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Back in December, I posted about the upcoming Cincinnati International Wine Festival. Yes, tickets went on sale back then. Tickets tend to go rather rapidly. Closer to the date, I promise I'll post an updated version of my Annual Wine Festival Survival Guide.
In the meantime, you need to buy your tickets. You can purchase tickets from any of the listed stores, which include Cork n Bottle, Dilly Deli & Cafe, The Liquor Cabinet, and Little Sonoma.
The official Host this year is Michael Mondavi. Instead of spending a lot of money to meet him at a wine dinner, I recommend going to a Cork n Bottle event instead. On March 9, Michael will be at the Buttermilk location for an exclusive tasting. Michael will be guiding participants through a sampling of his family's latest vintages and will also be signing bottle purchases of his collectible Cabernet Sauvignon.The event runs from 6:30 – 8:30 and costs $25. You definitely need to RSVP, because space is limited, so email firstname.lastname@example.com to grab a spot.
If you are interested in the Wine Dinners that precede the Festival each year, grab a spot uber-quick. Even though the dinners are pricey, they include all of your food and wine, and you get to schmooze with winemakers. Most of the dinners take place on March 11 and, although I've listed them at the bottom, you'll see many are already sold out. If I had $300 to spare (which I don't), I'd kill to go to the Villa San Juliette tasting at Morton's. I have a small crush on the winemaker.
The Wine Festival runs March 12 – March 13:
The moral of all of this is – buy your tickets soon. Whether it's for the special dinners or for the festival itself, make your plans early this year.
Wine Dinners
March 10:
Michael Mondavi at The Palace Restaurant in the Cincinnatian Hotel
Tickets $175 – SOLD OUT!
March 11:
Carlo & Johnny – SOLD OUT!
Banfi International
Tickets: $150
DaVeed's at 934
Graziano Family of Wines
Tickets: $125
Eddie Merlot's
Kuletto Wines
Tickets: $125
The Hess Collection
Tickets: $150
Frank Family Vineyards
Tickets: $150
Jags – SOLD OUT!
Truchard Vineyards
The Meeker Vineyard
Tickets: $150
Jeff Ruby's Steakhouse – SOLD OUT!
Wines from the Nickel & Nickel Family
Far Niente, Nickel & Nickel and Dolce
Tickets: $150
Boca – SOLD OUT
Marc de Grazia Selections
Tickets: $150
Morton's, The Steakhouse
Villa San Juliette
Tickets: $150
Orchids at Palm Court
Terlato International
Tickets: $125
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TNT has released details about the Dallas season finale, which will air from 8-10PM on April 15.
Dallas Season Finale Part 1: "Guilt By Association" – Monday, April 15, at 9 p.m. (ET/PT)
When John Ross and Pamela make a shocking discovery about an enemy's whereabouts the night J.R. was killed, Bobby is compelled to reveal more of J.R.'s master plan to them and ask for their help in a surprising way. Meanwhile, Christopher heads out to search for his mother, but as an unexpected secret comes to light, a rift drives Christopher and Elena apart. At the same time, Sue Ellen makes an impassioned plea to convince Ken Richards (guest star Lee Majors) to do the right thing, even though it may have dire consequences for him.
Directed by Jesse Bocho
Written by Taylor Hamra
Dallas Season Finale Part 2: "Legacies" – Monday, April 15, at 10 p.m. (ET/PT)
In the electrifying second season finale, the Ewings unite to execute J.R.'s master plan. Twists and turns abound as each family member tries to ensure its success in ways that would make even a scoundrel like J.R. Ewing proud. When the shocking answer to the question "Who killed J.R.?" is finally revealed, the stage is deliciously set for new alliances and new battles to begin.
Directed by Steve Robin
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Thanksgiving Blessings Found in Parenting an 'Imperfect' Child
- Kym Wright Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
- 2007 16 Nov
At this time of Thanksgiving, where we voice our appreciation for people, situations, and things in our lives, join me as I share why I'm grateful for Morgan, our adopted son who was born normal, but developed PDD-NOS (Pervasive Developmental Disorder or high-functioning autism).
I have struggled with learning about his condition, handling his antics, understanding his problems and finding solutions. Running away from it – mentally and emotionally, if not physically – would have been so easy, but not profitable for anyone. I realized, if Morgan is to make progress, it's up to me – to find the therapists, the diet, exercises, discipline, motivation and methods. Yes, I can find help, but I initiate, investigate and instigate.
My husband and I know we are blessed beyond measure, remembering God gives only good gifts (James 1:17), and that a child (any and every child) is a gift from the Lord, a blessing, a reward. (Psalms 127:3-5) God has brought much good into our lives because of Morgan and his situation.
No, we would never have chosen to go down the path of autism on our own, but God's wisdom supersedes ours, and we are grateful for all we have learned. (Jeremiah 29:11) So, these are some of the reasons I am very thankful for our son and our journey.
1. Morgan has always had a ready smile. He is very affectionate and accepting of everyone.
2. Having always wanted to adopt, he opened up the world of adoption to me. God blessed us with the opportunity and privilege of raising children not born to us.
3. Since Morgan is just seven months younger than one of our biological sons, this allowed me the opportunity to experience "twins."
4. Our adoption let me help a child in need, who had no other place to call "home."
After Morgan's autistic behavior began …
5. I gained the confidence to stand up to well-meaning, but uninformed doctors. I became his advocate.
6. Which pushed me to become informed, to educate myself on "how" this might have happened and …
7. Then educate the doctors, and find doctors and therapists who could help in the best approach for our situation.
8. Morgan's misbehavior and antics brought to the surface some ugly attitudes in me and the children that we dealt with including lessons on: Learning to deal with a handicapped person, dealing with frustration, anger, and irresponsible behavior. Learning to act rather than react.
9. This learning process brought me to my knees, and when my grace was not sufficient – His was; when there was no peace, because of Morgan's actions and activities – God brought peace overflowing to my heart; when I didn't understand what to do, nor how to do it – He gave direction.
10. My husband and I have been drawn together as we sought answers and practical help. We have not allowed this to separate us, but have chosen for this to anchor us to the Lord and to each other.
11. This situation has pushed me beyond my natural, to depend on His supernatural: when Morgan's sleepless nights, or night wanderings interrupted my sleep – "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength … shall run and not be weary, shall walk and not faint." (Isaiah 40:31) He became my source of energy, strength.
12. I was pushed out of my "comfort zone" into new territories: doctors, research, answering questions like to medicate or not.
13. It reduced my pride in my children's behavior – "My children will act in a most appropriate way: in attitude, word and deed!" Well, not so with Morgan, compared to "normal" children. His talking out loud, or fidgeting, or tears in church cultivated humility on my part. Then discipline, to teach him proper behavior which requires working with him daily to teach him to sit and listen.
14. Morgan's presence has increased our creativity: Making him a busy bag with quiet toys to help him sit through church; finding computer programs to help him read; teaching our other children how to run through his therapy program with him and help him learn.
15. We've learned to connect – to finding ways to bring Morgan back to us, not leaving him in his own world, but reaching in and drawing him back into our reality.
