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Welcome to Hoover Elementary
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Unauthorized operation, use or visible possession of an electronic device, including a cell phone, Ipod, MP3 player, CD player, Tape player, DVD player, camera, or personal computer is prohibited during normal school hours, 7:30-3:30, Monday through Friday. A device in the 'on' position is considered 'in' operation or use. Non-visible possession is allowed." No electronic devices are allowed in the ISS room and must be turned in when entering the room and will be returned at the end of the day.
EXCEPTION: A student may use an electronic device when specifically authorized to do so by the present and supervising school official. The unauthorized use of an electronic device in a classroom is defined as a disruptive activity for which the electronic device may be confiscated.
1st Offense - Confiscated by the teacher and turned over to administration. Parent must come and pick up the device.
2nd Offense - Confiscated by the teacher and turned over to administration. Device returned to parent with $15.00 handling fee.
3rd Offense - Device confiscated until last day of school, returned to parent $15.00 handling fee.
Principles of good grooming and proper dress are necessary to set an atmosphere conducive to learning. The basic responsibility for appropriate dress must rest with the student and his/her parents.
The student's dress shall not conflict with dress code requirements listed below:
1. No tank tops, tube tops, halter tops, or spaghetti straps are allowed.
2. No clothing that is or can be associated with identification to an unauthorized gang or organization will be worn.
3. Hair must be neatly groomed, out of eyes, and not interfere with the educational process.
4. No spandex shall be worn. Skirts, dresses, shorts, and skorts must reach the end of the fingertips when arms are resting at student side. Pants and jeans, including all shorts, must be hemmed at all times.
5. Jeans and pants with holes in them shall not be worn. Patches must be appropriate. Leggings under short-shorts are prohibited.
. Sunglasses are not to be worn inside the building. If sunglasses are prescription, approval must be given by an administrator for the glasses to be worn in the building.
7. No hats, caps, or any head covering will be worn in the building, except on designated days or when a student has a hat pass.
8. Any garment with decorations, patches, lettering, advertisements, etc., that may be considered obscene, offensive, or lewd is not to be worn to (at) school. This includes, but is not limited to, any garment or accessory (jewelry) with any drug emblem, tobacco product, beer, wine, or any type of alcoholic beverage advertisement on the garment.
9. Transparent and/or see-through material will not be worn to school. Low-cut necklines will not be worn to school. Shirts and blouses must cover the entire torso at all times, even in movement (example is when raising your arms). Shirts must cover the entire crown of the shoulder and be at least three (3) inches in diameter.
10. All students must wear appropriate shoes at all times. No house shoes are allowed, except on designated days.
11. Jewelry of a dangerous nature is considered inappropriate and will not be worn at school. Any type of piercing is not allowed at school with the exception of ear piercing.
12. No degree of sag in reference to pants will be allowed. All pants must be worn at the natural waistline and any loose pants will require a belt. This means that if jeans or pants are loose at the waist, a belt must be worn. Underwear must not be visible.
13. Other items considered inappropriate for school, include but are not limited to the following
a) No spiked jewelry, bars, gauge ear piercing, or any piercing that protrudes from the ear or may be considered dangerous.
b) No bandannas, handkerchiefs, knit caps, visors, or any head covering.
c) No pajamas, pajama pants, or sleep wear - except on designated days.
d) No chains or wallets on chains.
e) No gang related items.
f) No shoes with skate wheels.
g) No unnaturally colored hair. (i.e. pink, blue, purple, green)
h) Mohawks are not permitted.
i) No clothing or garments with skulls and or crossbones.
All dress code final decisions are at the discretion of the campus administrator.
The mission of Hoover Elementary is to honor academic excellence and social success. We will model respect for others by showing kindness and compassion to all members of our learning community, including students, parents, and faculty. These skills will prepare our students to be productive citizens for the future.
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Let's just kick this off by saying: Diana Prince and Leia Organa aside, I am not too keen on the prospect of bringing the whole princess thing into my house. But I am down with the Disney Fairies. Why? Because they're all friends, they have specific jobs that they're good at, and they have to work together to make the seasons, or the world tumbles into chaos. To me, they're similar to the X-Men, in that each one of them has a very specific power, or "talent," that they use in very particular ways. Plus, Tinker Bell is spunky, curious, makes mistakes, and learns from them.
Vivi is three now, and so we were new to the first three Tinker Bell movies. Which is like being new to reading Game of Thrones. You just plow through them, and don't have the agonizing wait of several years in between installments. Ah! The benefits of being a late adopter! But then you catch up, and suddenly you're forced into an agonizing wait for the next one to come out.
Using this analogy, you could say that Tinker Bell: The Great Fairy Rescue was our A Dance With Dragons. We. Have. Been. Waiting. For. Secret of the Wings.
The DVD came out this week. October 23rd, if you're looking at my white board, or any of my other calendars that I marked, YES MARKED. But as denizens of Los Angeles, we are lucky to have the El Capitan – the Disney movie theater, which does spectacular events surrounding Disney films, and makes going to the movies an incredible experience. To wit: They ran Secret of the Wings for two weeks in early September, and before each showing of the film, Tinker Bell and Periwinkle (the new fairy) came out on stage and danced a little number – and then they MADE IT SNOW IN THE THEATRE. (Pro Tip: Cover your popcorn.)


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- Summer rocks, does it not? (Image CC by 2.0 D. Sharon Pruitt)
1. Throw a BYOB party. This is cheap, imagination-driven fun. You wield cutting implements and supply lots of tape. Guests are charged with one simple task: Bring. Your. Own. Box. Together kids can construct a fort or spaceship or whatever they please out of the boxes, then spend hours playing in it. There are plenty of other ways to amuse kids with cardboard boxes too.
2. Make sponge bombs out of cheap household sponges, then soak and use for tossing games. Unlike water balloons, these will last all summer. They also make a lovely smacking sound when dropped on an unsuspecting sibling from the top of a slide. Don't say we didn't warn you.
3. Take late-night walks. Kids enjoy this even more when they are in charge of the flashlights.
4. Find out how advanced hooping has become and how to get your kids started. You'll want to provide a good example of hula hoop enthusiasm. Here's how to make a hoop that will fit your, ahem, grown-up hips.
5. Set up a bike, trike, or scooter obstacle course. Mark the course with sidewalk chalk or masking tape. The course may lead them around cones, through a sprinkler, under crepe paper streamers hanging from a tree branch, and on to a finish line. Next, encourage them to set up their own obstacle courses.
6. Practice cloud appreciation.
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I'm not good at reviews, yet here it goes. First, I'm going to start with the negatives.
I think other Jedi and Clones need screen time. Anakin and Obi-wan aren't bad, yet others need screen time, too. plain and simple.
The Republic seems to win in almost every episode. There were a couple times where Assajj and Cad Bane got the best of the Jedi, yet not enough.
Now, the positives.
At first, I didn't think much for Asohka, yet now I think she has potential. I like the fact that she gets paired with other Jedi besides Anakin. Her and Luminara, or her and Aayla Secura make good for a Jedi team.
I also didn't think much for Assajj before the series, yet she certainly makes up for it. Definately a worthy Villian. And so far, I like Cad Bane too.
I also like the fact Anakin isn't emo. lol
As for season 2, I don't know what all they have planned. My advice to you is to NOT get your hopes up, yet it's possible we could see that Jabba isn't very fond of Ziro being out of custody, or Cad Bane for helping him escape. so he could put out a reward for the person who defeats Cad Bane. A certain Hunter could prove himself to Jabba and bring Cad's head to him.....
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I think its time to start a new journal on me new TBH
I think its time to start a new journal on me new TBH
Hey buddha,
That is a nice catch!!
I think your spidey-sense was on point. By the way, the roof on your TBH is rustic and cool.
It looks like a buttload of bees for that hive, is it crowded in there?
Hey there
Thanks. Im on holidays now and a friend is taking care for them. Basicly just checking if they are still flying in and out
I gave them 12 top bars of space + a few top bars inbetween the follower boards for the honey jar. I was thinking to expand the nest this friday to a full hive. They have 1/3 of the hive now.
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Hey buddha,
The ed clark book rocks. You posted it on a different thread. Thanks
Really opened my eyes to the unseen processes happening in the hive.
What latitude are you located on? (Trying to compare our seasons)
You are welcome
The latitude is;
My two TBHs are at this location now but I care for them only until October when this course ends. After that I will move with my wife to Denmark which is much warmer and much more humid and windy.


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By Giuseppe Muro at Emirates Stadium
Thierry Henry watched on from the sidelines as his New York Red Bulls set the early pace at the 2011 Emirates Cup with a 1-0 victory over Paris Saint-Germain.
The Arsenal legend and all-time record goalscorer, who spent eight glorious years at the Club, stayed on the bench as a first-half strike from Joel Lindpere gave the MLS side three points in this year's curtain-raiser.
