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Google protobufs in a Click-Together Framework
For many applications, preprocessing the data can be as complicated and time consuming as the actual computation that generates the desired results. "Click-together tools" is a common design pattern that enables flexible and efficient data workflows by creating a pipeline of applications to process information. Each element in the pipeline reads data from an input (usually
stdin), performs some filtering or transformation operation, and writes the result to the output (usually
stdout). Information flows through these pipelines as packets of information comprised of streams of bytes. All elements in a click-together pipeline have the ability to read a packet of information and write it to an output. Based on the type of the packet of information, elements in the pipeline can decide to operate on the data or just pass it along to other elements in the pipeline.
A click-together framework naturally exploits the parallelism of multicore processors because each element in the pipeline is a separate application. The operating system scheduler ensures that any applications that have the data necessary to perform work will run — generally on separate cores. Buffering between applications allows very large data sets to be processed on the fly. Similarly, the parallelism of multiple machines can be exploited by piping data across machines with ssh, socat, or equivalent socket-based applications or libraries.
Scalable, high-performance workflows can be constructed by tying together multiple machines across a network or in the cloud. Component and plugin reuse reduces errors as most workflows can be constructed from existing "known working" applications. The flexibility of dynamic runtime loading allows CUDA to be used as a scripting language in creating and testing new workflows. Highly complex multistream workflows can be easily constructed using a load-balancing split operation based on simple socket-based programming techniques such as
select() or
poll() to determine when a stream is ready for more data. One possible workflow showing the use of multiple GPUs within a system and across a network is represented in the following figure.
Figure 1: Example workflow.
Keep in mind that each stream of information can be written out to disk as an archive of the work performed, to checkpoint results, or to use as the input deck for an application. Experience gained from decades of using this click-together framework has shown that each packet of information needs to be preceded by a header similar to the one shown below:
|Version number
|Size (in bytes) of packet
|Packet Type ID
|Size (in bytes) of packet
Figure 2: Example header.
It is important that the header include a version number as it allows libraries to transparently select the correct formatting and serialization methods. For example, data streams that I saved to disk in the early 1980s at Los Alamos National Laboratory are still usable today. For robustness, it is necessary to duplicate the size of the packet to detect "silent" transmission errors. Otherwise, bit-errors in the packet size can cause bizarre failures as an application may suddenly attempt to allocate 232 or 264 bytes of memory (depending on the number of bits used to store the size). I have seen such errors when preprocessing data sets on clusters of machines when the processing takes many weeks to complete. Machine failures can cause successful transmission of bogus information across a TCP network. The redundancy in the size information provides a high likelihood that bit rot in persistent streams will be found. Some disk subsystems, especially inexpensive ones, are susceptible to bit rot caused by multibit data errors. So long as the size is known, the packet information can be correctly loaded into memory where other more extensive checks or error recovery can occur. Even if that particular packet is corrupt, the remaining packets in the stream can be correctly loaded so all is not lost.
Following is a simple definition of a header that can be adapted to a variety of languages.
struct simpleHeader { uint64_t version, size1, packetID, size2; }
Each application, regardless of language, must be able to read and understand this header. The application programmer can decide what to do with each packet of information. At the very least, the programmer can just pass on the packet of information without affecting the packet contents, or discard the packet and remove it from the data stream. Regardless, all header data is transferred between applications in binary format using network standard byte order so that arbitrary machine architectures can be used. This type of streaming protocol has run successfully on systems for decades.
The following pseudocode describes how to read and write one or more packets of information. For clarity, this pseudocode does check that every I/O operation was successful. Actual production code needs to be very strict about checking every operation.
while ( read the binary header information == SUCCESS) { • Compare header sizes (a mismatch flags an unrecoverable error) • Allocate size bytes (after converting from network standard byte order) • Binary read of size bytes into the allocated memory. // perform the write • Binary write the header in network standard byte order • Binary write the packet information }
Most users will utilize a common data interchange format for the packet data. By appropriately specifying the type of the packet in the header, proprietary and special high-performance formats can also be mixed into any data stream. Whenever possible, binary data should be used for performance reasons. This tutorial uses Google Protocol Buffers (protobufs) because they are a well-supported free binary data interchange format that is fast, well-tested, and robust. Google uses protobufs for most of their internal RPC protocols and file formats. Code for a variety of destination languages can be generated from a common protobuf description. Generators exist for many common languages including C, C++, Python, Java, Ruby, PHP, Matlab, Visual Basic, and others. I have used protobufs on workstations and supercomputers.
The following protobuf specification demonstrates how to describe messages containing vectors of various types. For simplicity, only floating-point and double precision vectors are defined.
package tutorial; enum Packet { UNKNOWN=0; PB_VEC_FLOAT=1; PB_VEC_DOUBLE=2; PB_VEC_INT=3; } message FloatVector { repeated float values = 1 [packed = true]; optional string name = 2; } message DoubleVector { repeated float values = 1 [packed = true]; optional string name = 2; }
The .proto file is compiled to a destination source language with the protoc source language generator. The following is the command to generate a C++ source package using tutorial.proto. The protoc compiler will also generate Java and Python source packages. Consult the protobuf website for links to source generators for other languages.
protoc --cpp_out=. tutorial.proto
Linux users can install protobufs from the application manager such as "apt-get" under Ubuntu. Windows users will need to download and install protobufs from the code.google.com site. Google provides Visual Studio solutions to help with building the code generator and libraries.
The following file, packetheader.h, contains the methods to read and write the header and packet information in a stream containing multiple protobuf messages. For general use, note that the message type is defined via the
enum in the .proto file. Your own message packets can be utilized by adding to these definitions.
For brevity, many essential checks have been left out of packetheader.h. C++ purists will note that
cin and
cout are changed to support binary information in the method
setPacket_binaryIO(). This was done for convenience as it allows the use of pipes to easily "click-together" applications. While not part of the C++ standard, most compilers support binary I/O on
std::cin and
std.cout. C++ programmers who object to this practice can either change the scripts to manually specify the FIFOs and network connections so they can use binary I/O according to the C++ standard, or they can use the C language. Windows programmers will note that packetheader.h uses the Microsoft provided
_setmode() method to perform binary IO.
