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It turns out that it actually does get better.
Although boys and young gay men have it worse off than their lesbian peers, a seven-year study concludes that bullying over sexuality does diminish over time. Still, gay and lesbian boys and girls were twice as likely than their straight classmates to report being bullied.
More than 4,000 teens were questioned yearly through 2010, until they were 19 and 20 years old, to determine how rates of bullying change as adolescents grow older, and what effect bullying has on their emotional distress.
Plus: Study: Bullying Causes Kids to Age Faster
The study, "Developmental Trends in Peer Victimization and Emotional Distress in LGB and Heterosexual Youth," in the March 2013 Pediatrics, found that on average, bullying of lesbian and gay youth declined significantly as they left high school. More than half (57 percent) of lesbian or bisexual girls reported being bullied at age 13 or 14, compared to 6 percent at age 20 or 21. Among boys, the bullying declined from 52 percent to 9 percent over the same time period.
Prompted by a series of suicides of young gays, columnist Dan Savage Launched the "It Gets Better" video project in 2010, to encourage bullied gay teens. The positive message, which includes videos from politicians and celebrities, is borne out by this study's findings.
The study was conducted in England, although researchers said the same results would likely be found in the US as well.
"Bullying tends to decline with age regardless of sexual orientation and gender," co-author Joseph Robinson, a researcher and assistant professor of educational psychology at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign told the Associated Press. "In absolute terms, this would suggest that yes, it gets better."


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Wellness Food Trends for 2009
Condition-based marketing and parental concern for babies and toddlers will provide opportunities for product developers in the year ahead.
The hot nutrition and wellness issues coming in 2009 and beyond start with the very youngest members of the family. Growing awareness of the equation of "unhealthy food + children = future unhealthy adults," coupled with advances in food and ingredient processing are influencing how parents feed infants and toddlers in the 21st century.
There is increasing emphasis on the sanctity of these products. "Natural," "organic" and "no additives/preservatives" became top positioning claims, accounting for more than 50 percent of total product launches in 2007, according to Mintel International Group (www.mintel.com), Chicago.
Nutrition and convenience are of utmost importance to 73 percent of 10,000 mothers surveyed, according to Zero To Three (www.zerotothree.org), a national nonprofit organization that "informs, trains and supports professionals, policymakers and parents in their efforts to improve the lives of infants and toddlers."
The recent shift toward healthier foods for babies and toddlers is only going to expand as large food companies follow the niche and boutique manufacturers who paved the way.
Maddy's Organic Meals flash-freezes USDA organic-certified fruits for toddlers.
So feeding infants and toddlers has directed innovation focus on freshness and distribution to serve this market. In principle, mothers want to feed their infants and toddlers well; in practice, however, in recent decades they have reached for the convenience of cans and jars.
Small-batch fresh and frozen fruit, vegetable, legume and whole-grain-based baby and toddler foods are becoming more widely available from companies such as Happy Baby/Nurture Inc. (www.happybaby.com), Brooklyn, N.Y.; Homemade Baby (www.homemadebaby.com), Culver City, Calif.; Peas of Mind (www.peasofmind.com), San Francisco; and Chicago-based Maddy's Organic Meals (www.maddysorganicmeals.com). Dori Boneck, Maddy's owner (and mom of the real Maddy), flash-freezes USDA organic-certified fruits "at the peak of harvest to ensure maximum flavor and nutrients for toddlers around the nation."
Such products are not only from start-ups. Companies with strong health credentials – Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. (www.beechnut.com), Latham, N.Y., for example – are reinforcing the new "better for you" message, promising "maximum nourishment." Beech Nut's new "No Junk" products – sans artificial flavors or colors, MSG, trans fats, added sugar, high-fructose corn syrup or excessive salt – are fast becoming the norm for jarred and dry cereal baby foods.
"The new Stage 3 DHA Plus Sweet Potatoes & Wild Alaskan Salmon is the first jarred seafood option for babies," says Beech Nut's marketing director Mary Cool. Based on the latest understanding in infant nutrition, the innovative ingredient combinations provide omega-3 DHA to support baby's mental and visual development and prebiotics (inulin) to stimulate baby's growth of "good" bacteria and enhance calcium absorption.
The Stage 3 line includes whole wheat, which is another infant nutrition first in the U.S., to provide babies with added fiber, protein and magnesium, for healthy digestion, satiety and bone-building. The added algal DHA is from Martek (www.martek.com), Waltham, Mass.
For more on trends in infant and toddler nutrition, see "Feeding Baby."
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Men increasingly are turning to food for preventative health, and manufacturers are taking greater interest in how the "other half" thinks about nutrition.
Whereas men's health issues previously focused on one limelight issue — prostate cancer, with lycopene as a key preventive ingredient — research into nutraceuticals and men's health is revealing a lot more for the guys from trendy health ingredients. Soy, often identified with the women's health category, is a perfect example.
"Soy may provide men protection against prostate cancer, heart disease and even baldness," says Suzanne Dixon, a cancer nutrition epidemiologist and registered dietitian. According to Dixon, male pattern baldness is associated with higher risk of prostate cancer, and soy can reduce the rate of formation of prostate specific antigen though a "common metabolic pathway." Further research is ongoing, but this could mean soy can protect men against both prostate cancer and hair loss.
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"Battleship Sailor" is Theodore Mason's wonderfully written, first-hand account of the US Navy Pre-WWII from the Blueshirt perspective. Mason, a Radioman in the USNR, volunteered for active duty a year prior to Pearl Harbor and gives his vivid portrait of life, liberty and duty as both a Sailor and a Radioman. His personal stories and recollections of his Shipmates (and his Chief, Medal of Honor winner Chief Radioman Thomas Reeves) debunk a lot of movie myths about Sailors (and confirm a few others) and provide perspective for today's Navy and it's Sailors. His re-visitation of Pearl Harbor is simply riveting. "Battleship Sailor" is a great prequel to Mason's excellent "We Will Stand By You" and a must read for any Navy veteran, historian or Radioman.


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Welcome to the Mammoth Lighthouse church, located on the East side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The church has grown from a bible study, starting in 1998 at the home of Dave and Stevie Nelson to reaching around the globe with various Lighthouse locations in different nations. It remains a Christ centered, Nondenominational work, providing a church home for the adventures of this earth. Where individuals can grow in relationship to God, while pursuing the increase of His Kingdom, and discovering what Christ redeemed them to become. Please come and enjoy the adventure of your life.


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The U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research is funding a group of scientists from seven universities to investigate the best way to develop "quantum memories" for securing long-range communications.
The team, led by scientists at Georgia Institute of Technology, will evaluate three ways of creating entangled quantum memories for enabling the secure transmission of information over great distances, according to an announcement from Georgia Tech. The five-year, $8.5 million project also includes scientists from Columbia, Harvard and Stanford universities; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and the universities of Michigan and Wisconsin.
The basic idea of all three methods is to use "entangled photons" — photons that are bound together and represent ones and zeroes according to their individual polarization. The difference in them is in the physical platforms that control the matter/light interaction used to generate them.
The research group's task is to figure out which method or combination of methods will have the best application.
(Interestingly enough, this is exactly the same method of communication used in the "Mass Effect 3" computer game to talk securely from starships back to their home bases. One might wonder if that is where they got the idea, although Georgia Tech physics professor Alex Kuzmich said work in this field has been going on for the past 15 years.)
Ideally, the photons are manipulated into their entangled state. Then the data is converted to light and sent to the receiver, which reconverts and examines the photons to get the data.
Currently, there are a couple of obstacles to using this method for really long-range communication. One is that quantum memories generated with current methods have a lifespan of only about 200 milliseconds, which isn't quite enough time to decode them before they go away. Kuzmich said one of the goals is to store quantum information for a matter of seconds.
The second is the loss of light when it is sent through optical fiber over great distances.
These two roadblocks will be the main topics of research for this investigation team. If they do get something operational out of their hard work, then the military would have a communication system that would be as-yet impossible to intercept. This is because the photons could not be observed while in light form.
But of course, we know how determined hackers and Rupert Murdoch can be, so I'm sure they'll find a way eventually.
