text: Sport 6 September 2012 Leon Knight, ex-footballer and noted misogynist, suspended from Twitter His "Slag Alert Pictures" stunt backfired. Sign UpGet the New Statesman's Morning Call email. Sign-up Leon Knight was a footballer. At the age of 29, he finds himself without a club, after he was released from Glentoran after allegedly making homophobic comments on Twitter. Until yesterday, though, there was a place where Leon Knight still had an audience: Twitter. As @leonknight82, he had 102,800 followers, who enjoyed such banterous tweets as "Hoes have to know 80% of men have a sat nav hoe alert device programmed into our brains you can't fool us lol #beat&delete". A month ago, he went after Jamie O'Hara, claiming that his wife Danielle was a "hoe" and trying to provoke both of them into responding to his increasingly obscene tweets. (I made a Storify of that here; it's pretty unpleasant). Anyway, for the last couple of days, Knight has been trailing "Slag Alert Pictures", his latest brave foray into the world of "exposing" women who've sent dirty pictures to their boyfriends. He even created a hashtag, #SAP. The plan was to tweet compromising pictures of these women, to shame them - and entertain his fans. The stunt added tens of thousands of followers. Now, I'm not going to detain you with amateur psychology on Leon Knight, who seems to veer between common or garden misogyny and "person you'd cross the continent on avoid". I just wanted to make a record of exactly how this went down. First, Knight tweeted about the #SAP idea, and published an email address for people to send pictures to. He claimed that someone had sent the following email, and he'd therefore decided to have mercy on them: Then he published an image of a chalk board with the Twitter handles of the women he planned to target. Clearly, a fair proportion of his 102,000 fans then got in touch with the women to taunt them about their upcoming public vilification, because you see messages like this: Not everyone was cowed, though: Rather heartwarmingly, one of the targeted women's timeline simply contained "thank you" after "thank you", as she showed her gratitude to all the people who'd got in touch to say how horrific they found the whole idea. That angered Leon Knight, who started tweeting that he was going to "ruin her whole life". (I've blanked out her name.) Tragically, nothing was going to stop Leon Knight. I missed his initial flurry of tweets, and by the time that I checked, the photos he'd posted had disappeared. Here he claims that "Twitter" had deleted them. By the end of the evening, one of the women said that she was receiving death threats and tweeted a photo of herself apparently in a police station, where she claimed to be reporting the crime. (I've been unable to find any credible report of Knight's arrest, although the rumour has been swirling on blogs and social networking sites). Another one of the Twitter handles from Knight's "blackboard of shame" appeared to show that the account had been deleted. And this morning, I checked for Leon Knight's account and found this: Now, I don't think there are any grand conclusions to be drawn from this - apart from the fact that misogynists have fan clubs. It was a man who tipped me off about Knight's latest rampage, and for every witless idiot cheering him on, there was someone else disgusted by the flagrant bullying and slut-shaming. But it is worth recording. Because this stuff happens, and ignoring it won't stop it happening. Staffordshire police looked into Knight's earlier tweets to Jamie and Danielle O'Hara, and yet there he was last night, moving on to a new target. As our lives get more and more networked, those of us who use public spaces are going to have to decide how to deal with the Leon Knights of this world. Or, as This Is My England put it: Digital technologies: changing faster than we get get our heads around the risks which come along with the useful functionalities. So let's be careful out there. Update 2.30pm I've just contacted Staffordshire Police's press office, who confirm that Knight was cautioned last month over the tweets to the O'Haras. But they haven't received a new complaint. › The population debate must not be defined by immigration Leon Knight, who has been suspended from Twitter, in the shirt of his former club, Swansea. Photo: Getty Helen Lewis is associate editor of the New Statesman. She regularly appears on BBC Radio 4's Week in Westminster and the News Quiz, and is writing a history of feminism for Jonathan Cape. Subscribe from just $2 per issue


text: Displays and Dialogue December 8, 2012 04:23 AM Tweet The Ag Connect Expo and Summit, with a stronger focus on technology and new products and innovations, will be in Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 30 to 31. TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Margy Eckelkamp Director of Content Development, Machinery Pete Email 2013 Ag Connect Expo and Summit has a lot to offer After a scheduled hiatus, the Ag Connect Expo and Summit is back in 2013 with more exhibitors, show space and educational seminars. The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) will host the event Jan. 30 to 31 at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Mo. AEM held the first Ag Connect in 2010. After the 2011 show, the association announced that it would host the event every other year—synchronized with Agritechnica in Germany. Expanded lineup. This year the expo and summit will feature more than 330 exhibitors as well as educational seminars and co-located events that showcase new technologies and practices. In addition to machinery com-panies that are members of AEM, the expo will include short-liner, technology, software, crop protection, fertilizer and seed companies. The exhibitors are divided into themed pavilions such as components; business and technology; specialty products; and international (Germany, Spain, Italy and China). A new facet of the expo will be a Gold and Silver medal award program on the show floor to recognize product innovations. "We put a very big focus on new technology, new products and new inno-vations," says Sara Mooney, show director for AEM. "The AE50 [an awards program hosted by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers] has been part of our program before, but this year, from that pool of distinguished innovations, we'll be highlighting Silver and Gold medal winners." All of the AE50 award winners will be recognized in a display at the show and will have decals at their booths, as will the Silver and Gold award winners. Throughout the planning process, AEM has been especially focused on bringing together expertise. "We've added the word 'summit' to our event because when we asked producers what they want from Ag Connect, they told us they find value in networking with high-level com-pany representatives," Mooney says. "Beyond the exhibits, we offer education, a lot of dialogue and expertise." There are more than 20 co-located events that will bolster that level of expertise for all attendees. In addition, AEM has courted noted professionals to participate in its Masters and Mavericks campaign. "The Masters and Mavericks campaign highlights the experts that will be present at the show—in their company's booth or at an educational session. Each of these people has a profile on our website to provide more details on what perspective they add to the event," Mooney says. Farm Journal will host four of the co-located events: Corn College Planter Clinic, Legacy Project Workshop, Beef Today Forum and Dairy Today Forum (see page 66 for details). Learn from the experts. In addition, more than 20 education sessions, referred to as Master Classes, will address a range of business topics, from taxes to precision agriculture to livestock management. "Our breakout education sessions are now called Master Classes to reflect the superior level of knowledge," Mooney says. "We offer a question-and-answer session with every speaker after the session. In the past, the sessions have lasted up to two hours in some cases." As for the farmers who will attend, Mooney says the event aims to attract row crop farmers and livestock producers as well as a range of those who work in the agriculture industry. "This show is for anyone who has a stake in agriculture and wants to get involved in the dialogue, from senior executives to expert speakers to producers," she says. Make plans now. With the event's new Midwestern location, AEM hopes to attract attendees from across the U.S. and beyond. "Kansas City is a great central location," Mooney says. "It's an easy-to-navigate city and there are a lot of attractions to enjoy outside of the show. We'll offer organized tours, including the Boulevard Brewing Company, Kansas City Board of Trade, Money Museum, Harley-Davidson plant and Arabia Steamboat Museum as well as the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum." Tours cost $25 if registered before Jan. 4 and $30 to $35 after. A show badge costs $20 before Jan. 4 and $30 after. "Our goal is to have takeaways around every corner," Mooney says. Farm Journal Media's Co-Located Seminars Here's the full schedule of Farm Journal Media's co-located education programs and events that will take place at Ag Connect, Jan. 30 and 31 at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Mo. Corn College Planter Clinic Wednesday, Jan. 30, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Cost: Early bird – $169; after Jan. 4 – $199 Speaker: Missy Bauer, Field Agronomist Join Farm Journal Associate Field Agronomist Missy Bauer as she walks through the top tips to get your planter ready for spring. From the hitchpin to the closing wheels, Bauer will highlight the changes you need to make before you head to the field that will make you money. All major planter brands will be included and multiple row units will be featured in live demonstrations. Beef Today Forum Wednesday, Jan. 30, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Cost: Early bird – $40; after Jan. 4 – $50 Speakers: Derrell Peel, Livestock Economist, Oklahoma State University; Chip Flory, Editor, Pro Farmer; Paul Burrough, Senior Vice President, National Finance Credit Corporation Cattle producers are faced with a barrage of challenges that will impact their ability to maintain and expand their operations. Economist Derrell Peel will discuss the current cattle situation and how the industry's shift from feeding grain to forages will pencil out. Grain and oilseeds market expert Chip Flory will give his outlook on feed prices for the coming year. Lender Paul Burrough will talk about what lenders need in order to finance cattle operations during times of tight supplies. Dairy Today Forum Wednesday, Jan. 30, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Cost: Early bird – $40; after Jan. 4 – $50 Speakers: Chip Flory, Editor, Pro Farmer; Jim Spain, Extension Dairy Specialist, University of Missouri; Jim Dickrell, Editor, Dairy Today Dairy producers continue to cope with tight feed supplies and record feed prices. Grain and oilseeds market expert Chip Flory will give his crystalball outlook on feed prices for the coming year. Extension dairy specialist Jim Spain will turn conventional wisdom on its head and present new ways of managing heat stress this coming season. Jim Dickrell, editor of Dairy Today, will discuss coming reforms in dairy policy, immigration law and the Federal Milk Marketing Orders. Legacy Project Workshop Thursday, January 31, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Cost: Early bird – $40; after Jan. 4 – $50 Speaker: Josh Sylvester, Principal, Legacy by Design This workshop, part of the popular Farm Journal Legacy Project, offers hands-on training with Certified Financial Planner Josh Sylvester, who will cover the step-by-step process of starting your own succession plan. Back to news

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With an eye on the future, the CIF Southern Section remembered its past when it unveiled its "100 Athletes for 100 Years" on Saturday at a reception in Los Angeles.
