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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 312, March 25, 2005
Making Jobs (non-) Checkpointable
[Thanks to Lee Higbie, ARSC Vector Specialist]
Whenever there is a system shutdown, whether from a hung processor or for scheduled maintenance, all the jobs running must be stopped.
For the IBM systems, this currently requires killing any running jobs, which normally means their output is lost. For this reason, the usual procedure on Iceberg and Iceflyer is to stop the queues well in advance of the scheduled downtime so that no jobs will still be running at the start of the downtime. Thus, no jobs will have to be terminated prematurely. You have to program your own restart capability, if you want it. Currently all classes (i.e. queues) on Iceberg are stopped prior to downtime except for the "killable" class. The "killable" class allows jobs with built-in checkpointing to run up to beginning of the downtime. The killable class can be specified via the Loadleveler class keyword:
# @ class = killable
- For the Cray systems, most jobs can be checkpointed by the system checkpoint/restart utilities. This means that the system is able to save the state of running jobs, stop them, and then resume them after the downtime. A job's wallclock time is increased by the duration of the downtime, but otherwise the interruption is generally transparent to the user. Cray's checkpoint/restart functionality allows us to take down the X1 with almost no wasted cpu time by keeping it fully loaded with useful work until the start of the actual downtime.
While most jobs are checkpointable, some are not. If a job is non-checkpointable it will be terminated and rerun from the beginning after the downtime, unless the user launched the job with qsub's "-r n" option (see "man qsub").
This note concerns ways to make your X1 job checkpointable which will benefit you in two ways:
- It will save you allocation.
- It will give you faster turnaround because your job will not have to restart from the beginning following downtimes.
A well documented no-no for production X1 programs is using Cray's performance monitoring tool, pat_hwpc, which makes the job non-checkpointable. For this reason, even though pat_hwpc's usage overhead is negligible, it should not be used on large time-limit or production jobs. pat_hwpc should only be used for analysis, not for production.
A related impediment to checkpointing occurs when the executable is built using pat_build and an environment variable such as PAT_RT_HWPC or PAT_RT_RECORD_PE is set.
Some of the other job attributes that prevent checkpointing a job are listed below. These should all be avoided for long-running production programs:
- Network socket connections
- X terminals and X11 client sessions
- Files opened with a setuid credential that cannot be reestablished
For a complete list of features that are not checkpoint-safe, see "man cpr".
ARSC Spring Training
ARSC spring training starts at the end of March and will include three classes on the Cray X1 presented by James Schwarzmeier of Cray. All courses will be held in the ARSC classroom in the West Ridge Research Building room 009.
Tuesday March 29, 2005 Introduction to ARSC Resources: Kate Hedstrom 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. Wednesday March 30, 2005 Co-Array Fortran Programming: James Schwarzmeier, Cray, Inc. 9 a.m. - Noon Thursday March 31, 2005 X1 Optimization: James Schwarzmeier, Cray, Inc. 9 a.m. - Noon Friday April 1, 2005 X1 Macro and Micro Architecture: James Schwarzmeier, Cray, Inc. 9 a.m. - Noon Tuesday April 5, 2005 Introduction to UNIX: Lee Higbie 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. Tuesday April 26, 2005 Introduction to IDL: Sergei Maurits 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
James Schwarzmeier will be available to users of the X1 for one on one consultation the afternoons of March 30 - April 1. Contact Tom Logan (firstname.lastname@example.com / 907-450-8624) for more information on spring training opportunities or to schedule a meeting with James.
Displaying X1 Module Package Versions
[Thanks to Wendy Palm of ARSC for the story idea]
The "pe-version" utility is included in the COS-3.6 module on klondike. This tool displays information for the currently loaded module environment, including package versions for C and Fortran compilers and more. This information can be particularly useful when documenting problems or when reporting problems to ARSC staff for further investigation.
E.g.: klondike 1% pe-version *** pe-version (20040303) run at: Mon Mar 21 11:17:27 AST 2005 *** Current system and OS information: UNICOS/mp klondike 2.5.26 02270947 crayx1 OS_LEVEL is set to: 2.5.26 *** Currently loaded Programming Environment components: # cftn package version is: 220.127.116.11 # CC package version is: 220.127.116.11 # craylibs package version is: 22.214.171.124 # libsci package version is: 126.96.36.199 # craytools package version is: 188.8.131.52 # mpt package version is: 126.96.36.199 # cal package version is: 184.108.40.206 # totalview package version is: 18.104.22.168 *** Compiler/Assembler/Loader/CrayPat Versions: Cray Fortran: Version 18.104.22.168 (u4031f93049i20076p53141a53007e53011x9317) Cray Fortran: Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:17:28 Cray Standard C: Version 184.108.40.206 Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:17:29 Cray NV Assembler Version 220.127.116.11 (s1203a52020e53010z1056) (Built Aug 18 2004) Cray X1 ld version 5.3 (l53030) -- Mon Mar 21 11:17:30 2005. CrayPat: Version 23.190 11/23/04 09:54:22 *** Current Trigger Versions: trigsnd: @(#)20/trigsnd.c 20.23 11/04/2003 10:20:32 trigexecd: @(#)20/trigexecd.c 20.18 11/04/2003 10:20:32 Currently Loaded Modulefiles: 1) modules 3) totalview 5) craytools 7) mpt 9) libsci 11) PrgEnv 13) motif 2) X11 4) cal 6) cftn 8) CC 10) craylibs 12) pbs 14) open
If you don't have the "open" module loaded you can run "pe-version" by specifying the full path to the executable.E.g.:
klondike 2% /opt/open/open/bin/pe-version
While "pe-version" doesn't show versions for all loaded packages it does include the modules used by most users.
SC05 Technical Papers Submission Deadline April 18
SC05 ( http://sc05.supercomputing.org/ ) will accept submissions for technical papers beginning Monday, March 28, 2005. The submission deadline is Monday, April 18, 2005.
Technical Papers Submission Website: http://www.sc-submissions.org/
Submissions Open: Monday, March 28th, 2005 Submissions Deadline: Monday, April 18, 2005
Sample submission forms and instructions available at: http://www.sc-submissions.org/
Bi-Annual Newsletter of Arctic Research Available
You can download the pdf or subscribe, at: http://www.arcus.org/Witness_the_Arctic/Winter_04_05/Contents.html
The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, released last November, is the subject of the lead article.
