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Dust can be reduces in corrals by periodic wetting. If you pasture is producing dust, it needs serious attention.
Flies hatch from maggots that grow in warm, wet manure. The most unpleasant odors also come from wet manure.
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- Feed dealers have mineral supplements that stop flies from growing in manure.
- Drag manure to spread it over the fields and dry it out.
- Divert runoff water away from corrals.
Save the trees! Trees and shrubs are an asset in most pasture settings. They work like an evaporative cooler in the summer and are a windbreak in cold weather. They also increase the value of your property. If animals are peeling bark or otherwise damaging trees, consider protecting the trees with a fence.
Stream Stewardship - Trees and shrubs protect stream banks and enhance wildlife habitat. If they are removed, the stream is likely to cut into the stream bank on your property. People down stream then have to deal with the sediment that used to be on your land. Sediment kills fish and fills canals, lakes and ponds. Having a pasture on a stream can be an advantage, however, it carries increased responsibility.
Fencing livestock off the stream bank allows willows and trees to grow and protect the soil. You don't' have to find another way to water the stock if utilize proper fencing. Make a small stream access area with panels or fence. The access should be small enough to keep animals from wading into the stream. Putting gravel in the access area will provide a firm base to keep animals from disturbing the soil.
Don't Make Me Drink It! Take a hard look at the lay of your land. When it storms, where does the water go? It is not good stream stewardship to let your runoff carry manure with it because most Utah streams are somebody's drinking water source. Even people using well water know that often their water source is the ground water from pastures.
Spread manure on the land that is away from the stream, and manage irrigation water. When grass is well managed, it cleans and filters water and uses the nutrients in the manure for growth. If you have a well managed pasture, you can actually improve the quality of water for everyone.
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ARSC T3E Users' Newsletter 137, February 20, 1998
Hold, Checkpoint, and Restart of NQS Jobs on Yukon
ARSC holds jobs and stops queues on an occasional basis, for the following reasons:
- To perform system maintenance during scheduled (or unscheduled) downtime.
- To permit the timely execution of xlarge and grand jobs.
- On rare occasion, to enable a large interactive session.
We will continue to contact all users whose jobs have been held, checkpointed, and restarted so that they may verify the results of their runs.
If you notice that the queues have been held, please submit NQS jobs as normal. The appearance of jobs in the queues is an important indication that users are waiting and demonstrates the nature of the load. We need this information!
You may monitor the status of your jobs using the UNICOS command, qstat -a. The field titled, ST, contains a three character job status code. Although all possible codes are explained in man qstat(1), the most common codes with regards to hold, checkpoint, and restart are:
- Cge
- The job had been running, but was checkpointed, held, and released. However, although it is ready to restart from the checkpoint image, it is now blocked waiting for PEs.
- Qqs
- The job has not run yet and is waiting in a queue, but the queue has been stopped by the sys admin. Thus, no jobs in the queue will be allowed to run until the sys admin restarts the queue.
- Hop
- The job has been held by the operator (sys admin). Held jobs are prevented from making the transition to another state. Typically, this means that the job has not run yet, is waiting in a queue, but rather than the queue having been stopped (which would block all jobs in the queue), the particular job has been held.
- Hsh
- The job was held by the operator, the system was later shut down and brought back up, and the job is still being held. Initially, the job would have had Hop status, but after the reboot, the system changed the status to Hsh from Hop to indicate the intervening shut down.
Monte Carlo Methods: Quasi-Monte Carlo & Low-Discrepancy Sequences
This is the second in a four part series on Monte Carlo methods.
[[ Many thanks to Dr. Giray Okten, Visiting Professor of Mathematics, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, for contributing the first two articles in this series. ]]
Quasi-Monte Carlo methods are often described as deterministic versions of Monte Carlo methods, although in practice, Monte Carlo methods are also strictly speaking, deterministic. Quasi-Monte Carlo methods emphasize "uniformity" of a number sequence, instead of its "randomness."
"It is suggested that, instead of clinging to vague concepts of randomness, it might be better to aim at working with sequences making no presence of random origin, but so devised as to give the best possible guarantee of accuracy in computations. Such methods of computation could be described as quasi-Monte Carlo." [Zaremba]
The theoretical basis of these methods is the Koksma-Hlawka inequality, which gives a "deterministic" upper bound for the absolute value of the error, when an integral is approximated by the average value of the integrand evaluated on a sequence of "deterministic" vectors {q(n)}, n=1,2,... . The error of this approximation is bounded by a product of two terms; the first term is the variation of the integrand, which measures the "smoothness" of it, and the second term is the discrepancy of the underlying number sequence q(n), which measures the deviation of that sequence from the "perfect" sequence which would be distributed as evenly as possible in the unit cube.
We wish not to go into technical definitions, but you are probably not happy with this vague description of the "perfect" sequence!
To elaborate on this point, consider the unit interval [0,1]. Suppose you have N numbers, q(1),...,q(N), in this interval, and you want to know how to determine the discrepancy of these numbers, i.e., their deviation from the "perfect" sequence. Choose any number, x, from the interval and consider the sub-interval [0,x). How many of your N numbers should lie in this sub-interval, if you want to claim that your numbers are perfectly evenly distributed? If x were equal to 1/2, then a "perfect sequence" would have exactly N/2 terms of its first N terms lying in the first half of the interval. In general, for any x, the perfect sequence would have x*N of its first N terms lying in the sub-interval [0,x).
Thus, if we count the number of q(i)'s that actually lie in this subinterval and then take its difference from x*N, we will have an idea of the deviation of our numbers from the perfect distribution. If we take the absolute value of this difference, divide it by N, and then find the greatest such number as x takes values between 0 and 1, we finally obtain the discrepancy of our numbers, q(1),...,q(N). The challenge is to find sequences with the smallest possible discrepancy. such sequences are called "low-discrepancy" sequences.
