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The SEC filed its complaint on January 18, 2012, charging two multi-billion dollar hedge fund advisory firms – including Diamondback – as well as seven fund managers and analysts involved in a $78 million insider trading scheme based on nonpublic information about Dell's quarterly earnings and other similar inside information about Nvidia Corporation.
The SEC's complaint alleged that in 2008 and 2009, Jesse Tortora, an analyst at Diamondback, obtained inside information about quarterly earnings reports of both Dell and Nvidia and passed that information to Todd Newman, a Diamondback portfolio manager, who used the information to execute trades on behalf of hedge funds managed by Diamondback. These illegal trades in Dell and Nvidia securities resulted in millions of dollars in illicit gains for Diamondback.
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Fabrizio Constanza-El Soporte Del Cubo Sculpture
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Interview with Fabrizio Constanza : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Fabrizio Constanza : The work combines in a visual composition the relation between the intangible creative process represented by the organic legs and our tangible products. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Fabrizio Constanza : the work explores the dynamic system of creating that is fluid, and is influenced by our emotions. yet the products that result from the creative process are rigid. It makes me think that we are at a moment on human history that to protect and ensure our survival we most learn to create flexible solutions or products. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Fabrizio Constanza : I will like to exhibited in many other public venues, eventually finding a home in a public space. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Fabrizio Constanza : This is Art. it is hard to measure time in a a project like this. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Fabrizio Constanza : I pursued as inspiration. Most work I do are commissioned. Each year while I work on the commissioned jobs I get inspired in creating my own work. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Fabrizio Constanza : Art can not be lease. I can definitely sale it or donated to the right institution. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Fabrizio Constanza : This piece is part of my private work. This kind of work differs from our modern drive force that money has become. These kind of work is pure joy of freedom .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Fabrizio Constanza : My good friend and Designer Greg Jacobs, was in charge of producing this work. He implemented some changes to ensure the stability of the work. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Fabrizio Constanza : new age corporations. That is companies that understand and invest on people and comunity. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Fabrizio Constanza : This is a two modules composition that from a relation. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Fabrizio Constanza : El Soporte del Cubo mean " the support of the Cube" . the name helps the spectator to focus on whats most important the legs not the cube. our modern society is losing site of what is important. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Fabrizio Constanza : sketching, managing production team, solving manufacturing, shipping and installation issues. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Fabrizio Constanza : the visual unification of and intangible aspect that is our imagination and creativity with a tangible object. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Fabrizio Constanza : yes, the production took place on a specialized race car manufacturing company based in Denver Colorado. Ignite Performance .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Fabrizio Constanza : very important, the simplicity of the design required perfection on bends, cuts, assembly. we used CNC routers, high torque tube benders, and master builders to create a perfect cubed and balanced in the legs. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Fabrizio Constanza : No analitics, this is pure feelings and design process .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Fabrizio Constanza : I was working in guatemala while arranging production in Denver Colorado. Modern communications help, yet taking redesign decisions based on manufacturing information can be tricky. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Fabrizio Constanza : This work of Art was created to be exhibited in public spaces. I believe in public Art. Adesign Award is a great platform to spread Art and design to the general public. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Fabrizio Constanza : It reminds me that life is more than counting dollars. Life is about human emotions. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Fabrizio Constanza : Enjoy El soporte del cubo .
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bagnara18 wrote:hi, I'm write from Italy.
I have North trust bar 4 lines - 2015 and I have adapted the kit for "upgrade micro loop 2009-2012" to my bar.
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I've bought a kit and filed the black tcap with micro hook because it's too fat for go inside the roto head of the chicken loop.
After that, the 2 holes where the 2 set screws (grains) do not match exactly, so you just do one or two new holes.
To mount the micro loop on the bar does not need to make holes, but simply replace the two bolts that hold the center bushing of plastic flowing with the depower rope (front line) with two cross head screws. Just insert the two slots of the micro loop in screws, screw them tight and the screw heads securely holds the micro loop.
This is outstanding - I am attempting to do the same but am wondering how the loop itself is connected to the bar. I see how you have it screwed down, but what is underneath the screws ? Did you add something ? Also, would you mind providing a picture of the front of the bar so I can see the screws. Even better, remove one of the screws so I can see how it is fixed to the bar. Thank you so much !!


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B: The following quote from Germer really helped clarify something for me.
Pearls of Wisdom, p. 308
The main thing to understand is that an HGA is (1) not the "Higher Self" but a separate individuality from one's self; (2) that it is a Being operating on higher planes. AC wrote me that he had (or is this in one of the 'Letters'?) analyzed this point time and time again and always found that the HGA's interference was outside his own individuality.
[a little later, he quotes a letter to him from Crowley]
"The HGA is an individual, just as you and I are. But he lives in 4 dimensions, just as we do in 3 - a very rough summary. He belongs to a different order of Nature. Don't confuse with the 'Higher Self' & such, which are merely part of one's own being."
This was very interesting to me as it provides more context for Crowley's saying that the HGA is not the "Higher Self." When Crowley and Germer use the term "Higher Self," they are specifically referring to it in the context of it meaning something that is inherent to a person's "individuality." By contrast, I almost always use the term "Higher Self" to express something that specifically transcends the individuality.
The same is true when he says, ". . . which are merely part of one's own being." When I think in terms of the "parts of my own being," I'm almost always thinking in terms of "being" that transcends, but includes, my individuality.
This explains a lot for me in terms of the confusion of words about all of this. It's a different mindset, a different use of the words than I am accustomed to using.


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Jackie Scott, a Norfolk blues singer who has been involved with youth Blues Camps in Chicago in recent years, said that the concept will come to Hampton this summer.
"My trip to Chicago was a success!" she wrote in a Facebook post on Friday. "Just got word that we have been approved to have a Blues Camp here in the 757!"
The local camp will take place the week of July 21 at The American Theatre in Hampton, she said. As many as 30 students will attend. Students are chosen based on auditions.
All details are yet to be worked out, but Scott said that Fernando Jones, founder of the Blues Camp concept and leader of the Chicago-based Blues Kids Foundation, will be in Hampton to lead the sessions.
As is the case with Chicago camps, tuition to the local Blues Camp will be free, but parents will cover any necessary room and board. Jones started Blues Camp in Chicago but he's since expanded to hold sessions in California, Texas and Minnesota. All are run by the Blues Kids Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, charitable organization.
"We have some kids who are interested from California and Texas, who have never been to Virginia," Scott said. "It's open to anybody, not just from the 757 ... I'm excited about it. I'm hoping it will be a success and that the kids in this area will take advantage of the opportunity."
Jones flew here to hold a Blues Camp audition in Hampton back in February. Scott said that Jones will hold another local audition April 27 at Woodwinds Plus, 555 E. Settlers Landing Road, in Hampton.
Jones started Blues Camp at Columbia College in Chicago. The concept is simple. Talented young musicians get to spend a week honing their blues skills in classes and workshops. Jamming is rampant and well-known blues musicians occasionally drop in to give the youngsters extra inspiration.
As I described in a feature last summer, guitarist William "MoBetta" Ledbetter from Hampton and Newport News drummer Robert Martin Walters both attended the 2012 camp in Chicago. There, they got the opportunity to meet blues legend Buddy Guy and to jam at the famous Chicago blues club Kingston Mines with Eddie Shaw, a former member of Howlin' Wolf's band.
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I added a couple more links to my blogroll today. Both were also highlighted by ANet recently. Here's a quick blurb about both and why you should check them out.
Chronicles of Tyria (click!)
