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and check out what I'll be serving for Valentine's Day! It's ooey, it's gooey and it's oh so decadent!
Read more about this recipe and how Bama Boy broke the Cardinal "Husband of a Blogger" Rule over at At The Picket Fence!
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Well our new blog launch of At The Picket Fence
has been a success and so much fun!
We've had a week of giveaways and there's still time to enter!
You can enter for one, two...or all five of the prizes!
The Adopt Shoppe Necklace Giveaway
Magazine Subscription Giveaway
and today's giveaway
We've also featured some great recipes, guest posters and Valentine crafts!
Today you can also link up to
where if it inspires you than we want to hear about it!
I want to say a big thanks to any of my Gourmet Meals for Less followers that have friended us At The Picket Fence and for supporting us over there. We are very excited to see what this new venture together has in store for us.
We also can be found at our Facebook Page and on Twitter!
Hope to see you often...at the fence!
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I am so excited to announce the birth of a new blog!
My sister Vanessa, at Southern In My Heart, and I are starting out on a brand new blogging adventure. We want to invite you to meet up with us
You will still find great recipes, but so much more as well!
We want to go "beyond the blog" and create a community for women to connect with one another. A virtual picket fence!
I invite you to take a sneak peek tonight before our big launch tomorrow!
If you like what you see we'd sure love you to grab our launch party button over
and place it on your blog!
We will be celebrating all week with great content, guest posts and a week of giveaways!
You can also find At the Picket Fence on
Twitter: @meetuatthefence
Facebook: At The Picket Fence
Our New Blog Frog Community (see community page)
I will be taking a hiatus from Gourmet Meals for Less as I focus on the launch of At The Picket Fence, but don't worry you'll still find the type of recipes you've come to love at my new location!
See you...At The Picket Fence!
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Today is my girls 11th birthday. Time has moved her so quickly from this little peanut
to a lovely pre-teen. Shhh...don't tell her she's not actually a teenager yet. She really wants to be. :)
It's hard to believe a whole year has passed since we celebrated her 10th birthday with a Monkey Party. I had just started this blog and to this day this is still one of my most viewed posts. I think it is because of this:
The Monkey Cake I made. This is a popular search apparently. It is Martha Stewart's famous monkey cake, and is one of my favorite cakes I've made. I'm all about a themed party. I'm so glad the girl still lets me have them for her. For instance we had so much fun making these party favors to match.
That was a fun birthday.
And you can read more about it here, including directions on how to make the monkey cake and the monkey favor cups: Martha Stewart and Monkey Cakes
This year will be no exception. We have another themed birthday party in the works. Of course this one was a little more difficult to pull off and stretched my creativity. It's always a hard thing when you are challenged to combine aliens, monsters and robots. For a girls birthday party. And are told they must be cute aliens, monsters and robots. I will be sharing our party plans in an upcoming post. It will be an "out of this world" post! grin!
Speaking of birthdays. We have another birthday of sorts coming up. It's the birth of an exciting new venture between my sister, Vanessa at Southern In My Heart, and myself.
We decided to take the saying "two heads are better than one" seriously around here! There has been a lot of behind the scenes activity as we work to launch our new project. We hope you'll agree with us when we unveil our latest blogging endeavour. I'll give you a sneak peek...
We desire to move "beyond the blogging" to formulate lasting relationships between woman in the blogging community. We want to provide a place where women can share, care and inspire one another. So stay tuned for more updates and watch for our launch information! I hope you will join my sister and me in this new adventure. There will still be great recipes available...but also so much more!
Can't wait to....meet you there!
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"So who would write her favorite blog?" you ask. Well my sister of course! I wrote a post about a special little bean plant a few months back, and even though it had nothing to do with recipes or cooking it has turned into one of my most viewed posts. My sweet sister (say that three times fast) asked if she could share it with her readers over at
of course I said yes! So if you need a little inspiration this morning and a special reminder of how you can be fruitful wherever you are in your life regardless of the circumstances head on over to Southern In My Heart and read about a little bean plant who bloomed right where it was planted!
While you're there take a peek at the other wonderful ideas and inspirations you can find at Southern In My Heart. Do you like what you see?? I hope so because the two of us have some exciting things in store! We have always believed in the saying "two heads are better than one" and we are cooking up some ideas to put that into practice. Stay tuned!
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Okay so maybe not actually upside down, but I definitely turned the classic pineapple upside down cake on it's proverbial head. I saw this great idea on a recipe website while I was researching classic 1920's desserts and being someone who always likes to liven things up and try something new, I of course had to give this idea a go.
This my dear readers is a two layered round upside down cake.
Gasp I know...the audacity! I can hear all of those 1920 housewives whispering about me right now...
"she couldn't just be happy with our plain one layered square cake she HAD to go and change it all up. It's just like her you know...she bobbed her hair too. And wears short dresses. with fringe."
...er uh okay forgot I wasn't ACTUALLY in 1920.
Many people don't know that the Pineapple Upside Down Cake first hit the scene in the 20's with the invention of...you guessed it canned pineapple! All those housewives in the midwest who'd probably never even seen a pineapple let alone eaten one, were all of a sudden expected to come up with something to make with it. So what else are you going to do if you're a 1920's midwest housewife... bake a cake of course! The Pineapple Upside Down Cake was a huge hit and it's been with us in some variation ever since. So here's my take on it. Hope you like it!
Two Layered Pineapple Upside Down Cake-adapted from Betty Crocker
1/4 cup butter or margarine
2/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 14 oz. can pineapple slices, drained reserving juice
1 jar maraschino cherries without stems
2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups granulated sugar
1 stick of butter, softened to room temperature
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 ½ cup milk
2 eggs
3 Tbs. reserved pineapple juice
Heat oven to 350°F. Divide 1/4 cup butter between two 9" round cake pans, place in oven and allow butter to melt. Remove pans from and divide and sprinkle brown sugar evenly between pans over melted butter. Slice pineapple rings in half to fit around edge of pan as shown in picture on top of brown sugar mixture.
Place remaining whole pineapple slices in middle of pan. Place cherry in center of each pineapple slice.
In medium bowl, beat remaining ingredients with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds, scraping bowl constantly. Beat on high speed 3 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Divide batter between cake pans and pour batter over pineapple and cherries.
Bake 45-50 minutes or until cake tester or toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Immediately place heatproof serving plate upside down over pan; turn plate and pan over. Leave pan over cake a few minutes so brown sugar mixture can drizzle over cake; remove pan.
Loosen edges of cake in second pan by running a knife carefully along edge. With the aid of an offset spatula (or any wide long handled spatula) quickly but gently flip second cake over bracing with spatula and place on top of first cake. Make sure second layer is centered before removing spatula. Allow cake pan to rest for a minute or two on top of cake so that the brown sugar mixture can drizzle onto cake.
Allow cake to cool...if you can..grin...before serving. Slice...