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A:[[ Okay, I've settled on one favorite shell (ksh) which works on all six [[ (yes, 6!) different flavors of Unix I use every week. Now my problem [[ is the shell initialization files, .profile and .kshrc. I'll add a [[ new alias on one system, a library path on another, a nifty prompt [[ here, a function there... and now my dot files are different, and I [[ can't remember which alias I've got here, which there, and it's [[ making me crazy. Has anyone else ever had this problem? And solved [[ it!? # # Many thanks to Wendy Palm: # I've run into similar problems before and he's right, this can be annoying. Especially since you can't just copy the same .profile over to every login you have. Operating systems are different, and therefore your environment needs to be different too (you don't want to be trying to load Cray modules on your SGI, do you?). Therefore, what you need to do is to create your own environment file with all the stuff you want the same on all the machines (like primary and secondary prompt, aliases, general functions etc.), and source it in the various login dotfiles, leaving all the system-specific things in the login dotfiles. For instance, I'd call this something like ".personal": .personal #------------ PS1=`hostname`"> " # whatever functions and aliases you set up #------------ Then, in the .profile on each homedir on each system, put in: . $HOME/.personal Then, if you want to change/add a function, you'd make the change once and just copy the file to all the systems you have accounts on. Not all systems pay attention to the .kshrc file (Crays in particular), so I tend to not use it at all. Hope this helps. # # Here's a variation from the editor. # I maintain a file called "ALL.profile" on my desktop system. It contains all my general purpose aliases, functions, etc. and then, in a series of korn shell "if" blocks, all the settings for specific systems. If I need to change something for the IBM, for example, I edit ALL.profile and then run a script which pushes the new ALL.profile out to all the other systems as ~/.profile. The advantage is that I have one, and only one, profile file to worry about. Here's a heavily edited sample: #-------------------------------------------------------------------- # ALL.profile #-------------------------------------------------------------------- export OSNAME=$(uname) alias \ mo='more ' \ mor='more ' \ mroe='more ' #-------------------------------------------------------------------- # IRIX #-------------------------------------------------------------------- if [[ IRIX = ${OSNAME} ]]; then # Set the interrupt character to Ctrl-C and do clean backspacing. if [ -t 0 ] then stty intr '^C' echoe fi fi #-------------------------------------------------------------------- # Mac OSX #-------------------------------------------------------------------- if [[ Darwin = ${OSNAME} ]]; then alias vim='open -a ~/Applications/vim/Vim.app ' fi # # ... BONUS ANSWER ... # # Here's another solution to the web page retrieval question. # Thanks to Dale Clark: Lacking curl, lynx, or wget, one can always use telnet to fetch a page, in a minimalist manner. Example: loon> telnet www.arsc.edu 80 Trying 126.96.36.199... Connected to www.arsc.edu (126.96.36.199). Escape character is '^]'. GET /misc/staff.html HTTP/1.0 ... # Document text omitted. Note that two carriage returns must follow the GET command. Q: I often find myself comparing versions of source files trying to figure out what changed between the versions. Good old-fashioned diff works just fine, but there's got to be a more modern solution. Do you know of any text editors or other tools that have file comparison functionality built in?
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Microsoft's Office 2003 and 2007 wove XML into Word, with the introduction of .docx, otherwise known as
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In making Office, Microsoft implemented technology seeming covered under a 1998 patent (
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A Texas federal court ruled in May that Microsoft had infringed on the i4i's patents and ordered Microsoft to pay
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Until the final decision is reached, Microsoft is banned from selling any version of Microsoft Office containing copies of Word that can open .XML, .DOCX, or DOCM files containing custom XML. Microsoft has a mere 60 days to comply with the injunction.
With Office being one of Microsoft's staple products, and with the .docx format being the current default format, an appeal seems inevitable. Microsoft has not issued a formal response yet to ban on Word sales.
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Didel, that's www.sinfest.net, not sinfest.com. Tsk tsk. :)
Didel, that's www.sinfest.net, not sinfest.com. Tsk tsk. :)
It's 2 a.m. and I'm still up, probably will be until sometime about 3 this coming afternoon, and it's for bullcrap that I have no interest in. I resent being compelled to slog away at out-of-major projects just to prove that I'm capable of diverse disciplines. I'd much rather be hacking away at some openGL (new toy, but no time to play with it because of all my other stuff) than wrestling with buggy and feature-bloated GIS software. WPI's IQP program may sound good on paper, but everyone I've talked to has hated their IQP (Interactive Qualifying Project).
And I'm sick. Dammit.
school -- hacking
Other, less arduous and spirit sucking project is just getting started; some friends and I are going to create a (hopefully) platform independent (gl and glut based, perhaps gtk for toolkit) VRML parser, viewer and modeler. Funny, since everyone seems to have decided that VRML is dead, but we're doing it anyway. Should be interesting and educational, at least.
Don't have one anymore, at least not for a few months. School ought to be a bit more sane now, though I'll be mourning my paycheck for a while.
Hesitent to get involved with this, but maj's recent comment struck a chord.
I can't speak for San Francisco, so I'll grant the unlikely possibility that it is an utterly different world down there, but the majority of the homeless in Portland, Oregon are not their by virtue of "lifestyle choices." I'm not clear exactly what choices maj was talking about, but growing up poor, having lousy education options, and having no available housing options is not a willful act.
A few years ago, several hundred otherwise Respectable Citizens got kicked out of their low-income housing in the downtown area because a hotel developer bought up the two blocks housing said apartments. These people have to deal with the fact that they cannot afford housing *anywhere* in the city. Boom, Homeless. If some small portion of them can magically spawn higher-paying careers, great, but the rest are screwed until some other option comes along (especially since it can be very difficult to keep your job when you don't have anywhere to sleep or keep/clean your clothes). They can't even camp out in tents because the police break up the camp sites, regardless of circumstance and the behavior of the campers.
A lot of those kids on the street with the nice jackets are holding onto the jackets as solace for the fact they had to leave home or get raped/the shit kicked out of them by abusive parents.
We do have food kitchens, shelters, free missions for junkies trying to get clean; there are some options available to people, if the people know how to get at them and can beat the rush. The capacity of these programs is, however, significantly lower than the supply of people without homes, places to sleep and means to purchase food.
I will not try to make the argument that our homeless are worse off than the poverty crowd in third world nations. I honestly haven't done any responsible research into conditions in other countries, but I'm willing to believe that things can get worse than sleeping on benches and bumming change for a Snickers bar. The reason I can speak up about the homeless is that I've actually spent time with them, had genuine human contact (aside from "yeah, here, have a dollar") with a lot of them. Anyone who tries to argue that the homeless tend to be so by choice are either misinformed or looking at the world from a very strange angle.
Being homeless is pretty terrible; it eats away at otherwise normal, healthy people. Vices usually come after homelessness, because, aside from the emotionally crushing circumstances of having no place to go back to at night, there isn't anything to do. We're talking about extreme boredom, an incredibly dull cycle of long, empty days. This, too, eats at a person. Most people do not have the drive and self-motivation of an Ayn Rand character, so being in the dumps isn't something they can casually claw out of.
Think what you like about all this; I take it a bit personally, so I'm sure this has been a bit ranty. maj's comments aren't utterly out of line, but the only refer to a minority share of the homeless. Try spending a week eating out of and sleeping next to a dumpster if you're really having trouble concieving of how bad homelessness can be.
Desperate itch to code something interesting.
Been taking Graphics at WPI; enjoying the hell out of it, and having a really good time coding for the first time in a long while.
I just might get around to hacking together a 3D openGL interface for Nethack. No Diablo-esque graphics or anything; I'm thinking more of a beautifully lit, rotatable and zoomable matrix of extruded fixed-width text characters. Seems more in the spirit of the game than a collection of crude models, and it'll be an easy starting point. Future ideas (that is, post-future future) include doing nice simple animated models for much of the architecture, handling elevation (pits, levitation, water), perhaps some basic models for armor and weapon types, maybe even dog and cat models.
Don't know if Nethack fans on average would consider this horrifying or wonderful. Kinda hoping for both.
(Background: first real coding job, doing perl stuff for a dot com; no prior practical experience jumping into someone else's large pile of code, and its been intimidating as hell for a while. I've been here a month now and until this last week I haven't even really been hacking on the Big Project I was ostensibly hired to help with. Weird politics, etc; spent the last several weeks getting to know the various systems (pile of Linux boxes with a couple NT machines running the Tango drek that our site still relies on (to top which off, Tango is being sold by Pervasive, the company responsible for it, which means we're just that much more fucked)) and coding up a couple varyingly convoluted newsfeed parser/poster perl scripts to stock our database with a less-reliable version of information that folks who care will go to the original site for anyway. So, daunting or not, it's rather a relief to be diving into this big old project.)
So I've been squashing bugs this week. In the process, I seem to have cracked through the ethereal layer of grok that was erstwhile making me feel like I didn't know anything about Perl or programming or logic. Big relief.
So now, if things are as the seem, our users will (a) actually get visual notification if their messages' mail headers claim them to be, respectively, "Highest" priority. Does anyone use this? At all? I grew up on the Net relatively ignorant to header contents (just learned the nitty-gritty on USENET headers last week on a whim; x-no-archive makes a lot of sense), so maybe I just never thought about it, but I don't think I've ever gotten a "priority" mail in my life.