A blog after my own heart. CoT seeks to do globally what I do here on my own: Tell Stories. It looks to be a nice place to write and share fan fiction, character stories, and just talk about the avatar you will be devoting lots and lots of your personal time on. I intend to take part in CoT's mission, but I haven't totally decided if I will post Belzan stuff there. It will certainly be an outlet for at least one of my characters. That just gave me another nifty idea… Put a pin in that one for later 🙂
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The blog of Ameranth, who is also this Ameranth, and of no relation to this Amaranth. The inclusion of Ameranth as an NPC in GW2 is just plain cool, but not nearly as cool as the original story of walking from Maine to California with a very cute dog. The story is quite inspirational and epic. I would like to do something equally epic, but for now I'll have to settle on more academic achievements and training for an eventual marathon.
I hope you enjoy these blogs as much as you do mine. I am of the opinion that a blog is a place to tell a story. Some are epic. Some are fun and curious. Some are more for yourself than for others. Whatever the case, find a blog or two (or a dozen) you like and subscribe. Feel free to start with mine 🙂


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FRANKLIN – Wanting to do something to help victims of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, a group of Franklin youths got together on Sunday and held a lemonade stand.
The enterprise was set up on Indian Lane from 1-4 p.m. on a pleasant late summer afternoon.
The group, which included Delanie Lynch,13, Madison Houlihan, 12, Ava Smithwick,12, Erin O'Shaughnessy, 12, Tommy Houlihan, 9, and Ryan Smithwick, 9, raised $300 through their effort.
The money has already been donated to the American Red Cross for the benefit of victims of both of the hurricanes.


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What is the OPC's position on hyperpreterism? Is this something that is acceptable for a minister or elder to believe? What about a member of an OPC church? Thank you.
By hyper-preterism, I understand you to be referring to the belief that the totality of eschatological events, in particular the second coming of Christ and the resurrection of the dead, were fulfilled in the events of AD 70. Hyper-preterism is distinguished from what is sometimes called partial or moderate preterism, which says that many biblical prophecies have been fulfilled (e.g. the Great Tribulation of Matthew 24), but the second coming and final resurrection are still future. Hyper-preterists often argue that their view is required by a commitment to biblical authority, appealing to New Testament passages that seem to predict the immInent return of Christ after his resurrection and ascension.
Yes, AD 70 does represent a significant date (more so than is realized by many) and does denote a replacing of the old Jewish ordinances with the New Testament gospel (whereby salvation is no longer "of the Jews" in the sense of for the Jews alone, but for Jew and Gentile alike). And there is a sense in which it can be said that Christ did "come" or "return" (although not physically) in AD 70 for judgment of the Jews. But it should be obvious that the judgment that befell the Jews in AD 70 falls far short of the judgment of the entire world, Jew and Gentile alike, of which the New Testament speaks, and to which we testify in the ecumenical creeds.
When thought through consistently, hyper-preterism also does not do justice to the Reformed creeds or historic Protestantism. Historically, for example, the marks of the church have been seen to be the preaching of the Word, the administration of the sacraments, and church discipline, and, similarly, the means of grace are spoken of in the Westminster Shorter Catechism as the Word, the sacraments, and prayer. Building on Christ's teaching about the Word and on Christ's institution of the sacraments, the Apostle Paul underlined the importance of both.
Hyper-preterism takes away from the Word and sacraments. The Apostle Paul spoke of the Lord's Supper in this way: "Whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes" (1 Cor. 11:36). But if Christ has already come (according to the hyper-preterists), why celebrate the Lord's Supper after AD 70? And the Great Commission found in Matthew 28:20 seems to indicate that baptism is to be observed "to the very end of the age," but for the hyper-preterist, is not AD70 "the very end of the age"?
And what are we do with the great number of Biblical passages which speak of a future coming of Christ? Write them off as irrelevant as only applying to the Church before AD 70? The end of the last chapter of the Book of Revelation speaks of a future coming of Christ ("Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus") and most scholars date the writing of the Book of Revelation around AD 95, but it would seem to have to be written before AD 70 to fit in with the views of huyperpreterism (and most scholars would have to be wrong in their understanding of Scripture).
It seems that the New Testament was not unfamiliar with a view that the resurrection had already taken place and clearly condemned it. In 2 Timothy 2:15-19, Paul instructs Timothy:
"Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some. But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: 'The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.' "
In Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, he was deeply concerned by their denial of the future bodily resurrection. Such a view had disastrous implications for the faith that Paul preached. He says in 1 Corinthians 15:12-20:
"Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied. But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep."
Not only is hyper-preterism a denial of the clear biblical teaching about the second coming of Christ and the final resurrection, it is outside the boundaries of creedal orthodoxy. In the universal creeds of the church such as the Nicene creed, we confess that Christ "shall come again, with glory, to judge both the living and the dead" and that "we look for the resurrection of the dead."
So far as I know, the OPC does not have a formal statement on hyper-preterism. But every OPC minister and elder subscribes to the Westminster Confession of Faith, which unreservedly affirms that there remains a future advent of Jesus Christ accompanied by a physical, bodily resurrection.
"At the last day, such as are found alive shall not die, but be changed: and all the dead shall be raised up, with the selfsame bodies, and none other (although with different qualities), which shall be united again to their souls forever. The bodies of the unjust shall, by the power of Christ, be raised to dishonor: the bodies of the just, by his Spirit, unto honor; and be made conformable to his own glorious body." (WCF 32:2-3).
"God hath appointed a day, wherein he will judge the world, in righteousness, by Jesus Christ." (WCF 33:1).
"As Christ would have us to be certainly persuaded that there shall be a day of judgment, both to deter all men from sin; and for the greater consolation of the godly in their adversity: so will he have that day unknown to men, that they may shake off all carnal security, and be always watchful, because they know not at what hour the Lord will come; and may be ever prepared to say, Come Lord Jesus, come quickly, Amen." (WCF 33:3)
Can a person who holds to hyper-preterism be a member in good standing in an Orthodox Presbyterian Church? Since such a view strikes at the heart of the biblical faith and is at odds with even the universal creeds of Christendom, which summarize the most basic elements of the Scripture's teaching and help define the church's faith, I don't think so. Such a person, however sincere they may be, needs to repent of this doctrinal error and "wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come." (1 Thessalonians 1:10).
I hope this helps answer your question.
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(CNN) - While admitting his administration underestimated the challenges involved in developing and executing a functioning federal healthcare exchange website, President Barack Obama said the deeper issue is how inefficiently the federal government manages information technology (IT).
"In fact, there's probably no bigger gap between the private sector and the public sector than IT," Obama said on Tuesday at a Wall Street Journal conference in Washington.
(CNN) - Obamacare might be off to a slow start but it's starting to pick up steam, at least in states that are not using the beleaguered HealthCare.gov website.
For the past month, CNN has conducted a state-by-state survey to determine enrollment in the new insurance plans. As of Tuesday afternoon, at least 133,257 people had chosen new insurance plans in the 14 states with their own signup apparatuses. Nearly half of them were enrolled in the past two weeks.FULL STORY
(CNN) - Sen. Rand Paul criticized New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's decision to expand Medicaid in the state, calling the decision "very expensive and not fiscally conservative."
The first-term Republican senator from Kentucky said that while no "one person gets to decide what is and what isn't conservative," the New Jersey governor's acceptance of a portion of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act suggests that Christie is not a true conservative.
(CNN) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to stop Texas from implementing a part of a new abortion law that requires doctors to get admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic where they're providing abortion services.
A federal appeals court had reinstated the key part of the law, which is considered among the most restrictive in the country.FULL STORY
Washington (CNN) – Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin wasted no time on Tuesday swatting away a question about whether the GOP's 2016 presidential nominee needed to be a governor.
"No," Ryan said quickly. "Next question."