The list featured three former local standouts who helped blaze trails along the Glendale sports landscape.
Frank Wykoff and Frank Albert of Glendale High and Hoover's Jack Davis, all of whom are deceased, were bestowed with recognition as being among the 100 greatest CIF Southern Section athletes.
Criteria for receiving the accolade included participation in a CIF Southern Section sport and having success at all levels (high school, collegiate, Olympic and professional ranks).
Wykoff starred at track and field with the Nitros. Albert was a stellar football, basketball and baseball player. Davis shined in track and field.
Wykoff enjoyed a brilliant career at Glendale before graduating in 1928. His best work came in 1928 when he set a world record in the 100-yard dash in 9.4 seconds in an Amateur Athletic Union meet. At Glendale, he captured a combined nine CIF Southern Section and state titles before attending Glendale Community College and USC.
"From what I understand, the entire community rallied around him," Glendale Athletic Director Pat Lancaster said. "He's one of the all-time greats who was around during the heyday of Glendale High sports.
"I look at the things he did and I'm in awe of his accomplishments. To be in high school and still qualify for the Olympics is something that's incredible."
Wykoff was a member of three world-record setting 400-meter relay teams, anchoring all three teams.
In Olympic competition, he ran the leadoff leg on the 1928 gold medal winning 400-meter relay in the same year he graduated. He anchored the United States to gold medals in 1932 and 1936.
In the 1936 meet, he ran on a team which also featured legend Jesse Owens. Wykoff helped rally the United States to victory over Germany with Adolf Hitler in attendance. The United States clocked 39.8 seconds to win the 1936 gold and set a world record that would last until 1956.
Wykoff twice finished fourth in the 100 meters in the Olympics, as he ran 11.0 in 1928 and 10.6 in 1936. Jesse Owens won the 1936 event in 10.3.
Wykoff died in 1980 at 70.
Albert, who graduated from Glendale High in 1938, was selected the Southern California and State Football Player of the Year after leading the Nitros to a CIF championship in 1937. Glendale posted a 15-14 win against Santa Barbara in the title contest.
"You talk about him being a pioneer," Lancaster said. "He was just a remarkable athlete.
"He could play almost any sport and play them well. When he was at Glendale High, he was somebody who was feared and respected."
Albert then starred at Stanford University, helping the Cardinal go undefeated in 1940 and win the Rose Bowl in 1941 against Nebraska. He went on to play professionally with the San Francisco 49ers, quarterbacking the team for seven seasons. He passed for 10,795 yards in his career with 113 touchdown passes.
While with the 49ers, Albert played in the All-American Conference, before the team moved into the NFL in 1950. He set a then-record for touchdown passes in a season with 29 in 1948, but it wasn't recognized by the NFL. He played briefly in Canada before returning to the 49ers as head coach from 1956-1958.
Albert died in 2002 at 82.
Davis flourished for the Tornadoes for several seasons before excelling at USC and representing the United States in a pair of Olympics.
After moving to Glendale from Texas, Davis developed an affinity for track and field. During his senior season at Hoover in 1949, Davis enjoyed a breakout season. He captured the CIF Southern Section 120-yard high hurdles (now 110 meter) title in 14.5 seconds. He then recorded a first-place finish in the same race in 14.4 to win the state title.
At USC, Davis continued to focus on track and earned varsity letters between 1951-53. USC developed a dynastic reign, which included winning an NCAA championship from 1951-53. Davis captured three titles in the 120-yard hurdles and took the 220-yard hurdle championship in 1953, when he served as the Trojans' team captain.
Davis then participated in the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympic Games in Helsinki and Melbourne, respectively, earning a pair of silver medals.
In the 110-meter hurdles in Helsinki, Davis and U.S. teammate Harrison Dillard were involved in a close race. Davis built a slight lead before hitting the ninth barrier and losing his advantage. Davis and Dillard each reached the finish line in a then-record 13.7 seconds. However, a photo finish showed Dillard had won by a nose. Automatic timing did not become available until the 1968 Olympics in Mexico.
In the same event in the 1956 Olympics, Davis and fellow American Lee Calhoun streaked to the finish line with both clocking 13.5, which became another Olympic record. Calhoun leaned noticeably forward at the tape to win the gold medal.
Sam Nicholson, who was a teammate of Davis' at Hoover, said Davis brought grit to the Tornadoes.
"He was a great athlete and he could do a lot of different things," said Nicholson, who later served as Hoover's track and field coach from 1956-64. "He had so much speed to go along with his size.
"He was very tough. Of all the people I have known in track and field, he was by far the best. It's a great honor for him to be recognized."
Davis died in July at 81.
The panel that made the selections consisted of media, local historians and former members of the CIF Southern Section staff and executive committee. The show will be shown on FOX Sports West at a time to be announced.


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This November is the most important presidential election in our lifetime. The very future of our country is at stake. Barack Obama must be defeated.
We must change course and start repairing our economy before it�s too late. Our national debt is now over $16 trillion. To put that in perspective, if you spent one dollar every second, it would take 31,000 years to spend just $1 trillion.
Another scary statistic, that�s over $51,000 for every man, woman and child in the country, or $141,000 for every taxpayer. If we don�t get spending and entitlements under control, we�ll end up like Greece. This president simply can�t (or won�t) address this fast approaching catastrophe. We�ve gone from being the world leading economic power, to being a third rate economic power, borrowing nearly 54 cents of every dollar we spend.
How long do you think this can continue? Virtually every household in the country understands that you can�t spend your way out of debt, however, this president seems to think that you can.
Liberals simply do not understand capitalism and the free enterprise system. They love to criticize Romney�s time at Bain Capital, saying that he cannibalized companies, sucking them dry and then closing them down. Nothing could be further from the truth. Even Bill Clinton praised Bain Capital. Romney had a 78 percent success rate during his time there, helping countless companies succeed. Just a few examples include, Staples Office Supplies, Bright Horizons Daycare Centers, Brookstone and Hardees restaurants.
