijuana plants from seed to sale were incomplete. Measures that were supposed to prevent criminals from getting involved in the industry had failed.
After DelGrosso's comments Thursday, committee chair Rep. Dan Pabon, D-Denver, abruptly called a recess, and committee members moved to an adjacent room to vent their frustrations.
"They need to tell us how they will do things differently," Sen. Cheri Jahn, D-Wheat Ridge, said of marijuana regulators.
"If you're in the real world, all these flipping people are gone," DelGrosso said.
"Heads should roll," said Sen. Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins.
Pabon, who said he was reluctant to rehash the audit, hastily arranged for the director of the state Department of Revenue, which oversees the Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division, to address the committee.
"We have control"
Director Barbara Brohl said many of the problems found in the audit occurred before she took her position and assured committee members that the issues had been fixed. The division has a new leader, she said, and is now "pretty fiscally frugal."
"We have control over this division at this point and will continue to have control," she said.
That seemed to steady the teetering column, although the committee set a meeting for April 4 for Brohl to explain better. The committee then postponed several votes on the recreational marijuana regulatory structure until it can resolve its questions.
Few options
But, if the committee decides to abandon the plan to give medical-marijuana regulators authority over recreational pot, there are few other options, Pabon pointed out. Amendment 64, the measure that legalized recreational marijuana, says the Department of Revenue will enforce the rules.
Creating a new division for recreational marijuana "doesn't seem likely," Pabon said after the meeting. "But I think we need to hear from the department on how they're going to move forward and solve these issues."
The committee did take several votes on recreational marijuana rules. It approved one proposal that only Colorado residents be allowed to own pot shops and adopted several others that set up educational programs and safety standards for marijuana.
Pabon also announced that the committee, which had planned to finish its work by the end of March, will now have until April 8. If it finalizes the ideas for a bill by then, the full state legislature will have exactly one month to pass the bill before the end of the session.
John Ingold: 303-954-1068, email@example.com or twitter.com/john_ingold


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Huskers Ranked Sixth, 10th in Track and Field News' Dual Meet Rankings
Track and Field News released the first men's and women's dual meet rankings for the outdoor season on Wednesday. The Husker women came in 10th and the men sixth.
Oregon leads the women's rankings, followed by LSU, Texas A&M, Stanford and Kansas. On the men's side, Arkansas leads the way with Texas A&M, Arizona State, Oregon and Florida following behind.
To be eligible for ranking, a team must compete in at least one dual meet (using TFN's definition of a dual, a scored meet of four or fewer teams). Rankings are compiled for a combined indoor and outdoor season, with outdoor competition given more weight. Teams are also rewarded for an extensive and/or challenging dual meet schedule.
Women's Rankings with Dual Meet Records
1. Oregon (0-0)
3. Texas A&M (1-1)
4. Stanford (0-0)
5. Kansas (2-0)
6. Arkansas (1-2)
7. Arizona State (0-0)
8. Arizona (0-0)
9. Michigan (1-0)
10. Nebraska (2-0)
Men's Rankings with Dual Meet Records
1. Arkansas (2-1)
2. Texas A&M (2-0)
3. Arizona State (0-0)
4. Oregon (0-0)
5. Florida (0-0)
6. Nebraska (2-0)
8. Texas (0-1)
9. Ohio State (0-0)
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Newman hopes succcess will continue at LoudonBy DAVID SCOTT
The Charlotte Observer
July 12. 2013 11:15PM
LOUDON - Much of Ryan Newman's success on NASCAR's Sprint Cup circuit has come at New Hampshire Speedway. Why, Newman isn't exactly sure.
"That's actually kind of funny, because I used to say New Hampshire was my least favorite race track," said Newman, who has three career victories at the rural track, where the Camping World RV Sales 301 is set for today. "But it's far from that now. It's always been a good place for me. I'm not 100 percent sure why."
Part of Newman's uncertainty stems from the nature of the racing at New Hampshire. Although the track is 1.058 miles, it has some short-track characteristics - its corners are very tight - that make it difficult to pass.
"Loudon has just always been a difficult track to pass on," said Newman. "And from a driver's standpoint, you want to go out there and say that, 'If I have a good car, start last and win this race.' And you can't always do that there. That's just a rule of thumb and generic explanation for why it's not perfect. Other than that, it's short-track racing. It's fun but it's really difficult to pass there at times."
That's where Newman's previous success could work for him.
"New Hampshire kind of drives like that kind of track where your car is on top of the racetrack and you get everything you can," said Newman, who also has six poles at New Hampshire. "There is nothing to really make it go any faster. It's not like you are pushing the car on the banking to make it grip better. There's none of that really to speak of there, I think, other than just a little bit of our past, a little bit of our time and a little bit of us as far as the way we drive race cars."
Newman is winless this year, and is 16th in the Cup standings. But he's just 17 points out of 10th place - occupied by his boss at Stewart-Haas Racing, Tony Stewart - and a berth in the Chase for the Cup. Newman moved up two spots Saturday with a 10th-place finish at the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona.
And thanks to his previous success at New Hampshire, Newman thinks he can continue to move up the ladder.
"I feel like I'm competitive as a driver at all the tracks but, obviously, it takes a good crew that understands the car and the track and strategy and everything else," said Newman. "We've just done well there. It's clicked."


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Energy Efficiency Meets Aging-in-Place
Usually when people retire they downsize. We upsized. My wife and I built our retirement home near Knoxville, Tennessee, many hundreds of miles from our children, parents, and siblings. We wanted plenty of space to host family and friends, even if they arrived in bunches or stayed for months.
We hope to live here until our health gives out. As retirees, we live on a fixed income. We knew the cost to build would yield predictable mortgage payments. But maintenance costs, especially utilities, might vary widely. We wanted stable and relatively low monthly expenses.
After we purchased rural acreage on Fort Loudon Lake—part of the Tennessee River system—in 2006, we began designing a house to accommodate these goals. The home would need to be spacious, accessible, and seriously energy-efficient.
Planning & Construction
I have a longstanding interest in residential and commercial energy use—my involvement with ASHRAE goes back nearly two decades. As we brainstormed, drew, and re-drew our house, I planned the HVAC system and other energy-saving components. My wife designed the floor-plan, accessibility features, and general appearance.
Construction began in the summer of 2011, and we moved into the house in April 2012. Our home has almost 3,900 finished square feet on two levels, not including the attached two-car garage and adjacent workshop or the 600-square-foot unfinished room above them. The completed rooms include a large central great room and kitchen, four bedrooms, four baths, a study, playroom, laundry, and a loft.
