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Dean of the School of Nursing
Welcome Message from the Dean
Welcome to the Saint Xavier University School of Nursing! Founded in 1935, with over 5229 graduates, our tradition is one of ensuring excellence in nursing. We uphold our commitment to a Culture of Intentional Caring that distinctively enhances student learning and professional development. The School of Nursing has embarked upon a strategic plan that will guide our priorities and initiatives while we continue to focus on our vision:
...we will create a learning community responsive to a changing and challenging 21st century health care environment. Building on faculty scholarship and clinical expertise and forming collegial relationships and strategic partnering, we will continue our tradition of preparing excellent nurses who will practice in a variety of professional roles.
The Institute of Medicine Report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (IOM, 2010) punctuates the need for nurses to practice to the full extent of their education. The recommendation to increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree from 50 to 80 percent by 2020 is one that aligns itself with the School of Nursing's mission which aims to foster scholarship, compassion and lifelong learning through innovative and creative educational models.
The School of Nursing promotes lifelong learning as integral to the professional nursing role and we encourage our nursing students to become lifelong learners -- leading not only in thought but by example. Many of our faculty members have doctorate degrees in nursing while others are engaged in the pursuit of earning a doctoral degree. Faculty are excited to incorporate their own educational experiences in the classroom, instilling the value of higher education in an undergraduate student population where sixty-five percent of students represent the first generation in their families to attend college. In addition to our faculty sharing the value of higher education with our students, our graduates also lead by example, practicing as advanced practice nurses and maintaining leadership positions nationally and internationally with deanships, executive positions in health care agencies and other universities.
At Saint Xavier University's School of Nursing, we are creating a learning environment that encourages our students to meet a changing and challenging health care environment with education as the means to make a difference in the lives of millions. As a National League for Nursing Center of Excellence, a designation held by only 17 schools in the nation, we instill within our students a belief that providing excellent care is not just an aspiration but an expectation. We guide our students to strive for excellence with the understanding that good enough is never good enough - especially now as nurses are being called to lead in the transformation and advancement of health care in America.
It is definitely an exciting time to be a nurse and we are excited that you are considering our School of Nursing to help you make your goals something more that will not only change your life but the lives of so many others you will encounter in your career.
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If anyone wants more information about boss B.Battlers:
- Whatever settings you have for matches, they will change in this fight. It will be two rounds with a level 2 lifebar. Oh, and Infinite Time.
- Team of two Black Battlers. Both with full power just starting, aka 5 bars.
- Both have the majority of abilities. The ones I noticed are: Resurrection (Battler), StunBoost (Ange), AutoGuard (Shannon), CounterBoost (Ronove), ArmorBoost (Dlanor), InfinitySP (Beatrice), Berserk (EVAtrice), Patience (George), BreakBoost (Siesta 410), ForceCounter (Erika) and Massacre (B.Battler). He doesn't have Brimful (Virgilia), Detachment (Rosa), Silent Attack (Kanon), ShaveBoost (Jessica) and AttackTouch (Lucifer). That, or I didn't notice it. I'm quite sure he doesn't have Detachment, and Silent Attack is worthless if he has it because of the amount of damage he does, which makes you gain power faster.
- Grab equals to instant stun because of StunBoost and the increase of damage. And the majority of times, before the round starts, he likes to stick near you to make sure he starts the round by grabbing you. He will also use this strategy a lot in this fight.
- Jumping near him equals to him using his Dragon Punch. All the time, unless he's not in range or is doing another action.
- Don't bother hitting him while he runs, he has AutoGuard to block any attack while dashing.
- Because of the combination of Resurrection and Massacre, he can recover health by just waiting or by hitting you, making it hard to lower his health. And it doesn't help that your output damage is low because of ArmorBoost, which raises defense.
- The combination of ForceCounter, CounterBoost and Berserk makes him to tremendous amounts of damage in any attack.
- The AI is really good at countering anything you do, and likes to use Guard Touch to be able to start a combo against you, making any offensive strategy too risky. He also has plenty of power to afford the Guard Touch too.
- His favourite combo: (Guard Touch)+3 normals+Metafield+level2super+Metasuper. You can replace the black part with any of his specials/supers except the projectile one for more combos. 90% of the time he will do a combo after stunning you.
- Remember that his Metafield will make him gain abilities that he lost after using, aka InfinitySP. It doesn't double the effect of the existing ones, didn't see his damage output increase in the Metafield.
- He will always cancel your Metafield if he has enough power. Make sure to use it when he has spent it all (unfortunately on your face).
- He may use his projectile if he's far away and you try to do something (like throwing a projectile). I've never seen him using the super variation. This special is probably the safest way to inflict him damage, as AutoGuard doesn't trigger. Another safest way is with his Sommelier version of attack, but he normally only uses it in combos. Notice the may, please. Other times he will just rush towards you and keep presuring you.
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Many RPGs, Little Time
In short:
- Attack him = Lose 50%/25%
- Make him block = Lose 50%
- Activate Meta = Lose all of your gauges
- Miraculously FULL combo him = 20% of his health. DONT GET HIT.
- Spam projectiles = Black Hole/Violation Finger to the face
- Get hit = Loser 50% AND Totally recovers his
|2012-01-05, 23:10
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Which means they are only there for flashiness now.
At least there isn't a infinite for now...
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Oh, and I couldn't help but laugh out how easy the game looks in that video. In a real fight though the opponent would have countered the metas, but all of the kicking you when your one the ground sounds insanely cruel. Love how they used Declaration of Love for that.
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Welcome to primetime!
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Now my new question is how I record my online Win/Lose/Draw records?
EDIT: NEvermind I think I've got it.
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The gallery in this game continue to baffle me with how much the art in it ranges in quality,
on one hand, you have things that are beautiful/clever/funny/all around interesting etc. like these
Spoiler for good pics:
... And then you have THIS
Spoiler for WHAT??:
While on the subject, I'll add that the fact that many of these have been available on the web for a long time don't bother me though,
it's natural that artists would submit their previous works.
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Is there not an option in the Config menu to turn off the fan made CGs? I seem to remember seeing one when I played, but my computer that I had it installed on died a horrible death so I can't go back and check what it actually does.
I keep seeing people complain about them, so it confused me to no end until I realized that maybe the option doesn't do what I thought it did lol
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This recipe is a recreation of one of my favorite salads from my favorite diner! It is packed with blue cheese, pecans, dried cranberries and topped with grilled chicken. The creamiest, most-delicious, homemade honey mustard you can imagine is drizzled over top.
The textures and different flavors in this salad make it so fun to eat. My taste buds are totally addicted to tart and sweet flavor pairs. I love dried cranberries! They take on a whole new life compared to fresh ones. They are sweeter, less tart and the contrast between them and the bite from the blue cheese is off the flavor charts. Soft, savory, sweet, smoky, salty, crunchy, chewy, creamy, crisp, tangy, tender and juicy; this salad has it all!
It is the most perfect warm weather dinner salad. You can throw the chicken on the grill and have the dressing and salad assembled in the time it takes to cook. And it is nothing short of sublime! Light yet filling and completely addicting!
The great thing about this salad is you can make it for one or for a crowd. You can adjust how big or how little you want the salad to be. That's why I haven't included measurements for the salad fixin's. But be on the generous side. They really make the salad.
Red, White and Blue Grilled Chicken Salad
(by Reeni)
For the salad
Chicken breast, boneless, skinless
Romaine hearts, chopped
Dried Cranberries
Pecans or Walnuts
Blue Cheese, crumbled
For the dressing*
2 tablespoons Dijon Mustard
3 tablespoons Honey
2 teaspoons Rice Vinegar
Salt and pepper
Mayonnaise (optional)
1. Pound out your chicken breasts between saran wrap using a mallet to your own desired thickness. Season well with salt and pepper. Grill until cooked through.
2. Meanwhile toast the pecans or walnuts in a dry saute pan for about five to seven minutes on low tossing a few times.
3. In a food processor emulsify the mustard, honey and vinegar. Taste and adjust to your liking by adding more honey or more mustard. If too thick thin with a little more vinegar. Season with salt and pepper. For a creamy dressing add a teaspoon or two of mayonnaise. I save my empty honey bear bottles for storing my home-made dressings in. *For creamy honey-mustard in a pinch mix equal parts Ranch dressing and honey mustard.
