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I hate your favorite election map
I am not by nature an angry person—in fact my friends at times find me irritatingly even-tempered—nor am I known to truly hate anything, but provocative titles have their place, right?
We've once again arrived at that special time of (every fourth) year when the internet abounds with maps, charts, and other graphics attempting to depict and analyze every geographic and demographic angle of the US presidential election. I am happy for these, both in the perspectives they provide on the election and in the demonstration of interesting visualization methods.
But as a cartographer in the eternal quest for the Perfect Map, I find myself complaining about some map and graphics. In particular, I take exception to this:
For anyone who doesn't know, the above is a cartogram ('bout time I wrote about that which my site is named after!) of the United States, in this case a map by Michael Gastner, Cosma Shalizi, and Mark Newman showing the results of the 2004 presidential election by county (we'll soon be seeing one for 2008). A cartogram is a map that does not strive for geographic accuracy, but rather in which the area of units actually represents some value. In the election map, each county's size represents its number of voters. The point of the map is to show that while a geographic red-blue election map would show an apparent vastness of Republican votes, those "red" areas actually account for about the same number of votes as the tiny "blue" areas. (The message is further conveyed by coloring counties along a red-blue continuum to show the actual balance of votes rather than simply coloring by the winner, something first seen in Robert Vanderbei's election maps.)
I've written several drafts of many paragraphs to try to explain my opinion, but really, who has time to read all my ranting? Short version: apologies to Drs. Gastner and Newman, but as a cartographer interested in clear and effective design, I really believe that cartograms generated from their method are severely over-hyped and far more popular than they should be. Consider the election map (or any number of examples)…
- Ugly! All that puckering and bloating… I wouldn't want to share an elevator with that America.
- Topology preservation at the expense of shape: even if I know what a county looks like on a normal map, I'm going to have a hard time identifying it here.
- On shape, still: curvy shape distortions are harder to recognize than simplified polygonal shapes.
- The overall distortions leave me gleaning only about five things from this map: east, west, Florida, Michigan, and that there is roughly the same amount of blue as red. Yes, I know that last one is the whole point, but if I can barely discern the geography, why bother to use a map? There are lots of cool visualization works that deserve attention too.
- Fast and easy cartograms (including this particular map) are not useless, and the work by Gastner and Newman is an important contribution, but there are under-appreciated careful designs out there. Consider the excellent cartograms from Mapping Worlds:
The bottom line is that many—perhaps even most—cartograms are essentially used for shock value, for the "holy crap, that's a different perspective!" response, which is exactly what they get. Too frequently they can't stand as maps on their own. I think the election cartogram is only of use when it's next to an undistorted map. The best maps and graphics are those that tell their story clearly and elegantly, not those that simply evoke an emotional response. There are a million good reasons why I'm wrong to complain, but rather than going on and on in an attempt to counter them I will simply acknowledge that they exist and expound later if necessary.
"Put your money where your mouth is, jackass!"
Oh, actually that's a pretty important reason I'm wrong to complain. Okay, I promise I will attempt to come up an alternative visualization of the same information as that election cartogram, as soon as I figure out where people find such detailed election data so quickly. (And, as I stressed "careful design," it's not going to be instant.) I'll also keep an eye out in the coming days for maps and graphics that I think are more effective.
Having deleted most of what I previously wrote for this post, I wasn't left with a good place to bring it up, but I must, as I seem to do in nearly every alternate post, refer to the work of my mortal enemy Zachary Johnson, who wrote his master's thesis on cartogram designs in political maps. (He should be writing about this stuff. Maybe someday he'll at least finally write about his findings. Eh, Joncy?) At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specifically in room 412 Science Hall, we did not take cartographic research seriously if it could not be depicted by a cube. As such, Zach defined a cartogram typology (Cartogram3) by three characteristics: shape preservation, topology preservation (the preservation of boundaries and connectivity), and density equalization (essentially, how accurately area corresponds to value). No cartogram can be perfect in all three, and in fact most compromise all three to some degree. Zach tested several designs, each making different sacrifices, in political map-reading tasks. Note that I have bitched about shape preservation versus topology preservation. His research backs me up in some respects, but not in others. But I'm not in academia anymore; I don't need "research" to know that I'm right!
