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NOTE: An updated version of this recipe appears in my cookbook, The Ancestral Table.
For a dairy free variation, check out my Flatbread recipe.
Like most residents of planet Earth, I'm pizza crazy. I'd like to say that my love affair started with those pesky Ninja Turtles, but I have a feeling that I was addicted well before the heroes in a half shell became popular. When adopting Paleo, I was probably worried about a lack of pizza the most, and after re-introducing dairy I tried all sorts of things, from frozen GF crusts to eggplant pizzas. Finally, I hunkered down and developed a gluten and grain free pizza crust of my own, and after several failed attempts, I'm happy to say that you will love this pizza.
Do I really need to provide a food history for pizza? Okay, since you asked so nicely. Pizza is a food first traced to Ancient Greece, when they took bread and covered it with oil and cheese (this is also the base for Pita bread). Italy is credited for adding tomatoes to pizza following their introduction from the New World in the 15th and 16th centuries. Interestingly, the combination of tomatoes and cheese wasn't popular for hundreds of years, until the famous Pizza Margherita (tomatoes, cheese, and basil) incident – wherein the combination was served to Queen Margherita in 1889 to represent the Italian flag.
Pizzerias existed in the United States at the turn of the century, but it was only popular with Italian immigrants. Soldiers returning from the European campaign of World War II raved about pizza, and it became the sensation it is now almost overnight.
You'll Need: (makes two pizzas)
for the crust –
1 1/2 cups tapioca starch or flour (it's the same thing)
1/4 cup each heavy cream and water (or 1/2 cup milk instead of cream & water)
2 tbsp butter
1/2 tsp salt
1 egg, beaten
1/4 tsp dried oregano
pinch of white pepper
3/4 cup parmesan cheese (or any hard cheese), grated
for the toppings –
1/2 cup pizza sauce
3/4 cup mozzarella or other soft cheese
In a saucepan, combine the cream, water, butter, and salt and bring to a simmer on med/low heat. You want to get it to the point that it's starting to bubble, but not boiling. In a large bowl, add the tapioca starch. When the cream/water mixture is heated, add it to the starch and stir it all together. It will start to clump together, which is fine. Let the mixture cool for five minutes. As it cools, preheat your oven to 500 degrees.
Add the beaten egg to the mixture, and knead together with your hands. Add the cheese, white pepper, and oregano, and mix together until it's dough-like. This is enough dough for two pizzas.
Split the dough in half, then stretch it out into the thinnest frisbee possible. It will likely tear if you stretch it too far, so just pull it as far as you can. Put the dough in a cast iron skillet, spreading to the edges of the skillet with your fingers. Try to get it as thin as possible – this is important so as to not make your crust too chewy. With a fork, poke some holes through the dough to let air pass through.
Bake in the middle of your oven for six minutes, then take it out and put it on your stove (keep the oven on!). The dough may bubble up a little while cooking, which is fine – it'll go back down once you take it out of the oven. It's hard to tell in this picture, but the dough will have taken on a more bread-like consistency at this point. This step is important because it gives the dough time to cook through without burning the toppings.
Add the 1/4 cup of sauce. Might I suggest a blended version of my homemade Superior Spaghetti Sauce?
Add the toppings, whatever you'd like. You can go with a standard topping fare like in the picture above, or try something more unique like a cheese-less pizza (often referred to as Pizza Marinara) or another favorite – Pizza Bianca, which is basically just dough, olive oil, salt, and rosemary, a popular style of pizza in Rome.
Throw it back in the oven and cook for another 8-10 minutes, until the cheese starts to brown. For extra crispy toppings, broil it for the last minute or two of cooking.
That's it! Bear in mind that the inside of the dough will still be slightly chewy – mostly due to the nature of tapioca starch. I assure you, it's not undercooked!
This pizza also cooks well on a pizza stone, or just a plain baking sheet if you're desperate for some delicious pizza.
I've received some great feedback from readers that the following adjustments work pretty well, if you are trying to restrict dairy:
– coconut milk can be used instead of milk/cream.
– omitting the hard cheese and adding more tapioca starch works well, especially if you add a little nutritional yeast.
I've also found that the temperature of your milk/cream as well as the ambient temperature in your house can affect the consistency of the tapioca starch. Sometimes it'll turn into something more like glue than dough – if so, continue to add tapioca starch until it thickens enough to spread, and it'll still taste fine!


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Although Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format became an ISO standard two years ago, the company still hasn't built any software that truly complies with the standard. Microsoft Office 2010, which is expected to be released later this year, implements the deprecated "transitional" version of the format and is not compatible with the version that was crafted by the standards body.
Microsoft's failure to adopt the standard version of the format after two years has drawn criticism from Alex Brown, the convener of ISO's OOXML subcommittee (SC34). Brown was consistently supportive of Microsoft's push to obtain fast-track approval for OOXML during and after the ISO review process, but his optimism appears to be waning. In a recent blog entry, Brown contends that Microsoft is not fulfilling its commitment to adopt the ISO's edited version of the standard.
When OOXML was first proposed for ISO standardization in 2007, it was soundly rejected due to a wide range of technical concerns. The standards body made it clear that Microsoft would have to subject its format to revision and improvements before it would qualify for approval. During Microsoft's second attempt to push the format through the fast-track process, the participants revised the OOXML specification and made a number of key improvements that made it possible to build consensus for fast-track approval.
In order to accommodate Microsoft, which was shipping its own earlier version of the format in its Office suite, the ISO specification for OOXML was split into two variants. The "transitional" variant was intended to be used on a temporary basis with the expectation that it will be eventually be phased out. The "strict" variant consists of the edited specification, the one on which ISO's approval of OOXML was predicated.
Microsoft committed to adopt ISO's edited version of the format, but has clearly not done so in Office 2010. Microsoft's software is still largely based on the original 2007 version of the specification, the one that was rejected by ISO. Brown is particularly concerned by the extent to which Office 2010 relies on deprecated features that are only supposed to be used for legacy document compatibility. For example, Office 2010 still uses VML, an abandoned precursor to SVG that is not supported in the strict variant of ISO's OOXML specification.
Missing maintenance and oversight
Brown also expresses frustration with the lack of proper maintenance for the format. The working group that is responsible for addressing defect reports isn't keeping pace, which means that the inconsistencies in the specification are still piling up and aren't being addressed. He also calls out ECMA for failing to play a role in making necessary improvements to the OOXML format.
"Most worrying of all, it appears than Ecma have ceased any proactive attempt to improve the text, leaving just a handful of national experts wrestling with this activity," he wrote. "It seems to me that Microsoft/Ecma believe 95% of the work has been done to ensure the standard is 'useful and relevant'. Looking at the text, I reckon it is more like 95% that remains to be done, as it is still lousy with defects."