CNN's GUT CHECK | for November 19, 2013 | 5 p.m.
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BREAKING … CONGRESSMAN CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF COCAINE … U.S. Congressman Trey Radel of Florida has been charged with possession of cocaine in Washington D.C. A court document filed today in DC Superior Court say the 37-year-old freshman Republican " on or about October 29, 2013…did unlawfully, knowingly, and intentionally possess a quantity of cocaine, a controlled substance." Radel was elected in November, and represents Florida's 19th congressional district.
Virginia state Sen. Creigh Deeds was repeatedly stabbed in the head and torso; his 24-year-old son, Gus, fatally wounded by a gunshot Tuesday in an assault that Virginia State Police are investigating as an attempted murder and suicide. Deeds is in critical condition at University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, the hospital said. – Michael Pearson
Washington (CNN) - Americans frustrated by attempts to purchase health insurance on healthcare.gov will soon be able to determine their eligibility for tax subsidies and purchase insurance directly from insurance companies and private exchanges, a government spokeswoman announced Tuesday.
Julie Bataille of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency that oversees the government's online insurance exchange, told reporters on a conference call that as of Tuesday morning, the process called "direct enrollment" should be functioning.FULL STORY
Washington (CNN) - Supporters of a move to end filibusters of presidential nominees picked up a key ally Tuesday.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a veteran California Democrat, says she has changed her mind and now supports using the so-called "nuclear option" - changing Senate rules over the objections of Republicans to prevent those filibusters. She said she has been persuaded to take the extraordinary step because the public is anxious to have Washington work and "you can't do it if the President can't get a cabinet, a sub-cabinet, judges, commissioners." Filibusters require 60 votes to set aside, a high hurdle in the narrowly divided Senate.
Washington (CNN) - Rep. Trey Radel is due in D.C. superior court Wednesday, charged with misdemeanor cocaine possession after an October 29 arrest, according to court documents.
The 37 year-old Florida Republican is serving his first term in Congress after winning office last November.
(CNN) - The National Republican Senatorial Committee said it took disciplinary action after a staffer tweeted a link about Alison Lundergan Grimes that her campaign called sexist.
The link directed readers to a blog post titled "Grimes Is The New 'Obama Girl'?" on the website, BluegrassBulletin.com.


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NEH Chairman to Lead the American Revolution Center at Valley Forge
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced that Chairman Bruce Cole will leave the Endowment to join the American Revolution Center as its President and CEO, effective in January 2009.
Appointed NEH Chairman by President George W. Bush, Cole was confirmed by the Senate in 2001 and reconfirmed in 2005 for a second term. Cole is the longest serving Chairman in the history of the Endowment. During his tenure, NEH launched innovative humanities programs, including We the People and Picturing America. Under his leadership, NEH led the application of digital technology to the humanities through its Office of Digital Humanities. The office established innovative new grant programs and formed ground-breaking partnerships with the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. Cole has also worked to broaden the international reach of NEH.
"For the past seven years, I had the honor of working with the talented staff at NEH, our National Council on the Humanities, and the state humanities councils to preserve and promote the best of the humanities," said Cole. "Programs such as We the People and Picturing America bring humanities education to the forefront and increase understanding of our unique history among our citizens. I depart as a grateful American, with profound appreciation for NEH's commitment to the critical importance of the humanities. I look forward to continuing to promote the understanding of American history in my new endeavor."
As NEH Chairman, Cole's highest priority has been to reinvigorate our citizens' knowledge of American history. At NEH, he approved more than 3,000 grants and $292.7 million in funding for projects about U.S. history and culture, and was responsible for $759 million in overall grant funding during his tenure. The Endowment's budget also increased during this period.
In 2002, Cole established We the People, a program to improve the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture. Notable We the People projects include Landmarks of American History and Culture workshops for school and community college teachers offered at important American historic sites, as well as the We the People Bookshelf, which annually distributes classic books that explore enduring American themes to thousands of libraries.
One of Cole's major initiatives at NEH has been Picturing America. Designed to help students understand America's national story through art, Picturing America brings great American art into classrooms and libraries nationwide, enabling people of all ages to gain a deeper appreciation of our country's history and character. Through Picturing America, schools and public libraries receive forty large, high-quality reproductions of American art, along with resources to help educators use the images to teach American history, literature, civics, and other subjects.
During the first Picturing America application period in 2008, nearly one-fifth of all U.S. schools and public libraries applied for the program. This fall, working with the American Library Association, NEH made more than 36,000 Picturing America awards to schools, public libraries and Head Start Centers nationwide, and expects to award thousands more by the end of the year. As part of the Picturing America initiative, NEH formed partnerships with the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Defense, and the National Park Service.


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I think we need a better press corps. Probably help the mental state of our group.
We called that subhead last night. Not that it was much of a leap.
Some originality would be refreshing in media reports on the state of this team. I've heard more than enough about chicken and beer, etc.
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TALLAHASSEE | Police and the family of a Florida State University graduate who went missing days after beginning an internship for a state lawmaker are pleading with the public to help find him.
Authorities say Ryan Uhre didn't take his car with him when he disappeared Feb. 2, and there's been no activity since then on his social media or financial accounts.
Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo and Uhre's parents held a news conference Saturday to update the public on the case. The Tallahassee Democrat reports (http://on.tdo.com/1jIOZyT ) that police are reviewing downtown surveillance footage.
Uhre was last seen walking down a Tallahassee street, and a bloodhound was dispatched to search the area Friday. Police spokesman David Northway says the search continues, but he couldn't say whether any more evidence had been found.
Information from: Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat, http://www.tdo.com
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Weatherman Leads Evacaution During Tornado on Live Broadcast [VIDEO]
The media found itself in the midst of a brutal tornado that tore through Tupelo, Mississippi last weekend.
WTVA meteorologist Matt Laubhan was on the air when the tornado, one of many to rock the country, hit.
"This is a tornado ripping through the city of Tupelo as we speak, and this could be deadly," Laubhan said. Then he announces to people off camera, "Basement. Now."
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Jim Gearhardt
I own several houses in NJ. (I'm in the process, as are many older retiring new jersey-ites, of transitioning from NJ to NH via VA. Personally I'm being driven out by the high taxes. Most notably the Inheritance Tax.) I knew when the Storms hit that the taxpayer would be paying.
Can I ask you to consider some points?
(1) Were these towns self-insuring? This may have been a decision to save money in the short-term. To spend on other priorities. Why is the taxpayer being punished for a decision that they had no input to?
(2) "No taxation without representation." What a joke. I have a summer family property in Seaside Heights. How do I vote for lower taxes? Or about anything they decide?
(3) In the recent election, the "takers" won. People love "free" stuff. But what are they going to "take" when those that "make" stop "making"?
Sorry to sound like an old grump. I did HANJ. I did GRIP. I tea partied.
I know you say that "secession was settled by the Civil War and isn't going to happen" is unthinkable. I would suggest individuals can secede by just not cooperating. Remember Martin Luther King and Gandhi.
"Yes. In the end, you will walk out. Because 100,000 Englishmen simply cannot control 350 million Indians, if those Indians refuse to cooperate." — movie Gandhi (1983)
Peaceful. Non-violent. Non-cooperation.
Sound familiar?
I have enjoyed your morning rant for many years and now listen from VA via the inet. Thanks for the shore updates. Fight the good fight.
p.s., ½ the folks don't vote and the ½ that did vote doesn't make a mandate. And remember if voting made any difference, they would let us do it. "Democracy" is two wolves and a lamb deciding what's for dinner. You have demonstrated to me that VOTING in NJ is meaningless.
