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Many Muslim parents work themselves into a sweat on account of their children's swimming lessons. They regard the swimming of boys together with girls, designated as part of the regular school sports program, as incompatible with Islam. Petra Tabeling reports
The Genoveva pool in the Mühlheim district of Cologne is well attended on Fridays. On that day, the pool schedules swimming for Islamic women. Infants, young girls, and women come here to swim without being disturbed by the gaze of men. The windows are draped and a warm light shines through the bright yellow curtains. Only women personnel are in charge at the pool Friday afternoons.
Conflict cases brought to court
The Muslim parents of a nine-year-old girl in Hamburg would perhaps be grateful for a similar option. The parents from Pakistan have prevented their daughter from taking part in regular school swimming lessons on the grounds that it would be a sin according to their religious beliefs. They didn't want their daughter in the water together with boys.
Yet, the court decided that the child had to participate, and thereby placed the school's responsibility to educate above freedom of religion. The decisive factor here was also the age of the girl – Koranic precepts concerning apparel do not apply to pre-pubescent girls.
In another case, the Düsseldorf Administrative Court delivered a very similar judgment. The parents of an eleven-year-old boy also wanted to have their son excused from swimming lessons. They believed that swimming with girls was not in accordance with the Koran.
Here, the judge also ruled against the plaintiffs, as the court was unable to comprehend the religious regulations. In addition, it was pointed out that boys are constantly exposed to "skimpily clad" women, both in public places and in advertising.
A matter of consideration
Courts do not always rule against Muslim plaintiffs. Yet, according to the latest report by the Federal Commissioner for Migration, Refugees, and Integration, the mere claim of a conflict with religious duties is not enough to waive the obligation to attend school.
"Rather, it has to be shown that by obliging with the law, the pupil is prevented from fulfilling the rules and prohibitions of his or her religion, thereby facing a grave moral conflict."
Such cases may occur, especially with the onset of puberty. As a result of a leading decision reached by the German Federal Administrative Court in 1993, schools are obliged to exhaust all organizational possibilities in order to offer separate sports lessons for boys and girls in this age group. Courts and school authorities must, above all, strictly abstain from passing judgment on religious beliefs, as it is the state's responsibility to remain neutral on such matters.
The report by the Federal Commissioner for Integration also noted "a certain feeling of unease about the ways in which exceptional cases" are decided "according to the rules established by the court."
It was therefore recommended to develop practical decision-making guidelines, so that schools can competently deal with such requests for exemption from lessons "in a way that remains firm in the face of Islamic demands, yet is still sensitive to religious concerns."
The main thing is to learn how to swim
According to one Hadith (the sayings of the Prophet Mohammed), swimming is not forbidden on principle. On the contrary, "it is the child's right to be taught to swim (…) by his or her father."
Herein lies a far more fundamental problem, shared by Muslim and other children, regardless of nationality or religious belief, namely, that swimming lessons are no longer regularly offered at all schools. Pool attendants complain that many school-age children are unable to swim. Government education authorities counter that it is not the sole responsibility of schools to teach children how to swim.
To draw the conclusion, however, that children excused from swimming lessons for religious reasons contribute to a higher rate of drowning is extremely speculative, to say the least. According to the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of Education, the number of such children is quite small.
Dialogue and guidance
The Hesse Islamic Forum recently published recommendations with respect to "Muslim schoolchildren." These also include suggestions on sports and swimming lessons, which will be passed on to school authorities, Islamic organizations, and ministries of education.
The Forum advocates reaching a considerate balance between the interests of schools and matters of Muslim belief. "We don't want to encourage Muslim parents to have their children exempt from swimming lessons, but rather guide them, preferably together with schools, in seeking alternate solutions," says Ramazan Kuruyüz from the Islamic religious community in Giessen.
School authorities and indoor swimming facilities should attempt to set up more separate swimming times. Kuruyüz, himself a teacher, knows that this isn't always easy to organize, but a need exists. He sees programs such as "swimming for Islamic women" as important, but it makes even more sense to also offer special swimming lessons during these times.
Kuruyüz is also in favor of applying standard rules for separate swimming lessons. Up until now, the reservations of Muslims have been almost exclusively directed towards young girls. "Young men should also observe strict dress regulations," says Kuruyüz.
Rules governing swimming apparel are no longer a problem for the Islamic women at the Genoveva pool in Cologne. Women are allowed into the water wearing long swimming trunks.
Petra Tabeling
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Translation from German: John Bergeron
An Islamic Elementary School in Berlin
"Like Any Other Confessional School"
More and more Muslim parents would like their children to receive religious instruction. An Islamic elementary school in Berlin now offers this. Lennart Lehmann visited the school.
Female Muslims in Germany
The Multiple Worlds of Turkish Women
For migrant Turkish women in Germany, daily life is far more diverse than the stereotyped images Germans have become accustomed to. They show a great interest in education and want to advance professionally. By Canan Topçu
Muslims in Germany
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England full-back Chris Ashton has offered his congratulations to the Under-20 side after they beat New Zealand to progress to the final of the IRB Junior World Championships.
The England side beat the southern hemisphere outfit 33-21 in France and will face Wales in the final in Vannes on Sunday.
Ashton was rested for England senior side's trip to Argentina where they won both their games against the hosts in a comfortable manner, but he was quick to praise the next crop of players.
The 26-year-old wrote on his Facebook page: "Congrats to the England U20s - through to the Junior World Champs final after beating the Baby Blacks. Awesome win!"
The Under-20s have lost just the one game in the Championships, that coming in the group stage against South Africa.
The best four teams in the group stages progressed to the semi-finals, and while England beat New Zealand, Wales maintained their unbeaten record by beating South Africa by one point, thanks to a last minute try.
The third-placed play-off between South Africa and New Zealand takes place just before the final of the competition, one which England are looking to win for the first time.
England have been runners up on three occasions since the annual tournament started in 2008, each time losing to New Zealand, while they finished fourth in 2010.
This is the first time Wales have made it through to the final, although they did finished third in South Africa last year.
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – The New York Mets don't know whether closer Bobby Parnell will be ready for spring training as he continues his rehab following neck surgery on a bulging disc.
Parnell is to be re-examined next week.
"Hopefully he will be able to start resuming some baseball activities,'' manager Terry Collins said. "But I don't know where he is at the moment. He's feeling better.''
Parnell lost 30 pounds since surgery, which sapped his strength. He has to regain the weight and stamina. Collins said he hasn't spoken with Parnell, which, honestly, comes as a surprise. You'd think he'd check in.
"We've got to wait to see how he shows up, where he's at in a month,'' Collins said. "He hasn't done much yet, so he's got to get himself in shape. I think get his legs underneath him and start throwing. We'll just have to wait to see. Bobby has always been a guy that's down there in January anyways.''
Maybe so, but Parnell hasn't reported before following neck surgery.
After several so-so seasons bouncing around the bullpen, Parnell seized the closer role last year when Frank Francisco went down with an elbow injury.
Parnell saved 22 games in 49 appearances, and produced a 2.16 ERA over 50 innings. Always a power pitcher with a high strikeout ratio, Parnell learned to pitch last season, and drastically improved his control evidenced by a 44-12 strikeouts-to-walks ratio.
Parnell gave up only one homer and had a 1.00 WHIP.
