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Thursday, April 14, 2011
"oh, ilene is the girl that wears the crazy tights on her blog - tada!!!"
Posted by ilene @ muchloveilly at 8:00 AM
38 comments:
"Crazy Tights Girl" sounds like a great title to me!! :DReplyDelete
Haha! You are so cute. Love all of the pictures and the way to introduce someone with that line would always catch my attention. That's not a bad thing at all...so sweet, really! I bet you're ready to be home. Glad you had a good time and can't wait to see your CE pictures. I just saw Sandy's and they're lovely! :)ReplyDelete
i am really impressed you are able to blog when you have an hour to shower, pack and be out the door. really impressed indeed.ReplyDelete
favorite post title in the world! you make me smile :)ReplyDelete
Haha you are so cute, you make me happy.ReplyDelete
Crazy Tights Girl is a title to be proud of! Those tights are gorgeous. Am looking forward to more Creative Estates posts!ReplyDelete
lol. That is how I would introduce you!! ;)ReplyDelete
I love your beautiful tights and your nail color!!! I realllllly need to paint mine {they are bare right now!! eeeep!!! :o} xoxo
LOL "crazy tights girl" ;) You do have some colorful tights :)ReplyDelete
Love the shoes!ReplyDelete
you are so cute!ReplyDelete
loooooove the pics girl! such fun colored tights!!ReplyDelete
so cute, girl! love the nail polish {as always!}ReplyDelete
k your hair?ReplyDelete
i want it.
scratch that.
i NEED it.
Love this outfit!
you're cute, lady! i love your paris tee!ReplyDelete
But when the crazy tights work they really work! :) AdorableReplyDelete
LOVE this outfit! It's what you were wearing when we met!ReplyDelete
Have a safe trip girl!
Love the pictures, friend! Hope you get home safely!ReplyDelete
have a safe trip you crazy tight lady (hahah LOVE it). xoxo jcdReplyDelete
And that's how I would describe you also! Love your happiness! It's so contagious!ReplyDelete
Have a great trip and I adore those tights:) Kisses and hugs, darlingReplyDelete
i think your crazy tights are awesome. what a cutie! i just found your blog and i love it. i like how fun you seem. im following, hope you can do the same :)ReplyDelete
haha, at the definition is true and unique! you can pull those tights off totally, enjoy your trip!ReplyDelete
I love your headband!ReplyDelete
I love the way your friend introduced you. Classic.ReplyDelete
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Hi friend, you're stinkin' cute. LOVE your shirt!ReplyDelete
SUPER CUTE ADORABLE outfit!!! I LOVE that headband. Where did you get it???? Love! xxReplyDelete
HAHA!! i think that's what you should sign off on all your blog posts.ReplyDelete
Crazy tights girl... hehe! I love this outfit, especially the shirt. :)ReplyDelete
crazy cool tights and nail polish!! Love how you wear color...its a great reflection of your joyful personality!ReplyDelete
Happy almost weekend friend!
Fantasti canoes and tights! Really like your wonderful blog! Follow you) follow me?ReplyDelete
your rock in those green tights! well, you are adorable in anything... period and the end!ReplyDelete
i love the crazy tights..and the nails!!ReplyDelete
wwwwwwwow. I LOVE the pictures Girl.ReplyDelete
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Peptic Ulcer Disease and H. pylori
On this page:
- What is a peptic ulcer?
- What causes peptic ulcer disease?
- What are H. pylori?
- Who is more likely to develop an H. pylori-induced peptic ulcer?
- What are the signs and symptoms of peptic ulcer disease?
- Seek Immediate Care
- What are the complications of peptic ulcer disease?
- How is peptic ulcer disease diagnosed?
- How is an H. pylori-induced peptic ulcer treated?
- How can H. pylori infection be prevented?
- Eating, Diet, and Nutrition
- Points to Remember
- Hope through Research
- For More Information
- Acknowledgments
What is a peptic ulcer?
A peptic ulcer is a sore on the inner lining of the stomach or duodenum—the first part of the small intestine. Less commonly, a peptic ulcer may develop just above the stomach in the esophagus—the organ that connects the mouth to the stomach.
What causes peptic ulcer disease?
Causes of peptic ulcer disease include
- an infection with the bacteria Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori)
- long-term use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as aspirin and ibuprofen
- rarely, cancerous or noncancerous tumors in the stomach, duodenum, or pancreas
What are H. pylori?
H. pylori are spiral-shaped bacteria that can cause peptic ulcer disease by damaging the mucous coating that protects the lining of the stomach and duodenum. Once H. pylori have damaged the mucous coating, powerful stomach acid can get through to the sensitive lining. Together, the stomach acid and H. pylori irritate the lining of the stomach or duodenum and cause a peptic ulcer.
Who is more likely to develop an H. pylori-induced peptic ulcer?
A person who has contracted an H. pylori infection is more likely to develop an H. pylori-induced peptic ulcer. Researchers are not certain how H. pylori infection spreads, although they think that contaminated food, water, or eating utensils may spread the infection. Researchers have found H. pylori in the saliva of some infected people, which suggests that infection could spread through direct contact with saliva or other bodily fluids.1 Most people contract H. pylori infection during childhood, and it remains dormant for years. Adults rarely contract H. pylori.
What are the signs and symptoms of peptic ulcer disease?
A dull or burning pain in the stomach is the most common symptom of peptic ulcer disease. A person can feel this pain anywhere between the navel and the breastbone. The pain usually
- occurs when a person's stomach is empty—such as between meals or during the night
- lessens briefly after eating food or taking antacids
- lasts for minutes to hours
- comes and goes for several days, weeks, or months
Other, less common symptoms include
- bloating
- burping
- changes in appetite
- nausea
- vomiting
- weight loss
Seek Immediate Care
A person who has any of the following symptoms should call a health care provider right away:
- difficulty breathing
- dizziness or feeling faint
- red blood in the stool or black stools
- red blood in vomit or vomit that looks like coffee grounds
- sharp, sudden, persistent, and severe stomach pain
These symptoms could be signs of peptic ulcer disease complications.
What are the complications of peptic ulcer disease?
Complications of peptic ulcer disease include
- internal bleeding—when gastric acid or a peptic ulcer breaks a blood vessel
- obstruction—when a peptic ulcer blocks the path of food trying to leave the stomach
- perforation—when a peptic ulcer grows deeper and breaks completely through the stomach or duodenal wall
- peritonitis—when infection or inflammation develops in the peritoneum, or lining of the abdominal cavity
How is peptic ulcer disease diagnosed?
A health care provider diagnoses peptic ulcer disease based on
- a medical history
- a physical exam
- lab tests
- upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy
- upper GI series
- computerized tomography (CT) scan
Medical History
Taking a medical history may help a health care provider determine the cause of a peptic ulcer. If a patient has peptic ulcer disease symptoms, the health care provider will ask about the patient's use of over-the-counter and prescription NSAIDs.
Physical Exam
A physical exam may help the health care provider diagnose the cause of peptic ulcer disease. During a physical exam, a health care provider usually
- checks for abdominal bloating
- listens to sounds within the abdomen using a stethoscope
- taps on the abdomen checking for tenderness or pain
Lab Tests
A health care provider will look to see if H. pylori are present using one of three simple tests:
- blood test
- urea breath test
- stool test
The breath test and stool test detect H. pylori more accurately than the blood test, so some health care providers prefer to use one of these two tests. Testing is important because health care providers treat H. pylori-induced peptic ulcer disease differently from peptic ulcer disease caused by NSAIDs.
Read more in Peptic Ulcer Disease and NSAIDs at www.digestive.niddk.nih.gov.
Blood test. A blood test involves drawing a sample of a patient's blood at a health care provider's office or a commercial facility and sending the sample to a lab for analysis. The blood test can show the presence of H. pylori.