P.S. So now do you wanna know why I was researching classic 1920 dessert recipes?? Well for our New Years Eve Gangster and Flapper Murder Mystery Dinner that's why! grin! Post on this awesome night coming soon!
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So I know most of us over indulged in sweets and sugar over the holidays. At least I know I did and my jeans are not thanking me for it.
"I'm sorry top button of my favorite jeans, I will try and be better next year...maybe. No promises."
This weekend though, I decided to make one of our family favorites for our poker night with friends. I had ingredients still in the pantry from all of the holiday baking, and once again I was reminded that we don't have to save our special "holiday goodies" just for...well the holidays. If it's good enough for Christmas than it's good enough the whole year round right??
This family favorite is the tried and true "Magic Bar" from Eagle Brand. It vanishes everytime I make it...in fact this batch even had a piece stolen from it before it had cooled. This person shall who's name starts with an "R" remain annonymous. grin.
I am on a real sweet/salty kick and thought why not try this combination on Magic Bars. Can we say...oh my! Adding just a little coarse salt to the graham cracker crust really took these cookies up a notch! You don't have to do this of course, but I promise if you do you'll love them even more!
Magic Bars-Eagle Brand
Makes approximately 2 dozen bars depending on how you cut them.
Non-stick cooking spray
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 1/2 tsp. coarse salt (optional)
1 (14 oz.) can sweetened condensed milk
2 cups (12 oz. pkg.) semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup flaked coconut
1 cup chopped nuts (I usually use pecans)
HEAT oven to 350°F. Spray 13 x 9-inch baking pan with no-stick cooking spray. I like to line mine with parchment paper so I can pull them out and make nice even squares.
COMBINE graham cracker crumbs and butter in small bowl. Add in coarse salt to mixture if desired and combine thoroughly. Press into bottom of prepared pan. Pour sweetened condensed milk evenly over crumb mixture. Layer evenly with chocolate chips, coconut and nuts. Press down firmly with fork.
BAKE 25 to 30 minutes or until lightly browned. Loosen from sides of pan while still warm; cool on wire rack. Cut into bars or diamonds.
For perfectly cut cookie bars, line entire pan with foil, extending foil over edge of pan. Coat lightly with no-stick cooking spray. After bars have baked and cooled, lift up with edges of foil to remove from pan. Cut into individual bars.
Options: Here's where you can have fun with Magic Bars. You can mix up or take away ingredients depending on your preferences. I have used both semi-sweet and milk chocolate chips. I have added white chocolate chips. I have omitted coconut on occasion and they are still just as good. You can be creative with these or use whatever you have on hand. They are still good no matter what toppings you use!
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Living in a rural community has it's advantages...but it also has it's disadvantages. One of them is the lack of grocery stores. Up until two years ago all we had a Wally-World ten miles from us. Then we had a Kroger Marketplace come onto the scene 10 minutes away. There was much rejoicing in our small county when they held their grand opening. Starbucks. Sushi. Does it get much better?
But still, it doesn't have quite...everything. You know those items that foodies like to have access to. Weird things. Unusual things. So I was so excited when I discovered that one of the largest international grocery stores in the world existed less than an hour away.
You may have even heard of it before. The story behind this store personifies the American Dream. An individual starting out with nothing and through hard work and perseverience creating something unique and remarkable.
That individual is Jim Bonaminio and he took a simple road side stand and turned it into a a 300,000-square-foot food emporium. You can read more about Jungle Jim's on their website.
I was so excited to get to take my parents up to Jungle Jim's when there were visiting us over the holidays. Jungle Jim's is just one of those places you've got to see to believe. For example
This is the exterior of Jungle Jim's. I bet your local grocery store doesn't have a zoo outside of it, jungle sounds and all. When you enter Jungle Jim's you are greated by objects like this
He's certainly not a happy ear of corn. Maybe it's because he's worried that the person that left these might return soon
Yep not quite sure what the ear of corn and Dorothy's red slippers stuffed with the witch's stockings have to do with each other, but it is Jungle Jim's after all. Oh and in case you come in looking for something as simple as a regular ole' can of Campbell's Soup, you won't have to look too far.
Yep their located right under the ginormous can of soup swinging from the rafters.
As I'm sure you've realized by now..Jim has quite the sense of humor. For instance this is where you can purchase by the pound any olive imaginable. At the Olive Pit.
Olive Pit...get it....olive pit. heh. That Jim's a funny guy. Oh and if it's some cheese you're looking for than you will not be disappointed. Imagine bringing this baby home with you.
Or better yet...how about this block of cheese...
Yes my friends you are looking at a 765 pound block of cheese! Pretty impressive huh?
Now before I explain the next picture, I just want you to get a look at it first.
My dear reader..that is a porta john. But this isn't any ordinary porta john. Because behind this door lies a full restroom. Now I know your disappointed not to get to see the real restroom...but I thought I might creep people out taking pictures in there. There might even be some law against it so I wanted to play it safe. But these "infamous" restrooms were the reason that Jungle Jim's did not allow photography in the store for many years. However, once the store was featured on several television shows, Jim decided that since the world knew about his porta john restrooms it was okay for visitors to photograph in the store now. Luck for me and my blog. smile. It's worth a visit to Jungle Jim's alone to watch people try and figure out how to use these. grin.
One of the first areas you come to when touring Jungle Jim's is the wine. It's really hard to do the wine section justice. There are just so many varieties available. Everything you can imagine from the affordable...
To the private wine lockers...yep. I want one. Okay so not really but it would be fun to say you had one. I mean would they really know I was only locking up a $10 bottle of Barefoot??
But of course if you have a special event planned than Jungle Jim's has the wine for you. Actually several selections are available.
So which one would you choose? The $800 bottle or the $5000 bottle? Hmmm...personally I think I'm going for this one....
Betcha never thought you'd see a $5000 bottle of wine on Gourmet Meals for Less. grin. Okay so technically it's $4999.99...do you think leaving that extra penny off makes someone feel like their getting a bargain? Of course once you've purchased your $5000 bottle of wine you need something to carry it home in. Jungle Jim's provides the perfect thing.
Yep. That would be a wine diaper. Now I get the concept and all. But diaper and wine are just not two words I think of putting together. A little strange if you ask me.
Now moving on to my husbands favorite part of the store.
I'm not sure if he likes it best because it's full of fancy expensive cigars, or because the kids aren't allowed to go in there thus giving him about 10 minutes alone to contemplate purchasing above mentioned fancy expensive cigars. Of course I've told him if he gets a fancy expensive cigar than I get the $5000 bottle of wine. So far it's a standoff.
As we leave the wine and cigar section of the store we move into the girl's favorite location.
Yes that is a Santa Lion Elvis...and yes it's located in the candy of course.
And if you happened to be looking for organic Amish products than you need not look any further than the horse and buggy located above your head.
Now personally all I could see was the baby peeking out of the buggy, I'm going to assume though since Jim is a most consciences proprieter that he has placed the mother in there as well.