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Mitt Romney will concede the race for the White House early Wednesday morning, reports said, after apparently deciding to give up on contesting Ohio.
Ohio put President Obama over the top late Tuesday night. The president also won the swing state of Virginia.
Romney's concession will reportedly come at 12:55 a.m.
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Manchester United have agreed terms on a five-year contract with Barcelona midfielder Thiago Alcantara.
According to the Daily Star, the Spain Under-21 international is on the verge of completing a £17million to Old Trafford after the contract was agreed in principle.
New Manchester United manager David Moyes has issues to address with his central midfield, as there is a lot of uncertainty surrounding that area.
Paul Scholes has now retired for a second time, Darren Fletcher is beginning his comeback from serious long-term health problems and Anderson has failed to realise his potential.
Signing Thiago will add further quality to the Red Devils' midfield and Manchester United fans will be expecting big things of him this summer.
The 22-year-old Barcelona youth system graduate captained Spain's Under-21 side to victory in the European Championship this summer and was impressive throughout.
Barcelona were desperate to keep Thiago at the club and were reportedly trying to convince him to sign a new deal, though he is unhappy with the playing opportunities he is currently getting at Camp Nou.


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Indeed, the 500 Coupé Zagato concept also has Zagato signature, helmet-accommodating double-humped roof, which give the 500 a racier silhouette. And under the hood is the Fiat's spry little turbocharged TwinAir engine and bespoke 17" wheels, wider meats and bigger brakes.
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by Len Lear
Although Mackenzie Hilton is not nearly as famous as Paris Hilton, no one (even Paris, I'm sure) would deny that Mackenzie is infinitely more talented. She does not just enter a room; she takes possession of it. The executive chef at The Tavern, which just opened in late June at 243 S. Camac St. in Philly's center city "Gayborhood," has a photogenic smile that could get her in a toothpaste commercial, but she actually has been a television personality for a different reason.
When Mackenzie and chef Eric Paraskevas faced off on the Food Network show "Chopped" in 2010, Paraskevas was the chef at Terra (which by a remarkable coincidence was located in the same building where The Tavern is now), and Hilton was the chef de cuisine at Mercato, 1216 Spruce St., just a couple of long NFL passes from where she is cooking now. (She also has a reputation as a very good karaoke singer, just in case the cooking thing doesn't work out.)
On the show, the chefs had to create an appetizer, entree and dessert from a cornucopia of seemingly disconnected ingredients, similar to the concept of the current network TV show, "Master Chef." Paraskevas was eliminated in the entree round when he had to create a dish including tapioca pearls, carrots, "fruit leather" (puréed fruit, spread out and dried, then rolled up to store) and rabbit. Hilton made it to the final round by whipping yucca, figs, hoisin sauce and red jalapeno peppers into an awesome dessert, and in the end she was named the winner of the competition over Massachusetts chef Chris Coombs.
After her Food Network victory, Hilton, who has a stranglehold on the contemporary culinary zeitgeist, was hired by a winery in the San Francisco Bay area to run their restaurant. After a year and a half there, The Tavern owner Steve Carlino and director of operations Randal Mrazik made Hilton an offer she could not refuse. (Some people would suggest therapy for anyone leaving a San Francisco area winery to move to downtown Philly.)
"Believe it or not, I really love the winters here," insisted Mackenzie, who also had to engineer a radical shift in her internal biological clock. "Last year," she explained, "I was doing corporate dining and working from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. almost every day. Now I usually leave here about 3 a.m. or later because we serve food until that time. That was a tough switch to get used to."
The Tavern's subterranean dining room on cobblestone-lined Camac Street, underneath Tavern on Camac, one of the city's oldest gay bars, is now open Wednesday-Monday from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m. (closed Tuesdays). Originally a speakeasy, the space was turned into a piano bar 76 years ago, making it one of the area's oldest music venues.