Also, when a user deletes a folder, they will no longer have all of their mail in their main inbox deleted from the server.
That last issue is, as far as I understand it, *still* an issue in the original product on which we're hacking. Need to check this out, let them know.
I suppose that when/if this product ever gets around to not sucking, I might post the URL or something. But dammit, it's utterly commercial and blah, so maybe not. Kinda hard to be too proud of something that you manage to convert from bloated, inconsistently written pile of crap that doesn't work to s/n't//.
Hell on earth. I go from Worcester (MA) to Providence (RI) and back, 3 days a week (telecommuting teus and thurs to save my sanity). Shouldn't be a problem, it's only a 45 minute drive, an hour with traffice, right?
But, well, I don't have a car. I'm dead broke and trying to pay for my senior year of college, starting in about three weeks, so buying one is out. Satan hasn't been returning my calls, so that angle won't work either.
But hey, no car? No problem. Public transit is the answer. Take a bus/train/vanpool to and from work, it's that simple, right?
But, well, there aren't any direct public tranportation solutions between Worcester and Providence, at least not that I've found in a month of looking (someone, please prove me wrong...).
So what do I do? I get up in the morning (5:30), walk a brisk mile to the train station, catch the 6:12 MBTA train to South Station in Boston, get on a 7:30 Bonanza Bus to Providence (no MBTA trains go into Providence from Boston between 7:00 and noon), catch a RIPTA bus to workplace, get to work about 9:00.
Going home is about the same, except no Bonanza because there is a 5:55 MBTA from Providence to South Station. Leave work at 5:30, get home about 9:00.
Whole thing (monthly MBTA zone 9 pass, 2 Bonanza 10-Passes, Providence RIPTA bus fare) costs me close to $300 a month, too. Gas would be less, and we've got parking at work so I wouldn't be paying for that. Gar. Of course, work in insurance (21, male, no drivers ed) and I'm probably breaking out ahead as is.
I think it's 45 miles between Worcester and Providence. In three hours, that's 15 miles an hour. If I was in good shape, I could bike that. Arg.
I wish. Any suggestions?
Don't have time/energy for other right now. Gar.
Relief. I think I'll hush up for a while now.
Addendum: ambivalence persists.
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"When I read the script and I realised that essentially it was a meditation on fame and what it's become to our society, I had to do it," she told GQ magazine.
"The character is everything that I felt strongly against - she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She's all of these things and I realised that I hated her," Watson said.
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Better Late than Never
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Did you ever get a belated birthday card? It might say something like "Better late than never." That's a commonly heard phrase. It apparently dates back over 2000 years to ancient Rome!
The Back Story
- "Better late than never" could also apply to the idea of the atom. It was first proposed by the ancient Greek philosopher Democritus. However, for more than 2000 years no one took the idea seriously, so it was pretty much forgotten.
- Why does knowledge of atoms matter? Chemistry is based on an understanding of atoms. Without chemistry, much of modern life would not be possible. For example, the amazing advances of modern medicine depend heavily on chemistry.
- You can learn about Democritus' and his ideas about the atom by watching this video:
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Learn more about Democritus, atoms, and the importance of chemistry at the links below. Then answer the questions that follow.
- http://education.jlab.org/qa/history_03.html
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- http://chemistry.about.com/od/everydaychemistry/f/What-Is-The-Importance-Of-Chemistry-In-Everyday-Life.htm
- Democritus was interested in many things and had other good ideas about the natural world. However, he is best remembered for his ideas about the atom. How did he conceive of atoms?
- After Democritus came up with the idea of the atom, how long was it until scientists actually "saw" atoms? How did they "see" them?
- How are all atoms the same?
- Explain why almost everything in the universe depends on atoms.
- Atoms and their parts are the basis of chemical substances and how they interact. Therefore, chemistry rests on an understanding of atoms. Why is chemistry important in the real world?
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About Jeff Masters
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 1:38 PM GMT on September 16, 2009
The remains of Hurricane Fred continue to generate sporadic bursts of heavy thunderstorm activity over the middle Atlantic Ocean. These thunderstorms were generating winds up to 30 mph, according to this morning's QuikSCAT pass. However, QuikSCAT also showed that the remains no longer have a surface circulation. Water vapor satellite loops show that ex-Fred has moved beneath an upper-level low pressure system. This low features dry air on all sides, and this dry air will interfere with any redevelopment of Fred. While wind shear is now moderate, 10 - 15 knots, and is expected to remain in the moderate range for the next five days, the presence of so much dry air will require at least three days for the remains of Fred to overcome and regenerate a surface circulation. Only the HWRF model redevelops Fred, predicting it will develop on Sunday as it approaches the Bahama Islands. NHC is giving ex-Fred a low (less than 30% chance) of developing into a tropical depression by Friday. Fred's remains will be near the Bahamas on Sunday, and near Florida on Monday night. It is possible that a strong trough of low pressure expected to develop over the eastern U.S. early next week will turn Fred's remains northwards into South Carolina/North Carolina on Monday/Tuesday.
This morning's QuikSCAT pass shows a surface circulation near 13N 32, with a small region of heavy thunderstorms to the north. This region is about 450 miles west of the Cape Verdes Islands, and is headed west at about 10 mph. Satellite imagery shows a decrease in the amount of heavy thunderstorm activity this morning, and high wind shear of 20 knots is interfering with development. A band of high wind shear lies just to the north of the disturbance, and will continue to interfere with the system's development over the next three days. NHC is giving the system a low (less than 30% chance) of developing into a tropical depression by Friday.
The GFS model is predicting development of a new tropical wave coming off the coast of Africa early next week.
Figure 1. The remains of Hurricane Fred (left) keep on chugging across the Atlantic. A tropical wave is 450 miles west of the Cape Verdes Islands (right). The thunderstorms of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) are far to the south, off the coast of Africa.
Super Typhoon Choi-Wan hits Category 5 strength
This year's first Category 5 tropical cyclone is Super Typhoon Choi-Wan, which intensified into a Category 5 storm with 160 mph sustained winds yesterday afternoon. Choi-Wan is over the open ocean south of Japan, and is not expected to impact any land areas. It is unusual to have to the globe's first Category 5 storm form this late in the year. Indeed, global tropical cyclone activity as measured by the ACE index, which measures destructive potential, has been near historic lows over the past two years. Only one Category 5 storm was recorded in 2008--Super Typhoon Jangmi, which attained winds of 165 mph at 06 GMT on September 27, as it approached the north coast of Taiwan. The last time so few Category 5 storms were recorded globally was in 1974, when there were none.
We got a rare treat yesterday when the Cloudsat satellite caught a perfect cross section through Choi-Wan when it was a Category 4 super-typhoon with 150 mph winds (Figure 2). The CloudSat satellite, launched in 2006, carries the first satellite-based millimeter wavelength cloud radar. It is the world's most sensitive cloud-profiling radar, more than 1000 times more sensitive than current weather radars. It collects data about the vertical structure of clouds, including the quantities of liquid water and ice, and how clouds affect the amount of sunlight and terrestrial radiation that passes through the atmosphere. The satellite has a narrow field of view, so can image only a small portion of the planet each day. About once per year, CloudSat happens to slice through the eye of an Atlantic hurricane. This happened last month, when Cloudsat caught a remarkable view of Hurricane Bill.