#ifndef PACKET_HEADER_H #define PACKET_HEADER_H #ifdef _WIN32 #include <stdio.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <io.h> #include <stdint.h> #include <Winsock2.h> #else #include <arpa/inet.h> #endif // a simple version identifier static const uint32_t version=1; // change cin and cout so C++ can use binary inline bool setPacket_binaryIO() { #ifdef _WIN32 if(_setmode( _fileno(stdin), _O_BINARY) == -1) return false; if(_setmode( _fileno(stdout), _O_BINARY) == -1) return false; #endif return true; } inline bool writePacketHdr (uint32_t size, uint32_t type, std::ostream *out) { size = htonl(size); type = htonl(type); out->write((const char *)&version, sizeof(uint32_t)); out->write((const char *)&size, sizeof(uint32_t)); out->write((const char *)&type, sizeof(uint32_t)); out->write((const char *)&size, sizeof(uint32_t)); return true; } template <typename T> bool writeProtobuf(T &pb, uint32_t type, std::ostream *out) { writePacketHdr(pb.ByteSize(), type, out); pb.SerializeToOstream(out); return true; } inline bool readPacketHdr (uint32_t *size, uint32_t *type, std::istream *in) { uint32_t size2, myversion; in->read((char *)&myversion, sizeof(uint32_t)); myversion = ntohl(myversion); if(!in->good()) return(false); in->read((char *)size, sizeof(uint32_t)); *size = ntohl(*size); if(!in->good()) return(false); in->read((char *)type, sizeof(uint32_t)); *type = ntohl(*type); if(!in->good()) return(false); in->read((char *)&size2, sizeof(uint32_t)); size2 = ntohl(size2); if(!in->good()) return(false); if(*size != size2) return(false); return(true); } template <typename T> bool readProtobuf(T *pb, uint32_t size, std::istream *in) { char *blob = new char[size]; in->read(blob,size); bool ret = pb->ParseFromArray(blob,size); delete [] blob; return ret; } #endif
The program testWrite.cc demonstrates how to create and write both
double and
float vector messages. The default vector length is 100 elements. Larger messages can be created by specifying a size on the command-line.
// Rob Farber #include <iostream> using namespace std; #include "tutorial.pb.h" #include "packetheader.h" int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { GOOGLE_PROTOBUF_VERIFY_VERSION; int vec_len = 100; // allow user to change the size of the data if they wish if(argc > 1) vec_len = atoi(argv[1]); // change cin and cout to binary mode // NOTE: this is not part of the C++ standard if(!setPacket_binaryIO()) return -1; tutorial::FloatVector vec; for(int i=0; i < vec_len; i++) vec.add_values(i); tutorial::DoubleVector vec_d; for(int i=0; i < 2*vec_len; i++) vec_d.add_values(i); vec.set_name("A"); writeProtobuf<tutorial::FloatVector>(vec, tutorial::PB_VEC_FLOAT, &std::cout); vec_d.set_name("B"); writeProtobuf<tutorial::DoubleVector>(vec_d, tutorial::PB_VEC_DOUBLE, &std::cout); return(0); }
The program testRead.cc demonstrates how to read the header and messages via a stream. The string associated with the optional name in the protobuf message is printed when provided.
// Rob Farber #include <iostream> #include "packetheader.h" #include "tutorial.pb.h" using namespace std; int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { GOOGLE_PROTOBUF_VERIFY_VERSION; // Change cin and cout to binary mode // NOTE: this is not part of the C++ standard if(!setPacket_binaryIO()) return -1; uint32_t size, type; while(readPacketHdr(&size, &type, &std::cin)) { switch(type) { case tutorial::PB_VEC_FLOAT: { tutorial::FloatVector vec; if(!readProtobuf<tutorial::FloatVector>(&vec, size, &std::cin)) break; if(vec.has_name() == true) cerr << "vec_float " << vec.name() << endl; cerr << vec.values_size() << " elements" << endl; } break; case tutorial::PB_VEC_DOUBLE: { tutorial::DoubleVector vec; if(!readProtobuf<tutorial::DoubleVector>(&vec, size, &std::cin)) break; if(vec.has_name() == true) cerr << "vec_double " << vec.name() << endl; cerr << vec.values_size() << " elements" << endl; } break; default: cerr << "Unknown packet type" << endl; } } return(0); }
These applications can be built and tested under Linux with the following commands:
nvcc -I . testWrite.cc tutorial.pb.cc -l protobuf -o testWrite nvcc -I . testRead.cc tutorial.pb.cc -l protobuf -o testRead echo "----------- simple test -----------------" ./testWrite | ./testRead
On Windows systems:
PB_BASE=protobuf-2.4.1/vsprojectsPB_INC=$PB_BASE/includePB_LIB=$PB_BASE/Release echo "------------ Building -------------------" nvcc -Xcompiler "/MD /EHsc" -I $PB_INC -L $PB_LIB testWrite.cc tutorial.pb.cc -llibprotobuf Ws2_32.lib -o testWrite.exe nvcc -Xcompiler "/MD /EHsc" -I $PB_INC -L $PB_LIB testRead.cc tutorial.pb.cc -llibprotobuf Ws2_32.lib -o testRead.exe echo "----------- simple test -----------------"./testWrite.exe | ./testRead.exe
The following output was generated under Linux. Windows users will see the same output.
$:~/DDJ023/protobuf_examples$ sh BUILD.linux ----------- simple test ----------------- vec_float A 100 elements vec_double B 200 elements


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Nelsan Ellis Gossip
Nelsan Ellis gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Countdown to TB4
True Blood's Main 3 were all present last night at the show's fourth season premiere. Check out Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, and Alexander Skarsgard on the carpet alongside almost the entire TB cast as HBO gets ready for one of its marquee shows, and one of its strongest performers. Also attached – photos of the lovely Rutina Wesley who needs, desperately, for the writers to give her a better storyline; Sam Trammell and his pregnant girlfriend Missy Yager; Ryan Kwanten and Lindsay Pulsifer, one of my True Blood bright spots because, clearly, you've never met a more incompetent couple; the badass Nelsan Ellis whose witch and Jesus storyline will feature prominently; and the lovely Kristin Bauer whose chemistry with Skarsgard's Eric is maybe the best on the show. Full Story
Do you miss True Blood?
The cast of True Blood was featured at PaleyFest 2011 the other day with details, sort of, about what to expect next season. If you've been joining the TV LiveBlog with Duana on Thursdays, you'll note my comment last week about True Blood – that I watch while it's on, but that once it's over, I actually don't miss it. Full Story

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"Light and loving . . . a welcoming, happy book." —San Francisco Chronicle"Like returning to a country inn, where you know the owner, where they save your favorite room for you, and the bartender remembers what you drink. . . . Provence has been fortunate in its laureates." —The New York Times Book Review"Peter Mayle [is] something of a wonder . . . chronicling the scene around him in irresistible prose . . . the joys of a bountiful climate, brilliant sun and a splendid cuisine." —Time


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/ Thursday, August 20, 2009 / 9 Comments / Dessert , Frozen Treats
Chocolate Sorbet
Okay, this is a Chocolate sorbet recipe. This is what I called a good frozen treat; but, minus the guilt! So, do try the recipe and enjoy!