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Brain damage can cause significant changes in behavior, such as loss of cognitive skills, but also reveals much about how the nervous system deals with consciousness. New findings reported in the July 2011 issue of Elsevier's Cortex demonstrate how the unconscious brain continues to process information even when the conscious brain is incapacitated.
Dr. Stéphane Simon and collaborators in Professor Alan Pegna's laboratory at Geneva University Hospital, studied a patient brain damaged in an accident who had developed prosopagnosia, or face blindness. They measured her non-conscious responses to familiar faces using different physiological measures of brain activity, including fMRI and EEG. The patient was shown photographs of unknown and famous people, some of whom were famous before the onset of her prosopagnosia (and others who had become famous more recently). Despite the fact that the patient could not recognize any of the famous faces, her brain activity responded to the faces that she would have recognized before the onset of her condition.
"The results of this study demonstrate that implicit processing might continue to occur despite the presence of an apparent impairment in conscious processing," says Professor Pegna, "The study has also shed light on what is required for our brain to understand what we see around us. Together with other research findings, this study suggests that the collaboration of several cerebral structures in a specific temporal order is necessary for visual awareness to arise."
Material adapted from Elsevier.
The article is "When the brain remembers, but the patient doesn't: Converging fMRI and EEG evidence for covert recognition in a case of prosopagnosia" by Stéphane R. Simon, Asaid Khateb, Alexandra Darque, François Lazeyras, Eugene Mayer, and Alan J. Pegna, and appears in Cortex, Volume 47, Issue 7 (July 2010), published by Elsevier in Italy.


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All bags are 250gms.
Each bag is a re-sealable clip seal bag, but they are heat sealed to start – saving the bag from bursting open during shipping!
They have a Decrotex label and are barcoded.
A great product for Valentine's Day.


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Current record: 40-35, 2nd place in NL Central, 1.0 game back
Up Next: St. Louis Cardinals, 40-36, 3rd place in NL Central, 1.5 games back
Season Series: 2-4
Notes: Even with Lance Berkman on the DL, the Cardinals have plenty of big bats. Matt Holliday, Carlos Beltran and Allen Craig all sport an OPS+ of 141 or better. St. Louis' +69 run differential is the best in the league and second best in the majors. The Bucs are ninth at -6. Lance Lynn has been outstanding this season, but allowed 11 ER in his last two starts.
Familiar Faces: None
Probable Pitchers
Friday: RH Kevin Correia (3-6, 80.1 IP, 31 K, 4.03 ERA, 1.28 WHIP)
vs. RH Adam Wainwright (6-7, 91.2 IP, 84 K, 4.32 ERA, 1.29 WHIP)
Saturday: RH Jeff Karstens (0-2, 17.0 IP, 9 K, 6.35 ERA, 1.65 WHIP)
vs. RH Lance Lynn (10-3, 92.0 IP, 92 K, 3.23 ERA, 1.20 WHIP)
Sunday: LH Erik Bedard (4-8, 78.0 IP, 72 K, 4.27 ERA, 1.42 WHIP)
vs. RH Jake Westbrook (6-6, 93.0 IP, 59 K, 3.77 ERA, 1.32 WHIP)
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When Development Causes Disease: Linking Ecosystems and Human Healthby -
Ecosystems provide a wealth of services to human populations, among them, disease regulation. But narrowly-focused development projects can threaten these ecosystems and put entire populations at risk. Here are three cases where development has compromised nature's way of keeping us healthy.
Forty years ago, malaria was almost eradicated in Peru, and only 1,500 cases were reported. Today, however, the number has climbed to over 50,000. One activity being blamed for this rise is logging in the Amazon forest.
Why? Tree removal and new logging roads leave behind pools of standing water, and increased sunlight allowed by the destruction of forest canopy warms the pools, leading to algae growth. Tree removal also reduces water acidity in the pools. These three factors, all linked to deforestation, create the ideal growing environment for the Anopheles mosquito. This insect---the only genus which carries malaria---is then able to out-compete other "benign" mosquitoes, and malaria rates rise.
Development projects---intended to increase people's well-being---can do just the opposite when they don't consider the ecosystem services they affect. For example, the Diama Dam in Senegal was built to facilitate irrigation of rice fields, and its construction did help double the region's rice production. However, the dam also brought snail fever to the region, and certain villages experienced infection rates of 60% in less than three years.
Again, we follow the chain: the dam blocked the intrusion of salt water into the Senegal River, allowing freshwater snails to out-compete the native saltwater snails. These freshwater snails act as hosts for schistosomes---small larvae that burrow into human skin and cause snail fever. As the freshwater snail population grew, so did the disease rate. As in Peru, the "benign" species---in this case the saltwater snail---was overwhelmed by the disease carrier.
These trends are not limited to developing countries. A 2003 study by Rutgers University, Bard College and the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies showed suburban sprawl in the eastern U.S. may contribute to higher incidences of Lyme disease. Humans get Lyme disease from black-legged tick bites, and the ticks live in the fur of white-footed mice. As suburbs expand further and fragment surrounding forests, predator populations decrease, and mice multiply---and so do the ticks.
Such cases are not isolated. Every environment provides many ecosystem services, some of which---in these cases disease mitigation---are often ignored. While it is complex to try to predict what will happen to an ecosystem when we interact with it, we do need to learn from past examples in order to ensure that our health and nature's health can continue to coexist.
These case studies were adapted from a new book, Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity, edited by Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein, Chapter 7. This book contains numerous examples linking ecosystem services with human health.


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DaBloxxer(Roblox.com) wrote: Life lesson #1: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."
Life lesson #2: "Unless life also gives you sugar and a cup, your lemonade is gonna suck."
Life lesson #3: "If you dont find some water and some ice, your lemomade will still suck."
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Edith Olivier was a minor British novelist who first novel was a tale of a neurotic spinster who is haunted by an imaginary child who becomes less and less imaginary. The Love-Child was published in 1927 when Olivier was 55. One of 10 children, Olivier was born in Wilton, Wiltshire. It was this country setting that influenced Olivier's most compelling works of non-fiction. For many years, Olivier served as the mayor of Wilton.
Edith in her mayoral duties
While in her 50's she met and befriended a then a 19-year-old Rex Whistler. She was a confidant and hostess and her house became a refuge for many artists and writers in the 1930's, including Siegfried Sassoon, Osbert Sitwell, and Cecil Beaton.
My favorite Edith Olivier book is Country Moods and Tenses. The book features a lovely Rex Whistler cover (as does Cecil Beaton's Ashcombe.) Olivier takes the five grammatical moods: Infinitive, Imperative, Indicative, Subjunctive and Conditional and uses them as divisions to revel the different aspects of country life. There is a beauty in her innate understanding of the sense of place in which she lives and lived her entire life. There is also a kind of disconnect as her circle of friends are very much products of the city but it is the soil of Wiltshire that is in her blood. The scholarly take of Edith Olivier is one of missed potential. Her early success at Oxford and her privileged upbringing and ambition led many to feel that her late start at writing and relative poverty were signs of failure. I disagree.
Love-Child was reprinted as a Virago Modern Classic with an introduction by Hermione Lee and is well worth a read.


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Obama Promotes Moral Equivalency on the latest terrorist attack in Jerusalem
Posted by avideditor on March 23, 2011
"Obama stressed the need for calm and urged all parties to prevent further violence and civilian casualties."
Saying this
There is never any possible justification for terrorism. The United States calls on the groups responsible to end these attacks at once and we underscore that Israel, like all nations, has a right to self-defense.
We also express our deepest condolences for the deaths of Palestinian civilians in Gaza yesterday. We stress the importance of calm and urge all parties to do everything in their power to prevent further violence and civilian casualties."
