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Not necessarily. This post rounds up several different perspectives on tears while speaking from discussions on The Eloquent Woman on Facebook as well as the blog's vault of previous posts, to give you a well-rounded perspective on the topic:
- Understand how crying evolved: This NPR piece looks at the purposes crying serves, physically and emotionally--and how we've evolved to perceive it in others. The concluding line: "Tears help reveal the truth. And that's because along with the tears, we've evolved a very sophisticated ability to interpret them."
- Get the science behind why we cry: Psychology, culture and biochemical reactions play a role in why we cry, and why women cry more easily and more often than men do, according to researchers.
- You can expect tears in some speaking situations: Delivering your mother's eulogy is one of them, and in this post, a reader on Facebook asked for help in figuring out how to do that. Read the advice we gave her, and her report back on how it went and what she learned that might be useful for others.
- Think through how to approach a tough topic in advance: I have five ways to approach a tough topic, and crying might be part of that approach for you. No matter which tactic you adopt, taking the time to plan ahead will help you get through it.
- Understand one reason women get criticized for crying in high-profile speeches: This post during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign cites a journalist who wanted female candidates like Sarah Palin to strive for a professional look--perhaps because women get so few high-profile opportunities.
- Can women cry in public? It depends, said former U.S. Representative Patricia Schroeder during the 2008 campaign, citing evidence that male candidates shed tears without negative reaction more than did female candidates. She noted that Hillary Clinton, then a candidate for U.S. president could not afford to cry during her campaign; this post looks at the aftermath when she did, eventually, tear up on the trail.
- Christine Heidenreich Kless simply shared, "I have."
- Wendy Collins said, "Yes, and it's really hard to keep going when the emotions take over! I've had times when I had to pause and bite the inside of my cheek to get a grip so I could go on. The pain seems to help. Emotions are very honest and good. They often convey more than words can, but I try to practice things enough so that I can at least keep myself under control while I speak about something that I know will cause me to cry."
- Maria Elena Poulos said she cried "During a 9/11 speech."
Do you have experiences, tips or advice to share on shedding tears while speaking? Leave them in the comments.
This post made it into Andrew Dlugan's roundup of the best public speaking blog posts for the week ending September 11, 2010 on the Six Minutes blog. Thanks, Andrew!
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This post made it into Andrew Dlugan's roundup of the best public speaking blog posts for the week ending September 11, 2010 on the Six Minutes blog. Thanks, Andrew!
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Due out July 19, the Old World Blues downloadable content for Fallout: New Vegas isn't exactly brain surgery, but it's pretty damn close. Does removing the entire brain count?
After the inevitable apocalypse comes and goes, I plan on avoiding science altogether. The post-apocalypse and the powers of science simply do not mix in a way that's conducive to me staying alive for more than five minutes. No, when the world ends I'll be camped out with the folks from the local ren faire, eating steak on a stick and drinking homemade apple pie-flavored alcoholic beverages.
Feel free to travel to Big MT instead. I'm sure not having skin is nice.


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Building upon my previous post regarding the 3.1 Nature's Grace, I wanted to look into the 1-second GCD limit and figure out at what spell-haste rating it would come into effect for caster druids.
EDIT 3/21/10: 3.3 Resto druid GotEM changes are in a new post, found here. All moonkin stuff in this post should still be current.
Base Hasted GCD limit:
Ignoring both Nature's Grace and Gift of the Earth Mother (as well as any other raid buffs or potions), it will take 1639.5 haste rating at level 80 to reach the 1-second GCD limit (which is 50% spell haste). The conversion from haste rating to % at level 80 is 32.79 %/rating.
|Base Formula:
HastedCastTime = BaseCastTime /(1 + (% SpellHaste / 100))
1639 haste rating / 32.79 = 49.98% Spell haste at level 80
HastedGCD = 1.5s /(1 + (49.98 / 100)) = 1.00013 seconds
Going from 1639 to 1640 haste rating will push you to a 0.9999 second GCD (at level 80), just below the hard-set 1-second limit; thus, 1639 haste rating is as close as you can get to a 50% spell haste unbuffed by procs/talents/potions/abilities/etc. You are extremely unlikely to see this raw amount of haste rating on your gear in the current game, and if you do, you are probably severely gimped in all other stats. Do not try to get that much haste rating.
I repeat: do not try to stack haste on your gear to reach that 1639/40 limit. There are many raid buffs and talents in the game that will boost your haste for you, instead.
Other Haste-effecting Procs, Buffs, and Talents:
- Bloodlust/Heroism - from shaman, 30%
- Power Infusion from disc priests, 20%
- Wrath of Air Totem - from shaman, 5%
- Nature's Grace - talent proc, 20%
- Gift of the Earth Mother - resto talent, EDIT: 2% per point
- Celestial Focus - balance talent, 3%
- Imp Moonkin Aura - from balance druids, 3%
- Ret Pally Auras - from ret pallies, 3%
- Trinkets
- Potions
- Bloodlust/Heroism and Power Infusion
- Imp Moonkin Aura and Imp Ret Aura
- Wrath of Air totem
Notes on Haste Math:
My assumption is that each of these buffs will also reduce the GCD, proportionally. Note that when it comes to calculating hasted cast times, whether you apply a 3% haste bonus or a 20% bonus first does not alter the outcome of your cooldown time. Haste will also stack multiplicatively (crit, on the other hand, stacks additively).
|3% first:
1) 1.5s -(1.5*0.03) = 1.455 seconds
2) 1.455s - (1.455*0.2) = 1.164 seconds
|20% first:
1) 1.5s -(1.5*0.2) = 1.2 seconds
2) 1.2s - (1.2*0.03) = 1.164 seconds
HOWEVER, if you have any talent that reduces a cooldown/cast-time by a set amount rather than a percentage (ie -0.5 seconds), it MUST be taken into account first before applying any percent reductions, including haste from gear.
Moonkin vs Resto GCDs:
The following charts assume that:
- Celestial Focus and GotEM will stack with raid buffs.
- Moonkin will have both Celestial Focus and Imp Moonkin Aura.
- Resto druids will either have 0 points in GotEM, or 4 points, or 5 points.
- GotEM will only reduce the GCD of Lifebloom, Rejuv, and Wild Growth.
- Raids may or may not have a WoA totem
- Resto druids' raids may or may not have a moonkin or ret pally.
