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Using molecular dynamic simulation - explore the interactions between a molecular structure and substrate when they are linked together.
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This tool is designed to serve as an interactive method of exploring graphical simulation of environments characterized by a molecular structure attached to a substrate through an anchoring development. The code for Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD) and Molecular Dynamics (NAMD) was developed by the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group at the University of Illinois.
Until recently, much of our understanding of multi-body interactions came from the analysis of an imaginary system involving two objects, often referred to as the two-body problem. This is a simple approach because two-body problems can typically be reduced to two one-body problems and those can be solved analytically and exactly. For hundreds of years, this has also been an effective approach resulting in insight into principles of gravitational orbit, electricity and magnetism, and momentum. As physical problems increase in complexity, however, involving three or more bodies, they become much more difficult to solve. Eventually, in more complex systems, it becomes simply infeasible to approach the problems analytically. One approach to this problem is to run an experiment and record observations in order to discover new insight. In a sense this is a very intuitive way to understand the universe, and something that has been done since the dawn of science. Often, however, a deeper understanding required to explain why we observe the behavior that we do. To answer the question we develop "models", or frameworks to explain the underlying behavior. As discussed earlier, we were limited for quite some time to models involving two bodies. Since the 1950s, however, with the advent of both computational methods and machinery, we have been able to tackle more complex problems using numerical methods.
Numerical methods provide the approximate solution as opposed to the exact solution achieved by analytical methods. While many numerical algorithms exist, they share in common the ability to provide, in a finite number of calculations, insight into a system consisting of infinite potential interactions. Some commonly known, elementary, numerical methods involve integration of a function. Most students of introductory calculus courses will be familiar with the concept of Riemann sums – specifically the rectangular rule or trapezoidal rule. These methods allow for the approximate calculation of the area under nearly any Cartesian curve, by subdividing the curve into a set of individual rectangles or trapezoids. While it is beyond the scope of this discussion to provide detail on these methods, the key is that the methods allow for approximation of a function using a finite number of calculations.
Within molecular dynamics, similar algorithms exist. A popular molecular dynamics package, developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, known as NAMD (Not just Another Molecular Dynamics program) employs several algorithms for reducing problems into simpler, smaller, tasks. These reduced problems are then solved using a mixture of different calculation methods including numerical approximation methods. Scientists often need to further add some sort of noise simulation into their models to get even greater insight into the problem. Simulations run by NAMD and other molecular dynamics programs, then, output data that can be analyzed.
A common way to analyze such data is by visualization. VMD (visual molecular dynamics), also developed at Illinois, provides a means for analyzing and visualizing the data, which may be in the form of individual molecules or molecular interaction time-series data. VMD is valuable for understanding both form and function – it can reveal the structure molecules take up as well as how that structure is changed upon interacting with another species so that the function of individual domains may be determined. Molecular dynamics and visualization is increasingly being used in the life sciences and bioengineering disciplines to both understand and develop better diagnostic devices and pharmaceuticals.
This tool will help you get familiar with the VMD software and provide a sense of how powerful the software can be. In the tool, a model of DNA attached to a gold substrate is provided. When the model is displayed, you can explore different visualizations, pan, zoom, rotate, and even play a video of the simulation.
To learn more about the topics discussed here visit the following links:
- Course on Atomic Scale Simulation by David Ceperley at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Course on Biomolecular Physics by Klaus Schulten and Taekjip Ha at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Overview of some NAMD algorithms
- Klaus Schulten's Laboratory (Active Developers of the VMD and NAMD software packages)
- VMD tutorial
- Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Elementary Methods by J. M. Haile
- Discussion of VMD from developer John Stone
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Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., "VMD - Visual Molecular Dynamics", J. Molec. Graphics, 1996, vol. 14, pp. 33-38.


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02-08-2005, 12:31 PM #1n0r1GuestWant to buy a 12" -- but iBook or powerbook? Different keyboards?
Hey all,
New forum user here -- great thing you guys have going on! Hurrah for geeky communities!
I'm in the market (like, today or tomorrow) for a little 12" apple notebook. It wouldn't be my primary computer (which, incidentally, is broken right now -- but they keep promising me that a new motheboard is on the way!), but rather something I would take around to cafes and things like that -- mostly a portable workstation. No heavy graphics editing; no gaming; nothing really huge at all. As much as I use my computer, I don't put much if any load on it.
So, an iBook seems to makes sense to me, given that, while not as sexy as the powerbooks, it's $500 cheaper, and I don't really need the extra power or big hard drive (though of course, they'd be nice). But reading these threads about screens warping, as a recent poster said, makes me nervous. These threads also mention that iBooks are "buggy" -- can someone explain what kinds of bugs new iBooks tend to come with?
A main issue to me, though, is the keyboard. I have wrist problems, and when I use a computer at work or home, I have an ergonomic split keyboard plugged in to it. Of course, laptops don't have ergonomic keyboards (so sad! I wish they would!), but one reason I'm looking at getting a mac is that I've found I can type for the longest with the least pain on a mac keyboard. I guess it's just short key travel (a shallow keyboard) and easy key action, but it's beautiful.
BUT, I've never tried typing on an iBook. Does anyone know if they keyboards are significantly different between the two models, or how they compare?
Thanks a lot!
- 02-08-2005, 01:44 PM #2Desolate OneGuest
I woudn't worry too much about the screen warping problem. I mean granted I have the 14" model which apparently doesn't suffer from the problem but you also have to realize the nature of a message board. Most people are going to post questions regarding problems, not praise. With that said...
My wrists have gotten plenty bad from years of FPS games on my PCs. And when i first got my iBook I had a major problem getting used to the small keyboard. I was "fat-fingering" keys all the time and it got quite frustrating. However with usage I got plenty used to it. Now I find I type better on the iBook keyboard then on a fullsized model. As far as the similarities w/ the Apple keyboard you get with their desktop models, unfortunatly I couldn't say.
All in all give it a go. If you find your wrists still suffer using the iBook keyboard you can always use your ergnomic split kb and plug it into the USB port for extended usage.
Good luck and welcome aboard!
02-08-2005, 01:48 PM #3Desolate OneGuest
Oh and as far as bugs, I haven't personally experienced any. However I do have a CD that on the last track will lock up iTunes during the import. I'd have to force quit and it usually results with a kernel panic. I've reproduced the problem a couple times and if I recall correctly I had a similar issue ripping the same disk on my PCs. My conclusion is that it's the disk at fault. Probably some sort of copy protection. Just run the software update for the usual security/program updates and you'll be fine.
Oh, and as far as me not reading your subject carefully enough, I've also never used a PB for an extended amount of time but a quick Google image search shows thier keyboards look pretty similar. I don't think you'll have a problem with the iBook kb if you didn't have a problem with the PB kb.
02-08-2005, 03:53 PM #4n0r1Guest
Okay, rock on! You're entirely right that, of course, people will post problems and not raves to these forums (fora?) ... and, since this really isn't a desktop replacement, I have no right spending an extra $500 on sex appeal. :-)
I just borrowed a colleague's iBook, and tried typing on it -- and no problems. I really wonder it is that makes the mac laptop keyboards so typeable -- but it's great, whatever it is!
