text: On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Brian D. Ropers-Huilman wrote: > My understanding is that NIS can be very network intensive and there are > limits to the sizes of the maps unless you go to NIS+. Anytime a permission > needs to be check, like when a user is accessing a file, it is an NIS call to > see what UID the user has. This seems a little ridiculous to me, but that is > what I recall from discussions on this list in the past (you could search the > archives--this has been discussed at length before). I think that you're right on the money. HOWEVER, two observations: a) IIRC, one can overcome at least the network hit by installing cache-only servers on each node. That way, once the maps are pushed to the nodes one time, thereafter they tend to be answered from the local memory cache and hence are very fast and not horribly high overhead. I've never actually done this, though, and could be mistaken in my recollection of others who have. b) Just because NIS is "very network intensive" on the basis you outline above doesn't mean that it will be a significant bottleneck in all parallel computations or cluster configurations. It very much depends on what you are doing. For a coarse grained or embarrassingly parallel computation that is CPU and/or memory bound (not heavily I/O intensive at any phase but perhaps the beginning and end of a long computation) NIS can be inefficient -- and utterly negligible, as overhead goes. We actually use NIS for account authentication on our cluster because our internal network is mostly flat (entirely switched, so traffic remains isolated, but no router/gateways between workstations, servers, nodes). Authentication is thus equally flat. Since a typical usage pattern on our nodes is to start a job and run it for hours to days with little or no I/O, NIS load isn't an issue, and using something else would be much more painful. > Also, my understanding is that with plain NIS the largest map you can have is > 1024 characters. If you have a lot of graduate students in a single group, you > can quickly reach this limit. NIS+ overcomes this but I don't know if it has a > Linux port or not. See the NIS HOWTO, which addresses all this. The solution to this particular problem is to break up a long group into several "sub" groups with the same gid. gid is all the matters -- the first entry with a gid is the true "name" of the group. rgb > > Finally, yes, you would do well to wrap your useradd command with a script > that added the user and then pushed out all relevant files (/etc/passwd, > /etc/shadow, /etc/group, etc.). > > On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Srihari Angaluri wrote: > > Is there any serious performance/scalability issue to using NIS, as > > opposed to copying the individual files to each and every node on the > > cluster? Is this even a desirable option for large clusters, for > > example? What if I need to add more accounts? I have to copy the files > > all over again, right? Of course I can write scripts to automate the > > whole process, but why not maintain a central user account database > > using NIS? Can someone please elaborate on what the side effects are to > > using NIS? > > > > Srihari > > -- > Brian D. Ropers-Huilman (225) 578-0461 (V) > Systems Administrator AIX (225) 578-6400 (F) > Office of Computing Services GNU Linux brian at ropers-huilman.net > High Performance Computing .^. http://www.ropers-huilman.net/ > Fred Frey Building, Rm. 201, E-1Q /V\ \o/ > Louisiana State University (/ \) -- __o / | > Baton Rouge, LA 70803-1900 ( ) --- `\<, / `\\, > ^^-^^ O/ O / O/ O > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Defense to seek clemency for Ohio man who fatally shot his ailing wife in her hospital bed
AKRON, Ohio – An attorney for an Ohio man convicted of fatally shooting his ailing wife at a hospital says they will seek clemency from the governor.
Attorney Paul Adamson says in an email that the defense plans to launch a campaign for clemency after John Wise is sentenced. The sentencing is scheduled Friday in Akron.
The 68-year-old Massillon (MAS'-ih-luhn) man says he shot his debilitated wife out of love in August 2012 after she appeared to be in pain. Mercy is not a defense to a murder charge in Ohio.
Wise was convicted on charges including aggravated murder with a firearm specification, which could carry a life sentence.
The prosecutor says the unique circumstances warrant leniency. She has recommended that Wise be sentenced on a lesser crime and get a six-year term.


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FORT WAYNE, IN -- The YMCA of Greater Fort Wayne in Indiana and other local organizations helped begin Activate Fort Wayne, a new initiative financed by a $10,000 grant from the national YMCA to fight childhood obesity, according to The Journal Gazette. The Y, Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne, IN, and the Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation Department will help teach 10,000 local kids about nutrition and exercise through free programs this summer.
The initial plan was crafted after Activate Fort Wayne surveyed nearly 80 local organizations that serve kids and found some gaps in nutrition education and exercise programs. About two-thirds of the organizations wanted more information on providing healthy snacks to kids, but one-third said they were concerned about how they could do that, citing possible funding issues, the newspaper reported.
The childhood obesity epidemic is the first area the initiative will be targeting, officials say. Activate Fort Wayne will be coming up with more health-related programs and collaborative efforts in the next year or so.
Fort Wayne is the first city in the state to receive the grant, which helps start the project. Activate Fort Wayne can apply for more money in the future if the program is successful.


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Author Notes: I so much so love when our friends ask me to decide the menu for any get together we are planning. I like it when people trust me. So, I decided to come with something different for this 4th July. When, I decided to make these rice pudding pops, I did not keep in the mind the contest. Immediately, it strike to me to add mint. I have made pops from the very famous Indian dessert "Sevaiyan" , a pudding made from very very thin whole wheat noodles which has the flavor of cardamom. We love it when we bite into those creamy Popsicle and chewy noodles or in this case rice gives. It is really easy and simple. And, we are going to end our day with these wonderfully aromatic Popsicle. I have added cherries as they so fresh and seasonal not to include. You can also give it that extra texture by adding nuts. May be this time I want to give justice to mint and cherries. —PistachioDoughnut
Makes: 8 to 9 pops
1 3/4
cups Whole Milk
cup Heavy cream
cup Fresh clean mint leaves
5 to 6
tablespoons Short Grain Rice
cup Fresh cherries, pits removed, chopped
cup Semi-Sweet chocolate or dark chocolate
cup honey
teaspoon Salt
- Take the rice and wash it 2 to 3 times under running hot water. And, then soak the rice for about 20 minutes or so in hot or warm water. Leave it aside.
