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It happened again for the nth time last week. On a morning jog through my neighborhood, I saw a charmingly updated house, and my mind was pulled down the envy hole.
It's not so much that I wanted that house, but I became mopey and compared myself to the strangers I imagined living there. I felt resentment, because they have a home that looks nicer than mine, and I wondered why they seemed to have more taste and money. I decided it's because they've made better life choices, so they must simply be better people and happy in ways I am not.
I know I'm being silly, making up stories in my head about people I don't know and beating myself up in ways that aren't useful. But I can't help it. I hear about the good fortunes of someone else, or see someone enjoying advantages I think I lack, and the envy monster rears up from somewhere inside and starts to suck me down.
"He who envies others has no peace of mind." So said Buddha. A more contemporary guru, TV shrink Dr. Phil, said the first step in taming envy is to admit it.
So, I'm admitting it, though I can't help but feel like I'm going out on a limb. Envy is the deadly sin people are least likely to admit to because of its implied pettiness. And, compared with other indulgences such as laziness or gluttony, it's the least fun.
But I know I'm not alone in harboring this internal fiend. For one thing, I read about all the plugged-in people coping with "Facebook envy," the sense of discontentment and even "suicidal despair" (as NBC's Brian Williams put it) that arises from viewing social media images of your friends' amazing vacations and fashion choices, lovely children and fulfilling social lives.
Writers of a certain ideological stripe have asserted that America is in the grips of an envy "epidemic," stemming from a post-Great Recession resentment of the rich. This "wealth envy" is not just damaging to American culture, they say, but harmful to individuals, leading to destructive social comparison.
I don't want to get into the argument about growing income inequality, but I will admit to engaging in destructive social comparison. It happened when I was on that morning jog. It happens whenever I read articles in glossy magazines about the high-achieving lifestyles of Bay Area tech entrepreneurs.
In fact, this kind of comparison is pretty common here in the Bay Area, notably in the Silicon Valley, where we're inundated with media stories about people hitting it big, says Santa Clara University psychology professor Thomas Plante. He has clients, as well as neighbors, consumed by feelings of inadequacy because they have only sold their startups for several million dollars instead of hundreds of millions.
Actually, my envy monster is less concerned with others' material accomplishments. Thankfully, it doesn't prick me in regards to my family or when I hear a friend has dropped a few pounds and is looking fabulous.
It mostly pops up when I learn about other's professional accomplishments, as in learning that a friend or colleague has gotten a book deal or published some potentially award-winning piece of journalism. Notably, I have a friend I've been reluctant to reconnect with. In catching up, I'd not only be envy challenged in hearing about her expat life in Europe and Greek vacations, but in hearing that she's finished her second novel.
In a related twist, the monster expresses itself in schadenfreude. That's the German word describing the pleasure we get from the misfortune of others. Here is where envy really gets ugly.
Perhaps you've heard the quote: "It is not enough to succeed; one's friends must fail." Variations on that quote have been attributed over the centuries to such famously ambitious and cutthroat types as Genghis Khan, Gore Vidal and Larry Ellison. For me, it happens more than I care to admit, as in when hearing that my friend in Europe is still struggling to sell her second novel to a publisher.
I know, I'm bad. I'm very, very bad. As I've suggested above, I don't want to be this way. So, what to do?
Well, I've taken Dr. Phil's first step. I've admitted my envy problem. He and a therapist friend also say I can address it by deconstructing my feelings, stop making assumptions about other people's lives and changing my internal dialogue.
Maybe the monster is there to remind me that, yes, there are ways I'd like to make changes. In this way, the monster can be useful -- just as long as I choose aspirations that are realistic to obtain. I can stop beating myself up about my lack of a book deal because I don't have the book idea in me -- not right now, anyway.
I can also continue to offer congratulations or condolences to friends for their good and bad news. The sentiment I fake could actually become genuine, which would be nice. I can also spend time each day thinking of all the things in my life that I'm grateful for.
But what really helps is acknowledging that the envy monster will never go away. That's just being realistic. It will pop up again, maybe today. But I'll tell it: I see you, I know you, and I'm not going to let you take me down.
Life stories is a rotating column by staff reporters and writers. Martha Ross can be reached at mross@bayareanewsgroup. Follow her at Twitter.com/marthajross.


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- I extract that text directly out of our new library system, we have a group library system now in our company, with 150 newspapers on the database.
- The inherent risk is loss/exposure of data if a hacker is able to extract the plain text.
- We have attempted to extract ideas about culture from particular instances of cultural production (including discussion).
- Nicola Corboy extracts ideas from each of the six modules.
- Millions of people look to her for ideas about how to live, to the point where that caller was hoping she could extract some ideas for living out of the prison experience.
- I was allowed to use the new Friden calculating machine which, shortly before its transformation into a relic, could also extract square roots.
- You will often find a button on your calculator which extracts roots (perhaps marked y x) near the button which computes the power of a number (marked x y).
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- Sometimes you hear short extracts of music to fill in the gap between the end of one song and the start of the news; sometimes the news tape is started 10 seconds in, after a song or ad overruns.
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- The first half of the play was pretty poor I thought consisting of not much more than set pieces - extracts from the public record - many of which we'd seen before on the TV.
- For the best results, a standardised extract of the active ingredient hypericin needs to be taken for six weeks.
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GLENWOOD SPRINGS - An attorney dealing with Stan Jensen's recent resignation as president of Colorado Mountain College acknowledged on Wednesday that college officials paid Jensen more in severance than he would have received under his original employment contract with the institution.
Jensen, who has been president of the college for four years, resigned from his $198,854-per-year job during a meeting of the college board of trustees via telephone conference call on Dec. 27.
Along with accepting his resignation, the trustees agreed to award Jensen $500,000 in severance pay. Trustees gave no explanation for the severance agreement under a confidentiality provision governing the deal.
"The dollar amount that (the college trustees) adopted was greater than the number the board would have had to pay him," under the terms of his employment contract, said attorney Tim Whitsitt on Wednesday. Whitsitt, of the Carbondale law firm Whitsitt and Gross, was hired Dec. 7 by the trustees as special counsel for personnel matters.
Whitsitt said he was uncertain of the exact amount contained in Jensen's employment contract. The contract was not available for public review on Wednesday due to college employee absences over the holidays.
Banker Glenn Davis of Avon, president of the college board of trustees, said he was aware that taxpayers could be worried about the effect of the severance payment on the overall budget for the college district.
"I don't believe it will have any effect on the operating budget," Davis said. CMC's budget for the 2012-13 fiscal year is approximately $63 million.
The severance payment comes from the college's reserves, and is not part of the operating budget, said CMC public information officer Debra Crawford.
During the Dec. 27 phone conference, CMC Trustee Kathy Goudy noted that the severance pay deal was in return for the resignation, "which we may not have gotten otherwise."
Due to the rules governing the teleconference meeting, reporters were not able to ask follow-up questions of the trustees.
Whitsitt said he recalled Goudy's remarks and explained that Jensen was an "at-will employee" who could have been fired at any time "without notice and without cause."
The trustees agreed, however, to accept Jensen's resignation under terms that included the severance payment, Whitsitt said, "and her reference was to that fact."
Whitsitt, Davis and Goudy all declined to go into greater detail concerning negotiations over Jensen's resignation, citing the confidentiality agreement.
Jill Boyle, who was hired in late 2010 as senior vice president of the college, has been named interim college president while the trustees determine how to proceed with replacing Jensen.


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The Bay Area News Group's examination of Bay Area legislators' 2012 campaign finance reports found a lot of details lacking. Here are some examples:
Joe Coto, the former Assembly member who lost a state Senate race to Jim Beall, D-San Jose, listed that 40 people attended an $8,000 fundraiser at Coyote Creek Golf Club. But he wasn't as forthcoming about a $4,950 fundraiser at an Oakland Raiders game, specifying only that the money went for game tickets. Coto also paid his daughter Lisa, who appeared in a TV ad with him, $24,080 as a consultant.
Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Salinas, provided intricate details about some of his expenditures. He reimbursed a staff member $43.09 for helium for balloons at a campaign event. But he didn't go into details of a pair of trips, in April and June, to Arizona with a "household member" that cost $961. He provided no details about a US Airways $449 flight in October, or two Southwest Airlines flights worth $680 in January. He also spent $3,389 on artwork and frames for his office.