Thanks a lot!
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There are some aftermarket keyboards. This one looks like it may help if you have trouble with the normal keyboard http://www.fingerworks.com/MacNTouch_product.html
02-08-2005, 05:22 PM #6code777Guest
i find the keyboard on the Powerbook a lot better. But i mean iBook's is fine its just that the Powerbook *seems* more sturdy
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The keyboards on the iBook and Powerbook are very similar. I wouldn't sweat that.
I took delivery of my 12" iBook a few weeks ago and it's been great. No sign of the "screen warping" problem mentioned elsewhere in the forum, and I have been using my XP machine less and less.
Keep is posted on your new purchase! :cool:
02-14-2005, 12:07 PM #8jbsengineerGuestOriginally Posted by code777
Originally Posted by fyrman22
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i have found that typing on my i book is not that bad. however, after installing ram (which requires removing the keyboard), my keyboard doesn't look as if it is in all of the way.
my keyboard doesn't look as if it is in all of the way.
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02-17-2005, 02:22 PM #11iDVFH.Guest
the left lock is probably a little jammed. lightly push down the keyboard on the bottom left side ( fn,ctrl,option) and you should hear a little click..
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Aussie Penguin Adventure - Interactive story for children
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Description*****Children's interactive story ebook app
Synopsis: Robbie is one of the smallest species of Penguins in the World and lives on Penguin Island, Perth, Western Australia. A friendly Wandering Albatross tells him of a place where giant penguins live (Antarctica). He wants to meet these giant penguins himself. And so begins his fabulous adventure...
- Not only is this a great bedtime story, it is interactive.
- Lots of pop-up info on every new animal in the book you meet
- Slide things around
- Jiggle things
- Lots of bubbles
- 3 different reading modes
- Professionally recorded voice for "Auto-play" and "Read it to me" mode.
- In "I'll read it" mode, touch the sentence and it will read it to you.
Note from Author: If your child loves bedtime stories as much as mine, he she is sure to love this one. Having read his favorite stories a million times, I made this one up one night out of the blue, as I went. My son absolutely loved it. And I thought, hmmm this might make a good ebook, and then I decided to make it interactive. It was a labour of love that took months of planning. I hope your child gets as much fun out of it as mine has. If you do enjoy it... please leave some feedback so other parents will know what you think. Maybe I'll write some more :)


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East Carolina University's Program in African and African American Studies consists of an interdisciplinary BA major and minor housed in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences. The program's comparative focus and multidisciplinary emphasis complement many existing programs that seek to prepare undergraduate students for competitive careers and productive work in a global world of different cultures, political systems, and economic infrastructures. Students pursuing a degree in AAAS will develop a broad perspective on human values and ethnic diversity, as well as an understanding of the socio-political, religious, and historical evidence related to African peoples, both in Africa and the diaspora communities of North America and the Atlantic World. Students may specialize in either the African or the African American concentration in the major. The minor combines both concentrations. Undergraduates are encouraged to double major in AAAS and another course of study at East Carolina University.
For more information, contact the Director of the African and African American Studies Program, David Dennard.
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44. Why do you call God the Father "Creator?" I call God the Father "Creator" because he is the sole designer and originator of everything that exists. He creates and sustains all things through his Word, and gives life to all creatures through his Spirit.Question 45 explains why that is important.
45. How does recognizing God as Creator affect your understanding of his creation? I acknowledge that God made for his own glory everything that exists. He created human beings in his image, male and female, to serve him as creation's stewards, managers, and caretakers. He entrusts his good creation to us as a gift to enjoy and a responsibility to fulfill.Freedom is something very important to us. As Americans, we sometimes describe our country as the land of the free. The largest benchmarks in American History: The Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement, just to name some of the big ones, all have to do with us as a people craving, seeking, or defending freedom. Freedom from what? Usually some sort of tyranny, some sort of oppressive rule. At the heart of this love for freedom is a more fundamental belief: an idea that there is something degrading about being enslaved, about being controlled, about having our wills directed by another. And on top of this, that humans are special and unique. Being human entitles you to be free.
This very fact has led to one of the largest riddles of existence: Are we free? Or is the entire universe (us included) so ordered and structured that every single event is determined from the very beginning, making every choice simply an illusion? We're not going to answer that today. But the question, if you see what's at stake, pits two deep passions together: On the one hand, we want to know that the world is a place of order and that it's not completely random. We want to know that we can rely on our car to start when we turn the ignition. On the other hand, we want to know that we aren't just cogs in a machine, driven by fate. We want to know that we aren't controlled. We want to know that we are free. Again, we're not going to answer that question right now – at least, not directly. What we are going to focus on is what the Bible says. Genesis 1:1 reads, "In the beginning God made heaven and earth." This means that before "in the beginning," before there was a "beginning," there was nothing. Question 46 reads:
46. What does it mean that God made both heaven and earth? It means that all things, whether visible or invisible, physical or spiritual, were brought into being out of nothing by the Word of the eternal God.There is some very old Christian language here. It goes back at least as far as St. Augustine in the 4th century. It's the phrase "out of nothing." A lot of times you will hear it in the Latin, "ex nihilo." The Christian doctrine of creation is not that there was some amorphous blob called the universe, and then God came along and shaped it and worked it into the world we know today. It's that, before there was anything – anything "physical" like planets, plants, animals, and people, as well as anything that we might call "spiritual," like heaven, hell, angels, demons, souls, whatever – before any of that, there was nothing. Ex nihilo – "out of nothing."
The idea that God created heaven and earth "out of nothing" tells us at least two important things about God.
1. It tells us that God created the world freely.
2. It tells us that God created the world for freedom.
So, first, God created the world "freely." What do we mean by this? Remember that philosophical problem I mentioned earlier: We might wonder whether or not our own choices are really just the carrying out of a large series of causes and effects. We wonder, "Are we really free?" But with God, we do not have to wonder – we know. If anyone is really free, it's God. How so? Because before God created heaven and earth, there was only God. So the only cause for God to do anything was God himself. Nobody told God what to do because there was nobody to tell God what to do. He simply created the world because he freely chose to. He did it because he felt like it. He didn't have to, he didn't have some deep emptiness inside his heart, and only a universe would allow him to ease the pain of his loneliness. No. In fact, traditionally, the phrase theologians have used to describe God's utter freedom is "divine apatheia," or divine apathy.