He may not have been on the pitch, but Thierry was given a hero's welcome as he took his seat in the Red Bulls' dugout, just in front of the watching Arsenal squad, before the game.
High-fives and hugs with Robin van Persie had a section of Emirates Stadium on their feet and his every move was keenly observed by television cameras throughout. Make no mistake, Henry still has an aura about him.
Although his fondest moments in a red shirt were down the road at Highbury, seeing 'Titi' back 'home' evoked memories of his unforgettable time at the Club.
They may not have seen their idol in action but for the near-capacity crowd at Emirates, on a sun-drenched afternoon in the capital, this was a nice appetizer for Saturday's main course between Arsenal and Boca Juniors.
Although the central attraction will have to wait until tomorrow for his appearance on the pitch, there was a return to north London for former Tottenham stalwart Teemu Tainio, who was given the task of protecting the Red Bulls' back four.
Few teams across Europe have been as active in the transfer market as the Parisians this summer and new signings Jeremy Menez, Salvatore Sirigu and Blaise Matudi were all handed starts by manager Antoine Kombouare.
The opening exchanges were rather muted, with long-range sighters from Mathieu Bodmer and Jean-Christophe Bahebeck the closest either side came to breaking the deadlock.
Dane Richards, who was a constant threat on the right of the Red Bulls' midfield, carved out the MLS side's first chance after 20 minutes when he forced Sirigu into a smart save at his near post.
The Jamaican winger looked a threat whenever he was on the ball and it was no surprise that he was involved in the build-up that led to the Red Bulls' opener.
He played a neat give-and-go with Lindpere, who sprung the rather generous PSG offside trap before opening his body and curling an effort into the far corner. Arsenal fans were used to seeing Henry doing exactly that - maybe a skill that the Estonian midfielder has picked up from his illustrious team-mate.
So, first blood Red Bulls and that was pretty much that for a first half with a certain pre-season 'feel' about it.
Paris Saint-Germain went in search of parity from the off - Christophe Jallet curling a free-kick onto the roof of the net and Menez bending an effort inches over the bar with Frank Rost rooted to the spot.
Kombouare's side - dubbed the Manchester City of French football by Arsène Wenger on Friday - continued to create chances and, driven by the ever-willing Menzez, had the better of the second half.
John Rooney, younger brother of Manchester United forward Wayne, was introduced to ironic jeers as the pace eased off - hardly surprising given the time of year - towards the end.
The Red Bulls saw the game out to put the pressure on Arsenal ahead of their opening game against Boca Juniors in the second fixture of the day. An entertaining opening, then, to what promises to be a exciting weekend of football in the north London sunshine.
Paris Saint-Germain - Salvatore Sirigu, Christophe Jallet, Milan Bisevac, Mamadou Sakho, Loick Landre, Jeremy Menez, Mathieu Bodmer (Loris Arnaud, 87), Blaise Matuidi, Jean-Christophe Bahebeck, Mevlut Erding, Peguy Luyindula
Substitutes not used: Alphonse Areola, Marcos Ceara, Granddi Ngoyi, Neeskens Kebano
New York Red Bulls - Frank Rost, Chris Albright (John Rooney, 81), Carlos Mendes, Tim Ream, Roy Miller, Dane Richards, Teemu Tainio (Stephen Keel, 58), Dax McCarty (Matt Kassel, 89), Joel Lindpere, Jan Gunnar Solli, Juan Agudelo (Corey Hertzog, 74)
Substitutes not used: Bouna Coundoul, Tyler Lassiter, Teddy Schneider, Rafa Marquez, Mike Jones
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The Computer Outlook Radio Program was gratious enough to sponsor this inaugural event, and the shows host, John Iasiuolo, was very helpful in putting together daily podcasts. Each of these "Computer Outlook Special Events" begins with an update from the Founder and Organizer of ChicagoCon, Donald C. Donzal, and continues with interviews of our keynoters and other guests. This is yet another way to get an insiders view of ChicagoCon 2007.
Get all 5 daily podcasts in MP3 format as well as a link to the Wrapup of ChicagoCon 2007 on John's live broadcast on the evening of Friday Sept 21.
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Wednesday Sept 19 - John C. Dvorak of PC Magazine, Cranky Geeks, and much more
Thursday Sept 20 - Keynoter Doug Steelman is joined by surprise guest and evening presenter, Chris Gates of Learn Security Online
Friday Sept 21 - Daily podcasts conclude with Steve Hunt, Industry Analyst and Blogger (SecurityDreamer)
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First safari day - Tarangire National Park
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This was our first official safari day as we left Arusha and headed to Tarangire. All 12 of the tour group had arrived by now, and we got a chance to meet both of the tour guides: Hamisi and Ndaskoi. We loaded the two Land Rovers and headed out by 9am.
It was nice to see Arusha during the day although it was mostly freeway once we actually left town. The scenery quickly changed to relatively flat and brownscapes. There were pockets of Masaai grazing cattle and sheep; so pretty. Their bright cloths against the dirt were a visual feast of red checkers, Scottish-type tartans, reds, blacks, blues. Being Sunday, there were a lot of people out walking along the road going to and from market and church
As we got to the entrance of the park, we had to stop and register the vehicles, so we had a chance to use the toilets and to walk around. We saw Baobab trees that were 2500-3000 years old. It was substantially warmer, but still so much more pleasant than we had expected due to the constant breezes. We stopped at a lodge for lunch that had the most spectacular view of the Tarangire Valley and river. This was the classic Africa view. We saw elephant, giraffes, wildebeest, impala and the most wonderful birds off the deck of this lodge. Just a taste of things to come.
As we headed out from lunch, we had a few hours to meander through the park on the way to our camp for the evening. It was unbelievable what we saw in only a couple hours on our first day; giraffes, elephants, 2 lionesses, hyrax, impala everywhere, dozens of birds, a few monkeys, wildebeest, cape buffalo, and dik diks. Lord, did we get them all? The most amazing part....they were all so incredibly close to us. Amy could barely catch her breath.
The sunset drive to the lodge was spectacular despite some of the gorgeous light being attributed to some controlled burning in the area.
The lodge was, of course, lovely. Grass roof, stunning wooden floors, comfortable, large rooms. One of the amazing parts - the sheer volume of people who tend to you during your stay. Although not apparent this first night, it would turn out that most of our lodges would have guards at your door at night so that if you decided to walk, you had an escort. Of course, you are never to be unaccompanied because, well, you know, this isn't a zoo and you're on the menu once outside of any enclosure. Amy found this all quite unbelievable until we walked to breakfast the next morning and noticed "kitty" prints in the planting beds. Yes, really!
Dinner was as magnificent. This was the first night all 12 of us were together. And, we're happy to say we were the most rested. Others seemed somewhat bleery-eyed and we think we made most of the introductions around the table. Over the next couple weeks, we would all spend varying time together, finding those we preferred and those we didn't (go away Kevin!). A bat joined us in the dining room and about halfway through our meal, we were serenaded by the staff; a group of men and women who sang beautifully. Amy cried. Again :)


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Farewell reception for Assistant Vice Provost Bill Angrove is April 1
(March 31, 2009)--After 15 years of service to the UTSA community, Bill Angrove, assistant vice provost for distance learning and academic technology, is leaving UTSA to assume duties as associate vice president for distance learning at Sam Houston State University.
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>> A farewell reception, open to the UTSA community, is 2-4 p.m., Wednesday, April 1 in the University Center Harris Room (2.212) on the Main Campus.
Angrove's many contributions to UTSA include the development and expansion of distance learning vehicles and playing an instrumental role in establishing the Lynn Whipple Angrove Memorial Endowed Scholarship in the College of Business Department of Accounting.
At Sam Houston State University, he will supervise the creation of a distance learning system to support complete degree programs online.


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The east-west ridge of San Francisco comprises the Pacific Heights borough, an affluent neighborhood where parks and pets are equally well groomed and high-end shops, foreign consulates, and early 20th century Victorian mansions line the hilly sidewalks. The delightfully fresh air here owes itself to Pacific Heights's micro-climate, which makes its skies clearer than its other NorCal neighbors. Day-trippers flock to the area's eclectic and upscale shops on Fillmore Street. When the whirlwind of visitors dies down in the evening, young crowds thread the lanes to a handful of nightspots rich with culture and laughter.
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A stay at Laurel Inn is like stepping into the San Francisco of the movies. This mid-century hotel bedecked in cool 60s-era earth tones is far from the din of downtown yet close to nearby shopping and dining a block away on Sacramento Street. The spotless, spacious rooms are evocative of modern San Francisco studio apartments with carefully selected bedding. Take a break on the tufted and buttoned leather cushions in the hotel's 1960s-themed Swank Cocktail Lounge, where the staff crafts amazing cocktails. Then, get in a workout with day passes to the Jewish Community Center. Coffee, tea, cookies, and lemonade are included.