Recipe adapted from The Perfect Scoop by David Lebovitz
Chocolate Sorbet
(Printable Recipe)
2 1/4 Cups (555 ml) Water
1 Cup (200 g) Sugar
3/4 Cup (75 g) Unsweetened Dutch-process Cocoa Powder
Pinch of salt
6 oz (170 g) Bittersweet or Semisweet Chocolate, finely chopped
1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
In a heavy-based saucepan, whisk together 1 1/2 cups (375 ml) of the water with the sugar, cocoa powder, and salt. Bring it to a boil, whisking frequently. Let it boil, continuing to whisk, for 45 seconds.
Remove from the heat and stir in the chocolate until it's melted, then stir in the vanilla extract and the remaining 3/4 cup (180 ml) water. Transfer the mixture to a blender and blend for 15 seconds. Allow the mixture to cool thoroughly, then freeze it in an ice cream maker. If the mixture has become too thick to pour into your machine, whisk it vigorously to thin it out.
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This chocolate sorbet seems very easy to make. I'll get the kids involved in the kitchen. I'm sure they'll end up licking everything, it sounds delicious!ReplyDelete
Wow, I can't believe that's sorbet! It looks incredibly dark and rich. I love super dark chocolate! :)ReplyDelete
Just lovely. Dark chocolate is my absolute favorite.scReplyDelete
Look how dark that is! YUM!!!!ReplyDelete
I made this yesterday, so rich! It's hard to believe theres no cream in it! I think this will be my new ice creamReplyDelete
Oh, my - this sorbet is so dark, it looks absolutely luscious. Must, must make this soon!!!ReplyDelete
@Jackie at PhamFatale.com: Good idea to get kids involved and it should be fun too.ReplyDelete
@jglee: I love dark chocolate too!
@Bethie: Same here.
@Jennifer: Yes, dark and yummy.
@chanina: I'm glad that you made the sorbet.
@Sam@BingeNYC: Do try to make them.
- AnonymousJune 27, 2010 at 6:15 AM
Wow, I've never seen chocolate sorbet before. The pictures are absolutely awesome~ReplyDelete
I've made this recipe several times and it's one of my favourites from The Perfect scoop. Incredibly rich. A little bit goes a long way!ReplyDelete


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Elizabeth Allen-Cannon
Elizabeth Allen-Cannon was born in 1988 in Kansas City, Mo. While attending the Rhode Island School of Design, she was chosen for the European Honors Program to study abroad in Rome, Italy, and completed a fellowship at the RISD Museum of Art in Art Conservation. After completing her BFA, she moved back to Kansas City and was accepted into Charlotte Street Foundation's Urban Culture Project residency. In 2012, she was selected to be a participating artist in the Kansas City Collection II. Currently, Elizabeth is represented by Blue Gallery (Kansas City, Missouri), and her work can be found in private collections nationwide.


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Miscellaneous thoughts about miscellaneous matters
Humans have been consuming alcohol for at least as long as there have been humans, and there are good reasons to believe that the desire for more alcohol was the driving force behind the development of agriculture. Humans probably got their first tastes of alcohol from fallen fruit that naturally fermented. There's no way to tell for sure, but there are signs of ale, sort of, having been made from seeds about twenty-five thousand years ago, and it is generally accepted that agriculture developed
The philosophy and idealism that was championed during the Enlightenment and cherished in the United States of America and restored by the Counter Culture in the 1960s and 1970s is starting to erode again. There seem to be people who think that their opinions and religious beliefs are better than the opinions of others. I learned that that opinion is best characterized as totalitarianism, and it has led to religious persecution in the past and in the present. That is the philosophy that ISIS is
Religious discrimination
Here in the U.S.A. we are guaranteed the right to practice the religion of our choice, which is interesting, and we are further guaranteed that there will be no establishment of religion, but this part has been completely ignored. Organized religion has been established as official and even granted tax exempt status. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. This was applied to


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Lesson Plan
Discussion Guide for Fallen Angels and Sunrise Over Fallujah
Use this discussion guide about Walter Dean Myers's stunning novels to help your students think critically about war and make connections between the two books.
6–8, 9–12
Quick links to lesson materials:
Two wars. Two generations. A story that links them together.
Walter Dean Myers's stunning Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel, Fallen Angels, about the Vietnam War, was published in 1988. Twenty years later, Walter wrote a riveting contemporary companion, Sunrise Over Fallujah, that again shows the devastating personal realities of war.
In Fallen Angels we met seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, a soldier in the Vietnam War. Now, in Sunrise Over Fallujah, set in 2003, Walter introduces us to Robin "Birdy" Perry, Richie's nephew, a kid from Harlem, who comes face to face with war's ugliest sides — and recounts this in letters to his Uncle Richie. Through Robin's account, we begin to understand the realities behind the headlines — about the horror of war, and what war means to young people and their families.
Sunrise Over Fallujah is a novel that is deeply personal to Walter. He's served in the army himself. His brother was killed in Vietnam, and his oldest son is a career officer. And in the twenty years since Fallen Angels was published, Walter has received hundreds of letters from kids and families touched by war — and this is one of the things that inspired him to write a companion novel about the new war of our times.
"My thinking about war has changed over the years," says Walter. "As a seventeen-year-old, having seen all of the John Wayne movies, I eagerly joined the army. When my brother, who followed me into the army, was killed in Vietnam, it was a rude awakening. War has suddenly become personal. I needed to write about it in a way that countered the romantic ideas. Fallen Angels was the result.
"I saw the first Gulf War on television being depicted as a kind of sterile video game with targets being hit by 'smart' weapons. But my oldest son, a career officer, was in that war and there was nothing sterile or gamelike in it for me. I saw the American sweep into Baghdad in Operation Iraqi Freedom being hailed as an easy victory. But I knew that there were men and women being killed, that behind the easy headlines there were tragedies being played out. Tragedies that will be with us for decades as our young warriors recover from terrible wounds and the emotional trauma of their experiences.
"Writing about war is a daunting task. There is the need to honor the brave men and women who have stepped up to defend our country. There is also the grim reality of what they will face. War is a difficult thing to talk about for those who are involved in it, and for them to explain to others. In the twenty years since Fallen Angels was published, many women have thanked me for helping them understand why their husbands were so reticent to speak about their wartime experiences, and I have had hundreds of letters from young people who, for the first, time, had some idea of what their fathers had gone through. These letters, and the quiet conversations in bookstores with people who had read the book a decade earlier, made me want to shoulder the responsibility of again writing about America at war.