Some of the classical low-discrepancy sequences are the van der Corput, Halton, Sobol, Faure and Niederreiter sequences, named after their inventors. The discrepancy of these sequences satisfies O((log N)^s /N) where s is the dimension of the numbers (vectors) you generate. The following Mathematica code generates the van der Corput sequence in any base b. These numbers are one-dimensional numbers, i.e., numbers in [0,1).
vanderCorput[n_Integer, b_Integer] := Module[{digitexp}, digitexp = Reverse[IntegerDigits[n, b]]; Inner[((#1*b^(-#2)))&, digitexp, Range[Length[digitexp]]] ];
Here are the first 15 van der Corput numbers in base 2:
1/2, 1/4, 3/4, 1/8, 5/8, 3/8, 7/8, 1/16, 9/16, 5/16, 13/16, 3/16, 11/16, 7/16, 15/16
And here are the first 15 van der Corput numbers in base 3:
1/3, 2/3, 1/9, 4/9, 7/9, 2/9, 5/9, 8/9, 1/27, 10/27, 19/27, 4/27, 13/27, 22/27, 7/27
To generate higher dimensional vectors, we can use different van der Corput numbers in pairwise relatively prime bases, which gives the Halton sequence. The pairwise relatively prime requirement can be easily satisfied if we choose prime numbers to be our bases. For example to generate two-dimensional Halton vectors, we will generate van der Corput numbers in base 2 and base 3 and then construct vectors whose first components are given by the base 2 van der Corput numbers and the second components given by the base 3 van der Corput numbers. The following is a Mathematica code that generates s-dimensional Halton vectors:
Here are the first six 2-dimensional Halton vectors. They are obtained simply by coupling the above van der Corput numbers we generated in bases 2 and 3:
{1/2, 1/3},{1/4, 2/3},{3/4, 1/9}, {1/8, 4/9}, {5/8, 7/9}, {3/8, 2/9}
We can see the difference between the two-dimensional Halton and pseudorandom vectors by plotting them. A graph of the first 1000 2-dimensional Halton vectors plotted in the unit square is shown here:
1000 2-dimensional Halton vectors
A graph of the first 1000 pseudorandom vectors:
1000 psuedorandom vectors
These plots, when compared, show that the Halton vectors are distributed more evenly than the pseudorandom vectors. It is indeed this evenness that makes low-discrepancy vectors work better than the pseudorandom vectors in general.
The advantage of quasi-Monte Carlo methods is that they avoid the difficulties associated with "randomness." Moreover, they provide deterministic error bounds, as given by the Koksma-Hlawka inequality, with a deterministic order O((log N)^s /N). For Monte Carlo methods, however, the error bounds are probabilistic with order O(1/Sqrt(N)).
This means that asymptotically, low-discrepancy vectors give better estimates than the pseudorandom vectors. Moreover, unlike Monte Carlo estimates, the estimates produced by the low-discrepancy sequences satisfy deterministic error bounds. However, quasi-Monte Carlo methods have their own limitations and Monte Carlo methods have some desirable properties themselves!
Recently, several researchers have designed techniques to capture the best features of these methods. These techniques are usually called "hybrid-Monte Carlo methods." For additional information on hybrid-Monte Carlo methods, as well as some Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo related links, see my home page:
Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods are used by numerous disciplines, from computational physics to economic modeling & finance, and from operational research to life sciences. Advances made by researchers in the underlying theory of these methods provide more accurate solution techniques that would benefit all the application areas. Maybe because of this feature, the theory of Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods enjoys a very rich input of ideas coming from mathematicians and scientists. Interested researchers can follow the latest developments and present their ideas in the international conferences devoted to these methods. Information on the next conference can be found at:
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Debugging Advice for Programmers
[ Few of us have the luxury of writing code from scratch. More often, we inherit a code which must be parallelized or otherwise modified. This reality accepted, it may still be useful to step back from the minutiae of debugging for a moment. In newsletter #135: we offered "Debugging Tips for F90 Programmers." This article is a follow-up, and if "tips" are to "advice" as "trees" are to "forests", then the title says it all. This article is an excerpt from: Ellis, Philips, and Lahey. Fortran 90 Programming. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1994. ISBN 0-201-54446-6. p. 308. Reprinted by permission of Addison Wesley Longman Ltd. ]
"... you should always adopt an incremental approach to both writing and debugging a program. In other words, you should always break your code into small procedures, each one of which has a logically coherent, single, purpose. Do not write procedures that do too many unrelated tasks. The motivation is to keep different parts of a program from interacting with each other in subtle and obscure ways. Breaking a program into procedures means that such interactions can occur in a controlled way, only via procedure calling sequences. A good rule of thumb here is to keep procedures to no more than 50 lines of code. In that way, they can be printed on a single sheet of paper and more readily understood.
To debug a program incrementally, each procedure should be thoroughly tested by itself. This means that input to the procedure is generated by another part of the program, or by hand, and the output examined for correctness. The set of inputs used to test a procedure should exercise all branches of the code it contains.
It is often very tempting not to test every procedure but, instead, to start trying to make a complete program function. This almost always results in errors being looked for in the wrong place--which is probably the most time-consuming and frustrating part of debugging a program.
Do not build your house without foundations. The incremental debugging approach means that the lowest-level procedures are tested first, then the procedures that use those procedures, and so on until the whole program is verified. The process of developing a set of test problems can often take half of the debugging effort.
Finally, you should keep all the test problems and the results produced during testing. In the course of time almost all non-trivial programs will be modified, and when that day comes it will both save time, and provide an added degree of confidence, if the modified program can be shown to perform correctly on the same sets of test data as the original version. This does not mean however, that you should not develop additional tests for an new features added to the program. Thus over the life of a program the test suite will gradually grow with each new modification."
Book Review: "Parallel Programming with MPI"
By: Peter S. Pacheco
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., San Francisco (1997), 418 pages
Well-written in a friendly style, "Parallel Programming with MPI" (PPMPI) provides an introduction to both parallel programming and MPI. From the preface: "It was written for students and professionals who have no prior experience in programming parallel systems. It was designed for use both as a self-paced tutorial and as a text in a more conventional classroom/computer laboratory setting."
PPMPI opens with a brief motivation and overview of parallel computation, and proceeds quickly to its first sample MPI program, parallel "hello world."
Subsequent chapters introduce the essential MPI routines concurrent with parallel programming concepts, and make use of increasingly sophisticated sample programs. For instance, as an introduction to the MPI_Bcast routine, the book discusses why a tree-structured rather than list-structured algorithm for data distribution might be desirable. It then codes it using the simple point-to-point routines, MPI_Send and MPI_Recv, introduced in the previous chapters. This incremental approach flows logically and helps dispel the mystery of collective operations.
Consistent with PPMPI suggested use as a textbook, every chapter ends with exercises and programming assignments and, for code samples, it uses C exclusively.
There is, however, a nice concession to the Fortran world, as source code for all examples given in the book is available on-line in both C and Fortran (visit the URL given above).
I down loaded both the C and Fortran archives, randomly picked chapter 12's sample program, ping_pong.f and compiled/ran it on the T3E with absolutely no glitches. These on-line archives stand alone as an excellent collection of introductory level MPI programs, but better yet, they are a companion to the book.
PPMPI concludes with a few chapters which brush the surface of more advanced subjects: non-blocking routines, debugging, performance, Amdahl's law, scalability, parallel libraries, and parallel algorithms (as distinct from parallelized serial algorithms). An appendix provides the C syntax--but no Fortran--for all routines in the MPI standard. If you are interested, you are encouraged to visit the PPMPI home page given above.
