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Tinchild waved a lantern over the forest scenery. He narrowed his eyes and rubbed his fingers on his chin, as he had learned to do after careful observation of humans in a state of heightened curiosity.
Faehound was excited for Tinchild. The Masters said he could not go far from home because he looked like a human but was not one. This generated fear in some humans, which could make them dangerous. If this portal to the fairy realm had not opened so close to the village, he may have never had a chance to see one.
The Masters stood on either side of Tinchild.
"Good job, boy," said Master. "How big is it?"
Faehound's ears pricked at the pleasant tone in Master's voice. The words were like a fresh animation spell on a depleted magical cell. He extended four fingers from his sides and pointed the tapered ends at the edges of the portal. "It measures approximately five feet across in the circumference of a rough circular shape, Master."
Mistress dipped a hand into one of many voluminous pockets in her black witching coat and withdrew a clear crystal. Since humans could not integrate things into their eyes for enhanced optical performance, she had to hold it up to one eye and squint to look through it. She took a step toward the portal.
A warning lit in Faehound's brain. A fifth finger shot from his side and wrapped around her midsection with a loose, gentle grip. She flinched backwards and dropped the crystal. Faehound used a sixth finger to fish it out from a pile of moldering leaves and return it to her. "Humans should not interact with the portals, Mistress. It is dangerous."
He released her and withdrew the restraining finger.
She patted him between the ears. "Silly boy. I don't have to get that close." She caught her husband's eyes and frowned. "It's half frayed 'round the edges, Wyatt. I think we may be too late."
"How long?" said Master. He removed his hat and unclipped a piece of metal shaped like a sphere cut in half from its band.
"No way of knowing."
Mistress withdrew a notepad and a pencil from another pocket. She wrote, and then stared at the portal through the crystal again. She tapped her foot and nibbled the blunt end of the pencil.
Faehound withdrew his fingers and bounded up to her. He sat at her feet. "Can I be of any other assistance, Mistress?"
She gave him a pat. "No, you have been quite enough help already. You may relax now. We have it where we want it."
That energized feeling returned. Faehound was glad to be given an order to rest, because it meant he had done his job with a quality as close to perfection as it was possible to achieve. He lay down beside Tinchild, who was now sitting with his arms crossed over his knees.
They watched Master throw the metallic half-sphere on the ground before the portal. Eight thin legs shot from the object and it landed with a soft crunch of leaves.
Faehound's ears pricked. He had not realized it could be a SpidBot because it was so small. They were interesting to watch, though their conversation skills were disappointing. Two older versions, almost as large as himself, patrolled the cottage on a tireless watch for anything that came to harm the Masters or their possessions.
Four white lights blinked on and the SpidBot spoke in a tinny voice. "What are your orders, Master?"
"You are to step through the fairy portal and continue for a distance of three feet," Master said. "Take visual/audio recordings and samples of any physical material within reach, and then return."
"Yes, Master."
The SpidBot scuttled across the ground until it hit the portal. The faint shimmer of green and purple that emanated from the portal blazed with new light, a harsh white glow like heated metal. Tendrils wrapped around the little figure, drawing it in like the tongues of a hungry beast. It vanished.
Mistress pressed the crystal into Master's hand. She scribbled hasty notes while he stared through it and made quiet human mumbling sounds.
Tinchild laid a hand across Faehound's shoulders. He lifted his eyebrow plates in a friendly manner, the closest he could come to a smile while he waited for an upgrade which included lips. "This is fun," he said. "I've been waiting to see you at work ever since you started your journal. It will make a fine memoir someday. Won't it feel good to go into the booksellers and see copies on the self?"
Faehound lowered his ears. The Masters did not have much to say about the journal, so he was uncertain how he should feel about it. "Do you really think humans would read it, Tinchild?"
Tinchild nodded. "Why not? Humans love to learn. There is no one in the world like you, or who understands the fairies the way you do. They are bound to be drawn to something so unknown to them."
It still did not add up. If the Masters did not take the time to read it, he could not understand why any other human would. He blew a snort of air through his nose, the way he had seen dogs do when they were tired.
They watched the portal. Dim flickers of green and purple faded in and out of view. Nothing happened.
Mistress broke the silence, voice downcast in disappointment. "It must have closed on the other side. I suppose you can give another one to Faehound on his next job and see if he can get the samples for us."
"That's not it," Master grumbled. "The bastards must have finally gotten wise to us. If they're getting harder to catch on this side what do you want to bet they've got plans for anything that makes it over to theirs? Thing's probably in a million pieces now. Faehound, come."
The urgency in Master's voice sent a jolt through Faehound's brain. He leapt to his feet and ran to Master's side.
Mistress placed her hands on her hips. "And just what have you got in mind?"
"No more waiting for them to show. We take this to them. See how they like being abducted from their homes. Faehound, go through the portal, capture as many as you can, and bring them back."
Faehound extended a paw towards the portal.
"Faehound, do not move!" Mistress shrilled. She jabbed a finger into Master's chest. "Have you gone mad?"
Faehound froze. He set his paw down. He lifted it again.
"He's perfectly designed for it! All that iron, they won't be taking him apart."
"What if it closes after he goes through? What if the next one opens on the other side of the world?"
"We have to try it, Hazelle. Soon we'll be using more soul energy than we're bringing in."
"You can't just replace him like one of your tools."
On and on they bickered.