16. God has worked in me a long-term vision of seeing Morgan whole, normal, providing for his own family. And He has given me the tenacity to do the necessary work each and every day to achieve the dream.
17. Morgan has opened up the world of autism, handicapped or "different" people to our children. They have more compassion, insight, wisdom and patience.
18. This has given me a greater compassion for those who hurt; but has also given me a greater desire to find ways to resolve hurting situations in my life – including finding explanations, answers, remedies, and practical help. Not merely enlisting sympathy, but soliciting solutions.
19. Being in this situation has opened up a wealth of ministry to reach hurting moms and dads with children on the autistic spectrum.
20. Coming to the realization that God does indeed mean this for good, and not for evil. (Genesis 50:20) That we live in a fallen world, and bad things happen to good people. But, God will be the victor, still. This sickness is to bring glory to the Lord, and has done so, already, in so very many ways.
21. I have learned to stand on God's promises when things look bleak. To remind God of His Word, His promises to us, and that He is faithful.
22. Taking my thoughts captive has been one of the hardest lessons for me to learn. To not look at the past, the "what if's," the "Why did this happen to Morgan and us?" No longer questioning God's wisdom or His plan, but thinking about today, and the future God has planned.
23. And last, but certainly the most wonderful: Yesterday, in church, we witnessed Morgan's acceptance of Jesus Christ into His life. Pure and sweet, he raised his hand and asked Jesus to come in. What could be a greater blessing than parenting another eternal soul headed for heaven?
Every good thing bestowed and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow. James 1:17
For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. Plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11
Behold, children are a gift of the Lord; the fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one's youth. How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. Psalms 127:3-5
And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, Gen 50:20
Some Biblical Promises for Morgan
Their children also shall be as formerly ... Jeremiah 30:20a
And all your sons will be taught of the Lord; The well-being of your sons will be great. Isaiah 54:13
Commit yourself to the Lord; let Him deliver him; let Him rescue him, because He delights in him. Psalm 22:8
Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me. Matthew 25:40
Whoever receives one child like this in My name receives Me; Mark 9:37
Their children, who have not known, will hear and learn to fear the Lord ... Deuteronomy 31:13
Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these . ... He took them in His arms and began blessing them, laying His hands upon them. Mark 10: 14, 16
Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father. Luke 9:42
The things impossible with men are possible with God. Luke 18:27
Kym Wright is an energetic and encouraging speaker who has appeared on both television and radio, sharing her love of motherhood and homeschooling on The 700 Club and in her writing. This article comes from The Mother's Heart magazine, Kym's premium online publication.
Kym is the mother of eight great homeschooled children and the author of the exciting new book: Booster Shot: Energize Your Homeschool with Unit Studies. With a Bachelor of Science Degree, Kym has homeschooled for 20-something years and has authored hundreds of articles on homeschooling, education, mothering, and practical living. Her articles have appeared in many national publications including Practical Homeschooling and Home Schooling Today, and Kym has been a columnist, writer, and editor for many homeschool publications. She now publishes a premium online magazine called The Mother's Heart, with the foundation that if the mother's heart is right, and she is convinced of the value of her role as a mom, she'll make great choices for her family.
A longterm member of the homeschooling community, Kym has taught classes to homeschoolers ranging from animal husbandry to dissection, microscopes to beginning sewing and quilting, Shakespeare to Speech 101. She has served in many homeschool leadership positions and also writes the Learn and Do Unit Studies.
This article originally published Nov. 16, 2007.
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By Elinor Nauen and Bonnie Goldman
"It's like a double sentence, living in a prison within a prison. I was the first woman diagnosed at the facility and I experienced a lot of discrimination and stigma from inmates and staff. The staff and I went through lots of trial and error. I was put in isolation cells, fed off of disposable trays, and not allowed to play certain sports. I went to Wichita Work Release and was told not to use the washer and dryer and was not allowed to work in fast food places.
"They ain't keepin' me here forever," says Carol Jackson, who is a little over five years into a 13-year sentence for possession of crack cocaine in an amount she describes as the size of a piece of line, .04 grams. She has amassed three years of good time, and is a level-three (minimum security) inmate at the Topeka Correctional Center for Women. Both Carol and her case manager feel that she received the stiff sentence because of a variety of factors: she's poor, African American, female, a heroin addict, and a prostitute; has a prior conviction and prior arrests; and is HIV-positive. Both consider it literally to be a form of social control to keep Carol locked up and unable to potentially spread the virus, as if her HIV status is part of her criminal record.
"What hope I had in the system to rehabilitate me diminished. So I prayed a lot, read the Bible, and I have a family and friends who love me and encourage me. After going in and out of drug treatment, mental health, prison, and HIV support groups, I discovered that God would give me the strength and courage to live one day at a time. Through a lot of tears and suffering I was able to look at myself. It took me a long time to discover that I was no longer a victim. I made a choice to live, and to live for the right reasons."
Currently, Carol is on her fourth drug regimen. Over the years she has remained healthy and has never suffered from an opportunistic infection. "Doctors and medicine can help the healing process, but the true healing comes from within me."
This interview was conducted by Jim Pickett, in the book, The Faces of AIDS: Living in the Heartland, part of a campaign to increase awareness of HIV in the U.S. Midwest. For more information or to receive a copy of the book, click here.
After more than 25 years and 25 million deaths, the world has yet to realize that HIV isn't just a man's problem. Although it has escaped the notice of most media -- and even many in the health care and health policy fields -- HIV has quietly become the third most-deadly disease for women in the United States, behind only cancer and heart disease. It's also the leading cause of death for African-American women between the ages of 25 and 34.
Back in 1985, during the earliest years of the epidemic, women and adolescent girls made up only 7 percent of reported AIDS cases in the United States. Twenty years later, women account for 25 percent of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in the country.
Why has the number of women with HIV in the United States -- not to mention around the world -- increased so rapidly? Some experts blame complacency: The lack of attention "is a combination of general 'AIDS fatigue' and that people are persuaded we have the medications that will treat it as a chronic disease," says Dr. Judy Auerbach, the vice president of public policy at the American Foundation for AIDS Research.
But in truth, the reasons that women have become such a prominent part of the U.S. HIV epidemic (not to mention the global pandemic) are many and varied.
Women Are Different
Biology, it seems, does affect destiny: When having unprotected heterosexual sex, women are as much as eight times more likely to become infected with HIV as men. However, this risk is exacerbated by societal issues: All too many girls are raised with little or no understanding of how transmission occurs or how to protect themselves from HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
Yet the numbers don't lie: Nearly three quarters of all U.S. women contracted HIV through heterosexual sex, estimates say. In 1993, women represented 14 percent of all people with AIDS in the United States. As of 2005, an estimated 128,000 female adults and adolescents were living with HIV/AIDS. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also estimates that less than three women in 10 contracted HIV through injection drug use.
Even if she is aware of the risks of unsafe sex, the power dynamics of a male-female sexual relationship often put even the most educated woman at a disadvantage. As Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto in 2006, "A woman should never need her partner's permission to save her own life." But, unfortunately, throughout the United States and certainly around the world, women often do need their partner's permission. They depend, for example, on their male partners to put on a condom, or disclose infidelities when protection is not used while in a monogamous relationship.