If Parnell isn't ready for spring training, and at this time no assumptions should be made that he will be, Vic Black, whom the Mets acquired from Pittsburgh in the Marlon Byrd–John Buck trade, is presumably first in line to replace Parnell.
Black throws a wicked fastball, and like Parnell is a strikeout pitcher.
The Mets are looking for bullpen help and might consider released Indians closer Chris Perez, who will come with baggage.
Last year, Perez and his wife were busted for marijuana possession after he was mailed the dope to his house … addressed to the dog. Reminds me of the episode of "Married With Children" when Al Bundy applies for and gets a credit card in his dog Buck's name.
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Ciseri's Light Interactions
Ciseri was born in Switzerland in 1821 and studied in at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence under Florence under Niccola Benvenuti.
Note the soft edges in the hand in shadow at (1). Crisp edges should be reserved for elements in full illumination. At (2), look at the warm reflected light on the arm of the figure in this grouping.
At (3), check out the contre-jour handling of Christ's figure. The top and side planes of Christ's figure are raised in value so that they almost blend with the sky—a device that James Bama used almost a century later on Bantam paperback covers.
Pilate's draped figure is rendered with extreme attention to transmitted light through various layers of fabric. This might have been aided by photography (the painting is from 1880, when many artists were using photographs).
But I would bet he also did charcoal studies of the nude model first and that he also set up a draped lay figure in a doorway. I'll talk about lay figures on a future post.
Thanks, Keita!
Wikipedia on Antonio Ciseri
Ciseri on Art Renewal
Previous GJ Posts on transmitted light, contre-jour lighting, and reflected light (croquet balls).
5 comments:
- Kurt said...
What is the size of the original painting? It is stunning.
- August 3, 2010 at 9:04 PM
- Darren said...
For those in Minnesota, there's a copy of the original (by Ciseri as well) at the art gallery of the Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church (http://hennepinchurch.org/music-and-arts/art-gallery).
Both the painting in Florence and the one in Minneapolis are roughly 11' wide by 9.5' high.
- August 3, 2010 at 9:51 PM
- James Gurney said...
Thanks, Darren for the info. Good to file away next time we're in Minnesota.
- August 4, 2010 at 2:03 PM
- Andrew Finnie said...
wow thanks for the notes on the painting, wonderful stuff, that's a great point about Christ's tonal similarity to the sky in those areas, gives that nice glow as well
- August 5, 2010 at 12:58 AM
- Dagoelius said...
Another great find you have put me onto James. This is one of those peices that just makes you draw your breath in and hold... like seeing Bouguereau's Pieta for the first time.
- February 2, 2011 at 11:18 AM


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by Pete Mazzaccaro
I'll bet you didn't know this week was National Library Week. That's right, our nation's libraries – storehouses of everything from kids movies on VHS tapes to scholarly journals unavailable anywhere else – get their own week.
Libraries? Who uses those anymore?
Ten years ago, it seemed strange behavior to choose the library over the local Borders Books. Borders let you browse books and read in comfy couches. And they served pretty good coffee and pastries.
That didn't turn out so well for Borders. But today, with nearly everything available instantly on a Kindle, iPad or Android tablet, the library's utility still seems to be something of an obvious question.
Local lawmakers tend to feel the same way about libraries. When budget deficits loom, libraries are an easy target for budget cuts. Many local libraries, including the Chestnut Hill Branch, have had cuts to staff and hours. Chestnut Hill can't open its doors on Friday. Friday!
Libraries as obsolete repositories for an antiquated system of publishing (the paper book) would seem to be conventional wisdom, no?
Not so fast. Libraries remain more popular than you think. And it's not all about lending books.
As the American Library Association points out:
"Libraries today are more than repositories for books and other resources. Often the heart of their communities, campuses or schools, libraries are deeply committed to the places where their patrons live, work and study. Libraries are trusted places where everyone in the community can gather to reconnect and reengage with each other to enrich and shape the community and address local issues."
That's a nice sentiment, but how true is it?
According to a 2012 study on the state of libraries by the ALA, library cards were held by 6 percent more people in 2010 than in 2006. Visits to the library increased 32.7 percent between 2001 and 2010 and, although the average American only visited the library 5.3 times a year, that figure represents a 21.7 percent increase over the same 10-year period.
So why, when all of our media consumption is turning digital, do libraries actually find a demand for their services increasing?
Part of that problem is actually the solution. The ALA reported in the study that demand for public computers and WiFi continues to rise, with many urban libraries finding that they do not have enough computers to meet demand. According to the study, 62 percent of libraries said they are the only source of free computers and WiFi in their community. And not surprisingly, 74 percent of libraries say WiFi use had increased in 2011.
A theme to many of the findings in the 2012 report is that libraries are absolutely vital to closing the digital divide – allowing people without the resources for their own digital libraries or even access to software we all take for granted to have that access. Whether it's in the inner city or a rural area, libraries are the only place where people can expect to have access to the Web.. All they need is a library card.
Many libraries also provide electronic books that can be read on devices like Kindles and iPads and audiobooks that can listened to on iPods and mp3 devices. The software required can be a stunt to use, but it's a service that is available in an increasing number of public libraries.
So, yeah, the library is as important today as it was 100 years ago. The medium might have changed, but the mission is the same.


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Biz Kid$ "Money Moves (Global Economy)" Around the world with the Biz Kids! Join us and you'll follow the flow of imports and exports that make up the interconnected world economy. You will discover who makes the many things we use every day that come from all over the world. You'll also see how several entrepreneurs have made a success of their businesses, despite the pressures of the world economy. D
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Wishbone "Little Big Dog" This live-action program follows the exploits of Wishbone the dog and his human friends, Joe, David and Samantha through their adventures intheir hometown of Oakdale. Wishbone's everyday experiences trigger hi s imagination and he finds himself in scenes from classic works of literature. In this episode, David disobeys his parents and makes a giantmistake that he's afraid to face. D
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Cyberchase "Unhappily Ever After" Hacker, longing again for Wicked, devises a deliciously dreadful plan to impress her: He sneaks into Happily-Ever-Afterville, uncovers the Book of Unhappy Endings, releases them across the site and crowns himself king! Wicked, duly impressed, becomes his Queen and together they delight as unhappy endings unfold. To rescue the site, the CyberSquad must get the Book back from Hacker to recapture the unhappy endings, and seal it inside 3 nesting boxes with precisely fitting lids . all before sundown! Of course, Hacker has destroyed the lids, but the kids enlist the carpentry skills of one of the Three Little Pigs. D
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Martha's Sewing Room "Serger Piping" Lined bag with serger piping; Sew Quick, Sew Easy boy's baby bonnet by serger; Lace diamond windows Antique Technique; Heirloom Quilting segment on quilting with endless (continuous) embroidery. Guests: Kathy McMakin, Nina McVeigh. D
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Best of the Joy of Painting "Peaceful Reflections" Bob Ross uncovers the extraordinary loveliness of nature reflected in the mirrored image of a mountain on a crystal lake. D
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After much preparation, this week is the start of a new mural project for the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. This is the very first mural that John and I have created together from the beginning. So here are some images of where we are currently at with the project. We have set the installation for the second week in May, so if you want to check us out while we install, follow the blog around May.
Here are the two sketches of the design.
