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Bugs causing a stink in Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WTVN) -- Ohio is seeing an increase in shield-shaped bugs and it's causing quite a...well, stink. The marmorated Asian stink bug first got into Ohio about 4 years ago. Since then it's been multiplying to the point where we're now starting to see more of them in our homes.
"They're really not causing any damage to your house nor are they going to cause any problems for you in terms of biting or anything like that," said Ohio State University entomologist Ron Hammond.
The bugs tend to feed to plants and crops during the summer then about this time of year start looking for a place to spend the winter.
"It just so happens that one of their favorite places are our homes," he said.
The pests likely came to America on a ship from Asia. They are larger than the native stink bugs.
To get rid of them, Hammond suggests just simply snagging them in a plastic bag and either sealing it up until they die or tossing it in the freezer. Whatever you do don't smash them!
"They are called stink bugs for a reason and the do release an odor for defensive purposes."
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check FNH's web site
they don't make a .22LR
how old is it?
does anyone know what exactly is the type of a FN pistol .22 based on the serial number?
The serial number concerned is 33757U35. I tried "date your gun" at the following url http://www.browning.com/customerserv...egun/index.asp but the serials for the Buck Mark, Challenger or Medalist doesn't seem to be build like that. Perhaps this is due to the fact that the FN isn't build in the US?
I would appreciate if someone could help me out. A friend of mine asked me if I was interested in buying this pistol because the law changed and he must get rid of it. I already own 2 pistols in .22, a Colt Cadet and a Hämmerli SP20 the one I mostly use when shooting .22.
But if the FN seems to be a fine gun, I would buy it. My kids are growing up.
Patrick Deleu
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Alienware Arena TF2 cup on Saturday the 17th of august starting at 19:00CEST. There's room for 32 teams on a first-come-first-serve basis, so sign up now.In preparation for i49, Dignitas is running a one-night
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Hi Lucy,
I was wondering if you could help me with some suggestions for a new student.
I've been asked to take some trial lessons with an adult student who I am told has very basic English (as far as I understand she knows the alphabet and a few words but not much else).
I believe she would like help learning how to form sentences before moving on to more complex things. I was wondering whether you could suggest any techniques to approach this (i.e. start by teaching some new vocabulary, moving on to basic sentences such as "my name is...")
As a very inexperienced (and unqualified) teacher I am a little worried about this. I want to do a good job, but am worried that I will have to communicate more in Russian (my student's first language) than in English. Having fairly basic Russian speaking skills myself would you suggest it is better to jump straight in to speaking English as much as possible (i.e. so that even if the student doesn't understand everything, at least she is hearing the sounds of English) or rather to try and work within her first language.
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In 1983, the Hoodoo Gurus (having dropped the French article) recorded their excellent debut record, Stoneage Romeos; dedicated to luminaries like F-Troop's Larry Storch and Green Acres' pig Arnold Ziffel, the album offered such trash-pop treats as the single "I Want You Back," "In the Echo Chamber," and "I Was a Kamikaze Pilot." Mark Kingsmill replaced Baker in 1985, leaving Faulkner the band's sole founding member. He responded by writing an even stronger batch of tunes for 1985's college radio smash Mars Needs Guitars!, an album highlighted by the superb single "Bittersweet" and marked by a widening scope that touched base with demented hillbilly humor ("Hayride to Hell") and crazed surf ("Like Wow -- Wipeout").
With 1987's Blow Your Cool, the Hoodoos appeared poised for the big time; their tourmates, the Bangles, even contributed to the singles "What's My Scene" and "Good Times." However, the album failed to register beyond alternative radio, and Bramley exited, replaced by onetime Divinyl Rick Grossman. Released in 1989, Magnum c*m Louder didn't fare much better -- although the singles "Come Anytime," "Another World," and "Baby Can Dance" all garnered significant airplay -- while 1991's Kinky featured "Miss Freelove '69," a smirking look at flower-power romance that was the latest in a long line of near hits. After a three-year hiatus, the Hoodoo Gurus returned with the harder-edged Crank, produced by Ed Stasium; Blue Cave followed in 1996.
In 1998, the Gurus announced they were splitting up, and the career-spanning compilation Ampology was issued in 2000. Two years later, Dave Faulkner, Brad Shepherd, and Mark Kingsmill were working together again as members of the garage-influenced the Persian Rugs, and in 2004, after Faulkner had reworked "What's My Scene" from Blow Your Cool as a theme song for an Australian football team, the band reunited (with Rick Grossman returning on bass), staging a successful tour down under and releasing a new album, Mach Schau. In 2009 the Hoodoo Gurus inked a deal with Sony Music Australia, resulting in their ninth full-length album, 2010's Purity of Essence. ~ Jason Ankeny
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Hi everyone most people know me as Nintendude and the other half know me as Vagabond. I have been creating pepakura files now for the past few years and have posted the files all across the internet for quite some time. Now I have a pepakura file wiki index that I am starting up so that the pep files that are all over the internet whether they be Star Wars, Warhammer, Iron Man, Fallout or anything else not metioned if there is a pep file it will be found here. Currently the Clonetrooper files that I have are not going to be added just yet as I am going to be repairing the files so it will be much easier to make them and the other Star Wars files I first started with and did'nt know what I was doing but they will be mproved and put on the Wiki, heres the link to the Wiki for the Star Wars files and the link to my 4Shared where all my files are hosted.All my files are always free and you are welcome to anything I have. Enjoy.
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Hello. My name is Ian and I live in the Atlanta, GA area. To date I have only been hunting once (dove) and enjoyed it. I am looking for some basic advice. If I want to try duck hunting and do not have a dog, are there any groups I may try to network with? Also, despite my being 37 years old, I am a FT student again and would rather not blow $500 on a single day's hunt if I can avoid it. Any advice on hunting on public lands?
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While the camera is capable of pleasant results close inspection reveals noise in the shadows.
The exposure metering system produces good results in average conditions.
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I bought this camera as recommended by the shop guy, mostly as a video recorder. It does capture 640*480 at 60 frames a second, however, I am having difficulties downloading the resulting video to my laptop, at filesizes of 932Mb for 15 minutes video. Smaller ones arounf 250Mb present no issues I can see, and I'm pleased with the results. However, if I can't get the video off the camera, it'll be going back to the shop guy for refund.
Hi...i want to buy a decent camera, which will give me good snaps...nothign out of the world, and ya low light snaps should come fine, like in pubs and all, i had a sony t 70 and had a bad time, esp in night, cos i used to see white patch and it seems i clicked from my cell phone, so i hope this camera would deliver me good? WAT SAY GUYS
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Big crowd turns out for Scottish Arts Indoor Festival in Nashua
By BARBARA TAORMINA
Union Leader Correspondent | April 06. 2014 9:19PM
Lezlie Webster, director of Scottish Arts, warms up with the New Hampshire Pipes and Drums band at Saturday's Scottish Arts Indoor Festival at Nashua High South. (Barbara Taormina Photo)
Sponsored by Scottish Arts, a Manchester-based hub of Scottish culture, the event featured musicians and dancers from throughout the Northeast, who made the annual trip to Nashua to compete as individual performers or in bands and to share their passion for all things Scottish.