"Today's teenagers, boys and girls, will be the ones asked to fight this nation's wars. Eventually they will also be the ones who decide whether a war is necessary or can be avoided. They need to do a lot of thinking before either picking up a weapon or casting a vote to go to war. It's my hope that Sunrise Over Fallujah will be the start of that thinking process."
Fallen Angels
About the Book
Richie Perry joins the army out of high school and is soon shipped to Vietnam. As he is immersed in the jungle war, with alternating stretches of boredom and terror, he is forced to face his fears, test his courage, and question his role in the difficult situations he must face along with his squad. Told from Richie's perspective, as a teenager forced to grow up too fast, Fallen Angels is a fast-paced war story that challenges the reader to ponder the toll that war takes on the human spirit.
Discussion Questions
- What do you think Richie Perry was like in high school? Why doesn't he try to go to college? How does he feel about his family? How does this affect his friendships in the army?
- Discuss the differences between Peewee and Jenkins when Richie first meets them. How did each get in the army? Why do they react so differently to being 'in country'?
- Discuss the character of Johnson. What is his importance to the squad? What makes him different from the others?
- Which of the squad members would you want for your friend? How does the experience of being in Vietnam affect the way the different squad members react to each other?
- Describe the effect of Jenkins's death on Richie and the other squad members. Describe their reaction to Lt. Carroll's death. How were these experiences different for each of them?
- Why does Richie find it so hard to write to his mother and Kenny? Why does his mother write to Peewee? Why does Peewee want Richie to write the letter to his girlfriend?
- Were Richie and the others prepared for the experience of being in Vietnam? Describe the climate and terrain of the country and how it affects them.
- What is their life like in the camp? How is it like home and how is it different?
- Describe the villages that the squad visits. What plans do they have to make friends with the Vietnamese? How does this work? How does it fail?
- It has been said that war is "long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror." How does this phrase capture the experience of the soldiers in Vietnam?
- Discuss the theme of "family" in this novel. What does Richie's family mean to him - before he leaves and after he has spent time in Vietnam? How does the squad function as a 'family'?
- Discuss the theme of friendship in this book. Describe how friendships develop and enmities arise within the squad members. Would Richie and Peewee have been close friends if they had met back home? Why does Peewee pick fights with guys bigger than he is?
- How does rank affect the way the men interact in the war? Are Captain Stewart's decisions based on him wanting to become a major, as some soldiers suggest?
- Discuss the concept of "heroism." Richie's English teacher had told him that what separated heroes from humans was the act of "not giving in," an idea he did not understand at the time. Does he understand at the end of the book? Who were the true "heroes" in this story? What acts or words separate them from the others?
- Discuss the title of the book and Lt. Carroll's prayer for "all the angel warriors who fall." Why did he use that term, and why did the author choose it as the title for this story?
Further Reading about the Vietnam War
10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War
by Philip Caputo
With full-page photographs and tight prose, this soldier/correspondent recreates the reality of war as he lived it.
A Rumor of War
by Philip Caputo
Caputo's experience as a marine in Vietnam recounts the horror of any war for the ones who must fight it.
Letters Home from Vietnam
Edited by Bernard Edelman
An eloquent record of one soldier-writer's eyewitness accounts of the war, profusely illustrated with stunning full-page photographs
Sonny's War
by Valerie Hobbs
Corin's brother Sonny is drafted and she experiences all the conflicting feelings of those who wait at home.
The Vietnam War (America at War)
by Maurice Isserman
A balanced account of the historical background and conduct of the war through the administration of four presidents.
Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam
by Cynthia Kadohata
Highlights the military canine program in which dogs are used to sniff out mines, search for enemy booby traps, and rescue wounded soldiers.
Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam
by Walter Dean Myers, Illustrated by Ann Grifalconi
An intense pictorial story replicates the fear and anguish of a foot soldier in the Vietnamese jungle, depicted in realistic collage art.
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
Looking at the war from a myriad of perspectives, O'Brien has written a powerful compilation of experience and reflection. The National Council of Teachers of English has published a teaching guide to this book for use in high school classrooms: Tim O'Brien in the Classroom: "This too is true: Stories can save us," by Barry Gilmore and Alexander Kaplan (2007).
Women in History: Women of the Vietnam War
by Mark Schynert
The roles of women, both native to Vietnam and the women who came with the American army, were changed immeasurably by the war in many ways.
The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty
by Ellen Emerson White
Through this fictional diary, Patrick recounts his feelings and terror as he is thrust deeper into the war.
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: The Diary of Molly MacKenzie Flaherty
by Ellen Emerson White
Back home in Boston, Patrick Flaherty's sister Molly confronts her concerns about the war and conflicting feelings about peace demonstrations.
American War Library - The Vietnam War: Life of an American Soldier
by Diane Yancey
The triumphs and tragedies of the war in Vietnam are highlighted by photographs and quotes from actual solders.
Sunrise Over Fallujah
About the Book
Robin Perry, the nephew of Richie Perry, joins the army in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and is subsequently sent to Iraq, where his comrades nickname him "Birdy." Robin's war experience is very different from his uncle Richie's in Vietnam thirty years earlier. The climate, the causes of the war, the inclusion of women in the combat forces, all create a contrast to that other war. But the experience of war itself is chillingly similar. Robin and his squad are assigned to work in "Civil Affairs," trying to help the Iraqi people in villages and in the countryside. Confusion over their duties and changing situations make their job hard to understand, but they do their best until they are sent on one mission that strikes sheer terror into their hearts and tests the courage of everyone involved.
Discussion Questions
- Describe Robin's personality. Why did he decide to join the army? Why does he write his most honest letters to his Uncle Richie?
- Describe Jonesy and Marla Kennedy. How does each of them relate to Robin? Would they have become friends if they were not in Iraq facing the difficulties of life there?
- When Robin sees his first death, how does it affect him? Another soldier says to him, "You get used to the killing." Does Robin ever get used to it?
- How does the roadside attack affect Robin? How does it affect Jonesy and Marla? How does it change their perception of the war?
- Describe Captain Miller. How does her mission differ from that of the infantry and the 'civil affairs' group? What is her response to the attack on her in Fallujah?
- Compare the Special Ops troops that Robin's group works with on their last mission with the other soldiers. Why are they so different? Why are their living arrangements so different? What happens when the mission goes wrong?
- Describe the climate and terrain of Iraq from what you have read in this story. How is it different from the places the soldiers came from back home? Are there any similarities?
- How safe is the "green zone" in Baghdad? How does it compare with the villages that Robin's squad visits outside Baghdad?
- How does the climate affect the characters in the story? Do they get used to the experience of living in Iraq?