President Obama has never run so much as a lemonade stand. He likes to brag that he saved the auto industry, but he did it at the expense of its shareholders and the American tax payer. Countless people who had invested in GM and Chrysler lost everything. Not the unions though. The president made sure they were taken care of. The UAW now owns 41.5 percent of Chrysler and 10.3 percent of GM. Too bad if you were a shareholder though. You lost your investment. Also, according to the US Treasury, taxpayers will lose over $25 billion on the bailout.
Romney also knows how to work with the other side of the aisle. While he was governor of Massachusetts he had a state legislature that was 87 percent Democrat, yet he was able to work side by side with them on many issues. This president is pitting American against American with his class warfare rhetoric. He�s on record as saying he supports wealth redistribution. He truly believes that the govemment has a right to take what is yours and give to someone else.
No matter how you sugar coat it, that�s socialism. It�s what�s going on in Europe. It doesn�t work there, and it certainly won�t work here. Margaret Thatcher once said, �Socialism only works until you run out of other people�s money.�
We have a clear choice on Nov. 6th. We can re-elect the president and continue on the collision course that we�re on, or we can elect Mitt Romney, a man who understands the free enterprise system, was enormously successful in the business world and will run this country like a business. We can�t afford any more hope and change.
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Main Page
- 1 About this wiki
- 2 Grid Computing & Grid Engine Overview
- 3 Documentation
- 4 HOWTOs
- 5 Utilities
- 6 Grid Engine wiki and related projects
- 7 Success Story
- 8 Frequently Encountered Problems
- 9 Stephan's Blog Posts
- 10 Community Contributions
- 11 Glossary
- 12 References
About this wiki
Note that references here to old Sun web pages may no longer be valid following the Oracle takeover. In particular, gridengine.sunsource.net no longer exists. There are currently three sites with Grid Engine source repositories derived from the sunsource one, and other material:
- Univa public repository (security updates since initial release only)
- Son of Grid Engine (a large superset of Univa's repo and the only public issue tracker) and Howtos etc
- Open Grid Scheduler
The core Grid Engine websites are:
- http://gridengine.org
- Oracle documentation (Oracle has taken down the Grid Engine pages after announcing a hand-over of support for Oracle Grid Engine to Univa.)
This wiki server (and the related http://gridengine.info blog) has been set up by members of the Grid Engine user community as a way of collecting and distributing usage, configuration, tips and HOWTO information in a fast and democratic way. We don't want to reinvent the wheel or waste time so wherever there are better online resources available, this Wiki will simply link out to them.
The best place to get help with Grid Engine related issues is the users mailing list.
Grid Computing & Grid Engine Overview
This is not the place for an academic dissertation or even a management-friendly summary of "grid" or "cluster" computing. If you are just starting out learning about clusters you may want to check out sites like http://www.clustermonkey.net. Some good intro-level information on Grid Engine and it's capabilities can be found here (these pages are no longer up as a fall-out from Oracle acquiring Sun in 2010):
- Chapter 1 of the 'N1 Grid Engine Users Guide'
- Introduction to the Cluster Grid - Part 1 (August 2002) (Sun BluePrint PDF)
Grid Engine is software that facilitates "distributed resource management" (DRM) -- other similar free software packages include Portable Batch System, Torque, SLURM, OAR and Lava, but they lack scheduling features and/or scalability in comparison. Far more than just simple load-balancing tools or batch scheduling mechanisms, DRM software typically provides the following key features across large sets of distributed resources:
- Policy based allocation of distributed resources (CPU time, software licenses, etc.)
- Batch queuing & scheduling
- Support diverse server hardware, OS and architectures
- Load balancing & remote job execution
- Detailed job accounting statistics
- Fine-grained user specifiable resources
- Suspend/resume/migrate jobs
- Tools for reporting Job/Host/Cluster status
- Job Arrays
- Integration & control of parallel jobs
Is Grid Engine commercial or open source software?
Both. Since 2011 Univa Corporation offers a continuously enhanced and commercially supported fork of the last open source Sun version 6.2u5. This commercial version is called Univa Grid Engine. Open source forks are Son of Grid Engine and Open Grid Scheduler.
After acquiring Sun Microsystems in 2010, Oracle was continuing to offer commercial Grid Engine versions for sale (Oracle Grid Engine versions 6.2u6-8) until September 2013 when it was handing over the Grid Engine IP and Oracle Grid Engine customer support to Univa as announced here.
Old versions
Binary packages from the latest Sun open source version may still be found somewhere on the web. It is important to differentiate them for Sun's commercial packages. The latter were available as free downloads from Sun's download center as well but had a 90-day evaluation period after which the product would have to be bought or de-installed. This evaluation period got introduced with version 6.2u3 and later. The open source packages do not have this restriction. A license file in the installation directory informs about the type of package being used.
Yet older version are free to use for any purpose regardless of whether it is the open soruce build or the Sun product build. Commercial support through Sun was only available for the Sun product builds but this is not relevant anymore.
Also the following two subsections relate to old version which may still be referenced occasionally:
Grid Engine 5.x "Standard" vs. "Enterprise" Editions
Prior to the release of Grid Engine 6 in 2004, there were two different "flavors" of Grid Engine offered by Sun Microsystems. The "standard" edition was a Sun software product made available for free to any user or institution. The "Enterprise Edition" was available from Sun at additional cost. The only difference between the two offerings was the number of scheduling policy types supported. The standard edition generally supported only a "first-in, first-out" FIFO type scheduling policy along with a simple user-sort scheduling mechanism. The Enterprise Edition supported FIFO scheduling in addition to several other more flexible policy based scheduling mechanisms. Interestingly enough, the codebase and binaries for both flavors are 100% the same. The difference between "standard" and "enterprise edition" is triggered by a simple flag passed via an installation script. During the time that Sun Microsystems was offering two different types of "Sun Grid Engine", the open source site was offering both flavors of "Grid Engine" for free.
"Sun N1 Grid Engine 6" vs. "Grid Engine 6"
When Grid Engine 6 was first released, Chris Dagdigian wrote a simple whitepaper entitled Understanding the differences between Grid Engine 5.3, 6.0 and Sun N1 Grid Engine 6 (N1GE) - while semi dated it provides a good overview of the differences.
Major project news and milestones
(The news below refer to the old Sun sponsored project and are no longer of much relevance. Som of the links may be dead.)
- 2005
- Further complicating the interesting relationship between the Sun branded and open source versions of Grid Engine, Sun made a surprise announcement in December 2005 where the company announced that (among many other software products), the full Sun N1 software stack including N1 Grid Engine would now be available for "free". More information on this announcement can be found online: http://gridengine.info/articles/2005/12/01/sun-n1-grid-engine-is-now-free
- 2006
- Another major change for Grid Engine occurred when Sun announced at the Supercomputing 2006 conference that all of their commercial product add-ons for Grid Engine (ARCo and Windows client support) would be integrated with the open source Grid Engine codebase. The full announcement can be read here: http://gridengine.sunsource.net/news/SuperComputing2006.html
- 2007
- Grid Engine 6.1 was released, the first major revision release since Grid Engine 6.0 was announced in 2004. Included among numerous improvements and enhancements is the new highly-capable Resource Quota subsystem.
- 2008
- Grid Engine 6.2 was released in Q2 2008. SGE 6.2 is the job schedule on the TACC Ranger supercomputer, which has 62,976 processor cores in 3,936 execution hosts. Major features of SGE 6.2 include Advance Reservation and Array Job Task Interdependencies.
The Video
If you'd rather have the Grid Engine product team tell you about Grid Engine, there's a video on YouTube from the Grid Engine team that introduces grid computing and talks about what Grid Engine is and how it's commonly used.
See http://gridengine.sunsource.net/documentation.html
See this link: http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/howto/howto.html
Sun BluePrints
(Sun BluePrints have been taken off the web by Oracle. Maybe some web archives still have copies of the content.)