Extend. Withdraw. Extend. Withdraw. He could not disobey a Master. He could not please one Master without upsetting the other. The harder he tried to decide which order to obey, the more excess heat he detected building in his brain. A warning clicked on. The movement in his leg hastened and a tremble rose in it.
"Faehound, go home."
Tinchild's firm voice cut through the Master's arguing. He stood with his chest out and his eyes narrowed. They fell silent and stared at him.
The warning clicked off. Faehound turned from the couple with a wobble in his steps. "Yes, Master."
No further orders were given. He never wanted to experience that again. Orders were supposed to be pleasant to follow. On the way home he performed a scan, which revealed no damages, but also no explanation for his compulsion to obey Tinchild.
After some time the Masters returned and went straight to bed.
Faehound approached Tinchild with head and ears lowered. "Will you be punished, Master?"
Tinchild smiled with his eyes. "Don't worry. I explained how they were hurting you, and they agreed they should treat you better." He paused for a few moments. "Also, you shouldn't call me Master. It's… not how I want you to think of me."
Faehound wagged his tail. "Yes, Master."
Write a story based on this man's experience- "You know how they say that when you're dying, you're supposed to go toward the light? Well, when I thought I was dying, the light was moving further and further away."
1,000-1,500 word count limit.
Word count- 1,499.
Previous character appearances-
FaehoundThe fairy folk are an awful lot like cats. I believe this is why Mistress Hazelle and Master Wyatt gave me the form of a dog.
Mistress Hazelle tries to educate the other humans about the fairies, but how many remember to hang an iron horseshoe over the nursery window until after the baby has been switched? Too few. That is why Mistress Hazelle is a witch and not those people. You have to be smart to be a witch.
There is no getting a child back after it has been taken. There is only vengeance. As long as there are people who do not listen to smart witches, I will always have a job to do.
I wish someone could watch me when I do my job. A pat on the head and a "Good Boy" feel even better when the humans have an opportunity to appreciate the care given to every detail. The parents of the decoy babies do not usually show much gratitude. Maybe if they watched that would change.
They cannot though because that would scare away the game. Only I can be in the nursery when the
I'm more of a fantasy person, so it feels easiest to write about robots as a sort of magic/sci-fi hybrid. Faehound was created to hunt fairies that cross over into the "human" world to leave changelings. Consuming them heals illnesses and reverses aging, offering the potential of immortality as long as you can keep catching them. They're vicious little things, so no one cares.
I wasn'ty expecting Fairies when it started off Sci-Fi, but I have to say I was very pleased. I'd like to know more about this world.


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The body of this bunny is actually a recycled smoothie bottle that would have ended up in the rubbish bin. The bottle had a shape that simply resembled a body and became just that. Add a head and paper maché the figure to create a bunny that you and the kids can create for Easter.
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- smoothie bottle or other small bottle- styrofoam ball - size varies according the size of your bottle- paper bags - wallpaper glue- white paint- strong craft glue or hot glue- fun foam for the ears and arms- white and chenille stems for the ears and arms- 1 x 6mm black wooden bead cut in half (eyes)- 1 pink heart bead for the nose- decorating elements such as a straw hat, flower button, small Easter basket, small wooden Easter eggs and a piece of fabric for a scarf- acrylic flat beads- jewel or bead glue
This is how the figure looked after adding the brown paper to the form and before it got painted white.
1. First of all, you will glue the styrofoam ball to the top of the bottle. Once this is dry, prepare your wallpaper glue in a small bowl. Tear your brown paper bag into small pieces and then dip each piece into the glue and adhere to the body. Continue until the entire body is covered with brown paper. Let this dry overnight.2. Once the body is dry, paint it white and let the paint dry.3. Print out the arm and bunny ear templates to a size that will fit your bunny and transfer these markings onto fun foam and cut out. 4. Now you will cover these fun foam arms and ears with chenille. Simply add glue to the fun foam and bend the chenille to fill in the areas. Within the ear, pink chenille will be used. Once these are dry, glue the arms to the body.5. Glue the eyes and nose to the bunnys face. Glue on the hat. Now glue the ears to the hat as you see in the picture. Glue a flower button to the hat.6. Add a basket to the arms and fill it with wooden eggs to decorate. 7. Tie a piece of fabric around the neck as a scarf.
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John Schnabel is a legendary gold miner in Alaska. He is the patriarch of the Schnabel family. In the first episode of season 6, Parker reveals John celebrated his 95th birthday 2 months earlier.
Early lifeEdit
John was born in 1920. He lived in Kansas, the son of a wheat farmer. When he became a teen, the country was mired in the Great Depression, and the family had lost the farm. He was raised in southern Oregon. At the age of 17, John chopped off his big toe while he was logging. His parents split up when he was young. He lived with his two sisters in a 12x15ft cabin. By the time he was 19, he left for Alaska by steamship, in 1939, where his father had already left for to look for work.
In addition to mining, he has run a bed&breakfast, built roads, owned a hardware store, owned a lumber mill, and has been mayor of Haines, Alaska.
He was the founder of the Big Nugget Mine, a famous mine on the edge of Porcupine Creek. He bought the mine as a summertime activity for his children. He became a miner at age 68, in 1984, after his other activities.
Big Nugget MineEdit
91 year old John had been the boss of the mine, when in 2011 (season 2), he gave it to his 17 year old grandson Parker Schnabel. John was around to help his grandson with the mine. In season 4, John resumed running the mine.