The renovated below-ground dining room seats about 32 and another 12 at the bar. There is some comfortable banquette seating, tile floors, exposed brick and pine paneling. The workers could not be more friendly and welcoming, and our server, Meg Trelease, was as knowledgeable as she was charming.
The menu at The Tavern does not contain any of the indulgent tropes one finds at center city's most expensive Downton Abbey-like dining rooms with cathedral ceilings, but it does contain lots of bar food brio and interesting combinations of ingredients you just won't find anywhere else. No shrimp scampi or mussels marinara.
I have never before seen a restaurant dish with nine different pickles, but that is one appetizer at The Tavern ($9). They are from Lancaster County. Some people might consider it overkill, but since I have always been a pickle nut (so to speak), I would never find myself in a pickle while savoring this unusual dish. Another interesting snack-like appetizer is the light-as-a-feather kale chips with parmesan anchovy aioli ($9).
A grilled asparagus dish is also unique to Mackenzie with its lamb chopper cheese, a Gouda-style, Dutch-made sweet cheese made from sheep's milk. How Gouda was it? Very Gouda! It comes with a poached egg and grilled bread and is a circus of flavors and textures ($6).
I bow my head out of respect for the fried monkfish New Orleans-style "po boy" ($6 for small portion; $11 for large portion), a combustible cocktail of lightly kissed fish with a spicy pickle, remoulade sauce, slaw and Sarcone's bread. Chef Hilton's alchemy is revealed again in her singing tuna tartar "burger" with a backbeat of capers, anchovy paste, red onion, chives and Dijon on grilled sourdough bread ($5 for small portion; $16 for large portion).
Two desserts we tried — homemade popcorn with salted caramel on vanilla ice cream ($4); and homemade mojito popsicles ($3.50)— gave us both a mouthgasm. We could easily have eaten s'more and s'more. They prove that Mackenzie definitely has soul in her bowl.
The Tavern offers a selection of classic cocktails, wines by the glass and bottle and a variety of draft and bottled beers. Although they have to stop alcohol service at 2 a.m. by state law, the full food menu is served at least until 3 a.m., which attracts other restaurant workers, theater performers and other night owls and vampires.
If you Google The Tavern, you will find lots of them all over the country. In fact, there was a restaurant called The Tavern that opened 80 years ago in Bala Cynwyd, just about the time Prohibition was being overturned. They used to have a framed menu from the 1930s on their wall which showed that a steak entree at the time was $1. From 1997 to 2002 it was called something else, but then it was renamed The New Tavern.
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European leaders are loosening the economic shackles once demanded by Germany as the recession and mounting unemployment in southern Europe shove aside the debt crisis as the euro area's biggest headache.
A two-day Brussels summit starting today will endorse plans for "structural" assessments of national budgets, according to a draft statement, using code for granting countries such as France, Spain and Portugal extra time to bring down deficits.
"We have to restore sound and sustainable public finances, via continued differentiated fiscal consolidation and focused on structural efforts," European Union President Herman Van Rompuy said at a pre-summit briefing.
European politicians are cloaking the shift in language designed to reassure investors who have driven borrowing costs lower since mid-2012 that balanced budgets remain the goal. The relative calm in markets was barely disturbed by last month's inconclusive election in Italy. Another milestone toward overcoming the crisis came yesterday, when Ireland sold 10-year bonds for the first time since its bailout in 2010.
As a result, officials in Brussels and national capitals said that an aid package for the next problem country, Cyprus, doesn't even need to be discussed at the summit. It will be dealt with tomorrow starting at about 5 p.m., at a separate meeting of euro-area finance ministers.
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Euro finance chiefs are considering a mix of options to reduce the size of the Cypriot package to near 10 billion euros ($13 billion) from about 17 billion euros that's been under discussion, Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who chairs the ministers' meetings, said late yesterday in The Hague. Nine months of talks have yet to deliver a solution for Cyprus, which accounts for 0.2% of the recession-wracked euro economy.