4. Assemble your salad, start with the romaine and top with generous amounts of cranberries, walnuts and bleu cheese. Drizzle with honey-mustard and top with the grilled chicken.
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Historic Theater Case Study - Royal Theater
Royal Theater
Danville, IN
Image: Hendricks County Historical Alliance
On April 1 1824, the Indiana legislature created Hendricks County. A new town, Danville, was founded to serve as its county seat. Danville's status as a county seat made it a prominent town, eventually attracting new commercial development and a host of other services necessary to the county and its government. Consequently, many professionals moved to Danville, opening their offices, shops, and even schools. These professionals included doctors, lawyers, newspaper publishers, and especially teachers, since Danville was home to the Central Normal College and Commercial Institute, a teacher's college, from 1878 until 1946.
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This growing population of professionals needed new forms of entertainment, so Danville resident Edward Caldwell opened the Royal Theater in 1914. Caldwell had operated a picture show earlier on another site on Danville's town square, but this new theater was the first structure created solely for the purpose of showing films. The first film offered at the Royal was "The Million Dollar Mystery" a 1914 Thanhouser serial movie featuring Florence Labadie and James Cruze. The new Royal Theater was located within the northern space of the present structure that now houses the chocolate shop. In 1926, Caldwell sold the Royal to Thomas J. Barnett of New Albany, Indiana. Barnett, who was born in England but grew up southern Indiana, had been working in the new motion picture industry. He bought the Royal and the adjoining lot to the south in order to expand the theater. Barnett set to work and in the end created the new Royal Theater, a two-story structure decorated in a Tudor Revival style that was twice the size of Caldwell's Royal and housing an amazing 600 seats. The remodeled Royal offered staggered seating, rich red velour draperies, a wooden stage area in front of the screen, and a five-horsepower organ used to provide musical accompaniment to the films. The Royal Beautiful, as it was called at the time, opened to the public in 1927 offering the film "Rookies" starring Dane Nash and George Arthurs.
The Royal continued to serve the Danville community for the next several decades, however, at some point, the building was reconfigured and the theater contracted to only use the southern portion of the building. Consequently, the number of seats dropped to about 250 or so. In the late 1970's and early 1980's, the Royal suffered through several years of difficulty – opening and closing frequently and even suffering damage from a fire in 1982. In 1998, the Royal closed its doors to the public, as the management company then running the theater quit, blaming the building's poor condition for the move. Finally, in 2001, local attorney Lee Comer stepped in and bought the building with his own funds. After the purchase, Comer hired Tracie Shearer, the current manager of the Royal, to research and conduct necessary renovations on the structure and then to run the day-to-day affairs of the Royal. Tracie had no real experience running or renovating a theater, however she had often dreamed of owning the historic theater and at one point asked Comer to contact her if he needed help with it. Comer took her up on her offer and hired her to oversee the Royal. Shearer went to work immediately, contacting contractors, film distributors and booking agents, and researching the necessary improvements. To cut costs, she and her husband did much of the work, only relying on professionals when absolutely necessary. According to Shearer, the theater was in poor condition when it was purchased, suffering from some water damage, electrical problems, plumbing issues, inadequate heating, and a complete lack of air conditioning. There was a lot of trash and other debris which needed removed as well.
After a general clean up, Shearer's first priority was to upgrade the restrooms and lobby facilities and to construct a modern concession stand to serve the patrons. After these projects were completed, they began painting and redecorating the interior of the theater. Shearer and her family painted the more accessible sections of the theater, but hired professionals to do the high walls and roof of the auditorium. She also created and hung the hanging fabric within the auditorium, minimizing costs by seeking out a local fabric store and negotiating a special price for the material. By 2001, the Royal was ready for their grand reopening. More recently, the Royal has been outfitted with a new heating and air conditioning system. Additionally, the wooden terraced floor of the auditorium was torn up and replaced with poured concrete, preparing it to receive modern, high-quality seats. Due to the larger size of the new seats, the Royal was forced to drop its total number of seats to 228. For the future, Mrs. Shearer would like to renovate the marquee and improve the stage area.
Royal Theater - Circa 1930
Danville, IN
Image: Courtesy of the Royal Theater
Today, the Royal stays true to its original 1927 roots, focusing on showing films. However, the stage in the auditorium of the Royal allows the theater to do more. They offer special concerts on a recurring basis during the year and in the recent past have even allowed local theater groups to perform stage productions. Unfortunately, Shearer says that the special issues raised by stage productions – set creation and storage, rehearsal time, etc – would cut into to the theater's movie showings so they are hesitant to sponsor them any longer. At this point, all of the Royal's repairs and renovations have been paid for by owner Lee Comer out of his own pocket. According to Tracie Shearer, Comer, a lifelong resident of Danville and Hendricks County, wants to save the theater for the local community, insuring that it continues to cater to families as it has in the past – an idea that Shearer wholeheartedly agrees with. In fact, Comer's dedication to the theater and his generous funding is the only reason that the theater is open and operating today. Comer only asks that the Royal produce enough money to cover its general expenses and overhead, something that Shearer says they have been able to do on a consistent basis.
The Royal also enjoys a special relationship with the community in Danville. One example offered was the movie club that the local school system sponsors. The school brings a large group of elementary school children to the Royal for after school showings of films once a month, generating revenue for the theater which charges admission and in turn remits a dollar to the school per child. The school provides transportation and teachers to supervise the children; in fact the principal attends the events as well. The local Parent Teacher Organization also chips in by providing volunteers to help theater staff with the concession stand. More recently, Danville High School has begun to offer a free movie day to students maintaining perfect attendance during the school year. They pay for the movie and the student's admissions as well as provide pizza and drinks for the kids.
Overall, the Royal Theater in Danville is a wonderful story of personal dedication. First, dedication by the owner, Lee Comer, who bought the theater with his own funds and single handedly paid for all of the restoration and renovation. Secondly, dedication from the theater's manager, Tracie Shearer, and her family, who have devoted countless hours and energy to repair, upgrade, and run the theater during her tenure.


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For more than a century after the Declaration of Independence, no court in America excluded evidence in a case like Ghailani's. Indeed, the very point of a public trial was to enable the members of the public to bring forth their evidence and have it heard by the jury and the gallery: "That's the man! And here's my proof." In 1783, an English court famously confronted a situation in which a suspect had in effect been coerced into leading the government to find a cache of stolen goods. The idea that evidence about the cache should be suppressed at trial was dismissed by the court as "novel in theory," "dangerous in practice," and "repugnant to the general principles of criminal law." A later court tartly summarized the traditional Anglo-American rule about procuring evidence: "It matters not how you get it; if you steal it, even, it would be admissible in evidence." In 1822, early America's most learned jurist, Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, wrote emphatically: "In the ordinary administration of municipal law the right of using evidence does not depend … upon the lawfulness or unlawfulness of the mode, by which it is obtained. … The evidence is admissible on charges for the highest crimes, even though it may have been obtained by a trespass upon the person, or by any other forcible and illegal means."Amar isn't saying Judge Kaplan misunderstood the existing case law on the subject. He wants the Supreme Court to change it:
The Founders' Fifth Amendment did operate as a rule of exclusion: It excluded the government from introducing the defendant's own involuntary testimony. But it did so precisely because such testimony was viewed as unreliable.
[T]he high court could categorically hold that even if physical evidence must sometimes be suppressed, live witnesses, who, after all, speak based on their own free will, should never be muzzled....ADDED: A key fact: The government chose not appeal Judge Kaplan's decision to suppress the evidence.
In addition, the Court could expand an important limitation on the exclusionary rule known as "inevitable discovery." This standard allows the government to use evidence that would have eventually surfaced regardless of any coerced confession or improper search. Courts thus should strongly—perhaps irrefutably—presume that a witness's conscience would have impelled him to come forward on his own.


