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- Tau neutrino, 2000, Fermilab, United States
- Top quark, 1995, Fermilab, United States
- W and Z bosons, 1983, CERN, Switzerland
- Gluon, 1979, DESY, Germany
- Bottom quark, 1977, Fermilab, United States
- Tau, 1975, SLAC, United States
- Charm quark, 1974, SLAC/Brookhaven, United States
- Up, down, and strange quarks, 1968, SLAC, United States
- Muon neutrino, 1962, Brookhaven, United States
- Electron neutrino, 1956, Los Alamos, United States
- Muon, 1936, Caltech, United States
- Photon, 1905, Patent Office in Bern, Switzerland
- Electron...let's skip that one for simplicity...
Fermions are discovered in the US, whereas bosons are discovered in Europe.Pauli's other exclusion principle has been confirmed in numerous experiments, sometimes un a quite spectacular way. Around 1974, the most powerful accelerator in the world was the ISR at CERN who produced charmonium in commercial quantities. However, since a discovery of the J/Psi particle at CERN would contradict Pauli's other exclusion principle, the experiment set its cuts so as to reject events with pT < 3.2 GeV (the mass of the J/Psi particle is 3.1 GeV). Later on, some significant efforts were invested to miss the Upsilon particle. The cancellation of the SSC can also be explained by Pauli's other exclusion principle: the SSC would be able to discover the Higgs boson.
Since, there is no more doubt that Pauli's other exclusion principle is a fundamental law of nature, it can be used to formulate predictions. One obvious implication is that Higgs searches at the Tevatron are pointless, and resources should be reallocated to searches for new heavy quarks. The Higgs boson, if it exists, will be discovered at the LHC. The new physics at the LHC, however, is severely constrained. Typical solutions to the hierarchy problem predict new fermions at the TeV scale. The little Higgs or extra dimensional scenarios predict a vector-like partner of the top quark at accessible energies, while supersymmetry predicts fermionic partners of the gauge bosons. On the other hand, the Standard Model with a light Higgs is perfectly consistent with Pauli's other exclusion principle...
Thanks to Jose Ramon for pointing out the facts to me.


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When Facebook and OKCupid recently admitted they had been tinkering with headlines and content to see how users reacted, many consumers were outraged — but the business community just shrugged.
What the companies were doing was simply a form of multivariate, or A/B, testing, albeit in the case of OKCupid — which changed content entered by users — it was particularly aggressive. The practice itself has been around for years and is considered de rigueur among email marketers. However, it's only recently that companies have begun to realize the importance of such testing for their mobile apps.
This is not to say that mobile app developers have been throwing any old app at the proverbial wall to see what sticks. Indeed, the amount of data available for mobile apps is enormous and extraordinarily deep, all the way down to the device level.
Mobile Ads' Bright Future
One only has to look at mobile ad tech company Fiksu, which just reported annual revenue of US$100 million, largely fueled by demand for data-driven mobile ads.
"Fiksu's roots have always been in data and now, in our fourth year, the sheer mass of data we have accumulated delivers massive scale and unmatched targeting to businesses and agencies seeking to optimize their mobile advertising results," bragged Micah Adler, CEO of Fiksu. "The future is incredibly bright for data-driven mobile advertising."
Multivariate testing, though, is something else. Yes, there is plenty of industry knowledge accruing about app design and fonts and colors and so forth. But further testing is necessary to fine-tune these "rules" and customize them for a company's specific audience and its own goals. Behavioral research and targeting also fall under the multivariate umbrella.
For instance, only 17 percent of affluent consumers are likely to respond to a text message, especially from a high-end brand, the Luxury Institute has found.
New Options
Fortunately, a number of new offerings are coming to market to make it easier than ever to determine the best message and the best design in the mobile environment.
For example, Appboy's last month launched a multivariate testing tool for developers to test app messaging. The goal was to find out how various messages would affect such metrics as conversion rate and revenue generated.
Another recent example is SiteSpect, which in June rolled out an SDK that performs A/B testing and behavioral targeting for native iOS apps.
The Same Cycle for Wearables
It will be interesting to see how many companies apply these technologies — in particular, the behavioral targeting — to the next wave of mobile devices expected to swamp consumers: wearables.
In some cases — namely, apps for wearable devices designed with a medical purpose in mind — I suspect this will be more of a focus than with general mobile apps.
Consider the MediSafe project, one of the first mobile health apps based on Google's new Android Wear platform, which is designed to keep patients, such as diabetics, compliant with their pharmaceutical schedules.
Of course, any number of other apps — not to mention nagging family members — can accomplish the same thing. However, MediSafe built its app and interface by applying technological behavioral tools. It zeros in on a user's individual reason for forgetting to a pill or inject insulin, and then it creates a compliance program tailored to that situation.
MediSafe is the product of extensive multivariate testing, and although the result hasn't been, say, an increase in ad clicks or app downloads, it does boast its own impressive bona fides: MediSafe users have an average medication adherence rate of 86 percent, according to the company, compared to 50 percent of the general population, according to App Developer magazine.


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Coaches and technical officials from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Tunisia and Oman participated in a five day Coaches and Technical Officials` Certification Seminar in Cairo this week.
The event, which was organised by Ahmed Nasser, President of the Egyptian Triathlon Federation, took place at the magnificent facilities of the Egyptian Olympic Committee Sports Complex.
ITU Sport Development Director, Libby Burrell, headed up a strong team of course facilitators. She was assisted by Franz Studer of South Africa on the coaches` training side, and by Thanos Nikopoulos, ITU Technical Operations Manager and Casper Kriel of South Africa with the technical officials.
Following the seminar, the newly certified technical officials departed for the Suez and the site of the first Egyptian National Triathlon Championships on Wednesday, 3 March. Besides a strong contingent of athletes from Egypt, the event will also include participants from the other Arab countries.
"Lifestyle Triathlon" will be a focus of the 1st Egyptian Triathlon Championships with fun competitions open to athletes of all ages starting as young as 7 years.
Ahmed Nasser, who besides being a leader for the development of the sport in the region, is also committed to introducing the sport through his vast contacts in television, radio and the print media.
Results will be available after the event on triathlon.org
For more information on ITU Sport Development, visit our Sport Development section.


