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Intel has scored its first big win for its Many Integrated Core (MIC) x86 coprocessor, code-named "Knights Corner," in a hybrid supercomputer that will be installed at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas in January 2013.
The 10-petaflops supercomputer will be nicknamed "Stampede", and will be right down the street from Dell, which was founded by Michael Dell in his University of Texas dorm room in 1984. Stampede follows TACC's Opteron-based "Ranger" system built by Sun Microsystems, which has 62,976 cores and weighs in at 579.4 teraflops. A third machine, built by Dell and called "Lonestar", has 22,656 Xeon cores delivering 302 teraflops.
The Stampede cluster is not being built by Intel (which does build systems for customers, particularly in Asia), nor is it being built by HP, which hails from Texas – well, its Compaq and Tandem parts, in any case. According to sources at Intel, Dell got the TACC gig.
Both Dell and HP have ways of packaging up servers and GPU coprocessors in a dense way, and there's no reason why either could not be the contractor to build Stampede to pack those 10 petaflops into the smallest space possible.
For example, Dell could take PowerEdge C2100 servers based on the Xeon E5, which can put four half-width two-socket servers into a 2U box, and lash one or two of those PowerEdge C410x PCIe expansion chassis to it. This enclosure can house 16 GPU coprocessors – and some day in the second half of 2012, MIC coprocessors – in a 3U chassis without having them melt. A ratio of two GPUs per server might be best (one per socket), particularly if Dell can offer a direct link from each PCIe slot in the chassis to each PCIe 3.0 slot on the Xeon E5 server. That would give you four servers and 16 MICs in 5U of space.
If you wanted to go with the HP line (which TACC apparently did not), the SL390sG7 cookie sheet server comes in a variety of heights, but the 4U chassis has room for two nodes and supports eight (yes, eight) GPUs per node. That would give you two servers and 16 MICs in 4U of space – less Xeon computing than the Dell alternative above but the same MIC count. But that is also twice as many MICs per socket, which might not be the right balance for the applications TACC wants to run.
Dell is not divulging that server the Stampede cluster is built from, since the Xeon E5 processors have not yet been launched yet. All we know is that the Dell machinery used in Stampede will be Intel Inside.
Intel was talking up the MIC coprocessor at its Developer Forum last week, saying that it would be delivered in the second half of 2012 with more than 50 Pentium cores linked together by a ring interconnect that is being deployed in Xeon and Itanium processors. MIC is the resurrection of Intel's failed "Larrabee" GPU effort, when Intel thought it could take on Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices in the discrete graphics market by making GPUs that spoke fluent (if somewhat Middle) x86 instead of whatever foreign bit-twiddling that GPUs speak.
The Stampede system will get about 2 petaflops of its aggregate floating point power from the Xeon E5 chips, and Intel has confirmed that the machine will use the eight-core variant. The other 8 petaflops of oomph will come from the MIC coprocessors.
Assuming we are talking about double-precision math, a MIC coprocessor with somewhere north of 50 cores (but not all 64 because the yields on the 22 nanometer processes might not be great on so large of a chip) should be on the order of 1 teraflops a pop. So you are talking about maybe 8,000 of these MIC puppies. Presumably Intel's flops ratings are based on double-precision math, but if not, then it is only 4,000 of the MICs.
If you put a gun to my head, I would say that the machine will have around 2,000 server nodes and around 8,000 MIC coprocessors. This would fit perfectly into the existing combination of the Dell PowerEdge C2100 tray servers and the C410x expansion chassis. The thing to keep in mind is this: if TACC uses a tweaked version of the PowerEdge C iron, those 2 petaflops of Xeon E5 power will take up about 4,000 aggregate rack units of space, while the MIC coprocessors will offer 8 petaflops in 1,500 rack units. The MICs deliver a factor of 11 better performance per unit of rack space.
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Mindy Leadholm, formerly of Hastings, has been a Vikings fan her whole life. Not even crossing the river into the Packer territory of Prescott could change that.
"It was the hardest thing for me to think about moving to Wisconsin as a Viking fan," Leadholm said.
Changing her license plate to Wisconsin was especially difficult, but she lessened the blow with a speciality license plate - SKOL MN.
She didn't have much of a choice in her team, seeing as she was raised by die-hard Vikings fans. Her parents Ken and Betty Hoeschen of Hastings had season tickets for more than 50 years, and have attended 3 of the 4 Super Bowls the Vikings played. Ken even started the Hastings Vikings fan club, and the original Vikings mascot came to both Ken and Betty's and Leadholm's wedding.
"No one can say that we're bandwagon fans," Leadholm said.
"We got on the wagon a long time ago," Ken added.
This long history of fandom was one of the things that led Leadholm, Ken and Betty to sign up to be part of the Crew 52 volunteers for this year's Super Bowl LII at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis on Sunday, Feb. 4.
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Of the about 30,000 people that applied for the volunteer positions, only 10,000 were selected.
Signing up meant completing an application, undergoing a background check and conducting one-on-one interviews.
"It was a pretty extensive process," Leadholm said.
Kelly Sweeney of Hastings knows just how much effort went on behind the scenes to get volunteers picked and ready to work. A U.S. Bank employee, Sweeney's involvement started in 2016 with the Super Bowl Host Committee.
"It's a massive undertaking that the host committee has made it look like it's easy, and I know it's not," she said.
Sweeney helped with a lot of background work, including being one of the people conducting the interviews with applicants.
"I personally was just looking for people that have positive energy, happy people that were just excited about the opportunity," Sweeney said.
The interviews covered everything from previous volunteer experience to the important Minnesota question, "Do you mind being in the cold?"
The lucky 10,000 were notified last fall, and attended their first orientation all together.
Selected volunteers include teenagers and those in their 70s, Sweeney said, and everything in between.
"I'm very excited about the caliber of the volunteers we have and I have the utmost faith that they're going to do a great job representing our city and our state," Sweeney said.
Over the last several weeks, the volunteers have been attending smaller sessions to learn more about their roles and responsibilities.
Most importantly, the volunteers are asked to be welcoming and hospitable, guiding guests where they need to go and giving recommendations of what to see. The training did cover a few more serious topics, including security and the concern of human trafficking.
Taking the field
Crew 52 and the 10,000 volunteers that make it up will be spread across the Twin Cities, from Super Bowl Live on Nicollet Mall to hotels in St. Paul. They will be welcoming visitors at the airport and guiding guests through the skyways.
Leadholm and Ken Hoeschen were still waiting for their training and assignments, but the two said they were excited to welcome people.
"We're just going to be there to greet people and show them how great our city and our state is," Leadholm said.
Just short of a miracle
Excitement reached a whole new level after the "Minneapolis Miracle" win against the New Orleans Saints on Sunday, Jan. 14. Talking before this past Sunday's game (the Vikings lost to Philadelphia 38-7), Leadholm and Ken had a hard time containing their excitement about a potential Vikings Super Bowl.
The host team playing in the big game would have been an NFL first. Though their team fell short of the big game, this Vikings family is still grateful for what they call a once in a lifetime opportunity.
"It's not really an option for us to go to the Super Bowl," Leadholm said. "This is the chance to participate without ever going to the game."

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By Kenneth D. Miller
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This summer will mark the 30-year anniversary of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, and while there is no timetable for the games to return to Southern California in the foreseeable future, it has been an Olympic Games that keeps giving to our community.
The Olympic Committee led then by Peter Ueberroth used profits from the games to endow the LA84 Foundation to promote youth sports in Southern California, educate coaches and maintain a sports library.
Today, LA84 President Anita DeFrantz leads the caretaker of The LA84 Foundation, formerly called the Amateur Athletic Foundation until changing its name in 2007.