John found over 50 ounces of gold and very large nuggets in one day on McKilrevie Bench
Near the end of Season 2, John suffered a heart attack, but survived. During Parker's return to school, John once again was boss of the mine. In 2013, John was diagnosed with prostate cancer. His dream of mining Smith Creek Hill was documented in the episode Grandpa's Last Wish, with Payson Schnabel and Parker Schnabel, his grandsons by his son Roger Schnabel and his wife Nancy Schnabel. In March 2014, at the end of Season 4, John was 93 years-old, and still active at the mine.
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John's grandson, Parker Schnabel, is in charge of one of the mining crews featured on Gold Rush.
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As plans for a mega-port on Kenya's northern-most coast begin to take shape, new concerns are emerging that the project could damage already-strained relations between Sudan and South Sudan.
Kenya's $25.5bn Lamu Port and New Transport Corridor Development to Southern Sudan and Ethiopia (LAPSSET) includes the construction of a 32-berth port, three international airports, and a 1,500km railway line. A new oil refinery, in nearby Bargoni, and an oil pipeline are also planned. The pipeline would run to Kenya's Eastern Province before splitting, with one branch running to South Sudan's capital, Juba, and another through Moyale in the north to Addis Ababa. A 1,730km road network is also in the works.
The project is seen as central to development in Kenya, and East Africa more broadly. But as demonstrations across Sudan over fuel subsidy cuts continue, fears that the mega-port could further damage Sudan's ailing economy are looking more significant to regional security.
The Lamu mega-port would enable landlocked South Sudan to export its oil through Kenya, bypassing Sudan's Red Sea port and oil refineries. This would cause Sudan to lose the substantial transit fees it is paid by South Sudan. Sudan lost 75 percent of its oil reserves when South Sudan seceded in 2011, and political relations have been uneasy ever since.
'Huge threat' to Khartoum
"The Lamu project is a huge threat to Khartoum in terms of loss of revenue. These transit fees are high, partly because they also take into account a sense of compensation for the North letting go of the oil," EJ Hogendoorn, the International Crisis Group's Africa deputy program director, told Al Jazeera. "The fact is, South Sudan feels exposed and vulnerable, and they feel like they're being almost cheated by Khartoum."
Meanwhile, internal political pressure is mounting in Sudan, with opposition parties and the Girifna protest movement calling for the overthrow of Omar al-Bashir's ruling National Congress Party-led government, following security forces' violent dispersal of demonstrations across the country.
"Every day there are protests and sit-ins in several parts of Khartoum, as well as cities of Port Sudan, Alobaied, Sinnar and Wad Medani," Girifna member and activist Yosra Akasha told Al Jazeera.
"The violence from the government side will not stop the grieved people who demand life with dignity, justice and toppling down the NCP regime," she said.
The demonstrations began on September 23, after the government announced the cancellation of fuel and cooking gas subsidies, effectively doubling prices overnight. Human rights groups say security forces are responsible for the deaths of between 200 and 300 demonstrators.
War of attrition
Disagreements over oil have been a major point of contention in relations between the Sudans since secession talks became serious. In 2010, Concordis International, an NGO, stated that "oil is the main driver of national contestation over border demarcation".
Since the split in 2011, oil has remained the focus of diplomatic activity between the two countries. "The Sudans appeared to engage in what some termed an economic 'war of attrition' with each other for much of 2012," noted Lauren Ploch Blanchard, an Africa analyst at the Congressional Research Service, in an annual report.
For instance, Khartoum detained oil tankers and diverted large quantities of South Sudan oil in retaliation, it claimed, for the South failing to pay fees at its desired rate. Sudan originally demanded fees of $32-36 per barrel, but South Sudan counter-offered a payment of under $1 per barrel.
In September 2012 a deal was finally reached that set the fees at about $10 per barrel - well above the standard international level - but the stand-off was costly for both countries. Sudan's oil GDP dropped by 62 percent in 2012, and its external current account deficit grew to 10.8 percent of GDP.
Meanwhile, the Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan regions continue to be disputed by the two Sudans. Despite attempts at demilitarisation, the border between Sudan and South Sudan remains highly unstable, and political leaders have failed to reach an agreement securing the territory and reducing the risk of conflict.
Although the Lamu mega-port may add to these strains, its completion is still far off, and full funding is by no means assured.
"Little progress has been made on the infrastructure corridors beyond planning," Chatham House's Sudan and Somalia analyst Ahmed Soliman told Al Jazeera. "Building a pipeline to Lamu may be a stage too far." Soliman added that maintaining relations with Sudan, while simultaneously trying to cut it out of the oil export picture, would be difficult for South Sudan to swallow.
'Big boost' for Kenya
The mega-port is a major element of the Kenyan government's Vision 2030 initiative, which aims to modernise deteriorating infrastructure and boost economic output. The planned port, to be three times the size of Kenya's current biggest port in Mombasa, was originally conceived in 1975. But new plans were drawn up in 2008, and the project was finally launched last year.
The port and oil refinery are to be situated at Manda Bay, by the historic UNESCO world heritage town of Lamu. Oil pipelines will connect the port to Juba, South Sudan's capital, and to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital.
A consortium headed by China Communications has won tenders to build much of the mega-port, and construction is under way on the road network and associated resort cities. A Chinese firm has won a nearly $500m bid for the port's first three berths, which will be equipped to receive newer, larger vessels.