Urea breath test. For a breath test, the patient swallows a special liquid that contains urea—a waste product the body produces as it breaks down protein. If H. pylori are present, the bacteria will convert the urea into carbon dioxide. A nurse or technician will take samples of a patient's breath at a health care provider's office or a commercial facility and send the samples to a lab to measure the level of carbon dioxide.
Stool test. A stool test is the analysis of a sample of stool. The health care provider will give the patient a container to take home for catching and storing the stool. The patient returns the sample to the health care provider or a commercial facility, and it is sent to a lab for analysis. Stool tests can show the presence of H. pylori.
Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Upper GI endoscopy is a procedure that uses an endoscope—a small, flexible camera with a light—to see the upper GI tract. A health care provider performs the test at a hospital or an outpatient center. The health care provider carefully feeds the endoscope down the patient's esophagus and into the stomach and duodenum. The small camera built into the endoscope transmits a video image to a monitor, allowing close examination of the GI lining. A health care provider may give a patient a liquid anesthetic to gargle or may spray anesthetic on the back of the patient's throat before inserting the endoscope. A health care provider will place an intravenous (IV) needle in a vein in the arm to administer sedation. Sedatives help patients stay relaxed and comfortable. The test may show signs of inflammation or erosions in the stomach lining.
The health care provider can pass tiny tools through the endoscope to
- take photos of the peptic ulcer.
- obtain a biopsy of the lining of the stomach or small intestine. A biopsy is a procedure that involves taking a small piece of tissue for examination with a microscope by a pathologist—a health care provider who specializes in examining tissues to diagnose diseases. The patient will not feel the biopsy. The test can show the presence of H. pylori.
- inject medications that help the blood clot.
- stop any bleeding with an electrical probe or special medications.
Read more in Upper GI Endoscopy at www.digestive.niddk.nih.gov.
Upper Gastrointestinal Series
Upper GI series is an x-ray exam that provides a look at the shape of the upper GI tract to help diagnose peptic ulcer disease. An x-ray technician performs this test at a hospital or an outpatient center, and a radiologist—a health care provider who specializes in medical imaging—interprets the images. This test does not require anesthesia. A patient should not eat or drink before the procedure, as directed by his or her health care provider. Patients should ask their health care provider about how to prepare for an upper GI series.
During the procedure, the patient will stand or sit in front of an x-ray machine and drink barium, a chalky liquid that coats the esophagus, stomach, and small intestine so the radiologist and health care provider can see the shape of these organs more clearly on the x rays.
A patient may experience bloating and nausea for a short time after the test. For several days afterward, barium liquid in the GI tract causes white or light-colored stools. A health care provider will give the patient specific instructions about eating and drinking after the test.
Read more in Upper GI Series at www.digestive.niddk.nih.gov.
Computerized Tomography Scan
Computerized tomography scans use a combination of x rays and computer technology to create images. For a CT scan, a nurse or technician may give the patient a solution to drink and an injection of a special dye, called contrast medium. CT scans require the patient to lie on a table that slides into a tunnel-shaped device that takes the x rays. An x-ray technician performs the procedure in an outpatient center or a hospital, and a radiologist interprets the images. The patient does not need anesthesia. CT scans can help diagnose a perforated peptic ulcer.
How is an H. pylori-induced peptic ulcer treated?
A health care provider will treat an H. pylori-induced peptic ulcer with
- antibiotics
- proton pump inhibitors (PPIs)
- histamine receptor blockers
- bismuth subsalicylate
- antacids
A health care provider will prescribe antibiotics to kill H. pylori. Antibiotic regimens may differ throughout the world because some strains of H. pylori have become resistant to certain antibiotics over time—meaning that an antibiotic that once destroyed a particular strain of bacteria is no longer effective against that strain.
Although antibiotics can cure most H. pylori-induced peptic ulcers, eliminating the bacteria can be difficult. People should take all doses of their antibiotics exactly as their health care provider prescribes, even when the pain from a peptic ulcer is gone.
Proton Pump Inhibitors
Proton pump inhibitors are medications that reduce stomach acid, help relieve peptic ulcer pain, and promote healing. PPIs suppress acid production by halting the mechanism that pumps acid into the stomach and can include
- omeprazole (Prilosec, Zegerid)
- lansoprazole (Prevacid)
- pantoprazole (Protonix)
- rabeprazole (Aciphex)
- esomeprazole (Nexium)
- dexlansoprazole (Dexilant)
While PPIs cannot kill H. pylori, they do help antibiotics fight the H. pylori infection.
Histamine Receptor Blockers
Histamine receptor blockers are medications that work by blocking histamine, a substance that stimulates acid production. Histamine receptor blockers include
- cimetidine (Tagamet)
- ranitidine (Zantac)
- famotidine (Pepcid)
- nizatidine (Axid)
Bismuth Subsalicylate
Medications containing bismuth subsalicylate, such as Pepto Bismol, coat a peptic ulcer and protect it from stomach acid. Although bismuth subsalicylate may kill H. pylori, health care providers use it with—not in place of—antibiotics in some treatment regimens.
Although an antacid may make the pain from a peptic ulcer go away temporarily, it will not kill H. pylori. Patients receiving treatment for an H. pylori-induced peptic ulcer should check with their health care provider before taking antacids. Some of the antibiotics that health care providers use to kill H. pylori may not work as well if patients combine them with an antacid.
Health care providers use one of three standard therapies to treat H. pylori-induced peptic ulcer disease:
- Triple therapy. The patient takes the antibiotic clarithromycin, a PPI, and either metronidazole or the penicillinlike antibiotic amoxicillin for 7 to 14 days.
- Quadruple therapy. The patient
takes a PPI, bismuth subsalicylate,
and the antibiotics tetracycline and
metronidazole for 14 days. Health care
providers use quadruple therapy to
treat people in one of several situations,
including if the patient
- cannot take amoxicillin because of a penicillin allergy
- has undergone treatment before with a macrolide antibiotic, such as clarithromycin
- is still infected with H. pylori because triple therapy failed to kill the bacteria
- Sequential therapy. The patient takes a PPI and amoxicillin for 5 days, followed by a PPI, clarithromycin, and tinidazole for another 5 days.
Triple therapy, quadruple therapy, and sequential therapy may cause nausea and other side effects, including
- a darkened tongue
- altered taste
- darkened stools
- diarrhea
- headaches
- temporary reddening of the skin when drinking alcohol
- vaginal yeast infections
Patients should discuss any bothersome side effects with their health care provider, who may prescribe other medications.
At least 4 weeks after a patient's treatment ends, his or her health care provider will perform a breath or stool test again to be sure the treatment has cured the H. pylori infection. Blood tests are not useful after treatment because a person's blood can test positive for H. pylori even after treatment has eliminated the bacteria.
If the infection is still present, a peptic ulcer could return or, rarely, stomach cancer could develop. Thus, some people need to take more than one round of medications to kill the H. pylori bacteria. Quadruple therapy is one of several treatments that health care providers use after an initial treatment has failed—a strategy called "rescue" or "salvage" therapy. In the second round of treatment, the health care provider may prescribe different antibiotics than those that he or she prescribed in the first round.
How can H. pylori infection be prevented?
No one knows for sure how H. pylori infection spreads, so prevention is difficult. However, to reduce the chances of infection, health care providers generally advise people to
- wash their hands with soap and water after using the bathroom and before eating
- make sure that they or those who prepare the food they eat have washed and cooked it properly
- drink water from a clean, safe source
Eating, Diet, and Nutrition
Researchers have not found that eating, diet, and nutrition play a role in causing or preventing peptic ulcer disease.
In the past, people believed that drinking milk helped a peptic ulcer heal. Health care providers now know that while milk may make a peptic ulcer feel better briefly, it also increases stomach acid, which can make a peptic ulcer worse. People should talk with their health care provider about drinking milk while a peptic ulcer is healing.
Stress and spicy food are not causes of peptic ulcer disease; however, they can make symptoms worse. Drinking alcohol and smoking can also worsen a peptic ulcer and prevent healing.