One of the most popular sections in Jungle Jim's is the seafood. Living in the middle of the country, good fresh seafood can be hard to find.
They have every type of seafood you can imagine. Alive...
....or dead...if you need it you can find it at Jungle Jim's.
You can tell my kiddos are foodies...because they get so excited when we enter the produce section at Jungle Jim's.
They consider it a special treat to get to pick a few unusual items to bring home and try. Gosh I love them. How many kids get giddy over picking out fruits and veggies...especially weird ones. The girl was so excited to shop with Nonna.
I on the other hand was fascinated with all of the tucked away items. It was like a treasure hunt of food. For example these adorable little quail eggs.
Of course, many of Jungle Jim's regular customers travel here for the International Foods. People from all over the world come here to find familiar items from home. It's so fun to hear all of the different languages being spoken. To see what people are purchasing. I love to try and guess what they are going to be making.
Down these aisles you can find candy and treats from Japan.
Or you could be looking for this
The party size of Red Beans Azuki flavored ice cream. Seriously, isn't that at the top of your grocery list??
Or for all of those international cajuns we get up here in the greater Cincinnati area how about every type of hot sauce ever made.
And lest you think I jest about every type of hot sauce made. I mean every. type. made.
Yep. That's a $5000 bottle of hot sauce to go with your $5000 bottle of wine. Can't make this up folks.
The boy was eyeing that bottle of $5000 hot sauce. I saw him. I said no sir you pick a less expensive bottle of hot sauce. Stick with a cheap one...say under a $100. Yep, gotta stick to that whole gourmet for less thing I got going.
One of the cutest spots in the store has to be the honey section.
I just love bumble bees. When their fluffy and cute and not real and not stinging me.
Now if you happen to be looking for the English foods and by english I do not mean American. I mean British. You might have a hard time finding it.
Of course you could always just look for Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men. I'm sure he would point you in the right direction.
At Jungle Jim's no country is left out. Big or small they get a place to call their own. This is what I like to call "The Row of Nations" They are all existing in peace and harmony here at Jungle Jim's.
And of course since this is a food blog. I could not leave without giving you a glimpse of the cooking school. They offer culinary courses in everything imaginable.
In all honesty though, my favorite part of the day was getting to spend time with these people.
My dad and mom. Who I hadn't seen for 8 months. My dad is an incredible cook, so it was so much fun to take him up to Jungle Jim's. I think they really enjoyed it. Of course most of that enjoyment was just getting to be together.
No matter where it is. smile. Thanks Jungle Jim's for a fun family adventure!
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Wow! I can't believe I actually stuck with something for a year!
Well, let me back up. I do stick with things. For example my relationship with Christ...28 years and counting. My marriage...19 years this fall. Homeschooling...9 years and holding strong.
But, I tend to fail in the areas that are just for me. You know those areas. Exercise, routine doctors appointments, skincare, diet...the list goes on. I was so afraid blogging would fall into this category. Another thing that I do just for me that I let fall by the wayside.
Instead it's become something I really, really enjoy. Of course like all things it can feel tedious occasionally. Often it calls to me at inopportune times. Like when I need to be grading papers, or cooking dinner or setting aside time alone with my husband. But overall it has been a great experience. I have been able to dust off my rusty writing skills. It has kept me committed to cooking at home, frugally. But best of all it has introduced me to a new passion...photography. I never knew how much I would like photographing the food! I believe my skills have improved greatly over the last year and just in case you need proof:
Here's a picture from my first blog post.
And you know what. I am not ashamed of this picture. It reminds me of where I started. It's all I knew at the time. It reminds me that in my life I can always strive to improve. That if I'm willing to invest in learning, if I keep practicing and if I can learn from my mistakes I can improve. And learn to take pictures like this:
and this:
And there's still so much to learn! I obviously love cooking...this is a food blog. But I have discovered how much I love photography, and writing, and contemplating about living life. There is so much more I want to share about me, about my life, about my family and about my faith. Writing this blog has helped me discover that. It has been as the title of those now famous books so aptly puts it..."Chicken Soup for the Soul".
So thank you for following me this last year. Some of you have been with me from day one. I am pondering what this next year will look like for Gourmet Meals for Less. I see some changes in it's future. But whichever direction I proceed in, I will continue to share great recipes with you.
In fact, here's a perfect one for today's musings and to help you recover from the rich holiday diet we've all been indulging in.
Arlene's Chicken Noodle Soup-courtesy of my mom-in-law
Makes 4 quarts
4 cups cooked chicken, diced
1 cup celery, chopped
1 cup onion, diced
1/4 cup butter or margarine
12 cups water
1 cup carrots, diced
3 Tbs. instant chicken bouillon
1/2 tsp. marjoram leaves
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. cracked black pepper
2 bay leaves
1/2 (12 oz.) package of wide noodles
1 tsp. chopped parsley
Heat butter in a large dutch oven. Saute celery and onion in butter until tender. Add in chicken, herbs (not bay leaves), salt and pepper. Saute an additional 5 minutes. Add remaining ingredients except noodles and parsley. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and allow to simmer for 30 minutes. Remove bay leave. Add noodles and parsley. Cook approximately 10 minutes until noodles are al-dente.
This is a great recipe to divide and freeze. If you decide to freeze half of the soup. Remove half of stock before adding in noodles. Place in freezer bag. Then add in a 1/4 of the bag of noodles to the stock you will be eating. When ready to eat other half. Thaw in fridge, re-heat and then add in a 1/4 of noodles. This will prevent your noodles from becoming mushy when frozen and will make your soup taste fresher.
2011. Can't wait to see what it holds for me. As a wife. As a mom. As a woman. And as a blogger! Happy New Year!
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Letcher, S.G., and Chazdon, R.L. (in press) Rapid recovery of biomass, species richness, and species composition in a forest chronosequence in northeastern Costa Rica. Biotropica.
Chazdon, R.L., Letcher, S.G., van Breugel, M., Martínez-Ramos, M., Bongers, F., and Finegan, B. 2007. Rates of change in tree communities of secondary Neotropical forests following major disturbances. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 362:273-289.
Palomaki, M.B., Chazdon, R.L., Arroyo, J.P., and Letcher, S.G. 2006. Juvenile tree growth in relation to light availability in second-growth tropical rain forests. J. Trop. Ecol. 22:223-226.
Letcher, S.G. 2005. Common plant families of La Selva Biological Station. Lulu Press, Morristown, N.C. [available at http://lulu.com/barefootsisters]
Miller, D.S., Letcher, S. and Barnes, D.M. 1996. Fluorescence imaging study of organic anion transport from renal proximal tubule cell to lumen. American Journal of Physiology-Renal Fluid and Electrolyte Physiology 40: F508-F520.
Letcher, S.G. November 2008. "Forests of the future? Tropical forests and biodiversity conservation." (invited seminar) Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts.