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Willy while you are right in mass effect 2 each Quantum Communications Device is tied to a base station with a matching quantum signature I am not sure that still holds in mass effect 3 as they call Anderson on earth and Hackett who is out in space somewhere
its is amazing how much of sci fi is real today or in the process of being real I mean just look at star trek in the 60s communicators and today we have them mobiles
The Quantum Communications Device in Mass Effect 3 is even more advanced than what the Air Force is trying, though also more restricted. It sounds like the AF one will use cables to transmit the data whereas the ones in ME3 (and Mass Effect 2) are point to point and work across the entire galaxy. However, in Mass Effect, each Quantum Communications Device is tied to a base station with a matching quantum signature, so each ship can only communicate using this method to one specific place per device.
Great Article! Actually I believe this to be a theory that has evovled for a while. I read a very good scifi book series by Ian Douglas AKA William Keith (actually there's 3 series that are tied together, http://whkeith.com/galactic-marines.html). 1998 through 2009. His research for writing these books must have been based on what true science theories existing during the writing period. The Mass Effect game series takes parts of books, movies, tv and scientific theories (BSG, Trek, ME3, etc) and puts them in a very good story line. The Quantum Communications Device is also Einstein's theory of "spooky-actions-at-a-distance" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement). So once again this is Art imitating Science imitating Art.
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Oh, it is HOT HOT HOT this time of year, so we thought we'd throw some more hot weather fun your way.
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May 22, 2015, 05.22 AMby Randygilstrap
Thanks to all the lovely ladies for your observations and suggestions. Sounds like I'll need to reduce the excess fabric between the legs since swimming needs some aerodynamic design. Netting doesn't cramp my style . . . it just needs to accommodate its occupants. I agree that the swim suit looks kinda baggy so fitting corrections will be required. My main challenge will be finding a cool swimsuit print in San Francisco.
Oct 11, 2011, 01.13 AMby Keith Gustafson
I'm having a problem lining up the pattern just so, when I print it it doesn't line up, and the small looks HUGE! any suggustions?
Jun 3, 2011, 03.35 AMby jenss-1
Okay, I'm going to give this pattern a "C+." For $2.50 I can't complaint too much. I made shorts and lengthened the legs so that they were not short-shorts. Unfortunately, this made for some very wide legs – definitely not slim fitting. I also made some adjustments on the inseam. It should fit okay for a guy without a lot of curve back there, but otherwise, that may be an issue. This is a very simple pattern, which is good and bad. Very easy to put together. On the other hand, and this is often the dilemma with sewing, simple patterns are often the most difficult to fit well. This is what I ran into here. My spouse says the (wide leg) result looks a few years out of fashion (had a good laugh about that) but he will wear them around the house, which was the intent… Anyway, if you just want something quick and simple, this pattern will do.
Jul 26, 2009, 03.21 PMby urbanfarmer
Ladies, please do your boyfriends, husbands, sons, brothers and other significant males who might be lucky enough to receive a nice pair of these shorts a HUGE favour and leave out that truly heinous cheese-grater like lining fabric.
Why anyone ever thought it was a good idea to line shorts at all is beyond me. Whoever thought THAT stuff was good to go around one's squashy bits quite clearly hadn't thought it through! Believe me when I say it is not a nice feeling.
I don't own a single pair of lined trunks (any that come with lining meet a pair of scissors the moment I get them home) and have never had any issues with "falling out". It takes far less effort to stay in unlined shorts than to stay in a kilt or other similarly open garment and they don't come with cheese-grater-pants – so there's no need in shorts either.
If you know someone who can't stay inside, educate them about the finer points of modesty (all you skirt-wearers know plenty about that) rather than inflicting more of that nasty, scratchy lining fabric on the world.
Really… built-in underpants are a crime.
Just say "no".
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Jun 2, 2010, 10.53 PMby 2mag7
Sep 7, 2008, 04.51 PMby mcloughlinsarah
as a housewife im loving all these awesome mens patterns, you can't even buy mens patterns these good, let alone getting them for free! v. stylish, im thinking ill use this pattern to make him some boxer shorts. he's not an undies bloke. thanks heaps.
Aug 29, 2008, 10.05 AMby mmmrphs
Awesome! Hah hah, I get to make my man a present, and then perve on his legs in these short shorts! Thanks once again burdastyle, keep the men's patterns coming!
Jul 28, 2008, 02.07 PMby benedikta
Hey Squirrelypoo, guess what. You are not going to believe this but so far we are all girls! Not that we have not been trying to get some guys in here but so far the most awesome picks for all positions happened to be girls. At least we have Phil Torrone from Make Magazine who rents a little office space from us and if we are in urgent need for fittings we go to the 6th floor and get the etsy guys to help out. Unfortunately we could not get them to model this time…
Jul 28, 2008, 11.24 AMby pinkstitch
these are great; thanks! i agree that they might make great women's shorts too. i've been trying to find new swim shorts without much luck, so now i can sew my own!
Jul 28, 2008, 09.46 AMby camilaustral
haha i think squirrellypoo is right xD
Jul 28, 2008, 09.30 AMby squirrellypoo
fun! now we can have couples' swimsuits! Though I'm guessing by the clothesline photo that none of the guys in your offices were brave enough to model swimwear? ;)
Jul 26, 2008, 08.15 AMby theportablekierajamison
yep, I think I might have to make myself a pair of shorts from this pattern. And cross fingers that the nice weather holds out!
Jul 26, 2008, 03.42 AMby polychromatin
I first thought this was a girls pattern for shorts, which I'd love to sew. They're for men, but I think I could use this pattern, too ;)
Jul 25, 2008, 10.38 PMby easilyamewsed
I second the above. My other half needs some swim trunks too. :)Thanks!
Jul 25, 2008, 05.12 PMby ladybugs
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. My hubby has been harassing me to make him a pair of shorts. Love them a lot.
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IRVING, Texas (AP)—Dallas Cowboys fans and Hall of Famers came early and stayed late, making sure they savored every bit of the 313th and last game at Texas Stadium.
The Baltimore Ravens will remember it fondly, too.
Willis McGahee ran 77 yards for a lead-stretching touchdown when things got tight late in the fourth quarter, then Le'Ron McClain topped that by going 83 yards for the real victory-clinching touchdown with 1:18 left, sending the Ravens past the Cowboys 33-24 Saturday night in a game both teams needed to boost their playoff chances.
Baltimore led 19-10 midway through the fourth quarter behind four field goals from Matt Stover, who sold programs outside the stadium as a kid growing up in the area, and a touchdown pass from Joe Flacco to Derrick Mason.
Tony Romo threw touchdown passes to Terrell Owens and Jason Witten over the last 3:36, each putting Dallas within two points. But the Ravens answered both with one-play scoring drives, both coming on runs up the middle against a defense that had done a great job against the run all night. When Romo's final drive ended on downs, fans began to boo. More boos followed when Flacco took a knee and time ran out.
Baltimore (10-6) bounced back from a controversial last-minute loss to Pittsburgh to win for the fourth time in five games. With only the AFC's sixth seed up for grabs, the Ravens are guaranteed of being in the mix when the play Jacksonville at home next weekend.
Baltimore goes into Sunday with a half-game lead over three AFC East teams that are 9-5, one of which will get in by winning the division.
Dallas (9-6) lost for the second time in three weeks. While they can still get an NFC wild-card berth, this loss makes it tougher. They actually had several ways to clinch Sunday if they could've won this game. Now they'll go to Philadelphia next Sunday needing a win and, perhaps, some help. Dallas' loss clinched a playoff spot for the Carolina Panthers.
Despite the importance of this game, much of the emotion came from this being the 313th and final game played under the hole in the roof. The Cowboys finished 213-100 in regular-season and postseason games at the home they moved into in 1971, going 6-2 this season.
It was during the 37 seasons here that Dallas blossomed into "America's Team," winning five Super Bowls and filling the Hall of Fame with stars like Bob Lilly, Roger Staubach, Tony Dorsett and Michael Irvin—all of whom were among the roughly 100 former players welcomed back for a postgame ceremony.
The celebrating began when the stadium parking lots opened an hour early. Team owner Jerry Jones and his family took dozens of pictures at the midfield star before fans were let in, and there were tributes throughout the game. Players also wore a patch on their jerseys commemorating the farewell.