Above prepping the wall. Below are two rolls of the material prepped and ready to be stretched.
Laying out the material upside down and seaming it together.
Setting up the scaffolding. Laying out the grid. Mapping out the mural.
I am excited to start painting after a few months of office and paper work.


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Red6Marketing needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 51 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
We are looking for a website design for a football betting site (American Football) that will attract users to our site to learn how and where to bet on football.
Gamblers and Football fans. Mostly male audience.
We would like the following:
1. A professional looking site
2. Web 2.0 Look and Feel - Clean, Bold Colors, Cool Graphics
3. Professional looking Logo
4. Navigation bar near the top
5. Left sidebar where we can add links and banners.
6. We have no specific color scheme in mind, but it is a football site, so the design should incorporate that in it.
7. Curved Edges
8. A table listing the top sportsbooks.
9. We would also like sections for college and NFL football news articles and a section for the betting odds.
10. The width of the site should be 960px.
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Fast Car Steve needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 14 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
I need a diagram, to show people from my website, how to take good pictures that show off the damage on their vehicle, so we can give them a good estimate over the phone.
I want people to upload pictures they have taken, of damage ontheir car, to my website, for an online estimate.
If the picture is taken too close, I have no perspective ofwhere the damage is on the car.
If all of the pictures are taken 'head on', I can't see theseverity of the damage.
So I am looking to have a diagram of how to take thepictures so that the pictures can show the severity of the damage.
I would like the first picture to be taken 'head on', butfar back enough to get good perspective, but not so far away that you can't seeany damage.
Then the rest of the pictures can be taken from both angles ofthe damage that show off the damage the best (i.e. how deep the dent is.).
I want this diagram to be easy to understand (unlike mylengthy explanation).
Please see my site at http://fastcarrepair.com/car-repair…-estimate/
Then under "Step 1: Tell UsAbout Your Vehicle" you will notice the last line "Want to know how to take agood picture? Clickhere for a detailed guide.
If you click "ClickHere" this is where your diagram will go.
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You might wonder why you blush so often or your skin flushes or turns red so frequently, especially when you haven't been out in the sun. You could be one of the estimated 16 million Americans with rosacea, a skin condition that many people don't even know exists.
Rosacea is a chronic and often progressive skin disease that usually affects the face, but can extend down to the neck, chest, and back. Rosacea most commonly starts out with frequent blushing or flushing and can eventually cause your skin to be red all the time. A network of visible blood vessels may appear in the center of your face, starting with your nose, and then extending outward over time. Other symptoms are thickening skin and breakouts — rosacea used to be called acne rosacea because of its pimples, but it is not a form of acne.
Who Gets Rosacea?
Rosacea typically affects people between the ages of 30 and 60 and those with fair skin are more susceptible than those with darker complexions. It's more common in women than men, though symptoms can be worse in men, especially when the nose is involved.
Because rosacea can look like conditions ranging from sunburn to acne, it's important to see a dermatologist to get a diagnosis. A dermatologist will examine your skin to see if you have one of several types of rosacea; treatment depends on the type that you have. The exact cause of rosacea is unknown, and there is no cure, but it can be managed.
Rosacea Symptoms and Types
Symptoms of rosacea can vary widely among patients, but the most common include:
- Skin that flushes or blushes easily
- Persistent facial redness
- Tiny, visible blood vessels called telangiectasias (commonly called "spider veins")
- Overly sensitive skin that stings from certain skin care and beauty products
- Red bumps and pimples filled with pus
There are four subtypes of rosacea, each of which has telltale symptoms:
- Erythematotelangiectatic rosacea: flushing and persistent redness, sometimes with visible webs of blood vessels
- Papulopustular rosacea: persistent red skin with bumps and pimples, or pustules
- Phymatous rosacea: thickened skin and enlargement of the nose and surrounding tissue. The most advanced phymatous type of rosacea is called rhinophyma, which affects the oil glands on the outside of the nose and causes the nose to enlarge and have a reddish or yellow waxy look. Rhinophyma occurs more often in men.
- Ocular rosacea: red skin around the eyes and eyelids, often accompanied by other symptoms such as dry eyes, swollen eyelids, tearing and burning, and in some cases, recurrent infections Ocular rosacea may affect people who have only mild facial rosacea. Up to 50 percent of all rosacea cases affect the eyes, necessitating care from an ophthalmologist because ocular rosacea can make the eyes sensitive to light, impair vision, and in some cases, lead to corneal damage.
Help for Rosacea
Because a patient with rosacea may have symptoms of several subtypes, treatment must be tailored to the individual. The goal of treatment is to control symptoms and improve the skin's appearance. People with rosacea will need patience — regardless of the treatment, it can take up to several months before the condition improves. But getting rosacea under control is the key to preventing it from getting progressively worse.


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The California Department of Motor Vehicles is taking orders for license plates that mirror ones issued from the 1950s to the 1970s -- a program established under legislation introduced by Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Silverlake).
The state needs 7,500 orders by Jan. 1, 2015, to print the "legacy license plates," which have either blue, black or yellow backgrounds. Drivers must fill out a form, which is available on the DMV website, and pay $50.
If the state does not meet the order threshold, it will refund the application fees, according to the L.A. Times.
The start-up cost for the program, should it move forward, will be $385,000, which will be covered by application fees, according to a legislative analysis.
The program is intended, in part, to give classic car collectors a way to get plates that match the era of their vehicles, the analysis said.
But state officials hope additional plates are ordered to bring in money above the cost. Excess funds beyond those needed by the DMV to run the program would go toward environmental programs.
Earlier in the year, Gatto said the program "will enable the backyard auto restorer, the nostalgic, or the owner of a brand-new retro-styled automobile to choose a license plate that best matches the look of their car while making a little money for the state too."
California's revival of classic license plates faces barriers
California hopes to make some money issuing vintage plates
-- Ashley Powers and Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times


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Ronnie Dunn, Brad Paisley + More Tapped for Upcoming Christmas Album
You can't really go wrong when it comes to country Christmas songs, and there is a new country Christmas album on the horizon that you won't want to miss out on this holiday season. Ronnie Dunn, Brad Paisley and many other country singers have been tapped to contribute songs to 'A Very Country Christmas,' according to CMT.
Dunn will be performing 'Silent Night' on the album, while Brad Paisley sings the Christmas ballad 'What Child Is This,' which the crooner/guitarist also performed at the 2010 CMA Country Christmas show. Jake Owen has also been recruited for the album, and he will perform 'Mele Kalikimaka,' a Hawaiian-themed Christmas song — it should be the perfect fit for the 'Barefoot Blue Jean Night' singer.
Other stars that will have new songs included on 'A Very Country Christmas' are Kellie Pickler ('Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree'), Chris Young ('O Holy Night'), and the Lunabelles ('The Christmas Song'). Past recordings will also be included, including Sara Evans' rendition of 'O Come All Ye Faithful' and Carrie Underwood's powerful version of 'Do You Hear What I Hear.'
'A Very Country Christmas' will be available exclusively at Target stores starting on Oct. 11. So head over to your local Target store next Tuesday and start celebrating Christmas early this year!


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SHIRLEY - A Shirley boy is home now following treatment at Children's Hospital for injuries sustained in Monday's bombing attacks on the 117th Boston Marathon.