Despite the appreciation of the music and pageantry, Edwards said Scottish games and festivals have been hurting for the past few years.
Still, there was plenty of participation and support at Saturday's festival.
Edwards, who was busy on Saturday helping individual musicians and arranging lunch for a team of judges, said people find their way to piping and drumming for all different reasons.
"After 9/11, he was a young kid, 9 or 10 years old, and he was watching all the pipers pipe for the first responders," recalled Edwards. "He said, 'I want to pipe for the heroes.'"
"It's all inclusive," she said. "It's a matter of enthusiasm for the culture. You don't have to have the genetics."
"My grandfather used to pipe down the sun," she said. "He taught me how to pipe."
Windham resident Peter Bruyn said southern New Hampshire is home to a lot of individuals and families that celebrate Scottish culture in different ways.
"It's a close-knit group, and it's competitive," said Bruyn, who is a fan of the annual Highland Games at Loon Mountain in Lincoln, where contestants compete in traditional feats of power such as hurling tree trunks and carrying boulders.
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Givenchy Fall 2011 Couture
"Purity," intoned Riccardo Tisci, citing the inspiration for his contained but sublime collection of haute couture pieces for Givenchy that the ateliers have been working on for six months. "I try to find the light in the darkness," he continued. "Very pure and soft and fragile; a romantic dream."
Tisci finds that "the most beautiful moment in couture is the first calico," and so he kept the palette in the palest beige, ivory, and white for the cottons used for those initial toiles. For Tisci, "white has become very strong—when women want to be sexy and romantic at the same time, white is there."
Whilst the shapes were streamlined, the beauty was in the details. Crystal drops with a techno reflective treatment (whose scattered pattern over the fragile tulle dress was based on a "map" of the nodules on ostrich skin) subtly transformed in different lights; Tisci likened the effect to "tears of angels."
The ankle straps of the sandals to accompany this piece, meanwhile, were fashioned from the pale wax flowers garlanding nineteenth-century devotional pictures that Tisci sourced from antique examples (each pair, of course, will be unique).
Tisci translated the cropped sweatshirts and sweaters that he has made a ready-to-wear signature by embroidering the illusion of ribbed cableknit in dense white china beads. And his beloved fringe fell in a golden waterfall of fine chains, each less than a millimeter wide; even the clutch purses were fringed to the floor to match.
Curled duck feathers framed the neck of a dress with an ostrich feather peplum while tiny lace circle cutouts formed a subtle heart shape on the bodice of a dress whose high neck and elaborate detailing suggested the Belle Epoque—until its cutaway back and chunky zipper made it a thoroughly twenty-first-century proposition true to Tisci's singular approach to couture.
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Youngstown State Uses Second Half Runs to Top Phoenix, 72-63
By Rachel Buck (@GBRachel)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) – The Youngstown State women's basketball team was able to capitalize on big second half runs as it earned a season sweep of the Phoenix with a 72-63 win over Green Bay on Sunday afternoon at the Kress Center.
The win moved the Penguins even with the Phoenix atop the Horizon League standings at 9-3 while they improved to 13-12 overall. With the loss the Phoenix fell to 16-8 overall and was swept by a conference opponent for the first time since Milwaukee did it in the 2005-06 season. It also snapped an eight game winning streak for Green Bay.
The game also marked Green Bay's annual PinkZone game, as the team was able to raise $14,569.46 from the generosity of its fans. Donated monies will benefit the St. Vincent Regional Cancer Center's Compassionate Care Fund, Harlan Humanitarian Fund and Childlife program in the Prevea Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Department. Thanks to the fans and our sponsors Broadway Automotive and Prevea Health for their contributions leading up to and during the game.
Timely runs by the Penguins run in the second half proved to be the difference in the contest. A 9-0 Penguins spurt to start the second half put them ahead 40-34 just under four minutes in. Green Bay recorded four turnovers and two missed shots in its first six possessions of the half, while Youngstown State made back-to-back threes in addition to a layup and free throw during the span.
Green Bay followed with an 8-2 run to tie the game at 42-42 with 13:51 remaining. Two layups apiece from sophomore Kaili Lukan (Barrie, Ontario) and senior Breannah Ranger (Skokie, Ill.) brought the score even for the ninth time in the game.
However, a 7-0 from Youngstown State put the visitors up for good as Melissa Thompson put up back-to-back layups and Jenna Hirsch capped it with a basket from long range to put Youngstown's lead at seven points (49-42) with 10:26 remaining. Green Bay got to within a point (49-48) with just over eight minutes remaining and stayed within three points (57-54) with 4:23 to go. But another timely run by the Penguins, this time a 9-0, gave the visitors a 12-point lead (66-54) and they held on to win, 72-63.
It was a tense first half that featured seven ties and six lead changes. Trailing 12-14 with just over 12 minutes remaining in the first half, the Phoenix went on a 9-0 run to jump out to a 21-14 lead at the 10:11 mark. Freshman Tesha Buck (Red Wing, Minn.) tied the game with a step-back jumper and classmate Mehryn Kraker (West Allis, Wis.) put Green Bay ahead with a three from the corner. Junior Megan Lukan (Barrie, Ontario) and freshman Mariah Monke (Fergus Falls, Minn.) closed the run with jumpers in the paint.
However, Youngstown State got back into the game with a run of its own, 11-4, to tie the game for the fifth time in the first half at 25-all with 5:21 remaining. Both teams traded baskets in the final minutes before Kraker hit a big three from deep in the corner to give the Phoenix a 34-31 lead at the break.
Despite the loss, Green Bay was able to control points in the paint, 32-20, and also had a 25-8 edge in bench points, posting 24 or more points from its reserves for the fourth-consecutive contest. Four Phoenix finished in double-digit scoring, led by 13 apiece from Kaili Lukan and freshman Sam Terry (Baraboo, Wis.), 12 by Ranger and 11 from Buck. Terry was also strong on the boards with a team-best six rebounds, while Megan Lukan had a game-high seven assists.
Youngstown State outrebounded Green Bay, 42-30, and narrowly edge the Phoenix in shooting going 43.4 percent (23-53) from the field compared to 43.3 percent (26-60). Heidi Schlegel recorded her 1,000th career point in the early going and finished with a game-high 23 points and 10 rebounds.
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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 206, October 13, 2000
- ARSC Linux Cluster; Visitor; and Events October 18th
- CUG SV1 Workshop Oct 23-25
- Cartesian Topologies in MPI: Part II
- Quick Tip
ARSC Linux Cluster; Visitor; and Events October 18th
ARSC is honored to have as a working guest all next week, Patricia Kovatch, Manager, HPC Systems Group, Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center (AHPCC), University of New Mexico. Patricia will be helping ARSC install a cluster which will be used in various classes and training events by ARSC and UAF departments.
Two events which will be of interest to those running, building, or considering a cluster are scheduled.
- Discuss your cluster plans with an expert.