- Myers often makes comparisons between the army life and a sports game. Discuss these comparisons. How is war the same as a sporting competition; how is it different?
- Robin says, "There was a whole battle going on around us that we didn't have any grip on . . ." What does he mean? Is there always more than one "battle" going on in a war?
- As the war progresses, Robin says, "The thing was that killing was taking on a different meaning to me . . . now I was willing to kill because I was afraid of being killed . . ." Is killing justified when it is in self-defense?
- What is the significance of the title? Why does Myers choose the incident in Fallujah to highlight in the name of the book?
- Robin tells his uncle in a letter, "Maybe you have to be a hero type to deal with the bigger things that happen to you." What does he mean by a "hero type" and the "bigger things"? How does heroism manifest itself in this story? Which of the characters do you think is a hero?
- Can wars be "won" or "lost"? In his last letter to Richie, Robin says he would doubt the truth of anyone saying in the future that we had "won" the war in Iraq, and also doubt it if they said we had "lost." What does he mean?
Further Reading about the Iraq War
Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U. S. Troops and Their Families
by Andrew Carroll
Eyewitness accounts through letters, emails, and journal entries, tell the story of actual experiences of the American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Crimes of War: Iraq
by Richard Falk, et. al.
Three scholars examine the Iraq War from a legal, historical, and psychological perspective.
Poets Against the War
Edited by Sam Hamill
Major American poets respond to a call for a statement of conscience in the aftermath of the U.S. initial bombing of Iraq.
Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq
by Kirsten Holmstedt
The Iraq War: Weapons of War
by Debra A. Miller
A Nation Challenged: A Visual History of 9/11 and Its Aftermath Young Reader's Edition
by The New York Times
A pictorial remembrance of the events that led eventually to the United States invasion of Iraq.
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
by Thomas E. Ricks
A Washington Post Pentagon reporter who has spent five tours in Iraq examines the war from all sides in this hard-hitting analysis.
Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War
by Anthony Shadid
A Lebanese-American and award-winning journalist, Shadid focuses on a selection of ordinary people in Iraq and their struggles before and during the war.
The Iraq War: Life of an American Soldier
by Michael V. Uschan
Hardships of this particular war are presented clearly with direct quotes from soldiers' letters and diaries.
Comparing the Novels
- Walter Dean Myers wrote Sunrise Over Fallujah twenty years after he wrote Fallen Angels. Both take a close and honest look at war, but in different eras. Other than the war theme, in what ways are the novels similar? In what ways are they different?
- Compare the character of Richie and the character of Robin. How are they similar? How are they different? How does the experience of war change each of them?
- Compare the experience of women in these two novels. Why do you think there are so many more female characters actively involved in the Iraq War than there were in the Vietnam War?
- Compare the setting in each of these novels. Which country presents the most difficult challenges for the American soldiers, both physically and mentally?
- Does it appear that Mr. Myers has gained a different perspective on war from twenty years ago? If so, what does the difference appear to be?
- How does it feel different for you, the reader, to be reading about a contemporary war versus one that took place a generation ago? How is it similar?
Further Reading about America at War
Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters - and One Man's Search to Find Them
by Andrew Carroll
From hand-written letters from the American Revolution to email messages sent by soldiers stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq, these communications back home are poignant and revealing.
War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars
by Andrew Carroll
This collection of war letters covers the Civil War through the first Persian Gulf War, reflecting on soldier's thoughts and fears.
Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq
Edited by Zlata Filipovic and Melanie Challenger
With Anne Frank as inspiration, these youthful diaries express the disrupted lives and heartache of soldiers and civilians alike.
Lines in the Sand: New Writings on War and Peace
Edited by Mary Hoffman and Rhiannon Lassiter
150 writers and artists of children's books contribute poems, essays, stories, and art to this compilation of creative work with the theme of peace.
War and the Pity of War
Edited by Neil Philip, Illustrated by Michael McCurdy
A collection of poems from many ages that express the horror and futility of war as well as the courage and honor of individuals.
About Walter Dean Myers
New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers has written more than 85 books for children and young adults. His award-winning body of work includes Fallen Angels, Monster, Somewhere in the Darkness, Slam!, Jazz, and Harlem, amongst many more. He has received two Newbery Honors and five Coretta Scott King Awards. He is the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award as well as the first recipient of Kent State University's Virginia Hamilton Literary Award.
Walter began writing at an early age. "I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too."
Realizing that his family would not be able to afford college, Walter joined the Army on his seventeenth birthday. When he got out three years later, he worked various jobs and he wrote at night. "I wrote for magazines," says Walter. "I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the National Enquirer, I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries." A winning contest entry with the Council on Interracial Books for Children became his first book, Where Does the Day Go? Later, he wrote his first young adult novel, Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff.
"I so love writing," says Walter. "It is not something that I am doing just for a living, this is something that I love to do. When I work, what I'll do is outline the story first. That forces me to do the thinking. I cut out pictures of all my characters and my wife puts them into a collage, which goes on the wall above the computer. When I walk into that room, I see the characters, and I just get very close to them. I rush through a first draft, and then I go back and rewrite, because I can usually see what the problems are going to be ahead of me. Rewriting is a lot more fun for me than the writing is."
Discussion guide prepared by Connie Rockman, Children's Literature Consultant, adjunct professor of children's and young adult literature, and Editor of the H. W. Wilson Junior Book of Authors and Illustrators series.


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When deciding where to attend college, more and more kids are looking at community colleges. Find out some of the benefits community colleges offer.
Save money: Attending community college can be a lot cheaper than some four-year schools. According to a study by the Center for College Affordability & Productivity, community colleges can be about half the price of four-year schools. For students who want to eventually transfer to four-year schools, or for those attending other schools who want to save money, they can take their general classes at a community college instead of at a larger, more expensive school.
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Some degrees out-earn four-year degrees: Some degrees offered at community colleges can rival some degrees from four-year schools in starting salaries. By not having larger student loans to pay back, the community college graduates can have a larger margin of profit on some degrees.
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Korg has released a synthesizer for the Nintendo DS, the Korg DS-10, that straddles the divide between game and pro app, though by doing so suffers from the typical sort of limitations found in other pro-sumer electronics product lines. The amazing feat is that Korg has managed to put an honest-to-god functioning synth in your pocket for pennies compared to a professional synth. The limitations of the Korg DS-10 synthesizer for pro users, however, are found in the limitations of mono-tracks that can only deliver one note at a time for a total of one measure. Oh, and there's no midi output, so that while you can save and even link up with other Nintendo DS units to play together, you can't export to your computer and play with it there.