Insulation & Other Great Things
Our land consists primarily of limestone covered by topsoil. Rather than dynamite the rock to form a basement, the builder dug a crawlspace one foot deep and raised the house elevation two feet. An integral five-foot-deep section was reserved for HVAC equipment.
The sealed, exterior crawlspace walls were built using insulated concrete forms (ICFs) and have an R-20 insulation value. The crawlspace floor consists of four inches of quarry stone, covered with a six-mil plastic vapor barrier. The underside of the main floor is uninsulated to prevent condensation and to make the crawlspace part of the conditioned house.
The house's exterior walls have two-by-six wood stud framing. Tennessee code for exterior walls is R-13, and our walls' R-value is about 30. The garage and workshop walls and ceilings contain R-19 fiberglass batt with no spray foam.
We live in a humid climate, and humidity breeds mold, so we have Super Jumbo Tex paper wrapping the exterior walls to drain moisture downward. The 40-inch-wide wrap is overlapped six inches to ensure coverage.
The roof—constructed in place—is made of two-by-tens with OSB sheathing. Titanium Wrap, rather than tar paper, protects the OSB.
Open-cell, water-blown spray foam having 3.81 R per inch fills the spaces between the rafters. Where possible, the installers retained (rather than scraping away) the foam overflow, producing a house-wide average of 11 inches of foam. Beneath the foam, the ceilings are either drywall or 6-inch tongue-and-groove planks.
Importantly, the shingles have a higher-than-normal temperature rating. This type of roof eliminates the air circulation found in a traditional attic. All space below the roof system is conditioned house space. The thick spray foam raises the top-surface temperature. Timberline Lifetime dimensional asphalt, medium-color shingles increase the heat reflectivity of the roof. The roof system's total R-value is between 40 and 45; code is R-30.
Inside the house, the framing is standard two-by-fours, though some walls contain fiberglass insulation to muffle sounds. All the windows contain low-E glass, with 0.18 emissivity and a 7/8-inch air gap. The house faces southeast, and the front great room has several large windows. A 10-foot-deep roof overhangs a front patio to give this room passive solar protection, and to allow radiant heat absorption during winter when the sun is low.
Air, Water, Power
Two geothermal ground-source heat pumps—one upstairs within the house, the other in the HVAC section of the crawlspace—provide forced-air heating and cooling. Each pump is a two-stage, Bosch high-efficiency system. In our front yard are two wells, each over 300 feet deep. Water circulates between the wells and to both HVAC systems.
Because the house is tightly built and insulated, a Honeywell outside-air heat exchanger augments the air handling system. Outdoor air is brought inside at 100 CFM. The crawlspace, too, has positive air pressure.
The workshop has a SEER 16 minisplit that runs as needed, depending on our current projects.
Our kitchen and laundry appliances are new, energy-saving models. Since natural gas is not available, all of our appliances and utilities are electric except the fireplace and outdoor grill, which use propane.
Our monthly electricity use for the first 20 months averaged 1641 kWh, costing $168.88 per month, or 40.6% of the average Tennesse home per square foot, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's 2009 Residential Energy Consumption Survey.
Planning for the Future
Our other goals—aging-in-place, accessibility, and space for visitors—also required planning. The exterior and interior doors are 3-feet wide to allow for wheelchair passage. Two of the bathrooms include a 5-foot-diameter turning radius for wheelchairs, as well as curbless (roll-in) shower stalls and heavy-duty grab bars.
All of our floors are level with each other and the floor coverings are suitable for wheelchairs or walkers. Two five-by-five-foot closets align upstairs and downstairs, one atop the other, for future elevator installation if needed; elevator wiring already exists. A built-in ramp leads from the house into the garage. The front and back entries have a single step, to which ramps could be added later.
Since we cannot predict our future health needs (or those of our guests), we made choices among many accessibility options. Though we may need to alter them someday, our house is currently as prepared as possible for future challenges.
Costs Versus Benefits
The energy-efficiency and accessibility features in the house added about 10% to the total building cost, or approximately $50,000–$70,000. The payback on our investment may be 25 to 30 years. But as we planned our retirement home, ongoing monthly expenses concerned us more than did the upfront capital cost.
Our choices also increased the square footage throughout the house. So did the total number of rooms and our desire to have all rooms feel spacious. Our home's overall size far exceeds what we need day-to-day. We joke that we built it big—and on a lake—as a bribe to lure family, friends, and community groups here. Thus far the bribe is working, and we hope our house will always be a welcoming and energy-efficient place.
Tom Werkema participated in the UN Climate Change meetings for over 20 years. He is currently a vice president with ASHRAE and gives talks on climate issues and energy efficiency. In 2012, Tom retired from Arkema, a global, major producer of fluorochemicals used in energy efficiency applications.
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Warm, spicy saunaDecember 14, 2011 at 10:18 pm | Posted in Me, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | 2 Comments
Tags: aches, arthritis, R.A., recipe, rhematoid arthritis, rheumatoid, Rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), stiffness, weather, work
No, unfortunately I have not just come back from a spa break or something. The warm, spicy sauna was my kitchen a few hours ago, and very nice it was too, having come in from work absolutely freezing.
The trouble is, if you can call it a trouble, that I only live a couple of miles from work, so I get into my freezing car at the end of the day and arrive home frozen to the core ten minutes or so later, as the car hasn't had time to warm up. No good for me or the car really! I definitely find joints stiffen more when they're really cold, and I generally arrive home pretty achy at this time of year. Hubby, being the good sort he is, is usually there to provide warming hugs and coffee (unless he's working late), but today I decided I needed something really warming for supper too.
So I made Polly Penguin's Super-easy Vaguely Moroccan-inspired Chicken and Couscous, which always goes down well. Since this involves much froiling (a combination of boiling, broiling and frying, except that really it isn't frying as I don't use any extra fat) and lots of lovely warm-smelling spices, by the time I'd finished the kitchen was steamy and smelling like a spice market, and I was WARM! Even warmer when I'd eaten it.
If anyone else fancies turning their kitchen into a spicy sauna, here's how, but I warn you it's a bit vague as recipes go because I don't tend to measure anything, including time!