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Regional Rail, LLC, has acquired a majority ownership interest in Diamondback Signal, LLC. Diamondback Signal specializes in the design, construction and maintenance of signal installations for crossings and was formed in January of 2012. In the short time since its inception, Diamondback has been able to contract with 21 railroads and private industries throughout the United States to provide normalized maintenance and monthly inspections for their signalized crossings and has also aggressively pursued and secured a number of crossing signal construction and/or rehabilitation projects.
Diamondback Signal, LLC, was formed by an experienced group of railroad signal industry veterans, including John Brunner, Kemp Buettner and Kevin Lamb and its headquarters and wire shop are located in Sykesville, Md.
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PRINCETON, N.J., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Laureate Biopharmaceutical Services, Inc., a full-service biopharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organization, today announced the appointment of Les Mintzmyer as Vice President, Operations. He will be responsible for continuing Laureate's transition to a full-scale commercial manufacturing operation. This will include preparing for upcoming pre-approval inspections at Laureate's Princeton facility, expanding production capacity with the commissioning of a new 2000L single-use bioreactor train, expanding Laureate's filling business in its freshly renovated filling facility, and planning for a new manufacturing facility. "Les brings a wealth of experience in managing every aspect of biopharmaceutical manufacturing operations," said Michael A. Griffith, Chief Executive Officer. "His combination of technical acuity and management savvy makes Les uniquely qualified to lead the continued expansion of our manufacturing operations to build our business."
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Mr. Mintzmyer has more than 25 years of experience commissioning and operating full-scale biopharmaceutical manufacturing operations. Prior to joining Laureate as Vice President, Operations, Mr. Mintzmyer has served as Vice President, Manufacturing Operations for Avid BioServices, Senior Director, Manufacturing Operations at ImClone; Director, Operational Excellence and Director, Manufacturing for Genentech; and Director of Manufacturing at Bristol-Myers Squibb. As Director of Manufacturing at Bristol-Myers Squibb, he led the creation of a biologics manufacturing capability that obtained FDA licensure and launched Orencia® in 2005. Mr. Mintzmyer earned a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Colorado State University, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Nebraska at Kearney. For more information related to Laureate Biopharma's capabilities and ongoing improvements, please visit www.LBioS.com.
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Laureate Biopharmaceutical Services, Inc. is a full-service biopharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organization. Laureate Biopharma's scientists are expert in process development and cGMP production of therapeutic proteins, including monoclonal antibodies and Fc-fusion proteins. In addition, the company's portfolio of services includes aseptic filling, cell line development, analytical and stability testing, and regulatory support. Laureate Biopharma has served a global client base from its Princeton, New Jersey facility since 1981, and is a portfolio company of Saints Capital, LLC. For more information, please visit www.LBioS.com.
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Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An unforgettable journey into the darkest reaches of terror. REVIEW: Director – Marcello Avallone Starring – John Pepper, Trine Michelsen, Donald Pleasence I so wanted to like this movie. I mean really wanted to like it. You have some classic ingredients here: an old tomb deep within some catacombs that contains an ancient evil, the curse …Read More »
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Now that Windows 8 has gone gold, Microsoft can move on to other things. With Windows 8, the most important of these is probably to make sure people know how to actually use it. Metro is filled to the brim with hard-to-discover features, but Microsoft has a plan. Will it be enough?
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True! They also own Media Markt - in some European countries the most important consumer electronics retailer (especially those countries without a strong online retail culture).
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The ProviCare Foundation is a community based, non-profit organisation, supported by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia. ProviCare provides free confidential telephone counselling and rehabilitation service, and offers relief and support to sufferers of alcohol or drug abuse, as well as to their families and carers.
'ProviCare', the name of which is derived from 'Providence of God and Care of the Church', arose out of a commitment made by Archbishop Stylianos of Australia to help save the lives of future generations by setting up a drug and alcohol service. Various philanthropists, both within the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese and outside, provided great support, large financial donations and successful fund raising activities.
In March 2004, an Australia-wide telephone counselling service commenced. The operators are bilingual (English and Greek) psychologists employed by ProviCare, who are able to counsel a person in their own alcohol or drug use, or those who are affected by it.
The same psychologists not only provide counselling, but also conduct seminars, presentations and educational talks about alcohol and drug use, providing information and awareness for families and carers on how to interact with a drug/alcohol user, whether as part of a family or a friend.
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Kuper Academy has filled a particular niche on the West Island for a generation, says Joan Salette, the head of school. Children begin preschool at 3 years old, stay through elementary and high school, and are joined by siblings without any worry for the family about gender, language, extra-curricular activities, after-school programs or travel time.
"It's all in one location for the entire family," Salette said. "That's what a family school is all about. "Because of our academic reputation, bilingual program, co-ed population and safe, convenient suburban location, we are their school of choice."
The school was founded by Janet Perdue in 1986. Salette sent her own son Robert there for kindergarten (and he's still there, now as director of admissions). As a teacher and businesswoman, Salette partnered with Perdue in the school, building and growing it from those first 19 students to more than 950 this year, with kids hailing from farther afield than just the West Island now. They come from T.M.R. to Kahnawake, from Hudson to downtown Montreal.
With a permit from the MELS (Ministère de l'Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport) but no government subsidies, Kuper is able to accept students without certificates of English eligibility, an important market— and, as a privately owned institution, Salette said Kuper can focus "on every small detail to ensure children are happy and receiving the calibre of education that they expect, that their environment is beautiful as well as practical, and that their school life is rich and exciting."
It's a real, living, community school — a place where students of many cultures come together, bringing the wealth of their knowledge and experience from all corners of the globe. Yet, Kuper Academy is also a neighbourhood school "with that homey feel of belonging, where students stay for many years — up to 14!"
It's a perfect fi t for the typical Kuper family, "two to three kids with highly educated parents who want a lot for their children, the whole package," Salette said. And that's exactly what the school offers: strong academics with a unique focus on mastery of English, sports, convenient daycare options, and a co-curricular school life with more than 30 clubs to stimulate kids' interests in everything from tech team and yoga to knitting and model rocketry.
"Parents want a rich school experience. That's what their children receive."
After-school programs provide more added-value, especially in families where both parents are working. "To serve our community, we have to provide services," Salette said.
There is a free drop-off at 7:30 a.m. and after-school daycare is available when families need it. "It's for occasional or fulltime use; you are charged accordingly," she said, adding that the flexibility is a boon to many working parents. Daycare begins with supervised homework, then playtime. "That's how we've always done it, and it is a stress reliever, convenient for parents stuck in traffic who don't want to worry about their child being unsupervised or doing homework at 8 p.m."
Kuper's physical environment is also a big draw: grassy areas with tall trees; a FIFA-certified artificial turf; play modules and large, paved playgrounds — 150,000 square feet of modern school buildings; a hockey arena, golf dome and more. The school even owns three shuttle buses for the numerous field trips and sporting events students attend and in which they participate. The top-notch facilities on 6½ prime acres in Kirkland between St-Jean and St-Charles Blvds. is easily accessible by car, bus and train. Inside, there are three gymnasiums, two computer labs, three science labs, two libraries, two art rooms, two music rooms, a drama room, a stage for productions, a large cafeteria and a training room. It's a lot of school for what is generally considered an inexpensive — unsubsidized — private tuition, ranging from about $4,800 to $13,000.
Mindful of the importance that families — including a number of international visitors — place on mobility and a global world view, Kuper has tailored its French instruction to fit all student levels. Beginning in preschool with lessons for all, ranging from complete non-speakers to francophones, Salette said French instruction at Kuper Academy assures students' proper progression and integration into successive levels — from accueil to langue maternelle.
"Non-homogenous classes don't work well," she said, "so I target French to the students' level, and then they can jump ahead."
It works, with many students taking final French exams a year early, in Grade 10, and studying more culture in Grade 11, then taking tests for their French international certificates (DELF).
Salette also saw a growing need for additional services for students with difficulties, responding with a full-time resource teacher and full-time psychologist — to meet both emotional and educational needs of the students, but also to support their families.
"This can be a big help," she said. "Our program is challenging and we want all children in a family to stay together, so we make sure they get that support they need."
From aspiring artists to budding research scientists, there is a place for every child at Kuper Academy.