Quick-Tip Q & A
A: {{ You want to compile your parallel application and then run it on N T3E application PEs. What's the lazy man (or woman's) way to determine, at compile time, if adequate memory exists on those N PEs to run the program. (Assume static allocation of all memory and that you're compiling/running on the same system.) }} Compile it as a fixed (non-malleable) executable for N PEs. The compiler verifies that N PEs (on the current host) would provide sufficient memory. E.g., f90 -X N prog.f cc -X N proc.c CC -X N proc.c++ Q: You use "qsub my_baby" to submit a job to NQS... and it vanishes! qsub acts innocent, returning, not an error message, but a request-id number (as if everything were "normal"). Posthaste, you run "qstat -a". Nothing. With growing alarm, you type, "qstat -f <request-id>". Your job, with the id number JUST returned by qsub, is missing! Starting to panic (but feigning nonchalance) you count slowly to 10 and run "ls my_baby.*<request-id>", expecting to see the job's stdout/stderr files, but there is no trace. What happened? Was it the butler?
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Yesterday morning, two Brazilian banks reported earnings, and if anyone needed a reminder of just how big the problems facing Latin America's largest economy are, he needs to look no further. Margins are under pressure and loan growth is stagnating. About the only thing positive to say is that the number of bad loans is decreasing.
How bad are things in Brazil? Its growth is slowing but the nation also has an inflation problem which means that its central bank has had to hike interest rates.
That's not a good recipe for banks. According to this BusinessWeek story–which discusses the impact of higher rates on U.S. banks–slow growth and higher rates mean banks "could face losses on the bonds they own without gaining opportunities to make more money on loans and investments."
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Itau Unibanco Holding SA, Brazil's second-largest bank by assets, on Tuesday said that its profit in the second quarter increased thanks to the reduction of provisions expenses, offsetting the slow rise of its total outstanding loans due to the weak economy activity…
Provisions dropped to BRL4.9 billion in the second-quarter, down from BRL6.1 billion in the year ago period. Itau Unibanco's default rate was 4.2%, down from 5.2% in the year-earlier period, and also down from 4.5% at the end of the first quarter.
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Advanced cancer can be very scary and may very well be the hardest thing you and your loved ones have ever faced. If you have ongoing concerns that interfere with your lives, or if you just want to communicate and cope the best you can, consider talking with a mental health professional. It can often be very comforting to talk with an expert about your situation. Social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists are all licensed mental health professionals. You can find one by asking your cancer doctor or through the nearest large hospital in your area. Even one session with a licensed mental health professional can often help you and your family focus on what matters most. Your cancer care team will work with you to find the right professional for you.
Dealing with worry and the unknown
Learning that you have advanced cancer may make you feel lost and afraid. This is normal. You may have questions such as:
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There are professionals who can help you manage these concerns. Along with your doctor and nurse, there are social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and pastoral counselors who are specially trained to help you talk about your concerns, control your fears, and find meaning in what you are going through. They can also support your family. Your doctor will know the local mental health experts in your area.
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- Sometimes just talking about feelings helps to relieve worry. Choosing the right person to talk with can be important. For some, that person will be a minister or a good friend. For others, it will be a family member.
- Trying to relax with deep breathing and other techniques can help. It works best if you practice and do it regularly.
- It's important to let yourself feel sad and frustrated, without feeling guilty about it.
- Spiritual support is helpful for many people.
- If your worry is upsetting to you or your family and lasts for long periods of time, it's important that you ask to see a mental health professional who is specially trained to work with cancer patients.
Along with these measures, a doctor may be able to suggest medicines to help treat anxiety or depression. Short-term use of these drugs is often helpful and is rarely a problem. It could be just what you need to regroup and go forward.
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Hope is an important part of everyday life. Hope gets many of us out of bed in the morning and keeps us going throughout the day.
If you have advanced cancer, you can still have hopes and dreams, even though some of these may have changed since you learned about the cancer. Your hope may be to have a pain-free day, or to do something special with a family member. Just sharing and talking openly can be a hope for people with cancer and their families. There may also be real hope for relief of symptoms and slowing down the growth of the cancer.
And there's always hope to make the most of the time you have left – for good times with family and friends, times that can be filled with happiness and meaning. For many people, this is a good time to refocus on the most important things in life. Now is the time to do things you've always wanted to do and stop doing the things you no longer want to do.
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You may even feel alone when you're with well-meaning friends and family. You may have a hard time sharing your feelings about cancer. Others might be uncomfortable hearing about your illness. This isolation in the company of others can sometimes feel worse than if nobody were there.
Sometimes a person with cancer may feel like they need to ask others if it's OK to talk more freely. And it's OK to let others know what you're comfortable talking about. It can often be helpful if a friend or family member arranges for others to visit you. Trying to do things outside the home can also make you feel less alone.
Managing feelings of guilt
Both people with cancer and those in their support circle often have feelings of guilt. If you have cancer, you might feel guilty about being ill. These feelings can last even though you know it isn't your fault. Making others aware of your discomfort or telling loved ones that you need their help can make you feel guilty, too.
For the people caring for the patient, guilty feelings can be a daily struggle. Those who are healthy might feel guilty about their good health. They often feel bad about not doing enough for their loved one. Sometimes they even feel bad about the resentment that they feel for what they are doing.
There are some things you can do that may help with feelings of guilt:
- Sometimes just talking about these feelings can help. It can clear the air and help ease everyone's conscience. Sharing this common feeling can bring you closer together.
- Letting each other off the hook is helpful. You can tell each other that you know everyone is doing their best.
- For caregivers, sharing the work is important. Friends and family who want to help should be given specific tasks to lighten the main caregiver's load.
- If the guilty feelings don't go away, you might need help working through them. Talk to your doctor about meeting with a trained mental health professional who can help you better understand and manage your feelings.
Facing family issues
Advanced cancer changes the way family members relate to one another. Families that are able to solve conflicts well and family members who support each other do best in dealing with a loved one's cancer. Families who found problem-solving hard in the past are likely to have more trouble dealing with this stressful situation. You might want to meet with a counselor and work together to plan how best to support each other and anticipate problems.
Roles within the family may change, too. How family members take on new tasks and fill in for the person with cancer affects how they will adjust to losing that person.
For the person with cancer, the changes in family roles can trigger the grief that comes with loss. For example, a woman who is too sick to get out of bed may feel the loss of her role as a wife and mother. Understanding this and finding ways for her to still be involved in her family's day-to-day life may help both her and her family.
People with cancer often say that lack of communication in their families is a problem. Changes in responsibilities can cause resentment and anxiety. Family counseling may help family members learn to deal with the changes that are taking place. It can also help members discuss their feelings more comfortably. Counseling is especially helpful in families where some members do not feel comfortable openly talking about their feelings.