Polly Penguin's Super-easy Vaguely Moroccan-inspired Chicken and Couscous
Serves one penguin and one hubby
1 large onion
1 chicken breast (I'm sure Quorn would work equally well)
Half a can of tinned plum tomatoes
A couple of squirts of tomato purée
6-8 green cardamom pods
1/2 teaspoon of ginger
1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon
A generous grating of fresh nutmeg
Couscous – I like to cheat with a packet that's got bits and bobs mixed into it
Dry stir fry the chicken over a fairly high heat, adding a little boiling water as necessary to stop it sticking to the pan. Add the onion and a bit more water and turn the heat down. Lightly crush the cardamom pods, and chuck these in along with the rest of the spices. Allow the onion to soften for five mins or so adding boiling water as necessary. Then chuck in half a can of tomatoes and allow to simmer on a medium to high heat until it's reduced (i.e. a lot of the water from the tomatoes has boiled off) . Then turn down to a low heat and prepare the couscous as per instructions on pack. This generally involves waiting five minutes. Once the couscous is prepared and you're waiting for it to be ready, add the tomato purée to the pan and stir in, which will thicken everything up beautifully.
Serve up and enjoy – and feel lovely and warm and, if like me you hardly ever cook properly, virtuous!
The whole thing only takes about half an hour from getting the onion out of the cupboard to serving up, so you don't have to be on your feet for ages either … and there's plenty of time in between for a quick sit down!
(I kinda spoilt the warming effect by following this up with a toffee ice cream … oops!)
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Mmmmm that DOES sound yummy, Penguin. You're a cook after m'own heart–toss things in the pot to taste and go with it. Occasionally, I end up with a disaster, but usually it turns out tasty. I LOVE cardamom, ginger and cinnamon. The only thing is, I think I'd need to find an Indian grocery for actual cardamom pods. Hmmm. An adventure!
Glad you got warm in such a delightful way. 😉
Comment by Wren— December 15, 2011 #
Sounds yummy. I can smell the spices already 🙂
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Huskers Head to Iowa Over Weekend
When: Saturday, April 13 - Sunday, April 14
Where: Finkbine Golf Course, Iowa City, Iowa
Course Par: 72
Course Yardage: 7,239
Format: 54 holes
- Saturday: 36 holes starting at 9 a.m. CT (Shotgun)
- Sunday: 18 holes starting at 9 a.m. CT (Shotgun)
Live Golfstat Scoring: http://www.golfstatresults.com/public/index.cfm?tournament_id=3980
Daily Results and Recap: www.huskers.com
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The Nebraska men's golf team will join 11 schools from the Midwest in competing at the Hawkeye-Great River Entertainment Invitational on Saturday and Sunday in Iowa City, Iowa.
The tournament will be played over 54 holes, with the first 36 set for a shotgun start on Monday at 9 a.m. The final 18 holes will be a shotgun start at 9 a.m., on Tuesday. Finkbine Golf Course, a par-72, 7,239-yard layout, will host the Hawkeye Invitational, which is in its 20th year.
Live scoring for the tournament will be available on Golfstat.com at the link provided above. Results and recap will be on Huskers.com following each day's action.
Big Ten foes Wisconsin, Penn State, Iowa, Michigan State and Minnesota will join former Big 12 rivals Kansas and Iowa State to make up part of the 12-team field in Iowa City. Charlotte, Notre Dame, Miami (Ohio) and Washington State will also tee it up on Saturday and Sunday.
In its most recent outing, Nebraska finished 18th at the ASU Red Wolf Intercollegiate in Jonesboro, Ark. The result snapped a five-tournament streak of top-10 finishes for the Huskers in stroke play events. Junior Manuel Lavin led the Huskers with a tie for 39th at RidgePointe Country Club.
Following the Hawkeye Invitational, Nebraska will make its second all-time appearance in the Big Ten Championships, April 26-28, at the Pete Dye Course in French Lick, Ind. Last season the Huskers finished 12th. The NCAA Regionals are set for May 16-18 and the NCAA Championships are May 28-June 2 at the Capital City Club in Atlanta, Ga.
Last Time Out: Huskers Finish 18th in Arkansas
The Nebraska men's golf team shot a final-round 303 to finish 18th at the ASU Red Wolf Intercollegiate on Tuesday, April 2.
The Huskers entered the day in 19th place following rounds of 316 and 301 on Monday. Nebraska compiled 920 strokes over 54 holes at RidgePointe Country Club, a par-71, 6,565-yard layout.
Manuel Lavin led NU for the first time this season with a tie for 39th. The junior from Aguascalientes, Mexico managed 15 pars and three bogeys en route to a 74 in Tuesday's final round. Lavin added 75 and 76 on Monday for a three-round total of 12-over-par 225.
Freshman Kolton Lapa carded an 8-over-par 79 in the final round, which included one birdie, two bogeys, two double bogeys and a triple bogey. On Monday, Lapa produced 76 and 77 for a 232 total over 54 holes. He tied for 72nd.
Matt Record fired the lowest Husker score on Tuesday with a 1-over-par 72. The junior birdied the fourth hole and bogeyed Nos. 14 and 16 to tie for 84th. Record showed improvement each round, shooting 84 and 78 in the first and second rounds, respectively, for a 234 total.
Seniors Jordan Reinertson and Neil Dufford tied for 92nd and 102nd, respectively. Reinertson posted a 12-over-par 83 in the final round for a 236 total. Dufford added a 78 for the Huskers on Tuesday for a 242.
Off the Tee:
1. The Huskers are making their third all-time appearance in the Hawkeye Invitational. Last season Nebraska finished 10th at 889 strokes after tying for eighth at the rain shortened tournament in 2011.
2. Freshman Kolton Lapa earned Big Ten Golfer-of-the-Week honors on Feb. 27 after tying for fifth at the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate. The weekly accolade was Lapa's second of the season as he also earned it on Oct. 24, 2012.
3. The Huskers have finished in the top 10 in seven of nine stroke play tournaments, which includes the team crown at the Fairway Club Invitational. Nebraska finished fourth at the Price's Give 'Em Five Invitational, seventh at the Herb Wimberly Intercollegiate, tied for seventh at the D.A. Weibring Intercollegiate, eighth at the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate, 10th at the Cleveland Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate and sixth at the Denver Desert Shootout.
4. Lapa leads the Huskers with a 73.92 stroke average. He is the only player on the team to compete in every tournament this season (26 rounds). Lapa notched three consecutive top-10 finishes from October to February before that streak was snapped at the Cleveland Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate.
5. The Huskers have a 296.81 stroke average through nine stroke play events, often showing successive improvement in each round. Nebraska's third-round scoring average is 294.25. The Huskers are averaging 301.44 in the first round and 294.44 in the second round.
6. The Huskers added three golfers during the offseason. Sophomore Cameron Palmer joined Nebraska and has competed in two tournaments this spring. The other two golfers, Justin Jennings and Ian Hagener, are set to join the team in 2013-14.