- Wrath of Air totem (edit) stacks with Moonkin or Ret pally talented auras.
- Moonkin and Ret haste auras will not stack.
- Bloodlust will stack with all other raid buffs (excluding Power Infusion).
- All haste buffs and talents will affect the GCD.
For updated resto druid tables, go here.
So what does all of this mean?
Any time a line in the graphs above dips below 1 second (the heavy red line), the GCD is at its 1-second limit. The GCD can never be less than 1 second, no matter what kind of spell haste or buffs you have! This is a hard limit put in place by the game's developers and designers.
The haste that you have on your gear, as well as buffs and talents, will push the 1.5 second baseline GCD closer and closer to this 1 second limit, as shown above. What buffs and talents you have will impact how much haste is needed to reach this 1-second GCD limit, and may impact your choices in what talents you take (such as how many points in Gift of the Earth Mother) and how much haste you put on your gear as a insta-casting-fiend of a resto druid.
In most all cases, getting Bloodlusted will reduce your GCD to its 1-second minimum. The few cases that it does not are when you have low haste rating on your gear, have no moonkin/ret pally/WoA totem, and are not using a spell that has been reduced by GotEM.
Remember that this talent will only reduce the GCD of lifebloom, rejuv, and Wild Growth. Spells such as remove curse, abolish poison, and Nature's Grasp will not be affected by GotEM. However, in regards to GotEM: the higher your haste rating, the fewer points in it you will need to reach the base of a 1-second GCD.
To reach a GCD of 1.0 seconds with GotEM (rough estimate):
- On average with only a WoA totem, each 150 points of haste rating beyond 500 will reduce the number of points you need to spend in GotEM by 1.
- On average with only a ret pally or moonkin aura, each 150 points of haste rating beyond 550 will reduce the number of points you need to spend in GotEM by 1.
Take into account your trinket use, potion use, and Nature's Grace procs as applicable.
Nature's Grace:
This talent will reduce much more than just your GCD, but my focus in this study is looking only at its impact on the GCD (which has particular importance with instant-cast spells). Proccing it in combination with GotEM will assuredly reduce your GCD to the 1-second limit, even if you have but 4 points in it and low haste rating. For other insta-cast spells such as Abolish Poison, you cannot count on GotEM to contribute, but the cooldown will still be lowered significantly by the NG proc. NG itself has the same % GCD reduction as a fully-talented GotEM, and though it is proc-based, it will effect all of your spells.
For turkeys, this talent is pretty much a necessity, and should be factored in on any haste calculations. Graylo at Gray Matter has a great post about the "soft haste cap" for moonkin, assuming Nature's Grace.
In summary, you have a 1.5 second base global cooldown (GCD), and it can be lowered down to a minimum of 1 second by haste rating and talents and raid buffs. Depending on your expected raid buffs and talents, you can determine what sort of haste rating is "overkill" for your GCD, since it would always push against the 1-second minimum cap.
Why is this important? For any spell that takes longer to cast than your GCD, it's not! (Such as Starfire, regrowth, etc). But, if you're casting lots of insta-casts or quick spells such as nourish, wrath, or talented+glyphed HTs, the GCD is a big deal, because it is often your true limit to your cast time. If you over-stack on haste without accounting for talents and raid buffs, then you're wasting stats on your gear.
The exact makeup of your raids, spec, and spell rotations will determine your "soft cap" for haste for your GCD. You can browse through the charts to see what best applies to you (where the heavy red line is the 1-second cap), and look at the haste rating on the x-axis from there.
- Always remember that while haste may be worthless beyond a certain point for you for your GCD, it can still affect other spells you cast, if they take longer than a base of 1.5 seconds to cast. Your use of these longer-cast spells will in turn affect your overall soft haste cap, depending on your spec, class, raid makeup, and healing style/turkey tactics.
~ As always, I have an ear open for comments on the math and any buffs or druid caster talents I may have missed or misinterpreted!
As a random note, I myself run about 320 haste rating with 4 pts in GotEM and full Nature's Grace. This doesn't put me at the 1-second cap, but meh :) ~


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Once their espionage cases are resolved, some former North Korean spies find that life in the South can be pretty good. They write books, land TV gigs, work for think tanks and in general benefit from their new home's fascination with their old homeland.
Won Jeong-hwa is not one of those spies.
A year after finishing a five-year espionage sentence for using sex to obtain military secrets and plotting to assassinate intelligence officers, Won is a 40-year-old single mother eking out a living on an $800 monthly government subsidy.
Her espionage work is not taken seriously enough in South Korea for her to cash in on her past, yet she's also too notorious to find an ordinary job. She says she has been fired from several waitressing and cleaning jobs after employers learned about her past, which she had attempted to conceal.
Her espionage work is not taken seriously enough in South Korea for her to cash in on her past, yet she's also too notorious to find an ordinary job.
"I've thought about killing myself many times," Won said in an interview at her small apartment in Gunpo, just south of Seoul.
A highly-trained spy?
She has two big strikes against her. There are allegations that she was merely a low-level informant whose deeds were inflated by South Korean officials eager to make Pyongyang look bad, and by reporters digging for a sexy story. Additionally, the sexual nature of her crimes carries a stigma in this conservative country.
Won was imprisoned in 2008 after a court ruled that she posed as an ordinary North Korean defector, then used sex to extract secrets from South Korean military officers. The media began calling her "North Korea's Mata Hari" in reference to an exotic dancer from the Netherlands who used sex to obtain military secrets during World War I.
North Korea accused South Korea of cooking up a spy scandal to tarnish Pyongyang's image and said Won was a criminal.
After Won was released, she was a popular guest on TV talk shows where she spoke about her harsh, elite spy training. She said she disobeyed Pyongyang's orders to assassinate two South Korean army intelligence officers with poison.
She also talked about how she fell in love with a junior army officer — the "man of my life". He was later imprisoned for passing her secrets including a list of North Korean defectors even after learning she was a spy.
The attention caused South Korean media to revisit her case. Some reporters questioned the value of her espionage work, and raised suspicions based on testimony by North Korean defectors who said they knew Won and her family members in the North.
Won's 2008 court verdict said she was trained at a special operations unit in Pyongyang and was a daughter of an agent killed on a spy mission in South Korea in 1974. But Won's stepfather, Kim Dong-soon, who came to South Korea in 2007, said in an interview that Won's biological father was an ordinary labourer who died of a heart attack, and that Won was a high school dropout who had nothing to do with special operations forces. Won denies Kim's allegations.