The needs of family members and caregivers are important, too. Information written for caregivers can be found on our website, or call us to learn more.
Maintaining sexual feelings and closeness
During advanced illness, sexual relationships will change. This can be because of physical symptoms such as tiredness, trouble moving, or pain. It can also come from holding back emotions. In most cases sexual desire may decrease, but this does not mean that the need for physical closeness and touching will change. In fact, the need to be held and touched may increase. Talking about feelings and continuing to touch and be close to each other can help with feelings of isolation. Still, if you have any doubt about whether it's OK to act in a sexual manner or to simply touch, just ask and talk about it. Don't assume one way or the other.
For more information, please see Sexuality for the Man With Cancer and Sexuality for the Woman With Cancer.
Getting through a long illness
Illness that goes on for months or even years can put huge stress on the family. The longer the stress lasts, the more at risk the family is for mental distress. Family members may become exhausted in body and mind. Fatigue added to worry and fear can take a toll. Find ways to get support for the caregivers. Keep asking how everyone is holding up.
You can get more information on taking care of the caregiver in What It Takes to Be a Caregiver and What You Need to Know as a Cancer Caregiver. We also have checklists that caregivers can use to decide if they need help coping.
Facing death
Anyone with advanced cancer faces the reality that he or she may die soon. Family members must recognize this, too. Even if the person with advanced cancer is doing well at the moment, death is a likely part of the near future. Thinking about death is frightening and painful for many people. Patients and families often worry about suffering before death and being alone in death.
Many people with cancer want to be at home until the end. Dealing with a long illness and dying at home can be easier with the support of family and medical staff.
The main goal for a death that cannot be avoided is that it be a "good death." A good death is one with the least possible amount of pain, discomfort, or suffering for the patient, and the least possible suffering for the family and caregivers. A good death is one that's in line with the patient's and loved ones' wishes, including their culture, values, and ethics. Loved ones are also supported and are with the patient as much as they and the patient want, especially as death nears. Ideally, this allows goodbyes to be said and problems resolved before death. It also allows loved ones to be with the patient at the end.
Nearing the End of Life has been written to address questions that patients and loved ones ask about what to expect during the last 6 months of life. You can get a copy by calling our toll-free number or visiting our website.
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- Advanced Cancer
- What is advanced cancer?
- What is metastatic cancer?
- Can advanced or metastatic cancer be prevented?
- How is advanced cancer found?
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- Surgery for advanced cancer
- Ablative techniques for advanced cancer
- Radiation therapy for advanced cancer
- Drug treatment for advanced cancer
- Clinical trials
- Complementary and alternative therapies for advanced cancer
- Managing symptoms of advanced cancer, by location
- Managing general symptoms of advanced cancer
- What should you ask your doctor about advanced cancer?
- Coping with advanced cancer
- Sources of support
- Choices for palliative care
- Advance directives
- Additional resources for advanced cancer
- References: Advanced cancer
Last Medical Review: February 7, 2014 Last Revised: March 6, 2014
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We all change for love. Phone-lovers fall for phone-phobes, and one person adjusts (or not) accordingly. A theater geek gets with a sports nut and suddenly starts memorizing stats (and liking it). Romance makes us try new things, from new foods to new ways of interacting with others. And that's fine, says Delia W. Oman (an anagram for "ideal woman," and so probably not her real name), a mysterious performance artist who lives somewhere in the United States (we think), and who is in the middle of an online conceptual art installation she calls the Perfect Woman Project.
But when does it go too far?
With her project, Delia wants to explore the lengths to which people will go to find the perfect mate, or to mold themselves into the ideal partner. It's a multi-step, many-month commitment for her, and one that will intimately involve at least one other person — someone who, at the moment, doesn't know it yet.
Since last fall, she has solicited and accepted Perfect Woman submissions and descriptions at her Web site, perfectwomanproject.com. Starting on February 14, Web site visitors (regardless of whether or not they've offered a description themselves) have one week to vote to choose the best of those submissions. Then, Delia will have three months to transform herself — both physically and mentally, and according to the utopian parameters she's been given — into said Perfect Woman. In this stage, the project will be mostly self-exploration, as Delia learns just how much she is willing to change for art.
In May, she will fly the creator of the winning submission to meet her, wherever that is, and the couple will go on five dates, all suggested by Web site visitors (and all expenses paid by the Perfect Woman, which does, indeed, make her kind of great). The dates will be filmed, and broadcast live online. Only then will the project be complete.
"Through your participations, you are in charge of her fate," the Perfect Woman webmistress says on her site.
How is any of this different from me developing an affinity for Smashing Pumpkins, or you learning more about Henry James? Well, for one thing, Delia's not really looking for love. In fact, her project was conceived in part to examine the notion that people need to be paired.
"In our culture, it's a sign of success to partner up," Delia says on the phone from somewhere (all we know is that it's a different time zone). "It's not that I'm against love" — nay, she avers that she has experienced romance — "but why is it not okay to just be single?"
See, Delia believes that some people are so obsessed with couple-dom that they overdo it — changing themselves in fundamental ways, or falsely advertising themselves on dating Web sites like the ones on which she publicized her Perfect Woman Project. With this endeavor, she hopes to highlight that idea of change for the greater public (anybody who visits the site, and certainly those who vote), by willfully, and publicly, transforming herself. Depending on what the winning submission calls for, the project could end as a dramatic psychological glimpse into modern love. And of course, the men who submit ideas of an ideal female will learn something too, about themselves, and perhaps about how futile it is to wish for perfection.
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Constable based this vivid and expressive sepia sketch on the central motif in his painting Dedham Lock and Mill 1820 (Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire). But he did not attempt to create the detailed naturalism of that earlier work. Instead, using broad brushstrokes,he concentrated on the massing of light and shade in an attempt to describe the dramatic 'chiaroscuro of nature'.
In his free and expressive approach in making this drawing and that of Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk c.1829–35 , and in his use of sepia wash in both works, Constable's interest in the work of other artists such as Claude Lorrain, and in the blottesque technique of Alexander Cozens, is evident.


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The new tux as interpreted by Pittsburgh well-dressed gentsDecember 16, 2013 11:28 PM
For far too long, formal dress for men has meant one thing: the penguin suit. No matter the fabric, cut or price, black suits and white shirts pretty much all look the same in evening light. While there will always be a place for the classic tuxedo -- and Tom Michael at Larrimor's says that remains its top seller -- there is a growing trend toward self-expression and a less traditional approach to black-tie dressing.
Pittsburgh has its share of well-dressed men who aren't afraid to buck convention. Tim McVay and partner David Bush are even known for their impeccable taste and the delight they take in wearing beautiful clothes.