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Formerly conceived as repositories of print collections, libraries of all sorts are now providing electronic access to a wide range of digital resources. The publishing industry is changing rapidly, making fewer print options available to store in library buildings. How will your organization or institution continue to provide value for customers using the library building? What changes are you making to physical spaces that make accessing resources easier for differently abled users? How are you determining when to reduce shelving for print collections? What alternative uses do you foresee for those former shelving spaces?
Please join us for an exciting and informative e-forum on January 14 and 15, 2013, to discuss how libraries of all types are adjusting their physical locations in response to the changing information environment. This e-forum will provide participants an opportunity to talk about what their libraries are doing to adjust to thinking of the library as place with unlimited potential. Librarians and technical services staff from all types of libraries are invited to participate.
Who Should Attend?
Laurie St. Laurent is the Branch Manager at the new 54,000 sq ft Spencer Road Branch of the St. Charles (MO) City-County Library District. She earned her Master of Science in Librarianship at Western Michigan University and has worked in a variety of libraries in several states. She is the former Director of the Marshall (MI) District Library, where she was active in the Michigan Library Association, Woodlands Library Cooperative, and regional literacy organizations. Her advocacy position for library support of early learning resulted in an appointment to the Library of Michigan Youth Services Advisory Council. In addition, St. Laurent is an adjunct faculty member of the Wayne State University School of Library and Information Science.
Deborah J. Margolis is Reference/Collections Librarian at the Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries. She is responsible for library collections in Anthropology, Jewish Studies, Muslim Studies, and Middle East area studies. In addition, she serves as library liaison to MSU's Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities and is chair of the Libraries' Diversity Advisory Committee. Deborah earned her MLS at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies and has worked in a variety of library types. In Baltimore (MD), Deborah was Youth Services Coordinator at the Maryland State Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, where she coordinated a renovation of that library's children's area (see "Braille That Stands Out in More Ways Than One" in Children's Services: Partnerships for Success, ALA Editions, 2010).
How to Register
You must register your email address to subscribe to or access an electronic discussion list on ALA's Mailing List Service. Find instructions for subscribing online.
Once you have registered for one e-forum, you do not need to register again, unless you choose to leave the list.
Tech Requirements
Internet connection with an email address.
If you have trouble subscribing to the discussion list or have questions, please contact the e-Forum Coordinator at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Perspecta 33 "Mining Autonomy" : The Yale Architectural Journal Paperback / softback
Edited by Michael Osman, Adam Ruedig, Matthew Seidel, Lisa Tilney
Part of the Perspecta series
Paperback / softback
Essays exploring the legacy of architectural autonomy and its relationship to architecture's potential as a critical agent. Founded in 1950, Perspecta is the oldest and most distinguished of the student-edited American architectural journals.
Perspecta 33 explores the concept of architectural autonomy and its relationship to the discipline's potential as a critical agent.The journal revisits the debate of the past thirty years over architectural autonomy-the belief that architecture is a self-contained field with its own legible, meaningful forms.
It addresses the twentieth-century lineage of autonomy from its origins in the fine arts and art history to its architectural manifestation in the 1970s-a time when the functionalist, utilitarian nature of the modernist era led to a perceived dissolution of the discipline's professional boundaries.
From this historical understanding, the journal investigates current practice, asking whether autonomy is still essential to the "critical project." Perspecta 33 notes a shift in critical attention from the center of the discipline to its periphery, where architecture is able to translate intelligence from other disciplines into its own conventions and language, as well as pass ideas and speculation into the world.
New methods of architectural production (digital design, imaging, and fabrication), growing environmental concerns, and changing ideas about domesticity and urban space suggest alternative directions for criticality.The essays are organized in two parts: those that explicitly engage the history of architectural autonomy and those that offer alternatives or counterexamples.
In addition to the articles, there is a portfolio of contemporary projects that draw their criticality from disciplines outside architecture.
Perspecta 33 also includes a work by the artist Ann Hamilton.
Articles are by Stanford Anderson, Carol Burns, Bernard Cache, Diane Ghirardo, Elizabeth Grosz, K.
Michael Hays and Lauren Kogod, Neil Leach, Hashim Sarkis, Robert Somol, Michael Stanton, Anthony Vidler, Sara Whiting, and Christopher Wood. The editors of Perspecta 33 are graduates of The Yale School of Architecture and practicing architects.
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Things we no longer use are tossed aside and called "trash." Yet among these abandoned objects, some things continue to have intrinsic values and hold a special place in our hearts. A ship washed ashore is one of them.
It was some 15 years ago when the vessel's seaworthiness came into question and it ran aground on the shores of an inlet on Tanegashima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture. I moved to the island after the ship became land-locked and, although the rusted hull had already seen many a year since its last voyage, it still sat upright on the beach.
I was enamored with it at first sight, as the boat had not a hint of "trash" in its character. Each of the ships washed ashore along Tanegashima's beaches brought with it the stories and legends bearing the weight of the island's history. The abundance of abandoned vessels seems to rather suit Tanegashima.
Ropes still hung from the masts and the boat was now both a playground for children and a picture-perfect point of interest for shutterbug tourists. Surf photographers made it a point to include the rusted hull in their portraits of the surrounding breaks. I fell so in love with the spot and, despite its inconvenient location, rented a place nearby and lived there for a time.
No one can predict the changes that follow in the footsteps of Father Time. Despite naively thinking the rusted and rotting hull would continue to grace the beach through the seasons, one day wreckers began taking apart the ship. Economic developments in China had apparently pushed up the price of steel and a local dealer had seen an opportunity in the dilapidated ship, now worth a rumored ¥500 per kilogram.
When by fate or by fault something is thrown asunder, we often resign ourselves to saying something esoteric such as, "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust." Such would be the case here.
Beaten by the wind and waves, this beached vessel was returning to its steel roots to be given a new life—recycled after 15 years of dormancy. Although reusing raw materials portends a "high tide" for the next generation, in the case of the shipwrecked boat I remain slightly saddened.


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Save Real-time Data In Client PC?
Oct 9, 2009I am using Ajax and Javascript to show real-time data on the web page. On my web page, a 4-digit number is displayed in a text box and this number updates every 10 millisecond automatically to display real-time data (show 100 numbers per second).
What I would like to do is to save the lastest 10 second data in the local PC (client PC) when client clicks a button on the page. Is that possbile with Javascript and Ajax? Or is there any other ways to sort it out?


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The following is a press release courtesy of Iowa State athletics.
RHODES, Iowa – The No. 28 Iowa State women's golf team fired a 306 this afternoon to finish third at the 2013 Big 12 Women's Golf Championship at The Harvester Golf Club.
ISU carded a 54-hole tally of 912 en route to its highest placing in a Big 12 Championship in school history. The Cyclones were one shot behind second-round leader Baylor at the beginning of the day, but Oklahoma State made a final-round charge to claim the tournament title. The Cowgirls shot 299 this afternoon for a 905 three-round total, two shots ahead of Baylor.
"I am really proud of our team," Iowa State head coach Christie Martens said. "We wanted to be in contention on the final day, and we were. I am really proud of how they played. They showed a lot of heart today. The conditions were tough today and they played through it and were in it until the end."
Cyclone senior Punpaka Phuntumabamrung earned Big 12 All-Tournament honors for the third time in her career, placing second in the medalist race at 221 (77-68-76). Phuntumabamrung's runner-up performance is the highest finish by a Cyclone in Big 12 Conference Championship history. Phuntumabamrung has placed in the top-10 at the Big 12 Championships in three of her four seasons donning the cardinal and gold.
"Bow (Phuntumabamrung) is such a great pressure player and she showed that today," Martens said about her star. "She feels comfortable that she can play with anyone in the country, and she is what you need as a senior leader."
Iowa State true freshman Cajsa Persson fired a 72 this afternoon to help her earn All-Tournament honors by tying for fifth, with a 54-hole score of 226. Persson's 1-under-par 35 on the back nine featured three birdies.
Prima Thammaraks posted a 77 today to finish 15th at 231..
Baylor's Lauren Taylor, the 2012 British Amateur champion, was the individual medalist at 213, eight shots ahead of Phuntumabamrung.
The Cyclones are a lock to earn their record-setting fourth-straight NCAA Regional appearance. The NCAA Regional will be held May 9-11.
Team Results
1. Oklahoma State 317-289-299=905
2. Baylor 319-286-302=907
3. Iowa State 320-286-306=912
4. Oklahoma 322-293-313=928
5. Texas Tech 316-296-319=931
Texas 327-297-312=936
8. Kansas 322-304-315=941
9. Kansas State 350-306-325=981
Iowa State Scores
2. Punpaka Phuntumabamrung 77-68-76=221
T5. Cajsa Persson 81-73-72=226
T15. Prima Thammaraks 81-73-77=231
T25. Sasikarn On-iam 81-73-81=237
T29. Chonlada Chayanun 85-72-81=238
Top Individuals
1. Lauren Taylor, Baylor 74-68-71=213
2. Punpaka Phuntumabamrung, Iowa State 77-68-76=221


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A. Zoossmann-Diskin has a new article in Homo in which he casts significant doubt on the practices of population geneticists publishing on the subject of Jewish origins, with an emphasis on the purported "Ashkenazi Levite" haplotype. While I have also criticized the identification of the so-called Cohen Modal Haplotype whose alleged correspondence with the Aaronic line of priests is invalid, this new article casts some even more serious doubt on a long string of research results. I will comment on the subject after a careful reading of the paper.
The point of the article is that the frequency of the LMH in the original publication is much less than that in the later publication. In the initial publication it is 21% among Ashkenazi Levites and it becomes 42% in the later publication.
So, either:
1. Significant typing errors occurred in the first publication, and the 21% frequency is widely off-the-mark. Did they publish an erratum, a letter to the editor, an announcement on their website, correcting this error? Or did they allow their result to stand in the scientific literature, even though they knew it had serious errors?
2. They used a biased convenience sample in their second article which just so happened to have twice the frequency of the LMH?
So, either the researchers botched the first publication and kept quiet about their mistake, or they massaged their second sample to increase the frequency of the LMH.
I would be interested in any alternative interpretations.
HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology
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Ashkenazi levites' "Y modal haplotype" (LMH) – an artificially created phenomenon?
A. Zoossmann-Diskin
The article on the Y chromosomes of Ashkenazi Levites (Behar et al., 2003. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 73, 768–779) is the fourth in a series on the Y chromosomes of the three Jewish male castes: Cohanim (priests), Levites (priests' helpers) and Israelites (lay people). It became apparent that there is a problem with omission of samples when the second article "Origins of Old Testament priests" (Thomas et al., 1998. Nature 394, 138–140) was published. In the fourth article a remarkable 55% of the Ashkenazi Levite samples from the earlier 1998 study are not included. This causes the "Levite modal haplotype" to double its frequency from 21% of the Ashkenazi Levite sample in 1998 to 42% of the Ashkenazi Levite sample in 2003. The authors offer three main explanations:
(1) The studies are independent using different sample sets.
(2) Typing errors and poor quality exclude samples from future studies.
(3) Correction of typing errors means that some samples are classified under different haplotypes.
The explanations offered to the problem of omitting samples from subsequent studies after their haplotypes or partial haplotypes are known, are not convincing. Consequently their sample sets cannot be considered random and non-biased. At the least, these laboratories have bad practices of sample handling and many typing errors, which are enough to invalidate their studies.