Speaking at the same conference as Gates, Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS and an eloquent women's advocate, said, "What we are seeing is an increasing feminization of the epidemic everywhere. ... the AIDS response in most countries has still not taken full account of the extent to which gender inequality and the low status of women are driving the epidemic." He warned that, if we continue to fail to address women's lack of sexual power, we have no chance of bringing HIV under control.
Piot is one of the few male political leaders who says what is obvious to many women: "Too little has been done on the ground to encourage men and boys to embrace gender-equal norms and behaviors, because let's face it ... this epidemic is driven by male behavior."
Indeed, research supports just how much of an impact male behavior has on the health of women. An astonishing 66% of HIV-positive women in the United States have experienced domestic violence at some point in their life, according to results from the Women's Interagency HIV Study, the largest, ongoing, U.S. study of HIV-positive women. The study found that childhood sexual abuse was also relatively common, with 30% of HIV-positive women acknowledging they had been abused as children.
"Violence against women is not just a cause of the AIDS epidemic. It can also be a consequence of it," said Piot in a speech at the turn of the millennium. "Of those [women] whose infection status became known to others, many suffered direct violence at the hands of their husband, family or community."
Even love and trust put women at risk. Simply being married, for instance, becomes a risk factor when a woman's husband has unprotected sex or shares injection-drug needles with others. Between 40 percent and 80 percent of women get the virus from a male sex partner -- often their only partner.
Testing, Testing
Clearly, it will take generations to change these issues of gender inequality. So perhaps the most we can do now is to make women aware of their risk and ensure they get the HIV testing and care they need.
The fact is, any woman can be exposed to HIV. Yet many women firmly believe they are not at risk. And who can blame them? With HIV widely ignored by both gynecologists and women's magazines, she can certainly be forgiven for not knowing what she hasn't been told. As a result, many women don't bother to get tested for HIV until long after they've been exposed to the virus.
For example, when a gay man goes to the emergency room with chest pains after an initial exam, one of the first things a doctor may suspect is "HIV-related pneumonia," while a woman who shows up with the same symptoms may immediately be told she has the flu. Most women -- even women with risk factors that should prompt them to get tested -- learn of their HIV status only coincidentally: For instance, a hospital may give her an HIV test because she's pregnant; she may have a routine HIV test done when she changes jobs or insurance plans; she may get tested only because her partner becomes ill; or she may get tested when she goes into a rehabilitation program for drug addiction.
However, getting tested for HIV late is not a good idea. The longer a person lives with HIV without treatment, the more likely it becomes that HIV disease will progress. Unfortunately, getting tested late is particularly common among African Americans, which may help explain why AIDS is the number-one killer of African-American women between the ages of 25 and 34.
Despite these sobering stats, many people -- doctors very much among them -- still wrongly assume that HIV is a disease of gay men, or of people in urban areas such as New York and San Francisco, or of people living in Africa, or of people who sleep around, or of junkies -- in other words, for everyone other than what the "typical" woman is envisioned to be.
"The way in which we have developed HIV prevention, particularly around testing and categorizing who is at risk, has in many ways created the mindset that only certain people are at risk, and the typical woman is left out of the equation," says Carrie Broadus, executive director of Women Alive, a nonprofit organization in Los Angeles created by, and for, women living with HIV/AIDS.
Broadus says that, when a woman talks with a health care professional about her sexual history, she often will not be asked about her own behaviors. Instead, she will be asked if she has had sex with a man who 1) has had sex with another man, 2) injects drugs or 3) has had sex for drugs or money. Not only do these questions only tell half the woman's story, Broadus explains, but they also require a woman to know about her male partner's behavior -- knowledge she may not have. "She may say no to all of [those questions]. So the perception is that she is at low risk."
In fact, according to the CDC, a third of women who test positive for HIV in the United States would answer no to all three of those questions. Broadus' organization, Women Alive, discovered this reality first hand: When it learned that women in Los Angeles were being diagnosed with HIV well into disease progression, it secured funding to improve access to HIV testing for women of color and women with sexual risk.
However, Women Alive found that the concept of "sexual risk" tripped up the very people who were supposed to improve women's access to HIV testing. The testers refused services to many women because they didn't fit into traditional high-risk groups, says Broadus; when Los Angeles County looked at the data relating to women, "They discovered that 40% to 60% of African-American women and Latinas testing positive did not fit in those risk groups. They had only had sex with a man."
These types of findings make it clear that the traditional ways that health care workers have decided who should be offered an HIV test are no longer working. That realization was part of the driving force behind the CDC's headline-grabbing decision in 2006 to officially recommend that everybody in the United States between the ages of 13 and 64 -- men and women, black and white, low risk and high risk -- be given an HIV test as a routine part of their medical care. Many experts have expressed hope that by making HIV tests routine for most of the United States, late diagnoses can become a thing of the past. With earlier diagnoses would come earlier treatment, fewer HIV-related illnesses and deaths, and fewer undiagnosed people unwittingly passing HIV on to others.
It sounds like a prescription for success. However, actually implementing these universal testing recommendations is another matter. In some places -- particularly small, close-knit rural communities -- confidentiality can't be assured, so women may decide not to get tested. (The new CDC recommendations call for "opt-out" testing, which allow people to refuse an HIV test.)
In addition, the stigma that has existed since the beginning of the HIV pandemic hasn't changed; in fact, if anything, it's growing. Especially for women, the fear of being isolated in their communities can be extremely powerful. Many HIV-positive women have children they want to protect from gossip and discrimination at school. When it comes to curbing HIV rates among women, fighting society's misconceptions about HIV may turn out to be just as important as increasing access to HIV tests.
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Redistricting Reform
Redistricting, a deeply political process, has long been a prominent and much-criticized feature of American politics. Incumbents actively seek to minimize the risk to themselves via bipartisan gerrymanders or to gain additional seats for their party through partisan gerrymanders. Recent developments, including the sharp decline in competitive seats in the House and in most state legislatures and the growing ideological polarization between the two major parties, have given new urgency to this issue and precipitated the most serious effort to reform redistricting processes in many years.
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3D Text Rendering in Haskell with FTGL
While I was writing a sort of password manager for my personal use (in Haskell) — actually, a friend of mine was doing the same in Java, so there was some competition 🙂 — I decided that just printing the password in the terminal wasn't enough, at all. That's why I decided to look at how it was possible to render text easily inside an OpenGL context, with possibly some depth given to each letter.
You know what ? Nearly like every time you look for some library in Haskell, you find it ! Mine was ftgl. You can, with only few lines, while in an OpenGL context, create some 3D text from given text and (TrueType) font and render it.
Since it is really easy to get working, here's a little howto.
– be sure to have libftgl (the C version of the library), glut (often freeglut3 in distro repositories) and opengl correctly installed.
– be sure to have the Haskell OpenGL binding installed, and also GLUT (thus we can get a working 3D context in a (GLUT) window quite easily).
– get the Haskell binding of FTGL from hackage using cabal : cabal install ftgl.
