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Trials of an Intel Quad Processor System: 4x E5-4650L from SuperMicroby Ian Cutress on 7/3/2013 10:00 AM EST
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nathanddrews - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - linkYou tease! Hook up a monitor, throw 4x Titans in there and put up some gaming benchmarks! ;-) Reply
jibberegg - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - link^ This. 4K article again! :) Reply
Robert Pankiw - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - linkHe only had remote access to the system, he mentions that he wanted to do gaming benches, but didn't have access. Reply
nathanddrews - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - linkHence my request that he connect a monitor and toss in some Titans... Reply
extide - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - linkWow, are you just ignorant or did you not read the article at all? Reply
ShieTar - Thursday, July 04, 2013 - linkNow, now, no reason to get so aggressive. Surely, all he did was abbreviate his suggestion a little, and he really meant to say:
Break into the SuperMicro offices, toss some Single-Slot Titans into the only four existing PCIe slots in this rather compact workstation, hook up a monitor, keyboard and mouse, find out what games will even install and run on Windows Server, and then explain to us in a lot of detail why games work even worse on multiple physical CPUs than some of those scientific benchmarks do. Start with something like "Well, turns out the Supermicro X9 doesn't actually support SLI.
It's a 20.000$ system : 1k for the board, 4x3k for the CPUs, annother 3k for the RAM, and then some for the SAS drives. The number of gamers considering to buy this is rather exactly 0 people. Testing what a multiple-CPU system will do to gaming is fun, but that's what what ASUS and EVGA have given us a number of Dual-Socket boards with SLI-support for. Installing and benchmarking a game on a Quad-CPU-Single-GPU Board with a C602 chipset would be a horrible waste of Ian in my book. Reply
SteveKen - Monday, July 08, 2013 - linkLove my job, since I've been bringing in $82h… I sit at home, music playing while I work in front of my new iMac that I got now that I'm making it online. (Home more information)
http://goo.gl/Qev5Q Reply
mmstick - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - link>> Windows Server
Well there is your problem, you aren't using Linux; the only logical choice for servers, especially multiprocessor and clusters. Reply
coder543 - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - linkExactly. Reply
mitcoes - Thursday, July 04, 2013 - linkOf course and Why not test any actual GNU/Linux vs this MS WOS server 2012?
more than 90% even 95% of servers are using Linux and this model must be tested with the target OSs to use, Cent OS - a Red Hat clone - would be the best choice, or not cheap RH EL and SUSE EE that surely you can have a free copy for testing and serve more the IT guys to pick - or not - this machine.
Benchmarking with MS WOS server 2012 after this results minds nobody is going to buy it for MS WOS server, and perhaps it canbe a good chopicefor a Linuxserver with some virtualized machines - even for a Xen or QEMU running MS WOS + Autocad with a VGA Passthrough configuration, that should be a great test. Reply
ShieTar - Thursday, July 04, 2013 - linkSo, the only manufacturer of Quad-CPU-Boards has absolutely no clue of Multi-CPU systems, and is consistently running the wrong OS on his own test installations? Windows Server is a profitable product for MS, it has an existant market-share (see, for an example, http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/operating... ) and it does not exactly cripple Multi-CPU performance for software which does support it. Just look at the PovRay benchmark in this very article, or read some well-written material provided by MS on the topic: http://goo.gl/A6f23 .
Informing people about linux as an option, and clarifying its capabilities and benefits is something I can get behind, but being an obnoxious linux-fanboy won't convince anybody of anything. Reply
FunBunny2 - Friday, July 05, 2013 - linkWell, Windoze is a lame OS, no matter what the fanboys say. OTOH, SQL Server is a very good database, up to its limits. But that means using Windoze. If one goes the *nix way, then Oracle/DB2/Postgres are the databases to choose among.
Multiprocessor systems are more appropriate as heavy weight (for some definition of heavy) database machines. They can exploit CPU/RAM/SSD more than any other application. Reply
Friendly0Fire - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - linkAnd you probably didn't read the bit when he said he was given *remote* access to the server? He can't go about formatting everything like it's his own toy box. Reply
coder543 - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - linkHe tried out multiple versions of Windows Server. He seems to be using a very serious version of Remote Desktop... either that, or he does in fact have access to someone at SuperMicro who can format things for him. But, the most important thing to say about this whole affair: Even SuperMicro, the builders of this desktop, could not get all 64 cores working on Windows. Reply
patrickjchase - Thursday, July 04, 2013 - linkHe almost certainly used SuperMicro's IPMI 2.0 KVM-over-IP solution, which provides a remote desktop (including local optical storage and USB proxies) at the HW level. Doing BIOS setup and an OS install from remote DVD media (i.e. the media is physically at Ian's location instead of at the server) is a piece of cake. Reply
Kevin G - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - linkI've reformatted and installed an OS before with only remote access. It really depends on what kind of remote access that limits a user. Reply
Heavensrevenge - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkYou don't need to consider Windows Server in order to run that type of hardware, just get Win 8 on there since it can support up to 640 logical CPU's as I'm aware of. So... yea, I wish Linux gaming was benchmarkable but it really still isn't in terms of graphics performance, only CPU benchmarks would be meaningful but DEF not GPU testing in a Linux distro.
And anyway, Phoronix does a wonderful job on the Linux side of benchmark land.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/27/usin... To see some stupid extreme CPU Task manager action. Reply
coder543 - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - link"The main issue moving to 4P was having an operating system that actually detected all the threads possible and then communicated that to software using the Windows APIs. In both Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard and 2012 Standard, the system would detect all 64 threads in task manager, but only report 32 threads to software."
I found your problem: Windows. When we look at the top500 list, you know what we don't see in cases of HPC? Windows. http://www.top500.org/statistics/list/ (and look at Operating Systems)
Would it kill Anandtech to use Linux once in awhile? Reply
coder543 - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - linkAlso, by the numbers.
Linux in HPC: 83.4%
Windows in HPC: 0.6% (0.4% from Windows HPC 2008, 0.2% from Windows Azure)
Remember, in the top500 list, 0.2% is 1 supercomputer. You do the math. Reply
coder543 - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - linkand on 2nd glance, it looks like I didn't think to add all of the specific distros into the total.
Linux in HPC has at least 93.4% of the total top500 market share. Reply
lmcd - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - linkAnd the rest is probably some combination of BSD or proprietary builds of BSD with "secret sauce." Reply
lmcd - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - linkSadly, it seems like it might. Which is ironic given the technical nature of this site -- seems like exploring BSD versus Linux or some complex breakdown would be within the scope of the site.
Given the coverage of Android, again, it seems relevant exploring the typical architecture of a Linux distribution, the future architecture, the current Android setup, and the current Chrome OS setup.
I'm hoping for an article, which kinda sucks as I watch pipelines pop by for Microsoft's late C++ efforts, among other failures. Reply
lmcd - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - link*at least one article -- didn't make that clear Reply
Kevin G - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - linkThis is actually an old Windows API issue. While a piece of software can scale to a near infinite number of threads per process (only limited by address space), the Windows scheduler will only run a maximum of 32 per process concurrently. Even MS SQL Server only supports a maximum of 32 threads per DB on a single system (MS SQL Server will spawn another process per DB to scale higher as necessary).
Though with 32 real cores, it may pay off to simply disable HyperThreading for better scaling. Reply
mike8675309 - Monday, July 08, 2013 - linkTo clarify, this seems to be an issue with 32bit software running on 64bit hardware and making windows API calls while running under WOW64. A good example is noted in the remarks from the API documentation for the GetLogicalProcessorInformationEx function which describes issues with passing a 64bit KAFFINITY structure to a 32bit client and the side effects that can cause.
As noted in the article by the author, creating software that benefits from NUMA rather than being hamstrung by NUMA requires another layer of knowledge on top of single cpu software development. I'm sure Microsoft has figured out NUMA with MS Sql Server considering the prevalence of multi-cpu solutions for that software product essentially since multi-cpu hardware for windows became common. Note TPC result id 112032702 for NEC running Windows Server R2 Enterprise, and SQL Server 2012 Enterprise on 8 processors, 80 cores, and 160 threads. Reply
psyq321 - Friday, July 05, 2013 - linkWindows has no problems with more than 64 logical CPUs since kernel version 6.1
The problem is that the >application< itself has to use updated Win32 APIs which allo extend processor mask to be set.