- Combine the milk , heavy cream, in a deep pot. And, bring it to boil. Once it has boiled enough, add in the mint and let it steep for about 20 minutes or so and cover the pot. Let the mint infuse in it.
- Now, take the rice which was soaking in water. Remove the water. On the other side, take the mint infused milk and cream , strain it with the help of fine-mesh sieve.
- Take back the milk and cream to stove on medium heat , add in the rice. Bring it to boil. Add the chocolate .Reduce the heat to low. Keep stirring just once in a while so that it does not stick on the bottom.Let it simmer for about 30 minutes , till the mixture has become nice and thick. Rice should be well cooked and it should soft. Remove it from the flame.
- Wait few minutes, add in the honey, chopped cherries and salt. Mix it well. (You can also use sugar , if you wish in place of honey. But, as I have used semi-sweet chocolate, I did not prefer to use sugar. )
- Once it has cooled a little bit. Divide it into the ice-pop molds if making pops.To make ice cream Churn it into ice cream maker and then freeze until it is set. I would prefer overnight. enjoy them the next day! you can make these ahead and they stay upto a week or more in the freezer.
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Sioux Falls Standoff Ends Peacefully
On Wednesday, law enforcement received information that an individual wanted on felony drug charges was located in central Sioux Falls. Law enforcement received information that the suspect was known to be armed with more than one weapon and that he had made threats toward law enforcement.
As officers were observing the residence, the suspect fled and was seen entering a home at 513 S. Western Ave. A perimeter was quickly established.
Around 1:50am Thursday morning, after a nearly 8 hour standoff with police, 25 year old Derek Jordan Arapahoe of Sioux Falls surrendered without further incident.
The Sioux Falls man was arrested for the felony warrants. Additional charges may be possible.


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4 1/2 cups all purpose flour
3 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon dry yeast
1 1/2 cups water
1 (6-pound ham), preferably from Trieste
1 sprig rosemary
Freshly ground black pepper
16 leaves radicchio, hard base removed
1 pound Montasio cheese, cut into 16 sticks
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
Combine the flour and salt on a work surface and form a well in the middle. Dissolve the yeast in about 1 1/2 cups water and pour this mixture into the well. Wet your fingers in some more water and push the flour into the yeast, working the ingredients to form a dough. Judiciously add a few drops of water to incorporate all the flour. Form an elastic, even dough. Place the dough in a large bowl and let rise, covered, in a warm place for an hour. It should double in size.
Gently wipe the ham with paper towels but do not remove any visible fat. Cut the rosemary sprig in half and "massage" it gently into to outside of the ham, then discard. Season the outside of the ham with black pepper.
Return the dough to the work surface and use a rolling pin to roll it out to 1/2-inch thickness. The dough may be an irregular shape. Place the ham in the middle of the dough and completely wrap it in the dough. Pinch the edges together to seal. Place the ham on a baking sheet and let sit for 20 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Bake the ham for 2 hours, after which time the crust should be light golden and fragrant.
While the ham cooks, prepare the stuffed radicchio. Place a piece of cheese at the end of each of the radicchio leaves and roll each leaf to completely enclose the cheese. Secure with toothpicks.
In a 12 to 14-inch saute pan, heat the butter over medium heat until it foams and subsides. Working in batches, saute the rolls in the pan for about 1 minute each. After the rolls are cooked, transfer them to a 9 by 13-inch casserole and season lightly with salt and pepper. When all the rolls have been Sauteed, pour the pan juices over the rolls and set aside until the ham is done cooking.
After 2 hours of cooking, remove the ham and let it sit for 5 minutes. Increase the heat to 400 degrees F., and cook the radicchio rolls in the oven for 2 to 3 minutes. Remove, carve the ham, and serve immediately


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Mark Followill will make his debut as FC Dallas play-by-play man this Sunday vs. Sporting Kansas City. The Dallas Morning News spoke with him about his new assignment. Here's an excerpt:
Followill is the primary TV play-by-play man for FCD games, but only when games don't conflict with Mavericks games. FCD's game is in Kansas City, and since the Mavericks don't play Sunday and Monday, the veteran broadcaster plans to call Sunday's game alongside former Dallas Burn player Brian Dunseth.
"I'm really, really excited about it," Followill said. "Being on the broadcast is a great honor. It's an opportunity for me to expand my own professional horizons, so I think it's just going to be great all around."
He has a history with the Dallas franchise, serving as the public address announcer for the Burn during their time at the Cotton Bowl and also as a fill-in PA announcer for FCD the last few years.


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WASHINGTON - The National Corn Growers Association thinks ethanol is getting a bad rap thanks to partisan politics, and its leaders are taking action to set the record straight on the alternative energy source.
Concerned by lingering debate on the energy bill and misrepresentation of ethanol as a contributor to rising gas prices, the commodity group is urging members of Congress and the administration to put politics aside and get to work on passage of a comprehensive energy bill.
"It's politics as usual and the American farmer is tired of it," said Dee Vaughn, the NCGA president and a farmer from Dumas, Texas. "There's a lot of doubt in the Corn Belt on whether politicians will actually do what they were elected to do, and that is lead.