Then you can try to play around the following code, that you may want to compile with ghc –make hs3dtext.hs -o hs3dtext.
module Main where import Data.List import Data.IORef import Graphics.Rendering.OpenGL import Graphics.Rendering.FTGL import Graphics.UI.GLUT import System.IO main :: IO () main = do (_, _) <- getArgsAndInitialize initialDisplayMode $= [DoubleBuffered] createWindow "3D Text Renderer" angle <- newIORef 0.0 font <- createExtrudeFont "FreeSans.ttf" setFontFaceSize font 7 7 setFontDepth font 1.0 displayCallback $= display "Haskell" angle font idleCallback $= Just (animate angle) mainLoop display text angle font = do clear [ColorBuffer] loadIdentity scale 0.04 0.05 (0.5 :: GLfloat) a > 179 of True -> angle $= -180 False -> angle $= a + 0.03 postRedisplay Nothing
Don't forget to get FreeSans.ttf from anywhere for it to work. The depth of the letters here is 1.0, you can play with it, but it doesn't look as well as it does like I pasted.
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Time Out says
The buzz is as important as the food at this enduringly popular Soho restaurant, but the food can be pretty memorable too.
The buzz is as important as the food at Jacob Kenedy and Victor Hugo's enduringly popular Soho restaurant. Dine at the bar and you're in for a fun night, or afternoon – especially if you're by the window. It's the perfect perch from which to watch favourite actresses swan into the clamorous and less atmospheric rear dining room. The menu is a slightly confusing mix of small and large plates to share and, amid the noise, it can be unclear what you think you've ordered and at what point it might arrive. Staff reassuringly affirm, 'It's sooo good,' to virtually everything you suggest – and sometimes they're right. We have fond memories of buttery brown shrimp on soft, silky white polenta (the Venetian preference), and a deep-fried mix of calamari, soft-shell crab and lemon. The radish, celeriac, pomegranate and pecorino salad with truffle dressing is a much-imitated Bocca di Lupo signature – far better, we found, than the spartan raw fennel salad. The brioche in our gelati dessert was also too dry to thrill, irrespective of the quality of the own-made ices. To drink, there's an enticing selection of cocktails and an impressive all-Italian wine list, but it isn't as fairly priced as the hype suggests.
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Ottimo cibo ma prezzi alti. Sui vini attenzione, chiedi una bottiglia di vino da 20 euro e te ne portano una che costa il doppio. Attenzione! Sono superficiali nel servizio in sala.
This is without doubt my favourite London restaurant - Radish salad, fritto misto, orecchiette with nduja and roast suckling pig were my favourites. Only been at late lunch on Saturday (kitchen closes at 15:00) - would love to go back, but due to the size you are usually lucky to get a table. Planning my next trip now... - http://wp.me/p6r9tz-T
Small but perfectly formed Italian.
Great quick meal before theatre - sorry we were in such a rush we didn't leave a tip but staff were LOVELY
Expensive. Small plates. Good if you're loaded and you don't care if you have to spend £100 on four slices of ham and a glass of wine. If not, you'll be underwhelmed.
I love the fact that you can see them cooking in front of you, great Italian food, sort of like tapas!
Think we got the last table last Sunday but sitting at the "Chefs counter" was really an experience. Not only were we served fantastic food, one dish more voluptuous than the other. Oh, did I mention absolutely wicked cocktails to start with. We were also served something of a show from the kitchen. I don't think I have ever heard that many "Yes, chefs!" before, not even on Gordon Ramsey's programs. Service was excellent, we could have made a "this is the way you should treat your costumers" video that evening as EVERYBODY in the staff did a great job in making us feel pampered and well looked after. We did end the evening a cross the street at Gelupo where they were also very friendly but the Gelato was a bit too main stream. Never the less, we had a great evening and can really recommend an evening at Bocca di lupo. We did have a full evening dinner with cocktails and several courses plus a great bottle of wine and the bill was quite reasonable.
fav london restaurant
Sat at the bar on Saturday afternoon and it was fantastic. Staff friendly, attentive & helpful and the food was simply wonderful. The scallops in butter and thyme + Sheeps Ricotta Tortellini with walnut pesto were my favourites. Can't wait to go back Can't wait to go back.
I have to admit the food was spectacular. However, a very average level of service from staff and horrendously rude attitude from the maitre d... ruined an otherwise lovely evening. Not sure I'd bother going back, as plenty of other places in London where the service matches up to the quality of the food.
Great food terrible service. Sat for dinner was then told they needed their table back because we d been there more than two hours having ordered a hefty amount. Unpleasant management who appear more concerned with turning tables than service
simply the BEST italian in town!
Food lovely, imaginative, creative Italian Cuisine. However service was appalling, no warmth friendliness, proclaimed at the end of the night how exhausted he was. Had run out of several ingredients, no apologies. Coffee machine broken, no offer of an alternative - great food, ruined by dreadful service
This is the first time I write a restaurant review and feel compelled to say that my experience at Bocca di Lupo was very very poor. Having booked a table for 21:30, my wife and i duly arrived and were told that our table wasn't ready. While I understand that table handovers don't always run smoothly, we were told that we could not wait in the restaurant and had to go away and come back in 15 - 20 min... we were told there was "a bar across the road". After coming back, we were "allowed" to wait in the restaurant for another 20 - 25 min and conspicuously ignored by the space cadet of a maitre d'... Food nice, deplorable service. Don't recommend going through the hassle, there are plenty more good italian restaurants in town...
I've dropped in twice in the past two months (the last being yesterday) without reservations; the trick is to go very early or quite late. Staff are very courteous and attentive, but a waiter was so aggressive (in an oddly polite way) with pushing the drinks! Bocca, this makes you look desperate and into fleecing customers, please stop him. Food is fantastic, and the fresh menus make it fun to come back. Salads are fresh, flavourful and piled high; pastas are definitely home-made. They triumph at pillowy gnudi in ragout, their pumpkin tortelloni generously buttered and scattered w rustic breadcrumbs. This place makes Italian food really sparkle, and while The prices tend to the ritzier side, it's important that I as a customer felt that it was so worth it.
I can't believe the review by "Pau"l below - can only imagine it's a rival restaurant trying to destroy a reputation. Bocca di Lupo is bloody marvellous. Accusations of tinned or somehow not fresh food served are ludicrous. Everything I've ever eaten there has been spectacular. Go!
Totally agree with TO review. Great staff, fantastic food, buzzing atmosphere. The crab linguine was delicious, and the guy next to me was raving about his courgette flowers. We turned up at door and just had to wait 20 mins for a seat at the bar (the best place to sit). Loved watching the kitchen in action. Ignore all the moaners below – I'm with Frank! this is a great place to eat and I've recommended it to loads of people.
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Chen Guangcheng: Rebel of the Year 2012
Author: JOHN B. THOMPSON
On May 19, Chen Guangcheng landed at Newark Liberty International Airport on United Airlines Flight 88 from Beijing. He was met at the airport by Jerome Cohen, an old friend and co-director of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute at NYU, who arranged for Chen's arrival in New York.