The 17-nation currency region will follow last year's 0.6% contraction by shrinking 0.3% in 2013, the first back-to-back decline since the euro's debut in 1999, the commission forecasts. It sees bloc-wide unemployment at 12.2% in 2013, with joblessness as high as 27% in Greece and 26.9% in Spain.
Pressure remains on France, Italy and the countries tapping emergency financial aid to make their economies more productive by reducing labor costs and deregulating professions. The commission, the Brussels-based enforcer of the budget rules, fended off attacks from southern Europe that it has been too strict and parried warnings from northern Europe that it is becoming too lax.
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They need to make more Elysians instead of all these half-assed Cadian add on packs.
I like the new cadian conversion sets. They would make great looking Vets w/Carapace conversions if your looking to run your vets like that. The Special weapons are the same ones as the ones from Taros, except for the hose running into the helmet. These are nice sculpts and new Malcador is hot! I like the big flame cannon that's really cool.
The new SWS Squads look cool, the tankers seem like a rehash of previous older kits....the new command squad look cool with the rebreather mask.
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For more than 20 years, a familiar sight at new music and experimental performances all over Southern California was a squat older woman who moved laboriously on a cane or a walker.
She would have been loath to claim it, but the late Dottie Grossman was the unofficial den mother of the loose community of eccentric talents that comprise Los Angeles' musical avant-garde. It was a role she assumed almost surreptitiously, yet her presence drew unconditional respect, friendship and love. Her passing in late May sent waves of sadness through contemporary music circles across the nation.
"If you saw her at your gig," woodwind player Vinny Golia offers, "you felt good. She held court and you paid your respects; it was all part of the ritual. When she said, 'You sound good tonight,' it was affirming because she knew the music so well."
Grossman will be recalled and celebrated Sunday, July 29, at the Glendale Moose Lodge. Among the performers taking part in the tribute will be Golia, vocalist Bonnie Barnett, flutist Ellen Burr, trombonist Michael Vlatkovich, guitarist Tom McNalley and percussionist Alex Cline.
A Philadelphia native, Grossman always wrote, though she worked in counseling and clerical jobs. Her husband Richard was a jazz pianist who first came west while playing electric cello in a rock band. In 1978, they settled in L.A., and Richard remade himself into a tabula rasa improvising pianist. All of his compositional and album titles came from her poems. They tantalized with portent and mystery: "Even Your Ears," "Green of the East," and "Moon, Tap-Dancing Outside." Dottie was supportive and ever-present, though she kept in the background.
He died in 1992 and she blossomed as a writer, publishing in poetry journals and her own chapbooks.
"After Richard died," Vlatkovich observes, "she was able to more fully realize who she was. But she had to retain the music to do it."
Dottie became a presence at performances, like the New Music Monday series that guitarist Nels Cline presented at the Alligator Lounge in West L.A. "She was very discerning," says Nels' twin brother Alex, "and a mutual adoption happened; the music community became her family."
As her poetry disseminated among the musicians, she began to read at their concerts. Portland trumpeter Rob Blakeslee invited her north and she quickly developed a small but devoted following. She wrote short, observational pieces that often had a gentle humor or a wistful air. For the former, she frequently invoked the king of the one-liner, comic Henny Youngman. For an East Coast Jew who came of age with Lenny Bruce's rise, the Borscht Belt relic as recurring motif was beyond ironic.
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My friends like to joke with me every time the "planning talks" start for another group Vegas trip. I am always reminded of my last adventure to the "Fantasy World of Dreams," where greed overtook common sense and added me to the long list of Vegas losers. Oh how tiring the walk through the airport terminal can be after a tough night or two on the black jack tables.
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I, like some of us who have experienced Sin City, was on a bit of run. Nothing like you see in the movies, where rags to riches seems to be the redundant plot line, but rather more of a "might pay for the trip and a nice dinner at Prime for my friends and me" type of run. My humble stack of chips quickly grew into one of those small leaning towers, and I was exchanging red and blue chips ($10 and $25) for blacks ($100). The fever was contagious! People I didn't even know were high-fiving me. Roars of "Double down!" echoed through my head like Camden Crazies cheering for the Blue Devils! And when I drew the face card on the 11, I felt like Michael Jordan draining 3s on Clyde Drexler in the 92 finals! Ok, maybe I am exaggerating a bit, but it was fun.
