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Officials said the device was thrown at protesters marching through Bangkok.
BANGKOK - An explosive device wounded 28 anti-government protesters in the Thai capital on Friday and other violence was reported after several days of relative calm when the movement appeared to be running out of steam.
Police said the device was thrown at protesters marching with their leader, Suthep Thaugsuban, near Chulalongkorn University in the city centre and the estimate of the number of injured came from the Erawan Medical Center, which monitors Bangkok hospitals.
"When the incident happened and perpetrators threw the explosive, Suthep was 30 metres away," said Akanat Promphan, a spokesman for the movement, adding Suthep was unharmed.
It was not immediately clear who was responsible but none of the wounds was believed to be life-threatening.
The political unrest flared in November and escalated on Monday when the demonstrators led by former opposition politician Suthep brought parts of the capital to a standstill and forced many ministries to close.
Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul said on Friday it was "about time" to take back control of Bangkok from the protesters, who want Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to step down and have rejected the election she has called for 2 February.
Surapong was speaking at a news conference as a delegation of officials, escorted by police and the military, set out for a government office that issues passports to persuade protesters there to leave and allow work to resume.
Asked if the government was now moving to end a blockade of ministries and several key intersections of the city, he said: "Soon. It's about time. We have to start to do something."
Earlier, hundreds of people on motorbikes and in other vehicles drove up to the government administrative area where the passport office is located and a confrontation ensued with the protesters, National Security Council Secretary-General Paradorn Pattanatabut told Reuters.
The turmoil is the latest episode in an eight-year conflict that pits Bangkok's middle class and royalist establishment against the mostly poorer, rural supporters of Yingluck and her brother, former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
Thaksin's rural and working-class support has ensured he or his allies have won every election since 2001 and Yingluck's Puea Thai Party seems certain to win an election she has called for 2 February.
Speakers at protest sites across central Bangkok have suggested that Yingluck is worn out and eager to quit, but at the news conference on Friday the prime minister maintained that she still enjoyed overwhelming popular support.
The anti-government protesters want to suspend what they say is a fragile democracy destabilised by Thaksin, whom they accuse of nepotism and corruption.
Their goal is to eradicate the political influence of his family by altering electoral arrangements, though in ways they have not spelt out, along with other political reforms including setting up a "people's council" of Thai worthies.
Reuters reporters said at least 2,000 protesters in pickup trucks and vans headed towards a printing works just north of the centre of Bangkok, saying it was producing ballot papers for the election and claiming it would be printing far more than were needed.
The security forces have largely kept out of sight since the blockades began this week, with the government keen to avoid any confrontation.
The unrest is hurting the economy. Finance Minister Kittirat Na Ranong said this week it might only grow 3 percent this year rather than the forecast 4.5 percent because of disruption to manufacturing, exports, consumption and tourism.

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Man drowns on Xmas morning
A 64-year-old man, believed to be from Lennox Head, drowned at a Ballina beach this morning.
The man was surfing at Shelly Beach with a family member and a few friends at around 6.30am.
A short time later, they realized the man was unconscious in the water, Inspector Bill McKenna of Richmond Local Area Command said.
They pulled the man to shore, performed CPR and called an ambulance.
They were unable to revive him and he was taken to Ballina District Hospital where he was pronounced dead.


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A ten-year journey of commitment, ambition and perseverance has paved Andre McClain's way to becoming the Ringmaster for the 143rd Edition of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® Presents Built To Amaze!S In addition to being a Ringmaster, Andre McClain is an accomplished animal trainer, cowboy, rodeo star, country singer and songwriter, and above all, an admired dad. This rancher has been around horses and rodeos since he was a baby, and is a descendant from a long, distinguished African-American cowboy heritage that dates back to the early 1900's. Now in Ringling Bros. Presents Built To Amaze!, Andre truly represents a hip throwback to the origins of a Ringmaster by donning a spectacular gentleman's riding habit and directing the performance, exotic animal, and equestrian presentations.
Raised on a ranch in Kansas City, Missouri, Andre began riding bucking ponies and steers at the age of five. A rodeo competitor himself, Andre's father, Lu, founded the Bill Pickett Rodeo in 1984, which was America's first all-Black touring rodeo, and where Andre made his competitive debut at just seven-years-old.
Andre took pride in his cowboy heritage; he even rode his horse to high school every day! Andre "parked" his steed on the soccer field, and tended to him between classes. Andre's college days were spent more conservatively at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and although initially a vocal music major, he received a degree in Business Management in 2000.