Assemblyman Jim Frazier, D-Oakley, listed two payments totaling $991 for Humphrey's on the Delta, a steak and seafood restaurant at the Barbara Price Marina Park in Antioch -- under the campaign paraphernalia/miscellaneous category. There were no details on what paraphernalia or miscellaneous items were bought there, nor how many people were fed.
Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, spent $796 for a fundraiser at a San Francisco 49ers game. There was no information on how many people attended, who attended, nor how much he raised.
Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, preferred the Oakland A's Coliseum as a place to hold a meeting at a cost of $320. No details were given on who attended and for what purpose.
Sen. Bill Monning, D-Santa Cruz, spent $999.68 for candidate and staff lodging at the Luxe Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. There are no details on what the purpose was or the length of the stay, or even when. Nor did he report how many staff members went on the trip. He also provided no details about four stays at the Best Western in Sacramento ($477) or a night at the Peachtree Inn in San Luis Obispo ($177). He did provide the number of guests -- five -- who ate with him at the Wild Donkey Cafe in San Luis Obispo for $167.
Former Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi, D-Hayward, maligned for shoplifting $2,500 worth of clothes at Neiman Marcus in San Francisco, was precise in detailing who was at meetings and meals with her, and the topics they discussed. She also listed a $6,274 payment in 2011 to San Francisco-based Singer Associates. Consultant Sam Singer acted as her spokesman during her shoplifting crisis.


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SAN DIEGO -- The Giants had the right pitcher on the mound Thursday night at Petco Park and the right team in the opposing dugout.
Madison Bumgarner shook off a rough first inning to dominate the San Diego Padres and lead the Giants to a 4-2 win. The victory snapped a four-game losing streak and was just the second win in 10 games for the Giants, and it was no surprise that Bumgarner was the one to toe the rubber. The Giants are 5-1 in Bumgarner's last six starts and just 2-18 with anyone else on the mound during that span.
They have similar splits against the Padres, going 3-0 against the division rival since June 18 but winning just three of 19 games against everybody else.
"We needed the lift," manager Bruce Bochy said. "We needed a win in the worst way. This was so important for them to start this road trip like this. (Bumgarner) gave us seven solid innings and a much, much needed win."
Bumgarner gave up two runs in the first inning but retired 15 straight before Carlos Quentin's single in the sixth. He didn't allow another base runner while getting through exactly seven innings for the sixth straight start. Pitching for a team that is nine games under .500, Bumgarner finished the first half with a 10-5 record and 3.02 ERA. His next stop will be Tuesday's All-Star game.
"I feel like everybody always wants to do better than they did," Bumgarner said. "I feel pretty good about (the first half), but there's definitely a lot of things that could have been better."
In a clubhouse that was thumping with victory music for one of the few times in recent weeks, Bumgarner's teammates weren't going to let him downplay his importance.
"We've been spoiled in the past with performances like tonight's with our starting pitching," closer Sergio Romo said. "For Bumgarner to do it tonight is big for us. We really, really needed it."
Romo picked up his 21st save of the season with a perfect ninth inning, capping a night that looked like the kind of baseball the Giants have grown accustomed to the last four years. The Giants got a solo home run from Pablo Sandoval, his first in 101 at-bats, and then tied the game in the sixth when Kensuke Tanaka lined a single up the middle with the bases loaded. The Japanese veteran was called up from Triple-A Fresno this week and scored the go-ahead run in the eighth inning on a Gregor Blanco double.
"He looks comfortable up here," Bochy said of Tanaka. "He has a lot of experience. It's nice to get a little shot in the arm, which he has given us. I'm happy for him. He worked hard to get to this point and he earned the promotion."
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April 15, 2012 -- Exercising may not be at the top of the "to do" list for most women undergoing treatment for breast cancer, but it probably should be, according to a new study.
The new research from the University of Miami finds that regular exercise can reduce depression, lessen fatigue, and improve general quality of life during treatment when combined with group-based behavioral therapy to reduce stress.
The research is not the first to show that physical activity helps breast cancer patients, but it is among the first to show that exercise enhances the benefits of other stress management efforts, says researcher Jamie M. Stagl, MS, who is a doctoral candidate in psychology.
"Women in the study benefited from even moderate activity," Stagl tells WebMD. "You don't have to go to the gym every day, and this is probably not the time to train for a marathon. Just taking a brisk walk or even playing with your kids can boost endorphin levels and make you feel a lot better."
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Breast cancer survivor Crystal King knows the power of exercise firsthand.
King took up running within a few months of her breast cancer surgery late in 2003, and she now regularly competes in 5Ks that benefit her employer, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation.
"I exercised at the gym before my diagnosis, but something told me to lace up my sneakers and get outside after my surgery," says King, who is now 34. "I just knew I wouldn't be sad while I was outside running. It also gave me some measure of control, which breast cancer takes away from you."
King didn't always feel up to exercising while undergoing chemotherapy, and she didn't push herself on the days when she felt the worst.
"But on the days when I was on the fence, I was always glad when I got out there because I felt so much better," she says.
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It has been brought to my attention that someone believes that this thread was an attempt to create a funny joke to fool people into believing that I lost my virginity.
I assure you that I will not get pregnant later in the thread, not know what orb inpregnated me and request financial help to help pay for intergalactic DNA testing.
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — The graduation rate for Incline High School increased 1 percent in 2012, despite a decrease in the same amount for the Washoe County School District as a whole, officials announced Monday.
Incline High School's graduation rate was at 77 percent for 2012, up from 76 percent a year ago, according to statistics provided by the school district. This year's rate is 2 percent higher than the 75 percent mark in 2010, meaning Incline High is above the 75 percent all-schools goal outlined in "Envision WCSD 2015" — the school district's five-year strategic plan initiated two years ago by former superintendent Heath Morrison.
The data represent the four-year cohort rate, which calculates the graduation rate based on students who started ninth grade in 2008-09 and graduated four years later.
Despite the rise at Lake Tahoe, the rate for the entire district dipped to 69 percent in 2012, down from 70 percent in 2011. The decrease comes after marked improvement district-wide; according to previous reports, the WCSD graduation rate climbed from 56 percent for the class of 2009 to 70 percent for 2011.
In the class of 2011, according to the district, 3,114 students graduated out of 4,455. In the class of 2012, meanwhile, 3,117 students graduated out of 4,509.
"We are making strong efforts to help every student graduate, and, as we continue on this path, we know there will be ups and downs," said Superintendent Pedro Martinez in a Monday statement. "Our goal is to help all students graduate from high school, ready for college and highly-skilled careers. We have also pledged to be transparent with the community and to have crucial conversations about what further efforts will be necessary to accomplish that goal. It will take years of work by all of us — the District, our community, and our state — to confront these challenges and succeed."
According to a WCSD press release, Martinez said there is reason for optimism, considering the number of students who graduated with honors and advanced diplomas increased over last year.
Student populations that saw increases in their graduation rate this year include American Indian, Asian, Hispanic/Latino and White. Also seeing increases were students learning English as a second language, students enrolled in special education programs or who need extra support to succeed and students who qualify for free and reduced lunch programs. The latter group's increase is a success, according to the district, due to many of those students once being considered at-risk.
Still, Martinez also acknowledged many challenges remain. Graduation rates fell for some populations, including Black, Pacific Islander and Multiracial students, while rates fell at several high schools that had seen gains in the past.
"This is about breaking barriers that are standing in our way," Martinez said in a statement. "Everyone has worked very hard to achieve the results we've seen so far, but we need to adopt more sophisticated and advanced approaches to achieve further, meaningful successes for our students. We have our work cut out for us, and we are ready for the challenge."
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|Length Overall
|42' 0''
|Dry Weight
|9,400 lbs.
|8' 6''
|Tested Weight
|3' 4''
|Weight Capacity
|Draft Up
|Person Capacity
|Draft Down
|Fuel Capacity
|260 gal.
|Air Draft
|Water Capacity
|13 gal.
|24 deg.
|Length on Trailer
|Max Headroom
|Height on Trailer
|Bridge Clearance
|Trailer Weight
|Total Package Weight (Trailer,Boat & Engine)
|Prices, features, designs, and equipment are subject to change. Please see your local dealer or visit the builder's website for the latest information available on this boat model.
|Std. Power
|2x425-hp MerCruiser 496 MAG HO gas sterndrives
|Tested Power
|2 x 525-hp MerCruiser 575 SCi (Bravo I)
|Opt. Power
2x 470-hp MerCruiser 500 EFI sterndrives
2x525-hp MerCruiser 575 SCi sterndrives
Powerful Tradition
The 42 Lighting with diesel power was designed to maintain Fountain's tradition of speed combined with luxury. However this year the company incorporated the safe and fuel-efficient diesel power plant
Share the Thrilling Ride
Visibility from the helm is very good, and the low profile design of the boat gives close to 360% of visibility. Racing seats for driver and passenger, a smaller wheel backed, and a complete array of
Worthwhile Trade Off
The forward cabin is well designed and shows good use of space. There is however low headroom and it's narrow toward the front, but that's the price you pay for the look and speed of a high-performanc
Satisfy Any Speed Demon
All in all the 42 lighting diesel is a fast and luxurious high-performance boat, with a well laid out floor plan, combined with diesel power, and a long list of standard equipment.