I can still hear the haunting echo of my lovely and prudent wife saying, "Honey, you have done great. You should go put some of those winnings in the room safe." Logical? Yes! Reality? No!
Are you kidding me? I was on a roll. Visions of free suites, limos to shows, shopping sprees to Nieman's Vegas for my wife! Take money off the table and put it in the room? Come on! Get real.
Well, I am sure you can guess what happened next. The tables went from hot like Tiger Woods in 2002 to more like Tiger Woods 2010, from fire to ice in about 1 hour and with it, my dreams of free suites and limo rides turned into "Where can I find the $5 dollar all night buffet?" The stack of chips, gone like a freight train, gone like yesterday!
Now I tell this story because many investors over the age of 50 have accumulated a nice balance in their 401k or IRA accounts. Most of this money has been invested in stock and bond mutual funds, which is subject to the volatility of both the equity and fixed income markets. Just like my reasonable wife suggested in Vegas, why not take some off the table or, in this case, out of the stock and bond mutual funds and invest in an annuity? Many of the annuities today can give the investor guaranteed income for life, guaranteed growth on their income balance through income riders, and protect their principal from loss. Sort of like putting some of your winnings in the safe, why not put some of your retirement money in a vehicle that can protect it from losses, and insure you have income until the day you die?
Now human nature is to keep investing in your mutual funds. Change is difficult. It requires paperwork, due diligence, leaving your comfort zone, or spending 45 minutes with an advisor. Yikes! Who has that kind of time? Wait a minute though. Shouldn't my retirement plan get at least 45 minutes of attention per year?
That walk to the room while I was in Vegas doesn't seem like such a hassle or nuisance now that I look back, and nor will taking the time to look at some ways to insure your retirement. Just look at all the things in life where you "take a little off the table" and how it improves your life. You eat a little less, which causes you to lose weight and often leads to a longer life. You downsize your house with a less expensive, smaller home, thus reducing mortgage payments and likely utility bills as well. Why would planning ahead with your 401k or IRA be any different?
Life as we age is about security and enjoyment. Look at an annuity with guaranteed income and/or guaranteed income growth benefits. Take a little off the table, and enjoy the trip. You have earned it.
Todd Volkman is a retirement planning expert based out of Addison, Texas. Contact Todd by visiting his website or calling him at (972) 386-2901.


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Mortgage finance company Fannie Mae and accounting firm KPMG have agreed to pay $153 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit filed by Ohio pension funds and others accusing the companies of issuing false and misleading financial reports, the Ohio attorney general said on Tuesday.
The settlement would end litigation that began in 2004 and requires approval from the judge overseeing the case, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington, D.C.
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The Ohio Public Employees Retirement System and the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio served as lead plaintiffs in the case.
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In April, US-controlled Fannie Mae posted a record $7.6 billion in quarterly earnings.
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - The women's track team won two events and placed second on Saturday at the Williams College Quad meet. Finishing first was host Williams (288), followed by MIT (122.50), Westfield State (78.50) and RPI (61). The Williams College Ephs, led by two-event winners Caroline Cretti and Katie Fulton, lost only three events all day.
Junior Christine Fanchiang was MIT's lone individual winner on Saturday. She cleared 3.23 meters in the pole vault. The Engineers other victory came in the 4x880 relay. Junior Hana Adaniya, freshman Adrienne Bolger, junior Rachel Niehuus and freshman Elizabeth Finn finished the course in just 10:12.03, well ahead of second place Williams (10:49.59).