7. Nathan Wong will reshirt in his first season with Nebraska. Wong played high school golf at Hamilton in Chandler, Ariz., and joined the Huskers with his twin brother Aaron.
8. Lapa set the school record for freshman 54-hole scoring mark during the fall season at the Herb Wimberly Intercollegiate. He shot 2-under-par 211 for the tournament and tied for seventh. Lapa earned Big Ten Golfer-of-the-Week honors for his performance.
9. Under Head Coach Bill Spangler, who is in his 12th season, the Nebraska men's golf team has won 10 tournament titles. Spangler has also guided the Huskers to 30 top-three tournament finishes and six individual titles.
10. The Nebraska men's golf program has four NCAA Championship appearances along with seven NCAA Regional starts. The last three seasons, the Huskers have sent one individual to the NCAA Regionals. Last season Scott Willman tied for 40th at the Norman Regional. In 2011 Andrew Wyatt tied for 41st at the Colorado Regional and in 2010, Brandon Crick tied for eighth at the West Regional.


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having just finished slapping a new set of O-Rings on my Classic RT, I went down to the local(ish) store to get my tank filled so I could gas her up and check for leaks. I also just added Lukes mini vert frame so I had to dramatically shorten the bottom macro-line. I was surprised to find the place semi-busy.
I got the tank filled and bought some oil. I asked if they would mind if I gassed it up and cycled it a few times and they obliged. When I returned from the car with the RT one of the guys got all exited and started talking about how awesome these things were and how you hardly see them anywhere. I gassed it up, now with an audience and it starts hissing air out of the bottom macro. The guy volunteers to take it in the back and redo the macroline for free.
After a few minutes he comes out. We gas it up again and I and each of the store guys take turns ripping on the trigger. It doesn't quite RT (none of my RT's ever really have) but with a little practice (pull and relax vs. pull and release) you can easily compete with electro RoF. The guy who did the macroline for me said he trolls here on AO so if you are reading this, thanks man.
I was away from the sport for a good five years after my first daughter was born. Before coming back everything was "Mags are blenders", "Mags are heavy", "Mags are ugly", "Mags are hogs". Since I've been back my Mags seem to get respected, even treated with reverence. It's nice to see. On the other hand I feel sorry for AGD that bad marketing and bad market timing prevented them from getting the recognition they deserved, when they deserved it most. My 15+ y/o marker can hang with all the "latest and greatest".
Props to AGD for an enduring product. Here's hoping (against all odds) that a still more glorious dawn awaits.


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A helicopter flew about the University of Colorado campus today to help with a project to bring better cell phone reception to Folsom Field for those who have AT&T service.
The project, paid for by the wireless company, was to take place from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., according to university officials.
The helicopter was slated to land in lot 375 north of Franklin Field around 8 a.m. and then be used several times during the day to remove existing equipment from the roof of the stadium's skyboxes and lift new equipment into place.
The helicopter is being used because the the distance required for the maintenance project is too far for the reach of a crane, said Malinda Miller-Huey, spokeswoman for the university.


text: Home Theatre, a video rental business, previously located on Ryan Street, has recently moved downtown once again at the corner of Main and Morgan streets. In addition to video rentals Home Theatre offers tanning, marching band accessories, locally made jewelry and Howard County honey. Home Theatre opened in 1985 at 315 Main Street. After five years, the business moved to its current location at the corner of Main and Morgan streets. In 1995 Home Theater expanded to include another location on Ryan Street at the Main Street Center and until 2006 Home Theatre had two locations. Copies Etc. moved into the Main Street location which left the Ryan Street location the only Home Theatre location until October of 2012 when it was once again moved back to the Main and Morgan streets location after the departure of Copies Etc., which moved down further down on Main Street. "We decided to move back downtown because it is better down here. There is less overhead," Home Theatre owner Vicki Muckerman said. She said she really missed being downtown and there is more offered downtown, including more businesses surrounding the area. Muckerman said business has been good but can always be better. "The economy has effected business somewhat," Muckerman said. She also said the industry has been changing quite a bit recently because of the competition with Netflix, Redbox and online streaming websites. The way she competes is offering something an individual cannot find anywhere else. "Because I have such an old library, you cannot find those at Red Box or by online streaming," Muckerman said. She also said some people come in to rent movies because they are discouraged with Netflix because of their internet speed or the lack of video offerings. Another advantage over Netflix that Home Theatre has is a 30 day window, which is offered by certain entertainment companies who will offer their movies to places like Home Theatre before offering them to Netflix. New movie postings are located behind the front counter and include a full month of releases. "We get new movies every Tuesday. "Dread" is coming up along with "To Rome with Love," Muckerman said. Muckerman said many of the new movies such as Total Recall and Bourne Legacy have been the most sought out movies of the season. She also said when there is inclement weather such as rain and snow people start renting more because they need something to do inside their homes. Muckerman plans to include more tanning beds in the future and expand the business offerings.


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"The pen is mightier than the sword" means a person can cause people to change their opinions(e.g., to fight a war)and on a large scale whereas a sword can only change a peron's opion by force and then often only results in the person's death.
The Founding Fathers of the United States of America considered the pen to be mightier than the sword, and therefore were able to gain the freedom of America by uniting the colonists.
by Kevin W. Cooley June 30, 2005
When it comes to governance of human beings, our thoughts, our thinking outweigh violence.
"Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword." Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)
The pen is mightier than the sword." Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)
by TeresaKW August 03, 2005
An idiom that means; those who control information have far more power than those with military force. It is actually a fallacy - Patton himself proved this. The idiom assumes the people are smart to begin with, an assumption that has been proven wrong countless times in history. And whoever said that has obviously never encountered automatic weapons anyway.
Somebody thinking he's smart: I control information! I control the people! The pen is mightier than the sword!
A realist: I control the weapons! Might makes right!