He points out that the documents generated by Office 2010 fail to pass basic validation tests. What makes it even worse is that the problems that are uncovered by these tools are probably just the tip of the iceberg.
"The simple validators developed by me (Office-o-tron) and by Jesper Lund Stocholm (ISO/IEC 29500 Validator) reveal, to Microsoft's dismay, that the output documents of the Office 2010 Beta are non-conformant, and that this is in large part due to glaring uncorrected problems in the text [of the specification]," he wrote. "I confidently predict that fuller validation of Office document is likely to reveal many problems both with those documents, and with the Standard itself, over the coming years."
Many of the problems that are currently plaguing OOXML were anticipated by the format's skeptics during the ISO approval process. Despite its extreme complexity, the format was grossly underspecified from the start—partly due to the inclusion of legacy compatibility hacks that were never fully defined. The approval process was marred by a number of bizarre irregularities, such as block-voting on changes without review during a ballot resolution meeting and alleged incidents of vote-stuffing in several national standards bodies.
Several countries attempted to appeal the approval of OOXML because they felt that their contributions to the revision process were marginalized by the irregularities. ISO rejected the appeal, contending that the procedural failings are irrelevant and don't invalidate the final vote. ISO's view is seemingly that any procedure is permissible as along as it receives majority approval.
When all of that was happening, Brown was optimistic that the problems could be addressed and that Microsoft would embrace the committee's improvements. Now, he sees things in a very different light. OOXML, he says, is destined to fail as an open standard unless Microsoft changes course.
"If Microsoft ship Office 2010 to handle only the Transitional variant of ISO/IEC 29500 they should expect to be roundly condemned for breaking faith with the International Standards community. This is not the format 'approved by ISO/IEC', it is the format that was rejected," he wrote in his blog entry this week. "In short, we find ourselves at a crossroads, and it seems to me that without a change of direction the entire OOXML project is now surely heading for failure."
To correct the problem, he believes that Microsoft should publicly reaffirm its commitment to support the strict version of the standard and should work to ensure that it is supported in Office 2010. Although it is probably too late for Microsoft to rectify the problem before Office 2010 is released, Brown suggests that the necessary changes could be delivered in a software update or service pack. He also wants the standards body to begin establishing a process for removing the transitional features from the official specification.
It is now abundantly clear that fast-track approval of OOXML was a mistake. By giving Microsoft the approval first with the intention of correcting the problems in the standard later, ISO eliminated the incentive for Microsoft to take conformance seriously. It is increasingly obvious that Microsoft only wanted to be able to advertise its format as being ISO-approved and never really cared about interoperability or actual conformance with the standard.

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I feel a little epic these days now that I have enough current raid experience to actually have informed opinions on them. I'm not elite or hardcore but I'm making personal progress in ICC whenever we can get in there and I fully intend to take down Arthas. Never been in this position in a raid cycle before. I've even got a couple pieces that are BiS!
Anyway I've been thinking about this post for a while now but the Cataclysm raid change announcements made it timely. Personally? I think I like it a lot. I'm going to have to strategize going into Cataclysm to make sure I'm positioned to actually see content as it comes out, but I think between the 10 and 25 man raids dropping the same gear, and the tweak to the gear buying system with points instead of badges, I'll be able to stay geared enough without having to commit to a hardcore raid.
I hear some doom and gloom from 25 man raider and joy from 10 man raiders, and while I'm not 100% sure things will work out the way the consensus seems to be, put me on the happy 10 man side. I love 10 mans. When it comes to raids, I'm a healer. DPSing raids just doesn't seem that fun to me. Give me Vuhdo and a bunch of health bars and I'm happy. But as a resto druid, I find 10 mans way more fun than 25 at least right now. In 25 mans it's – "Analogue, you Rejuv groups 4 and 5, Othertree do 2 and 3". And that's it. That's my job. If I cast anything else except maybe a Swiftmend or WG, I get yelled at. Don't brez without orders, don't innervate anyone else without orders, don't look too closely at the tanks' health bars because you can't do anything about it…
But in 10 mans, the other healer(s) and I work together as a real team. I have to know what the heals on the tanks are going to look like so I know when to intervene. I need to watch my partner's mana just in case he needs my Innervate more than I do. We cover each other's back – in a lot of ways it's like the synthesis between healer and tank in a 5 man. In 10 mans I have to actually think beyond just "don't stand in the fire, run to that side, avoid the deep breaths". No I need to know things like "The second mark will be going out any second, I'm going to have to cover that one so the pally can keep up the tank and the first mark, so save the Swiftmend cd for him, oh, and that guy has Boiling Blood so make sure there's no one around him who needs heals." And that's one of the more straightforward healing fights as far as I'm concerned.
So yeah, I'm excited, providing I can get into a fairly regular ten man in Catacylsm. Reversion and I are thinking about that sort of thing now – we're hoping to establish a regular pseudo-pug for ICC right now. Our pug this weekend was really awesome and several of the members expressed interest in running again. We'd like to build up a raid from outside our guild, since we're in the position of non-raiding members of a raiding guild that we don't want to leave.
The 25 mans feel really epic and fun. But the 10 mans feel like I can do a lot more to actually affect the outcome of the raid. And I like that. The idea of having access to the best gear in the raid style I prefer? Pure win.


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You've got to watch the clip, knowing how completely out of context it is. Look at the bullshit blank disbelief mugging they do for the camera. How embarrassing!
Here's something else out of context:
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And I know how sweet life can be
So I get myself free... of WaWa
I don't need no WaWa
Wawa is the best convenience store chain in the country!...Yes, there's no internal capital W. I checked the company's website. I was carrying over the error made a the WasHington PoSt website.
Also, it isn't WaWa, that would be ridiculous. It is named after the town of Wawa, Pennsylvania.
ADDED: Rush Limbaugh is opening his show today with this story. MSNBC is doing it again, he says, connecting it to the doctoring of George Zimmerman's 911 call. "It was blatant and they got caught... and now everybody is ridiculing them."


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UN: Drones killed more Afghan civilians in 2012
The number of U.S. drone strikes in Afghanistan rose sharply last year compared with 2011, the United Nations said Tuesday. The increase was a sign that unmanned aircraft are taking a greater role as Americans try to streamline the fight against insurgents while preparing to withdraw combat forces in less than two years.
Drones have become a major source of contention between the U.S. and countries like Pakistan, where covert strikes on militant leaders have drawn condemnation and allegations of sovereignty infringements as family members and other bystanders are killed.
They have not been a prominent issue in Afghanistan, however. While drone attacks have occurred, they have largely been in support of ground troops during operations and have not been singled out by President Hamid Karzai's administration in its campaign against international airstrikes.
The steep rise in the number of weapons fired from unmanned aerial aircraft — the formal term for drones — raises the possibility that may change as U.S. forces become more dependent on such attacks to fight al-Qaida and other insurgents as combat missions are due to end by the end of 2014.