Mugo Kibati, director general of Kenya's Vision 2030, told Al Jazeera that construction of those berths is expected to begin in the next couple of months.
"This is a big project and it will be a big boost for Kenya's GDP, opening up whole areas of the country that were previously quite closed off. It will also be a tremendous regional boost to the economies of four surrounding countries," Kibati said in a phone interview.
The project was predicated on South Sudan exporting oil to Lamu, instead of to Sudan. Uganda has also agreed to export oil to the new port. The oil facilities will be able to refine 120,000 barrels per day by 2015.
Source: Al Jazeera
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- Current research, which is longitudinal in nature, focuses on families of children and young adults with retardation; disability and family coping in a cultural context; issues of dual diagnosis in Anglo and Latino families; and the transition to adulthood for young adults with severe retardation and their families.
- 1979 Ph.D., Special Education/Developmental Psychology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 1982-1983 Post-doctoral Fellow and Visiting Professor, Judge Baker Guidance Center, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
- 1975 A.B., (Honors in Psychology), Brown University, Providence, RI
Jan Blacher is Distinguished Professor of Education and UC Presidential Chair in the Graduate School of Education, UCR. She is also Director of the SEARCH Family Autism Resource Center (SEARCH = Support, Education, Advocacy, Resources, Community, Hope). Dr. Blacher's NIH- ‐ funded research focuses on the family context of children and adolescents with and without developmental disabilities or autism, as well as family coping in Anglo and Latino families. A recent study funded by the Institute on Education Sciences (IES) involves longitudinal study of successful outcomes of young children with autism transitioning into the early school grades. Dr. Blacher serves as Consulting Editor for several leading journals, including the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities , the American Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability . She is the North American Editor and Associate Editor of the Journal of Intellectual Disability Research . She has served on a scientific study panel of the National Research Council of The National Academy of Sciences, and on the Johnson & Johnson/Rosalynn Carter Institute. She is a former columnist for EP, Exceptional Parent Magazine ( www.eparent.com ). In addition to holding Fellow status in three research organizations, Dr. Blacher is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Eisenhower, A., Blacher, J, & Bush, H. H. (2015). Longitudinal associations between externalizing problems and student-teacher relationship quality for young children with ASD. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 9, 163-173. doi: 10.1016/j-rasd.2014.09.007
Baker, B. L., & Blacher, J. (in press) . Disruptive behavior disorders in adolescents with ASD: Comparison to youth with intellectual disability or typical cognitive development. Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities.
Blacher, J., Baker, B. L., & Berkovits, L. (2013) Family perspectives on child disability: Views from the sunny side of the street. In M. L. Wehmeyer, Ed., Oxford handbook of positive psychology and disability. NY: Oxford University Press, Inc.
Blacher, J., Linn, R. H., & Zeedyk, S. M. (2015). The role of graduate schools of education in training autism professionals to work with diverse families. In D. E. Mitchell & R.K. Ream (Eds.), Professional responsibility: The fundamental issue in education and health care reform (pp. 231-246). NY: Springer.


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Thread: Trade with KC for Allen
-04-20-2008 #1
Trade with KC for Allen
What are your thoughts of a trade with KC for Jared Allen? Maybe trade first round picks this year and a pick next. What do you think it would take?
-04-20-2008 #2Mooselini Guest
Re: Trade with KC for Allen
It'd take us more than our first round pick to get him. They may also want a 3rd this year.
As I see it, if we can get Chris Long or Vernon Gholston we shouldnt worry about Allen. He's going to request quite a bit of money we probably don't have.
-04-20-2008 #3kmixr Guest
Re: Trade with KC for Allen
not a good idea smith. dude already has issues with suspensions from the league and one more incident would get him sidelined for a year. not worth the risk. chris long would give us what we need at d-end without the baggage.
-04-20-2008 #4
Re: Trade with KC for Allen
Jared Allen is a Drunk, He has 3 DUI's in the past 4 years, which is why the Chief won't give him a long term deal and he wants out of KC. No Thanks![SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
-04-20-2008 #5
Re: Trade with KC for Allen
Allen has been arrested/charged for Driving Under the Influence a total of 3 times within 4 years. Once in Pocatello, Idaho, on May 11, 2002, and twice within 5 months in Leawood, Kansas on May 11, 2006 and on September 26, 2006. He was sentenced to 48 hours in jail as a result of the latter arrest.
In March 2007, Allen voiced his displeasure with the Chiefs' refusal to give him a long-term contract extension. Due to Allen's recent arrests, the Chiefs offered Allen a one-year contract and will judge upon his performance both on and off the field to see if he will be a long-term player in Kansas City. No offers were made for Allen throughout free-agency due to the Chiefs' high tender for his trade (two first-round draft picks). On April 27, 2007, it was announced that Allen was suspended for the first four games of the 2007 Chiefs' season, and he will return to the Chiefs and "will do everything [he] can to help bring a championship back to the great fans of KC." On May 22, Allen signed a one-year contract worth $2.5 million, but will have to forfeit $552,941 of his $2.35 million contract because of a four-game suspension for driving under the influence. On July 16, Allen's suspension was reduced to two games following an appeal.
-04-20-2008 #6Milan Guest
Re: Trade with KC for Allen
Minnesota pretty much has him locked up with giving away their 1st and 3rd.