A realist: I control the weapons! Might makes right!
by Volly T January 18, 2012
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it means the pen is a better weapon than the sword because its smaller and more manueverable. also you can fill the ink tube with poison and stab someone with it for example, in the neck. its better for sneaking up on someone, or for use in small spaces.
you got a sword? so what i got a pen. yeah u better run u woman.
by an anonymous source November 05, 2003
The Pen is Mightier than the Sword is an ancient Arab proverb. Before Islam united them, Arabs were too often engaged in tribal warfare against each other, so much so that one of their many wars, one that lasted for 40 years, was started between two tribes through a camel owned by one tribe drinking from the other's water and the fight that ensued thereafter. In those tribal wars the poet of a tribe was highly esteemed and his ability to deride other tribes in his poetry and claim pride for his own was considered the height of might and the poet was given an honor higher than that of the warrior. To this day a traditional dance performed by men in Arabia revolves around the act of men with swords facing each other in battle formation and each is led by a poet, so that's two poets against each other, and the poets engage in a spontaneous poetry match where one starts with a line of poetry that is repeated by his men in a dance song behind him, and his opponent is required to answer him with a line of poetry that matches it in meter and rhyme - not an easy thing to do - and it continues until one poet is clearly the winner over the other, or, more wisely, until both poets seem to satisfy their men that the issue had been resolved through a display of mutual respect; by that, I mean, that both poets strive to stand to the occasion and show the other that their respective tribes are worthy of respect and won't be intimidated, while displaying respect for each other.
A poetry line might go "yo, your tribe stinks!" - and being such a good line it gets repeated perpetually throughout Arabia to the shame of the derided tribe. Alternatively, it might go "Ma tribe is da bestest!", and likewise, being a catchy line, gets repeated perpetually throughout Arabia to the pride of the poet's tribe.
by cscltr July 18, 2005
The pen is mightier than the sword!
Words hurt more than that stabbing feeling your getting through that sword someone is stabbing you with.
Words hurt more than that stabbing feeling your getting through that sword someone is stabbing you with.
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La Plata and Brashear do battle and Scotland avoids elimination, all in the NS Tourney
KIRKSVILLE, Mo. – The Truman wrestling team took part in their second home dual in two days, this time taking on Central Baptist College (Ark.). The Bulldogs took the advice of their head coach and came out with a different attitude than they did against Central Missouri, as they won going away 44-4.
After only winning three matches against the Mules, Truman only lost only one match against CBC.
TSU picked up three pins, Nick Shea at 141 pounds at 1:31, Colton Schmitz at 157 pounds pinned Cullen Frazier at the 1:55 mark, and Luke Knocke won by pin also at 165 pounds.
J.J. Dorrell got the night started for the Bulldogs as he won at 125 pounds, 14-5. Tyler Stanley won 9-0 at 133 pounds. Dustin McClintlock won 9-5 at 174 pounds. Helmut Rentschler won by tech fall 17-0 over John Lopez at 197 pounds. Closing out the dual for Truman was Ryan Ward with his 13-3 win at 285 pounds.
Bulldogs star Ryan Maus received a bye, and Sean Brown suffered Truman's only loss at 184 pounds when he lost 15-2.
The Bulldogs improved to 5-2 overall and will take part in the Missouri Valley Open on Saturday. Truman's next conference dual will be at Pershing Arena Jan. 30 against nationally ranked Central Oklahoma.
Boys basketball
SHELBYVILLE, Mo. – The Scotland County boys looked to rebound off their tough loss to North Shelby in the first round of the North Shelby Tournament, and they did just that with a big win over Palmyra JV 60-29.
The Tigers who were tied after one and took only a seven-point lead into half used a 36-12 run to close out the game and win going away.
Three Scot's finished in double-figures led by Lucas Howard who had 22. Jacob Blessing added 14, and Cordie Kigar chipped in with 10.
The win improves the Tigers to 6-8 and they will play Schuyler County tonight in the fifth place game at 6 p.m.
Girls basketball
SHELBYVILLE, Mo. – La Plata took on Brashear in the second round of the North Shelby Tournament and the Bulldogs took care of the short-handed Lady Tigers as they won 43-20. BHS was playing without one of their top players in Meridith Thomas.
"We defended well tonight and that was a big key for us," said La Plata head coach Steve Lightle.
LP kept Brashear from having a player in double-digits. Allison Thompson had nine to lead the Lady Tigers.
The Lady Bulldogs scored 23 points in the first half and cruised to the win that puts them into the fifth place game. Leading the offensive attack was Makay Belt who had 15. She received help from Hannah Larson who added 12.
In the fifth place game the Lady Bulldogs will face Schuyler County this afternoon at 4:30.


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Conservatives escalated their attacks on a Colorado Democrat Tuesday over his comments on rape, even falsely tying Rep. Joe Salazar to a 2006 university police memo that advised "vomiting or urinating" may ward off attackers.
The barrage of attacks came after Salazar unwittingly turned into the poster child for Republican resentments, from the defeat of GOP candidates who made oafish comments about rape to the likely passage of gun-control measures going through the Democratic-controlled legislature.
The rookie lawmaker was skewered throughout social media as Red State America relished getting to use the "war on women" theme against its original authors.
Salazar's remarks inspired a #LiberalTips2AvoidRape hashtag on Twitter, with comments that reflected both the misinformation concerning the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs campus police memo and the partisan divide in the county.
"Let it happen and blame George W. Bush," one person tweeted.
Salazar, a rookie from Thornton who took office in January, during debate urged the passage of bill concerning guns on campus. He said he was trying to make the point that guns on campuses don't necessarily make schools safer.
" And you don't know if you feel like you're gonna be raped ...," was what he said in part.
And while Salazar occupies a reliably Democratic district, conservatives seized on the opportunity to mock liberals over their handling of the gun-control debate.
Rep. Lori Saine, R-Dacono, who challenged Salazar on the floor, said Tuesday she's still offended by his remarks.
"It is so enormously inappropriate to assume that a woman that is trained and has a concealed-carry permit will just pop off," she said.
"Colorado Democrats say women can't be trusted with guns," read the headline on a conservative blog.
Two of the state's top Democrats, Gov. John Hickenlooper and House Speaker Mark Ferrandino, said Salazar did the right thing by apologizing.
"Rep. Salazar acknowledged his remarks were inappropriate and he apologized. That's what he needed to do," Hickenlooper said in a statement.
Ferrandino, a Denver Democrat, believes Salazar's comments, while clunky, are being "blown up" and taken "out of context."
"When people say something stupid, it usually wasn't what they meant to say," said Katy Atkinson, a political consultant from Denver who once worked at the Colorado legislature.
Salazar's comments were made Friday night during a marathon debate on the fourth and final gun bill, House Bill 1226, which would ban concealed carry permit holders from packing heat on campus.
Lawmakers had been going on at it since 9:30 that morning when Salazar, who teaches a class at Metro, went to the microphone that night to talk about why he supports the bill.
He said he has discussed a scenario with his students about being inside a classroom and hearing gunshots and asking them how they might respond. He said he pointed out to them that they wouldn't know whether the armed person they might encounter was the perpetrator or the law-abiding citizen.