Wednesday 18th October, 12:00, Room 109, Butrovich Bldg.
This event is bring-your-own, "Brown Bag" lunch. Please contact Guy Robinson ( email@example.com ) if you plan to attend.
- Patricia Kovatch will give a talk entitled "Linux Superclusters: Ready for Production?"
Wednesday 18th October, 2:00pm, Room 109, Butrovich Bldg.
The National Computational Science Alliance (NCSA) has created several production superclusters for scientists and researchers to run a variety of parallel applications. Superclusters are large scale clusters built from commodity parts and high performance interconnects. The goal of these clusters is to provide easy-to-use high performance computing systems at reasonable prices. These clusters are linked with other high performance computing resources to a national computational grid through NCSA's Virtual Machine Room (VMR).
This seminar will discuss the details on the design, implementation management and performance of these systems. Examples of cluster configurations and experiences will be given.
CUG SV1 Workshop Oct 23-25
The CUG SV1 Workshop is coming up fast.
Where and When:
The CUG Fall 2000 Workshop will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota October 23-25, 2000. There will be a workshop dinner on October 24th. Sponsors for the Conference are CUG and Cray Inc.
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Cartesian Topologies in MPI: Part II
[ Thanks to Dr. Don Morton, University of Montana Missoula, for contributing this series of articles. This is part 2 of 2. ]
In part 1 of this series (see: /arsc/support/news/hpcnews/hpcnews205/index.xml ), cartesian topologies and the four basic MPI support functions were introduced. These MPI functions allow you to logically view processors as a mesh configuration, regardless of the network or the physical processor layout.
The following sample program and output should help demonstrate the power of this approach. A lot of information is included as comments in the C++ code.
The program is kept as simple as possible, with many simplifying assumptions. It solves the time-dependent heat diffusion equation using finite difference methods. Simulation parameters are specified in the first section of constants. Users may specify an initial value (e.g. temperature) for all grid points, and a boundary condition to be applied at all boundary points. Users may also specify the distance between grid points (will be the same for vertical and horizontal directions) along with time-stepping parameters. The constants M and N specify the number of grid points IN EACH PROCESSOR in the vertical and horizontal directions, respectively.
The following diagram illustrates the layout of the problem domain for a program with constants as specified in the example, run as follows (in a cluster environment)
mpirun -np 4 cart 2 2
"cart" is the name of the executable, and the "2 2" command-line arguments specify the number of processors in the vertical and horizontal directions, respectively. The diagram below shows four processors, each possessing four (2 X 2, or M X N)) grid points. It also illustrates the fact that variables "i" and "M" relate to the vertical dimension, and variables "j" and "N" relate to the horizontal dimension. Other aspects of the diagram will be referred to in the comments of the program.
j, N ---------------------------------------------- u(1,1) u(1,2) u(1,1) u(1,2) PE(0,0) PE(0,1) u(2,1) u(2,2) u(2,1) u(2,2) i, M -------------------------------------------- u(1,1) u(1,2) u(1,1) u(1,2) PE(1,0) PE(1,1) u(2,1) u(2,2) u(2,1) u(2,2) ---------------------------------------------- Diagram 1: Layout of 2X2 processor mesh, with 2X2 grid points in each processor.
Finally, here is the program:
//====================== cart.C ================================== #include <unistd.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <math.h> #include <iostream.h> #include "mpi.h" int main(int argc, char * argv[]) { // In the following, "M" will always refer to vertical // direction (jumping from one row to next) and "N" // will refer to horizontal direction (jumping from one // column to next) // Likewise, "i" will always be used to index in the vertical // (M) direction, and "j" will always index in the horizontal // (N) direction. // ===========================Some constants ============================ int const M = 2, N = 2; // # of vert and horiz. interior grid // pts. in each processor double const boundaryValue = 100.0; // Constant boundary condition double const initValue = 0.0; // Initial value of interior points double const h = 1.0; // Distance between grid points // Time-stepping parameters - start, stop, timestep size double const T0 = 0.0; double const Tn = 0.1; double const deltaT = 0.1; int const numDim = 2; // Number of dimensions // ====================================================================== int MyPE, // My logical process number NumPE, // Number of processes info, // Return value for error checking MP, NP, // Dimensions of MPxNP processor mesh MyLeftNeighbour, // Logical PE numbers of neighbour PE's MyRightNeighbour, MyTopNeighbour, MyBottomNeighbour, i, j; // loop index variables // In the following, U refers to "current" values at each // grid point, and UNew refers to the new solution for a // given timestep. In diagram 1, the "u" variables // refer to these unknowns at interior grid points. double U[M+2][N+2]; // Local grid on each processor // - note that indices will run from // 0 to M+1 (or N+1). We assume // that a processor's grid points are // stored with indices ranging from 1 // to M (or N), and the 0th and Mth // (or Nth) indices store "buffer" values // from neighbour processors' boundaries double UNew[M+2][N+2]; // Maintaining same indexing as U[][] so // that transfers from one to another are // simpler // Communication buffer for exchanging processor edge values double buffer[M+N]; // I "wanted" to do something like // double buffer[max(M,N)] but this // didn't seem to work. The bottom line // is that buffer needs to be large enough // to hold a full row or a full column. double t; // Time index variable // Variables for defining and utilising cartesian topology int dims[2]; // Dimensions of 2D topology int periods[2]; // Flags (logical) for defining wraparound int reorder; // Logical flag for letting MPI reorder processors int myCoords[2]; // My coordinates in the processor mesh MPI_Comm COMM2D; // Communicator for cartesian topology MPI_Status status; // For MPI_Recv() double wt1, wt2; // Timers char myhost[80]; // Stores hostname of machine this process // is running on #ifdef DEBUG cout << "Before MPI_Init()" << endl; #endif MPI_Init(&argc, &argv); // Make sure the executable was run with the correct number of // arguments - should be two arguments - number ofprocessors // for each of the vertical and horizontal dimensions. if ( (argc < 3) (argc > 3) ) { cerr << "Usage: cart1 MP NP" << endl << endl; cerr << " MP, NP = dimensions of processor mesh" << endl; MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 0); } #ifdef DEBUG cout << "Before MPI_Comm_rank()" << endl; #endif MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &MyPE); #ifdef DEBUG cout << "Before MPI_Comm_size()" << endl; #endif MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &NumPE); MP = atoi(argv[1]); NP = atoi(argv[2]); #ifdef DEBUG cout << "MP, NP = " << MP << " " << NP << endl; cout << "NumPE = " << NumPE << endl; #endif // We fire this up by specifying the number of processors we // want to use. // Make sure that MP x NP = Number of PE's if (MP*NP != NumPE) { cerr << "Abort: MP x NP must be equal to number of processors" << endl; MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 0); } #ifdef DEBUG gethostname(myhost, 80); cout << "PE" << MyPE << ": running on " << myhost << endl; #endif // Set up the cartesian topology (numDim defined as const above) // Note that for the purposes of the MPI_Cart_create() call, // dims[0] is the vertical direction, and dims[1] is horizontal dims[0] = MP; dims[1] = NP; // A value of zero indicates that there is no wraparound. For // example, if he have P processors for the horizontal direction, // if "periods" was set to "1", this would indicate the processor // 0 in the row had a left neighbour of processor N-1, and processor // N-1 had a right neighbour of process 0. If periods is set to "0", // this would indicate that processor 0 has no left neighbour, and // process N-1 had no right neighbour. periods[0] = 0; periods[1] = 0; // A "1" indicates that the MPI implementation should reorder // processor numbers for optimisation. reorder = 1; // We create a new communicator called COMM2D for a cartesian // topology. This communicator will be used in subsequent calls. MPI_Cart_create(MPI_COMM_WORLD, numDim, dims, periods, reorder, &COMM2D); // Find out what my coordinates are. MPI_Cart_coords will provide // the coordinates for a specified processor. So, I indicate that // I want to find out what "my" coordinates are. The coordinates // for processors are indicated in diagram 1. MPI_Cart_coords(COMM2D, MyPE, numDim, myCoords); #ifdef DEBUG cout << "PE" << MyPE << " - myCoords: (" << myCoords[0] << "," << myCoords[1] << ")" << endl; #endif //------------------------------------------------------------------- // Find out the ranks of my left, right, top, bottom neighbours. // Note that one or more might have NULL values. //------------------------------------------------------------------- // The "0" of the second argument indicates that we want to // find adjacent rank numbers in the vertical direction. The // "1" of the third argument indicates that we want to find // the ranks of the process "1" over. A "2" would indicate // that we want to find the rank of the processor "2" processors // over. The return arguments (last two) are the ranks of my // "adjacent" processors. Now I know who to send my "edge" values // to, and who to receive "edge" values from. MPI_Cart_shift(COMM2D, 0, 1, &MyTopNeighbour, &MyBottomNeighbour); // The "1" of the second argument indicates that we want to // find adjacent rank numbers in the horizontal direction. MPI_Cart_shift(COMM2D, 1, 1, &MyLeftNeighbour, &MyRightNeighbour); #ifdef DEBUG cout << "PE" << MyPE << " - TNeighb " << MyTopNeighbour << ", - BNeighb " << MyBottomNeighbour << endl; cout << "PE" << MyPE << " - LNeighb " << MyLeftNeighbour << ", - RNeighb " << MyRightNeighbour << endl; #endif //------------------------------------------------------------------- // Initialise grid in each processor - use LOCAL numbering in each // processor - no global //------------------------------------------------------------------- // First, the interior, initial values for (i=1; i<=M; i++) for (j=1; j<=N; j++) U[i][j] = initValue; // Next, the boundary values - in each processor, we check // on each side for presence of a neighbour. If there is // no neighbour, we fill in the appropriate buffer cells // with the boundary condition. Note that we could easily // modify this to account for different boundary values // on different edges (for more interesting problems). // Left if (MyLeftNeighbour == MPI_PROC_NULL) for (i=1; i<=M; i++) U[i][0] = boundaryValue; // Right if (MyRightNeighbour == MPI_PROC_NULL) for (i=1; i<=M; i++) U[i][N+1] = boundaryValue; // Top if (MyTopNeighbour == MPI_PROC_NULL) for (j=1; j<=N; j++) U[0][j] = boundaryValue; // Bottom if (MyBottomNeighbour == MPI_PROC_NULL) for (j=1; j<=N; j++) U[M+1][j] = boundaryValue; // Start the timer wt1 = MPI_Wtime(); #ifdef DEBUG cout << "PE" << MyPE << ": Beginning to compute....." << endl; #endif //------------------------------------------------------------------- // Begin timestepping //------------------------------------------------------------------- t = T0; while (t < Tn) { //------------------------------------------------------------------- // Exchange interprocessor boundary values // If there is a NULL neighbour, that implies // an edge of the global problem domain - buffer // cells for boundary conditions were filled // before timestepping. To help insure correct // synchronisation, message tag will always be the // sending PE. //------------------------------------------------------------------- // Exchange with my left neighbour // If there is a processor to our left, we fill a buffer with // with our leftmost column of values. This will get sent // to the left neighbour and received and stored in their // "buffer" cells. if (MyLeftNeighbour != MPI_PROC_NULL) { for (i=1; i<=M; i++) buffer[i-1] = U[i][1]; MPI_Send(buffer, M, MPI_DOUBLE, MyLeftNeighbour, MyPE, COMM2D); #ifdef DEBUG cout << "PE" << MyPE << ": Sent to " << MyLeftNeighbour << endl; #endif // Likewise, if I have a left neighbour, I want to // receive its rightmost values and store them in my left column of buffer cells. MPI_Recv(buffer, M, MPI_DOUBLE, MyLeftNeighbour, MyLeftNeighbour, COMM2D, &status); for (i=1; i<=M; i++) U[i][0] = buffer[i-1]; #ifdef DEBUG cout << "PE" << MyPE << ": Recv from " << MyLeftNeighbour << endl; #endif } // END exchange with left neighbour // Exchange with my right neighbour if (MyRightNeighbour != MPI_PROC_NULL) { for (i=1; i<=M; i++) buffer[i-1] = U[i][M]; MPI_Send(buffer, M, MPI_DOUBLE, MyRightNeighbour, MyPE, COMM2D); MPI_Recv(buffer, M, MPI_DOUBLE, MyRightNeighbour, MyRightNeighbour, COMM2D, &status); for (i=1; i<=M; i++) U[i][M+1] = buffer[i-1]; #ifdef DEBUG cout << "PE" << MyPE << ": Recv from " << MyRightNeighbour << endl; #endif } // END exchange with right neighbour // Exchange with my top neighbour if (MyTopNeighbour != MPI_PROC_NULL) { for (i=1; i<=N; i++) buffer[i-1] = U[1][i]; MPI_Send(buffer, N, MPI_DOUBLE, MyTopNeighbour, MyPE, COMM2D); MPI_Recv(buffer, N, MPI_DOUBLE, MyTopNeighbour, MyTopNeighbour, COMM2D, &status); for (i=1; i<=N; i++) U[0][i] = buffer[i-1]; #ifdef DEBUG cout << "PE" << MyPE << ": Recv from " << MyTopNeighbour << endl; #endif } // END exchange with top neighbour // Exchange with my bottom neighbour if (MyBottomNeighbour != MPI_PROC_NULL) { for (i=1; i<=N; i++) buffer[i-1] = U[M][i]; MPI_Send(buffer, N, MPI_DOUBLE, MyBottomNeighbour, MyPE, COMM2D); MPI_Recv(buffer, N, MPI_DOUBLE, MyBottomNeighbour, MyBottomNeighbour, COMM2D, &status); for (i=1; i<=N; i++) U[M+1][i] = buffer[i-1]; #ifdef DEBUG cout << "PE" << MyPE << ": Recv from " << MyBottomNeighbour << endl; #endif } // END exchange with bottom neighbour //------------------------------------------------------------------- // Calculate new values //------------------------------------------------------------------- for (i=1; i<=M; i++) { for (j=1; j<=N; j++) { UNew[i][j] = (deltaT/(h*h)) * ( U[i-1][j] + U[i+1][j] + U[i][j-1] + U[i][j+1] - 4*U[i][j] ) + U[i][j]; #ifdef DEBUG2 cout << "PE " << MyPE << ": i,j = " << i << "," << j << " >>>> Ui-1,j: " << U[i-1][j] << " Ui+1,j: " << U[i+1][j] << " Ui,j-1: " << U[i][j-1] << " Ui,j+1: " << U[i][j+1] << " Ui,j: " << U[i][j] << endl; #endif } } // END calculating U[i][j] //------------------------------------------------------------------- // Transfer new values to old //------------------------------------------------------------------- for (i=1; i<=M; i++) for (j=1; j<=N; j++) U[i][j] = UNew[i][j]; t = t + deltaT; #ifdef DEBUG cout << "PE" << MyPE << ": t = " << t << " ..." << endl; #endif } // END main timestepping loop // Stop the timer wt2 = MPI_Wtime(); if (MyPE==0) { cout << "Total Time = " << wt2 - wt1 << " seconds" << endl; } MPI_Finalize(); return(0); } // END main()
Running this code on ARSC's T3E with a total of 518,400 grid points, timestepping from t=0 to t=1000 in increments of 0.1 gives the following timings...