The U.N. mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said 506 weapons were released by drones in 2012, compared with 294 the previous year. Five incidents resulted in casualties with 16 civilians killed and three wounded, up from just one incident in 2011.
Georgette Gagnon, the head of human rights for UNAMA, said it was the first year the U.N. had tried to document civilian casualties from drones.
The U.S. Air Force Central Command also recorded an increase, giving the numbers of weapons released by drones as 243 in 2009, 277 in 2010, 294 in 2011 and 494 in 2012.
Drones are highly effective and most nations have given Washington at least tacit agreement to carry out the attacks.
Peter Singer of the Washington-based Brookings Institution noted that the drone program in Afghanistan is run by the Pentagon, and therefore is more transparent than the CIA drone counterterrorism program in Pakistan.
Singer, who has written extensively about drones, said the number of operations in Afghanistan is increasing, but most are performed in support of troops on the ground.
"This is just another sign of how drones are becoming the new normal," he said.
The U.N. figures were released as part of its annual report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan. Overall, the full-year toll of civilian deaths in 2012 declined to 2,754, a 12 percent decrease from 3,131 in the same period a year earlier. It was the first time in six years that the civilian death toll dropped.
But the toll spiked in the second half of the year as weather improved, compared with the same period in 2011, suggesting that Afghanistan is likely to face continued violence as the Taliban and other militants fight for control following the impending withdrawal of U.S. and allied combat forces.
The population also faced a sharp increase in assassinations and other insurgent attacks targeting government supporters.
Conflict-related violence struck more women and girls last year as well, with 301 killed and 563 wounded — a 20 percent increase from 2011, the report said.
The findings come as the war is reaching a turning point, with international troops increasingly taking the back seat in operations and Afghan government forces in the lead.
The total number of civilian deaths by airstrikes fell for the year after the U.S.-led coalition implemented stricter measures to prevent innocent people from being killed.
The U.N. said most civilian casualties from drone strikes appeared to be the result of weapons aimed directly at insurgents, but some may have been targeting errors. It cited the example of four boys killed Oct. 20 in Logar province when a drone struck after a clash between pro-government forces and insurgents a few kilometers (miles) away from the area.
UNAMA called for a review of tactical and operational policy on targeting to ensure compliance with international humanitarian law "with the expansion of the use of unmanned combat aerial vehicles" in Afghanistan.
George Little, a Pentagon spokesman, said the U.S. works hard to protect civilians.
"We take great care with our unmanned systems to conduct very precise targeting in Afghanistan, and we will continue to do so. When there are mishaps, we take steps to work closely with the government of Afghanistan and the affected individuals to express our concerns," he said in Washington.
UNAMA said civilian casualties rose 13 percent to 4,431 in the second half of the year, including more from roadside bombs in public areas, compared with the same period in 2011.
That included 1,599 people killed and 2,832 wounded from July 1 to Dec. 31, a jump from 1,556 and 2,832 respectively in the same period the previous year.
It cited a growing number in civilian casualties from roadside bombs even as fewer bystanders were hurt in ground engagements in the country's troubled south and east.
An Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman pledged to do everything possible to stop the insurgents from attacking civilians.
"They're still using suicide bombers, they still use IEDs (roadside bombs) in the very populated areas and they still use civilians as a shield in the villages," Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi said. "The important thing is that civilian casualties should be decreased to zero."
Most of the victims were killed by Taliban militants and other armed groups, while the number of civilian casualties at the hands of U.S. and allied forces dropped by nearly 50 percent, according to the report.
"The situation for civilians is still very difficult in many communities and many thousands of Afghans are still affected by the armed conflict, so we are again calling on all concerned to redouble their efforts, increase their efforts to protect civilians," UNAMA's Gagnon told reporters in Kabul.
The UNAMA report attributed the overall drop in civilian casualties for the year to a decline in suicide attacks, reduced numbers of airstrikes and "an unseasonably harsh winter which impeded insurgent movements and effects of earlier military operations against anti-government elements."
But it expressed concern about the spike in targeted killings and human rights abuses by armed groups, a worrisome trend as the Afghan government works to assert control beyond its seat in Kabul.
The Taliban and other insurgents were responsible for 81 percent of the civilian casualties last year, the U.N. said. The report said so-called anti-government elements killed 2,179 civilians and wounded 3,952, a 9 percent increase in casualties from 2011.
Of those, 698 were killed in targeted attacks, often against government employees. That was up from 512 in 2011.
The number blamed on U.S. and allied forces, meanwhile, decreased by 46 percent, with 316 killed and 271 wounded in 2012. Most of those were killed in U.S. and NATO airstrikes, although that number, too, dropped by nearly half last year to 126, including 51 children.
The death of civilians in military operations, particularly in airstrikes, has been among a major source of acrimony between Karzai's government and foreign forces.
The U.S.-led military coalition said in June it would only use airstrikes as a self-defense weapon of last resort for troops and would avoid hitting structures that could house civilians.
The report came a day after Karzai banned government forces from requesting foreign air support during operations in residential areas amid anger over an airstrike that killed at least 10 civilians in northeastern Kunar province last week.
Associated Press writers Heidi Vogt and Amir Shah contributed to this report.


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Teddy Roosevelt's unprecedented post-season winning streak apparently doesn't extend beyond the Nationals Park presidents race, but the Rough Rider's popularity clearly does.
The University of Virginia Cavaliers basketball team visited the George Mason Patriots Friday night, and the Patriot Center crowd was treated to a dance competition between Nationals racing presidents Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and GMU's mascot The Patriot.
Teddy drew extended cheers from the Patriot Center crowd, and when The Patriot was declared the winner, booing ensued.
In a basketball shootout that followed, The Patriot tackled Teddy.
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Whales can get sassy, too.
On a trip, Chelsea Crawford got slapped by a whale, and then a video of it went viral. Crawford was traveling with Live Different, a leadership charity to Guerrero Negro, where they intended to do a little whale watching, reports CBC Hamilton.
Then the whale got up close and personal, leaving a bump on her head.
"It wasn't an aggression thing," she told the CBC. "The whale was just playing and its tail came up."
When asked what it felt like she said it wasn't dissimilar to getting bonked in the head by a basketball. She said the tail was "really bony. I was expecting more fish characteristics, but it was really hard."


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Lately, it seems as though your child is looking up to classmates — literally. The other kids in the class have been getting taller and developing into young adults, but your child's growth seems to be lagging behind. Classmates now tower over your child.
Is something wrong? Maybe, maybe not. Some kids just grow more slowly than others because their parents did, too. But others may have an actual growth disorder, which is any type of problem that prevents kids from meeting realistic expectations ofgrowth, from failure to gain height and weight in young children to short stature or delayed sexual development in teens.