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Websockets are a cool, cutting-edge technology wrapped into HTML5. Basically, you can open a websocket to enable persistent, 2-way communication with a web server. The client (user interface) can spontaneously send messages, and the server can send messages too.
Unfortunately, most (all I can find, anyway) websocket implementations require a specific server application to work. People will run Apache on ports 80 and 443 (http and https) and run another system (typically Node.js) on another port (i.e. 8000 or 8080) to handle websocket requests.
This works, obviously, but it's got some drawbacks.
I have a plugin I want to build that would greatly benefit from using websockets within WordPress. But if a user needs to install a second web server (usually impossible for people with shared hosting), then it won't work as a plugin.
So, for any of you who have experience, how would you make WordPress compatible with websockets? Would you make WordPress handle the communication itself, or bundle another mini-server script into the plugin? If you've done this already, how did you accomplish it without breaking WordPress itself?
Possible resources?
9/21/11 Update
With all the talk of how Apache (the most commonly installed server for running WP on a shared host) can't really handle websockets natively, I'm wondering about an alternative. Several plugins (JetPack, for example) talk to an external service or API to generate content.
Stats requests content from Automattic. Akismet sends data back and forth from an external server. After the Deadline submits content at publish time. A few SEO tools pass things back-and-forth through external systems.
So as an alternative to housing the websocket code within a WordPress plugin, would it be feasible to host a websocket service in a central location and have a WordPress frontend interact with that instead?


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Got a lot of RED photos when I was down in Florida. I was on the lookout for shadow shots, sky pix and Ruby Tuesday shots.
As you can see I created a new header with a photo of a big RED heart for Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is a very special holiday and special for our meme. After all RED is the color for both!
Here are two photos I took in my travels in Hollywood, FL:
Remember last week I suggested taking photos of your home office if there is some RED in there? Well, do so if you want to, otherwise post anything you want.
Start posting big ol' RED hearts, all kinds, just as long as they're RED!
So, please don't forget to comment and to sign Mr. Linky.


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Since this is a question about a spoiler, I'm hoping I don't actually have to use spoiler markup.
Near the end of the movie Flying Swords of Dragon Gate one extra twist is thrown into the mix. The "maid" who is said to be bearing the child of Yu Huatian (the head of the West Bureau) betrays the main characters and hopes to assist Yu Huatian.
The way it's presented makes it seem that this was the plan all along. But the beginning of the movie begs to differ. For instance, why would she have stayed with Ling after her life was saved? Was it because they expected Zhao to have saved her, instead of Ling? Then the "maid" decided that she would probably run into Zhao again if she stayed with Ling, even though there didn't seem to be any evidence that this would be the case?
It comes down to two possible scenarios:
- She is not a maid, was never a maid, likely not pregnant, and just set up as a trap?
- She is actually a maid, and just keeps falling for Yu Huatian, which is the only reason she decides to help him.
Neither scenarios seem very likely actually. What am I missing?


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Full-Time Seats
4th Andretti: If Andretti does run a 4th car full-time this season, it very well could be E.J. Viso. However, prior reports from other sources that Viso was signed with the team were premature, and nothing has been confirmed as of yet. Still, Viso seems the most likely fit for this team. F1 driver Narain Karthikeyan made overtures to the team, but it doesn't sound as if the budget would necessarily be in place to make it happen.
1st & 2nd Coyne: Well, we all know Coyne's M.O. by now--waiting. I would still expect Justin Wilson here, but Coyne has yet to finalize that, and we can probably expect late resolution once more on this deal. For the 2nd Coyne car, we can only assume we receive our answer at the very last moment, but it looks doubtful James Jakes will be back in this seat. If you're looking for the remaining seat(s) that is the biggest crapshoot, it would be right here. Let's not forget Mikhail Aleshin, who has been sniffing around for an IndyCar ride. We might as well throw Karthikeyan as a possibility in here as well, because he'd have to go somewhere.
2nd Dragon: With Sam Schmidt getting the Vautier deal finally put together, this remains perhaps Ryan Briscoe's best shot at a full-time ride. It sounds as if Katherine Legge could be farmed out to HVM as an option instead of occupying this seat.
HVM Racing: As explained above, Legge may well be sent over to HVM to fulfill the terms of her 2013 employment. Right now, it would seem that would be HVM's best bet at getting an engine deal and being a full-time participant this year. There were a lot of Viso/HVM rumors towards the end of last year, but that would appear to have cooled off. James Jakes has also been mentioned here, but there's still the entire engine business to consider which makes the farm-out scenario perhaps slightly more realistic. It's most likely we see Jakes or Legge here for the year.
As you can see above, the pickings are getting pretty slim for our remaining crop of drivers. For those who don't figure into a full-time seat, let's take a look at some of the part-time ride that might not be available.
Notable Part-Time Seats
AFS Racing: AFS is again looking at a partial sort of season with Sebastian Saavedra, but it sounds as if the team has some financial obligations to meet before that happens.
2nd Foyt: As Robin Miller reported, Conor Daly, Alex Lloyd, and Bertrand Baguette have all been mentioned in conjunction with this seat, with possibly a different driver for Indianapolis versus a couple of one-offs at another point on the schedule. Daly did tweet yesterday about his desire to run the Indy 500 this year, for those curious about his interest level.
3rd Penske: This is an odd one, since it's almost certainly part-time (4 races is the number thrown around). No one seems to know anything about it, and I'm no different. Truly, the ways of Penske are mysterious.
2nd Rahal Letterman Lanigan: We know we'll see Rahal's second machine with Mike Conway at Long Beach, and there's a to-be-announced driver for Indy we'll have to wait on. This seat should be a rotating one, so expect several of the drivers in the mix--Lloyd, Baguette, or possibly 1-2 of their other formerly affiliated drivers.
Michael Shank Racing: Last year's would-be driver for Indy, Jay Howard has been very quiet as of late. Shank's been working towards some manner of alliance with an existing IndyCar team, and there's at least a chance we'll see the #60 DW12 at Indianapolis this season. Folks keep wanting to place A.J. Allmendinger in this ride, but I'd put the odds of that particular pairing happening as pretty slim right now, if I had to wager.
That's pretty much it for now. Oh, there will be some additional entries for Indianapolis and the like, but if you're talking anything for a good chunk of the season, that's what left. The hour grows late, but not so late that deal there's no time for a shock or two. We'll see what surprises lie in store between now and St. Petersburg.