Points to Remember
- A peptic ulcer is a sore on the inner lining of the stomach or duodenum—the first part of the small intestine.
- Causes of peptic ulcer disease include
- an infection with the bacteria Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori)
- long-term use of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as aspirin and ibuprofen
- rarely, cancerous or noncancerous tumors in the stomach, duodenum, or pancreas
- A dull or burning pain in the stomach is the most common symptom of peptic ulcer disease. A person can feel this pain anywhere between the navel and the breastbone.
- A health care provider will treat an
H. pylori-induced peptic ulcer with
- antibiotics
- proton pump inhibitors (PPIs)
- histamine receptor blockers
- bismuth subsalicylate
- antacids
- At least 4 weeks after a patient's treatment ends, his or her health care provider will perform a breath or stool test again to be sure the treatment has cured the H. pylori infection.
- No one knows for sure how H. pylori
infection spreads, so prevention is
difficult. However, to reduce the
chances of infection, health care
providers generally advise people to
- wash their hands with soap and water after using the bathroom and before eating
- make sure that they or those who prepare the food they eat have washed and cooked it properly
- drink water from a clean, safe source
- Stress and spicy food are not causes of peptic ulcer disease; however, they can make symptoms worse. Drinking alcohol and smoking can also worsen a peptic ulcer and prevent healing.
Hope through Research
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases' (NIDDK's) Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition conducts and supports basic and clinical research into many digestive disorders.
Clinical trials are research studies involving people. Clinical trials look at safe and effective new ways to prevent, detect, or treat disease. Researchers also use clinical trials to look at other aspects of care, such as improving the quality of life for people with chronic illnesses. To learn more about clinical trials, why they matter, and how to participate, visit the NIH Clinical Research Trials and You website at www.nih.gov/health/clinicaltrials. For information about current studies, visit www.ClinicalTrials.gov.
For More Information
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Phone: 301–263–9000
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Internet: www.gastro.org
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The National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NDDIC) is a service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). The NIDDK is part of the National Institutes of Health of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Established in 1980, the Clearinghouse provides information about digestive diseases to people with digestive disorders and to their families, health care professionals, and the public. The NDDIC answers inquiries, develops and distributes publications, and works closely with professional and patient organizations and Government agencies to coordinate resources about digestive diseases.
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UW College of Arts and Sciences Names 2013 Outstanding Graduates
The University of Wyoming College of Arts and Sciences has selected its outstanding graduating students for the 2012-13 academic year.
Each year, the A&S Scholarship Committee, which includes faculty members from each of the college's divisions, selects outstanding graduates from among top A&S students.
The names of the outstanding graduates have been engraved on a bronze plaque mounted in the lobby of the Arts and Sciences building. The students were recognized at the college's commencement ceremonies May 11.
"I have no doubt these students are among the best in the United States and am confident that they will be leaders in whatever vocation they choose," says Ollie Walter, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. "I am proud that our fine university has contributed to their success."
The students, listed by hometown and major area of study, are:
Casper -- Gloria E. Wickman, anthropology.
Cheyenne -- Timothy C. Antinick, criminal justice and psychology; Jennifer E. Black, history and anthropology; Katherine Imig, communication; Ryan T. Ragaglia, political science and Spanish.
Cody -- Cheyenne M. Morrison, psychology.
Craig, Colo. -- Kirsten N. McAlexander, criminal justice and psychology.
Green River -- Kayli J. Westling, Spanish and communication.
Half Moon Bay, Calif. -- Stuart W. Smith, physics.
Jackson -- Mary L. Centrella, zoology and Spanish.
Laramie -- Stephen A. Bagley, mathematics and physics; Melissa G. Dozier, physiology; Anna J. Fahlsing, statistics and psychology; Charles S. Gibbs, history; Kali S. McCrackin, international studies and journalism; Annie R. Zhang, psychology.
Mills -- Clint D. Atkinson, wildlife and fisheries biology and management.
Powell -- Briana M. Johnson, English.
San Rafael, Calif. -- Sean P. Higgins, theatre.
Sheridan -- Bradley S. Boyles, Russian and philosophy.
Brief biographies of the students:
Timothy C. Antinick, Cheyenne -- A member of a military family, Antinick was born at F. E. Warren Air Force Base and grew up in Cheyenne. He is earning a minor in chemistry. He is a member of Golden Key Honor Society and Phi Kappa Phi. After graduating from high school, he joined the United States Army and served two combat tours in Iraq. While attending UW, he received the Richardson Family Trust scholarship and the Oversees Combat Veteran scholarship. Antinick plans to attend graduate school to study forensic science, with the goal to work for a local or federal crime lab.
Clint D. Atkinson, Casper -- Atkinson graduated in December 2012. While attending UW, he conducted research comparing habitat quality and moose nutritional conditions across numerous Shiras moose herd units in Wyoming and Colorado. Atkinson received a Cheney Fellowship grant for international study in Kenya and is a member of Golden Key Honor Society. Currently, he is working with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department to research Wyoming's large carnivore species, primarily grizzly bears.
Stephen A. Bagley, Laramie -- Bagley is a member of the UW Honors Program and Golden Key honor society. While attending UW, he earned several scholarships, including the Howard H. Meady scholarship, the Robert Lagrange Memorial scholarship, the Dr. J. Ray Hannah scholarship, and the Carl A. Cinnamon Prize in Physics. In addition to his interest in mathematics, Bagley also is a gifted musician, playing both piano and clarinet and singing. He enjoys skiing, hiking and biking. After graduation, he plans to pursue a Ph.D. in mathematics.
Jennifer E. Black, Cheyenne-- Black holds memberships in Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi and the UW Honors Program. During her college career, she was selected as the UW representative for the Marshall Scholarship in 2012. She did field work in Romania, Croatia, Pompeii and Wyoming. While attending UW, she worked in the UW Athletics Department in both academic support and media relations, the Office of Institutional Analysis, and the State Historic Preservation Office. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in classic archaeology at either the University of California-Berkeley or Harvard University.
Bradley S. Boyles, Sheridan -- Following graduation from Sheridan High School, Boyles attended Sheridan College for one year, after which he joined the United States Army and became a paratrooper. While attending UW, he received several scholarships, including the Cheney Study Abroad scholarship, the UNIWYO FCU Study Abroad scholarship, and the James R. Burman scholarship. He and his wife, Lacey, have two children, Karlee and Adam. Upon graduation, Boyles will attend the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, to work toward a master's degree in labor studies.
Mary L. Centrella, Jackson -- Centrella graduated in December 2012. While attending UW, she was a member of the UW Honors Program and received several scholarships, including the Scholl Scholarship, the Frederic E. Clements Scholarship in Ecology, the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program. Centrella did undergraduate research in which she described four new species of parasitic wasps and worked on plant-pollinator interactions. She will enter a doctoral degree program in entomology at Cornell University this fall.
Melissa G. Dozier, Laramie -- Dozier conducted undergraduate research in which she looked at actin regulation of hormone secretion in pituitary gonadotropes. She also is earning a minor in sociology. While attending UW, she received the Dr. and Mrs. Linda Baker Pre-medicine scholarship. Her hobbies include snowboarding, hiking and mountain biking. After graduation, Dozier plans to attend medical school at the University of Washington and then return to Wyoming to practice medicine.
Anna J. Fahlsing, Rock Springs -- Fahlsing is a member of the UW Honors Program and Mortar Board, as well as Psi Chi, the international honors organization for psychology students. She worked with Associate Professor Suzanna Penningroth to study prospective memory (memory for intention), with an emphasis on social prospective memory. Fahlsing received several scholarships and awards during her UW career, including both the Outstanding Junior and Outstanding Senior in Psychology awards. She plans to attend Texas A&M University to work toward a Ph.D. in psychology. She minored in professional writing.