• Shop the boutiques on Fillmore Street
• Snap a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge
• Encounter the ghosts of Alcatraz
• Catch a foreign or art-house flick's at Clay Theater, San Francisco's oldest Art Deco movie theater
• Take in a live performance at Palace of the Fine Arts
"Rooms, decorated in black and taupe, are spacious and clean; some have desks and fold-out sofas, and 18 offer convenient kitchenettes. Adjoining rooms can be connected to create a kid-friendly suite."-- Read Fodor's Review of Laurel Inn
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A very fine line between ultra competitiveness and ultra stupidity.
This article is a prime examle of why I like the fact that in Coughlins regime you cant lose your job to injury. Taylor says in the interview about his backup waiting to show that he can play through more pain and take his job if Tayor ls out to heal.
Players shouldnt feel like they have to make that decision.
Sorry, I feel no sympathy for guys making millions a yr to play a game. They have enough to last them a lifetime if they are smart. If they're stupid enough to squander their fortune, that's on them. How bout feeling sympathy for all the combat wounded war vets that are missing entire limbs & eyes, nose/ears/lips & are disfigured from being burned alive in a burning helo or tank. 100% disability is $3000+ a month for life compared to the millions these players get to play a game.
Amazing & pathetic how actors, musicians & athletes get more hype, recognition & praise than those of us that have volunteered to put our lives on the line for this ungrateful country.
Semper Fi
However this is just a symptom of a bigger issue. Our Society, much like the ancient Romans, loves the "games," and the money generated by the owners of professional teams speaks volumes.
We will spend 30 bucks on a tee, a tee for goodness sake, just because of the logo printed or stitched on it. But when you wear the Uniform you get called horrendous names but certain people of a certain political leaning.
You know how many times people have said to me, "Thanks for serving" and yet try to F me over if it gets them ahead? I display a "Veteran" decal and yet still put up with sideways looks and all that.
You my friend are a hero to me because of what you do/ did. Any and all who wore the Uniform, be it Military, Law Enforcement deserve honor and respect.
As for "modern day gladiators," let's be for real. the allure of making so much money for playing a "game" is too great to be passed up.
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Thanks for your service as well bro. What burns me even more is when some maggots have the audacity to pull the " no one forced you to serve/volunteer" card.
I'm an Iraq/Stan Marine combat vet who served with 2nd MarDiv 2/8 wpns co 81s plt from 1996-2004 & proudly held the rank of SGT of Marines.
I completely understand about not being able to pass up the millions to play a "game". I don't begrudge them that. What I have an issue with is all these players knew that playing in the NFL came with great risks of getting injured and retiring with nagging & life long injuries incurred while playing. But unlike us, who got paid a bucket of spit compared to what they got paid, to put our lives on the line 365 days a yr for 4-10-20 yrs! They got paid millions of dollars to play in game. We got paid a couple a thousand a month to possibly give up our lives in defense of our country.
So excuse me if I don't give a flying hoot about the woes of players that made millions playing a game.
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LOL no excuse needed, you earned it. Hope it doesn't bother you hearing that from an Army M1 Tanker though.
hooah to your hoo-rah [beer]
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Still expecting news on Greg Oden by the end of the weekend. Still primarily between Pelicans and Heat, from what I'm hearing.
But in doing my research for this piece, I came across something I wrote in 2011 titled "Why the Sixers and Everyone Else Should Want Greg Oden." I jumped down readers' throats in support of the tremendously talented but undervalued and injured 23-year-old
Since that was written, I've graduated college, moved across the country, worked at three different jobs, lived in three different apartments, moved in with my girlfriend, watched her move out, developed a pretty stellar shoe game, made friends, lost friends and did something athletic at least a few times a week.
Greg Oden, for all intents and purposes, hasn't moved. And I was about to write that exact article again
Bynum hurt Philly so much because he was an all-in bet. Oden is two chips at a low-limit table. Oden is jaywalking across an Old West dirt path. He's skydiving from the top bunk. There's just not much risk at this point because there's not much cost
The high-risk decisions -- taking Oden over Durant, giving Brandon Roy $80 million, trading major assets for Bynum, trading Holiday for Noel and a pick -- are the ones you fret over, you analyze, you fret over some more. The low-risk decisions like giving Greg Oden $3 million ... those are nothing. If that Slinky can't be untangled? Oh well. Move on to the jigsaw puzzle that may or may not be missing a handful of pieces.
@BrettNBA: Greg Oden to decide on team tomorrow, reports Yahoo! A source tells me he's torn between Miami and New Orleans.
Greg Oden "I felt it was most important for me to commit myself to the organization that was most committed to me as a player as well as a person. That organization was New Orleans. I'm ready to play pretty good ball"
quote:Nobody remembers 2nd place. He needs to close the deal.
if thats his top 2 then to dell i say
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ARSC T3E Users' Newsletter 117, April 8, 1997
Yukon Accepted
There have been some late nights around here, and they were well spent. Yukon has been accepted, with over 96% uptime during its acceptance period and is running in pre-production mode.
Yukon User Testing Continues
We have a handful of non-staff users on yukon. Here's a message from Don Morton of Cameron University (he didn't intend this for the newsletter -- which, to me, makes it more interesting -- but I asked and he said okay).
> Subject: Preliminary T3E times, comments, etc. > > What follows are some T3D vs.T3E times on an MPI hydrologic code. I'll > also add in T3D CRAFT times for code. All times in seconds. > > PE's Initialization Time Single Timestep Single Timestep > T3D T3E T3D T3E T3D-CRAFT > > 2 26.9 3.64 6.18 2.16 6.23 > 4 26.9 3.76 4.80 1.74 4.22 > 8 26.8 3.64 4.58 1.85 3.31 > 16 26.9 3.64 5.62 2.47 2.86 > > The "Initialization Time" is time needed to read input files, > set up data structures, etc. I know the T3E was going to have > much better I/O performance, and this seems to show it... Nice > to be rid of the Y-MP/T3D bottleneck! > > Looks like I still have a communications bottleneck which I'll > probably try to resolve with Shmem. The bottleneck is a small > loop which, many times within a given timestep, exchanges a small > number of values (approx. 5-15). Seems that the MPI latency is > pretty high, and CRAFT seems to get around some of this when I use > shared arrays.
Shmem Bandwidth
In newsletter #100 , we presented a simple shmem program which measures bandwidth, and used it on the T3D to compare EPCC's 2-sided MPI routines with shmem. In this newsletter, we use essentially the same program to look at bandwidth on ARSC's T3E. It gives a T3D maximum of ~126 mb/s and a T3E maximum which, in our tests, ranged from about 250 mb/s to ~333 mb/s. This variance on the T3E is discussed below.
First, here's how the program works. It runs on two PEs, the sender and receiver. The two processes synchronize at a barrier. The sender then initiates an asynchronous send using shmem_put() while the receiver waits at a shmem_wait() for the last item in the buffer which serves as a signal that the entire buffer has arrived. These two functions are timed, the results printed, and the processes loop back and repeat the sequence with a larger buffer.
We hope that a "red flag" went up when you read the statement: "the receiver waits at a shmem_wait() for the last item in the buffer."
On the T3E, if adaptive routing is enabled, this is not a reliable way to test for the arrival of data. However, we have not enabled adaptive routing yet on yukon, and, just to be sure, ran a version of the program which examines every buffer element testing that the entire buffer was received. On the T3D, buffer packets are guaranteed to arrive in order, so testing the last element does test the entire buffer. We will discuss adaptive routine in greater detail in future newsletters.
The following output is from a run on ARSC's T3D. nwords gives the size in words of the buffer exchanged; ticks is the number of clock ticks required for the transfer to complete; and usecs is the number of microseconds required. The mbr field is bandwidth in megabytes per second. Runs on the T3D always give bandwidths within a couple percent of the values shown in this run, and are not influenced by neighboring jobs.
T3D Run ==================== RECEIVER: nwords=1 ticks=1272 usecs=8.479152; mbr=0.943491 RECEIVER: nwords=10 ticks=672 usecs=4.479552; mbr=17.858930 RECEIVER: nwords=100 ticks=1533 usecs=10.218978; mbr=78.285718 RECEIVER: nwords=1000 ticks=10109 usecs=67.386591; mbr=118.717980 RECEIVER: nwords=10000 ticks=95708 usecs=637.989500; mbr=125.393913 RECEIVER: nwords=100000 ticks=957078 usecs=6379.881672; mbr=125.394175 RECEIVER: nwords=1000000 ticks=9479730 usecs=63191.877442; mbr=126.598549 SENDER: nwords=1 ticks=1010 usecs=6.732660 SENDER: nwords=10 ticks=725 usecs=4.832850 SENDER: nwords=100 ticks=1619 usecs=10.792254 SENDER: nwords=1000 ticks=10151 usecs=67.666563 SENDER: nwords=10000 ticks=95819 usecs=638.729426 SENDER: nwords=100000 ticks=956952 usecs=6379.041756 SENDER: nwords=1000000 ticks=9479679 usecs=63191.537476
The next batch of results are from ARSC T3E runs. As they show, the bandwidth the program achieves on the T3E is both better and far more variable than that which it achieves on the T3D, and it is influenced by other jobs.