So Obama being pro Jihadi again. He is basically saying that he would not respond to a terrorist attack here. And draws a fake line of moral equivalency between the terrorist and the victims.
I blame Bibi and Obama for the Bus bombing. Of course Obama and Bibi did not do it. Sick jihadis did it. But they promote talking to pure evil instead of destroying them. It is there fault. They have blood on there hands.
There should be snipers shooting any idiots passing out candy like the jihadis in Gaza did after 9-11. Or bomb them all. My ideas on the solution to the "Palestinian" curse on Israel


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Seven people have been arrested in the United States on charges of trafficking in endangered rhinoceros horns, federal officials said.
The most recent arrest took place Wednesday night when Jin Zhao Feng, a Chinese national, was taken into custody at Los Angeles International Airport, Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office, said Thursday.
Authorities suspect him of overseeing the shipment of dozens of rhino horns from the U.S. to China.
The arrests were the result of an 18-month investigation that was called "Operation Crash" — the term for a herd of rhinoceroses — and scrutinized an international smuggling ring that trafficked in sawed-off rhinoceros horns. The horns are used by some cultures for ornamental carvings, good luck charms or believed medicinal purposes, including cancer.
"The rhino is an animal of prehistoric origin that is facing possible extinction because of an illegal trade for its horns on the black market that is driven by greed," said Ignacia S. Moreno, assistant attorney general for the Justice Depatment's Environment and Natural Resources Division.
Spike in rhino poaching threatens survival of species
All species of rhinoceros are protected under U.S. and international law, and all black rhinoceros species are endangered, federal officials said.
Rhino horns are composed of keratin, the same type of protein that makes up hair and fingernails. Rhinoceros horn is a highly valued and sought-after commodity despite the fact that international trade has been largely banned since 1976.
According to a report by NBC's Rock Center, an average-sized rhino horn in Vietnam can sell for as much as a quarter of a million dollars, which makes rhino horn gram for gram more valuable than gold or cocaine.
The arrests were initially reported by the Los Angeles Times.
Three of the alleged traffickers caught in Southern California were Jimmy Kha, 49, his girlfriend Mai Nguyen, 41, and Kha's 26-year-old son Felix. Each faces four counts of rhino horn trafficking in violation of federal laws protecting rare and endangered species.
Investigators reportedly seized several rhino horns, more than $1 million in cash, $1 million in gold bars, diamonds and Rolex watches during the raids, NBCLosAngeles.com reported.
One of the alleged suppliers, Wade Steffen, was arrested in Hico, Texas, and charged in Los Angeles, federal prosecutors said.
The Khas began receiving packages from Steffen and another alleged supplier in 2010. Seventeen packages were opened under federal search warrants and 37 rhinoceros horns were found, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.
South African town dehorns rhinos in attempt to ward off poachers
A search of Steffen's luggage at the Long Beach Airport on Feb. 9 turned up $337,000 in cash.
According to NBCLosAngeles.com, the rhino horns seized as part of the raids were reportedly destined for buyers in Vietnam and China.
In New Jersey, Amir Even-Ezra was arrested Feb. 18 on a felony trafficking charge after purchasing rhino horns from a New York resident in New Jersey.
Antiques expert David Hausman was charged in U.S. District Court in Manhattan with illegally trafficking rhinoceros horns and with creating false documents to conceal the illegal nature of the transaction, prosecutors said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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By and large, districts were satisfied with the services provided by contractors. This should not be surprising, as unsatisfied districts can end their contracts if they included no-cause clauses.
Some districts and contractors resolve their problems; two of the three districts that responded as unsatisfied in the 2008 survey now report being happy with their contractors. The other district, Richmond Community Schools, brought its food services back in-house, but also began contracting out for custodial services this year.
Dissatisfaction is fairly rare over the history of the survey. Reported satisfaction has remained in the 88 percent to 90 percent range in each of the past three surveys.
Graphic 5: Satisfaction From Outsourcing
Opponents of privatization have criticized self-reported satisfaction measures as improper for judging the performance of contractors. However, such measurements are prevalent in privatization literature. Surveys in Virginia and New Jersey and of large American cities have included self-reported satisfaction measures and generally found satisfaction with contractors.[*]
Moreover, satisfaction is an important part of any service provision. While school service decisions are largely made due to monetary concerns, the quality of service as judged by administrators and captured in satisfaction measures is an essential indicator of proper school management.
[*] Yost, Barry D. "Privatization of Educational Services by Contractual Agreement in Virginia Public Schools," Ed.D., Virginia Polytechnic University, 2000.
May, Kenneth P. "An Investigation into the Role of the Privatization of Non-Instructional Services Provided by New Jersey Public School Districts," Ed.D., Seton Hall, 1998.
Dilger, Robert Jay, Moffett, Randolph R., and Struyk, Linda. "Privatization of municipal services in America's largest cities," Public Administration Review, Vol. 57, 1. 1997.


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Architect: BNIM Architects, Lake|Flato Architects
Location: Houston, Texas, United States
Project Team: Steve McDowell, FAIA; Kimberly Hickson, AIA; Chris Koon, AIA; David Immenschuh; David Lake, FAIA; Greg Papay, AIA; Kenny Brown
Consultants: BNIM Architects, Jaster Quintanilla & Associates, Carter Burgess, Inc.,Ferguson Consulting, Inc., Supersymmetry, Clanton Associates, Epsilon Engineering,Walter P. Moore, Coleman & Associates, Apex Busby, Rolf Jenson & Associates, Philo & Wilke Architects, Arup, Pelton Marsh Kinsella, Worrell Design Group, Lerch Bates & Associates, Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, Rocky Mountain Institute, Elements
Contractor: Jacobs/VaughnGreg Papay, FAIA
Project Area: 18,023 sqm
Project Year: 2004
Photographs: Hester + Hardaway
By improving health and reducing environmental harm, the collaboration between Lake|Flato Architects and BNIM Architects for the UTHSC School of Nursing has become a model for social and educational space that is both inspiring and accountable.Located in the Texas Medical Center, the world's largest medical center, this building reaches out to the rest of the almost 50 medical institutions nearby, but is still able to stand out amongst its surroundings because of its promotion of health not only in function and use, but in construction and performance as well. Given the density of the medical center and the size of its site, the building becomes a vertical campus, with a gradient of public-to-private spaces moving up from the ground level.
The most prevalent and impressive aspect of the project is its sustainability efforts. The entire UTHSC School of Nursing was built with 50% recycled materials. Photovoltaic panels and daylight strategies on the different facades respond to varying solar conditions depending on their orientation, and utilize natural light without increasing heat gain, leading to a 40% reduction in energy use. Rainwater collection allows for a 60% reduction in water use. All of these processes together lead the project to reach LEED Gold certification.


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Video: Radio presenter Jaq Deweyi learns how to swim
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After doing several activities on water in her ongoing "Meet Jinja" campaign, radio presenter Jaq Deweyi has decided to learn how to swim because water activities are not about to end.
As she learns how to swim, Jaq will be sharing her journey with fans as well as give tips and tricks for any swimming beginners.
In Lesson #1 Jaqi learns how to be comfortable in water, learn how to control her breathe in water and learn how not to fear water, but simply respect it.
She noted that, "one of the major differences between swimming and other sports is that learning how to breathe under water is a skill on its own."
Watch her in video below.
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Faridah Nakazibwe endorses Bruno K's latest song "Tonta"
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NTV Mwasuze Mutya presenter Faridah Nakazibwe many rumoured to be an item with Bruno K has endorsed the singer's latest song "Tonta"
Bruno K who recently signed under Black Market records released his first project under the label and it is already shaking the industry getting many positive responses from strong stake holders of the industry and from public figures and the latest is Faridah who he composed for a song earlier this year
Faridah shared the song on her social media with praises on it and urged everyone to watch it because it is worthy
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Zari fights with People Power fans
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Ugandan-South African based businesswoman, Zari Hassan (Zarina Tlale) is at over head with People Power supporters and she can't hold to their venomous any longer.
