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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 374, November 16, 2007
Reminder: No Holiday For Purged File Systems
All files over 30 days old in the $SCRATCH and $WORKDIR file systems at ARSC are purged nightly. So, before you take that month-long holiday, be sure you archive all files you'd like to keep.
For the purposes of purging (at ARSC), the age of a file is based on the time it was last *accessed*. To see the last access time for a file, use the command "ls -lu" ("ls -l" shows when the file was last modified). E.g.:
% ls -l README -rw------- 1 baring staff 13866 2007-07-30 16:21 README % ls -lu README -rw------- 1 baring staff 13866 2007-09-21 11:13 README % cat README > /dev/null % ls -l README -rw------- 1 baring staff 13866 2007-07-30 16:21 README % ls -lu README -rw------- 1 baring staff 13866 2007-11-14 14:47 README
ARSC provides a local tool, "getPurgable" [sic] which provides a report on your files eligible for purging, and is easier to use than "ls." "getPurgable -h" tells how to use the tool.
$SCRATCH, $WORKDIR, and /datadir are not Backed-Up:
Regardless of the age of your files, please remember that $SCRATCH and $WORKDIR are not only purged, but never backed up. Thus, you should regularly archive all important files on these file systems.
Read "news storage" for more information, and, if needed, contact User Support,
for help.
Modern LaTeX
[ By: Kate Hedstrom ]
Some time ago, I wrote a user's guide in LaTeX, using it because it is free software and because it makes beautiful equations. Since that time, most of my friends have moved on to other software, claiming ease of use, but the equations in those other packages still don't measure up. Besides, those of us who program in Fortran for high performance aren't afraid of a compilation phase.
Anyway, the time has come to update that user's guide. Last time, the funding agency wanted 100 paper copies of the document, so I was free to use anything. This time they want a pdf file. There was a time when creating a pdf file that was viewable on a PC was quite tricky from LaTeX. Also, I'd like to be able to include graphics other than encapsulated postscript (eps) images in the thing. Is it time to modernize with some whole new software or can I get away with using LaTeX again? Another reason to prefer LaTeX is that we're creating a documentation wiki for the ocean model and the wiki can display LaTeX equations directly, generating a png image for each. Equations I write in the manual can be placed on the wiki with a simple cut and paste operation and still look great.
A little google searching brought up the existence of a pdflatex command. Rather than running latex to convert your source to a dvi file, then view that with dvips or xdvi, you run pdflatex on your source to create a pdf file directly. As an added bonus, it can directly handle images in png, jpeg, or pdf. For those old eps images lying around, there is an epstopdf command.
So, how about a little example. I've got an eps image that I've converted to pdf with:
% epstopdf mask.epsso that I now have mask.pdf. The size of it is 4.5 by 4 inches. An example LaTeX file that can be used to display it is:
\documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage{graphicx} \begin{document} \begin{figure}[p] \setlength{\unitlength}{.25in}% \begin{picture}(18,16)(-3,0)% \includegraphics{mask.pdf}% \end{picture}% \caption{Small grid with masked regions} \label{fmask} \end{figure} \end{document}
Note that I'm using the graphicx package, which knows about pdf, png, and jpeg images. It can also handle eps images if you will be using the traditional mode of generating a dvi file.
Also note that I've got a picture environment nested inside the figure environment. The optional arguments to the picture environment tell latex how big the image is, here in units of quarter inches. The other arguments tell latex where the origin is, which can be used to center the thing (I use trial and error, plus a ruler for that).
To get a pdf file from this, simply type:
% pdflatex test.texwhich creates a test.pdf file. evince is one way to view it on the screen.
http://amath.colorado.edu/documentation/LaTeX/reference/figures.html http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/LaTeX/AoPS_L_PictMan.php
$SAMPLES_HOME - Sample Code Repository
ARSC has created Sample Code Repositories on midnight and iceberg. These are collections of frequently-used procedures, routines, scripts, and codes intended to help users find the best practices for various situations. Users are encouraged to review the samples and are welcome to copy the sample code and scripts and for their own use. On either system, you may type the command, news samples_home to see an index of the repository and learn more about it.
The $SAMPLES_HOME environment variable is set to the root of the sample directory. You can use that environment variable to get to the samples, e.g.:
iceberg1 26% cd $SAMPLES_HOME iceberg1 27% ls INDEX.txt applications dataManagement debugging jobSubmission libraries parallelEnvironment
You are invited to submit samples for consideration as new entries in the repository. While we would prefer complete samples, we will definitely consider less complete examples if that is what you have. The Sample Code Repository is very much a work in progress at this point in time, but with your suggestions we hope to make it a useful resource.
The Sample Code Repository was a recommendation of the HPCMP Baseline Configuration Project:
Book Reviews, "bash Cookbook" and "Fonts & Encodings"
[ By: Lee Higbie ]
I would like to recommend two new books from O'Reilly. The common thread with these books is they are sufficiently well written that they are fun to browse, not just to use as references.bash Cookbook Solutions and Examples for bash Users By: Carl Albing, JP Vossen, Cameron Newham First Edition May 2007 Pages: 622 $49.99US (from oreilly.com)
The Cookbook uses some cutesy kitchen lingo near the beginning, but fortunately it was a small, tolerable dose. The descriptions of the Cookbook's recipes are clear and include explanations of how and why the more obscure parts of the scripts work as they do. The Cookbook covers many parts of bash and was a useful way to learn some of the features that I'd missed. Each of the hundreds of the sections describes a "recipe" for solving a problem. Generally the book provides a solution, a discussion of the solution, and a few pertinent references such as man pages and other recipes. Typical of the sections is the one addressing the problem of searching compressed files. The book describes zgrep, zcat and gzcat which allow you to grep or display compressed files. In this case, ARSC doesn't support all of the utilities--gzcat is not on midnight or iceberg--but zcat will often type gzipped files. I hadn't known about these z* tools.
I found only a few places where the authors missed solutions or gotchas.
- In the description of using the command history to save typing, they omit one technique I use frequently: open another window and use mouse copy/paste to copy commands or command string portions to the second window or from elsewhere in the current window.
- On midnight inserting a blank at the beginning of a command string means it is no longer retained in the history buffer. In many places they note that different versions of bash do different things.
- As with all technical books, I would like to see more non-standard terminology in the index. For example, someone coming from a non-unix background could benefit from index references for "type" and "print" redirecting them to "cat," "zcat," "more," and "less."
- The only major omission I noticed was a table of how various versions of bash differ, something along the lines of the Differing Features table in "Unix in a Nutshell."
The continuing growth of Unicode, now it's up to over 100,000 glyphs, has fascinated me so I enjoyed Haralambous's description of the history of unicode, letters and type. I also enjoyed the descriptions of renderings, where Haralambous describes the various forms of "hinting" that are used so that letters look nice.
Typical of the Haralambous's interesting style is his discussion of what constitutes a letter. The word "pectopah" is familiar to most Americans who have visited Russia. (Write it in all caps then read it as though it is written in Cyrillic, which it actually is.) His point: the glyph H is identical in English, Greek and Russian, even though the lower case letters differ, but the meaning of the characters differs in all cases.