Sun maintains an interesting technical library of "BluePrint Documents". Interesting publications include:
- Sun Grid Engine, Enterprise Edition-Configuration Use Cases and Guidelines (July 2003)
- Global Grid Connectivity Using Globus Toolkit With Solaris Operating System (May 2004)
- Using Host Groups and Cluster Queues in the Sun N1 Grid Engine 6 System (August 2005)
- Scheduler Policies for Job Prioritization in the N1 Grid Engine 6 System (October 2005)
- Sun N1 Grid Engine Software and the Tokyo Institute of Technology Super Computer Grid (June 2007)
Application Integration
|Tight integration of Grid Engine and LAM-MPI
|Intel MPI
|Loose and Tight Integration
|Tight Integration
|FLEXlm License Manager
|New (Olesen) method with some configuration notes. Also with a github project page
|FLEXlm License Manager
|Old "load sensor" method (not recommended)
|FLEXlm License Manager
|FLEXlm license load sensor written in Python
|Sharing software licenses across multi Grid Engine sites
|The Grid Engine community is looking for Matlab integration methods and tips.
|Running Ansys applications as Grid Engine jobs.
|If you are looking to use SGE to improve the clearcase build time the SGE is not your solution yet. Commercial solutions exists like Electric-Cloud and IBM's buildforge.
|PEST is a general purpose, parameter estimation and optimization program that can be used with any simulation code. Notes and a skeleton script to integrate parallel PEST and Grid Engine can be found here.
|STARCD STAR-CCM+ Integration
|STARCD and STAR-CCM+ are general purpose CFD codes from CD-adapco.
|Grid Engine has a tool called "qmake" which can help distribute large source code building tasks across a cluster of machines. Information on distributed builds has been moved to the Distributed-Compilation wiki page.
|Job Arrays
|Running Dytran applications as Grid Engine jobs.
|Grid Engine can be used to run MapReduce jobs. A tighter integration is available from Univa ("Share with Hadoop" tab).
|MD Nastran
|Guidelines on useful SGE configuration for typical MD Nastran user. Also see Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 on running MD Nastran (serial and parallel) as Grid Engine jobs.
Platform Integration
|Macintosh OS X
|GridEngine_launchd for notes on getting Grid Engine to function under the new launchd framework for system services in OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
|You can start jobs on a UNIX/Linux machine from Windows using SSH and SAMBA.
|Install and configure Grid Engine in heterogenous environment on Linux and Windows with MPICH2
Grid Integration
Integration with Compute Clouds
- StarCluster
- Grid Engine on EC2
- Grid Engine on Joyent Accelerators
- One-Click HPC with Univa Grid Engine on Amazon AWS Marketplace
- One-Click HPC with Univa Grid Engine and RightScale
Datacenter Related Topics
Various short utilities for doing stuff with Grid Engine can be found on the Utilities page.
ARCo Queries
On the ARCo Queries, ARCo users can contribute and share their custom ARCo queries.
Documenting Grid Engine XML output
Chris Dag has started a page GridEngine_XML to document the internals of Grid Engine XML output status data.
Documenting and understanding Grid Engine 'qping' output
Chris Dag has created a placeholder page GridEngine_qping to document troubleshooting methods involving the 'qping' utility.
Grid Engine XML parser project
- Dan has started Grid Engine XML parser project under Passau
Development Specifications
Development specifications for 6.2 are kept on GridWiki
Development specifications for 6.1 are kept on GridWiki
- Evaluation Expression Support
- Dtrace explains the master monitor under Solaris 10
but there are also others which are not yet implemented
Grid Engine Packaging Efforts
Packaging documentation and disussion has been moved to its own GE-Packaging wiki page. This is of interest to people working on alternative binary or source installation/distribution methods for Grid Engine.
Success Story
There is a list of DRMAA success stories kept under http://www.drmaa.org/stories.php
Frequently Encountered Problems
Stephan's Blog Posts
This is an archive of Stephan Grell's blog posts.
Community Contributions
Google Summer of Code 2007 Ideas
See: Glossary
Please see documentation on customizing the interface and the User's Guide for usage and configuration help.


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Your social media accounts are snapshots of your life. Your photos, comments, and thoughts are stored in perpetuity once they are posted online, which can be great for a walk down memory lane but not so great when you are looking for a new job.
By now we've all heard the news: recruiters often actively seek out applicant's social media accounts to learn more about who they are as people. In fact, a survey conducted by CareerBuilder found that up to 70 percent of employers delve into a candidate's social media accounts during the recruitment process – and 24 percent of those that say they scope out applicant profiles admit that they do so to see if there is a reason why the candidate shouldn't be hired.
Understanding that your social media account can either be a help or a hindrance is critical. To make sure that it isn't a liability, learn to be savvy with managing your accounts. Here's how:
Twitter, Facebook, and Snapchat may make you feel as if you are having a personal conversation with friends, but that is only true if you have learned to lock down your privacy settings to make that so.
While each site works slightly differently and offer different levels of privacy, here are the basics: having your profile set to "Public" means that anyone, with or with an account on that platform, can see your posts. A "Private" account typically means that only those people that you choose to connect with can see what you share. To learn the ins and outs of setting up your privacy controls on each platform, take a look at this handy guide.
A great rule of thumb to live by is this: if you wouldn't want your grandmother to see a photo or comment that you have posted online, take it down! Treat all of the information you post online as if it is public – if you wouldn't want it displayed on the front page of your local newspaper, take it down.
You want your profile to appear professional – or, at least inoffensive. So, while it's fine to leave your cute cat videos, you should take down your rants about politicians or your complaints about your boss. You should also consider keeping your professional and personal profiles separate. On your professional profile, you can share industry news and other PC information.
Once you have your accounts on lockdown, it's wise to do an online search of your name to see what appears. Even when your profiles it set to private, it's possible that some information will be visible. For example, if you have been tagged in friends' photos online, those might appear in a search of your name.
Other things to look for include reviews you may have written on Yelp, comments you've made online in forums, and other information. Don't just scour the first page of the search results either, especially if you have a common name. Take the time to scroll through several pages of search results and make a list of anything that you might need to go back and delete.
If you know that you are going to begin a job search in six months, consider proactively building out your profile to make it pleasing to probing recruiters (and perhaps consider putting a resume builder to use, too). As mentioned about, one option is to create a designated professional profile. Another is to add great content to your existing social media sites.
Say you are applying for a job as a restaurant manager. You might consider setting up a Google alert to deliver articles on the food and beverage industry to your email. Then, share the most interesting articles to your social media sites. This way, when a recruiter peruses your pages, what they will see is a person who is invested in their industry and up on the latest news. It's a quick and easy way to show hiring managers that you are serious about your profession.
Hopefully a lot of this information won't be brand-new news to you. But it never, ever hurts to reiterate these crucial social media cleanup steps that must be undertaken when you're ramping up to find a new job.
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Celebrating the New America at the Inauguration
I'm usually one of San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll's most fervent admirers, but this time he's gotten it really wrong. Last week he filed a column complaining about preparations for the Inauguration, telling us that "I was happy to see that the president's Inauguration committee is falling short of its $50 million fundraising goal. Not that I wish the president ill - he should live long and prosper - but because I don't much care for glitzy governmental parties when the country is in bad shape."
He went on to opine that the $50 million which the Inauguration committee hoped to raise from donors could be better spent:
"$50 million is a lot of money, particularly when being raised from donors who just a few months ago gave generously, more than generously, to the Obama re-election campaign. Some of them feel they have already bought a place in the inaugural.
"But think what $50 million could do elsewhere. Think of it given to the city of Oakland to upgrade its police services. Wouldn't that be swell? The money could certainly help some of the victims of Superstorm Sandy. It might do all sorts of things, but it isn't doing any of them."
Well, from an economic perspective, Jon ought to be reading our colleague Paul Krugman more closely before he decides that spending money on festivities in a recession is a bad idea.
After all, who gets most of the money spent on a big shindig like this? Waitresses and taxi drivers and garbage collectors and, yes, D.C. police officers and others near the bottom of the pay scale (now euphemistically called the middle class, but really the working class). It's stimulus money, just what the economy needs, being put right into the stream of commerce where it will be spent by the recipients to buy basic goods and services and will thus aid economic recovery.