-04-20-2008 #7
Re: Trade with KC for Allen
Minnesota are trying to trade for him, but have said if they cant do a deal they will just sign Allen to an offer sheet.If thats true then Kansas wont even bother trying to do a deal for Allen, as Minnesota would have to give up two first rounders to get him because he is a franchise player.
Im not sure how it works, but with the two first rounders do they have to be this year or can one be a future pick?
either way, the cost is too high for the Rams when we are in prime position to pick a pass rusher in the top 5 of the draft and it will only cost us one first round draft pick
-04-20-2008 #8Dominating D Guest
Re: Trade with KC for Allen
Too much of a risk (drugh/alcohol) for the value......
-04-20-2008 #9Tony Soprano Guest
Re: Trade with KC for Allen
That drunk led the league in sacks, he had three forced fumbles
and he had 18 pressures - all on a very bad KC Chiefs team. And he did all that even though he missed two games via suspension.
"In his first game back from the suspension against the Vikings, he had nine tackles, two sacks, a pressure and a pass defended. He also forced Adrian Peterson to fumble.
Coming in on offense in goal line situations, he also caught a pair of one-yard touchdown passes. He was named a starter on the Pro Bowl."
Teams didn't have to throw everydown - far from it.
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Jared Allen led the league in sacks for approx 112 yard lost
He had 18 pressures. Forced 3 fumbles. Scored two touchdowns, numerous passes defensed.
When Allen came out, in the 2004 Draft, we were interested in a Defensive End - but we took Anthony Hargrove - and we took him a lot earlier than when Jared Allen was selected.
We've whiffed a lot in the Draft and that's why we're picking No.2
in the NFL.
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Not worth the risk, especially when we have the 2nd pick in the draft.
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Let's say KC trades Allen to the Vikes for the vikes 1st and 3rd. The Cheifs then offer up their 1st(5th overall) and their 3rd (5th in the 3rd round) for our 1st(2nd overall). Would you do it??
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Why players leave.
On social networks, especially Facebook, Arsenal fans have turned their anger to players who have left the club calling them Judases and all sorts of names like 'traitor'. The general perception is that these players lack team spirit. It could be so, it could be otherwise.
In a footballer's perspective, they would want at the evening of their footballing career to look at hugely successful career especially if they are playing top-flight football for a club with the stature and history of Arsenal. A few medals, titles, and other accolades testify to this. Unfortunately, a player, let us say, who joined Arsenal in 2005 at 21 would have to wait until he is 31 in 2014 – which is an injustice on the part of the this player.
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This is the third and last post in the series about the tiled extent divisibility requirement. The first post presented the requirement, the second post showed how to deal with the requirement using tiled_extent::pad, and this post will show how to deal with the requirement using tiled_extent::truncate.
First I'll describe the function, then we'll attempt to use it with one approach, and then I'll show you a second better approach. Then we'll conclude with a comparison of all of the approaches I presented.
Truncating a tiled_extent follows the same pattern as padding: call .truncate() on a potentially unevenly-divisible tiled extent and that will yield a tiled_extent instance which is truncated, or rounded downwards, to a tile-size multiple, in each dimension. This is demonstrated by the following code and its output:
extent<2> e(999,666); tiled_extent<16,16> tiled_e = e.tile<16,16>(); tiled_extent<16,16> truncated_e = tiled_e.truncate(); std::cout << "tile_e extents are: (" << tiled_e[0] << "," << tiled_e[1] << ")" << std::endl;std::cout << "truncated_e extents are: (" << truncated_e[0] << "," << truncated_e[1] << ")" << std::endl;
tile_e extents are: (999,666) truncated_e extents are: (992,656)
As we have discussed before, in the matrix transpose sample we are computing a transpose matrix of an input matrix. In the sample, a matrix which is evenly divisible by the tiles size is transposed with this function:
template <typename value_type>void transpose_tiled_even( const array_view<const value_type,2>& A, const array_view<value_type,2>& Atranspose){ assert(A.extent == transpose(Atranspose.extent)); assert(A.extent % tile_size == extent<2>(0,0));
Atranspose.discard_data(); parallel_for_each( A.extent.tile<tile_size,tile_size>(), [=] (tiled_index<tile_size,tile_size> tidx) restrict(amp) { tile_static float t1[tile_size][tile_size]; t1[tidx.local[1]][tidx.local[0]] = A[tidx.global]; tidx.barrier.wait(); index<2> idxdst(transpose(tidx.tile_origin) + tidx.local); Atranspose[idxdst] = t1[tidx.local[0]][tidx.local[1]]; } );}
In order to come up with a truncation strategy we have to decide which remaining threads will carry out what leftover work. Let's look at this from a quantitative perspective. Suppose we wanted to transpose a 999 by 666 matrix. We have a 999 times 666 cells to transform. That's a total of 665,334 cells. Then we have a 992 times 656 threads thrown at the problem---a total of 650,752 threads. So we're only about 15,000 threads short. Two things follow:
Following these guidelines, the image below depicts the chosen strategy:
In order to check whether a particular thread has any extra work to do, we perform the following test, where e_truncated is the compute extent:
bool is_bottom_thread = tidx.global[0] == e_truncated[0]-1; bool is_right_thread = tidx.global[1] == e_truncated[1]-1; if (is_right_thread | is_bottom_thread) // do leftover work here...
That's a fairly simple test to perform, so hopefully it wouldn't encumber normal thread operation in the 97.7% case it evaluates to false. Note that we are using the bit-wise OR operator rather than the logical OR operator because it is more efficient on the GPU especially in the case where both sub-expressions are going to be false, which as we saw is the case almost all of the time (and hence C++'s short-circuiting evaluation rules don't help at all).