Figure 2. Top: conventional visible satellite image of Super Typhoon Choi-Wan at 3:57 UTC Tuesday, 9/15/09 from Japan's MTSAT. Bottom: cross section through Choi-Wan's eye taken at the same time, from the CloudSat cloud radar instrument. The CloudSat pass occurs along the red line in the top image. The CloudSat pass runs from south (left side of CloudSat image) to north (right side of CloudSat image). At the time of the image, Choi-Wan was strengthening into a Category 4 Super Typhoon (150 mph winds, 928 mb pressure), and reached Category 5 strength fourteen hours after this image was taken. In the CloudSat image, one can see 6+ isolated towers, marking the positions of spiral bands on the south side of the center. The eye is remarkably well-defined, with symmetric "hot towers" extending up to 55,000 feet, sloping outward with height. The thin solid grey line at 5 km marks the 0°C temperature line. Ice particles falling inside the hurricane melt at an altitude just below the 0°C line, creating a "bright band" of orange echoes throughout most of the hurricane. This is one a few inner eye images CloudSat has captured of an Category 4/5 tropical cyclone. Image credit: NASA/Colorado State University/Navy Research Lab, Monterey.
Twenty years ago today
On September 16, 1989, Hurricane Hugo weakened slightly as it underwent an eyewall replacement cycle. The tight inner eyewall that we had flown through the previous day had contracted to the point where it became unstable and collapsed. A new eyewall formed out of an outer spiral band, and Hugo's highest winds dropped to 140 mph--Category 4 strength. As this was occurring, the storm began a more northwesterly path and slowed down, in response to a region of low pressure north of Puerto Rico. By midnight, Hugo was only an hour away from its first encounter with land--the Lesser Antilles island of Guadeloupe.
Back on Barbados, our one undamaged P-3 Orion Hurricane Hunter aircraft flew a mission into Hugo, while the crew of the damaged aircraft remained on the ground. Our plane was grounded until a team of experts from the mainland could fly out and perform a detailed x-ray analysis of the wings to determine if the high g-forces we endured had caused structural damage. This might take a week, so the plan was to fly us back to Miami on a commercial jet. However, Hugo had forced the cancellation of virtually every commercial flight in the eastern Caribbean that day, so we were stuck on the island. Most of us spent a frustrated day touring the island on rented mopeds, getting a look at Hugo from the ground. We got thoroughly drenched by one of Hugo's outermost spiral bands, but the hurricane was too far away to bring any winds more than 20 mph to the island.
That night, our already jangled nerves got a new jolt--a tropical depression had formed due east of Barbados, and was headed right for us. In two days time, it seemed likely that Tropical Storm Iris would be paying us a visit.
Figure 3. AVHRR visible satellite image of Hurricane Hugo taken on September 16, 1989. Image credit: Google Earth rendition of the NOAA HURSAT data base.
Jeff Masters
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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Last fall, it seemed like there might not *be* an NBA season, but looking back now, it's safe to say this has been a close one! As many as nine teams are looking poised to potentially come out on top, including the San Antonio Spurs, Oklahome City Thunder, LA Clippers, Indiana Pacers and more. Check out this list to see if there's a possible playoff team near you (stats current as of Monday, 4/16):
San Antonio Spurs (43-16)
Chicago Bulls (46-15)
Oklahoma City Thunder (44-17)
Miami Heat (43-17)
Los Angeles Clippers (38-23)
Indiana Pacers (39-22)
Los Angeles Lakers (39-22)
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Tour London with alumni travel program
BINGHAMTON, NY – The Binghamton University Alumni Association and Department of Theatre are offering a tour of London, scheduled for January 8-16, 2011. The tour is open to the public.
Theatre faculty members Tom Kremer and Carol Hanscom will serve as hosts. The trip will include a number of area attractions, in particular London theaters. In addition to attending main stage performances, travelers can participate in discussions of the shows. The trip includes visits to the Drury Lane Theater and the National Theater as well as the Globe Theater and the Tower of London. Guests will also have free time to explore London's many museums, unique communities, and historic castles and churches. This will be Binghamton University's fifth alumni trip to London.
The trip costs $2,199 per person (based on double occupancy), which includes airfare, lodging, some meals, and admissions fees at various venues. A $500 deposit should be made as soon as possible.
For more information, contact Tom Kremer at (607) 777-2456 or Travel with the Experts at (732) 292-0034. A detailed itinerary can be found in the "Alumni Events and Networks" section of the Alumni Association website, binghamton.edu/alumni.


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About how you got your News and information. 1998. Read this speech from Matt Drudge that was given in 1998 to the National Press Club and keep trying to remember that you are reading in 1998. Hard to do. We (at least I) have become so used to the Internet that it's taken for granted. Back then, it was still fairly new.
American Rhetoric: Matt Drudge - Speech to the National Press Club


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We love this. If you are low-carb, substitute bean sprouts for noodles. Does not need the sugar, either. Yum!
Seriously...delicious. I used tofu. The tahini mixture was perfect (I didn't get the "curdling" that people were mentioning. I treated this a lot like Pho...and added a squeeze of lime, Sriracha, and bean sprouts at the end. Oh, and I used rice noodles...yum. Next time, I'll add mushrooms and more veggies. It's really a great soup. So glad I found it.
With so many reviews, I hesitate to write another one. I made the broth of this soup using miso instead of tahini, and it was still delicious. I changed the contents to fit what was in my refrigerator: rotisserie chicken, mushrooms, onions (cooked before adding the broth ingredients) and garlic (cooked with the onions). This is definitely a keeper!!
To the reviewers who thought the tahini "curdled" it didn't. Sesame paste (like miso) never fully integrates into a soup. You end up with a suspension, albeit temporary. Make as written. And don't forget to add more cilantro just before serving
I LOVE THIS SOUP. Just made it late night because I wanted some chinese soup but didn't want to drive to Chinatown and wonder how inorganic the chicken is. FABULOUS SOUP, easy to make. Don't torture yourself about perfectly sautéing the napa...it ends up getting boiled anyway. I used vodka instead of sherry because its what I had. Would be perfectly delicious without the noodles too. I want to eat the whole pot.
At first, I was hesitatnt to make this dish, because it seemed too...simple. To straightforward - especially using shredded roast chicken from a different recipe. But when I did, I was AMAZED at the blend and complexity of flavours. Like others, I substituted peanut butter for tahini, and loved the results. I'll be making this again and again!
When I prepared this soup and it gave a wonderful aroma, however I was disappointed how the napa and onion looked when cooked. I would have liked it to stay green and not "bleached". Also to have not read the reviews about keeping the noodles separated. I will make it again and keep the noodles separated. The reviews are always helpful. I love the tahini, chili, ginger and garlic paste. I suspect there are other dishes that this sauce can be added to.
Great soup! Made exactly as written.
This was definitely great and I look forward to continuing to play with the recipe. Here are some changes I made using what was on hand and they all worked great: I saw that some people had subbed peanut butter for the tahini so I used "better'n peanut butter" (which, for the record, is NOT better than peanut butter, but is really low fat and tastes great in this recipe). I also had some baby yellow bell peppers and sauteed those with the onions and cabbage and it was terrific. I used udon noodles, added at the last minute, and finally, I sliced up an avocado and served it with the soup. Terrific!
I love this soup! I have made it twice for people who have a cold. The ginger, garlic, and chili are definitely helpful for a stuffy nose. I have made it with the yokisoba noodles and with dry rice noodles. I prefer it with the rice noodles. They also seem to hold up better in leftovers.


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In addition to skeleton and figure skating and snowboard cross and freestyle skiing there's a lot of cycling happening in Vancouver during the 2010 Olympic Games.
Bike Hugger has been blogging from the events and have just posted a short video including footage from the 1st Annual Vancouver Tweed Ride and shots of urban cyclists downtown.
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Discussion planned on 'opting out,' March 23
Posted March 21, 2004; 01:53 p.m.
A discussion on "The Opt Out Revolution: Are Women Choosing to Leave the Workforce?" is planned for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 23, in 307 Frist Campus Center.