And the loot is being squeezed out of fat cats who, he thinks, might be asked to cough up $100,000 for a photo op—but what's wrong with that? Transfer of wealth from the very rich to the considerably less rich: all to the good. It's money not languishing in Swiss banks.
Yes, there are other needs in this country, many, but does Jon really think that the same amount could be wrung from major national donors to presidential campaigns if it were earmarked for the Oakland police? (Much as those of us who live in the East Bay might wish it could be…)
And there's the public value of civic ritual to be considered.
As I remember, Jon Carroll is a lapsed son of one of the Calvinistic branches of one of the desert religions, a branch that prided itself in the old days on pulling down statues and simplifying worship. That's an important thread in the civic tapestry, going all the way back to the New England Puritans, but over our more than two centuries in this country we've come to appreciate the glitter of the occasional gold strand as well.
To my eye, nothing could have been more beautiful than the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir in all their multicolored glory (and their singing was pretty good too.) And speaking of eyes, no one with any sense of history could be dry-eyed seeing the iconic tableau of our Black-and-White president standing up to be sworn in with his African-American family at his side and civil rights hero John Lewis hovering in the background like some benevolent saint in a Renaissance painting.
In all my days taking part in the civil rights movement, I never hoped to see this day before I died—I confess to shedding a few tears myself on Monday. Surprisingly, this second Inauguration seemed even moving than the first one, which felt like it might be a fluke, an aberration before America got back to business as usual.
Washington, D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, another African American civil rights veteran, generously acknowledged in a radio interview what Barack Obama's presidency means for some of us who have struggled most of our adult lives to see this picture:
"I think there's a pride white Americans feel in themselves that they did it. They know that African-Americans could not have done it by themselves. And they feel that they have shed some of the racism that was their legacy as white people."
Our own family tree has in it both abolitionists and slaveholders. My descendants will have ancestors not only from Europe but also Africa and Asia. It's about time we shed our legacy of racism, and it looks we're getting there.
As I type this, I'm listening on KALW to sax player Joshua [Shedroff] Redman, son of an African-American musician, lucky to have been raised in Berkeley by a Jewish mother. Like President Obama, he's part of the new generation of Americans who inherit the richness of many cultures. The inaugural ceremonies were a sacramental celebration of this unprecedented transformation of our society.
Some of my comrades on the whiny left persist in dwelling on the cup half-empty instead of sipping a bit of the sweet wine of success. Yes, President Obama has not yet done everything he ought to, not accomplished everything we'd like him to, but with our support he's now got four more years to try. He preached a mighty fine sermon from his bully pulpit on Monday, which should be a harbinger of accomplishments to come.
Critics grumble that he simply pointed the way, without specifying exactly the steps he plans to take to get there. They might remember a cherished American legend, Lewis and Clark's pathfinding exploration of the West, which tradition says could not have been accomplished without the help of Sacajawea, the Native woman taken as an exemplar by the women's suffrage movement, whose image now decorates the dollar coin.
The President has set our goals before us—now it's time to give him some firm guidance about how he might reach them.
P.S. Judging by his latest column, Jon seems to have approved of the Inauguration after all, though he doesn't tell us if he liked Michelle's outfits.


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so i turn this drawing in and the a.d told me that it was too traditional and romantic. they wanted something more playful and exaggerated. i had to bring the gouache out to do this. i rarely use colors straight out of the tube, but i felt it was needed to achieve supreme saturation.
the story is based on two asian lovers. the a.d wanted me to change the hair to black because he looked too american. i like the blond better. she obviously doesn't watch dragon ball z. the right part of the clouds and the mountains are digital.
also got a copy of this months bang art. everything is in italian, so i am curious what those 3 pages are talking about.


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The stakes are high in sport's great gamble
Sporting codes and betting operators are on notice as an inquiry into gambling advertising and promotion kicks off.
WHEN the bombshell allegations of banned drug use and criminal links hit Australia's major sporting codes last week it was only a matter of time before attention turned to a more pervasive performance-enhancing drug - sports betting.
While legal - and not implicated in the Australian Crime Commission's allegations - the rapid growth of the local sports betting industry, and tight grip it now has on Australia's premier professional codes, has been causing disquiet for some time.
While the highly regulated industry can comfortably answer questions of probity, the problem has more to do with the same challenges that faced industries such as tobacco and alcohol, which previously spent a small fortune marketing their wares to the sporting public.
Should you be allowed to market an adult product at what is essentially a family event with so many passionate and impressionable children in attendance?
The same day as the ACC announcement, the Senate passed a motion by Greens Senator Richard di Natale for the joint select committee on gambling reform to launch an inquiry into the advertising and promotion of gambling services in Australian sport.
''You can't watch a sporting event with your kids without being bombarded by betting odds and gambling ads,'' di Natale says. ''Not only do we risk undermining the integrity of sport, we risk creating another generation of problem gamblers.''
Senator Nick Xenophon, who has called for a suspension of sports betting, said ''the government needs to understand the enormous level of community disquiet''.
If you have had anything to do with the AFL or rugby league in recent years, the extent to which our most popular sporting codes have been harnessed to the cause of sports betting has been impossible to avoid. It may start as soon as you pull the team guernsey on. If you supported St Kilda last year the logo of betting sponsor Centrebet is in plain sight.
The same applies if you support 2011 NRL premiers Manly. If you support the Penrith Panthers, the home stadium you enter is named after the same sponsor that also supports the North Queensland Cowboys and St George. At many stadiums around the country, signage and goal posts are prominently sponsored by a range of sports betting operators.
The same applies to the clubs' governing bodies. This includes the Australian Rugby Union and the Football Federation Australia, which each count 13 official betting partners.
These relationships ensure the clubs and governing bodies get a clip of the revenue generated by their fans' gambling losses.
AFL clubs Essendon, Melbourne and the Adelaide Crows featured betting shops on their websites under their own brands for an extra clip of betting losses their members generate on a wider range of sports.
Club membership databases have also been mined as marketing tools for agencies that directly sponsor the teams.
In 2011 Collingwood ran a promotion with sponsor TAB Sportsbet giving Magpies fans who bet a minimum of $5 through the agency a chance to sit in the coach's box for one of the big rounds of the season against Carlton.
Last year the Tom Waterhouse juggernaut kicked into gear with sponsorship of the Sydney Swans. One of his consultants on the deal said a key factor was access to the Swans' club membership database.
This year it was rugby union members who were receiving invitations to take a punt with Waterhouse. This season NRL viewers will see Waterhouse replace Keno replays as a feature during games after he managed to kick out the $2.3 billion heavyweight Tabcorp as an official NRL partner.
The eye-watering $50 million Waterhouse reportedly paid to become the official NRL partner over the next five years gives some indication of the money involved, even if insiders say the figure is overinflated.
AFL and NRL game broadcasts became so heavily saturated with commentary on sport odds, and sponsored commentary, that even some of the sports betting operators admitted that it had gone too far.
The 2010 Brownlow medal ceremony was marred by saturation betting promotion and the AFL was forced to act.
''We agreed generally [Ten's gambling promotions during the 2010 Brownlow ceremony] was overdone,'' the then AFL chief operating officer, Gillon McLachlan, told Fairfax Media the following year in the lead-up to Seven's broadcast of the Brownlow.
Its agreement with Seven ensured the game won back some control over the promotion of sports betting.
The federal government also felt pressured to act around that time. In May 2011, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and the then assistant treasurer, Bill Shorten, fronted the press to announce Canberra's intention to work with the sport and betting industries to ''reduce and control'' the promotion of live odds during sports broadcasts.
The voluntary codes being developed are designed to ensure there is no live odds during a game, or by commentators at any time during the broadcast of a match. It will be allowed during breaks in play and must be clearly identified as a gambling promotion.
''The three free-to-air commercial broadcasters are already implementing these principles,'' a spokesman for Senator Conroy said this week.