Guards routinely stole into Chen Guangcheng's house, wrapped him in a blanket, beat him bloody, broke his wife's bones. The blanket seemed especially gratuitous: Chen is blind. This went on for a year and a half, all because the self-taught lawyer had sued the Chinese government to stop forced abortions in his village. So one dark April night, he left it all behind. He scrambled over the wall of his courtyard, shattering his foot in the fall. Still, he eluded over sixty thugs patrolling his town by hiding in the rank filth of a pigsty. He alerted a team of sympathizers collaborators with coded messages from a smuggled cell phone; they picked him up and began the long drive to Beijing, where Chen shuttled among apartments, never spending two nights in the same place.
After a car chase—a car chase—he wound up at the American embassy, and found himself at the center of a swirling diplomatic drama. An embarrassed China wanted Chen back. A cautious U.S. wanted to play hero without affronting the Chinese. Chen wanted to stay until he didn't, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had to step in and broker a deal to get him out of the country. "From the moment I climbed on the plane, I had this feeling—it's hard to articulate clearly, but it was sorrowful," Chen says now. "Of course I want to go back. I will inevitably return to China, standing tall. I don't think China can continue like this forever." In a GQ exclusive, Chen recounts his time as a humanitarian cause célèbre in the United States and adjusting to life in the slow, steady fade of the footlights that had burned so bright and hot in May.
On May 19, Chen Guangcheng landed at Newark Liberty International Airport on United Airlines Flight 88 from Beijing. He was met at the airport by Jerome Cohen, an old friend and co-director of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute at NYU, who arranged for Chen's arrival in New York.
The plane had this kind of airtight smell, the scent of hermetically sealed space and air conditioning, a smell I really don't like. The seat I sat in was especially high-class; it felt like real leather. The backs of the seats had these consoles where you could watch movies, play games, or listen to music, but I wasn't really in the mood for that.
From the moment I climbed on the plane, I had this feeling—it's hard to articulate clearly, but in general, it was sorrowful. After I got on the plane and had a short nap, I had a chance to think about a lot of things—love for my country, the things that had just happened, and things I would do in America—and in general I felt hurt.
Three American diplomatic officials accompanied me on the plane, two men and a woman. They had come to mind me, I guess because there was still some threat to my safety. A bunch of reporters had gotten on the plane when they found out I was leaving, and these officials would screen them for me, asking me if I wanted to be interviewed and for how long. At one point, an old friend who had planned to meet me on the plane came up and shook my hand. Of course, he asked, "Aren't you happy to be leaving China?" "No, not really," I said.
The moment the plane landed and I was getting up on crutches—I still couldn't walk, remember—all of the other passengers stood up and applauded. I was so moved: even they had never spoken to me, they knew who I was. At the same time, my heart was surging with emotion, filled with a million sighs. All these years, everything I'd been through—I originally hadn't wanted to leave China, but this series of events forced me to, and I couldn't help but feel hurt.
A contingent from NYU had come to meet me at the airport. After a State Department official picked me up in a wheelchair, they wheeled me to the car, and there were a couple awkward attempts to get me in the van. Jerry Cohen was there. We hadn't seen each other in years, so we talked excitedly for a while. But the smell in the car, maybe something about the traffic on the highway, made me really carsick. I had a headache, and I was just waiting to throw up, though I didn't until later that night, at home.
When he arrived at his new apartment at NYU's faculty housing, Chen held an open-air press conference, his first ever.
I knew a lot of people were watching me the moment I stepped out of the van and everyone started cheering. They were applauding, whistling. People who knew me shouted my name. I hadn't really prepared or knew what I was going to say, so I just spoke straight from the heart. I clearly knew that I had to thank all the people that had worked so hard for this result, for me to come to America. I don't know if it was the best I could do, but at least it was honest.
A few minutes after I got to my apartment, lots of friends started bringing me flowers. I love flowers, especially fragrant ones. They brought me roses, China roses—but no jasmine! Jasmine is my favorite, because it blooms continuously, constantly giving people a sense of springtime. The new flowers will bloom as the old ones fall, which is a perfect metaphor for persistence in the tasks we wish to accomplish.
Another friend had sent me some oranges. I usually love to eat them, but I had a piece and was sick, vomiting until one in the morning. I don't think it was related to my emotional state. I really think it was just the smell of the van.On May 24, five days after arriving in New York, Chen gave his first American television interview to CNN's Anderson Cooper. Chen said that during his detainment his "suffering was beyond anyone's imagination" and revealed the identity of one his collaborators, Guo Yushan, a Beijing-based scholar who led the effort to find Chen in Shandong.
The biggest factor that day was carsickness. The ride from my home to the interview site gave me a terrible headache. That was the foundation for the whole day. I hadn't really prepared. I don't usually prepare for interviews, because if someone is going to ask me about my experience or my past, I think recalling it is simply enough and there isn't much to prepare.
I recognized that mentioning Guo Yushan might put him in danger. But he was already in danger in Beijing, so I don't think it added too much to his situation. Like I said, I was ill, so it wasn't really CNN's fault.
The same day, Chen's brother, Chen Guangfu, escaped from the same village to go to Beijing, seeking legal help for his son and Chen's nephew, Chen Kegui. Kegui had been disappeared and charged with attempted murder after defending himself against plainclothes police who had broken into his house looking for Chen. Four days later, Guangfu returned safely to Dongshigu.
I found out that my brother had escaped when everyone else did. A friend—I can't say who—told me. I didn't hear from Guangfu at first, so I had no idea what he was doing. It never got to the point that I was nervous. Chen Guangfu's is a little crazy, and he would find a way out. Because my brother had been oppressed for so long and they had taken all his things—telephone, cell phone, whatever—he didn't know what was going on with me, so when he broke out, at least he would be able find out about me and what had happened from my friends in Beijing. I wasn't worried about the thugs' beating him. Maybe if you have never experienced violence and suddenly were subjected to it, you would be afraid, but we had "danced with wolves" all day, so to speak, so there was nothing to fear.1
The matter of Chen Kegui worries me more. This is just another instance of the persistent persecution of me and my family. It's also a symbol of the rule of law in China. I thought that if I leave Shandong, I myself would be punished. What right does the government have to do anything else? But if you are a local official, apparently you can gather a group of bandits, march on an innocent person's house in the middle of the night carrying weapons, climb the wall to their courtyard, break open every door and window, destroy everything that person owns, and beat them black and blue. If Chen had not resisted, he would have been killed. In any other country you would be allowed to defend yourself, but in China you cannot get a fair hearing.
On May 31, Chen held a forum at the powerful Council on Foreign Relations in New York, his first major speaking engagement since arriving in the United States.
I remember the steps, just three steps to get up on this small stage in a hall that was not that big. I got the sense that everyone there was listening intensely. We talked a lot about me, my health, and of course human rights in China. It was one of my favorite experiences in the United States because the questions that were asked were well-informed and allowed me to express all the perspectives I wanted to. I wasn't aware that the Council on Foreign Relations was especially influential. I don't usually take that kind of thing into account. I only care about the degree to which an organization that wants my help cares about human rights or protecting rights in China.