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PO Box 6091 865 Tahoe Blvd Incline Village, NV 89450 Tel: (1) 775 831 2500 x423 Tel: 800 548 4778 x423 Fax: (1) 775 831 8123 www.lahey.com End Answer:" ----- Original Message ----- From: <beowulf-admin at beowulf.org> To: "Craig Tierney" <ctierney at hpti.com> Cc: "Marnix Petrarca" <Marnix at gbnetworks.com>; "Roland Krause" <rokrau at yahoo.com>; <beowulf-admin at beowulf.org>; <beowulf at beowulf.org> Sent: 17 January, 2003 19:34 Subject: Re: Fortran compiler for Linux > Folks: > > Have a look at Jeff Templon's page > http://www.nikhef.nl/~templon/fortran.html which gives you a relatively > complete set of pointers and discussions of the various compilers. > > I used the Watcom compiler 10 years ago for f77. There are others > that are good and have somewhat reasonable licenses. > > Joe Marnix Petrarca wrote at 17/01/03 - 09:32 AM: > > > > Hi, > > > > have you looked at Lahey Fortan yet? They have a very good Fortran > compiler > > for Linux, and they also have experience in the cluster corner - berowulf > > specifically. I know NASA for one uses it..check it out.. www.lahey.com, > Tom > > Lahey knows his stuff.. > > > > Question 1) from Beowulf list. > > Has Lahey changed their licensing? Last time I talked to them they > expected me to buy a license for every cluster node that I was going > to run on, not compile. This was not acceptable. I explained to the > Sales guy at SC2001 about this and that Portland Group and Intel did > not license this way, but only for where you compile. > > Craig > > Question 2) > > I looked into Fortran compilers for a course I am thinking of teaching > and I was disappointed in the Lahey license--particularly this > paragraph: > > YOUR RIGHTS AND RESTRICTIONS. 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text: At 12:38 AM 7/20/2005 -0400, Patrick Geoffray wrote: >Greg Lindahl wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:11:33PM -0400, Patrick Geoffray wrote: >> >> >>>If you randomize the machine list, then there is no difference >>>between the random ring latency and the average pingpong. >> >> >> Patrick, >> >> There likely will be a difference, because average pingpong doesn't >> run on all the cpus. On a 4-cpu node, that can make a big difference. > >I believe the difference will not be that big. I will get my hands on a >quad in the next couple of weeks, I will look into int. The difference will be huge of course, network processors have a switch latency. That's why. If it must switch at the wrong moment that'll cost 50 us or something at certain network chips. Additional there will be software layers that have to lock in some way. Locking + unlocking is already like half a microsecond extra, just like that. Tests at all processors at the same time make major sense. Any denial in advance that it will be the same speed is just ballony. >> To give you an example, look at the Quadrics reported numbers for >> random ring latency of 11.4568 usec and average ping-pong of 1.552 >> usec. This is on a 2-cpu node (I think). I'd bet that most of this >> difference has nothing to do with machine size. But I'd be happy to be >> proven wrong. > >I would think 1.5 is shared memory in this case (all pairs are ordered >and they end up being on the same nodes). This is one of the thing I >don't like with HPCC, so much variation in results depending on size of >clusters, process mapping, order/topology. > >> Hopefully someone will publish a Myrinet MX-based set of HPCC results >> soon. (hint, hint!) > >I don't have time to do that. At least, as long as HPCC, like HPL, take >a gazillions parameters. Give me HPCC with no parameters and I will take >5 minutes to start it. I was promised it would be this way eventually. > >I don't believe much in any analytic benchmarks. HPL can yield 90% of >peak if rewritten for modern MPI implementations, Pallas is nice to find >out when something is very wrong, but not much more, and the NAS are >marginaly more interesting. > >I prefer benchmarking real codes, and we will publish that, but 10G is >taking most of my time these days (got to get something for you to >compare against). > >>>I know, tongue-in-cheek. Will you publish the raw numbers on the web >>>site eventually ? >> >> >> Yes. That's what I meant in the first place. > >I bet the next time you won't :-\ > >Patrick >-- > >Patrick Geoffray >Myricom, Inc. >http://www.myri.com >_______________________________________________ >Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org >To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > >


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~ INTRODUCTION ~Solace is a multilingual support system developed at Plurk for end user support. The application design is heavily influenced by bulletin boards like phpBB and the new stackoverflow programming community site.
For a four-step quickstart have a look at the end of the file. It explains how to quickly test Solace on your local box.