If the application is using old Win32 APIs (pre NT Kernel 6.1) then it will only "see" up to 64 logical CPUs. Reply
psyq321 - Friday, July 05, 2013 - linkBy the way, the number 32 as the limit of the number of CPUs seen by the app comes from the 32-bit processes.
With Windows:
- 32-bit process has 32-bit processor mask for each thread (DWORD)
- 64-bit process had (pre Win NT 6.1 API) 64-bit mask for each thread (DWORD_PTR)
If application needs to access more than 64 CPUs, it has to use new Win32 APIs that were introduced in Windows 7 / Server 2013
See here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/ha...
The keyword is "processor groups", and APIs that deal with group affinity.
So, I would suggest to the reviewer to get acquainted with this if he intends to keep using Windows Server 2012 (or later) as the test vehicle.
In the Xeon E5 case based on Sandy Bridge-EP this should still not be a problem, as long as the reviewer use 64-bit processes, because Xeon EP 4600 does not support more than 64 logical CPUs.
However, Ivy Bridge EP already can have more than 64 logical processors with the E5 4600 v2 line. Having more than 64 logical CPUs was already possible with Xeon E7 platform based on Boxboro generation, and it will get even more scalable with Ivy Bridge EX. Reply
Jaybus - Monday, July 08, 2013 - linkThat processors are grouped is more important than the number of processors. For NUMA architectures, all logical processors belonging to a physical CPU (with or without hyperthreading) will belong to the same group. The SetProcessAffinityMask() Windows function can be used to prevent the scheduler from assigning the process's threads a logical processor that doesn't belong to the same group. This way all threads in that process always run on cores that have the same fast memory access.
The process affinity mask essentially allows using a subset of the NUMA hardware as if it were a SMP system. If you have, say, 4 processor groups, then you have to manually divide the data up into 4 sections handled by 4 processes so that each group of threads operates on its own section with SMP memory access. MPI is then used to tie the 4 processes together just like using a cluster. The difference is that the message passing on the NUMA system is faster than on a cluster of separate physical servers, but basically it maps the NUMA system as a cluster of independent SMP systems.
Data dependent algorithms will greatly benefit from using the process affinity mask. Since a system like this doesn't make sense for data independent algorithms, ( where GPU hardware would be faster and cheaper), only software designed for NUMA systems should be compared. Reply
aicom - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - linkThis is exactly why we all aren't running 16+ cores in our desktops. It doesn't make sense for the majority of today's workloads. Reply
lmcd - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - linkThis is more a statement of why unified memory and cache are important to performance computing. I'd like to note that the 6-core 3930X beat the 4770K on all but the few single threaded benchmarks, and the Xeon 8-core (I think it's 8-core?) beat the 3930X.
There are plenty of applications that scale up with core count. They just don't scale up with multiple sockets and slow interconnects between those cores. Reply
BMNify - Monday, March 17, 2014 - linkbbb but, 25.6 GB/s QPI is supposed to be good <Not in 2014>, we dont need no lowest power stinkin NoC (Network On Chip) at 1Terabit/s,2Terabit/s like those ARM interconnects today
"Intel describes the data throughput (in GB/s) by counting only the 64-bit data payload in each 80-bit "flit". However, Intel then doubles the result because the unidirectional send and receive link pair can be simultaneously active. Thus, Intel describes a 20-lane QPI link pair (send and receive) with a 3.2 GHz clock as having a data rate of 25.6 GB/s. A clock rate of 2.4 GHz yields a data rate of 19.2 GB/s. More generally, by this definition a two-link 20-lane QPI transfers eight bytes per clock cycle, four in each direction.
The rate is computed as follows:
3.2 GHz
× 2 bits/Hz (double data rate)
× 16(20) (data bits/QPI link width)
× 2 (unidirectional send and receive operating simultaneously)
÷ 8 (bits/byte)
= 25.6 GB/s
" Reply
floobit - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - linkI notice that Anandtech tries to appeal to both industrial and enthusiast circles, and I appreciate how hard that is. It seems like this article is targeted at the industrial/HPC segment, however, and I think that a standard benchmark for HPC should include some codes frequently used in HPC. Everyone knows that Gaussian will leave a horse's head on your pillow if you try to benchmark their software, but you could easily run a massive DFT with the parallelized GAMESS, and I've seen previous articles benchmark Monte Carlo codes. Both chemists and wall street types would be interested in that. CFD programs are very popular with engineers; Openfoam is a popular option. Reply
MrSpadge - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - linkMonte Carlo is pretty much the definition of perfect scaling, as there are no dependencies between individual runs / setups / whatever. And you need many of them for statistics anyway. Reply
floobit - Friday, July 05, 2013 - linkYes, Monte Carlo codes are theoretically infinitely parallelizable, though as mentioned previously, often specific implementations do not meet that ideal. Large CFD jobs are also well-parallelizable for some portions of the calculation. 3DS's Abaqus can auto-partitition large models and process each in a separate thread, for instance. Reply
THF - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - linkThis rig costs the best part of £16000 + VAT (for example here: http://www.rackservers.com/Configurator.aspx?S=153...
I'd really appreciate a comparison with the 4x Opteron 6380, which costs about half the price... Reply
maloman - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - linkas a scientist myself I would be very interested to see how this scales with standard matrix operations using matlabs parallel computing toolbox. I have noticed that on our grids (xen domains running torque for queuing) the only real speed advantage has been in tesla GPU compute. The CPUs can take care if the overhead of a grid but essentially it comes down to programming as stated in the article. Custom code is the only way, and in most scientific applications the only availability.. Thus, testing high level languages with inherent multiproc support (parfor etc.) would be suuuper interesting to see. Thank you for the great read. Reply
Jaybus - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkYes. It is problem specific. A data independent operation, such as a matrix multiplication, linear transforms, etc. are far better suited to GPU compute. But consider a problem solved by an iterative calculation where the result of one iteration depends on the result(s) of previous iterations. GPU compute is inherently unsuited for such data-dependent problems. Many real world problems have a data dependence, but the dependence is on a separate calculation that is itself data-independent.
Even within the HPC world, the hardware choice depends on the problems the system is to be used for. But to aim for as general purpose a system as can be had, it makes sense to use something like this 4-processor board along with several Tesla cards in its PCIe slots.
So the bottom line is that a HPC benchmark suite should contain a mix of problems. A simple matrix multiply will always be unfairly weighted towards GPU compute and will not be representative of a system's general HPC capabilities. Reply
BMNify - Monday, March 17, 2014 - linkas a scientist if you cant program an optimal assembly routine from your individual C routines as per the optimal x264 coding style to use assembly with a C fallback and check, then at least look to using the far more optimal http://julialang.org/ in place of matlab to increase all your algorithms data throughput, and upstream all your speed/quality improvements to that open code base Reply
Zink - Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - linkI like the F@H shoutout. There are certainly more than "a few" users running 4p setups. I'd put it at about 50 to 200 users based on the statistics for how many users are producing at the 500k ppd level most commonly attained with these setups. Many of those users have multiple 4p boards as well.
It is not a trivial process to take full advantage of these systems with F@H. The user community has worked to select the ideal Linux kernels and schedulers for this software as well as created custom utilities to improve hardware efficiency. TheKraken is a software wrapper that locks threads from the F@H client to specific CPUs to prevent excessive memory transfer between CPUs. Another user created tool called OCNG is a custom BIOS and software utility that allows Supermicro 4p G34 boards to overclock CPUs and adjust memory timings.
To use the full performance of 4p systems F@H users needed to go much farther than loading up Windows and running the provided executable designed for single CPU systems. Reply
patrickjchase - Thursday, July 04, 2013 - linkFrom looking at Ian's solver results, I think that there are actually (at least) two problems, and perhaps a third:
1. As he acknowledges, he isn't doing any sort of NUMA optimization
2. His overall rates and the obvious senstivity to DDR speed/latency indicate that he probably didn't do much cache-blocking (at its most basic level this involves permuting the order in which elements are processed in order to optimize data access patterns for cache). If that's the case then he would end up going out to DDR more than he should, which would make his code highly sensitive to the latency impacts of NUMA.