In essence, this little Korg is still an instrument, not really a game, though I guess you could think of it as an infinitely variable musical toy. The Korg DS-10 design is all business in shades of black and white and gray. Keyboards, knobs, patch panel and mixer are rendered in a no-nonsense style. If you already know your way around a recording studio, the design makes it intuitive to use. If you're a newbie to music-making, your learning curve will be very high. And someone wanting instant songs success will be frustrated. But if you want to learn about audio and have the patience to master the tools,then the things you learn using the DS-10 synthesizer will be teaching you the real deal.
There are a variety of input options: a mini piano keyboard lets you select notes, a step sequencer were you tap your notes into a 16 x 16 grid, and then the freewheeling results from doodling the stylus on the Korg signature KAOSS pad. There are two sequencers that let you work in stereo. And there's a 4-track drum machine to lay your rhythm.
Once you record a sequence, you can tweak it on the edit screen by turning the various knobs that control things like attack, decay, pitch, etc. You can save presents for the color of the sound and load those as well. You have further control using the patch panel screen that has been designed to look like a real panel where you use wires to connect the source and target.
The drum sequencer has four tracks where you input your beats with a stylus. You can use the default drum kit or edit the sound of each on the drums edit screen. There you can create or color the sound of the percussion elements you then select in the drum sequencer.
You have an FX screen that lets you overlay one of three effects onto the sound you have created: Delay, Flanger and Chorus. Delay adds echo, Flanger adds a metallic edge, and Chorus adds overlapping sounds.
Finally, the Korg DS-10 has a mixer to let you adjust things like pan and volume for each track. Each sequence can be saved to a pattern list, which you can then string together or play in real time composing a series of one-measure patterns that hold the rhythm as they flip around.
As you can see, the Korg DS-10 offers a stunning set of synthesizer controls to a device that can fit in your pocket. There are limitations that come with the compact nature of this platform. The only on I cannot understand is the lack of midi output. This keeps it not only from being a really useful professional tool but limits the casual player who would be more inclined to stick with it if there were a way to get the resulting creations onto a computer or MP3 player. Still, the Korg DS-10 makes for a handy sketchpad for musicians and a fun toy to play with sounds and beats. As such it is great gift for a technically savvy kid who dreams of working in the music business.
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CLEVELAND, Tue May 1, 2012 – Credit unions across Ohio are on a mission to bring in $135,000 during the week of May 6 – but this time, it's not through deposits or loans. Credit unions such as Cleveland's own Firefighters Community Credit Union are raising the money for Children's Miracle Network and Ohio's Children's Hospitals through Marching Miles for Miracle Kids.
Local marchers will gather at FFCCU's downtown office (2300 St. Clair Avenue) on Thursday, May 10, when the sixth annual statewide walk-a-thon hits Cleveland at 9:30 a.m. About a third of FFCCU's 51-person staff will march the five miles to Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital.
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In its sixth annual year, Ohio Credit Union's Marching Miles for Miracle Kids has raised more than $500,000 for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals across the state. The 2012 goal could add $135,000 to that, which tops last year's total of more than $130,000. Nearly $16,000 of that stayed in Cleveland to support Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, part of the University Hospital network.


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DENVER, Colo. (March 10, 2013) – The U.S .Women's Sitting Volleyball Team completed its five-match exhibition with Canada on Sunday with a 25-16, 25-13, 25-12 victory at the Colorado Convention Center.
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The U.S. Women's Sitting Team led Canada in kills (24-11), blocks (4-3) and aces (20-4). Canada, which brought only six players for the exhibitions, was missing a player on its side on Sunday and U.S. players helped fill the gap.
Angela DeHaan (Yuba City, Calif.) and Nicole Nieves (Kissimmee, Fla.) led the U.S. in scoring with 11 points apiece. DaHaan scored on four kills and a team-high seven aces. Nieves scored on four attacks, a team-high two blocks and five aces.
Heather Erickson (Fayetteville, N.C.) added 10 points on nine attacks and one block. Kendra Lancaster (Westfield, Ind.) scored six points on four kills and two aces. Alexis Shifflett (Waseca, Minn.) scored four points on two kills and two aces. Cali Overcast (Colorado Springs, Colo.) totaled four points on one attack and three aces.
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Come Nov. 2, Grouplove fans won't actually have to be at the band's concert to see it live. That night, YouTube will be streaming Grouplove's New York City show live from Terminal 5. The show is sold out, and show will be streaming in HD, so watching it online is the next best thing to being there. The festivities start at 9:15 p.m. Eastern Nov. 2 on The Bowery Presents' YouTube channel. For more information, check out the exclusive video made by the band below, which includes little puppets and loads of mirth.
For those who lack high speed Internet, why not see Grouplove live? The band is on tour now. Dates follow the video.
Oct. 26—Altar Bar—Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Oct. 27—Water Street Music Hall—Rochester, New York
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I always shy away from the question, "will yoga help me lose weight?" Yoga is a practice meant to increase health, self awareness and acceptance, not necessarily shed the pounds. But, inevitably the question always comes up. Now, there seems to be scientific proof that yoga can contribute to weight loss.
Let's be clear, though. The link between yoga and weight loss is an indirect one. A study done by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington determined that people who engage in body awareness practices like yoga eat more mindfully. This means that they tend to stop eating once they are full, are less influenced by visual advertisements, avoid eating when distracted and don't eat as a distraction.
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Not exactly proof of weight loss. The study did find that generally mindful eaters weigh less, and yoga does contribute to mindful eating. The study concluded that over 40% of those questioned who practiced yoga had an average body mass index of 23.1 which is within the normal range compared to those who didn't practice yoga who fell into a body mass index of 25.8 which is slightly overweight. But it didn't address the BMI of those surveyed prior to beginning a yoga practice.
My biggest question about this study is the circumstantial connection between mindfulness, weight, and yoga.. Yes, yoga will increase self awareness, and as self awareness increases, so does the way we respect our physical bodies, but there is no proof within this study that the "mindfulness" and lower BMI are a direct result of the practice of yoga. As a participant in this practice for over a decade, I have observed that certain body shapes have a predisposition for yoga. People whose body shapes vary from the "norm" tend to shy away from the yoga practice out of fear or inadequacy. If yoga classes were a more accurate representation of our population as a whole, then maybe this info would be a little easier to swallow, but since they are not, I urge caution in using potential weight loss as a motivating factor for your students.