Flacco was 17-of-25 for 149 yards and the touchdown, which was set up by a 9-yard run by punter-holder Sam Koch on a fake field goal. Although he was sacked six times and lost a fumble, his efficiency helped the Ravens turn an early 7-0 deficit into a 16-7 lead late in the third quarter.
Romo was 24-of-45 for 252 yards and two touchdowns, with two first-half interceptions. Ed Reed had both, tying him for the NFL lead with seven.
Romo was out of sync the first three quarters, more because of the Ravens' swarming defense than a lingering back injury. He actually moved pretty well but had to move a lot to avoid whichever defender came roaming at him practically every time he threw. Late in the third quarter, Dallas had more punts (six) than first downs (five).
Witten and Owens each caught five passes, Witten's going for 87 yards— despite a sprained left knee that forced him to drop to the sideline after his touchdown—and Owens' went for 63 yards.
Rookie Tashard Choice started over injured Marion Barber and ran for 90 yards, among the most all season against Baltimore. His 2-yard touchdown in the first quarter was only the fourth on the ground all season against the Ravens. It was set up by linebacker DeMarcus Ware's NFL-best 20th sack, which also produced Flacco's fumble.
The Cowboys allowed only around 100 yards rushing before the two big, late runs. McLain finished with 22 carries for 139 yards and McGahee had eight carries for 108 yards.
This was the Ravens' first game here and, thus, they'll finish 1-0 at Texas Stadium. The Oakland-Los Angeles Raiders went 3-0 and are the only other NFL team not to lose under the hole in the roof.
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As a life long Cowboy fan I was totally embarassed by the way the 'boys played tonight. It was horrible, simply freaking horrible.
The players of the past were probably embarassed that the players of today were out there representing them, the city of Dallas and the State of Texas.
It was just pathetic!
Ditto, that loss was the most embarrassing Cowboy lost I've ever seen. Worse than that Leon Lett Thanksgiving game. I thought I felt bad after the Arizona loss, but this one was worse. Oh well, I'll be rooting for Tampa, Atlanta, and/or Chicago to lose tomorrow then see what happens next week in Philly. Here's to hoping against hope.
We need to clean house this off season
the ax needs to come out, TO needs to go, Wade needs to go, and Romo is No Mo...
We need a quarterback who wont average 1+ int a game for 12 games a season...
We will not win a Superbowl with the knuckle heads we have..
We could win the superbowl on talent alone. But the major players all have $.10 heads.
You could say this year is different in that Romo has been hurt, Barber Hurt, and we lost Felix Jones for the year.
but for the past 3 seasons, we have just fallen apart in December. And this one is no different.
1) I think we need a legitimate coach, Mike Holmgren comes to mind. Some one with experiance and can get the players disciplined. Wade Phillips just isn't cutting it, and the team has regressed under his coaching.
2) TO, he just isn't the talent we need given all his acting out. He needs to go for the benefit of the psyche of the team, and he just isn't that good anymore.
3) Romo , although hurt, just has not proved to be the franchise quarterback on level with Peyton Manning or Tom Brady. He just doesn't make great decisions and his throwing % is regrettable.
we need more discipline and smarter players.
I still don't understand how Spurs fans could be Cowboy fans? They are complete polar opposites. Anyone notice how T.O was calm during his postgame interview? I guess since he caught his T.D. for the day, this loss isn't as important as the Steeler's loss. In the words of G. Pop!!! Get over yourself!!! On another note D-Ware is a beast and I hope he wins the DPOY award. He doesn't deeserve to be in that circus that Jerry Jones is running up there.
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RALEIGH, N.C. — The most important number from the most important regular-season victory of coach Mark Gottfried's thrill-a-minute two-year tenure at NC State doesn't exactly jump off the box score.
Without context, in fact, it's rather pedestrian.
The most important number of the No. 20 Wolfpack's 84-76 victory against the No. 1 Duke Blue Devils in front of a sold-out crowd at PNC Arena isn't 25 — C.J. Leslie's game-high point total. Neither is it 13 — Lorenzo Brown's game-high assist total.
The most important number is 38, and it belongs to Richard Howell, NC State's 6-8 senior forward. Howell played 38 minutes against the Blue Devils. Simple, but huge.
— What we learned | Box score/stats | Scores: ACC | Top 25 | All games
Here's your context. Howell has always been productive when he's on the court, but he has long been one of college basketball's most foul-prone players. Heading into Saturday's ACC showdown against Duke, Howell had fouled out four times this season. As a junior, he had at least four fouls in 19 games.
"If he's sitting over there with four," Gottfried said after a huge victory, "we're a little more vulnerable."
When Howell is on the court, the Wolfpack are an elite team. When he's not, they aren't. It's pretty clear-cut for a team that doesn't have much depth. In No. 20 NC State's losses against Oklahoma State and Michigan, Howell played a total of 35 minutes — 16 against Oklahoma State and 19 against Michigan — and fouled out of both games.
"It's not even me scoring and not even me rebounding," Howell said, "but I feel like it's very important just for my to be out there with my teammates."
His leadership is undeniable.
But with all due respect to Howell, his scoring and rebounding are pretty important, too. On Saturday, he finished with 16 points and 18 rebounds in those 38 minutes, and he had just two fouls, one in each half. He was, as Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski called him, "a beast" against the Blue Devils.
The thing about Howell that often infuriates NC State fans is that his foul troubles stem from bad decisions — greedy decisions, as Howell calls them — instead of a lack of skill. It's not that he crashes into defenders when driving to the basket or wildly hacks opposing big men when he's playing defense. His body control, for a forward who's built like a linebacker, is nothing short of amazing.
His foul issues are often about self-control.
"There was one today where I fouled, and as soon as I fouled, I didn't even want to look at Coach Gottfried because I knew what he was going to say," Howell said with a laugh. "It's just a matter of me wanting the ball. I'm greedy, especially when it's right in front of my face. I feel like I have the quickest hands, so I want to try and get it. I definitely made that mistake a few times today, but luckily I kept my hands to myself, and it played out."
Because Howell kept his hands to himself, he stayed on the court. And that presented a new, but wonderful, dilemma for his coach — how could Gottfried find ways to give his big man a breather down the stretch?
"I kept saying to myself, 'I've got to get him out,' " Gottfried said. "And then I kept saying, 'I ain't taking him out, I don't care. He's staying in the game even if I've got to use every time out,' because he was rebounding the ball."
NC State had 19 rebounds in the second half; of those, Howell had 14.
Duke had outrebounded the Wolfpack 22-15 in the first half — the Blue Devils had 11 offensive boards, too — and Gottfried made a point of that at halftime.
"I took full responsibility for that," Howell said. "That's why I wanted to come out the next half and make sure that we didn't end the game with them winning (big) on the boards."
Howell opened the second half with offensive rebounds and put-back layups on NC State's first two possessions. He rebounded Duke's first two misses, too, for good measure.
Howell's 14 second-half rebounds were one more than the entire Duke team, and just two of Duke's second-half rebounds were of the offensive variety.
"I challenged everyone in the huddle; 'Is anyone going to get a rebound besides Richard?' " Gottfried said of one second-half timeout conversation. "He said, 'Don't worry, coach. I've got them all.' "
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Chief Judge Judith Kaye empanelled this commission last year to advise the New York State court system on a difficult and vexing issue that arises out of the technological advances of recent years. Judicial records are, as a general proposition, public. As a general matter of state and federal constitutional law, they must be public. What Justice William O. Douglas said 56 years ago remains true today: "A trial is a public event. What transpires in the courtroom is a public event." The same is true of most court records.
The new advances in technology — the Internet, in particular — now make it easier to disseminate public information than ever before. But the glories of the Internet — the ease of availability of information, the 24/7 availability of information, the unconstrained nature of who may receive the information — also raise potential problems. Can there be too much availability of public records? Should Internet access lead us to take care about what finds its way into public judicial records in the first place?
Announcing the formation of this Commission, Judge Kaye put our task this way: "In keeping with society's increasing reliance on technology, the court system will begin to make case files available electronically within the next few years. But while providing greater access to this information, we also must be diligent to protect a litigant's right to privacy. We recognize that court records can contain sensitive information, such as social security and home telephone numbers, tax returns, medical reports and even signatures. I have charged this commission with the hard task of examining any potential pitfalls, weighing the demands of both open access and individual confidentiality, and making recommendations as to the manner in which we should proceed."