PE's Grid Point Dimensions Wall Time (seconds) in each processor 1x1 = 1 720x720 115.4 2x2 = 4 360x360 16.0 3x3 = 9 240x240 6.7 4x4 = 16 180x180 4.1 5x5 = 25 144x144 2.7 6x6 = 36 120x120 1.9
Running on an "old" Linux cluster with only five working nodes, the largest "reasonable" job we could run invovled 14400 grid points. Timings are as follows
PE's Grid Point Dimensions Wall Time (seconds) in each processor 1x1 = 1 120x120 271.6 2x2 = 4 60x60 95.4
So, as with almost all MPI codes, this code is portable and will run on architectures ranging from Cray MPP's to Linux clusters. A big advantage of using the cartesian topologies supported by MPI is that, with little effort it is possible to write a finite difference code that is portable not only across a wide range of architectures, but can be run on a variable number of logical processor configurations with no modification. By using this scheme, applications which rely on "nearest neighbour" communications can be written for a wide variety of configurations.
MAKEFILE -------- BINARY=cart1 ############## MPICH on Solaris cluster at U. Montana ############### CC=mpiCC INCLUDES= LIB= ############################################################################ ############## Cray T3E at ARSC ############### #CC=CC #VAMPIR=/usr/local/pkg/VAMPIRtrace/current #INCLUDES= #LIB=-L${VAMPIR}/lib -lVT -lpmpi -lmpi ############################################################################ ########### DEFINES ################### # # DEBUG - Fires up lots of intermediate output statements # ######################################### #DEFS=-DDEBUG -DIDENTSYS #DEFS=-DIDENTSYS #DEFS=-DDEBUG -DPRINT -DDEBUG2 DEFS= ${BINARY}: ${BINARY}.o ${CC} -o ${BINARY} ${BINARY}.o ${LIB} ${BINARY}.o : ${BINARY}.C Makefile ${CC} -c ${BINARY}.C ${DEFS} ${INCLUDES}
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I also burned my foot with the boiling water used to mold the armor, which hurt a lot. I thought about taking a picture of the burn, but nobody wants to see that.
Any suggestions about the armor? I still need to knick it up and paint it. I figure with a drill and a dremel, I can weather the armor well enough.


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Erin Robinson
Six Trojans Named To The Pac-12 Cross Country All-Academic Team
Byrne, DeYoung, Matranga, Owen, Robinson and Soderstrom named honorable mention
USC Places 10th At Pac-12 Cross Country Championships
Buckley leads young Trojan squad
USC To Compete At Titan Invitational Friday
Final regular season meet of the season
USC's Cross Country Team Set To Invade The Inland Empire
Trojans to compete a the 4K Highlander Invitational hosted by UC Riverside
USC Places 8th At The Competitive Stanford Invitational
Young Trojans post third consecutive solid outing of season
At USC: Erin Robinson begins her third season of running cross country for USC...2012: Was USC's fourth finisher and 30th overall with a time of 18:44.3 at the season-opening UC Irvine Invitational on Sept. 8. Helped USC to the team title at the Aztec Invitational on Sept. 15 by placing third among the Trojans and 11th overall with a time of 19:16.8. Was USC's seventh finisher and 23rd overall with a time of 14:45.2 as the Trojans took second at the Highlander Invitational on Oct. 23. Placed 105th and sixth among Trojans with a time of 34.02 at the Pac-12 Championships on Oct. 27...2011: Was the Trojans second finisher and 40th overall in her first collegiate race with a time of 18:54.3 at the UC Irvine Invitational on Sept. 10...Came in 19th, third among Trojans, with a time of 19:27.0 at the Aztec Invitational on Sept. 17 as the young Trojans took third place...Was USC's third finisher again with a season-best 6K time of 22:38.83 at the CS Northridge Invitational...Selected to run for the Trojans at the Pac-12 Championships and posted a time of 24:07 to place 109th.
HIGH SCHOOL: Robinson is a 2011 graduate of Gunn High in Palo Alto, Calif. where she was an AP Scholar...As a senior running cross country, had a 5K PR of 18:19 at the Stanford Invitational on Sept. 25...Placed 67th at the California State High School Cross Country Championships with a time of 18:58...Robinson finished 34th as a junior at the state meet with a time of 18:38...While running track as a senior for Gunn HS, set a PR of 10:04.20 in winning the 3000m race at the Stanford Invitational on March 26...Ran the 3200m race at the California State meet and placed 26th with a time of 11:14.88...Set a PR of 10:48.79 in the 3200m race to win the CCS Finals as a junior and placed second with a time of 10:48.86 at the CCS Finals as a senior.
PERSONAL: Erin was born on February 16, 1993 in Mountain View, Calif...Her parents are Nancy Ikeda and Rodney Robinson and she has one sister, Sarah...Likes to spend time with family and friends, cooking/baking with her sister and playing with her dog, Cobi, in her spare time...Her favorite musician is Taylor Swift and favorite movies are Titanic and Shawshank Redemption...Would like to travel to Europe and New York...Is a Civil Engineering/Building Science major at USC...Would like to go to graduate school.


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Hiya Guys N Gals,
I have a question regarding TEFL and I hope you guys can answer.
I'm thinking of taking a TEFL course. However, I have no degree standard qualification. Whilst I understand this is not needed to take the course, I am concerned this will hinder me finding employment internationally as a native English speaker with a TEFL certificate.
So, my question is....will I find employment globally and where will I most likely find this?
Many thanks...


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|I don't have any before pictures, unless you want to see it in primer with guide coat. I should have her painted next week, weather providing. The paint booth I am going to rent is 40 miles away in Pueblo, I need good weather, no snow for me until it is painted. I will take some pictures of it once it is done, but if you want to see the beast in its ugly state I can take some pics just for you tm454.
nothing in the gallery dude, show me what your talking about, please?? I will go body and paint but it's not my best suit, so to speek. I'm really a wrench, love to do the work, even the dirty work???