Letcher, S.G., and Chazdon, R.L. July 2008. "La rapidez y eficacía de la regeneración natural del bosque lluvioso en la Zona Norte de Costa Rica." (poster) Las Cruces Restoration and Conservation Workshop, San Vito, Costa Rica.
Letcher, S.G. June 2008. "Phylogenetic diversity of woody plants during forest succession in northeastern Costa Rica." Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Paramaribo, Suriname.
Letcher, S.G. July 2007. "Patterns of forest succession in northeastern Costa Rica: aboveground biomass, species richness, and species composition in a chronosequence of 30 sites." Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Morelia, Mexico.
Sun, J.W.C., Rundel, P., Chazdon, R.L., and Letcher, S.G. July 2006. "Diversity and succession dynamics in understory herb communities of lowland rainforests." (poster) Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Morelia, Mexico.
Letcher, S.G. July 2006. "Stand structure and species composition of secondary forests in northeastern Costa Rica." Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Kunming, China.
Letcher, S.G. April 2006. "The ecological role of lianas in tropical forests." UCONN Latin American and Caribbean Studies Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.
Letcher, S.G. March 2006. "Species composition and structural diversity of regenerating tropical forests in northeastern Costa Rica." University of Connecticut Graduate Research Symposium, Storrs, Connecticut.
Letcher, S.G. March 2005. "Liana diversity in a forest chronosequence: preliminary data and directions for future research." Northeast Ecology and Evolution Conference, State College, Pennsylvania.
Letcher, S.G. February 2005. "Lianas and tropical forest diversity." University of Connecticut Graduate Research Symposium, Storrs, Connecticut.
Letcher, S.G. March 2004. "The effects of lianas in tropical secondary forests: directions for future study." Northeast Ecology and Evolution Conference, Storrs, Connecticut.
Teaching and Mentoring Experience
January 2009-present Resident Professor, Organization for Tropical Studies
Fall 2008 Teaching assistant, EEB 4230 (Methods of Ecology)
Summer 2007, Summer 2008 Coordinator, Research Experience for Undergraduates at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica.
Spring 2007 Teaching assistant, EEB 244W (Evolution, writing-intensive section)
Fall 2006 Volunteer, Environmental Education Program at La Selva Biological Station.
Summer 2006 Resource person, OTS Tropical Biology (06-3) and Plant Systematics (06-9) at La Selva.
Summer 2006 Mentor for two Wellesley undergraduates doing research at La Selva.
Summer 2005 Mentor for two Wellesley undergraduates at La Selva.
Winter 2004 Teaching assistant, Carleton College tropical rainforest ecology program, La Selva.
Summer 2004 Mentor for a UCONN undergraduate at La Selva.
2004 Teaching assistant, BIOL 108 and BIOL 102.
2003 Teaching assistant, EEB 293 (Methods of Field Ecology).
Other Links
See my sporadically updated blog at http://lianawoman.blogspot.com.
I am also a contributor to http://www.madsci.org. Check it out!
As of January 2009, I am working for OTS: http://www.ots.ac.cr


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Unicamp has accepted me for the graduate MSc course, starting in early march.
Finished the gimp-work and php'ing of schoolforge, already "on air". Open source in schools is good for everybody, probably there is something you can do to help it. Talk to educator about open source, write non-geek documentation, write educational software, package software (this _is_ a problem, how about visiting Debian Jr. ?).
When orange juice goes bad
Some hours before this, this guy, angelsun, mailed everybody in the mailing list (but not _to_ the mailing list, he got a subscriber list and put everybody in the to: field -- no, I don't have a copy of it, I had about 2000 emails from the xmas holiday and wasn't really sorting things to the right places) ranting about tens of people subscribing to the list and only a couple helping him with code/patches/etc.
Every now and then he decides to restart from scratch because the OO model is going "bad" (I'd link some messages, but sourceforge's archives haven't heard of a search feature). Phrases like "I'd love to incorporate black box's image code" fly by the list sometimes, as if using GPL source code from another project in your GPL project were difficult.
My patches were applied for something like 10 nanosseconds, after what he started rewriting them because "I screwed the classes" or something like that.
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Yale freshman Alwin Firmansyah shined in the 200-yard butterfly on day one in Cambridge, but the Bulldogs trail both Harvard and Princeton after Day One. The freshman's winning time in the event, 1:47.04 was nearly two seconds faster than the rest of the field.
The Elis were shut out of the top three in the 200-yard freestyle relay to start the meet, though freshman Josh Ginsborg turned in a strong, seventh-place showing in the 200-yard freestyle individual race to pace Yale.
Bulldogs took up the 8-9-10 spots in the 100-yard backstroke with freshman Mike Lazris (51.08), junior Mike Dominski (51.46) and senior Matt Boone (53.54), respectively, followed by a seventh-place race from freshman Andrew Heymann in the 100-yard breaststroke (57.23). His classmate Ronald Tsui took ninth in that race (58.41).
Heymann took another top-ten finish in the 50-yard freestle, finishing eighth in that race, two spots behind 2011 All-Ivy pick, senior Goksu Bicer (20.98). Sophmore Paschall Davis was tenth (21.31).
Lazris and Firmansyah took eighth and tenth in the 200-yard IM, followed by an impressive third-place showing from freshman Rob Harder in the 1650-yard freestyle (15:43.17). Sophomore Danny Clarke (16:32.75) took ninth in that event.
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Before this I was with Shadow Machine In Hollywood, CA as Visual Effects Supervisor on the stop-motion feature "To Hell and Back". Working in stop-motion with the responsibility for integrating traditional animation practices with digital post production and effects techniques is a role from which I gain great satisfaction. I am fortunate to have created a niche of sorts for myself in this area of specialization.
Previously I was with Obscura Digital in San Francisco directing enormous building projections. These projects are amazing in their sheer scale and incredibly fulfilling in terms of their uniqueness. Projections of such magnitude are a new film medium, and they continue my practice of focusing on things which are fresh, challenging, and full of possibilities.
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Surf Dog is my autobiographical cartoon avatar. I have a series of children's books featuring him in adventures around the world: surfdogbooks.com
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- Security researchers showed the latest phone, home and car hacks in Las Vegas
- Smartphones were hacked through chargers, malware and femtocells
- Some cameras in computers, toys and smart TVs can be secretly viewed by third parties
If something can connect to a network, it can be hacked. Computers and phones are still popular targets, but increasingly so are cars, home security systems, TVs and even oil refineries.
That was the message at this year's Black Hat and DefCon computer security conferences, which took place last week in Las Vegas. The annual conferences draw a mix of computer researchers and hackers who present the latest bugs and vulnerabilities they've discovered. It's a combination of public service, business and sport.
These are some of the more popular targets covered at this year's conferences. By drawing attention to them, the "white-hat" hackers hope to encourage greater security from the various manufacturers and industries, and more vigilance from consumers.
Typically, the presenters inform manufacturers of bugs ahead of their talks so the companies can fix the issues before they are exploited by criminals.