In the verdict and in interviews, it was said that North Korea first sent Won to South Korea in 2001 to take photos of the exteriors of US military installations and to collect South Korean newspaper editorials about North Korea. People dubious of Won's elite status consider that low-level spy work.
Some defectors who met Won before her 2008 arrest say she was often incoherent and unprofessional and could not have been a highly trained spy.
"I believe that she was exploited as an informant... she wasn't even worth being called a spy," said Kim Yong-hwa, a defector-turned-activist. He said he once rejected Won's request to meet with a high-profile North Korean defector because she rambled too much.
A key debunker of Won's espionage record is Won herself, who spoke to The Associated Press in a series of interviews between April and this week. She has said in media interviews that she was pressured by prosecutors to provide false testimony, particularly about her use of sex in spy work.
The trial verdict and an investigation by prosecutors said she slept with numerous men, including South Korean officers and her boss at an agency where she worked. Won said she used sex as a spying tool only once, to steal personnel management-related documents from an army major's home computer.
She said she couldn't resist pressure by prosecutors who gave her alcohol and urged her to confess during questioning. They "manufactured (the story of) my relations with men," she said. "I'm not a Mata Hari."
Prosecutors have dismissed Won's claims.
A new start
South Korea has a history of forgiving former spies and assassins, though they are still sometimes ostracised. Their careers in the media often depend on whether they were involved in high-profile cases that captured global attention, and whether they followed Seoul's propaganda line against the North.
Won said a prosecutor told her during her questioning that she could make a new start in the South by following in the footsteps of Kim Hyon-hui, a North Korean agent sentenced to death for bombing a South Korean jet in 1987, killing all 115 passengers aboard. Kim was later pardoned and wrote a best-selling autobiography. She often appears on TV to speak critically of North Korea.
Several other North Koreans who once attacked the South now embrace it. One of the 31 North Korean commandos who launched a brazen mission to assassinate South Korea's president in 1968 is now a Christian pastor who lectures about the North. A North Korean crew member of a submarine that ran aground in the South, and who was captured alive after a massive manhunt that left 25 other comrades dead or missing, is a lecturer for the South Korean navy. A spy arrested after a deadly shootout in 1995 works for a think tank run by the South's spy agency and wrote a book about his mission.
Won, on the other hand, feels trapped. No South Korean TV station wants her as an expert because of reports that she may not have been an elite spy. Finding work unrelated to her past is also impossible, she said, because no one wants to hire an unskilled woman with a criminal espionage record.
Finding work unrelated to her past is impossible, she said, because no one wants to hire an unskilled woman with a criminal espionage record
One of the jobs she gained and quickly lost was at a noodle restaurant. She said a former colleague later told her the boss had been worried she would poison the food.
The army officer Won fell in love with has been released, but they are no longer in touch. Nor is the father of her 12-year-old daughter in the picture: she said he is a South Korean businessman she met in China, where she had been assigned to find and repatriate North Korean defectors before she was sent to South Korea.
Won said the government assistance she gets was not enough for her to even buy a school uniform for her daughter. A centre that helps female ex-inmates gave one to her.
Many defectors shun her. She said her neighbours once asked that she move, and that her daughter's friends have been told by their parents to stay away from the girl.
"I've told my daughter she should go to an orphanage because she'd be happier living there," Won said, sobbing. "I want to move to a country where no one knows me."


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Delegates convened in June 1885 to revise Florida's state constitution. The existing constitution had been in effect since 1868, when it was adopted as part of Florida's reentry into the United States following the Civil War. The 1885 constitution legitimized poll taxes as a prerequisite for voting, which ultimately disproportionately disenfranchised African Americans and many poor whites.
We, the people of the State of Florida, grateful to Almighty God for our constitutional liberty, in order to secure its blessings and to form a more perfect government, insuring domestic tranquility, maintaining public order, and guaranteeing equal civil and political rights to all, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
Section 1. All men are equal before the law, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing happiness and obtaining safety.
Section 2. All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for the protection, security and benefit of the citizens, and they have the right to alter or amend the same whenever the public good may require it; but the paramount allegiance of every citizen is due to the Federal Government, and the people of this State have no power to dissolve its connection therewith.
Section 3. The right of trial by jury shall be secured to all, and remain inviolate forever.
Section 4. All courts in the State shall be open, so that every person for any injury done him in his lands, goods, person or reputation shall have remedy, by due course of law, and right and justice shall be administered without sale, denial or delay.
Section 5. The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship shall forever be allowed in this State, and no person shall be rendered incompetent as a witness on account of his religious opinions; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to justify licentiousness


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This was possible thanks to a state-of-the-art DLR robot arm and hand that she controlled with neural signals sent directly from her brain. It took just a few moments for her to grasp the drinking bottle with the robot hand, bring it up to her mouth and drink the coffee through a straw. To accomplish this, software decoded neural signals recorded from a small array of electrodes that reflected her intention to reach and grasp, and converted them into commands that directed the robot arm and hand. Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) present the results of their collaboration with Brown University, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, and Massachusetts General Hospital in the 17 May 2012 issue of the scientific journal Nature.
12 April 2011: the BrainGate trial participant attentively tracks the movements of the lightweight DLR robot with a look of concentration. As she pictures herself moving her own arm, her brain sends the associated signals to a computer via a four by four millimetre sensor. The sensor had been implanted by surgeons more than five years earlier in the motor area of her cerebral cortex, a thin sheet of neurons on the exterior of the brain that transforms multisensory information into motor commands. The computer decodes the signals, and the DLR robot arm and five-fingered hand execute these decoded instructions, taking the place of her own paralysed arm and enabling her to drink on her own for the first time in almost 15 years. As a result of a brainstem stroke, she lost the ability to speak, and was rendered unable to make useful movement, except for her head and eyes. She couldn't help but smile as she brought the straw to her mouth.
"It was a very emotional moment for everyone involved," says Professor Patrick van der Smagt, project leader of the DLR assistive robotic technology that enabled thoughts to become the most complex and sophisticated actions ever performed by a human using direct brain control. He is also professor for machine learning at the Technische Universität München.