"We need the White House and Congress to show Americans that our government works, that an energy bill can get done and that those we send to Washington, D.C., can do something other than blame someone else for not doing their job."
The comments in a letter to the White House and congressional leadership was a response to several news stories linking ethanol to increasing gas prices. Within a span of two weeks, the national average gas price has increased from $1.75 to $2.07 per gallon. Natural gas prices have also risen to the highest-ever settlement price of $5.933 per MMBtu.
The recent increases are due to a number of influences including an extremely low gasoline and crude oil inventory, high crude oil prices due to OPEC, a higher than expected demand due to the growing economy and a cold winter that diverted production from gasoline to home heating oil, the corn growers say.
Recent research dispels the myth that ethanol is the cause of higher gas prices, the letter notes. In a recent analysis prepared for the Renewable Fuels Association, prices of reformulated gasoline, blended with either MTBE or ethanol, have not risen as fast as conventional gasoline.
The report also found that reformulated gasoline production, as a fraction of overall gasoline production, has remained constant over the last three months, resulting in no evidence that production is problematic.
Increasing production and use of ethanol and biodiesel, according to Vaughan, will promote a "greener" environment, promote economic growth and job creation, secure a better, more independent energy policy and help reduce the cost of gasoline.
"U.S. corn farmers are proud that the ethanol industry has doubled production over the past three years," the letter said. "Without ethanol, existing supplies and refining capacity would be hard pressed to meet our nation's fuel needs. But the ethanol and renewable industry alone cannot meet the need of our nation and there must be action by the government to address the loss of our energy independence, jobs, and in some parts of our nation, hope."
Corn growers are urging the immediate passage of a comprehensive energy bill that includes a renewable fuels standard, along with the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit.
In recent days, Republican leaders have said they would transfer the energy bill's tax provisions to a tax bill to fund projects like an Alaskan natural gas pipeline.


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The playwright Paddy Chayefsky, a winner of three Academy Awards, died of cancer yesterday at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 58 years old.
Between his early great success with intimate dramas for television and his later success with large-scale Hollywood extravaganzas, Mr. Chayefsky wrote several plays for Broadway.
His most famous play was ''Marty,'' the story of a fat, unhappy butcher. First done on television, it became a movie and won an Oscar in 1955. His second Academy Award came in 1971 for ''The Hospital'' and his last in 1976 for the screenplay of ''Network,'' a grim satire on the high-pressure world of New York City television.
He often defended the artistic possibilities of films and once said of California, ''The simple truth is that Hollywood producers and executives are not the idiots they are frequently supposed to be.''
His other stories and screenplays included ''As Young as You Feel'' in 1951, ''The Catered Affair'' in 1956, ''The Bachelor Party'' in 1957, ''The Goddess'' in 1958, ''Middle of the Night'' in 1959, ''The Americanization of Emily'' in 1964 and ''Altered States'' in 1979.Continue reading the main story
Mr. Chayefsky's characters were often touching victims, unable to express their love, boredom or frustration. Defending his work against some early critics, he said in 1956: ''I have sometimes been accused of writing little plays about little people. What my critics pretend to mean, I think, is that my plays are literal and earthbound, and that my characters never achieve any stature beyond immediate recognition.''
The playwright's real first name was Sidney. His parents, Russian-Jewish immigrants, lived in the Bronx, where he was born in 1923. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School and graduated from City College with a bachelor of science degree in 1943. He then entered the Army, where he reportedly acquired the name ''Paddy'' after asking to be excused from K.P. to attend mass. He served in the 104th Infantry Division and was injured in Aachen, Germany, by a mine explosion.
While convalescing at an Army hospital in Cirencester, England, he wrote one of his first works, a G.I. musical comedy. Met Joshua Logan in Europe
The young playwright met Joshua Logan during a successful tour of the show through Europe. Ten years later, Mr. Logan produced and directed Mr. Chayefsky's first successful Broadway play, ''Middle of the Night.''
On returning home from Europe, Mr. Chayefsky went to work for a while in an uncle's print shop in Manhattan. Later, he began writing short stories and dramas for radio and television, and his early works became known for the intelligent sympathy and good humor with which he viewed his characters, many of them evidently based upon people he knew in his youth. He gained early esteem also for his naturalistic dialogue, which admirers (and later critics, for different reasons) often said resembled tape-recordings.
Some of his early television scripts are now widely forgotten, but at the time they helped persuade many critics that television was a suitable medium for serious drama. Mr. Chayefsky went so far as to write that television ''may be the basic theater of our century.'' It was an opinion he had abandoned long before he wrote ''Network.'' By then, some critics recalled Mr. Chayevsky's early work as a main reason for what they considered a ''golden age'' of television. Dramas of Early '50s
Among his television dramas of the early 1950's were ''The Mother,'' about an old woman who seeks work in a Manhattan sweatshop rather than depend on her married daughter; ''Holiday Song,'' about a cantor who has lost his faith, and ''The Big Deal,'' about a man who never made his million.
In his early work - as in his later, more violent films - Mr. Chayefsky was sometimes considered sentimental, but his characters and their fates were rarely dismissed as unbelievable.
Many scenes and bits of dialogue from Mr. Chayefsky's plays stuck in the minds of the millions who saw them. During the 1950's especially, the image of Marty - lovesick for a schoolteacher and not even knowing how he wanted to waste an evening with a friend - became famous enough to be imitated relentlessly by comedians.