I had read Daniel C. Chung's article in The New York Times after my arrival in the United States, where he says that I should be careful about letting people exploit me to represent their interests. I appreciate his opinion, but I already have my own thoughts on this. If any person, organization, party—whatever—works to promote human rights and social justice, I will cooperate with them.2 Don't call that exploitation. Because exploitation would be for individual benefit. If in general you feel like you can't accomplish anything because someone tells you to do something, then what will you ever do? If your left hand wants to cooperate and is clasped by your right, is it being exploited? If your right hand comes to your left's aid, is it being exploited? It doesn't matter which hand is which. It matters what they are trying to accomplish.
By June, things had quieted down. Other than a few interviews, Chen was busy seeing friends and taking English lessons.
New York struck me as a pretty busy place: time is always tight and transportation is always a little crowded. It has a certain polluted smell, but there's a certain marine scent from the river. The subway stations are hot and the trains don't run on time. Democracies aren't perfect!3
My children were really excited to come to New York, but my wife and I knew there would be a lot to study and learn, and there was a lot to consider. For the first month or so I was here, my foot was still broken. I couldn't walk and so I spent little time going out. Besides, I can't really speak English, which makes it hard to adapt here. We may have come to America in May, but integrating into America would take over a month!4
I went to the botanical gardens, I remember. That kind of place, resting, the pretty whispering voices, the mixture of floral scents, is what I really love. I love nature. As soon as I could walk even a little, in July, I wanted to go to the High Line5 . The two sides [of the track] are full of plants and flowers. It's quite lovely.
I corresponded with Ai Weiwei6 a little bit over Skype. We've been friends for a while. The thing that he told me that I can't easily forget was that, prior to my escape, activists and dissidents in China felt discouraged and powerless. But after what happened to me, they felt encouraged because their troubles seemed less than mine. Mr. Ai was probably just encouraging me, but I was really moved. We also discussed how China cannot continue on as a lawless society. This is a certainty of historical development. But how will it change? Will it change violently or nonviolently? The manner will be decided by a lot of factors, but change is certain.
Bob Fu7 was also in touch quite a bit. I had never talked to him until I was lying in a hospital bed in Beijing and he gave me a phone call. As soon we met, we became fast friends. I think he truly cared about my health. He knows the crimes I've suffered, the bitterness I've eaten, and really wanted me to recover. People know he is a really devout Christian, but he does a lot of work advancing human rights in China. It's difficult to summarize what he does in one or two sentences.
Before a meeting of House leadership from both parties on August 1, Chen was introduced by Speaker John Boehner. It was his last major public appearance.
When they sat me in John Boehner's office, they gave me this massive leather chair. I don't really remember anything other than how comfortable it was. As soon as I sat in that chair, I thought, "This really is a different kind of place!" John Boehner didn't say much. Nancy Pelosi visited me at my apartment earlier in the summer. I've had a good impression of Nancy Pelosi for years from the degree of her devotion to human rights causes in China. I feel like the room we were in was very big, but my friends told me, once the media got set up to take pictures, it was actually a little small.
I know Boehner and Pelosi might not agree [about which rights I represent].8 I think I protect the rights of unborn children, the rights of women, and the rights of any citizen. Human rights are not just children's rights or women's rights. Men have rights. The elderly have rights. This is a human problem, a fundamental concept. I don't think Mr. Boehner and Ms. Pelosi differ on this idea. They may promote rights from different angles, but I don't think one-hundred-percent agreement is necessary.
Am I happy here? I think this is a difficult question to answer. It's not that I'm unhappy in America, it's just that I could have been happy wherever I had the freedom to do the work I want to do. This was the main reason I had to leave China: I couldn't do what I wanted there. I don't think that being in the United States diminishes my influence. Even in prison, I was able to do some second-order stuff that I never made public. I think influence is based on ability and a little luck, not where you are.
Do I have any regrets? No. What is there to regret? When I need to analyze a decision I'm about to make, I analyze the options based on my thoughts and opinions. I don't just blindly make decisions, and this one was thought through. I don't while away my time with regrets, just like I didn't worry about danger in China.
Was this the best result? I don't think so. The best result would be China really realizing constitutional democracy. I think the best result would be going to China or the United States because I wanted to and not because of circumstances. Of course I want to go back. But after a few days, I might want to leave again. I don't think China can continue like this forever. Even if the government feels like they can disallow me from coming back, they won't last forever.
In August, I went on vacation with my family to the beach in New Jersey. I love the ocean. I love to swim. I love nature. Our vacation was too short, though. I never really got used to being outside. A friend had given me a jasmine bush before we left. It was the only plant in the house then. But when we returned, it had died.
1 "Dancing with wolves" or "Dances with wolves" is a Chinese idiom, though it was also used as the Chinese title for the 1990 film starring Kevin Costner.
2 You concern about Chen's references to getting mixed up with anti-abortion activists is addressed below, in Chen's discussion of his Capitol Hill appearance.
3 Chen is making a corny joke here. In Chinese, the phrase for "May" translates literally as "the fifth month," and "enter" (jinru) shares a phoneme with "integrate" (gouru). So the rhetorical effect could be represented by: "We went to America in the fifth month, but we bent to America after the first month [there]."
4 An abandoned elevated train track in Manhattan that has been converted into a public park.
5 Ai Weiwei, a GQ Man of the Year in 2011, is a Chinese activist and conceptual artist currently under surveillance at his home in Beijing.
6 Bob Fu is the controversial leader of the influential humanitarian organization ChinaAid, which aids Chinese Christians and promotes issues dear to American evangelicals in China.
7 Chen attracted the ire of the Chinese government because he filed a class action suit on behalf of women who had been forced to have abortions and sterilizations under China's One-Child Policy.
8 Chen is making a corny joke here. In Chinese, the phrase for "May" translates literally as "the fifth month," and "enter" (jinru) shares a phoneme with "integrate" (gouru). So the rhetorical effect could be represented by: "We went to America in the fifth month, but we bent to America after the first month [there]."
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Summary question: What are the main features of Nock, Flynn, and Garrett's common vision of America? Why do they desire that the American state do so little?
Summary question: Can libertarians be considered conservative? If yes, define the senses in which they are; if no, why have they been allied with conservatives in the past?
Summary question: Now that communism has been consigned to history's "ash heap," are the writings of the anticommunists relevant any more? Why or why not?
Summary question: In the end, is the "unorthodox defense of orthodoxy" an impossibility?
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Summary question: Reread the beginning of Berry's essay in which he discusses his hoped-for but elusive obsolescence as an agrarian writer. Is agrarianism in particular, and conservatism in general, nothing more than a striving in vain for glorious—but hopelessly lost—causes?
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Brief: Billy Lovett
There are probably some Georgians who'd like to run Billy Lovett out of town ... but to many other residents of the Peach State, the young Public Service Commissioner's honesty and forthright opinions come as a welcome relief from the murky and condescending rhetoric folks usually receive from government officials.
Since joining the Commission a little over two years ago, Lovett has leveled a series of unrelenting attacks on the utility companies of his state, and on constant rate hikes. In fact — last spring — he successfully led the opposition to House Bill 1252, which would have approved a $120 million increase in the cost of electricity generated by Georgia Power!