DeFrantz, the 2010 inductee of the National Rowing Hall of Fame, earning
Bronze (eight oars with coxswain) as team captain at the Games of the XXI Olympiad in Montreal in 1976. She four times a finalist and silver medalist at the World Rowing Championships (1978), a member of the United States team (1975-1980) and winner of six national championships in a sport that few Blacks competed in then and now.
Additionally she is the highest-ranking African American as a member of the powerful International Olympic Committee (IOC), a position, which wields weight, power, and influence that is unrivaled.
The graduate of Connecticut College in 1974 earning a BA with Honors, Juris Doctor, and University of Pennsylvania School of Law in 1977, DeFrantz first job out of law school was working at Juvenile Law Centre of Philadelphia practicing children's rights, and also as an administrator at prestigious Princeton University.
"I have always been interested in how we treat children," she explained. DeFrantz fought successfully against an organization that was profiting by placing kids in youth detention centers in Philadelphia.
She has been instrumental in uplifting minorities, including Blacks, women and children through implementing a variety of programs that has inspired them to become self sufficient.
In 1981 Ueberroth offer her a job to work the Los Angeles Olympic Committee.
"They asked me what I wanted to do and I said there are two areas I am interested and one of the two was the Olympic Villages, and ultimately, I operated the one at USC," she told the Sentinel during an exclusive interview.
DeFrantz selected the Olympic Village because that's where her life changed during the time she spent at the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
"I was in law school and I remember that we had financial support and suddenly when we get to the Olympic games there is food available 24-hours a day, and people are accumulating from all around the world and made me understand that the world could live in peace."
So, her understanding of how important the village was to the athlete it was that experience that she brought to Los Angeles for the athletes.
"I knew what was important and also what made it fun," she stated. "We had two villages, at UCLA and at USC and to make sure that an athlete could eat at either village and that it was seamless was important."
There has not been an Olympic games since that has been as economically successful as the Los Angeles Games.
"In 1932 there was a $1.5 million dollar surplus and the state grabbed that up saying that would be the cost of building the Coliseum," she noted.
The Los Angeles Games generated a record of in excess of $200 million in surplus, of which 40 percent became the endowment to the then Los Angeles Amateur Athletic Foundation that was changed to LA84 Foundation.
That percentage was $92 million that stayed in Los Angeles and since the foundation was formed has been instrumental in making contributions of more than $200 million back to the community, according to DeFrantz.
"We've done a lot of work at Expo Park, and LA84 was responsible for getting the swimming pool there and getting it renovated," she said. The pool was scheduled for closure.
The organization continues to fund a number of football leagues in the Black community and Challengers Boys and Girls Club in South Los Angeles, little leagues throughout city, gymnasiums for disabled kids and many others.
LA84 Foundation, which was established to manage Southern California's share of the budget surplus from the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The private nonprofit invests in sports programs serving more than three million youth in eight Southern California counties.
DeFrantz is a member of multiple boards and organizations, including Member of the Board of Directors of the Vesper Boating Club; member of the Board of Directors, United States Rowing Association; member of the U.S. Olympic Committee Board of Directors; steward of the Women's Sports Foundation; President of the Southern California Olympian Society; Vice-President (1981-1985) of the Organizing Committee of the Games of the XXIII Olympiad in Los Angeles in 1984; Vice-President of the International Rowing Federation (FISA) (1993-); President, Kids in Sports (1994-); member of the board of directors of the Los Angeles Sports Council; member of the NCAA Leadership Advisory board (2005-)
She has numerous accolades such as the Abby J. Leibman Pursuit of Justice Award by the California Women's Law Center (2008); inducted into the National Consortium for Academics and Sports (NCAS) Hall of Fame in Orlando, USA (2009)
A member of the IOC Executive Board (1992-2001, 2013-); IOC Vice-President (1997-2001); Chairperson of the Women and Sport Commission (1995-); member of the following Commissions: Athletes' (1988-1991), Olympic Programme (summer) (1989-1994), Eligibility (1992), Olympic Movement (1992-1999), Juridical (1994-), Study of the Centennial Olympic Congress – Congress of Unity (1994-1996), Sport and Law (1994-), Coordination for the Games of the XXVII Olympiad in Sydney in 2000 (1995-2000), Finances (1999, 2002-), IOC 2000 Reform Commission and the IOC 2000 Reform Follow-up (2002), Coordination for the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London in 2012 (2005-); Coordinator of the Working Group Designation of Olympic Games Host Cities and member of the Executive Committee of the IOC 2000 Commission (1999); Chairperson of the IOC Athletes' Commission Election Committee (1996-)
She has met with world leaders and United States Presidents from Reagan, to Bush and Obama, but her primary focus of youth and particularly Blacks.
On July 18, 2014, will be 30th anniversary celebration of the Los Angeles Olympics, and while the games are history now, the presence of LA84 Foundation and their steadfast and diligent leader Anita DeFrantz are still making an enormous impact beyond its glory.


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A team of scientists in Italy and Sweden have been developing a sophisticated robotic hand, with fingertip sensors that feed directly into the arm's nerves. The overall look of the hand may be more like Nina Sharp's in Fringe than Luke Skywalker's in The Empire Strikes Back, but it does allow the wearer to actually feel the objects the hand touches. Just as the brain transmits data to robotic limbs — ordering them to grasp and release — so do the receptors feed data back to the brain. It not only returns to the wearer the sensation that they had lost, it likely also makes grabbing and manipulating objects an easier and more precise task.
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The Houston Dynamo were hoping to find some momentum entering the World Cup break. Unfortunately for them, they have found the wrong kind of momentum, as the Dynamo lost their third consecutive game in falling to the LA Galaxy 4-1 on Saturday.
Earlier in the week, the Dynamo spoke about scoring first against the Galaxy, but Houston conceded the first goal in the game's opening minute. The team battled back in the first half to tie the match and make a game of it, at least for 45 minutes. In the second half, however, the Galaxy exploded. Perhaps more accurately, the Dynamo imploded and gave up three second-half goals.
"I think we were doing OK in the first half, and in the second half we ran out of gas," said head coach Dominic Kinnear. "It's disappointing. We are all disappointed, because this is a proud group. [We have] a lot of question marks about the way we are playing, how our guys are playing individually and collectively, so it's a very disappointing time."
The Dynamo were without Geoff Cameron and Mike Chabala to injury and Adrian Serioux and Luís Angel Landín were away from the team for personal matters. Throw in a midweek match, two previous heartbreaking losses, and cross-country travel, and the Dynamo seemed to run out of gas against the Galaxy in the second half.
"It was a tough game," said midfielder Lovel Palmer. "The New York game was a tough one and then a long flight out here, so I think the guys are a little bit tired, but we can't find excuses; we need to find ways to win games. It's tough, but we are going to have to bounce back for the Colorado game [June 26]."
Houston's defense has given up nine goals in its last three games. It would be unfair, though, to blame the defense for the team's struggles on the night or of late. The entire squad has struggled from top to bottom. With the loss, Houston has dropped three consecutive games for only the second time in franchise history.
"There's not much to say about that one," said forward Brian Ching. "Disappointing. I can't remember the last time this team lost three games in a row, so things aren't going good. Tough week."
The World Cup break could not come at a better time for the Dynamo. Houston will need to use the time off to try to fix some of the problems or the team's playoff hopes will continue to fade. The club currently sits in fifth place in the Western Conference with two teams trailing them by only one point and with games in hand on the Dynamo.