He has a nice example of the rendering problem. With a fixed pixel grid he shows how H would print as the size varies. The resulting letters are quite different even though the five examples only vary in size by about 15%. With the easiest rasterization, the crossbar and vertical strokes jump back and forth from one to two pixels.
Two anomalies in the tome struck me. First is the use of original drawings, with annotations in French. I think many readers would like to see translations. Perhaps these could have been included in captions. Also, some of the old typefaces are so hard to read, I think it would help many of us to see transliterations (into a modern typeface) of the Latin, French and even English phrases, just as it would be interesting to transliterate Cyrillic and Greek in some places. Second is the division of the index into two parts. Most American readers, at least, are accustomed to a single inclusive index. The index is a weak part of most computer books. This separation does not help.
Trivia from Fonts & Encodings:
- Unicode currently has 90,989 "letters." There are also numerals, punctuation, symbols, math symbols, and many more to take it to the "more than 100,000" cited above.
- It uses 21 bits, though there are many language-specific foldings to reduce character representations to a single byte.
- In principle, Unicode can never eliminate a character. All ancient written languages' alphabets or ideographs should be included. So far as I could see, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Mayan writing and Greek Linear A are not yet present. Haralambous does not mention Mayan writing. He does mention that hieroglyphics are under consideration for addition to Unicode and Greek Linear A will, presumably, be considered for addition (once it is deciphered).
--Editor's note:
As an aside, it looks like O'Reilly book covers can't keep up with the falling US dollar. Glancing at the "Fonts" book, for example, we see the list price as:
- $0.83 US to $1.00 CAN
- $1.02 US to $1.00 CAN
So if our friends East of the border in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, wanted to visit us in Fairbanks, they could pick this book up for effectively:
Saving themselves $13.18--enough for 4 gallons of gas and a pickle!
Santa Letters, Postmarked "North Pole"
Uncles, Aunts, Parents, Teachers, and other friends of kids: once again, your editors would be honored to play Santa's helper.
The town of North Pole, Alaska is a mere 15 miles from here. If you'd like a letter, postmarked "North Pole," delivered to someone, seal your letter in a stamped, addressed envelope, and instead of mailing it from your local post office, enclose it in a larger envelope and send this to us. On about December 12th we'll mail them from North Pole.
Send to:
Tom Baring and Don Bahls Arctic Region Supercomputing Center University of Alaska Fairbanks P.O. Box 756020 Fairbanks, AK 99775-6020
Plan extra time for mail up and back from Alaska... If you post these to us on or before Dec. 5th, there should be no problem.
Quick-Tip Q & A
A:[[ My application creates a number of postscript files that I need [[ to convert to the png image format so I can put them on my webpage. [[ Currently I open each file in an image editor and save the file [[ to the new name. This seems like a waste of my time! Is there [[ a way to automate this process? # # Thanks to Greg Newby for this suggestion. # ps2png is part of the tth package: http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/ It has some prerequisites, but I tried it on a non-ARSC system and got it working quickly. It seemed to work fairly well (about as well as other methods for getting images from .ps files). # # Ed Bueler suggested using the following technique. # One can use ghostscript; here for converting foo.eps into foo.png: gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dEPSCrop -sDEVICE=png16m -r300 \ -sOutputFile=foo.png foo.eps I have a makefile that includes a bunch of these kinds of conversions in order to create a User's Manual in PDF format. This page has lots of advice on using ghostscript, including a description of the flags/options used above: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/cvs/Use.htm # # Thanks to Rich Griswold for this suggestion. # The Netpbm "pstopnm" utility will convert postscript to pnm. One file will be created for each page in the postscript file (for example running pstopnm on file.ps with three pages creates file001.ppm, file002.ppm, and file003.ppm). From there, you can use pnmtopng to create the png files. Here's a simple zsh script to convert a file: #!/bin/zsh for i in $@; do pstopnm $i for j in $i:r*.ppm; do pnmtopng $j > $j:r.png done done # # Jed Brown, Sean Ziegeler, Martin Luethi, and Chris Swingley suggested # using ImageMagick. Here's Chris Swingley's response: # Indeed there is! The ImageMagick suite of programs will do this task very quickly and easily. Something like this (in bash): $ for i in `ls *.ps`; do convert -density 150 $i ${i%%.*}.png; done I've found that using the '-density [dpi]' option to convert yields the best looking images when converting a vector format (like PostScript) to raster (like PNG). You'll need to tweak this value to get the final image size you want. The strange looking '${i%%.*}.png' snippet replaces the ps at the end of the files with png which informs the convert command what format you're looking for as output. One other hint with shell loops like this: put 'echo' before the command you're running ('echo convert . . .' in this case) the first time you try the loop. This gives you a chance to see how the shell has interpreted your code, before actually running it. If the result looks like a set of valid commands, just run the command again, but without the 'echo'. # # And here's a second suggestion from Jed Brown. # For some things, I find the gimp does a better job so I have written some scripts that do batch resizing and application of filters. If you don't know scheme, the learning curve might be steep with the gimp. Q: [ Thanks to Derek Bastille for sending this. We've simplified and restated the problem to protect the innocent...] I have a file which contains a long list of file names, one per line. Every file name takes the format of a time-stamp followed by a name, like this: YYYYMMDD.HHMM.<name>, and every file name is prefixed by a full Unix path. Here's a sampling of the file: /wrkdir/gizmo/STREAM_BENCHMARK/20071010.2322.stdout.txt /archive/u1/uaf/gizmo/STREAM_BENCHMARK/CRAY-T3D/19940911.1023.stdout.txt /archive/u1/uaf/gizmo/STREAM_BENCHMARK/CRAY-T3D/19940911.1023.stdout.txt /u1/uaf/cranky/progs/nas/20050606.0730.run1.out /u1/uaf/cranky/progs/nas/20050606.0838.run2.out /scratch/stuff/20071106.1803.run1.out I need to sort the lines in this file, using the time-stamp as the sort key. The character position of the time-stamp varies from line to line, as does the number of forward slash delimiters. Is there a way to do this with the Unix "sort" command, or am I stuck writing a script?
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Benefits of Dimples
License: CC BY-NC 3.0
Most golf balls are white, but this red ball is clearly a golf ball. You can tell from the familiar dimples on its surface. Why do golf balls have dimples?
Why It Matters
- If you play golf, then you know that being able to hit the ball farther may help you win a game. But no matter how hard you hit a golf ball, it will be slowed down by fluid friction with the air. This is also called air drag or air resistance. It is caused by friction between the ball and molecules of air. It slows down the ball and reduces the distance it travels.
- Dimples on the surface of a golf ball reduce air drag. In fact, they reduce it by about half. In other words, a dimpled golf ball is almost twice as slippery as it moves through the air as a golf ball without dimples.
- Watch this video to see how dimples affect the flow of air over the surface of a moving golf ball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvVuuaqCC7A
Can You Apply It?
Learn about another way dimples might be used at the link below. Then answer the questions that follow.
- Teen engineer Daniela Jiminez came up with the idea to use dimples to reduce air drag in another application. What was it?
- What is the key to reducing air drag on a moving object?
- What hypothesis did Daniela test with her experiments?
- How did Daniela test her hypothesis?
- What were the results of Daniela's experiments?
- What did Daniela conclude about dimples in trucks and fuel efficiency? How would dimples help conserve energy?