Earlier this year, Princeton alumna Lisa Belkin wrote a piece for The New York Times Magazine that documented the stories of successful Princeton women graduates who had chosen to opt out of their careers to care for their children. The March 23 discussion will look at whether this choice is one that professional women are being forced to make because of institutional constraints or one that women are willing and happy to make.
Two Princeton faculty members will respond to The Times piece: Karen McGuinness, lecturer in public and international affairs; and Sara Curran, assistant professor of sociology. Discussion will follow.
The event is sponsored by the Organization of Women Leaders . For more information, contact Katherine Reilly .
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Claude Giroux has been bothered by his hip for most of the season.
Clarke MacArthur netted the overtime winner in Ottawa's 3-2 victory against Boston in Game 6 Sunday afternoon.
David Krejci (lower body) isn't available for Game 6 on Sunday.
Karl Alzner will not play in Game 6 Sunday.
John Stevens will become the next head coach of the Los Angeles Kings.
Matt Murray has not been on the ice since he suffered a lower body injury prior to Game 1 of the first round on April 12.
Zach Werenski will miss the next four-to-six weeks with facial fractures.
Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet is reporting that Ilya Kovalchuk wants to return to the NHL.
Oscar Klefbom didn't play in the third period on Saturday against San Jose because of an illness.
Cam Talbot was the standout as the Edmonton Oilers eliminated the San Jose Sharks with a 3-1 win in Game 6 on Saturday night.
Mats Zuccarello scored twice to lead the New York Rangers in a 3-2 victory over the Montreal Canadiens in Game 6 on Saturday.
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Interview - Phil Molyneux, President Sony Electronics
|Sony Electronics President and COO Phil Molyneux holding the NEX-6, the company's latest APS-C camera.
Dpreview recently attended a press trip organized by Sony, where the Japanese manufacturer showcased its newest Cyber-shot, NEX and Alpha models. During the trip we had the exclusive opportunity to sit down with Phil Molyneux, President and Chief Operating Officer of Sony Electronics.
In a wide-ranging interview Molyneux spoke with us about the company's new relationships with Olympus and Hasselblad, the impact of smartphone proliferation on the camera market and Sony's place in the market alongside Canon and Nikon. Also joining the discussion was Mark Weir, Senior Manager of Technology and Marketing at Sony.
Sony recently entered into a partnership with Olympus, and has invested $397 million dollars into the company. What do you make of the well-publicized accounting scandal and the potential U.S. Dept. of Justice investigation of Olympus?
That's been going on for some time now and I don't really want to dive in deep there but that needs to play out and (have) the right conclusions drawn. I'm sure they will be.
We've put together this capital investment with Olympus looking at the synergy between the two companies. Olympus has core assets and IP that help some of the work we're doing in digital imaging. On the other side, the technology we have in image sensors, processors and optics is also a good fit. There's a lot to explore there in terms of value.
What impact will the relationship with Olympus have on Sony product development?
We have a strategic intention to build out our business within the medical industry. We see that as a core pillar for the future. The alignment with Olympus is a really good fit because they're in the medical industry for endoscopy. We have core technology that they don't have in terms of sensors, processors and optics as well as a great heritage in 3D and now 4K [video]. If we look long term, the mutual benefits are there and that's the primary intention.
This is a capital investment where we work together. Olympus has IP that can help our future digital imaging products potentially. We have image sensors that is our core competency. So you put the two together and there is benefit for both sides.
Can we expect this partnership with Olympus to help narrow the gap in lens selection between E-mount and Micro Four Thirds optics?
We're early into this new arrangement. I don't want to speculate into those areas. In due course we'll be sharing more details.
At the recent Photokina show in Cologne, Sony announced a partnership with Hasselblad, and a forthcoming product - the Hasselblad Lunar camera. What does Sony get out of this relationship?
The relationship here is about the supply of components from our side. We're a major player in the image sensor market. Our technology will help support not only Hasselblad but many other companies, as they do today.
|The Hasselblad Lunar uses the E-mount and other technology found on Sony's NEX-7 camera.
You now have relationships that, on some level, tie together the success of Sony, Olympus, and now Hasselblad. Are there challenges in maintaining such public relationships with rival camera manufacturers?
I don't believe so. Olympus has their own position in the market. Hasselblad has been in the premium digital imaging market for many years. Sony has been a constant innovator. There is opportunity to co-exist and prosper but cross-leverage capabilities that bring mutual benefit to each of the parties involved. Outside the digital imaging world Sony has had similar relationships with other companies like Sharp and Samsung. So it's not an uncommon thing for us to do. We've been doing this for a few years now.
What are Sony's challenges in the mass market digital imaging space over the next few years?
The proliferation of the smartphone has put pressure on the entry-level camera segment of the industry as a whole. But we also have a line of smartphones. And the key is that we're using Sony image sensors and optics in these smartphones.
Smartphones and social media have made photography very popular with a younger generation. And that's very promising because they are getting to grips with the beauty of photographs. As these younger people grow up, a few of them will fall in love with photography, want to take it to a different level and understand the limitations of a smartphone and a point-and-shoot and therefore step up to super zoom, E-mount or possibly even A-mount cameras in the future.
From Sony's perspective, because we have a full line of cameras as well as smartphones, this is a positive trend, one that we're embracing. So if you talk about self-cannibalization, that's perhaps one way to view it, but that's not a negative. We're growing new fans of photography who could buy more versatile products from Sony in the future.
We're seeing camera apps and Wi-Fi becoming more common in cameras now. Nikon and Samsung are making Android-powered cameras. Will any camera that's not 'connected' be obsolete?
At this stage I don't believe that's the case at all. A lot of people are using our E-mount and A-mount products to produce pictures that hang on the wall or are displayed in galleries. We're not at the stage where consumers are going to invest in this level of technology and use it solely for uploading to social media.
How will Xperia smartphones and Cyber-shots cameras continue to co-exist? Will they have to merge?
With our image sensor, processor and optics technology used in the Xperia models, we can drive the value of the phones forward. But there's still a significant gap in capability, quality and output between smartphones and the mid-range to high-end Cyber-shot cameras. Smartphones today are hitting the entry level compact camera. We're helping that happen and consumers are embracing it.
Understand that this young generation of smartphone users, if you go back five years ago, would pick up a camera maybe once a year on holiday and that's it. They're now using photography every single day. That's a very good sign for the future of digital imaging. Because they will want to do more. Not all of them, but a subsection of that community will want to do more.
There will be a race between smartphones and compact cameras to improve features and capabilities. We have the assets and technology to drive advances in both products to give consumers what they need. That's our mission. But even if the pace of change remains the same between smartphone and compact cameras, there are still issues of miniaturization that allow compact cameras to do things that smartphones cannot. There is still a gap in quality, performance and manipulation. The point in time at which the gap between a smartphone and a point-and-shoot or a superzoom is no longer perceived as value by the consumer will be the tipping point. But we're playing both worlds, so I don't see it as a negative.
How far out is that tipping point?
I wouldn't speculate on a time frame.
For years the industry has been pushing megapixels as a defining feature. Now there is an increased focus on sensor size and fast lenses. How are you going to wean consumers away from a sticker-friendly spec like megapixels?
The megapixel race was a good thing. It stimulated competition and speed of design, manufacturing and output. But that's a small part of what we bring into our products.
Mark Weir: There are consumers with limited awareness who perhaps latch onto a megapixel number. But even those consumers are getting to the point where enough is enough, particularly when it comes to file size.
A big feature request from our readers for a NEX-7 successor is a touchscreen. Given that a touchscreen is also absent from the NEX-6, do you see having an EVF and touchscreen as contradictory?
MW:It is contradictory. We believe that a user who buys a camera with an OLED EVF is concentrating on the shooting experience and wants to have everything at their fingertips by direct button control. We believe their interest in touchscreen capability is far less than the user who shoots with the camera held at arm's length.
|The Sony NEX-6 features an EVF, but forgoes the touchscreen capability found in the NEX-5R.