Seven year old James Gauntlett was near the finish line with his mother Anita and older brother Joseph when the bombs detonated.
Family friend Gigi Walker said Anita had posted photos on Facebook earlier in the day on Monday, showing the family by the finish line.
"Anita's in a running club," said Walker. Anita Gauntlett is a member of the Squannicook River Runners. The boys play baseball and football. "They're big sports fans."
"It's such a Boston thing to do in seeing the Marathon," said Walker. "And it was school vacation week."
After the bombings, Walker said Anita's Facebook friends were logging on, asking Anita for an update to make sure she was OK. No Facebook update followed on Monday.
"The next think I knew, I saw them on the news which was very scary," said Walker. "But we could tell they were alive. It was hours until we knew she was OK."
James required surgery for removal of shrapnel from his leg. "A ball bearing took a chunk out of his shin," said Walker. James has since been released from the hospital.
On Friday, Walker said she received an email from her friend, which was simply "xo" (kiss and hug).
For Walker, the Marathon tragedy hit home. "It just is so real to me. I feel like we all went to the Marathon and are one degree away," said Walker.
Walker helped Anita with a statement on behalf of her family, which is as follows:
On Monday, April 15th, James Gauntlett was one of the many hundreds of individuals who was physically injured in the bombing at the finish line at the Boston Marathon. Anita and Joe were also present, but thankfully sustained no physical injuries.
Thanks to the work of first responders and the doctors at Children's Hospital, James will fully recover from his physical wounds. The entire Gauntlett family is incredibly grateful to all of the individuals-civilian volunteers and trained medical personnel-whose quick thinking and heroic actions ensured their ultimate well- being, and the well-being of hundreds of others.
Additionally, they thank everyone who has passed along prayers and offers to help.
As you may know, the Gauntlett family was watching the runners finish the marathon. When the first bomb went off, Anita rushed the children into the Sovereign Bank vestibule, and this bank now bears special significance for Anita.
As a result of being so close to the action, and given the young ages of the children, it is likely that this family will need assistance over the long term, especially as the children work through what happened and address their feelings about what they saw and experienced.
In lieu of other gestures, the Gauntlett family asks that supporters and well-wishers donate to a recovery fund that has been established for them.
Additionally, a one mile walk in Groton has been organized for this Sunday, April 21st. All of the details are not yet finalized, but will be posted once they are.
Donations can be made to:
Recovery Fund for Gauntlett Family
Sovereign Bank
One Park Street
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(978) 772-4828
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The impact of an estimated 2,000 mining layoffs this year is hitting home across the mountainous coal counties of Eastern Kentucky.
Gary Hall of Pike County, whose job at a coal-washing plant is scheduled to last a few more weeks, might have to tap his retirement nest egg if he doesn't find mining work.
Kyle Thacker, laid off from his job as a utility worker at an underground mine, has thought about going back to school to become a welder, but said he might have to move from Knott County for work.
Jeremy Slone moved to Lexington with his wife, Marcie, and their 2-year-old son Braxton after he lost his job driving a giant dump truck at a Perry County surface mine in April. He's trying to get on at Toyota in Georgetown.
Other laid-off miners don't know what they will do.
The cutbacks will ricochet through the economy in an area where good-paying jobs, especially for people without college degrees, were in short supply even before hundreds evaporated.
"It's going to start hurting Wal-Mart, Lowe's, all these stores," said Hall, 51. "I don't know what all these coal miners are going to do. Some are going to lose their homes."
The century-old coal industry in Eastern Kentucky has always been cyclical, spiking in the 1970s and then dwindling over two decades before swinging back up for a time.
That traditionally has raised hopes for another comeback, but there are concerns employment won't ever return to the levels of just a few years ago.
Federal analysts project Central Appalachia is at the front end of a steep, long-lasting drop in coal production.
"Some of these mines are not going to come back," said Michael Dudas, a managing director at investment firm Sterne, Agee & Leach, Inc. who follows the coal industry.
The belief in Eastern Kentucky is that federal environmental rules are to blame for the loss of coal jobs — the "war on coal" that officials in the region decry — but several analysts said other factors led to the layoffs this year.
Most notably, they pointed to historically low prices for natural gas and the unseasonably warm winter of 2011-12, which left power plants with stockpiles of coal.
Other factors, such as the slow recovery in manufacturing and the broader economy, also have played parts in the drop in demand for coal.
"Current market forces were the prime driver" in the layoffs, said Michael Tian, an analyst with Morningstar.
Changes in drilling technology have allowed companies to unlock vast new sources of natural gas in recent years, sending supplies up and prices sharply down.
The May price for gas was 43 percent lower than just a year earlier, said Manoj Shanker, a state Education and Workforce Development Cabinet economist.
Many U.S. utilities have switched from coal to natural gas for electricity generation as a result, Shanker said.
In April, the national share of electricity generated using natural gas matched coal's share, at 32 percent, for the first time since the U.S. Energy Information Agency began keeping such records in 1973.
The Central Appalachian coalfield, made up primarily of Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia, faces other challenges as well, including competition from cheaper Wyoming coal and relatively high production costs.
Shanker provided figures showing that in early July, the average spot-market price for coal from the Wyoming Powder River Basin was $8.50 a ton, compared to $56.10 a ton for Central Appalachian coal.
Coal from Eastern Kentucky burns hotter, but the price difference makes it hard for Kentucky to compete with Western coal, Shanker said.
And it costs more to produce coal in Eastern Kentucky, in part because the area has been mined for a century. Companies naturally went after the best seams first; those that are left are harder to get at, meaning higher mining costs and lower productivity.
In a report released in June, the U.S. Energy Information Administration projected that annual coal production in Central Appalachia will drop sharply, from the 2010 level of 186 million short tons to 132 tons in 2015, and to 92 million tons in 2018 — a decline of more than half in the current decade.
After a further drop to 72 million tons in 2024, the agency projected a modest recovery to 88 million tons in 2035, still far below levels seen in recent years.
Rising production costs and lessening productivity were key in the projected decline, said Michael Mellish, a coal analyst with the agency.
The retirement of many coal-fired power plants, prompted in part by tougher federal emissions standards, also played a role in the projected decline.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has implemented or proposed tougher regulations on mining and burning coal, including limits on emissions of mercury and other toxic substances.
The agency has held up dozens of proposed surface-mine permits in Eastern Kentucky over concerns that they would not protect water quality adequately.
Environmentalists have applauded the moves to protect air and water quality, but the rules have made the EPA unpopular among many whose livelihood depends on coal. They think the rules are overly burdensome and don't acknowledge the importance of coal to the economy.
"They're killing us," said Thacker, 24, who was laid off from an Arch Coal mine in Knott County.
Some analysts said that while other factors have played a far greater role in this year's layoffs, current and pending federal regulations can't be dismissed.
"When a company makes a decision to close a mine, they're not just looking today, they're looking long-term," said J. Christopher Haberlin, a vice president with investment firm Davenport & Co. in Richmond, Va., who monitors the coal industry.
Some of the regulations have not been finalized.
Luke Popovich, a spokesman for the National Mining Association, said whether the rules are in place or coming, "the uncertainty they have created in the industry and the reduction they will cause in our power generation market have already begun to take their toll."
Utilities are deciding to retire coal-burning power plants because of the costs they would face to keep them in service under pending emissions rules, Popovich said.