"We just have to look ourselves in the mirror," said midfielder Lovel Palmer. "[We need to] evaluate our performance and work on it as individuals and as a team. We have to refocus over the next couple of weeks."
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Rapper Soulja Boy has gone from drawing the ire of the U.S. Military to drawing the unwanted attention of the Georgia Police Department.
The controversial rapper, who made headlines when his song "Let's Be Real" was called out for its anti-military lyrics (including the not-so-subtle "F***k the troops"), has reportedly been arrested for possession of marijuana.
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Charles Walker and Joseph Jenkins were mistakenly released from the Franklin Correctional Institution in the last month because of forged paperwork. They were captured at a Panama City motel in October and were taken back into custody by the Florida Department of Corrections.
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All Member States have adopted measures to implement Directive 2008/104/EC on temporary agency work and have in general done so correctly and applied its provisions in practice. These are the main findings of a report just published by the European Commission.
The deadline for Member States to implement the Directive was December 2011. The report concludes that it is not necessary to amend the Directive but that the Commission will rather focus on ensuring its proper implementation.
Effective framework in place. Thanks to the Directive, there is now in all Member States a framework providing for the effective protection of temporary agency workers, better quality agency work and recognition of agency work's positive contribution to the functioning of modern labour markets through its flexible use by employers.
The report also highlights that most Member States consider that the Directive does not give rise to additional costs on national authorities, temporary-work agencies or user companies, including small and medium-sized businesses.
However, the report indicates that further work is needed with Member States and social partners to ensure that the Directive fully achieves its goals, in particular in two areas:
certain derogations from the principle of equal treatment allowed by the Directive may have been used in such a way as to prevent the application of the Directive from improving in practice the protection of agency workers
the review of restrictions and prohibitions on the use of temporary agency work – although Member States have reviewed them as required by the Directive, and a few restrictive measures have been removed, in most cases Member States have maintained the status quo. In a number of Member States, the further removal of some restrictions and prohibitions is still being considered.
Next steps. The Commission, in close co-operation with national governments and EU level employee and employer representatives, will continue to ensure that the Directive is correctly implemented in all EU Member States and that its goals are achieved.
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I am very keen to make reviews a prominent feature of the book promotions and encourage readers to review the books that they buy and enjoy, or not as the case may be.
Word of mouth is still the most powerful marketing tool that anyone who is selling a product benefits from. Authors are no different, and our books tend to be judged by the number and quality that they have received.
Part of the problem is that those who are not writers of books or blogs are uncomfortable in offering reviews and feel that what they have to say is not important. Many who do review a book, leave just one line after their star rating, simply saying that the reader enjoyed or disliked a book, but they do not elaborate.
That is obviously very welcome. But whilst a potential reader does not want to read three pages filled with spoilers in a review, they do usually want a little more about what they are going to find before paying good money for a book.
In future any books that I publish are going to include a page immediately following the end.
And it is going to be a request for a review – good or bad, and I will lay out some basic questions that might help develop a review that is constructive.
Thank you for reading my book and it would mean a great deal to me if you could give me your opinion. Not only will this let me know what you feel about my writing in general, but potential readers will also value your feedback.
If you have bought this book from Amazon you will already have an account that will enable you to review books that you have bought, or have been given as a gift. If you have not bought the book yourself please mention that at the front end of the review so that it will be published. https://www.amazon.com
Goodreads is an excellent site for readers and you can sign in with facebook or sign up with an email address. This gives you access to thousands of books, enables you to connect with readers of the genres you enjoy and leave reviews on any books that you have read and feel you would like to offer constructive comments. https://www.goodreads.com/
Finally I would be delighted to hear from you by email email@example.com about the book.
What will really help me in my future writing is to know some of the following in your review.
- What did you like or dislike about the style of writing?
- What did you enjoy about the plots of the stories or of the novel?
- How did you feel about the main characters and were they believable?
- Was there a particular story in a collection or episode in the novel that you specifically enjoyed.
- What were your feelings when you finished the book? Were you satisfied, wanted more or unsatisfied?
- Is there anything else that you feel it is important to mention for the benefit of other readers
- Did you like the cover and how the book was laid out inside? Was it easy to read?
- Would you recommend the book to others?
N.B. I appreciate that you may not feel comfortable in leaving your own name on a review, especially if you need to offer constructive criticism. I suggest that if you read a lot of books that you create your own pen name for your reviews. It can be as simple as Avid Reader or a fictional name. That way your identity is private.
Thank you very much for taking the time to let me know your opinion. Best wishes Sally Cronin
I believe that all authors should put some version of the above at the end of their books. It gives the reader permission to offer their opinion and also shows them how to do so constructively.
I am sure that there will be some reviews that we have encouraged that may not be all positive, but I want to become a better writer and I can only do that if I have honest reviews.
I do hope that if a reader is very disappointed they will email me to let me know first but I also think that it might just encourage hesitant readers to come forward and help us sell more books.
In the meantime I am going to add a note to my author's page on Amazon requesting reviews for my current books and adding a link to this post.. Who knows!
Your views of course are equally important and look forward to hearing them. thanks Sally


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The event will start on Saturday, September 16, when Erik Reinert (Norway), visiting professor at TTÜ, will talk about capitalism and innovation. In the second half of the day, a visiting professor Carlota Perenz (Venezuela) will continue with a workshop, unleashing the golden Age of the ICT revolution.
On Sunday, September 17, Dan Breznitz (Canada) will give a presentation on innovation and the state. On September 18, Mary O'Sullivan (Ireland), William Janeway (USA) and TTÜ Professor Wolfgang Drechsler (Germany) will continue with their workshops.
On the last day of the conference, on September 19, e-residency and data analytics in public policy will be discussed.
25 abstracts were selected out of 90 to participate in the conference. As of today the registration for the event is closed.
The event is organized and co-funded by the US-based non-profit Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) Young Scholars Initative (YSI), particularly Working Group in Innovation.
The event is in English. A detailed agenda can be found here.
Additional information:
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Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance
Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
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BBC News
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- Jack Charlton 'changed everything in Ireland'
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- Children's grief book about 'hope' not 'darkness'
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- Micheál Martin: Irish PM 'concerned about GB-Ireland travel'
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- Jack Charlton: Leeds and Ashington legend remembered
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- The family social distancing for years
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- Tackling gangs as fears of post-lockdown 'madness'
- Vocal Works Gospel Choir will perform despite lockdown
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Our Open Day will provide you with a really good opportunity to walk around the inspiring campus, visit our student accommodation, and take a stroll into Ambleside to explore the area.
We know postgraduate study represents a significant investment for you, in time as well as financially. So, whilst you are on campus please do take the opportunity to talk to our passionate staff and student ambassadors: they will be delighted to give you their perspective on life as a student at the University of Cumbria in Ambleside.
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Dillon Segur is one of three Flames to compete at the ITA Atlantic Regional tournament this weekend.
2013 ITA Atlantic Regional Draws
The Liberty men's tennis team concludes its fall season this weekend with an appearance in the ITA Atlantic Regional tournament in Blacksburg, Va. The tournament gets under way tomorrow with the qualifying singles draw and will wrap up on Monday.
The Flames are one of 21 schools that will be represented at the tournament, which will take place at Virginia Tech's Burrows-Burleson Tennis Center.
The Flames have four players competing in the main singles draw, which begins on Friday. Shea Thomas earned a seed for the second consecutive year and will receive a first round bye. The Liberty senior will face the winner of Rafael Ribas of Virginia Tech versus Danny Khanin.
Liberty's three remaining competitors will compete in the opening round of the main singles draw. Jorge Azuero squares off against Meller Svard of UMBC, while Egon Samaai challenges Virginia Tech's Florian Nicoud and Dillon Segur plays Dimitry Zyhmantovich of Norfolk State.