But why not offer both, like Olympus does in the E-M5?
MW: There's nothing that prevents us from having both an EVF and touchscreen. But it's our design philosophy that prioritizes the eye-level shooting style for the NEX-6 and NEX-7.
Looking at the VG900, our readers are speculating on whether you will make a full frame E-mount stills-oriented camera. What can you say to them?
MW: The VG900 demonstrated that the E-mount lens mount can support a full frame sensor. Building the lenses that can cover a full frame imaging circle at that flange back distance is another matter. We'll see. The benefits of making a smaller camera with a full frame sensor and interchangeable lenses are clear. The E-mount that could do that would be a little different than the E-mount that we know today. But it is possible. Much of the lens geometry you see in the RX1 is what it would take to realize that design.
With the RX1, how much demand do you expect for a $2800 fixed lens camera?
MW: We won't disclose what our forecast numbers are, but the response from retailers with pre-orders has been overwhelmingly positive. As for the price, with the NEX-7, many said, 'Who will pay $1400 for a mirrorless camera?' Look what happened. With the RX100, many said, 'Who would spend $650 on a so-called point-and-shoot camera?'. Part of what comes with disruptive technology is a change in the way people think about what consumers are interested in buying.
The A99 becomes the first pro-level SLT camera. Are pros ready to give up an optical viewfinder?
PM: We're being disruptive. Part of the appeal of being disruptive is that pros see that we're being innovative and want to explore what Sony has to offer.
Why should someone buy a Sony camera over a brand like Canon or Nikon?
We have the core technology inside of the company, in terms of image sensors, processors and optics. I think we're the only company that has a mass production and R&D capability in all three areas. We're able to use that capability along with our design skills to bring disruptive products to market. Customers are starting to embrace Sony for innovation and disruptive technologies. We've done that with the E-mount line and we're taking it to a whole new plane with the RX-1, the first full frame camera at that size in the world.
There are companies like Canon and Nikon that have been in this marketplace 60+ years. And the market has traditionally been very slow to change, diversify or innovate. We're relatively new to it, but boy have we been disruptive. Sony is changing the market through innovation and giving consumers more choice.
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Two Tile Board Games
A couple of highly recommended games featuring tiles, iOS implementations and unduly complicated scoring:
- Carcassonne
Along with the famous Settlers of Catan, which I've never played (but about which there is now quite an appealing Tabletop video), Carcassonne is probably the most famous "gateway" game out there. Such a game is one that is meant to get the user addicted to the modern Euro style of board game, sucking them in so that get into even heavier and meatier games.
Carcassonne is certainly light and easy to pick up (though scoring, particularly of farms, is fiddlier than one might like). It's also visually appealing: as play progresses the players cooperate to build a pretty map of a medieval countryside. This map is made out of the tiles that the players play on the playing surface. Game-play is simple: draw a tile from a bag; add it to the growing map; optionally add a little wooden person in one's colour (a "meeple") to the map to lay claim to part of that map.
There are plenty of hard decisions to make, but at the same time, it's rather luck-driven. This is because the tiles are drawn one at a time, and the tile you have in your hand critically determines just what you will be able to do. With more than two players, the game becomes even more random because the situation will typically change in fairly drastic fashion between one player's move and their next. Despite the prettiness of the evolving map, there is plenty of opportunity to be quite nasty to other players. You may or may not see this as an advantage.
There is an extremely good iOS implementation of Carcassonne in the App Store.
- Ra
In Ra, the aim of the game is to collect various sets of tiles that are worth different amounts of points. Everything is vaguely Egyptian in theme. There are monuments, pharaohs, cultural advances, lands and Nile floods. Perhaps unfortunately, these tiles are not arranged into a pretty map, but are kept in front of each player as they are acquired. Indeed, they can be kept strewn about however one wants.
The game's central mechanic is a form of auction, and one player's move is very simple: they can get another tile from a bag to add to the current lot, or they can decide to call for an auction of that current lot (there's actually another third option that doesn't get exercised very often). In general, every player's situation will be slightly different: they'll have different levels of resources to pay with, and they'll also be pursuing slightly different goals. It's very clever, and the mechanics interact very cleverly. Modern Art (also by the same designer, Reiner Knizia) is cleverer as an auction game (Ra's auctions are actually pretty weird as auctions go), but the set collection in Ra is neat and something that Modern Art doesn't really have. There's less "randomness" in the final scoring: in Modern Art, a painting can be worth absolutely nothing because its artist hasn't "placed"; there isn't anything quite as vicious in Ra.
There's a reasonable Ra iOS implementation, but it has no online community so for the moment, you have to be content with playing against its AI (which seems pretty good).


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SEATTLE - "Jane Doe," the woman suspected of producing child porn, and her husband have turned themselves in to police in Salem, Oregon.
According to an affidavit, Michael Serapis Freeman called police on Tuesday and said he and his wife, Michelle Lee Freeman, wished to turn themselves in. They were taken into custody at their home in Salem where investigators also rescued two minors.
Last month, federal officials issued a nationwide alert and released photos of "Jane Doe," whom they believe produced child pornography videos featuring herself and an unidentified man engaging in sexual contact with two girls aged 6 and 9.
Michael Freeman, 39, confirmed to investigators the adults seen in the pornographic photos are he and his 41-year-old wife.
"I started it. Somehow she (Michelle Freeman) got involved," he told ICE agents, adding the couple had engaged in sexual acts with two girls and each other while photographing and videotaping the acts. All the material was made inside the couple's master bedroom, he said, and "nothing was forced, no bondage, no pain and no crying."
He added he had been trading child pornography with another person he met online for approximately one month.
The case first surfaced in June 2011 when federal agents in California and Colorado served search warrants concerning the advertisement, possession and receipt of child pornography. Seized digital media contained dozens of images and video clips that depicted sexual exploitation of unidentified children. Some of the images featured the so-called Jane Doe and a man.
Michael and Michelle Freeman are both being held in jail, and due in court on Wednesday afternoon.
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Bring fast and easy pressure-cooking technology into your kitchen with the Fagor Futuro Pressure Cooker Set (918013133). Fagor Futuro pressure cookers reduce cooking time by up to 70%. Cook risotto in 7 minutes, meatballs in 4 minutes, chicken soup in 15 minutes, and even cheesecake in 30 minutes. Your favorite recipes will typically cook in a third of the normal time associated with conventional cookware. Simply add your ingredients to the pan, lock the lid in place and start cooking. When finished, just release the pressure and enjoy.
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Heimsness not back on patrol, won't work Baldwin St.
Community meeting allowed neighbors to ask questions to police
MADISON, Wis. - Madison police officer Steve Heimsness, the patrolman cleared of wrongdoing after he shot and killed a man on Madison's near east side, isn't back on the streets and won't patrol the area where the shooting happened if he does return.
At a community meeting Tuesday that drew nearly 200 people from the neighborhood and city government, Madison Police Chief Noble Wray answered numerous questions about the case.
"At this juncture, I don't see a reason for external review of this particular investigation," Wray said, although he said he'd be open to discussions about options for future cases.
Wray also said he is reviewing the department's policies on the use of force and on internal investigations, but couldn't name specifics nor a timeline on what might change, and when.
Many neighbors, family and friends of Paul Heenan, the musician who died Nov. 9 after he grappled with Heimsness, said they wanted an independent review of the police investigation.
One neighbor, who lives around the corner from where the shooting happened on South Baldwin Street, said the incident remains "an open wound" in the area.
Community members, District Attorney Ismael Ozanne and ranking Madison Police officials sat on a panel in front of a crowd at Bethany Evangelical Free Church on Tuesday.