3. He may also have some cache-line sharing problems, particularly in the 3D case (i.e. cache lines that are accessed concurrently by multiple threads, such that the coherency protocol "bounces" them around the system). That's the most likely explanation for the absolutely tragic performance of the 4P system in that benchmark.
The importance of cache blocking/optimization can't be overstated. I've seen several cases where proper cache blocking eliminated the need for NUMA optimization. An extra QPI hop adds ~50% to latency in E5-based systems, and that can be tolerated with negligible performance loss if the application prefetches far enough ahead and has good cache behavior.
Ian, would you be willing to share the source code for one or more of your solvers? Reply
patrickjchase - Thursday, July 04, 2013 - linkOne additional question for Ian: You state that your finite-difference solvers use "2^n nodes in each direction".
Does this mean that the data offsets along the major axis (or axes in the 3d case) are also integer multiples of a large power of 2^n? For example, if you have a grid implemented as a 2D array named 'foo', what is the offset in bytes from foo[0][0] to foo[1][0]?
If those offsets have a large power-of-2 factor, then that would lead to pathological cache behavior and would explain the results you're getting. Experienced developers know to pad such arrays along the minor axis or axes. For example, if I wanted to use a 1024 x 1024 array, I might allocate it as 1024 x 1056 instead. The purpose of the extra 32 elements along each row is to ensure that consecutive rows don't contend for the same cache line. Reply
0ldman79 - Thursday, July 04, 2013 - linkGuys...
He has access through Terminal Services.
Exactly how is he going to test video cards and install Linux, hmm?
Nice article, though I confess I will have to read it again after a good nights sleep. Reply
dealcorn - Thursday, July 04, 2013 - linkSupermicro IPMI solutions are generally well regarded and support remote OS installs. I assumed prior familiarity drove OS selection for better or worse. Reply
loki1725 - Thursday, July 04, 2013 - linkReally interesting article. I've written several implementations of Finite Difference solvers, and used both COTS and Open Source solvers for parallel machines. I'm really surprised by the results, but I really agree with the conclusion, of you don't write your software appropriately you won't take advantage of the hardware at your disposal.
I know it's outside the scope of this article, but I would be really interested to see a comparrison of this 4x processors machine to a 'cluster' of two dual core machines. Ideally it would be awesome to see 2 Sci Linux clusters, one with 4 2x Xeons systems, and 1 with 2 4x Xeon systems. Put the same amount of RAM / core in both rigs and run computational benchmarks. When it comes down to purchasing hardware for a large cluster, looking for the price and performance break point is important. I would imagine that having more threads per machine would be faster then having to run your data over Infiniband (or something like it). Reply
mapesdhs - Thursday, July 04, 2013 - link
Ian, do you have any idea how your code or these tests might run on an SGI UV 20 or
2000, given they have a hardware MPI system and other features to aid with NUMA
systems? The UV 20 is a quad-socket blade with up to 1.5TB RAM, while the 2000
scales to 256 sockets and up to 64TB RAM. They both use the XEON E5-4600 series.
Maybe you could ask SGI if you could do a remote access test on one of their UVs?
Ian. Reply
wishgranter - Saturday, July 06, 2013 - linkHi All, a letely we do some test on our photogrametric sw, and we stumbled on performance issues with Win2012 Datacenter editionon our DualXeon setups, ( http://www.agisoft.ru/forum/index.php?topic=1330.0 ) in short in W2012 is something not OK with the performance of sw, if we do same test on Win7, or XP the same hw is much more faster, up to 70% ( Hyperthreading stuff ) . Could we do more indepht benchmark/problem solving article put together ?? this could help a lot of people in realworld app usage..... Reply
lyeoh - Saturday, July 06, 2013 - linkIt's normally silly to use such systems for embarrassingly parallel problems. With those problems you should use multiple far cheaper computers and get more performance for the $$$.
These sort of systems are for those "scale vertically" problems. Reply
alpha754293 - Monday, July 08, 2013 - linkYou know that there are commercial codes written in MPI available for you to test with as well. And there's a few free ones too.
Although you are right though, the transition from 2P to 4P is not as simple and straightforward as the transition from 1P to 2P. Reply
jamesgor13579 - Tuesday, July 09, 2013 - linkIn the real world, any heavy threading and computing workload wouldn't be running on Windows. There is a reason that large supercomputers use Linux, its much better at handling large NUMA systems. Reply
kgbogdan - Thursday, July 11, 2013 - linkIn the future can you please try Linux? I think Linux can do a far better job than Windows. MS Windows Server environment is not that suitable for such benchmarks. And usually for more than 4p Server you use Enterprise Ed not Standard. Sorry, this is just an advice not mandatory, but please try Linux Reply
deadrats - Thursday, July 11, 2013 - linka big raspberry has to go to Ian Cutress himself for coming out of the idiot closet with such reckless abandon and to Anand for hiring his worthless ass to write for his site.
i want to know what kind of crack one needs to be smoking to get their hands on a 4 way hyperthreaded octo core setup and decide to run a benchmark that uses 720p mpeg-2 as it's source and 4mb/s 720p x264 with the very fast setting (i think that's the one they use) as the target?!?
if you really wanted to stress all the logical cores, a custom benchmark should have been used with all of the x264 settings maxed out and a much higher resolution, maybe even a 4k source, so that we can see some separation between multi cpu and single cpu setups.
seriously, who in there right mind would build this kind of system and then encode 4mb/s 720p avc?
get your head out of your Klavin and learn how to review a damn system. Reply
Rooftop Voter - Saturday, July 13, 2013 - linkHere I come with the stupid question, what does the CP stand for after some of the AMD benchmarks?? Reply
patrioteagle07 - Monday, July 15, 2013 - linkLinux... Use linux. This is pointless with your usual suite.
and you mentioned FAH yet you failed to run it...
Cinebench also scales pretty well... Reply


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To coerce Pudsey into taking directions on set, Butler, who also voices a cow called Daisy in the film, gave the actors clear instructions and tucked treats like ham up into their costumes, so the famous fido would oblige.
"It wasn't just Pudsey getting used to the actors, it was the actors getting used to Pudsey," explains Butler, who already published Pudsey: My Autobidography last year.
"But they [the actors] listened to me and coped with Pudsey really well - and he coped with them!"
Although Butler, who was given Pudsey for her 11th birthday, is well used to giving her sidekick direction, she does have her eyes on training several famous dogs.
Top of her list are Simon Cowell's Yorkshire Terriers Squiddly and Diddly.
"I'm waiting for Simon's invite to train his two dogs but I still haven't got it," Butlershe says with a giggle. "Apparently his dog did a wee on the red carpet a couple of months ago, so I think I'd start with the basics!"
Then there are the Queen's beloved Corgis. Butler met Her Majesty at The Royal Variety Performance and performed for her as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
"She recognised us from Britain's Got Talent and asked the trick to training a dog."
"I said, 'Lots of time, lots of patience and lots of treats, basically'. She didn't ask me if I wanted to come and help with her corgis but, oh well, next time!"
While Pudsey, who's being looked after by Butler's friendly mum during the interview, looks every bit the A-lister with a 'bling' black diamante lead, Butler insists they're both still grounded and she still finds herself star-struck.
"I was really nervous when I was in the private jet with Simon for eight hours," she says, discussing the time the media mogul flew her to the United States for America's Got Talent. "I mean, what do you talk to Simon Cowell about for eight hours?"
'Pudsey' is the answer.
"It's a good icebreaker isn't it?" she laughs. "But no, Simon was lovely. He's obviously used to that kind of thing and makes you feel comfortable."
The support of Cowell, Walliams and her family has helped Butler adjust to her new life, which will also include appearing in pantomime with Pudsey in Bristol this Christmas.
"It's a bit crazy but I've had good people around me. My management are brilliant and my mum comes with me to [events] to look after Pudsey," she says.
And though life is "all good fun" at the moment, Butler takes a pragmatic view of her future.
"Collabro, who won Britain's Got Talent this year, are with my management," she says of the "lovely" opera boy band.