"That's why there shouldn't be concealed carry weapons on campus or at least in the buildings. Because you don't know. You can actually be shooting someone who thinks they're protecting you."
Salazar said he wished he would have stopped at that point, but he continued, talking about the hot-button topics mentioned in his class, including racial profiling, a student being upset at a professor and "gender inequities on college campuses."
"Universities have been faced with that situation for a long time," he said.
"It's why we have call boxes, it's why we have safe zones, it's why we have the whistles. Because you just don't know who you're gonna be shooting at. And you don't know if you feel like you're gonna be raped, or if you feel like someone's been following you around or if you feel like you're in trouble when you may actually not be, that you pop out that gun and you pop, pop a round at somebody."
Rep. Polly Lawrence, a Douglas County Republican, tweeted the following at 7:35 p.m.: "Rep. Salazar says women on campus may not know when they're being raped."
She went to the microphone to refute the remarks, as did Saine.
"I guess, Rep. Salazar, if a woman doesn't know she's being raped, she doesn't fear it," Saine said.
She said Salazar yelled from the side of the floor, "Nice try, that's not what I said," and Salazar later went to the microphone to dispute her comments.
Saine said she thought she had heard him wrong, and apologized at the microphone.
Democrats said they knew what Salazar meant and Saine had apologized, so they thought the issue was over.
But on Monday — the same day the House was officially voting on the gun legislation — Revealing Politics posted a video of Salazar's comments, igniting a viral cultural war that combined women and guns .
Salazar was stunned Tuesday at being falsely linked to the campus police memo.
"Urinated on yourself as recommended by RepSalazar," one person tweeted.
"Vomit up a pair of scissors & hide under your desks, also pee yourself," another wrote.
"This is so not me," Salazar said, "this is so not me."
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Dave in studio with Internationally acclaimed 'Cosmic Pedal Steele' player Bruce Kaphan
An array of eclectic and esoteric conversation! Way back in the 20th Century (12-14 years ago) Dave, with his usual Massive wisdom, and insight realized that politically polarized-junk yard dog talk radio format was PREDICTABLE and BORING!
Dave decided to utilize this "wasted" 1st amendment Freedom -of- Speech- resource to become an original in the broadcast profession in regards to the "Strange", "Unusual", and "Forbidden" subjects and Topics! Dave Alan has always been interested and "drawn" to
expounding on what he believes "has been kept secret and hidden" from the Human kind...an array of things that Dave has always pondered, and realized many others must have also..."it's a gap... a void which must be addressed and fulfilled"
Many highly acclaimed authorities, researchers, authors and lecturers were first "featured" and brought onto the airwaves back then on Dave's The original (early 1990's) "Nite-Hawk" show, and are again, along with new discoveries guests on
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As Dave has always stated... "it's not just for late night-insomniacs anymore!"
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City of Bellvue approves East Link cost saving measuresWritten by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor
In Washington state, the Bellvue City Council approved cost-reducing changes to the East Link light-rail project by a 6-0 vote that could result in up to $53 million in savings for taxpayers.
The vote came after an analysis and evaluation by a joint city of Bellevue and Sound Transit team and thousands of public comments.
"Tonight we reached a major milestone for the city. It was a hard-fought effort, but the end result is more certainty for our city residents, businesses and neighborhoods," said Bellvue Mayor Conrad Lee. "Throughout this process our number one priority has been to protect our neighborhoods and we accomplished that tonight."
Bellevue has been working in collaboration with Sound Transit since early last year on ways to lower project costs and reduce the city's contingent $60 million funding contribution for a downtown light-rail tunnel. Sound Transit's Board of Directors is scheduled to make a selection on the cost-savings options at its meeting April 25.
The cost-saving effort was part of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Bellevue and Sound Transit, signed in November 2011, that spelled out how the organizations would work together to implement East Link, including a process for identifying cost-saving options.
If the Sound Transit Board's selections on April 25 are consistent with the council's action, staff of the two agencies will develop amendments to the existing umbrella MOU and transit way agreements for final council action.
Making a decision on the cost-saving options is important because it will firmly establish the design for East Link, provide certainty to the community and allow Sound Transit to commence private property acquisitions.
The cost-saving options, approved with Councilmember Don Davidson absent, are:
Bellevue Way: The council maintained the MOU option of placing light rail in a trench along Bellevue Way Southeast, in front of the historic Winters House.
112th Avenue Southeast: The council approved replacing an elevated light-rail "flyover" of 112th Avenue, near Southeast 15th Street, which was in the MOU, with a "road over rails" option. It features an overpass above 112th Avenue, with the light-rail line crossing under the overpass at ground level. In addition to the flyover, the council approved replacing a city-requested trench along the west side of 112th Avenue with a street-level alignment that crosses Southeast Fourth Street. This option would allow for emergency vehicle access only into the Surrey Downs neighborhood on Southeast Fourth Street and calls for developing an alternative access into the Surrey Downs neighborhood from 112th Avenue though Bellefield Residential Park. Cost-savings estimate is $2-4 million.
Downtown station: The council approved replacing a downtown tunnel station proposed in the MOU with an at-grade station on Northeast Sixth Street. Cost-savings estimate is $19-33 million.
East Link, a $2.8 billion project, will run from Seattle, through Bellevue, to the Overlake Transit Center in Redmond. Construction is expected to start in 2015 and service is scheduled to begin in 2023.


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Archie, Mary, Jack (John), Sarah and Nellie all settled in Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minnesota first and lived there till about 1905.
This is one of my favorite photos of Jack. I do not know where it is taken but I think he looks very dapper.
According to the Minnesota State Census for 1905, Jack and Sarah had relocated to International Falls, Minnesota.
Source: Minnesota State Census, 1905, Village of International Falls, Twp. of Koochiching, Itasca Co., Minnesota, enumerated by Harvy Gale on June 30, 1905, Line 74, Sht#2, Image 269, Ancestry.com.
Line 74, McDonald, John A., male, age 36, born in Canada, both parents born in Canada, 4 yrs. in Minnesota, 8 months in International Falls, laborer. Line 75, McDonald, Sarah, female, age 31, born in Canada, both parents born in Ireland, 4 yrs in Minnesota, no occupation.
Note: Please note that Koochiching is not a county yet and it is part of Itasca County for about another year. This means that if you are looking for records you need to consult Itasca County for the early years.
Meanwhile Archibald (Archie) and Mary McDonald, the parents, were still residing in Bemidji and their daughter Nellie was with them.