Divine apathy is the idea that God is so infinitely free from need, from constraints, that he is even immune to what we call the passions or the emotions. This isn't to say that God doesn't care about us or that God doesn't love us. It's actually the opposite. A father might be stressed about work, and takes it out on his children. A child takes a cookie from the forbidden cookie jar because he can't control his desire for a cookie. A woman's child has died and she becomes a recluse and hides herself from the world until she quietly dies. Think of the way you talk to your loved ones moments after you hit your finger with a hammer. Think of the way that our anger, our desires, our sorrows, our pain can control us and totally overtake our will so that we act irrationally, we do crazy, and often sinful things. Divine apathy means that God experiences emotions in a way that doesn't overtake him. And because of that, we can trust that he is good and will only do good towards us. This is why it is important to insist that God is free, that he acts and creates only out of his good freedom, and is compelled by none other than himself. This means that everything is a gift. Everything is, at its most basic level, grace – the free gift of God. Life is a gift, love is a gift, salvation is a gift, but even our very existence, the fact that we might not exist, but God desires that we do anyway – it's all the radically free gift of God. And there is only one proper response to give to the giver of a gift: thanksgiving. Our entire lives are to be acts of thanks in response to the grace given to us. This, of course, is exactly what Jesus does in the Eucharist: He lifts the bread, looks toward heaven, and gives thanks to God. This is why we can call the Eucharist, "eucharist." Eucharist means simply "thanksgiving." That is what we do as we share that meal together, we give thanks to God.
And this brings us to our second point: Not only has God created the world freely, but he created it for a reason: that it might be free. God created the world for freedom. Before heaven and earth, there was God, the Triune God, eternally existing in perfect peace, love, and fellowship between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This eternal harmony between the persons of the Trinity is what freedom looks like.
We read in Genesis that God spoke heaven and earth into existence. In the first chapter of the Gospel of John, we read that this speech is the speech or "Word" of the Trinity. We mentioned this before when talking about the Holy Spirit: The Father speaks, the Son is the word, and the Spirit is the breath which carries the voice of God. This Holy speech is the sound of God's free love, and as we already mentioned, the creation of heaven and earth out of nothing is indicative of the utter freeness with which God created heaven and earth. But God's goodness knows no end. For he created us that we might be like him. This is what it means that he created us in his image and likeness. The same perfection of peace, love, and fellowship of the Trinity – the freedom of God – is exactly what God desires that we imitate together as the Church.
Of course, we are not God. We have to distinguish between God, the creator, and us, the creature. The way we enjoy the freedom of God is set forth in Genesis. Understand, first of all, that when the story of Genesis 1 was written, it was written in contrast to many of the other creation stories of the time. It would take certain elements of those stories, retell them, but then give them a twist which said something like, "See it wasn't like that, it was actually like this…" One good example of this is the creation story of the Akkadians, who told the story of Marduk, chief of the gods. The Hebrew creation story and the Akkadian story certainly had some similarities, but one big difference was that Marduk created man from the blood of a rebel god – whereas in Genesis, man is made from the dust of the earth, given life by the Spirit. An even bigger difference is that the Akkadian gods are not at all like our god. Our god eternally exists in peace and love. Their warring, savage, angry god exists among other gods. Maybe the biggest difference, though, is that Marduk creates man to serve the gods food to ease their hunger. The Akkadian gods are not at all like our god. Our god needs nothing. In fact, compare this with the story of Genesis: God creates the world, creates men, and then says, "Go ahead and eat." Marduk enslaves man to meet his needs. Yahweh needs nothing, but simply creates man freely so that he may meet man's needs.
Christianity is, among other things, a feasting religion. From the get go, God wants to eat with us. That is the shape of creaturely freedom. That is what we were created for, to know the freedom of God, by sharing in a meal of peace and love in the presence of the Father. And of you read the whole bible closely, you could see that the whole thing could be organized as a series of dinner dates from Genesis to the Marriage Feast of the Lamb in Revelation. Sadly, there is that part, only few pages in, about how we failed to play our part as honored guests. Question 47:
47. If God made the world good, why do I sin? Adam and Eve rebelled against God, thus bringing into the world pain, fruitless toil, alienation from God and from each other, and death. I have inherited a fallen and corrupted human nature, and I too sin and fall short of God's glory.If any human person lived freely, it was Adam and Eve – and they freely rejected God's hospitality, they failed to show gratitude for endless grace, and thus introduced what Christians have called "sin" – that word which indicates slavery and bondage to self-centeredness. The self-centered person is enslaved to his own passions, is unable to see others, unable both to give to others, and unable to return thanks to them. In short, "sin" is the impossibility of experiencing the freedom of God.
Just to drive the point home once more, let's close with Question 48:
48. How does sin affect you? The God-opposing, self-centered power of sin, which is present in all people, corrupts me and my relationship with God, with others and with creation. Because of sin and apart from Christ, I am spiritually dead, separated from God, under his righteous condemnation, and without hope.Unfortunately, it's my job this week to end on this bad note. Next week, Ryan will share with you the good news – kind of a good cop, bad cop scenario. I do have a spoiler, though: Sin doesn't go unanswered. Much of the bible tells about God's patient work to disentangle us, to free us, to redeem us from the slavery of sin. He finally accomplished that through Jesus.


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"Super Bowl Sunday" is often an exercise in over-manufactured hype, with selected football players on both sides of the pigskin made out to be "heroes" when they are anything but.
The television commercials can be just as awful – the GoDaddy.com advertisements come to mind here – but in rare instances, they can transcend the mindless hullabaloo made over a simple game.
Chrysler achieved that not once but twice during this weekend's contest between the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens, with the first a sterling tribute to our military men and women who are still off serving our nation in combat zones far, far away from their homes:
Chrysler scored a second time with moving tribute to America's farmers penned by the late Paul Harvey many years ago.
The family farmer is a dying breed in this country – indeed, most farms today are owned and controlled by gigantic corporate entities – but the sheer toughness of body, mind, and spirit required of farming speaks to something elemental in the American character.
Let us just hope that the parts of the American spirit illuminated by these two commercials are not something that we've lost; that they do not fade away like embers in a dying fire.


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At 1,971 feet the Ocean Beach Pier is supposed to be the longest concrete pier in the world. It also has a T-shape at the end extending 360 feet to the south end and 193 feet to the north end. The far end extends into the Point Loma kelp bed and is blanketed by kelp much of the year. This can attract some kelp resident species but can also cause a lot of tangles, usually at the most inopportune time -- such as when you have a large fish attached to the end of your line. At this far end, where the water is 25 feet deep, the most common species are kelp bass, sand bass, several variety of perch, bonito, mackerel, scorpionfish, halibut and, quite often, California lobster. Occasionally a black sea bass (giant sea bass) will also pass through this area. In August of 1997, a 9-pound baby black was caught and quickly released back into the water. Who knows, mama and papa blackie also might be around.