Remote-controlled cars
Someone hacking your computer can be an inconvenience. Someone hacking your car can be deadly.
A pair of presentations on hacking cars kicked off the DefCon conference on Friday. Australian hacker Zoz outlined the security issues fully autonomous cars will face and said car-hacking is inevitable.
Autonomous vehicles like cars and drones are essentially robots, and they rely on sensors to operate. He said a hacker could theoretically take complete control of a car over wireless networks or trick its various sensors into feeding a motorist false information about location, speed and the proximity of other cars or objects.
Fully driverless cars are still a few years away, but computerized systems are common in vehicles on the road today. Electronic control units can control a range of car functions, including braking, accelerating and steering. They manage security features, in-car displays and even seat belts.
Researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, funded by a grant from the U.S. military's DARPA, looked into what kind of damage hackers could do to a car by taking control of a Toyota Prius and a Ford Escape.
To access the systems, they had to physically connect a computer to the cars through a diagnostics port. They wrote custom software that let them hijack the cars' systems.
Once in control, they disabled brakes, changed the display to show incorrect speed or gas levels, and messed with the steering and seat belts. They were able to kill the engine and toy with with less consequential features like the car's horn and lights.
Toyota played down the wired demonstration and said it is focusing on security measures to prevent wireless attacks.
Compromising smartphones
Attacks on personal computers used to be the bread and butter of cybercriminals, spawning a lucrative industry of black-market malware and the anti-virus programs that fight them.
The next big target is smartphones. Mobile devices are not impervious to attacks, even though walled-off app stores have kept much of the malware at bay.
Kevin McNamee demonstrated how a piece of malware could turn an Android smartphone into a "spy phone" that remotely monitors its owner, sending information on the location, communications and content, like photos, back to a third party.
The hack isn't new, but McNamee managed to inject the malicious code into popular apps like "Angry Birds." Once it was installed, the user would have no idea that their phone was acting as a remote surveillance device.
Verizon "femtocells" -- small boxes used to extend cell service -- were hacked by security researchers at iSEC Partners to intercept calls and any other data sent over cellular networks like texts, images and browsing history. The wireless carrier issued a fix for all its femtocells, but researchers say other networks could still have the same issue.
With $45 in hardware, researchers Billy Lau, Yeongjin Jang and Chengyu Song turned an innocent-looking iPhone charger into a tool for gathering information such as passcodes, e-mails and other communications, and location data directly from the smartphone. Apple thanked the researchers and said it is deploying a fix for the bug in its iOS 7 software update, which comes out this year.
The too-smart home
Thanks to cheap, low-power sensors, anything in your house can become a "smart" device, helpfully connecting to the Internet so you can control it from a computer or smartphone. Smart home security devices have the potential to cause the most damage if hacked, and two separate demonstrations showed how to break in by opening "smart" front-door locks.
Another unsettling trend at the conferences was spying on unwitting people through their own cameras. Home security cameras could be disabled by someone who wanted to break in, or they could be turned into remote surveillance devices. One researcher showed how she easily took over the camera stream on a child's toy from a computer.
Researchers Aaron Grattafiori and Josh Yavor found bugs in the 2012 model of the Samsung Smart TV that allowed them to turn on and watch video from the set's camera. Samsung said it had released a software update to fix the issue. (Many security experts suggest placing a piece of tape over any cameras you don't want surreptitiously watching you, just to be safe.)
Hackers get personal
Even in the wake of this year's NSA revelations, a homemade surveillance device that sniffs out pieces of data from your various computing devices, even when they're not online, is disturbing.
Brendan O'Connor, who runs a security firm and is finishing a law degree, has created such a device, dubbed CreepyDOL (DOL stands for Distributed Object Locator; "Creepy" is self-explanatory). The device cost $57 to make and consists of a Raspberry Pi computer, a USB hub, two WiFi connections, an SD card and USB power inside an nondescript black case.
Computers and phones act as tracking devices and leak information constantly, according to O'Connor. When plugged in, CreepyDOL detects nearby phones and computers and uses them to track people's location and patterns, figuring out who they are, where they go and what they do online.
To demonstrate the device without breaking any laws, O'Connor showed his own information as sniffed out by one of the devices. Using a gaming engine and Open Street Maps, he hovered over his dot on a map. It brought up his name, e-mail address, a photo, the dating website he used, details about his devices and the locations he visited in town.
In a worst-case scenario, as imagined by O'Connor, a miscreant could plug in one of the devices under any Starbucks near a capital building to pick up the scent of a state senator and wait for them to do something compromising.
"You find somebody with power and exploit them," said O'Connor.
The creation is remarkable for how simple it is. It's likely others have similar knowledge and setups that exploit the same security flaws in applications, websites, devices and networks.
Industrial facilities
The most frightening targets highlighted at the conference were the opposite of personal.
Critical infrastructure such as oil and gas pipelines or water treatment plants are potential targets for hackers. Many industries are controlled with supervisory control and data acquisition, or SCADA, systems.
The systems are older, installed at a time when people weren't concerned about cyberattacks, and connect to the Internet over an unsecured network protocol.
The reason the systems are online in the first place is so that they're easier to monitor. Some, like oil pipelines, are often in remote locations.
Multiple demonstrations at the conferences showed just how simple it is to hack energy systems.
Researchers Brian Meixell and Eric Forner staged a mock hack of an oil well using pumps and a liquid container filled with teal liquid. They got into the system, turned the pumps on and off and overflowed the containers by feeding the system false data. If it happened on an actual oil well, the hack could result in an environmental catastrophe, according to the researchers.
It's possible to shut down an entire industrial facility from 40 miles away using a radio transmitter, according to researchers Carlos Penagos and Lucas Apa. They demonstrated injecting fake measurements, causing the device that received them to behave differently. For example, someone could trigger a water tank to overflow by faking an abnormally high temperature.
The industries and U.S. government are aware that industrial systems are vulnerable, but their remoteness and age make upgrading difficult and expensive. There is no built-in system for releasing software patches, like there is with personal computers.


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Sir Gyro de Gearloose") or Scrooge's limousine traveling through Duckburg ("Down and Out in Duckburg") come across as relatively lively. I guess that Launchpad trying to escape the Lost World with the Booby Bird ("Dinosaur Ducks") would be a close rival to "GICU2 Meets All Quiet on the Western Front," but not a terribly close one.
Living up to this initial promise, "Full Metal Duck" never seems draggy, despite essentially being "Super DuckTales"' equivalent of "Bubba Trubba," an episode that is supposed to get us comfortable with the existence of a new figure in Duckburg. What "Trubba," with its hollow core of aimless "Bubba causes trubba" gag sequences, got wrong, "Metal" gets right. Before the Beagles use brainy brother Megabyte's remote-control device to gain sway over the Gizmosuit, we see just enough of Gizmoduck in action -- both in casual and in more "formal" battle settings -- to leave us wanting more. We also see Fenton Crackshell, bereft of the lost instruction manual -- yet another "small detail" in a DT ep the working-out of which has immense ramifications -- "learn by doing" in his efforts to gain more knowledge about the supersuit. As a result, despite being relatively plotless (a scenario which led to some fairly substantial chunks of footage being deleted for the Magical World of Disney broadcast), the episode never comes across as simple filler.
Greg is just one of a number of folks who have expressed the opinion that they find Fenton to be a much more sympathetic character than Drake Mallard. I agree with them, and I would also argue that the advantage is "certified" in this very episode. In the previous two installments, we were quickly filled in on Fenton's hyper, go-getting nature and some of the demons that drive him, but it has to be admitted that he brought a lot of his troubles on himself: dumping Scrooge's cash in the lake, falling for various Beagle Boy ruses, accidentally causing the dam to be destroyed, and bungling through all those efforts to regain the Old #1 Dime. In "Metal," by contrast, Fenton doesn't sin (by either omission or commission) so much as he is sinned against (not to mention skinned up). We start, of course, with Gizmoduck getting beaten to an iron-plated pulp by the GICU2:
GeoX correctly notes, raises all sorts of intriguing questions regarding the double-dipping Fenton's prioritization of his McDuck Enterprises-related duties. The series used the "Fenton has to be two individuals at once" trope to complicate Fenton/Gizmo's love life in "Metal Attraction" but never did explore the idea in a strictly "business-related" context. The creators did, however, seem to come to an unspoken conclusion that the character of Fenton took precedence over that of Gizmoduck. In only one post-"SDT" episode ("The Unbreakable Bin") did Fenton appear primarily in the guise of Gizmoduck. He made several brief appearances there without the suit, but the vast majority of the time, he was in uniform. Most other future Fenton/Gizmo eps involved Fenton in the story first, bringing in Gizmoduck later as needed. This had the advantage of grounding Fenton more firmly as a "real character" with problems and crises to which the audience could relate. Drake Mallard, by contrast, never came across as "his own Duck" as much as he did Darkwing Duck in civilian dress, with all the famed stubbornness and waffle-brainedness of his caped alter ego. As for Fenton/Gizmo's priorities from Scrooge's perspective, my guess is that Scrooge probably ultimately decided to retain a number of his regular security guards and called upon Gizmoduck to assume primary guard duties only when a serious imminent threat (such as a raid by the newly-freed Beagle Boys) presented itself. It would be just like Scrooge to have such backup security plans; how else would you explain those famed "overkill traps" inside the Money Bin?
Gizmo's reaction to Scrooge's job offer, and his later reaction to HD&L's formation of the Gizmoduck Fan Club, display a certain sense of humor and perspective that Darkwing Duck rarely evinced, even on his more selfless days. He lets the flags and rockets do (most of) the talking for him when accepting Scrooge's offer...
Hamilton Camp's skill at delivering the lines, but the writing itself bespeaks a lighter touch than would typically be used for either Drake or Darkwing.
Courage of the Cosmos, their excitement at discovering that Scrooge has become "The Masked Mallard," and their canonical enjoyment of the comic books starring Super Snooper, they do seem to have something of a weak spot for costumed crusaders. It makes one wonder what they thought of "The Webbed Wonder" during the latter's crime-spree; did it affect their attitude towards costumed heroes, and, if so, then for how long? Based on the available evidence, the effects must have been rather short-lived, as the boys essayed the long-underwear bit themselves (albeit only briefly) after Scrooge retired "The Masked Mallard" for good. ("T-Squad"? Never heard of such a thing, sorry. The particular memory cells in charge of that reminiscence must have been scrambled when I had my unfortunate accident last Fall. Ducks? "Scrambled"? See what I did there??... Um, let's move on.)
Money to Burn" -- were all those re-dos intended to be a running gag of sorts?), and, in all of them, Mrs. C.'s reactions are pretty much interchangeable. The only truly meaningful "actions" that she performs in any of them are her accidental discovery of the "secret word" that activates the Gizmosuit and her equally fortuitous use of the remote to set Fenton free. The latter leads to the frankly depressing line, "Too bad your father didn't see this -- he thought I was worthless!" For the NBC broadcast, this was changed to "I'm not the only thing that falls apart around here!". On the surface, this seems like less harsh of a line, but it also seems somewhat less believable coming from Mrs. Crackshell. Unknowingly pointing up the emptiness of her existence by ridiculing the words of her ex-husband seems like the sort of thing a completely self-absorbed character would say, at least at this point in her development.
Frozen Assets," taking advantage of Burger's food-philia to lay the Beagles low. Darkwing Duck's "learning curves" should have been this shallow.
Frank Welker's vocal performance (and is a nice echo of the cocksure demeanor of Bomber Beagle in "Top Duck"). To be sure, Mega isn't the most ingenious bit of cast-building DuckTales ever produced, but he's a lot more memorable than Vic Lockman's "specialty Beagle" Intellectual-176, whose name always reminded me of an interstate highway spur route.
(GeoX) Fenton's mother seems to be emerging as a rather delightful character. Her saturnine line delivery is comic gold (her only response to her son showing up in his new outfit: "Fenton--did you join a heavy metal band?" a line that works pretty much entirely because of how she says it...
Oh, I have no complaints with Kathleen Freeman's performance here. I think that Mrs. C. still has a little ways to go before acquiring enough of a patina of likability to be described as "delightful," however.
(GeoX) "You wouldna torture innocent people!" "Oh yeah? We'll make 'em listen to bagpipe music!" "Oh, this is worse than the terrorists who held the city attorney hostage with an accordion!" Seriously, the only people who think bagpipe and accordion music is automatically bad are either completely tone-deaf or lazy hacks who don't know anything about either instrument but are eager to pile on for the sake of dumb jokes because they have the vague sense that it's the "cool" thing to do.
I happen to be "subjected" to bagpipe music on a fairly regular basis. One of the music professors at Stevenson plays the instrument and always "pipes us in" when the faculty and students process at the Opening Convocation. I can attest to the fact that bagpipe music isn't that terrible. The bagpipe and the accordion have been the butts of musical humor for so long, though, that I think you are fighting a losing battle.
(GeoX) Brief, non-speaking appearance by Doofus. I hadn't even noticed his recent absence, which gives you an accurate picture of how much I'm into the character.
And he doesn't even get addressed by name; Dewey calls him "Super Buns"! I suspect that someone (Ken Koonce and David Weimers?) was getting what they considered to be "even" with a character who had already been condemned to be phased-out. Doofus did have his moments as a character and certainly deserved a more dignified sendoff than this.
You know what's funnier than anything else in these scenes? The decorations in Fenton's room. The clown poster behind the door seems an unusually whimsical touch for a go-getter who's determined to break into the business world...
I don't see the infamous skunk in there, do you? Poor little guy... he would be brought in during "Money to Burn" just to be given the "privilege" of running away to what one would presume to be certain doom.