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Fire Concerns Prompt York International to Reannounce Recall of Gas Furnaces for Manufactured Homes
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
Name of Product: Coleman, Coleman Evcon and Red T Gas Furnaces for Manufactured Homes
Units: About 223,600 in the U.S. and 2,400 in Canada (previously recalled in November 2004)
Manufacturer: Unitary Products Group (UPG), a division of York International Corp., of York, Pa.
Hazard: The furnace can overheat and cause the heat-exchanger to crack and create openings that allow flames to be exposed. When this happens, drywall and other nearby combustibles are exposed to the flames, posing a fire and smoke hazard to consumers.
Incidents/Injuries: The firm has received reports of 393 incidents, including some involving extensive property damage that could be related to these hazards, 366 of those reports were received after the November 2004 recall announcement. No injuries have been reported.
Description: The recall involves Coleman, Coleman Evcon and Red T brand furnaces. The furnaces are silver with white access panels. Coleman," "Coleman Evcon" and "Red T" brand names are located on the middle of the front access panel. The model number is written on a faceplate, found by removing both front access panels. The faceplate is found mounted on the left inside surface behind the lower panel. Models included in the recall are:
Sold by: Nationwide between 1995 and 2000 as original equipment in manufactured homes and as replacement furnaces in manufactured homes.
Manufactured in: U.S.A. between 1995 and 2000
Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the furnace until it has been inspected and repaired. Consumers should contact UPG to schedule a free inspection and repair of any furnace involved in the recall.
Consumer Contact: For more information, including information about installation issues that may lead to the hazard, contact UPG toll-free at (888) 665-4640 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. CT Monday through Friday or visit their website at www.dgatprogram.com. UPG Technical Services is also conducting a comprehensive notification and communications program and working with its distributors to locate owners.
Note: Health Canada's press release is available at http://cpsr-rspc.hc-sc.gc.ca/PR-RP/recall-retrait-eng.jsp?re_id=1416
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Further information
Press Release
Panasonic's DMC-FT2 – Unique Hybrid Tough Model
Perfect for Capturing the Action
Panasonic is pleased to introduce the new Lumix DMC-FT2, a successor to Lumix's first camera geared for active outdoor use, the DMC-FT1. Featuring AVCHD Lite HD movie recording capability, the new 14.1-megapixel FT2 further strengthens its toughness to be waterproof to 10m, shockproof to 2m, freezeproof to -10 degrees C and dustproof. The camera is also empowered internally by the newly developed Venus Engine HD II integrating "Intelligent Resolution" technology.
The FT2 features a high-quality LEICA DC VARIO ELMAR 28mm wide-angle lens with a 4.6x optical zoom . A folded optics shaft guide method is adopted to secure the toughness of the lens unit. Comprising 10 elements and a prism unit in 8 groups, including 1 ED lens and 5 aspherical lenses with 6 aspherical surfaces passing the Leica's stringent standards to deliver exceptional optical performance to the edge. Thanks to the newly incorporated Intelligent Resolution technology, the Intelligent Zoom is available with the FT2 which extends the zoom ratio by approx.1.3x maintaining the picture quality even combining the digital zoom. This means the 4.6x optical can virtually extend to 6x equivalent. Furthermore, the Extra Optical Zoom function that extends zoom power to 9.8x (at 3-megapixel resolution) by using the center part of the 14.1-megapixel high resolution CCD to bring subjects even closer.
Take Me Swimming
Thanks to rubber padding, reinforced glass and carbon resins inside the camera, the FT1 features an airtight body that lets users operate the FT2 underwater to a depth of up to 10 meters. The FT2 can even be used in seawater, so users can take images of friends snorkelling or tropical fish darting in and out of coral reefs. Since additional housing is unnecessary for underwater operation, the FT2 is an extremely versatile camera that you can take with you wherever the action calls. The FT2 can be used at a beach, ski resort, hiking trips, festivals and in a host of other active, outdoor situations where no-one would dare use a conventional camera.
Designed with users in mind, the FT2's cover panel of the LCD is thickened by 1.3x compared to the predecessor FT1 to withstand pressure underwater as deep as 10 meters.
Feel Free to Drop Me
It's true – the FT2 is drop proof from a height of up to 2 meters . In addition to reinforcing the exterior of the camera with shock-resistant material, the FT2 uses folded optics to prevent its lens unit from taking damage when dropped during operation. The lens unit is protected by a supplementary damper to absorb the force from shock impact. Combined with its dustproof, waterproof and freezeproof performance, this makes it the ideal camera for anytime use outdoors, in active situations, and for casual everyday shooting.
Dust Proof Too
A dust proof design shuts out airborne dust particles that can lead to malfunction – enabling worry free shooting in places like the beach, or any place with lots of dust.
Freeze Me
Expanding your photographic opportunities, the new FT model is now freezeproof up to -10degrees C – perfect for active winter travellers, skiers, and snowboarders for example. Don't be fooled by the durability of this camera – the FT2 still looks good too! Sporting a folded optics design, the FT2 is sleek and sophisticated.
Film me in High Definition
In addition to Motion JPEG images , the DMC-FT2 can record high-definition motion picture in AVCHD Lite. It features almost doubling the recording time in HD quality compared with the conventional Motion JPEG format. The picture quality is greatly enhanced thanks to the newly added Intelligent Resolution technology. The FT2 also features Dolby Digital Creator to record high quality audio, so you can match the beautiful motion images with outstanding sound.
Now on the FT2, the popular iA (Intelligent Auto) is also available in motion image recording. Optical Image Stabilizer (O.I.S.) helps prevent handshake when using zoom or shooting in low lit situations. Face Detection automatically detects a face in the frame and adjusts focus, exposure, contrast, and skin complexion on it so it always turns out beautiful. Intelligent Exposure continually checks the ambient light level and adjusts the exposure setting as conditions change to prevent blown highlights and blocked shadows. And Intelligent Scene Selector automatically switches between Normal, Portrait, Macro, Scenery, and Low Light modes according to the situation to optimize visual quality.
The 4.6x optical zoom is also available in movie recording. With the newly added Video Divide function, users can divide the video into two sections to shorten or to delete the unwanted half on the spot in the camera. You can cutout a still image from a movie in the camera. Intelligent Resolution makes it possible to produce 1920×1080 still images from 1280×720 HD movies even recorded in AVCHD Lite. A Wind Cut function is also available to block out most of the noise from background wind.
Still or motion images recorded in AVCHD Lite on SD Memory Cards are easy to view on a Panasonic VIERA TV . Simply insert the card into the VIERA Image Viewer (SD Memory Card slot) on VIERA TV or DIGA Blu-ray Disc Player to playback your contents. Alternatively, you can use an optional mini HDMI cable to output the still and motion images you took from the FT2 directly to the TV for VIERA Link. You can take maximum advantage of Lumix camera's playback functions including the slideshow in which both still and motion images are integrated in the timeline, category playback according to the scene mode you used or calendar display and so on. All control is possible using only the TV's remote control.
In addition, with the included software PHOTOfunSTUDIO 5.0 HD Edition, it is easy to view and edit your recorded contents. You may also choose to upload your videos to YouTube or burn them to a DVD disc for archiving.
Intelligent Resolution Technology Assures High Picture Quality for Both Photo and Movie
The high-speed, high-performance Venus Engine HD has been re-engineered to compile the new image processing technology "Intelligent Resolution". It enables the recording of beautiful photos and high-definition movies with higher quality signal processing.
With the Intelligent Resolution technology, 3 areas -outlines, detailed texture areas and soft gradation areas are automatically detected. The outline parts are enhanced effectively to give edges more clearness while giving a moderate accentuation to the texture areas to look more finely detailed. To the soft gradation part, superior noise reduction system of the Venus Engine HD II is applied to make it smoother. Apart from the uniform enhancement of sharpness, the innovative technology Intelligent Resolution precisely performs signal processing pixel by pixel in the most effective way for it. As a result, images are naturally clear and crisp in both photo and movie recording.
The Intelligent Resolution technology also facilitates Intelligent Zoom, which virtually extends the optical zoom ratio to its 1.3x equivalent maintaining the picture quality even combining the digital zoom. Details of an image in high sensitivity recording tend to be lost in the noise reduction process, however, the Intelligent Resolution works to keep them.
At the same time, the multi-task image-processing engine Venus Engine HD II supports a super-fast response time. The shutter release time lag is as short as approx. 0.005 seconds and the camera's quick response makes it easier to capture sudden, spur-of-the-moment photo opportunities together with the Sonic Speed AF (Auto Focus) that lets you lock on the subject minimum in approx. 0.24(wide-end) / 0.28(tele-end) seconds and the short startup time of approx. 1.1 seconds. The high performance Venus Engine HD II is also energy efficient compared with the conventional Venus Engine HD, extending the battery life up to 360 shots (CIPA) per a single charge.
iA (Intelligent Auto) Mode Further Evolved with POWER O.I.S.(Optical Image Stabilizer)
Panasonic incorporated the iA (Intelligent Auto) mode in pursuit of the ultimate ease of operation and the reduction of misshots. In the iA mode the camera does all the work, leaving you free to compose shots and capture moments. Just press, aim and shoot. This mode is now further advanced with the inclusion of a greater advanced image stabilization – system POWER O.I.S. and Intelligent Resolution technology for DMC-FT2.
Taking advantage of Panasonic's accumulated optical technologies, MEGA O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilizer) has been incorporated into LUMIX cameras from the early stage of digital camera development. MEGA O.I.S. has evolved into the POWER O.I.S. on the DMC-FT2, with a great performance improvement – twice the shake suppression capability of the predecessor FT1.
The hand-shake component, which is physically generated when pressing the shutter button or when shooting at night with a slow shutter speed, is recognized as a low-frequency vibration, for which the new POWER O.I.S. is particularly effective. This greatly improves the quality of shots taken at night or indoors where a flash cannot be used, or where the photographer doesn't want to use a flash because it would spoil the mood. It captures beautiful photos in situations that previously resulted in blurring.
The DMC-FT2 features Face Recognition, a function that was made popular in the previous FT1, but with several upgrades. Three face images can be registered for each person, to raise the detection accuracy. And when the angle of view is changed horizontally, the name display also rotates for easier reading. The Intelligent Scene Selector, which automatically selects whichever of 6 Scene Modes – Macro, Portrait, Scenery, Night Portrait, Night Scenery and newly added Sunset — that best suits the shooting situation.
In addition, newly incorporated Intelligent Resolution technology is always activated in iA mode which results in the clearer and higher picture quality in every photo and movie with extended zoom range equivalent to 6x optical zoom.
Once you enter the iA mode, these functions happen automatically together with other powerful shooting-assist functions – AF Tracking, Intelligent ISO Control, Intelligent Scene Selector and Intelligent Exposure – so you can shoot without the bother of adjusting settings every time conditions change. You can enjoy easy, trouble-free shooting in any situation and get the satisfaction that comes with capturing clear, beautiful images.
The new Happy Mode, a colour mode option in the iA mode, optimizes colour, saturation and brightness to make both photos and movies more vivid and true to the colour of the scenes you memorized.
Other Versatile Functions Adding to the Photographic Enjoyment
The FT2 is equipped with a 2.7-inch, 230,000-dot Intelligent LCD with wide viewing angle and AR(Anti-Reflection) coating. The screen brightness automatically adjusts in 11 steps as the surrounding brightness level changes, ensuring easy visibility at all times. The big screen reflects fine details, making it easy to check the focus before shooting. It also serves as a small photo and video viewer, allowing the user and friends to enjoy viewing the still and motion images together.
Scene modes, which are optimized for a variety of still-image shooting situations, are now available for motion images as well. The most commonly used scene modes for outdoor photography including Sports, Snow, and Beach & Surf can be accessed directly via the mode dial.
A High Dynamic mode is newly added to the existing Scene modes. This mode helps to capture a scene with moderate exposure, even though the scene contains both bright and dark areas together. The user can select either of three options, Standard, Art, or B/W, depending on the desired effect and personal taste to make the photo look natural to artistic.
The built-in LED light greatly supports shooting in dark situations and the included silicon jacket protects the camera by softening the shocks of dropping while preventing from scratching.
The optional marine case (DMW-MCFT2) is available for underwater photography even to 40m.
In addition to the conventional SD/SDHC Memory Card, the DMC-FT2 accepts the next-generation SD format SDXC (SD eXtended Capacity), that features high potential in both capacity and data transfer speed. The DMC-FT2 is compatible with Windows 7.
With an improvement of operational ease, an abundant of functions for both photo and movie recording
Enjoy stunning photos and HD videos with tremendous ease on land and under sea – the FT1 is the ideal partner for your outdoor adventures. The FT2 will be available in the UK from mid March in a choice of striking orange, cool blue or stunning yellow.