This follows her recent Facebook live video where she questioned People Power Movement flag bearer Bobi Wine's credentials of contesting for the Presidential seat.
Zari's remarks on Bobi Wine's potential of becoming the President of Uganda sounded unpleasant to his fans and the People Power supporters worldwide as they immediately flogged her on social media.
Today (Monday) morning, the self-proclaimed 'Boss lady' took it to her social media with a decision to limit accessibility of commenting on her live videos, which will only favour strictly her friends.
She has also promised to help and educate her tormentors more about her recent 'Credentials' request concerning Bobi Wine's candidature in the upcoming Presidential elections.
Read Zari's statement;
Going live 12pm South African time (1pm Ugandan time)
We will continue to educate you as much as you think intimidation and abuses is what works for you.
Comments limited to 'friends' only since some you listen with your behind and don't listen with a brain to understand. Tell a friend to tell a friend that The Bosslady has a message for the country and its citizens.
See you later….
We will keep you posted
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Kasuku and Sheila Gashumba fight takes new twist
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Sheila seems to be in control of the Uganda's media at the moment with her one month old 'Stop cyber bulling in Uganda' campaign.
After her victory over Urban TV's Tina Fierce whom she accused of using her 'Scoop On Scoop' show to throw malicious insults at her, Sheila has now turned guns at Nation Media's Isaac Katende aka Kuku Wazabanga (Kasuku).
This follows Kasuku's remarks on Sheila Gashumba's 'Stop Cyber Bullying in Uganda' while appearing on NBS TV's 'Uncut Sabula' show.
During the interview, Kasuku asserted that Sheila has no moral authority to run such a campaign having also been a culprit of social media bullying when she used her handles to insult, former NTV presenter, Robin Kisti.
Kasuku's opinion didn't sound pleasant to Sheila even for a blink of an eye as she immediately set a Facebook live video to drop her response on his claims.
In the video, Gashumba revealed how Kasuku should have been their (Sheila and Gods Plan) target to hunt-down in this campaign because of his continuous malicious criticism to musicians.
She also says that Kasuku is just being a hypocrite whom she once helped to have his first buffet at Kampala Serena Hotel.
Sheila has also shifted the war to Twitter as she continues to shower the 'Talk and Talk' show presenter with unbearable insults of his career.
"Age is just a number it has never meant Intelligence!! Kasuku you should be retired now allowing other young talented youth to have a chance to be on radio and tv than attacking public figures!! You should be on holiday right now!!" tweeted Sheila.
Surely Kasuku seems to have been a valuable item for Gashumba to ruin under this campaign as she has also onboarded boyfriend, Gods Plan in the war.
Gods plan indirectly thumbs Kasuku for having begged him Shs. 50K for transport.
He also advises him to first pocket adequate evidence before giving opinions during discussions.
"I remember giving someone 50k outside guvnor for transport. Naye MUJOOGA
My advice to journalist or radio presenters is always investigate before opening your mouth to give an opinion. Your opinion has to be based on facts not because your friend told you his side," tweeted Gods Plan.
However, Kasuku seems not over taken by the couple's words as he buries hope of getting any reply from him.
"Afta alot of thought,am not going to get involved in a verbal exchange with Sheila Gashumba or the boyfie.This has become their way of life lately. They can mek all the noise in the world and enjoy retweets but not today… Time will tell. Gudnite," wrote Kasuku.
The campaign was initiated by Sheila and boyfriend, Gods Plan last month to curb the thrilling social media harassment in Uganda, marking celebrities as the best victims.
Having landed Kasuku, one of the most celebrated critic media personalities in the country on her docket, the public highly anticipates the fresh war to escalate beyond this point.
We will keep you posted.
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Bae @31: Bad Black bosses with a seductive photo album at her 31st birthday
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Whenever the annual calendar clocks to the 5th day of July, social media is buzzed with birthday wishes to Kampala City socialite, Shanitah Namuyimbwa alias, Bad Black.
Bad Black is fond of taking up the day in the news without anybody's favour but instead on merit of possessing one of one of the highest numbers of following.
Today, Shanitah marks her 31st Anniversary in life and she has got to pomp it in style with a huge volume of photos where she appears at-ease with friends.
The photo album also features her cozy and imminent moments with boyfriend Sky West.
She has even run out of words to explain God's blessings' abundance to her and territory at an age of 31 because she looks better despite blooming a late age.
"Lord am so grateful. 31yrs today it looks good on me. If you indeed bless me & in large my territory," she wrote.
The mother to three is also astonished by her aging like fine wine and compares herself to an Egyptian goddess.
"See how at 31yrs Aging like fine wine no competition but accept am Egyptian goddess," Black adds.
Unlike her past birthdays where she has hyped the parties with glamorous designs and valuable gifts brought by friends and family, Bad Black is expected to celebrate this in a scientific way, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Here is Bad Black's full photo album;
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Game of Life with MPI
In this installment, I will give examples of code used to implement domain decomposition of the parallelized list-based version of Game of Life simulation within a distributed-memory system. The code herein is based on the details from my last post. Using that last post as a guide, I cover the input and distribution of initial live grid cells and the printing of the current generation. Due to space constraints, I will need to cover the exchanging of data between subgrids for correct neighbor counts in the succeeding post.
Each MPI process will have two arrays,
Map and
numNeighbors, to hold the status of cells and number of neighbors for each corresponding grid cell that has been assigned to that process. No process will need to have the entire array stored in memory. However, as I described in my last post, an extra row and/or column of ghost cells along each border of the subgrids can be applied to assist in the local computations and communication between processes. This can be the external grid border (with appropriately initialized values) or the overlapping row/column of the adjacent subgrid. (Just to preview the next post, I will describe two communication schemes: one that uses ghost cells on
numNeighbors and one that doesn't require these extra cells on either of the grids.)
I would not recommend that you gerrymander the subgrid shapes when dividing up the overall grid domains. A simple scheme that divides things by rows or by columns or by blocks keeps the number of bordering subgrids the same for each process and keeps the communication coding simple. For my example I have chosen to do a row division. If I visualize the rectangular grid, I have taken horizontal cuts of an equal number of rows (assuming that the total number of grid rows is evenly divisible by the number of processes). This way each process has at most two other processes that it will exchange data with. The uppermost and lowermost subgrids will have only one actual subgrid to share data with, but this can be easily handled.
Inputting the Initial Configuration
To input the initial grid of live cells, I have elected to have each process read the input file of grid coordinates and only keep those cells that are within the logical confines of the subgrid being handled by that process. Once each process has opened the file, the following code reads grid cells until the special coordinate pair of
0 0 is read.
fscanf( fp,"%d %d", &row, &col ); while ( row != 0 && col != 0 ) { if( row >= 1 && row <= MAXROW && col >=1 && col <= MAXCOL ) { if ( row >= rank * maxrow + 1 && row <= ( ( rank + 1 ) * maxrow ) ) { if( rank != 0 ) row = ( row % maxrow == 0? maxrow : row % maxrow ); newcell.row = row; newcell.col = col; if ( map[row][col] == DEAD ) { AddList( newcell, newlive ); // Add to list } map[row][col] = ALIVE; } } fscanf( fp,"%d %d", &row, &col ); // get next coordinate pair } // while
MAXROW and
MAXCOL "constants" are the absolute size of the entire grid. These could be set within the program logic or they could be part of the input file. I've also defined
maxrow, local to each process, to be the number of rows that the process is responsible for. Additionally, I arrange the processes to be given the subgrids in
rank order and, as mentioned above, assuming that every process has the same number of rows, except the highest rank process.