This contrast between the T3D and T3E variability makes sense considering that this program runs on exactly two PEs and that in the T3D architecture, PEs are paired up, two per node, with a dedicated route between them. Communication between the sender and receiver pair on the T3D is unaffected by traffic on the torus, even when some of that traffic passes through the node on which they are running. On the T3E, however, every PE is its own node, and traffic between any given pair of nodes shares the torus network with traffic between nodes of other applications.
For the T3E runs, I used mppview -s all to capture the configuration at the time of each of three runs (the job appears in these displays as shmem_wait ). There was another user's 64-node job running throughout my runs. The best bandwidth was achieved in the third run, below, after I inserted a 16 node spacer job which separated the 2-node job from the 64-node job, giving it a relatively quiet route through the torus. (The spacer program, route , does introduce some traffic on the torus.)
T3E Run 1: ==================== UID PPID APID Run Time PEs Base Command ----- ----- ---------- -------- ----- ----- ---------- 162 7838 0x0186dc13 03:29:28 64 0 a.out.64 1235 11631 0x01459c14 00:00:20 2 64 shmem_wait ==================== RECEIVER: nwords=1 ticks=3210 usecs=10.700000; mbr=0.747664 RECEIVER: nwords=10 ticks=1966 usecs=6.553333; mbr=12.207528 RECEIVER: nwords=100 ticks=1834 usecs=6.113333; mbr=130.861505 RECEIVER: nwords=1000 ticks=10640 usecs=35.466667; mbr=225.563910 RECEIVER: nwords=10000 ticks=92944 usecs=309.813333; mbr=258.220003 RECEIVER: nwords=100000 ticks=950161 usecs=3167.203333; mbr=252.588772 RECEIVER: nwords=1000000 ticks=9421812 usecs=31406.040000; mbr=254.728071 SENDER: nwords=1 ticks=2900 usecs=9.666667 SENDER: nwords=10 ticks=1614 usecs=5.380000 SENDER: nwords=100 ticks=950 usecs=3.166667 SENDER: nwords=1000 ticks=9542 usecs=31.806667 SENDER: nwords=10000 ticks=92649 usecs=308.830000 SENDER: nwords=100000 ticks=949593 usecs=3165.310000 SENDER: nwords=1000000 ticks=9421195 usecs=31403.983333 T3E Run 2: ==================== UID PPID APID Run Time PEs Base Command ----- ----- ---------- -------- ----- ----- ---------- 162 7838 0x0186dc13 05:20:44 64 0 a.out.64 1235 12203 0x01459c11 00:00:09 8 64 route <--8 node "spacer" 1235 12212 0x0145bc12 00:00:04 2 72 shmem_wait ==================== RECEIVER: nwords=1 ticks=3358 usecs=11.193333; mbr=0.714711 RECEIVER: nwords=10 ticks=2186 usecs=7.286667; mbr=10.978957 RECEIVER: nwords=100 ticks=2054 usecs=6.846667; mbr=116.845180 RECEIVER: nwords=1000 ticks=10552 usecs=35.173333; mbr=227.445034 RECEIVER: nwords=10000 ticks=89032 usecs=296.773333; mbr=269.565999 RECEIVER: nwords=100000 ticks=932565 usecs=3108.550000; mbr=257.354715 RECEIVER: nwords=1000000 ticks=9403328 usecs=31344.426667; mbr=255.228787 SENDER: nwords=1 ticks=3008 usecs=10.026667 SENDER: nwords=10 ticks=1746 usecs=5.820000 SENDER: nwords=100 ticks=817 usecs=2.723333 SENDER: nwords=1000 ticks=9510 usecs=31.700000 SENDER: nwords=10000 ticks=88518 usecs=295.060000 SENDER: nwords=100000 ticks=931773 usecs=3105.910000 SENDER: nwords=1000000 ticks=9402727 usecs=31342.423333 T3E Run 3: (Best Performance) =============================== UID PPID APID Run Time PEs Base Command ----- ----- ---------- -------- ----- ----- ---------- 162 7838 0x0186dc13 05:26:43 64 0 a.out.64 1235 12296 0x0145bc13 00:00:15 16 64 route <--16 node "spacer" 1235 12313 0x0145f414 00:00:08 2 80 shmem_wait ==================== RECEIVER: nwords=1 ticks=3226 usecs=10.753333; mbr=0.743955 RECEIVER: nwords=10 ticks=1958 usecs=6.526667; mbr=12.257406 RECEIVER: nwords=100 ticks=1562 usecs=5.206667; mbr=153.649168 RECEIVER: nwords=1000 ticks=8008 usecs=26.693333; mbr=299.700300 RECEIVER: nwords=10000 ticks=72100 usecs=240.333333; mbr=332.871012 RECEIVER: nwords=100000 ticks=729933 usecs=2433.110000; mbr=328.797301 RECEIVER: nwords=1000000 ticks=7262705 usecs=24209.016667; mbr=330.455388 SENDER: nwords=1 ticks=2928 usecs=9.760000 SENDER: nwords=10 ticks=1778 usecs=5.926667 SENDER: nwords=100 ticks=937 usecs=3.123333 SENDER: nwords=1000 ticks=7585 usecs=25.283333 SENDER: nwords=10000 ticks=71993 usecs=239.976667 SENDER: nwords=100000 ticks=729573 usecs=2431.910000 SENDER: nwords=1000000 ticks=7262383 usecs=24207.943333 ====================
Here's the code. As noted in Newsletter #116 , the cache coherence call becomes a no-op on the T3E, but should remain for T3D portability. The only change to this code in porting to the T3E was in the include preprocessor commands (for details, see the next article).
/*-------------------------------------------------------------*/ #include <mpp/shmem.h> #ifdef T3D #include <mpp/stdio.h> #include <mpp/limits.h> #include <mpp/time.h> #endif #ifdef T3E #include <stdio.h> #include <limits.h> #include <time.h> #endif #define BUFSZ 1000000 /* d=delta clock tics; n=number words*/ #define USECS(d) ((float)(d)*1000000.0/(float)CLK_TCK) #define MBR(d,n) ((float)(n)*8.0/1000000.0)/(USECS(d)/1000000.0)) main () { int n; long nwords; int mype, otherpe, npes; long t1,t2; long buf[BUFSZ]; fortran irtc(); npes = shmem_n_pes(); if (npes < 2) { printf ("ERROR: Minimum of 2 PEs required.\n"); exit (1); } for (n = 0; n < BUFSZ; n++) buf[n] = 0; mype = shmem_my_pe(); shmem_set_cache_inv(); /* Reload cache when put received */ switch (mype) { case 0: otherpe = 1; for (nwords = 1; nwords <= BUFSZ; nwords*=10) { buf[nwords-1] = 1; /* Use as flag to shmem_wait() on receiver */ barrier(); t1 = irtc (); shmem_put (buf, buf, nwords, otherpe); t2 = irtc (); printf ("SENDER: nwords=%ld ticks=%ld usecs=%f\n", nwords, (t2-t1), USECS(t2-t1)); } break; case 1: for (nwords = 1; nwords <= BUFSZ; nwords*=10) { barrier(); t1 = irtc (); shmem_wait( &buf[nwords-1], 0 ); /* wait for last element */ t2 = irtc (); printf ("RECEIVER: nwords=%ld ticks=%ld usecs=%f; mbr=%f\n", nwords, t2-t1, USECS(t2-t1), MBR(t2-t1,nwords); } break; default: break; } } /*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
Header Files
Some header files are in different locations on the T3E and T3D. It can be a little confusing, as this example (taken from the previous article) shows:
#include <mpp/shmem.h> #ifdef T3D #include <mpp/stdio.h> #include <mpp/limits.h> #include <mpp/time.h> #endif #ifdef T3E #include <stdio.h> #include <limits.h> #include <time.h> #endif
One might ask: why were stdio.h , limits.h and time.h& moved out of the mpp directory, while shmem.h remained?