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ASSATEAGUE — One of Assateague Island's famed wild horses has a new name this week after a contestant in the annual contest picked the new moniker from a character in a book she recently read about the ponies and the barrier island.
The Assateague Island pony formally known as N9BFQ will now be forever known as "Braidwood" after a visitor earned the naming rights following the annual contest at the National Seashore.
For the last four years, from April to September, visitors to Assateague have the opportunity to enter the "Name that Horse" contest conducted each year by the Assateague Island Alliance (AIA), a non-profit group that oversees the health and welfare of the barrier island's most famous wild residents among other things.
Deb Laufer was camping this summer at Assateague with her friend, Lisa Radding, and joined the contest by submitting the $5 entry fee at the Ranger Station. All summer long, AIA representatives collected entries from contestants at the Ranger Station, the Visitor's Center and the Beach Hut seasonal concession stand and Laufer's winning entry was drawn at the Visitor's Center on Oct. 1.
Laufer was surprised and excited to have won, according to AIA officials, and has chosen the name "Braidwood" for N9BFQ from a book she recently read about the barrier island entitled "The Watermen and Wild Ponies: A Chincoteague Waterman Remembers Life on Chincoteague and Assateague." In the book, the author, Robert H. Mears, makes several references to his older brother, Braidwood, and Laufer chose the name for the mare born in 1992 formerly called N9BFQ.
There are several legends surrounding the origins of the famous wild horses on Assateague. One of the more popular legends has it that a Spanish galleon transporting horses shipwrecked off the coast of the barrier island and the current herd of ponies' ancestors swam ashore and started to breed. Another legend tells the story of mainland farmers shuttling their animals onto the barrier island to avoid paying taxes on their livestock. In either case, the ponies have thrived on Assateague for centuries.
While the random drawing for the "Name that Horse" contest is a popular yearly event, there is only one other way for a private citizen to name an Assateague wild horse. Each November and December, the right to name one the current year's new foals is auctioned off on eBay with the highest bidder earning naming rights.
This year, there will be three such auctions beginning Nov. 1 with each auction lasting 10 days. The final auction is set for Dec. 20.


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Italian police said they caught a criminal gang Tuesday that had been plotting to steal the body of Formula One racing pioneer Enzo Ferrari for ransom.
Detectives in Sardinia said they had stumbled across the plot while investigating a group of 30 or so crooks who were involved in drug and arms trafficking on the Italian island but were exploring other cash-making ideas.
One was a plan to steal the mortal remains of the racing driver -- who founded the Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team and prancing horse brand before dying -- and demand money from his family for the body's safe return.
They had plotted in detail how to steal the coffin, hide it, and contact the family, police said.
Ferrari, who died aged 90 in 1988, is buried in a cemetery in Modena behind a plate of marble in a large chapel secured by a heavy iron gate.
Some 300 officers armed with over 30 arrest warrants clapped the gang members in cuffs early Tuesday morning, police said.
Italy is no stranger to body-abduction cases. Among the most famous was the theft in 1992 of the body of four-year-old Raffaele Bagni -- the son of a former football player -- a month after his death in a car accident.
It was Italian cases that inspired the theft in 1978 of Charlie Chaplin's coffin in Switzerland by a Polish and Bulgarian grave robber.


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BullRun – stock.adobe.com
You enter your place of residence or the place where you want to contact the administration or use the location sensing.
In the second step, you choose which information you really need.
People can have very different ideas of what constitutes leisure and a fulfilling private life. Many people enjoy festivals and events, others enjoy spending time with animals, and there are endless other options.