Mr. Chayefsky, in his youth, had aspired to be a stand-up comic himself. He had also felt, while writing ''Marty,'' that he was writing a comedy; he was said to have been surprised when some in the audiences actually wept. 'I'm Mad As Hell'
Much later, the line ''I'm mad as hell and I'm not taking it anymore,'' from ''Network,'' gained a certain popular renown as a statement of end-of-the-rope contempt for the corruptions, hypocrisies and humiliations of corporate life and the power of society's image-makers.
Mr. Chayefsky's works were seen by tens of millions, and, whether in the plainness of his early work or in the increasing sophistication and desperation of his later characters, the author appeared to reflect certain facets of his society's changing inner life. His movies thus remained extremely popular, though his reputation among some drama critics declined.
Mr. Chayefsky also became more and more critical of American society, and his satire sharpened, seeming to some viewers to leave its naturalistic origins and enter a surreal world of hysterical comedy and pointless violence. He once said: ''Characters caught in the decline of their society - that's the essence of almost everything that I write.''
In his later years, too, he said he found the truest drama in the movies, and critics who lamented the passing of his less flamboyant plays struck him as having missed a change in society's basic tone. ''I still write realistic stuff,'' he told an interviewer. ''It's the world that's gone nuts, not me. It's the world that's turned into a satire.''
On Broadway, none of his plays lasted more than about a season, and, while often successful, their relative lack of critical attention seemed to turn him away from the stage.
His Broadway productions included ''Middle of the Night,'' ''The Tenth Man,'' ''Gideon'' and ''The Passion of Josef D'' - a play about Stalin that quickly failed.
A later play, ''The Latent Heterosexual,'' was staged in Texas, starring Zero Mostel. The drama was well received, but it did not appear in New York. Actors Acclaimed in His Roles
Several film actors gained considerable acclaim for their performances in Chayefsky works, including Ernest Borgnine in ''Marty,'' George C. Scott and Diana Rigg in ''Hospital'' and Faye Dunaway and the late Peter Finch in ''Network.''
His most recent filmscript, ''Altered States,'' about a professor who uses himself as a guinea pig for his experiments, appeared finally with a credit saying that the movie had been based on a novel by Mr. Chayefsky. The playwright had quarreled with the film's director, Ken Russell.
For about a year and a half before his death, according to the playwright's literary agent, Maurice Spanbock, Mr. Chayefsky had been working on a political play about the Alger Hiss trial.
His wife, the former Susan Sackler, whom he married in 1949, survives him, as does a son, Daniel. Mr. Chayefsky lived with his family on Manhattan's Central Park West.
Funeral services were tentatively set for 2:45 P.M. Tuesday at Riverside Memorial Chapel, 76th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan.
Monday, Late City Final Edition
An obituary of Paddy Chayefsky yesterday gave the wrong time for the funeral service. It is scheduled for 12:45 P.M. tomorrow at Riverside Memorial Chapel, 76th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.


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Djkohl necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 327 diseños de 90 diseñadores freelance.
Halcyon Home Health
My partner and I are building a home health and hospice business. We have just completed a capital raise with a major private equity firm for $50 million. We're looking to buy a platform company in the Southeast and then build it via de novos, organic growth, and acquisitions. We want to build a regional powerhouse that delivers outstanding care in a high quality fashion and build a reputation for integrity
Our target audience will be hospital discharge planners, social workers, physicians, elderly patients, and of course our employees. We want it to be something that engenders confidence, quality, pride and strength. Perhaps using a bold H to anchor it and then weave in the peaceful, tranquil feeling will work.
Halcyon is a greek word for calm, peaceful and tranquil. It was used to describe a kingfisher that had the ability to calm the seas and bring peace and happiness. I do not want to have the bird incorporated in the logo....I'd actually like to focus on peaceful, tranquil and find a way to incorporate a capital H to play off of the alliteration with Halcyon Home Health. It's important that it also gives a crisp, clean feeling. There have been fraud and abuse allegations in the industry....so I want this have a bit of a sterile quality to it that gives a caring, supportive message. Perhaps bringing in a home that plays off of the H would also work. I do not want a cartoon....it has to have a very serious, sincere feeling to it.
One of the other factors that is necessary to provide great service in home health is to do it very cost effectively. We want the logo to not be too elaborate so folks get a feeling that what you see is what you get. Additionally, it does need to balance all of this with a bit of a high tech feeling...the key to reducing healthcare costs in the future is using data to make better decisions. We want to be a Company that utilizes technology to provide better, more focused care in the home and use data to distinguish our service.
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Athletic Training On Campus Educational Facilities:
There are three primary athletic training facilities on the IC campus where athletic training services are provided, and where a large percentage of our students' clinical education occurs. The main Athletic Training Clinic has undergone a recent and expansive renovation in the Hill Center. With roughly 2500 square feet of "usable" space, the new Hill Center Clinic is where athletes receive evaluation, treatment and rehabilitation services throughout the day, as well as before and after practices and games.
The renovations also included a new office suite for the faculty and staff, a private physician examination room, ample storage, a dedicated hydrotherapy room, and a large, multi purpose Clinical Classroom.
Our second major Athletic Training Clinic on campus is housed in the Athletics and Events Center, and is active in the afternoons, evenings and weekends before, during and after practices and games, with approximately 900 square feet of clinical space, and in close proximity to the Strength & Conditioning Center for enhanced rehabilitation and exercise.