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Now that the four wild-card games are over, the four teams that had the weekend off — the Broncos, Patriots, Falcons, and 49ers — can begin to sharpen their preparations, with their opponents finally determined.
Those with first-round byes have plenty going for them in the divisional round. They'll be playing at home, and will have had an opportunity to get healthy — or at least healthier — during the week off. All four teams that earned a bye are favored this weekend, according to the oddsmakers.
The eight teams remaining are a win away from the conference championship games, but those coming off the bye need only win at home this weekend to advance. For the Patriots, beating the Texans on Sunday at Gillette Stadium — a rematch of a regular-season game less than a month ago, won by the Patriots, 42-14 — will send them to the AFC Championship game for the seventh time in 12 years.
With Bill Belichick and Tom Brady, the Patriots have played in six AFC title games. They've won five.
In their six most recent trips to the AFC Championship, the Patriots had a first-round playoff bye five times. Only in the 2006 season, when they won the AFC East but were the conference's No. 4 seed, did the Patriots follow a win on wild-card weekend with another victory, advancing to the conference title game that year in Indianapolis against the Colts.
Advantages that come with a first-round bye? There are definitely a few.
"It's one less game that you have to play in this league," Belichick said. "At this time of year, you know you're playing a good team. Whoever you play, they're going to be good. Having to play one less game, I think there's some advantage to that."
Those built-in plusses don't always translate into the hoped-for on-field result, however. Chances are quite good, history has shown, that at least one of the home teams coming off a bye will lose this weekend.
In keeping with the period of time since the Patriots' first of three Super Bowl titles, here's how the top two seeds have fared the past 11 years in the divisional round, with bye-team losers noted:
2001: 3-1 (Philadelphia beats No. 2 Chicago)
2002: 4-0
2003: 2-2 (Indianapolis beats No. 2 Kansas City, Carolina beats No. 2 St. Louis)
2004: 4-0
2005: 2-2 (Pittsburgh beats No. 1 Indianapolis, Carolina beats No. 2 Chicago)
2006: 2-2 (New England beats No. 1 San Diego, Indianapolis beats No. 2 Baltimore)
2007: 2-2 (San Diego beats No. 2 Indianapolis, New York Giants beat No. 1 Dallas)
2008: 1-3 (Baltimore beats No. 1 Tennessee, Philadelphia beats No. 1 New York Giants, Arizona beats No. 2 Carolina)
2009: 3-1 (New York Jets beat No. 2 San Diego)
2010: 2-2 (New York Jets beat No. 1 New England, Green Bay beats No. 1 Atlanta)
2011: 3-1 (New York Giants beat No. 1 Green Bay)
Add those results up, and home teams seeded first or second and coming off the bye are 28-16 in the divisional round over the past 11 seasons. Narrow that list to just the past seven seasons, though, and the record is only 15-13.
The Patriots have made the playoffs 10 times under Belichick. This marks the seventh time they've been seeded either first or second, and only once have they been bounced in the divisional round when they opened with a bye. The Jets beat the top-seeded Patriots at Gillette two years ago, 28-21.
How important has it been for the Patriots to get a playoff bye? The five times that Belichick and Brady have taken the Patriots to the Super Bowl, they've been seeded No. 1 or No. 2.
Just once in team history have the Patriots reached the Super Bowl when seeded third or worse, starting their quest on wild-card weekend. That was after the 1985 season, when they were the AFC's No. 5 seed, won three playoff games, then lost to the Bears.
It certainly can be done, though, and has been done recently. Over the last seven seasons, five teams that played a wild-card game eventually won the Super Bowl, including the last two champions (Giants last year, Packers two years ago). A pair of wild-card teams (Giants in the 2007 season, Steelers in 2005) have won recent Super Bowls.
Only one wild-card team — Seattle — is still playing this postseason. The other seven remaining teams won their divisions.
Sixteen games in (20 if you count the preseason), the Patriots, Broncos, Falcons, and 49ers have reached a new point.
They've done enough so far to earn the spoils that a successful regular season brings: the chance for welcome rest, some time to heal, a spot on the couch for the opening weekend.
Now it's time to go back to work. The Patriots are scheduled to return to the practice field Tuesday, and go four straight days, getting ready for the Texans. Unlike the final weekend of the regular season, when the Patriots could have been seeded first, second, third, or fourth, their situation now is crystal clear.
"From here on out, we have to win," Vince Wilfork said after the Patriots' regular-season finale. "That's reality. There's no beating around the bush. If you want to get to where you want to be, you have to win out.
"If you lose now, you go home. So it's up to us to decide what we want to do, how we want to be. We're in the driver's seat right now, so we drive the car where it needs to go."Michael Whitmer can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeWhitmer.


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The same year that Rauch's essay appeared, the witty and wonderful Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto was also published. Loners, notes author Anneli Rufus, are people who prefer to be alone. They are not sad, lonely, or deranged.If you spend a lot of time alone, don't you also spend a lot of time thinking about why you are spending time alone? Rauch and Rufus and DePaulo are doing PR for solitariness, and I wonder if it's working. Rauch wrote:
Contrary to stereotypes and TV-punditry, loners are not serial murderers and they are not school shooters, either. True, there are criminals who look like loners, in that they spend lots of time alone. Typically, though, they are just pseudo-loners, who never craved all that time to themselves. They wanted to be included but were instead rejected.
True loners do not withdraw in order to stew in misery or plot violent revenge. Instead, Rufus reminds us, loners "know better than anyone how to entertain themselves...They have a knack for imagination, concentration, inner discipline, and invention."
How can I let the introvert in my life know that I support him and respect his choice? First, recognize that it's not a choice. It's not a lifestyle. It's an orientation.If you have the introvert orientation, do you feel free to be out about it? Don't you have to worry that people will think you're one of the pseudo-loners?


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Every Tuesday that falls in the month of Shravana, i.e., mid-July to mid-August, is considered very auspicious to offer prayers to MangalaMangalaThe planet Mars, for Hindus, is also a reference to God named Mangala... Gauri, another manifestation of ParvatiParvatiAfter the death of Shiva's first love Sati, Shiva.... The fasts kept on these days are also known as Sri Mangala Gowri Vratham, especially in Andhra Pradesh.
There was a merchant named Dharampal who lived with his wife. They were wealthy and had no shortage of anything except they were childless. Dharampal was a staunch devotee of ShivaShivaShiva is one of the Supreme Gods of Hindu Trinity that ... and prayed to him for a son. Shiva blessed the couple with a boy but he was destined to die at the age of 16. Years passed and before he turned 16, he was married to a girl whose mother always observed the fast of Mangala Gauri. Thus she was blessed with a daughter who was not to face widowhood. The blessings and boons of this fast saved Dharanpal's son and the couple lived a long married and happy life.
How to Observe the Fast
Mangla GauriGauriGauri is another form of Parvati who is known for her fair skin and radiance. She is a gentle goddess who is kindhearted and nurturing... Vrat is observed only by women. It can be done for 16 to 20 Tuesdays, starting from the first one in the month of Shravana. One should take bath early in the morning and dress up in their traditional outfits and ornamented with jewelry symbolizing their marital status. They should then start the praying ritual by placing a red or green cloth on the sacred place where one has to perform the ritual. Devotees make Navagrahas They are the nine celestial bodies, corresponding to one of the deities in Hinduismusing rice, on the floor. An idol of GaneshaGaneshaThe guardian deity of Hindus, also known as the Ganapati (The God of all groups) is the son of Lord Shiva ... is also placed along with the idol of Gauri. She is offered sixteen types of fruits and flowers along with mirror, comb, bangles, vermillion and water.
Mantras like "Mama Putra Poutra Sowbhagya Vruddhyarthe, Shri Mangala Gauri Preetyartham, Panchavarsha Paryantam Mangala Gowri Vratham Aham Karishye" or "Kumkumagaru Lipthangaam Sarvabharana Bhushithaam Neelakanta Priyaam Gaureem Vandeham Mangalaahvaayaam" can be recited throughout the day.