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Dear Jameel, I agree with your response to my comment 100%. But if I recall correctly, my point at issue with you was the fact that you wrote "my quality of life is probably a lot higher than yours." I don't no your financial situation (mine is not great), but that aside,purely based on safety and the economy in Israel that cannot be true. Let me mention once again that I respect you and what you are doing so much. But making a blanket statement that the standard of living in the Shomron is equal to somwhere in America, I cannot accept. What you are doing IS worth it, but it takes a certain type of person to do it. With much respect, --Dgesg
So what is our quality of life? Let us put finances aside for the moment, since quality of life has so many aspects to it. For the following, please tell me if your life has these quality elements in your neighborhood...
Little kids can walk to and from kindergarten, unattended, without fear of abduction (Safety and security in the US? Can you let your kids do that?)
Bigger kids can stay out late (or later) in the neighborhood, away from home, and come home without worry.
Some of our schools are walking distance for kids (though you have that as well in some places)
Kids can ride their bikes all around the yishuv, and we don't think much about it, or worry when they go around the block.
All food sold anywhere around our yishuv is kosher.
Jewish education is part and parcel of life here; the Hebrew date is on every newspaper, and announced on radio every morning. You can write checks with the Hebrew date on it. Why is that quality of life? Because it makes Judaism integrated into kids lives...naturally. Everyone here KNOWS when the chagim are...kids have vacation for chagim. There is no "Christmas" craziness. The bus driver will wish you a Shabbat Shalom on Friday, as will the people packing your groceries in the supermarket. Is that quality of life? Of course it is.
Judaism integrated with your life everywhere is natural in Israel. Only in certain neighborhoods in the US can you find that, like Kiryas Joel or Williamsburg. Even in the 5-towns or Passaic, there is an acute realization that Judaism is not integrated everywhere, in everything.
If you wish, you could live somewhere in Israel where there are no cars driving on the street on shabbat, and your kids can walk to and from shul by themselves (even age 3!)
Except in bungalow colonies in update NY or camp, where can you get that quality of life?
Yes, our homes are smaller than the ones in Pico-Robertson or Teaneck, but is that "quality of life" compared to kids being able to walk around outside without a leash and GPS tracking device attached to them?
There are much nicer cars in the US...and gas is cheaper.
Yet can you go on tiyulim that bring the Tanach alive? That quality of life can only be found here. The reason I'm harping on Jewish education, is that everyone invests so much money on education, but when love for Eretz Yisrael and parts of Judaism can be absorbed through the osmosis of living here, I consider that to be quality of life of the utmost.
Safety and Security? I think if you ask people here, most will say they feel safe.
The floor is open for discussion.
Wherever I am, my blog turns towards Eretz Yisrael


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X chromosome exposed
Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Hinxton, UK, have revealed new insights into how sex chromosomes are regulated. A chromatin modifying enzyme helps compensate for the fact that males have only one copy of the sex chromosome X, while females have two.
The enzyme distinguishes between male and female sex chromosomes in fruit flies and binds to different locations on the male and female X chromosome, the scientists report in the current issue of the journal Cell. The evolutionarily conserved enzyme is also found in humans.
In species ranging from insects to humans, sex chromosomes, the famous X and Y, are responsible for determining gender. Females have two copies of the X chromosome while males have one X and one Y. This could mean that females produce twice as many proteins from the genes carried on the X chromosome as males. However, fruit flies compensate for the sex chromosome difference by doubling the activity of genes on the X chromosome in males – a vital process called dosage compensation. Biologists already know that a molecular machine called the MSL complex achieves dosage compensation in flies, but it remains unclear how exactly it accomplishes its function.
Now researchers from the lab of Asifa Akhtar at EMBL and the groups of Nick Luscombe and Paul Bertone at EMBL-EBI have uncovered how one component of the MSL complex, an enzyme called MOF, ensures that the activity of only male X chromosome genes get ratcheted up. MOF relaxes the structure of chromatin – tightly packaged DNA, to allow the transcription machinery to access genes on the DNA.
"We were very surprised to find MOF bound not only to the X chromosome in males, but also to all the other chromosomes in the nucleus. This suggests the enzyme as a universal regulator of transcription that has evolved to play a specific role in dosage compensation," says Akhtar.
A closer look revealed that MOF binds differently to chromosomes from males and females. On autosomes, chromosomes that are not involved in determining sex, and the X chromosome in females, MOF binds mostly to the beginning of a gene where transcription starts. On the X chromosome in males, however, MOF binds also towards the end of the gene. Most likely MOF opens up the DNA towards the end of the genes and ensures that transcription is completed successfully.
"One can imagine the transcriptional machinery moving along the DNA like a train on a railway track. When the tracks are blocked the train could derail, resulting in incomplete transcription," explains Juanma Vaquerizas of Luscombe's lab, who contributed to the analysis of Akhtar's data. "It appears that MOF clears the tracks throughout the male X chromosome, while on a female X obstructions are more likely to occur."
More complete transcription results in more proteins produced from the single X chromosome in males than from either of the two X chromosomes in females, thereby balancing out their excess. MOF is the first enzyme in the MSL complex to behave differently according to whether the target gene is located on the sex chromosome versus other chromosomes in males.
"MOF is conserved across species and also has a human homolog. Since the mechanism of dosage compensation is radically different in mammals, it will be very interesting to discover what functional role this enzyme might play in that context," says Bertone.
Source: European Molecular Biology Laboratory