Our third Athletic Training Clinic is located in the Ceracche Athletic Building located between the football and the baseball fields, and has approximately 750 square feet of clinical space. All three can become overcrowded during peak hours, but are run efficiently and are adequately equipped to provide a dynamic and well-structured clinical learning environment for all athletic training majors.


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German Chancellor Merkel tells Cyprus to enact reforms to garner support for bailout
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LIMASSOL, Cyprus – German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Cyprus must move ahead with economic reforms so it can garner support for a rescue package that it's trying to finalize with international creditors.
As she arrived for a European conservative parties' conference in Cyprus, Merkel said Friday that the country needed to embrace reforms if it hoped to get any bailout.
Cyprus has already enacted public sector pay cuts and tax rises as part of a draft bailout deal it has negotiated with the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. It is resisting calls for privatizations, however.
Cypriot banks took huge losses on bad Greek debt and loans and their rescue needs are still being calculated. The estimate will affect the size and terms of Cyprus' bailout deal.


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They're not Franciscans approaching Assisi but earnest readers rushing bookstores and cultural temples for word -- wisdom, solace, salvation? -- from on high. Or turning on the TV, opening a newspaper, for insight from their favorite authors.
But what if the creator won't come down from the mountain, won't comment on the reasons for his creation? What if he won't publish his new work (like J.D. Salinger), won't allow himself to be photographed (like Thomas Pynchon), won't make public appearances (like Cormac McCarthy) or won't write at all despite early success (like Harper Lee)?
That's the case with the reclusive writers, a small but mythically resonant category made up mostly of successful, staggeringly prestigious figures whose refusal to play the publicity game, or to appear to swim in the same water as their readers, can signify everything -- or nothing at all.
"When a writer doesn't show his face," Don DeLillo wrote portentously in his 1991 novel, "Mao II," "he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear."
God's -- or at least Pynchon's -- heir apparent may be Denis Johnson, an esteemed if not widely known poet and novelist who lives in northern Idaho and whose new novel, "Tree of Smoke," is one of the season's most eagerly awaited. For "Tree of Smoke," set largely in 1960s Southeast Asia and a work on which Johnson has been toiling for more than 20 years, he will offer no press or public appearances.
Previous books, such as his 1992 "Jesus' Son," which exists at the place where drug-induced hallucination becomes genuine religious vision, generated such heat that he'll always have a dedicated readership.
Johnson is in the softer end of the reclusive-writer type -- he home schools his kids and lives far from a big city and doesn't promote his novels. But he did a few readings and interviews, in which he projected a mellow intelligence, when his plays debuted a few years back. Since then, virtually nothing.
Eccentric writers, of course, are not the only ones to detach: Other famous shut-ins include the late Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett, film director Terrence Malick, actress Greta Garbo, cult pianist Glenn Gould, anonymous rock band the Residents and, of course, the Unabomber. But because an author really only produces words -- unlike, say, an actor, whose image is always before us -- and since we often look to the novelist as akin to a guru, the disappearance often seems more violent, abrupt.
It can come off as arrogance, sensitivity, or a noble dissent -- a high-minded refusal to engage with America's culture of celebrity, erosion of privacy and self-promotion. It may be just the wishful fantasy that their books might arrive unmediated, might "speak for themselves."
Arthur Salm, the book editor at the San Diego Union-Tribune, calls it common sense.
"Reclusive writers are living perfectly reasonable lives," he said. "The fact that they're reclusive isn't the phenomenon: The phenomenon is our reaction to the fact that they're living normal lives. It has the opposite effect than what I think these writers want: People are intrigued by it. 'My God -- look!' Your idea is to disappear and you end up with the spotlight on you."
Smug, sensitive, too cool for school -- what is it? Why do authors withdraw from the world?
Everyone has his or her own reason, though by definition we mostly have to guess. For Lee it's thought to be a fear that she won't top her one and only novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird." (She's part of a group of writers, such as Ralph Ellison and Henry Roth, who fade from view after killer first novels.)
Salinger clearly had something resembling an identity crisis and perhaps a nervous breakdown soon after the publication of "The Catcher in the Rye." (It's a book, ironically, whose hero, Holden Caulfield, muses on his favorite authors and wishes "you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.")
For Pynchon, who has enough of a sense of humor to appear, in animated form, on "The Simpsons," it may be sensitivity and cultural rebellion. As NEA Literature Director David Kipen sees it, Pynchon might be drawn to a subterranean lifestyle for literary as well as personal reasons. "He was a guy who came of age in the midst of the Beat generation," Kipen noted. Dropping out can have a more earthbound explanation as well. Writers often choose to make their living alone in a room, for instance, because they aren't that comfortable around other people. They're by nature reflective creatures. And the publicity mill can be bruising.
"I've had authors who tell me that the book tour is the best four weeks of their lives," said Lori Glazer, chief publicist at Houghton Mifflin. "Others tell me they'd rather have surgery."
To understand recluses, it helps to look at writers who didn't go underground, says New Republic critic Lee Siegel. He points at the pugnacious, at times ubiquitous Norman Mailer -- who called an early essay collection "Advertisements for Myself" -- as the anti-Pynchon.
"He was so vexed by his early fame," said Siegel, "that it basically ruined his life as a fiction writer. He didn't have the author's incognito, he couldn't go through the world observing and unobserved. I think that's why Pynchon became reclusive: He wanted to watch people. If your face is plastered over all the magazines, you can't sit in a restaurant and watch."
Still, it makes these characters seem a bit out of time.
"Everybody wants to be famous now," said Siegel, whose "Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob" comes out in January. "That's what YouTube is about.