After the last Tuesday of Shravan month, the idol is immersed in water. The distribution of Prasad It is the sacred food that is distributed after an auspicious event or day after offering it to the Godsalso takes place. Women also perform charity and donate sweets, fruits and clothes in a bamboo basket to a Brahmin. The conventional Hindu caste system divided society into four sects and Brahmin was known as the learned class who gained the knowledge of sacred texts written on Hinduism Daughter-in-laws then take the blessing of their mother-in-laws. After observing the fast for the complete day, only vegetarian food should be consumed for the whole month.
Benefits of Observing the Fast
The married women observe this fast to have a healthy and long relationship with their partners. The newly married women keep this fast to attain conjugal bliss. The newlyweds can gain happiness, prosperity and life-long companionship if the fast is observed for first five years of marriage. Women who may have had bad experience in their marriages can also follow the above mentioned rituals to attain happiness and peace in their marriage.
The other benefits include protection from blood related diseases, eradication of loans and winning over enemies.
Dates to Observe Fasts
There are two units of Hindu calendar i.e., the Amavasyant Lunar calendar which is followed by the people of Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, and Purnimant calendar which is followed by the people of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar and Gujarat. The Amavasyant month ends on a no moon day and the Purnimant month ends on a full moon day.
According to Amavasyant calendar, Shravan month starts on 15th August 2015 and ends on 13th September 2015. 18th August 2015, 25th August 2015, 01st September 2015 and 08th September 2015 are the consecutive Tuesdays that fall in this period.
According to Purnimant calendar, Shravan month begins on 01st August 2015 and ends on 29th August 2015. 04th August 2015, 11th August 2015, 18th August 2015 and 25th August 2015 are the consecutive Tuesdays that fall in this period.
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Handmade Holidays...
The kids & I are making spa gift baskets for the females on our gift giving list this Christmas (year, we're starting early). I'm needing ideas on what to include. I'm thinking of including
Homemade : bath bombs, Body Wash, Spampoo, bath salts, & these fragrance things that you put on the shower floor when you shower (can't think what they're called)
Store bought (unless I can find a recipe): lotion & lip gloss (just for the two little girls)
I might also make or buy a few scented candles for each of the adult women, one of those sleep/relaxation masks, & maybe make a "Do not disturb" door hanger for the bathroom door.
Does that sound good or is there something else I should include, or possibly something I should leave out. I'm not giving the little girls candles b/c, while they're old enough to bathe by themself, I feel they're a little too young to be using candles unsupervised.
I bought nice, Christmasy baskets on clearance last Dec.
by soccerjunkiApril 15, 2011 at 10:28 AM
I love to get baskets like that! I adore a really nice, thick, plush wash cloth and /or towel. You could do those with a pretty candle..depending on your budget. Kids get a kick out of "themed" ones too. Those you can buy "here and there" as you have money and they are always appreciated.
Your idea sounds great..
oh yeah ..one more thing I thought of ...a nice relaxation CD..you can burn those for not much..and make a cute cd holder for it out of plain card stock.
April 15, 2011 at 10:51 AM
I made heating pads (relaxation mats). It was really simple. just fold scrap fabric face/face - sew up the side and across the top (all but a tiny hole big enough for the end of a funnel).... then flip so the right side is showing now :)
Meanwhile - I put long grain rice in a large bowl and pour scented oils in the bowl - covered and shook the heck out of it... then let it sit for a day or so.
After about a day of the rice sitting - I use the funnel to start pouring in the rice till it's about 3/4 the way full. Then I sew up the hole and then smush it out to make sure there's no other holes I may have missed.
Wrap with ribbon like a present and attach a card saying "microwave for 1 minute to heat"
Everyone loved them since I made variety of sizes (adjust time for size!!) but I made a few palm/hand size which were great for like elbow pains.... then a few that were long rectangular - great for neck pain, lower back....
You could get really creative and do different shapes - like star, heart, etc
by COTwinMomApril 16, 2011 at 10:32 AM
a few things you can often find in the $1 bins are those theraputic masks that you tie around your eyes; foot scraper, nice washcloth, foot and/or hand lotion. I posted a really easy sugar body scrub for a spa party I did on my blog here: http://homeconfetti.blogspot.com/2011/01/diy-peppermint-sugar-scrub.html
by nanbon44April 17, 2011 at 8:23 AM
I make Bath Baskets all the time.... I fill with Bath Bombs, Bath Salts, Bath Gel and Soaps all made by me... The Lotion Bars are great too.... Last year I gathered, folded in half two wash cloths together tied with ribbon added beaded handle and put a bar of soap inside to make a washcloth purse. found it on the web.. sometimes I will add a candle, bath scrubby or wash cloth and hand towel... sometimes I also add a mug and tea and a novel.
I think the bath baskets are always a great gift to give or receive... I had my step daughter make them last year as gifts for her friends and family, we had so much fun making them... we put them in baskets and took colored netting to wrap them in and tied with a Christmas bow. We also made Mugs with either Coffee, tea or hot chocolate and wrapped in the tulle for mailcarriers, teachers, co workers etc.
by butterfly-joApril 18, 2011 at 9:54 AM
i like everything you had on your list. a bath scrubby is good too...maybe a towel (maybe embroider it, if you do that sorta thing). um....other than that, i do pretty much the same stuff you were saying :)
by swdesignsApril 19, 2011 at 9:36 AM
Congrats to you for starting so early!! Most of my suggestions are already mentioned, but I was thinking maybe drawer sachets.
October 23, 2011 at 11:04 PM
I have recipes for lotion, but I don't have the recipes on me. I will post them for you tomorrow. =)
by nanbon44October 24, 2011 at 10:12 AM
looks like you are on the right track... we made bath baskets last year for my daughter and her kids to hand out as gifts.. for family and friends we did the large baskets filled with lotion bars, lip balm, bath salts, bath bombs, shower gels, and soaps all made from recipes found on line.. We also added a cup with teas or coffees, a bath scrubbie, candle and in some cases a paperback book. For others on their gift list like teachers, mail carrier, hair dresser, and others we took a cup and filled with some tea, coffee or hot chocolate packs, added some wrapped cookies and wrapped. We have been wrapping all the baskets in the netting or tulle you get at the fabric store.. Looks really good as it is colorful and you can still see whats inside... add a bow and it is a great presentation.
October 25, 2011 at 3:21 PM
What you'll need:
1 tub petroleum jelly (vaseline)
1 pkg of kool-aid drink crystals - whatever flavour you want, or you can make a few
lip gloss containers
labels printed out on sticker paper
scissors or 1 inch paper punch
1. put about 1 cup vaseline in a microwave safe bowl
2. heat the vaseline in the microwave in 30 second increments, stirring between each heating. It took me about 7-8 minutes to melt each batch of vaseline. It will be liquid when it is fully melted. It will be very hot! Make sure you wear gloves or oven mitts and make sure children are being supervised.
3. take out of microwave and stir in kool-aid drink crystals until desired colour is reached - I used the whole package for each batch. Stir until the crystals are completely dissolved.
4. if starting to solidify you can heat again for another 30 seconds - skip this step if it is still liquidy
5. pour into your lip gloss containers and leave to solidify - a couple hours
6. repeat this whole process if making more flavours
7. print out labels on sticker paper
8. using either a 1 inch punch, or scissors, cut out the circle labels and attach to your lip gloss container
9. give to all your favourite people, but remember to save a few for yourself too!
1 Beaten Egg Yolk
2 Tbsp Lemon Juice
1/2 Cup Olive Oil
1/2 Cup Veg. Oil
Comine yolk and lemon juice, stir with a whisk, gradually add oils until mix thickens. If it is too thick add more lemon juice.
Add scented oils as you like.
by BooksnBoysOctober 26, 2011 at 7:59 AM
I really like the the lotion recipe from Soap Queen (http://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-body-tutorials/lotion/easy-whipped-shea-butter-2/).
I also like the inclusion of a bath scrubby of some sort.
Sounds like a fabulous gift!


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When we run out of possibilities in shrinking the process we go vertical and take advantage of the third dimension. Moore's law is safe for a good long time.
This tech is still several years out from production but other 3D silicon options are in testing, and some are in production.
When the Z density matches the X and Y density in fifteen years or so we'll be ready for optical or quantum tech.