Judge Kaye's formulation makes it clear that the important questions that this panel has been asked to consider are not easily answered. The purpose of today's hearing, and the hearings that will follow in Manhattan and Buffalo, is to receive and consider the views of interested individuals and organizations from around the state and, given the prominence of New York, around the country. No state has yet fully come to grips with these issues. We hope to make a contribution by doing so.
To that end, the notice for these hearings set forth several questions that go to the heart of this Commission's mandate:
1. In light of the recognized public interest that is served by having court case records available for public inspection, are there any privacy concerns that should limit public access to those records on the Internet?
2. Should any information that is currently deemed public be subject to greater restrictions if made available for public access on the Internet by the Unified Court System? For example, are there particular privacy concerns that outweigh open access considerations regarding the disclosure on the Internet of an individual's Social Security identification number, credit card numbers, bank or investment account numbers or other personal identifying information?
3. If such personal identifying information should not be made available on the Internet, how should that information be eliminated from electronic/Internet availability?
4. If there are any limitations or restrictions to be placed on the dissemination of court records on the Internet, what role should be played by the courts, by attorneys or by others?
5. Should the public be charged a fee to access court case records on the Internet?
6. What information should a member of the public need in order to search case records on the Internet? Should a search require the name of a litigant (or litigants) or should searches be available by topical inquiry or statutory reference?
We are looking forward to hearing from each of today's speakers on these important questions. As we do so, I think it important to point out at the outset that not all court case records are public. Some examples of records that are not publicly available under New York State law without a court order making them so, are set forth in the hearing notice. They include records in matrimonial matters, child custody proceedings, pre-sentencing reports and memoranda in criminal cases, documents containing HIV-related information or the identity of victims of sexual offenses, and other documents that are filed under seal under New York law. Our mandate is not revisit the laws and policies that provide for confidential treatment of these materials. It is not proposed that these materials will be made available on the Internet or otherwise.
This is the first of three hearings that the Commission will hold this spring. There are many interested people and groups that will not speak today, but will appear at subsequent hearings in New York City or Buffalo. I mention this simply to note that the points of view you will hear today, which are important to the Commission, will be supplemented by comments from other interested groups, who may have a very different take on these issues than what you hear today. At later hearings, we expect to hear from — among others — the New York State Bar Association, the New York State Trial Lawyers' Association and victims' rights advocates. The Commission will make transcripts of all three of the hearings available on its website.


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"We want to thank Michael for the contributions he made to our club over the past season-and-a-half and wish him all the best for the future," said Whitecaps FC head coach Martin Rennie.
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Religious signposts at the close of the 20th century are full of surprises.
* In a 1998 Gallup poll, more than two-thirds of Americans said religion could "solve all or most of our problems."
* While the world's population has grown by 60 percent since 1970, the number of evangelical Christians has risen by 126 percent.
* One of every 7 human beings was a Muslim in 1950; today it is 1 of every 5.
* The Internet now carries some 140 million pages related to religion; "spirituality" is the fastest growing field in US book publishing.
It wasn't supposed to be this way.
Thirty years ago, futurists were predicting a "scientific, secular, Epicurean global society" by the year 2000, says Martin Marty, writer, educator, and director of the Public Religion Project. Some theologians asserted that God was dead. And even America's top theologian, Paul Tillich, said that the words "spiritual" and "spirituality" were gone from the culture and could never be recovered.
Science and technology, it was widely assumed in the West, held the keys to the future, and religion was in decline.
But at the end of this century of tumultuous change, massive population shifts to urban centers, unprecendented warfare, rise and collapse of ideologies, spread of consumer culture, and breakneck technological developments, the majority of the planet's peoples are focusing with new earnestness on matters of faith and the spirit.
Those who chart the course of religious trends - and communicate with believers across the United States and on other continents - see a religious transformation taking place that indicates we are entering a new era.
Whether it is a peasant family in the developing world jarred by the traumatic move to the megacity or a young adult in the US seeking a sense of identity beyond "a random accident in the universe," an intense search is under way by millions to find a spiritual center for their lives.
For some, this has meant a return to "fundamentalist" roots of faith - whether in Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or Hinduism. In some instances, that has taken a political, even militant turn.
For many others, it has meant venturing into new realms of worship. An emphasis on "experiencing" God is displacing dogma and creed. Individual seeking and the expectation of practical results from faith are supplanting reliance on institutional hierarchies. Healing is being reconnected to religion.
These changes have come about because of a "double-barreled disillusionment both with conventional religion and its institutional expressions" and with the "bright promises of science and progress," says Harvey Cox, a professor at Harvard Divinity School and widely read author on religious themes.
Collapse of ideologies
Alternatives have also collapsed, says Dr. Marty. "Nothing in human history compares to the attempts this century to impose ideologies that cover all the things in life religion is supposed to cover." Meanwhile, things those "in the West believed in - the pure triumph of reason, of science, haven't worked out."
As seekers turn in new directions, many in science and medicine are reexamining the relevance of religion, and many in the church are having to rethink the focus of their ministries.
The religious trends of the past century have reshaped the global landscape and the nature of the American experiment.
As religions have spread around a shrinking globe, they find themselves "elbow to elbow, cheek by jowl," says Dr. Cox. Such proximity creates both tensions and the opportunity for dialogue. "How we balance these tensions with dialogue and the deepening of our understanding of other traditions is the big theological question" of tomorrow.
Islam has become a major actor on the world stage (1.1 billion followers) and is one of the fastest growing religions in the United States.
Christianity's growth pattern (about 1.9 billion adherents) has now made it a majority non-Western religion, says Cox, who visited hosts of churches on four continents researching his book "Fire From Heaven," the story of the remarkable rise of Pentecostalism around the world.
Pentecostal churches, with more than 410 million members, are said to be growing by 20 million a year. To the spiritually homeless in the huge cities of the world, he says, they "held out the possibility of a radically new order that would come about not because of the patchwork efforts of mere mortals but by the action of a loving God." The emphasis on experiencing the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, and healing is a return, he says, to "primal hope, primal piety, and primal spirituality."
Pentecostals have spurred Christianity's growth in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. A statistical institute in Brazil predicts that half of that country's population will be evangelical by 2045. According to Christianity Today, South Korea's fervent evangelicalism includes "the world's largest Pentecostal, Presbyterian, and Methodist churches," and "over 5,500 missionaries in more than 100 countries."
New non-Western majority
The non-Western majority is changing the face of Christian practice and priorities for various denominations as well as the World Council of Churches. One example is the recent mention of an African cardinal as among the serious candidates to succeed the current pope.
With the liberalizing Vatican II in the mid-'60s, Roman Catholicism had one of the landmark religious events of the century; and in Pope John Paul II, it has one of the most influential popes of all time. Yet the church is challenged by today's disregard for institutional authority, disaffection with some doctrines, and by contention for followers with Islam and evangelicalism in Africa and Latin America.
The picture differs in Europe and parts of North America. Marty says a "spiritual ice belt" stretches from west of Poland across western Europe, the northern US and Canada, and includes Japan. "In that part of the world," he says, "there are 3,000 fewer Christians now than 24 hours ago, whereas in sub-Saharan Africa, there are 16,000 more Christians than 24 hours ago." The southern US, he adds, fits into the growth pattern of the rest of world.
Marty credits pluralism not only for US religiosity, but also for the faster global growth. In Europe where there have tended to be established national churches, religious life has waxed cold and "nobody is much of anything," he says. Polls show that in Britain only 8 percent of the population attends church regularly.
The US tops the religious barometer of the industrialized world. "The overwhelming impression I take away from looking at religion in America, throughout our history and on the cusp of the 21st century, is that we are an incurably religious people," says Randall Balmer, a professor at Barnard College in New York who is writing a religious history of 20th-century America. "If you look at any index of our religious life, we are off the charts compared to other Western countries."
Yet that religious life has become a much less tidy one over the past half century. Dramatic cultural changes have modified the social landscape, bringing greater diversity (Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism), spurring disenchantment with institutions of all kinds, and sending many Americans into an individualized search for spirituality.