Community members asked police whether Heimsness didn't announce himself as a police officer, why he had his gun drawn as he approached the scene, and why a neighbor's 911 call reporting a man in her home got relayed to the officer as a burglary in progress.
"When someone's going into someone's house, cop lingo is 'burglary in progress,'" said Madison Police Det. Michelle Riesterer, the lead detective on the shooting case.
Lt. Dan Olivas, part of the department's internal affairs unit, said it wasn't clear why Heenan didn't respond to repeated commands from Heimsness to get on the ground.
Heenan was struggling with neighbor Kevin O'Malley as the officer approached.
O'Malley has said he shouted "He's a neighbor" at Heimsness, but the officer didn't report hearing it.
There is no timeline for Heimsness to return to his patrol job, and he won't work South Baldwin Street if he returns, said Joel DeSpain, a police department spokesman.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Ziggy Marley has purchased a duplex in Los Angeles for US$1.1 million, celebrity tracker tmz.com reports.
According to the website, the transaction was made through real estate guru Reza Farahan who also stars in the reality series Shahs of Sunset.
"That's right ... with Reza's help, the reggae singer scored a brand new crib for $1.1 million!" the website was quoted as saying.
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I take a huge number of medications/supplements daily. And many of those are large pills/gels. This will hold one complete days of meds (in case I end of staying overnight unexpectedly). I have another for pain meds and a 3rd for the main pain med container. I sound like a druggie.....sigh.....age.The MOST important thing about these for me is they don't accidently open in my purse. Never......They seal tight and stay that way. My only peeve....is that there is no easy way to tell the top from the bottom nor which case is which. It was an easy fix with a permanent marker. But still I think some solution could be found for this very minor flaw.
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The Board of Trustees at Guilford College has approved a tuition freeze for the 2016-17 academic year.
The Department of Education Studies strives to help individuals become thoughtful, critical and student-centered educators. We depend on the knowledge, experience and scholarship of our program faculty, who are themselves teachers/learners/leaders, to help our students make connections between the Quaker and liberal arts traditions, multicultural and global perspectives and the worlds of elementary and secondary schools.
The primary goal of the program is to develop educators who are grounded in the liberal arts, self-confident, inquisitive, ethical and reflective in their practice. We seek to develop prospective teachers committed to and capable of constructive action in contemporary society. In preparing students to assume professional roles in schools, the program emphasizes understanding educational issues from a global perspective using ethnographic observation, constructivist practices and action research to discover how people learn and how schools and other educational settings are made effective.
Throughout the program, faculty and students work together in interactive learning experiences in the college classroom and in the field, incorporating practical application with theoretical discussion and exploration. Small classes and close, one-on-one mentoring relationships are a unique and integral part of the program.
Other central components of the program include the cross-cultural internship and inquiry, often in another country, through which students develop insight into their own and others' cultural lens. The capstone experience which occurs after student teaching is another central component of the program. In Capstone teaching candidates reflect on their student teaching experiences grounding their theoretical, philosophical and practical insights and exploring the possible leadership roles that they may take in the future. Close faculty and student relationships are sustained through, peer group learning, field supervision and our personalized advising system.
The three major curricular components of the program are:
The Bachelor of Arts degree is offered in education studies. The Bachelor of Science degree is offered in comprehensive secondary science education.
Education studies requires a second disciplinary major for all licensure tracks except secondary science and elementary education, which are stand-alone majors.
Required courses for all education studies majors, a minimum of 36 credit hours (7 courses):
Note: EDUC 410, 420/440 are only offered in the fall.
Students are encouraged to begin a licensure program by the time they have 16-20 credits, approximately the second semester of their first year. With careful planning and advising, students can meet the requirements for graduation and the state's requirements for a "highly effective" teacher license in four years.
Students must apply to their chosen licensure program (at a minimum of) the semester prior to enrollment in EDUC 312, 313 (secondary and comprehensive programs) or 307, 308, 309 (elementary education program).
In order to be accepted into a teacher licensure program, students must meet the following requirements:
Enrollment in the College does not guarantee acceptance into the program.
There are other licensure requirements specified by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) prior to the final granting of a "highly effective" North Carolina teaching license (which is reciprocal in most states). These requirements do change. The Department of Education Studies intentionally keeps students informed on state and national policies that affect their eligibility for licensure and makes the appropriate accommodations in the program.
All licensure candidates must take PRAXIS II in their content area (elementary education, social studies, English, comprehensive science) or the equivalent test in Spanish or French in order to achieve licensure. Candidates in each of these programs who do not pass PRAXIS II will have to retake the test. All candidates must have a grade point average of 2.50 or greater upon completion of their licensure coursework to earn a "highly effective" license in North Carolina. These are state rules.
We must receive a candidate's passing scores from PRAXIS II before licensure paperwork is submitted to the State. Students may graduate from Guilford with a major in education studies, but paperwork for licensure will not be sent until PRAXIS II is passed and the final GPA is 2.50 or above.
All candidates in each licensure area will need to be proficient in every element of each standard on the 21st Century Professional Teaching Standards rubric before they will be recommended for licensure by Guilford College.
Total credit hours required for A.B. degree in elementary licensure – 60 credits
A double-major in education studies and English is required.
Total credit hours required for A.B. degree with secondary licensure in English – 48 credits
A double-major in education studies and French or Spanish is required.
Total credit hours required for A.B. degree with K-12 licensure in French or Spanish – 44 credits
A double-major in education studies and history is required.
Major requirements for B.S. degree in comprehensive secondary science education:
*Offered in spring semester only
Note: EDUC 420/440 is only offered in the fall.
Total credit hours required for B.S. degree with:
Biology focus - 92 credits
Chemistry focus - 98 credits
Physics focus - 88 credits
Earth science focus - 92 credits
The education studies minor helps students achieve knowledge and abilities important to citizens and parents, policy-makers in the work-place and creators of learning/teaching activities. Students develop habits of mind valuable in many professions and areas of responsibility. Through the minor students are able to explore the possibility of education as a profession and bring closure to that work without commitment to licensure. Most importantly, they create a reflective framework for their own education.
Examples of possible directions for an education studies minor: A history major interested in museum education would take the minor and do the final internship in a museum, either here or abroad. A science major interested in environmental education would take the minor and do her/his final internship in an environmental education center, here or abroad.
The minor in education studies is not available to education studies majors.
The minor requires a minimum of 16 credit hours (four courses).
Total credit hours required for education minor – 16 credits
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Individuals who hold a bachelor's degree from a four-year, regionally accredited college or university may complete teaching licenses in each of the six licensure tracks. Licensure only students typically complete just the courses listed for an education student's major; however, additional coursework may be required. For licensure only in secondary or K-12 licensure areas, if the first degree is not in English, history, Spanish, French or one of the required science content areas, the additional coursework may be extensive. Decisions about which courses are required are decided at the departmental level for each subject area. These decisions are individualized based on each candidate's academic transcript and North Carolina state licensure requirements.
Licensure only students are exempt from PRAXIS I if their cumulative grade-point average for their first bachelor's degree is 2.50 or greater.
Licensure only secondary social studies students may need to take HIST 400 at Guilford College in order to meet state standards. Other courses may be required depending on the transcript. Each student's requirements are considered individually by the Department of History in relation to state licensure requirements.
Licensure only secondary English students may need to take ENGL 300 or above at Guilford College in order to meet state standards. If the previous degree is more than five years old, the Department of English strongly recommends ENGL 200: Introduction to Literary Studies in addition to the ENGL 300 or above requirement. Finally, students are required to take ENGL 380 or have the equivalent. Each student's requirements are considered individually by the Department of English in relation to state licensure requirements.
Licensure only secondary science students take specific mandated content courses in science, along with all secondary education requirements. Upon successful completion of all requirements, successful candidates will be eligible for the education comprehensive secondary science licensure.