The representative body for the major sporting codes, the Coalition of Major Professional and Participation Sports, has also indicated that live odds promotions on big screens at sporting venues should be prohibited during play.
The AFL has already reached agreement with the MCG and Etihad Stadium to prohibit in-ground live odds promotion during matches and is working with other venues to put in place similar arrangements.
''The government will evaluate the effectiveness of these measures before considering any further action,'' the spokesman said.
THERE is a lot at stake for the professional sporting codes and betting operators - especially the online operators that do not have any other avenue for reaching such a mass of potential punters than through advertising and sponsorships.
In 2011, it was Centrebet - not Tom Waterhouse - which played the role of market aggressor.
In a market presentation that year the company stated its intention to become one of the top two operators in the Australian corporate bookmaking market.
To get there it was spending $30 million on marketing, most of it targeted at the NRL and AFL. Some of this money was spent with the Sydney Cricket Ground.
As part of its deal with the SCG Centrebet said it would be given access to the Sydney Swans' team database to ''understand how the club works and how to convert fans to punters''.
The following year Centrebet was sold to British-based Sportingbet for $183 million.
Sportingbet is currently being taken over by another British rival, William Hill, in a trend which has seen British operators spend a fortune buying into Australia's lucrative betting market.
And they are bringing deep pockets and aggressive plans with them.
''Sportingbet's vast customer base, combined with William Hill's expertise, could further drive increased competition in the region,'' said a Merrill Lynch gaming analyst, Mark Bryan.
Bryan says these online agencies have triggered a battle for market share fed by takeovers of local operators by big European operators - including the Unibet acquisition of Betchoice last year - as well as the direct entrance of overseas competitors such as Bet 365.
''Recently, we have had contact with these players and see their reinvigorated competitive threat as serious,'' says Bryan.
According to Merrill Lynch, sports betting turnover is expected to exceed $4.5 billion in the current financial year, generating revenue of $410 million for the industry.
This is almost double what the industry generated just five years ago when the floodgates were opened in 2008 by a High Court decision that allowed bookmakers to advertise in states where they were not licensed to operate.
For the first time, bookmakers licensed in the relatively lax regulatory environment of the Northern Territory had access to advertising and sponsorship as a customer acquisition tool.
Strong double-digit growth is expected to see revenue reach $513 million in another two years.
Importantly for the sports betting industry, the current plans to curb the promotion of live odds at matches and on broadcasts will do little to affect the substance of this profitable relationship between the sporting codes and betting providers.
But for some, the planned restrictions do not go far enough.
The new inquiry by the joint select committee on gambling reform is expected to report on May 16 and will cover in-ground and broadcast advertising, sponsorship and ''exposure to, and influence on, children''.
The inquiry's findings are not expected to provide too many surprises. They covered much of the same ground in 2011 as part of a related inquiry.
Senator Xenophon says the fresh inquiry is timely.
''We can actually dig deeper into the links between the sport codes and the gambling entities and determine whether it is healthy or not for sport,'' he says.
The report handed down not much more than a year ago was damning on many fronts. The recommendations from the committee included a total ban on the promotion of live odds both at venues and during game broadcasts.
More ominously it called for ''nationally consistent standards to restrict certain forms of sports betting advertising, which at a minimum, should include a ban on the display of gambling companies' logos on sporting players' uniforms and merchandise [such as children's replica sports shirts], as well as restrictions on the giveaways of free merchandise which depict betting companies' logos''.
Many submissions to the previous inquiry attributed the rapid pace of growth in sports betting in recent years to the ''proliferation of marketing campaigns to promote online sports betting services''.
Dr Sally Gainsbury and Professor Alex Blaszczynski, academics with a strong background in gambling research, reported: ''Partnerships between internet gambling corporations and sporting associations appear to be quite symbiotic as costs associated with sports increase and sports fans represent an ideal market for online gambling.''
They noted that sports betting was Australia's fastest-growing form of gambling, a fact attributed to the increased popularity of interactive wagering complemented by aggressive advertising on television.
The Australian Internet Bookmakers Association spoke of how ''sponsorship is a valuable source of funding for sporting organisations''. But the relationship is just as valuable for the betting shops. Even Clubs Australia - the peak representative body for Australia's pubs, clubs and their pokies interests - felt the need to make a submission protesting about the conduct of its sports betting rivals.
Clubs Australia said excessive sports betting advertising ''glamorises participation in gambling'' and noted that land-based venues did not operate on a level playing field in relation to advertising.
More seriously, Gainsbury and Blaszczynski made a connection that few in the industry would want to hear. ''Although mandated and self-regulated codes of conduct restrict the involvement of other 'non-healthy' products including tobacco, alcohol and junk food, little attention has been paid to the potential harm caused by sports sponsorship from internet gambling corporations,'' they said in the joint submission.
They made the observation that the trend was apparent in the way that ''lucrative gambling contracts and sponsorship of sporting clubs and television broadcasts is now replacing alcohol and tobacco sponsorship''.
It was a point the committee did not ignore, saying it noted with concern the information provided to it indicating ''children are vulnerable to the gambling advertising messages and that we do not know the long-term effect of this level of exposure''.
DESPITE calls by Senator Xenophon for all sports betting to be temporarily banned while the ACC allegations are clarified, no one is suggesting there is any serious corruption associated with Australia's highly regulated gambling industry. While betting scandals have dogged the AFL and NRL in recent years, this was actually a result of the way that betting operators now have the analytic tools, and the obligation, to investigate suspicious bets and unusual betting patterns. While a complete ban can never be ruled out it seems unlikely given all the concerns about corruption mentioned by the ACC originated overseas.
''The ACC didn't talk to us,'' says Sportsbet chief executive Cormac Barry, who spoke of the ''speculative'' link that was made between drugs and match fixing.
The betting operators also make the point that you can't ban betting, you can only ban legalised betting.
''As soon as you've got a live broadcast of a sporting event you've got someone betting on it,'' says Tabcorp chief executive David Attenborough.
According to Attenborough, the best way to preserve the integrity of sport is to make sure it is in a properly regulated environment. ''You can never guarantee it, but Australia has some of the most sophisticated gaming regulations in the world.''
Tabcorp's very existence is testimony to this philosophy.
Like the other state Totalisator Agency Boards, Tabcorp was set up in Victoria in the 1960s to take race betting out of the hands of illegal SP bookmakers and into the hands of a government-run agency that ensured the government and racing industries, rather than organised crime, profited from gambling.
The Australian Wagering Council - the representative body for many online betting operators - said the ACC revelations clearly identified the need to ensure Australian gamblers and sports bodies were protected from unregulated offshore illegal gambling operators and local illegal SP bookmakers.
OF COURSE, a ban on sports betting advertising and promotion would not entirely remove the tentacles of gambling from Australia's most prominent sporting clubs.
NRL clubs have relied heavily on revenue from poker machines to help fill their coffers for decades and the restructure of the poker-machine market in Victoria last year ensures many AFL clubs will follow suit.
In the NRL, the Canterbury Bulldogs are reported to draw about $4 million a year from their associated licensed club.
Carlton was generating about the same amount from poker machines in 2011.
Former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett may be vocal in his call to ban sports betting advertising, but as the president of Hawthorn he cemented the club's financial future through poker machines, which help provide the club with a steady income stream.
Colin Kruger is a business reporter. He joined the Sydney Morning Herald in 1999 as its technology editor. Other roles have included the Herald's deputy business editor and online business editor.