Some sectors of religious life are flourishing while others are struggling. Mainline Protestant churches - the "establishment" of the 1950s - have seen memberships decline. The number of Americans who say they are Episcopalian, Presbyterian, or Methodist is one-third lower than 30 years ago, according to Princeton Religion Research Center. "The mainline lost a lot of young people, partly because of 'coasting,' " Marty says. "You have to win your own kids, and they're going to go seeking on their own."
Catholicism is growing by population growth, but not in attendance. Mormonism has become one of the world's fastest growing faiths and has half its membership outside the US.
At the same time, evangelical Protestantism has emerged as a major force in American life. Evangelical churches (including such disparate groups as Southern Baptists, Pentecostals, black churches, and Mennonites) now account for more than 40 percent of Americans.
The movement represents a "whole new phenomenon in American religion," says Richard Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary, in Pasadena, Calif. Over recent decades, many transdenominational entities [like today's Campus Crusade for Christ and Promisekeepers] "have formed new patterns of communication and religious identity."
Meanwhile, many Americans, particularly among younger generations suspicious of institutional authority, are engaged in what sociologist Robert Wuthnow of Princeton University calls "spirituality of seeking" in his book "After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s." They explore many avenues and pick and choose among traditions to create a personal faith. From Generation X downward, young people often find their religious communities in cyberspace.
While such seeking can represent a deep commitment to spirituality, some worry about a superficiality to American religious faith. They question how far one can go without being grounded in a major faith, and call on churches to be more responsive.
"My disappointment is that the churches aren't nearly as creative in responding to these needs and feelings as they might be," Cox says. Students 25 years ago tended to be condescending toward religion; today "there is a seeking and a hunger, and people are not reluctant to express it. It takes a long time for churches to reach out and make the kind of changes in themselves they have to make to meet people half way."
Yet there are also signs of a growing commitment in many directions. More people are studying sacred texts, taking courses at seminaries, creating prayer and Bible groups, and filling the growing number of healing services being held by many denominations. "The idea that healing and religion belong together has come back with a strong emphasis in this age ... among many churches and many movements," says Cox.
"The role of healing is huge," says Marty. "The Christian Science Church had this package 100 years ago. It pioneered ... but today it's all over the place. Lifelong nurture of healing ways is likely to remain a therapeutic revolution which includes body as well as spirit."
And the transforming power of religious faith is gaining recognition in many avenues of life:
* Resources are being directed to faith-based institutions because they have proven more effective than others in freeing people from drug and alcohol addiction and other social ills.
Medical research has demonstrated that those who are religiously active tend to be healthier, have a greater sense of well-being, and live longer.
* Religious leaders are being called on to advise international institutions on economic development, participate in developing environmental policies, and consult with scientists on questions of ultimate reality.
As the millennium nears, issues of environmental degradation, materialistic culture, moral decay, global financial disarray, and a growing imbalance in wealth trouble many peoples. They are turning to religion for answers, and in parts of the world, Marty says, the effort to educate and shape cultures religiously is intense.
Whether the future holds "a new age of the Spirit" as some foresee, or brings clashes between faiths such as those seen in the past depends on the choices individuals make in their spiritual search and on the degree to which efforts are made to understand one another.


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Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI). The goal of the initiative, which started in 2003, was to improve reentry outcomes along five dimensions: criminal justice, employment, education, health and housing.
The purposes of the evaluation, initiated in 2004, were to determine the extent to which participation in SVORI programs improved access to reentry services and programs and resulted in improved outcomes in the areas of housing, education, employment and criminal behavior.[1]
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Participation in SVORI programming increased access to reentry services and programs. For example, SVORI program participants were significantly more likely to have reentry plans upon release. The provision of such services, however, significantly decreased after release. This finding was supported by self-report survey data collected from program participants and directors.
Results also showed that, compared to non-SVORI participants, SVORI participants showed no discernible differences on outcomes with respect to recidivism, housing, substance abuse, and physical and mental health.
Offenders face important challenges upon returning to their communities. These challenges include finding suitable housing and employment and obtaining affordable health care (including substance abuse treatment and mental health counseling). Results from the SVORI evaluation support the notion that successful reentry of returning offenders cannot be tied to one process (such as, in this example, the provision of services).
For a more detailed overview of findings from the SVORI evaluation, see
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In 2009, RTI was awarded funds competitively to complete secondary data analysis on data collected under the multisite SVORI evaluation to identify those programs and services funded under SVORI that improved reentry outcomes for released prisoners. Of particular importance were two questions: "What works?" and "For whom?"
Results indicated that many of the specific reentry services had no effect on housing, employment, substance use or recidivism outcomes, and in some cases the effect actually was deleterious rather than beneficial. However, there SVORI program participation had significant effects on arrests following release. SVORI program participation was associated with a 14 percent reduction in arrests for adult men, 48 percent reduction for adult women, and 25 percent reduction for juvenile males over the fixed follow-up periods.
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Prisoner Reentry Services: What Worked for SVORI Evaluation Participants?" (pdf, 560 pages).
The multisite SVORI evaluation produced numerous reports that provide in-depth information on different aspects and findings of the evaluation. Information about specific topics can be found in these reports:
NIJ has released data from the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI) Multi-site Impact Evaluation.
Learn more and apply for access to the data.
Learn more about SVORI and NIJ's evaluation.
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[note 1] In 2004, NIJ awarded $10,127,061 to Research Triangle Institute International (RTI) to conduct an evaluation of SVORI across the 69 grantee sites. RTI partnered, through a subcontract, with the Urban Institute. The final reports from the evaluation were released in December 2009.
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Teenage Marie is too old to play with dolls but there's something intriguing about the nutcracker given to her by her old Uncle Drosselmier. He seems lost in time. Long ago in the fairy tale kingdom of Chronenburg, the beautiful Princess Pirlipat has been magically disfigured by the evil Mouseyrinks, Queen of the Mice. King Wilhelm enlists the help of the mystical Royal Clockmaker to break the curse. Will a little magic and a lot of imagination be enough to discover the secret of the nutcracker and rescue the people of Chronenburg from the clutches of Mouseyrinks' spell?
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In Boris's opinion, the ability to re-use services by composing them into higher-level services is one of the key benefits of SOA. After explaining the difference between hierarchical and conversational composition, the article explains different topologies, such as mediator and peer-to-peer, that can be used to compose services. Boris also describes a number of different implementation approaches, including a general purpose language, event-based composition, and use of an orchestration engine. In his opinion, the latter approach - use of an orchestration engine - yields the most benefits.
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Orchestration and glue code
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I wonder what happens, if you use BPEL or any other orchestration technique when you need some glue code inbetween the service calls. Imagine for example a composed service from several navigation services, where some services return a partial route length in miles and some in kilometer. You don't want to introduce a service just for converting length, do you?
I think there is a little mistake in the text ...
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"Another possible approach to the implementation of composite services is event-based composition. This composition implementation is based on event-based service interactions: service consumers publish events to the publish/subscribe intermediary, which delivers them to the actual service CONSUMERS (Figure 6)."
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service consumers publish events to the publish/subscribe intermediary, which delivers them to the actual service PROVIDERS (Figure 6)."
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Hope this helps.
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I must admit, that I just don't un derstand your answer. I think the question is a good one. Just plugging services together "lego block style" seldom works. There is always a little custom work to do. I agree that a single service view should be exposed to the client, encapsulating the end service, but for me this is nothing other than EAI (enterprise application integration), where I produce a new service that so happens to call out to existing services. Is this what you mean?
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Orchestration of business services for building new solutions - topic of this article. In this case I do not care how business service is implemented and the fact that it internally uses multiple integration services is irrelevan at this point.
Implementation of the business service, based on the integrations - the topic of the question.
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Miley Cyrus & Borgore Debut New Track, "Decisions"
Then again, this isn't her single, it won't be on her album, and she could just be helping an up-and-coming act out. Who knows? No one can ever tell what she's going to do next. (Ahem.) Anyway, listen to "Decisions" above, then tell us whether you love it or loathe it!