Variations of Normal Growth Patterns
A couple of differences seen in the growth patterns of normal children include these common conditions, which are not growth disorders:
Constitutional growth delay: This condition describes children who are small for their ages but who are growing at a normal rate. They usually have a delayed "bone age," which means that their skeletal maturation is younger than their age in years. (Bone age is measured by taking an X-ray of the hand and wrist and comparing it with standard X-ray findings seen in kids the same age.) These children don't have any signs or symptoms of diseases that affect growth. They tend to reach puberty later than their peers do, with delay in the onset of sexual development and the pubertal growth spurt. But because they continue to grow until an older age, they tend to catch up to their peers when they reach adult height. One or both parents or other close relatives often had a similar "late-bloomer" growth pattern.
Familial (or genetic) short stature: This is a condition in which shorter parents tend to have shorter children. This term applies to short children who don't have any symptoms of diseases that affect their growth. Kids with familial short stature still have growth spurts and enter puberty at normal ages, but they usually will only reach a height similar to that of their parents.
With both constitutional growth delay and familial short stature, kids and families need to be reassured that the child does nothave a disease or medical condition that poses a threat to health or that requires treatment. However, because they may be short or may not enter puberty when their classmates do, some may need extra help coping with teasing or they may need reassurance that they will go through full sexual development eventually. In a few normal children who are very short or very late entering puberty, hormone treatment may be helpful.
Growth Disorders
Diseases of the kidneys, heart, gastrointestinal tract, lungs, bones, or other body systems may affect growth. Other symptoms or physical signs in kids with these illnesses usually give clues as to the disease causing the growth delay. However, poor growth can be the first sign of a problem in some.
Growth disorders include:
Failure to thrive, which isn't a specific growth disorder itself, but can be a sign of an underlying condition causing growth problems. Although it's common for newborns to lose a little weight in the first few days, failure to thrive is a condition in which some infants continue to show slower-than-expected weight gain and growth. Usually caused by inadequate nutrition or a feeding problem, it's most common in kids younger than age 3. It may also be a symptom of another problem, such as an infection, a digestive problem, child neglect, or abuse.
Endocrine diseases (diseases involving hormones, the chemical messengers of the body) involve a deficiency or excess of hormones and can be responsible for growth failure during childhood and adolescence. Growth hormone deficiency is a disorder that involves the pituitary gland (the small gland at the base of the brain that secretes several hormones, including growth hormone). A damaged or malfunctioning pituitary gland may not produce enough hormones for normal growth.Hypothyroidism is a condition in which the thyroid gland fails to make enough thyroid hormone, which is essential for normal bone growth.
Turner syndrome, one of the most common genetic growth disorders, occurs in girls and is a syndrome in which there's a missing or abnormal X chromosome. In addition to short stature, girls with Turner syndrome usually don't undergo normal sexual development because their ovaries (the sex organs that produce eggs and female hormones) fail to mature and function normally.
Diagnosing a Growth Disorder
The tests a doctor may recommend to detect a growth disorder depend on the findings at each step of evaluation. A short child who's healthy and growing at a normal rate may just be observed throughout childhood, but a child who has stopped growing or is growing more slowly than expected will often need additional testing.
Your doctor or an endocrinologist will look for signs of the many possible causes of short stature and growth failure. Blood tests may be done to look for hormone and chromosome abnormalities and to rule out other diseases associated with growth failure. A bone age X-ray might be done and special scans (such as an MRI) can check the pituitary gland for abnormalities.
To measure the ability of the pituitary gland to produce growth hormone, the doctor (usually a pediatric endocrinologist) may do a growth hormone stimulation test. This involves giving the child medications that cause the pituitary gland to secrete growth hormone, then drawing several small blood samples over time to check growth hormone levels.
Treating a Growth Disorder
Although the treatment of a growth problem usually isn't urgent, earlier diagnosis and treatment of can help some kids catch up with peers and increase their final height.
If an underlying medical condition is identified, specific treatment may result in improved growth. Growth failure due to hypothyroidism, for example, is usually treated with thyroid hormone replacement pills.
Growth hormone injections for children with growth hormone deficiency, Turner syndrome, and chronic kidney failure may help kids reach a more normal height. Human growth hormone is generally considered safe and effective, although full treatment may take many years and not all kids will have a good response. And the treatment can be costly (about $20,000 to $30,000 per year), although many health insurance plans cover it.
What about growth hormone treatment for short children who aren't growth hormone deficient when tested? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its use in such children if they're predicted to reach a very short final height (under 4 feet 11 inches [150 centimeters] for a girl or 5 feet 4 inches [163 centimeters] for a boy).
Talk with your doctor for more information about treatment options if you're concerned.
Helping Your Child
You can boost your child's self-esteem by providing positive reinforcement and emphasizing other characteristics, like intelligence, personality, and talents. Try to take the focus off of height as a measure of social acceptance.
Kids who are very self-conscious about their size may need some additional help in coping. In some cases, evaluation and treatment by a mental health professional may be needed.
If You Suspect a Problem
If you're concerned about your child's growth, speak with your doctor, who may refer you to a pediatric endocrinologist, who can help diagnose and treat specific growth disorders.
It's also important to watch for the social and emotional problems that kids with growth disorders face. It's not easy being the shortest kid in the class and it's never any fun being teased. Helping your child build self-esteem and emphasizing strengths — regardless of how tall he or she may grow — might be just what the doctor ordered.
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Catherine Hanna was born Somerset County, Pennsylvania, either 10 Nov 1819 or 13 Apr 1820.[1] She died 24 Jun 1862 and is buried in Lavansville, Somerset Co PA, in the same cemetery as her husband's parents.[2]
Catherine is apparently not a part of the prominent and fairly well-to-do Scotch-Irish Hanna family in Somerset Co PA.[3] James Hanna, a State Legislator, and his wife Ann Leech, had a son Thomas (1798-1872), who had one daughter not named in most sources, so I believed he was Catherine's father, but it is now known his only daughter was Anne, who married John Philippi and had a son Thomas Hanna Philippi.
There was another Hanna family in that county. This family was first located in the 1850 census of Daniel Hanna:
- Daniel, 46 M Laborer PA
- Susanna, 48 F PA (called Susan in 1880)
- Drucilla , 22 F PA (died unmarried, 1869)
- Alexander, 21 M PA (poss to Henry Co IL by 1880)
- Catherine , 19 F PA
- David, 16 M PA (poss of Fremont Co CO 1880)
- Joseph, 15 M PA (poss Osborne Co KS 1880)
- James, 13 M PA (poss of Cedar Rapids, Linn Co IA)
- John, 12 M PA
- Philip, 10 M PA
- Juliann, 7 F PA (died 1919 Cedar Rapids, Linn Co IA)
Daniel was not a member of the other, larger family, and he had a 19-year-old daughter named Catherine, so he couldn't be my Catherine's father. Clues in many of the names in Daniel and his wife Susanna's family (that is, Alexander, Juliann, Catherine, David, Daniel's own name)[4] led me to several gedcoms at Ancestry.com that identified a Julianna Perkey who married Alexander Hanna.