"I've seen them a couple of times and they asked if I had any tips or advice.
"Just say enjoy it, I say, because you never know what's around the corner or when it's going to end."
:: The Wizard Of Oz (1939) - Dorothy may have been a long way from home, but at least she had reliable Toto by her side when she met with munchkins, flying monkeys and witches.
:: Turner And Hooch (1989) - Tom Hanks doubles up with huge, slobbery mutt Hooch in this heart-warming Eighties comedy crime caper.
:: Scooby-Doo (2002) - Despite being terrified of ghosts and ghouls, nervy cartoon canine Scooby Doo and his best mate Shaggy are pretty nifty when it comes to solving spooky mysteries.
:: Marley & Me (2008) - He may have been naughty and wreaked havoc on his family's lives, but we still all adored the cute golden Labrador.
:: The Artist (2011) - Jack Russell Uggie may have bowed out of showbiz now, but he made an impact when he starred in the award-winning silent movie The Artist. So good was his performance, he found himself the subject of a campaign to get him an Oscar for his role in the film.
:: Pudsey The Dog: The Movie is released on Friday, July 18


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Mount Vernon District Supervisor Hosts Annual Town Meeting
Supervisor Gerry Hyland will be presenting Mount Vernon's 16th Annual Town Meeting on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2003, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Mount Vernon High School's Little Theatre, 8515 Old Mount Vernon Road, Alexandria.
Directed primarily to residents of the Mount Vernon district and those along Richmond Highway, the meeting is open to all citizens of the county. The format provides a local forum to hear firsthand the significant issues involving Mount Vernon, as well as the county as a whole, while creating the opportunity for citizens to meet their elected representatives and express their views and concerns.
Beginning at 8 a.m., interested citizens will have an opportunity to view many displays and exhibits in the cafeteria. Last year there were more than 60 exhibitors including representatives of county agencies, such as the Office of Public Affairs, Department of Family Services, Fairfax County Park Authority and Department of Tax Administration. Several non-county agencies also will be represented.
The presentations, which begin at 9:45 a.m., include:
- Rejection of the Sales Tax Referendum and What Next, Katherine K. Hanley, chairman, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
Fairfax County's Challenges in 2003 and What This Will Mean to
Citizens, Tony Griffin, county executive
Fiscal Year 2003 - 2004 Budget Overview, Ed Long, chief financial
Effects of Development on Our Schools and Systems, Dana Kauffman, Lee
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Public Safety - 2002 in Review and What Lies Ahead, police Capts. Larry
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Fort Belvoir Highlights, Col. Thomas Williams, garrison commander
- Mount Vernon Schools - Successes and Steps for Continuing Improvement in a Challenging Fiscal Environment, Dr. Daniel Domenech, superintendent and Isis Castro, School Board member
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ST. LOUIS — Demand for locally grown fruits and vegetables is strong in St. Louis, but meeting it in the face of heat and drought conditions can pose challenges for wholesalers.
Locally grown corn and cabbage suffered from the extreme summer heat, said Sal Pupillo, co-owner of H.R. Bushman & Son, a wholesaler on the St. Louis Produce Market.
The good thing about the Midwest in mid-summer, Pupillo said, is that if weather knocks out a commodity in one growing area, chances are you can get it from another.
Some local growers were reporting troubles finding enough labor to pick the local tomato crop, Pupillo said.
Whether the local deal is expanding, Pupillo said, is a matter of perspective.
"It depends on what you call local," he said. "If you include neighboring states, then yes, it's becoming bigger. Kentucky is a neighboring state."
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"It's a good selling point for people who advertise," he said.
Locally grown continues to be a big draw for Vaccaro & Sons Produce, owner Dale Vaccaro said.
"It's midsummer, so everyone's excited about home grown," he said.
Tomatoes, squash, watermelon, cantaloupe, eggplants, heirloom tomatoes, yellow tomatoes and "all sorts of oddball stuff — heirloom this, heirloom that" are among the locally grown fruits and vegetables Vaccaro & Sons sources for its customers.
Asked about recent market trends, Vaccaro doesn't hesitate to name the biggest one: local.
Vaccaro & Sons typically sources locally grown within a 50-mile radius of St. Louis, Vaccaro said.
Locally grown is a big deal for Independent Fruit & Produce, another wholesaler on the St. Louis Produce Market, partner Steve Wielansky said. But 2012 has been a challenge.
"We do a lot of local in the summer, but this year has not really been good" because of the number of days the thermometer has topped 100 degrees, Wielansky said.
Tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, peppers, cabbage, eggplant and watermelon are among the company's big local sellers, he said.
Independent sources locally grown fruits and vegetables from Missouri and Illinois, Wielansky said.
Sun Farm Foodservice also sources more local product every year, said John Pollaci, president.
One of the company's big suppliers of lettuce, tomatoes and other vegetables during the summer is Maryland Heights, Mo.-based Thies Farms, one of the larger farms in the region, Pollaci said.
"They're getting more involved with wholesalers, and we need large quantities," he said. "Some of these farmers show up with just a pale of lettuce."
Cucumbers, squash, zucchini, peppers, beets, kohlrabi and heirloom tomatoes are among the other popular locally grown items supplied by Sun Farm.
Markets, chefs partner
Local is so hot in St. Louis now, some area farmers markets are partnering with area chefs who provide seed money for local growers to grow produce tailored to individual restaurants' needs, Pollaci said.
Despite the popularity of local, there are still some drawbacks, Pollaci said. Some chefs are hesitant to put local on the menu because it goes out of season so quickly. For example, locally grown greens were off menus by early July because high temperatures this summer burned them all off, he said.
Irregular sizing also can be a challenge with local, Pollaci said. Pack sizes aren't as regular as packs from conventional big shippers, and the head sizes of lettuce often vary.
"You're not always sure what you're getting."
Locally grown is huge for retail chain Dierbergs, which has 24 stores in the area, said Steve Duello, produce category manager for Chesterfield, Mo.-based Dierbergs Markets Inc.
Locally grown is prominently displayed at the entrance to Dierbergs stores between July 1 and mid-August, when the company sells 24 or more fruits and vegetables from Missouri and Illinois at any given time, up from 12 to 15 items just three years ago.
Signs on local displays at Dierbergs feature photos of the farmers who grew the produce and information about them. Fruits and vegetables in the displays typically are picked 24 hours earlier — or even more recent.
In an era when customers are accustomed to year-round availability, locally grown is one category they're willing to wait for, Duello said. Honeycrisp apples are among the few other items that fall into that category.
"Very few get the respect that local does," he said. "If you ask customers, it's among the most important (categories), if not the most. Everyone knows farmers have it tough. They'd rather support their local growers."


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Manchester United [2] is reportedly ready to sell unsettled striker Wayne Rooney [3], only if they can find a replacement for him, which has offered a glimmer of hope for Chelsea [4], which is chasing the striker desperately.
According to the Mirror, Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has made it clear that he intends to make a third bid for Rooney before the transfer window closes, with sources close to the club suggesting it would be at a ceiling of around 30 million pounds.
The report further said that United boss David Moyes, who is becoming increasingly irritated with the constant talk linking Rooney with the Stamford Bridge club, wants an attacking midfielder who can play in the role he planned for Rooney, behind Robin van Persie , and thus have made their new position clear to Chelsea.
According to the report, Moyes is aware that he cannot allow one of his biggest stars to leave before he has a big signing lined up to appease the fans and prove himself as a match-winning boss like former manager Sir Alex Ferguson.
However, the report said that the situation is complicated because Rooney wants a new contract if he stays, and United is determined to wait to see if he deserves a new deal - and a pay-rise on his whopping 250,000 pounds-a-week salary. (ANI [5])
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[2] http://www.manutd.com/
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Rooney
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Memento's Artscope picks up Berlinale title In Bloom
Artscope, a label of Paris-based Memento Films International, has picked the Georgian Berlinale Forum title In Bloom by Nana Ekvtimshvili and Simon Gross.
Nana Ekvtimshvili and Simon Gross' In Bloom is a German-French-Georgian co-production between Gross' Indiz Film, Guillaume de Seille's Arizona Productions, and Ekvtimshvili's Polare Film centres on the coming of age of two 14-year-old girls living in Tbilisi during the spring and summer of 1992.