Kentucky Utilities has received permission to retire three of its coal-fired power plants in favor of natural-gas generation, and in May, Kentucky Power backed away from a plan to spend nearly $1 billion to install pollution controls at its coal-fired Big Sandy plant near Louisa.
The decision creates uncertainty about the future of the plant, which buys most of its coal from Eastern Kentucky.
Coal employment had held steady or even grown in some Eastern Kentucky counties the past few years, but a wave of layoff announcements started early this year and just kept coming:
Fifty-two people at Enterprise Mining's surface operation in Knott County on Feb. 3. Two weeks later, 109 at Xinergy Corp.'s Straight Creek mine in Bell County. In April, 160 at Sapphire Coal in Letcher County.
June brought the crippling announcements that Alpha Natural Resources and Arch Coal Inc. would lay off more than 850 employees in Pike, Martin, Knott, Perry, Breathitt and Floyd counties.
Jeff Whitehead, head of a jobs program in 23 Eastern Kentucky counties, said the state has received notice of 1,800 coal layoffs this year.
But some companies don't report. The total number of layoffs easily could be 2,000, Whitehead said, which is what county officials estimated.
Statewide, coal-mining employment reached 18,600 in a March 2009 survey. The number was down to 15,600 in May — before more layoffs were announced — with Eastern Kentucky accounting for most of the drop.
"It's pretty devastating," said Whitehead, executive director of the East Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program.
There are opportunities in the region in skilled trades and health care, Whitehead said, but he acknowledged there is nothing to replace all the lost coal jobs, which paid an average of $70,000.
Many laid-off miners would like to find jobs at other mines, but there are few such jobs available, and the word is more mines will close.
Joe Caudill, 26, said he worked enough overtime to make $105,000 last year as a roof-bolter at an underground Arch Coal mine at Raven, in Knott County.
But early April 20, as he finished working the third shift, managers told Caudill and others they were being laid off because of the downturn in the market for coal to produce electricity.
Caudill says he will look for another mine job but might have to drive far from his home to find one, or move. And a lot of other people will be after the same job.
"It'll be tough," he said.
Coal has been so embedded in the culture of Eastern Kentucky that some miners haven't come to grips with the reality of perhaps having to do something else.
"That's what we do, is work in the mines," said Brad Tackett, 48, who was laid off from his job as an electrician at Arch's Raven mine.
The job losses will almost certainly aggravate a three-decade population drain.
Slone, the rock-truck driver who moved to Lexington after being laid off from a surface mine in April, didn't like moving away from family.
But with his bank account dwindling and poor prospects for a good-paying job to replace his $4,000 a month salary, he felt he had no choice.
"It was either stay down there and work for a grocery store or come down here," said Slone, 26. "There's not any work" in Eastern Kentucky "unless you're in the medical field."
Some laid-off miners are still being paid as part of their 60-day notice, so the full effect of the layoffs hasn't hit.
But business owners said they can tell a difference.
Lola Slone and her brother, Garfield Slone, run a small store at Pippa Passes that their parents started more than 60 years ago. It's on the road to the complex where Arch Coal began cutting more than 250 jobs in June.
Before the layoffs, miners would stop in for gas, soft drinks, snacks, smokeless tobacco or a Red Bull energy drink, but business has slowed noticeably since then, Slone said.
"It'll get worse after they've drained out their unemployment," she said.
Nearby at Topmost, Robin Mullins said she has seen a drop in business at her Beaver Creek Restaurant, where a sign over the counter says "Proud to be a coal miner."
Arch Coal employees used to come in regularly, and employees from an underground mine and prep plant sometimes got lunches to go, but Arch idled those operations.
Mullins said she had heard about two miners who are going to try to scratch out a living painting cars. She knows of one couple who moved to Colorado.
"There's not any work around here," she said. "It's going to affect everybody."
The loss of coal production and jobs won't just hurt families and businesses. It probably will cause cuts in government services, too.
Knott County Judge-Executive Randy Thompson said he budgeted $2.9 million in revenue this fiscal year, which started July 1, from the tax on mining and processing coal and natural gas. He thinks the county will be lucky to get a third of that.
"We're going to be in a dire situation," Thompson said.


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After Hurricane Sandy: Tips for Making Tap Water Safe for Consumption
In light of recent storm activity with Hurricane Sandy, there is no better survival method to have in your back pocket than learning how to make unsafe tap water safe for consumption.
Contaminated water can be made safe to drink by either boiling the water for one minute or by using bleach (trust us). Here is what to do ...
If your tap water is clear:
- Put eight drops of household unscented liquid bleach into one gallon of water.
- Mix it well and let it stand for at least 30 minutes before drinking.
If your tap water is cloudy:
- Put 16 drops of household unscented liquid bleach into one gallon of water.
- Mix it well and wait at least 30 minutes before drinking.
Important tips:
- Do not ever mix bleach with ammonia or any other household cleaners.
- Be sure to open windows and doors for fresh air when using bleach.
- More information is available on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.
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At Optimum® we use the very best manufacturers available for the production of our high quality Vortex blenders, slow juicers and food processors, along with our world-class exclusive factory in Taiwan. We subject our suppliers to the highest quality approval audits before introducing a product. Our manufacturing facilities are ISO9001:2000 approved and products have achieved UL, CE, EMC and IEC Accreditation.
Optimum is an established brand, and our factories have a combined knowledge and reputation of over 120 years in the industry. We continue to drive quality throughout our business, and to bring the product up to our exacting standards. At Optimum® we employ a skilled sourcing team to work with suppliers in mutually beneficial relationship, by working closely with our suppliers our joint aim can be more focused on ensuring quality products.
We pride ourselves on delivering an outstanding and superior performing range of products. We prefer to focus on excellent quality both in products and services, than compete on price alone. We are confident in our ability to provide better warranty terms than other products on the market, to allow our customers to make an informed choice based on excellent reliability and cost.
We are proud that our product quality with its wide variety of options and our superior customer service continue to enhance our brand. We continue to grow our list of satisfied consumers. We are committed to helping make your day a little smoother, more creative and full of flavor, through the innovative style and function of our Vortex blenders, juicers and food processors.
Our focus on quality and durability has meant that each appliance is manufactured with precision, fully tested at our factories before being dispatched to our distributors, and tested again before being sent to customers. Our After-Sales support is unmatched, with plans to launch the world's first online service center offering customers instant support over the life of their Vortex blenders.
Any new manufacturers are required to supply all certification of their business and quality processes, and are stringently vetted in all aspects of business before becoming approved suppliers. Updated reports are required to provide new CE and EMC for Optimum® every 2 years.
Our stringent requirements require that they conduct this testing with a globally recognised lab and certification partner to ensure the best quality standards are maintained. Additionally our suppliers update us with ISO9001 audit information yearly to ensure they are conforming to the highest quality checking standards within their own processes.
Our attention to detail is immaculate, from the smallest of screw, to the motors in our appliances or the packaging. Everything is methodically planned, sampled and tested before the product is launched into the marketplace.
We require that Quality Standards and Safety testing is carried out by SGS. SGS are one of the largest and most respected global standards compliance businesses and perform thorough and unbiased reporting on all products. No expense is spared to ensure our products are not only high quality but also are safe for any markets throughout the World.