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When it comes to selecting your window air conditioner, choosing the right size is the most important decision you will make. Selecting a unit too…
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Sorry, the manufacturer is no longer producing this product.
Description & Highlights
Friedrich 17,500 BTU -1,100 sq ft - Heat/Cool Kuhl Window Air Conditioner w/ Remote
While the world bakes to a crisp or freezes solid, you can stay nice and cozy in the comfort of your home. Cranking out 17,500 BTU's of cooling and up to 13,000 BTU's of heating power, the Friedrich 17,500 BTU Heat/Cool Kuhl Window Air Conditioner (EM18N34) can easily handle a space of up to 1,100 sq ft. You won't need to worry though, this air conditioner is efficient with an estimated yearly cost of just $147. The included remote control lets you adjust it from a convenient distance or with the FriedrichLink wi-fi adapter (sold separately) you can operate from anywhere with your smartphone, tablet, or computer.
Installing easily in windows 27 3/8" to 42" wide, this air conditioner ensures a snug fit with its reliable slideout chassis. Sure to fit your décor, the Kuhl line of air conditioners offers covers in a variety of colors (sold separately). Once firmly in place you can keep your home at just the right temperature any time a day with its highly customizable settings to suit your needs. This air conditioner has 4 cooling speeds, 4 fan-only speeds, and 8-way air flow control all operating quietly to your delight thanks to precision engineering. It can be set on a 24-hour timer to save energy all while keeping you and yours comfortable all year round.
Strong and Reliable Use:Cranks out 17,500 BTU's of cooling and up to 13,000 BTU's of heating power to treat a space of up to 1,100 sq ft with ease.
Efficient Operation:Despite its power, this air conditioner operates efficiently with an estimated yearly cost of just $147.
Easily Controlled and Programmed:To suit you and your home's unique needs, this air conditioner can be easily programmed for a customized fit. It's controlled with ease from the unit, remote control, or even your smartphone, tablet, or computer via the FriedrichLink (sold separately).
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Note: You will need to purchase a window kit separately for proper installation.
Note: Heat function is intended to provide supplemental heating in addition to an existing heat source. The heat function has a lower BTU rating than the cool mode and therefore does not treat the same square footage.
- Model: EM18N34Friedrich 17,500 BTU Heat/Cool Kuhl Window Air Conditioner
- Brand: FriedrichEntryGard™ anti-intrusion protection
- Coverage area: 1,000 sq. ft. (cool) 550 sq. ft. (heat)Washable antimicrobial air filter
- 17,500 BTU's of coolingUltra quiet operation
- 13,000 BTU's heating powerReliable slideout chassis for a snug fit
- Efficient use to save money over its lifetimeMade to fit windows 27 3/8" to 42" wide
- Estimated yearly cost of $147Removes 4.6 liters of moisture from the air per hour
- Conveniently controlled from a distance by included remote control or smartphone, tablet, or computer via the FriedrichLink wi-fi adapter (sold separately)EER Rating: Up to 10.7
- Programmable to suit your unique needsInput voltage: 230/208 V/60 Hz
- Smart Grid capability to communicate with and adjust to city's power gridWeight: 141 lbs
- Choice of available front covers to fit your home's unique décor (sold separately)Dimensions: 17 15/16"H x 25 15/16"W x 29"D
- Warranty: 5-year limited warranty
- Height: 17 15/16"
- Width: 25 15/16"
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Only seems fair to start haggling over this asanine bummer of an idea...again!
This Doctor has a question for the self-annointed-one.
Obama writes checks the medical community can't cash
Dear Friend,
As you know, I am no fan of socialized medicine. Of course, President Obama is -- he's a big fan of any excuse to get the government poking its nose into peoples' business. But it turns out there's a major hitch to Obama's goal of massive healthcare reforms: there aren't enough doctors to provide the massive amount of health care the president is promising.
It's a wonderful irony: more and more of our best and brightest have been deliberately steering clear of medical careers because it's too much of a hassle. Time was when there were 50 applications for every open spot in medical school. The Annals of Internal Medicine reported that there will be a shortage of 200,000 doctors in the U.S. in the next 20 years. But the health care manpower crisis may have already arrived.
Federal officials are already unnerved by the shortage, and are scrambling for ways to boost the number of physicians. In the Obama administration's view, there are millions of uninsured who are already lining up for the "free" health care provided by the president's promised legislation. The light is finally going on that these new medical demands cannot possibly be met with the current population of doctors in the U.S.
"We're not producing enough primary-care physicians," Obama said at a recent White House health care forum. "The costs of medical education are so high that people feel they've got to specialize."
This is a half-truth. It's true that America has a downturn in primary care docs, but it's not just because of the cost of getting a med school education. Sorry, Mr. President. I know that this little jab at U.S. education costs dovetails nicely with your Let-Taxes-Pay- For-Everything worldview. But the reality is, there are fewer doctors because bright kids realize that there is very little financial reward to medicine.
Think about it: would-be doctors face 12 or more years of study, at a tremendous cost (med school loans can tally as much as $140K)... only to face ungrateful patients who sue, and the resulting huge malpractice insurance costs. And don't forget that docs are routinely persecuted by county, state, and federal boards for not toeing the line on the type of medicine they practice.
Obama correctly points out that more medical students are pursuing the more lucrative path of medical specialties. According to Sen. Max Baucus (D-Montana), "Primary-care physicians are grossly underpaid compared with many specialists."
In the face of the shortage, Obama and his team have cooked up some possible fixes -- all of which come with their own problems.
One idea is to boost the amount of Medicare payments to primary care doctors - a proposal that has sparked rage among medical specialists who (correctly) claim that this picks their collective pockets.
What's more, this will only serve to increase the amount of medical costs that Obama himself has pledged to help tamp down.
Other proposals include increasing enrollment in med schools... but no one is suggesting exactly how to do this. The government quick fix for this could be similar to affirmative action policies of the 1960s and 1970s,which sought to boost the enrollment of African-Americans in U.S. colleges by mandating lower academic standards. At the college level, this is just plain wrong. At the med school level, it's downright dangerous.
Is it really going to do anyone much good if we can say we have an adequate number of doctors if they're less talented?
Some are saying we should spread out the existing supply of doctors by increasing the use of physician's assistants and nurse practitioners. With all due respect to those who happen to be nurse practitioners or physicians assistants: they are not doctors. The schooling to become qualified as one of these professions is certainly difficult, but falls far short of an M.D. This "solution" won't really solve anything -- there will still be an inadequate number of legitimately qualified physicians.
Obama seems to think that community health clinics could solve the problem, and has been allocating untold millions to these facilities. But the truth is, these clinics are not immune to the doctor shortage, and they too are having a difficult time finding staff.
It's going to become more and more obvious to those in this administration and the American people that Obama cannot merely wave his Hope-and-Change wand and make real-world problems disappear.
If Obama wants his plan to work, he'll need more doctors. And more doctors mean that his health care proposals can only be realized at an astronomical cost to the American taxpayer. Sadly, Obama has not yet let astronomical costs get in the way of his overhaul of the American way of life.
Never short on my supply of the truth,
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Although unemployment is at a 22-year high in Alabama, this year the state will not have one of its top events to recruit new industries. The Alabama Governor's One-Shot Turkey Hunt, a favorite of economic developers and their guests, has fallen victim to the economy this year.
The event is on a one-year sabbatical because of the soft economy. Officials at the Alabama Department of Conservation said they canceled the event for 2009 because of fears sponsors would not participate.
Barnett Lawley, the state's conservation commissioner, said the decision to cancel the event, at least for one year, was not easy but was the only choice.
"We are just going through tough economic times," he said. "We thought about the bind our sponsors are in."
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West of Shake Rag is hosting a sparkly comedy show this weekend with its "Blinging in the New Year" show.
The glittery show starts at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Link Centre's Black Box Theatre.
Tickets are $5, and that includes popcorn.
Call (662) 690-4011 for more information.
Two chances to catch Blue Mountain and Marah
Music fan favorites Blue Mountain and Marah have two gigs in Northeast Mississippi this weekend.
The first is tonight at Proud Larry's, and the gig starts at 8:30 p.m.
Tickets are $10, and it's an 18 and up show.
For more info, visit proudlarrys.com.
The second gig is in Tupelo at 9 p.m. Saturday.
The show is at Blue Canoe, and there's a $5 cover.
For more info on this show, visit facebook.com/BlueCanoeTupelo or call (662) 269-2642.
Storytellers, musician to present 'Oxford Unchained' at Powerhouse
Storytellers Annie Duke, Tim Manley and Michaela Blei, artist Peter Aguero and musician Christopher Paul Stelling are bringing the Unchained Tour to Oxford.
The tour presents raconteur-style unscripted storytelling and music.
The show is 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Powerhouse.
Tickets are $15 and available at showclix.com/event/3736340.
For more info, call (662) 236-6429.
King Kobraz to play favorites at Proud Larry's gig next week
Blake Pruett and Pat Haadsma – better known as King Kobraz – are the men behind the hit song "Rebelz/Feed Moncreif."
In celebration of the duo's new album, "It's Always TSUNny in Oxford," King Kobraz will perform at Proud Larry's on Jan. 18.
Pell opens.
Tickets are $7.
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You don't have to be military to love this one. The Army-Navy game is the best football game there is. Period. College or pro!
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Almost went to see Terminator Salvation, but then I decided not to waste my money and watched T1 on Netflix!
Almost went to see Terminator Salvation, but then I decided not to waste my money and watched T1 on Netflix!
For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is.
Went to a car meet in Round Rock, then 5-6 of us went for a cruise. We did a photo shoot with our cars, stopped by McDonalds and had a bite to eat. Finally we went to a big car meet down in Austin, saw some amazing cars, Vipers galore a RHD Honda Del Sol with the automatic roof, only sold overseas!!!
It was a great night and I got to run my car with some of the big guys. We had an Evo X, STi, WRX, RA, G8, and Challenger R/T.
May the force be with you.
Cleaning my house, mowing the lawn, and running to the store to get supplies for my son's graduation party held today, Sunday, June 7th.
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I went to see UP on Saturday and was really touched. Man... everyone in the cinema was crying!! It certainly resonated with a lot of people. Very good film.
Went out for food at some Mexican fusion joint afterwards. Nice evening.
Went to a meeting at LA Harbor College. That place is a pretty nice facility.
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
Well, so far I've worked an officer involved shooting from about three-thirty this morning until now (I've just arrived at home). I think I'll just veg the rest of the day
Officers OK, bad guy no longer with us.......
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
Took my daughter to see Up in 3-D! Going to a promotion party in an hour or so.
May the force be with you.
I worked at the grocery store fuel station from 5:45 to 2:15 and I'm tired as all hell. The work isn't even remotely strenuous but just waking up that early is a pain.
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Tony Burroughs at the Newberry - this Saturday!
Posted on March 14, 2017
Please join us at 1 pm this Saturday for Tony Burroughs' exploration of online and offline resources for African American family history research. Tony will explore records of the Freedmen's Bureau, among others, building on the Newberry exhibition, Photographing Freetowns: African-American Kentucky through the Lens of Helen Balfour Morrison, 1935-1946.
Tony, of course, is internationally renowned for his genealogy expertise, and he is a great speaker to boot! The program is free and open to the public; no reservations are required.