This question suggests, erroneously, that on the Y-MP, these .h files actually are in the same directory, mpp . It turns out that they're not: stdio.h, limits.h, time.h (and about 135 other .h files) are system include files and are found under the /usr/include/ tree, while shmem.h is part of the programming environment, and is under the /opt/ctl/ tree. For example:
-------------------- limits.h On Y-MP: denali$ find /usr/include -name limits.h -print /usr/include/mpp/limits.h /usr/include/limits.h On T3E: yukon$ find /usr/include -name limits.h -print /usr/include/limits.h The Y-MP has two "limits.h" files because it is a single host shared by two architectures. Life is simple again on the T3E, the subdirectory, "mpp" is completely gone, and the contents of the Y-MP's /usr/include/mpp/ directory has been moved back down into /usr/include/ (with the necessary exception or two -- see mpi.h, below). -------------------- shmem.h On Y-MP: denali$ find /opt -name shmem.h -print /opt/ctl/craylibs_m/22.214.171.124/include/mpp/mpp/shmem.h /opt/ctl/craylibs_m/18.104.22.168/include/mpp/mpp/shmem.h On T3E: yukon$ find /opt -name shmem\*.h -print /opt/ctl/craylibs/188.8.131.52/include/mpp/shmem.h /opt/ctl/craylibs/184.108.40.206/include/mpp/shmem.h The shared memory archive and headers are not considered "system" files, but, rather, part of the programming environment ("product" files). It looks like they've moved (again, an "mpp" subdirectory has fallen out), but this is a transparent change: PE 2.0's environment sets up the paths to these headers for us. -------------------- mpi.h On Y-MP: denali$ find /usr/include -name mpi\*.h -print /usr/include/mpp/mpi.h /usr/include/mpp/mpif.h On T3E: yukon$ find /usr/include -name mpi\*.h -print yukon$ find /opt/ctl -name mpi\*.h -print /opt/ctl/mpt/188.8.131.52/include/mpi.h /opt/ctl/mpt/18.104.22.168/include/mpif.h On the Y-MP, mpi headers were installed in /usr/include/mpp/. On the T3E, mpi is part of the "message passing toolkit," or MPT, which is part of the programming environment. Thus, the mpi headers have moved from /usr/include/mpp/ over to /opt/ctl/. As with shmem.h, the module command sets up the environment so that the programmer doesn't need to worry about the location of these files. Remember to load the MPT though, with this command: module load mpt
This presentation makes the situation seem more confusing than it really is. Except for the mpp system headers the changes should be transparent, and the module command makes it trivial to switch from one version to another.
Our standard advice: 1) Don't use absolute paths to anything. 2) Get comfortable with the "module" command -- it is powerful and easy to use.
For now, the "ascii graphics," dots and words display of system activity, which was available through mppview on the Y-MP is unavailable on the T3E. For users with X displays, "xmppview" is a colorful 3-Dimensional replacement that beckons us to get virtual reality goggles and voyage inside the rotating torus.
Graphics aside, however, the ASCII info you really need is still available on the T3E though good old mppview. "mppview -s queue" tells you what's running and waiting; "mppview -s config" gives PE configuration. For example:
yukon$ mppview -s queue
********** MPP Application Queue Stats ********** Applications Running: 3 UID PPID APID Run Time PEs Base Command ----- ----- ---------- -------- ----- ----- ---------- 162 7838 0x0186dc13 06:12:57 64 0 a.out.64 1235 12886 0x0145f415 00:03:19 11 64 route 1235 12924 0x01459c13 00:00:10 2 75 shmem_wait Applications Queued: 1 UID PPID APID Q Time PEs Command Reason ----- ----- ---------- -------- ----- ---------- ---------- 1235 12909 0x0145bc13 00:02:07 10 iompp ApLimit yukon$ mppview -s queue ********** PE Configuration ********** Total PEs configured: 96 OS PEs configured: 3 LPE# Name MB MHz ----- ---------------- ---- ---- 0x058 ospe_b 128 300 0x059 ospe_c 128 300 0x05f ospe_a 128 300 Command PEs configured: 9 LPE# MB MHz ----- ---- ---- 0x054 128 300 0x055 128 300 0x056 128 300 0x057 128 300 0x05a 128 300 0x05b 128 300 0x05c 128 300 0x05d 128 300 0x05e 128 300 Application PEs configured: 84 Application PE types found: 1 MB MHz #PEs ----- ----- ----- 1) 128 300 84 Application regions configured: 1 Min PEs Max PEs #In Use ------- ------- ------- 1) 2 84 77
T3D/T3E Differences
This will be a semi-regular feature, following the example of the "T3D/YMP Differences" list which appears in earlier issues of the T3D Newsletter. As we write up specific differences between the T3D and T3E, we'll append them to this list for quick reference, but for a general overview available immediately, please see Newsletter #116. Whenever you find something, send it in so we can learn from each others' experience. The current list:
- Some system header files moved (Newsletter #117).
- mppview differences (Newsletter #117).
Quick-Tip Q & A
A: {{ In Cray's Programming Environment 2.0, how can you tell what versions of libraries, compilers, etc... will be used as the current default? }} # ARSC users may run the "PEvers" script. Here some sample output: yukon$ PEvers The following Programming Environment Packages are installed: ============================================================= /opt/ctl/cf90 220.127.116.11 18.104.22.168 The current default version is //opt/ctl/cf90/126.96.36.199. ============================================================= /opt/ctl/CC 188.8.131.52 18.104.22.168 The current default version is //opt/ctl/CC/22.214.171.124. ============================================================= /opt/ctl/craytools 126.96.36.199 220.127.116.11 The current default version is //opt/ctl/craytools/126.96.36.199. ============================================================= etc... etc... # The alternative is manually take a peek at the PE2.0 products: ls -l /opt/ctl # Each directory listed is a product name. ls -l /opt/ctl/$PROD # Where $PROD is a product name # In this second listing, each subdirectory is an installed version while # the link identifies the default version. For example: yukon$ ls -l /opt/ctl total 96 drwxr-xr-x 4 bin bin 4096 Apr 1 19:15 CC drwxr-xr-x 3 bin bin 4096 Mar 12 00:41 CCmathlib drwxr-xr-x 3 bin bin 4096 Mar 12 00:44 CCtoollib drwxr-xr-x 6 bin bin 4096 Mar 12 00:13 admin drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 4096 Apr 1 19:15 bin drwxr-xr-x 3 bin bin 4096 Mar 12 00:57 cam drwxr-xr-x 4 bin bin 4096 Apr 1 19:17 cf90 drwxr-xr-x 4 bin bin 4096 Apr 1 19:12 craylibs drwxr-xr-x 4 bin bin 4096 Apr 1 19:22 craytools drwxr-xr-x 3 bin bin 4096 Mar 12 01:23 cvt drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 4096 Apr 1 19:23 doc drwxr-xr-x 3 bin bin 4096 Mar 12 00:13 mpt yukon$ ls -l /opt/ctl/cf90 total 24 drwxr-xr-x 6 bin bin 4096 Mar 12 00:29 22.214.171.124 drwxr-xr-x 6 bin bin 4096 Apr 1 19:17 184.108.40.206 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root bin 22 Apr 1 19:17 cf90 -> /opt/ctl/cf90/220.127.116.11 # This shows that two versions of cf90 are installed: 220.127.116.11 and # 126.96.36.199, and that the default is 188.8.131.52. Q: How can you capture a "man" page without getting all the formatting characters? Say you wanted ASCII text for a newsletter.
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Gulp: Hoffman's net favorable rating among Scozzafava supporters at … -42
posted at 4:15 pm on October 31, 2009 by Allahpundit
A not so minor detail from the crosstabs to this morning's earthquake poll, overlooked by many but not by Nate Silver. The good news? Scozzafava voters dislike the Democrat, giving him a favorable rating of just 19/50.
The bad news? That's actually higher than they rate Hoffman.
Ed argued this morning that Scozzafava's withdrawal is likely to hurt Owens "tremendously" because it frees up a ton of Republican votes. Could be, but how conservative are those votes? Turns out Obama's net favorable rating among Scozzafava loyalists is … +33, with the split almost a perfect mirror image of The One's favorables among Hoffman's supporters:
Silver breaks it down:
The reality is that a lot of Scozzafava's ex-supporters, many of whom don't like either Hoffman or Owens, simply won't vote. And some of them will still wind up casting their ballots for Scozzafava undaunted, as she'll still appear on the ballot and may have made herself something of a sympathetic figure. Certainly, it would seem to help Hoffman if Scozzafava decided to endorse him — but only 15 percent of Scozzafava's voters had a favorable view of Hoffman, so they aren't going to come over easily, if at all…
If I had to guess, I'd think that of Scozzafava's support, one-quarter of people don't vote, one-quarter vote for Scozzafava anyway, 30 percent defect to Hoffman and 20 percent defect to Owens. Extrapolating from the morning's Siena poll, that would produce a result of Hoffman 43, Owens 42, Scozzafava 5, with 10 percent of the voters still up for grabs.
To no one's surprise, her union endorsements are already peeling off to Owens, and Dave Weigel notes that the eleventh-hour nature of her withdrawal means that plenty of absentee ballots that have already been mailed will end up on the books for Team Dede. Exit question: Aside from a thumbs up from Scozzafava herself, what hope does Hoffman have to make a dent in those favorable numbers in the next 72 hours? Every big GOP booster helps, sure, but more than anything he needs endorsements from big-name centrist Republicans to send the message that party trumps all in a two-man race with a Democrat (a highly ironic argument for DH to be making, needless to day). Help us, Olympia Snowe, you're our only hope!