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Amarok Insider - Issue 13 Released
Issue 13 of Amarok Insider, the official Amarok newsletter is out. It discusses the evolution of Amarok's interface, reveals the release plans, covers some of the biggest features of the upcoming version 2.0, and much more. Download links for Windows and OS X versions of the Amarok 2.0 beta are included.
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Well, the link works perfectly but you arrive to a page not found at amarok's site, which I suppose wasn't the intention :)
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It takes me straight to the report.
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funny, with konqueror it works, but with firefox (3.0.3/opensuse) it doesn't... at least on my system.
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Same problem here (3.5.10). Works with Konqueror, but not with Firefox 3 (Kubuntu 8.04).
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Well works here on Firefox2/windows
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The link does not work with Internet Explorer 7, Opera 9.62 or Seamonkey 1.1.12 under Windows.
This means the link _IS_ broken.
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Great News! Just needs some polishing to get there
Good to know that amarok 2.0 is almost there. So far I really think you guys made a great peace of software. But I think the context view needs some polishing. I have trunk version installed and sometimes the context view behaves very strange... some positioning troubles with the apples (for instance, when you maximize and restore, sometimes widgets are a little more on the left, or right). There's some problems with the zooming interface too... sometimes I get all the pages side by side (and arrows don't work well) and sometimes there are 2 pages on the upper side and the other 2 bellow (and arrows work well). Besides this little problems (that I know will be solved until the release) amarok 2.0 is already the best music player in my opinion.. keep on going guys.. and sorry for my English.. learning...
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Hello everyone! I'm glad to show you the results up to now of my GSoC project about adding OpenCL support to the General Graphics Library.
What I've done
GEGL has two basic data types:
- GeglTile
- GeglBuffer
A GeglBuffer can be seen as a layer in a image editing tool, they can be translated, cut, duplicated, etc. A final image is a composition of buffers. A buffer is composed by many GeglTiles, which are rectangular regions of pixels with same size, so pixel data like color is stored in tiles. This architecture is very flexible and allows for example that tiles may be stored in the disk, in a network or compacted.
What I want in my project is to be able to process tiles using an OpenCL device, like GPUs or even a multi-core CPU, the solution I implemented is that each tile has two states, the host memory data and a pointer to a OpenCL memory buffer and each one has its revision number which are used for synchronization.
This synchronization is achieved through locks. For example, suppose gegl_buffer_get is called for a buffer which tiles are being processed in the GPU. This function asks for buffer data to be copied to a pointer, as such, each buffer's tile is going to be locked for reading, this locking process will verify the revision numbers and move data from the GPU to the CPU accordingly. The picture below illustrate this architecture:
An Example of Use
I'll show an example of use of gegl buffer iterators to implement a Brightness-Contrast filter using OpenCL.
First, we define the OpenCL kernel that will be executed for each tile:
const char* kernel_source[] = { "sampler_t sampler = CLK_NORMALIZED_COORDS_FALSE | \n", " CLK_ADDRESS_NONE | \n", " CLK_FILTER_NEAREST; \n", "__kernel void kernel_bc(__read_only image2d_t in, \n", " __write_only image2d_t out, \n", " float brightness, \n", " float contrast) \n", "{ \n", " int2 gid = (int2)(get_global_id(0), get_global_id(1)); \n", " float4 in_v = read_imagef(in, sampler, gid); \n", " float4 out_v; \n", " out_v.xyz = (in_v.xyz - 0.5f) * contrast + brightness + 0.5f;\n", " out_v.w = in_v.w; \n", " write_imagef(out, gid, out_v); \n", "} \n", }
So, each tile is a OpenCL image2d_t type which can be read-only or write-only and be must be fetched through a sampler.
Now let's see the iterator code:
i = gegl_buffer_iterator_new (buffer_write, NULL, NULL, GEGL_BUFFER_CL_WRITE); index = gegl_buffer_iterator_add (i, buffer_read, NULL, NULL, GEGL_BUFFER_CL_READ); while (gegl_buffer_iterator_next (i)) { GeglClTexture *in_tex = i->cl_data[index]; GeglClTexture *out_tex = i->cl_data[0]; size_t global_worksize[2] = {i->roi[0].width, i->roi[0].height}; CL_SAFE_CALL( errcode = gegl_clSetKernelArg(kernel, 0, sizeof(cl_mem), (void*)&in_tex->data) ); CL_SAFE_CALL( errcode = gegl_clSetKernelArg(kernel, 1, sizeof(cl_mem), (void*)&out_tex->data) ); CL_SAFE_CALL( errcode = gegl_clSetKernelArg(kernel, 2, sizeof(cl_float), (void*)&brightness) ); CL_SAFE_CALL( errcode = gegl_clSetKernelArg(kernel, 3, sizeof(cl_float), (void*)&contrast) ); CL_SAFE_CALL( errcode = gegl_clEnqueueNDRangeKernel(gegl_cl_get_command_queue(), kernel, 2, NULL, global_worksize, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL) ); CL_SAFE_CALL( errcode = gegl_clFinish(gegl_cl_get_command_queue()) ); }
The key point here is the GEGL_BUFFER_CL_WRITE and GEGL_BUFFER_CL_READ flags passed to the iterator. They mean that writing and reading will be done through whatever OpenCL device [GPU or CPU] we're using. This code just executes the kernel defined above for each tile.
Before entering the iteration in buffer_read and buffer_write, all data from buffer_read is copied to the GPU [of course, only if it is the most recent]. At the end, the OpenCL revision numbers from buffer_write's tiles are bumped.
If after all that we do this:
gegl_buffer_get (buffer_write, 1.0, NULL, NULL, buf_write, GEGL_AUTO_ROWSTRIDE);
This means we want to copy buffer_write's data to a pointer in the host memory, so we have to synchronize host and GPU data versions before that. So all buffer functions will always return the most recent data version and, at the same time, memory transferences will be made only if necessary.
Here is a fluxogram of what is happening in this code:
Performance Results
Running the Brightness-Contrast code with a 1 mega pixel image using a NVidia Tesla C2050 as OpenCL device and a Intel Xeon E5506 as comparison [just using one core, but the code uses SSE2].
Time of memory transferences to the GPU was considered in this benchmark [EDIT: this time considers transferring data back and forth between GPU and CPU].
- CPU Elapsed time: 526 milliseconds
- OpenCL Elapsed time: 483 milliseconds
Also, here is a chart from NVidia profiler showing how execution time was spent:
Almost 80% of total execution time has been spent in memory transferences to and from the GPU. This is a good result, because even with this overhead the results were reasonable. Consider that the typical use case of GEGL is doing many operations in sequence, so the ratio processing/memory transferences tends to be higher. In fact, the case present here is the worst-case.
Possible Improvements
There are a lot of things that can be done in order to increase current code speed:
Intercalate execution of tiles with memory transferences of others tiles
GPU hardware (at least modern NVidia GPUs) has separated units for processing and memory transferences, we can use this to intercalate tiles processing and copying.
Tiles sharing the same OpenCL memory buffer
There is a lot of overhead in allocating a GPU texture for each tile. which is typically small [128×64]. I think the best way to tackle this problem is allocating a big chunk of memory and using offsets in this chunk when processing [it's impossible to have pointers to GPU memory], the problem is that GEGL is supposed to abstract the user this kind of stuff from the user. Another idea is to serialize execution by having a pool of textures which can be reused by tiles, this would be good also because GPU memory is smaller than Host memory in general, the direct mapping CPU<->GPU cannot stand in fact.
Multiple OpenCL Command Queues
Command Queues can be executed concurrently in the same device, the Fermi architecture from NVidia can run 16 kernels at the same time, for example. This can be used to solve the memory transference overhead also.
Next Steps
I have yet to finish the implementation of a operator interface for OpenCL and make some OpenCL operators in order to create a useful chain of processing only in the GPU.
As the time for a GSoC project is very limited, my mentor and I decided to let optimizations outside the project, but I intend to work on them as soon as I can 🙂
The use of locking in order to synchronize CPU and GPU data was the most challenging part of the implementation, but after extensive testing. I think it's working now, though I took more time than I expected to make it run properly.
Moreover, results so far show that using OpenCL to speed up Gegl is feasible and very interesting, thought still there is some challenges to be tackled, the tiled structure of Gegl allows a lot of optimizations.