Solace is developed in Python as a standard conforming WSGI application with the help of the following libraries:
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If you want to hack on Solace on your own the best way to get started is using the all-mygthy setup.py script in a virtual Python environment.
If you're not familiar with virtualenv, be sure to have it installed and run it like this in the solace folder:$ virtualenv env
Aferwards you can activate it. On linux or OS X you can use the following command:$ source env/bin/activate
If you're working on a Windows box, use the activate batch file instead:$ envScriptsactivate.bat
After you have activated the environment you can use the develop command from the setup script to start working on Solace:$ python setup.py develop
If you want to install it into a virtual environment (or system wide, which we however do not recommend) you can use the install command$ python setup.py install
Both develop and install will take care of dependencies for you.
Where does Solace get the settings from? It comes with some default settings that unless overridden will be the ones it uses. The defaults are intended for development purposes only have have to be changed if you want to use Solace in production.
When Solace initializes it checks for a SOLACE_SETTINGS_FILE operating system environment variable. If it finds one, it will execute the that file as a Python script and overrides the assigned variables of the Solace enviroment script config (solace/settings.py).
Example configuration:DATABASE_URI = 'mysql://root@localhost/my_database' SECRET_KEY = 'a-super-secret-and-random-key'
As mentioned before Solace is a WSGI application. The WSGI application object is know as solace.application.application. For example if you want to use mod_wsgi all you have to do is to create a solace.wsgi file with the following contents:from solace.application import application
This however would require that the SOLACE_SETTINGS_FILE variable is set in the server config. If you don't want to do that, you can also set it in the .wsgi file or tell the settings system to load the config from a file:from solace import settings settings.configure_from_file('/var/www/solace/solace.cfg') from solace.application import application
Be sure to use absolute paths for the configuration!
If you want to test Solace locally or hack on it, you can use the runserver command of the setup script:$ python setup.py runserver
This will start a development server on localhost:3000.
Solace uses a database for testing. Currently the following database systems are supported:
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We recommend sqlite3 for testing (which incidentally is the defualt) and Postgres for production.
To initialize the database make sure to have the database URI set in a config, the SOLACE_SETTINGS_FILE environment variable exported and then run the following command:$ python setup.py initdb
This will create the database tables for you.
If you also want a administrator user to be created you can sue the reset command instead:$ python setup.py reset
This is especially handy during development.
Solace is using standard Python unittests which you can run from the setup.py script$ python setup.py test
If you want to fill the database with data for testing you can use the setup script as well:$ python setup.py make_testdata
Warning on tests: For tests make sure to have a newer version than 0.5.1 in your venv (at the time of this writing this means installing a development version) due to a bug in the redirect support and path quoting of the test client in 0.5.1.
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AUGUSTA — A proposal to require firearm safety and handling courses at Maine high schools was rejected by a legislative committee on Thursday.
Members of the Education and Cultural Affairs Committee said they did not want to create a new mandate when schools' time and money already are stretched thin. The bill, L.D. 93, received a unanimous vote of "ought not to pass."
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Paul Davis, R-Sangerville, would require public high schools to offer a firearms training course that would be optional for students.
Testifying before the committee last week, Davis said local gun clubs probably would be happy to provide classes at little cost to schools.
Education committee members, however, said firearms training is already available in most communities and is not the responsibility of schools.
"It's just one more thing on top of schools that they don't need, and this is not really under their bailiwick, as far as I'm concerned," said Rep. Victoria Kornfield, D-Bangor.
Like other committee members, Rep. Matt Pouliot, R-Augusta, said he believes gun safety education is important, but he could not support a mandate.
"I'm generally in favor of this type of education," Pouliot said, "(but) I'm scratching my head to figure out how we can fit this into an already busy day with a lot of other things that are equally important, and some might say more important."
Jon Clark, deputy director of the Office of Policy and Legal Analysis, said research did not turn up evidence of a similar mandate in any other state.
In addition, the Maine Learning Results do not require instruction on other safety topics, such as what to do in case of a fire or when crossing the street. Clark said gun safety could fall under risk reduction in the health education standards.