Source: Archibald McDonald Family, 1905 Minnesota State Census, Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minnesota, ED#14, enumerated June 1, 1905, Ancestry.com.
#49 McDonald Archie, Lake Blvd, #1101, M., 70 years, white, born in Canada, lines thru parents birth with no data entered, location, resident 3 yrs., 9 mos.; same for district, occupation: retired.
#50 McDonald, Mary, Lake Blvd, #1101, Female, age 68, white, born in Canada, parents born in Scotland both, resident 3 yrs. 9 mos, same for district, retired.
#51 McDonald, Nellie, Lake Blvd, #1101, Female, age 30, white, born in Canada, both parents born in Canada, resident 3 yrs 9 mos., same for district, occupation: housekeeper.
In my post dated March 3, 2011 I wrote about John (Jack's) birth – Archie & Mary's Children: John Archibald McDonald.
I also wrote more about Jack and Sarah in the posted dated August 17, 2010 "Jack McDonald and Sarah Maria Burns!" In this post I described the children of Jack and Sarah McDonald that I am aware of. We suspect that there were more babies that did not make it or perhaps miscarriages.
I also wrote about Bemidji in the post dated February 2, 2012 "Life in Bemidji." In this post I featured the Bemidji city directory that I found at the Beltrami County Historical Society. The page featured Archie and John for 1904. The picture above was provided by Elaine Burns Brown.
In the last post dated July 20, 2012, I talked about Jack and Sarah's marriage. I was unable to find any news about this event in the local newspapers, therefore, I speculate that sometime after August 1901 and probably before the winter set in they went to Glengarry County first. This was so Archie could revisit his childhood home. After this visit they made that final move to Minnesota. They first settled in Bemidji living there for about 4 years or slightly less and then heading for International Falls. Jack apparently went ahead by 8 months and may have been in International Falls by 1904.
I wonder how they traveled from Chichester? Did they take the train from Waltham down to Ottawa and the go by coach to Glengarry County. It is fun to speculate.
This was a big move.
As far as I can determine by the census, Archibald, Mary, Ronald and Grace, Jack and Sarah, Alexander and Nellie were all living in International Falls by 1905 or after. Angus disappears after 1897 after he came back to Chichester for the birth of his daughter Helen Mary in August of that year. He reappears in the Seattle 1910 U.S. Federal Census. What he did between 1897 to 1910 I have yet to figure out.
My family left behind many friends, memories and more in Canada, and I am afraid the ties slowly began to disappear as they continued to live in the United States. Later on Robert R. McDonald, a son of Duncan McDonald, Mary's brother's family migrated to Bovey, Minnesota.
If you are familiar with International Falls it is right on the northern border of Minnesota and it takes just a few minutes to cross the bridge to Fort Francis and you are back in Canada. So they really didn't wander that far from their Canadian roots.
Wikipedia has an article about the town of Fort Francis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Frances
Here is information about the border crossing and a great picture of the bridge that crosses the Rainy River between International Falls and Fort Francis. My hubby and I drove across that bridge when I visited there in 2000 meeting for the first time with Mary McDonald Louseau, Jack's and Sarah's daughter. She was 87 years old at the time.
Here is a picture that I took on our walk along the Rainy River. I wanted to see what my Dad's (Keith) childhood might have been like and wondered if he played along this river. There house was very close by. He would have been very young, being born in March 1910. Ronald left International Falls in 1915 and headed back to Canada ending up in Grand Prairie. I have posted about these events in past posts. My Dad might have played along this river being 4-5 years old at the time. It is more likely that the older children like Gordon, Vivian, Miriam, Eddie and Jean had adventures along its shores. I can see Gordon carefully holding his little brother's hand as they walked along. Yes, I am getting a little romantic in my musings!


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I mentioned in a recent Espley One Name study update that I was hoping to buy an aerial view of Espley Hall from eBay. Well here it is.
Espley Hall is located near Morpeth in Northumberland. According to the text in the top right of the image the photograph was taken on 19 August 1918. I have no idea why the photograph would have been taken and I have no information from the eBay seller.
The building now seems to be used as a hotel, meeting and wedding venue. I can't find a website so it looks like we will have to make a trip there before too long and see if we can find any information about the history of the place.


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Four students from the Adrian Dominican School of Education's class of 2013 traveled to Orlando in April for the Future Florida Educators of America (FFEA) National Conference. Maranda Barretto, Alexis Garcia, Diana Lizarralde and Tiffany Noel joined ADSOE professors, Dr. DiBello and Dr. Perkins, at the conference.
FFEA is an international student organization that supports young people interested in careers in education.
During the conference, the ADSOE students participated in FFEA breakout sessions. The pre-service teachers shared their stories and experiences, reflected upon their journeys, and shared their plans to serve their communities as teachers. In addition, they had an opportunity to learn strategies for success in undergraduate teacher preparation program.
The four students, who are part of the five-year program to attain their Master of Education, presented alongside their professors on their topic: "Learn/Reflect/Serve: A Mission for Success in Teacher Preparation."


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Having completed initialization, let's move on to doing some work.
State::SetMethod(new Method(&MyAsyncClass::Step)) sets the current method to step; and returning
IO::Queue::ERROR_YIELD instructs the worker thread to return the instance to the input queue.
Bear in mind that in the intervening period, any number of other items might have been posted, so our instance ends up at the back of the queue. When it is retrieved, possibly on a different thread,
Step() will be executed (Listing Five):
Listing Five: The Step function.
unsigned Step() { MyAsyncClass *pCopy = new MyAsyncClass(*this); pCopy->SetMethod(new Method(&MyAsyncClass::OnReportProgress)); IO::Queue *pOutput = Thread::GetOutput(); pOutput->Post(pCopy); _counter--; if(_counter == 0) { State::SetMethod(new Method(&MyAsyncClass::Finalize)); } return IO::Queue::ERROR_YIELD; }
Step() posts a copy of itself back to the output queue and in place of doing any real work decrements the counter. (In reality, this code would be an exercise in futility as the overhead of returning the instance to the input queue would far outweigh the utility of just decrementing a counter. For the moment we're just following the flow. A more realistic example is provided later.) We make a copy the current instance rather than post current instance. The state of our instance may have changed before it is fetched from the output queue, and if we want to ensure its integrity we would be back to needing to synchronize the access. Making a copy relieves us of this burden. If we have exhausted the work available (so,
counter == 0), we arrange a transition to
Finalize (Listing Six). Regardless of whether we have another step to take or need to finalize, we yield back to the input queue.