Lovett called that piece of legislation "the greatest hoax since the Yazoo Land Fraud," because it would have required Georgia Power's customers to foot the bill for a number of power plants being constructed by the utility company ... facilities which, Lovett maintains, are totally unnecessary (as evidenced by Georgia Power's plans to sell the plants to out-of-state utilities).
Not even his own colleagues are safe from Lovett's attacks. In November of 1979, he opposed a move to make the PSC members appointed officials (they are now elected for terms of six years) ... and even urged that some of the longtime members of the board not be reelected when their terms expired. Several of those officials, he said, had fallen under the influence of the utility lobby and had lost touch with the general public they were supposed to be serving.
Commissioner Lovett is also an outspoken proponent of alternative energy sources. Maintaining that "we must decrease and eventually eliminate our dependence on nonrenewable resources and on activities destructive to the environment," he has published a 30-page proposal entitled "Meeting Georgia's Energy Needs in the 1980s." Lovett's energy plan, which he says is "designed for the people, not the utilities," recommends the establishment of a State Energy Efficiency Development (SEED) Authority, which would provide interest-free loans to residential consumers for the construction and use of alternative energy devices.
Brief: Birch Bayh
Before he was defeated in the November 1980 election, Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana provided a strong voice for ecology and alternative energy in the Senate. In addition to backing such environmental measures as the expansion of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and the protection of national forest lands in his home state, the former legislator helped stop the construction of several proposed dams ... and was successful in amending a bill that authorizes the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to impose criminal penalties on deliberate violators of safety regulations. Senator Bayh also emerged — during his three terms on Capitol Hill — as a dedicated supporter of humane animal treatment.
Perhaps Bayh's most important activity of the last two years, however, was serving as the Chairman of the National Alcohol Fuels Commission. The board's assignment — during its 18-month life span — was to study alcohol fuel potential and offer specific recommendations to the President and Congress for expanding the country's use of alternative sources of energy.
The committee held public hearings in Washington, sponsored ethanol and methanol research, and urged the government to play a leading role in advocating the use of such fuels. Bayh and ten other Congressional members of the Commission wrote to President Carter last fall, expressing concern over the slow progress of efforts to convert the U.S. to gasohol. The letter pointed out that the Federal government purchased over 340 million gallons of fuel in 1979 to run its enormous motor fleet, of which only 13 million gallons (or 4 percent of the total) was gasohol. The Commission urged the Chief Executive to beef up the government's purchasing program for the home-brewed fuel ... and thus stimulate a market for the product.
Senator Bayh, in explaining his reasons for supporting the ethanol movement, says: "Alcohol fuels provide us with the opportunity to declare our energy independence. In fact, I think we ought to be turning our farms into energy factories."
Brief: Julia Child
Julia Child is constantly asked to endorse kitchen and food products ... but the chef de cuisine extraordinaire declares that she's determined to remain free to speak her own mind. And, although she minces a lot of fresh vegetables, Ms. Child minces no words when it comes to pointing out what she sees as dishonest food magazines ( "one publication has a policy never to criticize its advertisers, so its restaurant reviews are meaningless") ... poorly designed products ("the Sunbeam mixer has been on the market for 40 years, but it won't even beat egg whites properly") ... and the National Heart Association ( "since it's supported by a cooking oil company, of course you can't trust the organization's warnings about heart disease and its relation to cholesterol and heavy oils.")
The plain-spoken gourmet — who, for many years, starred in her own television cooking show, The French Chef — also objects to the inferior cuts of meat often sold by commercial butchers. (She recommends rabbits as particularly useful homestead livestock, because their meat is "inexpensive, delicious, low in fat, and meatier than chicken.")
Furthermore, while she's quick to criticize items and institutions that she disapproves of, the American-born chef will sometimes lend her name to causes that she considers worthy. For example, Ms. Child — who believes that "every baby should be a wanted child" — sponsored a recent fund-raising affair for Planned Parenthood. —Duane Valentry
In Brief ...
- Environmentalist Jacques-Yves Cousteau has just produced — along with the staff of the Cousteau Society —The Cousteau Almanac of the Environment, which attempts to catalog all life on earth (Doubleday).
- The faculty at Los Angeles's International College — a nontraditional "one-to-one" university — includes Buckminster Fuller and the poet Gary Snyder.


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This course examines relationships between cultural phenomena and health behavior. The meaning and expression of personal health behaviors are explored as consequences of family and community life set within developmental contexts. For both children and adults, the ways and conditions under which individuals define health status are explored. Cultural forces that enhance or reduce the capacity of individuals, families, or communities to maintain health are analyzed. To earn credit, this course must be completed with a grade of "C" or better. Prerequisite: None.
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I stated recently in my Twitter feed that by far the most interesting and controversial technology of the day is that of solid state drives. SSDs are both loved and hated by PC enthusiasts as they promise the world, often under deliver and then charge you an arm and leg for the results. The earliest solid state disks (and even some low cost ones for sale today) were downright horrible and are simply in production because they can sell them off the "sexy-factor" surrounding the world of SSDs. In recent months reviewers and consumers have gotten smarter when it comes to solid state drive technology, where it works best and where it doesn't and companies like Intel have pushed the levels of performance to new heights.
The Intel X25-M series really changed what many consumers thought of SSDs - until then most MLC (multi-level cell versus more expensive single-level cell) drives had been plagued with stuttering and other performance issues thanks to some less-than-stellar JMicron controller chips handling the I/O for the drives. Intel's custom-built logic was much improved and while the price was much higher than other SSDs of similar capacity, consumers were gobbling up the drives proving that the market was there for high quality drives. Needless to say the other drive vendors have been in "catch up" mode and have been hesitant to put out products that didn't stand a chance against the Intel X25-M series.
Even though companies like OCZ don't manufacture their own drives, they are still able to help engineer and design parts to resell. The new Apex series of solid state drives actually does us a JMicron controller, but a new version and in quite a unique way.
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We reviewed our first OCZ branded solid state drive back in April of 2008 - SSDs have come quite a long way since the day of that 64GB option running you $1100 and not performing much better than standard drives. The newest set of SSDs from OCZ takes a very different approach to the SSD dilemma by actually putting TWO controller chips inside paired together with RAID technology.