In Bloom is the first Georgian film to screen in the Forum since Lana Ghogoberidze's Waltz On The Pechora 20 years ago and follows swiftly on the heels of Ekvtimshvili's short Waiting For Mum which won the Mediterranean Cinema Award for Best Short Film at last month's Trieste Film Festival.
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Bangalore, one of India's most cosmopolitan cities, is reaching out to a growing Japanese community. From specialty restaurants to Japanese-themed hotels, new businesses are springing up to cater to the needs of expatriates.
Every month, Bangalore – the capital of the southern state of Karnataka – attracts about 1,800 business visitors from Japan, according to the Japan External Trade Organization, or Jetro. There are at least four flights – on Singapore Airlines, Dragonair, Emirates and Air India – from Japan to Bangalore every day.
As of October, there were 228 Japanese businesses operating in and around Bangalore, up 25% from a year earlier, according to the Japanese Embassy in India. Big Japanese names like Toyota Motor and Honda Motor Ltd. have a strong presence in Karnataka, and this has brought several Japanese auto components suppliers to the state.
Toyota plans to make India one of its key export hubs worldwide, and Bangalore has become an important entry point for company executives traveling to its two factories outside Bangalore.
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Other well-known Japanese corporate names like Fujitsu Komatsu and Hitachi also have a presence in Karnataka.
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Great post, Beth! Lol! It's no wonder you write multiple historical periods! You have a varied and colorful ancestry. How wonderful you've found such delight in it.
Very true. Thanks so much, Cathy.
Beth, I think the ability to weave our family stories and interests into our tales is one of the biggest benefits of becoming a writer. Yours have been a delight to many readers. Please continue! :)
Lovely post, Beth. I understand your sliding from one genre to another since I seem to do it, too. I like to think our creative spirits are too versatle, too hungry for knowlege, too easily bored to camp out in one genre. Your wide range of writing has served you well--and your readers, too.
I think it's wonderful you can write historical and weave family lines into them, Beth. Writing vintage and contemporary is about as historical as I get.
Great post, Beth. You may write across genre, but they are all great stories.
Great post, Beth! I'm like you in that I like to write diffrent things. 'The many moods of Tami' is how I view me. lol
I change the look of my web site ALL the time. hahhaha
The only common theme I've found in each story I've read of yours is strong writing and a wonderful storytelling ability. I've loved them all so far :) I'm looking forward to reading whats up next!
Thanks so much, LaVerne. Very appreciated.
That's a good reason too, Tami. :) And thanks!
That's a great insight Miriam, and thanks.
Thanks Vonnie. I suspect you have the truth of it.
Thanks Calisa. I think it's interesting how some authors like me naturally gravitate toward historical while others can't fathom going there. Writing straight contemporary seems beyond me. We all have our unique draws.
Thanks Gerri. Very kind. :)
I envy your ability. My characters just don't want to go there. They're all about the here and now. But, I do love reading about all these time periods. It's so clear that you've done your homework.
I know I write historicals, because I love research. I have found out things I never knew before.
Yes, amazing how much you learn.
I love it when authors get out of their comfort zone and zingggggg write awesome books regardless of the genre. Beth is an incredible author. I've just started reading Somewhere My Love and didn't want to put it down. Alas, here I am goofing off when I should be working. :-))
Interesting post Beth. Your weaving of your past with historical research is a powerful combination. My sincere best to you, and I wish you continued success!
Beth, your family genealogy is fascinating. I wish I knew more about my ancestors. I know very little, which is a shame. I know I'm 1/8 Cherokee, but don't know much else.
As far as genres, I don't do historical, although there is some time travel involved in some books, but I love mystery and romance and always have both. And there's always something paranormal going on. I can't seem to keep it out of my writing.
Thanks Anita. My daughter in law is also part Cherokee. Very interesting, I think. Although I love historicals, paranormal elements hold a lot of appeal for me too.
Thanks Diana. I've never written a setting where my ancestors didn't venture. At least, not yet.
Thanks so much, Pam. High praise indeed.
What a beautiful inspiration Beth! I can sense your love of history and family in your work. What a wonderful gift to readers and your children!
I love your books Beth and I like a bit of variety myself!!!
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VILLANOVA, Pa. - With five minutes remaining, the University of Pennsylvania football team led the No. 1 team in the nation. However, the No. 24 Quakers were unable to end a 99-year drought to Villanova as the Wildcats scored 13 points in the final 4:28 to top Penn, 22-10, Saturday night at Villanova Stadium.
The Quakers (1-1) held a 10-9 lead after an Andrew Samson field goal with 9:10 left in the game, but the Wildcats (3-1)used a ten-play drive to take the lead back. On the next possession, Penn drove into Villanova territory, but an intercepted a pass went for a touchdown to put the game out of reach.
Penn owned the nation's top-ranked defense heading into the night, while the Wildcats boasted the sixth-best defense in the FCS. It showed as the Quakers' defense held its opponent scoreless in the first quarter for the ninth straight game, while Villanova's defense also held off Penn for a 0-0 opening period.
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Just prior to the end of the third quarter, senior Josh Powers kept the Quakers in the game. Faced with a third-and-16, Villanova cut it to fourth-and-one, but a roughing the kicker call on the punt gave the Wildcats another chance on the drive. So on the ninth play of the possesion, Aaron Ball scampered into the open field and had nothing but the end zone in front of him. However, Powers caught up to the senior running back and punched the ball from his grasps. The ball bounced forward to the one-yard line and senior Bradford Blackmon recovered the fumble and brought it back out to the 10 for Penn.
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The defending national champions immediately responded. With 4:29 on the clock, Villanova made it 15-10 on Chris Whitney's21-yard pass to Norman White in the back corner of the end zone. The Wildcats started on their own 26 and took 10 plays and 4:34 to march down field. Looking to make it a seven point lead, Penn broke up 'Nova's two-pont conversion attempt.
Threatening on their next drive, Ragone completed two passes for 10 and 14 yards. However, the next passing attempt proved to be disastrous as Villanova's James Pitts picked off the pass at the Villanova 44 yard-line and ran it back for a touchdown, stretching the lead to 22-10 with 2:59 remaining.
Aaron Baily put Penn in good position to retaliate with his 46-yard kickoff return, but 'Nova's defense caused a turnover-on-downs after a fourth down-and-five from the Villanova 25.
Ragone finished with 147 yards on 11-of-20 passing, while Tuten gathered in a career high six receptions and 89 yards. Lyle Marsh led the Quakers with 40 yards rushing on eight carries before leaving in the second quarter with an upper body injury.
Junior Matt Hamscher and senior Zach Heller led the Red and Blue with seven tackles, while junior Brian Giesecke and sophomore Steve Lias each tallied a sack.
Next up, Penn takes on Dartmouth to open the Ivy League schedule on Saturday at 3:30 p.m.at Franklin Field. The game will be broadcasted on by the Comcast Network and WFIL 560 AM.


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PO 3660 - Political Analysis
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A study of the methodology and research techniques of political science. Explores approaches such as individualistic-psychological, rational, game theory, role theory and techniques such as research design and survey research. Discusses the basic principles and assumptions of political inquiry and the devices for gathering and analyzing data. Falls. Prerequisite(s): MA 2300 or SS 3700.
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Astros' adversity test continues in Seattle
SEATTLE -- Veteran slugger Carlos Pena says the challenge for the Astros is finding out how well they can handle a punch, and the rough-and-tumble American League West has been treating its newest member with anything but soft hands.
The feel-good memories from the Astros' rousing win over the Rangers to start the season have slowly faded amidst a six-game losing streak against divisional foes in which Houston's offense has struggled to back up generally solid starting pitching.
The latest gut check came on Monday night, when the Mariners played before a packed house for their home opener and used 6 1/3 scoreless innings from left-hander Joe Saunders and a few timely hits to beat the Astros, 3-0.
"This is a team that's very talented, a team that has tools," Pena said. "Obviously, they haven't translated into wins. We haven't been able to materialize a win in the last few games, but we have a lot of pride, and just as much as it hurts to lose, we also take pride in being strong through adversity. We can't fold. We take pride in getting back up and coming hard tomorrow and not letting up. It's something we talk about here."