Chad S. Gibbs, Laramie -- Gibbs is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Golden Key Honor Society, Phi Alpha Theta (the honor program for history students), and the Salute Veterans Honor Society. He served in the United States Army for more than eight years, and, after being wounded in Iraq in 2006, he chose to retire from the Army in 2009. While attending UW, Gibbs concentrated on Holocaust and genocide studies, focusing on perpetrator motivation and ideology. Nominated for the Tobin as UW's outstanding graduating male student, Gibbs also was a McNair Scholar.
Sean P. Higgins, San Rafael, Calif. -- Higgins is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Golden Key Honor Society, the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and the UW Honors Program. He has worked professionally as a company member at both the Livermore Shakespeare Festival in California and the Idaho Repertory Theatre. He was selected as a finalist for the Irene Ryan Acting award at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, and he received the Department of Theatre and Dance Jack Oakie Memorial Award for Excellence. Higgins will attend the Yale University School of Drama.
Katherine A. Imig, Cheyenne -- Imig is a member of Cardinal Key Honor Society and Phi Kappa Phi. She has always enjoyed singing and participated in all city children's chorus in Cheyenne and also was involved with school choir, beginning in elementary school and continuing throughout high school. While attending UW, Imig worked with Heaven Fest, a Christian music festival in Colorado. She is earning a minor in graphic design. Imig is interested in serving as a public relations professional and graphic designer for nonprofit organizations.
Briana M. Johnson, Powell -- Johnson is a member of the UW Honors Program. Before coming to UW, she attended Tulane University. The oldest of six children, Johnson has worked in museums and archives, spaces that she says she very much enjoys. After graduation, she plans to move to Phoenix, Ariz., in search of a career.
Kirsten N. McAlexander, Craig, Colo. -- McAlexander is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and the Golden Key Honor Society. After gaining experience working in a treatment facility, she hopes to complete a Ph.D. in psychology and counsel troubled youth. She enjoys spending time outdoors and reading. McAlexander also likes to bake and would like to spend the next couple of years exploring cake decorating.
Kali S. McCrackin, Laramie -- McCrackin was a nominee for the Rosemarie Martha Spitaleri award as UW's outstanding graduating female student and is a member of the UW Honors Program, Phi Beta Kappa, and Golden Key Honors Society. McCrackin did an independent study on education and language in Tanzania. In addition to her double major, McCrackin minored in French and creative writing. She recently received certification to teach English as a second language and plans to move to South Korea for a year to teach English. McCrackin is interested in a career in journalism or as a communications coordinator.
Cheyenne M. Morrison, Cody -- Morrison is a member of the UW Honors Program, and her main area of research at UW has been aggression and bystander behavior in adolescent bullying. She enjoys hiking, reading, listening to music and being outdoors. After graduation, she plans to attend graduate school to study psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Eventually, Morrison hopes to work with children who have autism and help create a school setting in which children with disabilities are better accepted and accommodated.
Ryan T. Ragaglia, Cheyenne -- Ragaglia was named an outstanding graduate of the Department of Political Science. He is a member of the UW Honors Program, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Mortar Board and Iron Skull. Ragaglia has focused on preparing himself for a vocation in international relations. After studying abroad in Madrid, Spain, Ragaglia decided that he wanted to become a polyglot and has studied Spanish, French and Portuguese for several years. He is receiving a minor degree in European studies.
Stuart W. Smith, Half Moon Bay, Calif. -- Smith is a member of the UW Honors Program and has received several scholarships and honors while attending UW, including the Carl A. Cinnamon Prize in Physics. After graduating from Jackson Hole Community School, Smith came to UW, bringing with him two great loves, physics and snowboarding, both of which he continues to avidly pursue. He is receiving a minor degree in philosophy. After graduation, Smith plans to attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to study physics.
Kayli J. Westling, Green River -- Westling graduated in December 2012. While attending UW, she spent summers studying abroad in Northern Ireland, Honduras and Spain, and she completed three internships in public affairs. Last spring, Westling earned a Gold Congressional Medal before traveling to India to study Hindi through the Critical Language Scholarship with the U.S. Department of State. Last fall, Westling worked at the United States embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she focused on cross-cultural communication and interethnic conflict. Westling minored in international studies.
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3 family members killed, 2 wounded in shooting at California home; suspects, motive sought
STOCKTON, Calif. – Authorities in Northern California were seeking a motive Monday in a home-invasion shooting that left three adult family members dead and two wounded, and sent a child fleeing to a nearby house for safety.
The triple murder happened shortly before midnight Friday in Stockton. Sheriff's deputies responded after receiving a 911 call from a man who reported that he, his girlfriend and other family members had been shot. Deputies arrived and found three of the victims — a couple in their 50s and their son — dead at the scene, Deputy Les Garcia said.
Deputies found two other victims, who said two people entered the home, shot them and fled.
Those two survivors were taken to a nearby hospital. Their conditions have not been released. Several media reports say a 6-year-old boy escaped the home during the shooting and fled to a nearby house.
"My neighbor, he saw him, and he took him in, and (the boy) said, 'My daddy got shot,' and he said he saw his grandma die, and he's just in shock," Briza Martinez told KOVR-TV.
The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office has not yet released the victims' names, Garcia said.
Investigators are still trying to determine a motive for the shooting as no new information was available, Garcia said. No arrests have been made.
Neighbors told the Stockton Record that the older woman who lived in the home was friendly and loved her family and their pets, including a number of kittens that slept and played in the driveway Saturday. The woman's husband often played romantic Spanish music on his car radio while the couple watered plants lining the chain-link fences in their front yard.
On Saturday, more than a dozen people prayed around a makeshift memorial outside the victims' home, leaving numerous candles and flowers at the scene.
"I'm here for you guys. I'm here for you guys and whatever you need," Martinez told the group. "I'm here for you guys, and you guys are not alone."
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Flat World Knowledge No Longer To Offer Free Texts, Claims It's More 'Fair'
from the huh? deptWe've written about upstart textbook company Flat World Knowledge a number of times, mostly highlighting its interesting business model of giving away digital versions of its textbooks for free, while then charging for various scarcities, including printed versions. It's also done some interesting things, like creating a make your own textbook platform. However, the company has now announced a surprising about face, saying that it will no longer offer free access to its textbooks.
The company's explanation here rings hollow:
Cost partly motivated the decision, according to Jeff Shelstad, the company's co-founder and chief executive officer. "We've got to be smart with the limited capital that we have" if the company is to survive 10 years from now, he said.None of those arguments make much sense, frankly. The "costs" associated with offering up free access could be alleviated by putting the works on other platforms like BitTorrent. The "fairness" argument also makes little sense. If everyone chooses to opt-in to whatever level they think makes the most sense for their situation, what's the problem?
There's also "an element of fairness" behind the move, Mr. Shelstad said. Some institutional partners have been paying as much as $20 to $25 per student for access to Flat World content, while other partners pay far less. The goal is to even things out while remaining affordable, according to Mr. Shelstad. "We have anchored ourselves around affordability, and we are still there with this move," he said.
And, of course, this move goes 100% against the promise that the company made when it first launched:
Are you reading this feeling a bit jaded? Something must be coming -- some advertising, spam, a charge after a trial period, lock-in to a product, something. Breathe. Relax. It's just not coming.Apparently they didn't mean most of that. Makes it a bit more difficult to trust the company on any future promises. That's not to say that the company might not still be an important player in disrupting traditional textbook pricing, but it seems like it's just opened up opportunities for others to come in and focus on truly open solutions.
Our business model eliminates the catch. We're giving away great textbooks and making them open because it solves real problems for students and instructors. In so doing, we are creating a large market for our product. We then turn around and sell things of value to that large market -- more convenient ways to consume our free book (print, audio, PDF) and efficient ways to study (study aids). Sure, we'll make less money per student than the big guys. But that's okay. We'll be selling to a lot more of them, and we'll be doing it for a lot less money (thanks to technology like web-hosted services, XML, print-on-demand, and more). Like we said... just a smarter way to do business. For all of us.
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Two Boston bus carriers that were shut down by federal authorities earlier this year are trying to get back on the road.