We invest significantly in competitive analysis of the market place, we run controlled comparisons between competitor products and ours, even down to taking the motors apart and testing aspects such as the resistance and continuity. Unlike many of our competitors, the results of these tests are based on actual performance in an operating environment.
Starting with our top class customer service, Optimum® only engages primary distributors who have their key focus placed on customer service and support We are so committed to customer support we perform random checks including the use of mystery shoppers, testing their ongoing commitment to customer service and their knowledge of our products.
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We are not only committed to improving our brand, we let it speak for itself in the products we sell. The promises we give are justified by the quality of the products and the dedication of our team. Continual improvement is our business, not simply a department or policy.
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Are you looking at new Windows Phone 8 devices for 2013? The Samsung ATIV S is available from O2 on contract from free when taken out with a plan worth £57 a month, or for £179 with an accompanied £16.50 plan. The high-end flagship Windows Phone is packed full of features that make the price point well worth the investment. We've taken the ATIV S for a spin for just over a week and have been impressed with what Samsung has produced.
We've previously looked at the device being tested over in Ireland on the O2 network. The Windows Phone has been delayed since it was unveiled earlier this year at IFA 2012 in Berlin. Samsung has continued to state a late 2012 release for its latest Windows Phone, but reports were surfacing of dates heading into the new year - which we subsequently quashed.
The ATIV S joins an array of Windows Phones being stocked and marketed by the UK mobile operator. O2 previously held an open day at its store in Westfield, Stratford which we attended. Folk from Windows Phone and partners were present showing off HTC, Nokia and Samsung hardware. As a slight bonus, there were even free cocktails.
What's packed inside the attractive package? An 8MP rear shooter (with 1.9MP front-facing camera), 4.8" HD Super AMOLED display, dual core 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S4, 1GB of RAM, 16GB or 32GB (O2 model sports 16GB) of internal storage with expandable microSD slot, 2300 mAh battery, NFC+Bluetooth, and powers the latest version of Windows Phone 8.
So with plans available, what if you're not into taking out another contract or if you already have one with the network? O2 lists the ATIV S on PAYG (Pay As You Go) for £399, which is a strong price for top hardware. The network also has the HTC 8X, HTC 8S and Lumia 820 for similar prices.
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A stage represents one step in a project life cycle in Microsoft Project Web App. A stage is composed of one or more Project Detail Pages linked by common logic or theme. Stages at a user level appear as steps in a project. At each step, data must be entered, modified, reviewed, or processed.
To create a new workflow stage:
On the PWA home page, click Server Settings.
On the Server Settings page, in the Workflow and Project Detail Pages section, click Workflow Stages.
Click the New Workflow Stage button on the toolbar.
Under Name, enter the name of the desired stage and optionally enter a description of the stage in the Description text box.
Under Description for Submit, type the description that will be displayed to end-users when they submit the stage to the workflow. By default, this description will be displayed in the following places:
As a Tool Tip when users rest the pointer on the Submit button in a Project Detail Page
As part of the confirmation dialog box that is shown to users when they click the Submit button in a Project Detail Page
Under Workflow Phase, select the Workflow Phase to correspond to this Workflow Stage.
Under Workflow Stage Status Project Detail Page, select the Workflow Stage Status Project Detail Page from the drop-down list. This page is displayed as the introduction page when the project enters this workflow stage.
In Visible Project Detail Pages, select the Project Detail Pages you want to be visible for this workflow stage by selecting them from the Available column and clicking the Add button to put them in the Selected Project Detail Pages column.
Note: By default, no PDPs are visible for workflow stages but at least one page should be selected for a workflow stage.
Under Additional Settings for the Visible Project Detail Page, you may edit the specific description of the Visible PDPs by selecting them in the right column from the previous step and then editing the description in the text box. You may also check the Project Detail Page requires attention check box to highlight the PDP on the Workflow Status page.
Under Required Custom Fields, select the custom fields that are required for the Workflow to enter this Workflow Stage and then click the Add button. Take note that these Custom Fields are 'Required' only for this Workflow Stage, not for all the successive Workflow Stages in the Workflow.
Under Read Only Custom, select the Custom Fields that are read-only for this Workflow Stage and then click the Add button.
Under Strategic Impact Behavior, select the radio button to specify whether the strategic impact values for the project are Read Only, Read Write, or Required in this workflow stage. If Strategic Impact Behavior is set to Required then a strategic impact value has to be specified for every business driver. This is typically achieved by using the Strategic Impact Web Part on a project detail page.
Under Project Check In Required select whether this Workflow Stage requires the project to be checked in. If project checkin is required for the current workflow stage, the user cannot submit the project to workflow without checking in the project. This option is typically selected if any project updates occur in this Workflow Stage (which will be blocked if the project is not checked in).
Click Save.
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Seven First-Class Passengers Gave Up Their Seats So Marines Returning from Afghanistan Could Fly Home in Style
On Monday, 13 Marines were on their way home, returning from Afghanistan. And before their American Airlines flight from Chicago to San Diego took off, the airline realized it had six open seats in first class.
So they upgraded six of the Marines, which is their policy when it comes to members of the armed services. But the other seven were still in coach. So seven first-class passengers gave up their seats, so all 13 Marines could sit together. Also, the fiance' of one of the soldiers' called the USO while they were on a connecting flight from Baltimore, and told them a bunch of soldiers would be showing up. So with only one hour to work with, a 74-year-old USO worker and former Marine named John Colas managed to pull off an impromptu welcome.
When they landed, their plane taxied under a huge arch of water being sprayed from a fire truck. Then when they got to the terminal, there was a group of people cheering for them.
One of the Marines did an interview, and said it's, "amazing when we are 10 years into a war, and there is still that kind of community, and that level of support."


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even "experienced" journalists are narrative-pushing dipshits that ask stupid, irrelevant questions despite being given the platform to ask something useful.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3730304&forum_id=2#34200134)
-True stupidity is pretty rare. It's hard to be genuinely rock-dumb in journalism because most people do have to produce coherent written copy for people to read, and hardcore dumbs are incapable of doing this. I have seen some people whose unedited work is pretty rough, but these people tend not to last.
-Ignorance is a somewhat larger problem than stupidity, but it can come from surprising places. One that absolutely blew my mind recently was an American-born Ivy League graduate who didn't know that U.S. senators are elected statewide rather than from districts that split the state in half. He's fresh out of college, but come on, man. Still, this is most common with rookies and if people have been on a beat for any substantial length of time they become a lot more knowledgeable. Of course, the percentage of people in journalism who are inexperienced has gone up in recent years, I'd guess, but it's not really the root of journalism going bad.
-A lot of people can be really bad at applying basic reasoning, though XO overstates it because the worst examples are always posted here while pieces that avoid such failures rarely are. Still, there are some embarrassing ones; I've met data journalists who knew how to use STATA but somehow didn't understand basic shit like Simpson's Paradox.