After school, Andre joined the International Professional Rodeo Association, and continued to compete in rodeo circuits. He taught himself a variety of "Wild West Arts" and took his one man show on tour with his father's rodeo. In 2002, Andre visited the 132nd Edition of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® to conduct research on stilts for a new routine he was considering for his show. During a behind-the-scenes chat with some of the clowns who used stilts in their act, his animal training background caught the attention of show personnel. In a twist of fate, he was offered a job working with the show's exotic animal staff.
At the end of the tour, Andre auditioned his one-man act before Ringling Bros. producer Kenneth Feld and landed a position as the host of the 133rd Edition's Three Ring Adventure now known as the All Access Pre-show. In the past ten years, Andre's repertoire expanded from pre-show host to presenting and demonstrating the bond that he has with animals from horses and miniature hoofstock to camels.
Andre's perseverance has resulted not only in his passion to have achieved the most recognized role at Ringling Bros. but also in matters of the heart. Andre, after two years of waiting, convinced the woman of his dreams, Daniele who also performs with Ringling Bros., to marry him. The newlywed couple are more excited than ever to build their life as husband and wife when The Greatest Show On Earth! launches Built To Amaze! in 2013.


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The U.S. House passed a bill Wednesday that included a provision allowing some 41 American sport hunters to bring polar bear trophies home from Canada.
It's an issue Alaska Congressman Don Young has been working on for five years. Young, on the House floor, said the animals were shot in Canada, before the bear was listed under the Endangered Species Act in 2008.
"Keep in (mind the) fact these are dead polar bears in storage hunted legally, under the premise of Canadian and United States law," Young said.
Young, an avid hunter, is an ardent critic of the Endangered Species Act, but he says this just helps a pair of Alaskans and a few dozen other American hunters whose trophies have been sitting in cold storage for years.
He says the importation would send about $41,000 to a U.S.-Russian polar bear conservation fund.
The issue has drawn limited opposition in the past, but this week the Obama Administration said it has no objection.


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In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the "100 websites you should know and use." Six years later, it remains one of the most viewed TED blog posts ever. Time for an update? We think so. Below, the 2013 edition of the 100 websites to put on your radar and in your browser.
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Co-Director, Cedars-Sinai/USC Glorya Kaufman Dance Medicine Center
Associate Professor and Director of Dance, USC School of Theatre
Margo Apostolos, PhD, is Co-Director of the Cedars-Sinai/USC Glorya Kaufman Dance Medicine Center. She is also Associate Professor and Director of Dance at the USC School of Dramatic Arts, where she developed the Dance Minor program in Theatre, directs the dance concert each semester and coordinates the Open Gate Dance Program.
Director of Dance at the School of Theatre, Dr. Apostolos has authored and presented numerous articles on her research and design in Robot Choreography. In addition to her doctoral and post-doctoral studies at Stanford University, she earned a master's in Dance from Northwestern University. She has served as visiting professor in the Department of Psychology at Princeton University and has taught in Chicago, San Francisco, at Stanford University, Southern Illinois University and California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo. A recipient of the prestigious NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship, Dr. Apostolos worked for NASA at Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Cal Tech as a research scientist in the area of space telerobotics. At the Annenberg Center for Communication, Dr. Apostolos conducted research on facial expressions and human-computer interactions.
Dr. Apostolos' work in this area continues in collaboration with the USC neuroscience program. She was named a Southern California Studies Center faculty fellow, where she is surveying theatre and dance in the Southern California region.
Currently, Stanford University is providing funding for Dr. Apostolos' work in the area of "Dance for Sports" in collaboration with the Stanford Athletic Department. This work was presented to the International Olympic Committee in Sydney, Australia, for the 2000 Games and in preparation for the Salt Lake City Games in 2002. Dr. Apostolos developed the Dance Minor program in Theatre, directs the dance concert each semester and coordinates the Open Gate Dance Program. In 2004, she presented at the Athens IOC meeting on Dance for Sports and at the World Congress of Dance. This past spring, she was instrumental in bringing internationally-renown director/choreographer Mark Morris to campus for a workshop that integrated motion capture technology and robotics with modern dance.
Most recently, Dr. Apostolos co-founded the Cedars-Sinai/USC Glorya Kaufman Dance Medicine Center, a specialized treatment center - the first of its kind in Los Angeles - offering preventive care and treatment specifically designed for professional and recreational dancers.