Midway out, on both sides of the bait shop, is the best area for the smaller white croaker, queenfish, jacksmelt, walleye surfperch, barracuda, mackerel and white seabass (usually the small, illegal, juvenile fish called sea trout). This area also seems to yield the majority of halibut (spring to summer), guitarfish and bat rays; it was in this area that I once caught a nearly 4-foot-wide California butterfly ray (Gymnura marmorata). Another day I got an uncommon, just barely 6-inch-long deepbody anchovy (Anchoa compressa) that hit a bait rig intended for mackerel. I believe there is a reef on the north side of the pier in this area and that probably explains why a majority of the fish are taken on that side. From peirfishing.com
Ocean Beach was once known as the Haight-Ashbury of San Diego. The community became an attraction for hippies, who eventually became accepted by many local business establishments. The Black headshop opened on Newport Avenue. Soon to follow was an organic food store – the People's Market – on Voltaire Street. Beginning in the early '70s, local development and land interests pressed for the development of Ocean Beach's oceanfront, with plans for tourist-oriented resorts, hotels and a marina outlined in the Ocean Beach Precise Plan. With the passage of a 30-foot (9.1 m) height limit in 1972. From Wikipedia


text: Hi Chris, I'm not an expert on the Mellanox IB implementation, or MVAPICH, and I won't try to be. Gilead/someone else from Mellanox might be able to give you more specific information, or maybe the OSU guys if you email mvapich-discuss. I have two guesses, based on things I've seen on a range of networks. Guess 1) The numbers you cite look remarkably as though you are running on 8 core nodes with 8, 4, 2, and 1 cores active, and citing the % utilization of the entire node. If you run top without separating out into per-cpu load (via hitting '1' while top) you will, on some OS's (I think I've seen some variation of behavior) see utilization as a percentage of total available CPU. Thus 1 CPU on an 8 core node would show up as 12.5% of CPU. I'm not sure this is what you're seeing, especially since you're not seeing it with OpenMPI, but if the OpenMPI implementation you're using uses threads for various purposes, that might explain it. Guess 2) Particularly in network devices that offload communication from the CPU, if the MPI implementation uses an interrupt-driven communication approach you can get a lot of idle time while waiting for data to arrive. This can lead to very large amounts of idle time. An implementation that polls for data will not show this idle time, so you can see dramatic differences in CPU utilization even though with regards to the job at hand, the same amount of progress is being made. I think that the default configuration of MVAPICH does poll for data, so you would not see lots of idle CPU, but MVAPICH is configurable to the moon and back so how you have it built, I have no idea. Hope this helps! -Kevin On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 22:24, Chris Samuel wrote: > Hi fellow Beowulfers.. > > We're currently building an Opteron based IB cluster, and are seeing > some rather peculiar behaviour that has had us puzzled for a while. > > If I take a CPU bound application, like NAMD, I can run an 8 CPU job > on a single node and it pegs the CPUs at 100% (this is built using > Charm++ configured as an MPI system and using MVAPICH 0.9.8p3 > with the Portland Group Compilers). > > If I then run 2 x 4 CPU jobs of the *same* problem, they all run at > 50% CPU. > > If I run 4 x 2 CPU jobs, again the same problem, they run at 25%.. > > ..and yes, if I run 8 x 1 CPU jobs they run at around 12-13% CPU! > > I then replicated the same problem with the example MPI cpi.c program, > to rule out some odd behaviour in NAMD. > > What really surprised me was when testing CPI built using OpenMPI > (which doesn't use IB on our system) the problem vanished and I could > run 8 x 1 CPU jobs, each using 100%! > > So (at the moment) it looks like we're seeing some form of contention > on the Infiniband adapter.. > > 07:00.0 InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT25204 [InfiniHost III Lx HCA] (rev a0) > Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies MT25204 [InfiniHost III Lx HCA] > Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 19 > Memory at feb00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] > Memory at fd800000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=8M] > Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 > Capabilities: [48] Vital Product Data > Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/5 Enable- > Capabilities: [84] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=32 > Capabilities: [60] Express Endpoint IRQ 0 > > We see this problem with the standard CentOS kernel, with the latest > stable kernel (22.214.171.124) and with 2.6.23-rc9-git5 (which completely > rips out and replaced the CPU scheduler with Ingo Molnar's CFS). > > This is on a SuperMicro based system with AMD's Barcelona quad > core CPU (1.9GHz), but I see the same behaviour (scaled down) on dual > core Opterons too. > > I've looked at what "modinfo ib_mthca" says are the tuneable options, > but the few I've played with ("msi_x" and "tune_pci") haven't made > any noticeable difference, sadly.. > > Has anyone else run into this or got any clues they could pass on please ? > > cheers, > Chris


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Vince Marrow is in his second season on the Nebraska staff and tutors the Nebraka tight ends.
Marrow expanded his role and proved successful on the recruiting front last spring, when Nebraska was granted a waiver from the NCAA to allow Marrow to recruit off campus while associate head coach Barney Cotton was unable to travel while recovering from surgery.
With Marrow's help, a young Husker offense showed great promise under first-year coordinator Tim Beck in 2011. Nebraska averaged nearly 30 points per game last fall, and the Huskers scored at least two touchdowns in every game in 2011, a feat NU has accomplished only twice in the past 10 seasons.
Garrison also oversees Nebraska's tight ends, who combined for 29 catches for 446 yards and one touchdown in 2011, in addition to a blocking role in the run game.
Nebraska's rushing attack flourished, averaging 217.2 yards per game to rank 15th nationally. Nebraska averaged 200 yards rushing for only the second time in the past eight seasons.
Marrow came to Nebraska after serving as the tight ends coach of the Omaha Nighthawks in the United Football League in 2010. He helped the Nighthawks to a 3-5 record in the franchise's inaugural campaign. Prior to that, he was the head coach at Holland High School in Springfield, Ohio, in 2009 and at the University of Toledo as tight ends coach in 2008. Marrow began his coaching career in NFL Europe following a distinguished playing career. He worked with the Rhein Fire (2006-07) and Berlin Thunder (2005-06) as a tackles/tight end coach with both teams before the league folded in 2007.
As a player, he was on the roster of five NFL teams: Buffalo Bills (1992-95); Carolina Panthers (1995); New York Jets (1996); Chicago Bears (1997-98) and San Francisco 49ers (1998-99). He was on the roster for the Bills for Super Bowls in 1993 and 1994. His best season in the NFL was in 1994, when he appeared in 10 games for the Bills.
Marrow also made first-team all-league for the Frankfort Galaxy of NFL Europe in 1998, and played one season for the Orlando Rage in the XFL in 2000 before going into coaching.
Marrow started his college career at Youngstown State before transferring to Toledo and playing two seasons as a tight end for the Rockets. He was a second-team All-Mid American Conference selection in 1991 and was selected by the Bills in the 11th round of the 1992 NFL Draft.
A native of Youngstown, Ohio, Marrow graduated with a degree in criminal justice from Toledo in 1992 and was a teammate of Husker football coach Bo Pelini at Cardinal Mooney High School. Marrow and his wife, Dr. Monique Marrow, have five children (Mike, Phylica, Merrisa, Victoria and Aryanna). Mike is a fullback for Nebraska.


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OLE DB and ODBC are APIs that provide access to a range of data sources. Microsoft designed ODBC to access SQL data and OLE DB to access any type of data in a COM environment. Many people don't entirely understand the factors that led Microsoft to implement OLE DB. Others overestimate the current role of OLE DB in the corporate and Web-development environments. In this article, I aim to clarify why Microsoft introduced OLE DB, the role it plays today, and more important, the role it will play in the future. In doing so, I address the main concerns that seasoned ODBC developers might have about OLE DB.