Update: At long, long last, Huckabee finally makes his move. Does he still count as a centrist?
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If her supporters are peeling off to Owens, and Owens wins, then this district isn't as Republican as we've been told. RINO, yes. Republican, no.
ncborn on October 31, 2009 at 4:20 PM
..so, if the "crosstabs" are to be believed, then how does one account for the fact that it was her fade in the Siena poll that caused her to quit?
Try this on for size, AP. Your cohort, EM, posted this earlier:
Update: I had neglected to review the poll in much detail, but I suspect that Scozzafava's withdrawal (or suspension, more accurately, since her name will stay on the ballot) hurts Bob Owens tremendously. According to the poll, Hoffman had attracted 50% of the Republican vote, while Owens had 2/3rds of the Democrats. Hoffman leads Owens among independents, 40%-35%, and the remaining 15% supporting Scozzafava will almost certainly break more towards Hoffman than Owens. Owens will likely get more of Scozzafava's Democratic supporters, but she only had 11%, while 14% have already gone to Hoffman. Hoffman and Owens had a near-even split of the opposition in Scozzafava's regional stronghold of Jefferson/Lewis/St. Lawrence counties, but I'd be surprised if Hoffman didn't pick up more in those areas of disaffected Scozzafava voters, too.


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I was expecting more when we arrived. I read the comments from two years ago and was expecting what they had written/ experienced. The flat was pretty dirty (especially the kitchen), very old, and the family upstairs were pretty noisy in the mornings.
I didn't mind the flat, but my family complained the entire time.
We had a great stay at that beautyful appartment in amazing Brooklyn! We really can recommend it. Thank you very much for everything, Karen.
Nice apartment, a bit further from Manhattan but subway 10-minute walk. Neighborhood is getting used to but does not feel unsafe. David and Karen are nice helpful people.
Leuk appartement, wel wat verder van Manhattan maar metro op 10 minuten lopen. Buurt is even wennen maar geeft geen onveilig gevoel. David en Karen zijn aardige behulpzame mensen.
We spent one week at the appartment and had a very good time. The flat is close to the Kingston Ave subway station. Everything was working well including the wifi. Karen took care whenever we needed something. We can strongly recommend the flat.
Karen and her husband were very nice hosts. On the day of our arrival, Karen did show us arround and gave us some great informations about Brooklyn. The location of the flat was fine, took about 10 min from the subway station Kingston Ave to go to the flat. The area arround provides all you need, supermarkt, diners, some small corner stores etc. Would recommend it!
Accommodation was very clean, very complete, nearby local transportation. lively neighbourhood, we felt very safe walking around in this area. Host Karen was very friendly and helpful, she told us a lot of inside information about Brooklyn, she was in the appartment when we arrived and was also there when we left, we did appreciate this very much.
So you have to experience New York. The city is not only Times Square and Broadway or the MOMA is Brooklyn, between ordinary people. This apartment is spacious, clean and with character. The ideal base to explore the city really see and experience!
Zo moet je New York beleven. De stad is niet alleen Times Square of Broadway of MOMA het is ook Brooklyn, tussen de gewone mensen. Dit appartement is ruim, schoon en met karakter. De ideale uitvalsbasis om de stad echt te zien en te ervaren!
We really enjoyed our stay in Karen's appartment. The place was clena, close to the subway and safe. Karen and David were very helpful and kind. We look forward to coming back again.
We've been very good at Karen's apartment. It has space and is well equipped for a week. It's a little far out but with the metro no problem to get. Karen and her husband are very friendly and helped us in all questions we had.
Hemos estado muy bien en el apartamento de Karen. Tiene espacio y esta bien equipado para pasar una semana. Esta un poco lejos del centro pero con el metro no hay problema para llegar. Karen y su marido son muy amables y nos han ayudado en todas las dudas que hemos tenido.
We had a wonderful stay in Karen's and David's apartment in Brooklyn.
The place is large, comfortable and quiet. The area is very safe and pleasant.
It was our first trip to NYC ; discovering this amazing and fascinating city and having in addition the possibility to live in a such a nice place made this stay absolutely perfect.
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Bobbi Kristina Was FOUND USING DRUGS After Whitney Houston's Funeral! [SOURCES CONFIRMED]
Kristina's family didn't find her until Sunday morning, just before they were to leave for Whitney's burial, the sources added.
Cissy and others won't admit out loud that Bobbi Kristina "has a drug problem," said the friend. "But they know it and have been trying to keep her straight even before Whitney passed. But losing your mother and the life you're accustomed to all in one day is enough to send anybody off the deep end."
"Everyone was freaking out and calling Bobbi Kristina's cell," one source, a longtime family friend told The Daily Beast, the website for Newsweek magazine. "It was so much commotion and activity after the funeral that Bobbi Kristina just slipped away. Ms. Cissy was beside herself."
A spokesperson tried to downplay the situation, and said the teen isn't on drugs.
"There was some confusion about Bobbi Kristina's whereabouts last night for a short time, but she's OK," a Houston family spokesperson said. "She needed some time alone. She is going through a very hard time as you can expect."
This isn't the first time there have been concerns about Bobbi Kristina's drug use.Nearly a year ago that she was photographed snorting cocaine.
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Everyone that can go through all the farm needed to finish the quest will probably gain a Legendary.
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Until now, when a player thought he finished the content (whatever that means for him), he would unsuscribe until next patch.
The legendary quest introduced a farm that garantees that you got a really uber item at the end.
If you remove carrot, especially at the end of the expansion, by gating the legendary to be obtainable only by normal/heroic raiders, you ruin LFR people sense of progression.
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Maybe I'm obsessed, but I don't think so...
Original post made by fabravo, another community, on Feb 2, 2007
Unless you have been living under a rock you know about the explosion of gas and electric 'hybrid' cars coming on the market. Of all the cars like this, it seems like the Prius is the most purchased, at least on the San Francisco Peninsula.
Here's an example of what I am talking about. About two weeks ago, I took a ride with two co-workers (in one of their Prius -- or Prii -- There is some debate on the plural version of Prius: Web Link) from our offices in downtown Palo Alto to the California Avenue area. This is about a two mile, four minute drive. Along this ride, we passed at least six Prius, not counting the one that was parked in the garage of our building that belonged to the other co-worker!
I've noticed this more and more as I have driven around the Bay Area, so I told my wife about this. She said she hadn't noticed it too much but once I told her, she really started noticing the same thing I did!
Here's another example... On Wednesday afternoon, I drove from Palo Alto to the coast and back home. I started counting Prius as I drove. Before I even left the city limits of Palo Alto, I was up to 10. I started keeping tally on a piece of paper not to loose count. By the time I arrived home that evening, I was well over 30!
So, what is it about these things? They aren't cheap (about $30k with all the fixings). Is it the mileage? The 'green' aspect? I'm very curious.
Comments (22)
a resident of Community Center
on Feb 2, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Within 2 blocks of our home are 8 Priuses and a couple of Honda or Lexus Hybrids.
I was on a business trip to Chicago and NYC about a year ago, and I saw exactly one on that trip. I actually saw one in China last summer, where they are manufactured, but I think they are all exported, so that was a real anomoly.
There is more than a grain of truth that what goes on in this town often is a leading indicator of what will eventually occur elsewhere. The downside to that is that sometimes what we see and think here is not necessarily shared elsewhere, and there can be a disconnect in what we locals view as the way things are, and how they are viewed in other places.
For us, yesterday's "news" is not yet tomorrow's headline for other parts. That is neither good nor bad, but certainly is what I have observed and experienced.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Feb 2, 2007 at 3:06 pm
I am amazed that you have noticed them. They are so quiet that they often sneak up on me and give me quite a fright, or alternatively start moving without any noise. I think that they should be somewhat noisier (seriously). One day there will be a serious accident because someone (perhaps a blind person) gets in the way of one of these quiet cars.
a resident of Green Acres
on Feb 2, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Certain hybrids are allowed to travel in the car-pool lane on major local highways. That is the one of the big draws. The 'green' factor is cool, apparently. Hybrids get better gas mileage, because (largely) of regenerative braking.
Plug-in hybrids will be the next version. Their gas mileage will be even higher. However, since energy is neither created nor destroyed, the potentially huge new demand for electrcity will need to be addressed. There is no free lunch.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Feb 2, 2007 at 5:18 pm
I travel a great deal and, without doing any actual measurement, am fairly sure that Palo Alto has the highest concentration of hybrid cars on the planet.
I was in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area recently, visiting some friends who are very well-off and live in an incredibly affluent gated community. I saw zero hybrids there. In my four days in the area, I saw all of one on the road, and I spent most of my four days driving around.
I think that as Palo Altans replace older cars, they are choosing hybrids instead of the usual gas-only cars. That's what happened in my household. I have another car about to go to that big parking log in the sky, and I will replace it with a hybrid as well.
Yes, the tax breaks are nice, and so is driving solo in the carpool lane. But my decision took in more factors than that, including trying to be less of a contributor to pollution.
Yes, hybrids are more expensive than gas-only cars. But I felt I would rather send some money to a smart engineer than to a bunch of religious fanatics. I doubt I am alone in supporting engineering over terrorism.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Feb 3, 2007 at 7:17 am
You seem to have what is called "Prius Eyes Syndrome". If you have it in both eyes it is called "Prii Eyes Syndrome".
When you are in the throws of this next time (counting) you should count the prius and the total number of cars that pass. Then find the percentage of Prius vis-a-vis All Cars.
Doing so will most certainly lead to a cure. If not, try alternative medicine. If not, do the same count for honda civics, then write a book.
a resident of Midtown
on Feb 3, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Hybrides are neat. A hybred with a constant speed diesel would be neater. A plug-in hybred wih constant speed bio diesel would give you bragging rights foe a while. A plug-in hybred with constant speed bio diesel and an inverter to serve as an emergency generator for your house and you would need to take pills to erase smug lines.
a resident of Green Acres
on Feb 3, 2007 at 7:49 pm
W. Wallis, the problem with internal combution engines is that they produce air pollutants, because they compress air at high temperature. I think a better ideal example would be a hydrogen fuel cell engine (which could also be use as a generator in emergencies). That is future technology, but we already know about gas turbines (Andy Granatelli won an Indy 500 using one, before it got banned, because it was too efficient). Why not a hydrogen tubine hybrid car? It would be very low on emissions and would leave no carbon footprint, assuming that the electricity to produce the hydrogen was generated by wind or solar or nuclear.
a resident of Midtown
on Feb 3, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Granitalli's turbine was banned because It could not be limited in horsepower as readily as an internal combustion engine, and Indy limits all engines to make a race of it. Turbines are seldom as efficient as internal combustion engines as Chrysler found out when they ran some turbine cars. The problem is the need to reclaim exhaust heat that requires massive heat exchangers.
There are no hydrogen wells, and the ways to generate hydrogen are energy hogs and/or pollution creators.
a resident of another community
on Feb 4, 2007 at 7:45 am
Syndrom Analysis, I think that the actual percentage vs. all other cars is probably very small, but the point that I was trying to make is that if you pick ANY other make and model of car, you will not see as many on the road as you do of the Toyota Prius.
It sort of reminds me of the mid-1990s when there seemed to be a lot of Ford Taurus on the road, or Honda Civics before that.
a resident of Green Acres
on Feb 4, 2007 at 3:33 pm
W. Wallis, gas turbines, as a I remember, are very efficient at high RPM. They are also compact, with more horsepower per unit weight. I thought that the main issue with them, with respect to cars, is that they are not good in the variable power cycle. That is why I suggested that the turbine be combined with electical drive motors and batteries (hybrids). When the tubine is needed, it could be maintained at high RPM.
I thought that Chrysler got out of the game for financial reasons, not engineering reasons. However, you may know more about it than me.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Feb 5, 2007 at 10:22 am
Yes, yes, all good points. But the question remains: Who Killed the Electric Car?
Web Link
a resident of Green Acres
on Feb 5, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Insight, I believe the all electric car was killed off by lack of actual demand. As I recall, there were many promised lease contracts, but when it came time to put the money on the line, there were very few contracts signed. Correct me if I am wrong. The few owners of the AEV were mostly strong supporters of it. However, there was not a critical mass to keep it going. I think it provided some good research opportunities for GM, like regenerative braking. That is a good thing.
The problem with electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles is that they require electricty from the grid. Where will this electrcity come from, if such vehcicle really take off? Many electric vehicle enthusiasts get really excited, because they think they can just plug it in at night, then go on their merry way. They are somewhat like city kids who think milk comes from cartons.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Feb 5, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Well, no, I think its not that simplistic
The theory with that you can recharge the plug-in with greener sources, so is the eletric source or a prius gas engine cleaner.
So I suppose that depends on the source of the electric. If I use
solar panels on my roof top for example, is that cleaner than the prius gas engine?
So can one get a solar panel that is built clean enough to justify that type of a set up?
Can any style plants be filtered better than a car engine for the same amount of energy?
If its just an ecomonic question, not a green house gas question. There is evidence that a mile by electricity in a plug-in prius can be done more cheaply than a mile by a non-plugin prius.
a resident of Midtown
on Feb 5, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Come up with a turbine heat exchanger with a 90% efficiency, a weight of 10 pounds and a pressure drop under 0.05" water and collect your fortune. Chrysler dropped the turbine because of lousy efficience and worse acceleration. For efficiency the small high speed diesel in unbeatable by any availabl engine.
a resident of Green Acres
on Feb 5, 2007 at 7:41 pm
RS, Solar panels don't work at night, so you will need to charge your car during the day. Alternatively, you can pump back electrons into the grid during the day and extract them back during the night. However, the real question is how many square feet of solar panel is necessary to charge an electic vehicle battery under standard conditions.
For the sake of simplicity, I am ignoring all energy costs associated with actual manufacture and installation of any given system. However, the carbon footprint is not the same across systems. Only wind, hydro, solar and nuclear get around that problem, in terms of electicity generation.
a resident of Green Acres
on Feb 5, 2007 at 8:07 pm
W.Wallis, my memory of the Chrysler gas turbine was that it was being driven incorrectly by their beta testers. I think it had to do with the drivers allowing the tubine to drop down to low RPMs. If the RPMs are kept up, there are very few engines tha can beat the gas turbine for acceleration. It was a long time ago, so my memory is a little foggy, but I think Chrysler was about to go into production with the gas tubine engine, before it ran into financial difficulties.
I'm not sure that heat removal is still a big issue, although it used to be considered one. I have heard that new materials and designs seem to be able to overcome the problem.
High speed diesel is, indeed very efficient, but it still is carbon-based. I am trying to think about a low carbon footprint engine. I think the gas turbines are very efficient, if they are kept at high RPM. They also nearly eliminate the nitrous oxide pollution problem that is inherent with the piston engine. If a gas turbine is run with hydrogen it could, theoretically, eliminate both the carbon footprint and nitrous oxide issues.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Feb 5, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Yes, if one were to do this with solar, using the grid to "store" the electricity would be the way to go. Right now, I just decrease the gas usage of my car by riding my bike as much as I can. Cheaper than a hybrid replacement and healthier for me.
a resident of Midtown
on Feb 6, 2007 at 7:22 am
The issue is heat exchange, not heat removal. Heat in the exhaust is waste, so exhaust gas heat needs to be transfered to the incoming air. And you are wrong about Chrysler. Check Tom McCahill's test if you can find it.
a resident of Green Acres
on Feb 6, 2007 at 4:08 pm
W. Wallis, I thought the heat exhchage issue was at least partially solved by the variable recuperator, which injects hot exhaust gas back to the fresh air compression phase. Is that what you are talking about, in terms of limitations?
I will try to find the real story about Chrysler... I may have forgotten the details.
a resident of Green Acres
on Feb 6, 2007 at 5:11 pm
W. Wallis, I found the following link that gives an overview of the Chrysler experience with the gas turbine engine:
Web Link
The bottom line seems to be the following quote, although the entire article should be read for context.
"Immediately after this massive experiment, Chrysler sought earnestly to put a turbine car into production. "We had the tooling," recounts Huebner: "had bought the tools and laid out the production line for a much larger run of vehicles. Those would have appeared as 1966 models. So it became a serious project. Very serious, and it remained serious through 1973 and '74. There were still plans to bring out a limited production run of vehicles. The NOx problem had been put to rest, and the production vehicles would have been successful. The problem was, though, that Chrysler Corp. went sort of broke at that point. The money ran out."
a resident of Midtown
on Feb 10, 2007 at 7:40 pm
The article pretty well confirms my [and Tom McCahill's] opinion.
When the 727 first came out, there were a few crashes until the pilots learned to spool up in the landing pattern. A constant speed turbine with an extremely good heat exchanger, driving a generator, might work. Direct drive, no way Jose.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 9, 2007 at 10:12 pm
fabravo asked: "Is it the mileage?"
I have a Prius. On a good day, I get about 54 MPG. On an average day, I get about 49 MPG. I get about 400 miles per tank.
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Hematocrit (he-MAT-uh-krit) is the proportion of your total blood volume that is composed of red blood cells. A hematocrit (Hct) test indicates whether you have too few or too many red blood cells — conditions that can occur as the result of certain diseases. Red blood cells, or erythrocytes (uh-RITH-roe-sites), transport oxygen throughout your body.
A hematocrit test is done using a sample of your blood. A lab technician puts the sample in a device called a centrifuge that spins the blood very quickly in a test tube. This motion separates your blood into three parts: the fluid component (plasma), red blood cells and other blood cells. When the blood is separated, the technician can determine what proportion of the cells are red blood cells. Hematocrit is also called packed-cell volume (PCV).
A hemoglobin test measures the amount of hemoglobin in your blood.
Hemoglobin is a protein in your red blood cells that carries oxygen to your body's organs and tissues and transports carbon dioxide from your organs and tissues back to your lungs.
If a hemoglobin test reveals that your hemoglobin level is lower than normal, it means you have a low red blood cell count (anemia). Anemia can have many different causes, including vitamin deficiencies, bleeding and chronic diseases.
If a hemoglobin test shows a higher than normal level, there are several potential causes — the blood disorder polycythemia vera, living at a high altitude, smoking, dehydration, burns and excessive vomiting.
A prothrombin time test measures how quickly your blood clots. Sometimes called a pro time test or PT test, a prothrombin time test uses a sample of your blood.
Prothrombin is a protein produced by your liver that helps your blood to clot. When you bleed, a series of chemicals (clotting factors) activate in a stepwise fashion. The end result is a clot which stops the bleeding. One step in the process is prothrombin turning into another protein called thrombin. The prothrombin time test measures how well the clotting process works and how long it takes to occur.


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Here are my blocks for Week 31. I'm almost caught up everyone - Yeah!!!
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Here are my blocks for Week 31. I'm almost caught up everyone - Yeah!!!
"You have enough quilts made when your soul is filled, your creativity satisfied and your fingers just won't work anymore."
Oh wow Jeanie! Your just gallopin' right along there, aren't ya? Another pair o' beautiful blocks.
My initials are BB, so dublb is double B.
Love both blocks. Great fussy cutting on the NC block.
Imagine all the people living life in peace...(John Lennon 1940-1980)
Jeanie, your NC block is so peaceful with the color combinations. Both blocks are well done.
Jeanie--wow you are moving along on your blocks! Has to be a great feeling. Two more fun blocks.
Love the horse placement in the NC block. The simpler NDN will be a wonderful block to put next to a busier one. Great job of catching up!
Don't worry spider.
I keep house
I donate quilts to the AAQI.
Next Door Neighbor...this block was my last to finish. On one section I mixed up the middle colors and of course didn't realize it until I had added the other 3 fabrics and on PP'ing you can just take off the ones you mix up so....I had to take it all apart. Then I couldn't find a green triangle, cut another one, then realized I had written the wrong color in the wrong space so apart that came (triangle found)...let's just say I was ready for a long break after this one...it wasn't even that hard!! Just user error!
And now a touch of green in your quilt--You'll probably hate this block because of all the troubles you had with but you will remember it!!
Don't worry spider.
I keep house
I donate quilts to the AAQI.
Ahhhh, I think it's beautiful. Ya made great progress at your retreat.
My initials are BB, so dublb is double B.
NC Beauty...the pp templates are the same as the original so I got a square in the middle.


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blah. The weekend was interesting. This is a placeholder for when I get the time and energy to write about it.
I have become worn...and I know I'm too young for this to happen. Oh well. I do look forward to school, which is a change from last summer, but I think I've become largely disillusioned with relationships. Not to say that I don't consider them worthwhile, but I think I caused myself an uneccesary quantity of angst concerning myself with them too heavily last year. Ah well.
I had a fairly bad sunburn today and hence didn't feel like
doing anything outside. Plus it was hot. I stayed inside and
watch Brian play FreeCraft (Warcraft II clone - if you
haven't seen it its pretty amazing, I had no clue that they
had a playable game!). I'm going to spend the rest of this
evening trying to get cross-compilation going for HURD so I
can finish porting GNOME to it. Wheee!
Maybe I'll write some and forget to go to sleep....but probably not. That made me a wreck last week.
The long and short is that I've recently become acutely aware of all his failings and idiosynchratic behavior. Maybe you're protected from seeing a lot of this as a child, but it has begun to bother me immensely (probably because I fear seeing it in myself). Comments that others have had the grace to make to me (if nobody tells me its hard to change....) I see applying 10x to him. So what's happened is that I have grown immensely over the past year being young and malleable while he has staid set in his ways, of course. Which means that I have trouble just accepting all the things that I've tried to prune from myself that I see in him. Maybe this is good, because it suggests that I've grown somewhat myself....
#$%&**!!!! I'm sooooo tired of the symoblic link code. Gnome-VFS is incredibly imalleable in some ways, and I'm having to deal with all of them it seems :-) Its like I do one thing and the library just slaps me back. I'm making progress but its tedious and slow. In other fronts I did some trivial work that enabled the simple search bar in Nautilus. Hopefully when the symbolic link stuff is off my plate I'll take a crack at writing the unescape/escape code in Nautilus once and for all - just put that stuff to rest! I like that sort of coding because I tend to be working in environments where I can just write code - the interfaces to the functions are very well defined and narrow. I like architecture better, but if I'm just going to code this is what I want to do.
In other news, I'll now be moving into spending most of my time labouring over purify. I hate C. Its final. It seems ironic that the person most supportive of garbage collection and not having to do memory management will be tasked with cleaning up the memory leaks ;-) Of course, I knew this would be coming when I signed on but that doesn't make it any more fun now that its hapenning. The upside to this is that I hope to drastically improve my ability to read other's code. I have oft respected that in Darin and Pavel (and Maciej to a lesser extent, it probably develops with years in the field) and I hope to develop some of that in myself.<shrug>
Harumph! Advogato seems to have decided it didn't want to post this diary entry. Thanks, it was a long one that took a while to write.
Ah... It has been far too long. :-) I'm not entirely
disillusioned with the art of the public diary, though I
have realized that I must compensate for the lack of
physical and description and life-story narration with more
of the ecletic jumble contending with reality for my mind in
fragile equilibrium. Oh yes! I am indeed teetering on the
edge of insanity.
And in the land of dark hackery I have little of note to report, being caught in the doldrums of bug fixing. Upon the distant horizon I see hopes of spending meager amounts of time on a drag bar (e.g. an alternative to cut-n-paste), but we shall have to see. A lot of what I am doing is writing testing tools to verify others', erm, less than perfect implementations. Not the most terribly exciting stuff in the world, but it does engage my time :-)
This was a while back, but it does have some reflection on
directions my life may be heading in the near future. I
talked with Rebecka Schulman (sp?) for quite a while one
night while we both worked late at Eazel. It was somewhat
disheartening for I found that she has shockingly similar
interests to mine...but developed several more years
(e.g. I
am at the beginning of my undergraduate experience, and she
has already done graduate studies for a while). So the more
I discovered similar interests and goals the more I became
disheartened by her apparent disillisionment with much of
computer science. This is not to say that I was merely
depressed by her lack of enthusiasm, because she is doing
many very interesting things with Medusa in great earnest.
Rather her perspectives as somebody who has sampled my
dreams already was worrisome - simply because it robbed me
of some measure of foolish idealism. The issues she raised I
have already heard, they are obvious. But hearing "myself"
in a sense uttering them, or rather somebody who I sense
would have similar views as myself with a great deal more
experience (eg Rebecka), I was forced to actually consider
them, and I found much of it to be true.
Computers are a rather trivial pursuit. If you are not doing
something with them that makes them work towards other more
worthy ends - you must acknowledge that what you are doing
with your life is playing. That is not necessarily a bad
thing, but in my particular case it is difficult to accept.
I think this may mean that I need to find out why I'm doing
what I'm doing. Part of it...is because I do derive pleasure
out of architecting elegant solutions, yes. But is immediate
pleasure sufficient impetus to purse something as my life? I
don't know, but I think not. So now I am left with either
attempting to deduce a meaningful rational for pursuing
computer science theory, or I must supplement it with other
pursuits...or I must shallow myself and accept it as is. I
doubt I can do the latter, or rather I wish not to and so
choose not to consider it a viable option.
Being therefore disillusioned concerning the nature of computers by talking too much with Rebecka...I have decided to pursue other venues of expression and general temporal consumption. Perhaps the most easily doable for personal edification is to write. Now I have engaged myself quite thorougly this summer in writing poetry, but as I am not exactly an epic poet :-)... this is a disjunctious process. So I have the grain of a novel and intend to start work on it. It is rather frustrating for beautiful sections of writing pass fleetingly through my mind as I work upon the mechanisms of the world itself...frustrating because I rather suspect myself to be at a loss for such passages once I apply myself to the pen (I don't much relish writing fiction at a computer for some odd reason, yes I know its silly but...I am a beast of whimsy and it makes me feel more, oh I don't know, more...poetic? to write in such a primitive fashion :-).
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