During the holiday season, it's easy to experiment with alternatives to the tux, given the abundance of red, plaid and velvet jackets that can be worn with tuxedo pants. While dinner jackets used to be pretty much white and relegated to summer, today they come in a wide variety of fabrics that span the seasons and are appropriate for most formal occasions. Their growing popularity can be attributed to a number of things -- relaxed standards, increased confidence and a sense of equality, especially among younger men who enjoy dressing for events as much as women do.
"Young people are dressing up, and that's really true as a trend," says Mr. Michael, who is president of Larrimor's. "They are more interested in dressing than the boomers -- it's kind of their rebellion."
While the store stocks the traditional tux -- which he describes as having one button, a peak lapel, side vents and a flat front -- Mr. Michael sees renewed interest in the shawl collar.
"In the '50s and '60s waiters all wore shawl lapels. We didn't sell a lot then because our customers didn't want to be mistaken for maitre d's. But today, a new collar for younger people is the shawl collar."
Younger men are skipping the cummerbund altogether, and wing collars are also on their way out. A traditional straight or spread collar looks more modern and is the best choice with a dinner jacket. While tuxes are still predominantly black, Mr. Michael says navy is a sophisticated alternative. It's just different enough to be fresh, yet it reads as black in the dark.
"You can dress a deep navy velvet jacket up or down. You can wear it with a pair of jeans. Young consumers are demanding more versatility in their clothing. Today a man will buy a three- piece suit and wear it all together or separately. You have to be wearing a tux with some regularity to justify the investment. We sell a lot of black peak lapel suits that can be worn for formal occasions. It's a way to get a lot more wear out of your suit."
The key to personalizing formalwear is to incorporate a few black-tie elements -- tuxedo pants with a satin stripe, a tux shirt, French cuffs with cuff links and a bow tie (formal ties are also on their way out). Add velvet, patent, woven or beaded slippers and a pair of jeans or gray cashmere trousers to make an individual statement instead of an inappropriate one.
Functionality as well as fun is the key to shifting attitudes. Playboy magazine, an arbiter of style in its own way, has an article titled "Beyond Black Tie" in the December issue. It sees more men wearing dinner jackets to actual dinners as they dress up more for an evening out. Conversely, the article suggests not wearing formal elements with a dinner jacket to make it more casual if the occasion is festive rather than formal.
"Think of the dinner jacket as the highest expression of the blazer," writes Jennifer Ryan Jones in the article. "It has subtly elegant details that set it apart from a suit or sports jacket: contrasting lapel, satin accents, covered buttons. That amount of flair can go a long way toward putting together a look that has a sense of occasion."
Marylynn Uricchio: email@example.com or 412-263-1582.


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RIC's Advanced Degree Grads Told to Work Hard and Earn Success
Nearly 350 Rhode Island College students received advanced degrees during their commencement ceremony May 16.
No success worth having comes without hard work and Rhode Island College graduates are uniquely positioned to handle the charge of earning their accomplishments through dedication and perseverance, Giovanni Feroce, CEO of Alex and Ani, told advanced degree recipients in his commencement address. Feroce was the keynote speaker for the ceremony during which 338 students received advanced degrees.
Feroce told them that they "represent RIC. You personify the RIC graduate. Use what you have learned here. You are on your way."
Providence Mayor Angel Taveras also addressed the graduates, urging them to follow the advice of Martin Luther King Jr., who said "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
"Never be silent and speak up," Taveras said, urging the graduates to get involved in civic matters. "I look forward to working with you to make a better city and state."
During the ceremony, Feroce, whose brother is a RIC alumnus, was given an honorary degree. In bestowing the degree, RIC President Nancy Carriuolo said Feroce helped Alex and Ani, a Cranston-based manufacturer of eco-friendly, positive energy products, grow the company from $4.5 million in sales in 2010 to $80 million last year.
"Many people successfully change careers," Carriuolo said. "However, few achieve the success you have in successive careers. You are an inspiration to many, especially first-generation Americans, combat veterans and entrepreneurs struggling to succeed in challenging economic times."
Carriuolo also praised Alex and Ani's support of Rhode Island College including its $1 million contribution to the college's new $17 million art center, which will be named Alex and Ani Hall.
Addressing the graduates, Carriuolo took a moment to recognize veterans within the class of 2013 as well as veterans in attendance and to emphasize RIC's role as the first public higher education institution in the state."As such we are proud of our long tradition of excellence," Carriuolo said.
During the ceremony, honorary degrees also were given to Donald Driscoll, a double RIC alumnus and longtime Providence educator, and Charles Townsend, a Rhode Island business leader in the development of the cellular communications industry.


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Made for everyday training, the fast-drying Fore Runner Sleeveless is made of lightweight recycled polyester. Details: locker loop, no itchy tags on neck. Fabric is bluesign™ approved.
Polygiene® odor control permanently protects your garments from smelling like a middle school locker room. Sweat itself is odorless, but it creates the conditions that bacteria need to multiply, and some of those bacteria produce odors. Polygiene permanent odor control stops the growth of odor-causing bacteria on fabrics, so you can wear more and wash less.
Active only on the fabric surface, Polygiene permanent odor control does not interfere with perspiration or with the skin's natural bacterial flora. Polygiene particles are more than 100 times larger than nanoparticles and therefore are too large to penetrate to the skin's barrier. Polygiene-treated fabrics have received Medical Class 1 approval in Europe, the same class that includes bandages.
Lacking fur, feathers or scales, we humans have to think up clever ways to protect ourselves from the sun. Products with the UPF designation provide built-in sun protection that won't wear off.
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Philanthropy & Sustainable Investment (P&SI)
Credit Suisse designs investment solutions that are based on our three-pillar Philanthropy, Impact Investment and Sustainable Investments (P&SI) framework. Find out more about our approach to sustainable investment products and services in Switzerland on the dedicated page.
Client objective: Realization of social and environmental impact and changes through strategic philanthropy. In this field, Credit Suisse works closely with clients to help them incorporate their personal philanthropic values and social objectives into their engagement and investment strategy, providing advice on the evaluation and selection of existing projects and the establishement of vehicles to make charitable donations, such as foundations and trusts. More information about our philanthropic services in Switzerland is available here.
Credit Suisse Client Foundations
The umbrella foundations Accentus, Empiris and Symphasis in Switzerland and SymAsia in Singapore provide solutions for Credit Suisse clients who wish to use part of their wealth to benefit social causes. Founders have the option of establishing an individual subfoundation during their lifetime or after their death and can freely determine the name, purpose and mode of distribution. By being part of the grants committee, they are able to participate in the selection of supported charitable undertakings. Since the creation of the client foundations Accentus, Empiris and Symphasis, more than 2,100 charitable projects have been supported, with over CHF 97 million distributed. In Singapore, SymAsia has gifted around USD 24 million since it was founded in 2010. As Credit Suisse assumes the foundations' administration and management costs, the great majority of the donations goes directly toward helping worthwhile causes.