The doubles draw will also commence on Friday, with one Liberty pair taking to the court. Segur and Samaai are pitted against Koen Wiggemans and Darragh Glavin of Old Dominion.
Thomas and Azuero are seeded 11th and will receive a first-round bye. The Flames' duo will meet the winner of Duquesne's Mehdi Mekaoui and Harry Walshe and Temple's San Rundle and Vineet Naran.
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John Maeda is has a proven academic record (S.M & S.B in electrical engineering and computer science) as a Japanese-American graphic-designer, computer scientist, university professor, and author. He was named one of the 21 most influential people in the 21st century by Esquire in 1999, and is the current president of the Rhode Island School of Design. His work focuses on digital design using technology, where this set that he created, "The 10 Morisawa Posters" demonstrates a digital typography experiment to improve the legibility and quality of typographic documents.
The 10 Morisawa Posters by John Maeda
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RSOW -- Patrícia Póvoa
Patrícia Póvoa is this week's Reader Submission Of the Week. Based in Lisbosa, Portugal, she loves making posters for movies/music artists and has no boundaries. My favorites out of the bunch are probably the comic character torsos.
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Vintage Lucky Strike Cigarette Packaging
Going past what Matthew Weiner depicts about the classic cigarette brand Lucky Strike in Mad Men, I thought it would be interesting to see how the packaging design developed over the years. As Lucky Strike was a popular cigarette during WWII, it was originally green and gold, where after the way it was seen in a patriotic and well-known brand that was found to not be seen attractive to women given its dull packaging design. The company's president George Washington Hill then bet $50,000 and challenged the renown industrial designer Raymond Loewy in 1942 to redesign the Lucky Strike packaging to make it more appealing and marketable. Loewy changed the background color from green to white, and placed the logo on both sides of the package to increase visibility and sales.
He won the bet.
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Yesterday, a press release was received by this blog, and it says -
On behalf of the Honourable Steven Blaney, Minister of Veterans Affairs, the Honourable Laurie Hawn, Member of Parliament for Edmonton Centre, took part this evening in the launch of the 2012 Vintage Wings of Canada flight season at the Gatineau Airport. The aviation enterprise is dedicated to promoting and preserving the history of Canadian aviation
"Vintage Wings of Canada does important work in preserving and better enabling us to understand the role and history of Canadian aviation in the development of our country," said Honourable Blaney.
Vintage Wings of Canada brings together aviators and aviation enthusiasts, who maintain a fleet and participate in flight activities and the promotion of Canada's aviation heritage. The organization offers educational programs and guided tours (by reservation only) of its collection, exhibited in their hangar at the Gatineau Airport. Veterans and members of the Canadian Armed Forces are welcome at all times.
Veterans Affairs Canada maintains on its Web site at www.veterans.gc.ca archived videos that capture the personal experiences of women and men who have served Canada in times of conflict, including Canadian aviators.
Earlier this month, Minister Blaney and MP Hawn announced a $100,000 contribution toward the creation of a new Bomber Command Memorial to be unveiled this June in London's Green Park in the United Kingdom.
During the Second World War, while the Royal Air Force Fighter Command defended the United Kingdom against aerial attacks, approximately 50,000 Canadian service men and women were part of the Bomber Command, which attacked the enemy's military strength by bombing key targets in an attempt to weaken its military and industrial capabilities.
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Pretty Sourdough Today
My sourdough loaf came out really nice today.
I used a firmer starter than I usually do. I believe it was 30 grams starter, 50 grams water, 50 grams rye flour that I left out overnight. In the AM I added 500 grams bread flour, 370 grams water, and 10 grams salt. Folded 3-4 times over 3-4 hours, shaped it, baked it in a pot for 45 minutes.
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Yesterday Moody's came out with a warning on the US AAA rating, though it basically said that a failure to raise the debt ceiling by Aug 2 wouldn't necessarily result in a downgrade. Any kind of "technical" default would certainly result in a downgrade.
But this is different.
According to Ben White at POLITICO, S&P is privately warning of a pre-default downgrade.
Even if Treasury avoids a technical default (continuing to make interest payments), the US rating could be toast. S&P's John Chambers has met with top Senate Democrats and the Chamber of Commerce (presumably to get the business organization to put pressure on lawmakers).
The clock ticks...
See also: Is this how the ratings agencies destroy the economy ?


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Risk Factors and Potential Causes of Eustachian Tube Dysfunction in Adults
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01251432
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : December 2, 2010
Last Update Posted : November 4, 2016
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This research study measures how well the Eustachian tube works and looks directly at the anatomy of the Eustachian tube in adults who have had tympanostomy tubes surgically inserted into their eardrums because they have been diagnosed as having either "otitis media" or "poor Eustachian tube function". The Eustachian tube is a biologic tube that connects the back of the nose to the middle ear (the airspace located behind your eardrum). That tube is usually closed, but can be opened by swallowing and other activities. Periodic openings of the Eustachian tube allow air to flow between the nose and middle ear which keeps the pressure of gas in the middle ear at the same level as that of the atmosphere, a condition required for good hearing. In children and adults, middle-ear diseases such as otitis media with effusion (the buildup of fluid within the middle ear) and a form of temporary hearing loss (conductive hearing loss) occur if the Eustachian tube does not open, does not open frequently enough or is always open (called a patulous Eustachian tube). A diagnosis of these different conditions can be made using standard, clinical tests of Eustachian tube function and the Eustachian tube can be visualized where it enters the back of the nose using a specialized telescope called an endoscope. Some scientific reports suggest that the cause of poor Eustachian tube function in an individual can be determined by studying the anatomy of the Eustachian tube at the back of the nose and the movements of the Eustachian tube in that area during swallowing, talking and other activities using an endoscope.
In this study, the investigators plan to explore the relationship between the results of the standard Eustachian tube function tests and those for the anatomy and function of the Eustachian tube in adults with a disease condition likely to be caused by poor Eustachian tube function. Also, there are a number other disease conditions (examples: nasal allergy, acid reflux disease) that are related to poor Eustachian tube function and it is possible that these conditions and their effect on Eustachian tube function can be treated with medicines. Therefore, the investigators also plan to evaluate enrolled persons for those conditions. It is expected that if the results of the standard Eustachian tube function tests can be explained by the anatomy of the back of the nose and Eustachian tube, the functional anatomy (movements during swallowing etc) of the Eustachian tube or the presence of allergy and or/acid reflux disease, new medical and/or surgical treatments can be developed to improve Eustachian tube function and "cure" or treat the associated middle-ear diseases.
|Condition or disease
|Eustachian Tube Dysfunction Chronic Otitis Media
This study requires a single visit to the Middle Ear Physiology Laboratory (MEPL) located on the first floor of the Oakland Medical Building (3420 Fifth Avenue in Oakland, Pittsburgh, PA). Adjacent parking attached to that building is available. The total time of the visit should be about 2 hours.
If the subject is eligible and signs informed consent to participate in the study, a series of questions regarding past history of ear disease will be asked as well as whether or not a subject has any of several risk factors that makes people more likely to develop otitis media with effusion and other ear diseases. The subject will also complete a short questionnaire that asks questions about whether or not they have symptoms consistent with acid reflux disease. Then, a blood sample (about 2/3 of a tablespoon) will be taken from an arm vein and sent to a laboratory for assay of chemicals associated with allergic diseases. These procedures should take about 30 minutes to complete.