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Can you survive the end of days on PlayStation 3?
- Embark on a thrilling adventure to find your wife and daughter in a city decimated by a worldwide cataclysmic event.
- Choose whether or not to help strangers or sacrifice them in order to survive this hostile landscape.
- Battle enemies using a unique intimidation-based combat system.
- Download and enjoy this game at a great discounted price with PlayStation Plus.


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This park shares its name with the much larger Springfield Park to its south, a site named after the surrounding neighborhood of Springfield Gardens. An enticing settlement area because of its richness in natural resources, Springfield Gardens remained largely agricultural until the Long Island Rail Road extended to this community, stimulating rapid residential development. Today the park provides recreational facilities for both students in J.H.S. 231 and local residents.


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Panel discussion planned on 'Sex and the City,' Feb. 20
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Rihanna in a maroon ensemble.
Kristin Cavallari was looking elvin in green.
Jennifer Hudson in burgundy.
Cobie Smulders wore olive.
Kat De Luna smolders in bright red.
While Christina Aguilera looked stunning in bright green.
Kristin Davis was so very red.
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Just racked up at the Meridian Wal-Mart!!!
Scored 7 figures:
30-07: Airborne Trooper (Ultimate Galactic Hunt)
30-22: M'iiyoom Onith (Hementhe)
30-23: Elis Helrot (Givin)
30-24: Boba Fett (Animated Debut)
30-24: Boba Fett (Animated Debut - Ultimate Galactic Hunt)
30-27: Umpass-Stay (Klatooinian)
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Left the Luke Farmer & a bunch of Greatest Hits figs there....
I AM SO PROUD!!!! WHOOHOO!!!! Didnt think I would ever get Animated Boba, but to get 2 of em, both variations! AWESOME!


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Was a big fan of the Shield when it was on. The final ep still haunts me. FX has been very good to Walton Goggins.
I have two JFK specials, both from the History Channel, to watch, but they may set there are a bit.
Judgment at Nurenburg (1961). Excellent court drama about four Nazi judges on trial for their crimes during the war. Burt Lancaster plays one of the Nazis. Spencer Tracy is the American judge presiding over the tribunal.


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Hooray, first diary entry. I got certified by Seth (and myself) - not sure how many certs it takes to be able to post my own articles. Guess I will find out later.
Very excited about advogato and its mod. I have been tracking online music happenings quite a bit and have written quite a few brainstorms about it as well. I am considering starting a site using advogoto's mod for the sole purpose of reporting and discussing directions in online music, digital media, and artist payment mechanisms. Right now I've got a blog that discusses some of this stuff, which also doubles as something of a journal for me.


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FERC risks going overboard in easing penalties for generation imbalances.
Bruce W. Radford is editor-in-chief for Public Utilities Fortnightly .
FERC risks going overboard in easing penalties for generation imbalances.
Take an actual wind farm, this one with a capacity of 102 megawatts (MW), developed and brought on line by FPL Energy. Now consider what happened next with the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority (OMPA), which owned a 50 percent share in the facility during its first full year of operation, beginning Sept. 29, 2003.
According to records assembled and analyzed by the Transmission Access Policy Study Group (TAPS), an association of municipal and other transmission-dependent utilities (TDUs), the wind farm did just about as good a job of incurring penalties for imbalances as producing profits from actual power sales.
Over the first 12 months, from October 2003 through September 2004, OMPA's share of the wind farm produced more than 154,000 MWh, at an average unit cost of $16.33/MWh. So far so good.
But wind is fickle. Wind turbine output often failed to match the schedules that OMPA would have filed with the control area operator (now also known as the balancing authority). In fact, over the full year, OMPA recorded some 14,000 MWh of excess power deliveries. Shortfalls ran higher—at 40,688 MWh—and that's the problem of most interest here.
These shortfalls, under typical transmission owner tariffs governing generation imbalances, and permitted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), likely would have given rise to more than $3.4 million in imbalance penalties. That's $22.10 per MWh—a third higher than the production cost. These harsh charges would have come from FERC's so-called $100 "death penalty" ($100/MWh, or 10 cents per kilowatt-hour), which is calculated on all generator imbalances that exceed a dead-band of the greater of 2 MW, or plus or minus 1.5 percent of the plant's schedule. (Energy imbalances, which occur when customer demand runs higher or lower than promised by load-serving entities, also trigger an identical $100 penalty, outside of an identical dead-band.) These penalties are sanctioned by FERC Order No. 888, which allowed transmission providers to build them into their generation interconnection agreements, for generation imbalances, and their pro forma open access transmission tariffs (OATT), for energy imbalances.
To be accurate, the TAPS analysis assumes that OMPA would have avoided its $16.33/MWh production cost on the under-deliveries, so that the net penalty would have come in a bit less than $100/MWh. And, to be conservative, TAPS recognizes that some economists might instead credit OMPA with a higher avoided production cost of $50. That would be the cost of production of a gas-fired turbine burning fuel at prices of $5/MMBtu, at a heat rate of 10,000 Btu/kWh-the theory being that a wind farm might actually turn to purchased power on margin in the short term to meet all its delivery obligations. Yet, even in this most conservative case, OMPA's wind-farm investment would have racked up more than $2 million in penalties for generator imbalances, worth $13.20/MWh, or nearly as high as the $16.33 cost of the power itself. (See FERC Docket No. AD04-13, Post-Technical Conference Comments, pp. 4-8,