What's Wrong with ODBC?
The introduction of OLE DB doesn't mean that Microsoft is dropping ODBC. For the foreseeable future, Microsoft plans to support ODBC, as do other database and tool vendors. So what's wrong with ODBC? Nothing. ODBC is adequate for data access. My real-world experience confirms that if ODBC meets your needs and your clients' needs, you can forget (for now) about OLE DB and related technologies.
However, ODBC has become a mature, fully expressed technology, and Microsoft probably won't develop it further. ODBC is on a dead-end track with a few switches left before the end of the line. The last of these switches shunts your applications toward OLE DB. And you have to decide whether you've already passed the last switch.
So nothing is wrong, unsupported, or invalid about ODBC. You know about its performance, flexibility, and architecture. You know about the various development tools and the framework built on top of ODBC (e.g., RDO). To determine how close you are to the point of decision, analyze how well your information system's planned future enhancements match ODBC's capabilities. Keep in mind that in the next five years, ODBC will provide virtually the same operational capabilities as it does today. ODBC will continue to let you access SQL data that isn't integrated with other, nonrelational data types such as extensible markup language (XML) files, Microsoft Office documents, or email. If these elements are part of your company's data store, you need to consider OLE DB.
What's Right with OLE DB
OLE DB has evolved from ODBC. OLE DB and ODBC both provide a relatively universal layer of code that uses the same core API to access different databases. The operation under the hood is left to special, invisible modules that are database-specific and that act as drivers for the topmost layers of code. The open database connectivity principle emerges somewhat intact in OLE DB. The big difference is in the surrounding context and in the generalization of a few main terms; Table 1 shows commonly used terms and what they mean in ODBC and OLE DB.
Through a common functionality set, OLE DB accesses all types of information—relational and non-relational, flat and hierarchical, persistent and volatile, based on SQL or on any other query language. To facilitate that access, OLE DB data sources are COM-based components with a well-defined programming interface. These components, called data providers, wrap a data store. When connected to a data provider, a client application always receives a set of records, whether the data provider manages tables from a relational database management system (RDBMS) or from a directory listing. The data provider is responsible for retrieving the data from the physical source and formatting it. The data can reside on a persistent medium (disk files or databases), be kept in memory, or span various machines and platforms. It can be relational or hierarchical, structured or flat, written in a standard or a proprietary format, and accessible or inaccessible through ODBC.
In addition, the result set (called a rowset or a recordset) that OLE DB returns isn't a simple stream of bytes copied into the client application's memory, as with ODBC. It's a stream of data that an independent COM module, with a separate programming interface, holds. Such a module gives you several facilities for manipulating the recordset—sorting, filtering, and scrolling—and it enables concurrent access to the same data from multiple clients. You can set up the data rows to work even when they're disconnected from the data source, making the recordset a new and powerful data type.
Drawbacks to Using OLE DB
So, is OLE DB all good? To decide, carefully consider two points. On one hand, OLE DB is a somewhat immature technology. On the other hand, Microsoft is pushing it as the core data service for future Windows platforms. This push means that Microsoft will significantly improve OLE DB in the future. Let's look at these two points in detail to anticipate their impact on users.
Microsoft proposed OLE DB as a central data-access technology with Visual Studio 97. At TechEd 99, OLE DB 2.5—a new release that is scheduled to ship with Windows 2000—debuted. Many changes since OLE DB's inception make the technology seem somewhat unstable. But in the early 1990s, people perceived ODBC as unstable, too. ODBC 3.x and later worked fine for most people, and today developers think of ODBC as a stable and consolidated technology. But that process took time. Data is the fuel of companies, so carefully evaluate any technology that affects data access.
Figure 1 compares the architecture of ODBC and OLE DB. Both rely on specialized components (drivers in ODBC and providers in OLE DB) that connect to the data source. Within ODBC, a driver usually acts as a proxy component, passing in SQL commands to the DBMS and returning result sets. An OLE DB provider accepts data in any query language it supports (not only and not necessarily SQL) and returns recordsets. A data provider encapsulating a DBMS is limited to passing SQL commands to the underlying database server. A data provider that renders a nonrelational data store (e.g., an email store) accomplishes the additional task of creating the recordset and populating it with the data. Such a provider might support a query language that is simpler than SQL. For example, to return email from a customer, the provider needs to know only the name of the sender. This type of command
sender=Joe User;
is simple, effective, and easy to code.
OLE DB is a two-part technology with a foreground interface and a background engine. The background engine processes the queries and retrieves the data. The foreground part of OLE DB contains the programming features that any valid provider needs to expose to its clients. In this area, only Microsoft can establish how, functionally and technologically, OLE DB evolves, by determining the details of the COM interfaces that a provider needs to support. You'll see great improvements with OLE DB 2.5, which fixes design limitations and adds more powerful features. For example, OLE DB 2.5 allows the return of irregular, nontabular recordsets. You can use OLE DB to expose semi-structured and hierarchical data such as XML streams, Word and Excel documents, or the content of a file system directory. In addition, OLE DB 2.5 reduces the amount of information that a consumer needs to know about the required provider. Instead of specifying complex connection and command strings, you can bind directly to the desired recordset via a URL-based syntax. This feature, called direct URL binding, lets you use a connection string such as
http://outlookprovider/inbox/sender='Joe User'
Behind that intuitive URL scheme is the name of the data provider and the command text that asks the provider to scan the Inbox folder and retrieve all the messages sent by Joe User. The latest Microsoft platform Software Development Kit (SDK) partially covers the highlights of OLE DB 2.5.
Because Microsoft considers OLE DB the main technology for data access in the Windows environment, you'll get the support you need to use it for the foreseeable future. Also, SQL Server is Microsoft's principal database server product, so SQL Server providers will immediately reflect new features in OLE DB. Will other vendors' databases accommodate new OLE DB features? In my opinion, OLE DB's weakness is that the only reliable providers are those for SQL Server 6.5 and 7.0. The OLE DB providers for Jet and Oracle reportedly have bugs and incomplete, or inadequate, functionality implementation, which limits their usefulness to developers. Microsoft's OLE DB provider for Oracle isn't great, but it's perhaps the best available. OLE DB 2.1 facilitated multienvironment data access, but the environment for the problem remains. For OLE DB to become a widely accepted standard, all database vendors, and perhaps some third parties, need to release complete providers for various databases and possibly work together to develop them in a better way.
In general, OLE DB has yet to gain the reliability and the acceptance that ODBC has built during the past few years. But OLE DB has the potential to surpass ODBC in terms of supported data sources, flexibility, and programming interface. Moreover, OLE DB's central role in Microsoft's Windows Distributed interNet Applications (DNA) and DNS architectures makes it a serious candidate to replace ODBC. OLE DB promises to be an important technology for planning your future data-access strategies. But don't adopt it blindly.