A World-Class Offshore Race Boat
If you're in the market for the ultimate blend of performance, styling and bragging rights, then Fountain powerboats of North Carolina have something you should consider. The 42-foot Lightning currently holds the world speed record for v-bottom boats at an astonishing 140 plus miles per hour. Of course a full race rigged machine holds this record, however, you can get your hands on a recreational version of this boat and enjoy the experience of a world-class offshore race boat.
It was a chilly morning on our test day; the temperature was hovering just above 50 degrees with a stiff wind of 10 to 15 knots. Perfect, for testing one of the longest and fastest sport boats that money can buy. Our test boat was powered by a pair of MerCruiser 550 horsepower supercharged EFI stern drives, also known as 575 Csi's. The power plants are staggered to provide a low center of gravity and great access to perform maintenance. The people at Fountain pay great attention to detail, as the engine compartment is one of the most meticulously prepared bays that I have seen. Every component and sub-system was in a proper place and neatly secured and easily accessible.
Pulling in and out of the dock, I found the Lightning quite easy to handle considering her overall length of 42 feet. Underway, I was pleased to find her maneuvering abilities to be nimble and responsive. Getting the 10,000 pound boat on plane was much easier than I expected, she popped out of the hole with little effort. Trim and tab adjustments were a breeze as we accelerated to a cheek flapping 86 mph. During our aggressive testing regiment, I could not help but feel that all this fiberglass felt more like a thirty-something boat, as she gave a sense of refinement and forgiveness that I have not found in other long speed machines. I must say that the line of sight over the bow is excellent.
If all this good feeling is not enough for you, then go below deck to find a spacious cabin that accommodates you and guests for over night trips. Access to the cabin is through a three-piece companionway door, and although the headroom is good, a single sliding door would be more inviting to use. Below deck, an enclosed head with shower is located to starboard. To port is a small galley, which incorporates a self-draining cooler, sink and ample storage cabinets. Leather couches are on both the port and starboard sides, and a large V-berth finishes off the over night accommodations.
I found this boat to be very user friendly for the driver, and also for friends and family. A beam width swim platform with a recessed folding ladder make going for a dip easy, and the transom shower will help get the salt off after your swim.
The 42 Lightning is an exciting high performance boat that will get you to your destination with style and speed. She's one boat that will keep everyone's attention from the time she leaves the dock, up until the last roar of her engines.
By Capt. Ron Svoboda
Test Captain
|Head: Portable
|Power Steering
|Trim Tabs
|Exterior Features
|Carpet: Cockpit
|Ice Chest
|Swim Ladder
|Transom Shower
|Bimini Top
|Cockpit Cover
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Processors and Performance : Chips, MIPS, and Sizing blips..
By tjobson on Nov 07, 2007
The following post is a close proximity of an article that I published in this month's Sun "Technocrat" (November 2007) issue. Hopefully you'll enjoy this discussing regarding the past and present relationship of CPU's and architecture to system performance.
today's fast
paced world of ever increasing demands for system throughput, the
foundation of discussion and expectations typically all hinge upon the
same topic.. CPU performance. This article will be an
examination of CPU's and system architecture, as they relate to
performance and capacity planning as a whole. From our last
discussion "The
Many Flavors of System Latency ..." , we will extend the context to
focus on past and present competing aspects of system/CPU
architecture, including a brief history of how we got to the
current competitive landscape we find ourselves in today. (The photo to the left is of a Sun T1
"coolthreads" 8
core, 32 thread cpu)
CISC vs. RISC
Going back to the early days of microprocessor design (and also likely a familiar topic from your Computer Science Bachelor's curriculum), you will recall much conversation, speculation, and competition surrounding two competing approaches to CPU architecture : CISC vs. RISC.
In a nutshell, CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computers) designs emphasize the use of "complex" instructions within the HW to minimize the amount of Assembly code (SW) required. Other benefits are that compilers don't need to be as complex, as well as CISC CPU's requiring less RAM to store instructions. However, this approach sometimes requires more than one clock cycle of a processor to complete processing a complex instruction.
RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computers), just as the name refers, offer a reduced number of simple instructions that can complete execution within a single clock cycle, but which might require multiple instructions for a complex operation such as "multiply". The RISC approach has the nice side-effect of also requiring less chip "footprint" (in # of transistors, etc..) reserving more die space for memory registers, while also typically offering streamlined execution within the same window of execution time as CISC counterparts. Modern compilers (such as Sun's Studio 12 line) offer significant performance benefits that should not be overlooked, especially critical when developing and compiling binaries on RISC based architecture (Sun has seen performance optimized benefits of 200+ % when using the latest releases of Sun Studio Compilers vs. generic "gcc" compiled code).
Today, the market is segmented in more or less the same 2 camps, but they are divided down the lines of "x86" compatible CPU's (modern CISC designs from the Intel and AMD) and the modern RISC competition from Sun (SPARC) and IBM (Power), where HP and DEC (now gone altogether) have stepped back from RISC manufacturing.
Is there more to Moore's Law ?
For nearly the past 30+ years, we have seen processor performance
according to Moore's Law (approximately every
2 years), a movement from Uniprocessor based systems to those that
required scalability vertically, into multi-processor systems that
we've become familiar with in the Unix world, better known as SMP
(Symmetric MultiProcessor) systems. It's funny that Gordon
Moore made his original claim in a 1965
article of electronics magazine originally regarding the trend of
Integrated Circuit component
counts doubling every year, only loosely predicting this trend
might continue until 1975, though he was uncertain that any future
projections could be made (he later changed his
prediction in 1970 to "doubling every 2 years", which has held
relatively steady ever since). Since past trends of IC /
CPU transistor counts have closely correlated to CPU performance, the
association of Moore's Law to performance was made.
In order to accommodate this rapid rate of growth in processor performance, the number of transistor's contained within a CPU has been just one of the key characteristics that have climbed (in addition to clock speeds, etc..). Amazing as it may sound, but 45nm (nano-meter) manufacturing fabrication is expected by Intel and others hopefully in 2008 (when just 10 years ago we had 500nm manufacturing) . Even at the levels that we were at in 2004 with 90nm manufacturing, the width of a transistor (50nm across) was 1/2 the diameter of a single celled influenza virus ! Given that we are approaching atomic dimensions of gate thickness (at < 1nm), the pace of transistor density and clock frequency increases (using current designs) appears to be approaching the physical limitations of manufacturing. In addition to these concerns, power and related heat issues have become very pronounced in today's "green" computing campaigns. Luckily, Sun has dealt a hand worthy of industry recognition that includes CPU innovations to keep us progressing forward, however addressing more than simple "transistor counts", but more aptly the efficiency of moving an SMP like architecture "onto" a piece of silicon, hence.. a system on a chip (which is essentially what we have with the T2).
How many ways can you weave those
SMP systems required an Operating System kernel that had a means of
fairly sharing the CPU resources among the processes awaiting execution
within the system (via priority-based
scheduling classes). This capability within Unix for "time
slicing" between "runnable" processes and available kernel and physical
CPU resources on systems hinges on the kernel dispatcher associating
processes with "light weight processes" that in turn get bound to
kernel "Threads", in order to be run within the "context" of physical
processor registers and an execution pipeline (aka, HW Threads).
For the most part, this is how today's Solairs OS functions, along with
the appropriate dose of preemption and locking mechanisms.
Over the past decade, and along with the increased demands of internet traffic (and associated application workloads), applications have gradually become better able to scale vertically within systems, primarily through the use of SW multi-threading. Within a multi-threaded application, many threads of execution can run simultaneously across available CPU's within a system, allowing for an application to scale as close to "linearly" as possible (doubling the application throughput as the # of available CPU's doubled).
THREAD (of Execution) :
- noun One of many software "threads" of execution that can be processed simultaneously on a computer system.
- noun The ability to increase system performance (throughput) at the same rate that resources (cpu's,..)are added.