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Jennifer Martin of Portland, Oregon, writes: "I am not formally trained in cooking but grew up working in food service, from chopping vegetables at food festivals to catering parties for a little extra income. Today I own Epicure Custom Cooking, a gourmet takeout shop and catering company with a few tables for dining. Our specials change weekly and are geared toward what I like to cook and eat. I simply love the business, even with my 12-hour days."
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I followed the recipe exactly and the coffee cake was just perfect. Moist, with a lovely streusel, and the flavor had just the right amount of banana flavor. The cake kept moist for several days. The amount of chocolate is a bit over the top, but in a good way. But I do understand why some might add less chocolate.
Took the advice of others, doubled the batter and baked it in a Bundt pan. I layered the streusel using the whole portion, giving it a bit of crunch and texture inside. It was a big hit.
I have been making this recipe e as my go-to recipe using ripe bananas since it came out in 2003. It's great--full of banana and chocolate goodness. When I couldn't find my dog-eared copy, I decided to check on-line and found all these great reviews of the recipe with great ideas for changes. I look forward to trying them, especially us7ng a bundt pan to bake it.
I didn't use chocolate and cut the streusel in half as per other reviewers. I also added about 1/3 cup of frozen cranberries and cut the sugar in the banana cake in half. I used coconut milk with a squeeze of lemon instead of buttermilk because I had none. Delicious!
I made it as is, but we found it really sweet. The chocolate almost overwhelmed the cake. Next time I would definitely half the amount of chocolate. I might just half the entire streusel amount. For something different I am thinking of adding some coconut to the streusel mix.
Really delicious. HOWEVER, when you double the recipe and make it in a bundt pan, you need to put the streusel on the BOTTOM of the pan before pouring in the batter. Yes, some of us think we're so smart until we realize how dumb we are.
WAY too sweet!! I love chocolate and have a very sweet tooth, but I would halve the streusel recipe next time. Otherwise, it was yummy and we ate the whole thing.
This cake is fantastic. I followed the recipe for the most part, but I used twice the amount of the bananas. I didn't use cinnamon and I substituted plain 0% Greek yogurt (Fage) for the buttermilk. Next time around, I'll probably use half the white and brown sugar, 4-6ox of chocolate chips. It is delicious. I'd serve warm if you can - let cool for 3-4 hours. I feel like it's more of a dessert and I'm serving it as such with milk.
A family fave! I have even tried it with a gluten free mixture which is also good.Frozen bananas don't work so well.
This was REALLY good cake!! My husband who is a banana bread lover thought it was very yummy also. I doubled the recipe except the streusel. I also accidently used only the half amount of brown sugar than the original recipe calls for. I baked in a removable bottom round pan since I wanted be able to see the streusel on the top of cake. Definitely a keeper!!


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By Ben Levisohn
BofA Merrill Lynch cut its rating on Mercado Libre (MELI) –Latin America's Amazon–to Neutral from Buy.
You could say that Merrill analysts Robert Ford, Melissa Byun and Nicole Inui made the cut almost grudgingly. They acknowledge Mercado Libre's strong strategic position, its long-term growth prospects, even the secular drivers that should make it a good bet long term.
So why the cut? It comes down to the stocks big gains and its potential to disappoint. Mercado Libre's stock has gained 26% this year, ahead of both the MSCI Latin America Index's 0.8% loss and the Nasdaq's 19% gain. But with the stock trading at 37 times 2013 earnings forecasts, they feel it could "be vulnerable to possible short-term disappointment.
That disappointment could come as early as its first-quarter earnings release, which is scheduled for May 6. They write:
While our 1Q13 operating assumptions are modestly below consensus, Venezuelan FX losses of ~$6mln, or 9¢ per share – disclosed in company filings – seem to be excluded from most projections. Our 1QE EPS of 45¢ compares to consensus of 54¢. While MELI operates 24/7, an early Easter may also have slowed 1Q traffic. In Brazil, Carnaval and back-to-school timing also resulted in more pronounced and adverse retail seasonality. Calendar impacts could also coincide with salary adjustments and possible SG&A pressure, as Brazil funding costs rise.
Shares of Mercado Libre have dropped 0.04% today to $100.69, while competitors Amazon (AMZN) and eBay (EBAY) have gained 1.8% and 0.9%, respectively.


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Police arrest suspect after assault on couple
Spokane Police arrested a suspected drug dealer accused of taking the law into his own hands and beating a couple he thought had stolen his cash and stash.
The man and woman went to Lawrence Adams' home on East Queen to buy some crack cocaine. What they didn't know is a dealer who lives at a different address was inside waiting for them in a back bedroom.
After they walked in, police say Adams, 27, attacked them with a heavy metal pipe. Witnesses said Adams accused the couple of burglarizing his apartment and stealing drugs and thousands of dollars in cash.
The man was beaten so badly his girlfriend rushed him to Holy Family Hospital where doctors found cuts in his face and head that went all the way to the bone.
Inside the emergency room the woman told police Adams had cut off her hair and later claimed she was raped with a foreign object so she would "never forget what she did."
Police, who arrested Adams two days later, said the savage attack is unfortunately the way the drug world operates.
"The victim in this case had burglarized the person who assaulted him and that person retaliated and it was money related to drugs, so it was a drug related assault," Spokane Police Lieutenant Mark Griffiths said.
Police have not charged Adams with rape as they are still investigating the female victim's claims she was held down and sexually assaulted.
Adams is being held in the Spokane County Jail in lieu of a $50,000 bond.
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Official Steam Client For Ubuntu Linux Released
This is a huge deal for folks who love both gaming and Linux, because there previously weren't many options for good titles on their computers. Having Steam on a Linux box unlocks a plethora of titles, including Team Fortress 2 (which is free), Half-Life, Counter-Strike 1.6, Counter-Strike Source, and many, many more. Of course, Big Picture is part of the Linux client, so users can bring Steam into the living room on their Ubuntu computers.
Yes, Ubuntu, because the client is designed to deliver its "best experience" on Ubuntu, with, incidentally, NVIDIA graphics. (AMD, however, is not slouching on this; the company just released Catalyst drivers for its Radeon cards and embedded graphics.)
Until February 21st, Valve is offering a deep discount on more than 50 Linux titles, to the tune of 50-75% off, which is proof that Valve loves Linux users and wants them to be happy.