Why Choose OLE DB?
If you have to decide about OLE DB today, what are the factors to consider? Microsoft designed OLE DB with performance in mind, but architecturally speaking, an OLE DB call has to traverse more layers of code than does a SQL query issued through raw code to the ODBC API. So don't be surprised if you find that a pure ODBC approach is slightly faster. To make up for this inefficiency, OLE DB gives you the ability to aggregate and integrate structurally different types of data and the possibility of using these data types with Web applications.
Don't underestimate the effort necessary to move to OLE DB. This caution applies even if you're already using an object model such as RDO or Data Access Object (DAO), or ADO before version 2.x. Also, proceed carefully if your target database isn't SQL Server. You begin to recoup the cost of moving to OLE DB only when you can exploit the integration with applications and system services that OLE DB allows. If you don't know how to leverage heterogeneous queries, don't have a data warehouse, or don't plan to integrate nonrelational data types (e.g., documents, spreadsheets, email) into the company's data store, you might end up with worse performance! Or you might upgrade your system, but get no concrete advantage.
I usually advise my clients to move to OLE DB only to satisfy urgent business needs (such as those above) that OLE DB addresses well. I also recommend it for new systems because you can design the system to take advantage of OLE DB's strengths. Flexibility, integration, and uniformity are important aspects of OLE DB; if they are integral parts of your business objectives, moving to OLE DB might be cost-effective for you.
Web-based systems are a great territory to employ OLE DB in, although the inferior reliability of some providers might hamper your efforts. However, choosing Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC), which includes OLE DB as the core technology, lets you leverage Remote Data Services (RDS) on the Web to issue remote calls to components via HTTP. And OLE DB lets you receive, on the client side, disconnected recordsets to work with—not bad, after all!
OLE DB has good and bad points; it isn't magic. It's simply undergoing a process of refinement to become a widely accepted standard. Consider it today, but use it only to get concrete advantages.
Learn more from Ken Miller's "The Ins and Outs of Data Access."


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WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) - The terrorist attack in New York on Monday, Dec. 11 got coverage for a day and then the news simply moved on. The scary thing is how close Akayed Ullah was to murdering tens or even hundreds of people.
Ullah is a Bangladeshi immigrant who came to the United States in 2011 under the United States policy of extended family chain migration. This man became radicalized online after looking at Islamic State propaganda.
It is common sense to say that we would be better off if Akayed Ullah had stayed away from the country he grew to hate so much - the United States of America.
To that end, the family chain migration policy has to be reassessed. Just because someone has extended family in America does not mean that they should automatically be able to join their relatives here. Of course, we want to allow for immediate family together, as long those crossing our borders are fully vetted and do not present a security risk.
I have spoken to you about this Administration's efforts, together with certain members of Congress, to implement merit based immigration through the RAISE act. That effort should not be put on the back burner. Turning toward merit based immigration policy would both enrich and protect America.
Here is the bottom line, our current immigration system has way too many loopholes. We should welcome in immigrants who want to better our economy, education, arts and not those who wish to cause harm and devastation to the United States.


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Although not every human culture would recognize psychological terms as we use them in North America and Europe, every culture has ways of talking about how individuals feel, and every culture has terms that describe extreme and abnormal versions of these feelings. Cultural concepts of distress are those culturally-specific ways that people from within a given group express their psychological distress. For example, Cambodians talk about a "khyal attack" as an experience whereby "wind" that flows naturally through the body (akin to chi in Chinese medicine) is blocked from exiting, causing problems that Western psychologists would call symptoms of panic attack (if you're at all curious, you really should visit the website dedicated to explaining khyal attack).
A couple of colleagues and I recently published a review in Social Science and Medicine of the symptoms that are included in the various ways that different cultures think about the emotional distress following trauma. Our review included 55 studies and identified 116 different cultural concepts of distress. We categorized these concepts based on their symptoms (using hierarchical cluster analysis), and found that the 116 concepts could be described in four basic categories: (1) somatic dysphoria, which largely concerned bodily complaints; (2) behavioral disturbances, "odd" behavior (relative to cultural norms), (3) anxious dysphoria, which as its name implies included lots of anxiety; and (4) depression, which was surprisingly similar to depression as it appears in North American and European medicine. Notably, none of these groups of concepts looked like the psychological disorder that most mental health professionals in North America and Europe think of when they think about trauma — posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
Of course there are all sorts of limitations to our review, and some would argue that the way we categorized cultural concepts of distress using symptoms alone misses the point of the diversity of these concepts globally (which is broader concerning explanations for distress than it is concerning symptoms). Others would argue that PTSD is actually somewhere in the mix of concepts we reviewed. I'd like to think our review is a starting point for discussion of these issues, rather than a definitive answer to any of these questions.
You can find a link to the publication in Social Science and Medicine here.


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Environmental Hazards and Disasters: Contexts, Perspectives and Management focuses on manifested threats to humans and their welfare as a result of natural disasters. The book uses an integrative approach to address socio-cultural, political and physical components of the disaster process. Human and social vulnerability as well as risk to environmental hazards are explored within the comprehensive context of diverse natural hazards and disasters.
In addition to scientific explanations of disastrous occurrences, people and governments of hazard-prone countries often have their own interpretations for why natural disasters occur. In such interpretations they often either blame others, in order to conceal their inability to protect themselves, or they blame themselves, attributing the events to either real or imagined misdeeds. The book contains a chapter devoted to the neglected topic of such reactions and explanations. Includes chapters on key topics such as the application of GIS in hazard studies; resiliency; disasters and poverty; climate change and sustainability and development.
This book is designed as a primary text for an interdisciplinary course on hazards for upper-level undergraduate and Graduate students. Although not targeted for an introductory hazards course, students in such a course may find it very useful as well. Additionally, emergency managers, planners, and both public and private organizations involved in disaster response, and mitigation could benefit from this book along with hazard researchers. It not only includes traditional and popular hazard topics (e.g., disaster cycles, disaster relief, and risk and vulnerability), it also includes neglected topics, such as the positive impacts of disasters, disaster myths and different accounts of disasters, and disasters and gender.
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1.1 Hazards and disasters: definitions and distinctions 2
1.2 Types of hazards 15
1.3 Physical dimensions of natural hazards 21
References 33
2 History and Development of Hazard Studies in Geography 37
2.1 Historical perspective 37
2.2 The focus of hazard research 44
2.3 Conclusion 60
References 61
3 Vulnerability, Resiliency, and Risk 67
3.1 Vulnerability 67
3.2 Resilience 85
3.3 Risk 93
References 110
4 Disaster Effects and Impacts 119
4.1 Disaster effects 119
4.2 Disaster impacts 138
References 151
5 Disaster Cycles: Mitigation and Preparedness 157
5.1 Mitigation 158
5.2 Preparedness 169
References 192
6 Disaster Cycles: Response and Recovery 197
6.1 Response 197
6.2 Recovery 217
References 233
7 Disaster Relief 237
7.1 Providers and distributors of disaster aid 237
7.2 Conclusion 263
References 264
8 Hazards/Disasters: Special Topics 269
8.1 Gender and natural disasters 269
8.2 Global warming and climate change 277
References 302
Author Index 307
Subject Index 315
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Title: The Oracle of Dating
Author: Allison van Diepen
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
May Contain Spoilers
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For five bucks, the Oracle of Dating will tell you:
* How to flirt
* If that cute guy you're crushing on likes you, too
* Whether your new romance will last through lunch period
* And much more
What she won't tell you? Who she is.