The above code runs the
while loop until the signal coordinate pair is read. Each pair is checked to ensure that it falls within the grid being simulated. If it passes that check, the process determines if the pair is within its set of assigned rows. When such a pair is seen, the row is adjusted to the local index value. Because I'm using the zero index row as a ghost row (along with
maxrow+1), any row that is equal to a multiple of
maxrow will be in the
maxrow index row; otherwise, I use the modulus function to compute the local subgrid row index. (The column value is the same as the input column.) Once the local row index is computed and if the grid cell hasn't been seen before, the grid cell is added to the
newlive list and the status of the grid cell is set to
Printing Results
As I pointed out in my last post, having each process in charge of the output of its own live grid cells will require some synchronization and coordination between the processes. Since, for this example, the grid is divided by rows, each process could print its entire subgrid in the order of its rank. When it comes time to print out the current generation, the zero rank process will output its grid status (minus the ghost cells) and then signal the rank 1 process to begin printing. Each other process waits on the signal from the
rank-1 process, prints the local grid status, and then signals the
rank+1 process to begin printing.
However, when implementing code on a distributed memory cluster, each and every node may not have access to the stdout device or a shared disk configuration. In those instances, the individual processes can't easily share their output with the user. I had some difficulty with getting the distributed processes to work with each other in sharing the stdout on the system I used to create my example code. Thus, I implemented a different method shown below.
if( rank == 0 ) { WriteMap( Map, generation, rank ); AllocateGrid( &buffer ); for( proc = 1; proc < numProcs; proc++ ) { for( row = 0; row <= maxrow; row++ ) MPI_Recv( buffer[row], maxcol, MPI_INT, proc, TAG, MPI_COMM_WORLD, &status ); WriteMap( buffer, generation, proc ); } DeallocateGrid( &buffer ); } else { for( row = 0; row <= maxrow; row++ ) MPI_Send( Map[row], maxcol, MPI_INT, 0, TAG, MPI_COMM_WORLD ); }
This alternative prints out the local
Map subgrid in the rank zero process (using the
WriteMap() function). After allocating space to hold another subgrid copy (
buffer), the rank zero process receives messages containing individual rows of
Map from the other processes (in
rank order). When all the rows are received and stored in
buffer, the received subgrid is printed with
WriteMap(). Those processes that are not rank zero simply send out their rows of local
Map and rely on the
MPI_Recv at rank zero to collect them in order and print the collection correctly.
Admittedly it's not an elegant solution and requires a lot of messages being passed to the rank zero process. However, since I anticipate only needing to print the current generation at the end of the simulation (or very few times during the computation), the overhead shouldn't adversely impact the actual generation calculations.
These are the easiest pieces of my distributed version of the list-based Game of Life simulation code. In the next installment, I'll explore ways to communicate the changes of cell death and birth along the subgrid border.


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Open source is a term we most often hear applied to software and intellectual property in the digital realm. The Danish artists SUPERFLEX (Rasmus Nielsen, Jakob Fenger and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen) take open source philosophies and tactics offline and apply them to real world situations. Their work challenges corporate market practice through large-scale DIY projects such as television stations and fuel production plans. One of the most compelling examples of their use of homebrew 'programming' is the project GUARANA POWER. Guarana is a caffeine rich berry farmed in South America, often a major ingredient in soft drinks. A large food and beverage conglomerate sought to monopolize the market in Brazil, and with the help of SUPERFLEX and the Power Foundation, one farmer's co-op stood in direct opposition by bottling their own locally grown and produced soft drink under the label GUARANA POWER. By making their recipe and process freely available, these farmers usurped the proprietary practices of a major corporation. Like their open source applications, another digital convention that SUPERFLEX employs for non-digital purposes is the practice of versioning. The FREE BEER project is an open source recipe for beer (which includes guarana), that can be and has been adapted and improved upon. FREE BEER 3.3 is available as part of their latest exhibition COPYSHOP, recently opened at the Knoxville Gallery of Art. Part exhibition, part workshop, and part, for lack of a better word, copy shop, COPYSHOP acknowledges the importance of open culture, and has made available FREE BEER, Star and Buck Coffee, Black Spot sneakers and other homebrewed alternatives to corporate products. Mindful of the increasingly globalized power structures they live in, SUPERFLEX are not anti-capitalist, but use tools of capitalism to actualize new and progressive ways of thinking about consumer culture. - Caitlin Jones
Enter The Ghetto Matrix
What would happen if you remade the Matrix in the ghetto, cast a rapper from Yonkers, NY as Neo, Large Professor as Morpheus, and Peter Vallone Jr as Agent Smith, manned the Nebuchadnezzar with the best graffiti writers in New York City armed with high-powered lasers and then set the whole thing in the true Zion: the County of Kings, Brooklyn, New York?
It would probably go a little somethin' like this:
You know the Oracle is the GRL…
To roll the vid at a baller's resolution click here and here.
Check out this tutorial on how to build your own cheap, portable and hood-style bullet time camera rig on the cheap and the fly. Designed by the GRL and director Dan the Man for a hip-hop music video for underground rappers Styles P, AZ and the legendary Large Professor, the Ghetto Matrix is just another chapter in the GRL's continuing mission to make open source the sixth element of hip-hop.
Hip-hop music video featuring a bullet time camera rig designed by Graffiti Research Lab.
Originally posted on Graffiti Research Lab by Rhizome
Let's Do the Time Warp
Time travel has long been a popular plot convention in science fiction and has, since at least the early 1700s, been a locus for societies' most utopian ideals regarding technology. Nonetheless, the ability to construct a working time machine has eluded countless inventors. But this week, New York-based artist Jamie O'Shea built what may amount to just that. As the world was waking up to a New Year, Tuesday, O'Shea was entering a 'time machine' of his own design. At midnight on January 1, 2008, he 'shut the door to a room with a slow clock, delayed news media, and artificial day and night cycles.' The idea is to trick his mind and body into slowing down, experiencing 36-hour days, rather than 24-hour ones. He's made use of fellow Eyebeam residents' tools in doing so, with Geraldine Juarez's Hexaclock counting two minutes for every three, and Jamie Wilkinson's Internet Delay Pedal doling out web-feeds in slower motion. O'Shea will emerge from this 'temporal deprivation chamber' on January 19th (our time) a week behind us. Given the demonstrated relativity of time--or of temporal perception, it seems accurate to describe the artist's construction as a working time machine. Skeptics or otherwise curious readers can peek in on O'Shea, via a live webcam at his site. The big question, in representations of time travel, tends to be that of how the traveler will influence the future. This query remains unanswerable except to say that our present is now O'Shea's future and he's sending us messages via a witty blog. Meanwhile, he pleas with readers, 'Time travel is boring. Please send anything to keep me company.' Consider this your opportunity to communicate with the past. - Marisa Olson
Observable Occurences
Over the course of the Observable Occurrences event The Space Hijackers launched our very latest piece of equipment "Pirate Radio Briefcase". This stylish case contains a fully operational pirate radio station complete with twin CD players, Mixer, Amplifier, Speakers, Transmitter and Aerial....
Using the case over the weekend we broadcast a series of messages to people driving past on a range of frequencies. We broadcast information about tricks that shops play on you to customers in a supermarket carpark before they shopped. Public service announcements were given to drivers to ignore the adverts on their radio's and the billboards on the roads. Comments on commuting and car lifestyle were broadcast to people heading in and out of London.