Since scoring eight runs en route to beating the Rangers on Opening Night in their AL debut, the Astros have been shut out three times. They've scored nine runs in six games, hitting .188 with one home run in that span.
"It may not be everyone at once, but I know for sure we are a much better offensive club than we displayed here early on in the year," Astros manager Bo Porter said. "We have complete confidence these guys will hit, and when it happens, you're going to start to see some crooked numbers going up there."
It can't come soon enough for a starting rotation that's done its job for the most part. Philip Humber, returning to Safeco Field for the first time since throwing his perfect game for the White Sox here nearly a year ago, turned in a quality start by allowing five hits and three runs in six innings in his second game with Houston.
"Our job is to go out there and put up as many zeros as we can," Humber said. "We know we have a talented club here, and it's just a matter of time until guys start putting some runs together, and I have confidence these guys are going to do that."
Astros starters have allowed three earned runs or less in all but one game this year.
"I don't think you're wasting it, but I think those guys are gaining confidence as they go along and as the season continues to progress," Porter said. "We knew it was an area that we wanted to upgrade. Those guys have done a tremendous job of keeping us in ballgames and pitching well, and we want that to continue. We just need things to come around."
Saunders (1-1) held the Astros to six hits and one walk and struck out five batters after getting roughed up by Oakland in his Mariners debut on the heels of a rough spring. Kendrys Morales had RBI hits in the first and third innings to score Michael Saunders, who singled and stole second base in the first and singled and advanced on a wild pitch in the third.
"There were a few balls that were hit hard that were caught, and the balls that were hit soft kind of fell in sometimes," Humber said. "It kind of happens. People say it evens out, and tonight was an example of that. I think we probably could have kept it to a one-run game. Saunders getting to second, both those times he scored, that's on me. I'll hopefully do a better job holding runners next time."
In the fifth, the Mariners twice put down bunts the Astros couldn't convert into outs -- catcher Jason Castro threw late to second on Brendan Ryan's effort, and Franklin Gutierrez put down a squeeze to score Dustin Ackley that made it 3-0.
"I was looking for a good pitch, and he threw me the first pitch right in the middle," Gutierrez said. "There's nothing better to bunt than a pitch in the middle, so I put it down."
The Astros know the season is still in its infancy and they understand there's better baseball ahead. They believe they played too well this spring to struggle like they have for much longer, but shrugging off losses isn't always easy.
"We take pride in making sure we know how to brush it off," Pena said. "It hurts. We don't like losing, don't get me wrong. We don't like losing and we don't accept it. But after you recognize that, we have to make a decision on how we're going to handle it."
Brian McTaggart is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Tag's Lines. Follow @brianmctaggart on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Mount Adams Climber's Log
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|South Spur
Date Climbed: Jul 17, 2004
|South Spur Route 2004 An inspiring experience. A magical place.
|Posted Feb 25, 2007 7:21 pm
|South spur
Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2006
|Long but fun climb. An early start put us on the summit before clouds rolled in. Felt bad for people still hiking up into the soup. Unfortunately the glissade track was too icy for a comfortable descent.
|Posted Feb 22, 2007 5:07 pm
|First Cascade Volcanoe
Date Climbed: Aug 10, 2001
|Took an overnight trip up the south spur by myself.
|Posted Feb 20, 2007 10:27 pm
|to ourselves
|long approach since we couldn't drive to the trailhead. did the adams gl. route. greeted by falling seracs at the start right next to us, we decided to climb fast and never stopped to drink or eat (very dumb not to drink)but had it all to ourselves.
|Posted Jan 30, 2007 9:18 pm
|Up the South Spur
Date Climbed: Aug 26, 2006
|Up the South Spur in one push from the car. We left Seattle at 9PM, got to the TH by 2 and was at the top by noon I think? I cant remember, it was a while back. It was fun, the glissade is KILLER!
|Posted Jan 16, 2007 5:30 pm
|South with Splitboard
|Awesome ride. A bit icy at the top.
|Posted Jan 5, 2007 1:15 am
|South Spur Solo
Date Climbed: Aug 9, 2005
|First climbing experience! Decided Sunday that i wanted to climb adma's and so i bought an ice axe and crampons monday in hood river, and then soloed tuesday. Camped at cold springs, left at 6 a.m. and then summited at 11:30 a.m. Amazing weather and glassaiding on the way down was awesome. Fun climb!
|Posted Nov 15, 2006 5:52 am
|mar C
|South spur route in a day
Date Climbed: Aug 17, 2006
|I had a perfect solo one-day-hike/climb to the summit of Mount Adams. Started at 7a.m. from Coldsprings Campground and reached the summit at 1:30p.m.. The weather was very good all the time, but on the summit it became a little bit cloudy and the view was not too exciting. I had crampons and I was happy to have them; saw a lot of people climbing with inadequate shoes and clothes :-(
Nevertheless, a great tour on a great day.
Came back to the campground at 4p.m.
|Posted Nov 2, 2006 9:42 pm
|Southern route
Date Climbed: Jul 1, 2000
|Fun Climb
|Posted Oct 27, 2006 4:36 pm
|Changing Conditions!
Date Climbed: Sep 16, 2006
|Went with a group of four. Two were first-time climbers. We experienced quickly changing conditions, including snow, sleet, thick heavy white-out conditions, and beautiful blue skies. The trip was mostly about getting some experience for the newbies, and we accomplished that. Summit would have been nice, but we didn't play our cards right and missed our window. Turned around at 11K at noon in white-out conditions. Ended up assisting a disoriented climber find way back to camp. Fun trip!
|Posted Oct 9, 2006 11:43 pm
|South Spur Twice
|Summited twice in July and August of 2005.
|Posted Sep 18, 2006 7:52 pm
|OSAT Rendezvous - 1995
Date Climbed: Jun 24, 1995
|One OSAT team went up the South Spur, while another team of 12 did the Mazama. We met on the top. It is my only Adams summit, so I'm probably one of a small percent of climbers who have summmited Adams but never gone up the SS. Fabulous, world class glassade down the upper part of the SSpur before traversing back to the glacier to retrieve our camping gear.
|Posted Sep 2, 2006 6:12 am
|South Spur
Date Climbed: Aug 14, 2006
|Camped a little below the lunch counter next to the snowfield. Glissading was fun but I hit a couple rocks.
|Posted Aug 21, 2006 4:44 pm
|Route Climbed: South Spur
Date Climbed: Aug 13, 2006
|Climbed with a couple of first time partners, including this guy, Scott Haines (cover climber). We camped at lunch counter on Saturday night and delighted (or annoyed...) our fellow campers with a backpacking guitar I packed up. Summited Adams on Sunday with about 100 others and glissades down. Long glissade, but the surface was a little too gnarled to be super fun. Still, it was a fun although tiring trip.
|Posted Aug 16, 2006 2:38 am
|South Spur
Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2006
|Good trip with lots of sun. Slept at lunch counter, lots of rocks and gravel to cross but still great glissading from pikers peak.
|Posted Aug 14, 2006 3:14 am
|Garon Coriz
|A Trying Break from OCHEM on the South Spur
Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2006
|Went up with three friends as a break from summer school even though I had a Organic Chemistry mid-term two days later. It took us longer than we thought (8 hours to the summit from Cold Springs) because we were out of shape. The glissade down was awesome and the last one below the lunch counter gave us the biggest thrill of the day.
|Posted Aug 13, 2006 6:36 pm
|South Rib - Solo
Date Climbed: Aug 10, 2006
|Climbed the S. Rib car-to-car in about 11 hours. Snow fields below the lunch counter were low angle enough to climb without crampons, but the snow was very firm for the entire ascent. Crampons were needed for the snowfield above the counter.
