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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Definitions
- Data Location
- Toolbox Licenses
- Running MATLAB with the GUI for Code Development
- Submitting Interactive Jobs
- Submitting Jobs with PBS qsub
- Submitting Task Parallel and Data Parallel Jobs with PCT
- Running a Job on a GPGPU
- Running Locally on a Desktop
- PCT Resources and Demos
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Definitions
- Data Location
- Toolbox Licenses
- Running MATLAB with the GUI for Code Development
- Submitting Interactive Jobs
- Submitting Jobs with PBS qsub
- Submitting Task Parallel and Data Parallel Jobs with PCT
- Running a Job on a GPGPU
- Running Locally on a Desktop
- PCT Resources and Demos
There are several ways in which to submit MATLAB jobs to a cluster. This document will cover the various ways to run MATLAB compute jobs on the Shared Research Compute clusters, which will include using the Parallel Computing Toolbox (PCT) and the MATLAB Distributed Compute Server (MDCS) to submit many independent tasks as well as to submit a single task that has parallel components. Examples are included.
Task Parallel Application - The same application that runs independently on several nodes, possibly with different input parameters. There is no communication, shared data, or synchronization points between the nodes.
Data Parallel Application - The same application that runs on several labs simultaneously, with communication, shared data, or synchronization points between the labs.
Lab - A MATLAB worker in a multicore (Data Parallel) job. One lab is assigned to one worker (core). Thus, a job with eight labs has eight processor cores allocated to it and will have eight workers each working together as peers.
MDCS - MATLAB Distributed Compute Server. This is a component of MATLAB that allows our clusters to run MATLAB jobs that exceed the size of a single compute node (multinode parallel jobs). It also allows jobs to run even if there are not enough toolbox licenses available for a particular toolbox, so long as the university owns at least one license for the particular toolbox.
PCT - Parallel Computing Toolbox.
MATLAB Task - One segment of a job to be evaluated by a worker.
MATLAB Job - The complete large-scale operation to perform in MATLAB, composed of a set of tasks.
MATLAB Worker - The MATLAB session that performs the task computations. If a job needs eight processor cores, then it must have eight workers.
Job - Job submitted via the PBS job scheduler (also called PBS Job).
Data Location
This document assumes that all of your input data files, output files, and MATLAB code files are stored on the cluster's filesystem, not on your desktop. When you launch the MATLAB GUI and look at your home folder, you will be looking at your home folder on the cluster, not on your desktop. If your data or code files are stored on your desktop, you will need to transfer them to the cluster first.
Toolbox Licenses
The version of MATLAB installed on our clusters shares a site license with the rest of the campus. To see which Toolboxes our campus is licensed to use, launch MATLAB interactively on your desktop or on one of our clusters and run the ver command.
Running MATLAB with the GUI for Code Development
if you need to run MATLAB on one of the clusters to develop your code and run short (30 minutes or less) tests of the code, please follow these instructions.
1. Login to the Cluster
Login to the cluster using our published instructions .
2. Load the MATLAB Environment
Load the MATLAB module with the following command:
3. Run MATLAB
To run MATLAB with our without the GUI as follows:
This will start MATLAB with and without the GUI, respectively.
At this point MATLAB will be running interactively on one of the login nodes, not one of the compute nodes. When you get the matlab prompt, start writing your code as your normally would. This method of running MATLAB is intended for code development and for executing short test runs of your code (30 minutes or less).
Submitting Interactive Jobs
If you need to run a MATLAB compute job interactively, please follow these instructions.
1. Login to the Cluster
Login to the cluster using our published instructions.
2. Load the MATLAB Environment
Load the MATLAB module with the following command:
3. Submit an Interactive PBS Job
Submit an interactive PBS job as follows:
When this job starts executing you will receive a prompt on a compute node. The output will look something like the following:
You will notice that the command prompt has changed from a login node designation to a compute node designation.
4. Launch MATLAB
After you have obtained a command line prompt on a compute node, launch MATLAB with or without the GUI. An example without the GUI is shown below.
From the prompt you can run any MATLAB command that you wish.
Submitting Jobs with PBS qsub
The recommended method of submitting Task Parallel jobs is to use PCT as described below. However, if you need to submit one or more single core jobs, and are not encountering problems with the lack of specific toolbox licenses, then you might wish to submit your jobs directly with PBS as described in the following steps.
1. Build a MATLAB .m code file
Include all of the MATLAB commands that you need to execute in a MATLAB .m file, such as sample.m and place it somewhere in your home directory or subdirectory. The creation and contents of a .m file are beyond the scope of this document. Consult the MATLAB documentation for information on .m files.
2. Create a PBS batch script
You will need to execute MATLAB from within a PBS batch script, such as sample.pbs as follows. In this example, this file is saved in the same directory as sample.m.
In this example the sample.pbs script calls matlab with the -r option followed by the MATLAB script name that was created in step #1. Leave off the trailing .m from the script name when calling MATLAB this way.
For more information about PBS job scripts, please see our FAQ.
3. Submit the Job
After you have created sample.m and sample.pbs, go to the directory where sample.pbs resides, load the MATLAB module (if you have not already done so) and submit the job to the job scheduler:
You should now be able to see your job in the queue by going to your Linux terminal window and using the showq command.
Submitting multiple MATLAB jobs via PBS
In order to submit multiple MATLAB batch jobs, simply repeat this section for each job.
Submitting Task Parallel and Data Parallel Jobs with PCT
The Parallel Computing Toolbox (PCT) provides an API that allows you to submit a job that has multiple independent tasks (Task Parallel) or submit a job that has a single task that is a multiprocessor, and possibly multinode, task (Data Parallel). In order to run this type of job you must first configure MATLAB for this type of job submission by following these steps;
Configuring MATLAB
1. Enable passwordless for your cluster account.
After you have logged into the cluster, follow these instructions to enable passwordless ssh.