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JANUS Launch: Cured Meats, Cocktails and Canapés, CBD Sydney (21 Mar 2012)
8 comments:
- Sara - Belly Rumbles said...
Meh, don't feel bad. If you had a Ferrari, no room for a baby seat :)
- March 22, 2012 at 1:17 AM
- Lola (Figs & Brie) said...
Simon, cannot believe I didn't see you there!
- March 22, 2012 at 12:32 PM
- Simon Leong said...
hi sara, that's true but we'd use the Holden Commodore instead if we had baby on board and daddy can use the Ferrari to get home more quickly from blog events hehe
hi lola, i was only there til about 6.40 pm so might have missed you if you came later? hope you enjoyed the night and drank the bar dry ;-)
- March 22, 2012 at 3:48 PM
- Lola said...
Ahh I see, we arrived later. You missed out on some amazing pumpkin ravioli with biscotti!
- March 22, 2012 at 5:32 PM
- Brisbane Devoured said...
You mean thats not your Ferrari parked out the front there? :P
- March 22, 2012 at 11:24 PM
- Simon Leong said...
hi lola, don't tell me that now :-(
hi brisbane devoured, no silly — mine's yellow and it was in service that day ;-)
- March 23, 2012 at 12:11 AM
- Miss Kimbers said...
Delicious: PROPER sliced meat! None of this supermarket rubbish!
- March 23, 2012 at 9:34 PM
- Simon Leong said...
hi miss kimbers, the difference is amazing.
- March 25, 2012 at 9:41 PM
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Only the UFC women's bantamweight class has fewer signees than the male flyweights, but reigning champion Demetrious Johnson is perfectly content in his current weight class.
"I've got a lot of work to do at flyweight," Johnson said earlier this month during a Q&A session with UFC fans.
Johnson (16-2-1 MMA, 5-1-1 UFC), who attempts his first title defense next month at UFC on FOX 6 opposite John Dodson (14-5 MMA, 3-0 UFC), began his big-show career at bantamweight in the now-defunct WEC. After an initial setback, he went on a win streak and won a title shot against champ Dominick Cruz in October 2011. However, a five-round fight saw Cruz defend the belt via decision.
Johnson, who walks around at 145 pounds, leapt at the chance to fight at flyweight when the UFC put together a four-man tournament to determine the promotion's first 125-pound champion. And after an initial setback – a bizarre draw with Ian McCall at UFC on FX 2 – he went on to win the belt with a split call over Joseph Benavidez.
But the prospect of avenging a loss to Cruz isn't a motivator.
"I think that fight was a great fight, and Dominick is a great champion, and I hope he has a great recovery for his ACL," said Johnson, referring to Cruz's nagging ACL problems that are expected to keep him out of action for much of 2013. "It was a great learning experience, and I think I found my home at 125 (pounds).
"Now, let's say two years down the road, I'm cleaning house in the flyweight division and Dominick is doing the same thing at bantamweight, and the UFC is like, 'We're going to do [Georges St-Pierre] vs. Anderson Silva, but we're also going to do Johnson vs. Cruz superfight.' Then maybe it will make sense."
Of course, Johnson would need to fight at an impressive clip for several years to equal the championship output of either Silva or St-Pierre, who have defended their belts a combined 17 times. And at this point, there's a question of whether there would be enough credible competition for him to keep busy. Fifteen flyweights occupy the UFC's flyweight roster.
But Johnson doesn't just look at No. 1 contenders. He also looks at the guys behind them.
"I don't want to say it's limited," Johnson said. "We have great talent out there. Let's say the next fight is Chris Cariaso vs. John Moraga, and the winner of that doesn't mean I'll fight that guy. I'll go fight the guy he beat up, too, because that's still an opponent out there for me. And they're still looking for new talent, as well."
Dodson is the first contender to emerge from the flyweight pack following the tournament. He bested Tim Elliot and the highly regarded Jussier Formiga to earn the fight with Johnson, which headlines the event on Jan. 26 at United Center in Chicago. (Main-card fights air on FOX following prelims on FX and Facebook.)
"The one thing Dodson does so well when he fights people is that he keeps a lot of distance," Johnson said. "When somebody does that, he dictates the fight. I think I have good fundamentals and good footwork, so that negates all the stuff that people try to do to me."
Already two tourney vets are scheduled to fight – Benavidez and two-time Johnson opponent McCall are set to meet at UFC 156 in a bout that could have title implications.
Johnson will welcome them all.
For more on UFC on FOX 6, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.