We don't just go vertical without solving the heat dissipation problem. We already have a hard time dissipating the heat off the surface area of one layer. Now imagine trying to dissipate the heat off of the layer that is trapped between two more layers also generating the same amount of problematic heat. Then try to figure out how to dissipate the heat off a thousand layers to buy you just 10 more years of Moore's law.
Well, at least you have a theoretical possibility to avoid that problem in ssd-disks.
Since you are only going to access one part of the memory at a time the rest could be unpowered. This gives a constant heat do get rid of regardless of the number of layers.
This is of course not possible for CPU's and other circuits where all parts are supposed to be active.
True, that does help with the ssd, as long as you don't try to write too much data too fast.
Along with wear leveling I'm sure the algorithm would also account for physical location of data too. If thermal sensors report back that all location are heat soaked, then an algorithm could throttle back read/writes. But the latter would have to be an extreme rarity for that to be required above and beyond engineering limitations.
We don't just go vertical without solving the heat dissipation problem
The obvious solution to that: don't generate any heat. Now, where are the room-temperature superconductors I was promised???
The solution is reversible computing [wikipedia.org].
The first solution that comes to my mind (to your hypothetical limiting condition, at least
Yeah, that's what they're real
That would hardly help reduce heat generation in CMOS. At current gate lengths, a significant portion of the heat is generated due to leakage through the channel when the transistor is "off".
Maybe there is some switching device implementable with HTSCs that I am not familiar with, but it still wouldn't apply to silicon devices.
One thing you could run in to are heat issues. Remember that high performance chips tend to give off a lot of heat. Memory isn't as bad, but it still warms up. Start stacking layers on top of each other and it could be a problem.
Who knows? We may be in for a slowing down of transistor count growth rate. That may not mean a slow down in performance, perhaps other materials or processes will allow for speed increases. While lightspeed is a limit, that doesn't mean parts of a CPU couldn't run very fast.
Also it
They're all over that. As the transistors shrink they give off less heat. New transistor technologies also use less energy each per square nanometer, and there's new ones in the pipe. Not all of the parts of a CPU, SSD cell or RAM chip are working at the same time so intelligent distribution of the loads give more thermal savings. Then there are new technologies for conducting the heat out of the hotspots, including using artificial diamond as a substrate rather than silicon, or as an intermediary elect
If they were making the same spec part that would be fine, but as transistors shrink they cram more into the same space, so total heat flux tends to go up. Also the leakage gets worse too - but that gets offset by lower voltages.
This might be a dumb question, but why not have some sort of capillary-esque network with a high heat-capacity fluid being pumped through it? Maybe even just deionized water if you have a way of keeping the resistivity high enough.
The problem with such kind of proposals is that there is no means to actualy build the channels. It is a great idea in theory, and quite obvious (so there is a huge amount of research already on it), but nobody could actualy build it.
L1 CPU caches are shamefully stuck with the laughable 20-year old 640K meme in rarely noticed ways. Everyone's first thought is about RAM memory, but remember that CPU's are less change friendly and benefit more from tech like 128K * 5 size at the new density improvement.
Our supposedly macho CPU's have only 128K L1 sizes and comparably, absurdly high L2 and L3 [amd.com] sizes to make up.
The current excuse is that cost and die-space constraints keep size-improvements mostly on the L2 and L3 side. Sadly, someone tagge
Cache is not a case where more is necessary. What you discover is it is something of a logarithmic function in terms of amount of cache vs performance. On that scale, 100% would be the speed you would achieve if all RAM were cache speed, 0% is RAM only speed. With current designs, you get in the 95%+ range. Adding more gains you little.
Now not everything works quite the same. Servers often need more cache for ideal performance so you'll find some server chips have more. In systems with a lot of physical CPUs, more cache can be important too so you see more on some of the heavy hitting CPUs like Power and Itanium.
At any rate you discover that the chip makers are reasonably good with the tradeoff in terms of cache and other die uses and this is demonstrable because with normal workloads, CPUs are not memory starved. If the CPU was continually waiting on data it would have to work below peak capacity.
In fact you can see this well with the Core i7s. There are two different kinds, the 800s and the 900s and they run on different boards, with different memory setups. The 900s feature faster memory by a good bit. However, for most consumer workloads, you see no performance difference with equal clocks. What that means is that the cache is being kept full by the RAM, despite the slower speed, and the CPU isn't waiting. On some pro stuff you do find that the increased memory bandwidth helps, the 800s are getting bandwidth starved. More cache could also possibly fix that problem, but perhaps not as well.
Bigger caches are fine, but only if there's a performance improvement. No matter how small transistors get, space on a CPU will always be precious. You can always do something else with them other than memory, if it isn't useful.
Exponential growth doesn't last for ever.
Don't be too sure; the human population has been growing more or less exponentially for a million years.
Tell that to the first world war, second world war, famines, plagues, mongols and so on.
It's not as obvious as it sounds. Some things get easier if you're basically still building a 2D chip but with one extra z layer for shorter routing. It quickly gets difficult if you decide you want your 6-core chip to now be a 6-layer one-core-per-layer chip. Three or four issues come to mind.
First is heat. Volume (a cubic function) grows faster than surface area (a square function). It's hard enough as it is to manage the hotspots on a 2D chip with a heatsink and fan on its largest side. With a small number of z layers, you would at the very least need to make sure the hotspots don't stack. For a more powerful chip, you'll have more gates, and therefore more heat. You may need to dedicate large regions of the chip for some kind of heat transfer, but this comes at the price of more complicated routing around it. You may need to redesign the entire structure of motherboards and cases to accommodate heatsinks and fans on both large sides of the CPU. Unfortunately, the shortest path between any two points is going to be through the center, but the hottest spot is also going to be the center, and the place that most needs some kind of chunk of metal to dissipate that heat is going to have to go through the center. In other words, nothing is going to scale as nicely as we like.
Second is delivering power and clock pulses everywhere. This is already a problem in 2D, despite the fact that radius (a linear function) scales slower than area and volume. There's so MUCH hardware on the chip that it's actually easier to have different parts run at different clock speeds and just translate where the parts meet, even though that means we get less speed than we could in an ideal machine. IIRC some of the benefit of the multiple clocking scheme is also to reduce heat generated, too. The more gates you add, the harder it gets to deliver a steady clock to each one, and the whole point of adding layers is so that we can add gates to make more powerful chips. Again, this means nothing will scale as nicely as we like (it already isn't going as nicely as we'd like in 2D). And you need to solve this at the same time as the heat problems.
Third is an insurmountable law of physics: the speed of light in our CPU and RAM wiring will never exceed the speed of light in vacuum. Since we're already slicing every second into 1-4 billion pieces, the amazing high speed of light ends up meaning that signals only travel a single-digit number of centimeters of wire per clock cycle. Adding z layers in order to add more gates means adding more wire, which is more distance, which means losing cycles just waiting for stuff to propagate through the chip. Oh, and with the added complexity of more layers and more gates, there's a higher number of possible paths through the chip, and they're going to be different lengths, and chip designers will need to juggle it all. Again, this means things won't scale nicely. And it's not the sort of problem that you can solve with longer pipelines - that actually adds more gates and more wiring. And trying to stuff more of the system into the same package as the CPU antagonizes the heat and power issues (while reducing our choices in buying stuff and in upgrading. Also, if the GPU and main memory performance *depend* on being inside the CPU package, replacement parts plugged into sockets on the motherboard are going to have inherent insurmountable disadvantages).
First is heat. Volume (a cubic function) grows faster than surface area (a square function). It's hard enough as it is to manage the hotspots on a 2D chip with a heatsink and fan on its largest side. With a small number of z layers, you would at the very least need to make sure the hotspots don't stack.
I'm not saying your point is entirely invalid, however, heat isn't necessarily a problem if you can parallelize the computation. Rather the opposite, in fact. If you decrease clock frequency and voltage, you get a non-linear decrease of power for a linear decrease of processing power. This means two slower cores can produce the same total number of FLOPS as one fast core, while using less power (meaning less heat to dissipate). As an extreme example of where this can get you, consider the human brain -- a m
The problem is for parallel operations, we start to run into Amdahl's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law [wikipedia.org]
Indeed, although if the need for more processing power arises from increasing data sets, Amdahl's law isn't as relevant. (Amdahl's law applies when you try to solve an existing problem faster, not when you increase the size of a problem and try to solve it equally fast as before, which is often the case.)