2. In your home directory create the MdcsDataLocation subdirectory.
3. Load the MATLAB 2011a environment:
4. Run MATLAB on the login node:
5. Import the cluster configuration for the cluster you are running on:
- On the MATLAB Desktop menu bar, click Parallel > Manage Configurations.
- Click File > Import
- In the Import Configuration dialog box, browse to find the MAT-file for the configuration that you want to import. Navigate to /opt/apps/matlab/2011a/mdcs and select the configuration for the system you are using, such as sugar.mat, davinci.mat, stic.mat, and so forth. Select the file and click Import.
- Select the configuration you have imported and click Start Validation.
- All four stages should pass except as specified below: Find Resources, Distributed Job, Parallel Job, Matlabpool
- Select this configuration to be the default configuration.
- Close the Configuration Manager window.
If all validation stages succeed, then you are ready to submit jobs to MDCS.
Submitting Task Parallel Jobs
The following is an example of a Task Parallel job. The task-parallel example code, frontDemo, calculates the risk and return based on historical data from a collection of stock prices. The core of the code, calcFrontier, minimizes the equations for a set of returns. In order to parallelize the code, the for loop is converted into a parfor loop with each iteration of the loop becoming its own independent task.
To submit the job, copy submitParJobToCluster.m into your working directory, make the necessary modifications for your job environment, and then run the code from within MATLAB. This will submit the job. An explanation of the code follows:
When you run submitParJobToCluster within MATLAB, the frontDemo code will be submitted to the PBS job scheduler. Use the showq command from a cluster terminal window to look for your job in the job queue.
Submitting Data Parallel Jobs
The data-parallel example code calculates the area of pi under the curve. The non parallel version, calcPiSerial, calculates with a for loop, looping through discrete points. The parallel version, calcPiSpmd, uses the spmd construct to evaluate a part of the curve on each MATLAB instance. Each MATLAB instances uses its labindex (i.e. rank) to determine which portion of the curve to calculate. The calculations are then globally summed together and broadcasted back out. The code uses higher level routines, rather than lower level MPI calls. Once the summation has been calculated, it's indexed into and communicated back to the local client MATLAB to calculate the total area.
To submit the job, copy submitSpmdJobToCluster.m into your working directory, make the necessary modifications for your job environment, and then run the code from within MATLAB. This will submit the job. An explanation of the code follows:
When you run submitSpmdJobToCluster within MATLAB, the calcPiSpmd code will be submitted to the PBS job scheduler. Use the showq command from a cluster terminal window to look for your job in the job queue.
Job Dependencies
In order to run code on the cluster, a job may be dependent on several MATLAB or data files. The batch() function takes two parameters: PathDependencies and FileDependencies. Both can be assigned to a comma separated cell array of filenames and/or folder names. If the MATLAB client shares a file system with the compute nodes, then typically the user will specify the dependencies on the local path (i.e PathDependencies). For example:
If the MATLAB client does not share a file system with the compute nodes, then the user will specify the dependencies on the path (i.e. FileDependencies}, which in turn will be zipped up as part of the job. For example:
In this example, the files myrand.m and random.m will be zipped up (the caller function, myrand, is assumed to be needed and is always included in the ZIP file).
Configuring Cluster Parameters with ClusterInfo
As previously mentioned, configurations are written to describe the scheme of the cluster. However, there are some properties that may need to be set often or at runtime. ClusterInfo provides a mechanism for the user to set additional properties. For example, the user may want to specify that a job should last no longer than 30 minutes.
Or the email address to use to be notified when a job is running
There might be circumstances in which the user might wish to change the default queue name that the job will run in as follows:
The entire collection of properties can be displayed with the state method
The values persist between jobs as well as between MATLAB sessions, until cleared. They can be cleared by setting a single property empty
Or by clearing the entire set
Destroying a Job
When you submit a job with batch, you will notice that each submission is labeled Job1, Job2, and so forth. Temporary directories associated with each job can be found in ~/MdcsDataLocation as the jobs are running. When job.destroy is called, these temporary directories are deleted. The above examples call job.destroy. If you close your MATLAB session before executing job.destroy, which is likely unless you are using the full example with job.wait, you will need to manually cleanup temporary directories in ~/MdcsDataLocation.
Running a Job on a GPGPU
MATLAB 2011a and higher versions are capable of running jobs on GPGPUs as well as on CPUs. See our FAQ for details.
Running Locally on a Desktop
In order to run MATLAB code with a parallel component on your desktop locally, you must first start up a MATLAB Pool, as such:
where 8 is the number of MATLAB processes to attach to the job. At this point you will have access to eight MATLAB workers for use with parallel code, such as code with parfor loops, and so on.
After running the code, close the MATLAB Pool:
PCT Resources and Demos
Here are a few resources for getting started with the Parallel Computing Toolbox:
- Online demos: http://www.mathworks.com/products/parallel-computing/demos.html?show=demo
- Recorded webinars: http://www.mathworks.com/products/parallel-computing/demos.html?show=recorded
- Parallel Computing Toolbox documentation: http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/toolbox/distcomp
- Self-paced tutorial: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/22809
- Blog: http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2009/10/02/using-parfor-loops-getting-up-and-running


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Wind blowing, water flowing, grasses swaying and children playing – movement brings a garden to life.
It seems unimaginable for a garden to be still. Do you often find yourself looking at something moving from the corner of your eye, or do you look to a sound made by the moving wind? Movement engages you in the garden. Movement can be introduced with plants or personality; look around your garden to see how you can add more movement in your garden.
A few years ago, a friend was installing night lighting in a garden for his client who wanted stone features as accents among the plants and around a backyard patio where he entertained family and friends. My friend invited me to accompany him to a garden center specializing in stone products. I was amazed at the choices of stone available – from small natural stone, to flat cut stone, to relatively large boulders. Displays showed examples of stone for terraces, walls, benches, paths and water features.