-I'd say the most recurring problem with journalists is that they are increasingly stuck in bubbles where groupthink is easy to achieve and there is a resulting lack of rigor to their thoughts. This isn't just on big things like Trump v. Hillary; I've been in large conversations where I was the only one who didn't oppose the Redskins nickname. A very good example of this bubble, though, is the whole campus rape stat thing. A large number of journalists just uncritically cite very flawed studies supporting the 1-in-5 thing because editors and writers aren't really even conceiving of the possibility those studies could be way off. I once met a statistician who did surveys for WaPo, and we discussed some WaPo-run survey that supported 1-in-5. Notably, their rate included a large number of people who said they'd been assaulted while "incapacitated" by alcohol. I asked whether they'd explained to respondents that "incapacitated" means literally knocked out and dead to the world, and not simply drunk. They had not, and it actually had never occurred to him that people might misinterpret that question in a way that would drive up the supposed rape rate.
-A lot of journalists, even lib ones, know a great deal and are able to do a lot of heavy lifting to find information. Remember, the Rolling Stone UVA story may have been the work of an incompetent journalist, but it was also reporters at WaPo who exposed the whole thing as a sham.
-As was stated by someone else above, journalists can be really lazy which can cause a lot of problems and half-assed work. Not really the same thing as stupidity, though.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3730304&forum_id=2#34200763)


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The protein-folding problem one of the major challenges of molecular biology in the 1990s could be thought of as a version of cryptography. Scientists like Peter Kollman are the code breakers, trying to uncover a set of rules somehow embedded in a protein's sequence of amino acids. This chemical alphabet of 20 characters, strung like beads on a chain along the peptide backbone of a newborn protein, carries a blueprint that specifies the protein's mature folded shape.
Within a matter of seconds or less after rolling off the protein assembly line (in the cellular ribosome), the stretched-out chain wraps into a bundle, with twists and turns, helices, sheets and other 3D features. For proteins, function follows from form the grooves and crevices of its complex folds are what allow it to latch onto other molecules and carry out its biological role.
But what are the rules? How is it that a particular sequence of amino acids results in a particular folded shape? "The protein-folding problem is still the single most exciting problem in computational biochemistry," says Kollman, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco, and a leader in using a research tool called "molecular dynamics," a method of computational simulation that tracks the minute shifts of a protein's structure over time. "To be able to predict the structure of the protein from just the amino-acid sequence would have tremendous impact in all of biotechnology and drug design."
In 1997, Kollman and his coworkers Yong Duan and Lu Wang used the CRAY T3D at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center to develop molecular dynamics software that exploits parallel systems like the T3D and CRAY T3E much more effectively than before. Using this improved software on the T3D and, later, on a T3E at Cray Research, the researchers tracked the folding of a small protein in water for a full microsecond, 100 times longer in time than previous simulations. The result is a more complete view of how one protein folds in effect, a look at what hasn't been seen before, and it offers precious new insight into the folding process.
Exploiting Massive Parallelism
Simulating a millionth of a second of protein movement may sound less than impressive, until you realize that the longest prior simulations of similar proteins extended only 10 to 20 nanoseconds (billionths of a second). The limitation holding back this critical work has been the tremendous computational demand of the simulations, which must account for interactions between each atom in a protein and all the other atoms and surrounding water molecules. To capture protein movement at a useful level of detail, the full set of these interactions must be recalculated every femtosecond (a millionth of a nanosecond) of protein time. Even with the most advanced systems, it's a daunting, costly computational challenge.
The Kollman team's recent effort focused on a small, 36 amino-acid protein called the villin headpiece sub-domain. With surrounding water molecules, the computation involved about 12,000 atoms. To capture the first 200 nanoseconds of folding took 40 days of dedicated computing using all 256 processors of the T3D. With a 256-processor T3E, four times faster, the next 800 nanoseconds took about another two months.
This big leap in folding simulation was made possible by Duan's ability to exploit the parallelism of 256 processors running simultaneously. Using Pittsburgh's T3D, he devised and tested software-doctoring manipulations to the molecular dynamics part of AMBER (a widely used package for modeling proteins and DNA, developed by Kollman's research group). The changes boosted single-processor performance about 70% and greatly improved the "load balancing" and communication among processors, resulting overall in 256-processor performance six times faster than before.
"The real challenge for molecular dynamics," says Kollman, "is to effectively use massively parallel machines. If you have 256 processors, you have to divide the computation so each processor does the same amount of work, which is difficult because each particle has to keep track of every other." Juggling information back and forth between processors and memory involves a high communication overhead, which has seriously limited the usefulness of parallel processing for these calculations. "Virtually all other molecular dynamics codes in the literature level off at 40, 50 or 60 processors," says Kollman. "In other words, even if you use all the processors, you don't get any faster because the communication among processors is rate limiting."
Duan broke key parts of the task distribution of updated position coordinates for the atoms and "force collection" for the atom-to-atom interactions into small pieces that each processor does on an as-needed basis. In earlier versions of AMBER, each processor kept a complete set of coordinates and forces. He also implemented a "spatial decomposition" scheme, breaking the entire protein and water system into rectangular blocks, each block assigned to a processor. This reduces redundant communications and "latency," time required to open communication pathways between processors.
With these changes and others, the software showed significantly improved parallel "scaling" it now runs 170 times faster on 256 processors than on one alone. "This was a tour-de-force of parallel programming," says Kollman, "and it wouldn't have been possible except for Pittsburgh making the T3D available to us."
"The dedicated T3D allowed me to conduct extensive tests on a variety of plausible schemes," says Duan, who cites training at a PSC parallel programming workshop and discussions with PSC scientist Michael Crowley as also being instrumental to his work on this project.
Quiet Time for Protein Folding
What did the researchers learn from viewing a full simulated microsecond of protein folding? A burst of folding in the first 20 nanoseconds quickly collapses the unfolded structure, suggesting that initiation of folding for a small protein can occur within the first 100 nanoseconds. Over the first 200 nanoseconds, the protein moves back and forth between compact states and more unfolded forms. The researchers capture this behavior by plotting the protein's radius of gyration how much the structure spreads out from its center as a function of time. "If you look at those curves," notes Kollman, "they're very noisy the structure is moving, wiggling and jiggling a lot."
The folded structures, often called "molten globules," have 3D features, such as partially formed helices loosely packed together, that bear resemblance to the final folded form. They are only marginally stable, notes Kollman, and unfold again before settling into other folded structures.
The next 800 nanoseconds reveal an intriguing "quiet period" in the folding. From about 250 nanoseconds until 400 nanoseconds the fluctuating movement back and forth between globules and unfolding virtually ceases. "For this period in the later part of the trajectory," says Kollman, "everything becomes quiet. And that's where the structure gets closest to the native state. It's quite happy there for awhile, then it eventually drifts off again for the rest of the period out to a microsecond."
For Kollman, this behavior suggests that folding may be characterized as a searching process. "It's a tantalizing idea that the mechanism of protein folding is to bounce around until it finds something close, and stay there for a period, but if it isn't good enough it eventually leaves and keeps searching. It might have 10 of these quiet periods before it arrives at a period where enough of the amino-acid sidechains are in a good enough environment that it locks into the final structure."
Although only a partial glimpse even the fastest proteins need 10 to 100 microseconds to fully fold these results represent a major step forward in protein-folding simulation. New experimental methods are also providing more detailed looks at the process, offering the possibility of direct comparison between experiment and simulation, which will further advance understanding.
The challenge of the protein-folding problem is to have the ability to predict protein structure more accurately. For the pharmaceutical industry, this holds the prospects of greatly reducing the cost and expense of developing new therapeutic drugs. Recent research, furthermore, suggests that certain diseases, such as "mad cow disease" and possibly Alzheimer's can be understood as malfunctions in protein folding.