CPU's and Memory : UMA and NUMA
Modern computing systems also offer a "shared memory" model that has
specific performance and latency related characteristics, depending
upon the system design (physical system interconnect type
[bus/crossbar], memory management controllers, proximity to physical
cache/RAM, etc..), the Operating System Kernel memory management
(memory mgmt libraries, JVM Garbage collection, etc..), as well as the
Application SW execution characteristics and memory requirements (cache
hit ratio's [Instruction vs. Data Cache], TLB miss characteristics, RAM
requirements, ..).
Among the modern types of vertically scalable parallel computer architectures available for multiprocessor systems, one of the most common high performance designs has become NUMA/ccNUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access / cache coherent NUMA). Sun's E25K systems fall within this category, as do most large systems that offer vertical scalability of many independent CPU / Memory boards, acting together and communicating across a shared system interconnect (backplane/centerplane/crossbar).
Previously, local proximity of memory and the latency associated with accessing that memory was uniform and predictable. With the advent of system growth beyond single system (cpu/memory) boards, UMA (Uniform Memory Access) could no longer be guaranteed. One common performance issue that must be addressed within large NUMA environments is the aggregate impact of both physical memory proximity, alongside the gap between processor speed and memory latency (see below). Solaris addressed this issue (with a Solaris 9 update) by introducing MPO (Memory Placement Optimization) that associates memory physically closer to a cpu to minimize the additional cross interconnect memory latency (this couples Solaris and the underlying HW along with Cache Coherency within ccNUMA architectures). Note, other optimizations have been used to address large Sun Enterprise system centerplane latencies, including kernel cage splitting, removal (if DR isn't required), and the introduction of S10 enhancements. <\*"busstat" can be used to diagnose these issues\*>
Lucky for us, we are quicly approaching system architectures that once again allow for UMA designs, offering memory access predictability (with the T2 and related offerings moving forward, where density of cpu cores/threads brings greater multithreaded capacity within a small footprint). However, the current state of the industry isn't quite as lucky if you look across the bow of the competition, and within our client production environments.
The growing CPU - Memory gap ...
As you can see from the diagram to the left, over the past several years as microprocessor design has moved rapidly, doubling the performance and clockspeed of CPU's roughly every 2 years, the same increases have NOT been matched within the Memory arena. This "wait" time that threads of execution must incur, coupled with the additional latency required for electricity to travel greater distances to access memory across the system interconnect (not physically local to a CPU, but rather on another CPU board or memory bank) can impact processor efficiency and overall system / application throughput dramatically. (this slide and the next are from http://www.OpenSparc.net )
Chip Multi-Processing + Hardware Multi-Threading = Chip Multi-ThreadingRealizing the implications of the memory latency "lag" (and somewhat against the tide of relying upon ever-increasing CPU clock speed increases), several years ago Sun made the decision to address this with an acquisition of Afara Websystems to bolster it's processor lineup and chart the industry's new course toward multi-core CPU's.
From the diagram on the left, it can be seen that Sun's adoption of both CMP (US-IV/+), aka Chip level Multi-Processing (having multiple cores per cpu, each with an execution pipeline), alongside HMT .. Hardware Multi-Threading (adding a multi-threaded execution pipeline within a core/cpu), shores up and nearly eliminates the issue of idle CPU cycles waiting on memory operations (by offering many physical threads of simultaneous execution within a CPU). This is the foundation of what Sun calls CMT (Chip Multi-Threading), which is reflected in Sun's CPU roadmap for both the Niagara (T1 and T2 CPU's), Rock CPU, as well as the Sun/Fujitsu Olympus CPU (as a follow-on to the US-IV+).
Why so much $cache ?In order to further minimize system latency and ensure peak performance, modern architectures include Memory Management and CPU memory access mechanisms "on-chip", such as the L1 / L2 cache and MMU located in Sun's CMT products. Below is a block diagram of Sun's latest "T2" SPARC Core Architecture (based on the 64 bit SPARC V9 instruction set).
Critical components for optimal kernel CPU / memory performance:
- Level 1 (L1) Data Cache / Instruction Cache ..
- Level 2 (L2) Secondary Cache, on-chip and shared for Sun
CMT processors
- Level 3 (L3) <only Sun's US-IV+
cpu offers L3 cache on-chip>
- I-TLB (L1 / L2) Instruction -Translation Lookaside Buffers
- D-TLB (L1 / L2) Data -Translation Lookaside Buffers
- Buffer cache (Filesystem Kernel "page cache", taken from
the "free list" of available RAM; this is a kernel structure)
(Intel/AMD) offer 4K pagesizes, while the UltraSparc I through IV... offer 8K / 64K /
512K / 4MB page sizes. (\*monitor with the pagesize, trapstat, cpustat, and pmap ..\*)
Examining the key attributes of your system's
Workload as Requirements :
Once again, in order to select the appropriate architecture for a
production deployment, the all-inclusive entity
that we need to examine in it's entirety is the "Application
Environment", all of it's subsystems, as well as individual
/concurrent workload characteristics :
- Single Threaded vs. Multi-Threaded Applications (OLTP, DSS, HPC,
Web/AppSvr, .. ?)
- Compute / HPC Intensity (MPI, horizontally scaled compute farm
requirements, ..)
- Network I/O (long-lived connections vs. short-lived; large
vs. small packets, # inbound RX pkts/sec..)
- Memory Intensive Workload (shared / distributed memory req's, etc)
- Storage Workload (R/W %'ages, Cache cfg, # Controller
Interrupts/sec, # Files opened, shared FS,etc.)
- Integer vs. Floating Point Calculations (T1's are not well suited
to FP workloads)
- 32 vs. 64 bit needs/benefits (address space needs beyond 4GB RAM ?)
- Do SLA/SLC reqmt's focus on Throughput, BandWidth (IO/Net/Mem),
Availability, and/or Response Times ?
Choosing the right CPU for your Workload :
SPARC based CMP / CMT CPU's :
- US-IV+ : Well
suited for very large vertically scaled configurations where the 32MB of L3 cache
makes a big difference, such as DB Servers (many of these environments have large
single threaded processes, including batch/OLTP). Sun's E25K
systems scale up to 72 CPU's per single domain (144 cores).
- Sun / Fujitsu SPARC64 (US-VI
Olympus) : Follow-on to the US-IV+ CPU. (~1.5\*
performance of a US-IV+) This CPU should have higher clockspeeds
starting at 2.15GHz, with an additional HW thread/core, but no L3 cache
on-chip. Note that the up-coming CMT ROCK chip from Sun in 2008
will fall within this segment.
- T1 (Niagara 1) :
Well suited for small to medium sized Multi-Threaded Workloads
(that don't have
much /any FP
processing. Best for : WebSvrs, AppSvrs, DNS,
etc..). Each single socket system offers up to 32 HW Threads of
- T2 (Niagara 2) :
Well suited for medium to large Multi-Threaded Workloads. These
systems should also offer good general purpose computing performance,
given the addition of FGU's per CPU core, along with built-in 10G
Ethernet, etc.. Each 5x20 system presently offers a single socket
with up to 64 HW Threads. Look for multi-socket systems based up
on the T2 cpu in the not so distant future ;)
Sun's "World Class" T2 (Niagara 2) CPU :At a glance, the new T2 CPU offering from Sun is a true "system on a chip" that lives up to it's reputation as "the worlds fastest processor" (the new world record benchmarks listed further down in this article can attest to the validity of that statement and show how Sun's latest CMT CPU's are changing the landscape of computing efficiency, part of the reason why Sun calls this "CoolThreads" and/or "Throughput" computing).
T2 CPU Highlights :
- 8 cores \* 8 Threads each = 64 Threads of Execution
- 65nm, initially running @ 1.4 GHz
- 8 Floating Point / Graphics Units (FGU's, one per core)
- on-chip Crossbar providing : 180 GB/s R + 90GB/s W
- built in 2\* 10Gb Ethernet, MMU, Encryption, etc...
The following table provides a high level comparison of Sun's T2 and T1 CPU's :
(for the complete Microprocessor
Review report on the T2, click here)
further details comparing the T2 to
other recent Sun CPU's for #transistors, etc., click here)
(For photos inside the new Sun T5x20 systems, based upon the T2 cpu, click here)
Solaris kernel (CPU related) Performance Metrics and Utilities :The following table is only listed as a "high level" sample of common metrics frequently used as part of Solaris CPU-related performance analysis. This is by no means a comprehensive list of metrics available, but rather an introduction for those that aren't familiar with the essentials. An up-coming set of blogs will include much more detailed examples with command line output, also including discussions of kstat and Dtrace visibility available.