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Peace Corps - French Liason Words
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This handout goes over french connector or liaison words that are used to connect sentences in conversations in French to make them flow more naturally. This material is meant to be used to compliment a more extensive French language courses and ideally should be reviewed with the guidance of a trained French language tutor.
French is an official language in 29 countries, most of which form la francophonie (in French), the community of French-speaking countries. It is an official language of all United Nations agencies and a large number of international organizations. According to the European Union, 129 million, or twenty-six percent of the Union's total population, can speak French, of whom 72 million are native speakers (65 million in France, 4.5 million in Belgium and an additional 2.5 million in Switzerland, which is not part of the EU) and 69 million are second-language or foreign language speakers, thus making French the third language in the European Union that people state they are most able to speak, after English and German. Twenty percent of non-Francophone Europeans know how to speak French[clarification needed], totaling roughly 145.6 million people in Europe alone. As a result of extensive colonial ambitions of France and Belgium (at that time governed by a French-speaking elite), between the 17th and 20th centuries, French was introduced to colonies in the Americas, Africa, Polynesia, the Levant, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean.
French (General) is spoken in: France, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, Canada, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Bukina Faso, Niger, Senegal, Mali, Rwanda, Belgium, Guinea, Chad, Haiti, Burundi, Benin, Togo, Central African Republic, Gabon, Comoros, Djibouti, Luxembourg, Vanuatu, Se
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Exploring Contemporary Creative Practices Within and Beyond School.22 February 2018
This one day conference on creative practices in and beyond schools seeks to look across settings to consider current research and methodologies. Across the day we aim to find commonalities and consider contextual differences in order to engage in critical debate and develop both research and practice agendas. The conference will draw together interested colleagues from diverse settings, including homes, communities, schooling and Higher education.
The focus of discussion across the day will include insights from current research inside and outside school, as well as the range of methodologies being used to generate these. With contributions from scholars in the field, this conference examines the ways in which diverse creative practices are facilitating creativity despite, or perhaps in response to, various policy agendas and how in homes and arts contexts creativity is also being fostered. The implications for what and how creative practices should be fostered will be examined.
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In a world that loves to scare itself silly, we call them �killer bees.� And they could be coming to a state near you. Well, eventually.
In a world that loves to scare itself silly, we call them �killer bees.� And they could be coming to a state near you.
Well, eventually.
State Apiary Inspector Don Hopkins agreed that the bees could survive in Craven County�s climate, and that they could come here. But it probably won�t happen very soon.
They�re the ill-tempered half-breeds of the insect worlds, hybrid pollinators who were created in 1956 by Brazilians seeking a honey bee better suited to the equatorial climates than the Italian rendition we are all familiar with. Aggressive, but heat-tolerant, bees were brought in from Africa and cross-bred with the Italian rendition common in the Americas and apis mellifere � the Africanized honey bee � was born.
While they were good producers of honey, they had an unfortunate habit of aggression as well. Escaping their breeders and swarming to start new hives, they began to extend themselves northward as much as 200 miles a year.
They entered the United States over the Mexican border in 1990 and have slowly extended their range north and west (and more slowly to the east) until they now inhabit parts of California, Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Florida (where they apparently arrived by ship), Louisiana and Alabama. Fox News reported sightings as far north as Tennessee this past March.
While they aren�t exactly a threat on the level of the ants from �Them!,� they have earned their dangerous reputation. At least three incidents have received national attention this year:
* In late March, two workers were moving trash at Picnic Island Park in Tampa, Fla., when they overturned an old tire where Africanized bees had built a nest. The men were stung more than 100 times before they could take cover in a park office.
* On June 1, a central Texas man bumped his tractor against a pile of wood that housed a feral colony of the bees. He fled to a neighbor�s yard attempting to reach a water hose to spray at them, but he received more than 3,000 stings and died. Women who attempted to help him also were badly injured by multiple stings.
* In late July, a north Texas woman was exercising her miniature horses when they were attacked by Africanized bees that had a nest some 75 feet away. Her boyfriend managed to get her into the house, though not before she was stung more than 100 times. Both horses, several chickens and a dog were stung to death as the man and woman watched in horror from inside.
Hopkins stated that the �killer bees� have been found in the North Carolina port of Morehead City � but that was in November 1991. Those bees were discovered in a mobile office that was unloaded from a ship and were quickly dispatched. A second incident happened in Wilmington a year later, and the bees were eliminated there as well.
Hopkins said he has had experience with the Africanized bees on trips he has made to Bolivia to learn about them.
�They�re hotter bees,� he said. �They�re more defensive than European bees are. There�s quite a bit of variation by their behavior.�
American beekeepers tend an Italian variety of honey bee that is significantly calmer than Africanized bees.
Bees � European or Africanized � will not generally sting a person unless they feel their hive is threatened.
Hopkins explained that, when bees sting a person, their barbed stinger stays in the person�s flesh, killing the bee. That stinger has pheromones and venom. The pheromones alert other bees that there is danger, calling them to attack.
The venom, though painful, is relatively harmless unless the person is allergic. According to an ABC report, it takes 10 stings per body pound of weight to kill a person.
European bees will not follow a person or animal very far before they give up and return to their hive. Africanized bees, however, react more strongly and will also pursue their prey farther � a quarter mile or more.
�The difference between European and Africanized bees is, essentially, Africanized bees are more sensitive to those pheromones,� Hopkins said.
Also, while European bee swarms will calm down after a few minutes, it may take their Africanized cousins several hours to do so.
How does one threaten a hive? Beyond the obvious knocking it over or throwing stones, such things as vibrations (such as from tractors), dark clothes or rapid movement can put bees on the alert. Oddly enough, eating a banana near a hive may stir them up because bananas have pheromones similar to the ones that excite bees.
With European bees, you can be fairly close to a hive and feel safe.
�Africanized bees, down in Bolivia, I�ve witnessed cattle and animals and people that are starting to flail and get stung while fellows are several hundred yards away from the hive,� Hopkins said.