I wasn't trying to say that we can parallelize every problem -- I was commenting that 3D processing structures might very well have merit, since it is useful in cases where you can parallelize. And those ca
You can't compare a brain to a computer; they are nothing alike. Brains are chemical, computers are electric. Brains are analog, computers are digital.
If heat dissipation in the brain was a problem, we wouldn't have evolved to have so much hair on our heads and so little elsewhere; lack of heat to the brain must have been an evolutionary stumbling block.
If heat dissipation in the brain was a problem, we wouldn't have evolved to have so much hair on our heads and so little elsewhere
Hair is insulation against the sun. The reason why Africans have curly hair is to provide insulation while letting cooling air circulate. In colder climates, straight hair still provides enough protection from the sun while letting some air circulate.
I'm not sure I would call the neurons either analog or digital -- they are more complicated than that. But regardless, both the brain and a computer do computations, which is the important aspect in this case.
Not that brain heat dissipation matters for the discussion (as we already know roughly how much energy the brain consumes), but as far as I can recall, some theories in evolutionary biology assumes that heat dissipation from the head actually has been a "problem".
But regardless, both the brain and a computer do computations, which is the important aspect in this case
Both an abacus and a slide rule will do computations, too, but they're nothing alike, either. A computer is more like a toaster than a brain or slide rule; you have electrical resistance converting current to heat. The brain has nothing like that (nor does a slide rule or abacus, even though the friction of the beads agaiinst wires and the rules sliding must generate some heat).
But it doesn't address the heat problem in electric circuts -- again, it's more like a toaster than a brain. And note that it takes a computer far less time to compute PI to the nth digit than it does the human brain, despite the brain's 3D model and the computer's 2D model.
That would be because afaik most of the brains power goes into conceptualizing, and all kinds of other tasks. Pure maths is very small part of activities.
But then again, those people who's visual cortex (or whatever the area is called which handles visual data and eye movements) are simply amazing in maths. Autistic persons can do amazing things as well.
It's matter of how the horsepower is used, not availability in the case of brains. For brains it's an very easy task to detect objects, and attach all kinds
... consider the human brain -- a massively parallel 3D processing structure. The brain has an estimated processing power of 38*10^15 operations per second (according to this reference [insidehpc.com]), while consuming about 20 W of power (reference [hypertextbook.com])...
Good point. I believe I have solved Moore's Law in computing for some years. I need shovels, accomplices, and every Roger Corman movie.
Yes, but I'd like to see a human brain run the Sieve of Eratosthenes, or accurately simulate a 3-body orbit, or run a given large-scale cellular automata for more than a couple thousand steps.
There's times when parallel computing is useful, but there's also times when pure "how fast can you add 1 + 1" type calculations are incredibly useful. You can't just abandon linear computation completely.
Human brains is FAR from unreliable and slow. We don't just consciously know about the insane multitude of seemingly very trivial and simple tasks yet requiring immense processing power to make happen.
Can you stand on 1-leg? can you run and while running jump and keep running without falling down? Are you able to very delicately almost touch your girlfriend, but not really touch and she feels that, with all fingers in your hand and run your hand through her back, just almost touching?
All tasks of fine motor
I'd like to see a human brain run the Sieve of Eratosthenes, or accurately simulate a 3-body orbit, or run a given large-scale cellular automata
Those problems are all very well suited to parallel processing. I wonder if that's what you meant to imply, or if I misunderstood you.
For some people quite accurate visualization in 3D space, interactively realtime is very easy task. For most people it isn't.
You could say not everyone's operating system for their brains is the latest version.
For low power but high transistor (or transistor substitute) count stuff like memory i'm inclined to agree with you.
For processors afaict the limiting factor is more how much power can we get rid of than how many transistors can we pack in.
Also (unless there is a radical change in how we make chips) going 3D is going to be expensive since each layer of tranistors (or transistor substitutes) will require seperate deposition, masking and etching steps.
Nope, no one saw that one coming.
But Captain the Memory Crystals are taken a beatin, i dont think theyll last much longer (Scottish Accent)
We've got memory that's made out of dirt-cheap material and it works,' a university spokesman said.
Tell me when it's the head of manufacturing at XYZ Dirt-Cheap-Mass-Produced-Memory Corp saying that, then I'll care.
"Dirt cheap" isn't here to stay.
Their technology requires polycrystalline silicon & the demand is increasing much faster than the supply.
China might build more polysilicon factories, but they'll undoubtedly reserve the output for their own uses.
This isn't a new problem, since mfgs have been complaining about shortages since 2006-ish (IIRC).
Great, it's denser. Does this mean it now comes in a yellow-white, almost blonde color?
I'd say it's a safe bet you won't insult anyone on
Best Buy and Amazon are both selling Intel's 40 GB flash drive for just under $100 this week... I'm building a server based around it and will likely later post on how that goes. Intel recently announced that they're upping the sizes so you're likely going to see the 40 GB model in the clearance bin soon.
It's here, it's ready... and when you don't have a TB of data to store they're a great choice, especially when you read much more often that you write.
And if you do need a big SSD Kingston has had a laptop 512GB SSD out since May with huge performance, and this month Toshiba and Samsung will both step up to compete and bring the price down. We're getting close to retiring mechanical media in the first tier. Intel's research shows failure rates of SSD at 10% that of mechanical media. Google will probably have a whitepaper out in the next six months on this issue too.
This is essential because for server consolidation and VDI the storage bottleneck has become an impassable gate with spinning media. These SSDs are being used in shared storage devices (SANs) to deliver the IOPs required to solve this problem. Because incumbent vendors make millions from each of their racks-of-disks SANs, they're not about to migrate to inexpensive SSD, so you'll see SAN products from startups take the field here. The surest way to get your startup bought by an old-school SAN vendor for $Billions is to put a custom derivative of OpenFiler on a dense rack of these SSDs and dish it up as block storage over the user's choice of FC, iSCSI or Infiniband as well as NFS and SAMBA file based storage. To get the best bang for the buck, adapt the BackBlaze box [backblaze.com] for SFF SSD drives. Remember to architect for differences in drive bandwidths or you'll build in bottlenecks that will be hard to overcome later and drive business to your competitors with more forethought. Hint: When you're striping in a Commit-on-Write log-based storage architecture it's OK to oversubscribe individual drive bandwiths in your fanout to a certain multiple because the blocking issue is latency, not bandwidth. For extra credit, implement deduplication and back the SSD storage with supercapacitors and/or an immense battery powered write cache RAM for nearly instantaneous reliable write commits.
I should probably file for a patent on that, but I won't. If you want to then let me suggest "aggregation of common architectures to create synergistic fusion catalysts for progress" as a working title.
That leaves the network bandwidth problem to solve, but I guess I can leave that for another post.
more IOPS than god
God doesn't need any Outputs. It's all one-way traffic with him.
how does it compare on speed, reliability, and endurance
No, yes, maybe.
So it's more dense than NAND flash (and 3D, wow!), but how does it compare on speed, reliability, and endurance?
Taking a wild-guess here.
TFA states that the 1/0 is stored as a nanowire that is continuous/interrupted (thus not require any electric charge).
Yao applied a charge to the electrodes, which created a conductive pathway by stripping oxygen atoms from the silicon oxide, forming a chain of nanometer-sized silicon crystals. Once formed, the chain can be repeatedly broken and reconnected by applying a pulse of varying voltage, the University said.
It seems reasonable to think:
Toshiba has started mass production of 24nm NAND cells. Just saying...
Intel and Micron are already at 25nm in their most recent production lines, Hynix at 26nm.
Only Samsung, albeit the world's first NAND manufacturer, seems to be at 27nm.