Note: \* vmstat, cpustat, trapstat, intrstat reflect system-wide statistics, while mpstat, cputrack reflect per CPU statistics. \*
|Run Queue
| Kernel Threads Runnable,
but not executing (best if 0, or at most
< # cores)
|vmstat (r)
|Blocked Kthr
| Blocked Kernel
(typically ID's an
IO bottleneck, see also %wt,
|vmstat (b)
|System Calls
| Number of System Calls
(calls made into the OS kernel, accounting towards %Sys)
|vmstat (sys)
| Number of System
Interrupts per interval (interrupts have the highest priority on the
|vmstat (in)
| % CPU utilization (% User
space / % System kernel / % Idle); % User should
be 2\* % Sys
|Cross Calls
| Per CPU Cross-Calls
(either for cross processor interrupts, and/or maintaining cpu virtual
memory translation consistency .. aka cache consistency with MME and
mapping TLB entries, etc.)
|mpstat (xcal)
| Per CPU Interrupts
(also use intrstat, as well as
lockstat for system
|mpstat (intr)
| Involuntary context
switching (icsw reflects preemption..)
voluntary context switching (csw)
|mpstat (i/csw)
| Per Cpu Migrations .. A
more inclusive migration off of and onto another CPU.
|mpstat (migr)
|Shared Mutex
| Mutex exclusion lock
activity (per cpu) p/lockstat
gives the best visibility of this activity.
|mpstat (smtx)
|% CPU Waiting
| % of a single CPU spent
Waiting (during the sampling interval). See also b kthr.
|mpstat (%wt)
| Instr
TLB Misses
| % of MMU related
Instruction Translation Lookaside Buffer Misses (see also pagesize, pmap, cpustat..)
|trapstat -t/T
| Data
TLB Misses
| % of MMU related Data
Translation Lookaside Buffer Misses (see note above as pgsize is
|trapstat -t/T
|VARIOUS CPU specific HW
event counters (Cache, Instruction level, FP, TLB; man cputrack for your HW specific
counters available)
| VARIOUS System Wide CPU
event Counters (man cpustat for
your HW specific counters)
| Available System Specific
Bus Device / Instance Counters & Events (use busstat -l
for your HW)
| kernel
| ALL kernel statistics are
available individually via kstat
| kstat
\*\*NOTE: if you'd like to try a single Solaris utility that can run in minutes to automate the performance / workload correlation and reporting for you, take a look at sys_diag if you haven't already done so already (or the README). It includes both high-level (vmstat, mpstat, iostat, netstat, kstat, ...) snapshot and analysis, as well as Deep analysis mode which includes extended Dtrace /dexplorer and lockstat probing. (all output is summarized and color coded in an HTML report header/ Dashboard with a Table of Contents for analysis details) \*\*
Common CPU Benchmarks and What they mean :
The following list provides a set of
definitions and examples for some of today's most common independent
(industry accepted) computing benchmarks.
- SPEC CPU2006 : CPU-intensive benchmark suite, stressing a system's processor, memory subsystem and compiler. SPEC designed CPU2006 to provide a comparative measure of compute-intensive performance across the widest practical range of hardware. This benchmark suite includes both the SPEC int_rate2006 and SPEC fp_rate2006 benchmark tests.
IBM System p570
HP ProLiant DL360 G5
- SPEC jbb2005 :
SPECjbb2005 (Java Business Benchmark) measures the performance of a
Java implemented application tier (server-side Java). The benchmark
is based on the order processing of a wholesale supplier application.
The metrics given are number of SPECjbb2005 bops (Business Operations
per Second) and SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM (bops per JVM instance).
IBM p6 570
Dell 2950
Space (RU)
Power Consumption (Watts)
Performance (BOPS/JVM)
Performance / Watt
- SPEC jAppServer2004 : SPECjAppServer2004 is the only industry-standard benchmark used for Java Enterprise Edition application servers. In addition to testing application server performance, it also tests the database performance of servers deployed to support the application tier.
Dell 2900
Space (RU)
Power Consumption (Watts)
Performance (SPECjApp JOPS)
Performance / Watt
- Many, Many other industry standard benchmark tests exist, many of which can be found here at the SPEC benchmark site.
A word on SWaP
Given the state of environmental (global warming concerns), not to
mention Power, Cooling, and floorspace costs, Sun has created the
SWaP metric to compare and reflect the relative performance when taking
into account the "space" (Rack Units), as well as "power
consumption" (Watts).
The calculation is : SWaP = Performance (operations or transactions per interval)
Space (RU) x Power Consumption (Watts)
Sun Benchmarks and Comparative Methodology :For the purpose of internal only comparative benchmarking, Sun provides and maintains(internal-only) results for AMP v.2 and M-value benchmarks.
As stated very clearly at both sites (from the URL's noted above) :
Over the past 12 years with Sun, on several occations I've been brought into a mission critical production environment having
performance issues just after going live. The reasons which
were most commonly the cause of this include :
- NOT doing any type of actual Pre-Production Testing on the "target" configuration to be deployed, including :
- NOT doing any sort of formal POC (Proof of Concept) with the target configuration to be purchased or migrated to. A proof of concept is typically not an all-out formal benchmark effort, but would minimally give you the opportunity to run conduct Functional Testing, in addition to some simulated "production like" load tests against the configuration, that could demonstrate that the staged target environment will meet a representative sample of "production like" workload.
- NOT doing formal benchmarking, using a copy of Production data, and simulating actual samples of the most active production workloads (DB queries, Client Access patterns, Network traffic, etc..) with a tool such as LoadRunner.
- While the reason above is nearly always the case, the cause that
frequently crops up in most of these scenarios is that the only "Sizing" done
was to compare the "before" and "after" M-Values to
generate quotes ! I have encountered this even in
mission critical environments, where NO pre-production staging or load testing was done ! This is just WRONG, it's more than a bad practice,
possibly one that could get you fired if your (or your customer's) production
goes down in flames after lots of $$ was spent ! Push
back if necessary !
\*\* Single-Core to Multi-Core (CMT) M-Value ("on paper") Comparisons Should CAUTIOUSLY be evaluated !! \*\*
Regarding the trend of migrating production environments from single-core to multi-core architectures, Beware! Even though a generic benchmark test might reflect much higher #'s with fewer HW threads (and/or cores) than a current production configuration has, realize that there is a lot more to proper sizing and capacity planning (realizing that each configuration is unique) than is reflected in M/GHz (or in M-values) ! A lot can be said for certain types of workload requiring a specific # of HW cores for their environment to perform optimally "on cpu" without much cpu/kernel contention (locking, High TLB misses, context switching, and/or cpu-migrations..).
Hopefully this article has helped you
reflect on the wide variety of CPU options available, as well as how
they play such a significant role as the "cornerstone" of system
architecture and overall performance of our customer's production
environments. Enjoy, and "let the chips fall (or rise) as they
may"... :)
For more information regarding Performance Analysis, Capacity Planning, and related Tools, see Todd's Blog at : http://blogs.sun.com/toddjobson/category/Performance+and+Capacity+Planning
\* Copyright 2007 Todd A. Jobson \*


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CaptainFantasy wrote: I would love to see a full length from Dessa, but this should be dope too.
sequence wrote: I've been a bit Doomtree obsessed lately, and this record does not disappoint. To call the production top-notch is an understatement; the whole DTR production crew are dominating the world of hip hop producers insofar as they are able to make very intricate tracks that develop over the course over 4 minutes while continuing to bang.


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HOUSTON -- Brandon Moss wanted to talk about baseball history in the wake of the A's 12-5 win over Houston on Friday night.
He was hit twice by pitches in the seven-run ninth inning that put the game away.
"You want to talk about my record?" he asked. "There can't be anybody who ever got hit three times in an inning."
His teammates wanted to talk about his serving as a green-and-gold target, too. But not in quite the same terms.
Moss was hit by a pitch to start the ninth inning, then plunked again after Josh Donaldson's two-run homer brought home the sixth and seventh runs of the inning. Add that to the Thursday when the Astros quite pointedly hit Jed Lowrie, and there clearly was some bad blood brewing.
"You hate to see anything like that," Donaldson said. "I don't know what they're thinking over there. I certainly didn't expect it."
Daric Barton, whose tie-breaking single with the bases loaded wound up clearing the bases with a little help from the shoddy Houston defense, was on the same page.