He said a strong presence of European bees in the eastern half of the country are the primary reason that the Africanized bees have been slow to migrate in our direction.
�When they were first moving into Texas,� Hopkins said, �they basically went to the less occupied areas [to the west], where there was not as much European influence. The more European bees there are in an established population, the slower the integration.�
North Carolina, he said, is particularly blessed with beekeepers and their bees.
However, Africanized bees are slowly moving east, displacing or breeding with the European variety.
Professional beekeepers also ship hives across the country to rent out to farms, and North Carolina is a prime area both for using those hives and as a holding place for bees in transit. Hopkins said that hives coming in, however, are carefully inspected.
Outside of their aggressive behavior, it isn�t easy to tell an Africanized bee from a European bee. They look virtually the same, except that they are a tiny bit smaller. When aggressive stinging incidents are reported, inspectors do careful measurements to determine the kind bee they�re dealing with.
Also, Africanized bees are far less particular in their choices of nests. Feral European bees, Hopkins said, �will nest in a cavity in a tree, usually fairly high off the ground, in excess of 20 feet. It isn�t unusual for African bees to be on the ground or in the ground, like inside a water meter box.�
So finding a swarm of bees like is a good clue you�ve found the kind you may want to report.
Hopkins does receive a number of calls from worried people who often mistake yellow jackets for bees. These are easier to tell apart, however: Yellow jackets have a bright yellow and black color while honey bees have stripes more the color of leather and dark brown, with hairy bodies.
So far, outside of the two incidents in the ports more than 10 years ago, no such bees have been found inside North Carolina�s borders.
If you are stung by a bee, do not swat it. A smashed bee releases even more pheromones, calling more bees to the attack.
Do not pluck the stinger out: This causes more venom to enter the body. Instead, scrape the stinger off.
If you are attacked by bees, run. Hiding in water or bushes will not protect you, as bees will simply wait you out. Cover your face with anything you can find: Bees tend to attack the face when they swarm.
If you suspect you have found an Africanized hive, then call an apiary inspector and report it. Do not take any chances of stirring it up and keep animals away.
The coastal bee inspector is Adolphus Leonard. His office can be reached at 252-916-3444.


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Workplace Discrimination: Not Just About Race Anymore
In the last year alone, a court awarded a victim of sexual harassment a record payout ($95 million), the Supreme Court dismissed the biggest civil rights class action suit in U.S. history, and people called discrimination on everything from HIV status to a peanut allergy. The number of workplace discrimination claims concerning race and ethnicity has been increasing along a straight line for the last decade, and total claims grazed a record 100,000 in 2010, the last year for which data is available.
As we observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day, that's sobering to consider.
"We haven't achieved anything like the racially just and equal society that MLK envisioned," says Ralph Richard Banks, a professor at Stanford Law School who specializes in African American issues. But that increase might also be due to more willingness to report incidents, as opposed to shrugging off bigotry, as well more awareness of what amounts to discrimination.
"But at a minimum," says Derek Avery, a leading scholar in workplace discrimination at the Fox School of Business at Temple University, "those numbers suggest that we're not heading in the direction that one would anticipate, as we approach 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
On the bright side, "racism in American society is less virulent and widespread now than its ever been in our history," says Banks. On the downside, our discrimination laws were designed to catch precisely the kind of discrimination that's much less obvious than it was decades ago.
"The law is good at punishing the overtly racist employer or the serial groper. But for other types of discrimination, the law remains a disorderly jumble," says Keith Cunningham-Parmeter, an associate professor at Willamette University, whose research focuses on employment discrimination. Today's workers, he says, "must deal with a legal regime that was designed around their grandparents' workplaces."
It's a jumble because workplace discrimination law is in many ways anathema to one of the founding principles of American business: at-will employment. The vast majority of Americans are employed at-will, which means their supervisors can fire them whenever and for whatever reason they want.
Whatever reason they want, except that is for the ones that Congress declares illegal, like race, color, religion, sex and national origin. Barring the requirements of some state and local laws, everything else is fair game, like your sexual orientation, weight, appearance, clothes, hair style or predilection for yogurt at 11 a.m. Unions are pretty good at ensuring that workers are only fired for a "just cause," but only a sliver of the American workforce today is unionized.
"Employers want to retain the right to be irrational," says Cunningham-Parmeter, and so there is a lot of resistance to any expansion of discrimination law. But lawyers can be a creative bunch, and new kinds of discrimination claims are finding some success.
Claims of "family responsibility discrimination" have almost quadrupled over the past decade, according to The Center for WorkLife Law, and plaintiffs are winning more of these than any other type of employment case. Family responsibility discrimination is when an employer penalizes an employee for taking care of children, sick partners or older parents, even though the employee's work is up to scratch.
These claims are usually filed under sex discrimination. Denying a man a promotion for taking more time with his family, for example, could be seen as punishing him for violating a gender stereotype. When a working mother isn't given a business trip because she's a mother, your punishing her for supposedly fulfilling one.
Weight, grooming and appearance discrimination claims are also usually filed under sex discrimination, since weight, grooming and appearance standards often fall disproportionately on womankind. But if you do it gender neutrally, discriminating against someone on the basis of their looks or waistline is totally legal, unless your looks or waistline qualify as a disability.
Even what might seem like outright discrimination may require some legal wrangling, since it can be so much more subtle these days. For example, there's what Avery calls "well-intentioned" discrimination. An employer may not hire or promote a black person to a job in a more racist region of the U.S., "for their own good." Or a supervisor may send a man, as opposed to a woman, on a business trip to a part of the world that is "not receptive to embracing the idea of female leadership," in Avery's careful phrasing.
People also tend to mentor people who remind them of themselves at that age. "'I'm going to promote the guy who's a member of my country club,'" is the attitude, says Avery, while these employers "ignore the fact that the members of your club look like you."
And then there are the immeasurable prejudices, the kind that lurk quietly in our minds, shading our relationships and decisions. "Everyone carries around images in their head of who's a good worker and who's not," says Banks, "who's smart and who's not."