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The HPE Apollo 8000 System reaches new heights of performance density, with 4x the teraflops per square foot and up to 40% more FLOPs per watt than comparable air cooled servers.1 At the same time, the HPE Apollo 8000 System helps reduce your carbon footprint, saving up to 3,800 tons of CO2 per year.2 That's about the same amount of CO2 produced per year by 790 cars!
The HPE ProLiant XL750f Gen9 Server has a single 2P node with two NVIDIA® Tesla® K40 XL GPUs per tray.
Using the NVIDIA CUDA programming environment, NVIDIA® Tesla® K40 XL GPUs accelerate computational and graphics applications.
Each node delivers accelerated performance density with Intel® Xeon® processors combined with purpose built NVIDIA® Tesla® K40 XL GPUs, provide the processing power needed to handle a variety of demanding workloads. Supports up to 256 GB memory/node, with an optional SSD.
One high performance FDR InfiniBand port per server tray and 1 Gb NIC per server tray to enhance connectivity and data availability.
Dry disconnect server trays provide liquid cooling via sealed copper tubes, with heat exchange via thermal bus bars in the rack.
Smart sensors automatically track activities, dynamically adjusting system components to enhance system performance and energy efficiency, while reducing operating expenses.
By coupling smart sensors data with iLO4, advanced power management, and or, an HPC center scheduler, you can create new optimization algorithms to get the most out of your HPE Apollo 8000 System.
The ProLiant XL750f Gen9 Server is 1U half-width and has 4x more performance per square foot than competing air cooled systems so you can pack more research capabilities into less space.
The system gets 40% more FLOPs per watt than air cooled systems for energy savings.1
With the HPE Apollo 8000 System, reduce your carbon footprint, saving up to 3,800 tons of CO2 per year. That's about the same amount of CO2 produced per year by 790 cars!2
The HPE ProLiant XL750f Gen9 Server supports HPE SmartMemory, preventing data loss and downtime with enhanced error handling while also improving workload performance and power efficiency.
Each ProLiant XL750f Gen9 Server tray supports up to 1200W of HVDC to 12V conversion enabling higher performance components.
1 Based on rack and power density, assuming the same processors. Data center square footage for standard rack = 12.5' x the width of the rack. Apollo f8000 Rack width is the same as an air cooled rack width = 2'. The HPE Apollo f8000 Rack fits 72 servers and 144 accelerators per rack. Standard air cooled racks fit 18 x 2U servers and 36 accelerators with 15-18kW power restrictions. 72/18 = 4 for 4x the performance density.
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B.C. drivers are being urged to look carefully before they open their car door as the fine for "dooring" a cyclist is set to quadruple in September.
In a Thursday news release, the transportation ministry announced the fine for dooring was going up more than four times, from $81 to $368. This brings the penalty in line with distracted driving offences, as well as driving without due care.
According to Spencer Chandra Herbert, MLA for Vancouver-West End, "dooring can kill or severely injure a person." Statistics from the Insurance Corp. of B.C. show that one in 14 crashes involving cyclists are the results of dooring, while the statistics worsen to one in seven for Vancouver.
North Vancouver-Lonsdale MLA Bowinn Ma, whose riding saw a cyclist killed in a dooring crash in 2019, said she hoped the increased fine would demonstrate to drivers the importance of shoulder-checking before opening their door.
"It is enormously dangerous to carelessly open a door into the pathway of a person moving on a bike," Ma said. "This increased fine sends a strong signal of the level of accountability that is expected of people who are operating a vehicle, even when the engine is off."
The new fine takes effect on Sept. 21.
READ MORE: The scary truth about 'dooring'
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Shirley Temple
Child star Shirley Temple won a special Oscar in 1934, when she was just five years old, thanks to her amazing box office successes. A California native, Shirley Temple began acting in one-reel movies when she was three years old and quickly became a contract player for Fox studios. Half a dozen films later she was the biggest box office star in the country, her tap-dancing, dimples and bouncy curls having stolen the show in films such as Stand Up and Cheer, Little Miss Marker, Bright Eyes and The Little Colonel. She held the top spot for a few years and reached her apex around 1938, with Heidi (1937) and Rebecca of Sonnybrook Farm, Little Miss Broadway and The Little Princess. Her childhood ended and her popularity faded, and in the 1960s she had a hard time breaking into television. She retired from acting and, under her married name Shirley Temple Black, turned to politics in the late 1960s. After unsuccessful runs for public office, she had a long diplomatic career with Republican support: President Richard Nixon named her to be a U.S. Representative to the United Nations (1969); President Gerald Ford then made her Ambassador to Ghana (1974-76); she worked in the State Department as Chief of Protocol under President Ronald Reagan; and President George Bush named her Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1989).
Shirley Temple is the eponym of a popular non-alcoholic drink that mixes lemon-lime soda with grenadine syrup… Author Graham Greene, in a scathing review of Temple's film Wee Willie Winkie, sarcastically suggested that Temple was an adult masquerading as a child, so as to heighten the impure desires of "middle-aged men and clergymen." He was sued for libel and lost.
Merchandise and career info
From the New York Times
1988 People magazine piece with plenty of detail
The New Yorker has a 2013 take on her child celebrity
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Asiatic is the very first international journal on Asian Englishes and English writings by Asian and Asian diasporic writers, currently being the only one of its kind. It aims to publish high-quality research articles and outstanding creative works combining the broad fields of literature and linguistics within its focus area. Asiatic will contain a rich collection of selected articles on issues that deal with Asian Englishes as well as Asian literatures in English, including Asian diasporic literature and Asian literatures in translation. Articles may include studies that address the multidimensional impacts of the English language on a wide variety of Asian cultures: South Asian, East Asian, Southeast Asian and others. Subjects of debates and discussions will encompass the socio-economic-cultural facet of the Asian world in relation to current academic investigations on literature and linguistics. This approach will present the works of English-trained Asian writers and scholars, having English as the unifying device and Asia as the backdrop of their study. The journal will also publish works of writers and scholars from other parts of the world that deal with the varieties of English and cultures of the Asian region.
The Editor,
Asiatic, Department of English Language and Literature,
AbdulHamid AbuSulayman Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences,
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Tel: (603) 6196 5035/5143
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Hot South Texas summer weather results in rapid algae growth in our surface water reservoirs. When the problem is detected in our system, the San Patricio Municipal Water District controls the problem by using potassium permanganate at their water treatment plant. As much as the problem of taste and odor may be apparent in the water, the water is safe to drink.
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Hard water is defined by the amount of calcium and magnesium present in the water; hard water has a relatively high level as compared to soft water which has a low level. Our water supply is considered moderately hard.
Fluoride, which is a substance added to reduce cavities, is added to our water. The American Dental Association recommends a concentration of 1 part per million. Bottled water usually does not contain fluoride and therefore, is not recommended for children. Ingleside's water has a fluoride range of 0.20 with a targeted average of 0.80 milligrams per liter.
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World-renowned guitarist Paco de Lucia dies
Updated: 2014-02-27 11:12
MADRID - Paco de Lucia, one of the world's greatest guitarists who dazzled audiences with his lightning-speed flamenco rhythms and finger work, has died in Mexico, officials said Wednesday. He was 66.
The Spaniard had a heart attack while on vacation at the Caribbean beach resort of Playa del Carmen and died in a hospital, Quintana Roo state attorney general Gaspar Armando Garcia told Mexico's Enfoque Radio. Spain's consul in Quintana Roo, Javier Maranon, said the heart attack happened in his house in Xpu-Hak, near Tulum, where he spent a good part of the year, living the rest in Spain.
"Paco lived as he wished and died playing with his children beside the sea," said a statement from de Lucia's family published on the websites of Spanish newspapers.
Describing the death as unexpected and premature, Spanish Education and Culture Minister Jose Ignacio Wert said de Lucia was "a unique and unrepeatable figure."
King Juan Carlos sent his condolences to the guitarist's widow, said consul Maranon.
De Lucia _ whose real name was Francisco Sanchez Gomez _ was best-known for flamenco but also experimented with other musical genres. One of his most famous recordings was "Friday Night in San Francisco," recorded with fellow guitarists John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola in 1980.
During the 1960s and 1970s, he formed an extremely popular duo with late flamenco singer legend Camaron de la Isla, with the two working together on 10 records.
His 1973 rumba "Entre Dos Aguas" (Between Two Waters) became one of the most popular recordings in Spain.
De Lucia was awarded the Spanish Culture Ministry's Fine Arts Gold Medal in 1992 and the prestigious Prince of Asturias prize for the Arts in 2004. He was granted a Doctor Honoris Causa degree by Berklee College of Music in 2010.
His last studio album "Cositas buenas" (Good Things) earned him his first Latin Grammy in 2004 while his 2012 live recording "En Vivo" (Live) received a second.
Despite his award-winning prestige, De Lucia said he disliked his work with a few exceptions.
"I am a perfectionist, sometimes it's sick," he told The Associated Press in a 2012 interview. "I don't like any of my albums. The ones I like, I mean, that I can stand to hear are "Siroco" and "Zyryab," possibly because they are more flamenco and among the purest in my career."
Born December 21, 1947, de Lucia was immersed in flamenco music from an early age, with his father, Antonio, and two brothers playing guitar and a third brother an accomplished flamenco singer. He took his artistic name from that of his Portuguese mother, Lucia.
From a poor background, de Lucia's formal schooling ended when he was 11, and he was soon playing flamenco in local bars. At 14 he made his first record with his brother Pepe, "Los Chiquitos de Algeciras" (Kids of Algeciras).
"I didn't study music. I literally lived it. Flamenco was a way of life, a relationship with music, more than a career. I never learned about harmony or canons in music," he said.
Although de Lucia had no formal musical training, from an early age he impressed people with his remarkable dexterity, hand strength and technique that allowed him to produce machine-gun-like "picado" riffs so characteristic of flamenco guitar.
Arguably the most influential flamenco artist ever, he infused new life into the traditional form and is credited with modernizing it by introducing influences from other musical forms such as jazz, bossa nova, classical and salsa.
Although some of this drew criticism from flamenco purists, de Lucia defined his own influential sound by staying true to his flamenco roots.
His own sextet, formed in 1981, includes bass, drums and saxophone. In addition to his work with McLaughlin and Di Meola, his high-profile collaborations included work with guitarist Larry Coryell, and pianist Chick Corea, who joined Paco's sextet for the album "Zyryab" in 1990.
"Paco's moving on leaves a gigantic hole in the musical life of this world which his friends who have been inspired by him must fill with even more creativity," said jazz pianist Chic Corea. "Paco inspired me in the construction of my own musical world as much as Miles Davis and John Coltrane, or Bartok and Mozart."
In 1995 he played with Bryan Adams on the song "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman."
"Paco was and will be a universal artist, who took the guitar and flamenco sentiment to the heart of the whole world," said Jose Luis Acosta, president of the Spanish Artists and Editors Society
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text: A graduate student at Purdue did research into this topic. He presented his work at the 2007 Linux Cluster Institute conference and the professor he works with still uses the same technique to dynamically add or remove nodes from his cluster. His paper can be found at: http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/conferences/archive/2007/PDF/fengping_24145.pdf -Alex Geoff Galitz wrote: > > > Many, many, many moons ago I wrote a plugin for the clustering framework > (now defunct) that we used and I was a developer on back at UC Berkeley. It > was quite simple... it simply checked to see if jobs were in the queue, if > not it looked to see what nodes were free (using OpenPBS/Torque native > commands), did the necessary parsing of a few backend config files and then > issued standard shutdown commands to the idle nodes. When jobs started to > back up in the queue, the plugin used WOL to start up nodes. > > It was in perl and less than 100 lines. > > I easily could have used IPMI instead, but many of the boxes we were using > had better WOL support than IPMI. WOL is standard while IPMI can vary from > vendor to vendor... so if your needs are no more complex than this, WOL is a > good way to go. > > > > > > -geoff > > Geoff Galitz > Blankenheim NRW, Deutschland > http://www.galitz.org > > -----Original Message----- > From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On > Behalf Of Nathan Moore > Sent: Samstag, 19. Juli 2008 22:02 > To: beowulf at beowulf.org > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Green Cluster? > > I think the feature you're looking for is "Wake on LAN", > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN > > I've wondered similar things - the small cluster I run for a > students/departmental use is generally off, except when I'm teaching > computational physics, or have a student interested in a specific research > project. It would be nice to be able to "turn on" a few machines (from > home, at 11:30pm) when I have to run something substantial. > > If you find a good step-by-step resource describing how to do this, I'd love > to hear about it. > > Nathan Moore > > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Perry E. Metzger <perry at piermont.com> > wrote: > > > > fkruggel at uci.edu writes: > > I am wondering whether there is any mechanism to automatically > > power down nodes (e.g., ACPI S3) when idle for some time, and > > automatically wake up when requested (e.g., by WOL, some cluster > > scheduler, ssh). I imagine that I could cut down power & cooling > > on our system by more than 50%. Any hints? > > > Depending on the motherboard, there are ways to do this. You can do > wake on network and other tricks. However, if you would really save > half the power, that implies that your cluster is half idle. If it > is > really half idle, why aren't you simply shutting half of it down? > > Perry > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > > > >


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text: ======================================================================================== Subject: Deadline for Posters and Demos Submissions at ISWC2010 approaching - less than 3 weeks! =============================================================================== ISWC2010 - Ninth International Semantic Web Conference November 7-11, 2010, in Shanghai, China http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org/ =============================================================================== Posters and Demonstrations Track Call for Submissions Deadline approaching: August 23, 2010 =============================================================================== The posters and demonstrations track of ISWC 2010 continue the established tradition of providing an interaction and connection opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their new and innovative work-in-progress. The track gives conference attendees a way to learn about novel on-going research projects that might not yet be complete, but whose preliminary results are already interesting. The track also provides presenters with an excellent opportunity to obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting from knowledgeable sources. Full papers accepted for the Research and In-Use tracks are explicitly invited to submit a poster or demo to the Posters and Demo track. The submission format is the same as for the normal posters and demos but must cite the accepted full paper and needs to include an explanation on what the Demo/Poster adds on top of the conference presentation. Such added value could include: a) extended results and experiments not presented in the conference paper for space reasons, b) a demo of a supporting prototype implementation wherever software is available. Important Dates =============== * Abstracts due: August 23, 2010, 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time * Notification: September 13, 2010 Topics of Interest ================== Topics of interest for the posters and demonstrations track include, but are not limited to: * Semantic User Interfaces * Interacting with Semantic Web data * Semantic data annotation * Semantic Data Mashup * Natural Language Interfaces * Semantic Visualization * Semantic Data Processing * Ontology modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution * Ontology reasoning, mapping, merging, and alignment * Semantic Searching * Ontology evaluation * Applications of the Semantic Web * Semantic Web for desktops or personal information management * Semantic Web technologies for multimedia, sensors, and situational awareness * Semantic Web technologies for e-Science, e-Commerce, e-Government * Semantic Web technologies for software and systems engineering * Mobile Semantic Web Applications * Semantic Wikis * Social Semantic Web Applications Submission Information ====================== Submissions and reviewing will be handled using the EasyChair reviewing system. Papers must be submitted via EasyChair to the Posters and Demos track of ISWC2010 at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iswc2010 Authors must submit a four-page paper with a short abstract for evaluation. The abstract must clearly demonstrate relevance to the Semantic Web. All poster and demo submissions will undergo a common review process, including those ones that have full papers accepted. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the Semantic Web, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Submissions must be in PDF. Submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Submissions that exceed the page limit may be rejected without review. For details on the LNCS style, see Springer's Author Instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 For demo submissions, authors are strongly encouraged to include in their submission a link to where the demo (live or recorded video) can be found. At least one of the authors must be a registered participant at the conference, and attend their Poster/Demo Session to present the work. The abstracts for all accepted posters and demos will be given to all conference attendees and published on the conference web site, but will not be published by Springer in the printed conference proceedings. Metadata for all successful submissions will be included in the conference metadata corpus and made publicly available at http://data.semanticweb.org. Detailed information will be provided with the acceptance notification. 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Venus Tessera
Tessera is a unique feature of Venus, and is also known as "complex ridged terrain". These features are found on some of the Venus Plateau Highlands.
Tessera is created is by a shortening of the crust. That is, when the crust is pushed together, the surface folds, buckles, and breaks. This process may be related to the process of mountain-building on Earth. But, because Venus does not have continental drift, the process must occur somewhat differently. Nevertheless, tessera provide evidence that the surface of Venus may be in motion.


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Carbon3D Introduces CLIP Breakthrough Technology For Layerless 3D Printing
Vancouver's Carbon3D has emerged from stealth on the main stage of the TED conference with an innovative approach to polymer-based 3D printing that promises to advance the industry beyond basic prototyping to 3D manufacturing. The new Continuous Liquid Interface Production technology (CLIP) harnesses light and oxygen to continuously grow objects from a pool of resin instead of printing them layer-by-layer. The technology was simultaneously introduced to the scientific community as the cover story in the journal Science. Carbon3D's CLIP technology raises the state-of-the-art in 3D printing in three ways:
- Game-Changing Speed: 25-100 times faster than conventional 3D printing
- Commercial Quality: produces objects with consistent mechanical properties
- Material Choice: enables a broad range of polymeric materials
"Current 3D printing technology has failed to deliver on its promise to revolutionize manufacturing," said Dr. Joseph DeSimone, CEO and Co-Founder, Carbon3D. "Our CLIP technology offers the game-changing speed, consistent mechanical properties and choice of materials required for complex commercial quality parts."
How CLIP Works
Existing 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, technology is really just 2D printing, over and over again. As a result, 3D printed parts take many hours, even days, to produce and are mechanically weak due to their shale-like layers. Using a tunable photochemical process instead of the traditional mechanical approach, Carbon3D's layerless continuous liquid interface production technology (CLIP) eliminates these shortcomings to rapidly transform 3D models into physical objects. By carefully balancing the interaction of UV light, which triggers photo polymerization, and oxygen, which inhibits the reaction, CLIP continuously grows objects from a pool of resin at speeds 25-100 times faster than traditional 3D printing.
At the heart of the CLIP process is a special window that is transparent to light and permeable to oxygen, much like a contact lens. By controlling the oxygen flux through the window, CLIP creates a "dead zone" in the resin pool just tens of microns thick (about 2-3 diameters of a red blood cell) where photopolymerization cannot occur. As a series of cross-sectional images of a 3D model is played like a movie into the resin pool from underneath, the physical object emerges continuously from just above the dead zone. Conventionally made 3D printed parts are notorious for having mechanical properties that vary depending on the direction the parts were printed because of the layer-by-layer approach. Much more like injection-molded parts, CLIP produces consistent and predictable mechanical properties, smooth on the outside and solid on the inside.
Venture Backing
Carbon3D also announced it had partnered with Sequoia Capital to lead the company's Series A round of financing in 2013 along with Northgate Partners, Piedmont Capital Partners and Wakefield Group. Silver Lake Kraftwerk led the Series B round of financing in 2014 with Northgate Capital and Sequoia Capital, for a total raise of $41 million to commercialize the technology.
"If 3D printing hopes to break out of the prototyping niche it has been trapped in for decades, we need to find a disruptive technology that attacks the problem from a fresh perspective and addresses 3D printing's fundamental weaknesses," said Jim Goetz, Carbon3D board member and Sequoia partner. "When we met Joe and saw what his team had invented, it was immediately clear to us that 3D printing would never be the same."
"We had studied the additive manufacturing ecosystem comprehensively and had concluded that the promise far exceeded the current reality in the marketplace," said Adam Grosser, Carbon3D board member and Managing Director at Silver Lake Kraftwerk. "When we witnessed the CLIP process, we believed we had found a company that had invented a solution to speed, quality, and material selection. We are proud to work alongside Carbon3D to create a new category of 3D manufacturing."