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Browsing Working Papers (DBP) by Author "Hull Kristensen, Peer"
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An institutionalist perspective on international managementHull Kristensen, Peer; Morgan, Glenn (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Multinationals are faced with the problem of how to coordinate different actors and stop 'fiefdoms' emerging that inhibits the achievement of transnational cooperation? We identify this as a problem of 'constitutional ordering' in the firm. Drawing on Varieties of Capitalism approaches, we explore how multinationals from different contexts seek to create constitutional orders. We argue that the models which exist appear to be destructive of coordination. We explore the implications for MNCs. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7340
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Varieties of Institutionalism: varieties of capitalismHull Kristensen, Peer; Morgan, Glenn (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The paper argues that the contrast between studies of MNCs which emphasise isomorphism and those which emphasise social embeddedness is unhelpful. Following recent institutionalist discussions which have emphasised the dynamic nature of firms, and institutions, it is argued that the transnational social space of the multinational encompasses a variety of different forms of actors which are engaged in processes that partially produce isomorphism and partially reproduce institutional difference. This perspective is proposed not as a middle way between the two institutionalisms but as a way to capture the ongoing dynamics of MNCs. The paper illustrates this approach through considering four ideal-typical 'games' which occur inside MNCs. These games are analysed in terms of the actors, the institutional resources brought into the game, the emerging rules of the game, the outcomes of the game and how these processes relate to institutional theory. These games reveal the complex interaction of processes of isomorphism and social differentiation and suggest an agenda for further research on MNCs that will focus on examining how these games interact and with what effect in different sorts of multinationals. Keywords: Multinationals; institutionalism; varieties of capitalism; isomorphism; embeddedness. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7355
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Og dens relevans i dagHull Kristensen, Peer (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Dette working paper er en mere omfattende udgave af et Kapitel om "Den tidlige Organisationssociologi", som jeg har skrevet til Peter Kjær og Signe Vikkelsøs bog om Klassisk og Moderne Organiationssociologi, der er planlagt til at udkomme på Hans Reitsels Forlag i efteråret 2013. Dette working paper er mere omfattende og fylder flere ord end der var plads til i ovennævnte bog. Da meget af det, der nødvendigvis måtte skæres bort, forekommer mig specielt vigtigt, har jeg valgt at gennemarbejde den oprindelige version endnu en gang og udsende kapitlet på denne måde. Specielt vigtigt for mig var det, at der efterhånden, som jeg gravede, fremkom en vidensarkæologi, som var langt mere sammenhængende og stærk end jeg før havde troet. Samtidig blev det efterhånden tydeligt for mig at elementerne fra de forskellige forfattere kunne sættes sammen, således er der blev formet en meget stærk form for organisatorisk analyse-måde, som der er et voldsomt behov for i dag, hvor organisationsforskningen nok står over for lige så store udfordringer, som de tidlige amerikanske organisationssociologer gjorde under den progressive periode. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8772
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Lessons from Special Education in FinlandSabel, Charles; Saxenian, AnnaLee; Miettinen, Reijo; Hull Kristensen, Peer; Hautamäki, Jarkko (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
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A Route to a New Negotiating Order in High Performance Work Organizations?Hull Kristensen, Peer (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Contrary to a widely held view, rather than seeing the certification of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) as a barrier to increasing employee participation, this article views new ways of structuring participation as a necessary step towards making improvements in OHS management systems. The article first considers how work organization has changed and then in a similar way traces how bargaining has shifted from being distributive to become integrative to create a fundamental change in the negotiation regime. Finally, by analysing an OHS-certified firm in greater depth, the article shows how solutions for improvements in OHS management and notable bottom-up formulations of OHS benchmarks may help us discover how the organizational form of firms in which high-performance work organization can be developed through new participative structures. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8204
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Competency and Change in Public Sector Work PracticesHull Kristensen, Peer; Bojesen, Anders (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper invites to discuss the processes of individualization and organizing being carried out under what we might see as an emerging regime of change. The underlying argumentation is that in certain processes of change, competence becomes questionable at all times. The hazy characteristics of this regime of change are pursued through a discussion of competencies as opposed to qualifications illustrated by distinct cases from the Danish public sector in the search for repetitive mechanisms. The cases are put into a general perspective by drawing upon experiences from similar change processes in MNCs. The paper concludes by asking whether we can escape from a regime of competence in a world defined by a rhetoric of change and create a more promising world in which doubt and search serve as a strategy for gaining knowledge and professionalism that improve on our capability for mutualism. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7376
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Hull Kristensen, Peer; Lotz, Maja (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper suggests that it is time to take the agency of teams seriously. Whereas the debate has previously focused on how firms may function more effectively by using team-based work-organization, our aim is to discuss and understand how teams effect the evolutionary dynamic of companies. Fieldwork in four Danish manufacturing companies helped us discover that firms as "communities of teams" are highly dynamic entities with complex layers of different team forms that operate, innovate and improve by constantly recombining work, collaborating across organizational divisions and redistributing authority, thereby challenging some of the existing "idioms" of team research and theories of the firm. The paper builds on these findings as we attempt to rethink research on teams by re-describing the evolutionary dynamics of firms and suggesting some themes that call for comparative research. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8205
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ykcowrebbaJ - Alice in the Hands of Her Translators: Emer O'Sullivan Looks at the German Alice Tradition
Anyone who takes Anglo-German children's book relations seriously finds themselves standing before the curious history of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland as it has been interpreted in Germany. In her latest scholarly book in German, entitled Kinderliterarische Komparatistik (English roughly: Comparative Children's Literature Studies), Emer O'Sullivan traces the varied approaches over the last century to this peculiar pièce de résistance.
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Attendance Letter
Dear Parents/Guardians:
In an effort to stress the importance of daily school attendance to your child's success, we are sending this letter as a reminder of California Education Law 48200 that requires compulsory daily attendance for students 6-18 years of age. Parents/guardians that choose to enroll their children in Kindergarten are subject to this Education Code Law as well.
Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District (LVJUSD) is committed to ensuring academic excellence for all our students. Maximizing our children's achievement must begin with daily school attendance and we feel with everyone working together we can create that success. It is vital for the LVJUSD to build on a shared value of education by maintaining the essential partnership between school and home to ensure daily attendance. If your child is absent, California Education Code allows EXCUSED absence for the following:
1. Illness
2. Medical, dental, eye appointments (please try & schedule these before or after school)
3. Quarantine (determined by medical professional)
4. Funeral services for immediate family members
5. Court ordered appearance (filed and signed)
The parent/guardian of the student must send a note and/or phone the school to clear any of the above listed excused absences. Failure to excuse the absence will result in a recorded truancy on the student's permanent record. Please remember all absences and tardies must be cleared within 72 hours of the occurrence.
Another way to support your child's daily attendance is by reviewing the school District calendar to plan family vacations to coincide with school breaks. Parent notification to the school of a student's absence for an unexcused reason will result in the loss of instructional time, and parents will be notified of truancy violations as determined by California Ed Code 48200. Examples of reasons that are NOT EXCUSED are:
Visiting Relatives Student's Birthday Oversleeping
Car Trouble Childcare by student at home Vacations
Family moving from one home to another
School staff may request your attendance at a conference when your child is absent from school for reasons that are not excused. The District sends notification to parents/guardians of students who accumulate three or more days of unexcused absences and/or tardies and/or an excessive number of excused absences. That letter will inform the family of potential declaration of truancy on your child's school record according to Education Codes 48260 and 48263.6.
Please review this attendance information with your child and take the necessary measures to ensure your child's success. We appreciate your assistance in making school attendance a priority.
Thank you for your support,
Scott Vernoy
Director of Student Services
Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District
Attendance Hotline
606-4812, ext. 2333
Regular attendance and school work are necessary for students to benefit from their educational experience. Students with poor attendance generally have poor achievement and grades. Students are expected to be in class, on time, daily. Students with unexcused absences or tardies lose extra curricular privileges and must make up time missed. The State of California and the Livermore School District (http://www.livermoreschools.com) do not provide for any tardy to be excused. Parents are required to be involved in student intervention for poor attendance.
To excuse an absence, a student must, within three school days of an absence, bring a note, signed by a parent, to the Attendance Office, stating the dates absent, and the reason for the absence (student's and parent's last name must be on the note). Parents may also call (925) 606-4812, ext. 2333 to excuse absences giving the same information. The Attendance Office staff will notify teachers of excused absences. Excused absences shall be for illness, medical appointments, funerals, quarantine, jury duty, court appearance, observance of religious holiday, attending a religious retreat, caretaking of a pupil's sick child, and employment conferences. Family trips, vacations, babysitting, and other personal business are not excused absences.