So even as discrimination becomes more difficult to prosecute, more forms of discrimination are getting prosecuted. In the landmark 2009 case of Ricci v. DeStefano, the Supreme Court ruled that, yes, white firefighters could sue for "reverse" discrimination. That's "a large leap from Title VII's origins," says Cunningham-Parmeter. We've come so far that employment discrimination law has turned back on itself.
Perhaps it's because the number of workplace discrimination claims continues to increase that people systematically underestimate the number of protections they really have. Not only are people's rights to free speech and privacy sharply curbed at work, but employers can usually fire you, or deny you a promotion, just because they don't like your face.
In some ways, tackling discrimination was much easier 50 years ago. "In retrospect, at least, it seems that the challenges that they confronted, while monumental, were fairly straightforward," says Banks. "Now people of goodwill really can differ over what to do."


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Five Star, Jun 2004, 25.95, 230 pp. ISBN: 1594141924 Because of her fine ad campaign, MWVB sends New York based public relations expert Lucille Anderson to London for six weeks to add the Americanization side of a promotion to sell Sweet Whippo to the public. The creator of the product Braxton �Brack� Clark says the synthetic food item reduces sugar, fat, salt and consequently calories while providing fiber. Her first day on the job leads to ...


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Illustrated by James Stimson
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This is a Maynard Moose book, so of course it begins with a warning: "This book contains Moose grammar, spelling and usage, all of which has been known to scrumble up the human brain."
This is the fourth Marynard Moose book - a trilogy no longer - and the fourth I've reviewed, and again the boundaries of the tale get pushed further back, this time as far as the outer reaches of space, where Mother Moose makes her home amongst the constellations and things get a trifle on the metaphysical side.
There's a creation story at play, which sets the tone of what is to come: "The whole universe come from the kitchen of Mother Moose," says Maynard, hovering over the non-sleeping form of Little Moose, his favorite cousin. "Is one thing to make a universe out of Thick air. But to make a universe out of Thin air, you got to stir and stir and stir."
In the world of Maynard the Moose and Willy Claflin's imagination, counting sheep is not just an excercise in self-induced monotony, but the ticket to an adventure, as the insomniac-laden Little Moose is transported out the window and through space, "up and up into the dark night sky, where the warm winds blow and the stars all sporkle and blink," and then from there to the house of Mother Moose, floating above the cosmos and filled with a wood burning stove and all the accoutrements of coziness, the place where the stories come from.
I like the unpredictable quality of the Maynard Moose books, and I feel that with each book the narrative gets more and more loosened up, freer to go in any direction Maynard feels like taking it. Most of the book is taken up with a more conventional back-and-forth between Little Moose and her parents and teachers, then suddenly, apropos of nearly nothing, off we fly on the back of a sheep wearing a football helmet!


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Michael Douglas used to sew his underwear
Los Angeles: Actor Michael Douglas has revealed that he used strange precautions when he used to film intimate scenes - he says he used to sew up his underwear.
"I used to sew my underwear up. You know the little gap at the front of your briefs? Just sew that up so nothing can pop out unexpectedly," showbizspy.com quoted the 68-year-old as saying. The Basic Instinct star also said that a sex scene is all about the right preparation and rehearsal. "Those sex scenes might look like impulse, but I wasn't some sort of rampant exhibitionist. A great sex scene is really an issue of being comfortable with the ladies in front of the camera. It's all about preparation and rehearsal. You practice, talk it through step by step," Douglas added. IANS


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drphat wrote:This has been driving me crazy for months now, hopefully there's help here.
* Background: It's vague, I know each level was a set of puzzles, I remember the name of the last level was "the bowels of _____ "
* System: PC
* Year: mid-90's
* Perspective: 3rd person, side-scroll with 3d perspective
* Art style: cartoonish - pre Kq7 disney style though
* Environment: Varied depending on the puzzle/challenge
* Mood: Serious-ish
* Genre: RPG/Puzzles
* Gameplay: The game consisted of different puzzles, I remember one was on a field where veggies had to be picked or ordered a certain way, while others I had to work on a machine of sorts. I seem to remember rabbits or carrots also.
Sorry for being so vague. I did play this around the same time I picked up KQ5-7
Went out on a limb with the fact that I got the Kings Quest games at the same time and assumed it was a Sierra release - FOUND IT!!


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The Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources (BANR) is the major program unit of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine responsible for organizing and overseeing studies on agriculture, forestry, fisheries, wildlife, and the use of land, water, and other natural resources.
A variety of problems and causes drive work on the issues in these fields. Often conflicts arise between growing demands for food and resources and the impacts of developing and producing those resources on the natural ecosystem. The need to sustain, restore and improve the productivity of agriculture for the economic well-being of the nation can also generate vital questions.
The Board maintains a critical overview of the several fields under its purview so that it is aware of relevant work relating to public policy formulation, research frontiers, technological developments, human resource needs, economic and social trends. The Board is also responsible for planning new studies, conducting oversight on projects carried out by its subsidiary committees, and making an annual appraisal of emerging issues related to food, fiber, fuel and the natural resource base supporting their production.


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What the Heck is a Bitcoin
The Bitcoin is the first widely traded digital crypto-currency that is decentralized and unregulated. Find out more from the What the Heck is a Bitcoin infographic by SumAll.
Exchanges rising and falling, disputes over inventorship, wild accusations, rapid inflation and deflation, anger, confusion, and sadness. We're talking about everyone's favorite unicorn money: Bitcoin. Bitcoin's six year road to the spotlight has been fraught with more turbulence than a flight through a hurricane in a Learjet, and since mid 2013 it's only gotten more crazy.
SumAll has just added bitcoin exchanges, mining pools, and mining workers to our range of data platforms to allow our customers to keep tabs on the market and the progress of mining pools. For those who own or mine bitcoins, SumAll is now their one-stop-shop for keeping tabs on all things bitcoin, monitoring their mining efforts, and keeping a close watch over their investments.