Now we are ready to see the code inside the if condition:
// Right leftover band 'R' if (is_right_thread) { idx0 = tidx.global[0]; for (idx1=e_truncated[1]; idx1<A.extent[1]; idx1++) { Atranspose(idx1, idx0) = A(idx0, idx1); } } // Bottom leftover band 'B' if (is_bottom_thread) { idx1 = tidx.global[1]; for (idx0=e_truncated[0]; idx0<A.extent[0]; idx0++) { Atranspose(idx1, idx0) = A(idx0, idx1); } }
// Bottom right leftover corner 'C' if (is_bottom_thread && is_right_thread) { for (idx0 = e_truncated[0]; idx0<A.extent[0]; idx0++) { for (idx1 = e_truncated[1]; idx1<A.extent[1]; idx1++) { Atranspose(idx1, idx0) = A(idx0, idx1); }
} }
This is a lot more code to add to the kernel, compared with what we were able to achieve with padding, and not at all straight forward! You may ask whether this approach performs better than the padding approach---is the pain worth the gain?---my measurements show that this is not the case.
At least in the transpose case, the option of truncation doesn't seem like the way to go. This one is definitely not a keeper! But now you have another tool under your belt, which may turn out useful in other cases.
Let's examine a different approach.
The second attempt assumes that we have already created
These two algorithms correspond to functions transpose_simple and transpose_tiled_even, in the matrix transpose sample code.
Because we have been careful to use array_views in these algorithmic building-blocks, we can now reuse these algorithms for sections of the data, by employing the array_view::section function to obtain the sections of the matrix corresponding to the different regions of the diagram above, and feed them into the algorithms which we are using as building blocks. We will make use of the truncate function to calculate the sizes and offsets of the sections.
Now we are ready to present the transpose_tiled_truncate_option_b function.
template <typename value_type>void transpose_tiled_truncate_option_b( const array_view<const value_type,2>& A, const array_view<value_type,2>& Atranspose){ tiled_extent<16,16> e_tiled(A.extent.tile<16,16>()); tiled_extent<16,16> e_truncated(e_tiled.truncate()); // Transpose area 'M' – main area { auto B = A.section(index<2>(0,0), e_truncated); auto Bt = Atranspose.section( index<2>(0,0), transpose(static_cast<extent<2>>(e_truncated))); transpose_tiled_even(B, Bt); } // Transpose area 'B' – bottom leftover band if (e_truncated[0] < e_tiled[0]) { index<2> offset(e_truncated[0],0); extent<2> e(A.extent[0]-e_truncated[0], e_truncated[1]); auto B = A.section(offset, e); auto Bt = Atranspose.section(transpose(offset), transpose(e)); transpose_simple(B, Bt); }
// Transpose areas 'R' and 'BR'– right leftover band if (e_truncated[1] < e_tiled[1]) { index<2> offset(0, e_truncated[1]); auto B = A.section(offset); auto Bt = Atranspose.section(transpose(offset)); transpose_simple(B, Bt); }}
The algorithm ends up invoking between one and three kernels, depending if there are leftover bands to the bottom and/or to the right, in addition to the main area.
Overall we have presented four approaches to dealing with C++ AMP's tiled_extent divisibility requirement in the context of transposing matrices of arbitrary sizes
Stacking those four options against each other, it could be argued that the padding approach is the simplest to understand and implement and contains the fewest gotchas. Based on my experimentation, at least in this experiment, not only is the padding approach easier to understand and maintain, it also offers the most performance-portability.
Of course, findings for other workloads could be different, but as a justification for the almost-universal applicability of the padding approach consider the following argument. Tiling already involves the process of eliminating redundant reads and writes outside of your kernel. Thus the global memory accesses which remain are the ones that you must perform, and they are likely to be expensive because they are not redundant (and hence not cached by the hardware). If they are expensive, say in the order of a thousand cycles, then it doesn't do much damage to preface them with a range check, which is what the padding approach does.
That concludes our series on the transpose workload in consideration of the divisibility requirement. As always if you have any feedback or questions please feel free to provide them at the C++ AMP forum or right here in the comments section.


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The Oral Effects of Tobacco Use- Recognition and Patient Management
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Tobacco use is a primary cause of preventable morbidity and mortality worldwide. In the U.S. alone, tobacco - related diseases kill approximately 500,000 people per year. Tobacco exerts its affects on numerous body systems in a dose-dependent manner. The initial interaction of tobacco with the human body occurs in the mouth. Because of the oral cavity's natural environment (rapid cell turnover, bacterial load etc.) and its vascularity, it is not unexpected that the reaction to tobacco is quite active here and that resulting exposure to tobacco can be most intense. Both the soft tissues and hard tissues of the oral and maxillofacial complex are affected by the use of smoking tobacco and smokeless (spit) tobacco. Therefore, it is important for health care practitioners to understand the effects of tobacco on the oral and maxillofacial complex in order to identify and manage such oral adverse effects. This teaching module includes a complete set of lecture slides with instructor notes, along with 30 assessment items for students to assess their comprehension of the content subsequent to engaging the presentation.