"It made me mad; it was pretty crappy," he said. "When it happens there's nothing I can do about it, but we're not into having a beanball war. This wasn't the first time it had happened. It obviously wasn't unintentional."
Starting pitcher Jesse Chavez, who had been out of the four-hour, six-minute game for about two hours before the ninth-inning rally, said he came down to the dugout in the ninth to support his teammates after he'd had a rough night. And he wasn't thrilled at the way Moss was treated.
"You never expect that," Chavez said. "In a way, you take it very personally. You can pitch inside, but you can't hit a guy like that, especially after the home run."
It came as no major surprise that with one out in the bottom of the ninth, Oakland reliever Fernando Abad hit Astros catcher Jason Castro, at which point home plate umpire Jordan Baker warned both benches the nonsense had to stop. Astros manager Bo Porter rushed on the field, insisting Abad should be ejected.
In the end, it was Porter who was ejected.
After Astros reliever Paul Clemens was ejected Thursday for hitting Lowrie, Porter decried the decision.
"I think the game of baseball takes care of itself," Porter said. "It's part of the game."
Moss was the one player in an A's uniform who didn't seem to think the Astros were throwing at him, saying hitting him to start an inning of a tie game in the ninth made no sense, and hitting him with an 0-2 pitch, even after the Donaldson homer, was similarly pointless.
But he reads newspapers.
"The game of baseball takes care of itself," Moss said. "That's what happened tonight."
A's (Dan Straily 1-1) at Houston (Dallas Keuchel 2-1), 4:10 p.m. CSNCA


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Two people were taken to Hannibal Regional Hospital for evaluation following a one-car accident at 3:35 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, on Fulton Avenue near Helm Street.
Hannibal police report that a 1992 Toyota Corolla, driven by 18-year-old Patricia Scheibel, was traveling north on Fulton Avenue when she lost control of the vehicle. The Toyota ran off the left side of the roadway and struck a utility pole, causing the vehicle to flip onto its passenger side. A juvenile female was a passenger in the vehicle along with 24-year-old Johnathan Shiflett, who was a rear seat passenger.
Patricia and the juvenile were transported from the scene by the Marion County Ambulance and taken to the Hannibal Regional Hospital for evaluation. The driver was issued a summons for reckless driving resulting in a traffic crash. No one in the vehicle was wearing a safety belt, according to police.
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SAN JOSE -- For nearly three hours, Brad Hunt had been squishing around in the mud and muck along Coyote Creek, stooping every few seconds to retrieve another piece of trash, shifting each sodden coffee cup or soiled diaper into one of several bags set up along the creek bank -- like a forensic technician collecting clues at the scene of a crime.
"I think people don't really realize where their trash is going most of the time," Hunt said. As he spoke, a piece of clear plastic floated down from the tree canopy behind him, settling onto the surface of the muddy water. Guessing that it was discarded from a car on the Interstate-280 overpass nearby, he watched it float slowly toward San Francisco Bay.
Volunteers like Hunt descended upon a quarter-mile stretch of Coyote Creek Saturday morning as part of the city's Clean Creeks, Healthy Communities program, collecting data as well as trash. Styrofoam was the prize of the day because San Jose has been considering banning it for two years, and the City Council will finally put it to a vote on Feb. 26.
"This is a way of getting into the creek ahead of the vote to get some data about the types of litter we're finding," said Allison Chan of Save the Bay, one of several organizations that enlisted volunteers to assist the city's Environmental Services Department. "Not surprisingly, a lot of it is Styrofoam."
After only three hours of work along a stretch of creek that a city spokeswoman allowed was "not a hot spot" for dumping garbage, volunteers pulled out 748 pounds of soggy trash, hauling away an infant car seat, a tire and a rich cornucopia of takeout food containers. Before the city banned plastic bags, Styrofoam and plastic bags each accounted for about 7 or 8 percent of the trash clogging local waterways. Following the ban, the city examined trash for a year and determined that the tonnage of bags had been reduced by nearly 60 percent.
"What that shows us is bans work," Chan said. "The more data we have to prove that, the better." An observer from Vice Mayor Madison Nguyen's office came to peer at the trash from the cleanup near Selma Olinder Park.
"We're confident that banning these substances results in dramatic reductions," said Cheryl Wessling, spokeswoman for the city's environmental services department.
There's a good reason for the sudden interest in Styrofoam, which city officials refer to as "EPS," for expanded polystyrene, because Styrofoam is a trademarked name. In 2009, the Regional Water Quality Control Board included Coyote Creek among 24 Bay Area creeks that violate the Clean Water Act for trash alone. A regional stormwater permit process requires cities to have zero trash in their creeks by 2022 -- and to show a 40 percent reduction by next year.
That deadline brought about a grant of nearly $1 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Santa Clara Valley Water District and eBay to set up the Clean Creeks, Healthy Communities pilot program. "This program is a model of how neighborhoods can become stewards of an issue that affects their local creek," Wessling said. "Everything that happens in a creek winds up in the bay, and from the bay to the ocean. What's happening in our own backyard can become part of the great Pacific garbage patch. Litter is not just a visual blight. It's actually a pretty significant pollutant."
Richard Gehrs, who found the child's car seat, decided to volunteer after a recent bike ride in San Jose. "Recently I was up on Guadalupe River Trail by the airport, and boy what a mess it is up there," he said. "The water had risen up and all these trees were just covered with plastic bags. I thought, 'Boy, it's a good thing they outlawed plastic bags in San Jose.' I wasn't so in favor of the ban before that."
He's still not sure it's necessary to get rid of Styrofoam containers, but environmentalists pushing for a ban are convinced that even if people were more responsible about throwing them away, it wouldn't solve the problem. "One of the reasons we're focused on Styrofoam is it's a particularly bad actor," Chan said. "It's very lightweight, so even if it's properly disposed of in a trash can, it can easily blow out and then break up into little pieces."
But with a homeless encampment no more than 50 feet from where the cleanup was taking place -- and strictly off-limits to the volunteers -- there was an obvious disconnect between at least one source of the problem, and a solution.
"Our philosophy is, you can clean all you want, but if you still have homeless folks in encampments down here, you're never going to get the place really clean," said Chris Richardson, director of program operations for Downtown Streets Team, which attempts to recruit the homeless to clean their living space. "So we need to work on moving people out of here."
Contact Bruce Newman at 408-920-5004; follow him at Twitter.com/BruceNewmanTwit.


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Member Mark Reid received the following query from Connie Davis (email@example.com) in September. His response is below.
At 11:16 AM 9/30/2010, you (refers to Connie Davis) wrote:
I am looking for a birth record for James Madison McBride, 4-30-1910 and John William McBride, 5-27-1912 or 1913. The death record I am trying to find is for Martha Emaline McBride, DOD 6-1-1908 in Winnsboro.
Mark's Response: Martha Emaline (mother) McBride is buried in Winnsboro City Cemetery. The stone reads: 29 June 1831 – 1 June 1908
Her husband, James Monroe (father) McBride is adjacent. His stone reads: 7 Sep 1819 – 18 Oct 1903
Here is a quick find. Maybe more later.
Birth records are more difficult for us, but we will keep looking for additional information for you.
If you have additional information, please comment to this post at the comment link below. You may also contact Connie at her email address above.
My apologies to both Connie and Mark. This message was forwarded to me by Mark a long time ago. It just fell between the cracks in my email checking system. dh
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Area residents are invited to hear Erin Walsh on Monday, Jan. 14 at the DAC Auditorium in New Ulm as she presents "Why Do Kids Act That Way?"
Erin will combine experience and examples to help parents and all adults understand how technology affects our kids. She will address the issues of body image, video game violence and the uniqueness of the teenage brain. As always, there will be time afterward for questions from the audience.
This event is free and open to the public. Erin Walsh is being sponsored by New Ulm Community Education and USAC. CEU forms will be available for teachers, daycare and foster care providers.
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Probably most of you would have seen the preview of Windows 8 – either at BUILD conference or online. For developers it's time to start looking into what it takes to start developing Windows 8 applications. The apps would be developed in .NET 4.5. It's not exactly same as .NET 4 and yes there are some breaking changes. You'll have to port your applications to .NET 4.5.
Here is the link for starting the development – MSDN – .NET Metro style apps
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A newspaper ad in Monday's Daily Sentinel is stirring up controversy over a new law that bans certain types of discrimination in public facilities. Some argue the law encourages pedophilia while others say nothing could be farther from the truth.