Then, the subject's Eustachian tube function will be tested in the ear/ears that have open tympanostomy tubes in the eardrum. For these tests, the subject will be seated comfortably in a chair and a soft rubber tube will be put partway into their ear canal. This tube is attached to a machine that can change the pressure in the ear and measure the pressure at which the Eustachian tube opens and closes, as well as how easily air flows through the Eustachian tube and how easily the subject can open their Eustachian tube during swallowing. These tests only require that the subject not pull the ear plug from their ear and perform certain procedures designed to open their Eustachian tube such as swallowing with an open and pinched nose, blowing against a closed nose and deep breathing. The total time for testing is about 20 minutes per ear.
Then, a study doctor will apply topical medicines by spray and cotton balls to the inside of the nose to decrease any swelling and numb the nose (4% Lidocaine and 0.05% Oxymetazoline mixed in 1:1 proportion). After a short break of about 20 minutes to allow time for these medicines to work, the study doctor will choose which side of the subject's nose is most open and will introduce a small video telescope (called an endoscope) into that side of the nose and move it to the back of the nose. This will allow him/her to see the back of the nose and the Eustachian tubes. He/she will focus the endoscope on the Eustachian tubes and will record video images of the back of the nose, the Eustachian tubes at rest and the movements of the Eustachian tubes while the subject swallows, yawns, repeats an "O" sound, repeats a "K" sound and moves their jaw. The subject will be able to see the movements of the Eustachian tube on a monitor while performing these procedures. This procedure should take about 40 minutes to complete.
After this test, the study is complete.
|Study Type :
|Actual Enrollment :
|30 participants
|Observational Model:
|Time Perspective:
|Official Title:
|Risk Factors and Potential Causes of Eustachian Tube Dysfunction in Adults With Clinically Diagnosed Chronic Otitis Media With Effusion and/or Eustachian Tube Dysfunction
|Study Start Date :
|June 2010
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|May 2016
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|May 2016
chronic otitis media
adults who have had tympanostomy tube(s) inserted for chronic otitis media
Eustachian tube dysfunction
adults who have had tympanostomy tube(s) inserted for the clinical diagnosis of Eustachian tube dysfunction
- Eustachian tube function [ Time Frame: Visit 1 ]manometric tests of ET function
- results of videoendoscopic exam [ Time Frame: Visit 1 ]endoscopic examination of ET during various maneuvers
- serum IgE titer [ Time Frame: Visit 1 ]results of blood test for allergy
- GERD survey [ Time Frame: Visit 1 ]results of questions on gastroesophageal reflux
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- 18 years of age and older
- at least one functioning tympanostomy tube
Exclusion Criteria:
- any diagnosed cancer
- otitis onset attributable to barotrauma (eg, hyperbaric oxygen treatment)
- known vestibular/inner ear pathology who may incur dizzy or vertigo symptoms as a result of increase in middle ear pressure
- history of ossicular chain reconstruction
- known hypersensitivity to topical medicines (lidocaine, oxymetazoline)
- severe nasal obstruction
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01251432
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Middle Ear Physiology Laboratory, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213
|Principal Investigator:
|Cuneyt M Alper, MD
|Department of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
|Responsible Party:
|Cuneyt M. Alper, Professor of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh
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P50DC007667 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|December 2, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|November 4, 2016
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|November 2016
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Eustachian tube
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Move over Da Vinci, Jake Gyllenhaal has his sights set on a different box office "Code."
Jake is in talks to star in the sci-fi thriller "Source Code," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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The story centers on a soldier, who as part of an experimental government program to investigate a terrorist incident, finds himself reliving a series of events that take place on a commuter train just prior to the train exploding.
Production is scheduled to begin in early 2010.
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Jake – who last appeared in the 2007 dramas "Rendition" and "Zodiac" – will return to the big screen on December 4 for the war drama "Brothers," alongside Tobey Maguire and Natalie Portman.
He also stars in "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time," which hits theaters in May 2010.
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Published on Wednesday, April 16, 2014 by Common Dreams
Which Side Are You on? Why This Student Sit-in Against Peabody Coal Matters
by Jeff Biggers
Entering its second week, the inspiring Washington University sit-in against Peabody Energy has already gone beyond its goals to cut school ties with the St. Louis-based coal giant, and forced the rest of the nation to ask themselves an urgent question in an age of climate change and reckless strip mining ruin: Which side are you on?
Will other schools, alumni groups -- and investors in Peabody Energy -- follow the lead of the Washington U. students?
Case in point: Tonight in my native Saline County in southern Illinois, the county commissioners genuflected to short-term Peabody coal dollars over the "negative impact on about a dozen homeowners who live near the site of the proposed mine," according to one cynical commissioner, and voted to allow the company to close off Rocky Branch road for a proposed strip mine expansion, despite the lack of EPA permits, and documented evidence of flooding, blasting and emergency access problems.
Facing financial ruin, grave heath problems and displacement, the Rocky Branch residents will fight on, thanks to the Wash U. students, and continue to tell the truth: We all live in the coalfields now, in this age of climate change, and it is no longer acceptable to allow anyone to be collateral damage to a disastrous energy policy.
As Rolling Stone recently noted, Peabody CEO Greg Boyce just might be one of the biggest obstacles to meaningful climate change action in the world.
And the historic legacy of those obstacles -- from the heartland to the far reaches of Asia -- should make Washington University end its shameless relationship with Boyce and Peabody immediately.
My family and communities in southern Illinois have literally been fighting the plunder of our communities, farms, forests and coal mining laborers by Peabody coal, along with various other out-of-state companies, since Mr. Francis Peabody himself sank his first historic mine in our parts in 1895.
When Wash U. students joined retired coal miners at Peabody headquarters last year, to reclaim promised health benefits lost in a bankruptcy scheme -- one southern Illinois miner died in 2012 in Peabody's violation-ridden mines -- we were reminded that our coal mining family members even had to pitch a veritable war against Peabody and its sycophants for a living wage, workplace safety and civil rights back in the 1930s, and earlier decades.
But southern Illinois, despite its historic role in coal mining, has hardly cornered the market on suffering -- especially when it comes to Peabody coal plunder.
In the 1950s, when Peabody collapsed due to market pressures, and relocated its famous brand name to St. Louis under Sinclair Coal Company control, it began one of the most shameful chapters in American history by manipulating the relocation of thousands of Hopi and Navajos on Black Mesa in Arizona and carried out decades of strip mining ruin and water contamination.
In the meantime, Peabody also shifted its massive strip mining operations to central Appalachia, made famous by John Prine's "Paradise" ballad about the loss of his family's community in western Kentucky. "Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away," go the chilling lyrics.
Today, recording over $7 billion in revenues, Peabody has taken its devastating plunder worldwide.
Peabody now operates the largest strip mine in the eastern states, in a controversial operation in Indiana.
With an eye to the spiraling and poorly regulated Asian market, Peabody is expanding its operations in Mongolia.
Despite the magnitude of climate change and the loss of Indonesia's forests and carbon sink for the world, Peabody is expanding operations in that country.
In Australia, Peabody coal miners have launched recent strikes, while religious, farm and environmental groups have called out its reckless mine expansion and lack of a moral compass.
Back in the Midwest, over 217 communities are outraged by their soaring electricity rates from a Peabody boondoggle Prairie state coal-fired plant.
How much longer should educational institutions and other civil rights-minded investors enable the Peabody mine disasters?
That's the big question the Washington University students have asked their administration -- and the rest of the nation.
And that is the big question we must all answer.