Lucky Star has spent almost $1 million upgrading its operations, its owners said, and has leased five new buses and fired four drivers who failed an English-language test.
Fung Wah has sold off 10 of its oldest buses and hired a full-time safety manager, according to an attorney for the company.
Both carriers have hired safety consultants to oversee the reapplication process.
The companies have met all the requirements to bring their vehicles, employees, and safety management practices up to federal standards and are just waiting for the government to allow them to start carrying passengers.
If approved, they could again be running buses between South Station and New York's Chinatown later this fall, although the number of trips would be limited for the first two months.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the Department of Transportation agency that regulates interstate bus travel, said it will evaluate the Boston companies' applications to resume operations. The agency, which is conducting a nationwide crackdown on high-risk companies, has shut down 35 carriers since the beginning of the year.
Fung Wah's operating authority was revoked in March after inspectors found cracks in the frames of many of its buses and the company refused to turn over its safety records. A compliance review by federal officials turned up other violations, including falsifying maintenance records and operating buses that had been ordered out of service.
Lucky Star lost its license in June for not properly maintaining its buses and failing to monitor drivers' hours and drug and alcohol tests. The carrier's buses broke down more than 80 times in its last year of operation, and inspections turned up violations for bad brakes and rotted floors.
In their first in-depth interview since the shutdown, Lucky Star president Edward Leung and his wife, Maria Wong, the chief operating officer, detailed improvements they have put in place over the past few months.
Half of the 19-bus fleet is new, including several buses that were purchased right before the company was ordered to stop. Each bus is equipped with a digital system that allows drivers to immediately transmit their vehicle examination reports.
They have also installed devices that limit the speed of each bus to 65 miles per hour. Each driver has undergone training in federal regulations, vehicle inspections, and other safety measures, and managers have been instructed in proper record keeping.
Leung and Wong own Lucky Star with Leung's brother, Albert, who founded the company and has since returned to China. The couple also owns four restaurants in the area: East Ocean City and Kaze Shabu Shabu in Chinatown, Fugakyu in Brookline, and Fugakyu Café in Sudbury.
Lucky Star challenged some of the citations issued by the federal agency when it pulled the carrier off the road. The bus cited for having a 2-by-4-foot hole in the floor was pulled out of service the day the damage occurred, caused when a manhole cover hit the bus, said Paul Sullivan, a former Massachusetts State Police captain who is working as a safety consultant for the company.
One of the drivers cited for not having the proper credentials was a mechanic who was delivering an empty bus to Rhode Island for engine work, he said.
Fung Wah has put all of its drivers, dispatchers, and mechanics through safety training and had adopted a new maintenance plan, "more stringent in certain circumstances than is required by federal regulations," said Bill Phelan, a former Quincy mayor who is representing Fung Wah. "Fung Wah stands ready, willing, and able to start driving their buses again," he said.
Fung Wah is also being represented by Jeffrey Mullan, the former state transportation secretary.
If reinstated, both carriers would be required to submit quarterly reports to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for four years, according to documents obtained by the Globe through a public records request. The reports would detail the status of the fleets, managers, vehicle inspectors, and drivers, including speeding violations, drug tests, and English-language proficiency.
Reports about accidents, training, and inspections must be submitted annually.
Lucky Star ticket prices may go up when the carrier starts service again to help cover operating costs, Leung said. The carrier had raised prices to $20 during the week and $25 on weekends after Fung Wah stopped running, and may raise them to $25 and $30, respectively, if it gets approval to resume operations.
Leung and Wong know customers may be worried about taking Lucky Star after the shutdown, but they stressed that passenger safety is their main concern.
"I really believe after this, we will be a much stronger company," Wong said.Katie Johnston can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @ktkjohnston.


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It's Brooke Hogan's birthday is on May 5th, and we think that the Hulkster might hurt us if we don't declare her a Crush of the Day.
The Hogan family has mostly receded from the spotlight in the last few years after the public relations nightmares of young Nick's car crash and Hulk's nightmarish divorce. So let's take some time to recognize that young Brooke has transformed into a lovely young lady. Did you know that she graduated from high school at the age of sixteen? Let's see you do that.
This year has been a pretty crazy year for Brooke, starring in the hilariously bad sci-fi movie '2-Headed Shark Attack' along with Carmen Electra as well as preparing her third album with producer Benji Harris. She's also done voice work for 'China, IL' on Adult Swim, which is an awesome show. We think it's about time for the loveliest Hogan to get a little redemption in our loving arms.


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Sears Holdings Corp. says Alasdair James has joined the company as president and chief member officer for its Kmart business, a new position.
James, 44, was most recently the commercial director for British supermarket giant Tesco's global business unit. He will be responsible for Kmart's financial performance and merchandising, marketing and price strategies for its free loyalty program, Shop Your Way.
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The Hoffman Estates, Ill.-based company controlled by billionaire hedge fund investor Edward Lampert, which also operates Sears stores, has been struggling to restore profitability and turn around sagging sales. It is focusing on a loyalty program that includes discounts for its shoppers.


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Candidate presented by: G. Simon Harak, S.J., Director, Center for Peacemaking
Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J., has been instrumental in sparking national dialogue on the death penalty and helping to shape the Catholic Churchs vigorous opposition to capital punishment.
Sister Helen joined the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille in 1957. After earning her bachelors degree from St. Marys Dominican College in New Orleans and a masters degree in religious education from St. Pauls University in Ottawa, Canada, she taught religion to junior and senior high school students. She also served as formation director for her religious community.
Realizing that being on the side of poor people is an essential part of the Gospel, she moved into the St. Thomas Housing Project in New Orleans and began working at Hope House New Orleans, a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the less fortunate.
During this time, she was asked to correspond with a death row inmate named Patrick Sonnier at Angola State Prison in Louisiana. She agreed and became his spiritual adviser. At the same time, she became concerned with the plight of murder victims families and subsequently founded Survive, a victims advocacy group that provides counseling and support for grieving families. Following Sonniers execution, Sister Helen wrote a book about her experiences entitled Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States. Dead Man Walking made the 1994 American Library Associates Notable Book List, it was also nominated for a 1993 Pulitzer Prize, and it spent 31 weeks at number one on the New York Times Best-Seller list. In 1996 the book was made into a major motion picture starring Susan Sarandon as Sister Helen and Sean Penn as a death row inmate.
Since 1984 Sister Helen has divided her time between educating citizens about the death penalty and counseling individual death row prisoners. She has accompanied six men to their deaths. In doing so, she began to suspect that some of those executed were not guilty. This realization inspired her second book, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions, published in 2004. In that book she tells the story of two men she believes were innocent, taking the reader through the evidence, including evidence the juries never heard, and examining how flaws inextricably entwined in the death penalty system inevitably lead to innocent people being executed.
She is presently at work on her third book, River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey to Death Row. Sister Helen served as chair of the board of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. In recognition of her commitment to social justice and the culture of life, she has received many awards and honorary degrees.
For her extraordinary courage, determination, activism, and outreach, it is my great pleasure to recommend Sister Helen Prejean of the Congregation of St. Joseph for the Marquette University Degree of Doctor of Religious Studies honoris causa.


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Getting another Happy News from Adobe. Next release of ColdFusion Builder is codenamed Twister :) As Terry Ryan announced during cfObjective (ANZ) next release of ColdFusion Builder is codenamed as Twister. It will be aligned with Zeus release (ColdFusion server next) and will be an upgrade to ColdFusion Builder 2.0.
Apart from important bug fixes, some of the key changes include support for Zeus... CFML changes and language additions, server management for Zeus, performance improvements for Editor and enhanced Adobe CFC Generator extension.
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Relax and unwind, while staying in our Daylesford accommodation, there is plenty to see and do. Visit Lake Daylesford, which boasts mineral springs, walking tracks and BBQ areas, hire a canoe and explore the wildlife sanctuary of Jubilee Lake, take a walk around the gorge and fern-lined creek at Sailor's Falls, take a trip to the Mt Franklin Recreation Reserve and see an extinct volcano, or use our Daylesford accommodation as a base to visit the mineral spa resort town of Hepburn Springs, just five minutes from town.