In May, Governor Bill Ritter signed Senate Bill 200 into law. The law extends state bans on discrimination to include religion and sexual preference when it comes to using public places, employment, and housing and lodging.
But one group says in doing so, the law opens up public bathrooms to either sex. Christian activists launched an ad in Monday's Daily Sentinel, decrying the state's decision by showing a young girl walking out of a stall where a man awaits her.
Bruce Houknecht, with Focus on the Family Action, is one of the men behind the ad. He says he sees a huge problem with this law for some local businesses.
"Small business owners in Colorado, who operate on faith based principles will be forced against their will to promote lifestyles with which they don't agree," said Houknecht.
The ad lists the names of state leaders who voted for the bill, one of which was State Representative Bernie Buescher. He says the ad grossly misrepresents what the purpose of the legislation was.
"You can't discriminate in public accommodations based on religion or sexual preference," said Buescher. "That's what the bill does."
Buescher says the law is about equality, not bathrooms, and that there are already laws in place to protect children from illegal sexual predators.
"You read the bill, you'll see, it is not about bathrooms," said Buescher.
State Senator Josh Penry voted against the bill. He says the law is just bad public policy and lawmakers' attention would be better served on more important issues.
"What makes it most offensive is that Democrats work on these types of bills when you have four dollar a gallon gasoline," said Penry. "Where are their priorities?"
But Buescher says the bill received bi-partisan support, the support of several statewide political groups, and that similar laws exist in 15 other states.
"It was a relatively non-controversial bill when it went through the state legislature," said Buescher.
With the law in place, if someone is told they can't use a public facility based on religion or sexual preference, the offender could be fined up to $500.


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We're big fans of Bobby Ray Simmons, also known as B.o.B., here at Complex. So it was a great pleasure to be able to sit down with him and pick his brain about his new mix tape and album, his dream collaborations, and, of course, The Hip Hop Dance Experience.
Ubisoft's latest dance title hit the Wii and Xbox 360 on Nov. 13, and it features songs ranging from Flo Rida's "Wild Ones" to LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It." Is it the ultimate dance game? No idea. We were just happy to be speaking with B.o.B. Check out our full chat below.
Complex: So you've got two songs in The Hip Hop Dance Experience—"So Good" and "Airplanes." Why those two songs? Did you pick them or did Ubisoft?
B.o.B.: They picked them. And I think they picked good songs because, you know, these are the songs that just around the world, you know—because these games sell, like, millions of copies. And so these are my biggest records, you know—two of my biggest records—and, you know, I think just in the whole total package of the game and the songs that they have on here, I think it's a good playlist of all spectrums of hip-hop, you know what I mean? And how it's branched out into—whether it leans more towards pop, rock, hip-hop, you know, hardcore hip-hop, you know, dance music—it's kind of got all that blending into the same, in one game.
And those songs are kind of a good mix of styles.
Yeah, exactly, exactly. And like, you know, really, it shows—people dance, you know, because sometimes one may think inside the box, thinking, well, if it's a dance song, it's got to have these type of drums, or these type of synths in it, you know? But, you know, I think "Airplanes" is probably the only song—I think actually my two songs are the only songs that have piano in it. "So Good" and "Airplanes."
So they break the mold a little bit?
Yeah, you know, they kind of push the envelope, and that's what I'm all about doing. So I think it's a—it's progressive in itself.
So you've played the game? What do you think?
Yes I have. I scored a little bit of points [laughing].
Do you consider yourself a pretty good dancer?
I do not consider myself a pretty good dancer [laughing]. But I do happen to dance. I would, you know—in my show, I may break into a jig.
You going to take any of the moves that they choreographed for the game and incorporate them into your performances?
No, I'll leave them for the game. They're like, "Didn't he get those moves off The Hip Hop Dance Experience? [laughing]
Out of all the people you've collaborated with, who do you think would be the best at The Hip Hop Dance Experience?
Haley Williams [from Paramore]. She can dance. Like, for real. Like, nobody—it's so crazy because she's a rock star, and nobody knows it. But you know how I found out? From performing "Airplanes" with her and seeing her dance. She actually can dance, like, for real. Like, no lies, crazy. Blew my mind.
Who would be the worst at the game?
Me? Nah [laughing]. I don't know. There's no telling. I mean, usually when people can't dance, you don't know, because they don't dance.


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Jabber is the only mainstream free (as in speech) instant messaging protocol. Unfortunately, most Jabber clients for GNU/Linux only provide options for messaging and group chats, overlooking the audio chatting portion of Jabber (powered by the Google-funded libjingle). Enter Jabbin, the free Qt-based Jabber VoIP client.
Installing Jabbin
As always, the easiest way to install Jabbin is to use your platform's pacakge format. There's a wide range of packages for SuSE, Fedora Core 5, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Pardus, Sabayon, Mandriva, and Windows at the official download page for Jabbin. Unfortunately, the packages can be a little out of date. For example, the Ubuntu package won't even install on the latest Ubuntu (7.10) as it was built for an older version (7.04). Luckily, there is a 3rd party .deb available of Jabbin, although it only has Jabbin's latest SVN version.
Setting up Jabbin
Once you've finished install Jabbin, open it up and set up an new account (if nothing pops up, go to File→Account Setup, and click the New... button). Type in a name (e.g.
My Jabber Account), and click the Add button. In the next window, type in your Jabber ID (e.g.
[email protected] . com), your password, and any other things you wish to configure.
If you use Google Talk, enter your email as your Jabber ID (e.g.
[email protected] . com), open the Connection tab, and select "Use SSL encryption (to server)", "Ignore SSL warnings", "Allow Plaintext Login", "Send Keep-alive packets (for NAT timeouts), and "Manually Specify Server Host/Port". Change the Host to
talk.google.com and the Port to
5223. Finally, change to Misc and make the resource
Jabbin. If you get a server authentication error, just hit Continue.
Messaging, chatting, and calling
To begin a conversation, just double-click on a buddy or right-click on one and select Open Chat Window. A conversation window will then pop up. You can use emoticons, look up information of the buddy you're chatting with, and send file transfers (though this doesn't work with Google Talk buddies). You can also start group chats by clicking on the Groupchat button on the main toolbar. In the resulting window, type in the Host and the Room and click the Join button (again, this won't work with Google Talk buddies).
Of course, chatting is only half of the fun. The real enjoyment starts when you call people. All you need to do is to right-click on a buddy and click the Make Call button. A small window will pop up, and you will then be able to raise and lower the volume of your microphone and the speakers.
Jabbin is a great Jabber program. Not only can it do the basic features like message and group chat, it can also do the crucial task of calling. Now, there's no need to download a proprietary tool like Skype or Gizmo. Instead, you can just use Jabbin.
Have you tried the command "sendxmpp"? It's a command line client for sending short jabber messages.
A good way of sending logs and other information to a Jabber chat room. It's easy to monitor things that happens on your computer/computers.
Be careful though not to send to much messages in a stream. You will load the server and miss messages, and possible be banned from the server (if it isn't yours).
Setting up a jabber server is also easy. I use ejabberd, which also is packed in Debian. All you need is a computer that has a real Internet address and DNS-name. Then you have your jabber server and domain up running in no time.
Jabbin is dead
Have you tried going to the Jabbin home webpage? It's not there. And when it was up, it didn't show any development since 2006 or so.
I see there is a sourceforge.net page now and its corresponding open discussion thread lists a question, "Is this project active??? The last release was on 2006. It's the only voip jabber client i know. Please, keep up the good job!", to which there hasn't been a response.
Jabbin has never stuck me in a good way, in part because of the lack of development, the promise of an OS X port that never materialised, and because Google or Yahoo listed their site as dangerous.
Jabbin is dead. I'd like to be proven wrong.


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ALBANY -- A series of home burglaries in recent weeks have police warning residents to take precautions when leaving home.
A total of nine break-ins were reported in the city from Nov. 5 to 19, "definitely an increase" over normal, said Albany police Lt. John Geissberger.
The Albany Police Department issued an alert about the home burglaries as well as an increase in car break-ins.
Details on all of the home burglaries were not available. The police alert said that, "Many of these homes were entered via a back or side door that was either unlocked or pried open. These burglaries generally have occurred during the day while residents are gone. The burglars are entering unoccupied homes. High value small electronics and jewelry have been targeted. Often these small electronics are near a window and easily visible from outside the residence."
Lt. Geissberger recommended that residents, "keep their doors and windows locked, make sure their house is secure when they leave, use an alarm system and make sure neighbors are aware when they leave."