It may seem irreverent or unfair that I am not supporting this "positive" press about the practice of yoga, but the opposite is true. I have so much respect for this practice that I do not want to be promoting misinformation. It is entirely possible that after starting yoga, your body will change. You may become more conscious of how certain foods make you feel, you may become more easily satisfied or less attracted to unhealthy options because of the foundation of your practice. All of these results are possibilities, but the most important thing you learn is that yoga is a practice meant to enhance your Self. Yoga does not change or alter you at your core, it illuminates your ever present inner beauty which will begin to shine through all that you do. If this results in losing weight, then that may be a boon of your practice, but not the effect.


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Scotch whisky is a subject that is as expansive as the myriad of lochs, glens and mountains that contribute to the terroir of its historic homeland of Scotland. Scottish whisky in its current form has been distilled in the Highlands and Lowlands since the 18th Century but its roots run much deeper into the past. It is widely regarded that it is an adaptation of the traditional Scottish spirit 'Uisge Beatha', meaning 'water of life' in the Celtic tongue. The earliest official record of its production is in 1494 but it is highly likely that it was produced prior to this date. It's a widely held belief that Irish monks introduced the spirit to the Scots although no true Scotsman would ever admit to this!
This precious liquid's heritage is protected by law so that only spirit distilled within Scottish borders can be labelled as Scotch. There are other caveats as well; it must be made from either malted barley or grain fermented in copper stills and matured in wooden Oak barrels. This batch process is essential to the authenticity of the spirit, as is the insistence that it is bottled at 40% ABV or higher.
There are four different varieties of Scotch; single malt, blended, grain and blended malt (which was formerly known as vatted malt). Single malt is defined as a whisky made from 100% malt barley by one distillery. This is by far the most valuable and collected variety, especially rare bottlings from closed distilleries that can fetch four figure plus sums. Blended whisky is a spirit that's created using a mixture of malt and grain whiskies by one distillery. This is the most popular and widely drunk variety despite the single malt's continued rising popularity, driving up both production and price significantly. Grain whisky, as the name suggests, is made from 100% grain by a single distillery. Finally, blended malt is a product that is created by combining two or more single malts from separate distilleries together without the addition of grain whisky.
Despite only a few simple ingredients being used in the production process (malted barley or grain, water and yeast), a surprising array of different characteristics can be achieved. Gentle drams from the Lowlands can be soothing, light and fruity whilst big, bold offerings from Islay can knock your socks off with an assault of peat and smokiness. There are many variations in between to explore and it takes dedication and a whole lot of tasting to become a true whisky connoisseur!
The type of barrel used to mature the whisky accounts for the lions share of the final flavour. Factors such as whether American Oak or European Oak have been used to make the barrels, how many times the barrels have been used previously to mature Scotch or other drinks like Bourbon, Port or Sherry and the length of time the spirit has spent maturing all play their part. In more recent times, some distilleries have gone rogue by experimenting with old cognac, wine and rum casks, thus creating a modern and youthful taste that appeals to the trendy bar fraternity.
There are six distinct whisky producing regions in Scotland and they also have some bearing on the flavour of the final product. The regions are Islay, Islands, Highlands, Lowlands, Speyside and Campbeltown. The terrain, climate and other geographical factors of a region all contribute to the character, although a great deal also has to do with the different techniques and traditions employed by the distilleries as well. A good example is how coastal distilleries often produce a whisky that is saltier due to the proximity of the sea.
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Click to viewA two-foot long laser cannon—complete with its bright yellow protective case—disappeared from a truck in Denton, Texas recently. It's not weaponized, but its owners, the local authorities, the FBI, and the FAA are definitely concerned about it.
The device is described as being "used as a measuring device in the train business" and as having a "long range" which leaves concerns that it could be used to blind pilots if pointed at an aircraft. Beyond that, we don't know too much as "detectives and the laser cannon owner, Kansas City Southern, didn't want to comment on the capability of the laser cannon."
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Harford County sheriff's investigators have obtained an arrest warrant in a liquor store robbery and chase that sent the assailant to Shock Trauma.
Investigators said a 26-year-old Bel Air man is charged with armed robbery, robbery, first- and second-degree assault and theft. He remained in stable condition Monday at Shock Trauma. Authorities did not immediately reveal the man's name.
The charges stem from an armed robbery at Third-Base Liquors in the 2000 block of South Fountain Green Road in Bel Air on Friday afternoon. Investigators said witnesses gave them the license plate number of a sport utility vehicle the man drove away in, which authorities found nearby.
A chase ensued on Route 40, and the man ended up overturning the SUV several times, authorities said. The man also faces separate traffic charges, investigators said.
Detectives said they believe this robbery is connected to an armed robbery at the Xtra Mart in the 2400 block of Churchville Road in Bel Air, saying they continue to gather evidence in the investigation.
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Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy
Carol Publishing Group, Jan 1, 1994 - Medical - 479 pages
"Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy, a seminal work in twentieth-century psychology, was the first book on rational-emotive therapy. Written for psychotherapists, it soon became one of the most important and most quoted books in the field. Although intended for professionals, it has since become a widely popular and indispensable self-help book." "This updated and revised edition reflects new findings by Dr. Albert Ellis and his colleagues, Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy started the cognitive-behavior movement in psychotherapy. When Dr. Ellis began practicing this groundbreaking new therapy in 1955, his was a little-heard voice. Two main forms of psychotherapy, both passive, then dominated the field: Freudian psychoanalysis, with its interminable listening to troubled people's complaints and supposedly unraveling their unconscious "complexes" and purportedly healing them of childhood traumas; and Carl Rogers's client-centered therapy, which forbade therapists from using any active-directive techniques to show clients what really troubled them or what to do about it. Other forms of therapy, such as Adlerian, Gestalt, Jungian, and behavior therapy, existed but had few followers." "Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy helped change all this. Including Dr. Ellis's major papers, it was the pioneering work in cognitive-behavior therapy and presented a revolutionary, powerful, brief, and effective psychological treatment that was deeper and more intensive than either psychoanalysis or the therapy of Rogers and his followers. Dr. Ellis's new approach caught the imagination of practitioners all over the world, and by the late 1960s he was joined by Aaron Beck, William Glasser, Donald Meichenbaum, and a host of other therapists who primarily followed his theories and practices. By the 1970s, Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and cognitive-behavior therapy were supported by scores of experimental studies and were being used by innumerable mental health practitioners. Today, REBT continues to be increasingly popular and effective." "Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy helped so many therapists and laypeople over the years that a new edition might have seemed unnecessary. But psychotherapy, including REBT, moves on, and Dr. Ellis has expanded his original theory and practice and has added a large number of cognitive, emotive, and behavioral techniques to its innovative multimodal approach. This revised edition therefore includes all the important original theories and practices, as well as significant number of corrections and changes derived from clinical experience and experimentation, featuring a revision of its famous ABC's on human neurosis. A great many of the therapeutic techniques have been perfected since 1955, and the teachings of unconditional self-acceptance (USA) have been updated."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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WASHINGTON - BP's estimate that only 5,000
barrels of oil are leaking daily from a well in the Gulf of Mexico,
which the Obama administration hasn't disputed, could save the company
millions of dollars in damages when the financial impact of the spill is
resolved in court, legal experts say.