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Murder, Mayhem and Dysfunctional Families Reside in ION Television's "Durham County"
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Award-Winning Series Marks ION's First Venture Into Original Programming
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- What you don't know about your neighbors could kill you. That's just everyday reality in "Durham County," the new original scripted prime time series premiering this Fall to U.S. audiences on ION Television. "Durham County," an eerie combination of suspense and family drama, marks the first original prime time series to premiere on ION Television. The show will bow to U.S. audiences in early September.
Produced by Muse Entertainment and Back Alley Films, the Award-Winning "Durham County" series follows the troubled world of Homicide Detective Mike Sweeney (Hugh Dillon, CBS' "Flashpoint") who moves his family to quiet suburbia for a fresh start after his partner is killed and his wife Audrey (H�l�ne Joy) is diagnosed with breast cancer. While Durham County seems like the perfect place to begin again, Sweeney soon discovers that his neighbor Ray Prager (Justin Louis) may be a serial killer. What's more, Prager is not just a random stranger � he is Sweeney's arch high school nemesis. As events unfold and young women begin disappearing, an intense showdown develops between the two complex men and their families.
"'Durham County' is the perfect new show to serve as a prime time anchor as we build our schedule of compelling original and hit off-network series," said Leslie Chesloff, Executive Vice President, Programming, ION Media Networks. "'Durham County' is unlike anything else on television and it will instantly grab and hold onto viewers, particularly our key 25-54 demographic. It is this kind of programming that makes ION Television a destination for anyone who is looking for TV that is truly different."
"'Durham County' continues in the vein of edgy, contemporary and hard-hitting drama whose pace has been set by the great HBO shows like �The Sopranos' to �Six Feet Under'", said Michael Prupas, President of Muse Entertainment and executive producer of Durham County.
Co-creator and Executive Producer Janis Lundman of Back Alley Films adds, "We believe U.S. audiences will embrace this powerful off-beat, gritty series. The multiple awards this series has received is already a testament to the quality production value, superb acting and compelling plot lines this drama offers."
"Hugh Dillon and Justin Louis explode off the screen in mesmerizing performances that will haunt and compel viewers long after they watch the series - their onscreen chemistry is truly unforgettable," said Co-creator and Executive Producer/Director Adrienne Mitchell.
"Durham County" is written by Laurie Finstad-Knizhnik ("Bliss") and helmed by award-winning directors Holly Dale ("Cold Case," "Absolution") and Adrienne Mitchell ("Bliss," "Drop the Beat"). Michael Prupas ("Human Trafficking") of Muse Entertainment and Janis Lundman and Adrienne Mitchell ("Bliss") of Back Alley Films serve as executive producers. The series has received 13 Gemini Award nominations, including five wins: Best Actor for Justin Louis, Best Actress for H�l�ne Joy, Best Direction for Holly Dale, Best Writing for Laurie Finstad-Knizhnik and Best Sound. In addition, the show was nominated for four Director's Guild of Canada Awards, winning two and taking home the CFTPA's Indie Award for "Best Dramatic Series."
The program was also recognized with nominations from the Writer's Guild of Canada and ACTRA Montreal. In a deal signed last January with ITV Global Entertainment, ION Television acquired the exclusive U.S. rights to the critically acclaimed and award-winning original TV series, "Durham County." In addition, the network secured all U.S. television, digital media rights, internet streaming and video-on-demand rights for the program.
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Queen Nabs Galaxy Note 10.1 for Royal Collection [VIDEO]
England's Royal Family is getting a tablet.
The BBC reports that the Royal Commonwealth Society charity is choosing Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1 to be added to the Royal Collection, the art collection of the British Royal Family.
So does this mean Her Majesty will be using it to Instagram photos with the hashtag #RoyalLife? Not quite. The Royal Collection is a repository of art and technology — over the years, goods are added to it to be used and studied by future generations. It dates back to the beginning of Britain's monarchy.
In addition to being an artifact, the tablet will also host Queen Elizabeth II's "Jubilee Time Capsule" — a collection of photos and videos highlighting the past 60 years of English history. Despite receiving hundreds of entries from across the world, only 60 — including footage from Prince William and Kate Middleton's marriage, as well as a rap about the 2011 London riots — were selected to be encapsulated. The 60 entries represent Queen Elizabeth's 60-year reign.
You can see all the entries online or read them on the go with the Jubilee Time Capsule app.
Watch the video above to learn more. What types of things, new or old, would you keep in your "royal collection?" Tell us below.