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Arch doesn't have a simple way to install debug symbols, but you can install the pulseaudio-git and libpulse-git packages from heftig's repo, instructions here. Those replace the "official" pulseaudio packages with ones that include the very newest code from upstream, and the packages happen to include the debug symbols in them.
Also, make sure to include the verbose output of PA when this problem happens. For that run "pulseaudio -vvvvv" in a terminal and try to reproduce your issue. You might need to stop a running PA first by issuing "pulseaudio -k". If autospawning is enabled (which it now is by default) you might have to race against it when restarting PA, so it might be a good idea to issue "pulseaudio -k ; pulseaudio -vvvvv" in a single command and try a few times. Usually that should work well enough to win the race. If it doesn't, adding "autospawn=no" to ~/.config/pulse/client.conf will disable autospawning.
Important: If you are using Ubuntu please read this before filing a bug.
Below is a rough outline of how a stack trace can be acquired with gdb:
$ LD_BIND_NOW=1 gdb pulseaudio
>> run -vvvvv
>> ...
>> *** crash ***
>> thread apply all bt full
>> ...
>> *** etc. etc. ***
Before posting a bug report you might want to check this list of broken ALSA sound drivers. (might be out of date)
If you want to complain about PulseAudio's mixer handling, read this first! If you want to complain about memory consumption read this first! If you want to complain that PA doesn't honour your default device choices, read this first! Other canned responsed you find in this list.
Patches are preferably submitted to the mailing list, ideally using
git send-email (instructions here). It's ok send patches also by filing a bug and attaching the patch there, but the mailing list is the preferred way. Patches should be made against the current Git master branch. Before submitting patches please read through our coding style guidelines.
shall be submitted via Transifex. This will commit your translations directly to our GIT repository and lessen our burden to merge patches. Please note that translations submitted by other means (bug tickets, mailed patches) will be ignored (or closed as "wontfix" in the case of bug tickets). You don't need an PulseAudio BTS user account if you want to submit translations this way. Currently Transiflex integration is not hooked up. Until this situation changes, please open a bug and attach your patch against latest git. Please include i18n in the keywords section.
Patch Review Status
We track the submitted patches here. That page is updated automatically with submissions to the mailing list. If you have submitted a patch, and you're waiting for someone to review it, it should be listed on that page. If it's not, then we have missed your patch, in which case please contact the maintainers (for example by sending a mail to the mailing list).
PulseAudio has been developed by:
- Lennart Poettering (mezcalero) through his employer Red Hat
- Pierre Ossman (ossman, DrZeus) through his employer Cendio
- Colin Guthrie (coling)
- Arun Raghavan (Ford_Prefect)
- Tanu Kaskinen (tanuk) as a volunteer with crowdfunding through Patreon and Liberapay
- David Henningsson (diwic) through his employer Canonical
The following people have also made contributions (this list isn't really maintained at all):
- Jeff Waugh - Initial Ubuntu/Debian packages
- Miguel Freitas - Xine driver
- Joe Marcus Clarke, Diego Pettenó - Porting to FreeBSD
- Sebastien Estienne - Testing
- Igor Zubkov - Some portability patches and packages for ALT Linux Sisyphus
- Jan Schmidt - Some latency interpolation love
- Shahms E. King (shahms)
And a lot of other folks. Consult git for a complete list of contributors.
The PulseAudio logo has been designed by Pierre Ossman and Rafael Jannone.


text: On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:24:04AM -0500, Robert G. Brown's all... > On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Ken Chase wrote: > > > Anyone have stats on the top 500 in FLOPS per $? > > > > Does anyone care? ("no.") Shouldnt we? Isnt that what Beowulf (but > > not HPC itself, obviously) is about? > > Yes. Yes. Yes. > > The really interesting issue is the overall lack of consideration of > Moore's Law in cluster purchase design and long term economic strategy > by the granting agencies. For example, let's pick a project "X", which > accomplishes some worthy HPC goal, whether it be computing properties of > a quark-gluon plasma, studying critical phenomena, simulating nuclear > devices, computing cosmological evolution. > It would be lovely if time, CBA, and Moore's Law were prominently > associated with project proposal and approval, IF our goal was really to > Probe the Secrets of the Universe most efficiently. Of course, our REAL > purpose is to Have A Job probing those secrets, and imagine the pain if > I were told "sorry, we can do your Monte Carlo computations now at a > cost of $50K/year for eight years or wait until year seven and complete > them in year eight for $100K total, and you'll just have to wait". > Multiplied by thousands of the nation's top University researchers. This unfortunately doesnt consider a couple things - one of which makes your point stronger, and one caveat. The stronger point is investing the money. If you invest that money instead of spending it on cluster gear, you end up with some 8-10% (or perhaps less now) with a low-risk well researched investment, per year. Pretty hefty over a number of years. The caveat of course is that having the cluster and designing it, as well as running it and using it, increases the knowledge surrounding how to do so, as well as the problem you are trying to model it. Hopefully you achieve a more than 10% compounded per annum increase in knowledge of the problem and how to attack it by using the cluster properly and investigating new algorithms and the like. This 10% on addresses the value lost in investing the money instead. You also have to deal with a 100% return every 18 months from Moore's law on not buying clusters :) (~60% a year, I know its not 100% every 18 months, its up and down with release cycles, but on avg) This gives us something like 66 or 70% return a year for those waiting to spend the money at the end of the project instead. Hopefully intelligent people can spend a year working on stuff such that the intellectual capital gained outweighs the 65-70% returns otherwise granted by waiting. (And if people started waiting around all the time would that adversely affect moore's law? I suppose WinTel causes Moore's law, not beowulves :) Furthermore, 'discovering' something first is a one time gain that would be worth 5 or 10 or more years of compounded 65%+ returns - you discover the new prozac first... (of course, development of a drug or other product is almost never related only to the cost of acquiring or even operating the cluster - there are dozens of other costs that would dwarf it, even for much more theoretical computational-only concerns.) Perhaps thats why people install beowulfs now, instead of waiting for some distant future optimal time, say, when Moore's law is broken, or the cycles get longer apart. (Suddenly MTBF figures will matter a hell of alot more!) Obviously people handing out funding would like to see the money used immediately - playing the markets with it for 4 years really isnt going to fly well with them. Perhaps a grant designed to sustain a group for 5 years would be better spent with a larger amount in the early years going towards algorithm and cluster design research, and in later years going towards cluster gear. Of course, its hard to budget like that - since you have to pay people a constant (or slightly increasing) amount. As always, it depends on the job at hand, and if research/algorithm development can be done without a large test cluster in the first place, etc. IBM didnt seem to be right off the starting blocks with a huge cluster on day 1 for Blue Gene - perhaps they're following this model in some (customized) way. (Then again they got their own fabs, so, all bets are off! :) > I personally think that we'd be a bit better off as a country if we sort > of split the difference -- recognize that our real goal is supporting > the people and the infrastructure, and spending a bit less on ginormous > supercomputers whose primary benefit is that they provide us with the > answers to questions of interest to (and understandable by) perhaps a > few hundred of the humans on the planet. That is NOT to say that those > answers aren't important to pursue -- I am a scientist and in hot > pursuit myself -- but I question the wisdom of spending quite as much as > we do to get these answers "right now" without the perspective > associated with Moore's law and the real goal of stretching out human > support anyway. Interesting. Problem is the technocratic society we live in - more technology is good! People advertise "the most complex (service name) network in the industry!" all the time - as if that's a good thing. (This was related to a massive cell carrier's network failure over a weekend last summer -- the article referred to the carrier's ads that stated they had the most complex network -- I mused that perhaps thats why it took so long to fix. I'd rather see my carrier have a simple network thats easy to fix. :) People are enamoured with big technology in snazzy cases with lots of blinkenlights. And as you are stating here, its not even fiscally/socially responsible in many cases to invest in it as a means to conduct research - however, these clusters have become their own end - no questions asked. Thats why there's a top 500. Its a d*ck waving