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text: In addition: Depending on which version of LSF your running, you may want to take a look at Job slot limits. These can be applied by a user, host, single processor, and/or by queue. You also may want to look at hiring a consultant to come in and help you design and implement Cluster Scheduling Policies. BC -----Original Message----- From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Clements, Brent M (SAIC) Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 9:03 AM To: Xu, Jerry; Chris Dagdigian; beowulf at beowulf.org Subject: RE: [Beowulf] scheduler and perl If I recall from my LSF days, you can limit the number of jobs that a user can run at one time based upon queue policy. This is also the case with MAUI/Moab and some other policy-based job schedulers. BC -----Original Message----- From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Xu, Jerry Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 8:38 AM To: Chris Dagdigian; beowulf at beowulf.org Subject: RE: [Beowulf] scheduler and perl Hi, Dear Joe, Chris: Thanks so much for your warm-hearted discussion. I used to manage cluster which is used by much "nicer" MPI application developers, who know exactly what they are doing and submitting fewer jobs but collecting most of nodes and running MPI stuff. Now, I am facing lots user who is basically running bunch of serial jobs, knowing little bit perl and shell, and figure out how powerful the loop is, then begin to "bomb" the cluster :-) We use LSF, I guess it will be okay to support thousands jobs, just not used to it, I think. Thanks, Jerry -----Original Message----- From: Chris Dagdigian [mailto:dag at sonsorol.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 9:23 PM To: Xu, Jerry; beowulf at beowulf.org Subject: Re: [Beowulf] scheduler and perl As Joe mention, the way we handle this is by using cluster schedulers sitting on robust hardware platforms that are capable of handling large numbers of job submissions without problems. Grid Engine and Platform LSF are two capable products that come to mind and scale well. The fact that your users are using "qsub" is a good thing that you certainly want to encourage. It puts their job under the control of a scheduler and allows you to do policy based allocation of your computing resources. The alternative is your users bypassing the scheduler altogether by SSH'ing to a node and just manually starting programs. Attempts to bypass the scheduler are common in some environments so consider yourself lucky that your users are using the scheduler at all! The problem with specific users or perl loops bringing the system down with a giant load of rapid qsub submissions is usually best handled on a per-user or per-use case level. Its more of a matter of education and making sure your users have a resource who can help them with their job scripts and the general tasks of cluster application integration. Your users are not intentionally trying to cause problems on the system (most likely) but it appears clear that they may need some assistance on how to better use the existing cluster. Not giving users sufficient application integration and cluster scripting support resources is a problem I see all the time. Too many cluster operators think that training users on a few scheduler submission and status commands is all the integration help that they need to provide. The end result is someone writing a shell or perl script that tries to submit a few million short running tasks all at once ... Ways you can deal with the situation: - Examine the user scripts, see if their script can be altered to put "more work" into each individual qsub job submission. This will reduce the number of qsub commands required - Tell your users that the use of rapid loops for job submission is causing system problems. Work with them to introduce a small delay into their submissions. It is to everyone's best interest not to bring down the master scheduler - Look into a feature that some scheduling systems call "array jobs" or "job arrays" -- For schedulers that support this feature it is a very very powerful way to use a single qsub/bsub command to launch hundreds of thousands of jobs. I know that a SGE design goal is to support the submission of a single job array with up to 500,000 individual sub tasks. Both SGE and LSF do job arrays very well. This feature only works well if the workflow includes similar commands that vary only slightly (like the input file or a command line argument for instance). So in summary: - Be happy users are issuing qsub commands at all ! - Treat the looping problem as a sign that your users may need some application integration assistance/education - Work with the users that are causing problems, see if they can introduce a delay - Look into "array job" functionality Regarding the problem of people bypassing the scheduler and logging into nodes directly via SSH to run tasks -- I've posted on this exact topic on this list before, you may be able to find it in an archive somewhere. In short, my belief is that you'll never win the technological "arms race" with the users when you try to block users who are bypassing the scheduler. Depending on your organizational environment, it is better to treat the problem of users bypassing the scheduler as a Management/HR/ Policy problem rather than a technological problem. Set up a good scheduler with resource allocation policies that have been accepted by the users. Then make a policy that everyone who wants to use shared resources must operate under the scheduler. After that, make sure that people are informed that scheduler/cluster abuse is a policy matter that will be referred up the management chain and eventually to the human resources department. It's a matter of policy and acceptable use, not technology. My $.02 -Chris On Aug 1, 2006, at 5:36 PM, Xu, Jerry wrote: > Hi, Thanks, Joe. > I am not meaning to "ban" anything immediately, I am just curious how > often this happen to the HPC community. > Perl/shell is really strong tool, one example is to use loop to submit > huge mount of jobs and puts burden on scheduler server, the other > example is to have one job sit idle and frequently to use system call > to detect the job status and resubmit jobs again and again; the other > example is that use system call and ssh to each node and run stuff and > bypass the scheduler... It just drives me crazy sometime. > > How do you guys handle issue like this? _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ 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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The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 25 and other unions said Detroit has not proven it is insolvent and has not negotiated in good faith with its creditors. In a filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Detroit, the unions also contended that Chapter 9 of the federal bankruptcy code, which governs municipal bankruptcies, violates the U.S. Constitution by encroaching on states' rights.
The unions' objection also said Michigan's emergency manager law, which enabled Detroit to file for bankruptcy on July 18, violates the state constitution because the law does not explicitly protect retirement benefits for public workers.
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Since it explored Pluto in 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft has been zooming toward NASA's most distant target yet. Join the mission team as the probe attempts to fly by Ultima Thule, an object 4 billion miles from Earth.
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Candidate presented by: Mr. Roby Blust, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
Steve Rushin joined Sports Illustrated as a reporter in 1988 right after graduating from Marquette University. Three years later he became the magazine's youngest Senior Writer.
He is a four-time finalist for the National Magazine Award and his work has appeared in The Best American Magazine Writing, The Best American Travel Writing, and The Best American Sports Writing anthologies. In 2006 he was named the National Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.
For nine years beginning in 1998 Mr. Rushin wrote a weekly column for Sports Illustrated called "Air and Space." The 40-year-old very recently made the decision to leave the magazine in order to have more time to write books.
Called "the best sportswriter in the country" by the St. Paul Pioneer Press and "certainly the most fun to read" by the Hartford Courant, Mr. Rushin has also been described as "one of the most agile essayists around" by Publishers Weekly, which listed his book Road Swing among the Best Books of 1998. Money Magazine called the book "one of the funniest travelogues ever written" and Sports Illustrated named Road Swing one of the top 100 sports books of all time.
According to the Ottawa Citizen, "Mr. Rushin [takes] full advantage of his true talents – an unmatched eye for absurdity and an uncanny ability to convey it in a way that brings tears of laughter and sorrow."
For Sports Illustrated Mr. Rushin covered every major sporting event and countless minor ones: he played ice golf on Greenland, drove the infamous Nurburgring Formula 1 race track in Germany, and chronicled "excessive nightclubbing" on the Cote d'Azur during soccer's World Cup.
Rushin has written from Greenland, Indonesia, India, Japan, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Australia, Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Morocco. His stories from the 1998 Winter Olympics in Japan won the Prix des Medias Olympiques for excellence in journalism for his coverage of the Games. He has also written about movies for the New York Times.
A collection of Rushin's travel and sports writing – The Caddie Was A Reindeer: And other Tales of Extreme Recreation – was published by Grove/Atlantic in 2004. It was named a semifinalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
A native of Bloomington, Minnesota, Mr. Rushin now lives in Connecticut with his wife, Ms. Rebecca Lobo, who regularly and unsurprisingly beats him at H-O-R-S-E. The couple has two daughters, Siobhan and Maeve.
Because of his excellence in a wide variety of journalistic endeavors and his unique gift of documenting the human condition through his writing, Reverend President, I hereby recommend Steve Rushin for the Marquette University degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa.