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Researching biographical information on a photographer uses all the same basic processes as genealogical research on a family member. If you do not already know how to do that, find a good book on introductory genealogy. Skip all that 'start with yourself' stuff -- good advice for genealogists but not applicable to researching strangers.
Hopefully you have the photographer's name from the case, card mount or image itself. Unfortunately, it is nearly impossible to identify a photographer for an image if is unmarked. Sometimes, quite rarely, studio props or background features can be used to assign an unmarked image to a particular photographer. Mostly, we need to rely on photographer imprints, which occasionally can be found on the mats or cases for cased images, or may be recorded behind or on back of the image. With card mounted images the situation is reversed, and more often than not we will find an imprint on the front or back of the card that tells us who took the picture. Or does it? If the photo was taken in a studio large enough to employ more than one photographer, it will almost always have the name of the owner or principal photographer, though others may have actually taken the image. We will cover that situation in further detail in the section on identifying studios.
In most cases, the photographer's imprint includes not only the name of the photographer, but any studio name, and the location of the studio. If you are lucky, the location will include an exact street address, though for small towns it usually just lists the town. The exact street address is an important clue if you can find it, because many times a photographer moved studio locations over the course of their career, and knowing which one the photo was taken at can narrow the possible date range.
If a photograph only lists the photographer's surname -- which is often the case -- it is important to look for other clues. Again, the street address may help identify the correct person. In small towns, there was often only one person with a particular surname who ever operated a photo studio. Even an unusual surname in a small town is no guarantee, however -- photographers often taught other family members the trade, bringing siblings, spouses and offspring into the business.
One often overlooked clue to identifying the correct individual is found on cards with monograms. Use of monograms was very popular for a while in the 1880s and 1890s, and many cards have them. It can be difficult to decipher the tangled letters, and harder yet to get them in the right order -- but a couple simple rules of thumb may help. Since you usually have the surname, it is typically an easy matter to pick out that initial. Being the most important, it is often larger or darker than the other letters. Most monograms have two more letters, for the first name and middle initial, though some only have one, while others have three or even more. Partnerships usually only use the surname initials from each partner, and the ampersand sign. If the monogram is correct (most are, but a few ignore the rules) the first name initial will be higher or to the left of the middle name initial. If they are intertwined, the highest or left-most swirl or line from the character should be a bit beyond that of the middle initial.
Armed with the name of the photographer, and any other details you can derive from the photograph, you want to now compile as complete a biography of that person as possible. If there were other photographers available in the area at the time, you will want to know why your subject chose to patronize that particular photographer. Did they share ethnic background? Were they residents of the same part of town -- at the time of the photograph or some earlier time? Did they belong to the same church or fraternal organization? Such parallels enrich your understanding of the photograph and its associated agents.
Before we discuss specific record sources, let me add a few notes about research in general, for those of you have not had extensive experience in historical research. First, be very thorough in your note taking. Record everything that may be of interest later, even if you do not yet see a connection. Always record the source details for any note you make -- you may want to reference it later when someone asks how you know that fact -- or you may need to go back to the source yourself because it suddenly became very relevant due to a reference elsewhere.
No source is perfectly accurate. There are mistakes in spelling, names switched between lines, dates with the wrong year (yeah, like you never wrote the previous year when making out a check in January?). Many errors arise from transcription errors, every time a record gets copied, the chances of mistakes creeping in goes up. Most records, even 'original' records, are actually second-hand copies -- the census taker recorded information in a field book, and later copied it to that sheet you see in microfilm or online. Preachers went to homes to perform marriages and wrote down the details on whatever was handy, then copied the information into their parish register. Books or other printed material is less accurate than the records they were derived from -- how could it be otherwise? Nobody is perfect, and any substantial work will contain some mistakes. Always check the original sources if that is possible, but even they must be viewed with a critical eye.
You can never know anything 100% sure, but with the weight of independent sources you can be 98% or 99% sure of some things, and other things can seem 'probable' or 'most likely'. You can be 'fairly sure' and need to be satisfied with that, but not until you are confident you have exhausted the available sources of information on the subject.
Research has been greatly enhanced by the internet, but remember that not 'everything' is available online (yet?). If you can visit the locality or localities where the person lived and worked, local libraries, archives and historical museums may have additional information. Also check the National Register of Historic places for buildings where the photographer lived or had studios -- if they still exist, they may be listed, and there could be additional information available (beyond basic details which you will find online).
Now, as regards specific sources for researching photographers. I always begin with the ClassyArts.com database of course. More likely than not I will find some clues there (and as the database continues to grow, I hope I can change that to 'almost always'). Next, I turn to census records -- those are fully indexed (of course I subscribe to a data service for that) -- though the indexes are rife with errors, and the original records have many mistakes too. It is still a good starting place, to get some general background details, and clues for further research. It can be very difficult finding people with very common names, but if you narrow it to the specific location where the photo was taken, it is usually possible to track down at least one reference. Censuses from 1850 to 1930 are available in the USA and include the person's occupation, which is important for distinguishing the correct entry for our photographers. Earlier censuses are available, but are head of household only, and do not include occupations, so are only useful if you already have a specific location, or the name is uncommon.
If you locate the person in the census records, then you have an approximate year of birth and location of birth, perhaps spouse's name or other relatives. That gives you an 'earliest' date for photographic activity (birth + 16 yrs), latest likely date for activity (birth + 80). If the person was active in a city, I next check any city directories that are available for the years between those limits. Be sure to check both individual listings and the photographers in the business directory, if available.
When looking at census records for photographers, be sure to check the entire nuclear family -- especially the ages and birthplaces. Photographers often moved, and the names and ages of children can tell us where that photographer was between censuses. Not only does that limit the photographer's activity date at any one location, but it tells us how stable or mobile that particular photographer was. The more mobile the photographer, the more telling an imprint with a specific address can be.
Was the U.S. photographer male and born between 1820 and 1850? It does not matter if his birthplace was in the USA or not, if he was living here in the early 1860s he may have served in the military during the Civil War. Search those records, and if you find that he did serve, check for records on the unit he served with, and especially, any diaries or published reminiscences for that unit.
Next, expand the search to more general resources based on what information you have to date. If you find a spouse listed in the census, look for a marriage record. If there were children, look for their birth certificates. Always check the immigration and emigration records (ship lists) -- the person may have been born, lived and died in one state, but still took a trip to Europe that is evident in the records. If the person was not born in the USA, look for naturalization papers.
For each locality you can associate with the person, look for church records, newspapers, local or state censuses, local histories, business and partnership records, tax records, and similar resources. If you know when the person moved from one location to another, you can limit your search to a specific span -- but it is better to search outside that time-span as well. A person may move, and only sell property at the old location years later. Or close relatives may remain in the old locality and provide information relevant to the subject.
Finally, when as many primary and secondary resources as I have available have been searched in detail, I turn to the internet and use the search engines and image search engines to look for more information and examples of the photographer's work. Keywords are provided by all of the localities identified with that person, the photographer's name, any studio names and known associates, in various combinations. I don't feel bad that I didn't begin with this search if I find a complete biographical sketch at this stage -- the information I have independently accumulated can be compared to that biography to judge its accuracy, and to confirm (or throw into question) my own research.
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Since 2002 when they officially became a "sanctuary" for MARINE MAMMALS, the waters of French Polynesia have been home to over twenty species of these animals. In this vast ocean, whales and dolphins roam in total freedom, preserved and protected.
First, you should be reminded that WHALES and DOLPHINS are part of the cetacean species, a term derived from the Greek "ketos", meaning "big fish".
But despite the origin of their name, whales are mammals! Thus, they breastfeed their young. Some species even have a few hairs left over from their terrestrial ancestors. WHALES and DOLPHINS are born, live and die in the water. Also note that unlike fish, their caudal fin (flukes) is horizontal. They have one or two vents called blowholes, located at the top of their heads, visible when they come to breathe at the surface. The 90 species of these cetaceans that are known to this day have colonized all the world's oceans, most of the seas and even some rivers. They are divided into two main groups: the Baleen Whales and the Toothed Whales.
The BALEEN WHALES are so named because of suspended horny blades in their upper jaw. These blades act as filters, and let them swallow large amounts of food. These animals, which have two blowholes, are mostly migratory: they migrate between their feeding grounds and their breeding grounds. Six species have been observed in Polynesian waters, most famously, the HUMPBACK WHALE.
Observed in Polynesia between June and November, the HUMPBACK WHALE is named for the small bump on which its dorsal fin is located. Often spectacular, it regularly brings out its flukes above water before diving. Females are larger than males, and can reach 13 to 15 meters in length and weigh up to 40 tons. During their stay in our islands, they give birth and nurse their calves without feeding themselves. They may then lose a third of their weight! Males sing powerful songs, perhaps to mark their territory and attract the females they escort for a few hours or days. Then they leave for the waters of the Antarctic, where the Polynesian whales feed during the austral summer.
The TOOTHED WHALES, which have a single fluke, are well represented in Polynesia. We observe three distinct families: SPERM WHALES, BEAKED WHALES and even DOLPHINS. In English all cetaceans over 4-meter long (including DOLPHINS) and the ELECTRA DOLPHIN are called "WHALES". Observed occasionally in the Polynesian waters, SPERM WHALES can measure up 18 meters in length and weigh 50 tons. It is an animal of legend. A pelagic whale, i.e. living in the open sea, it seldom approaches the coast.
The SPERM WHALE is recognizable by its large brown and wrinkled body mass, its huge rectangular head can measure up to a third the size of his body. To feed, it is capable of diving down to depths of 3,000 meters and stays a half hour without breathing! The females and their calves gather in the Polynesian latitudes, while large males travel long distances to feed in the rich waters of the sub-Antarctic and temperate latitudes.
There are two other Polynesian species of SPERM WHALES, present but difficult to observe, the PYGMY SPERM WHALE and the DWARF SPERM WHALE. With a length of 2 to 3.5 meters, they can be seen in calm weather, when they come up to breathe at the surface: they then look like floating tree trunks.
Despite their name, BEAKED WHALES are actually TOOTHED WHALES. Two species are regularly observed in Polynesia, the BLAINVILLE'S BEAKED WHALE and CUVIER'S BEAKED WHALE. Discrete when at the surface and little known, these animals, 4 to 7 meters in length, have a light brown body dotted with scars and topped with a small eccentric dorsal fin. Adult males have two prominent teeth on their lower jaw, the females have none.
Eleven species of DOLPHINS share the waters of the Polynesian archipelagos. Among them, the SHORT-FINNED PILOT WHALE, a big BLACK ROUND-HEADED DOLPHIN usually seen in groups of 40-60 individuals. It can be spotted at the surface with its wide and often crooked dorsal fin. Generally curious about boats, it sometimes even sticks its head above water.
The ELECTRA DOLPHIN or MELON-HEADED WHALE is abundant in the Marquesas where groups of several hundred individuals can be seen near the coast. Recognizable by its dark body, its rounded head and its pointed snout lined with white lips, it is a little-known dolphin.
The BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN is very accessible in the northwest and in the center of the Tuamotu islands, where it dwells around the atolls' coastal fringe, the access to passes and the lagoons.
The ROUGH-TOOTHED DOLPHIN has a dark back, a pinkish-white belly and sides dotted with round spots. Its flattened head and its sharp beak give it a strange look. Demonstrative and often curious around boats, it travels regularly with other species.
The PANTROPICAL SPOTTED DOLPHIN and the SPINNER DOLPHIN are the smallest Polynesian cetaceans. The SPOTTED DOLPHIN is abundant in the Marquesas, but rare in other archipelagos. The LONG-BEAKED SPINNER DOLPHIN is often seen around the Society Islands, where groups of 30-60 individuals come to rest every day around the passes and in the bays and lagoons. Both species are known for their spectacular jumps.
The distribution and the abundance of cetaceans depend on the riches of nutrients in their habitats, the surface of their territory, the depth of the ocean floor and some local characteristics that give a picture of the various presence areas.
Thus, the archipelagos of the Austral and Tuamotu-Gambier islands host HUMPBACK WHALES during their season, and also low densities of SPERM WHALES and BEAKED WHALES. The northwest and the center of the Tuamotu Archipelago have been colonized by BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS, visible near the coast.
The Society Archipelago is home to a good diversity of species with the remarkable presence of SPINNER DOLPHINS, BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS, ELECTRA DOLPHINS, BEAKED WHALES, PILOT WHALES and HUMPBACK WHALES during their season.
In the Marquesas, the very rich waters are sheltering, namely, SPOTTED DOLPHIN, ELECTRA DOLPHINS, BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS and PILOT WHALES. Other species such as RISSO'S DOLPHINS prefer the open ocean and are rarely observed. Finally some, such as KILLER WHALES, FALSE KILLER WHALES or FIN WHALES are seldom seen and/or are seasonal animals.
Strangely, stories about the ancient presence of HUMPBACK WHALES in Polynesian waters are absent. The early whaler boats, which stopped in Tahiti during their long hunting campaigns at sea used to capture large SPERM WHALES in the Marquesas. It is also in the Marquesas that we find ancient myths about hunting DOLPHINS to ride them as a mount. Precious objects made from whales' teeth were once worn by chiefs and their families.
Until the 1970s, on Ua Pou, small species of DOLPHINS (KUMIA or KOHIO) were hunted. As to hunting HUMPBACK WHALES, it developed sporadically in the Austral islands with the arrival of European whalers in the late 19th century. But be reassured, the last whale was killed there in 1957, i.e. over 55 years ago.
Observing CETACEANS in the wild is an unforgettable experience accessible to everyone. In calm weather, it is easy to spot a blow, a whirlpool, as many clues betraying their presence. Since 1992, "whale watching" tours can approach Polynesian CETACEANS in their element. Unfortunately, an excess of whale watching tours can also harm WHALES, as they are a source of disturbance and stress.
It is therefore important to learn about the species encountered, animal behavior and regulations to ensure satisfactory observation and minimum inconvenience. Here are some simple rules: never cut in front of a CETACEAN, obstruct it, circle around it, try to touch it, separate a mother from her calf, shout or bang on the boat. Despite their reputation, do not forget that WHALES and DOLPHINS are wild and powerful animals. Misunderstanding their behavior, activities or social groups structure can result in unpleasant surprises.
The marine mammal sanctuary of Polynesia was officially created on May 13, 2002 through the work of Franco-American marine mammal specialist, Dr. Michael Poole, who for 25 years dedicated his life to the study of Polynesian CETACEANS. This 4.8 million km2 sanctuary is the largest in the world in size in one single ocean! The principle of a Wildlife sanctuary is to preserve the natural life of animal populations, and to allow them to continue to live their lives free from human activities.
This is the same purpose pursued by GEMM (Study Group on Marine Mammals). In this vast sanctuary, unique at the planet's scale, WHALES and DOLPHINS can now move freely, and be protected and respected. This is a true "paradise" for these animals, and a great opportunity for people to come and meet this precious wildlife.

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Airdrie Stud's rock-solid sire Proud Citizen was euthanized June 4 due to complications from laminitis.
Airdrie Stud's rock-solid sire Proud Citizen was euthanized June 4 due to complications from laminitis.
Pacesetter America turned back a mild challenge entering the stretch and scooted clear to win the $200,000 Turnback the Alarm Handicap, snapping a five-race winless streak, Oct. 30 at Belmont Park.
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Trainer Larry Jones who trained Believe You Can, Coup de Grace, Eight Belles, Havre de Grace, Lovely Maria & more in the Aug. 22, 2015 issue of Blood-Horse. view slideshow
Trainer Larry Jones who has trained Believe You Can, Coup de Grace, Eight Belles, Havre de Grace, Lovely Maria & more in the Aug 22, 2015 issue of The Blood-Horse.
Champion Untapable will seek class relief in the $200,000 Shuvee Handicap (gr. III) Aug. 2 at Saratoga Race Course, coming off a five-length loss to Wedding Toast in the June 6 Ogden Phipps Handicap (gr. I) at Belmont Park.
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(1) Eligibility. Graduates of, or current seniors in, accredited undergraduate institutions are eligible to apply for the bonus program so long as they demonstrate outstanding academic achievement by meeting at least one of the following criteria:
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Team has to win remaining games to have postseason shot
Following a 56-50 win over Molalla on Friday, the Madras High School boys basketball team is still in the hunt for a postseason spot.
While they wont be able to catch North Marion for the third spot and an automatic berth, if they run the table the next three games, they could earn one of the last spots based on its power rating.
However, winning all three games remaining is easier said than done, especially since the Buffs play the leagues top two teams this week, La Salle Prep and Gladstone.
Looking at the games we played last time (against La Salle Prep and Gladstone), we were in them late, Madras head coach Allen Hair said. We just have to shoot the ball with some confidence, and I think we can get (to the playoffs) if we can do that.
The Molalla game marked the return of junior forward Brent Sullivan, and Hair said that gave the team a boost not only on the floor, but mentally as well. He has been recovering from a badly sprained ankle, for which he had to wear a walking boot on for a couple weeks. Hair said his 6-foot-7 post looked good in his first action in about three weeks.
He was chomping at the bit to come back; if it was his choice, he would have played Tuesday, Hair said. He gave us some energy and stability down in the block area. It was definitely nice to have him back.
Sullivan scored eight points against the Indians, and helped anchor a rarely used 1-3-1 zone defense by the Buffs. That was one of the big adjustments defensively Hair decided to make to keep Molallas smaller lineup of outside shooters in check.
It frustrated them, Hair said. Our guys got hands in the passing lanes, and we forced them to take some tough shots.
The Buffs held Molalla to 37 percent shooting with the 1-3-1 defense, but on the other side of the ball, Madras dropped jumpers at almost a 60 percent clip.
We had some guys step up and hit shots for us, Hair said. Molalla couldnt focus all of its attention on Jered because our other players were knocking down shots.
While Pichette led the Buffs with 18 points, Reshaun Holliday and Austin Rauschenburg each netted nine. Sullivan followed with eight and Voshaun Bryant chipped in five.
The Buffs will head to Gladstone on Thursday to take on the Gladiators.


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2002 Jeep Liberty has been overheating faster n faster. First it took an hour or so then cool back down, now down to twenty min. The coolant reservoir was bubbling when it gets hot like the water is not allowed to circulate. I have noticed that there is the sound of water by the heater core when you first fire it up. Also I don't know if the thermostat is opening. Fan outside is coming on good. I really don't want to lean to blown head gasket , I also hear a light tick or knocking sound coming out the exhaust which might be believable if the water pump sounding noisy which it is. Just so much at once.
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To start with, the car sat for several months and had a dead battery. I used the bumper key to open the trunk. At this point I thought the handle by the trunk latch was supposed to open the doors so I pulled it. Obviously nothing happened so I continued until I located the actual door release cable. This was all great, I got the battery charged and closed the trunk. Minutes later when getting ready to leave the garage I tried to open the trunk and it would not unlatch. The front of the lid lifted as the motors tried to open it but the latch just wouldn't release. I tried using the bumper key again but this time it did nothing. I disconnected the battery for 30 minutes to reset it but it still will not work.
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That looks great. I love the two-tone USP.
Just got it back - the slide. Not the best pics so far, but good enough to see.
I had it done by Tripp Research. He's done a few guns of mine - he did ruin a 1911. But, all the non stop praise, and my urge to hard chrome this slide made me take another chance.. Probably stupid after that 1 messed up gun.
But this one came out great
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Nobody's going to confuse you with Jack Bauer now.
Funny :P
I don't like all black guns :P
how much for the hard chrome?
From the pic it looks alot like my SS USPc. I wanted an all black gun but they didn't have one, I love the look of my SS but little to flashy for a CCW.
Post a link for him. He might get 20 new guns!
Does he recommend anyone in FL???


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Tag Frid three legges stool #3: Tage Frid Three Legged Stool- Final Episode
I complete the three legged stool. In this episode I glue up the seat and eventually the rest of the stool. I shape the legs, install the wedges in the mortise and tenons, sand and finish the stool. Thanks for the support and kind comments! This was a fun project and satisfying to have completed it. Best RegardsChris http://youtu.be/jhUJkumaA18


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Bastrop, TX is the county seat of Bastrop County. It is about 30 miles southeast of Austin and Main Street has many old-fashioned buildings and stores. Summers here can be brutal, and the average temperature in June is 92, 95 in July, and 97 in August. It's no surprise then that homeowners here count on their AC unit to keep their home and family cool and comfortable all season long. Unfortunately, with these cooling systems running as much as they do during the summer, it's not uncommon for them to experience a lot of wear and tear, and even breakdown occasionally. When this happens in your home, you are going to need to find a dependable, trusted, and experienced ac repair contractor to help you out.
We have a full crew of air conditioner repair professionals who will be able to come to your home on time for your scheduled appointment, and they will quickly diagnose the problem with your unit and provide you with an effective plan of action for getting the situation taken care of quickly. We don't want you and your family to suffer in the miserable Bastrop heat this summer, so at the first sign of a problem, be sure that you give us a call right away. We offer convenient appointment scheduling and services.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, below are some of the common problems that AC units can experience:
1. Refrigerant Leaks: when your AC unit is running low on refrigerant, this could mean that the system is leaking, or it wasn't properly charged. If the problem is a leak, then adding more refrigerant isn't going to be able to take care of the problem. A trained tech from our company will be able to locate the leak, repair it, and then test the unit to be sure that everything is working like it should.
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The Windows API follows no standard, it is itself a de facto standard, and deviations from that standard, even small ones, often cause applications to crash or misbehave in some way.
The question becomes, "How do we ensure compliance with that standard?". The answer is, "By using the API documentation available to us and backing that up with conformance tests." Furthermore, a conformance test suite is the most accurate (if not necessarily the most complete) form of API documentation and can be used to supplement the Windows API documentation.
Writing a conformance test suite for more than 10000 APIs is no small undertaking. Fortunately it can prove very useful to the development of Wine way before it is complete.
The conformance test suite must run on Windows. This is necessary to provide a reasonable way to verify its accuracy. Furthermore the tests must pass successfully on all Windows platforms (tests not relevant to a given platform should be skipped).
A consequence of this is that the test suite will provide a great way to detect variations in the API between different Windows versions. For instance, this can provide insights into the differences between the, often undocumented, Win9x and NT Windows families.
However, one must remember that the goal of Wine is to run Windows applications on Linux, not to be a clone of any specific Windows version. So such variations must only be tested for when relevant to that goal.
Writing conformance tests is also an easy way to discover bugs in Wine. Of course, before fixing the bugs discovered in this way, one must first make sure that the new tests do pass successfully on at least the Wine Test Bot base VMs.
Bugs discovered this way should also be easier to fix. Unlike some mysterious application crashes, when a conformance test fails, the expected behavior and APIs tested for are known thus greatly simplifying the diagnosis.
To detect regressions. Simply running the test suite regularly in Wine turns it into a great tool to detect regressions. When a test fails, one immediately knows what was the expected behavior and which APIs are involved. Thus regressions caught this way should be detected earlier, because it is easy to run all tests on a regular basis, and be easier to fix because of the reduced diagnosis work.
Tests written in advance of the Wine development (possibly even by non Wine developers) can also simplify the work of the future implementer by making it easier for him to check the correctness of his code.
Conformance tests will also come in handy when testing Wine on new (or not as widely used) architectures such as FreeBSD, Solaris x86 or even non-x86 systems. Even when the port does not involve any significant change in the thread management, exception handling or other low-level aspects of Wine, new architectures can expose subtle bugs that can be hard to diagnose when debugging regular (complex) applications.


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March 11, 2011, at approximately 5:15 pm, Baxter County Deputy, David Alkire responded to a call for assistance by Probation and Parole Officers at a residence in the Twin Oaks Trailer Park on Highway 5, just South of Mountain Home. Upon entry of the residence, Officers found two adults and an infant approximately four (4) months old. There was a strong odor of marijuana throughout the residence. During the initial investigation, Officers found prescription medication, Xanax , marijuana and drug paraphernalia. The male subject, 24 year old Jason Biddle, was placed under arrest and transported to the Baxter County Detention Center without incident. A 31 year old female was breast feeding the infant when officers entered the residence. The woman told the Officers she regularly breast fed the child and she admitted to Officers of marijuana use. Officers attempted to contact DHS and ultimately the infant was placed in custody with the Grandmother. The investigation into this incident is continuing with charges possible on the female. Jason Michael Biddle is charged with:Possession of a Controlled Substance, XANAX Class D FelonyPossession of a Controlled Substance, MARIJUANA Class A MisdemeanorPossession of an Instrument of Crime Class A Misdemeanor Jason Biddle is currently being held in the Baxter County Detention Center on Bond of $10,000 pending his appearance in Baxter County Circuit Court on March 17.
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The Open MPI team has been working hard on the version 2 release and it is here!. While Cluster Monkey usually does not track software releases (maybe we should!), this is a significant upgrade to the venerable Open MPI project. The most important aspect of the new release is that it is not ABI compatible with the v1.10 series. That means v1.1 applications will not work with v2.0 of Open MPI. Applications will need to be re-compiled using v2.0.
The Open MPI v2.0 announcement is reproduced below. Thanks and good work Open MPI team!
The Open MPI Team, representing a consortium of research, academic, and industry partners, is pleased to announce the release of Open MPI version 2.0.0.
v2.0.0 is a major new release series containing many new features and bug fixes. As a community, the Open MPI Team is incredibly thankful and appreciative of all the time, effort, and downright hard work contributed by its members and all of its users. Thank you all! We couldn't have done this without you!
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The Ignorance is Bliss Approach To Parallel Computing
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[Note: The following updated article was originally published in Linux Magazine in June 2006 and offers some further thoughts on the concept of dynamic execution.]
In a previous article, I talked about programming large numbers of cluster nodes. By large, I mean somewhere around 10,000. To recap quickly, I pointed out that dependence on large numbers of things increase the chance that one of them will fail. I then proposed that it would be cheaper to develop software that can live with failure than try to engineer hardware redundancy. Finally, I concluded that adapting to failure requires dynamic software. As opposed to statically scheduled programs, dynamic software adapts at run-time. The ultimate goal is to make cluster programming easier: focus more on the problem and less on the minutiae of message passing. (Not that there is anything wrong with message passing or MPI. At some level messages (memory) needs to be transferred between cluster nodes.)
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Apache Hadoop and Spark have received a large amount of attention in recent years. Understanding what Hadoop and Spark bring to the Big Data "revolution" can be difficult because the ecosystem of tools and applications is quite vast, changing, and somewhat convoluted. If one applies Betteridge's Law to the above headline, the answer would certainly be "No" and the mystique of Hadoop, Spark, and Big Data may continue to persist for some time.
Because Cluster Monkey does not like hearing the word "No," we decided to interview our own editor, Douglas Eadline, who has been crushing the notion that Hadoop is difficult and complex by presenting a one day workshop called Apache Hadoop with Spark in One Day. As background, Eadline has, in addition to writing numerous articles and presentations, authored several books and videos on Hadoop and Big Data, his most recent Hadoop 2 Quick-Start Guide is the genesis for the "Hadoop in One Day" concept that continues to intrigue users, administrators, and managers from all sectors of the market.
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For those using Python to calculate asymptotes and other science and mathematical things, Intel ® has added its speedy MKL (Math Kernel Library) to the mix. Called Intel ® Distribution for Python* 2017 Beta, The beta release gives Python a big boost by using MKL and other libraries. From the web page "The Beta product adds new Python packages like scikit-learn, mpi4py, numba, conda, tbb (Python interfaces to Intel Threading Building Blocks) and pyDAAL (Python interfaces to Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library). The Beta also delivers performance improvements for NumPy/SciPy through linking with performance libraries like Intel MKL, Intel Message Passing Interface (Intel MPI), Intel TBB and Intel DAAL."
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You can't always get what you want. But that doesn't stop me from asking. Besides, Buddha's got my back. Here's my HPC wish list.
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Twenty five years ago I wrote a short article in a now defunct parallel computing magazine (Parallelogram) entitled "How Will You Program 1000 Processors?" Back then, it was a good question that had no easy answer. Today, it's still a good question with no easy answer, except now it seems a bit more urgent as we step into the "multi-core" era. Indeed, when I originally wrote the article, using 1,000 processors was a far off, but real possibility. Today, 1,000 processors are a reality for many practitioners of high-performance computing (HPC). And as dual-cores (and now 18-core processors) hit the server room, effectively doubling processor counts, many more people will be joining the 1,000P club very soon.
So let's get adventurous and ask, "How will you program 10,000 processors?" As I realized twenty five years ago, such a question may never really have a complete answer. In the history of computers, no one has ever answered such a question to my liking — even when considering ten processors. Of course, there are plenty of methods and ideas like threads, messages, barrier synchronization, and so on, but when I have to think more about the computer than about my problem, something is wrong.
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Opal-RT eDRIVEsim ExportMotorSolve behavioral model export
The MotorSolve behavioral model export for OPAL-RT eDRIVEsim combines real-time drive testing software technology with electric machine design.
Benefits of the OPAL-RT/Infolytica Solution
Using MotorSolve, the machine designer can export a motor data file compatible with OPAL-RT's software which the control engineer can transfer this data to RT-LAB FPGA simulators.
- Time spent using a real motor bench to test motor controllers could be reduced to a minimum by using a real-time simulator with accurate motor behaviour.
- Control engineers could test their controller with different points of operation or non-ideal zones, such as saturated regime.
- Control engineers could also test faults, such as short or open circuit, that could be damageable on a real motor.
- Time-to-market would be faster, while a new motor design could be validated with a controller before manufacturing.
- Using high-fidelity motor models helps the control engineers simulate complex, non ideal behavior, such as cogging torque, and design a controller to reduce torque ripple.
- Control engineers could simulate the variation in motor inductance at high currents, which greatly affects the torque produced by the motor, and test the controller accordingly.
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Cape Town Minstrel Carnival
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As the southeast breeze kicks up outside Cape Town's Greenpoint Stadium, the sound of strumming banjos and banging drums reaches a crescendo, and thousands of merry minstrels hold onto their multicolored hats. It's the final day of the Cape Town Minstrel Carnival, known more colloquially among "coloured" or mixed-race Capetonians as the "Coon Carnival," and the excitement generated by weeks of parades and months of preparation is building to a climax. Dressed in a dazzling array of shining colors, the "coons"—mostly men but also some women and children--burst spontaneously into song and dance. They croon in the local Afrikaans dialect of "Kaapse taal" (literally, "Cape language"), jump into little Chaplinesque jigs, and pump their parasols to and fro. And in their midst, looking dapper in his sky-blue jacket and with neon-green polka dots painted across his cheeks, is the festival's only white participant: Henry Trotter, age 28, of New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.
"Henry!" shouts a coloured woman wearing a press badge. "There you are!" She gives him a hug and motions to a cameraman, who starts filming. Mr. Trotter strikes a pose and is immediately surrounded by camera-happy comrades from his troupe, most in blackface or in some version thereof, who flash toothless grins and victory signs. Then the troupe's band rumbles past and Mr. Trotter falls into formation with the rest of the minstrels, who gaily shimmy and shuffle their way into the stadium to the rhythm of drums and the flutter of tambourines.
Mr. Trotter, a graduate student in Yale University's African Studies program, first came to Cape Town in 1997, at the end of extensive travels in the eastern and southern regions of the continent. "I was curious about the coloured community here, because it's quite different than what I'd seen in the rest of Africa. Here you have a community basically predicated on the idea that they're mixed, that they're not 'pure' whites or Africans. And even though you have, of course, mixed people everywhere else, you don't find any [mixed] communities necessarily...and you would never find a majority mixed community. But here in Cape Town, you have that. So I wanted to look into it, and see what it was all about."
Three years after his first visit, Mr. Trotter has returned to Cape Town, this time not as just a traveler but as a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar working on an M.A. thesis. He took up residence in the coloured township of Bonteheuwel (bon-teh-HEE-vel) on the Cape Flats and decided to study the ways in which the coloured community remembers the forced removals of the apartheid era. While conducting interviews throughout Cape Town's coloured townships, he began to learn more about the Coon Carnival and was eventually invited to observe a troupe rehearsing. Soon, he found himself becoming more than just an observer.
"They said, 'Well, why don't you just run with us?'" he recalls. Mr. Trotter could not play or sing the Kaapse songs in the troupe's repertoire, but he found a role as a "runner"—one of the dancers who marches behind the band and the main chorus. So after attending a few rehearsals and paying 250 Rand (about $35) for his outfit, Mr. Trotter was officially a member of the Lentegeur Entertainers, named after the Cape Flats neighborhood where most of its members live.
In joining the "coons," Mr. Trotter created a minor sensation throughout this city, which is still deeply divided along racial lines. Few whites, and few blacks for that matter, participate in or attend the Coon Carnival; it is largely a coloured affair. And although a handful of foreign tourists come to watch the troupes parade through the streets, there have been no other foreigners in recent memory who have actually participated. Mr. Trotter also discovered that his participation exposed class divisions within the coloured community itself. Henry's girlfriend, for example, a coloured woman who works for the municipal department of land affairs and aspires to be a lawyer, was mortified when he joined. "She was so against it," laughs Mr. Trotter. "She had never seen the coons in her life. Part of the way to set yourself apart from the working class is to deny interest and participation in the 'coons,' which [are] a celebration of working-class existence, basically. She had a strong aversion to it, and she said, 'it's so local, it's just a bunch of skollies, just a bunch of riff-raff, getting together and jumping up and down."
Mr. Trotter's neighbors in Bonteheuwel, however, and his new friends in the Lentegeur Entertainers, were enthusiastic and encouraging. Of course, the young man had to endure his share of good-natured ribbing. "'Hey, whitey, stay in formation,' they used to say," he recalls with a smile. But his involvement was welcomed and even celebrated by his new friends and neighbors. They were thrilled that someone outside the coloured community had taken an interest in the carnival. The Cape Argus, one of Cape Town's local dailies, was also exultant: "Uncle Sam marches with the minstrels," it declared in a bold headline.
The carnival has its roots in the creole culture that formed at the Cape over hundreds of years from the interaction and intermingling of indigenous African groups, European settlers, Muslim slaves from the Indonesian archipelago, and people from a variety of other backgrounds. Freed slaves in Cape Town developed their own cycle of festivals in December and January, among them the Tweede Nuwe Jaar ("Second New Year"), which is celebrated on January 2nd and is a kind of independence day for the coloured community. When American minstrels arrived at the Cape in the mid-nineteenth century, the styles and sounds of vaudeville were incorporated into local celebrations, and the Coon Carnival was born. The word "coon" was borrowed but its pejorative and racial connotations were ignored, so that it came to refer to a member of a minstrel troupe and nothing more.
Today, the minstrels continue to borrow from a variety of cultural sources. One of this year's favorite troupes, for example, is called the Pennsylvanians; another is known as the Fabulous Mardi Gras. And while the minstrels' repertoire largely consists of folk songs, they also perform Broadway show tunes and dance to hip-hop and Latin tracks as they parade through the streets of the city.
It is perhaps ironic that a festival formed from so many varied and cosmopolitan influences should remain so local in character. Yet this is part of the charm of the Coon Carnival. Each troupe is made up of members from a particular neighborhood of the city, and each is expected to parade and perform for its local community in exchange for booze and tables full of delicious Cape cuisine. Of course, the local character of the carnival also means that the carnival reflects some local problems. Many of the city's gangsters join the minstrel troupes, for instance, and tensions sometimes spill over into violence at the stadium. But rather than exacerbating the problem, the Coon Carnival often provides an opportunity for peace and co-existence within the community. "Look," said one elderly minstrel in the green, yellow, and red of the Elsies River Community Entertainers, waving his arms over a dancing sea of colorful umbrellas. "All the gangsters from the Cape Flats in one place. And no guns. Everybody's happy. It just goes to show you."
Under apartheid, the Coon Carnival faced enormous challenges. Segregation, forced removals, and discrimination made the troupes and their performances more difficult to organize. The government often placed the best stadiums off-limits to the coloured community, and where the carnival was able to perform it had to do so in front of segregated audiences. Now, in the "New South Africa," the government is lending its support to the carnival, and Nelson Mandela himself presided over the carnival's opening in 1996. Academics have begun taking notice as well, with a groundbreaking study of the Coon Carnival being published in 1999 by the French academic Denis-Constant Martin. And with tourism quickly becoming a pillar of the local economy, city officials talk about turning the "Minstrel Carnival" into a celebration that will rival festivals in New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro.
As exciting and ambitious as that may sound, some of the minstrels themselves are apprehensive about opening up the festival to the world. There is a widespread fear that organizing the Coon Carnival to appeal to foreign tourists and commercial sponsors would mean taking it away from the local communities that have kept it alive for over a hundred years, in effect reserving the best seats for tourists just as they were once reserved for whites at the segregated stadiums. And there is an enduring ambivalence in Cape Town about coloured identity and whether it is something that can or should be embraced and celebrated. If Capetonians are unsure about how to respond to a parade of blackface minstrels, the feeling goes, how might the rest of the world react?
Mr. Trotter, for one, has made up his mind: the Coon Carnival is a lot of fun, even if wearing blackface might be seen back home as a provocative act. "I think it would be challenging to explain this to Americans, because we have abandoned these things," he says. "But one group's cultural taboos are another's celebration." In Cape Town, as in other creole cities around the world, it seems that pushing cultural boundaries is what the party's all about after all.
Henry Trotter (middle, back) with members of his troupe, the Lentegeur Entertainers
About the author: Joel Pollak graduated from Harvard University and served as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar in Cape Town in 1999-2000. He stayed in South Africa for many years: as a University of Cape Town student, a freelance journalist, and the head speech writer for South Africa's Democratic Alliance political party. He is now a student at Harvard Law School.


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LYON, France (Reuters Life!) - Richard Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" is a notoriously static opera whose two central characters mostly stand on stage singing for almost four hours.
In a new production at the Opera de Lyon that had its premiere on Saturday, they do it on a set that does the moving for them, and over the course of the evening they and the audience are transported to a Wagnerian heaven.
Director Alex Olle of the Catalan stagecraft-and-spectacle collective "La Fura dels Baus," which leapt to world renown with the opening ceremonies of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and has since branched out into opera, has found a way to give Wagner's famously inert work legs in a production that runs through June 22.
His staging of the tale of the doomed love between the Irish king's daughter Isolde and the knight Tristan is not an unqualified success, as even Olle volunteered.
"Maybe I put in a few too many things, but this is my first Wagner (opera), and for me it is all about the passage of time," Olle, who stepped in to do the production on short notice when a previous director withdrew, told Reuters after the premiere.
One of those few things too many is a ring of fire encircling the doomed lovers. It's Wagner, yes, but wrong opera.
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Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers . 6 th ed. New York : MLA, 2003.*
Harmon, William, and Hugh Holman. A Handbook to Literature . 10 th ed. Upper Saddle River : Prentice Hall, 2005.*
Lynn, Steven. Texts and Contexts: Writing About Literature with Critical Theory. 5 th ed. New York : Longman, 2007.
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People of more than 210 nationalities today call Melbourne home, a figure that has climbed from 95 nationalities in 1981, when Australia already thought itself one of the most culturally diverse nations in the world.
Latest census figures also show immigration from African nations has soared. Twenty years ago just under 20,000 people from just eight African countries lived in Victoria. Today the state is home to more than 36,700 people from 40 African countries. Immigrants from South Africa alone now number more than 15,500, doubling since 1981.
In 1981, the top 10 nationalities in the state apart from Australians and New Zealanders were all European, including Britain. Today, while Australia, Britain, Italy and Greece still rank from one to four, Vietnam, China, India and Sri Lanka have all entered the top 10.
This diversity of cultures is exhibited in microcosm at Footscray North Primary School, which for years has been a barometer of migration patterns in Melbourne and now has children from 41 countries. Almost three-quarters of the school's population have a language background other than English, with 29 different languages represented.
Dianne Travers, who has coordinated English as a Second Language at the school since 1988, said Italians dominated the area and the school more than 20 years ago. Since then, children of Vietnamese immigrants had overtaken the Italians, and now there was enrolled at the school a growing number of children whose parents were born in other Asian nations, plus others from Africa, South America and Europe.
Bob Birrell, director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research at Monash University, said many new immigrants lived in Maribyrnong, home to Footscray North Primary, drawn to the area's affordable housing, community infrastructure and support groups.
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Dr Birrell said migration from smaller and more diverse countries would continue to grow as communities were established.
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Dr Birrell said the rate of migration would depend on the size of migration programs, but the government did not cap the spouse program, which was the main source for family reunions.
"There's quite a capacity for that to grow if young people from those communities go back to their homelands," he said. "You can imagine if you're a young man and you want a spouse you can take the pick of the crop from home. It's an enormous inducement to get to Australia."
Footscray North Primary School principal Celia Meehan said the school ran programs to celebrate the students' different backgrounds.
Ms Meehan said racial tension was minimal at the school, where a respect for individuals and cultures was actively taught. "The group of children at this school are just lovely," she said.
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