No one at Kayla's school knows she's the famous Oracle of Dating–the anonymous queen of dating advice. She doesn't even have a boyfriend. Two relationship disasters were enough to make Kayla focus on everyone else's love life.
But then her advice backfires on her own best friend. And Kayla starts to seriously obsess about Jared Stewart–the very cute, very mysterious new guy in school. Suddenly, the teen queen of advice needs her own oracle of dating–and she knows just where to find one…
I think the premise of The Oracle of Dating is very cute. Kayla runs a blog that offers dating advice for the lovelorn, even though she isn't exactly tearing up the dating scene herself. She is your typical teen, juggling school and a job at the local grocery store, as well as trying to find time for her tight-knit group of friends and her family. She hates her job, and dreams of a day when her blog will be raking in the cash, so she can quit her dreary position as a cashier and concentrate on being the Oracle, whose wisdom far exceeds her years. With the help of some reference guides and organizational skills that help her give a personal touch when dealing with her clients, Kayla is determined to help true love bloom.
Too bad things don't go quite as smoothly as Kayla envisions. First, she allows her personal feelings to interfere with her advice, and then she can't seem to catch a break with hunky Jared, her classmate and resident bad boy. After her words of wisdom go awry, Kayla realizes that even the best intentions can have disastrous results. And when Jared starts going out with the most popular girl in school, she hits a new low. She just can't seem to catch a break, and it looks like she's doomed to slave away at a job she hates. Afraid to give out bad advice, she starts to question if she has the right to be the Oracle anymore.
Though I thought the pacing was a little slow, I enjoyed this book. Kayla's dry observations kept me amused, and I was invested enough in the story to want everything to work out for her in the end. Her secrecy regarding being the Oracle causes her a lot of grief, and when she gets her friend in trouble, she is consumed with guilt and remorse. Even though she had the best intentions, she still tried to manipulate her buddy into doing what Kayla wanted her to, without thinking about the ramifications. Though her initial reaction was to run from her problems, she finds the courage to confront them and own up to her mistakes.
Though I was hoping for a little more romance, The Oracle of Dating was a fun read, with a quirky, down to earth heroine whose snappy commentary kept me smiling.
Grade: B
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Shakira is pregnant
Colombian superstar SHAKIRA has announced she is pregnant.
The Hips Don't Lie hitmaker took to her Facebook.com page on Wednesday (19Sep12) to confirm reports she is expecting a baby with her boyfriend, Spanish footballer Gerard Pique.
She writes, "As some of you may know, Gerard and I are very happy awaiting the arrival of our first baby! At this time we have decided to give priority to this unique moment in our lives and postpone all the promotional activities planned over the next few days... I'd like to thank... my fans for their constant love and understanding."
The singer is pulling out of her scheduled performance at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas this weekend (21-22Sep12).
The baby announcement comes just two days after Shakira was unveiled as a new judge/coach on U.S. TV talent show The Voice.
She will replace Christina Aguilera in the upcoming fourth series, which is set for next spring (13).


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Matt Mickiewicz necesitaba un nuevo diseño de banner publicitario y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
9 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 178 diseños de 42 diseñadores freelance.
99designs is the largest marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design.
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Amplify offers Students a powerful worship experience and a relevant message from God's word. Our weekly worship is designed to grow and mature high school students into an exciting a passionate relationship with Jesus Christ.
For more information, contact Pastor Mark Elliott at 740.587.1200 or via email.
Here are the latest updates for some fun youth events Remember, you can check the calendar as well at http://www.localendar.com/public/mkrak
Have a 6th grader? There are multiple options at Spring Hills for them to participate....please call Mark if you'd like to chat about things! 587-1200
Uth is for our 6th-8th graders and meets every Sunday evening from 6-7:30 in the youth room. They'll find games, bible teaching and some fun times!!
Amplify is for 9th-12th graders and meets every Wednesday evening in the youth room from 6:30-8:30 This is a great time of worship and bible teaching.
Girls Bible Study
Every Monday
7th-8th meets from 6-7 in the Art Room. The study is "Surrender" Join anytime!
9th-12th meets from 7-9 in the Youth Room. The study is Minor Prophets
Senior Waffle Breakfast
Sunday, May 25
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Join us in honoring our graduating high school seniors with a homemade waffle bar. Seniors and their immediate family members are invited. Please RSVP to Kristin Elliott at . We are still in need of some sophomore/junior parents to help assist. Contact Kristin if you can help.
Middle School Mission Trip
June 28-July 3
Port Clinton Church
This will be such a great opportunity for middle schoolers to help out a church with VBS! The students will be passing out door hangers, participating in a pig roast and running a Bible School. They will end the trip with a Thursday trip to Cedar Point. We need some adult leaders to go on the trip. You can chat with Mark for details. . More details soon!
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Every Monday June 9-July 28 from 6-7:30
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Summer Camp...Skyview Ranch
Aug 3-7
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Amber Riley Performance Blunder On 'DWTS' — What Went Wrong?
The reigning 'Dancing With The Stars' champion has returned! Amber Riley was on hand on May 20 to hand over her crown and perform her new song 'Colorblind' at the season 18 finale, but something went wrong — were there technical difficulties at the live show?
Amber Riley, 28, hit the Dancing With The Stars stage once more after her Season 17 win to perform her song "Colorblind." However, the East Coast taping of the show came back from commercial at the strangest time, totally cutting off the bulk of her performance! Keep reading for more on Amber's performance and the super strange DWTS blunder!
Amber Riley Performs 'Colorblind' On 'DWTS' Season 18 Finale — Technical Difficulties?
Right after Iggy Azalea's earpiece cut out during her performance of "Fancy", Amber Riley, too, seem to have been a victim of technical difficulties! The reigning champ totally deserved a proper introduction to the stage, but not only did viewers not get to see that, they also didn't get to see her perform! DWTS came back from commercial just as Amber was wrapping up "Colorblind". These kinds of mistakes can totally happen in live TV, but hosts Erin Andrews and Tom Bergeron didn't even address it!
Amber looked beautiful in a figure-flattering black dress and her hair in glam curls — and what we heard of the song was totally amazing!
'DWTS' Recap: [SPOILER] Wins 'Dancing With The Stars' Season 18
It's obvious why "Colorblind" is Amber's debut single off of her upcoming album — it perfectly shows off her powerhouse vocals. That said, not only did we want to hear more of her actual performance, but we also can't wait until we can hear more of her original music! (Not that we don't totally love her Glee covers, however!)