Converting nerve signals into movement
In 2005, surgeons affiliated with Brown University in the United States implanted the tiny array of 100 hair-thin microelectrodes into the trial participant's brain. "In 2006 we were able to demonstrate, for the first time, that people with severe paralysis could control the movement of a computer cursor using motor commands decoded from their own neural signal patterns," explains Professor John Donoghue, a neuroscientist at Brown University and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Providence, Rhode Island. Donoghue leads neural interface research, along with Dr Leigh Hochberg. "The goal of our research is to develop technology that can help people who have lost functional use of their limbs regain independence," Hochberg said. "Our participants in these pilot clinical trials are tremendously inspiring."
"I wanted to combine this capability with our understanding of robotics," adds DLR scientist Patrick van der Smagt. The DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics already had an extremely manoeuvrable robotic arm and hand: DLR's robot 'Justin' has long been capable of gripping and opening objects, as well as interacting with humans. Not long afterwards, van der Smagt, Hochberg and Donoghue and their teams joined together in a ground-breaking collaborative effort to couple the human brain to a robotic arm and restore the ability to reach and grasp in people suffering from paralysis.
The bionics team at the DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics initiated a feasibility study in 2006. They developed specialised software and used data sets from the BrainGate team to convert neural signals into signals capable of moving the DLR robotic arm. In the initial tests, the participant began by controlling an animation of a robotic arm on a computer screen. "After validating our approach with the robot simulation, we were eager to let the participant control the real robot, which we finally achieved in April 2010," remembers Jörn Vogel, a research engineer at DLR. To enable the scientists to interpret the neural signals correctly, the participant first pictured herself controlling the robot arm, while observing pre-programmed movements; the corresponding brain activity was then recorded and used to build a 'map' between patterns in her brain's activity and what the robot did. Finally, this map was used to move the DLR robot in real time in response to her command signals.
Interaction between humans and robots
"Of course, it is especially important for the robot not to pose any risk to the participant," states van der Smagt. To maximise safety, the robot uses sensors to continuously check for unintended contact with its surroundings. In case of unexpected contact, the integrated control system intervenes, relaxing the robot in a few thousands of a second and rendering it forceless so that it stops with a gentle touch. The system precisely controls the force of the robot hand's grip and the speed of the lightweight arm's movements while it is being positioned by brain signals. This is the first time scientists have coupled the brain to a complex robot able to reproduce a human arm's capabilities.
This research has demonstrated that, even in people who have been paralysed for years, neural signals remain functional at a level where they can be used, for example, to move robotic limbs. "The use of a robot, at least temporarily, enabled the participant to regain some of the functions she used to perform with her own arm and hand," says DLR-scientist van der Smagt. The researchers now plan to conduct further tests to examine how cooperation between humans and robotic systems can be further expanded so that people with disabilities are able to carry out daily activities successfully.
DLR researchers will be demonstrating the applications of the DLR lightweight robot arm and five-finger hand at the Fachmese Automatica in Munich, Germany between 22 and 25 May 2012.
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Conductivity and durability are essential characteristics
Trunking systems are intended to carry high currents; therefore, their electrical conductivity is a key parameter. Constructing a busbar or busway out of highly conductive copper brings about advantages at several levels:
1) The ability to transport high power in a limited space
Busbars must sometimes be installed within a very limited space such as a switchboard or other electrical equipment
The costs of busway enclosures and support structures rise with the size of the conductor
2) Low energy losses, resulting in:
Limited heat production—a considerable advantage when installing busbars inside compact switchboard cabinets or other electrical equipment
Reduced energy costs and a lower life cycle cost of the installation
The environmental benefit of reduced CO2 emissions
Electrical installations in buildings and switching stations are built for a long useful life—usually several decades. Durability is consequently another essential quality for a trunking system
Joints and connections must be able to withstand cyclical loading/unloading
Busbar and busway materials must have sufficient strength to withstand the mechanical forces of short circuit currents
The busbar material must resist accelerated corrosion, even in chemically aggressive environments


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You say terrible things on Twitter, and terrible things in private, and really goddamn terrible things in private on Twitter. And that's OK!
Because according to a ruling following a subpoena for protected tweets of an Occupy Wall Street protestor—which Twitter protested—your tweets are your business.
Update: The ruling is actually the opposite—your protected tweets are NOT protected. Twitter has appealed the decision and judges will soon decide if Twitter users have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in their protected tweets
The ruling—which says your tweets can't be used against you in a court of law—has to do with a reasonable expectation of privacy, and something to do with mail, or whatever. Who cares. You can say whatever the hell you want on Twitter—if your tweets are protected—and it will (probably) stay private! If you want the actual details with real facts (probably important), check our the full piece over at Buzzfeed. [Buzzfeed]


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Sunday, November 18, 2007
'The Undertaker' and His Economic Doobie Brothers
Greenspan Says Dollar's Decline Has No `Real' Impact
—Bloomberg, November 18, 2007
Anybody else out there think the original title of Alan Greenspan's recent memoir of his time as Federal Reserve Chairman ("The Age of Turbulence") must have been something closer to "Purple Haze, All in My Brain, Rainy Days You Don't Seem The Same, One Pill Makes You Larger and One Pill Makes You Small, but I Get High With a Little Help From My Friends so Why Does it Feel Like They're All Staring At Me???"?
I mean, how else to explain the following statement by the man Ayn Rand used to call "The Undertaker" ostensibly because of the dark suits and sober demeanor he wore during their smoke-filled late-night debates, although I am coming to believe both his demeanor and the smoke actually owed more to some lethal Maui Wowie he must have kept stashed in the lining of his Brooks Brothers' vest pockets, if you get my drift:
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the dollar's decline hasn't affected the global economy and is a ``market phenomenon.''
``So long as the dollar weakness does not create inflation, which is a major concern around the globe for everyone who watches the exchange rate, then I think it's a market phenomenon, which aside from those who travel the world, has no real fundamental economic consequences,'' he said today.
Did he really say a falling Dollar has no real fundamental economic consequences?
What's with Fed Chairmen these days?
First Greenspan's successor flatly denies the deflationary impact of the Chinese labor arbitrage (see "Fed Big Flunks Eco 101" from March 7, 2007) of the last decade, and now Greenspan himself claims to see no link between the falling value of the U.S. Dollar and inflation in the United States.
Regarding the former issue, readers may recall that I offered to put Mr. Bernanke in touch with an American businessman who experienced first-hand the massive and deflationary impact of China's manufacturing policy throughout the last decade.