For those who don't own or mine bitcoins, chances are you have no idea what we're talking about.
If you have an interest in bitcoins and don't want to be that out-of-the-loop guy at the party who just keeps nodding his head in agreement and staring at your drink, we made this handy infographic to explain a few basic concepts to get you started. Soon you'll be buying all your pizza–and rent–with bitcoins
Good design that tells a story to the audience, but this one uses too much text. I wish they had included some data visualizations about the difficulty to mine bitcoins or the strength of the encryption. The one dataset they did visualize was the value of bitcoins from Jan-Dec 2013. The value changes so rapidly, including that one data visualization can quickly make the infographic feel old and out-of-date. For a longer Online Lifespan, the design should focus more on the long-term, consistent information about bitcoins and not the most recent trending data.
This is a good example of the company, SumAll, using an infographic as part of their email marketing campaign. The infographic was included as the highlight in one of their email blasts to customers with a link back to the full design on their website!


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The family of Teleka Patrick received sad news today. A body recently pulled from Lake Charles in Indiana was positively identified as the missing 30-year-old doctor.
"I need to point out that there were no signs of trauma or foul play found on the body," Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard Fuller said during a news conference today. "My heart goes out to the family and friends, and we hope this gives them the closure that they need."
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"The cause of death seems to be consistent with that of an accidental drowning," he added. Although the body was severely decomposed, authorities were able to confirm Patrick's identify through fingerprints. Her hospital pager, car keys and an $100 cash were found in clothing on the body.
Patrick was reported missing last December. She was last seen alive at a Michigan medical center where she worked as a first-year resident.
In the early stages of the investigation, authorities questioned Grammy-nominated singer Marvin Sapp. He had secured a personal protection order against Patrick just three months before her disappearance. The gospel star said the doctor claimed to be his wife, contacted his children and even showed up at his home. Fuller concluded that Sapp was "an innocent victim of an apparent stalking."
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"Teleka's death is not the ending we had hoped for, however, the journey does not end here," Porter County Coroner Chuck Harris wrote to Patrick's family on a Facebook page titled Find Teleka. "As we mourn Teleka, we must also honor her; honor the life she led, honor her kind spirit and honor her devotion to God and others."
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The Cambridge History of Australia
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- Alison Bashford, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
- Stuart Macintyre, University of Melbourne
- Date Published: October 2013
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The Cambridge History of Australia offers a comprehensive view of Australian history from its pre-European origins to the present day. Over two volumes, this major work of reference tells the nation's social, political and cultural story. Volume 1 examines Australia's indigenous and colonial history through to the Federation of the colonies in 1901. Volume 2 opens with the birth of the twentieth century, tracing developments in the nation through to the present day. Each volume is divided into two parts. The first part offers a chronological treatment of the period, while the second examines the period in light of key themes, such as law, religion, the economy and the environment. Both volumes feature detailed maps, chronologies and lists of further reading. This is a lively and systematic account of Australia's history, incorporating the work of more than sixty leading historians. It is the ideal work of reference for students, scholars and general readers.Read more
- The first general history of Australia for several decades
- Features contributions from over 60 historians who are leaders in their field
- Includes systematic lists of further reading and a comprehensive chronology
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- Date Published: October 2013
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781107011557
- length: 1536 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 80 mm
- weight: 2.25kg
- contains: 7 b/w illus. 6 maps
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Table of Contents
Volume 1. Indigenous and Colonial Australia. Part I:
1. The last 50,000 years: an archaeological view Peter Veth and Susan O'Connor
2. Newcomers, c.1600–1800 Shino Konishi and Maria Nugent
3. Convict transportation in global context, c.1700–88 Emma Christopher and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
4. The early colonial presence, 1788–1822 Grace Karskens
5. Expansion, 1820–50 Lisa Ford and David Andrew Roberts
6. The advent of self-government, 1840s–1890 Ann Curthoys and Jessie Mitchell
7. The gold rushes of the 1850s David Goodman
8. Colonial states and civil society, 1860–90 Stuart Macintyre and Sean Scalmer
9. Rethinking the 1890s Melissa Bellanta
10. Making the Federal Commonwealth, 1890–1901 Helen Irving
Part II:
11. Population and health Janet McCalman and Rebecca Kippen
12. Environmental transformations Andrea Gaynor
13. The economy Lionel Frost
14. Indigenous and settler relations Tracey Banivanua Mar and Penelope Edmonds
15. Education Julia Horne and Geoffrey Sherington
16. Law and regulation Mark Finnane
17. Religion Anne O'Brien
18. Science and technology John Gascoigne and Sara Maroske
19. Gender and colonial society Penny Russell
20. Art and literature: a cosmopolitan culture Robert Dixon and Jeanette Hoorn
21. Empire: Australia and 'Greater Britain', 1788–1901 Deryck Schreuder
22. Colonial Australia and the Asia-Pacific region Marilyn Lake
23. Australian colonies in a maritime world Cindy McCreery and Kirsten McKenzie. Volume 2. The Commonwealth of Australia. Part I:
1. Nation building, 1901–14 John Hirst
2. The Great War and its aftermath, 1914–22 Stephen Garton and Peter Stanley
3. Search for a solution, 1923–39 Frank Bongiorno
4. World War 2 and post-war reconstruction, 1939–49 Kate Darian-Smith
5. The Menzies era, 1950–66 Judith Brett
6. Instability, 1966–82 Paul Strangio
7. Growth resumed, 1983–2000 James Walter
8. The new millennium Murray Goot
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9. Religion Graeme Davison
10. Culture and media David Carter and Bridget Griffen-Foley
11. Science and medicine Alison Bashford and Peter Hobbins
12. Society and welfare Shurlee Swain
13. Gender and sexuality Katie Holmes and Sarah Pinto
14. Indigenous Australia Anna Haebich and Steve Kinnane
15. Class Stuart Macintyre and Sean Scalmer
16. The economy Simon Ville
17. Government, law and citizenship Nicholas Brown
18. Education Alison Mackinnon and Helen Proctor
19. The environment Gregory Barton and Brett Bennett
20. Travel and connections Agnieszka Sobocinska and Richard White
21. Security David Lowe
22. Australia, Britain and the British Commonwealth Carl Bridge
23. Australia in the Asia-Pacific region Tomoko Akami and Tony Milner
24. The history anxiety Mark McKenna.
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Recently I was forced to interact with my local government. This involved several pieces of paper being signed and notarized, as well as multiple trips in person to nondescript offices. My staff had to shepherd me around town and calm me down while I dealt with my psychological rejection to all things that require my participation in monotony ("seriously, isn't there an app for this?").