The education committee considered changing the bill to a resolve that could direct the Maine Department of Education to encourage schools to inform people about existing firearms safety and handling courses. Rep. Joyce Maker, R-Calais, said it at least would put lawmakers on record as supporting gun safety education.
Other legislators, however, said they did not want to create more work for the Department of Education or didn't see the value in a vaguely worded resolve.
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CHICAGO - There are times after a loss when a baseball clubhouse is funeral-parlor quiet, the players seemingly in a contest to dress quickly and escape without drawing any attention to themselves and what just happened.
The Red Sox had a few of those moments early in the season, games so painful that they were spoken about in whispers.
But Sunday's 4-1 loss against the Chicago White Sox did not create that kind of atmosphere. Nobody was laughing, but it was easy to rationalize one day gone wrong when it came at the end of a wildly successful road trip.
The Red Sox won six of their seven games against Minnesota and Chicago and will return to Fenway Park Monday night a much different team than the one that left eight days earlier.
The starting pitching, a question mark when spring training ended, has become much less of a concern with Felix Doubront and Daniel Bard pitching well in the fourth and fifth slots. The bullpen, a tangled mess of arms a week ago, is sorting itself out, too, as pitchers adapt to their roles.
Despite the absence of Carl Crawford and Jacoby Ellsbury, the offense has scored 55 runs in the last eight games and manager Bobby Valentine seems to have a better grasp of how best to deploy his players.
"I think we're all getting to know each other [and] feeling comfortable with things,'' Valentine said. "This week it seemed like things were coming together nicely, mainly because of the starting pitching, obviously. The bullpen fell in nicely.''
Had the Red Sox been no-hit by Chicago starter Gavin Floyd, there would have been plenty of explaining to do. But Dustin Pedroia ended the righthander's bid with a one-out single in the seventh inning.
The shutout was lost a few batters later when David Ortiz doubled and Cody Ross singled to left. Floyd then left the mound to applause from the crowd of 22,811 at U.S. Cellular Field.
Floyd (2-3) allowed one run on three hits over 6 2/3 innings. He is 7-0 with a 3.21 earned run average in nine career appearances against the Red Sox. Floyd is 53-58, 4.52 against everybody else.
"His fastball command was great and he's got a great curveball. He did a great job,'' Pedroia said. "He wasn't giving us much to hit. The three at-bats I had off him, I got one pitch to hit and actually got a hit on that one. He kept the ball out of the middle of the zone.''
Red Sox center fielder Marlon Byrd, a teammate of Floyd in Philadelphia, wasn't surprised.
"I've seen that before, even better,'' Byrd said. "He can pitch; he's real good. When he puts it all together he can be very tough.''
Josh Beckett (2-3) would have been an easy winner on some days. He allowed three runs on six hits over 6 2/3 innings with three walks and eight strikeouts.
The three runs came in the first inning. Alex Rios had an RBI single before Adam Dunn lined a high fastball inside the foul pole in right field.
"I didn't look at it yet. But based on how he hit it, the pitch must have been right over the plate,'' Beckett said. "Can't do that with a guy like Dunn.''
Beckett, who has a 2.93 earned run average in his last four starts, kept the Red Sox in the game but the offense never got going beyond the seventh inning as White Sox relievers Addison Reed and Matt Thornton handled the final seven outs.
The White Sox added a run in the eighth, making sure they would snap a five-game losing streak. Chicago had won only three of its 10 home games before Sunday.
"That was a pretty good road trip as a team,'' Beckett said. "Any time you play any big league ball club and you sweep one and take three of four from the other one, four-game series are tough enough anyway.''
The Red Sox were 4-10 and had lost five straight before the road trip. But now there is a sense of direction and the knowledge that they can play well together.
"Guys played their butt off. This was a tough seven days,'' Valentine said. "We battled the travel; we battled the weather. They're a tough group.''
The Sox open a six-game homestand Monday night against Oakland.
"We feel good,'' Pedroia said. "We had a great road trip. We pitched great; we swung the bats real well. We're pretty excited to get back home and play good ball.''
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