Rat Rods Rule!
Well its not a hot rod but its...a Dodge....
I haven't been into doing body work for almost a decade, but I have just recently started to do it again. My mother wanted her Dodge Daytona painted so I said I would do it for her. The car started off as a regular Daytona with no spoilers or turbo or anything else, just a plain jane. My dad found a 90 ES with a blown motor that had all of the spoilers for $100 so he bought it for parts. I proceeded to take all of the spoilers off of the ES and put them on my moms car, what a job that was. I found some rust in the rear wheel well and cut out some patches and welded them in. I replaced her doors with the ES doors, one of hers was rotted out and the other had a big tear in it were the door hinge bolts up. I replaced the drivers fender and rear bumper facia, what a job that was, ouch. So to shorten this out, I finally have the body work all done, primed and ready to be sanded. I hope to have this evil little beast painted by next Friday. I actually forgot how much I really enjoyed doing this. When I worked in a body shop I hated it with a passion, part of the reason I quit doing body work as a living. When You have to do it for a living it takes all of the fun out of it, I can't wait to get my 73 Mustang going then off to the 66 Comet. I guess I will all keep you posted on my projects and I will put some pictures up of the evil little Daytona soon.
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ACAM2000® Myopericarditis Registry
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
Sanofi Pasteur, a Sanofi Company
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Sanofi ( Sanofi Pasteur, a Sanofi Company )
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: July 13, 2011
Last updated: May 16, 2017
Last verified: May 2017
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Detailed Description:
The purpose of this registry is to study the natural history of vaccination-related myocarditis and pericarditis and to assess possible risk factors for these conditions.
Primary Objective:
- To document the natural history of confirmed, probable, suspected, and subclinical myocarditis and pericarditis (myopericarditis) following ACAM2000® vaccination.
Other Pre-defined Objective:
- To look for potential predictive factors for the prognosis of myopericarditis following ACAM2000® vaccination.
|Myocarditis Pericarditis
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|ACAM2000® Myopericarditis Registry
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Pericardial Disorders SmallpoxU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Sanofi ( Sanofi Pasteur, a Sanofi Company ):
Primary Outcome Measures:
- The number of confirmed, probable, suspected, and subclinical cases of myopericarditis, categorized by time since vaccination [ Time Frame: 2 years after enrollment or after the last symptoms or positive findings ]
Other Outcome Measures:
- The natural history of myopericarditis in terms of time to resolution or change in status of myopericarditis and the pattern of changes in status of myopericarditis [ Time Frame: 2 years after enrollment or after the last symptoms or positive findings ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|April 2011
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|April 2024
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|April 2024 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Entire registry group
Participants with potential myopericarditis cases referred to the Registry
Detailed Description:
All participants will have received previous vaccination with ACAM2000 but will not receive any vaccination as part of the registry. All participants enrolled in the registry will be followed for 2 up to 5 years (depending on whether there are persisting signs and symptoms of myopericarditis).
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Senior
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
Eligible participants will have received previous vaccination with ACAM2000® but will not receive any vaccination as part of the registry.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Individuals who are current or former members of the active duty, Reserve, or National Guard, from any branch of service
- Documented vaccination with ACAM2000® vaccine
- Meet one of the case definitions for suspect, probable, confirmed or subclinical myopericarditis.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Individuals not meeting at least one of the case definitions for myopericarditis will not be entered into the Registry.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01395082
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|May 16, 2017
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Vaccinia virus
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The University of Vermont held the Canisius women's basketball team scoreless for more than eight minutes in the first half and took control of the game en route to a 74-51 victory over the Golden Griffins at Patrick Gymnasium on Monday night. The Golden Griffins conclude their non-conference schedule with a 4-5 record.
Senior Jamie Ruttle led Canisius with 14 points, reaching double figures for the fifth consecutive game, to go along with six rebounds. Sophomore Jasmine Mungo had five points and seven rebounds in 14 minutes off the bench, all career highs for the forward.
"That's as poor of an effort as we have had in a long time. We weren't ready to play basketball from the start, and I have to figure out why that happened," Canisius coach Terry Zeh said. "They played harder than us from the tip, and we got back on our heels and never responded. They beat us to every loose ball and every rebound when the outcome was in doubt."
Vermont (4-5) drained three 3-pointers in the opening five minutes to build a quick 10-4 lead. The Griffs would get a layup from senior Jen Lennox to make it a four-point game, but the Catamounts ran away with the game by dominating the rest of the half. Vermont held Canisius without a basket for more than eight minutes, scoring 23 straight points to break the game open. The Griffs missed 10 shots and had eight turnovers during that decisive stretch.
The Catamounts made 9-of-12 3-pointers in the opening half and connected on 11 3-pointers in the game. Canisius would hold Vermont without a field goal for the opening four minutes of the second half but couldn't cut into the big deficit as the Catamounts led by as many as 31 points.
Eleven Vermont players scored in the game, led by 16 points from Kayla Burchill. Kaylea Britton added 11 points, and Jordan Eisler had eight assists. Vermont shot 57.7 percent in the first half and 45.8 percent for the game.
Canisius opens conference play on Saturday, in the first game of a doubleheader at the Koessler Athletic Center. The Golden Griffins face new MAAC member Quinnipiac at 2 p.m. in the KAC.
Notes: Canisius and Vermont played in Burlington for the first time since Nov. 18, 2001. Vermont now leads the all-time series 5-2… Ruttle has scored in double figures in five straight games for the third time in her career and for the first time since the end of her sophomore season… Junior Kayla Hoohuli took two charges and now has taken six charges in the last six games… In the last three games, Canisius is shooting 23.5 percent from behind the arc and 53.8 percent at the free-throw line.


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Posted by Sucharita Mulpuru on May 12, 2014
If I had a dime for every time I heard the question "Isn't eCommerce taking over retail?", it wouldn't make me wealthy, but I'd certainly have a few hundred dollars more than I do now. Nonetheless, it's a question that is unfortunately misguided and has permeated our zeitgeist. The truth is that yes, eCommerce is growing - but physical retail is far from doomed. Let me take the two parts of that last sentence and address them each separately.
First, the fact that eCommerce is growing. Forrester just released the latest five-year online retail forecast and to no one's surprise, the numbers are big. We're projecting $294B in eCommerce sales across 30 retail categories in 2014, expected to grow to $414B by 2018. The web keeps doing what it has always done well: it provides huge assortments of products, at comparable, often lower, prices than physical stores, with 24/7 access and often free shipping. For many categories like media products or electronics, we've already observed a heavy shift to the web channel away from physical stores. Add to that the ubiquity of mobile devices and that drives even more shopping in more instances and places. In fact, we're projecting that $87B of that $294B will happen on phones and tablets in 2014, and that doesn't even include another $28B in additional mobile transactions on sites and apps like Uber and Domino's Pizza that aren't even in that aforementioned mobile commerce number.