I am not alone in my personal pain. All around the country, small businesses and individuals struggle with a special kind of divide: Local government hasn't joined the digital generation. In a fast-moving, complex world like ours, how can we have effective and responsive local governance if our local government still prints things and puts them into file cabinets as a primary means of data management?
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A group called Code for America is looking to change all this by bringing Internet technologies to your local government and the world. I spoke with Catherine Bracy, the International Program Manager for Code for America, about the organization's efforts and her efforts specifically. While Code for America has been working for a few years domestically, Catherine is responsible for helping internationalize the software and programs it has already developed.
You can find out more about Catherine Bracy specifically in my personal blog or follow her on Twitter at @cbracy -- or Code For America generally at @codeforamerica.
The problem at hand
When someone says "for America" or "government," the conversation devolves quickly into an ideological discussion about the size of government and how much or how little it should do. Such debates typically focus on big federal government spending priorities like defense and health care.
By contrast, much of what local government does affects you every day -- things like sanitation, sewage, and sidewalks. There's little ideological debate about that stuff, but also little accessible information, in part due to the antiquated ways local government collects and publishes data and how it deals with functional issues.
As Catherine put it: "A lot of times what democracy looks like is: 'Did my trash get picked up on time?' or 'Can I figure out how to register for food stamps?' That's the kind of stuff Code for America works on ... bureaucracy and service delivery. And those are the really important, nonsexy things that we need to fix in order to restore confidence in our government and in democracy."
The big idea
According to Catherine, "If you look at what is really dangerous about the pace of innovation in government, over time, if it doesn't start speeding up, it is just going to get further and further away from what is happening in every other aspect of people's lives."
She continued: "People are used to interacting with technology in a way that is easy and well-designed and simple and elegant. When they hit an interaction with government and it is not that way, it breeds mistrust and cynicism and disconnection. By bringing the best of private-sector agile development and user-centered design, we can make government as easy to navigate and as intuitive as any customer app that people use in their private lives, and in so doing re-engage people and the public good."
What is Code for America doing to help accomplish this goal? The model is similar to Teach for America, except instead of sending bright, young teachers to underserved schools, Code for America recruits talented developers, designers, and product managers, then sets them to work developing Web applications for selected localities.


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The Guardian carries an article from speaker Daniel Start about the approach of the Institute and its launch event in London.
Friday, 24 May 2013
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Steps Towards Resourcing Transition at the University of Cumbria
Five years into the financial crisis, and the impact is being felt in so many aspects of society, including in our very own sector, higher education. In that context, how can we work towards a transition to a fairer and more sustainable economy? This challenge of "resourcing transition" is a key focus for the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS). We are researching how professionals, including entrepreneurs and community leaders, can employ novel ways to resource their activities to enable the transition to sustainability, social justice and prosperity. We have found in last few years there has been an explosion in the use of alternative means of sharing, giving, swapping, exchanging and financing. In the past six month establishment phase of our Institute, we have therefore been developing our programme to provide useful knowledge, education and advice on this important field, both locally and globally.
In October 2012 we hosted the world famous expert in community credit and currency systems, Tom Greco, from the United States. He presented in Lancaster and Ambleside, to local and international students and stakeholders, in events run in collaboration with local organisations. He returns in July to participate in our one day training for local authorities and development organisations. That builds upon our booked-out training day in March, which was delivered in collaboration with the UN NGO Liaison Service (UN-NGLS), the New Economics Foundation (NEF), and the EU's Community Currencies in Action Project (CCIA). That event also launched an "Expert Working Group" on community currency systems, with the aim of developing practical projects for professionalising the field worldwide. In February, IFLAS hosted the New Economy Organisers Network (NEON) at our campus in the heart of the beautiful Lake District, and explained community currency systems to the participants, who work on economic justice issues across the UK.
|The New Economy Organisers Network (NEON) Retreat in our Lake District Campus
At the international level, our director, Professor Jem Bendell, helped draft a report of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders on the "sharing economy" which will be launched at their East Asian Summit in June. "Asia presents a huge opportunity for the sharing economy, to help countries leap frog resource-intensive development models" suggests Bendell, who will be continuing this work at the Summer Davos in China this September. Professor Bendell also aided the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS) to develop a session on community currencies, the first ever such event at the UN, in May.
|Professor Jem Bendell speaking at the UN in Geneva
The UN hosted the 2nd meeting of the expert working group that convened for the first time at the University of Cumbria. Bendell has also shared the hopeful message of breakthrough innovations for sustainable development in keynotes at Spain's top business school ESADE, and at the ASEAN Sustainability Summit in Manila. Given the grip of the financial crisis in Spain, its national media reacted positively to the of breakthrough innovations, and covered the speech in depth. To better understand the differing philosophies and approaches of entrepreneurs in the sharing economy, Bendell is also keynoting at the Berlin conference of the P2P Foundation in May.
|Professor Jem Bendell keynoting at the ASEAN Sustainability Summit
One aim for IFLAS is to promote understanding of the importance of resourcing transition. That includes publishing research, and in April a joint chapter by Bendell and Greco was released by a leading business publisher, made available for free online. Our team have been active in the media. Professor Bendell's article on this topic was one of the most popular on the Guardian's sustainable business hub, and the Al Jazeera programme he appeared in was repeated in January due to popularity. Our associated scholar, Will Ruddick, is developing a community currency in Kenya. He also presented IFLAS' approach on Al Jazeera, and debated this with UK's development minister Alan Duncan. He also wrote the first article the UN has published on the role of community currencies for sustainable development. To follow up, Bendell is running a workshop in Oxfam for them to explore how they might utilise community currencies in the development programmes.