Julianna was born 15 Sep 1784, supposedly in Seneca Co OH,[5] the daughter of Christian and Mary Magdalena (Mueller) Perkey, occasionally spelled Berkey, Perky or other variations. She married Alexander Hanna in 1808, supposedly in Hamilton Co IN.[6] If we discount the impossibly early Ohio and Indiana locations and assume she lived in Somerset Co PA for all or most of her life, Julianna and Alexander[7] Hanna fit the 1820 and 1830 censuses of a couple in Somerset Township, Somerset County. (1820, Somerset Twp, Somerset Co PA, Alexander Hanna: 320001/20010; 1830, Somerset Twp, Somerset Co PA, p 92, Julianne Hannah: 0/0100001). And they had a daughter the right age, unmarried in 1830. Neither Alexander nor Julianna was found in 1840, although two of their probable sons, Daniel and Robert, were. The authors of this blog has several DNA matches to Perkey descendants.
In 1840, Daniel Hanna was next door to Jacob Kooser (the uncle of Joseph Shultz, our Catherine Hanna's husband), and in the same township as Conrad Shultz (Joseph's father). At that time Daniel had one known daughter, Drusilla, but the census shows two girls, born 1825-30. It is not known where Catherine Hanna, soon to marry Joseph Shultz, was living in 1840, but although the age is wrong by five years, she may have been one of these girls. The same township has Robert Hanna, alone, age 20-30. The identity of Alexander and Julianna's other three sons and one daughter is not known.
So, where was Julianna Perkey really born and where did she marry Alexander Hanna? The Somerset Co PA genweb site says the Berkeys (or Perkeys) were among the earliest settlers in the county, as early as 1776.[8] An apparently distinct Christian Berkey was on a Brothers Valley tax assessment in 1783 and again in 1784,[9] then in 1796 on a list of residents of Elk Lick Township.[10] Our Christian Perkey was in Salt Lick Township, Fayette Co PA in those years.[11] Therefore, if the Ancestry.com gedcoms are correct about her parents, they are wrong about her birthplace; Julianna was born in Fayette County.
Were there other early Hanna families from which Alexander could have come?
The brothers of Julianna Perkey are on the same page in the 1810 Westmoreland Co PA census]: Westmoreland Co PA, Donegal Twp, 116: Alexander Hanna, 20010/00101. Donegal Township is adjacent to Somerset County, some ten miles or so from township line, Donegal Township, Westmoreland County, to township line, Somerset Township, Somerset County.
William Hanna was in the same township in 1790: 2/1/3. The census page appears very Scotch-Irish and not at all German, as Somerset Co was at that date. In 1800, Widow Hanna was alone in her household, aged 26-45 and may or may not be the widow of the William of the earlier census.
Catherine was probably born in Somerset Co PA, where Alexander Hanna was living in 1820. She was certainly there about 1841, when she married Joseph Shultz.
© Kathy Alvis Patterson, 2008
[1] Charles Ross Shultz, A Genealogy of the Descendants of Michael Shultz. Privately published, 1943. See also, "Joseph Shultz," Portrait and Biographical Record of Lee County, IL, p 352.
[2] Ibid. Also, Somerset Co PA genweb site.
[3] HANNA FAMILY OF PETERSBURG (ADDISON) PENNSYLVANIA. "Alexander Hanna Sr was born either in Scotland or Ireland in 1737, emigrated to America in 1771 and settled in York Co PA. In 1798, Alexander, and his wife Martha, their four children and three grandchildren moved to Milford Township, Somerset Co PA. Alexander Sr. died in 1809 and was buried at the Cross Roads Cemetery near Harnedsville. He was a veteran of the American Revolution. James, the only son [sic] of Alexander and Martha, was born in Ireland in 1770 and come with his parents to America when young and died in Milford Township in 1819. James served as Representative to the Legislature and was a State Senator; he was also Brigade Inspector for three counties. He married Ann Leech in 1794 and was the father of John, Mary, Thomas, James, Alexander, William, Phoebe, Jane, Martha and Anna." Submitted by Lawson L. Duckworth for the "Old Petersburg-Addison Historical Society." Somerset Co PA Genweb site, <http://www.pagenweb.org/~somerset/addison/hanna_history.htm>.
[4] Julianna had a brother Daniel and another named David; names in Alexander Hanna's family are not known.
[5] Seneca County was formed in 1820 and barely inhabited until the 1830s. <http://www.wikipedia.com>.
[6] "Felix Family, Helmick Family And Relations" at Ancestry.com. Hamilton Co IN was acquired for settlement by Indian cession in 1818 and organized as a county in 1823. <http://www.wikipedia.com>.
[7] No details about him in any of the gedcoms.
[8] "This region had at least some settlers at a very early date. Tradition has it that very soon after the Indian title was extinguished, in 1768, a colony of some fifteen or twenty families was formed to emigrate and settle in this section, and that most of them were Mennonites. The date assigned we think too early by several years, because not a single one of the names that may be considered as being of this colony is to be found on the first assessment list, although their absence from the list would not be entirely conclusive as to the time of their coming. It is also more than likely that the Amish and not the Mennonite element predominated, and there may also have been some Brethren, or Dunkards, among them. Indeed, if we are to judge from the church affiliations of their descendants, there must have been some of the Dunkard faith. Some of these traditions even go so far as to say that it was this colony as a whole from which the name Brueders Thal, or Brothers Valley, had it origin. This we think is erroneous. Nor can we believe that this particular element came in as a colony, if we are to understand by that term that they came in a body, or at the same time. This must have come in at different times. Of these early settlers we have these names. Jacob Saylor, John Saylor (father and son), Christian Knaigey, Christian Berkey (or Perkey), Peter Fahrney (Forney), Michael Buechley, John Olinger, John Burger, John Miller. Also the Burntragers, and possibly some of the Houpts. Of these the Saylors, Fahrneys, Buechleys, Knaigeys and Berkeys may be looked on as being among the first to come, and except the Berkeys, all of these are still well known names in the county. The Berkey family in the northern past of Somerset county is not known to be of this stock, which is not known to have any representatives here." <http://www.pagenweb.org/~somerset/hbs/chapter30b.htm>. After studying the Berkey and Perkey families, I have come to doubt that our family was connected to the earlier Somerset Co PA Berkey family.