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no wonder Hasbro sold out so *&(%&*in early. Geezus. &^$^&%#$^@ scalpers!!!!!!!! Destroy them we must.
no wonder Hasbro sold out so *&(%&*in early. Geezus. &^$^&%#$^@ scalpers!!!!!!!! Destroy them we must.
HTS did something positive for a change. Starscream Skystriker has arrived at my home already, even though I never got a shipping notice.
So really long time no post. And sadly i have no new babys like crunchy to use as my reason ha im just lazy. Btw congrats to crunch a munch on the twins. SOOOOOOO new finds. Picked up my new super articulated republic commandos at sdcc.UMMMMMMM Got my deathstar 14pack thats news. last year i got a ticket at noon that said come at 4 which wasnt bad no extra line outside the turnstiles. this year i got my hasbro ticket on thurs at 9 am that said come back at 2pm. they when i came back at 2 then said come back at 4 there 2 hrs behind. then 4 turned to 5. then 5 to we gave out to many tickets come back tomarrow morning. arrived right as the doors opened and still waited over an hour and a half. oh well at least i got it.
Also found a bwing 2 weeks back at burb kmart. Ywing , tru deluxe geonosian w speeder, rebel w transport, commander blackout, and there were 2 republic shuttles i saw all at tru lacieniga few days back but passed on the shuttle. Gona wait for the commander blackout promo to get a second one free when i get that one.
What else what else. Oh and was i the only one that looked at hasbros slideshow this year and went thats it? wheres the rest? seriously hasbro thats a weak line up. 40 figures in 1 year. Havent had that since 2001. At least 52 come on Big H get it together.
And im glad they see we need more wedge packed in too. At least there slightly using there head.
Target Culver City - yikes, so much nothing for SW. Transformers had the new exclusive deluxe repaints, but no Space Case.
BTW, EE didn't stamp their badges, not sure how they expected to work their limits. I guess transaction-only, can't hope everybody would remember everybody else's customers.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
And yet, on Friday evening, I saw one guy that had purchased an entire case of the Faker/Bizarro 2 packs attempting to return them because all of the cards had damage.
So HTS delivered the Starscream Skystriker to me today but they neglected the packing invoice!
Drove back to Los Angeles from Las Vegas yesterday and picked up several things along the way. First off, I love how GI Joe is actually stocked in Vegas. At their Walmart, I walked in just before noon and found 2 Alley Vipers and 2 Fireflies. At their Target, I picked up a POC Viper and the new Skystriker. While there, I purchased two Target exclusive Captain America 2-packs, one with the Red Skull and one with Crossbones. This Target also had a variety of 75% clearance prices on Tron toys. I couldn't resist $2.48 for Flynn's lightcycle (potential custom fodder for a future blue, red, and yellow), $1.74 figures, and $.74 die casts. At TRU, I purchased a Y-Wing and exclusive Stealth Trooper. I wanted to go to their K-Mart to search for a B-Wing, but I didn't know where one was. Another plus for Vegas is lower tax. There were still several of each of these, if anyone wants to go. It's a long toy run, but a full one if along the way you stop at each Ross, TJ Maxx, and Marshalls, as well.
Bran -- that means it's free and/or u can't return it......
Maradona -- wow that's waaaaaayyyyy outer rim. Even grievous wouldn't hide there....
darknight4516 -- Did i call the Hasbro debacle or what?? Glad u got your item.
Crunchy -- if I hadn't already mentioned this, congrats on the twins!! Boy & girl. Very cool!! & many SW jokes to follow
JT -- plmk when ur free to meetup, i'll text u later i guess. Got a weird schedule this wknd
Maradona - You are nuts!
Lucky for me that the only thing I wanted from Hasbro this year was the Marvel Legends Thor. I was able to get it on Sunday without having to wait in line very long (maybe 5 mins.).
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SW Customs Album
Target had the Clone Wars Bounty Hunter set on clearance for $12.48. I got one for my daughter.
I also found two of the "canceled" GIJoe Rise of Cobra Alpha Vehicles (the SHARC and Lava Pod) at a Tuesday Morning, so if anyone still needs 'em and is near a Tuesday Morning, you can give them a shot. (Of course, Tuesday Mornings are tougher to find and more hit-and-miss than Ross ever dreamed of being.)


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Here's Ruben Amaro a few minutes ago on the rumors that talks for Roy Halladay are intensifying between the Phillies and Blue Jays: "I don't think there is any likeliness (of a big trade happening)…there is nothing likely. How about that?"
It was creative use of the world "likely." Of course, no trade is "likely," until just before it happens; there are too many variables and moving parts. But the Phillies are certainly more "likely" than about 27 other teams to acquire the ace.
As we've said all along, several factors would have to break the right way for Halladay to become a Phillie: The Yankees and Red Sox would have to bail, because if those two behemoths duked it out for Doc, they'd probably try to outdo one another with trade packages that eclipse what the Phils would want to present. The Yankees lost a few trade chips when they acquired Curtis Granderson last week, but still have the talent to get a deal done, if they are motivated (it should be noted that Yanks' GM Brian Cashman is fiercely protective of his prospects, and would find it difficult to continue trading them this winter).
If the Yanks and Sox do not remain serious players for Halladay, he would probably fall to the Phillies and Angels. According to the Toronto Sun, L.A. yesterday offered pitcher Joe Saunders, shortstop Erik Aybar, and outfielder Peter Bourjos for Halladay. That's a good offer, and a comparable one from the Phillies, talent-wise, would have to include J.A. Happ and Michael Taylor (Cole Hamels will not be traded). There have been rumors that Halladay wouldn't go to the Angels because they train in Arizona and the Doc lives in Florida, but it is important to note that he has never actually said that, at least publicly.
Here is what we know: The Phillies and Halladay have long expressed a mutual interest. The Phils have the talent to get a deal done, though they would have to increase payroll to add Halladay—something they have said they do not want to do. Other than the report of the Angels' offer, nothing has changed about this storyline in the past several days.
With the 26th pick in this morning's Rule 5 draft, the Phillies selected RHP Kenneth Herndon from the Angels. Herndon, 24, is a 6 foot 5 reliever who throws a power sinker and slider. In the minor league portion of the draft, the Phils pitched RHP Angelo Sanchez, 20, from Minnesota.
"We really like the sinker he has," pro scouting director Mike Ondo said of Herndon. "We have seen him for three or four years now."
Pitching for Double-A Arkansas last season, Herndon went 5-6, with 11 saves and a 3.03 earned run average in 50 games. This winter, he pitched for Gigantes del Cibao in the Dominican Winter League, going 2-1 with a 3.86 ERA in 16 appearances
A quick refresher on the Rule 5: Once selected, a player must remain on his new team's 25-man roster for the entire next season—or the new team risks losing him to the old team again. Last year's Rule 5-er was Bobby Mosebach, also an Angels reliever, who was returned to L.A. at the end of spring training. Shane Victorino was a notable recent Rule 5 choice who later found success.
The Mets selected righthanded pitcher Carlos Montasario from Lehigh Valley. Montasario came over in 2006 as part of the Bobby Abreu trade.
Reliever Brandon Lyon signed with Houston last night for a reported three years, $15 million. The righthander was a prime Phillies' target to improve the bullpen, but a person with direct knowledge of the negotiations said that talks between the sides never gained any momentum at all. Amaro had a different take today, saying, "We were in pretty deep."