Listing Six: The Finalize function
unsigned Finalize() { State::SetMethod(new Method(&MyAsyncClass::OnComplete)); Thread::GetOutput()->Post(this); return; }
In this case,
Finalize() has little to do. Any required cleanup could be done here. We set the
OnComplete handler and pass our instance to the output queue before returning
ERROR_SUCCESS to indicate to the worker thread that we don't want this item posted again.
As our thread pool has been laboring to wind our counter back, the main thread has been fetching and dispatching our output queue items. And we've been receiving status reports:
unsigned OnReportProgress() { printf("%x %s %d\n", this, __FUNCTION__, this->_counter); State::Delete(); return ERROR_SUCCESS; }
It helps to have a convention to keep the input and output sides of the fence separate in our minds. I've used a prefix of "
On" for that purpose. Our progress reporter simply writes some state to the console and deletes itself. Remember this is a point-in-time copy of our working object. For a busy system, allocating and then deleting copies might become expensive and you will definitely run into some synchronization issues in the default heap allocator. In this case, a pool allocator with a private heap may be very useful.
The final output item is the return of our original instance to the output queue:
unsigned OnComplete() { printf("%x %s %d\n", this, __FUNCTION__, this->_counter); State::Delete(); return ERROR_SUCCESS; }
Again, we just print some state and then delete the instance. Putting it all together, the output looks like this:
>> DoDemoClass 3955c0 MyAsyncClass::OnReportProgress 10 396628 MyAsyncClass::OnReportProgress 9 3955c0 MyAsyncClass::OnReportProgress 8 396698 MyAsyncClass::OnReportProgress 7 396708 MyAsyncClass::OnReportProgress 6 396778 MyAsyncClass::OnReportProgress 5 396628 MyAsyncClass::OnReportProgress 4 3967e8 MyAsyncClass::OnReportProgress 3 396858 MyAsyncClass::OnReportProgress 2 3968c8 MyAsyncClass::OnReportProgress 1 395550 MyAsyncClass::OnComplete 0 << DoDemoClass
This has been a fairly detailed look at a trivial example with some excursions into some the internals of the plumbing classes. However, I hope it is clear that for the most part we don't have to worry much about the details, and we can focus on the application code. This is as it should be. Now for a more interesting example.
Example: Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)
I've chosen a PSO as my example application because it's interesting in its own right, relatively simple to code, and a good fit for the discussion at hand. If you haven't been exposed to them before, the idea is to randomly distribute a number of particles (or agents, if you prefer) across a search space and have the particles collaboratively search for an optimal solution.
The search space I'll use here is the Sombrero function. As a search space this function holds few mysteries but it does effectively demonstrate the issue of local optima.
Figure 2: The Sombrero function.
If the preceding paragraphs seem irretrievably vague, imagine a nest of ants wandering across the graph, shrouded in fog, searching for the highest point, or more typically for ants, the highest concentration of sugar. Each can sense its own altitude and can share that information. We can see that an individual ant could become stuck on the lower circular ridge. However, with a sufficiently large nest randomly but evenly scattered across the graph, the central spire would be quickly discovered. The analogy isn't entirely facetious; PSOs were inspired by animal behavior.
PSOs can be used to hunt for solutions in domains that are combinatorially much more complex than the example. The example application implements two versions of a swarm: a synchronous and an asynchronous version invoked as shown in Listing Seven(a) and (b) respectively:
Listing Seven(a): The synchronous version of the principal PSO function.
unsigned DoSyncSwarm() { std::cout << ">> " << __FUNCTION__ << std::endl; DWORD start = ::GetTickCount(); PSO::ISwarm * pSwarm = new PSO::Swarm(); DoInitSwarm(1, pSwarm); pSwarm->Run(); std::cout << "<< "<< __FUNCTION__ << " " << ::GetTickCount() - start << std::endl << std::endl; return 0; }
Listing 7(b): The async version of the principal PSO function.
unsigned DoAsyncSwarm() { std::cout << ">> " << __FUNCTION__ << std::endl; DWORD start = ::GetTickCount(); Thread::Pool pool; PSO::ISwarm *pSwarm = new PSO::AsyncSwarm(); DoInitSwarm(2, pSwarm); pSwarm->Run(); pool.Run(); std::cout << "<< "<< __FUNCTION__ << " " << ::GetTickCount() - start << std::endl << std::endl; return 0; }
On the surface, differences between the routines are minor.
DoAsyncSwarm creates a thread pool, and an
AsycSwarm instance; then, after setting up and starting the swarm, it runs the pool which returns when all particles have run to completion.
The synchronous form is useful for coming to grips with the working of the swarm, if it's not familiar, without getting tangled in the asynchronous implementation. It's also a useful reality check to determine whether our performance has really improved.
The naive approach to this problem that is, the one I tried first is to simply return particles to the input queue between each step. Similar to the aforementioned trivial example, the overhead of doing this meant that the asynchronous version was consistently slower.
My next approach was to run each particle to completion but this overlooked a subtlety of the way PSOs work. Each particle can have global influence by updating the best fitness and position values for the entire swarm. Running a couple of particles to completion before any others defeated the purpose of the swarm in the first place. In the end, I settled on creating an asynchronous helper class that could be assigned a number of particles from the parent swarm. I went with a simple round robin particle distribution across a collection of helpers, each of which is then queued. A randomized distribution may be a better approach in a production system, but I haven't tested that idea as yet.
I mention the evolution of the example to make the point that even with plumbing taken care of, we don't escape the need to think carefully about how we structure our application code.
A test on an Intel Core Duo 1.58 GHz machine with a run of 200 particles each stepping through 1000 iterations sees improvements ranging from 25%–75% using the asynchronous version. Occasionally, the asynchronous version will take the same amount of time or even longer. Bear in mind that the system is also servicing every other thread on the system as well and from time to time the thread pool in the app will just miss out.
Running in the IDE, you will regularly see
DoAsyncSwarm coming in behind
DoSyncSwarm. This is the Heisenberg effect at work caused by the overhead of the IDE keeping track of the internal state of your program including threads. And the IDE itself has its own collection of threads to deal with. It's not too surprising that the timings are different. When you make a change, test your code in release mode to get a clear idea of the difference it will make.
I have used this architecture successfully in several of systems including: a mine scheduling system, a video camera sharing system in a facial image capture and recognition system, a package management system, and now a particle swarm optimization. While lunch may no longer be free, it can still be had at a quite reasonable price.
The complete source code for the example can be downloaded here.
John Revill has more than 20 years' experience programming. He currently helps Queensland University of Technology in Australia move technology from the lab to the marketplace.