I now offer to put Mr. Greenspan in touch with an American businessman who is currently experiencing first-hand the massive and inflationary impact of the recent collapse in the U.S. Dollar.
His name is Ron Moquist, and he is the CEO of Raven Industries Incorporated.
Now, Mr. Moquist wouldn't know me from Alan Greenspan, but I do listen to enough conference calls during the week to stay current on companies such as his.
And his company's recent earnings call provided just the sort of real-world insight into the real-time economic impact of the weak Dollar that Mr. Greenspan seems unable to see—perhaps owing to the lingering after-effects of all those days "discussing economic policy" with Ayn Rand and the rest of the Economic Doobie Brothers in those smoke-filled rooms:
You would think that with weak U.S. demand for plastic resin, prices would be -- resin prices would be soft, but with the cheap U.S. dollar, a lot of the product is being shipped to foreign markets, which keeps the demand high, and with those higher material costs we haven't been able to pass along all those increases, just because of the competitive pressures.
And that pressure is being driven by the dramatic drop in construction activity, not just residential construction but commercial and manufactured housing as well. These various construction markets currently add up to almost 40% of our total sales volume in Film, so it is a big factor.
—Ron Moquist, Raven Industries November 15, 2007
Maybe, technically, those Doller-related cost increases aren't getting into the Fed's computation of the Producer Price Index, adjusted as it is to exclude everything people actually use; but the impact on businesses such as Raven Industries is as real as the 4.9% price increase UPS just announced for next year.
Ironically, Greenspan made his Dollar comments at the "Learning Annex Wealth Expo" in New York City. No doubt The Donald was also there, and possibly Tony Robbins, giving their sure-fire get-rich-quick methodologies.
I wonder if David Crosby and Keith Richards were also in the wings, anxiously waiting to score some, er, Bolivian Marching Powder, if you get my drift, from the man they call "The Undertaker"...
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14 comments:
- Mia said...
I live in Sioux Falls, where Raven headquarters are located, and all things considered they have experienced one helluva boom period the last 8 years. Nonetheless, I never thought I would get as much enjoyment reading anything related to Raven.
The Undertaker is just another inconsistent Randroid.
- Unknown said...
These are the rules. Central bankers shall never admit to deflating the currency publicly. Central bankers shall never admit to exporting inflation to countries with pegged currencies. Central bankers are a bank cartel step to stop bank runs and fund the state. Those are the rules.
- Unknown said...
I think you are right. The fed should not use the cpi to look at inflation, they should use plastic resin, which is something each and every one of us use.
- Liz said...
I remember Jim Grant used to do his own CPI of stuff he actually bought and used on an annual basis, I think it's time for the Fed to revisit the real world, where property taxes go up 30% every 3 years as well as insurance and gasoline!
- Unknown said...
It's Maui Wowie...I was there and believe it was!
- whydibuy said...
A couple thoughts here. First, Mr. Moquist's comments are interesting to me in that, between the lines, he is saying that the U.S. is no longer the dominating force in world economics. We can see weak demand here but foreign demand continues to push prices up. The U.S. will now be dictated to by world forces, not the U.S. dictating to the world anymore. As for Greenspan, these latest ramblings are just more in a long line of assinine statements by a guy who's been given alot of credit by wall street mistakenly confusing good luck for brilliance. I'll reiterate my previous comment that Greenspan was tremendously lucky during his tenure. Low and stabile energy prices, declining long term rates, low inflation thanks to the dramatic industrialization of china and its strongly deflationary export policy and a tech revolution that powered the economy. My grandmother could have looked just as brilliant running the fed under those conditions. Ben B. I fear will not be so lucky. As for his brilliant insights, he also was the guy who in '04 1) talked up the newfangled mortgage financings ( yes, the ones that are now blowing up month by month ) as a positive development allowing greater home ownership by more folks. And 2) recommended that people get adjustable rate mortgages right at the bottom of his rate cutting orgy. Sheeple that listened to him are now seeing multiple point jumps in those adjustable mortgages and are defaulting. So follow Greenspan at your own risk.
- A said...
whydibuy said it.
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- Oliver Townshend said...
The Australian Currency fell in the 90s from 80c to 50c. No inflationery outbreak. It's now risen to 80c and inflation is rising. The Argentinian currency was held high in the 90s and the economy collapsed and inflation went through the roof.
Greenspan wasn't making it up.
- BlackLab said...
Your post makes me wonder if Greenspan does his own grocery shopping.
I'm old enough to remember when Bryers sold ice cream in a square box with a piece of peel-away cellophane on top. That was a true half-gallon, which most people know is 2 quarts. Some years ago, Bryers moved to an oblong container that was narrower than the box, but taller and with slightly rounded corners. At 1.75 quarts, it was smaller than the container that preceded it. Of course, the price stayed the same.
This practice of keeping the price the same but giving you less product, effectively raising the price per ounce, has a name.
It's called inflation.
Where I live, we have a brand of ice cream named "Turkey Hill". It is marketed by the privately held company of the same name. While in the grocery store this weekend, I noticed that Turkey Hill was on sale, buy one, get one. The price of a container was $6.29, 8.6% higher than it was this time last year. When I took my usual choice of All Natural Coffee out of the case, something seemed off. The container felt smaller and lighter than usual.
There was a reason for that. Turkey Hill has moved to a 1.5 quart container. Of course, the price is the same as they previously charged for 1.75 quarts.
So I contacted them to ask why, even though I already knew the answer. Here is their response:
"Thank you for contacting Turkey Hill Dairy. We appreciate your comments regarding our new 48 & 56 oz frozen dessert containers. The concept of smaller sizes for ice cream products is not new to consumers. In fact, a great number of ice cream products are now offered in less than 48 oz size containers.
We had originally changed our Philadelphia Style Ice Cream to 56 oz during June 2003. This was due to increasing ingredient prices. At that time, we had no intentions of changing any other line. However, in our industry, as in many others, manufacturing costs continue to climb. Increasing costs of raw materials (ingredients such as milk, cream, cocoa, and vanilla), packaging, distribution, and labor have forced many ice cream companies to take action in order to bring selling prices more in line with costs of goods. It's an industry wide dilemma, not unique to Turkey Hill or even to the dairy business.