[9] Cassady, John C. The Somerset County Outline, 1932, p 144, Brothersvalley Twp tax assessment, 1783, Christian Perkey, 200 acres, Jacob Perkey, 300 acres. Page 159, same twp, taxables in 1784, Abraham Perkey, 2 whites, Christian Perkey, 10 whites, Jacob Perkey, 8 whites, Peter Perkey, 6 whites.
[10] History of Bedford, Somerset, and Fulton Counties, Pennsylvania: with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its pioneers and prominent men, 1884, p 547.
[11] See ancestor's biography, < https://alvispat.wordpress.com/perkey-christian-of-fayette-co-pa/>.


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The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the broad theme of the blog (climate change, sustainability, energy, etc.). You can also find this thread by clicking on the Open Thread category on the left sidebar.
Although I don't want to direct commentary along any particular pathway, here are a few items I've read recently that you might find worth discussing:
1. The Bureau of Meteorology has released a Special Climate Statement on the recent exceptional rain and flooding events in central Australia and Queensland. 28 February was the wettest day on record for the Northern Territory while 2 March set a new record for Queensland. Over the 10-day period ending 3 March 2010 an estimated 403 cubic kilometres (403,000 gigalitres) of rainfall fell across the NT and QLD!
2. A really excellent and easy-to-read paper has been published in the latest issue of Sustainability. It's called "Is Humanity Doomed? Insights from Astrobiology" by Seth Baum of Penn State Uni. It's open source (free to download, here). The author is not focused on whether humanity will go under anytime soon, but rather he is interested in a long-term view — especially, what astrobiology has to say about the Fermi Paradox (which I discussed here, way back in the early days of BNC). Fascinating paper.
3. Joe Shuster, in cooperation with the Science Council for Global Initiatives, has published an energy planning primer called "Want to see the future? Look at energy." (download the 21-page PDF here). It's a sharp review of fossil fuel limits, smart grids, wind, solar, hydro, biomass and natural gas, and the future role of plasma remediation and nuclear energy in the US energy economy.
His 2040 plan ends up with 42% nuclear, 12% natural gas, 5% plasma arc syngas, 6% bio/geo/tides/waves, 5% hydro and 30% wind/solar. For the latter, he says 30% is really the upper limit he can conceive, with any probable shortfall being met by more nuclear. Cost? About $6 trillion in direct investment over 30 years, but which results in an economy-wide cost saving equivalent of $8.5 trillion (mostly from no longer needing to purchase foreign oil, plus efficiencies etc.). All in all, it's a plan well worth looking at, and fits nicely with the 'real-world applicability' criteria I described here.


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AP: The caretakers of the Olympics may have inadvertently accomplished what has eluded diplomats: Galvanizing Iran and the U.S. on a common goal. The Associated Press
By By NASSER KARIMI and BRIAN MURPHY, – 1 hour ago
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The caretakers of the Olympics may have inadvertently accomplished what has eluded diplomats: Galvanizing Iran and the U.S. on a common goal.
Wrestling officials from the arch foes appeared to be in bonding mode Tuesday on the sidelines of a Tehran tournament less than a week after the stunning decision by the International Olympic Committee that will force the ancient sport — as old as the Olympics themselves — to lobby for a spot at the 2020 Games.
Already, the fight to keep wrestling in the Olympics has brought the U.S. and Cuban federations into a possible alliance. But close cooperation between Iran and America would be an even more remarkable display of common cause with almost everything else driving them apart — led by an impasse over Tehran's nuclear program and Western sanctions that have upended the Iranian economy.
It's unlikely that any kind of wrestling detente would spill over into the wider issues, but it's certain to at least draw attention to the power of sports as a low-risk icebreaker going back to the historic 1971 "pingpong diplomacy" between China and the U.S.
U.S. freestyle coach Zeke Jones, speaking to The Associated Press by phone from Tehran, said that officials from 10 of the world's top wrestling nations will meet Wednesday in Iran. Delegations from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, the United States, Russia and Turkey will gather to discuss how to reverse the IOC's decision.
Jones said that those countries were chosen because they finished in the top 10 in the freestyle competition at the 2011 world championships, the last time team scores were held at a major international meet.
"We'll be standing arm-in-arm with Iran, and we'll be standing with Russia as we will with lots of other countries," said Mitch Hull, national teams director for USA Wrestling, in an interview in Tehran with AP Television News before the World Cup Tournament.
"Those (countries) really do make a difference because politically we're not always on the same page, or politically with Russia, but in wrestling, there's no doubt that we are all together in this effort and we consider Iran one of our strongest allies in the sport of wrestling," Hull said.
Hull described them as "sport rivals, but they are friends in sport, too."
"We have great confidence that we can work with the Iranian wrestling federation, Iranian wrestlers and the Iranian people to show the world that, no matter what's happening politically, we have the same goal and the same belief and passion about the sport of wrestling," he said.
Jones said that the World Cup, which ranks below only the world championships in annual importance, has come at a "perfect time," given the IOC's recent move.
Though Jones acknowledged that relations between international wrestling teams like the U.S. and Iran can be difficult, he said such competitions usually foster the kind of camaraderie and friendship the sport desperately needs.
"You'll have absolutely zero problem with the countries being unified on saving wrestling," Jones said. "The countries will do anything in working together to keep Olympic wrestling in the program."
Hojatollah Khatib, the head of Iran's wrestling federation, said the tournament would offer "the best opportunity to confront the decision" to drop the sport from the Olympics.
"We should resist the decision, determinedly," Khatib was quoted by the semiofficial Mehr news agency as saying. "We should show our unity in the current event."
On Monday, U.S. wrestling officials agreed to create a special committee charged with seeking to save Olympic wrestling, which will remain in the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. But it must compete against seven other events — including squash, roller sports and wakeboarding — for one open slot in the 2020 Games, which have yet to be awarded to a host city.
Iran also has said it is looking to join wrestling's "big powers" to reverse the IOC decision. Last week, Iran's wrestling federation and its Olympic committee said they would send a protest letter to the IOC.
The independent Etemad newspaper ran a report that described the "axis" of wrestling — Iran, the United States and Russia — as joining forces to keep the sport in the Olympics.
For Iran, it's a mission of serious importance. Wrestling is considered by many to be something of a national sport — not as popular as soccer or with the deep Persian roots of polo, but one that gives Iran a chance to shine in international competitions. Wrestling also is Iran's major medal sport at the Olympics.
Iran won three gold medals, its first in the Greco-Roman division, out of six overall in wrestling at the London Games, and the U.S. took two gold medals out of four overall.
"Do we destroy our historical sites which are symbols of humanity? No. Then, why should we destroy wrestling?" Iranian gold medalist Ali Reza Dabir said shortly after the IOC decision on Feb. 13.
In the current 14-team World Cup tournament in Tehran, the U.S. is joined by other freestyle wrestling powers including Russia and many of the former Soviet republics. Last week, Alexander Mamiashvili, the head of the Russian wrestling federation, said President Vladimir Putin had ordered a committee be formed to contest the IOC decision.