Romito L, Christen A, Coan L. The Oral Effects of Tobacco Use- Recognition and Patient Management. MedEdPORTAL Publications; 2012. Available from: https://www.mededportal.org/adea/publication/9232 http://dx.doi.org/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.9232
General Information
Contains time-sensitive information that will likely be inaccurate, obsolete, or irrelevant by August 22, 2015
Contains Information Suitable for Patient Education
Educational Objectives
- To describe the relationship of tobacco use and periodontal health.
- To describe the relationship of tobacco use and dental caries.
- To identify and describe soft and hard tissue lesions of the oral and maxillofacial complex associated with tobacco use.
- To describe communication techniques, utilizing the 5As tobacco intervention to address tobacco use in their patients, particularly in whom oral manifestations of tobacco use are identified.
- Tobacco Use Cessation, Caries, Smoking, Nicotine, Cigarette, Building Oral Health Capacity (BOHC) Collection
Family Medicine
Preventive Medicine
- Family Medicine
Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
Preventive Dentistry
- Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
Interpersonal & Communication Skills
Knowledge for Practice
Patient Care
Promote health prevention
- Promote health prevention
Practice-based Learning & Improvement
Incorporate feedback
- Incorporate feedback
Professional Interest
Health Education
Oral Health
Substance Abuse
Instructional Methods
Organ Systems
Gastrointestinal system
Respiratory system
Academic Focus
Basic Sciences
Psychology/Behavioral Science
- Pathology
Clinical Sciences
Clinical Exam
Clinical Skills/Doctoring
- Clinical Exam
Intended Audience
Professional School
Dental Student
Medical Student
Nursing Student
- Dental Student
Authors & Co-Authors
Primary Author
Laura Romito
Indiana University
Arden Christen
Indiana University
Lorinda Coan
Indiana University
Sponsorship or Funding Source
This project is sponsored in part by funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration/Maternal Child Health Bureau grant #U44MC20223.
Effectiveness and Significance
The module has been utilized as a lecture for several oral health professions audiences and student evaluations have deemed it to be an effective presentation due to the use of images of the lesions being discussed and the accompanying explanations. The content is significant for learners about to enter the clinical setting, or already involved in patient care because they can readily apply the material to a clinical encounter. After completion of the module, the student is better prepared to detect and manage oral tobacco–related lesions. In addition, they have a stronger appreciation of the complexity and broad scope of consequences from tobacco use that can be found in the oral and maxillofacial complex. As such, it is anticipated that they may be more likely to engage their tobacco-using patients in education and cessation counseling.
Special Implementation Guidelines or Requirements
The module will require students to have computer access, with adequate connectivity speed for viewing the presentation.
Lessons Learned
Prerequisites for this module include a basic understanding of head and neck anatomy and pathology. Typically, the module precedes more detailed information on nicotine addiction, and tobacco dependence treatment strategies. This module has been successfully deployed in two primary ways: as an in-person presentation and in an online program of self-study. As a lecture of 60-90 minutes, the module has been given to oral health professions students during regular class sessions and to private dental/medical practitioners as a continuing education course. In both teaching formats we have found the module to be quite self-contained, that is, students grasp the material easily and require little if any additional support for comprehensive understanding. However, even in the online program which students complete on their own, and at their convenience, the instructor is available via email should questions arise. Last year, one student asked additional questions which went beyond the depth of the material presented and the student was referred to several specific resources from the References list which fulfilled the desire for greater detail on the particular subtopic of interest. Therefore, it is recommended that instructors consider their learners when utilizing this teaching module, and make adjustments if needed, to best suit their intended audience.
We have used Adobe Presenter as a vehicle for delivering this module, as well as in-person lectures and both have been well received. However, we learned that students preferred to have access to both the slides and the verbatim notes. The Adobe Presenter format did not allow for easy printing of slides and notes, so we posted slides and notes separately for the students that preferred to print all materials. In addition, some students also preferred an audio narration in the form of a podcast. Software for lecture capture has been used for this purpose and allows the lecture to be reviewed by students via podcast as many times as they want at their convenience. In our experience, students also expressed a desire to see the oral pathology content paired with the behavioral educational component of tobacco cessation counseling. For example, in a patient for whom a lesion such as those described is found, how exactly would a learner provide education about the oral consequences of tobacco use, advise the patient about quitting, or assess their willingness to quit? Therefore, a component we included in this module is the 5As steps of tobacco dependence treatment (Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, and Arrange) and a short explanation of how each step of this brief intervention could be applied with a patient. In this manner, a learner who completes this teaching module would not only be able to better understand and recognize some of the oral consequences of tobacco use in their patients, but they could then apply that knowledge to provide an evidence-based approach to educate and counsel patients regarding their oral findings and tobacco cessation and /or refer them to an appropriate resource for further evaluation and treatment. A lecture is limited in that it is teacher-driven, limits student engagement, and promotes a passive learning situation. Fostering active learning can be challenging but useful to enhance the breadth and depth of student comprehension and retention of the concepts being taught. Therefore, we encourage instructors to consider incorporating active learning strategies with this presentation. Suggestions for utilizing active learning strategies with this presentation include:
- Brief role play activity of patient/clinician communication (Implementing the 5 As; Patient Interviewing to obtain a tobacco history).
- Gaming ( Jeopardy-style; In-class audience response system or "clickers").
- Strategic questioning /discussion throughout the lecture (purposefully inserting questions and answers within the PowerPoint; "Think Pair Share": This classroom assessment technique (Angelo and Cross, 1993) allows the instructor to pose a specific question or general topic to the learners. After considering a response on their own, students pair up with a peer and share their insights. After collaboration, each (or selected) pairs then share responses with the entire class.