Meanwhile, for more information on the Rocky Branch strip mine showdown in southern Illinois, see:
• Judy's Rock: More Road Blocks of Peabody's Dead End
• Mr. Peabody's Coal Train Ain't Haulin' Away Rocky Branch
• Residents Stand Up to Peabody Coal at Historic EPA Hearing
• Illinois Strip Mine Showdown is Last Best Hope for Coalfield Justice
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Jeff Biggers is the author of The United States of Appalachia, and more recently, Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland (The Nation/Basic Books). Follow him on twitter: @JeffRBiggers
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A human-caused climate change signal emerges from the noise
Posted 29 November 2012 - 11:57 PM
Read more at: http://phys.org/news...-noise.html#jCp
Climate denialists can disagree all they want and I'm certain they will, but the data keeps mounting and pointing to us humans causing climate change to some extent.
Posted 03 December 2012 - 11:43 PM
- Contrary to all the predictions by the computer models, there has been no global warming for the past sixteen years; global temperatures have plateaued.
- While global temperatures have plateaued, the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide has continued to increase, and carbon dioxide emissions are said to have increased by more than 54% over the past twenty two years.
Since it is clearly obvious that atmospheric carbon dioxide has minimal, if any, bearing on climate change, how do these "scientists" reconcile their conclusions with reality?
Posted 05 December 2012 - 08:06 AM
Posted 07 December 2012 - 11:50 PM
Your reply isn't germane, because they weren't looking specifically at co2's role. They were looking for other human caused telltales and separating those causes from natural cause variations in the data. You might want to read the article again.
Try connecting the dots.
Posted 08 December 2012 - 09:18 AM
Your reply isn't germane, because they weren't looking specifically at co2's role. They were looking for other human caused telltales and separating those causes from natural cause variations in the data. You might want to read the article again.
Try connecting the dots.
I did and the article still doesn't address specifically co2's role in climate change. That's your best rebuttal ? C'mon Canuck aren't you going to tell us these people aren't real scientists or proffer up someone, Watts et al commentary ? The evidence keeps mounting for human caused change contrasting your side which offers absolutely no convincing evidence theses changes are absolutely natural variations. Do you really find it implausible and impossible that 7 billion + people in the strongest terms possible for you to express cannot have any influence on climate ? Really, is that what you believe ?
Posted 13 December 2012 - 01:32 AM
But then again, even after all this time, you haven't figured out the difference between AGW and climate change; so it is probably too much to expect you to take the time to understand some of the technical complexities of atmospheric physics.
On the other hand, you do seem to have developed a pretty fair grasp of climate politics. I notice how you applied the well established propaganda tactic of changing the argument when your original argument is discredited.
Specifically, while the original argument used to be about the climate effects of human generated carbon dioxide, you have managed to morph it into the impact of the size of the human population.
A deft move! Herr Goebbels would be proud.
Posted 13 December 2012 - 08:28 AM
You really should spend more time reading up on the subject; it you were to do so, you may come to understand the hypothesis relating human generated carbon dioxide and upper atmospheric temperature stratification. More importantly, you may come to understand why the subject is so controversial.
But then again, even after all this time, you haven't figured out the difference between AGW and climate change; so it is probably too much to expect you to take the time to understand some of the technical complexities of atmospheric physics.
On the other hand, you do seem to have developed a pretty fair grasp of climate politics. I notice how you applied the well established propaganda tactic of changing the argument when your original argument is discredited.
Specifically, while the original argument used to be about the climate effects of human generated carbon dioxide, you have managed to morph it into the impact of the size of the human population.
A deft move! Herr Goebbels would be proud.
I didn't morph it into anything. My position has always been from the start humans are to some extent changing the climate. Co2 emissions where just one part.
It has been noted by me and I'm sure by other members you've not specifically rebutted this particular article either through knowledge you've learned or with the help of those true scientists. And you keep telling me I don't know what I'm talking about. I wonder the same about you. Have you notice when you rebut you bring no facts at all to the table. What you do bring is rhetoric and opinions of a tiny few persons that also deny humans can influence climate like Watts, McIntyre and Nova. The real crux of climate denial is the absolute unwillingness to consider humans can influence the climate. In other words absolutely all the occurring climate changes have naturally induced causes. That is your belief. I'm certain you will to the bitter end keep denying humans could and can influence climate.
Posted 18 December 2012 - 09:09 PM
However to date, your responses suggest that you are more inclined to accept assertions from authority than you are to conduct research or analysis of your own.
With respect to the paper above, the major issue with it is that it does not reconcile its conclusions with the reality of the fact that there has been no global warming for sixteen years. The authors are still silent on that point.
As Richard Feynman said many years ago; "If the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, the theory is wrong".
Similarly, you have evidently missed a very significant point in the discussion. Specifically, nobody disputes the fact that human activity has an influence on climate.
The specific issue is whether or not human generated carbon dioxide is a significant contributor to climate change.
To date, the overwhelming body of objective evidence answers "no".
This fact is implicitly acknowledged by the warmist alarmists in the fact that they have changed the argument away from "global warming" to "climate change".
So why do these warmist alarmists continue to push this barrow? Follow the money.
The gravy train of research grants to otherwise unemployable scientists rolls on; at Darfu, the delegates spent much of their time developing schemes by which corrupt third world countries can extort money from the developed nations for perceived injury suffered; GE and other big companies continue to rake in the cash for manufacturing environmentally destructive wind turbines; Chinese manufacturers produce huge quantities of toxic waste while manufacturing grossly inefficient solar panels; the Amazon rainforest continues to disappear, to be replaced by sugar plantations as feedstock for fuel alcohol; the Asian rainforests continue to be chopped down and replaced by palm oil plantations to produce the fuel for SUVs; etc; etc.
Posted 19 December 2012 - 05:23 PM
Well you seem to be wrong about there being no warming over the past 16 years.
UK Met Office responds: It's still getting warmer
The UK Met Office emphasizes it did not say that global warming stopped 16 years ago. Here's an excerpt from the UK Met Office regarding the October 13 Daily Mail article:
It is the second article Mr Rose has written which contains some misleading information …
The linear trend from August 1997 (in the middle of an exceptionally strong El Nino) to August 2012 (coming at the tail end of a double-dip La Nina) is about 0.03°C/decade, amounting to a temperature increase of 0.05°C over that period, but equally we could calculate the linear trend from 1999, during the subsequent La Nina, and show a more substantial warming. As we've stressed before, choosing a starting or end point on short-term scales can be very misleading. Climate change can only be detected from multi-decadal timescales due to the inherent variability in the climate system. If you use a longer period from HadCRUT4 the trend looks very different. For example, 1979 to 2011 shows 0.16°C/decade (or 0.15°C/decade in the NCDC dataset, 0.16°C/decade in GISS). Looking at successive decades over this period, each decade was warmer than the previous – so the 1990s were warmer than the 1980s, and the 2000s were warmer than both. Eight of the top ten warmest years have occurred in the last decade.
So … it is still warming after all. In fact, in a report released by the National Climatic Data Center this week, global land and ocean surface temperatures for the month of September 2012 tied with 2005 as the warmest September on record, at 0.67 degrees Celsius (1.21 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 20th century average of 15.0 degrees Celsius (59.0 degrees Fahrenheit). It appears that the rate of warming has slowed slightly at this time; in other words, at the moment, it's not increasing in warmth as fast as it was. Temperatures remain at all-time highs since records began, however, and our warming climate continues to break its own records.
A new article to consider.