contest. And people dont even ask the annoying questions of 'how many flops per $ is that', or 'how many jobs per hour can this chunk of $ properly turned into a cluster give us' -- or even more appropriate - 'what is this cluster being used for and how is the community/society going to benefit from it'. It just IS and IT is good. Furthermore, even the way the clusters are used should be in dispute. A research group I work with has spent perhaps 5-10x the average time and effort in constructing their particular types of jobs, and a whole filtering system (involving human effort/time) to weed out innapropriate jobs, or jobs with solution spaces that do not need to be rendered at high levels of theory (thus costing lots of cpu time to no advantage). After having done this for many years, they have surpassed the expense curve ('humans are expensive') and instead of just throwing large but inappropriate jobs into huge clusters of computers, they are achieving 10-100x the speedup (or increase in the size of jobs they can get relevant results for) because they actually dont just see the technology as some huge magic black box - they use it as a tool (a means). They have had limited funding, which is partially responsible for this methodology, and as they are starting to get some recognition, their methods are giving them an advantage over similar research groups - in fact, they're cognisant of their methods and their origins, and have instilled a semi rigid structure for new researchers to follow so that they undergo the same learning/investigative attitude that the original leaders were forced to adopt over the years. I think this is probably simply referred to as 'good research with appropriate tools'. And its also led my design of clusters for them into some interesting areas too that I would have otherwise not have gone were I not trying to do the impossible with a limited amount of funding. ;) Obviously governments are accused of the lack of this type of mentality all the time - 'deep pockets' replace 'frugal and intelligent allocation' and many other stereotypes that are applied to almost any western government's funding policies of certain high profile high tech endeavours - to the detriment of lower profile but probably much more innovative work going on. However, there's obviously no easy solution to determine where money should go - and even less of an idea of how to determine whose research is going to benefit the public the fastest/most. (whats better for the public? fastest or mostest? :) I suppose I've not seen the other adage most often touted for large investments of capital into the economy stated along side a cluster install yet - "this new extremely large cluster built entirely out of non HA boxes will create 200 jobs for magic little cluster elves for 5 years." I suppose its only a matter of time before we start hearing that ;) /kc > > rgb > > > > > /kc > > > > > -- Jim > > > > > > James Cownie <jcownie at etnus.com> > > > Etnus, LLC. +44 117 9071438 > > > http://www.etnus.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > -- Ken Chase, math at velocet.ca * Velocet Communications Inc. * Toronto, CANADA


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HP Debuts Software, Direct Support for Debian
Plunging Into Linux
At LinuxWorld today, Hewlett-Packard issued a string of announcements around Debian GNU/Linux, a Linux distribution available to users and resellers without the licensing fees charged by commercial Linux vendors such as Red Hat and Novell SUSE Linux. HP's new Debian offerings include first-time direct phone support for Debian, Debian enablement on HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers, and Debian thin client software.
Also at the show, HP will introduce an Oracle solution stack for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4-enabled blade servers, new remote and diagnosis tools for all supported Linux server distributions, and first-time availability of its Open Source Middleware Stack (OSMS) implementation blueprints to resellers and other channel partners.
In the Debian announcements, Debian will become the third Linux distribution to receive direct phone support from HP, said Jeffrey Wade, HP's worldwide Linux markets manager, during a pre-briefing for LinuxPlanet. The other two are Red Hat and SUSE.
HP also offers phone support for Asianux, but strictly on an indirect basis through regional partners in Asia, according to Wade.
Wade maintained that, although some of HP's competitors run Debian discussion groups or offer downloadable whitepapers about Debian, HP will be the first to supply telephone support. "We'll be taking real phone calls," he told LinuxPlanet.
Moreover, HP's phone support has turned out to be very effective, according to Wade. For the year 2005, we resolved 99.5 percent of all support calls [about Linux] without escalation to Red Hat or Novell. That's a nice proof point," he said.
Why is HP adding Debian to its list of directly supported Linux environments? "One reason is the expertise that we've developed in Debian," he asserted. HP has been working on the Debian open source project since 1995.
Yet another reason is that, unlike distributions from Red Hat and Novell, Debian is available free of charge.
"Debian doesn't have a subscription fee," he explained. Consequently, HP's direct customers--as well as resellers and other partners--will be able to use HP's products for Debian without paying any royalties.
On the other hand, HP's opportunities with Debian are much "narrower" than with Red Hat or Novell SUSE, which hold strong partnerships with commercial ISVs such as Oracle and BEA, according to Wade.
"Where our customers have asked us for Debian is for some of [the] more routine [infrastructure] applications. Debian users tend to be mature Linux users. They tend to be [very] technically savvy," he elaborated.
As a few examples of where Debian products from HP will come into play, he cited edge network solutions such as firewalls and DNS and DHCP servers.
HP's first product specifically for Debian, the HP t5725 Thin Client, is targeted for availability on October 3.
Wade described the new thin client as a piece of highly customizable software geared to mainstream applications, as well as kiosks and vertical markets such as retail and medical.
"[You] might run a Linux server with a Web interface that accesses Windows servers in the background, for example. Then, you could add more software to that," said Wade.
Also at LinuxWorld, HP will announce that its OSMS solutions and implementation blueprints are now available for use by resellers, in addition to HP staffers.
Channel partners will be able to deploy the blueprints free of charge among their own customers, according to Wade. But resellers would work through standard distribution channels, to use the blueprints with HP products, and to receive support from HP.
Up to now, most users of HP's support services have been larger customers, "especially customers in the financial srvices, oil and gas and petrochemical, pharmaceutical, entertainment, and telecommunication verticals," notes Raven Zachary, an analyst at The 451 Group, in a new report being released this week.
Wade told LinuxPlanet that HP first unveiled OSMS earlier this year. "We've been looking at growing the channel [for Linux]. But in our earlier announcement, we didn't have all the pieces in place to support the channel. This will bring Linux out to a much broader set of customers," he elaborated.
New OSMS blueprints to be announced at LinuxWorld include Database Server Blueprints, scheduled for availability in late August, and open source Directory Services Blueprints, slated for the fall.
Meanwhile, HP's new solution stack for Oracle 10g with RAC, also being announced at LinuxWorld, is pre-tested and available now. The stack runs on HP ProLiant BL25p and BL45p server blades running RHEL 4, Wade told LinuxPlanet.
Will the new tweaks to HP's support, distribution, and product strategies really work? As many industry observers still see things, customers still want a single point of software support--or a "single throat to choke." But in his new report, The 451 Group's Zachary discusses his finding that enterprise users are looking more and more these days to application and OS vendors than to "pure-play open source stack providers" for assurance of support.
"IBM, as in so many other areas, is HP's primary competitor in open source support, although HP has far less in terms of proprietary software assets, such as application servers, to protect. Novell, Unisys and Sun are likely competitors for HP as well," Zachary writes in the report, which is entitled "Stack and Deliver--An analysis of open source stack providers, with recommendation for vendors and their customers."
"HP has more of a co-opetition relationship with JBoss, which does not compensate HP for referrals. HP can rach a larger customer base and support JBoss integrated with both open source and closed source server technologies."
Zachary also points out that JBoss is an integral part of HP's OSMS. "All may be up for review once the Red Hat acquisition of JBoss closes, but from a technology standpoint at least, we see no more conflicts than prior to the deal," according to the 451 analyst.


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ROCHESTER — Jeremy Bourgeois, candidate for state representative from Ward 6, told Foster's on Friday he is dropping out of the race.
Bourgeois, 25, a Democratic candidate who was competing for the District 8 seat against Republican James Gray, is moving to Durham, and says he'll be unable to serve his constituents going forward.
"For the voters, it wouldn't be fair for me to win and not be able to serve," he said.