A month after a surge of gas from the undersea
well engulfed the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig in flames and
triggered the massive leak that now threatens sea life, fisheries and
tourist centers in five Gulf coast states, neither BP nor the federal
government has tried to measure at the source the amount of crude
pouring into the water.
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efforts to stop the leaks.
That decision, however, runs counter to BP's own regional plan
for dealing with offshore leaks. "In the event of a significant release
of oil," the 583-page plan says on Page 2, "an accurate estimation of
the spill's total volume . . . is essential in providing preliminary
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disaster. The size of the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska, for example,
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extrapolate how much spilled after it has all sunk or has been carried
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was released will be impossible."
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issue," said Marilyn Heiman, a former Clinton administration Interior
Department official who now heads the Arctic Program for the Pew
Environment Group. "Any company wouldn't have an interest in having this
kind of measurement if they can help it."
The size of the spill
has become a high stakes political controversy that's put the Obama
administration and the oil company on the defensive. In congressional
testimony Wednesday, an engineering professor from Purdue University in
West Lafayette, Ind., said that based on videos released Tuesday he
estimated that the well was spewing at 95,000 barrels, or 4 million
gallons, of oil a day into the gulf.
The Obama administration
Thursday demanded that BP publicly release all information related to
the disaster.
BP officials had pledged in congressional
testimony to keep the public and government officials informed, Homeland
Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Environmental Protection Agency
Administrator Lisa Jackson said in a letter to BP chief executive
officer Tony Hayward.
"Those efforts, to date, have fallen short
in both their scope and effectiveness," they wrote.
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came after members of Congress made similar demands of BP, leading to
the release Tuesday of the new videos. One showed oil still billowing
from one underwater pipe, despite an insertion tube BP now says is
capturing 5,000 barrels of crude a day _ its entire initial estimate of
the spill. The other showed a previously unseen leak spewing clouds of
crude from just above the well's dysfunctional blowout preventer.
The EPA on Thursday ordered BP to switch to a less toxic version of the
chemical mix it's using to disperse the oil. The EPA also for the first
time posted on its website BP's test data of the dispersant's use in
deep water. Those orders came days after McClatchy reported doubts about
the dispersant's safety and members of Congress made a similar demand.
Scientists and environmentalists praised the government for demanding
that more information be made public.
"This is exactly the role
the government needs to be playing - they need to be overseeing BP's
actions to assure that health and natural resources are protected, as
much as possible, and that information is available to the public," said
Gina Solomon, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense
This video, released
Tuesday, shows billowing clouds of oil despite the presence of the
insertion tube, visible to the right of the broken pipe
John Curry, a BP spokesman, said he hadn't seen the letter from
Napolitano and Jackson and couldn't comment specifically, but added:
"We're just trying to provide the information people are asking for at
the same time we are trying to position a lot more resources to stop the
flow of oil."
Curry offered no new estimate of how much oil is
flowing from the leaks, but acknowledged that capturing 5,000 barrels of
oil a day in the insertion tube is evidence that the official
5,000-barrel per day estimate is low.
"We've said at best it's a
highly imprecise estimate," Curry said.
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Curry said he knew of no
efforts by BP to use its robotic equipment on the sea floor to measure
the flow, but said that the efforts were entirely focused on containing
the spill.
BP agreed Thursday to allow the posting of a live feed
of the video of the oil spill, which lawmakers said would help
scientists arrive at independent estimates of the spill.
sitting here looking at it right now, and it ain't 5,000 barrels a day,
I'll guarantee it," said Bob Cavnar, a Houston engineer and blogger
who's been involved in oil and gas exploration and production.
"In Houston, there's about 125,000, 150,000 engineers," he said. "And
all the engineers can calculate what the flow is."
The feed
eventually was overwhelmed by the number of people trying to view it and
was removed from congressional websites.
This video, released
Tuesday, provided the first public view of a second leak near the well's
dysfunctional blowout preventer.
Calling the disaster
site a "crime scene," Larry Schweiger, the president of the National
Wildlife Federation, accused BP of a cover-up.
"BP cannot be
left in charge of assessing the damage or controlling the data from
their spill," Schweiger said. "The public deserves sound science, not
sound bites from BP's CEO."
White House press secretary Robert
Gibbs denied that the government was trying to cover up the size of the
"The best and brightest minds in all of this government,
and in the scientific community and in the world of commerce are focused
on this problem. Everything that can be done is being done," he said.
Sens. Bill Nelson of Florida and Barbara Boxer of California, both
Democrats, called on the Justice Department to investigate BP's drilling
permits to determine whether the company had misled the government by
claiming it had the technology needed to handle a big spill.
Since the spill, BP has announced five different approaches to sealing
the leak. Three of those have been at least partially used: a 78-ton
containment dome that failed; a small "top hat" dome that was placed on
the seafloor May 11 but hasn't been used, and the insertion tube now
siphoning a fraction of the spill. Of the two others, the "junk shot,"
which would fire shredded tires and debris into the damaged blowout
preventer, is rarely mentioned, and the "top kill," which would force
mud into the blowout preventer, may be tried this weekend.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration head Jane Lubchenco told
reporters on Thursday that a team of government scientists was
assembled this week, a month after the spill began, to try to come up
with a better estimate of the leak's volume.
She said the
5,000-barrel estimate was based on visual observations on the surface.
"As the spill increased in size and began to break up it was no longer
possible to use that effort, which is why we have shifted to using
multiple paths to try to get at better estimates," she said.
Scientists have the instruments and the knowledge needed to figure out
the flow rate, and several have complained publicly that they were
turned down when they offered to help, as McClatchy reported Tuesday.
"The decision was made that the first priority had to be to stop the
flow," Lubchenco said. Robotic vehicles were being used for that purpose
and there was limited space for more of them to operate there at the
same time, she said.
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The 2011 White Sox are not a short-term proposition for Milledge, either. Not that he's angling to fall short of making the big club, but he's already anticipated any setbacks along the way.
"I'm definitely going to Charlotte [AAA] if I don't make the club," Milledge said. "We already talked about it. I don't have a problem with that. Whether starting at AAA and going from there, I've been there and done that as well. I just want to be the best at what I do when I'm called upon and the team needs me to step up. Whatever the case may be, I want to be able to step in and be productive when I'm called upon."
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