Human role in climate change now virtually certain, leaked IPCC report say
The fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was prematurely published on a blog called Stop Green Suicide by blogger Alec Rawls, who obtained the document as a reviewer. The draft report, which was still undergoing a peer review process, said that "there is consistent evidence from observations of a net energy uptake of the earth system due to an imbalance in the energy budget." "It is virtually certain that this is caused by human activities, primarily by the increase in CO2 concentrations. There is very high confidence that natural forcing contributes only a small fraction to this imbalance." Rawls drew attention to another part of the report about the effect of cosmic rays on global warming, saying in a statement that "admission of strong evidence for enhanced solar forcing changes everything." However, this section had been taken out of context and could not be used to cast doubt on the idea that human activity is warming the globe, said Steve Sherwood, one of the authors of the report and Co-Director of the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. "I think the most interesting aspect of how this has been blogged by the climate deniers is that it reveals how deeply in denial they are," he said in an email to The Conversation.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news...leaked.html#jCp
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Schellenberg, Gerhard K. (1827-1908)
Gerhard K. Schellenberg: Mennonite minister of the Kleine Gemeinde; born 1 December 1827 in the village of Blumstein, Molotschna Colony, South Russia. His parents were Gerhard Schellenberg (1797-1837) and Elizabeth Kasdorf (1792-1864). Gerhard was baptized in the Kleine Gemeinde in May 1847. That same year he married Elizabeth Warkentin (1819-1905) and together they had two children, Gerhard and Margaretha. When they came to Canada in 1874 they also brought two foster children with them, Jacob Bartel and Katharina Goossen. In Canada Gerhard and Elizabeth became homesteaders and founded the village of Rosenfeld, Manitoba along with a number of other Mennonite settlers in the area. They had the resources to build a large house and began farming. Tragically their 13-year-old daughter Margaretha died the following year, in 1875.
In addition to being a successful farmer, Gerhard also became an active leader in his church community. While still in Russia, he was elected to the ministry in 1866 after moving to the village of Rosenfeld, part of the Borozenko Colony. During his years of service to the church, Gerhard demonstrated sound knowledge of scripture and biblical exposition in his sermons and writings. When divisions among the Kleine Gemeinde leadership developed into a crisis situation during 1969, Gerhard joined in an effort to bring reconciliation and reunification. As a result of negotiations between the various factions, Gerhard and two other ministers joined the "reform" group which later became known as the Blumenhof Gemeinde. In spite of all efforts to maintain unity separation seemed inevitable. In August 1869 under the leadership of Jakob A. Wiebe the "reform" group broke from the Kleine Gemeinde and founded the Krimmer Mennonite Brethren Church. Unfortunately by 1871 the "reform" group Gerhard had joined in 1869 had lost confidence in his ministerial abilities and he was removed from office for crossing some boundary while hay-making. Though he had trespassed unintentionally, after several meetings the church removed him from his ministry because "his repentance had not been deep enough." Although Gerhard was never restored to the ministry in 1873 he was appointed Waisenvorsteher of the Kleine Gemeinde Waisenamt, a position of significant responsibility which he continued to administer after the immigration to Canada.
After retiring, Gerhard and Elizabeth moved into a small house near their son and it was here that Elizabeth died on 5 July 1905. Gerhard K. Schellenberg, who had served his church and community faithfully in spite of disagreements and divisions, died on 28 November 1908.
Schellenberg, David K. "Gerhard K. Schellenberg 1827-1908." Preservings No. 9 Part I (December 1996): 36-40.
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Roman religion
Roman religion, the religious beliefs and practices of the people of ancient Rome. The spirits were held in awe and were placated with offerings and prayers.
Origins and Development
The indigenous Italic religion, which was the nucleus of the religion of ancient Rome, was essentially animistic. It depended on the belief that forces or spirits, called numina (sing., numen), existed in natural objects and controlled human destiny.
In the beginning of the historical period, when Italy was dotted with small agricultural communities, the family and the household were the basic religious units. Everything vital to the continuance of human life had its numen and appropriate rite. For the perpetuity of the family, the Italian farmer made offerings to the genius of the family. For the safety of the household he worshiped Vesta, the guardian spirit of the hearth fire; the lares and penates, guardians of the house; and Janus, guardian of the door. To protect the boundaries of his property he honored Terminus. To insure an abundant harvest he held various festivals throughout the year. To placate the spirits of the dead he made offerings to the lemures, to the manes, and to the deities of the underworld. In performing these religious ceremonies the head of the family acted as the priest and was assisted by his sons and daughters.
When these families coalesced into tribes and then a state, the family cult and ritual formed the basis of the state cult and ritual. Vesta had a community hearth, the penates a community storeroom, Janus a holy door in the Forum. Rome, which was theoretically one family, was ruled by its king, who as such was head of the family and chief priest. The king was assisted in his duties by his "sons and daughters," the colleges of priests and priestesses. They elaborated and recorded the rituals necessary for the propitiation of the gods and regulated the state ceremonies and the ceremonial calendar. The official clergy included the pontifex maximus, the rex sacrorum [king of the sacred rites], the pontifices, the flamens (see flamen), and the vestal virgins.
Influence of Greek and Middle Eastern Culture
In the earliest period of Roman state religion, Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus were the supreme triad. The Romans, however, tolerant of new gods and religions (provided that no harm was done to the state as such), adopted many foreign gods. Under the influence of the Etruscans and other Italic communities, new gods began to appear about the 7th cent. BC A wider and much more significant influence, however, was that of the Greek and Middle Eastern cults from about the 3d cent. BC Old Roman deities were equated with the Greek gods and accordingly endowed with their attributes and myths. Such important cults as the worship of Dionysus and Apollo were brought to Rome. Greek philosophy, particularly that of the Epicureans (see Epicurus) and the Stoics (see Stoicism), began to influence Roman religious thought.
In the last two centuries of the republic—when the old basis of Roman religion had lost much of its importance, and when the state had grown so massive and distant that its ceremonies failed to satisfy the populace—religious feeling rapidly degenerated. The people, needing a new and emotionally more satisfying religion, turned toward the religious mysteries and the Middle Eastern cults. The most prominent were those of the Great Mother (see Cybele), Isis and Osiris, Sol, and Mithra. Old Roman worship had been controlled, impersonal, and concerned with matters of the everyday world. The new cults, which centered around the individual, promised personal salvation and blessed afterlife. It was in this religious air that Christianity took root and eventually triumphed.
See W. R. Halliday, Lectures on the History of Roman Religion (1922); F. Altheim, A History of Roman Religion (1938); H. J. Rose, Ancient Roman Religion (1959).


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It appears that finally a police force has decided officers have better things to do than harass people in non-motorized watercraft for not wearing life jackets or for enjoying a beer.
Unfortunately for people in Northern Ontario that force is not the Ontario Provincial Police.
Calgary Police have decided not to launch their patrol boat on the Bow and Elbow rivers this summer. Deputy Chief Trevor Daroux says that will free officers for other duties.
"Our question is: Is there a better way to do things?" he said. "Are there better ways to use our resources to enhance public safety?"
Indeed, whether ranked by severity or frequency, offences such as homicide, robbery, assault, break-ins, theft and fraud probably deserve police attention a lot more than does some sunbaked guy or gal on an air mattress towing a couple of beers in a string bag.
Motorized craft aren't allowed on waterways within Calgary city limits. But drifting on canoes, rafts or air mattresses is a popular summer pastime. About 10,000 took to the rivers last summer.
Police and bylaw enforcement officers ticketed about 700 of them, mostly for liquor offences.
News accounts suggest those not wearing lifejackets or equipped with proper safety equipment usually were issued warnings.
A fire department patrol boat will be on the rivers to handle emergencies. Bylaw enforcement officers can still ticket offenders and police on the riverbanks can still act on infractions.
But Calgary Sun columnist Dave Breakenridge raised "a river-chilled can of Pil" to "this win for common sense."