- Donors do not have to set up their own foundation – or manage it – themselves.
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- Thanks to low costs, there are more funds available for serving the charitable purpose.
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- Long-term management of the fund and compliance with the donor's will are guaranteed.
- The umbrella foundations have many years of experience in searching for, selecting, and overseeing charitable projects.
- The Board of Trustees consists of prominent representatives from various fields of expertise.
- The donated funds are managed by reputable specialists.
The Accentus Foundation was set up in 2000. The charitable foundation promotes social, humanitarian, cultural, medical, environmental and other charitable causes. The following is a selection of its existing funds:
Lily Waeckerlin Fund
- hands out an annual award for a high-quality music project in the field of "Youth and Music." The "Lily-Waeckerlin-Preis" (Lily Waeckerlin Prize) aims to motivate children and adolescents to not only approach music as consumers, but to become active themselves. It aims to teach the younger generation social values by having them prepare a piece of music together and through the shared joy and sense of achievement that this offers.
- supports a number of charitable projects supporting the conservation and improvement of endangered habitats and helping the animals that live in them, as well as projects aimed at biodiversity conservation.
Swiss Chess (Schach Schweiz)
- promotes chess in Switzerland as well as supporting related activities with a link to Switzerland in other countries. The support provided by the foundation extends to chess championships, coaching for young chess talents, chess exhibitions and public-relations activities around the sport.
The Empiris Foundation was established in 2002 with the aim of supporting projects in research, science and education. The following is a selection of its existing funds:
Brain Diseases
- funds prizes awarded to Ph.D. students in recognition of particularly outstanding contributions to basic research related to brain disorders.
Martin Stoffel
- supports clinical research projects in the area of cancer and stem cells.
Judith Linggi
- supports projects that identify leukemia therapy tailored to children.
- supports projects researching the causes of Alzheimer's or dealing with therapeutic aspects of the disease.
The Symphasis Foundation, founded in 2002, supports and finances charities committed to social, humanitarian or environmental causes, culture, health and sports. The following is a selection of its existing funds:
Protection des forêts tropicales
- finances projects that help sustain the last original tropical forests in Madagascar, Borneo and the Amazon region and which help the local population of these areas in establishing a livelihood.
Dietrich Peter Schindler
- supports projects that aim to enable elderly people to lead a more autonomous life and that contribute to the dialogue between different generations.
- contributes to the education of disadvantaged children from Rio de Janeiro's poorest neighborhoods.
- finances the construction of hospitals with maternity wards in Eritrea, providing a safe place for women to give birth to their children.
SymAsia Foundation Ltd was established in 2010 as a company limited by guarantee with Credit Suisse as the sole subscriber. Via the SymAsia platform, donors may set up their own foundations and direct giving to charitable causes/organizations worldwide. SymAsia will disburse funds as directed. SymaAsia is managed by a professional Credit Suisse team and governed by an independent Board of Directors. SymAsia has partnered with donors to support and promote their charitable causes. Two examples are described in more detail below.
Engagement With Client's Core Business: Luxasia Foundation
The Empowerment of Women Initiative was a Singapore-based project developed with SymAsia's philanthropy advisors to provide women in need of rehabilitation and support vocational skills training, enabling them to build professional competencies as a means for gainful employment. The program resonates with Luxasia Foundation's core business and client constituency.
Leveling the Education Playing Field: Chow Kwai Yoong Foundation
A donor who is passionate about providing equal opportunities to disadvantaged children worked with SymAsia's philanthropy advisors to develop a tutoring program aimed at leveling the educational playing field for children who come from needy families with poor grades in school. Aside from having students benefit from the learning support they receive, the program also seeks to employ tutors who themselves require additional income to support themselves financially.
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Microfinance started as a very simple concept: to provide working capital loans as small as USD 100 or less to the poor – who have little or no collateral – in groups, so that members guarantee repayments. Over time, the services have expanded from these group loans to individual lending, and from loans to insurance, savings and fund transfers. Microfinance offers interested clients an investment opportunity that generates both a social and a financial return. To find out more about microfinance and investment products and services in this field, visit the dedicated page.
Market-based financing mechanisms from the private finance sector have great potential where the conservation of nature is concerned. We have strengthened our activities in the area of conservation finance, which allows for both the long-term protection of natural value and a financial return for investors.
About Conservation Finance
Conservation finance refers to capital that is invested in an ecosystem in order to generate one or several cash flows. This structure permits the underlying natural capital to be protected in the long term while at the same time providing the investor with a financial return. Market-based mechanisms applied to date have primarily been based on strategies directly associated with an ecosystem – e.g., compensation payments – or on indirect approaches, such as the certification of sustainably produced goods from a particular ecosystem. Our research suggests that wealthy individuals, institutional investors and even mainstream retail investors could supply as much as USD 200-300 billion of investment capital per year needed to preserve the world's most important ecosystems.
Our Role in Conservation Finance
In early 2014, Credit Suisse published a pioneering study on conservation finance, co-authored with WWF and McKinsey that looked at innovative private sector financing structures in conservation and the barriers and enablers to scaling up such approaches. The issue of conservation finance and the related study were also among the topics discussed at a panel discussion entitled "How Can Private Capital Create Sustainable Impact?" , which Credit Suisse hosted during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos in January 2014. To further sectoral discussions, we also co-organized an expert workshop hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco in 2014 with the world's leading conservation finance specialists. A summary of these discussions can be found here. In January 2015, we hosted and co-organized the first global conservation finance investor conference at our offices in New York. In January 2016, we released a report entitled "Conservation Finance – From Niche to Mainstream" in conjunction with the McKinsey Center for Business and Environment, focusing on paradigm shifts that could initiate the next period of growth in this field. The report was released at our second global conservation finance investor conference in New York.
Building on our proprietary research in the field of conservation finance, Credit Suisse launched the Nature Conservation Notes in December 2014. This innovative product in the environmental impact investing space consists of investments in sustainable agroforestry and ecosystem conservation, as well as in a portfolio of sustainable bonds. The Notes make it possible to support conservation activities in around 10-15 countries and economic development of local communities through the revenues generated by projects financed by the Althelia Climate Fund, a Luxembourg-based impact fund. Financial returns are generated for the fund's investors through the sale of sustainably certified commodities as well as from payments for ecosystem services. Social and environmental impacts are generated through the financing of community-based organizations, biodiversity and water conservation, as well as climate change mitigation. Credit Suisse's Nature Conservation Notes were named "2015 Forestry Deal of the Year" by the news and analysis service Environmental Finance.