Originally posted on del.icio.us/cecimoss by cecimoss
Enter Vilnius
Lithuania may seem an unlikely hub of the avant-garde, but as the birthplace of Fluxus founder George Maciunas and avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas, the country has an undeniable place in art history. Its capital city of Vilnius is quickly becoming an emerging location for cultural activity. Set to be Europe's 'Culture Capital 2009,' rumors of a new Guggenheim/Hermitage outpost, and the recent opening of the Jonas Mekas Visual Art Center, Vilnius seems to have 'arrived' on the growing global culture circuit. The inaugural show, 'The Avant Garde from Futurism to Fluxus' (which runs through the beginning of February) highlights the place of Vilnius in the history of the avant-garde. Mekas' impressive collection of documentation Collection of 40 Films forms the backbone of the show, and works by other key artists including Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik and Shigeko Kubota strengthen it. A Mekas-curated film series, which includes classics by Luis Bunuel, Marcel Duchamp, Hans Richter and Fernand Leger, is hopefully an indication of future programming. Of course, the degree of fanfare and attention this capital city is currently getting is not always a great thing, and a number of quotes from the press release (e.g. "Scott Weinkle designed the super white cube space of the Art Center-- a formidable transplant of a New York Chelsea gallery to Vilnius") hints at the more troubling trend of art world homogenization. But with the Center's mandate to promote film, video and computer based arts, let's hope that Vilnius will embody the nature and spirit of its Fluxus and avant-garde fathers. - Caitlin Jones
Jonas Mekas, Fluxus on the Hudson, 1971
Update: This post covers the opening of the Jonas Mekas Visual Art Center. It implies that Vilnius is not seen as a contemporary art hub when, in fact ...
Live Stage: This is the Truth… [Boston]
This is the Truth and Nothing But the Truth by the Institute for Infinitely Small Things :: January 11, 2008; 6-9 pm :: Axiom Gallery, 141 Green Street, Boston, MA.
This is the Truth and Nothing But the Truth is presented as part of Some Sort of Uncertainty (January 11th - Feburary 17th, 2008 ), curated by Adriana Rios. Some Sort of Uncertainty also features works by: Bruce Campbell, Lina Maria Girlado, Elias Heim, Brian Knep, Nathalie Miebach, Liz Nofziger, Michael Sheridan, and Douglas Weathersby.
The Institute for Infinitely Small Things conducts creative, participatory research that aims to temporarily transform public spaces dominated by corporate and political agendas. Using performance and conversation, we investigate social and political "tiny things". These have included corporate ads, street names, and post-9/11 security terminology...
Originally posted on Networked_Performance by jo
CALL FOR PAPERS - INTENDED TO PROVOKE: Social Action in Visual Culture[s]
Submission Deadline: January 10, 2008
INTENDED TO PROVOKE: Social Action in Visual Culture[s]
The Fifth Annual Visual Cultures Symposium
at George Mason University
Thursday, March 27, 2008
What happens when art is made as an intentionally political act?
This symposium addresses the use of art as a form of social action -resistance - intervention - opposition. We seek to interrogate the ways in which shifts in our understanding of what constitutes "art" are intertwined with social conditions and our will to change them.
Academic or creative work from scholars, students, artists and activists is encouraged. We construe the term "art" broadly, in all of its contemporary meanings: from fine art in galleries and museums to street performance and graffiti to mass media images.
For more announcements like this one, please visit Rhizome's Opportunities page
Originally posted on Rhizome.org Announcements by Rhizome
Dialing for Democracy
Fred Benenson's Committee Caller allows Americans to participate in politics from the comfort of their couch. The web-based system is a tool for calling one's 'favorite politician,' by automatically putting users in touch with members of US House and Senate committees. Eliminating the time spent on researching names and phone numbers--a task which often dissuades voters from engaging in dialogue with their representatives--Committee Caller invites visitors to enter their phone number, select a committee, and click a button labeled 'Put me in touch with democracy.' After that, they need only wait for their phone to ring and they can cycle through each of the designated politicos in a single round, even rating their level of responsiveness, if so desired. Benenson, a graduate student, came up with the idea after a frustrating effort to track down and contact every member of the House Committee on Education and Labor regarding an amendment that would have limited on-campus privacy. He realized that he could use the Asterisk PBX system to automate the dialing process, and began creating a functional database for doing so. Less than a month old, the tool has become quite popular online, and Benenson believes this is because, "it short-circuits a familiar point of friction for people trying to participate in democracy while simultaneously encouraging them to actually speak to representatives and staffers with their own voice." One side-benefit, to the artist, is that this vocal exchange gives participants the ability to formulate and articulate their arguments about pressing issues. If users would like to make a practice run, they can elect to be put in touch with members of fictional committees, such as The House Committee on Google Oversight. This will prompt them to select names from a list of Futurama characters before being patched-through to the ...
Temporary Sunsets
For Italian born artist Carlo Zanni, code is a paintbrush. He strategically uses it as a tool to construct autonomous systems that direct and continuously output ever-changing cinematic pictorial representations. Zanni refers to his craft as "data cinema", a practice proposing, "a new way to approach filmmaking and narrative forms at large based on the use of live data feedback gathered from the Net, to create time based social consciousness experiences." The ongoing project eBay Landscape is one of Zanni's most well-known works. Using the Western visual tradition as a frame for understanding global economics, Zanni creates a landscape in which forms--for example, bamboo trees in the foreground and the mountains in the background--are generated through an algorithm tied to CNN's front page and stock market charts. As he explains, "while the shape of the mountains changes everyday (when the NASDAQ closes), the content of the bamboo trees changes as many times as CNN updates its website." Zanni's latest project is the website My Temporary Visiting Position From The Sunset Terrace Bar, in which he combines a pre-recorded video of the city strip of Ahlen, Germany with the real time sunset sky of Naples, Italy. Depending on the time of day, the user may view sunsets through a live feed or peruse an archive, updated daily. In pairing two geographical areas into one ever-changing scene, Zanni's films poetically capture the tension surrounding international borders. The archived films end with a silhouetted flock of birds rapidly diving across the entire frame, a clear symbolic reference to migration. Given the unprecedented degree of movement within our time, Zanni's data cinema seems an ideal medium in which to present a meditative portrait of the instantaneous horizon before us. - Miguel Amado
Fact Checker
Hot on the heels of the Iowa Caucus, with the 2008 US Presidential election race accelerating, artist Jon Winet is releasing a tool that can help educate people on the issues at stake. The Electoral College Widget is an easy-to-install widget for the Mac Dashboard and features digital flash cards with statistics and crucial info related to each of the contenders and issues such as poverty, health care, and religious discrimination. Given that the device is only for OS-X users, Winet and collaborator Craig Dietrich are also working on a cross-platform Ticker that will stream text, photos, audio, and other election-related content. Meanwhile, the widget is just one component of The Electoral College, a "year-long media project focusing on the U.S. Presidential elections and democracy in America." Winet is no stranger to covering elections and other political spectacles and aspects of The Electoral College grow nicely out of his Goal! 2006 project, which leveraged the popularity of the World Cup games to inform readers about under-reported issues important in the homelands of the athletes. In the next year, Winet will work together with community organizations and local activists to operate The Electoral College as "a hybrid new media art/ journalism project that recognizes the unique moment in history of this election, and the opportunities and challenges presented for democratic, civic engagement." The site will be a 24/7 headquarters for updates on the elections and critical discourse, beginning with the publication of an essay by D.L. Pughe, entitled "When Luck Grows Hard: Real Life in the Fiction Capital of America." Check out Winet's YouTube channel for videos related to the project and stay-tuned for Facebook apps and SMS subscription services. Meanwhile, the Electoral College Widget can be downloaded here. - Marisa Olson