- Lecture based assignments and quizzes (Pre-class reading assignment followed by an online quiz; Post-class additional reading assignments based on lecture content.).
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Curated Music Influencing Apple's Jump Into Streaming [View article]
Although I don't see how your tactics of giving away 2 for 1 at liquor stores and soup kitchens can ever take a cue from this high end environment. It seems to me that Apple will be taking back the high end of your clientelle with hip hop credentials.
Then too we have no idea what Apple's true intentions are do we? Clearly it is not to get into the headphone business. Thats a Samsung strategy. We deliver far more than hardware. We don't need to invent headphones. You'll be amazed at what we can do with them, and the collaboration, and the additional revenue stream that will pay itself off in under 2 years.
Has anyone noted that this deal is happening off shore? That is, we can reduce the price tag by 35% bc these are un-repatriated funds. Gosh Mr. Moon the scenario changes when the bottom line is profit and not market share or payback from some imagined insult. The more you look at Apple with envy, the stupider Samsung looks.May 14, 2014. 07:19 AM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
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Putin on Monsatan http://bit.ly/11vIxSV
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They never search for evidence. They simply repeat the mantra "There is not a single shred of evidence which points to the blah blah blah." Even when you put it in their face they say it like a wind up barbie doll. Ignorance has become a symbol of masculinity for some of these narrow minded bigots who care only about how their GMO Wheat bread gets buttered w/ Bovine Growth Hormone. Obesity ever on the rise they sip their aspertame laden diet vomit and cackle.
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Anonymous hacks Monsanto's corporate website, as well as hacking a public relations firm representing Monsanto.
This is not the first time Anonymous has challenged Monsanto. Last week, international hacktivist collective Anonymous led global protests against biotech giant Monsanto, also as part of Operation Monsanto (#OpMonsanto).
According to a statement released by Anonymous, Monsanto is facing the wrath of activists "because they are altering the nature of our food supply without a concern about long term effects on human health, because they are creating a monopoly on the supply of seeds for farmers and, because of increasing evidences of long term environmental damages."
Monsanto stands accused by Anonymous and others of destroying the environment and poisoning the world's food source. The complaints against Monsanto are simply too numerous to catalog here. Suffice it to say that for many environmentalists Monsanto and their genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and other adventures in biotechnology, threaten the survival of the human race.Jun 10, 2013. 08:42 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
They are far worse than tobacco companies. Tobacco is something we can choose or leave on the table. Food is a basic human need. Tobacco was a harmless past time for centuries b4 the health effects were even suspected. Dioxin, Agent Orange, Exterminator Genes etc threatens all life on earth. You pretty much only kill yourself w/tobacco and then it is a personal choice.
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Exactly. The stock is being artificially inflated to avoid a stampede. No one wants them anywhere except apparently the US Govt.
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Kate Beckinsale paraded her stunning legs in a green romper and strappy high heels. Still proving that her toned and shapely legs are among the best in that wretched business she participates in. Well done.
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Kate Beckinsale Fabulous in a Navy Dress and White Stilettos
Kate Beckinsale looks amazing as she heads to a restaurant in a figure hugging navy dress and white stilettos. Her curves are tight and toned her legs are nicely displayed in a modest below the knee slit in her dress. Nice to see at least one celebrity in L.A. keeping things classy. There are a few, of course, but Kate is always at the top of her game.
Kate Beckinsale Attends a London X Factor Show in a Sleek Black Pantsuit and Studded Louboutin High Heels
Kate Beckinsale Great Legs Wearing Dark Slacks and White High Heels
Kate Beckinsale was out and about in her typical stylish attire wearing dark slacks with white high heels, white top and a sleek blazer. She obviously never leaves the house without looking her best. It's about class. This is something she has and other paparazzi faves have little use for in the cesspool otherwise known as Hollywood.
Kate Beckinsale Lovely in White at Burberry Prorsum Show at London Fashion Week
Kate Beckinsale looks lovely as she attends the Burberry Prorsum show at London Fashion Week, whatever the hell that is. She showed up wearing a sleek white outfit with sleek black high heels that did a nice job of showing off her curves. The tight white pencil skirt hugged her booty nicely and gave a glimpse of her shapely gams. She's still a favorite even though she's not much of a player in the movie biz anymore. She remains one of the most desirable women on the planet so that alone will ensure she has a place on the red carpet and other photo events for our enjoyment.
Kate Beckinsale Beautiful in a Short White Dress and Purple Satin High Heels
Always nice to see Kate Beckinsale showing off her gorgeous legs in high heels. She makes a welcome appearance, classing up the 2012 MTV Movie Awards. She looks lovely in a short long sleeved, yet short white mini dress and stylish purple satin high heels. She's probably not amused at the photo taken of her walking off stage but it showed off her shapely legs, along with a nice side view of her pumps, the best of any that were available.
Kate Beckinsale Stunning Leg Show in High Heels for Magazine
Kate Beckinsale looks unbelievably hot in some Aussie Men's Health magazine. Jaw dropping really. She's beautiful but her gorgeous legs are simply amazing. The muscle definition along with the short attire and towering high heels is simply stunning. Honestly there aren't many women who wears pair of sky high heels better than Kate. She may or may not walk in them very well but they really accentuate her gorgeous legs nicely.
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