We have conducted various surveys and focus groups from random consumers in our market area. We were faced with a few options: keep the same sized containers and increase the selling price, decrease the package size and keep our high-quality products the same, or switch to lower-quality ingredients. This would ultimately sacrifice our high-quality products. Turkey Hill's frozen desserts are still made with the same premium ingredients. Reducing quality by using cheaper ingredients has never been an option for Turkey Hill, so it was necessary to adjust the size of the container to maintain acceptable retail prices relative to production costs."
Yes, ice cream is sold in container sizes less than 48 oz. They're called quarts and pints, and they are marketed as such.
I'm not calling Turkey Hill disingenuous. But I am suggesting they're betting some people won't notice the price increase, which amounts to 16.7% per ounce compared to last month, and 26.7% per oz. compared to last year (there are 128 oz in a gallon, for those wishing to do the math themselves).
The guy standing next to me at the freezer certainly didn't, until I pointed it out to him.
The cost of dairy products has risen substantially this year. Domino's said as much on its conference call when discussing the price of cheese. Herhsey has been hit by higher dairy costs, and Dean Foods has felt no small amount of pain.
What applies to Raven Industries also applies to Turkey Hill, save for the inability to pass along price increases, which I just ate. For now.
- Harleydog said...
As usual priceless commentary. Much appreciated.
- Anonymous said...
Jeff: I wonder whether Bernanke and his merry band of Fed governors will start talking up the dollar by takin' it to the streets.
- Mia said...
Nice summation of the domestic cost-push inflation scenario blacklab. Now watch, the next ploy by Greenspan and HeliBen will be to focus on super-core inflation; everything except energy, food, and import price increases. Super-core metrics will further dampen the cost-push inflation being experienced. This will do little to help Turkey Hill and Raven purchasing their product ingredients domestically, but it will keep the focus off their plights.
- smith said...
...and with those higher material costs we haven't been able to pass along all those increases, just because of the competitive pressures...
Maybe, technically, those Dollar-related cost increases aren't getting into the Fed's computation
"Technically"? Either they are or they aren't. The fact is that Raven (and the vast majority of other manufacturers) have been unable to pass along cost increases, and we therefore have low inflation. End of story.
- S Benard said...
Another important idea that doesn't escape everyday Americans, but seems to blow past the brains of the Feds and CNBC pundits: focusing only on core inflation, by its very nature, artificially suppresses the headline inflation. The more people must pay for food and fuel (which, per the Fed, they don't count), the less they have left for discretionary items, which are all the other things that the Fed DOES count. Thus, higher fuel/food costs tend to depress the prices of the other items. How ironic that food and fuel (headline inflation) are necessities, but discretionary items (core inflation) are largely optional (hence, discretionary). With higher fuel and food prices, people have less left for the other stuff, so demand falls and prices are suppressed.
Last month (Oct) headline retail sales were UP by a healthy amount, but what the government DIDN'T say was that the only retail establishments that had sales INCREASES were gas stations and grocery stores (yes, fuel and food). So while the Fed doesn't consider food and fuel in their inflation calculations, they DO report them when trying to convince the people that retail sales -- and therefore the health of the economy -- are good.
They can't have it both ways, but they sure try, don't they?


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Release Notes for Microsoft HPC Pack 2012
Applies To: Microsoft HPC Pack 2012, Microsoft HPC Pack 2012 R2
These release notes address late-breaking issues and information about Microsoft® HPC Pack 2012.
In this topic:
Download and install Microsoft HPC Pack 2012
Install the Microsoft HPC Pack 2012 web components
Install the HPC soft card key storage provider
Uninstall HPC Pack 2012
Known issues
Download and install Microsoft HPC Pack 2012
HPC Pack 2012 and updates are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center. The latest update is Microsoft HPC Pack 2012 SP1. After the download, save the installation files to installation media or to a network location.
For general steps to plan and create a new HPC cluster by installing HPC Pack 2012, see the Getting Started Guide for Microsoft HPC Pack 2012 R2 and HPC Pack 2012.
Install the Microsoft HPC Pack 2012 web components
To install the HPC Pack 2012 web components, you must separately run an installation program (HpcWebComponents.msi) and the included configuration script (Set-HPCWebComponents.ps1). The installation program is included in the HPC Pack 2012 download.
The HPC Pack 2012 web components can only be installed on the head node or head nodes of the cluster.
For additional information and step-by-step procedures, see Install the Microsoft HPC Pack Web Components.
Install the HPC soft card key storage provider
To enable soft card authentication when submitting jobs to the HPC Pack 2012 cluster, you must separately install the HPC soft card key storage provider (KSP) on the following computers:
The head node of your cluster
The compute nodes, workstation nodes, and unmanaged server nodes of your cluster
To install the KSP, you must separately run the version of the installation program that is appropriate for the operating system on each computer: HpcKsp_x64.msi or HpcKsp_x86.msi. The installation programs are included in the HPC Pack 2012 installation files.
For more information about installing the KSP, see Enable and Configure Soft Card Authentication on a Windows HPC Cluster.
Uninstall HPC Pack 2012
To completely uninstall HPC Pack 2012, uninstall the features in the following order:
HPC Pack 2012 Web Components (if they are installed)
HPC Pack 2012 Key Storage Provider (if it is installed)
HPC Pack 2012 Services for Excel 2010
HPC Pack 2012 Server Components
HPC Pack 2012 Client Components
HPC Pack 2012 MS-MPI Redistributable Pack
Not all features are installed on all computers. For example, HPC Pack 2012 Server Components is not installed when you choose to install the client components only.
When HPC Pack 2012 is installed on the head node, other programs are installed with it. After uninstalling HPC Pack 2012, you can remove the following programs if they will no longer be used:
Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2010 SP1
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Express
This program also includes Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Setup Support Files.
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Native Client
Additionally, the following server roles and features might have been added when HPC Pack 2012 was installed, and they can be removed if they will no longer be used:
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Server server role
File Services server role
File Server Resource Manager role service
Routing and Remote Access Service server role
Windows Deployment Services server role
Microsoft .NET Framework feature
Message Queuing feature
Known issues
The following issues are known to affect this release of HPC Pack 2012:
Adding a head node configured for high availability may cause loss of security accounts from the HPCUsers and Administrators groups
iSCSI deployment is not currently enabled
Setup requires .NET Framework 3.5
Cluster management tools are not supported on Windows XP or Windows Server 2003
English (United States) locale must be set for remote SQL Server database instance
Bare metal deployments with a large number of nodes may fail
The Windows Azure VM role is retired
Windows Azure Connect is not supported in Microsoft HPC Pack 2012
Windows Azure HPC Scheduler Web Portal is not available immediately after deployment
Heat map and metrics may stop updating
Cluster metrics collection may affect performance-sensitive applications
Task output shows most recent 4000 characters of output
Capture Image operation may cause HPC Cluster Manager to hang
Capture Image operation may incorrectly report errors
Activation and submission filters must be accessible to all head nodes
Custom HPC Pack 2008 R2 diagnostic tests must be updated to work with HPC Pack 2012
Apostrophe cannot be used in a node template name
Remote connection credentials to cluster nodes may not be stored
Node preparation task may run repeatedly
SOA diagnostics can fail after installation of HPC Pack 2012 using nondefault folders
Adding a head node configured for high availability may cause loss of security accounts from the HPCUsers and Administrators groups
Adding a head node to a HPC cluster in which the head node is configured for high availability can cause loss of security accounts in the HPC cluster user and administrator groups that are configured on the cluster. Unless precautions are taken before disconnecting from an HPC cluster management tool session (HPC Cluster Manager or Windows HPC PowerShell) on a high availability head node, in the event of account removal, a cluster administrator may be unable to reconnect to the cluster by using the HPC cluster management tools.
To work around or avoid this problem, do the following in your high availability configuration:
As a best practice, create and maintain domain user groups for the HPC cluster users and administrators, and use standard processes in your organization to manage the user groups.
Use the HPC cluster management tools to add these domain user groups to the HPC cluster users and HPC administrators groups (HpcUsers and local Administrators group) on each head node.
When you add a head node to the HPC cluster that is configured for high availability, before running Setup for HPC Pack 2012 on the failover cluster node, use the local user and group management tools on the computer to add these domain groups to the HpcUsers and the local Administrators groups. (You may need to create the HpcUsers group on a new head node.) Failure to do so will result in the removal of the domain groups from the HPC cluster configuration.
If you are unable to connect to the HPC cluster with HPC Cluster Manager or Windows HPC PowerShell as an HPC administrator to a high availability head node, log in locally to the computer. Then, use the local user and group management tools to add the appropriate domain groups to the HpcUsers and the local Administrators groups. After you do this, you can connect to the head node using the HPC cluster management tools.
As an additional best practice, it is recommended that only one HPC cluster administrator works on the cluster at one time when adding or removing head nodes.
iSCSI deployment is not currently enabled
Because of a known issue, in this HPC Pack 2012 release, the deployment of iSCSI boot notes on your HPC cluster is not supported. The iSCSI deployment features in the HPC Pack 2012 cluster management tools (such as iSCSI Deployment, under Configuration, in HPC Cluster Management), are not currently enabled.
iSCSI deployment features are enabled in clusters that are created with HPC Pack 2008 R2.
Setup requires .NET Framework 3.5
SQL Server 2012 Express requires .NET Framework 3.5 to successfully install. If you do not have a database already set up for use with HPC Pack 2012, or if your head node does not have Internet access during setup, install .NET Framework 3.5 manually before you attempt to install HPC Pack 2012. You can install .NET Framework 3.5 by using the Add Roles and Feature Wizard GUI or a command-line tool. For more information, see Install .NET Framework 3.5 and other features on-demand.
Cluster management tools are not supported on Windows XP or Windows Server 2003
You cannot run Setup for HPC Pack 2012 to install the client utilities on a computer that is running the Windows XP or the Windows Server 2003 operating system. The HPC Pack 2012 management tools are not supported on those operating systems.
You can use job submission APIs to submit jobs to a HPC Pack 2012 cluster from a computer that is running the Windows XP or the Windows Server 2003 operating system. To enable this, install the HPC Pack 2012 Client Redistributable (HpcClient_x64.msi or HpcClient_x86.msi, depending on the operating system) on the computer. The installation files are available from the Microsoft Download Center, and they are installed in the Reminst file share on an HPC Pack 2012 head node.
A prerequisite for installing the HPC Pack 2012 Client Redistributable is that the Visual C++ 2010 SP1 runtime is installed on the client computer. Download and install the Visual C++ runtime from the Microsoft Download Center.
English (United States) locale must be set for remote SQL Server database instance
When preparing the databases for a HPC Pack 2012 head node on a remote server that is running Microsoft® SQL Server, the account for the HPC cluster database instance must be configured to use English (United States) as the system locale. If a different locale is configured (such as an English locale other than the United States), the deployment of the head node can fail.
To configure the English (United States) locale for the SQL Server login for the HPC cluster database instance, use the SQL Server management tools. The SQL Server login should be a domain account that you will use for the installation of HPC Pack 2012 on the head node.
Bare metal deployments with a large number of nodes may fail
Under certain conditions when deploying compute nodes from bare metal, the deployment of some nodes can fail. This is more likely to occur if you are deploying a large number of nodes at one time. You might see an error message similar to "The data is invalid," or "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable."
To work around this problem, redeploy the affected nodes, or try deploying a smaller number of nodes at one time.
The Windows Azure VM role is retired
The VM Role feature (beta) in Microsoft Azure is being retired on May 15, 2013. Also now deprecated are the settings in Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2 and Microsoft HPC Pack 2012 to deploy a custom VHD to VM role nodes from a Windows HPC cluster. After the retirement date, VM role deployments from an HPC cluster will fail or be inaccessible. To add Azure nodes to an HPC cluster, use the Azure worker role.
Windows Azure Connect is not supported in Microsoft HPC Pack 2012
Windows Azure Connect features are not supported on Windows Azure node deployments with HPC Pack 2012. The Windows Azure Connect page has been removed from the Create Node Template Wizard and Node Template Editor. Windows Azure Connect settings will be removed from Windows Azure node templates that are imported from HPC Pack 2008 R2.
HPC Pack 2012 supports Windows Azure Virtual Network in deployments where Windows Azure Virtual Network is available.
Windows Azure HPC Scheduler Web Portal is not available immediately after deployment
After the initial deployment of the Windows Azure HPC Scheduler is completed, if you immediately attempt to reach the Web Portal, you might see a "Permission denied" error message. The Web Portal can take up to 10 minutes to start functioning after the deployment is completed.
Heat map and metrics may stop updating
If a network using IPsec has Connection Security Rules enabled in Windows Firewall, communication between a head node and a compute node may be blocked after the HPC Monitoring Server Service is restarted on the head node. Because of this, the heat map in HPC Cluster Manager and other cluster metrics may stop updating.
To work around this problem, restart the HPC Monitoring Client Service on each affected compute node. To restart the service on all nodes, you can run the following clusrun commands:
clusrun net stop HpcMonitoringClient
clusrun net start HpcMonitoringClient
Cluster metrics collection may affect performance-sensitive applications
Collection of cluster metrics, in particular the counters for HpcNetwork, can negatively affect job throughput for performance-sensitive applications, such as compute-intensive MPI applications.
To avoid this problem, disable the HpcNetwork usage counter, if it is in use. To do this, first export the current metric definition list to an XML file, in case you want to add it back later, by running the following HPC PowerShell cmdlet:
Export-HpcMetric -name HpcNetwork -path hpcnetwork.xml
Then, remove the HpcNetwork metric, as follows:
Remove-HpcMetric -name HpcNetwork
Task output shows most recent 4000 characters of output
HPC Pack 2012 caches and shows the most recent 4000 characters per task, not the first 4000 characters, as in previous versions of HPC Pack. This can affect or break existing scripts that you have implemented that monitor task output. The feature in HPC Pack 2012 makes it easier for you to see the current or exit status of tasks in your HPC jobs.
Capture Image operation may cause HPC Cluster Manager to hang
The Capture Image operation in HPC Cluster Manager may continue running without completing, and HPC Cluster Manager may appear to hang, if there is not sufficient disk space on the head node to store the disk image. The operations log may show errors or warnings that are related to the Robocopy command and the .wim file.
To work around this problem, use Task Manager to exit HPC Cluster Manager. Ensure that there is sufficient hard disk space on both the head node and the computer on which HPC Cluster Manager is running. If the head node is configured for high availability, check that there is sufficient space in the shared disk in the failover cluster. Then, try the operation again.
Capture Image operation may incorrectly report errors
On a cluster with a head node configured for high availability in the context of a failover cluster, the Capture Image operation may complete successfully but report one or more errors. For example, you might see a message similar to the following:
"[Error] Could not find a part of the path '<WIMFilePath>'. [Error] The operation failed and will not be retried. [Warning] The operation failed due to errors during execution."
To determine if the image was captured successfully, review the list of images in the image store.
Activation and submission filters must be accessible to all head nodes
In an HPC cluster configured for high availability of the head node in the context of a failover cluster, any activation or submission filter program files (.exe files and scripts) must be accessible to all of the head nodes in the cluster. It is recommended to install the filters to a folder in the shared storage of the failover cluster. Alternatively, you can create a local folder on each head node to store the folders. If you use duplicated local folders, ensure that you synchronize them when you make changes to the filters.
Custom HPC Pack 2008 R2 diagnostic tests must be updated to work with HPC Pack 2012
Because of a change in the supported .NET Framework version, any custom diagnostic test binaries that you created for HPC Pack 2008 R2 and that reference HPC assemblies need to be updated for HPC Pack 2012.
To update a HPC Pack 2008 R2 diagnostic test to work with HPC Pack 2012, recompile the diagnostic test source code by using the HPC Pack 2012 API and .NET Framework 4. Then, the diagnostic test should be retested to ensure full functionality.
Alternatively, a workaround for each HPC Pack 2008 R2 diagnostic test executable file is to create a new application configuration file, or update the existing configuration file, to enable HPC Pack 2012 to recognize and run the existing test. Each configuration file has a name of the form TestName.exe.config, where TestName.exe is the name of the diagnostic test executable file, and is located in the same folder as the test executable. For example, the following sample configuration file enables an HPC Pack 2008 R2 diagnostic test to support .NET Framework 4 and to bind the HPC Pack 2012 dependent assembly microsoft.hpc.diagnostics.helpers.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<supportedRuntime version="v4.0"/>
<requiredRuntime version="v4.0" safemode="true"/>
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
<assemblyIdentity name="microsoft.hpc.diagnostics.helpers"
culture="neutral" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="188.8.131.52"
Ensure that you add an additional <dependentAssembly> element for each additional HPC assembly that the diagnostic test binary references.
Apostrophe cannot be used in a node template name
The apostrophe (single quote) character cannot be used in the name of a node template. Using the apostrophe character in a template name can cause HPC Cluster Manager to crash or may lead to unexpected results when attempting to filter nodes by template name.
Remote connection credentials to cluster nodes may not be stored
If you previously stored domain credentials for remote desktop connections to cluster nodes from HPC Cluster Manager and those credentials expired or changed recently, you will be prompted to change credentials the next time you start a remote connection to cluster nodes by using the Remote Desktop in HPC Cluster Manager. However, if you enter the new credentials, and select the Remember my credentials option, the new credentials are not stored by HPC Cluster Manager. If you attempt later to make a remote desktop connection to another node by using HPC Cluster Manager, you will be prompted to enter credentials again. You will also be prompted to enter credentials again to make a later connection to the original node.
To update the remote connection credentials to the cluster nodes so that they are stored by HPC Cluster Manager, click Change password in the HPC Cluster Manager dialog box that appears when you use the Remote Desktop action. Then, in the Windows Security dialog box that appears, enter your remote connection credentials, and select Remember my credentials.
Node preparation task may run repeatedly
A job may repeatedly attempt to run a node preparation task and continue to run, instead of failing, if certain types of errors occur. If you notice that a job continues to create a node preparation task and the task fails immediately, you should manually cancel the job. Verify that you have specified a valid working directory for the job. If the job runs on graphics processor units (GPUs), or is another job type that runs in a console session that is created on the compute nodes, you should also ensure that there is not currently a user logged in to the console session of the nodes on which you are attempting to run the job.
SOA diagnostics can fail after installation of HPC Pack 2012 using nondefault folders
The HPC SOA Diagnostics Monitoring Service (HpcSoaDiagMon) can fail to start if the data directory configured on the head node during installation of HPC Pack 2012 is set to a folder that is not under the installation folder for HPC Pack. In this case, the path for the CCP_DATA environment variable is not under the path for the CCP_HOME environment variable. This problem will prevent the monitoring of SOA jobs by HPC Pack 2012.
If the data directory is not located under the default installation folder for HPC Pack, you make a file system link to resolve the problem. From an elevated command prompt, type the following command:
mklink /j "%CCP_HOME%\Data" "%CCP_DATA%"


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