Despite the shared dismay over wrestling's Olympic snub, Iran's state media had only limited reports on the arrival of the American wrestlers — perhaps linked to the official anger over the sanctions that have hit Iran's critical oil exports and blacklisted the country from international financial networks.
The cool reception is in distinct contrast to the almost celebrity welcome given in 1998 to the first U.S. wrestlers who competed in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that collapsed ties between the two countries. Washington cut relations after the U.S. Embassy was stormed, leading to 52 Americans being held hostage for 444 days.
U.S. sports team now make occasional appearances in Iran, but the two countries often compete together in international events.
There also have been some false starts.
In 2009, Iran invited the U.S. women's badminton team to compete in a tournament, then denied visas by saying there was not enough time to process the applications. In late 2011, Iran bowed out of an invitational table tennis exhibition tournament in Qatar that included the U.S., North Korea and Pakistan.
The U.S. has sent more than 30 athletes to Iran under a sports exchange program launched in 2007, and more than 75 Iranian athletes and coaches have visited the United States.
Murphy reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. AP Sports Writer Luke Meredith in Des Moines, Iowa, contributed to this report.


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Please use the new documentation url https://docs.rc.uab.edu/ for all Research Computing documentation needs.
As a result of this move, we have deprecated use of this wiki for documentation. We are providing read-only access to the content to facilitate migration of bookmarks and to serve as an historical record. All content updates should be made at the new documentation site. The original wiki will not receive further updates.
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Slurm is a queue management system and stands for Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management. Slurm was developed at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab and currently runs some of the largest compute clusters in the world. Slurm is now the primary job manager on Cheaha, it replaces SUN Grid Engine (SGE) the job manager used earlier.
Slurm is similar in many ways to GridEngine or most other queue systems. You write a batch script then submit it to the queue manager (scheduler). The queue manager then schedules your job to run on the queue (or partition in Slurm parlance) that you designate. Below we will provide an outline of how to submit jobs to Slurm, how Slurm decides when to schedule your job, and how to monitor progress.
General Slurm Documentation
The primary source for documentation on Slurm usage and commands can be found at the Slurm site. If you Google for Slurm questions, you'll often see the Lawrence Livermore pages as the top hits, but these tend to be outdated.
A great way to get details on the Slurm commands is the man pages available from the Cheaha cluster. For example, if you type the following command:
man sbatch
you'll get the manual page for the sbatch command.
Slurm Partitions
Cheaha has the following Slurm partitions (can also be thought of in terms of SGE queues) defined (the lower the number the higher the priority).
Note:Jobs must request the appropriate partition (ex: --partition=short) to satisfy the jobs resource request (maximum runtime, number of compute nodes, etc...)
|Max Runtime
|Max Compute Nodes
|2 hours
|No Limit
|12 hours
|2 days 2 hours
|6 days 6 hours
|2 hours
Logging on and Running Jobs from the command line
Once you've gone through the account setup procedure and obtained a suitable terminal application, you can login to the Cheaha system via ssh
ssh firstname.lastname@example.com
Alternatively, existing users could follow these instructions to add SSH keys and access the new system.
Cheaha (new hardware) run the CentOS 7 version of the Linux operating system and commands are run under the "bash" shell (the default shell). There are a number of Linux and bash references, cheat sheets and tutorials available on the web.
Typical Workflow
- Stage data to $USER_SCRATCH (your scratch directory)
- Determine how to run your code in "batch" mode. Batch mode typically means the ability to run it from the command line without requiring any interaction from the user.
- Identify the appropriate resources needed to run the job. The following are mandatory resource requests for all jobs on Cheaha:
- Number of processor cores required by the job
- Maximum memory (RAM) required per core
- Maximum runtime
- Write a job script specifying queuing system parameters, resource requests, and commands to run program
- Submit script to queuing system (sbatch script.job)
- Monitor job (squeue)
- Review the results and resubmit as necessary
- Clean up the scratch directory by moving or deleting the data off of the cluster
Batch Job
TODO: provide an explanation of what makes a batch job and why use that vs an interactive job
For additional information on the sbatch command execute man sbatch at the command line to view the manual.
Example Batch Job Script
A job consists of resource requests and tasks. The Slurm job scheduler interprets lines beginning with #SBATCH as Slurm arguments. In this example, the job is requesting to run 1 task
Note:Jobs must request the appropriate partition (ex: --partition=short) to satisfy the jobs resource request (maximum runtime, number of compute nodes, etc...)
#!/bin/bash # #SBATCH --job-name=test #SBATCH --output=res.txt #SBATCH --ntasks=1 #SBATCH --partition=express #SBATCH --time=10:00 #SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=100 #SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL #SBATCH --mail-user=YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS srun hostname srun sleep 60
Click here for more example SLURM job scripts.
Interactive Session
Login Node (the host that you connected to when you setup the SSH connection to Cheaha) is supposed to be used for submitting jobs and/or lighter prep work required for the job scripts. Do not run heavy computations on the login node. If you have a heavier workload to prepare for a batch job (eg. compiling code or other manipulations of data) or your compute application requires interactive control, you should request a dedicated interactive node for this work.
Interactive resources are requested by submitting an "interactive" job to the scheduler. Interactive jobs will provide you a command line on a compute resource that you can use just like you would the command line on the login node. The difference is that the scheduler has dedicated the requested resources to your job and you can run your interactive commands without having to worry about impacting other users on the login node.
Interactive jobs, that can be run on command line, are requested with the srun command.
srun --ntasks=4 --mem-per-cpu=4096 --time=08:00:00 --partition=medium --job-name=JOB_NAME --pty /bin/bash
This command requests for 4 cores (--ntasks) with each task requesting size 4GB of RAM for 8 hrs (--time).
More advanced interactive scenarios to support graphical applications are available using VNC or X11 tunneling X-Win32 2014 for Windows
Interactive jobs that requires running a graphical application, are requested with the sinteractive command, via Terminal on your VNC window.
sinteractive --ntasks=4 --mem-per-cpu=4096 --time=08:00:00 --partition=medium --job-name=JOB_NAME
Job List - SQUEUE
To check your job status, you can use the following command
squeue -u $USER
Following fields are displayed when you run squeue
JOBID - ID assigned to your job by Slurm scheduler PARTITION - Partition your job gets, depends upon time requested (express(max 2 hrs), short(max 12 hrs), medium(max 50 hrs), long(max 150 hrs), sinteractive(0-2 hrs)) NAME - JOB name given by user USER - User who started the job ST - State your job is in. The typical states are PENDING (PD), RUNNING(R), SUSPENDED(S), COMPLETING(CG), and COMPLETED(CD) TIME - Time for which your job has been running NODES - Number of nodes your job is running on NODELIST - Node on which the job is running
For more details on squeue, go here.