Bourgeois, who grew up in Rochester, had moved back to the Lilac City after having graduated from the University of New Hampshire, where he received a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's in public administration.
Recently, however, he decided to move back to Durham to pursue a part-time job as a housing director for a fraternity, which requires him to live on campus.
As of Oct. 2, Bourgeois is also the town administrator for New Durham, and the combined work commitments, he said, would leave him unable to execute his duties as a state representative, even if he was able to stay in Rochester.
Previously, Bourgeois ran for state representative in 2008 and lost by a few hundred votes, he said.
While he said it's not likely he will run again for public office any time soon, "Somewhere down the road I'll definitely run."
"I've always loved politics, and I think there's too many people out there who complain about how things go but don't really change anything," said Bourgeois. "I think it would have been a great opportunity to go up to the Statehouse and see how things work."
Bourgeois said had he decided to run for state representative to try to restore some balance to the Legislature. He said that over the past two years, members of the GOP have focused on social issues while "slashing funding to our most vulnerable citizens."
Even though Bourgeois is dropping out of the race, he said he hopes the next two years will bring a better atmosphere in the Legislature, as well as progress when it comes to jobs, the economy, education, and health care.
Speaking about Gray, who is now the only candidate interested in being a state representative for District 8, Bourgeois said, "I hope he represents the contituents in Ward 6 well."
Bourgeois said he has applied to be a registered voter in Durham, and had faxed a request to the Secretary of State's Office asking to officially drop out of the race. While his name will still appear on the ballot on Nov. 6, Bourgeois hopes his request to quit the race will be accepted, and that he won't be a qualified candidate if he happens to win residents' votes.


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I find that I am torn between two contradictory impulses when it comes to casual (well, let's call it semi-casual to be honest) raiding:
The desire to be essential to every raid and to have my raid spot guaranteed whenever I feel like signing up
Being able to take time off for whatever reason (holidays, family emergencies, hot date, etc) without feeling guilty because the raid can't go without me
No one enjoys being benched, especially when you had set aside a raid night for gaming, and everyone likes to feel that they are important to the group. However, any functional raid group is probably going to rotate raiders, just to make sure they have enough people to keep going even when a couple fall sick or get caught in traffic on the same day. So if you're in any kind of regular raid, #1 is an impractical thing to want.
Wanting to feel important is a perfectly normal human impulse when jostling for position in a group. And raid leaders, like management at work, are well placed to channel that desire in ways that are useful to the raid/ project. So you can call #1 the 'need to be loved' impulse. People who are ruled by this will literally sacrifice anything for the raid, it can all become quite unhealthy and obsessive.
#2 is not only practical but also necessary for any kind of sensible work/ gaming/ life balance. So it's absolutely a good thing to not be the only tank, holy priest, raid leader, or whatever it is that you do. As well as being able to go on holiday with a clear conscience, it also gives you more freedom to alt or try a different spec.
This is true at work also, while it's nice to be secure in your job because the company will fail without you, it also guarantees that you'll be doing that job and nothing else until the place goes tits up, you retire, or you die of boredom – and doing the same job forever limits your chances to learn new and more transferable skills. Sensible management would make sure they were never that reliant on one employee in any case.
Succession Planning
Making sure that there are enough replacements to cover holidays is usually the raid leader's job. But what if you are the raid leader? Or even guild leader?
Succession planning for guild leaders is a whole other topic (maybe for a different day) but as a raid leader, there's a lot you can do to encourage other people to lead raids. Firstly you can recruit another raid leader and take turns. You can also encourage raiders to take a more active role in raid leading also. Discuss strategies on forums. Nominate a co-leader to help with tank or healer assignments. Encourage other people to try leading 10 mans. Coach them if it helps.
But at the same time, the more people who feel they have a stake in leading the raids, the higher the chances are for guild drama somewhere down the line when they disagree with each other. So you want to encourage an atmosphere where people are able and willing to lead raids without you, but they can also respect and work with the current raid leader and make any arguments in a constructive way.
It's a moving target. Like many raid issues, recruiting people who are basically on the same wavelength as you is the easiest way to get to where you want to be.


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Linux is Like Tortilla Chips
The computing marketplace is nearly unique in its lack of customer choice. In most other industries we have many good choices. If you don't like your Ford, you can buy a Toyota, Saab, Chevrolet, Audi, Dodge, or any of several other good brands. If you don't like Pepsi you can try Coke, Shasta, Western Family, RC. Ever notice how particular some people are about pens? There are dozens, if not hundreds of different styles and brands of pens. Milk comes from cows that are all pretty much the same, but you still have a choice of brands. Ever count how many different brands of tortilla chips are on your store's shelves?
And yet with computers our options are deliberately restricted, especially for desktop users. Microsoft wants you to believe that their products are all you should ever have, and their lock on the marketplace is an ongoing disaster of epic proportions. Their incurably defective and impossible-to-secure products are not your fault, though they try very hard to make you believe that when something goes wrong, it is your fault.
Computer Choices
So what else is there? Apple has been around as long as Microsoft, and are known for making elegant, stylish, user-friendly computers and other products. They are also known for commanding premium price tags, though the price differential from a comparable PC running Microsoft Windows and equivalent software isn't very much. But Apple is just as restrictive and customer-hostile as Microsoft; they're just smaller and prettier.
There is a third option, and that is the one that I prefer-- nice friendly, stout Linux desktop systems. Actually there are quite a number of computer operating systems, but Windows, Apple OS X, and Linux are the top three. Later on in this series we'll talk about some of the pros and cons, but since you're here reading this I'm assuming you're ready to give Linux a test drive, and you want to know how to do it without making a mess. Linux is amazingly flexible and friendly, and offers several easy ways to give it try without horking your existing system.
Linux is Like Tortilla Chips
The Linux world is very large, and there are hundreds of different Linux distributions. You can think of these as different brands of Linux, just like there are different brands of tortilla chips. In fact the tortilla chip is a perfect comparison, because the basic chip is always the same: it is made of corn. Every brand has its own variation on this basic chip: more salt, less salt, more grease, less grease, more crispy, less crispy, thicker, thinner, different shapes, white, blue, yellow corn, different flavorings. Underneath all Linuxes are pretty much the same; the differences are things like bundled software, user interfaces, configuration tools, and customized functionality.
It runs on everything from tiny embedded devices like wristwatches, robots, and phones, to giant mainframes and clusters. Linux rules the datacenter. Google and Amazon are giant Linux clusters. Pixar Animation Studio uses a Linux-based render farm. The world's top 500 supercomputers are nearly all Linux machines-- Windows and Mac represent 1.2%; Linux owns 87.8%.
So Linux is very capable and flexible, and it makes a dandy desktop PC. It is powerful, stable, runs fine on modest hardware, and is immune to the mind-boggling tide of Windows malware that is washing over the planet.
The current popular general-use Linux distributions are Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Linux Mint, Debian, Mandriva, and PCLinuxOS. Distrowatch.com is the motherlode of distribution information.
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text: >> in other words, with a normal all-precompiled distro, dkms still seems >> redundant. > > True, but when you add something like the NVidia proprietary drivers > which have a kernel component and aren't a part any distro due to > licensing/distribution restrictions, DKMS is a fantastic. you missed me there. I'm sitting at a f10 machine which has gets the nvidia binary kernel module auto-updated with each kernel. sure, it's the rpmfusion-nonfree repo rather than fedora itself (or nvidia). to me, I would think that a vendor would want to have some set of baseline distros, and simply maintain their add-in drivers up-to-date wrt distro kernel updates. to permit testing, for instance. using dkms does indeed allow more flexibility, but I'm guessing that there's some increase in unexpected results (such as rebuild failures). otoh, I can't think of why yum couldn't trigger rebuilds itself as part of resolving dependencies. maybe it does already... I don't think it would be hard to make an RPM that had the minimal smarts to check for an updated NV blob and rebuild appropriately. ideally, NV would just do that themselves, and make it available via a yum repo.