After climbing the route, I rounded the false summit and a big lenticular was formed up on the main summit. I traversed into it, over to the saddle between the two summits. Visibility was pretty poor, I waited for about 15 min. before deciding that climbing and descending the last couple hundred feet of crappy scree in poor visibility didn't sound like much fun, and I wouldn't be able to see anything from the main summit anyway. This was close enough for me.
|Posted Aug 12, 2006 3:35 pm
|South Spur Date climbed: June 1988
|Went with a Mazamas group. Camped short of the lunch counter. Great weather. Had a great glissade down from Pikers Peak to the lunch counter, what took 2 hours up was 5 minutes back down!
|Posted Aug 2, 2006 5:07 am
|Route climbed: South spur
Date Climbed: Aug 24, 2003
|This trip got me hooked on the mountains. My brother Doug convinced me to try my first scramble/climb.
|Posted Aug 1, 2006 11:55 pm
|South Climb - skiing S-W chutes
Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2006
|Windy day kept the hot temperatures down. Skied down the south-west chutes of Pikers Peak. Excellent snow conditions that day, suncups were no issue. Long hike back from the end of snow to Cold Springs Campground.
|Posted Jul 30, 2006 1:23 am


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"We're thrilled for the opportunity to collaborate with this team as we continue transforming our brand, with a sharp focus on building consumer awareness of our wireless offering and driving traffic into our stores," said Jim Gooch, president and CEO of RadioShack Corp.
Grey New York will support creative strategy and execution for RadioShack's entire marketing ecosystem: in stores, television, online, social media, mobile media, digital media, printed circulars, outdoor and other categories, including focus on Hispanic applications across all of these channels.
The transition to Grey is expected to be complete in June 2012. The retailer's advertising spend was about $209 million in the last fiscal year.


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Zimmermann tops Phils, first in NL to eight wins
Righty induces key DP before Nationals' bats supply four-run fifth
WASHINGTON -- It was a blustery 53 degrees at first pitch Friday night, but Nationals starter Jordan Zimmermann didn't mind. The Wisconsin native took the mound with a stiff neck and short sleeves and picked up his National League-leading eighth win of the season as the Nationals beat the Phillies, 5-2, at Nationals Park.
Zimmermann pitched efficiently to pick up his fifth win in six starts, allowing just two runs over seven innings on 92 pitches. He induced a pair of key double plays, struck out one batter and didn't allow a walk for the third straight game -- all despite pitching on a chilly night with a stiff neck.
"Zimm woke up kind of with a stiff neck today and kind of hid it from me, but I knew about it. Nothing's really hidden from the manager," said Davey Johnson. "I kind of cut him a little shorter than I normally would, but he still threw a heck of a ballgame."
Zimmermann picked up his fifth win in five home starts this season; he hasn't lost at Nationals Park since May 17, 2012. But he also had help Friday.
Hours after Johnson announced that second baseman Danny Espinosa would miss at least two or three games with a broken right wrist, Espinosa's replacement -- utility man Steve Lombardozzi -- proved to be the difference on offense. Lombardozzi went 3-for-4, including a two-out double to right-center field in a four-run fifth inning.
"Today was a big day, with Espinosa out, for Lombo to do what he did, and to score five runs, we've been kind of stuck on none or one or two," Johnson said. "So that was big. Big shot in the arm for the offense."
Added Lombardozzi: "It feels good [to get an opportunity]. You never want anybody to get injured, but when my name's called, I'm going to be ready. It's always good to get some consistent ABs."
The Nationals had quality scoring opportunities in the third and fourth innings, but failed to take advantage of them. Phillies starter Kyle Kendrick walked the bases loaded with one out in the third, but the Nationals scored just one run on a sacrifice fly by Ian Desmond.
"I threw a lot of balls and got behind in the count," Kendrick said. "It was another one of those nights where I was 2-0 [in the count] and having to throw a lot of pitches."
In the fourth, Tyler Moore reached base on a throwing error by Jimmy Rollins. Lombardozzi singled to shallow center field in the next at-bat, and Nationals third-base coach Trent Jewett waved Moore home from second. Moore tried to bulldoze catcher Erik Kratz at the plate to score, but Kratz absorbed the hit, held onto the ball and applied the tag.
In the fifth inning, however, the Nationals finally broke through. Five hits turned into four runs, beginning with an RBI triple by Adam LaRoche, his first of the season and just the 11th triple of his career. Kurt Suzuki swatted a single to left to bring LaRoche home, Moore also singled, and Lombardozzi cleared the bases with a two-out, two-run double.
"It's great to see any teammate have a big day," LaRoche said. "[But] you've got a guy that's in here watching film all game long trying to help out our lineup when he's not playing, and then to go out and have a big game, get a big hit, we love it for those guys, because they support us the nine out of 10 nights they're not playing, they're out there backing us up."
With injuries to Jayson Werth and Espinosa, Johnson said he will continue to lean on bench players like Moore and Lombardozzi. Both are looking forward to getting more at-bats, and think that the daily routine will help them get on track at the plate.
"That's awesome to get some at-bats," Moore said. "You come in the clubhouse and it's a different mentality when you know you're going to play. It kind of gets you settled in a little bit more and kind of takes the pressure off."
The Nationals hope that alleviating that pressure will help lift their struggling offense, which is among the worst in the Major Leagues in several statistical categories. That, in turn, will help starting pitchers like Zimmermann, who only need a little bit of run support to seal a win.
"They've been swinging the bat well and we've been getting some tough breaks and not scoring as much as we'd like," Zimmermann said. "It was definitely nice to get a five-run cushion tonight and kind of put it on cruise control."
Tom Schad is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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COLUMBUS -- Arthur Tyler was a self-described "stupid kid" and "idiot" on the wrong path back in 1983.
Look at his file and you'll find instances of breaking and entering, petty theft, trespassing and criminal damaging when he was a juvenile, and robbery, grand theft and possession of criminal tools as a young adult.
Then came that day when an elderly man in his neighborhood who sold fresh produce out of his van as a community service was shot and killed, and Tyler ended up on Ohio's Death Row.
He says he didn't commit the crime. The other guy who confessed multiple times to pulling the trigger has served his sentence and is back on the street.
Prosecutors don't agree, citing other evidence.
Regardless, earlier this month, after 31 years on Death Row, Gov. John Kasich commuted Tyler's sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole, sending him into the general inmate population at the Trumbull Correctional Institution.
Do an online search and you'll find ample reading material about Tyler and his case. He has supporters around the world advocating for his release. A lot of people are convinced of his innocence. I think he was pretty certain he'd be getting out of prison.
Instead, he's learning to adjust to sharing a cell with another inmate and walking without shackles to the library.
If you had asked him about the death penalty 31 years ago, Tyler would have said he didn't know what you were talking about.
"Until I got convicted, until I was facing this, I had no idea we even had a death penalty," he said. "... I'd never been in prison. ... I'd been to jail, but I'd never been in prison. So I didn't have no concept of what was around that. They said Death Row, and I said, what, they're going to kill me? I had no idea I was going to spend 31 years of my life there ..."
After more than three decades in the system, Tyler, unsurprisingly, is not a proponent of capital punishment.
Though he said he doesn't read newspapers, he's aware of Dennis McGuire's prolonged execution in Ohio earlier this year and the botched lethal injection that took place in recent weeks in Oklahoma.
"They need to get rid of it," he said. "Our last execution was botched. Oklahoma just had a botched one. This ain't justice. No way it's justice. They actually murder people. They call murderers murderers, what do you call them? They're murdering people, they're suffocating them. They come up with drugs that they never even use on an animal. They're just, they're murdering us. ... They need to get rid of it. They need to stop this."
I asked Tyler how he would respond to the family members and friends of murder victims who have died in a brutal, painful fashion. Why should the perpetrators of such crimes continue to live?
"Who are you to judge a man with life and death?" he said. "Isn't that God's job? They've got places like this where they put people for the rest of their life. If you feel they're that bad and you judge they're that bad, put them in prison for the rest of their life. Why are you murdering them? It's not OK. Somebody's going to have to pay for it one day, because that's murder. It's outright murder."
Marc Kovac is the Dix Capital Bureau Chief. Email him at email@example.com or on Twitter at OhioCapitalBlog.


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Medicare's prescription drug coverage (also called Part D) is a program to help people on Medicare pay for medications. You can add Part D to Original Medicare, as well as to certain other Medicare plans. Another way that you can get prescription drug coverage is to enroll in a Medicare Advantage Plan that offers drug coverage.