According to the alert, the car burglaries, "have involved smashed windows to allow access to items of value that have been left in plain sight inside the vehicle." Police recommend that car owners not leave valuable items in their vehicles.


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MARTINEZ -- Jury deliberations are under way at the murder trial for a father and son charged in the shooting death of a 20-year-old Richmond man the day after a road rage confrontation in 2009.
The prosecution says that 51-year-old Charles "Mike" Titlow fatally shot Ricardo Colina in the neck from the driver's seat of his truck as his son, 24-year-old Charles "Chuck" Titlow, fought with Colina in an unincorporated area of West Contra Costa, near the intersection of San Pablo Avenue and Tara Hills Drive, on Aug. 19, 2009.
The prosecution and defense attorneys agree that Chuck Titlow chased down Colina to fight him the day after a road rage confrontation in which he twice rammed Colina's car with his truck, and gunned the truck at Colina after Colina had exited his vehicle.
Chuck Titlow was "obnoxious, immature, pugnacious," but he did not intend for Colina to get killed, his attorney, Laurie Mont argued in trial closing statements Thursday. Chuck was as surprised as anyone when someone shot Colina.
"He was a jerk, in summary, but that doesn't mean he committed murder," Mont said. "He also took a road rage incident and escalated it.
"This young man, along with his friends, just wanted to fight," Mont said.
Mike Titlow's attorney Tracee Clark argued that the father could not have fired the fatal shot based on the trajectory of the bullet. There are no witnesses that saw him fire that gun, and any circumstantial evidence that he is the shooter is based on statements by a self-serving witness who was looking to avoid being prosecuted himself.
"What parent would risk hitting their own kid?" Clark asked jurors. "No parent -- there was no plan."
Prosecutor Mary Knox said that Chuck Titlow, knowing his father would bring a gun, waited for his father to get there before attacking Colina. After the killing, Mike Titlow handed off the murder weapon to his son and his son's friend to hide, Knox said.
Colina's family cried in the audience as the prosecutor made her final plea to the jury: Convict Mike and Chuck Titlow of first-degree murder for the "senseless" killing of a "sweet, kindhearted young man."
Jury deliberations began late Thursday afternoon and continued Friday.
Contact Malaika Fraley at 925-234-1684. Follow her at Twitter.com/malaikafraley.


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The Oak Ridge Animal Shelter staff and the Oak Ridge Police Department recently held an open house celebration for volunteers, local animal groups and residents to show off the shelter's most recent renovations and improvements.
Also on hand were the shelter's newest employees, Randy Proffitt and Sara Walter, as well as on-site veterinarian Matt Jinx.
Police Chief Jim Akagi, Capt. Mike Uher and Lt. Robin Smith met with volunteers and talked about the changes they will find when helping at the shelter or working with the staff.
The Animal Shelter falls under the Police Department's supervision.
The most visible renovation at the shelter is the upgraded lobby. The lobby no longer has a four-foot high counter separating visitors from staff members, and the area is now brighter and much more open and inviting.
A new — and improved — clinic is now separated from adoption areas and air-conditioning was added, a first for the local shelter.
But visitors coming to look for pets or adopt a pet will immediately notice the odor — or the lack of odor. The dog and cage area smells clean and fresh.
Uher said keeping it clean and fresh is "an hourly task."
The local shelter gets its animals from all over Anderson County, not just Oak Ridge.
Last fall, Smith said the shelter staff is working on programs to keep animals out of the shelter, along with ways to make adoptions a priority.
According to Smith, the euthanization rate in Oak Ridge is lower than the national average and part of the reason is because of the city's registration policy.
Beverly Majors can be contacted at (865) 220-5514.
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Ardis Sanner, 91, of Maple Grove, died Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012. Memorial services will be held at 6 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16, at Mapleridge Church, 13400 Maple Knoll Way, Maple Grove. Visitation will be one hour prior to service at church.
Burial will be held at noon, Saturday, Nov. 17, at Leenthrop Cemetery, Maynard. Family and friends are cordially invited for fellowship and lunch at the Maynard Event Center following the graveside service.
Memorials are preferred.
Wing-Bain Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
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Information and Management Systems for Product Customization : In today's competitive environment, manufacturing and service companies are intensifying their customization processes. Customization means companies must meet the challenge of providing individualized product and service, without introducing high costs. Therefore, companies must address both customization and cost factors to gain a competitive advantage. While product customization is the manufacturing of products according to individual customer needs, it does not involve any focus on the cost perspective. Information and Management Systems for Product Customization will concentrate on both product customization and costs' efficiency, which is termed as mass customization. Moreover, mass customization with its multi-dimensions is the new business paradigm challenging today's manufacturing companies. This volume consists of three parts. In the first part, within the theoretical basics of mass customization are discussed, and within the theoretical context, the main problems that are encountered with the implementation of mass customization are outlined. Part two deals with the development of appropriate information systems for mass customization. Part three discusses the topic of product modularity. More specifically, this part develops a managerial approach or tool to assess and solve complexity issues induced by the variety of needs expressed by customers.
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45 cats and counting.
A Columbia County woman comes clean about dozens of unhealthy and possibly dangerous animals on her property.
Call it abuse or call it affection, the cat lover and collector of over twenty years could now be facing charges of animal abuse.
After a citizen reported some rotten conditions at the home of Nan King, Animal Control found more than 50 felines running loose.
"A lot of them are really sick," says Linda Fulmer, manager of Animal Control Services. "A lot of kittens with matted eyes and that type of thing. Respiratory problems."
And none of them have ever once visited a veterinarian.
It's why the county's now collecting the cats to quarantine and evaluate.
Animal control officials predict as many as one hundred cats could be roaming the woods near Nan King's home. They have set cage traps hoping to catch them.
"I didn't want any of them, you know?" says King. "I just don't like to kill things."
King admits she's overwhelmed.
"I have not broken any law intentionally," she says. "I mean, I don't know what else I'm supposed to do if they walk up on my property and I have to pay the pound to take them."
King says she thought the county charged $25 an animal, something she knew she couldn't afford, especially after 50 pounds of food a week and special medicines antibiotics.
"This little tube costs like ten bucks," King explains.
But there is little proof the cats are sociable, because they've been living untamed for far too long.
Chances are, most will be euthanized.
"Particularly when cats are running loose in the woods," says Fulmer. "I mean, we've got rabid foxes and raccoons in this county."
"You know, I don't mind having a certain amount, but I don't need that many," King says.
King says she's tried to get rid of her cats by placing ads in the IWANTA magazine, but with no luck.
Thursday, May 18, the county attorney will meet with Animal Control to decide what if any charges of animal abuse or neglect King may face.


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Top Definition
Sometimes happens, due to pressure changes in the vagina particularly during the orgasm. //Expulsion of air after or during sexual intercourse.
by Peterson April 18, 2003
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Can you define these popular missing words?
A pussy fart
Bitch did u just fart?
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by tom May 30, 2003
The involuntary release of compressed air from the vagina resultiong from penile piston like pumping of intercourse. A.K.A. Pussy fart.
I pounded her pussy so hard she will quief for a week.
by Quiefmaster Keith June 23, 2003
the expulsion of air forced into the vagina during intercourse.
After a rousing session of doggie style sex, Jim pulled his penis from Jill's vagina only to be greeted buy a very loud quief.
by jupton April 16, 2003
A discharged of built up air through the vaginal cavity. Creating a farting like sound.
while having sex john was taken off gard when a quief excapt kelly's vag
by Mark McCain August 18, 2003
It sounds like a fart but it really isnt. It is Not Gas. It is just air that stays in your vagina when you have sex. When you are having sex depending on the positions like Doggy. and especially how hard you are getting when the guy pulls out the air releases. just air pressure. It's kinda Good For Guys. That means you are screwing her real hard.. So Feel PROud. It's like a thumbs up.And Trust me Guys Girls can tell the difference if it came out of her pussy or her ass... You'll Know
He Fucked me SO hard I quiefed the minute he pulled out.
by SExADdictAnonymous April 05, 2007
Do you really want to know?
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When cousins Skip Yowell and Murray Pletz founded JanSport in the late 60′s, the two were primarily building technical mountaineering packs right in the shadow of one of the great mountains of North America: Mount Rainier. The cousins used Rainier as a proving ground for their designs by submitting their inventions to the brutal and often unpredictable conditions of the mountain.
Over 40 years later, we're still using Rainier as a testing ground for new product developments. This past week we made the trip to [...] Read More >