"I can think of a better use of our police than playing babysitter to a bunch of pleasure cruisers," he wrote. "Leave rafters to enjoy the river, and assume the majority will do so safely."
Breakenridge and I sing from the same hymn book.
I've written several times about the excess zeal of OPP marine patrols in cracking down on relatively innocent behaviour.
My point generally has been that the people they apprehend or charge or ticket pose no threat to anyone but themselves, if that, and OPP should devote their resources to more serious crimes.
But there's no indication that OPP will follow the lead of their Alberta brethren, so we can expect another summer in which cottage residents are generally more afraid of the marine patrol than they are of any criminal activity on their lake.
Judging from what I've seen and heard, OPP marine patrols are less inclined to issue warnings than police in Calgary have been.
On the lake where I live, OPP have charged or ticketed people for relatively minor and mostly harmless rule-breaking.
There was the infamous case of the Paddleboat Guy a couple of summers ago. An OPP marine patrol charged him with impaired operation of a vessel, operating a vessel with over 80 mg of alcohol in his system and not having a personal flotation device on board.
They hauled him in handcuffs across the lake and suspended his motor vehicle driver's licence on the spot.
Months later, Crown Attorney Bill Johnson formally withdrew the liquor charges after a Ministry of the Attorney General review concluded there was "no reasonable prospect of conviction."
Last year patrollers nabbed a boater who had thrown a 15-horsepower motor on his aluminum boat after his 9.9-hp died. It probably hadn't occurred to him the upgrade would require carrying a pleasure craft licence (similar to a vehicle ownership slip) on board and displaying licence numbers on each side of the bow.
He got no warning, no grace period to correct the deficiency. Just a ticket. And the fine is in the range of $250.
Later that summer I watched the patrol swoop down on a couple of sunbathing moms who were putt-putting around the lake.
Whatever the law infractions or deficiencies in their safety equipment and PFDs were, the encounter cost them hundreds of dollars.
As they passed my dock on the way home, one shouted this warning: "Don't go out on the lake today. It's not safe."
Most of us know OPP do a good job of dealing with crime in our community, sometimes under difficult or dangerous circumstances. I feel for them when I see officers working out there in a blizzard or a downpour.
But when the marine unit puts in at the boat launch, it can cloud a sunny summer afternoon.
Hardly anyone feels their safety threatened by a paddleboater who might be impaired or not have a PFD. A power boat is no less dangerous if it has numbers on the bow and there is a licence in the operator's pocket.
The greatest danger posed by boaters in bikinis not wearing lifejackets might be distracted driving by other boaters.
Safety on waterways is a laudable objective. But perhaps, as the decision by Calgary Police suggests, rigorous enforcement is not the best way to achieve it.
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Here are the results from our largest Linux file-system comparison to date. Using the soon-to-be-released Linux 2.6.38 kernel, on a SATA hard drive and solid-state drive, we benchmarked seven file-systems on each drive with the latest kernel code as of this past weekend. The tested file-systems include EXT3, EXT4, Btrfs, XFS, JFS, ReiserFS, and NILFS2.
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Imported from Detroit, Styled by Wind: Chrysler Shifts Design Focus
If you like the boxy design of the Chrysler 300, you might be disappointed when the next-generation model arrives. Chrysler's design chief Ralph Gilles says future cars will be sleeker with wind-inspired looks.
Gilles spoke yesterday at the annual Mackinac Policy Conference and said his team will concentrate on fuel-saving aerodynamics by spending more time in the wind tunnel, according to Automotive News. He cited the Toyota Avalon and Audi A7 as examples of the competition moving to sleeker designs.
"The wind is starting to sculpt these vehicles," Gilles said. "We'll have no choice but to be some of the most wind-swept vehicles that you've ever seen."
Gilles has already pushed for more collaboration between designers and engineers and has even encouraged more frequent input from CEO Sergio Marchionne.
More importantly, Gilles' design team has spent more time working and studying aerodynamics in the wind tunnel. According to the Automotive News report, Chrysler's design team spends between 200-300 hours in the wind tunnel, compared to just 100 hours in the past. Chrysler was once an innovator in aerodynamic automotive design. Back in 1934, Chrysler turned to aviation pioneer Orville Wright for advice on integrating wind tunnels into the design process.
As a result, the Chrysler Airflow was the first car to feature unit-body construction and aerodynamically optimized design. Features included recessed headlights and streamlined sheetmetal. The design proved too radical, however, and was met by poor sales numbers. That shouldn't be an issue for Chrysler today, with consumers embracing sedans with sporty design cues.
Do you welcome future Chryslers and Dodges with sleeker designs or do you prefer the boxier styling on today's cars? Tell us what you think in the comments section below.
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Hi all,
It's been a really long time since I have been on here. I popped back on briefly a few years ago, but wasn't able to be very active here as I was dealing with a lot of health problems in addition to my epilepsy. I think it was around 2009 when I was last on. Before that, I had been pretty active on here 2002-2005ish I can't remember for sure. Anyway, I hope everyone both new and old members have been doing well.
I'm experiencing new seizure symptoms, and now have learned to recognize my auras. I'm calling my neurologist soon, just not sure if I should wait until after I have my ankle surgery this coming Friday or not. I'm worried about side effects and possible med changes interfering with the surgery and I can't put the ankle surgery off.
Anyway, back to my seizures. They're happening more frequently and worse than I've had in years. Plus the new symptoms.
Over the years, I've been diagnosed with Absence, Complex Partial and Simple Partial seizures. Until this last year, I never experienced an aura that I knew of. Now, when it happens I get sudden nausea, (sometimes even throw up a little) light headed, dizzy and heavy headed feeling. It's very weird sensations. Then I've been having more cluster seizures than ever before. Afterward, I am so exhausted that I can't keep my eyes open, not just tired and sleepy, like it's a battle to even keep my eyes open. So I go lay down and sleep it off. I've also in the last 6 months begun to have times where I have a hard time with breathing-like a yawn that is unfinished/can't catch my breath type of thing, over and over and over. (sometimes just when sitting on the couch, not activity needed to bring that on) My heart rate will jump into the 130s-150s and fluctuates. Sometimes all of these things happen together followed by seizures, sometimes only 1 or 2 of these things will happen followed by seizures. I've never been able to tell when I was having a seizure, because I never had any side effects only the being tired after.
Another thing is I woke up 2 days ago with major neck and shoulder pain that I still feel, only it isn't as bad as it was. My best friend here asked me if maybe I'm tensing my body up during a seizure in my sleep. Of course I don't know but maybe it is possible. I have no idea.
I don't have convulsions. But do sometimes get like a restless leg kind of thing.
I've fallen and sprained my ankle 3 times within the last year and a half. Hubby thinks I may have had one of my seizures while walking and not being cognitive that second(s) when stepping down mid step that it's causing me to fall. Again, I don't know. Sometimes there is 1 quick seizure or a few or clusters of them. Now this last fall has injured my ankle so badly I have to have surgery to get ligament repair, scar tissue removed, he's going to check my tendon while he's in there. Anyway that's off topic. Sorry.
Now all of this is happening and it's like a freight train has hit my life and I keep remembering when I was diagnosed in 2001 and all of the meds we tried that didn't work and the side effects of those meds were hell and I just can't go through that again. I missed a lot of my son's toddler years due to seizure med side effects causing me to sleep so much. He's 16 now and I don't want to miss anything again. I don't want to go through this, or have my husband and son going through this again. My mother in law came out from Arizona to stay with us for a while because I am having ankle surgery next Friday. It will help having her here for this seizure mess too.
But I'm just so upset, and needed to vent it out. Has anyone else experienced these types of things with your seizures?
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