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Summer is in full swing and families are flying around the country to visit grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. In a frenzied dance en route to their destinations, they're lugging car seats through airports, pushing strollers through security, and changing diapers on planes.
If you're a parent you know that none of these tasks are easy—but changing a diaper on a plane wins the prize for being the most miserable parenting responsibility ever. That's because there's no place on an airplane that's conducive to a quick and dirty Huggies change. A few airlines, such as Southwest and JetBlue, equip their lavatories with special changing tables—but most don't. And parents find themselves asking, do I change my baby on the tray table at my seat or on the toilet seat in the lavatory? Or do I sit on the toilet and change my baby in my lap (which my husband once did with a terribly messy ending)?
"The Federal Aviation Administration doesn't have a rule on where diaper changing should occur," the LA Times reported earlier this year. It's entirely up to the parent to decide.
For the sake of other passengers who might not appreciate "eau de dirty diaper," most parents opt for the lavatory. But "This is not for beginners," April Masini, who writes the relationship advice column "Ask April," told the LA Times. "Airplane bathrooms are too small for even Clark Kent to become Superman." The actual change is far from a simple task, and more like "Olympics-level origami" that requires "level-two yoga techniques," Masini adds.
SFGate reader Ashleigh Moshier finds the airplane bathrooms too small. "I will be traveling with my 16 month old in one week, and I can only imagine changing her in the seat because I have never been on a plane with a large enough bathroom for a diaper change," Moshier shared in a lively discussion that happened over at the Bay Area Moms Facebook page.
Other problems come up with airplane lavatories like long lines. Some parents find themselves wondering, Do I change the diaper quickly at my seat and stuff this dirty mess into an airtight Ziplock or do I wait in line for 20 minutes while my stinky tot makes the back of the plane smell as if a sewage line burst?
And then there's the outright filth in many plane bathrooms. Some parents find these conditions far too unsanitary for diaper changes (which I personally find puzzling but everyone has their issues). "It's not sanitary to change my [baby] on a toilet lid, I don't care if they give me a sheet. I will not do that," a mom shared in the BabyCenter Community where this topic came up.
So does this mean that your seat is the best option? "Definitely not!" many parents, not to mention travelers and flight attendants, will tell you.
"Changing a diaper at one's seat would be about as inconsiderate as humanly possible. That's below basketweaving-hippie-with-no-concept-of-deodorant/shower rude," says San Francisco dad Jeff Quevedo.
"I'm a former Flight Attendant and I flew twice a year, alone between Europe and California, with connections, plus other flights with three closely spaced children and I have *never* changed them in the seats! It's rude and unhygienic people!" Bay Area mom Sharon Colliver Dreyfusssays shares. "Passengers complained about this to us. Just don't do it!"
What's a parent to do? Those without kids might think they have simple resolutions for solving this conundrum like "Don't fly!' It seems logical but what if grandma and grandpa live across the country? My most prized possession is a photo of my 3-month-old daughter sitting in her great-grandfather's lap. Getting that photo required a two-hour Southwest Airlines flight and one diaper change that went smoothly in a cramped lavatory. We live in time when families are spread out. It's absolutely silliness to skip out on flying just to avoid changing a diaper on a plane.
A kid-less critic might also advise, change the diaper before boarding the plane. Duh! I think most parents already do this—but then when the plane takes off many moms will breastfeed their babies to equalize tiny ears…and a half-hour later, squirt!
I think San Francisco mom Kim Green, also the author of several books including Live a Little, might have the best advice: Always travel with a "large changing pad" and "use good judgement and technique," no matter where you decide to do the deed. "Fact is," Green says, "There are circumstances where changing in the bathroom just isn't possible (such as after a larger child vomits or s— herself. And don't pretend it doesn't happen)."


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NY, 6 other states suing EPA over drilling methane
Seven Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states announced plans Tuesday to sue the Environmental Protection Agency, saying it is violating the Clean Air Act by failing to address methane emissions from oil and gas drilling, which has boomed in nearby states such as Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman said in a news release Tuesday that the EPA is violating the Clean Air Act by failing to address the emissions. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and the oil and gas industry is the largest source of emissions in this country. Other major sources come from landfills and livestock.
The EPA said in an email that it plans to review and respond to the notice from the states.
Howard Feldman, a spokesman for the American Petroleum Institute, said the lawsuit "makes no sense" since the EPA passed rules on oil and gas emissions earlier this year, and many companies have already started installing new equipment to limit methane leaks and other pollution. Those rules take effect in 2015.