I know that this scene isn't TECHNICALLY the last appearance for some of these guys -- their appearance on the TV monitors in "The Good Muddahs" is still to come, and there's also the scene in "The Billionaire Beagle Boys' Club" in which some of them serve as Scrooge's "hanging jury" -- but I have always regarded it as writing a final chapter, of sorts, to the DuckTales Beagle Boys saga. How often did they all get together in this manner, anyway?
Actually, these clips are:
- (Channel 7) A snippet of a Vin Scully broadcast of a Dodger game (which would make some sense, seeing as how "Sport Goofy in Soccermania" previously used Chick Hearn and Scully is even better known as a broadcaster);
- (Channel 8) Jimmy Stewart speaking a line from It's a Wonderful Life (1946) (you know Koonce and Weimers and their love of the classics!);
- ("PBS") Some kind of speech, or conference, or something similar by Richard Nixon. (I'm the least sure of this one, but, from what I could make of it, it sure as heck sounded like Nixon's voice. Given K&W's penchant for taking pokes at the likes of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, plus the use of "Miss Woods" as the name of the evil HD&L's secretary in "Duck to the Future," why wouldn't they do something like this?)


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bada wrote:Chum wrote:bada wrote:It is not my problem if people feel personally attacked if I think their suggestion is idiotic. This is a discussion board and by nature people are going to disagree.
I can think your opinion is stupid, but that does not mean I think YOU are stupid. They are two different things and if people cant separate that or have thin skin, I can't help that.
That's idiotic.
Not sure how we continue a discussion board if we are not allowed to STRONGLY disagree with someones opinion. If in my opinion something is absurd, then I will say that. Again, has no bearing on the way I personally feel about someone as most of you I have never met and know nothing about what kind of people you are.
People need to get thicker skins... I mean if you put an opinion for the "public" to see, then you have to expect some people are going to have strong reactions.
migya is a GREAT example. I mean I have really gone after his opinion... probably too harshly and perhaps I have crossed the line with him from time to time... but he never resorts to peronal attacks and instead just tires to clarify and explain his position. I give migya a lot of respect.
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Packages went out YESTERDAY! :o)
from Brandy -- Those monsters are hilarious, and I love those cute ants!
from Christina -- Of course I love the kitties, and I haven't seen those really great soccer balls before
Where did you find that pirate ship? I love him!
Anxious to see what everyone does with their prints. Cute fabric.
i LOVE your cherries and christmas tree lights-Sadie will love them too!
Wow....such cute stuff! I can't wait to see what I've got. Thanks again for hosting!
Thank you so much for hosting this great swap and I thank you for taking up the slack, too. If I do this again, I hope you will ask for help if you have another NO SHOW.
What a fantastic idea, I desperately want to be part of it next time you do this although I can imagine it won't be for a while as presumably it's a LOT of organisation time on your side.
Great blog though - so inspiring!
What a fantastic swap. I have been collecting i-spy quilt fabric by myself. Well, it takes sometime when you do it alone! If you ever do another swap, I would love to partake.
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Martina McBride Shares the Secret to Her Successful Marriage
Martina McBride and her husband John have been married for nearly 24 years. That's an eternity in this day and age, as recent stats indicate that nearly one out of every two marriages routinely ends in divorce. McBride shared the secret to her successful, two-decade marriage, revealing that it's the small things that count.
Sure, weathering those major storms is crucial, as is loving your partner through the hardest of times, to paraphrase McBride's latest Top 10 single, 'I'm Gonna Love You Through It.' But key to a marriage's survival is the day in and day out communication and support. Being a responsive and caring partner even when it comes to routine, rote and mundane tasks is mission critical.
"Specifically, I think it's just being a great partner, you know, and seeing what your partner needs and doing it for them," McBride said about her recipe for marital success, courtesy of her label, Republic Nashville.
She continued, "For me, just the fact that John will call me up to ask me if there's anything I need on the way home from work at the grocery store. Or he'll go to the grocery store when it's the last thing I want to do, you know, or something like that. And he's always cheerful about it. And that's a gift in itself." No wonder the man is a keeper.
McBride and her hubby will celebrate their 24th wedding anniversary on May 15. Happy early anniversary to the happy couple.


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In Japan, we say Tomato helps our skin to stay young. My mother and sister eats Tomato everyday with thire meal.
I had this Tomato miso soup in Italy when I visited my friend.
Funny enough it was so tasty. Miso and Tomato matched really well and my children enjoyed it too.
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Non Uniform Network Access (NUNA)
Everything old is new again — NUMA is back!
With NUMA going mainstream, high performance software — MPI applications and otherwise — might need to be re-tuned to maintain their current performance levels.
A less-acknowledged aspect of HPC systems is the multiple levels of networks that are traversed to get data from MPI process A to MPI process B. The heterogeneous, multi-level network is going to become more important (again) in your applications' overall performance, especially as per-compute-server-core-counts increase.
That is, it's not going to only be about the bandwidth and latency of your "Ethermyriband" network. It's also going to be about the network (or networks!) inside each compute server.
A Cisco colleague of mine (hi Ted!) previously coined a term that is quite apropos for what HPC applications now need to target: it's no longer just about NUMA — NUMA effects are only one of the networks involved.
Think bigger: the issue is really about Non-Uniform Network Access (NUNA).Let's back up a few steps…
Many types of parallel algorithms perform best when they are implemented to be aware of data locality. For example, they take special care to fully operate on the data within a single cache line before forcing a cache miss to get the next. The best data-driven applications may even exploit this effect for multiple levels of locality (e.g., L1 through L3 and off-node).
With UMA, there was only one memory bus; it was relatively easy to model and understand how it affected overall system performance. The PCI bus was used to communicate with other compute nodes (via various flavors of network interface cards); mixing PCI/network performance characteristics into the model made it quite a bit more complex.
Despite the complexity, decent models and heuristics are readily available; many applications have tuned themselves for such architectures. But remember the (recently re-learned) lessons of 8-core processors: UMA doesn't scale for memory- and/or IO-intensive applications.
NUMA effects were already important on AMD-based compute servers, and were critically important on large NUMA SMP systems from a few years ago (e.g., the SGI Altix). But now that Intel has finally moved into the NUMA camp, one can argue that NUMA is now both mainstream and the likely architecture target for many future HPC compute systems. As such, the memory and IO subsystem networks must also be taken into account for effects such as latency, bandwidth, congestion, etc.
To be clear: all the same network kinds of things that software needed to optimize for outside the server will now also need to be optimized inside the server.
Sure, current NUMA networks are super fast and have lovely low latency. But they can suffer from both congestion and bottlenecks — just like any other network. This effect may be multiplied by increasing the number of ever-faster data-hungry cores (e.g., will QPI/Hypertransport have to route?).
Consider: four Intel Nehalem cores on a socket can be quite demanding on the memory subsystem just to keep the instructions and data flowing. Now add MPI message passing on top of these requirements (potentially aided by fast hardware offload): sending additional data across the memory subsystem to/from PCI devices, to/from non-local memory, and so on. When will the NUMA network become saturated?