"Fame, for anyone who's experienced it, is a calamity; you can see it in the faces of actors. People seem to not want a private life now -- they're dancing naked online -- but with the recluse you see the most pristine and old-fashioned notion of how sacred a private life really is. And a writer, especially, needs to keep his interiority detached. While someone like Paris Hilton doesn't have interiority, so she can put herself up for sale."
Much 20th century literary theory, whether so-called New Criticism or post-structuralism -- embodied in the essay by French critic Roland Barthes called "The Death of the Author" -- argues that a writer's biography has nothing to do with the worth, or meaning, of the work. But because there are so few real facts to go on, withdrawal both confirms and distorts the way we see each writer.
With Pynchon, by all reports a gentle soul and whose novels often involve quests and metaphysical mysteries, it makes him seem even more deep than his many-layered novels do. With Philip Roth, whose upcoming "Exit Ghost" muses on the topic of a writer's privacy, it was hard not to see his distance as an extension of his often cranky literary voice. For McCarthy, his reclusiveness fits a myth of Western self-reliance, as if he were a taciturn apparition from the dust-strewn Wild West his best-known novels summon.
The reclusion may even have an effect on critical assessments: Can it be a coincidence that of the four American novelists whom influential critic Harold Bloom calls the greatest of our age, two (Pynchon and McCarthy) are flat-out recluses and the other two (DeLillo and Philip Roth) are former recluses recently warmed up to merely "press shy"? (DeLillo used to carry cards saying, "I don't want to talk about it.") And Alice Munro, perhaps the best-regarded living short-story writer, lives in near-seclusion in small-town Ontario, Canada.
But did the mystique come before the vanishing act, or vice versa?
The low profile of Salinger and Pynchon may have helped develop, or sustain, a particularly rabid fan base, said Kipen, who wrote his Yale senior essay on "The Literature of Reclusiveness."
"These are all cult writers: People whose paperbacks were passed from the '50s or '60s to this very day, from hand to hand like talismans," he said. "Pynchon writes about conspiracy and paranoia, which leads to a cult readership. There's something almost conspiratorial about getting into them and learning to love them: These guys are grown-up versions of what we called imaginary playmates."
Literary reclusion, like celebrity, seems to be a category in which Americans excel, especially recently.
Emily Dickinson, who published only a handful of poems, all anonymously, and lived in isolation, may be our first great literary recluse. Herman Melville laid low, while keeping a job as a customs inspector, after the resounding failure of "Moby-Dick." When he died, the New York Times misspelled his name in its tiny obituary.
But the grandfather of all recluses is Salinger. In 1953, two years after the publication of "Catcher," he moved to Cornish, N.H., and early on had a number of social connections, later severed.
Literary observers -- and memoir writers -- alternately shake their heads and try to empathize with his withdrawal.
"Here you are, plugging away, writing great short stories for the New Yorker," said Kipen, "and suddenly all these teenagers are coming out of the woodwork -- and they think you're Buddha!"
He withdrew further during a period in which he became a follower, in quick succession, of Hindu celibacy, L. Ron Hubbard, Edgar Cayce and Wilhelm Reich. On the dust jacket of 1961's "Franny and Zooey," he wrote that "a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years," and he later, in a very rare interview, discussed the joys of not publishing.
"I mean, what's the importance of a photograph if you know the writer's work?" a photographer asks in "Mao II." "I don't know. But people still want the image, don't they? The writer's face is the surface of the work. It's a clue to the mystery inside."
That's the case in the Gus Van Sant film "Finding Forrester," in which a brilliant but troubled inner-city kid seeks an isolated writer, played by Sean Connery, in a film that viewed literature as therapy. If "Finding Forrester" is the cartoon version of the reclusive writer, the saga of J.T. Leroy shows the reclusive-writer myth reframed as kitsch.
Leroy, purportedly a former teenage junkie and truck-stop prostitute, appeared infrequently, usually in a wig and sunglasses but was revealed to be a construct of Bay Area writer Laura Albert. Leroy, in other words, was so reclusive he turned out not to exist.
Besides last month's appearance by Lee at an Alabama awards ceremony -- where she provoked a standing ovation by quipping, "Well, it's better to be silent than to be a fool" -- the most recent mountaintop descent was McCarthy's appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." Some observers commented on how normal the shirt-sleeved McCarthy, who was polite and not especially mysterious, appeared.
"That indicates how highly we value celebrity, and how important it is to the culture," Salm said. "That someone who turns their back on it must have something wrong with them. Some people are just shy."
But there's something else: "Someone would call up and offer him $2,000 to come speak at a university about his books," McCarthy's second wife, Anne de Lisle, once revealed of the days where the couple lived in a barn in Tennessee and bathed in a nearby lake. "And he would tell them that everything he had to say was there on the page. So we would eat beans for another week."
Though he's a modern figure, the reclusive novelist has his roots in the days before TV.: "The poète maudit was the precursor to the recluse," Siegel said. "He can't deal with any kind of success, so he goes out, like Rimbaud, and destroys everything. It keeps alive this idea of a 'holy curse' on the writer, who has to keep away from humankind. It's kind of romantic."
Does Johnson feel the holy curse? How did his early years drugging and drinking, his discovery of God ("It was kind of -- blue," was all he'd tell the SF Weekly), lead him to what he's writing about now? Does his simultaneously incantatory and finished writing style come from one of these experiences, both, or neither?
We may never know.
"There's that great line in Godard's 'Breathless,' " said Siegel, "where they're interviewing this poet, he's wearing dark glasses, and they ask him what he wants most of all. And he says, 'To become immortal -- and then die.'