Job Status
The sstat command shows status and metric information for a running job.
NOTE: the job parts must be executed using srun otherwise sstat will not display useful output
[rcs@login001 ~]$ sstat 256483 JobID MaxVMSize MaxVMSizeNode MaxVMSizeTask AveVMSize MaxRSS MaxRSSNode MaxRSSTask AveRSS MaxPages MaxPagesNode MaxPagesTask AvePages MinCPU MinCPUNode MinCPUTask AveCPU NTasks AveCPUFreq ReqCPUFreqMin ReqCPUFreqMax ReqCPUFreqGov ConsumedEnergy MaxDiskRead MaxDiskReadNode MaxDiskReadTask AveDiskRead MaxDiskWrite MaxDiskWriteNode MaxDiskWriteTask AveDiskWrite ------------ ---------- -------------- -------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- -------- ------------ -------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- -------- ---------- ------------- ------------- ------------- -------------- ------------ --------------- --------------- ------------ ------------ ---------------- ---------------- ------------ 256483.0 1962728K c0043 1 1960633K 91920K c0043 3 91867K 67K c0043 3 50K 00:00.000 c0043 0 00:00.000 8 1.20G Unknown Unknown Unknown 0 1M c0043 5 1M 0.34M c0043 5 0.34M
For more details on sstat, go here.
$ scontrol show jobid -dd 123 JobId=123 JobName=SLI UserId=rcuser(1000) GroupId=rcuser(1000) Priority=4294898073 Nice=0 Account=(null) QOS=normal JobState=RUNNING Reason=None Dependency=(null) Requeue=1 Restarts=0 BatchFlag=1 Reboot=0 ExitCode=0:0 DerivedExitCode=0:0 RunTime=06:27:02 TimeLimit=08:00:00 TimeMin=N/A SubmitTime=2016-09-12T14:40:20 EligibleTime=2016-09-12T14:40:20 StartTime=2016-09-12T14:40:20 EndTime=2016-09-12T22:40:21 PreemptTime=None SuspendTime=None SecsPreSuspend=0 Partition=medium AllocNode:Sid=login001:123 ReqNodeList=(null) ExcNodeList=(null) NodeList=c0003 BatchHost=c0003 NumNodes=1 NumCPUs=24 CPUs/Task=1 ReqB:S:C:T=0:0:*:* TRES=cpu=24,mem=10000,node=1 Socks/Node=* NtasksPerN:B:S:C=0:0:*:* CoreSpec=* Nodes=c0003 CPU_IDs=0-23 Mem=10000 MinCPUsNode=1 MinMemoryNode=10000M MinTmpDiskNode=0 Features=(null) Gres=(null) Reservation=(null) Shared=OK Contiguous=0 Licenses=(null) Network=(null) Command=/share/apps/rc/git/rc-sched-scripts/bin/_interactive WorkDir=/scratch/user/rcuser/work/other/rhea/Gray/MERGED StdErr=/dev/null StdIn=/dev/null StdOut=/dev/null Power= SICP=0
Job History
TODO: Provide some examples of using the sacct or our wrapper rc-sacct to view historical information.
This example uses the rc-sacct wrapper script, for comparison here is the equivalent sacct command:
$ sacct --starttime 2016-08-30 \ --allusers \ --format=User,JobID,Jobname,partition,state,time,start,end,elapsed,MaxRss,MaxVMSize,nnodes,ncpus,nodelist
$ rc-sacct --allusers --starttime 2016-08-30 User JobID JobName Partition State Timelimit Start End Elapsed MaxRSS MaxVMSize NNodes NCPUS NodeList --------- ------------ ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ------------------- ------------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- -------- ---------- --------------- kxxxxxxx 34308 Connectom+ interacti+ PENDING 08:00:00 Unknown Unknown 00:00:00 1 4 None assigned kxxxxxxx 34310 Connectom+ interacti+ PENDING 08:00:00 Unknown Unknown 00:00:00 1 4 None assigned dxxxxxxx 35927 PK_htseq1 medium COMPLETED 2-00:00:00 2016-08-30T09:21:33 2016-08-30T10:06:25 00:44:52 1 4 c0005 35927.batch batch COMPLETED 2016-08-30T09:21:33 2016-08-30T10:06:25 00:44:52 307704K 718152K 1 4 c0005 bxxxxxxx 35928 SI medium TIMEOUT 12:00:00 2016-08-30T09:36:04 2016-08-30T21:36:42 12:00:38 1 1 c0006 35928.batch batch FAILED 2016-08-30T09:36:04 2016-08-30T21:36:43 12:00:39 31400K 286532K 1 1 c0006 35928.0 hostname COMPLETED 2016-08-30T09:36:16 2016-08-30T09:36:17 00:00:01 1112K 207252K 1 1 c0006
Additional information about the sacct command can be found by running man sacct or found here
The rc-sacct wrapper script supports the following arguments:
$ rc-sacct --help Copyright (c) 2016 Mike Hanby, University of Alabama at Birmingham IT Research Computing. rc-sacct - version 1.0.0 Run sacct to display history in a nicely formatted output. -r, --starttime HH:MM[:SS] [AM|PM] MMDD[YY] or MM/DD[/YY] or MM.DD[.YY] MM/DD[/YY]-HH:MM[:SS] YYYY-MM-DD[THH:MM[:SS]] -a, --allusers Dispay hsitory for all users) -u, --user user_list Display hsitory for all users in the comma seperated user list -f, --format a,b,c Comma separated list of columns: i.e. --format jobid,elapsed,ncpus,ntasks,state --debug Display additional output like internal structures -?, -h, --help Display this help message
Slurm Variables
The following is a list of useful Slurm environment variables (click here for the full list):
|Total number of processes in the current job (and SLURM_NPROCS for backwards compatibility)
|List of nodes allocated to the job
|Total number of nodes in the job's resource allocation
|Set to the value of the --job-name option or the command name when srun is used to create a new job allocation. Not set when srun is used only to create a job step (i.e. within an existing job allocation)
|Job id of the executing job (and SLURM_JOBID for backwards compatibility)
|The directory from which srun was invoked
|Number of tasks to be initiated on each node. Values are comma separated and in the same order as SLURM_NODELIST. If two or more consecutive nodes are to have the same task count, that count is followed by "(x#)" where "#" is the repetition count. For example, "SLURM_TASKS_PER_NODE=2(x3),1" indicates that the first three nodes will each execute three tasks and the fourth node will execute one task
SGE - Slurm
This section shows Slurm and SGE equivalent commands
SGE Slurm --------- ------------ qsub sbatch qlogin sinteractive qdel scancel qstat squeue
To get more info about individual commands, run : man SLURM_COMMAND . For an extensive list of Slurm-SGE equivalent commands, go here


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