In order to attend dances, students may have no more than three unexcused absences within the announced time period before a dance.
Absences not cleared within three school days automatically become unexcused absences, or cuts. Students absent without a valid excuse for more than three days in one school year are classified as truant. Students who are more than 30 minutes tardy on three or more school days in more than one school year without a valid reason are also classified as truant.
Unexcused Absence Policy
School District policy permits teachers to lower a grade by 1/3 for each unexcused absence. This means that three unexcused absences can result in a student's grade dropping one full grade. Attendance and success in school go hand in hand. Parents are asked to work closely with their students to insure success in school.
Leaving Campus
Livermore High School is a closed campus. This means that students may not leave campus during the school day unless
1) they have been signed out at the Attendance Office
2) they are a senior with privileges to leave campus during lunchtime
Seniors will have this privilege depending on their prior reporting period grades and it may be revoked due to disciplinary, grades, attendance issues, and/or moving violations received while off campus during lunchtime. Students who leave without signing out and miss classes will be marked cut--even if they leave for legitimate reasons (e.g., a doctor's appointment).
Students are required to be in class when the bell rings. If the student is not, then a tardy is recorded in the attendance system. If you are more than 30 minutes late to a class, you will be given an unexcused absence. Teachers may establish their own attendance policies, and have the right to lower the students grade for each tardy.


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Re: Stranded Clones
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[url=http://lfgcomic.com/page/1]Interrogations are hard...[/url]
Message Boards - Boba Fett Fan Club → Role Playing → Stranded Clones
(good idea.)
Ok ive been gone for a while so hi new people. second im using my psp to do this so dont get mad if i have to double post
name : bob squad: 501 weapons e-11blaster grenades recon droid mines and a lightsaber hobbies: killing everyone who stands in my way
(501st isnt a squad, its more of a company, i think, or maby an army)
oh, i thought battlefront said they were a squad.
(That's the official ter, but they have a large enough force to rank as a legion or small army)
Oh, ok......uh......carry on.
{Where are we?}
dont know, lost intrest
Name: Hisuke Ichimura
Type:Clone commando
WOC:DC-17 blaster rifle with ant-armor attachement,10 proximity mines, 15 ec detanators,8 thermal detanators,
fusion cutter, and arc troop rocket launcher
Personality:Obediant,willing to do whatever it takes to help the squad, humorous
As Hisuke lay there barely concious from the fall, he'd been pushed off in a struggle when there gunship was going down. A beacon sprung to life on his HUD,emergency? No it looked more like a regroup rally point. He woozily dragged himself there , about half-way there he picked up some static every now and then but ignored it,
Almost there he picked up two life form readings drawing his DC-17 blaster rifle he slowly headed through the brush.
NOt to spoil your fun but this RPG is kind of dead.
yeah, like all of mine.
Name: Hud Fern
Fire Power: 79
Class: soldier
WOC: stun grenades, DC-17 blaster rifle, slung charges, vibro-ax and armour ( 100% )
Personality: Funny, Serious, at times and would die for his loyal marines.
Hud looked around. There was 6 or 7 clone troops, lying either on back or chest, dead in the soil. Hud shivered, there was no way out of this mess. He picked up a nearby flare gun and fired into the air. He hoped someone, even a clone, would recieve and see it. Otherwise he was doomed to live here all his remaining life.......
(This thread is dead. If you notice, the last in character post was almost 2 months ago)
But you always say that " you have to wait, others have to post, remember "
But you always say that " you have to wait, others have to post, remember "
No, I don't. And I don't think that applies when no one has posted for almost 2 months
Ok, did you mean that when i was asking from like a day ago, for people to post?......
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Tel Aviv is recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as the "White City" for its unparalleled number of white 1920s-era buildings made in the Bauhaus architectural style.
But on the south end of the city, in the working-class district of Kiryat Hamelacha, the reality is gritty, gray and a bit seedy. By day, strips of factories housing small machine shops operate out of warehouses and garages. By night, prostitutes and drug addicts roam the streets.
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"And it is precisely this environment," says Yonatan Mishal, who runs CTLV, an art and culture city touring company, "where Israeli artists get their passion and inspiration for creating local and global art."
He is taking ISRAEL21c on a brief but frenzied art tour of the district where about 30 studios house local and contemporary artists. Art spills out onto the streets and mixes and mingles with the sounds of machinery and the drum sets of young up-and-coming bands.
The tour is a prelude to Art Weekend, the opening event of Art Year in Tel Aviv. In 2012, Tel Aviv has introduced three major expansions of its best-loved cultural assets: The Herta and Paul Amir wing of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the refurbished Tel Aviv Cinematheque and Habima National Theater. Art Year celebrates these new additions.
In Kiryat Hamelacha, the range of creative forces in the city is evident. "There is high art and street art here," says Mishal. "There are drugs and prostitution, and this is the fundamental point: Art cannot be disconnected [from its environment]."
There is art hanging on gallery walls inside warehouses and painted on exterior building walls. The works of two of Israel's first street artists, Klone and 0 cent, can be seen while walking down the streets. Some might consider these works graffiti, but they actually are part of a movement, a group of about 20 recognized street artists in Israel that includes the international exhibitor Know Hope.
Street art, Mishal points out, didn't start in Israel until fairly recently, "when people came from other countries where there was a street art culture, as it's known in Europe and the United States."
A cultural shift
"One of the reasons that there was no real street art here, maybe it has something to do with Judaism," says Mishal, "where it is forbidden to make portraits [of people]." But in time, Israeli illustrators "started looking out to the world" for ideas.
While street art in residential neighborhoods of upscale North Tel Aviv is often painted over and cleaned up, in Kiryat Hamelacha the streets are an open canvas.
Mishal walks into the studios of some of the artists in the area who are happy to provide a glimpse of their creative processes.
Yuval Caspi and Ido Shemi, two contemporary artists, share a studio but work separately in humorous ways to expose the Israeli identity and spirit, using papier-mâché sculpture, soccer slogans and mascots, mixed media, art happenings and even holograms that illustrate in layers the unusual and sometimes hypocritical society in which they live.
These two artists, a few years back, were responsible for installing a massive blow-up duck atop Tel Aviv-Jaffa City Hall to honor their hero, the late illustrator Dudu Geva.
Down a flight of stairs and around the corner, a small collective of artists shares space, and the cost of rent, to fulfill their art dreams. One is a sculptor adding metallic elements, such as bike chains, to paintings. A costume designer is making kids' costumes, while a jewelry-maker and doll designer/illustrator work on their crafts.
Move over, Jaffa and Ein Hod
Pressured to move from the city center due to high rent, local artists have forged a small community on and around Factory Street in Kiryat Hamelacha. Mishal compares what's happening in this Tel Aviv neighborhood to the Chelsea area in New York City.
Typically, once the scene starts percolating, higher-end galleries come in — for example, the Rosenfeld Galley run by Zaki Rosenfeld, a second-generation gallery owner. His father Eliezer started one of the first art galleries in Tel Aviv in 1952. After spending many years on Dizengoff Street dealing with conservative art, Zaki decided to move into the South Tel Aviv area and turn contemporary.
It was a bold move, but he says the offbeat location has been good for business. In the city center, his gallery was more like a museum, since most shoppers were only looking, not buying. Now his regulars, who'd book ahead anyway for viewings, have a lot more access to parking. On one wall, the paint is still wet on the canvas of a rough oil painting by Marik Lechner.
The nearby Raw Art Gallery is currently exhibiting "Showing the Tragedy in Ethical Life" by Jonathan Hirschfeld. This is difficult art for many Israelis to see, Mishal says, because of the Christian imagery, and the subject matter.
"Art is on the edge, and the real thing is happening here in the south of Tel Aviv," he says.


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