Peter ZalZal, a staff attorney with the Environmental Defense Fund, said the group thinks the recent EPA rules are "a good first step," but that more can be done to target methane emissions directly.
"We think that controlling and reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas industry is critical," ZalZal said.
Schneiderman said that the coalition of states "can't continue to ignore the evidence of climate change or the catastrophic threat that unabated greenhouse gas pollution poses to our families, our communities and our economy." He said Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont joined in sending a required 60-day notice of intent to sue to EPA.
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio - all states with intensive oil and gas drilling - didn't join in the campaign. None of the states that sent the notice to the EPA are major producers of oil or gas.
It's not clear whether New York is also taking extra steps to limit methane emissions from other sources. While the EPA estimates that the oil and gas industry is responsible for 37 percent of the nation's methane emissions, landfills are responsible for 16 percent, and livestock such as cattle and pigs contribute 21 percent. Some natural gas leaks also occur not just at wells, but from distribution networks in cities.
Many experts have noted that addressing the methane problem can even make financial sense for the industry, because by reducing leaks they end up with more product to sell.
Overall, EPA says that methane is responsible for 3.8 percent of the total greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Other major greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and ozone. Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, but it also decays much quicker.
Patrick Henderson, Pennsylvania's energy executive in Gov. Tom Corbett's office, noted that other top New York officials have recently supported more natural gas use.
"Gov. Cuomo proposed investing $500 million in natural gas distribution infrastructure, and New York City Mayor Bloomberg wrote in a Washington Post op-ed that shale gas `is one of the best things we can do to improve air quality and fight climate change,'" Henderson said in an email.
Henderson added that natural gas also has environmental benefits, since it emits just 50 percent of the carbon dioxide of coal-fired power plants. That switch from coal to gas has contributed to declining greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., according to federal energy statistics. He also noted that increased domestic oil and gas production has helped reduce imports.
Federal climate researchers say they haven't yet seen signs that increased drilling is affecting global methane levels, but they're worried about the threat.
"Not the mid-latitudes where the drilling is being done, which is interesting," said James Butler, head of global monitoring for NOAA. Butler said the tropics and the arctic are the biggest current sources, from decaying vegetation (linked to a rise in rainfall) and thawing of the Arctic tundra (linked to global warming).


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A federal court found Dan Choi guilty of a criminal misdemeanor in federal court on Thursday. The openly gay former Army lieutenant, found himself in the media spotlight after he handcuffed himself to the White House fence in protest of the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, received a fine of $100, the Washington Post reports.
Choi, 32, faced up to six months in federal prison for protesting DATA at the White House on Nov. 15, 2010. The U.S. Park Police charged the West Point graduate and 12 other protesters with a criminal misdemeanor back in May 2011, they all pleaded guilty except Choi, who was the only defendant to plead not guilty.
Despite the nominal fine, Choi could still face jail time if he does not pay the fine in protest.
Many consider Choi a hero after he came out on "The Rachel Maddow Show" in 2009 during a time when being openly gay in the military was against the law. He was discharged from the military for violating DADT, which was repealed in 2011, and became one of the most prominent activists against the military policy, which President Barack Obama repealed a month after Choi was arrested.
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According to The Washington Post, Choi's "erratic demeanor swung from emotional outbursts to belligerent confrontations with a U.S. Park Police officer and the federal prosecutor." Choi was dressed in a military uniform and walked back and forth in the courtroom as he served as his own lawyer.
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Retired Worcester Police Officer Peter Kneeland, who was severely injured while working a paid police detail on Cambridge Street on Sept. 18, 1991, died over the weekend. He worked 14 years as a police officer.
Mr. Kneeland, 62, had been in an institutional care setting, but was constantly cared for by his mother, Susan, until her death in 2010. Since then, his brother, Timothy Kneeland, and sisters, Kathleen M. DelloStritto and Susan Carrigan, have taken over the care.
"This was a particularly heartbreaking incident 21 years ago," said Deputy Police Chief Edward J. McGinn Jr.
"It is quite possibly one of the worst nights in the history of the department. We're especially moved by the level of care and commitment that Peter's mother and siblings have shown him since the accident."
The same night Mr. Kneeland was struck by a hit-and-run driver, another Worcester police officer was shot. The shooting was not fatal. The driver who hit Mr. Kneeland was arrested days later and later convicted of causing the accident.
Deputy Chief McGinn informed the department Monday of Mr. Kneeland's death. He said the retired officer's death came about as a direct result of a job-related incident. Mr. Kneeland was critically injured in the accident and had extensive head injuries.