Later in the same episode, Amber took the stage again to perform "Do Your Thing" by Basement Jaxx and received the proper introduction deserving of any DWTS diva. She looked amazing in a gold metallic flapper dress, fringe flying everywhere as she danced around the stage like crazy while singing her heart out.
WATCH: Amber Riley Perform "Do Your Thing" On Dancing With The Stars
Amber Riley Debuted 'Colorblind' On 'Glee'
Amber was crowned the Season 17 DWTS champion back in November 2013 along with her amazing partner, Derek Hough. We already knew that the Glee actress could sing and had rhythm, but she was the perfect mixture of upbeat and fun combined with class and elegance that made her worthy of winning that coveted mirror ball trophy! For that reason, it's totally perplexing to us that her performance was cut off like it was — surely it wasn't on purpose?
Since her win, Amber has returned to Glee and even debuted "Colorblind" on the April 8 episode. Amber initially premiered "Colorblind" live on the The Queen Latifah Show on April 3, and the song was released as a digital download on April 8.We can't wait to hear the rest of her debut album and expect to see great things from this rising star!
What do you think, HollywoodLifers? Did you like what you heard from Amber's performance of "Colorblind"? What was up with this episode? Was it a mistake that Amber's performance was cut off, or was it supposed to be so short? Let us know!
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paix120 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 67 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
I'm a programmer that created the site in my free time - but I need help with the graphics before I make the site live! I just got the buttons and background textures designed and now I just need the logo as the finishing touch!
American women of all ages. (This is the gift-rating part of my site, I haven't yet designed the gift-finding section for men.)
I will provide a screenshot of the current site header. The logo needs to fit where the current header text is, to the left of the tabs (see the "currentheader" attached image).
The logo must incorporate the text that is there: "Gifts She Wants - Helping Men Find Great Gifts for Women!". It also needs to match the magenta, pink, and white color scheme that is already on the site, and match the "look", like rounded edges, etc.
You can be creative with the design. I'm envisioning a gift box with a bow to the left of "Gifts She Wants" in a modern font, centered above the catchphrase in smaller letters. However, I'm open to any creative designs that fit my site's look, and it doesn't have to look exactly the way I'm envisioning it - you're the artists! Have fun with it!
When you submit your design, please overlay it on top of the "Area_for_Overlay" screenshot attached below so I can see how it will look on top of my existing background.
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Daft Punk: Everywhere and Nowhere
Daft Punk's stealth marketing campaign has the music world buzzing in anticipation. Megan Buerger joins Lunch Break with an inside look at the album launch that is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Photo: David Black.
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We have a logo that is not meeting our needs. It can be viewed on our website.
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Elements of logo to consider:
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Colors: Pink, chocolate brown, ??
Be creative, but also practical, as this will need to translate to many different mediums.
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After five years and no shortage of wracked nerves, Portland State University's School of Architecture is now accredited, allowing its students past and present to become licensed architects.
In February, after an exhaustive review process, the National Architecture Accrediting Board voted to accredit the PSU program, making it the state's only competition to University of Oregon's longtime architecture program, founded in 1914. The two programs are among the few on the West Coast.
The first class of PSU architecture master's students graduated in 2011. While the school then was on track to become accredited, it was far from final.
"Students had to put a lot of faith in their faculty to fulfill the promise of accreditation," says Clive Knights, director of the School of Architecture. "As you can imagine, we're very relieved."
Taryn Mudge, 26, knew the program wasn't accredited when she graduated with her master's last year.
"I didn't really think about it," says Mudge, who now works at the downtown architecture firm SRG Partnership. "Then graduation was close and I thought, 'Oh, gosh, I really hope it happens.'"
The National Architecture Accrediting Board's process takes four to six years, during which the school's programs are reviewed annually.
PSU's first four years of faculty and students focused intensely on meeting the board's recommendations, keeping impeccable records -- amounting to a thick, 75,000-word report -- and adjusting their teaching and learning to make the school a good candidate for accreditation.
"I really enjoyed the collaborative work," Mudge says. "We as students felt valued because we helped move toward that goal."
Joel Dickson, 40, a graduate student working at Skylab Architecture downtown, said the process "highlighted a sense of commitment to architecture from students. We're there for more than to get another degree."
Since Barbara Sestak, now dean of the College of the Arts, started the architecture department in 1995, the goal was to become accredited, says Knights, who started that year. Now he envisions growing the program with more money and more students.
"Portland was a growing urban environment, yet the main architecture education was taking place two hours south in Eugene," Knights says. "We were interested in adding another set of ideas to the teaching of architecture."
The department undergraduate for 14 years and in 2009 added a master's program.
Knights says his staff discussed whether they were competing with the UO by drawing from the same pool of students. But he says the programs are different enough they'll appeal to different sorts of students.
Demographically, most of PSU's 380 undergraduate and graduate architecture students are older, on average 25 to 29, and mostly from the Portland area, whereas UO's 700 are more traditional college students -- younger and from all over.
PSU's smaller program also has small classes that work closely with Portland's professional architects, Knights says.
Last year students worked with Thomas Hacker Architects downtown to create a crossing station for the Mexican border that would draw fumes away from idling vehicles. The project, which ended up in several published research papers, gave students real agency experience and gave the agency access to PSU's facilities, including wind tunnel testing.
Dickson chose PSU for its "more artful approach." He was drawn to the thesis project, which Knights says few architecture schools require. PSU condenses the graduate degree's technical requirements down into one year and leaves the second to exploring a thesis.
"We do it so students can develop an identity as a creative person," Knights says. "We're not here to create architects; we're here to create an engaged person in the field of architecture. Architecture is never for its own sake; there's an important ethical dimension to what we do.
"'Architecture for the sake of what?' You have to answer that question or you'll do architecture badly."
With that in mind, last year's thesis projects ranged from adult literacy through architecture to an artful approach to city infrastructure to Mudge's futuristic vision of a flooded world in which architecture adapted to riparian conditions. Dickson's project this year focuses on "kinetic architecture" in residential areas, looking at how space could be better utilized to provide both privacy and community interaction.
"We want students to do something in the world with their architecture," Knights says. "We want them to push against the boundaries of convention."
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In this workshop, you will learn how to update your library's magazine holdings to make them visible for interlibrary loan requests in OCLC FirstSearch and OCLC WorldShare. OCLC Local Holdings Maintenance was formerly known as ALSPUL (the Alliance Library System Periodicals Union List). Please bring your library's authorizations for OCLC Connexion and OCLC FirstSearch to this workshop. This workshop will not provide instruction on OCLC interlibrary loans or original cataloging. Any member of the Resource Sharing Alliance (Basic Online, Full Online, or Union List) may attend this workshop. The workshop is limited to 12 participants. Registration will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Please cancel your registration in L2 if you are unable to attend. Completion of this workshop is required before you begin updating your magazine holdings in OCLC. You will receive an email from the instructor a few days before the workshop. The email will contain a checklist to help you prepare for the workshop.
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