"That's what reclusiveness is: It's becoming immortal while you're still alive."
And this may speak to why they do it, and why it fascinates us. Reading may be the most intimate of artistic practices: The work lives in the imagination in a direct, vital way. The author's voice, his face and back story and style of shirt can only break the spell, get in the way.
So the reclusive writer, whom we can't read about or talk to, is as far away as the dead writer. Like Shakespeare and Melville and Dickinson, they're already classics.
"It almost helps," said Kipen, "that there's no interviews with Pynchon in print saying, 'I like to sit around in my underwear and watch soap operas.' Because we don't want to know that."


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Seminoles.com) – Continuing the tradition of excellence on and off the court, rising seniors Kerrie Cartwright and Daneika Borthwick were named to the 2014 All-ACC Academic Women's Tennis Team, as announced today by Commissioner John Swofford. Borthwick earned her second conference academic honor, while Cartwright was named to the team for the first time in her career.
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Porto's most famous export product is port. The city overflows with it. The right bank of the Douro river is teeming with wine bars. On the other shore, in Vila Nova de Gaia, the port houses have cellars full of expensive bottles, while further upstream lies the delightful landscape dotted with vineyards. Make the most of your port sampling with this 3-step approach – spitting is optional.
The region along the Douro river has been producing port since Roman times, for more than 2,000 years. The grapes for this fortified, slightly sweet wine grow in the Alto Douro, a landscape with beautiful wine terraces that have been designated a World Heritage site. In days of yore, the grapes were packed into wooden boats (barcos rabelos) and shipped to the city where they were processed into port. Today, the port houses welcome visitors with open arms, just like the many wine bars in Porto. Ready for a taste?
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Bunkley committed the penalty on a failed 49ers field-goal attempt late in San Francisco's stirring 31-21 win. The video above doesn't leave much room for interpretation.
Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh was suspended for stomping on an opponent last year in another high-profile, nationally televised game.
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As one legal challenge involving the Lancaster City Council ends, another might pop up in its place.
Tuesday night's vote to approve a $6,750 payment to newly installed council member Linda Blackmon – a vote that she participated in – has raised issues under South Carolina's ethics statute.
As Indian Land incorporation organizers pivot to a "vote yes" campaign after winning approval from a key legislative committee in Columbia last week, opponents are ramping up their efforts to persuade residents to "vote no" on the proposition.
Newly installed Lancaster City Council member Linda Blackmon broke a 3-3 tie Tuesday night as the council granted her request for $6,750 in back pay, compensating her for the nine months when a legal challenge kept her from taking office.
But her vote drew immediate scrutiny under South Carolina's ethics statute, which says public officials must recuse themselves on any vote "that affects their own economic interests."
Archie Parnell, who lost a close special election for the 5th Congressional District in June, will run again in 2018, he announced Monday.
The Sumter Democrat will challenge incumbent Republican Ralph Norman, who won the seat after Mick Mulvaney vacated it to become President Trump's budget director.
Two Democrats say they are running to challenge Republican Gov. Henry McMaster when he runs in 2018.
S.C. Rep. James Smith of Columbia announced his candidacy Monday, and Charleston businessman Phil Noble will officially unveil his plans Wednesday, according to the Charleston Post and Courier. Noble will challenge Smith for the minority party's nomination.
Besides McMaster, three Republicans have declared their candidacies – Lt. Gov. Kevin Bryant, former state agency head Catherine Templeton, and former Lt. Gov. Yancey McGill.
Newly sworn in Lancaster City Council member Linda Blackmon has requested back pay for the nine months she would have served on the council if Jackie Harris had not sued her over the 2016 election results.
Blackmon wants $6,750 in back pay, according to the agenda for Tuesday night's city council meeting, which was set to begin after press time.
Blackmon's request got mixed reviews Tuesday afternoon.
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Kershaw Town Councilman Eddie Coates discovered the change in August when he was preparing to file for reelection.
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Linda Blackmon was sworn in Sunday as a member of Lancaster City Council, marking the end of an 11-month battle with defeated incumbent Jackie Harris over the 2016 District 3 election.
The S.C. Supreme Court unanimously affirmed Blackmon's win on Sept. 7, and last Thursday it unanimously denied Harris' motion to reconsider the ruling.
Under S.C. law, Harris was allowed to retain the District 3 seat until her protest of Blackmon's Nov. 8 election victory was fully adjudicated in the state courts.
County leaders are trying to come up with an ordinance to address pesky door-to-door peddlers who show up uninvited or refuse to leave when asked.
It's become a real issue for residents in Sun City Carolina Lakes, said Lancaster County Council member Terry Graham.
"I've gotten a number of complaints, too, from the subdivisions near the state line," said council member Brian Carnes, who like Graham represents Indian Land. "A lot of them come in from North Carolina, and when you ask them to leave, they won't leave….
At Tuesday's Lancaster City Council meeting, council members Gonzie Mackey, Kenny Hood and Tamara Green Garris got into a testy exchange with Mayor John Howard about his recent stroke and an earlier council vote.
After the heated words, Garris, the mayor pro tem, tried to calm the waters.
"We want to be respectful towards each other," she said, "and we don't want the public to think we're up here fussing and fighting all the time."