The Gegl OpenCL branch is here.


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|2007-10-26, 06:53
|Link #101
Misuzu & Kotomi Protector
Join Date: Mar 2007
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But anyway, have you read my a little bit of my explanation here? http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost...8&postcount=84
one is character development (Shiraishist or traditional or whatever), the other one is personality (Modernist)
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|2007-10-26, 07:19
|Link #102
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That said, her "true" anger happened only twice, and I can't even see her attempt to protect Botan as "result of quick tempered". Just like for Ryou, it was rather her way to protect botan quickly, whatever it is happening. Thus, not really quick tempered, but rather reckless. (so, being headstrong/harsh)
What I see her, it is aggressivity, in term of assertive behaviour.
Seriously speaking, the embarassement of such silly situation is NOT a proof of a peculiar soft side etc, more likely a self awareness about such embarassing situation. That doesn't mean Kyou doesn't have a kind side but the scene itself doesn't show anything remotely similar of being dazed and such. Otherwise, almost every female character are deredere, that's quite far fetched.
*sigh* the definition of tsundere doesn't even matter now, it is rather up to people to consider if X is tsun and Y moment was dere, and do the math.
As far as we can see with this circling debate, no one can demonstrate how it is clearly tsuntsun/deredere to end it, since both (well more like 3 factions instead) are not agreeing. So, probably more time required huh?
|2007-10-26, 07:43
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You are saying our definition is a narrow one, while yours is so broad it would place the vast majority of people under tsundere.
You are using a generalized and out of context method here to determine whether Kyou is a tsundere or not.
Brash and violent (typical tsundere quality) - check.
Gets embarrassed over something - (typical tsundere quality) - check.
Therefore, she must be tsundere.
Sorry, but no - while Kyou indeed possesses a lot of qualities tsunderes usually do, her general behavior and mindset do not place her under this label.
|2007-10-26, 08:18
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|2007-10-26, 12:40
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Just going to put my 2 cents...
The typical tsundere (as opposed to the 'classical' one, which I'll elaborate more on later, this post is going to be long) for me to qualify as one, a character must possess a number of things...
1) a tsuntsun side - very harsh in a way, through physical, verbal, or other means
2) a deredere side - some 'happy' (need to think up of a better word) feelings towards a particular character or item that they'd rather keep secret.
3) both tsuntsun and deredere must be both directed at the same person. Reason why is because if either are directed to different people, then it just means that character has different feelings towards different people.
4) tsuntsun comes out because of the need to hide deredere. This line is needed because if the cause of the tsuntsun is not because they want to hide deredere, then they might have a legitimate reason for acting tsuntsun.
5) part 4 must come out at least occasionally. This line is needed otherwise if they exhibited tsundere qualities once in a blue moon, I can't classify them as a tsundere
Let's do an easy one, take Kagami for example.
1) tsutsun = check
2) deredere = check
3) both directed at Konata? check
4) Lots of examples of this, though the most obvious one is she acts as though she's okay being in a different class when she really wants to be with the other three
5) Almost every episode? lol
Let's do another easy one, take your typical Kugimiya tsundere, like I dunno, say Louise.
1) tsuntsun = hell yeah, s&M level to boot
2) deredere = love potion, anyone? XD
3) Saitou gets the extremes of both, don't he?
4) Don't you notice Louise overdoes her S&M whenever she's jealous of Saitou spending time with a girl?
5) Let's just say it's just too damn much
Some examples who I don't consider typical tsundere
Minami Kana of this season's Minami-ke (fails #4) - She acts tsuntsun and deredere towards Fujioka. However, the reason why she acts so tsuntsun is not because she's hiding her feelings, but because of some major misunderstandings that's not related at all (which is often quite hilarious ). I can't imagine for the life of me calling her a tsundere because of that, since if the misunderstandings weren't there, she wouldn't be acting tsuntsun at all.
Asuka of NGE (fails #3)- her tsun and dere are directed to other people. AFAIK, she never directed tsun towards Kaji nor dere towards Shinji. I don't understand the need to label her as a tsundere when the simplest reason as to her actions is that she loves Kaji and she hates Shinji's guts in the tv series/movies. (And yes, I'm a diehard Asuka/Shinji shipper ^^; )
Of course, Girlfriend of Steel (1 and 2) Asuka is without a doubt tsundere, since she actually has a dere side towards Shinji.
Hinagiku of Hayate (fails #1)- Ano... where's her tsun towards Hayate? Never in my memory has Hina acted harshly against Hayate. She's been encouraging, kind and understanding towards Hayate for the past 30 episodes...
Back on topic, how about Kyou? Nope not a typical tsundere for me. If Hinagiku is lacking tsun, then Kyou is lacking dere. Kyou's harsh towards Sunohara and Okazaki because they act like idiots. If that's the only criteria we fall on, then Tomoyo should be considered as a tsundere as well, right?
The only thing Kyou has done so far that can be considered as dere would be her kick scene, of which is HIGHLY arguable considering any girl not named Suzumiya Haruhi would be embarassed if someone saw their undies. And even if it was a moment of dere, judging by her sideways glance towards Okazaki, it would've been directed towards him. The tsun? towards Sunohara at that time, so it definitely fails #3.
Of course, this might all change. Afterall, Haruhi didn't show her dere side till two thirds into the series, and so Kyou in the future might do the same.
|2007-10-26, 16:11
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Sadly, after episode 4, still no real developement of her relationship towards Tomoya, but at least we get to see her as a helpful (and if I may imply caring) person, in that she assists with the club etc. (although the request for help was rather directed at her sister.)
Due to the focus at this point being somewhat the theatre club and Fuko, we'll just have to wait and see!
|2007-10-26, 16:12
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Misuzu & Kotomi Protector
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But, I have to disagree with some points... for me, tsundere is:
#1 tsuntsun and #2 deredere side has to be the most obvious part of her behavior (in short it should be her nature) to make her a tsundere.
#3 is not on the list for me.
#4 no complaints because that is certainly correct (It's what I call a typical tsundere specially if done most of the time) but it's not on my list because it's just a typical reaction coming from a typical tsundere. If her action is not for hiding her deredere side then there has to be a valid reason to her action so that she doesn't fall to only being a tsuntsun like the very obvious Akira.
While #5 does make a tsundere, it would be just for a certain moment which is why it won't be on my list as well (she has to be a tsuntsun but deredere in nature like I said before).
Now, the reason why Kyou is tsuntsun to me is, 1# and 2# is very evident. She always becomes quick-tempered to minor things. Would you really throw a dictionary at someone because they're carrying your pet (a quick-temper that turned her Violent Mode on towards Sunohara and only Sunohara), would you really act harsh towards someone because you see your sister talking to someone? (Towards Tomoya) She could act verbally, no need to be violent, and in fact she could act like that to some other people, as well as to her own sister (harsh in a caring/defensive/protective way). Remember when Ryou asked her sister if she really was a "bi", that's a normal tsundere reaction trying to be defensive against her sister (See the reason why #4 doesn't fall on my list? She's not really hiding her deredere part, but she's in fact a deredere.) The only difference that Kagami has to Kyou is Kyou is a much more tsun than her, and her target is multiple.
Which brings us to #3, this is where both of us conflicts. Like I said, for me, you don't need to direct your tsuntsun and deredere towards a single person. It's just a trait/part of being a tsundere, tsuntsun comes out trying to hide the deredere-ness, (very typical tsundere traits, which belongs mostly to traditional tsundere because they're trying to hide the fact that they're falling in love with the character they always gets tsuntsun with), OTOH, what I'm trying to tell is, a tsundere is a person who acts tsuntsun all the time but in fact she's also a weak person inside, and also, someone who acts tough to hide their weak side, and another one, someone who starts as tsuntsun but gradually becomes a tsundere to the point they become #4 type you're talking about. Tsundere is a flexible term about having #1 and #2 their very obvious behaviour.
And the reason why Tomoyo isn't a tsundere is because 1# (tsuntsun) is not her normal behaviour compared to Kyou. Her violent actions towards Sunohara and those other's who wants to harm her (excluding Tomoya) is just a show of self-defense on her part, it's not being tsuntsun (the definition of tsuntsun is not being violent alone, it's being quick-tempered/hotheaded/etc. --> to the point that she gets violent, when she beats up Sunohara it's more like, mess with me then you'll get it). I don't consider her being tsuntsun towards Tomoya as well, more like she's being a nag towards Tomoya.