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Onto my opinion on it:Reference: http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/03...mos-to-be-fun/
Though the game is a bit out of our wheelhouse, Massively reader WNxArcticwolf tipped us off to a GDC talk this week about Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry, in which the developers argued that games no longer have to be fun. Admittedly, the developers are were attempting to justify confronting players with hard choices and uncomfortable situations via the plot, but the brazenness of the statement struck me over here in MMOland too. How many MMOs actually promise us fun when they're rattling off their feature lists? They'll promise grinds and raids and PvP, but as players, we process those things as achievements and challenges, as activities that were satisfying to have done, not fun to do. In fact, fun is almost seen as a dirty word, something casuals might seek.
I think I do, I retraced as to why I played Wakfu and still tempted to give Rift another shot. I asked the same question before diving into both of them. "How is the grouping? is it fun?" Because this is the only thing that matters to me in the long run, if I have fun with a community I don't regret playing the game/burning my time with a game(Which is ironic for what happen with Wakfu.) Anyways, I'm just going to drop the question.
Do you actually expect MMOs to be a fun experience, or are we playing for something else entirely?


text: This is pretty easy to determine. How many of the Celtics free throws were off of FG attempts vs. bonus related? Boston was getting shut down. They weren't the aggressors, we were. This game actually make me rethink my theory on HCA. I just figured that the margins were caused by unconscious helpful reffing to the home team. After seeing this, I think the HCA must be cause purely by crowd noise helping addreniline, and familiar visuals in the home arena.


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Export problem with Mathematica 4.1/Mac OS 9
First, I verified that there were no problems with my Hard Disk. Then I
deleted the Mathematica 4.1 folder, Mathematica's Preferences folder and all
of their contents. I then re-installed Mathematica 4.1 and executed the
following commands:
{$Version, $ReleaseNumber}
{4.1 for Power Macintosh (November 2, 2000), 0}
Export["out.dat", {{5.7, 4.3}, {-1.2, 7.8}}]
tmp=Plot[x, {x, 0, 1}];
Export["plot.pbm", tmp]
..at which point Mathematica beeped and the MathLink icon started flashing on the
right of the menu bar. I selected 'Cancel' and received the following
LinkOpen::linke: MathLink error: unknown error"
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Nats, Marlins, Rangers after Buehrle
The Nationals, Marlins and Rangers are the most aggressive teams on free-agent left-hander Mark Buehrle, according to major-league sources.
All three clubs also are pursuing free-agent lefty C.J. Wilson, but the Nats would prefer Buehrle on a shorter deal to Wilson on a longer one, sources said.
The Rangers, meanwhile, are wary of overpaying Wilson, who also is drawing interest from their biggest rival, the Angels.
The Marlins' biggest obstacle to signing Buerhle is their policy against awarding no-trade clauses on multi-year contracts; Buehrle wants full no-trade protection.
Buehrle, 32, has spent his entire 12-year career with the White Sox, but is intrigued by the National League, sources said. He might thrive in the less offensively oriented NL, and one scout says it would be "a good career move."
-Ken Rosenthal
Hey, I am a huge Angel fan and I am wishing for a BIG Christmas from our new G.M. I am hoping for Aramis Ramirez and hopefully C.J. Wilson but I also think Jeremy Guthrie would be a good move. Do we have the resources to accomplish this? I think we have addressed our other biggest concern in acquiring Ianetta and the lefty from Toronto? What say Angel fans?????


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The Chess pieces are getting into position, when will China drops the dollar and move on Taiwan? Look for Russia to black mail the Europeans for oil & gas as the recession gets worse. And lastly Iran striking first in my opinion. Israel will wait to long to do anything.
I hope I'm wrong!!!


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Expected for the Hill 'n' Dale Cigar Mile are Arson Squad, Bribon (FR), Harlem Rocker, Kodiak Kowboy, Storm Play, Tale of Ekati, Visionaire and Wanderin Boy. Past the Point is questionable at this point.
Arson Squad, owned by Jay Em Ess Stable, comes into the Hill 'n' Dale Cigar Mile after an impressive win in the Grade 2 Meadowlands Cup Handicap last month for trainer Richard Dutrow Jr.
Charles E. Fipke's Tale of Ekati, winner of Belmont Park's Grade 2 Jerome Handicap, returns to Aqueduct, where he won the Grade 1 Wood Memorial in April. Stronach Stable's Harlem Rocker, winner of the Grade 3 Withers back in the spring, also makes his Big A comeback in the Hill 'n' Dale Cigar Mile.
The Vinery Stables and Fox Hill Farm's Kodiak Kowboy won Belmont Park's Grade 3 Sport Page Handicap and will be making his Big A debut.
Team Valor International's Visionaire got up late to win the Grade 3 Gotham in the slop back in the spring, and has since become a Grade 1 winner with victory in Saratoga's NetJets King's Bishop.
Edward P. Evans' Storm Play is undefeated in three starts with a victory at all three of the New York Racing Association's tracks: Aqueduct, Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course. Marc Keller's Bribon (FR) is undefeated in two Aqueduct starts, including a victory at a mile.
Past the Point was second to Curlin in Saratoga's Grade 1 Woodward.
Sharing the card with the Hill 'n' Dale Cigar Mile is the 95th running of the Grade 2, $200,000 Remsen for two-year-olds at nine furlongs and its filly counterpart, the 87th running of the Demoiselle.
Likely players in the Remsen are American Dance, Awesome Mich, Hello Broadway, Hold Me Back, Idol Maker, Old Fashioned, Rip Rap and Viscount.
Probables for the Demoiselle are Ain't Love Grand, Bluegrass Princess, Renda, Sky Diva, Stormy's Smile and Subprime.
Next Saturday, November 29, first race post will be at 12:25 p.m. There will be self-service wagering only on Churchill Downs race 1 at 11:30 a.m.
HolidayFest begins on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 27, and with first race post at 11:25 a.m., there is plenty of time to get a day of racing in before the traditional feast. Aqueduct's last live race on Thursday will go to post at 3:10 p.m., with the second-floor clubhouse remaining open for simulcasting until approximately 5:30 p.m. Telebet/internet wagering closes at approximately 6 p.m.
Parking gates will open at 9:15 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, and admission gates will open at 9:30 a.m.
The featured race on Thanksgiving Day is the 95th running of the $100,000-added Fall Highweight Handicap at six furlongs.
The probable field for the Fall Highweight is Ferocious Fires, Grand Champion, He's So Chic, Idiot Proof, Nakayama Arashi, Silver Stetson Man, Songster and Wild Geese.
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Friday's card will begin at 12:25 p.m. and will feature the 69th running of the Grade 2, $150,000-added Top Flight Handicap for fillies and mares at one mile.
Altesse, Leah's Secret, Rite Moment, Shining Image and Spectacular Malibu are likely starters.
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HolidayFest wraps up on Sunday, November 30, with the 29th running of the $75,000-added Montauk Handicap for fillies and mares at nine furlongs.