Most people who are 65 years and older or are disabled can enroll in Medicare, including Medicare drug plans.
You can enroll in Medicare around your 65th birthday—3 months before your birthday month to 3 months after. If you have a disability, you can enroll during a 7-month window around your 25th month of disability. Also, Medicare has an open enrollment period from October 15 through December 7.
Private health insurance companies administer the drug plans for Medicare. These companies provide a list of brand-name and generic drugs that they cover. The list can change over time. It is common for drug plans to exclude more expensive brand-name medications if a generic one is available. However, if there is a medication that you really need, your doctor may be able to appeal and get the drug covered.
The costs depends on different things—the medications you use, the plan you choose, and whether you go to a pharmacy in your plan's network. Here are some costs you can expect to pay:
Yes, there are steps that you can take to lower your costs, such as:
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Extra help with Medicare prescription drug plan costs. Medicare.gov website. Available at: https://secure.ssa.gov/i1020/start. Accessed September 3, 2015.
Get help paying costs. Medicare website. Available at: http://www.medicare.gov/your-medicare-costs/help-paying-costs/get-help-paying-costs.html. Accessed September 3, 2015.
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Medicare and you: 2014. Medicare website. Available at: http://www.medicare.gov/Publications/Pubs/pdf/10050.pdf. Accessed September 3, 2015.
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This article was published 12/1/2013 (1681 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Fitting, one supposes, that he blew into town along with the winter tempest that struck the city on Friday.
Evander Kane is back on the ice with the Winnipeg Jets, or at least he was in an informal skate Saturday in advance of the start of official NHL training camps.
Controversy, or at least debate, seems to follow the 21-year-old left-winger around.
No surprise there.
But for all his playfulness with reporters Saturday at the MTS Centre, the youngster from Vancouver who struck it rich with a new six-year, $31.5-million contract just minutes before the lockout began last September said one serious thing about business.
Something his team and his teammates and Jets fans aren't likely to forget.
Kane was asked, for all the twists and turns in his road since he arrived in Winnipeg, if he is now committed to the Jets.
"That's what my signature means," Kane said.
The contract is clearly pleasing and he said Saturday there's no second-guessing it post-lockout.
"I'm happy with it," he said. "That's why I signed it. I'm looking forward to getting back on the ice and playing hockey."
The deal, which comes with a starting salary of $3 million pro-rated for this shortened season, was a conscious choice, he said, "to take the security early or maybe try to wait and risk it a little bit. Under the circumstances, I thought it was a good idea to maybe sign before just because they wanted to limit second-term contracts."
Since Kane has been away after authoring a career-best 30-goal season for the Jets, he's been in the news.
Among the items was his tweeted picture from Las Vegas holding apparent stacks of cash as a prop phone in an attempt to reach boxer Floyd Mayweather. It sparked outrage from some, decrying Kane's insensitivity.
Some reported that Kane was apologetic after the incident, but they were wrong. He's nothing of the sort.
"Nothing really surprises me anymore," he said of the reaction to it. "I thought it was funny. I still think it is. I said this before, if that's going to ruin your day, you might need to go to the doctor and check yourself out. It was fun, it was a good trip in Vegas and I'm happy about that picture, that I was able to take it."
Jets captain Andrew Ladd used a doctored version of the photo -- coach Claude Noel's head was superimposed onto Kane's shoulders -- for a Twitter barb at his teammate for not being in Winnipeg earlier this week, but Kane fended it off with amusement Saturday.
"Laddy actually cheated," Kane smiled. "I guess he was doing some Internet surfing and stumbled upon it. It took him a long time to come up with that good of a joke.
"Maybe next time he'll be a little snappier."
Kane was asked if he minded being a lightning rod for criticism.
"I don't know," he said. "You guys will have to figure that out for yourselves.
"It comes with the job description. I'm pretty comfortable with who I am and the people around me are as well. I don't really have to defend myself and fix that."
Kane arrived with designs cut into the short hair on the back of his head -- TMT (The Money Team, an apparel brand founded by Mayweather) and EK9.
He said the TMT logo was for "Thorburn-Mother-Thorburn," chuckling, of course.
The eight-minute back-and-forth with reporters included a little hockey talk, including reporting that he had been skating on his own, and with his father, in Vancouver after his KHL adventure in Minsk flamed out after 12 games.
The schedule ahead, Kane said, will not be that burdensome.
"I think for the most part our travel is not too, too bad" he said. "Our division is Carolina and Washington and Florida and Tampa and they're all pretty close when we get on the road."
As for projections about himself and the team, Kane said he's got higher goals and doesn't care how pundits rank the Jets.
"I don't really pay attention to where our team is ranked. I know some people don't think we're that good a team but it's up to us to prove them wrong," he said.
A goal for the season all the way around.


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Linday Lohan leaving rehab
Lindsay Lohan might be leaving the Promises rehab facility soon. A source tells Gatecrasher:
"She's scheduled to be out of rehab by next week. She's taken rehab very seriously. She has cut a lot of negative influences in her life. She and [mom] Dina speak every day."
She checked in May 28th and was supposed to do a 30 day program, so if she gets out by next week it means she'll have left the program early. And if there's one thing Lindsay doesn't need, it's to get out of rehab early. You wouldn't set Hannibal Lecter free just because "he hasn't eaten anybody in over a week." I know it's not like prison and she can leave whenever she wants, but if she's really taking this seriously she should complete the program. Otherwise I'll save myself some time and start writing future headlines now: "Lindsay Lohan arrested after driving her car through an office building."
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16 Comments
1. ar2730 (Posts: 42; Member since: 24 May 2012)
Boooo! I was looking forward to the pebble blue too.
2. Galen20K (Posts: 545; Member since: 26 Dec 2008)
you know what's interesting is that when the T-Mobile USA version's of the GS3 leaked last week(which turned out to be true), they had called the blue finish a Metallic blue so this could be.
4. remixfa (Posts: 14605; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
the pebble blue is kind of metallic as well.
thats a shame, i was looking forward to the pebble blue. this is too grey. blah!
6. Galen20K (Posts: 545; Member since: 26 Dec 2008)
I prefer the old Pebble blue color as well, I seriously don't think they'll change it all that much if at all. I think this dude had really bad lighting in his video that made it seem like a different color but also if you read the Press release by Samsung for the USA version of the GS3 they still list it as Pebble blue so I really don't think they'll change it honestly.
10. greathero1 (Posts: 576; Member since: 13 Jun 2008)
I actually think the faux design in the pebble blue makes the phone look cheap. Just my opinion though. I think the white one is the better looking of the 2. I am still torn though between this and the Evo. I am not blown away by the Galaxy S3 but the HTC One series is simply gorgeous. Either way, you cant go wrong with either one.
16. WirelessCon (Posts: 311; Member since: 11 May 2010)
What does "faux design" mean? That doesn't even make sense.
13. sadaivadai (Posts: 156; Member since: 22 Nov 2011)
Anyway you are going to use a case .. you don't have to worry about the colour ..
3. dcgore (Posts: 231; Member since: 24 Feb 2012)
No pebble blue...that's it!
5. medalaster01 (Posts: 42; Member since: 22 Nov 2011)
this is a dummy!!momy!!
7. htcgirl (Posts: 1; Member since: 04 Jun 2012)
im gonna buy this one. but first sell the s2
8. ph00ny (Posts: 1519; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Um look at the color of his hand
It looks like the video has some color saturation issues
9. rwolf1984 (Posts: 532; Member since: 06 Jun 2009)
I would rather have this color than blue or white!!!
11. greathero1 (Posts: 576; Member since: 13 Jun 2008)
What ever happened to good ole black? Dark gray would also work for me better than that damn pebble blue.
12. sadaivadai (Posts: 156; Member since: 22 Nov 2011)
I like this one .. It looks more original .. The pebble blue looked like a toy ..
14. mercorp (Posts: 1043; Member since: 28 Jan 2012)
Looking for a coral pink version,too.
Hope the phone above is a new color called gunmetal black.
17. thelegend6657 (unregistered)
although white s3 looks best i like the old blue more
Only the back is giving problems right >
Why dont samsung keep the old blue at the front and only use the new blue at the back ?