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Subject: Processors | June 13, 2012 - 10:00 AM | Josh Walrath
Tagged: TrustZone, hsa, Cortex-A5, cortex, arm, APU, amd, AFDS
Last year after that particular AFDS, there was much speculation that AMD and ARM would get a whole lot closer. Today we have confirmed that in two ways. The first is that AMD and ARM are founding members of the HSA Foundation. This endeavor is a rather ambitious project that looks to make it much easier for programmers to access the full computer power of a CPU/GPU combo, or as AMD likes to call them, the APU. The second confirmation is one that has been theorized for quite some time, but few people have actually hit upon the actual implementation. This second confirmation is that AMD is licensing ARM cores and actually integrating them into their x86 based APUs.
AMD Strengthens Security Solutions through Technology Partnership with ARM
– Industry-first Collaboration to Extend ARM TrustZone Security Technology into x86-
based AMD Offerings, Enabling More Secure Computing Experiences and Significantly
Expanding the Security Ecosystem –
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — June 13, 2012 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced
it will integrate a new security solution into its future products to meet the increasing
need to provide consumers and businesses with secure access to their content and
worry-free online transactions. Through a strategic technology partnership with ARM,
AMD will integrate the established ARM® TrustZone® technology into future Accelerated
Processing Units (APUs) via a system-on-a-chip (SoC) design methodology. This
industry-first collaboration will help accelerate broader ecosystem support by aligning
x86 hardware with the world's most broadly-adopted mobile security ecosystem.
By adopting the industry-standard approach to security that TrustZone
technology embodies, AMD and ARM will provide a consistent approach to security
spanning billions of Internet-connected mobile devices, tablets, PCs and servers −
whether they are powered by ARM processor-based solutions or AMD x86 APUs. AMD
plans to provide development platforms that have TrustZone security features on select
APUs in 2013, expanding further across its product portfolio in 2014. In a presentation
this week at the AMD Fusion Developer Summit 2012 (AFDS), AMD Senior Vice
President and Chief Information Officer Mike Wolfe described AMD's vision to advance
computing security by enhancing AMD's existing security technologies. This is expected
to include developing a platform security processor using an ARM Cortex™-A5 CPU that
features TrustZone technology, to monitor and help protect against malicious access to
sensitive data and operations at the hardware level.
"With AMD's support for, and inclusion in, the expanding TrustZone ecosystem,
consumers and businesses can rest assured their data and content are secured by an
industry-standard security solution that spans a multitude of devices and operating
systems," said Wolfe. "This example of AMD's ambidextrous strategy, which leverages
our history of x86 and graphics innovation while also embracing other technologies and
intellectual property, will help drive a more secure computing experience for our
consumer and businesses customers."
"As technology becomes more important to our everyday lives, security needs to
be present in every single device. The challenge that the industry faces is how to make
this a reality," said Ian Drew, executive vice president, strategy, ARM. "Through this
technology partnership with AMD, and the broadening of the ARM TrustZone technology
ecosystem, we're making another important step towards a solution. The aim is to make
security accessible and consistent for consumers and business users across all
computing devices."
Industry Support Demonstrates Market Need
In recognition of the first time hardware will be aligned to an industry-standard
security solution between multiple processor architectures, the technology partnership
has garnered wide support from industry leaders and influencers.
"At Alipay, we strive to provide safe and reliable online payment services to
hundreds of millions of registered users for the tens of millions of transactions they make
every day," said Stephen Zhu, senior director, Alipay. "By incorporating security at the
hardware level, AMD and ARM are providing an added level of protection and taking us
one step closer to achieving this goal."
"Hardly a week goes by without the emergence of another scary story regarding
stolen identities or some other computer-related security breach – such as last week's
hack of social career networking website LinkedIn that resulted in millions of stolen
passwords," observed Nathan Brookwood, Research Fellow at Insight 64. "The bad guys
have figured out that it's easier to steal money from a bank's computers than from the
bank itself. AMD's move to integrate ARM's TrustZone technology into future APUs will
allow systems containing those APUs to attain the same level of hardware-enforced
security as today's most advanced devices, and will allow the users of those systems to
sleep more soundly at night.
ARM TrustZone Brings Security to Millions of Devices
ARM TrustZone technology - a system-wide approach to security - is a key
component of the ARM architecture and is integrated into the ARM Cortex-A processor
series. Launched in 2004, TrustZone is a result of ongoing co-development that ARM
carries out with a wide range of companies and has been implemented in a wide array of
devices to date. The aim of the TrustZone ecosystem is to drive industry alignment and
scalability. This will enable billions of TrustZone technology-based devices to meet the
system security needs of consumers, service providers, enterprises and device
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That tidbit about AMD selling their mobile unit to Qualcomm almost made me laugh myself out of my seat. Nice to know.
"TrustZone"? It seems more like "Distrust Zone" to me. If it isn't about distrust, why can't I run the same algorithms in the only CPU that any computer actually needs?
If you're that dumb, at least just sit back and watch the pretty colors on the screen. Opening your mouth only makes you look like a total and utter moron.
TO..."little"...to frigg'in..."late.
How would someone using Windows x86/x64 take advantage of this?
I mean it sounds like you need Software/OS Vendors (Microsoft, itunes and Steam etc) and the payment processors (Visa, mastercard, Paypal? etc) plus the websites to be on board for something like this.
Now that I think about it, isnt this just like the Trusted Platform Module? is this a replacement or an addition?
The 10-15mm^2 is far off. According to ARM an A5 with both caches and
NEON is less than 1mm^2 on a 40 nm process.
See this: http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a5.php?tab=Perfor...
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The weather was so beautiful the other day, I thought I'd go to the cemetery and visit my parents and get them caught up on what's been going on. Dad died in 2002, mom in 2010.
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