So in short a tsundere only needs; Or if you want, to me a tsundere only needs:
1) Her tsuntsun side must be very obvious - bad attitude, quick-temper, hotblooded, harsh... (verbal violence-to->physical violence) Anyway, it's a very flexible term... just think about a hotheaded girl who always shout... you'll get the idea...
2) Her derdere side must also be obvious, but no need to make it as obvious as her tsuntsun side - cute side, shy side... erm why am I making this long, I'll make it short... her GIRLY SIDE thanks for the term Kinny, which is why I said, almost all moe characters are deredere, if not all, if you want to place Akira to the moe side, sure, but that would mean you like a person who does nothing but complain
3) Someone or something (could be separate people or animal or thing) who draws out their tsuntsun and deredere everytime. Be it a person or an animal, a stuffed toy (yeah a stuffed toy and an animal).
I use only the three important things, the others are just part of what being a tsundere is... it's not really said that you need to act your tsuntsun and deredere towards a single entity, it's not really said that you have to hide the fact that you can be a deredere. All you have to have is a tsuntsun and a deredere personality (of course it has to be very evident, and someone or something that will draw those out of you. You wouldn't be able to show their tsuntsun and deredere side evidently if you don't have someone or something to that draw out, do you?
|2007-10-26, 19:06
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If you're basing it on post numbers, don't.
About 3/4 of the posts here are about the definition of tsundere and whether it applies to Kyou.
|2007-10-26, 19:08
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That said, the comparison is a bit early as almost every character didn't show their full potential yet i think.
Well... it is rather personal tastes at stakes... explosive damage, or combo? you choose
As for me, the current avatar might be already enough XD. That said, Kyou is a very interesting character how she deal with everyone, and i'm wondering how her relationship was with Tomoya and Youhei, since she call them by their first names, so most likely, they were classmates from earlier grades (wild guess though).
hope we might get some "twins sisters past" usual treat... i can clearly see kyou standing between her sister and some bullies ^^"
Trivia ! something Tomoyo will never have: botan ! ^_^
|2007-10-26, 19:32
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Needs more Swinu...I mean, Botan.
Botan reminds me a lot of Potato, and I absolutely loved Potato. If Kyou somehow ends up in Eternal Fighter Zero, she MUST have an attack involving Botan in some way (sort of how Misuzu had Potato as one of her specials).
Other than that, Kyou is reminding me a lot of Kagami Hiiragi and Haruhi Suzumiya...which is awesome, by the way.
|2007-10-27, 00:59
|Link #119
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there is a reason why points #3-5 exists. Without those, you would be including a whole bunch of characters that people don't call tsundere. I have listed before just a small summary, but here's an indepth explanation.
Reason for #3 (tsun and dere must be drawn out by the same thing)
Nanoha, judging from the first season alone, is tsuntsun to the villain yet deredere to her friends. Nanoha = tsundere then?
If the tsun and dere aren't drawn out by the same entity, one would encapsulate the vast majority of anime protagonists as tsunderes. This is because in a typical show, the protagonist is usually very tsun to enemies and very dere to friends.
If anything, this is the 'rule' that people should include in their definitions of tsundere, because without it, they'll include a vast amount of characters that the majority of people don't consider tsundere.
Reason for #4 (tsun is the cause of the need to hide dere)
First of all, if tsun isn't caused by dere whatsoever, then people don't term that as tsundere at all.
Or these characters are termed yangire, where their tsun is caused by some other event that 'snaps' them out of their normal selves into their tsun mode.
For example, Ryuuguu Rena of Higurashi, who's famous for 'snapping' from her dere omochi-kaeri-mode into her dreaded oyashiro-mode and back. And I don't see anyone labelling her as a tsundere.
So we established that tsun must be the cause of the dere. But there's another group of characters who also acts tsun as the cause of their dere, and that's the yandere girls. But what's the difference between a yandere and a tsundere? Simple, yandere almost always use their tsun to SHOW their dere, while tsundere use it to try and HIDE it.
For example, without this, Fuyou Kaede from Shuffle and Kotonoha/Sekai from the infamous School Days would be considered as tsundere as well. All these characters exhibit tsuntsun and deredere behaviour, but people don't consider them tsundere.
Do note that the rule doesn't say 'all tsun must be used to hide dere'. A lot of tsunderes use their tsun side for other good reasons on the same character they're dere for, but I have yet to find a character people call a tsundere that doesn't try to hide their dere with their tsun in some way, shape or form.
[as an aside, people I know try and differentiate tsundere and yandere in saying tsundere is tsun on the outside and dere on the inside, while yandere is the otherway around.
Of which I counter, then what about the tsunderes who's usually dere then turn tsun, like say, Kaname Chidori of FMP fame? She's usually neutral or dere towards Sagara, and only turns tsun if either he gets too close to Tessa or he's doing something mighty stupid again. She's certainly not yandere...]
Reason for #5 (tsundere activities must be occasional)
This is mainly my 'get out of jail' card, because there's a character out there somewhere who'll possess all 4 qualities yet they only do that in one occasion. Hardly a tsundere at that.
Let me ask you, do you consider Kana, Nanoha, Rena, Kotonoha, and Sekai as tsunderes? Going by your defintion, they are tsunderes because their tsuns are very evident, and so are their deres. And God knows that there's some sort of catalyst that brings out both tsun and dere.
If you do consider them as tsunderes, then I have no problems. But if for some reason you don't consider even one character as a tsundere, then your defintion of tsundere needs to be revamped.
That's really the problem I see with the definition of tsundere running nowadays; with ill-defined definitions, those definitions are so broad that they could describe characters people don't consider tsundere at all. But if they're fine with that, then there's nothing I can do about it.
|2007-10-27, 04:42
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I won't answer back to your reasoning about #3 and #5 because my answer would be the same as before. But anyway, I think I finally understand the reason our thoughts isn't connecting.
First, if you're a tsundere, your tsuntsun side should always be heavier/obvious/evident than your deredere side. If you're deredere side is much heavier/obvious/evident than your tsuntsun, you won't be a tsundere, but more like a typical moe character. If you were only a Filipino, there's a single word I could say to you that would surely ring a bell and tell me, I see, I finally got it.
Tsundere = mataray ang pag-uugali, pero sa loob ay kabaitan.
Tsundere = hot-headed (tsuntsun) person but actually kind (deredere) inside. Implying that she's typically a hot-headed person but it doesn't mean she doesn't have a girly side on her. Meaning, she acts quick-tempered all the time, but will show girly sides from time to time (A simple explanation of the modern definition)
What you might be doing is weigh the deredere side much heavier than the tsuntsun side.
***Going by your defintion, they are tsunderes because their tsuns are very evident, and so are their deres.***
This is where we didn't connect. But anyway, the tsuntsun and deredere should be evident of course, but the dere shouldn't be more obvious than the tsun because that would be weighing the person more on the typical moe side.
Spoiler for Shuffle / Higurashi spoilers:
And one thing, yandere/yangire doesn't mean "deredere from the start the suddenly turning tsuntsun" more like, deredere from the start then going "kokoro no yanderu"
Traditional Definition) A tsuntsun that gradually becomes a deredere as the story progresses. (Character development)
Modern Definition) A Tsuntsun in nature, but actually a deredere in the inside. Just remember that her tsuntsun side should be more obvious than the deredere side. But do notice that there would be times where the deredere part will be much obvious than the tsuntsun part as the story came to something like an important moment (climax/lovey dovey moments/painful moments). But she's a tsuntsun from the start so she probably would go back to being a tsuntsun after that important moment. (Personality as a whole)
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Yeah, he screwed up posting to this thread... but negging him isn't the answer... we don't want to ban him just because he doesn't know proper forum etiquette. He only has three posts. At least he isn't asking how to hack. :-P
\"Those of us that had been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts, we wanted strong drink.\"
Wasn't me. Haven't thrown any red peas for ages.
I'd be guessing Gore took aim and let of a shot.
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