Probable starters are Borrowing Base, Here Comes Rita, Raffie's Treasure and Twistaway, with Yet Again listed as questionable.
First race post on Sunday is 12:30 p.m.
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On Monday, November 24, turkeys and non-perishable food items will be distributed to more than 150 backstretch families from Belmont Park and Aqueduct Racetrack at Belmont Park's Gate 6 between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
These items, as well as gift certificates, were donated by the public and additional items will be accepted at Gate 6 through the weekend from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.


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Hi guys. So I got my armor, which i guess has a gel coat as one side in smooth as a baby's ***, the other you can see the fiber glass etc.
So this is my armor so far.
I also got my gauntlets, which are to be converted to ESB style.
Now I have started to rub these down and prep them, however I can not find any colour reference numbers or descriptions that relate to anything here in the UK, can anyone help?
I am planing to airbrush some detail areas with enamel paint, but may use rattle cans for the basic color depending on advice given re color etc. Without guidance from you guys I will just start to experiment/mix my own colors, please help and save me some time here guys.
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Hi all,
I am writing a brief review of the new V2 Jet/Rocket Pack.
In short, these packs are absolutely amazing - very well built, clean, sharp, light and worth every penny.
Thje main body of the pack is made in resin, as are the thrusters, rocket and greeblies. The pack, out of the box, is already primer ready, with little to any clean up.
The resin thrusters and rocket are very very nice. I have always been a longtime believer that MB's resin thrusters and rocket are the best out there (despite their age, I think the MB resin parts have held up amazingly well), however, these resin rockets and thrusters are so much nicer than even MBs and without all the air bubbles in the thrusters.
What I liked the best was that the 'fins' on the rocket are separate molded parts, and are removeable (which I thought was really cool, b/c it reminded me of the original Fett sketches where the rocket was a grappling hook). I also really liked that the thrusters have little inserts that you can choose from to get the right look for your specific jp. Very very cool!!
This pack was a breeze to paint, though I do advise you give it a thorough wash in warm water and dish detergent to remove any and all mold release which may interfere with the paint.
As far as size, this pack is slightly larger than the old MB packs, as you can see below with the comparison to my MB Jango pack. I like the bigger scale and feel it more appropriate than the smaller MB pack.
Below are pictures of mine, painted ESB style with the movie accurate RS paint scheme, and also compared to my MB pack.
Well done MOW!!


text: based on the contents of the last 10 posts, this thread should have been branched out to the Will Bynum deAppreciation thread. I don't mind Will the thrill and his explosive out breaks, the problem is none of them have led us to a victory.. at least this season.....As Lee pointed out, he may score 15-20 points in 15 minutes, but he his normally playing with newbies and if he is only getting 2 assists, then either he is not passing to them or he is getting the ball to them at the wrong time or spot. Which means that they are not learning, they are just looking..


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FOX panelists: Bush never labeled Iraqi threat "imminent" (only "urgent")
FOX News Channel hosts Morton M. Kondracke [1] (Roll Call executive editor); Fred Barnes [2] (Weekly Standard executive editor); and Brit Hume [3] (FOX News Channel managing editor and chief Washington correspondent) all agreed that President George W. Bush never claimed that Iraq posed an "imminent threat" while making his public case for war and that, in fact, "he said the opposite."
The truth is that while Bush never uttered the phrase "imminent threat," he and members of his administration conveyed essentially the same message using other language: Bush called Iraq an "urgent threat"; Vice President Dick Cheney called Iraq a "mortal threat"; and other senior White House officials agreed in response to press questions that Iraq posed an "imminent threat."
From the August 4 edition of FOX News Channel's Special Report with Brit Hume:
KONDRACKE: I think everybody would agree that the word "imminent" was the crucial word, over which the fight [over whether Bush misled the public into war] took place. And in the case of Iraq, clearly there was not an imminent threat, and Bush didn't say there was.
HUME: He said there wasn't.
BARNES: He said the opposite. Yes.
In a September 28, 2002, radio address [4], Bush said of Iraq, "We are united in our determination to confront this urgent threat to America."
In an October 7, 2002, speech [5] in Cincinnati, Bush said, "America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof -- the smoking gun -- that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."
In an August 26, 2002, speech [6] to the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention, Cheney said, "What we must not do in the face of a mortal threat is give in to wishful thinking or willful blindness."
In the daily White House press briefing [7] on October 16, 2002, then-press secretary Ari Fleischer unequivocally agreed with a reporter who interpreted Bush's recent public statements as depicting an imminent threat:
QUESTION: Ari, the president has been saying that the threat from Iraq is imminent, that we have to act now to disarm the country of its weapons of mass destruction, and that it has to allow the U.N. inspectors in, unfettered, no conditions, so forth.
FLEISCHER: Yes.
White House communications director Dan Bartlett had a similar exchange [8] on the January 26, 2003, edition of CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer [9]:
BLITZER: But the question is, he's a threat based on what the information you're suggesting, to his own people, to his neighbors.
But is he an imminent threat to U.S. interests, either in that part of the world or to Americans right here at home?
BARTLETT: Well, of course he is.
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- National Security & Foreign Policy [10], Intelligence [11], War in Iraq [12]
- Stories/Interests
- Prewar Intelligence/WMD [13]


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Home > News & Events > Events Calendar > Study Group on Disability Rights & Realities, Session 1
Please join the Carr Center's new Study Group on Disability Rights & Realities for its inaugural session. This study group will explore the rights and realities of people with disabilities in the U.S. and abroad. We will read and hear from a diverse group of people, abled and disabled, working on these issues from many different vantage points including activists, attorneys, scholars, UN officials, foundations, people who run institutions and people who are housed in them, as well as policy makers and parents.


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This introductory episode exposes the declining health of the 6th largest lake in the United States, and the future of the watershed communities of Vermont, New York and Quebec. The blue-green algae blooms overrunning Lake Champlain, and other lakes around the country are the most visible symptom of ecosystems in decline, and the end-point of a failing dairy industry, ill-planned development, and aging wastewater treatment systems. Citizens express their anger surrounding this persistent problem, and solutions are introduced
Visit the Website: http://www.bloomthemovie.org/
Episode #101 / Length: 26 minutes


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2007 University of Maryland Spring Meet
hosted by College Park Tuning
- Dyno pulls
Live DJ
Feature cars
Formula SAE car demo
50/50 Raffle
Raffle Prize
We will be asking for 1(or more) non-perishable food item per person as they enter the lot. If you forget to bring an item or prefer not to, we will collect a $1 donation on your way into the lot. All the donations collected from admission, food sales and the 50/50 raffle are going to be donated to Marthas Table (http://www.marthastable.org).
University of Maryland College Park Campus
Directions to Campus
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Noon, 12:00 pm
BBQ, Hamburgers, Hot Dogs on the grill
Soft drinks and other refreshments
$75.00 for 2 - 3 baseline pulls w/ A/F and printout
If you are interested in dynoing your car, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com . We are trying to have people pre-register for the dyno.
Last year's meet was a great success. Thank you to everyone who came out and supported us! We look forward to seeing you all again!