"As a result of his injuries, Officer Kneeland lapsed into a condition that he never fully recovered from," Deputy Chief McGinn wrote in his notification to personnel.
"Even though alert and able to recognize his family and friends, Officer Kneeland's injures left him unable to speak and confined to a wheelchair. Officer Kneeland was never able to return to active work and officially retired in 1998."
A wake and funeral have been planned and Worcester police will send an honor guard.
In September 2010, family, friends and police attended a 60th birthday party for Mr. Kneeland inside Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center on Plantation Street. The retired officer sat in his wheelchair with his brand new Worcester police baseball cap.
At the time of the party, Mr. Kneeland's family said his right arm area was paralyzed and he was unable to speak. During the party Mr. Kneeland appeared to react when names of certain officers were told to him.
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The recent news and industry reaction regarding Intel's forthcoming "Many Integrated Core" (MIC) accelerator has been interesting to watch. It appears Intel, like NVIDIA and AMD, has now concluded that hybrid architectures are the proper response to the growing power constraints of high performance computing.
While I agree with this, some of the discussions around programming the upcoming MIC chips leave me scratching my head – particularly the notion that, because MIC runs the x86 instruction set, there's no need to change your existing code, and your port will come for free.
Power is the Problem
The technology underpinnings responsible for the move toward hybrid computing are pretty compelling, driven by the huge inflection point we experienced in the previous decade. Moore's Law is alive and well, continuing to dish up more and more transistors per square mm. But Dennard Scaling is not.
We can no longer reduce voltage in proportion to transistor size, so the energy per operation is no longer dropping fast enough to compensate for the increased density. The result is that processors are now totally constrained by power. And it's getting exponentially worse with subsequent generations of integrated circuits!
Circuit performance per watt is still improving, but now at closer to 20 percent per year instead of the almost 70 percent per year we used to enjoy. So how can we continue to improve performance anywhere close to historic rates, and achieve exascale computing by the end of this decade? Since the underlying technology is going to fall far short of the improvements we need, our only hope is to dramatically reduce the overhead per operation.
Hybrid is the Answer
This is where hybrid architectures come in. NVIDIA GPUs implement hundreds of simple, power-efficient cores that are optimized for high throughput on parallel workloads. Multicore x86 processors implement a handful of complex cores that are optimized for fast single-thread performance, but take many times more energy per operation.
both energy-efficiency and fast
single-thread performance, the hybrid
architecture allows us to concentrate
on making the GPU cores more and more
energy efficient, while relying on the
CPU cores for serial performance."
To improve application performance per watt, we have to shift most of the work to the throughput-optimized cores, and just use the fast (but less efficient) CPU cores for the residual serial work. This is a hybrid architecture. Since you can't optimize a core for both energy-efficiency and fast single-thread performance, the hybrid architecture allows us to concentrate on making the GPU cores more and more energy efficient, while relying on the CPU cores for serial performance.
Intel has announced a similar approach with MIC. They don't really have the equivalent of a throughput-optimized GPU core, but were able to go back to a 15+ year-old Pentium design to get a simpler processor core, and then marry it with a wide vector unit to get higher flops per watt than can be achieved by Xeon processors.
So far, so good. But, I'm perplexed when I hear some people say that there's no need to change your existing code to run on MIC because it uses the x86 instruction set. Just recompile with the –mmic flag, and your existing MPI or OpenMP code will run natively on the MIC processor! (In other words, ignore the Xeon, and just use the MIC chip as a big multi-core processor.)
Native Mode Complications
Functionally, a simple recompile may work, but I'm convinced it's not practical for most HPC applications and doesn't reflect the approach most people will need to take to get good performance on their MIC systems.
I'm convinced it's not practical for
most HPC applications and doesn't
reflect the approach most people will
need to take to get good performance
on their MIC systems."
The idea of running flat MPI code (one rank per core) on a multi-node MIC system seems quite problematic. Whatever memory sits on the MIC PCIe card will be shared by more than 50 cores, leading to very small memory per core. From what I know of the MPI communication stack, that won't leave much memory for the actual data – certainly far below the traditional 1-2 GB/core most HPC apps want. And 50+ cores all trying to send messages through the system interconnect NIC seems like a recipe for a network logjam. The other concern is the Amdahl's Law bottleneck resulting from executing all the per-rank serial code on a lower-performance, Pentium-class scalar core.