Ultimately, for Kollman and others using molecular dynamics, the goal is to follow the entire folding process. With the promise of more powerful computing and higher level parallelism, Kollman sees that goal as within reach. "We're getting some new insights that weren't available before because the simulations weren't in the right time-scale. Being able to visualize the folding process of even a small protein in a realistic environment has been a goal of many researchers. We believe our work marks the beginning of a new era of the active participation of full-scale simulations in helping to understand the mechanism of protein folding."
Researchers: Peter Kollman, Yong Duan and Lu Wang, University of California-San Francisco.
Hardware: CRAY T3E
Software: User developed code.
Related Material on the Web:
Kollman Group Home Page
Information on AMBER.
Projects in Scientific Computing, PSC's annual research report.
References, Acknowledgements & Credits
© Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC)
Revised: July 15, 1998
URL: http://www.psc.edu/science/Kollman98/kollman98.html


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Designed in collaboration between Alex Simonis, Robertson & Caine and the Moorings, the concept of the Moorings 4200 is the maximizing of space and value. Built in Cape Town, South Africa, and named Sail Top Ten 2002 winner by Sail magazine, the 4200 features 4 air conditioned double cabins*, each with private head and shower,two single berths in the forward bows, a modern galley-up design with panoramic views and a large aft swim platform with walk-through access from the cockpit. and is equipped with complete electronics and high power engines, giving great performance under power as well as sail.
Additional Specs, Equipment and Information:
Keel: Other
Hull Shape: Catamaran
LOA: 41 ft 5 in
Beam: 22 ft 9 in
LWL: 37 ft 9 in
Dry Weight: 19030 lbs
Engine Options
Engine Option 1: 1x
Fresh Water Tanks: (205 Gallons)
Fuel Tanks: (94 Gallons)
Number of heads: 4
Additional Description
The layout of the 4200 catamaran provides for 4 double cabins, four heads, four showers, a very large saloon and a large galley in the bridge deck. The saloon table converts to provide an additional double bed and two single berths are located in the forward peaks. The high quality interior is carefully blended to make use of the qualities of wood, fiberglass reinforced plastic (FRP) and Corian, neatly trimmed with matching upholstery. The cabin sole is of durable, low maintenance teak and holly composite floor panels. The headliner is neatly finished. The catamaran Is fully air-conditioned with reverse cycle A/C.
Additional Description
AC electrical system is 110V AC 60 hz. Yacht operates on a 12V system. Panel supplied for 12V system & 110V system. Two gel-cell DF4D house batteries, and a dedicated gel-cell DF27D battery for each engine. Both amperage and DC voltage are shown at the panel. Stereo/CD player with two cockpit and two below deck speakers. Multi-channel VHF radio with LCD display and 25 watt output capacity. Chart Plotter with GPS navigation system. Navigation instruments include depth sounder gauge, speed and distance log, wind speed and wind direction. Autopilot, Autohelm 7000. 40 amp battery charger. Spring loaded switches for shower drains. Fan in each cabin and in the saloon and galley. Shore power cable is 50ft/15 m long and permanently wired to the boat. AC breaker panel for hot water heater, outlets and battery charger. AC power outlets supplied in galley, main saloon and cabins 12V cockpit light. 12V cigar lighter type outlet for various equipment connection. LPG solenoid switch with warning light. Freshwater pump warning light. Warning light alarm on bilge pumps.
Additional Description
12V refrigerator. Ventilation is provided by an overhead hatch and two forward opening ports. Two burner LPG stainless steel gimballed stove with oven and broiler. Double stainless steel sinks. A 10gal/38 L garbage bin is conveniently located. Permanent recessed dish draining rack. Ample work surfaces and locker space for crockery, cutlery and all cooking utensils. Main work surfaces covered with Corian.
Additional Description
Twin Yanmar 3JH-3E 40HP naturally aspirated 3 cylinder engines. Engine instrumentation includes oil pressure, tachometer, water temperature, hour meter, and amp meter. Engine sound alarm to indicate low oil pressure and high freshwater temperature. Keyless ignition switch in cockpit. Manual pull-stop. Stainless steel propeller shaft designed for easy removal. Fuel capacity is 75gal/284 L in aluminum tanks. Racor 500FG fuel filters on each engine. Upgraded 90 amp alternators on each engine. Steering is via cables. Autopilot is fitted.
Additional Description
The hulls are of GRP construction with balsa core for strength, stiffness and insulation, using high quality materials. The hulls carry a comprehensive limited osmosis warranty from Robertson & Caine. An exceptionally shallow draft of 4ft/1.2m is achieved. The hulls have fixed skegs that protect the rudders. They also offer excellent attachment points for the rudder shafts. The hulls are painted with anti-fouling The rudders are composite with a stainless steel shaft. The prop shafts are supported by a solid skeg. This offers better protection for the shafts. Both deck and hull are finished in white gel coat with the trademark Moorings striping and graphics.
Mast & Rigging
Mast is extruded anodized aluminum with a double set of swept back spreaders. Single forestay with Profurl jib furling system. Anodized aluminum boom with reefing system, outhaul and reefing line jammers. Stainless steel chain plates. Lower ends of rigging are attached with double screw turnbuckles. Mast exits for halyards are stainless steel. SailMate self-stacking mainsail handling system, with lazy jacks and integral sail cover. Antal mast slider system is supplied for low friction mainsail hoisting and lowering.
Deck Hardware
Large mainsheet traveler with Antal V-grip jammers and Lewmar 44 CST winch. Two self-tailing Lewmar 54 CST two speed winches are used to control the main and jib sheets. All sheets lead through Antal V-grip jammers. Two self-tailing Lewmar 44 CST two speed winches are provided on the mast for halyard and reef line operation, two jammers for the halyards and a snatch block for the reef lines. Secondary bow roller is mounted on the forward cross spar. Steering console with compass and all engine controls. Stainless steel destroyer 32in/18 cm steering wheel. Cast aluminum mooring cleats, two on the bow, two amidships and two on the stern. Two U-bolts for dinghy towing line mounted on the inboard side of each hull/transom area. Two U-bolts for anchoring bridle mounted on the inboard side of each hull. Stainless steel stanchions and aluminum bases with uncoated stainless steel life lines. Port and starboard life line gates. Custom extruded aluminum toerail. Genoa car and track. Three winch handle pockets with one 10in/25 cm lock-in and one 10in/25 cm non lock-in handle. Ten opening deck hatches are provided to give excellent ventilation. Eight opening ports are supplied in the topsides of the hull. One additional opening port is supplied for each aft cabin facing aft. Four opening ports are provided in the saloon for additional forward ventilation. The forward sloped windows are protected from the direct overhead sunlight by a louver system. This system also provides easy access to the roof. A fixed bimini and a zip on wind screen are supplied.
Sails & Running Rigging
Full battened mainsail with two reefs, furling genoa built to Moorings specifications. One double purchase pre-stretched main halyard. One pre-stretched jib halyard. Mainsail outhaul, two reef lines, mainsail sheet, jib sheets, traveler controls, jib furling line, lazy jack lines. SailMate self-stacking mainsail handling system with lazy jacks and integral sail cover.
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