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Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein have been plenty serious, in their respective ways, for a long time. McKibben, one of the world's leading environmental writers and activists, has fought the climate fight in every conceivable way. In 2007, together with a small band of students at Middlebury College, where he teaches, he founded the global 350.org network. Last year it spearheaded the campaign against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, resulting in the largest civil-disobedience action in a generation at the gates of the White House. (The week after the election, they were back, thousands strong, pressuring Obama to kill the pipeline once and for all, and a major action is planned for Washington on February 17.)
For her part, Klein "came of age politically," she told me, with the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, when she was 29, shortly after which her international best-seller No Logo made her an intellectual star of the anti-globalization movement. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, her 2007 magnum opus, exposed the ways neoliberal free-market profiteers have exploited chaos and catastrophe in disaster zones, from hurricane-shocked New Orleans to "shock-and-awe"-shocked Iraq.
So seeing McKibben and Klein on stage together, launching a mathematical and moral assault on the carbon corporatocracy, says something significant about the charged atmosphere of this particular moment — as we end a year, the warmest on record, in which we lost half the Arctic ice cap and saw off-the-charts global weather extremes, while the political and media establishments seemed not to notice. It also says something about the direction the climate movement may be taking — or, rather, the direction McKibben and Klein argue it should be taking, as they seek to merge climate and economic justice in a way that goes beyond both traditional environmentalism and the old-school, climate-clueless left.
Each has a tough-love message for their own constituency — McKibben for an insular environmental movement that's been woefully ineffective on climate; Klein for a left, including many in the Occupy movement, that has failed to grapple with the seriousness and urgency of the climate crisis. Look, they're saying, this is it: science tells us that time is running out, and everything you've ever fought for is on the line. Climate change has the ability to undo your historic victories and crush your present struggles. So it's time to come together, for real, and fight to preserve and extend what you care most about — which means engaging in the climate fight, really engaging, as if your life and your life's work, even life itself, depended on it. Because they do.
Klein, as it happens, is at work on a book in which she hopes to tie all of this together. Due to appear late next year, it's part of a joint project with her husband, documentary filmmaker Avi Lewis. In a long interview from her home in Toronto before coming to Boston, Klein explained how the book and film — separate but interrelated pieces of a larger whole — make an ambitious argument, one she first laid out in a cover story for The Nation last November, "Capitalism vs. the Climate."
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"Synthetic biology" is an umbrella term that refers to a new set of powerful techniques for manipulating the fundamental molecular structures of life, including genes, genomes, cells and proteins. Techniques being developed under the "synthetic biology" rubric include the modification of existing bacteria to produce useful substances or perform new functions, the creation of novel artificial organisms from "scratch," and less noted to date the modification of animal and human genes.
Synthetic biologists foresee a host of human applications, including new methods to produce drugs, biofuels and vaccines; to diagnose, prevent and cure disease; and far more controversially to screen, select, and modify genes for specified traits in embryos, children, and adults. Nonetheless, the field remains in its early days, and separating hype from real potential remains difficult.
While diverse constituencies have voiced concerns about ecological and biosecurity risks, little attention has so far been called to the dangers connected to synthetic biology's human applications. Synthetically engineered viruses and pathogens and synthetic organisms released in the human body such as "tumor eating" bacteria, for example, pose profound dangers to human health.
Synthetic biology also presents dangers of a different kind if the field spawns forms of human genetic manipulation that heretofore have been impracticable. These include human reproductive cloning, the creation of "designer babies" through inheritable genetic modification, and other purported "enhancements." Leading figures in the synthetic biology field have in fact predicted, and in some cases embraced, such eugenic visions.
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Four years after purchasing Merrill Lynch, Bank of America (BAC) said it will end investment bank's days as a separate legal entity. Bloomberg has the details:
Bank of America Corp., the second-biggest U.S. lender, plans to merge its Merrill Lynch subsidiary into the parent company to reduce complexity and costs.
The move could happen as early as the fourth quarter and means Charlotte, North Carolina-based Bank of America assumes all the investment bank's obligations and debt, Merrill Lynch said in an Aug. 2 filing. Dissolving the legal entity also ends Merrill Lynch's need to file separate regulatory disclosures.
Shares of Bank of America have gained 1% to $14.47 today, while JPMorgan Chase (JPM) has risen 0.7% to $53.66, Citigroup (C) has ticked up 0.3% to $51.01 and Wells Fargo (WFC) is up 0.3% to $43.13. The Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLF) has gained 0.5% to $20.16.