The OpenMP approach seems only slightly better. You'd still have the very small per-core memory and the Amdahl's Law bottleneck, but at least you'd have fewer threads trying to send messages out the NIC. Perhaps the biggest issue with this approach is that existing OpenMP codes, written for multi-core CPUs, are unlikely to have enough parallelism exposed to profitably occupy over 50 vector cores.
What About MIC Performance?
So far, the discussions of MIC programming have avoided confronting these issues by excluding any talk of performance.
We've seen scaling charts for MIC that show performance improving as more cores are used, but there is no absolute performance shown. And the "scaling" results are literally for a single chip (not really scaling at all in the HPC sense). Looks eerily similar to the original Larrabee GPU charts from four years back.
|NICS presentation, Feb. 2012:
"Early Application Experiences with
the Intel MIC Architecture"
|ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2008,
Intel paper: "Larrabee: A Many-Core x86 Architecture for Visual Computing"
To be fair, Knights Ferry is a pre-production prototype and thus performance is not supposed to be competitive. But, it just doesn't make sense to talk about ease of programming in the absence of any performance considerations.
The whole point of an accelerator is to accelerate! What programming effort will be necessary on MIC to actually get good performance?
No "Magic" Compiler
The reality is that there is no such thing as a "magic" compiler that will automatically parallelize your code. No future processor or system (from Intel, NVIDIA, or anyone else) is going to relieve today's programmers from the hard work of preparing their applications for the future.
With clock rates stalled, all future performance increases must come from increased parallelism, and power constraints will actually cause us to use simpler processors at lower clock rates for the majority of our work, further exacerbating this issue.
thing as a "magic" compiler that will
automatically parallelize your code."
At the high end, an exaflop computer running at about 1 GHz will require approximately one billion-way parallelism, but the same logic will drive up required parallelism at all system scales. This means that all HPC codes will need to be cast as throughput problems with massive numbers of parallel threads. Exploiting locality will also become ever more important as the relative cost of data movement versus computation continues to rise. This will have a significant impact on the algorithms and data layouts used to solve many science problems, and is a fundamental issue not tied to any one processor architecture.
Directives: Performance + Portability
Portability across machines is very important for application developers, and directives are a great way to express parallelism in a portable manner. The programmer focuses on exposing the parallelism, while the compiler and runtime focus on mapping it to the underlying hardware (perhaps with the help of auto-tuners). The new OpenACC standard allows users to express locality as well as parallelism, and is particularly well suited to today's emerging hybrid architectures.
Existing OpenMP codes can also be taken forward, but will require some additional work. Unfortunately, most OpenMP codes today apply the parallel directives to inner loops, which is appropriate for exploiting modest parallelism across a small number of cores. In order to run well on future machines with much more on-node parallelism, however, the directives need to be raised up in the call tree to expose much greater amounts of parallelism.
No Free Lunch
This will take effort, but it's work that makes the applications inherently better suited for future architectures. Initial experience tuning codes for the new NVIDIA GPU-accelerated Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been very positive, providing significant acceleration on key scientific codes.
Using OpenACC to express the parallelism and locality, as code was optimized for GPUs, the same code now ran significantly faster on vanilla multicore CPU systems. Tuning HPC codes for accelerators is real work, but it is work that will pay off across machine types and especially on future machines with increased levels of parallelism.
Which brings me back to the topic of programming for the upcoming MIC processors.
It's clear to me that hybrid architectures make increasing sense in our power-constrained future, and Intel's MIC effort shows they think so too. The upcoming Knights Corner processor will reportedly look much like today's Fermi GPUs: power-efficient accelerators attached to an x86 CPU via PCIe. Programming the two architectures should be very similar: structure applications to expose parallelism and locality, and express via directives; use the multi-core CPUs for serial code, and execute the parallel kernels on the accelerator. The hope that unmodified HPC applications will work well on MIC with just a recompile is not really credible, nor is talking about ease of programming without consideration of performance.
There is no free lunch. Programmers will need to put in some effort to structure their applications for hybrid architectures. But that work will pay off handsomely for today's, and especially tomorrow's, HPC systems.
Get Started Today
It remains to be seen how Intel MIC will perform when it eventually arrives. But why wait? Better to get ahead of the game by starting down the hybrid multicore path now.
You can start today with NVIDIA GPUs, and you'll be that much further ahead regardless of which processor architecture you ultimately choose.
If you currently have access to MIC chips and have been testing real applications, I would love to hear from you. Post a comment below sharing your experiences and results. I'm also interested in your thoughts on the move to hybrid multicore architectures and how we'll need to program them.