The field of conservation finance is at an inflection point where it will need to migrate beyond donor-driven financing to commercial, investor-driven vehicles. Comparatively few sustainable investment opportunities exist in this area today, even though resources such as water and forests have the potential to deliver regular "natural" income streams. However, our research has shown that there is demand for such financial products among both private and institutional investors. After all, such products can offer not only a double dividend – financial and environmental – but a financial investment in growth markets and portfolio diversification offering protection against anticipated macroeconomic development (e.g., the limitation of national resources) and regulatory changes (e.g., offsetting biodiversity requirements for industrial companies).
Credit Suisse is continuing its efforts to develop vehicles that meet the various risk/return expectations and investment profiles of the above-mentioned client segments.
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The main goal of sustainable investments is financial returns with portfolio solutions and single investments that meet sustainability/ESG (environmental, social and governance) criteria. Our sustainable investment offering comprises portfolio solutions as well as products across all asset classes, including equities, fixed income, real estate, alternative investments, index solutions and thematic investments. Moreover, Credit Suisse Real Estate Investment Management, one of the largest real estate holders, considers sustainability essential in developing and managing investments. To find out more about our sustainable investment approach and about investment products and services in Switzerland, visit the dedicated website.
In dynamic sectors such as renewable energy and energy efficiency, reliable information is crucial as a basis for decision making for investment decisions. As an economic indicator, the Renewable Energy Index Switzerland (REIS) provides sector information on sales, order backlog, delivery periods, inventories and employment in the sustainable energies market. It is published quarterly in cooperation with the AEE SUISSE Umbrella Organization for the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Industry. The indicator is based on a survey of companies in the sustainable energy solutions sector (renewable energies and energy efficiency). The REIS shows recent economic developments in the renewable energy and energy efficiency sector and serves as a leading indicator.
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We conduct sustainability-related research across our divisions and continued to do so in 2015. For example, Investment Strategy & Research in the International Wealth Management division published an update to its research into global megatrends, with sustainability featuring as one of three key trends alongside demographics and the transition to a multipolar world. Our new weekly publication "What's New in ESG?" highlights ESG-related research by Credit Suisse analysts as well as discussing key ESG events and topics.
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Does anyone know where to purchase the number 5 fabric/cloth used on the ends of the queen marking cages? I already have #5 hardware cloth but have not been able to locate the netting found on the end of the marking cages.
Just bug a bag of onions and use the mesh bag!
The mesh needs to have an opening very close to 0.162". Do potato bags have this opening size?
Don't know the size, but I use it and it works just fine............
Will something like this work?
One of the big box stores had a very heavy stiff roofing fabric. I can't remember if it was Lowes or homedepot.
I was looking around for everything to fit on the marking tube.
From potato chips package, to frozen fish pagkage mesh.
The identical size mesh is from my wife's foam bath sponge. It is the right size , and is exagonal like the comb. The right time to make your move, is 2-3 in the morning, when she is in her deep sleep.
You guys seem to agree. It is a matter of taking the calipers to the store and just finding something that works. I was hoping for a dealer of fabrics.
HVH, Have you tried any of the craft or fabric stores in your area I know there are some close to you because I used to live in Sparks NV.
good luck on your search. Johns Bees
I think the aluminum window screen roll is the #5 wire cloth. I use the window screen to screen my medicine
bottle queen marking tube. After the glue is dry I use a small scissor to cut off the crossed wire to make the holes
bigger. \_/ Almost like that size to mark the queen with. It works so far.
See the wire if you can
I bought a small piece of "netting" at a fabric store (for about 27¢) when I made a marking tube.
Because I had crushed the queen bee by accident after marking her while waiting for the
paints to dry, I made an improved version of this marker. I placed a small foam inside
the tube at the top with 2 notches to allow more room for the queen bee to move inside.
You can say this is a "crush proof marking tube." This will prevent the foam plunger from
accidentally being hit on to crush the queen.
See the notches at the top?


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Zimbabwe: Humanitarian update
The humanitarian community in Zimbabwe is paying close attention to a number of key concerns, including cholera and malaria outbreaks, a shortage of funding, and food shortages.
Addressing cholera and malaria outbreaks is a high priority for humanitarian partners. By the end of April 2011, a total of 746 cholera cases had been recorded and 25 people had died from the disease since January this year. More than 90,000 malaria cases and 140 deaths have been reported from early April to April 24 2011.
In response to the cholera outbreak water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and health partners are implementing community health promotion programmes. Work to increase awareness raising activities and disinfection activities at the local and district level continues.
Cholera and malaria outbreaks have affected the country on a large scale mainly due to the break down of the country's health system, dilapidation of the water supply infrastructure, and of sanitary facilities. Rebuilding the health system and basic facilities requires further financial support.
The Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP) is the main humanitarian funding mechanism for the country. At this moment, the CAP for Zimbabwe is the least funded globally, with only 14.6% - or US$ 60 million - of the total $415, 275, 740 needed met at the end of April. The lack of funding could undermine progress made so far and potentially reverse development gains made over the past three years.
The Safety Net (SN) programme led by World Food Programme (WFP) currently faces a shortage of $20 million for the period from May to October 2011. This will increase food insecurity in the country. Consequently, ration cuts were introduced in April 2011 and are still in effect. Following a dry spell experience in February and March 2011 and the impact on crops, WFP and partners are continuing to monitor the food security situation.
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By Reshma Kapadia
There was a 50% increase in the number of people joining the middle class over the last decade in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a new report from the World Bank by Francisco H.G. Ferreira, Julian Messina, Jamele Rigolini, Luis-Felipe Lopez-Calva, Maria Ana Lugos and Renos Vakis.
The middle class accounted for about 30% of the region's population in 2009, with Brazil representing about 40% of the middle class growth in the region. Colombia also saw major improvement with 54% of its people gaining a better economic status between 1992 and 2008. By 2030, the authors estimate 42% of the region will be middle class. But a fifth will remain in poverty.
For the purposes of the report, the World Bank categorized those with $10 per capita to $50 per capita as middle class –in other words annual household income of $14,600 to $73,000. There was a clear association between faster GDP growth and higher income mobility.
While at least 40% of the region's households moved up the socio-economic ladder between 1995 and 2010, intergenerational mobility remains limited, with parents' income and education levels key determinants. Most of the poor that moved up didn't just jump into the middle-class but joined a group between the poor and middle class the authors describe as "the vulnerable class" that is the region's largest class. By 2030, this group's size is expected to stay the same.
Not surprisingly, there are many differences among the middle class from country to country. But some similarities:
More educated than those they have left behind
More likely to live in urban areas and work in formal sector jobs
Middle class women typically have fewer children and are more likely to be in the work force than the poor or vulnerable groups.
The report, however, noted that there was little intergenerational movement other than through education.