How larger firms can relate positively to these developments is the focus of a research project currently underway by Professor Bendell, and which will be reported on in his forthcoming co-authored book Healing Capitalism. As part of this, Bendell has been discussing with community-focused banks, telecommunications firms, and software companies, about socially responsible business opportunities. As part of this work, IFLAS will run a session at the Next Bank conference in London this September.
In order to develop this work programme so it meets the speed and scale of our times, through action research and relevant trainings, the Institute is seeking financial support. A major funding proposal has been submitted to the EU, with leading European business schools. However, the novelty of this field makes it suitable for venture philanthropists, who seek to support original and potentially breakthrough approaches. The Institute welcomes inquiries on this theme, either from funders or from other organisations with complementary capabilities.
Professor Bendell will continue the outreach in the North West of England through an open lecture on the money system, in collaboration with the local association Sustainable Carlisle, on June 7th at our Carlisle campus. The next open course for developing community currencies is on July 12th in Lancaster, and the next Expert Working Group on July 11th (also in Lancaster). Bendell explains "our work on community currencies reflects the ethos of our new Institute. That is, to pursue an ambitious interdisciplinary agenda, that examines what may lead a transformation. It's a bold agenda that we are also hoping to convey with our launch event at the RGS on May 28th called Adventures in Sustainability." The theme of innovative sustainability leadership also underpins the Institute's first international conference scheduled for November 21st and 22nd, in the UK's Lake District (more details will be released in July).
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Under Secretary of Commerce and Director of Commerce's United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) David Kappos announced today that the USPTO has entered into a no-cost, two-year agreement with Google to make bulk electronic patent and trademark public data available to the public in bulk form. Under this agreement, the USPTO is providing Google with existing bulk, electronic files, which Google will host without modification for the public free of charge. This bulk data can be accessed at http://www.google.com/googlebooks/uspto.html.
"The USPTO is committed to providing increased transparency as called for by the President's Open Government Initiative. An important element of that transparency is making valuable public patent and trademark information more widely available in a bulk form so companies and researchers can download it for analysis and research," said Under Secretary Kappos. "Because the USPTO does not currently have the technical capability to offer the data in bulk form from our own Web site, we have teamed with Google to provide the data in a way that is convenient and at no cost for those who desire it."
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On Vinyl
Do you get frustrated when sewing on vinyl? Solve the problem with these easy tips. Cut a 4" square from a Teflon pressing sheet. Cut a ½"x1" hole in the square. Center the hole over the sewing machine feed dogs and tape the square to the machine bed. Hold the vinyl layers together with oversize paperclips when sewing seams. Lengthen the stitch to 3.2 mm and sew using a roller foot, preferably one with a wheel beside the needle.
All in Black & White
Everyone needs at least one pair of white pants for summer and one pair of black pants for winter. In my wardrobe, I have jeans, three- or four-ply dress pants and casual cotton twill pants all in both white and black. It's also fun to have a brightly colored shoe, bag or outerwear piece to help break out of boring monochromatic dressing.
Clear Your Head
A peaceful mind is key for sewing success. When you find yourself making lots of mistakes or getting frustrated, turn off the sewing machine and take a break. A solution will come to you while you're cooking, taking a walk or sleeping.
Another way to spark your creativity is to schedule a sewing day with a friend. Cut out, interface and mark your project before the appointed day. Pack your fabric (including scraps), pattern, thread, pins and trimming scissors in a large bag or box. Load up your car the night before with your machine and project. Get up early to pick up some treats at the bakery, and then start the morning with a fun brainstorming chat before you even bring in your supplies.
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If an invisible zipper crosses a horizontal seam, such as a yoke or a waistline, it can be difficult to match the seam when the zipper's closed. Fusible tape can help because it holds the zipper in place as you sew. For perfect matching, zip the zipper after stitching the first side. Mark the seam placement on both zipper tape sides. When placing the second side of the zipper on the seam, match the marking on the zipper tape to the crossed seam. After the second side of the zipper is sewn, the seams will match.
Having a stash of invisible zippers in assorted colors will give you a sense of sewing security. It's easy to adjust their length for any project by creating a new stop. Set the machine to a 4.0 mm-wide, 0.5 mm-long zigzag stitch. Determine the new zipper length and mark the tape with an air-soluble pen. Position the zipper so that the marked area is under the sewing machine needle and the tape is perpendicular to the presser foot. Stitch back and forth across the zipper a few times at the mark. Cut off the excess zipper length about 1" below the new stop.
Dart Art
Darts serve the practical purpose of providing shaping, but they're also an attractive accent on the outside of a garment. After sewing a dart with wrong sides facing, press it toward center front or center back or downward. Topstitch the dart fold with contrasting thread, perhaps using a decorative stitch. Or sew the dart with right sides facing. Cover the dart stitching line with ¼" ribbon. Topstitch the ribbon in place using a twin needle and invisible thread.
See a Shrink
All knit fabrics need to be preshrunk before cutting, including polyester knits. Knits often shrink in length after washing, which will result in a garment that's too short.
Mix Not Match
Create the "wow" factor in an outfit by mixing prints. Accomplish a cohesive look through one of three approaches. Repeat one color from a print in a coordinating print in a second garment. Or play with the scale of two prints. For example, choose a large geometric print for one element of the outfit and a small geometric for another. Or pair a bold print with a more subtle print that echoes the color.
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