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Archive – July, 2006
PUPP inspires students on the road to college
Posted July 31, 2006; 05:23 p.m.
After touring the Chinese art collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Asia Society in New York, students in the Princeton University Preparatory Program (PUPP) were ready to create some Asian-inspired works of their own.
Genetic engineering competition puts students at cusp of new science
Posted July 27, 2006; 04:06 p.m.
Clusters of students gathered in Princeton's Lewis Thomas Lab on a recent Friday for a trouble-shooting session before heading to their benches for another attempt at something few labs in the world can do: transforming mouse stem cells into muscle cells.
Scientists build 'magnetic semiconductors' one atom at a time
Posted July 27, 2006; 01:00 p.m.
In a stride that could hasten the development of computer chips that both calculate and store data, a team of Princeton scientists has turned semiconductors into magnets by the precise placement of metal atoms within a material from which chips are ...
Alumnus donates valuable voting data to Princeton
Posted July 27, 2006; 11:00 a.m.
Bruce C. Willsie, a Princeton alumnus and president of a company that compiles voter information, has given the University a valuable data set pertaining to some 75 million voters in 11 states, about half of the registered voters in the country. The...
Sortino wins Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship
Posted July 26, 2006; 06:06 p.m.
Kelly Sortino, a 2003 Princeton graduate, has been awarded a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship. The scholarships provide each winner with up to $300,000 for the length of their graduate or professional degree programs.
Dixit named to British Academy
Posted July 26, 2006; 03:26 p.m.
Avinash Dixit, the John J.F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics, has been named a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.
Fragile Families study earns $17 million federal award
Posted July 26, 2006; 02:55 p.m.
Researchers at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs have been awarded $17 million from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to support a new round of data collection for the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study.
Wolf earns IEEE education award
Posted July 25, 2006; 05:55 p.m.
The Circuits and Systems Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers has awarded its 2006 Education Award to Wayne Wolf, Princeton professor of electrical engineering.
Lessons in nature take wing with Cotsen butterfly program
Posted July 24, 2006; 03:16 p.m.
Five-year-old Manuel watched intently as Pam Newitt picked up a cabbage white butterfly and placed it on the tip of his mother's nose. "If you have a sweaty nose and you put a butterfly on it, he'll sit there and drink," Newitt explained. Manuel was mesmerized.
International Center hosts dialogue series through Aug. 31
Posted July 24, 2006; 02:15 p.m.
The International Center is hosting a series of lunch discussions at noon on Thursdays through Aug. 31 in 243 Frist Campus Center.
Institute fosters excitement about science for teachers
Posted July 20, 2006; 01:15 p.m.
The recent heat wave in Princeton provided a perfect backdrop for the Summer Institute in Environmental Science, a program dedicated to helping New Jersey teachers broaden their knowledge about the environment and other science topics.
Students win Fulbrights to study abroad
Posted July 19, 2006; 03:03 p.m.
Nine members of Princeton's graduating class of 2006 and four graduate students have been awarded Fulbright grants to study abroad for the 2006-07 academic year.
Tilghman featured in Wall Street Journal interview
Posted July 19, 2006; 12:29 p.m.
Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman was featured July 17 in The Wall Street Journal in an interview addressing the expansion of the undergraduate student body and recently adopted family-friendly initiatives, among many issues facing the University.
Institute fosters partnerships to help region
Posted July 18, 2006; 11:39 a.m.
The many challenges facing the tri-state region — meeting the growing demands for mass transit, providing schools that offer what students need in a demanding global economy, balancing the pressure for growth with a concern for the environment — can seem daunting. Policy-makers, legislators and community leaders increasingly have been turning for help to an institute in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
OIT working on service outage
Posted July 18, 2006; 10:26 a.m.
The Office of Information Technology is working to resolve a computing infrastructure outage that has affected e-mail delivery and several other services.
Alumnus creates fund for American Jewish studies at Princeton
Posted July 17, 2006; 05:06 p.m.
Sidney Lapidus, a member of Princeton's class of 1959, and his wife, Ruth, have established a fund at the University to expand and enhance studies pertaining to the history of Jewish life in America.
Class of 1969 internships put Princeton students into service
Posted July 17, 2006; 04:57 p.m.
Senior Meghan Farrell is among dozens of Princeton students dedicating her time this summer to projects that provide valuable community service while helping to prepare them for the future. Farrell is teaching language arts to inner-city students at the Gesu School in Philadelphia. She spent the earlier part of her summer at another inner-city school in Philadelphia, the Young Scholars Charter School, tutoring and working on a project to help middle school students understand their options for applying to private high schools. Both jobs came to Farrell through a newly expanded summer program administered by the Class of 1969 Community Service Fund.
Ward unravels bacteria's role in global nitrogen cycle
Posted July 13, 2006; 04:12 p.m.
Bess Ward is a biogeochemist, which is a big-picture way of saying that she does a little bit of everything — biology, geology and chemistry, especially as they relate to the world's oceans. She studies the nitrogen cycle: the biological and chemical shuffle of nitrogen from soils to oceans to atmosphere and back again. Key to this movement is a host of microorganisms, particularly bacteria or "bugs," as Ward calls them. In an attempt to better understand which bugs do what where, Ward has collected them from waters all over the world, from Chesapeake Bay to the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Alaska to Antarctica.
Outage to affect some computing services, July 11
Posted July 11, 2006; 04:06 p.m.
Some central computing services on campus will be unavailable between 7 p.m. and midnight, Tuesday, July 11, during an outage for maintenance being performed at the main data center by the Office of Information Technology.
Annual Giving campaign raises record $40.4 million
Posted July 11, 2006; 01:00 a.m.
The 2005-06 Annual Giving campaign raised $40,408,142-- the highest total in Princeton's history -- with 58.2 percent of undergraduate alumni participating. This achievement -- $3.4 million more than the previous best last year -- represents strong performances across Princeton's broad range of constituencies, including major Reunion classes, non-major Reunion classes, graduate alumni and parents.
Suburbia a rich source of scholarship for Princeton historian
Posted July 10, 2006; 03:53 p.m.
Growing up in the South, Princeton historian Kevin Kruse was fascinated by the civil rights movement. His interest in the topic led him to his groundbreaking book, "White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism," published last year by Princeton University Press. It describes how segregationists moved to the suburbs and cast aside their racist demagoguery in favor of a new kind of separatist philosophy that, Kruse argues, led to the ascendancy of the Republican Party and a transformation of American politics.
University investigates hazardous materials report - UPDATED
Posted July 10, 2006; 02:45 p.m.
A hazardous materials team was called to the Princeton University campus today to investigate a suspicious substance, but an investigation revealed that the substance posed no threat.
Tiny transmitters allow researchers to follow flies
Posted July 6, 2006; 03:37 p.m.
On the New Jersey shore, many signs of the changing seasons do not differ greatly from those found elsewhere in the country. V-shaped flocks of geese and twittering masses of songbirds course over the dunes as the migrants head for milder latitudes. But as Princeton's Martin Wikelski and his research team found out last fall, some other, less-expected travelers are adding their own buzzing chorus to the migration song.
Composer reveals musical chords' hidden geometry
Posted July 6, 2006; 02:00 p.m.
Composers often speak of fitting chords and melodies together, as though sounds were physical objects with geometric shape -- and now a Princeton University musician has shown that advanced geometry actually does offer a tool for understanding music...
Firefly Festival set for July 14
Posted July 5, 2006; 05:18 p.m.
The Cotsen Children's Library will present the Firefly Festival, featuring live music and nature activities, from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 14, in McCosh Courtyard, next to the University Chapel.
Further details provided on Wilson School fellowship funding
Posted July 4, 2006; 12:00 p.m.
Princeton University has provided New Jersey Superior Court Judge Neil H. Shuster with further details concerning funding for fellowships in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and specifically for a three-year trial program known as the Graduate Funding Agreement (GFA). The information was submitted in connection with the lawsuit regarding the Robertson Foundation, which was established in 1961 to support the graduate program of the Woodrow Wilson School.
New landscape marks 250th anniversary of Maclean House
Posted July 3, 2006; 05:28 p.m.
Just in time for the 250th anniversary of its construction, Maclean House has been the focus of some sprucing up. Crews have renovated the landscape and gardens around the house over the past few months, removing some of the overgrown plants that have been there for 50 years and creating new vistas and spaces.
Tilghman honored by three universities
Posted July 3, 2006; 03:47 p.m.
Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman was awarded a Presidential Medal of Honor by Dillard University at the New Orleans institution's commencement July 1, in recognition of Princeton's efforts to aid Dillard's rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina. Tilghman also recently received honorary degrees from Rutgers and Rockefeller universities.
Cook and Gowin receive Behrman Award
Posted July 3, 2006; 12:50 p.m.
Michael Cook, the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, and Emmet Gowin, professor of the Council of the Humanities and visual arts, have received Princeton's Behrman Award for distinguished achievement in the humanities.
Murphy wins prestigious Pew Scholarship
Posted July 3, 2006; 11:03 a.m.
Coleen Murphy has been named a 2006 Pew Scholar, one of only 15 scientists in the nation to earn the yearly award. Murphy, an assistant professor of molecular biology since 2005, will receive $240,000 in research funding over the next four years.The...


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Here is the layout of the candy bar wrapper I made for Devin's birthday party tomorrow.
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Cute, Michelle! Have fun at the party!
Cute colors! Love the party hat...has he seen that part yet? One of our girls would love it on her picture, the other...not so much I may have to do this for our girls' next party. TFS
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"Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz," a puppet-theater production chronicling the life of the real Moritz Rabinowitz, will be performed at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19, in the Matthews Acting Studio, 185 Nassau St.
Wakka Wakka Productions uses original puppets, masks and music to tell the tale of a Polish Jew who immigrated to Norway at the turn of the last century to escape the pogroms and persecution and to build a future.
Rabinowitz became a businessman who used his position to raise awareness about anti-Semitism. He built one of the largest clothing empires in the country, and he wrote columns for local and national newspapers expressing his socioeconomic ideas about commerce in Europe and Norway's natural resources. In time, the primary focus of his columns became warnings about the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, who considered him "the leader of the Jewish resistance in Norway" when they invaded in 1940.
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Wakka Wakka Productions was founded in 2001 by a group of theater artists who share a common language in creation and ensemble work. Provoked by styles such as grotesque, absurd and clown, Wakka Wakka Productions is devoted to pushing the boundaries of the imagination by creating works that are bold, unique and unpredictable and to the promotion of arts awareness and education.
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Christmas cherry poisoning; Winter cherry poisoning; Ground cherry poisoning
The poison is found throughout the Jerusalem cherry plant, but especially in the unripened fruit and leaves.
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