"Most class movement was gradual: most of the "climbers" moved either from poverty to vulnerability or from vulnerability to the middle class; few made the jump directly from poverty to the middle class during these 15 years. Rags- to-riches stories capture the imagination precisely because they are, in reality, rather rare—even in a high-mobility context such as Latin America in the 2000s."
"The next two decades will be characterized by a massive increase of middle-class households through- out emerging countries, from around 300 million households in 2005 to almost 1.9 billion in 2030—approximately six times the current population of the United States," the authors write.
That should give all those investors talking about domestic demand a good deal of fodder. The EGShares Emerging Markets Consumer ETF (ECON), billed as a fund to play these trends, is up 10% in the past year.


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I can not get arduino leonardo communicate with the sd card.
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The Ethernet shield works fine .
I downloaded the file but can not compile it.
I bought Adafruit data loggerI downloaded the file but can not compile it.Could you explain how you did it?thanks
If the ethernet shield is the new type with the ICSP connector, it will work fine. The older versions without the ICSP header on the bottom will not work without serious pin bending.
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I must admit, I'm typing with a little swagger as I've already completed the first step to enter. I made my flag at We Are Multicolored, which represents my American heritage as well as my ancestral roots in Germany and the British Isles. I don't use a sidebar, so I'll be flying my flag in any post that pertains to the Games.
I intend to participate in all six categories.
- Go Back and Cite Your Sources! With 10 citations the minimum for a bronze medal and 50 needed for a platinum, at this point I'm not even going to guess how far I'll get. Five a day would do it. We'll see!
- Back Up Your Data! Since my external hard drive doesn't have room for a complete computer backup at this point, I'll be burning my important genealogy files to DVDs, as per Task C. Goin' for the Gold!
- Organize Your Research! Wasn't this the essence of my New Year's resolutions? There are six Tasks to choose from for this category. I intend to complete at least four.
- Expand Your Knowledge! There are five Tasks to choose from. I'll try to pick one or two, and then not obsess over them!
- Write, Write, Write! Of the six Tasks listed, I have my eye on A, C and E. We'll see!
- Reach Out & Perform Genealogical Acts of Kindness! There are seven Tasks to choose from. I'll pick three and go for the Gold.


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Dimensions 3.7-5.1cm. (1 1/2-2")
Breeding Spring-fall. 3-8 Eggs laid, dangling from rock on a stalk. Nests in wet gravel near streams/springs. Hatches in fall.
Habitat Temperate forests, intermittent rivers, and freshwater springs.
Range Appalachians in sw. Virginia through North Carolina.
Discussion Hides under forest debris. Forages at night for small insects. Congregates underground in groups in winter.


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[QUOTE=dlockz;1064455504]I still say because a player is great in Canada means nothing in the big picture. Wake has been great for us but is the exception and not the rule. The canadian league is comprised of players that are fringe practice squaders at best. There is some talent there but no defensive player in the modern era has had the impact of Cameron Wake. There still hasnt been some wave of success coming out of Canada but there has been two pro bowl players in Wake and Browner. I was wrong on Wake but nobody knew he would be the beast that he is. Plenty of NFL Gms were watching him and still nobody got in some huge bidding war for him , we got him relatively cheap for his awesome production in canada
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Oh lets see... I haven't written an entry in forever, so
whats been going on? House things, painting the basement
walls with some really rancid smelling stuff. This is
supposed to seal the concrete hopefully this will keep the
dust down.. Moved the computers down to the basement area
More room and cooler. Next summer the A/C should appreciate
the reduced load upstairs. Discovered I didn't forget
everything about electrical work. Been following mozilla
fairly closely the past few months and its really starting
to not suck, its my primary browser now so that says quite a
bit. Got a mail from Loki stating:
"This morning we announced we're working on Tribes 2 and that we're accepting applications to assist in beta testing. Please be assured that you are already on our beta tester list and that we will notify you as the test nears."
Which was a tad confusing but I guess I'm on their 'permenant beta tester list' or some such... Things could be worse :) .
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In addition to a change at the top at the Minooka wrestling program, another longtime coach had to be replaced this past offseason. Former Assistant Coach of the Year in 2010 by the Illinois Wrestling Coaches and Officials Association Mike Butterbach stepped down from his position over the summer.
"I didn't talk to Butters, but I know he's been pursuing his master's degree," Minooka's new head coach Jeff Charlebois said.
With Butterbach stepping down, that created another vacancy that Minooka athletic director Bob Tyrell had to fill. He filled it with a familiar face in Morris' Brian McTague.
"Jeff and I were talking and we wanted to bring in a quality coach," Tyrell said. "Brian is a quality coach and we are glad to have him on our staff."
Charlebois said that adding McTague to the staff was huge in him mind.
"Thankfully Brian was interested and it all worked out great," Charlebois said. "We are fortunate to have every coach on the staff in a situation where they have been a head coach at some point in their career. Here we have a bunch of guys who know what they are doing. It makes the staff that much stronger. I'm grateful for Brian. He's done a great job with the kids."
McTague is a former state champion wrestler while at Morris High School (1982) and later returned to coach the Redskins for two seasons in from 2006-2008 where he compiled a 26-21 record as head coach.
"It think it was a good fit all around for me," McTague said. "Between the time restraints to coming into a program with a great tradition, it's nice. There are a lot of good kids there and they always have good numbers."
In addition to his time at Morris, McTague spent 13 years as an assistant varsity coach at Reed-Custer High School.
McTague joins Charlebois, Bernie Ruettiger, Matt Harding and Stan Tischer as coaches on the Minooka staff this year. As previously noted, all of them have been a head wrestling coach at some point and time, which is unprecedented in this day and age.
"We're happy with all of them," Tyrell said. "Each of them gives the kids a chance to be competitive. It's nice for us to have all those guys."


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From evoking the wrath of his family to inciting the ire of an entire military institution, Pat Conroy is no stranger to controversy. And the man behind the pen is no shrinking violet as I learned last week at a dinner party hosted in his honor by Teddy and Blair Turner. Conroy roved the living room with glad hand extended and quiver of wit at the ready. He made a point to meet every person in attendance, the bulk of whom serve as teachers and faculty of Charleston Collegiate School, a progressive, private school on Johns Island with an enrollment of 265 students.
It was fitting company for the tale of Conroy's abrupt departure from his teaching post on Daufuskie Island in the 1970s, where his unconventional teaching practices led to his firing on the grounds of insubordination. He parlayed that experience into The Water is Wide, which has twice been adapted to film. And while his career path quickly veered from teacher to novelist, he clearly connects with the brethren of educators, whom he saluted for their spirited and often thankless dedication to bright, young minds.
Conroy's connection to the Turner family has spanned several decades, and thanks to Teddy's new career as a teacher at Charleston Collegiate, the friendship came full circle at last week's dinner.