I'm still waiting for some cheap, stable, high density ROM or preferably WORM/PROM. Even flash has only about 20 years retention with the power off. Which sounds like a lot, but it's not all that difficult to find a working synthesizer or drum machine from the mid-80s in working condition. But if you put flash in everything your favorite devices may be dead in 20 years. for most devices this is OK. But what if some of us want to build something a little more permanent? Like an art piece, a space probe, a DSP based guitar effects pedal, or a car?
Some kind of device with some nano wires that I can fuse to a plate or something with voltage would be nice if it could be made in a density of at least 256Mbit (just an arbitrary number I picked). EPROMs (with the little UV window) also only last for about 10-20 years (and a PROM is just an EPROM without a window). So we should expect to already have this digital decay problem in older electronics. Luckily for high volumes it was cheaper to use a mask ROM than a PROM or EPROM. But these days NAND flash(MLC) is so cheap and high density that mask ROMs seem like a thing of the past, to the point that it is difficult to find a place that can do mask ROMs that can also do high density wafers.
Time dependent flash sounds like the dream world for planned obsolescence driven corporations...
We've got memory that's made out of dirt-cheap material and it works
I guess the materials alone don't determine the price, but the expertise/work to put them together. I'm also typing on a computer that's made out of cheap materials (lots of plastic, some alumin(i)um, small quantities of other stuff) - but it didn't come that cheap.
Sure it did. When the IBM-PC came out with a 4 mz processor and 64kb of RAM it cost ~$4,000. My netbook has an 1800mz processor, 1,000,000kb of ram plus a 180gb hard drive, and it cost ~$300. I'd say that's pretty damned cheap.
... 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 erase/write cycles?
Boy do I miss the old news, they way they would write this one for example, would be to put some large number for the thumb drives, as in
"USB thumb drives of in the future could reach 150 terabytes."
Or something.
Stripping oxygen sounds very similar to the memristor process.
Loose bits sink chips.


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Thanks for the link. The site says that cling is an "interactive interpreter" for the C++ language, thus I figure it is something like "ipython" is for Python?
From what I understand, it's more like an interactive version of a "JVM" for C++. It's made possible due to the parser and the intermediate language and the JIT-optimizer being in completely separate modules. So you can enter C++ code and it will recompile, optimize and link behind the scenes on the fly.
CERN surely does HPC, but I bet their parallel codes were developed using MPI, which is a completely different technique and is supported by clang. Our codes rely both on MPI and OpenMP, and changing them to remove the dependency from the latter would be a huge (and useless) pain.
Well I wouldn't have thought you'd change your existing OpenMP code to MPI just for the sake of it. There's no reason for any code to move to clang just for the sake of it either. You'd probably want to try it out with a small MPI project rather than make a full commitment to clang just for the sake of it.


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MARENGO – Residents can learn about a historical World War II-era camp's connection to the Marengo Curtiss Candy Farms today.
The Marengo Society for Historic Preservation is hosting the free program at 2 p.m. inside Marengo City Hall, 132 E. Prairie St., about Rockford's Camp Grant, one of the largest U.S. Army training centers in World War I and World War II.
The 18,000-acre camp later served as a prison for World War II German prisoners of war, who were transported to work at the huge Curtiss Candy Farms in Marengo. Terry Dyer of Roscoe will provide the presentation.
Residents are encouraged to attend to share stories about Curtiss Candy Farms. Parking is available by the rear entrance of City Hall.
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Candy Overview 2013
King-Size Continues Its Reign
King-size candy's reign at the cash register appears far from over, and sales of bagged candy are picking up.
Value-driven consumers see bigger as better when it comes to sweet snacking, and c-stores are finding success moving those items to the forefront, says Cassandra Matos, confections category manager for McLane Co. Inc., Temple, Texas.
C-store sales of The Hershey Co.'s king size Kit Kat bars, for example, reached $15.7 million in the last quarter of 2012, up nearly 18%. That compares with $13 million in sales of standard Kit Kat bars, a figure that grew 9%. Unit sales of the king-size Kit Kat bars increased nearly 16%, compared with a 6.6% increase in unit sales of the standard size, according to Symphony IRI Group.
While sales of standard sizes in the chocolate segment are doing well, "we're still hearing about good opportunities when retailers promote king. That's definitely where the growth is," Matos says. Dollar gains in both chocolate and nonchocolate in 2012 were tempered by unit declines. Chocolate dollar sales grew by 4.6% to $2.4 billion in the 52 weeks that ended Dec. 30, but unit sales declined 1.8%, according to Symphony IRI. Nonchocolate dollar sales grew by nearly 8% to $1.8 billion, but unit sales fell 0.6%.
"Candy overall, year over year, is still growing in total sales," Matos says. "But 2012 did not outpace the inflation of 2011. True growth needs to be determined by looking at unit sales and not necessarily just dollar sales. It's important for retailers to make sure they are outpacing inflation."
Breaking the Seal
When it comes to no chocolate, traditional bagged candy, such as Haribo Gold, Trolliand Starlight Mints, is doing well."They're still a good value for the consumer and still growing," Matos of McLane says.
But value-seeking shoppers are increasingly purchasing larger resealable bags of candy, both in chocolate and nonchocolate items, she says. Retailers are adding these bags to the bottom shelf of their candy set.
"I think it's important to look at bagged candy and see the potential (for retailers)to add some of the stand-up, larger-sized resealable candy bagged items—like a larger M&M's or Hershey's Drops, Starbursts, Skittles or SweeTarts—to gain those consumers, "she says.
As with chocolate, retailers are also seeing growth toward king or sharing sizes in nonchocolate.
Matos suggests capitalizing on adult consumers of no chocolate by moving some of those items higher in the candy sets.
"It's important to realize that there are candy-consuming adults in addition to kid consumers, and not all nonchocolates should be on the bottom shelf," she says.
All Gummed Up
Gum sales continued to decline in 2012, dropping 5.4% in c-store dollar sales to $1.2 billion and showing a 5.3% decline in unit sales in 2012, according to Symphony IRI. Matos of McLane says it's doubtful that there will be a true turnaround in the category this year.
However, "I think we will see a lessening of the decline from some of the mini-bottles and the Prepriced that are out there and some of the innovation the gum manufacturers are trying to do," she says. In considering gum's struggle, Matos suspects some consumers have been lost to the stronger mints segment and others simply lost in the confusion of emerging products."There have been so many new items in gum that we haven't given the consumers an opportunity to become loyal users," she says. "There's a new gum out every month, it seems. In order to make room for the new ones, you're taking the old ones off the shelf."We've out priced it, and we haven't let the consumer become a loyal user by this constant shuffling of items."That said,
Prepriced and mini bottles present an opportunity to gain a consumer for a time. "If that consumer still perceives the price of a pack of gum as too high and not of value, they will not trade up and become a loyal long-term user," she says."The most important thing is to make sure the retail price is a perceived affordability or a perceived value."She also encourages retailers to give new gum items a real chance before swapping them for something new, while ensuring that the portion of the set that stays constant represents the very best sellers.Seasonal GrowthSeasonal also represents a great opportunity for retailers in the coming year, Matos of McLane says. But c-stores have to plan for it. Halloween orders, for example, should be made by March or April, she says."It's a challenge because the ordering dates are much earlier than most convenience store retailers are used to working with," she says. "But there's definitely an opportunity to gain some sales for those truly seasonal items."Retailers don't need to go crazy trying to figure out what seasonal flavors are the best picks. Traditional flavors that fit the season are the ones that sell best, Matos says."If you look at chocolate items like Reese's Pumpkins or Snickers Pumpkins, they do well across the board, "she says. "It's a new area for convenience stores, and I think there's just tremendous opportunity for incremental sales there."
Going Hand to Mouth
Convenience stores also will want to pay attention to the popularity of another bagged item: hand-to-mouth chocolates.
From The Hershey Co., options have included Kit Kat Minis, Hershey's Drops and Reese's Minis. At Mars, Snickers Bites, Milky Way Bites and M&M's Snack Mix have spoken to this trend.
With the popularity of king-size chocolate bars, she stresses the importance of promoting them up high on the set. But retailers also shouldn't overlook standard, a stalwart in chocolate.
"We've seen a lot of retailers having king-size first in the segment and standard after that," she says. "It draws the consumer to the king or sharing items first."