Students who complete an approved teacher licensure program can then have their licenses endorsed to teach in additional content areas. Requirements for endorsements are having 1) earned a "highly effective" teaching license, and 2) a minimum of 24 credit hours in a content area which is taught in the schools with a grade in each course of at least a C (no C-s). The endorsement may be added to the initial license at the time of application for the initial license. Endorsements are for teaching at all grade levels, K-12, in the specific endorsement area.
For instance, if an individual was obtaining a "highly effective" elementary licensure and had completed 24 credit hours in history with the grade of C or above, they would qualify for a K-12 history endorsement. This type of endorsement would allow them to teach history content courses in middle and high school.
"Highly effective" licensure can be transferred to another state. However, endorsements do not transfer out of North Carolina.
In the Guilford College Department of Education Studies, we envision an end to out-dated, teaching techniques; our graduates are well prepared to be agents of change, focusing on creating child-centered environments that place the needs of the student learner at the forefront.
Guilford students develop a repertoire of teaching approaches, enlightened but not confined by developmental perspectives; they learn to attend to the processes of learning as much as the quality of their students' products and performance. Teaching should always begin with understanding who the student is.
In both our coursework and our field placements, we recognize that in order to become agents of change, teachers must assume the role of active ethnographers within the classroom or school, acknowledging that finding the "right" way to teach must be based on careful observation, inquiry and analysis of context.
All students do a cross-cultural education internship, often during a semester abroad. Internship locations have included Japan, London, Ghana, China, Italy and various locations throughout the United States. Locally, students have opportunities to work Hispanic, Montagnard-Dega and other populations. Our students come to understand themselves as global citizens who must seek insight into all cultures and voices in order to meet the needs of diverse learners.
Every student who graduates from our program has completed at least 100-150 hours of internship prior to their student teaching. Public and private school administrators comment that our graduates are among the best prepared teachers they hire. They have been cited for their intelligence, ethical behavior, creativity, community-building skills, ability to meet the needs of all learners and confidence.
Students interested in careers in education, (teaching in K-12 settings; preparing for school administration or counseling; or moving into higher education leadership) will fulfill the requirements for securing the chosen certification area or for entering the preferred graduate school. Students in education studies complete double-majors (one in education studies and one in another of their choice), providing them with specialized courses, interdisciplinary knowledge and skills that better prepare them for entering the teaching profession or for acquiring the background needed for graduate study.
Students seeking teaching certification in a selected area: elementary education K-6; secondary English; secondary social studies; Spanish K-12; French K-12; and possible secondary science will complete the courses and field work needed to secure a "highly effective" North Carolina teaching license. Students in education studies may also simultaneously earn endorsements in other content areas. After completion of their undergraduate degree in education and the necessary paperwork, education studies majors are eligible to teach in public schools in NC and most other US states with the desired North Carolina teaching license.
Students interested in school administration, counseling, or higher education leadership will gain the background that prepares them for obtaining advanced degrees and/or certifications needed to pursue their chosen profession. Education studies advisors provide detailed information on various careers, as well as on certification requirements and application assistance for graduate school. Also provided, are financial aid information; as well as study sessions and materials for state required Praxis tests associated with the various certification areas. Over 90% of our students are hired to teach within one semester after graduation, and 100% have gotten into the graduate programs of their choice.


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VERONA – Solomon Dilworth said his teacher's challenge "made me insane."
All the 8-year-old was asked to do was to quit playing violent video games during February. He wasn't the only one who struggled with that request.
Verona Elementary School character education teacher Jessie Gilmore told all of her third- and fourth-grade students to consider giving up violent video games during the month. Yet of about 160 students, only four agreed to try. And none claimed to have an easy time.
"Violent video games are fun," said fourth-grader Marshad Chandler, 10, who gave up an entire recess period one day to talk with Gilmore about his difficulty.
"I was amazed at the struggle that came out of this," Gilmore said.
Her experience raises a question of how ingrained such games have become in today's culture.
"Video games, and violent video games, are a normative part of child development at this point," said Christopher Ferguson, department chair of psychology and communication at Texas A&M International University and a national expert on the issue of violent media. "Trying to find a boy who doesn't play violent video games is almost impossible at this point, and that is not a bad thing."
Kevin Williams, an associate professor in the department of communication at Mississippi State University, has been publishing research on video games since 2005. He said the industry is a huge one. Video games make more money than movies, he said, and are not going away any time soon.
"My impression is of course they love to play video games," Williams said. "It is the same as drinking Coca-Cola and eating pizzas was to you and me. It is something teenage boys do heavily. It is part of the culture."
Gilmore said the idea was to build upon Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday and Black History Month. She wanted to bring home King's lessons on non-violence and to make students reflect upon them in a new way.
"They are very familiar with his teaching on non-violence," Gilmore said. "I don't think they connect with it.
"This is where they are. I'd say let's do a parade, a march or a re-enactment, but that is not where they are when it relates to non-violence and peace. I'm trying to be where they are and show them what a difference it makes."
The students could still play non-violent video games, but those interviewed said the violent ones are more fun. They said they liked being able to do things on the games like shoot, steal cars, throw grenades and punch people.
"It is fun," said Jay Melton, 10. "It is something you can do when you're bored."
In a lot of cases, violent video games have been the most popular ones, Williams said.
"The story line is probably better and the actions are probably better," he said.
Plus, he said, there is often an appeal for younger kids to play those games that are meant for older ones.
Solomon said he sometimes tries to release his energy from not playing the video games by jumping up and down. Whenever he travels through his living room, where the games are located, he runs so that he is not tempted to play.
"Not playing them makes me very sad," he said.
His mother, Reshemuah Dilworth, said her son has also found other activities to occupy him, including reading a book about President Barack Obama.
"I think it was really good, as far as motivating him to want to learn something other than consuming all of his time with video games," she said.
The parents of all four students said they appreciated Gilmore's exercise and want their children continue to play fewer such games in the future.
"I really try to keep him off those games because there is so much violence in them," said Markisha Walker, whose son, Dailin Cooperwood, 8, also agreed to the challenge.
There is much debate about the impact of violent games. Ferguson said data does not show they harm children in any way. He compared the fear people have about them to past concerns abut comic books and even rock 'n' roll music.
"People tend to be afraid of violent video games until they play one," he said.
Williams said he does not have any concern about short-term effects. His research indicates someone is not likely to go out and hurt someone immediately after playing such a game.
"Where I start having problems is if the industry continues to increase the intensity of that violence, where does that head long term for us," he said. "Are we becoming more accepting of violence because things keep getting more and more violent?"
Gilmore said she thinks the effect may be from what the game replaces.
"I don't know if it increases violence or just takes time away from other things," she said. "If kids are playing games, they are not reading."
However, Ferguson notes, trying to get children interested in reading is not a new challenge.


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Description ADULT MALE Has black hood and back, and orange "shoulders" and underparts. Dark wings have white wing bar and white edges to flight feathers. Rump is orange and tail is orange overall with dark base and midline. ADULT FEMALE Similar, but hood and back are variably mottled dark olive-brown, and "shoulder" stripe is white; rump and tail are dull orange-buff. IMMATURE Recalls adult female, but male is richer orange on breast and undertail coverts; female is much paler overall, especially on belly.
Dimensions Length: 7-8 1/2" (18-22 cm)
Habitat Common summer visitor (mainly May-Aug) to deciduous woodlands. Winters mainly in Central and South America; a few linger in southeastern U.S.
Observation Tips Easy to see in suitable wooded habitats.
Range Plains, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Eastern Canada, Southeast, Texas, New England, Western Canada, Rocky Mountains, Florida
Voice Song is a whistling chewdi-chewdi-chew-chew-che, uttered as though bird is losing enthusiasm; call is a rattle.
Discussion Colorful woodland bird. Bill is slender, pointed, and gray. Sexes are dissimilar.