This is (yet) another curveball being thrown at parallel programmers.Doug Eadline, Distinguished Cluster Monkey and column author for Linux Magazine, has opined on many similar software complexity issues in his columns. His recent Linux Magazine column entitled "The Core-Diameter" discusses the maximum physical diameter of an HPC cluster based on the cabling requirements for the external network.
But what about the internal network? Shouldn't that be a factor of the core diameter as well?
My point: don't only plan for the homogeneous Ethmyriband network between your compute servers. Instead, application developers need to take a holistic approach: think about the overall heterogeneous (Ethmyriband + QPI/Hypertransport + PCI* + …?) network between processing cores. In a simplistic sense, you can think of it as multiple levels of latency between the different network types.
Applications need to be aware that non-local references cause network traffic — regardless of whether that network happens to be inside the server or both inside and outside the server. For example, many MPI applications are currently tuned for inter-node communications — minimizing MPI message traffic between nodes as much as possible. These applications may (will?) need additional tuning to ensure that intra-node communication patterns do not cause internal network congestion or other types of bottlenecks, such as resource starvation issues.
NUMA: that's so 2004-esque. NUNA: that's the new challenge.
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My PhD student worked on IB/Myri in Opteron machines 2 years ago. We called this NUIOA"" instead of ""NUNA"" (since it likely applies to other I/O and not only to network, for instance to I/OAT :)). PDF is available at http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/17/57/47/PDF/PDCS07.pdf"


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Billy G. Hobbs, 86, died Sept. 25, 2012, at Pratt Care Center. He was born Aug. 14, 1926, at Kiowa, the son of James Franklin and Maude Schwantz Hobbs. A Pratt resident for more than 50 years, he was a master licensed plumber. He worked as head of the plumbing departments for the former Independent Lumber and W.R. Green Lumber Co. in Pratt.
He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War.
On June 20, 1957, he married Alyce Y. Hinson at Miami, Okla. She died Aug. 26, 2009.
Survivors include: companion, Theresa Roberts, Pratt, a sister, Wanda Cox, Kiowa, a grandson, Ryan Knepper and wife Jennifer, Fort Wayne, Ind.
He was preceded in death by his wife; a daughter, Peggy Knepper; and three brothers, Richard, David and Junior Hobbs.
Friends may call from 1 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Ayres-Calbeck Mortuary. Graveside service will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Greenlawn Cemetery, with Chaplain Ron Moser officiating.
Memorials may be made to a charity of the donor's choice, in care of the mortuary, 115 E. Fourth, Pratt, KS 67124.


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Darien spring football game ends in tie
DARIEN -- It was a tale of two halves for new Darien quarterback Silas Wyper in the Blue Wave's spring game held on Sunday afternoon. Head coach Rob Trifone is hoping Wyper's performance in the latter half will lead to big things for the Blue Wave in 2013.
After struggling early on, the rising senior found his groove in the second half, and it all added up to a 21-21 tie between the Blue and White teams. Wyper was 4-for-13 for 46 yards and two interceptions in the first quarter before going 13-for-20 for 161 and two touchdowns in the second half. Wyper took most of the snaps for both teams.
"JV is a different story from Varsity," Trifone said. "But as the game progressed he got more comfortable and he completed some big passes and had some big runs."
Wyper takes over for departed senior Henry Baldwin, who threw for over 2000 yards in 2012. The style differences were on hand Sunday with the dual-threat under center. Wyper threw touchdowns to Griffin Ross and Colin Minicus and carried the ball over a dozen times and added a rushing score.
"(Wyper brings) tremendous leadership; he's a consummate leader," Trifone said. "He's always in the weight room, he is a very vocal and positive kid and the kids look to him, which is what you want from your quarterback."
Trifone also liked what he saw in the trenches. Defensive lineman George Reed registered two sacks and both lines looked solid for 40 minutes. Alex Gunn (center) and Tommy Gasparino (guard) will lead the offensive line in 2013.
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"I saw a lot of positives on the offensive and defensive lines," Trifone said. "Both the Blue and the White team gave our quarterbacks quite a bit of time and yet when we tried to run against either defensive line they pursued very well."
Darien graduated quite a few starters, but brings back some big names for the fall. Nick Lombardo had over 500 yards receiving in 2012 and is capable of lining up in the backfield to make plays. Wyper will also have weapons in Ross and Kyle Gifford.
On the defensive side of the ball, Reed, along with linebackers Jay Harrison and Myles Ridder -- who secured Darien's first win since 2001 against New Canaan last year with a fumble recovery return for a touchdown -- will lead the charge in the fall.
"It's high school football; you graduate kids no matter how much you want to hold them back," Trifone said. "That's a great part of it, each season is a new set of characters and you have to mold them mentally and physically. We have a lot of talent and a lot of depth."
The Blue Wave have a brutal start to the schedule in September, Darien meets defending Class M champion Hillhouse as part of the FCIAC-SCC challenge September 12 and FCIAC runner-up Greenwich the week after.
"It's a great challenge for the teams that have had such great records over the past few years," Trifone said. (Hillhouse) is a great team, I like the challenge."


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The performance of emergency lighting systems is specified in the standard EN 1838. In the standard, requirements are described for different environments and application areas, evacuation routes, anti-panic lighting and the lighting of high-risk areas.
Evacuation routes
An evacuation route requires at least 1 lx at the floor in the centre of the evacuation route and 0.5 lx in the surrounding area. Changes in direction and/or stairs need to be highlighted with an increased lighting level. Stairways should also be illuminated. In places where rescue equipment is located e.g. fire extinguishers, alarm buttons or first-aid cabinets, the lighting requirement increases to 5 lx.
The ratio of high to low lighting strength should be a maximum of 40:1. Therefore it is unsuitable to use a few strong light-points as emergency lighting in an evacuation route.
Normally, the lighting requirements necessary for an evacuation route cannot rely solely on safe condition signs. Often a combination of safe condition signs and correctly placed emergency luminaires is needed with suitable luminous flux in emergency mode.
Open areas/anti-panic lighting
Anti-panic emergency lighting is intended to make it easier for people in the premises to find an evacuation route. A lighting strength of at least 0.5 lx is required in such areas. Here too the ratio between highest and lowest lighting strength must not be greater than 40:1.
High-risk areas
The high-risk area requires considerably more light in emergency mode than evacuation routes and anti-panic areas. The requirement is at least 15 lx or 10 % of the lighting strength normally required for the location. The ratio between the highest and lowest lighting strength should be a maximum of 10:1. When 1500 lx is required for normal operation on the task area, the lighting strength in emergency mode must be at least 150 lx.
The reason that the requirements are relatively high for this area is that dangerous processes, e.g. industrial robots, must be turned off correctly before rescue personnel can enter the area.